City Council - Regular Meeting

And welcome to the City of Montgomery City Council regular meeting for August 11th, 2026. It's exactly 6 p.m. and I'd like to call this meeting to order. We have a full quorum, Ms. Bevin. And I'd like to remind everybody to turn their phones off or down so that we are not disturbed and everyone here can listen to the meeting equally. With that, if you'd please rise and Mr. Donaldson, give the invocation.

Heavenly Father, thank you for this, another opportunity, Father, to serve the citizens of Montgomery. Father, to give us the wisdom and knowledge, Father, to do what's right for the citizens and our local government. Thank you, Father, for protecting our first responders and all their business, watching over our soldiers. all their efforts. And thank you, Father, for blessing the city of Montgomery. And we thank you for all of these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Now the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance. All right, next item on your agenda is number four, citizens comments. I have received two forms to speak this evening and I will ask you to come to the podium in order that I received the request. Just as a reminder, you have three minutes to speak and don't expect back and forth. It's purely for all of us to hear and for you to be on the record. With that, number one is Ms. Hilary Dumas. Please come forward and state your name for the record.

Good evening, Hillary Dunas, 8560 Majestic Lake Court, Montgomery, Texas. I'm actually here regarding an agenda item that occurred at the previous meeting on the 28th, Tuesday, and it was regarding a feasibility study for cottage greens. This property lies within what was previously the planned development, and while that planned development has expired, we would say we still have some architectural oversight, or at least the intent of the planned development would still be there it didn't just disappear people purchased property within that district knowing that there was some oversight in the past our oversight and our requirements were stricter than the city could be just mostly because the ordinances are kind of outdated so as I don't know where that stands now more recent city engineers have said that we have no oversight Whether it's with the city or whomever it is but that cottage grain development has occurred in numerous cities or areas around us and I would just encourage City Council to take a look at that product. One of the things we've done several residential neighborhoods within Montgomery and there are things we do again and things that we wouldn't do again but one of the things I can definitively say we did well was the masonry requirements and we held everybody to 85% or more. Even when that meant that we were holding lots longer, some of the big national builders don't want to do that. They wanted smaller lots, they wanted 40 foot lots, they wanted very small masonry requirements and we held that ground. And so the surrounding neighborhoods to Town Creek Crossing, estates of Lake Creek Village, Lake Creek Village, all have those masonry requirements. In some cases, a single story, maybe 100% masonry. Cottage Green is, at least their previous products are, 180 degrees the opposite of that and long term that is not necessarily a look that holds up well it is not necessarily something that adds value to the surrounding properties or even the city and so however that project however that oversight goes i would just encourage city council and city staff to keep that in mind because a lot of the people bought deed restricted neighborhoods and homes with those requirements and to have a product that is vastly different isn't necessarily a benefit or help to the overall safety of the doctor. Thank you.

Alright, number two is Scott Love. If you'd please come forward, state your name and address for the record. And you are here.

I was out at 820 Caroline Street over here by the park. I'm here just to read a simple impact statement in regard to a proposed development. So, speaking in regard to the long-term empty family rental development that will be proposed for 900 Caroline Street adjacent to Cedar Break Park in the very heart of our historic district. In a bit, Mr. Cheatham will present a proposal for 900 Caroline Street for residential development. multi-family housing rental developments in our historic district. In order to do this, you have to see comparison.

R1 single-family housing to R2 multi-family structural housing. I'm here because I absolutely oppose this.

council to clearly understand that the project being proposed is in every definition and functional use and apartment complex the developer may call them duplexes but the duplexes townhomes condos departments all share the exact same core characteristics and that is they are residential multi-unit residential structures which have shared walls shared land shared infrastructure and shared multi-family density the two duplexes being presented equals four dwelling units And with a national average of two vehicles per household, the project should reasonably accommodate a minimum of eight or more vehicles in design. Instead, the design of this one only provides for a two-car garage, perfect flex, leaving half the intended residents without any on-site parking in turn. This guarantees overflow. That overflow will not magically disappear. Where that overflow is going to go is directly into Cedar Break Park. What that is going to do is going to displace park users and push apartment level congestion into the historic district. Well, the intent today may be that a single multi-generational family will rent the entirety of one structure. The scenario cannot be guaranteed and does not logically or statistically fit the long-term rental model consistent with multi-family housing units. This development that is designed cannot meet the basic parking needs of the residents that it will likely hold. It is a multifamily park complex. It is fundamentally incompatible in its design, intent, and historic protections of the district. Allowing this multifamily rental development would be fundamentally destructive to the character, identity, and visual integrity of the neighborhood. The historic district is defined by its cohesive charm, its walkability, and its historic authenticity that residents and visitors alike value. These proposed long-term multifamily rental structures will introduce greater density, increased traffic, modern pressures on the city, and directly conflict with the Establish historic pattern. The presence would permanently alter the look and feel of the historic district and erode the very qualities of the reason the historic preservation ordinance was created. Rental-based multifamily developments often bring high turnover or reduced investment in property upkeep in the long term and a lack of long-term accountability. These conditions have repeatedly been shown to degrade neighborhood cohesion and accelerate the decline of community standards a long term that is fundamentally incompatible with our preservation of our historic district. She will represent. Try to make some arguments are coming up in his favor, namely the Magnolia House. It will claim that the cottage in the back represents multi-family housing, a home that was built in 1855.

1855.

They'll also use the home on the corner of Eugenia and Caroline, an actual duplex, but it's not used in that model. You have just a few more sentences, so go ahead. I'll get past that part of it. I'm just going to hit my last statement. All that said... I need to be absolutely clear with the city that the city chooses to grant this variance allowing a long-term multi-rental development on any R1 parcel in the historic district that I formally demand here tonight on the record that my property located at 820 Caroline Street received the exact same R2 designation in perpetuity. My family, my descendants must have the same right to build multi-family rental housing units Any barriers can one property must be granted equally to all one property owners within the historic districts. Not doing so. It's unequal and defensible application of zoning at the work. That's before I ask you again, what do you want to say to look like?

Thank you, Mr. Next item on your agenda, taxpayer impact statement number five. This notice informs taxpayers of the potential impact of the proposed tax rate for fiscal year 2026 through 2027, comparing what would be paid under the no new revenue tax rate versus the proposed tax rate. Moving on to item number six. Presentation and discussion by John Stevens of the McVeigh Group regarding proposed interior design at the municipal complex.

Thank you, Council.

I appreciate the opportunity to be back. Today is kind of a pretty exciting day. I brought Jenna Walker. She's the interior designer. So today you'll see a variety of some materials, some interior renderings. We also have Allison, the CM here to answer any questions. I'm going to give just a quick update as the process of what we've been doing for the last few months or so. Since the hiring of the CM, we've been working on, we're not quite there yet, we're getting close to presenting a CM GMP budget. we're probably a week or so away we're working with brent chief and uh telepson on that so there'll be more on the budget coming very very soon we've been working on some clarifications some of the things that have happened in the last about a month or so we finally got geotech report we've been dealing with soil conditions out there a lot of which was totally unexpected. For the interior of the Jim's Hardware building, the initial report came back, I'm done. For the interior of the Jim's Hardware the initial report came back that they wanted us to exceed what the existing foundation system was. Currently the Jim's foundations are seven foot caissons with bells to withstand the uplift from the soils. They requested us to go down to 12 feet caissons and this was a huge deal because we have a lot of new columns coming in on the interior of the building. On the exterior of the building, for the addition that we're putting on, the soils are even worse on that side. They wanted us to remove 78 inches of fill. 78 inches of engineered fill. We were planning on shallow foundations, spread footers for both of those. So once we got that news, we've had quite a bit of meetings with Terracon, Telipson, myself, structural engineers. We've kind of got a game plan back. We've asked the geotech engineer to kind of re-look at the report. So the foundations have been the biggest driver right now of the progress of the building. So we're able to do shallower foundations with no caissons inside the building. We've been working with the design team, the engineer and the geotech engineer on that. So that was a very positive... date when that happened. For the second, for the addition, they're still holding true to bringing in 78, removing 78 inches, bringing in fill, and now we still have to do some caissons out there. The soils are really bad. The moisture content is very high out there, so the reason for that is to the vertical uplift for the soil conditions. So that's been something that we've been dealing with for quite a bit. We've been working with the L squared on the civil engineering. They've put together multiple rounds for the expanded parking. We'll have that updated design here very soon. And then we've been working with the mechanical, electrical teams to kind of reel in from when we did a design, we did a schematic design, they provided narratives, kind of just a starting point for their designs. So we started with that and now they're into the design or into the calculation. We've been picking systems. We've got the correct amperage on the building now. We've got systems designed for the building. We'll have some options for you guys in the next two weeks. We'll provide some options for you guys to take a look at both mechanically and electrically as well. Interiors, Jenna, you'll meet here in a second, has been rocking and rolling on the interiors. We've been putting an emphasis on all the public spaces, but you'll see, so the floor plan has largely unchanged. There's been some tweaks, there's been some dimensional changes, but for the most part, the plan is as it was. If you want to go to the next slide. Second floor, we kind of add some clarification. We'll start to see a little bit more detail that's been popping up inside the plans. You'll see some of the interior elements that Jenna and her team has been adding. And you'll start to see the interior renderings So this is the reflected ceiling plan. So this is like a horizontal cut of the building looking up. So we're very budget conscious. So we're trying to spend money in the areas where it's more public and more interactive spaces. A lot of the rest of the building is just your acoustic ceiling tiles, some nice light fixtures, but you can see right in the middle is the courtroom with the star and a recessed coat lighting. The lobby feature is a higher ceiling with a I'll let Jenna talk about it, but there's a ceiling feature there over the lounge area. And then you can kind of see most of the offices is just your two by two light fixtures and ceiling tile. You can see the two conference rooms. They've got kind of a nice drywall cove around and an elevated ceiling feature in the middle. And we'll have some nice light decorative light fixtures in those conference rooms as well. There's the second floor, so again, very similar layout, offices, two by two light fixtures, two by two ceiling grid, and then spending some money in the training room, and then in the break room, those kind of more interactive spaces.

