City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening everyone. Thank you for uh for joining us here tonight. I'm going to call to order the Flugerville City Council regular meeting at 7:01 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24th. Uh before we stand for the pledge, I want to point out a couple of things that are sitting on my desk here. I have a park design excellence award. So, uh about 10 days ago, I got to go to our uh there there's Shane, our parks director in the back. I got to to stand up with him and receive this award at the uh uh the Texas Recreation and Parks Society uh awards ceremony. That one is for our design at Stonehill Park. Uh and sitting next to it is a heavy one. Uh this is the Lonear Legacy Parks. This recognized Fluger Park as a park that has been in existence uh continuously for over 50 years. So we've got some uh some very prestigious awards here on the desk tonight. Uh with that, I thank our leadership and our parks department for doing amazing work to enable a community that is uh um that is represented by such amazing facilities. Uh with that, if you'd stand and join me for uh the pledge of allegiance to the US flag, the Texas flag, and then please remain standing for a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. You may take your seats.

The heck? We got a We got a Uh, at this point we're going to move into our public comment portion of the evening. Let me pull up my document so I can read this.

Uh, during public comment, I have to read you the legal ease here. Uh, so you understand how this works. Uh, in accordance with the Texas Attorney General opinion, any public comment that is made on an item that is not on the public published final agenda will only be heard by the council. No formal action, discussion, deliberation or comment will be made by the council. Each person providing public comment will be limited to 3 minutes. Uh, I do have a number of forms here that are filled out uh of people wishing to speak. Uh if you have not yet filled out a form, I believe they are at the back of the room and we will uh allow you to to fill those out and come up here as well. Um I'm going to go through these. I've got a uh William Glenn. Uh would you like to come forward to the podium uh and speak? You'll have three minutes if you so desire.

Thank you, council. Um I apologize for my manner of dress. I am coming straight from a plant shop. That's what I do. Um, I am the new owner of Green Sleeves Nursery at 601 West Panon Street and we have been delighted to take over uh a spot that has a legacy of over 50 years. It's been sort of the central plant joint in uh Flugerville for a long time and uh I've been lucky enough to work with the Fluger family to uh get established. Um we have uh had a wonderful go. We're really enjoying our place in the community and our customers. We have at the moment though both a mutually dependent and conflicting situation otherwise known as a catch 22 in that we are um up against a a fine schedule on our temporary certificate of occupancy due to the lack of a a restroom on our property. We have made extremely significant um progress toward it but we have actually hit a roadblock in that we cannot locate the wastewater lines. uh we built the the restroom according to maps that we were given by the uh engineering department. So we are actually at a at a horrific impass timing wise because we are at the very end of the season which is always the most uh slow and and usually deadly for an independent garden center. Um and we have also had an unusually warm February. So we are um we're both paying to keep our staff on 12 people who are locals uh as well as um not having the revenue that we we need to sustain us for the remaining nine months of the year. So um as regards the temporary certificate of occupancy fees, I I just might present an edge case, but we are we have been had a very difficult time making progress on such an expensive thing for a small independent business and also paying fees that are doubling each month. So, um I understand that we're not, you know, having a discussion about this right now, but I would just like you guys to consider if possible,

maybe it has been considered, but that if there were discretionary power, uh to um allow in light of a significant I mean, we're we're done except for this last hookup. Um where we can operate with some degree of urgency. Um, I'm just I've bugged probably the majority of you already in email or in some form or another. Um, but I'm desperate. Uh, we probably won't make it through the weekend. So, anyway, I I am grateful for your time. Thank you for hearing me. Um, and I might bug you once more. All right.

Thank you, Mr. Glenn. Um, as I mentioned, we cannot uh provide any deliberation. We can provide factual information. I will let you know that at our last meeting we did pass a change to uh allow some uh flexibility with the TCO fee structure. So hopefully there's some opportunity there. Um with that uh the next uh person I have signed up is Richard uh Halpin. Did I get that right? Yes.

All right. Thank you. Please come forward. Council members, mayor, thank you for all your generous use of your time. I mean, this I know this is a full-time job and I've never really recognized or appreciated for the amount of time and energy and insight it takes you to do this job. I know you've got staff here tonight. I am here because I'm a neighbor of the Green Sleeves Nursery. I'm a customer of the Green Sleeve Nursery. I've been buying plants there for the last 6 years since we moved to Flugerville. As you all know, this plant nursery has been going for 49 years. One of the early successful small businesses on Panon Street. So, it's quite a legacy that this nursery has created for our city. People come from all over Central Texas to buy plants. It's that high quality at this nursery. I really am up here simply to act as a witness to say to you as leaders of our community, please do all you can to facilitate this small business being able to continue. It brings customers to our community from from all around Central Texas. They come to buy plants and then they want to stay and they want to go to other businesses that are here in town. So, it's a magnet for us and a and a wonderful it's a treasure house of uh high quality products. So, um, just as a as a neighbor, as a as a resident, relatively new resident to Flugerville, but one who appreciates the past, I really would appreciate if you could, uh, you and staff could figure out a way to get this business back and going again. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you, Richard. Uh, the next person I have signed up is, uh, Becky Halpin. They may be related. So,

thank you all for being here. So, I've kind of come to beat the same horse. Um, we are really missing our nursery and it's spring planting season and of course having a nursery business going right now is like a retail being open before Christmas. So, they need to be open now and people need to be able to get their plants now. And um it's a very special nursery because they pay such close attention to native plants and also the vegetables that you can grow here in central Texas. If you go to Home Depot or Lowe's, as wonderful as they are, they just bring in plants from everywhere. This nursery brings in special plants that are made to grow right here. And we, my husband and I have driven twice to Round Rock now to a little nursery up there, and we don't want to drive there again to get things. We'd really love it if you could manifest whatever it is you in your magic bag to help this nursery get open for spring planting season. And thank you very much.

Thank you, Becky. Uh, we have Liz Fluger. I I see a theme. There's a theme.

Spoilers, guys. Thank you for your time. Um, you may have met me at Green and Growing when I worked there for many years with my parents. You may have met me at Green Sleeves, so I'm working with Willie. I'm proud of both, but Willie did not ask me to speak tonight. I don't think he had any idea I was going to. I only want to say when we were closing out the family-owned business that was there for 49 years, the outpouring hundreds, if not thousands of messages between Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, etc., Not only being sad we were missing, but looking for that same type of business to fill that space in our community. Not just as a retail place, but as a place of peace was unreal. To this day, I cannot walk anywhere in Flugville without being asked about Green Sleeves, the status of the business, being asked what's going on. And I would like to ask the city council, can we expedite this process of reopening for the March season? I also have to mention the outpouring of support statewide for the native plants Willie offers is unprecedented. This brings people from across the state to the city of Louisville and puts us on the map as a destination. Expediting this is something you can do. We have to have it by March 1st to meet the green season. Spring is it whether it's a local buying tomatoes, whether it's coming from coming out of state to buy one of Willy's rare datas. March 1st, we have to be open. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your time and consideration. I can see the sympathy on your faces and I hope I can see the sympathy in your actions. Thank you.

Thank you, Liz. Uh and then we have uh Rhonda Fluger. And I think um

you've heard it all, but I'm going to go ahead and have my say. Our business, Green and Growing, had a 49-year history in Flugerville. When we retired in 2024, we were fortunate to have Willie Glenn, the owner of Green Sleeves, to lease our land for Green Sleeves Nursery. It is our and our customers dream to continue to have an independent garden center on the property. Willie is such a gift to the community. His own growing operation of native Texas plants, which is perfect for the lowwater usage recommended for central Texas. We could have not picked a better business for this location. Yet here we are. Yet here we are with this business in jeopardy. Here's the problem Willie has to deal with is I understand them. Originally when Willie I'm sorry. Originally when Willie opened knowing restrooms would have to be built and was told where they needed to hook up for the existing sewer lines. Once the plumbing inspection which he built and once the plumbing inspection passed, Willie was ready to hook up but was told the city did not know actually know where the hookup was in the place they originally told Willie it was. After a couple of more days to pass, the city did attempt to find the hookup lines, but concluded they were not really there. Luckily, Willie found out from a neighbor where the sewer line is through pictures that were taken when the pipes were exposed for a h sewer hookup from another neighbor. Willie was able to prove where the line is through the pictures and provided by the neighbor and sent them to the city engineering. The right of way which the sewer line is in has been fenced in by a neighbor and the city will not hook up the sewer without the neighbor's approval because of the fence. The neighbor has been contacted but seems uninterested in helping with this

process. Willie does not have access to due to the neighbors fencing a city right away. It seems the city could hook this up without the neighbors approval. Isn't that the point of a rideway? I could see where a small independent business would not be attracted to Flugville. Sadly, not only has Willie had expense of building a restroom that now cannot be hooked up, he has had to shut down the business so he would not have to pay the fines while still paying his employees in hope of reopening. The garden center business depends on spring. March is one of the biggest months in this industry. to have Willy's business here for years to come. It's important that he gets expedited so he can open by March. Willie not only is running a business here in Flugerville, he has a commitment to teaching the community the benefits of planting natives and native Texas plants. He is a real treasure to the community and his knowledge and commitment to native plants. I know from customers and friends of Flugerville that this is the type of business Flugville wants, small, independent, and local. Thank you.

Thank you Rhonda. That is that is every uh form that uh had been submitted to me. Is there anyone else from the uh audience wishing to make a comment during this public comment period? All right, with that we will move forward. Uh that takes us to the reading of the consent agenda. Uh council, do we have any items to be pulled from the consent agenda? Uh none whatsoever.

