City Council - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. This works, doesn't  it? Welcome on this uh afternoon. And   um we have uh I'm going to call the meeting  to order. Uh we have a full quorum here,   every council member, and I'm glad to see  our citizens have turned out today. And   uh as we typically do, uh we're going to start  with the invocation. And I understand perhaps   that Reverend Jean Glazer has volunteered at the  last minute to give our invocation of Lake Church. Thank you, Father God. We thank you for this day and the  opportunity to enjoy it and to just see your   blessings all around us. We pray especially for  the city this weekend, Father, as the temperatures   uh plummet and that things will go well  for city services and that things will   um not break and that they'll stay stay together  and running and all these great employees can stay   home and enjoy their families. Thank you so much  for the way that you've blessed this community and   the people that live in it. And we thank you so  much for the city council and the employees and   the department heads and all these people that  give their time and dedication to the city to   make this a place that we enjoy. But most of  all, Father, we're so thankful for your son   that he died on the cross so that we could  have forgiveness of our sins and the hope of   eternal life with you. But we pray through the  power of your son's name. Amen. Amen. Amen. of the United States of America  and to the stands nationy

and justice for all the flages to the Texas one indivisible. Well, surprise, surprise. We don't have enough chairs  in here. Which leads me to my first announcement.   Congratulations. You may be the last audience to  see a city council meeting in this building. Uh barring some unforeseen circumstances, uh our city  council meetings going forward will be at the new   city hall which is just down the road. You know  where it is and our next one will be in February   and we look forward to seeing you there. Uh there  are plans underway to have a uh soft opening prior   to our city uh council meeting in in February  and we hope to have a big big audience there.   So we hope to see you there next month. And uh  it's always as I open this uh meeting today,   it's always a pleasure to see our hardworking  uh men and women who give their time and effort   and talents to this city. And it's it's great  to see and recognize both new employees and   uh recognize the service that many of our  employees have had for the city. So, uh, we have   several today that we want to recognize. And the  first, uh, Jason, are you going to present this? Mayor, council, I'd like to recognize  Captain Steve Boyd. His 10 years of  

service to the city of Horseshoe  Bay. Captain Boyd is celebrating   10 years of service. Steve joined  the department in December of 2015.   as our criminal investigator and quickly dedicated  himself to the city and the department. In 2019,   Steve promoted to captain where he supervises all  of the investigative division and communications   operations. He also assists uh assistant chief  Nelson with oversight of the patrol division.   Steve has 38 years as a Texas peace officer,  holds a master peace officer certification from   Tik. He served nine years as Texas Highway Patrol  trooper, receiving the DPS Medal of Valor, then   15 years as a Texas Ranger. Steve retired from the  state and entered politics serving as the sheriff   of Sansaba County in 2012. Steve and his wife  Glenna have been married for 37 years and though   they enjoy working on their property outside  of Cherokee and entertaining the grandkids. Captain Boyd, thank you very much for your  service to this community. We feel safer.   Thank you. Uh Beth Coun, who's gonna Molly, I  was introduced to Beth years ago as the person   who never stops smiling, and I have been trying  to catch her without a smile, and I haven't done  

it in all these years. That is correct. Good  afternoon, mayor, council, and citizens. Um,   so on November 4th, 2025, the Texas Courts Clerks  Association or TCCA their annual conference in San   Marcus. Beth Coons received the distinguished  service award. As chair of the internal audit   committee, Beth led a precise and comprehensive  audit of the association's financials during a   period of significant transition as TCCA moved  from a chapter base to a regional structure.   Her leadership exemplified true distinction,  steady, capable, mission focused, and grounded   in service to somewhat something greater than  herself. Like to congratulate Beth Beth on this   award. It's the distinguished service award in  recognition of outstanding service and dedication. Thank you, Beth. Thank you, very We're  very fortunate to have you. Thank you. Now,   we have some new uh city team members and  uh the first is going to be John Byum.   Uh is that going to be you, Mr. Costa.  Oh, John Byron, I'm sorry. That's Rick.

All right. Good afternoon, Mayor Council. So,  with great pleasure, like to introduce John Byron,   our new development services director. So, I have  been kind of masquerading as a pretend director   for the last couple of months. Very happy to have  John on board with us. Uh he comes to us with a   little over 10 years of experience in development  services with an emphasis on planning. His most   recent stop was with the city of Hudo for the  past three plus years. Uh he is married to his   wonderful wife Hillary with one L like my wife  Allison with one L and they have two daughters   with a third on the way due in May. John holds  a bachelor's degree from University of Oklahoma and is a member of the American  Planning Association Texas chapter.   He's currently working towards becoming  an AICP certified planner. The city's   excited and lucky to have him. So,  please join me in welcoming John. Welcome, John. Uh, Chief Fowler, do you have  some announcements for us? Uh, yes, I do. As   a matter of fact, besides new personnel, I just  want to take the opportunity with a room full of   people that we've got some cold weather coming  in this weekend and we may have long stretches   uh of freezing temperatures uh especially in the  Hill Country. So remember the four Ps, the people,   pets, pipes, and plants. So, and please take  care. And the uh precipitation uh predictions   are are a little waffly, so be careful out there.  Mayor, council, thank you so much. We got uh two   new members in the fire department. Uh one is  Asa Oliver. He was a part- timerr who converted   to full-time. Um he's being reintroduced at  this time, but as a full-time employee with   the Horseshoe Bay Fire Department. Over the course  of uh the time being a certified firefighter, he   has been a part-time firefighter for the Horseshoe  Bay Fire Department for approximately three years.  

