City Council - Regular Meeting

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I'd like to call to order the regular city council meeting for Tuesday, September 8th, 2026, 5.30 PM.

If you will all join us. And Pastor McKnight, if you would give the invocation, please.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for this beautiful day that you've made and for the blessing of living here in Blenneros. Lord, as we go about business tonight, as we have conversations, we hear new ideas, Lord, may our behavior, our language, our conversations all reflect your light. And going from this place, may we continue to follow you. In your name we pray. Amen.

Pledge to the United States of America. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag.

On the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.

Thank you.

Council roll call. Council member makes. Council member Hawkins. Present. Council member Comer. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Freese. Present. Council member Bray. Present. We have quorum. we'll start with our citizen visitor comments if i can give you a little direction please everyone addressing the city council please do so in an orderly and respectful manner attempt to address any issues and concerns or suggestions in this section of the meeting We ask that your comments from the public during agenda items and public hearings be limited to three minutes per person. Each person is allowed to speak once and your time allotted cannot be shared. Please sign up your cell phones and we look forward to a brisk and comprehensive meeting. If you stay all night, you get $10. We're going to start with Lupita Gutierrez. You want to go first? No, go ahead, Veronica. She got me the evil eye when I did that. Name and address, please.

Veronica Welch, 500 Southwest Bernard Street, Mayor and Council. I wanted to take a moment to recognize Jim Holder for the outstanding job he did while serving as Interim City Administrator. Stepping into that role is never simple, but Jim handled it with the same professionalism, steadiness, and commitment that he brings to public works every day. Jim's technical knowledge of our systems and infrastructure is unmatched. He understands the details, the challenges, and the long-term needs of Glen Rose because he has lived them, worked through them, and improved them over many years. That expertise was invaluable during his interim service. He also carries a deep history of the department and the city, which allowed him to make informed decisions quickly and confidently. Jim knows how our operations fit together, how our staff works best, and what it takes to keep services running smoothly for our residents. He led with clarity, calm direction, and a genuine respect for the people he works with. Staff trust him, departments respond well to him, and that stability made a real difference during this transition. Because of Jim's leadership, the city didn't just maintain operations, we kept moving forward. Projects stayed on track as evidenced by the lane building. Issues were addressed promptly and the city continued to function at a high level. Jim Holder is an asset to the City of Glen Rose, and his service during his interim term deserves our appreciation. Thank you, Jim, for your dedication and for the example you set every day.

Thank you.

Good job, Jim.

I haven't assisted because I talk, but I am going to cry, so I'm just not going to do it.

Ain't nobody died here.

Okay, I'm reading this on behalf of Lupita. I would like to take a moment to recognize the work that happens behind the scenes, work that may not always be visible to the community, but is essential to keeping our city running. I especially want to thank Jim for serving as our interim city administrator and for everything he and Veronica have done for us in the city. Much of their work happens behind the scenes and often goes unnoticed, but it is truly appreciated. When leadership shows up and supports its employees, it makes a difference. Employees feel supported, valued, and motivated to give their best. Jim has successfully balanced his primary responsibilities, which come with constant demands and challenges, while also taking on the additional responsibilities of interim city administrator. He has handled both roles with dedication, professionalism, and commitment to our city. So, Jim, I simply want to say to you, your hard work, dedication, and willingness to step up have not gone unnoticed. We truly appreciate everything you've done for the city staff and for the city of Glen Rose. Thank you.

all right we'll move forward to um announcements and presentations george you got something here yes sir um i would like to introduce the group to jordan sawyer he's with p3 uh works financing and it is a a third party administrator for special purpose districts i've been kind of Talking with Jordan for the better part of a year and a half and texting back and forth, talking some, caught up at the TML conference last October, I think, or maybe with Mary, the lady who started the conference. But I've been kind of inviting Jordan to come down, looking for an opportunity, looking for a reason to invite you down to come and talk about PIDS broadly and just kind of give us an education about where we go from here, what we can do. Please, Jordan.

With this team for a little over a year, I've also been in the public finance space. It is a small, somewhat incestuous community, if you like to joke.

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You're good. I have physical copies. So I'm going to hand out my presentation.

We'll go through here.

I have here on the back of it as well a copy of our brochure and my business card as well. The goal here is just to give an update, a presentation, just a quick overview of two financing tools that were made in the city's tool belt. And we'll talk a little bit about how that belt has been shrunk over the last few legislative sessions, but how a PID and a FERS are really two financing mechanisms still exist and still really can be helpful. So really, why now? Residents, you're more than welcome to look over the back of my shoulder. Here on the screen, the growth is really reaching Lindros. Somerville County, grown about 11%. I think y'all says one. It's 11.5%. It fits on the electronic one here. Hood County, just down the road, 14.5%. Lindros itself is continuing to grow. You're up 20%, which is less than So not only is this area growing, but all of the state of Texas is continuing to grow. You have 539 TURs across the state. So we're going to talk some things that are central here to Glen Rose and some things that are just brought across the straits. One of the biggest pieces of why to use financing tools now, like a PIN or a TURs, is the 2023, 2025, we continue to see the rules change. So you see that second slide, I talked a little bit about the legislative session. and how the landscape of the legislature is continuing to change. The simple fact is that Texas cities have faced an erosion of control over their own properties and over the ETJs over the last few legislative sessions. And also making decisions that are for the best of the state, but for individual local cities, it has come at the expense of some of the powers and some of the control you used to have over your property and the UTJ as well. and your ability to annex new property. Chapter or Senate Bill 2038, you have ETJ opt-outs. I know Gertrude talked a little bit about some of how that's actually come home already. You've also had reduced control over your subdivision planning standards and really just cities have fewer tools than they used to. And so a lot of why some of these financing districts have really taken off across the state is because cities are saying, hey, we are still wanting to have this growth. We are still wanting to support new developments in our area. We're wanting to support all of the new services that we want to provide as a city for our residents. But we don't want to come back and tax all of our current residents. I think that's a universal across the states. That's what you hear is, hey, we need to provide services. And the ways we can do that are we can tax people more or we can have either more taxpayers or people paying a larger share of those. And that's really what you see in these special financing districts, allowing new growth to pay for the expansion of services needed. So PIDs, Negotiated Assessment of District Interest, are some of the most powerful tools you still have. horizontal infrastructure. We talk about PIDs, MMDs, TERSs, all of these are really horizontal infrastructure tools. So this is roads, water, sewer, all of those things that are necessary to make a city and make a development work that don't go really above the ground. You can also use these really to help negotiate the quality design amenities. One of the big things, again, as cities have less hours to go to a developer and say, hey, here's all the things we want to of $4 billion in bid bonds and 539 terms. And it really can accelerate projects that help the whole city. I think we've talked a little bit, George and I have talked a little bit about how you could use a PID or how you could use a TERS to help unlock portions of the city that may otherwise be very hard to develop. We see this across the state. I'm out in the North Christian Pills office, but we work around the state, helping cities find ways to finance horizontal infrastructure. Slide number four here, the legal foundation. I'm a recovering attorney. I was a practicing attorney for the last 10 years. I now try not to spout laws out in my sleep like normal lawyers do, I think. But where the PID starts, it is ultimately still a legal function. The state's local government code allows for the creation of PIDs. Really, what a PID is, it's a three-letter word. There's some three-letter words in the state that I really like and some three-letter words I really don't like. PID is one that is a within this area that a city identifies upon the request of the property owner that we are going to do something different here so essentially here we're drawing a circle we're saying in this development we're going to collect special assessments that can be used for the benefit of that area so assessments are only lending within the property they are never a general tax they are not a tax they are not a If you do sell bonds, those are always backed by the assessments, not your general funds, not your taxes. This is not a tax. It's a specific benefit based assessment, and it's not a guarantee. So the city is never, the obligation of the city So big picture considerations, like I said, a pit is not a political subdivision. If you're familiar with all the development around the area, you have BUDS, you have some MFDs, you have some other third party created and run subdivisions that can exist within and outside of the city. A pit is not that. A pit is a line on the map where the de facto board is the city council. It allows the cities to, again, extend your infrastructure for that infrastructure and for that ability to grow further.

