City Council - Packet - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Tonight we do not have a pastor, so if you'll take a moment of silence with me. Thank you. I'll call the 6 o'clock city council meeting to 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.

Here.

Council Member Ortega? Here. Council Member Stephens?

Here.

All right. If you'll stand me for the pledges.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and invisible. All right. All right, citizen communication, anybody wishing to speak? I have no yellow cards. All right, staff presentations. E1, consider presentation of department update from Planning and Development Services Department. Bradley?

Good evening, Mayor, city council members. It's my pleasure to be here to present an annual update from the Planning and Development Services Department. Just kind of a high level about our key responsibilities for those who don't know. We implement the long-range planning policy for the city. That is the policy that is laid out by city council in the strategic plan and then carried forward in our comprehensive plan. So all the long-range planning for the city, the framework by which the city is going to grow as prioritized by city council and city management, it is our responsibility to help implement that policy into real life. We process basic land entitlements. So that's zoning and platting to help prepare a property for development. And then we manage the land development process from start to finish. So that's site and subdivision improvements, all the civil engineering, building permits, building inspections, all the other inspections that have to go on. We write and maintain all the development regulations that pertain to any given property in the entire city. We assist property owners with planning and development questions. A lot of times it's what can I do on my property? Sometimes it's what can that person do on their property? Or this field behind me, what can that be developed into? And we always urge people, members of the public, our residents to call us if they have questions with anything because we're very accessible and we love to help educate people about zoning and the land development process. We handle all historic preservation efforts for the city internally in helping to manage and administer the Historic Preservation Commission. And we also handle sign permits. It's kind of an overlooked responsibility and duty, but it has a high volume of permits. Every sign in the city, essentially, whether a freestanding sign or something that's on a building, goes through our office. I'm going to talk a little bit about the organization of our department. Your fearless leader here. I've been with the city about, coming up on 15 years now, been in this role about two and a half years or so. The assistant director, Jeff Brooks, he's been with us 12 years and he manages, truly does manage the land development review process for the city. All the troubleshooting really goes through him. You would not believe what a good problem solver he is. James Schein is our building official. He's been with us eight years now, going on nine. But he really, really, really manages the building inspections and building permitting process. The assistant building official is Jorge Scott, obviously not exactly a member of the Good Hair Club like the rest of us, but not going to knock him for that. He manages a lot of the building permit intake process, does a lot of troubleshooting with contractors and laborers and subcontractors and architects, and also reviews all residential building permits in the city. Susan Brennan is our planning manager. She's been with us 28 years, and she has been running the planning division, the planning side of things, just incredibly for that time. We're just very grateful to have her. She oversees a lot of, sorry, all of the zoning, subdivision planning, and general planning activities for the city. And Joelle Jordan is our long-range planning manager. She helps to administer the historic preservation process. Does a lot of long-range planning in terms of downtown zoning. So the big downtown zoning effort that we had that wrapped up last October was her project along with her team of long-range planners as well. And finally, we couldn't do what we do as well as we do it without our development technicians. We have four technicians, two in the downstairs part of our building, two upstairs. Downstairs, we have Jennifer Esparza and Isabella Morales. Neither of them could be here tonight, unfortunately. They are the first ones you see when you walk in the door of the Meconico building on the left side at the windows right there. They help administer the building permit process. Jennifer handles the residential side, Isabella the commercial side. They take a lot of grief from a lot of people who feel like they have been aggrieved, and they do a great job of being patient and setting those people straight. Upstairs, we have Veronica Devaney and Jasmine Macias. They're here this evening. Again, doing an incredible job of helping to manage the land development process, intaking applications electronically, making sure everything is correct, corresponding with applicants, setting up meetings. We do not run without them, and so we're incredibly grateful to have them. Some personnel moves over the last year. We had one big promotion in the building side of things. Jake Morrison was promoted to chief residential inspector. He's a rock star, and we hope he sticks with us for a long time to come. Some new hires, Kylan Benapas, the associate engineer, and also Logan Haney, a new staff engineer. Roger Gonzalez was hired as a commercial inspector. Drashti Talwani was a intern with us a year ago. And then we were able to keep her on as a temporary planner, a temporary employee while she was finishing up her graduate studies in May. She got her master's degree from UT. And then we were able to bring her on as a full-time planner last month. So we're really excited to have her and to be able to keep her. And this year, we have a summer intern, Karen Sarkis, who's doing a lot of work in downtown, a lot of data collection, a lot of mapping. And we're going to be able to do some great stuff with the data that she's collecting. Last year's employee of the year was Jorge Scott. He does put up with a lot on the residential permit side of things, but he goes out into the field, does a lot of inspections, has to interact with a lot of angry people, but then a lot of people who are grateful for the information that he can provide to them. And so he's been with us for nine years, coming up on 10 in December. We like to have a little bit of fun and get together in different kinds of ways. Halloween is always a big time for us. We also like to get together to recognize and raise awareness for breast cancer every October. The holiday party is always a lot of fun with different activities that usually don't end up with too many hurt feelings, but not always. And then the 4th of July parade, we always have good representation there. And a quick shout out to our colleagues in the Parks and Recreation Department for putting on an incredible event year after year. They really know what they're doing, and this city is lucky to have them. Let's get into some numbers, not as exciting but still important. Our current population estimate, we're coming up on 143,000. This was actually as of last month, as of June, and I've compared those numbers here going back several years so you can see the differing rates of growth. So over the last year, we've grown by about 2%, which really is average, the long-term average, what you would expect to see, something in the 2% to 3% range. The growth that you see from 2022 through 2025 was a bit of an outlier in terms of the explosive amount of growth that we had in the city. So dropping from 4.8% rate of growth to 2% is not anything that we would be worried about. And that's reflected in our permit volume as well. So over the last year, ending June 30th, we issued 365 permits for new single-family homes, which is just barely more than half of what we issued over the same time period the year prior to that. We issued 136 permits for new town homes, one multifamily permit with 316 units. That's the project going up in the district right now. And our building inspections team completed 20,900 building inspections last year, which is a lot, but again, it was a little bit of a drop off from the year prior just because of the slower permit volume. Some of our performance measures from last calendar year, we had 100 site permit reviews that we completed, which compares with 107 in 2024. 