City Council - Regular Meeting

This is from year 2026, 2027. Good evening, Mr.

Chair, councilmen, members. Yes, we are the...

Ask me if you have a question.

Okay. Those shows zero change in 2025 and 2024, but there was a month, there was about an eight, nine month period that people weren't doing anything. So that allowed business personal property exemptions from $2,500 to $125,000. So that passed this account. That's 31 million in business personal property. So this year it exempted 13 million, roughly $14 million under this new law. net taxable as you can see um we did we did from 2025 so there's a significant growth from 1.5 billion and that taxable in 2026 you're at 3.5 billion this is kind of wine market value 3 billion to 7.1 billion dollars so there's very significant growth that shows the same growth in new values. So in 2022, you notice that that's really low. And I think that what we found out was that the staff did not know how to operate that software in 2022. And then in 2023 to 2024, we had a conversion. So we had a huge market shift. In 2025, you have 89%. Wildlife management, this is one of our larger accounts. So you can also see there's a decline. We had almost 5,000 accounts in 2021. We're currently managing 4,809 accounts in 2006. There is a decline in properties that are coming out of wildlife management into being divided into small parcels. So we see that. And homestead, disabled bedrooms is another area In 2025, we had 6,936 applications for qualified exemptees. We're now at 6,886 or 206. And this is done. Now we have to audit these accounts every five years. This is more of the homestead. For Homestead, we're exempting that 6,800 accounts approximately. We did remove 326 accounts from May 1st of 2025 to May 1st of 2026. They did a mapping project for us. They corrected over 15,800 parcels. So we started at 81% in 2024. And we'll see some backup data. We'll have to go to the next one. So this is VIS backup data. They took over officially in December of 2024. The next slide will be a little bit more. Okay, so They also reported, let's go to the next page. At the end of 2025, so this is one year's worth of work, we were still at 82% complete. The state standard is 95%. I know you don't want to see the other one, but we want to show you some of the areas that we did clean up. The one on the left is Copper Stove, the before. The after is the one on the right. That one big one there that looks like a knife, that was corrected. That was actually floating to Kempner, but it sits in Copper Stove. million dollars in taxable value, $174,000 in lost levy in the last 10 years out of those 19 corrections. This is Kempner. The one on the left was before. The one on the right City of Olympia on the left and on the right is what it looks like as of this year after the corrections. We still got a few more corrections to do a little bit. Go ahead. Okay, so theirs was 1.1 million in taxable value and it was approximately $41,000 in minimum loss. And City of Lancaster. So the one on the left is at four. This one correlates, let's go to the next one. Countywide road and bridge, we did do some corrections for county and road and bridge. $421,000. The potential loss would have been $209,000, but we got it at $164,500. Okay, so this report dates back to the one where BIS took over in 2023. The left slide that you see, that was the one where they corrected the 15,800 parcels. After the corrections that we just showed you, these are the 3,526 parcels. It's a significant difference in what the CAD still has to correct. But with the help of our vendor and with the staff that we have now, we've come a long ways. So this is just a total. We did 79 corrective properties, 1,309 legal acres, $622,000 in loss revenue. We still have that 3,557 unmapped parcels, so a potential offset of $2.8 million that we believe that all the taxing units in Bonner are losing. And then I'm going to let Angela talk about this one.

So when we are studied by the comptroller, we have to turn these in. This is our PDAC rejected and accepted So this is a slide with a lot of information on it. So PBS studies is how the comptroller are studied every other year. As you can see in 2019 and 2020, we were studied yearly due to the fact that we failed our PBS study, which is our school study in 2019. We also failed in 2020. If you see the blue dot on the 2021 year, we were under $13 million from losing our school funding that year. So you see 2023, we're right there kind of in the middle. We passed. So the upper and lower lines are that 95.1, 105% that we have to hit with the school study. There's a very small margin of error for that. There's been a lot of talk about market value declining. As you can see, the CAG if the state has inclined. So we were still looking at that study, and we hit right there in the middle, so we were still good. But this is a slide that kind of shows how we are great at the state and how we have to hit that market value.

