City Council - Regular Meeting

I think so.

So maybe one of the problems...

I was going to say, I know it because I completed her. You know, they didn't start that. That's their request from last year. Oh, last year, yes. Why would I know? It's not better.

It's not better.

it oh but i thought there was a second year sorry technology don't take it home

a regular City Council meeting for Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 at 5.33 p.m. for the Glen Rose City Council. If we could all stand for an invocation, please. for the day and the wonderful rain you brought to our community. Lord, we thank you for the direction that this council will use and follow the path that you have given us in goodness and righteous to do the things in this city that are right for our citizens. Lord, we ask for protection in our community and for safe return for all those visiting our meeting tonight. We thank you for all the wonderful blessings we pray call for council members council member mapes here council member hawkins here council member comer here mayor pro tim freeze present council member running is that we're told okay if you have any do we have any comments for city okay we have no comments so i'll Save our time and not give the rules for city comment for comments other than if you come up for an individual item that you do. So you have 3 minutes to give your name. Address for the record, and we have everyone signs their phone now at this time. Please. Okay, we are. Canceling out the public hearings tonight wanted to not be heard. that we heard in our August meetings. We're going to move individual items for consideration. We're going to move item number six up to number one and let Atlas come present their case.

Last month, we asked for to renegotiate the franchise agreement. And I believe y'all have that in your packet. You asked for less than 20. So you have a 10 year with an automatic renewal of another 10, which would be a 20, but broken up 10 and 10. Still with the 5% franchise.

Council, I have any questions. You want to address the yearly?

The yearly, yes. So I did ask our finance department about the quarterly installment payments. When you receive your payment in April, it is a prepayment for the year. So we can switch you to quarterly, but it would be a year and four months before you receive another payment. So you wouldn't be prepaid that year. So you'd have to wait until. Well, that negates the time value money.

I don't think there's any reason to do it. Right. In my opinion. So operationally, when do you reconcile? You reconcile in the last quarter? So like if you're saying you prepay for the future year?

Correct.

You sell more gas than what you estimated, when do you reconcile?

Then that would be added on to the next payment.

A year from now? Correct. I'll make a motion to approve the Atmos franchise agreement for 10 years with a 10-year automatic renewal 5% and annual payments as presented in the email.

I'll second.

I'll invite Councilmember Hawkins. All in favor? I can't see Rich, but...

Sit down. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah.

I'm sorry. Okay, we got he's up 5 0 now.

Okay, we'll go to individual item number three, discussion, consideration of possible action regarding an August Saturday workshop session. This year's rich. Oh, yes. Can you hear me? Are you muted? Oh, can you turn your phone up? Is it on your phone? No, it's on his phone. He's showing us something. Okay. Something about teams. Was this?

That says it's muted.

Show says it's muted. Yeah, it shows you muted, Rich, so your computer or, can you do it? Is your mic volume up? Okay. Well, just nod at me. This is the one we talked about, about a safety, a Saturday safety. Is that right? Or is this a budget workshop? Okay. Did we not have one planned? We haven't planned one yet? Okay. Did anybody propose dates for a budget workshop? I know I'm out on the night. I'm out on the last two weeks. Are you guys looking? What country are you going to, Laurie?

I'm in country. Is there a due date on when the budget has to be complete? Yes.

It's by September, right? But there's posting requirements, so it's probably more likely. First week of September, we need to have something latest. Yeah, I'm sure.

We should get the tax rolls next week.

Okay. All right well, George is at the 9th pull up the calendar 9th. This is Sunday.

Oh, I'm out the 8th. Okay.

So about the 8th and the 9th, the 15th. You said you're up the 22nd, the 29th.

Not in the last two weeks. I'm out. 22nd, 29th. Okay, yeah.

So the 15th?

Mm-hmm.

I can do the 15th. We can do the 15th. Yeah.

Don't you rush it. I'm just going to do the 15th. George? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Rich, we're going to look at the 15th. I know your schedule is kind of crazy, but that looks to work for everyone here, the 15th. All right, we'll make a motion on that.

Where, what locations do you want to get that?

Conference, our conference center. Don't do it there.

Fine.

We normally start at Ada State.

Rusty, why don't you issue us a motion?

to this conference, budget conference? I'll make a motion for the budget conference on August 15th at 8 a.m. at the Lane Building Conference Center. How do you like that?

I second.

Second by Councilmember Meigs. All in favor? 5-0. I vote no. Okay, let's see. Discussion consideration, item number four, discussion consideration of possible action regarding an updated salary study for all city employees positions. This was done in 23, as y'all have in your packet. I think Rich suggested we do this. I'm wondering if, my only question is, do we do it for every position or?

Or do we wait till we get a city administrator and let them initiate it?

I think that's not a bad idea because they're going to be in charge of.

Do we know how long a study takes and the expense?

How much was this one? It was like $18,000 if I remember.

Hey, he's there. All right. There you go. It took like four months.

Yeah. And the city's used here. We can't use these cities. It's just a mistake. They don't even compare to us for the most part. Weatherford, Aledo, We need to shore that down to a more like.

Well, they did put population on there, but that would have been back in 23, I guess. Yeah, it was 23. Did you say 18,000 was what we paid last time?

I think it was something along that line.

And that's comparable, I'm guessing, is what this type of study cost?

I don't think we really have many to compare to. I would guess we've maybe done one in the past.

Sometimes we get like, 3 years.

Yeah.

So, when it was done 3 years ago, was it current? I'm guessing it's based on they're not giving us old data.

Well, yeah, it is age data by a year.

Okay. Just a year.

Yeah.

Well, the reason that I brought this forward is because I was very concerned that every time we are filling a position, we're obviously losing a position.

It takes four months. I would rather, my personal opinion is we get started on that so that the information is available at the time.

Well, we'll take this back out. Jim, I assume you're prepared to take it back out for bid and get a couple. I'd like to look at someone other than them, too, just to compare price. You know, I wouldn't want to just go back to them because, first of all, I didn't like their criteria. And that was former city. administrator but i don't like the comparisons that are on there and why not look at another firm and see what they charge they all can get all public information heck we could have rusty do this possibly so how much progress was made in the three years this was put out towards raising salaries

that they recommended get raised. Do we have any idea about that?

We went straight to the recommendation.

Oh, you did? To what they recommended?

Yes.

And it was approved?

Yes.

Okay. That's awesome.

Yeah. And given the economy, we all know what it's based on. Salaries have gone up hourly and annual. since this time. So I ain't spent $18,000. Seems a little exorbitant to me, but I think we could compare and see. Maybe we have to. And we actually know Jim could tell you what his guys in public works, what they're being offered, what they're looking at making. So that's the information we're going to get from this. I may mention of city administrator salaries, where they are in the area, much higher than these, some of the cities. But I think we ought to compare and look at a couple other firms, just see what they charge before we do it.

