City Council - Regular Meeting

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As always, we'll get started with the agenda, and I would like to welcome Dr. Rankley in person. Thanks for being here today. Let's start by discussing and reviewing the agenda items. We do have a healthy work session. Not a lot of, actually I think the only old business item we're looking to table that for staff recommendation. So unless there's any questions for staff about the agenda, then let me get right into it.

Consent item four, we didn't do that one. I'm getting in the weeds here. We didn't do the buy board like we did the other one. Just when it gets over half a million,

it's a part that only one person makes I have no idea so the two items the number three is a design build because the size of the pump those are not stock or standard and those have to be designed and manufactured number four because it is more stock in terms of a generator 35 kilowatt those are a lot more easily produced and half and those are mass-produced

Good question. I mean, F1 through F3 are consent items. You know, on F3, the resolution does have folks listed in the assignment section. I'm comfortable if we want to wait until we have a full council. I do think we need to take action on a number of them. I'd like to see this. Select a mayor pro tem this evening. Probably KDC and the Sports Park Task Force I think are pretty important to get those filled. Do you guys have any comments or thoughts on that?

It's fine.

It's fine as is? Yep. Shannon, Greg? I'm good. Sorry, I was reading. So I guess what will happen then is if we move forward with this as written tonight, then whoever is elected to fill place four, we opportunity for them to serve, which I think would be great. They'll follow us when we get involved. We can always retouch this up if we need to. Does that work? Any other questions? Alright. We're going to go ahead and we'll break for executive session after we do item D1, because Jordan has, as always, willing to share the great news about Keller 250

All right, so this is our new updated logo that Randy and Rachel put together for us just for this 250th. This is what's gonna be promoted on the hype video and all social media promotion for the event. schedule it has remained pretty much the same as before Emerald City Band did get plugged in and we do have them confirmed from 7 30 to 9 30 and then since we did bump up the fireworks to a 20 minute show those are going to start at 9 40 instead of 9 45 this year nice This is our confirmed dessert and drink on the left, our food vendors on the right, and then merchant vendors. So those are going to be more cottage law vendors. So they sell pre-packaged cookies, pre-packaged breads, that sort of thing. We have the police department coming out to help recruit and then promote about e-bikes on the trails and whatnot with our park board libraries coming, some fun activities. sponsors we did get one additional sponsor since our last meeting and they're still coming in so we expect a couple more to filter in before the event so these are the confirmed activities we'll have a patriotic rock painting station we'll have four face painters four balloon artists four character artists a photo opportunity with a balloon backdrop a photo opportunity with the keller lights logo backdrop light up foam batons glow bracelets and necklaces and then a temporary tattoo station We are getting a 40 by 100 white tent put in the west field. The southwest field is kind of closest to the building where people can't really sit to see the fireworks. So we're putting everything under that tent to kind of filter people under there and give them a little shade while they're enjoying the free activities. And we'll have a couple of like swamp cooler AC machines under there filtering air under there so people can also get under the shade if they need to for some heat relief. And then enhancements that we have confirmed, we have live entertainment by the Emerald City Band. We have the drone show in coordination with the fireworks, extended firework display. roaming entertainment, so we'll have one balloon artist, or sorry, one bubble artist, one aerialist performer, like in the bottom right corner, two jugglers, and an Uncle Sam and Statue of Liberty stilt walkers. The stilt walkers won't necessarily be walking through the crowd, since that's a little bit too risky, but they'll be like in the circle and in the field taking pictures with everybody for the duration of the event. And then just a quick update, the Keller Point will have adjusted hours that day of 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 3rd just to help with the traffic and the parking situation at the Keller Point. T-shirts, we did order branded T-shirts to be, to sell to the public. They'll be in around June 19th and then we also ordered some jerseys like everybody had at the Sports Park ribbon cutting to sell to the public at the event as well. If we run out of the jerseys, we're allowing them to pre-order and also do any modifications that they want to and order custom jerseys as well at the event. Yeah. So it's just a... I like the design.

I do too.

Yeah. That was Randy and Rachel as well, so thanks to them. Yeah. Good job. Yeah. It's a nice soft shirt, so it's not a heavy cotton, so it's a good looking shirt. The brand of the shirt is Next Level, so we stayed on brand with Ross. And that's all I have update-wise. That's Keller Lights in a nutshell. Any questions?

I thought you said we're getting an ice slide light.

We have 25,000 to 30,000, depending on the weather. There's not typically a bare spot in any of the fields surrounding Town Hall.

It's packed.

We use data from Economic Development. They have some programming, and then we also do drone footage and kind of have it count that way. We have a couple different sources that we eye it at.

cell phone data big brother type tracks where you go where you come from yeah but it's i don't think it's like person identifiable i just think it's like you see the amount of pings like that correct the towers the um you have a question to follow up on uh councilman ranklies so the number of people do we have enough uh stations for the kids stuff I think you said there's like four.

Four of everything. So four face painters, four balloon artists, and four character drawers. And then we're going to have volunteers running the temporary tattoo station. So I think we'll have enough. I don't know if every family will be able to get to every single thing. They may have to pick a couple things they can go to. But I think that will be enough to help with the lines and keep them going.

And you have the food, and then you have the vendor. Correct. The the beer place. Yes.

What's on tap is actually bringing their trailer here to have on site to be tap tap beer on tap on site. And then we have Crown Catering bringing their mixology margarita mixed drink truck as well. So we'll have a little bit limited alcohol on site.

And then in all seriousness, I mean, so I'm asking all the important questions tonight for the full city council meeting as mayor, as we'll get to the substance, right? So foam batons, how many are we ordering?

Right now I've ordered 5,000. I plan on ordering another 5,000.

It's like you read my mind. Yes. There needs to be like one in three need to have a foam baton.

Yeah, we're planning on ordering around 10,000 of each, like necklace, bracelet, beads, and foam batons. Oh, that's cool. That's very cool.

Yeah. And the t-shirt cannon?

T-shirt cannon? Yes, we have it. All right. Awesome.

We're getting those again. We have six of them. Yeah, because it gets so hot. Every year I listen to Shannon's fans. I'm just saying, the first year we didn't have them, and it was brutal. And, you know, Ross had to fan the Congresswoman.

We do have Derek Price coming. He did our Keller Lights professional photography and videography two years ago, and that's what we've used promo videos over the last couple years.

Is that the bike machine that texts it to your phone?

Oh, we do not have that. and videos of the event. We don't have the photo booth type thing ordered.

They're probably all booked anyway at this point. But no, this is a bunch. I was just asking.

We have the backdrop and we'll have volunteers at each station taking pictures for the families and all that jazz.

That's good work. Is the backdrop going to match the t-shirts or what's the backdrop for photos?

Randy and Rachel are going to work that up. It's either going to be this logo or it's going to match the t-shirts. We haven't decided which would look better on the backdrop, but it'll be one of the two between the top logo or the logo on the back of the shirt. So it's going to be like a big logo and then kind of have a couple small logos all around it.

What does sponsorship look like? So you mentioned that you've got still sponsors coming in. So what does that process look like?

Yeah, so we have everything from a $500 sponsorship up to $10,000. The $10,000 is our presenting sponsor. And if that spot doesn't get filled, whichever sponsor...

I think that's what Charles is volunteering for, actually. Right?

So usually our top sponsor is $5,000 and that's usually Methodist Southlake. So they get bumped to presenting sponsor if they're our top sponsor. But we have a little bit in between 500, 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, and 10,000. So we have different levels. You get different promotions, different signage, different size signage, depending on what amount that you have sponsored.

And then those dollars are being used to offset the 10,000 foam batons, is that right? Yes, sir. Awesome, okay.

and we usually have a really good sponsorship partners for this event. We're always welcome to more, but we usually have our collective fee that we appreciate every year. Awesome. Thank you.

That's great. Is there anything you need from us?

I will get you parking passes and some swag bags with some goodies whenever T-shirts and everything come in. So I'll be getting with Kelly or with y'all to get T-shirt sizes, and we'll get y'all geared up, ready to go.

What time does it get dark at? Like 8.30?

At Keller Lights, it's usually 9.15, 9.30. So it gets dark right before we shoot off fireworks. I mean, people always ask, why are you waiting so late? We want it dark. We want it to look good.

No, I agree. Well, I think it's awesome. It's definitely going to be a step up. Maybe another level. But, no, it is great. I mean, the amount of thought that So just if there's anything you need, let us know. I did have one question. Anna, you and I just kind of brainstormed it. I don't know if you have an update, but it's related to the Keller Lights event. Anything on the potentially getting businesses involved?

Yes. So we are looking at sending some form of Google form to all of our businesses and asking them, What are some ways that you're going to be participating, highlighting the 250 and or celebrating color lights 4th of July? And there are going to have to be some deadlines because we want to hear, are you having special merch? Like we know Summer Moon is going to be doing special merch. Are you going to be having any special specific to that, to the holiday? And from the ones that we hear back, we're working on a strategy for highlighting them on social media. So that is something we're working on right now. Do y'all have any thoughts?

So basically the idea is highlight and spotlight all the businesses that are participating and celebrating 250th. And so they're displaying the American flag. Are we still thinking about maybe putting up like a Keller Lights poster?

I don't know if the production deadlines are... Yeah, I think the...

I think we're past that. By the time we get that out there, you're almost on top of the event. So I think it'd be better to see what are they already doing, and that way we can go a little faster on them.

