City Council - Special Meeting

Welcome everyone out to the special City Council meeting of the city of Sachse today is Wednesday June 24th 2026 the time is greater 613 p.m. We were called to order at 613 p.m. Next item on the agenda is out of to administer the oath of office to the recently elected official Miss Granger any comments on that before we start

I'm sorry. I was turning on the microphones.

Did you want to introduce it at all before we start?

No, that's yours.

Okay. If Mr. LePage will join us down front. And your family, if they want to come.

I instate your name.

You want me to say I instate your name or you just want me to? I, Tim LaFage.

Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute.

That I will faithfully execute.

The duties of city council. The duties of city council. Of the city of Sachse. Of the city of Sachse. State of Texas. State of Texas. And will to the best of my ability.

And will to the best of my ability. preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state. So help me God. Thank you, man. Thank you. Got it. Give it to the boss.

See you later, Chance. Where are you going, Chance? You've got to stay until the end. Yes, you've got to do the technical logins here real quick. He does get to cast a vote tonight. She will note it for the record. No, that's OK. OK, I just want to take this. Did he leave yet? No, he didn't leave yet. I just want to take another opportunity to thank Mr. Lindsay for his service to Saxon and the community. And as he said in his remarks earlier, he's not going anywhere. And I know that Mr. Lindsay will not be shy in telling his now former colleagues what they should or shouldn't do. So again, thank you, Chance. Thank you for everything you did for us today. We really appreciate it. And also, Mr. LePage, welcome. Welcome to Sac City Council. Welcome to your adventure. It's about to begin. With that, the adventure continues. Next item on the agenda is item three, consider approving the June 23, 2026 special meeting minutes. Any discussion on this item from council? Ms. Howarth.

If there's no discussion, I'll make a motion to approve item three as presented.

I have a motion by Ms. Howard to approve item A3 as presented. Do I have a second? Mayor Pro Tem Franks? Second. Second by Mayor Pro Tem Franks. Any further discussion? Hearing none, please cast your ballot. Motion carries unanimously. Next item on the agenda is item B, action items. Item one, consider electing the mayor pro tem for the 2026-2027 term. Ms. Granger.

Yes, thank you. Good evening, mayor and council and new council member. Every year after each general election, the mayor pro tem is elected by council. In your packet, you have the mayor pro tems from the last 10 years. And so you all may talk about how you'd like to make that happen this year.

Thank you, Ms. Granger. Discussion from the council. Mr. Prestenburg. There's no further discussion.

Hold on. I'll try. Is there any there's no future this further discussion like to make a motion to nominate someone I Would is there any discussion before motions? carry on I'd like to make a nomination to Mayor Pro Tem Frank's to continue on for one additional year.

I have a motion by mr. Pressenberg to reelect Brett Frank's as mayor Pro Tem for 2026 2027 to add a second Ms. Howard?

Second.

I have a second by Ms. Howard. Any further discussion? Hearing none, please cast your vote. Motion carries unanimously. Next item on the agenda is item B2, consider appointments of council liaisons to the city's boards and commissions. Ms. Granger.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. Again, after each general election, the council has the opportunity to review all of the council liaisons to both the city boards and to regional organizations. In your packet, you have the list of current liaisons, and so you can... Leave them as they are, or you can make adjustments as you see fit.

Thank you, Ms. Granger. Questions, comments, discussion from council? Mr. Prestenburg.

I had a question on former council member Lindsey's planning and zoning commission. What is the requirements of that, like from a monthly, quarterly standpoint? Do we have that on?

I know they meet twice a month.

Yes. They are scheduled to meet twice a month. It is canceled if they don't have any items to be reviewed at that time. So they will, it is not required that they meet each month, so it could be once, twice, or none.

Ms. Beeler.

I have had the privilege of being the liaison to Wiley ISD, and I know Councilman LePage is also very involved with Wiley ISD. So if you would like to get your feet wet with being a liaison to Wiley ISD, I would love to turn that over to you if you're interested. Absolutely. So if there's no further discussion, I would like to make a motion to nominate Councilman LePage for the Wiley ISD liaison.

