City Council - Regular Meeting

This council meeting, 04/21/2026, to order. All council members are present. Mhmm. I would actually please rise. Pastor Chad Rose is gonna give us the invocation followed by Patrick Wilson, the VFW nine thousand one hundred ninety one commander, will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Let's pray. Lord, we come to you in the name of Jesus, and we thank you for the leaders. We thank you for all the people in this great, wonderful community. Lord, we ask you for your wisdom and your guidance. Lord, for all of those that are here today. Lead us and guide us for a peaceful and wonderful time together in leading this great community to success and hope for all of those that live in this wonderful city. In Jesus' name, amen.

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pledge allegiance to the flag of United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under guard, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, pastor Ted and, comrade Wilson. Alright. We're gonna, before we act we begin, I ask for the council to approve the agenda. As you know, this is a polling station for early voting. The access through the voting area is only for the disabled and for in case we have to leave here in an emergency. If So you have to depart, please exit through the doors on my left, your right, so that we stay in compliance. We can't have regular traffic moving through the, polling area, although it's not an active voting location. Alright. I the council, you've seen the agenda, can I get a motion? Mayor Pro Tem?

Mayor, I move to approve the agenda as presented.

Moved by mayor pro tem Alvarez, council member Solomon. Seconded. Seconded by council member Solomon. Any discussion? All in favor, denote yes. All opposed, no. Motion carries four to zero. Thank you. Alright. First item on the agenda, m n 26 Dash013, consider minutes of regular city council meeting on 03/24/2026.

Next item, r s two six dash zero five four, consider a memorandum resolution accepting the dedication of 14.42 acres of land within the preserve at a Thousand Oaks plant unit development as a public parkland. Mister

Murphy? Good afternoon, mister mayor. Yes, sir. Distinguished council, today we're here to talk about the acceptance of 14.42 acres for parkland dedication. On 08/09/2022, the city council approved orders to resolve approximately three ninety acres from agriculture dish to plan unit development known as the preserve a 1000 Oaks development is proposing to dedicate 14.42 acres Parkland with phase two of the development.

The proposed Parkland alliance with the clean parks and open space master plans, specifically PS4 which aims to identify properties and develop two additional community parks in the southern areas of the city as growth continues. Additionally, meets Parkland dedication and development recommendations as well as the linear Park and trail growth objectives outlined in the master plan. The 14.2 acre four acres of Parkland dedication will include a playground, Pavilion, picnic tables, a parking lot, open space, and an eight foot wide concrete trail installed by the developer. The development also includes plans for additional parkland that will come to Council for acceptance in subsequent phases of development. Here is an outline of where the park actually falls in the Thousand Oaks Preserve.

This is a capture of the 14.42 acres. Another just the overall outline of how the trail will come and our park will be developed in subsequent phases. Here's the playground that's been installed and I must say it is beautiful and getting a lot of use. Some more images of the playground, walking bridge, walking trails, picture of the pavilion that will be installed. The developer has paid for the install of the playground and other park amenities.

HOA will maintain the area under future MOA with an estimated annual cost of around $35,000 Funds will be available in the park's professional service account after the budget transfers are completed for the relevant park operational accounts. Staff recommends the council approve the acceptance of the 14.42 acres of Parkland dedication for the preserve at Thousand Oaks Phase 2. And I will answer any questions that you may have.

Any questions, council? Council member Kendrick.

Mister Murphy, we did spend a HOA. Everybody's still allowed to go in and use the park.

Yes, sir. It will be a public use park. The standards that of keeping upkeep, they wanted to keep it uniform with the HOA amenities, so that's why we chose to explore MOU with them to maintain the park as well.

And if if I'm not mistaken, the original when we were going to the architectural standards and the parkland dedication, they had originally proposed this as part of their PUD?

Yes, sir.

So it's a there's a large connection to this, and it's supposed to connect to the heritage the trail that goes further southwest. Yes. Any other questions, counsel?

No. I just like like you mentioned that, I just wanted to make sure the citizens understand they would still be able to use Yes. That park area.

Mister Sullivan?

Thank you, mister mayor. I think that this is a great plus. You're you're talking 14 something acres, and it's great to to have that we need parks, and this is really good. Thank Good add on for the

you, sir.

Alright. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. No other questions, sir. Moving to next item is RS26Dash055, consider a memorandum resolution approving a maintenance maintenance support contract with Cooper Krausz Heinz LLC to provide maintenance support for the airport lighting control system at Killeen Regional Airport in the amount of $265,850. Mister Provost? Good afternoon, mayor, city council.

Before he's the maintenance support agreement with the contract with Cooper, Krauss Heinz. The airport utilizes an airport lighting control and monitoring system, also known as the ALCMS, which is essential for the safe and efficient airfield operations. As a part of the IGSA, the aviation department recently completed installation of the new updated system. Fort Hood has requested that we assume responsibility for the ongoing maintenance of the ALMCS under the IXA agreement and in accordance with FAA advisory circular AC one fifty dash 50 fifty three forty twenty six bravo. Continued technical support is necessary to maintain the system reliability and minimize service interruptions throughout the system's life cycle.

Cooper Cross Hines provides maintenance with phone support, remote troubleshooting, and two annual on-site visits for diagnostic, calibration and software updates. The contract includes regular cybersecurity compliance testing and security updates to meet the Department of Defense standards along with annual testing per the FAA guidelines to verify proper operation and system performance. Overall, the contract provides comprehensive technical operational cybersecurity support to maintain the reliability and safety of the ALMCS system. And staff has negotiated a five year maintenance support contract with Cooper Krauss Hines in the amount of $265,850. This project will be funded through the IXA agreement.

And the recommendation is to approve the maintenance support contract with Cooper Krauss in the amount of $265,850 and authorize a city manager designee to execute same as well as any and all changes orders, supplement agreements within the amount set by state and local law. Pending any questions.

Any questions, council? Thanks. I think these x's are working in our favor, and I appreciate your the work you guys are doing out in aviation.

Yes, sir.

Thank you. Member RS26Dash056. Consider a memorandum award a resolution awarding bid number 26Dash18 traffic signal infrastructure upgrade to the Austin traffic signal construction company, LLC, in the amount of $646,001.50. Mister Knoll.

Good afternoon, mayor, city council. Today, have before you is the SpanWire. The transportation division maintains a 101 signal intersections, which 11 of them are SpanWire. 10 of these SpanWire intersections have components that are older than thirty years requiring various parts. Vehicle detection cameras are required for the communication with the TMC, the traffic, management center.

For the span wire intersections, upgrades are included in the '26 budget in the amount of $861 and I mean, $8,061,120. These are the four intersections that will be in this. That was part of this bid is W S Young And Terrace, Fort Hood Street in West Jasper, Fort Hood Street in Hallmark Avenue, Fort Hood Street in 440 Plaza. As you see, there's two images on the bottom. Those are the intersection where we talk about span wires.

That's what it looks like. That's the ones we're talking about. Little bit of background. On 01/26/2026, bid number 26Dash18 traffic signal infrastructure upgrade was released for advertisement, including a mandatory pre proposal meeting on February 1136 I mean, 2026. Austin Traffic Signal Construction Company LLC was the only attendee.

On 02/25/2026, purchasing received one proposal in response to the bid number 26Dash18, traffic signal infrastructure upgrade in the amount of $646,001.50. Austin Traffic Signal Construction Company LLC. Recommendation is the city council authorize and award the bid number 26Dash18 traffic signal infrastructure upgrade to Austin Traffic Signal Construction Company LLC in the amount of $646,001.5 I'm here if you have any questions.

Any questions? Councilmember Gonzalez.

Thank you. And just for clarity, are we the based on the scope of this, are we the infrastructure, does that include software as well as hardware and the communications, the actual physical structure as well as the lights?

Yes. It does. Thank you.

One of the things I wanted to mention and ask, I know we had talked about this before, but does this allow us to go to a wireless system, or is this wireless now? I'm gonna be

ask mister Quick. He's the manager of our transportation division.

