City of Canyon, Amarillo council to meet this week

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Monday

City of Canyon Commission

4:30 p.m.: Commission Chambers of City Hall, 301 16th St., Canyon

Consider and take appropriate action on contract with Freese and Nichols for Engineering Services of Crestview Estates; temporary on-street Parking on the South Side of 3rd Avenue from 23rd Street to 22nd Street, specifically for two-hour parking from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. as requested by TxDOT; conduct public hearing and consider and take appropriate action on ordinance No. 1183, an ordinance making appropriations for the support of the City of Canyon for the Fiscal Year beginning Oct. 1, 2023 and ending Sept. 30, 2024, providing for the appropriation of an Interest and Sinking Fund to pay interest and principal on the city’s indebtedness, providing for the adoption of the annual budget of the City of Canyon for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year, providing that expenditures for said fiscal year shall be made in accordance with said budget, authorizing specific budget adjustment authority to the City Manager, providing for the Ratification of Budgeted Appropriation Transfers in the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year, providing a repealing clause, savings clause, and publication and an effective date; consider and take appropriate action on proposed FY 2022-2023 Operating Budget and Proposed Tax Rate, and setting a public hearing of the Proposed Tax Rate for 4:30 p.m. Aug. 14; Master Schedule of Charges and Fees, Ordinance No. 1184; executive session; consider and take appropriate action on items discussed in executive session.

Tuesday

Amarillo City Council

(Work Session) 1 p.m.: City Hall - Council Chamber, 601 S. Buchanan St., 3rd Floor

Executive session: consult with attorney about pending or contemplated litigation or settlement of same or on a matter in which the attorney's duty to the governmental body under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct conflicts with this chapter: Stennett v. City of Amarillo, Cause No. V-105821-00-2; discuss the purchase, exchange, lease, sale, or value of real property located in the Downtown Central Business District and located in the Northeast quadrant of the City of Amarillo; discussion regarding commercial or financial information received from a business prospect and/or to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect (manufacturing).

Amarillo City Council

(Regular meeting): 3 p.m.: City Hall - Council Chamber, 601 S. Buchanan St., 3rd Floor

Announcements: "Every Drop Counts" Contest Winners; discuss or receive reports on the following current matters or projects: Utility Billing and Online Payment System; consent items: consider acceptance – Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) planning grant; from USDOT Federal Highway Administration - Office of Safety for $240,000 with a City Match of $60,000 to support the development of a Safety Action Plan; various contracts, services and purchases; non-consent items: consider a resolution approving the proposed operating budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024 for the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation; consider the purchase of a concession trailer for use at the new Pavilion at the Santa Fe Depot; consider the purchase of replacement pit seats for the Globe News Center for the Performing Arts; consider the purchase of 2.09 acres of real property located in the vicinity of 2600 Linda Drive.

Wednesday

Highland Park Independent School District

(Special meeting) 5:30 p.m.: Highland Park Administration Building, 15300 Amarillo Blvd. E.

Consider all matters incident and related to the issuance and sale of "Highland Park Independent School District Unlimited Tax School Building Bonds, Series 2023", including the adoption of an order authorizing the issuance of such bonds; 2023-24 Salary Schedule; personnel items.

Thursday

South Gateway Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number Three

12 p.m.: Amarillo City Hall, Room 306, 601 S. Buchanan

Discussion and consideration of the FY23-24 TIRZ #3 Annual Budget; TIRZ #3 Final Project and Financing Plan; TIRZ #3 Tax Increment Financing Policy and Procedures; Final TIRZ #3 Logo.

Condemnation Appeals Commission

4 p.m.: Amarillo City Hall, Council Chamber, 601 S. Buchanan

Resolution – calling a public hearing to determine whether certain conditions described herein constitute a public nuisance at the locations stated: sets the date and time for Oct. 19 at 4 p.m. to determine whether certain conditions of the properties located at 4000 SE 12th Ave. Rear (aka 1203 S Spring St.), 1616 NW 15th Ave., and 928 Evergreen St. constitute dangerous structures and/or a public nuisance, and whether to order the removal of such; consider ordering the removal of a substandard structure and solid waste accumulation located at 401 S Rusk St.; consider ordering the removal of a substandard structure located at 3807 Hancock St.; consider ordering the removal of substandard structures and solid waste accumulation located at 107 N Kentucky St.; considers ordering the removal of substandard structures and solid waste accumulation located at 300 S Mississippi St.

This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: Amarillo area public meetings for the week of July 30, 2023