Is there a graphic that would be available so they could post it on their social media page? Yeah.

Yeah, so the idea would be to have kind of like a plug-and-play to make it consistent and pretty easy for... full slides where if we design a social media graphic and then they send us what they're going to be doing, then we would just, that would be the post, and then we could make it available to them to also post it on their page.

We're past the production deadline for printing posters.

I think that's kind of where we're at because then you'd also have to have staff go out there and deliver them. I think it's easier just to have the businesses tell us what they're doing and then be able to promote them that way.

Yeah.

I believe Rachel agreed they're also working on getting Keller Lights onto the billboard that we have rotating ads up on, I believe Golden Triangle? Yeah, they're working on an ad to put on that billboard for Keller Lights to advertise.

Yeah, I mean the work that the Rotary Club does to display all the American flags up and down our main thoroughfares are great. I think as much as we can get businesses involved, I'm sure that you guys agree, that's the concept. And if anyone in here, You know, any help would be greatly appreciated. Talking about you, Jared. So picking on you a little bit. But I think it's awesome. And the more excitement and enthusiasm we can build, you know, I think it would be great.

Yeah, and if you all are good with it, we will send that survey tomorrow and start gathering information.

Yeah, what do you guys think?

I agree. It's a good idea. Get the whole town into it.

And then we'd spotlight them as like a Keller 250 business partner. Yeah. Okay. awesome yeah it's like keep it in color 250th edition that's great awesome all right well Jordan Anna thank you absolutely all right at this time we'll go ahead and move into our executive session presented section 551.071 consultation with attorney in his closed meeting governmental body may not conduct a consultation with the attorney except for see the subsection is there We sure would appreciate it. All right, so before we get started, what pack are you with? What's your troop number?

We are from Troop 32.

Troop 32. That's awesome. We're so glad that you're here today. Thanks for being willing to lead us in the pledges of allegiance. After you.

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

Honor the Texas flag.

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

So while you're up here, what's a special project? What are you working on right now, if you don't mind? Step up to the microphone. This is your chance to work on those public speaking skills.

We're working on our citizenship in the community merit badge, where we have to attend a city council meeting.

That's great. We're almost through it.

Yep.

Anything else you all want to add? Mayor, do you have any questions for them?

No.

No, no questions.

So this is for a merit badge. Sorry, that's what you're saying. Which merit badge? Citizenship in the community.

Mayor, this group has a special milestone that they are approaching that they might want to share about.

What's the milestone you're approaching? 100 years. That's amazing.

Yeah, our troop has been around for almost 100 years now.

Almost 100 years. Do you know when the date is or the month? No.

It's next year.

Next year? Well, that's exciting. Hopefully you can come back and we can celebrate. Would that be great? All right. Well, thank you for being here today. I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Let's give him a round of applause. All right, Mayor. So... Where are you from? What's your school? Where do you go to school?

The school I go to is Shady Grove.

Shady Grove.

Shady Grove Elementary, yeah.

Okay, great.

But I am going to Indian Springs next year.

So are you going to be in fifth grade?

Yes.

Are you excited?

Yes.

That means you're going to be in middle school. Are you ready for that, mom and dad? Of course. Of course, yeah. So what about your colleague down here? Is that your brother?

Yes.

Okay. I think that's allowed, right, Stan? We can have two brothers on. Okay. So what about you? What grade are you going into?

I'm going to seventh grade.

Seventh grade?

Yeah.

Also Indian Springs Middle School?

Also in Indian Springs. And I'm pretty excited for it.

Are you? You should be. It's a great school. I'm a little biased. My kids go there as well. But I think you're going to have a great start. I do have one more question for you, if that's all right. What do you want to see more of in Keller?

More in Keller? Yeah. It's all good.

Hold on a second. He's the mayor. He has to recognize you. Go ahead. Do you recognize your brother?

My what?

Okay. You can go ahead, sir. What do you want to see more of?

I want to see more composting in Keller. More composting. Because that's good for the environment. That's great. You get to reuse stuff. So, yeah, I want to add some composting in Keller.

Excellent. I love it.

Thank you.

Mr. Mayor?

Me? I would probably like less trash and more recyclable. Because recycle, it will reduce the waste that we make and we can reuse it and reuse it and reuse it. Unlike trash where we just have to dispose it.

That's well said. That's well said. Hey, let's give them a round of applause. Well, Mayor Karim, Council Member Karim, thank you so much for being here this evening. Thanks for, hopefully you had a fun day. Oh, one more question. What was your favorite, police or fire?

It was probably the fire.

Oh, wow. We got to work to do chief fortune. You got to up your next level. We got to take you to the next level. And same for you, sir? Police or fire? Fire.

I don't know. I kind of like both. But if I had to pick one, I would pick the police. Okay.

There we go. There we go. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate you being here. All right.

Do you want to get a quick picture?

Do you guys want to take a picture with me?

Sure.

Sure. Stand up real quick. All right. I want you to do what I want you to do.

I want you to hold this right out here. He sounded like a future mayor. He did. Come on, I guess. Oh, good job.

There you go.

All right, where are we going here? Let's just, can we all scooch so we're nice and centered here?

Come on. Still more? Oh, gosh, here. All right, here we go.

Oh, this is nice. Okay. One, two, three.

hey good job hey good job guys well done mr mayor quick picture

What we'll do, we're going to recognize our Keller lacrosse team, and then also, too, for our Boy Scouts, if you want to get a picture, that would be great as well. We'll recognize Keller lacrosse, and then we'll re-recognize our Boy Scouts, we'll get a team picture, and we'll move into persons to be heard. So is lacrosse ready? You know what? Let's do Boy Scouts. Come on up, Boy Scouts. Take a big group photo while we get lacrosse in here.

All right. All right.

But I'm an ASN for 1920. Barb's was good, but it wasn't too good. Oh, you were saying, yeah. All right, everybody, look over here.

Okay, I'm going to do a couple.

Very nice. Good job. Thank you. Wait for your mom. Wait. Your mom thinks you're nice.

I got to tell you, we do have some business on the agenda tonight, but one of the things we really like to do in the city of Keller is celebrate the success of our young people. and the parents and families that support them. So between our mayor and councilmen of the day, our Boy Scouts, thank you all again for being here. But for me, it's a special honor to recognize our Keller's boys lacrosse team. Example that you have been for our community following your season, how you conducted yourself. Man, every single time you did a social media post with a victory pick, I got a little pumped up. Your track record of success has been historic for our community. And we are so proud to recognize your run all the way to the state championship game. I think if we went two out of three, I think you guys are the state champions. That's what I think. But we're so proud to have you here tonight. We commend you on your excellence. Colleagues on city council, if you all have anything you want to say, please open it up. But really what we wanted to do is just have a big celebration for you tonight. I think everything that you did during the season is impressive. But these are a lifetime of memories that you should be so proud that you'll always get to keep. You'll remember it when you're old and over the hill like I am and most everyone here on city council. You're going to look back on these times and be proud not only of your success, but also of how you conducted yourself because that shows real character, both in victory and defeat. And I tell all the teams that I coach, there's only so many teams, exactly two, that get to play in a championship game. And you fight for the right to be there and see the outcome. And for that reason, you should be extremely proud of your efforts. You show an elite level of skill on the field. And we'd love to have you come up and recognize you. What we're going to do is we put together a special PowerPoint presentation. I'm going to present the certificates to your coach. It's Coach Anderson, right? Where's Coach Anderson at? Hiding in the back like a good coach. We're going to present you with certificates. I'll be honest, I think there are 56 of them. So to save all of y'all a little bit of time and heartache, We're going to go ahead and present them to you all at once. What I'd like to do is for everyone in the audience, we're going to have your son's name featured up there. We'll rotate to the PowerPoint probably every, let's say, 10 seconds, Kelly. So if you want a picture when your son's name is up there, we'll have all y'all come up. And then once we take our pictures, I would love to hear from not only your coach, but if you have a team captain or two, just reflecting on the season, what you learned, what you're proud of. and what the future looks like for Keller lacrosse. We'd love to hear from you. So to get us started, let's give them a big round of applause. Thank you for being here. Congrats again on making it to the state championship match. And if you wouldn't mind coming forward so we can take a picture, we'd be proud to recognize you.

early 1970s. Coach, congratulations.

Thank you. Here we go. Absolutely.

Kelly?

Oh, thank you.

Parents, if you want to take a picture in a second. I can share this also.

Coach, is there anything you wanted to say? And then you have a team captain or two.

Yeah, I'll be super short here. I just want to thank the city council for having us here. It's an absolute blessing to be a part of this community. I moved here to Texas. It was back in 2021 and bought a house here in Keller. And two years ago, I took over the Keller lacrosse high school program. And, you know, we started out with probably roughly around 30 kids, and then the first season we had 57 register at the high school level, graduated 12 or 13 seniors, and this year, even after graduating that many seniors, we had 56 players on our roster. So we made it to the state championship last year. Unfortunately, we lost, but then even after graduating, 9 out of 10 starters, we made it again to the state championship, and our hope is that third time's the charm, and we'll make it again next year and win it next year. So we're proud to be part of this community and grateful for all of these players, but also the families who do so much to support all of these young men. So thank you for having us here. Maybe Luca. Luca, you want to say something?

