City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Shannondoa City Council meeting for March 25, 2026. Look around. I see that everyone is present. So, we do have a quorum. We're going to stand up and say the pledge of allegiance to the United States and Texas. To the flag followed by an invocation.

I pledge algiance 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 algiance to the Texas one state under God one and indivisible.

The invocation is going to be delivered by Mr. uh Ernest Summerall. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight with gratitude for this community, for the people who call Shannondoa home, and for the responsibility placed on those who serve. We ask you, Lord, to grant wisdom to our mayor, council members, and all who take part in the decisions made here tonight. Give them clarity in judgment, integrity in action, and a heart that seeks what is right for the people they serve. Help us to listen well, to speak with respect, and to work together. even when we disagree for the good of the community. Remind us that leadership is a responsibility, not a privilege and that the work done here affects families, neighbors, and future generations. Guide this meeting. Lord, study every decision and let what is done here tonight reflect truth, fairness, and service to others in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Amen. Thank you. We're going to move on to item number five, citizens forum. Citizens are invited to speak for three minutes on matters relating to city government that relate to agenda or non-aggenda items. Speakers are asked to approach the podium and give their name and address before sharing their comments. First name. First on the list is Marie Wise. Is it

Bella? I think she's going to talk residential. Yes. Can you approach the podium, please? Good evening and thank you for having me here. But I might have jumped the gun because I actually wanted to talk on number nine, the uh traffic. So I might have signed in on the I might have screwed up and signed in on both roles. So I apologize. Oh, so you want to speak on at the on the traffic. I I submitted to um Jim a proposal for um the neighborhood of the Dante Trail, Doulmer Woods as well as neighborhoods along Grogan's Mill. Okay. So that'll be on the public.

Yeah. So I apologize for filling out two things. I was overzealous to come to the city council. So thank you for having me. We're glad you're here. Glad you're here. Thank you. Is anyone else u signed up for the same reason? Yes. Okay. All right. So, would you mind waiting until we get to that item then when you have an opportunity to express your views? All right. All right. Then, uh we have uh Mr. Sumro.

Good evening, Mayor, council members. neighbors. Thank you guys very much for the opportunity to speak. I really just wanted to say hello. Thank you so much for this community. My family and I, we moved here about seven years ago and the first thing that I noticed was everyone walking around the neighborhoods in the evening and saying hello to each other. And uh it's a really wonderful feeling of community that we just enjoy and I just want to thank you guys for that. Um my name is Ernest Summer. My address I think you said we should say is 527 Thornwood. Um we just enjoy the city all of it. Thank you guys for the work you've done for making a great place to live. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. I don't think anyone else has signed up for the uh item number five, citizens forum. So, we're going to Excuse me. We're going to move on to item number six, discussion regarding general fund reserve analysis.

Uing council, I did pro um I did prepare a short presentation if Chris can pull it up. Um at a previous meeting um council inquired um why do we have the 180day reserves? Is that too much? Is it too little? Do we need to look at that number again? So, originally the 180 reserve came upon um in 2019. Um I think uh former council member Michael uh Mike Mloud was one of the um um backers on that to try to figure out, hey, we have this money. Let's commit some of it so that it's used for a certain purpose and it's just not what's perceiving as like a fund account, you know, a fund money account because it actually has a purpose. So we evaluated at that time kind of like where the majority of our revenue comes from and we decided if that was no longer here, how many days could we operate with our reserves? Um, and we found out that 180 days would give us enough time to either figure out um some bond issuance, some short-term te short-term debt, um, other factors to help us keep afloat our operations and the quality of service that everyone's expected of in the city. Um, and then have some kind of safety net while we're waiting for all that to come through. So just recently we were inquired again because it has been um almost 7 years since that adoption of that policy to look at our reserve balances and kind of figure out what is a healthy number to use. Um so I reach out to GFOA which is the government financial officers association. Um they kind of um put out the best practices. um they give guidance for local municipality uh financial officers and state financial officers to figure out some of these things because you learn from learning from others, right? So, um I talked to

um a representative of GFOA that has kind of um he has a whole article about rethinking reserves and how do we assess risk for reserves. Um GFA can do a very robust study for you. It does cost quite a bit of money. Um there is some software they're developing but in the meantime they have created this self assessment that you use. It's all metriced by them and it helps you evaluate what your reserve number should be based on risk. Um so I'll start the presentation. It will be very quick. I'm not going into every part of the study because that would take too long. I'm just going to hit the main parts of it. um really our ma our major risks that are associated with government financials. So

you're going to take any questions during the presentation?

Yeah, if you have a question, feel free. Um sometimes it's easier when we're in that that topic to talk about it. So we will um so just the agenda just going to go through the meth the methodology of uh general fund balance um reserves and then I'll just do a quick um overview of our main risks and then the recommendation and then if there's other discussion we have that at that point. Um so what are reserves? Uh so basically reserves are the portions of your government's fund balance that are unassigned. So every year we go through an audit um and especially in the general fund, what is our balance after we take in all of our assets? So that's cash, that's you know um securities, all that. And then after we pay everything we're going to have to pay and everything that we have to restrict, what is our fund balance? Um so that's how you come to fund balance. Fund balance is your reserve. Um there are different categories of reserve. So there are your non-spendable um that those are assets that can't be used in that period. That's usually fidiciary funds, stuff like that that you're managing. Um restricted that can only be used for specific surf uh purposes. That's more like anything that's mandated by law like ARPA was a restricted fund balance. Um asset forefeiters restricted fund balance when we look at it because they can only be used for certain things. Uh committed fund committed fund balance is when you guys are up here on the dis and you say we're going to use some reserves to pay for this item that's not a normally recurrent item. That's the committed. It's when there's a formal action made by council to commit those for um for a specific um purpose assigned. It's intended for specific purposes but not fully restricted or committed. So it can be uncommitted and reassigned and then unassigned is um pretty much

everything that's left over afterwards that has no claim on it. So um all governments experience risk. Everyone experience risk in their life and governments are no different. So what we have to do is try to balance what our risks are and how do we need to protect ourselves and safeguard ourselves from those risks. Will some of these things ever happen? Maybe not. But we need to be prepared because if they do happen, it's better be prepared than not. Um, and then also offers flexibility. So, our budget's pretty lean. We don't budget for every contingency that's under the sun, right? We also, so there might be a situation like right now the pool, you know, if we need to order things that that's on the budget. We have that flexibility to order things that the residents request. Um, and then also to if there's unexpected things like when we have

emergencies, we have those funds available that aren't tied to the committed one and they're just unassigned. So that's kind of what the unsigned more for. Um, so those are city reserves. Let me ask you, Lisa. So, uh, Hurricane Barrel Mhm. the expense that we dished out to for recovery to remove the trees or Yeah. Everything that we spent, did that come out of a specific fund? Is that So, it just comes out the unassigned. So, we don't budget for emergency management.