Asa has been a Texas Commission on Fire Protection  Commission firefighter for a little over 16 years.   He started his firefighting career with Travis  County ESD1 in Logavista Jonestown area as well as   the Cedar Hill Fire Department before landing now  here full-time in Horseshoe Bay. Asa joins fire   department with extensive knowledge in the area  and operations of the city and fire department. Uh   he has a certified commission, Texas commission on  fire protection, intermediate firefighter as well   as uh holding certifications as a driver operator  for pumper and aerial and uh Texas Department of   State Health Services EMTB. So we are we are happy  to have him aboard along with another new member   uh Jiren Sims. Jiren comes to Horseshoe Bay with  one year of service by way of the Colleen Fire   Department. Jiren's love for the fire service  began early in his life. He was inspired from   his father's fire service career in Nakodocious  as a firefighter. His love for public service   took root there and has since become his passion.  Jiren is a commission on fire protection certified   firefighter and holds his uh Texas Department of  State House Services EMTB. Jiren is uh has been   happily married for almost three years to his wife  Savannah. Aomi states is his unwavering corner of   support. He is excited to join the professional  team of public servants with Horseshoe Bay Fire   Department and is eager to serve the community  and better himself professionally. And both of   them are off duty today otherwise they'd have  been here. All right. Thank you. Thank you. We come now to the time of our council meeting  for public uh comments. And uh this is the time   that the that the citizens can talk about  uh anything of of interest in the community  

that they would like unless it's on our um our  our meeting agenda, our public hearing items.   So, if the matter that you are here  about is on our public hearing item,   I ask that you hold off until we get  to those items of business. However,   I think we have several who uh want to speak  about other matters. And do we have a list of our I would ask that you keep your comments to three  minutes, please. uh in in interest of time and   uh let's see Cynthia Klein Smith wants to talk  about City Center walking trail. Sometimes it's   just good to come and be reminded of our great  staff we have here. It just does your heart good,   doesn't it? We are so blessed and I think about  Steve in particular bringing his experience. So   everybody, it's always good reminder. Um, also  congratulations. I was hoping that I was going to   be at the historically last city council meeting  here after 25 years of our staff patiently waiting   for our first ever city center, city hall. So  pleased about that. But I'm here sort of related.   Um, I I walk most days the new walking trail there  by the city center that I'm I have to compliment   Sundra Nash and the landscaping plan that's  going in over there and looking forward to it.   But one of the things I've done, I just wanted to  inform the council since it's not my property. Um   I take a kind of personal ownership of it. I have  written a grant um just to get 300 uh milkweed   plugs, which sounds silly, but we used to have  thousands of monarch butterflies. This was a   pathway through here, and we've sort of lost that.  Um but they need a feeding ground to do that. So,  

at the end of February, beginning of March,  a group of people from our community, Master   Naturalist, any volunteers who want, we're going  to plant these along that butterfly trail. Um,   the city has graciously agreed to keep them  irrigated till their root system is in place.   And then, as you put in your landscaping plan  with pollinator plants for the moms to feed on,   um, next year this time, we're hoping that we  have new little baby monarchs and butterflies   flying everywhere. So I encourage people  to even though it's a field right now,   it's still a lovely walk to make in the morning.  So I encourage that. So we're looking forward to   it. And I'm going to come to your historic  first city council meeting in February just   to feel it. Well, you better because you  designed it and planned it and it looks   good. It does look good. So thank you. And we  thank you for your vision. Big team effort and   uh your work on this. Thank you so much. Coming  together. So y'all come see it. Okay. Thank you,   Mayor Klein Smith. Uh Wayne Brasam  wants to talk about Pan Creek sign. Judge Brasam, how are you? chief that I'm legally able to drive on  the highways again because I spent about   four hours at the uh driver's license bureau  getting my driver's license today renewed. Um   I want to talk about just preserving our  heritage which is part of your motto. Um,   Pon Creek has changed signage and one of  the signs that they took down that marked   Pon Creek crossing the street which was across  from the clinic. Um, I asked them to preserve  

