City Council - Packet - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Tonight's invocation will be given by pastor Benito Fresquez of Freedom Church. Pastor, great seeing you. Thank you for being here.

Always an honor to be here. If we can bow our head and close our eyes. Lord, I I just wanna thank you for the incredible leadership that you've given Round Rock. Lord, I know as I've lived here the last seventeen years, you have graced us with leadership and and direction in a city god that has always hit the the charts for safest place, lower places to move. I thank you for that.

And I pray as they begin to plan and organize and make decisions today, we ask that the wisdom of God would lead them. Your word declares, God, to us as we acknowledge you in all our ways that you will direct our paths. I thank you for government because government is one of the common graces that you give to us. Lord God, you establish laws, you create grace through that, you create living spaces that the people can enjoy. And Lord, when government puts you first, Lord God, the whole place is blessed. And I thank you for the blessing of God that is in the city of Round Rock. I pray over every council member. I pray for mayor Morgan. I pray that you continue to give him wisdom and direction as he leads our great city. And thank you, God.

I pray your favor on them today. Amen. Amen. Thank you, pastor.

Call 06:00 to see councilman to order. And please call the roll.

Mayor Morgan?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens?

Here.

Councilmember Lee? Here. Councilmember Flores?

Yes.

Councilmember Fleming?

Here.

Councilmember Ortega? Here. Councilmember Montgomery?

Here. Alright. If you can stand with me for the pledges. All right. I'm gonna do proclamations first.

F one, consider proclaiming April 2026 as child abuse awareness and prevention month in the city of Round Rock. So the representatives for who's going to accept the proclamation come on up to the front, and then I'll let Councilmember Lee read the proclamation. Don't be shy.

Whereas the month of April is recognized nationally as Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about the critical issues of child abuse and neglect, recognize that every child has the right to grow up in a safe, nurturing environment, free from abuse and neglect, and acknowledge that the well-being of our children is a shared responsibility that strengthens the foundation of our community. And whereas child abuse and neglect impact children of all ages, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds, posing a significant threat to their physical, emotional, and developmental health, requiring a united effort to address. And whereas the Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center is dedicated to the mission of providing hope, healing, and justice to children and families impacted by abuse, violence, and exploitation in our community. In 2025, the WCCAC conducted nine sixty eight forensic interviews with fifty percent of cases involving sexual abuse, twenty three percent physical abuse, and nineteen percent neglect, predominantly impacting children ages seven through 12, followed by 13 through 17 year olds, then birth through six year olds. Additionally, the WCCAC provided three eighty five medical exams, supported six twenty one families through advocacy, delivered drama therapy to 158 individuals, educated 23,526 community members on child safety, and had 2,853 volunteer hours represented by over 700 volunteers.

The WCCAC plays a pivotal role in providing a safe and supportive space for children who have been abused, offering comprehensive services that promote healing for both the child victims and their non offending family members. Investing in prevention not only supports healthy children development, but also significantly reduces long term costs to society, ensuring resources are directed toward fostering growth and resilience in our children. Now, therefore, be it resolved that Craig Morgan hereby proclaim April 2026 as Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month in Round Rock, Texas, and call upon citizens, organizations, and community leaders to join together in a shared effort to prevent child abuse, raise awareness about its impact, and support the vital work of the Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center, proclaimed this April 2026.

Thank

you. I know that's long. Just want to thank all of you. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for your investment into the work that we do. We don't do that alone, to name just a few partners, CASA and BACA. There's a lot of people doing this work. And our investigative partners with our victim advocates, with law enforcement, with CPS, there's so many people doing this work. Thank you for prioritizing children in the community. And thank you for supporting us in that work. So we really appreciate it. Thank you.

Yeah, is it good?

On behalf of the board, we thank you for the opportunity to raise awareness today and for the partnership with the city, not only financial support, city services, but also leadership on our board from Councilperson Lee and chief banks.

All right. Thank you. Don't forget your proclamation. Thank you all for what you do. Alright. F two, consider presentation from the police department to present lifesaving awards. Angelo?

Good evening, mayor and council. My name is lieutenant Angelo Marmarinos with the Round Rock Police Department, and it is truly an honor to stand before you tonight. I'm grateful for the opportunity to recognize and showcase the extraordinary actions of members of our community who, in a moment of a critical incident, demonstrated courage, selflessness, and willingness to act when it mattered most. In law enforcement, we often respond to emergencies and critical incidents, but it's especially meaningful when we see everyday citizens step forward without hesitation to help others. The individuals we are recognizing tonight represent the best of Round Rock, people who do not have to wait for someone else to act but instead took immediate action that only saved a life.

At this time, I'd like to share the circumstances that led to this recognition. On 04/03/2025 at approximately 05:55PM, officers responded to a major accident at 281 University Boulevard involving a pedestrian who had been struck and was trapped beneath the vehicle. Upon arrival, officers and medical personnel found the Ariana had already been pulled from beneath the vehicle suffering from serious bodily injury. The driver unintentionally ran over Ariana and came to a stop with the vehicle resting on top of her. Community members in the area quickly responded to the scene and took immediate life saving action.

At the time of their response, the vehicle was still in drive but not moving, immobilized only because Ariana's body was wedged beneath the engine preventing it from rolling forward. Recognizing the urgency, the group acted decisively to lift the vehicle off of Ariana and pull her to safety. Ariana was transported to the hospital with multiple serious injuries. Her long road to recovery will involve years of intensive rehabilitation. Despite the physical and emotional challenges ahead, Ariana remains optimistic.

She expressed that she feels she had been given a second chance at life and now looks at the world through a completely different lens. Arianna is just 22 years old, recently earned her college degree, and was only beginning her adult life when this tragic incident occurred. With so much life ahead of her, the actions of these brave individuals ensured that her journey was not cut short. During her recovery, Arianna recounted the harrowing experience. She remembered being unable to breathe while trapped beneath the hot vehicle and thinking, quotes, This is how I'm going to die.

She began to pray to God to save her. Just as she was losing consciousness, she recalls seeing a bright light and a group of people standing over her. She firmly believes that God answered her prayers through the courageous actions of the bystanders who lifted the car and pulled her to safety. There is no doubt that the selfless and heroic actions of these individuals saved Ariana's life. Their bravery, compassion, and willingness to act under pressure represents the very best of Round Rock.

Now I'm going to call Arianna up to help give these awards out. Arianna? It is my recommendation that the following individuals be formally recognized with the Round Rock Police Department Lifesaving Award. Carla Flores. Chastin Matta.

Theodore Wittliffe, Chet Vranca. Elsa Vranca. Jordan Lupina, Last but not least, city manager Brooks Bennett. Their actions that day made the difference between life and death for Ariana and they are fully deserving of this honor. Round of applause.

Thank you, guys. Thank you, mayor and council.

Anyone want to say anything, or does she not? Oh, she doesn't? Okay. Thank you all. Okay.

If you all want to escape, this is the time to do it. I'm just giving you fair warning. Alright. Citizen communication. E system.

We're speaking during citizen communication regarding an item on or off the agenda may do so after completing the required registration card. All comments must be no more than three minutes and linked per section two dash two six b five of the Round Rock Code of Ordinances 2018 edition. Any comments regarding items not on the postagenda may not be discussed or responded to by the city council per state law. I have several cards. Gary Oldham.

