City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, we're going to go ahead and bring this regular council meeting to order. Can I get everybody's attention, please? We're going to go ahead and bring this council meeting to order. Today is July 7th, 2026. It is 6 p.m. We're going to go ahead and start out with our opening prayer and pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States and the state of Texas. We have Mayor Pro Tem Davis.

Heavenly Father, we gather today with grateful hearts, thankful for the opportunity to serve our community, and for the blessings of freedom that we have celebrated during our nation's 250th Independence Day. As we conclude this historic Fourth of July observance, we remember the courage, sacrifice, and vision of those who established this nation and all who have worked to preserve the liberties that we enjoy today. Inspire everyone in our community to be good neighbors, willing to serve one another with generosity, kindness, and humility. May the spirit of community be stronger than our differences, and may we continue to work together to make our city a place where families thrive, businesses prosper, and every person is treated with dignity and respect. We also give thanks for the first responders members of the armed forces, veterans, public servants, and volunteers whose dedication helps keep our community safe and strong. Bless their service and protect them and their families. As we begin this meeting, may our words be thoughtful, our actions be honorable, and our decisions reflect a sincere desire to leave our community better for future generations. In your name we pray, amen.

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

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

Thank you for that, Mayor Pro Tem Davis. We have one proclamation that we'd like to do. If I can get Parks Director Lauren Shroom and Recreation Manager Cassie Paddock to come up front, please. And please bring your staff with you.

They need t-shirts up.

How are you?

All right, I have a proclamation that I'd like to present. It's Parks and Recreation Month, July 2026. Whereas Parks and Recreation is an integral part of communities throughout this country, including in the city of Shirts, and whereas in the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month, and whereas the National Park and Recreation Association has identified the theme, the power of parks and recreation, and is celebrating the many ways parks and recreation reveals the power of what connects us. And whereas parks and recreation is where relationships grow, cultures meet, and communities bond, and whereas parks and recreation celebrates the power of play, from playgrounds to programs to youth sports, play fuels creativity, joy, and lifelong learning, and whereas parks and public spaces offer room for everyone to gather, celebrate, and heal. And whereas nature restores us and inspires us, and parks ensures everyone can access its benefits, and whereas welcoming parks and programs make every person feel valued, and whereas parks and recreation advance health, resilience, and shared community benefits, and whereas our parks and recreation staff and dedicated volunteers tirelessly work to ensure that our community has top tier parks and recreation system, and whereas the city of Schertz recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation, resources and the power of connection, play, community, nature, belonging, and well-being. Now, therefore, I, Ralph Rodriguez, Mayor of Schertz, do hereby proclaim July 1st through the 31st, 2026 National Parks and Recreation Month in the city of Schertz. I call upon the residents of this city to observe this month by getting out and enjoying the beautiful parks in the city of Schertz. Thank y'all.

Just have a couple words I'd like to say about this team and these volunteers up here. As the mayor mentioned, the month's theme is the power of parks and recreation. And so the power of connection is one of the highlights of the theme. This weekend, we just had 20,000 of our closest family and friends out at Pickerel Park for our 4th of July Jubilee, the 50th anniversary, and Celebrating America's 250th birthday. Every Tuesday this month, we have other Parks and Recreation events going on, so please come join us. The power of play. This group here is critical and integral in administering our youth sports leagues. We have over 4,200 kids in youth sports in shirts. We have over 36 playground units across the park system. We have over 20,000 visits to our pool. The power of community. We have a senior center that serves over 800 members, and they serve over 17,000 meals a year. We have a civic and community center group that has over 1,100 bookings a year. It's a place where community members can gather with friends and family and celebrate life's celebrations. And then the power of nature. The department maintains over 457 acres of parkland and open space, 25 miles of trail, and hosts 26 different nature programs throughout the year. The power of belonging, we've got 4,500 people who participate in our programs over the year, from art to archery to salsa dancing. And then the power of well-being, This community here works for the power of well-being for shirts, and we couldn't do it without all these community partners here tonight, so I just wanted to recognize them really quick. We've got members of our Parks and Recreation Advisory Board here, our Shirts Area Senior Center Advisory Board, Guadalupe County Master Naturalists, Buffalo Valley Youth Association, Shirts Youth Soccer Alliance, Friends of Crescent Bend Nature Park, and the Shirts Family YMCA. They spend countless hours, like I said, dedicated to this community, and we appreciate you so much. Thank you for what you do.

Stand on your toes, Ian.

Thank you.

We can't say enough about our Parks and Recreation. They do a lot to make sure that our parks are clean and everything works out in the parks. The bathrooms are very clean. We probably got some of the cleanest bathrooms, just like Bucky's does. And our staff does a good job doing that. And they do everything they can to make sure that our community goes out and they're able to come together and celebrate good times out at our parks. Moving on, we're gonna move to employee introductions. First, we're gonna have engineering. We have our sitting engineer, Kathy Woodley. We'll be introducing new staff.

Good evening, Mayor, Council. I am super excited this evening to be introducing Omar Rodriguez. He is our newest engineer, professional engineer in our department. We are fully staffed, I'm gonna knock on wood, but it's not just about being fully staffed, it's staffed with the right people, and we're really excited to have Omar. He's from Somerset, which is just sort of southwest of San Antonio, so he's relatively local to the area. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in civil engineering from UTSA. He worked for some private firms prior to coming to us in commercial and residential land development. So it's really great to have someone with the perspective of being on the other side when he's reviewing development projects. He lives with his wife, Margarita. I've got to get my R roles in there. And his six-month-old daughter, Catalina, who he shared with me, they call Kathy. I thought, that is so sweet, and then I realized, wait, they started calling her that before we met, but I can't take credit, but it's still great. He enjoys, when he's not taking care of his six-month-old, which is most of the time when he's not at work, DIY, particularly home repairs, and hitting the gym. So we're super happy to have him here.

I just wanna say thank you for the opportunity. Really excited to be here, ready to get to work. Appreciate it.

Welcome to the Church family, Omar, and we're excited to see what you're gonna be able to do working for our city. Welcome. Next, we have GIS. We have Director of Information Technology, Jack Bluebird. We'll introduce new staff.

Evening, Mayor, Council. I'd like to introduce Allison Staley. Oops, wrong side. Allison joined the city in June of 2026. She serves as the city's primary spatial data steward, leading efforts to modernize the enterprise GIS system so first responders, planners, engineers, and other city staff always have the accurate real-time information. She also provides support, product support, technical expertise, training to GIS users across the organization. Allison was born in Augusta, Georgia, spent most of her childhood in South Carolina. She enlisted in the Army from South Carolina and served as a geospatial engineer for NORTHCOM headquarters at Fort Sam Houston. Her education includes Hallmark University in the Army Corps of Engineers, school for GIS. She also completed a three-month assignment at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in St. Louis, where she earned the NGA professional certification. Allison lives in Converse with her husband, a teacher, and their nearly three-year-old daughter. As a family, they enjoy getting out of the house, especially going out to eat. Allison loves reading, watching TV, especially Korean dramas, and following her favorite YouTube channel, Outdoor Boys. Inspired by their adventures, she hopes to take her family camping more often. She drives a Jeep and enjoys taking the doors and tops off whenever she can. Allison.

Hi. Thank you guys for the opportunity. It's an honor to serve the City of Shirts, and I'm really excited. Thank you. Okay.

