City of Wallis Regular City Council Meeting Wednesday,: July17,2024  This is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the Regular City Council Meeting for the City of Wallis,  Texas held on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 6:00pm.  1. Call to Order  Mayor Little Called the Meeting to Order at 6:00pm. 2. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. 3. Roll Call and Certification of Quorum  Led by Mayor Little  Aquorum was present. Present were Councilmember Jimmy Lavergne, Councilmember Deborah Boren, Councilmember Belinda Halfin and Mayor Little. Councilmember Clark Main. Jr. was absent at roll call, arrived at 7:45pm. Councilmember David Marek was absent.  4. Communication from the Public house al Mynarik Park for the Street Disciples.  Ronda Valis spoke to Council about possibly being put on at future agenda to ask about using the Mitch Carney spoke to Council about re-platting property located at 7303 Hwy 60 to build  Additional homes. 5. Consent Agenda  Motion by Councilmember Belinda Halfin, second by Councilmember. Jimmy Lavergne to  approve Minutes from June 18 2024. Motion passed unanimously.  6. Action on Department reports, ifr necessary a. Public Works monthly report- - No action b.P Police/Admin monthly report- No action C.N Municipal Court monthly report- No action  7. Financial Review  Motion by Councilmember Belinda Halfin, second by Councilmember Deborah Boren to approve  monthly report and payment of bills. Motion passed unanimously    8. Action on Follow upi items, if necessary a. Wastewater Permit - Permit is on schedule.  b. Mit-Grant Updates - Discuss under new business by Mr. Weishuhn  C.D Downtown Revitalization Project Update - Contractor is currently working on sidewalk and d. Chamber of Commerce Updates- Sign downtown was replaced and now working on getting colored rock to replace bushes. Fraud Seminar will be. July 31, 2024 at 12 Noon and August 2, 2024 at 6pm. Chamber respectfully ask to be taken off the agenda, unless they request to be  project is moving along quickly.  put on. 9. New Business  e. Storm damage Update - Getting bids for debris removal.  a.. James Weishuhn from Weishuhn Engineering  Mr. Weishuhn, gave a Kick off report on the MIT-Grant. He stated that General Land Office (GLO) will be out fora a visit oft the: sites on July 25th. Wastewater portion of the project has started. On the north side of town, the crews will be doing sanitary sewer work and on the south: side of towni they will be doing storm water work. Contractors should be putting door hangers out to residents giving them 72-hour notice of the work that willl be done ini their area.  b. Ordinance Updates  Motion made by Councilmember Belinda Halfin, second by Councilmember Jimmy Lavergne to Pg.3 change wording from (his/her tot the), Pg.19 4.2 add "have volunteer worker", Pg20 5b add "4. City of Wallis Building Codes. Striking the change on Pg. 20 Sec5 5(1) and to table the suggested changes to Ordinance Numbers 38-A and 216. Motion passed unanimously. Council went into Executive Closed Session at 9:53pm to discuss Gov Code 551.074  accept the changes to Ordinance No. 243 as follows:  c.Code Enforcement  Personnel Matters, Code Enforcement Personnel. Council reconvened from Closed Session at 10:18pm, No action  d. Resolution No. 2024-09  Motion made by Councilmember Clark Main. Jr., second by Councilmember Debroha Boren to approve Resolution No. 2024-09, "The Resolution of the Board of Directors oft the Wallis Economic Development Corporation regarding al loan to finance to costs of an economic development project. Councilmember Belinda Halfin abstained from voting due to her being e. Contract for Special Projects, Grants and Development Coordinator Services This item was tabled. The mayor did approve for Marti Frost to meet with a Developer at an upcoming meeting that was previously schedule and invoice the city for her time at this one  on EDC Council. Motion passed unanimously.  meeting.    f.E EDC Updates No action  g. Budget Workshop Date h.F Future Agenda Items None at this time 10. Adjourn Meeting Meeting was adjourned at 10:45pm.  Budget Workshop scheduled for. July 24, 2024 at 6pm.  A Preston Little, Mayor  SRes-s Sheila Moseley, City'Secretary  ATTEST: