Reading of City Council Agenda
Descriptions or captions of Agenda items read by the City Secretary prior to commencement of city council.
Mayor Bill White gives his report on affordable Housing Fair and Green Consumer Expo.
Consent Agenda Items: Miscellaneous -Item 1, Accept Work - Item 2, Property - Items 3 through 6, Purchasing and Tabulation of Bids - Items 7 through 12, Resolutions and Ordinances - Items 13 through 45.
ORDINANCE appropriating $591,700.00 out of General Improvements Consolidated Construction Fund and approving and authorizing Professional Architectural Services Contract between the City of Houston and JOHN KIRKSEY ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS, INC for Design of New Kingwood Library, WBS E-000097-0002-3; providing funding for the Civic Art Program.
ORDINANCE amending Exhibit “A” of City of Houston Ordinance No. 2007-1281 by adding two (2) Inspector positions and deleting one (1) Communications Senior Captain Position; substituting the amended exhibit as part of the current Fire Department Classified Personnel Ordinance.
(3.) Abandonment and sale of ±10,000-square-feet of excess fee-owned right-of-way and the remainder of a street easement, located in the 8600 Block of Westpark. (4.) abandonment and sale of a 10-foot-wide utility easement and the attendant aerial easement, within Lots 6 through 16 and a portion of Lot 5 (Tract 1), Block 3, located in the Briarglen Subdivision. (5.) abandonment and sale of a 10-foot-wide utility easement and the attendant aerial easement, within Lots 1 through 4 and a portion of Lot 5 (Tract II), Block 3, in exchange for conveyance to the City of a 20-foot-wide storm sewer easement, both located in the Briarglen Subdivision. (6.) abandonment and sale of Bluebell Avenue, from 80 feet east of Buttercup Street and continuing east ±440 feet, and the sale of excess fee-owned Richmond Avenue right of way out of Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, Block 13, in exchange for the conveyance back to the City of the entire area as a utility easement, all out of the Blossom Heights Addition. (11.) MUSTANG MACHINERY COMPANY, LTD. dba MUSTANG CAT for Equipment, Caterpillar Engine Parts and Service for Various Departments.
ORDINANCE establishing conditions for payment of a hiring incentive amount for police trainees $2,800,000.00.
ORDINANCE establishing conditions for payment of a hiring incentive amount for police trainees $2,800,000.00.
ORDINANCE amending City of Houston Ordinance No. 91-392, which authorized assignment pay for the Police Mentor Program and authorized the Chief of Police to promulgate internal rules and/or guidelines to implement the Police Mentor Program.
ORDINANCE approving and authorizing prepositioned contracts between the City of Houston and COYTRECAN PROPERTIES, INC and GMC CONSULTANTS, LLC for Emergency Relocation Services; providing a maximum contract amount.
(26.) ORDINANCE authorizing the City of Houston to release and relinquish the City’s right, title and interest in and to a 25-foot building setback line on Garretson Lane between South Post Oak Boulevard and San Felipe Road, located in the William White One-Third League, A-836, Harris County, Texas. (38.) ORDINANCE approving Compromise and Settlement Agreement to facilitate payment to vendors with outstanding purchase orders and approving and authorizing a third amendment to the Master Agreement (C#51399) between the City of Houston and TEXAS PROCUREMENT CENTER, L.L.C., for Professional Consulting Services; providing a maximum contract amount.
ORDINANCE appropriating $793,316.00 out of Parks Consolidated Construction Fund; awarding construction contract to CARRERA CONSTRUCTION, INC for Carverdale and Schwartz Park Improvements, WBS F-0504C2-0001-4/F-0504C2-0002-4, setting a deadline for the bidder’s execution of the contract and delivery of all bonds, insurance and other required contract documents to the City; holding the bidder in default if it fails to meet the deadlines; providing funding for engineering and testing services, construction management, Civic Art Program, and contingencies relating to construction of facilities financed by the Parks Consolidated Construction Fund.
SET A PUBLIC HEARING DATE relative to proposed amendment of the Project Plan and Reinvestment Zone Financing Plan for Reinvestment Zone Number 15, City of Houston, Texas. SUGGESTED HEARING DATE - WEDNESDAY - FEBRUARY 27, 2008 - 9:00 A.M.