Next, I'd like to introduce Angelica Gonzalez. She is our new GIS specialist. She develops, maintains, and updates the city's geospatial information by providing data visualization solutions in the form of digital maps, interactive applications, and reports that support operational needs across the city's many departments. Under the direction of the GIS manager, Angelica will adjust property boundaries, create informational webpages, schedule and route street sweeping operations, tracking and modeling stormwater infrastructure locations, and utilities to name a few of their responsibilities. Angelica was born, raised, and educated in San Antonio. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in geology from UT San Antonio and has 17 years experience working in a geological GIS technician role in the oil and gas industry where she mapped natural resources and midstream pipelines. She also has five years' experience working as a GIS analyst in FEMA long-term recovery cadre where she collaborated with state, county, tribal, and city governments to quantify the extent of damage caused by natural disasters in impacted communities with maps and data analysis applications. Her mother's side of the family has lived in the San Antonio area as far back as the 1800s. Her father was an Army Vietnam veteran from Puerto Rico. Although Angelica did not grow up speaking Spanish, her late husband taught her Spanish daily, and she is now fluent in conversational Spanish. Travel is Angelica's favorite hobby, and research on her vacation destinations is her favorite thing to do. She firmly believes in the sayings, ghost birds go and birds up. Angelica.

opportunity um i already met the it and gis team and everybody's really uh fun to work with and i enjoy it here so far and thank you for the opportunity allison and angelica welcome to the church family glad to have you aboard

Next up, we have our Police Department. We have Police Lieutenant Dallas Hopper will be introducing new staff.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, and Mr. Williams. The first of three I'll introduce is going to be Noriah Goodman. She's our newest Communications Officer. Naraya Goodman, she began her career as a communication officer on July 15, 2026. She was raised in an Army family. She was actually born in Germany and has lived in Hawaii as well as across the state of Texas. She attended Samuel Clemens High School before earning a bachelor's degree in forensic anthropology from Baylor University. She is currently pursuing an online degree in criminology with a minor in anthropology through the through Texas Tech University. Outside of work, Noriah is looking forward to welcoming twins in December. She also enjoys spending time with her family, including her two nephews, with another nephew expected to join the family soon. In her free time, Noriah enjoys studying, playing video games, playing the guitar, listening to music, going for walks, and when time allows, watching movies and television shows.

Hi, thank you all so much for the opportunity. I've lived here in Shirts for about 10 years, so it feels good to be able to give back to the city. Thank you.

All right, then we have Felicia Campos. She's going to be our newest communications manager. She began with the city of Shirts on June 15, 2026 as well. Felicia holds a master telecommunicator license and brings more than a decade of public safety experience. our communications experience to the city of Shirts. She began her career with the city of Live Oak Police Department in 2014 as a communications officer. While at Live Oak, she promoted to a shift supervisor before advancing to the communications manager, a position that she held prior to joining the Shirts Police Department. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Felicia relocated to Texas in 2006. She attended college after moving to Texas, earning a certification in forensic science, and a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Outside of work, Felicia is a proud mother of two daughters who are both actively involved in athletics. Her oldest daughter plays varsity soccer for her high school and competes year-round with a club soccer team. Her youngest daughter participates in competitive gymnastics and travels throughout Texas to compete with her team. When she has free time, Felicia enjoys spending time outdoors working on projects, reading true crime books and listening to podcasts.

Mayor and council, I appreciate the opportunity and I look forward to now serving the community that I live in. So I appreciate it. Thank y'all.

All right, last but not least, we have Juliana Garza. She's our new crime analyst with the City of Shirts. She, too, started on June 15th of 2026. As a department's crime analyst, Juliana is assigned to the Support Services Division. In this role, she supports command staff, investigators, and patrol officers by analyzing crime data to identify crime hotspots, patterns, and emerging trends, helping to guide data-driven policing strategies, and operational decisions. Juliana is from San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from Judson ISD. She continued her education at the University of Incarnate Word, where she interned as a crime analyst with the San Antonio Housing Authority. She earned her bachelor's degree in computer information systems with a minor in cybersecurity systems. Outside of work, Juliana enjoys spending time with her family, watching television and teaching herself new hobbies. She values lifelong learning and is always looking for opportunities to develop new skills and interests.

Thank you. This is my first career and I'm excited to start in shirts.

Juliana, Felicia, and Noriah, thank you all. Welcome to the Church family. Glad to have you aboard. Next up, we have utility billing. We have Senior Utility Billing Specialist, Tommy Pettis.

Good evening mayor, city council members. Well, my name is Tommy, but I'm not being introduced. I'm doing the introduction. So there was a little mixed up there. It's my pleasure to introduce our newest utility billing specialist, Ms. Linnell Jackson. She started at the beginning of June. She will be assisting our other four specialists with new service activations, disconnections, receiving payments, processing adjustments, and just general account inquiries. She was born in Germany. I'm not going to try to say that name wrong. She moved to the States at the age of three to Colorado Springs, where she stayed for some time. She then had lived in Louisiana in the early 80s with the birth of her son. Of course, had to move back to Colorado Springs where she worked with Colorado Springs Utilities and had over 29 years of experience there. She then retired and ended up moving to Texas in January of 25 and was able to spend some time with her son and his family. She does have two grandsons that she was able to watch and spend time with before making the move to shirts. She is a resident and has been a resident since June of 2025. She is a big football fan. She has always been a fan of the Deborah Brockles, but due to her partner, Mr. Ewing, she is now a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs. She does love to travel and cook. spend time with family, friends, and watching her grandsons grow.

Thank you for the opportunity, and I look forward to working with a great team, supervisors, and my life in Shirts.

Lanell, welcome to the Shirts family. We're gonna make a cowboy fan out of you yet. All right. We have presentations. We have presentations of the TAMEO Awards presented to the Public Affairs Department at the 2026 Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers Conference. We have Director of Public Affairs Crystal Haynes, Communications Manager Devin Christensen, Marketing and Communications Specialist Tatum Hearn, Communications Coordinator Victoria Garza.

Thank you. Yes. Hi, Mayor Council. Good evening. Like you said, I do have Devin. Victoria's actually out taking a photo right now for new employees, so she'll be back. Tatum, unfortunately, had to leave a little early, but... We wanted to go ahead and present the awards that we received at the 2026 TAMI Awards. So TAMIO is the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers. So this is basically our industry's statewide association. So this year, from July 3rd to July 5th, we were at the conference learning all about the new things for 2026 and Just staying up to date on our knowledge for all things local government communications. And it was held in Austin, Texas. When it came to the awards ceremony, there was actually over 700 entries, and we came home with three awards. So we were very excited. These are statewide awards. So throughout the entire state, we came home with three. So the first one that we received was for best report. So we got this for the FY23-24 PAFR. So this, we work in collaboration with the finance department. And as you know, the PAFR complements the ACFR and the budget book. Those documents are very technical and a little bit hard to understand, so the PAFR makes city finances much more easier to understand. And we proudly send this with our magazine, Shirts Magazine, so every resident gets this document right directly to their doorstep. So we won second place for this. The second award that we got was also a second place award for a new publication. that Devon actually worked really hard on, so we're really proud of her for that. She redesigned our resident guide, so when a new resident comes into Shirts, we welcome them with this home suite Shirts resident guide. So this has everything that they need to get started to be a resident in Shirts. So it has knowledge on city services, utility billing, different programs. Previously the document was very text heavy and Devon Reed signed it to be very visually engaging and turned it into the home sweet shirts resident guide. So we won second place for this. And last but not least, this was very exciting. We got best social media posts for our shirts traffic jams. So this was a really, really fun post that we got to do. The team actually got to do, I wasn't here a part of the team yet, but it was last summer. They turned some routine traffic updates that people aren't typically excited about from TxDOT. Traffic on 35 is no fun, right? So they really turned it on its head and got everyone much more engaged in a typical traffic post by encouraging people to listen to our shirts traffic jams playlist on Spotify. So it was loaded up with tons of fun traffic jams to listen to while you're stuck in 35 traffic. this did the purpose. There was over a thousand link clicks, 95,000 views, over 600 interactions. We got new followers from it and it was recognized across the state. So we were really, really proud of that one. And that's all we got there. So you're very excited this year. We brought home three awards from across the state. So we're really excited and we wanted to show them off to y'all and show y'all what we've been doing. And If you'd like to get a picture, Mayor, if you'd like to come down for a photo with us. But if you have any comments or questions, go ahead. All right.

Well, congratulations, first off. Job well done. Thank you all so much.

Thank you.