What was the question again? Is will this are we wireless now? And if not, will this allow us to get there? Right now, we're with our connectivity from the intersections to the, TMC or through radios, and we are working to go sell modems to go wireless and all that. Perfect. Thank you. I'm sorry. I had one more question. Would this allow you to adjust the signals from the t o the TMC. Yeah. The TMC. Okay. Perfect. That's even better.

Yep.

Thanks. Yep. Any other if there's no other questions, counsel, I appreciate your service.

Alright. Thank you.

Consent moving on, RS26Dash057. Consider a memorandum resolution approving a contract with Semtech Live Fire simulation technology to build a fire tower training prop in the amount of one million sixty three thousand sixty two dollars and sixty five cents. Deputy chief Foster.

Good afternoon, mister mayor, honorable council members, mister city manager. Thank you for the opportunity to stand in for mister or chief Kubinski. Pleased to be able to present to you our findings for the fire department training tower and recommendation to follow. Originally, it was part of the original Station four EOC training center plan as an add alternate and was removed from the original budget to be included later due to rising costs to make sure that we were able to cover the build. The expenditure for the tower that we are considering now is was approved in the fiscal year 'twenty six budget at $1,102,000 Our current live fire training is being and we'll have some pictures here in a minute, being conducted in three shipping containers that are welded together by firefighters working off duty more than twenty years ago.

Our current tower at Conder Park is about 35 feet high, which in terms of what we need to do is not very high and is unable to hold live fire training due to the bricks not being fire rated. We've had to clean out waste before being able to use it due to squatters and does not have safety safe elevated anchor points for safe propelling. So as a result of that, our current technical rescue team members have to go out and use water towers for the high angle rescue training, which is off-site, doesn't provide as much control over safety, and we have to move the equipment, etcetera. The same happens for confined space. Our members have to find manholes in subterranean areas to do training throughout the city.

And as you can see, our, on the left there is our current burn building, and on the right, our current tower, who was named for Olin Culberson. Our new facility specifications are summed up here. I'll give you the highlights. We were looking for a thirty year service life minimum with construction of weather resistant metal that is NFPA compliant and at least 45 feet in height, along with every other need that we could require to perform the necessary certifications and ongoing training for the fire department. Our first alternative considered was fire facilities came in the amount of $1,266,000 before the co op discount.

That would include the building prefab, includes cost of on-site assembly, and includes the cost of the foundation. That is a computer rendering of their proposed design. The next is WHP training towers. They came in at $1,023,000 as an estimate, and that was November '5, so may not be current. But they did not include the cost of the foundation in the estimate, and that came out to 1,220,000 And then Syntec, a modular container building, specifically constructed for the purpose of fire training and elevation, came in at 1,063,000.

That includes the building, the prefab and the on-site assembly. It does not include the foundation or concrete, which costs are estimated to be $39,376 for a total of $1,102,000,438.65 dollars So for a side by side comparison, these didn't come in specified in a standard format. So we had to compare apples to apples. We put them all next to each other. And as you can see, fire facilities and WHP coming in at over $1,200,000 and Semtech at $1,100,000 The decision was is to recommend Semtech not based solely on the lowest quoted amount.

This vendor was also able to provide the expected quality and all of the required features that were identified by the fire department training division build team. Fiscal impact, the total cost for the build along with the co op discount is $1063000.62.65 dollars Future additional costs to be included. Again, we have to pour the concrete. We have a vendor that is on buy board correction, not buy board, it is on co op to do that concrete and a third party engineer, owner representative as required by State of Texas. That budgeted item is going to be happening through, the engineering department and is approximately estimated to be $30,000.

So staff recommends authorizing the city manager or his designee to execute the contract with Semtech LiveFire simulation technology, source well contract number 102325DashSYM in the amount of $1,063,062.65 and execute the purchase of the live fire training tower and that the city manager or his designee is expressly authorized to execute any and all change orders within the amounts set by state and local law. And I'll be happy to entertain any questions if you have any.

Any questions, counsel? Can you go back to the comparison slide for me?

Yes, sir.

So, okay, I see now the $39,000 is not in the is at the end cost, we're paying Semtech if we go with this would be the top okay.

Yes, sir.

Thanks. Any any other questions? There then? Thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Alright. Next item is RS26Dash058. Consider a memorandum resolution authorizing the execution of a ten year agreement between the City of Killeen and Segre LLC to provide two strands of dark fiber to connect 15 city facilities to the city's network in the amount of 1,499,000. Mister Resto.

Good evening, mayor and council. The item for you tonight is authorized approval of a ten year fiber agreement with with SEGRA. Two of the representative of SEGRAs are here, mister Thomas and Sarah and mister Aaron Ho or how. I told him I would mess that up. He is also here. I'll give you a little background of Segra as a company. They were founded in 1897 and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. They're one of the largest independent commercial fiber companies in The U. S. And they have a long history of putting customers at the heart of everything they do.

They do local investment. This is a really plus the people that they're going to be hiring will be local people, hiring local technicians, managers and continually upgrading the network. Their nationwide presence, the connectivity in 24 states, 45,000 fiber or route, the next generation infrastructure, IP Ethernet, dark fiber architecture and high performance data centers. A little history on this company. The city currently operates 15 facilities that are connected through a combination of Metro Ethernet lines point to point solutions which are aged and need replacement.

While these services provide connectivity, the existing structure is fragmented and doesn't offer a unified fiber infrastructure connecting all the facilities directly to our network core. SEGRA is a regional fiber infrastructure provider specializing in high capacity fiber networks, dedicated Internet access and customized enterprise connectivity. Based on SEGRA's existing footprint and technical expertise, this positions them to efficiently implement a unified fiber network connecting all the 15 facilities directly to the fiber network. They currently provide our five gs Internet that we for the city, and they also are connecting Station 4. So we are already in using their services.

This map shows the different locations. So you will see at the purple parts of what we call the hubs. So when they're going to design when they design this, we will have a ring to connect these 15 buildings. And so it's going to go in both directions. So, if you have one that fails, it picks up on the other side.

So, this actually has a little redundancy built in it. But the facilities that we're doing, PD headquarters is a hub, the IT department is a hub. We're going to connect Fire Station 1, Fire Station 3, Fire Station 8, Fire Station 7, the water sewer complex, the soon to be Fire Station 5. We'll connect the current Fire Station 5 and then the new Fire Station 5, which will be under construction. The animal shelters in both locations will be on here.

The branch library, the PD range, the transfer station and a new fleet facility when it's there and the new parks barn will also be connected via fiber. So that's what this map shows. And currently, the city annual connectivity expenses are as follows. Right now, we're paying for the five gs Internet, the Fire Station 4 and the Metro E, which I normally come to counsel for the last few years, and we would renew the Metro E to connect the five facilities. Right now, Metro E is the animal shelter, the branch library, the transfer station, and then we have a point to point to the range, gives them spotty connectivity, and I think you'll probably hear that from them.

Station 8, IT, we have the one gig that then we separate that, and then the water sewer complex. The max speed that these guys get ranges from 200 meg to four fifty meg, so not even at the speed that you're used to even at your home. So the fiber is going to give us that connectivity across the great across our network now of a gig or or a gig or higher to these new locations. So currently, we spend $102,732 on this current setup. With the proposed ten year contract, we will annual fiber cost $114,900 a year for the next ten years, and then a onetime construction cost of $350,000 Now we have two CIP projects that were approved in this last year budget.

One of them was running fiber out to the transfer station or fleet, and then the other one was another one that was for the water sewer complex. So, that is what's going to be paying for these onetime construction costs and some equipment that goes along in these building switches and network equipment that will go in those. So in a sense, we're only going to be paying probably 2,000 something or more and we're absorbing that in the IT budget in this coming up year. We're making reductions and additions to make sure that this is totally funded using the current IT budget. So the staff recommends that city manager is designated to be authorized to execute a ten year agreement between the City of Killeen and Segura LLC in the amount of $1,499,000 using the tips contract 220,105 and a one time construction cost of 350,000 and that the city manager or the decks in need to express the authorized execute any and all change orders or supplemental agreement within these amounts set by state and local law.