Feb 20, 2008 City Council
Reading of City Council Agenda
Descriptions or captions of Agenda items read by the City Secretary prior to commencement of city council.
Mayor Bill White gives his report on affordable Housing Fair and Green Consumer Expo.
Consent Agenda Items: Miscellaneous -Item 1, Accept Work - Item 2, Property - Items 3 through 6, Purchasing and Tabulation of Bids - Items 7 through 12, Resolutions and Ordinances - Items 13 through 45.
ORDINANCE appropriating $591,700.00 out of General Improvements Consolidated Construction Fund and approving and authorizing Professional Architectural Services Contract between the City of Houston and JOHN KIRKSEY ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS, INC for Design of New Kingwood Library, WBS E-000097-0002-3; providing funding for the Civic Art Program.
ORDINANCE amending Exhibit “A” of City of Houston Ordinance No. 2007-1281 by adding two (2) Inspector positions and deleting one (1) Communications Senior Captain Position; substituting the amended exhibit as part of the current Fire Department Classified Personnel Ordinance.
(3.) Abandonment and sale of ±10,000-square-feet of excess fee-owned right-of-way and the remainder of a street easement, located in the 8600 Block of Westpark. (4.) abandonment and sale of a 10-foot-wide utility easement and the attendant aerial easement, within Lots 6 through 16 and a portion of Lot 5 (Tract 1), Block 3, located in the Briarglen Subdivision. (5.) abandonment and sale of a 10-foot-wide utility easement and the attendant aerial easement, within Lots 1 through 4 and a portion of Lot 5 (Tract II), Block 3, in exchange for conveyance to the City of a 20-foot-wide storm sewer easement, both located in the Briarglen Subdivision. (6.) abandonment and sale of Bluebell Avenue, from 80 feet east of Buttercup Street and continuing east ±440 feet, and the sale of excess fee-owned Richmond Avenue right of way out of Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, Block 13, in exchange for the conveyance back to the City of the entire area as a utility easement, all out of the Blossom Heights Addition. (11.) MUSTANG MACHINERY COMPANY, LTD. dba MUSTANG CAT for Equipment, Caterpillar Engine Parts and Service for Various Departments.
ORDINANCE establishing conditions for payment of a hiring incentive amount for police trainees $2,800,000.00.
ORDINANCE establishing conditions for payment of a hiring incentive amount for police trainees $2,800,000.00.
ORDINANCE amending City of Houston Ordinance No. 91-392, which authorized assignment pay for the Police Mentor Program and authorized the Chief of Police to promulgate internal rules and/or guidelines to implement the Police Mentor Program.
ORDINANCE approving and authorizing prepositioned contracts between the City of Houston and COYTRECAN PROPERTIES, INC and GMC CONSULTANTS, LLC for Emergency Relocation Services; providing a maximum contract amount.
(26.) ORDINANCE authorizing the City of Houston to release and relinquish the City’s right, title and interest in and to a 25-foot building setback line on Garretson Lane between South Post Oak Boulevard and San Felipe Road, located in the William White One-Third League, A-836, Harris County, Texas. (38.) ORDINANCE approving Compromise and Settlement Agreement to facilitate payment to vendors with outstanding purchase orders and approving and authorizing a third amendment to the Master Agreement (C#51399) between the City of Houston and TEXAS PROCUREMENT CENTER, L.L.C., for Professional Consulting Services; providing a maximum contract amount.
ORDINANCE appropriating $793,316.00 out of Parks Consolidated Construction Fund; awarding construction contract to CARRERA CONSTRUCTION, INC for Carverdale and Schwartz Park Improvements, WBS F-0504C2-0001-4/F-0504C2-0002-4, setting a deadline for the bidder’s execution of the contract and delivery of all bonds, insurance and other required contract documents to the City; holding the bidder in default if it fails to meet the deadlines; providing funding for engineering and testing services, construction management, Civic Art Program, and contingencies relating to construction of facilities financed by the Parks Consolidated Construction Fund.
SET A PUBLIC HEARING DATE relative to proposed amendment of the Project Plan and Reinvestment Zone Financing Plan for Reinvestment Zone Number 15, City of Houston, Texas. SUGGESTED HEARING DATE - WEDNESDAY - FEBRUARY 27, 2008 - 9:00 A.M.