City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning and welcome to the May 27th 2026 City Council meeting. We're going to begin with the invocation from Councilman Childs followed by the pledge.

If you'll please stand.

Lord, thank you for the opportunity to gather today. We are so grateful to our first responders and to all our city staff for the selfless work that they do for our community. May we be good stewards and humble servants who listen and act with both intention and with purpose. We pray in your name. Amen.

All right, we've got the minutes from April the 8th, 2026. Have a motion to approve? Move.

Second.

Got a motion by Nichols, second by Hawkins. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. At this point, Mayor Pro Tem Hawkins will be sworn in. Do we have a judge out there?

I was looking for Derek's choice. He doesn't look like Derek. Raise your right hand. of the state of Texas, I, St. Janine, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of the college, the city,

in the state of Texas, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution

All right, we've got some service recognitions here.

First, we have Jeffrey Rackwith, police sergeant, police department, 35 years of service.

Next we have Jonathan Thornhill, Assistant Police Chief, 30 years of service. Next we have John Pitts, police officer, police department, 30 years of service.

And the last one we have, he's not able to be here, but Brian Phillips, Fire Captain, Fire Department, 20 years of service. These four people combined 115 years of service to the city of Tyler. And we think 20 years to 35 years, that's a long-term commitment to the city. And so we're just so thankful for your commitment to the city. You know, sometimes you see people come and go in one or two or three years. So when you go 30, 35 years, 20 years, that's a long time. And just thank you for your loyalty to the city of Tyler. Thank y'all. All right, P1, Kate.

Well, good morning, Mayor and Council. I'm Kate Dietz, Tyler Water Utilities Director. As part of our ongoing commitment to keeping you informed on the city's progress under the federal consent decree, we've invited a key partner who has been instrumental in guiding much of our assessment, rehabilitation, and compliance work. I'm pleased to introduce Jim Forbes. He is the president and owner of Pipeline Analysis. Jim has worked alongside our utilities team for many, many years, providing technical expertise in system evaluation, rehabilitation planning, flow monitoring, and long-term compliance strategies. His team's work has played a major role in helping us reduce inflow and infiltration, improve system performance, and stay on track with our consent decree milestones. Today Jim Forbes is going to present an update on our current progress, recent field findings, and what to expect as we move into the next phase of the consent decree timeline. Please join me in welcoming Jim.

Mayor, council, and Kate told me I had about three and a half hours to present this, and I feel like I could probably do it in about two and a half, but we'll see what we can get done here today.

And people clapped for you.

