City Council - Regular Meeting

You're good? 6.08 p.m., welcome to the City of McKinney's regular scheduled council meeting. It's Tuesday, September the 1st at 6 p.m. We will call this meeting to order. Thank you for being here. Those of you that are in the audience, those of you watching on TV, we appreciate your time as well. Our first order of business will be the reciting of our Pledge of Allegiance.

The next item will be a proclamation recognizing National Preparedness Month. What we'll do, Karen, yeah, I'll come down and read the proclamation. Do as you're doing, and then we'll take some pictures, and if you would like to speak, we'll do that as well. Thank you. All right, national preparedness month. National Preparedness Month is observed every September since 9-11. This is an opportunity to prepare homes, businesses, and communities for any type of emergency, whether natural, technological, or human-caused. McKinney 2026 Preparedness Month theme is Live Ready. Weekly messaging will fo

Thank you. OK, next item will be public comments on. non-public hearing items that are on our agenda. A few housekeeping items, if you will, when you come to the podium. You'll have two minutes to share your thoughts and your concerns with us. We ask that you be respectful in your comments, be concise, and please be aware of the time limit. And also, if there is a disruptive situation or someone is being disruptive to the meeting, you are subject to being removed from chambers. Does that need to be repeated? If there is a disruptive activity, then you are subject to be removed from the chamber

Thank you, Mr. Lucy. We appreciate your comments. There are several of you... They have given us cards, and you do not wish to speak. These are on agenda items. So if you have submitted a card, Krista Mitchell, supporting. Baxter will comment. Apartments, Renee Francis, opposing. Item 26-00742Z and 26-001A. And Balakshina, and I apologize. If I mispronounce the name, speaking in support of Baxter Well Apartments. Those cards will go as part of the city council's records. With that, we will move on to the next part of our agenda, which will be the consent agenda. Do we have any comments on the

Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented by staff.

Motion by Councilman Cloutier, second by Mayor Pro Tem Franklin to approve. The consent agenda, which consists of items 26-0757 through and including item 26-004M2. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Please cast your vote. The consent agenda has been approved. We'll now move to our public hearing items. First item is 26-0843, a public hearing to consider an adoption of the budget appropriation ordinance for fiscal year 26-27. Mr. Holloway.

Thank you, Mr. Holloway. Any questions? Anyone?

No, I wanted to thank you, Mark, you and your staff. You know, you worked hard over the past couple weeks to get the tax rate to be where it was last year and your efforts aren't lost on us and I appreciate it.

And just to be clear on that, the North Texas Municipal Water District, we are a member of that district, but we are just one of many members.

Anyone else? Mark, thank you very much. I appreciate your presentation. This is a public hearing item. If you come to address the City Council regarding this proposed budget, seeing we have no one signed up, we would entertain a motion.

Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve the budget as presented by Mr. Holloway.

I have a motion by Councilman Jones to approve the budget Appropriation all seconds for mr. Holloway's presentation second my counsel including right any discussion Record vote on this. I'm sorry.

All right, that motion carries. The next item is 26-0884, consideration of an ordinance to ratify the property tax revenue increase for fiscal year 26-27 as a result of the city receiving more revenues from property taxes. Mr. Holloway.

And Mark, that's because the existing values by and large declined. Not everybody's house went down in assessed value, but many of them did. And so many homeowners will be seeing a little bit of a lower city tax burden this year. Is that fair to say?

Anyone else? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion. No. I move that the increased revenue from property taxes in the fiscal year 2026-27 city budget is hereby ratified with the following declaration. Based on the tax rate of 0.412284, this budget will raise more total property taxes than last year's budget by $5,684,486, or 3.16%. and of that amount, $6,108,741 is tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year.

Okay, we have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Franklin, second by Councilman Cloutier. Is there any discussion? Empress, you want us to vote here? Please cast your vote. All right, that motion carries. The next item is 26-0845, a public hearing to consider an ordinance adopting a tax rate for fiscal year 2026-27. Mr. Holloway.

Very good. Thank you, Mark. This is a public hearing item. If you come tonight, I'd like to address the council on this tax rate for fiscal year 26-27. Since no one has signed up, we will move on. Do we have a motion?

Mr. Mayor, I move that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 0.412284, which is effectively 0.75% increase in the tax rate.

I have a motion by Councilman Cloutier to close the public hearing and adopt the motion. for the motion that made by Councilman Cloutier, second by Councilman Lynch. Any discussion? I appreciate your roll call.

Yes. That motion carries. Next item is 26-0846, discuss an ordinance to change rates and fees for city services. Mr. Holloway.

No questions? Mark, thank you very much. Mark. This item does not have a public hearing component, so we have a motion.

I'll make a motion we approve this item.

