City Council - Packet - Regular Meeting

Good evening tonight. Whoa, man. New speakers. Tonight's invocation will be given by Round Rock PD Chaplain Stephanie Miller. Chaplain, thank you for being here. Thank you for what you do.

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we gather today with gratitude for the opportunity to serve our community. We ask for your wisdom to guide the members of this council as they consider the decisions before them. Grant them discernment to see what is just, courage to do what is right, and humility to listen with respect to one another and those they represent. Bless the residents of Round Rock, our first responders, public servants, educators, business owners, volunteers, and all who work each day to make this community stronger, safer, and more welcoming. Help us remember that even when opinions differ, we share a common purpose to promote the well-being of our neighbors and to leave this community better for future generations. May all our discussions be marked by integrity, civility, and a sincere desire to serve the common good. We ask for your protection over our city and for peace in our homes, wisdom in our leadership, and hope for our future. In your holy name we pray, amen.

Amen. Thank you. I'll call the 6 o'clock meeting to order. Ann, 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 with me for the pledges, if you're able.

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one indivisible.

All right, citizen communication. Any citizen wish to speak during citizen communication regarding 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 Length per Section 2-26B-5 of the Round Rock Code of Ordinances, 2018 edition. Any comments regarding items not on the posted agenda may not be discussed or respond to by the city council per state law. I have two that's going to speak during public comments, and then we have a third that'll speak on item I-1. Is it Shagufta Elam? Elam. Elam. Sorry about that. Just come up, state your name and address for the record. Good seeing you.

Good seeing you, too. So good evening, Mayor Morgan, city council members, and city manager Brooke Bennett. I'm Shagufti Alam, local resident, educator, historical preservation commissioner. Thank you for your continued support for our historical preservation commission work. I'm here tonight to share the outcomes from our attendance at the National Alliance of Preservation Commission Forum 2026, which I attended with Kirsten Harding, our planner from Planning and Development Services Department. We deeply appreciate the city's investment, along with the Texas Historical Commission grant. We want to emphasize the value of attending this forum was for our community. As a commissioner, we make decisions that directly affect local property rights, housing, economic development. This forum is the only national venue providing specialized legal regulatory training specifically for local boards. Through the intensive sessions, we gain vital tools in major areas, essential knowledge and skill standards of state guidelines, guidelines for design review, meeting procedures, community engagement, and public support. This was demonstrated by a variety of preservation strategies, including tax incentives, bond issues, public-private partnerships, donations, and private investments. Many of the sessions dealt with problem preventions. We received update training on recent land use cases and law, such as the transformation of Minneapolis' most iconic riverfront location, St. Anthony's Falls. Another is a smart growth. We learned concrete strategies from peer cities on how to balance historical preservation with affordable housing commercial growth. This allows us to protect our city's unique character without stalling economic progress. And I thank you for allowing us to attend.

Thank you for representing us.

You're welcome.

All righty. Mitchell Snyder.

If I'm too loud on here, just give me a wink. I know you can't respond, but it's hard just hearing if I'm yelling at the mic. You're good. OK, perfect. Real quick, can I drop this note to the clerk? Sure. I guess I wanted to talk about character. I talked about the 7.30 a.m. meeting y'all had. It was a lot less people. It was a lot less intimidating. And just to say all you people are better than me. I'm not anything. I'm a nobody. But I appreciate the respect and the customer service and the care that Round Rock staff has shown me. I won't name any names. I won't point no fingers. But there's some amazing people here. Round Rock is an amazing city, municipality. I see a lot of great leadership. And if I did have a problem, I can see that the problem is being solved and being solved to the best of the ability. And so just real quick, I want to talk about character. Once upon a time, there was a guy named Archimedes. in Greek somewhere, and he tried to figure out what's gold. So if you see this pen right here, it might look like gold, but it's actually fake. But you could determine that using volume. So you could look at density is equal to mass over volume. So if you have a scale, a triple beam scale, for instance, you can put that scale, and then you can just place water, and you can figure out that this is not gold. It's just fake. It looks like gold, but it's just a cheap pen I stole from somebody. And so that's that story. Secondly, I want to talk about chemistry. And with chemistry, it applies to everything. I hate when people start bringing the Bible into, not you, Chaplain, but I hate when people start bringing the Bible where, you know, other people don't want to hear it. But in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And that is the most profound statement that I've ever heard. If you've got a better one, I'd love to hear it. But in the beginning, that supposes that there was a beginning to this universe, to this existence that we have. God, the supreme ruler, the supreme creator, the majestic Elohim created the heavens and the earth. And with the earth, we can actually manufacture earth. People think alchemy is kind of stupid. I thought alchemy was kind of stupid. Like, how are you going to make gold? Well, gold was already made somehow. The stars made it. The stars did that. But also, there's a better gold out there. There is a better class of gold. It's better than 24-karat gold. It's the kind that thieves cannot steal and the government can't tax it. It's the gold inside of your heart.

Thank you. All right. Anybody else wish to speak? Proclamations. E1, consider proclaiming August 2026 as Children's Vision and Learning Month in the city of Round Rock. Come on up, Doctor. Whereas children across the state of Texas prepare for the start of another school year, many of them will begin their stays with undiagnosed and untreated eye coordination and eye tracking problems that could interfere with their ability to read and learn. And whereas research shows that vision disorders are the number one handicapping condition of children. In fact, as many as one in four school-aged children have vision problems that could interfere with learning, according to the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. And whereas all children deserve the opportunity to learn, and to achieve their full potential. For this reason, public awareness about vision problems that can interfere with reading and learning is necessary to ensure that young people receive the prompt vision treatment they need to enhance their lives. Now, therefore, I, Craig Morgan, and the rest of the Round Rock City Council of the City of Round Rock do hereby proclaim August 2026 as Children's Vision and Learning Month in the City of Round Rock, Texas, and encourage parents, educators, school nurses, and all concerned adults to recognize the critical role good visual skills play in the learning process and to work together to help prevent or reduce the impact untreated vision problems can have on our children's ability to read and learn. Proclaim this 13th day of August, 2026, Craig Morgan, Mayor of Romano.

All right. Thank you so much, Mayor Morgan and the Round Rock City Council for once again recognizing August as Children's Vision and Learning Month. For 11 years now, our city has faithfully supported this effort. And having accepted this proclamation for most of those years, I've seen firsthand how this awareness changes children's lives. As families across Round Rock prepare for the new school year, backpacks are filled, clothes are bought, and school supplies are checked off. But there is one critical tool for learning that is often overlooked, a child's vision. Up to 80% of everything a child learns in the classroom is visual, yet one in four school-aged children lives with an undiagnosed vision problem. Many people believe a quick school eye screening is enough, but those basic tests miss up to 75% of functional vision issues, like eye tracking, focusing, and eye teaming. Because children don't know what normal vision feels like, they rarely complain. Instead, they suffer through the fatigue, headaches, or reading struggles, often mislabeled as not trying hard enough or even misdiagnosed with attention disorders. I'd like to share a quick story written by the mother of one of my young patients, Olivia. Everyday learning felt like a tremendous effort for Olivia. She was exhausted, emotionally drained, and had very low stamina. We struggled to understand the underlying issues. We finally scheduled a comprehensive exam with a developmental optometrist and discovered her eyes weren't working together as a team. After a customized treatment program, she gained energy, developed a more positive attitude, and grew in confidence. Tasks that once overwhelmed her became manageable. Olivia began to notice things she could suddenly do that she hadn't been able to before. Olivia's story reminds us that when we give a child the gift of clear, comfortable vision, we aren't just helping them read better. We are restoring their self-confidence and their love for learning. To all parents and caregivers preparing for back to school, please don't rely solely on school screenings. Make a comprehensive eye exam part of your yearly back-to-school checklist. Again, thank you to Mayor Morgan and the City Council for giving us this platform every year to protect our children's future, one eye exam at a time. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Consider proclaiming E2. Consider proclaiming June 29, 2026 as Impact Forward Community Service Day in the city of Round Rock. So if y'all want to come up to the mic and all the group can stand behind them as I read this. Whereas Impact Forward is a student-led nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth to create meaningful change through volunteerism, leadership, education, and community engagement, Impact Forward believes that every young person has the ability to create positive changes within their community and strives to ensure that students everywhere feel empowered, supported, and inspired to make an impact regardless of age, background, or experience. And whereas the organization works to make service opportunities more accessible for students while fostering compassion, civic responsibility, creativity, and collaboration among future generations of leaders. Through initiatives such as Project Green Circuit, which promotes environmental awareness and sustainability, Code for Cancer, which combines technology and service to support cancer-related causes, Blue Santa volunteer efforts supporting families during the holiday season, and STEM and Spell, which encourages in educational enrichment and STEM learning opportunities for younger students. Impact Forward has demonstrated a strong commitment to serving and uplifting the community. And whereas the city of Round Rock recognizes the importance of youth leadership, volunteerism, educational advancement, and community service in strengthening our neighborhoods, supporting local organizations, and inspiring future generations of change makers, organizations such as Impact Forward help cultivate a culture in which young people are encouraged to believe in their ability to contribute meaningfully to society and create lasting, positive impact within their communities. Now, therefore, I, Craig Morgan, and the rest of the City Council of the City of Round Rock do hereby proclaim June 29, 2026 as Impact Forward Community Service and Youth Leadership Day. Proclaim this 13th day of August 2026, Craig Morgan, Mayor of Round Rock.

