Printed Agenda

Council Chambers at City Hall
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
7 p.m.

William E. Dollar Municipal Building
200 N. Fifth St.
Garland, Texas

CITY OF GARLAND
REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL

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The Council Chambers at Garland City Hall is wheelchair accessible, and ADA parking is available on the street as well as in the public parking garage. Persons with disabilities who may need auxiliary aids or services must contact the City Secretary's Office at 972-205-2404 at least two working days prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Braille is not available.

NOTICE: Pursuant to Section 551.127 of the Texas Government Code, one or more members of the City Council may attend this meeting by internet/video remote means. A quorum of the City Council, as well as the presiding officer, will be physically present at the above identified location. Members of the public that desire to make a public comment must attend the meeting in person.

LEGISLATIVE PRAYER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

It is a custom and tradition of the City Council to have an invocation and recital of the Pledge of Allegiance prior to the beginning of each Regular Meeting. Members of the audience are invited but not required to participate. The decision to participate is strictly a matter of personal choice. It has no bearing on matters to be considered by the City Council and will not affect the decisions to be made during this meeting.

MAYORAL PROCLAMATIONS, RECOGNITIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Mayor may present proclamations, recognize attendees or accomplishments, and make announcements regarding City events or other matters of interest to citizens including but not limited to listed items. There will be no Council discussion or votes on these matters.

Texas Recreation & Park Society Arts and Humanities Programming Achievement Award
Texas Downtown Association President's Award (TRAPS)

CONSENT AGENDA

All items under this section are recommended for approval by a single motion of Council, without discussion. Council has had the opportunity to review each of these items at a previous Work Session, and approval of the consent agenda authorizes the City Manager or his designee to execute each item. The Mayor will announce the consent agenda and provide an opportunity for members of the audience, as well as Council, to request that any item be removed and considered separately.

Approve the minutes of the January 9, 2024, Regular Meeting

Approve the following bids:

Change order to existing contract BL# 9364

Bid No. 0485-19

Qualicare Landscape Services

$40,220.00

This request is to provide downtown and plaza landscape maintenance.

2023 "Where The Heart Is" Sidewalk Replacement

Bid No. 0106-24

Tri-Con Services, Inc.

$468,605.00

This request is for the 2023 "Where the Heart Is" Sidewalk Replacement Program for the reconstruction of portions of concrete sidewalks in the following subdivisions: Williams Estates (District 6), The Oaks Estates (District 3), and Orchard Hills Estates (District 5). This project is funded with American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding.

2023 Alley Paving & Wastewater Improvement Design

Bid No. 0338-24

Grantham & Associates, Inc.

$361,438.00

This request is to award a professional services contract to Grantham & Associates, Inc. in the amount of $361,438.00 for the design of the 2023 Alley Improvement Project. This project includes pavement reconstruction for 19 alleys and 2,000 linear feet of sewer line replacement.

A public hearing was previously conducted for the zoning case(s) below. Council approved the zoning request(s) and instructed staff to bring forth the following ordinances:

Z 23-45 708 Studios, LLC / Clara M. Carlisle (District 5)

Consider and take action on an ordinance amending the Garland Development Code of the City of Garland, Texas, by approving a Change in Zoning from Neighborhood Office (NO) District to Community Retail (CR) District on a 1.159-acre tract of land located at 2930 Broadway Boulevard providing for Conditions, Restrictions, and Regulations; providing a penalty under the provisions of Sec. 10.05 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Garland, Texas; providing a Notice of Conditions of Compliance Clause; providing a Savings Clause and a Severability Clause; and providing an effective date.

Z 23-33 Jacobs Telecommunications / Christine Johnson (District 3)

Consider and take action on an ordinance amending the Garland Development Code of the City of Garland, Texas, by approving 1) an Amendment to Planned Development (PD) District 14-07 for Community Retail Uses and 2) a Detail Plan for an Antenna, Commercial use on a 0.0112-acre tract of land located at 4535 Bass Pro Drive; providing for conditions, restrictions, and regulations; providing a penalty under the provisions of Sec. 10.05 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Garland, Texas; providing a Notice of Conditions of Compliance Clause; providing a Savings Clause and a Severability Clause; and providing an effective date.

Z 23-36 Realty Investments C/o Maxwell Fisher (District 3)

Consider and take appropriate action on an ordinance amending the Garland Development Code of the City of Garland, Texas, by approving 1) a Change in Zoning from Light Commercial (LC) District to a Planned Development (PD) District for Multi-family-2 (MF-2) and Live/Work uses and 2) a Detail Plan for a Multi-family and Live/Work development on a 9.8649-acre tract of land located at 630 East Interstate 30 Freeway and 5305 Zion Road providing for conditions, restrictions, and regulations; providing a penalty under the provisions of sec. 10.05 of the code of ordinances of the City of Garland, Texas; providing a Notice of Conditions of Compliance Clause; providing a Savings Clause and a Severability Clause; and providing an effective date.