They used to back um probably 10 15 years ago. Um, but you're not always going to have an emergency. So that drives up your tax rate because you're trying to cover that expected expenditure even though it's it might not happen. So um I believe it was probably about 10 years ago council at the time said why are we budgeting for all this things that may never happen. So that's when we took that out of the budget and it's just covered by unassigned fund balance. And then usually through TEMA uh not TEMA, sorry, TML. And then also with FEMA, we do get 75% at least back of anything that we put out that's eligible. There are times that sometimes it's just not eligible. It's not reimbured, but we have this flexibility that we can get things done and protect the city in down times like this and not be strapped for a cash flow. So the city reserves, yes. So the only um fund that is restricted by a a reserve policy is the general fund and well MDD, but they're a component. They're not part of your city's operational budget. So we do have reserves. Uh as of September 30th of 2025, which was our fiscal year end, we had a little over $10 million in fund balance reserve. Um as you'll see in the chart, and I'm sorry, I try to make it big enough so everyone can see. Um the majority of it is committed at 5.9 million. Um the um restricted is the asset forefeiter amount which that will be moved into its own fund this year. So we won't see that in the fund balance going forward. Um you have your assigned which is our capital project hold. So the HVAC project at city hall the city hall beautifification project virtual server replacement purchase and then our equipment replacement funding is all tied into that unassign I mean assigned fund balance. And then you get down to that yellow part and that's your unassigned fund balance and it's just

short of a million dollars. Um, so we're in good financial health. Um, but yeah, for the for the committed funds, what does it take to spend the committed funds? So that just so everybody knows,

it requires so the the fund balance the fund balance policy does require council action to approve the expenditure of those funds and there are certain buckets that can only be used. So I kind of put those in here. It says to provide sufficient cash flow for daily financial needs. So if there's an issue with an emergency or we're our cash flow is reduced and we need the cash flow which we won't have a problem right now but you never know what could happen. It does account for that. Um it secures and maintains investment grade bond ratings. Um so we do have a double A minus which is a good for our size. Uh we do have debt falling off in the next couple years. So when um bond evaluation companies like S&P uh Moody, they look at um your borrowing power, they look at your debt ratio, they look at your reserves, and they do look at your um um historical bond payments, which we're always on time.

Do you do you recollect the last time that we spent any of the committed funds? We never have. We've never tapped into the 180. That's what I thought. Okay. Thanks. And then um the other two things that could be used for the 180 is offset economic downturns or revenue shortfalls. Um even during COVID, we did have significant sales tax revenue shortfalls which I'll show you later. Um but we were we did have a lot of investment income that helped us offset some of that. Um and also um some other um revenue sources came in a little bit stronger like building permits at that time period as well. So it helped float the cash flow. Just wanted to point out that we we went through co we had massive inflation and we still never had to touch any of this committed money.

Yes. Yes. Um and then provide funds for unforeseen expenditures related to emergencies which we just explained. Okay.

So that's and then on this next slide I did do like a historical. So you'll see the blue comes in in 2020 because that's when we officially designated um a reserve 180day reserve balance. So the orange is the unassigned fund balance. Um so you'll see through the years um and let me tell you 20 years of information was really fun to go through and try to figure out because of ERP system switch uh software changes and also um different auditors um and they like to change Gazby likes to change the rules on how things are categorized. So I tried to match as much as I could with some of our expenditures and revenues going forward as well just to give you a heads up. But you can see that we've been growing our reserve. Um the last time our reserve um um went decreased was 2024, but that was because of the um we um advanced funded the chillers. So it offset it a little bit.

And again for the audience, the section in orange, is that free cash or how is that accounted for? So I didn't break it up by the the assigned and unassigned because that would have taken way too long to go back into history. But um that orange is just what's not committed to the 180 days, but the previous page kind of shows you the breakout, okay,

of the current year. Um but you'll see there were some dips like in 2015 they use reserves to pay for the park improvements that was from a land sale that went into that reserve amount. Um so 2620 2017 was park construction. So that's why that dipped because I looked back just to make sure why that was off. Um, but for the most part, we've been growing the reserve at a healthy rate. And just to point out to the public back on that slide, you could see the the dark blue is just increasing and increasing and increasing. Yeah. So that's based on 180 days of operating um expenditures.

So if you go back 10 years, it just be from 2016. You could pretty much see that the same. I mean just visualize it yourself you know not to have you do it but just to make that point. So how do we measure the appropriate level of reserves? So based on the GFO's framework you have to identify your risk. At the end of the day risk is everything. So risk is basically the probability and magnitude of a loss disaster other undesirable event. Um it's always present. It's always possible and sometimes it is unavoidable. CO was an unavoidable risk. No one saw that coming, right? Hurricanes are unable. We didn't have to dip into the reserves.

Yeah. But I'm just mean as a as a risk that happened. Hurricanes, we live in Hurricane Ally. It's going to happen over that multi-year period. If we didn't have to dig in to the reserves, I don't know when we would. Um I can show you in a minute. All right. You do that.

Um the assessed risk. Um so we assessed the risk. So I looked at historical. I went back 20 years. I looked at any major um revenue shortfalls, identified them, see looked at and saw what happened. Um and then we evaluate that. And then the third part of this um framework is to evaluate if there's any alternate ways to mitigate risk. Um and then from that you can establish what reserve you should hold as a committed balance. So um and this just explains this. So GFOA does recommend a minimum of 60 days or 16% of your operating expens expenditures for your fiscal year. Um but since that best practice has been published, they do recognize that every government is different. There's different risks, there's different opportunities. Um and they develop this framework to account for all that. And then also they do recognize that we need to have financial flexibility um for things that occur that we don't know. Um so this study breaks it out. I will not be going into the minor risks. I will publish the study online. I just it's just a lot of small risks that it's going to be take too much time. So I just want to do the major risks. So our major risks are extreme events um revenue stability and expenditure or volatility. So extreme events and I apologize this is a lot brighter on your this screen than it was on my computer screen. Um so I our extreme events are going to be natural disasters that's a local threat. Economic recession that's local and or national threat and then pandemic which is could be a local national and worldwide event as we saw. Um so our assessed risks are we're our location is prone to hurricanes and flooding. We are on the west fork of the Sanjac River. Um we've seen it before, it will happen again. Um we our industry

in this area is oil and gas. So there is a lot of market volatility with oil and gas. Um higher unemployment means less people are spending money. Um and then all of these risks will affect our sales tax revenue which is our main source of revenue for the general fund. It accounts for 73% of our operating revenue which is very high for our city. Um our risk mitigation approaches would be short-term borrowing in times of recession um or natural disasters but that does take time and you incur interest costs on top of that. Um operating budget reduction obviously even during co we reduced some of the things that we were doing just so that there wasn't strain on our expenditures. Um it does make it a little hard because when you look at our budget it's pretty lean. Um 60% of our budget is personnel costs for the general fund and most of that is the police department and then 20% is fire services with the Woodlands Fire Department and then other operations that have to happen. There are certain reporting there's certain requirements that we have to pay for. Um so it makes it a little bit harder to do expenditure roll back on that level. Um and then the third mitigation to not dip into reserves would be to explore stable um alternative revenue sources. This isn't very preferred because that means taxes could go up because that's your most stable like property taxes are your most stable um revenue. So that's not preferred. So we would like to try to figure out our risk and keep our reserves at healthy rate so we don't have to go to that point, right? Um, so this is a little hard, but what I did in this first chart is I looked at historical um, events that compromised our sales tax. Um, we had April 2016, April 2017, we had floods that did, and you can see it dipped our uh, revenue

for sales tax. Hurricane Harvey was a large one. The CO 19 pandemic actually hit four months consecutively with our businesses closed. Um, and then the Dorreno in 2024 had a hit and then Hurricane Barrel obviously because this area was out of power for a whole week. Um, so that means that nothing was operating that wasn't on a generator. The second risk is your revenue savility. So our top three revenues are sales taxes. It's 70% of our budget. Property tax is about 11% of our budget revenues. And then franchise fees, the third highest is only 3% of our revenue, which is low. Um, and that's