And we are available for any of your questions at this time.

Any questions, counsel? Just wanted to confirm that this was part of a group by the TIPS. Can you explain that to the public?

It's a cooperative. I don't know exactly what the TIPS stands for, but it's a cooperative purchasing group that allows us to forego any of the bids and contracts because it's already been bidded and a contract.

Thank you. No other questions, I appreciate it. Mhmm. RS26Dash060, consider memorandum resolution authorizing a master software agreement renewal with Civic Plus LLC in the amount of $424,404.82. What's the rest of it?

Mayor, council. So the item before you tonight is an authorized approval over the renewal of the master agreement contract with Civic Plus Software. I also have executive director Tory Bethany here to answer some of the questions as she runs most of the social media and the website, and then I also have ELC Director, Sarah Williams here, who is gonna be talk, if there are other questions on the Code Red or the mass communication portions of this agreement. So the city is seeking approval to renew the master service agreement with civic plus to consolidate several critical digital services. This consolidation approaches approach reduces reliance on multiple vendors, improve system interoperability, enhance cybersecurity through centralized manage to better meet regulatory requirements and community expectations.

The proposed Civic Plus platform are integrated into these solutions, SSL certificate management, website hosting, our social media archiving, see click fix, or we call it with the mobile app, AudioEye, an AudioEye handles, there are audio handles are

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accessibility programs and then mass notification civic alert. So staff recommends renewing a three year master software agreement with Civic Plus utilizing the tips contract number 220105 in the amount not to exceed 400,240 and $4.00 $5 and that the city manager or designee be expressly authorized to execute any and all change orders within the amount set by state and local law. And we're here to answer any questions that you might have.

Alright. Miss Councilmember Kendrick

came up. Okay. Miss Tory, come up. You've been doing a great job since you've been here. I wanna tell you that. Can you explain to the citizens without this service, how it affects how you put out information and the importance of what you do and the information that you put out?

Sure. So, Civic Plus is basically the platform that we have our website on. So, without this contract, we wouldn't have a website. That's one. The Mass Notification System right now, we use code red and email me or notify me.

Without this particular contract, we're trying to go to mass notification. Recently, we did a statewide drill, which, we definitely need to do more there. And so the mass notification system would help us with that because it integrate with iPause, which means that basically anyone within the city of Killeen would be able to actually receive those notifications. So that's that. AudioEye, as mister Resto talked about, as you all are familiar, we have ADA compliance that we have to do.

That is a dashboard that it literally looks at all of those ADA issues with our website, so that's very helpful. And then the social media I forget what it's called. Let me see. The social media archiving, that's also part of a requirement that we have to do for FOIA, f o I a, which basically is capturing of our content in the event that we happen to get any types of request. So, without that, we wouldn't have any of that, which means that we probably would not also adhere to standards that we are legally required to do.

And I just wanted the citizens to understand that, especially when we we did the the sirens and all of that. That is important for when we if we do have to have an emergency, that everybody know that this information is being put out and everything. So thank you for that.

You're welcome.

Any other questions, counsel? Alright. Mister Resto Yes. Or I know SIGCOG, we voted to approve the new system that sits on, so will this work with that? Because I know COREG I been phasing out

will let Sarah come up to talk about that. Thanks. She's been working on that piece.

I know it's supposed to start being public sometime in July. So if you could also speak on the transition too.

Good afternoon. With what was what you're referencing with, Central Texas COG is, over, I don't know exactly how many years, but it's been quite some time. We've been part of their program to provide a notification system to all of the COG region utilizing the Homeland Security grant funds, and they were the ones who had actually purchased Code Red. We were users on their system. There have been issues with Code Red itself.

The system has experienced some data breaches as well as significant downtime where it wasn't usable, and then there was also an issue recently with the, suspension of receiving the Homeland Security grant funds. That spurred on the conversations about how do we make sure that we're more resilient and that we're able to talk to our citizenry and not be, dependent on antiquated systems and on grant dollars to fund. So how this would work together is this could be our this would be our primary. We would still be able to be users on the COGS system, and it could serve as a backup to us. But we would make sure that we are funding our own resilience and funding our ability to communicate with our residents and the folks who are visiting our city at any given time.

Thanks. And I think the system is called the new one is Everbridge.

Everbridge, yes. And it's comparable I believe that the name for the one with Civic Plus is called Connexus. They're all comparable in competitors to each other in the same market.

Okay. Thanks. No other questions? Councilwoman Gonzalez.

I just had a quick question. If we do reserve it as a backup, is there a cost associated with, retaining that? Is it already built in? Yeah.

For the cog, to use the cog system? Uh-huh. No, there wouldn't be a cost directly to us that would be funded through those homeland security dollars at the Thank cost

you.

Thank you. And I have made a mistake. To keep you up here, Mr. Resto, we can go back to RS 20 six-fifty nine, Consider a memorandum resolution authorizing the purchase of network equipment from GTS Technology Solutions in the amount of $470,233.

Good evening, honorable council item before you tonight is authorized approval of the network equipment replacement. This is a budgeted item in fiscal twenty six budget. The for our network equipment. And we also have some dir site CIP money that we're to fund this. The city currently operates about 146 network switches, 131 wireless access points across multiple facilities.

A significant portion of this equipment has reached or is reaching end of life, of sale, end of support in 2027. As vendor support expires, the city face increased operational and cybersecurity risks due to limited access to firmware updates, security patches and replacement parts. The city worked with Transversa, GTS engineering teams to conduct a comprehensive evaluation and develop a structure plan. We began this journey back in November '25. So we've taken a lot of time to really evaluate the solution.

So based on the technical evaluation, cost analysis and support sustainability, Aruba was identified as a solution that aligns with the city operational and compliance requirements. The Rubin network equipment are quoted through the tips purchasing contract to three, zero, one, $0.05, in the amount of 4 and 74 to $478,233 And staff recommends that the city manager of this may be authorized to execute the purchase of the network equipment replacement from GTS technology solution. A value added reseller through the tips contract 230105, in the amount of $478,233 And myself and my assistant director, Nick, is here to answer any of your questions.

Okay. Any questions, counsel? Thank you. Thank you all for your presentation.

Thank you.

Item 9, RS 20 one, consider a memorandum resolution declaring a vacancy on the Arts Commission and appointing a new member to fill the vacancy. Ms. Tangelin.

Good afternoon. Thank you, mayor, council members. This item is for the Arch Commission vacancy. Some background, the city of Killeen has various citizen boards, commissions, and committees that serve in their advisory capacity. Appointed members are expected to attend the group's meeting regularly.

Section 21E of the court ordinance outlines the procedure for removal of a member. In December 2025, the Arch Commission chairperson sent a letter to the city manager's office verifying staff that one of the commissioners had missed over 25% of the commission's meetings in a twelve month period and request the city council declare the position vacant and assign a replacement to the position. The current member is Deborah Haukut. The status is to be removed. She was a large member. And then the recommendations of the city council declare a vacancy and appoint an individual to fill the vacancy with the arts commission, and I believe you guys have a list of the applicants.

Counsel, you see your list? And councilwoman Gonzales.

I'd like to recommend Donna McPherson.

Donna McPherson has been recommended. Councilman Sullivan.

I like to recommend Ashley Butcher.

Miss Ashley Ressler has been recommended. Councilman Kendrick?

I like to recommend David Hopson.

And David Hopson has been recommended. Alright. You're not gonna make this easy, are you? We will majority votes win. We can do the vote now, correct? We got three recommendations.

You can get a consensus now or you can, have a vote to include it motion direction to include it in the, in in the item later that's voted on.

Gotcha. Alright. So is there a consensus on I'm gonna ask that question first. Anybody wanna withdraw their nominee? No? So we do the go ahead, Clemens.

So otherwise, can move this from your consent agenda later and vote regularly, motion second, until we find somebody that has a majority that votes because for

it's a workshop session. So, counsel, without objection, we'll pull this from the consent agenda.