I would be more comfortable waiting until we have somebody who can give us some guidance about what direction they want to go. But if you think the salary study is important before they even get on board.

I think it's right in the wheelhouse of the city administrator to start this initiative to look at, to talk to the directors, talk about salaries and Jim, you want to take that on if we get it done, or do you want to wait?

I'm going to start calling around.

Why don't we call and get bids for at least start the bid process and find out what it's going to be, and then we'll approve it based on bids and their reputation. All right.

The sooner the better is my opinion. I mean, I'd like to have bids by next meeting if we can, next month.

Someone will make a motion to have Jim begin the process of acquiring that. I guess we don't have to make a motion for that, do we? We're just directing staff. We're not going to take action. We're just going to take bids. We're all right.

I'm happy to make a motion.

Can we make a motion? Yeah, I don't think we need to. Okay.

All right. So, Jim, to gather bids? Yeah. What does salary say?

Right. And use this as our base in those same positions that we did before, but... More than anything, just talk to the firms and get out the price and how much it is and the timeframe it'll take them. Maybe we can talk Jim about the cities and the number of cities because that's going to affect their bid. I don't think Weatherford and Aledo are. So everybody all right with that? Let Jim take care of that and then we'll vote on the cost and the firm in August. All right number five, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding council assignments. Just so you all know, we have certain positions, certain things that people take interest in, text 21, items like that. I think Rich, you put this forth. Do you have some ideas, something you want to do?

from like better term programs that we do outside of City Hall that we have designated who's responsible for what, like we've had a list in the past.

If she had that list handy, if she could include it in the packet, but I don't have that list and I don't know if she does and if she can share it.

Is there a formal list? I don't know if there is a formal list. I don't know. I can speak to a couple of things. We've kind of just doubled it out as we went when a need came about. I think text 21, we ought to probably replace you until you're ready to get back full time.

Well, whatever. That's fine. I'm saying that for that reason. I think we had somebody just on text doc meetings that are on the quarterly meetings with Jim. I thought we had a couple people that were I probably had a couple different things like that.

Yeah, I don't know if in a local agreement. I was on there with Jim for a text dot. I would like to remain on that. That's pretty. Vital information. I'd like to stay on that. If you guys don't mind, it takes public for. The highways and stuff and things we do. Yeah, George and I have been kind of doing that. I'd like to stay. Jim obviously is involved too. We're pretty informed on right now what the situation is. So I think we'll keep the ETJ like it is for the moment.

So that would be...

the opportunities yeah we also have the responsibility for you know kind of the the park development and that includes the downtown park lori oh here it is i'm on the historical nathan baity memorial soccer complex

memorial complex there's some action that's going to have to take place on those parks i think that'd be great if you want to take that on i i guess yes i don't mind taking that on i just don't understand where we are on that project well we told you that you wouldn't take it off i mean are we

And I really, I mean, I know we've got the grant, but I'm guessing we're going to have a committee of citizens. And I mean, is that kind of what the vision that council sees?

I hadn't really thought about the committee. That'd be up kind of to the people on the council that are heading it. Decide how you want to do it and then come to the council and talk to them and tell them just what you'd like to do.

I think we need to come up and maybe that's exactly what we're doing here, but we make sure that we understand what all the assignments should be in comparison to like what has been like in front of me, come up with the list or keep the list, but I'm happy to help worry with the parks and the bridge and anything related to downtown.

Everybody all right with them on the parks and development?

I'm kind of already on the park with Ann and Susan Bruce on the historical part of it. And then George and I've worked with the downtown community, on beautification of the downtown so um yes that's kind of in the same thing so but i i would like us to sit down as a council and discuss you know because that was approved like barely in my it was all done before i got here and so i don't even really understand what all is encompassing we don't know yet we really don't okay we haven't worked

Anything with the parts would it make sense to carve out on that Saturday?

Yeah, I think it would. Yeah, we can pull out what the application was. You kind of kind of included our locals on that right?

Because 1 of them. Yeah, in our locals was actually, it was you and Stuart. Yeah. And then Jim got involved some. At least till May. All right, we'll cover these on the budget workshop, but very good detail. There are things to be done. If we have someone responsible, then it'll get done. All right, what are we on, seven? Discussion, consideration, possible action regarding the approval of ordinance 2026-0-06.

This is adding to the code to put in what was adopted last year for the abandonment process. So it's accessible to anybody looking to do it.

Just adding a section.

Can we add some language that talks about that we are open to swapping as well. Somehow make some language where we have some latitude to be able to swap, because there may be somebody who's requesting who may have something that we're working on that makes sense. And then it could be part of a development agreement. How about that? Yeah, how about something that says, unless this Real property becomes consideration in a development agreement. Yeah, that's good. And then it gives us some latitude to. Included in as consideration and the development agreement, where do we put that in? Well, if I could get into my own laptop, I could see subsequent offers. Maybe I can't remember my mom's stupid passwords.

You need to brush your teeth with your lifetime. And I write it here.

In D. Yes, I can add it to D. Okay.

Y'all want to vote on that with the change made?

I have a question. So you're going to swap for the potential for it to be in a development agreement and then we don't ever put it into a development agreement. Have we swapped or have we not swapped? Is there a time limit on the swapping?

No, I don't mean like a physical property swap. I mean, as This property could be included as consideration in the development agreement and not go through what is the typical standard process of getting an estimate for the surrounding properties, not a physical swap as much as it could be consideration from the developer says, I'm willing to put this into the development agreement if you're willing to do X. by abandoning the property. If we abandon the property and get a better deal, that's a better deal than $3,000 in my estimation, if you could get it in a development agreement. It's an option, doesn't have to happen that way.

So would that negate that other property owners that, our verbiage says that all property owners that share a line would have the opportunity to purchase, I guess, whatever amount. So with that, would they not have the opportunity to buy that property if we were making the deal? Yes. Yes, they would be able to. Yes.

so in in just kind of thinking through the process if there were if there were property owner a and property owner b property owner b wants to develop their property then they're going to have to make an agreement with property owner a to reach a settlement so that then we could move forward with abandoning your property and putting it into a development agreement short of them being able to make an agreement then by law we're required to offer the property owner a their proportionate share and property owner be their proportionate share so if they can't make the agreement amongst themselves to jointly develop the property or you know buy it from me before you put it together then that's on you as the person trying to develop the property it's my thought Makes sense. Then it doesn't box us into the process itself. The process.

All right, George.

We have a motion, council, to make this change with the changes stipulated on the development agreement.

I'll make a motion that we approve the language and verbiage that's presented here for ordinance number 2026-0-06. Or maybe that's an O. Number 2026-O-06.

