Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors


Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors
City of Texarkana, Arkansas
City Hall – East Third and Walnut Streets
Monday, October 3, 2005

7:00 p.m. Regular Meeting

1.	Call to order.
2.	Invocation given by Director Weldon Johnson.
3.	Presentation of the City of Texarkana, Arkansas Employee Service Awards
4.	Presentation of the TWU Budget by Texarkana Water Utilities Executive Director Bill King
5.	Presentation on the Probation Department by Debbie Nolte
6.	CONSENT AGENDA
	A.	Approval of Minutes of the regular meeting of September 19, 2005.
	B.	Adopt a Resolution approving the FY 2005-2006 TWU Budget.
	C.	Adopt a Resolution awarding a contract for water and sewer treatment chemicals.
	D.	Adopt a Resolution approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute Change Order No. 2 for the Mandeville and Union Pump Station improvements with Advance Tank and Construction Company of Pell City, Alabama in an amount not to exceed $16,475.00. (TWU)
7.	Consider the following action concerning substandard structures:
	A.	Conduct a public hearing regarding condemning eight (8) substandard structures.
	B.	Adopt a Resolution condemning eight (8) substandard structures.
8.	Adopt an Ordinance levying the 2005 tax rate.
9.	Adopt an Ordinance amending article I, Section 24-10 and Sections 24-13-19; article IV; Sections 24-83 through 24-85; Article V, Section 24-98; Article VI, Section 24-11; of Chapter 24 (subdivision regulations) of the Code of Ordinances; adding required landscaped strips and/or screening walls or fences for subdivisions containing double-frontage lots; providing a list of suggested planting materials suited to the city; adding various definitions; requiring a tree inventory and tree preservation plan for new subdivisions; prohibiting clear-cutting; and requiring restrictive and protective covenants to mitigate issues between proposed subdivisions and existing, developed subdivisions.
10.	Adopt an Ordinance naming an unnamed and unnumbered recently constructed industrial access road on the North side of the Abernathy Company building in the 3500 block of East 19^th Street. (PW)
11.	Citizen Communication.
		A limit of five (5) minute per subject is allotted for any person to express a written or oral viewpoint, grievance or other message to the Board of Directors, with a maximum of fifty (50) minutes allotted for citizen communications. No advance permission is required, but persons wishing to address the Board are requested to fill out a “blue” card listing the subject to be addressed and hand it to the City Clerk upon arrival. Citizen’s communications will be immediately following the Regular Agenda items on each agenda.
12.	Executive Session.
13.	Adjourn.

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Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors

Monday, October 3, 2005

7:00 p.m. Regular Meeting

A.

Approval of Minutes of the regular meeting of September 19, 2005.

B.

Adopt a Resolution approving the FY 2005-2006 TWU Budget.

C.

Adopt a Resolution awarding a contract for water and sewer treatment chemicals.

D.

Adopt a Resolution approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute Change Order No. 2 for the Mandeville and Union Pump Station improvements with Advance Tank and Construction Company of Pell City, Alabama in an amount not to exceed $16,475.00. (TWU)