City Council - Regular Meeting

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motions to accept. I'll make a motion to accept both of them. I'll second. It's been moved and second and we will begin with council. Uh mayor, deputy mayor pro Tim Love. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Rodriguez, yes. McShan, yes. Kesnowski. Yes.

Gibson. Yes. Twain. Yes. We'll have our invocation by Deputy Mayor Pro Tim. All right. Think about your heads. God, give us steady strength as we serve our community. When the choices are hard and the path isn't clear, guide our minds and cal our spirits. You know every path in every way, every outcome in every sway. Help us lead with courage and fairness and humility. Dear God, we thank you for your protection every hour and every second. We ask that you protect our community, protect our council, Lord, and let every decision we make honor the people who have trusted us to serve them. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Let's stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to the Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. We will have a change order um for uh the agenda. We have an a um recognition to give and he has to go. So we want to make for sure we get him in there before he goes to a different one. So we're going to move that up. This is the service award for Todd Johnson for five years of service with the city of Elgen. We'd like to thank you for your contributions and improving the quality of life for our citizens and our staff. You're an important part of the community. What do you want me? We have three public hearings. The first one is a public hearing on an ordinance

in annexing a 38.570 acre track of land here to describe territory to the city of Elgen. in Bastropa and Travis County, Texas, and extending the boundary limits of said city limits and granting to all the inhabitants of said property, all the rights and privileges of other citizens, and binding said inhabitants by all the acts, ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of said city, and adopting a service plan or agreement for providing a severability clause and providing an effective providing uh or savings clause and repealing conflicting ordinances. Do we have anyone to speak on? Oh,

Gina Gonzalez. Yes, ma'am. Uh, hello, council. My name is Gina Gonzalez. Um, I live at the residence of 120007 Mara Lane. Um, litic was laid out on land donated by my great-grandfather in 1883. That was the start of one of Texas's oldest freedom colonies. Me standing here today is testament that that legacy is still continuing along with the family legacy. After further research, I've come to I've come to know that the project for this annex annexation is developer driven, not community driven. Why annex property and make negative impact on existing residents, farms, cattle, ranches, heritage, and health? Why not use property within Elgen's ETJ? I've done research, and there are in fact bigger and more suitable parcels better suited for a wastewater treatment plant for Elgen for this annex with larger buffer zones and current Elgen ETJ. Residents who actually have access to wastewater treatment should be the ones to endure the environmental impact by choice. This annex is giving a decade old freedom colony, farming colony no choice but to endure health risks, soil contamination, waterway pollutions, and loss of cattle ranches, which is Litic's backbone, helping provide rural charm that draws future residents into Elgen. There is absolutely no benefit whatsoever for litic in this situation, only a negative impact in our environment. Litic residents cannot even vote in the city. We don't want to use treated waste water, waste treated water filled with PFAS, chemicals on our agriculture that has been sustained for the past hundred years or or on our wildlife or livestock. One accident, one unexpected weather condition can cause permanent damage to historic farmland actually irreversible. Litic road is extremely rural and must certainly and is most certainly not suitable for industrial traffic. I

understand that this annexation is due to improve conditions within Elgen, but you're putting the environmental strain on Indigo River Ranch, the subdivision that lies next to this proposed annexation. County Line County Line Road may be receiving upgrades, but when asked about Litic Road, it falls on Travis County. And the most I can get them to do is come out and put a patch, which we all know that sometimes makes things worse. I've actually had an accident at the proposed discharge route of the waste water treatment facility due to my car getting stuck in a flood. I see that the city of Elgen has cleared out that area, but I'm not I don't have confidence that that small tunnel will be able to fill flood conditions that have been pre-existing for the past 10 to 20 years on top of waste water treatment discharge. At the end of the day, I'm just a citizen here and I have so much respect for Elgen. But I will tell you this, this annexation for this wastewater treatment plant is putting all of us who have have histories, trusts, hundreds of years we go back. You're putting us in a position where we have to deal with these types of things. Give it to if you want to build this for Elgen, give it to people who actually use the the wastewater treatment. We've never been offered that in our entire lives out there.

Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you. Thank you. Is that the only one? Okay, it's 638 and that particular public hearing is closed. The next one is an ordinance amending the official zoning map of the city of Elgen, Texas, adopted in chapter 46, section 463, revised code of ordinances for the city of Elgen 2013 and making this amendment a part in said zoning map to wit to reszone land from industrial uh general industrial district to R2 single family and duplex dwelling district located on parcels of land known by the Bassro County Appraisal District as parcel 87019. 906 and parcel 8701923 Elvin City block 21 alleyways through lots 4-9 on the southeast corner of East First and MLK Boulevard being described in the exhibit Attached here too. Okay, it's 6:30 6:39 and there are no comments on that one. We'll move on to public hearing three on an ordinance amending chapter 46 zoning division 4 single family duplex and zero lot line two family dwelling district section 46-303 area regulations two sideyard revised code of ordinances city of Elgen Texas 2013 and providing a saving clause and repealing conflicting ordinances or regulations and I don't have anyone to speak on at 6:39 and that public hearing is closed. We'll move on to our public comment. Speaker has three minutes to um to

comment on items on the agenda or not on the agenda. Uh you may not uh address anyone directly by name, staff members, council member or the mayor and the or the mayor. And uh you have three minutes to do that. And the first one we have is West Cala. Good evening. My name is Wes Kle. I reside at 18304 Willow Sage Lane. I do not have enough time to sit here and go through all the details tonight. I'm merely here enough to try to attract enough attention from the people in front of me to look into the matters that I have spoke in depth with over the past week with uh Council Members Love, St. Pierre, Commander Crim, uh, Elgen PD. Um, many of you don't know the reasons and the background of why I've had so many problems in this community. It started 7 days after I moved here. My truck was illegally, in my opinion, and in the opinion of others, taken from me by Elgen Police Department. in front of me here. I finally in the aftermath of people leaving office, resigning from their their desk or whatever, I have finally obtained the reports in the paperwork that I have been trying to get for several years, six to be exact. In these papers right here, there is many, many mistakes, multiple mistakes. Okay? I tried to discuss this with uh what is now our chief of police Noble the day after this situ situation along with the former city manager. It got me absolutely nowhere. I could prove everything that I was saying. The truck was legally registered. The truck was insured. The truck was legally parked in front of my home. Okay? It was towed

four days after uh it was tagged. These reports show that. Here's the kicker. How can I call for service to your dispatch and ask for information about that tag and it's documented through your police department six days prior to it being tagged? How can the How can you sit there and say the truck is abandoned when the owner of the truck came out while it was being picked up and confronted a sergeant and another officer only to get a truck tagged in my driveway on my property by the same officer that towed my vehicle? He he he registered it as abandoned. How is it abandoned when it's in front of my home? How is the longitude and the latitude of the reports different? How is the addresses different? How is it stating that there is no license plate with there's a license plate on the report? There's so many screw-ups and so many problems here I have never been able to say about or or talk about publicly because I didn't have the information to back it. It was my word against yours in the department. I'm sitting here shaking. I'm aggravated. I'm upset. Okay. I have went above and beyond to try to prove that there was crookedness in this town and nobody would listen to me. Finally, people have. I'm hoping that the rest of you follow up on this. I'm asking for an agenda item on the next city council meeting to discuss this openly, publicly with you.