Will you stay about the changes in the. Swap language with changes.

Okay, with George's language regarding the potential for a development agreement and the property, you were probably being used as consideration in the real property being used as consideration.

I'll second that 7 by councilman. We're all in favor. 5, 0 passes. Okay. Number eight, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding the approval of ordinance number 2026-0-07, abandonment of right-of-ways.

potential scenario to go along with the ordinance self is discussed oh really yeah so um will schnover is here with us tonight so to kind of explain what the proposal is i guess stone hollow court um just just beyond kind of the property there. You turn left at the new car wash. It kind of dead ends there. So they have property there that they're proposing to do a development in and they're interested in the city abandoning part of that cul-de-sac to allow a little more space for what they're proposing to do. I don't know if y'all have that exhibit.

Yeah, the other day. Shows the color of that. And that color right away of that, it's in the stripes. Yeah, well, mine is shaded green, I guess. We just have dark stripes. Is it 3.34 square feet? Yeah. 3,300 square feet? Yeah. That's that section in C1.

yeah on exhibit yes yeah yes so in this case property owner owns on both sides of the right-of-way so there's no second property owner for that process right now um and because because there's a proposed development i mean they're They're putting in some upgrades at the developer's expense or they're proposing to six inch water line that'll loop our system in. That would be at their cost. And I don't know the dollar amount on that. It'd be pretty expensive. And then they're upgrading. There's an open drainage way in there that carries quite a bit of water. It's It's caused problems at the at the hotel there, so they're proposing 100 ground stormwater system that'll eliminate the threat of that hotel flying again. So, I mean, there's some big ticket items that they're going to be.

Proposing to do so, and so that called the sack with the circle and the left part of that, which is the. Proposed property, so what's left is that is. Just road right now. There's no grass. There's nothing that's just road. It's like a half circle half.

Yeah, so the plan would be just to extend that. That street from from the cold side, they would. Tear out a portion of that cold stack on each side. and then extend that roadway all the way through the property, create a new cul-de-sac at the very end.

Oh, we don't have a survey or flat map of that, right?

I don't think so.

Okay. So it would go all the way up through that property, which up to Longhorn?

I haven't even heard of a period that shows. So they would... They would tear that part out and extend the room. And then have a call secretary. Okay. Okay.

We call this up as long as you're short along on drive.

It'll be just below won't tie in.

It won't intersect. Okay. George Richie said it won't come up to longhorn.

if i remember correctly yeah i think they're further towards the hotel i think there's some there's some tracks and they're long along that drainage way through it can i see that again i'm sorry can you show me where the tracks are just um they're like right along there's like a huge elevation drop from here to the drainage way and Yeah, or how long would you are these walkable?

I mean, are we concerned about anybody walking there or looking there or developing there?

I mean, it's their private property. Yeah. Okay. If you walk in there now, you have permission. Okay.

That sign used to have been removed. It was a sign here years ago.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to take a lot of work by someone to clear it and go ahead and question.

Yeah. I've got another copy of what's floating around. Okay. Anybody needs to. to see i think it's probably this afternoon will how are you sir i'm doing fine will if we give you a name and address for us please good evening mayor council uh my name is will schoonover i'm with shield engineering group 1600 west 7th street fort worth um we are the engineers for this project uh i've been been doing doing jobs in and around glenrose for about six years always enjoyed working closely with jim and david and you all those of you that i've had the pleasure of working with before um you may recall uh rewind a year a couple years maybe now we we We'd come in front of y'all with a development plan for this same piece of property. Looking at condos, pretty dense, more of maybe a Metroplex-type development, and that fell off the wayside. It didn't seem like it was maybe the best fit for the city of Glen Rose, and we want to certainly honor what we think is best and what goes best for Glen. for the need and the price point and all of that for the city what we've come back with now is a uh it's a multi-family development but they're they're four to six dwelling unit per per structure um and we've got we've got some renderings i don't have any with me but but that i can provide at a later date um really the the The item we have on the agenda tonight for discussion is the right away abandonment that Jim mentioned. So basically, I think those of you that haven't had an opportunity to glance at the exhibit that's floating around, we're requesting that y'all abandon a portion of the right away on the south side of the existing Stone Hollow Port cul-de-sac. and basically we would demolish the cul-de-sac, extend a public right-of-way, a 50-foot public right-of-way through this site, and then construct a new cul-de-sac at the far end, the north end of the development, just on the bottom side of Longhorn. We have had a pre-development meeting with the city. We met with the fire marshal. with Jim and we hash through this. I do wanna piggyback on what Jim said and highlight a couple of the items that this project would bring to the city, benefit the city. So as Jim mentioned, there's, Pre-existing condition, drainage issues at the Baymont Hotel. I know I've gone personally and met with the hotel staff and walked that site a couple times. Storm water is coming down through the creek, through the open channel. Basically, the deck of the pool there is about the same elevation as the flow line of the creek. So when the creek overtops, it's flooding the pool, it's gotten into the lobby before. With this development, we are proposing to take that creek internal with storm drain and actually pipe it past. The hotel outfall on the West side of the hotel that would that would alleviate the pre existing drainage issue there that I know has has has troubled troubled the city and the hotel for a while. As Jim mentioned, we are, we are looping a public water line, making a connection at Longhorn drive and then tying it in down. On stone hollow court, where the, the water line was just constructed that services, the dino wash there on the on the corner of 67 and stone hollow. That would be at the developer's expense and that's about 150, 170,000 dollar. Improvement get those water lines loop together. We're also, and this was discussed with the prior iteration of the project, but we're. the developer is willing to partner with the city to upsize the existing eight inch sanitary sewer line to a 15 inch sanitary sewer line, which is something y'all have communicated that pretty urgently needs to get handled. And then we will work through a development agreement at that time where basically the developer foots the bill for what it would have taken to construct a new eight inch line. And then the city contributes on top of that for what it takes to get a 15 inch line in the ground there. um these are uh As I mentioned, the condos before were kind of a high-rise, pretty modern architecture, pretty flamboyant color palette. And these are much more mellow, much more fitting for the city. The price point is kind of that sweet spot that is feasible and reasonable for the city. And I know just based on prior conversations I've had with you all that there is a need for this type of housing in the city of Glen Rose. But again, what we're asking for is improvement consideration and for you all to approve the request for abandoning about 3,300 square feet, there's not much to it at all, of right-of-way on the south side of Stone Hollow Cork. In my experience, typically the way that would work is that property just dissolves into the adjacent property owners. We do a fair number of things associated with projects around the Metroplex. Typically there is not a sale component tied to it, but that right away just dissolves into the adjacent properties. So I'd be happy to answer any questions y'all have or talk more about the development.

I have a question. So these are multifamily, four to six dwelling units. So these are for resale. They're not rentals.

