City Council - Regular Meeting

I will call the meeting to order. Today is Tuesday, 05/05/2026. Welcome everybody to town hall. We just have some elections, so congrats to our mayor elect and councilman Wiley got reelected. So we're looking forward to having him. Is he gonna be joining us today by chance or or no? Do we know? We'll find out. We got a good agenda. We got an executive session item as well. So let's go through real quick the agenda, and then we'll break it to the executive and go into work session after.

So,

under presentations, we will be recognizing the Keller High School girls soccer team. We'll also be recognizing the inaugural leadership greater Keller class. And then the consent items. F one, consider approval of the minutes for the Tuesday, 04/21/2026 regular city council meeting. Second item, consider resolution approving a contract amendment to professional services agreement with Baird, Hampton, and Brown out of Fort Worth, and that is for the purpose of providing engineering drainage review services relating to development applications for public works.

Any questions on that one? K. Third item, consider resolution approving the purchase of irrigation system parts and components for central control system from Longhorn Inc. And that is through the interlocal purchasing system co op program. Any questions there? Alrighty. If not, g one, old business consider resolution approving an SUP I'm sorry, a supplement to the public highway accurate crossing agreement with UP Railroad Company for the Keller Hicks Road Improvement Project. Any questions there? Any update? Did they

As long as it was a has an update. We have a presentation as well to go through the cost, but

you'll go through the presentation at That will be that

was my question to you. If you want me to hear, you want me to out there. The bottom line is I was able to get, the amount, from the original $1.00 4 down to roughly 85,000. However, the the resolution and the item still stays at a 104 unless you wanted to push that to the next meeting and and try to tighten those numbers up. But in going back and talking to UP, we were able to go through and identify what was originally agreed to, what's been invoiced, the delta that that produced, and why there was an overcharge.

So let me go and pull that up so we can see it real quick. Five by 26. So what you'll see on the screen is what I can also present again out there. Essentially, and if you can grab the lights behind you. Thank you.

What we have here is Main Street or US 377 and Keller Hicks. The railroad is here. Katy Road is just to the west. The project that, this is a part of is that darker gray, almost black, which reconstructed all of that with Fort Worth. More specifically, the part that is in Keller and the Keller City Limit is on the West Side here of the the image, but it's on the East Side Of Katy.

Just as a reminder, Katy Road itself is fully and wholly within Fort Worth. We pick up at the right of way line going east. And that's why we were part of this is that it's a Fort Worth project that we partnered with, and this is the, railroad crossing that was approved. So how did we get here? This is the joint project in Fort Worth.

Fort Worth is a project manager. This began over fourteen years ago. Say over because when I first relocated from Kansas, it was underway when I arrived at Fort Worth. I finally got the design completed in '22, and the interlocal agreement with Union Pacific was ratified in May '23. That interlocal agreement or that that that agreement between us and UP, committed the city to an estimated $213,917,000 dollars for the work UP.

That is the same numbers that you see shown below as a a gesture of their benevolence. And I can say that sarcastically, but $70,000 worth of sarco. Union Pacific has agreed to pay for half of what they originally estimated to be that surface work. Normally, that's something that's completely done by municipality. That's that all adds up to that $2.13.

However, as part of that agreement, the city agrees to pay the actual cost of whatever it takes when it's, when it's completed. But this is the best estimate upfront. These are the costs that it all comes down to. I'll let you digest that. But the estimates we just talked about is in that second column, the actual invoices and each of those came in here.

The difference you'll see, we are under spending on the signal work overspent on the surface work. And then we still have what we believe to be another $20,000 of invoicing to be received. So it puts us at about $85,000 roughly that $30,000 $28,000 less than 104,000 that we had originally started with. Why did this happen? It's important, so this is where you guys get to be a little bit of an engineer.

So this is the plan view or a view of your overhead of the railroad crossing in the street. When you go to the bottom of the page, then you'll see a cut view and you'll get to see what the road looks like before and after. The before is this dotted line underneath. The after is the darker line. It's important to note the difference between that dotted line and the dark line is because the road surface it was raised for various reasons, but we'll talk about that in a moment.

The Texas Municipal, manual on traffic control devices says that all railroad crossing arms need to be at least three and a half feet from the surface of the pavement, three and a half to four and a half feet. Because the road was raised and it didn't have to get raised much, we then were below that three and half foot clearance. And so the crossing arm mechanism had to be relocated slash replaced raised. That was not part of the original estimate. And so what what we see here are the two crossing arms.

While on the west side of the railroad, not a big difference. The the so that that's two and a half feet difference between the horizontal lines. So it's about three inches on the west side of the railroad. Not a big difference. Two to three inches because right here is where that crossing arm lines. It's a bit more of a difference east of the wrong line because that we got about four inches of difference. The reason we had to go up higher is because the drainage had to be accounted for. And so we couldn't keep the original grade and it was raised about six inches here. Eventually got to about three inches there. That was enough to kick the distance between the cross arm and the surface of the pavement out of compliance.

So UP came back to us and said, we're not gonna you know, we're not gonna lower it because you're gonna lose drainage. We just went through all of that. So we're gonna raise the crossing arm. That's where the additional cost came

in. Like to move it up on the pole?

So it's not just move

it up on the pole

because the whole thing is an integrated system. Okay. There's nothing cheap in The UK world. It's semen and

I'm just kidding. Yeah.

