City Council - Regular Meeting

I now call this August 20th meeting of the City of Santa Fe City Council. Natalie, roll call, please.

Mayor Brandon Noto.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Marks.

Here.

Council Member Schrader.

Here.

Council Member McKamey.

Here.

Council Member Jeanette.

Here.

And Council Member Dickerson. Here. We have a quorum.

Thank you. I now invite Pastor Jake Bigford with First Baptist Church of Atalama to come up and do the invocation. We'll do the process together.

Let's pray. Father in heaven, we thank you that you've given us another glorious day in this life on earth. And regardless of what we have done today, Lord, it was you who brought the sin up this morning. And regardless of what happens this evening, when we lay down tonight, we trust that you'll bring it up again tomorrow. And in the meantime, Lord, may you help us to live as you've called us to live by the great commitment to love you with all that we are, our heart, our mind, our soul, and our strength, and to love our neighbor as we love ourself. Lord, we thank you and we love you, and we ask that you bless this meeting, and it's in your name that we pray. Amen.

of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice Well, good evening. I appreciate y'all being here. It's always good to see people out in the audience coming to be involved in their city government. I have a mayor's spirit of award and the recipient actually showed up this month. So that makes it even more special. But Kim, I'd ask you to come on up and let me present this award to you. Kim Stellhorn, I don't know that I could really do as good of a job introducing you or telling people about you as good as you could, but I know that you've been in Alta Loma for a long time. and was on the Altsaloma Fire Department. Oh, Arcadia. Excuse me. Excuse me. Don't hit me. Arcadia Volunteer Fire Department. Worked at the grocery store. And you've been around Santa Fe for a long time. A few years. Done a lot of good. Since I've known you, I just see you so involved in all of the city functions, the charity functions around town with your insurance agency always sponsored where you can. I love your historical excerpts that you put on Facebook about the good old days of Altaloma and Arcadia. But as you know, this Mayor's Spirit Award that was started by our former Mayor Bill Pittman is to recognize leaders in our community who don't seek recognition, but just do what they do because it's the spirit of Santa Fe and it's the right thing to do. and you exemplify that as good as anybody i know in this community and so i want to thank you for everything that you do for all the historical facts that you share we're coming up on our 50th anniversary of the city here pretty soon and i look forward to twisting your arm a little bit into getting some some stories and and some things together for that but uh just proud to know you thank you for everything that you do for the city of santa fe thank you

I thought I was going to be sick tonight. Couldn't make it.

Yeah, yeah. For those of y'all that don't know, Kim is also our representative on the Southeast Texas Housing Corporation Board, the Seth Board. And Kim has done a lot of things to represent us on that board. But some of the big things were he helped get a generator for the senior living facility over there behind Big Chief. helped us with some grants. We've got some grants coming to our police station and our fire department in the city that we're going to partner with his ministries again. So Kim's been a big advocate for Santa Fe, does a lot in this community, and, Kim, we really appreciate you and everything that you do. Thank you.

Thank you, Kim.

All right, Council, we now have item number two, presentation and approval of minutes from the July 16, 2026 regular meeting. Those were provided to you in your packet for your review.

Make a motion to accept the minutes as presented.

Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve those minutes as presented. Council, is there any further discussion? Hearing none, Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Schrader.

Yes.

Council Member McKamey.

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette.

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson.

Yes.

And Council Member Marks.

Yes. Motion passes. Thank you, Council. We will now have presentation of depart reports. Mr. Collins, good evening.

All right. Good evening, everybody. Let's jump right on in. And we are going to start with the Municipal Court. We had 218 cases filed for the month of July, 152 warrants issued, they cleared 115 warrants, and they brought in almost $42,000, which is a significant increase. So we are very excited about that at the court that people are paying their fines and tickets there. Next, let's step into our finance department update. I'm proud to announce for the month of June that our sales tax went up tremendously from 2025, which is quite the change from the last few months. We went up roughly 20% from June of 2025 to June of 2026. So that brings up our fiscal year to date to 4.6%, which I think it was at 2.7 or 3% last month. So that definitely helped bring our sales tax numbers up. So we're really excited for that here at City Hall. Next, as we always do, I go over our top 10 sales tax contributors. So, of course, always number one is Sloan Building Supply. Amazon takes the place for second and third due to the wholesalers on there. Fourth, HEB. Fifth, Tractor Supply. Sixth is Reliant Energy. Seventh is Dollar General. 8th is Santa Fe Big Horn and 9th is McDonald's and then 10th is O'Reilly Auto Parts. They are very successful here in Santa Fe. It's definitely interesting to me that Big Horn goes above McDonald's, but great to see two restaurants in that mix. All right, next we're gonna move to community services. So there were 213 permits issued for the month of July. We only had four new residential permits filed. We collected almost $88,000 in permit fees, and then we completed 114 inspections. All right, next for the rentals for the month, that went down tremendously. We only had two rentals at Thelma Weber. For the month of July, we had three rentals at the Runge Community Center and then one for the pavilion, and we collected $330. All right, let's move over to our police department. We had almost, we had 3,269 calls for service. I know at the last meeting it was requested for how many calls for service of that number did we do from the ESD, and that was 172 calls that we received for the ESD of that number.

Is that in addition to this or is that included?

That is included in this number. It was how many? It was 172. And then we had 60 arrests for the month of July. They gave 148 traffic stop citations out of 459 traffic stops. For our CID, they had 30 new cases, so they have 85 active cases right now, and they cleared 28 cases for the month of July. Next for Public Works, there were 68 segments of streets that were patched in July. They excavated the south side of Tallow Street and then E and a half from 646 South going to North and then also Avenue E from the outfall to FM 646 South Ditch. As far as paving for the month of July, they had Avenue R and then Peck Street. And then as far as drainage, there was 44 linear feet of new culverts that were set and then 20 feet of linear culverts to recorrect drainage. All right, let's move on to the library. We had almost 2,900 total in circulation. We have 107 active accounts for the month of July. We had almost 2,700 people that came into the doors. So our per capita ratio is 17.88. And so our taxpayers saved almost $21,000 for the month of July at the library. all right to our fire marshal he completed two burn pile inspections he had 45 burn permit renewals and then a total of 180 active burn permits for the month of july we are under a burn ban now we followed in alignment with the county i know that it did rain but it's still dry out there Be that as it may, we had two fires within the Santa Fe City limits. He did one fire plan review, and he completed five fire safety inspections. As far as code enforcement goes, he had eight new cases for the month of July. He closed four cases, and then he has 19 open cases that are ongoing. All right, any questions? I know that Councilman Schrader had a couple images added in. I'm just going to scroll to them. That way you can talk if you want to. Right here.