So they will all be platted on individual lots. Fee simple development. I can't really speak to whether the developer wants to sell these off or retain them and rent them. I do think he wants to sell them off, though. He's not a local guy. He's a very seasoned developer. He actually just finished a development like this that we worked with him on. how that turned out but uh yeah the goal is that these would be for sale so these would be attached condos attached uh so if you want to get technical it's uh it's a quadplex hexaplex you know four to six unit um so anything above kind of the uh the two to three dwelling units considered multi-family It's kind of a harsh term to use here. A lot of people, when they think of multifamily, they think of three-, four-story garden-style apartment complexes, and that is not at all what this is.

Sure. And how many units are there?

So there are 61 total proposed units.

And if – when are you planning to ask or have a pre-development information available on the on the actual plans or on the potential improvement so we have had a pre-development meeting with city staff uh about the project itself um you know the

The design, the layout, the utilities, that sort of thing. We've met a couple of times with city staff on that. We have, so multifamily is an allowable use with the current zoning. So we will not need to bring forward a zoning case on this one. We will, as I mentioned, they'll be platting these onto their own lots. So there will be a preliminary and final plat that comes through. And if you drop, I can't quite speak to the timeline.

Okay, so just advise if you could. So from a development standpoint, your proposal will not need any additional approval from city council for this particular project other than, say, the giving up of the abandonment.

Right, and this right-of-way abandonment that we're requesting now, basically it increases our yield by four to five units, but the project is feasible with or without the abandonment. It's just a matter of whether we can acquire a little bit of additional real estate there adjacent to the current cold set.

Yeah, well, the reason for my question is if we approve this today and this particular project does not move forward, what are the limitations to the improvements you're doing for a future development to occur?

Shane, are we going to stick to what we're selling here?

We're going to stick to it, yes.

Sure, sure. I guess the way I would like to respond to that is the developer does this exact product type on the majority of his developments. And he's owned this property for four or five years now. He needs to see it get developed. We have no reason to change our development plan. as i mentioned we came through and actually got full we had full engineer architectural plans and city approvals on a condominium development which was a high-rise garden style development for this site and ended up x-ing that just because it wasn't wasn't the best fit for the city and right i think thank you for that i think my question really relies on if you if we allow this and you move forward with the improvements for the water line and those different things uh and then

there's a change in what your owner wants to do. Are there limitations to that property because you've put in multifamily utility there?

So, I mean, we're somewhat constrained by the zoning. And as I mentioned, the multifamily is an approved use in the current B2 commercial zoning program.

yeah i will say that a plat will have to come through though could this all be part of the development agreement like this this happens when the agreements form potentially absolutely yeah that might be a way to move forward so it's it's in the agreement yeah i mean i love the idea of the improvements in the larger water line and helping the flooding issue um

I just wouldn't want all of that cost and time have been put in for that if this particular project, which is very specific and very unusual for Glen Rose to not be relevant for whatever potential future use may occur if this development doesn't go through. And I'm not an expert in what your utility is, so I don't know if it's multifunctional for any type of improvement or if that is very specific for this particular type of project. Does that make sense? It does. Yes, ma'am.

No, I'm tracking with you. So the utility improvements, the wet utility improvements, the water and the sanitary sewer improvements, those would function with really any type of development. It's just how many service lines are you tapping that line with? How many developments are you servicing? So that would work with a commercial application, single family, multi-family, industrial. Basically, we're just bringing the service through that site in terms of the water we're we're tying in the current water line under longhorn down to the the existing water line stone hollow and then um with the sanitary sewer approximately the same thing just routing it through the side okay and that would be available for 61 units properties yes okay and then the the storm drainage piece um really the that is more of a benefit if i just speaking candidly that's more of a benefit to the city than it is to the developer um we do want to address the the downstream flooding issues but there's we don't have to come and put in this internal storm drain and pipe it past the hotel to build what we're proposing to build here that's something that knowing and having worked with y'all for several years knowing that the drainage issues were willing to partner with y'all to get that addressed and not have this continue to come up once this is developed.

Yes, sir. Keying up that partner idea, Will. Yes, sir. I've got, I have several questions. I was looking back through the package that the existing drainage easement is recorded, right? It is. Yes, sir. And it says it is variable at different portions, right? It is a variable with drainage use. And you've accounted for that in this.

Yes and no. When we come back through and plat this property for this specific use, that drainage easement will change. So it is a drainage easement per the prior plat that accompanied the condominium development. Now with this and our new drainage scheme, that easement will change. I don't think it's going to be variable width anymore. I think it'll be a set width drainage easement the whole way down.

But we'll be out of what... the channel is described in that easement, right?

Yes. Yes, sir. We will be outside of that. I think with, with the revised layout, we've got at minimum 25 foot of separation from the, from the channel to the units.

You're going back to our, the previous project that, you know, we kind of looked at for this property. We would have, I think we'd had a fair amount of discussion about, is this something that the developer would be interested in a, a, a TERS for? That we could place it in a pod to help defray the cost.

I vaguely remember discussions pertaining to that. Now, I can't speak on behalf of the developer. I think that would be something that we need to get him involved in the discussion of potentially. And I can't recall, forgive me, I can't recall quite where we landed on that the first time.

It's a couple of years ago.

Yeah, I know.

We're kind of walking a little outside of agenda item here, and I'm kind of held off because the information is important, but we need to stay to our agenda, too. We have looked at the land, the development, so y'all don't have that advantage, unfortunately, to have been here. But it's really more about this abandonment than it is. I think it makes sense to put this straight in, no matter what happens to me. Otherwise, we have a rocky hill there with a circular drive, in my opinion. We have a landowner that has zoning that's appropriate for what he wants to do. What do you think, Jim?

What do you think?

Yeah, I mean, I think that's a good use for that property because it's very unique. I don't know what else could. to go there, you know.

Other than multifamily? Is that what you mean? Or other than a road? Or what do you mean?

Yeah, I mean, you know, there's just a... I don't know how familiar you are with that property, but there's like a huge bluff on each side of it. And I just don't...

I don't know what else could go there. And there is...

It would be advantageous to put that stormwater underground for sure. It causes a lot of problems.

Well, I don't dislike your idea about if we approve this, then How does that affect your plans moving forward if we wait until more of a development plan comes together? So we have more of a fuller picture.

Sure. Now, I understand your question. So really from an engineering perspective and a design perspective, we need to, before we can push into a detailed design package and really move the project forward much more, we need to have the cities buy off on the layout that we're proposing. Meaning, maybe if we could get something in writing saying, if you meet X, Y, and Z, we will do X, Y, and Z. Something that holds both parties accountable. I'm not at all opposed into catching this in a development agreement. We know we have to draft one and we've kind of hashed that out in different pieces of that that need to be covered.