John, did you say that starts on the floor or it's on the ceiling?

She'll get to it. Exterior-wise, we've been really honing in on constructability, working on materials. The police department was probably the largest area that hadn't really received a lot of attention. The initial design had a big arched window similar to the tower. Well, that was going up into the roof. So we've kind of worked on clarifying the materials and the constructability on that. You go to the next slide. The east side of the building, the backside of the building, that's an existing metal panel. So we've been looking at working with Tullochson and their team on how we're going to address three sides of the building. So we've kind of, we've looked at tearing down those three sides and as of right now, we're going to be saving those three sides of the building and the back side we're going to address it with a nice metal panel, horizontal metal panel that's going to go over top of the existing vertical metal panel there. Some of the things that we're going to be doing is addressing, there is no vapor barrier and there is very minimal insulation on the existing walls in there. So working with Telpsen and Ezra, we've devised a system, closed cell foam, spray foam gets us the vapor barrier and the nice insulation. We don't have to tear down three of those walls. So that's a savings there. We're going to be working with them to devise a nice detail to cut in the existing, the new windows. you see on that so there's been a lot of i mean it's doesn't look like there's a lot of progress but there's been tons of progress i didn't bring in the wall section we have wall sections and some details now that we've been working on um really trying to figure out how this building is going to be constructed um the second floor mezzanine too has been uh i've heard some rumors there's you know uh some dialogue out the public it's still in the we we can build this it's going to be built. So that's some of the soil conditions that we've been working on right now with the structural engineer. So just wanted to give you that update and you can click the next couple slides or some renderings. So you'll see some of the tweaks there. We are exploring some options to keep some sections of that west facade. We'll see how that goes as potential cost savings. But you can kind of see how the facade has kind of developed. I added a couple extra renderings of the north and the east sides. So you kind of get a game plan of what those begin to look like.

The feedback that I'd heard was it all looked like one building and doing these two different facades definitely gives the distinction that there's two buildings. So thank you for hearing that.

So there's the north side of the building. Again, it's for constructability, and we're just looking at all costs. That's one of the sides that we believe we're able to salvage and keep the three sides of the building. We are exploring the west side, keeping it, and you can kind of see the new windows, the existing electrical service there, the infill loading dock, the infill overhead door that's there, and then obviously cutting in the secondary entrances there. And then on the backside. So the backside is just a horizontal metal panel. We're working on exactly which one that is, but it's going to go right over top of the metal panel and some sheeting, which will give us the vapor barrier. So it'll be a much nicer envelope, you know, watertight, airtight.

So I have a question about your cell phone. That's going to change the HVAC system.

It's all new HVAC systems. We're working through that.

It's all, you know, a balance of, you know, we're working closely with Ellipson to kind of figure out the cost savings on that. So we think right now keeping the three sides of the building and doing the closed cell gets us, you know, the right kind of pricing point. So we'll be able to provide those details for you guys when we present the project. But those are all conversations, Casey, we've had. And we've been looking at the different kind of options. So with that, I'm going to let Jenna show you the interiors and kind of run through it. Jenna Walker.

Thank you so much for having me tonight. I'm very excited to be here and start to share some of the interior ideas that we have for the project. So as John said, I'm Jenna Walker. I'm an interior designer and an architectural historian, and I really focus on spaces that tell the story of a community. So your project is absolutely falling into that space where you have this incredible history in your community, and we're bringing that into this new building to create a space that not only the staff and people who are in the building every day are proud of, but the community themselves really feel proud of. So I wanted to start out by sharing some conceptual imagery and ideas that we had shared with the committee early on. So we started in with just really high-level existing images of other projects to talk about what types of features. So this was just a high-level look, and if you want to switch to the next page, then we started to really look at the field. So what I like to do is think about the narrative of the place and tell the story of the people. We want to think about how the architecture of the building, the people, and all the things in it are going to work together to create a space that's supportive for everyone. So we really dug deep into the history of your community and the landscapes and everything around you to create this overall feeling. We want that feeling to pull through the space. So if you can go to the next slide. That kind of moved us into the color direction. We immediately felt that the importance of the Texas flag and the color palette surrounding that, and also being the 250th anniversary of our nation, the red, white, and blue kind of started to percolate up as an accent throughout the space that really was meaningful to the community and is something that has longevity. It's not trendy. We know we do a lot of community spaces. These buildings are not renovated for every 20 to 30 years. not you know every three to five years like a hospitality space so we really want something that is traditional and has that longevity So taking the drawings that John shared, these are the floor finish plans. So as he mentioned, we're still working through slab conditions. So right now you can see as you come into the space, there's some different hatch patterns. We're showing LVT, a wood look LVT currently in the main lobby and down the floor. corridor and into the police department corridor. That will likely, hopefully, be polished concrete if we can have slab conditions that support that because we want something that has the longevity. There are new technologies in the LBT that have a 20-year lifetime now but our preference is going to actually be the concrete. We will have an inset area rug and we have samples up here. I'm happy to stay after and walk through samples in more detail and point out individual images or, you know, individual samples for specific spaces when we have the ability to go to the table closer. But there'll be an inset rug And they're outside for some seating. And we're doing that to kind of bring that space. It's a large volume of space. We wanted to create an area where people can come in and wait and feel comfortable while they're waiting to do their business or come into a meeting. Then as we go into the staff spaces we have carpet throughout and that's really to help with acoustic. There's a lot of private conversations and important things happening within the building so we want to have that acoustic. So we have carpet throughout. We've got a couple different kinds of carpet to delineate spaces so you'll see that the court house and chambers has a different carpet. The conference rooms have a different carpet and then there's a general carpet used throughout. They all work really well together and feel like a cohesive palette. We have tile in the toilet rooms and the locker rooms, and then we have rubber athletic flooring shown in the fitness rooms. Once you go into the police department side, we want them to feel cohesive with the city building, so you'll see the carpet continues through, but we do have more LVT and some specialty finishes, you know, poured epoxy and things that are needed in holding cells and those type of special spaces. So if you want to go to the next slide. High level on the second floor. This is primarily carpet. We've got LVT in storage rooms, but otherwise everything upstairs is pretty much carpet other than the toilet rooms, which are the porcelain tile again. Next, please. So these are furniture plans, but these were initial furniture plans. We had a really great experience walking the building today and meeting with a lot of staff members to talk through what's their daily lives, what are they doing, what do they need to access on a daily basis versus what can go in storage so we start we'll be refining these significantly over the coming weeks but generally you come in we have the seating area within the lobby we've got three windows now at each the building department you know permits utilities as well as the clerks for the court when you come in through the main lobby and then we've got the offices to support staff We have our council chambers which will look at some renderings. We also included a couple spaces for staff. We know from research that working in any job with the public, really working in any job in this world today, people get really stressed so we have a couple areas where staff can go during their break time and really feel supported and have a space to step away so they're not feeling like they have to work every minute of every day so they have a nice break room that they'll be able to go into. And then we have, once we go into the PD side, we've got another separate lobby for them with some seating. And then the briefing space, we're updating that for what we spoke with Chief today on some details there. We do have a fitness area and lockers to support the police department. And then a variety of different types of specialty spaces. And we're working through the programming for furniture for those.

We are working with the staff here to identify furniture pieces that we're going to keep versus some furniture pieces that we're going to have to buy. And those

And I'll add to that to say, you know, as an interior designer, furniture is a big part of what I do every day. And furniture can cost 20 to 40% of a project. And often, and it's not part of the construction budget that you're seeing. So it's something we want to ensure it's on your radar. The more that you can reuse, the better. But we want to make sure that we're planning ahead and anything that we're going to use as existing, we'll tag that. So when you're ready to send a furniture package out, you'll be able to clearly identify what needs to be new versus what's going to be And then the second. So upstairs, we've got some additional offices. We have a kind of open work area and team space for collaboration amongst the staff members, a small break room, and then we have the multi-purpose training room, which can be used for a variety of different events as well. So I wanted to just briefly go through a few of the key spaces. So what we're trying to do in the general areas is have a nice, clean, simple palette that's very neutral, that can continue everywhere. But then we have a few areas that we've started to highlight for spaces that we want people to feel proud of and feel comfortable coming into. So the lobby is the first. The furniture style is not important. These are just placeholder standard furniture pieces, but the general layout is having some seating with some chairs and sofas underneath this overhang. You'll see the rendering in a moment. We had some artwork and wood. Meeting with the design team, the committee yesterday, they had some ideas on maybe some murals and things, so we'll look at that. We have this piece above that seating area that's going to come down, and that has some acoustical properties. So there's a few areas that we've added some layers of acoustics to help mitigate sound transfer and keep the space comfortable from a sensory standpoint as well as physically comfortable.

