Work Session

• Update on Boys Ranch Park – Phase Next: 15% Design and Business Plan.

Call to Order/General Comments

CALL TO ORDER/GENERAL COMMENTS

INVOCATION (Tom Russell, Forest Ridge Church of Christ)

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

Announcements/Upcoming Events

ANNOUNCEMENTS/UPCOMING EVENTS

Consider Approval of Items by Consent

(Consent items are deemed to need little Council deliberation and will be acted upon
as on business item. Any member of the City Council may request that an item be withdrawn from the Consent Agenda and placed before the City Council
for full discussion. Approval of the Consent Agenda authorizes the City Manager, or a designee, to implement each item in accordance with staff
recommendation.)

1. Consider approval of the following City Council minutes:
a) August 8, 2019 work session
b) August 13, 2019 regular meeting

2. Consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter a four-year contract with Scobee Foods,
Inc., for the purchase of prisoner meals for the Detention Facility.

3. Consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to amend the agreement with Texas Health
Resources for the City’s employee health clinic benefits effective September 1, 2019.

Item 4

The following individual has requested to speak to the Council tonight under Persons to be Heard:
a) Stephen Thornton, 13187 Thornton Drive, Westlake, Texas 76262 – Requests to speak to Council
regarding the use of the Old Bedford School and a couple of churches in Bedford equipped to house
the displaced citizens from the Bedford Boys Ranch.

Item 5

COUNCIL RECOGNITION

Employee Service Recognition

Items 6 & 7

NEW BUSINESS

6. Public hearing on the annual budget for the City of Bedford, Texas for the fiscal period of October 1,
2019 through September 30, 2020; levying taxes for 2019 tax year.

7. Public hearing to consider the proposed 2019 tax rate.

Items 8 & 9

8. Discussion and consideration of all matters incident and related to the issuance and sale of “City of
Bedford, Texas, General Obligation Refunding and Improvement Bonds, Series 2019,” including the
adoption of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds and providing for the redemption of
the obligations being refunded.

9. Discussion and consideration of all matters incident and related to the issuance and sale of “City of
Bedford, Texas, General Obligation Bonds, Taxable Series 2019,” including the adoption of an
ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds.

Item 10

Consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract for City-wide mowing
services with Vidascapes in the amount of $220,824.

Item 11

Discussion and possible action regarding instructing staff to formally review all City codes and
ordinances, the Master Plan, Comprehensive Plan and all other related matters as determined by
Council. **This item requested by Councilmember Boyter.

Item 12

Mayor/Council Member Reports

Item 13

Report on most recent meeting of the following Boards and Commissions:

Animal Shelter Advisory Board
Beautification Commission
Community Affairs Commission
Cultural Commission
Library Advisory Board
Parks and Recreation Board
Teen Court Advisory Board

Executive Session

To convene in the conference room in compliance with Section 551.001 et. Seq. Texas Government Code,
to discuss the following:
• Section 551.076. Deliberations Regarding Security Devices or Security Audits – BluesFest Security
Plan.

15. Take any action necessary as a result of the Executive Session.
(Any item on this posted agenda may be discussed in executive session provided it is within one of the permitted categories under Chapter 551 of the Texas Government
Code.)

ADJOURNMENT