98% of those were completed on time based off of our own internally set deadlines. 16 out of our 18 subdivision permit reviews were also completed on time, but the subdivision permit reviews were down from 34 in 2024. These numbers, when I talk about reviews, these are the submissions from the development community to our office for review. So the drop off from 34 to 18 subdivision permit reviews just reflects slower single family build outs as some of those existing subdivisions are finalizing and a little bit less in the way of utility extensions and things like that. A little over half of our permits were issued in two or fewer review cycles. I say two or fewer full review cycles. That's our internally set goal, but this also depends on the development community, the consultants they have hired, those civil engineers to be able to respond adequately to our review comments and get those back to us so that we can help approve their permits as fast as possible. So we would like to have that number a little bit higher, but we have faced some challenges in some cases with some of the civil engineering firms who aren't exactly the best with their reading comprehension in trying to address our comments and working with us. We had 32 subdivision plot applications, which is a big jump from 2024, and then 20 zoning and putt applications, which was also an increase from 2024. So some development trends that we've been noticing lately, single family is slower, but it's still stable. The home builders are still out there finishing up the subdivisions like in Salerno, University Heights. There's still another phase out there that they've yet to get to. And Milestone Community Builders is still wrapping up in Sal's Ranch East. Missing Middle Residential, that would be your duplexes and townhomes, those areas of dwelling units in between multifamily and single family. We're still seeing some activity there. Multifamily is quite slow because of just the general slowdown. There was a building boom over the last several years that tailed off over the last year or so, and so rents have come down. So it's not economically feasible for many multifamily projects to move forward right now. But a little bit later, I'll talk about some policy changes that we're considering that should help that in Round Rock. Light industrial development is stable. We do have a large light industrial project underway in the north side of town just off of Mays and where the Eagle's Nest connection will soon be occurring. So some more much needed light industrial space will be going in there. And the office market, as we all know, is effectively non-existent as it has been for about the last five or six years. But, you know, hopefully we will see that pick up sometime kind of soon. And data centers, to address this head on, it's just kind of a shrug. So we did approve a zoning several months ago in February for Skybox. We have not received any permits for them to move forward yet. It's my understanding they're still waiting on a commitment of power from Encore before they move forward with design and submittals. And then I think we were all relieved to see that the the state both the governor and the legislature they have put forth some policy ideas and initiatives that they would like to see the legislature address when they're back in session next year so we'll be anxiously awaiting to see what that looks like and how that will shape our policy and how we handle data centers after that moving forward some notable projects that we are having a hand in both in terms of review and then project or case management on the city side as those go through construction so fire station 11 is underway now at the intersection of North A.W. Grimes and University near the Seton Ascension Williamson Hospital. The Public Safety Training Center and the Bob Bennett Building expansion are both underway, and we are helping to administer and inspect those properties. There are lots of Round Rock ISD bond projects that are very slowly getting underway from the last bond election in 2024. Some of those are smaller ones. So the activity going on at CD Folks Middle School and Berkman Elementary School came through our office. But there will be many more expansions to current campuses, including the different high schools. So Stony Point has permit in for review. Cedar Ridge has permits in for review and Round Rock High School as well. There's going to be a lot of activity going on there. over the next coming years as a result of those bond elections. And so we work very closely with the school district to do our best to help keep them on their budget, but also on time as well, because they have very strict calendars they need to work under. And similarly, it's not a large project in terms of square footage, but it'll be an impactful project. And that's the VA Outpatient Clinic. They recently had a groundbreaking up there on University. And so we're working with them on that project as well. We've been working on some, accomplishing some strategic plan goals from this past year. So last October, the downtown mixed use zoning, both changes to some of the zoning districts, as well as changes to those development standards were adopted by you all last October. We completed the non-residential parking requirements revision earlier this year, and we're already seeing some benefits from that. Our friends over at Pixel Palace on South AW Grimes, they were able to add some tables out to a patio or a paved area that they were not able to add before because they didn't have enough parking. Once we addressed that, they've been able to expand to the outside as well. And we've heard from other developments that are benefiting from that too. You'll hear more about the district later this evening, but that one is currently going vertical, making a lot of great progress out there, and then the PUD amendment that will be underway later this evening. The Stockwell PUD amendment was adopted a couple of months ago for our first, the city's first trail-oriented development, so I know we're all excited about what will be going on out there. And then finally, next week, the Planning and Zoning Commission will be considering some policy amendments to the way we handle multifamily development in the city because we need to modify our policies to help meet the market where it currently is. And so going to Planning and Zoning Commission next week, and then we'll be coming forward most likely to City Council next month. This is always one of my favorite parts of these presentations is talking about the compliments that we receive from our customers. Somebody who was one of our customers applying for a sign application was very impressed with Veronica Chandler, our planner, who is in the weeds on these things, on the sign permits, but she does such a great job. And then this next one was from a multifamily developer who last fall we actually had to tell them no. They wanted to change their PUD amendment. We told them our policy didn't really support it. But they were actually very impressed by the way we told them no. And this kind of exemplifies the way we want to operate because it's not just a simple no, try again. It's no and here's why, but we can try and work with you in this way or in that way. And I think that kind of approach to administering the land development process really pays off. So this is kind of a small comic strip. It's one of my favorites, but I think it exemplifies our make it happen philosophy. We try to have a collaborative environment with our customers, not an antagonistic one, even though we might be sitting on opposite sides of the table. We're still trying to pull in the same direction with the same goals. So in conclusion, thank you all very much for your support. the support you show us professionally and personally, and for our planning initiatives that we bring forward to you and some of the problems that we bring forward to you. We just greatly appreciate having you up here and supporting us. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Bradley. Any questions, comments over here on this side? Mayor Protean.