Yes. Uh, I got a got a bunch. Uh, 4 E as in Edgar. 4G as in uh gecko. 4 H as in hamster. Uh, 4 I as in iodine. Uh, or Ian. Uh, never mess with that when the Sicilian is involved. Um, for J as in Jack. 4 K as in uh Kinkos and 4 O as in Oscar. All right. So that is seven items. Uh Melody, do you have any additional

4 L and 4 M? L and M. Jonathan, I think this is there anything left? This eliminates our consent agenda, right? Uh with that uh Trista would you read the remaining items for me? Yes. Uh so to review items I have E G H I J K L M and O. That yes that is what I have as well. So we have item 4 A

approving an ordinance on second reading with a caption reading an ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas. Amending the city of Flugerville, Texas code of ordinances, chapter 92, adding articles three and four regarding the quasi judicial enforcement of health and safety ordinances creating a building and standards commission in accordance with chapter 54 of the local government code subchapter C to meet local conditions and the authority regarding a substandard building for 214 of the local government code providing that this ordinance shall be cumulative repealing all ordinances to the extent they are in conflict providing severability and providing an effective date. For B, approving an ordinance on second reading with a caption reading, an ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas, adopting regulations relating to junked vehicles as public nuisances, providing for the abatement and removal of junked vehicles, providing for the notice, hearing, and enforcement, providing penalties, repealing conflicting provisions, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date. For C, approving an ordinance on second reading with a caption reading, an ordinance of the city of Lugerville, Texas, repealing and replacing chapter 92, health and sanitation of the code of ordinances, providing for procedures, penalties, and remedies, and providing an effective date. 4 D. Approving an ordinance on second reading with a caption reading, an ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas, amending the city of Flugerville, Texas code of ordinances, chapter 150, adding section 150.18 regarding the means of appeal in in the International Building Code 2021 edition. The International Residential Code 2021 edition. The International Plumbing Code 2021 edition. International Mechanical Code 2021 edition. International Fuel Gas Code 2021 edition. International Energy Conservation Code 2021 edition. International Fire Code 2021 edition. International Existing Building Code 2021 edition. International Property Maintenance Code 2021 edition. International swimming pool and Spa Code 2021 edition with amendments to meet local conditions providing that this ordinance shall be cumulative repealing all or all ordinances to the extent they are in conflict providing for seability and providing effect an effective date. Items 4 E, 4 G, 4 H, 4 I, 4 J, 4 K, 4 L, 4 M, and 4 O have been pulled from the consent agenda. All remaining items may be acted upon in a single motion. Second

All right, the con the remaining items on the consent agenda pass unanimously. Uh we will move to uh uh item 5A. Uh this is to conduct a public hearing regarding the community development block grant CDBG annual action plan for program year 2026. Uh, I believe we have uh planning and development services director Ashley Bailey here to uh not Emily. No, no, Emily finally gave up. She's like deuces.

Wrong number.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Again, for the record, Ashley Bailey, Planning and Development Services Director. Um the item before you tonight is the public hearing to request input on the action plan for the 2026 year um CDBG. So the CDBG program u provides annual grants um on a formula basis entitled communities to develop viable urban communities. What we have typically gotten into the city of Flickerville is around $350,000 a year. That's about what we're expecting this year. I think for the 2025 we were more the 34700. So, benefits primarily low to moderate income persons and also um there are some age restrictions that you can add in there just because you're typically um considered income restricted if you're over a certain age. Um the selection of the projects must meet national objective. It requires uh the benefits to low and moderate income persons. Uh prevents or eliminates blight and then also is just something that would be continued um considered urgent in the community for the development needs. So that can be light poles like you have already worked on. Sometimes it can be extension of sidewalks where there are none, items like that. Um so the priorities that we have that were adopted back in 2024 with the plan are going to be infrastructure and community services. Those are both high and then we have two medium with public buildings and facilities as well as economic development. And then low would be housing or homelessness. So for the 2025 the project priorities um infrastructure so providing funding for the infrastructure um projects and had defined low moderate block groups programs so parks and recreation scholarships and workforce solutions and then the administration is also the required notifications and other administrative items those were all what um had been approved for that 2025 project priorities. So we're looking for more of that input coming into the 2026 time frame. So, next steps in April, um the action plan will be released for public comment. Uh May of 2026, we'll

have the second public hearing with you at city council. In June of 2026, we'll have planning and zoning commission for recommendation to city council on that plan and then city council consideration. And then in July of this year, we'll be submitting the um the action plan to HUD uh with that deadline. So, with that, it is a public hearing. if you have any questions. I

I have a a question. I actually prompted by uh some things I saw at the the polls this last week. Um we can use this for for economic development. We and we've and uh we can also use it for scholarships for our local parks and wreck uh kind of things. Wouldn't it be possible for us to use uh CDBG funds uh to uh uh pay uh at least part of uh tuition for uh somebody who was going to the community college who was economically disadvantaged.

We could certainly take a look at that. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure. I think it would be more um widespread than that, but that's something. So, traditionally, since Emily, I think you were laughing. I mean, I go back a long ways with the CDBG and Emily working with me, particularly educating me on this. Back in the day, early to mid 2000s, we actually had um Texas Workforce Commission, they actually had um I guess it would be our area workforce uh Austin area workforce area had an office in Flutterville that where they were doing the training from there. And what we did was that we did upskilling, retraining, retraining for folks over there with it as well.

We went ahead and went with that idea again several several years ago. We didn't get too much of a response and what we've done is that we've for the years for the last several years we've actually gotten a great response regarding the scholarships for um once we started to do more advertising scholarships for the kids in our programs and some of the adults too for our parks and rec program as well as for what you see regarding our roads. Yeah, we've done a lot with infrastructure the last several years. So we've done that. So we've done it before. It just the response wasn't where

I'm just I'm just wondering it seems like that people are are more interested uh than they have been in the last several years in the idea of of ACC and and you know covering some of the cost there and I thought well if we if if we can because obviously that's something that's a bigger barrier for people who are uh lower down on the on the uh uh the SCES rung. um those people would be eligible for it presumably for this kind of funding. I'm just wondering if that's something we can direct in that area. Hey, you know, you you're you're below the the poverty line or you're near the poverty line and but you want to you want to move up, you want to get more training, you want to go to ACC. Um here's a way that we can do that and and make that more affordable. So, we used to have somebody from PCDC on the board of our local workforce film corporation. I I I would say that I would probably look to see how many people we have from Flugerville right now who are dispending because they're eligible for the services right now. And the question the rationale would be or do we want to have those services prompted here or or what other aspects of that? I would say that if you're going to look at something, I would say look at those numbers first. See how many people we actually have from there. um see if there actually is a need because I I get what you're saying with that and there's possibility that with more folks interested because of AI, you know, retraining, upskilling, but I know that we did this several years ago and you're right, maybe, you know, it's different, you know, maybe it's different from now, but I'd say who's well, I did send some questions in um about this item and where I had asked um about community college course reimbursement linked to workforce training, caregiver support services, is child care and or reimbursement possibly for fetch aeride or wave costs incurred for eligible activities by eligible

individuals because when I was looking up about other ideas of what we could do that's under the programmed services category those were some ideas that had had come up. So what I did notice too in reading the the report um is that it seems like there's low participation in our um recreation scholarships. I think there is just you know maybe less than 20. So I think that maybe it's time to have a fresh look at other things that we can do for program services to you know maybe to look at you know a couple years later these other things that we might be able to do and if there's already a program that's doing it uh maybe partner with them um to to reach out to more people to be eligible. And then another um item that I had seen on the website um where I thought maybe PCDC could be more involved because it it spoke about the provision of assistance to profit motivated businesses to carry out economic development and job creation and retention activities that that was an allowed um service that could be provided with this grant. And so I think um because the community service portion is marked as high that maybe we should look at additional activities under that umbrella besides just a recreation center um uh membership.

I I I I really like that uh idea of using this as a way to leverage the fetch program. Uh, I hadn't thought about that, but for people who are, you know, who who need uh or who want more than 10 fetch a ride vouchers a month, uh maybe this would be a way to uh uh to fund that uh with these federal dollars. Uh because we we have heard anecdotally that there are some people who, you know, would really like to fetch a ride, you know, 20 times a month. Um, but we've been concerned about, you know, how how much the take up there would be on that and where where we would fund that. And there might be a possibility.

Miss Bailey, I'm I'm curious. Uh, are these some of the things that have been discussed? Do we know are these allowable expenses under the CDBG program? Some of them may be, but always keep in mind that community services are limited to 20% of that overall grant. So, you're you're going to be limited. It won't be that full 350. And so 20% is about $70,000. Correct. Okay. But those are all certainly things with this act with the call and then the public hearing and then we're going to be releasing an action plan. Those are all ideas that we can take forward and um determine if they're eligible. Um if those are something that we could spend those funds on when we come present that to you again. Can you remind me of what percentage we are spending now on that community service um portion that's limited to 20%.

I believe we are spending all 70 of it on recreation scholarships. Well, it there's other things in that bucket, but yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. What else was in the bucket for community services outside of infrastructure?

Go back to what we did um for the community services. I know that we are doing a park and recreation scholarships. There was some workforce solutions. I think that was not as um utilized this last year with the update that was heard a few months ago. Um so certainly we'll take back all of those ideas and figure out if those funds can be utilized elsewhere. Yeah, because I mean Capital Area or Workforce Solutions is a great partner. They do good work over here. Literally what Doug's saying, I mean I I I would be it's a public hearing which is great. So that's going to give time and you give the the the timeline for that. Let's see what of these ideas are actually are feasible to execute before we start trying to spend.

I mean I I do think I Yeah, I think it's great to consider any any other ideas. In the past, I've looked at what other cities have done and places do some really cool stuff with the money. Uh I do think the infrastructure investments that we make is probably one of the best bangs for the buck. It's made a huge difference.

Oh yeah, that's there's definitely a lot of value there. I think from a policy perspective, what what we should be thinking about is is this are we trying to expand programs or are we trying to cover uh the costs of existing programs? So, our our infrastructure um we we need to invest in infrastructure in these areas. If we can leverage this money to invest in that infrastructure, that's great. We will have staff uh at our uh recreation center providing services to low-income individuals. Can we use this money to help pay that expense and help offset the cost going forward? A lot of what I heard sounded like new programs. Uh would we like to expand programs? I think that gets very dangerous uh because this is federal money and federal money has a habit of evaporating. Uh and so I would be cautious about moving forward with adding new liabilities onto onto the backs of our citizens uh by allocating money for otherwise um you know new programs.