it because I would like I would like to have  it placed somewhere on the walking path. Um,   it's one of the original signs used for Han Creek  and it's uh, and I worked for Mr. Herd for 20 plus   years and I think in in somewhat in honor of him  putting that sign uh, in our new walking path area   so people will know where it is or what it is  and maybe a little plaque below it. Any rate,   uh, that's what I'm working on right now.  And, um, I want to say to all of y'all, may   God always walk with you. Thank you. Thank you.  Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Uh, Jean Glazer, good afternoon again. I'm sorry. I didn't know  I needed to pray for a foreigner from Oklahoma. I'll add that to my list. I'm here today  to welcome you guys and invite you to our   groundbreaking on February 1 at no and uh we  are just so excited to have you. We're going   to have lunch. We're going to have big equipment  there. We're going to dig a hole in the ground   and take a picture and uh so we'd love to have  the city council and all the departments. Jeff,   one of the first people we talked to about this  said we weren't crazy and uh his encouragement   continued us forward. So, uh, we're so thankful  for all that the city has done and there's a   rumor that Jeff is going to lead a prayer shorter  than 15 minutes at this event. So, uh, we'd love   to have you on February 1st at noon. Thank you  very much, Jean. Appreciate it. And that's going   to be at the what location again? At the church  property. At the church property. Okay. Prosperity  

Bank and the Grim Building at West. Great. Great.  Thank you. Uh that concludes the public comments   for folks who did not want to speak on the public  hearing items. And now we're going to open up our   public hearing for three matters. Uh I'm going to  uh open at 3:18. the public hearing discussion,   consideration, and a and possible action on a  request for approval of ordinance number 2026-07   uh reszoning 1363 acres out of green belt lot 3  o over Skywater and who's going to present that   for us. Good afternoon, mayor and council. For  the record, John Byron, a development services   director. Um, this item we have for you is a  resoning case going from A1 to R1. As you can see,   the parcel right there is outlined in red.  It's just a little over 03 acre site again   going from A1 to R1. And upon reszoning, the  applicant is going to replat the parcel to   the one to the north, which is lot 69. And after  replplatting, it'll be just under half an acre.   Here's the current zoning. As you can see, again,  outlined in red A1. Everything else being R1 um   residential. So, this is a really straightforward  um resoning case. And then the proposed zoning,   as you can see there, would be R1 would match um  the entire neighborhood. Here is a concept plan of   the um potential um single family residence that  would be built as you can see. So this line right   in here is the line that is currently separating  the two parcels. Um and as you can see there is  

a driveway down here um where the applicant  is proposing to build. So that would be why   um we're going through the resoning and  then potentially replatting after that.   There is an image of the existing site. As you can  see, it is vacant. And the parcel to the north,   lot 69, is vacant as well. And then we  have photos of the surrounding area. With that being said, um all the public  noticing was satisfied per state law. The   staff is not aware of any opposition  to this request. Uh the planning and   zoning commission met at their um meeting on  December 16th, 2025 and the commission voted   unanimously to recommend that city council  approve that request. With that being said,   staff is available for questioning. It is a  public hearing and then the applicant is in   attendance as well. Okay. Uh any questions for  Mr. Byum? This is one10enth of an acre. Correct.   just over. Okay. Uh and then it'll be replplatted  to be about half an acre. Under half an acre.   Correct. It wouldn't be two two homes on that  half acre. No, you're looking at one. Yep. And our applicant is here. Rick,  would you like to say anything? You don't have to. Well, you

And for the record, it's Rick Towns, the  applicant. Correct. Modern Homes. Okay.   Uh do we have uh any questions for Mr. Towns?  Would the public like to weigh in? this at all. All right. I'm going to entertain a motion  which is on uh Oh, close it. I will close the   uh public hearing then at 3:22 and I'll  entertain a motion uh which is on page nine.   I move to approve ordinance 2026-04 reszoning  1.363 acres located at 700 Paint Brush in zone   12 Summit Rock from A1 recreational to R1  single family residential motion by Mr.   Morgan second second by Mr. Weatherbe all  in favor. All opposed passes. Thank you. So, we need Thank you very much. We're going to  go now to I'm going to open the uh public hearing   uh for discussion, consideration, and action of  a variance in in accordance with section 10.03   03 462 of the subdivision regulations for relief  of general design standards for the lot located   at well it's a 4.47 acre development consisting  of 10 garden homes uh Horseshoe Bay West for by   the applicant Horseshoe Bay Resort destinations.  The hearing is open. I do want to tell you that  

the staff does not have at its disposal right now  enough information to make a recommendation to the   council. So I rather than uh uh re re noticing  this thing which we really can't do anyway uh   we since we noticed this hearing we are going to  go ahead with your public comments if you'd like.   Uh but we're going to probably we will not uh  act upon this. We will continue this and keep   it open until next month when the staff has an  adequate opportunity to review everything and   they just don't have all the engineering that  they need to make any kind of recommendation   right this minute. So the hearing is open right  now and uh I would like to ask oh excuse me 3:24 And I am going to uh ask uh the staff if  they have anything that they would like   to add right now. Again, for the record, John  Byron, development services director. Um with   state law and and notice requirements for  for the paper, it looked like uh we were   going to be able to get this in front of you for  action um today. Unfortunately, in development,   sometimes things don't go as smooth as as you you  think they will. Um we are waiting on comments   um from our third party engineering team.  Um hopefully we'll have those tomorrow. So   um hopefully in February we'll actually be able  to have this in front of y'all for some sort of   action. Great. Thank you Mr. Byron. Uh you will  have if you signed up to speak you will have an   opportunity to speak today and if you so wish you  can speak at the subsequent meeting as well or you   can choose this this time. This will be recorded.  We will we will uh entertain your your comments  

