Council hears GLO-RCP grant project report
The Hallettsville City Council met in its regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening, Feb. 20 and heard from Langford Community Management Services regarding the General Land Office-Resilient Communities Program (GLO-RCP) grant project
Jerri Conrado, who represented Langford, displayed a power point program that showed an overview of the data collection process, requirements and sharing, community engagement portal, timeline, options of additions and discussion with Council as well as the Planning and Zoning committee, who attended the meeting.
Langford is the grant manager of a grant the city received and Conrado went over the first part by updating the comprehensive and zoning code.
Municipal Judge:
Council okayed an addendum agreement to extend the contract of Hallie Hall as the Hallettsville City Municipal judge. The term of the contract would be from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026.
Also, council approved an agreement for Hallettsville Associate Municipal judge with Sheila Garza Medina. Her contract would also extend over the same amount of time.
Resolutions:
Council approved three resolutions with one including approving and adopting the investment policy for the year.
A second resolution was approved that awarded RM Quality Construction a bid totaling$450,000, which involved building three homes in the HOME Program.
The third resolution approved by council involved the annual grant application that the city is eligible due to its membership in the LoneStar Task Force.
The grant application would go through the Office of the Governor for two police units as well as employee training.
Planning and Zoning Commission:
Council appointed Planning and Zoning commission alternate Peter Murphy as member of the commission. Murphy will replace Frank Zaruba, who recently resigned. The other application was submitted by Debbie Fishbeck, who will continue to serve as an alternate to the commission.
Sales Tax/Bills Payments:
City administrator/secretary Grace Ward reported the city collected $66,411.77 in sales and use tax for January as compared to $59,052.79 in January 2023.
Council approved the payment of bills for the month that amounted to $301,789.13.
Reports:
Hallettsville Police Chief Randy Schlauch reported the department answered 479 calls in January. During the month there were 16 violations with eight arrests.
Hallettsville Library director Breana Kristek reported a total of 2,147 material circulations and had a 998 individuals with an average of 59 per day visit the library in January.
Kristek said there were 744 visitors to their website.
In other action taken by council:
• Approved bylaw amendments for both the Hallettsville 4A Manufacturing Development Corporation and the 4B Business Development Corporation.
• Discussed the city’s organizational chart.
• Discussed City Code Chapter 2 animal control.
• Reviewed possible changes to the Chapter 12 Planning and Zoning on specific use permits, permitted and prohibited land uses and regulations of nonconformities.