Hello, everybody. I'm Luke Amoya. I'm a junior. I go to Keller High School, and I'm a team captain. I just want to thank the Keller community for supporting us through playoffs and everything and the families. It really means a lot to have the support of our community. We worked really hard this season, and it didn't really go the way we planned, but we've got a lot of guys coming back, so we'll bring it home for everybody next year for sure. So thank you all.

Asher, here you go, man.

Yeah, I'm Asher. I'm a junior as well. I was a team captain. And, no, yeah, I thought we had a phenomenal season, and a lot of the guys are returning next year. And I think, like Coach said, third time's a charm, and we'll bring you back next year.

Thank you, guys.

Well, you heard it here. You heard the – was it the – the Liam guarantees, not Joe Namath anymore. The guarantee, right? You're going to be back here next year. Bring it home. All right. We look forward to seeing you, man. Congrats again.

Thank you.

You guys get all the pictures we need? Parents, we good? All right. Hey, last round of applause because, look, my kids play an obnoxious amount of youth sports. I have even a 4-year-old and 5-year-old now little daughter that's getting recruited for Kelly with a cross on the girls' side. So give it up for your parents, okay? Thank you.

Thank you.

And that is awesome that we have, you know, in two separate meetings, back-to-back, Keller Girls Lacrosse and Keller Boys Lacrosse recognized as a state finalist. So excited to have them here. Baseball this weekend. I think we're going to bring it home. Dell Diamond, the Keller Boys baseball team. So hopefully we can get them in here and celebrate their state championship match as well. Excuse me, their game. All right. Now it's time for Persons to be Heard. This is a time for the public to address the city council on any subject. However, the Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits the city council from discussing issues which the public has not been given three days notice. Issues raised may be referred to city staff for research and possible future action. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. Anyone that wishes to speak can. We do have a couple cards. First up, let's go with Mr. Lou Selden. Can I defer to Ed? Sure, absolutely. Mr. Isari. It's good to see you, sir.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you this evening. Mr. Mayor, my name is Ed Erie Seri, Jr. I live at 1445 Melody Lane, where as a taxpaying citizen, I have lived there for the last 35 years or so. Mr. Mayor, I come here this evening with a heavy heart. My concern is for the patriotic soul of our country. I am a decorated combat veteran of the Korean War, where I served three combat deployments, having lost a number of my high school friends there. This cane that I use is a memento of one of those deployments. Nearly every morning, my friends and I, some of who are also veterans, enjoy coffee and camaraderie at the Summer Moon Coffee Club here in Keller. One of them, Louis Selden, also a veteran, usually displays a small flag posted on our small table. The average size of that flag is about no larger than a three by five index card. I would like Louis Selden here in the chambers to stand up and hold that flag in question. You can see it's a very small flag. This simple display has gone on for a number of years in the past. One morning last week at the Suburban Moon manager, Ms. Basil Casper Green, sent one of her employees to our table demanding, take down that flag. It has no place here. Without shouting or making any gestures, Mr. Selden rolled up his manager flag and said that to the employee and to us at the table that he would be leaving and he would not come back. Mr. Mayor, I too left as well as some of our friends vowing to boycott the Summer Moon Coffee Shop until they issued a formal apology on their website. And I've asked many of my veteran friends and also those within your shop tonight to also boycott that same coffee shop. It's an un-American enterprise. May the manager and the corporation hang their heads in shame. We as combat veterans silently mourn the sacrifice that our brother combatants made as we watched the world's spectacle of perishable riches, fame, glory, and power that they paid so dearly for, unless they decimate our good earth. Her demand is ludicrous. and is an insult to all American veterans, especially those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. May they all rest in peace. It would be at least some consolation if someone on this council would look into the matter for the sake of the veterans bearing this hateful insult. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for hearing my concern, and may God bless America in spite of ourselves.

Yes, sir, and thank you for your service. Thank you for being here. All right, next up we have Mr. Lou Selden. Good evening, sir.

Good evening. This was part of the discussion earlier. That sign was mentioned when they asked me to take it down. So it says, live by the golden rule. Lewis Seldon, 1305 Clear Springs Drive, Keller, Texas. Saddlebrook Estates. We've been a resident since the summer of 01 and attended the summer moon since it opened. And I know that a lot of people were excited about when it was opening, and we enjoyed it. We have spent many hours there with our friends. But I want to talk this time. I've got two cards, and I'd like to talk about Ed. And I like to call him Yesiree, my hero, Korean War veteran. What he didn't tell you was he was three combat tours off the coast of Korea on destroyers and destroyer escorts. He volunteered to go ashore with raiding parties with ROK troops, Republic of Korea, military, army, Marines, whatever, some of the hardest fighting ground troops in the world. I'd put them up against the French Foreign Legion. And he went on night raiding parties approximately 13 times carrying a 21-pound BAR, Browning Automatic Rifle, which I've never understood. At night raiding parties, I would have thought they'd equipped him with a six-pound carbine short range, but a very effective weapon. But he lugged that around with 10 magazines of ammunition and 10 hand grenades, which probably doubled his weight. When he got out of the Navy, or he tried to apply to the Navy Academy, he turned him down because he was too short. But he wasn't too short to enlist. Anyway, he gets out of the Navy, gets an engineering degree, he's involved with this space program and the developing the atomic clock, which very accurate time and very important in navigation, which had done flight navigation. It's very important that the time be accurate. And he had a lot of, you need to read his bio. But after he retired, Ed volunteered to be a, a minister in the prisons. And he drove at 0 dark 30 in the morning to Breckenridge many times, endangering himself, and had some rewarding experiences doing that. I consider Ed my hero, and I'd like to ask you to consider making a Keller Day in honor of Ed Yessiree. So I'll leave that with you. Okay, I'm in my limits here. So on, may I move on to my other card?

Yeah, so, you know, I want to make sure you get to finish your remarks. So each speaker has three minutes, but if you have a little bit more, that's all right. I saw the two cards up here, but so if you have a few more comments, that's fine.

Okay, well, I just, you know, I can't, I can't talk too much about it. I mean, just imagine. One thing we learned in the military was you don't volunteer normally. And you're sitting out offshore on a ship, fairly safe, taking some fire from the shore. But to volunteer to go on night raiding parties is unbelievable. And he did, you can ask him, but approximately 13 missions at night. with the ROC troops. I think they had eight Navy and 22 ROCs. And they'd go ashore. And sometimes you'd catch him for a cup of coffee. You'd get him to chat with you about his experience. But he went on to become an engineer. And he's a very smart man. So I mean, I just hope he will seriously consider making one day of the year Ed Yesiree Day in Keller. He'd been a resident, I'd say, again, 35 years.

Thank you, sir. And also, as I'm informed, if I'm remembering correctly, I think a pretty talented artist. I'm sorry? He's a pretty talented artist as well. Doesn't he paint rocks?

Yeah, he is. That's true.

Like a sculpture, like a rock.

I wish.

I may or may not have one sitting in my house. Yeah, he is. He's a great human being, and we appreciate both of you being here, and thank you for your service.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. So... I would like to, if I might move on to my second card.

Yeah, yeah. Well, let's allow two minutes for this one, Kelly.

Pardon me?

Two minutes, if that's all right. Is that enough time for you?

We'll see. All right. First of all, I'd like to say that I sent a letter and an email to the mayor's list, which includes all the council and the city manager and some other people, I guess. I was disappointed to only receive a response back from The mayor, thank you, mayor. I appreciate you replying back to me on what this situation we're talking about. But I think what you need to know is there's more to this story. As Paul Harvey used to say, page two. On Sunday the week before, Pawan, my friend sitting here, was with me after we attended a rally at Summer Moon sitting outside at the table by the flower box. In the flower box, I had my flag and a sign. And we're sitting there, this woman comes, approaches us with anger in her eyes. And she, I said, you know, what's the matter? She said, you're a bigot. I said, what kind of a bigot am I? She said, you're bigoted against women.

I said, oh.

In the meantime, a young couple walking into Summer Moon with their young child approached us and said, we just saw what went on here. And... She followed us from church, blinking her lights at us and blowing our horn. In the meantime, she rants on and calls the police. Two police officers showed up and investigated and determined that I was innocent of any wrongdoing. But I'm convinced in myself that she communicated with the corporate headquarters, and that's the reason that this thing came down about my sign. So I'm just disappointed. So I guess that's really about what I got to say, and I got five seconds to go, Mr. Mayor. Four seconds, three, two, one.

We use every second well, and we appreciate you being here tonight. I would encourage you, I think our economic development director is probably still here. Her name's Anna Irwin. We can't get into much of a back and forth, but I did respond to your email, and one of the things, and I'm guessing from my colleagues too, is Anna was really on the spot, followed up with the business you're referring to, and then reported back to us as a city council. So if you wouldn't mind visiting with Anna, she'll probably meet you towards the back of the meeting room there. And she can kind of help work through concerns that you have potentially. So, or we got Sarah here. So Sarah is also over that department. So if you wouldn't mind meeting with them, sure would appreciate it.

Thank you for your time. Good night and God bless America.

God bless America. Thank you, sir. All right.

Mr. Mayor, I'd like just one comment. There you go.

Well said. Well, next up, if there's anyone else in the audience that would like to speak, you're welcome to, but we do have Ashley Hernandez. Ashley? Ashley?

Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Okay, thank you. Good evening, Mayor and members of council. My name is Ashley Hernandez, and I'm a resident of Keller and local business owner. Tonight I'm here to speak about transparency, governance, and public trust, specifically as it relates to appointments to some of our city's most influential boards and commissions. The Planning and Zoning Commission holds significant influence over Keller's future. It impacts land use, development, zoning, and the overall footprint of our community. Because these positions are appointed rather than elected, residents rely on this council to serve as an independent and objective filter when making those appointments. I say this as someone who also serves in an appointed capacity with the City of Keller. Appointed positions require a higher level of transparency because residents are trusting council to choose people who can serve the broader community fairly and independently. That responsibility matters. Public records now raise legitimate concerns about overlapping relationships between elected officials, appointed board members, campaign finance activity, and private interests connected to local real estate and property management. According to city appointment records, November 19th, 2024, Greg Will was present when the council unanimously appointed Deborah Johnson to the Planning and Zoning Commission as well as Eric Lice. According to campaign finance filings, Councilman Will, Planning and Zoning Commissioner Deborah Johnson, and Planning and Zoning Commissioner Eric Lice are all listed in connection with funding or managing a local political action committee tied to conservative voter guide. Ms. Johnson is listed as treasurer. Those same filings also show financial involvement in two local residents that are involved in real estate, one of which is a local real estate broker, investor, and property manager whose business interests may be affected by city policies related to land use, development, rental property, zoning, and local regulation. To be clear, I am not standing here tonight to accuse anyone of legal violation. This is not my role. What I am saying is that it creates a serious appearance of conflict of interest. When an elected council member votes on appointments to planning and zoning while also being financially connected through political activity with appointed commissioners and individuals connected to local real estate interests, residents deserve clarity. The issue is not only whether something technically violates a statute, the issue is whether the public can clearly trust that city appointments and land use decisions are being made independently, transparently, and in the best interest of Keller residents as a whole. Keller residents deserve confidence that appointments are not influenced by political alliances, campaign activity, private donor networks, or relationships that may create perceived conflicts of interest. So tonight, I respectfully ask this council to review these overlapping relationships and consider whether stronger transparency standards are needed for appointed board and commission members, especially those serving on planning and zoning. At minimum, residents deserve disclosure when individuals involved in appointments, campaign finance activity, political committees, and regulated local business interests are connected to one another. Transparency protects the public. It also protects the integrity of this council, our appointed boards, and the residents who are trusting this process. I understand that council may not be able to respond tonight during public comments. My request is simply that this concern be reviewed and placed on a future agenda for discussion regarding disclosure standards for appointed boards and committees. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you for being here, Ashley. I'll just briefly state I am not aware of anything unethical that's happened, and a lot of these records are public records for anyone listening in the audience. So anyone that has questions, our city secretary, Kelly Ballard, can sit down and walk you through of the typical reporting procedures and you know there's campaign finance campaign ethics or anything like that so if you have questions about that you can obviously i'm always happy to meet or our city secretary can help as well thank you for being here thank you all right anyone else no okay well that's persons to be heard next up we'll have consent F1, consider approval of the minutes of the Tuesday, May 19, 2026 regular city council meeting. F2, consider approval of the minutes of the Friday, May 22, 2026 special city council meeting. F3, consider a resolution appointing city council members to serve on various boards and committees and appoint a mayor pro tem. F4, consider a resolution awarding a contract to Prater Electric of Rowlett, Texas for the Pearson Pump Station VFD replacement project for the public works department and authorizing the city manager to execute all documents relating thereto on behalf of the city of Keller. F5, consider a resolution approving the purchase of one replacement emergency diesel generator and installation services for the Marshall Branch West wastewater lift station from Waukesha Pierce Industries of Houston, Texas, through the buy board purchasing cooperative and authorizing the city manager to execute all contract documents on behalf of the city of Keller, Texas. And then I do have one request for item F3. Probably, well, all these are significant, but does anyone have a nomination for Mayor Pro Tem since that seat's been vacated? Councilwoman Brennan.

Yeah, I'd like to nominate Councilmember Shannon Deberly.

And I second. All right. We have a motion and a second. I'll just briefly state I'm fully in support of that. Honestly, you know, Shane and I have become friends over the years, but more important than that as a colleague, you know, you look at Two things that really matter. Innovative ideas. You can always count on Council Member Dubberly to bring an innovative idea, whether you like it or not. And number two, he's always here. Actually, credit Ms. Hernandez. She published reports on attendance records, and he had, I think, 100% attendance rate. So I'd be proud to vote for Shannon as Mayor Pro Tem. Any other nominations? No? You're looking pretty good for this, sir. All right. Would you mind reading through, Kelly, the list of the other board and the other appointments for the boards and committees?

Sure. For Keller Economic Development Board, Mayor Ross McMullen is the chair. Keller Development Corporation will be Mayor Ross McMullen as the chair, Councilmember Chris Watley, Mayor Pro Tem Shannon Deverly, and Councilmember Charles Randcleave. The Finance Committee, Mayor Ross McMullen, Mayor Pro Tem Shannon Deverly, Councilmember Karen Brennan. the Citywide Solid Waste and Recycling Committee, Councilmember Karen Brennan, and Councilmember Chris Whatley. The Crime Control and Prevention District Board Liaison is Councilmember Greg Will. The Metro Port Teen Court Advisory Board will be Councilmember Greg Will. The North Central Texas Council of Governments General Representative will be Mayor Pro Tem Shannon Deverly. The Keller Colleyville Municipal Court Committee, Mayor Ross McMullen, Mayor Pro Tem Shannon Deberly, and Council Member Greg Will. The Ad Hoc Personnel Compensation Committee will be Council Member Greg Will and Council Member Chris Watley. And then the Keller Sports Park Task Force, Mayor Ross McMullen, Mayor Pro Tem Shannon Deberly, and Council Member Charles Rancliffe.

Thanks, Kelly. Obviously, we have a runoff election going on right now. We believe as a council, it's important to get these seats filled because there's day-to-day things that have to be attended to. But whenever that election is decided, I think early voting is going on. It's going on through the 9th, I believe, and then election day is June 13th. So make sure you get out and vote. We want everyone voting. But once that's filled, if our new colleague has particular interests, we'll certainly talk to him about that. I just wanted to make that point. With that being said, we do have a motion. Council Member Brennan?

I didn't do the motion.

You did make a motion, but it was only for Shannon. Do you want to scrub the rest of the list? No.

Yeah, I motion to approve the consent agenda. Is that what I'm making a motion for?

So a motion to approve consent items F1 through F5. And Council Member Will? All right, we have a motion and a second. Let's vote. All right. That passes unanimously, 5-0. Shannon, congratulations. Any comments?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's an honor. It means a lot to me just for my fellow colleagues to entrust me with this responsibility, take it seriously. But thank you a lot.

Yeah, well, thanks for being willing to serve. I'll be honest, I was a little bit nervous going to family vacation because I traveled out of state and I realized we don't have a mayor pro tem. So heaven forbid I couldn't get back. You know, we were going to be in a state of chaos. So thanks for stepping up for that role, sir. We look forward to it. All right, we only have one old business item, and G1, and my understanding, Aaron, is that we're looking to table that? Yes, correct.

They still have approximate numbers. If we table it to the first meeting in July, they'll have the final numbers for us, and we can be done with the conversation. Is that July?

7th. 7th? 7th. Okay, so we have a motion from Council Member Will. I so move. Okay, motion to table until July 7th for G1. We have a second from Mayor Pro Tem, Dubberly.

Yes, Mr. Mayor, I second that we table until July 7th.

All right, motion to second, let's vote. All right, it's tabled. So with that, we'll convene the regular business meeting and we'll go to work session.

Also, Colburn Insurance Agency LLC at 423 Keller Parkway, Unit B, 10 feet tall dance studio LLC at 1103 Keller Parkway, and New Classical Art School at 8825 Davis Boulevard at Unit 150. So that's for April. For May, we had nine new COs. So Energy Related Services Corporation, it's an office type business at 950 North Main Street, Suite 203. The Champs Porter Spa. It's like a nail salon barbershop at 761 Keller Parkway, Suite 105. I am going to mispronounce this name. Thaddeus Hardin Photography. I believe that's a relocation from Southlake. 460 Keller Parkway, Suite C. Fresh Monkey Smoothie Shop. Hopefully you guys tried the monkey balls.

Not yet.

Go support them. They just opened yesterday at 242 Ruth Snow Drive, Suite 150. My Smile Keller Dentistry PLLC at 796 Keller Parkway, Suite A and B. Bradley's Cowtown Customs, that's a mouthful, 1240 Katy Road, that's auto repair. Elements Massage, they had gone through their SEP, this is their official CO at 1411 Keller Parkway, Suite 700. Then Hornsmith LLC, CO at 432 North Main Street. It's a musical instrument repair store. And then last but not least, J Beauty Collective at 116 Taylor Street. So that's all the new COs for the last two months. That's a pretty healthy amount, even with it being a two-month report individually, their business is alive and well.

It's by the Nestle, where I was at, right? Is it the same location?

It's in that shopping center, yes. And they just opened yesterday. A lot of healthy protein shakes, also treats. You can make it as healthy as you'd like.

Or not.

Yeah. They have lots with Nutella, which I'm really excited about, so y'all should definitely go check it out. Lots of what? Some of their protein shakes are with Nutella. Oh, Nutella. So you can get healthy and happy.

Oh, wow.