Maricastle, I'm here to provide you with an update on the status of the consent decree associated with the wastewater collection system. I'd like to start by reminding you that lying underneath the ground here in Tyler is your sanitary sewer. 734 miles of sanitary sewer sitting underneath the ground, out of sight but not out of mind. If you were to stretch that end to end, it would reach from Tyler to Atlanta, Georgia. That's a long ways. is to inspect that line off every one of those lines and every one of those twelve thousand manholes as part of his consent decree so it's a major undertaking that's been going on under the consent decree the biggest uh... uh... so if we look at the progress the most important metric uh... federal and state regulatory agency used to measure the performance of your sewer system is a number of sanitary sewer overflows a well performing system should be below five sanitary sewer overflows per hundred miles of sewer The trend since 2017, when Deborah first started this whole consent decree, is consistently downward. With ongoing repairs and more capacity improvements that are currently underway, that trend should continue. When we first monitored the wastewater collection system back in 2015, it took 14 days after a rainstorm for the flows to get back down to normal. Mike Norris, who runs the wastewater treatment plants, now says within 24 hours the system's back to normal. So we're seeing great improvements in what's happening out in the collection system. But again, it's been a huge effort over these last nine years, eight years of construction and rehabilitation to get there. So we're seeing great progress in where we're headed. We look at the causes of the sanitary sewer overflows in 2025. The largest contributor to sanitary sewer overflows was fat, oil, and grease. Fat, oil, and grease accumulate in the sewers, usually from restaurants, apartments, complexes, where grease is dumped into the sanitary sewer. Staff has stepped up inspections of the grease interceptors and the grease traps and has established outreach programs to help inform people why we shouldn't be dumping our oil and grease down in the sanitary sewer. TWU staff now meet weekly to discuss each sanitary sewer overflow to determine preventive action that can be taken to prevent future sanitary sewer overflows. Groups one and six repairs and construction have been completed along with force main and air relief valve repairs. So under the first six, seven years of work to date, there's been a tremendous amount of rehabilitation. A lot of the citizens and residents have probably seen that through construction going on out in the streets and in the easements. Capacity projects are where existing sewers are undersized to handle existing and future flows. KSA has completed various projects while others are in construction and design. The lane in Group 7 rehabilitation is well underway and Group 8 rehabilitation is on schedule in the design phase. Some capacity construction projects include work outside the consent decree. For example, TxDOT road construction requires you to relocate some of your sanitary sewers, which will cause some delay in completing those capacity projects. There are four such projects where the construction duration may exceed the consent decree timeline, primarily due to delays in obtaining legal easements and permitting. Working with contractors, KSA engineers are working to ensure that the consent decree portions of those projects are completed before April of 2027, which is our last day in the consent decree. Even though the overall construction contract may extend beyond April, we want to make sure those construction projects associated with consent decree are completed on time. However, just in case a consent decree related project exceeds the April 2027 deadline, we continue to add narrative into the annual reports that go to the EPA and TCEQ to inform them of the possibility that some projects may exceed that due date. So we want to make sure that they're always, that EPA and TCEQ have been made aware that there is the potential for some of these projects to slide past that April deadline. We're not foreseeing that, but if it does happen, we've been notifying them since 2023 of that possibility. Your sanitary sewer continues to expand and is tracking population growth. When we started this project back in 2017, it was estimated that you had 600 miles of sanitary sewer because we didn't have any accurate maps of the sanitary sewer at that time. Today we know there's 734 miles and we know where every manhole in that system is. Each year the amount of sewer increases. Good news is the new sewer is brand new and it's in great condition. The bad news is the old sewer that dates back to 1916 is still deteriorating and is going to require rehabilitation. The Tyler construction photos that you see here date back to, again, 1916, some of the earliest drawings of sanitary sewer in the city. This is a typical what we call an asset management performance curve. Remember the collection system? 1916 vintage. This could be your automobile or sanitary sewer. Let's say in 1916 your new Ford is in excellent condition. As it ages, it deteriorates and finally will fail. This asset management system is called run to failure. To extend the life of your sewer system assets at the least cost, you need to perform periodic rehabilitation and maintenance. The 1916 car undergoes preventive maintenance and restoration. The sewer system undergoes preventive maintenance and rehabilitation. Performing periodic inspection and rehabilitation will extend the life of your system assets at least cost. Restaurants and apartments will increase as population increases. Your food service establishment grease interceptors are being inspected at least once a year, and more frequently for those with violations of the sewer use ordinance that requires them to pump out accumulated grease from grease traps. Failure to adequately clean the grease traps allows grease to accumulate in the sewer, resulting in blockages and sanitary sewer overflows. Remember, grease is the number one cause of overflows in the city right now. So the grease ordinance and enforcement is very important. Some sewers collect debris due to low flows and again some sewers are as flat as a table so which means that solids will settle in them and accumulate and if not cleaned out can cause an overflow so where blockages occur the sewer may be put on a high frequency cleaning program to prevent future blockages and overflows in some instances the pipe is effective and is placed on high frequency cleaning until repairs can be initiated This preventive maintenance work is a critical component to minimize SSOs and achieve compliance. City staff perform this cleaning and maintenance and maintain a history of the cleaning and repairs. The cleaning program is a critical component for long-term compliance. The consent decree requires inspection of all manholes, all 12,465, in five years. That work was completed. The consent decree also required internal TV inspection of all 734 miles of sanitary sewer. So look at it as you put a camera in a sanitary sewer and you start going toward Atlanta.

When you get to Atlanta, you've finished.

