• A. Report and Discussion of Mayor's City Related Activities.
• B. Report and Discussion of Councilmembers' City Related Activities.

EXECUTIVE SESSION
DECORDOVA ROOM

Notice is hereby given that the City Council will go into Executive Session in accordance with the following provisions of the Tax Code: Sec. 321.3022 to receive information or question employees or third parties regarding information received from the comptroller relating to sales taxes; and the Government Code: Sec. 551.071(1)(A) pending or contemplated litigation; 551.071(1)(B) a settlement offer; Sec. 551.071(2) an attorney-client privilege/relationship; Sec. 551.072 the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property; Sec. 551.073 a gift and/or donation; 551.074(a)(1) the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a city officer or employee including City Council Members, the City Manager, City Secretary, City Attorney, and Municipal Judge; Sec. 551.074 (a)(2) to hear a complaint or charge against a city officer or employee; and Sec. 551.076 the deployment or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices; 551.087(1) to discuss commercial or financial information that the City has received from a business prospect that the City seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the City of Waco with which the City is conducting economic development negotiations; Sec. 551.087(2) to discuss the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect that the City seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the City of Waco; Sec. 551.088 to discuss a test item or information related to a test item.

The City Council may go into Executive Session on any item listed on the Agenda in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Government Code.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

PROCLAMATIONS

1. PRO-044 Proclaim: January 22, 2008 as "KUDOS FIVE DAY"

2. PRO-045 Proclaim: January 31, 2008 as "Project Homeless Connect Day"

Proclaimed

Proclaimed

PUBLIC HEARINGS

4. PH-047 Conduct a public hearing to consider an ordinance to rezone from R-1B to R-2 the property described as 8.05 acres in the Tomas De La Vega Gant, Abstract N. 43, located at East Loop 340 approximately 400 feet south of Kendall Lane. (Case #Z-07-58 - Wornat-Corsicana Ltd.) FIRST READING

PC RECOMMENDATION: 9-0 APPROVAL

STAFF RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL

MOTION ON ORDINANCE

5. PH-048 Public hearing to consider a resolution granting a Petition for Annexation of Property filed by James G. Vaughan, Executive Vice President for the Waco Industrial Foundation, of 186.181 acres of land located in the Carlos O'Campo Survey, Abstract No. 32, in McLennan County, Texas, and being located along Bagby Avenue just west of its intersection with Texas Central Parkway, and further located within Waco's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction. (Waco Industrial Foundation)

MOTION ON RESOLUTION

CONSENT AGENDA

Agenda Numbers RES-049 through RES-059 require no formal public hearing and are subject to being approved in a single motion. However, any City Council Member or the City Manager may remove an item from the Consent Agenda to allow discussion and voting on the item individually.

RESOLUTIONS

BIDS/PURCHASES

6. RES-049 Consider approval of a resolution awarding a material supply contract for 36 months to Paradigm Traffic Systems, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, lowest responsible bidder, for Traffic Signal Hardware, and authorizing the City Manager to make purchases in an amount not exceeding $55,373.00 during FY 2007-08.

AGREEMENTS/CONTRACTS

7. RES-050 Consider approval of a resolution authorizing an amendment to an agreement between Waco Community Development Corporation ("CDC") and the City of Waco to allow future lot reservations between the City and CDC to be approved by the city manager.

BUDGET/CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION/BONDS

9. RES-052 Consider approval of a resolution amending the Fiscal Year 2007-08 operating budget for the General Fund, Health Fund, Street Reconstruction Fund, Water Fund, WMARSS Fund, Solid Waste Fund, Airport Fund, Convention & Visitors Services Fund, and Transit Fund and to approve a resolution amending the Fiscal Year 2007-08 operating budget fee schedule for the General Fund, WMARSS Fund, and Solid Waste Fund.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

10. RES-053 Consider approval of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute an Agreement to assign the Tax Abatement Agreement entered into in March, 2007 with Woodfall Equipment, Inc. d/b/a Phoenix Equipment Company (RES 2007-194, approved on March 20, 2007) to Genie Industries, Inc.

WATER/SEWER

11. RES-054 Consider approval of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract between the City of Waco and the Heller Company, Inc. for the trenchless sanitary sewer line construction in the Landon's Branch and Barron's Branch Sanitary Sewer Drainage Basins in the amount not to exceed $2,642,614.00.

VEHICLES/EQUIPMENT

16. RES-059 Consider approval of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to purchase under cooperative purchasing agreements managed by the Texas Local Government Purchasing Cooperative operating as the BuyBoard and the Houston-Galveston Area Council Cooperative Purchasing Program: (a) Three (3) 2009 Mack LEU613 "Low Entry" Truck Chassis from Dallas Mack, Dallas, TX through HGAC in an amount of $349,500.00 total; and, (b) Three (3) Heil Half Pack Eject bodies from Heil of Texas, Irving, TX through Buyboard in an amount of $323,947.00 total.

ORDINANCES

17. ORD-060 Consider approval of an ordinance amending Section 5-206, in Chapter 5, Animals, of the Code of Ordinances, providing that all dogs and cats must have an identifying microchip permanently inserted. FIRST READING.

COUNCIL REPORTS