You can also use it as an economic development tool.

Again, very helpful to negotiate with developers. It used to be you'd come to a developer and say, hey, here's all the things we need you to do. And a developer nowadays will say, here's all the things, say, I need you to do. So this is one of those tools that we see I have a picture of the state capital here. I'll tell you that continues to be one of the main reasons to use PIDs. One of the main reasons that kids are growing throughout the state is because the cities need those tools in a tool belt. So economic development tools continue to say that. The main rule for a PID is that you can never levy an assessment that's more than a special PID. on what an assessment can pay for. So really, the but-for test is what we run a lot. A city can now say to a developer, hey, we will make these assessments. So going through how a PID works, this is a kind of cover this a little bit and get ahead of myself. be an I account so it's something a lot of homeowners when you see these assessments and regimental areas really just pops up as part of their mortgage so I have in here I'm not going to go through this but if we get city does not have the unilateral power to ever go in and say we're going to create a bid here. It has to be at the petition of the property owner. Once that property owner comes forward and says, city, we want to create a bid here, the office will go through a development agreement. That is a process we work with the city to help from the city's perspective when we work for the city. It's about a six to eight month process is how we see it. I've seen some as fast as four. I've seen some that take four or five years. I would not say the four or five years is very common. That's a very specific project, but I always want to give that range. Six months is what I would normally say from a developer coming forward and saying, I really want this. So how a PID works, the financing metrics, whenever a developer comes forward or whenever an assessment is levied, there are key metrics that are always looked at. Again, it's a small, somewhat incestuous little world that we all know each other in this public finance space. So two of those key rates, and again, we'll go much further into detail if we get to a specific project. Those are TREs. We call them tax rate equivalents. Whenever a city levies a tax, it says this is how many pennies I'm going to levy on $100. We can convert into uh that most both underwriters and banks require is called a value to lean test when an assessment is placed on a property it is a lien on that property and it's enforced just like any other lane so it would be a foreclosure proceedings if a homeowner or a property owner decided not to pay that assessment now i've never seen that happen um the way to cure that is a payment But those diethylene tests make sure that the DEX value ratio never gets out of line. So it's something that was considerably being used to protect the city there. I have three primary functions there. You have pay goes, which is launched where the developer construction bonds, which are bonds that are sold at the very front to help fund that construction. Again, I want to put all of this in here, but this would be very, we're at the high level still here, and just wanted to make sure the dose rates are all good. I talked a little bit about how an assessment is not a tax. So an assessment is really based on the benefit received, not the value of the property. So you see on that slide, I'm on 10 here. When the home value goes up, your property tax goes up. When the home value goes up, or how that would be compared to the value of your property. So the values increases in the home does not increase the assessment. It will increase the assessment, which is the preferred method of financing a lot of times for that very reason. So obligations for a PID, again, it's a long list here. The biggest thing I would say, and the big reason we have this big arrow in the middle, your financial advisors, anybody else who's helping the team. Now, one big piece in here, and I have this in a bullet point just above the blue dot, is that the funds that are used to pay for the team in a bid almost always come from the bid itself. These are designed to be self-supporting. These are designed to allow a city to say, hey, we're going to look shouldn't be taking money from somebody else who's not benefiting from this. So it's a very useful tool. Again, cities around the state are using this because it is also self-supporting while also generating additional growth. So I had that list on the right side. Those are some of the other things a city would work with. additional obligations and requirements, but that's really where we come alongside. We always say we're an extension of city staff. If we come on board, our role You have a team in place. The city's not willing to do these transactions. A lot of times we see a developer comes to the city. The first person who makes contact is a developer, a city manager, a city administrator, a city council member. It says, hey, I want to do this deal. And they'll try to negotiate it as fast as they possibly can with you and with the small team. And one thing we always want to say at the very beginning of these conversations is you're not alone. whenever you do do an opinion and i always want to you know lawyer in me wants to give a fair look at both sides uh things to stay aware of whenever you work on a pin or you let in assessments homeowners don't always understand what those assessments are for uh statutorily we have to come back every single year in front of council to approve an update to the sap so it never goes more than a single year without being reanalyzed but even at that point there are still times where it is homeowners reaching out Now, again, that's why I give you my business card. That's why you have our phone number. If you ever have a question, you can redirect that our way. Headline risks, there are sometimes. We have seen a kid has come in, and it has been, hey, what is this? We're bringing new developments. We're doing something that this city was not ready for. That is ultimately a direction and a political call and a policy direction from the city council of, hey, is So yeah, the the headline risk, just the concept that hey, you may have somebody who says this is a financing district. This is this is the government taking an additional action to help a developer. lose the way. And then the bond market risk, if you do sell the bonds, these are non-rated. So they're sold to a limited number of investors. There is a well-established pitch, again, $4 billion worth of the pit market. They're well-established in how these actually work and who actually buys these, but they are unrated debt. Unlike your city's geo or CO debt that would be backed by your full-time credit, this is truly backed just by an assessment. So it's Any questions on pins, I'm gonna transition

Do you have an idea of about how many properties are needed to have any kind of return on what it costs?