Okay, and then we've had 48 COs that have been issued through the end of May. Building permits currently under review or in process. Orban Games at 800 South Main Street, Unit 240. We are awaiting revisions from them. And it's exactly what it sounds like. It's like a game shop. They sell cards and all the fun gamer type stuff. so we'll let you know when they're ready for their CO. It's over at 800 South Main Street, so over where DeVito's and that retail center is. The Keller House Collective, we are still awaiting revisions from them, so no update. McAllister's Deli, I'm sure you guys have driven by, it's getting close at 1241 Keller Parkway. Frost Bank, as well, at 1231 Keller Parkway, their permit was issued May 6th. And then Hopps Restaurant at 200 Keller Parkway, their permit was issued May 21st. So lots of exciting stuff. For incentivized projects at City Sports, we had their pre-con meeting last, oh, this was May, last month, last month. And they are anticipating a June groundbreaking, so we'll make sure that you're all invited, and we'll let you know when that happens.

Do they have a general date yet?

They just said June.

They just said June.

Yeah, they're really hoping to be open late spring of next year because they definitely want to capitalize on the summer camps and summer activities. Okay, great. Yeah. Pending weather. Okay, and then Flext, they shared that they have three LOIs that have been accepted. They can't share who they are yet, but they said we're gonna be very pleased with what they are. Construction is moving as planned. They hope to have a shell finished by the end of the year. Also pending weather. and tenant improvements will be made by Q1. This is all ideal, best case scenario. And then they hope to have tenants moved in by Q2 of 27. So, this is exciting stuff. When they tell us who these LOIs are, we will let you know. Okay, I already talked to you about the Keep It In Color America's 250th Anniversary Edition, so I'll skip that.

A quick recap, our department had a... Real quick on that, there was one question that was brought up about, was it Dr. Rankley, was that you that had a question about the business partnership in terms of generating sponsorships?

Yeah, so when you're reaching out to businesses, are we also making the ask in terms of whether or not they would be interested in being a sponsor?

Oh, for Killer Lights? Yeah. I'll probably have to check with Jordan to see what her process is.

We can certainly make them aware of sponsorship opportunities across the board because you have not just fellow lights, but also knowing there's a ward and there's other events going on. So it's probably a good time to have that conversation in general of like, hey, by the way, if you're ever interested in sponsoring a city event, here are your opportunities. That's great.

That's what he's getting at. He wants to take it next level. Triple next level. Yeah, triple next level. Whatever. No, it's a good question. It could be something like in a Google form. I mean, obviously you're going to have more success if you, you know, ask them.

Well, and it could be, you know, if you are like check yes, no, are you interested in learning more about sponsorships for events such as Killer Lights, all the things. So we'll do that. And then if they do, then we will reach out directly and connect them with. Smart. Okay, so our department had our annual Small Business Week promotion. We moved it from a physical scavenger hunt to a digital one to try to build momentum for the businesses, get more likes, more follows. And we had 19 small businesses that participated. The campaign encouraged social media users to interact with Keep It In Color and the businesses' social media accounts. And we really focused on increasing visibility for local businesses and helping connect them to a broader audience because we do have so many followers outside of Keller. The campaign results included over 22,000 social media views in a reach of a little over 12,000 people. So people are looking at our Facebook, which is exciting. Okay, and then open rewards, it feels like it was forever ago that we wrapped this up, but just an update. Looked at the top 20 businesses overall of how it ended, and very few were local businesses that were in the top 20 of amount of transactions. So kind of to come back to our conversation about big box, who would get the most redemptions, You know, it's Kroger, Walmart, Sam's Club, Tom Thumb, Lowe's, Chick-fil-A, Home Depot. Jabba's is in the top 10, in the top 20 as far as local businesses. DeVito's is holding strong. And, um, but everything else was basically national change.

So big boxes were the most, but we expected that.

We did.

And that statistically makes sense though.

Yeah. And I think the followup will be once we can get the true data from the controller's office for the year over year growth of sales tax then we'll be able to really compare if it moved the needle at least in that regard like maybe people still you know everybody's gonna go buy groceries and you know um so in a few months i'll i'll be able to see if there was any bump that we can maybe attribute to open rewards for sales tax specifically.

Well, Mayor Pro Tem, I think this is what you're getting at. The automatic taxpayer refund that we worked for in 2022, I think we finally saw the semi-automatic taxpayer refund come through. So congratulations.

Okay, that is all. Do you have any questions for me?

Thank you. I will say the app was a little bit better. You know, I might be guilty of shopping at some of the institutions that you

We love them too.

Part of it though, some of it was a little bit clunky, like on the technical side. So if we do it again, I think I would just push them to get a little more efficient.

We have some ideas, more to come, of maybe how to do it ourselves.

Okay. First try.

Beginning stages of ideation. Thanks, Anna.

Thanks. All right, since we're working in reverse order, Alonzo, for our B4 capital improvement project update, which means the budget you have to reverse engineer all of it when you're planning. I'm sure.

We'll be referencing the document that I sent out a couple of weeks ago. If you don't have that, it's the same thing that I'm handing out now. Thank you. This is a couple of weeks old, so I'll attempt to update as much as I can with the information. Just a reminder on the Mount Gilead design, the reconstruction from 377 to Borland. We are working and approaching 100% completion on that design. We expect to have that complete by the end of the month. I advertised this summer, and we still expect to have this awarded and underway before the end of the year. Elm Street continues to progress. It's about a quarter of the way through in terms of what you can see on the street. Excuse me. But we are about halfway through in terms of the three years that we started down. So just a reminder, we expect the end of 27 is when this will be substantially complete. But we are headlong into that. Speaking of Mount Gilead, going back to that, the water line is being replaced. You may have received an email earlier today asking about its status. The bottom line is last week it was pressure tested to make sure that there were no leaks, that it was connected correctly, that all the seams worked. This week is chlorination and bacterial testing and that will take two days of stagnant water of nothing happening and that's the flag that some residents have seen. It's a beautiful day, how come there's no work happening? That's because we're in the middle of testing. And we expect that to all conclude by the end of this week. We don't expect any failures, but we've got to make sure that everything is clean inside. Once we do that, because it's super chlorinated, we'll then dechlorinate that, empty it out, refill it, and start to connect individual service lines. That will begin next week, and depending on weather. then that may take one to two weeks and then we'll start the restoration. The restoration will be a complete replacement of the road, not just the part that was torn up so that it's a monolithic overlay when we're done. You may have also received another email from a couple of residents regarding concern about the recent work done on Treehouse Lane. I've responded back and asked for more information and details. know what to respond to I would ask them if that person or if anybody else is listening online or live that we have a citizen portal that you have any concerns put them in there let us look at photos add videos whatever is is appropriate and it makes it a lot easier for us to know what we're trying to address pay for All of the water work and all of the connections have been completed. We are going to do staging of the equipment started at the end of last week. We anticipate that mobilization work to actually start again this week, by the end of the week. For sure next week, depending on the weather, how the rest of the week goes. That will also be a complete overlay. We're not just going to recover what was dug up. We're going to pull up everything and resurface the entirety of the road. Sidewalks continue. We're going to start next week in the northern part of town by the junior high. We've been coordinating. Letters went out last week. We'll be coordinating with all of the residents again to make sure they know what's coming.

Keller Middle School?

Keller Middle School. I'm sorry, I said junior high.

Junior high.

Yeah, yeah, I'm aging myself. My apologies.

I went to junior high too.

the middle school and then we are also going to reach out to the neighborhood in the south the saddle rodeo painted horse pony that area they are across the street from the Keller Advanced Learning Center and the Is it a middle school? It's Indian Trail. Anyway, so that's the next area. But we want to reach out to them and do our due diligence before we start to design and lay it all out is reach out to the neighborhood. Are there any things that we need to be aware of that we don't see as we walk by? We don't live there. We don't walk it all the time. In the end, we're trying to make the best decision of which side of the road to go on without causing a firestorm. and a point of contact for those to contact us if there are special considerations that they have on their side of the road or things that we're not aware of. Who's like the point of contact? Is it a general public works? I know we have a project manager. His name is Michael Fletcher. He's one of our engineers which will be fielding all of that.

I responded to one of those letters for Encore and I said hey just let me know when you're going to be by and 15 minutes later they showed up to hack up all the trees.

We're going to have a lot more lead time than that. Davis Medians is not a city project. It's a state project, but they're about 85% of the way through. The last thing that looks like they're addressing is at the Bandit Trail intersection, but that seems to be moving along just fine. Those are the highlights of what has changed from what was given out last week. We're in the throes of budget. There's a lot of items on here, a lot of identified needs and some estimated costs. That will be part of our discussions as we go forward. It'll be part of the presentation tonight. It will also be part of how do we set priorities, and that'll be what we need your guys' help with. We can't do it all, and so where do we focus?

I do have one question. I don't know if you all have questions to jump in, but for the radar section,

over by the Hidden Lakes HOA? That's correct. It's where we just had repaired the columns from the erosion. And it was brought to our attention that it could use a painting. We were not able to include that in the project that was allocated to it. And so we pulled that out separate and identified it as something that would need to compete with other gates.

We're talking about the bridge that connects right by the color sniffle activity node,

Creek Bridge, four lane divided roadway that crosses the golf course and the creek.

I guess they've been working on that, just so y'all know. I wasn't completely aware, but I guess the In Lakes HOA folks have been working on that for a couple years. It seemed like a worthwhile idea, so thanks for putting it on the radar.