That's the type of effort that's been going on for the last six, seven years. Best management practice is to perform inspection of manholes and pipes on a 10 year cycle. And that would be my recommendation moving forward past the consent decree. Inspecting the assets once in 10 years is reasonable. I would say the exception would be critical assets which should be inspected at a higher frequency like major interceptors going to the treatment plants. Those are critical assets. You may inspect those on a five or seven year cycle. The goal here is to find the defects early while they're less expensive to repair. So inspecting once every 10 years is not unreasonable, and it's to locate those defects as they're relatively small and the cost of repairs will be less. Remember, your option is to run to failure, and that's going to be the most expensive option you have when you start having to replace all those lines. On April 10, 2026, the city was nine years into the 10-year consent decree. Note that to comply with the consent decree, the city must demonstrate compliance one year after completing the requirements. So it's really an 11-year consent decree when you get down to it. So the earliest you can request termination of the consent decree is April 10th of 2028. I can affirm that the city is on schedule to meet the consent decree requirements. And let's look forward to what life might look like after the consent decree. When you are no longer under the tunnel or in the tunnel looking for that light at the end of the tunnel, the consent decree is in the past. You can safely modify and cut programs that have been dictated by the consent decree. I urge you to use caution and don't dismantle those core programs that are part of an effective asset management system and ensure regulatory compliance, like the Fat, Oil, and Grease Program, your high frequency cleaning program, your 10 year condition assessment and rehabilitation. TWU staff are looking ahead at just what life after the consent decree will look like and they're developing a written plan to ensure regulatory compliance at minimum cost. So don't dismantle those programs that ensure regulatory compliance and that will extend the life of system assets at least cost. With that, I'd be glad to answer your questions.

Any questions for Jim or Kate? Jim, you said you notified, provided notice to the EPA and TCEQ. If for some reason with those textile projects, it goes beyond April 2027, what happens to the city? Do we get fined? Do we get extra time to complete that? What's the process at that point?

Yeah, the consent decree is established by the Department of Justice. So you have those, that deadline is fixed. If you don't meet that deadline, EPA, TCQ have the option of fining you for every day that you're You extend beyond that consent decree deadline. Again, I'll defer to the attorneys on what the next step would be, but it's really optional for EPA to do the enforcement. If they see that the projects are a few months past due, it's been my experience that they're not going to do anything about it. If you have major issues and projects that are way behind schedule all across the board, then I think you may have some trouble. I don't see that happening. I really don't.

Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Great presentation. Thank you. Thank you.

Appreciate it.

I've been here a long time, and I've never seen Jim get two applauses. You're good. Kyle? Sorry.

morning good morning mayor and council planning director the first item we have is z1 which is a request for a zone change from c1 light commercial district and multi-family district to dbac downtown business arts and culture district this is on north broadway and west bow street The applicants requested the change to facilitate the development of senior housing in the building. They plan to reuse the building for residential space. If you recall, this request was a housing tax credit proposal that we, that Council provided a resolution of support a few months ago. And so the applicant plans to reuse this building for housing. They also have plans to use historic tax credits to facilitate this project. The surrounding properties are generally commercial in nature. This request is consistent with the Tyler Tomorrow Future Land Use Map shown as downtown. As you see here, the building plans to remain as is, but they plan to adaptively reuse and renovate the interior. Of the notices that were sent out, none were returned in favor or in opposition to this request, and the Planning Commission, by unanimous vote, recommends approval.

Any questions for Kyle? So moved. Second. Got a motion by Hawkins, second by Nichols. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Seat two.

This is a request for a zone change from RPO, Restricted Professional Office District, to PCD, Planned Commercial District. This is on West Grande Boulevard. The applicant's request for the zone change to allow for the addition of more medical professionals on the property is currently zone RPO, which restricts the number of medical professionals to three. They plan to expand on site and require a zone change to have four or more. And so they have proposed a PCV planned commercial district which would be limited to RPO uses plus the additional capacity for medical professionals. And the surrounding properties to the north are developed with residential uses. To the west and south are multifamily and then to the east is light commercial. There is a cemetery to the northwest. This request would amend the Future Land Use Guide to Innovation Mixed Use. As you see here, the property is currently developed retina clinic or a retina center. And so the applicant plans to add more, another building right here in this area. And so that's going to exceed the number of professionals that are limited to RPO. And so they have, they are requesting this PCD with a written narrative, which is rather simple. It limits the PCD or the zoning to RPO uses plus the additional capacity for professionals and then also all the other standards will be consistent with RPO which is currently how it's zoned. And so the only additional change will be how many optometrists are there. Of the notices that were sent out, none were returned in favor or in opposition. The Planning Commission, by unanimous vote, recommends approval.