Thank you so much. As president and founder of Impact Forward, it is such an honor to be able to stand before you all today and receive this great proclamation. When I founded Impact, I had a simple vision, to empower young people to take ownership of the communities they call home. I wanted young people to take an issue, look at it, and not think, who is going to fix this, but what can I do about this? Today, that vision has grown into six chapters across two states, 8,000 volunteer hours, 5,000 pounds of electronic waste donations, 80 presidential volunteer medals, and partnerships with Dell and Goodwill. But to me, these numbers represent something much greater. They represent young people becoming champions of change. They represent students discovering the power that their voices can have and the value that their ideas have. And that's the kind of leadership that I have tried to foster through Impact Forward, the kind that creates a culture where other people believe that they can lead. And I am deeply grateful to all of our city officials for helping to create that culture. This proclamation isn't just recognition for what we have achieved so far, but I'm hoping that it'll inspire all of us young people to achieve more and more when given the chance. I am proud of what Impact Forward has built, but even more proud of the young people that we are building to lead. And our greatest impact is still ahead of us. Thank you so much for believing in what the youth can do. Thank you for believing in Impact Forward and our vision. And thank you so much for your support. I'd like to now hand over the microphone to Rithika, our vice president. Thank you.

Hi, everyone. Thank you so much once again for this proclamation. Today, Impact Forward has grown far much more than we could have ever imagined. What started as a small student-led initiative has expanded into chapters across Texas and even nationally. Students are coming together because they care about their communities, see problems that they want to address, and believe that they can be a part of the solutions. Our projects have included collecting essential donations, supporting local organizations, environmental initiatives, educational outreach, and community service projects. And our projects don't just give students ways to serve. They help them become more connected to the communities that they're a part of. recognizing needs within their communities, taking initiative to respond to those in need, building collaboration around meaningful causes, and creating an environment where young people and students can grow into real-world experiences and make their contributions count. Having the city of Round Rock recognize Impact Forward with this proclamation is an incredible honor. That brings us back to why today is so meaningful to us. It is especially meaningful because this community is where so much of our journey began. Throughout the journey, the city has continued to support our initiatives and show us that work of young people is seen and valued. We felt that support firsthand last year when Mrs. Melissa Fleming and Mr. Frank Ortega joined us at our awards ceremony. We are incredibly grateful that they took the time to celebrate us along our students and volunteers. This proclamation recognizes all of our students who showed up, the volunteers who gave time, the community members who supported us, and everyone who believed that young people can make a difference. We are truly grateful to accept this proclamation on behalf of everyone who has been a part of the Impact Forward journey. Thank you.

Thank you. Anybody have? Yeah. Anybody have any comments? Mayor Pro Tem.

I'd just like to congratulate you young people on what you've done. The initiative to create such an organization and then follow it through and to keep doing it. You're great leaders and you're creating paths that will last forever. So thank you for doing what you're doing for Round Rock. We really appreciate it and we're very proud of you.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Any Councilmember Ortega?

Thank you again. You're an inspiration to all of us, and especially to your fellow students. Thank you for asking us to come and listen to you. Or actually, you came to us, so that was even better. And I'm always amazed by our young students. Continue doing that hard work, and don't let anyone say no to you. Councilmember Fleming?

I was glad to recognize the faces. So I was glad to see y'all up here. Definitely enjoyed y'all's event and awards ceremony. And I'm glad to hear y'all are getting even stronger and bigger and can't wait to see what you do next. So great job.

Thank you. Anybody else? Yeah. With what's going on in the world today, a lot driven by our adults, us, to see what y'all are doing. Don't let what you see going on at a national and a state level discourage you from what you want to do. And that's to serve and help your community to be a better place than when you found it. And if you keep that principle, you're going to go a long way. When it becomes about power, then you know. we see what the bad can do. And so I'm inspired by you. I mean, when I was your age, I sure the heck wasn't engaging in the community. Maybe engaging in things I shouldn't have been. Chief, don't say anything. Statute of limitations expired. But y'all keep up the great work. All of us are willing to meet with you, help any way we can to try to help y'all to be very successful. And so congratulations, and thank y'all for blessing us. Ah, E3. Chief, won't you come on up? And you're going to be doing the presentation anyway, so. E3, consider proclaiming August 2026 as CAPCOG Emergency Management Awareness Month in the city of Round Rock. Councilman Ortega.

First, I would like to recognize Renee Flores and Hilda Montgomery, who serves along with me on CAPCOG. And thank you for your service. The C of Ronald Rock's official proclamation, whereas the Capital Area Council of Government, CAPCOD, is a political subdivision of the state of Texas serving Bastrop, Blanco, Burnett, Caldwell, Fayette, Hayes, Lee, Llano, Travis, and Williamson counties. The state of Texas historically led, excuse me, leads the nation in the number of federally declared disasters, be they natural hazard disasters technological or human-caused, and whereas local agencies, school, university, TDEM, and private sector emergency managers dedicated countless hours to develop preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, and prevention programs to protect the lives, businesses, property, and environment in their communities. And whereas local agencies, school, universities, TDAM, and private sector emergency managers are responsible for establishing and maintaining the capabilities necessary to effectively direct, coordinate, and support emergency response and recovery efforts in their communities. And whereas the efforts of the regional emergency managers have assisted communities in the 10-county CAPCOD region to prepare, recover, rebuild, and become more resilient in the face of continued threats, emergencies, and disasters. And whereas the regions, local agencies, school, universities, TDEMs, and private sectors emergency managers are greatly appreciated by the communities they serve. The emergency management missions, areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, recovery, preparedness, are the national priorities with the national preparedness goals and, therefore, be it resolved that I, Mayor Craig Morgan, on behalf of the City of Round Rock, Texas, do by proclaim August 2026 as Emergency Management Awareness and Appreciation Month. Thank you.

First off, I'd like to, Sheree would like to apologize for not being able to attend tonight, but she was kind enough to leave me a short acceptance speech for the proclamation. From Sri, thank you Mayor and Council for recognizing Emergency Management Awareness Month. Emergency Management consists of coordinating actions addressing the mitigation of preparedness for, response to, and recovery from various disasters. This usually entails identifying and reducing risk, strengthening community preparedness, coordinating effective response during emergencies, and supporting the community through the recovery process. However, emergency management does not operate in isolation. The success of our program depends on the relationships we build with other city departments, county, regional, state, and federal partners, non-governmental organizations, and other key stakeholders. During an emergency, it is essential emergency managers bring in the right people at the right time to coordinate an effective response and minimize impacts. I accept this proclamation on behalf of everyone who contributes to the success of the emergency management program. Thank you for recognizing the importance of this work and the dedication of all those who help build resiliency within our community. Thank you. All right.

All right. Now, y'all are more than welcome to stay if you want, but you're more welcome to leave anytime you want as well, OK? Not to try to run them off from you, Chief.

This may be the heaviest attendance I've ever had.

All right. Staff presentations, F1, consider a presentation and department update from the fire department.