I'll second. Motion by Mayor Pro Tem Franklin to approve the item as presented. Second by Councilman Jones. Is there any discussion? Please cast your vote. That motion carries. The next item is 26-0013, SUP 2. This is a public hearing to consider a specific use permit for passenger fuel vehicle sales, Wildwood Marketplace. This is on the south side of Lord Howell Parkway, 700 feet west of County Road 201. Mr. Riley.

Thank you, Lucas. Any questions, anyone? Lucas, is there an applicant here?

Anyone? No, sir. Mr. Seabolt, you're free to go. I appreciate it. Thanks for being here very much. Yeah, thank you all. This is a public hearing item. If you've come tonight and would like to Address the council on this SUP. Mr. Rain, do we have anybody signed up?

All right, then we would look for a motion. I'll make a motion we approve this item.

Motion by Mayor Pro Tem Franklin to close the public hearing and approve the item as presented by staff. Second by Councilman Lynch. There we go. Any discussion? Please cast your vote. If that motion carries, that item, Lucas, has been approved. The next item is 26-0074Z and 26-0010A. This is a public hearing on a petition to annex and request a zoning to MF36. This is on the south side of Baxter Well Road, 1,200 feet west of FM 1461. Mr. Raley.

Thank you, Lucas. Any questions? No? Very good. Thank you. Is there an applicant here? Yes. Very good.

Of the applicant, Ms. Rogers. Thank you. We appreciate you being here. Absolutely. Thank you. This is a public hearing item. If you've come to nine, I'd would like to address the City Council on this proposed annexation and rezone. We do have Tisha Blakey Blanton.

Thank you, Ms. Blanton. If you sent in comments via our online portal and you sent a letter in on that, we received your letter. Anyone else that sent a letter in, please know that we didn't receive it. That's the last speaker that we have. Do we have discussion? Anyone?

You know, Mr. Mayor, I do feel for what Ms. Blanton and her neighbors are going through. What happened here, though, is that TxDOT came in with their 380 alignment for the bypass. And when they did that, it's coming right to the south of this. And Lake Forest and the 380 bypass is going to be, to me, about as busy of an intersection as, like, Virginia and 75. It's going to fly over there and it's going to do that. And it's going to change the complexion of that area. For the last number of years, ever since I've been on council, there's been a lot of development there outside of our city limit

No. I've heard a lot about this. And I actually live in this area. We have multiple apartment units coming up that are market rate in that area. They're not even done yet. I do feel the resident's concern about the pressure that it's going to put on the infrastructure because there's really nothing up there right now. We did, and I'm one that voted to approve the multifamily that was for affordable housing, but those were smaller density. It was under 300 units. To me, it's just a massive apartment complex. And so, I mean, I just think we just, it just needs time. We don't have the infrastruct

Anyone else? Any other comments? I'll, I'll, what's my opinion? I'm kind of like Michael. I live fairly close to this. I understand the residents out there. It's a lot of apartments in one area. And I realize we're in a very tough position because they can do what they want to do anyway because they're outside the city. And we have no control. We can't do anything. So it's better to have them in the city. However, I'm going to have to be a no.

Anyone else? Mr. Mayor, just to kind of address a couple of things. One, infrastructure is brought by the developers. And so... They will complete the grid and bring the infrastructure into this area that is needed. The second thing is we've got about a how many acre civic center going basically across the street from here where we've got a public facility plant, a water facility. We've got a new apex center coming. This is where people are going to be. And so that's going to come whether it's in the city limits or not. And so I'd prefer it to be in the city limits. So I will second Patrick's

Anyone else? We have a motion by Councilman Cloutier, second by Councilman Beller.

Motion is to approve as per staff recommendation. Please cast your vote. This motion carries about a vote of four in favor and two against. The next item is 26-086Z2, a public hearing to consider a reasonable property from PD plan development to C2 local commercial district. This is on the south side of El Dorado Parkway, south of Custer Road. Mr. Raley.

Thank you, Lucas. Are there questions, comments? Anyone? Lucas, is there an applicant here?

So Randy, when I think of District 121, I think of the casino and the little amphitheater in the back and restaurants and something activated on that level. Is that fair to say? Yes.

Anyone else? Thank you, Mr. Hollett. I appreciate you being here. This is an item with a public hearing. If you are here tonight and no one has signed up, so we will entertain a motion.

Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion. We approve this item and close the public hearing.

I have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Franklin to close the public hearing and approve the request per staff recommendation. Who was that? Mr. Jones? Second by Councilman Jones. Is there any discussion? Please cast your vote. But that motion carries. That item has been approved. Next item is 26-0847, a public hearing to consider a request by the City of McKinney to amend Article 6, conveyance of land for recreational areas and facilities. Ms. Kincaid.

So we have a motion, or I request for a motion to table, leave the public hearing open, continue the public hearing and table until September 15th.