Okay? That way we can make sure that the future no other citizen gets stole from or taken from or put through the drama that I have. Thank you and have a great night. Thank you. Next we have Keith Simpson. Mayor, Council, City Manager. Uh my name is Keith Simpson and I'm a commissioner with emergency service district number three and I'm here to report to you tonight that uh the ESD3 met uh November 14th and we canvased the results of the election and I'd like to officially welcome the city of Elgen and its ETJ into the EMS district. Um, I've also delivered some cards uh to the city secretary and um I think she's passed them out in the dis there. And uh that's the your membership card into the PHI helicopter program that the ESD is currently paying for. And what this does is it provides helicopter service. And I've also given uh the city secretary a package of these cards. And so she's going to have them available at city hall. And um as a um member of the ESD and a resident of Bastrop County, all residents um have this benefit available to them. And so if you have to um go forbid have an emergency that you need to be flown into a hospital, um there will be no out-ofpocket expenses for you. um the PHI will take um the rates that they get from your insurance and you will have no out-of-pocket expense. So, I'd like to officially welcome the city of Elgen and its ETJ into the ESD and uh we look forward to the continued partnership that we'll have with the city and we look forward to rolling our

sleeves up and working hard to provide the best EMS system that we can in Bastropar County. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That ends our public comment. We have announcements. Good evening.

Evening. So, I have a bunch of announcements to make for a very fun Thanksgiving week. We have tabletop turkeys on November 22nd at the Elgen Recreation Center. And that's for our youth. The Plant and Sip Terrarium Workshop on Thursday, November 20th at the Elgen Public Library. Family Movie Night Friday, November 21st at the Elgen Public Library. Grounding and gratitude on Saturday, November 22nd at the Elgen Public Library. Shop Small Saturday, November 22nd, downtown Elgen. Prime Time or Field Trip: Friendsgiving on Monday, November 24th at Headlong Farms. And the sensory space reveal on Saturday, December 6th, here at the public library.

Thank you. Can you clarify the date on that first one because you said it was the 22nd but you have listed the 19th. Yeah, it's actually the 22nd. Okay. Just want clarification. Thank you. Thank you.

City manager's report. Thank you, mayor. Um, in your packet, you should have your uh planning and zoning commission quarterly report. U if you have any questions please um I can entertain as much as possible um from my end. Uh if not you also have your quarterly report for your economic development corporation board. Uh again um in your packet you you shall you should or you do have it in there and or you do have it in there and again I can answer any questions you may have u in my position with uh the EDC. Uh number three, discussion and appointment of the committee for the distribution of community nonprofit sport funding as included in the FY2526 annual operating budget. Miss Sanford, if you'll come up. Good evening, guys. Um, so tonight we are picking our committee members for the nonprofits. Um, all of the applications were due and they were turned in on I believe it was November 7th, whatever last Friday was. Um, we had 20 applications this year, which is fantastic. Um, at your place, you each have one of these, but uh, yeah, I'm ready to hear who's going to be on the committee. Mayor.

Okay, so normally we volunteers on the council to do this. Um, I won't be doing it this year. I'm going to turn it over to my deputy mayor pro Tim to be the lead and you can choose or whoever wants to help her. We normally do three to four so that there's a tie. Y'all can go back and forth and break or whatever. So, um, whoever wants to volunteer to

I'll volunteer. I'll volunteer. I did it. I did it last year. I knew you was going to say that. Yeah, we've done it before. So, we're I'm happy to help, but cuz normally we rotate, but listen's not here. So, listen's not here to Yeah, we can. Well, he should have been here. No,

I mean we can we can volunteer. Yeah, we can. So, we'll talk to him and see if that's okay. But we'll just say him. Okay. So, then one, two, three. If Lon is a no, Rodriguez is next in line. That's fine. Okay. Okay. So, I have Deputy Mayor Pro Tim Love, Council Member Gibson, Council Member St. Pierre, and maybe Council Member Crim.

Okay. I have your flash drives for the scoring um for you tonight. So, just come grab them. At least it's only 236 this year. Right. Wonderful. All right. If uh next item if I continue

good great. So next is uh discussion possible action on the uh status update regarding the minor change to the usage of the circle brewing facility under a plan development district agreement with the city of Elgen. Bo Perry.

Yes. So, as council will remember, um originally with the circle brewery, all entered into a plan development district for a very specific use for that property. Uh when that particular business folded, uh the Elgen ISD purchased the property. Um they didn't at the time have an intent of what they planned on using it for. Um but as part of that plan development district, they're supposed to update council with what that use would be. Uh if you recall, they came back for a temporary use where they were going to convert some of the space into basically some office and they were using it for office space. Um there's been a lot of rumors of what they had planned on doing. um they've officially come to the city and committed and submitted plans that um they'll be converting the brewery into a CTE culinary um we'll where kids will have the opportunity to learn uh in the arts of cooking and catering and potentially host catering events out there in addition to kind of converting the brewery area into a culinary school as an extension of the CTE program. Uh so here tonight just kind of updating you on what that use is. um and any feedback that the council wants to provide. But, uh they plan on moving forward uh with the work on that particular project most likely right after the new year. Uh they've been they've submitted plans and um getting final permits approved. And just to put in there, they're aware of the public trail. Uh the school has put forces and they are putting to maintain that trail system that goes around the perimeter of the property that all in all about 20 acres. Uh and they do know that they have to allow public use of that trail system and that they're responsible for maintaining it and the school district's been fully on board with that and are aware of that you one of the conditions there. Any

questions on Thank you. We are going to rename it, right? Not brewery anymore. I don't know a name. I I don't want to go that far. Maybe I'll It's going to be called the Homestead. There we go.

Brewing Company or just the Homestead after the after the rich history that's there. All right. Just clarify. Good call. Good call. All right. Next item. Bring up the wording on this. Uh discussion possible action. No

is it. That's number five. Number five. Number five. Yeah. Let me sorry backtrack. I was looking at something. Apologize. Um right. Discussion possible action authorization of the interim city manager to negotiate with the Elgen Chamber of Commerce for their contract for renewal. um council. So, uh what this item is asking is that uh you allow me to uh work with the Chamber of Commerce to come back December 2nd with um I would I envision this to have about four different proposals, a do nothing um proposal um and three other variations of a proposal. All that being considered still while you see that come before you, you can still modify at that point so that we can get uh it uh ready for approval before December 31st. And that's that's all that would need to be done. I've already heard from the count the chamber of commerce themselves as to what their wants are. And so um again uh including whatever parameters you can do that on the second please visit with me also too so that we can uh get any specific things that you'd like to see that to build uh the better contract but in general terms I think we can work on something together and really again we're just trying to formalize something uh before then I know it's been done differently. I' I've heard but uh and we will have them here December 2nd so that they would be able to sign that night uh without question and but the plan is to meet with them also to go back and forth on some scenarios to have their approval with many different scenarios as such.