So what's what what the recommendation here is, and you can see, you know, these are the lights that are part of that, that cross arm. Those are the lights that need to be at least three and half feet up above it. And when it comes down, we could not maintain that that distance. What we recommend is that we continue with the current, supplemental agreement with UP that is still written for 01/2004, though we expect those costs to be around 90 just so that we cover this and are able to pay the the last of our invoices. This is the same presentation that I would make out there, but I'll leave it to you in this body how you want to handle that. I'll be happy to take any questions.

Any questions for Alonzo?

Okay. Alright.

Thanks a lot.

I have one question. So why

can't we just reduce

the amount of resolution and then

We can. We'll have to take it to the next meeting because of the noticing requirements for this meeting. And I couldn't get it done. Unfortunately, I was out in training last week, and I couldn't get it rewritten.

We just can't amend the resolution. I don't That's why can't

do it

on the fly?

Yeah. I think he Well, I think he could, but

he's just

it's less. Yeah.

Yeah. It feels more Forget what I that would. Yeah. Yeah. So do you feel comfortable with the dollar getting it down to the penny where we could amend it to, a particular amount? Or would you prefer us to wait until the next meeting?

I we could do either. If I have a preference, my preference would be to use what this is and not have to worry about getting down to that penny. Because this is we expect another invoice. We expect it to be about 20,000. I don't know if it'll come in at 20 or 22, and UP won't tell us until they invoice us.

So we got that's the only marginal.

We don't know the total amount. Is that what you're saying?

We know that it's right around that. But, again, until UP gives it to me, they won't tell me what it is. And, you know, this is part of them playing it close, and they don't wanna commit themselves one way the other as well.

Don't know what's in the bill if you read it.

Well, yeah, I guess I'll get it. Yeah. I mean, we can discuss it out there. I prefer just to, I guess, table it, and then I'll only give us the bill if they wanna still approve the

resolution. It's kinda how it works. Okay.

Better way to they're gonna send us a bill regardless, and we can sounds like we can wait till the amend this resolution once the bill is complete and just do it as a true up on that.

We can do it that way now.

In that way, you get the final number that we do as a true up rather than get an estimate now and then

Yeah. That's fine. Just go ahead and get that table so you guys can actually correct that.

We'll save you the last of the invoices. Yeah.

It's a clean document.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. It sounded like, basically, by reaching out to them, saved saved the city $20,000. But then because they're hiding the last invoice, we're not really sure sure.

That's correct.

Yeah. So

okay. Thanks. Mhmm. H one e business. Public hearing. Consider an ordinance approving amendment to the city of Keller Court of Ordinances chapter 12 for the Parks and Rec section twelve one six zero by adopting the annual youth program standards of care. Any questions on that one? Second item, consider ordinance approving an SUP for Mason Hair Salon, located at 11112 West Hill Street. Any questions on that one? Third item.

Hello? Okay. Third item. It's all going out. Consider an ordinance including a plan of plan development zoning change from commercial. Plan development 14 o six, single family residential, 36,000 square foot. Single family, 15,000 square foot lots in commercial for the preserve at Keller Oaks. And that is a proposal addressed at 1001 Thousand 41008 North Main Street. Any questions here?

Are we still moving forward this night?

Okay. It's

put in my request to the table at this time.

Fourth item, public hearing, considering a resolution approving a future land use by amendment from mixed use, medium density, single family, and low density single family to retail commercial and medium density single family for the same property, address as prior. Any questions on those? Okay. We do have a pretty good work session, so we'll try to go through executive relatively quick. I know we've got people here. Just for the folks around so I know are you guys here for the short term rental?

Okay. Perfect.

They'll bust you guys in. Yeah. I know I know how you work. Alright. So if that's the case, any other one let me see here. No. Okay. Alright. Perfect. So we'll go to the executive, and then we'll go back in and then we'll try to hear your guys' first.

Just so you guys know, we're not taking an action on this item, but it's just more of a reintroduction following some discussions. Okay? So alright. We'll go ahead and go to the executive and then we'll come back in. I left office that we brought it back since it's been over a year, bring it back in kind of the purview of city council, maybe get an update from Stan as far as kind of what's happened in litigation with the courts and, some of the guardrails that maybe he believes.

I know that his office has been involved in some of those lawsuits. So, Stan, if you kinda wanna give an update to us and then, like I said earlier, we're not taking any action today. This is, more than anything, let's bring the conversation back. Now that we have some surrounding cities that have done something, relatively, recently, for us as a council that to start possibly considering and kinda weighing. So Cindy, do give

the update? Thank you. As as you stated, there are a number of lawsuits around the state on this topic about the city's ability or or what degree that they can regulate the STRs. Most of those lawsuits are not to conclusion yet, but they're at the court appeals level. We've got one that has been the Supreme Court and kicked back the court appeals.

The cities had by and large been fairly successful thus far, but they're not the regulations that we think are probably going to be palatable to go forward with are things such as limiting what zoning districts A lot of the approved by SUV. Putting parameters such as a a an annual permit fee, an annual inspection fee, determining how many people can stay in STR based on the square footage or or the number of bedrooms or or some metric that is objective. So we have we have been involved in drafting a number of ordinances for cities who are in litigation right now and we feel like that there's an opportunity to to put in place some level of regulation that doesn't prohibit them from existing in your city, but puts parameters on how they operate and where they operate. The courts have

somewhat explained, if you

will, that having an outright prohibition on STR is probably not going to be defensible than having reasonable regulations on where and how is the fencing. So that's

kind

of a summary. But like I said, most of those lawsuits are are still going. They're most of our court appeals, well, we've we've got two of them that are there right now. And so far, we we've we've been reasonably successful in our ability to maintain the localities' ability to regulate the STRs.

