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The Crowley city council continued to amend several ordinances before approving two contracts and amending the staffing plan to include a new position at a meeting Thursday night.
The council approved eight amended ordinances, including two that require additional information for those applying for a permit to solicit residents door-to-door or applying for a street vendor license.
Under new ordinance, applicants must provide recent photo identification and attach a current sales tax certificate.
The council also discussed ordinance amendments to ratify and confirm all the stop signs in the city.
“Creative defense lawyers will sometimes get their clients off the stop sign tickets by saying, ‘Well the city didn’t properly adopt that sign.’ The prosecutor may have to establish that it is an official stop sign,” said City Attorney Robert Allibon. “So, it is important to have these reflected correctly one way or the other.”
The council members chose to table the amendment until their next meeting on Dec. 3, when an inventory and map would be available.
An amendment regarding restrictions for registered sex offenders was also tabled until Dec. 3., when the council would be able to view a map displaying buffer zones around areas children tend to gather.
According to the ordinance, convicted sex offenders would not be able to establish a permanent or temporary residence within 1,000 feet “of a playground, school, day care facility, video arcade facility, public or private youth center, park or community swimming pool.”
The council renewed a contract with the Fort Worth Transportation Authority for door-to-door paratransit services for elderly and disabled people within Tarrant County.
City Manager Truitt Gilbreath said the program allows one-way trips anywhere in the county for $250. The city of Crowley is contributing $1,607 toward the administrative costs of the program.
A contract for fire protection and ambulance services from the Tarrant County Emergency Service District No. 1 was also renewed for $101,200, an increase of $92,000 from last year.
A position was created for an assistant city manager, and the council approved to amend the staffing plan to include the job. Gilbreath said the position will help with the growing workload in the administration department.
Councilwoman Tina Pace dissented in the vote after asking how the position would effect the 2009-10 budget.
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