Remarks by David K. Leigh
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“Hopefully last really hot Tuesday, maybe a cool front, and we'll get down into like 98 or something next week. Thank you guys for joining us. Tonight we're going to kick off our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, led by Councilmember Daniel Booker, followed by the Texas Pledge led by... Nearly departed director of development services, Bob Vanville. I'm sorry. Retiring. Sorry, I couldn't. And then I will lead the invocation and. Following that, please rise.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Please bow with me. Our most precious Heavenly Father, we come before you, sovereign of the universe, as we yield our will to yours and hope that we can gain your wisdom to do the right things, the compassion and the empathy to see the right people to do those right things for and that we would have the humility to continue to act as friends and family to all around us. We just pray right now with the turmoil in the world and elections coming up that those who stand in office would be statesmen and stateswomen that are more concerned about those that they serve than themselves or a particular…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“All right. We call this meeting to order at 5.32 p.m. The 1st item on our agenda or public comments. If anyone wishes to speak on a non agenda item, this is the time to do so. I have 1 signed up for an agenda item item. Number 6. We will call that at that time. We have another 1 on national night out. You don't have to sign up to talk, but we, but if you sign up, you go 1st. So, Wayne Cooley will be the 1st to this evening.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, definitely put that on your calendar. Something worth going to either in your neighborhood or your neighboring neighborhood. Anyone else wish to address the Council at this time for any non-agenda item? All right. There being no one rushing to the podium, we will close public comments and we will go to the next item on the agenda. Something near and dear to my heart is Proclamation for Manufacturing Day. Do you want me to, do you want to come up and talk about it and address it, or do you want me to read the proclamation and then you can come up and address it, Cynthia? Come on down.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Executive Director for BEDC, Cynthia Hernandez.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Awesome. Thank you very much. Before I read, I have to at least take a moment. I'm a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. I'm a second-generation manufacturing engineer. My father worked at IBM, started with IBM typewriters, and they were electric-powered typewriters. They then became more intelligent. Then there was talk to type. as you could dictate to a typewriter. You could then have word processing in a typewriter. Went to PCs as a junior high. We brought the first PC in and they had the first lights out manufacturing of a computer in Austin back in the 1980s. All robotic…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“The whereas. Whereas Manufacturing Day is celebrated annually to recognize the vital role manufacturing plays in strengthening our economy, creating meaningful career opportunities, and supporting communities across the nation. And whereas manufacturing is an essential part of the American economy, producing the products, technologies, and innovations that improve our daily lives while providing rewarding careers for workers of all skill levels and whereas manufacturers in Belton and throughout Central Texas contribute significantly to our local and regional economy through job creation,…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“My toy box was filled with spare parts from those said IBM typewriters. I got to tear them apart and put them back together. They never worked, but, you know, they keep working. All right. It's always exciting to be able to showcase that. Our next two items on the agenda, our consent agenda, these can be enacted by a single motion by the council. I will read them into the minutes. And then the council can either remove them and we can discuss them separately or we can enact them through that motion. Item four is adopting the minutes of the previous meetings, including the September 8th…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you very much. This being a public hearing, we will allow the public to speak on this item for or against. So we will close our deliberations and open the floor. If you wish to speak in favor or against the proposed development, now is the time to do so.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. All right. Anyone else wish to speak in favor or against this item? There being no others, we will close the floor and reopen for the council. What say you, council?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Second. We have a motion and a second to approve item six as presented with the restrictions that were listed. ... ... ...”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“It did state in the motion or the proposal that it has to comply with mobile food. So it references that which references the concrete.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, I don't think there's a distinction with food truck. As far as the ordinance, I don't believe it. As far as, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Any other comments on the motion at hand? I will say it. I think it's a great idea. I think I look at it as a minimum viable product. I mean, it's to require a lot of modification to kind of to Luke's point. If we have a lot of requirements here, add a lot of costs, which adds more risk to you. And then if we put more risk and then it doesn't work out, then we've modified a piece of property that won't be used. I think this is a really good compromise between the two and and like john said i think you know we've already got a lot of foot traffic there continue to build on that i think one of…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. Again, this being a public hearing, we will close our deliberations and open the floor. If anyone wishes to speak in favor or against this future land use map amendment, they may do so. No one wishes to address the council. We will close the public hearing and reconvene for council deliberation.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“We have a motion and a second to approve the future land use map amendment as presented. Any comments or questions before we vote?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Again, as Bob stated, this will be a public hearing, so we will stop our deliberations and open the floor if anyone wishes to speak in favor or against the proposed sign ordinance amendments for both pole signs as well as attached wall signs. They may do so. There being no comments from the floor, we will close that and reopen deliberations, says the council.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And, um, so I go at midnight with a little rush and, um, you know, I, I, you know, signage is a huge thing in businesses.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“The way it shows, it's not street. It's facade, so whatever the facade is. If there are three facades, you would have three opportunities.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So if you've got a Panda Express that fronts two major buildings... Highways. Two major highways, and you would use the same... It would look appropriate both sides. But the total would exceed what you just said. Is this a total or is it a per facade? Because if there's... Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, yeah, because the thing is, if you've got two faces, you would have two facades that you would have potentially two calculations, not one calculation is divided by two.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think they're starting to drop the logo.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Example is Muscovy at the corner in downtown, that the front would be limited to the front facade and the side would be limited to the front side. The two measurements there is about the cost, basically. That way it's appropriate on...”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026