City Council - Regular Meeting

I now declare that the Plano City Council is convened into open session, that all council members are present, with the exception of Council Member Levine, who will be here. The council will now recess into executive session in training room A to hold a closed executive meeting pursuant to the provisions of Vernon's Texas Code's Annotated Government Code, Chapter 551, the Open Meetings Act, in accordance with the authority contained in Section 551-071, to consult with attorney to receive legal advice and discuss litigation, and Section 551.087 to discuss economic development matters. Thank you

I now declare that the Plano City Council preliminary open meeting is reconvened in open session and that all council members are present. Our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action resulting from the executive session. Our next item is the Willoughby and open house presentation. We're gonna skip item two until future meeting So Christina, you're up.

Thank you all for putting this together. I appreciate both the quantitative and qualitative data that you share with everyone. In review of the qualitative data, I saw a lot of valid concerns and reading the spreadsheets and stuff like that, there are a lot of great ideas and emails that I get from the citizens. They have a lot of great ideas as to how to enhance this if we were to move forward with this initiative. One thing that I didn't see that Could be a concern is this seems like it's moving really fast. Could you explain to us why we are moving at the pace that we are moving as it relat

Good evening. I kind of want to just reiterate a couple things. If you can go back to your slide that had the timeline in there from June 8th. Really, I just want to reiterate something here. Really, the June, actually June 6th date, that was the start of this, really. There were conversations that were happening before this, but it wasn't until then that we were actually able to start moving forward. The July open houses, town halls, that was the first chance for citizens to say, hey, these are the areas where I have concerns. So that we now can take all those along with the concerns we alrea

Okay. Thank you, Christina. Thank you, Doug. We'll continue to... Look forward to more information as we get it, and we'll pass it along to our public. Okay. Next item is consent and regular agendas. Is there an item on the consent that a council member would like to remove? All right. Council items for discussion on future agendas.

What do you think, what would be your recommendation as to how big this task force should be? I'm we probably want different HOAs from the surrounding area, but if it's too big and nobody gets anything done, if it's too small, then we're really not.

We just started having this discussion and so I think every council member will wanna make an appointment of one and maybe a total, of three at large, and one of those would be a chair, so it would be a dozen, 10 to 12. We expect them to be able to help communicate back to their HOAs and things like that, but that can change, and we'll be in contact with each other over this next week.

We're looking at one to two appointments. Yeah, and then maybe two to three appointments

outstanding or overall for the overall council so that it'd be it'd be 10 to 12. okay all right somewhere in that range okay so we'll we'll work on that over the next uh week or so to have uh have your thoughts together for uh nominating uh someone that that would really be affected or a hoa president or something like that

Some names as well. Okay. We will take a recess and return at 7 o'clock.

I now declare that the Plano City Council is reconvened into open session, that all council members are present. We'll begin tonight's regular meeting with the invocation led by Bishop Paul Donison with Christ Church Plano and the pledge led by Mayor Pro Tem Rick Horn. Would you please stand?

Thank you so much, we appreciate it. So tonight we have the honor of presenting a proclamation to the Professional Engineers Day, which is a day set aside to recognize the vital contributions licensed professional engineers make to society. I'd like to call forward Caleb Thornhill, Director of Engineering, and the engineering staff. Oh, good job, good job, staff. Thanks for coming. So today, August, actually it was last week. Sorry, we weren't here. It's Professional Engineers Day, August 5th, 2026, but we celebrate it all year round. And whereas licensed professional engineers apply scientifi

Mr. Mayor, I move we approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second. Thank you. I have a motion and second to approve the consent agenda. Please vote. Motion passes eight to zero. Thank you. Next item.

Thank you, Christina. Any questions for staff? Council Member Levine.

Thank you, Christina. Thank you, Mayor. Are we saying that we're going to allow them to use this property but not sell it to them?

So first they want to make sure that it's rezoned?

Hi, Christine. Question. The expanded SUP only applies as long as the HOA owns it. So if whatever reason we transfer that property through a sale, if they were to turn around and resell it, the expanded SUP no longer applies?

Okay, thank you. I'll open the public hearing.

Okay. I'll close the public hearing, confine the comments to the council.