Yeah, so that's a great question. So a lot of it, when you say it costs, so it is normally supported by itself. So any review fees, a lot of our costs, any of those other administrative costs are part of the paid either annual installment or developer upfront financing. How much is a, how many properties, how big does the development need to be to make financial sense for a PID? Really depends on what's being developed. So we have some very, very 4,000 acre residential PIDs. We have some 50 acre residential PIDs. We have some smaller 10, 15, 20 acre commercial PIDs. When you get smaller, over to commercial because it does get really dense. All right, so I'm going to go into Terz's and I'll pause again at the end just for any more questions. So Terz's, again, statutorily created. These are under Chapter 311 of the tax code. I hate referencing the tax code, but that is where they live. They are also another special district that can be formed by the city to help finance infrastructure. So the big picture considerations, what a Terz really is. It's a TIF of old. If you've been in local government and we've talked previously, TIFs are what they used to be called. They're now called TIRSs. But essentially what it is is a city draws a line on a map and says within this area, we are capping what the taxes were levied on, what value is in this TIRS as of the day we create the TIRS. From there, any growth that happens over that initial period, within a TERS is treated differently than all other city taxes. It can go into a TERS fund. It can come out of a TERS fund. It can be used to fund different types of infrastructure. But that increment is really what a TERS creates. So I have here, you kind of see a little picture, the blue and yellow picture on page 14 that draws the difference between what a base value is and then what your incremental value is. Once the TERS ends, you see that black line on the right here, 30 years is a standard TERS. The black line on the end, you now say, hey, after this, every bit of growth is now back to the city. So one way to think of a TERS is it's a way to supercharge growth. You say, developer, you're going to come here. We're going to give you some of these dollars back so you can continue to grow. By the end of 10, 15, 30 years, all of that growth is now back onto the city's books. So I have there on slide 15 how the increment works. So again, you have something created when the base is a million dollars. The next year, you've added 3% of growth. It's gone up $30,000. You have increment of $30,000. That $30,000 flows into the tourist funds and can be treated how the city is asking that tourist fund to be treated. It may say, hey, we're going to give half of that to the tourist fund. Hey, we're going to give a quarter of that to the tourist fund. And that is going to be used to help incentivize growth. Second one, base value of $100,000. This is also a situation, Mayor Pro Tem and I were talking about, hey, you have a property that's in the ETJ. It has zero taxable value to the city. The next year, it comes into the city and it announces in. That's one of the big benefits of both the pit and the turds. It can help incentivize the annotation. It comes in and has a million dollars or a million and $100 here. You have a million dollars worth of growth in one year. Well, that's great for the city's budget and for the city's general fund. But if that million dollars or a portion of that million dollars can be used to help incentivize growth, or it can be used to help incentivize development, it can get you to a much higher mark here in the years that come after that. So again, the base values, anything that come off of the original values go back into the city's fund. The growth is what is captured. You participate at a specific percentage. There's no new tax and I always like to say that twice. There is no new tax. It is just a difference in the treatment of taxes already collected and then base years always set at the creation period. It can be covered a specific development. It can be covered all the way across a big portion of the city. There are limitations on how much of a city's taxable value can ever be in a terms at a given time, and that's something we always work through to figure out what's the right amount to include at this time. So I have on slide 16 there, just to set eight different steps to creators. Again, it's not a... Hey, let's go create a church and it's done tomorrow. We come back in front of city council quite a bit, quite a few times, work with city staff or work with the city team to come up with a plan. So there's public notices, there's public hearings that have to come in front of those. How a church fits, I have on that yellow box there on the right, really a lot of times you see it for open and undeveloped land or land that doesn't have a capital and debt capacity to front that infrastructure or where you really need public and expensive improvements. The soil here, the rock here, you're in the hill country, you have development, and just getting to a flat piece of land is very expensive. But sometimes being able to say, hey, if we can help get to that flat piece of land, what development can take off from there? So that's really a lot of times how we think about the terzes. So areas that don't develop without the terzes is just a primary function for how we use these. so from a timeline perspective these typically take three to four months they don't necessarily require development to start a lot of times we've seen these work very well when they're created with the anticipation of a development coming online because if you set that base value when it's still very low or when it's still outside the city at zero value you can have way more increment generated early on So slide 17, I have paying for the development through the TERS. You see, there's really, the way I see it a lot of times working is you have the agreement up front. If a development does come in and say, hey, I want to build this, working through what does that plan work like? But one of the nice things about a TERS is it's only generating revenues if there is growth. So it is coming to a developer and saying, hey, If you build this, money will come. That's my funny little joke there. But it is truly not developer. Here is money. Here is a check. It is we will set aside money if you help grow this. So the developer builds infrastructure, city accepts it, the values grow, and then the city from that tourist fund and only from that tourist fund can help pay back. So the agreements cover all your eligible costs, what reimbursements. We will always suggest there should be a cap on how much you pay back, the term of that TERS, what your participation rate is, who else is in it, and what kind of performance obligations would be required. So I have two ways I see Glen Rose using a TERS, and two ways that we see Glen Rose, we see cities across the state using TERSes. One is for development reimbursements. Again, the developer front that is a an alternative way to use some of these agreements with the developer uh and it's really intended that may not be otherwise served without this terms you could also have a kid offset so we talked about pids just tying those together a turge can be created over a pin some of those terms increment can be used to pay down the pit assessment i have the annual installment charts on page 19. that's one of those it makes it's a lot of numbers a homeowner or a property owner can ultimately see that benefit. So every year as that rate goes up, you see the assessment itself comes down because we've now hit the terms values. So wrapping up here, Citi's growth toolbox, again, the toolbox itself is great, but there are still tools at your disposal. The PIDs, TERSs, 380 agreements, I have in here MMDs because there are other development tools that are out there that are not run by the city. The PID and TERS, we think, really allow the city some of that control. They do require some of that city involvement. So I have in there the MMD specifically is an alternative route if a city wants to help incentivize development but doesn't necessarily want to be involved. here in the area over the last year or so um again but the pins and the tours is really what the we've talked about as a city control tool to help incentivize development so just from a very quick our few conversations i've had of tents over the last 18 months or so some recommendations just where you are at right now is if wanted to get the cities wanted to consider a pit or tours now really a great time to start talking through what are the things that you want, what are the things that would really help windows. One of the conversations we've had one of the things i've said a couple times here is thinking through if we had a water line to that part of town man, we can develop that that's that specifically is really where we've seen these work. Developments wants to come this way, and if we can help fund some water out there, if we can help fund some sewer lines out there, we could really take off. The second one, know your numbers, know what you have capacity for. In addition to, hey, how much is this going to cost? The second question I always get is, do you have water? That is a precedential question. You can use PIN and TERS dollars to help get the water where it needs to go, but having the water itself is a big piece. Third, thinking about where the growth lands, I know we've talked about 67, talked about 144. There are some growth areas. There's not a whole lot of places in this area who have both the hill country axis and an hour and a half from major metroplexes. really where you're seeing growth and to have a highway that comes through it and to have a state park and to have some of the wonderful things you have here. I told George, my family and I have a place out in Johnson City. I didn't even put this in my directions here. I just knew where Glen Rose was because I drive out here all the time. Y'all have a great head start on a lot of those pieces. So finding out where the growth is going to come is a big piece that you can already start doing right now. And then really getting the team together. Again, you will have developers. It sounds like you already have developers knocking on your door saying, hey, we really want to come to the area, but we need some help. Getting that team together soon is the biggest key. So that's all I have. Again, you have my card and just our firm brochure on the back. Happy to answer any questions.