Well, I think one of the things that I feel here is when you mentioned interesting colors or something. Yeah. It raised my air, and I thought, okay, what are these going to look like? And so those are the kind of questions. They're wondering, what the heck's going up there? No, but he also said these are going to be uniqueness in color or something.

No, no, these will not. That last development, we had the mustard yellow. I've been sitting here worrying about that the whole time. No, I'm sorry.

This will be, yeah. I'm out of order.

Do you have the, I apologize, this is not going to be the best way to show these. So this is actually, these are. These are images from the last development. Similar to this, that this developer just finished. So you can see that was kind of the finish. Siding, some masonry brick and stone around the bottom. Fairly modern interior. Three stories. Garage parking. Two in, two out. So each unit would accommodate four cars. I mean, all stainless appliances, balcony, kitchen, quartz, granite, island. I'd live here. I'll say that. What's the price point? $250,000 to $300,000 is kind of where we're at now. And this economy with interest rates the way they are, that's pretty good. I think a couple years ago, that probably would have been a little lower, but... So anyway, these are actual photos from a development that we just finished. So for what that's worth, hopefully that puts your mind at ease a little bit. We don't have any mustard, orange, and yellow on these.

So what happens if we approve the abandonment and then you do not move forward with this project or eventually sell? Do we get that back? Is that part of it? We're left with half a cul-de-sac?

Well, if we put it in a development agreement, it hinges. Yeah, it hinges. Yeah.

That's one will not happen without the other basically.

So can I make a motion to approve the cul-de-sac based on the development agreement in the development agreement for for review and approval of the future development agreement? THE ABANDONMENT CODE SACK TO BE PUT IN A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY AND YOUR ENGINEERING CURRENT. 7-3?

YEAH, BASICALLY SPECIFIC ON CONTINGENCY.

THAT WOULD BE BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE DEVELOPER. OKAY, THE CITY AND THE DEVELOPER. DO WE HAVE A MOTION?

WE DO HAVE A MOTION. I HAVE A MOTION.

I'LL SECOND.

five zero thank you well thank you who will come up with this we're gonna for the our attorney for someone who's got development agreement well that'll be done by the city and the developer let jim do it okay item number nine discussion consideration population regarding the senior

Hi, good evening, mayor, council members, and city staff. Thank you for your time. Yes, my name is Doreen Knowles. I'm the director at Somerville County Committee on Aging. My address is 100 Bosque Street, Unit H, Glen Rose 76043. And our purpose here tonight is to update the council on our essential services that we provided for 24, 25, and 25 to 26 fiscal years. We're going to explain our funding challenges and request your continued partnership. Our mission at Somerville County Committee on Aging is we serve seniors, and we have done that since 1979. Our goal is to assist the seniors and help them remain healthy, independent, and living safely in their own homes. Everything we do promotes and supports independence. And from the census reporter, they submitted a, they, um, released a report in 2024 and their numbers, uh, tell us that 31% of the county's population is 60 years and over. And we assist approximately 3.3% of that population. For 25, 26, our current numbers, uh, we have 330 senior citizens that we serve either through congregate meals, home delivered meals. or through transportation. Tonight, I want to focus on two of the, I feel the most important of our essential services, and that's our home delivered meal program and our transportation. Home delivered meals is more than just a meal. It's delivered to someone home. It is a wellness check for us and for them. It's a friendly visit. Sometimes that driver is probably the only person that that senior has seen. all week or all day. And that might be the only person they ever see. I have actually personally went out and visited many of the clients and they are lonely and they, they thrive for interaction. So, so the families also gain peace of mind knowing their loved ones are checked on because many of our clients, family members, children live far away. So this is a, peace of mind for them. So even though the delivery may take us, our driver, just a few minutes, it's a whole day of reassurance for our family. And we have seen the biggest increase in this particular service. We've seen a 10% growth in this fiscal year, and we still have three months to go. So I have went out, like I said, and visited with the clients to make sure they are all true homebound clients. And we've only had to remove one And she now comes into the center, which is better really for her because she gets the social socialization that she does need our transportation. Our transportation department is also an area that's growing. We provide nearly 90% of our trips are within the Glen Rose city limits. And unlike transit, we don't ask our clients to pay. We suggest a donation, but we don't make them. As a matter of fact, this fiscal year so far, we've only brought in about 150 dollars. Towards that program from the clients themselves. The transportation for them means making it to a doctor's appointment, picking up prescriptions, going to the post office, the bank, and mainly the most important I feel from that is the grocery stores because that helps them maintain their independence in their home and they can cook their meals and have the things that they need.

So without the transportation, many seniors simply couldn't access the essential services that are here in the city.

Our funding challenges. So reimbursement, the state only covered, I think a lot of people think that HHS covers most of our costs. They do not. They cover a very small portion of the cost that it takes to provide these services. For example, transportation. This year we're projected to provide about 3,850 trips, and the government is only reimbursing us 1,101 of those trips. So that's 300 trips that we do not receive any reimbursement for. Home-delivered meals, we're projected to... deliver close to 34,250 meals and only 19,825 of those are reimbursed. 7,200 of those that are not reimbursed are in the city limits. I'm sorry, 7,200 of those are not in the city limits. So the need continues to grow while the reimbursement from the federal government does not grow. We saw a 19% decrease from 24-25 to 25-26. We have not been told yet what 26-27 looks like, but from all appearances, it'll be about the same as we got for this year.

Another decrease or the same funding?

Probably the same. I think they kind of leveled off. It was trickling down, and now I think we're at a... leveling off and a lot of that was due to covid there was a lot of money came out during covid and they had to balance out to true numbers and true needs and things like that um but we are considered y'all know the second smallest um county that our region um uh drops sends down money too so we get the least amount um so our actually our actual loaded labor costs approximately $30 an hour. And HHS, we do a negotiation with them annually, and they negotiate our transportation for one ride is $15.50. One home delivered meal is $7.85. so we are in our negotiation for the next year right now so state and federal funds help but they don't cover actual expenses we absorb the majority of our fuel insurance vehicle maintenance and this administrative staff it takes to put it all together so the second handout i have for you is basically key points that we i talked about and then We'll get down to what we're requesting. So the city investment directly that we're asking for this year will directly find transportation and delivered meals. Your investment will help go towards those where we're not seeing reimbursement for it. So what we're asking for is $1.50 per meal. of the ones that are in city limits. That's 7,202 meals that we do not see reimbursement for. So that comes to $10,803. And then we are asking just for the reimbursement rate that the government says our value is at $15.50 per city limit trip, which is 2,604 trips that are not reimbursed. which is $35,460, which makes the total of $46,266 that we're requesting from the city tonight. Every dollar stays here in Glen Rose, Texas, and it serves our citizens. Success, we do not measure success by meals or rides. We measure success by who can stay in their home, remain independent and live with dignity. The city's partnership makes that possible. I'll end with this statement. The Somerville County Committee on Aging doesn't simply provide meals and transportation.

