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Meeting Agenda - Final -revised
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8/25/2023 6:57:25 PM
Rebecca Huerta
City Secretary
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
11:30 AM
Council Chambers
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pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.045.
A. Mayor Paulette Guajardo to call the meeting to order.
B. Invocation to be given by Deacon Michael Mantz, Diocese of Corpus Christi.
C. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States and to the Texas Flag to be
led by Julianna Perez, Senior at W.B. Ray High School.
D. City Secretary Rebecca L. Huerta to call the roll of the required Charter Officers.
E. CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS / UPDATE ON CITY OPERATIONS:
1. 23-1410 Arts and Cultural Commission Update by Jim Moore, Chair
2. 23-1461 Summer Programming Closures and Labor Day Weekend Schedule
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F. PUBLIC COMMENT - APPROXIMATELY 12:00 P.M. To speak during this public
comment period, you must sign up before the meeting begins. Each speaker is
limited to a total of no more than 3 minutes per speaker. You will not be allowed
to speak again on an item when the Council is considering the item. Time limits
may be restricted further by the Mayor at any meeting. If you have a petition or
other information pertaining to your subject, please present it to the City
Secretary. Written comments may be submitted at
cctexas.com/departments/city-secretary. Electronic media that you would like to
use may only be introduced into the City system IF approved by the City's
Information Technology (IT) Department at least 24 hours prior to the Meeting.
Please contact IT at 826-3211 to coordinate. This is a public hearing for all items
on this agenda.
G. BOARD & COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS:
H. EXPLANATION OF COUNCIL ACTION:
For administrative convenience, certain of the agenda items are listed as motions,
resolutions, or ordinances. If deemed appropriate, the City Council will use a different
method of adoption from the one listed; may finally pass an ordinance by adopting it as
an emergency measure rather than a two reading ordinance; or may modify the action
specified.
I. BUDGET RELATED ITEMS: (ITEMS 3 -13)
3. 23-1354 Ordinance amending the Code of Ordinances, Chapter 9, Aviation,
Section 9-35 - Parking Rates, by revising the parking rate for long-term
parking at the Corpus Christi International Airport.
Sponsors: Aviation Department
4. 23-1440 Ordinance affirming Development Services fee schedules including fee
schedules for Technical Construction Codes, Excavation and Fill, Unified
Development Code, Zoning, Beachfront Construction, Dune Protection,
and Billboards.
Sponsors: Development Services
5. 23-1460 Ordinance authorizing updates to the City of Corpus Christi's Texas
Municipal Retirement System benefits (1) adopting non -retroactive
repeating COLAs for retirees and their beneficiaries under Texas
Municipal Retirement System Act and (2) authorizing annually accruing
updated service credits; decreasing the TMRS contribution rate from
16.57% to 16.29% for calendar year 2024.
sponsors: Human Resources
6. 23-1389 Ordinance amending various sections of the Code of Ordinances, Chapter
21, Solid Waste, by revising applicable rates, fees, and charges; and
providing an effective date.
Sponsors: Solid Waste Operations
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7. 23-1282 Ordinance amending Section 55-709, Drainage Utility Charge, of the
Corpus Christi Code of Ordinances, to levy an amended schedule of storm
water drainage charges, and providing an effective date.
Sponsors: Public Works/Street Department
8. 23-1403 Ordinance amending Corpus Christi Code Section 55-50 regarding water
CmS (kt& \ rates and section 55-100 regarding wastewater rates effective January 1,
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Sponsors: Corpus Christi Water
9. 23-1401 Ordinance amending Ordinance 17150 by increasing the exemption for ad
valorem taxes for all qualified residence homesteads from 10% to 15% of
C>i&Sti assessed value commencing Tax Year 2024 and from 15% to 20% of
assessed value commencing Tax Year 2025; and increasing the
exemption for ad valorem taxes for persons' residence who are disabled
or 65 years of age or older from $50,000, as approved by the citizens of
Corpus Christi on April 4, 1987, to $62,500, commencing Tax Year 2024;
providing that this ordinance is cumulative and for an effective date,
severance, publication, and codification.
