August 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM - Board of Commissioners Meeting

1. Convene Meeting with opening prayer, Pledge of Allegiance and roll call

2. Recognize Guests

3. Open floor to members of the public, or of the Governing Body, for inquiries about a subject not listed on the Agenda.  Speakers shall limit their remarks to three (3) minutes or less.  Specific factual information, or existing policy, may be stated in response to an inquiry.  Any Deliberation or decision about the subject of the inquiry shall be limited to a proposal to place the subject on the Agenda for a subsequent Meeting 

4. Minutes of prior meeting(s) not previously approved

5. Budget Workshop

5.A. Discuss Revised Annual Operating and Capital Budget for the 2024/2025 Fiscal Year

5.B. Discuss Proposed Annual Operating and Capital Budget for the 2025/2026 Fiscal Year

6. Expense Account(s) for Reimbursement

7. Bills for Payment (Includes item(s) above, if any, and supplements at the table)

7.A. Payment(s) that equal or exceed $50,000

7.B. Accounts Payable - Beginning check number, ending check number and total dollars issued since last Board meeting

7.C. Payroll - Beginning check number, ending check number and total dollars issued since last Board Meeting

8. Monthly Investment Report for July 2025

9. Annual Physical Inventory of the Port District's Fixed Assets for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2025

10. Write Off of Fixed Assets as of July 31, 2025

11. Unaudited General Fund Operating Statement for the First Nine Months of the Fiscal Year 2024/2025

12. 2025 Certified Tax Values

13. Port Access Program Rider 37 Grant

13.A. Dravo Road Widening and Truck Queuing Areas

13.A.1) Update

13.A.2) Modification 019 to SETEX Construction for Final Cleanup Change Order in the amount of $8,574.05 - Approve/Ratify

13.A.3) Modification 020 to SETEX Construction for Liquidated Damages of $1,000 per day for Five (5) Calendar Days for a Total Credit of $5,000 - Approve/Ratify

13.A.4) Warranty Items - Road Failures

13.B. Alabama Street

14. SCP88 Dravo Additional Truck Queuing and Utility Enhancements

14.A. Update

14.B. Change Order 002 to Triangle Civil Services for Time Extension due to Weather Delays of Eight (8) Calendar Days - Ratify

14.C. Change Order 003 to Triangle Civil Services to Bridge In-Situ Materials and Utilize Alternate Materials not to exceed $156,210 and Forty-One (41) Calendar Days - Approve/Ratify

15. MIP88 Trans Modal Yard Containerized Project

15.A. Phase 1 - Selective Demolition

15.A.1) Change Order 002 to Triangle Civil Services for Time Extension due to Weather Delays up to Four (4) Calendar Days - Ratify

15.A.2) Change Order 003 to Triangle Civil Services for Electrical Foundation due to Entergy up to $14,620 and an Additional Fifty-Five (55) Calendar Days - Approve/Ratify

15.A.3) Change Order 004 to Triangle Civil Services for Two (2) Structural Steel Platforms - ESI #2 not to exceed $120,000 - Approve/Ratify

15.B. Phase 2 - Test Pile Program - COMPLETE

15.C. Phase 3 - Electrical

15.D. Phase 4 - Reconstruction

16. PIDP/Community Funded Project Update

17. AST Electrical and Shore Power Services Upgrades

17.A. Shore Power 8 - Permanent Power

17.B. Shore Powers 11 & 12 and Lighting Controls

17.B.1) Shore Power Update

17.B.2) Shore Power Platform Update

17.B.3) Change Order to Caliber Solutions to add Shore Power 11 & 12 not to exceed $506,000

17.B.4) Change Order to Caliber Solutions to add Shore Power 11 not to exceed $256,000

17.B.5) Change Order to Caliber Solutions to add Shore Power 12 not to exceed $315,000

18. Permission to Advertise for Lawn Maintenance Services

19. Permission to Advertise for Herbicide Spraying

20. Revenue Reports

21. Port Travel

21.A. Permission for Executive Port Director to travel Four (4) Days to Galveston, Texas to Attend the USACE Regional Dredging Meeting and GPA Fall Conference in November.  Travel will be by private vehicle.

