City Council - Regular Meeting

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Call order. Regular city council meeting for Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. Would stand for an invocation, please. Heavenly Father, we thank you this day and we thank you for this council and the job they do. Lord, lead them to the correct path to do what's best for our city. Lord, we ask that the people in attendance know that we work for them and we do the things that they wish for. Lord, help us and guide us in all we do. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Pledge allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Texas pledge. Honor the flag. I aliance to thee. One state under God one and indivisible. Thank you. Roll call of council members. Council member Mes here. Council member Schultz present. Council member sorry mayor pro Tim man present. Council member Freeze present.

Council member Bra

present. We have quorum all present. On the citizen comments if you would please we ask that you address the council directly in a respectful manner. Any issues or concerns or suggestions in the public comment section of the meeting and public comments outside of the section will be limited. All speakers shall approach the pro podium by your name and address for the record. Comments from the public during both the agenda items for the public hearings and agenda items for individual consideration will be limited to three minutes. Each person will be allowed to speak once and you cannot share your time with anyone else. ask that you all silence your cell phones and let's all be respectful and considerate for each and every speaker we have any announcements presentations that anybody have council members

all right we're going to go to uh item number one yes oh that's right some comments Thanks. We have two. Maryannne Steel, if you could approach the podium, please. I'm going to be speaking for her. She's her husband had an emergency. Okay. And I'm Jackie Law. Come on up here and give us your name and address.

My name is Jackie Law and my address is 2218 County Road 2027.

Thank you. and I'm here to represent the master gardeners. And what we're here to do is we were donated some land by John Parker right next to the red barn to um do a little rose garden and it's to put the roses back in Glenrose again. Mr. Cowen did that in 1978 and all the flowers had died but we were able to save one of the plants that he had. So, um, we've gone to other some other people and we've gotten the American Legion is going to put a flag up for us there and it will not impede the firemen turning that corner. It doesn't get anywhere near that. Um, we have a drawing of it'll have all the roses here and five it'll be gravel pathways. This will be where the um flag will be and then we'll have a plaque for Mr. Cowen and um, this will help people from WY funeral home. It'll be a respbit for them. It'll be beautifification for the city. The roses are going to be red and white to represent our school colors and they're going to be earth kind roses. So there won't be any maintenance after the first year when you put them in. And so that's what we have to say.

Great. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Jack. Appreciate it. All right. Now, we're going to start with item number one. If we could have uh our city secretary introduce the item. Public hearing regarding recommendations for amending division 14.0-2 district regul regulations related to lot sizes for 700 square feet or less dwellings. Okay. Any questions for the staff member? Thank you ladies. Thank you for what you do. And gentlemen,

thank you Pam.

Um, as a city, we've been approached uh by some individuals who were looking to find a way to provide more workforce housing. Um and as we've all talked about greatly, um some of the developments that are coming in are all in the upper three 500s and that's not going to satisfy a need for some of our our tourism workers, our some of our teachers, etc. So, um one resident has a larger lot and that they wanted to divide it into four lots and then build smaller houses. We don't have anything our ordinances that allow that. Um, at this time our minimum size for building a residential is 6,000 square ft. When we really start to look at what is causing the high the pricing of the houses, it's not just material, but it's also the land. And as we watch the CAD, you know, continually increase the value of our lands, smaller the land footprints are going to be what allows us to do more affordable housing. So, um, through the PNZ and with a number of citizens that were attending in the meeting, we came up with a plan that when the total square footage of the living area is less than 800 square ft, the minimum lot size shall be at least 2500 square ft. Am I using the right Veronica? Is that what I had given to you or was it 700?

Uh, I think it was eight.

All right. I just want to make sure I'm writing the right stuff because we had gone back and forth on numbers. Um, that the minimum lot size shall be at least 2500 square ft. It will be specific use permit. Um, it is not allowed in an R1 zone, but it would be allowed in R2, R3, R4. We would have we would maintain the current setback um from the front at 25 ft and the side setbacks at the current 7 ft. And this will also allow to keep the the current 40% maximum lot coverage that we already have in our ordinances. So, what this is really doing is it's allowing us to scale down um so that there are some options for workforce housing in our community. Um this would only be allowed for single homes. This is not going to be duplexes or multipplexes. This has to be a single family residence. Um and we even looked at a number of different floor plans. Um it's as we were going through the discussions, we came and found a number of really great layouts that are 300 square feet that could be a two-bedroom, one bath um with a kitchen and a living area. Um we have stated that all the other ordinances related to uh parking and everything else remains the same. This is just changing the lot size and based off of a footprint that is much smaller. questions, thoughts?

Well, we're still the public hearing portion, correct? We haven't opened the public hearing yet. Oh, okay. Go ahead. I have a question. Okay. If the what what by definition is the maximum lot coverage? So it is livable space. That is the definition. That is the definition that we already have in our ordinance.

Just just just because we are limiting it to 800. Should we reduce that maximum lot coverage percentage then to match 800 if it's going to be a 2500 foot lot or is the they can they can have whatever lot size they want but the max size of a home is going to be 800 ft livable space to get to a minimum. So to be below the 6,000 square ft of lot size, it has to be an 800 or less home. No, this is 2500 square f feet. No, the home has to be 800. Yes.

The lot size can be then anywhere from 2500 to 6,000. Oh, she'll be at least. Okay. But then the max that they can cover livable, right? It's still the 40%. is 40%. Yep. Okay. Now, that just livable does not include a porticicochair, a carport, a driveway, patio. What's air conditioned and it's what's under roof and livable. Okay.

So, in the uh ordinance you put 800 ft. However, in the agenda action form, it says 700. So I just wanted to confirm that we are talking 800 because there is that discrepancy. No, there I gave it's it's whatever I gave Veronica. I'm pretty sure we so for the the agenda action form we're talking about 800 square feet. I can't change what's been published. So it's in there but that's they decided during their it was 89. Yeah. See, so the agenda item has a was a previous number that we changed in our meeting.

So they can build a 500 foot efficiency, Mhm. a 650 foot one-bedroom, an 800 foot twobedroom and still be on a lot size as a minimum of at least 2500 square f feet. Okay, say that again. So they can they can build a 500 foot efficiency or a 650 foot onebedroom or an 800 foot twobedroom on a 2500 foot lot. Correct. But to get a 900 foot for a threebedroom, they're going to have to increase their lot size. Correct.