The only thing I had was, and it's not ours, it's North Richland Hills, and full disclosure, it's near where I live, that Bercy flooded. They had that huge development Going down there at Bursey and Ruth snow and a lot of they did send someone to clean up a bunch of the silt and a lot I don't know if there's anything we can hold to, but some of that came into our system, and if it does end up affecting the city, I don't know if we have any recourse. I know water is, you can't do anything with that.

We've already taken a look at the storm drains, and because of the amount of rain that fell, and yes, it was heavily laden with a lot of sediment, It got flushed out of the pipes very well. And the good news, we were fortunate that between the construction and the pipes, the next thing it hit was the channel it was supposed to go to. And so we were very fortunate how that ended up. All right.

That's great. All right. Any other questions? All right. All right. Thanks, Alonzo. Thank you. We did D1. We did D1, yeah. Oh, I hung it wrong. I thought we were going to possibly push D3. Yeah, sorry. I was on the wrong month, guys.

I've been there.

Yeah, I'll leave. I thought we were going to do that. Talk about it again. Oh, so you were saying D3.

It'd probably do, let's push D3 and D4. Okay. With D3, what we can do is send that out as a Thursday report and give that to you. Some of those we're going to talk about is during the strategic session anyways, as far as like kind of where the state of the city is and our five-year CIP, so we can give that to you in advance. Okay. And then, you know, as we're building, we kind of realize some of that's going to change as we talk about the priorities out of the strategic session as well. So it's kind of a snapshot of where staff's built a CIP at this time, but we can...

So you're going to send us a report so we can review it, and then at a future council meeting we can come prepared with questions. Yeah, that sounds good. And then do we want to do D2? We'll do D2. Yes, sir.

Solid waste RFP and then D4 is UEC.

Council, are we really wanting to discuss D4 tonight, the UDC amendments? I don't want Sarah and her team to stick around. I'm comfortable pushing it. It's not something that I see as an existential need that we need to get to tonight, but if you guys want to discuss it.

I read the attachments and if people haven't had a chance to review them, that would be a good one to come to the next meeting because y'all did a lot of research.

A lot of cities is pushing it

question on that so the the list was was great is there a way that we could create a matrix where we could show similarities and dissimilarities across the different municipalities

Certainly can So if you recall that was actually part of the presentation from April when we discussed it and staff walked away from that discussion With the understanding that we really didn't want to go the way of those other cities that we're looking more at just Modifying the existing definition with some additional language rather than adopting a full ordinance so we can do that analysis But that was really only included this time as a reference to what was presented

Sorry. Thanks, Charles. No, it's okay. It's fine. You can be that council member. We're ready to go. I'm happy to wait.

You guys are troublemakers.

The Matrix. The Matrix, man. If I run through chat. Wait a minute.

I'll speak as I mess with it, so...

That's good IT work right there. You guys got one of those over here? Was it PEG fund dollars? Well spent, right? Yeah. They have one of those at the school board? It's about due.

So I don't know if you knew this, but there's actually a bucket of money that basically the cable networks or something pays. It goes into something called a PEG fund and it's used to crunch up things like this.

And no one uses that anymore. So it's all, it's doing the work. Just because we, that's kind of how we learn.

Yeah, it's a fund that we have for this stuff.

Oh, because nobody has cable anymore. Yeah, everyone's got a cord.

Do you want me to reach out to Sean?

Yes, please. No, it's fine. We're going to get you your matrix and

It's your laptop that likes you a little bit better.

So anyone that has actual cable, so it's weird to say it that way, when you think about the world of streaming versus, so someone that's on a traditional frontier spectrum charter system would pay into the PEG fund, because they also have access to the public educational governmental channel, and that's what that funds. But as you switched over to streaming, and most people have, although you and I have talked about this, I think everyone's talked about this, you're spending more in streaming than you used to pay in cable at this point, it's very frustrating. Going old school. The streaming doesn't get that. So I guess the idea is to fix stuff like this. That's a good use of it. So I think we'll be talking to Sean here a little bit about the age of that projector. Well, yeah, since it's like the second or third meeting in a row where that's happening, probably.

So please stop me if I gloss over anything that we want to revisit from the April discussion. But as a reminder, the issue or the reason that we're even starting this conversation is we've identified home occupations as kind of a recurring, resonant concern that we don't have a great solution sometimes to because of the definition in our code. So we'll talk about some of those concerns. We've had reported to code compliance. I've got the current definition that's in the UDC right now for home occupations, which is really all the regulation we have. We don't have a separate section of the code or anything else that regulates home occupations. We did put together a draft red line with some help from Stan. This is just an example for discussion purposes. We could certainly modify it, change it, throw it out, whatever council wants. And then in terms of next steps, We talked about this last time. One of the options is to do nothing, is to just affirm what's in the code is satisfactory for Keller and keep going. We could certainly do some additional research, have further discussion, or if we felt like the red line was pretty close to what council wanted, we could move forward with P&Z consideration likely in July, and then that would be back on a council agenda in August. So this has probably ticked up just a little bit. We've actually had a few other complaints over the last couple It's not some huge issue that we're dealing with on a daily basis, but for the residents that are reporting it, it's really affecting the enjoyment of their home. They feel like it's really impacting the quality of their life because the things that are often going on next door or across the street are occurring on such a regular basis that they feel like it's starting to make their neighborhood feel not so much like a single family neighborhood anymore. So some of those common complaints are really related to traffic and vehicles on the street. Sometimes those are company vehicles or vehicles that are wrapped. Sometimes they're vehicles with trailers attached. Some stores of work materials or heavy equipment on a lot. Probably one of the biggest complaints is employees that don't live at the home, don't even live in the neighborhood reporting to work at the home. which kind of compounds the problems with traffic and increased vehicles on the street and then oftentimes some of the businesses that that we hear some frustration over our auto repair businesses and swimming lessons we've also had issues with landscape companies pool companies we've got a plumbing company where they were storing all of their PVC and everything in their home personal trainers operating out of their garage without music, you know, just all sorts of things that if you're living right next door to that, again, and experiencing it on a day-to-day basis, the residents are often feeling like this doesn't really feel like a single family neighborhood anymore. So here's what we have right now in the UDC in terms of definition. I bolded that language about the home occupation not changing the neighborhood character or substantially increasing traffic to and from the dwelling. Oftentimes, when residents do their own research, they'll come to this and say, well, clearly, this is changing the neighborhood character. And clearly, they're increasing the traffic to and from the dwelling. Those are really difficult things and force and might mean something different. Changing the neighborhood character can mean something different to everyone. So we've had very few cases where it seems obviously in violation of this ordinance. Usually, the ones that are easy is they are operating a salon, and they put a sign in their front yard, which has happened. But that's an easy one. Like, no, you can't do that. You've got a whole website. But most of the time, they're not doing things that are that obvious. It's the little things that you don't notice unless you live in the neighborhood. This is the red line that, like I said, we put together with some assistance from SAN. It would require the people involved in the home occupation to be inhabitants of that particular dwelling. So that would address the concern of employees that don't live in the neighborhood reporting to work there on a regular basis.

So we allow them to do home businesses even though they're not zoned for that?

the option to completely prohibit them.

That's what I'm asking. I'm not saying I want to. I'm asking. Last legislation, state law came out and said you have to allow home businesses. Now, you can regulate it in this form. You can go SGPs, but you can't outright ban home occupation. Okay.

We did leave the language in there for now in terms of not changing the neighborhood character. Added increased on-street parking. Also put some language in there about the outdoor assembly of employees, clients, or equipment. That's another complaint that we get sometimes of the employees arriving at the home. They're not actually going into the home. They're standing at the end of the driveway. Maybe they'll drive up in their personal vehicle, park it on the street, and then they'll wait for someone else to come and they'll get in the landscape truck or the pool truck or whatever it is.

So the off-street parking, they would just go park in front of somebody else's house. They're just kind of pushing it to somebody else's.

I think certainly all of the different points about parking and traffic are difficult to enforce unless there is an actual violation. You know, they've got a car parked on the street the wrong way with two flat tires or something else that that chiefs folks could enforce it's it's going to be it's going to be difficult and what does enforcement look like right now is it just somebody can somebody makes a complaint that kind of the enforcement mechanism in terms of how folks identify so anytime we get a complaint about a home occupation we'll typically check out the property sometimes we'll just we don't need she doesn't stick out Sometimes if we're not quite sure what's going on, we'll send not even like a violation notice or anything to the property owner. We'll just send them something that's like, hey, can you contact our office and have a conversation about this? And just so we can understand what they're doing on the property. occasionally we'll have a case like I said you know with the beauty salon with the the sign in the yard and that's a pretty easy case to send in it usually takes a letter or two and they'll they'll stop doing that other times when it's not as clear like some of the examples I've given in terms of the pool company the landscape company um we'll go over whatever we've received from the surrounding residents whatever co-compliance has been able to observe and then we'll visit with Aaron, Stan, and then sometimes the prosecutor to see, is this even worth, like, you know, we could pursue a case, but ultimately, if it's not going to go anywhere, if we get all the way to court, should we even continue it?

So those, the 36 states?

I'm just trying to deny it. That's 36 individual properties. Some of those have double-digit complaints on them. Some of them may only have one or two. if it was a different type of violation or I should say different type of complaint that we were easily able to address we wouldn't even be having this conversation but the nature of the conversations we're having with residents when they live next to one of these home occupation businesses we felt like it was worth at least bringing to council for a discussion understanding that the end result may be we leave everything alone we say We're just going to leave the definition as is. We're comfortable with it.

