CITY OF SMITHVILLE SPECIAL-CALLED COUNCIL MEETING NOVEMBER 14, 2024  NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN PURSUANT TO THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, VERNON'S. ANN.CIV.ST. art 6252-17THATTHE CITYOF SMITHVILLE WILL CONDUCT A SPECIAL CALLED COUNCIL MEETING NOVEMBER 14, 2024 AT 5:30 P. M. IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS OF CITYHALL, 317 MAIN STREET, SMITHVILLE, TEXAS.  Open Meeting:  1. Presentation from Jason Rammel on the Boards and Commissions Handbook, the Ethics Policy Ordinance, and the Policy on Prohibited Technologies.  Citizen Comments: Citizen Comments: Citizen Comments:  2. Discussion and Action on adopting the new. Boards and Commissions Policy. 3. Discussion and Action on the adoption of the Ethics Policy Ordinance.  4. Discussion and Action on Adopting a stand-alone policy banning the video-sharing application TikTok and other prohibited technologies from all city-owned devices and networks over the Chinese Communist Party's ability to use the application for 5. Presentation from BEFCO Engineering Engineering Wastewater Treatment Facility  surveilling Texans.  (WWTF) Expansion Study Final Report.  Citizen Comments:  6. Discussion and Action regarding presentation from BEFCO Engineering Wastewater  Treatment Facility (WWTF) Expansion Study Final Report  7. Adjourn  Icertify this agenda was posted on or before 5:30 p.m., November 8, 2024, pursuant to the Texas  Open Meetings Act.  fua