Because they have to be within 40%. Right now, what we have said is that the maximum the maximum we're looking at is an 800 square foot. If they want to go up to a threebedroom or anything bigger than they have to go up to the 6,000 as of right now. That's not to say that we can't come back and look at that again. But as of right now, what we're proposing is an 800 foot maximum at a minimum on a minimum of a 2500. Okay? So, if they go to an 801 square foot house, they have to be on a 6,000 6,000 foot lot. Yeah. Not saying we don't want to change that, but this is where we're starting. Got it. Any other questions?

Thanks, B. Is this for all the city or is there You said in R1 districts? No, it's not allowed in an R1 zoning. So, it's an R2, R3, R4, R2M. that's where it would be allowed. So, we don't want a tiny home next to a, you know, 3,000 square foot home, right? So, yes, it's allowed anywhere in the city that the zoning matches. And that's why we put an SUP on it, right? Because we do want to look at it from a case by case scenario.

Yeah, I love that. Um the other uh property uh potential property owner that came up to me, it's an odd shaped property. It's right off 144 um Sam Houston. It's the triangular property and that's only 438 square ft. He can't build a residence on it because our minimum was 6,000, but our commercial is 3,000. So, that's kind of where we started from is what what are we allowing commercial to be built on and then how do we make that work for residents?

Any other questions? All right, we're going to open the public hearing segment for this item at 5:42 p.m. Do we have any comments from anyone in the audience like to speak? Like a comment? All right, we're going to close public hearing. 5:42 p.m. We're going to go down to individual items for consideration. Number two, discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding recommendations for amending division division 14-02-2, district regulations related to lot sizes for 700 square foot or less dwellings. I like the idea. I'll just say it because we all know where the price of homes have gone. We all know that someone getting out of high school and coming to work for public utilities or going to work as a plumber, lots of jobs that they're starting out at, they can't afford a home. They can barely afford an apartment. They have to bring roommates in. I think we need to to I think this is a good idea. I make a motion to amend the uh section 14.02-2 district regulations related to the lot size for 700 ft or less dwellings as

pres 800 800 as presented. I'll second by mayor pro Tim man. All in favor 5 passes. Thank you all. You know, this has been a passion of mine trying to find a way to get us affordable housing for our workforce. So, I really appreciate your Thanks, Pam. Great idea. Good work. Thank you.

We're going to call an audible and move item number seven up for timing with attorneys if we need to visit with them. That item is discussion consideration of possible action regarding a contract with Victor staff ETH and Delgado and Okcasta for professional services related to the dinosaur longshore 765 KV transmission line and dinosaur switch being proposed by Encore Electric Delivery Company LLC. George,

so you had a uh the engagement letter on your spot at the deis and I wanted to just formally uh take action to engage bigger staff, Heath, Delgado, and Aosta. The attorneys would be available if we had any questions. We can we can call her and uh see. But um the engagement is for uh Joshua Catz and um and um Claudia Claudia Russell. And you see their rate on the exhibit B at $410 an hour for the work that they do. And that is inclusive of their administrative assistance time as well. They um they would help us arrange some meetings in Austin if we wanted to. They would and we've already the the people who are already working on this A3 uh proposal have done a great job of getting uh comments, public comments out there. The PUC has opened up the third docket for receiving public comments. And then the mayor told me that Sunday we collected another over a hundred comments as well that will be submitted. So there's a lot of interest in this this line and our engagement letter uh says specifically that they are going to uh I have it pulled up for you that they are going to I can't find it. Does that help? Uh, no. That was my notes. Thank you.

that they are going to help us with the opposition of number A. There we are. the opposing the CCN application line segment A3 and then any other legal services that we mutually agree with them on. Um they estimate it be a max of 15 hours to leading up to the February um meeting. Encore intends to make their application at the February meeting and that application will be they'll lay out to the PUC their preferred route and their um secondary routes and then PUC will will have some time they're estimating Encore estimates six months that they will determine the the the route that they will grant them for their their change in their CCN. And 30 days post that meeting in February is when we could we could ask for a protested hearing if route number A3 is their preferred route and and is what they move forward. So it's incumbent upon us to move quickly and you know try to dissuade them that route A3 is not their preferred route. And so I'm asking that we engage bigger staff to help uh kind of facilitate that information flow for us. And um they said it would not likely be a hearing in February where we could testify. they'll probably just take their application and then because there has been so much interest and so much docket and so much um so many comments already that they would not open it up to a comment period at that February meeting.

So any questions? Um the commissioner's court last week uh said that they would help us with the cost of this and uh I said to them that we would um I think it'd be a lot cleaner for Bicker staff to bill us and then we can send uh the proportionate amount to uh Somerville County for their share of the of that monthly cost. They'll bill us monthly on the 15th and it's due again by the 14th of the following month. So, uh, we can we can pay the bill and then send a a proportionate chair across the street for the commissioner's court, but they took action last week to um to authorize going in with us on this kind of engagement, but we would be in the lead for this engagement with Bicker staff. Well, being that we took a motion and a vote last month, do we necessarily need to retake a vote on the same thing now that we have the lawyers firm's name or um

is our vote vote last month suffice, but we did a dollar last month. Yeah, we did. Which doesn't sound like it's even going to be close to that. It' be a heckle cheaper, but which is great. But I think we go ahead and take a vote on it because this is a whole agreement that we're about to move forward with. Yeah, we need to engage them as our attorneys. Will you continue to be the liaison the team? I can. Somebody else can as well. It doesn't matter to me. Anybody's as good as me. So, whatever you'd like to do.

I'd like for you to continue. It's funny. Well, I'll make a motion uh for us to get into contract with bigger staff Heath Delgado and Aosta for their services related to the uh dinosaur longshore um KV line A3 um as presented not to exceed we changing it down to 4,000 since that's what the county did or I wouldn't I would I would keep it at our 10,000 that we agreed to. All right. Because in case in case we do go to a protested hearing in February, we would need some extra room if that's what we choose to do. Do we have a motion?

You had a motion. You made a motion. Who seconded it?