Can you walk me through that lobby, looking at that? I just see a lot of boxes. Yeah, looking at the rendering.

I think that you can go to the next page. So here's kind of an initial, this is a very first pass. This is not final designs, but the general look and feel that we've kind of worked through with the committee is having some kind of mural as you come into the space with that seating area and then you'll have the ceiling feature and we've kind of used some color blocking of that red white and blue of the flag to in an abstract way for that ceiling feature to kind of pull that ceiling down and then we've added some wood texture on the walls to help draw attention to the windows and then we'll have space for ample storage display of the different there's so many beautiful pieces of artwork and historic photos that we'll want to display around both the chamber as well as the lobby and the corridor down to the toilet rooms. There's space for that as well. So again, this is not exactly what you're going to see. We're wanting today to share initial ideas to get feedback and start to hear your thoughts on where this is going.

Yesterday we had just sort of full transparency. We had kind of wrapping the wood around and we wrapped the wood up and had a couple pieces of artwork and the conversation was boy it would really be nice we have this big wall it'd be nice to have some sort of mural so this is just the map so you know that mural could be an art piece it could we could bring the wood back we could have more framed art you know it was just more of a representation of kind of the conversation that we had and then we also heard too about certain color palettes that we had so

I had originally had more of a, I thought, a camel leather. I was quickly educated that anything with a burnt orange undertone is not allowed, and it's not burgundy.

So I apologize.

I have learned my lesson. And I did have those with me, so I knew. I was not offended. So, and just a quick note, we did the mural, obviously that's a very quick rendition of it, but we are, John and I expressed, we are a little concerned about putting anything, any historical artifacts in that lobby with all that sunlight. Even if you use a UV protective glass within your frames, you're risking those artifacts. So we would much rather see those in interior spaces, protected, and then we can always create digital representations and things to still bring that flavor and that important characteristic to this public space.

Do you have any questions? I just needed to be reminded, what type of flooring are they going to have in the lobby?

So right now we're showing, for a budget, we put in the LVT for that, which is a luxury vinyl tile, so it's a solid wood look. So we walked through different wood tones also with the committee, and we landed on the natural white oak. So you'll see kind of a natural white oak throughout for all the wood tones. If we can do polished concrete, though, this will be removed. This is just a placeholder. So it will be this if we can't do polished concrete, but we'd like to do polished concrete. What's the lifespan of that? This is a 15 to 20 year for these high-oak millware layers. You can get this very, very inexpensive and very thin, but you can also get it more engineered for these high-use spaces.

The concrete is... It's every day and it's less expensive. That's fine.

We kind of instructed Jenna to show it for now because initially we weren't sure how much of that slab we were going to be able to save, if any. Now, in talking with Talypso and the guys, probably 90% of that slab is coming out. It's more realistic that it's going to be polished concrete. The news lab will be able to have a really nice level finish in that area.

And then this is our inside log. We'll sit within that that has a little bit of that pattern with that red light blue start that is hints of color.

My question is about the walk-up windows. Go back. Go back one.

So we have a, we actually have a, not drawn exactly accurate yet here, but we have a metal detail and then we were going to have a quartz surface at the window.

So I'm okay with the windows.

Oh, that's a wood, that's a textured wood panel.

Yeah, so that has to be, that means it has to be at cost.

Yep, we've heard that.

So we are exploring alternates. Tilly said the same thing yesterday. Okay.

We do want to have some interest in there, so it doesn't feel like a flat space, but we hear you, and we'll explore some options.

I like your cable collar.

We'll have that fight later tonight.

Too dark for me. The burgundy? Yeah.

We have lots of time, and honestly, furniture is, these are placeholder pieces. We don't have specification of furniture that will likely be done by a furniture dealer or some kind of furniture partner, so we're putting in our basis of design, and we'll talk high-level types and some of the color that we recommend, but then that'll be worked through. So then moving into courthouse and council chambers, you'll see some markups on this because we hadn't had a chance to talk through with the staff exactly how the space is going to function. But in the proposed plan, they have expressed wanting to extend the dais out to see all 10. So everyone at this current station here as well as everyone at this would all be within one curved piece. everyone can see each other and it would have a larger radius instead of being a little bit flat like this one. So we can't repurpose this one then? If you want to repurpose it then it would just change that plan and approach. We talked about if there's going to be a step up or not. That's a conversation to have. Do we want the dais to have that step up like it does now? So we've added a ramp to the side and That ramp would never be allowed today. We'll have to have an ADA compliant ramp for that step. So John and I are talking through that. And then we also have shown where we could fit up to six people if we needed any kind of jury box. And the plan for this would be everything would be mobile. So the space could be reconfigured for different uses. And we're looking also at where does that furniture then go when it's being used for something else. You can go to the next slide. These are some elevations. So we did have that textural wood so we would like to have again some kind of accent piece and then the desk itself would be the wood. And then if you can go to So here's kind of an early idea of what that would start to look like. We currently have some areas off to the sides for storage or AV equipment or going into the conference room. So you'd have a little bit darker of a floor. We've got that ceiling feature, something similar to this, but we're using acoustical material in the blue and white to create that star motif and to kind of bring that in as a feature within the space. And then if you can go to the next one, there's an additional view kind of looking off to the side of that space. How many people, how many chairs, does that fit? So it's, I did this today. It's not to scale? It's not to scale. This was a, they tried to quickly make these changes that they talked about in a meeting yesterday. So we're going to flush it out and we'll get it more detailed because I took measurements of all the equipment today and we want to make sure everyone has at least three to four feet. So we're going to lay that out. It'll actually likely arch even a little further. We'll continue those conversations. So look and feel, but not detail today. So toilet rooms within the staff spaces, you know, we're looking at porcelain. We want really easy to clean, durable spaces that will withhold, you know, withstand time and use. So we've got, we're showing porcelain on all walls. That's something we'll continue to have conversations. We may, you know, take it down to halfway or remove it for some of the walls as we continue to value engineer the project. But for now to work towards that GP, we wanted to, put the maximum amount we would see. So we've got porcentile on the floors and walls and then solid surface on the countertops with laminate for the ADA apron at the laboratory. Next please. So conference rooms, as John said, there's some detailing on the ceiling, similar to the conference room we have now. And we're looking at having a larger table in the conference rooms and having some built-in millwork to support any kind of events that are happening. So there's an open counter that can be for serving food or laying any materials out, and then a large display screen for presenting. And if you can go to the next slide you can see how that starts to look from a rendering standpoint. We talked about potentially having maybe the ceiling tile in the recess could be different colors in different rooms. We can play with some details, you know, as we go forward. We wanted to have glass for the wall. We've talked about potentially adding some privacy to that and, you know, some film or using frosted glass, but really just wanting that light to be able to permeate into the space so you don't feel super enclosed.

The conference rooms are inboard from the outside walls. We're trying to bring some layers of light kind of

So then we did, as I mentioned, create a couple of these spaces for the staff to have areas for respite to step away from their work and have their lunches and breaks. And so we have a main break room on the first floor and have kind of a built-in banquette seating and some tables and then at the kitchenette area so much different than what exists today throughout the building in one shared space also to allow people to kind of interact and have moments when you know the staff pass by one another informally from both the police department and the city building. You can go to the next slide. So this is you know showing some wall covering and patterned fabric to just kind of make it a space that they can step away. There's also I believe a patio to the back, right John? There's a lot of important research about nature and having access to daylight and nature throughout your day to help with burnout and productivity. So we wanted to have that space for the staff to be able to have that. You can continue through that. So then we also have the public toilet rooms on the main thoroughfare also wanted to have those really durable. So we've got a porcelain tile and walls and floor there as well with nice fixtures. That's going to have just a sink, an individual wall-mounted sink instead of a full And then going into the police department, this lobby carries some of that similar feeling from the main lobby, but then has a few things that give it its own kind of feel. So we have the window that will have some similar detailing, likely changing the exact texture of what that wood is by having that accent piece. Um, signage will be important, but also just visual cues to show people, you know, Oh, this is where I go. That's really important for, you know, whether there's differences in age or you know, language or ability. We want people to come in and be able to navigate a space pretty quickly and easily. So by creating these cues with color and finish, it also just helps direct people. If you can't read, then you can easily see where to go.

So here's an early visual of what the lobby starts to look like there.

