Remarks by Doug Weiss
427 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 14 of 18
“Thank you, Greg. That is all I had for this section of public comment for items that are not on the agenda. Is there anyone else from the public wishing to speak during this time on items that are not on the agenda? Seeing none, Council, I will call our consent agenda. Are there any items that you wish to have pulled from the consent agenda?”
“4C. I heard 4C and 4E. That's Charlie and Echo. Any others? Trista, would you do me the favor of reading the consent agenda?”
“Move to approve the Consent Agenda. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. Motion passes unanimously. That brings us to item 5A, that is conduct public hearing on the fiscal year 2027 proposed budget for the city of Pflugerville, Texas. We have Tracy Waldron, our finance director, to present.”
“It's been a while since the last time I checked and I know it was a while ago but I think for Round Rock at one point Dell was half of their entire city budget just from that one sales tax source. So definitely different composition of sources of revenue for some of these cities.”
“Well, much like I think I would imagine every city on that list has 1% of sales tax going to the general fund, and then it's the additional other one cent here that goes to support the ESD operations. uh our economic and community development corporation which is tasked with bringing more of these businesses to grow more sales tax many of them may not have those other entities that consume that that sales tax so i think cap metro is a another consumer of that sales tax uh allocation.”
“It is amazing how much construction activity generates sales tax as well. All the wood and steel and all the nails and tools add up. Absolutely. Tracy, I'm sorry.”
“it's to support the general so the the way i always phrase that especially for the people in the room here when we talk about rights of way we talk about the the areas along the roadway y'all own that that that's property that belongs to us as a community so when a utility says hey we want to put our our lines in there we want to put our pipes in there our wires whatever they're putting in there they they have to pay y'all rent on that so they them paying rent is a franchise fee that then offsets the uh the cost of the taxes that you have to pay that goes into the city's budget uh because…”
“I just work here. That's our 4th of July fireworks event. Red white and boom.”
“I imagine largely that's a fixed cost, but there's probably a little bit of a step cost in there related to programming. So I wouldn't expect it to be exactly the same every year based on the hours, but probably pretty close. Right.”
“Things that can show value very quickly.”
“So what I heard is you found a way to keep our budget balanced by moving it around and reprioritizing.”
“I am a little curious about the trail improv. That sounds like a yes and project. You sound what? No one?”
“I think the things that are on this list, I think some will cost more than others. I think that's a good list to start from, but we're probably going to want to reallocate within that list.”
“That sounds like a great idea. I think we should subscribe to that newsletter.”
“The animal shelter and the reunion park definitely seem like high priorities. And I think we need to make a substantial investment in in both of those.”
“I would like to see some immediate investment in remediation at the animal shelter in addition to the planning.”
“I think it's important to be very clear on that. The developer who we need to acquire property from in order to perform that investment and... complete that project and if that developer is unwilling to contribute property to that project and going to be adversarial in that process i'd rather them take on the burden of building it i agree i think it'd be fantastic if they do it i would like to see that on paper i yeah i was just going to say james james said i already said it so i'm going to repeat it”
“So to that end, on these proposed items, I'm going to tell you to focus on the first two. If we want to leave it in like this until we actually have projects come forward, I'm fine with a budget amendment in the future, but do we want to change numbers there? Because it sounds like you've vetted out these numbers already.”
“Well, you're saying we got $500,000 there for 1849. Go ahead and move that, and then the drum improvements.”
“So I'd like to move us forward on this. Do we have direction? So one more consideration.”
“I think I would like to see that in a future amendment, see what we can accomplish on Reunion Park. I know we've got some other things on our plate related to that. I agree. So I'm going to say, yeah, Don't spend the trail money on day one. Sure. Day 25.”
“I think that's what the budget needs to say right now.”
“He's talking about reallocating within there. Go ahead and scratch phase three, put it in the animal shelter. And yes, the limestone commercial, in order to accomplish this, we recognize that that needs to be scrubbed.”
“So let's... Not until we're satisfied with those projects.”
“We are talking about unfunding it in this budget.”