This is... Fourth Street. I'd like to recognize our street department and Billy Crip on. This is what the work of the new paver does. And when you have employees that are invested in the city they work for, and you give them good equipment and the equipment to do it, look at that seam right there. Look how straight that is. That's a good job. That's their second row. And you can't see the middle seam on it. You can't see the transitions when they added the new truck to the hopper. Excellent work. Excellent work. And this is what we're paying for. When we buy the new equipment and we invest in our people that do our work, you get a quality product. And I want everybody just to, you know, if you get a chance to go down Fourth Street, that's one good job. I look forward to seeing a lot more of them.

I appreciate everything that y'all do and all of our staff day in and day out to keep Santa Fe rolling. All right. Council, any questions for Mr. Collins? Nope.

Oh, I've got one more thing. One more thing. Can we add spraying? You don't have to put the streets and all, but just put your areas. Yes.

Because I know y'all are hitting it. Yes, sir. We're divided up in six sections. Right. We'll start adding that. If you will.

I just want to put it on there because y'all are doing it and I see it.

Yes, sir.

All right, item number five, citizen comments. Any person with city-related business not on this agenda may speak to the council. Time is limited to three minutes in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act. The city council may not deliberate on the comments. Personal attacks will not be allowed, and personal matters should be addressed to the city manager during normal business hours. Looks like we have one person that signed up. Matt. Come on, Matt. Welcome. Good to see you again.

It's been a while. A few things. I like to Thanks, Billy. He did my ditches. Appreciate it. Setting the call work, man. It's just nice.

If you'll just state your full name, Matt, for the record. It's Matt Bell, 3502 Avenue and a half, Santa Fe.

I just got a couple questions. Now that the Centerpoint fiasco is done, are they looking at putting any deceleration lanes in to turn into their place or not? That's one. The other one, again, there's going to be more truck traffic. We probably need to get a turn lane on 1764 to turn to 646. There's nothing there. You stay at the light forever. These trucks will be coming around. It's going to be a big, big hassle. The other thing was, I guarantee you they're going to use this place for a stand down period when we have storms. There's going to be a bunch of people there. So my issue is, Are they going to have their own diesel tanks and no gas tanks for their own trucks so they don't have to use what we have here? Because if I need diesel and I've got three trucks in front of me from Centerpoint, that's going to be a bad day.

Thank you.

I was making sure we kind of cover the area that when all doesn't come up say what happened here I just like to know that we're all on the same page Back area off Avenue Q. Yeah, that is for if we have a storm like that and we do bring in stuff It's a huge You can't see it now for they put the big fence up and it looks great if you go down that if you would look at it the fence and the landscape and they did it's a great job, but We took a tour of it, and that whole fact, I mean, it's huge, and that's exactly what it is. That's fair enough.

Matt, I'll be happy to visit with you about it. I've got answers to all of these questions. Okay. Just unfortunately, since it's not on the agenda, we can't discuss it. But I'll get with you, of course, or Mr. Collins, either one of us. All these have been addressed. I appreciate it, Matt. Thanks for coming. It's not a requirement to sign in. Is there anybody else that would like to come and address council for any item not on the agenda? All right, we will move on to A, business one, the consent agenda, consideration and possible action. Is there any council members that are requesting any of these items to be pulled off of the consent agenda? If not, I'll entertain a motion.

I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda as presented. Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Jeanette?

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson? Yes. Council Member Marks?

Yes.

Council Member Schrader?

Yes.

And Council Member McKinney?

Yes. Motion passes. Thank you, Council. All right, item number two. Is Jason Gerringer here? Yeah, he just walked in. You're right on time.

Yes, sir.

So... You can come right on up here to the podium.

Yes, sir.

And address council, let me go ahead and read the item here. All right. Consideration and possible action. Approval of an Eagle Scout project proposal from Jason Gerringer for the installation of flag retirement boxes at a designated sitting location.

Hello, I'm Jason Gerringer. I'm a part of Troop 628 and my Eagle Scout project is flag retirement boxes. After 4th of July, after Memorial Day, you can drive down the street and you see flags on the ground or people just burn the flags at random. That's not the proper way to do it. So with this, I am proposing the idea that I can install a wooden box on the other side of the counter here or anywhere it's up for debate. and that would serve as a place to where we can rest the flags until they are properly burned and the troop 628 i will come and check it regularly regularly but after i graduate and i am no longer able well i'm still able to but if i go off to college the troop will then take it over and they can come and check it that way you're not stranded and we don't just abandon the project they will also maintain the box and so will i It's just it's a way of showing respect towards our veterans. You shouldn't just burn a flag. There's a proper way to do it. And there is another scout named David. He's installing a fire pit to actually burn the flags and not here, but it's somewhere else. But the troop picks them up and then they burn them in that fire pit. Any questions?

Okay, so y'all gonna be doing that y'allself? You'll have your own ceremony by y'all's? Yes, sir.

Okay.

And you said a wooden box?

Yes, sir. It would be in the city hall.

We could have it behind the counter. Like that way that they could, if somebody brings the flag to us, that we could take it and put it in that box and let Mr. Garinger know when we get some. We don't have a problem with that.

Jason, when would this project be completed? What's the estimated duration of it?

So my project, I'm going to get the, I'm doing an area. I already got accepted from the Knights of Columbus and I'm proposing it here now and I'm going to go to Hitchcock City Hall, sir. And so it's going to be about a week, two weeks maybe, before they let me in. But it will be completed on 9-11-26. That's when I'm going to have it fully completed.

That's pretty quick. Pretty quick turnaround.

That was a tough date. Yeah. 9-11, that's pretty honorable of you for doing that. I really do appreciate that. I know it's me and Mr. McCain, you're veterans, so we really do appreciate that.

Yes, sir. Council, do you have any other questions? I'm sorry.

It might be a little longer. This was done back in April because he has to have clearance through the Boy Scouts still after he gets a paperwork signed from both of y'all, which I'm not sure if he remembered. Okay. So the time limit might be, that was the original plan.

Okay.

It might be a little farther. Okay. Because everything has to be signed.

Oh, that's fine. This went over, yeah. I'm sorry.

Everything has to be signed off correctly. Like you have to sign off the other, Hitchcock has to sign off, all the paperwork has to be in order before, and then he has to do funding because all Boy Scouts projects get funded. And then he can keep going. But he can keep you updated as to when the project would actually be completed.

Because that really is, sometimes it's hard just to find a place to take flags to. So that's going to be fantastic.

Especially with the VFW not being open.

