City Council - Regular Meeting

Number six and 12. Um changed before we are meeting already. So we didn't discuss it. So you can clear two stories below it. There was 23. I changed my mind. I went out of the business. I like I changed my mind. There'll be no lawsuit. I'll sign a waiver.

You're like the thing. I like that's the best thing that ever happened to me. Have you ever had one? You ever done? No. And I don't tend to. Yeah, that's right. I had no desire to do that. I have no desire to go in the Airbnb. Okay. Okay. We were getting rid of all Airbnbs and he said, "Okay, well, I'm going to keep coming back to say, well, maybe not, right? Ready?

Welcome everyone. I'd like to welcome you. We're going to call to order the regular city uh council meeting for Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. And if you could, would you stand for uh invocation, please? Bow with me, please. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. We ask that this council uses its discernment and decision- making power to do what's right by our citizens in our city. Lord, we ask that you guide us with your path and help us through all of the difficult decisions we make and let us know that the people here that support us, we appreciate them being here. Lord, we pray all this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

United States of America, pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Pledge to the Texas flag one and indivisible. Thank you. All right. Roll call for the council members. Council member Mates here. Council member Schultz present.

Mayor Pro Tim man present. Council member Freeze present. Council member Brennan present.

We have all five quarum. Okay. We're going to allow now for um citizen visitor comments. Just want to remind you, please shut off your cell phones or silence them if you could, please. And anyone wishing to speak during this session, please give your name and address when you approach the podium. And the comments during this time and the agenda for public hearings and individual consideration are limited to three minutes per person. You can go farther if it's necessary, but would rather not. And uh you cannot share your time with anyone else. Once again, if you'll give your undivided attention to the council members during the discussion, we'll do the same with you when you're speaking. So, if we can, we'll get started. Now, we have some visitor comments. Uh, Miss Reeves, do you want to start? Your time's already started.

All right. Jacqueline Reeves, 706 East Street. Sorry, I rewrote this an hour ago, so sorry. There's Okay. March 25th, 2025. That was the first time I reached out to Jodie Hol with my renovation plans for my property located at 800 Northeast Big Ben. Steven Boyd, who is no longer employed at the city, told me that he didn't understand my floor plan and didn't need to come see it. June 13th, 2025. That is when I reached out to Troy Hill, who is also no longer employed with the city, along with Joe BS for help with my building permits because Allison Couch, who is also no longer employed with the city, was making unreasonable requests for my existing building and proved to not be helpful. June 16th, 2025, that is when Troy sent me an email asking if I would be willing to sell willing to sell my property to a potential buyer he had. July 22nd, 2025. That is when Gregory Anderson, who was employed uh for Veraritoss by Veraritoss, received my submission for my proposal with my cover letter and floor plans. Gregory and I worked together to finalize a floor plan that met code requirements and took into account occupancy loads for future tenants. The very plan that Allison denied me simply because she wanted to. Today is February 10th, 2026. And guess what? The inspector from Verital suddenly tells me today that I now need firewalls for a tenant space. the same space that was already taken into account when the plans were submitted on what? July 22nd. Now, I see today that there is an agenda item for conversion of a single occupant buildings to multiple occupant buildings. It's hard not to feel attacked when all these regulations are oddly specific to my project. Am I the only building in town that converted their space into multiple occupant buildings? I know that I'm not. But again, some of the fire and the life safety items that are being added are the very items that the third party inspection company and I verified are not required per code, not opinions or guesses by the code. Some of these new requirements will make it harder for

someone new who who may find themselves in my position such that they may not have a fighting chance at all. So the questions that people are asking me who hates me so much here at the city or who really wants my property that they're willing to put all these roadblocks in my way. Is it a coincidence that every night last week I read Romans chapter 14 verse 13? Therefore, let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide to never put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. I don't know how many of you are aware, but I had a lawyer who has Glen Rose roots, but he currently resides in Houston. He reached out to me last year when everything was going on to help me to help me in any way that he could. He informed me at every point that the city officials who were working here at the time, not anyone current, who were working here, how they failed me legally. I have more than enough documented information to sue the city for all the damage and disruption, both emot emotional and financial, that I have incurred at this point. I really have nothing stopping me.

Okay. Um, next we have the Chamber of Commerce person of the year of Glenn Rose, Mary Collier.

Hi, Mary Collier, 3134 County Road 304, Rainbow, Texas. This is about a labyrinth for the city of Glenrose. The labyrinth that I have is a is given to me by Christina Gurioski, the founder of High Hope Ranch in spring of 2019. I'd like to gift it for use in the parks of the city of Glenrose as a prayer walk. In light of all the various economic impacts in our community, prayer can definitely be a beautiful catalyst in making decisions, keeping peace with our neighbors as well as peace in our hearts. The canvas labyrinth is 20 by 30 ft and will be great for outdoors. The design is a shards cathedral nine circuit labyrinth, which means it has nine concentric circles to make the pathway. There's no maintenance and when it begins to deteriorate in any form or fashion, the labyrinth may be disposed. This is a gift to the city of Glenrose. And you see a copy of the labyrinth that I gave you and the handout.

Okay. And we do have a state representative here. Miss Representative Helen Carwa.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members. I have some good news. Um, well, I have better news. You have to give your name and your address before you begin.

Okay. Although I think my news are going to be a lot better than theirs. Um, Helen Kerwin, I'm your state representatives, House District 58. Um, dear Representative Kerwin, I am pleased to inform you that the following local park grant applications were recommended for funding at the January 22nd, 2026 Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting. Recommended projects must receive final approval by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission prior to entering into the agreement. You have been approved for the soccer car for $750,000.

So, congratulations. Thank you.

And you've got a long time to uh actually get it accomplished. Okay. And the second good news I have is that text public transportation division administers federal funding programs including federal highway administration funds relating to text's bicycle and pedestrian program. These funds are for specific purposes and have separate eligibility and funding requirements. The public transportation division requests applications for specific funding sources through calls for projects. So I called mayor on this last month and I thought this could be the door to open a project with a pedestrian walking bridge across the Plexi River. So I wanted to pass these out to get you all started on it. And if if you need help from my office to uh to start working on this, be sure and let me know.

But I think that might fit. They uh they want they want unique call to action items for that. And the third good news is I just drove in from Austin where my chief and I chapa over there walked over to the public utility commission a folder this high of all the letters addressing the uh the encore line. So that is we talked to the lady there. She said that they're still waiting on the application. Um I'm feeling really good about this. they they have they are switching their docket number. Not quite sure if that's directly involved or not, but it seems to be things are moving along in another direction. We got some new dates. Um we have a new window and when that application comes out, we're going to have to stay on top of it. We got 180 days. So, um anyway, I'm hoping that's good news, but it's delivered. But y'all keep writing me. I'll keep putting it in the portal. They're still accepting. So, um, better news.

Yeah. Okay. And again, um, call me anytime, reach out. I'm, um, uh, in my office in downtown Cleveland. So, and here's some more. So, good news. You got to go back to Austin.

Thank you. I I'll just say quickly that uh George and I went down for the meeting with the Texas Department of Parks and they offered up this. George did a great job representing Glen Rose and talking to them and how exciting that is. And now Jim's got a pocket full of money to spend and make that soccer park like it's never been before. So that's really great for our our community. All right, we're going to open up the public hearing section of the meeting and uh as normal, I would ask one of our staff members. How about you, Veronica? How about me? Read item number one, please.

Public hearing regarding a request for a specific use permit for short rental at property located at 301 Herford Street, acres 0.230, 230 track F7-2 abstract A136 A136 Milm County School LD track 7 F7-2 to operate in an R1 single family district. Is there an applicant here? Yes, right here. Um I'm here to represent Okay.

My name is Michelle. I'm representing Mary Cha work trip. So, anytime something comes up with uh her Airbnb here that she already has on 704 northeast Barn, I'm her I'm her person. So, I live in WY which is 2 hours away. Your address? Um her property? No, you're My name is Michelle. I'm at 301 North Jackson Avenue in WY.

Okay. Thank you. Um I'm um her co-host for her Airbnb here on Barnard. So like I said, if something happens, she calls me when she goes down, has a work trip or whatever. She has she lives in the county uh in Glenrose. Um so she she does her own they she doesn't hire out for uh bookings. She does her own bookings. She's 10 minutes away. So if something ever goes wrong, you know, she's she can be here. She does her own cleaning, everything for her Airbnb, she is 100% hands-on.

All right. Thank you very much. I'm going to open the public hearing section of this. Do we have some speakers? Public hearing. Who are you speaking? I'm not as a public. I'm speaking for PNC. Okay. Go ahead.

Okay. So, uh we actually reversed some order some of our agenda items um during the PNZ meeting where we looked at um the addition of article 4.10 short-term rentals before we addressed um this SUP request. and um going through what the commission was looking at for how to move forward with short-term rentals. This one complied. So, um it was uh recommended um to move forward. Um it was a 40 with one abstension because I'm a hotel year. Um, we don't want to have improprietary um with me voting for or against short-term rental items.

Okay. Thank you. Any questions for All right. Anyone else like to make a comment? All right. I'm going to close the public hearing section for this item and we will have discussion. Council Uh, what was the use use of this house before I came here? Single family residential, but was it a rental? No, it was not. Thank you.

The only thing I have kind of like the last one we talked about is that that's a very busy street. So what's the parking plan? Because of four spaces and that parking would not be allowed on the street. Correct. Right. Okay. And that is that a part of the is part of the recommendation.

Anything else? You want to take some action? I make a motion to grant the SP for a short-term rental with the off with four parking spaces for 301 Herford Street track F7-2 of abst track 136 M county school Land Survey.

