Sulphur Springs City Council Approves 380 Agreement Policy Change Providing Infill Housing Incentives
Sulphur Springs Municipal Building Sulphur Springs City Council Tuesday evening approved an a zoning amendment and an incentive agreement which the city manager anticipates will help with street and infrastructure maintenance and costs, and provide homes on under-developed or under-utilized areas of town. The city has for a while had trouble maintaining street, only able to afford repairs at half the rate of decay. A street...
Sulphur Springs City Council Has Full Agenda Tuesday
Sulphur Springs City Council has a full evening of work ahead Tuesday, with a budget work session and full meeting agenda which includes recommendations for three ordinance amendments, 10 resolutions, two contract service bids, a lease agreement, consideration of action for a November election and an executive session for an economic development matter. Sulphur Springs Municipal Building The council via scheduled at 6 p.m. to hold a...
Sulphur Springs City Council Approves Purchase Of Sewer Truck
Sulphur Springs City Council approved purchase of a sewer truck during the regular council meeting conducted this week. Utilities Director James Jordan explained to the council that collection and distribution division of the utility department a 2009 truck to clean and unstop sewer main, vacuuming out manholes in which debris have collected. It was purchased in 2009 for $220,000. “Since then we have put that truck through the...
Sulphur Springs City Council Appointed A Place 3 Councilman, Named New Parks Director
Sulphur Springs City Council Tuesday appointed a Place 3 councilman and named a new parks and recreation director during their regular monthly meeting, conducted May 5, via Zoom videoconferencing and live streamed for public viewing on City of Sulphur Springs YouTube channel. Place 3 Appointment Sulphur Springs City Council appointed Oscar Aguilar to Place 3 on the council, one of four seats on the special election ballot. The...
Sulphur Springs City Council Approves Curfew, Postpones Election
The April meeting of Sulphur Springs City Council may have been delayed while technical kinks were worked out of the viewing and teleconferencing systems but, once under way, officials wasted no time Tuesday night making short order of the agenda. Due to the stay at home safe and social distancing parameters in place during the global COVID-19 pandemic, Sulphur Springs City Council members and city staff signed in for a Zoom...
Sulphur Springs City Council To Consider Minor Curfew, Election, Step Plan For SSPD
Due to COVID-19 social distancing and closed lobbies measures in place, the regular April meeting of Sulphur Springs City Council will be conduced online, and can be viewed by the public online starting at 7 p.m. tonight. The agenda is relatively short agenda, and includes for City Council consideration a curfew ordinance for minors, resolution to postpone the May 2 election and a step plan for Sulphur Springs Police Department....
Sulphur Springs City Council To Consider 4 Ordinances At March 3 Meeting
Non-Motorized Sports Concession At Coleman Lake, Sludge Contract Pricing, Audit Submitted For Council Discussion, Action Sulphur Springs City Council will be asked Tuesday night during their regular March meeting to consider approving four ordinances, seven action items, hear a presentation proposing the”antidote to urban sprawl” and be asked to consider one executive session item. Sulphur Springs City Council The City...
Ballot Order Drawn For Opposed Places For May 2 Sulphur Springs City Council Election
The official drawing for order of candidate names in the opposed places on the May 2 Sulphur Springs City Council Election ballot was conducted Thursday morning, Feb. 20. Names for opposed places will appear on the ballot as follows: Place 1 Jay W. JulianMark BradleyVanessa DiosdadoJustin M. Brown Vanessa DiosdadoJustin M. Brown Place 5 Ricardo ChavarriaGary Spraggins Ricardo ChavarriaGary Spraggins The names of the four unopposed...
Sulphur Springs City Council Tables Proposed Curfew For Minors Ordinance Again
Sulphur Springs City Council for the second month in a row tabled the proposed curfew ordinance, following discussion on the matter. The curfew hours for minors ordinance was pitched at the January City Council meeting in response to two businesswomen’s request for help with middle school aged children being left unaccompanied at night downtown. The City Council, after he tabled at the January meeting. City Attorney Jim McLeroy...
Sulphur Springs City Council Feb. 4, 2020 Meeting Agenda
CITY OF SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXASREGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCILFEBRUARY 4, 2020 7:00 P.M. The regular meeting of the Sulphur Springs City Council will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Council Room at 201 North Davis Street. The following items will be discussed: Call to order.Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag, Texas Flag, and invocation.Presentations, proclamations, and announcements. (a) Black...