We've got some flexible meeting spaces. So just showing a few variety of different types of spaces there. And if you can go to the next one. So this is showing the chief office that has some advanced, more spaces. He has his own bathroom here, but it's a general overview of what all offices would look like. So depending on what the role is and what the needs are, there may or may not be some side seating and a table within the office. we met today and look there's a lot of storage needs that are going to need to be laid out more directly but this is showing generally you'll have a task chair some side seating if there you know if there's a table there may be a small conference table and then for the majority of these offices having the storage along the wall with a peninsula desk will allow that light to come into the space and not block the window And then this last area is the open print area up in the second floor. So this is that open work area where people from any department can go and have all the tools that they need in some areas to have informal touchdown meetings and things as well. If you can go to the next slide, this shows kind of what that rendering punched a window that's the old that's the old Bobby John that window is supposed to be looking into the lobby so that light from that space can and the large volume from the lobby space can get into that upper area so this just shows a few areas where people can work in different ways and that's it so So in the front area, it's carpet.

In the back area, so connecting offices, it is carpet.

Those are all currently LBT. Yeah, and if, again, polished concrete, if we can do it. So likely polished concrete.

Any other questions? Thank you.

All right. Number seven on your agenda. Presentation and discussion regarding a proposal from a waste collection company to modernize commercial trash collection operations.

Ms. Tilley. Good evening. We are going to show you a system. And it might be a nice new idea. Possibly resolving the questions that we have.

Hello, City Council. Thank you for the opportunity to speak here. Hi, my name is Matthew Young. This is my assistant president. He's my son. So my purchase, this is a new franchise coming to the U.S. market that I purchased in April. I own the Houston market. We're subcontained. The company's been around overseas in Europe for 35 years. They moved into North America. and her husband and they decided to bring it to the U.S. as of October of last year and do it as a franchise model in the U.S.

So it's a semi-in-ground dumpster.

So yes, it is a more permanent structure than your typical 8-yard, 4, 6, 8-yard dumpsters that You don't use as much trash. So my dumpsters hold more. They also don't have to be picked up as often. So they hold 30% to 50% more. your typical dumps, your typical NPR dumps. They also have no wastewater runoff. So when the metal dumpsters, they put holes in the bottom, you put trash, they leak, all that waste runs into the parking lot. Ours don't because they're in the ground and they're in a leak poop bag. This bag is actually a material trip stops so if it gets punctured it won't tear anymore and we can come out and replace it. I also, like I said, it's a crane truck so it's loaded from the top into the bottom as well. They are ADA compliant. They also deter rodents. dumpsters I mean when you open it it opens to the left at 110 degrees it's a about a two-by-two trash bag inside and they can be and they can be wrapped I gave you a couple of renderings a different place right there in the community building Where they are now So and they can they can be customly wrapped to blend in with the surrounding Texas flags on so y'all put it like chose to go with us and y'all put it at the new building you do put your City in Montgomery on the photo of the front of the fence How many other cities do you have currently

I just purchased this in April.

I just got released to start marketing as of the end of June.

And my truck is being built right now. It'll be here in September. And the bins will actually be shipped from Canada tomorrow. How far do they go in the grunge that they're buried in?

So they are six feet. So they're five feet underground, three feet above. They're 42 inches high. Why would somebody climb in a dumpster? It avoids dumpster diving as well because they're out in the open. And then if y'all ever go to city zoning where you have to have a structure around, the bin is actually the structure. Instead of having like a dumpster corral, the bin, there's a HPE, it's a hypopylene material like a yeti cooler. It's all virgin plastic that goes into the ground.

So those things last 50 years. So 35 years ago, they have not replaced one. The bags generally last 8 to 10 years.

How many days a week do you dump them? It all depends.

So how many days, do you know how many days y'all do now?

We do what?

I'll 30 50 percent so I don't have to come out this often and then the driver will lay the top Every time they come out the dominant So we sanitize as well Roughly about 10,000 10,000 Per minute And then weekly fees

weekly fee for a pickup. And then weekly call, yeah.

It'll be, I mean, if you already have one, I can do every other one.

But I would imagine that we would have, we would then. And I could adjust the price. The businesses that would use it to pay for that fee that we would incur to have the service. So it would just be divided up by however many businesses.

Yeah, and are you suggesting purchasing all of these units ourselves, or is there some sort of an agreement to get into this? I mean, a lot of times, like dumpsters,

so you rent them you pay 100 to 200 per month per dumpster that you already own you just don't see the price you just you just but you know what i'm saying like this is purchased you own this you own it so it's a one-time fee you don't pay so the city owns these items correct yes sir so instead of paying 100 200 a month for what's outside now I mean, after a few years, your return on investment is done. What are your costs for your pick-up? $85 pick-up.

They've only lost one customer. 25%.

That's because there's no other option.

No, there's other options.

In the U.S. market, yes, I am the only option. But in Canada, there are other options. They do have competitors. I'm sure eventually I will have competitors, but probably for at least 15 years.

So you are the only?

I'm the only one in the U.S. I'm the only one in Texas.

So you're 70% more... bigger than the normal?

So they naturally compact so you're loading from the top so when you put waste it pushes the air out and you put waste on top of waste and the way that the bins are designed it naturally compacts.

From my next point you say they naturally compact?

Due to gravity.

Are you talking about gravity? Yes sir. Okay.

And the way the bins are designed.

So if we were putting them downtown how would you determine What businesses use them?

So we have two different types of bags. So there's one for like restaurants. They have like a clamshell at the bottom. So that way, even though they're leak proof bags, there's a little 100 gallon clamshell at the bottom. So they also don't leak.

So nobody, so not everybody can dispose of garbage. Yes. Just normal bags? Yes.

There's special bags or normal bags?

Well, that's the whole thing. You're talking about trying to build it out and they don't want to participate, right? There's no way to.

I love the idea.

The challenge is going to be even when we looked at dumpsters or any other way, we don't have right of way to put things, you know, so then you're back into the private, which never works very good. You know, since we don't have alleys, if we had alleys, that would be a different story.

Actually, I was looking at this. It's just a community trash can just for people walking by. Is that...

Yes, they did a test pilot in Raleigh. So they have... something like roll carts like your typical in an alley and they put eight of these down the city of Raleigh in North Carolina downtown and they did some trash and some recycling. Are there smaller versions of these? There are two. So there is a M3000 and M5000. What are we seeing here?

Those are the M5000s. Those are the bigger ones. Any other questions?

So you're saying in 35 years, they've only lost one customer?

In Canada, they've lost one customer in 25 years.

What was the reason?

They actually, well, yeah, they lost two. One came back within like six months. And I don't know the other reason. I didn't ask.

Just curious. Yeah, it's a great idea.

Is this mostly with cities or do you consult contacting businesses?

City, restaurants. complexes, just no residential.

So here's another question. What's their impact resistance? Like if somebody drove a car into it, dropped a wheel in there or anything else, right? We have to put posts around it. You're talking about public space. Right. And the public, I'm in the public. I used to do things. We all used

You can put bollards, like the yellow bollards, or, I mean, they can be colored, whatever color, of course. Like how I said, one of the pictures I put behind the bollards.

And you're here locally? I noticed a 936 now.

Yes. I live in Conroe. Thank you so very much.

All right, item number eight, presentation and discussion regarding a proposed residential development located in 900 Caroline Street in the Historic Preservation District, including proposed lot split, rezoning from R1 single-family residential to R2 multifamily residential, setback variance request, and construction of two new two-family dwellings. Ms. Tilley.

Yeah, we can't see partnership this year. Mr. Randolph. Mr. Rizzo's channel. So the purpose of this presentation is to get the city council familiar with the proposal. It's currently, it would currently include the slating of the existing property into two equal lots. We'll be rezoning the lots from R1 to R2 multi-family residential. They'll be requesting a setback variance. It's to accommodate the two really nice looking trees along the west side of one of the properties, and constructing a new two-family dwelling on each of the newly created plots. This, on August 4th, went to the Island Zoning Commission to not only hear the presentation, but to also look at the proposed design of the two family dwellings. The Island Zoning Commission all the architectural design requirements based on the historical design standard guidelines that we have in our place.

And if you have any questions for me, I can answer that. Otherwise, Mr. Cheatham is here.

All right. Come on down. Chris and Mary Cheatham.

This property we've got in the

for some time and carefully consider what to do with that a lot.

Over the years I've looked at a number of two-family units. This particular one attracted my attention. It's actually out of Southern Living Magazine and in all appearances looks like a

I don't know what's in your packet, but it's a nice property. We do need some help. There are two large old growth oak trees on the west side of the lot that we like to preserve. And so to ask for the setback, the side setback.

And we've been here a long time. trying to respect the character of the neighborhood. I believe that these two units will fit very well.

And one driveway on the east side.

And they don't have a common wall. So they're freestanding.

Yes. They just have a shared roof. Yes. Correct.

Yeah.

Just a common driveway.

Yes. Similar to what we did at Westside. Same thing. Yes, that's to try to say to we can we can make a fit or we'll lose two overall threes on the west side Okay, that's the seventh yes, right You

How big is each lot? It's 0.35. The total lot is about 7 tenths of a lot.

It's a very nice lot. The shape of the lot really fit to split it.

It takes seed to farm an ordinary lot.

How many square feet is each house?

Each building is about 2200 square feet.

We had a comment earlier today.

What about the parking situation? I mean, we're going to provide more parking than is required. How many parkings are you grabbing? Two per unit, so we have eight.