So we just need to have a motion to authorize our interim city manager to do that work late workforce. I make that motion and I'll second. All right. And we'll begin with uh deputy mayor proton. Love. Yes. S Pierre. Yes. Rodriguez. Yes. Chen. Yes.

Kasnowski. Yes. Gibson. Yes. Swain. Yes. Motion carries. Great. Next we have uh notification of Pamela Sanders, human resources director of the completion of Texas Municipal Resources Certification Program. So this was a certification program through uh as it states um that uh was completed um and effected November 2nd, 2025. So yeah, it's a it's a pretty big deal in the HR and the city world. And so I want to make sure that we recognize uh the good stuff that our staff does. And so um I know there's a couple different hats being carried by by Miss Anders. So, uh, I want to make sure that we stop and recognize not only, you know, staff that is completing milestones, but these different things that we set out and achieve in our different, uh, profession. So, I'd like to go ahead and and call up Miss Sanders and and give her her plaque of recognition of a camera.

No speech. Would you be Next item, as I mentioned, uh we want to recognize employees for good things that they do and employees that stay with us. And so there's uh some employees that complete milestones and so our HR director will be reading off u some of those employees and some of their milestones. So

take it away, pal. Do you two want to come up here? Just we're going to do that. Okay. We'd like to take a moment to show appreciation and recognize our staff members for their commitment and dedicated service to the city and for the contributions that each of them make to improving the quality of life for our citizens. You are all an important part of our community and we thank you for making a difference. First is Grace Perez with five years of service. Next is Yachty. And I can never say her last name. 10 YEARS. CAROL JARMAN. FOR 10 YEARS OF SERVICE. Charles Alawine for 10 years of service.

Orlando Rodriguez for 10 years. Dodian Nahjas for 15 years of service. George Villeril for 20 years of service. TERRY FOWLER, 20 years of service. Right. That's what it seems like.

And last but not least, I don't see him. John Calhoun. Michael, you want to receive his award? 25 years of service. Can we get a picture of all of them together, please?

Yes, of course. Sorry, mayor. Yes, the shorter people in the front, fam. Thank you all. Thank you. Okay. Next, next we will have our consent agenda items. City council regular meetings October the 21st, 2025. Appointment of Jesse to the board of adjustments. special event application and fee waiver for Veterans Park Rental 100 block and the police department's support from 10:00 am to 4 pm on December 6th for the Chamber of Commerce Christmas Bazaar. Um total of 154340 special event application

sound ordinance waiver and fee waiver for the closure of alley at 20 North Main Street through Avenue C from 3:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. on December 5th, 2025 for holiday Luna Market uh $1,000. And uh number five is special event application alcohol ordinance waiver sound ordinance waiver and fee waiver for street closure of West 1st Street between Avenue B and C for March 13, 2026 to March 15, 2026 and public works support on March 13, 2026 and March 15, 2026 and the police department support on March 14, 2026 for the St. Patrick's Day Festival by Things Celtic. It's $1,740. Uh fee waiver for Veterans Park, 100 block rental from November the 30th, 2025 to December the 28th, 2025 for the St. Peter's Lutheran Church nativity and that is 14,500. Do we have anything any questions with the items on the consent agenda? Then I'm prepared for a motion.

So I'll second. It's been moved and second. We'll begin with council member Gibson. Gibson. Yes. Swain. Yes. Love. Yes. St. Pierre. Yes. Rodriguez. Yes. Mcshen. Yes. Kesnowski. Yes. Okay. Our new business now. Uh going from our public hearings. We've already had Okay. A an ordinance authorizing an increase in the employee contribution rate to the Texas municipal retirement system to MRS adoption of non- retroactive repeating cost of living adjustments the colas for retirees and beneficiaries and three authorization of annually acrewing updated service credit USCs and transfer updated service credits. Miss Sanders

hello again. Okay. So, this is a new option that as of September 1st, 2025 that TMRS participating cities are allowed to take. And it is to increase our mandatory contribution from currently 7% to 8%. Um, with TMRS, you can do five, six, seven, and now eight. And the city's always been at seven, which was the highest. It's a great recruitment and retention tool. um we must adopt an ordinance in order to make this change and it would be effective January 1st of 2026. So yes, there are dollars that are associated with it. This page should be in your packet that talks about um what we currently are and what our options are with the retro and the non- retro. I have proposed that we adopt the non-retro and what that means is that all cities right now are on the retroactive colas. The non-retro means instead of going back to cumulative of the first date of retirement and calculating CPI, it will only look back at the last 12 months. It's a lot cheaper. It's a lot simpler in the calculations. Um, and the mortization schedule is over the course of 20 years. That's on that one. So, you can see the dollar amounts and I can't see with my glasses up at a distance. Um, you can see what the current dollar is to what it would be if we go with option two, which is the non- retro. If we go with option one, which is the retro, you can see that that's a little bit higher. And it's not that we have to get there overnight. We would get there over the course of the next 20 years. I did poll staff to see who would be interested in going um to the 8% because of course it is more money out of their paycheck. Out of 66 responses, 51 said yes, 15 said no. That's the question that I posed in my poll. This talks a little bit more about the

retro and the non- retro. Um again, it would go back 12 months if we do non- retro or it goes back to cumulative if you do um the current retro. If you do nothing tonight, we stay with the current retro, which from that first screen with the dollars, you can see that that's cost a little bit more. With the city's COLA, we can choose 30, 50, or 70. And the city has adopted 70% that was done back in the 80s. And so what that is is 70% of the CPI is what calculates for the retirees annuity, their colas for their annuity, I'm sorry. And your action tonight will dictate how future colas are calculated. I put a lot of stuff in here. So if you had questions comparison to other cities, I wanted you to see this. You can see that um Bassrop doesn't recognize military service where we do. Um Mayor doesn't do any colas and I think Taylor's a little bit less than us. I highlighted the or I circled the items that were different and those are our surrounding cities. That's where we lose staff to. So, we would be going above those and and remaining competitive because we would have better retirement plans to offer to our applicants and our current employees. Retention is because we want to get them to 20 years. Um, you are voting on three different actions tonight. It's all in one ordinance. You would be voting on to increase the employee contribution rate to 8% effective January 1st. You would authorize the non- retroactive repeating COLA for retirees and their beneficiaries under the TMRS act. And you would reauthorize the annual acrewing updated service and transfer credits under TMRS act. Questions?