I move to approve the Eagle Scout project proposal from Jason Garrett. Garinger, for the installation of flag retirement boxes at designated city location.

Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve an Eagle Scout project proposal from Jason Garinger for the installation of flag retirement boxes at his designated city location. Council, any discussion? Hearing none, Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Marks.

Yes.

Council Member Schrader.

Yes.

Council Member McKamey.

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette. Yes. And Council Member Dickerson.

Absolutely, yes. Motion passes. Thank you, Jason. Great job, young man. Thank all of you. Have a good day. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Appreciate you investing back into the city of Santa Fe.

Yes, sir.

All right, next item of business, number three, consideration and possible action appointment or reappointment of three members and one alternate to the Zoning Board of Adjustment to each survey two-year term to expire July 2028. Melinda.

Good evening.

Good evening.

So we have three board members that are coming up or that expired in July along with an alternate position. So we reached out and solicited for applications for these positions. So we got seven applicants. Mr. Clark said he would like to be considered for reappointment. And then we do have Jeffrey Myers, who is in alternate number two. If y'all wanted to move him up to a board position, then you would just need two board positions and two alternates.

So there's two board members and one alternate. That's what's trying to fill, right?

If you move the number, yes. So you would need two and two.

Are there any applicants here that would like to come up and introduce yourself to council? No? Okay. Just wanted to give you that opportunity. I know there's some of y'all out there.

Belinda, have there been attendance issues with the board?

Well, I wasn't here one last time we had a meeting.

We haven't met in over a year.

It has been over. Actually, I was here last time.

Nothing came back.

Nothing came back. We haven't had a meeting yet.

Well, it sounds to me that we need people that want to actually be there, and that can be there, right? I move to appoint Cole Dixon as one of the positions for the Board of Adjustments.

Just saying myself, we're just going to do just one?

I'm just doing one, yes.

Motion on the floor to appoint Cole Dixon to one of the positions. Is there a second? I'll second it. It's been moved and seconded to appoint Cole Dixon as one of the members of the Board of Adjustments. Is there any discussion? Natalie roll call please.

Council Member Dickerson?

No.

Council Member Marks? No. Council Member Schroeder?

Yes.

Council Member McKamey? Yes. And Council Member Jeanette?

No. That motion fails.

I move to appoint Haley Worthen as our position.

Second. There's a motion and a second to appoint Haley Worthen to the Board of Adjustments as a regular member. Is there any further discussion? Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Schrader?

No.

Council Member McKamey?

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette?

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson?

Yes.

And Council Member Marks?

Yes. Motion passes 4 to 1. Haley Worthen is appointed as a board member. All right. We've got two other board members and an alternate.

I move to appoint Tim Clark to reappoint Tim Clark to the board. Second.

It's been moved and seconded to reappoint Tim Clark as a full board member to the Board of Adjustment. Is there any discussion? Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member McKamey.

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette.

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson.

Yes.

Council Member Marks.

Yes.

And Council Member Schrader.

Yes. Motion passes. All right. There's one more. We've got one more board member and an alternate. Who was the alternate?

Jeffrey Myers was.

Yeah, so I'll make a motion to move Jeffrey Myers to a position on the board.

Second. It's been moved and seconded to appoint Jeffrey Myers to a full member on the Board of Adjustments. Is there any discussion?

Natalie roll call please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Motion passes. Thank you. Council.

I moved to appoint crystal whole share as the alternate for the board of adjustments.

So it's been moved and seconded to appoint crystal whole share as an alternate We've got to do two alternates.

We're going to do two alternates to move Jeff up.

Correct. So this would be alternate one or alternate two?

One. Okay.

So it's been moved and seconded to appoint Crystal Holscher as alternate number one to the Board of Adjustments. Is there any discussion? Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Dickerson?

Yes.

Council Member Marks?

No.

Council Member Schrader?

Yes.

Council Member McKamey? Yes. And Council Member Jeanette?

No. Motion passes 3-2. All right, Council, we've got one more alternate.

I'll make a motion to appoint Dennis Combs as alternate number two to fill the remainder of the unexpired two-year term.

Second. It's been moved and seconded to appoint Dennis Combs for alternate two to the Board of Adjustments.

Go ahead. OK, so y'all voted for Haley and Tim to be board members? So there's only going to be three board members if we only do Jeffrey. Correct.

So we moved him up. So now right now we have three positions on the table. But really it should be two positions and two alternates because we moved Jeffrey up.

So y'all need to move one of the people that y'all voted for needs to go to an alternate position if y'all want Jeffrey Meyer to be moved up.

Okay, the first one we voted for was Haley Worthen. Okay, and the second one?

Tim Clark.

Okay.

Who serves on there now.

Which is, he's already board. So that fills that, right? We have one more board.

I move to make Haley Worthen. Just wait a minute. There's already a motion on the floor.

Okay. So it says to appoint or reappoint three members and one alternate. That's what we've done so far. We've appointed three members and one alternate. Three members, Haley, Tim Clark, and Jeffrey Myers, and then one alternate is Crystal. Well, we moved Jeffrey up.

So now we have to fill his position. Okay. Because right now we have appointed three members, but one of those members was an alternate that we moved up. Right. So he and Tim Clark is staying on. So technically if you wanted to put Jeffrey Myers and Tim Clark, those would be the two positions. And then we have Haley on the table also, and then Crystal Holscher, which could be the alternates, however y'all want to do that. That's all I'm saying. We have enough people.

Well, I thought that it was at Tim filled one, Jeffrey filled one, and Haley filled one.

We're not having three positions because Jeffrey moved from alternate two to a position. So now alternate two is open.

He was the third, so he's probably should stay. I'm not getting this. Okay, so...

There were three positions.

Yeah.

Okay. That were up for reappointment. Okay. Jeffrey and someone else are alternate. Well, Jeffrey, y'all decided to move to a position. That now makes one. That takes away the third.

Correct. So we only have one new person.

So now you have two. I don't know. Now I'm confused.

Since you moved, did y'all move? Jeffrey up. Jeffrey up. That just takes one of the three. Then you still need two positions. You kept him on. Kept him on. That's what it is. We have one position and two alternates.

So he didn't move up because he picked Haley and Clark.

All right. So regardless, we needed three permanent and one alternate, right?

Yeah.

So you take that one alternate. and move it here. So now you have two alternates that you need, and you still have two available seats, even though one was already taken by the alternate. So the two that we listed are still. That's okay. That's right. Okay.

So we're good. We're good.

I think so. We'll have to do an alternate two then.

Yeah, alternate two. So we'll have. We have the one alternate. That's the motion that's on the floor now. Yes. So you have Crystal Holster as alternate one, and then alternate two, that's who y'all recommend.