Looking at the occupations of had to narrow it

down based on the Arts Commission and what it generally does, I could go with Ashley Webster. I could support that nomination.

Okay.

Thank you.

Don McPherson has been withdrawn. Nomination has been withdrawn. Alright. I'm

good with Ashley Rutzen.

So is there a consensus with Ashley Rutzen now? Consensus is anonymous. If there's no consensus, then we will. Alright. This item will be

I'm sorry. Mister mayor, what was the person's name that

mister Kendrick's He recommended David Hobson.

K. I would draw nation.

Okay. We had two got it. So those that withdrew and expressed consensus for Ashley Rutzen, councilmember Solomon is withdrawing, miss Rutzen. Is your is your consensus with that name still the same or you agree with the withdrawal? Still got two in support of Rutzler.

This item will be on the agenda for discussion in the regular session. Next item is thank you, Ms. Tangela. Consider memorandum resolution. RS 20 six-sixty two, consider a memorandum resolution appointing new members to the Board of Adjustment. Miss Measure.

Good afternoon, mayor and council. This item is to consider appointments to the Board of Adjustment. You'll recall that on December 2, the council combined four separate boards into a single Board of Adjustment. The board consists of nine regular members and two alternates. On January 6, council appointed nine regular members to the Board of Adjustment, but no alternates were appointed.

Section two dash one one eight states that if a commission member misses three consecutive meetings, he or she is deemed excessively absent. As of the scheduled meeting this past Thursday, we now have four four sitting board members who have been deemed excessively absent in accordance with the section I just cited. They are Justin Marron, Chetty Emile, Tracy Archer, and Jarrett Erby Holden. Additionally, mister Glenn Birmingham submitted his letter of resignation from the board on April 5. We therefore have five regular members and two alternate members that need to be appointed or reappointed.

Alright. So we have six seats, if I'm not mistaken.

I have a couple more slides. I apologize. This presentation is slightly different than the one that was included in your packet. Updated it following. We had a scheduled meeting that was supposed to happen this past Thursday. And as of that meeting, we had additional members who were excessively This presentation is slightly different than what's in your packet.

Thank

section thirty one sixty seven of our code of ordinances states that the Board of Adjustments will be comprised of four members with training or experience in construction or building one with aviation experience, one with fire suppression or fire prevention experience, and three at large. So what's left on the board, we currently have four members in good standing, Chet Southworth, Kadeem Speller, Philip Marley, and Ronald Blackman. Mister Southworth has construction experience. Mister Speller is an at large. Mr.

Marley has construction experience, and Mr. Blackman has fire prevention experience. We are therefore in need of two members with experience in the construction and building industry and one with aviation experience. We have 13 applicants on file for the Board of Adjustment. They're listed here on your on your screen. And with that, we're recommending the council declare five vacancies and appoint six citizens to the Board of Adjustment, including four regular members and two alternates. And the reason that there are seven vacancies, but we're only recommending six, is that we are recommending leaving one position vacant as there are not enough applicants with construction experience to fill the remaining vacancy.

Okay. Alright, counsel. What is your pleasure? We have two let's let's take care of the construction aviation ones first. Is there nominations two nominations for construction?

May I put to Alvarez?

The list that we have, I don't see anybody on here that says construction experience, unless I have a different list.

Yeah. I see.

Okay. So the list that

you have indicates that the occupation is safety, but our review of the the application and the resume that was submitted indicates that mister Molina has con some construction experience and that mister Threat has aviation experience.

Sorry. Yeah. Mister Whoop.

Threat. I don't know how to pronounce it.

I gotcha. Thank you. Yes, sir.

So there's no issues. Counsel okay with those two appointments? Yes. Okay. Aviation?

That's the

So we're leaving one of the construction ones vacant? Is that what and counsel's okay with that. Next we have four more to fill. Is that right? Sure my math is That's right. Counselor, what is your pleasure? Please chime in. Councilwoman Gonzales.

I'd like to nominate Ipirlita Lois, please.

Say that again. Ipirlita Lois. Ipirlita Lois?

Lois. Lois. Mhmm.

Okay.

And if I can clarify, is this a nomination for the two regular positions or Regular. The

Regular. Okay.

Is there any other nominations?

For regular, I had Misty Duran.

Misty Duran for regular.

And for alternate, I had Jennifer Knotts. I think you still need one more alternate.

Jennifer Knotts for alternate. Council member Kendrick.

I like to recommend as an alternate Vantonia Frawley.

Vantonia Frawley. There's an alternate council member Solomon. Alright. Patsy Bracey. As an alternate or regular?

Regular.

It's you said do we need the alternate or the regular?

We need there's two alternate seats to fill and two regular seats. Is that correct?

Four regular and two alternate.

Thank you. Four regular and two alternate. So we have three regulars named, Ipolita Lotus, Misty Duran, and Patsy Bracey have been named regular. And we have two alternate seats to fill. That's Jennifer Knotts and Vantonia Frelly for alternate. We need one more regular.

I'm sorry. Maybe in my math, I think,

but I'm showing we only needed so we have Molina for the construction, Threat for aviation, then we needed two regular members and two other alternates.

In addition to Melina and Threat. Yes, I'm sorry.

But you've got three names for the two regular positions That's right

I originally

But you've got nominations for three and two. Only need two.

Two regular and two alternate. Have counsel, So we have three names for regular. Ipolita Lotus regular, Misty Durham regular and Patsy Bracey regular. We have then we have two alternate seats, Jennifer Knotts and Bantonia Preli. Gotcha. So because of unless someone pulls, this will go to taken off the consent agenda. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Still wanted to speak? Councilmember Solomon, you still wanted to speak? Three.

Three regular nominees and two alternate. We only need two. Correct. And

have we filled the alternate?

Two nominations for alternate. Okay. But we need to subtract. If we can or we vote on this at during the work a regular session.

Okay. While we okay. We can just vote on the regular session.

Alright. This will no action taken. We will consider this on regular session. Other than the nominees, Ipolita Lolas, Misty Duran, and Patsy Bracey for regular, Jennifer Knotts, Vantonia Frelie for alternative alternate, and mister Molina and mister Threat for construction and aviation, leaving one vacancy under construction. Alright. With that residence, there's a construction vacancy that please go on the website and fill out an application. We so when you do your motion, we do the consent agenda, we will make sure that this is pulled as well. Ms. Messer, the next item.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Okay. This item is

for I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Consider memorandum resolution appointing board members to the Main Street Board. Ms. Measure.

Thank you. This item is for appointments to the Main Street Board. As you know, on March 24, council voted to dissolve the Downtown Advisory Committee and establish a Main Street Board with two year terms. Our contract with the Texas Main Street Program requires the city to establish a Main Street Board to maintain program eligibility. Makeup of the Board is as follows: three citizen members and four members from any of the following organizations, the Clean Arts Commission, the Heritage Preservation Board, Fort Hood, Downtown Merchants Association, Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce, Innovation Black Chamber of Commerce, and Greater Clean Chamber of Commerce.

Staff recommends establishing staggered terms to support continuity in align with Main Street best practices. We are therefore recommending initial appointments in two groups with the three citizen members to be appointed for an initial term ending on October 1, and the four organizational members to be appointed for an initial term ending in October '27. Main Street Best Practices recommends structuring board membership to support implementation of the four point approach. Four points are design, organization, promotion, and economic vitality. With that, our recommendation for the Main Street Board is as follows: Tony Ringgold as a citizen member Josh Pemberton as a citizen member Daniel Watkins as a citizen member Ronnie Russell as an organization member representing the IBCC, Condies Cooper as an organization member representing the Downtown Merchants Association and the IBCC, Michelle Flores representing the Greater Clean Chamber of Commerce and Dustin Evans representing the Greater Clean Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Ringgold previously served on the Downtown Advisory Committee. She's also a promotions professional, a downtown property and business owner. She's the owner of Space Create Studios, an IBCC member, and a member of the TURZ Board. Mister Pemberton is a downtown property and business owner and a promotions professional.

