AGENDAS
FOR A REGULAR MEETING OF THE AMARILLO CITY COUNCIL TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2019 AT 1:00 P.M., CITY HALL, 601 SOUTH BUCHANAN STREET, COUNCIL CHAMBER ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF CITY HALL, AMARILLO, TEXAS.
Please note: The City Council may take up items out of the order shown on any Agenda. The City Council reserves the right to discuss all or part of any item in an executive session at any time during a meeting or work session, as necessary and allowed by state law. Votes or final decisions are made only in open Regular or Special meetings, not in either a work session or executive session.

INVOCATION:  Bryan Van Meter, Amarillo Fire Department Chaplain
PROCLAMATION: "Transit Driver Appreciation Day"

1. City Council will discuss or receive reports on the following current matters or projects.

A. Review agenda items for regular meeting and attachments;

B. Reports and updates from City Councilmembers serving on outside Boards:   Cross-Bar Ranch

C. Downtown Parking Management Update;

D. Discussion and Direction to Staff on Possible Bicycle and Scooter Sharing Regulations; and

E. Consider future Agenda items and request reports from City Manager.

2. CONSENT ITEMS:  It is recommended that the following items be approved and that the City Manager be authorized to execute all documents necessary for each transaction:   THE FOLLOWING ITEMS MAY BE ACTED UPON BY ONE MOTION. NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION OR ACTION ON ANY OF THE ITEMS IS NECESSARY UNLESS DESIRED BY A COUNCILMEMBER, IN WHICH EVENT THE ITEM SHALL BE CONSIDERED IN ITS NORMAL SEQUENCE AFTER THE ITEMS NOT REQUIRING SEPARATE DISCUSSION HAVE BEEN ACTED UPON BY A SINGLE MOTION.

A. MINUTES:   Approval  of  the  City  Council  minutes  for the  meeting  held  on March 5, 2019.

B. CONSIDERATION - ACCEPTANCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE (IDCU/SUR) GRANT: (Contact:  Casie Stoughton, Public Health Director) Grant Amount -- $169,209.00 over two years Grantor: Texas Department of State Health Services This item accepts the award from the Texas Department of State Health Services from September 1, 2019 thru August 31, 2021 to continue funding for the Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Public Health Department.

C. ACCEPTANCE - HIV PREVENTION GRANT AMENDMENT: (Contact:  Casie Stoughton, Public Health Director) Grant Amount -- $210,250.00 Grantor: Texas Department of State Health Services This item accepts the award from the Texas Department of State Health Services from January 1, 2019 thru December 31, 2019 to continue funding for the HIV Prevention Program in the public health department.

D. CONSIDER - IMMUNIZATION GRANT: (Contact:  Casie Stoughton, Public Health Director) Grant Amount -- $261,049.00 Grantor: Texas Department of State Health Services This item accepts the award from the Texas Department of State Health Services from September 1, 2019 thru August 31, 2020 to continue funding to prevent and control the transmission of vaccine-preventable diseases in children and adults, with emphasis on accelerating strategic interventions to improve their vaccine coverage levels.

E. CONSIDER - PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANT: (Contact:  Casie Stoughton, Public Health Director) Grant Amount -- $248,133.00 Grantor: Texas Department of State Health Services This item accepts the award from the Texas Department of State Health Services from July 1, 2019 thru June 30, 2020 to continue funding to provide all hazards planning and Strategic National Stockpile coordination for Potter and Randall Counties.

F. CONSIDERATION - ACCEPTANCE OF RLSS-LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES GRANT: (Contact:  Casie Stoughton, Public Health Director) Grant Amount -- $223,488.00 over two years Grantor: Texas Department of State Health Services This item accepts the award from the Texas Department of State Health Services from September 1, 2019 thru August 31, 2021 to continue funding for the Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Public Health Department.

G. CONSIDER - TUBERCULOSIS STATE GRANT:   (Contact:  Casie Stoughton, Public Health Director) Grant Amount -- $60,224.00 Grantor: Texas Department of State Health Services This item accepts the award from the Texas Department of State Health Services from September 1, 2019 thru August 31, 2020 to continue funding to prevent and control the transmission of active and latent tuberculosis.

