City Council - Special Meeting

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, tonight is Wednesday, September 16th, 2026. It is 5 30 PM. And the city council has a quorum present here in the council chambers. Uh, the first item tonight is citizens input. So at this time, comments will be taken from the audience on any topic. No action can be taken by the council during citizens input. I do not have any requests to speak forms. Were there any requests to speak from the audience? Seeing none, we will move on with our agenda to individual consideration item 3A, consider action to approve an ordinance to adopt the budget for fiscal year 2

Thank you, Wendy. Council, are there any questions for staff? All right, then I will entertain a motion on item five, which is the budget adoption. See a motion by Mr. Britton.

I have a motion to approve the item as presented. Second by Mr. Bowers. I second. I have a motion to approve with a second. Any discussion?

likewise i want to thank staff the finance department did a phenomenal job all of our department directors did really amazing work this year to come together in light of some challenges that we faced toward the beginning of the year so thank you guys for stepping up and doing that thank you to our city manager's office likewise for doing that as well and Mr. Holston, Mr. Fassett, Mr. Kazar, some of you have been around the city a really long time, some of you not as long, but you guys dove right into this process. I commend you because I was a freshman council member at one point, as we all we

Yeah, Mayor, I have a short other comments. First of all, staff, thank you guys so much, Wendy and team. Christoph, thank you guys for being a part of this. I know, Jeff, you said this isn't our first rodeo, but it is a first for the city, as Wendy mentioned, right? Coming in with a tax rate that we did not increase and we came below the net and no new revenue rate. So happy to be a part of a group that when we think about government and good government, trying to listen to what our constituents need and not necessarily pushing that property tax rate up. So I appreciate being a part of this. T

Any last comments? All right, let's go ahead and call the vote on item 3A. Uh-oh. It did that item carried unanimously and there's the voting result on the screen for everyone. All right, let's switch back over to the other screen. Thank you, Debbie. And I'll read item three B into the record. Consider an ordinance, excuse me, consider an ordinance approving and adopting the ad valorem tax rate of 0.807, eight nine one per $100 of taxable value for fiscal year 2627. And that again is a maintaining our tax rate from this past year. And with that, I will entertain a motion. Debbie, if you can cl

Thank you. I move to adopt a property tax rate of 0.807891 and that council adopt an ordinance adopting this tax rate and levying ad valorem taxes for tax year 26.

All right, we have a motion to approve and a second by Mr. Holston. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any comments or discussion? All right, with that, let's go ahead and call the vote, please. And that item carries unanimously. And I'll switch the screen back to the podium or the computer. And item three C is consider action to ratify the property tax revenue increase reflected in the budget for fiscal year 2027. And I will entertain a motion. See a motion by Mr. Holston.

We have a motion that language isn't exactly what's on the screen there. Does that it's good enough. Okay. All right. Thank you. Just wanted to be sure. And I see a second by Mr. Gibbs. I'll second that. All right. We have a motion and a second to approve as presented any discussion. All right, seeing none, let's call the vote. And that item carries unanimously. And with that, it is 5.38 p.m., and we are adjourned. Thanks, everyone.