All right. Any questions for Kyle? Second. Got a motion by Haney, second by Nichols. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. E3.

This is a request for a zone change from R1B, single family residential, to R1D, single family detached and attached residential district. This is on Belmont Drive. uh... that is requested zone change to bring an existing accessory dwelling unit into conformance with the code currently is a a house on the property plus uh... an eighty u which uh... as it stands uh... if there were were any issues with that if they were to be destroyed or you know have some damage to it under the current zoning it cannot be rebuilt and so this zoning will essentially allow that to be rebuilt if that ever happened The surrounding properties are generally single family residential. There is commercial land uses to the east. This request is consistent with the land use guide, shown it as neighborhood residential. This is just an image of the property as you see. There are a variety of housing within that area. And I believe there are some other similar arrangements within this area, if not further to the west in the Azalea District. There are ADUs in that area. Of the notices that were sent out, we received a number in favor and none in opposition. And the Planning Commission, by unanimous vote, recommends approval.

Any questions for Kyle? I'll move to approve Z26-005. Second. Got a motion by Childs, seconded by Bays. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

This is a request for a zone change from R2, two-family residential, to also R1D, which is single-family attached and detached district. This is on Academy Avenue. The applicant's requesting the zone change to help facilitate the development of a single-family home on this lot. The surrounding properties are all zoned R2-2 family, but they are developed with a mixture of primarily single-family detached homes, and that's what the applicant plans to do here. The current zoning does prohibit the applicant from meeting enough of a buildable area on the site. The required setbacks do limit the ability to build a home on it, and so this zoning would facilitate development of a home. As you see here, there are smaller homes to the north and then a little bit further to the south. And so the applicant would be limited in buildable area. They plan to build a home, I think they said around 900 square feet, which is consistent with what you see just north of there. Of the notices that were sent out, none were returned in favor or in opposition to this request. The plan to commission by unanimous vote recommends approval. Any questions for Carl?

I move to approve C4.

Second. Got a motion by Hawkins, seconded by Nichols. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries, C5.

This is a zone change from R1A single family residential to PMF, planned multi-family residential district. This is to allow for the development of a daycare. The property is currently developed with a church. They do plan to also provide a daycare service unrelated to the church. And so in other examples we've had throughout the city that the planned multifamily zoning does help facilitate that additional use. And so they plan to have this plan multifamily, limited to the church activities, which are allowed in any residential, in any district, as well as the daycare use. And so this property is located along Dan Highway, which is classified as an arterial street on our master street plan. Surrounded properties to the north and east, well, all surrounded properties are zoned for residential district or single family homes. The lots to the east and west are developed with homes on larger lots. This request would amend the future land use guide from neighborhood residential to mixed residential, simply because it has an additional component of a daycare, so it's a little bit more than just residential use. Actually, it's developed with a church. They plan to add another building to the to the rear of the property. They have provided a written narrative that sets forth all the development parameters for the site which stipulates the allowable uses which are church activities and then daycare. This PMF actually does not allow for any multifamily uses even though that is the name. But it is limited to this narrative here. By code, the applicant is required to provide a buffer yard adjacent to any single family district and the parameters you see here will allow for that. Of the notices that were sent out, one was returned in favor, one in opposition as well, as you see there in red, with the total protest calculation of 1.53%. The neighbor did not indicate in their written notice the reason for their opposition. The planning commission, by a 7-0 vote, recommended approval of this request.

All right. Any questions for Kyle?

I move to approve Z5.

Second. Got a motion by Marge, seconded by Nichols. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

Thank you. All right.

Moving on to R1. Thank you. Thanks, Kyle. Thanks, Kyle.

