CITY COUNCIL MINUTES REGULAR MEETING  KERRRVILLE, TEXAS JANUARY 09, 2024 6:00 PM  On January 09, 2024 at 6:00 p.m., Mayor Judy Eychner called the Kerrville City Council meeting to order in City Hall Council Chambers, 701 Main Street. Mayor Eychner provided  the invocation and led the Pledge of Allegiance. COUNCILMEMBERS PRESENT: Judy Eychner, Mayor Roman Garcia, Councilmember Place 1 Jeff Harris, Councilmember Place 2 Joe Herring, Jr., Councimember Place 3 Brenda Hughes, Councimember Place 4 CITY EXECUTIVE STAFF: Dalton Rice, City Manager Mike Hayes, City Attorney Kim Meismer, Asst City Manager Michael Hornes, Asst City Manager Shelley McElhannon, City Secretary Stuart Barron, Executive Director  COUNCILMEMBER ABSENT:  None  Julie Behrens, Director of Finance Stephen Boyd, Asst Fire Chief Stuart Cunyus, Public Information Officer Guillermo Garcia, Executive Director Chris McCall, Police Chief Drew Paxton, Director of Planning/Zoning  VISITORS PRESENT: A list of the citizen speakers present during the meeting is on file  in the City Secretary's Office for the required retention period. 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST:  Communtyamnounemens provided by Stuart Cunyus and Councilmember Brenda Hughes. 2A. Commendations for outgoing Board members of the Library Advisory Board, and the Mayor Eychner presented commendations to Megan Bean and Melinda Kay Stewart for the Library Advisory Board, and Joseph Duprie, Thomas Hurt, Joseph Piszczor, and Cynthia Tate fort the Recovery Community Coalition. Megan Bean and Joseph Duprie were in attendance. 2B. Life Saving Bar Presentation to Kerrville Police Department Officer David Cordova. Police Chief Chris McCall presented Officer David Cordova with the Life Saving Bar, and recognized Officer Cordova's service in resuscitating an unresponsive individual.  2. PRESENTATIONIS: Recovery Community Coalition.  3. VISITORS FORUM: The following person(s) spoke: Anthony Farmer 4. CONSENT AGENDA:  Shelley McElhannon read Consent Agenda captions into record.  Councilmember Roman Garcia requested to pulli item 4A. Councimember Jeff Harris made a motion to approve Consent Agenda items 4B, 4C, 4D, and 4E, seconded by  Councilmember Hughes. The motion passed 5-0.    4B. Resolution No. 01-2024. A Resolution ordering that a General Election be held on May 4, 2024, fori the election of Mayor, and two Councilmembers for Place 3 and Place 4; providing details relating to the holding of such election; authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Kerr County Elections Officer for the holding of the election; 4C. Purchase of Dump Truck for City's Public Works Department in the amount not to  and providing other matters related to the subject.  exceed $150,000.00.  4D. City Council workshop minutes, December 12, 2023. 4E. City Council meeting minutes, December 12, 2023.  END OF CONSENT AGENDA.  4A. Ordinance No. 2023-34, second reading. An Ordinance amending the City's Fiscal Year 2024 (FY 2024) budget to allocate funds to be used for expenses related toi the City's preparation for and response to the Total Solar Eclipse event, which will take place April Shelley McElhannon read Ordinance No. 2023-34 caption into record during Consent Councimember Garcia made a motion to adopt Ordinance No. 2023-34, seconded by  of 2024.  Agenda caption readings.  Councimember Joe Herring, Jr. The motion passed 5-0. 5. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION:  5A. Review Report from the Charter Review Commission regarding recommendation of  amendments to City Charter.  Shelley McElhannon read item 5A caption into record.  Mike Hayes provided information and summarized twenty-six amendments, reviewed propositions A through J, and outlined next steps; and responded to questions. 