City of Bruceville-Eddy
143 Wilcox Drive (254) 859-5964 Telephone
Eddy, Texas 76524 (254) 859-5779 Fax
November 10th, 2010 MINUTES
REGULAR MEETING OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF BRUCEVILLE-EDDY
Council members present were: Mayor Rick Eaton, Connally Bass, Allen Trigg, Frank Holt, Halbert Wilcox, Lucy Hargrove-Posey, Attorney Charlie Buenger, City Engineer Johnny Tabor. Koni Billings, City Administrator, and Dan Ferguson, Police Chief, were also present.
Mayor Eaton called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m.
Mayor Eaton gave the Invocation and led the pledge of allegiance.
Citizens Time:
1. Koni Billings spoke to the Council in regards to the property know as the old supermarket area that Jake Moser now owns. The need for an access to the back of the old market exists if the Dollar General store is to move to that location. The Council was asked to take time to look at the easement and alleyway in back of the old supermarket as Mr. Moser would like to address the Council in the near future and would like to have them familiar with the area that he would like to discuss and ask for a variance in order to use the alleyway as a delivery road.
2. Consent Agenda: Accounts Payables for the month of October 2010 were considered and the motion to accept was made by Frank Holt, seconded by Allen Trigg. All in Favor. The minutes of the Regular meeting of October 14th, 2010 were also considered and accepted by motion made by Frank Holt, seconded by Allen Trigg. All in Favor.
Item 6; Council to consider and possibly take action on personnel issue with Chief Ferguson. Council adjourned into executive session at 6:37 p.m.under TGC Section §551.074 Personnel Matters.
Council Reconvened into Regular Session at 7:36 p.m. Frank Holt made a motion to deny the appeal to the suspension of Chief Dan Ferguson. Connally Bass seconded the motion. The motion passed by a vote of three (3) yeas, two (2) abstains. Canvass of vote was taken. Bass, Holt, Trigg, in favor of the upholding of suspension, Wilcox, Hargrove-Posey abstained.
Item 7; Council considered the repairs requested by Chief Ferguson to the police autos. The heater core replacement in the 2003 take home car was approved; the McNamara shop in Temple needs to be used. The tires for Little Bill’s car were approved pending a warranty being offered by Bill Wooley. The tires for Big Bill’s car were approved pending warranty being offered by Bill Wooley. The request for jumper cables made by Ms. Hargrove-Posey to be able to “jump” cars was denied as the liability for damage falls to the City if anything happens while “jumping” another vehicle. No motion was needed for these items as they will be under the $1,000.00 amount.
The Chief also asked for permission to have the Lorena Police department work in the city the night of the Municipal Christmas Party. The Council saw no problem with this.
The Chief asked about getting repeaters for the cars. He will get the council an estimate of cost for the repeaters by next regular Council meeting.
Item 8; Council heard from Johnny Tabor on the need to acquire funding for the projects that the City has approved in order to increase the productivity of the Water department and to begin a search of available funding for our planned wastewater projects. The Council will make arrangements to meet with Glen Thurman of Moody Bank on Tuesday the 16th of November to further along the funding process. The Council supported the request of the City engineer to put into place Resolution 11-01-10, allowing Johnny Tabor to research funding options available to the City for waste water projects, including but not limited to USDA grant funding. Motion to accept the resolution was made by Halbert Wilcox, which was seconded by Connally Bass. All in Favor. It was also noted that the fiberglass tank that is needed to cover the new pumps at the Friendly Oaks well is to be donated by Chris Arthur, a friend of Ms. Billings, at Permian Tank, Troy, Texas and that there is a second tank to be donated by Mike Bracken at American Sales and Service who negotiated a donation with Mayor Rick Eaton.
Item 9; Council discussed the contract that BGFN audit firm of Temple has sent in for the 2009/2010 fiscal year end. The Council approved the contract by unanimous vote. Motion to accept the contract was made by Lucy Hargrove Posey and was seconded by a motion from Allen Trigg. All in Favor.
Item 10; Council discussed replacing the large, bulky sorting machine that handles the postage and stuffing of the water bills. The machine is old and in need of updating. Ms. Billings negotiated a replacement that is much smaller and will make a savings of around 480.00 by postage buys alone for the next year. The lease payments will be very close to the current payment of $298.00 a month. The postage downloads can be done on-line now saving the up charge from the company to have someone come out to the site to load postage onto the old machine. Council voted to allow Mayor Eaton to sign new contract with Office Systems 2000 for the postage, sorter, stuffing machine. Lucy Hargrove Posey made the motion, which was seconded by Frank Holt. All in Favor.
Item 11; Council discussed the Options made available from TXDOT for Eagle Drive. Also discussed was the support of the B-E ISD for Option A. It was decided to table this item until after the meeting with the banker on Tuesday evening.
Item 12; Council voted for a new Mayor Pro Tem for election year 2010-2011. Council member Connally Bass replaces outgoing Mayor Pro Tem Hal Wilcox this year with three of five votes placed. Mayor Eaton administered the Oath of Office to the incumbents that were put back into office on the election of November 2nd. The statement of elected officials will be submitted to the administrator, who will forward all paperwork to the McLennan County Elections Administrator. The incumbents that will remain seated are Allen Trigg, Sr., Halbert Wilcox, and Connally Bass. The election votes were canvassed by the Election Judge Koni Billings. The votes were as follows in ballot order. Halbert Wilcox 158, Connally Bass 163, K. F. Coon Stanley 55, Larry Oliver 93, Patrick Linstrom 69, Allen Trigg, Sr. 177.
Motion to adjourn was made by Allen Trigg.
Mayor Eaton adjourned meeting at 8:26 p.m.
Minutes approved on December 9th, 2010
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Rick Eaton, Mayor
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Koni Billings, City of Bruceville-Eddy