You probably should bring that back at the next meeting because the agenda item says appoint three members and one alternate. So you can't appoint a second alternate tonight.

Okay.

All right. Then that motion was out of order. So we are done. And we'll have to bring an item on the agenda for the alternate two position.

Okay, so where do we stand? We stand with Tim Clark.

Bailey, Tim, Jeffrey, and then Chris was the alternate.

And Chris was on it. So Dennis is off until next month. Until next month.

Okay.

That was only the first one.

Oh, Lord. So as it stands, Haley Worthen, Tim Clark, and Jeffrey Myers have been appointed as full members. Crystal Holsher is alternate one.

Yes.

That leaves alternate two vacant. We'll have an item on the agenda next month to fill that.

Perfect.

All right. Clear as mud. All right, item number four, public hearing request to amend ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code or the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 edition. The official zoning map adopted under section 3.08 by adding a conditional use permit to allow a 195-foot skyway telecommunication tower located on a 100-foot by 100-foot tract at the northwest corner of the property located at 10920 4th and 1⁄2 Street, Santa Fe, Texas, 77510, legally described as Abstract 118 J. Haggard Survey, Outlot 41, Altaluma Outlots. It is 7.31 p.m. I'll open up the public hearing. Is there anybody here to speak on this agenda item? I am, sir. All right. Please come on up and state your name for the record.

I'm the owner of that property, and I wanted to know if the city council had any questions in reference to me being the owner. If there are not any, I'll be seated. No?

Okay. Well, what's it going to be? Actually, this is just a public hearing. Once we close the public hearing and announce the agenda item, then council will be able to talk about it. Public hearing is just for anybody from the public to make any statements or ask any questions that they want to. Is there anybody here that would like to speak on it? Hearing none, I'll close the public hearing at 7.32. Item number five, consideration and possible action. First reading of an ordinance of the City of Santa Fe, Texas, submitting ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code. The Santa Fe zoning ordinance 2002 addition, the official zoning map adopted under section 3.0a by adding a conditional use permit to allow 195 foot Skyway Telecommunication Tower located at 100 by 100 foot track Northwest corner of the property located one zero nine two zero fourth and aft Street, Santa Fe, Texas 77510 Legally described as abstract 118 J haggard survey outlaw 41 out to them outlaw Providing for the incorporation of preamble or appeal a cause of severability cause an effective date.

So Okay, so this is a property that came to planning and zoning for conditional use permit and It's zoned for agricultural residential, so in order to have a telecommunication tower, it has to have a conditional use permit. In the planning and zoning meeting, it was approved unanimously from everybody, so we're here for your approval.

So it's just a... We're going to neighborhood commercial?

No, it's agriculture residential. But to be able to have a tower, it has to have a conditional use permit. So they don't need a zone change.

OK. So you can have a tower and an AR? Yes.

With the conditional use permit.

What are the bordering properties?

Yeah. So I believe Lagomar is behind it. There's the drainage ditches separates them. And then if you know where Avenue D, it kind of cuts off off 1764. You turn down Bruce Hall, it's like one of the last properties in the city limits.

So it's off of Bruce, is it then to Bruce Hall? So where Bruce Hall is, four and a half.

That last road to the left.

Back to the right.

I have a question. I thought we couldn't do conditional use permits in AR. We can.

Do you have the matrix? It should be in that packet.

You can. It's just contingent on what it is.

It's the type of use for the, because we'll get to the next.

This one will go for it, right? That get clarified? Can be?

I didn't think it could.

If it's allowed in our matrix in AR and it's under our matrix.

Mm-hmm.

I know you are thinking of an agenda item that's coming up, but we'll discuss that when we get there.

No, I'm thinking about this one. I mean, I ain't thinking about nothing. I just don't remember it being in AR.

There are certain particular uses that are allowed by conditional use permit. One of them in AR. One of them is a vet office. That's right. I know there's several of them. So you can't have a conditional use permit. an ar but only for certain uses correct blanket conditions for anything okay communications tower is allowed in uh by conditional use in an ar those other properties that surround it is there any chance of it being developed so there are residential lots around but the distance between them are

Probably was only allowed to know maybe six letters because they're so far apart So you're gonna restrict those people that they decide to build I understand what you're saying

That's a good question. Did you know that Lamar is more than like there's a drainage ditch behind there. So that's, you know, out the question. The other one is developed. There's a house on that lot on four and a half.

That's two sides.

The other side is his property for his houses.

Yeah, because it's just 100 foot by 100 foot cut out of a big property.

You cut a tract and you had one platted in your property, right? Okay.

Another thing to consider is the... Sir, if you'll please come up and speak into the microphone so that the folks online in the record can hear you. Sorry about that. That's okay.

Another thing to consider, too, is you have some light. The line has some light poles about 200 feet also in the back of the property where the tower will be located. The property got six or seven of them back there, big towers.

You're the guy with the bulldog, aren't you? Sir? The little bulldog that gets out? The dog's name is Ricky. Thank you.

It wouldn't obstruct any of the other properties surrounding that.

No. And there's no complaints from any other property owners or anything? No one showed up at the place.

And no letters, no nothing?

Oh, there was letters sent. Not many, but there were.

Who were they?

Who?

Who did they say?

There should be one. I thought there was one in your packet. It was a public hearing letter sent out letting all the residents within 200 feet.

There was no response.

There was no response from the citizens. It was just the letter she sent out that we're required to. Yeah, we gave notification.

Can you come show me on this map where it's at? This was 4 1⁄2 Street, right? Yes, sir. It was 4 1⁄2. Going north.

Almost to the end on the left.

Right there in the end. That's a dead end street. It's right here.

It's right here, John.

It's off on 76th Street.

Go to Bruce Hall, take a right. 646 North, take a right. No.

No, it's off 76th. It's the other 4 1⁄2.

Yeah, it's behind me.

Yeah. Oh, off of Bruce Hall. Yeah. Go to the end of Bruce Hall, take a right.

Oh, off of Bruce Hall.

And it's way at the end on the left.

It's going to be right here in this corner.

What's the distance between where it's going to be to those houses?

In those houses?

I know we don't care.

Probably a good 500 foot. A good 500 foot. The tower's going to be here?

Yeah. In that corner, right? You said the corner? Correct. Where's the home? Home's here.

He's right there on that whole property? Mm-hmm. He's just barely in.

You're not in the open field, are you? You got trees on your property?

Open field.

Open field. So he's here. That's it.

He's going to be in that back corner.

If we don't allow it.

And you contacted this house here? One next to it? Mm-hmm. No response?