Chief? All right. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Happy to present our 2026 update to you all. So tonight, just a couple of objectives really is to go over our fire operations, hits over the last three years of where we stand compared to those, community risk, and CRU, how they play a role in this, and then following up or ending with prevention and emergency management. So in FY26, We're at 14,281 calls through July. You can see our workload over the last three years for 24. The column in red are the actual calls. The column in black are the unit responses. Obviously, unit responses are always going to be taller or greater than our overall call volume. You can see a continuous increase, an approximate 3% increase between 24 and 25. This year we're seeing about a 7.2% increase over 25. And again, those are just projected numbers off of where we're at, but that takes us through July 31st. Our average turnout time is great at a minute. Our troops back here, for medical calls, they have a minute from the time the tones go off to get out the door. For anything that's not a medical, they have a minute 20. So on all calls, they're averaging about a minute to get out the door. So that's really good. You see our average emergent travel time is at 5.07. So we'll get into a couple slides here in the future where it shows we're responding about 1.28 units per call. So this is, again, this average emerging travel is for all the units that are traveling. So the first unit may actually be getting there in three minutes to four minutes. Traffic accident, first unit gets there, starts slowing down traffic, which now delays the response for the second unit. So we can't really get wrapped up too much on it being 507. I didn't do it for this presentation, but I can get you in the future where we stand on all of our structure fire calls, the response times. Our projected finish for this fiscal year is 17,122 with 21,923 unit responses. Again, another graph showing where we've been. You'll see the gray line is FY24, the black is FY25, and then the red is 26. There's a big anomaly there in April, you can see in 25, and that's when we switched software vendors for our reporting system. IT has been working really hard to get all that data transferred over. The data is there. The company that we now have our software through is still having some issues on getting the old call response numbers put in there. If we get the actual updated information from the software, that line will likely come up and more match the trends you've seen, but that's why there's a little bit of anomaly there. Call volume, we're at 8.6% above FY25 through July, but then following overall trends from the last two years, we're likely going to be more around the 7.6% over instead of the 8.6%. This is just, again, laying out where we're at, where we think we're going to be. So the center graph is kind of the middle ground. High end is 17,978 calls. Low end is 16,266 is where we think we're going to fall at the end of this fiscal year. again our average unit responses are 1.28 and so again we talk about on fire calls we're sending four engines two ladders and two battalions on these calls on CPR we're sending two engines or the two closest units and a battalion and then on our traffic accidents on high-speed roadways the closest unit the second closest unit attacked as a blocker until the blocker gets there so we actually have three units going to most traffic accidents on high-speed roadways. So that's how that number climbs up as far as our unit responses. Again, we talk about our average turnout of being one minute, so our troops are doing an excellent job as far as getting out the door once they get the call coming in. And then we'll always be battling the emergent travel time, and so much is depending on overall traffic. Have a structure fire. Say we had a structure fire today, and it was at this location. Station twos are going to be here within two and a half to three minutes. By the time all the remaining units get in, it's going to be six, seven, or eight minutes. And again, that drives up the overall average travel time. So here's a little snapshot of our calls and what our high-run units are, and it's really falls and lift assist. And you're probably asking, aren't those the same thing? And they are, but they're not. The lift assist is we get a call for somebody that's fallen. The individual that's with them can't get them up, whether it's back into a chair, back in bed, whatever it is. We go there. We help get them back to wherever they need to go. There's no medical report generated for it. A fall is more like where our troops go there for lift assist that now turns into a medical that they may end up giving some medical care and getting a refusal, but a higher priority or chances are is that these individuals are going to be transported to a hospital. And this is really where community risk comes in on these two factors. When our troops start running on the same individual continuously, they can notify our community of risk to where they can go out and they can meet with these individuals to see what they can do in home to make it safer for them, easier for them for mobility. Is there some type of lift or some type of chair that they may need that may assist them in movement? And that's where community of risk really comes in and helps all these men and women behind us here. So structure fire calls up to July 31st for 30. We're up to 33 as of yesterday. So we're averaging about three-quarters of a structure fire a week or a little more than a structure fire every two weeks. And these are true working structure fires. As far as what the individuals were really being toned out to, You know, we're more in like the 150 to 200 range as far as structure fire calls. But these 30 or 33 with August 13th thrown in there now are where they actually pulled a hand line. They went in and they extinguished fire. And then we get to our crisis response unit. So you'll see, and this is all of FY25, they had a 40% growth in their call volume from FY24. You'll see that they came in contact with 660 unique patients, but they were called out 2,011 times. So a lot of this are repeat customers. or repeat clients. But you see a vast majority are those that are in crisis. Case management then becomes a huge, case management along with community risk really go hand in hand. So if our troops continue to run on the same individual, they notify community risk, community risk goes out and it's like this is more than just a safe haven or improving the environment for the customer. We then bring in case management to come in and assist, whether it's bringing in non-governmental agencies to help make the home safer or trying to get contact with family or trying to get them placed into a facility that can assist them for the remaining years. So again, those two groups really play hand-in-hand together on this. And then the outside counseling, so there's a lot of calls, 124 that come in from outside agencies asking our our crisis response unit on for guidance on how to assist. But on the flip side of that, our crisis response unit also reaches out, especially when it's trying to find placement for individuals. So you can see that their average response time is 14.2 minutes. They run code 1 everywhere. So they're not busting through intersections. And so it's expected for them to have a long lead time or long travel time. And you can see, again, their average on-scene is 58 minutes. For most of us on medicals, it's 20 minutes or less. So, again, this is how critical they come in when they're there. They're spending roughly an hour while our troops come in until they get there, and then now they're available for a call. I know homelessness has always been a concern, and this is where we're at. I think it was in last year's report, I advised you all that we were seeing 10 to 13 homeless per month, and this number still holds true to that for FY25, with 147 seen throughout the year. But you notice that they had 532 encounters. So it's not just a one and done. A lot of these encounters you can see is averaging 3.6 per individual. And it takes time to find proper placement for the individuals, whether it's, again, going with the family finding family that will take them in, whether it's finding alternative housing for them. And then some of these numbers of the 147 are the chronic unhoused, the ones that want to remain unhoused. And so some of that repeat is when we have the bad weather, CRU goes out to make sure that they have, if it's cold, they have blankets, socks, hats, and gloves, and everything else. And then if it's really bad, we'll actually put them in a hotel for the night to get them out of the weather. Again, it is a problem, but our staff has taken care of that for us, and they're really staying on top of it. Going back to the left side where you see the housing instability, that's the one that kind of gets me, right? So it's not truly unhoused individuals yet. It's not the homeless that we all think of. It's the ones that are being evicted, the ones that are having a hard time paying the bills, electricity, water, all of that. Again, case management for this really comes in, and they help make the connections with the organizations that are able to help funding to get them through, to get the bills paid. But the ones that are being evicted or whatever, they really work on finding another housing opportunity for them instead of them going out on the street. And then our training. So we trained 650 firefighters last year. We have 181 uniformed members here in Round Rock, so that's a pretty big jump. Well, a lot of our training this last year and this year has been on high-rise training. We only have two technical high-rises here in Round Rock, and that's the Marriott and Kalahari. But we just adopted a regional high-rise policy, knowing that with the exception of Austin, all of us are going to need help on a true high-rise fire. So all this training took place at our training site with 168 crews attending. You had Austin, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander. Hutto, Sanbas, and again, Austin Pflugerville all joining us in the training opportunities here. One of the big things, again, we had 1,600 plus applications for positions here. And then we've also attended, or they attended five career fairs to try to put the word out about how good Round Rock is, which I think really helps bolster the numbers for our applicant pool. Prevention, again, I think when Bradley did his review, he talked about how the number of permits going out aren't as many as they were in the years past. But our troops are reviewing plans just like his group before buildings come in. But the real thing is all the numbers at the bottom, and that's the annual inspection snapshot. So it looks like we're doing really well, right? 99%, 100%, and then you get to strip centers at 20%. But all this is just the annual inspection. This is not, these aren't complete. This isn't because a lot of times less than 20% pass on the first time. So there's repeat inspections. But all the ones that are near 100% or 100% are considered high hazards. One would argue schools are too, and schools are. Schools normally take place, they hit half on the front end, so last October, and now the school's back in session now, they'll start hitting the rest of the remainder of the schools this year. They'll be at 100% on the schools. The one that we never get to 100% on are strip centers just because typically they are a low hazard for us. Tier 2s, again, are facilities that have hazardous materials. So it's another big, big area for us to look at. In emergency management, you know, Cherie's been quite busy along with Scott Wilkinson and all the special events he's doing downtown. So 17 event action plans were created for events that and Old Settlers Park. She assisted in facilitating two exercises with outside agencies, 10 public outreach events. So her, Cherie, and Captain Shell with Community of Risk, they do a lot. They go out to senior living facilities and they go together because this is a great opportunity for Cherie to help those that may be in need when we have power outages or whatever to register for STEER so that they can get assistance from the state and we know who's out there. So Again, they're going and doing these outreach events together to try to make the environment safe, but also to have a plan in place in case we have a large event here in Round Rock. And then just to summarize this, our service demand is increasing, but we've all known that. And it's a slow increase. Typically, this year, it looks like the demand is a little bit more than normal. But again, that ebbs and flows as the years go. Our performance remains strong. Our risk reduction is crucial to have our community risk out there and our crisis response unit to make sure that those in need are truly getting the services that they need. And then the planning should track demand. And I think we're doing a fine job of doing that by the staffing that we've asked, the stations that we've got being built, and the future land we have are secured. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

All right. Any questions for Chief Council Member Stephens?

Yeah. So first of all, thank you for your presentation. Thank you all in the back of the room for being here. I know it's been a challenging couple of months for your department. So just I want to thank you for always keeping our citizens the center of your focus. And thank you for working hard every day to keep them safe. And again, thank you for being here. I love to see your faces. I do have two questions. So how many stations do we have now?

So we have nine in operation. Station 10 should open in October. And then 11 has already broke ground. And we're looking at October, November of next year that it will open.

For the next one. Do you find any trends in call volumes? Is it equally spread out? Or are there certain ones that seem to be higher?

So our stations along the interstate and then station one, the relocation, those are our busiest. Your busiest ones.

Yes, ma'am. And then kind of secondary to that, motor vehicle accidents. I don't need an exact number, but how often do those end up in transports to a hospital versus treat on the scene and release?

Yeah, that's real difficult. So there are 761 accidents that end up to July 31. Our troops were able to collect refusals. And so EMS, if it's unknown injuries, normally doesn't respond. But I'm going to say 60% to 75% are transported.

And I would think having the trained paramedics that come along also helps, just having that extra training at the scenes before that transport gets there.

Yes. On major incidents, to have the medics there, there was a save a few months ago with paramedic on scene that had almost all things taken care of just waiting for a transport unit. So, yes, it's been very beneficial for us.

Wonderful. Thank you. And, again, thank you for being here. I appreciate it. Thank you for the presentation. Yes, ma'am.

Any other questions, comments? Mayor Protan.

Thank you. Just curious, on the cases that are designated as sick case and no appropriate choice, are those transferred to hospitals as well?

So the no appropriate choice, so in October this year, we went from the INFERS, which is the National Fire Incident Reporting System, to NEARES, which is now a National Emergency Reporting Incident System. And so the coding has changed. And so the no appropriate choice, it's limited down to what we can really pick. And so the no appropriate choice means they didn't really have anything better to put, so that's what they put.

Any other questions over here, comments?

One more question. On the outside agency's response, does that mean that we have to go to that agency?

Yes, ma'am.

Oh, OK.

Council Member Flores. Chief, thank you for the presentation. Always good to catch up and hear all the good stuff that you guys are doing, but appreciate you and all your team and organization for being on the ground. Two questions, one related to this slide here, the fall, the lift assist, the sick case. Do you have to deploy the same way you do because until you get there, I mean, do you deploy with the same readiness for anything, or do you send a lesser crew because you know it's a fall or a lift assist?

so Everything goes really off of the the call notes as far as the response whether it's a code one or code three So lights and sirens or normal driving So on a normal fall normal lift assist is one one apparatus going so it'll be a crew minimum of three Going there now on some of again some of our repeats If we know that that there's a weight challenge They'll either have it logged in the premise notes and CAD so when dispatch gets that address to automatically deploy Two more two units or the responding unit will ask for an additional unit.

This is just for manpower Thank you, and then on your sixteen hundred applications for for the force. Any idea how many slots you actually had to fill? At that point, we had six. Six. Yes. So 1,600 applications for six slots. Yes. That's pretty good. Yep. You're in high demand.

We're all right.

Thank you.

Any other questions, comments? So we are budgeting for 15 new firefighters this year? Yes. So when does that process and application process begin? And can you draw from the, I guess, out of the 1,600, start going back to the ones that didn't get chosen, or is it usually you guys just start all over?