Sponsors: Finance & Procurement
10. 23-1363
Public Hearing and First Reading Ordinance adopting the City of Corpus
Christi operating budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024 beginning October
1, 2023; authorizing personnel complements; providing for copy to be filed
with the county clerk; appropriating funds as provided in the budget; and
adopting the FY 2024 - 2028 Infrastructure Management Plan.
Sponsors: Office of Management and Budget
11. 23-1387 Public Hearing and First Reading Ordinance adopting the Corpus Christi
Fiscal Year 2023 - 2024 Capital Budget in the amount of $703,026,801 as
amended by the schedule of adjustments, beginning October 1, 2023.
Sponsors: Office of Management and Budget
12. 23-1400 Public Hearing and First Reading Ordinance setting a property tax rate of
$0.599774 per $100 valuation which is effectively an 8.3% increase over
the no -new -revenue tax rate and approving the tax roll as calculated.
Sponsors: Finance & Procurement
13. 23-1364 Ordinance ratifying the property tax increase reflected in the FY 2023-2024
Operating Budget that will require raising more revenue from property
taxes than in the FY 2022-2023 Operating Budget in amount of
$13,499,855.
Sponsors: Office of Management and Budget
J. CONSENT AGENDA: (ITEMS 14 - 26)
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: The following items are consent motions, resolutions, and
ordinances of a routine or administrative nature. The Council has been furnished with
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background and support material on each item, and/or it has been discussed at a
previous meeting. All items will be acted upon by one vote without being discussed
separately unless requested by a Council Member or a citizen, in which event the item or
items will immediately be withdrawn for individual consideration in its normal sequence
after the items not requiring separate discussion have been acted upon. The remaining
items will be adopted by one vote.
14. 23-1406 Approval of the August 22, 2023 Regular Meeting Minutes
Sponsors: City Secretary's Office
Consent - Second Reading Ordinances
15. 23-1251 Ordinance appropriating $13,000.00 in the Health Grant Fund for an
increase in the Beach Watch Program from the Texas General Land Office
033135 (GLO) to collect and analyze water samples, notify the public of beach
water quality and to recommend and/or issue water quality advisories when
warranted. for the period September 1, 2020, through August 31, 2025.
Sponsors: Health Department
16. 23-1201 Zoning Case No. 0623-02, Ron & Vanessa, LLC III and TRR Development
LLC (District 4). Ordinance rezoning properties at or near 15821 and
3 3 1 3 6 15826 South Padre Island Drive and 15822 and 15826 Palmira Ave from
d the CR-2/IO Resort Commercial District with the Island Overlay to the
p1/444,��\ CR-2/IO/PUD Resort Commercial District with the Island Overlay and a
Planned Unit Development; Providing for a penalty not to exceed $2,000
and publication. (Planning Commission and Staff recommend approval).
Sponsors: Development Services
17. 23-1269 Zoning Case No. 0523-01 WinnCo Investments, LLC (District 3).
Ordinance rezoning property at or near 6302 Old Brownsville Road from
0 3 3 1 3 7 the "FR" Farm Rural District to the "R -MH" Manufactured Home District;
nProviding for a penalty not to exceed $2,000 and publication (Planning
`'��`'�� Commission and Staff Recommend approval).
Sponsors: Development Services
18. 23-1273 Zoning Case No. 0623-01, MPM Development, LP, Corpus Christi
Independent School District, and the City of Corpus Christi (District 5).
033138
3 3 1 3 8 Ordinance rezoning property at or near 8101 Yorktown Boulevard from the
U "FR" Farm Rural District and the "RE" Residential Estate District to the
Qkk. "RS -4.5" Single -Family 4.5 District, the "CN -1" Neighborhood Commercial
District, and the "CG -2" General Commercial District. Providing for a
penalty not to exceed $2,000 and publication. (Planning Commission and
Staff recommended approval).