today as well. So uh the applicant is here.  Would they like to say anything? I don't have to. Oh, can you go to the I'm sorry.  Can you go to the microphone and   identify yourself? I'm so sorry. I didn't  sign the paperwork. That's okay. You're   the applicant. Brienne Kelsey with Replay  Destinations. Um we are the applicant on   um given where we're sitting right now with  the review of um this particular item on your   agenda and staff needing a moment to complete  the review. We intend to come back in February   during the next meeting in your new facilities  to do a full introduction on our behalf and a   walkthrough. So that's the extent of the comments  I have today and um we're just working with staff   on getting it buttoned up. Thank you very much.  Thank you very much. Now we'll uh entertain uh   public comments on this public hearing item.  Uh the first person we have is K. Colrret. Thank you, Mayor. Uh thank you, council. Um thank  you for your service to the city. It's it's much   appreciated. I know this is a thankless job. Um, I  live at 119 Golden Harvest, which is in the Apple   Head subdivision. Um, I've also served on the  LUD committee, and for those of you who are new,   it's the um, well, it's the it was the ad it was  the committee for land use development for the   ETJ. And I'm a graduate of the citizens academy.  And so, um, my concern in regard to this 19 foot,   um, fill and cut is noise, drainage, environmental  impact, and type of rock. Um, have, you know,  

there's no information been published. We don't  even know what's going to be built there. So,   it was hard to come up with some more concrete  um, comments. But, do we know what type of rock is   present? and will a rock crusher be necessary? In  recent building in our area, when developers cut   and filled on Diamond Hill, our lot and the wet  weather creek below um our lot was impacted when   it rained as the bill was not contained properly.  So, the environmental impact and draining needs to   be planned well in advance. So, that the um well,  the way I understand it, the golf course is right   below that. So I'm sure the resort is concerned  about that. My other concern which I understand   is not part of the variance process but I want  to plant a seed is the building of speck homes in   Horseshoe Bay and mass development of property.  It's very clear from the LUDAC survey, although   it pertained to the EJT, that this community  wants larger lots and green spaces. As far as   mass devel I haven't seen the plot, but if we're  putting town homes in, I think it'll be um lot   line to lot line up by the resort. So, when you  come up the hill, there'll just be lots of town   houses to the right. As far as mass development,  of which this project will be, it's very apparent   that along with the other large de developments  in our area that we soon will have million-doll   cookie cutter homes crowded together along the  hilltops, just like Ruff Hollow and Sweet Lot.   Control of this type of growth can be limited by  only allowing builders to develop one home at a   time on a lot so that each house was more distinct  custom home look. That's a personal opinion.   My last point is how will these homes be sold  and built? Currently in our neighborhood,  

we have numerous numerous speck homes with  one of them being on the market for over two   years. I would suggest that the council and the  development service has also looked at speckome   building and not just use the two speck home per  builder per use. With over a hundred builders in   Horseshoe Bay, this means we could have  200 spec homes for sale at one time. So,   those are just my general comments on a  on a general to this development and and   I'm really concerned about the a 19T cut and  fill. I'm I'm really pleased to see that the   rudd will be something will be done with it  because it looks like an abandoned garage.   um gas station right now. So, so I'm I'm  happy about that. I'm just concerned about   the the depth of the cut and fill. Thank you  very much, Mr. Uh, our next person. Anybody   have any questions for MRE? Our next person who  signed up for this is Richard uh Gray. Mr. Gray. Good afternoon, Mayor Jones and  council members. Do we have a a plot   um visual to put up to show where  we're talking about? You don't. Um   these are just as information to the  audience. There are uh three color renderings of what's being planned here that are  available from the development office and public   information request you can get these including  schematics of what they're going to build. So I  

would hope that next time we have a meeting that  about this that we can have these as visuals for   the audience. We will. Uh, my name is Richard  Gray and I live at 101 Diamond Hill and I have two   other properties contiguous with my home residence  directly across the street from Undercloud. This   is the second time that the resorts proposed  developing this property. First time they   withdrew it partially due from objections  from the neighborhood and some legal issues.   The proposed development is lot 72A, which  is also known as 56407, and also 6009A,   which is also known as 23257. If you want to  look those up on the LO CAD, there are two   um issues that I have with the development  or concerns I should say, and those are both   relate to safety and logistics. The first is the  intersection of Bay West and Thundercloud uh is a   blind intersection. If you're leaving Horseshoe  Bay on Bay West Boulevard, you crest the hill,   usually at full acceleration. Um you cannot  see the entrance um to the plots that are under   consideration. Uh Thundercloud, which right now  is a paved and then gravel partially gravel. So,   we consider this a health hazard. And I would  suggest that whatever the development ends up   being that some kind of sign is put on the um the  incline up bay west before you hit Thundercloud to   notify people that there's an intersection there,  just like we do with golf carts. Um, the second  

