City of Wallis Regular City Council Meeting Wednesday, August 21,2024  This is at true and correct copy of the minutes of the Regular City Council Meeting for the City of Wallis,  Texas held on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 6:00pm.  1.C Call to Order  Mayor Little called the meeting to order at 6:00pm. 2. Invocation and Pledge ofAllegiance Leb by Mayor Little 3. Roll Call and Certification of Quorum  A quorum was present. Present were Councimember Jimmy Lavergne, Councimember Belinda Halfin, Councilmember Deborah Boren, Councimember David Marek and Mayor Little. Councilmember Clark Main Jr. was not present at roll call, he arrived at 6:11pm.  4. Communication fromthePublic  None 5. Consent Agenda Passed unanimously.  Motion made by Councimember Belinda Halfin, sécond by Councilmember Deborah Boren to approve minutes from July 17h,July 24"h, July 31" and August 8th. 2024 meetings. Motion  6. Action on Department Monthly Reports, if necessary a. Public Works Monthly Report - No action b. Police/Admin Monthly Report - No action C.M Municipal Court Monthly Report- Noaction  7. Financial Review  Motion by Councilmember Belinda Halfin, second by Councilmember David Marek to approve financial monthly report and payment of bills. Motion passed unanimously. Motion made by Councilmember Belinda Halfin, second by Councimember Clark Main. Jr. to approve the budget adjustments as presented. Motion passed unanimously.  8. Action on Follow Upi items, if necessary  a. MIT Grant Drainage and Sewer pipe bursting has started on the MIT GrantProject. There was some concern from citizens on the drainage work being done, Mayor received some complaints that the ditches are too deep. Mayor referred them to the Engineer and it was    explained that the ditches had to be certain depth for enough coverage over the culverts to insurei the warranty oft the culverts. Ditches will still have a 4to 1slop, so that they willl be able b. Downtown Revitalization Project Update - Project is moving forward. Contractor is waiting on the person building the railing to complete them and waiting on lighting to come in, should  to ber mowed.  take another 31 to 4 weeks. 9.a a. Agenda Request-Jim Maddox  Mr. Maddox spoke to Council about his plans to develop a 45-acre tract of land behind Lakeview and Scoggins Rd. Mr. Maddox will be asking the city for three things, annexation of the property, city utilities and al PID. Mr. Maddox is hoping to havet the drawing ofthe site plani for formal presentation by the next regular scheduled meeting.  b. Executive Closed Session- Council did not goi into closed session; this item was not needed.  C. Reconvene from Executive Close Session None needed  d. Mynarik Park passed unanimously. e. EDC Updates  Motion made by Councilmember Belinda Hallin, second by Councilmember Jimmy Lavergne that employee hours worked at Mynarik Park would come out of Mynarik Park account. Motion  Itv was offered to the cityf from the EDC that they would pay for an engineered firm to do at full evaluation of the city's water system, to see how many connections the current water system could handle. Motion made by Councilmember David Marek, second by Councilmember Clark Main Jr. to allow the EDC to go forward with hiring an engineer to evaluate the water system. Motion passed with 4 votes for and 1 vote against. Councilmembers Jimmy Lavergne, Belinda Halfin, Clark Main Jr. and David Marek voted for and Councimember Deborah Boren voted  against. f.F Future Agenda Items Bond Election EDC Budget 10.A Adjourn Meeting Meeting was adjourned at 7:17 pm  Preston AER Lie/Mayor  Sheila Moseley, City ATTEST: Eas