OK, some of the items that our operation needs, what we're asking for in this budget is we're asking for one additional administrative staff position. We're asking for a base one. more appraisals in the office. We have two older vehicles, one's a 2012. It's 2015 or 2018. We'd like to replace one of them, keep one of them, and add two more vehicles. We'd like to continue investing in our appraisal, drafting, training, and development, including clear retention, competitive wages, and benefits. This is a new slide, so we've added this in. These are the contracts that we currently have. We inherited them right about here. So there's a $30,000 contract to one of the contractors. This is what we're currently at in our operational. So we've got the chief appraiser, appraiser supervisor, collection supervisor, RPA appraiser, two RPA ones, I'm sorry, therapy ones, executive clerk, and appraiser. And on the collection side, we currently have one person, two people on the collection side. What we want to do, what we're looking for in this budget, so we're looking to promoting the supervisor to the chief deputy and promoting one of our clerks to collection supervisor. And then we have an appraiser three, two appraiser twos, an exemption clerk, and an appraiser one. Keep in mind that some of these trainings, it takes five years to kind of serve that appraisal. And is it level three? 2029, so again, so we've got the chief appraiser, a chief deputy, an appraiser certified, CIA certified as well. So both your chief deputy and chief supervisor will be chief appraiser institute certified. Then we have RPA-4-3, one RPA-3, I'm sorry, RPA-4, one RPA-3, RPA-2s, and a 1. So in the future, that's state certification level three and four in one year. They got it on their first attempt on the exam. We did complete one third of our records with digitize and put it into the conference room. We took that area and we have a board room now. And we did hire four new appraisers to have excelled throughout their training. This is the TBLR testing we showed this last year.

The level three and level four appraisal tests have a very low pass rate. Like you said earlier, two of us took those tests last year. Both of them have passed on the first try. This usually takes five years. I think one of us did it in four, the other one did it in three.

both that passed level four applied and got accepted to the chief appraisal institute and they're going to attend that this year as well so that will give them a higher level of appraisal and So here's some of the examples. The ones on the right is what that conference room looked like. There was over 97 cabinets. We've got one third of that digitized in the very bottom. We have that conference room that we're currently using now. We are now in an accident. So agents are 419 of those. Commercial properties, 252. And industrial properties, 135. Obviously, commercial properties, the majority of them are inside the city of La Paz. This is the budget allocation. Do you want to go to the other side? Revenue will be $2.9 million. And the budget is only $126,000. So this is a three-year comparison of what your revenue is versus what the CAAT's allocation is. So in 2025, the city only paid The city allocation was $106,000, but your revenue was $2.5 million. That was $173,000 increase in revenue. budget, but already, we're already a half a million dollars increase revenue coming into 2027. These are your numbers. This is what we sent you during the preliminary numbers and the preliminary budget. that you have. So a new value for y'all.

I just want to point out here that even with your House Bill 9, the task that exempted a large portion of the VVPs, this number that is going to be levied if you don't change the tax rate is after that exemption. So even though there was exemptions that you all qualified for, you still were able to.

Overall, I think it's a very good job. Thank you for everything you've done since you've been here. I saw Angel as well. Obviously, they put in a lot of work and accomplished a lot in a short period of time. Do y'all have a future plan for a building of any kind? I know you have renovations, but it's kind of moved. It's obviously going to be expanding. Is that built into Yellows Project in the long term?

we we've been talking to the board about that right now what we're asking for a little bit in here was the renovations but yeah as we grow um we need to start either considering adding on to the building that we have or consider looking at another another location for the county and that that'll be in our next hopefully in our next uh budget year we're going to strongly look at that a little bit harder i don't know if you heard but we have a business park just right outside of town there so

I think you did a pretty good job. That's why. Yeah.

Thank you. The total increase was $149,000. 17% of that is in wages and one employee and promotion and the wages. But the other amounts are continued in training and the things that we're looking for, the two vehicles and our shop. As the county continues to grow, we know that there's already that they break ground, within six months those homes are built. I think we put on 500 homes last year.

Approximately. Approximately.

So it takes, within six months they break ground and we need six months homes are already built.

And so we're projecting another thousand homes between 27th and 28th.

So yes, the growth is happening. And so our

Yes.

One thing I didn't catch, you said that with the new mapping and clearing out right now, we're at 81% completion, as I said.

Did I catch that?

92% would be . The state standard, so the control office The rate that the vendor was going, they corrected 554 accounts at the end of 2025. It would take us 7.5 years, is what we're reporting. But we're paying them an additional $20,000 to hopefully speed that up. We want to do it in half the time.

That's our goal. There's not much we're going to do in-house to speed that up, is there?

We've done, I think we've done what we could already.

A lot of the stuff that's already done was... The easy stuff, a lot of the stuff that they're having to correct now, they're having to go find old deeds, old surveys, stuff that was before the cab was originated in the 80s. A lot of that stuff is, we have to go dig it out of the county clerk somewhere and go try to find it, and the vendor's helping us with that.

So we're also using, I mean, we're using every tool out there that we can get to help us. But as far as our staff, we're not qualified to do some of the type of work that's necessary. So that's why we have to depend on the vendor now. But we still do a lot of the work, whatever we can, but it's gotten a little bit more complicated.