Z 23-42 Matt Drahos (District 2)

Consider and take appropriate action on an ordinance amending the Garland Development Code of the City of Garland, Texas, by approving a Specific Use Provision for Automobile Sales, New or Used on a 1.585-acre tract of land located at 421 East Walnut Street, providing for conditions, restrictions, and regulations; providing a penalty under the provisions of Sec. 10.05 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Garland, Texas; providing a Notice of Conditions of Compliance Clause; providing a Savings Clause and a Severability Clause; and providing an effective date.

Appointment of Municipal Judges

Approve an ordinance appointing John Sholden and Natalie Banuelos as municipal judges for a term of 2 years, as set by state law.

Appointment of Associate Municipal Judges

Approve an ordinance appointing Sonja Galbraith, Rick Schimmel, and Donna Winfield as contract associate judges of the Municipal Court of the City of Garland.

ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION

Members of the audience may provide public comment in favor, in opposition or about any of the items for individual consideration. Anyone wishing to speak must fill out a speaker card (located at the entrance to the Council Chambers) and give it to the City Secretary in advance of the respective agenda item. Speakers are grouped by agenda item and will be called in the order of the agenda. All comments and testimony are to be presented from the podium. The Mayor may impose a time limit and may provide for rebuttal.

Hold public hearing(s) on:

2024 Proposed Capital Improvement Program

Proposed Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The 2024 Proposed CIP has been available for public inspection in the City's libraries and the City Secretary's Office and has been on the City's website since January 9, 2024.

Consider a Variance request by C&C Consulting and Licensing to allow the continuation of a convenience store to sell beer and wine closer than 300 feet to an existing church. The site is located at 2445 Goldfinch Lane in District 6.

Consider and take appropriate action on the application of C&C Consulting and Licensing, requesting approval of a Variance to reduce the minimum distance requirement between an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages and a church. This property is located at 2445 Goldfinch Lane. (File BW 23-02, District 6)

CONSIDER APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS

Terms are usually staggered whereby at least half of the membership has previous experience. Members are appointed based on qualifications.

Mayor Scott LeMay

Charles Leonard - Community Multicultural Commission

Council Member Chris Ott

Richard Valle - Parks and Recreation Board

CITIZEN COMMENTS

Members of the audience wishing to address issues not on the meeting agenda may have three minutes to speak. However, according to the Texas Open Meetings Act, Council is prohibited from discussing any item not on the posted agenda.

ADJOURN

All Regular Meetings of the Garland City Council are broadcast live on CGTV, Time Warner Cable Channel 16 and Frontier FIOS TV 44. Meetings are rebroadcast at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesdays - Sundays. Live streaming and on-demand videos of the meetings are also available online at GarlandTX.tv. Copies of the meetings can be purchased through the City Secretary's Office (audio CD's are $1 each and DVD's are $3 each).

NOTICE: The City Council may recess from the open session and convene in a closed executive session if the discussion of any of the listed agenda items concerns one or more of the following matters:

Pending/contemplated litigation, settlement offer(s), and matters concerning privileged and unprivileged client information deemed confidential by Rule 1.05 of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. Sec. 551.071, Tex. Gov't Code.
The purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property, if the deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the City in negotiations with a third person. Sec. 551.072, Tex. Gov't Code.
A contract for a prospective gift or donation to the City, if the deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the City in negotiations with a third person. Sec. 551.073, Tex. Gov't Code.
Personnel matters involving the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissalof a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint against an officer or employee. Sec. 551.074, Tex. Gov't Code.
The deployment, or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices. Sec. 551.076,Tex. Gov't Code.
Discussions or deliberations regarding commercial or financial information that the City has received from a business prospect that the City seeks to have to locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the City and with which the City is conducting economic development negotiations; or to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect of the sort described in this provision. Sec. 551.087, Tex. Gov't Code.
Discussions, deliberations, votes, or other final action on matters related to the City's competitive activity, including information that would, if disclosed, give advantage to competitors or prospective competitors and is reasonably related to one or more of the following categories of information:

generation unit specific and portfolio fixed and variable costs, including forecasts of those costs, capital improvement plans for generation units, and generation unit operating characteristics and outage scheduling;
bidding and pricing information for purchased power, generation, and fuel, and Electric Reliability Council of Texas bids, prices, offers, and related services and strategies;
effective fuel and purchased power agreements and fuel transportation arrangements and contracts;
risk management information, contracts, and strategies, including fuel hedging and storage;
plans, studies, proposals, and analyses for system improvements, additions, or sales, other than transmission and distribution system improvements inside the service area for which the public power utility is the sole certificated retail provider; and
customer billing, contract, and usage information, electric power pricing information, system load characteristics, and electric power marketing analyses and strategies. Sec. 551.086; Tex. Gov't Code; Sec. 552.133, Tex. Gov't Code]

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Each year, the City Council reviews and updates its goals for the Garland community and City operations. City management uses these goals to guide operational priorities, decision-making and resource allocation.