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City Council sets budget, tax rates hearings
By Mary Madewell
Published September 13, 2009
Paris City Council is expected to approve a $56 million total budget and leave the property tax rate at 52 cents per assessed property value when the council meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday, in City Hall.
Council action on both the budget and tax rate follows public hearings.
Council members also are expected to authorize an agreement with Resource Management and Consulting Co. to provide management services and to Hayter Engineering for engineering services for a community block grant for sewer improvements along portions of W. Washington St. 13th S.W. and 6th S.W streets.
The council also will be asked to pass a resolution in support of a grant application for funds to construct the Northeast Texas (Red River Valley) Trail, approximately 130 miles of pedestrian/biking/equine trails from Farmersville to New Boston, along the abandoned Chaparral Railroad rail bed.
The Historical Preservation Commission is to ask for an allocation from the 2009 Historic Preservation budget of $15,000 as a contribution to the architectural design and construction of a proposed Northern Gateway Park into the city.
Other agenda items include:
•minutes from Aug. 20, Aug. 24, Aug. 27 and Aug. 31;
•reports and/or minutes from Paris Public Library Advisory Board, Historic Preservation Commission and building and Standards Commission;
•drainage ditch maintenance report;
•deliberate and possibly act on plat requests for 3515 Bonham St., 4000 block of Pine Mill Road, 3000 block of Lamar Ave. and Stone Ridge Phase 6;
•second reading ordinance considering change in zoning request for auto fuel sales at Kroger’s, 1310 Clarksville St.;
•first reading of solid waste collection permits for Sanitation Solutions, Waste Management, Inc, and Trashy Business;
•action on appointments of Municipal and associate court judges;
•hangar lease agreement at Cox Field;
•nominee for Intergovernmental Employee Benefits Pool Board of Trustees; and,
•consider future events.
The council is to convene in executive session to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property.
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