No, you're right. The the one what we've been doing with the infrastructure thing has been one time oneoff expenses. So that if it doesn't come back if we try to start an ACC scholarship program um that could be a very shortlived program and would create a lot of uh on the other hand somebody paid to be on city council. How how long has the CDBG uh program been in effect? Uh 50 years. Um, and how long have we been a 2013 and a I'm sorry I always forget the term an entitlement community for CD CDBG been that long. It's been that long. 2013. I thought I read

and and it is it is a big deal that we get the money directly as opposed to Travis County. That is that is a significant deal. Over on CAPCOG, I oversee some of that uh that money as well that's going throughout the county in the 10ount region. Not quite the 10ount region, the CDPG fun rate region. And so we are exempted from that. We have our own uh allocation from the federal government, but we we should be judicious with it. Sorry. Uh it was me again. I wanted to poke uh again on the workforce solutions piece. Correct me if I'm wrong. I actually thought that that was removed. That will be removed in the year upcoming. That's next year. Okay. Okay. Cuz

Yeah. I mean and and I get and again I got to give staff a lot of credit because I I mean I asked advocated they they did it the council agreed and that's the problem. We do what we can we also have to remember from a policy perspective to use most restrictive funds in the most restrictive way right um we have other funding sources potentially for uh workforce development. Um, we want to make sure we leverage the right funds for the right uh thing and not try to split uh, you know, one small bucket into a whole lot of different ways when there are other opportunities. Jerry's going to make up for it. Don't worry about that's not what I said.

No, I do think that's a I think it's a it is to your point. It is a really good example because I know staff worked for five, six years at least to try to get people to use that money that we were earmarking and it and it just didn't get used right. So yeah, I think that's why I wanted to confirm that it wasn't conductive. Yeah. Okay.

So, um I think it's important to keep an open mind and to welcome new ideas and explore them. Um so this is the purpose of me bringing up options of what I believe I read are possible under this program. Um, so the other thing too I just wanted to um note and uh there was a a lot of good information on this uh long report but it did say um because on our list housing was on the the low priority list um but the report you know that we're reporting to the federal government I I I'm assuming that um the most common housing problem in the city of Flugerville is cost burden and severe cost burden where there is and on these tables it it listed that there were somewhere between 23 to 25% of uh our households that are spending more than 30% of their monthly income on housing costs. Um so I do think that it's important to to to keep that in mind when making decisions. So um it is a problem here in a while or it's a I think significant 25% people having that issue uh for us to keep in mind and and this is what we are reporting to the federal government that's our common um most common problem for housing.

Now that the housing cost burden is that is that just rent or uh that's for both homeowners and renters according to the table. But is that is that just the uh uh the payment there or is that include uh taxes or anything else or how's that calculated? My understanding what I read was that um housing costs for homeowners include mortgage taxes, insurance and utilities. And then for renters it includes rent and utilities. So it includes the factors you would assume

go into the fact when it comes to housing. So, I just thought that that was an interesting uh discussion and a lot of pages and tables related to that. Um, so I was just curious as to why we've put it as a low priority. I I think last year, correct me if I'm wrong, last year, didn't we have a was it last year we had a discussion about this about I don't it says 2024 and I don't recall.

Yeah. I I think one thing um that I remember and and you all know I'm a big fan of working on housing affordability here, but uh one of the things I think or one of the reasons why it has not been included in the plan, I'm not not that couldn't change was that we really deferred to the county for like housing assistance type of programs may or may not be the type of program that you're thinking of, but I I know in the past when I've had conversations with staff um about the program, that was the big reason. Um, same thing with unhoused population, right? We sort of defer that to the county programs as opposed to having our own, right? And I think we then had a conversation about how that would be allocated

and how we get if we we go about doing it. So, because I mean, one of the programs supports us, Echo and some other folks around there. So, to your point, that's one of the reasons why we support those entities with that. But,

thank you for the additional color on that. Um I I do think it's um worthwhile to note that it's listed as as somewhat possibly I guess it depends on your it's a subjective whether it's significant or not but um it we're noting that it is is a problem and maybe we could have more information about um how we are using other resources to address it and that's why we're not using this money on on that problem. But I think it is um important to note that it is an issue. All right. Do we have any other recommendations? Any other things to consider?

Well, you know, to the extent we're going to be uh continuing to use money on infrastructure, that Parkway neighborhood is still not finished. That'd be that'd be the place I' I'd want to aim the infrastructure money. Well, David, I'm going to I'm going to tell you a secret about uh local government. Um the job's never done. There will always be more infrastructure to work. Yes, that Parkway that particular area because you know was it was not in it was way out in the county and way outside of Flugerville when outside building way below the building standards and

I've been very I think the city can be very proud of the effort we've made so far. But yes, we definitely need to continue to make that effort. We we we've done a lot, but we took we took our sweet bippy time about it after we annexed those guys. I did have a couple of more comments that I had sent unless someone else

Oh, um there was a section where it had talked about that the city was involved in counting any um homeless persons in our city and um so I hadn't seen any information about that. I didn't know if um we had a report about that. Um, but it was mentioned that that city staff was involved in doing that with the the other uh organization that's responsible for that. So that's just information that if I could be provided with or you know at a later point. Um, and then there real quick I just want to clarify on that. So is that an effort that we assisted some other organization with or an effort that we undertook ourselves?

I believe it's an effort in my reading the consolidated plan that's an effort that we take on with someone else. We do not do that. So, so someone else would be generating that report, not us. We would be we I believe we participate in the Austin area, what the point in time specific one. Yes, it's that one. So, so we do participate every January in the P count and um all of these areas um are actually counted from Austin all the way to Williamson County. Um, we depend on ECHKO, um, who is our federal hub for all of those funds. Um, and also covers Travis County, which Flugerville is in, to to do those counts.

Yeah, I was about to say Echo quite lit. I guess we're having a whole education for that. Um, Echo literally hires people to make do those counters. That's not something that we do ourselves. Well, it's not a it's not an effort that we undertake ourselves. It's not something that we report on ourselves. It's something that we contribute to. So it sounds like that that information would come from another agency. Do um do they provide it to us based on the information we get as we participate? I believe so. Yeah. Okay. And I'm sorry, Melody, you said you had one more. Yeah.

Oh, just there was some other um just uh uh notes about data that uh did conflicted. And so I was just wondering if staff was looking into that and um some numbers that um were reported that were higher higher than um I noted that it said um 27,840 low and moderate income households are affected with housing cost burden for Flugerville according to the 2017 report, but we only have 19,665. So, I just I was just wondering if those were going to be researched. Is that a Travis County or census block number?

I can double check. Is that for the consolidated plan because that was just um said for the to the public hearing for gaining it's it was listed in in this report and so and I I listed the page numbers so you could look into that. All right. Uh council, any other uh comments? No. This is a public hearing. I invite anyone uh from the public who is interested in speaking on the community community development block annual action plan for program year 2026 to come forward at this time. Motion to close public hearing.

I have a motion to close public hearing and a second from I think Jonathan beat you to it. David, this is a vote to close the public hearing. Uh motion passes unanimously. This was only a public hearing. Uh I believe uh Miss Bailey will see you again here in a week or two or it's about a few weeks. Yeah. April. April. All right. Enjoy your spring break. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your diligence on uh providing for the best use of those funds. Okay.

Uh item 5B is to conduct a public hearing for annexation uh ordinance with the caption reading an ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas. annexing for full purposes tract of land totaling approximately 62.74 acres of land situated in the uh theopilus Ellison survey abstract number 260 in Travis County, Texas being all of called 86.96 acre tract of land as described in general warranty deed to New Sweden MPCLP and recorded in document number 20006201486 of Official public records of Travis County, Texas. The property is generally located east of the FM973 and New Sweden Church Road intersection on the north side of New Sweden Church Road to be known as the New Sweden Lift Station annexation. Uh this uh Miss Bailey is also for you.

Thank you so much. Um so this is again you just stated where this is, but it is on the eastern side of town. This is part of a lift station project that is currently um in design. and then um hoping to be um starting construction in the next month. Um so it is the 62.74 acres or 63 acres. It's on that north side. You can see that on the map on the screen. The pink reddish portion is something that has already been annexed by the city. We are annexing everything that's in that blue outline as well as the width of the right of way from the western edge of the property that we're annexing to the eastern edge. We didn't want to leave a small portion in Travis County and have it go Travis County, city of Flugerville, Travis County, city of Flugerville. Um, so we are annexing the full strip.

We do know on this one it has not yet gone or we have not heard back yet from Travis County. It has not yet been heard from the board. So this is again just a public hearing only just so that we can um knock that out because we do know that we need to start annexation um start construction, but we need to annex that before we start the construction. So this will again be the site of the new Sweden lift station and there were a few other items on the agenda tonight for that as well. So with that it is just a public hearing. All right, Miss Bailey, if I understood you correctly, we are annexing the entire track of land in order to construct infrastructure and we need it to be annexed into the city in order for us to begin construction of that infrastructure. Correct. And I believe the uh timeline for that is March of this year that we're hoping to start construction.

So that's coming up quick. Council, any uh questions, comments for the public hearing? This is a long time coming. So, great word. Is there um is is there a fiscal impact to um annexing the rightway? There should not be um it was not so egregious that it gave us pause when we were um putting this together with the Excel sheet that we And what is the uh the length of the rightway? I can get that to you. It's the width of the overall property. Um I've got the date here. Oh, right. What is that roughly? Okay. I'm not going to guess. Yeah.

But yeah, obviously there will be some impact of placing that on our pavement maintenance program. Uh and you know, reconstruction in 50 years. I believe that was resurfaced recently though. I think I drove that this last weekend around 400 ft from what I'm seeing in the deep. All right. I was going to say how many of our citizens actually know that we are across 973. Uh this is a uh a public hearing. We invite anyone from the public who wishes to speak on this annexation ordinance. Lucy or one other I don't see anyone from the public stepping forward.