We provide independence, peace of mind for families, and the opportunity for our seniors to continue living with dignity.

And we know that that went back many generations of the citizens that we serve today. Your partnership makes all of this possible. We thank you very much. And I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

So just on the math on this form, I just want to make sure I understand. So the bullet points, city partnership request, $1.50 per mil. What's bracketed here is 9,912 mils, but the math is 7,202. So $1.50 times 7,202 is what equals 10,803. Oh, you're right.

I'm sure that's just a typo. You're right. I had to fix that earlier.

But the math is right. Yeah, the math is right on that one. But if I do the math, $15.50 per trip times that value of $23.64, I get $36,000 in change, not your $35,000. So just for clarity, what are we using there? Your numbers. 15.5 times $23.64 equals $36,000. 642 okay plus the 10803 that together equals 47 445 okay all right not 46 and change but 47 445 right okay yes ma'am and have we contributed to this before yes ma'am last year you guys contributed 38 000 okay and prior years it's been about

$4,500, I believe.

So on the information on line 61 in your budget, you're calling it the city grant? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Okay.

Do you have any idea how much it costs to take the transit?

I have no idea, but they have to pay for that. Right. I was wondering how much that was.

About $24.30. It ended over.

So what is it?

I think it was $2. It's like $1.50, $2.00.

But see, we can't make them pay.

We can't ask them to pay.

That is one thing with the regulations with getting funding from the government. It's donations only. So that's in all of our vehicles. Donation cost is, you know, suggested. And I think it's $3 per trip. We rarely get it. The donations that go towards our transportation are usually people who don't even use it. They just donate to it.

And you're asking for which month, like a calendar year or?

For the 26-27 calendar year, that amount. Our numbers will, they could fluctuate. I don't know what the numbers would be, so we're just basing them off the numbers that we've provided this year because those particular categories have increased.

Okay, just clarify what month it starts.

When does your budget start? Oh, I'm sorry, October through September. Yes, ma'am.

So, 1 thing we asked for last year was a audited financial statements.

I will get done 2526. We only. We are responsible to have 1 done every 2 years and so the last 1 was under Pam and that was. 2324, so you've got 1 coming up. Yes, sir. We'll have 1. They will start people start working on it probably in late October takes about. Not long. I mean, he gets access to QuickBooks and rolls with it.

And these numbers are not, it's not age data. It's basically how many

seniors today or as of your last review and home review and yes ma'am okay yes okay and these are numbers that the federal government see as well they just so when we submit our numbers at the end of the month it's all of our numbers and the federal government we're on at 112 so they pay this amount of dollars and nothing over and so there anything over that we don't get we don't get reimbursed for so that's what these numbers are showing you

Any other questions?

Comments? Suggestions? I think we ought to put the request in the budget and, you know, see what we can, you know, put it all together and see where we're at bottom line. What do you mean?

Just start as part of the budget and then we adjust it if we're going broke? Yes, sir.

But again, I would like to see an audited financial statement from entities that we support.

Sure. I understand that. I mean, I can give you the one from two years ago. I'll have to be a formal request to the board of directors. I can't. But I mean, I don't know why they wouldn't vote in favor of that.

but it's 23 24. it's not going to be accurate for sure but it's not going to show citizens it's not going to show numbers no no amounts of people well let me ask you this with that audit that you have do you have your compared in-house statement that we can look at both like profit loss yeah yes

For that year? Yeah. I mean, that's where he goes by to do the review anyways.

No, but the financial statement's going to list assets as well. It's going to be... Oh, no.

You're going to look at the income and expense side of it.

Sure.

Which I think is key. but not tied to this approval. We have a motion, anybody? George, question?

I was just going to make a motion that we approve the request from Somerville County Committee on Aging. And rather than nickel and dime at the $47,445, go ahead and use the $50,000 net number that she has in for her budget.

We have a motion. That was my motion. Yes.

He's man stable.

Second.

I'm kind of with George. I think it should work out in our budget workshop that we're going to do the 15th. and look at where we are and what we need to do to help.

I don't know what you mean by look at where we are.

I mean, we know where we are. Well, we're going to roll it all up into one. We're not responsible for one contribution. We're responsible for 17, 18 employees, their health insurance costs. I mean, there's a lot of pieces that we don't know yet along with this contribution. So I think this contribution goes in the hopper as the line place on the budget at $50,000 request. And then let's work through it.

We didn't have a second on the motion. So everybody want to table this to the budget meeting? Make a motion to table it to the budget meeting.

Second.

Second from Council Member Bates. All in favor of the table this until the budget meeting.

What'd you do George? I'm going to stay because I think moving the ball till August doesn't mean it's still the question is the same. We want to see where our bottom line number is. And it's going to be a part of everything that's included in the budget. That's just my opinion.

I would like to interject something. If you guys decide to table it, I understand why you need to do that. But we are also working on our budget as well. And wherever our budget falls short, we may have to pull back some of our services. I mean, we're already going to have to put out probably close to $70,000 out of our own budget to cover what everything else doesn't cover. So we're only asking for really a payback of some of the tax dollars that the people that we serve have contributed to the city for many years. And we've rarely asked y'all for support.

I asked specifically last year to see an audited financial statement as a part of that motion.

And I also told you that it was 23-24 and you didn't say you wanted that one. think the motion was specific that we wanted a copy of an audited financial statement okay well i have a board of directors here right now so that will have to go before them i have no problem with that and it is very handy to get to you so just to confirm basically citizens in town that you are feeding and transporting is 7202 glenrose City is residents. Yes, ma'am.

We actually feel bad and transported.

Yes. And I actually feel those numbers are higher for the home delivered mills because we have all these little apartment complexes. That we deliver to, and especially the 1 right down the street from us pretty much the entire building is. Our clients as well as the 2. Federally funded apartments as well. So we have quite a few in town.

Do we know what's in our budget now? Is it $38,000 from last year? $38,000.

Okay.

Even if we table it to August, still got to go until October is when we pay out. That would be the first. So, I mean, you're still working with the $38,000 we've given you last year already. So you wouldn't get the $50,000 until October of this year anyway. Yes, sir. I still don't see why we can't just look through everything 1st.

Sure. Well, can you tell me what you think you might be looking for on the balance sheet? I mean, they're not going to corroborate the number of residents. So. which is what these numbers are based on, per person, per head. So I understand that I know what a balance sheet is.

I think if we're passing out taxpayers' dollars, we have an obligation to make sure that the nonprofit entity that we are giving it to has audited financials.