Mister Watkins is a downtown property and business owner and a design professional. Mister Russell is president of the Innovation Black Chamber of Commerce and an organization and economic vitality professional. Ms. Cooper is president of the Downtown Merchants Association, an IBCC member, previously served on the Downtown Advisory Committee. She's a downtown property and business owner, member of the Planning and Zoning Commission, and an organization promotion professional.

Michelle Flores is vice president of the chamber vice president of chamber services for the Chamber of Commerce and an organization and economic vitality professional. And Mr. Evans is a downtown property and business owner, member of the Chamber of Commerce, member of the Clean Public Policy Council, member of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild and an organization and economic vitality professional. So with that, staff from the Texas Historical Commission are scheduled to be in clean on May 13 to provide in person training for the new board members. And the First Lady of Texas will be in town on May 27 to celebrate our acceptance into the program, and the Board will be integral to this event.

So again, staff's recommendation is that Council appoint these seven members to the Main Street Board. Happy to answer any questions you have.

Councilmember Solomon.

Thank you, Ms. Amir. I'll make a motion that we accept the recommendation from the staff.

Alright. That'll be it's been moved by mister Solomon that we accept these nominations. Is there a second? Is there a second?

Second that, mayor.

Alright. It's been second by mayor pro tem. This is all in favor for these nominations. Please make so by oh, is there any discussion? No discussion. All in favor of the nomination, denote by yes or no. Alright, nominations approved. This will be a final For the residents, this will finally be approved during the regular session, either by consent agenda or record discussion. Thank you, ma'am. That should be Okay.

It, Alright. RS26-sixty four, consider a memorandum resolution approving the appointment of an executive director of public works. Miss Rodriguez.

Good afternoon, mister mayor, council members. The item before you right now is the appointment of an executive director of public works. The executive director of public works experienced a vacancy as of 10/01/2025. We began recruitment by posting the job on the city's website, TML's job board and the SGR job board. We received 21 qualified applicants and interviewed four of those applicants. The city manager selected Ms. Christina Ramirez as the Executive Director of Public Works. Ms. Ramirez has more than seventeen years of experience in public service, serving in the cities of Killeen and Harker Heights. Ms.

Ramirez received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Texas A and M University. She is a Texas registered professional engineer and certified floodplain manager and became a certified public manager through Sam Houston State University in June 2018. Staff recommends that the City Council approve the city manager's appointment of Ms. Christina Ramirez as the City Of Killeen's Executive Director of Public Works, effective 06/15/2026. And I don't believe Ms. Ramirez is here this evening, but I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Any questions, counsel? Thank you.

Thank you. Alright.

Next item is r s 26 dash zero six five. Consider memorandum resolution approving the appointment of an interim city manager, miss Clements.

Thank you. Good afternoon, mayor and council. So as background, mister Cagle, city manager, announced his retirement effective 05/29/2026. And April 7, city council gave staff a motion direction to provide a list of executive search firms for consideration for the recruitment of the next city manager. In the interim, an interim appointment can be considered until a new city manager is selected.

And so what we have for your consideration tonight is a plan to appoint miss Wilson, mister Cagle, and mister Reynolds on consecutive dates to the interim city manager position. So that would be with miss Wilson serving as interim city manager from 05/30/2026 to 06/14/2026, and then also from 06/20/2026 to 06/28/2026. And then mister Cagle to serve as interim city manager from 06/15/2026 to 06/19/2026, and then from 06/29/2026 until his agreement terminates. Just some information on the agreement because mister Cagle will have re retired by the time his interim appointment would be effective. A temporary employment agreement is required.

The proposed agreement is for twenty weeks, which could be terminated early by either party or extended up to twenty five weeks, which is one thousand working hours. So then and then after that, with mister Jeffrey Reynolds serving as interim city manager upon termination of mister Kegel's interim city manager agreement until a permanent city manager is appointed. So a staff recommendation is to appoint an interim city manager until a permanent city manager is is appointed and authorize a temporary employment agreement with mister Cagle as presented.

Thank you, counsel. Any questions on miss Clements? Alright. Thank you, ma'am. PH26Dash015, hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending the fiscal year twenty twenty six annual budget of the city of Killeen to increase revenue and expense accounts in multiple funds. You're not Ms. Tangela.

No. Bonnie Hanci, budget manager.

Thank you. Ma'am, you may proceed.

Thank you. The item before you tonight is the fiscal year twenty twenty six budget amendment midyear. This amendment is brought forward in accordance with the city's financial governance policy and city charter, which authorize budget amendments by ordinance. The amendment primarily focuses on transferring excess fund balance above the 22% policy target into CIP funds. It also includes a limited number of routine adjustments such as position reclassifications, grant related updates and accounting adjustments.

The required public hearing notice was published on 04/16/2026. Now I'll move into the specific fund level impacts starting with the general fund. In the general fund, the amendment reflects one time use of excess fund balance in line with City Council direction from March 24. The total excess fund balance is $3,297,571 Of that, dollars 2,603,899 is transferred to the governmental CIP fund, with the remaining amount retained in the general fund for economic development initiatives, abatements, facility repairs and park improvements. The governmental CIP fund reflects the receipt and appropriation of the $2,603,899 transferred from the general fund.

Of that amount, 600,000 is allocated to the downtown solar lighting project and $550,000 for the municipal court security upgrade. The remaining $1,453,899 is placed in contingency. Next are the special revenue funds. In the Opioid Settlement Fund, this amendment recognizes $41,376 in revenue with corresponding program expenditures. These funds are planned for council consideration on June 16.

For the CDBG fund, this amendment includes two items totaling 61,563. First, it recognizes current year revenue with appropriation to allow for future reprogramming. Second, it includes a small adjustment to reconcile prior year activity with the U. S. Treasury system.

Next, I'll move into the enterprise funds. In the golf course fund, dollars 6,970 being appropriated to replace a damaged structural column at the clubhouse. And in the aviation fund, dollars 1,328,029 of excess fund balance above the 22% target is being transferred into the Aviation CIP fund consistent with policy. Now I'll show you the fund that's receiving it. The Aviation CIP fund reflects that transfer into the fund balance for future capital use.

Aviation has two other funds. In the Aviation AIP grant fund, dollars 178,750 in grant revenue, along with the associated construction expenditure, is being appropriated for a design build agreement pursuant to Resolution 20 six-forty. And in the Aviation CFC Fund, dollars 18,000 is being appropriated for consulting services supporting airport development initiatives. The CO Fund. This item is an accounting alignment.

The golf course renovation CIP project in the amount of $2,000,975.99 is being moved into its own fund from the fund it was originally appropriated in. This adjustment ensures proper fund classification and project tracking. This final slide summarizes the overall impact of the amendment across all fund categories. It reflects the combined effort effects of the CIP role, the carryforward adjustment and now this midyear amendment. Staff recommends approval, and I'm available for any questions.

Any questions, counsel? No? Okay. Thank you. Alright, counsel. We have completed the work session for today. Would you wish to take a recess? Alright. We'll we'll push through. Oh, you said yeah?

Okay. We will stand at recess for five minutes. Time is now 04:17. We're gonna go back meetings call to order back to order. I wanna remind folks if you have cell phones, please check and make sure that they are, on silent or vibrate.

If you can't do that, please turn them off. Thanks. And if you have to take a call, please step outside. Alright. We're gonna go and proceed with citizen comments. You have three minutes with one minute time allotted for city council to respond with a statement or explanation with engaging dialogue. All speakers, please remind that they must be on agenda items. Please consider the audience, and we shall now proceed. First is miss Candies Cooper.

Good evening, everybody. My name is Candies Cooper, mister mayor, fellow council member, city manager. Of course, just coming up and speaking in reference to the appointments for the Main Street board. Very excited about this new board. I know it kinda gets put out there that the dissolvement like, the full explanation of the dissolvement of the downtown advisory committee.

