Town Council - Regular Meeting

Yeah. Okay, are we ready? Today is Thursday, May 28th, 2026 at 6 p.m. I'd like to call to order the town council meeting for the budget public hearing. Everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now I'll take a roll call. Ms. Davis? Here. Mr. White? I'm here. Mr. Webb? Here. Dr. Chenault? Here. Vice Mayor Coyle? Here. Mr. Stork? Here. Mr. Hageman? Here. We have a full council tonight and we have a quorum. We will now move on. I need to request an agenda amendment. to be added to this agenda?

I move to amend the agenda to add three items in the new business for the Ennis Street Emergency and Care and to renumber the subsequent items for the .

Second. I have a motion from Vice Mayor Corral, a second from Councilman Voigt. Is there any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Motion passes unanimously. You said under new business, correct?

Yeah. Okay.

At this time, we will open the public hearing for the proposed fiscal year 2027 budget and tax rate. At this time, we will open the floor up to public comment. You have three minutes to speak after you identify yourself, give your name and address, and please know that we cannot respond to you. Is there anyone wishing to speak for public comment? Going once, twice. Closing public comment. On the proposed FY27 budget and tax rate, I officially close the public hearing. Now we will move on to item number two, which is the budget amendment public hearing. At this time, I will ask if anybody wishes to speak. There's no one here. I will close public comment. and go ahead and close them. And I will go ahead and close the budget amendment public hearing. We will move on to item number three. Ms. India, would you like to speak to this? This is the NS Street Emergency Repair.

Sure, thank you Madam Mayor. Before you, you have a memo with the background. As you know, we've been completing various preventative cameraing of our lines throughout town. We've been doing that since last year. The result of one of that investigation and preventative maintenance work discovered a section of sewer line that is in need of immediate repair. On industry, and so we are recommending approval for that emergency repair, hopefully spot repair point repair of that area. And then lining up that area, if possible. Immediately for work that could convince as early as Monday weather permitting and the draft motion included in your packet for consideration and Mr fortune to see if you have any more specific questions pertaining to that item.

Are there any questions from council at this time to Mr. Fortune? Go ahead, Mr. Hageman. After looking at through the CCTV?

The governor said some of the lines could be, you have to get this clean up from the Park and Courthouse down to Buckingham Street, go down to Courthouse Lane and see the next three streets. But everything else he said, County Street, he said Chase Street, he said that could be lined up in the community. As far as part of industry so far, could be lined up. But, uh, no, we didn't have a quarter before we got a little bit more. So, we went to the point and try to handle that spot. And we did a spot repair there. I think we're back in 2018. piece of pipe over there and that's, you know, we've got the place to open.

So, so this issue on this, we found it because we were Cameron, not because we had a complaint on something.

We had a complaint back, you know. Like, a week before that, you know, we came out and get the line and got it to open up and. In the next stage, and it's backed up again. So, uh. We jetted it again to open it up a little more, and I was like, do it on low pressure. If you do it on high pressure, it's probably going to blow it apart. So it was backed up all the way from there, all the way around to Kennedy Street. It's flowing through very slow right now. But after like 10 o'clock at nighttime, because I've been back at the Lake Fuller, it drains down about 2, 3 o'clock in the morning, and you get here about 8 o'clock in the morning in China. But as soon as everybody starts coming in and using it, it starts backing up again.

Any other questions from council? Mr. Roy?

How far is this from the courthouse one that we did not too long ago? And also with the way, I can never remember exactly how it all circles around each other to get down. Is this downstream or upstream from that one?

It's, uh, actually, we did what I was like, that man who started it for those lane is connected into that man over there comes down in the street and actually enter that man over there. Don't quote. I was like. Oh, yeah, and to tell you the route, everything started in, uh, on chase street right there. If we, uh. That Masonic Hall and call it this way, county street, everything servers around the company industry. All the street stops right there. Justin's all this way.

How deep is this? 1?

This 1 is. 8 and a half, 7 and a half and 8 and a half and demand hold in front of the courthouse and then 7 and a half.

Any other questions from council. Thank you, Mr. Fortune. Do you want us to move to take action on this now or do you want us to take action on all of this at the end?

No, this item for the emergency sewer line repairs would be appropriate for you to make action or take action on that. Okay. Based on the draft motion on your sheet.

Then I would like to respectfully ask council to make a motion.