Actually, no, those people.

No response from them? No.

No.

It does say in the zoning matrix that the listed use is radio, TV, cellular tower, transmission tower. It's marked as C, and that's in the AR column. So that means with a conditional use permit, you can do it.

If that thing falls down, the way that they anchor them? I know, but that's always that way. There'll be a lot of other things falling down, too. I understand what you're saying. I'm not trying to.

Yeah, I know what you meant.

I know where this property is at. This is a big piece of property. It's not going to fall on anybody.

I make a motion to approve the conditional use permit as presented. Second.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the conditional use permit as presented. Council, is there any further discussion?

Council Member Dickerson?

No.

Council Member Marks?

Yes.

Council Member Schrader?

Yes.

And Council Member McKinney?

Yes. Motion passes 3-2. Thank you, Brandon. All right. Item number six, public hearing request to amend ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code or the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 edition. The official zoning map adopted under section 3.08 by adding a conditional use permit to allow low impact use of office-based space of the existing structure and to lease office space for administrative use only located at 5330 Avenue in Santa Fe, Texas, 77510, legally described as abstract 47L Crawford survey, part of Outlots 287, 287-1, Altaloma Outlots. All right, so it is 742 p.m. I'll open public comment or public hearing. Is there anybody here that is here to speak about the property at 5330 Avenue Inn? Going once. Going twice. All right. 743. Public hearing is now closed. Item number seven, consideration and possible action. First reading of an ordinance of the City of Santa Fe, Texas, amending ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Zone and the Santa Fe Zone Ordinance. 2002 addition, the official zoning map adopted under Section 3.08 by adding a conditional use permit to allow low-impact use of office-based space of the existing structure and does this office-based permit show use only? Located at 5330 Avenue North, Santa Fe, Texas, 77510, legally described as abstract 47, Al Crawford survey, plat of outlots 287, 287-1, outlots and providing for the incorporation of preamble, a repealer clause, a separability clause, and an effective date. Belinda.

Okay, so we are back with Avenue N. So he brought this back to planning and zoning, not for a zone change. He wanted to just do a conditional use permit. However, what he was wanting to do was not allowed in AR. He has to get a zone change. So planning and zoning denied it because it's not allowed. And here we are for y'all to make y'all's decision on what y'all are wanting to do. However, I did reach out to him after the meeting. Planning and zoning wanted me to find out what his plans were. Is he gonna do a zone change? He has decided he no longer wants to pursue that route. He's going to leave it as AR and try to figure out what he can do on that property with AR.

MR. This is no. MS. Sir? MR. This could be no, then?

MS.

Correct. MR. We still have to act upon it.

MS. Yeah, we have to do a, because it was already posted.

But if we passed it, we'd be violating the ordinance that we passed.

So I make a motion to deny the conditional use permit. Second. Second.

It's been moved and seconded to deny the conditional use permit as presented. Council, is there any further discussion? Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member McKamey?

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette?

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson?

Yes.

Council Member Marks? Yes. And Council Member Schroeder?

Yes. Motion. All right. Public hearing, item number eight, public hearing, request to amend ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code or the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 edition. The official zoning map adopted under section 3.08 by changing the zoning classification at 12335 2nd Street, Dickinson, Texas, 77539, legally described as abstract 1M Austin survey, part of lots 119 from ag residential to neighborhood commercial. It is 7.46 p.m. I'll open public hearing. Is there anyone here that would like to speak on the 1-2-3-3-5 Second Street property? Going once, going twice. 7.46 p.m., public hearing is closed. Item number nine, consideration and possible action. First reading of the ordinance of the City of Santa Fe, Texas, amending ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code. Or the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 Edition, the official zoning map adopted under Section 3.08 by changing the zoning classification at 12335 2nd Street, Dickinson, Texas, 77539, legally described as abstract 1M Austin Survey, part of Watts 119, from ag residential to neighborhood commercial, and providing for the incorporation of preamble, a repealer clause, a severability clause, and an effective date. Belinda.

So this property was brought to planning and zoning for a zone change to neighborhood commercial for selling purposes only. There was no plan on what they wanted to do with the property. They had a buyer that was interested in the property under AR. They came to the meeting. asked for it not to be rezoned, but she wanted to continue with it in case that buyer backed out. After that meeting, that buyer did back out, and now she wants to try to pursue the zone change. It was denied at Planning and Zoning.

And its staff recommended that we deny this request, and the reason being is because if we approve this now, and whoever the buyer is, they can really put what is ever allowed under Neighborhood Commercial. I think it would be in good judgment on City Council's part to deny because I'd like, if somebody does want to turn it into neighborhood commercials, that they come before us after they purchase the property and to tell us exactly what they want to put there on the property.

How close is this property to 646?

Is that Chevron?

It's right behind the gas station, yes.

Behind that canal?

That's correct, yes. No, it's before it. Before it, yeah, before it. It's directly behind.

It's the land behind from, okay, between the Chevron and.

It's the house that's for someone that's got like the detached garage right there, yeah.

But none of it touches 646? No.

No, it's all 2nd Street. And 2nd Street gets a lot of use as it is. Just being a residential thoroughfare, I can't imagine what the road maintenance would turn into if we had some type of commercial development there.

Yeah, we approved on Postal, which is right past Ditch. I regret it.

So I'll make a motion to deny the zone change.

Second. It's been moved and seconded to deny the zone change as presented. Council, is there any further discussion? Hearing none, Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Schroeder?

Yes.

Council Member McKamey?

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette?

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson?

Yes.

And Council Member Marks?

Yes. Motion passes. Item number 10, public hearing request to amend ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code or the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 edition. The official zoning map adopted under Section 3.08 by changing the zoning classification at 2529 FM 646 Road North, Santa Fe, Texas, 77510, legally described as abstract 1M Alston survey, lot 56, 56-0 of F.H. Thamen, subdivision 9.43 acres, from neighborhood commercial to highway commercial. All right. It is 7.50 p.m. I open up for public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on 2529 FM 646 Road North? Going once, going twice. 7.50 p.m., public hearing is closed. Item number 11. Council, before I get to item number 11. Would it be appropriate to have the city secretary read the agenda items, or does that have to be done by the mayor?

The mayor should do it. You're doing such a fantastic job.

I might have to call in the public hearing request to amend ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code. For the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 edition, the official zoning map adopted under Section 3.08 by changing the zoning classification of 2529 FM 646 Road North, Santa Fe, Texas 77510, legally described as abstract 1M Austin Survey Lot 56, 56-0, FH Thayman Subdivision 9.43, acres from neighborhood commercial to highway commercial. Belinda.

okay so this was brought to planning and zoning the gentleman wants to change it from neighborhood commercial to highway commercial for multi-tenant offices although he can put the multi-tenant offices under neighborhood commercial with the conditional use permit but i believe he's wanting to open up the door on what type of tenants he can have with it being neighborhood highway commercial And he is directly on FM 646. It was passed during planning and zoning. So now it's up to y'all.