We have a second from council members. All in favor? Four. All against. One against. It passes. Okay, we'll go to item number two now. Veronica,

public hearing regarding recommendation for clarification on article 1.01.018 for the effective date of ordinance. So, we've had a lot of confusion on when our ordinances actually go into effect. And so through um review of the local government code um we found that as soon as um majority of our ordinances that don't require penalties, fines, fees um is passed through city council and goes and signed by the mayor, they become effective. Um we've had it where it's been kind of nebulous on are they effective once they get passed? Are they effective once they get published? And so we just wanted to clarify that they're effective once they're passed through city city secretary and mayor signature even if they aren't completely published up on uni code. When it is um otherwise specified in the actual ordin itself, that will then have to set a date for when it will become effective. Um, and that take place whenever there is a fine, fee, penalty, some type of a financial arrangement that needs to be made in the ordinance. We would then set a date, a future date 30 days after council passes for that to go into effect. So, it was just a cleanup

so that we can actually know when we're supposed to hold somebody accountable to what time frames. Any questions for the representative? This change of ordinance would only take place for new applicants, new applications. Everything that's already in play stays the same. This is only for new things.

Thank you. Okay, I'm going to open public hearing on this item. Any public comments? Anyone like to step up to the podium? All right, close the public hearing. discussion. Council, would it be better to to have just a flat 30 days or 60 days from the date that it was passed or something like that? So, you don't if if we pass something on a Tuesday and then it becomes effective on Wednesday,

you could do that. Um, I know that in the past there have been times that we had to do something um more emergency like and that that 30-day flat would create a problem. Um, as an example, we needed to approve a scheduled use change related to the expo center when all that land was going through the sales. Um, and so we literally held a meeting five minutes before your meeting, um, made it approved, went into effect so that the sale of that land could go through. Um, I'm not opposed to either way. I just, one of the things that David and I have been chatting about is it's been nebulous and we want to make it not nebulous. So, whichever you guys prefer. I just wondered procedurally if we could get it kind of all done in a very shortened time frames versus handling the exceptions in a oneoff like in your example.

We would wave that requirement and say this ordinance becomes effective immediately or next day or however we wanted to kind of structure the language. We need to structure the language that would say whether you picked 15 or 30 or whatever number of days unless it's otherwise stated instead of everything becomes effective immediately unless it's otherwise stated. We could make that change. And David, are you okay with that?

Uh I mean I would suggest I mean what are the legalities of that? I it based on what I read through local government code, it stated that um let's see here. I'd be curious to hear what

approval by mayor and related conditions and resolution. The bearer does not sign an ordinance or resolution before the fourth day after the date it is placed in the secretary's office and does not return the ordinance or resolution under subsection C. the ordinance or resolution takes effect as provided by law. If the mayor returns an ordinance or resolution to the governing body with a statement of objections before the fourth day after the date of the ordinance or resolution is placed in the secretary's office, the governing body shall on the return reconsider the vote by which the ordinance or resolution was adopted. If a majority of the total number of members of the governing body include excluding the mayor approve the ordinance or resolution on reconsideration and enter the votes in the journal of the governing body proceedings, the ordinance or resolution may take effect. So in essence um

in that scenario the time frame if you had something rejected then you'd have to come back again so you need an extra time. So you want to move to 30 days. Um, maybe we should I I kind of like I like it taking effect upon signature and the only reason is that 4-day period for I've never sent one back. May do it just for fun. I'll be you. Yeah, you're right. It won't be soon. But um I don't know why we have to go 30 days. I mean it it it creates a ticker file too to keep up with right

on the existing it references code 2007 section 10 right is that still the most current code yes for this item state. Yeah, that's why I asked. Yeah, that's one of the So, whatever you want, guys.

Have we reached out to Stan? See if he has an opinion. Uh, no, I don't believe so. We did not. I was suggest Yeah, we'll table it for try to reach out to Stan. That's okay. We'll table this item until we reached out I reached out to TML. Yeah, that's probably better. But let's go. Let's clarify. Okay. I think we just were looking for some consistency and so whatever that is, we don't care. We'll put it on the agenda for March and then we'll send this to Stan. Okay, review. One second. Are Were Were y'all just here for that? Yeah.

It's not rude. I know y'all are from Wy. It's not rude to go home unless y'all want to keep watching. No, sir. Thank you very um Okay, we'll table that. I could get a member of staff. How about you, Veronica? On item three, public hearing regarding recommendations for addition of article 4.10 short-term rental to include information about the current SV process as well as density and zoning regulations.

Okay, I have an applicant.

Go ahead, Pam. Um, so we have always handled short-term rental as just kind of a schedule of use item. And um, because of the amount of short-term rentals coming through, we kind of started taking a look at what are some of the other cities doing, where do we need to look at this? Our current count on um single family home dwellings in Glenrose that we are aware of um is 11 like 35 and we have two different counts on the number of short-term rentals that are operating in the city. I had counted up about 65. Um David and Tracy have a program that they were using that pulled up 51. Regardless, it puts us at or slightly above 51 or 5% of our single family home inventory into short-term rentals. And so, it has been a topic amongst city council many times and we have talked about it at PNC that one of the things we don't have is a way to say no. Um, and so this kind of brought us to bringing an idea to you. Um, so a couple of the basic things in this ordinance, um, that has nothing to do with anything else is one, everybody that has a short-term rental is grandfathered. I don't want anybody to think that they're going to be told they can't. If they already have it, it's grandfathered because our SUP process is when they sell the property, the new owner would have to go through the SUP. That's where we would actually then have some control over whether it becomes or stays or becomes a single family home again or stays in the short-term rental pools.

The other things that we looked at is kind of altering up the actual SUP permit um format that includes some additional information um such as the ID code that the short-term rental would be using um on their third party site so that there's a better auditing process um when the checks come in from VBO or Airbnb that they have the SUP number they have the the number that that property belongs to. So in the background where it says this number ABCD one gave this is this much money that there's a way to know what that actually belonged to. And then the other is providing some additional information for if you are out of town um if you live out of state or out of town and you need a local contact we would be asking for that information as part of the process. Um and uh we would be asking to make sure that they had registered um for uh paying hotel occupancy tax with the city so that there was proof that all of the things that we're trying to do is being done. With that said, we went on to talking about whether we should cap the amount of um short-term rentals in the community, whether we should look at geographical destinations and decide, you know, as last month the conversation came up around the property that was on the other side of the bridge, not necessarily um a walking con a safe walking route back to the square. Um what the commission went through um was creating kind of a west kind of a

circle. So, taking Mary Lynn basically from the river all the way up to 67, coming down 67 back to the far side of Bernard Street. Um, and then looping back around to Maryland and Bernard. Um, was they said short-term rentals all day long, anywhere within that boundary, no caps, no more short-term rentals outside of that area. Um, we did define a little bit of difference between a short-term rental and a daily use where the owner is occupying the building and then is like renting out a room in it would not be kept the way a short-term rental that is not occupied. So if somebody is renting out a room for within that distance parameter or outside of that distance parameter um for say um outages that because those tend to be 30 days, there is no occupancy tax being collected, the owner is actually just renting a room. That that's not what we're talking about in short-term rentals. short-term rentals and whiz when the entire property is being rented out and nobody lives on site. So, that's the gist of what is in this ordinance. Um, I kind of drew a circle around so you can see where they were talking about. It's not perfect. We'll have to get into GIS and clean that up. Um, we did add that if you're operating out of um out of code, operating without having gone through the processes that there's fines. Um, so this was just a first attempt stab at

starting to kind of gain a little bit of control. Um, we're open to any ideas, discussions, thoughts, and direction to take it back and redo something if you would like that instead of what we proposed now. All right. Thank you, Pam. Uh, I'll open the public hearing for this item. Any comments from the public? I close the public hearing on this item. Let's have discussion council and any questions you have for PMZ?

I got a lot of questions. So, first off, using your formula of 4% it would cap it at either 44 45 homes within the city within the city limits. Correct. We currently have depending on whose formula you're losing using 65ish. We're welcome. So that means So that means anybody in the future that comes to us would number one probably couldn't come before us because they are over we're over our threshold. Okay. Well, we actually took the caps out. So was capp at 4%. No, we actually took the cap out and

actually I'm sorry. I didn't mean I apologize. I do have two separate chapter 4s in here. Soap, you know, I'm going back and forth between the two. You're fine. The chapter 4 only has geog the final one that the that the commission voted on took out caps and put geographic location in instead. Okay. So, the caps in those locations, huh? Only the caps in those locations. No, no caps. No caps. No caps in those locations.

No caps at all. So it's e that what they went with was either in this geographic location allowed no cap outside of this geographic location not allowed at all. The theory being that in the geographic location it is within walking distance of our tourist things. it is within walking distance of the hospital if people need to come for long-term stays at the hospital um or family members etc. outside of this area it is truly what we believe to be residential.

I don't think that's fair to people that live with outside of that circle. And let me just say one other thing that I have a very high concern about is Granberry on the south side of their square has their um B&B or short-term rental properties. You cannot buy a single family home there in that circle

under 400 grand. And and that's a lot for the homes that are or some of the homes that are there. And and I I fear that we put a little cap in the geographical area, we're going to see the real estate in that circle go up, which is great for the current homeowners. However, for somebody that wants to buy a piece of property, it's not great. You know, if somebody wants to, it's their first time home. Sure. They're they're not going to be able to afford it. I I I understand. I have a lot of concerns about after seeing what Granberry's circle has done. I have a lot of concerns.

Okay. Again, as we said, this is where the commission came down. And again, I wasn't a part of the voting on this one either. So, this is what they came up with that I am presenting. I'm we're happy to take it back with any suggestions to look at from council because this is a big this is a big one that we're talking about and and I think more feedback the better. Has the new lady started on PNZ? Was her first meeting this meeting? Yes, she was a part of it. Thank you.

I will say one thing. I like the U when it comes up for sale to reconsider that that gives it captures a little more control of if we're over and we don't want more then Well, that we already have that in place. Oh, that's right. That already exists in place. That's part of our SP process.