I think that's the best presentation I've had as far as an overview, even being at TML conferences and listening to people talk about them. It gives you a better understanding of them.

We're good. I'm glad to hear that. Just for a quick reference, Jordan, y'all are working with Granbury, Claiborne.

We're not working with Claiborne yet. Claiborne is one of our top ones right now. Yeah.

The, the, the project out at Crowley and Burleson or no.

Which I can't think of what the name of their development is. It's their extension. They, they took in almost 2000 acres towards the. Towards Chisholm trail.

I don't think we're on that one, but we have been working with Grand Bear for a long, long time. We also have, so P3 is founded by Mary Petty. Her husband, Trent Petty, was the city manager for Grapevine for a long, long time. So he works in a lot of the other cities that we work with frequently. But right now we have 142 cities that we work with, I believe is my most recent count. So we're all over the area, all over the state, really working with cities across the area.

Well, I appreciate you coming down. It's something that, you know, when we think about we want to stay a unique family-oriented community, you know, our vision statement, but yet still have an opportunity to support the locals who are here in the community and have opportunities to work and live, you know, in your own community and work at a job, work at a manufacturing, whatever we can come up with, I almost said finagle, but whatever we could come up with that fits within our vision and within our comprehensive plan and within our goals, but yet still accomplish a better project. That buck four kind of stuck with me. And I guess that's statutory.

It's just called special benefit in the statute, but buck four is how we think about it.

To me, that's... For George's perspective, that's where I'd like to go. I'd like to have a better project every time. And where we have difficult properties to develop, this could be one of the avenues that we get to that better development long-term. It's not not in every case, not in every situation. I don't think this is something every developer is going to come ask us about, but when they do, we need to be prepared and I appreciate you, you know, given the time to to get it off the slide. Thank you Jordan. Appreciate it.

Thank you. All right, we'll move the individual items for consideration. number two discussion consideration possible action regarding the presentation by p3 works financial i think we can just put that george you provide us a shall we say cliff notes version of and and let's consider the amount of land we have that this could operate within it has to be within an annexed area it has to be within the city You know, how much area do we have that might be? I know of one going on pretty soon that it might a development agreement touch style and might might bring some of this in. So. Uh, any action by wants to take us. Just move forward, give ourselves educated.

Yeah, Jordan had, Jordan, I put this on there because Jordan had submitted their engagement letter. And I said, you know, I'm not authorized to engage with P3. I want to see us move in this direction, but I know that, you know, we're without a city administrator. So he was gracious enough to come down and give us the presentation that would have been generally a piece of that presentation. together so i want to publicly acknowledge that and and recognize you for stepping out there for us because i again i think it's something that we need to consider and need to do but as your you know as your chart on page 18 or 19 said you know we've got a couple of things we need to try to kind of take care of in our shop to get ready you have a question from the audience

I can send one to the secretary.

You send an electronic one and we can go to any one.

My second question is this money that you're collecting should this come about and you're collecting. A kid or occurs. When you collect this money, is it going into. The general fund doesn't have to go into a separate bank account. I know it has to be a line item, but where will that money.

land so you have i think you have a specific account yeah do you want to yeah real quickly please i apologize i've been seeing council members for a while so i know not to answer for my seat anymore uh so if i address the residents so yes it's it's always kept counted for as its own different funds uh the assessments themselves are almost always a separate fund not just a line item so it has to be in a separate bank account That's typically how it's set up. Our team, we have specific CPAs and accountants and auditors on our team that will always work with a city staff member to say, this is the best way to keep track of it. But normally having it in its own fund is the number one way because it really is not a part of the general fund. And the less you can ever commingle it with the general fund dollars, the more very specific you are. These are the dollars. Right.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Let's move on to, do you have any items or discussion? Do you want to share ourselves? Yes, sir. Be aware. Okay, we're going to move to items requiring public hearings. Number one is number three on here. Do we have a staff member to read?

Public hearing regarding the proposed tax rate for the fiscal year 2026 and 2027.

Laura, we have a prepared tax rate calculation. Do you want to say what that is, Veronica?

0.237.

237, is that right? 267. 267 or 265? 265. 265, that's right. Okay. The new proposed tax rate is no new revenue lower than last year. And it has been proposed and we'll have a open public hearing now for anyone that'd like to speak regarding the tax change. We are open to public hearing for anyone that'd like to discuss it. All right. We're going to close that same public hearing and

We don't have to vote on that until the 28th.

Okay. All right. So we'll hold that public hearing and action to the 28th. Everybody okay with that? Yes, sir. All right. All right. Number four.

public hearing regarding a request to rezone for property located at 405 northeast vernon street also known as acre 0.918 abstract a136 subdivision g0500 block all of nine block one through eight glen rose town site block all of nine lot one through eight from an r1 single family residential district and B1 restricted commercial district to B1 restricted commercial district.

Okay, I believe we have an applicant here who'd like to speak. to give you a name and address, please.

Yes, my name is Natalie McKnight. My address is 117 Paco Street, Glen Rose, Texas. I am the director of operations at Glen Rose First Methodist Church. And so I would first like to thank you for the opportunity to address you this evening. I'm coming before you on behalf of our church just to provide a little context for the request to rezone. This was actually brought to our attention. We didn't really know there was an issue with rezoning until we applied for a permit to renovate and add on to our sanctuary. At that time, we spoke with David LeBron, the city building official, and he let us know that currently our property at 405 Northeast Vernon Street, which is, if you're familiar with our church, it's the property where our sanctuary sits. And also, if you're looking at the steps of our sanctuary, there's a little building to the left that kind of looks like a house there. We have an annex building and it currently holds our nourished food pantry and Sunday school classes and that sort of thing. But currently that property is, as you see here, zoned as both residential and commercial. Of course, the reason for that is that that little house to the left of our sanctuary was a long, long, long time ago, the parsonage, the home for the pastor that served there. Of course it hasn't been that for many, many years. However, it seems that just in the midst of all the changes and things going along, it just never got changed. Currently, it is commercial zoned and also residential zoned. So it's not really a rezoning request as much as it's just a dropping a zone request. It's already zoned as commercial. Right now, we just need to drop the residential. It's not going to be a residential property ever again. Our church is not set up that way anymore. So we won't be using it in that capacity anymore.

so thank you so much for your time any questions for the applicant all right thank you very much all right we don't have any other speakers i'm going to open the public hearing on this item if anyone would like to discuss or has comments you can please come to the podium i'll close this item republic hearing discussion by the council action

I just kind of have a question. The part, the construction that's going up the hill, have you kind of like terraced that to get the water down? Is that why that's kind of rip-wrapped with the bones?

Sure, that's actually a different property than this one.

Oh, okay.

But I would be happy to answer your question. Yes, there was some problem with flooding that occurred yesterday. A long, long time ago, the city actually put a drainage spout up there at the very top of those two streets that meet at the top of that hill. And so that water was flowing down, and that hill was actually up against that building that's currently there, and that was causing flooding in the building. So we actually separated the building, the rock from that building and the hill, and then we did terrace it so that we could drain that more properly.