I was vice chair for that board. It was dissolved because we got the Main Street designation, and so it served its purpose. The goals were met. And so now with this Main Street designation, we get to further put forth the initiatives that you guys put into the comprehensive plan on moving downtown forward, moving the North Killeen Corridor, which falls in line with the Ransier project, all the things that you're wanting for the growth of North Killeen. So we're super excited.

I thought a couple more of my guys were gonna be here, but on behalf of the Downtown Advisory Committee, the Downtown Merchants Association, we're very excited. Most of us on there, again, are stakeholders. We're property owners. We are owner operated structures, and so those are the type of people you want on that board because we are invested, literally, life savings invested into these properties, and so you'll have no stronger advocates than the people who want the area to grow because we need the area to grow. And so, we'll be able to put on and assist the city in whatever it is as far as marketing, advocating.

You know, we're supposed to be the welcoming committee for the events, for the area. When you see people, when you see happy people, like, it inspires you to kind of figure out what's going on down there, and so a lot of times people speak very loudly about what they don't like about the city, but I think it is very important to speak on what you do love about the city and then be a part of the thing that helps that city go go further and stronger. And so that's what this Main Street Board is gonna do for the city of Killeen. It's gonna show that the money you guys invested into the end between this council and the previous I think this has been a thing for the last three council boards. It's gonna show that the money is going where it needs to go, and this appointment actually shows that you guys are getting the fruit of the labor and the investment.

So we're very excited to get this ball rolling. And, again, it's said the first lady for Texas is gonna be coming, so we're excited to be a part of that conversation, tapping into Texas grant resources, education projects, and again, showing that there is something to be happy, to be proud about, and it will, of course, encourage more economic development in the area. So I thank you guys again for going forward with those appointments. We're ready to get to work. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for your service on the Downtown Advisory Committee. Alright. Next person is mister Ronnie Russell. Alright. I'll do call it out two more times. Mister Ronnie Russell. Mister Ronnie Russell. Alright. Next person is miss Melissa Brown.

Good evening. When I hear that the HOA wants to maintain the park and the parkland and we're going to pay them for that, is that truly a dedication to the city? The concern then becomes will it be able to be open to the public? If they're maintaining it as HOA property? Can they at any point restrict it to only being for the members who live within that HOA?

Because if that is the case and that is what their dues are intended to pay for, this is item number two, the Parkland dedication. There is nothing in the agreement that says it is a complete agreement that says that the HOA will do the maintenance on this and that the city will pay them for it. So, if that is to be the case, that needs to be included in the agreement along with some sort of guidelines, guardrails that say it will be maintained to the city standards, not to whatever happens within the HOA.

Can you pause real quick? I did ask if you have a cell phone that silence it. If we pinpoint it, I am going to ask you to leave. Please, thank you.

So we would be paying extra for this above and beyond what we already pay for our park system that is currently six eighty five square feet. To add another 14, shouldn't add an additional $30,000 or $35,000 plus an annual elevator onto that cost. When it comes to the renewal with Civic Plus, are we currently paying for Code Red? I know she said it wouldn't be anything extra to have them as a backup, but are we currently paying for Code Red? And if we are not, then what is our current contract with Civic Plus?

And what are the new or additional services that are being provided in this agreement? Because according to the presentation, appears that we are adding some additional services that we'll be getting from them. The question becomes, is it worth the amount of money that we'd be paying extra if we are already able to do stuff like Code Red through SIGCOG that is part of that regional agreement, that is part of money coming out of Homeland Security funds when we need to concentrate on preserving as much of our finances as possible. The overall idea for the Board of Adjustment Consolidation I know was a good idea at thought, but in practice, it has been a very poor decision. There is at least one case that has been waiting six months because they need seven members for a supermajority and they have yet to be able to fulfill that.

And then just very quickly, when it comes to an interim city manager, we only need one. We don't need three. There needs to be consistency, and according to the presentation, the only consistency would be that Mr. Reynolds is available throughout the duration to be that interim person. Why spend an extra $120,000 a year on a person who already said he's done with our city, doesn't want to be here anymore, and is going to be collecting a pension? The fiscally responsible thing to do and the best thing for consistency and stability for our city is to have that one person have them be here the whole time. Thank you.

Thank you, miss Brown. The question on the HOA, do we have mister Murphy? I think there was a question about retaining the property and the restricted use. I know you addressed that already, and then doing the maintenance.

Yes, sir. The property, the park is not restricted, it would be a city park. Doing the analysis of what it would take to add the additional staff to be able to maintain that, because we operate a very skeletal crew, we're not able to add the additional manpower hours that are needed to maintain it. It is actually cheaper to enter into that MOU and maintain it to the standard. We have negotiated the standards about which we use the criteria to maintain our current parks, and upon assessment, what the HOA is proposing or what they would be maintaining is a standard that's a little bit greater than what we do currently.

They would ensure routine maintenance cuts, trimming of trees, the things that we may have to scale back to every six weeks. They're do it a lot more frequently, so that makes that a more viable option because we are actually saving the city money.

And thank you, sir. That's either mister Arresto or miss yes. Well, a co a co rig question, that is being phased out across the region. The new system is coming in, and we're part of the group, Ms. Ressler, if you can answer the question regarding the new services provided and

Oh, that's the next one. So, staff,

when we looked at the Code Red, they have obviously at the time we were going through this, COG did not have a clear path. So Evergreen was was their side. Do we pay for that? Do we pay for the participation? No. But we also don't have any control of what happens when code red. We're just users in their account. That was one of the other motivations of why we've we decided to go with our own because we can do our own texting to our own region of this of the city of Killeen. It has a lot of features in it that are specifically used for emergency management staff. As far as looking at what we add, that is what we're actually adding.

But we're also taking away. So we have civic alerts. So civic alert goes away. This is also kind of part of that. So we're adding and removing, but we're remove we're adding the additional costs for this additional civics and portion of it. One of the things that is added into this is the social archiving. Social archiving was its actual own company, Civic Plus bought them. So that's what their master agreement is doing, is bringing that contract in along with this Last year or last three years, we're paying somewhere between $353,000 for a three year contract. So we've increased this one by that. But we also have that in our budget.

It's we made the budget adjustments in the 'twenty five-'twenty six budget to accommodate this as our we were forward thinking of making these changes and working with Tory and working with Sarah. Those were decisions that we were making to make sure that we're aligned on what we need to do. Social archiving also had to increase a little bit because we do a lot of kudos for the communication team. They do a lot of posting now, and all those postings have to be archived. So we actually have to pay a small fee everything make sure we archive everything so that we are FOIA open records compliant.

And I hope I've answered your questions. Sarah is also here to talk about some of the Code Red if you need more. Knows a bit more about that than I do.

So we can get that clarified. There's no other request on this agenda item, so we can close it out with you. Could

you let me know what exactly was it you made Whatever to

other services that are provided different from

So, like Mr. Resto said, we're currently users underneath the COGs license. So, how they wrote the grant project is that they have the individual jurisdictions that are users listed in that grant project as those who would be eligible to use that system. But like you also mentioned, we aren't the licensed owner, so there are sometimes delays in getting customer service issues rectified. Sometimes we have we've had issues with even being able to log in to the system.

Now, as they move towards Everbridge, that dynamic will likely change because it's a different company and a different way of doing things, within that company. However, by doing this with Civic Plus and adding Connexus, that functionality on to Civic Plus, it allows us to integrate our notification processes in with everything else we use it for. So tying it into our website, tying it into our social media presences, so that we have a global way to reach our population during a crisis instead of having multiple systems in different places.

Thank you. And I'll add to that. I'm aware that other cities that are members of other councilor governments, that are the centerpieces of those councilor governments also have a second similar service on top of what their cogs have. So, thank you.