Okay. And then NRH, the one that they passed more recently, were there were they would did they include SCP language or was it just the mixed use or how did they do we have an idea?

Yeah. I actually talked to the director of planning this afternoon in preparation for this conversation. So they did basically a prohibition on STRs and single family zoning unless it's it was already operating property that met certain criteria at the time of the approval of the ordinance by council. So they're not doing STPs, but they are. Again, it's a it's a prohibition against any short term new short term rentals in single family zoning. And then they're all required to do annual inspections and registration. And so they are allowing them in certain zoning, multifamily, their transit oriented districts, mixed use districts, but not under single family. For inspection, are you

talking about health

code inspect? Like

No. It's like the building inspectors. Just building inspector.

So c Yeah.

Do they get COs?

Mayor, I would add that that's very similar what a Grapevine

is. Like, the COs

for each STO? It's just a registration. I don't think they're calling in a CO.

Oh,

okay. Registration permit. I'm not sure

exactly what

the language is. That's fine. Was just curious if you might want that.

Yeah. You're baselining the exist they're baselining the existing ones such that it would be like if somebody new wants to to have an STR in a commercial, they

have to do that inspection.

All the ones that are existing are now at

the same baseline in terms of the inspections.

Right. But they have to re up every year. Yeah. Oh, they do. Yeah. Do they do a hot tax? They do. Yes. Yep. NRH does. Yes.

If if I may jump in, I had asked Kelly to put this on the agenda. And the fact that North Richland Hills has put forth the restrictions they have and the fact that we have allowed the STRs to fly under the radar, avoid hot tax, avoid any regulation, and have become a money machine for investors who don't even live here for the city to continue to ignore that and ignore the communities that are having to tolerate it is unacceptable and cowardice in my opinion. And Well, sir. Thank you for your enthusiasm. And I'm I'm just hey.

I you know, I sound like it is, but I have a place in Florida. I pay hot tax. I I pay a tourism tax. I pay a county tax. I pay an annual registration fee.

And there's a manager on property at my condo. And if anyone that I've rented to misbehaves or is out of line, they're out immediately. So for us to expect our citizens who are invested in the city and live here and are part of the fabric of this tapestry we call Keller And to make them put up with this is BS. That's my opinion. I'm just one on the council, but I think the city I know this is a work session, but the results of this work session, I would love to see that be that we direct staff to work with Stan and resolve regulations that are enforceable, reasonable, and protective of our community and get them on the agenda and try to put them into enforcement as soon as possible.

That's my opinion.

Are you I know we're getting a week here. Are you saying because I know I I have some concerns too. Are you thinking no STRs in residential areas? Is that what you're speaking to? I I Or are you just talking about regulating them?

I'm talking about leaving with them.

I I love what they did in North Hills, which is prohibit them. There's a prohibition on right now in single family neighborhoods.

Like Okay. That's all

was asking.

They they did offer for the ones that were already operating. They gave them a cutoff deadline that if they came in and registered and got caught up for two years worth of hot tax because they found I think she said they had upwards of 80 or 90 short term rentals and only, like, eight or nine had actually been paying the hot tax. So they offered a deal where if you were already operating, you did your registration, you didn't pass your inspection, and you got caught up two years back on your hot tax. You were, for lack of a better term, grandfathered. But no new FCRs can go into the single family areas.

When Julie proposed this, like, five years ago, she said we were gonna need a staffer for tracking. Mhmm. All that is that still case where we're still able to do that. Right?

I think if we

are because

I didn't think we needed a staffer

to do it.

So several cities are using software.

So Julie presented it.

Four or five

years ago. Yeah. Same. It happened.

What's so far?

Four or five. Three

no. Three years ago. Three years ago. Excuse me.

Three years ago. Sorry.

A while.

Up. Top five is what up on.

A couple times. So there there may have a five year conversation as well.

Yeah. But three years ago, Steve, is when it was presented. Yeah. Say but I because I don't think we would need one, but do I mean, I'm asking your opinion.

A lot of and I've only done very preliminary research, but a lot of cities are using a software that does all of

that for them. That's what

I was getting.

Several software companies will scrape basically Airbnb, VRBO, and you can even put in criteria. Like in North Richland Hills, they have a two night minimum stay for their short term rentals in in their ordinance. And so they have their filter set up with their software that will scrape and and flag for them any any short term rentals advertised within the city of Northridge and Hills that are less than a two night stay. So then staff can can enforce and address those. And this

is do they differentiate between six month and longer, or are they just saying several days? Like, you know, like, corporate rentals

that do,

like, six month or whatever.

I don't

think so, but I'd have to dig in a little bit more.

Something in a thirty day on that. Yeah.

Thirty? I don't know. Great.

House is gonna say what

is the definition of definite

That's why

I was asking.

One one of the additional issues is since these places do not have on-site management, I'm I'm totally in favor of you can't operate without an annual license. And if you have three strikes, you're out. You lose your license, license and you have to reapply the next year. It's an annual fee. And if you have disturbances in the neighborhood, if police are called, if there's complaints and you have three strikes against you, you lose your license.

You're out. And maybe even to the point that you lose your grandfather clause. Mhmm. Because the owners of them should be held to some level of responsibility for the behavior of those tenants.

Same as on the town. Exactly.

Well, this is within

our jurisdiction as a city. We regulate zoning all the time. Absolutely. We talk about commercial zoning. We talk about residential zoning. This sounds like it's commercial in a residential zone, and that wouldn't be allowed, right, in in a in a regular discussion on something else. Like, to me, this is within the jurisdiction. Plus to do is to regulate how property is being used and making sure

he's being used.

