City Council - Packet - briefing

Call seventh of your packet. Briefing order. And please call the roll.

Mayor Morgan.

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Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery.

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Council Member Lee.

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

Here. Citizen communication. Anybody wishing to speak? Seeing none. Staff briefings, D1, consider staff briefings and council member discussion and or questions regarding items on the agenda for the July 23, 2026 city council meeting. All right. We have a presentation by the communications department. Anything on the consent? All right. Resolutions, consider resolution approving the action of the Round Rock Transportation Economic Development Board. Kevin.

Good morning. Good morning. Thursday afternoon at the meeting of the Round Rock Transportation Economy Corporation, where Type B board staff will be presenting both the proposed fiscal year 2027 budget item, as well as the revised five-year allocation plan. The five-year allocation plan is attached to this agenda item before in the packet this morning. This covers fiscal year 2027 to fiscal year 2031. Sorry, it's hard to believe we're seeing 30s. This five-year allocation plan is $349.4 million, includes $328.7 million for transportation projects, $14.6 million for economy-owned projects, and $6.2 million for parks and recreation projects. As a reminder, the revenues for the Round Rock Transportation and Economic Development Corporation come in the form of a half-cent local sales tax. So that funds a fire allocation plan as well as some contributions from Williamson County and Campo for some of those transportation projects. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Questions? Questions? All right. Thank you. G2, consider a resolution with quantity adjustment change order with Braun and Butler.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Good morning.

We got a deductive change order with Brown and Butler Construction for the Griffith remodel in Paseo. Essentially, this is going to close it out. It's for $59,852.22. It's essentially contractor contingency and owner contingencies. That's what we're getting back. So I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Questions? Council Member Stephens.

So just to clarify, they're not giving us money back, right? It's just less money that we have to pay them?

There is a contractor contingency that is coming back.

There's both.

But about $10,000, and then the other is remaining on owner contingency.

Thank you.

Any other questions? All right. G3, consider resolution authorizing rate to execute supplement agreement number two with Park, Schill, Smith, and Cooper.

Good morning, Mayor and Council.

Good morning.

This supplemental agreement's in the amount of $522,133, and this is with Park Hill. Park Hill was formerly SRA. We started with them a contract back in 2014 for the Heritage Trail project. We went through a lot of things with that project. Land acquisition was one of the big things. And then engineering services was another big thing. If you remember, we got a significant grant from TxDOT in the amount of $6.3 million. So we had to go back through several submissions with TxDOT because of their changes. And over that 11 and 1 half years, Park Hill has never asked for an increase. But now we're trying to get them to today's rate as we go into the construction, we hope, by the end of this year. With that, I'd be happy to answer any other questions if you have them.

Questions? Questions? All right. G4, consider a resolution authorizing mayor to execute a project. Thank you, Rick. Consulting services with WSP USA, Inc. Good morning, mayor and council. Morning.

This is part of our street maintenance program. We are on some streets here at Turtle Creek. You have AW Grimes running north-south, and there's Logan Street. We did an assessment of all the streets in the city. We drove them. And about 90% of our streets are in good or satisfactory condition. There's about 10% that we're looking at and doing some special things. Right here, we have a lot of, we call them fat clays. They shrink and swell when they get wet and dry, which causes your subgrade and your pavement to move. The streets that were in question here are the four, Prairie Rock, King Cotton, and these other two here. We would like to hire an engineering firm. It's about $158,000 to do an assessment of these streets. We're going to do some geotechnical borings. We're going to go down about 10 feet. It's going to go through the pavement, through the subgrade to measure the PI of the soils, and then come back with a recommendation for not only the pavement, but for the curb and gutter there. This is in some of these street maintenance program we're not doing. It's part of just a mill and overlay. We did it with Smyers last time and County Road 122. We want to look at these as well. We've seen some really rough conditions out there. So I recommend approval of this engineering contract with WSP to evaluate the street conditions. Questions? Mayor Pro Tem.

Michael, will there be any disruption to traffic while this evaluation is going on?

Obviously, when we get in the streets and do some drilling, there'll be a little bit, but we'll have cones and we'll work with them. When we get into the actual construction work, part of the scope is to meet with the HOA out there and coordinate. So we'll make sure, because it's residential, we'll make sure everybody has access to their property.

Any more questions over here?

Questions?

G5, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement for pass-through water and wastewater with Vista Oaks.

These next three items are related, but I'll talk about them individually. G5, we are on the northwest side of Round Rock. This is the Vistos Mud subdivision. The gardens at Mayfield is in purple. That is a city of Round Rock subdivision. So in order to provide wastewater service for this subdivision, we take the wastewater that goes through this little green line here. And it dumps into this interceptor that runs through Vistokes Mud. That is a Vistokes Mud-owned interceptor that makes its way to a lift station right here. And then we pump it back in this red line, which is owned by the city. So it's very complicated out there. So basically, what I'm saying is we have to have a pass-through agreement through the Vistokes Mud property and to use their lift station. So it's $3.75 per month times the number of homes there, which is Let me see. 135 homes. So we pay that monthly. It's $6,000 for the entire year to use the Vistos mud lift station to pump the wastewater from a city subdivision back into our system. So that's what this first agreement is for with that one. You want me to go to the next two?

