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Council approves consent agenda including employee insurance, HUD grants and airport, utilities contracts
Summary
Council unanimously approved the consent agenda covering employee insurance, HUD grant acceptance, airport equipment auction authorization, utility contracts and several capital contracts and purchases.
The Texarkana City Council unanimously approved the consent agenda Monday, authorizing several contracts and funding actions for fiscal year 2026 and ongoing capital work.
Items approved on the consent agenda included an agreement with UnitedHealthcare to provide medical, dental and vision benefits for city employees for fiscal year 2026 in an amount not to exceed $7,600,000; authorization for the Texarkana airport executive director to auction aged-out airport equipment; acceptance of annual HUD Continuum of Care grant awards not to exceed $1,000,000 annually in partnership with the Texarkana Homeless Coalition; and authorization to contract for a water-main replacement project along U.S. 82 with Coburn Supply Company of Texarkana in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000, using funds available through a State Infrastructure Bank loan.
Other consent items included a multi-year shared VoIP phone-service contract with Business Communications Systems/Connex, an agreement with Artech Ready for operation and management of the assembly line and related Ready, Set, Move programs (grant-funded at $2,000,000 with $50,000 in economic-development funds), and a contract with RBI Project for construction services not to exceed $136,597.50. Funding sources cited in the consent descriptions included the FY2024–25 utilities budget, Texas 2023 bond construction funds, a TLL Temple Foundation grant, and the economic development fund.
Council voted to approve the entire consent agenda without pulling items for separate consideration; the mayor called for the motion and, after a second, the ayes carried unanimously.
Several consent-item dollar amounts and some line-item descriptions in the meeting transcript are presented as read into the record and contain formatting or transcription irregularities; the council approved the items as presented on the published agenda and staff indicated funds were available in the cited budgets.