Thank you. I don't have any questions, but I just wanted to convey that I was at the VA outpatient clinic groundbreaking the other day and that a member of the team walked up to me and told me what a great team and Opportunity to work with you guys so they were really grateful and said that you guys were awesome So I wanted to share that with you.

Thank you Anybody else over here? Anybody over here? Councilman Flores

No, I always appreciate the updates and appreciate you and your team because you always have very meaty discussion things. I mean, there's just tons of things and many things to consider and chew on and consider, and they're not very simple. It doesn't seem very complex. But I think I always appreciate how you all work through them and just net it out for us so we can make a good, informed decision. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other comments over here? Yeah, I'll just say thank you to all you and your team. Y'all do a great job. And as Council Member Flores said, one thing I'm always proud about this city is that staff always tries to get to yes, not no. And I think that goes a long way. And I like that comment by the developer. I mean, you know, I mean, we ought to shoot straight and forward with our, you know, with anybody that comes and tries to do business with the city. I will say that the 80s haircuts, man, they were looking good. So I know some of them, some people up here a little too young to know about the 80s. I know them very well. So anyway, congratulations. And yeah, congratulations. And thank all of y'all for what you do. We appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right. Staff presentation is over. Consent agenda. All items listed on the consent agenda are considered to be routined by the city council and be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless requested by a council member. In which event, the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. Anybody have any questions? All right. I'll read the consent. F1, consider approval of the minutes from the June 25, 2026 city council meeting. F2, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with Casco Industries, Inc., for the purchase of public safety and firehouse supplies and equipment. F3, consider a resolution authorizing the merit of executing an agreement with Ingram Library Services, LLC, for the purchase of publications, audiovisual materials, books, textbooks, and ancillary services. F4, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute supplemental agreement number one to the agreement between the City of Round Rock and Smith Pump Company, Inc., for the purchase of water and wastewater pumps, motors, supply, and repair. I entertain a motion to adopt the consent agenda. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega. Second by Council Member Fleming. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Lee. Yes. Council Member Flores. Yes. Council Member Fleming. Yes. Council Member Ortega.

Yes.

Council Member Stephens. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery. Yes. Mayor Morgan.

Yes. G1, consider public testimony regarding any resolution approving the City of Round Rock CDBG 2627 Annual Action Plan and authorizing the Mayor to execute all related applications, certifications, and the subsequent funding approval agreement with HUD.

Joe. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. All right. So this is our CBG action plan. Our CBG budget allocation for the upcoming fiscal year is $641,705, which is a slight decrease of about $30,000 from last year. And according to HUD, the reason for the reduction was caused by other cities and counties finally gaining enough population that they now qualify for CBG funding. So therefore, everybody's allotment goes down a little bit. I'll start with the social services portion. CDBG and General Fund's social service applications are made available to social service agencies online via the city's website. Applications are submitted online and are available from February to March. And a courtesy email is sent to all agencies who have applied in the past. And an ad is posted in the Round Rock Leader as well. Once applications are received, staff review them and conduct a risk analysis using set criteria and performance measures, and then staff proposes the following funding recommendations for your consideration and approval. Staff recommends $30,000 to the Round Rock Area Serving Center for their food pantry program, $30,000 for their rent and mortgage assistance program, $20,000 for the Williamson County, Williamson-Burnett County's Meals on Wheels, and $16,255 for CASA. These funding levels are very similar to the previous year, with the exception of CASA receiving $3,745 less due to the overall grant decrease. This council should also be committed that in addition to using the maximum amount we can, the $96,255, to fund local nonprofits, this council also contributes an additional $250,000 from the general fund, making the city's total contribution $346,255 to our local nonprofits. Projects are limited and must serve low to moderate income areas as designated by the census or individual residents who qualify as low income under federal guidelines. Each year Liz accepts applications from city departments for projects in LMI areas. This year we did not receive any applications from city departments, so staff proposes using the project budget for home repairs and lists two possible alternative projects. the first being a pair of shade structures at Settlement and Greenhill Parks, as well as a sidewalk gap installation downtown. Staff is confident that we can expend these funds on home repair alone, but if either of the two alternative projects need to proceed forward in this funding year, the city manager can authorize them without any amendments needed to the plan. And finally, to help LMI residents find these resources, information is available on our website. Numerous city staff are excellent referral sources, including Liz, our code enforcement team, neighborhood services, our neighborhood leaders, Baca Center, utility billing, our university alumni, and the nonprofits that we collaborate with also refer clients to one another. So with that, I'm going to roll for any questions you may have.