Thank y'all for doing a great job and putting shirts on the map in the city of Austin there. Thank y'all. Next up, we have city events and announcements.

announcements of upcoming city events we have sarah gonzalez yes thank you mayor uh so a couple things and it ties in nicely with um the shirts i mean the parks and rec month so they have a lot of fun activities going on you can always check out shirts.com or the the fun guide to see the full list of everything but specifically for parks and rec month on saturday july 11th will be the second float and flick. It'll be Zootopia II at 7 p.m. at Pickerel Park Pool. Tuesday, July 14th, will be the Nerf War at 7 p.m. That'll be at Heritage Oaks Park. Saturday, July 18th, will be Star Party at Crescent Bend Nature Park. And Tuesday, July 21st, they'll be having their color fight at 7 p.m. at Ashley Park. The next thing on here is that the city of Schertz will be holding a general election on November 3rd, 2026 for the purpose of electing council members in place three, place four, and place five for a three-year term November 26th to November 29th. Applications will be accepted by the State Secretary's Office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting Monday, July 20th through August 17th. And again, any questions on that, reach out to the State Secretary's Office. And then finally, the last thing on here will be the next regularly scheduled City Council meeting on Tuesday, July 21st at 6 p.m. Thank you.

Thank you for that. Next, we have announcements and recognitions by the city manager, Steve Williams.

Thank you, Mayor. A couple of announcements. Actually, some really good ones here. Kudos to Ruben Lara, and he is a sanitarian in the Neighborhood Services Department. He has become our newest state licensed code enforcement officer and moved into planning in the planning and community development department. Also, congratulations to John Nowak, our assistant city engineer. He's slated to be appointed to the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, or AMPO, their transportation advisory committee. And Kathy Woodley will be the backup for that position. We also had several promotions this month, which is really a great indication of folks moving up within our organization, love to see that. Anthony Luna was promoted from Water Wastewater Operator Trainee to Operator One. Mark Schadl was promoted from Water Wastewater Operator Trainee also to Operator One. And Christina Temke was promoted from Permit Tech to Administrative Assistant. Jacob Amerson was promoted from fire prevention specialist to deputy fire marshal. Luis Gonzalez promoted from animal services officer to police cadet. Richard Davis promoted from paramedic to community health coordinator. Diego Martinez, promoted from Park Maintenance Tech 1 to Tech 2. And Catherine Scheel, promoted from Recreation Specialist to Purchasing Specialist. So a lot of great promotions. And I do have one more. I received a letter that reads, Dear Mr. Williams, each year the Alamo Chapter of the Texas Municipal Clerks Association selects one outstanding member to represent our chapter as a nominee for the prestigious Texas Deputy Municipal Clerk of the Year Award. It is with great pride and enthusiasm that the Alamo chapter nominates Cherie Corney of the City of Schertz for this distinguished honor. And so as a finalist, Sheree will be recognized at the TMCA Advanced Institute and Awards event, which is gonna be held in October in the Woodlands, Texas as a nominee, even if she doesn't win, but she'll be there and be recognized. And so that the Advanced Institute is TMC's premier professional development event for municipal clerks across the state. So it's quite an honor and congratulations to Sheree.

Congratulations, Cherie, very well deserved. The only people that I would really like to recognize is our entire staff. Over the 50th Jubilee celebration that we had on the 4th, we had such a huge turnout on Friday. We had another large, even bigger turnout on Saturday. And our staff worked way before that event even began trying to prepare to make sure that things went smoothly, which they did. And so big hand, big shout out goes to our public works and the entire staff for everything they've done right along with the church police department, church fire department, church EMS. Everybody really pitched in, contributed really hard. We didn't have any major issues throughout the 4th of July event. And we had a large showing. I even was surprised that a lot of the people that turned out to come out and celebrate the 4th of July with us, even police very well and picked up after themselves. So they didn't, leave the park with a lot of trash just laying all over the place. So a big shout out to our entire staff for hosting such a great event. To include Maggie Turrington and James, they did a wonderful job announcing all the entries for the parades. Thank you all for that too. All right, at this time, we're gonna go ahead and move on to hearing of residents. This time is set aside for any person who wishes to address city council. Each person should fill out the speaker's register prior to the meeting. Presentation should be limited to no more than three minutes. All remarks should be addressed to the council as a body and not to any individual member thereof. Any person making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks while addressing the council may be requested to leave the meeting. All handouts and or USB devices must be submitted to the city secretary no later than noon on Monday preceding the meeting. Handouts will be provided to each council member prior to the start of the meeting by the city secretary. All USB devices will be vetted by the city IT staff to ensure city property is protected from malware. First up, forgive me if I butcher your name, I'm not trying to, but we have Claire Layton. When you come up, if you'll just, when you come up, just please state your name and address.

Yes. My name is Claire Layton. I live at 12231 Lost Meadows Drive in the Shirts ETJ. My husband and I own the field that abuts the northern end of Crescent Bend Nature Park. When the Cibolo Creek flooding destroyed Lakewood Acres, FEMA took over the 190 acres. Then FEMA transferred the land to Bexar County and Joel Tanner started to work with Commissioner Tommy Atkinson to turn the susceptible acreage into a nature park. Largely because of Joel's effort, Brendan Gibbon wrote in the San Antonio report, when it comes to the network of your municipal parks bordering the Cibolo Creek, Crescent Bend is the biggest and the most beautiful. Today it remains the most beautiful due to the hard work of Lauren Shrum, Jared Montney, and their dedicated staff. As a retired teacher, Joel will be very proud of all the educational classes that the park offers. But the park really needs an outdoor education pavilion. Nothing fancy, just a roof and some benches so the classes can be held with the students sitting down. I know your city has financial challenges, and the pavilion is still included in the future plans of the Parks and Rec Department. But when Joel died, our neighborhood group gave the city money towards building a pavilion in his memory. I am asking you to please do whatever you can to assure that the city actually does build the Tanner Education Pavilion, not only to support the park's incredibly important education programs, but also so that its widow will be able to see a tangible legacy of her husband's incredible work in establishing the park. Thank you.

Thank you.

Next, we have Maggie teeterington.

Good evening, Mayor Council.

I just want to echo what everybody's been saying. The 4th of July Jubilee, the celebration, it was great. The staff worked so hard and they made it seem so effortless. Anytime you ran into anybody, they were very happy, happy to help, happy to give direction, happy to, I mean, it just, it really was. It was really a great celebration. So yes, many kudos to the staff. Wanted to let you know that on the 21st, that is our monthly luncheon, but it's special. It's Leadership Corps graduation, and we have three shirt students that are graduating. It is actually our largest class of 13 students this year, and it'll be Crystal and Devin, who we just saw here, and Kelly Callis from the Police Department. So they are part of the 13. So hopefully you all are making plans to attend that. We have a keynote by J2 leadership, Jay Johnson. On the 24th, we have another ribbon cutting in the City of Shirts. We just had one today. That is going to be Coliseum Trading Cards and Collectibles. They're right next to Texas Tea Cafe, which we did their ribbon cutting about a week or so ago. Great little place for family to go by if their kids are into those games and the cards, not just sports cards. Come on out. It's at 130. And also just a reminder that myself and Michael Carpenter, my government affairs liaison for the chamber, we're we're putting together that legislative agenda. So anything that is tickling your ears, things that are coming up possibly in this legislative session next year, please let us know that you want us to address, to go speak to our representatives, to put together in this, because we hope to have this agenda together um by the before the end of the year actually because it kicks off in january and we need to get a head start in um shaking some trees so if you do have something please shoot an email my way and we can set some time aside to talk and then let me switch hats really fast and put on my shirts historical preservation committee hat And just keep your eyes open for an announcement in August. We have historical signs, a designation of a neighborhood. We'll have more details to come, but we're very excited. It'll be on a city council day earlier in the day so that you all can join us. But we're really excited. The preservation committee has been working really hard to get the design, to get the name, to get the designation of this. And this will be the first, I believe, of two neighborhoods we're going to be doing currently working on an 18-month calendar because we just did calendars this year, and a couple of other projects. But the committee, as Councilman Westbrook and Councilman Guerrero can testify because they come every time we have a meeting, it's moving along. Our group has grown, and they're just very, very eager in all the things that are going on to preserve our history and shirts. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you.