Got two motions and I they they All right, there we go. Uh and again this was only a public hearing. There we go. Uh public hearing is closed unanimously. Uh before we uh reach our regular agenda, I am going to uh skip around a little bit for the benefit of some of the individuals in the audience. Uh, at this point I'm going to open uh item 4G. Uh 4G is approving a contract with MP Construction Service in the amount of $220,000 for trail removal and replacement associated with the city's annual trail maintenance program and authorizing the city manager to execute the same. Uh who pulled 4G?

That's me. Um, so the uh there were a lot of blanks in the uh in the contract as it it's put forward. Uh the amount's not there. The name of the contract's not there. Um I know the amount is here, but it's not on the contract that was that was presented to us. Um and the scope and the term uh seem a little vague uh in the contract that was presented. So, I I would just ask to have those tees crossed and eyes dotted and bring that back to us next time. Mr. Hayes, do we have uh any concerns or

I'm I'm happy to do it. I I I my understanding was the previous council had prepared it so I didn't give a lot of thought but we're having a yeah I think we have every once in a while stuff slips through and kind of looks like this was one where that's do we have an eminent construction date on this uh release date we can bring it back.

I also um just had questions on what is the scope of the trail removal and replacement. are there designated um trails that this is going to cover? And then um we do have uh an item in the CIP for trail replacement. And I was just wondering if this was the entirety of our plan for trail replacement this year or if there was another contract that was going to do the rest of the the planned work. What was the amount in the uh in the budget? I think it was over a million. So then I would imagine that this is yeah this is well then my question is well again what what's the scope for for these and what what else are we planning to do

so that's what David was saying and staff so that they can get back with us on that so we'll need to get the scope defined in that and that recreation already knew what they were they do but we needed in the contract well I didn't know if they there was information they could provide them no we're we're postponing So, it'll come back. We can talk about it later. I'm not planning to take any action. Um, yeah. I mean, I think it's a it I mean, if we can get all that information tonight, that's that's fine. But I think it's probably wait till next uh next meeting. I would say next meeting. Just Yeah. Let's make sure to point your teeth. Yeah. Touch your eyes, brush your teeth. Yep. All right.

All right. That uh then I'm going to move forward. I'm going to hop around like I said, although we are going to the next item, item 4 H. This is approving a small personal property claim settlement and release with animal shelter volunteer Tom Rott in the amount not to exceed $4,0521 uh to fully resolve claim number TX254023 filed through the Texas Municipal League risk pool uh related to property damage incident occurring on uh December 17th 2025 and authorizing the city manager to execute the same. Now I will uh make the statement that the reason this is uh such a small amount and is on the agenda is because all settlements uh are required by charter to be approved by council. Uh who pulled this item?

I did. David, what questions do you have? I'm just curious what the what the cause was of this uh of this this incident and if that's something that's been that's been addressed. You know, I obviously it's a it's a modest claim. I just want to make sure it's not a recurring situation. The driver paused and then drove the gate closed on him after he took a a pretty lengthy amount of a pause. Is there would like us to try driver's ed with him? We could. Um it wasn't a technical malfunction. Okay. So there's nothing about the the there's nothing we can do about the gate that uh

we're messing with the sensor to maybe do something different in this instance. No. But okay. Is that but is that something that we can address? And going forward is now. And actually I was just told sensor was repaired. Excellent. All right. And I move to approve. Second.

A motion and a second to approve item 4 H. Now let's just knock all these. Motion passes unanimously. Uh now we are going to move to item 4 I. 4 I is approving the recommended appointments to the 2026 animal advisory committee. Uh who pulled this item?

That would be me. David. So, uh, my understanding is the annual advisory committee was was not, uh, posted on on the city website for boards and committees and there were not, uh, uh, an a regular application process. Am I misunderstanding that?

No, you are correct. Um, so it's very specific. Um, they meet only three times. We actually may come to you later and ask for a longer term rather than one year. They meet three times. It's very specific in the law. It has to have be one vet. Uh I forgot the so um and people that to be frank we we work with um but no we have never put that out to a call to the public. We we staff recommends it's advisory. It's not the same as a board and commission per se. Um we've never put that out to a call. We rely on Rhonda's expertise to um provide you a recommendation of who. We don't just want um anyways. Well, you said that it has to be a veterinarian and and what are the other some it's got to be somebody who's

Rhonda, if you'll come up, I apologize. I don't remember. Okay. So, it also requires a person employed by the animal shelter has to be on the board. Okay. And a city representative. Usually not the same person that's already working for the shelter. and a person that is involved in animal welfare, which there's a very small pool in I'm sorry. So, does that involved in animal welfare have to be a vet or is that No, the vet is separate. There there is a required vet. So, there there are four people required. That's correct. Okay. And

and it's a committee. It's an advisory committee. It's it's not really a board or is this subject to open meetings act you have a charter provision that says all city boards are subject to the open meetings act. Okay. Um so what is the reason that we are doing one year instead of two years? When we initially set it up, um, we did one year, but we feel like two-year would would probably serve better. You know, cut down by half. How many times you have to come back here? When when was it initially set up?

Oh, it's been several years back. All right. Um, what's the general purpose? Why was it established? I believe it was established under statute. Yeah. Texas Health and Safety Code requires that um for government shelters. Um

and what what does it what does it uh take under its uh review? really just the operation of the animal shelter meeting, you know, making sure we're we're meeting requirements which which health department comes and inspects once a year and we have a vet come in and inspect once a year and then the committee just kind of discusses um shelter.

So this is an an extra supervisory level that the state has mandated that we have to have. So, it's not really supervisory because all they I mean we meet and and discuss um but it's advisory only. They they it's not oh we're voting and and you know but the state requires us to have this advisory board. That's correct. Boy, when they talk about the legislature and its infinite wisdom. Uh okay. Uh thank you. I I appreciate that. I um I would uh move to approve this with the amendment that the uh the term be fixed at two years rather than one year

which you will have to do via ordinance that'll be separate activity you'll need to amend and we're happy to bring an amendment to the ordinance for two readings. Yeah. I I think I would recommend every two years should be fine on this the next round of appointments. I don't think we need to do that. Yeah, I think December December's fine. All right, I'll move to approve it as is. All right, I have a motion from David, a second from Rudy. Thank you.

I'm not seeing it on legisar. Motion passes unanimously. Uh, and with that, I'm going to take us to item 4. I told you I was going to hop around there. I finally did. uh approving payment in an amount not to exceed $330,000 to Wastewater Transport Services LLC, WWTS, for the provision of pump and hall services pursuant to the development agreement regarding the metallark preserve development and authorizing the city manager to execute the same. Uh Melody, I believe you pulled this one. I think David pulled it.

David. Okay, David, what you got? I did have questions. So, um I I was looking through this and it it seemed to say that that uh that we needed to uh to to do some of these things in the event that the developer had done other things by June 30th of 2024, but they didn't do those things. So, I'm I'm curious what's going on here. Why are we moving forward with this if we're not contractually obligated to do or are we and I missed a a uh a mandatory element in there somewhere. Matt, thank you for being here with us tonight. What you got?

Uh good evening, mayor and council. For the record, Matt Recctor, your director of utilities and engineering. Uh so the development agreement that was passed in 2022 stated that if the city had not completed its infrastructure by June 31st of 2024 that we would pay for pump and hall that the the city would I'm sorry I thought it said the developer had to complete that by June of 2012. There was infrastructure that the developer had to compete complete but it only went to where the lift station is. The city had to build the lift station and the force main to then take the wastewater from there back to their main infrastructure.

And then did the developer comply with their requirements? Yes, the developer built all of their infrastructure. Okay. There wasn't a timeline on them. There was a timeline on our project. All right. So, I misread that. Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to ask about that. Well, the section says in the event that the developer completes the off-site wastewater line extension by the regional LS completion date and the LS completion date is listed as June 31, 2024. So if they didn't complete it by that date, I mean that was the requirement then it does look like

yeah that was my other question is there is a bilateral okay when did we when or um when did they finish those improvements and then I was just curious for historical context as why we didn't have the lift station completed by that date. I don't know the answer to your first question. Um, as to the duplicative requirements, I would defer to the the legal experts. Um, but you've looked at this in detail, haven't you? You've got you've been here for like two weeks. You've been here only a week less than me. Well,

but but but but to your point, it's a bilateral agreement and so consequently, that's that's why we're at where we're at today because we we said if not for the specific date, then we you're marketing for it. To your point, because that date doesn't exist, it's constructed in law to assume that you would rationally be June 30th as opposed to June 31st. So, Could you expand on what that means by bilateral agreement? So the the question

and tell me if we need to retire to executive session for legal counsel but uh I think what we're asking is based on the contract are we required to provide this service? That's probably the baseline. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I don't know when they if if they performed by that by that specific date. I think I don't know if Matt I I don't know either. I know we were notified in December of 25 that they were ready to start flowing waste water and that's when we started incurring costs for pumping.

There was this was a heavy heavily negotiated agreement with Len Lenar Homes um to get them out there in the first place. We put specific conditions regarding what we wanted to see from those properties, being gentle and um and how we wanted that neighborhood developed with that. They asked for us to be able because you know how Cameron Road is right there for us to be able to okay listen if we're going to do this what are we bringing over there regarding water and wastewater. So this condition was made on the fact that hey listen if you weren't able to do this by specific time period then we are going to be the ones who are going to be owning that pump and that's where that's why we're where we are today.

So we didn't get a notice from them until December of 2025. So it sounds like they were a year and a half late but they're asking us to to to do it an hour a year and a half after we were originally scheduled to do it. Okay. All right. David, you you are making some assumptions because we don't know when they constructed the infrastructure. That date is likely when people started flushing toilets in the community. Uh that that's when they started selling homes. So I don't know when they built the infrastructure, right? We don't have a So So then I guess the question is are you arguing that we

No, I'm I'm just trying to figure out the the sequence of events here. I'm ready to to to uh move to approve. And to that to that point, the earlier public hearing we had on annexation, I believe, is for the same lift station tract. I would still like the answer to my questions about when the improvements completed. Got a motion real quick. I'm sorry. Did I have a And I had a second on the motion. Yeah. All right. If I have a second. Yes. Further discussion. Further discussion. Go ahead.

