City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Okay. I don't know about that. Three seconds left. Thank you. Yeah. Take it out. Oh, we can do it. Yeah, if there's any changes that need to be made.

Yeah, just go ahead and mention whatever it is.

No, it's actually from those years. I don't want that.

That's all. That's from like... Two months? Yes. Okay. Okay. See, we have a quorum.

the City of Piedmont City Council and Piedmont Public Facilities Corporation regular meeting agenda September 16, 2026 at 4 p.m. The first thing on the agenda are the pledges. Uh-oh, we have two more pledges. You can just sit here.

United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the being of the Texas, one state, under God, one community. Next on the agenda is a moment of silence. Next on the agenda is imitating to address council and we did not have anyone sign up tonight. Do we have anything? You should have it. Is it the letter you're signing? The sign-in sheets? No, I have it. Oh, there's no online submittals. Yeah, there's nothing. I'm sorry. I'm misunderstood. Thank you. I don't thin

Just a reminder, like, we live in a beautiful town with lots of sun. So make sure you meet with a dermatologist once a year. so yeah cautionary is always a good thing the other thing i would like to do is make sure the city is paying attention uh they're telling my investors right now that we're two to five years out before we have any more capacity so uh people say we're going to continue in the next couple of years it's good to be able to have new partners not because we're not working on the pc board or the city council's not working it's just they have our hands tied now with the capacity

and water board meetings are on mondays once a month welcome to come out and listen to what's going on uh thank you thank you everyone for coming out there continues to be interest like in the crossing residence on 57 acre park and the progress so you know i'm advised that we are continuing to work on that and i know we're going to get a thank you in the near future And based on the tree, it's a long 57-acre park. There does seem to be a lot of it. Yeah. Councilman Moore? Well, I just want to say, again, like everybody else, welcome to the meeting. And as you can tell, I'm the newest member of

Next on the agenda is the city administrator, Cesar. Good evening. I wanted to just take a moment and comment on a few things that you've been talking about.

If not, we'll get it for the very first time.

Next on the agenda is reports from staff. Those are 9A through 9F. Do any of you have any questions or comments for staff?

On your list of your calls. I didn't know.

Any other questions for staff on the report? Next on the agenda is the consent agenda. On the consent agenda, we have three minutes. To approve the minutes of the 08-19-2026 City Council Retreat. 10B, to approve the minutes of the 08-19-2026 City Council Budget Workshop. And 10C, to approve the minutes of the 08-19-2026 City Council Regular Meeting. Do I have a motion to approve? So 10B. It's just a matter of avoiding. It says in there, acknowledge this, but I was just wondering if you should add this in there. Rule one, men, college, children. Are you going to item four, the notes? It's on th

Do we have a second? We have a second. A motion by Councilwoman Thorne. second by councilman or all those in favor um any opposed motion carries number 11 public hearings and action items from public hearings 11a hold a public hearing on the city of peter's fiscal year 2026 2027 proposed manual budget we will adjourn our meeting at 4 17 and open the public hearing at 4 17. Do we have anybody in the audience or public comments with regard to the public hearing? Does Mayor and or does council have any comments or deliberation with regard to the hearing?

On page 46, I'm going to send it in. And it's probably there, but I have some ideas that I want to go into that I do not see on it. So I will keep going through to prove whether or not, from my opinion, it's not going to work. Actually some of them some of the line is not But it's purely When I go again Any other comments

Any other comments or deliberations? We will close the public hearing at 4.20 p.m. 11 a.m. All the public hearing on the City of Pimas fiscal year 2026-2027 proposed tax rate of 0.1899. We will close our meeting at 420 and we will open public hearing at 420. Do we have any comments from the public or the audience with regard to the proposed tax rate? Proposed tax rate of 0.1899. Seeing none, do we have any from council comments, deliberation? Seeing none, we will close public hearing at 4.20 and resume our city council meeting at 4.20. 11C, consideration of possible action to approve ordinance

We have a motion by Councilman Broaddus, a second by Councilman Oliver. Now we will proceed with the voting. Councilwoman Thorne. No. Councilman Oliver. Aye. Councilman Broaddus. Aye. Councilman Weasley. Aye. Councilman Rohr. Aye. motion carries 11d consideration of possible action to approve ordinance 2026-06 an ordinance of the city of human texas adopting a tax rate of point one eight nine nine for one hundred dollars consisting of the approved maintenance and operation rate and debt service right let me let me back that up um An ordinance of the City of Pima, Texas adopting a tax rate of .

The motion carries. 11-M. Consideration and possible action to approve the portion of the fiscal year 2026-2027 tax rate dedicated to debt service fee zero and the total fiscal year 2026-2027 of .1899 as reflected in the fiscal year 2026-2027 budget pursuant to Texas Tax Code 26.05A. This too is a roll call vote. Councilman Ward. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? So I have a motion by Councilman Gorg and a second by Councilman Whelan. Now we'll do the roll call. Councilman Gorg. Aye. Councilwoman Whelan. Aye. Councilman Rodgers. Aye. Councilman Oliver. Aye. Councilwoman Thorne. Aye. Okay

Well, we had four candidates come in last night, I'm sorry. We did an interview process, and before we got the candidates in, before we got together, we did another task, figuring out what our needs are. which candidate would fit those needs the best. All four candidates were very capable. Some of them were brand new faces. I mean, I've known that before. Some of them were old faces. They've been on for 35 years. So we do appreciate everybody coming out and showing interest in the position. There was one that stood out to us. I collected you as a group. I mean, there was one board member that

Well, everybody knows I'm looking for a working board. And we want people to champion projects. And we're looking for what we're missing in the board right now. And she definitely fits the bill for what we're missing at the board today. So I think she's a great asset to be just important.