Yeah, let's go ahead and do the next two. G6.

I got them backwards. G6 is for the gardens. G5 was for the park. There's the Southwest Regional Park that Williams County owns. Same deal. There's 52 LUEs allocated to that park. The park is up here. Waste water comes down, and then it ties in at the same location. So it's the same concept. On this one, the county pays for the use of the lift station. So they pay 52 LUEs times $3.75 a month for the entire year. The first one, the purple, which is gardens, is City of Round Rock subdivision, and Round Rock pays that. So two pass-through agreements to go through Vistokes mud. And then the third agreement is for us to provide water wastewater service to the park. Since they're out of the city, we provide water wastewater service. Their agreement has expired. We do treat them. We do provide retail rates to them since they're Williamson County Park that citizens get to enjoy. So we provide water. It comes down this direction here. It comes up 175. And then we provide water right here and then the wastewater here. So we do the billing to the county for that. That's a new agreement that we're entering into. It's for 20 years. And that's the three items that are all kind of related. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

All right. Any questions on any of those items?

Questions?

I have one, and I think I know the answer. But are they, is the county, you know, I've been at that park in years. I mean, are they watering the fields and all that with?

They do have one.

I mean, is it potable water? I mean, I'm assuming we don't have any reuse to get up there or?

No, sir. They do have a groundwater well that they use for irrigation. Oh, OK. Most of the political water that we provide is for the restrooms and things like that. But there is no reuse opportunities right now in this area. All right.

Any other questions? Council Member Flores.

Just to follow up on the mayor's question. So are there any other reuse lines in the area? Or is it Round Rock the only one that runs Purple Pipe? Oh, other cities you're talking about? Other cities, yeah.

Yeah, like Cedar Park has a golf course that they use reuse water in. I know Georgetown has a few. I don't think anybody around here has the system that we are building, the size of it. San Antonio has a very good system. They have a loop around the whole city for reuse water, which is hopefully, that's where we're heading. We're trying to, as we've talked about, keep expanding our system. Thank you.

Any other questions? All right. Thank you, Michael. G8, set a resolution authorizing the submit over grant application for 2026, section 5307 funds.

Good morning, Mayor and Council. Good morning. On Thursday, I'll plan to give a brief transit update. We try and do that once a year in association with some of these items that will cover kind of the ridership stats and those kind of things. But for the purposes of this morning, this is our annual grant program through FTA for our 5307 funds. Those are formula allocated. We're a direct recipient of those funds through Capital Metro. And so we'd have to do this application process every year It's pretty routine for us and happy to answer any questions questions on g8 Councilman floors, so so Thursday.

You will kind of review high overview of the ridership and Yes, sir, what it looks like okay great.

Thank you Your questions G-9, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a fourth amendment to the interlocal agreement with Cap Metro.

Mayor and Council, the interlocal agreement is the agreement we have with Cap Metro to provide our service. Over the past several years, we've done it annually, year to year. After last year, when we found that the rate increased substantially, we tried to negotiate with Capital Metro to get a two-year agreement this time, which will take us to the end of our current MOD contract. So we'll be looking at the service with the Transportation Master Plan to see if we want to bid the whole thing out as a package. and have the other providers look at our service as well. But this will take us to that point. Happy to answer any questions. Questions?

G10, consider resolution authorized to execute a memorandum of understanding with CapMetro.

So whereas the ILA is Capital Metro providing our service, the MOU is our designation as a direct recipient. So as the designated recipient, all these great federal terms, designated recipient is Capital Metro. We're a direct recipient of the federal funds. We have to have this MOU in place to continue that with Capital Metro. Happy to answer any questions.

Questions? Questions? All right. H1, consider an ordinance designating the intersection of East New Hope Drive and Mayfield Ranch Boulevard as an all-way stop.

Mayor and Council, this intersection, New Hope, is a future arterial on our master plan. Mayfield is a high-used residential collector. After looking at this intersection, the traffic volumes and the traffic conditions justify a four-way stop at this location. So we're planning to install one after it's approved. So I'd be happy to answer any questions.

CHRISTIE WOODARD- Questions? Council member Flores.

So that portion of New Hope, is that city of Round Rock Road right there?

Yes. We own basically the entire intersection except for that north leg at basically where the crosswalk would be behind the crosswalk is where the city limits line is. I think... Do I have another picture here? No, that's the only picture that's there. But you can kind of see it on this line here. The little orange is our city limits. So once you get beyond that line, which is just north of the intersection, it's county and mud property. We have coordinated with the county. They are agreeable to the multi-way stop.

And so our ownership just goes, I guess, what? West until when? Until 175? Is that where it ends? I'm just curious because New Hope runs a long way. I was just surprised it was ours first of all.

Yeah, it's a weird alignment with the different pockets over there. And that's one of the reasons I kept the city limits on the map here so you can kind of see it. The 175 is roughly the termination point of our right-of-way. Although we seem to own the other corner on the intersection.

Thank you.

Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Anything else for the good? All right. We stand adjourned.