Thank you. I'll make a motion to rezone or drop the single family residential R1 from 405 Northeast Vernon and make it completely B1 restricted commercial district.

Second. We'll have a second from Mayor Pro Tem Freeze. All in favor? Four. Four. Zero against. It passes. That's how easy we are. All right, item number five.

Public hearing regarding a request to rezone for property located at 311 East Elm Street, also known as acres 0.453 track F9 through 11 and 11-1 abstract A136, A136 Milam County School Land Track F9-11 and 11-1 acres. 0.4526 from R1 single family residential district to R-2M single and two to four family district, residential district and multi-building residential district.

Okay. Do we have any one applicant here to speak? All right. No applicant. David, you want to say something?

Yes, sir. So these items were actually number 5, number 6, R5 were supposed to be tabled until we discussed them through planning and zoning. So there. Well, why don't we do that?

What's that? Why don't we do that? Why? Why don't we do that? Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir. I agree. OK. I agree. I saw the R5, and I thought. Yeah. Yeah, it actually wasn't supposed to be on there. David or anyone else here. So we'll table these two items. Yes, sir.

So can I make a motion? Can we jump to what number is the action on this?

On the OB item number 10.

10.

Can I make a motion on 10 now?

Well, not on the table. That's my motion.

Table?

Yeah.

OK. Table. I'd like to make a motion to table it for 90 days while we consider what to do.

10 for 90 days no this this request on 311 um that would be eight yeah eight and nine eight or just eight it'd be five six oh yeah yeah we are tabling 10 though so you just want to table it to so we

Do we find out more information specifically to go from an R1 to an R2M?

Give us 90 days to try to kind of work out what the details are. We have a motion.

I second. Second by Council Member Comer. All in favor?

Mayor, can I just make one comment? Sure. I'm sorry. You did have a spectator. Oh, yeah. I just did.

Apologies. This means it will go to a planning zoning meeting, and that's where we want to go participate if we have some.

Yeah, so is it 90 days plus PNC George or going to PNC and then 90 days to act 90 days from today to act from today?

Yes, that's my motion.

Sorry.

I'm just trying to I still second still second all in favor still. 2340 passes. Okay. we're in development individual items we're done with that thank you folks thank you we'll get to it okay we're going to move to individual items for consideration item number seven discussion consideration possible action for a request to rezone for property located at four or five oh we just didn't yeah okay we did seven we did eight nine ten table i don't have to take a vote to table an item we can just the mayor can just say it's tabled Item number 11, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding the Garden Club Elm Street Bridge Christmas decorations. This came to me from the Garden Club directly. We all know what it looks like on the bridge. It needs some improvement. We have money budgeted, but I'd like to get your ideas. Do you agree we need to help? through our Christmas fund that we have put away, our events fund, we can spend, we'll come back with bids and the amounts, but I think we ought to help improve that. It's kind of a gateway into the city from the south and it would look great. Right now it doesn't look so great. So it's really not any items we have to take action, but if you'd be against it, I'd like to know. Everybody okay with us looking at that and just putting it under the events budget? Absolutely.

Is there any way to spruce up on 67 as well when you're coming up over Rodeo Hill or a banner?

Yeah. Well, Jim and I discussed ordering some new banners for Christmas specifically and kind of decorate up, and we are going to do that. We don't have power there to light it, do we?

George is trying to be a fantasy. Yeah, we could.

I want to be Christmastown, USA. I want to knock grapevine out. What banners are you mentioning?

Across 67. We have two standards on 67 on the east and west side that go 35 feet across.

Oh, the big one.

And we can use a banner, haven't made you up on top. Like in a rodeo or whatever we put up. But we're going to do them, get specific Christmas banners.

I believe there's an event that's going on in December.

So, it may be put into the caution to our house chamber to our house.

Are y'all going to do a banner? So generally what we're going to do when we have 2 people. I'd like to put 1 at each end. We can do that. Highway department will allow it.

So, I noticed a grammar. We just have two wires that go across. Do we have the capability of adding an additional wire across? Have you ever thought about that?

No, let's see.

We'll probably have to share the space this year, but. So, powered lights on the screen. I don't know if we're putting more weight on there at all quickly.

I just was suggesting if you're going to have the tour of homes at the same time, we're having Christmas. Why can't we. Promote both of them on the same side.

Because we want to make these in lieu of spending taxpayer money every year. We'd like to make these universal Christmas. Take a little ride here to go to Christmas town or whatever we're going to do. We haven't decided on that.

Do we have any suggestions from the Garden Club on the bridge?

They want to do the same, similar decorations, but newer garland. Just refresh.

Yeah. Same concept.

And multi-lighting ability where it can be brighter, it can be a different color, those kind of things. So they want to step it up, but we'll make the decision based on the budget.

Their stuff's like five or six, seven years old.

Oh, yeah.

It's at least that. Can we get them silver so they look old?

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So back to number 11, did they give you any kind of, I mean, did they back up what number they gave you?

Yeah, but they didn't have any invoice. They didn't have where she found it, she said, but it was around $7,000. And I think that seems high to me for what is 350 feet of garland and lights. And that includes some battery packs rather than we run an extension cord currently. but some of that stuff we may not need to do. So you want to run that committee and kind of help with the decision?

All right.

Good job. Let it be known, Patty Hawkins will be the chairman. All right, item number 12, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding a special alcohol permit for the Dean O'Day's Jamboree event located at the historical square located in Glen Rose.

Yes, and so I'm here requesting permission to get the permit and a letter stating such for October 10th and 11th. That's a Saturday and Sunday.

This allows for an open container from one of the establishments. Will you have a drink truck there?

We will. We're on Vernon Street on our makeshift food court.

Allow me?

The square.

Just the square?

Mm-hmm.

All four streets? Normally what we've done is carry it to, because we had some games, it went down all the way to Sexton's. And then we would stop it at the annex here. I don't see any reason to go that.

Yeah, we should not go past Vernon.

And then

And then Elm and Walnut.

Some of what we do with the wine festival and many other things where we've approved these.

Do we have any action, council? I'll make a motion to request the, or to approve the special alcohol permit for the Dino Days Gembering event October 10 and 11, 11 and 12. 10 and 11. October 10 and 11 for the standard and usual

second second by council member hopkins all in favor four zero passes thank you ma'am discussion consideration and possible action regarding the adoption of ordinance 2026-0-10 to present to tech stop for consideration to designate a portion of northeast bernard street as a school zone

We have a concerned citizen and resident of Northeast Bernard reach out. I guess she lives right there. She's got a couple of kiddos and she's expressed concern that somebody's going to get run over. I have a kid in junior high and I go down there and there's cross country running. It's before daylight. semis are already running uh through that area and so she just she wrote a pretty long email you know expressing concern and and she has a list of five or six items that she wants the city to work on and one of them was supporting her and asking texdot to designate a school zone there with reduced speeds during the So text off their procedure is get the city council on board, adopt a resolution or an ordinance requesting that. And then they'll do a traffic study.