Then I eat

in the churro. Alright. Me.

Please continue. So I I echo what what councilman Wally says, and I think it's within our jurisdiction to be able to do that just like we would regulate usage on all the

land. We went to recess after that. Mean, I can't get serious right now. You alright?

It wasn't

wasn't my feet would've gone in there, we had a problem. I'll just take

it down.

I'm glad you're alright.

That wasn't just the truth. Don't know. Can I

have the same problem? Well, so I think, obviously, there's interest to bring it back. Look at NRH. We had this discussion five years ago. The or whatever it was. But I know that the issue then was we didn't also didn't wanna subject the city to litigation.

Right.

And so I think now with these more recent ruling stand, I think there's probably comfort there not to outright ban it like you said. But if there's reasonable, know, regulation that or guardrails that can be put in place, then I think everybody was okay with that last time with the exception that we didn't wanna subject the city to lawsuit. So if you feel that there's precedent for us to kinda start maybe putting these type type of place in place, then I would look at NRH, maybe Grapevine, then come back to counsel and continue discussion. But I think we at least now have some more recent rulings where you can probably be safe in that regard.

So we've been in contact with NRH and and Grapevine just this week. One of the suggestions from NRH was to do a focus group of the operators that really kinda help with drafting of the ordinance and reduce the amount of friction going through the process. So we'll come back with, you know, kind of some suggestions on process. Think May I ask you a question? Sure.

Do we know how many owners of STRs actually live each other?

I don't know that. I know that four or five years ago whenever Julie presented this, I think they found about 70 SCRs operating in Keller, but I don't know that they were able to figure out if they were owner occupied, if they had owners that lived somewhere else in the city, or if they were able to get that deep in the data.

For forgive me for being playing the devil's advocate, but to ask the owners Mhmm. And we're calling them operators, they don't seem to be very hands on management, but to ask them to come help us for that ordinances, they sound like putting the fox in the henhouse. Absolutely. That's Without a doubt. I because the the last thing they want, they've already been flying free. And the last thing they want is any restriction whatsoever. I'll jump

I'll jump in here. So I actually got a pretty good pulse on the FCR issue across town. It's the luxury of elections. That's been three years. And so you get to go visit with your neighbors.

And actually, I had one really interesting conversation. You can't have one conversation extrapolated to a whole As I shared this with you, Bill, the STR next to them actually improved their life because the neighbor that preceded them kept a terrible property. And so I actually have talked to enough Keller residents at this point. I think if they're Keller residents and they understand STRs, I would welcome their input. I agree with you on, you know, I resident.

Yeah. And there's Which is what I said.

Yeah. And there's plenty of Keller residents who understand this this concept. But to the mayor's point, I don't think anyone's against regulation. But I think, you know, in terms of is it reasonable, what does reasonable mean? I do think it's important that we get both sides of the issue evaluated just like we did five year olds ago. Well, maybe the

group. Then that

Oh, sorry.

Five years.

Then the focus group should also include people in

the neighborhood. Absolutely. That that would only be a a part of the public input. That's just a a piece of it. And I should have mentioned, yeah, that we would want Keller residents as as part of that focus group. But actually, what some of the other cities found was the local owners actually welcome the regulation because they were tired of the bad actors

Right.

Not being responsible operators. And so they actually welcomed the regulations and

wanted to follow the rules.

Yeah. But but certainly, that that would be just one piece of the public input and the gathering of of feedback.

Well, we get final vote on it anyway.

Right? Yeah.

We get final reviews.

So how do you know? How do

you and I guess it's you know, everybody's gotta be honest. Right? I mean, people have to come out and admit that, yes, I'm an STR. If we don't know where they are, how do we know that that people are not gonna continue to operate kind of a slide that we not

know advertise it. What we rely on similar to code enforcement, we would rely on complaints coming in from the neighbors that there's an STR operating in their neighborhood without registering with

the city?

Or So I think without having done the research on the different programs available yet, it sounds to me based on my conversations with peers in other cities, the best option would be to invest in one of those programs that would scrape all of those different sites. Gotcha. And they would spit out, hey, here are all of the short term rentals listed in Keller. Oh. And here are the you know, here is how they're advertising and going back to my other comment earlier is, like I said, Northridge and Hills has a two night minimum stay. So their system is flagging anything in Northridge and Hills that's advertised as less than a two night stay. So then they can address it with that particular property. But would be But certainly we would continue to be reacting to complaints whether they came in on the code side or on the the PD side.

So just to dig a little further. So to that question, software scrapes the data. You find an STR owner doing a one night rental. This isn't this is that well, you might not know. But I guess the question I would have would be, does city staff then proactively go out and like

cite the owner or

like what's the enforcement look like?

I think we'd have to work through how that process. I mean, just in generic terms. And I think you guys all know how we do with co compliance. It is highly unusual for us to go out and cite anything the first time. It would be a a notice typically on co compliance, but I think we'd have to talk through how we wanted to handle that. Because that's a different type of violation that RSAT has ever

worked on.

Unless there's a huge party and it's a criminal offense. Obviously, it's Well, sure. I'm just for people listening. I wanted people listening to know what you're

saying. Sure.

Like, if someone's breaking the law Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They get. Yeah. If it's

if it's just that their advertisement is not aligning with the ordinance, our first step is probably not citation. It's some other other step, but we would need to come up with some some procedures for that.

So let's

oh, go ahead.