Next, we have Greg Sebold and Kane Flanagan. Here, Flanagan.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, ladies and gentlemen of the council. My name is Greg Sebold. I live at 3841 Greenridge in Church, Texas. And Mr. Williams, I'm sorry. I'm here to speak to you tonight about an issue that occurred, and I left my phone if you don't mind, in our community on May 27th, the day after we had that 10 inches of rain in four hours. Because of the diversion of water from the next community up, there's a big, long process that I won't bore you with at this moment, but I want you to be aware of. that it caused a collapse for the second time in our stormwater infrastructure. Right now, we're paying the $87,000 just to dig that part out and repair it. There's so much more that has to be done. I want to point out to you the Texas Water Code, section 11.086, specifically says that if you divert water through our system, You're responsible. This is the second time. The last time that I wasn't in the community and nobody really brought it up, but it cost us $250,000. 204 homes had to pay $1,050 a piece. We're all seniors. Almost all of us, 12% of us were the rest of us can't or don't. So I'm, I'm here to bring it to your attention that this occurred and I'm asking for the city to do their part, to stand up and say, yeah, we diverted 42 acres of water that was not built on when you diverted it into our system. If it's our system and it's private, you shouldn't be able to use it for free. Or if you divert it according to the law, you're responsible to maintain it. So I'm asking you to be aware of this and to do what you need to do to step up and help cure this challenge. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, and that ends hearing of residents. Moving on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda is considered self-explanatory and will be enacted by the council with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless they are removed from the consent agenda upon the request of the mayor or council member. At this time, do I have any council member wanting to remove any item from the consent agenda? Having none, can I get a motion?

So moved.

Oh. Councilman Sheridan?

Yes, I wanted to remove resolution 26R075.

That's on discussion, not action items. Consent agenda is items one through five.

I meant 26R-082.

Okay, so we're gonna remove item two, resolution 26-R-082, approving and authorizing a water CCN transfer agreement and water CCN transfer from Green Valley Special Utility District to the City of Schertz to amend water CCN boundaries and other matters in connection therewith. Okay, removing item two from the consent agenda, can I get approval to approve items one, three, four, and five? So moved.

Second.

All right, can I get everybody to cast their votes? Can I get the votes published? All right, having seven yeas, no nays, motion passes. Let the record show that Council Member Watson made the motion and it was seconded by Council Member Sheridan. All right, the first item up for discussion will be item two, resolution 26-R-082. Kathy?

Good evening.

Good evening.

Yes, I just wanted to kind of understand, get a better understanding of the reasoning and purpose of this transfer.

Okay, so there's a small area of property that the property owners are looking to develop for commercial use. It's actually outside our city limits, and it is outside our CCN for water. It's in Green Valley CCN. However, when they went through the normal process of trying to determine if they have adequate water service as far as pressures and flow capacity, they found that Green Valley does not have appropriate capacity to serve that small area. And Green Valley actually suggested to the developers that they approach the city of Schertz to see if we have the capacity and if we would be willing to serve them. So, uh, we did run some fire flow tests and determine that we do in fact have the capacity. We have water line directly, uh, adjacent to the property. Um, we are very careful. We are, uh, to, um, maintain a good relationship with green Valley unless they come to us and request that, that we possibly serve. We're not going out and trying to take over areas that they currently hold the CCN for, but this is literally, um, They couldn't serve it without infrastructure upgrades. We can serve it, so they proposed an agreement to make the transfer happen.

Okay, and there are potential costs to be associated for us in the future, I don't assume?

I would say it's a minor cost to serve an additional property, but we'll actually get revenue from serving that property. So they'll be paying impact fees and the water rates associated with that when they use the water.

And I assume they're going to have to go in there and dig and put another pipeline.

So there is no additional infrastructure that needs to be constructed. There won't be any more infrastructure for the City of Shirts. The developer will actually just make the necessary taps to the line when they're ready to tie on.

Okay, that's all I have. Thank you.

Okay, any other discussion? Having none, can I get a motion to approve item two on the consent agenda?

I make a motion that we approve item... 26R082, approving authorized water CCN transfer agreement and water CCN transfer from Green Valley to the City of Sheridan.

Second.

Okay, I have a motion by Councilmember Sheridan, and I have a second by Councilmember Watson. Can I get everybody to cast their votes, please? Can I get the votes published? Okay, having seven yeas, no nays, motion passes. Moving on to discussion and action items. Moving on to item six, resolution 26-R-075. Ordering the November 3rd, 2026 City of Church Joint General Election with Comal County, Bexar County and Guadalupe County and making a provision for the conduct of the election authorizing contract with the County Clerk of Comal County and election administrators of Bexar County and Guadalupe counties to conduct this election and authorize these elections to be held as joint elections. May I have Sheila?

Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor, Council, city staff, and residents. Tonight, I bring forward Resolution 26R-075 to order the November 3rd, 2026 general election. Council Place 3, Place 4, and Place 5 will be on the November ballot. The term for each of these places will be November 26th through November 2029. Staff recommends that you approve Resolution 26-R075 to order the November 3, 2026 general election. Thank you.

Okay. Any other discussions? Having none, can I get a motion?

I motion that we approve Resolution 26-R075. Second. Second.

Okay, I have a motion made by Councilmember Watson, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Davis. Can I get everybody to cast their votes, please? Can I get their votes published? Having seven yays, no nays, motion passes. Moving on to item seven, ordinance 26-M-029, Amending Council Rules and Conduct and Procedures, Appointment Process for City Council Liaison Positions. And we have Cherie Kearney.

Thank you, Mayor, Council. So the amendment for the Council Rules of Conduct and Procedure under ordinance 26-M-29 is a follow-through on the workshop that we held on June the 16th. And to incorporate into the rules of conduct and procedure how liaison assignments are done by council. So from that, there was one question that came up and that has to do with a discrepancy between sections A and B. A being the appointed city council liaison must be a council member and must meet the qualifications of section 4.02 of the city charter. In addition to be appointed as a city council, a council member must be an elected member of the city council and a member in good standing. The discrepancy lies with the liaison assignments in Section B, where it refers to newly elected or appointed council members. So council needs to let me know if they want Section A to also include appointed members of council, which can occur on occasion as opposed to just being appointed. So Section B is liaison assignments shall be reviewed biannually in December of each even-numbered year beginning in 2026. The review should occur following the regular election cycle to provide an opportunity for a comprehensive reassessment of all assignments while maintaining continuity of service. Newly elected or appointed council members shall temporarily assume the assignments of their predecessors until the next scheduled review. And then on item C, council seniority shall serve as the starting point for assigning board commission and committee liaison positions while also providing meaningful opportunities for newer council members to serve on committees of interest. The most senior council members shall begin the selection process and council members shall make two assignment selection at a time in order of seniority before proceeding to the next council member. This process shall continue until all assignments have been filled. Council shall seek to maintain continuity of assignments where appropriate while providing periodic opportunities for rotation so that council members may gain experience serving on different boards, commissions, and committees over time. Assignment changes between biennial reviews may be approved by a majority vote of the council when mutually agreed upon or when circumstances such as workload, scheduling conflicts, or personal commitments warrant a reassignment. An appointed city council liaison may be removed from an assignment at any time by a two-thirds vote of the members of council. City council liaison will attend meetings for observation and communication purposes only and will provide updates and information from their assigned board commissioner committee as needed or requested by the council. City council liaisons are not ex-officio members of boards, commissions, or committees to which they are assigned. Their role is to facilitate communication between the city council and their assigned board, commission, or committee, not to direct or influence its actions. City council liaisons shall exercise caution in expressing personal or political opinions during meetings if they're assigned board, commission, or committee. Any comments made by a council member shall be clearly identified as the council member's individual opinion and shall not be represented as the position for the city council unless authorized by council action. Council members shall also recognize that board, commission, and committee members serve the community as a whole, not individual council members. And council reserves the right to amend, suspend, or replace this procedure at any time by amendment to its rules of procedures and approved via ordinance.

Questions?

Any council members have any discussion on this item? The only thing, I know that there's a section on there that for transparency, I'd like it to kind of read mayor and council, because right now there's a section in there that just kind of puts the mayor with the council. And so if we can like, if we can kind of like clearly state the mayor and council instead of just combining the council, the mayor along with the council on section, I believe it was 4.02. Okay. And then if we can make it to where like the mayor has a selection followed by the council's most senior member and going forward.

