City Council - Regular Meeting

Let's pray. Father God, we thank you so much for the opportunity to come before you. and to take care of our neighbors, and to do what we can the best for our city and for our community. Be with us, Lord. Guide us. Be our primary partner in all that we do. In Christ's name, amen.

Thank you. These guys are wonderful artists.

Where did, as far as having a discussion with our auditors, and where did they fall on this as far as risk assessment?

Well, as far as choosing what for the general fund reserve, I would like to make a motion to accept 120 days.

Any comments? To just as far as some of the obvious is, and what is going to be the difference currently if we go ahead and approve the 120 days How much is, I guess, the difference of what we have?

On the new NNR, and I'm still learning all of this, can we, one of my biggest worries came up in the discussion or the consideration of this when I was doing research. And one of the greatest fears or wake-up calls I got was getting on council and realizing how many trips I've made to Austin in the first year and how things that they do affect us. And in this particular setting, Now as a business owner, what the HB9 that was implemented from the state was fantastic for business owners. It did introduce some variances in our tax base. So can you elaborate on that?

And that increase was what, over 40,000%? Oh, yeah, it was like 4,000%.

The difference as far as impact to the citizen's property, what is that considered on the homesteads?

So the Valley resident would probably get about $8 a year.

My motion is for the .0847. .0847. Maintenance and operations. For the maintenance and operations journal.

I don't think we've ever updated these. They needed to be updated. We would like to have guidelines. Nobody wants to go against what the rules should be. And having them written down and us all understanding it is a big help. Everyone agreed in the club?

It's a very positive step for the city of Shenandoah. Getting a closer relationship, which this brings us a lot closer than we've ever been with CISD, with the superintendent, the new superintendent that really appears to like and support the city of Shenandoah. This is a really positive step. I think it's just... like a small step. I'm hoping that next year we will even expand this contract to be even much more of a promotional thing for our city. It's really good for the city.

On the, as far as the due diligence thing on this, I noticed that I guess it's automatic re-up on this as stated in the agreement?

Okay. And I guess my question is, before that actually goes into effect, it already sounds like you've already considered some different things that it's going to be a tremendous benefit to the city in being able to do some things there. But to have us near this time of year before it gets renewed is to come back and present to the city different things that occurred for the city and showing the benefit, attaching that value. But I think it's a great idea.

Thank you. Make a motion to approve. All five of these people?

Didn't this process originate from the guy that presented it here?

Yeah. Thanks for bringing that back from a TML conference. Absolutely.

Just a note on the speed indicator coming into Shenandoah. I've gotten great feedback as far as residents living over there that they've noticed an impact on cars entering and not continuing to speed like they were.

We had to make some adjustments. Got it. Well, all I know is, since it was even picking up research, it's slowing them down coming in.

A status update please on Tamina Water Project.

Good. So you're going to have a real big, beautiful tank that everyone can see for 20 miles away that says, Tamina, welcome to Tamina.

Good work. Speaking of good work, I'd like to commend the staff for tightening up your expenses, especially the police department. You really tightened expenses a lot to... to accomplish what we need to do but still not cut to the bone to where it hurts the city and the department. But all departments did do that. All departments took a fine-tooth comb through the budgets to hold expenses down and is very much appreciated by the city. What's important about that is that we're able to do it and still be able to give the premium services that Shenandoah is known for. We're a premium city. We do