Council approves consent package including multiple grants, equipment purchases and interlocal agreements
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On a unanimous consent vote the council approved a slate of items including grant applications and acceptances (STEP, OVAG, TxDOT, body-worn camera program), procurement authorizations, interlocal prisoner housing agreements, and a medical director agreement extension.
The Mission City Council unanimously approved the consent agenda on Sept. 23, which included multiple grant applications and acceptances, procurement authorizations, interlocal agreements and contract extensions.
Key items in the consent package included authorization to submit a Texas Department of Transportation STEP Impaired Driving Mobilization 2026 grant application for $45,000 with a required 20% local match; acceptance of an FY25–26 OVAG Crime Victim Services grant for $49,500 with no cash match; acceptance of FY26 Office of the Governor body-worn camera program funds of $28,150 with a 25% cash match; and acceptance of a TxDOT general grant award for $183,522.10 for the nurse phlebotomy program with an in-kind 20% match.
The consent list also authorized purchase of 28 ballistic vests totaling $26,472 for police, with $13,236 eligible for reimbursement from the U.S. Department of Justice; purchases of fleet parts and tires; and several interlocal agreements to provide temporary prisoner housing to neighboring cities at $54 per prisoner per day.
Other administrative actions approved included a resolution authorizing issuance of bonds on behalf of Vinton Steel through the MEDC (Resolution 2002), a lease-purchase authorization with Government Capital Corporation to finance a generator (Resolution 2003), extension/renewal of off-site document storage and an estimated $5,000-per-month extension of the Fire Department medical director agreement with Dr. Yvonne Melendez.
City staff confirmed these items were included in the consent agenda packet and that Planning/Departmental reports and minutes were acknowledged as submitted. The motion to approve the consent agenda carried 5-0, and the clerk read the items into the record.
No public comments on the consent items were recorded in the transcript.