Where exactly is this 944?

Just south of on the way. Property adjacent to it.

You know where the hay pasture is right there on the 6th?

I move to approve the rezoning as presented.

Councilor, are they allowed to say as presented, or do they have to read the full motion? It's been voted and seconded to approve the zone change as presented. Council, is there any further discussion? Hearing none, Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Marks.

Yes.

Council Member Schrader.

Yes.

Council Member McKamey.

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette.

Yes.

And Council Member Dickerson.

Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. Item number 12, public hearing. Request to amend ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code or the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 edition of the official zoning map adopted under section 3.08 by changing the zoning classification at property ID 191606, legally described as abstract 149E Mitchell. Survey part of Outlaw 150-150-3, Altaloma Outlots from Ag Residential to Neighborhood Commercial. It is 7.53 p.m. I open the public hearing. Is there anyone here that would like to speak on this property? This is the property that is at the dead end of 22nd Street. Going once. Going twice. All right. 7.53 p.m. Public hearing is closed. Item number 13, consideration of possible action, first reading of an ordinance of the City of Santa Fe, Texas, amending ordinance number 02-03, commonly known as the City of Santa Fe Unified Development Code or the Santa Fe Zoning Ordinance 2002 edition, the official zoning map adopted under section 3.08, by changing the zoning classification at property ID 191606, legally described as abstract 149 East Mitchell Survey, part of Outlaw 150-150-3. Altaluma Outlots from Ag Residential to Neighborhood Commercial and providing for the incorporation of preamble and repealer clause and severability clause and an effective date. Belinda.

Okay, so this applicant put in the application to change it from AR to Neighborhood Commercial for a live fire training facility. There were written protests for planning and zoning And due to our ordinance, three fourths of the board had to approve it or be for it to pass the motion. It was a three to three vote. So all the votes were not there to let that be approved. So we are here for y'all.

Wonderful, go ahead. The reason that we are here is that the council public hearing was previously published. And so my recommendation was to keep it on the agenda to give due process. And y'all certainly can turn it down, but whether you fully approve this or fully deny it or have a split vote, it really makes no difference because the protest was filed, which required a super majority of both boards, the planning and zoning in this board. So it effectively died at P and Z. So you might as well just go ahead and for a formality, just go ahead and deny the motion and move on.

I move to deny the rezoning as presented.

Second. Who was that, second?

Rusty.

Rusty, okay. It has been moved and seconded to deny the rezoning as presented. Council, any further discussion? Hearing none, Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member Jeanette?

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson?

Yes.

Council Member Marks?

Yes.

Council Member Schrader?

Yes.

And Council Member McKamey?

Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Take a break. I could use a bottle of water, actually.

Who wrote these up? That's who he's going to throw.

Well, the next time that we have to evaluate the city secretary's duties, I'm going to add that she will become the clerk of the council and that she'll have to read all agenda items.

Put that on the calendar.

All right, this next item was requested by Mayor Pro Tem Marks. Consideration and possible action adoption of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Fe, Texas amending resolution 1993-37 budget policy section five fund balance to change the target amount for the fund balance of the city's operating expenditures. So Mayor Pro Tem, the floor is yours.

Yeah, so three months of operating expenses is what is currently in our ordinance. And that was from 1993. And I feel like we could use some updating on that. Three months is going to go relatively quick with the cost of doing business these days, especially if we had a hurricane or emergency like that. So my request is we bump that up to the five months that we've been discussing for a bit and change that ordinance to reflect that.

Where are we right now? We're about four and a half months, aren't we?

So at the end of this year, we're projected to be at 6.1. That's the extra reserves that we're using in next year's budget for all the capital. if we take out the $500,000 that we have set aside for emergencies that council committed to or assigned, that at the end of next year, we'll have 3.7 months.

What's inclusive of that with that $500,000 that we have allocated towards emergencies? What is that included in that number? What does that bring the total to?

If we take that out. It's included.

Oh, it's included. Okay, I'm sorry. I misheard.

Right. So the ending fund balance will be $3.8 million, but it reduces the overall months of operation because we've set aside that $500,000. So that was unanimous, set that aside.

For emergency storms. Oh, absolutely. That's correct. It's already been done.

In fact, it really shouldn't even be in general reserve. It ought to be a separate budget line item for natural disaster.

It is a separate line item on the fund balance.

You included as unencumbered funds in the general fund.

It's a sign since it was not a formal vote at the time. but it was a direction from council. I put it into a separate line item on the balance sheet that says for emergencies, you know, so it can't be used except for emergencies that are at the council's discretion.

We have to come to you to extend those funds. Anyways.

That's all. My question was, before we started to budget this year, what were we before we started spending all this money? And we're up around 6? 6. Mm-hmm.

OK. Yeah, we took a bump.

You made a statement of taking it down to spend money.

Take him.

The six months that I spent some money to pay for projects that we need.

I mean, yes. Correct. Money out of capital. Right.

So now we've got this down. Now we're at 3.7. We never. No.

We say 3. So Rudy, does the 3.7, does that not include projected capital expenses as well?

So it, um, it's actual does not include any additional revenue for the future. You know, that budget savings that we have. So later in the document, you'll see like four months of operating because we've included an initial 4% worth of budget savings in the revenue side, but the actual ends up being about 3.7.

What is 3.7 again? I'm sorry.

That's the actual fund balance months of operation.

after everything, projects, everything is issued.

This is total unassigned. For this year's budget? Next year's. The end of next year, which is the 27th. This one here, the one that you guys all have. 27. By the end of 27, after we spend all the money, we'll have 3.7.

That's interesting.

That's not what I recall from the budget meeting.

I recall it going from like 6.5 to 5.5, something like that. It was going to be one month.

Yeah, 5.2 is what I recall from the budget meeting.

We were talking about pulling out $800,000. Right. And that was essentially going to be a month's worth of operating expenses, roundabout. That's what I remember.

I don't know how we got from 5.2 to 3.7. No, I don't either.

And I think, Rudy, this one I want you to clear up on that. 500,000, you're saying that's included in the 3.7, that 500,000 is included in the 3.7?

Well, if you put it back in, it goes up to 4.2. Put that 500,000 back in, it goes up to like 4.7. What's the reason for the separation? I don't think I would call it $500.