No, so we've already started that process because we tested, I believe, November 14th, and so that list is good for one year. So we've already started the process of doing the physical agility for those that were on the list, backgrounds, Oh, man, and interviews with those troops to try to get the numbers where we need to be so that if everything passes through, that we're ready to offer and get moving.

Okay. Well, I just want to say, you know, to Council Member Stevens' point, I know it's been a couple of tough months, but I can assure you myself and this city supports this fire department, and we'll get to the goals that the fire department needs to be at, and I can tell you long as I'm setting up here that will always continue to be a focus and we will we will get there and we thank you all for all that you do and all the work you do and Facing the community and the dangers in the community. So thank you chief.

We thank y'all.

All right All right, I'm gonna do some stuff out of order and Let me go ahead and do the consent first. Consent agenda items listed under the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the city council and will 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 anything that needs to be removed? All right. G1, consider approval of minutes from the July 23, 2026 city council meeting. G2, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with Mobile Trex LLC for the purchase of traffic signal systems and safety barrier products, G3. Consider resolution authorized the mayor to execute an agreement with Centerline Supply, Inc. for the purchase of highway safety and traffic control products, G4. Consider resolution authorized the mayor to execute quantity adjustment change order number two with Patent Construction LLC for the West Transmission Main Valve Replacement Project, G5. Consider resolution authorized the mayor to execute quantity adjustment change order number two with Royal Vista, Inc. For the cycle four basins, one and two wastewater main rehabilitation project, G6. Consider an ordinance designating the intersection of East New Hope Drive and Mayfield Ranch Boulevard as an all-way stop intersection. Second reading. G7. Consider a resolution to authorize the mayor to execute an engagement letter with Allensworth Law to defend the city of Round Rock in the lawsuit styled Thale Construction Company versus the city of Round Rock. Cause number 26-1071-C480. In the 480th Judicial District of Williams County, Texas, G8, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with Dell Marketing LP for the purchase of Dell branded products and services. G9, consider a resolution authorizing the city manager to issue a purchase order to McCoy Rockford Inc. for the furniture for the police department. G10, consider a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute an agreement with Professional Turf Products LP for the purchase of grounds maintenance and equipment, parts, and supplies. Man. I'll entertain a motion to adopt the consent.

So moved.

A motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by the Mayor Pro Tem. 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. All right. We're going to jump to J1 appointments. Consider appointments to fill expiring terms and vacancies on the following boards and commissions. Transportation Economic Development Corporation Planning and Zoning Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, Zoning Board of Adjustment Building Standards, and Ethics Review Commission. Council Member Stevens, if you'll read the recommendations by the committee.

Yes, I move to approve the following for these boards and commissions. Transportation and Economic Development Corporation, Michelle Sherwood, Ebony Howard, Lucia Merguia, William Rob Wint, Planning and Zoning Commission, and CIAC, Hollis Bone, Casey Clausen, James Holloway, Rhett Bassey, Mike Beach, Terrell Lascensi, and CIAC Matthew Cohen, Historic Preservation Commission, Shagufta Elam, Robert Donahue, Shirley Marquardt, Gordon Sturr, Zoning Board of Adjustment Building Standards Commission, Christopher Koob, Frank Lilley, Alan Sims, Shannon Probe, Derek White, and ethics. Andrew Collins, Kyle Craig, Michael Sprott.

All right, I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Motion made by Council Member Stephens, second by Council Member Ortega. Any questions, discussions on this?

I would just add that thank you to Council Member Flores and Council Member Ortega. I think the process, and thank you to Ann And Brad, for putting it together for us. I think we've changed this a couple years ago, and the process flows really nicely. And just thank you to all the applicants. It was a really nice pool of applicants this year.

Yeah. Any other members have anything to say on that? Yeah, let me just say thank you all for taking that on. Again, Brad and again, every year I say it, if you didn't get a pick this year, just keep applying. you know back when I did it there wasn't as near the number of applicants and so Stay involved and so I have a motion in a second and please pull the council Councilmember Flores.

Yes councilmember Fleming. Yes councilmember Attega. Yes councilmember Stephens. Yes Mayor Pro Tem Montgomery. Yes Mayor Morgan.

Yes J2 Consider confirming the city manager's reappointment of one member to the Civil Service Commission to fill an expired term.

Council, I signal to consider confirming Chuck Sanders for three more years on this Civil Service Commission. He's done an excellent job in this important role, and thank you, Chuck, for your service. Appreciate you very much.

All right. Any questions on that? I entertain a motion to adopt that appointment.

Second. Second.

Motion made by the Mayor of Pro Temp. Second by Council Member Stevens. Any other discussion? And please, Public Counselor.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

Council Member Stephens? Yes. Mayor Procham Montgomery? Yes. Council Member Lee? Yes. Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. All right. Let's go back to H1. Consider a resolution accepting the city's quarterly financial and investment report for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Kevin? Good evening. Good evening.

This item is our quarterly financial update and investment report with actuals through June 30th, 2026, through the third quarter of our current fiscal year. Start out with an update on the finances. Looking at economic conditions nationally, the unemployment rate for June was 4.2%. It's been very steady around that range for quite some time. The July labor report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed an unexpected loss of 23,000 jobs, where we were expecting an increase of 80,000. Looking more locally, the unemployment rate in Round Rock was 4.1%. In June, this is quite a, I mean, it's still relative, but quite a jump from 3.4% in May. This is still a preliminary data point, so it is subject to corrections, but it's something that we'll keep an eye on. Unemployment claims in Williamson County are up 8.9% through the third quarter over the same time period as last calendar year. Looking at consumer confidence, continues to be very volatile with large swings, particularly in consumer confidence in Texas. Looking back over the last 12 months, Texas is down 3.7% over the last 12 months. Nationally, it's down 8%. Consumer price index has come down from the peak in May down to 3.4% for July. This is still higher than it's been over the last several years. We'll continue to watch it to see if it continues to come back down from that peak or if it levels off. The Federal Reserve's target measure, the personal consumption expenditures, remains at 3.7%, again, higher than that target of 2%. Now, moving on to city revenue, sales tax has been trending strong the last several months. And through July, we are trending 11.3% above last year's collections. So we're definitely at a strong point in the fiscal year. Just a reminder, the city's financial management policy, once our general fund budget for sales tax is reached, all excess sales tax received are transferred over to general self-financed capital, where they can be used for one-time purchases in the future. We've had that financial management policy in place for a long time. One quarter of the sales tax we get goes to the Type B, the Round Rock Transportation and Economic Development Corporation. Same thing there. Any excess sales tax comes in over budget, stays in Type B, and is used for one-time purposes for roads, economic development, other things that Type B can be used for. Overall sales tax, we're in a good spot through July. Property tax collections have already met budget for this fiscal year. Most of the payments come in December and January. As you can see there in the chart, the current year adopted budget is $99.2 million. That is both a general fund component as well as a debt service fund component from the debt service tax rate. Both of those budgets have already been met through this fiscal year. Some other selected general fund revenues, looking at other taxes and franchise fees, were up a little bit over last year. We've seen some growth in some franchise fees. License permits and fees, you heard from Chief Glazier earlier tonight as it relates to fire inspections. Just the timing of the development cycle, we're down 35% compared to last year. Nothing alarming, it's just we have some up years, we have some down years. We'll continue to watch how those trend compared to budget through the rest of the fiscal year. Program revenues have had some strong growth. This is through June 30th, so about half of the summer is included in there out at the pools. While there was a lot of rain, the new Rock and River expansion has been very popular. We've seen some increased revenues there as families are getting out and enjoying the water park. Grants have a decrease just due to timing and the final ARPA payment in the prior fiscal year. Looking at our utility funds, water, wastewater, and storm water revenues, a lot of these are seasonal, demand-based. They're trending above prior years as expected. They're trending about on line with budget. We had retail rate increases go into effect in November, and they're trending right on track. These are the increases over last year's actual fiscal year to date. For our hotel lock-in tax and venue tax collections, we're trending 1.4% below where we were through the third quarter last fiscal year. So again, continue to make up some ground from where we were, especially after that first quarter. We were quite a bit larger behind. Again, this is through June 30, so half of the summer's end. We continue to see strong performance there, continuing to make up some ground, currently at 5,091 hotel rooms. Usually I will show you the occupancy rates. We haven't received the timing of that report yet, so it's left out of this quarter. We'll get back to you on the fourth quarter to look at our occupancy rates and our ADR average daily rates. Moving on to our quarterly investment report portion of the presentation, again with actuals through June the 30th, looking at the city's investments. Our investment strategy remains the same. We use a laddered approach that meets safety, liquidity, and yield in that order. Those are the orders of our priority. We regularly update and review our cash flow projections. We look at quarterly financial investment reporting, as we are doing right now, monitoring the market conditions along with our investment advisor. And we comply with the Public Funds Investment Act, as well as our investment policy adopted annually by the city council. We have a quarter-ending portfolio balance of $638.5 million. You can see this is quite a big increase from last quarter. Those are our debt proceeds coming in. We issue debt. It comes in. We invest it. And over the next several quarters, you'll see this number go down as we spend those on those capital projects, delivering those bond projects to the community. Looking at our benchmarks, we have a maximum weighted average maturity, or WAM, for our portfolio by policy of 540 days. We continue to be well below that. Again, long-term investment opportunities are limited and not as attractive in this current interest rate environment. So we have a WAM, or weighted average maturity, of 109 days through the end of June. Looking at benchmarks, we're in a slight increasing interest rate environment. So generally when interest rates go up, our yields fall slightly below the curve just due to our laddered investment strategy. So as of June, we had the orange line here is our benchmark, the rolling one-year treasury bill, 3.98%, and our yield through June, 3.69%. Still strong yield. Again, just fell below it due to the rising interest rates. Overall, the balance has increased $121 million. Yield decreased 17 basis points in the prior quarter, remains strong. The Fed voted to hold the current Fed funds rate at a current range of 3.5% to 3.75% at their meeting at the end of July. Three members did dissent, and three members did vote to increase the rate 25 basis points. With the CPI trending as it is, kind of coming back down off that peak, and with the relatively weak jobs data, that's lower than market odds for a potential rate increase in September down to about 40%. So we'll continue to watch it. But that's where that stands as we look out. And we'll have an update, of course, with our fourth quarter year-end presentation. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

All right. Any questions? Questions? Do you have your hand?

