Regular Meeting
Seymour City Council
October 22, 2009

A Regular City Council Meeting was held at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, October 22, 2009, at the Portwood Arts and Civic Center, 800 E. Morris, Seymour, TX 76380.

CALL TO ORDER/ ROLL CALL
by Mayor Reeves at 7:00 p.m.

Proclamation:
Czech Heritage Month read by Mayor Reeves

Council Present:
Mayor Ronald Reeves, MPT Sid Winn, Council Member Donald Coltharp and
Council Member Billy Henricks.

Council Absent:
Council Member David Horton and Council Member Nan Gilbert-Mathis.

Counsel Present:
none

Staff Present:
City Secretary Conchita Torrez, and Water Distribution Manager Rick Garcia.

Other Participants and Guests:
Lauren Bush, Judy Starr and Myra Busby.

The PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
was led by Mayor Ronald B. Reeves

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE MAYOR:
At this time, Mayor Reeves will make announcements as related to the events of the previous weeks. As always he may make any rearrangements to the order of items on this agenda as he deems prudent in the interest of time.

Mayor Reeves stated that the only comments he had were that a number of citizens had asked about the applications for City Administrator and he had noticed Mrs. Torrez had supplied them with a list of those who had applied. Approximately 25 applications for the position of City Administrator have been received and the ad runs through October 26, 2009 in the TML Website. Following the deadline date, Council will then began to consider and look them over and hopefully be successful in finding a good city manager.

CITIZENS QUESTIONS AND / OR COMMENTS:
At this time, interested citizens are encouraged to indicate their interest in speaking, and upon being recognized by the Mayor, approach the podium to express your comments. Please speak clearly and speak directly into the microphone. Citizens may speak on any matter other than personnel matters or matters under litigation, for a length of time not to exceed five minutes, please. Neither Council action nor discussion may take place on any matter, until such matter has been placed on an agenda and posted in accordance with law.

No citizen comments were made.

CONSENT AGENDA:
Items listed under the Consent Agenda are considered routine and are generally enacted in one motion. The exception to this rule is that a Council Member may request one or more items to be removed from the Consent Agenda for separate discussion and action.

1. CONSIDER APPROVING THE CONSENT AGENDA AS FOLLOWS:

a.) Approve Thursday, September 17, 2009, Regular Meeting Minutes.

b.) Approve City Council report for City Bills paid in September, 2009.

c.) Accept REPORTS
1. Monthly Investment Report
2. lst National Bank accounts report summary
3. Employee List
4. SFRE Membership Total Report

d.) Accept and approve the City of Seymour, Texas Fiscal Year 2008-2009,
Quarter 4 Investment Report, as presented by the Investment Officers.

MPT Winn asked that Item (c) be removed from the consent agenda
for further discussion and separate action to be taken.

Motion:
Motion made by Council Member Billy Henricks, seconded by
Council Member Donald Coltharp, to accept the consent agenda, with the exception
of Item C-Reports, to be omitted from the motion.

Vote on the Motion:
passed unanimously.

MPT Winn stated that he would like to bring to everyone’s attention the City of Seymour financial summary for September 2009, which should be in everyone’s Council packet. MPT Winn also stated that Mary Griffin had done a great job in putting the packet together for them and it is was more concise and enabled the Council to look over the City’s financial conditions.

It is worth us noting that if we look at our revenues and expenditures as we just completed our September 2009 budget year the City winded up in a loss status for the year in the amount of $83,231.00 year to date loss. Looking at the avenues that present the most revenues for the City of Seymour, Texas, the light, R.O. and water/sewer departments are the big generators for the city. Also, looking at the numbers that appear, we fell well short of our original budget in our light department that was projected for the 2009 year. I think we would be well advised to look at our contract we currently have with AEP. When our previous City Manager left he was in negotiations with them at that particular time and I think we will be well served to look at that over the next few weeks and months and see if we can bring that back in line. I just wanted to make those comments and make the Council aware of that. I know that we cannot take any action on it tonight, but, we do need to give it some consideration.

Mayor Reeves thanked MPT Winn for those comments and stated
if no further discussion, a motion would be entertained.

Motion:
Motion made by MPT Winn, seconded by
Council Member Coltharp to accept Consent Agenda item (C).

Vote on Motion:
passed unanimously.

END OF CONSENT AGENDA

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