2026-11-03 - City Council
Summary
Built from the City's posted 15-page agenda, read in full. Minutes are not yet posted. The video (about 1 hour 38 minutes) is waiting for transcription. An agenda is not an outcome, so no votes are known.
- Landfill contracts and an executive-session industrial waste agreement (Landfill Operations and Contracts).
- Sewer and lift station work (Sewer and Wastewater Infrastructure); flood sensors, alerting and two GLO grant applications (Flood Resilience and Disaster Recovery Grants).
- Ordinances: alley abandonment (Alley Abandonment A26-02), auto sales special use permit (Auto Sales Special Use Permits) and a budget amendment (Budget Amendment P.O. 7458).
- Terminate the sale listings for two parks (Barker Park and Hughen Park Listings); interim fire chief confirmations (Fire Department Leadership and Equipment).
- Speaker on the Seawall; investment advisor presentation (Investment Policy and Advisory Services); purchases (Equipment and Facility Purchases); police items (Police Department Management and Equipment).
- Housing: CHDO Recertification; downtown: Downtown Revitalization; closed session on Industrial District Agreements.
Agenda
- Speaker on the seawall Seawall
- Presentation by Meeder Public Funds Investment Policy and Advisory Services
- Approve the October 20 minutes
- Security camera upgrades (MHC Datacomm, $69,375) Equipment and Facility Purchases
- Lamar University flood-sensor interlocal agreement (up to $15,000) Flood Resilience and Disaster Recovery Grants
- STAN alerting memorandum of understanding with SETRPC (up to $10,326.86) Flood Resilience and Disaster Recovery Grants
- Freese and Nichols to negotiate a Downtown Pavilion master plan Downtown Revitalization
- Wilkerson Transportation landfill disposal contract Landfill Operations and Contracts
- Southeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force agreements (city match up to $39,000) Police Department Management and Equipment
- Project closeouts, including a storm sewer manhole project change order reducing the total from $1,118,000 to $1,034,909.80 Sewer and Wastewater Infrastructure
- Meeder investment advisory services (two years) Investment Policy and Advisory Services
- Landfill leachate hauling renewal (GFL, $174,720) Landfill Operations and Contracts
- SCS Engineers landfill monitoring ($190,200) and methane remediation at GP-9 ($128,000) Landfill Operations and Contracts
- Tyler Technologies court system fee ($94,744.06) Equipment and Facility Purchases
- Axon Taser 10 purchase ($101,665.20) Police Department Management and Equipment
- Port Acres wastewater treatment plant renovation services (Tompkins, $141,500) Sewer and Wastewater Infrastructure
- Lift station master plan (LightPoint, $219,950) Sewer and Wastewater Infrastructure
- Valve assessment (Hydromax, $437,105.80) Sewer and Wastewater Infrastructure
- Emergency sewer force main repair at 74th St and 9th Ave ($177,000) Sewer and Wastewater Infrastructure
- Terminate the listings to sell Barker Park and Hughen Park (Proposition I, 2020) Barker Park and Hughen Park Listings
- Vactor truck ($543,000) and tractor/mower ($107,181.74) Equipment and Facility Purchases
- Two GLO Disaster Recovery Reallocation grant applications of $20 million each ($40 million total): District 2 drainage and the 9th Ave emergency route Flood Resilience and Disaster Recovery Grants
- CHDO recertification for Legacy CDC (up to $285,000, 7 housing units) CHDO Recertification
- Dell computers ($139,241.08) Equipment and Facility Purchases
- Confirm the interim fire chief appointments Fire Department Leadership and Equipment
- Jefferson County interlocal agreement for right-of-way on Wilson St and Renee Ave Street Projects and Rights of Way
- Ordinance P.O. 7456: alley abandonment A26-02 Alley Abandonment A26-02
- Ordinance P.O. 7457: special use permit No. 250, auto sales and repair, West Port Arthur Road (Z26-11) Auto Sales Special Use Permits
- Ordinance P.O. 7458: budget amendment (TIRZ fund +$368,116, debt service +$6,754,556, Municipal Court technology fund +$90,000) Budget Amendment P.O. 7458
- Executive session: landfill industrial waste agreement with Environmental Industrial Services Group Landfill Operations and Contracts
- Executive session: a personnel matter, an EEOC charge (process level only)
- Executive session: pipeline industrial district agreements Industrial District Agreements
Sources
- Agenda (text PDF, 15 pages): https://portarthurtx.new.swagit.com/videos/405759/agenda
- Agenda file: https://swagit-attachments.granicus.com/uploads/video/agenda_file/405759/11-3_PortArthurCC.pdf
- City records site (agendas and minutes): https://cityhall.portarthurtx.gov/WebLink/
- Town: Port Arthur
Video
Swagit video: https://portarthurtx.new.swagit.com/videos/405759 (the transcript is waiting for transcription).