Most of my miss Buehler to nominate. Mr. LePage to be the Wiley ISD liaison to have a second Mr. Prestonburg It's more of a clarification.

Are we we want to do all these at once or just one? Well, we need a second first and okay second.

Okay now you can talk about yes Do we want to do all nominations at once or just? Well, we can do them separately So if you're okay with doing them separately, we had the one motion on the table. We can sort of bring forward other motions. Yeah, okay Miss Howard, he did. Okay. Okay, I have a motion again from Ms. Buehler to appoint Councilman Lepage, Mr. Lepage, to be the Wiley ISD liaison, and we have a second for that. All right, Mr. Pressberg, any further discussion? Hearing none, please cast your ballot.

Motion carries unanimously. Mayor Propt and Franks. I want to do these all, the rest in one motion, if possible, but I'm going to leave it up for discussion. I don't want to do this one at a time. Councilwoman Howarth is EDC. Any issues, discussion? No, I didn't think so. Mr. Millsap, Councilmember Millsap, Library Board, you go with that? Okay. I don't have a city board currently, so I will take planning and zoning unless someone else wants it. If you were asking about it, Mr. Prestenburg, certainly up to that. I was just kind of throwing that in there. Ms. Bueller, no longer has ISD parks and MDD. You're good with that? No, I don't even have to ask that question. And Council Member Prestenburg, you have garden ISD and animal shelter. Any other discussion on those? Hold on.

The only question I had was I didn't know if animal shelter would be a great one to just cut your teeth on type, you know, from a new perspective. And I wouldn't mind taking planning and zoning if Mayor Pro Tem Franks, you're not one. Noted. Okay. But Council Member LePage, is the Animal Shelter Advisory Committee something you'd be interested in? Or, hey, speak now. If you want to talk, you can hit the button on there.

Yeah. I got to turn you on.

It says push, so. There we go. But I think it's been pushed too much that you barely see it. No, I'm fine with that. I can do it. Okay. I like dogs.

Okay. Yeah, we meet, it's usually quarterly, and then we meet here. You're a voting member of one of the different boards. Actually, they combine the boards, so you just have one meeting now, so. You get to meet with the veterinarians and the staff, and they do really phenomenal work. It's just, yeah, I've done it for four years. I like to try something new, and this is a great time to try it.

Can I finish? Go ahead. Okay. So, Mr. Mayor, you have the NTTA, the COG, NCT 911, and RTC. Any objections to continuing any of those? No, and Ms. Granger, I think some of those are by statute.

Is that? Correct. Not statute, but tradition.

I believe it is tradition for the mayor to have the rules. Those four.

I would like to continue those, yes. Okay. I would like to make a motion that we reappoint Mayor Bakerstaff for NTTA, the COG, NCT 9-11, RCT. Mayor Pro Tem Franks will continue with doing nothing in the city. Council Member Howarth will continue with the EDC. Council Member Millsap will make a motion that he stay on the Library Board. And Council Member LaPage be the Wiley ISD and Animal Shelter Advisor Committee. Councilwoman Buehler will be Parks and NDD. Councilman Prestenburg will be the Planning and Zoning. And Garland ICA, I apologize. I think I got them all. Are we good, Ms. Granger, on that?

I believe so, yes. But Mayor Pro Tem Franks does not have a board. Did I hear that correctly? Correct.

No one likes me. It's okay. I'll go cry at home.

I also would just want to also note that the council liaison to the Animal Shelter Board is also the chairperson of that board. Just to make sure you have all the information.

As your staff report in duly notes I notice Miss Howard did you have me? The mic is yours I will second that motion second my miss Howard mr. Granger again you have those Okay any further discussion on the motion Hearing none, please cast your ballot Motion carries unanimously. Next item on the agenda is item three. Consider authorizing the city manager to utilize contingency funds in the amount not to exceed $40,000 for the mowing and vegetation management of the CPKC railroad right-of-way areas along State Highway 78 in Sachse. Ms. Nash.

