AGENDA
ALAMO AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 – 1:00 p.m.
8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 100
San Antonio, TX 78217
1. Meeting called to Order.
2. Roll Call.
3. Citizens to be Heard.
4. Executive Director’s Report.
5. Consent Agenda.
Items on the consent agenda are considered being of a routine nature and may require only limited discussion. The items listed on consent agenda, other than A, have been reviewed by the Management Committee and they recommend approval. Any member of the Board may request that items be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately for purpose of discussion and voting.
A. Consider and act upon approval of the May 26, 2004 Minutes.
B. Consider and act upon the following Status Reports:
1. Grants
2. Recoveries
3. Income Statement
4. Balance Sheet
5. Board Expenditures
6. Fringe Rate
C. Consider and act upon authorization to release a Request for Proposal and or Reverse Auction for:
1. Fiscal Depository
2. Personnel Services
D. Consider and act upon approval of the following as recommended by the Alamo Area Agency on Aging:
1. Budget Revisions and Transfers
2. Authorization to release Request for Vendors
3. Request for Proposals
E. Consider and act upon approval of the following as recommended by the Bexar Senior Advisory Committee:
1. FY 05 Notification of Intent to Contract with existing Bexar AAA Subcontractors.
2. Purchase of four (4) laptops for Bexar AAA Care Specialists in an amount not to exceed $12,000.
3. Proposed FY04 Access and Family Caregiver Support Vendors
4. Release of FY05 Request for Vendors
F. Consider and act upon authorization for the Executive Director to approve the execution of the Time Warner Telecommunications Facilities Based Contract.
G. Consider and act upon approval of expenditures for 2004 Commute Solutions and Air Quality Advertising Campaigns.
H. Consider and act upon authorization to release a Request for Proposal for Rural Public Transportation Section 5311 in the amount of $203,700.
6. Committee Reports:
A. Management Committee
1. Consider and act upon authorization to extend the auditing services of Padgett, Stratemann & Co., L.L.P. for one additional year – January 1 through December 31, 2004.
2. Consider and act upon approval on request for ratification of grant application to the office of Domestic Preparedness in the amount of $114,386.
3. Consider and act upon authorization for the Executive Director to enter into an agreement with the City of Selma on Rural Public Transportation.
4. Consider and act upon approval of AACOG to host the National Association of Regional Councils annual conference in 2006.
B. Air Improvement Resources Executive Committee
C. Audit Committee
1. Consider and act upon authorization to amend the AACOG policy on rotating auditors from every three years to five years beginning with the 2005 audit.
D. Area Judges
E. Alamo Area Development Corporation
7. Consider and act upon approval of the following as recommended by the Economic Development Environmental Review Committee:
A. Comfort Independent School District. “Academic Improvement for Comfort ISD Students & Adult Learners Through Distance Learning.” Funding: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Distance Learning & Telemedicine Loans and Grant: $500,000.
B. Karnes County Hospital District. “New Medical Office Building Renovations & Expansion of Emergency, Bulk storage & Surgery Dept.” Funding: U.S. Department of Agriculture/Community Facilities Loans: $2,766,000.
C. ACCION Texas. “Expansion of Loan Program to Colonia Micro Businesses.” Funding: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Rural Business Enterprise Grant: $100,000.
8. Consider and act upon approval of the following as recommended by the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee:
A. Alamo Area Rape Crisis Center, ”STARS (Students Taking Action for Respect) Program - Peer to Peer Education”. Funding: $50,000 Funding Source: Administration for Children and Families.
B. Atascosa Boxing Club, ”Atascosa Boxing Club Program”. Funding: $50,000 Funding Source: Administration for Children and Families.
C. Bexar County Court at Law No. 1, ”Bexar County Adult Drug Court”. Funding: $70,000 Funding Source: Drug Court Program (state).
D. Communities in Schools of San Antonio, Inc., ”CIS-SA”. Funding: $50,000 Funding Source: Administration for Children and Families.
E. Father Flanagan's Boys' Home - Boys and Girls Town of San Antonio, ”Clinical Support Services Specialist Position”. Funding: $50,000 Funding Source: Administration for Children and Families.
F. JOVEN, ”To Expand Child Development, Counseling and Creating the Vision”. Funding: $49,834 Funding Source: Administration for Children and Families.
G. Northside Independent School District, ”NISD: Cops In School”. Funding: $33,759 Funding Source: US Dept. of Justice.
H. paxUnited, ”Positive Action Center (PAC)”. Funding: $49,750 Funding Source: Administration for Children and Families.
I. The Children's Shelter, ”Service Expansion and Capacity Building”. Funding: $50,000 Funding Source: Administration for Children and Families.
9. Consider and act upon the following as recommended by the Regional Emergency Preparedness Advisory Committee:
A. Bexar County, ”Citizen Corps”. Funding: $80,000 Funding Source: Department of Homeland Security, Office for Domestic Preparedness Grant.
B. Medina County, ”Citizen Emergency Response Team”. Funding: $15,144 Funding Source: Department of Homeland Security, Office for Domestic Preparedness Grant.
C. City of Selma, ”Citizen Emergency Response Team”. Funding: $3,366 Funding Source: Department of Homeland Security, Office for Domestic Preparedness Grant.
10. Consider and act upon approval of new appointment to the Texas Silver Haired Legislature.
11. Consider and act upon approval of a resolution in support of Kerr County’s official protest of the proposed rate increases by Aqua Texas, Inc.
12. Consider and act upon comments to the Texas Department of Transportation on Trans-Texas Corridor.
13. Consider and act upon comments to the Environmental scoping of the transfer of C-5 training from Aluts AFB in Oklahoma to Lackland AFB.
14. Consider and act upon designating Cindy Krueger as the contact person for the Public Information Act for AACOG.
15. Awards Presentation:
A. Outgoing Committee Chairs
B. Outgoing Board Member
C. Regional Citizen of the Year
D. Corporate Citizen of the Year
E. Community Project of the Year
F. Governmental Regional Projects of the Year
16. Information Items.
17. Adjournment.
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