Oh, I didn't hear it. Sorry. Quiet make, please. Uh, all in favor? 5 passes. Okay, George, thank you very much for doing that work. Thank you. It's probably the most important item we've got in our neighborhood right now. Okay, we're going to go back up to uh item number three now. Discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding ordinance 2025-0-25 speed zone. who's talking on this. What happened here? Joe,

this is just a an ordinance that Tex dot was proposing for the new uh school zone up on Highway 67 is to be able to enforce any any traffic violation have that ordinance on the bus. And it's I believe it would be a 30 mph Yes. speed limit during school hours. 67. Yes. They they already got the signs on the They already got the signs on the uh east side of it today. I didn't see the ones on the west side yet, but this afternoon, but east side's up.

A lot of work with textile. Thank y'all for doing many years in the work. My gosh. I've been telling everybody it's going to be a red lot there. That'd be awesome. Making people mad. I move to accept ordinance number 2025-0-25. A second.

Second by council member Brenn. All in favor? 5 passes. Item number four, discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding the approval of resolution 2025-R20 to name the song Good Old Glenrose, the official song of Glenrose, Texas. George wanted to hear this song, so I'm going to play it. Oh, awesome. That's great. No tears this time.

You know, George knew this family when it was being done and when it started. and we don't have a a city song and it's kind of place where I come from river that's why county belly of the dinosaur searching for good old no good We're singing in exit talking no You wondering

from above church That's why you are searching for good rose. Texas.

All right, George, you want to make a motion? Sure. Sure, I'd be happy to. Uh, I make a motion to accept good old Glenrose as the official town song of the city of Glenrose. I'll second it. Second by council member Mes. All in favor? 50 passes. I am lucky enough to have seen that recording, re-recording of this and go and watch the kids sing. Lady by the name of Jalis Staples got them on this and it was about the cutest thing you could imagine. And if George would have been there, I'm certain you he would have been

Ryan River. Real quick on this, I have his email because I thought we had already done this. I've been very busy in the last month and I told him I would send him the resolution. So, I don't know if maybe we want to frame it, send it to him or we just send it to him. But either way, I'll get you that email. Oh, I think you frame it. It's got to be mounted and framed or something.

Yeah, I think that's great. Okay. Item number five, discussion, consideration of possible action amending resolution 2025-R14 to update the correct proposed Encore transmission line. Um, when this was first written, uh, it said that the transmission line was going through Dinosaur Valley State Park. I went to go upload it on the PUC website and I just reread it again before I uploaded it on there and that wasn't correct. It's not running through. It's just wrapping around both sides of it. So, we needed to address it and get it changed so we can get it onto the PUC website.

I got a motion.

Well, I there's one thing I'd love to see added to it, though. I think it's imperative that we identify the uh endangered species birds that are in the state park that this is going to affect that this transmission line would affect. And I think uh that should be one of the wherees in there. And I didn't catch it when we did the motion the first time, but I think that would benefit us to get better traction um with the utility commission um addressing that. So, so I I I will gladly make the motion to uh accept the amendments, but I would also like to see that we add something to the uh the two endangered species birds that are um in the state park added to it.

So, we need to lay that out right now in the motion. So, we don't need to hold this off until January. So, we you want a motion with adding that? With adding Well, then we'll go there. the two wildlife birds that are actually the wildlife birds that they're considered are on the property owners not in the park but on the pro actual property owners where the lines will go through and I believe there's only one which is the golden sheep war is the only one that's in danger but but there's another one that but we'll we'll put the right details in so I would recommend so my motion would be to to accept it with adding the the species into it also I'll second Second by one question.

One question. Would you amend your motion to include that it is suitable habitat for both the golden cheek wobbler and the black cat burrio? Absolutely. If that'll get the area suitable habitat for bees as well. it. They were talking on Sunday that like it's confirmed by the federal government on that guy as well, but the state tagged the warbler and they have several that come back every year that have been tagged. So, they're aware of it. It's been Well, being that the state park is unable to uh speak up for themselves, I think it's imperative that that we do it.

Yeah, I'm good with that. I'll second it still. Second by mayor pro Tim man. All in favor? 5 passes. Discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding the design of the dinosaur purchase from the Lions Club.

I place this on the agenda so we could um get some direction on what you all would like to do with our new city hall resident. um he gets petted a lot when by people who come in. So um we just need to know what y'all what y'all want to see. If you want us to engage people to maybe come up with some designs for it and then we can I can bring it back and y'all can look at them or if somebody has somebody in mind already that I can move forward with. So we're going to put it at the lane building. Uh, I mean we can put it wherever, but

I would just like it to be painted and have a design on it or whatever you all want. It needs a clear coat. Yeah. Yes. And then um we can see about the location later. Wherever it's going to go, it's going to be bolted down to I made the comment already. I made the comment to Veronica, but I think we need to put some type of uh tracking device in it. And if if due to battery life that it's something that that

um you know only works for for uh for a year, then we have to probably set this up to be perpetual that we replace it that battery or add to it every year. But I do think we need some type of tracking device on it before we mount it also. So, air uh air tag will only work around when there's a Bluetooth device around it. So, I don't I don't know what kind of thing we could put in there, but Oh, we will have security cameras on all four corners of the lane building. That ain't going to keep them from taking it. No, but we can always position it to see, you know, it has coverage. Yeah. Can you make it heavier?

Sand. It's not hollow. It's not hollow. They they give they give you brackets to attach it to the ground. Put put a tile on it, you know. Put a tile in it. One of the tile credit cards can just be, you know, slit a little slot and just every every year just put a little tile credit card inside of it. I mean, I speak another term. Never mind. All right. Well, subject contest of some sort of We can do that. That would be kind of fun. Contest. Yeah. Naming contest of designing contesting and design or

one of each. A naming contest plus a design contest. I'd love to see the employees what they come up with because this is an employee thing. I mean I mean it's a city thing but you know it's a residence thing but I'd love to see what somebody takes self pride in it. You have many great artists in this town. Maybe some Thank you. Che have a have a good mutual design and then Lions Club provides us with a list of artists who are Was I on?

