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Brownsville Council Adds and Advances OSHA Safety Plan Ordinance (Order 1048)
Summary
The council amended the agenda to add Order 1048, an OSHA-required safety and health plan, heard a brief staff presentation that the plan is mainly unchanged from 2018 apart from updated organizational contacts, and moved the ordinance forward after a voice vote; the plan requires two readings.
The Brownsville City Council voted to put Order 1048, the city’s OSHA safety and health plan, on its agenda and moved the ordinance forward after a staff presentation and a voice vote.
During the meeting the presiding official asked the council to amend the agenda to add Order 1048, described in the meeting as the OSHA safety-and-health plan the city is required to maintain. A presenter told the council the plan is reviewed every seven years and that “pretty much everything we had in 2018 is still up to their requirements,” adding the principal change was updated organizational contacts replacing former Chief Devold with Chief Evans.
Council members moved and seconded the item and the presiding official called for a voice vote. The transcript records the motion and the chair’s remarks indicating approval and intent to sign; no roll-call tally or individual votes were given in the transcript.
The ordinance was described as requiring two readings under local procedure; staff said the plan documents who to contact in the event of an OSHA-related incident. The council did not record a formal roll-call tally in the transcript and did not provide an effective date in the meeting record.
The council will return the matter for any required subsequent reading and final adoption steps per the two-reading requirement.
