City Council
Council Chambers
Agenda — 38 items
- 1 Public Notice: Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need auxiliary aids or services are requested to contact the City Secretary’s office (at 361-826-3105) at least 48 hours in advance so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Si Usted desea dirigirse al Concilio y cree que su inglés es limitado, habrá un intérprete inglés-español en todas las juntas del Concilio para ayudarle. This meeting may be held via videoconference call pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.127. If this meeting is held via videoconference call or other remote method of meeting, then a member of this governmental body presiding over this meeting will be physically present at the location of this meeting unless this meeting is held pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.125 due to an emergency or other public necessity pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.045.
- A. Mayor Paulette Guajardo to call the meeting to order.
- B. Invocation to be given by Pastor Greg Hood, REACH Ministries.
- C. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States and to the Texas Flag to be led by Addison Hamano-Friday at Veterans Memorial High School.
- D. City Secretary Rebecca L. Huerta to call the roll of the required Charter Officers.
- E. CITY MANAGER’S COMMENTS / UPDATE ON CITY OPERATIONS: (ITEMS 1-3)
- 1. Retirement Recognition of Billy Delgado, Emergency Management Coordinator
- 2. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Corpus Christi (NAACP) Overview and presentation of 2023 President's Award, Presented by Jeremy Coleman, NAACP President
- 3. Update on the City of Corpus Christi's two 1/8 cent salex tax venue renewals, to include Stakeholder and Community Engagement Plan
- F. PUBLIC COMMENT
- G. BOARD & COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS: (NONE)
- H. EXPLANATION OF COUNCIL ACTION:
- I. CONSENT AGENDA: (ITEMS 4 -12)
- 13 Approval of the Consent Agenda
- 4. Approval of the March 26, 2024 Regular Meeting Minutes
- 15 Consent - Second Reading Ordinances
- 5. Ordinance authorizing the acceptance of $1,867.26 from the State of Texas - Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education for firearms training and ammunition for five arson investigators for the Corpus Christi Fire Department; and appropriating funds in the amount of $1,867.26 to the FY 2024 Fire Grants Fund.
- 6. Ordinance accepting $54,134.93 from the State of Texas - Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education for training courses and training-related travel for approximately 18 full-time sworn police officers for the Corpus Christi Police Department; and appropriating $54,134.93 in the FY 2024 Police Grants Fund.
- 7. Ordinance amending the Capital Improvement Program to add the Art Museum of South Texas HVAC Improvements Project; appropriating $3,500,000.00 from the unreserved fund balance in the Seawall Fund; and amending the FY 2024 Operating and Capital Budgets.
- 19 Consent - Contracts and Procurement
- 8. Motion authorizing execution of a one-year supply agreement with two one-year option periods with Life-Assist, of Rancho Cordova, California, for emergency medical services medications in an amount up to $131,891.89 and a total amount up to $395,675.67 if both one-year option periods are exercised, with FY 2024 funding in the amount of $54,954.95 from the General Fund.
- 21 General Consent Items
- 9. Resolution to revise City Council Policies Section 1 to allow Council Members use of a City Phone paid by the City and Section 2 to limit City Council travel expenses in the months of October through December in an election year to one-quarter of the annual budgeted amount.
- 10. Resolution authorizing the submission of a grant application for the FY 2023 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant in the amount of $16,359,579.25 from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency for salaries and benefits over a three-year period for 78 additional firefighters that would potentially be added over two years for the Corpus Christi Fire Department for our four-person staffing plan.
- 11. Resolution of the City Council of Corpus Christi, Texas authorizing a letter of support by the City of Corpus Christi to the Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) Manager at the Port of Corpus Christi, Grantee of FTZ #122, for an application to the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board (FTZB) requesting designation as a subzone, which would result in City property tax exemptions with no further Council action, owned and operated by Cimbar Resources, Inc, for their site located at 322 Manning Road in Corpus Christi, Texas.
- 12. Motion to extend the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #6 - Barisi Village second reading requirement an additional 90 days to July 8, 2024, to allow for action to be taken by another taxing entity.
- J. RECESS FOR LUNCH
- K. PUBLIC HEARINGS: (NONE)
- L. INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ITEMS: (ITEM 13)
- 13. Motion authorizing a lease agreement between Flint Hills Resources and the City of Corpus Christi with City payment to Flint Hills Resources from the current $0.00 per year to $60,000 per year, or $5,000 per month for 3,413.93 square feet of space for the Corpus Christi Police Department Calallen Police substation, located at 1925 Tuloso Road, Council District 1.
- M. BRIEFINGS: (ITEM 14)
- 14. Texas Municipal League (TML) Mid-Year Conference Briefing, Presented by Ryan Skrobarczyk, Director of Intergovernmental Relations
- N. EXECUTIVE SESSION: (ITEMS 15-18)
- 15. Executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.071 and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.05 to consult with attorneys concerning legal issues related to industries, infrastructure, utilities, and property in the City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, services thereto, industrial district agreements, and Chapters 42, 43 and 212 of the Texas Local Government Code, rates for water sold to entities outside the City limits and petitions for limitation of said rates, the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA), Texas Water Code 13.043 and associated regulations, and a petition filed by some outside City limits ratepayers with the Public Utility Commission of Texas appealing the decision of the City of Corpus Christi to increase its water rates effective January 1, 2024, and Texas Government Code § 551.087 to discuss and deliberate regarding potential financial or other incentive(s) to business prospects(s) that the governmental body seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the City and with which the City will be conducting economic development negotiations, and authorizing professional services agreements and amendments thereto with attorneys and other consultants to assist in defending against the aforementioned petition
- 16. Executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.071 and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.05 to consult with attorneys concerning legal issues related to regulations, legal rights, and contracts related to surface water from the Nueces River and other sources, groundwater from the Evangeline Aquifer and other sources, desalination, legal restrictions on and permits required for the provision of water, regulations and contracts of water conservation and improvement districts and groundwater conservation districts (including, but not limited to Nueces County Water Conservation and Improvement District #3 and the San Patricio Groundwater Conservation District), TCEQ and EPA regulations related to water, state and federal regulations related to construction of water-related infrastructure, state restrictions on rates and charges for utilities, statutory restrictions on the issuance of debt and governmental contracting, and potential authorization of contracts for attorneys and consultants to assist in matters related to water.
- 17. Executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.071 and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.05 to consult with attorneys concerning legal issues related to the following sections and topics of the City’s Unified Development Code, 1.11.3., 8.5. et seq. (Trust Funds), 8.5.1. et seq. (Water Trust Fund), 8.5.2. et seq. (Wastewater Trust Fund), and Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395 (Financing Capital Improvements Required By New Development In Municipalities, Counties, And Certain Other Local Governments)
- 18. Executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.071 and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.05 to consult with attorneys concerning legal issues related to the potential value and/or acquisition of properties at, adjacent, and/or near 4909 Kostoryz Road & 3115 McArdle Road in Corpus Christi and the placement of public safety facility locations; and Texas Government Code § 551.072 to discuss and deliberate the purchase or value of the aforementioned areas of real property and other potential public safety facility locations because deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the governmental body in negotiations with a third person, including, but not limited to, potential consideration of authorization to enter agreement(s) for the purchase of the property and settlement of eminent domain proceeding for property(ies) at and/or adjacent to the aforementioned locations.
- O. ADJOURNMENT