Any questions or comments? I have a couple of questions. Are you practicing the terms? Is it Jenny? Would you make sure the microphone is turned on?

So I was a law school graduate. Yes. Not yet. Thank you. Yeah, we can try that out.

couple people to help Megan, because it's going to be such a large project with already 1.6, 1.7 million being granted, and we'll shoot another 1.4, 1.5 this coming year. So hopefully we'll all be awarded, and we'll be dropping it over to like 3 million dollars, so it's going to take a lot of effort. But probably staff doesn't have a manual for us, so I think KCBC can actually step in and assist with that project in a lot of different ways. So that's going to be a recommendation we're looking for in KCBC to try to and then we'll have to, so. And we have Mark back there, so.

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did utilize that and i think we're going to try to modify that a little bit because i mr conrad scored very very high i won't say that because he's been around for 30 years and he knew all the processes but that's not what we were looking for um I think we were modified a little bit because the way it scored out last night was a little, I mean, if I was to come back 10 years later and it would score very high, I know it might not be as important, but we were modified a little bit so that the board had a little more leeway as far as who was selected in that process. Now, maybe we can improve on

Any other comments or discussion? I'd like to make a motion to appoint Jenny Meador to position three of the Kenai Community Development Corporation. Do we have a second? Second. We have a motion by Councilman DeWolf and a second by Councilman DeWolf. All those in favor? Aye. And do we have any that are opposed? Aye.

We have Councilman Dornan standing. And we want to move this forward. Thank you. 12B, consideration of possible action to approve a budget amendment. Fiscal year 2026, motor vehicle crime prevention authority grant. Questions?

We have a motion to approve a motion to move to the year 2017 for the vehicle crime prevention bill to be passed.

Yeah. Consideration of possible action to approve a budget amendment fiscal year 2027 motor vehicle crime prevention authority grant.

Make a motion to approve the budget amendment fiscal year 2027 motor vehicle crime prevention authority grant.

Second. We have a motion by Councilman Broaddus and second by Councilwoman Williams. All those in favor?

That was the question for the week. Don't you have to have a reason to abstain from that? Well, I'm just saying, I think you have to have a reason, a conflict of interest.

I mean, if you have to go one way or the other. This was actually a couple of the things that I thought, because I left, but I thought the math didn't work out for me, but I could be wrong. The score is now. and how it was being transferred, and I could not find account 10540860123 at all.

And we also have this... But that's where the math, again, I could be wrong. The math didn't add up with what was allocated for the budget. We're ending in, what, two weeks? The math didn't add up. And I could be wrong, but that's why I just wanted to.

I do. And I do not do that. They allocate. again i would ask that's what i was going to ask could you clarify for the help okay i want her to clarify for everybody i have been i've been for a long long time and when i explained i had the conflict of interest i had to lie for her to be and i had to leave the the meeting chamber to a extent. So I would really like for you, while the whole board is here, to clarify voting and the procedural, how do you understand, what is the proper procedure? I would like that. Okay. So do you want me to go back and do the vote that I did previously on the case?

Well, I'm saying there's no vote at the end of the day. Okay, so then it works. But you should have that reason, too, I'm saying, because the voters put us up here to make hard decisions.

And that was the reason I was asking. You've got to stay in the walk since you took office. It rarely happens in the walk. And I do want that to come out to all of us.

Thank you. Can I ask, when you're doing that, can you also include in a packet any other points of order or procedure that we should be aware of from a council standpoint?

and we um natasha has some robert rules that she can hand out you know too okay um

on how to do the business as well and how to do that for people. I thought that was a good guess. Natasha, was that said to everyone? No, it was just a response to a question that she had, but I'll send it to everyone. That's just a little quick guide. I'd appreciate it. Any other comments or deliberation at this point? I think we're on 12D. Consideration and possible action to approve a budget amendment for the body-worn Cameron Grant.

I make a motion to approve a budget amendment for the body-worn Cameron Grant.

Second. So we have a motion by Councilman Broaddus, a second by Councilman Ward. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 12E. Consideration and possible action to award an RFP 2026-07 for virtual assistant services.

Usually, we're aware this is something that KCDC has been talking about. And we don't have an EDC director that we pay at the free level. And we have a lot of small businesses that have been asking for help. through social media. There's so much new stuff that I'm not even aware of, honestly. I learned a lot from my daughter, and she's a little bit younger generation. I ask questions all the time because it's something that I'm just not familiar with. But we want to use this as a tool to help us social media platforms and then also help us hopefully create more businesses and put packages toge

Any other questions or comments? Deliberation? Do we have a motion?

I make a motion to approve RFP 22607 for virtual assisted services. Second.

We have a motion by Councilman Broaddus and seconded by Councilwoman Lillard. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 12F, consideration of possible action to award an RFP 202606 for grant administration services.

When this was first brought to town, I made a statement about building money to use primarily for basically farming land on the road from the city to the police points. And then I was more concerned about how we would some of the research I've done actually says that certain funds can not be used for a marketplace in general funds for a case of use to be made. But it's more of an accounting thing.

It's much appreciated, and I know how important it is because I've assisted you in several of these things. Yes. You can only understand how much paperwork's involved in all of this, but it's, I don't know if they signed some of it, so I don't know how the paperwork's getting submitted, but they might sign it. So, I just want to say thank you for your efforts. We've got several more coming, and three more we're going to get, so I just want to say thank you to the public.

We have a motion to read. Page 126, step 36. We're going to

We have a motion by Councilman Waters, a second by Councilman Boyd. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. And same here. I've seen you tackle grants when everybody else was scared to death. You've been awarded a lot of money since you came on board. I appreciate it. And I realize it's a team effort, but you tackle them with ease and confidence.