Oh, I I was just saying I would I would like the information. um about when the off-site improvements were completed and what was the reason that the city did not complete the lift station by assuming that the date was supposed to be June 30th, 2024. Um and then I I did have another question is um are these costs reimburseable by the PID because they're related to infrastructure? I wasn't sure because some of the costs appear to be reimburseable by the PID and so it's so you're saying the cost that we're excessive.

Okay. Well, I think that's something they can bring back and talk to us about. But that's a good question. Yeah. When you ask for the dates for the off-site infrastructure, you're talking about their off-site infrastructure. Yeah. The what they were supposed to complete in this contract. I would have to go check. Yeah. I'm just saying in in the future. Okay. Yeah. And I would go more with the mayor. U Doug literally just said as we drive down Cameron Road, I feel like it at least four or five days a week. I mean, you're just getting folks direction moving in out there. So, that's probably why you have the date. No, I trying to buy a house out there in November. Yeah. I don't think they were they were not they were not ready the end of June and the house. No, not at all.

All right. So, I do have a uh a motion. I believe I had a second. Yeah.

Motion passes unanimously. Uh with that, I'm going to revert back to our regular agenda. Uh that will take us to item 6A, conduct presentation and discuss and consider action approving a resolution accepting the fiscal year 2025 audit. Uh with us we have our finance director Tracy Waldron uh as well as uh Brandon from Hey, you're back. Weaver and Tidwell. So um Mr. Mayor, okay, this is uh is our regular agenda. So Tracy, if you would provide us with a presentation.

Yeah, I was just going to introduce Brandon. So this this culminates a lot of hours for staff and the auditors. And so we're very pleased um to bring this comprehensive report and um um Brandon does have a presentation on it.

Thank you'all for having us here. Um it is our second year uh doing this audit for y'all. I'll try to keep this short and sweet, which is probably what y'all want from your auditor. Um, so we have Rebecca Darling. She's not here, but she is our the audit partner. U and I am the audit senior manager here. So, we kind of run the audit. Um, our sometimes our staff change, but Rebecca and I are the main, uh, point of contact for the audit. Uh, so we'll go over some required communications for the audit. Um, if y'all have any questions, uh, we'll have time at the end, um, to answer those. Um so in general our audit audit process we do perform our audit in accordance with GAS which is the generally accepted auditing standards. Um in addition we also audit them in accordance to generally accepted government auditing standards or GAGS. Um for single audit we do perform a single audit of your federal awards. This tests the compliance over your federal awards um and also internal controls over your major programs. Um we also do some compliance tests. We don't offer any kind of opinion or assurance over your compliance, but we will look at certain compliance for public fund investment act and uh procurement. So, if you were to take anything from this presentation, it would be these last three or four slides. This is kind of the city's report card for the audit. Um, it's a summary of our auditor's opinions. So, we have issued an unmodified audit report on the financial statements and y'all received a draft of the report. it has been issued since y'all received the draft. Uh this is the highest level assurance that we can provide on the audit report. So it basically states that the financial statements are free from material statement. Um we've also issued the independent audits report on internal controls over financial reporting. Um again this is in accordance with GAGIS. Um this report does reference one what we call a significant deficiency which we'll talk about later. Um and then

we've also issued the independent audits report on compliance over each major program and the internal control internal control over compliance. Um and that is the single audit. Uh this is your schedule of findings and question cost. This is in the back of the audit report itself. Um it is basically a more detailed explanation of that slide that I just sent you. Um like I said for the financial statements, we are issuing an unmodified opinion. um the internal control over financial reporting. We did not identify any weaknesses.

Uh we do have one significant deficiency which I'll talk about here shortly and then no non-compliance noted for federal awards. We tested the corona virus lo local and fiscal recovery funds. Again um we did not identify any deficiencies or any non-compliance related to that program. Um and this is the finding that I was referring to. So we did find one instance where which required a journal entry to correct um and we issued a significant deficiency in internal controls or reporting for this um it's related to deferred revenues. So this year the city received a large prepayment of assessment revenues paid assessment revenues. Uh when you receive a payment like that you need to you should defer it and recognize the revenue as it's earned in the future years. Um and that deferral didn't happen. So revenues were overstated um in the current year and we brought that up to management. Management corrected the entry. Um to my understanding this was just a very unique instance. The the city doesn't typically receive lumpsum prepayments um during the year. So management

how many years is that uh does that need to be advertised over? I believe it's five. Okay. 207 years. Oh, okay. They pay the whole So they paid paid 27 years. Okay. Yeah. 27 years. All right. Maybe they're paying off their the property taxes. Yeah. Just for indicate that's a very specific number by 27 years. It is in accordance to the pit assessment plan. So they pays for the next 27 years for the duration of the plan. Interest. Uhhuh. Interesting. Perhaps I believe I don't know how much disclos

with it. They they sold interest in their their property for that pit. So they had to prepay all the amounts due for the next interesting. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. And that wins half the battle. Um so management h was is going to implement new procedures to watch out for payments like that. Again, I think this is pretty I mean, if somebody else wants to pay us 27 years in advance, yeah, I'm glad we have a process for that now.

Um, so the next couple slides are just to go over the income statements for your main financial statements. I'm not going to go into too much detail on these, but just want to highlight uh for your governmental funds, this is your general general fund, debt service fund, capital projects. Total revenues this year 139 million um over 235 million for expenditures but you'll notice for the expenditures 125 of that is capital outlay. So you guys have significant capital projects going on. U total net change for the governmental funds is about um $5 million loss. So you still have $490 million in your fund balance. Still a healthy fund balance for the city. These are your proprietary funds. So this will be your water fund. Um your business type activities. Um we have a net in net operating income of 21 million for all your business type activities. And after debt payments and any contributed capital, you increased your net position for the BTA activities by about $32 million this year. Uh this is for the PCDC. I won't go into too much detail but this is presented uh on the statement of that position along with the primary government. Um I have information in the slides if you all want to read it. And then this is the statement of that position for the entire city. So this shows 2025 results and 2024 for both governmental activities and business type activities. Uh, one thing I just want to highlight here, total primary government net position for 2024 was 449 million and that increased to over 546 million. So, pretty healthy increase year-over-year. Uh, new standards. We had one new standard this year. It's gazy 101 for compensated absences. Just high level. required us to revamp how y'all calculated your compensated absences.

That's your vacation payable and sick payable. Required management to come to use historical data to come up with that estimate of what the city is likely to pay out. Um but that was the only pronouncement that was was new this year. Uh and then some more required communications. Like I said, we perform our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and that just says that we provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material in the statement. Um, under the go government auditing standards. Again, we document our consideration of internal controls, but we don't offer any kind of opinion or assurance over your internal controls. Um, and then audits responsibility under uniform guidance. This is testing your federal programs for compliance and uh internal controls over compliance. Unusual transactions and adoption of new accounting principles. If there was any unusual transactions that we encountered, we would disclose them here, but we have none. The only new accounting principle we had was the Gazsby 101 that I referenced before. All right. We are required to disclose any significant risks of the city. And again, these are not any these are not risks that we identified specifically the cities. These are not any findings. Um we do a risk based audit and we're required to look at your financial statements and identify areas of potential risk. Um so for instance, we have management override of controls. This is the this is a presumed risk on all audit engagements. This is the risk that management is colluding to misstate the financial statements. Um the other one we have is improper revenue recognition. Again, this is something that's just inherent in all businesses, all entities. Um, this is a statement of revenue. So, in this case, we identified utility revenues as potential risk. And that just requires us to do additional procedures over your utilities. Make sure that there's nothing uh there's no misstatement there. Um, and then these

last two are kind of lumped in together. Just any improper unauthorized expenditures or uh employees within the system. And we found no audit findings on any of these risks. Um any difficulties encountered. If there's any dis difficulties, we would disclose them here. And there were none. Uh management representations. We get representation from management just to ensure that there's all the information that they provided is accurate. There's nothing omitted from what we audited. Um we had no independence issues. And for other information including the financial statements, y'all present the management discussion, analysis, statistical section, and supplementary information. All of that is uh supplemental and we don't provide any assurance of those. You'll you'll see them in the financial statements marked as unudited. And then accounting estimates, we have to review for any significant estimates in your financial statements. Um some of those estimates include your allowance for doubtful accounts, your pension and oped. um estimates and then compensated absence liabilities. We didn't consider any of them significant, but we just need to disclose that those are potential estimates that y'all um that management makes. Management consultations. If management made consultations with other accounting uh accountants for accounting matters, they would need to let us know and we have not been told of any of that. Um and then significant matters is just that significant deficiency that we noted previously and modifications to the auditors report which we added an emphasis in matter in the opinion for Gatsby 101 the new pronouncement um but nothing else. And lastly we have audit adjustments and past adjustments. So we are required to accumulate and disclose all audit material audit adjustments and any uncorrected audit adjustments. Uh we had no material uncorrected misstatements. So management corrected um any misstatements that we identified and then the only material corrected

misstatement that we had was the relates to the deferred revenue and that's all I got. Brendon, thank you. Thank you so much for uh the presentation. Uh this is a resolution to accept the audit. Uh council, do we have any questions? I have a couple. Um, in the report it was noted that the city is no longer at a lowrisk status. Can you please um elaborate on that and what it means?

Yes. Um, under uniform guidance, if you receive a material weakness within the past two years, you are no longer a low-risk entity. And last year, we we issued a material weakness. So, for this year and next year, you will not be you'll be considered a high-risisk entity for single audit purposes. And all that really does is increase the amount of coverage that we have to get. So we'll we'll have to test more single audit programs, more federal and state programs to ensure that we have a proper coverage. So that's only over the federal and state programs. Yes. Okay. And when you say more coverage, it means a higher fee. Not high audit fee. No. No, it doesn't. But more extensive.

More extensive. We we will have to test more programs. So right now we only tested the corona virus state and local recovery funds. We would potentially have to test more if if we needed additional coverage. A bigger sample size. Yeah. Do you look at like the the CDBG program that we discussed earlier tonight? That might be something you'd look at next year. It might be. There's a certain threshold that it would have to meet for us to look at it. Um it's it's it's a million dollars essentially coming up this next year. That's the threshold for us to have to look at it. Um I don't think CDBG is that large, but it we make that determination every year. It's below the threshold that you you stayed there. Yeah.

