City of Thrall  Cuyi, THRALL  Special Called City Council Meeting  104 South Main Street Thrall, Texas 76578  Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.  MINUTES THRALLCITY COUNCIL Mayor Troy Marx-Present Commissioner) J. Scooter Dubec-Present Commissioner.Nicole Wale-Absent/Excused  1. CALLTOORDER and DECLARE. A QUORUM at 7:19 p.m.  1.1. Roll Call 1.2.] Pledge of Allegiance  2. WELCOME VISITORS AND VISITOR COMMENTS  (Orange Sign In Card)  This time is reserved for input to the Thrall City Council on items not listed on the agenda. Any items presented to the Thrall City Council are considered informational only and may result in placement on a future agenda for discussion and consideration. During this time the Thrall City Council may hear your concerns but may not respond to any comments and will defer to City Staff. Those wishing to speak during this time must complete an Orange Sign In Card and present to the City Secretary prior to the beginning of the meeting. All  visitors will observe ai three-minute time limit. 2.1. Remarks of Visitors-No public comment  3. CONSENT. AGENDAI ITEMS  The Consent Agenda items listed below are considered to be routine by the Thrall City Council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless requested by the Mayor and/or Commissioner, in which event, the item(s) will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a Regular Agenda item(s). 3.1. Consideration and possible action regarding the approval of the minutes for the Special 3.2. Consideration and possible action regarding January and February 2021 financials. Mayor Marx made a motion to approve the consent items as: read with a second by  Called City Council Meeting on February 24, 2021.  Commissioner Dubec. Motion carried 2-0. March 24, 2021 Special Called City Council Meeting Minutes  Pagelof3    4. REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS  (Green Sign In Card)  This time is reserved for the public to speak to the Thrall City Council after the regular agenda item has been announced for consideration. Those wishing to speak must complete a Green Sign In Card and present the card to the City Secretary prior to the beginning of 4.1. Consideration and possible action regarding a variance request to Ordinance No. 20150520 Article 4. Travel Trailers, Section 4.01 for Rachel and Caleb Saunders at 418 S. Rachel and Caleb Saunders were present for questions and concerns the Council may have regarding their request. Mr. Saunders asked for a variance to live in the trailer, not full time but for the time being, until we figure some things out. After further discussion, Mayor Marx made motion to deny the variance request with a second by 4.2.Consideration and possible action regarding the award of the engineering services contract for the preparation of the City's 2021/2022 Texas Community Development Block Grant Program's (TxCDBG) application and subsequent engineering contract if Mayor Marx said the City received 5 proposals/RFQs from KSA Engineering, Thonhoff Consulting & Engineering, Southwest Engineers, Inc., Hejl, Lee & Associates, Inc., and MRB Group. We had the evaluation scoring system and each one was scored, accordingly, and after reviewing the scoring Mayor Marx made a recommendation/motion to award the contract to Hejl, Lee & Associates, Inc. with a 4.3. Consideration and possible action regarding the City's current sign ordinance, Ordinance No. 04242014, for possible amendments and/or corrections.  the meeting. All visitors will observe at three-minute time limit.  Main Street.  Commissioner Dubec. Motion carried 2-0.  funded.  second by Commissioner Dubec. Motion carried 2-0.  Mayor Marx and staff discussed the ordinance, noting that the tables were: missing in the original passage and needed to be added for the ordinance to make sense and work properly. Mayor Marx: made ai motion to accept the amendment of adding Tables 1 &-2t to the sign ordinance with a second by Commissioner Dubec. Motion 4.4. Consideration and possible action regarding the purchasing of a new police unit for the  carried 2-0.  Thrall Police Department.  Mayor Marx said we received 3 bids that Chief Whitworth put together for the Council, which included an F150, Tahoe and a Chevy Silverado. Mayor said in talking with Chief that he would like to have another Silverado and time wisei it will come in quicker; the price is $45,154.50 and add another $1500.00-2000.00 for decals, etc. Mayor Marx made a motion to pursue the Chevy Silverado Crew Cab, allow for financing, and add money into it for extras, like decals and a few things like that  with a second by Commissioner Dubec. Motion carried 2-0.  March: 24, 2021 Special Called City Council Meeting Minutes  Page2of3    4.5. Consideration and possible action regarding the wastewater rates for the City ofThrall. Mayor Marx said this item ties into 4.6, which is our re-averaging, but right now would like to hold off on a rate increase because people are coming out of all the economic hard times and in May, we will be reinstating the late fees and disconnect fees that we have not charged for over a year. We will need to look at doing a rate increase before to Iong on that but will bring back to the Council. Mayor Marxi tabled 4.6. Consideration and possible action regarding the wastewater re-averaging for the City of  agenda item 4.5 until further notice.  Thrall utility accounts.  Council discussed and reviewed the spreadsheets/reports presented by the City Secretary for the 2021 wastewater re-averaging. Mayor Marx made a motion to accept the wastewater re-averaging as presented with a second by Commissioner Dubec. 4.7. Consideration and possible action regarding the Public Utility Commission of Texas 2021 Consumer Price Index (CPI). Adjustment to Municipal Telecommunications Right- Mayor Marx made a motion to accept the 2021 Consumer Price Index as presented by  Motion carried 2-0.  of-Way Access Line Rates.  PUCwith a second by Commissioner Dubec. Motion carried 2-0.  5. ADJOURNMENT at 7:33 p.m. PASSED and APPROVED on this the.  of CITYOFTHRALL 7  2021.  Alen Aoul  TTEST:  Melissa L. Perry City Secretary  (SEAL)  March: 24, 2021 Special Called City Council Meeting Minutes  Page3of3