I have a motion by Councilman Cloutier to that effect. I'll second. Second by Councilman Jones. Any discussion? Please cast your vote. All right, that motion carries. That item has been tabled. That does conclude our regular agenda. We'll now move to public comments on items not on the agenda. Just as a reminder, when you do come to the podium, you'll have two minutes to share your thoughts with us. We appreciate you being here. We ask that you be respectful of each other, including the two-minute time. In the event there is a disruption in the meeting, we will recess the meeting and remove th

Thank you. Next speaker is Beth Bentley.

Thank you, Ms. Scott. Next speaker is Beth Fields.

Thank you, Ms. Fields. Next speaker is Angie Beto. After that will be Carolyn Berry.

Thank you, Ms. Baddow. Next speaker is Carolyn Barry.

Thank you, Ms. Berry. Next speaker is Ashley Marie.

Thank you, Ms. Marie. Next speaker is Marcus Lloyd. Marcus Lloyd. Dash, you'll be next.

Mr. Haas, thank you. Next up, Moe Chaudry.

Thank you, Mr. Chaudhry. Next speaker is Kyle Sims. Next will be Thomas Rutherford.

Thank you, Mr. Shams. Next is Thomas Rutherford.

Thank you, Mr. Rutherford. Next speaker, Leticia Garcia.

Thank you, Mr. Garcia. Next speaker is Musa Dhabis.

Thank you. Next speaker is Luis Maldonado.

Thank you, Mr. Monado. Among Sharma. Among Sharma. Among Sharma.

Thank you, Mr. Sharma. Appreciate it. Next speaker is June Jenkins. June Jenkins.

Thank you, Ms. Jenkins. Next up is Larry Piera. Larry Piera.

Thank you, Mr. Kira. Next up is Eddie Issa.

Thank you, Mr. Issa. Next up is Haroon Siddiqui. Haroon Siddiqui. We're going to recess just for a minute. We're going to recess. The gentleman that just spoke, could you have him removed?

Okay. Back to regular schedule programming. Mr. Siddiqui.

Thank you, Mr. Dickey. Next speaker, Zach Carson.

I appreciate it. Next speaker is Lauren Gifford. Lauren Gifford.

Thank you Ms. Gifford. Next speaker, Kelly Roberts.

Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Roberts. Thanks, Speaker Sam Hall.

Thank you, Mr. Hall. Next up, Deborah Goodman. Deborah Goodman. Okay, Jacob. Jacob, Lucy, Jacob. Sorry, I didn't work you in at the same time. I apologize. Sorry about that.

Thank you, Mr. Lucie. Next up, Teresa Brown. Teresa Brown. Then we'll have Craig Kerr. Ms. Brown.

Thank you, Ms. Brown. Next up is Craig Kerr.

Thank you, Mr. Kai. Next up is Ronalee Terrell. I apologize if I've totally messed up your name.

Thank you, Mr. Terrell. put those last two up okay please okay next speaker is jane doe miss doe were you here yes

Thank you, Ms. Doe. We appreciate it. Okay, we have one speaker left. We have one speaker. The speaker has signed up as no name. No name. Not here. Okay. All right. That is the last speaker. We will now move to council comments. Mr. Beller.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is the first week in over 20 years that I don't have a kid living at home. And my wife has already told me that I talk too much. So I don't have anything else, Mr. Mayor.

I do a lot of reading in the morning. Reading is a de-stressor for me, and I need that these days, so I do a lot of reading in the morning. I read something this morning that maybe stressed me a little bit, and it might stress you, but I want to share it with you because I think about things in a larger context. This was something I got, and I can share it with any of y'all if y'all want to see it, but it was something from the Census Bureau. And it projects the US population in 2050, which is 24 years from now. And it says we're going to grow by 8.2%. That's not that bad, 8.2%. That is 62, ex

I have nothing. Mr. Jones? I'd just like to thank our staff, city staff, for... providing a great meal today for my for my birthday week i call it you know so thank you there uh it was my daughter's birthday yesterday so happy birthday and um over the weekend i got to actually speak at a panel for uh it was a chamber youth event so we had uh about close to about 100 kids uh come in uh high schoolers uh come and voice their opinion and uh and get to learn about what do they think about the city, and answer any questions they had. And I stayed as long as they wanted to stay. And it was a great e

I'd like to recognize the McKinney Fire Department. Over the last month or so, we have deployed personnel and equipment to areas that have flooded in our state and then also fires. around the country, and if you watch the news, you understand the tragedy that people are left with when they are faced with disasters like this, and if you're not a firefighter, and I'm not, and I don't pretend to know what those guys go through, but I can only imagine when you see someone in distress that's not from your hometown, and you're there trying to save someone's life, it's got to impact you in some way,

Thank you, Mr. City Manager. We do not have executive session, so with that, we will entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. I have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Franklin to adjourn. Seconded by Councilman Beller. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, same sign. It's 8.03, and we are adjourned.