Can I uh say one thing on cost? Um so we can be clear uh what this 1% increase from seven to 8% what it looks like uh at least for this upcoming budget because we we are talking about January to September 30th. So the actual effect to our budget would be a total for the entire city which includes general fund, utility fund and EDC. If we want to talk general fund, it would be a total of 6,46,624.78. Utility fund is $1,468 and EDC is $246.20 for total combined citywide expense of $8,339.7. Every single penny is precious. But we are what we're talking about is is setting us up for success. I would say for recruitment, retention, which we struggle with, right? and for the value of what we're doing plus uh where we do have this match a state level match which is incredible I would say

we have a two to one match right so what we're saying is for an increase 2% to our employees match of an extra 1% uh you're not going to find anywhere else well not at that rate for the 8% so um I watched one of the the meeting when this was presented to you all and so as I've come did some of the math talked to finance and retal again today I'm really comfortable with with recommending this as a whole uh definitely to wanting to make sure that you know we don't have the retroactive cola we need to really be firm on that uh making sure that we we select this and as it stands with this option the way we're going with option two, it'll recognize all those pieces because uh the retirement rate uh will be at that 14.9 uh instead of that 15.28 if you see option one and option two. So um because of those differences in in uh retroactive colas or not um so it is recommended by us by staff and obviously the work that you've already done to get here. This is uh the final step in this process, but I wanted to give you the relative effect and when we're talking about the budget size that we have and the relative size of what we're trying to do at this point. Um, so I know every penny is precious, but we are talking for the whole city $8,339.

I appreciate that. I was gonna That's one of the questions I was going to ask. So that's a nominal fee for for what the recommendation is. Yes, sir. Um, the second question I have Pam, if you can go back to your slide where you pulled the staff, you said 66 staff members responded. What percentage of the total staff is that?

43%. 43%. And the 66 that responded were all full-time staff. You have any other questions?

I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. It's been moved and second with council member Kasnowski. Kasnovski, yes. Gibson, yes. Swain, yes. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Rodriguez, yes. McShan, yes.

Moving on. Thank you. Moving on to item number two, resolution the city council of the city of Elgen, Texas, authorizing the reclassification of one part-time administrative assistant position to one full-time administrative assistant position within the executive's division that includes the offices of the city manager and the city secretary providing for related matters and establishing an effective date. We currently have a part-time administrative assistant that's authorized for that position. With the need and the increase in several functions of that office, plus our current city secretary soon to be on maternity leave, we need to have somebody fully staffed throughout um her leave and to keep up with the day-to-day functions of that department. So, we are asking to change that part-time position to a full-time position. And Robert has the cost

$28,000 that's full benefits everything and we we have u enough to cover within this this budget. But the need is there and I can I can desperately tell you that uh without a doubt we we do have Miss Esmeralda who is that full-time position. Um, she's capable and I I would ask that you approve this, please.

Any questions? Motion. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Okay, it's been moved and second. We'll begin with council member St. Pierre. St. Pierre, yes. Rodriguez, yes. McShan, yes. Kaznopski, yes. Gibson, yes. Twain, yes. Love, yes. Number three is an ordinance to annexing the 38.570 um acre contract of land here and to describe territory to the city of Elgen, Bastrop, and Travis County, Texas, and extending the boundary limits of said city so as to include and hereto describe property within the said city limits and granting to all inhabitants of said property all the rights and privileges of their citizens binding said inhabitants by all of the acts ordinance resolution. and and regulations of said city and adopting a service plan or agreement and granting permanent zoning from in uh general industrials district providing for a severability clause and providing an effective date providing for a severance savings clause and repealing conflicting ordinances.

Come here. Oh, I was like where'd it go? I'm floated up here. Evening council mayor, Mr. city manager Tim. The ordinance, as you just read, described, is going to be annexing this portion of property and also redesating um the zoning use of it. Um you should be fairly familiar with the project uh as it is for now, but we're here tonight to um answer any questions if there is any outstanding questions and present the item and recommend it for approval.

This currently isn't contiguous. It's not contiguous. Um, so it's dependent on additional annexations. No question. I'm sorry. Not Well, Bo, maybe you can explain it. I'll tell you. So, as city owned property, you do not have to be contiguous in order to be in the city limits. And the rules did change some time ago um about the contiguous of properties being annexed into the city. It's now considered adjacent. Any other questions?

We have a motion. Have another question. Oh, sure. Well, there's some there were some comments made. Can you address those quickly? which one

that negative comments. So, um there were some comments just about the historic. Um as council will be reminded, you guys did go through and do an environmental assessment on the full of the property. Um it was submitted per state guidelines as a municipal project. It did get submitted to Texas Historic Commission. Uh there were no effective findings above ground. uh Texas Historic Commission asked for the city to go out there and do shovel testing across the property. Uh that was recently completed and resubmitted as a report to the state. There were no findings on the shovel testing for the 38.7 acres. Um as far as anything on the constructibility, buffer zones, uh noise, all of that, everything within the plant itself, the design has to be submitted into the state. It has to be approved by the state. Any work that's done at the outfall line has to also be in congruent if it's within the US Corps of Engineers TCQ requirements. And so it'll go through numerous review and approval processes in order to meet state requirements. Um, as we've discussed before, city of Elgen, your current wastewater treatment plan is a 5521, which is a permit limits, which is among the strictest in the state of Texas already. Um the new plant is being designed to that 5521 because it's already one of the strictest permit parameters just because of the area that we live in per the state. Um so we're not uh looking to cut back from what you're currently meeting. We're already anticipating to go with as far as treatability and the release of water and stuff the most stringent that the state would generally um provide for the city to meet. So both do we know if the historical society or anybody has been because she was talking about it being a freedom colony? Uh has anybody even investigated that or

so that that's very similar to what we kind of addressed with council before. Litic Texas is freedom colony is one of the first African-American set there for school first little business so on and so forth. All of that as far as markers and trails for this specific property as well. about it. If you do remember when we did the original environmental assessment in there, it looks beyond one mile, two mile radiuses. It looks for cemeteries, possibilities of historic structures, possibilities of cemeteries on that property. They go back and they look at aerial photographies all the way back and they trace it back into time and any kind of written standard for this specific property. Um, all of that was submitted into the state. They basically had no effect finding for this particular project on this particular property. Again, if you recall the city, you purchased more land than was actually necessarily required for the size of treatment plant that you're putting in there to make sure that all the buffer zones are going to be within the property itself. They're not going to be outwardly facing to any of the neighboring properties. Um, so that's one of the reasons the city also purchased the track. Um, and again, you guys went through a pretty extensive look through lots of different potentials on this. The location of the plan, as we discussed previously, is based on the drainage. That's where all of water goes. That's where gravity goes. Essentially, you put your treatment plants down at the bottom of where gravity takes the water. Um, so this particular location is within LCCN. It's within your service territory. Right now, your most critical feature is Elm Creek lift station because about twothirds of the flow of the city goes to that lift station and then you pump it up over a hill in order to get it to the existing plant. So this new plant would take away that. It's a high-risk situation that you currently have. This particular wastewater treatment plant