No. And I I just want to make sure that we, you know, are doing what you all want us to do with the with the dino. So we can engage the each art um teacher, Mrs. Chairman, Mrs. Vino. So I have an idea

concept. How about we How about we put this in the purview of our CBB department and ask them to get the get kind of the published request for name and a design and then you know we gorilla marketed out amongst people we know as well and set a set a return date by February February one and you never less than 60 days. February 1. Okay. January 15th. January 15th. Well, if you're trying to engage students,

they won't be back. They're not if they don't get back and then they have a long holiday in there. So, and if the teachers are going to do any kind of I mean, you can't just say it one day and then bam, it happens. So, I guess I guess it depends on who you're pushing this out towards. If you want kids involved too, then I would say we need to keep it at February 1st. Um, but if you're wanting it more community, then you could fast forward a little bit. But, you know, they're out next week and they have finals next week. So, not nothing's going to happen before Christmas, I don't think, other than mentioning it. son.

I think Tracy has a good relationship with the art teachers and the school and the kids and maybe she should be head of it. Probably I I just think it's Yeah, volunte it if it's like community engagement and things like that. That's kind of a kind of a CB function. Our job is heads and heads. Yeah. Well, not all three of them. Not not all not all three of them's paid by hot tax.

I'm just saying if her if she is paid by hot tax, this her job is about heads and beds. If she's not paid by hot tax, great. Do what what you want. I'd be happy to help anybody with that because I know most of the art teachers too. So, all right, Laura, you take that. Okay, I'll take it. And I think we need a concept. We need colors. We need ideas. Dang. Number one. Are we going to keep it at February? What is February 1? What date is What day of the week is that?

What day you want, George? I was saying February 1, but let me checking. February, Sunday. February 2. February 3 is the second is the first Tuesday. So that gives you Monday to hustle and remind everybody. And then who would who would be helping? I got the schools. No problem. But who's going to be helping with the communication from our our you know to the community? I can do it. Okay. So you and I'll work on that. Yes. Okay.

Um, I'll make a motion to volunte with the assistance of city staff. I have to volunteer willingly. Volunteered. Volunteered. Volunteered willingly. Volunteered willingly. Council member Bates to concho up a name and a design contest. And how are we going to decide? Will it be us voting or the community vote? That's up. You don't want to get involved. So, we'll vote. You vote. All right. I want to get that lined out before we

for the deadline for the February meeting. Okay. Council, I'll second by Mayor Pro Tim man. All in favor? 5 Z passes. Thank you, Lori. Move now to our consent agenda section of the meeting. All items are considered routine by the council can be enacted by one motion. Be no separate discussion of these items unless an individual council member requests. So, I have a motion to accept these items. I move to accept the I just have a question on one of the things. It wasn't about

Well, it's not a voting thing. It was just what happened in the It was about the public comment. Nobody. So, it's not a voting item. It was something in public comment that I wanted to ask about. So, I don't know where that falls. We'd have to pull it. Pull it. Is it a correction? Huh? Is it a correction? No. On there? No. Then you can ask me or do you want to ask everybody that question? Well, if you want to ask a question, you got to pull it out. You have to pull it. Okay. Even though it's not a voted voting item. Okay. Just say you want to pull out whatever item.

Well, I want to pull out the item on the public comments about the No. What? What item? You want to pull out the meeting minutes? Yeah. It's not an item. That's what I'm saying. It was just a it was it was a comment a visitor comment. It was not under any of the action. So then it was in the minutes, right? Yes. Okay. So I move to approve the consent agenda items 9 and 10. I want to pull out eight. Second by council member P. All in favor of that. 5 9 and 10. So approve. Number eight, consider

approval or other action regarding the minutes of the regular city council meeting held on November 10th, 20125. Council member Mes.

Okay. So I'm just questioning. It was brought up um in public comment that the CBB has requested a financial meeting. So the advisory committee has requested a financial meeting regarding regarding the hot tax and so have we moved forward in any way or is that something that the council needs to approve or bring up? I'm not sure the steps um of that, but I've had three people corner me about hot tags and so I I just since this has been formally requested, where are we on that?

Going to set it up for January. Okay. The holidays are a little crazy, right? Coordinate everything. Um hopefully that first week we're all back from the new year and before our audit because our audit will happen in the middle of January. That's all I wanted to. Thank you. Okay. Now you want make a motion to approve item eight. Yes. Hold on. Let me find item eight. I'll make it if you wanted to. I'll move to approve item eight. consider uh the regular city council meetings on November from November 10th, 2025.

Second second by council member Brening. All in favor 50 number eight is accepted. All right, we're going to move to staff reports now and we'll begin with public works director. Um, so I provided a report. I don't know if y'all read it or not. You got any questions? I have one question. Um, status of the water tower. Yes, sir.

Um, I've pretty much given up on on the company that put them up the first time. Um, they're pretty nonresponsive. I reached out to another company and they're about twice as much as we spent the first time. Um, not sure if y'all want to move forward with that, but will it work? Um, well, this water tower speaking or may he's he's you missed his memorial at least.

I've been able to go back start going to sleep at 7 o'clock again because I haven't had to Good evening, Glen Rose. Um, is that have we tried to see if that's covered under insurance or not? Likely not. Right, Jim? That's probably the case. Yeah. Is that is that what they landed on, Bronica? Yes. Yeah. So, you're saying about 200 grand to get this new company? Probably about probably about 50. 50. Well, I thought you I thought I thought for the whole project, everything we did, but just for the

Well, that that was painting and everything. So, just the lighting project was I think the first time was like 35. The these guys say they start at 50. Can we take a little time and and and and look at try to find a couple others or Yeah. I mean, and and I talked to uh I talked to the coach Straoud and he said he'd never done one, but he said, "Man, I'm I'm willing to to look at it if y'all want to explore that." So, if we're going to have it, it needs to work. That's my

I think if we're going to have it needs to work and when it doesn't work, when I know the few conversations I had with those people, they were like, "Well, we're busy right now doing Christmas lights." Well, okay. You know, it needs to be somebody that we can get to. I mean, they they came out at least a dozen times. And there there was it was kind of a fiasco. The lights were made in China, shipped from Germany, and then they were saying it was should be a warranty item cuz they were getting water inside of them, which is making the colors all wonky. So, so he was charging them every time he came out. They weren't paying him. So, maybe they're the ones that blew it up.