Well, the the the reason for that separation was is that roughly? 500,000 was all of the money that was reimbursed to us by FEMA because we used our employees Salary that was already budgeted So when I and I think council agreed what we agreed is is that we didn't want that to turn into a slush fund and just buy a Bunch of stuff we wanted to put that back in case we got into another hurricane cool because the the really scary And I say I shouldn't say scary the very concerning situation that I found myself in at the table with Natalie and our former city manager and Billy was When barrel hit and we were trying to decide do we call it debris removal contractors ourselves well You can't ever assume that the federal government's going to reimburse because it's not guaranteed. They have to decide that they want to do it. And so will the situation ever occur that FEMA's not going to come in and bail us out? Probably not. But it could, right? Or it could take years and years and years. Now, luckily with Rudy, you know, I think we were the first government entity to receive any refunds based on our reporting and the documentation. Everything was great. But if it's a much more catastrophic, different situation, it could be years before we get reimbursed. So I wanted to have that money set aside for another hurricane or natural disaster. Okay. you know that we could do what we needed to do and not be worried about whether we were going to make you know payroll the next month or whatever so that was kind of the the long explanation of a short story but really where's the where's the fund balance at in the budget it's on page 53. i hope there's pictures i'm guessing they're going to be graphs

So it puts us pretty close to the same position that we were in in 2024. And I can take a look at length again on that calculation. It may be off a little bit, but I don't have a problem with having that fund balance at that same level as two years ago.

I think what we're struggling with is to figure out how we got from the 5.2 we thought we were going to be at to 3.7.

Well, we took 500 grand out.

Well, that should have been. Well, you saw 4.2, 4.3.

I thought we were at 4.5. This isn't what I like looking at. I like the graph that we have on our dashboard. i thought we were over six months and this was going to take us down to five or something it was going to be over five yeah because you wouldn't be recommending to have at least five in there if we weren't planning on having at least five in there so something from the last budget meeting changed is that not in the budget the uh where you show us the bar graph of what the the of what our general fund's going to do over the next five years

It is not in this.

I can't get logged into my email for some reason. Or into the Excel spreadsheet.

But the most important number I think everybody should pay attention to is the ending fund balance at 3.8 million, or just about 3.9 million. Okay, 3.9 million.

So the ending fund balance is 3.9, well, 3.862. What does that equal in months? You're saying that's 3.7.

Right. So that's what the calculation has that comes in from that large spreadsheet. And I took that and I moved it directly into this document. Okay.

So that's roughly a million dollars a month. A million dollars is one month of operating expenses for the city. Right. Is that right?

and it's that's the way it calculates however it really should be closer to eight and a half nine and so there may be some additional expenses in there which um for previous conversations we take the three eight six two three one three and we divide that by three point seven that gives us a million and forty three so that's saying

It's $1,043,000. You just took the 3.862313 divided by 3.7. So that gives us, that's saying that one month is $1,043,000. 868. Okay. So then explain to me how this year, 4.6 is six months.

I mean, I know I'm an Aggie. I know I'm an Aggie. Members are tough. So one thing that I have is a cash flow analysis, which is built into my dashboard. And that should be about $800,000 or a little bit more for next fiscal year is our monthly average that we have in expenses. So the only thing that makes sense for this 3.7 is if we have additional reserve amounts that are held back that we can't spend. So this is unencumbered funds. So it's possible that this needs to be adjusted. But it's remarkably similar to fiscal year 24, which is why I didn't heed it in your mind. So what I can do is I can double check both of those to see if there's any reserve funds that have been set aside that would have brought that down.

And I made sure to... on that, Mayor, to put it at the no new revenue rate.

That's with that 500,000 out of that and I think it's really closer to 4.5 is really the the actual this is just it's not including even though we included in our fund balance this new software that we have does not that's really kind of closer to where we're at

Let's just say for argument's sake that it is 4.5, and I'll have to check on the 2024 number, since these numbers are produced from the data and aren't the actual fund balances, but they're produced just from the data, and they're probably divided by a set of numbers that we determine as our operating expenses for the month.

Well, the frustration that I have is when we come to this meeting to adopt this document and the numbers are different than the document that we've been looking at all summer. That's what frustrates me a little bit. That may be your fault. It may not be your fault. But regardless of where... You say our general fund or fund balance is going to be or not has a little bit to do with this agenda item, but it doesn't have 100% to do with it. This agenda item is just talking about what is council's policy moving forward, whether it's this year or 10 years from now, how much we want to keep in our reserve. But now I don't know that this... that I'm comfortable adopting this budget tonight, because it's certainly different than what we were presented. Or maybe I'm just interpreting it different.

I don't know. MR. The months of operating, I will agree, It looks like it should be more like 4.5 months of operating, just based off of the numbers that we've used in the past in the current fiscal year in 2025. So I would disregard the 3.7 and the 3.9 from 2024. And I would definitely assume that it's more than the 4.5 at least. to be in line with the $800,000 approximately that we have for months of expenses.

So Rudy, in May I was told $2.28 million for three months of operating expenses. That comes up to $760,000. So has that $760,000 now grown?

It's going to grow every year. Because of salary increases. $760,000 is what we've used in the current year. And I just rounded up to eight because it could go up to 780. So, but that's approximately what it should be. And at that rate, we shouldn't be more than, we shouldn't be less, I should say, than 4.5 months.

So now we're saying 800,000 a month versus the 760 or the million.

Mm-hmm.

The exact number between what our number of our months of operating is determined by how much we've spent so far this year and how much we're going to be spending next year as an average per month.

But to what you're saying, five months is what you're saying.

I like what we did this year. I like keeping it at four months, and then we have the money to buy the equipment to do the paving we're doing. If we had to use it somewhere else. But I know, I mean, that's what I'm looking at. I'm looking at putting it right back into our infrastructure every year. Yep. Because we can't afford.

We've got two of the six that are ones in May of 1963. The rest have been low.

Five, I think, is high. I think four months of working capital. That gives us something at the end of the year to use to buy some equipment that we can't fit in our budget like we did this year.

Rudy, does the awards that we qualify for from the GFOA, do they have any type of requirements on how many months of operating expenses you need in return? No.

But I do believe the goal of the council is to whatever is set, any excess would be moved to that capital service fund or that capital replacement fund. so that we could use for replacements. And so we always have that fund separate inside and it can only be used for capital. And I think that that was the original design. So regardless of whatever it says here, which I know, it looks a little skewed, but whatever it is, we know that there's a large amount that we currently have in capital that we're gonna be using next year. And anything above and beyond what we projected in sales tax, that comes about is gonna be moved towards that capital replacement fund.