22. ENTER CLOSED SESSION FOR AGENDA ITEMS 23 THROUGH 27

23. CLOSED MEETING for Private consultation with an attorney for the Governmental Body, under §551.071 of the Act.  The consultation may either be in person or, as authorized by §551.129(a) of the Act, by telephone conference call, video conference call, or communications over the internet.  If any part of the consultation is in an open meeting of the Governmental Body and is therefore a public consultation, each part of the public consultation must be audible to the public at the location specified in the notice of the meeting as the location of the meeting.  The consultation is regarding, but not limited to, the following matter(s):

23.A. Army Corps of Engineers Hickory Cove Real Estate

23.B. North Sabine Lake Project

23.C. Thousand Foot Cut/Stewts Island

23.D. Marathon Oil

23.E. Grounded Barge 237

24. CLOSED MEETING to Deliberate commercial or financial information that the Orange County EDC has received from a business prospect(s) that the Orange County Navigation and Port District seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of Orange County and with which the OCEDC is conducting economic development negotiations, or to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to such a business prospect, under Section 551.087 of the Act, regarding any current, confidential OCEDC Projects.

24.A. Sabine to Galveston Coastal Spine Levee

25. CLOSED MEETING to Deliberate the purchase, exchange, leases, or value of real property, under § 551.072 of the Act, regarding the following matter(s):

25.A. Discuss Status of Potential Acquisition of Real Property in Navigation District

25.A.1) South Childers Rd Null

25.B. Border Street Complex

25.B.1) Possible tenant lease(s)

25.C. Jackson/Market Street Complex

25.C.1) Possible tenant lease(s)

25.D. Georgia Street

25.D.1) Possible tenant lease(s)

25.E. Childers Road

25.E.1) Possible tenant lease(s)

25.E.2) Northstar Group Services, Inc. - 1201 Childers Road, 2nd Floor, Rooms 205, 206A, and 207 - Lease Agreement - Approve/Ratify

25.F. Alabama Street

25.F.1) Possible tenant lease(s)

25.F.2) Gulf Copper - Alabama Street Terminal - Lease Addendum - Ratify

25.F.3) Gulf Copper - Alabama Street Terminal - Lease Agreement - Ratify

25.G. Dravo

25.G.1) Possible tenant lease(s)

25.H. Pier Rd

25.H.1) Possible tenant lease(s)

26. CLOSED SESSION to Deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a District officer or employee, under §551.074(a)(1) of the Act, regarding the following matter(s):

26.A. Employee Compensation

27. CLOSED MEETING to Deliberate information relating to risk or vulnerability assessment, under Texas Government Code Section 418.177; information prepared for the United States as provided in Texas Government Code Section 418.180; information related to technical details of particular vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure to an act of terrorism, under Texas Government Code Section 418.181, and/or information relating to security systems as provided in Texas Government Code Section 418.18, such Closed Meeting being authorized by Section 418.183(f) of the Texas Government Code.  The Governing Body shall make a tape recording of the proceedings rather than a Certified Agenda, as required by Section 481.183(f).

27.A. FY2025 PSGP

28. RETURN TO OPEN SESSION AND TAKE ACTION, IF ANY, REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS 23 THROUGH 27

29. FY2022 PSGP

29.A. Command Center Generator and Generator Platform Update

29.A.1) Update

29.A.2) Gas Line from FM1006 to Command Center

29.B. Security Capabiliities Upgrades Update

29.B.1) Update

29.B.2) Award Bid for Server & Storage Device Upgrade

30. FY2023 PSGP

30.A. Administration Generator and Generator Platform Update

30.B. Water Tower Generator and Generator Platform

30.B.1) Generator Update

30.B.2) Generator Platform Update

30.C. Security Capabilities Upgrades Update

31. Set date, time and place of any presently anticipated Special Meeting to be held prior to the next Regular Meeting

32. Specify changes to the date, time and/or place of one or more particular Regular Meeting(s) if any of such factors are presently anticipated to be changed from standard Board Policy

32.A. September 8, 2025

33. Adjourn Meeting