No. My question

is, can when you do the presentation, can you also have an estimate of what the hot tax will probably bring back to the city? Rough estimate.

I don't think it was a lot. And what I remember It's

only, $200.

Yeah. Three years ago. But the yeah. Did you have a question, Greg?

Because I was gonna kinda move forward.

No. I was just gonna kinda put my 2¢ in and just to pair what councilman Wadley and and councilman Brennan have said. You know, I I think property rights are important, and I'm not I don't think anyone's looking to take one of the sticks out of the bundle, but I I think there's an expectation. You know, I hear my law professor in the back of my head saying words have meaning. And so, like, when when it's zoned single family residential, I think that creates an expectation that somebody is treating that property as their primary residence.

That's somebody's home. Okay. And I I don't think it's appropriate for single family residential to have these pop up commercial entities operating in the middle of neighborhoods. It wouldn't be okay for me to go buy a house in the Middle Of Hidden Lakes and operate a commercial vehicle repair garage out of it. And so I don't think it's appropriate to treat it like a hotel room. And so I would be in the favor of taking it out of single family residential.

And the councilman Wally's point, the majority of these are private equity?

Yeah. A lot of them. Yes.

Yeah. So

that would change the hotel revenue if we're just as we review that, just may Right.

But yeah.

Was that the select

clock? Yes. That's two clocks? Third one, you're out, man. Just So let's let's do, let's do this. So this was a temperature check. Yep. Water's warm. So kind of if if you guys can, maybe coordinate with Ross as far as when to put it for the next agenda or counsel.

Yeah.

But I would when you come back to your point, look at NRH. Sure. Maybe bring that kind of model to us. And then I know there's gonna be things that we're gonna probably need to kind of,

you know, fish out.

But but it sounds like there's interest

to

go back and

pursue that again.

So And are you comfortable with us reaching out to some of these software companies to say, hey. Can you give us initial scrape of what we have here? That way we can kinda know. Of course. So, you know, just wanna kinda

have a a lot of staff time if you don't.

Yeah. Just with a door to

door, just like Ross does.

Unless y'all know

how to code AI yourself. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah.

Good. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Thank you all. I appreciate it.

Thank you. Political or, I mean, a color lights. Just move on that way and then

Do you wanna do this? Do you

wanna do

Skip the survey for

the very end or wanna knock up the survey? I think think for

survey data's survey is

good. Okay.

Let's do that way, I don't wanna keep her going. Yeah. So yeah. Let's do the color lights and that way they don't have to camp out here.

Why? Why not?

Because he's only on Zoom. They got for the other one. Are you still on Zoom?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Please.

Alright.

Good afternoon, everyone. So we have Keller Life twenty twenty six coming up and it is the 200 birthday, for America. So this is gonna be our schedule. It's the same as last year, and some enhancements are, to be discussed in a later slide, but, the schedule will stay the same. Shuttles five to eleven. Vendors will be open from six to ten. We'll have KJO perform at 6PM, the famous hot dog eating contest at 07:15. We'll have live music on the main stage, And then a special guest mayor and council come on at 09:30 with the trumpet, solace, and fireworks to follow.

And what what is the date?

July 3. Friday, July 3.

Okay. Guess

so. These are our vendors signed up for this year, so we are sold out. It's the same amount that we've had in previous years, so we'll line the entire road, with dessert and food vendors.

Okay. You got the lobster. Yes.

We got cousins mang, we got hook and ladder, We got our our favorite street foods on there, so we got a good variety.

Are we gonna do a tent like we did that one year over there

or no?

Didn't we do, like, a big tent for beer? It's a

beer tent. The beer tent was across the road. That was

Oh, okay. That was an outside source setting up on the the field across the road. Okay. We do have Crown Catering. They're bringing their mixology trucks, so they serve, like, margaritas and and alcohol that way. And we're still reaching out to what's on tap to see if they wanna bring their beer trailer back again this year. So we're trying to plan a little bit a little alcohol, but alcohol is allowed, just no glass.

So it's okay for the city to sponsor an

event that alcohol is served?

They did they pull their own permits, so it's no liability on us. They have to do all their own permitting and all that good jazz.

They actually pay the

They pay as a vendor slot to come.

Yes. So

we do. That's America.

These are our sponsors so far. We're still getting contacted daily for sponsorship, so I expect this to grow.

What are the sponsorship levels, Jordan?

They start at $500 as a community sponsor. That doesn't get you a boot space. It's just somebody that wants their logo on our materials. And then it goes all the way to $10,000 for our presenting sponsor.

And then a little bit in between, we

have a thousand dollar, 2,500, 5,000, and 10,000. So we have different levels.

So Methodist this

year's what? Level?

Right now.

Are they

the presenting?

They are our $5,000 sponsor, so they're doing our fireworks sponsorship. And then if they are our highest, they get bumped to presenting sponsor.

Got it. Okay.

Yeah. Jump in for

sure. No. I was just saying we need to get them to pick up.

Mazami Falls coming in.

I know some of those folks there. We can start making some calls, but maybe next year.

They did they did sponsor a lot of our other events in the fall, so they had some leftover revenue. So they ended up giving us $10,000 total for the year. They just spread it out over

a few different things. So

these are some proposed activities to enhance the two hundred and fiftieth celebration. So these are just some activities staff has thought of. Free activities for the, public patriotic rock painting to put along the rock trail, having a face painter out and giving out free face paintings just for four hours straight. Same thing with balloon artist. We did both of those activities at Art Walk, and it was a great success.