Okay. I make it make a motion that we approve the emergency sewer repair for any street and to authorize Langford Excavating Utilities LLC to perform emergency repairs and proceed with the installation of cured in place pipelining. institute forum in the very high and high priority areas adjacent to instance in a street area and approve that funding for these emergency projects and that funding for the emergency project some from the most recent 2026 utility debt issuance funding so i have a motion from councilman stork is there a second i'll second it there's a second from councilman hagerman is there any further discussion at this time

Would like to ask the deputy clerk to please take a roll call.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

At this time I would like to open the meeting up for public comment. We have no one here to speak, so I will close that. Now we will open up for member comments. Ms. Davis? Ms. Davis, do you have a comment? Mr. Voigt? Mr. Webb? Mr. Chennault? Ms. Goyle? Mr. Stork? Mr. Hager? Okay. We will move on to the fiscal year 27 proposed budget overview. And at this time, I will turn the meeting over to Ms. India Adams-Jacobs, our town manager.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. And to be brief, I'll just jump to slide 16 in the budget presentation, including your packet, which includes the budget overview, which includes no proposed water rate increases, no proposed sewer rate increases, the proposed Real estate increase remains flat at 13 cents, no new personal property tax increases. There's a 4% increase for trash refuse services from GFL. And the next slide on page 17, again, highlights where the tax dollar goes broken down for that dollar for those allocations to various departments. including water and sewer, public works, finance, town council, town manager, police, general services, capital, activities funds, EDA, the fiscal year 27 proposed total budget expenditure, all funds is included there, $8,568,524. And then to jump to the back, the summary of the FY20 7 proposed budget page 63 includes a breakdown of all of those funds, including departmental breakdowns for the revenues and expenditures, which has all been included in the advertisements as required that were noticed in the freelance style May 12th and May 20th and then page 64 and slide 64 includes the rate summary. What you have before you all for the next item for adoption.

There's another page number to the left of it.

Are there any questions from this council for the town manager at this time?

the last slide of the presentation. We did notice those, as I mentioned, May 12th, May 20th. The rate setting is tonight where we have requested town council action. And then the next item will be approval, adoption, and appropriation at next Thursday's meeting. That concludes my report.

Thank you. We move on to the proposed water and sewer rate ordinance. And again, I will turn this over to Ms. India Adams-Jacobs, the town manager.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I am included before me as ordinance 36-04 of the water and sewer rate fee ordinance for council consideration and adoption.

Have all of you looked at this? There were no changes from what was given to us.

Well, Madam Mayor, being that there are no changes, I'll move to adopt the ordinance as presented tonight.

I have a motion from Councilman Boyd. Is there a second? I'll second. Second from Councilman Hageman. Is there any discussion? I would like the deputy clerk to take a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. In favor of the. Water and sewer ordinance.

The rate setting, is that what we just did? Now we're doing tax. Rate setting for the action item, number five. I could repeat my statement I just made.

Okay, so being that things are not changing other than the solid waste collection, I will make a motion to adopt the rates as presented tonight.

So I have a motion from Council Member Wright. Is there a second? I'll second. I have a second from Councilwoman Davis. Is there any discussion? Deputy Clerk, would you please take a roll call? Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Motion passes unanimously and the weight has been adopted. Move on to item number six, the budget amendment, and we will turn this over to the interim town treasurer, Ms. Tamika Morgan.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you. For a budget amendment, and the amount of 1,000,008,060 dollars, 50 cents. This is to provide supplemental appropriation to complete year end items. Um, this cleanup of these entries, it reflects the sewer infrastructure here. All of this will be covered by the net proceeds from the utility. That she got a couple of months ago, preliminarily after this, and the expenditure is already. Are there any questions at this time?

Mr. right?

No questions anyone else.

Are you making a motion?

I was gonna. Go for it. All right, I'll move to, I was gonna say so move, so I want my son moving too. Move to approve the budget amendment as presented. I'll second.

So I have a motion from Councilman Wright, a second from Councilman Hageman. Is there any discussion from this council? Hearing none, will the deputy clerk please take a roll call? Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Motion passes unanimously and the budget amendment is adopted. Informational items. We have none that I know of. Public comment? Again, there is no one here to speak. Member comments? Ms. Davis, do you have any? Mr. Roy? No. Mr. Webb? No. Dr. Chenault? No. Vice Mayor Coyle?

No.

Mr. Stork? No. And Mr. Hageman? No. Okay, at this time, I will move for us to, I need a motion to go to closed session, and after we do so, we will take a five-minute recess to clear town hall. What's the closed session for? Well, I don't know, it says it's on the agenda. Oh, sorry, we don't have a closed session. I can give you a different motion. Then I'll see what the next motion is, go for it. No, I'll take that one, I'm gonna do a joke. I will take that motion. Councilor Wright, is there a second? Second. I have a second, Vice Mayor Corral. All in favor raise your right hand. We are adjourned.