Council approves three infrastructure measures, then moves to closed session on city manager search

The Los Fresnos City Council approved three infrastructure items and then moved into closed session to deliberate candidates for the city manager role.

Mark reported "About 1,600,000 of a grant and loan," saying the funds would be applied to work involving a dead resaca just south of the nature park and that drainage will flow east to the existing ditch. He recommended approval of the bid estimates.

Council members questioned differences between bidders' unit prices and whether lower bids reflected lower-quality materials. One council member asked whether some vendors were "using cheaper materials"; Mark responded, "They have to meet specs," and said firms bid differently because of workload and efficiencies. After discussion, a motion to approve the bid recommendation was made and carried by voice vote; the transcript records the vocal "aye" and that the motion carried but does not include a roll-call vote or individual tallies.

On the next agenda item, the chair read a proposal "to amend an agreement for professional engineering services with Guzman and Munoz Engineering and Surveying Incorporated." Mark said Guzman and Munoz had done prior sewer work from Habu 100 to 1575 and up to Escalante Road and that there were leftover funds. "There's, money left over. We have to we wanna use it because it's money," he said, explaining the city wanted the firm to continue under the same pricing schedule to upgrade pumps and motors at several lift stations. The council moved to amend the agreement and approved the amendment by voice vote; individual vote names were not recorded in the transcript.

The council also approved installation of wastewater services to three areas on the north side of Henderson Road near FM 1847 that had been previously annexed. Mark said the properties had declined sewer when annexed but now "the 3 now want it," and he recommended approval to satisfy the annexation condition. The motion was made, seconded, and carried by voice vote with no roll-call recorded.

Following the votes, the chair announced the meeting would enter closed session at 09:08 "for deliberation regarding personal matters pursuant to Texas government code section 551.074, specifically to review the applications, discuss the qualifications, and deliberate the selection of candidates for the position of city manager, including consideration of additional applicants and modification of the candidate pool." The council moved to closed session immediately after the announcement.

The transcript does not record individual roll-call votes, detailed bid tabulations, exact dollar breakdowns between grant and loan, nor the full professional titles for speakers identified only by first name in the record. The council took formal votes by voice on the three items and then recessed into executive session to continue the city manager selection process.