issue is that exiting Thundercloud onto Bay West,  you'd be turning left to go outside to go to leave   the subdivision. I have a circular driveway. That  driveway has an entrance that intersects right at   that point. So, you have a blind intersection  with people entering Bay West and my driveway.   In the past when um there was construction for  the restaurant, the club restaurant and also the   um club houses, we had significant damage to the  curbs there, the brick curbs in the driveway. And   I would suggest that perhaps we put cones up that  would protect our brick work and and avoid this.   The final issue, the third issue is parking.  Parking has been a major issue for the club   golfers, for um tournaments. We have um kids  tournaments, people coming with all kinds of   um stowage facilities for um for young people  playing golf there. And they end up parking on   uh Diamond Hill. It's not a problem parking  on Diamond Hill other than they park on both   sides of Fire Truck. Can't get through. They also  park on our lawns and break our sprinkler heads.   Appreciate that. I think we're we're up on your  time, but and I'm at the end. We got it. That's   great. We had a good gist of it. I would I just  would add I would suggest that the resort when   they're planning this development come up with  a traffic and parking plan that we could all   review and and uh look forward to. Thank you very  much, Mr. Gray. Appreciate it. Uh Randy Lloyd. Frank, uh, Mary, and Mr. Mayor, the only  ones I know up here, but nonetheless,  

um, I'm here with my wife and best friend, Bogey,  and some time ago, we bought the lot that is right   next to the rut house and then it was torn down  and we spoke at that last meeting discussing   that. Um, obviously it should be obvious to most  of us, our home is our final resting place and it   is right next to the rut house. And certainly  we have concerns about what has been proposed   in the past and now it's my understanding that  they're going to divide the RUDH house property   into two different lots and then sell them to  hopefully individuals who want to build the   lot the left and the right. It behooves me that  someone would think, and I may be wrong here,   but I think that the people who buy those  lots are going to need to tear down the wall,   retaining wall right next to our property, and  then jackhammer down 10 ft of concrete to create   a lot that they can build on. Now, if that's the  case, had a friend of ours who's an engineer who   looked at this and just gave his opinion that it  doesn't look like there's any way to tear down   that retaining wall and perhaps dig down into  that concrete without it damaging our property   and perhaps even our foundation. So, yes, we are  concerned about that very let alone who would have   enough money to throw away and buy a lot that  they got to do that too. Seems rather strange.  

We too are concerned about the parking where the  employees park and other folks have no apparently   no plan to replace that parking. We'd like to  know what it is. would like to also if there is   an engineer report about that property being torn  down and dug into, we would like to see it. Um, that's basically it. But, you know, flat  roof, which is my understanding of what   they're going to build in those 10 places, flat  roof homes or condos, doesn't seem conducive to   what Horseshoe Bay West is all about and what  the folks like ourselves built our homes. So,   kind of would object to that, but would certainly  welcome any suggestions. Um, but a parking lot and   condos. Really? Thank you for your time. Thank  you, Mr. Lloyd. Any questions for Mr. Lloyd? Uh,   now Lori Watson, I believe you signed up  for 5B. Would you like to speak to 5B? Fair enough. Uh, thank you. And it's  Lori Watson, correct? Okay. I didn't   have you come up there and I just wanted  for the record to to get you on here. Uh,   that that's fine. I am u I'm  going to now uh close this. Uh,

do I need to ask now instead of after the second  one? Okay. Uh, I would like to continue this until   the staff has a full opportunity to vet this  this matter. Do I hear a motion to continue? Council member second. Second from council  member Fetchner. All in favor? All opposed.   We are going to continue this until our February  meeting. Uh and at which time everyone will have   an opportunity to speak again if they would  so like. And now I'm going to close February   17th. Now I'm going to close the public this  public hearing. You have a hard time closing. Did I close this one? No, you  continue it. All right. That's   true. That's why we pay you the big  bucks. Okay. I am going to now open public hearing discussion, consideration  and action on a request for variance   uh with u Caprock Thundercloud consisting of  two garden home residential lots located off   of Bay West with Horseshoe Bay Resort  Destinations LLC as the applicant.   for the same reasons. Uh I'm going  to suggest that that we continue this   uh hearing uh unless someone has any public  comment. Do I hear a motion to continue this?