1. Amend Section 1.02 replace "competent" with appropriate"  Summary of recommendations: 2. Delete Section 1.03  3. Amend Section 1.05 address legislative changes to state's annexation law 4. Amend Section 1.06 City's authority over disannexation of property, simply language 5. Amend Section 1.08 required notice of damages or injuries 6. Amend Section 2.02 subsection C, as to grammar for clarity 7. Amend Section 2.03 subsection a, increase length of Council to three years 8. Amend Section 2.04 clarification when a Councilmember must forfeit office 9. Amend Section 2.05 subsections a and C, add definition and comma 10.Amend Section 3.04 conduct required of Councimember 11.Amend Section 4.02 change required vote from plurality to majority 13.Amend Section 5.10 subsections a and C, add definition and comma  12.Amend Section 4.03 correct punctuation 14.Amend Section 6.01 correct punctuation 15.Amend Section 6.02 clarification appointment and removal of City Manager (i) remove timing restrictions as to removal (ii) address gender and grammar  16.Amend Section 6.03 () provide super-majority of entire Council to approve    17.Amend Section 6.05 correct punctuation approve appointment and removal of City Attorney () remove timing restrictions as to removal proposed budget to Council 20.Amend Section 8.04 subsection C, typographical error 21.Amend Section 9.02 address gender  18.Amend Section 7.01 subsection d, () provide super-majority of entire Council to 19.Amend Section 8.01 subsection C, adjust timing for submission of City Manager's  22. Delete Article X 23.Delete Article XI 24.Delete Section 12.01 25.Delete Section 12.03  26.Amend Section 12.05 remove obsolete term 27.Amend Section 12.06 subsection a1, correct punctuation Mayor Eychner requested speakers limit time to three minutes.  The following person(s) spoke: Tim Summerlin Jaclyn Hall Bill Fitch Glenn Andrew Kim Clarkson Barbara Dewell-Ferguson John Harrison Bud Irving Hart lan Daugherty  Councimember Garcia made a motion to provide direction to the City Attorney by adopting the proposed amendments to the City Charter with these changes: add a semi-colon on proposed amendment number four after City; to remove proposed amendment number seven regarding the term limits; to remove proposed amendment number nine regarding compensation amount; to remove proposed amendment number eleven regarding a majority vote instead of a plurality vote; to change proposed amendment number twelve, (I don'tknowifwe: are adding or taking away the commas, clarification, my proposal is to strike the two commas); to strike proposed amendment number sixteen with regarding a four-fifths vote to appoint or remove a City Manager; to strike proposed amendment number eighteen which is to appoint or remove a City Attorney. Mayor Eychner called for a second, with no Councimember Garcia made a motion to approve all of them that I don't object with, and then if a Councimember wants to make a motion to approve all of the ones that I did not include, that way my vote can reflect an opposition on those; solr move to provide direction toi the City Attorney to prepare an Ordinance on the proposed amendments for 1,2,3,4,5, 6,8,10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17,19,20, 21,22, ,23,24,25, ,26, and 27. Mayor Eychner called for Councimember Herring made a motion to accept the recommendations from the Charter Review Commission in its entirety and let the voters of our Community make those decisions as previous Charter Review Commissions have done, seconded by Councimember Hughes. Councimember Garcia clarified "let the voters decide", which Councilmember  second. Motion died for lack of second.  as second, with no second. Motion died forl lack of second.    Herring advised was a side comment. The motion passed 4-1, with Mayor Eychner, Councilmember Harris, Councimember Herring, and Councilmember Hughes voting in  favor, and Councimember Garcia opposed.  6. EXECUTIVE SESSION: Executive Session not called nor convened. 7. ACTION ON ITEMS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, IF ANY. N/A  8. ITEM(S)FOR FUTURE AGENDAS: Councilmember Garcia - Pending agenda list. Dalton Rice provided closing remarks to City Council. ADJOURN. The meeting adjourned at 7:33 p.m.  APPROVED BY COUNCIL: APPROVED:  123/2084  ATTEST:  City Secretary  Shbehw dm