has been discussed for at least the last decade if not 15 years in this general location in between that drainage divide to pick up that part of the city of Elgen as it develops towards the west towards Mayor. Um, just as a rebrief, y'all's CCN actually extends into Mayor. Uh, parts of their city limits are actually within y'all's service territory for sewer. Just to give you an idea of how far west the city of Elgen's service territory goes

and Mayor has nothing to do with. No, sir. question on your I was going to say I think um everybody is kind of perplexed on the the public comment regarding

um that's why I asked him to explain that that had been looked at so that everybody would know that it wasn't overlooked. We we've gone above and beyond and everything we got there was no fun. Agree with it. We still have stuff to go

per the state right now. There's nothing there's no effect finding for this particular project on this particular property. I think that's my thing per the state right now. Um, as the person that just came and spoke on this item obviously is newly aware to this unfortunately although it has been discussed. Um, she obviously has some findings. So, how sure are we if she brings something? I cannot recall if this was the exact person that submitted, but the city did provide a detailed response stating every single state agency, all the records and everything that have been done based on any of the questions asked at that point in time. The city is bound. You can't not do something that does not go through the state through their review and through their permitting. As far as that, y'all's permit is open for public comment currently as well. Um, so that's a comment period. The state takes in those comments. But as far as the historical value, that's kind of set by the state of Texas. You're required to go through that process because it's public funds being used. You guys have cleared that as far as this particular project on the property. Um, as far as discharge, nuisance, all of those things, those are all design parameters per the state that they enforce and that they ensure that it's designed to that effect. Um, the best I could tell you is I know that the city's discharge limits when you guys went into this particular plant, you guys are going to one of the hardest effluent discharges to meet and that is what y'all's goal is ultimately for this discharge for this plant. And ultimately that's because your that's what your existing plant is. That is generally dictated by LCR. Uh because whatever you discharge will be open waters and eventually uh travel down into LCA's governed territory. And they want to

make sure that the water that they're picking off and then ultimately reselling back as part of their operations, it meets all that criteria. I think my issue is that we're about to take some territory next to people who don't have a voice in any of this because they can't vote and potentially put them at risk if something should happen. And I don't think that that's fair. I can't do that to them. I think my concern is making sure I I get the state has came back question. Are we allowed to just hold off on this till the next council meeting?

Well, this is only to annex and it's not I I get that. I mean I get that. It's to annex it. Yeah. Ultimately, it would be council's decision. You guys are, as you know, you're contractually committed. You guys own the property at this point in time

to move forward. Um, yes, you could potentially that this to me, yeah, tonight is an annexation. It's not a awarding a contract to a contractor to move forward with building anything at this point in time. But um as long as it is in the not in city limits, we'll be submitting to Travis County for approvals on everything for that particular design.

Okay. So if we hold off a month, two two weeks to a month to make a decision, we're we're not hurting anything right now. No. As long as unless you're you want Michael to let people know that your the whole project is on pause, which would probably some of the people funding and money going into it would cause for pause.

I'm not prepared to go there yet, but that speaks to my second question. Um, if we were to put the project on hold or pause and say find somewhere else, how long would that process take? and would it affect everything else we have planned?

So, you would have to sell that property essentially first in order to afford to buy additional property. So, however long that would take, you've already collected all of the funds. You would have to reimburse all of those funds until you find a different property. and you would basically have to try to do it for the same cost per acre that you just did because you have set that precedent. Any difference in that probably the city would have to uptake that difference in cost. Um I would take a lot of that just under with it. But from a timing standpoint, it took the better part of six months to nine months to get to where you guys were. Um, I can't predict the future on growth, but I don't know if you have that kind of time in order to meet right now today if things were to stay as status quo.

So, this is just the annex. Today, today you are voting on annexation and zoning of the property. So by bringing it in, you would annex it in and you would zone it as industrial as opposed to annexing it in and being single family residential.

And again, we're the property owners, correct? The city owns the property outright. So some somebody sold the property to us. Someone sold the property to the city. There was no eminent domain. No. So no eminent domain. That doesn't change the fact any of the facts on the ground by it being annexed.

No. The way it reads today. Correct. Okay. So, it it can also be deanexed if the city so chose to annex it. Yes.

Right. I I'm putting all the options on the table. In other words, by saying if there could be not a movement forward, but also there could be a movement forward without losing anything because right, let's just say that what Bo is is saying, we're firm on that and we come back December 2nd, let's just say, and yeah, we we we will end up moving forward if we've caused some sort of alarm or some skittishness out there. for whatever reason. Um, then that might have been I'm not going to say unnecessary, but uh especially because we can undo this part of the process. I I think what both saying and I think it's very uh true is that if this were being that we're selecting contractors to go and turn dirt or something that serious but I don't think you're saying anything by just uh annexing at this point without saying anything any any different because you can come to the next qualified meeting with all proper notices going out to change that and then starts getting back the bigger piece or other bigger pieces that you could be doing that would truly say something different. But this annexation I don't think binds you to anything substantial.

Yeah, I would say staff would just need to know from council what you're looking for at the end of the day. But to speak on your point, all proper notices did go out. It did go through public hearing and PNZ heard it. This is the recommendation from PNZ coming forth. And as I'm saying, you're you're going to we'll have to restart that process if if you table it. Yes. Notification process is generally plus or minus with the it's 20 days.

So, we want to be until most likely after the new year before you guys could hear this again. I mean, I'm fine. Um, just laying it out there for you guys. I think it's us getting land is what I'm Well, it's our land. It's our land and we're just annexing in and to us. We're not doing anything.

You make whatever decision you want to make on that land. That's that's city owned property. Correct. Okay. So, I mean, I'm of the opinion it's our land. We can do what we choose to as anyone uh owner should be able to do as they choose to. Yes, sir. But in light of the comments about uh not having a voice or not being heard, if we have to go back to a notification process, I'm okay with that. That way everybody knows now uh or can be notified so there's no more question about that.

But notified that they can't vote for you. There's a public there's a public comment made like I said notifications per law all went out to surrounding property owners. So if there was something council ended up directing staff to do differently or public meet whatever case would council decide to do but I just want to be clear notifications did go out speakers came to PNZ

correct and that and then now it's coming to council as you know P&Z can only make recommendations how many notifications went out everybody within the 200 foot proper boundary of it. So the all the properties around there um I want to I don't know the number of

people I want to say four properties showed up at Pansy total. I think there were a couple of speakers that were on the same property. So I kind of want to go above and beyond and uh annexing is is not the deal but to go and talk to them once even though they got the letters and notifications. I like to try to meet with them so that they can understand the process.