You said y'all looked at um other cities. What do they have a cap? And if so, what is their cap? Some cities when and we've looked everywhere. Um, some cities were doing caps. Some cities moved everything out of R1's completely and said you had to be in multif family zoning to have a short-term rental. A lot of cities were just basing it on geographic areas of where they were allowing them and not allowing them. So, it's kind of everybody's kind of up in the air. And of course, there's always there's tons of lawsuits about this stuff right now. Um and so trying to come up with what is a balance between providing single family homes to our residents but allowing property rights and having people be allowed to do what they want with their homes. It it this is a tough one. And

so like the one we approved last week or last month on Elm Street, it's not in the it would not be in this zone. Okay. But the one today would be in this zone.

Yeah. So there are and when we really looked down and started kind of defining where are the the Airbnbs in town, there is this is where the majority of them are. I mean there's a handful that dot around this. There's a few going up Texas Drive, etc. But this is where the majority of them are. Um, and there's a reason that they're coming to this area and that's what they want because it is the proximity to the tourist destinations, the downtown, the walkability for shopping, dining, etc. So, this was our crack at it. Like I said, I we originally started the dialogue with a geoloccation or a cap or a combination of the two and this is where they were landing. But um I you know for me it's like the square is the economic epicenter of Glenrose. Tourism is our number one driver of this community. I love the idea of really focusing on supporting small businesses around the square and the walkability of it. We all know that residents aren't great at making their way down to the square. So I mean having those short-term rentals down there is very valuable. So, I appreciate y'all looking at into this.

Anybody else have a comment? And I'm going to state this again. If you want us to go back and do more research and come back with more ideas, we can do that. I don't want anybody to feel like this has to be the answer until everybody feel comfortable that we have found the right balance. Have we run this one by our city attorney? No, we have not. He might have information on those lawsuits you speak of and which way they're going. Let's just table it and ask him. I'll include that in our memo. Do you want us to go back and come back with some other ideas too or do you want us to question?

I do have one more question and this is really for Buck. So Buck, do you get many calls on complaints from these short-term rentals? I mean, off the top of your head, can you think of many that you did? No, ma'am. I have not. No, you've never had one that you recall. If we have gone back through the records, there's not. There's not. That's good because there are some places that I No, the people that are coming here to Glen Rose are are they're not they're not looking for a big party creating creating

any complaints from residents that live in it around these. So, we have a lot of during all of the processes, there's always a lot of people who say the biggest concern they all have really is parking that and and we've started addressing the parking as a part of each recommendation to go forward. And and basically, if anybody's dependent on street parking to accommodate the number of people who are going to be lifting the house, they have to they have to put into their rental agreements that they are limited to the parking spaces they have. Council, do you want to go to our legal representation and talk about geographic versus caps versus what everybody's doing? Yes. Might as well be safe while we're doing.

We'll go back and pull some other ideas together for you guys and then we can take it all to council. Okay.

Okay. Veronica, can you read number four, please? Public hearing regarding recommendations for amendments to chapter 3 building regulations article 3.01 related to what effective code and when existing properties must be brought to effective code. So, first I based on a public comment I want to state we were not a I we count commission was not aware of any concerns um related to your business had not even nothing. What we did know, I need you to know that what we did say is that we have been approached by multiple businesses that are wanting to divide what is originally a single unit into multiple units. And so a month and a half ago, David and I were talking about this and said, "Well, we need to probably put some basis around it so that there's guidelines moving forward." So anybody that's already in the process would not fall under this stuff. None of this would affect Jackie. None of this would affect anybody else that is already in the process of permitting for dividing a single occupant building. We just wanted to because the requests kept coming. We wanted to put some groundwork in place for it moving forward so that it isn't a fly by night thing that there is some procedure. So I just want to state that. Okay. Had I known there was problems, we probably would have brought this up this month.

I just happened to see it this morning.

No, it's okay. I just I just I thought you were good. So, all right. So the idea of this is basically um when a building is being subdivided that the two main things have to happen is that there needs to be an actual floor plan with electrical plumbing and everything that has to get approved. Um and that um the spaces are going to need occupancy permits individual because we have a ordinance that states any business has to have an occupancy permit which therefore means it has to go through fire marshall inspections to get the occupancy permit. So, we were just simply stating that if you're doing this, then you have to um go through these steps and that each permit um would be issued when that section of the building is ready to be occupied. So, that and I'm just going to use you as an example.

Is this for four or five? Uh four. This is the 3.18. Yes. Hold on. Hold on.

Oh, am I I'm sorry. Um, four. Okay, hang on. Oh, wrong one. Sorry. My bad. Okay, I had them out of order.

Okay. 3.01. Thank you. Number four. Skip what I just said. Um this is basically reiterating that um if a property is undergoing renovations um or an addition that per FEMA um jurisdiction if you are spending more than 50% of your current market value before work is done you have to come up to code. we are just eliterating or or spelling that out more deeply that says that code does not just include your building or your anything else but it also includes our card ordinances. So things like occupancy permits, certificates of um waiverss, SUPs, uh parking, anything of that nature. If you're spending more than 50% from your current value defined by CAD before the work is done, you would have you'll have to come up to current code. Now, if you're doing an addition, it's 25% space addition kicks the same thing into play, but that's only on the new space. So, if you're adding to a building 25% more space, the new space has to be brought up on all the building codes, but the building has to follow the entire building has to follow city ordinances. That's what this is. There's just been some question recently um about some buildings that are undergoing rehab and because they had an occupancy permit from

1970 something they thought they didn't have to do modern things and we're just clarifying that questions. I think it only makes sense to me that when you essentially subdivide and and in Jackie's situation, this isn't the subdivide. Yeah. Yeah. This isn't the subdivide. I was wrong. I'm sorry about this one though. Yeah. This one where 50% renovation cost or addition of 25%. I think it ought to go fall into it anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I had a question I was gonna ask.

A moment. Um, any other questions for Pam? Okay, I'm going to open the public hearing section of this. Anyone would like to comment, please step up to the podium. I'm Ann Carver. Um, I'm here and several folks, but um, state your address, please.

I will. I can give you a PO box where I live. Um, 1319 FM200 Southeast, but I am also the reason that it concerns me in the city is because I'm the president of the Somerville History Foundation, which owns Bernard's Mill and Art Museum. And if I kind of understand part of what she was saying because it was convoluted in the fact that she started off on one subject and it wasn't the one we were talking about and then it went to another's the item that we're talking about. buildings built. We've adopted as a city. Um, and if I I'm pretty sure I'm correct that we have the IBEC code, which is the existing building code for the buildings that were already here prior to any of that time, which covers all of your historic buildings. They fall under a different type of code than if I went out and built a brand new building. So, we need to be very clear that we're not going to hinder what all of us and I also sit as the vice chair of your historic preservation commission. So, um all of what we've all worked for our tourism for our historic district and the work that we're doing down here. And then you have homes that are in the section where you just went and made um are looking at putting SUPs for short-term rentals. Those are a lot of homes that are historic. And then you have Grey Street. So, I'm wanting to be very clear on how we're going to do this because some homes follow under the IBC, the existing code, and some follow under the IBC. Is that Do I got all the initials right?

Yeah, you do. Okay. So, I I I just think we need some clarification in here and make sure it's all really copic. All right. Thank you, Ann. I have to tell my David Lebron. Your address, they may be confined.

311 South Norman Drive, Waco, Texas, 76705. Building official Anna is correct. Uh, but I also agree with her at the same time. We just need some clarification so that people know when do they got to conform, when do they not? historic buildings says it right here in chapter 12 on the IEBC. Uh specifically what it's saying is um they can get a design professional to evaluate the building, still keep it safe and still keep it historic. And so once they do that, that's when it the design professional makes the decision to say what needs to be brought up and what doesn't to my interpretation. So, David, where's the dilemma? I'm not I'm not tracking with you where the dilemma is. If you say that's what the that chapter says, where's our where's

Well, this is only pertaining to historic buildings. We're talking about everything else. Yeah. So, so we just need clarification. You know, that's a whole different battle, historic buildings. But she brought that up. So, that's where I'm just clarifying that. So if you have historic buildings as an example, if you have a building that was built in, you know, late 1900, 1920, 1930, and you have no too, and you're not touching any renovations. You're just operating the building as is from that date. Technically, knob and tube would be allowed.

Yeah. But if you're going to come back in and renovate and add, change, move electrical, you have to update the code to modern. You have to update the electrical to modern code. Correct? Yes. No, no, I'm asking. Don't

that that's what it's saying. It says the design professional would tell them exactly how to do that. And they would have to decide with their design team and everything. Say, well, this is what I want to keep historic. This is what I want to update. And then the design professional would say, well, this is how you can update it to still be safe. They still have to meet life safety codes. What's a design professional? It's like an engineer. Okay. Probably a better time, but Well, that's what it says here. Yeah, I know. I just didn't know what that was. HEY, CHRIS. ALL RIGHT. Historic buildings fall under a whole different I get that part. It's these newer buildings that

it's your new Yes, sir. And you have to understand that as we get along in time and as we as we all as our buildings age and and we follow suit u buildings that weren't once historic could possibly become historic and then they will fall under the existing building code. They taught us a whole class about all of this with the historic preservation at the historical commission and um I think maybe a little bit because maybe we need to look at this a little bit. Yeah, I see the differences between the historical and other buildings. I mean because you have an existing building code and they have a building code.

Okay. So, I want to say the really only thing that we had done in this because we already had code that said, you know, when when you exceed these numbers, you are required. We added the wording that it also included our city ordinances. So the building code, the building, the infrastructure, the plumbing, the electrical, all of that, we already have ordinances around that and and whether or not we have the historic exception written in properly, we can certainly address that. The thing that came up that has become has come up a couple of times now is that when a building is being expanded or deeply renovated that they are trying to follow a city ordinance from it could be anything from tree removal to parking to lighting to signage from the 1970s. And what we're saying is when you spend X amount of money or add X amount of space, the city ordinances also have to be you have to follow the the latest and greatest city ordinance related to lighting, signage, parking, trees, landscaping, all of that. We really weren't touching anything related to the electrical, the plumbing, the water, the sewer at all. But I hear what Ann is saying and I can suggest that if you guys are satisfied with this for now, we can always we'll come back next month with some additions to

outline the historical aspect of it better. Okay, I'm going to close public hearing. Council discussion.

