City Council - workshop

Who's going to handle this with me as far as the two proclamations? I've got the first one, Parks Nation. Nathan, are you there? I'm here. Okay, let's do it. Am I on? Okay. At this time, we have a proclamation. It's National Arbor Day. And I've asked Nathan to join me up here. Do you have any of your team you'd like to have with us?

Well, you're not in green. What is this? No, I'm not. Okay.

Okay. Welcome. Good to see you guys. How you been? Good to see you. Proclamation. City of Irving, Office of the Mayor. Whereas, in 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees, and whereas, this holiday, now known as Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than one million trees in Nebraska, and whereas, Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world, and whereas, Trees can reduce topsoil erosion caused by wind and water, lower heating and cooling costs, help moderate temperatures

Well, gentlemen, why don't you join me over here. I think we're going to take a photo. Thank you. Where do you want it?

Come on over. At this time, I'd like to ask Deputy Chief Mitchell of our Irving Police. He has something that he'd like to be with me here as I read the proclamation. Is the chief here? Do you want to join me up here?

I can do that. Chief, you don't know what he said about you.

Okay, I'd like to now present a proclamation on behalf of the City of Irving and it's most specifically a proclamation whereas Substance use and misuse pose a significant threat to the public health, safety, and general welfare of the Irving community, impacting individuals, families of all backgrounds, and whereas substance misuse, including the non-medical use of prescription drugs, alcohol over consumption, and the use of illicit substances can lead to severe health consequences and dependency. making it essential that our community remain vigilant in identifying early signs of use and prom

Thank you. Okay, at this time, I'd like to move up in our agenda and ask the Superintendent of Irving Independent School District, Dorian Galindo, Dr. Galindo, I think she's gonna make a presentation to us. And by the way, The superintendent and I have had a chance to visit and talk about how we might be able to have a quarterly group meeting between her leadership and our leadership here, combined both from the city council as well as our administration. So, Dr. Galindo, it's all yours. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you very much. Thank you. I do want to ask your chairman, of your board ad jenkins ad where are you are you here and your staff do you have any other board members that are here and staff please stand up so we can thank you for all the work that you all do okay thank you very much thank you dr galindo at this time i'm gonna have to step out for about an hour let's hope And I will be handing it over to our deputy mayor. Our district six, or five, I can't get rid of that six yet. Five, Mark Conaway. At this time, he'll take over and go into your update, Mr. City Manager, and then we move i

All right, thank you, Mayor. Yeah, so the next item on the agenda is the City Operations Update.

When you talk about economic development and bringing the kind of trade that we want to bring here, you gotta have the infrastructure. You have to have the roads, you have to have the airports, you have to have the rail, and everything else that feeds into transportation.

This is the start of something that I really wanted to push because we're sitting here right in the middle of what I call the sweet spot.

Anybody else? Congratulations to Melissa, Stephanie, Chris Wallace with the North Texas Commission, Maura and ICBB and everybody that worked hard to put this together. It was a fantastic conference. You gave the numbers. It was tremendously successful and we all learned a lot. Learned a lot from Tam Parker's very candid comments. He likes saying candid quite a bit. He does. Yeah, Michael Morris was interesting talking about, you know, he was always He was very keen on the private PPPs. But that's going to be interesting to see how that plays out in the legislature, because there's a lot of neg

No questions for Gene? Thank you, Gene. That's a fantastic video there. All the attention and detail that went into all that with all the amenities that are being offered in the recreation center, it's fantastic. It's a great work to the city council. I know John pushed this very hard a few years ago with the let's play Irving program and we want to have these amenities amenities available to our residents it increases the vibrancy of our community and makes people want to be here to live work and play so it's a it's a fantastic thing that we're doing so anybody else want to speak on that all

Alright, thank you David. Everybody noticed that the new packet, the new section of the packet that was just given to us. It's there. Alright, then I going on to number 8, number 8 resolution approving the fiscal year 2026-27 annual service plan update to the service and assessment plan and a service assessment role for the public improvements for the bridges of Las Colinas Public Improvement District and providing an effective date. Item 9, resolution approving the fiscal year 2026-27 annual service plan update to the service and assessment plan and assessment role for the public improvement

998 is the correct number according to Chief Steele. Thank you, Chief. Good. All right. Let's see here. We're on number 13. Okay. Resolution. Approving payments to Overdrive for its digital platform services and digital content in a total estimated amount of $200,000. Item 14. Resolution. authorizing as needed expenditures to Midwest Tape LLC in the estimated amount of $135,000 for Hoopla Digital Delivery Platform. Item 15, resolution, approving and accepting a contract with Soudalco Inc. for construction manager at risk CMAR for the renovation of the joint public safety facility and authorizi