Mayor and council, this issue was alluded to at the last council meeting, and I know it has been a topic of conversation in the community regarding CPKC's just complete lack of interest in mowing our railroad rights away. As you know, the prior ownership of the railroad mowed that for decades, and now CPKC is exercising their rights as an entity outside of federal jurisdiction to not mow anymore. You asked us to come back and talk about some of those challenges and some possible next steps as to what we could do moving forward, and Ms. Rose will be here to do that presentation. Hello, Miss Rose.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm sad no one wants to stay for the railroad conversation.

It's a riveting topic.

I know. I can't say that I'm shocked. So we will have a quick conversation about this tonight. Just an overview of what we'll discuss. We'll talk very briefly about railroad history. We're not going to go all the way down that path. We'll talk about some mowing challenges. I'll show you some photos, and then we'll go over next steps. So Sachse has approximately three miles of railroad track that runs through the city. It was previously owned and operated by Kansas City Southern until the system merged with Canadian Pacific, creating CPKC in 2023. Prior to this merger, the railroad right-of-way was consistently maintained by KCS. It was infrequent when we had problems, but when we did, we were able to get in touch with people and they would take care of them. Since the merger, unfortunately, as Ms. Nash alluded, the city started receiving frequent complaints because CPKC has a completely different philosophy about rights of way vegetation maintenance. In response to the conversations that we had with residents and the complaints that we were receiving, staff reached out to CPKC and received some initial contact. We went back and forth several times trying to get them to come out and maintain the area We didn't have much luck with that we ended up involving Lance Congressman Lance Gooden's office and had them come to our assistance connecting us with the right-of-way vegetation manager for CPKC At which time miss Nash, and I had a meeting with that individual was a promising meeting where he was encouraging about the maintenance and explained that Canadian Pacific didn't have a significant amount of experience mowing and maintaining the railroad rights of way in areas that are as warm as Texas. So this has been a learning curve for them. But they indicated that they would be a good partner with us and that they would help maintain the area. Well, it is now June 2026. And you can see that hasn't necessarily happened. We reached out to them beginning in March, asking for some additional clarification. And that's when they revealed to us that they really don't have to adhere to our local standards. Their priority with railroad safety is relative to right-of-way clearance not aesthetics and that they view the railroad tracks as industrial areas The city's response back was we don't think the residents that back up to the railroad would agree with that And now we are at an impasse Just so you know everybody's on the same page the mowing challenges. We've got three miles of track that run through the city. That's a significant representation of our community It runs adjacent to our major State Highway 78 commercial corridor, but also backs up to churches, businesses, and residential areas. We have had an extremely wet spring and summer, which has led to significant growth in the area. The railroad did apply growth inhibitors, but that has not seemed to deter the plants out in the railroad right away. They're very robust. And again, just they contend that They don't need to maintain it for aesthetic purposes. They need to make sure that the track is clean, and that's all they're committing to doing. After many, many rounds of emails back and forth, they agreed to allow us to take on the cost of maintaining it if we hired their contractors and their flaggers. And that would be solely at our expense, and that we could do that just a couple times a year. And just as a reminder, any maintenance in that area is considered railroad property, so we have to have their permission to be out there for safety reasons. So here's a bird's eye view of the railroad track through Sachse. And I've highlighted these zones here because I'm going to show you photos as of Tuesday afternoon of the conditions, just in case you haven't been out there recently. So this is zone one. This is looking up State Highway 78. Along that track, you can see the area that's maintained by the parks crews. And then you can see where the railroad right of way takes over. And there's a significant difference in the growth there. This is off Vicksburg before the Cornwall area looking down south. on State Highway 78, and you can see how high those grass and weeds are adjacent to those residential properties. This is looking down at Floyd Street, and you can see the overgrowth there. Looking towards 5th, you can see this is by the cemetery area. This is over by the Walmart commercial area off Woodbridge. You can see it's tape measure there for reference. And then again, a different angle of the Walmart area. So you can see it looks different in various areas, but the overgrowth is pretty significant throughout the three miles. So as far as next steps, staff is seeking council's permission to use the remainder of the contingency fund that's outlined in section 7.08 of the city's charter to cover the cost of the mowing with CPKC Unfortunately, we don't know what those costs are yet because they are CPKC contractors and mowers and we would have to work through them But we wanted to seek your permission to utilize those funds since this wasn't a budgeted item And so we could look to provide relief for our residents Before the summer takes off so with that I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have Thank You miss Rose questions comments from council miss Buehler

