Remarks by George Freas
66 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 45:04
“We're good. I'm glad to hear that. Just for a quick reference, Jordan, y'all are working with Granbury, Claiborne.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 45:26
“Which I can't think of what the name of their development is. It's their extension. They, they took in almost 2000 acres towards the. Towards Chisholm trail.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 46:06
“Well, I appreciate you coming down. It's something that, you know, when we think about we want to stay a unique family-oriented community, you know, our vision statement, but yet still have an opportunity to support the locals who are here in the community and have opportunities to work and live, you know, in your own community and work at a job, work at a manufacturing, whatever we can come up with, I almost said finagle, but whatever we could come up with that fits within our vision and within our comprehensive plan and within our goals, but yet still accomplish a better project. That buck…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 47:03
“To me, that's... For George's perspective, that's where I'd like to go. I'd like to have a better project every time. And where we have difficult properties to develop, this could be one of the avenues that we get to that better development long-term. It's not not in every case, not in every situation. I don't think this is something every developer is going to come ask us about, but when they do, we need to be prepared and I appreciate you, you know, given the time to to get it off the slide. Thank you Jordan. Appreciate it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 48:37
“Yeah, Jordan had, Jordan, I put this on there because Jordan had submitted their engagement letter. And I said, you know, I'm not authorized to engage with P3. I want to see us move in this direction, but I know that, you know, we're without a city administrator. So he was gracious enough to come down and give us the presentation that would have been generally a piece of that presentation. together so i want to publicly acknowledge that and and recognize you for stepping out there for us because i again i think it's something that we need to consider and need to do but as your you know as…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 56:16
“I just kind of have a question. The part, the construction that's going up the hill, have you kind of like terraced that to get the water down? Is that why that's kind of rip-wrapped with the bones?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So can I make a motion? Can we jump to what number is the action on this?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 59:23
“OK. Table. I'd like to make a motion to table it for 90 days while we consider what to do.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Give us 90 days to try to kind of work out what the details are. We have a motion.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Apologies. This means it will go to a planning zoning meeting, and that's where we want to go participate if we have some.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Is there any way to spruce up on 67 as well when you're coming up over Rodeo Hill or a banner?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I want to be Christmastown, USA. I want to knock grapevine out. What banners are you mentioning?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's at least that. Can we get them silver so they look old?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do we have any action, council? I'll make a motion to request the, or to approve the special alcohol permit for the Dino Days Gembering event October 10 and 11, 11 and 12. 10 and 11. October 10 and 11 for the standard and usual”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So, I love the idea, but I'm just wondering, is it something that we could change the ordinance or add to it and say that we also want them to study from mission to juicy fruit lane or or whatever. Whatever that road is up to the junior high. Because there's traffic that comes through there as well, though. It's not walking traffic. It's traffic. designated towards the school. You've got everybody lining up to be on. From where? From Mission to Juice Fruit Lane or to Allen.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Isn't there one in our packet? There is, but it's already been highlighted.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“What's her suggestion of the from where to where?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:14:54
“Yeah. But I think we ought to put, I mean, I seriously think we ought to put Southwest in scope for them to at least study because, you know, elementary school back up, you know, nearly to Spencer's house, you know, or beyond it. And it's just, you know, It's just a lot of traffic through them.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:15:47
“I always like to ask for the moon, and then if they just flat, you know, back up, then okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, I'll make a motion to adopt ordinance twenty, twenty six dash zero dash ten to study from Northeast. Bernard street to Southwest Bernard street ending at from big rocks to.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can I have one discussion? Sure. And I probably should have asked you, Tracy, before, but I didn't. So there's $340-something thousand kind of in the hot tax fund when we look at our budget number.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:19:50
“Do you have a plan for that pot of money or is this something that we could take a 3rd of it from that and put 400,000 from or whatever the number winds up being?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:21:29
“So what did he say about the idea of, at the conclusion of the 27 tournament, adding the 2030 tournament?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:22:46
“Yeah, I want to. I want to see if anybody's willing to talk about what. You know, do we have any feel at all for special purpose districts? You know, should I spend any more effort talking to. You know, some of the others that I have developed relationships with. And, or is this picking a poke?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:23:48
“George, I just don't know what we have. I think you get into properties that are difficult to develop. You get into properties that are rocky on a hilltop. You get into properties that, you know, we want more than just a space the size of this room that they call a dog park. we want something that is better than what they have offered i was offended i have to tell you i was offended that we couldn't get a developer to agree to put a nice fence along a main artery road because he just didn't want to and i think that We've seen developments that have kind of slid in because of different…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026