That's just me. I think we out there in the rural community widening that scope. It's 200 ft. That's not going to touch a lot of people. Yeah. No, I would agree with that. Not so so

not to get too technical, but this would be the annexation. Now we're changing ordinances about how we notify. So then I'm just going to throw so annexation notices was the 200 ft. Yeah. The actual project is a much long they've all been notified as part of the project as a whole. Everyone within that general area has gotten a notification certified letter. So the annexation portion, yes, but it's run concurrently with the project notification that's coming out from TCQ in the state of Texas about a treatment plant being there. This is the permit. this is the design. These are the parameters. All of them in that surrounding area have all been notified about that from that standpoint. So just I want to be clear on when we're talking about notifications. Notifications for the annexation went per state requirements, notifications of the project that it's going to be a treatment plant that actually came out from the state. And so a lot of the speakers when they came to the PNZ it was because of that notification from the state it was beyond those surrounding properties. So definitely two different notification processes but for sure notifications have gone out. That helps.

I just want to make sure everybody knew clear like Joy was saying, make sure what what was being done from a notification standpoint. So, Bo, what happens if this land is not annexed? So, if it's not annexed, um, you would ultimately be you would submit into Travis County for approval of your wastewater treatment

plant. Yeah, they would have the rights because you're only within the ETJ of the city. Those properties already been brought into the city's ETJ, but since you do not have an interlocal agreement, Travis County would get to dictate how your treatment plan is designed, built,

and and do they they have that authority in terms of nuisance and zoning and all of that. No, they would be looking it straight upon their ordinances, you know, as it relates to how those do. And in some cases, y'all's standards are much higher, I would say, than theirs. But they're going to dictate, you would have to have their sign off approval before you could similar. I mean, they could potentially come out there and shut the city down from y'all's plan. I don't I don't want to derail this, but I'd like to first annex it and then take this our next in-depth step.

Was that a motion? That's a motion. Okay. Okay. So, it's been motioned to add X and then we'll go further later on with Okay. with communication to them. Yes. Specifically. Okay. I'll second. Okay. And we'll begin with council member Swain.

Swain. Yes. Love. Yes. St. Pierre. No. Rodriguez. Yes. Mcshan. Yes. Kasnowvski. Yes. Gibson. Yes. Okay. Motion carries. And I would like to follow through. We'll get with you on that to

decide what council how you want to approach that if it's a meeting or something like that. Okay. Thank you. All right. Number four, an ordinance assigning nibbly annex properties to city council ward area. Number two, providing for a severability clause and providing an effective date, providing a savings clause, and repealing conflicting ordinances or resolutions. Both uh so as council is familiar, whenever you annex a new property, you have to assign it to a ward. This particular property will have zero voting residents on it. Um, so but it uh as far as territory layout, it aligns with W two.

You're welcome. I'd make a motion to get this done. I don't think anybody's close to that but too great. Nobody's Nobody's going to be on it. It's going to be way too long. Okay. So, Swain has uh made the motion. Do I have a second?

I'll second. My level will begin with council member Swain. Swain. Yes. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Rodriguez, yes. McShan, yes. Kasnowski, yes. Gibson, yes. Okay. Number five is an ordinance amending chapter 42 zoning division 4 single family duplex zero lot line to two family dwelling district section 46303. area recolleations, sideyard, revised code of ordinances, city of Elgen, Texas, 2013, and providing for a savings clause and repealing conflicting ordinances or resolutions. Uh, yes, if we have the map, um, this is a particular one before PNC. Um, it is some existing lots. Um, and you'll also notice the alleyways. Those alleyways have already been given over to the property owner from the city some time ago. Um, but it's in a general area when the city did its zoning uh across the areas there that it had been put into the industrial uh district. As you can see around it, you do have residential R2 right adjacent across the street. A lot of the tracks of the property are very small. So when you're talking about industrial type development, not a singular type project because that's not what P&Z recommends or to you guys is what that particular property lends itself to is probably industrial very small size. So garage shops, those types of things for those types of property there. Um developer, the owner of the property came in and is requesting an annexation to R2. It is um contiguous being that you have R2 immediately adjacent across the street uh and in the surrounding area. So it didn't fall under the spot zoning. Uh PNZ and looking at that particular area from a development standpoint uh did not see that it would be adversely affect any of the other properties around it or for what it would become in that particular area. Uh they recommended approval to make the change to R2 from industrial ask you about the alleyways.

Say again. U since you have an owner that owns all the property around since you have an owner that owns all the property around the alleyways, they can make the alleyways away. So the alleyways have already been presided from the city to that property owner. Um that was done a few years ago. Okay. I'll make a motion

been submitted yet. Nothing's been submitted or plans. No, not on the the specifics of the actual development. And again, PNZ is pretty pretty stringent on not trying to associate a project with a piece of property. As you recall, zoning lasts with the property itself. It's not contingent on a particular property. That would have to be a PDD, a plan development district. where you attach a very specific property to the zoning project to the zoning, but in this case, it's not.

I'll make a motion to approve and I'll second it. It's been moved in second and we'll begin with council member Kasnoski. Kasnovski, yes. Gibson, yes. Swain, yes. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Rodriguez, yes. Mcshen, yes. Number six is an ordinance amending the U official zoning map of the city of Elgen, Texas, adopted in chapter 46, section 463, revised code of ordinances, city of Elgen, Texas, 2023, and making the amendment a part of said zoning tow land from in the general industrial district to R2 single family and duplex dwelling located on parcels of land known by Bassro County Appraisal District as parcel 870196. and parcel 8701-923 Elgen City block one alleyways through lots 4 through nine on the south east corner of East First and MLK Boulevard being described in exhibit Attached here to providing for saw and repealing conflict ordinances.

I know right and that's the one that we just went through. Oh, that's the one we just I'm sorry. That's the one. I'm sorry. The next one where it's Yeah, we're we're we're skipping a step, but that um Yeah, let's let's do this one.

Yeah. So, you want to how you want to do this? You want to call this one up? Well, we already voted. I thought we just We voted on the zoning change. The one. Oh, okay. So, I am on pass. So, you're on the one. Yes. The one that's talking about changing the ordinance code.

Okay. Thought I was wrong. Okay. My bad. So talked to a few of you council. Um the actual ordinance that this falls under was actually changed years ago. Um there was a typo um that went in and it got printed into the Munich code and just because there hadn't been any developments that fell within this it is just gone and then it got brought to the U staff's attention here just recently. Essentially, we have been adhering to this across the board because there's another place in the ordinances that calls this out. This is really just to make it correct with what council originally approved years ago and to update MUN code. Unfortunately, when you update MUN code, it's usually six months after the fact that it actually shows up and is updated. So, council will pass an ordinance. staff is, you know, keeping up with it on the paper copy side, but then staff, but then generally if nothing is coming up, there's not usually a check. So, we put in some checks and balances with that. So, in the future that when we do change an ordinance, as soon as it comes out on MUN code, we're making sure that we're going back and double-checking. Um, but this was done um previous director and it was literally just a typo. And so this is just making it official, bringing it back before council uh to fix this discrepancy that we currently have in the code.