I I saw the threshold of 750,000. Yeah. So it's 750 and it's moving up. So So if it's half of that, then it probably wouldn't be part of the test. If I remember correctly, the reason that you guys need a single audit is because of the coronairus funds. Um, so potentially we would not have it in a lot of this next year, but that just depends on how much better loan statement you. All right, Melody, you said you had a couple of questions. What's your other one? Um, so what specific year end closing procedures would have detected that misstatement earlier?

So it's it is a material revenue transaction. So it's really a matter of as part of the year procedures looking through significant revenue um accounts uh and transactions. to identify what is proper cut off uh for those funds. So a year over year or budget to actual analysis could have noted that.

Yeah, I think I think I think budget budget to actual would have noted that because it obviously was not in the budget to receive 27 years of payment. My I think my other question might be um for our staff, but um about any what new closing procedures will be implemented on either maybe a monthly or quarterly basis to identify potential issues prior to year end that could be for other reasons in the future. Yeah. Question. Yeah.

So, um but I do want to thank staff and our auditors for the work involved in preparing this audit. I know how much time um and coordination that it takes to do an audit. Uh last year I had requested that a draft audit be provided at least two weeks in advance of for council consideration to allow adequate time for review. And given the length and complexity of the audit as well as the full agenda packet, I would like to request additional time to carefully review the report and ask appropriate questions prior to acceptance. The statutory deadline, as I understand it, allows approval through the end of March. Um, so postponing consideration will not jeopardize compliance. And when I looked in the past, most times the audit report was um presented at the end the second meeting in March or later. And I also believe that it would be beneficial for the finance and budget committee to review the audit and have the opportunity to provide feedback to council before final approval. And so I wanted to mo move to postpone this item to

I have a motion uh I heard a second uh to postpone. Uh I'm going to during further discussion ask uh if I could better understand your your intention uh because I don't understand how uh postponing the acceptance of the audit uh would provide us with with any benefit. Uh I assume you're not suggesting that our auditor needs to change their findings. That would seem wholly inappropriate. So help me understand what a postponement would do from an acceptance perspective. Um well there has been the audit has been postponed in the past because of the length of time in which it was provided to council until the meeting. Um additionally this is the only time that our financial statements are on the um a council agenda because we don't have quarterly financial statements um presented to council in a public forum. So, it's more of a chance to review all of the reports and the 165 pages of the audit in order to fully understand them and be able to ask um questions about the report. It might be more um address to staff. Um but this is the one and only time the financial statements are on the agenda for the year. to just want to have um additional time to to review the audit that has a lot of dense information that was just that you know we only got the draft um and I I believe you said there was no changes but it was um

only a couple of business days to review something that has been many many hours have been put into it and I think it it's respectful of our time to allow us to have more time to review it. That that's typical that the uh there are no changes to the draft. Yeah. Yeah. But for example, the the audit was pro provided to us the second um meeting in in March last year.

Thank you for giving it to us earlier this year. Uh we have a motion and a second to postpone. Is there any further discussion? Uh motion fails.

I make a motion to approve a motion to approve acceptance of the audit. Second. Have

a second from Caesar. Motion approved. Uh again, Brandon, thank you for your time. Thank you for your thoroughess. Uh be sure to pass that on to your partner as well. Um it's uh an incredible document. Then um given the amount we deal with, it's always exciting to see so few issues. And if the only issue we have is that we incorrectly uh accounted for a 27-year prepayment, I'm I'm feeling pretty confident in our staff at this time. So I appreciate you uh putting that confidence in writing.

Y uh that takes us to item 6B. This is to discuss and consider action to approve an encroachment agreement with Century Land Holdings 2 LLC and GRBK Edgewood LLC associated with the Colorado River WA Raw Water Line and authorized the city manager to do the same. Uh Jeff, I believe this uh in our initial review, this was going to be on on our consent agenda and I said, "Hey, this looks like a policy discussion that we need to have." So, could you tell us what this is about?

Uh yes. for the record of Jeff Dunworth, assistant utility director, city engineer. Uh good evening, uh mayor council, Miss Breland. Uh yes, this is another uh facility associated with our 15 mile se uh Colorado raw water line now to our soon to be in operation. Um this is the uh the uh location. The encroachment is uh along Cameron Road uh near on break borders Breaker Valley and Blue Goose Road. Um so I may or may not have written this close to dinner time. It's should have been pipes. Excuse my misspelling. Uh have adequate separation and uh cover depth to u ensure integrity is maintained. It's very important identify as

I uh mentioned in our previous discussion it's uh not ideal to have uh encroachments across our uh our easements but it is recommended that uh we have those recorded in a uh county document. We know where they are and we uh set the uh responsibilities the requirements. uh we make the developer uh responsible for any damage to our line and uh future uh future record searches by surveyors, other land owners. Uh this will come up in the county records. I said it's recommended for uh approval. U this and this encroachment resides within the jurisdiction of the city of Austin. I do have the developers engineers and consultants here should you have any questions.

All right. So Jeff, I appreciate you bringing this and and for the thorough presentation. Um I would prefer it to be pies but pipes with that. Um could you help me understand is this uh when we talk about encroachment is this pavement is this a road crossing our easement? Is this a building going up on top of it?

Oh we have uh road crossings and utility ements. Uh these are uh smaller utilities. I believe uh the majority of them are the franchise utilities. oil, our gas, electric, telephone recrossing. We uh thorough review. They did have some uh smaller diameter drainage lines crossing. Uh we had thorough review by our engineers and myself to ensure that our lines have adequate death adequate separation. Um it's uh said it's recommended for approval. these uh as the development moves further east and northeast, we will probably be bringing forth more of these for your review, your consideration. It's just uh part of the development process. It's not right away. We do not own the property. We essentially it's a uh a lease. So, it's an ease, excuse me, an easement. So, uh we uh you know, we have to um play play with the uh the property owner, be a good player with the property owner. Do you feel pretty good about our progress on these? So, I know in general the overall project seems like it's going reasonably well.

Uh yes, we're uh we're moving forward. Um we think we will have a have a water line or water in our 42 in by uh May June. What is uh the separation? What is the cover depth uh between the the uh the Breaker Valley improvements and our water line? Uh and we have a and 1 and 1/2 ft in the uh the smallest pipe dimension and most of them are 2 feet to 4 feet over separation over critical pipes. So is there risk of damage during construction

construction and maintenance? Uh and then this also gives us record that we know where they are when we have to go maintain and uh expose or test on our water line. We know where we can dig and where we need to be extra cautious. So uh have we done uh uh studies out there on soil compaction? uh we don't want to have you suddenly we we thought we had a two a two- foot uh separation and all of a sudden we got a one foot separation because the soil compact

the uh the developer will be responsible for maintaining their development in accordance with uh city of Austin they'll have city of Austin planning development inspectors on site there we can request uh copies of their uh their reports their final test reports uh to ensure all is in all is in good order Just I've seen situations where you get that soil compaction after everything's been done, the road, the concrete's been been poured, and all of a sudden your road we do have we do have occurrences of subsidance here uh in the uh in the areas they do have a uh a slab protecting our water lines, the reinforced concrete slab

to ensure the the integrity of our our water lines in the uh in the areas where that's the potential. Okay. All right. Well, that concrete slab makes me feel better about it. All right. Uh, any other questions, council? No, mayor. So, I have a motion. Some moved. Second. Got a motion from Rudy and a second from Caesar. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you.

Thank you. The uh next item on the agenda is item 6 C. This is the discuss and consider action to approve a resolution of the city council of the city of Flugerville, Texas, directing the city manager or the city manager's designate to execute all documents to institute eminent domain proceedings for the acquisition of wastewater easement and temporary construction easements in Flugerville, Travis County, Texas, and directing the city attorney to initiate condemnation proceedings associated with the 15-in Northwest willer line extension project. Uh we have Norma Martinez. Uh

tell us all about it.

Good evening, Mayor Council Serena Norma Martinez, real estate manager. We bring this item to get approval for eminent domain uh for the 15-inch northwest B Wilberger wastewater project. Um this project is approximately 1,900 linear feet of new wastewater line extending from extend existing connection located on the west side SH45 and SH130 to provide service to the area no northwest of the highway interchange on SH130 and SH45 within the Wilberger drainage basin. Despite good faith discussions with the property owner, we couldn't come to terms on this property. We are requiring two temporary eastments and a west wastewater eastment. So we're here to request approval for to proceed with eminent domain.

Is there a larger map to show where that is? Um I don't have that. That's I know you can't probably see it there, but it's Panther Drive, Panther Loop on SH 685 and SH130. That's the 130 access road. Yeah. Mark Panther Loop. It's near um near where row lane will eventually cross. Yeah. What is the name? Oh, it's north. Okay. Get the And this is on the west side of 13. Is that say 130? Yes. 130 and 685. That's not good. Goodwill. Yeah. The Goodwill. Good. Yeah. Good. Okay. Almost.

And I was going to say Goodwill, too, but Yeah. That's what I mean. That's what I think about. So, is this issue not being able to come to a price or just not counter the price? Um, they counted an elevated counter offer. It's just too high. Okay. Motion to approve item 6 C as presented. Second.

A motion in a couple of seconds. Motion passes unanimously. That takes us to item 6D, discussing consider action to approve a resolution of the city of uh council of the city of Flugerville, Texas. directing the city manager or the city manager's designate to execute all documents to institute eminent domain proceedings for the acquisition of land situated for rightway and grading easement influgerville Travis County Texas and directing the city attorney to initiate condemnation proceedings associated with the eastflugerville Parkway Colorado sand towise project correct um we were able to reach agreement with property owners so no action is needed on this one I'm sorry I couldn't hear you

but we were able to reach agreement with property owners so there's no action needed for this item No action needed. Yes, you made me read that whole thing. That's okay. You're you're not done yet.