Thank you. My name is Gary Oldham, 2928 Clinton Place in Round Rock. I'm a twenty year resident of the city. Over my decades long career in public safety, half of that career has been spent in the fire service. I'm a graduate of the National Fire Academy's executive development program. I'm one of the architects of the incident command system. When I left the fire service, was chief officer at one of the largest fire departments in the country. I'm currently a member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and I belong to that organization's safety, health, and survival section. I'm also a current member of the NFPA, the National Fire Protection Association. On March 26, mayor Morgan implied that the NFPA is some sort of union or special interest group, and that's absolutely false.

The NFPA is an independent organization of fire protection professionals from multiple related disciplines. Among other standards, the NFPA develops and establishes national staffing level standards for fire apparatus and fire service performance metrics. At that same meeting, it was suggested by mayor Morgan that proposition b isn't needed because the city's ISO one rating is proof that everything in the fire service here is running just fine. He's wrong about that. I'll save much of my discussion about how Texas, unlike every other state, has rigged the outcome of ISO ratings and rendered those ratings somewhat meaningless in many jurisdictions.

Texas is the only state in which departments are awarded special brownie points to artificially inflate their ISO ratings and perhaps to make them more comparable to their peer agencies in other states. Instead, I'm gonna focus on why Round Rock Fire must dispatch significantly more resources than would be necessary if the equipment was staffed to the national minimum standard. In simple terms, for a reported house fire, the Round Rock Fire Department dispatches four engine companies, two truck companies, one rescue unit if it's available, and two battalion chiefs. The standard or the norm across the country for that type of haul is two, sometimes three engine companies, a single truck company, and a single battalion chief. So Round Rock dispatches twice the standard number of resources to get the necessary number of firefighters to properly operate on scene and to give the appearance of meeting ISO standards.

Often, need to draw upon adjacent fire departments through very inefficient automatic aid to increase the headcount. Requiring so many pieces of apparatus to be dispatched to a single incident leaves huge coverage gaps and puts a large swath of the community at risk because of the depletion of resources from that area. It's really a shell game, and it needs to stop. Since the council has refused for well over a decade to protect the residents and the firefighters from these dangerous and fiscally irresponsible practices, that decision is now in the hands of the voters. And I would encourage a yes vote on proposition b.

Thank you. Thank you. Peter Orr.

Mister mayor, council members, good citizens of Round Rock, my name is Peter Orr. I live at 1516 Ashwood Court. I've lived there for thirty one years. Civil asset forfeiture is a bad idea and a bad look for the city of Round Rock. I have a hypothetical situation to illustrate this point.

Suppose, Mr. Mayor, that you are traveling in another state. You are stopped on a pretextual traffic stop by local law enforcement. You are ordered from your car, and the officer begins to search your car without your consent. He finds $3,000 in your car that you have withdrawn from your bank before you left Round Rock.

The officer confiscates your money under the civil asset forfeiture rules. You know that it will cost you more than $3,000 to hire a local attorney to try to recoup your money. You have been denied due process of the law. Civil asset forfeiture is a bad idea, and it's a bad look for the city of Round Rock. You are not charged with any crime, but your money has been seized. Thank you, mister mayor.

Thank you. Giselle Schaefer.

Sorry, got to put my reading glasses on.

That's all right.

The gift of age just keeps getting. Good evening. My name is Giselle Schaefer. I have lived here since 1991 on Woods Cove and for nineteen years served as the civil service commissioner. I feel that a lot of the work that we did for civil service really benefited our firefighters and I support them a gazillion percent always.

This being said, I am asking the citizens to vote no on Prop B. It is not that I do not support the firefighters. It is to adding it to our city charter that I have a problem with. And I did a lot of research. I am a certified paralegal, And it gets me into trouble sometimes.

But I did research and find the cities in Texas do not add this type of language to their city charters and constitutions, but rather adopt the staffing levels and performance standards through memorandums of understanding resolutions. Well, I understand that I'm hearing that we have not done that. I promise the firefighters that if you guys don't do that within if this gets defeated and you don't do that, I will be here to constantly talk and make sure that the standards that they want to have get done that way because I think it's important. I do agree with the standards. I just do not agree with it being in our city charter.

Some of the proposition wording to me may conflict with state and federal law. I didn't have enough time to really look at everything with it, but I do know that that is a problem. It also includes language to waive sovereign immunity, allowing for lawsuits that could be costly to our community. And that scares me. That part is what I didn't like in it.

The language also encumbers future councils. And if growth changes or the tax inability changes, what does it mean for the future? Especially with our state right now making a lot of rules about what you can and can't do and how much money you guys can raise as a city. And that's going to be even worse in this next legislative session. Our community has passed numerous bonds to deal with growth and response time so for as we have additional stations and equipment.

September 2025, the city and the fire department completed a confer meet agreement that was stated as productive, collaborative, respectful with a shared commitment. So I ask you now to take that shared commitment and put together this resolution if we can get this not passed. I want you to continue with that process of meet and confer because I think it's really important. While the goal of adopting these standards to me is extremely important, the mechanism of adding this proposition language to our city charter is not the way that we should implement these standards. And again, I made that promise to our firefighters that I will make sure that the standards that they need will get taken care of.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have served for nineteen years and helped make civil service a very usable thing for our firefighters. We did a lot of work with the city to make sure the testing was good and make sure that everything was really good for the firefighters because I understood why they wanted civil service. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Jack Charles.

Need to press anything. No, it's already. Good evening, Mayor Morgan, council members. My name is Jack Childs. You'll forgive me if, unlike the rest of the speakers, I don't give my address. I have been doxxed. Biohazards were mailed to me. I'm a bit biased. I have firefighters in the family. I'm a firm believer that you do your job.

You do it right. You get the tools you need. You never lack for them. And when you already have something as massive as a fire to worry about, I kind of think we owe it to them to make sure that they've got enough people to do their jobs safely, to protect the rest of us, to have overlap in the areas where the station's covered, to be able to block roadways, to prevent their employees, their firefighters, our first responders from accidents. They deserve everything we can give them, almost no questions asked, which is why it was surprising to find the language about Prop A.

Prop A allows for electronic billboards in Round Rock. And if you've ever driven along 71 near Victory Medical at night, you know exactly how distracting and how dangerous those are. For media choice, Texas Emergency Network, and other patent holding companies to try to sneak this in and place first responders at danger, even unknowingly or unwittingly, and then to pay to have the firefighters association do their block walking and collect signatures, we should be giving them the money so they never ever have to worry about anything like that again. And I'm saying this as a systems administrator in financial security. I design systems so they work.

They stay working. They have redundancy. And for something as absolutely, utterly community critical, life critical, critical to keeping our assets, our children, the community safe, spare no expense. Just avoid things like Prop A because that's the quickest way to thank you for calling 911, sponsored by Comcast. And I really don't think we need that on our firefighters' jackets.

Thank you. Alright. Alright. That's all the cards I have. Go to e one. Billy Coburn, history of the Round Rock Firefighters Association.

Okay. Good evening, mayor and council. My name is Billy Coburn. I live in Comiskey, Texas. I've been proudly serving the citizens of Round Rock for almost thirty one years.