Good morning. Good morning. Heather Nick, Assistant City Manager. Today we have a request to consider and adopt a resolution recognizing Wayne Sanderson Farms LLC as a successor entity to Sanderson Farms. which is associated with the existing Texas Enterprise Zone project, which was previously designated or the council found in support of the designation of the Enterprise Zone back in 2017. The assignment is necessary to reflect the corporate restructuring and ownership changes associated with the merger while maintaining compliance with the Enterprise Zone So what compliance means, since the enterprise zone is concluded, the five years has concluded, and now they must still fulfill all of their reporting and job retention requirements associated with that enterprise zone project. So now this is simply to recognize that there was that corporate restructuring in the merger, and now they are recognized as Wayne Sanderson Farms. We do have representatives for Wayne Sanderson Farms LLC here, as well as our TEDC colleagues in the audience for any questions that you may have. And with that, we do recommend approval of R1.

All right. Any questions for Heather? Move to approve. I second. I've got a motion by Nichols, second by Marsh. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Angie.

All right, Larry.

Come on, Mayor, Council.

Good morning.

My name is Larry Everett. I'm with the Citadel Legal Services Department.

Sorry about that.

My purpose of being here is I want to discuss with you in terms of properties that we want to purchase. We successfully finished the Hidden Palace subdivision and got houses in and developed from that standpoint. So we're ready to move to another area in terms of so we can start building other homes in this area. And the area we're looking at is on Broadway and it's 16.5 acres. Okay, so North Broadway is an Elizabeth Bonenhammer survey. It's right near Black Fork Creek, and it actually meets the national objectives in terms of us working with HUD in terms of providing the funding for us on this project. And what we're looking at there, in 2025, we set up an appraisal for this particular property, as I said, a little over 16.5 acres. And based on the appraisal, it said the value of that property is $620,000. And we are looking at moving forward with that because we can come in and also develop a lot of houses in that area from the implementation of people that come in and want to live in those particular areas. And the funding sources that we're going to use is from home grants fund that we use. We're going to use $420,000 for that. And the CDBG Community Development Block Grant Program, we're going to use $200,000 for that. And we'll provide the acquisition of applying funding for that property itself. Now, we will not be using general funds to move forward with this project. And we want to let you know that from that standpoint. And one thing that's really good expectation for this property is we have a lot of the infrastructure already in place there. We talk about water, sewer, electrical, and fiber optics. Once we start the development, we can just attach it into those specific areas. And the question comes up, how many homes do we think we can do? We're looking at we can accommodate 25 to 30 homes there. We're thinking we can do a lot more, but of course, as you look at the map there, it's in that triangular shape and it's a lot of trees there. So once we start removing the trees, we feel that we can include more houses in that area. And one thing about this property, the amenities are very good for where it's located. We're looking at five minutes from downtown Tyler. We have access to transportation. We have the Griffin Elementary School, which is directly across the street there, across the Broadway. And we have Glass Recreation Center. And of course, you have Mother Frances Circle of Care, Willard Park, a golf training center, baseball field, and various churches on the street there in that area. So we feel there's a lot of things, amenities there and a lot of people come in help access this all these amenities that we see there and as you look at the property overview now you're looking at one thing that's I would call a little negative component is a flood zone areas that we have there but we've realized that we can utilize some of those flood zones in terms of after we build the houses in terms of putting you know pocket park or something like that in there to help in those areas. And as you see the lines there, some of the red lines, the green lines and the blue lines there, that's some of the underground amenities that we can attach to once we start building. Right now we're looking at R1D single family detached and attached homes. And also it's notified as agriculture district. And that's mainly for agriculture because of the number of trees that we have there. And it represents from that category. And once we will start looking at removing some of those trees also too. But it is, this lot has not been used and it's fully accentuated with trees there. Once again, I will talk about the options in terms of what we're going to do, what we want to do, rather. It's going to be 25 to 30 homes that we know we can build. We're looking at 1,100 to 1,500 square footage on those homes. And they will be single family homes or townhomes or condominiums. and two to three bedrooms. We're looking at those options because we've had a lot of people come in and looking at smaller homes that they can purchase. And if we can provide that in terms of those type homes, we can accentuate people coming into that area. One of the questions asked is what are the things that we would do in terms of the financial part as we build those homes. We're going to set up a HOA, Homebuyer Association, set up in order to provide the funding from those that buy those homes. And we can also keep the development of those homes looking neat and looking good in that area. As I said earlier, we had open areas. We can use green space and common areas and things of that nature. So we want to have it in a setup where people can not only live there, but they can also use the area in terms of all the things that we can access there. And our recommendation here is request that City Council authorized the City Manager to execute and sign all documents necessary in connection with the purchase of the 16.585 acres of unimproved real property on North Barway to be used for the development of affordable housing under the Home and CDBG grant program. And those funds are received from HUD when we receive those each year.