And I do want to emphasize, Sarah did hit a point. In this case, we can send a message to all our media with one tool. That's really key, so the communication team has something to send out, They just do it through the new system and it will go to every system that we have with one message rather than Tory have to log in to this and to that and to this and to that, the same message. So that is one of the pluses that we get from it as well. And Tory may have some other things. And

I do have more that I want to add. It's also part of the Civic Plus Master Agreement renewal, so everyone should have access to this. But one of the cool things about, Mass Notification System with our current system is that we're able to actually do geo targeting. So that's basically anyone who was for real within our city, were actually able to reach them with a notification in times of an emergency or crisis. Our current system, you have to register to sign up.

This is different. So that is a huge plus as to why we're getting this system and then it also integrates with IPAWS and NOAA, which is also very crucial in times of emergencies, which our current system, it does not do. So we're getting a lot more added benefit to it than the current system that we share with Sikhov.

Thank you. Councilman McKenzie, you got something of the fact to add?

Well, don't have a question for Tory, but is what Tori just said because we always have a lot of people that like to turn off notifications. This way, you can't turn it off and you're going to get the information. That's basically what she's saying right now. You can't just turn it off. You're gonna get the information. So thank you for that, Tori.

Thank you. Alright. Next person, miss Suneesi Kraw.

Pull this up because I can't see it. Okay. Good evening, mayor and council. I want to begin by acknowledging the structure of the interim city, manager plan being proposed. What I see is a phased approach that balances continuity into institutional knowledge and forward leadership, and that reflects the importance of maintaining stability during a time of transition.

That is something I've consistently emphasized because how we manage transition directly impacts how the city functions day to day. At same the time, this moment highlights something equally important, not just about leadership is assigned, but how information flows to support those decisions. In previous discussions, I introduced the concept of a quality of life committee, not as a replacement for public comment, but as a way to strengthen how community input is brought forward earlier in the process. Because what we often see is residents responding after concerns have already reached a point of frustration. What I'm proposing is a structured approach where Kerns

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last I'm allowing you to proceed, but I need you to bring it back. Okay.

The type of structure becomes even more valuable during transitions like this where multiple leaders are stepping into roles and making decisions that affect the daily experience of our residents. Because ultimately, this is not just about continuity of leadership, it's about continuity of trust. And trust is built when people feel heard, not just at the end of the process, but throughout it. And I say this because the last time I didn't want to be perceived as being pushy and saying I wanted organizational stability and all that other stuff, and what I said last time. So I am coming to say you all did a good job in how you designed this.

And I appreciate it. It meets all my previous statements that I made at the last session. And thank you. And I know it was hard. And I appreciate you taking my voice, a citizen's voice, in consideration when you put this together. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Michael Fenino.

It should come as no surprise to anybody that I strongly object to Mr. Cagle's involvement on any level for any length of time past his retirement date. That's a lack of planning on his part. If he's going to throw the city into this transitional uproar, He should have planned his retirement, announced it, his intentions rather than two hours after he had a bad shellacking at a council meeting not so long ago. Forget the fact that I've led people in combat.

Forget the fact that I've read Doctor. Deming, Doctor. Sowell, Patton, Lombardi, anything to do with leadership and management. I may not be able to speak to budget very well, but I've freely and openly admitted that to you all in the past. However, to think that this man walks on water and we can't get along and we can't breathe without him, that's a slap in the face in my opinion from a management standpoint.

That says that no other Citi employee is competent enough to step up and fill the gap, that just doesn't compute. If he had been managing the people and the schedule and his time as a manager, he would have prepared his people. Rule one in the military, largely my background, it crossed two services. You train your replacement. Especially when I first served with the fleet in the United States submarine force, we cross trained the hell out of each other.

I knew how to do the guy's job next to me and vice versa, frontwards, backwards, upside down. So in the case of the sudden loss or unavailability of a crew member or anything like that, crew, team. Okay? I played the game, the stakes were not dollars and cents, I'm talking life and death. So I can speak with a level of expertise few in this room actually do have. Undisputable. The fact that we have two very competent assistant senior assistant city managers and a whole host of support staff below them. The man doesn't walk on water. He's not raising the dead. He should retire when he said he retired.

This tendency of people to hang on after they've quit, resigned, retired, whatever, in the city has got to go. It does nothing for the dynamics of the city, period. Doctors have a term for that. I believe it's called relapse. You put in your time, be as good as your word. Once again, this man is proving everything I said, he's not as good as his word. He puts his name to a piece of paper and says, I resign. I'm retiring. Whatever phrase you want to use or however we're massaging it for the press to make the public feel good about the transition. He put his name to a piece of paper, just like when he signed on for the job, he signed off the job.

Anybody considering keeping him on? I'd like to help you out with that idea. Just show me what door you came in with that idea.

Thank you, everyone. There's no alright. That concludes citizen comments. We will now proceed with the regular session. Council was reminded to speak three minutes times each.

The consent agenda, m n 26 dash zero one three consider minutes of regular city council meeting on 03/25/2026. RS twenty six dash zero five four consider a minimum random resolution accepting the dedication of 14.42 acres of within the preserve at 1000 Oaks Plant unit development as public parkland. RS 20 5 consider a memorandum resolution approving a maintenance support contract with Cooper Krause Hines, LLC to provide maintenance support for the airport lighting control system at Killeen Regional Airport in the amount of $265,850 RS 20 6 consider a memorandum resolution awarding bid 20, Traffic Signal Infrastructure Upgrade to the Austin Traffic Signal Construction Company, LLC in the amount of $646,001.5 RS 20 7 consider a memorandum resolution approving a contract with Semtech Live Fire Simulation Technology to build a fire tower training prop in the amount of $1,063,062.65 RS 20 8 consider a memorandum resolution authorizing the execution of a ten year agreement between the City of Killeen and SEGRA LLC to provide two strands of dark fiber to connect 15 city facilities to the city's network in the amount of $1,499,000 RS 20 9 consider a memorandum resolution authorizing the repurchase of network equipment from GTS Technology Solutions in the amount of $478,233 RS 20 six-sixty consider a memorandum resolution authorizing a master software agreement renewal with Civic Plus LLC in the amount of $424,404.82 RS26-sixty three, consider a memorandum resolution appointing board members to the Main Street Board RS26-sixty six dash zero six four, consider a memorandum resolution approving the appointment of an executive director of public works.

RS twenty six dash zero six five, consider a memorandum resolution approving the appointment of an interim city manager. With that, counsel, before you do your motion, please note that I did pull the two items that we did not meet a consensus on, and also to announce that miss Ramirez is present if you wanted any questions. I need you to say something. Mister mister Albert mayor pro tem?

Mayor, I was gonna move to approve the consent agenda removing items number ten and nine, as you stated, but also wanted to give the opportunity for our new executive director of public works to say a few words.

Okay. So what we'll do prior to the motion, we'll let her since I just read it back into this record. Miss Ramirez, can you come forward, please?

I think you still need a second.

Okay. Yeah. I was gonna have him bring it back up. Gotcha. Thank you, ma'am, and welcome, to council that may have some questions for you, as you've been nominated to fill the vacant public works position, executive director of public works. Miss Gonzales, Councilwoman Gonzales.

So thank you so much for your consideration and for applying for, you know, this position. We welcome you. You know, as an executive director in this particular department, per se, I have this department on speed dial, and so there's a lot that comes with it, and I was just curious, we'd love to hear from you about why you chose us, but could you also just let our citizens know about your management style, and how you'll be readily available to them, as some of our directors have in the past?

Absolutely. So thank you, mayor and council, for having me here this evening, and giving me the opportunity to speak with you. Some of you may know that I've actually began in operations behind an asphalt machine during the summers when it was hot, and I I hold public works operations very close to my heart. I am also on the national board for the American Public Works Association, so educating and looking at the advancement of public works, whether it's training of our staff, the cross training, the development, so that they can move up within the organization, as well as interact with the public and tell their story about what it is that they're doing. That's something that I hold dear.

I also have taught since 2014 with the Public Works Institute of Texas, and so I feel that it's very important to make sure that our staff knows that they are important, what they're doing is important, and that we provide that quality of service to our residents. And part of that quality of service is making sure that responding. Most recently, I was interviewed, and one of the things that I like to do is I do check my emails late. I tend to be that nontraditional, not eight to five I am available. If I don't know the answer, I'm going to let you know.