Okay, so that's your goal is to prove that they're audited. That's correct. Okay, thank you for clarifying. It's not necessarily... not looking for a number or anything specific you are just wanting validation that uh that is an audited statement okay that's part of our bottles in the yeah we have to have that done that's not something we can skip doing okay so uh if in fact you were to produce those right now or have those here would that change your answer on a number after i look through yeah okay

I'm not opposed to 50,000. I'm not opposed to your 50,000. I'm opposed to your process. I want to see it in the budget and let's see where the bottom line number is on everything and saying we're not going back away from 38,000. If they need a number for budgeting purposes, then we're not going to back away from 38,000, but we'll look at a request for another 12 to 50. I'm fine with that. I think you could budget and say you're going to have a $38,000 influx as a support. Yeah, but it's not confirmed until it's voted on. And that's in the budget in September. So it's semantics. If we do it now, we do it in August, or we adopt the budget in September.

Yeah, this is being hard. Rusty's point was the best. The budget year starts now. In October, so we've got time to go to August to look at it, look at the full budget, every input.

And then decide, and my only reason is. I knew this. Me too. Like, I really want to do the right thing here. Sure. You know, I don't want to second guess myself. My grandmother, who's 93 years old, says a fool changes his mind many times. A fool never changes his mind. A wise man changes his mind many times. So I want to do my due diligence.

We understand. And that's what you're voted to do. I'm all about the seniors. Yes.

Thank you. I'm not saying no. I just, I mean, I just, I need no more.

Okay. We have a motion to table this to the August budget meeting.

We're saying that we're going to get to the 38th, what we're already committed to, and look at it in the budget moving forward. Right? That's what I'm hearing.

Well, until the budget's voted on, any number in there can be changed.

True. But we're not... I personally am not looking at lowering that number. I don't think anybody on the council wants to lower it. It's looking at what we need to do on raising it. I understand.

That's what we have. Okay. All right. So we've tabled. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And thank you for what you do. Great. Give it to Veronica and she can share it with all of us. Thank you.

I'll send you one, or Veronica, you send her one. OK, thank you. OK, number 10, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding the fiscal year 26-27 budget.

I put this on the agenda because Laurie had a question or something.

Because Laurie had a question about ? Oh, well, you said if there was something we wanted to look towards in the next budget, to look at using some of our remaining funds to repair sidewalks that like going down bernard street i mean we've got all these beautiful sidewalks and then you know like going down bernard street it's They're terrible in front of the river house, but that brand new little ramp and then it's just a mass seniors all in front of the river house. It's pretty good in front of senior citizens, but you go past. And those sidewalks are in disrepair.

Well, that's why I would essentially be part of that discussion at our workshop. and also grants we've received some pretty nice grants on sidewalks i'm sure we'll continue that but those are discussions we'll have and we we don't really have business to conduct on the budget itself right now right and i i my verbiage to her was uh joe wanted us to put things in that we were interested it wasn't necessary okay so you're just bringing that to life i'm bringing that up it's something that we i would like us to look at okay

I will say aren't the sidewalks the property of the owner? I believe so.

I mean, we have an ordinance all above that says the property owner is responsible for maintaining the sidewalk along their property. Because it's our city is going to replace the sidewalk.

I had to do my own. So it's that's where when we have those grants, it's nice because you pick an area, we get a grant. Awarded and like the ones going all the way down to the big rocks.

Yeah, I'd love to I'd love to see a plan that. you know, loops our sidewalks and interconnects them. You know, bring something more along 67. Bring something more along, you know, Bernard Street that-a-way.

Well, 67 are handled by the state, though, right? Yeah, for sure. They put them out there. I've never seen anyone walk on one yet. I don't know.

I don't know.

Oh, I saw you. Okay.

So is this just no action on number?

Yeah, no action on 10 and go through the budget, but it is a concern. And. See, we got ourselves in trouble. We start improving these sidewalks and everybody wants to decide everybody. You don't. Number 11, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding the nominations to the Board of Trustees for the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool. Who's is this?

I received it in the mail. Anybody want to nominate anybody?

I'd like to nominate myself for it.

Do we know what this is?

So the intergovernmental risk pool is kind of the, it's made up of member cities who serve as overseers of the pool of funds that is administered by Texas Board. So it's kind of a quasi-governmental organization that's administered by a board.

Right. So is our appointment or vote mandatory or is it sort of like a shareholder vote? Right. Okay.

And you can put yourself forward to serve or if you have a Russian desire to join meetings in Austin.

I don't know enough about this to form an opinion.

Well, does anybody have a concern with us not nominating anybody? Unless you want to do it. I'll nominate you. Okay. When I retire at the end of the year, maybe. Is that breaking news?

I'm sure it's probably the new fiscal year. It will be elected probably in November. We'll take candidates and then...

I'm sure there are people who want to do this.

Okay, let's let's not bother with the nomination. Yeah. Okay.

Well, this action.

Motion yes, George motion that way. I don't you're going to have to borrow.

Make a motion to pass on nominations of the Board of Trustees for the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Group. Second.

Second by Councilman Freese. All in favor? Five zero passes. Consent agenda. All consent agenda items are considered routine by the City Council and be enacted by one motion. There'll be no separate discussion at these items unless a council member requests an item be removed and considered separately. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda?

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Second.

Council Member Hawkins, all in favor? 5-0 passes. Okay, let's talk for a minute. What time did we tell Mr. Nix? 7.30?

7.30 minutes.

Okay. I think we can get through the staff reports. Y'all have the staff reports if you have questions. Jim, if you have anything you want to bring forward, but otherwise we'll ask questions. For Public Works, any questions on that report? Jim, anything hot going on? Anything good? We ought to know?

I don't know if y'all, did y'all read through the report? Did you see we? Yeah, I'm trying to get to it. Let me get there. Hold on. We may be getting some upgrades to the crosswalks soon. Text us. Come back. I believe with some upgrades for lighting.

Crosswalk paint.

Crosswalk paint.

The lighting, their last email, I'm sorry, but did you deny and say we didn't need lights, street lights?

I drove back by just to look at that. I don't see how it would be.

Okay. They had mixed up street lights with blinking morning lights, and there's street lights in place already. So that's big news. That's a big safety factor for us.

What about the Texas Drive project? I SEE TWO BIDS HERE. DID YOU GET THE BIDS ALREADY FOR THAT?

NO. I'M STILL WAITING TO SEE WHEN. I'M ON, I DON'T KNOW, 271.

OKAY.

271.

