REGULAR MEETING: 7:00 P M
1. CALL TO ORDER
1.1 Invocation (Council Member Wolfe)
1.2 Roll Call
2. CITIZENS COMMENTS/PUBLIC FORUM (Time Limit- 5 minutes)
Citizens wishing to comment only on Agenda items for this meeting. (Other Citizens comments will be heard at the end of the meeting.)
3. REPORTS TO COUNCIL
3.1 Engineers Report: Status of Ridgeley Construction
Authorization of Payment Applications ............................................................................................ 1
4. ACTION ITEMS (CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON):
4.1 Authorizing payment of AAA Asphalt Paving, Inc.'s Pay Application No. 10 for work related to the Ridgeley Drive Paving & Drainage Improvements Project (Package 3) in the amount of $61,487.63-HDR/C&M .......................... 2
(City Engineer is excused of further attendance at this council barring further Council questions)
5. ACTION ITEMS (CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON
5.1 Clarification of the definition of "net building area," as currently defined in the Zoning Regulations of the City of Hilshire Village, Section 02: B-03 of Article 2 of Exhibit "A" of Chapter 12 thereof."
(Anderson) ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
ìARTICLE 02:00 DEFINITIONS
02: B-03 BUILDING AREA, NET
ìBuilding area, net: ìNet building areaî shall mean the enclosed building area taken at grade level of the main building, exclusive of garage, carport, covered porches, breezeways and accessory buildings
(City Attorney is excused of further attendance at this council meeting barring further Council questions)
6. REPORTS TO COUNCIL
6.1 Police.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Activity Report for September 2008 (Including Hurricane Ike)
6.2 Fire Commissioner.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
6.3 Building Official.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
(City Building Official is excused of further attendance at this council barring further Council questions.)
6.4 Treasurer....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
6.5 Mayor and Council:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Border: Austin Seminars
Whiting: Bridle Spur update, Ridgeley Project Citizens Committee update
........... 6.6 HVCEFFC (Conduit Bonds) ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
6.8 City Secretary..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
7. CONSENT AGENDA
The consent agenda is a meeting method many government councils use to help make meetings more efficient and meaningful to the members of the audience. All matters within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the City Council for review and study, and are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion of the Council with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired, that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the Regular Agenda by request of a member of City Council. The expenditures listed in the consent agenda are items already approved in the current city budget.
7.1 Disbursements: Summary, Deposits............................................................................................................................................................... 12
Professional Service Invoices
7.2 Approval of minutes of Council Meeting of November 18, 2008........................................................................... 13
7.3 Approval to close City Hall on Friday, December 26th (day after Christmas) to be taken as a vacation day by City Secretary........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
7.4 Approval for floating holiday to be taken January 2, 2008 and the City Office to be
closed at 12:00 on New Years Eve to be taken as a Vacation Day by City Secretary.
9. MAYOR AND COUNCIL COMMENTS
10 ADDITIONAL CITIZENS COMMENTS (re: meeting agenda items) (Time Limit- 5 minutes)
11. ADDITIONAL COUNCIL COMMENTS (re: meeting agenda items)
12. ANNOUNCEMENTS
13. ADJOURNMENT
Posted December 11, 2008__ at _P.M.____ by Susan Blevins, City Secretary
NOTE: IN THE EVENT A QUORUM OF THE CITY COUNCILIS NOT PRESENT, THE REPORTING MEMBERS WHO ARE PRESENT WILL MEET AS A SUB-COMMITTEE, FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSE ONLY, REGARDING THE ABOVE AGENDA ITEM(S).
City Council reserves the right to adjourn into executive session at any time during the course of this meeting to discuss any of the matters listed above as authorized by Texas Government Code, Sections 551.071 (Consultation with Attorney), 551.072 (Deliberations about Real Property), 551.073 (Deliberations about Gifts and Donations), 551.074 (Personnel Matters), 551.076 (Deliberations about Security Devices), 551.087 (Economic Development), and 551.086 (Certain Public Power Utilities: Competitive Matters). Following the executive session, if any, City Council may act in open session on any item discussed in the executive session.
I, Susan Blevins, do hereby certify that the above Notice of Meeting and Agenda for the City Council of the City of Hilshire Village was posted in a place convenient and readily accessible at all times to the general public in compliance with Chapter 551, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, on _________, 2008 at ________ a,m, p.m.
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