Kind of a big mess. So, are we having to start all over with all new lights or just repair? They recommended because of the direct lightning strike. He said those the wiring and everything's probably damaged and he's saying it probably just all needs to be replaced. Oh, I guess we can make an agenda item and discuss how bad we want. I would recommend though. Yeah, definitely try to get as many quotes as you can, including Dakota. Yeah, there's there's not a ton of people that that are in this business. So, the lighting on the square is that

any other questions for public works? Hey sir, why don't you ask the water tower to speak out and ask if anybody else has ideas of how to light the tower? I deleted the page. Okay. We normally do or have a um kind of a weekly I mean a daily pumping log that was in Yes. I I left out before the pump was complete. So I can get that to you. Okay. Please. Yeah. Thank you. and the one for waste water as well. Anything else council? Thank you, John.

And then I did meet with text. I don't know if y'all read that about the the massive pole that's in the center of the sidewalk. So, we're exploring some other options there instead of trying to to make Texas Mexico move the pole. Moving a pole sounds like a great idea. It was addressed as soon as it was put in there. That's right. They're the ones that he blew it off. Yeah, it's it's it's just difficult. No, you don't have a lot of leverage against them. Not if people keep hitting it and swiping it. There's a lot of paint on that thing already.

Yeah. The the one baller is cocked over the sides. Keep people off those big trucks off her. What's going on? hours. Anything else? All right. Thank you. Police Chief Martin David said we'll go up there for 20 lines.

I go up there for 20 grand. Two weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks. We'll get Anybody have a question for Chief Martin?

One. Yes, sir. Um, Buck, are we still I mean, I know we're I know I know it's called out in the log, but we're we're making a a good effort to cooperate on those u vehicle lockouts whenever the county has something. That was something a couple of years ago that they asked us for, you know, kind of in the spirit of cooperation to help them out on that. And I know that you got the material. So, I just want to make sure that we're still in there helping them

when they request start. The previous uh administrator cut that out. So, but yeah, I know he's gone, so we can start back up doing that. Not a problem. Thank you, sir. Anything else, Chief Martin? Thank you, sir, again for what you do. Building and planning department. David, bless me. Bless you, sir. Sorry. How you doing?

Good. David, how you doing? Good. Any questions? Um, I know we're working toward getting the uh animal shelter completed, getting painted. Um, it's got a few more things to wrap up before we can issue that certificate occupancy. Um, as far as the um technology side on it on the building, uh, we should be going live. Well, I don't know about live, but like testing it next month u with our website as far as the software citizen serve. So, you have got that software company did get with you to start setting that up. Yeah, the one that we talked about when you first got here.

Mhm. Okay. So, uh, we should start running tests by next month and seeing how it goes. Have they physically came down here person? No, but I've been meeting with them every week. Okay. Trying to get it all hashed out. It's a lot. Um, code enforcement. Not much there to grasp. Will you show us some of that technology? Oh, yeah. I'd like to put it up here on the screen for you whenever I get it available. Okay, that'd be great. But yeah, it's uh going to be pretty nice. Thank you for jumping in and really pushing to get that where it needed to be. Yeah. Well, it's uh

2025. It's not an easy process, but back sorry there talking a few months back and I think it might have even been you got here. We talked about signage um at the animal shelter. And so I don't know if that's on your radar, but it was one of the things that council kind of mentioned is that we need to look at some type of uh city signage. So they Yeah. So they know that they can so they when people are driving by, they know where the heck it is because I know that was one of the things Chrissy said is people they don't know where they she is half the time and have to turn around multiple times to find it. So

I put that on your radar if you if it's not already on your radar. Okay. um for thoughts, designs, whatever. And of course tie in with them. Yeah. Whatever y'all come up with. And also I am working with Bureau of Veritas still and maybe some other companies because they were low as far as getting that zoning ordinance updated.

Just kind of probably have to work with Pam too to get it all ironed out. It's a lot. But we want to be able to get on there and you know have pictorials on your signage and things like that. Um, so it'll be easier to read, easier to find things. I don't know if you'll have to update Unicode. Um, but, uh, then you'll have to jump on the GIS map. That'll be another project. I know it's kind of hard for you to compare, David, but um, I'm going to ask a question anyway. just kind of total permits in November, roughly half of prior November. Do you feel like there's a a lag or there's a lot of projects that are kind of in the queue that are coming up that those numbers are going to kind of even out over time or do you feel like that's indicative of

the economy kind of where we're at or Yeah. Well, and I think too, you know, like I said, the process, you know, that's what I ran into in Waco a lot. It's like if it's tough to do, a lot of people just ain't going to do it, you know, and uh so we want to make it as easy as possible. And once we get that done, I think, you know, we'll start seeing an influx of maybe permits coming in, but also the fees, you know, fees aren't that high. So, it's really not too too bad compared to Waco. So, no, but when you just look at absolute numbers of permits, it's been trending down. Yeah, I agree. I don't know. Maybe it's just because of the holidays.

Could be. From conversations that I've had with some of the people who have been in the development side, they're they're seeing it, you know, they're seeing it hard. you're not seeing a lot of the new h the subdivisions are not getting new house permits. The economy is a little scary. Um they're struggling to sell some of the the plat. Um at least that's what Mr. Mitchell told me about a month ago.

Yeah, I'm seeing it everywhere. They're building them but they're not selling. So when she brought up the idea to bring the lot size down, that's when I was like, "Yeah, it's probably a great idea." If you look in Chicago and um Houston, they actually have programs already where they build these houses inhouse, but they're all to specs, like they're more like a modular. And so you cut down on um you know the weathering and stuff like that and then they bring them out to the site and they build them up essentially like a twotory uh modular but they're built a lot better because they're inside so they're not getting weathered inspection process is faster. Um and I think we talked about right as far as the

Yep. when you bring those SUPs in, you can say like, well, we want the backyard to be bigger or the front yard to be smaller or, you know, so that'll help you too. So, you can kind of make adjustments for somebody who doesn't have a whole lot of money. Good. Good. Great idea. Thank you, Doug. Oh, sorry. Oh, quick question. I know in the past we had talked about um something that has to do with the abandoned buildings around here and I know it's an expensive program but I mean there are several structures that are falling in on themselves and so I don't know if anybody had talked to you about that program or program

that was that was when Stephen was around. Um I'll catch them up. Okay. A lot of those homes have been torn down. Well, there's I mean by the junior high there there's several still out there. I'll get you. Okay. We'll talk tomorrow. All right. Yeah. You'd have to have a budget for it if you want. Are you meaning us to tear them down or like just going after the homeowners? Well, I think there's like a whole process to it. Yeah. It's pretty. So it's substandard and then you maybe have to have a building standards commission or you know you could do it as a court of records.