So, designate two for each. Is that a garage or outside parking? One garage, one outside. It's a duplex to family in it, yeah Mr. Cheatham I appreciate everything you've done and are doing for this city and

I believe that when you pass down 105 and look at Cedarbrook Park, that's one of the most pleasing spots in this city. And I know through your architecture that you have now and will continue to do, that you're going to do your best to make everything look presentable and in a way that it won't. you know, won't mess up the aesthetics of what we see. But the vision I see of the historic district is one of single-family homes. And, you know, with the existing architecture that's surrounded Cedarbrook Park, I know your building won't maybe look different, but still, I would prefer to keep it R1 residential. I just think that's the vision we need to keep in the historic district itself. It doesn't matter, I'm not trying to pick you out just because you're one of multi-family, but I think that area needs to stay single family.

And I just wish you would come up with another vision for that lot.

that you know there's a new teacher or young single professional that would like to live in the city pretty limited options before March

Yeah, I do have some conflicts about the whole thing because almost directly across the street where the Deans live, that is definitely a problem. Because they have, you know, the forest next door is another multi-family airline house and across the street.

already existing there it's just that they're they may not be leasing them out in that perspective but it's still optional I would I agree with my fellow councilman Stan on his opinion with it he said it eloquently without repeating what he said R1 Anybody else have any questions for Mr. Cheatham?

It's beautiful. It looks like the same cottage aesthetics. It's even cohesive.

This is just a discussion. Yes. All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

Next item on your agenda is the consent agenda. Item number nine. Consideration of possible action on the City Council Board of Adjustments regular meeting minutes from July 28, 2026. Number 10, consideration of possible action on the City Council special meeting minutes of July 31, 2026. Number 11, consideration of possible action on the investment report for second quarter 2026. 12, consideration of possible action to accept excess collections of 2025 debt service and certification of debt service collection rate for 2026-2027. 13. Consideration of possible action on a resolution of the City of Montgomery, Texas, calling a public hearing to be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, September 14, 2026, regarding the proposed fiscal year 2027 tax rate and fiscal year 2027 annual budget. 14. Consideration of possible action on a resolution approving the Montgomery County Emergency Communication District budget for fiscal year 2027. Fifteen, consideration of possible action on the request to reschedule Tuesday, November 10, 2026, City Council meeting to Monday, November 19, 2026, to be held at 6 p.m. Number 16, consideration of possible action on the request to cancel Tuesday, November 24th, 2026 City Council Meeting. And 17, consideration of possible action on the request to cancel Tuesday, December 22nd, 2026 City Council Meeting. Council, would you like to take these individually or cumulatively? What is your pleasure?

I'd like to pull 15. 15? Yeah. Thank you.

There's a motion on the table to pull item number 15 from the consent agenda. This motion is debatable, amenable, or requires majority vote. And moved by Mr. Olson. Second by Mr. Glazier. All those in favor of removing item number 15 and approving all other items on the consent agenda, say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. The ayes have it. The motion carries. We will approve all of the consent agenda, but item number 15. Item number 15. Consideration of possible action request to reschedule Tuesday, November 10th, the 2026 City Council meeting to Monday, November 19th, 2026 to be held at 6 p.m.

What's the reasoning? I think it's for the police.

It should be moving it from November 10th to November 9th, and it is due to the TNL annual conference.

So the 9th makes a lot more sense, and I'm okay with that.

Moving it to the 9th.

I make a motion to approve.

Motion, Mr. Glazier, that we approve item number 15 with the correction of moving the November 10th, 2026 meeting to Monday, November 9th, 2026.

I second.

Seconded by Mr. Olson. This motion is debatable. Amendable. Requires majority vote. All those in favor of accepting item number 15 as presented with the caveat of changing Tuesday, November 10th, 2026 City Council meeting to Monday, November 9th, 2026. Say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. The ayes have it. The motion carries. And we will change the Tuesday, November 10th, 2026 City Council meeting to Monday, November 9th, 2026. All right. Regular agenda number 18. Consideration of possible action to approve the proposed FY 2027 tax rate for the city of Montgomery.

Mayor and council, as we discussed last night in the workshop, since 20... 10?

8 years. 2017?

The City Council has maintained a tax rate of $0.40 per $100 evaluation. So what's being presented to you this evening is the information from the tax office based on our calculation. Based on the calculation, the no new revenue tax rate would be 0.3921, and the voter approval tax rate is 0.4649. held steady with the 40 cents that we have used in the past, and those were the numbers that were used for the proposed budget that was presented last night in the workshop. So staff is recommending that we continue with the 40 cent tax rate as our proposed rate. So this item that's in front of you this evening, if you choose to

The difference between your known driven rate and our

Motion by Mr. Olson that we adopt the proposed tax rate at 40 cents. Second. Seconded by Mr. Donaldson. This motion is debatable and amendable. Opposed, majority vote. Time for discussion.

That's right. But still for discussion before we vote.

Ms. Langley, your vote.

Aye.

Mr. Olson? Aye. Mr. Glazier? Aye. Ms. Fox? Aye. Mr. Donaldson?

Aye.

Motion passes.

Nine years.

That is. I'm not going to complain. Number 19, consideration of possible action to approve the proposed FY2027 budget for the City of Montgomery.

This draft that's presented to you this evening aligns exactly with what was presented last night in the workshop. The approving the proposed budget this evening allows us to post this budget or proposed budget for 30 days, allowing us to be able to adopt it following the hearing that would be held on September 14th.

The merit raises were left in as what had been proposed in a previous workshop at... 75%?

Yes, it's basically 5% funded at 80%. So, . Make that motion.

Is that a motion?

Well, the action is to approve it. Do you have a solution? Yeah, I want to figure it out.

Is that something that's feasible or is that...

So what happens in that scenario based on the way that our current policy is, is if you don't achieve at least a 3%, you don't get a merit increase. So there is nothing less than a 3% in a merit. And so you really tie the hands of department heads by reducing it to that 15%. Because it's 2.5%. That's if they give it across the board. When we put together this budget based on the information that we had received from the tax office, our tax rate, when we discussed this last night, Casey, with our use of surplus funds, even keeping the park at 800,000, we were able to reduce

I make a motion that we accept 19 as presented. Motion by Ms. Fox that we accept item number 19 as presented.

Is there something the table would like to discuss further for the situation? Yeah. We have to be done.

This has got to be done by next month, right? It has to be posted. Posted, yes.

if it was to get refigured conclusion is that something meeting and then it still have time to post it if it's the recommendation that you would want to approve the proposed budget with a change of reducing the merit pool We would figure out those calculations, and we would post the proposed budget tomorrow based on those calculations. But we would not be able to bring it back to you with that information before we have to post.

So it has to be posted by when?

It has to be posted tomorrow. Actually, it has to be posted in 30 days. It has to be posted by Thursday, I believe, on our calculation. Friday at the latest.

You think that's something that could be re-looked at, or you're convinced?

I mean, it's up to you all. If you want us to reduce payroll costs by that, we'll run the calculations and put those figures in there. It will impact the payroll costs. It will impact your workers' comp figures. It will impact the retirement rate. So there would be the line items that would be impacted on each department would be wages, payroll taxes, workers comp, and retirement. So those would be the lines that would need to be recalculated and would differ from what's being presented tonight to what would be.

1st of October, is that correct?

The budget has to be adopted on September 14th in order to meet the deadline for the tax office. And it goes into effect on October 1st.

If it's at the rates that it's posted now, you're saying it's not a guarantee, that's what everyone said, it's still up to?

Right, it's a pool and it becomes the discretion of the department head.

No, we moved it all over the place.

The last two years it's been funded at 75%.

The way that our process works is we go through evaluations each year in November, December, and November, beginning of December, and then those merit increases go into effect with the first payroll in January.

Well, as we look at it, we have to trust our department heads or management. I'm going to second.

The motion is seconded to approve item number 17 and item number 19 as presented. This motion is debatable, amenable, requires majority vote.

It's open for further discussion.

All those in favor of accepting item number 19 as presented, say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, say nay. Nay. The ayes have it. The motion carries, and we will accept item number 19 as presented. Number 20, consideration of possible action of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Montgomery, Texas requesting street construction, repair, and maintenance by Montgomery County, Texas.

Mr. McElroy. We're going to request the county to repay Buffalo Springs. It's on the capital list, but we're going to go ahead and have it repaid this year, give us another couple of years. And the county is, they provided me with a $90,000 estimate. So we just have to send them a resolution asking for the services and promising that we have the money.

That's from 1097 to Lone Star Parkway. Is that two miles?

Y'all haven't driven on that road. You might lose your teeth if you do.

That's the reason we want to get it done now. Our long-term look at this is converting the whole thing to concrete like it started at Home Depot, but we want to get this done and get us through another three years timeframe.

Make a motion to accept agenda item number 20 as presented.

Motion by Mr. Donaldson. We accept item number 20 as presented. Seconded by Ms. Fox. All those in favor of accepting item number 20 as presented, say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say nay. The ayes have it. The motion carries and we'll accept item number 20 as presented. 21. Thank you. Consideration of possible action on the acceptance of Lawson and Simonton waterline loop and authorize the city administrator to sign the certificate of acceptance. Mr. Rizvonski.

