City Council - Packet - briefing

I can brief an order and please call the roll.

Mayor Morgan. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery.

Here.

Council Member Lee.

Here.

Council Member Flores. Here. Council Member Fleming. Council Member Ortega. Here. Council Member Stevens.

All right. Roll call. Pledges of the lead. I'm reading the wrong one. Sorry. Roll call. Citizen communication. Anybody wishing to speak? Seeing none. Staff briefing D1, consider staff briefings and council member discussion and or questions regarding items on the agenda for the June 25, 2026 council meeting. We have proclamations recognizing the high school boys state championship and the girls gymnastics for second. Tara, will you please make sure the board knows? Yes, and that's soccer for boys and girls. No, that's gymnastics. Where are you at soccer?

That's right.

Did I say soccer? Oh, yeah. Yeah. But just make sure Dr. A and everybody knows that we're doing it. Then we'll do a teen university graduation class, consent agenda. Anybody have anything on the consent they have questions about? All right, resolutions. Consider a resolution authorizing Mayor to execute a contract with Daniel Bessa. Come on up, Rick. Great job on Saturday night. A lot of fun, always.

So appreciate it. This resolution is for basic construction. And if you know, I'll have an exhibit on Thursday night. But it's the south soccer fields along Harold Parkway. So what we're doing as part of the construction, they finished that section of the road. Now we can go in and look at putting up some netting and some fencing. So we're going to put in some 20-foot nets on the back side of where the goals are, just like we do on Gatta School Road, that you'll see those, so that we don't have balls that come out in the fields. and then we're going to do a six-foot fence that goes around the perimeter of the fields, help protect the cars driving by and the players from having to run out in the street. This one is in the amount of $155,340, and I'd be happy to answer any other questions if you have them.

Questions? Questions? I have one just because I'm getting asked all the time along the way. Old settlers, why are they digging so deep if that's just the fields?

Are you talking about Kitty Ford or old settlers?

Old settlers.

Old settlers, that's on the other side. They're recessing those fields a little bit, but they're also going down, digging up some base, using that base for those fields like they did on some of the other projects. I don't know that one's more Chad's project, and I've kind of stayed away from that one. I would assume they're also looking at some detention because you've got to have a place for that runoff to go as well.

Okay. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Rick. No problem. H2, consider a resolution. Authorizing the mayor to execute QA change order number two with Austin and Juneen.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Morning.

This is our Green Lawn Boulevard improvements project going very well right now. It's under construction, estimated completion sometime around July, August of 2027. If you've been over there on Green Lawn with all that construction and in the district, there's a lot of... The world's being blown up over there. But our contract's doing well. We're going to have a three-lane divided roadway each direction. This change order is for $198,000. Some of the things in here, when the district surveyed their property, they have a few driveways coming out. It did not line up with our roadways. So like Pueblo Parkway, their map was 11 feet off. So we had to make a few adjustments to our roadway to tie in the district and ours. So just some logistics there. Some additional work here at the bridge. We're putting in beams this week. Last week we had a truck, just a citizen drive into one of the beams and crashed. It didn't hurt the beam. You won't hurt those concrete beams, but it hurt the truck. Some water line improvements, getting ready for some underground stuff for the future signal here. There will be a future change order for a traffic signal here, but this is just some of the initial work. But just some cleanup stuff. It's $198,000 with Austin Engineering. for this project. And then we're also tying in down here. You know, the state's doing a lot of work along the frontage road there, tying all that in. So I recommend approval of this change order. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Questions?

Questions? Council Member Flores?

Mike, just curious. Right there at 35 where it intersects, is that going to be just one lane making the right? Yes, sir. I mean, is that just all they can do? That's all we can do.

So when you're coming north on this frontage road, you will turn right. It'll be a single lane, and then it'll Feather out into three same thing when you're coming this direction There'll be three lanes and it feathers down into one we can't have one in one out and that's just a yield sign and Go as go as they're available.

Yes, sir. Yeah. Yes. Thank you.

Mm-hmm your questions Were y'all ever able to look and see about putting the sign along 45 to help the entrance? Yes, we did okay.

Yes, we put one here, and I know we have one right over here as well. I appreciate it. Yes, sir

H3, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract with Aaron Concrete.

This is part of our street maintenance program. We budget about $4.5 million a year for residential streets and $4.5 million a year for arterials. There's two, when we did our assessment, they needed a little bit more work than just your normal overlay. Smires Lane right here, this is off 620. We're going to go in there and we're going to recycle the base material, get that up to par, do a seal coat and then an overlay. That's one piece that will come from basically 620 and tie right at there at Wyoming Springs There were some questions in the past about adding sidewalks and some of those gaps. We're not doing sidewalks with this This is just a roadway contractor when you look at future sidewalks. There's some open lots with some caves on it drainage It's a little bit more work. That's going to required. We are looking at sidewalk gaps around the city so in the future we will have a project that will look at the sidewalk gaps here and then around the city. I know Council Member Stevens had asked about that on a previous presentation. So this is just roadway improvement. And then the second one's up here on the east side. It's from Redbud. As you turn east and you head this direction, then there's a low water crossing. We've already overlaid this, but this section was in poor condition. So we're going to redo the base material as well, kind of a full section repair for both of those. We had four bidders, $1.3 million to do these two projects, and this will come out of our street maintenance program on the arterial side. Happy to answer any questions.

Questions? Council Member Flores.