Yeah. There's there's the first goal is you know we've had them identified so getting a hold of the property owners. Yes. And um and then going through the process of condemning it and then if the owner isn't taking it down, we take it down and then build the owner. But we'll catch up tomorrow. We talked about it a little bit. I think David suggested we may need to strengthen our our ordinances and come up with a more solid process as it is you can get into legal trouble if you don't go about it just how far you going to go and then like you know I haven't been in the courts so I don't know how that works yet but

well I'll be curious what y'all come back with or what you come back with next month and just kind of get us up to date on what y'all discussed interesting We'll figure it out. I did I did a bunch in one go. So, okay. Love it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, CBB.

Lots of things we've been doing and been happening uh since I sent y'all the report. So, I can answer questions about that. But one thing that that happened uh in the interim is that the International Texas Longhorn Association had such a great time here and after they went to Oklahoma where they were scheduled to go and looked at the facilities there, they decided to come here this next year. So that'll be nearly two weeks that all of those people and the international people and the Longhorn folks will be here at the expo center. And so we've got 10 months to plan and we want to do even more than we did this time and and have time to promote it in advance as well. So we can build a festival around it. And so that's really exciting and especially given the hickey that the expo took because of the equin virus, you know. So we're we're doing all we can to promote things in the interim. Um just today uh Best Western uh Hotels uh is doing we found out they're doing a national ad for Best Westerns and they chose ours and they want to do that and have a family that comes in and goes to Dinosaur Valley State Park and which is nice timing for us too with this fight against Encore. And uh so they'll be here for uh about 11 or 12 days. So they'll bring in a pre-production crew um their actors, their producers and and film people and be staying in the hotels and shopping and eating around here too, but mainly, you know, photographing the place. So we're going to try to find them a a home with some character that

they can film as the family's home. So, we'll be looking for that. But that just happened today. Uh the the the film scout was here. Uh I showed him around and then got JC on the phone. JC's out of town right now. So, but uh he'll he'll be back for that. We had the influencer, the social media influencer here this weekend. If y'all saw her at the rally,

so she did double duty. We paid her and then Rebecca Gibbs company, Peragan Group, paid her to do a social media post about the uh Encore lines, too. So, that's up and running. Her name's Danielle Dailyaly. I think I put her name in there. So, if you follow her, it'd be great because following and sharing makes all this bigger. Um, the radio ads. I know if y'all aren't hearing the radio ads, uh, we've been doing around here, it's because I shifted instead of having as many 15se second ads and 30 second ads that played at times when people are already home. I don't think people hear radio ads as much as when they're driving, when they're driving in the morning to work or at lunch or driving home. So, I shifted it. It's not as many of the small ads, but the radio ads now go from Corsacana to Stevenville to Waco and Dallas and Fort Worth rather than being around in this area because that's not bring the people overnight. That's it. It it it helps us with day trips, but I I did shifted that focus over there. Um, and the the big thing, oh, I put the golf balls that we had printed uh for promotional items and the people did not print the explore glenrose.com on the other side. So, they are going to redo those for us. But rather than having 600 of these go out uh without the allimportant response mechanism, uh a local vendor here is going to print that on the back and that'll cost us about the same as the original did. So, we'll get twice as many golf balls printed with that. Then we'll be using those for promo items and uh get them out at the golf course and and of course they look like everybody

liked them. They were look like dinosaur hatchlings and dinosaur eggs. So, yeah,

it'll be a collector's item hopefully. And uh the big thing is the uh we debuted the website a couple weeks ago at the advisory committee meeting and they gave us a couple of of pointers that we incorporated in there. We're still working on it, but it's live. And we this went live at 11 o'clock this morning. And this afternoon, Tracy and I got a a message from Darren, our our website um uh manager. Well, you know, the people that are building it, it's already ranking number two uh nationally after for wildlife drive. If people Google wildlife drive, it comes in second after fossil rim, but above the n the US fish and wildlife.

So that's without us pushing it with any kind of paid ads or anything. So we've got built into the budget the Google paid ads that we've got. And so we're still we're still uh migrating information from the existing website over to these various things. And so we're double-checking, you know, hours have changed for some of the businesses. Um, you know, seasonal things. We're refreshing the pictures. So, it's a work in progress. But this, consider this kind of like the uh trailer to a movie. So, uh, it it it's, uh, it's doing everything we want it to do because within the copy, it's not just, you know, people aren't going to find Glenrose website. They're going to search in certain things like wildlife tour, adventure, explore, uh, family exploration, things like that. So, that's all built into the copy so that when those search words uh when families search that, it'll take them to this. It will be one of the things that people find. And so, that's when it's going to really start working for us. So, I'm real proud of it. And uh it's we're going to be adding more. We've got so many more um drone videos and and and it's very visual. Lots of photography, lot more photography than um text, but the text is very strategically written to to uh capture these things.

This looks really good. So, you know, once we once we get get the real nuts and bolts of it working the way we want it to, I mean, it's it's functioning now and it it'll get people there, but we're going to keep adding. This is right now it's 12 pages. Before we were eight pages total, but we're adding two more pages and that'll include the contest thing, the band wango that Tracy's working on and also the um you know, we'll be fleshing out all of the accommodations, all the dining options, and all the other attractions. So,

so when people go into the previous old pages that we've had, we've had, this is probably about the fourth or fifth page that I can think of that we've had over time and that we still have the URLs on the other ones on. It's going to be directed towards this. Okay. So, it's currently not, but they're going to be directed to this. I think they I think they're not directing to this website yet. So, they're all going to be directed to this, but they will be. So, we're only only maintaining one web page versus Yes. Okay. Yes. I mean, I'm I'm all for keeping those other URLs and keep keep them because

Yeah, we're also keeping some of the other Facebook and um Instagram pages for the next few weeks while we direct everything here. And we will also have a a a de debut party I guess of of sort, you know, and invite everybody because we want everybody in the community to be going to this and using this and spreading the word. So the more people like and share, you know, the better it's going to do for us. Well, I think you still need to stay on your social media, too. Oh, we are, you know,

we are and we'll be having now that we have the one place to send people and the one URL, um, we'll be using those paid Google ads to drive traffic to it. Yeah. So, right now, without even having any ad, all that stuff's free. Social media is free. Well, yeah, some of it is, but when in order to to promote it and drive it more, we can we can add a little money to it and it and it uh Yeah, I know that. But we're not even we're not even putting much out there on social media. We are.