I just I had a question based on when the power was out. Do we have an idea how many of our businesses have alternate power generation or I know. Do we not know or should that be something that maybe we find out? Um, that would be a Jose I would think more Joseph question. I'm trying to remember back. Sam's had they have it just to keep their coolers operational. I think that doesn't power anything else in their store. Some probably do and some probably don't that are smaller, but yeah, the majority did not have any sort of backup power and or if they did, they didn't implement it and try to open because either their employees couldn't get there or whatever it may be. I'm just saying it might be something we might want to know.

So, basically, um, well, I just did some quick facts. So um of last year's sales tax collection to the general fund um 82% of that came from our top 100 companies in the city. Um and in that breakout um there was um of that 73% of that is on the east side. Um of that 82% which is very high. Um that is going to be everything from city limit to city limit. Um and then um there were a few that were online utilities. So those are outliers kind of those were only 10% of the um 82%. And then of our 100 of our 100 company top 100 companies that pay sales tax to us 60% of those are on the east side. So that's still a very high number for being in one area. So if a major storm came through and destroyed that whole corridor, your sales tax base has been cut more than half. Um, so that's that's a concern. Um, are cyclones common? Not crazy common like they are in Kansas and Oklahoma, but they do happen. Um, that would be one of those threats that would take that out longer term. You know, we've had some flooding over there. That's, you know, mitigate. You can mitigate that, but if something really destroyed those businesses, you would have a situation. Um and then just looking at our top three uh operating revenues, that red dotted line that's at the top there, that is the total operating revenue. Um the orange right below it, that's sales tax. So it just shows you that disparity between sales tax and the other revenue sources um that we have to account for in our risk assessment. Um and then our third was um ex expenditure volatility. Um so the risks here are legislation meets every

two years for state level and then federal they pass bills all the time. Um so there are sometimes could be requirements for new things that we have to do we have to have insuranceances stuff like that. So those are but there hasn't been anything in the 10 years that I've been here that the legislature imposed that came midy year. It always came in time for the budget. Usually they have a September one start date. most of the bills. So, you're you're getting ready for it, but so it is a risk though. So, federal can pass anything and then they could give you a shorter timeline um than that. I'm just not recollecting the last time they ever hit us.

So, the only thing is with legislation in this last session is that there was a lot of protections for first responders for insuranceances and retirement um differential, but it only went to most fire departments. Um but it was originally introduced as everyone. So Chief Buck took care of that.

Yeah. So those are the kinds of things that we don't know will pass or not pass, who's going to be included in those legislation bills. So we just have to be ready for that because if there is a huge impact, we just need, you know, you just want to be ready for it in case it does happen. Um the other one's inflation. Um I think everyone in this room has experienced inflation and governments are not immune to inflation. We and or tariffs. We are paying on the projects tariff costs as well. Um so um inflation is we have identifiable costs at the tariffs. We've had a couple contractors ask us about I was just curious. It was the first that I had heard about it.

Right. We we did have a contractor who tried to break out. Now we already had a contract in place but they tried to tack on a tariff cost and we denied we denied payment because we already had a contract in place but yes there have been attempts and future contracts we won't be insulated. Yeah.

And also when we do our budgeting, we budget usually, you know, numbers are in to me by May. So if we go to finally order that thing in November, there might be now an increase in cost because of a tariff or an inflation that we didn't need to account for. That's what kind of happens when you do budget and how governments have to budget. Um and then the other another risk is um crime. So our location is very unique. Um, we are two square miles intersected by one of the biggest highways in the country, outside of the fourth largest city in the country. So, our risk is being outside of Houston. It's you just have more population, more traffic, and that can bring crime into your commercial districts. Um, most of it's in the commercial districts, thankfully. Um,

again, it's all within a normal budget cycle. these trends are caught and and identified for a normal budget cycle.

Yeah. So the other thing is also cyber threats as we've seen cyber threats have gotten more sophisticated. Um it's not just a group of hackers anymore. It's you can buy software basically to learn how to hack and cyber attack a company or a government. um you know Chris is always coming to me and going hey there's you know they're identifying this is a situation we need to look at upping this or we need to figure this out and with cyber threats those evolve so quickly that you need to be ready and have some indisposable income I mean you know some reserve money if we need to get something upgraded that could be a security risk because it doesn't only just attack our computers we have infrastructure tied to our servers We have the police safeties, you know, they have all their systems are on our servers. So, we always want to be ahead of the game on that.

And again, we got hit, but we did not have to touch our No, thankfully TML did pay out

that claim. Um, but if something something was destroyed and we need to have cash to pay it earlier and also there is deductibles with our cyber, you know, coverage and uh property coverage. So, um, but really it comes down to safety. That's what most governments need to conceptualize when we're looking at expenditure volatility. So, if you look at that graph, um, that dotted line graph, you'll see that that is our overall total expenditures. Um, the orange is public safety and public safety does include fire services. I want to make that clear. Um, and then the, uh, purple is general government, green is public works, and then blue is community development. And this is based on how they're structured in our financial audit. So you can kind of backtrack and see how that those numbers all work. Um but you'll see that um our expenditures pretty much public safety and government services are tied but public safety has pulled ahead at the end. Um and then that bottom one you'll see our revenues and expenditures for each year. And you'll see the black dotted line is the inflation factor for each year. And we can see in 2022 it hit its peak at 6.2%. Um, and it's been decreasing. However, prices don't always decrease with inflation as we've seen. Um, so we're just trying to keep and we're trying to do price matching and stuff like that. So that's pretty much your expenditure volatility. Um, so the risk mitigation approaches to this is that we start anticipating solutions for any legislation that might be come down the pipeline. um gives us time to figure out costs and avoid any last minute decisions and then continual price verification. Um so I do require most of the admins to get three quotes on larger items or purchases just to make sure that we're staying competitive with our

purchase and and we're getting the best price and quality. So that's so the minor ones we're not going to go into those as much because they are very minor. They're just basically cash flow, liquidity, leverage, and then like debt. Um, but based on this analysis, the city yielded a score of 26. So the suggestion based on the study is that the uh we maintain a moderate to high level of risk to retain through reserves um and to consider adopting a target amount of reserves higher than the GFA recommended minimum of that 60 days. And it's about 26 to 35% of operational expenditures or approximately 90 to 100 days. So we're 180 days. So we are actually super seed in that base minimum um recommendation. Um so the question that was posed at the last meeting when we were going to designate the 180 days because every year it does change. I bring it back to council to approve that difference. um was do we have too many like too much in that 180 committed reserve and should we re reconsider lowering that to have more flexibility with any budget changes that we're going to see. So I hope I maybe

So what you're saying is based here on the last line is that somewhere between 90 and 120 days would be appropriate because because otherwise we're overt taxing people. Well, not overt taxed in because you're so you're t you have to basically budget your operational budget. So, you know, best practice is to always bring in enough reserves to cover your expenditures for operational. Correct.