He closed the public hearing. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you have your hand up? Okay. I want to reopen public hearing for this item. What would you like to say?

So, David is due. So, he doesn't know this. But, so I fell under the existing building code and originally Allison tried to fight that I didn't. And so, they asked me to find a design professional. And what David doesn't know is that a lot of design prof professionals that I contacted that were available in the city refused to do the work because they just knew of all the messy things going on. So, I could not find anyone to do it or willing to do it to submit it unless I was going to pay thousands and thousands of dollars that someone that was not local to the area or had any ties to anything whatsoever, whether and none of them were related to me. It was just multiple people straight up said, "Nope, I'm not dealing with the same."

Probably something else to consider. But I I think we know what we have here. I don't think we need any further public comment. So, I'm going to close public hearing council discussion. You want a table, get more information, get the line a little clearer between historical and ongoing. Stuart, what do you think? If we're going to table the whole agenda, I don't know why we showed up, but whatever. I I guess I for one am deeply confused. I I would I would like to have seen I'm not against tableing it.

That's okay. I mean, I'll happily make a motion to table, but we'll we'll we'll find we'll go back and and get more clarity. Okay, that's not a problem. I got I got one question so everybody's clear out here. Are we going to have to go through the public hearing again if we table the item? Because we're not tableing the public hearing, we're tableabling the item. Correct. That's correct. Okay. I saw Buck looking confused. I just want to make sure I I think it's important just to qualify for you guys. Um, a historic home, I mean, that's one even built in the 1970s. We're not talking 1920s. Correct.

50 years old. 50 years old and above is is considered historic. Yeah. But we do have properties that have been built in the 1920s. That's what I'm saying. It's like I don't want y'all to get the impression we're only talking about these extremely historic homes. We're talking about some that were even 50 years or you have a home that was built in 1980. Yes. That you want to do some renovations. The electrical code has some requirements based on how much electrical work you're doing.

Yes. And so it wouldn't be that you have to update everything when we talk about the electrical code, when we talk about the plumbing code or the sewer or water. It's based on what you're working on, right? So when it comes to those the building codes, if you are redoing electric and that then there is building code rules that state when how much electric changes are you making that requires you to upgrade to the latest electric code adopted. Right.

Okay. So we weren't our bigger goal out of this was to was not about the underlying it was about making sure that in these situations they have to bring up to our city ordinances. Okay. We can take get better clarification. Okay. Come back. Could you bring what's it? Because you gave us the new but can we also see we'll bring

the red line version. Yes. We can do that. Yeah. Not a problem. I'm only here till May, but moving forward the red line version really helps a lot. Trying to go back and forth. Okay. All right. I'd appreciate it. Ron, we're going to move to item number five.

Public hearing regarding recommendations for addition of article 3.18 building unit size changes and occupancy factors. This is when I started talking that I was in the wrong and now I'm talking. So everything I said again this is just to provide some guideline to when a person wants to take a single unit building and divide into a multi-unit building what has to happen. So, the basics are a permit and plan submission, a building code compliance, fire and life safety, zoning and parking, utilities and addressing, and certificate of occupancy. It just outlines these are the things you need to know when you're going to do this. This isn't a punishment. This is a this is the steps that will get you from A to B. Any questions for the comments?

Go in. Oh, there's questions for the applicant. We're not in discussion yet. This um Sorry, I lost where I was at. the um sprinkler systems that's still only fitting under the ordinances that we have per square footage for the whole building or the or each individual building they're doing.

That's all fire marshal stuff. I don't have answers to that. That's what the that that's where the building must be reviewed and approved by the fire marshall or designated authority. Compliance shall include but is not limited to installation of upgraded fire rated walls, doors or separation between tenant spaces. We're not saying anything. We're simply saying the fire marshall has to decide.

Okay. Anything else for the applicant? I'll open a public hearing for this item. Anyone like to speak? I just have comments that I think would really go ahead just comments that think that through my process that would sorry Jaclyn Ree 706 East Elm Street. Okay. So on all of the stuff would have been helpful for me in the beginning. So I'm glad this is being done but there are some things that need to be clarified I feel. So on number one where it says prior to Oh

yeah. um where you the property owner must submit updated site plans blah blah blah. I think it also needs to state how many days the city officials also has to get back to you with either resolution questions. Um that was where this Allison failed me. Uh legally she had 15 days to get me an answer or provide me the option to use a third party which is what we ended up doing four months later. I think that would help. So then otherwise we're bothering them you know every other day. Hey, do you have an answer? It needs to specify what time limit they have to get back to us. Said, huh? Did you just say

Yeah. Yeah. But I think it should be clarified on the thing. Just so um so again with the fire marshall and designated authority. Um this is the issue that we've had. Um, technically I'm a restaurant. So, I'm CL. Oh, so I gave y'all whenever I spoke I did give y'all a chart and it does it it already says on there what is required when you are required to have firewalls, sprinklers or any of that. It's just a like a chart and that's on the building code and that is what me and Gregory used when we did um all the occupancy loads. So originally I should have been an A but the city inspector before they gave me my occupancy he accidentally left me as a B and so I remained a B. And so what we did when we did all the occupancies for the restaurant we took an account at what already what was going to be in those spaces. And so we verified that everything would be a B occupancy. So if you look at the chart in the cross chart it's a B and a B which means no firewall or separation or sprinklers are necessary. And so where it says installation upgrade fire rated walls, I think it should have a comma and say if necessary because it's not always necessary. And whenever I would speak to some of the fire department, they'd be like, "Oh, I don't know. I don't know what's the code." So it goes back and forth. And so again, the fire alarm and sprinkler systems appropriate if necessary because there's not always necessary. Um on unit five or sorry five utilities and addressing it's each tenant space you'll have metered utilities where appropriate. Can we clarify what is appropriate because I didn't have to have them. Um and then at the very bottom it says mail service identification. This might sound silly, but you need to clarify what do you do in the event that your property cannot receive mail

because up and so my parents were at that location from August of 1990, right before my first birthday, and I was not able to receive mail at my property until last year when Rick Via went to the post office and forced them basically to give us a a post box because I had gone in multiple multiple times, spoken to the post office, call them because anything I ordered from Amazon, if it was delivered by USPS, which you don't know until it gets delivered, it would not come to me. I then had to go to the post office and I barely have time to go anywhere as it is. So, I mean, it wasn't until recently that I got to have mail. So, what do you do in the event that you can't get mail? It's just

Thank some good points. I'm sure David wrote them all down. Oh, yeah.

They are good points. And then just last thing, the enforcement and penalties. How do you penalize your employees when they fail? Me. So, I agree that adding I'm I don't like adding time specific times of return things into a written ordinance like this because then we have to remember it if something in the law changes. I would rather state more general per applicable law. Um, and that's just so that we don't get caught that if the time changes to 10 days or 20 days that we're not out of compliance. I I have zero problem with her comment on that. We need to fall within the law of giving back to people. Um the air when necessary is totally good with um the uh um I individually near your utilities were appropriate. That's a conversation between the tenants and the the companies, you know, the water utilities, etc. I that's not something for us to decide when it's appropriate. So I'm not sure how we would go about file defining that because as she said she didn't need to do it but that's because of who her tenants were. So I don't know that's between the owner of the property and the water company or the power company as far as I'm concerned not us. Um, as far as the mail situation, again, I don't know how to answer the US Post Office problem.

Any other public comments? Okay. Close the public hearing and have discussion with the council. Anybody have an idea here? Rich, I see you're ready to talk. statement. Um, if we didn't put a time limit in the ordinance, and I really don't like this verbiage, so but could we say something in there that uh the city shall let the applicant know what the reasonable time frame is so that they're not sitting there in limbo.

Yeah. Or something to that effect. I mean, I hate having that in an ordinance, but I also don't want to be put in the same situation that we were just in a few months back to to where Jackie's waiting forever and there's not some clear direction. So, so I guess you see where I'm going with that is is can we is there some good verbage that you can think of or the commission can think of that can off the top of my head I will come up with something. So, we're going to table this one too. Yeah, I'm five for five today. I'm normally better than this guys.

I'm missing Murphy's first last game. probably know. I'm missing dinner. I've never had a five for five day. So, well, anybody else have any questions on it?

Again, I' I'd like I'd like a document that kind of lays out where we're at. And then, you know, let's, you know, make sure because I I I think and I don't know this, but I think there's probably some very specific timelines that have been required by the legislature in recent changes as it relates to permitting and timelines. And

and I will tell you PNZ has a duck discussion that our once a month meetings are going to have to change because of the shot clocks and that we're going to have to be do a lot more meetings on the fly to get information back to you guys which also means that you guys are going to end up doing meetings on the fly more. So, I just I'm I am happy to take all this feedback. And I mean, these were big big skyscraper items for the for the community that they've all new ordinances that have never existed. And so, you know, the fact that we've taken a blush at it, we've sent it to you guys. We've now gotten feedback from the community and you guys, we're happy to go back and work on it some more so that everybody's good.

Appreciate it all the time. Maybe not great, but everybody's good. and you'll see me again when we start talking about alcohol. Okay. So, once again, we're going to table item number five for further clarity. Item six was truck from public hearings. We're going to move to individual items for consideration. Beginning with item 13, discussion, consideration, and possible action in regards to awarding a bid for the well number two pump station improvements project.