Sponsors: Development Services
19. 23-0996 Ordinance authorizing the acceptance of a grant from the Motor Vehicle
0 3 3 1 3 9 Crime Prevention Authority in the amount of $822,431 with a City cash
match of $169,372 and an in-kind match of $714,806, fora total project
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cost of $1,706,609 for salaries, overtime, and fringe benefits for four sworn
officers three civilians (authorizing two additional general fund positions),
and for operational needs for the Corpus Christi Police Department's Auto
Theft Task Force; and designating several City staff members as
designated officials for the grant; and appropriating $822,431 in the Police
Grants Fund.
Sponsors: Police Department
Consent - Contracts and Procurement
20. 23-1144 Motion authorizing a one-year service agreement, with two one-year
options, with Sylvia Ann Barton dba Leroy and Richards Automotive, of
2 0 2 3130 Corpus Christi, for light fleet vehicle repairs and service for the Corpus
Christi Fire Department, with a one-year amount not to exceed $67,485.00
and a potential total amount not to exceed $202,455.00 if both one-year
options are exercised, with FY 2023 funding of $5,625.00 from the General
Fund.
Sponsors: Fire Department and Finance & Procurement
21. 23-0513 Motion authorizing execution of a three-year service agreement, with two
one-year options, with The Vibration Guys, LLC, of Pearland, Texas, in an
2023 1 3 amount not to exceed $231,351.00, and a potential amount of
$385,585.00 if the options are exercised, for vibration analysis and
condition monitoring of the blowers at the wastewater treatment plants, with
FY 2023 funding of $32,132.08 from the Wastewater Fund.
Sponsors: Corpus Christi Water and Contracts and Procurement
22. 23-1236 Motion authorizing execution of a one-year service agreement, with two
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one-year options, with CSI Consolidated, LLC, dba AIMS Companies, of
1 3 2 Houston, in an amount not to exceed $710,500.00, with a potential amount
of $2,131,500.00 if options are exercised, for closed circuit televised
cleaning and inspection of large diameter wastewater lines for Corpus
Christi Water, with FY 2023 funding of $75,000.00 from the Wastewater
Fund.
Sponsors: Corpus Christi Water and Finance & Procurement
23. 23-1252 Resolution athorizing a six-month service agreement with D. Reynolds
Company, LLC, dba The Reynolds Company, of Fort Worth, for
033140 c $265,640.88, to purchase equipment ural Fnftware required for the
replacement of the Wastewater Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) systems at the Greenwood and Broadway Wastewater
Treatment Plants, with funding from the Wastewater Capital Fund.
Sponsors: Corpus Christi Water, Information Technology Services and Finance &
Procurement
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General Consent Items
24. 23-1318 Resolutionfauthorizing execution of an interlocal cooperation agreement
with the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) for integration of the City's
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;r public safety radio system and the LCRA's public safety radio system.
IY Sponsors: Information Technology Services and Police Department
Consent - First Reading Ordinances
25. 23-1329 Ordinance authorizing acceptance of grant funds in an amount of
$167,000.00 from the Texas Department of Transportation for the 2024
Comprehensive Selective Traffic Enforcement Project for overtime for
sworn officers to increase traffic enforcement in Corpus Christi, with a City
match of $42,669.75 in fringe benefits and fuel expenses, with funds
available from the FY 2024 General Fund; and appropriating $167,000.00
in the Police Grants Fund.
Sponsors: Police Department
26. 23-1360 Ordinance approving amendments to the Tax Increment Reinvestment
Zone #2 Amended Project & Financing Plans approved by the Board of
Directors of Reinvestment Zone Number Two, Corpus Christi, Texas,
recommending the allocation of $150,950,000 in future revenue to
specified projects including water and wastewater infrastructure, parks,
mobility projects, developer reimbursement, and administration costs.