Questions? Questions? All right. This is a public hearing. I'll open up the public hearing. Anybody wish to speak on G1? Seeing none, public hearing is closed. I entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Lee. Any other discussion? And please, public council.

Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Councilmember Ortega?

Yes.

Councilmember Stephens? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery? Yes. Councilmember Lee?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. G2, consider a resolution to authorize the mayor to execute an agreement with Gallagher Benefits Services, Inc. for employee benefits consulting services. Tyler?

Hello, Mayor and City Council members. So our employee benefits consultant is a full-service benefit advisor to the City of Round Rock. They provide strategic, financial, actuarial, compliance, communication, wellness, and administrative support related to our benefits and wellness programs. Just to put into context a few numbers here, our current self-funded health budget is approximately $24.7 million. So our consultant plays a pivotal role in helping us with the planning and management of that budget. And in our employee benefits program, we have approximately 2,400 covered lives. Approximately 1,150 of those are our active full-time employees. And the remainder are our retirees, spouses, and dependent children. Earlier this year, we did issue a request for proposals for our employee benefits consultant agreement vendor, I should say. And through that process, we had 10 professional companies, vendors respond to that proposal. And through that process, the evaluation committee selected Gallagher Benefit Services as our top choice. Gallagher presented the best overall proposal, including cost, and they ended up with the highest rating. So we are requesting that the mayor and the city council approve a five-year agreement with Gallagher Benefit Services. And in doing so, we will save approximately $110,000 over our current agreement that we have with our current benefits consultant. And mayor and council, I would like to recognize the in attendance tonight. From Gallagher Benefit Services, we do have Betty Gwynn. She is a senior area vice president at Gallagher, and she leads their public sector team. And she will be overseeing our account management team should we receive approval to enter an agreement with them. And with that, if you have any questions for me, I'd be happy to answer those. And I'd also like to extend if you have any questions for Betty or would like for Betty to make any remarks.

OK. Any questions for either? All right. I'll entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Stephens. Any other discussion? And please pull the council.

Council Member Fleming. Yes. Council Member Ortega.

Yes.

Council Member Stephens. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery. Yes. Council Member Lee. Yes. Council Member Flores.

Yes.

Mayor Morgan.

Yes. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you for being here tonight. G3, consider a resolution authorizing the city manager to issue a purchase order to SKG Austin for the purchase of furniture and installation services for the Public Safety Training Center Phase 2 project. Corey.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. General Services would like to establish a one-time purchasing agreement with SKG for furniture and install for the Public Safety Training Center project phase two. The cost of this was $310,585, and it's based on an Omni cooperative contract. Just kind of go over what are we doing out there and what's this furniture for. We'll talk about the main buildings getting expanded by about 6,600 square feet. We are adding a new classroom in the back, and that's almost about 5,000 square foot. We're still on track. And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Questions for Corey? Questions? All right. I'm going to tell you, motion to adopt the resolution.

So moved.

Second. Motion made by Council Member Fleming, seconded by Council Member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Councilmember Ortega?

Yes.

Councilmember Stephens? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery? Yes. Councilmember Lee? Yes. Councilmember Flores? Yes. Councilmember Fleming? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. G4, consider a resolution authorizing Mayor to execute an agreement with Cap Fleet Upfitters LLC for the purchase of public safety and firehouse supplies and equipment.

General Services would like to enter in a contract with Cap Fleet Upfitters for upfitting parts and labor for police vehicles, fire units, and may be used for upfitting of our more difficult white fleet, which is other than blue and red. The contract amount will not exceed $1 million, and it's based on a by-board cooperative contract that will expire on 3-29. With that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Any questions? All right. Do you entertain a motion to adopt the resolution? So moved. Second. Second. Motion made by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Lee. Any other discussion? And please fill the council.

Council Member Stephens? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Thank you, Rory. G5, consider a resolution authorizing Mayor Day's group quantity adjustment change order number two with Capital Excavation Company for the Wyoming Springs Drive Segment 1 project.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. This is our Wyoming Springs road extension project. It's well underway, going very well. It's going to extend Wyoming Springs from Creek Bend north to Old Settlers-Sambas Road. It'll be a four-lane divided roadway. We are anticipated to be finished around late August, and it's going very well. This is a change order quantity adjustment of $94,000. As you're on Harriman and you go under a bridge right here, we have columns very close. We're going to add some additional guardrail. We have some barricades that are also included because of the extended time with this project. We are adding some water taps for some irrigation along Wyoming Springs and just some ancillary items to true up the quantity adjustment and change order. Capital is doing a very good job. Mayor Pro Tem, you asked me on Tuesday about the speed limit. Harriman Road is 35 miles an hour as it goes underneath there. On the Wyoming Springs, we will not sign it. Once it's open, we'll see what the traffic volumes are doing. And then we look at that 85th percentile, and then we'll set the speed limit for Wyoming Springs at that time. I recommend approval of this contract. One other thing, just a few things that they need to finish. They need to complete the two signals on both ends here, some additional landscaping, and then some final fencing. And then once that's all finished, plus these items, we'll be ready to go. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Questions? Questions? I entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Fleming. Any other discussion? And please vote for council.

Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Council Member Stephens? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. G6, consider a resolution authorizing Mary Dixie Supplemental Contract Number 6 with Fries and Nichols, Inc., for the Chisholm Trail South Improvements O-Town Project.

Michael? We are doing some improvements to Chisholm Trail, as you see here. They will go from Sandbass Road all the way to 620. Currently, we have a project that's doing some improvements along Chisholm Trail, redoing the road, the sidewalks, all the utilities for that project that takes us a little bit past Sunset Drive right here. That project, we're slated to be finished sometime in October, and we do apologize to all the businesses along there. I know that they've been putting up with a lot, but it'll be a great improvement once we're finished. Before you is a $221,000 supplemental with Friesenichols to do some additional work along the creek here. We're going to extend the culverts in Brushy Creek, and we're going to add a sidewalk on the west side of Chisholm so that you can walk at the surface of the road and cross from north to south. There's also that bridge that's on the east side, but this will be at the ground level at the road level. This is an engineering contract to do that work because we're in the creek and in waters of the state and all that. We'll have to deal with FEMA as we go through that process. The plan is to get the work designed and to hold off on going out to bed until after the holidays, after the first of the year, so that we do not impact this road anymore during the holiday season. Once that happens, we'll do the work in the spring and summer and get finished. And then we'll make sure we work our plan with road closures or whatever. We'll probably keep a lane open just to keep that traffic going through there. It may take a little bit longer to do the project, but we'll do that. We will bid this project in the spring, and then I'll come back with a contract for y'all to approve at that time. Be happy to answer any questions. Oh, and Liz Grindstaff is here with Fraser Nichols representing them. So be happy to answer any questions.

Any questions? Yeah. Council Member Stevens.

Michael, I know you said FEMA is going to be involved, but because Brushy Creek is right there, do you need anything from TCEQ?

Not with TCQ. We'll obviously do our erosion controls and all that.

Okay.

Because we're working in the floodplain, floodway, that's why we will go through FEMA.

Okay. Nothing because it's going over Brushy Creek or anything?

No.

Okay. Okay. Thank you.

And then my comment from Tuesday morning, if I'm looking at this, it's going to be down by the creek. And most of the businesses are north and up, right? Correct. Yeah. So I guess it won't be as big of an issue if you have to close both lanes right in that area, because they can still get in. And I mean, right now, it's just a lot of things going on.

Yeah.

OK. All right. I'll entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. So moved. Second. Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Stephens. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Lee. Yes. Council Member Flores.

Yes.

Council Member Fleming. Yes. Council Member Ortega.

Yes.

Council Member Stephens. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery. Yes. Mayor Morgan.

Yes. Thank you for being here. G7, consider resolution authorizing Mayor to execute the second amendment to the amended and restated wholesale water supply and wastewater collection treatment agreement with R&R Mobile Joint Venture.

This is Blessing Mobile Home Park. We're on the west side of town, accountability 172. La Frontera is just up the hill here. McNeil Road is going right there. In the year 2000, we entered into a water wastewater service agreement with Blessing Mobile Home Park. It is not in the city limits. They had 230 service units at that time. In 2019, they wanted to add one more service unit to connect for water and wastewater. We approved that in 2019. They've just now asked us for three additional service units for water and wastewater. So that gives them a total of 234 if we approve this tonight. It does not have an impact on our water and wastewater system. We can handle those additional service units. They will pay impact fees for both water and wastewater. water at two wholesale meters and then blessing mobile home park does their own metering within the within their complex and like i said they're not in the city limits so recommend approval of amending their contract to add the three additional service units be happy to answer any questions questions councilman florida's hey michael on that agreement does that stay with the land or is that with the owner it's with the There's a single property owner for this entire property. They rent space for everybody. So the agreement stays with the property. It may state in there that it's non-transferable. I'm not sure. Do you know, Stephanie, between the property owners if it changes?

I don't. But generally, our wholesale ones are just with the one specific entity.

OK, so if he sells it.

It almost would have to be renegotiated, right? Correct.

OK. All right, just hear it. Thank you.

Any other questions? Any time motion to stop the resolution? So moved. Second. Motion made by Council Member Ortega, second by Council Member Flores. Any other discussion? And please, public counsel.

Council Member Flores.

Yes.

Council Member Fleming. Yes. Council Member Ortega.

Yes.

Council Member Stephens. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery. Yes. Council Member Lee. Yes. Mayor Morgan.

Yes. G8, consider and take action on a resolution of the City of, Council of the City of Round Rock, Texas, regarding financing of Williamson County Regional Raw Water Line, authorizing the Mayor, City Manager, and City Clerk to take appropriate actions and declaring an effective date.

This item is related to our Lake Stillhouse pump station. So right now, there's three entities, City of Round Rock, City of Georgetown, Brushy Creek Mud, that own the infrastructure at Lake Stillhouse. That's a pump station and the pipeline that goes 28 miles all the way to Lake Georgetown. So this item before you is Brazos River Authority operates and maintains that pump station at Lake Stillhouse. The three entities own all of the infrastructure. So we're at a point now where we need an expansion of that pump station by adding another pump. There will also be some additional line work and replacing some of the older pumps. So that total project, BRA is asking the three entities to approve going out and issuing debt. And the three entities will make that annual payment to the BRA. Round Rock is 28% owners of that infrastructure. at Lake Stillhouse. So any cost of building, any repair work, we will always pay 28% of that amount. We are trying to use as much water as we can out of Stillhouse and Lake Georgetown first, because that's a take or pay contract. So we're pumping pretty much a lot of water there. And then the Lake Travis water is 50% you pay for, then you pay the other 50% when you take it. So we're always going to be using this water to the maximum each year because we pay for it at the beginning of the year, whether you use it or not. But the item before you is just to authorize approval of BRA going out and issuing debt. They have a AA. Plus bond rating for this this total project is around 70 million dollars And we would pay 28% of that number of when it's all said and done and that's figured into our rates and our rate model We plan for this be happy to answer any questions questions Until most up the resolution so move second motion made by councillor take a second by councillor Lee any other discussion I

And please, public council.