No, we're not. I I listen. I screenshotted November 3rd to December 3rd of 2025 and I compared it to the same dates of 2024 and there's four times as many post and product out there being pushed and that's what we have to get back to. It's nothing against you. It's nothing against anybody, but my opinion is that on Saturday, I know Tracy worked really, really hard to put an event down there in marketing and I had no clue about it. not as an elected official. I had no clue about it as a person, as a member of this community until I took my daughter to her basketball tournament. I was like, "Whoa, what's going on here?" You know, and there's Tracy out there working her tail off as a son's coming up and it's misting outside. There's no, we're not pushing things the way that I think and a lot of other people think we should be pushing things through social media. Well, I'd like to visit with you and show you the places where we are marketing it and maybe it's, you know, we because we are we're we're we're posting every day.

We're not. Well, yeah, we are. I'll go see. I haven't seen it any of your Well, my personal Okay, hang on everybody. I'm talking at a time. Um, what I suggest I would like for Stuart and text to visit about that and look at it and show it when you have time. If y'all will arrange that Pam real quick if you got your arms going to fall off. It is. So, one big question. Are we getting county hot taps? That's not on the agenda.

My question is you've got Lai Mia being featured and that's promoting a county property instead of a city property. And if you're not getting a hot tax from the county, he should not be spending any money promoting a county property. Okay? We will be receiving county hot tax when because that's not an interlocal agreement that's been agreed upon by the county. You had an employee, but you don't have an agreement because we've asked the court publicly and they've said no. They said they are not going to give us hot. They didn't say they weren't going to give it, but you don't currently have an agreement. So why are you saying yeah, we're going to get it when you don't know that you're going to get it. That's my issue.

The other thing I have a problem with and Joe when before Rita and everybody I sat down and gave you guys a a format of a website and things that we needed to have. Where is the wedding venue? Where do you where's the meetings? This is all transient leisure travel. It's on there. Where I see places to stay, things to do, plan your stay

on on the drop down menus. It's any masset on any CVB website where you're trying to also promote weddings and social events and and group travel be it motor coach or anything you have a you have a tab in navigation for that at a first level well as as it scrolls down from that that opening page it I guarantee it's on there it's yeah okay Um, let's see. Yeah,

I mean, I didn't want to take up all your time. I just wanted to show you all this, but uh, scroll down a little bit more. It may be it may be on the places to stay or plan your visit, but we've we've each of these is going to be including those like um I forget whether Okay, let's do let's let everyone know that we can make sure I mean we can make sure and put that on there where it's more prominent. Yeah, it's it's live but it's there text. It's live so people can go review it, look at it. Yeah, you welcome your your notes and suggestions. Yeah.

Hey, I've got to tell you, this is one of the best websites I've seen that come out for Glen Rose. I'm trying. I really wanted to showcase the beauty of this. And I'll tell you what, the other comment we get all the time is people ask about a a centralized calendar and I'm looking at the events calendar and y'all been working on that. So, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's huge. So that's that's live. It's working. Like I say, we're we're still we're still migrating the parts over there. And if we need to shift some things around on the headers and stuff, we can do that. So

I would recommend highlighting the golf course, too, because I can see under the things on there, too. You can't get everything on the opening. You got to capture people's attention and then then pull them in. And so that's what we're trying to do with this. Okay. Thank you very much. That's great. Anything else that you have? No. Any questions? Anybody Thank you, Veronica.

Just to point out that our audit has been scheduled for January 19th through the 21st. So, we're currently actively working toward getting them everything that they need. Um, also we Jen's department had uh Avery come on board as a permanent employee who was from the temp agency and that was two examples and then we just had I know we mentioned it David come on yesterday from the temp agency. So Mr. Holder also celebrated his work anniversary on

dare we ask how long 22. Oh, you got a long way still to go. Um and then please note that um we are going to be closed. Thank you, Council Member Bruning. uh for uh Christmas from the 24th to the 26th. So that 26th was that extra day and then of course we'll be closed on the first. And then I would also like to point out that Joe McFarland um our municipal court clerk passed her uh level one um certification. So it's very exciting. That was very tough test and

so she's working her way toward two now. Any questions? Congratulations are in order for you and council member to graduated leadership class leadership. Congratulations.

I just want to say that was that was a great experience. I I had a lot of fun. I saw things that I have never been to and I lived here for 17 years. Um and it was it was really uh fun to get to know the people I was in class with and then just um kind of do some of that leadership development and personal development. I just I appreciate y'all collide the time to do that. And I highly recommend that as city council you participate in future ones coming up. It was

it it was so nice to see not the bird's eyee view but the in a more indepth eye view of the different things in our community. Me being here 21 years plus, I saw a lot of things that I had not ever been to. And it was it was it was very interesting. And I must say that Veronica did an amazing job representing the city and coming and talking and and organizing that whole event for our group. So, she's awesome. Y'all know that, but I'm going to say it again. But please, y'all consider doing it. And I I would even say that I think as a council it would be nice for us to look at sponsoring our city workers and have different people who would be interested in participating in that not just Veronica but start working on other members to

so when it when they start advertising for the next group I'll bring it up. So that's a great idea. All right. city administrative report.