Last year, you all raised the go-to quite a bit. And one of the things you said to us last year is that

to keep up the growth.

training you have off the set.

line 50 is $8,450 uh registrations and fees are $4,675 and then $10,075 okay that's it um i guess the room my question is uh you know i saw some online chatter a couple weeks ago you probably know what i'm talking about

And the next day they were called and fired. No longer in service and no longer needed in their company. I just want to make sure that, you know,

But yeah, we missed. Thank you.

because it hits the beds.

And to that point, I actually did a presentation at the newly elected official seminar two weeks ago, and they gave some pod funds, so I'm happy to share my presentation with you. I have years of training in it. I'm certified in it. I'd be more than happy to carry the council through a training session on it, share my information, or if you'd like something on the outside, I'm happy to facilitate that as well.

Well, I also think it would be good for the people filling out the application We're starting to get a lot of these, and supposedly, like what I asked, we're being asked for $6,000, but we only have a $2,500 fund this year budget.

So, you know, and we're in July, and... We've had more hot fund requests this year than I have historically. Exactly. Correct. Yes, and there are some things on this application that, obviously, this is not a sporting event. registration of convention delegates because this isn't a convention but it does fall under the advertising component of it so that component of this request would be a legal expenditure and I don't see where it there are several other events that fall into a certain category of event, as long as the marketing funds are being used for marketing purposes.

Well, and another thing, too, is we need people to come back with a post event and receive, which we haven't.

We do receive those. We have been receiving those with staff.

We tend to take them off.

If they come to council to be initially approved, when the receipts are returned and we allow approved expenditures, we've been processing those payments. Nothing that's been submitted in a post-event report has been excluded as an allowed expenditure.

Thank you. Any other questions? All right. We'll get a motion to adjourn. The City of Lampasta City Council recognizes that the parks and recreation field is a diverse and comprehensive system that improves personal, social, environmental social equity, and environmental sustainability, and whereas the City of Limpassus values the essential service that park and recreation professionals and volunteers perform to provide recreational development enrichment for our children, youth, and adults, and older adults, and to ensure our parks and recreation spaces are clean and safe, inclusive, welcoming, and ready to use. works. 1.0, public hearing citizens' comments. Do we have a three-minute time limit? Do we have any more? Nope. 1.1, citizens' comments. Any citizen who desires to address the city council on a matter not included on the agenda may be short this time, and we don't have any, so. Citizens' comment, any citizen who desires to address the city council on a matter that is included on the agenda may be short. Discussion and possible action regarding the approval of minutes of the regular meeting held on June 8, 2026. Discussion and possible action regarding the second reading of the pardon that's amending the land pass U.S. Highway 281, Lampasas, Texas, Lampasas County. 2.4, discussion and possible action regarding the second reading of the coordinates, modifying the city of Lampasas code of ordinances, mobile food vendor units. 2.5, discussion and possible action regarding the second reading of the coordinates, authorizing the closure, vacation, abandonment, and disposition of an unimproved And to the east of block 33, block 14, lot 11-14 of the GC and 7F railroad addition, 2.6, discussion and possible actions regarding the second reading of the ordinance amending the appendix of the city code fee schedule concerning fees for chapter 62 solid waste 2.2, discussion of possible action regarding the second reading of an ordinance amending the land passage code ordinance, ordinance number 1762, regarding zoning regulations pertaining to the smoke in the back of the shop.

Second. And I think we effectively speak to that. We did have a discussion last, Any other discussion? Okay, we have a first.

2.4, discussion of possible action regarding the separating and coordinates modifying the City of Land Passage Code, the coordinates regarding all the food vendor units.

Mayor and Council, I asked if we could pull this out of the consent agenda. I would like to add something into the ordinance that states that we still require for the food truck operator to provide their state license fire marshal certificate from the last 12 months and their insurance to city staff prior to setting up somewhere. I've spoken with a few other municipalities and this is the way that they're handling this new legislature change. And so my request is to move forward with adding that into the ordinance and we'll bring it back to you for a second meeting at the next meeting if that's acceptable.

So if we're having to remove it, do you have to rewrite it and then

So this could count as your first reading. You would approve it with the modification that I will add in that additional verbiage, and I can bring it for a second reading at the next meeting.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

Tonight I will be presenting the Annual Information Systems Department Report for FY2526. To start off, I would like to introduce our technology team. We have two full-time positions, the IT Director, which is myself, who has been with the city 21 years in September, and the System Administrator, Chrissy Acevedo, who has been with the city for

To start off, I want to talk about some goals in our department.