Council Member Fleming. Yes. Council Member Ortega.

Yes.

Council Member Stephens. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery. Yes. Council Member Lee. Yes. Council Member Flores. Yes. Mayor Morgan.

Yes. G9, it's a resolution authorizing Mayor to execute a contract for engineering services with CDM Smith, Inc. for the 2027 Water and Wastewater Master Plan Update Project.

One of the things our utility has done for many years is have a water master plan and a wastewater master plan that's really outlined the footprint of our infrastructure. It's helped us. We look at land use assumptions. We look at population growth. And the master plans tell us what infrastructure we need in our system to meet that full build out. Every three years, we update these plans. Because with all the growth we've had over the years, it makes us check ourselves and make sure we stay ahead of the plan. We've also added the reuse system as part of this whole master plan as well so that we're always building infrastructure where we think we need it. CDM Smith has participated in many of our master plans in the past. Many times we've had one firm do a water master plan and a different firm do a wastewater master plan. And it gets kind of complicated because we have population projections and land use. So we decided this year to go with one firm to do them both at the same time. So we would like to do that this time. This is $547,000. It'll take about nine months to complete it. Once we are finished with our master plans, that lays out our next 10-year CIP. And then we update our impact fees accordingly so that they're set where they need to be. Zach Sperry is here representing CDM Smith in the back. And I recommend approval of this contract. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.

Questions? I'm going to tell you a motion to adopt the resolution.

So moved. Second.

Motion made by Council Member Stevens, seconded by Council Member Fleming. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

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

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Thank you for being here, Zach. H1, consider public testimony regarding and an ordinance approving Amendment No. 5 to the Plan Unit Development No. 129 of the District to allow for modifications to maximum building setbacks and parking and development standards. Generally located south of Lewis-Henna Boulevard and northwest of Greenlawn Boulevard, First Street.

Item H1 is a major amendment to the district PUD, PUD number 129. As you can see from this aerial, I think this might have been the one from May or maybe even earlier from that. The infrastructure is well underway here. I think probably over 90% done. So this might be a little bit older than that because most of those roads are paved now. And then right here is where the first phase multifamily is currently being constructed. All in all, the property is 65 and 1 half acres, and the PUD amendment generally applies to the entirety of it. PUD was originally approved in June of 2021. We've processed three minor amendments and also one major amendment that came back through city council for approval previously. Amendment number five was a request by the developer that would exceed what could be approved administratively by city staff, which is why it needs to go back through the public hearing process. The Round Rock 2030 Future Land Use Map designates this whole area in general, so not just the district area, but also the Boardwalk Shopping Center La Frontera as mixed use. And mixed use is still the development proposal here, high density mixed use at that, to be specific. So this is keeping with the Round Rock 2030 future land use map. We've got two exhibits right here, one showing what is the previous, or I guess the current, still in effect. PUD layout or just a general layout envisioning urban-style development with mixed-use buildings, more density fronting Greenlawn Boulevard. But then the PUD amendment is to propose some changes to that predominantly along Greenlawn Boulevard, along the eastern part of the property here, reducing the density a little bit, but really providing for some surface parking that is needed to help attract tenants here to the retail area and then to the food and beverage plaza right here. There will still be multiple parking garages throughout the development as a whole. So while some of these changes to setbacks that are proposed in the PUD amendment apply to the entirety of the property, really what we're looking at right now is the biggest change to a long green lawn drive over here. And a lot of that is due to changing market conditions. As we all know, it's prohibitively expensive right now to build structured parking. And so to help attract some of those tenants, they need some of the visibility in addition to the surface parking along green lawn. So that is the basis for the request from the developer. Here's an exhibit showing the maximum proposed setbacks. There is a 25-foot setback along Lewis Henna Boulevard that is unchanged from what is currently allowed, so nothing is changing on that one. The big change is along Green Lawn Boulevard, where there used to be a build two line or a maximum setback there, but that is being abolished to allow some of those buildings to be set back more internal to the development with the placement of surface parking in front here. And then there's an increase in the maximum building setback on all these other internal streets with the orange lines from 10 feet to 15 feet. So because of the change along Greenlawn Boulevard with buildings being pushed a little further into the property and then surface parking in front, staff worked with the developer and we thank the developer for their patience and their open-mindedness working with us on some of the building design standards as well as some parking screening standards to help create a unified design theme when it comes to buffering or screening some of those surface parking lots from Greenlawn while still maintaining sight lines into the property so that you can see the buildings, the restaurants, the retail that will be located here. And they also worked with us on these building design standards. So a lot of these restaurants, the ones that you can see from Greenlawn, will be internally facing to a pedestrian paseo, necessitating essentially that this is the rear of the building and the service yard of the buildings. And so we were able to establish some design standards to help ensure that It's just not expansive spaces of blank walls that are facing the street. The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the PUD amendment last month. We didn't have any speakers at the public hearing. Staff recommends approval, and Randall Toler with Mark IV Capital is here. He'll be able to answer any questions you have on the developer side, but he also has his own presentation to follow mine. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Questions? OK.

