City Council - Regular Meeting

We're calling to order. We do have a quorum. And we have someone to come up and say the prayer. Make it a good one. No pressure.

We'll go ahead and move into open session. Public comments. The City Council welcomes citizen participation and comments at all council meetings. Citizen comments are limited to three minutes out of respect for everyone's time. The council is not permitted to respond to your comments. The Texas Open Meetings Act requires the topics of discussion deliberation be posted on the agenda no less than three business days in advance of the council meeting. If your comments relate to a topic that is on the agenda, the council will discuss the topic on the agenda at that time that the topic is discussed

Anybody from the public want to speak? Just state your name and county or city.

Thank you. Anyone else? All right, thank you. We'll go ahead and move into the consent agenda. Items on the consent agenda are approved through a single council motion, which applies to all items listed. Consent agenda listed are considered routine, not likely to require discussion or deliberation, and may discuss prior to making a motion. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless the council member requests an item be removed and considered separately. Item number one, consider approval of the August 27th and September 1st, 2026 meeting minutes. And item number two, consider

I make a motion to accept the items on the consent agenda.

Madam Secretary, can we get a vote, please?

All right, motion passed unanimously. Just a side note, Rob's sick. We don't know if he has COVID or flu or what. So he is here with us. I just want to let you all know that you should be able to see him. All right, let's go ahead and move on to item number three in the regular agenda, discuss and consider mid-year salary adjustments for sworn police officers and certified firefighters.

Well, if Rob and staff says that we can't do it the mid-year, then I guess we should not do that. But we will do the raises in the upcoming new budget.

I'll make a motion to untable it. And at the same time, make a motion to vote it gone.

Madam Secretary, can we get a vote, please?

All right. Passed unanimously. Item number four, hold a public hearing to discuss and consider a vote on tax rate for fiscal year 2026. And it'll be that you, Rebecca. Okay.

All right, sounds good. We'll open up public hearing. Anybody from the public want to speak?

Is there discussion from the council? Anything? We'll close the hearing. Thank you, Rebecca. We'll go ahead and get a motion.

I second the motion. Madam Secretary, agree to vote, please.

Aye. Aye. All right, I'm Pastor Jameson. I'm going to move on to item number five, hold a public hearing to discuss and consider ordinance 2026-23, adopting a budget for fiscal year 2026-2027.

Let's go ahead and open the public hearing. Anybody have anything to speak on? Council?

Let's stick to the budget. This is the budget. It doesn't sound like the budget. It sounds like Walmart again.

All right. That's enough. Do you want to be escorted out, Kyle? Kyle, do you want to be escorted out? No, you're not. This is the budget meeting. No, it's not. Chief. No, you're not talking about the budget. Everybody in the room knows you're not. I just heard Walmart. I just heard Candace. No, it's budget. Do you have anything to say about the budget? Okay, you said it. Thank you. Anybody else? And Debbie, so there is one change in the budget that the council wants to do. And if it's okay, Debbie, is it okay if you lead it? Okay, go ahead, Mike.

As you all know, and I'm sure everybody's seen that recently, there was a division in the council over the salary compensation report. It had nothing to do with police. It had nothing to do with fire. It had nothing to do with anything except the director's salary. Councilman Faulkner and I were elected by the council to serve on the committees to review and to understand what the budget process was for the director's compensation salaries We had actually two compensation salaries. One was done by a company with Shane and I can't remember his last name. And then Human Resources stepped up beca

I want to speak before we do emotions, if that's okay.

So we have this list with our directors. You look down this list, and what do you see? You see a group of people that does an amazing job. And I appreciate every one of y'all. You look over here at their salaries, and you see people that are blessed to have the salaries they have. Everybody in the world wants a raise. And I would love to give everybody a raise, but we just can't do that in Mount Pleasant. I don't think we have the proper numbers yet to even tell what we would give someone. And I think we're going to have to do it ourselves.

I felt like last week that we were being bullied a little bit, and I felt like some of the ladies felt that way. And there was a census, and I think people were shaking hands reluctantly said, yeah, we might do something. So I'll make another proposal. I propose that we give the raises to our first responders like we started out to do. And this year, we're just not going to be able to give raises to the directors. It's not personal. I love you guys. It's strictly financial. Our job is to balance between the taxpayers and the employees. And I think we're doing a good job and Everyone wants rais

And I think we've figured out a way where we don't, where we won't have to delay it. We'll come up with what we did last year. So it'll basically be Councilman Corbell will be option A and Councilman Hinton will be option B. And we can make, we should be able to make that change, right? And still pass it with those amendments in it.

So Candace, did you get a copy of this? The paper, and does Rob have an electronic copy of it? He did. Oh, no, but he's going to have to make the proposal on it. But we can get it to him. And I also want to make sure that this is, Okay.

We need to close, though, right? I haven't closed the hearing yet. So is anybody else in the public hearing?

I'd like to respond to a statement that was made. Holly, can you tell me, and I know I've had this conversation numerous times. I've had it with Candice and you. What was the general last year? They had a 3% step plan and a 2.5% COLA. Is that correct?

And I just want that understood. And I've heard that last year, and I keep hearing it over and over. But it was a 5.5% increase. And didn't employees, I know when I was here, we had to sign a statement that we got our salary and we understood what our increase is. Is that correct?

Okay. We could do it right after this public comment.

Thank you. Rebecca, will you be able to speak on that?