That takes us to item 6E. discuss and consider action to approve a resolution of the city of council of the city of Plugerville, Texas, directing the city manager or the city manager's designate to execute all documents to institute eminent domain proceedings for the acquisition of land situated for the rightway and utility easements in Flugerville, Travis County, Texas, and directing the city attorney to initiate condemnation proceedings associated with the Kelly Lane phase 3 project. Yes, we're here again to request to proceed with eminent for Kelly Lane phase three project to expand the roadway to a fourlink configuration with a central median and integrate four roundabouts intersection from Morland Avenue to Wise Lane. We have nine parcels that we couldn't come agreement with. So, we heard to request I'm sorry, how many?

Nine. Nine. You have a you have a map of those? I'm sorry. Yes. So this is the whole uh project with the four roundabouts and then we have one parcel which we're crying right away and utility eastband. Okay. Another parcel the same rightway utility eastband. The same here right away utility eastband. 12 the same rightway utility eastband. 14 rightway utility eastband. 16's just right away. 17's right away utilities. 18 right away utilities. I have one more, I believe. Yes, right away utilities.

I hope you realize how many people you're going to make happy once this is built. Here we go. Can you go back to the first picture? All right. We're looking at Isn't that amazing? A lot of that is low water crossing. Correct. Flood plane. Oh, I'm not sure. And the the far right side where it looks like we're going to loop in to it. Is that what we're talking about? Some of that annexing right there. Correct. Oh, I don't know about annexing. I'm sorry.

It's the south edge of the road. Pretty much the whole distance it seemed like nine parcels. Yeah. And then a little bit. The last one was where where was the last one that looked like build it up. These fancy engineers I mean fix this flood plane. No, we we don't believe it to be flood plane. Okay. Well, I see it flood all. We we certainly fixed some things with the with phase two and hopefully we'll fix a lot of things with phase three as well. Um any any other questions? Is this property all inside the city limits? No, I don't believe so. Um,

okay. What part of it is not in the city limits? Um, not too sure. I think maybe I'm not too sure. I would have to get that information for you. I feel like I feel like it's we we it is now. So, we're building where the where the jog is. Yeah, we're building this to make it easier for people to get out to Seal Road that's not in the city limits. So, say that again. Why are we Say that again, David? We're we're we're building this to make it easier for people to get out to Seal Road,

which is not in the city limits. We're not going to be able to annex that unless people ask us to annex it. So, we're we're building a road for people in the county, not for the benefit of people in the city with the exception of a couple that are in the city limits that our res neighborhoods. You entertain us going into exact session. Counciloman, don't you live west of this uh this? No, he lives east. You live east of this.

I think there's three subdivisions. Verona Vine Creek and Seal at No Enclave at Seal. There's four. Okay. Enclave at Seal and then a fourth one that I don't know. Metal. That's But they're not Seal. They're right over there. They would go to Seal. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Well, I need to see a map. I don't know. You go north or south. So, the the last parcel that you showed us, number 18, I think it was. Is that the entire area of the connection from the roundabout on Kelly to the roundabout at Seal? You're talking about this one? No, I I believe there's still some in the north side.

Okay. So, there's a little bit connection from the trees to the actual correct but that's the majority of that um which that was a change in our design if I recall correctly. Correct. So that's a major uh piece that we would need to do that new design. It's also how much is that and and how I mean what is the size in in acres? Yeah. Or square feet. Um I would have to look for that. I don't have it with me.

I could provide the information to you. I I guess I I would I would ask why that um helps drive your decision. I think we made the decision to make this change in the design because as as I'm fond of saying, I'd rather do it right than have to do it over. Uh and aligning Kelly lane to seal now is going to be a whole lot less costly than than having to figure out how to fix it uh if we deadend it into Weiss and and leave it that way. So the question is, are you willing to proceed with eminent domain to acquire this property for the uh road that we have designed and committed to?

I believe I just asked for information about the acreage. I don't understand. It's just information. We're not indexing. We're we're acquiring. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. For this parcel that we're taking, it would be 2.59 acres and another part would be two 0.209 acres and a utility two utility eastmans. Thank you. Mhm.

And to answer David's point, this was actually an alignment that Mike Keith brought up several years ago about working on that specific things. And this is the and ultimately staff looked at this and they thought this is the right direction with that to make sense. What did he do for an engineer? Engineer. Yeah. Yeah. He may have known a little bit about this. So, and this is the ultimate design. That's why if you're looking at if you're looking forward thinking futuristically at the city, it makes sense. Mayor, would you entertain a motion? I would. Motion to approve 6E as presented. Thank you. Second from Jonathan.

Missed a couple of them tonight.

Motion passes 61. Uh that brings us to item uh 6F. Discuss and consider action to approve a resolution making additional appointments to the 2026 capital improvement bond committee. Uh I show that uh Mayor Prom Holiday, you have one remaining. Uh yes, we are reaching out to our second person. All right. You want to just go ahead and put them on there? No. Yes. Um, I I have two for Council Member Ruiz. Yes, I have, Ladies, mayor, I have uh Cindy Williams and Joan Clark. All right. Looking forward to seeing Cindy there. All right.

Absolutely. Uh Joan Clark. Uh, Council Member Mate, do you have two names? Yes, because I like her last name. Noel Rudolph and Sed Cosby. Oh, wonderful. And mayor prom holiday names. have uh Jesse Faza and um True Love. All right. Uh I will entertain a motion to finalize those appointments with resolution. Second.

A motion from Rudy, a second from David. Motion passes unanimously. Let's see if I can figure out which uh consent items. I need to go back to where my notes go. Just to recite the alphabet down here. Uh we're going to start with item 4E. 4E is approving an ordinance on second reading with a caption reading an ordinance of the city of Flville, Texas, amending the city's master fee schedule related to fees for temporary certificates of occupancy. Um David

David, Mr. Mayor, I uh have some uh questions. I'd like to uh ask a city attorney about this. Can we retire to executive session to discuss 4E? Uh I'm going to ask that we postpone till later in the meeting so we can knock some of these out first. So we'll come back to item 4 E. I believe that takes us to item 4J. Uh item 4J is approving a conditional purchase agreement and associated conveyance documents between Texas Conference Association of 7th Day Adventists parcel 13 and the city of Flugerville as necessary to acquire real property interest for the Kelly Lane phase 3 project and authorizing the city manager to execute the same.

Yeah. Uh can we bring up 4J and 4K at the same time because I have the same questions about both of them.

All right. Uh then we'll bring up 4K as well. open these both together approving a conditional purchase agreement and associated conveyance documents between BJI Inc. parcel 9 uh and the city of Flugerville as necessary to acquire real property interest for the Kelly Lane phase 3 project and authorizing the city manager to execute the same. Uh now if I understand correctly, we just uh uh approved eminent domain proceedings for many of the parcels along this stretch. This looks like parcels that we have u agreement on. So uh David, what uh questions do you have? Well, it seems like the uh the our uh our per acre price on these is just uh just astronomical. Uh we're paying way more for these per acre than we paid for downtown east. And I just uh I'm at a loss as to why we're why why we're we're we're offering so much money for land that doesn't seem to be nearly as valuable as the downtown east land. I I I think I would say downtown east was a uh a large tract and these are small pieces directly along frontage. Um although if uh if you'd prefer I mean we did just approve a couple of um eminent domain proceedings, we could proceed that way. You know, I'm I'm not generally a fan of eminent demand, but I I'm also not a fan of overpaying. And I feel like uh that's what we're doing here.

Um I think and I could be wrong. On the other side of the street, there's a gas pipe there or is there still a gas pipe there or was there? And that's what I thought, David. I was thinking the same thing, but I thought, well, on the other side, we can't expand that way near the homes. So, I thought, well, we got to we're kind of stuck here. It's just I'm not saying this is high. I agree with you. I was thinking the same thing, but

I think this this this price is just way way too high. And you know, I mean, many people have argued, I think with some force, uh, that, you know, we overpaid for the land on downtown East, although that that is unique in its location and it's, you know, arguably we overpaid, but it's the only piece of land that's like that anywhere. Um but to be paying more per acre for these uh uh small pieces um uh it just strikes me as as a bad deal. And u I think if we go with eminent domain on these I think we'll we'll pay less. And like I said, you know, not a fan of eminent domain if we don't have to. But I I just feel like uh the taxpayers are are getting taken for a ride on these.

Any other uh opinions on these uh these two items? I I agree that these are much higher prices that we've paid in the past for um other right ofway purchases as well. I mean, I guess at some point someone weighed those tradeoffs um and they still came to us with this recommendation. So, I guess I'm not sure if this is the market price for a tiny sliver of land for those. I it was asking out of curiosity.

It may be market price. It may be it may be higher to avoid the risk of a judicial price. Then I would imagine if we did move forward with an eminent domain proceeding that the negotiated price here would be taken into consideration. It's true if they've already agreed to it. I guess it has to. Yeah. Because it's a my only worry is what happened in phase two of Kelly was phase two where we were held up by the bud. We were delayed by the mud for quite some time years. So that that's my utilities and utilities I think were the the biggest slowdown. TX we TXU moves at the speed of TXU and ain't nobody nobody changing that. That was Encore.

Yeah. Sorry. TXU is a retail electric provider. You're speaking of Encore. Encore. Sorry. Yeah. I'm just concerned about the the precedent this also um sets for all of our other land purchases for our future ride of way when you know like one of this is effectively $1.3 million an acre when you do it. Of course, it's a a small sliver and you're going to pay a higher price for a smaller piece, but um you know, and it's you know, along the road, what other use, you know, is there for it? You know, they're not going to be necessarily building on it. So, I'm just I'm concerned about the president.

I think I think from my standpoint, it's always location, location, location. When it comes to property, um each each assessment, each negotiation's unique in itself. Um there are times when something may be derain from what happened previously which could move from there but ultimately realistically speaking at least from what I've seen is that it depends on the location depends on the parties involved and depends on the time and the actual retail value of this. Um I don't think anyone anyone here is a big fan of spending the money that we are with that but we also realize acknowledge the importance of how that is to that specific project that serves that bigger purpose with that. So, I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm not saying I don't I don't understand where you're coming from. I'm just saying

I'm a I'm a big fan of delivering projects to our citizens uh on time and budget. So, my other question is um if this is the level of that we're going to be paying then what what is our budget? What does this do to the overall cost of the road for the project overall? Yeah. I How is this compared to what we budgeted to pay?