all right larry great presentation and i love the fact that this is all federal money and not any local money yes and uh hidden palace has been such a success behind fire station number one yes it is good to see that this is being implemented even a larger project and the hoa which hidden palace has has just made the ownership It's just a pride of ownership. And it's all taken care of. It looks great. So personally, I love the project, and I appreciate you guys moving forward with it. Thank you. Any other comments from Larry?

Just a question, Larry. You mentioned the HOA would be responsible for private roads. These won't be city roads within the development?

it will be some city roads but we're looking at some of the other areas that we may have to have some additional roads put in place standing if we look at it and we can also use that with those hoa funds but yeah we're going to have the state the city funds where the houses are going to be located but we also want to accentuate other things as we go along i i don't want to go into details because once we remove the trees we'll know a little bit about some of the things we can put in those areas there

Thank you. What's the intended price point for the affordable housing?

I'm sorry?

What's the intended price point on the houses?

Well, right now we're looking at, because of the material continually going up for construction, we're looking at roughly $200,000 to $230,000 per house, if we look at it from that standpoint. And that's what we're doing. And the good thing about this is HUD allows us on this type of funding, which we sell the houses for low to moderate income citizens. They're going to allow us to retrieve that money back into the cycles, and then we can continue building as we go along. So that's one of the advantages of using HUD, federal government, in this situation in terms of what they're allowing us to do.

All right. Any other questions for Larry? No.

Move to approve M1. Second.

Got a motion by Marsh, second by Hawkins. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Lowry. M2. Lauren.

Much shorter than Larry morning, mayor and council. I'm Lauren justice and the controller with the finance department. I'm here to present the quarterly financial report for quarter two ending March 31st, 2026. These funds included in this report are the general fund and all the major operating funds. They represent 70% of the budgeted appropriations for fiscal year 26. For the general fund, our revenues are projected to be $115,546 below budget, primarily due to slightly lower investment interest rates and our sales tax being flat at the moment. Our total expenditures are projected to be $661,252 less than budgeted, with a majority of the savings forecasted in general government. some of our updates on our major projects that were included in the budget is that we made our first payment on our fire truck lease for the one engine and the one ladder truck and we also made our fourth payment on our axon equipment replacement for pd as for code enforcement on the demolition of substandard structures We have five completed, they currently have four in progress, and there are five pending. And with the $200,000 budget, they're expecting to do six to seven more that they haven't projected yet. And our animal services, we have the kennel upgrades, they are completed, they are all installed.

Oh, yes, sorry.