Good evening, Mayor, Council. Pleasure seeing you all. So thanks. Really appreciate that. I can second the other developer. The entire staff here at the city is just absolutely terrific to work with. So we really appreciate the entire relationship. These various amendments you see is really just us trying to keep up and stay ahead of the market, respond to market needs, to tenant needs, and so on. And so we really are working hard to truly create this special place that we've all been shooting for here in terms of this place making a true village here. And I thought I'd just take a moment to kind of walk you through a little bit of an update on where we are just overall at the project. Certainly can then get into whatever questions you may have. So I'll just kind of flip through this. This is really just kind of what we're envisioning here at completion. Some of these buildings are designed. This is the project that's currently under construction origin at the district, which is the 316-unit multifamily project. with retail along District Way here, which is really the main street. This area here, and I'll get into this more, is really a village of six freestanding, single-story restaurant buildings. Could be some other retail in there, not just restaurants. This is that 100 Marshall office building that's still designed, and we're working on some leasing there. I got a few other things on the office side. This is really a placeholder here for a hotel and then additional office and multifamily. So again, just really kind of updating on where this is going here. I don't know. Let's see. Start off with the infrastructure update. We're basically 90, a little bit more than 90% complete on the infrastructure. Again, the partnership with the city on that agreement is thank you very much. Basically, all the underground utilities are complete. Pretty much all the paving is complete. We're working on landscaping and streetlights. It really just finishes at this point. We do have some off-site work. along Lewis Henna. We're working with Atmos and Encore. We're actually burying the power lines along Lewis Henna, working with Encore on that. And so some of those things are still moving along while we're under construction on the multifamily project here. And this is where that series of restaurant buildings will be located here. This is a bit of a sort of a little more zeroed in here. This is at Main Street or District Way right through the heart of the project. I put this picture in here really just to illustrate where We spent some extra money to install what are actually cobblestone pavers to really kind of give it that old world feel. It doesn't really show up in the picture, but it's a really sort of a rough type of a cobblestone paver. And it's really turned out really well. And then we've worked with City. We've got custom manhole covers that are shown there. So that's pretty cool. We're pretty happy about that. And that's obviously Round Rock on there. And then that's one of our logos for the district. This is the latest master plan. Again, this is the project that's under construction. We're going to be breaking ground on these restaurant buildings here. We kind of refer to it as the F&B Plaza or the Marshall Circle Retail. It's really not a separate name. It's just a way of describing internally how we're referring to that. So when you see F&B Plaza, it won't be named that. That's just, again, how we're describing that. This site here is currently under contract to a national specialty grocer and so that is a part of our PUD amendment is really a function of how That store is wanting to be laid out and their parking, but that's going to be in this location and We've got some other things cooking here that I'll get into here in a moment whoops wrong way So this is our phase one Again, same plan, just kind of highlighting origin at the district, retail along, retail here, and then the national grocer. Here's a rendering of origin at the district. Thank you, Mayor, for speaking at our groundbreaking. 316 units. There has been talk of, and it's actually part of the PUD amendment, about these surface lots. We really view these surface lots as sort of interim As the project densifies, we'll be filling back in with garages. This project specifically does have a parking garage. This wraps a seven-story parking garage. And so there's actually 527 parking spaces in this garage. About 100 of those are dedicated for retail. We broke ground on this in March, as you know, and that's progressing quite nicely. This kind of shows this restaurant village, one of the renderings here of a smaller building that we'll end up having a gelato shop here, I believe, working on a lease right now. And this kind of shows how these buildings face inward to create this sort of sense of place You can see throughout here the landscaping. This is actually rendered how we're going to build it. It was really inspired by, I'm sure you all have gone hiking on our green belts here in the Austin area. So it's really inspired by these green belts. I wanted to make this feel like you're having dinner at a restaurant on the Greenbelt or one of the Greenbelts rather than having dinner at a restaurant on some plaza that's really sort of astroturf and kind of not well done. So it's really trying to capture that natural element. And I think this does a good job of showing this. This is actually walking up. Green Lawn is behind me right here. This is walking up from that parking. And you can see, we kind of wanted you to feel like you're really kind of walking up the Greenbelt Trail here. And this will actually have essentially a creek. We have to construct it, but there'll be a water feature where we'll have sort of a bubbling creek coming down. It'll go underground and then come back up again. So these nice little surprise that kind of give you that natural feel. And then that water will just circulate. Again, some additional renderings of how this is all going to lay out here in terms of that greenbelt feel with these restaurant buildings. Again, the point is they're turned inward to create that, really contain both sides and have that really special feeling in terms of the setting, driving the aesthetic across the project is something that we're really shooting for. Behind me here is the multifamily that I described. Now I'm looking back into the pedestrian entrance, into that paseo, if you will, and how those buildings turn inward. And then that's just a bit of an aerial view again. Behind me is the multifamily. I'm looking back towards Greenlawn back here. And then just our retail layout in terms of This is what's under construction. This will be under construction soon. This is just a placeholder here for additional multifamily and hotel. This is showing our phase two, which is we're currently designing a 100,000 square foot office building in this area. We do have about 90,000 square feet of tenants that are very interested in leasing. Our 200,000-foot building up here is a little big to accommodate those, so we're currently designing a building that we can get those tenants in. And then we're contemplating an entertainment-oriented use here. I'm not sure what that's going to be, but really more of maybe even a music venue or some sort of an operation that provides a little bit more entertainment, not just restaurant or retail. We currently have a signed term sheet. We're negotiating an agreement here for a hotel. It will be an up or up scale, about 175-room hotel with a pretty heavy F&B operation, pool, wellness, so on. And then while we design this, we're going to start design of our second phase of multifamily. We really want to get this under construction all at the same time. And then you can see interim will have a surface parking here. But over time, that will then fill in with additional multifamily and parking. I'd also like to point out that even though we have these surface lots here along Greenlawn, we've sized these where ultimately a parking garage will fit right in here. And then another 100,000 square foot office building will fit right in here. And so then we will be structured parking and office here. So as the project, we go through time, it'll densify and fill in from not just across the project, but also vertically. This is just a bit of a direction of where this hotel design will go. This is not anything that's under design, just to kind of demonstrate. But again, the hotel will be in this area. And you can see a moment ago, I had surface parking in this area. Well, again, over time, that will then fill in with more multifamily as we go through the project. These buildings up here are going to be larger office buildings. In the office market here in Round Rock, it's pretty tight here. We're about 95% leased in this sub-market. The larger tenants, the 100,000 footers and the 200,000 footers, typically are migrating that are in the market downtown, or everybody's excited about the domain, domain, domain, domain. And so once we get... these amenities, the grocer, the multifamily, the hotel. This is going to flip to, wait, why look at just the domain? Let's go to the district. Let's go to Round Rock. And so it's really kind of building that project in a way where we can start attracting these larger users and start bringing in these 100, and 200, and 300,000 square foot office tenants is really the thesis there. This is that. Building 100 Marshall right at the main entrance, it's designed, permitted, ready to go. But again, it's a bit of a larger building right now for this market. So that's why we're pivoting to that smaller building for the first office. And again, this was already covered in the presentation a few minutes ago, just changing the setbacks here to accommodate the latest needs from the marketplace. This is really just a representation of what some screening would look like. We're very sensitive about really one of the big challenges in a project like this is, you know, you really don't have a back of a building. You're really viewing everything from all sides. And so we're really trying to pay attention to every side of the building. But you do have back of house. You do have trash. You do have all this other stuff. So we're going to be implementing, and we put it in there, some pretty, I think, pretty robust screening so we can make sure that we really have a really elevated experience no matter where you are on the project. And that's what I got for you. Any questions?