It's in the summary. Go ahead. Yes, the budget's coming from the 2023 bond. How much is it? But yeah, the dollar amount. How much? I believe it's 4.1 million. 4.1 million for all of the land purchases. And so with this and the the rest of the eminent domain, are we gonna are we estimating that we're going to still be within that number? I think so. We will be still be in budget. Okay. So, you don't think that this will cause us to increase our price for this line item in the in the project?

Um I I think maybe when commissioners award for eminent domain, whatever we have appraised, we're in budget and we still have a little bit over budget, but if we go to a minute domain, if it gets awarded a little bit more, we might be over budget. But I'm not too sure about that. But these that we're proposing to purchase now are within budget. Yes. Carton. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. So, I have both uh item J and K open. Any further comments, questions? They need to be voted on separately or Yes. Okay. Uh motion to approve 4J. A motion to approve 4J.

Second. I have a second from Jonathan. Yeah.

Uh motion passes four uh excuse me 61 and then also items uh 4K was open. Is it 4K? Yeah, that's 4K. Yeah. Uh move to approve 4K. Have a motion to approve 4K. Second.

Have a second from Mayor Pro Tim Holiday. Uh motion passes 61. That takes us to I believe item 4 L. 4 L is approving a work authorization with Seven Arrows Land Staff LLC in the amount of $232,700 for rightway and appraisal services associated with the lower New Sweden interceptor project and authorizing the city manager to execute the same. Uh Melody, I believe you pulled this one.

Um yes. So my first question was um what was the budget amount for the services and um I just had wanted clarification on the funding of that but the the larger clarification was um that um it was mentioned about upper new Sweden interceptor I I believe somewhere but also this was um mentioning a new a project number that's not on our CIP report and So I'm just wondering about what that project is and is this a new project that's not budgeted?

It's the same the change the project was changed to lower New Sweden and the number is incorrect and the ones input it we put 3504 but the correct one is 251. Okay. Yes. Okay. So we're renaming it to lower and correct. All right. And so then the other my other question was because when I was looking at the upper new Sweden interceptor the um in the CIP the the costs were being funded by impact fees and the summary had said impact fees and I think a so I just wanted to have I wanted clarity on um how much was going to be covered by impact fees or

correct for this one for this uh right away it's for utility impact fees the budget and it's uh 250,000 Okay. Thank you. All right. Uh Melody, if you're satisfied, do you have a motion? I'll move to approve item 4 L.

Second. I'm going to need a a button. All right. Uh motion passes 60. Uh that takes us to item 4 M. Uh approving a professional services supplemental agreement with Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc. in the amount of $382,863.71 for professional engineering services associated with the Limestone uh hold on. Where did I go? Limestone commercial roadway project and authorizing the city manager to execute the same. Melody, I believe you also pulled this item. What questions do you have?

Yes. So, I had requested information in advance. Um, so but I was um wondering if there was a map that shows um a clearer picture of how it was going to um connect with the neighborhood. Um and then my second question was what was the budgeted amount for these services? Trista, is there a map? Is there is there a map? I think we had one in the Yeah, she'll pull up the PowerPoint if it's in there. And I need the budget. Can someone

just so so I'm clear with that map. This will connect into Abig Castle. That's what I was confused about. Um, so I wanted to see there wasn't it wasn't enough reference of what that development was. Um, the budget amount is 6.866,263. And um, Danny, does it connect into Abby Glenn Castle? Based on that, I'd say so. Yeah. How much sort of labeling stuff for no reason? Yeah. So if that's the question, that's the answer. Um, so is this oriented to be to the north?

So, no, this is east facing. So, that's Fluger Farm Lane. You can see that would be the um the the former billiard store and the uh specs on the bottom of the map. Okay. So, this is going from the flug farm road to the red line exiting. The red line is your right is exiting Stone Hill onto the 45 street. So answer your question. So this is not going to be connecting to the ne the neighborhood. Yeah. So so the north be driving for Highland Park North neighborhood. The top section here is connecting to Abby Glen Cat. They be driving through your neighborhood.

Yeah. I'm just wondering people will ask. That's why I wanted a picture. Okay. So, um Okay. So, then that building right there is the multif family development. Yes, that would be LC communities. All right. And the black line is going to be the Fluger Farm is going to extend there and then it's going to go to whatever that road is over there to Abby Glen Castle. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm glad I asked because I had a whole different view of where this road was going. Yeah. This is a this is again another one that we've been waiting a while for. Well, my my hope is that will help alleviate the congestion exiting at 54th Street. Can you believe Can you believe it? Yeah. Oh my goodness. It's It's ridiculous. So,

it is. I motion we approve for I think there's four seconds. Yeah, we still have to vote though.

Just throw it out there, Tristan. That was quick. Uh motion passes unanimously. Uh so I am going to read in once again item 4E. Uh this is again approving an ordinance on second reading with a caption reading an ordinance of the city of Flugville, Texas amending the city's master fee schedule uh related to fees for temporary certificates of occupancy. Uh we've been requested to uh enter executive session for consultation with legal counsel. Uh I believe that's under 551.071. So

I'm going to go ahead and also open our other executive session item for the evening. Uh that is executive session discussion of personnel matters pursuant to sections 551.071 and 551.074 of the Texas government code regarding the city manager. Uh with that the time is 8:58 and we will be in executive session.

Right. Uh we've returned from executive session. No action was taken. Uh council members will take 4E as presented. Second. I have a motion and a second on 4E. All right. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Uh the time is 9:08. We're going to return to executive session for previously called items.

We came out here so they could see that so they could go to Vegas.

Unless you want repeat the um racial profiling. Oh my gosh. Mr. Mayor, will you uh accept? Hold on. It's the time is 10:14. We have returned from executive session and no action was taken. Uh do you want to begin or do you want us to you approving that contract? Yes. Oh, okay. Um, there are a few things I'd like to say if you don't mind. All right. Um, as far as your really to to the employees that are remaining tonight, uh, working and those watching from from afar, the millions,

nine, working alongside you has been the greatest privilege of my over 20 years of local government. Uh, titles, they come and go, projects begin and end. Um, but the people is what remains. The culture we built here, uh, the fellowship, the creativity, the way you step in without being asked is something I'll carry with me for the rest of my life. I've decided that it's time to retire. Um, I know this may bring a mixed emotions. Um, some of you may feel proud, some of you may feel uncertain or abandoned, and some of you might just be thrilled. Um, change feels personal when relationships are real. What we built together to me is very very real. I want you to hear this clearly. This decision is not about leaving something behind. It's about recognizing that the chapter, this chapter, the one that we created together is complete and it's strong. We didn't become healthy and high performing by accident. We became that way because of the people in this room. And this organization is the strongest one that I've ever known. The culture lives in how you treat each other when no one is watching. It's the way you solve problems together and the pride you take in serving this great community. That culture belongs to you. It always did. It was never mine alone. I am not even a little bit worried about the future here. I've seen how you respond when things get hard. I've watched you support one each one another among great challenges, celebrate successes together, and keep moving forward, ignoring the fringes. If there's one thing I hope you carry forward forward, it's this. You don't just work here. You pour into the high performers and you don't tolerate those that aren't. You can create you create an unbeatable environment where those deserving feel supported and trusted and valued. I didn't just find colleagues here. I found people I care deeply about. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your journey and thank you for being such a very important part of mine. Thank you.

Mayor, would you entertain a motion? Um, let me let me say you this first before I before I take that motion on this open session item 6G. Um, we've we've spent quite a bit of time together. Um, we've we you've brought this city an incredible distance. So, I'm very uh very happy that we've been able to uh create an agreement that keeps you around to help us through uh our next chapter. Uh that ensures that we have a um successful transition and consistent uh leadership through into our next chapter. Uh, with that, I'd entertain a motion.

I forgot you said it first. I'll second it. I'll second it. No, no, no. David David said it first, though. Go ahead, David. Mr. Mayor, uh, I move that we, uh, approve the voluntary exit agreement and release. Second. Holiday would like to second that. All right. I do have a motion and a second to ensure continuity and longevity and all kinds of good things. Uh, mayor. Yes, sir. Can we have a little discussion? Further discussion. Motion and and uh and a second.

Uh, let me just say uh it has been my tremendous pleasure uh uh to work uh with city manager Brean. She has been uh unfailingly candid, unfailingly charming. Uh she has been a mighty warrior for the city. Um she has uh made all of us better. Uh and uh she has really uh she's she has made Flugerville a better place than it ever was before. And it it it may be a very very long time before anybody can fill her shoes.

Thank you. We wanted a transformative leader. We got a transformed leader. You were here way longer than we thought we were going to have for right there as well. And we're all better for it. So, I think that you understand from this council, from this community, from your staff, how we feel about you. And um you truly have, as David put it, made this place a better place. Yeah. I'm still here. Oh yeah. Oh, we So we have enough time to write the speeches. We're not ending domaining our home. We could do it. So that's true. That's on the next meeting. September.

Yeah. I just want to echo uh the sentiments that I've enjoyed working with you and I think you've brought um great leadership and vision uh to the city, the staff um and everyone speaks so highly of the environment and that's why they want to work for such a great place and so you will be leaving that legacy. Any other further discussion? I'll say I I imagine if you leave I leave. Wait, did she get street sign? H and a fire hydrant. Oh, wow. Wow. This is shady. Fire hydrant. Or is that just for former mayors? Yeah. All right. Everyone,

I imagine there will be a there will be a party eventually. There. There's that last one. Invited to the party. What? I think you have to pay. Okay. Make sure I'm invited. You have to pay for it. Motion passes unanimously. Uh just for clarity, we will have Serena with us and in charge until July 1st and uh she will stick around uh to advise us through the end of the year. Uh with that, the time is 10:21. Thank you. We're journaling.