Good evening, mayor, council. I'm Chris H, PhD here for the recommendation of bid award for the well improvements project. U recall this is for improvements to pump station at well to be able to pump water back up the hill into the stand at the well site. So it provides additional flexibility and uses of the well to ground water in the system. So we did receive two bids uh for the project. Uh we reviewed the bids and the recommendation before you is to uh award the project to TTE LLC at the lowest qualified bidder was a total bid amount of $565,870. um they uh have done work for the city in the past and even recently with the well three ground storage tank improvements project. So we're familiar with them and we're recommending them for award today. So happy to answer any questions that you may have.

We budgeted for this we budgeted 540. So, we're a little little bit over, but I think we we've already discussed this with the contractor with the by the time they complete it'll probably be in the next budget cycle. So,

yeah, the final completion the contract schedule is about eight and a half months to final completion on the project. mainly due to waiting on some electrical gear. Long lead times associated with that. But that'll put the final completion after the beginning of next fiscal year, which uh we won't release retainage, which is 10% of that contract until the project's finally complete. So there'll be budget funds available at Sounds Sites for this fiscal year.

Chris, I have one question. Well, no, that's not true. Uh but my first question. So, um I was passed uh some information about a it's called the water supply and infrastructure grant. Yes. Talk about that. So, I think that's funds associated with Senate Bill 5500.

Um I've actually spoke with Jim about that. We're working on putting together a grant application uh on behalf of the city. Uh I think the project's going to include u new ground storage tanks or we're hoping the project will include new ground storage tanks and also rehabilitation of a couple of your standpoint income. Um so there's u depending on how that works out is it's all stored statewide. It's going to be pretty competitive uh it's going to be a pretty competitive process. Um, but anytime there's it's 100% grant project, so anytime there's a 100% grant out there, we're going to go after it. So, uh, that's in the process. I think the applications are due in July based off current schedule and so I've already started that ball rolling with Jim. We're working on it.

Do you feel like this project would score well? Um, I would continue to move forward with this project as budgeted and try to shoot for including those other projects in that. Um, it's not a guarantee that you're going to get it and that's could potentially push this project back another year, which pricing, you know how pricing goes. But it's always good in my opinion to have when you have a price that's in our opinion pretty good or pretty close to the estimate to to move forward while you have it because it likely only goes up when you rebid it. So short answer no long drive.

I thought grants only worked on new projects that you're just starting ones that you're under that you're starting that you're in the process of. So this this one is different. You can actually the the engineering work and everything else leading up to it can be included in the grant application plus the completion construction completion. It's a billion dollars

available. Yes. So there's funding limits associated with uh service areas too. So, the published pro, they're not final yet, but the published values I've seen, I think, for uh communities with less than 10,000 uh people served is 5 million, I believe, is what I've seen currently. So, um it's still a big it's still a big Well, yeah, we we're going for as much as we can with it and see and see what we get. So, um, council back to the, uh, issue. Any other questions?

Go ahead. I don't have any questions. Anybody else? No. Make a motion to approve the award of the bid for well number two pump station improvement project to TTE. TTE. LLC and the bid amount of $565,870 by second. Second. Was that second, Rich? Sure. Second by Councilman Bruning. All in favor passes. Thank you, Chris. Thank you. Thank you, Chris.

Item 14, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding a special alcohol permit for the Glen Rose Wine and Art Festival. You like to speak? Thank you. That sounded scary to me.

Scott Gibson, 9903 West Highway 67. I'm the president of the Glenrose Wine Mark Festival. This is our since 2019. This is our seventh event we'll hold. We're approaching $100,000 in total uh charity money raised for our three charities, which are the Papa's Pantry, the uh Cancer Support Society, and the Children's Advocacy Fund, plus we fund a $1,000 art scholarship every year. Uh what we do is uh invite in artists if we can get them to come in. Uh up to 12 wineries. This year, we're including craft beer into the mix now that we have a brewery in town. Uh we have three other breweries that have committed to come in. Uh so we'll have a but because the the city has arranged to have Saturday night as a celebration for the 100th anniversary uh we had to give a part of the square for the stage that's coming in. So we normally have about 80 vendors on the square. This year we'll have about 65. So um but we expect with the music that's coming in um should be a big weekend in town and we expect a lot of people to come in. So that is what we're hoping for. The the the appro the alcohol by the way the what I call the TABC letter is it gives the the vineyards the legal authority to be in town and sell their wares on the square

plus food and art and everything. Any questions? I have just wanted to I think I already know the self answer but the application doesn't show it. So, you just have on here from 9:00 to 9 doesn't specify AM to PM. So, I'm just confirming 9 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Is that

Yeah, we have we have to be very rigid on on our agreements with our v our vendor, especially our wineries. The TABC holds them to, you know, pretty close rules. So, we'll have we'll shut we'll shut down that part of it at 9:00 at night, even though the music may go on for a while. But, uh, at the Plexi Festival and Spring Flame, we had about 2,000 people on the square that weekend, and I hope and pray that we have that many show up this time. The music will likely go till 10, probably, right? And we we'll we'll shut off alcohol sales at 9:00. Okay.

And by the way, in all the years we've been doing this, one time did Chief Martin have to escort somebody home or off the premises. So, it's been a a good group of people that we've had come in. No, it's because your glasses are so small. It's what it is. That's right. By the way, normally in the past when they purchased the tasting ticket, they got two samples from each winery. This year, we cut it down to one. So, we're trying to get them if they like the product that the vendor has, we'd like to get them to buy it instead.

Thank you, Scott. What a great event this is for our city every year. Council, any discussion? I move to accept the special alcohol permit for the Glen Rose Wine and Arts Festival on March 27 and 28. Second. Second by Mayor Pro Tim Van. All in favor 50 passes. Thank you very much. Look forward to seeing you all there. Thank you, Scott. Good to see you. Okay. Item number 15, a discussion, consideration of possible action regarding a special alcohol permit for the MS bike race event.

Hi. So, um the MS bike race, um as you know, has this will be their third year. Um they will be May 2nd. Um they're leaving from the Dallas Fort Worth area riding the back roads down to Heritage Park. Um the bicyclists start arriving around 10:00 a.m. Um they actually shut the park down um for activities etc at 700 p.m. Um that during that hours of um they have replied for 10 to 7. Um they have a number of different uh sponsors who will come in. You have community beer, you have some uh wine and some cocktails that they are providing um tastings and beverages to participants of the ride. Um there has been no incidents of Mr. Martin. Yeah. No. Um

no biking. No, no biking under the influence. No, these guys are pretty dang serious about their stuff. They're they're not getting drunk. They're just relaxing. Um, and so, uh, the, um, MS bike asked if I would represent them, uh, presenting this to you guys because I am their their local coordinator for things not city related. Council, any questions? I'd like to make a motion. I'll move to um, I move to approve the special alcohol permit for the MS bike race event. I'll second.

Uh, who seconded? I'm sorry. Second. All in favor? Woohoo. I got you. I was afraid of that.

Okay. Number 16. Discussion, consideration of possible action regarding an ordinance vacating and/or abandoning closing and the sale of a 95.55 ft by 54 by 96 inch rightway in abstract A136 railroad block one lot 12. Chris Reynolds, Kayla Reynolds, we reside at 2197 County Road 303 Red, Texas 76077. We on track number 21 202 21 1928. It's at the corner of Bridget Lane and 144 South. It's just north of the Dollar General. There's abandoned alleyway roadway Houston drive.

Yeah. Right between us and Dollar General. We actually thought we owned it when we bought it from Whitworth to Worth, but they owned it. We've been loaning it for maintaining it for five to six years. They maintained it. Matter of fact, I bought it when I was a kid. But no, we're just asking for it to us as possible. Is it inside that triangle? Yes. That little red building. Yeah. Stand where the new dollar general is. Yeah. There's a little triangle building. Yeah. And we wanted to do a snow cone stand eventually. We have to have the unabandoned street to be able to have parking. You have to have parking to have a snow cone stand. So without that, there's not really parking.

We figured if we book parking the taxes go up and we only pay $26 in taxes this year. So you know we got we get something going in there right now. There's not. Yeah. Any questions? Council, we have coconut snow cone. We will. And I see that your neighbor gave the waiver to the Yes. Dollar General said gave up their half. They said they do not want Okay. As long as none of these other things come in, right? We can't put Walgreens.

Am I thinking about the rule? No Walgreens. Nothing that'll compete with it. So no popup. Now pop up like toilet toilet seat. No tissue instead of y'all because you didn't complete snow cones. Yeah, there's actually a building. It was a snow cone stand when we were kids. Oh, briefly. I came back the summer of 96 from&m and they had snow cones there and I lived in Little House, the whip whip penny. It was a warehouse. Walk over and get snow cones. Better bring it back. They're both wearing maroon tonight. Believe that.

That's right. Dig them. So this is just about if if my measurements were right when I looked at CAD it's a little about 5200 square feet. Is that right? I think I'm not sure

it's 50 foot long. So I don't know how I do this questions. motions. Well, I know this is an area that we've come down in the past and and council's gone back and forth on on where their stance is on deeding versus selling. And I I know we've had this conversation before, too. So, I do think we need to come up with a a a good formula to resolve that issue because I don't think it's fair for one person to the next that we waver on that uh decision. So, that's my big concern, but I think that's something that we have to address ourselves independently. Um not not so much on this project, but I think it's something we need to resolve before we get another one before us. Now, I would like to say uh years and years ago, they abandoned all the alleyways in the area. They deeded them over to the to the neighbors and everything. U honestly, I believe this got deeded over. I believe Joe Gordon Whit just didn't put it in the survey because it wasn't on the city map and we only found it through our survey.

Yeah, we have the same thing with Mims's place right down the road on that corner. Yes. where they just did they gave up the easements and or the alleyways and then people didn't go through their process of getting Are y'all drawing up the deed to transfer? Talked to Sonia is Stuart title. She says she normally did them for you guys when y'all had in the past. But I think if that was the case then it would be the city paying for it. I'll pay you the closing cost. And the filing fee file with the county.

I thought we did this when we did this with Rosie. We had to charge her a dollar or something like that. Yes. But we ended up paying the filing fee. It was $10. Another good valuable consideration. We paid about 170. How much? $170. The city did $170 filing fee. You can do it. Awesome. You want to wrap that in the motion since you have the stipulations?