Um so, what comes in at the end is usually investment income or if we came under budget on expenditures or over budget on revenues. Um that's what goes into our you know reserve amount. This is uh great information. Thank you, Lisa. This is going to help us if in the future we uh we want to revisit this and revisit the uh the cash reserves uh if uh to be prepared for any any uh anything that might happen in the future considering what we stand to lose uh especially our rating,

our bond rating. Uh so this is something that we're going to have to really, you know, put our heads to if if we need to make this decision. This helps I think it helps us all out understanding uh what the cash reserves. Yeah. And I wanted to present this because there's a lot of ambiguity across reserves um and how government financials work and I just wanted to make it as easy to understand. I will put this on the my financial transparency website. I'll put the study that I had presented to all of you. One other one other question then if we changed from 180 to 120 what will we do with the excess cash?

So it could just go into it would go into your unassigned fund balance. Um and then that's when we can make decisions from that point if you guys want to assign it if you want to commit it. Um that would be up to council's discretion. I am here to give you recommendations and also to tell you if what we you know uh ramifications of lowering or you know I I'll give you all that honestly. You know how I am. I'm very honest. I mean even even at Mayor they're recommending and we're we're talking

a really good exercise that that I think this is a very good exercise that Lisa went through for the benefit of the council and for herself and I think that uh we will probably be hearing more about this. I would think I would hope uh in our budget discussions uh obviously we are probably overcommitting to a uh reserve that we could transfer into an unassigned account which we can use for future considerations. I agree. I want to thank you for doing this.

You're welcome. And what I've seen with other cities, I did call other cities for their benchmarks. Um Oakidge North has 180 days. Conro has 90 days. Um, most places I've looked at have 90 days, but also they're bigger cities, so they have more sure revenue than we do. Um, but I will, you know, we'll, we can bring this back if there's any other questions, but um, just let me know if there's anything that you guys want me to look into more. Did Did you say that Oakidge had 180? Mhm. Okay. So, yeah. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you. No problem.

Thank you, Lisa. We're going to move on to item number seven. Discussion and possible action to adopt the following resolution. A resolution of the city council of the city of Shannondoa, Texas designating authorized check signers for the city of Shannondoa banking accounts with Stellar Text and Logic Textar and authorizing all other necessary signatures to validate banking resolutions with Stellar Bank Logic Textar and Text. I need a motion. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion to approve by Councilman Ray Maker, seconded by Councilman Summerland. Any discussion? If not, all in favor say I. I.

I. Opposed. The motion carries. 5 to one. Five to zero. Sorry. Back to zero. Item number eight, discussion and possible action to adopt the following resolution. A resolution of the city council of the city of Shannondoa, Texas, designating authorized check signers for the city of Shannondoa banking account with Stellar Bank and authorizing all other necessary signatures to validate banking resolutions with Stellar Bank. Can I get a motion?

Motion to approve. We have a motion to approve. Council Ray Maker. We got a second. A second. Seconded by Councilman Father. Any discussion? If not, all in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. 5-0. All right. Public hearing regarding traffic concerns in residential areas. Councilman, will you tee us off on this?

Absolutely. U. This is one that uh is very uh important to me and important to our family for a number of reasons that I won't go into right now, but um I'm thrilled uh at the response that has occurred within the last 5 days. There was a survey that was put out and already we have uh 129 uh citizens that have expressed uh the full range of uh likes and dislikes of what they would uh want to see in Shannidoa. Uh originally uh a committee was formed to kind of establish a baseline of uh what or how we could install some um different type they call it calming uh technologies and uh so had a just a tremendous uh group of people who uh actually when I heard from them I I honestly did not uh I was really tunnel vision on what I thought was going on in the valley and come to find out it's wider it's there was a lot more going on so um just I want to just give you all a couple of things is we this committee came up with just some ideas and like I said it was a baseline of what might introduce um uh we've done the city's done a terrific job on the survey that they created very simple and kind of compiled that original vision. Um what in my opinion uh I'm looking forward to hearing from everybody that uh while I was really

focused on the valley because some other some of our locations are gated and they have less intrusive drivers. Uh but um one of the things that I found in the uh study that we just got that I read through um everybody's opinions uh what they would like to see uh were the our our uh places that aren't protected but are on the fringe of the valley. And the thing that I saw there and I I think one of the greatest things and this is one thing that I think is most important is the information that the citizens that are concerned about their getting in and then getting out on Vision Park getting on uh uh Grogan's Mill uh and the dangerous scenario there on Wellman. Um it was this is really going to have to expand. Now Shannidoa is controlled. We're there's some streets that we don't have control over and it's a county thing but uh saying that collecting this information and this data and having a starting a strong starting point to approach and say we've got serious issues and our surrounding communities that have to access these other roads. And so, uh, with that, I'm thrilled that, uh, that everybody that I'm seeing is, um, you know, responding in such a strong way. One thing I do want to address that came up, uh, the mayor, I can't thank him enough for putting this agenda item, so having the

citizens have an opportunity to speak. Um, know that this was really quick. uh that it was put on the agenda item. Um we're going to have another one of these. So, uh everybody will have an opportunity. We'll do uh you know, the city will, you know, advertise it as well as just like they're advertising the traffic survey. So, uh thank you all very much. And with that, mayor, that's

all right. Just to be just to elaborate on what Council Sumland said. Um I know there's a big concern about the traffic on on Grogan's Mill. Keep keep in mind that um even though it it crosses the the border of of Shannondoa that that is a county uh maintained and governed uh roadway. Okay. We we don't uh have any uh authority over placing control devices or anything like that on Gorgans. That is that is a precinct 2 of uh Montgomery County that that takes care of that. Now, we work with them. We you know we we recommend we suggested uh we made a lot of effort and they finally uh agreed to set up a three-way stop sign. You'll remember when there were the stop signs at the T intersection of Wellman and and Grogan's. Uh uh we've also requested that they have they make those stop signs flashing stop signs to get to get more attention uh to put signs on the curb. There's a very dangerous curve there when you when you start heading uh towards Vision Park that once they leave that stop sign, they just put metal to the pedal to the metal and just take that curb without we know with no care at all for crossing traffic. I know one of our council members lives at the end of that curb and he has a almost a victim of of careless driving like that. Uh but we are in conversations with the county about alleviating some of that that traffic, taking steps, and in fact, we discussed earlier today that there may even be a possibility to get them if they're so willing to turn that roadway