I do. Council Member Stevens. Just going back to the first slide on the unemployment, do we get any data about any particular industries? I know it's still a low number, but are there any particular industries that we need to pay attention to that might be struggling a little bit?

Yeah, we don't have any industry data locally. Nationally, there continues to be a decrease. There are going to be layoffs announced in the tech sector. It's definitely one being looked at nationally. Locally, with that kind of tick up in our local unemployment to 4.1%, it is a bit higher. It's still below the national unemployment, so it's definitely something we'll watch. Unfortunately, I just don't have any trends at that kind of micro-local level regarding different industries.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions? Can I take a motion to adopt the resolution? So moved. Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Flores. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

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

Yes. H2, consider a resolution setting the maximum property tax rate for tax year 2026, establishing the date for the public hearing and setting the dates for tax rate adoption.

Mayor and Council, this item sets the maximum proposed property tax rate. As I mentioned Tuesday morning, this item also meets the state requirements for the City Council to formally adopt a maximum proposed property tax rate and to set the date of the public hearing. Back on July 23rd at our budget workshop, I presented this tax information both on values and rates. And I told you it was certified but not yet finalized. Our math hadn't been checked by the tax office. Subsequent to that, we have finalized it without any changes. So this is still as presented and now finalized with our certified values. So the total taxable assessed value for fiscal year 2027 is $26.6 billion. This is a decrease of $100 million. or 4 tenths of a percent from the current year. We have $458 million attributable to new improvements in the tax bill this year. Without this new improvement value, our decrease would be a little bit more, because that new improvement is included in the overall decrease of $100 million. This $458 million in new value will bring in about $1.9 million in property tax revenues based on our proposed rate of 42.3 cents. Speaking of that proposed rate, this is our proposed property tax rate for fiscal year 2027. This rate will generate revenue sufficient to fund the proposed budget, which we'll hear about in next council meeting. This is an increase of 3.8 cents or 9.8% over the no new revenue rate, which is about 38 and a half cents. The reasons for this increase are shown here in the allocation of increase. It's for public safety positions. Seven new police officers and one assistant emergency management coordinator for the operations and maintenance of voter-approved bond projects, such as Fire Station 11. You heard Chief Glazier mention earlier that's 15 firefighters in the proposed budget for that. The Athletic Performance Center has 17 new FTEs from Parks and Recreation Department. and also the multi-purpose complex also opening in 2027. And the last item, 2.4 cents, is for debt for voter-approved bond projects. During the current fiscal year, due to our long-range financial plan and debt plans, we issued money. You saw it earlier tonight in the investment portfolio. We now have that cash. We're earning investments on it, and we'll spend it on those bond projects. We had the tax rate increase subsequent to it to just pay the debt service on those outstanding bonds. This table shows the impact of a proposed property tax rate increase. State law does require us to publish the impact on a home with a value of $100,000. So that's that first column there. For our median valued home of $370,288, this is a decrease in the median valued home of about 6% from prior year. The annual city tax bill would be $1,566. That increase over the no new revenue rate is $11.73 a month, or $141 for the year. Again, that's the increase over the no new revenue rate Taxpayer websites managed by the county tax offices went live on August the 7th last week. These are travestaxes.com and williamsonpropertytaxes.org. These sites will be updated to include proposed and adopted rates of all taxing entities. So any resident can go on those sites and plug in their address and see their assessed value come over along with all their overlapping taxing entities and the proposed and eventually adopted rates. There's also an option for residents to submit feedback, which does get passed on to each taxing entity. So it's kind of a one-stop shop, if you will, required by state law, and they're both live now. Our city website also includes links to the appraisal districts, and we have our own tax calculator, which allows our residents to plug in their assessed value and see what their city property taxes would be at the proposed rate. along with information as to how those property tax dollars will be spent as it falls out between the different departments, public safety, parks and rec, et cetera. The Texas tax code section 26.18 requires specific information to be made available on our city website to ensure public access to local government financial information allowing taxpayers to review our budgets, our financial audits, and our tax rates over history. This information is now posted on our city website in full compliance with this state statute. Our required newspaper notice for the tax rate public hearing is queued up to be published in the Round Rock Leader on Friday, August 21. This will include the record vote on this agenda item as required by state law. And this notice will also be posted on our city website. Just as a reminder of where we are in the budget process, tonight's item is to set the max tax rate and public hearing dates. That public hearing date is proposed to be August 27th. That'll be our budget and tax rate public hearing first reading of the ordinances with subsequent reading and final adoption on September the 10th. Again, should the City Council pass this item tonight, you could not adopt a fiscal year 2027 rate any higher than this maximum proposed rate of 42.3 cents without restarting the notice process. Staff does recommend approval, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Questions? Questions? All right. Yeah, I thank you all and all of your team. The budget doesn't just come about in a month. I know you all have been working on it a long time. As I know people probably get tired of me saying, it's a misstated fact that new growth pays for itself. And this is a prime example when all the new growth only brings in $1.9 million to the city of Round Rock. That doesn't even pay our police officers contract that we guarantee every year. And so I hope people will do their homework. There's a lot of information out there. And just if they ask questions, get the facts. Because it's always it's gonna be that time of year everybody every city is about to get slim because you know taxes No one likes them, but if you want police fire roads schools and all that then You know and sales tax isn't the answer so Any other comments questions you're taking a motion about that resolution so moved Second motion made by Councillor Flores second by Councillor Ortega any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Stevens. 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, Kevin. H3, consider a resolution authorizing Mayor Dix to quantity adjustment change order number one with Texas Materials Group Inc. for the 2025 RTO Street Maintenance Program projects. Michael.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. This item is related to our street maintenance program. This project is completed. We have a final change order of about $315,000. The big part of this project is on our reuse tank. There is a driveway to it coming off College Park Drive that we repaved that road. And then there's also some areas along the University that we also had to repave. But the project's completed. This is part of our annual program. With this change order, the total contract amount is $3.2 million. And Texas Materials Group completed the project. So I'd be happy to answer any questions. Questions?

I'll entertain a motion to stop the resolution. So moved. Motion made by Council Member Fleming, seconded by Council Member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please, public counsel.

Mayor Procham 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. Page 4, consider resolution authorizing Mayor to execute quantity adjustment change word number 6 with patent construction LLC for the Old Settlers Boulevard Extension Project.

This arterial roadway is pretty much finished. It's going to extend from Redbud Lane and head east all the way to Counter Road 110 right here. It's a four-lane divided roadway. All the work is completed. We were just doing some final mowing and weed eating along there. And also, we're waiting for Redbud North. We're about to flip the traffic from the west side of Redbud North here onto the east side. And then once we do that, we'll be able to adjust the traffic signal right here. and then open this roadway to the public. So very excited about that. Patent did a very good job. Before you, as a quantity adjustment change order for $321,000, it's money back. It's actually money we're not going to spend on the contract. We saved money on the seating, some barricades, and erosion control items. So this is money we did not have to spend that will come back into the city's account. So project is nearing completion. There's a traffic signal at County Road 110 in Old Settlers. And then once Redbud project gets up to here, we will revamp the traffic signal right here. Be happy to answer any questions. Questions? Council Member Fleming.

What is the timing expected for the road to open?

For the road to open? Any idea? So probably in the next few weeks, because we're going to flip the traffic onto the west side here. And then we'll make some adjustments. We'll remove the barricades. And once that's done, in the next couple of weeks, we'll be able to open up this roadway all the way to here. Today, the road is open from counter 110 to this intersection right here. But we have it barricaded off. So in the next few couple of weeks, we'll be able to open up the whole road all the way to Redbud Lane.

Thank you.

Any other questions? On the construction on North Redbud Lane, how far is it going up?

Up here to right in here at 117. That's what I thought. When is it expected Redbud North to be finished? So Redbud North is from 117 all the way down to 79 sometime next year, probably nine months to 12 months from right now.

OK. All right. Any other questions? I entertain a motion to stop the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Lee. 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. H5, consider resolution authorizing Mayor to execute quantity adjustment change order number one with Cash Construction Company for the Chisholm Trail South Improvements Old Town Project.

This project is under construction. We have Sandbass Road right here. We're working on Chisholm Trail as you head south all the way to just past Sunset. This change order includes adding some additional antique lighting. We did have to adjust some of the storm drain inlets due to some dry utilities in here. The project is moving along. Right now, we're anticipating to be finished before October is over. Contractor is working six days a week, and we are really on them to get this road open. It's been a long project, but the improvements will be nice. We'll have antique lighting. We'll have new drainage system, updated wastewater lines, new stamped concrete sidewalks on both sides, and a new paved road. So it'll be a nice area here to revamp this historic area of downtown Round Rock. So this change order quantity adjustment number one is for $306,000 for cash construction. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Questions? Entertain motion to stop the resolution. So moved.

Second.

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

Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

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

Yes. H6, consider a resolution authorizing Mayor to execute a contract with JL Gray Construction for the Eagle's Nest Street Phase 1 project.