H. CONSIDER AWARD OF CONTRACT TO GUERNSEY FOR PROP 2 PROJECT - SPACE STUDY FOR THE CITY OF AMARILLO SERVICE CENTER - MAINTENANCE FACILITIES: (Contact:  Jerry Danforth, Facilities & Special Projects Administrator) Awarded to:  Guernsey Engineers -- $77,650.00 This item conducts a space study for the City of Amarillo Service Center - Maintenance Facilities.  This proposal is broken into five tasks:  Data gathering and review; site and floor plan concepts; report and ROM cost estimate and report review.

3. NON-CONSENT ITEMS:  

A. CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 7776: (Contact: Marcus Norris, Deputy City Attorney) This item conducts the first reading of an ordinance.  The current franchise ordinance/agreement is expiring soon. (However, SPS has agreed to continue abiding by the terms for another 90 days, to allow for this renewal process.) This item is to renew the franchise for another 10 year period, allowing SPS to continuing using the public right-of-way within the City for electrical utility service infrastructure. In return, the company pays the City a "rental fee" of 5% of gross revenue. The franchise agreement contains numerous other details such as authority to trim trees, insurance, indemnity, relocation of utilities, and other provisions. This renewal makes no substantive change from the existing agreement.  

B. CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 7777: (Contact: Cris Valverde, Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services) This is the first reading of an ordinance for the vacation of Van Buren Street located between Blocks 153 and 154, Plemons Addition Unit No.1, in Section 170, Block 2, AB&M Survey, Potter County, Texas. (Vicinity: Southwest 11 Avenue and Van Buren Street; Applicant: First Presbyterian Church.)

C. CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 7778: (Contact: Cris Valverde, Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services) This is the first reading of an ordinance for the rezoning of the South 70ft. of Lot 5, JW Cartwrights First Subdivision of Block 239, Plemons Addition plus a 10ft. by 140ft. strip of vacated right-of-way South of said Lot, all in Section 170, Block 2, AB&M Survey, Potter County, Texas plus one-half of all bounding streets, alleys, and public ways to change from Planned Development 96B to Amended Planned Development for the expansion to existing business operations. (Vicinity: Tyler Street and Interstate-40; Applicant:  Hope and Healing Place, Inc.)

D. CONSIDER - AWARD FOR REVISION OF ZONING ORDINANCE: (Contact:  Andrew Freeman, Director of Planning and Development Services) Awarded to  White & Smith, LLC - $269,798.00 This item awards an agreement to White & Smith, LLC, a firm selected to assist the City with completing a comprehensive review, analysis, and rewrite of the City’s Zoning Ordinance and other related ordinances.

E. EXECUTIVE SESSION: City Council may convene in Executive Session to receive reports on or discuss any of the following pending projects or matters:

1) Section 551.072 - Discuss the purchase, exchange, lease, sell, or value of real property and public discussion of such would not be in the best interests of the City’s bargaining position:

(a) City Economic Development Project #18-07 in the vicinity of Southeast 3rd Avenue and South Pierce Street.

2) Section 551.087 - Deliberation regarding economic development negotiations; discussion of commercial or financial information received from an existing business or business prospect with which the City is negotiating for the location or retention of a facility, or for incentives the City is willing to extend, or financial information submitted by same:

(a) City Economic Development Project #18-07 in the vicinity of Southeast 3rd Avenue and South Pierce Street.

(b) Economic development incentive request in the vicinity of Southwest 7th Avenue and South Tyler Street. Amarillo City Hall is accessible to individuals with disabilities through its main entry on the south side (601 South Buchanan Street) of the building.  An access ramp leading to the main entry is located at the southwest corner of the building.  Parking spaces for individuals with disabilities are available in the south parking lot.  City Hall is equipped with restroom facilities, communications equipment and elevators that are accessible.  Individuals with disabilities who require special accommodations or a sign language interpreter must contact the City Secretary’s Office 48 hours prior to meeting time by telephoning 378-3013 or the City TDD number at 378-4229.  Posted this 8th day of March 2019. Regular meetings of the Amarillo City Council stream live on Cable Channel 10 and are available online at:  http://amarillo.gov/city-hall/city-government/view-city-council-meetings Archived meetings are also available.