I don't really have much to add. I put a lot of different things in the back of my other report. One one thing I did want to mention is um last month about mid mid November I think the water district u completed a project out at their facility. It's really helped some of the water quality problems they've been experiencing the last few years. And so we we um started purchasing water from them a couple of weeks ago. So

just wanted y'all to know that we're not on 100% well water currently. We were about I want to say we were closing in on our we're we're allowed uh a lot of a certain amount per minute to take groundwater and uh we were kind of getting close to our limit. So we we've been receiving notifications from Prairie Lands. Uh if we exceed that then there's there's fines involved. So, uh, it was kind of good timing for the for the whole process. So,

hey, I've got to tell you, um, I tested our water at our house because one of my daughter's friends who lives way out in the country and has well water said our water tasted different. I was so impressed by how good our water is. I mean, straight out of the tap, I'm looking at that and I'm comparing it to where it's supposed to be. So yeah, thank you for

author when they designed that plant. They they tried to make that plant produce water as close to what the city was already supplying. I have to go back. Yeah. Anything else? No, I don't have anything to add. Oh, I do I do have a uh quarterly meeting scheduled with text dot next week. I know you had expressed interest in attending that. What's the schedule?

It's uh Tuesday 16th at 9:00 a.m. I'll be flying in that night. I'll be out of town. Okay. So, I don't know if anybody else is interested in attending that. I really want to go there, too. Love to get their communication to be better. Yeah. All right. We're going to move into executive session in accordance with provisions of Texas Open Meetings Law Subap D, Government Code Burns, Texas Codes, annotated in accordance with section 551.074, personnel matters to city administrator. And we will adjourn to regular city meeting right now at

the estimated 30 minutes. 30 minutes and an hour and a half. I know. Maybe he doesn't understand that's what he's doing. Maybe not. But I mean, and all of the local has only been posted in our local page.

Yeah. Not not a bomb. He up her name. Hey, ma'am. Did you email from Tanya? Yes. Okay. Yeah. She texted me before the email. Oh, fancy you. Well, I mean to see if the date works. I'm just messing with you just to see if the day works. So Oh, I know. But it's entertaining. Anyway,

what is wrong with those boys? They can't go five minutes without They must be getting old, Rich. I guess. How'd your house feel the other day? really good. It was fun. About 150 people let people in your house with your cameras. You better never know people nowadays. No, it was pretty nice. Put a camera in there. Joe, who who last year won the uh house decoration?

We didn't last year. 401 Grace. This year, Elm won first place. Grace got second place. Excuse me. Based on the votes, and I haven't presented either one. Anybody want to take it out? Here's our problem. The Elm Street who does the decorations doesn't live there. They own the home and they rent it. So, what do they should go to the home owner? They do a bonfire every now and then. Like the owners do. I know that's weird saying, but they do a bad boys. What you going? They'll sometimes post they're doing a bonfire. If I can get I'm trying to get to find out

where they live and it's James Williams is what I'm told. It's got his name, but he's got a dress. That's where he lives.

He doesn't live there. Anyway, let's go back to regular session and we will open regular session at 7:40 p.m. In executive session, we had one item. We agreed to discuss and further consider item number 21, discussion, consideration, possible action regarding matters discussed regarding personnel matters of a city administrator. We're now open for discussion. I'd like to make a motion that to direct staff to enter into negotiations with the uh prospective candidate as outlined in executive. We have a motion.

A second.

Second by council member Mes. All in favor of the motion 50 passes. We are directing staff, Veronica, HR, to move forward with those uh specific matters we discussed. Anybody have anything to say? I'd like to say one thing. Tell your friends this Encore thing is getting big and it's going to change our neighborhood. We all need to tell everyone to send letters, be active, get out there. It's going to change our landscape a lot. If you go and really look at what they're doing, there's other apps that are much better suited. So, you know, tell your friends, tell your family. Anybody else got anything to gripe about?

Can we send out a blast under the paging system with uh the uh web link or open yourself into a lawsuit? U Hannah is doing another article this week. Um we got a web page that now directs people to specifically the

I'm not sure non-emergency can be used for the text. George, um, you had mentioned that the city could take I mean, while we can't do much, but we could write in a letter saying, I don't know what it was. I'm trying to remember. I've slept a lot since then, but there was something that we as a city could send in the resolution.

We can do anything else. We can also I mean so with with with our attorney we can you know we can more actively engage with the with the PUC and also with Encore and express to them that you know this is really a significant event for us. It's a it's a significant risk for the endangered species. It's an it's a significant risk for the the state park and the property owners around there. So yeah, I mean there yes, we can and I'm sure we will. Um, and you know, there will be an opportunity to uh, you know, put that information in front of the PUC and have them, you know, consider it. But I do think that for our our broadcast system, we could maybe have a general FYI that says if you have some information or questions about this encore line, go to this website. There's nothing wrong with with pushing a pushing some information out just as a general FYI without you know without having a having to take a position per se. I mean we have taken a position because we've engaged an attorney to oppose a particular route but we don't have to say it

in a broadcast text. Yeah. I don't I don't know if there are any limits but Veronica can find out. I'll call you. But yeah, we'll get we'll get some we'll get some meetings and we'll try to get some information in front of these people and just express to them how important it is for our community and for our other stakeholders within within the county. It's a great It's a great sign that the county is coming alongside with us in this situation particularly and I think it it kind of goes to the whole idea of communication and cooperation and we're in a whole different level than we were three and a half years ago. Yeah, that's very positive.

Candace, just so you know, as a council member, you're not limited to make your beliefs known to the PUC, to uh Encore, or anyone else. You don't have to limit yourself. I've already submitted, right? I am, too. So, I'm just saying that's great for all of you to do. You carry weight. All right. I thought the rally was very well organized and I don't know who set up the speakers, but they were very good and very informative. I saw Joe doing it. He did a great job. Did you set up all the speakers? I did not. That was done by Rebecca Gibbs of Paragrine and she did the labor part of it. Yeah. I had all the PA system around. Well, it was very organized. My thought went well. It went well.

Very informative and it was great to see the members there. Helen there. That was awesome. Her speaking. Yeah. So, well done to who organized that. Hopefully, we can do another one maybe. She's going to be Oh, I'm sorry. She's going to be a great advocate for us and some of the other House representatives have already sent a letter to the PUC as well. So, we're going to try to engage with them and and you know, make sure that the message is really crystal clear and uh crystal. You know who said that, don't you? Yes, sir. Crystal clear. You said there was danger. No, I did not.

All right. Anything else? All right. meeting Jiren at 7:45 p.m. Oh, you said there was no That's right. You said there was no danger. Well,

just like it's almost like everybody