Any questions? Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion and I'll second. It's been motioned and second and we'll begin with council member Kasnowski. Kasnowski, yes. Gibson, yes. Swain, yes. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes.

Rodriguez, yes. Men. Yes. All right. Number seven, resolution of city of C uh city council of the city of Elgen, Texas as canvasing authority canvasing the election returns and declaring results of the city of Elgen special election held on November the 4th, finding and determining that the meeting at which this resolution was passed was noticed and is open to the public as required law. want to come in

right over there and tell them what's going on. Sorry. Okay. So, this is a resolution canvasing. Um, mayor is going to read off our results and then um I will need a motion and a second vote on the resolution to approve those results. So,

and this is long. Remember we had 14 amendments and I have to read them all. Um so a special election was held on the 4th day of November 2025 for the purpose of voting on amendments of the Elgen city charter. There were 14 total amendments to the uh Elgen city charter that were considered by the voters. The amendments of the Elgen city charter is said election received the following votes. Uh proposition A out of 732 votes. Here are the results. Bastrop County Precinct 1 40221. Bassrop County Precinct 402425. Bassrop County Precinct 425 275 votes. Bastrop County Precinct 426 312 votes. Travis County Precinct 145 119 votes. Travis County Precinct 146. Travis County Precinct 490 zero. Uh against out of a total of 242 votes. Bassro County Precinct 40220. Bassro County Precinct 42410. Bastrop County Precinct 42580. Bassro County Precinct 426 103. Travis County Precinct 14549. Travis County Precinct 146 0. Travis County Precinct 490. That was Proposition A. Hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition B. 754 votes were casted precincts as follows. Bassrop County Precinct 40220. Bastrop County Precinct 42421.

Bastrop County Precinct 425 286 Bastrop County Precinct 426 324 Travis County Precinct 145 123 Travis County Precinct 146 0 Travis County Precinct 490. Those against votes 20 uh 224 votes. Bassro uh county precinct 422 zero. Bastrop County Precinct 424 15 Bastrop County Precinct 425 70 Bastrop County Precinct 4 uh 40 26 95 Travis County Precinct 145 44 Travis County Precinct 146 0 Travis County Precinct 490 Proposition B is hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Let me grab some water. Hold on. Proposition C. 888 votes counted. These are four. Ambassador County 4220. Bassro County Precinct 42436. Basop County precinct 425 323. Bass County Precinct 4026 for uh 379. Travis County Precinct 145 150. Travis County Precinct 146. Travis County Precinct 490. Those against out of 97 votes, Bastrop County Precinct 4022. Zero votes for that one. Okay. Bastrop County uh 4241. Bastrop County Precinct 42532. Bassrop County 42646.

Travis County Precinct 14518, Travis County Precinct 1460, Travis County Precinct 490. Proposition C is hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition D with 665 votes counted uh casted for Bastrop County Precinct 422. Bas County Precinct 424 is 26. Bastrop County Precinct 425 239. Bastrop County Precinct 426 290. Travis County Precinct 145 110. Travis County 146. Travis County Precinct 490. Those against out of 313 votes. Bastrop County Precinct 422 0. Bastrop County Precinct 42410. Bastrop County Precinct 42518. Bastrop County Precinct 426 129 Travis County Precinct 1455 56 Travis County Precinct 146 Travis County Precinct 490 Proposition D hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition E 330 vote four votes casted for four. Uh fourth is Bassro County Precinct 4220 Bassro County Precinct 4248 Bassro County Precinct 425 129 Bassro County Precinct 426 147 Travis County Precinct 14550 Travis County Precinct 146 Travis County Precinct 490. Those against casting 652 votes. Bassrop County 422 0. Bastrop County Precinct 42428.

Bassro County Precinct 425 228. Bastrop County Precinct 4026 279. Travis County Precinct 145 117. Travis County 146. Travis County Precinct 490. Uh, proposition E is hereby declared not adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition 8 for the votes 898 cast 4. Bassro County precinct 4220. Bassro County Precinct 42434. Bassro County Precinct 425 331. Bastrop County Precinct 426 389. Travis County Precinct 145 uh 144 Travis County Precinct 146. Travis County Precinct 490. Those against 809 votes casted. Bassro County Precinct 4022 0. Bassro County Precinct 40241. Bastrop County Precinct 4025 25. Bastrop County Precinct 4026 39. Travis County Precinct 14524, Travis County Precinct 146, Travis County Precinct 490. Proposition L Per declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition G 400 U 714 votes for Bastrop County Precinct 422 0. Bastrop County Precinct 42427 Bastrop County Precinct 425 275 B County Precinct 426 298, Travis County Precinct 14514, Travis County Precinct 146, Travis County Precinct 490. Those against vote

is 272. Bastrop County Precinct 40220220 Bastrop County Precinct 42410 Bastrop County Precinct 42581 Bastrop County Precinct 426 128 Travis County Precinct 14553 Travis County Precinct 146 Travis County Precinct 490 Proposition G declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Propos Proposition H. Uh 93 votes casted four Bassrop County Precinct 4022 0. Bastrop County Precinct 40 2434. Bassrop County Precinct 4025 330. Bastrop Precinct County 426 389. Travis County Precinct 145. Travis County Precinct 146 0. Travis County Precinct 490. Against 88 votes. Bastrop County Precinct 422 0. Bastrop County Precinct 4243. Bastrop County Precinct 425 29. Bastrop County Precinct 42638. Travis County Precinct 14518. Travis County Precinct 146. Travis County Precinct 490. Proposition H hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition I. 931 votes cast. Bastrop County four Bastrop County Precinct 4 uh 22 0 Bastrop County Precinct 42431 Bastrop County Precinct 4025 338 Bastrop County Precinct 426404 Travis County Precinct 145 158 Travis

County Precinct 146 Travis County Precinct 490 against 60 votes Bastrop County Precinct 400 I mean sorry 4022 0 Bassrop County Precinct 40 24 5 Bastrop County Precinct 4025 222 Bastrop County Precinct 4 26 23 B uh Travis County Precinct 145 10 Travis County Precinct 146 0 Travis County Precinct 490 Proposition I hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen Proposition Proposition J uh 699 votes four Bassro County Precinct 4022 0 Bastrop County Precinct 402428 Bastrop County Precinct 4025 273 Bastrop County Precinct 4026 286 Travis County Precinct 145 112 Travis County Precinct 146 0 Travis County Precinct 490 0 against 284 votes. Bassrop County Precinct 4022 0. Bastrop County Precinct 4249. Bastrop County Precinct 42586. Bastrop County Precinct 4026134. Travis County Precinct 1455. Travis County Precinct 146 Travis County Precinct 490. Proposition J hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition K 790 votes casted for Bastrop County Precinct 40220