For our general fund infrastructure improvements, we have received our 12-yard dump truck, and then we are in the process of moving a building from the old fairgrounds. This project just started, and they're estimating to complete it by July. And then we are ongoing with our increased traffic signal maintenance. For our capital improvements on the brick streets, we are 85% complete for this year and they are expected to complete that in July. For streets on our seal coat projects, that project went to council in May and there will be a change order in June. and they are getting ready to start that project. For streets and services, surface treatment project, that project is in development and expected to be presented to council in June. Our concrete pavement joint seal project is also in development and expected to be presented to council in July or August. Our public alleyway repairs and maintenance was approved by council in April and is currently under construction. For our water utilities fund, our revenues are expected to be $567,633 greater than budget. This is primarily due to increased meter activations, water service, and sewer service. Our total expenditures are expected to be $1,036,000 less than budget, with the majority of the savings being projected in water administration and our consent decree regulatory monitoring. an update on our major projects for our water utility funds and the water operations. Our new bill design was implemented in February, and then our new billing software, Invoice Cloud, is estimated to go live in June, on June 24th, 2026. for our cash funded capital improvement projects. We have our water distribution, we have our meter and meter boxes, and then service lines, we have our downtown improvements, two inch water line replacements, water main improvements, private water, sewer relocation and engineering. On our water treatment, we have our Lake Palestine water treatment plant, the taste and odor engineering, and gate replacement. And then we also have the extensions on 271 and FM 14 engineering and construction. For our wastewater collection, we have the FM 14 extension, Bass Pro Way construction, and our textile relocate. For wastewater treatment, at Westside we have phase one engineering and secondary and clarifier rehabilitation construction. And then at Southside we have the aeration basin engineering and construction. At Lake Tyler we have our boathouse inspections and our master plan. For our solid waste fund, our revenues are projected to be $154,000 greater than budget, and our expenditures are anticipated to be $369,118 less than budget, mainly due to savings and contingencies. For our airport fund, our revenues are expected to be 1,983 greater than budgeted, and our expenditures are expected to be 50,941 less than budgeted. For our development services fund, our revenues are expected to be 5,747 less than budget, and our total expenditures are estimated to be 364,000 less than budgeted. An update on our major projects from our development services fund is the comprehensive plan with community survey, which was adopted in March, and then our historic preservation survey. The grant was accepted by council, and they have identified a consultant which will help with the survey, and they will review historic resources around Texas College and the nearby neighborhoods, and they are expected to complete that by the end of the fiscal year. For our hotel occupancy tax fund, our revenues are expected to be $504,244 less than budgeted. This is due to our revenues remaining flat, but we budgeted an estimated 3% growth. But we are overall flat compared to last year on our hot funds. Our expenditures are expected to be $303,000 less than budgeted. This is primarily due to the contingency budgeted for the Rose Complex. Our updates on our major projects are the phase three of the stamped concrete bed. We have installed 844 linear feet of concrete base and 210 linear feet of stamped concrete. and they're hoping to finish out 600 linear feet of curbing by the end of the week. The elevator for the Rose Garden was installed as of March 20th. Our Rose Garden Center holiday decoration, that project was completed in December. Our pond filtration for the meditation garden, the filter is ordered and has been shipped, and then we are continuing the demolition of the old fairground facilities. Our employee benefits funds, our revenues are expected to be $632,583 more than budgeted, and our expenditures are also expected to be $1,247,000 greater than budgeted, and this is due to increased health claims. Our update from our major projects for supporting our people, we implemented phase one, we implemented the final phase of our compensation plan as of October 1st. We did a 3% civil service increase. We also did a 3% net increase for non-civil service. And our health insurance premiums as of January 1st, our ROSE plan went up $40 a month. There was no change in Azalea and no change in Blue Bonnet. So it is recommended that the city council review and consider accepting the revenue and expenditure report for the period ending March 31st, 2026.

All right, any questions for Lauren? Move to approve.

I second.

Got a motion by Nichols, second by Marsh. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries. Thanks, Lauren. All right, B1, Cassandra.

Good morning, Mayor and Council. Cassandra Brager, City Clerk. Today I'm requesting that the City Council consider making appointments and reappointments to the Planning and Zoning Board and the Half-Cent Sales Tax Board. due to the members of the board being elected as city council members. So this morning, I'm coming to you for Planning and Zoning Commission. We had Carlene Dark-Base that was on the board until 2027, and Clint Childs that was on there until 2026. We received applications from James Winn, Justin Hargrove, Jeffrey Chu, and Steven Dinger, and Scott Williams for that particular board. So our requests are... like recommendations from the council for that particular board.

And Mr. Mayor, I'd like to recommend Scott Williams to take Carlene Dark Bays' place with the term expiring August 31st of 2027. I'd like to recommend James Wynn take Clint Child's place with the term expiring August 31st, 2026. All right, I got a motion.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

All right. Got a motion by Nichols, second by Hawkins. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Half cent sales tax forward.