I worked my way up from rookie firefighter all the way to battalion chief position in operations of the Round Rock Fire Department and served your firefighters for nearly twenty three years as the association president. Tonight, I ask the city council and individuals present in the audience to please follow along with my presentation on the proud long history of the Round Rock Firefighters Association and their mission to save lives and protect property. In the presentation, you will find our history involves multiple studies reaching back to 2005 that have documented the deficiencies within the department and have affected our ability to save lives and protect property. The City of Round Rock's first study occurred in 01/13/2005, when the management advisory group, MAG, was hired by the city of Round Rock to perform an operational view of the fire department. Some of the findings and recommendations in the report are as follows: the lack of formal response policies.

Elected officials have not created formal policies regarding the level of fire protection and emergency medical services to be provided by the Round Rock Fire Department. This stands true today. Over twenty years later, there still is no policy again. This is what prob b fixes. Section four point one four point two, deployment options of that same document. The shift commander and adjunct position. This is what we call a battalion chief aid. This position operates this position within operations does not exist today and is part of the NFPA standard seventeen ten. A fire station in the vicinity of 1431 in Stone Oak. This is actually the Mayfield Ranch Fire Station area.

I know the city in the future is gonna talk about this. This fire station does not exist today over twenty years later since the first time we were talking about this. Multiple chiefs after multiple chiefs, you will see say this in this document. Regarding the staffing and response time issues Round Rock Fire Department was facing, the association reached out to the International Association of Firefighters to conduct its first Ever GIS study May 31 in 2005. It is important to note that the call volume of the fire department was 5,934 calls, which was from the previous year of 2004, and the population was around 80,000.

Today, in 2026, the fire department's call volume is nearly 16,000 and we cover a city population of a 144,000 and emergency service district, actually, that's outside the county and somewhere in the range of 30 to 40,000. The recommendations in the report recommended all engine companies and truck companies be staffed with a minimum of four multirole firefighters. The Round Rock Fire Department battalion chief is currently not deployed with sufficient resources to perform incident oversight in most efficient manner. The need for a Northwest Fire Station along 1431 West Of I 35. That's the Mayfield Ranch, Stone Oak area.

Again, none of these recommendations exist today. In summary, on page 91, the fire chief proposed a five year plan for two additional fire stations, Station 7 and Station 8, which were located along 1431 on the Eastern Side of Interstate 35. It is important due to the fact it refers to two fire stations in the Northeast, Round Rock. Twenty years later, we have one station, that is Station 7. The report, you will find on page one and twenty three the recommendations of the Round Rock fire chief Larry Hodge and International Association of Firefighters each presented options for consideration for a five year plan, which included that the minimal staffing levels of the Round Rock fire department should be 38 firefighters a day.

It is important to note sixteen years later that in 2026, our current minimal staffing level sit at only 40. As we move forward on 01/25/2006, the city of Round Rock contracted with the consultant Mike Peach to help the fire department improve its ISO rating, which affects our homeowners insurance. On executive summary on that page, it gives city options if relocating fire station is a viable option on page 12. Relocating existing fire station forward to vicinity of Forest Creek and Redbud. This station should continue to house an engine company.

That is actually Station 8 today, and that's gonna be Ladder 8, which was Truck 4. Erect a new fire station eight in the vicinity of Joyce And Gadsden Road. That's the area of station current Station 4 today, which is 1301 Double Creek. The station should house an engine company and a suggested third lighter truck company. As you can see in those two relocations, that was three companies, two engines and a ladder.

Today, a ladder and one engine exists. We're one short. Stated in the report, it says when staffing levels drop below four firefighters per company, the ability to utilize apparatus efficiently is seriously impaired. Moving on to 06/03/2009 with fire chief. At the time, Larry Hodge sent an email stating the following 10 major goals of Some of these affecting staffing are listed, acquiring property and construction at two new fire stations to serve the Northwest. Chief Hodge saw the need for two fire stations in the Northwest plan. There is only one today. The second station Northwest doesn't exist seventeen years later. Moving on to next study that was performed by the city of Round Rock was utilizing the MAG advisory group. They came back in to do a follow-up in 06/05/2010.

On page 17, you will find in the MAG future status, MAG continues to recommend establishing that BCA, the battalion's adjunct position is what they're calling it. 41.3 future status on page 31. The MAG recommends the use of rescue squads only be considered once build out is achieved in the city. It is safe to say that the International Association of Firefighters strongly suggest upgrading those medical squads to fire engines to meet minimal national standards. Chief Cotney accomplished this task, but current fire chief Glaziers brought back the medical squad concept against recommendations.

In January 2013, at the request of the City of Round Rock, the city council, the ICMA performed a data analysis on operations of the fire department. In the final report, you will find the following executive summary: Critical areas the ICMA team has identified that need improvement and resulted in our recommendation are lack of formal strategic and risk management planning documents and a company of performance measures and goals that will assist Round Rock Fire Department with current operations and more importantly assist in planning for the future. Chief Cotany ultimately developed a confident comprehensive plan to move the department in the right direction, but today in 2026, that no longer exists. Under recommendations on page two priority recommendations, it is strongly recommended that the Round Rock Fire Department not respond to all EMS calls, only those that are by call type of serious nature. Today, the Round Rock Fire Department has failed to achieve the recommendation furthering the drain on our our resources.

It is strongly recommended that the Round Rock Fire Department develop and implement a comprehensive strategic plan. Again, this does not exist. Recommendation on page four, the Round Rock Fire Department should continue to monitor response times components by establishing specific performance measures with a goal of continuous improvement. We as a department have failed to do this and it is again why we support prop b which guides us to meet minimal meet specific performance measures. Looking at the reference page in one zero five, the graph, it is safe to say the graph above from the report, you can see that in 2013, the fire department's capabilities for response times regarding the first arriving unit of the ninetieth percentile, which is a minimal standard of four minutes, was four point one minutes longer than the acceptable standard, which equates to 67.77% deficiency away from the standard.

Between 2013 and 2015, chief Coney along with the entire department helped develop a strategic plan. This document was presented to finance, city council at the time, and was supposed to be the road map of the department and would be updated every five years. This document is known as the Round Rock Fire Department strategic plan twenty fifteen, twenty twenty under the emergency goal emergency service delivery page 34. Arrive on scene within six minutes, 90% of the time of the 911 call. 2018, increased middle staffing levels on all platform aerials to four persons.

On 2019, increased middle staffing on all aerials to four all the remaining aerials of four persons and build a second fire station Northwest Round Rock off 1431. Again, that's the Mayfield Ranch area. 2019 hired 12 full time firefighters to staff that Northwest Fire station. These recommendations from from our fire chief David Kotney have yet to be funded. Strategy number one of the Round Rock fire fire department strategic plan was abandoned once chief Kofney left the department.

The firefighter association has brought this up numerous times to former chief Isabelle and chief Glaser. Fire chief Isabelle documented and requested city manager of major challenges facing the Round Rock fire ban in 2017. Chief Isabelle was asked, from your department's perspective, what are the major challenges facing the city over the next five years? Began construction of Station 9 in Wyoming Springs in 3406 and begins construction of Station 10 in 1431. Chief Isabelle was able to fulfill the opening of Fire Station 9 and I'll I'll say that it's because of council that that happened.

And I didn't put that in here, but there were real big proponents of that. We have failed to get Station 10 in the Mayfield Ranch area again. On 06/26/2023, firefighters contacted the International Association of Firefighters to do another geographical study. This study was completed around November 2023. I will not go over the internal working documents of that because our representative here is tonight.