If I could show a couple items for me, the highlight of this project we remember is the Superior Properties Development funded the upsizing of the water line along Wilson Street and connecting down to Simonton and so that for fire flow as well as providing, because that was an old six inch line needed to get replaced and provide service to was bid and constructed. That was funded by Superior. They completed the work. We had a warrant, an inspection. They had two punches items that were identified at the inspection. The one was removing an old traffic barrel that needed to go and it provides as of drawing they have since done those. So we recommend accepting the projects and signing the certificate of acceptance and beginning the one year warranty period as of July 30th, 2026.

Make a motion to accept agenda item number 22 as presented.

Mr. Donaldson, will you accept item number 21 as presented?

Sorry.

Chair, I heard that correctly. Seconded by Ms. Fox, this motion is debatable. Mendel? As far as majority vote, except for further discussion. All those in favor of accepting item number 21 as presented, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay. The ayes have it. The motion carries and we'll accept item number 21 as presented. 22 on your agenda. Consideration of possible action regarding the approval of change order number one for the modifications to Town Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant demolition.

So if you remember, this project was bid earlier this summer. Prices came in really good. In front of you, you have a summary of the change order. So what has happened is, as expected in the projects, they're writing something unforeseen. So when they pumped down all the basins and were hauling off the sludge, if you look at this separate memo, the photos behind it, there was a lot of stabilized material at the bottom of the channels. which they couldn't foresee from the investigation they did to put together the pricing. So they have a change order for you, which is to complete that additional haul-off work, as well as some additional structures that were found that were not on the plans that have to get demolished. So the total change order is around $52,311. That's an 18% increase to the contract price. If you remember, this whole project was originally estimated around $1.1 million. And after the change order, it's sitting at $335,971.60. We agree with the prices. We believe they're fair. The other thing about this is it is a lump sum for them to remove. So if they have any more, it's everything that's out there. So there's no more quantity adjustments. They come back and say, oh, well, there's more than we thought. It is a lump sum price for this additional work.

Chris, I have a question. So when they went out there and looked at this and they knew the depth of it and their brutal instinct didn't go to the depth of it, how did we not know?

So it was, they looked at it based on the plans. What was provided to them was the design depths of the channel. The RNDI is using a subcontractor for the sludge hauling. And so they had, we got multiple prices working with them from different sludge haulers. This was by far the cheapest. We work with them a lot. Hydro Clear is the sub that's doing this. They do work for the city all the time. It's just, it wasn't seen

We just didn't know that it was there.

We didn't know the extent of how stabilized it was. So their normal equipment won't get it out. And so it's additional equipment to get it out. It's a channel. So there's a flat bottom and then obviously I don't have that number in front of me. So it does, so they are factoring it out in order to do so. And because it still is, since it's from the wastewater plant, it still has to follow the TCQ guidelines for disposal. It is, we went back and forth a lot. I mean, we've had a lot of conversations and price checking of this. We've asked different subs to provide the same pricing and it is a fair price.

If we don't approve it, what happens then?

I mean, we're kind of at a stalemate, right?

We're kicked.

We know the contractor needed to go provide different alternatives, which we have asked them to do. This is still the cheapest alternative that's been provided. Or at that point, they can decide to terminate the contract. Or you can decide to terminate the contract.

Just throwing this out there, when they were awarded the contract, were there other people that were hired but knew about this, or do we have no clue?

No, so this specific item was so variable because it's not done by the company. We actually worked to get bid prices from multiple pumping contractors, and it was more of a, I can't remember the exact verbiage, but it was an allowance in the bid for it based on prices that we had received. So it wasn't because it was one of those variable numbers to try to get standardized pricing. So I think we still have the same issue. Exactly. Because again, it's not necessarily an RNDI issue or a hydroclear issue. It is a, you know, a presumed circumstance. And it wasn't a number where, you know, one guy, you know, because we thought about the data, so you know, do one guy know this and one guy didn't? For this specific item, we took out that layer of the tendency, so it was all based on the same.

Is this a not-to-exceed number or is this a hard number?

It's a lump sum not-to-exceed, or it's a lump sum hard number.

I second.

Commissioned by Mr. Glazier, seconded by Mr. Olson, that we approve item number 22 as presented. All those in favor of accepting item 22 as presented, say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. The ayes have it. The motion carries and we'll accept item 22 as presented. Item 23 on your agenda. Consideration of possible action regarding authorizing the city engineer to begin design of the crossing at Montgomery Sanitary Sewer Improvement, the project.

You remember Croson-Montgomery development is the development along the railroad tracks that span between Old Plantersville and Miss Cotsdale? Yes, Miss Cox. And that development agreement, there's been a lot of conversation about that development agreement over the past couple months with council. You remember a couple weeks ago we reported that she has decided to not amend her agreement and stay with the terms of the existing agreement, which has the the city designing and constructing the sewer permits in here at herd cost. So like a normal development agreement. So we have provided a proposal back in 2024, obviously a lot of time to change. So we got new pricing from all of our subs, as well as some of the scope of the project has changed slightly. And so we have a revised proposal tonight to do the design, bidding, construction, oversight, approvals, et cetera, geotech, construction materials, and this is authorization for us to proceed subject to receipt of deposit from the developer per the terms of the development. Scope of the project is a new lift station on her site that will serve all the phases of the development. It'll also have the wet well sized for additional development to the north. It naturally drains this way, so between her and 105, so we don't have another lift station. The pumps will be just to serve her, but the structure itself will be made larger for future expansion. And then the offsite section of sanitary sewer force main, as well as upsizing sewer along 105.

practice this our standard wasn't exactly standing a little bit as far as the process of the project real careful with that as far as allowing our engineers to design make a motion to accept item 23

Motion on Mr. Olson to accept item number 23 as presented. Seconded by Mr. Donaldson. All those in favor accepting item number 23 as presented, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, say nay. The ayes have with the motion. Here's who will accept item number 23 as presented. Thank you. Staff comments and reports. Number 24, City Administrator July 26th. Yes, sir. What have you got for us?

August, we've got to love August. Everything's happening. I was going to touch on a few things. You asked it last night, but not everybody was here. Monday, we will see the way findings start. They're going to drill the holes. They're going to put some concrete and that. The first things we'll see is the signs at the city limits. Those look very nice. I hope everybody likes those. They turned out really nice. We're going to... put some of the parking signs downtown and all the ones that we can. We're gonna start working through all the actual wayfinding and make sure we've got all the things pointed. It's quite, Tilly started this project whenever it was It's not easy, right? It's not. The other thing going on, you should start seeing the Raven Fulham House guys mobilize. They're gonna start putting some of the metal stuff, the beams that they're going to use to lift that house. We'll see that happening. He has a different crew that will start building the foundation over there. So you'll see that start happening with kind of X mark the spot. We had to go back there. There weren't metal stakes at all four corners. So we had to go back and get the engineers to go back and get, you know, so we put the house in the right place. He was afraid we wouldn't put it in the right place.

We're still cutting it up though, right? Or we don't have to now with the metal beams going underneath.

They're going to try to lift it all in one thing. When it was moved there, it was cut in half. And it's a patchwork. You know, you can go in there now because it's empty. And it's kind of cool to go in there. I mean, it's a patchwork. But they believe, because of the way the beams are under there, they can lift it all at once. We'll have the structural engine. I think it's going to be fun to see. It's supposed to take them two weeks to get it up in the air completely. You know, they're going to do it, you know, little by little.

They said they cut it in half, I thought. I've heard it was in two pieces.

I probably heard that from you. So that should be coming in and I wanted to touch not everybody was here last night either. that we're getting ready to try to put together a workshop to go through the municipal complex. And I want you to think about what the job is for the council to do going forward right here. This is the opportunity to take this project and really tell us what you want in that project, whatever that might be. We're going to have the engineers, we're going to have the experts, just like he mentioned tonight, you know, he knew something about the air conditioning and stuff. This is the time we need to ask those questions and they're important. They'll give you options and we'll look at different things, different electrical components. We've been able to 99% sure we can get a free generator through a program. You know, we're looking at those kind of things, but they're going to bring a lot of information to you, and this is your opportunity to look at it, what it costs. And if we go back, sort of like the parking lot, and they mentioned it tonight, The parking lot, we originally didn't have a lot in there about the parking lot. I told them to go ahead and get the numbers on expanding the parking lot because as we all know, everybody likes to talk about how much parking we have. It really doesn't meet the code for how much parking we have. It doesn't mean we have to accept the parking. It doesn't mean you have to do it. It's just... best time to do all of that if we want to do it all but you'll see the prices of everything what everything costs how we bid it out a lot of these will come back and these guys will tell you you know once we get to the guaranteed maximum price then they're going to go out and bid all of this stuff so we haven't even got that far so i just wanted to clarify you know what step we're in we're still in the pre-development pre-construction we're still looking at everything so hopefully in the workshop you'll be able to look at all those things look at all the numbers and that's really the time you're going to make decisions and say That's too much. We don't want that. That's too fancy. We don't need that. I mean, we don't live in a fancy building now. I mean, some things are unnecessary. We just need offices. The police side of it, you know, there's a lot of specialty stuff in there. There's no shortcutting that. You know, you can't shortcut the homing cells. You can't shortcut, you know, some of that stuff. So we can't really cut that out of there. But those are the things I want you guys to look for going forward. And hopefully that workshop will get us to that answer. I mean, what's really necessary? What's not? How do we want the building to look? The stuff that goes in inside. The more you talk about this stuff with her, the more she knows. And we need that feedback. I looked at that and went, huh. It's beautiful. Thank you. You know, it's just not my area.

