1. CALL TO ORDER 2. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. ROLL CALL AND CERTIFICATION OF A QUORUM
PUBLIC COMMENTS This Council meeting is closed to the public because of the COVID-19 concerns. Your right to speak at this meeting will still be honored. Please complete the Public Comment document located at https://murphytx.wufoo.com/forms/city-council-public-comment-form/ by 5:55 pm on April 21, 2020. We must have your phone number on the Public Comment form in order to call on the correct person to speak. To attend the meeting remotely and to be eligible to speak, please click https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82258844987?pwd=Rk1qMTgzaEVWbllYcjR1U21QWHhpQT09 - Use password 301468. If you prefer to call in, dial 1 888 788 0099 or 1 877 853 5247 - Webinar ID: 822 5884 4987 Password: 301468. We appreciate your patience and your cooperation while we are all adjusting to the new normal.
PRESENTATIONS Presentation of the financial report for the month ending March 31, 2020. Ernest Bannister, CPA, Controller
Presentation of the General Obligation (GO) Bond dashboard report for the month ending March 31, 2020. Ernest Bannister, CPA, Controller and Kenneth Lee, Bond Project Manager
INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION Consider and/or act on the April 7, 2020, Regular Council meeting minutes. Susie Quinn, TRMC, CMC, City Secretary
Consider and/or approve Ordinance Number 20-04-1156 authorizing the issuance of “City of Murphy, Texas, Tax Notes, Series 2020” in the principal amount of $1,600,000 for the purchase of needed materials, supplies, equipment, and machinery for the City; specifying the terms and features of such notes; levying a continuing direct annual ad valorem tax for the payment of such notes; and resolving other matters incident and related thereto. Karen L. Montgomery, CPA, Finance Director and Jason Hughes, Managing Director, Hilltop Securities
Consider and/or act on Ordinance 20-04-1157 amending Ordinance Number 20-03-1154 authorizing the suspension of portions of Section 26.02.013, Special Purpose Signs and One-Time Event Signs in accordance with the Declaration of Local Disaster executed by Mayor Scott Bradley. Jared Mayfield, AICP, Director of Community & Economic Development
8. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS A. Council Members may request topics for future agenda meetings. No member of the City Council may discuss any of the requested subjects until such matter has been properly placed on the agenda. 9. ADJOURNMENT
Apr 21, 2020 City Council
1. CALL TO ORDER 2. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. ROLL CALL AND CERTIFICATION OF A QUORUM
PUBLIC COMMENTS This Council meeting is closed to the public because of the COVID-19 concerns. Your right to speak at this meeting will still be honored. Please complete the Public Comment document located at https://murphytx.wufoo.com/forms/city-council-public-comment-form/ by 5:55 pm on April 21, 2020. We must have your phone number on the Public Comment form in order to call on the correct person to speak. To attend the meeting remotely and to be eligible to speak, please click https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82258844987?pwd=Rk1qMTgzaEVWbllYcjR1U21QWHhpQT09 - Use password 301468. If you prefer to call in, dial 1 888 788 0099 or 1 877 853 5247 - Webinar ID: 822 5884 4987 Password: 301468. We appreciate your patience and your cooperation while we are all adjusting to the new normal.
PRESENTATIONS Presentation of the financial report for the month ending March 31, 2020. Ernest Bannister, CPA, Controller
Presentation of the General Obligation (GO) Bond dashboard report for the month ending March 31, 2020. Ernest Bannister, CPA, Controller and Kenneth Lee, Bond Project Manager
INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION Consider and/or act on the April 7, 2020, Regular Council meeting minutes. Susie Quinn, TRMC, CMC, City Secretary
Consider and/or approve Ordinance Number 20-04-1156 authorizing the issuance of “City of Murphy, Texas, Tax Notes, Series 2020” in the principal amount of $1,600,000 for the purchase of needed materials, supplies, equipment, and machinery for the City; specifying the terms and features of such notes; levying a continuing direct annual ad valorem tax for the payment of such notes; and resolving other matters incident and related thereto. Karen L. Montgomery, CPA, Finance Director and Jason Hughes, Managing Director, Hilltop Securities
Consider and/or act on Ordinance 20-04-1157 amending Ordinance Number 20-03-1154 authorizing the suspension of portions of Section 26.02.013, Special Purpose Signs and One-Time Event Signs in accordance with the Declaration of Local Disaster executed by Mayor Scott Bradley. Jared Mayfield, AICP, Director of Community & Economic Development
8. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS A. Council Members may request topics for future agenda meetings. No member of the City Council may discuss any of the requested subjects until such matter has been properly placed on the agenda. 9. ADJOURNMENT