Yeah, sure. Um, let me get to the agenda. I was looking for where there was a motion to abandon. Um, make a motion to transfer title to a 95.55 piece by 54 by 96 piece of rightway out of abstract a 136 in the railroad edition block one lot 12 formerly Sam Houston and the petitioners are going to pay the filing fee and the survey and deep cost. Correct.

I'll second. Second by Tim Man. All in favor? 5 Z. Thank you. And we'd like for y'all to stay for the rest of the night. Item 17, discussion, consideration of possible action regarding the utility applications and rabies control ordinance. Oh, that's me, isn't it?

That's you. All right. Um, so what do we like to have? What I would like to have is uh whenever they sign up for their water bill to have the ordinance on the We are doing a handout. Veronica sent out a email on it, but them getting it, they could say they didn't get it, but if we have it on where they signed to set up their services and all that, then we have the written proof that um you know, they've acknowledged it. So, it's going to make that a little longer, but uh I'm thinking we at least have their signature on on the fact that they accepted and read it.

It's going to go on this document. It'll go on the actual application that they fill out for their water account. Veronica, when we turn around and do um service sign up for services on the software program we utilize, do we have anywhere in there that there's either notes or a checkbox that says animals on site? And of course, what I'm thinking about is more in lines of our workers having to go out and work on the water meters or have to work on something and there being pets on site. I I if we don't have that capability at this present moment, I think it's something we should try to maybe see if it's something that can be added

and that can be also be a way to check and balance that we've asked that question. But I'm looking at it more as inlines of our employees also are safer too. I don't know that there's a check box for specifically for animals, but there is notes um and but I can ask Fun View if they can add that on there. It's probably not the first time it's been requested, so I will find out. But that be just kind of a checks and balances as we're giving them this sheet that they're signing plus we have it documented in the computer. Well, I don't think it's a great deal to ask a new resident to have their pets receive shots or acknowledge that it's required within 10 days.

Well, that was that was already existing ordinance. It was an existing ordinance, but it we have no proof that they read it other than if they looked at the ordinance. With this, we have their signature on it because like I said, we are handing out a two-page thing with them, but we don't have they could say they didn't get it, my husband came, whatever. But with Tyler's signature down to it, then there's they've acknowledged they've received it. Yeah. coming up. Is that okay?

Yeah, sure. Dennis 301 Mission Street. In a perfect world, this is great. And I was on city council 10 years. I didn't know what the ordinances were. People are not going to read the city ordinances. I mean, it's like a wheelbarrow. They're not going to do it. Uh my mother was bitten, attacked, and bitten by a dog that had been here three days. So, the way it was prior, they would have come in and got their stuff. They would have known. They don't know what the ordinance is. U but I'm still saying I still believe there needs to be some more teeth where they have to bring the documentation. How hard is that? I've been a pet owner for 45 years. I know if my dog or cat is vaccinated. They said they told the cop it's vaccinated. They told the sheriff's deputy it's vaccinated. It was not vaccinated. And the owner told me I assumed it was vaccinated. I mean, so I this I appreciate Stuart doing this, putting this on here. This is a step forward. So when they come in and get their turn on their water, they'll know what the ordinance is. But will they do it? That's all I'm saying. I was wanting maybe to say that they have to at some point bring the documentation in from the from the uh vet showing that the animals vaccinated because some people are just going to lie about it. They're gonna say, "Yeah, I've got pets. They're all vaccinated." Or I assume they are till they buy.

Sure. You know what goes on here, Dennis? You know, with the time and the short staff we have, that's that's pretty I understand. That's a big ask. I understand. Yeah. I think if we can acknowledge it and then control it through something happens, we have something to go to and say, "You didn't." I mean, my mother had hundreds of several hundred dollars of bills. The family does not did not offer to pay for anything. So, I mean, that might give some teeth if they have to sign a document. Yeah, I think it's better than where we are. But I think having them required to bring it back in and our staff have to file it and put it away, but let's make them acknowledge it, I think, is a great idea.

Understand that. I'm not totally happy, but I'm I'm about 90%. Over 100, though. I'm not 100% because I'm one of those people bringing documentation showing their animals vaccinated, but I am at 90%. Part of the problem with that is is that was a it was a full grown dog, right? Yes.

But you're not holding residents accountable who might adopt a full grown dog. And so it could so for example I I adopted a full grown dog and so how you're not holding me accountable for bringing in documentation to to and it would be very difficult to do that when you're not doing it for all I would assume it's only for new people moving in at least when they're moving into town and what happened to my mother was exactly that very thing. They've been here three days, but it wouldn't have been any different had that happened that I had a brand new dog. Yeah.

That was I mean, I'm just saying yes, that was a new person, but but now you're not holding the people accountable that have been here for a long time and may not have a dog vaccinated, right? Well, they they still should check on that. I mean, in in the Yeah, perfect world that was being just just hope it don't bite one of your family members or your child or you you'll think differently. believe me when it's when it's affecting you personally a law about if a I mean I think the dog attacks somebody what the liability is and all that kind of stuff are you asking they receive the citation dog at large the cost will be consume okay

the only person the only group that makes any money off this is the city because the city charged them for 10 days to keep it in pounds so the city got some Actually, we didn't charge enough, Dennis. We lost money on that deal. Okay. All right, council. Thank you. Thank you. I guess anyway.

I make a George, you're up. Um, I make a motion to proceed with the recommendation as presented to attach it to their application and have them sign and date. I'll second by pro Tim man. All in favor 50. Can we move to item 23? Yeah. Okay. 23. Your work. Thank you. discussion, consideration of possible action regarding the naming of the city park located behind the expo. That's me again.

Um, with us getting Sorry, I'm trying to get down to it. with us getting the grant and everything in motion to start doing uh the things we're going to do at that park. I just um thinking about it and and I really wanted to give the park a a solid name to bring everything together at that park um where we can take the grant and we can take this and and wrap it all together and make one big like ribbon cutting kind of thing. And my um my suggestion would be uh the Nathan Batty Recreational Park. I love it. I think that, you know, his he made for the short time that he was in Glenn Rose, he made such an impression on so many people that are committed to soccer and just being outside as a young child should put your feet in the grass and go. Um, the family in and of themselves, they really um exemplify that that family unit. I'm going to cry. And

so I I can't find a better young child but also family to name that park after. And so um fullheartedly 1,000 person I would love to name it that maybe

well and I think that what you know my thought is is that the park is meant for all citizens and we're going to be adding additional services out there for people that just aren't focused on soccer. So, we wanted to do more of like a holistic approach and have it just be an all-encompassing like recreational park. What was this? The full name you suggested? Uh, Nathan Batty recreational park. And the all the soccer and everything stay in there. Oh, yeah.

Right. I just thought if you had start complex that way when we try to tell people from Dallas to get here they might find it the word complex when you talk about sporting activities complex is a more commonly used way to say park. Yeah. So if you did the Nathan Bay Recreational Complex, it might get a little bit more to where her thought process was, too. I love it. Yeah, that'll be good.

Make a motion. Uh, no, just discussion. I mean, okay. I don't always get what I want, but do y'all have anything? I fully support. I was hoping you were making the motion. I move to name the park located behind the expo center, the Nathan Batty complex. Recreational recreational complex. Okay. Okay. I move to name the park located behind the expo to Nathan Batty Recreational Complex. I seconded. Seconded by Council Member Schultz. All in favor? 5 Z.

Thank you so much for letting us do this. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you for staying with us. All right, back to item 18. Can we do Can we do it? I think Kim's here for 24. Thank you'all for coming. Discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding the formation of a park committee.

This is mine, too. I'm setting a record this month. Um, so with with kind of everything that I've already said here to move into uh the grant being funded and I think we need to talk about like the committee that we're going to form for that park committee. Um, how many people are we going to have? Uh, my discussion on it is like when we have this EVB advisory board and we have like one person from here, one person from here, one person from here. I don't really like that idea because then we fall off into having an open spot and nobody from that to be able to fill it and so then we're stuck like we had I think Cheyenne on the CVB wasn't that where she didn't really fit the part but we needed uh somebody to come on there. So, I think she came under under Bernard Mill under the nonprofit

and and so like I know that we want to have like soccer people and we want to have um other people involved. So, I don't know how we want to structure that committee, but I'd like to try to seal all that up. Uh not name the committee, but where we can get this out and start posting to take applications. If you follow your historic preservation or your uh PNZ, it's diversified. Yeah, you just do seven people that or five, seven. I I'm a proponent of the bigger the crew, the harder it is to get over. I agree with you. I prefer five and then uh you know when we extended HPC, then we were out of quorum a few times. So,

we have been and still are. Um but if you do five, you only have to have three or five show up to have a quorum and you can actually get something done at certain times. That's my personal opinion for what it's worth. A dollar 98.

George,

I think it's I think it's great. I think we need um you know, we're going to need um you know, people who, you know, want to lean in and work. And Kim, I appreciate you already reaching out, sent me an email, and I'd be happy to do that or or, you know, support you, you know, as a member on the committee because I think it's I think it's critical that we um, you know, we kind of bring in the full scope of things that we identified in the comprehensive plan that we thought were important, that we heard from the community that was important, and but yet not have it so that it's unmanageable an unmanageable group. I I don't have a huge preference. Five, six, seven. I think that, you know, we need probably three people tangentially attached with the city. You know, Jim is the most logical person. One council member, maybe two council members. Um, you know, because there's, you know, there's a lot of work and a lot of contacts that are going to need to be, you know, kind of dug out. that it's kind of hard to ask a volunteer to do. If if you ask if you're going to ask a company to come in and make you a presentation on a particular thing, it's it's our volunteers are great. I just don't like wearing out the same volunteers. So, if we could find a a group of people that would represent a broad range, everybody puts forward on the name. We send out a Civic Plus note that, you know, we're we're taking applications for a, you know, for a park committee uh to help us give some guidance. If we're going to put two, if we're going to put three uh city either

officials or employees on there, I would kind of like to expand it to seven. Uh because I know I've got one for sure in my mind and I've got a second one. Um Miss Tara uh would like to be a part of this. So, I mean, there's two already, you know, two that I was going to show. The city employees don't count as part don't count as part of the committee. Well, then it could be five plus plus the employees plus city. Yeah. They're just part they're part of it, but they're not necessarily voting members. This is an advisory committee, not a

Gotcha. Well, then I guess we could stay with that. Is ultimately your committee isn't making decisions. Your employees are

and council is like we don't have David. David's a part of our PNC, but he's not on our commission. Well, I move to form a parks commission or committee, whatever whichever way we're verbalizing it, with five members of the public along with a certain amount of city employees to assist in the expansion and utilization of our parks. I'll second pro Tim Ma'am. All in favor?