What I heard you just say is Chief's got a lot of specialized stuff, so therefore he should be carrying the big checkbook.

Yeah, yeah, and... We're looking at that. We're looking at that. I mean the CCPD is paying for a big chunk of this. We're not asking the citizens to raise their taxes or anything. This will all be sales tax no matter how we look at it. We're not doing any of that. We just need to know We're going to look at bonds. We have the option, you know, 20-year bond, 25-year bond, 30-year bond. 30 doesn't make a lot of sense in a building like this, but it's an option. Right now, the interest rates are in the 4%. I calculated everything we've done so far at 5%. That way we have some flexibility. But based on our last time we went out to bond, we could see that, you know, we have a double A rating, so we're going to get probably a good rate. We can look at that. We've divided the building up, and it's about 70, 30, 68, whatever, you know, some number in there. So 70%, hopefully we can pay with CCPD. The rest of it will be general fund. The rest of it is really what the municipal complex is. And the... you know, main areas in the lobby lobby is important because that's the public area. So we're looking at that. And I think we don't cut corners there and those kind of places. But if there are other places, you know, those are the places that we look. So right now we're looking at 31st. I know we'll reach out to everybody. I know Casey, but even if we can, you know, zoom him in, because this is a time we need to know, we need to hear what you guys think and,

Well, Casey don't need to hear.

Well, and you gotta remember, What we're going to approve or what we're trying to approve is a guaranteed maximum price. These guys are going to deliver that building at that maximum price. It doesn't mean we're going to pay that maximum price. We still have to go out and bid all these things. Any of the money that's left over in the construction, we can get it back. That was part of the contract that you had. So those are things to remember, too.

Let's just do it.

I'm trying to get us there. It's been a little painful. You know, just like they were talking about with the soils. There's always in these projects, there's always something that pops up that you're not ready for. It happens. I don't care what project it is. This one was a little more interesting and I'm still, I don't agree with what's happening on the police side where we're going to pour that slab, but And engineers don't really listen to me. But that concrete has been there for how many years? And none of it's pushing up. It all looks good. It still looks good. The building, when you go inside, there is no cracking there. So over-engineering, I can say that. What are they going to do, fire me?

Yeah, but the minute it cracks, it's going to be done.

Well, I know. None of them are going to sign off on it. That's the problem we run into. Somebody has to sign off on this project. But overall, I think that's it that I had to cover.

Good. You're good? All right. Number 25, Police Department. Chief.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. We have to report in front of you again, of course.

There seems to be a gentleman that comes to town every day. I've been told he lives in the woods. I know you know who I'm talking about. But when my phone starts ringing because he's grabbing at people's doorknobs or he's a bit of an undesirable and he's a little scary. He's a lot scary.

Has anybody called him?

I don't look at call logs. I can just know that I know that I have seen him and he's an undesirable. He doesn't look like he's up to any good. I'm just telling you, like, we are not a homeless city. We don't. I mean, I'm just going to. I am not in favor of a homeless city, nor do I want any homeless camps, nor do I want my family to be exposed to those that have nothing to do all day but hang around and grab people's doorknobs and other things.

I get it. But if he's grabbing people's doorknobs, then he's going to let us come deal with it.

It was a single mother.

He does do things like that.

He's not innocent. Let's just put it that way. I was at the Edwards Jones office this morning.

I was talking to a lady who works there, and she said, I just want to thank you guys. She said she was over here. See the great part? She said she had an incident that happened over there. See the great part? She said your guys were there within 30 seconds. And she said it was cool. She said they did the best job I've ever seen.

100%.

So if you guys give us a call, we'll come over and take care of it.

So are you saying that he's not committing a crime, therefore there is nothing to do?

I'm saying we hadn't got a call to determine that. And that's the thing.

You have to call so they can investigate. You know, trying car doors, that is a crime. It can be, but they have to know.

Pick up your phone and say, do it again. No, no, no.

If you give us a call, we'll get there. We'll determine whether it's a crime.

I have been asked to ask about that. I've heard a lot of complaints about him. And I'm on the record asking you and telling you that we think that there's a problem.

Have you told him to give us a call? You know, everywhere I've ever been, people have always said, you know, I didn't want to bother you. You're not bothering us. That's what we do. That's what we're out here doing. So if you call us about anything, you're not bothering us. That's what we do. And we're going to come check it out.

The bad thing about this guy I talked about, he's been here longer than most of us.

No, not that kid.

I'm talking about Wolfie.

Oh, you're not talking about Wolfie. No, no. I'm talking about a younger version of Wolfie 2.0. Yeah.

Seriously, guys, if people are talking to you about that, have them give us a call.

When issues happen, just have them give us a call. And we'll go over and we'll determine whether or not it's a problem. Any other questions?

Thank you, sir. Municipal court report for July 2026.

Good evening, Mayor, Council. Citations for July was $164, and the revenue was $33,112.72. Do you have any questions for this report?

As your credit card machines started to work again? Yes, we're having issues.

times but it's fine and thank you for attending our jury trial. You're welcome. That was eye-opening.

So when the revenue goes down is that a sign that citizens are cooperating more with us?

Less people are paying their warrants.

I actually do have a question just for clarification. Is all that money is that split it with the county or is that all for city money? 66% goes to the state.

I can give you a breakdown on it.

I assume that, but I just wanted to make sure that the numbers I'm looking at. The entire ticket.

Rich on those tickets, those traffic tickets.

No, we're not getting rich off of the citations. Montgomery is not a speed trap if you're not speeding, so we're not...

for June 2026 I will kind of piggyback on that question that you had regarding the municipal court when you see that on the finance side what you're going to see is in the revenue

in the general fund revenue, you see...

So page number 178 is in the packet. Yes, 178.

and it is 44,110, halfway down. You'll see with that in the month of June, what we recorded as court fines that stayed with the city was $19,406. So if you look back at her June report and see what she had, there's other little pieces that come out of that. Court technology, there's security, jury, child safety fees, those kind of things are other pieces. And all of that combined with her number, that difference is what goes to the state.

Does anybody have any questions about the finance report?

I don't think that answers the question.

All right, number 28, development services for July 2026, monthly report. Ms. Tilley. Most cared woman in Montgomery.

So, the M.A.C.

report has changed.

We're still growing. says a lot of things that I get involved in, and then the engineer's report comes in. There's a lot of that development, too, that I get involved in. But otherwise, anything specific I can let you know.

Is there anything that kind of stuck out in my report that I have any questions on?

Very thorough.

I was going to save this to the end, but I just needed to know if we had any progress on another code enforcement.

So what we have coming up in, no, next week. Next week. Next week, we have an intern, a college intern that's coming to help with planning and zoning and the development side.

We're looking forward to seeing if you guys get in a little bit.

There's a lot. But we'll keep on it. There's no place here left for us. What was that? There's a desk in front of my desk.

Tilly has determined that this is going to be a coffee and bank city. We're going to have coffee and bank on every corner.

I can't help it. Other people take tire shops.

Yeah, well, there's a few of those.

What happens when you have mediums? Thank you. All right, number 29, Public Works, June 2026 monthly report. Mr. McElroy.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. 3,060 feet. A little over half a mile.

Whoa, whoa, time out. From 1097 to Lone Star Parkway is only a half mile.

Unless Google Earth is wrong, I mean, I just drew my finger on Google Earth, so I mean, however accurate that is. 0.58 miles is what I've come up with.

That's still in the budget.

Just as a reminder on that, there was a plan that was brought as just a concept.

And just to remind you, I told y'all I was asking for a lot. back after the budget, you know, after we make sure the budget passes and everything's good, then I'll do just like last time, I'll bring Tim back in with this proposal, give you all a chance to look at everything, say I don't like this, I do like this, and we'll walk through all that and make sure this is done right. Okay. And get it ordered as soon as, I mean, I'd really like to do a winter install on it, but Utility operations June 20 26th monthly report. Hello. Hello. Good evening.

We're looking at 98% accountability.

And if you look at the last page there, you see where we are with our Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District permit. And with more than 50% of the year gone by, we've pumped 35% of our Catahoula permit.

Say it louder.

So we've got plenty of capacity loans. Any questions?

Water, we always have this problem in the summertime. It's hotter than 80s and it comes straight out. I guess we don't have... I thought maybe it was because the cooler was not keeping up. I guess that's still the case. The cooler's not keeping up.

It's just hot. And so the way that... It's a cooling unit, right? So it's not like a cooling tower where it flows through and you have an airflow or something like that. It's like a condenser-like unit. So it's not... Ambient temperature plays a big factor on how efficient that thing works. So it's just... It is what it is.