over to us. You know, we'll take care of it and we'll manage to, you know, we'll put the stop signs out. we'll put the uh you know the uh the zebra uh stripes you know just to caution people and take the proper action. So we are addressing those things like like council sumland stated that initially there was a big problem with uh with the traffic coming into the city from research forest that's what initiated this whole study that he headed um and and following that is the input that we requested that that you we had what about 150 or some odd

as far as the that we just got all the surveys I think you are setting a record for the city and survey response right now. Um 129 in 5 days and so and we also had that at the uh lighting of the angels as well. We have the study out there and we'll have it at Easter at the park and at the park and all that. We're we're making an effort to do something about the uh the the the traffic and not necessarily the traffic, but the the the drivers

who forget that there are stop signs there and that there are speed limits there. But all right, having said that, I'm going to open up the public hearing at 6:44 p.m. And uh All right, Miss uh is it Wise? Yeah, Miss Wise, here's your chance. Please, please come up to the podium. You're up now.

And uh I guess you kind of address what we kind of wanted to address with you. So, not only do I represent Doular Woods, I live at six of Dante Trail. I also represent the communities of Grogan's Mill on Shannidoa neighborhoods. We experience the speed racers going down Grogens's Mill. you try and get across that road and you're taking your life in your hands. And so some of the things we've thought about is flashing lights across the pedestrians as well as a flop camera. And a flop camera will not only prevent crime, it'll also slow down drivers. And we're looking at to say, how do we look at traffic safety, pedestrian production, and overall neighborhood security? And we're not only looking at it from our neighborhood, we're looking at it for Avalon Oaks. We're looking at it for Parkgate and we're looking at it for any Shannondoa neighborhood and that's what I wanted to address with you tonight. So, it's for a community base for Shannondoa. And Joe, I would love to join your committee as a representative of an outskirt Shannondoa neighborhood because sometimes we are the ugly stepsister that Shannondoa neighborhoods along Grogens's Mill. So, I would love to be a part of your committee to kind of represent us along Grogens's Mill. So, thank you very much for letting me come up a second time. Thank you.

Thank you so much. You're all welcome to come up anytime. Mr. Budro, Phil Budro. Yes. Yes, sir. Nice Louisiana name. It is a Louisiana name. Yes, sir. Uh, my name is Phil Budro. I live at 15 and Dante Trail Place over in Doulamer Woods. Um, one thing that happened to me a while back, I worked at Fox and Disney for most of my uh, career, um, the facility over here that used to be on on it's it's now a Disney facility. um on uh new trails right off of of technology force.

There was a awful accident there which there's a loss of life and somebody getting hit by on a bike trying to cross the street because it was not marked well and they they didn't have the the flashing lights like they do now and this they end up putting in a a um a signal light at the end of the street at the end of the day. Um, I don't want that to happen in our place. I don't want I want us to be ahead of it as best we can be. And it's the county. And I realize we we can't get out of our neighborhood without getting into the county. That is the only way in, only way out. But strategically, if we looked at putting a flock camera in to be able to identify these people, there's also a way we can do that flock camera, share the data with the sheriff's department and it can be located in Shannondoa that may increase safety because we're on we're on the we're on the fringe of it and we live before in in Bair um on the fringe of it and on the fringes you're always sorry you're always going to have more issues that come into play there. But we're really concerned about just trying to make sure it's as safe. We can cross the street if we want to. Uh most of us take advantage of the wonderful trails that we have both in the Woodlands and in Shannondoa. Um and we want to continue to do that and to to make sure and and we've been fortunate now there have been a couple of in our subdivision some some young families have moved in. A couple of them with small children.

We're going to have school buses where once they get to be that age we're going to have that. And this happened to me a few months ago where the in the crosswalk there, the driver coming southbound on Garland's Mill stopped. A guy behind him came around, passed him, and almost got me because of that. Now, he jammed those brakes and no one was hurt, but I don't I don't don't want that to be the rule. I want that to be exceptional. I want to make sure that we're all safe. So, I thank you for your consideration and I appreciate you hearing us tonight. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Pluto. Mayor, can I say something real quick? Yes.

So, I I just wanted to clarify with the flock cameras. The flock cameras, they collect data as far as license plate information, but as far as um tracking speed or anything, they do not do that. Thank you, chief. Uh, is this Marina von Burger? Yeah. Did I say that right? Yes. Please come up. Welcome to Shandor. Thank you,

gentlemen. Good evening. I am grateful for the opportunity to be here and express concerns of my neighbors and my neighborhood. My name is Marie Nonburg. I live at 23 on Dante Trail Place. And I'm here with my neighbors this evening, Marie, Phil, and Julie um to talk about the situation on Grogens's Mill. Mr. Mayor, you already mentioned this and talked about it. Please forgive me. I'm going to repeat some of the things that you've already said just to add some additional emphasis and importance on this. One thing that you mentioned is the increase in in traffic on Groin's Mill that we have.

In the past few years alone, we've seen a tremendous amount of increase just in sheer traffic alone,

but also the speeders and and you just mentioned this, we see it all the time. Sometimes it's hard now to even cross the street, right? We have to wait for a long time and it's it's dangerous. Um, we understand that the traffic that the road is controlled by Groen's Mill. Um, there's not a lot we can do about that. Also understand that the flock cameras don't necessarily get speeding speeding data, but there's probably some good information there that could protect our community. So, a couple of things that I wanted to echo, not only from from my neighbors, but we also want to talk about the crime prevention um aspect of of flock cameras as well. Basically, we're here to advocate for getting a flock camera or or anything else we can do to make that road mill safer, which it isn't at this point. Um so we are under the understanding that you know in the Woodlands has allocated 30 flock cameras uh for this summer. We also understand that the county of Montgomery has allocated up to 30 flock cameras as well. If Grogens's Mill is controlled, which it is obviously by the county, it would be great if we could have one of those allocated to our little neck of the woods in in doul summer doul summer woods going on to Groen Smith. That would be really helpful. So again, as we were mentioning, um we understand that this isn't necessarily all under the control of Shannondoa, but there are some things we can do to get the fog camera to help um keep our community safe. So again, we're just asking for simple, practical solutions to protect our our community and the safety of our streets. So thank you for your consideration.

Thank you. I'd just like to respond to you that uh everyone on this council has a great relationship with Charlie Riley, the commissioner. Yeah. At precinct 2 and the county judge as well. And all of your concerns will get to them. Okay. Yes. Yes. And uh

and in thank you Charlie for clearing that up. In addition to that, feel free also to visit the the uh uh commissioner's court uh because they they are the ones who will ultimately make those decisions within the county. Uh all all four of the commissioners sit on that board, including the one who covers Shannondoa, Charlie Riley. So uh you know they they meet every uh I think the is it the sec the second and the fourth Thursday of the month. Can I also interject on where you're saying that those don't uh measure the speed in that there's other technology that we're looking into that uh is a u it's a Doppler radar uh actually attached to uh and shows your speed uh captures that information real time. Uh it can it catches the vehicle coming and going. Uh and so it also says the size of it. So if we we've got some delivery trucks that we're having problems with time of day, those sort of things and can be remotely accessed. So we're looking at a wider range of technologies to be able to I we wouldn't be able to put that out on that street unless the uh you know we got approval from county. I don't if you know any reason that we wouldn't be able to or

we would have to get permission as they control that right away. Okay. But that would be we if we could get permission from them, we could put that technology out there. Great.

