City Council - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, August 25, 2026Official site

The Robinson City Council adopted the 2026-2027 budget and tax rate, and ratified a property tax increase. A significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to public comment and council discussion regarding the city's Flock camera system, with citizens raising concerns about privacy and surveillance, while council members and the police chief highlighted its effectiveness in crime prevention and solving cases.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Robinson, TX
Meeting Date
August 25, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

7 sections

33:43•Jim (James) Mastergeorge

Before you sit, can I have your name and address? Oh, I'm sorry.

50:54•Jeremy Stivener

I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-015, adopting the budget and making appropriations for the support of the City of Robinson for fiscal year 2026-2017. I'll second.

54:01•Jeremy Stivener

I move to ratify the property tax revenue increase reflected in the fiscal year 2026-2027 budget.

1:21:31•Jeremy Stivener

All right. Thank you. Thank you. Who's next? Rick Mome? Mome. Mome. Sorry. That's all right. Everybody gets it wrong.

2:03:14 – 2:07:17•Jim (James) Mastergeorge

All right, Mr. Master George. Hi, I'm Jim Mastergeorge. I've been probably one of the longest serving members on the council. I'm also probably one of the oldest people in this room. When I grew up, there were no surveillance systems anywhere. There was no such thing. You reported what you saw and what you didn't see, nobody knew about. I've grown up with the systems as they've accumulated and gotten more technical and more efficient and more accurate. The system we have in place is accurate and used properly. It's just the fact that there probably are better systems out there. We need to take

2:07:21 – 2:10:13•Jeremy Stivener

So as we start coming down, I think we're kind of like the audience. We've pretty much hit every point that's out there. So I'm going to keep it factual, not personal, not beliefs driven. But as Jimmy mentioned and Jim mentioned as well, we have a little over 13,000 citizens here in Robinson. About 30 of y'all showed up. So that's 0.2% of our total city population, which I know you have kids and stuff like that as part of that headcount. But still, 30 members isn't much, but thank y'all for coming. Thank you for voicing your opinion. We don't know what's out there unless y'all show up and voic

2:11:06 – 2:11:32•Jeremy Stivener

So all I'm saying is I agree with you 100%. As Mayor just said, there's no perfect solution. You know, what is that deal? So I just want you all to know, whatever we decide, whatever we talk through, thank you for being here. Thank you for providing facts and your opinions. That does mean a lot to us. And hopefully whatever decision we make next week, believe us, it is for the betterment of the community, whichever way.

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