Oh, one question. We are the scope he said full that this would be something beyond just the new Nathan Batty Recreation Complex. This would be something that include Heritage Park. All right. I just want to make sure which are those two, sir. Oh, sorry. All in favor again. 5 Z passes. Okay. Item number 18. We were done. We got to go back

tissue discussion, concerns, and possible action regarding resolution number 2026-R2 acknowledging the review and acceptance of the city of Glenrose investment policy. uh for our investment policy um it's to be reviewed and then adopted again no less than annually. So um I sent it all out to you to review u kind of like a a couple comments back which I redlined it in section 4 A.

What was the reason for the change from two to three

George? Um because if you look at it and it says to be laded, it's very hard to ladder something for two years. So if you if you're looking at an investment policy and you're going to do some bonds and you're going to go every six months, something coming off, you need to be out at three years to capitalize on the return and you come in and ladder at the next six-month period. So if you if you laddered only at two month two years, you're limited to a short-term bond. So if you get to three, you at least are a little further out. And then if you come back with another six months behind it, you'd have six rolling off every six months. That was my rationale.

Was the only red line in the whole thing? I don't believe we've done anything beyond two years, but makes sense to me. We barely been here two years. I've been here three years now. Sorry, comments. That's a lot for you people. I move to um accept resolution 2026R02 of the Glenrose investment policy. City of Glenrose investment policy.

I'll second by council member Rooney. All in favor? 5 passes. Thank you. discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding the approval of resolution number 2026-R4 acknowledging the review and acceptance of the city's financial policy. Same thing,

this is to be reviewed and then accepted again by resolution uh annually. There's a few red lines in there. Section three, uh I've taken out uh core and security funds. They are no longer separate. there together for one of the Senate bills that I can't remember which one it is. Uh and then I updated the purchases which I see there um from 50,000 to 100,000 since that was increased for procurement and I just changed a few pers to there and make it more.

You also had the receipts of purchases going to the city secretary. Yes. Rather than deputy city secretary. So, I see purchasing guidelines for for the various dollar figures, but with you changing it to $100,000. There's no um guideline for between 50 and 100 because you've changed that one to say more than $100,000, but E obviously says between 20 and 50. That's between 50 and 100. So, is what guideline would you all for that? you know better what goes in there. I just think we we we need to capture that um

additional 50 that that that gap somewhere. Okay, that's 100. I think it could be the same as the one below. It's just the state law changed to to 100. So that's why if E changes from 20 to 100 then and I don't know if that's what state law states but if it's it's just saying if it's exceed 100,000 at the formal bid formal bid process. We're doing bids for anything greater than 20,000. We're doing the two bids process 50 50. Yeah, it's increased to 100,

but we can add our own policy. Yes. And if that's something you all want to add into that, that's fine. I don't know. The last time this was looked at was two years ago. Section F looks like makes it looks like anything above 20,000 of purchasing. That's going to be on the on the buy board. Well, it's either by board or two verbal or written bids. I can take that part out. I don't know why,

which I'm a big proponent of bids. I'm I know it's a pain, but I'm still that's I think where we get our best value of things. you want to rewrite or Rich, you want to throw that out?

Those were the only areas that I saw that I wanted to ask about, but I don't know if we need to rewrite or if we can approve with those approve of the

changes. With that being said, I'll make a motion to let me put back on the glasses so I can see the resolution. um to approve the res adoption of resolution 2026R-04 the city's financial policy with the amendments specified a second by council prom all in favor 50 thank you item number 20 discussion consideration possible action regarding the approval of resolution number 2026-R3 Three, approving the record management policy and plan for the city of Glen Rose.

Okay. On my last resolution, wait, not my last one. One more go. Um, as the records management officer, uh, I was kind of researching what we had done in the past as a city. Um, and that we really hadn't had a formal policy slash plan in place. Um, so I created one that uh follows the T- Slack guidelines and schedule. Um, and then so I don't know if you all have any questions or you had time to review it, but this allows me to um start putting a program in place for our city documents and getting everybody on a retention schedule. Each department will have a liaison um and we will coordinate quarterly meetings uh to go over our records attention and um do a little training u on laser fish because that's where most of our records are going now. So did anybody have any questions on this or comments or suggestions or

I think it's good practice. We're currently disposing of our documents monthly with a shred service. Um, and we're just, like I said, we just go by the T slack schedule. I make a motion to approve resolution 2026-R3. I'll second.

Second by Mayor Pro Tim man. All in favor? 5 Z pass. Item 21 discussions discussion consideration of possible action regarding resolution number 2026-R1 calling the May 2nd 2026 general election. That's my w last me. Someone wanted to motion that. I'll move to um accept resolution 2026 R01 calling for a May 2nd 2026 general election. Second.

All in f second by council member Freeze. All in favor? 5 passes. I think we can move on with this one without Georgie. Item number 22 discuss. Go ahead. Read it, please. I want to see consideration of possible action regarding the design of the dinosaur purchased from the Lion's Club.

All right. Well, I'll talk about that. Um, so last board meeting we discussed we wanted to open it up to our friends in the community and it was open to all Somerville County residents and we also invited the students to participate. We got no response from the county but we had tons of response from the children probably 300 different dinosaurs. Um, and we have narrowed it down. Our plan was to announce, but I wanted to throw out if that if we I want to ask what y'all thought would be better if we narrowed down to our favorite choices and then put it out for the public to vote or if we wanted to get a plan and go with it. But we we have not managed to select just one at this point in time. And we also are doing naming. And you guys have a sheet with names that were suggested. Once again, they all came from the children from our GRD.

I like Wendy. I like why don't we start with that? I think selecting three and letting council do it. If we open it up that big, we'll be here for days. Sure. So, do y'all want to know? Okay. No, you can wait on You don't have to tell us. Oh, yeah. What do you think, Megan? You want to show them? You already You already did it. You already compiled the results. No, I just have I just asked all of you guys to come up with three. Some of us in this room don't know how to get to three.

2 * 3 is six. So, just saying. So, no, I do not have what our top three are because we just got them today out. Everybody was just able to. So, I can send you an email. Yeah, do that and send me free. Y'all, please don't respond to the email. Just look at Can you take a picture of the I will take a picture of the ones and send that be great. So, since y'all were all so helpful, did you did you have any that was just like your die hard favorite? No, there there's a bunch of them. Trying to set her up. No.

No. This is not the Lori Makes Dinosaur. Even though y'all were not very helpful on this, but I I noticed that Lori wasn't the name for the dinosaur. Yeah, I That's because I did not submit anything. Notar. Larry made the cut. Some of them are hilarious. Larry's my first name, so I think it's appropriate.

Well, a lot of the names were like, "Okay, that's not a word." So, as you can imagine, but I will say as far as the names, there were multiple submissions on Rose, which makes complete sense, and of course, there were a lot on Tiger. But a lot of the kids just did tiger dinosaurs, so I eliminated all of those because this is not just about school. Um, and there were several for some kind of sorus. I put some of them on there, but Barnosaurus, and there were several for Bernard, and um, and then there were several for Jenny. Glenny. Glenn.

Glenn and Glenny. There were several for that. I like Glenosaurus. I like Valentina, too. Valentina. I like Rose. I think Rose is pretty good. Rose. So, there were there were some very Okay. How about the council takes this list home and sends you their top three. Okay. You compile it and decide. I think that sounds great. All right. Top three. Council. The mayor. very a real three. Yeah. Three, not six, George. First of all, thank you for doing all that. I know it was quite time consuming, but it really is cute.

It was good, y'all. This is my wheelhouse right here. So, okay. Consent agenda. All the consent agenda items are considered routine by the council and they can be enacted by one motion. will be a separate discussion of these items if council member requests warrant be removed and considered separately. I move to accept the consent agenda 25- 28. We have a second. Second by council member Freeze. All in favor? 5 pass. Hey George or I'm sorry Joe. Yeah. Um, according to your record keepers here in the audience, you guys did not actually make a formal decision um to close it out.

To close out the dinosaur. I said I opened that item and I said no action on item 22. Perfect. Thank you. You're welcome. You were listening for the wrong voice. Apparently, there were all right. uh staff reports. Jim, under your public works title for the moment. Yes, sir. So, y'all been given a report. You have any questions?

There was one one thing I did want to add. I heard back from the uh company that's going to do the lighting and they were saying estimated time would be the last week in February, first week of March evaluate or come out and do the work to come out and install. Okay. Tell them not to leave before dark so we can make sure we like it all perfect. Please. I am going to going to hit them up and see what they would charge for a lightning rod installation. Yeah, I need that for sure.

I don't know if that's something they usually do or not, but I might. They're going to have a man, so we'll see. Any other questions? Any update on the schools up? I I think they fired lights up today. yesterday. It was blinking yesterday. All right. I took Dave to work yesterday. I didn't see it on, so I just let it out. So, Buck, is that speed zone now effective? Yes, sir. School's up. What is it now? 35. Dang, y'all got to make some money.

