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Following is a summary of the December 16, 2009 Board Meeting for The Woodlands Township. It was obtained from The Woodlands Township website with address shown at the bottom of the page. Note that Fire Station #8 (Indian Springs Village) will be located on the east side of Gosling Road.

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Township Board of Directors address 35 agenda items at December meeting
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS (December 16, 2009) – The Woodlands Township Board of Directors addressed 35 agenda items at its December meeting held on Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
During the Board of Directors meeting for The Woodlands Township, Carl Joiner of Joiner Partnership, Inc., presented the preliminary schematic designs for the Creekside (#7) and Indian Springs (#8) fire stations. Each station will be about 12,000 square feet and will be similar to Station 6 in College Park.
Construction for Station #7 is anticipated to begin July 2010 with completion in June 2011. Construction for Station #8 is set to begin January 2011 with completion in December 2011.
An Open Forum presentation on the two fire stations will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at The Woodlands Township Service Center, previously known as the Community Associations building at 2201 Lake Robbins Drive.
The funding for the two fire stations was included as part of Bond Proposition 1, which was approved by Woodlands voters in November 2009.
Other items approved on the Regular Agenda included:

Received and adopted the Financial Report;
Received a report from the Community Associations of The Woodlands;
Discussed proposed school district boundary changes in the May Valley area;
Received a presentation from Drew Masterson, managing director of First Southwest, regarding the next steps in the bond issuance process;
Authorized the Chairman of the Board to execute a professional services agreement to retain the professional services of Schwartz, Page & Harding, L.L.P. to serve as bond counsel in connection with the issuance, sale and delivery of all bonds to be sold by The Woodlands Township;
Approved service agreements with Center for Houston’s Future, Opportunity Houston and Leadership Montgomery County;
Approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Shenandoah relating to the provision of services for areas that have Woodlands Covenants and are not within the boundaries of The Woodlands Township;
Adopted a resolution removing all overlapped properties of The Woodlands Township from Harris County Emergency Services District No. 7 and Montgomery County Emergency Services Districts Nos. 4, 8, 10, & 14;
Adopted Resolution 024-09 Adopting Investment Policies and Guidelines that included the revisions recommended by the Investment Committee with an effective date of January 1, 2010, and repealed any previously adopted resolutions or policies;
Authorized Texas Municipal League, Center for Public Management at the University of North Texas and Virtual Learning Concepts to provide training for investment officers of The Woodlands Township, as required by the Public Funds Investment Act;
Adopted a list of qualified brokers authorized to engage in investment transactions with The Woodlands Township;
Approved the First Amendment to the Waterway Maintenance, Use and Operations Agreement;
Approved the conveyance of the Waterway Square easement over the kiosk tracts from The Woodlands Development Company;
Approved the Personnel Policy Manual for The Woodlands Township; effective January 1, 2010, and repealed any previous policies or procedures;
Approved service agreements between the Village Associations’ and The Woodlands Township, and authorized the President to sign the agreements in connection therewith;
Authorized the Asset Lease and Service Agreement between The Woodlands Township and The Woodlands Fire Department, Inc.;
Authorized the Real Property Lease Agreement between The Woodlands Township and The Woodlands Fire Department;
Authorized the President, the Chairman or a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors to execute any acceptances or receipts for conveyances, assignments, or transfers of real, personal, mixed or intellectual properties, filings, name changes, notices, or other documents related to the Transition Agreement;
Authorized the President to execute a new five-year lease agreement with American Business Machines because the vendor would not allow the agreement terms with The Woodlands Community Service Corporation be assumed by The Woodlands Township;
Adopted The Woodlands Township's appointments, in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Transition Agreement, to The Woodlands Fire Department Board of Directors, The Woodlands Community Service Corporation Board of Directors, and The Woodlands Recreation Centers, Inc. Board of Directors, and postponed new appointments until June 2010;
Appointed Claude Hunter as the representative to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Council for a term ending June 30, 2010;
Approved the recommendation from the Committee on Governance and Nominations to appoint Chris Florack, Ken Parker, Deborah Sargeant and Michael Sawran to the Development Standards Committee for a one-year term beginning January 1, 2010;
Approved the recommendation from the Committee on Governance and Nominations to appoint Ken Anderson, Kim Hess and Robert Heineman as designees of The Woodlands Land Development Company to the Development Standards Committee;
Reappointed Mark Golibart of Tharaldson Property for a two-year term and Sheron Jones of The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center for a one-year term on the Booking & Blocking Committee of The Woodlands Township;
Adopted the Texas Secretary of State’s Uniform Election Calendar for local political subdivisions as the official uniform election calendar for The Woodlands Township’s Board of Director elections, and authorized the President of The Woodlands Township to post the required notice of the candidate application filing period relative to the upcoming election on May 8, 2010;
Approved the payment of invoices for legal services rendered by The Woodlands Township's legal counsel, Schwartz, Page & Harding, L.L.P.;
Adopted the schedule of regular meeting dates for The Woodlands Township Board of Directors for 2010
In addition to its regular meeting, the Board of Directors held a special meeting for the Economic Development Zone in which the Board:

Adopted Resolution 001-09 Adopting Investment Policies and Guidelines with an effective date of January 1, 2010 to include proposed revisions and repealed any previously adopted resolutions or policies;
Adopted Resolution 002-09 Adopting a List of Qualified Brokers Authorized to Engage in Investment Transactions with The Woodlands Township Economic Development Zone,
Approved the source of public funds investment training for The Woodlands Township Economic Development Zone Investment Officers to include Texas Municipal League, the Center for Public Management and Virtual Learning Concepts.
Executive Summaries of the above items as well as Power Point Presentations can be found on The Woodlands Township’s Web site at www.thewoodlandstownship-tx.gov. Every public meeting scheduled by The Woodlands Township Board of Directors has a place for public comment at the beginning of the meeting. The guidelines for public comment can be found at the Township’s Web site.
The next public meeting of The Woodlands Township will be the Executive Committee, to be held on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 9 a.m., at The Woodlands Township, 10001 Woodloch Forest Drive, Suite 600, The Woodlands, Texas, 77380. The January Board of Directors will meet at 9 a.m., Wednesday, January 27, 2010. A Town Hall Meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center.
For more information on The Woodlands Township government, please call 281.363.2447 or visit www.thewoodlandstownship-tx.gov.