Some of those include ensuring data security and protections of systems, improving operational efficiency, supporting staff and ensuring effective technology support, improving system reliability and uptime, reducing IT costs by managing resources effectively, developing and maintaining a skilled IT workforce, and implementing new technologies as funds are available. Some of the challenges include managing cybersecurity attacks, ensuring data security, adapting to newly rapidly evolving technology and training staff, meeting staff's demands quickly and effectively with a two-person department, and navigating budget constraints and market conditions. Listed in the next slide is all of the hardware and software that we maintain. I won't go through all of those. You can see those in front of you. We maintain support as well as the city website and social media accounts. Management includes backups, firmware updates, software updates, website, social media, content updates with changes, hardware and software configurations, installs, and maintenance, and we provide cybersecurity training for all employees. This next slide shows various comparison stats from last fiscal year compared to this fiscal year. Our health and service tickets are down from FY24-25. I attribute this to our department doing more staff training, teaching our staff how to better troubleshoot without just putting in a ticket with us. We're providing a lot of training documentation that they can refer to to kind of help The city's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram followers have all increased from last fiscal year. And the city website has less website page views this fiscal year in comparison to last fiscal year. This next slide brings us back to the city. 31% of that is for salaries, 22% is supplies, 15% of that was capital projects, 14% is benefits, 9% is services, 8% is maintenance, and 1% is other. Next I wanted to touch on some technology highlights. the most important part of our network. They are a network security device that acts as a barrier between a private and a public internet filtering incoming and outgoing traffic.

They alert us when any suspicious activity and stops any suspicious activity in the game.

The primary purpose of the firewall is to protect the network from unauthorized access, malware, and any other malicious activities. We have a total of 30 servers to include We have a total of 22 network switches. Switches are a part of network hardware that connects multiple devices to create a local network allowing them to communicate. We perform software patches and updates. Software patches are small pieces of code designed to fix specific issues or vulnerabilities software updates as they become available.

We perform firmware updates to our systems as they are available as well.

We also have advanced antivirus and endpoint security with protection and monitoring on all of our PCs and servers. Internet. AT&T is an internet service provider for all city locations that is on the city network. Those locations include city hall, IT department, police department, municipal court, Calvert building, fire department, public works farm, collection center, water, wastewater, animal shelter, and the library.

And two years ago, we not only increased our bandwidth speeds in our main fiber circuit, but we implemented a second dedicated fiber connection with a diverse happening event of a fiber cut.

To further explain, the image shown And the yellow line is our second 500 megabyte dedicated fiber connection that we added with diversity and intact goes to Pflugerville. This was a high priority budgeted project that we felt was necessary to keep essential city services up when an AT&T fiber cut occurs. Next link is internet service provider for all locations not on the city network. Those locations include golf course, parks garden, cemetery, dining, sports complex, Penn Springs School, Hancock Springs School, golf maintenance shop, WM Worth Park, and the three new locations we added this year were Campbell Park, airport, and Turner Field complex. Cyber security web stream. The state DIR training program that we use allows our department to send out simulated phishing tests to see if malicious attachments and emails are opened or links are clicked on. When a user opens an attachment or clicks a link, it allows our department to see who that employee was and provide them with further education on cybersecurity and keeping our network safe. After the completed training, we are required to report that to state DIR, and we do that annually. Another technology them at several city department buildings. Almost all of those department buildings have them. W. M. Burke Park, Campbell Park, Tennis Spring School, Hancock Spring School, 580 Sports Complex, Turner Field Complex, and the Municipal Airport. The next technology is employment that is posted to our website you can do that by visiting the city homepage clicking on stay informed and providing your information you can also sign up for CITCOG code red emergency notifications as well and you can also report a consumer if you miss a city council meeting and you're unable to attend in person and you want to keep up with what's We're currently going through a free website redesign on the city website and we're supposed to go live on July 1st so we're excited for you guys to see that. Next I wanted to highlight on some of the major projects since we did this fiscal year. Starting with, we had two replacement end of life community post servers and two replacement We upgraded all of our Windows 2019 operating systems, city and TV servers to Windows 2025 operating systems. We replaced seven end-of-life network switches and five end-of-life PD patrol talk modes. We also upgraded PD East Texas, DPS, SD-WAN, Qlex router, and we replaced 10 desktop PCs. FY25-26 major projects in progress include, we're still working on security cameras at the golf course, Turnerville complex, and the airport. We do have one installed at the airport. We have one, I believe, we have one in Turnerville complex. golf course and we're going to be adding four to the exterior of the golf course. Software conversion and entirely payments for court and utility online payments, that's in progress. Our city website redesign that we spoke about earlier, that goes slide to slide as mentioned. That's a pre-redesign that we get every four years. We're in the process of assisting PD with We will report that before August 31st. We're also in the process of updating quotes for replacement IT server for a mini-split. And most recently we awarded quote for the installation of spray foam insulation at the IT building. The replacement ceiling tiles that we are waiting on repairs before we do that project. Do you have any questions?

the next week, is that working out?