Okay. Uh, the set has since sales tax was composed of seven members, one from each city, six council districts recommended by the city council members and one at launch a member recommended by the mayor. So, uh, at this time, uh, we have, uh, the South district, which is represented by John Nix,

So we're asking calling dark base council member bays who she would like to represent for her district Mr. Mayor I'd like to nominate Brad Curtis to represent district six on half that sales tax board second I've got a motion by a second by the Nichols Any further discussions those of favor say aye opposed aye

No, just so that we know that we have at large Martin Hines.

We just want to make sure that each council member is still good with who they have.

You good?

We're good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, we're down to the consent agenda. Does anything need to be pulled or approved as presented?

May I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented?

I second. Got a motion by Nichols, seconded by Marsh. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

City Manager's report. I should have asked Cassandra if she wants kicked off of the absent board. I know she started Martin Hines, so maybe it was Martin you're trying to get. So mayor and council, we just celebrated Memorial Day weekend, incredible time throughout the city. But also Lake Tyler's always one of those areas that we kind of, as far as kind of take a look at and make sure that we're careful about. A lot of different boating activities occur out there, a lot of different fun and parties and different things going on out there. And so the police department did incredible work in being able to make sure they had a very good presence out there at Lake Tyler. Also the game wardens were out there pulling people over and checking for life jackets as well as other things to make sure and taking them back to dock if they weren't prepared. And so we had a great, safe weekend out there at Lake Tyler because of just the increased lawn portion that was out there. One of the things that the Lake Tyler staff from Tyler Wire Utilities has recently done has been the Concession Beach parking lot. That is an area where we often see lots of congregation, lots of, you know, we've had different major issues that have kind of happened at that in that parking lot area. And previously, police department has used it as a track for training facilities as well. But the police department and utilities talked about it and police are gonna be moving there as far as driving kind of range area, shall we say, And what Parks has come in, or not Parks, but what utilities and the Lake Tyler staff have done, has been able to create a pipe rail fence, as well as speed bumps, updated signage, and then some also looking at some of the handicap, or the kind of dividing areas there, the bollards and the like, to be able to kind of keep the large congregations or large issues kind of happening there at that parking lot. And so that is something that also is done to kind of look to work towards a safety aspect over there. Earlier today, before the council meeting, y'all celebrated Historical Preservation Month, and one of the great things about that is we had, two Saturdays ago, members of our Historical Preservation Board staff and friends volunteer their time to participate in a second annual City Park cleanup effort. City Park is off of North Broadway there, just on the other side of Gentry, often goes overlooked, but it's one of the first parks in Tyler. um and so the historical preservation board uh and other volunteers go out there regularly to go clean that area up uh and to make it into a nice location and so uh city park remain is one of that is a great historic community space we're very proud of our historic preservation board uh and for others in our community that help kind of keep that area clean Y'all may have noticed as far or heard about the wildfires that are happening up in the North Texas, especially West Texas area. And our fire department has been able to answer the call that has been put out for assistance on those. One of the things that we have is a partnership with the state. The state reimburses us or pays for the cost of our firefighters and our materials that go out there. when these type of calls go out for additional assistance. And so we were able to send two firefighters out to the panhandle to help fight the fire that's happening out in the Canyon Dumas area. And so that's a 34,000-acre fire, and they were able to go out there last week and to kind of be part of that crew to kind of help with that. And finally, especially in relationship to the fire department, today we're having the funeral to celebrate the life of our driver engineer, Scott Starkey, who passed away from cancer a couple of weeks ago. Scott was an incredible member of our fire department, well-loved by all. It was quite a loss to kind of have him, you know, for his passing away. And so we honor his, just the legacy that he created here with our Tyler Fire Department and the work that he put in and just how many people that he saved and kept safe here in our community.

All right. Thank you, Ed. You want to have any questions or comments for Ed before we adjourn?

I'll add one thing to what Ed said about Mr. Starkey. Just remind the voters traveling today that there will be a large funeral procession, especially on Broadway and Old Bullard, as it passes a couple of fire stations. So instead of getting frustrated, just say thanks and a word of prayer for our firefighters. All right. Thank you.

And I just want to thank everybody for staying for the city council meeting. I really appreciate it. because you're the new mayor protein and and and and and and and and and