This is a new construction project. We opened the bids. We had 12 bidders. We've split Eagle's Nest into two segments. So right here, Eagle's Nest stops. And it's going to extend westward across this direction right here and stop at May Street. So that's the item before you, the construction contract for that item there. Phase two, we'll take up Mays in the future and take this road across 35 and tie into Chisholm Trail on the west side. That's phase two. So phase one, we have 12 bidders, like I stated. $3.5 million is the low bidder and recommended contract with J.L. Gray Construction. This is about a nine-month project that it will take to finish this project here. Josh Holt, a vice president with the company, is in attendance representing the contractor. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

All right. Any questions? Questions? All right. Aaron Tullian, motion to adopt the resolution. So moved. Motion made by Council Member Fleming, seconded by Council Member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please poll 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 for being here. H-7, consider a resolution approving the Brushy Creek. I'm going to read both H-7 and 8, and that way you can just do them both. H-7, consider a resolution approving the Brushy Creek Municipal Utility District Fiscal Year 2027 Brushy Creek Regional Wastewater Systems Allocated Budget. H-8, consider a resolution approving the Firm Bluff Municipal Utility District Fiscal Year 2027 Brushy Creek Regional Wastewater Systems Allocated Budget.

Both of these items here are the budgets for FY27 for our regional wastewater system. The wastewater system is owned by four cities, Austin, Cedar Park, Leander, and Round Rock. But there's also two sub-owners, and that's Fern Bluff Mud and Brushy Creek Mud. They are part of the Round Rock system, so we manage on behalf of them. Because they are sub owners they are responsible for the cost to operate So there's a flow charge here That's the cost for the operations of the treatment plant and it's based on winter water averaging We take the two months of January February of all the owners and we come up with a percentage of the total operating budget So on this first one here for Brushy Creek mud they'll pay us route to round about forty six thousand dollars per month for our operating of the treatment plant and The capital charge is the debt service. We've issued debt for expansion to the plant. So they have a monthly payment of $43,000 plus for that. And then there's an administrative charge that we charge to the MUD for handling the management and ownership of the system. So in this example, $90,000 plus for Brushy Creek MUD. Very similar for Fern Bluff Mud here. They're a smaller owner than Brushy Creek, so their monthly bill is about $23,900. They're both great partners. We keep them posted. They're invited to our operating committee meetings each month, and we keep them updated. In addition to that, there's also capital improvements. So if we have to do something to a capital cost at the plant, Here's an example of projects that we've anticipated for the upcoming year. There are some costs there as well, so they pay their percentage based on their ownership. So in this example, Farm Bluff Mud owns 1.67% of the treatment plant. These bottom three numbers are the percentage that they own of the interceptor. So the interceptor has different ownership capacities. Basically, the interceptor that follows Brushy Creek all the way from Austin, Cedar Park, split up into segments. And there's different percent ownership for all the owners. So that's why those percentages there are different than the treatment plant ownership. So they will be responsible for those capital costs. So that's the overall budget for the Brushy Creek Regional Wastewater System for both H7, which is Brushy Creek mud, and H8, which is Fern Bluff mud.

I have to answer your questions. I'm sorry, Michael. Any questions on H7? I'm going to take 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, public counsel.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

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

Yes. All right. Any questions on H8? I entertain a 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.

Council Member Stephens?

Yes.

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

Yes.

Council Member Fleming. Yes. Council Member Ortega.

Yes.

Mayor Morgan.

Yes. H-9, consider resolution approving the proposed Brushy Creek Regional Utility Authority BCRUA annual operating debt service and capital project budget for fiscal year 26-27.

This is our regional water system, BCRUA, that's owned by Round Rock, Cedar Park, and Leander. This is our budget for the upcoming year. If you look at the last column there, there's Round Rock's portion. $2.6 million is our operating budget. That's based on our estimated flows that will be taken from the BCRUA system. In the budget, we estimated about 6.5 million gallons per day that we will be using this coming year. We have about 11.2 million gallons per day of treatment plant capacity. So we have extra capacity there. There's an expansion underway currently that's going to take that to over 22 million gallons of capacity at the treatment plant. And we're estimating 6.5. So you see that safety factor there. We have a lot of extra treatment plant capacity once that segment's completed. So that is the operating cost of $2.6 million. That pays for the plant electricity, chemicals, operators, et cetera. Then we have a $9.2 million debt service payment. We've issued debt through the Water Development Board, and that's to pay for that deep water intake and the expansions to the treatment plant. Total budget for Round Rock's portion of BCRUA is $11.9 million. The total budget is $41 million of all three cities. This budget was approved by the BCRUA board. Mayor Procham Montgomery and Council Member Flores are on the BCRUA board and represent us very well. And that budget here was approved on June 24th. Happy to answer any questions regarding the BCRUA budget.

All right. Questions on this? All right. Entertain motion to adopt the resolution. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, second by Council Member Fleming. Any other discussion? And please pull 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. H-10, consider a resolution. Authorize the mayor to execute supplemental contract number four with Plumber Associates Inc. for the BCR WWS East WWTP expansion construction phase services project.

Thank you, Mayor. This is a supplemental for our project that's underway, the 30 MGD expansion. As you know, we started this project in June of 2020 construction. It was about a three-year construction that takes us to the summer of 2023. We've had change orders along the way that take us through the fall of 2023. We were significantly late in getting this project finished. Plummer was the design engineer for the plant, but they were also our on-site inspection service. They represent us at the plant. They approve change orders, invoices, track the daily work of our contractor. And they've been through us through the beginning. So what we have here is a supplemental for about $1.4 million total. Round Rock is 12% of that, which is about $171,000. Round Rock is managing this project on behalf of our partner cities. So the contract with the contractor and Plummer's contract is with the city of Round Rock. This supplemental for $1.4, their last contract went through February. So we've been negotiating. So this really starts in March of this past year and is going to take us through somewhere August, September to get us through a certain point in this project. We need Plumber to help us to continue to track what is outstanding, that cost, and they're doing that for us right now. They're out at the site representing us as we work through with the contractor. So I recommend the approval of this supplemental number four for the $1.4 million so that we can complete this 30 MGD expansion. The plant is running very well. The tertiary filters, they're up and running, and effluent. That's the treated wastewater coming out before we dump it into Brushy Creek. It's looking really good. Knock on wood. So it's really happy with the performance of the plant right now. Tonight, representing Plummer, we have Chris Young, their CEO. We have Mary Portilla as a vice president. And we have David Morota, who's our site manager for Plummer that helps us with the meetings and tracking fail our contractors. So glad they're here to represent Plummer. And I recommend approval of this contract. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

All right. Questions? Council Member Ortega.

I meant to ask this on Tuesday morning. Because we're so far beyond a project like this, and it's unheard of for the city of Romero to be behind anything, but take pride in what we do. What really caused that slowdown?

Yes, you're right. We have a lot of construction projects going on in town, right? And we have inspection, and we stay after them to try to finish projects on time. The contractor bid this project knowing it was a three-year project, and they bid it for that price. Along the way, they've had a lot of changes in their project management and their staffing. They've won other projects, and the staffing was removed. They've had issues along the way.

I've got to stop you, Michael. This is under litigation, so we're not going to talk about it. I was not aware of that. Thank you. We'll end that conversation right there. Thanks. Any other questions, comments? All right. Entertaining motion to adopt the resolution. So moved. Motion made by Council Member Flores, seconded by Council Member Ortega. 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, Michael. Thank you all for being here. Ordinances, I want to consider public testimony regarding an ordinance amending Chapter 8, Section 8-87 of the Zoning and Development Code, Code of Ordinances, 2018 edition, regarding real estate, marketing signs to amend open house sign placement hours. First reading.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. So Chapter 8, Section 8-87, Real Estate Marketing Signs, establishes the permitting process and guidelines for the placement of open house signs. The guidelines establish the location, date, and times that signs are permitted. One of the goals of the signed ordinance is to keep the city-owned right-of-way clear of signs unrelated to traffic or safety. Our Code Enforcement Division confiscate approximately 6,000 signs from the right-of-way each year. However, when potential house buyers are searching for an open house without the assistance of a realtor, they often have difficulty finding the location of a home for sale and rely on signs posted by the seller to direct them to the property. As a solution, the City created a licensing program to allow open house signs to be displayed in the right-of-way to direct buyers to open houses. The current times signs may be placed are from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays. Staff proposes amending the code to change that start time from noon to 6 a.m. The city seeks the early placement to allow real estate agents additional time to set out their signs and prepare for the open house event. This was based on feedback staff received from the real estate community. This does not change the practice or enforcement of the process. The text amendment for the change is quite simple. And I presented this item to PNZ on July 15th where it passed unanimously. We did have one speaker who attended the PNZ meeting who supported the amendment and offered a further suggestion that a desire for Friday hours to be considered. So I met with the speaker as well as code enforcement staff regarding the Friday hours and staff would support adding Friday hours from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Staff recommends approval of the code amendment. In fact, both potential changes would be fine for us. And I'm available for any questions you may have.

All right. Any questions for Joe? All right. This is a public hearing. I'll open up the public hearing on I-1. We have one speaker, Mary Beth Ray. Come on up.

Hi. I'm Mary Beth Ray. Do I have to give my address and all that again?

Sure. I mean, we know you, but, you know.

I didn't know you. I always say give it. So 1403 Deepwood Drive over in Brownback West. So thank you for the efforts that have been put into this. I know it's gone on for many months. I really appreciate Joe. everything he's done and Brooks I know you've put into this and Bradley back in the back so I really appreciate it because it's near and dear to my heart because I am a real estate broker associate at Realty Texas here in Round Rock I do a lot of business here and I do a lot of open houses and I feel like I bring a lot of people who want to come to Round Rock because of our taxes even though you might be considering an increase we're still the best tax rate And people are pleased to hear that. I recently had a gentleman who's come to three or four of my different homes that I've had this summer for sale in the heat, putting out signs, which is why I'm asking for the change. But he lives in Pflugerville. He doesn't like the Pflugerville taxes or the water rates, utility rates. But he goes to church at St. William's. And he was really pleased and impressed with Round Knot Quest. And he found me because of the signs. So that's just one example of many people. And he was really excited. He wants to come to Round Rock now. So I truly have lived here 47 years. I try to promote Round Rock. I love Round Rock. So I appreciate everything that y'all do.

