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MINUTES CITY OF HOUSTON . CITY COUNCIL September 9 & 10, 2014

MAYOR
ANNISE D. PARKER

CONTROLLER
RONALD C. GREEN

DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBERS

Brenda Stardig
District A

Jerry Davis
District B

Ellen R. Cohen
District C

Dwight A. Boykins
District D

Dave Martin
District E Richard Nguyen
District F

Oliver Pennington
District G

Edward Gonzalez
District H

Robert Gallegos
District I

Mike Laster
District J

Larry V. Green
District K

AT-LARGE COUNCIL MEMBERS

Stephen C. Costello
Position 1

David W. Robinson
Position 2

Michael Kubosh
Position 3

C.O. "Brad" Bradford
Position 4

Jack Christie D.C.
Position 5

Marta Crinejo
Director - City Council Agenda

Anna Russell
City Secretary

In accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act the agenda is posted for public information, at all times, for at least 72 hours preceding the scheduled time of the meeting on the bulletin board located on the exterior wall of the City Hall building at 901 Bagby.

Copies of the agenda are available at no charge in the Office of the City Secretary in the City Hall Annex, Public Level. To receive the agenda by mail send check or money order for $52.00 for a one year subscription, made payable to the City of Houston to the attention of the City Secretary, P.O. Box 1562, Houston, Texas 77251. The agenda may also be accessed via the internet at http://www.houstontx.gov.

To reserve time to appear before Council call 832-393-1100 or come to the Office of the City Secretary, City Hall Annex, Public Level at least 30 minutes prior to the scheduled public session shown on the agenda.
NOTE: If a translator is required, please advise when reserving time to speak


MINUTES - COUNCIL MEETING Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 1:30 AM CITY HALL CHAMBER


	INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE


	INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - Council Member Costello


	1:30 AM - ROLL CALL


	ADOPT MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING


	PUBLIC SPEAKERS


	Pursuant to City Council Rule 8, City Council will hear from members of the public; the names and subject matters of persons who had requested to speak at the time of posting this Agenda are attached; the names and subject matters of persons who subsequently request to speak may be obtained in the City Secretary's Office. NOTE: If a translator is required, please advise when reserving time to speak


	RECESS


	RECONVENE


	RECONVENE


	WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 - 9:00 A. M.


	DESCRIPTIONS OR CAPTIONS OF AGENDA ITEMS WILL BE READ BY THE CITY SECRETARY PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT


	MAYOR'S REPORT


	CONSENT AGENDA NUMBERS 1 through 22


	MISCELLANEOUS


	1.	RECOMMENDATION from Director of Parks & Recreation Department to approve revised rental rates for the Kingwood Community Center and the renovated and expanded Moody Park Community Center - DISTRICTS E - MARTIN and H - GONZALEZ

RECOMMENDATION from Director of Finance to place the proposed 2014 tax rate of $.631080/$100 of value on the Tuesday October 21, 2014 Council Agenda, or such other date that meets the requirements of the Texas Property Tax Code, call three public hearings at which interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard on the proposed tax rate and provide for the publication of the notice of such hearings and other related information

SUGGESTED HEARING DATES:

6:00 P.M. - Tuesday - September 23, 2014;

6:00 P.M. - Tuesday - September 30, 2014; and

9:00 A.M. - Wednesday - October 8, 2014


	PROPERTY


	3.	RECOMMENDATION from Director Department of Public Works & Engineering on request from David Brewer, Brewer Escalante, on behalf of F. L. Tucker, Ltd. (Kurt M. Hanson, Vice President) and Crown Business Park, Inc. (M.J. Iqbal, Owner), for abandonment and sale of Millport Street, from Belmore Street to Bingle Road, located within the Rosslyn Addition, out of the Joseph Box Survey, Parcels SY14-109 and SY14-133 - DISTRICT A - STARDIG


	4.	RECOMMENDATION from Director Department of Public Works & Engineering on request from Richard Werner, Drake Custom Homes, for abandonment and sale of a prescriptive sanitary sewer easement, between Peden Street and Damon Court, from the western property line of Block 13, Lot 1 to the eastern property line of Block 13, Lot E, in exchange for conveyance of a 10-foot-wide sanitary sewer easement, all located within the Replat of Rosemont Heights Extension, out of the Obedience Smith Survey, Parcels SY14-112 and DY14-050 - DISTRICT C - COHEN


	END OF CONSENT AGENDA


	CONSIDERATION OF MATTERS REMOVED FROM CONSENT AGENDA


	MATTERS HELD

ORDINANCE relating to the Fiscal Affairs of LAKE HOUSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY on behalf of Reinvestment Zone Number Ten, City of Houston, Texas (Lake Houston Zone); approving the Fiscal Year 2015 Operating Budget for the Authority and the Fiscal Year 2015-2019 Capital Improvement Projects Budget for the Zone - DISTRICT E - MARTIN

TAGGED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MARTIN

This was Item 23 on Agenda of September 3, 2014

ORDINANCE relating to the Fiscal Affairs of REINVESTMENT ZONE NUMBER SIX, CITY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS (EASTSIDE ZONE); approving the Fiscal Year 2015 Operating Budget for the Zone - DISTRICTS E - MARTIN and I - GALLEGOS

TAGGED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MARTIN

This was Item 25 on Agenda of September 3, 2014


	MATTERS TO BE PRESENTED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS


	7.

NOTE -

WHENEVER ANY AGENDA ITEM, WHETHER OR NOT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, IS NOT READY FOR COUNCIL ACTION AT THE TIME IT IS REACHED ON THE AGENDA, THAT ITEM SHALL BE PLACED AT THE END OF THE AGENDA FOR ACTION BY COUNCIL WHEN ALL OTHER AGENDA ITEMS HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED.

CITY COUNCIL RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TAKE UP AGENDA ITEMS OUT OF THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE POSITIONED IN THIS AGENDA. ALSO, AN ITEM THAT HAS BEEN TAGGED UNDER CITY COUNCIL RULE (HOUSTON CITY CODE 2-2) OR DELAYED TO ANOTHER DAY MAY BE NEVERTHELESS CONSIDERED LATER AT THE SAME CITY COUNCIL MEETING.