This is opened at 3:41.  Now, do I hear a motion this They've all spoken. Does anybody from the applicant want to speak? Does anybody from the staff want to speak? For  um clarification. So there are two separate   variances. It's all one development. It's two  parcels, which is why it says as two separate   variances. Thank you. I'd like to make sure  that we have what was brought up by everyone   complete engineering plans. This is made public  so people can review this. We have we show it up   have all the information John people can see  ahead of time discuss including type of homes coupled with this is how the traffic will go  in. I would like to see the applicant figure   out where they're going to park the workers  trucks during this during this construction   if it goes it happens where the entrances for  these communities going to be off bay west   or they can actually do it off that needs  to all be mapped out that's detailed with   engineering plans and the biggest concern I have  is what the boys brought up construction of the   house will impact that property. No way not  to. So, it needs, you know, we need a complete   engineering plan on that. Thank you. Uh, do  I have a just for clarification real quick?  

Are you going to want that with the the variance  or Okay. Normally, I want to see the engineering I'm going to ask for that.  I will entertain a motion to   uh continue this uh public hearing that  has been opened already. I'll move again. Motion by Mr. Hosia, second  by Mr. Fetchner. All in favor?   I. All oppose. It is continued.  The date again is February 17th. Okay, that is all the public hearing matters  that we have today. We're going to now   uh go into our business section and uh to  discuss, consider, and possibly take action on   uh different matters. The first  is our appointing members to the   capital improvements which is our impact  uh fees advisory committee. And who is our Garcia? All right, mayor council. Uh recent changes in  state law have altered the way um the city may   conduct the impact fee study. Uh many changes  were made. One of the most significant being   that the planning zoning commission may no longer  serve as the impact fee advisory committee member.  

Law also requires at least half of the members to  be employed by a development centered occupation.   With that criteria in mind, staff requests that  council approve the appointment of the following   members to serve on the committee as long as  required, but no longer not to exceed a year.   Excuse me. The applications were received from the  following personnel. Gilbert Blunt, excuse me if I   don't uh pronounce the last name correctly, Mark  Blechack, Leslie Acres, Joe Frasier, Robin Walsh,   all submitted applications. And I will uh I need  to extend credit to our city assistant manager   Rick Williams because him and I went out and uh  also talk to a number of these folks and um it was   a hard sell on some of these because the the uh  committee itself uh we kind of we had to explain   exactly what it was for. So having said that um  again in front of you you have the applications   and uh we uh request that staff uh I mean staff  request that council. Just so the public realizes   also that this is a a a volunteer uh organization  signed by the city to assess what the correct   uh impact fee should be for new developments  that come in that uh take resources for their   new developments. And it's a way to spread the  costs to those who are developing and uh it's very  

important process that they have. So I appreciate  y'all's hard work on that. Any questions for Ray   Garcia? Yes. I do the application. Yes, sir.  They met the requirements in the application.   Any other questions? We have a motion on page 18  if someone would like to make it move to approve   the appointment of the member suggested by staff  to serve on the impact advisory committee. Motion   by Mr. Fetchner, second by Mr. What's your name?  Weatherby uh second by Mr. Weatherby. All in   favor? All opposed. And we have our capital  improvements impact fee advisory committee.   Thank you for for Thank you, mayor. Our second uh  item of business will be the uh resolution 2026-07 uh council nomination of Aaron Waldrip as a  director to the Lano County Appraisal District   for 2026 to 2027. Mr. Mayor, thank you. who um Lo  County uh contacted the city about a month ago and   asked for a nominee to replace Buddy Bulock who  had previously held this position for the city   of Horches Bay. He did not want to return to the  committee. And so um I think Mayor Jones you had   talked to Aaron Waldrop and we got his resume in  for his work that he does and he was interested   person potentially serve in this capacity and uh  if he does, he will serve a two-year term for the   board that will be provide oversight and will be a  voting member for approval of budgets and policies  

for the district. And so, uh the staff recommends  that the city review that resume and consider   appointing him to uh the vacant Atlanta County  Board position. Had a long conversation with him   and uh I I found him to be a delightful man who's  been in the construction business for a number   of years. uh putting infrastructure in mostly in  the North Texas and West Texas area, but now he's   resettled here in Horseshoe Bay and is wanting to  serve his community and a fine man. Uh and I would   uh recommend that uh we make a motion on  page 30 if somebody's interested in that. A motion to appoint Mr. Aaron Waldrip,  a city of Horseshoe Bay's representative   board member for the Lo County Appraisal  District. Motion by Mr. Morgan. Do I have   your second? Second by Miss Wadell.  All in favor? All oppose? It passes. Our third uh item of business is uh approval of  ordinance 2026-08 which is adopting and approving   an amendment to the budgeted funds for fiscal year  beginning October 1, 2024 and ending September 30,   2025. Molly, good afternoon mayor and city  council. So, approval of ordinance 20 26-08,   it is for fiscal year um 2025. If you look at page  34, actually it's 36 in your handout, it's exhibit   A. Uh we went over that today in the workshop, but  for fiscal year 25, there are budget amendments  