Selection of what?

Well, as we go in November, when we go to select what committees you want to serve on? Yes, sir. that it would start out with the mayor and then go to the most senior council member after that going forward, going up?

I mean, I can do whatever council wants me to do. I just need that direction to come from council. So I can write that in so long as everyone is in agreement.

Yeah, I thought that's what we decided.

That the mayor would choose first? Yeah. And then go in seniority?

Yeah.

So I will add that to section C that the mayor will choose first and then followed by most senior council member. Any other changes?

Yeah.

When we go through the selection process, we have two different groups. We have, we have liaisons to boards and we have board memberships. So how are we going to do this? When you, when you say that the mayor's going to go first and then you're going to go down and we're picking two at a time, are we going to go do the boards first and then the liaisons, or are we just going to throw them all together in one big happy pile? And I ask that because the workload is different if you're a board member versus you're a liaison to one of the boards.

Absolutely, and I agree with that. And I think, I believe there's more work that's done being a board member versus being a liaison. So we can choose the board first. And then followed by the liaison. I feel like when you make your selection, you make one selection on the board side and your next selection on the liaison side. So that way you're not taking up all the main line items. Like if you're selecting, you're not selecting two board positions and skipping the liaison positions. I feel like those should be spread out evenly. And so therefore when you go to choose, you choose one board and then one liaison. Okay.

Oh, I agree. Absolutely. We can do the boards first and then do the other afterwards. That way it can be evenly across the board if everybody agrees.

So then, so that I understand when I write this in here, y'all want to do this twice, once for board members and then followed with board liaisons. Are you still wanting to do two selections at a time or just one selection at a time?

Well, if we do boards first, and I think it should be a single selection at a time, but if we just do board and liaison positions at the same time, you're choosing one and one as you're going across. So that way you're not having to come back and do the board and then come back and do the liaison. I think that we should just do, you know, you're going to pick two as you go across, but you're going to pick one board position and one liaison position.

Either way, as long as it's fair across the board. I mean, we could do it that way, or we can do it like Councilman Davis stated, do the boards first, liaison second, or like the mayor stated, one of each across the board.

Any thoughts from any other council members?

One potential complication might be, say, the SSLGC board, that appointment is for multiple years. So you wouldn't want somebody who's more senior than the person who's already sitting on it to bump them off. Since they hadn't finished their term yet on the board, so.

Yeah, in this case, we have Councilmember Westbrook that is on until 2028, correct?

Correct. Yes, sir. Yes, Mayor. So the, yeah, so I guess by default, I would only be picking the liaison during the first round of selections.

That's correct. And then in that position would not be up for somebody to grab, so.

Correct. How many total board positions? I think if you did one round, it's only like six, seven, eight. How many?

I'm sorry, I don't remember. I didn't write it down.

I think you exhaust the board by the time you get down to.

Okay, so then I will go back and I will rewrite this and then bring it back again for council to vote on.

Or do we wanna, or can we pass this with those changes? So we can move forward, so we're having to bring it back, or do we want her to make the changes and then bring it back?

I can do it however you want. I mean, so long as when you make the motion, you're very specific and very clear with the language, because once I put it in there, then it's a done deal. I mean, you can go back and amend it, of course, but it's entirely up to y'all how you want to do it.

How does council wish to proceed? Okay. We're going to go ahead and wait until the verbiage is correct, and then we'll go ahead and adopt it at that time.

I will make the edits and then send it to council for review before the next council meeting.

Okay, so one other. So I was just looking at something the councilwoman Sarah Deutch pulled up. It's the PowerPoint presentation, but some of these the mayor has already included in on. So does that count? Like for Main Street, it says mayor plus.

That's the way that they have been historically, but I've done an extensive review after the conversation that we had for the workshop, and there is no mandatory positions for the mayor.

Okay, thank you.

Okay. Thank you, Cherie.

Of course.

And so right now, the way things stand, with Council Member Dietz being placed sixth, you would automatically inherit currently, you're a member of the Animal Services Advisory Committee, the Audit Committee, the Interview Committee, and also the Investment Advisory Committee and Main Street Committee, and you're liaison to Building and Standards Commission, Economic Development Corporation as an alternate, and Senior Center Advisory Board. And so when we go to adopt this, that would also be a time that if you wanted to relinquish those to someone else who had more time to oversee any of those activities, committees at that time, you would be able to relinquish that as well. And then Council Member Sheridan, you right now are currently a member of the Main Street Committee and you serve as an alternate on the Scherzogine Local Government Corporation and liaison to the Economic Development Corporation.

Okay? Yes, ma'am, I'm good with that.

All right, so... No further discussion or actions to be taken on item seven or eight. So we'll be moving on to item nine, which is ordinance 26-S-015. Conduct a public hearing and consider a request to amend The comprehensive land use plan, future land use map from local corridor to industrial hub, approximately 2.1 acres of land, known as 6615 FM 482, specifically known as Comal County, property identification numbers 428461 and 78974, City of Church, Comal County, Texas. And with us, we have Daisy Marquez.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, Mr. Williams. Ordinance 26S015, a proposed comp plan amendment on 2.1 acres of land. Daisy Marquez, Senior Planner. Here's the subject property outlined in yellow. It's located along FM 482, kind of in the northern Shirts area. It's currently unplatted, and it is accompanied by the zone change application, also known as Ordinance 26S016. And kind of just giving you a lay of the land. This is St. John Paul II High School. This is also owned by the high school. And then this is an agriculture slash like residences. This is land that is still plowed. And again, some rural residences in the area. And adjacent, we still have some rural residences as well. So when looking at the comprehensive land use plan, the subject property is designated as local corridor. It's this pinkish-salmony color, and you can kind of see that's what's in the surrounding area. The blue is public use district. Again, that's for the school that's existing there. And then kind of south of the railroad track, we have a regional corridor. So we sent out some public notices on May 21st. We did receive one in opposition and a public hearing notice was published in the newspaper on June 17th. A notification sign was placed by the applicant on the property and this did go to the Planning and Zoning Commission on June 3rd, 2026. And just showing you the opposition map, we did receive that one opposition, but that's at 18.1%, so it doesn't trigger anything. And again, just showing you what the applicant's proposing. It's within a sea of local corridor to the south. We have that regional corridor. And they're proposing industrial hub in this spot. So kind of just showing you the difference between what the applicant's proposing and what's currently existing. So local corridor is meant to be more of entertainment, smaller retail centers. So think of what's currently on that corner of I-35 and FM 309, where you have your Walmart, restaurant, retail, things like that, versus what they're proposing, which is industrial hubs. So think of manufacturing, warehousing, you have a lot of large trucks coming through. So when we look for the criteria for approval for comprehensive land use plan amendments, essentially the comp plan is supposed to be a rational, reasonable basis for making decisions about the community. And this isn't just two to three years, but this is more, 10, 20 years. This is why we come back and we look at it so often. If, you know, maybe mistakes were made, we go back and we change those mistakes. And the UDC goes hand in hand with that to implement those policies and objectives of the comp plan. The proposed industrial hub in this subject area doesn't implement those policies and strategies of the comp plan just because this subject area along FM 42 is actually within focus area five, which we'll get more into of the comp plan that had a specific vision due to the character of the area. So what's being proposed of industrial hub is not compatible or appropriate with the existing future land use plan designations and doesn't promote the general welfare of the community. So the proposed amendment is not consistent again with the comp plan again, The intent of the comp plan and having this as our guiding document for zone changes and things like that is the minimization of potential conflicts between land uses. And right now the applicant is proposing industrial uses within rural residences and in proximity to a school. But also the market snapshot of this area, as we'll go further into it, is incorporating retail with placemaking and destination to increase significance. Again, taking advantage of the character that we have in this area and taking advantage of that to create a place. So again, proposed industrial hub not only would look different within this area of local corridor, but it permits light and heavy industrial uses in zoning by right. So essentially, that's why the ComPlan amendment had to be accompanied with the zone change, because the current comprehensive land use plan, land use designation doesn't support it. If you look within the proximity of the area, again, to the north of the subject property is still being plowed as agriculture. We have some rural residences. We have the John Paul II Catholic High School. And then what you see as stars on the slide are actually residences. And the residents to the left or to the west of the subject property in 2024 got rezoned to single-family residential agricultural because we are working with the owner of the land so he can split it so it can be two residences, but he still lives there at the moment. So this is a more recent zone change. But essentially, the primary objectives of the comp plan are to minimize conflict between land uses and essentially allowing industrial uses and industrial zoning in proximity to a high school and in proximity to rural residences isn't really minimizing that conflict. Instead, it's increasing that conflict. And again, just showing you the subject property outlined in yellow. Again, this is that area of the pink local corridor. The closest existing industrial hub is approximately 2.5 miles to the west in this more purple area where you see more of a heavy industrial, where you see Tri-County Parkway, where you see MACBID, where you see Amazon. And again, the railroad tracks kind of act as that dividing line between our local corridor and our regional corridor. And the intent of the area is to utilize these major transportation corridors. So again, think FM 309, Shirts Parkway, where we're kind of creating that retail commercial destination to serve residents, but also attract visitors and utilizing those existing buildings to emphasize the character of the area. And kind of going deeper into the focus area five that this was a part of, you can kind of see that section of 42 that this property is within. This is where we have some older structures like this church in the lower left-hand corner. But again, trying to emphasize using those older buildings to create a place in church. So again, it's characterized by the school, so John Paul II, and then historical assets that should be celebrated and incorporated into future development. And some of the strategies that come straight from the comp plan are attracting restaurants, entertainment, retailer support adjacent residential areas, but also providing destinations for visitors and creating access to commercial destinations. And here are two pictures. The grassy area is the subject property. And then here is immediately adjacent and part of the subject property as well. These are some of the older buildings in Shirts where a resident let us know that this actually used to be a blacksmith shop. So some interesting history from Shirts. So again, what's being proposed tonight does not address changing circumstances. It doesn't implement the comp plan land use policies better, and it doesn't address any errors in the map or deficiencies in the plan. And the proposed amendment has met all its UDC requirements, and it did go to fire EMS and PDE For review, they did not provide any objections. And on the June 3rd, 2026 planning and zoning commission, we did have a public hearing and the residents did have concerns with the industrial zoning that would be allowed with the industrial hub, comprehensive land use plan, future land use designation. And again, the zoning districts that would be allowed in relation to the zone change that's also being requested tonight. And again, the proposed comprehensive land use plan feature land use map amendment to industrial hub at the subject location is not consistent with the objective and policies of the comp plan. It is not correct any mapping errors or deficiencies in the adopted comp plan. So staff recommends denial of ordinance 26 S 15 and the planning zoning commission held a public hearing on June 3rd and made a recommendation of denial to city council with a seven zero vote. And then the applicant did provide a presentation And if they're here, they can come up.

