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Recall procedures on council agenda
Published January 25, 2010
A special election to propose changes to the way the city conducts recalls of elected officials will be among the items discussed during Tuesday night’s city council meeting.
The meeting of the Del Rio City Council is open to the public and is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers at City Hall, 109 W. Broadway St.
Tuesday’s council meeting will begin with a public hearing on a proposed ordinance calling a special election for the voters of the city to consider certain amendments to the city charter’s recall election provisions.
There are a number of visitors on the council’s agenda, beginning with Vangie Alejandro of the Middle Rio Grande Development Council, who is expected to address an interlocal agreement between the city and the MRGDC for equipment located at the Del Rio Police Department dispatch office.
A representative of the U.S. Border Patrol will ask for council approval of a brush removal project at the international bridge, and Marisa Vergara of the firm Chiang, Patel & Yerby is on the visitor agenda to make a report on energy consumption of city-owned facilities, part of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory.
Lupita De La Paz, executive director of the Casa de la Cultura, and Nancy O’Brien, executive director of the Del Rio Council for the Arts, are both on Tuesday’s agenda to give quarterly presentations on their organizations’ use of the hotel occupancy tax funds provided by the city.
The council is also expected to hear a presentation from Rick Roman, president of the Del Rio Police Officers Association, on meet and confer.
Following presentations by visitors, the council will consider two ordinances, one dealing with the setting of a general election for four positions on the council and a special election for the purpose of submitting to the voters amendments to the city charter’s recall election procedures.
The second ordinance to be considered by the council deals with an amendment to the city budget.
The council will also consider seven resolutions, most of them authorizations for the city manager to apply for a variety of grants.
The council during Tuesday night’s meeting has also scheduled an executive session to discuss several pending lawsuits, as well as legal matters related to the city’s Tierra del Lago Waterworks System and to consult with its attorneys on hotel occupancy tax funds.
The agenda posted for the executive session includes attorney/client consultations on the following pending lawsuits: Cause No. 24198 filed in the 63rd Judicial District Court and styled Jose J. Govea v. City of Del Rio, Cause No. 24424 filed in the 83rd Judicial District Court and styled Clayton Sam Colt Hamilton Trust v. City of Del Rio, Cause No. 24195 filed in the 83rd Judicial District Court and styled Efrain Favela v. City of Del Rio and Cause No. 28120 filed in the 63rd Judicial District Court and styled Hipolita Vallejo v. City of Del Rio.
Also on the council’s posted closed-door session are an attorney/client consultation “to discuss legal matters related to the city’s Tierra del Lago Waterworks System,” and an attorney/client consultation “to discuss use of hotel occupancy tax funds provided by City of Del Rio.”
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