All right. Thank you, Mary Beth. Anybody have any questions for Mary Beth? Thank you very much. All right. Any other comments? All right. All right, so I'm going to close the public hearing. I wasn't here on Tuesday morning, so I apologize for that. I know Council Member Stevens asked a question about making, was it brought up for doing it during the week? I think that just like any other code ordinance, if it seems like it needs to be expanded, that can always be done. I definitely would be in favor of allowing this changed to six to six, along with the three to seven. Council Member Stephens and I went and spoke to the real estate group, and that's where this all kind of came up. And so whoever makes the motion, if you're going to do the code amendment, you have to do that as well. So anyway, so I'm going to chain a motion to adopt the ordinance.

I move to adopt the ordinance. Ordinance with the addition of Friday hours between 3 PM and 7 PM for section 8.87 in brackets G, I, and B. All righty.

I have a motion. I have a second.

Second.

All right. I have a motion by Council Member Ortega, second by Council Member Lee. 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. I entertain a motion to dispense with the second reading. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Ortega, seconded by Council Member Stephens. Any other discussion? And please poll 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. Joe, thank you. All right. I, too, thank you all for your patience, also. I, too, consider a public testimony regarding an ordinance approving Amendment Number 1 to Planned Unit Development, PUD Number 32, Vulgar Pruitt Tracks, to incorporate approximately 0.99 acres of land into the PUD generally located south of Round Rock Avenue and west of Chisholm Trail Road. First reading.

Good evening, Mayor, Council Members. This is Amendment Number 1 to Plan Unit Development Number 32, the Volgar-Pruitt PUD. The existing boundaries of the PUD are seen here in yellow. It encompasses the Round Rock Christian Academy academic buildings as well as their athletic fields, plus a senior living facility here on the north side. The subject track that is proposed to be encompassed into the PUD is 0.99 acres here in the red and white outline. We are on the southern spur of Chisholm Trail Road. There's a veterinary clinic on this side and a church down here. A quick refresher for everybody. What is a planned unit development amendment? Well, a PUD amendment is a change to an existing, already adopted PUD. It can change any number of things within that PUD document, whether that's permitted uses or the development standards. And there are two different categories of PUD amendments. A minor amendment is A small change, almost inconsequential change to some of those development standards, and that can be approved administratively at the staff level. A major amendment must go back through the typical rezoning process of being considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council because they are significant. That includes changes to land use and increases in density and major changes to development standards. So that's why we are here this evening considering this PUD amendment because it is adding a new land use to the PUD and changing the boundaries of the PUD. Currently, the property is owned SF2, that's our single family standard lot, and the request is to add this to the PUD to allow for arts and public facility uses for the construction of a black box theater. The Round Rock 2030 future land use map designates this property as well as the others within the PUD as residential, but given that the existing land uses that we have in the PUD and plus the addition or proposed addition of this land And all the proposed uses that will be inside that PUD staff is going to be recommending a change to the future land use map designation to the public facilities designation, because that would be more suitable for all the land uses that are encompassing it. Currently, the permitted uses for the SF2 district are a single family home. Someone could also build a place of worship with very limited accessory uses. There could be an in-home daycare, group home, and public schools. The proposed PUD amendment would allow performing arts theater art studios and galleries, offices, but only professional offices, not medical offices, broadcasting studios, private school, and place of worship. The setbacks in the SF2 district are 20 feet on the front, 5 feet on the side, 20 on the rear. The proposed PUD for a new development would see that change to 10 feet on all sides. The SF2 development standards for a maximum building height are 2 and 1 half stories. For the proposed PUD development, Black box theater could have a maximum height of 40 feet, but any other use that is established within the PUD in this particular section of the PUD would be limited to one story in height. Additionally, landscaping would be required with the non-residential standards of the code, and the exterior finish of all buildings shall be 100% masonry, keeping with the existing standard in the PUD for other properties. This was considered last month by the Planning and Zoning Commission in the unanimously recommended approval. We did not have any speakers at the public hearing, Staff recommends approval, and our applicants are here this evening over my left shoulder, Scott and Jill Anderson, and they'll be happy to answer any questions as well.

All right. Any questions for anybody? Council Member Fleming.

I just have one question. I just have one question. If we can get back to the picture that shows the land. There you go. So the area that's right beside it, I mean, there's not anything developed on the other side there, right?

On the south side here?

Is anything developed there?

There might be a structure. I don't know if it's an occupied home down here. I do know that the vast majority of this land is floodplain, however, so the development potential of this land is very minimal. I know there's a structure back there, but I wouldn't be able to tell you about the occupancy of that structure.

Okay. Thank you.

Any other questions? All right. This is a public hearing. I'll open up the public hearing on ITU Bay. Wishing to speak. Seeing none, the public hearing is closed. I entertain a motion to adopt the ordinance. So moved. Motion made by Council Member Stephens, second by Council Member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please poll the council.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

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

Yes. I entertain a motion to dispense with the second reading. So moved. Second. Motion made by Council Member Flores, second by Council Member Lee. Any other discussion? And please poll 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 all for being here. I-3, consider public testimony regarding and an ordinance amending Zoning and Development Code, Code of Ordinances 2018 Edition, Section 2-26F, to amend accessory building setback requirements in SF-1, SF-2, and SF-3 zoning districts in Chapters 2, 8, and 10 to update and correct cross-references resulting from recent amendments to the Zoning and Development Code first reading.

So Item I-3 has two different components to it that are both cleanup items or clarification items in the Zoning and Development Code. This first part, we are proposing an amendment to Section 2-26, Subsection F, to clarify language regarding accessory building setbacks in the SF-1, SF-2, and SF-3 zoning districts. So our existing regulation is intended to prevent accessory buildings from being placed within five feet of the property line on the side street. So for corner lots of a single-family home, the side street, meaning not the front of the home, but the side of the home that is on the corner lot, to prevent accessory buildings from being placed within five feet of that property line, keeping with the same setback on other property lines for that property. But the regulation didn't explicitly say that. You could say that it was implied, but it's definitely the intent of the regulation, and that's how staff has been interpreting it and enforcing it for years. So we've had a few challenges to the staff interpretation of that. One of those went to the Zoning Board of Adjustment last year, maybe it was earlier this year. The board ruled in favor with staff's interpretation as well, So in order to prevent future disputes on this language, we just wanted to clean it up in the code to explicitly state this requirement. Part two, staff is updating or proposing updates to outdated section references in chapters two and eight of the Zoning and Development Code. So last October, the city adopted new regulations for the downtown mixed-use zoning districts, including some new land uses, a lot of new supplementary use standards to go along with that. Those inserted new subsections into certain parts of the code, which bumped down other subsections. And that threw off a few references that we didn't catch to those subsections elsewhere in the code. Additionally, the city attorney's office found some erroneous references to chapter 10 regarding public notice procedures. So we're just trying to clean these things up. It is purely clerical. There are no changes to policy or development regulations. Again, just trying to clean some things up here. Again, this went to the Planning and Zoning Commission last month, and they unanimously recommended approval, and we had no public speakers.

All right. Any questions? All right. This is a public hearing, so I'll open up the public hearing on I-3. 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 Lee. Any other discussion? And please, public counsel.

Mayor Procham 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. I'm going to take a motion to dispense with the second reading.

So moved.

Second. Motion made by Council Member Stephens and by Council Member Ortega. Any other discussion? And please vote 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. I, for, consider public testimony regarding an ordinance approving amendments to the Comprehensive Plan 2030, including modified housing policy and implementation strategies for multifamily development, revised descriptions for low, medium, and high-density multifamily residential development types, and updated location criteria for medium and high-density urban multifamily first treatment.