Michael, on the Smyers Lane, I know you just said this, but there's no widening. It is just fixing the road because of all those potholes on there. And was there anything able to be done there at Smyers and Wyoming Springs? I mean, because that's just a tough intersection.

You're talking about when you're on Smires and you want to come out on the line. Yeah, you need to go left or right. It's just busy. Yeah, this is just basically taking your existing curb to curb and redoing the pavement section. There's going to be no additional lanes, nothing like that. Sure. All right. Thank you.

Any other questions? All right. Consider a resolution authorized by the mayor to execute an amendment to the agreement with the Meadows at Chandler Creek.

This is Meadows at Chandler Creek mud. We are on the east side of town. This is Sunrise. Here's Old Settlers Boulevard as you head east. And then here's the intersection of Old Settlers and A.W. Grimes right here. And A.W. Grimes comes down to 79. The Meadows boundaries is the red boundary here. I forget the exact number of houses, but this is one of the initial muds in the city. The agreement was signed in 1986. And it's 40 years old, and it's expiring. When we signed this agreement in 1986, it's mud, so it's not in the city limits. But it stated in there that city was responsible for all water lines and waste water line repairs and maintenance, also all meter reading and utility billing. So we've been doing all that for 40 years. The streets in this area, because it's a mud, not in the city, that's maintained by the county. Now that this agreement is expired, they would like to renegotiate it. And we're fine with renegotiating it, but we really want to look at it from a different angle. When you have water lands and wastewater lands that are 40 years old, their useful life, you're starting to see it, 50, 60 years old. That's not really the city's responsibility, because we don't own any of that, right? We did a quick calculation. If you had to put in all new water lines inside that red box and all new wastewater lines, $60 million for water, $40 million for wastewater. So it's $100 million in just utility assets if you put them in brand new. Now, they're not all going to fail today. We're not going to do that. But there's a significant cost there that has us concerned. And that's why this agreement here, it expires on June 26. We're asking for an extension until December 31 of this year. so that we can negotiate with the MUD and their board on what the new agreement looks like. We'll continue to provide treated water. We'll continue to treat their wastewater. But it's just inside this red box. What does that look like? Very difficult to treat it just like a regular wholesale customer because we have a lot of point of entries here. So we'd have to meter all those. So it may be a hybrid of what we have for existing wholesale customers with the MUDs versus this one. But I think we need to protect our rate payers a little bit on how we move forward with this. So this is just an extension. I'll come back next year with an agreement for you guys to consider.

Questions? Questions? All right. H-5, consider resolution authorizing Merritt HQ real estate purchase contract with Nelson Homestead Family Partnership.

We are out in the Northeast now. You see a lot of growth happening there. So we're planning our infrastructure for that. Here's University Boulevard as you're heading east towards 130. And then here's counter 110 heading north. This is the John Nelson Family Trust property. The Briggs tract we've talked about is up in here. This is Northeast. So this is Remington Heights subdivision. Salerno's down here. We have been negotiating with the Nelson family on this property right here. If you recall, we received ARPA money a few years ago. And the city and Georgetown together received $14 million for water infrastructure. We spent roughly $12 million of that. We built that water line that comes down University. But we have $2 million. We know we needed a site here for a future storage tank. So this kind of goes a little bit uphill. So we always want to be on high ground here. So this is a storage tank with a pump station. The blue area, I mean, let me start back. This is seven acres right here. Utility side, Water wants 4 and 1 half that we will pay for with ARPA money. That will be shared with Georgetown Round Rock ownership. The Gray is 2 and 1 half acres, and Chief Glazer is going to talk about that for a future fire station. So we negotiated seven acres together. He needed a fire station on this side of town. $8.35 per square foot. So the 4.5 acres for the water system is $1.6 million. We will use our ARPA money that I mentioned for that. And then Chief Glazier will use his funds for his portion. I think I've got it covered. We've been negotiating this for a long time. But this sets us up well. As we're looking at future water opportunities to the east, this infrastructure that we're building out here will help us in the future. Happy to answer any questions.

All right, questions on H5 or H6? Council Member Flores.

Does that commit all of our ARPA money, or is there more ARPA money?

We have $800,000 left. To be honest, I'm talking to John Nelson now about maybe purchasing some easements. We're talking to some folks along this 110 that ties back in the university here about purchasing some easements as well. It's easements we'll need in the future, and we have $800,000 that we have to spend before December 31st. So we're looking at that. Thank you.

Yeah, let's spend it.

Yes, sir. I think Chief Glazier wants to talk a little bit about H-6. Oh, OK. Before we, yeah.

All right. Come on up, Chief.

Good morning, Mayor and Council. So part of this land acquisition, again, is just for a future fire station. Working with Michael's group did a great job of negotiating with the family here and determining the right size. Again, Corey's group came in handy. The prototype station you see on here is the four-bay station that we built at the last two sites and which we're about to start at Station 11. This also, again, is out in the future. It has 110 that goes north and south, but then when 107 actually extends from 110 over to Vizcaya, this gives us two ways in and out of the neighborhood. and feels like it's going to be a great location. Before committing with Michael on this, we ran some response modeling with mapping and determined that this is a great spot for us. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

All right. Any questions on this one?

Thank you all.

All right. Thank you, Chief. All right. Appointments, we'll consider. I think you've got both. All of you have got letters on the dice asking for reappointments of municipal judge and associate. Then on I-3, we'll consider a council director and citizen director. I've asked Council Member Flores and the mayor pro tem to continue to serve on this as we step in the role of president this year, right? Any questions on any of those appointments? All right. Anything else for the good? All right. We stand adjourned.