Yes, it works really well for our locations that's not on a city network. I mean, ideally we would love to have those locations on our city network, but in many of those locations it just doesn't make sense to run structured fiber out to some of the locations that maybe has a lot to do with satellite. Huh?

Next week it's on satellite there.

Some of them are structured fiber and some of them are And it has worked out really well, and we're very happy to have that as a solution.

Good evening, Councilman Mayer. We have my one-page snapshot in your packet, I believe. This, of course, isn't everything, but it gives you a little picture of what's been going on at the library. So this is from June through May, this past May, and we've had almost 41,000 Program attendance, 2,817. Internet. people engaged. She's kind of the fun side of libraries and so yeah. And then also we did receive a $3,000 grant in May for a, I don't know, at HUB you're able to donate to TLA. branch. I'm going to skip over to summer readings. So, but they have till like the middle of August to work on theirs. But this year has been a fun theme, Unearth a Story. So we've had lots of dinosaurs. We've got an inflatable dinosaur costume, and that was a big hit at the kickoff and at the different programs. The dinosaur has greeted them at the door, so they thought that was a hoot. So, so far, we have one more week. This is our last week of summer reading. But it's been fun, and we've had the summer school kids from Hannah Springs come over several times, not for every program.

So we've enjoyed seeing those kids as well.

digital rather than a physical book so which is fine but so we do have a couple of options collections that they're able to access with their library card for free so i think they're clearly enjoying those as well so that's pretty much all i have it's still going we're I don't know. It stays pretty much the same per month because we have new ones registering, but then we have others graduating.

So it stays pretty even around 515 or so. So, but we're, yeah, we're like 1200.

but then I have to approve or deny based on their actual address. We're glad to be here.

other questions all right thank you thank you 3.2 we have a few upcoming special events and meetings july 2nd 6 p.m planning and zoning july 3rd all city offices I'll do that next time. That's right. Discussion of possible actions to clearing parts of pallets of red brick 224 as a surplus and supplies disposing of as state law requires.

Mayor and council, we're simply going through all the local sports departments and So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye.

Discussion of possible actions to clear and keep plastic tables at surplus equipment disclosing the other state law requires. Second. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. 4.5, discussion of possible actions to clear and keep plastic tables at surplus equipment disclosing the other state law requires. Discussion and possible action of clearing 23 metal padded chairs as surplus equipment and Star-Crossed Planet.

Thank you.

some of the items requested are not calling the finance expenditures for tax funds. And in addition to that, there are only about $2,500 remaining in the funds allocated for organizational requests outside of the Chamber of Commerce this year. My goal is sincere if you have questions for me specifically about email.

Since you said some qualified sundown, what do you consider to be qualified sundown?

Advertising and marketing.

At the 100% rate?

Because I know that in the past we've done like 40% for advertising in our three areas, the code areas, and 100% outside of our code areas. That's what they used to do.

That's an unwritten deal. It used to be kind of a rule of thumb that if you were going to spend marketing funds on it, it needed to be outside of the 60-mile radius.

That's what we did. I haven't heard that my pass isn't all of anything like that.

But now with so much of your marketing occurring online, it's really difficult to just say, hey, you can only market outside of this radius. So...

Can we get some information on what kind of marketing products you're talking about, specifically how much?

Exactly how much, I can't give you that exact number. The event will have probably anywhere from three to five hundred people attending. at the livestock barn or the show barn that we all use um we can't get 300 400 people in that thing that's why we do what we call show off your trailer so a lot of these people will come in and they'll actually use their trailer as their stalls and their pens and when it's time for them to go in they pull their goat off and walk in and they'll do it um the whole reason behind in that my passage is a big goat area people don't realize it you know we hear about pigs and cows but if you look gold plate lamita um all that country you go down towards land on the basin and that and so we saw there was a need and we're like why not bring in the land passage we have the facilities um i did go to the two local hotels the quality inn and the best already have some pre-booked. One's a wedding and one's another function. They won't book more than one event. So once that got in there, then that locks them out. We have people already coming from Panhandle, Oklahoma, South Texas, and Louisiana that have said they're coming to this event. There's an app that they sign up for and it lists where they're from and all that. And we're going to provide that at the end. The main thing to do is...

I'll fund some rent folks and send money here. Stay in here. There's no place for them to stay.