Any questions? Council Member Flores.

Thank you for the update, Randall. I was curious in all the different multifamily possibilities that you show, are you directing those at different folks, meaning one is senior, one is young, one is higher price, more elaborate versus...

So we're really just coming into the Class A elevated end of the market. Really no age restrictions, no income restrictions. This is especially the first building that we're building is really a unique project for this sub-market for the city. It's seven stories. It is a much costlier project to do that type of project rather than a four or three story. surface parked. And so the rents that we're shooting for and we're going to get are really going to have to speak to that demographic that can come in here. But there is an unmet demand for that. Obviously, we all know what's across the freeway. There's a tremendous employee base. There's very high income here in Round Rock. And so it's really attracting you know, that young professional. And I think the unit count speaks to that. We don't have any three bedrooms, so it's studios, ones, and twos. And so it's really shooting for that demographic.

Thank you.

Any other questions, comments?

All right. Thank you, Randall. Appreciate it. Thank you very much.

All right. This is a public hearing, so I will open up the public hearing. Anybody wish to speak? Seeing none, public hearing is closed. I entertain a motion to adopt the ordinance. So moved. Second. Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Stephens. Any other discussion? And please vote for council.

Council Member Stephens. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery. Yes. Council Member Lee. Yes. Council Member Flores.

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. I'm going to tell you a motion to dispense with the second reading. So moved. Second. Motion made by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Council Member Stephens? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. All right.

Council comments regarding items of community interest council member Lee Good night brown dot counselor floors I wanted to thank everybody that came out over the weekend for the July 4th festivities and Certainly one of my hats off to the park and recreation for taking the lead on that But I know there's every other department involved with it as well But when I heard some of the numbers of people that were there in the park and watching the parade, it's crazy but I think that in the fort and Christmas festivities are our two biggest parties at the city host each year for Central Texas, and I think everybody always comes out and knows it knows that we always do a good job, but thanks to everybody and it was good night roundup Councilman for let me good night roundup That's where we're taking.

Yeah, I like to echo that as well understand the parade was longer, but there was a lot and a lot of people. And the event at the park was amazing. I tried to leave early, but the fireworks were right there in front of me, ended up staying. But when I did leave, there were more people than I imagined. Great work, Parks and Rec. Good night, Romrock.

Council Member Stephens.

Yeah, I'll just echo the positive feedback and comments on all of the 4th of July festivities. Shout out to all the float winners. And then also a special thank you to our assistant, Tara, who faithfully ran along beside us and helped distribute all the candy that we missed getting to the crowds that were there. So thank you so much. Your work is not going unseen. We really appreciate everything that you do. So good night, Round Rock.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Kudos to Tara as well. And I concur with everything that Council Member Stevens said. So good night, Round Rock.

And I've got numbers here that we had 19,000 in the parade. And 36,000 were in the park, not to mention all the other stuff along the way and all that. So I will echo everything that everybody said. And Tara, as always, thank you for helping us and keeping us all on track. All right. With that, we stand adjourned.