I will however mention that the process of the IFF study, multiple meetings occurred between association and fire chief Glaser about the recommendations. First recommendations was a relocation of fire station one not to be moved to 1731 East Los Altos where it lives today. This move from 203 Commerce would place the fire station to far east causing coverage issues along I 35 in the area once served by fire station one. Chief Glaser failed to follow the recommendation when notified by the association. The second recommendation was the city of Round Rock roughly had $20,000,000 of bond money for two new fire stations and it was determined through evaluation that the most optimal two placements of these two fire stations in the city of Round Rock was Southeast Round Rock near 45 and AW Grimes and one near Seton Hospital.

Chief Glaser chief Glaser has failed to meet the recommendations on one of them. He is building Station 11 in the future, near future hopefully. But Station 10 was built at Northeast Old Settlers Park, not South Ada Big Grimes area. But it's kind of close to the district. The third recommendation was to purchase the new squad apparatus rather than purchase the regular fire engines that could function in all emergencies.

The concern of the new type of vehicle that chief laser was purchased is it doesn't carry ground ladders to assist firefighters on the scene with elevated positions such as a roof or of a house or balcony of an apartment. The effects it may have on our ISO insurance service rating affecting homeowners insurance. Chief Glaser failed to follow the recommendation and the squad type vehicles currently being built and expected to arrive soon. The fourth recommendation was not to purchase roughly $1,500,000 a new heavy rescue until that unit that does not carry water or fire hose. The recommendation was that the unit have a pump and water for the firefighters who staffed the truck full time had the capabilities to suppress a fire when arriving on the scene of the first incident.

Chief Glaser failed to follow the recommendation. The rest the rescue truck is in service and no capability to suppress a fire. Moving on to 2024, during the operations meeting, chief Glaser presented strategic plan draft dealing with detailing what he felt was their needs of the department in next five years. This document is titled the Round Rock Fire Department strategic plan. It is a draft copy established performing objectives. Four minutes, 90% of the time, urban areas. Eight minutes, 90% of time emergency calls for arrival effective force. This above recommendation made by chief Glaser is spot on with the meeting the minimal national standards. Chief Glaser recommendation would be solidified with the successful outcome of Prop B on 05/02/2026. Development operational plan response area and staffing needs objective s Station 10.

The engine from Station 7 will be moved to Station 10 with squad filling its vacancy at Station 7. Moving engine from Station 7 located in University Drive in North Mesa is against recommendations due to high hazards such as hospitals, assisted living, nursing homes. This is the busiest, most dense fire district within the city of Round Rock. Chief Glaser has changed his mind as of last Tuesday and stated engine seven will remain in place at fire station seven, we appreciate that. We've been battling that for a long time.

Under the initiative number nine in the report, you will find chief Glaser recommendation apparatus staffing is spot on with the minimal staffing levels of National Fire Protection Station regarding the future fire station. Chief Glaser has in the draft report staff new engine at Station 10 with four people minimal staffing in 2026 timeline. Even though chief Glaser's recommendation falls within the national standard, the chief was not given enough firefighters to budget to achieve the staffing level this year in 2026. While certain influential individuals wanna use their position to yell from the pulpit and tell half truth, these firefighters hold the line and value the trust we've earned through our long history of serving this community. 35 structure fires.

That's 35 times or more than twice a month the fire got out of control and burned the house. It's a little concerning. Do you think it's funny they don't talk about the cooking fires, furniture fires, just any contents fires that we firefighters suppress? Or why do we need four firefighters when our citizens are trapped in a vehicle and we're having to use the jaws of life to save them? Have you ever wondered why the politicians don't speak about the projected revenue of the ESD being over $70,000,000 in the next ten years?

I could go on all night trying to sell our fire department needs to the politicians and the naysayers and the individuals who were shaken out of their boots with the mayor's threats of nuclear option of raising property taxes. We are just firefighters who would rather be sitting at home on a couch with our kids watching a good movie. Yet, we swore to save lives and protect our citizens' property. It is unfortunate that the people in certain positions of the city want to paint a rosy picture of how great the fire department capabilities are. We are highly trained professional firefighters that at a drop of a hat would risk our life to save someone we don't know.

Why? Because we're roundabout firefighters and we are driven by the oath and the dedication to serving our citizens. We are not asking for more than we need to do the right thing. Thank you for all your time. And don't forget to vote probably because seconds matter. We need to follow minimal standards and keep up with growth. Your safety depends on it.

All righty. Thank you for your Any questions for Mr. Colburn? Right. All right. E two, Michael Glenn, update on IAFF GIS study results and NPFA seventeen ten seventeen fifty staffing standards. Mister Glenn, welcome.

Thank you, mister mayor. Good evening, mayor Morgan, members of city council, and city manager Bennett. My name is Michael Glenn, and I have the privilege of serving as the eleventh district vice president for the International Association of Firefighters. The IFF represents more than 365,000 professional firefighters across Canada and The United States. And in my role as a district vice president, I represent all of the professional firefighters of Oklahoma, Texas, and even into the Panama Canal Zone.

There's more than 32,000 of those firefighters. I'm honored to have this opportunity to speak with you this evening about our recently completed GIS study and also the applicable National Fire Protection Association, or NFPA, standards that you heard mentioned earlier. Much of my discussion this evening is going to be based upon the CAD data or that individual run or incident information that's publicly available from your city and department. The information presented from the NFPA will be based on the national standards vetted and approved by the various stakeholder groups entrusted to make the recommendations for the fire service as global advocates. For further explanation, and as was mentioned a little bit earlier, and to make it very clear, the NFPA is a self funded nonprofit that's dedicated to the elimination of global loss from fire, electrical, and related hazards.

So our GIS study that we did through the IFF, it's data driven. It's a data driven document intended for use by you, the decision makers of the city of Round Rock. The document itself was intended to help drive the decisions regarding resource management to meet your city's incident demands. We use geographic information systems, mapping software, and historical computer aided dispatch or the CAD data. Performance for response capabilities to make the assessments based upon industry standards contained in NFPA 1,500, which is the standard on fire department occupational safety and health NFPA seventeen ten, which is the standard for the organization and deployment of fire suppression operations, emergency medical operations, special operations to the public by career fire departments, such as yours and also NFPA 19 o one, which is the standard for fire department apparatus, the automotive apparatus.

So as I move into some specific data points, the report I'm referencing is based upon the information we had that was known at the time of its completion. Your Round Rock firefighters were aware of plans of the department, which even has been mentioned tonight, some of those have even changed as of last week, based upon the increase or adjustment of staffing levels, which I'm going to address momentarily. It's important to note, though, that even with these plans, even with these adjustments by the department staff, the city of Round Rock would not meet or address the national standards. Let me provide you with some of the metrics that NFPA seventeen ten sets for cities and fire departments as the response standards. First, all fire suppression apparatus, your engines, your ladders, your aerial apparatus should be staffed with four firefighters.

I know you've heard that tonight. You've heard it before, but it's four firefighters. Central Fire Station was repurposed to become the home to fire administration, and the apparatus that were a part of that fire station, as was mentioned a moment ago, were moved east about 1.7 miles to establish Fire Station Number 1. 1.7 miles of a move isn't that far. But when you start talking about the travel distance and the travel time to move apparatus to respond to an incident by repurposing Central Fire Station to be fire station number the apparatus from Central Fire Station 1.7 miles to the east on the other side of the highway, I believe it is, you created a hole.