They could get an individual room. I just couldn't book a room block that I could put in the thing that says we have a room block at Best Western. List, CTX Go Classic, and then they give you a rate. You can't list that because they don't have it there. They can stay at Airbnb's. They can stay at the hotel and just book the room themselves. You know what I mean? It's like, they can see if they're going to be here.

You know, the Airbnb's are in this town.

Well, they use their expo center to do it there. But it's a combination of one in Kerrville. They have the pigs go to Kerrville. The goats go to Llano. The cows go to another place. They just rotate it around to where they put them. So we're like, well, why don't we train the kids here? So show season starts in September. Most of your jackpots start at the beginning of September. For instance, my daughter just got her goat's history. So now they're starting to get them and train them. And so these jackpots in the show like we're doing not only helps the kids learn that and get in front of different judges, it also brings people that have been raising them longer. So you know how it goes. And some of them are standing there in the quarters on their trail. And we haven't been told that. But most of them won't. They'll either come in and go. And the amount that I put down, I had to come up with a number. Nobody could tell me. So that's what we try. to use for advertising. And so that was just a round number that everybody come up with. Don't know if that's what we're going to use. We might use less.

I don't know. Well, is there any way that you could maybe come back to us now that you know that you can only help you with advertising? Can you come back to us with specifics like a marketing plan? And we've made this, we've got this

It sounds like at this time, we're trying to develop this for this area, and we need to get a little more organized as far as our marketing and stuff.

show, there's a commercial weather show, there's a commercial dough show, there's I knew about it, but I didn't know about it. Because I know we asked for 10. I know we asked 10 at Best Western and they said,

I'm excited to see how it goes.

Oh, I am too, believe me.

Sounds like we need to dig on this in my area, man, since we don't have a farm.

of Scholar School to the Laney-Prince Scholar School LLC.

Mayor and Council, in the spring of completed a survey of the properties which the city has received. Both properties were donated to the city for preservation and restoration, but the city has not prioritized those activities on its properties amongst the numerous other projects the city needs to complete. LCS LLC will be able to take over those efforts. The proposed agreement does contain the legally required callback that

It outlines their proposed timelines.

We're obviously getting everything organized right here right now. What does that do to your project plan? Do you have a different phase?

I think my question that I've heard the most around town is how soon can you go at it? How soon will it be done, and how much are you going to be doing?

That's going to depend on where they are.

in terms of the upbuilding of particularly the African-American community. We've been stymied across the delays, of course, in reaching a contractual agreement. It's been delayed, whatever, but we were prepared. We think had the council been able to act sooner, we could have and others so we have programs we already have staff for requests

It was very interesting. We had exhibits from the museum. And we had great food.

So it was a very nice time.

And it looks good. With plant pests as being what I call my hometown, I want to really

historical commissioner for Dallas County, so I have the expertise to know about the historical parts of it. One goal I would have is to get the church to have this historical mark of things that I've been helped to do for Dallas County. I've been on that board for 11 years, so I'm very familiar with the process. coordinating their board without

I'm working contracts with the government is what I do for my day job. He also asked me to be a part of this work family and this property means a lot to our family. It's something that his grandmother asked. that we try to acquire and make happen. So it's big for them to be a part of this and keep this as a historical property and make it into something which is educational, is to talk about the history, but also to make sure we get people that not only live here but bring other people to this town to understand what it has to offer and grow that and have that legacy forever a church expertise and historical expertise so we really just want to use all of what we have but then also intervening on that with the expertise in the community um to make it what we think it could be well thank you do you live here too i mean i live in colleen not too far down the road thank you all right i know he's not going to cover my support

I'm a local here, I stay here, I'm a realtor. That's why they brought me on, as far as the legal aspect of the market and everything. I'm also tied to Deerwood. Wheelchairs started to count as the losses of the run.

I make a motion to approve an agreement for the transfer of public property for the New Hope Baptist Church and Land Passage Scholars School to be two, sorry, Land Passage Scholars School LLC. Second.

I'd like to make a point that it will be completed and finalized within three years.

Is that something that's reasonable for y'all or not? I think this is our first time actually hearing that as a prerequisite or a requirement to be obtained. I am not exactly sure what that entails.

But we believe, if we wouldn't have taken this project on, have we not failed to believe that we have the resources to get it accomplished. And if you place that before us, we'll make it happen.

Is this something that we can do, whether we need to do, or can we just pass this on?

The city's not doing anything in this property, and there won't be any time in the near future.

You don't mind if I address that real quick, because I have some thoughts on that. Because I originally, when I saw this, I was thinking the same thing, like an actual timeline or a couple of years to see if anything was, if there was anything accomplished.

But the way it does read,

is that there's so much LPC subsection 53.011E1, it must be stretched properly. Is it mandatory to promote the public purpose of the city?