Thank you, Ms. Rose, for the presentation. I know this has been looming in the background for a while. My question was, you said in there that we're going to get to mow it a couple of times a year. Is that correct? Yes. Is there a frequency, or it's kind of up to them?

They have alluded to allowing us to do it two to three times a year. I think it would be helpful to get started, and then we could look at a good... Cadence of the mowing to make sure that we provide as much relief as possible throughout the year But that would ultimately be determined by the railroad because it is technically their property.

Okay Are we anticipating multiple services for $40,000? Do you have it? Any kind of ballpark that you think this might be just based on the part that you do moe.

Mm-hmm the same length I know that last year when we use the city's commercial contractor It cost about $5,000 to mow the entire stretch. That's the city's contractor. He already has a relationship with us and an existing arrangement with us. So it's hard to say what CP Casey's arrangements would be, but I think 5,000 is a good frame of reference for a single pass.

So 40,000 is up to, and we're hoping much, much lower to get us through the rest of the year until October. I imagine when the new budget starts. Yes, ma'am.

Thank you. You're welcome.

Ms. Sowers.

I know when we had this discussion quite a while ago, maybe six months ago, that there was some noise.

Ms. Sowers, if you could.

Oh, there was some conversation with the guy from Canadian Pacific that they would do they were open to doing some native plant and wildflower planting or maintenance or something. Have we looked into that further where we could put native plants in that maybe wouldn't need to be mowed as regularly?

Your memory is correct. It was October of 2025 when we had that conversation. And it was a very promising one where they talked about the pollinator communities and the native plantings and this mowing cadence. But when we checked back in in March, which is when they were scheduled to distribute the growth inhibitor, we heard a very different story of their plan. So the hope is that we can re-engage with them on this mowing schedule using their contractor and then restart the conversation about the native plantings and the pollinator communities.

Okay, yeah, because I'd like to see something, if we're going to start spending money on it to maintain it ourselves, maybe do something that we can decrease the mowing frequency and up the, you know,

usefulness of at least the plant matter that's one of the things I talked about with Miss Nash and with Lance Whitworth was Looking at a variety of approaches if they'll allow us to do so so a combination of mowing and growth inhibitor Just so it's not purely mowing all the time. Okay. Thank you.

You're welcome I've been on several of these emails over the past year and a half and There's a couple things one is They don't have to let us do anything.

Correct.

They have chosen to do that, which is good. But to piggyback off Miss Howard's points about different vegetation, things like that, ultimately, whether it's that or our mowing schedule, I know we have to use our contractor Everything part of this has to be okayed by them, correct?

Yes, sir.

So unfortunately, like you said, their story has changed over time. I hope it doesn't change again, but it could. So I just want to make sure everybody understands that this is what we have to go on now, but it could change. We hope it doesn't. Is that a fair way to carry on? Yes, sir.

Yes. And we'd like to think that it changed for a good reason, and maybe we just don't know that yet, but... We understand things change. We just want to make sure that we are aligned with them as a partner.

Right. Yeah. I think this is a tough one because normally when we bring stuff like this to council, it's all our control. And council either says, hey, spend the money or don't spend the money. In this case, if the council does say, hey, you can spend up to this amount, what the expectation is to be Proper in the sense that we are going by what they had telling us today I hope it doesn't change like say maybe will change for the better But if it doesn't happen the way we say it tonight, it's most likely because they changed their rules. Yes, sir.