Second then. Okay, I have a motion and a second to approve item number one. Please vote. Motion passes eight to zero, thank you. Item number two.

Okay, I'll open the public hearing. Do we have any speakers? I think we have one.

Thank you. Okay, so this was our first public hearing. No vote, but we had our first one. So Karen, let's move on to item three.

Thank you, Karen. Thank you, Karen. So... This is our opportunity. We're going to put this in the paper and make this public. Obviously, you can't go up, but you can come down. But in regards to the proposed tax rate, I believe Mark delivered his budget at that number. And so if it's the will of the council, we can leave it at 4376 and just as it's shown there.

Hi, Karen. Thank you so much. I absolutely love the way that you present budget to me because frankly I'm kind of dense when it comes to numbers. But I do remember that throughout my years on council that we have gone through some very difficult times because we really was trying to, we're trying to, keep the tax rate low enough to recognize the concerns of the resident but we were doing it in the, I guess, expense of city. And I've said this year after year after year, that the city cannot be run like it's a household budget. It really needs to be able to serve our residents and our public in

So I just want to make sure that we don't go through what we went through a couple years back where we're freezing budgets and hiring freeze and cutting back hours of parking recreation. I do not want to see that for Plano because we deserve the best and we are the city of excellence. With that said, I will second.

All right. So I have a motion and a second to approve item number three, which would be the proposed tax rate of .4376. Please vote. Motion passes eight to zero.

Okay. So we need a motion and a second to approve the resolution. I think that's what we're asking. Go ahead. May I second it? All right. So I have a motion and a second to approve the resolution to accept the certified appraisal roles. Please vote. Thank you.

Thank you very much. We do have some questions. I see Council Member Thomas.

Who would you like to ask that question to?

So it's been noticed that some of the areas in our community has issues with erosion. And my question is, first, what are drainage fees and what role do those fees play into fixing the erosion issues that we see around the city?

Mr. Thornhill, stay up there, please. Sure. I noticed that in the water and sewer, that one of the items you're addressing is capacity. You're adding capacity in some places. Is that something we're doing on behalf of North Texas Municipal Water District, is capacity for the city of Plano? If so, what's happening that there needs to be a capacity increase?

All right, thank you, Caleb. Thank you all for that information. We appreciate it. We'll continue on with any questions privately if you'd like or have some later on. Let's move on to item six.

Thank you, Mayor. Doug... What will the city be able to do to educate our citizens about this election, what it is for and what it's not for?

Okay. I think we have some speakers. Thanks, Doug.

Yeah, you have three minutes. I just want to make sure you knew that.

Ms. Shibata, pull that mic down for you, if you don't mind. There you go. Thank you.

Thank you. So item six is for us to... vote on whether or not we're going to put the venue tax election on the referendum in November 3rd. So that's what we're voting on tonight. Council Member Kerr.

Mr. Mayor, residents. I think I've met all of you and probably spoken to all of you that are here already about this. And each of you have voiced your concerns. And what we heard today is that we're at least a year out before we have all the studies done, all the information. all the answers that related to the size of the project, where it's going exactly within the space, all of those sorts of things. And so I feel that if we were to make a decision now not to move forward with this, we would simply put ourselves in a bad position. And so I think that we have many opportunities to say no in

So I'm going to second this, but for a different reason. I mean, I think this is just so that we could put it on the election for November. Is that right, Doug? And so basically, we're allowing the residents of Plano to make that decision whether or not they want to move forward on this. Right?

No, this is just the venue tax election, which would be- Right, that's what I'm saying is- Yeah, but this would not stop the project.

No, no, no. In regards to the city. What I'm saying is about the tax, but it has to be voted by the residents, right? Okay, yeah, so regardless of which step we are, every step of the way, the resident gets the input as to whether or not it needs to move forward. That's how I, that's the reason why I'm seconding it.

All right, I have a motion and a second. Sir, your sign is too big.

I'm going to let it go, but we don't allow signs that size.

What does it say? Okay. I have a motion and a second to approve. Please, be quiet or we're going to ask you to leave, okay? This is our meeting. Ours too. Please vote. Motion passes eight to zero. Thank you. Okay. Comments of public interest.

Okay. There being no further business, we are adjourned.