I just I just want to set expectations. When I first got on council in the first month, I asked for that three-way stop sign at Wellman. Okay. It took about two to three years to make it a reality. So, I just want to set expectations about some of the timings that may happen. It might have been that, but that was the first one. So, and that was, you know, I think Charlie Riley had to almost get in an accident for him to to actually, you know, really see it. But, um, I'm just saying, but persistence removes resistance.

Here's here's the commitment. Here's my level of commitment. We lost our son to a distracted driver and so um I'm extremely motivated uh that no one ever experienced what we've gone through. I really would like to just what Charlie said earlier is I think absolutely correct and the data that you're collecting through responses on the websites and what have you. If any of that deals with the Grogan's Mill area, in addition to the comments made here, I'm sure Charlie will welcome that information. Yeah. And and we can also carry that message to the commissioner's court as well on your behalf. No, you are giving us a great database of

Nothing works better than you going to the commissioner's court and standing up and talking. Yeah. Let let me get to the la to to the uh the last uh speaker here. Uh Laura Crest, Laura Crest. Yeah, we didn't. You don't have to. You don't have to. Yep. No, I'll get to them. I just need to get to Miss Crest.

Good evening. Uh Laura Crest on Thornwood 700 block. I believe the population of Shando is around 3,800 uh or let's just say even 3,500. So 129 survey responses is less than 10%. Right? So we're not there yet, which is how are you publicizing this study? Yes, you have QR codes. I know a bunch of elderly people that still have flip phones and probably don't know how to use a QR code. So, how are you reaching all of the citizens with your survey? And then you had a a data from the BL survey. So, you're talking this survey, that survey. I would like you to just clarify which study you're talking about. How long is this citizen study going to go? You mentioned getting flyers out at the an lighting of the angels. That's December. I maybe you meant the Easter thing in the park. I'm not sure. But so are you going to have this study going for another eight months? You know, that's one thing.

We used to have speed those what is it? I don't know what you call them. The ones where like you're going it it flashes what you're the traffic. The traffic trailers. So, do we have those available to us? No. Okay. So, is that that's a county thing then? Setting up one of those maybe on Grogan's Mill every now and then. So that that would be something you would have to either lease or purchase or

well we got money in the budget. We just talked about that for way too long. And that's another thing. It does that the presentation it's not even on here. It says discussion doesn't say anything about a presentation. So we had to sit here for a half an hour talking about that which was good information. Um and enforcement. I can't remember the last time. I've never seen anybody stopped for speeding on Grogens's Mill or on Wellman or on Vision Park. I take pictures of them. I'm telling you when I see Yeah, but I don't see anybody out. I mean, I drive those streets. I got stopped by a sheriff's deputy. Yeah, but I've I mean for registration,

right, but I I mean, where is the enforcement? You were talking about all these people speeding and it is hard, you know? I literally stop sometimes to let you people out, you know, to to hold people back. Um,

some of the things I've noticed with some of the stop signs in the neighborhood is the lighting is bad and you can't see a a tree is there. I know a couple intersections where there's a tree that blocks the light, you can't see the stop sign. So, you know, like you said, maybe the flashing lights on the stop signs um and some of that. And then the first question on the survey talks about are you a citizen? Well, are if that flyer gets put out somewhere and somebody does a QR code, can you verify that they're a citizen? I mean, yeah, we've got 129 out of 3,800, but is that somebody that lives in Oakidge or the Woodlands or anything like that? So, um, you know, it's it's not just the valley. I think, you know, it's the fringes. And,

um, so, you know, I guess we'll all be talking to precinct 2. Um, you know, we have the money that we can lease these speed things from. It, you know, might help.

Uh, I don't know. Um, and with the school building, more classrooms, more students, more traffic. You know, maybe the school needs to be talked to as far as they need to hire somebody for traffic on Wellman. If you're going to create all this traffic in our city, what are you going to do about it? cuz you are creating a huge amount of traffic on Wellman at 3:00 or 3:30 when they dismiss. I know some of the big churches hire sheriffs and deputies and things like that for traffic on Sundays and things like that, but whether they need to be our police force, somebody off duty, them hiring and paying for it, I can see that happening because it's their responsibility. They're creating the traffic in our city. And um so I don't know and I know this isn't a traffic thing, but the expansion joints when we had the streets built, a lot of that rubber tar stuff has come out and we're starting to get a few potholes. So just an FYI for your uh public works department. Any questions for me? No, I just want I just want to uh uh the the uh the issue of the uh signs the the speed to tell you that you're speeding.

Yeah, we have uh consulted with some vendors and someone and I met with a vendor about that. So that's a consideration also uh you know we were exploring what it actually does, what the expense is and how many will we need and all that. So, we are looking into that specifically broadways. I know when I see them when I'm driving, they they make they catch my attention. But that's, you know, it's like, oh, I wasn't going that much over the speed limit, but but it got your attention. Yeah. It gets your attention. And and that's that makes that's the difference of a life.

Yeah. Just a fraction of a second of distraction, right? And Yeah. Well, and the other thing too, when the ladies play tennis and all the cars parked along there, you know, I don't know if that's a precinct 2 thing or a woodlands thing with them parking there and creating distractions, opening doors, things like that. And it's again, it's hard to get in and out and I understand that. So, but yeah, and I mean I the most people I see speeding I I'm on a dead end street. Sometimes it's the FedEx truck, but a lot of times it's contractors

coming and going from their building sites. So, um, some of that is an issue, too. But I don't know if you can say, "Mr. Smith, tell your contractor to slow down." You know, what are you going to do? But, um, you know, that's that's my main thing. Are are these 129 confirmed residents? It's only 10%. How are we going to reach everybody? Are you planning on putting a survey on people's doors? Do we know who the elderly? Yeah. Seriously. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's And the main thing is, and as crazy as that amount sounds, that's actually probably the largest amount of response,

which is sad. Which is sad, right? But but it's not been I mean, my neighbor got one of those surveys at the trash bash. Yeah, not everybody comes to the trash bash and not everybody that went somebody was like, "Well, I was at trash bash and I didn't get one." So, one thing that I'm I'm I'm excited about for us as citizens and I have family here, you know, raise kids here and everything for many years is the city's uh commitment to doing better at getting the information. And uh the there was a meeting we went to and it says you need to take the information where our citizens are,

right? Whatever that is, Facebook or Trash Bash or uh whatever at their door, you know. Yeah. And they're they're not it's not falling on deaf ears now, you know. It really isn't. Well, I mean, the sign's out for Easter for the Saturday gathering, but this is a public hearing about traffic and there's no sign out there to let you know about that. Joseph actually addressed that this afternoon when I met with him. You want to expound on that just quickly? Right. So, um, we are going to have signage out letting people know that there is a city survey available. Okay. And then it can direct them to the website and it's right on the first page of the website just to just to get it before more eyes, right?