What's... they leave it out there? Does it end up in fines or, you know, they go to court?

Like, what's the... Yeah, so, and Stan chime in whenever I say something stupid. We would follow our normal code compliance process, which involves several different stages of violation and notification where you send a notice, you've got 10 days to either come into... clients contact us for an extension or to have a conversation, and then we re-inspect. And then, you know, assuming that we still find it in violation, we go another 10 days. So we go through that entire process. It usually starts with a courtesy notice, notice of violation, final notice, and then citation. And once it gets to citation, it's really in the prosecutor and the municipal court hands. So no one on staff can go out and issue a fine. That happens at the court.

And as a reminder, our general practice is trying to avoid that as best we can and keep compliance.

So like I mentioned, certainly an option to take no action, to do some additional discussion, to move forward with some type of amendment or have us do some additional research.

I mean, the changes in the language are not very significant, really. It just gives a little bit firmer definition.

Right. And again, and I'll pull up these because I know Councilman Reinklub asked about some of the other cities. It's a matrix.

family, except us.

Yeah, and Colleyville, yeah, theirs is up there, yeah. Only family members. I like that.

We say by inhabitants of the dwelling, so there may be somebody living together that are not family.

Right.

So Sarah, I thought you had... I know there's 36 complaints since 2020, but there was like, how many active inquiries are there?

Currently, I think we've got three cases involving...

Okay, and then are they all related to on-street parking? I can't remember from the last conversation.

Um... One of them is on-street parking and just general increase in traffic. One of them is a combination of traffic, parking, music, noise. And then the one that we've... That's all related to a home occupation. That's what the neighbors are saying.

Yeah, because that's the... Home occupation, is that fun?

They're operating a... Again, this is what the neighbors are saying, you know... The one with the noise and the music, they're operating a gym, personal training business out of there. So they'll do it in the garage with the driveway, the garage door rolled up and pull some of the equipment and weights into the driveway. And they'll do it two, three, four, five times a week.

Are they like online marketing that it's a gym? Like, how do we know?

I mean, it's not just a... That one is a complaint that's just come in in the last couple of days. So we haven't done a whole lot of research.

people close to their house.

And it could be, there's a very good chance that when we talk to them, it's just a group of friends that gets together and works out.

I have a question for Stan. If we were to implement the NRH model, is that not legal? One, if it's only family members, you can't have roommates.

How do they... You can't limit it to family members. The Supreme Court has made it clear that you're talking about the number of occupants for square footage. You can't limit it to... It can require people to be related. So a lot of those definitions you're seeing are probably old definitions. And when we looked at it, we're like, well, we probably need to strike families.

But if you took out family members, is NRH legal based on kind of the new guidance that the city manager was saying from the state that basically says, it says family members, but residing on premises allowed, no outdoor assembly of employees, clients, or equipment, no increased normal traffic.

Well, no increased normal traffic.

additional on or off street parking. I'm not knocking on your head, I'm just trying to get a baseline of what's even legal.

Well, if you're talking about parking, I mean, if you're legal to park there, then how do you conclude that there's an increase in parking?

Right.

Because you're either parked illegally

A couple of things that may just be helpful or food for thought. Mayor DeFinis, talking about the current cases, one of the ones that we're working on is probably one of the more egregious ones we've seen where they're actually operating a food truck business off of their property. So they're storing multiple food trailers on the property, and then they're having things like grease truck service out vent hood cleaning and then they have their employees come on the weekends and park at the property and then they're taking the trailers to and from for the events and so that's one we've got going right now.

So if we take the most extreme scenario this food truck operator parking in a driveway and you know, doing grease cleanup or whatever, what's the most effective tool out of all these tools? It doesn't seem to be that employee parking is as much the issue. That's an issue. I mean, they're all issues for the homeowner. I'm just saying, like, what's the best tool that we have in the language that y'all have drafted to kind of help curb that?

So certainly, you know, things being carried out by the inhabitants of the dwelling, also the equipment on site. The one that I just described, though, is probably one we would pursue even under the current definition, just because there's so many different things going on with that food truck business.

So remind me where we landed last time, because I remember It was kind of all over the map, much to my doing. But... Can't we just go in and argue that they're changing the neighborhood character, and then we're going to list, like I said, I was with Brennan that said maybe some criteria, like factors that we can look at. might be better, maybe this is what we've done, is list some factors. I thought it was gonna be, instead of just kind of this overly broad and vague neighborhood character, that we were gonna basically say, you know, and these are the factors that city staff or code enforcement will look at, including, you know, but not limited to on-street parking, or employee parking, excuse me, storage of equipment. Well, we're just frankly, I just don't, yeah, like what is, you know, like what is littering, right? So it's like such a fact-intensive task. I almost feel like, or I almost believe that we need to, I don't know, is that good? Thought process, stand at Sarah, or is that still too vague for enforcement?

Yeah, Mayor, I think you're correct in that what we're probably going to have to show in court to prevail is a... I guess a drastic transformation of what one would expect to see in a residential neighborhood. So it's probably a matter of degree. If there's a concentration of workers or traffic at one time, that's probably an element we would look at. But it's more of a transformation of the neighborhood. What I've dealt with in years past is that it needs to be shocking to somebody to see what is occurring at that property. The more benign it is, the harder it is for us to prove up our case. like with what Sarah was talking about, it's having a lot of people show up, it's between 7.30 and 8 in the morning, and again at 5 in the afternoon. If it's occurring throughout the day, then it's kind of hard to distinguish that between what's occurring anywhere else in the neighborhood.

I guess what I'm thinking is more specifically, provided that the existence of the occupation shall be carried out by inhabitants of the dwelling on premises does not change neighborhood character or subs... I would maybe say does not change neighborhood character, colon, or as measured by the following factors, colon, and then list out the on-street parking, the loitering, all the different factors. Because I just don't think one of these issues probably is not a great... case to prosecute unless it's really dramatic. Someone storing a work trailer in their driveway for a couple days between projects is probably not going to offend or shock the conscience. But if you have five factors and all five factors are met, maybe that's enough to prove a case.

Yeah.

I don't know.

What do you guys think? It would be more concrete. This is a little bit more vague. I mean, it would be more specific.

some of those more egregious cases, you said that the current UDC would address that, is that right?

For the one that I described with the food truck, we started a case on that one because we did feel like, based on everything we've seen and we've met with the surrounding residents, that one went beyond anything else that we've seen.

Some of the others runs into a weird, the neighbors feel it has changed the neighborhood character, but it's not enough to say, it's not shocking enough to say we can pursue a case.

And so that's kind of why we created this gray area for staff to try to basically.

The state legislation protects these no-impact home-based businesses, and then it describes it with these four things. Number of employees and clients, the property doesn't exceed the city's occupancy limits, of no concern on any of the ones that we've dealt with. Does not generate, and again, we have some of the same language that we see in our code, does not generate on-street parking or substantial increase in traffic, operates in a manner in which no activities are visible from the street, and doesn't increase noise or violate any other city regulation.

I feel like there's something like Mary Kay or doing office stuff from your office. Yeah, if you're running your CBA office out of your house, then... So these would be the factors you could use.

I don't know.

What do you all want to do? Well, do we think anything needs to be done? I'm asking.

It sounds like it does. That means we need to have more concrete specifics. I think that would help staff.

I think it sounds like y'all just need authorization from us to get a little bit more assertive with some of our more, you know, some of our tougher cases. And so if it's as simple as amending the code and basically adopting these as factors that you could use, it would be a totality of the circumstances type test, right? It would still put staff in a little bit of a gray area, but I think it would give you maybe more of a foot to stand on if I'm hearing Stan and you, Sarah, correctly. So we can just delineate it. That way, if I'm a code enforcement officer, I'd be like, hey, you're

out of bounds on three out of four of these you know yeah you got to work with us otherwise we're gonna have to take action and you could coach them to compliance I think it also helps just knowing we've had this conversation so that concerns get raised to you yes we understand why they're pursuing that because we are worried about neighborhood aesthetic that was a conversation and we had that dialogue so there's some even just having a conversation as a is a nice to do helps it helps out the cause

So number one, how is that defined? So if you're in a neighborhood and it's a house that people live in, it says a full number of employees that collect their property does not exceed city's occupancy limits. What does that mean?

That's the one where I was like, we've never had any type of issue like that in Keller. I'm not even aware of any occupancy limit that we have on any residential property.

But what happens if you have like 30 people in a house, you know? Some cities where you get about two people per day.

Well, if you're the neighbor, you know, are there, but I'm just saying.

And some cities may have regulations that we don't in their single-family to people in a home, you know, all those different things. So I don't feel like that number one factor is really of much use in Keller because it's never been a problem.

So then 234 does not generate on-street parking, operates in a manner which... I mean, you could just write them a little bit. I mean, I feel like the language is there already in the red lines that y'all did. Probably just need to make it a little bit clearer, bracket it out like this with factors. And I would personally, I wouldn't be as conclusory in it. You know, instead of saying does not generate on-street parking, I would say does not increase traffic substantially. Because if you say it does not generate any, it implies any on-street parking, it's like, well, that's rough. So I would kind of wordsmith it to make it a little bit more flexible, but not too flexible, which is basically impossible to do. But you could list the factors, and I think you'd be fine.

Have you talked to any of those other cities that you listed in that matrix just to make sure that there weren't any unintended consequences?

Well, they were already in violation because it said family only.