We are all talking about right now, promotes the public purpose of the city. He's coming up with programs and different educational opportunities. Whether or not full restoration has been done yet or not, that would be public purposes. Would you agree? It's either going to work or it's not going to work, right? And if y'all lose interest, which it doesn't sound like that's going to happen, and there's nothing being promoted, well, then that's when the fallback happens, right? And clearly you would have abandoned any kind of progress if that happens, and it would just make sense for the city to take a property back, right? But if you're promoting what you want to, and I'm not coming up with new ones that That's my love life. Because I see the issues. Those are the same issues that I have. But I don't have the worries that I had coming into the night when I heard from Dr. Sam. Talking about, you're already working on programs. I'm going to brush this to the moon here. And writing.

He puts more in everything now.

I guess the only question I have, are we talking about the restructuring, rebuilding, rehabilitation of the physical structure, or are we talking about the bringing together programs? For instance, I received my doctorate in ministry on church economic development, where seminars on starting up businesses and financial literacy training, things of that sort. That's what we intend to implement. One of the ideas that I've discussed with the group is to adopt a local school and work very closely with that school and perhaps try to implement some weekend programs.

Good voting, Mayor.

I was just saying.

In which they go out and see Sponsorship opportunities for the department and in turn they would take a cut off at the top

To just refresh everybody's memory, that sliding scale is a 20% to 25% sliding scale, depending on a number of factors, including chamber membership, as well as what they call cold lease versus hot lease. Tonight, the city staff, oil states, and Sportsman Solutions have came to a $40,000 one-time agreement of sponsorship The sponsorship will be over a 10-year period, but we will receive the $40,000 up front from Royal Estates. For this sponsorship, the naming rights will be the 580 Complex playground. So the 580 Complex, they are requesting one sign that up to the staff's discretion. design on that would be as long as it has their logo on it. And then changing the name of that playground on the city website to the Boiler States Playground at 580 Sports Complex. Along the same lines, naming rights have one field that is the city's discretion on which field for naming rights at Turner Complex. And two signs, two banners on outfits And then one mobile A-frame sign they would like for us to put up at different city events for employment recruitment for the real estate. This is a big ploy for them to hopefully up their recruitment process and implement.

Will they pay for the sign or is it something we pay for?

We would pay for the signage. I do have a rough quote just based off some generic mock-ups. So this is the first of three upcoming sponsorships. The other two are very large national companies. This is the only local company that is going to be utilizing through Sportsman Solutions. And at the beginning, yes, the larger opportunity is your national companies, but again, we're not going to just eliminate the local man from being able to utilize this opportunity.

My question is not eliminated. My point is

And a lot of times they don't speak unless it's through an organization like G3.

Respectfully, we don't have a staff member to send out to recruit sponsorships.

She doesn't have time to go knock on business doors.

They'll put a five-year number on that, a 10-year number on that, and then what's called a legacy number on that. So an indefinite amount. And those for 5A Sports Complex were in the seven figures. But these are your smaller opportunities. And again, we don't want to turn away any one request. And so if oil states originally came in and said, we want two ball fields, facility, we've been negotiating that back and forth. And a lot of those negotiations do happen with Sportsman Solutions. And they are just essentially sent to the city as an approval, denial, or modification.

Steve did a lot of modifications.

and two banners. And so those two banners could go on the same field, they could go on different fields. I did say it, we were not looking to erase family legacy when it came to some of our facilities here, such as the Turner Complex. The city does have the discretion with this structured sponsorship to be able to designate the field of our choice for this. That is up for discussion. One that the Parks and Recreation staff has talked about is the H-E-D field at the sports complex. It doesn't have a family name or a family name tied to that. And as well, when this first started, Aaron and I, specifically Aaron looking back years, they they were they were um emailed and called by sportsman solutions with no response yes i mean this is one we were talking about originally there is no constraint on that based off of the contract I think initially we're going to look at some needs of the department some safety needs we're needing some fences in a couple places we're looking at maybe some structural upgrades to maybe some playgrounds but you know These ones can be utilized anywhere except for sack positions.

They can be utilized anywhere in a bunch of departments.

Parks and Recreation. Yeah, and this is a chunk of money. We've never seen this kind of money before.

This is really good.

And I can assure you, this is just the beginning. I don't want to get too far ahead, but this is the lowest

So when we brought this to you at the first meeting in May, we discussed establishing a charter review committee, staff was directed to

Seven people in the same room.

There's a lot of people.

It's all the chefs at the same time. I was thinking maybe you go with two council members, three citizens, and one or two alternates.

That's not what I was thinking. I just want to hear your thoughts.