for land, uh donated land, land improvements, and  for insurance proceeds. All a lot of detail on   that page. Okay. Any questions for Molly? We  had a long uh budget discussion this morning   in our workshop. So, uh we went over all these  numbers, believe it or not. And uh for some of us,   we went over it twice, didn't we? Or three times.  Thank you. Do I have a motion for uh this approval   of this ordinance? I move to approve ordinance  2026-08 approving and adopting the amendment to   the budgeted funds for the fiscal year beginning  October 1, 2024 and ending September 30, 2025 as   detailed in exhibit A. Motion by Mr. Weatherbeby,  second second by Mr. Fetchner. All in favor? All   against it passes. Molly, would you give us the  next one, which is approval of ordinance 2026-09 uh for the funds for the fiscal year beginning  October 1, 2025 and ending September 30,   2026? Yes, this is on pages 37 through 39 and it's  for fiscal year 26. It affects the utility fund,   general fund and debt service fund. If  you look at exhibit A in your handout,   you will see um multiple entries, some reclasses,  debt service, water rate study we just discussed,   and insurance. Those again were discussed  this morning in detail and they are on   the same as page 39 of your handout. And I  would add also uh that the insurance issue  

uh is to make sure that we have sufficient flood  insurance and earthquake insurance. Not that we'll   have earthquakes, but we could have floods at  some point. So, we wanted to make sure that   our our city property is sufficiently covered  for that unforeseen but foreseen consequence.   That's correct. Okay. Any questions for Molly?  I will entertain a motion which is on page 37.   Move to approve ordinance 2026-9 approving  and adopting an amendment budget funds for Motion by Mr. Fetchner. Do I have a second?  Second. Second by Mr. Morgan. All in favor?   I I all against and it passes. Thank you very  much, Molly. Appreciate it. Uh now we come to our   consent agenda. Is there any item on the consent  agenda which is really the approval of uh minutes   that we've had in the last couple of months? Uh  is there any items that anybody would like to take   off? Okay. Do I hear a a motion to approve the  consent agenda? You have to do them one at a time. Motion to approve the consent agenda. Mr. Morgan  makes our motion. Second. Second. Second by Mr.   Weatherbe. All in favor? I. All against. And our  consent agenda is consented to. Uh, now we come to   monthly reports and Mr. Costa, you're getting  up like you're about to say something. Yeah,   just going to touch on a couple of things and  I'll have some directors come up here. Um,  

but first I'd like to u say that um tomorrow we  will officially move furniture into the new city   center. So very happy about that. Um, like you  said earlier, Cynthia Klein Smith started this   process four years ago looking into doing all the  design work. Um, which took a couple years to get   everybody get the you know kind of first online  which was first architect then the contractor at   risk. Um, then we had to go through the design  phase which took almost a year and a half.   uh and then then to get the contract at risk  on board. That took another six months to   get everything cleared for that and that the  contractor started in October of year before   uh and finished up on time within about two weeks.  We kind of had some some things that lingered two   weeks after. So, we're almost dead on time and so  far what I've seen and we'll get an audit when we   get through everything, you know, everything kind  of filters through the at the end. I think we're   on we're de dead on budget. So I think we have  done a really good job. Very proud of that. Um so   u Rick is there anything else that you want  to say? Rick has been kind of doing a lot of   the work making sure the contractor has been  on top of things done a great job stepping in   to do that. Just that fire station 2 is in a  similar I don't know. It's in similar shape.   It's lagging a little bit behind city center,  but I think they kind of prioritize their subs. The only thing we'll have to do now to finish  up is we will be working with text dot on the   road in front of there and add the shoulders  and the center lane to that which is kind of   coming probably in the next year. So, we're doing  that. So very happy that we're going to move in  

there and and like the mayor said, I think we're  going to try to have a open house uh the day of   the next council meeting with the 17th is kind  of our game plan. But you know that's that that   will more to come and we'll advertise that coming  out. Um so that's it. Any questions on that? No,   but I do want to say thank you to all of  our staff because it's been a collective   effort and I know I've I've met with  Adrian a number of times talking about   where to put pictures and so forth and so on. And  you guys have worked like Trojans getting this   thing done. Her and Rick have done a lot in the  last six months to get this stuff finalized. And   uh you know, I have to say that that she put in  a lot of time all the order in the furniture and   everything, which will show up tomorrow, which  is all bought through u the Texas um correctional   facilities where they build furniture in it at  a price that there's no way we could beat that   anywhere else for the quality that we have. So  it's only available for states uh and cities   and and the counties I think and that's it. So so  we were blessed to do that. So they should last a   long time really good. Um so we're we're looking  forward to to moving in there this week and and   so it's a pretty good day. Thanks so much. Only  other thing is is that I would like to have Tim   talk a little about the roads going on and then  Ray, I'd like to have you talk about the status   of kind of where we are in our water line up  top. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Uh just   a quick brief update on uh this last year's road  project. We're paving. We paved yesterday, today,   and we think we can uh finish it up tomorrow.  So, the uh change order that y'all signed to   that contract is also underway already. Uh, and we  just did a bid opening last two weeks ago for the  