Do you have the figure on what we are spending this year making sure that our police officers and our firemen are up to the minimum salary requirements?

I wouldn't want to do that job. This is something that we took care of in one year that was supposed to be a three-year plan to get everybody up to their minimum amount.

And I just want to point out that when we started this budget survey last March or whenever, we were hoping to achieve what we did in one year over a span of two or three years. But when we come down to it in the last few weeks, we have all agreed to get police and fire and a few other positions where they needed to be on that chart. So what we originally thought would take us two years, That's why we put so much into that. That will get them up to the minimums and above in some cases. And from what I hear, we have some good things coming. But it could have been a two-year process. We selected

I'd like to speak We're going close close the hearing So it seems like we're gonna pass this with option a or option B, right?

slash city secretary, human resources director, public work director, the librarian, and the utility directors to receive a 2.5%. That's my motion.

All right. Let's get a motion. Madam Secretary, can we get a motion, please? Okay.

All right, we'll go ahead and go to item number six, discuss and consider ordinance 2026-24, ratifying the property tax revenue increase reflected in 2026-2027 physical year budget.

All right. Go ahead and move on to item number seven. Consider ordinance 2026-20, sorry, 2026-25, levying ad valorem taxes for fiscal year 2026-2027. Thank you.

Madam Secretary, do the vote, please. Move on out number eight hold a public hearing to discuss and consider ordinance 2026 as 21 amending chapter 155 zoning Code adding 15 new land use definitions regulating amending reorganizing and renumbering zoning, district regulation, amending the use regulation, schedule table, repealing all conflicting ordinances, providing a severability clause, providing an effective date, and providing for publication. Go ahead, Lynn.

All right, so we'll go ahead and open the public hearing.

On the attached single family units, what are the number, what are the limitations on that?

I do have a question. We're overlaying the historic district with the downtown district.

Okay. My question is, did we notify all the businesses that are going to have their zoning change? Is there enough difference between the two zoning classifications that we notified everybody in the new area that there will not be...

Yeah, that's what I was going to. I thought I opened it already.

We'll go ahead and open a public hearing. Sorry about that. So, anybody from the public?

Anything else? I'm going to close the session.

I think your dog's upset. You're not paying attention to her.

I make a motion we approve the new proposed land use definitions and revised zoning code table of usages as proposed by staff.

Madam Secretary, can you vote please? Just a moment.

I'm just reading the recommendation written here.

ORDINANCE 2026-22 AMENDING CHAPTER 155 OF THE ZONING CODE, RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE AS PROPOSED BY STAFF.

MADAM SECRETARY, YOU CAN GO TO VOTE, PLEASE. AYE.

Motion passed unanimously. Let's move on to number nine. Hold a public hearing to discuss and consider ordinance 2026-22, amending chapter 155 zoning code, adding a new downtown zoning district, determining boundary use and development standards, providing a servability clause, providing an effective date, and providing for publication.

right let's go ahead and open here oh I'm sorry again planning and zoning did recommend this okay we're going to open it here any questions anybody from all right we'll close the session and can we get a motion make a motion to approve the new downtown zoning

Aye. Pass your names. Let's go ahead and move on to item number 10, discuss and consider approval of preliminary plat for a second revision of Anderson Town Crossing Phase 1 Block A in the PD2 Zoning District adjacent to Anderson Drive along the north side of Tankersley Road west of US 271 PP2026-04. Lynn?

All right. Thank you, Glenn. Any discussion? Is there a motion? Do we need a motion on this?

move on to item number 11 discuss consider approval of site plan for additional multifamily building on lot 3 in the anderson town crossing multifamily phase 1 block a subdivision sp-2026-03 i don't think the mic is on

Any more discussion? Get a motion? Oh, public comment?

There's a lot of stuff that's involved in it with the EDC and the infrastructure. Here's Aaron. He's our utilities guy. He'll be able to answer some of it.

And all that stuff over there is brand new, right?

Right. Thanks, Aaron. Any more discussion? No motion?

Madam Secretary, do you vote please? Aye.

Aye. All right, passed unanimously. Item number 12, discuss, consider approval of site plan for a new four-story hotel on Montfort in Anderson Town, crossing Phase 1, Block A subdivision in the ATC PD-2 zoning district adjacent to Anderson Parkway, SP-2026-04. Comments?

Any more. In a motion. A motion to approve the site plan for SP 2026-04 as presented. A second?

Madam Secretary, can you get a vote, please?

Aye. All right, passed unanimously. Item number 13, City Manager's Report. Rob, we definitely understand if you don't have the voice for it.

We get that taken care of all right and the sprinklers stuff like that. Landscaping stuff. Thanks guys. I appreciate it. All right. It was taken care of. I appreciate it.

All right, we're in a council comment. Council comment limited to announcements of upcoming events, recent council member activities, or requests to add agenda items for an upcoming meeting. And it's two minutes for councilmen. Anyone? We're good? All right, we'll go ahead and move into executive session. It's 726.

All right. We're moving back into open session. It is 8.02. We have one item that we have action on. I'm trying to pause it, slow it down. Everybody's getting heated. We have one action on it, one motion. Are we ready, Candace? All right, we are ready. Ms. Korbel, do you want to give us a motion? We are.

I make a motion to appoint Lori Chisholm as our new municipal court judge beginning October the 1st and approve the contract terms as discussed in the executive session.

Madam Secretary, could you vote, please?

Aye. Aye. Motion passed unanimously. Do we get a motion to adjourn?