I thought it was going to 35. Wow. Is it just while the kids are in route to school and leaving school or is it during the whole duration? No, just there in front. Correct. Yeah. Not not all just in front. Correct.

Okay. Chief Martin good. Awesome. still trying to get used to all the buildings. We've interviewed about three, we've three applicants for the new police officer. So, we're getting down to get one do background investigation, but we've had some good applicants that applied. So, other than that, got any questions on the report.

Questions for Chief? Anything sir? Appreciate you. Thank you. David, building and planning department report. How y'all doing? Good. Have any questions? I got an update on that park. Have y'all been by there? That animal control? Have you seen some of it? Starting to look real nice. Cutting on. What is that? Saturday. Is that a green house? What's that? What? What is that? Oh, they Oh, that's a catio. A catio. I never heard of one, but there's a cat. It's a patio for cats.

There's going to be a ribbon cutting Saturday at 11 a.m. Uh, to my knowledge, yes. And um there's going to be some filming taking place there. Yeah, there's going to be some filming. Uh we should have our sign up this week. Um we are going to get some lights possibly. I don't know if those will be up this week, but um they do have lighting in the back. Some nice solar lights. They're pretty pretty expensive solar lights in the back, so it'll be lit up. So eventually, you know, it might look like a stadium back there. I hope you noted the I don't It's the only place in town with green grass.

Yeah. We like to say one thing for your staff up there. They they've garnered a couple of um very nice grants recently. Oh yeah, those don't go without effort. Really great for the city to to see those come about. They're ongoing every month we'll receive. Yes, sir. And I' I've tried to get her connected with the city of Waco and how they did their programs and stuff like that because that's how they started small no kill and then they've expanded on their facilities. So just trying to get all that stuff placed as far as Thanks. Yes, sir. Thank you.

Tracy, convention of visitors general report.

Yes, sir. I am happy to represent the tourism department and I just wanted to highlight a few things. Uh thing number one, each of you should have received one of these. There was a lot of paper on that desk when I tried to pass it out. So, um, but this has four things represented on this one flyer. So, we have the incorporation celebration that's going to happen on March 28th and we're going to have the open house of our new building. Let me read this because it's a long name. City of Glenrose Lane Memorial Building and afterwards we'll have a concert. Uh, we've got CTER GR and Tahos Brothers. So, that's exciting. And that of course is in conjunction with our wine and arts festival. So great things ahead. Uh another couple of things this weekend we have the monster truck uh show February 14th at the expo. And then of course guys don't forget about the Puxy Music Festival. There's uh some really great music coming up. So, um, at the Plexi Music Festival, we are going to have, um, Friday evening at six o'clock, we have Hard Nights Day and immediately after that at 8 o'clock, we have Leit. That's going to be on the square.

That's right. That's right. Go ahead. Wow. Cool. And then Saturday, we're going to be at the Texas Amphitheater. So, we get a nice mix there. And we've got Jamie Richards at 6 o'clock and Kevin Fowler at 8:30. Kevin Fowler is still signed. Okay, we're just going tentative there. Maybe I shouldn't have said his name, but I did. So, it's out there. It's on record. Uh, so I believe that is Do you have any questions about the report? Okay. Thank you, Tracy.

Well, you're so welcome. Okay, Veronica, city secretar's report. Any question? Well, I just want to point out that uh Officer Martin celebrated his birthday on Sunday. Happy birthday. He's 40. Happy birthday. That was his That's his grand size. I know better than that. badge number. Any questions on my report? Come on, give yourself accolades here.

Oh, yes. I completed my certification for my uh designation for city secretary. So, I will officially graduate in January, but I'm allowed to use a designation since I finished all my requirements. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay, Jim. City administrator's report. It's attached to the other. I saw it. So, did did y'all I know y'all received an invitation for the for the textural.

Well, they had they had a an online version today. So, I went on there and I think it's important to point out there's a and any any of the citizens can go on there and watch this thing and there's a a form where you can fill out comments and submit them back. But so some of the other counties in the rural uh division I guess I have a ton of projects um and little tiny Somerville County that just gave us a few projects and the bypass is not one of them. These are projects coming before 2030 to be started before 2030. Um, I think we need we need to have a lot of comments. The order of them is kind of wacky, too. They have the the light that they said they were going to be putting in up at Live Oak and the highway here. They're they're that's a project slated for 2029. They have it as a $60,000 project. So

I think that should be moved up, you know, next year maybe. Yeah, we need to go online and look at that. Someone send that out in text blast with the link for the with the link and all that stuff and ask all the citizens to go on and spend however long it takes an hour. Put it on that water bill text and we'll get their attention. Yeah. All right. Does any council member have a report or something they'd like to share with us?

Um, if you're going to have them now, well, we had a um well attended event for the Encore Rally at the Expo Center that I was very proud of. And we have a community that hasn't uh forgotten what's happening and their flame is still burning very bright. Uh we have a new control number. Encore changed the control number. We have a new control number. So if you already sent a letter, uh you can get the new control number and send it again so that it it it goes with this new control number. That's all I got.

What else? February 20th likely Encore is going to submit their uh proposed route for the uh the 765 loan probably at that PUC meeting. They are not going to allow testimony uh or comment on anything that is contested though you can offer comment on anything that is uncontested. So, um I'm planning to probably take that day and drive down to u to just see what they offer. They do have an online um option. You can you can stream the PUC meeting. uh they'll post the agenda on Monday for the Thursday meeting and we'll see for sure if if Encore is going to proceed with their presentation, but it's likely that's that's their date to u to offer that. Um I think are we going to Thursday?

Yeah. Well, then I'll let you talk about it. Oh, you're good. Okay. All right. Missing. Yeah. Good.

Yeah. No, we'll we I'd like to go to the uh rural transportation improvement meeting and see what it takes to get those projects elevated. Um it's a you know they they do budgeting and planning in five-year trenches. So this is their this is their look at that tail end of this last bit. They'll they'll take all the comments, they'll submit them to the U text dot commissioners about what they want to include into the rural transportation improvement category. So they have multiple categories that they are seeking funding for and our tip is one of them. So we we try to get as many shots at the apple as we can and this is another one of their funding planning mechanisms uh that is available only to these small counties in these north central Texas well for for the four of us in this north central Texas district but for other counties you know there there's however many 20some cogs So this is the this is the one for us

that's Thursday 2 to 4 in Stevenville. So if any citizens want to go at city hall too y'all can go and voice your thoughts too on projects just your comment let them know about things that are important. Doesn't even have to be things that are planned or that just they just need that you know here's things that are important to us as a community. you know, take a look at that. So,

all right. In accordance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Laws of Chapter D, Government Code, Vernon's Texas code, annotated in accordance with section 551.074 personnel matters according to or in relationship to the city administrator. Section 551071 consultation with attorney regarding interlocal agreement. Section 551074 personnel matters to deliver and appoint uh evaluate reassignment duties concerning convention of visitors bureau director. We are going to close regular session going into executive session. We will return for further action uh after we complete our business. 7:46 p.m.

I'm going to say 38 minutes.

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That's the name I want. Oh, see it all.

We're going to return to regular session and discuss the remaining issues discussed in executive session.

Yeah. Yeah. Uh first item number 36 that's at uh 9:03 uh section 551074 personnel matters relating to the appointment evaluation resignment duties of the city administrator. We're directing continued uh evaluation by council of the applicants thus far and continue and to make those selections of who you would prefer to if any move forward with 37. Um section consultation with an attorney to seek advice from the attorney on interlocal agreements. Staff will continue working on 391 agreements. I need to make a motion to get a vote.

Yeah. On which one? on both of the last two. We're just directing staff. We don't have to get a vote on it. We do have to get a vote on it. Yeah. Yeah. I'll make a motion that we adopt a 391 resolution for joining the S, no, GRSC, regional planning group, regional planning commission. And then the people. Oh, and the people as well. Uh, and direct mayor Joe BS. Uh, council member George Fes and city acting city administrator Jim Holder as members. Pending legal pending legal review. Signature of the mayor and the signature of the mayor.

I'll second that. All in favor zero passes. Okay. Now, we do not need to vote on the city administrator. Uh item number 38 section 551074 personnel matters deliberate appointment employment evaluation reassessment duties discipline dismissal public officer employee to wit convention and visitors bureau director. Um I open to council for any uh motions or ideas that you have regarding city uh CVB director.

I'll move to hire Tracy Aello as a CVB director. Um, altering job description. Second. Seconded by council member Mes. All in favor? 5 Z. Tracy, you are director. Uh, that what that motion meant is we're going to alter as we've discussed. There are some things in the directorship that maybe don't belong for you, but there are some things that you will have to take on as a director. So, we're going to fluidly move that council and we'll make some to HR, but you are as of right now acting director of the CBB. Okay.

And if you don't like the job description, we can start over. So, congrat Thank you for what you've done. You deserve this. Council was overwhelming as you saw. And uh thank you everybody. Thank you. All right. Any other business? Any other ideas? Complaints? Um, Miss Carver, you want to talk real briefly, like 30 seconds about this grant that we were talking about? Okay. He had asked earlier, and I forgot to mention it in the council members reports.

The HPC has applied for a CLG grant for historic downtown to do the preservation plan. That hasn't been done since 2008. We're waiting on that. Um, as the mayor knows and Councilman Fes knows, um, we applied to become part of the first street initiative um, with the state of Texas Historical Commission. They told us we were going to get a letter telling us that we were approved to be part of it. I got an email saying that I need to be on the Zoom call on the 10th tomorrow for two solid hours. So, I guess we're part of it. And the other thing was we have a grant for art that we're going to do. We're looking at doing business.

Perfect. And it's the 50 and George found you, Tom, to speak before the end of the meeting. What in the hell's going on? Well, I mean adjourned at 9:07 p.m. Well, what brought that up, is I asked if you were getting the HPC report and you said no. So, that's why. Thank you to everybody. Yes. Good night, everybody. Sorry.