Okay Mr. Millside Okay from your conversation or your comments. I'm gathering that they're saying we're going to have to use their contractor. Yes, sir are we going to try to negotiate to where we can use our contractor or I

We have attempted to do that. We offered to do that last year. They allowed us to do it one time, but they indicated now moving forward that we would have to use their contractors that have the correct safety clearances to be on the railroad tracks and in the right of way.

Okay, so we don't know whether their contractors contracted just to mow or to clean up any debris that might be there.

We don't know that specifically at this moment, but I promise you that is a question that we will ask them.

Because if they're not going to pick up debris, maybe we need to also ask if we have permission to pick up debris as needed.

Absolutely.

Because that could get to be a real problem. Growth inhibitors, my experience in past previous times, is controversial at the best. They're selective. They work better on some species of plants and not very well on others. So when you do that, The ones that it works on don't grow very fast. It makes the others look like they're growing faster. So it creates a problem. And I don't know what chemical we're using as growth inhibitors. A malic hydroxide has always been the best one that I've ever found that would be more consistent with growth on all types of plants. So that might be something that we want to look at.

Yeah, we can certainly engage with them on that. They did not disclose what they used out there. They just told us that they were That was their main plan. And then we sent them photos of how it isn't working.

So we're at their mercy on pricing because we'll have to use our contractors.

Unfortunately.

So we have no clue as to how far $40,000 may go yet.

That's correct.

Okay. Mr. Prestenberg.

Yes. Hey, thank you, Lauren, for this. Of course. First thing, what all is considered vegetation? So trees, if they need to be pruned, is that on them? Are they going to come do that, or do we have to do that?

All of it, if it's within their right of way, would be considered vegetation.

Okay, but if a tree is from a storm like we had, like across from the Golden Chick, there was all those downed trees. I'm assuming they've been picked up. I remember we've complained about it. I don't know. They're still there? Okay.

They're still there.

I've tried not to eat there as frequently, so I don't see them in the drive-thru anymore. I understand. So we have no matter of recourse from that standpoint to come pick up your dead trees?

No, and I didn't include this in the presentation, but we know through our city attorney, who also represents other North Texas cities, that this is something that other even much larger cities are struggling with. The city of Richardson even put out a flyer frequently asked questions about railroad right-of-way maintenance because They too are struggling to get assistance from them and it seems like the change Corresponds with this merger.

Okay, but yeah, it is it's a challenge Okay, so that leaves me my next question was that three-mile segment on both sides. You got Wiley and you got Garland So who does there so their own cities do that or I?

That I don't know we could look into that and see if we could get some information.

It should be CPKC if The same rules apply right well I just be curious because if you know we're only 33,000 people right so they might know who cares about them, but $40,000 is $40,000 yes, it is so and then do we as a city I Is it one of those things they just get free pass-through right away for their three-mile segment? Not that we're going to set up a toll booth there, right? But is there anything that we allow or benefits them that we provide, I guess?

I have to look to Ms. Nash. I'm not aware of anything. I think railroads have super preemption.

Yes. Okay. All right, I'm just curious if, you know, hey, they have to renew anything every so many years to say, you know, we still want to come to your city or whatever.

It's good to be a railroad. It is. Just like Monopoly. Just like Monopoly.

If we own four of them. Yeah. So, but, okay, so my questions, though, are... What do our neighboring cities do with their same stretch of, because, I mean, Wiley's got a long railroad stretch. So I can't imagine they're forking over $50,000 a quarter. Yeah. So OK, that'd be a great figure. Sure.

Yeah, happy to look into that.

And then just from a state standpoint, I know we have the ear of some of our representatives. But that would be like, hey, I know railroad, they swing a big stick there, but man, There's a lot of cities that probably would get on board with something like that. Like, hey, just cut your grass. Yeah. Pick up dead trees.

That would be a very easy piece of legislation. Right.

So I think we could all get behind that, right? Yeah. Anyway, thank you.

Yeah, of course.

Mayor Proctor and Franks.

Yeah, Lauren, we've been talking about this for a while.

A long time.

Yeah. I'd say years.

