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Council Member Sydney Allen asked to pull part of the consent agenda for discussion and raised a question about a downtown parcel the city owns next to the post office. Allen said the annual rent listed in the agenda \"is a reasonable amount, 12,800 annually,\" and that he had been concerned the lease might be inflexible. \"With the way the lease is written, if something comes up that we need the land, we can cancel the lease or we can partially use it,\" Allen said.

Staff present at the meeting, including Sean Harrah, confirmed the lease preserves the city\u000flexibility to cancel if a municipal need arises. A later agenda item in the consent package was a resolution \"electing and appointing Council Member John Newstead as mayor pro tem.\" A council member asked how the mayor pro tem is selected; staff explained the council rules designate the longest-serving member who has not previously served in that role.

A motion to approve the consent agenda was made, seconded and approved by voice vote. The transcript records the chair saying, \"All in favor, please say aye,\" followed by \"Aye\" and \"Any opposed? Consent agenda is approved.\" The meeting then moved into community items and later adjourned to executive session.

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Council Member Jody Berryhill and Council Member Sydney Allen noted problems at turning movements and intersections where the porous-asphalt surface had become rough. \"We had lots of complaints from the public,\" Allen said, describing areas that required repairs.

City Manager McPhee told the council that TxDOT used a porous asphaltic cement designed for long stretches without turning movements and that the material did not perform as expected at intersections. \"The aggregate that they used in the porous ... asphaltic cement is something they use mostly on long stretches of roadways where they don't have turning movements,\" McPhee said. \"They came in and take out sections of that to remove those rough areas. Now it's consistently kind of a milled area, so there's a little roughness to it, but it's not near what it was. And they do have plans to come back and address that.\"

Council members also raised oversight for an upcoming chip-seal program (referenced as the 02/2025 chip seal). The council was told an assigned city engineer will monitor the work. \"We do have a city engineer that's gonna be watching that project,\" Berryhill said, naming Zach Shaner as the engineer assigned to the effort.

The discussion recorded no formal vote; council members sought assurances that city staff will continue to press TxDOT on corrective work and that the chip-seal project will have city engineering oversight to limit quality issues.

No specific schedule or funding change was announced; McPhee said he expects TxDOT to return to address remaining rough areas and the city will track progress through its engineering staff.","Council members raised complaints about porous-asphalt work on North McCann; City Manager McPhee said TxDOT has removed rough areas and plans further fixes, and the city plans engineering oversight for an upcoming chip-seal program.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":91,"_47":92,"_49":93,"_51":94,"_53":95,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":96,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":97,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6227680,"Longview mayor announces four community task forces to study homelessness, cites declines from post outreach work",0,2576275,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3486008-4b88d437d458e1d2c2288a1458e9c82c&start=2576&end=2576","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3486008-4b88d437d458e1d2c2288a1458e9c82c/thumbnail_2576275.jpg","/articles/6227680/Longview/Gregg-County/Texas/Longview-mayor-announces-four-community-task-forces-to-study-homelessness-cites-declines-from-post-outreach-work","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6227680-86529fcd298db2e40994a600c8f7ec76/orig.mp4?Expires=1771197812&Signature=FcSYYuKEguYDGyfYh4JUiizxaVJxCY6hrT4e21n8fzrtGv1hSrAD0zGaJ6mXY0-su75L5WYB8rPxy2gLFblGFL02Wbi4LrTOoLiZffFKdJD~M9acEJ9DcWyjWjmNMHggsRF5Zx~Cz~oDd-DRdVTQ-oCkxqd8s4yLW-PuTQOYpqxcA8qlkdkQvw5hC5LQ5fEa9BxkMsC6Be2yyVMmZ1gE6x6YU~D3BhN5h8l1VPaHTQg~1p0EYP9vtzpIPMW9uaAwS0e8o-S2NdXPgRiogXEOxQnW2CBDCqRW5D9jAtwpYi8uytJlBtu9K-Km-UVh6-EuaConJf5cGG8RpUzs7ajRVg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Longview Mayor Ray Wade on Tuesday announced the formation of four community task forces to study homelessness, asking the groups to meet for about three months and return recommendations to the City Council.

The mayor said the groups will examine front-line communication and data tracking, housing supply and transitional options, transportation and access to treatment and prescriptions, and strategies to increase public engagement. \"Tonight I am announcing 4 groups that will be led and comprised of community members to look in-depth at the issues we face with our homeless community,\" Wade said.

Wade framed the action as building on work that began after a 2017 mayoral task force. He highlighted the city’s Post police outreach services team as a continuing success, citing figures he said were provided by the chief: in 2024 the Post officers helped 60 individuals obtain homeless IDs, placed 95 people in rehab or housing and made 355 contacts with people in camps; so far in 2025 the team has helped 55 people with homeless IDs, placed 25 people in rehab or housing and made 108 contacts.

Wade also described partnerships with the community paramedic program and the GLOW (Greater Longview Optimal Wellness) initiative, including a letter of support read from Gregg County Judge Bill Stout that credited GLOW with reducing EMS trips for participants by \"approximately 50 to 55% per patient\" since they joined the program.

Wade named the initial task force chairs and contact points and invited residents to apply online: Evan Doliv, Shativa Marshall, Kendra Tennison, Evie Henson, Tina Rushing and Alex Pope. He said the groups will consider steps ranging from improved real-time coordination among frontline services to recommendations on increasing affordable and transitional housing and improving participation in future point-in-time counts.

Wade said some recommendations could be implemented quickly while others will require long-term planning. \"Goals for that group,\" he said, include \"provid[ing] a recommendation how to give real time communication between frontline services and tracking of data or numbers with our homeless individuals, creating a step by step guide or booklet for our frontline individuals or homeless individuals and create an enhanced plan for future point in time counts.\"","Mayor Ray Wade announced four community-led task forces to study homelessness in Longview, highlighted the city’s Post police outreach team’s placement and ID-assistance statistics and said groups will deliver recommendations to council after roughly three months.","actionData","errors"]

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Longview council approves consent agenda including downtown land lease and resolution appointing John Newstead mayor pro tem

Longview officials cite porous-asphalt problems on North McCann; TxDOT removing rough sections, city engineer to monitor chip-seal project

Longview mayor announces four community task forces to study homelessness, cites declines from post outreach work