Good evening. We need a longer mic. Good evening, Mayor Cancel. Artie Zeroni. I'm planning to purchase a property on 6615 FM 482 and have submitted a zoning change application to the city. I want to introduce myself. I come from a military background and I own a veteran-owned business, which we use. We have a trucking business, and we haul a lot of asphalt and aggregate material. We have served the city of Shirts and New Brown Falls and I don't know if you've driven on 35. We did some of the paving a couple of weeks ago. We paved all the asphalt. I'm planning to purchase this property from Mr. Gordon Ward. I have submitted, I want to change the land plan use for this property. And I don't know if any of you guys have been around that property and that area. The nature and the character of the area doesn't support the plan that the city has proposed. There's a high traffic of trucks because there's two major quarries within like a mile and a half radius of the property. There's Anderson Columbia on Nacogdoches and Coyote and further down you have Heidelberg material and you also have multiple asphalt plants. There's three asphalt plants like within half a mile radius. You have Hanson, which is owned by Lone Star Paving, and you have also Garden Ridge, which is also owned by Lone Star Paving. Then you have Clark Asphalt. so The nature of that area you have a lot of construction yards you have a lot of heavy traffic or trucks passing through FM 482 and naked doshas hauling asphalt or like Aggregate materials, then you also have the train tracks right behind the the property and you have the amazon plant right next to it so uh i don't know if anybody within the right mind would want to have like a residential or like a retail like a center in that area with that high traffic you know the reason i have reached out and i have intended to purchase this property is because of the area. So I can, I want to have like, I want to turn that property into a equipment yard where I can park my equipment, fence it off and, uh, have an office there and, uh, put a privacy fence and secure my equipment. I've been experiencing a lot of sabotage and, uh, problems, you know, people just breaking, stealing parts of my trucks and equipment, you know, uh, and I just want to purchase like a property where I can secure it and put some cameras. Uh, and I want to basically bring up the tax revenue for the city of shirts, support a veteran community, provide more jobs, you know, uh, that's my purpose of wanting to purchase this property. And I would like you guys to allow this, uh, application to go through and so we can help the city of shirts and, uh, serve the city of Shirts. Thank you. Questions?

Any council members have any questions? All right. Daisy, council member Guerrero has a question for you.

Yep. Daisy, I got a question for you. How many residents?

Hang on. Are you done? Are you done with your?

I also have one more thing. We did like a hearing from the neighbors and there's three neighbors that signed in the favor of the land plan we have. And the land plan we have proposes general business, not an industrial hub. And we have the letter on the slide. I haven't used this. I think that's the letter. The multiple neighbors, three neighbors signed in favor of what we are planning to do with the property. All right. All right, thank you. Thank you.

At this time, I'm going to go ahead and open it up to public hearing at 718. Do we have anybody wishing to come up to speak on behalf of Ordinance 26-S-015? Yes, sir.

My name is Salvador Flores with Benny Schoen Engineering. We're assisting Artie with the application process. One of the things that we observe, we take a look at this zoning case and land use is we understand that when the city takes a look at what would be best located there, you know, at some point, this is what we feel that may go there. When you look at the, you know, Caddy Corner having Amazon, massive industrial, it's kind of interesting how the maps that were shown, showing everything to the left, not to the right, to the north. If you were to take a look at those maps to the north, you'll see more of industrial and business, you know, kind of zoning. But the other thing too is the railroad tracks is a big issue because the railroad goes to there, it's active, you know, pulls that horn every single time. It's definitely not a place for residential. You don't want kids playing in the back. Also retail, you look at different types of retail that could go in there. With that frequency of the railroad tracks, you're going to have a lot of vibration, a lot of noise. And I don't even know anybody that would put a shopping center in there with that sort of traffic and so forth. So I think this is a land use that's appropriate. It's something that, you know, you've got to, He wants to be a commercial resident of the City of Church. He's a veteran. I think he sacrificed a lot in his life. You should get to know his story. And he just wants to be a resident here of City of Church and wants to help the community and just really wants to improve the property out there and do a really good job and bring his business to the City of Church. But any questions for him or myself? We're here. Thank you.

Any other residents wishing to come out and speak? Going once, going twice. We'll go ahead and close the hearing of residents, 7-20. At this time, I'll go ahead and open it up to council for discussion.

Councilman Guerrero.

Yes, Daisy, how many residents are living surrounding that area?

So let me show you the map again. To the west we have Mr. Saunders who lives on this property. Again to the north we have agriculture and then above this is owned by the Friesenhans. And then over here to the east we have two properties that are currently designated as residential in the county and are used as a residence as we know right now.

And nothing more to the left on the other side of the high school?

No, that's outside of city limits, sir. So the red line is the city limits for that.

Thank you.

I have a question. Three properties that you're slated to be residential with the yellow stars there, are those the ones that have signs stating that they're okay with the business that wants to go in? Okay. Any other questions by council? Council member Sheridan?

Yes, Daisy, the one resident that opposed, what was the reasoning?

