Remarks by Doug Weiss
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“Just to be clear. I see what happens when it comes to a vote. Can we move to your next slide?”
“Tracy, I do have one question for you then. The median home last year versus this year, how much can, and the median, of course, that's half of all properties, half of all homes are less, half are more. How much can they expect their taxes to go up based on this budget?”
“So the median home will be paying less annually? next year than they paid this year. That's correct. That's a great story to tell. Thank you for that.”
“That doesn't mean they'll see an increase.”
“It was $370, so they were in pretty good shape. This is a public hearing on the proposed fiscal year 2027 budget. At this time, I'm asking if there is anyone from the public wishing to speak on this proposed budget. You got one. You got one? Yep. All right, come on forward. You'll have three minutes.”
“He did say two. Is there anyone else from the public wishing to speak on the budget?”
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“Second. I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing.”
“Would you like to speak on the item? Yeah. All right. You'll have three minutes. You can come up to the podium here. You'll have three minutes. If you would, state your name.”
“Sure thing. So I can tell you that the properties that are already built are what we call legal non-conforming use. They were built before we had zoning. So they get to stay. They get all the rights and privileges that they have currently. This would be to enable more people to build their homes and occupy the area, which I believe they're building, as you mentioned, on ancestral land.”
“Correct. I believe on agriculture zero, you could build a home on a three acre lot or some such like that. But yes, agriculture is also known as our development reserve zoning. So that is what anything that's annexed into the city goes into, call it by default. And then at that point in time, once someone decides what they want to do with that land in the future, we look at the comprehensive plan, we look at what they want to do, and we try to get them there.”
“Yes, they are asking for this so that they can build the house. And that property has been in their family. Forever? Forever.”
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“You had a question, and I just want to clarify, this does have, how much is the CDBG funding on this one?”
“$800,000? We're leveraging CDBG to assist in this project in this area. That's a really great use of funds. Melody, you had a question?”
“Did I hear that right? That's about $400,000? Yes, that's correct. You know what you said?”
“Jonathan, did I hear a motion over there?”
“Motion passes unanimously. That brings us to item 6B. Item 6B is to discuss and consider action to approve a master services agreement between Flock Group, Inc. and the City of Pflugerville for the lease of automated license plate readers, ALPR cameras, and licensing in the amount of $87,500 per year. I would like to open this item quickly. I have quite a few folks who are signed up to speak on this, and I do want to make sure that everyone has the most recent information available. When it comes to public safety, I mean, that is something that we cherish in our community. I know that our…”
“I should also mention first, I do want to be clear, I think I received... I was going to tell you I received about 100 or over 100 messages via email about this issue, and then I checked my email again here just a minute ago, and that number has grown dramatically.”
“Yeah, well over 90% of those asking for... this particular action uh tonight but uh i want to make sure that the citizens know that they are heard that i do read all those emails even if i don't respond to each and every one of them not every one of them has requested a response but there are quite a few of those and you're you're being generous so you know which is good because you're the mayor so i get to be blunt”
“Chief, did you have something you wanted to say? I'm sorry, you were at the podium. And I want to recognize that I understand this has genuine operational implications for you. This was a tool that saved staff time and effort, and it is no longer available. Can you give us an idea of where we go next?”
“Thank you. I do have a handful of people signed up to speak. I'm sorry, David, do you have comments?”
“Thank you, David. Like I said, I've got a handful or a stack of people who are interested in speaking on this item. I will call you up in groups if you want to come forward and form a line over there near the guy in the pink shirt. And if you no longer wish to speak, that's okay, too. But I'm going to invite four people up initially. That's going to be Nate. Is it Koo? Cook, Victoria Krause, Michael Cecil, and Alan Kreider.”
“If the four of you would form a line, and then when we get to the last, I'll call three more.”
“Thanks for being here, Mike. As Alan Kreider comes up, I'm going to invite Les Wall, Jeff Cohen, and Joshua Lambert to line up. Kreider.”