City Council Regular Meeting Agenda April 8. 2025 CITY OF ENCINAL City Council Regular Meeting Tuesday, April 8, 2025 @6:00 p.m. The Cily ofEncinal Ciry Council Shall Hold an In-Person. Meeting swithA Quorum ofMembers ENCIN ofCiy Coumcil 1o Be Plysically Present in The Encinal Council Cily Chambers. 701 BerySL, Encinal, Texas 78019. Meeting called to order. I. Pledge of Allegiance. II. Roll call to establishing a quorum. IA Arizola O. Aldaco G. Inocencio D. Weikel S. Aldaco Citizens Comments. Speakers must come to the podium, state their name and city ofr residence for the Clerk's record, and limit their remarks to three minutes. To speak during this comment public period on: a city-related matter or agendai item, you must sign up before the meeting begins. Each: speakeri is limited to a total of no more than 3 minutes per speaker. You will not be allowed to! speaka again ona an item when the Council is considering the item as an un-agenized item, no response is required from Citys staff, or the Council and no action can be taken: A person who makes at false statement under oath is subject to prosecution under Section 37.02, Penal Code. Personal Attacks Will. Not Be. Allowed by Any. Speaker. 1. Discussion and Possible Action Approving of the following City Council Minutes: March 11, 2025 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes 2. Administrative Monthly Reports A. City Admin./Manager's Report 1. April Gazette 2. April Calendar 3. April Permits B. City Consutant/Atcountant Report C. Police Chief Report 1. Swearing-In of Officer 2. Promotion of Officer's 3. Discussion and possible action on naming the city community center in honor of former Mayor Javier Mancha, to be designated as the Javier Mancha City Community Center." 4. Discussion and Action approving a date and time for City Hall Annex building ribbon cutting. 5. Discussion and action on signing the memorandum of understanding for the Govind Hotel Group. The project understanding is to build 2- 301 to 60: room hotels within the city limits of Encinal within an 11-year period, this development is an estimate 11,000,000 development for the city. 6. Discussion and action on nominations, voting and appointments for new EEDC board members. 7. Discussion on Election Dates and Times. City ofl Encinal 1 City Council Regular Meeting Agenda April 8. 2025 8. Discussion on clearing Grande Street, from the corner ofl Memorial/Grande southward, to allow a resident to place a mobile home on their property. The resident currently lacks access due to the long-term closure of Grande Street, preventing entry to their back lots. 9. Discussion with city council on a proposed comprehensive plan addressing property trash accumulation, including clear enforcement policies, community outreach strategies/clean-ups and resource allocation. 10. Discussion of Attorney fees expended in 2023, 2024 and budgeted for 2025 as well as funds lost due to closing required by lack of a budget not being approved by City Council. 11. Discussion and action on the biannual review of the City of Encinal Tax Abatement Guidelines. Per chapter 312 ofthe Texas Tax Code the city must: review the guidelines every two years for the eligibility and criteria for the award of a tax abatement. 12. Discussion and action on allowing the city Auditor to compile and complete the city financial statements for FYE 2019-2024 for posting onto the city web-site. Tentative posting schedule is as follows: FYE: 2019 - 2020 April 2025 FYE 2021 - 2022 May 2025 FYE 2023 - 2024 June 2025 13. Discussion and possible action in Closed Session on pending Litigation. Executive. Session. The City Council oft the City of Encinal reserves the right to adjourn into Executive Session at any time during the course of this meeting to discuss any of the matters listed on the posted agenda, above, as authorized: by the Texas Government Code, Sections 551.071 (consultation with attorney). 14. Discussion on April Bills 15. Adjournment. Executive Session. The City Council of the City of Encinal reserves the right to adjourn into Executive Session at any time during the course of this meeting to discuss any oft the matters listed on the posted agenda, above, as authorized by the Texas Government Code, Sections 551.071 (consultation with attorney), 551.072 (deliberations about real property), 551.073 (deliberations about gifts and donations), 551.074 (personnel matters), 551.076 (deliberations about security devices), and 551.087 (economic development). Sec. 551.0411. MEETING NOTICE REQUIREMENTS IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES: (a) Section does not require a governmental body that recesses an open meeting to the following regular business day to post notice of the continued meeting if the action is taken in good faith and not to circumvent this chapter. If an open meeting is continued to the following regular business day and, on that following day, the governmental body continues the meeting to another day, the governmental body must give written notice as required by this subchapter of the meeting continued to that other day. Certification hereby certify that the above NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA OF THE ENCINAL CITY COUNCIL was posted at the Encinal City Hall, 701 Berry St., Encinal, Texas, and remained posted until after the meeting(s) hereby posted concluded. This notice is posted on the city website at t/awdhdencnicen This building is wheelchair accessible. Any request for sign interpretive or other services must be made 48 hours in advance of the meeting. To plan, call (956) 948-5226, Ext. 100. e DP Lhenk aul Velma Davila City Administrator/Attest City Secretary April 1, 2025@ 4pm City of Encinal 2