Years. It feels like years.

You know, I like how the mayor said it. I'm going to say it a little bit more sarcastically, that they are allowing us to use their contractor. They won't do anything, but they'll let us spend our money and do it, but they won't take care of it. But I know if I lived there and my property backed up, I would be very upset. My question would be, do we have the, we don't have the ability to use even the city crew, the parks crew to go out there and mow anything.

We've done it once before.

We don't have permission to do it. That's correct. No permission. Yeah. And more importantly, do we have the schedule? Lance was here earlier, but I don't see him anymore. But do they have this schedule, I'm going to call it bandwidth, to absorb that?

No.

I wouldn't think so.

Yeah.

And as the mayor said, this is, you know, they don't have to let us use it. It's a great scapegoat for them. in my opinion, to let us pay for it. But if I live there, I would be very upset with the lack of any action, whether it be by us, by the river, whatever. So we're kind of rocking a hard place here. We're getting into the summer months, so that's going to help. The heat will burn off a lot of it, but not everything.

Ms. Nash and I talked about trying to get to the end of October where that growth period tends to calm down. You never know with Texas weather. And we've also discussed to the mayor's point, it's very difficult not to be able to do something for your residents. Normally, we have quite a bit of control and we can help them. This situation has been particularly frustrating for staff because we completely understand their issues and it doesn't seem to matter how much we reach out to the railroad. They don't particularly, they're not particularly concerned with the situation.

Or how much the residents complain. Correct. Doesn't seem to change anything.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah, of course.

Ms. Atworth.

I was just going to make a point that the railroad, regulations were written in the 1800s by railroad barons that had the money to get the legislation that they liked. And they tell the federal government what to do when there's derailments. We don't have to tell you. And the federal government gets surprised sometimes that the railroad supersedes some of their authority. So the fact that we're arguing with them about grass as a municipality, I can just imagine how much they care.

Rocking a hard place and we're you know We should all be have the power that the railroad has Yes, they might be one of the first lobbies.

They yeah, they're really early and they they Really wrote those laws to favor the power of the railroad. So if they don't care they don't care. I

Yeah, and I would just add, too, I will say Mr. Gooden's office has been great, our U.S. representative. And even they said, yeah, we don't really care what you think. The railroad said that to them, which is based on what you said. It's not surprising. So but I do want to give them kudos. Absolutely. Them getting involved, them sending emails theirself. through the railroad and they, again, just laughed at them like they laughed at us.

Jennifer Alden has been essential in helping us even get this far. So we really appreciate her.

And again, like I said, I do hope that what they've portrayed in emails lately, we will get to do. It's just that I just want everybody, again, to have the expectations that if it does change, number one, I know staff will let us know. But number two, it's not like Ms. Rose put very well. It's very frustrating because we know there's an issue. We want to do something about it, and we're pretty limited. But this is a start, and hopefully that will help. Can I just make one more clarification? Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Nash.

Mayor and council, I just want to make a quick clarification on this. So the request tonight for access to that balance of $40,000 that's in the city manager's contingency, we just want to make sure that we have the accessibility of those funds for the rest of the year. to manage the mowing throughout the end of the fiscal. We may not need all of it. We may only need a portion of it. And with the council taking a recess in July and the mowing already a problem, we wanted to be able to get on top of this before we come back to you in August and at least have a really strong understanding of what we're going to have to do through the end of the fiscal. So we will come back to you well before the end of the fiscal year with a plan on how we'll do the mowing through October. and then come up with a plan on how we want to manage it next year. So this just gives us an opportunity to make sure that we can get this taken care of for these residents and for the aesthetics of the community, as you can see how terrible it looks.

Thank you, Ms. Nash. Other questions or comments? I don't have any speaker's cards for this item. So with that, I entertain motions for more discussion. Mr. Fessenberg. There's no further discussion. I'd like to make a motion to approve item B3 as presented. I have a motion by... Mr. Pressenberg, to approve item B3 as presented, do I have a second? Ms. Howard?

Second.