Mr. Friesenhahn, it was due to the industrial uses that would be allowed within the industrial hub comprehensive land use plan designation. So think GB2, M1, M2. So that allows things like... So think like your really, really heavy uses that you usually don't see. So not even a little past 35, but think beyond city limits. Usually things we don't see, things that emit smoke in order, things that might have, you know, things that are more visible when it comes to the use that you see maybe in the air in the surrounding area. So, for example, the applicant was seeing a concrete batching plant that would actually require M2 zoning and it would require an SEP. So that's not allowed in the GB2 district that they're even proposing today.

And for the planning and zoning committee, their primary concern was?

It's when you look at it essentially in proximity to what's there in the comp plan. They are taking a specific spot and pulling it out and proposing industrial hub when this area, especially focus area five as shown on the comp plan, we see it in the future as being some sort of retail, even though it might not be next year and the next two years, this is a 10 to 20 year plan where there's other people that might be looking into this area. They see the character and they see the value of these older buildings and they want to reuse them. And we're happy to work with people that want to reuse these older buildings Meet the intent of the comprehensive land-use plan to create something special in shirts Okay, now the comprehensive land-use plan that was developed back in when? 2024 sir it was adopted.

Okay 2024.

Yes, April 2024 was adopted by City Council.

So fairly. Yes, fairly recent So we've kind of analyzed and reviewed, you know what we look for the big picture for the city of shirts So we kind of got that idea there

Yes, we had five specific focus areas. It was a really big discussion. We had joint meetings with city council and PNZ at that time. We had a very large engagement program with citizens. with important people in the area, with businesses. We even had a website where people were able to click on a specific spot in the area of shirts and say, I want this here, I'm looking for this here, or I want more eating places in here. So we got to hear from a lot of people, and it was a very long process that we went through to essentially implement this, make changes, and we heard from a lot of people to essentially create this vision for the city.

And that comprehensive plan, use plan is reviewed every?

Every 10 to 20 years and let's say there's a mistake or maybe something doesn't look so appropriate within that specific area that we, then staff might come back or PNZ or city council might say, maybe that doesn't look so appropriate in the area and we can reevaluate it then. if we see that essentially it's not implementing the policies in the best way that it should be, but instead is bringing things down in that area, but essentially this is a 20-year plan of what we think of the city in 20 years.

So the vendor, they're looking at putting some type of structure there. How many employees are they...

I am not aware, sir. We do not have a site plan for that area. From the letter of intent, we just have spec warehousing. From the letter of intent, this is the first we're hearing of a concrete batching plan or anything like that.

From their presentation that they included in the packet, it appears to be an outdoor storage yard in a small office building.

Not doing anything with asphalt? No. Okay. Okay.

Can I ask a question just to clarify? So it's kind of being used as outdoor storage now, but if it sells, it's no longer grandfathered under or as a non-conforming use, right?

So it shouldn't have been used for outdoor storage in the first place? Right. Yeah. So essentially that's where they're coming with the comp plan amendment. And the zone change so they can go hand in hand because outdoor storage requires primary use. So that's why they would be required to build some sort of warehouse or office to go with the storage yard. That meets all of our requirements.

And so that being key, it would need to meet all of the requirements. Yes, sir. Correct. Including all the landscaping required and paving and things like that nature. But essentially, it's an outdoor storage.

Okay. Council Member Guerrero, do you have another question?

Yes. Now, I know you said that the red zone there, it's out of the area, but are those to the left, are those residents or is that something else?

Outside of the line, sir? Yes. I would not be too familiar. I believe this is a residence outside of city limits, but beyond that, that's Garden Ridge, I believe, and gets into other city limits. So I'm not aware of what's going on in that area.

Thank you. Any other questions by council? Having none, can I get a motion to pass Ordinance 26S-015?

I'll make a motion to approve.

Second. I have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Davis to approve Ordinance 26-S-015, seconded by Councilmember Watson. Can I get everyone to cast their votes? Can I get the votes published, please? All right, having four yays, three nays, motion passes. All right, moving on to Ordinance 26-S-016. Conduct a public hearing and consider a request to rezone approximately 2.1 acres of land from Pre-Development District Pre to General Business District 2, GB2, known as 6615 FM 482, specifically known as Comal County Property Identification Numbers 428, 461, and 78974, City of Church, Comal County, Texas. We have Daisy Marquez. Yes.

Good evening once again. Ordinance 26S016, a zone change from pre-development district to GB2 on 2.1 acres. Daisy Marquez, senior planner. And then here's that same subject property outlined in yellow. Again, it's currently zoned pre-development district. Kind of as a background, pre-development district is meant as a placeholder, especially for properties that came in after annexation. As people wanted to develop the land, then they can come in and request some sort of zoning that fit what they were looking for. To the north is FM 42. To the south are the railroad tracks. To the east is pre-development district. Again, some older residential and commercial buildings. And then to the west, we have single family residential agricultural district from 2024. And then beyond that, we have JP2, the Catholic high school. Again, we send out seven public notices. We did receive two in neutral. And then a public hearing notice was published in the paper on June 17th. And a notification sign was placed out there by the applicant. And this went to the Planning and Zoning Commission on June 3rd, 2026. We did not receive oppositions for this. We did receive some neutrals. So again, the applicant is proposing to change 2.1 acres from pre-development district to GB2, and they're proposing office warehouse with outdoor storage. And again, here are some of the uses that are allowed in comparison from pre-development district to GB2. So again, a car wash automated, commercial amusement indoor, auto repairs and service major, office warehouse distribution center, and mini warehouse public storage. And again, pre-development district was just a placeholder, so it didn't have any dimensional requirements, whereas GB2 does. And looking at zone changes, we look towards the Criterion 21-54D. So the comp plan previously had it as local corridor as a feature line designation, but with the approved industrial hub, light and heavy industrial uses along major roadways, and it does support the GB2 in its permitted uses. The GB2 was not compatible with the previous local corridor line use designation, but it is with the industrial hub. That was just approved. Engineering did provide a memo on the TIA summary that the proposed zone change will increase traffic, but the impact is minor and can be mitigated, and that the transportation system will continue to function at an acceptable level, and this traffic impact would not impact health, safety, or welfare of the city. Again, the SHARE strategic plan lists goals and objectives to effectively plan and manage land use. What was being proposed is missing transitional buffers from that residential uses to now industrial uses. And that proposed GB2 did not promote that effective land use management, which does impact the general welfare of the community, again, within the general area. We have a residential use to the west, and then we have residential uses to the east, and then we have that high school within proximity. So it's not consistent or appropriate with the existing uses in the area. GB2 is indicted for non-residential and light industrial uses. So things, again, like general manufacturing, industrial, truck sales, heavy equipment, and mixed-use self-storage. And again, the railroad tracks were actually acting as a physical barrier and transitional area to the existing industrial uses to the south of the subject property. So that zone change does meet the UDC requirements, and the zone change was sent to fire, police, and EMS for review, and no objections were provided. And again, at the public hearing held on June 3rd, there were concerns with industrial uses and truck traffic. So with the approved comprehensive land use plan amendment to industrial hub staff is actually changing their recommendation since our recommendation is based on the comprehensive land use plan amendment. And since city council is okay with industrial hub in this subject area, then our recommendation is going to change to approval since that is our guiding document for the future. And the planning and zoning commission held a public hearing for this item on June 3rd and made a recommendation of denial to city council with the 7-0 vote. and then the application has a presentation for this as well.

Okay, so this time I'll go ahead and open it up for public hearing at 7.33. Anybody wishing to come up to speak on ordinance 26-S-016? Going once, twice. Having nobody, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing at 7.33. And any discussion by council on item 10? There are no discussions. You do? Go ahead.

If you're going to make a motion, may I ask a question? I'll make a motion. Okay, all right.

Just to clarify, and I think Steve touched on it, but with them putting in the zoning change, they can't just utilize property as it's currently being used. They're going to have to improve it to what is within our code.

Correct, sir. It's going to have to be plotted and go through the site plan process and building permitting process.

Okay. And I want to clarify one more thing, if that's possible. So under GB2, just because they're showing us a presentation that shows a yard, could he sell that property to somebody else and somebody else could put in any of those uses that are allowed under GB2 because it'll carry the zoning with it. So just because they're showing us a picture of a yard, it could be, if you want to show that list again, it could be anything that's allowable under GB2, just so the council's aware.

