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Ingleside council approves multiple routine actions; authorizes RFQs, grant applications and personnel reclassifications
Summary
At its Jan. 28 meeting the Ingleside City Council approved a slate of routine actions including an ordinance calling a May election (consent), directions to advertise RFQs for an equipment storage building and project-management services, a grant application for a police UTV, and a personnel reclassification in the police department.
The City Council of Ingleside approved several consent and agenda items on Jan. 28, a set of administrative decisions the manager said will advance infrastructure and public-safety work.
On the consent agenda the council approved on second and final reading an ordinance calling a general and special election to be held May 3, 2025, to elect council member places 1, 3 and 5 and to submit proposed home-rule charter amendments (Proposed Ordinance 2025-10). The roll call on the consent item recorded ayes (one council member absent).
Other formal actions taken by the council during the meeting included:
- Authorization to advertise a request for qualifications (RFQ) for engineering services to design and bid a storage building to house newly purchased street maintenance equipment. City staff said the building is planned at roughly 6,000 square feet and is intended to protect about $1 million in new equipment; the RFQ will lead to design and bid documents.
- Authorization for the city manager to negotiate with the top-ranked respondents to an RFQ for project-management services; council directed staff to return with negotiated contract documents for council approval.
- Authorization for the city manager to negotiate with Garver Engineering for electrical engineering services for Live Oak Park tennis-court lighting and added electrical service points; the council then will consider contract approval.
- Authorization to submit an application to the Office of the Governor, Criminal Justice Division, for grant funds to purchase a police utility terrain vehicle (UTV). The police chief said the UTV would be used for park patrols, searches in wooded or non-road areas and special events; the requested grant amount was $40,000 (no local match required).
- Reclassification of the vacant assistant chief position to a lieutenant in the police department and a housekeeping amendment reclassifying the municipal court administrator from nonexempt to exempt in the general-fund budget. The council approved the reclassification; staff estimated the change would save the city approximately $7,030 compared with the prior budgeted assistant-chief classification.
Votes at a glance (as recorded in the council roll calls during the meeting): - Ordinance calling May 3 election (second/final reading, consent): motion passed, roll call recorded as ayes with one member absent (Mayor Adame recorded as Aye; Council member Julio Salinas absent). - Motion to postpone first-reading action on the Port of Corpus Christi special use permit (item 11): motion carried (roll-call in council record shows five ayes, one no, one absent). - RFQ to advertise for engineering services for a storage building (item 12): motion carried (recorded ayes). - Resolution to submit CJD grant application for a police UTV (item 13): motion carried (recorded ayes). - Reclassification of assistant chief to lieutenant and municipal court administrator reclassification (items 14 and 16): motions carried (recorded ayes).
Why it matters: The approved RFQs and authorizations move forward planned capital and operational work: a storage building to protect new street equipment, project-management support for city capital projects, and additional electrical design work for Live Oak Park. The grant application and personnel reclassification address police operational needs. The council postponed the high-profile special-use permit for the port-owned solar farm to allow clearer, enforceable language to be drafted.
What’s next: Staff will issue the RFQs and begin negotiations where authorized; negotiated contracts and ordinance language will be returned to council for final approval.