Yeah. Okay. Well, that's good. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. And the other thing would be the swim meets and the traffic with them and making, you know, are we holding them responsible for not parking where they're not supposed to? Is the city going to put up little no parking signs along especially along the curve there from Driftwood to Cedarwood or Maplewood? You know, cuz I can see a distracted driver doing that. I mean, there's today when I was on my way here, there was a woman and a young son jogging on that curb and had another car been coming the other way, you know. Yep.

It doesn't take much and you know that and and I I'm my sympathies are with you on that. So, the swim meet I'm not looking forward to. And if I have to stand out there and say, "No, you can't park here. Look at your website. Look at your swim meetat stuff." I you know I'll help just ask you volunteer. So but that's a concern as well and the events at the park you know and where to you know you tell people to park at the pool and walk over and they don't so again enforcement

whether it's you guys wearing vests out there directing people no you can't park here. I mean, we don't want to use our police. There's other things they're concerned with. So, that's one of the park and the pool, too. Okay. Thank you. Wes Stevens.

Good evening. Good evening,

Wes Stevens. Most of you know me here. I've been here 30 years. Um, those that don't know me, I'm former councilman and former mayor here. And just to be clear, I am not running for election. So, none of this is politically slanted, but I I did want to one, thank you for having the the public hearing tonight. Um, I I I'm glad to hear that we're having another one at some point in time because this this came around kind of quickly and I don't think enough people knew about it. Um, I served on the traffic committee and and I volunteered for that. Thank you for heading that up, Joe. We we covered a lot of angles on that committee. Uh, we talked about, you know, growth over the years and, you know, how we've gone in 30 years from research forest being a two-lane road to seven lanes that we have today. Mhm.

And that doesn't count the I think 18 lanes of I45 and the feeders that we have here. This is the busiest intersection in the county at I45 and Research Forest. We are also neighbors to a a community that has been named the top place to live in the United States for several years running. We've built it. They're coming. They're not going to stop coming. What we failed to do as a city, and I take responsibility for this as well, having been in your seat, mayor, we didn't see this coming. Houston Galveston Area Council a few years ago, this is probably data that's uh close to 10 years old now, but they were predicting that the population in McGomery County will double by the year 2040. We haven't seen problems yet with traffic. It's coming. I think we need to get out ahead of this and this is step one, but we need to step it up and do more to form a strategy to create things that are going to work for the future instead of being reactive.

Uh we've already had a violent incident or two with traffic. I'm scared every day when I check my mail. I have to stand behind my mailbox if there's any traffic at all because I've been struck by a a mirror on a car already. We when we redesigned the neighborhood streets in the valley in Shannondoa Valley, we built them 28 ft wide back to back with the curb. That was a good thing because we wanted people to have room to walk and bike and do their things and and have quality of life with the streets since we had finally gotten away from the from the the steep ditches and the narrow asphalt streets. An unintended consequence of that is psychologically that street is now a 35 mph street

by engineering standards. Although there's a 20 mph sign there, doesn't give them an excuse to speed, but it feels like a street with a faster speed limit. My request tonight is we've been dealing with this for months now. It's taken way too long for us to do anything. trying to get the information out there, the surveys, having been in your seat, getting survey information back is responses are dismal. If you get 15%, that's a good return. Uh, which is still terrible.

Um, I have a couple of requests. If you want to up this the number of responses, let's let's get volunteers here tonight, arm them with uh flyers to go to their communities, their streets, and hand those out. Let's get people to help. two, before the next budget year, this calendar year, my request is let's do something. There are some common sense things we can do to start seeing if it works and maybe alleviate the problems. My belief is, and this came up in the committee, is that it starts with awareness. Some of our signs, stop signs are are not easily seen. They're they're older. or the reflectivity of them is not good. I think at our entrances, we need some flashing signs. Um I would I would like to see the radar signs that tell someone how fast they're going, what the speed limit is.

Those are very affordable. Now, Joe, I know you've looked into it. I've looked into it. It will also upload that speeding information to the cloud so our police departments can tell where hotspots are.

So, it starts with awareness. The second thing is enforcement. We've gotten the budget money for the police officers. They're staffed up. I want to see more enforcement out there. I know they're busy. They get called off to other things, but I I get frustrated when I see radar patrol out on the freeway or the feeders and I can't check my mail. Troy, no offense, but I don't think there's enough focus on the neighborhoods yet. And I don't know where that where that communication has to happen, but Maybe it's a resource thing still enforcement. And last and probably my least preferred is traffic calming devices like speed humps. And I'm not talking bumps, but something engineered where you can drive the speed limit and not have to slow down.

I'm not crazy about those, but it may be something that we need to try. There are um portable ones that you can can place and move it if it doesn't like it's not per if you don't like it, it's not permanent. Maybe we try some of those. But my request is ultimately let's don't have to wait another budget year. Some of this stuff is not that expensive. Please do something soon or I fear the worst. Yep. Thank you, council. Thank you. Good advice.

Anybody else? Does anybody else want to speak on this item? But if not, we'll close the public hearing at 7:12 p.m. Thank you very much for your input. I'm sorry.

We're going to move on to item 10, discussion and possible action regarding four related change orders on the Tamina project. Mayor and council, this is going to be a combined change orders. It's going to be a total of four change orders. um the um basically the summarized as the plumbing uh and the utility projects over there in Tamina in Tamina community. So what it's going to be conveying is moving all the water meters from the utility projects from IG utilities to the BG project which is the plumbing project. And this is going to be saving us uh $44 per meter. And with the changer will also be increasing the amount of water meters that we need total for the time project which is a total of two 220. We only put on on our original bid 194. So we need a little more than we thought. So um you you can see on the on on your screen the number of uh for each change order. So total um number that's going to be um for for this total four change orders going to be $7,268 uh on the southeast and for water sewer projects. I also included a small over for water line and water leads and we also remove all the cash allowance from that project. So from the timing of plumbing um the change or is going to be 132,150 and all the other change orders is going to be deductive change orders for the utilities projects. Um let me know if you have any questions on this. Again, this is uh this is the ARPA funding. That's

it's all the ARPA funding. Yes, sir. Okay.

No, I think uh Raul, I think it's uh pretty good. I know these new meters actually work and yes, they do cost a little bit more, but I think it's going to be uh very good that you got the credit and you've brought it all in with the with the new meter, the ai meter. Yes. Uh basically, they're going to be the same meters that we will be installing the in the valley um this year as well. Exactly. So, I think this is a a good change order. I agree. Can I get a motion? I make a motion to approve as requested. We have a motion to approve as requested by Councilman Pollard. No second.

Seconded by Councilman Pratt. Any additional discussion? If not, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries 5 to zero. Item 11, final report and public hearing regarding proposed special use permit for a wine and malt beverage retailers off premise permit for Homewood Suites located at 29813 I45 North Shannidora, Texas.