So that's what we're requesting. I think in conjunction with the new crosswalks that are coming sometime.

That was one of the items on the list. You know, she asked we could ramp up, you know, working together.

traffic in the mornings or afternoons you know there's crosswalks up around the junior high school she had a list but well if you've ever wondered if you want to support this go on friday afternoon and just watch that watch that intersection on gaither that whole area is pretty dangerous texas has agreed to do some safety features but i don't think it's going to affect speeds anybody goes

Well, if the way I understood it, if there's pedestrians in the crosswalk, you have to stop them. You would hope. And there's going to be stop bars with stop signs.

Yeah, there will be. There will be stop bars. There will be stop bars. I didn't know that. That's good. That will help.

What does that mean? Like this?

No, like a white line saying stop here for pedestrians.

Oh, just the usual stop.

Okay, I understood.

Yeah.

So, I love the idea, but I'm just wondering, is it something that we could change the ordinance or add to it and say that we also want them to study from mission to juicy fruit lane or or whatever. Whatever that road is up to the junior high. Because there's traffic that comes through there as well, though. It's not walking traffic. It's traffic. designated towards the school. You've got everybody lining up to be on. From where? From Mission to Juice Fruit Lane or to Allen.

Oh, okay. Well, Southwest. Yes, sir. We can request. I mean, we're just asking for a study.

We've got sidewalks there. That's what's missing down here.

We're just asking for a study, so, I mean, their study may not warrant a school zone, you know, but we can certainly ask.

So we need someone to present an ordinance with the details on here, I believe.

Isn't there one in our packet? There is, but it's already been highlighted.

Oh, okay. All right. We can make a motion then.

Because I didn't sign up. That's already a 30 miles. Yeah, it should be. Okay. Let me put it that way. It should be a 30 miles. So if it becomes a school zone, is it going to drop it to a 20 miles?

I would expect 20 and just during school hours. Yes, but I mean, we're going to drop it to, I would suppose 20 would be what they'd want to do it to. I don't know. So, yeah, we'll do a study and they'll suggest what they think should be done. Anybody have that ordinance handy?

Yes. I had it pulled up. Thank you. She's got it.

What's her suggestion of the from where to where?

She ordered it from Storyfoot Cafe all the way down to almost to Big Rocks. I talked to TxDOT and I think The zone actually is part of what they study. So they would be the one to dictate where that zone starts and stops.

We basically just say the school, the junior high, and then they will conduct their study for what they think.

Basically just on Bernard Street. The rest of those are city streets. Oh, I see. We can do what we want.

down.

Yeah. But I think we ought to put, I mean, I seriously think we ought to put Southwest in scope for them to at least study because, you know, elementary school back up, you know, nearly to Spencer's house, you know, or beyond it. And it's just, you know, It's just a lot of traffic through them.

Yeah, it's just I can assure you that Jim's well first and listening with the personnel here and the more you ask, the more you wait. And that this down here is really essential. So that's my only suggestion. I mean, we can go back with it, but they're not going to do it both at the same time anyway. They're not going to do two studies.

Yeah.

Yes, welcome. But You can make any kind of motion you'd like, George.

I always like to ask for the moon, and then if they just flat, you know, back up, then okay.

As my good friend used to say, I like to go long a lot. Can't everybody go long? I had a buddy I played football with who said that.

All right, I'll make a motion to adopt ordinance twenty, twenty six dash zero dash ten to study from Northeast. Bernard street to Southwest Bernard street ending at from big rocks to.

To Alan, I'll second or second by council member. All in favor or zero passes. All right, where are we here? 14. 14. All right. Discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding Explore Glen Rose economic development opportunity.

Good evening. I am here tonight to follow up with our conversations before about the sports tourism opportunity that we have. When we were last together, you requested that I put together some contracts that protected the city of Glen Rose. And I feel like we've done a good job with that and had Stan look over those contracts and they are now included in your packet. So I hope that you've had a chance to review those. And I'm seeking approval of those two contracts this evening so that we can move forward with that project.

I think I sent you an email with them also.

Yeah. Hey, Tracy, on the TCAL tournament sponsorship and hosting agreement, it said the term, it said September 10, 2026 to August 31, 2027. So that's all there.

Actually, it should be three years, shouldn't it?

It should be a three-year contract. So it should be 2029? No. Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry.

I didn't see that, but yeah, it was three years.

You're right. And the other question is, we got to pay a sponsorship fee.

Yes, sir. We do. But that is pretty standard with these types of arrangements. And that, that does come out of hot tax hotel occupancy tax.

I will say to that point, Tracy negotiated a very nice number compared to what I have seen contracts from other cities that did this with decal. I wanted to plagiarize some of the information and it's much more. I mean, they paid a lot more other cities to garner this championship to come to town.

He did. Yes, he did accept a lower rate based on the fact that he, he has been here. He understands we're making an investment. So,

What was that amount?

I'm sorry? What was that amount? Suggested amount was $5,000.

I'll make a motion if there's no more discussion.

Can I have one discussion? Sure. And I probably should have asked you, Tracy, before, but I didn't. So there's $340-something thousand kind of in the hot tax fund when we look at our budget number.

Yes, sir.

Do you have a plan for that pot of money or is this something that we could take a 3rd of it from that and put 400,000 from or whatever the number winds up being?

That's a good question. I would love to use it. So, I do have other projects that I would love to. Promote and use, but I, of course, well. We'll use those funds as needed to get the, the.

Project completely referred to the reserve account.

I got 1 more question because I don't understand the permanent sub floor. I mean, was it going to be a floor that's going to stay there? No.

It's actually not going to stay there, but it is unique to that shape and that facility.

It just says Glen Rose owns the permanent subfloor. I guess it just sounded to me like it was going to be there the entire time.

No, sir. They will remove it after each event.

You did work with the Macias' for climate control storage.

Yes, we did. It's going to be located underneath the stadium seating. They've got a space right there where we're going to keep it if we approve this. And it will always remain climate controlled.

So what did he say about the idea of, at the conclusion of the 27 tournament, adding the 2030 tournament?

He was absolutely open to that.

Okay.

Yes.

Make your motion.

All right. I'll move that we approve the economic development opportunity as presented by Explore Glen Rose.

Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Mayor Pro Tem Freeze. All in favor? 4-0 passes. And I will just tell you, folks, this is a game changer. That's why you folks voted for it, I know. But it is a game changer. This takes us from dinosaurs and added sports tourism. It really does. Great job by you and Stuart putting this together.

Thank you. Thank you, city council members.

When we walk out the door, we're going to hear a yahoo. Okay, number 15 discussion consideration of possible action regarding special purpose districts. Sounds like a George deal to me.

Yeah, I want to. I want to see if anybody's willing to talk about what. You know, do we have any feel at all for special purpose districts? You know, should I spend any more effort talking to. You know, some of the others that I have developed relationships with. And, or is this picking a poke?

