Items I - III

I. Call to Order

II. Invocation

III. Pledge of Allegiance

Item IV

Employee Recognition

Item V

Citizen Comment

Item VI A

Presentation Items

Presentation of a proclamation for Community Planning Month – Dr. Andy
Mack, Mayor.

Item VI B

Presentation of Kilgore College-Longview Master Plan – Dr. Julie Fowler,
Executive Dean of Kilgore College-Longview.

Item VII

Public Safety Update

Consent Agenda

Consent Agenda

A. Consider a Resolution authorizing and directing the City Manager or the
City Manager’s designee to execute any necessary documents for the
purchase of a bulky item truck via the city’s purchasing agreement with the
local government purchasing cooperative administered by the Texas
Association of School Boards (“TASB Buyboard”) for an amount not to
exceed $146,851.10 – Dwayne Archer, Assistant Public Works Director.
Pages 4 - 7

B. Consider a Resolution allowing the City of Longview to enter into a Mutual Aid Radio Frequency Access Agreement with the Hallsville Volunteer Fire Department for the purpose of improved inter-agency communications – J.P. Steelman, Fire Chief. Pages 8 - 19

C. Consider a Resolution awarding a contract to and authorizing and directing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to execute any necessary documents with Public Safety Corporation of Waldorf, Maryland for alarm permit management services – Lieutenant Anthony Boone, Longview Police Department. Pages 20 - 25

D. Consider a Resolution awarding a contract to and authorizing and directing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to execute any necessary documents with Pither Plumbing, Inc. of Longview, Texas for plumbing services for buildings and facilities – Rolin McPhee P.E., Director of Public Works. Pages 26 - 30

E. Consider a Resolution authorizing and directing the City Manager or the City Manager's designee to execute any necessary documents for the application, receipt and expenditure of grant funding in an amount not to exceed $8,376.00 from the East Texas Council of Governments for the support of the Adopt-A-Street Program – Laura Hill, Director of Community Services. Pages 31 - 34

F. Consider a Resolution authorizing the filing of a grant application to the East Texas Council of Governments (ETCOG) for Regional Solid Waste Program Grants in the amount of $10,000.00 for a public awareness campaign pertaining to educating the public and increasing participation in the City’s Recycling Program for Fiscal Year 2016 – Mike Wigington, Recycling Coordinator. Pages 35 - 38

G. Consider a Resolution awarding a contract to and authorizing and directing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to execute any necessary documents with Steadfast Concrete, Inc. of Marshall, Texas, in the amount of $180,589.00 for the construction of the Multimodal Transportation Center Phase 1 Project – Rolin McPhee, P.E., Director of Public Works. Pages 39 - 42

H. Consider a Resolution authorizing and directing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to execute any necessary documents for an annual contract with Gregg County for the receipt of $60,000.00 for supplemental library funds for Fiscal Year 2015- 2016– Kara Spitz, Library Manager. Pages 43 - 45

I. Consider approval of the following minutes: September 29, 2015 Special Called Minutes – Shelly Ballenger, City Secretary. Page 46

Item IX

Zoning – Public Hearing Item

A PUBLIC HEARING will be held to consider a request filed by Habitat for Humanity to abandon a 20 foot alley consisting of 0.064 acres located between Lots 1-4, Block 12 and Lot 5, NCB 236, Rembert Addition located on Park Street – Angela Choy, City Planner. Pages 47 - 58

Item X A

Action Items

Consider a Resolution appointing members to the Mobile Food Vending Task Force - Dr. Andy Mack, Mayor and Council. Pages 59 - 61

Item X B

Consider an Ordinance amending the City’s plumbing code to repeal the annual testing requirement for backflow prevention assemblies that are used solely with residential irrigation systems without chemical additives – Michael Shirley, Director of Development Services. A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD TO CONSIDER THIS ITEM. Pages 62 - 72

Item XI

Mayor Mack’s Book Club Discussion
Discussion of Mayor Mack's Book Club reading “The Go-Giver” – Dr. Andy Mack, Mayor.

Item XII

Items of Community Interest

Items XIII & XIV

XIII. Executive Session Item

Deliberate regarding Personnel Matters – Under Texas Government Code Section 551.074.
Performance evaluation of City Manager and City Secretary.

XIV. Adjourn