The kids loved it. They could just walk up and get a free balloon or face painting. We want to get a balloon wall to do a photo backdrop, photo opportunities, and then do a photo contest afterwards. So everybody posts their photos from the event, hashtag, and have a best photo from the event potentially voted on by council if that that's something y'all wanna be involved in. And then we even thought about getting some event branded light up phone batons, like, the bottom right hand corner.

We can get our logo on it or other light up swag to hand out. And then additional enhancement ideas. So we wanna go bigger for our headliner. So we are looking at getting Emerald City Band. They're a 12 piece band. Really popular, very lively crew.

Well, I've seen them.

They're good.

Yeah. They're very lively, play a lot of the top hits, lots of sing along. So we're looking to

Saw them at Dallas twice.

They were good.

They they've been around for forty years. Mhmm.

They're forty three years. I want more than I'm forty three.

Sorry. So they're a great band. They they're excited to come if we want them. So that's who we're trying to line up. Potentially having a drone show in coordination with the fireworks. So drones are since it is a 250 celebration, drones are kind of a little sparse. So the firework company contacted us and let us know their company that they typically work with. So they were able to get us a proposal for a drone show to do during the firework show. I have more information on that on the next slide. We've talked about extending the firework display to a twenty minute show instead of a fifteen minute ten second show.

So definitely longer than Southlake this year. And then roaming entertainment throughout the event. We're looking at bubble artists, caricature artists, jugglers, airless performance, and maybe some stilt walkers. Maybe not walking through the crowd. The stilt walkers

to the presentation.

When did I add it? Maybe later this afternoon? Yeah.

Yeah. I

had birdies in

my ear.

It's gonna be Jordan and Rachel. That's all. Yeah. Okay. That's that's

That'd be cool.

So probably not walking through the field, but maybe in the circle where they can do some photo opportunities. We don't want them to step up with the kids. So those are just some of the proposed ideas. Kinda wanna get your feedback, how y'all are feeling, if y'all wanna go big and boom.

I it's our two hundred and fiftieth. I think this is a I know growing up when the cities did events was a big deal, and I have memories of parades and flags. It meant a lot to me, and it's important for the younger generation to see us celebrate that, especially nowadays. I think going all out's great. Greg had an idea that I actually thought was good too, but I'll come back in a minute.

Go ahead, Greg.

No. I've had for years,

I thought it would be

a great idea for us to add a dunk booth and, you know, put a big sign that says, dunk Mare McMullen.

Yeah. And

the rest of council in small letters underneath. But

ice and water.

Yeah. I do have people. Yeah. But I think it'd be I think I just think it'd be a

a good way to, you know,

get let the let the

let the residents poke some fun at us and

and watch us get dumped. Kids love

that too.

I got a quote on that earlier. They're relatively cheap, so that's something if y'all learn

That's great.

If y'all know that.

I got it.

I think we should measure

who brings the longest line Okay. For getting dumped.

That's what

I think

we can get.

What like

we used to

move back to

Nobody wants to see me or Greg

Wedd. So

Like in the in the seventies when I was a kid. Yeah. I'm old. We would like put red, white, blue streamers on our bikes and we'd have like little bicycle parade maybe for younger kids, like, around the circle of the town center here. We could have kids. They could decorate their bikes.

Yep. We can look into that. I know the police department used to do a bike parade the morning of July 4 before we brought on KellerLights. They used to a parade. And I know year one, when we partnered this event, we partnered with the Farmers Market and the Chamber. They did a parade. And the actual parade parade was a little too much because kids were running out trying to grab candy, and it's just so many people. Mhmm. But we can look into logistics for You make age limit so you're not having.

You know? Yep. We can

look into that for

sure. One thing, Erin or Greg had the idea just also. That's around about the time we're gonna start asking for nominations for the city awards thing we all approved. That's gonna happen in October. So at the event, we'll take advantage of having the 28,000 people asking them to nominate people they think should be volunteer of the year, system of year, and things like that. So kinda taking advantage of that for that event. QR code. Yeah. Yeah. The QR code. Yeah. Yeah. They take a screenshot and do it, which brings me to the second thing with that. I know in our first year, we had some screens up because I know we did the stage down there the first year of things and people up here. I liked having screens.

I know it costs a little bit more. And because, you know, you put screens and screens and speakers depending on maybe staff discuss if it's worth it to look at it again. I don't know how much it costs, but, you know, when we get 28,000 people and there's people over there and they can't see it. And then also it helps, like, well, I guess, Ross would be should say Armin. Ross or whoever's speaking this year, they can hear it more clearly. But I don't know if that's been a problem. I did like it when we had screens, but if it's cost prohibitive, then

We can I can look into that? I know our production company, they added a ton of speakers last year to the backside of town hall and cranked it up because my my parents sat back there, and they were like,

we can

hear everything. Because I made sure like, he turned down the music just so people could conversate because they typically go to the back if they wanna hang out and not be right in front of the stage. But we made our production company turn it all the way up when we had the speakers come on

the stage

at the end of

the night.

And I and again, with the speaker, it was just cost prohibitive. Don't worry. But if it's not that much, I think it was helpful for people that aren't close enough or on the other side of the trees. They can see, you know, the bands and everything. Absolutely.

Just a couple the price.

Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah.

Anything else? Is

there anything on here that you're it's a no go y'all don't like, y'all don't wanna see?