I think the people that have offered have been all excited to

Because does that allow for people who may not be able to be there and show up? And so therefore, you have that number in case they can't be there as well.

Yes, sir. It would be in the event that a quorum was anything.

If we only have five, just to go on this other, if we only have five.

They could come to the meetings, the alternates could, just to stay in the loop on what's going on. However, they have a little less authority as an alternate than they would the sitting committee unless there was a committee member missing and an alternate would have to step up. Then you get into a little bit of a conundrum about which alternate steps correct so we would need council would need to okay the proposed amendments in early february you really need to have it done in january to get it pushed through council in february and time to get them on the make of it so i think there's a lot of misinformation out there that's like council trying to change the charter charter in the last 10 years it's in 10 years the last charter review was done purely by staff all of the recommendations were made by staff it was not made by representatives necessarily of they came back to make this like perfectly clear so there's no miscommunication out there to anyone

At the end of that, the committee will make a recommendation and write their recommendations to this council. This council will then approve what will go on the ballot for the citizens of this community to determine whether or not they want to change any aspects of our charter. If things need to be changed. That's what I just said.

If things need to be changed. I would say still that it's difficult to remove

I would like to state, if you're looking at going to a smaller committee, if you are looking at five people and two of them are made up of council members, your quorum is three people. The likelihood that you would need to call on one of your alternates, very rare, if ever.

There are seven people on it?

If you have five. Your alternates don't count, and your quorum counts.

So like when I'm proposing the five, rather than seven members or two alternates, right?

Yes.

Because that's what originally... Well, we only have five applicants, so really we can't do it.

if that's the direction you'd like to go.

I would make a motion to amend the ordinance for reappointing five members to alternate staff appointees to the Charter Review Committee of the City of Winnipeg, Texas.

Do I have the procedure specified in other terms? I've heard the first reading, so.

Thank you. I guess the question is,

So right now, the recommendation is talking about 0.7 people, right?

So I move to approve the first reading of an ordinance.

Chair and Council, we have received five applications. Your applicants are Heather Liggins, Miles Hager, Wesley Alexander, Alexis Thompson, and Martha Newell.

Thank you.

4-1-1-2, a discussion of possible action regarding the renewal of the city health insurance coverage. The city employee was signed by the health plan for October 1, 2026.

The fee was set for September 30, 2027, and authorized the city manager to execute related documents.

Mayor and Council, we've received our health insurance renewals for the fiscal year. When we met with our consultant who is not tied to a specific health care provider, they're not tied to a specific insurance provider. They're purely a third party that gathers the information for us. When we met with her a couple of months ago, she did give us a heads up that based on the our monthly premiums when we chose when we signed with Baylor Scott & Wyatt last year they capped our increase at 12.9% if we did not go out to market so we were looking at a lower rate increase there after a little bit of back and forth with Baylor Scott & Wyatt it's 12.8% which gives you the renewal rates that are included in that includes our current employees and our retirees. And so next year when we go out to market, One thing that has been suggested is moving our retirees onto individual plans And keeping current employees on the group plan by pulling them out They do represent a large number of our claimants It would minimize it actually by pulling them out our loss ratio going into this retire at 38, and we will cover your insurance until you're 65.

There is a provision for grandfathering people into a separate program. So any promises we have made in the past to current employees would be honored. But grandfather them so that those are the new people coming in, being hired, will not have the same promises. And that might be something to consider.

But if you, okay, so, but if we pulled them out and had a separate type policy, you know, not our group, but we still are providing insurance and we're still holding our, I mean, we're still doing what we need to do, correct?

So why would we want to bring other, unless we're just going to bring other people?

Talk to staff about a little bit. It is modifying the personnel manual to where if you are currently a city employee of the city of Lampasas, we will honor what was in the personnel manual when you were hired. But modifying it at some point this year, quite frankly, that if you were hired after this,

or do you do TML?

TML, right. And with individual plans, the way it was explained to me is they are then grouped into a large group. Individual plan holders.

My question is on the two types of plans that we have. One is the H-8020. Is that correct? And the HMO, is that required by state law to have an HMO? No.

That's your question?

My question is on the number of people we have, the majority are on HML. The difference in the premiums are pretty significant differences. So do we want to, one thing to think about is whether we want to put some on HML for the future?

There's a few alternate claims that the benefit of the I'm looking at, do you have a sheet in front of you that has... Can you scroll up?

I can't tell you.

The buyout plan is a fantastic plan to be on. 0% co-insurance, $0 deductible. So that's where our water... I will tell you

But as of right now, is this what we're doing?

Okay.

What power and utility do you have in your bodies to deliberate regarding