I'm going to speak first because I have a real distinct feeling about it is our size, our available land, our available developments. If we were to annex some county acreage. Let's say someone down by McDonald's says, yeah, I'm going to put in a house and development. Yeah, that fits. and we can do it in an annexed area. But otherwise, we're kind of landlocked to a lot of development, unless I'm wrong and someone can disagree.

I was going to ask what we have that we could.

George, I just don't know what we have. I think you get into properties that are difficult to develop. You get into properties that are rocky on a hilltop. You get into properties that, you know, we want more than just a space the size of this room that they call a dog park. we want something that is better than what they have offered i was offended i have to tell you i was offended that we couldn't get a developer to agree to put a nice fence along a main artery road because he just didn't want to and i think that We've seen developments that have kind of slid in because of different situations, different circumstances, and we got less than what we were told we were going to get, and certainly something that I'm personally not very proud of. So I think that this is an opportunity where we can use a carrot and a stick type scenario. And there are properties that are just beyond the city limits in a number of directions that are prime development properties, but they are either in the floodplain or part of them is in a floodplain or access for utilities may be difficult for us. I can think of a couple of properties that a guy has marketed for over a decade that if he had water and sewer, he could have already sold. So that's my thought that there are opportunities um, ahead of us that we could, you know, we could, we could turn this into something that is a win-win for the city and a win-win for the developer and a win-win for the ultimately the either a residence or a commercial development. And I don't think it's a, I don't think it's in, I don't think it's anything to ask them to build a better, um, Build a better development, build a better property. And if we're going to ask them to do that, just the average developer is going to say, yeah, well, okay, no. But if we say, but we can help front some of that cost for you. His example of a but four where we have a density question could be something that we could use in a pit where someone wants to pack in a big density and we're like, no, that really doesn't fit in the neighborhood. But four, if you would do this, we could do this. I think these are opportunities that we have to leverage the tools that are still available in our toolbox. And that's how I see it. That's how I see it moving forward for us. And without naming any properties, if you just drive along and look, there are properties that are hard to develop. A redevelopment of the tech stock property on the highway, that's going to be a hard property to redevelop. I can call that out because it's owned by the state. You know, I don't want to call out anybody who individually owns a property. But the state, TxDOT Highway, may be difficult to redevelop because you may have environmental issues that somebody's going to have to deal with.

And or drainage.

And or drainage, yes. So I just think there's opportunities.

It is useful tools. And I think... Before we have a permanent city administrator, it makes a lot of sense to say, hey, let's develop this with him. As a council, we won't do it. That'll be his job. But I think we should certainly put him in our quiver and have it to use. Don't know if we will, but that, along with just a simple development agreement, when we set standards, that works too, and then we don't have the financial issues. game, but I definitely think it's worthy.

Anybody against that?

Just keeping it available and you presenting it to the new fellow, whoever that might be.

Yeah, I don't think you're wasting your time at all. Okay, if that answers your question. If it's a benefit to the citizens, then a benefit to the city.

Yeah, it has to be a win-win. It can't be a one-way street. It can't be a giveaway.

We'll move forward. All right. Sounds good. We'll be on the committee to talk to the new city administrator.

There you go. Okay.

All right. We can move to the consent agenda here. All items on the consent agenda. I'm sorry.

Are you skipping 16 and 17 as well?

Yes, we tabled them both. Is that what you came for? Well, I can't go in and mark out every agenda item, and I'm not going to visit them beforehand. These are items that, in lieu of time, and we have some very important issues to cover in executive session.

So was number 15 a no action or was it a take?

It's a continuation of discussion. We didn't do any action. We didn't take a vote. We didn't have a motion. George was essentially asking on the agenda, do you see a need for this? We said, yes, George, we do. So we're not going to vote. We're just going to...

So no action? No action. Okay. Thank you.

And if you're wondering, if anyone here is wondering, the city does not sponsor or pay for or plan to pay for in the budget any cameras. So if you want to email me, I'll answer you with the email I've got prepared because I get them every day. Okay. So in lieu of time, Rusty's done some great research on both of these items, but we're gonna bring them to the 28th when we have our next meeting.

That's all I needed to know.

All right, thank you. All consent agenda items are considered routine by the city council and will be enacted by one motion. There'll be no separate discussion on these items unless a council member requests an item to be removed and considered separately. Do we have a motion to consider the consent agenda? So we have a motion to have a second second second by council member comer all in favor. Four zero passes consent agenda is accepted staff reports.

I don't have anything to add. Do I have any questions about any of that?

Let me scroll down, George.

Jim, I had a quick question about the report at the sewer plant. So the effluent flow meter, it says golf course effluent million gallons per day. It says we were averaging 0.25. So is that what their pump was calling for?

Yes, from our system, they're currently taking everything from. From the plan, everything generated is going there.

Yeah, that that was so that was my question. So the total effluent is what we're putting golf course effluent is what they're taking. Got it.

Staying with the wastewater treatment facility, the walkthrough inspection was completed on April 22nd with your punch list created. How are we doing on that?

All items on that punch list have been corrected and completed with the exception of one item remaining that wasn't on the original list, but it's just a warranty issue. complete and i did i was speculating there might be a question about the the drought that we're in so i called the water district they're still not in stage one i think they're four and a half feet low he said they're stage one goes into effect at seven feet so we're keeping up fine we're running most of our wells We did have 1 day that we were almost at 800,000 gallons. We're keeping up mine. I left mine on the contract.

Still still having.

Yeah, just one thing. I think that lane building looks beautiful with the landscaping. Great job there. It's all great. I just want to make sure we're on some sort of schedule to make sure that it stays nice and pretty. I walk by there and I seem to be doing so well with the watering. We've just got all sorts of things growing.

So we have a a issue with nut grass. I guess nut grass grows through wheat fabric. So no wheat fabric was placed in there because when you try to weed nut grass through wheat, it doesn't work well. So the thought was we're not going to put the barrier in there and we're just going to have to come up Friday, we're going to have city staff spend about 15 minutes out there. I already have my area picked out.

Dimension works really well. Dimension or image? Image. Image. Image. Image knocks out that night grass. All right. 56. I'll have that.

I will advise everyone that the great mayor of Glen Rose, I went in and I talked to Jim and I said, they didn't put any weed block down. He said, well, you explained why, what he just said. I said, well, black plastic trash bags, they can't come through there. Anyway, we're going to deal with it. It's going to look good. What's that monkey grass all grossed in? You trim it down, it'll look good.

They were down there 30 minutes today pulling weeds with carriers.

Hey, why don't you folks mouth.

You're going to come down to the middle?

Yeah.

Okay.

Pull your concrete. All right, folks, where are we? Who's up? Buck is walking up. Chief Martin?

I don't have anything to add, Mark. We don't have anything in there, sir. So there's nothing for us to add?

No, you have nothing to add. That's a good answer.

No.