Sponsors: Economic Development
K. RECESS FOR LUNCH
The City Council will take a lunch break at approximately 1:30 p.m.
L. PUBLIC HEARINGS: (ITEMS 27 - 28)
The following items are public hearings and public hearings with first reading ordinances.
Each item will be considered individually.
27. 23-1103 Ordinance amending Section 14-231 of the City Code to amend the
Building Code to provide an exemption for certain government, industrial,
and agricultural facilities from permits, amending Sections 14-281 and
14-291 of the City Code to amend the Plumbing and Residential
Construction Codes to incorporate Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality regulations for the testing of backflow assemblies and clarify
backflow device requirements for carbonated beverage dispensers,
amending Section 55-37 of the City Code to expand authority the
disconnection of services for failure to install, test, or maintain a required
backflow device; providing for a penalty not to exceed $2,000 and
publication.
Sponsors: Development Services
28. 23-1284 Ordinance authorizing the City Manager to execute a lease agreement
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with ARINC, Incorporated for space on the ground floor of the Corpus
Christi International Airport terminal building for a five-year term, with the
option to renew for two additional five-year terms.
Sponsors: Aviation Department
M. INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ITEMS: (ITEMS 29 - 31)
The following items are motions, resolutions and ordinances that will be considered and
voted on individually.
29. 23-0968 Resolution authorizing an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement with Port of
Corpus Christi Authority to reimburse $7,117,722.95 to the City for related
0 3 3 1 4 2 engineering and construction costs associated with the removal of two
16 -inch waterlines and the installation of a new 24 -inch waterline crossing
the Corpus Christi Ship Channel located in City Council District 1.
Sponsors: Engineering Services and Water Utilities Department
30. 23-1362 Ordinance appropriating $1,700,000.00 of anticipated hotel occupancy tax
(HOT) revenues in the No. 1030 HOT Fund for a contractual payment to
Visit Corpus Christi and for an emergency declaration for a transformer
failure at American Bank Center; appropriating $330,000.00 from the
unreserved fund balance in the HOT Fund for professional consulting
services related to the Convention Center Expansion Project; and
amending the FY 2023 Operating Budget.
Sponsors: Finance & Procurement
31. 23-1374 Ordinance authorizing the approval of Change Order No. 1 with Fulton
Coastcon General Contractors of Corpus Christi, Texas, in an amount of
$298,444.04 for a total amount not to exceed $21,453,050.04 for the
Police Training Academy, located in Council District 5, amending the
Capital Budget with FY 2023 funding available from general fund.
Sponsors: Engineering Services, Contracts and Procurement, Asset Management
Department and Police Department
N. BRIEFINGS:
Briefing information will be provided to the City Council during the Council meeting.
Briefings are for Council information only. No action will be taken and no public comment
will be solicited. The City Manager or City Council Liaison for any city board,
commission, committee or corporation (including Type A or B Corporation) may report on
the action(s) or discussion(s) of any such body's public meeting that occurred within one
month prior to this City Council meeting.
O. EXECUTIVE SESSION:
PUBLIC NOTICE is given that the City Council may elect to go into executive session at
any time during the meeting in order to discuss any matters listed on the agenda, when
authorized by the provisions of the Open Meeting Act, Chapter 551 of the Texas
Government Code, and that the City Council specifically expects to go into executive
session on the following matters. If the Council elects to go into executive session
regarding an agenda item, the section or sections of the Open Meetings Act authorizing
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the executive session will be publicly announced by the presiding officer. The City
Council may deliberate and take action in open session on any issue that may be
discussed in executive session. The description of an item in "Executive Sessions"
constitutes the written interpretation by the City Attorney of Chapter 551 of the Texas
Government Code and his determination that said item may be legally discussed in
Closed Meeting in compliance with Chapter 551 the Texas Government Code.
P. ADJOURNMENT
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