You as the city, the department created a hole in response times. I can't speak to why this was chosen. All I can say is from an operational efficiency decision for response times, relocating your apparatus from this location further east has implications for coverage. There's the hole. The Round Rock firefighters were unaware of a plan to fill this void.

Now let's move into some response times. Using the existing road network in a community, the first arriving unit should be able to arrive within two forty seconds or four minutes from the time of dispatch for 90% of incidents. This is for all types of emergency incidents. We're not just talking about structure fires, house fires, grass fires, every incident, four minutes, 90% of the time. Second arriving units are allowed six minutes, 90% of the time.

When we start talking about structure fires for what are referred to as low hazard incidents such as two story single family residences without a basement and no exposures on fire, seventeen ten requires a minimum of 16 firefighters and one command officer to arrive on scene within eight minutes of travel time 90% of the time. Medium hazard coverage is typically your open air strip shopping centers, three story garden style apartment buildings. For these incidents, it's a minimum of 24 firefighters, two command officers that should arrive within eight minutes of travel 90% of the time. Finally, high rise structures. What's a high rise structure?

We're talking about those buildings that are set with the highest floor at least 75 feet above the lowest level of fire department access. It requires a minimum of 35 firefighters, four command officers arriving within ten minutes of travel 90% of the time. Regarding the national standard and the existing state law that requires two in, two out, two firefighters in, two firefighters on the outside, we can show that with your current staffing and the existing road network, there's only 19% coverage of the city. When the department's recommended staffing is implemented, this goes up to just 23%. If you were to implement the recommendation, our recommendation of meeting the national standard for four person staffing, this coverage jumps to 52% of your road network.

When looking at your low hazard coverage, which requires those 16 firefighters, one command officer to arrive on scene within eight minutes, 90% of the time, your current staffing with the existing road network provides 10% coverage. If the department staffing plan is implemented, it increases all the way up to 12% of coverage. And again, with the recommended four person staffing, this coverage, which would meet the standard, jumps up to 53%. Now as we look at both the medium hazard and high rise incidents, your department is not meeting the national standard at all. It's at 0%.

0% of the time, you're able to respond with the number of firefighters necessary in the appropriate amount of time to meet the national standard. If the recommendations from this standard was implemented, it would increase to 2311% respectively. A few years ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, conducted studies on staffing and they looked at crew size of in completing tasks, two firefighters versus three firefighters versus four firefighters and more on crews for structure fires. There are a number of key points worth mentioning. First, talking about performance gap.

Four person crews are 25% faster than three person crews and 30% faster than two person crews in completing essential fireground tasks. Second, we talk about getting fire water on the fire. So the time on water. Four person crews get water on the fire faster, 16% faster than two person crews. Search and rescue, going in and finding the victims.

Four person crews start primary searches 30% faster than two person crews, while three person crews are 25% faster than the two person crews. Fourth, we start talking about safety and efficiency. Four person crews can effectively perform simultaneous search and fire suppression, whereas smaller teams don't have the capacity to do that. High rise studies. Similarly, high rise studies indicate that three person crews start at a severe disadvantage as compared to four or five person crews when we talk about completing critical tasks such as fire floor searches, and they can complete those significantly faster.

While heavily focused on fire suppression, these staffing studies, often cited by NFPA seventeen ten, apply to the overall capabilities of a fire department and of the crews and how they manage high hazard residential and emergency medical incidents both safely and effectively. It's also worth pointing out that many departments rely upon seventeen ten, which often utilizes the NIST data to recommend a minimum four personnel per apparatus, even for EMS responses. Four person staffing has been a vital component in recent years as the recommendation has been to go for what's called pit crew CPR. Pit crew CPR is based upon having four firefighters or paramedics and EMTs on scene where each member of a four person crew has a specific role and responsibility to help manage the life and death situation of a patient that's in cardiac arrest. While we've clearly pointed out the greater efficiencies during structure fire responses, many company officers and incident commanders alike are able to better utilize this increased manpower to manage technical rescues, hazardous materials incidents, wildland fires, motor vehicle accidents, much like the one you heard mentioned earlier by the lieutenant from the police department, and just overall emergency medical responses.

Over 8,400 registered voters signed a petition to bring this staffing ordinance to the ballot box next month. It's a sizable number of your citizens. And as far as I understand, it's more than twice the number that was needed to sign the petition. They're

at

least willing to allow a vote to how their fire department is staffed. I would also like to point out that if the city and the fire department were working to try to at least keep up with the national standards for staffing and a risk and response times, this likely would have never been a conversation your voters would have been moved to address. Much has been said here in other communities about the frequency or infrequency of structure fires. Yes, most of our responses are for EMS calls, and we also respond to many lower priority incidents that do not involve structure fires at all. The problem for staffing at fire department is that no one has the crystal ball.

None of us know when the next fire may be or where it might be. Just like homeowners can't predict when they're going to suffer a loss from a fire, crime, tornado, or flooding, a city can't predict where the next emergency is going to be. For this reason, I often like to say that a fire department is the city's insurance policy for its residents. In fact, yesterday I found a statistic that I think is very relevant based upon some comments I've heard recently here locally. According to the Insurance Information Institute, approximately one in four thirty insured homes, just those that have insurance policies, less than 0.25%, very, very, very small number, actually files a homeowner's insurance claim for fire or lightning damage annually.

Yet, they each pay the premium the next year. Some because they're required to under mortgage and some because they don't have the money in their savings to rebuild if they were to lose their fire even if they own the home. One final comment to make about standards and why they matter has to do with a couple of your apparatus. There's a squad that is at Station 6. It's currently staffed with two firefighters. It's being replaced with an engine with three firefighters. The squad at Station 2 is on a reserve engine staffed with either three or four firefighters, I guess depending on what the staffing of the day is. And this apparatus is gonna be replaced with a squad with only three firefighters. And I'll tell you, this is affectionately, or maybe not so affectionately, being referred to as a squingen. Why a squingen?

Because it's not an engine. There's no standard. There's nothing in the standard about a squad with three firefighters being able to count for staffing and for response times. But you all are gonna identify this in the CAD. Let it get picked up as an engine.

So what does that mean? That when when a call comes in and the and the the software program is looking to see who the closest units are to respond and we need to send three or four engines, two trucks, two battalion chiefs, it's going to be able to pick up this squingen, it's not a fire engine, as a unit to respond. And to make it very clear, this unit, this apparatus does not meet the standard of a fire engine under NFPA 19 o one. So I know I've thrown a lot at you. The fact is there is a considerable amount of data and statistics that must be part of the conversations that you're having now and in the future when we start talking about your city's and your fire department staffing needs.

In the end, my goal in presenting today was to show you that we have the capabilities of analyzing your CAD data and using your existing road network as it stands today, not in 2030, to help identify the needs of current and future staffing. I look forward to a partnership to address an appropriate level of staffing that benefits not only your Round Rock firefighters, but also the residents that have a sworn oath that they have a sworn oath to protect and serve. And mister mayor, counsel, I'd be willing to answer any questions you might have. Alright.

Any questions?