Second by Ms. Howard. Any further discussion? Did you have something there? Nope. Okay. I don't hear any more discussion, so with that, please cast your ballots. Motion carries unanimously. Next item on the agenda is item C, discussion items. Item one, offer the first caption reading of an ordinance granting to Encore Electric Delivery Company, LLC, its successors and assigns an electric power franchise to use the present and future streets, alleys, highways, public utility easement, public ways, and public property of the city of Sachse, Texas, providing for compensation, therefore, providing for an effective date and a term of said franchise, providing for written acceptance of this franchise, providing for the repeal of all existing franchise ordinances to Encore Electric Delivery Company LLC, its predecessors and assigns, and finding that the meeting at which this ordinance is passed is open to the public. This is the first reading. Ms. Nash.

Mayor and Council, as you pointed out, Mayor, this is the first reading of our renewal with our Encore agreement with Encore and so David will just briefly explain to you what needs to happen relative to this tonight And then what will happen moving forward for an encore agreement. I will say In my years of city management. I've never had an encore agreement expire. These are lengthy agreements And so this one this one kind of came up on us and we do have to have a first reading and a second So we had to get this in under the wire. We will stay under our current agreement even during this time period until you all are able to come back for approval in August. But I'll let David Baldwin explain all the finer details.

Hello, Mr. Baldwin. You're going to make sense of all this, I guess.

I'll try, but honestly, between the two of you, Mayor and Ms. Nash, you've pretty much stated everything. So the city's current 20-year electricity franchise agreement with Encore expires July 31st, 2026. So the city has worked with Encore to prepare a renewal agreement for council approval. The agreement mirrors the current franchise agreement. There are minor adjustments in case law. There's fixes of duplication and typos. But if approved, this agreement will be extended for 20 years, expiring on July 31, 2046. Our charter says that a summary of an ordinance granting, renewing, or extending, extending or amending a public service or utility franchise shall be read at one meeting of the city council and then shall be available to the public at one additional meeting. Also within 15 days following the first reading of the ordinance summary, The ordinance summary shall be published once in the newspaper of general circulation. So, Mayor, thank you. You've already done that first reading. That has happened now. You're welcome. Plans are that staff will publish in the Sachse News that same item that you read on July 9th. A second reading and council action is scheduled for August 3rd to approve the agreement. That's all I have for this item. No further slides.

Thank you, Mr. Baldwin. Questions, comments from council? Mayor Fulton Franks.

Yeah, this is not for electric service to the city. This is just for the franchise utilities. Correct. There is not another company in this area that does this. So this is more secretarial administrative business here. I just want to put that in contention. Now, the only other question I have, the only real question I have is for it expires July 31st. But as you Kind of mentioned this our current contract is going to extend the past the current expiration date Alright, that's the only issue I could see coming up and what happens in that dead period but it seems like it's being addressed It's per our attorney's office.

Their agreement will remain in effect And I'm assuming this is something we'll take up in August August 3rd August 3rd. Yeah. Oh, there it is right there. Okay Other questions or comments from council? Thank you, Mr. Baldwin. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

This is a discussion item, so no action will be necessary tonight. Next item on the agenda is Item D, Executive Session. Item 1, the City Council will convene into Executive Session, present Section 551.071, Subsection 2 of the Texas Government Code for the purpose of seeking legal consultation with the City Attorney regarding Section 363.112, Subsection A of the Texas Health and Safety Code and City Ordinance Number 3980, prohibiting the processing or disposal of solid waste. The time is granted. 6 55 p.m.. We are adjourned into executive session at 6 55 p.m.. Okay, we are reconvened into open session the time is greater 7 56 p.m.. We are reconvened into open session at 7 56 p.m.. Next item on the agenda is item E, action resulting from executive session. Item 1, taking action as a result of executive session regarding section 363.112, subsection A of the Texas Health and Safety Code and City Ordinance number 3980, prohibiting the processing or disposal of solid waste. No action necessary. Item F, adjournment. The time is, Granger?

7.56 p.m. We are adjourned at 7.56 p.m.