THANK YOU.

milling whole thing and re-paving two portions he says he doesn't think that's needed we're not seeing base failure we're seeing that asphalt failure so uh but he did go ahead and and spec it out for two different two different alternatives um

You have a question? So I have a question about that. And I'm clearly not opposed to milling and resurfacing, but that's a main thoroughfare. And in our comprehensive plan, we're supposed to kind of tie these together with a certain look. Would he do some additional work and maybe, you know, spec us out a project that says, you know, we do this piece of it with sidewalks and curbs and this piece of it with sidewalk and curbs to be able to kind of get it looking like we ultimately envision it to be?

I think so it just I mean it's that's gonna be a huge dollar amount that that's almost two miles that's just driving it and I get what you're saying you can make new curb encoders from from Gibbs to to Longhorn to kind of get started or whatever just uh but yeah we can ask and once again with other people on Nancy street wondering why they're not getting sidewalks too

or Gay Lane, one of the two. I need to sign one.

Well, but the comprehensive plan did suggest that that is what the citizens wanted was a walkable city. And so, you know, I think it's, I think it's, I think it's fair to get a bid or to get that to include. I didn't hear that.

I'm going to mute while you're not on, Rich.

We're hearing your call out.

I have a separate question if we're done with that particular. So I know the pad was poured and there's some rails up on the Oakdale, no, at Big Rocks for, I guess, the vending machine. Any update on any of that?

The vending machine's in. It's been in a couple weeks.

Oh, the vending machine's in.

It's been going up with something size to their awning.

Yeah.

The posts were already in. I think they were adding some.

The card reader's in. It's functioning now. And in fact, I've seen them picking up trash already on the property.

Good. Okay. And I guess we have a lease agreement or something that speaks to all of that.

I executed it. Veronica has a copy in the office. You all see it? Okay. Yeah, it's up and going. All right. Anything else for Jim?

Has the county take the interlocal car and marshal services? We can't talk about that here, but we will. Okay. It's just right here.

Here's a question. Well, his report, we were going to talk about it and I apologize for that. All right, I don't have any more questions. Okay. That's great. Buck's not buck. You have anything by saying hanging bucks report.

I have a question for back to somebody asked me this. I know. I'm not sure if I was on board yet, but I know I attended a meeting where they talked about the parking street that's between sexton mill and the Airbnb and not parking anywhere past. I think the dumpster that's there and I may be fuzzy on this, but there were either we needed to put signs in so that you could start ticketing or maybe there were fake signs there that needed to be taken out. Have you ticketed anybody yet? Like, what any. OK. So you give them a warning? So their proper signage is up. So the signs that are there are valid. They're the real deal signs.

OK. OK. Where are we on hiring another officer?

It's not an Airbnb.

OK. To clarify, maybe it's not an Airbnb. But you know where I'm talking about, the historic home and the sextons. Okay. My apologies. Thank you.

Anything else for Chief Mark?

All right. Building and Planning Department. David? Anybody have any questions? I have nothing.

You're not going to ask about catfish?

No, I covered that earlier today. All right. Thanks, David. Code enforcement, animal control. Don't think we have anything. I will say this. I love that coffee adoption program. I'm even going to do that. That's really a cool program. You go walk the dog, spend some time with it, get a card for coffee.

What about the one case of rabies that I know it's not in the city, but it's in Nemo and I don't know if that's your, like, if you have any information on that, but I know there's a statewide sense of. Excitement about like, an outbreak of rabies and now there is 1 case of rabies in Nemo or rainbow. Is there.

My knowledge.

Okay. Okay. Well, some, some entity I thought posted that it was positive. Maybe that was just incorrect.

The state posted that it was positive.

And I don't know as a resident, I don't know what that really means, but it seems like it was relatively serious just based on the fact that there seems to be a mini outbreak in Texas. And then do we need any update on the raccoon situation?

That's probably what you're talking about. The raccoon was negative.

Oh, the raccoon was negative.

Okay.

Okay. All right.

So there was some other animal was positive.

I don't think it said it just said. Oh, that's perfect.

It's all over.

Okay.

Okay. Imagine how many of the rapid stocks are in this county. But anything else for David and 1 last. Miss Tracy, you want to talk about Explorer Glen Rose? You're already up there.

Well, if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. And I was just going to highlight two things that are coming up this weekend or for the rest of the month. This weekend, we have the Reckless Kelly concert at the Texas Amphitheater. It starts at 7 o'clock. Gates open at 5.30. Please buy tickets for this. It's a great fundraiser for the Marks Foundation, who, of course, buys tickets. uh, medical, uh, equipment and, and very useful things like that. So, uh, please support this great cause for, with some great music. And then, uh, the, the other thing I wanted to mention is July 28th. We have a hospitality and tourism workshop. That's going to be at our, uh, play building conference room. So other than that, I feel like my report is,

Veronica, you got anything? Any questions? Any questions for Veronica's report items?

Posting training.

Tomorrow we're going to have a lunch and lunch.

What are y'all serving?

Hammons.

We're going to go over customer service. We have training in place, so it's mandatory.

That's great. I like those sessions.

Oh, and one other thing, I just got my Official certificate, I completed my certification for municipal clerk, which is a nationwide certification.

It doesn't come with any money. I don't know if you knew that.

Yeah, thank you.

Excellent. So, if Joe leaves, you can take over her responsibilities as a municipal clerk. all right well jim we're back to city administrator any questions oh all right council anybody have a report for us anything you'd like to promote i'd like to publicly apologize to you for missing that monday meeting i don't know

I realized, and then it just was completely off my radar and I didn't leave. So I apologize. That's okay. Drink too much.

So what's wrong with that? Yeah, that's right.

I was watching the drone, watch the windows and y'all didn't say, you know, Hey, there's a meeting today.

All right. But it's not your fault. No. Well, we appreciate your apology. Actually, we were all happy to get out here. All right. We want to move from regular session into executive session. In accordance with provisions of the Texas Open Medians Law Subchapter D government code, Vernon's Texas code is annotated in accordance with section 5510.074, personnel matters concerning city administrator, section 551072, Deliberations regarding real property 551071 consultation with an attorney regarding interlocal agreements. And that is it. So we will adjourn the regular session for the moment at 612 PM. 712 PM.

Sorry.

I have, I have.

We're going to close executive session at whatever time it is, 9.51. We'll go back into regular session. Anybody out there? Okay, executive session. Okay, we're going to reconvene in regular session here at 9.52 p.m. uh discussion item number 25 from executive session regarding city administrator we're going to uh schedule special meetings for council to interview candidates we're going to ask council to write the current applications that they have in their possession and we will move forward with the continuation of the hiring process for a city administrator discussion consideration regarding real property Really no action outside of visiting with a couple of current property owners about appropriate types of business being located there. and on the interlocal agreements we'll wait on responses and go to a meeting on august 10th to discuss the interlocal for cvb and we will wait for a response on the fire interlocal agreement as well i have no other action for the executive session anybody else have anything rich anybody meeting adjourned at 9 53 p.m We'll stay on.