Alright. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Let me just say thank you to mister Coburn for your passion on this issue, and thank you, mister Glenn, for the information you provided. Our fire administration and GIS teams are strong, and we will have them review the materials that was presented. However, our main opposed to proposition B is it introduces changes that will have unintended consequences for the city and its residents. I encourage all citizens to visit the city's website to learn more about both propositions and the impact to our residents. Thank you. Alright. Consent agenda. All items listed on the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the city council and be enacted by one motion. There'll be no separate discussion of these items unless requested by a council member. Which event?

That will be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. Anybody have anything on the consent? Alright. G one, consider approval minutes from the 03/26/2026 city council meeting. G two, consider resolution authorizing the mayor to execute the fiscal year twenty twenty five equitable sharing agreement and certification confirming the city's receipt and expenditure of federal asset awards and agreeing to continue to participate in receipt of federal forfeiture awards. G3 consider resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with Sunbelt Rentals Inc. For equipment and tool rental services. I entertain a motion to adopt the consent.

So moved.

Second. Motion made by Councilmember Flores, seconded by Councilmember Ortega. Any other discussion? And please, public council.

Council member Lee?

Yes.

Council member Flores? Yes. Council member Fleming?

Yes.

Council member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens?

Yes.

Council member Montgomery?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Alright. Resolutions. H one, consider resolution authorizing mayor to execute an agreement with Community Impact for advertising services. Rick?

Evening, mayor and council. The item before you is a resolution that allows us to enter in the contract with Community Impact. As you know, they distribute our program guide three times a year, summer, spring, and fall. This has been going on for some time and has been very effective throughout our community. We distribute to about 40,000 residents on the summer issue and about 35,000 residents on the other issues. With that, we have been very happy with their service. I don't think Amy was able to make it tonight. There she is. Didn't see her. She snuck in.

But this is for five years. It's in the amount of $375,000 and I'd be happy to answer any other questions if you have them. And I did forget to tell you, we also have the e book online as well.

Any questions? All right. Entertain a motion to stop the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by councilor Ortega, same by the mayor pro tem. Any other discussion? And please spell the council.

Council member Flores? Yes. Council member Fleming? Council member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens? Yes. Council member Montgomery?

Yes.

Council Member Lee? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. H two, consider resolution suspended for forty five days, the effective date proposed by Atmos Energy Mid Texas division and its application filed on or about 02/20/2026 pursuant to section 104.301 of the Texas Utilities Code. Kevin?

Good evening. Back in February, Atmos Energy filed for an increase in their natural gas utility rates under the Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program or the GRIP statute under state law. The proposed increases to the base customer charges, a 42 increase for residential, 28% increase for commercial, and a 31% increase for industrial. Again, those are increases to the base charge. The increase system wide for APT missile generate revenues of about $287,000,000 The city's ability to effectuate any change in this proposed rate increase is unfortunately very limited.

Nonetheless, staff recommends suspending Amos's proposed effective date for forty five days pursuant to state law the city can evaluate whether the data and calculations contained in the rate application are correct. Round Rock is a member of a coalition of cities known as Atmos Texas Municipalities, a group of about 50 cities that work together to analyze these requests represented by Herrera Law and Associates, who helps us review the applications to change rates from Atmos. Be happy answering questions. Staff does recommend approval.

All right. Questions for Kevin? Councilmember Montgomery.

Kevin, are all the cities in that consortium about the same size as Round Rock?

JOSEPH No. There are a couple larger and many much smaller. So the Atmos Tech Municipalities Group is a group, again, in about 50 cities that cover the Atmos mid tech service area in which we are a part. So it is a group of cities of varying sizes within that region. Any

other questions? Entertain a motion to adopt the resolution? So move.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem. Any other discussion? And please vote the council.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Stevens?

Yes.

Council Member Montgomery?

Yes.

Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes. Mayor Morgan? Yes. Thank you, Kevin. H3, resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a memorandum of understanding with Texas Division of Emergency Management for participation in Texas emergency management assistance teams. Chief White.

Good evening, mayor and council.

Good evening.

The Texas Division of Emergency Management, TDEM, is consolidating MOUs into a single agreement rather than maintaining separate MOUs. This MOU will include our ability to support the incident support team, public's work team, Texas task force, the incident management team, and TIFMIS. When we deploy members to assist, we are reimbursed for their cost, backfill, and an administrative fee to complete the necessary paperwork. If we send our vehicles for use, we are also reimbursed for them. Prior to deploying, we review our staffing availability to ensure we are always able to take care of here home before we respond out. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Alright. Any questions? Councilwoman Fleming.

Just had a question. Based on just the recent comments with Proposition B and people speaking on behalf of the fire department, they're saying that our staffing levels aren't where they need to be. So I'm just a little confused about why we'd want to entertain this right now knowing that staffing levels, they're not happy with it. So you feel good about this or why you're still in support of it right now?

I do support our, MOU with the state. It allows us to have the ability to deploy, if we so choose. Currently, we do achieve our minimum staffing levels that we, as the city of Round Rock and Round Rock Fire Department have set. So I feel comfortable that, we can deploy at this time.

Thank you.

So did I understand that you you don't have to deploy if there's, you know, if there's severe weather here that we're expecting or something that could, you know, take firefighters away?

Yes, sir.

Okay. Alright. Any other questions? Entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. Oops, sorry, Council Member Ortega. How long is the program? Is it for five years, ten years?

That's a great question. I'm not

sure of that right now. I'd have to review the paperwork. I apologize.

All right. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. I entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, second by Council Member Lee. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens?

Yes.

Council Member Montgomery?

Yes.

Council Member Lee?

Yes.

Council Member Flores? Yes. Council Member Fleming?

Yes. Mayor Morgan? Yes. H4 thank you, chief. H4 consider resolution approving the City Of Round Rock emergency operations plan 2026 through twenty twenty two thousand and thirty one. Sorry. Sherry?

Good evening, mayor and council. Tonight, I'm here to present the emergency operations plan to ask for consideration for its approval. This is a plan that's due to the Texas Division of Emergency Management every five years based on Texas government code chapter four eighteen. It establishes the high level framework in which the city conducts its emergency operations from mitigation to preparedness to response to recovery. It's applicable to all hazards and is scalable, So, that just means that we can implement more portions of the plan as is necessary.

And then, as conditions tame and calm down, we're able to scale that back as necessary. This iteration of the plan is a new format as it does align with the national response framework and the national incident management system. This serves as the foundation for the 15 additional annexes that will come in the coming years to help support emergency management operations across the city. A version of this plan will be made available following the state approval of this plan. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you.

All right. Any questions? Mayor Pro Tem.

I should have asked this on Tuesday. I know this is a new plan. When you were going through developing it, did you find any holes or things that we were lacking with the ability to be able to implement this in a critical event?

I did not. I mean, as is usual, the biggest things that are going to need to occur are the training and exercises of these plans. As a city, in the way we currently respond, basically, it reflects the coordination structure that we know has been effective previously. And the hope is that we continue to train and exercise them to make sure that we are addressing any of those gaps because as things change, you know, we may end up finding a gap in the plan. But we'll always make sure to basically fill in the gap.

Thank you. You're welcome.

All right. Any other questions? All right. Entertain a motion to adopt the resolution.

So moved. Second.