Do you have Stan's number? Okay. I'm going to text him. I'm just updating where we are. Next item. Thank you, Buck. Building and Planning Department report.

Do we have any questions?

What happened to the nice little pie chart? Love that little pie chart.

Yeah, well, we're switching. We're trying to get this system going, and it does actually print out pie charts, graphs, everything. That's fine.

I just wondered.

Jody actually had to do that manually every month. So just trying to help her out.

Anything for the building. Yes, it was. Anything on the horizon you can publicly speak about? Anybody come in? Oh, yeah. Got your catfish place open? Yeah, I went the first night. As Yogi Berra says, nobody ever goes there because it's always too crowded. Really?

I heard it was pretty good. Yeah. I didn't get it. It looks a total real, doesn't it? Nobody emailed me. Really? Well, I guess it's more like a bar slash comedy deal. I mean, he's going to have a mix of everything. You know, he's going to be bringing in live concerts, shows, everybody.

He's going to have sports like Saturday and Sunday. He'll have, you know, big screen TVs for Cowboy games and stuff.

Watch Texas game upstairs. Watch Texas game next weekend? Yes, sir. Will it be open next weekend? Well, I don't know about that, but he's pushing.

So far, everything's been perfect.

Yeah, I think so, Sean.

Yeah, he's pushing it.

John come over to my house and watch it. It's just $3 a beer. Yeah, it's pretty expensive. All right. Thanks, David. See, there's no code of nothing for code enforcement, animal control, explore Glen Rose director. How's she feeling today?

Okay. Hello. And again, do you have any questions about my report?

Can you give us a 30,000 view of what the Polixie River Jam is?

Sure. It's from the Dinosaur Valley RV Park.

Okay.

And so they will have artists singing all weekend. She has that posted, the schedule posted on her website. It used to be.

It used to be in my salmon camp.

So, I got one other question.

Yes, sir.

Hotel McDuby? Is that at Doobie's Brothers?

Yes, so it's Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and the Doobie Brothers. Wow.

And I'll tell you what, they are good.

Another fun fact is... September 19th. The Turnpike Tribute Doors will be in Walnut Springs, and we're working with them. We're going to have a shuttle that is going to six of our hotels and taking them to the concert and then back.

Tell what Walnut Springs said to you when you went and proposed this.

Oh, they were elated and ecstatic. Stuart and I went and met with Amy Houston and they they said, I can't believe big old Glen Rose wants to work with us. So. We were thinking the exact opposite because they have really great events and, of course, very little hotel establishments. So we figured we were going to have a good partnership. So we're looking forward to working with each other, collaborating as we move forward this fall.

Is that Turnpike concert at a bar?

Do you know where it's located? Oh, no. It's going to be at the Rattlesnake Ballroom, the So yes, technically it doesn't work. Yeah, that's fine. But yeah, the term tributors is the name of that. What do you mean?

They're not a tribute band. They're on their own. This is their tribute band.

This is not the tributors.

Look at the name. Read the name and you'll see. Tributor. Ah, sneaky.

Sneaky.

I was like, wait, wait, wait.

because they were at uh what's the outdoor place in granbury the backyard warren's backyard yeah a bunch of people bought all these tickets and thought it was the texas troubadours and it was a tribute band and they're out their money it's the tribute doors you have to say it's in the name i read it and i was like true thanks troubadours for coming to walnut well we had three big ones there so i got sucked into that

Well, if we get a lot more people that way, that's fine with me and they can stay in our hotels. And we'll have a concert the next evening.

And the shuttle's just going to be through our transit system. And it'll just be like a running, no reservations, just pick up and see how it goes.

In fact, that's what Stuart worked on today. He made a schedule and we're posting it at all of the locations and people can hop on and Go to the concert.

What a beautiful idea. Good job.

Thank you.

And then that's a team effort. The Oldsmobile car show is that's not is that this one we've had before?

Yes, that's the exact same one we had before. And they returned and they're super happy. We asked them to last year they were in. October, we asked them to move their date to September just to stagger our tourism effort and get some people here in September. So they did that. So I want to make sure they have a really great time in September. And I think they will. Yep.

And if you, again, just add me to your newsletter, your constant contact.

Absolutely. Okay. Okay. Man, Patty, I apologize. All right.

new and improved hot tax report. Thank you.

That is the effort of Tyann Slaughter. She is amazing and awesome and made it really pretty and easy to read. So kudos to Tyann. Thank you. Thank you.

Veronica.

One thing I wanted to point out is that we did a citywide GIS training with Brian Shirley from 3CGEO. So that was very beneficial to all of us who kind of had never had that training before. We are completing our performance reviews for all city staff, almost finished with that. And then our open enrollment is September 11th, which is this Friday. I will also conduct records training that morning to kind of go over what departments need to be looking at for their records. And then you can see we have number of birthdays and anniversaries coming in.

Happy birthday. Thank you.

Happy anniversary to officer Martin over there. Oh, it will be 1015. This is. And David 1020.

This is 1 year.

Your last city administrator report. Anybody have questions or anything? Did we have it? Did you put anything in here?

No, just just my understanding.

Any questions for Jim? Thank you for stepping. Okay, we're going to close our regular session meeting, and we're going to go in accordance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Law, Subchapter D, Government Code, Vernon's Texas Code, annotated in accordance with Section 551.07.1.2, the Texas Government Code regarding ETJ. Uh, section 5, 5, 1 0 7, 4 personnel matters to the administrators. 5, 5, 1 0 7, 2 real property and section 5, 5, 1 0 7, 1 consultation with an attorney for interlocal agreements. So we will close regular session at 7 0 9 PM and move into executive session to open up for a three minute break.

Yeah, we are. Okay. say three minutes whatever it takes no i went on the day they opened that friday this is the city one and i went in okay

We're really proud of this council today. 8-17, record time. It was pretty good. No sports on TV, though. Little League World Series is over.

There's a football game, isn't there? Rangers in Seattle are warming up. Oh, yeah, Rangers in Seattle.

That's a big one. Special channel. We've got to have it.

I think they're out on YouTube now, aren't they?

Yeah, you can do buzz.org or .com.

You can pick them up on that.

Or you can turn the radio on.

I remember the good old days. Listen to Mark Holtz and Eric Nadel. Or both of them did.

We're going to return to regular session at 8.17 p.m. We had discussions in the executive session. We will take action on Uh, discussion consideration regarding a city administrator. We're going to direct staff to issue a contract to the individual. And with the latitude to change the term, if necessary. Removing the items discussed and have have someone review the contract before you send it and any other action council.

Yeah, we do have to vote, don't we? No, but we're just directing staff. Yeah, we're directing staff.

I apologize.

Veronica, whatever her name is.

All right.

Make a motion to adjourn. We're supposed to do that.

I'll make a motion to adjourn if you want to.

Anybody second that? I second that. All in favor? Aye.

Yeah, well, for my days running the baseball association, I've never done that, but I watched Danny do it.

Yeah. Yeah, always lean over there to.