So I'm going to handle items I-4 and I-5 with a single presentation, if that's all right with you all, because they deal with the same policy, both setting new policy and then implementing the development standards for that policy. Item I-4 deals with changes to the comprehensive plan, and item I-5 deals with changes to the zoning and development code. So you don't need to read all this text that I have up here right now. I'll go through it one by one. It just kind of lays out the timeline for what we're talking about, setting the scene a little bit. Pre-2012 development conditions in Round Rock saw, really through the first decade of this millennium, a real building boom in two- and three-story garden-style multifamily walk-up apartment buildings that all generally have this shape and form. You have these external stairwell, external corridors, lots of surface parking in front, in between the building and the street. And at that time, in the late 2000s, 2010, 2011, City council wanted a change in the policy to kind of help rein in this building boom of multifamily, just didn't want to become overrun with projects like this and help to balance some of that housing stock in the city of different types. So council gave city staff the Planning and Development Services Department direction to revisit some of those standards, both in the comprehensive plan and the development and zoning code at the time. So in 2012, those standards were adopted. The changes to the comprehensive plan created some pretty drastic separation standards so that new multifamily zoning for that type of multifamily that was pictured there could not be granted within half a mile of existing zoning or existing multifamily apartment complexes of the same type. Additionally, new multifamily apartment buildings couldn't be built within 500 feet of a single family home or a single family neighborhood. So that effectively had It accomplished the goal of effectively turning off the spigot of the building boom of the new multifamily apartment complexes. Then the second prong to that council's direction that was adopted back then were code amendments that split multifamily development into three different zoning districts. You have MF1, which is low density townhouse style apartments, a maximum of 12 units per acre. The MF2, the medium density multifamily zoning district, which is where most of those three story garden style walk ups would go in with about 20 to 24 units per acre. And then MF3, which is multifamily urban. That's what you see typically with structured parking garages and much more higher densities. And so the post-2012 development conditions that we saw after the implementation of those policies that we got, as intended, more developments that were higher density in nature, structured parking in the back of the building, buildings that were brought a little bit closer to the street wherever possible to present more nicely to the street instead of having surface parking being the first thing that you see there. So we have a couple of these that are up on North Mays Street near the outlet mall and near Embassy Suites and Bass Pro Shops. These are true MF3 apartment buildings in that all of their required parking is in a structured parking garage. On the right side over here, we have two that are somewhat could be considered a hybrid option. They have about half of their parking in a structured garage. The rest of it is surface parking that is generally tucked behind the buildings there. So this is the Warner in Warner Ranch. The Palmer is at the just kind of behind the northeast corner of Palm Valley and A.W. Grimes. And then we only had a couple of MF1 projects that have come through in the time since then, in the last 14 years or so. This one is still under construction. This is Town Homes at Gattis, which is on Gattis School Road by Joyce Lane. All the buildings that are fronting Gattis have been constructed. They're just working on a few buildings in the back right now. And then this one, the other three pictures are from Sonoma Heights at the northeast corner of Kenny Fort and Forest Creek. Technically this one is in a PUD, but It has the MF1 development standards as the base zoning district and is developed generally in accordance with the MF1 ideals. So you can see how they present to the street. They have essentially a subdivision wall here, similar to how you would see in a single family subdivision to grant privacy to the ground floor units, because these are more townhome in nature. So having the private yards at the ground level for those tenants is highly desirable. So we've been developing under those conditions in Round Rock. The multifamily community has been developing under those conditions. But then over the last few years, after another building boom in multifamily apartment complexes that wrapped up about two years ago, so rents were very high for a while. The development community responded, built more units. Rents came crashing down. So that has changed the game completely economically for the development community. There's still people moving here. There's still a need for housing. But our development standards are kind of in this other era with a different policy and a different economic conditions. So right now, with council's direction from last December's strategic plan pre-retreat, city staff went back and re-evaluated these standards that we currently have, trying to find a happy middle ground where we can meet the market where it's at to allow more multifamily development, particularly in that medium density area, but also having high quality development standards and projects that will last, projects that we can be proud of. So we're again tackling this with a two-prong approach. Item I-4 will be the comprehensive plan amendments to kind of change some of those location criteria, the overall policy. And then item I-5 is the zoning and development amendments to implement those changes. So in the comprehensive plan, we're updating our housing policy section, describing the need for the updated multifamily development standards plus flexible parking revisions. just meeting the market where it is, acknowledging the market conditions, updated descriptions of our different types of multifamily, renaming the medium-density district, importantly adjusting the location criteria to remove the separation requirements for medium-density multifamily. So there will no longer be the half-mile buffer preventing new zoning for this type of multifamily from existing type of multifamily, and also removing the buffer from the 500-foot buffer from single-family homes. But we do still have setback requirements. And they were also removing an implementation strategy that was a remnant of comprehensive plans of past councils and past times. To be honest, it kind of was arbitrary. The city was never able to strictly hold to it. This implementation strategy that limited the percentage of medium density multifamily to the goal was only 20% of the city's housing stock, with the remaining 80% being single family. Typically, we've hovered in the 25% to 30% multifamily range, with the rest single family. It's unrealistic, but again, to bring that down to 20%, but again, it was just an arbitrary standard set in a different time, and so we think it's appropriate to remove that goal. Moving into item I-5 for the zoning and development code amendments, making changes to the residential lot and building dimensional standards chart. So this addresses maximum height setbacks, things of the like. So we're going to be replacing the, or I would say getting rid of the minimum front building setback, which says you have to set your building at least X feet away from the front property line. In this case, for the MF2 district, that was 15 feet, and we're going to be replacing that with a maximum setback or a Bill 2 line of 25 feet. So new developments in this MF2 zoning district have to kind of, cannot place their buildings any further back than 25 feet from the street, which helps to guarantee that we're getting parking in the rear, bringing the buildings a little bit closer to the street. We're increasing the maximum building height from four stories to five stories for that medium-density multifamily zoning district, but we're also increasing the setback appropriately for those buildings that choose to go to five stories. So we already have setbacks for one, two, three, and four stories in kind of a stair-step pattern all the way up to 100 feet setback for a four-story building. But since we're adding a fifth story or potential for a fifth story, we're going to increase the setback if a fifth story is opted. Changing the zoning district name, adding flexible parking options, so structured parking is permissible as well as a certain amount of surface parking, detached garages, carports, and tuck-under garages are also allowed. So tuck-under garages are garages that a tenant can drive directly into and then access their unit from that garage from the drive aisle, so it's not a detached garage structure. The current MF2 zoning district has a minimum percentage of 25% of all parking that must be enclosed in garages of any type. We're going to increase that to 35% here to help increase the quality of the buildings that we're having. But again, that can be any type of garage. So the developer could still choose to build a parking garage if they want to in order to meet this. If they don't, then they can have detached garages or tuck under garages to meet that requirement. And then we're updating a design standard incentive that allows for a reduction in that amount of garage parking where a developer chooses to use upgraded building materials on the exterior of their structures. We have design standards for those detached garages to make sure they're complementary to the residential buildings, adding a requirement for at least 25% of all units to have a balcony. But a stipulation of that requirement is that only Juliet balconies are allowed for units that face single-family neighborhoods. So a Juliet balcony doesn't have any occupiable space outside the unit. A typical balcony might have five, six, eight feet of depth. People can set out a bistro table, a chair, whatever they want to do. be able to hang out on their balcony. But a Juliet balcony is really just a grate in front of a floor-to-ceiling window or a sliding glass door that allows for more airflow, if they so choose, more light. But it's not an occupiable balcony. And then we're implementing the MF3 zoning district requirements to add required amenities in the MF2 zoning district in a greater number than were already required, a landscaped open space requirement, as well as special streetscape and landscape features along the right-of-way. So overall, we expect that these updates to the comprehensive plan and the zoning and development code will result in a zoning district that provides flexible parking options that will provide some much needed cost relief to the development community to help meet the housing demand that we're seeing in Round Rock, but still containing standards that ensure we're getting high quality projects. Additionally, we think we're going to get a fewer number of PUDs for multifamily development. A lot of projects will instead opt for straight MF2 zoning which helps to save staff time so that we don't have to spend hours negotiating with the development community for those projects, because we're already taking these standards that we have in many different PUDs and implementing them into our basic MF2 zoning district. This was considered last month by the Planning and Zoning Commission, who unanimously recommended approval. We did not have any speakers at the public hearing. Staff recommends approval, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you've got.

All right. Any questions on I-4? This is a public hearing. Open up the public hearing on I-4. Anybody wish to speak? Seeing that the public hearing is closed, I entertain a motion to stop the ordinance. So moved.

Second.

Motion made by Council Member Tagus and by Council Member Stephens. Any other discussion? And please fill the council.

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. Entertain motion to dispense with the second reading. So moved.

Second.

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

Council Member Fleming. Yes. Councilmember Ortega?

Yes.

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

Yes.

Mayor Morgan?

Yes. I, 5, consider public testimony regarding an ordinance amending the Zone and Development Code, Code of Ordinances 2018 Edition, Section 1-50, Definition Section 2-23, MF2, Multifamily Medium Density District, and Section 2-26. Residential light and building dimensional standards update MF2 design and development standards first reading. Any questions on I-5? Public hearing. I'll open up the public hearing on I-5. Anybody wish to speak? Seeing no, that's none. Public hearing's closed. I guarantee motion to stop the ordinance.

So moved. Second.

Motion made by Councilman Stevens, seconded by Councilman Ortega. Any other discussion? And please pull the council.

Council Member Ortega?

Yes.

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

Yes.

Council Member Fleming? Yes. Mayor Morgan?

Yes. Entertain motion to dispense with the second reading. So moved.

Second.

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

Yes.

Mayor Morgan.

Yes. All right. We've done all the appointments. So council comment regarding items of community interest. Council Member Lee.

I just want to wish Council Member Fleming and Council Member Ortega happy birthday. Good night, Round Rock.

Council Member Flores. Yes. Happy birthdays and good night, Round Rock. Council Member Fleming.

Happy birthday, Council Member Ortega. Good night, Round Rock.

Council Member Ortega. Happy birthday, Ms. Flemings. And to the new reappointed or elected through our boards and commission, congratulations. I look forward to seeing you go into action. Good night, Ron Rock. Council Member Stevens.

Happy birthday, Councilmember Fleming. Happy birthday, Councilmember Ortega. Sarah and her group in the back, and Scott, just congratulations on an incredible first annual Art Fest. I know it's hot, but it sure was amazing to see everybody down here. I think y'all knocked it out of the park. So just please tell your team congratulations. Y'all did a great job. Good night, Round Rock.

Mayor Pro Tem.

I want to echo the happy birthdays. and also the comments about the Art Fest. It was amazing. I was down there for a little bit, and it was a great job. Thank you, guys. Good night, Real Rock.

And I will say happy birthday to Councilman Fleming, and happy birthday to Councilman Ortega. And I hate that I missed the Arts Fest, but I will be there in year two since we know we'll have a year two, so. All right, with that, we'll go in. We've got an executive session. I'll read the executive session. L1, considering executive session is authorized by section 551.087 government code to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to business prospects, considering Round Rock is a location for new or expanded businesses that would bring economic development to the city. We'll recess into executive session at 7.55. All right, we'll reconvene at 8.19. There's no action out of executive session, so we stand adjourned.