No. It's great. Good job. Yeah. Okay. It's gonna

be one thing I would say is well, too, big picture. I could be the goal that I I personally would love is just for everyone to remember where they were at 07/03/2026. Like, to make it that big. Not that that's the expectation every single year for the two fiftieth. Just take it to that take the words out my mouth and next level. But in all seriousness so my question would be if there are other ideas that come up after maybe, you know, anyone of us has an idea or even a resident, someone sitting here has an idea. When do you need feedback by? And it's kinda like the the day where it's like if we give Jordan another idea then, you know, she's gonna get upset. I've never seen you upset. So

Yeah. No. Because it's the 200 and fiftieth, we're already kind of approaching that. Like, I'm calling Vince, and they're like, who let us scramble and try to do this for you? So I would say

Today. Yeah.

Like, the next Friday.

Two weeks.

So between now and next council meeting?

Yes, please.

Anything after next council meeting would be too much, probably. Yeah.

And we're have

to work on the street.

Also, I think tonight we're locking in the What we have on. What we have as far as these things. So giving the drone the drone show in the firework extension, give those the go ahead so that we lock those in and make sure that happens. And then we can continue vetting out the rest of those to make sure that they are we we have those opportunities.

So So just a couple of really quick comments. Overall, I think it's fantastic. For the some of the kiddo activities in particular Mhmm. I would have like, I would overstaff it and understaff it because there's nothing worse than being a parent with a young kid who wants, you know, Mickey Mouse drawn on their face and then you have to wait two hours for it.

So I

would if we're gonna do that, then I would make sure we have, like, a lot of it. Yeah. Too many of it. That's good. I'd rather do less things, like, really, really well than just put ourselves in thin.

That's a good point.

Maybe I missed do we have the hot dog eating? Is that still a thing or

no? Yes.

No. Yep. We're still partnering with Verizon Outpost. Okay. What

about taco eating? For the people that get to hire the hot dogs.

Because you

like back to back. Eating.

Because you back to back. Could you do a second?

I mean, I could look into it. That'll eat

away. Next level?

Are you guys serious? Yeah.

You are being serious? I'm being a

100% serious. Oh, man. Alright.

Okay. I really is next level.

I just got idea. Just shoot it out there.

Well, the only thing I just think of is just obviously I know you always advertise it. We put it out there. But just to say that this year, we're really going out for the February. Not just the usual, but, like, hey. Because we already get the 28 25,000.

Right? Mhmm. Rachel heard. We

did Hype Oh.

Hype video? We did

Rachel's not.

Yes. What about swag?

Swag. So we're looking at getting the light up the ponds, and I'm looking into, like, some light up balls. We already have mini beach balls. Canvas? We have a t shirt can, and I just have to find where to get c o two filled up. It's not that easy anymore. Like, the little canister, I have to find nobody does it anymore.

If like sells them. Okay.

Empty. I know.

Yeah. I have find where to fill it. But we have a t shirt cannon, and I will make it my mission to get that working condition just for you to

Don't don't give it

to Ross.

I will figure out.

Point it up, not out.

I don't need that liability.

The ranger we asked

the rangers for

one of theirs.

Yeah. No. I'm thinking it'll be pretty cool to have a couple t shirt cannons

and No. We have, like,

a giant The

the slingshots?

Oh, yeah. We have a giant City of Killer branded t shirt can. I mean, we have

Trippie have like a t shirt, like a color lights two fifty t shirt.

We do not. Would y'all like them?

Well, that's what I'm thinking of choosing the t shirt cans.

Over oral.

Yeah. Most beer distributors will fill your

I wanna attend

Gracie's wedding. I know.

Okay. I'm gonna go Gracie's wedding

with the taco eating contest. Alright. Well, that's that's all

I'm gonna

say now. Yeah.

So these are the the renderings from the drone company of what examples minus the Santa Claus hat on top of the Texas. This was a Christmas show they did. So this is what it would look like. We're looking at about 78 drones, but with the fireworks, it they said it will look really just

Just show, like, George Washington shooting at some red coats.

How about on a boat?

Yeah. No. Yeah. Crossing the Delaware.

Any questions or ideas? That was

awesome. Yeah.

Thank you.

This is not easy.

Thank you. And

thank you for the rest of the folks coordinating public safety and everything. Yes. I know it's not easy. So so Good deal.

Keep in mind, is a one you know, we'll probably have to pull some fund balance for this. This is a one time to celebrate the two fifty.

So Yeah.

I understand that this won't be the maybe maybe the t shirt cannon. I like that idea across the board. But that won't be every year.

So We won't do this till the 500. There we go. Yeah. Let

me know if y'all have any other ideas by meeting if you don't mind.

Just to be something is also doing on the third.

Yes, sir.

Correct? So you you do have some surrounding cities.

Yes.

Okay.

A lot of cities did move to the third just because it's a Friday. So you have your big ones. But at, like, Addison, Kaboom Town, they moved to the third. But Fort Fort Worth, Ford, Dallas, the big cities are sticking

to it.

Why did

why did we switch? I'm sorry.

I just

don't remember.

I think it was mostly for holiday pay for all of our PD and fire.

We had

to pay that.

They don't they can be with their families on

the fourth. That's correct.

We've always been the third. The fourth was the the employees to be with family on

the fourth.

Yes. So

And and it tends to be Yeah.

I think when was it?

Was it last year or a couple of years ago, we there was a couple days, but that was because we didn't wanna do it on a

Yeah. We did it on the first one year because it was a Saturday. Yeah. But it's been on the third for the past three years.

Oh, yeah. Just curious. Yeah. Oh, and I I like that.

Yeah.

They also we also like to compete with Southlake, so on the same day.

Well, no. No. The reason I brought that up because it's it's nice from a traffic

and Absolutely.