remainder of that money to connect Mountain Dew  uh back towards Buoie Knife all the way from Buoy   Knife back up to the intersection. So, that's  we're well underway. Everything's going fine. So that would be Mr. Garcia. Thank  you all. Thanks Tim. Appreciate it. Sir, mayor and council. So, uh, the high  zone transmission, we are rounding up to   90% completion. Um, this Thursday we are meeting  u with our contractor and with our engineering   company to finalize the tie-in date at the high  service pump room there on Ponyie. Um, if you have   driven um lately on Clayton Nolan and that stretch  of Himesa all the way to Slick Rock crossing there   um a lot of the remediation is completed. Um we  still have to do some hydro seating in the area.   Uh but a lot of the ribbon curbing has been  completed and um just drove it before I got   here and they've already started from Pawne of  Clayton Nolan to meet where um they left Clayton   Nolan. So that passes air park. So all that is  now poured once weather permitting and we can   get the hot mix asphalt uh and the temperatures  to continue to rise 45 and above. Tim, is that   correct? Uh we can start the uh asphalt repairs  to the streets. Um they made some improvements to   the temporary repairs that we were just there  and inspected those about two hours ago and  

um they flattened out a lot of the area there on  the temporary repair that had some uh potholes and   whatnot. So those continue to happen. those  repairs on temporary uh repair uh and also   um the uh repairs to the crossing where there  were some issues where some citizens voiced   their concerns. Uh those are now repaired in terms  of the cement that was uh the apron coming down   on the water crossing there and some drainage  area there some drainage spillway. So that's   the high zone transmission today as it stands.  Um, we hope, whether permitting, we can get this   moving uh after February or or maybe even in  February if the weather lets up to continue   uh to finish up the project as a whole. Um, next  part of this that um, Councilman Se wanted me to   add in was the sound attenuation project that we  have out at the wastewater plant. As you recall,   and if you don't um didn't remember, uh there was  some issues with our blower room out there at the   time when the uh uh one of the blowers went down.  We had the uh portable blower um that this adds   air into the wastewater plant which feeds the uh  the good bugs in the wastewater plant. Um one of   those blowers went down. We had it a portable one  installed and uh that caused a number of issues   um with sound. So uh the decibel readings that we  were reading out there um 85 is the legal limit,   the Texas state legal limit. Um at that time when  that portable was out there, um it was well above   that. portable has been long since been removed,  but it it gave uh some of the residents um some  

issues regarding the noise. So, we moved forward  with that. Um we talked to council and city   uh manager about next steps, what we could do to  uh mitigate the sound and we came up with an earth   berm. And uh it's uh it's it's it's a huge task.  Uh the materials are coming from projects in the   city. So there's a cost savings there. Um we don't  pay we haven't paid anything for the materials   coming in and they are all clean material. There  is no spoils that we're getting for this earth. So   um that's a plus for us these projects that  we have um and specifically our high zone   transmission project. the uh the majority of that  earth berm is has come from our own project. So   working with our contractor and other contractors  on other projects, they're bringing in clean fill.   This is all earth and berm, no spoils, there's no  cement trash in there or anything. Once that is   done and and it crest above the uh the sequencing  batch reactors there in our wastewater plant,   once you you'll no longer be able to see them  coming um in or coming out of Golden Nugget,   you'll that will all be blocked. And then we're  going to go ahead and seed it. There'll be a   Texas mix in the field there. Um and then there'll  be some other growth uh other will have on there   that will probably reach about 14 feet high. So,  um it's going to um give a different look. Um it's   going to act also as sound attenuation as well.  Um if you haven't had a chance um drive by because   it's it's a huge project and um again, huge cost  savings for the city. Like that part. Yes, sir.  

Thank you very much. Appreciate it, Ray. Uh do we  have any other reports from any of our advisory   committees or our liaison for your departments?  Yes. I just want to visit about our stats on the   month. Yes. Thank you, Jason. So we contract with  the Marble Falls for our dispatch services and our   uh reporting system. The server that that houses  our reporting s system has crashed and so we lost   about almost a month of data. So you're going to  see in these monthly reports the numbers a little   lower than than they should be. The good news  is is that data has been recovered. We're just   trying to find an interface to get it posted so  that we can view it. So if we can get that done   then I'll try to do some corrections at least  on the annual report. So just so we know it's   the Marble Falls who crashed, not us. Correct.  Yeah. Okay. Give credit to where credit's due. Uh, I see some of our historical committee back  there. Did y'all have anything you wanted to add?   We're we're excited about your corner there in the  in the city center and it's going to house some   great artifacts from our history and I encourage  everybody to take a look at that. We're also going   to have a a loop at some point. I don't know  if it's going to be up and running by the time   of our next meeting, but it's going to be a loop  of some historical matters that have occurred in   Horseshoe Bay. Uh including some uh uh interviews  from some folks who've been around a long time.   It's going to be a really neat deal. So, uh y'all  make sure you come out next next uh month if you   if you could. We're going to move now to our  executive session. And this is the time that   uh we're going to have to this is our  last time to ask you if you're not in  

this meeting to leave the building. Uh Elvis  is outside waiting for you. Uh we in accordance