The Taylor City Council met on April 15, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting included approvals of routine items, a zoning amendment, multiple contracts, a failed motion to award an asphalt paving contract due to past bid-rigging concerns, and continued inability to fill a council vacancy. Public comments raised issues of ethics complaints, utility easement conflicts, and homeless encampments.
So I voted in the illustrated three W more. I'm always a Tether Press. I gotta keep that. Call the meeting to order at 6 30 and 30 seconds. First item is the invocation, and I'd like to uh ask Reverend Drutchess to please come forward. Uh always good to see you, sir. Okay. Let's bow our heads in a moment of reverence and prayer. Gracious God is this meeting of the Taylor City Council begins. We ask your blessing upon this time together. As deliberations uh get underway, we ask God that you just fill both uh the council members and our mayor with the insight to make decisions that are always just and fair and certainly compassionate. Uh just uplift them and guide them and uh all decisions ahead and uh in their uh in their personal lives as well. We pray for the well-being of the city, a wonderful city where people care about each other and care deeply. We ask God that you just uplift the city and uh just assure that it prospers in the way that uh truly honors you. Uh we ask this now in your son's name. Amen. Thank you, sir. Brings us to the uh Pledge of Allegiance, and I'd like to ask uh Clerk Bauer to lead us in the pledge. One nation under God with liberty and justice for overall. Thank you. That'll bring us to the roll call. Roll call, please. Daniels here, Miss Rose, here, Mr. Johnson. Here, Mrs. Brandana here, Miss Winton. Here, Mr. Geis. Here, Mayor Woolley? Here, Mrs. Bauer, here. And Mrs. Toko is excused. All right, we have six members. We have a quorum. That brings us uh to item 5.1 motion to approve the agenda. Chairman. Councilwoman. I make a motion to approve the agenda with one change. I'd like to add item eight point one five as a letter of recognition. Support we have a motion by Councilwoman Brandana supported by Councilwoman Witten. Um just to let you know the uh item that was uh uh added is a motion to approve the letter of recognition of Dolores Torclick and Lois Adams for their years in uh beautification and service uh in the city of Taylor on Arbor Day. Uh there is going to be a special recognition. Uh so that's coming up on April 25th. So that was the reason to add that into this uh tonight's uh uh agenda, and we'll discuss more when we get to that item. But I appreciate the council's uh uh willingness to add that to the agenda. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say yes. Yes, all is opposed, say no. Yes, is have a motion carried.