City Charter Amendment A
City Charter Amendment B
City Charter Amendment C
Prohibits any councilperson from intentionally resigning their position in order to circumvent term limit rules. Offenders would be prohibited from running in future city elections.
City Charter Amendment D
Clarifies the role of the Mayor during an emergency or disaster. The Mayor would be given access to all of the abilities granted by state law in order to keep the peace, respond to the situation and appoint additional help if necessary.
City Charter Amendment E
The Mayor Pro Tem would be primarily responsible for coordinating City Council’s annual evaluations of the City Manager, the City Attorney and the Municipal Court Judge
Following a 90-minute discussion that included comments from numerous residents, New Braunfels City Council members on Monday elected to operate all city facilities at 100% occupancy but require the use of face coverings by the public when social distancing is not feasible.
The decision comes as Texas Gov. Greg Abbottâs executive order rescinding statewide face covering and occupancy requirements goes into effect.
Abbottâs order allows businesses and other establishments to decide whether to require their employees and customers to follow additional hygiene measures, including the wearing of a face covering. Cities fall under the category of âother establishments.â
Council members are expected to revisit the decision on face coverings and facility occupancy during a meeting scheduled for April 12.
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 New Braunfels Utilities said Monday it was confident it could maintain competitive rates following last weekâs winter storm event that resulted in rotating power outages throughout the state, but the exact impact on electric rates and customer wallets remains unclear.
Although there have been reports of retail electric bills in the thousands of dollars in some parts of Texas, NBU said this would not happen in New Braunfels.
According to Melissa C. Krause, NBUâs chief operations and strategy officer said the utility operates a power supply program designed to reduce volatility and maintain a competitive price.
âGoing into this event, NBUâs electric bill was among the very lowest in the region,â Krause said. âNew Braunfels Utilities passes on the cost of energy purchased in the ERCOT market to NBUâs customers with no markup. New Braunfels Utilitiesâ hedging program and reserves policy greatly insulated our customers from last weekâs u
New Braunfels Utilities on Sunday afternoon lifted its boil water notice after the utility said it had successfully achieved system-wide Texas Commission on Environmental Quality minimum pressure requirements.