All right. Number 16, resolution, approving an interlocal cooperation agreement between the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the City of Irving for local contribution for regional traffic signal retiming program and authorizing the payment of $17,160 for the local contribution. Number 17, resolution, approving an economic development agreement with Antipoli LLC in the amount of $38,000 for enhancement incentives related to a property located at 105 South Main Street. Number 18, resolution, approving addendum number one, the agreement between the City of Irving and the Irving Hisp

We've talked before about the taking in this refuse from outside that it decreases the longevity expected for our landfill. I don't recall by how many years.

And we talked before about the gas recapture as possibly being a way to offset that some. I don't know where that is.

But you're saying without this additional trash being brought in that you wouldn't have the compaction? Correct. Okay. Because of the weight of it or just the volume of it or what?

Yeah, we have an interest obviously in the longevity of the of the of the of the landfill. We talked before about acquiring other land for as ancillary facility. We didn't do that and so these are policy discussions will keep having, I suppose in the future, but anybody else on item number 29? Alright, thank you, Travis. That completes the bids. And we'll go on to item number 30. ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF IRVING, TEXAS TAX NOTES IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED $15 MILLION, LEVYING A TAX AND PAYMENT THEREOF AND PROVIDING FOR THE AWARD AND SALE THEREOF. NUM

Any questions or comments? Thank you, Shane. Thank you.

Ordinance amending ordinance number 2025-11177 by approving a schedule of classified personnel for the police department. Item 33, ordinance amending ordinance number 2025-11178 by approving a schedule of classified personnel for the fire department. Number 34, ordinance authorizing the abandonment and vacation of a 15 foot private drainage easement 15-foot access easement and a 30-foot access easement along a portion of property located at 4995 rochelle road part of the h johnson survey abstract number 680 part of lots 1r-1 2r-1 3r-1 and 4-1 block a mustang crossings business park second revi

Any questions on item 36? All right, thank you, Jocelyn. We'll go on to item 37. Ordinance 2026-220ZC, zoning change from SB1CC generalized site plan community commercial to SB1CC generalized site plan community commercial for improvements to a drive-through restaurant, 502 North O'Connor Road.

what they are today and the surrounding properties be happy answering questions any questions on 37 all right thank you we'll go on to 38 ordinance 2026 237 zc zoning change from our 7.5 single family residential 7.5 and State Highway 161 overlay to SP2 R3.5 generalized site plan to Family Residential 3.5 and State Highway 161 overlay to add duplex as a permitted use to the overlay district.

Okay, anybody else on 38? All right, we'll go into 39 ordinance 2026 to 45 ZC zoning change from SP 2 ML 20 generalized site plan light industrial 22 SP 2 ML 20 generalized site plan light industrial 20 with variances for outside storage and screening on the East property line along Maltby Rd 324 North Nursery Road.

OK. Appreciate it. The new trees, they would have to be evergreens? And a lot of the discussion was as far as the height goes. Commissioner Lightfoot talked a lot about that. If it was a temporary situation where the height was exceeded because this HVAC equipment was on a flatbed truck, then that wasn't as offensive as opposed to just being stacked on the ground all the way up indefinitely. And this language addresses that. So if it's equipment that's stacked on the ground, it still has to be one foot under the top of the fence.

Okay. So pallets, things that can be stacked up, shingles and things like that, they would have to be under the fence line. But the HVAC equipment and anything that's on a flatbed could exceed the, it could go up to 14 feet.

And I guess we don't know if those property owners and those residential property owners are landlords or if they live there.

In a lot of parts of the city, I think we have to be cognizant that people may not even understand what those notices mean. And so are we protecting them from something that would be offensive to their homes?

All right, thank you. That was our last zoning item. And then we go on to the, is it the executive session? Is that the next item? Yes, sir. I know that the mayor wants to be back for that, so let's take a, what, 15-minute break? Yeah, let's do that. Okay. All right. Thank you. We're adjourned for 15 minutes, 20 minutes.

building better. The whole idea was to bring it together and we brought it from both sides of the globe especially here in North America.

When you talk about economic development and bringing the kind of trade that we want to bring here, you gotta have the infrastructure. You have to have the roads, you have to have the airports, you have to have the rail, and everything else that feeds into transportation.

This is the start of something that I really wanted to push because we're sitting here right in the middle of what I call the sweet spot.

building better. The whole idea was to bring it together and we brought it from both sides of the globe, especially here in North America.