Does the amount, does the number of months or the amount of money that we have in our reserve affect our bond rating any?

Our bond rating hasn't been changed because we haven't gone out for a bond issuance since we did the Justice Center. So it still stands at AA-, and even if we stay at three months, it's not going to affect us. They just want to make sure that we are being responsible for it.

like councilman mark said I've been in a city that had like seven months worth of operating and we did the same thing we used a large amount of that towards capital and it did not affect the bond rating at that time so I think councilman Schrader makes a good point being as we're looking at four point five versus the five point two that we initially expected I think four months would be a good target if we wanted to move to that And then we can always reevaluate it in a couple years, right, as things grow.

And ultimately, it's just a target. So a simple majority vote of council can spend under that if they ever want to. Right. I hope they don't. Right. I don't think it'd be very responsible.

What, one out of four? Huh? If we say four.

Going under whatever we said, you know.

But you're tying yourself. If you lower your goal. The higher you go, the more you're going to tie your hands with what you can spend. Right. This year, we spent a lot of money on it.

And I'll double-check these. These are coming from the new software, the digital budget book that we produced. And they might have changed some of the addition or subtraction on this last column that we doesn't appear on our numbers on our side. This is all created in the cloud using database dump from our system. So how that actually hits, for the most part, all the departments matched up fine and the totals matched up fine. But this one sheet probably needs an additional look before we send it off to the adopted budget book and we send it off to the GFOA for our fifth year award. I just think we've been acting pretty conservative.

We have. Just stay that way. I mean, yeah. I just hate to raise it.

Yeah, I think it's, you know, there's a line, right? There's a line between being fiscally responsible enough to make sure that you have a savings account where you don't get yourself in the bind, but then also being good stewards of the tax dollars, not just letting them sit in a bank somewhere, but actually putting them to work for the citizens, right? So I don't think there's a right or wrong answer. I think it's just, you know, kind of a spectrum. As a council, we just kind of have to decide if we think that the three months needs to be increased or not. you know, ultimately it's a target, it's a goal. So it's not something that we're bound by. We could buy a simple majority vote, spend under whatever that target amount is. But I think it makes a statement, um, about, uh, what our goals are as a council and fiscal responsibility and, uh, paying as you go instead of going out for a bond every time we need something. So three months, four months, I think five months is probably a little, a little extreme. Um, but. I don't think there's a bad way that we could go one way or another.

The end game is that we save money for the citizens in interest that we don't have to pay if we issue bonds. Or we do capital lease purchases, which is really high.

Tax increases. Bonds are a tax increase. No matter how they want to paint them.

I'll make a motion to end resolution 1993-37 to reflect four months of operating expenses versus the three months it currently.

Second. It's been moved and seconded to adopt a resolution to change the target amount for the fund balance of the city's operating expenditures from three months to four months. Is that representative of what you wanted to do? Mm-hmm. Okay. Council, any further discussion? Natalie, roll call, please.

Council Member McKinney?

Yes.

Council Member Jeanette?

Yes.

Council Member Dickerson?

You only have two choices. You can't vote president.

I think it would be cool if council was unified.

Council Member Marks?

Yes.

And Council Member Schroeder?

Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. Moving right along like a herd of turtles. Item number 515. Consideration and possible action. First and final reading of a supplemental ordinance of the City Council of the City of San Antonio, Texas, including the 2026 annual update to the service of assessment plan for the Mulberry Farmers Public Improvement District PID, including the collection of the 2026 annual installments. Mr. Zepeda.

Mayor, council, this is the service assessment plan updates, an annual update that allows for the city to continue to collect property taxes for the administration of the debt, $424,088, which consists of the principal interest, additional interest, and then annual collection costs for Mulberry Farms Bond, which is currently outstanding at $5. 0.013 million dollars. Of course, all of those assessments are being paid through from those collections. This document is primarily just an annual accounting and administrative update. It doesn't create anything new. It just allows us to tax those individuals for those assessments and then use that to pay for those annual installments for the bond. The total bond is $419,598, and the difference of which is the additional collection costs, which are also covered by those assessments. So it's just more of a housekeeping. Just wanted to give you a background. Can we repeal it?

That's a rhetorical question.

I move to approve and adopt the supplemental ordinance as presented.

Second. It has been moved and seconded to adopt the supplemental ordinance as presented council. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. Natalie roll call please.

Council member Jeanette.

Yes.

Council member Dickerson.

Yes.

Council member Marx.

Yes.

Council member Schroeder.

Yes.

And council member McKamey.

Yes. Motion passes. All right, item number 16, consideration of possible action, recessing the regular scheduled meeting of the City Council in order to conduct business as the City of Santa Fe Employee Benefits Trust. So it is now 8.21 p.m. I call this meeting to recess. It is 8.21 a.m., and I call the p.m. It is 8.22 p.m., and I now call this meeting, regular meeting of the City of Santa Fe Employee Benefits Trust, to order. Natalie, roll call, please.

Board Member Noto? Yes, here. Board Member Marks? Yes. Board Member Schrader?

Here. Yes.

Board Member McKamey?

Yes, I'm here.

Board Member Jeanette? What? Did I say it twice? Okay. Okay. Board member Dickerson. We have a quorum.

We're laughing because we're all saying yes instead of here. Because we're in the groove.

All right, Mayor, Council. So tonight we have Britt Bowers. He's from Hub International. He's going to be speaking to us. He's our insurance broker. And he's here to present the selection for the employee benefits for the fiscal year 2027. And it's a short presentation for consideration before you actually adopt later on the hearing this motion.

We have to start with item one, approval of the minutes first.

I don't have that. I don't have an agenda for this meeting.

Oh.

Sorry. All right. Item number one, or three, business one, consideration of possible action, approval of minutes from the August 14, 2025 special meeting. Were we provided those minutes? Yes.

Yeah, they were in the packet.

You're second. 600 pages.

It's only 553,000 pages.

Yeah, another 600 pages.

It's going to be like down in the hundreds somewhere.

I see it. Thank you.

I move to approve the minutes as presented.

Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes as presented. Council, is there any further discussion? Hearing none, Natalie, roll call, please.

Board Member Schrader?

Yes.

Board Member McKamey?

Yes.

Board Member Jeanette?

Yes.

Board Member Dickerson?

Yes.

Board Member Noto?

Yes.

Board Member Marks? Yes. You must jump the gun.

All right, item number two, consideration of possible action review and possible acceptance of an offer for an employee medical and pharmacy insurance, an offer for employee dental insurance, an offer for life insurance, an offer for vision insurance, and an offer for long-term disability insurance. Mr. Rudy.