I'm going to let you know that I need to do the research, or I need to ask somebody who's been on the ground if I haven't been there myself yet, and so I do plan to carry that forward.

Thank you. I appreciate all of our departments, but this one's so public facing, and they've done a tremendous job within the community as far as building those relationships, so I appreciate you, and welcome. Thank you. Thank

you. Anyone else? I

just want to say welcome back to, Team Killeen. I had the honor and privilege of working, for Christina, during my tenure here with the City of Killeen. She was always an outstanding boss, you know, a great supervisor and a wealth of knowledge for the city of Killeen. So I'm proud to have you back here at team Killeen, and I look forward to all that you're going to help us accomplish.

Thank you.

And I I won't I won't say that I won't smile hard in my our peers' faces to the east of us, but pending the approval of the consent agenda, I wanna welcome you to to the city Of King. With that, council, what is thank you, ma'am. What is your pleasure? Council Mayor Pro Tem?

Restate the motion. I move to approve the consent agenda removing items number 10 nine and ten.

Councilman Solomon.

I second it.

It's been moved by mayor pro tem Alvarez and second by councilman Solomon to approve the consent agenda as read. Any discussion? All in favor denote yes. All opposed, no. Consent agenda approved. Motion carried. Thank you. Moving to the next item, public hearing.

Wanna go back to 26.061 and o six two.

Thank you. I was rushing. We're gonna go back to items RS26Dash061, consider memorandum resolution declaring a vacancy on the arts commission and appointing a new member to the to fill the vacation. So in in this discussion, we got we're gonna both declare vacancy and then we had my documents disappeared. We had three people two people named miss Arley.

Stuff got moved. I'm sorry, folks. We had two people named mister Hopson and

Ashley Rusty.

Miss Ashley Rusty. Thank you. I think you got my papers. No. That's fine. So, council, what is your pleasure? Council member Alvarez oh, excuse me. Mayor pro tem Alvarez.

I would move to appoint Ashley Rudzer to the Arts Commission.

Miss Mayor Pro Tem Alvarez moved to approve moved to appoint Ashley Rutzer to the Arts Commission. Councilmember Gonzalez. I second that. It's been seconded by Councilmember Gonzalez. Any discussion?

Seeing and hearing none, all in favor on the appointment of council, Ashley Rutzer to the Arts Commission. Please note yes. All opposed, no. Motion carries three to one. Alright.

The next item is we had a few names to fill the construction the construction seat. Thank you. We had the two, mister Molina and miss and mister Threat, to fill the construction aviation seats. And then we have three names for the regular seat, miss Misty Dunn, miss Patsy miss Patsy Bracey, excuse me, and miss Ippolita Lotz. And then two alternates, mister Vantoni Frely and mister and miss Jennifer Knotts.

We have two seats each for both of those. So if I understand that with the two alternates or what counsel, what is your pleasure? The floor is open. I don't wanna assume anything. So the three names for regular that was listed was Misty Dunn, Patsy Bracey, and Ipolita Lotts. And then the two alternates were Bantonia Frehley and Jennifer Knotts. We had two alternate seats and two regular seats. Councilman Kendrick.

I would like to withdraw my my nominee about about the how you say that? Antonio Frawley.

Alright. Antonio Frawley has been withdrawn. Alright. So that leaves four individuals. One needs to be designated alternate of the with three and we have three regular.

I need you to Go ahead. Okay, now it works. Ms. Gonzales, Councilwoman Gonzales?

Thank you. So just to confirm, we need We have currently still three regular. I believe, and just confirm if I'm incorrect, but I believe that the other nomination for regular was that we had Misty, Miss Bracey, and Ipirlita. And then for alternate, we now only have Jennifer Knotts.

Correct.

My recommendation would be to continue to keep Miss Patsy Bracey's alternate.

Okay.

And then that should give us the two and two. Is that correct?

That is correct. I need a motion.

I would like to make a motion to assign the regular positions for the board of adjustments to Ipirlita Loeb Lois, regular Misty Dunn, regular Patsy Bracey, alternate Jennifer Knotts, alternate, and our officials, Zaria Treat for aviation and Lamar Molina for fire prevention code.

Okay. Counselor, you heard the motion. Is there a second?

Second that motion.

Mayor Pro Tem Alvarez seconds the motion. Is there any discussion on these nominations? Any discussion? All in favor to know yes. All opposed, no.

Alright. Motion carried. Thank you, counsel. Alright. Next, we have public hearing p h 20 6Dash zero one five. Hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending the fiscal year twenty twenty six annual budget of the city of Killeen to increase revenue and expense accounts in multiple funds. The secretary will read the caption of the ordinance.

An ordinance of the city council of the city of Killeen, Texas amending the f y twenty twenty six annual budget of the city of Killeen to increase revenue expense accounts in multiple funds, repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, providing a savings clause establishing an effective date.

Okay. Alright. Counsel, you heard the presentation. You've seen the presentation. Do want me to see it again? Okay. Miss Tang, I'm just speaking. And miss Hansi, can you stand by be on standby. The public hearing now open the public hearing. We have one applicant, miss Melissa Brown.

Biggest problem that I have with this is this is going to put KADC back to well over $1,000,000 in funding with no measurable reason for an increase other than they bought more land and said they need money to pay the note. That means that we are essentially rewarding an irresponsible decision if they can't pay the note with the money that they are currently getting. What will this mean for the FY '27 budget then? If they need this in order to pay note for land that they purchased and we don't give them the increased money in 2027, are they going to be able to keep up with their bills at that point? Is KEDs going to expect this year after year after year now?

Or is this understood that it is a one time bonus? Because for this money, we could hire three or four grant writers. The FY21H2 directive from the City Council by unanimous vote was to hire a grant writer. But Mr. Kagle has repeatedly said, we don't have money in the budget for it. I just found $215,000 in the budget. IVCC was cut back to only $50,000 in support with more consistent and documented results. So if anything, shouldn't they get a larger cut? They're actually bringing in the businesses. They're helping them grow.

They're helping them expand. They're bringing in the employees. Or we could also take $200,000 and employ that to employee health care so that we're not having to increase their premiums and their deductibles again. We could apply it to mental health care, not just for our first responders, but for all of our employees. Do you think that there is an employee who works for the City of Killeen that couldn't use some counseling services from time to time?

I know that as a council member, I could have told you even as council members, we could use those counseling services from time to time. I would go ahead and add that everybody has access to this document. It's on the city's website. It was provided to the council. But this is from the FY twenty six proposed budget, and these are all of our unfunded decision packages across the city.

About 90% of them are less than $200,000 apiece. You could go through this and pick five, six, seven, eight, maybe even up to 10 different items that were unfunded in the FY 'twenty six budget that could be funded with $200,000 The question is, are we really getting a return on our investment, and how quickly is that happening? Because when we invest into our city staff, we get that return immediately, not waiting seven, eight, ten years, not having to reassess and reimagine what Anthem Park is going to be, not having to reassess or potentially reimagine what Wolf Park is going to be, because Wolf Park no longer advertises data centers and think that we were going to be able to put data centers there anyway. Let's spend our money more wisely. Let's put it where it needs to be put, and let's put our citizens and our employees first.

Thank you, Ms. Brown. That concludes the public hearing. Public hearing is closed. Counsel, what is your pleasure? Oh, mayor pro Alvarez. You've been sneaking in there.

Mayor, I move to approve p h 26 dash 0 one five as presented.

Pro Tem moved to approve p h 20 6 dash zero five zero one five as presented. Is there a second? Council member Kendrick.

I second.

Council member Kendrick seconds the motion. Is there any discussion to the motion? All in favor, please note yes. All opposed, no. Motion carries. PH twenty six dash zero one five approved. Counsel, that concludes the business for the day. What is your pleasure?

Move to adjourn.

The mayor pro tem moves to adjourn. Is there a second? Council member Solomon. Alright. Counsel, we are adjourned.