No, I'm just making sure that this doesn't create other issues. Because to your point, there are a lot of successful businesses that started in somebody's home.

We have talked to Grapevine and NRH. I can follow up with Southlake and Colleyville before we do any type of adoption.

Yeah, I think the main thing to keep in mind is that the state law is trending away from our ability to regulate. It's going to become harder. And so probably irrespective of what we ultimately draft and you guys approve, we're probably only going to be able to pursue the cases that are somewhat drastic.

direction on how we want to revise the draft. Do you want to see it again in a work session or are we comfortable with staff working on it? We can take it to P&T?

don't need to see it on a work session and we can put it on there if y'all want to rediscuss this but what I would actually encourage would be I would sharpen your pencil and meet with staff and then if you still want to put on a work session and we could bring it back but I'm you know I think we've discussed it enough as a council that whatever you add is probably going to be additive and make it better and so that would kind of give staff the ability to just bring it to a regular meeting to vote on it I don't NEED TO REHASH IT. I KNOW.

AND THERE'S NOTHING, AS LONG AS WE DON'T DO ANYTHING INAPPROPRIATE FROM A TEXAS OPEN MEETING APP PERSPECTIVE.

NO. AND WHEN IT GETS PRESENTED, WE'LL DISCUSS IT HERE BEFORE WE GO TO THE DIAS THAT DAY ANYWAY. SO YOU'LL GET TO DO IT AGAIN.

WE'LL GO THROUGH IT WHEN WE'RE REVIEWING THE AGENDA ITEMS. BUT NO, THAT'S COMMON PLACE.

YOU JUST MEET WITH STAFF and just making sure that this doesn't create some unintended consequences. Definitely. Sure.

Well, if after y'all talk you think you need to be on a work session, I'll just...

As a reminder, we are in the process of a solid waste bid at this time. So because we're in the middle of the bid, I'm going to refrain from using any company names or giving advice. And so just to update on kind of where we are with the RFP process, because we're at the tail end of it, getting you ready for kind of the conclusion of that. So in summary, our current contracts end September 1. Based on the committee and based on what we saw from the citizen survey, the goal is to try and maintain our current service levels. By that I mean twice a week pickup for trash, once a week for recycling, once a week for bulk, and then also the yard waste. So trying to maintain those as well. We did also seek out bids for alternatives, just to see a good price comparison. If we went to once a week with all cards, what would that look like, just to get a price comparison. But as we met, based on the survey, we recognized that that was the preferred. Just hold on to that as best we could. So with that, we did actually receive five RFPs. The committee met. Thank you to Council Member Brennan and Council Member Whatley for being part of that, along with staff. And we narrowed it down to two. We were seeking out a best and final from those two entities. Just kind of an update on what we did. We appointed the members on February 17th. We discussed the terms of the RFP on March 9th. We issued it a month later once we had all that drafted. We had a pre-bid meeting on April 22nd. We actually had six companies attend that, which was pretty good. Again, bids were due on the 18th. We had five received. We met last week. We went over the scoring of that. Everyone did their scoring in advance. We saw the summary of that. That's where we got down to two

Did the committee score it, or did staff?

So the two committee members and then also staff members. Okay, so the committee members.

We all had a rubric to direct through the RFPs, and then we populated a rubric, and everybody went to the meeting with their rubric. Awesome. We managed them all.

Karen and Chris, who else is on the committee?

Myself, Brian and Jennifer, Howard, our utility building manager, and then Ryan Lee, our purchasing and budget agent, our manager.

Okay, so like six people?

Six people, yes, sir. So, again, the contract goals was to maintain the current surf trainers, contract with the provider with similar city experience, so making sure that they've handled cities that have expectations like Keller, both in terms of service expectations, but also size. And then, of course, the other goal is to minimize overall cost increases. With that, we've narrowed it down to two. We requested best and final for those. We're expecting the results of that at the end of this week. So we are with that kind of at a decision-making time as far as what the next step is and kind of want to get council's concept of whether we would like to just have a committee meet again. We'll plan to do that anyways, meet again. narrow down to either narrow down to one and just say on June 16th this is the contract we think and the bender we should bring forward or we can have both present on the 16th based on what the best and finals are and either have them do a presentation to us and then do a special call to award the contract and that way we have time to think about it just kind of and some of that may be played by you depending on what the best and finals come for come out as But I'm also just kind of seeing if there's any interest in having, right off the bat, saying we want presentations from both, or if the committee can narrow it down to one, be comfortable with bringing forward just the one.

I mean, if we did that route, we would certainly have justification. It would be just okay who picked, and that would be it. It would be information about why.

Correct. We'd have a similar presentation, breakdown of all that, and have the cost and the impact at that time.

I'm not saying I want to, I'm asking, if we were to make a change, that's a quick time between now and September 1st, are they contractually obligated to transition services?

That's part of why we're trying to have it done by the, have the contract in place by June 30th, so they have the two months to make that transition.

I guess my two cents is that, I guess for transparency's sake, for the residents, if they want to go back and figure out why we chose one over the other, having the two presentations on the record would be beneficial. It's just kind of my opinion.

So I do have one question on that. It's okay, let's say they both come present. So I'm kind of leaning where you're at a little bit. they both present from a bidding process perspective, you know, I guess we'd hear them both on the 16th and then would we take action on the 16th? Is that what, or would we have a special called meeting? Because like one, if they're both presenting and then the public understands who the vendors are, and then essentially they end up bidding against each other.

Whatever they're presenting on 16th has to be their vested final.

So there wouldn't be any more room for negotiation. I didn't think so, but... But we can, as Kelly reminded, there's P&Z, so we'll have to figure out how that would work.

We would just have to maneuver, but we are meeting on the 23rd.

Yeah, there is a special call already for the 23rd for the canvassing, so we can take advantage of that as well to do either presentation and award or do another special call.

Yeah, I'm on committee, and I don't care how you guys want to do it. Either is fine with me. I'll just say, when I was going to all the RFPs, they're all over the place. I mean, each vendor is providing you their presentation from their viewpoint and it's kind of it's not like you have a lot of apples and apples so they can give you their presentation but it's it's you know it's not like unless you have some way that you're comparing it just it's not necessarily straightforward it would be information that be provided you in great detail that's good but it's not necessarily easy to decide just based on that without some sort of measuring or some sort of contemplation. Just be aware.

and then maybe give, you know, 10, 15 minute presentation, council can ask questions, and then why would we need to award it at a special call meeting if there's no?

If y'all are comfortable with awarding that night, you would have that ability. It's just a question of time. If you want to do that. Again, I'm also thinking about how things went six years ago where we were at the goal line and then got moved back to the 50 yard line. So

extra day a separate meeting to finally award based on you have a next level city council that's true it's always a chance it always could be glass half full as soon as i don't think that'll happen i personally i don't know if this is where y'all are at and i kind of like your idea of having it you know out in the open uh I don't want to waste anyone's time, so I would feel kind of bad if, because I don't know what the rubric results are or anything like that, but if there was a clear frontrunner, I don't want to waste anyone's time, but I think just if they're finalists, then...

I mean, if you think Greg's idea is a total waste of time, that's fine. I mean, I know it, because I read through all RFPs for an entire weekend on it. But I'm saying if you guys want that information of these two contractors that we've now selected, that's fair. But just realize it's just going to be a little bit of a fire hose, and you're listening to them. You know what I'm saying? You may want to come with specific things in your head about what you're interested in or what some of the things are that... you could ask them to get some concreteness and firm answers from your perspective and whatever you're interested in. It's a lot of data, and there are certain things that certain companies emphasize and certain things that certain companies don't. Does it mean one's better or worse than the other?

No, I just think having all that information out there would lessen the likelihood of somebody who has an axe to grind to make some kind of unfounded accusation of impropriety. Sure. Yeah.

Yeah. I like it. We'll do option two. We can plan on everything goes well. We can award the contract that night. If needed to, we can push it to a special call. That's good.

Very good. All right. Thank you. We'll let the... The special call's on the 23rd already for the canvassing results? Yes, sir. 3 p.m. Is it 3 p.m.?

5 p.m. Is it on the 23rd? We can make it 3 p.m. We could.

I like 5 p.m., though. 5 p.m. I like 5 p.m. You like 5 p.m.? I do. Because people work.

Keep in mind, the only downside of the, we'll have to kind of shuffle around where P and Z is, and that's also P and Z now.

P and Z is at 6, right? It's there at 6. 6.30? 6.30. 6.30.

Sarah, we won't jam them up too bad unless we go longer than 6.30. Right.

So we do pre-meeting in here at 6.30 regularly. Oh, okay.

We'll have plenty of time then. Yeah. Yeah, we'll be fine. We have two hours to knock out canvassing and the contract. So I think that's doable.

I concur.

Great idea. I'll add five from there.

You can push it later. No, 5 o'clock it is. Sounds good. All right. Thanks, Sarah. No, thank you, sir.

Lonzo, did you want to present the CIP? I don't want to keep pushing your... That's actually, it's all in the air right now.

Right now it's just no review of what the party does.

Okay, we already addressed that, so we can push it. I didn't want you, if you had something you wanted to share, I didn't want you sitting there too long. All right, well, I think we've gotten through our work session, right? Yes, sir. All right, we still have some... executive session matter we need to discuss so the council meeting is now recessed so that the council in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act as authorized therein shall go into executive session and consider matters allowed therein and as stated in the agenda.