The Paris News

The Paris City Council faces a fairly brief but possibly contentious agenda on Monday.

Agenda items range from the extension of a moratorium on mobile homes within the city limits, to a zoning change request to accommodate a 84-bed convalescent home to discussion about whether to maintain the services of an outside building code firm or hire a city building inspector.

Council members also are set to ask questions of a firm that wants build a crude oil loading facility in town as well as further discuss the merits of bond refinancing and the issuance of a certificate of obligation to finance the extension of South Collegiate Drive to S.E. Loop 286.

The council also is to discuss an amended Drought Contingency Plan and a Water Conservation Plan, something required every five years by the state.

The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall.

The council discussed a mobile home ordinance at length at a Nov. 2 meeting but deferred action and asked that a moratorium extension be placed on Monday’s agenda. The current moratorium expires Nov. 18.

The request for a zoning change for the proposed convalescent home, to be located 7.58 acres south of Lamar Avenue on 47th Street S.E., comes with the approval of the Planning and Zoning Commission.

District 5 Councilman Will Biard brings both the discussion about the crude oil loading facility and the request for discussion about the continued use of Bureau Veritas for building inspections to the agenda.

In other business, council will be asked to extend franchises with local cab companies, approve a Texas Department of Transportation Safe Routes to Schools grant application and sign off on a resolution in support of extending the Rails to Trails project from Reno through Blossom.

(For a detailed agenda see page 2)

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