Motion made by council member Fleming, seconded by the mayor pro tem. Any other discussion? And please, public council.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens? Yes. Council Member Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores? Yes. Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes. Mayor Morgan? Yes.

Thank you.

H5, consider resolution authorizing Merit XU interlocal agreement for emergency water service with the City of Austin. Michael.

Good evening, mayor and council.

Good evening.

This is an interlocal agreement with the City of Austin for an emergency interconnect. As a utility, we always look to have interconnects with our neighboring utilities. We have several interconnects today with Georgetown, Cedar Park, Brushy Creek Mud, Jonah Water, and this is another one. The location of the interconnect is on the off of 172 and near State Highway 45 right here. We had a vault with an interconnect in the past.

That agreement expired, and we have not ever opened that interconnect with Austin. When Amazon development is under here, the roadway coming down Hester's Crossing as it crosses 172 will impact the existing vault that we had for the emergency interconnect. So Amazon has moved the vault, rebuilt it, and it's the yellow area right here. So we would like to enact this new interconnect. Austin did not was not interested in us providing water to them under an emergency, but Round Rock is interested in Austin providing us.

So this agreement is specifically under an emergency situation. Round Rock would call Austin. We would open up the valve and provide water to us. They have the ability to do that because this a lower pressure plane, and it could provide water to this area of town. It would not be able to provide water to all of Round Rock because we have higher pressure planes, and they would not be able to push the water there. So this agreement's a ten year agreement with Austin. They're in the agreement. It has the rate schedule, so we'll pay a daily rate. Anytime we open up the interconnect, we would pay a rate for that day, then obviously the volumetric charge and then a meter charge. Specifically, it calls out an emergency, so it's really a two week maximum.

If we need it longer, we would talk to Austin as well. So it's a good relationship there. Austin is approving it as well, so I'll be happy to answer any questions about this emergency water interconnect to help the water system here in Roundup.

Questions? Councilmember Montgomery.

Thank you. Michael, I think you said that we, with the existence of the old vault, that we've never had the need to use it in an emergency situation?

JAMES That is correct.

JAMES So were that situation to occur, what would be the process? And how long would that approval process take to be able to get water flowing?

Yes. So once once both cities approve this interlocal agreement, there's contact names in this agreement. So let's just say something happens immediately, we would call those contacts. There's four names from Austin on the list, so we would go down the list until we reach them. And then Austin would go out to the vault, and they would open the vault for us. So, really, once this vault and the meter's installed, Austin will be controlling the vault and the meter. We will be responsible for paying for the meter to put into the vault. So it would happen immediately. We have all the phone numbers and the contacts. We're set up for that.

Once we are finished with the emergency, we would reverse that same process. We would call in immediately because we're paying a day rate to have this water. So it's specifically outlined. We have the connections all made, and it should happen very quickly.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Any other questions? Entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. Moved. Made by Council Member Ortega, second by Council Member Fulham. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Montgomery?

Yes.

Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Fleming?

Yes.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. H6, consider resolution authorizing Mayor to execute retail water certificate of convenience and necessity service area transfer agreement of Jonah Water Special Utility District for certain property located in the Northeast area of the city of Round Rock's extraterritorial jurisdiction adjacent to Southwest Boulevard near County Road 104.

This is a water service abandonment between Jonah and the city of Round Rock. This is related to the Briggs tract. We are located in the Northeast. So here's University as you head east, County Road 110. You see State Highway 130 right here. The bridge tract is a little over 200 acres. And when they came in, this top rectangular box right here was in the city of Georgetown ETJ. And we asked Georgetown would or the developer asked Georgetown if they could be released from their ETJ. The city of Georgetown agreed. So Georgetown released this square of this rectangle from their ETJ.

In addition, you'll see the water service areas. The green hatching is Jonah Water Service Area, their CCN. The red is Round Rock, and the yellow is Georgetown. This area was in the Jonah Service Area. Because this property is now going to be an in city MUD with the city of Round Rock, it made sense for Round Rock to go ahead and move that entire subdivision into our service area so that everybody in that area will be getting Round Rock water.

So, the Public Utility Commission manages this process. So they are requiring a resolution from the Jonas Special Utility District as well as a resolution from the city of Round Rock, which is before you tonight. If approved, we will submit that to the PUC, and then it's just making sure the maps get adjusted. And Round Rock will be responsible for providing water to the entire bridge tract right here. This area is about 76 acres that is being released into Round Rock's service area. Be happy to answer any questions.

Questions? Entertain a motion to stop the resolution. So moved. Second. Motion made by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please vote of the council.

Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Fleming?

Yes.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Procham Stephens? Yes. Council Member Montgomery? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. H7, consider resolution authorizing Mayor to execute supplemental contract number one with Corolla Engineers Inc. For the Hesters Crossing and County Road 172 Water System Improvements GR-seven project.

This is a water system improvement. We're in that same area I mentioned earlier down here by County Road 172. Here's Hester's Crossing. What we want to do is add this red dash line. It'll be a water line that we construct as well as a pressure reducing valve right here.

The advantage of this system improvement is this is a lower pressure plane. As this area begins to develop, there will be more demand on our water system, and it's a lower pressure plane. So if we start seeing a reduction in pressure, we want to make sure that we meet the minimum standards, obviously, with TCQ so that we can provide water from a higher pressure plane, which is here. We can send water down this line, open up the PRV, and push water into that area. We are required by state law to have a minimum of 35 psi at every connection.

Our goal within our water system is 50 psi, so we monitor those pressures so that we meet the minimum by law. So if we have a drop in pressure in this area, we can provide higher pressure to the area to make sure we meet that minimum. So recommend approval of this engineering contract with Corollo Engineering for $266,000. It's a ten month design for the work, and it's about 2,700 linear feet of pipe and the PRV. Representing Corolla tonight is Katie Langford and Rob Colwell, and also we have Adam Levy, who's the city's project manager on this project. They're in the back. All right. Any questions?

All right. Entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by council member Ortega, second by the mayor pro tem. Any other discussion? And please pull the council.

Council member Flores? Yes. Council member Fleming?

Yes.

Council member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Procham Stephens?

Yes.

Council Member Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Thank you all for being here. All right. H8, consider resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract for engineering services with BGE Inc. For the Cottonwood Lift Station and Forest Main project.

This is another engineering contract. It's for our wastewater system. We are on the Northeast area of Round Rock. Specifically, you'll see State Highway 130 running right through here. This is the area, the ETJ, that's on the East Side of State Highway 130. This area, we are responsible for wastewater service out here. The area, all gravity drains southeasterly to this corner. So this is a project to install a lift station in this corner right here. Lift station is basically we we put in a wet well or a hole in the ground. There's pumps in it, and we pump the wastewater uphill till they can gravity drain.

So when everything is draining this way, we need to be able to pump it back to the west towards Round Rock. The line here at the bottom is a gravity line. So once we pump it back in this force main right here, hits this hill, then it'll start draining this way. This is a preliminary engineering work with BGE. The cost is $289,000 We are working with a development out here as well as the city of Hutto because this is about a five year project from start to finish to build all this.

When developments come in between now and then, we're working with them to be able to serve wastewater. And if that happens, we want to drain that into the huddle system temporarily. We're working on a five year agreement with them so that any good developments that we need to happen here, we make sure we can make it happen and not lose them. So we're working on that. There should be some agreements coming to council hopefully in the next month or so on a development agreement from this property right here and then the city of Hutto. But in the meantime, we need to work on this engineering work. BG tonight has Brian Rice and Brittany Fairburn here. And we also have Audrey Nobles, who's our city project manager on this project.