Correct, Mr. Williams. Essentially approving the zoning is approving all permitted uses allowed within that zoning district. And again, these are just some that are permitted within that GB2 zoning district. So it doesn't matter what they're stating their proposed land use is going to be today. They can always sell it or someone else can come in and develop the site with anything that's permitted under GB2 by right or come in and request an SUP for something that allows an SEP within that zoning district.

I think there was confusion with the applicant's presentation if they were doing an asphalt batch related use. So again, with the comp plan changing, if they came back in, because again, we wanted to make clear they understood That's not allowed in GB2, it's heavy manufacturing. But if they came back in for a rezone for heavy manufacturing, it would be consistent now with the comp plan. And so if they would wanna do a batch plant, we'd likely recommend approval of that rezone because it's consistent with the plan. But they'd have to come back in for that and run it.

Okay, and as they go to develop that property and do a parking lot, those kind of things, they're supposed to capture all the water runoff from that property, correct?

So all of the drainage studies and everything with that will go through the development process, yes, sir. We'll see preliminary studies during planning, and then during the site plan process, we'll get a more refined study, and then during building permits is where we really lock everything down to a T. Okay.

Any other discussion?

So just, I'm sorry, and I don't mean to belabor this, if they wanted to come and build like a major auto repair for semi-tractor trailers, they could do that?

Correct, sir, they would be permitted to do that by right. Yes, correct, sir.

Thank you.

All right, have another discussion? Can I get a motion? So moved.

Second. Second.

Okay, I got a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Davis, seconded by Council Member Watson. Can I get everybody to cast their votes? Can I get the votes published, please? Having seven yays, no nays, motion passes. All right, moving on to item 11 which is our workshop so i know there's been discussion about council uh coming up with some new council coins challenge coins uh we we did have some and we are out those challenge coins uh do represent the city and represent a lot of the good work that a lot of uh our residents uh do that we present them with those challenge coins as well as some of our athletes that compete in youth sports. So I feel like this is a time, since we're out of those coins, to be able to kind of get some feedback from council as far as what they'd like to see, if they want to keep the challenge coins, make the current challenge coin, or make improvements to it. I would recommend making improvements to the challenge coin to really represent the city seal and also kind of signify what the city of Church is about. and see if we can make the coin a lot more presentable. And I'm willing to take feedback from council.

Mr. Mayor. Have the other members of the council seen a council challenge coin?

I think a lot of us have. I don't think council member Dietz has, though.

I'll start at the floor, Dave. Okay. You can pass it down. That's the current council challenge coin. pass this one down this way. I don't know if Councilman McGregor has ever seen one. Mr. Mayor, my recommendation would be, you know, from the military world, I'm well familiar with challenge coins and I do like option of having them i know there's been discussion about having them done at the individual level and having each council member have their coin um i personally would recommend against that because for those of you who don't know about challenge coins i mean they just don't fall out of a tree you've got to find a company to make them there's typically artwork fees there's dye feeds um And to use city tax dollars to get a personalized coin for each council member, I don't think is an efficient use of our resources. Especially considering the fact that once you design a coin, you don't know how long you're going to be on council. We've had people just depart suddenly for a lot of reasons. We have elections coming up. So to order 100 coins for, and when you typically order these things, Not only do you have the die fee and the artwork fee, but you typically have to order them in groups of 100. So to order 100 coins where you might not be in the council in the near future I think would be wasteful. I do like the idea of having a council challenge coin. I don't think it would be a bad idea for the mayor's office to have a coin for the mayor. I do agree that I think the artwork could use some improvement on what we had for our previous council coin, I would like to see it updated. But I would offer that we come up with a generic shirt city council coin that all the council members would have access to and not a personalized individual one. And again, I would offer that maybe even the mayor's office should have a coin from the mayor of the city of shirts. But again, I would caution against going with the personalization with the name on it because You never know when that's going to turn over.

And I would agree with that as well. And I feel like if we have a council coin, it kind of shows a unified front, unified effort as well.

Any other discussions? I agree with that. We don't need to pay more money for coins. So a generic one would be ideal. I agree.

I had to agree with Councilman Davis on that.

Okay. If y'all are in agreement, I would be more than happy to design a city council coin as well as a mayor's coin for the council to approve if y'all are in agreement with that.

I'm opposed to that one, Mayor. No offense, but you have your coin. Design your coin. the city council should design their own coin. That's just my standpoint.

Do we have any council member that would like to take the lead in designing the council coin? We have Sarah Dietz. Would you like to speak?

I was not gonna offer that service. I was just gonna say that I think the unified coin is a great idea and I would like to update that one. I think that would be nice, but I'm not gonna be the one to do that.

I can volunteer for that. I will present some. I have done some other options, individual ones that I have sent out and I did put that in the email. So I can put something together and present it to everybody and get everybody's feedback on it.

If everybody's okay with that, we can move on to it.

Yes, I've actually seen some of her prototypes, and they're really nice, so I'm good with that.

Okay. All right, well, having said that, we'll go ahead and work on a city council coin, the mayor's coin, for the council to be able to approve. So we'll go ahead and... And our workshop at 743 with the only action taken is to go ahead and design a city council coin by Council Member Watson and the mayor will design the mayor coin. ITEM 12 AND 13, THERE'S NO DISCUSSION TO OCCUR ON THOSE ITEMS. MOVING ON TO REQUESTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. REQUEST BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR UPDATES OR INFORMATION FROM STAFF. DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATES OR INFORMATION THAT WE WANT FROM STAFF? Having none, request by mayor and council members that items or presentations, oh wait, Sarah, did you have anything to say? Okay. Request by mayor and council members that items or presentations be placed on any future city council agendas. Is there any items any council member wants on any future agendas?

Still looking for the impact fee.

Okay.

Okay, so if we can go ahead and get the impact fees on a future agenda item.

We're in the process of putting that together.

Okay. And then city and community events attended or to be attended by council. We'll start with Mayor Pro Tem Davis.

Just kudos to the city staff and everybody for the Jubilee. Friday was fantastic. The parade was great. Just a good time.

I attended the 4th of July celebrations. It was amazing. Thank you for everybody that had to help and then our committee and gathering a little bit more fun for the community.

Same here. I think most anyone I spoke to enjoyed themselves quite a bit. I know our friends that came from out of town loved it, and they thought they did great. They actually asked us to thank the staff for them because they were just really impressed by how well everything ran. I think it was a memorable experience, and hopefully some of the individuals that got to attend will be able to always have that one to think about on.

Yes, I agree with everybody. The festivities for the 3rd and the 4th were exceptional. In addition, I did attend the ribbon cutting for the Texas Tea Cafe.

Yes, Mayor. I will reiterate, a great job by the whole staff, but I also took it as an opportunity to sort of get to meet some of the staff I wouldn't normally meet. And so April and Stephanie from the library, I had never met them before. They helped us park, so I had a good conversation with them. I had Rodolfo, Tommy, and I think Karis, they were selling shirts from utilities. They were noticeable in Athena and Samantha from a civic center. I had never met them before. And so we had a good conversation, you know, about their volunteerism and how they were helping out. And so I appreciate everybody, but I did meet a few people that I didn't know before. So thank you.

I want to echo everybody's sentiments. The Jubilee was just spectacular. I took some of my family there. young and old, we all just had a wonderful, wonderful time. And thank you to everybody who were involved, because it was excellently, excellently executed.

Again, kudos to the, I know the Parks and Rec Board had the initial planning of this event for this weekend. Kudos to them, first responders. I know I saw the EMS at work a couple of times, so again, kudos to the first responders for keeping us safe out there. And with that, I attended the Planning and Zoning Committee, the CVLGC, and the Shirts Historical Preservation Committee. Thank you.

Thank you. And I too attended the CVLGC meeting. And again, I agree with everything that's been said here tonight as far as our staff goes, making sure that Jubilee went off without a hitch. I mean, a wonderful job by the entire staff. Not only were they out there working, but they were having fun doing it, which made it even more enjoyable for So kudos to them. So having done that, we're going to go ahead and adjourn this regular meeting at 7.48.