I've seen a meme with fire coming out of a faucet.

I will say, I don't think we've received a temperature call yet.

Yeah, so yeah, just like Chief says.

No, I'm saying this is the first I'm hearing.

Well, it was Facebook. Of course, we get all your business. So, yeah. And I wasn't in town to tell you if it was hot or not. It does get hot. I do know that. I would say I think it's been less. I did have a little bit warmer than normal the other day, but it hadn't been like

A question for Chris.

Chris, with the new design of our new water, do we have this one? No. So this is in the water well for water plant for well six is in the Jasper. I'll convert to the shallow one. Yeah, versus 109.

No question. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Mr. Rick Hanna, the building official.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Numbers are in the report. If you have any questions, I did want to mention I attended the Building Officials Association of Texas annual conference where building officials from out the state meet. We have educational opportunities and we visit about upcoming things. The highlight is the recognition of the building official of the year. I was recognized as the guy standing next to Jeremy because he's a little short guy. So they pointed and He's sitting at the top of a nice guy that you couldn't see, but I was recognized as standing next to him.

Any questions? We are keeping you quite busy.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you, Sarah. Appreciate it. Economic Development, July 2026, Monthly Report, Mr. Kimberly Gonzalez.

Good evening, Mayor Ed. Council, the business improvement grant program has been approved, which is super exciting. So the MUDC approved that our last meeting along with the application process for that program. And that will begin on October 1st at the turn of the new fiscal year.

Our chapter 380 economic development guidelines are on the next council meeting.

The current ordinance is from 2007. It needed to be updated. The new one is more thorough, more modern. So I will also have a short presentation next council to review all of those changes with each of you and hopefully get that approved. There's also an application that goes along with that. It provides more protection for the city, makes everything really streamlined. So that will be a good change. The economic development strategy report was sent to council a couple of weeks ago. So just as a quick backstory to this report, when I One of my goals when I came in a few months ago was to sit down with every person that I could on council and on the MEDC, compile those findings, and send out a report to try to align strategies and find common ground with everyone. So that has been sent to everyone, so please let me know if you have any questions. Beginning in the fall, I will have a new project management software, which is super exciting. So I'll be able to keep better track of projects. This will also be able to track our grants through the MEDC. I bring that up to say that it'll be able to provide dashboard stats for the council that I'll be able to send out quarterly. That will include sort of something similar to what I've done here at the bottom that kind of tells all of you this is the interest we're getting this is this is who's communicating with us so hopefully that is helpful but if you would like to see anything else added to that please let me know and then we also met with the governor's office this month we've met with the economic development office that meeting went very well and Ms. Russo, who's with the office, she was very excited. She was like, I haven't been to Montgomery in a while, and I'm really excited to see what's going on in the city. So that's a quick update. Any questions?

We have a joint meeting with you all next Tuesday?

No, sir, that's planning and zoning. Yes, sir. Thank you very much.

Number 33, engineer's report, Mr. Wisniewski. Excuse me.

So we're working on the water line to serve the cemetery on 1097. That's been submitted to TxDOT just as a permit package to get that water line over to TxDOT so that is underway. Downtown improvements, those are sitting with TxDOT for approval for the tie-in. We expect to begin advertising later this month. We've talked about these other projects. Water plant number four, we received the final bid package earlier today, so that is going to the paper this week to start advertising for bids for the water plant four project. Move on to the second page. Lift station number five relocation. You'll see the status of construction of that new wet well for the lift station. Second item, the Buffalo Springs Roadway Improvements Project. This was awarded at your last meeting. We received this afternoon the deposit from the developer for their share of that project. So we are scheduling the pre-construction meeting as we speak. And what we have been told, and I'll say it again and again, is they have to be out of the way substantially before the parade in December. So that is all I have. On the time of bidding, you know, it's a pre-con, so they're The number three, the infrastructure projects for BCS that we issued that notice received last week. So that contractor is working on mobilization. Moving on to the next page, no real updates to the Caroline Court sewer extension project. We're getting close to ready to bid. We're waiting on the developer because they're wanting to, rightly so, get some of the masquerading and clearing work done first before the line goes in to save costs. So we'll be ready for them when they are. On to page four of our report, going through the top section of warranty inspections, the one that you'll see that the date has passed and we still haven't had the inspection is for Briarley Phase 1A. They had a punch list and they're working on that currently and we're just waiting on that to reschedule. It should be next week once they've addressed everything for us to take another look. Item four on page four, the TPDS permit amendment. That has been, as a reminder, in with the state since August of 2025. We started to receive a couple questions from the state, which is good. That means they're actually looking and processing, but it is still going through the process. And in the last page of our report, we talked about the KKC updates on the UDO. That's the July 18th meeting that passed right before I stood up. We did, at the end of July, submit to the Texas Water Development Board for the House Bill 500 funds. We submitted approximately projects from the state as part of the 1.1, 1.2 billion in the set-aside money that was opened up by the state. It is competitive, it's open to all public entities, but that has been submitted Transportation alternative set-asides, we continue to follow up with the state on that. They're still, as of last week, reviewing the applications that will be in touch sometime in the next month.

Chris, what did you say about KKC again? I'm sorry. I'm going back and reading. It says that we should be... rolling it out this summer and in all intents and purposes school starts Thursday, so that's the summer's over?

Right, so next Tuesday is the an update, a review, kind of the final of the documents to get final comments to roll it out. They'll be here Tuesday, we'll all be here Tuesday to go through all that.

Have y'all seen the documents? Is this going to be a waste of time?

No, I mean, there's a lot of comments that were made, but it's cleaner procedural stuff, so they're working through.

It's a.

Can't go anywhere but up from where we were.

It's a document. It's about that big, but it's been a lot of work, but it is.

We knew that up front, but that timeline and those milestones did not happen. Is it worth the money we paid? No. I'm just going to go ahead and say that.

Well, I don't know if there's ever policies and procedures, but they're time-consuming.

Well, especially when you roll out stuff and present stuff that doesn't make sense and was terrible. Yeah.

And the first round was bad.

Correct. Sorry.

No, you're fine.

A little better.

So we'll be here on the 18th to discuss those. And then other than that, you have updated maps, just your active developments.

You talked to TxDOT about any of the stuff we met with them on the 1097?

So we're working on the schematic still. So we were going through looking at property lines. I think last I saw it, we were just kind of trying to lay it out to see how much we could get to fit to identify right away that we needed and then shifting. So we haven't gotten back to TxDOT, but it's in the works. I expect to get back to them next week. And the county at least verbally said it.

Yeah, he said he would do it. And Will wrote text off, just so you know.

So that's good.

And we talked to this...

Pull the trigger on purchasing the property. I think that would...

So I think that they're wondering if there's going to be a cost share. That part we need to have a discussion with them.

So that's what we're working on right now, just a high-level cost estimate and schematic to make sure everyone's on the same page. So then we can have numbers to talk off of. Talk off of.

Excuse me. Okay.

Call me on December. Motion by Ms. Langley that we approve the staff comments and reports as presented. Seconded by Mr. Olson. All those in favor of accepting the staff comments and reports, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, say nay. The ayes have it. The motion carries, and we will accept the staff comments and reports as presented. All right. Closing agenda. Number 34, Council and Query.

There was something about Redstone. work both ways.

The benefit of it was when we send out it says .gov at the end that's a more secure and it doesn't get blocked by all the other .gov's you know so.

I received an email from Larry Forster about the historical marker at HEB but they're gonna be so nice to make a little plaza there are we working on that any we have any responsibility in that?

They sent us their plans

I did a records request and there was information that I know for a fact were used to be on the page that is not on the page when I got my request back. How do we get those So for MEDC grants, I wanted to see who has received MEDC grants for the past 10 years. And I know for a fact there is a grant that was received because I have the documents. Maybe I was being lazy and didn't want to go back and look for those documents in my box of city stuff. So I thought I would do it at city, and I did not get it back. It was not part of the list. And I know the meeting it was in, and I know the year. It was in, and it wasn't on there. But I wasn't able to go back online. We don't have the historicals, which I thought we were going to get this back.

I think she can look it up, especially if you've got a close time. If you have some document, you've got the date.

August of 2017, second meeting of law.

Yeah, I think we can find it. Is that what you need?

Well, here's my thing. So I was expecting that to be in the list of all of the documents the grants and it wasn't, so now I'm like what else is missing? And I can't go back online to our website to go find it like I used to. I like to do my own little homework and not bother y'all.

You weren't able to go to the archive?

There's additional, I'll show you where it's at.

We're trying to get all the archives onto the new site as well.

I'm going to keep asking about it. Because like I said, I like doing my own work. I don't like bothering y'all and sending y'all. And I don't want to send records requests because they take 10 days or more. And if I could just go put in what I'm looking for and get the information, that's easier. And I don't have to do any of y'all's business.

You've got to put an AI on it.

Whatever you need to do, Pumpkin, I just need to get the information.

All right. Next item. Items to consider for placement.

Then I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion. Motion by Mr. Glazer, seconded by Mr. Olson. All those in favor of adjourning, say aye.

Aye.

It is 8.09 and we'll adjourn this meeting. Thank y'all.