All right. Any questions? Any time, motion to stop the resolution?

So moved. Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, stand by the mayor pro tem. Any other discussion? And please public council. Council Member Fleming?

Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens?

Yes.

Council Member Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Thank you all for being here. All right. H nine, consider resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract for engineering services with Friesen Nichols Inc. For the 2026 design and construction standards update project. Michael?

For all construction work that happens in the city, we have design standards that either a development project they must follow or a capital project that the city's building. We wanna make sure we're designing the infrastructure to our standards. We have these design and construction standards. We have not updated the water wastewater utility DACs since 2020. We did a minor amendment there. These DACs are an ordinance, so we have to bring them to you for formal approval. This is for water wastewater and reuse water, also for stormwater. The last time we updated our stormwater DACs was in 2010. We do keep notes and we keep them marked up, but we want to do a real overhaul now and look at because we've had Atlas 14 rainfall data. We've had a lot of new standards.

They'll go back and check TxDOT standards, FEMA standards, all of those things to make sure we are building our infrastructure to the best way possible. DAX tell the engineering design firm what kind of pipe material we use. Just a number of things. It's all in the DAX, and our development services follows the DAX as well when developments come in. So we would like to award this engineering contract to Friesen Nichols to help us with that overhaul. It's $338,000. It's about a twelve month project. Here tonight is Michael Lafferty with Friesen Nichols. I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Where is he?

He should be in the

Oh, he's seven or 30.

They're all in the same corner.

I'm telling you, man. All these engineers all hanging out together. All right. Any questions? I'm gonna entertain a motion to adopt the resolution.

So moved. Second.

Motion made by council member Fleming, second by council member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please poll the council. Council member Ortega. Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens. Yes. Council member Montgomery.

Yes.

Council member Lee. Yes. Council member Flores.

Yes.

Councilmember Fleming? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Thank you for being here. H10, consider resolution authorizing merit to execute contract for engineering services with Walker Partners LLC for the BCR WWS Interceptor Capacity Improvement Project.

This is another engineering contract for our regional wastewater system. The yellow lines on the map here are large wastewater lines, we call them interceptors, that take wastewater from Leander, Cedar Park, Austin, and Round Rock, drains it to the east, and it dumps it into this wastewater plant right here by Del Diamond. This first segment that you see here from the plant coming back almost all the way to A. W. Grimes. A. Grimes is right here. Here's 79. Cut the red line around it. This is a 60 inch diameter interceptor, which is five feet.

It's a large interceptor. We've known all along that it was not sized large enough to handle the ultimate capacity of the regional system. All four cities are continuing to grow, and if we reach that point now where we need to really look at a second parallel line, there's two parts to this. When we did the TV ing of this line a few years ago, we noticed that there were some defects in the line, So we're gonna look at rehabilitating the line as well. So there's kind of two parts.

Looking at rehabilitating the existing 60 inch pipe, also designing a parallel pipe, and we'll be looking at both of those. This is a four city partnership, so the total cost for the preliminary engineering work is $417,000 Round Rock is 53.3% of that, so we're around 230,000 of that. That cost is based on the amount of capacity that we need, each city needs. All four cities will be taking this sorry, Round Rock is taking this contract to our council because we're managing the contract, but all four cities via a interlocal agreement will be participating in that cost, but Round Rock will be managing it. The project, right now, we're looking at putting it together.

And once we get through preliminary engineering, we'll have an engineering a final engineering contract, and then we'll get into the construction, which will come to y'all later on. Jason Bible here with Walker Partners. He's on this side, though.

What happened? You didn't get the memo.

Recommend approval of this contract. I'll be happy to

answer any questions. All right. Any questions? Councilmember Flores.

Hey, Michael, on that parallel line, if decided that it's needed, is it the same size as the original line? And if and that was the first question. And secondly, do you run it concurrently or do you just run it if and when you need it in the future?

MR. No. So first, we will run through the calculations to determine the size. Most likely, it's not going to be the same size. So what we'll do, we do the parallel line. We would build the new line first and then run the wastewater through the new line, and then we would rehab the existing one. But we'll be working through all of that with this preliminary engineering work. We will make sure it is sized to meet the needs of the four cities plus any, we call it, inflow and infiltration, there will be a safety factor on that as well. But we'll look at all that with the contract.

Thank you. Any other questions? Hearing taken by to stop the resolution. So moved. Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Flores. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Mayor Pro Tem Stevens?

Yes.

Council Member Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee?

Yes.

Council member Flores? Yes. Council member Fleming?

Yes.

Council member Otega?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Thank you for being here. H11 is their resolution to determine the necessity and authorizing the use of the city's power of eminent domain to acquire point zero five six acre of land owned by the Gattis Office Condominium Association Inc. For the Gattis School Road segments 4 And 5 project. Michael.

This is some right of way acquisition. We're at Gattis School Road and Rusk Road right here. This yellow hatching is additional right of way that we need for our project. Original appraisal was $35,000 We've agreed to a $46,000 cost. Because it's with a office condimenting association, Sheets and Crossfield's offices recommending a condemnation because they have to figure out how to divvy up that money amongst the members of the association. So it's gonna be it's not a contentious agreement. It's $46,000 but it's just procedural. This is for our project at Gattis School four and five. Where are we at on that? We're in design.

We're acquiring right of way. There's a few other properties we still need to work with on right of way. We're about a year away before we would go out to bid with that project. We wanna make sure Gattis School three gets finished, which is the one from Clay Mattson Rec Center to Double Creek. Working very well with that one. It should be finished sometime this summer. We have Gattis School six, which is from Via Sonoma to Redbud. That's under construction. We wanna get it going a little ways before we would go out to be with this. So next summer, we'll do that. This project's about a about a year and a half project under construction once we get going with it. So recommend approval of this acquisition of point o five six acres, $46,000. Be happy

to answer any questions. Questions? Any time I motion to stop the resolution?

So moved.

Oh, you had a question? No. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That is correct. Has to certain language that has to be read per state law.

Ready.

Mayor Pro Tem.

I move that the city council approve this resolution which authorizes the use of the power of eminent domain to acquire fee simple title to the following parcel of land for construction of proposed improvements to the Gaddis School Road segment's four and five project, a 0.056 acre tract of land from the property owned by the Gaddis Office Condominium Association Inc, as described in exhibit A of the resolution.

Council Member Fleming, you second that motion? Second. All right. I have a motion by the mayor pro tem, second by Council Member Fleming. Any other discussion? Anne, please poll the council.

Council Member Montgomery?

Yes.

Council Member Lee? Yes. Council member Flores? Yes. Council member Fleming? Yes. Council member Ortega? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Stevens?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. All right. Council comments regarding items of community interest. Councilmember Montgomery.

Good night, Round Rock.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Good night, Round Rock.

Councilmember Ortega. Good night, Round Rock. Councilmember Fleming.

Good night, Round Rock.

Councilmember Flores. Good night, Round Rock. Councilmember Lee.

Happy birthday to my one and only next week, and good night, Round Rock.

And with that, I'll say good night, Round Rock. We stand adjourned at 07:28.