Bastrop County Precinct 402428 Bassrop County Precinct 4025 297 Bastrop County Precinct 426 333 Travis County Precinct 145 132 Travis County Precinct 146 0 Travis County Precinct 490 Z for uh 166 votes counted against Bastrop County Precinct 4002 Bastrop County Precinct 40248 Bastrop County Precinct 425 52 Bassrop County Precinct 40 2674 Travis County Precinct 14532 Travis County Precinct 146 0 Travis County Precinct 490 Proposition K hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition L 682 votes cast for Bassrop County Precinct 40220. Uh Bastro County precinct 402431. Bassro County Precinct 425 233. Bastrop County precinct 426 290. Travis County Precinct 145 128. Travis County Precinct 146 0. Travis County Precinct 490 zero. 301 votes against Bassrop County Precinct 422 0. Bastrop County Precinct 4244. Bastrop County Precinct 425 127. Bastrop County Precinct 426 132. Travis County Precinct 14538. Travis County Precinct 1460. Travis County Precinct 490. Proposition L hereby declared adopted by the voters

of the city of Elgen. Proposition M. 634 votes casted for Bastrop County Precinct 40220. Bassrop County Precinct 42428. Bastrop County Precinct 425 227. Bassro County 426 261. Travis County Precinct 145 818. Travis County Precinct 446 0. Travis County Precinct uh 490. 350 votes casted against Bassro County Precinct 4022. Travis County precinct 248. Bassrop County Precinct 425 132 Bastrop County Precinct 4026 164 Travis County Precinct 1454 46 Travis County Precinct 146 Travis County Precinct 490 Proposition M is hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. Proposition in 690 votes voted for Bastrop County Precinct 422. Bastrop County Precinct 402429. Bastrop County Precinct 425 243. Bassrop County 426 295. Travis County Precinct 145 123. Travis County Precinct 146 0. Travis County Precinct 490. 295 votes casts against Bastrop County Precinct 40 uh 422 zero. Bastrop County Precinct 4247. Bassro County Precinct 425 1116. Bastrop County Precinct 426130. Travis County Precinct 14542.

Travis County Precinct 146. Travis County Precinct 490. Proposition N hereby declared adopted by the voters of the city of Elgen. And that is our propositions. Thank you, Mayor. And do I have a motion to accept?

I'll make a motion. I'll second it. Thank you. We moved it in a second. We'll begin with council member St. Pierre. St. Pierre. Yes. Rodriguez. Yes. Mcshen. Yes. Kaznovski. Yes. Gibson. Yes. Swain. Yes. Love. Yes. Okay. So the next one number eight is the resolution of the city council of the city of Elvin, Texas ordering the amendments to the city charter adopted by the voters be adopted.

All those are read. So move second. Uh no I don't want to read all of those again. Okay. It's been moved by Gibson and second by love. And we'll begin with council member uh Gibson. Gibson. Yes. Swing. Yes.

Love. Yes. St. Pierre. Yes. Rodriguez. Yes. Mcshan. Yes. Kasnovski. Yes. All right. Number nine, a resolution for the city of Elgen, Texas, casting its votes for the Bassrop County Central Appraisal District Board of Directors making findings of fact and providing uh related matters. Where' she go? Sorry. Um, okay. So, we nomin or the city council nominated um Justin Bezner and David Reddd. I think it was at the one of the September meetings um for the Bastrop County Central Appraisal District Board of Directors. Um those are the only two people that received nominations tonight. Um this is just a resolution for you to cast your votes if you would like to put your votes towards both of those people.

I'll make a motion. I'll second. Okay. It's been moved by Swain and second by Gibson. And we'll begin with council member Swain. Swain. Yes. Glove. Yes. St. Pierre. Yes. Rodriguez. Yes. Mcshen. Yes. Kasnowski. Yes. Gibson. Yes.

Okay. Number 10. Resolution for the city of Elgen, Texas, authorizing city staff to advertise and send requests and qualifications for a utility rate study and making certain findings related there too. Evening council. Again, uh the rate study is something that was discussed during the budget uh process and um staff took that information and went forward and developed a RFQ to send it out um to any firm that would like to conduct this rate study for us. We met several um different folks at the TML conference um whether they're going to submit it or not be interested. Um it's kind of up to them. We're in a position to advertise this on the state controllers website and get uh folks from all over the state to to participate. The details of the RFQ are here listed in your packet. the statement, the introduction, scope of services, uh deliverables, antiv anticipated timelines, which we're going to try to push on and be fairly quick with those, the qualifications, and then how to submit this RFQ. It's very standard to any other type of bid that we would get uh statewide for any of our uh utility projects or road construction projects. It's very standard um as far as RFQ is concerned, but we're here for a recommendation to approve this uh rate study uh RFQ for the rate study. Once we select a qualified firm, we'll bring that um that cost and also that firm back to the council for approval. At that time,

we'll bring you just much like uh on the December, you're going to see the recommended uh firm for the comp uh study. We'll bring you back a recommended firm after the selection process that we'll internalize and then from that point then we'll go through the function of negotiating rate or price proposal with them. But at this point we'd like to put this out on the street as soon as possible which we anticipate to be um tomorrow the next day. Um, and so we can start issuing it out, putting on the controller site, putting on all TML, TCMA, every site that we can think of, and so we can get submissions back by the 21st of January. Uh, I'm going to see if we can squeeze that anticipated award from 324, move that back a month. I don't think we need all the way to March. We can do that in February. and so that we can shave this back about a month because I think we're being a little too laxed in this. We can actually get cracking faster than these timelines. But what I will say is we want to put on the street by the 19th as stated and then so we can have the submissions due back uh January 23rd and from that point we can bring it back to you with u some good uh results just like the comp plan. We got 16 back and we expect the same or better uh with this utility rate study. We got a lot of interest, so just got to get cracking. We need your approval to uh put it on the street, please.

I'll motion to approve. I'll second. Has been moved and second. And we will begin with council member Rodriguez. Rodriguez, yes. Miss Shen, yes. Kasnowski, yes. Gibson, yes. Twain, yes. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. All right, we will go into executive session. Um, city council uh will go into Texas session according to chapter 551 of the Texas government code to discuss any matter as specifically listed on the agenda and or as permitted by chapter 551 of Texas government code. First one is section 1551.072 072 Texas Government Public Real Property Deliberation regarding the purchase, exchange, lease, sale, or value of real property and or the potential real estate acquisitions, depositions, and um incentives. Number two, section 551.074, Texas Government Code, personnel matters, deliberation regarding the interim manager performance, progress, assignments, and uh duties during the initial 30 days of employment. Section uh 551.071, 071 Texas government code consultation with attorney consultation with the city attorney regarding legal issues and agreements uh related to trietta and law forms including but not limited to uh contract terms obligations and potential revisions number four section 551.071 Texas government code consultation with attorney consultation with city attorney regarding the prior city manager severance agreement and related legal uh considerations. It is 8:06 and we are injured into executive session.

It is 9:31 and we're reconvening to our regular uh council meeting session. There are no action to take from executive session. And any other announcements or 9:32 and we are I knew you going to say that.

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