Perspective. So Do we

get the stage or do they since we co own

it?

They get the stage, but we get a bigger, better stage. So it works out in

our favor.

Yeah. They have a two forty nine they have a two forty nine stage. We have a two fifty. Exactly. Exactly.

They get the 20 year old stage. We get the pretty big one with the lights. Yeah.

Well, and we're

are we actually going forward with fixing the

We are fixing the floor. Yes.

We are fixing

the floor so no one will fall through.

That's good. Yes.

It's been been rickety for a while.

That's churros between now and then.

Yeah.

Yep. So it'll be fixed before tiller summer nights.

Thank you. So thanks, Jordan.

Yep. Thank you.

Okay. How long is the survey gonna take?

Probably take thirty minutes.

Okay. So it's

I would I would Sorry. I would So

it's not gonna be the not go for us. Yep. Alright. So third item, the way finding signage in the sports park. Is this Keith or okay. We have we have a presentation or something or

He's he's got some neat ideas for it. Okay. So you should be able to add it. Yes.

Alright. Well, so as you know that, we have existing signage out on the site, for IDs for the field. But we wanted to give some, context by showing that, recapping that, and then going into So there's been discussion about having additional way finding added to what's on-site? Okay.

Tip up her cars, they know we're apart. Right. Yeah.

And that was in the additional that was in the original master plan. But because of, cost that was pulled out initially. And so now we're coming back and looking at that as an addition. So I wanted to recap what's already out there. These are the signs that are at the ball fields at the baseball and softball fields. So to give you an idea of the context of what we're looking at in terms of fonts and things like that. So that's the ranger font that was added. Just recently, there was the Keller font previously, for these signs. And so that's what those look like. Then we have the lacrosse sign at the lacrosse field.

These are the signs that are gonna be at the soccer field. They're gonna be located on the fences on the, on the soccer parkway so that you see those on between the nets. And then they're also located on the ends of the fields, the small the small soccer fields on the east side. And then each of the fields have these large letters that are cut out, and they're gonna be on the shade structures. Those are the color font.

So those will be all there. And then back to the baseball fields, we have the larger vertical signs that are on the shade structures. That's back in the the ranger font. And then over at the multipurpose field to the north, it has that, color font again. So that takes us well, then we have the soccer fields. They also have signage on the nets. So that takes us back to the idea of wayfinding. And so initially,

in the master plan, we

had some sketches that was just some some ideas, some concepts of how this could look and looking at potential location monuments, vehicular signage, pedestrian, and have an entire family of signage. And so what we've looked at is some some rough cost of what that might be of how the construction go and and basically concept out what the cost of each one of these elements are. And so if we took this throughout the site, this this cost could run from between it could range between 500 to 750,000, even 700 to to 1,000,000.

Just part of why it was, I believe, cut when we went through

the process.

Right.

That was part of the reason that we cut it. And then, but so there's also this thought of, let's take the idea of the existing Keller, wayfinding signage that's along the highways and straight in the streets, and how would that incorporate into the vernacular of this of the site. Now this was just a real quick concept of taking that sign, putting the colors and the the, Ranger font in there in lieu of this the font that was initially in the wayfinding sign that's already out on the streets. And that's what that would look like. This is using the, the, eye beams that we have throughout the site and some of the and some of the character of the site.

And so that's what that looks like. And, let's see if I have

anything else behind that. Yep.

And that's it. And so the idea is, do you want to, look at something like this? These would run roughly three to five thousand dollars a sign. And so if we looked at a white finding signage package that's a little bit more, conservative, then we would be in the range of $2.50 or 200 to 350 to 300. So that would be a much reduced cost to do something in this topic capacity.

Yeah. So I'm I'm much more in line with this, and that's what I had in mind when I think I texted true story, Erin and Cody. Was like, where's Victory Field? Because I was running late. Maybe it was you. It was me. It was Ross,

actually. Yep. Sorry. So I'm

still trying to figure out where Victory Field and Legacy and all that. And and it happened twice with my wife, by the way. So, you know, this to me is sufficient. I mean, that's Yes. You know, tells you where the fields are at. We've got great signs in the field already. Mhmm. I meant more like this. So glad glad to

hear that.

That's what

that's why this is more

traditional way of finding and much more budget friendly.

And and as we do tournaments with as these organizations do tournaments, like, when you pull in, it's nice to have the big four foot things by the fields, but you can't see it till you drive in front of it. Having this helps, and it'll help alleviate traffic jams

during I would. Yeah.

Tournaments as well.

So what is the funding mechanism? Where does the money come from?

I think that's one of the other be it KDC, and I think that's the question that we wanna try and find a way to do that this year. We can like, we always do to find a find an option, or do we wanna include that as part of the FY twenty seven KDC budget proposal? And I I think that's the I think some of the direction I could have. We were looking for as well of if if we're looking for wayfinding and and we can work with them on what that looks like, that's a easier easier setup, but certainly, the others would be you'd have to plan multiple years on to do.

This does this does the job.

This does. And I and I I agree when I'm out there. It's not it would be nice to have a these fields this way. Yeah. And so it it's a it's a needed thing out there, and I think that aesthetic still looks really nice.

Yeah. It gets really bad just for those that have been out there. Like, traffic slows down, especially on the soccer fields when people are trying to left neck and look, this will help a lot. Especially coming in from Fort Worth. So quick questions.

Who how are you gonna decide where they go?

So they would have

to be a study that shows where the signs would need to go, how many signs we need, and what kinds of signs we need in those.