Uh yes, mayor and councel. Uh our neighboring hotel here, Homewood Suites, has recently changed ownership and is going to be doing uh a little bit of rebranding to that uh facility. And as part of that, the Hilton is requiring them to acquire their TABC license for um wine and malt beverage is a technical term, but it's for beer and wine. That would allow guests of the hotel to purchase from a little kiosk down at the front desk and then be able to enjoy their beverage um either on premise uh in the lobby area or up in their room. They're at planning and zoning and it has come up uh with some with the council as well. Um the clarification for the off- premise um that is a TABC classification and what that means is it's a sealed container that is purchased for consumption um by the purchaser outside of the view of the individual who's selling the alcohol. So you would see an on-remise permit for like a restaurant uh where they would serve you an open container or a beverage for you to consume um within their view. The off-remise doesn't mean they're you know walking and then taking it um away. They're it's just they're not being they're not consuming that beverage in front of a a worker. The uh planning and zoning did review this application and does recommend its approval.

Okay. I'm going to open up the public u hearing on this item at 7:17. Is there anyone here to speak on that on this item? There is no one here to speak on this item. We're going to close public hearing at 7:17. Going to move on to item 12, discussion on possible action to adopt the following ordinance. An ordinance of the city of Shannidoa, Texas, amending the code of ordinances, chapter 102, granting a special use permit for a wine and malt beverage off premise permit for homewood suites located at 29813 I45 North, Shannondor, Texas. providing for a penalty in the amount of $2,000 for violations thereof providing severability and providing for an effective date.

Can I hear a motion? Motion to approve. We have a motion to approve by Councilman Bro. Second. Seconded by Councilman Robinson. Any discussion? Want to thank Jackie for uh explaining to me the off presence just meant that it went upstairs. Yeah, me too. That's right. Yeah. I wasn't wondering what that was. Any additional comments? If not, all in favor say I. I. I. Opposed.

Motion carries. 5-0. Item 13, final report and public hearing regarding proposed variance of the city of Shannondoa's zoning ordinance allowing for encroachment of a pool and equipment within the building setback for 148 McKinley Landing Lane, Shannondoa, Texas.

Uh yes, mayor and council, the property owner uh is requesting this variance to install a pool. The uh placement of that pool is within the allowed encroachment for the plan development district. This is in the Lily subdivision. The uh there's a exhibit in the agenda pack that shows the pool at one point will encroach uh within 1 foot6 in of that rear uh property line which happens to be the north line of the subdivision along Wman Road. The uh planning and zoning did take a look at this with the side with the size of the yard and uh its layout. They are recommending approval of this variant. They did want to just confirm though that uh the HOA has also approved because of the proximity and the responsibility for the masonry fence. And uh I I did get confirmation that the HOA has reviewed the site plan um that is submitted with this variance and they have as well approved um that location for the pool. So we've got the pool in the backyard. Um, they're removing some existing amenities that they have, concrete paving, uh, and hopefully, uh, placing the pool and its equipment on the sideyard there.

Thank you, Jackie. We're going to open up the public hearing on this item at 7:19. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? Since there's no one here to speak on this item, we're going to close public hearing at 7:20. We move on to item 14, discussion of possible action to adopt the following ordinance. An ordinance of the city of Shannondoa, Texas, amending the code of ordinances, chapter 102, to approve a variance to the city of Shannondoa zoning ordinance providing for encroachment of a pool and equipment into a rear and side building setback line for 148 McKinley Landing Lane, Shannondoa, Texas. Providing for a penalty in the amount of $2,000 for violations thereof, providing severability, and providing for an effective date. Can I hear a motion?

Motion to approve. We have a motion to approve by Councilman Ray Maker. Second. Seconded by Councilman Summerland. Any discussion? How much of an encroachment to the fence line? Jackie, is the pool actually? So the the the pool is not exactly parallel. So at one corner of the pool, let's call it the northwest corner, it'll be 1 foot 6 in from the property line and then it increases, I think, to 2 foot 6 in. It's I believe it's the next page, Chris, or the one up from that. That's the existing improvements that right there. Yes. So, the on their um

it's Yeah. So, it's 1 foot 6 in on the that if north is the uh top of the the page uh on the west northwest corner, 1 foot and then it's about two foot uh a little over two foot on the far east corner of the pool. Okay. the fire pits and existing. Um, and then you've got the the pool equipment which would be to the uh the right of the property. Thank you. Any additional discussion? If not, all in favor say I. I. Opposed?

Motion carries 5 to zero. Item number 15, discussion of possible action to adopt the following resolution. A resolution of the city council of the city of Shannidoa, Texas, appointing members to the board of directors of the Shannidoa Municipal Development District. Mayor, I'd like to table this item. Okay, we have a motion to table this item.

A second. We have a and a second. Councilman Robinson and seconded by Councilman Pard. Okay. Uh all in favor say I. I. I. Pass. The tableabling. It's fine. I know. Okay. Let me uh let me take a the poll. Council Ray Maker pass. Pass. Yeah. Councilman Sman I. Councilman Plet. I.

Councilman Brat. I. Council Robinson. I. But that motion to table it uh passes four and one pass. Item 16 update regarding the integrated development code. IDC.

Mayor, council, we are here tonight to provide the first of several updates on uh amending the integrated development code, which for those in the audience uh we refer to generically as the IDC. For those that are new to the city, our integrated development code or the IDC is both a zoning ordinance and a set of regulations that regarding the development of raw land within the city. The city first passed its uh IDC or integrated development code in 2011, 16 years ago. At that time, the citizens and council members who established the first uh IDC were faced with uh frankly a monumental task. Uh the city had large areas of undeveloped property and we asked our city council and citizens that participated in that project to basically look in a crystal ball and predict what in the world would happen in the future. Actually many of their predictions were correct, some not. Uh so now we've had the benefit of 15 years of history. Uh city council has asked uh the planning and zoning commission to go back relook at the integrated development code and to make recommendations on changes or amendments to that code. The IDC is divided into 25 sections composed of 491 pages.

Uh the section one of the IDC is are the general provisions uh that basically restate the law that give us the power and authority to pass uh zoning regulations regarding to the our city. Sections 2 through 4 are really our zoning ordinances. Section five are our general regulations that cover such things as building heights, parking requirements, screening, landscaping, those type of regulations. Sections 6 through 8 establish our development review uh bodies that those are the bodies such as the planning and zoning commission which make recommendations to the city council. And then uh sections 9 through 20 uh are kind of a a bunch of them are reserved and are empty. Our sign ordinance is chapter 90. Uh chapter 98 is in there. But those sections are basically the signed ordinance and our PDDs that we have passed. Section 21 are our subdivision regulations. Section 22 are our general development regulations and sections 23 through 25 deal with the authority of our decision makers, the authority of planning and zoning of city council. Uh those type of things. This tonight is the first of what will be several meetings where we will discuss changes recommended to the IDC

by the planning and zoning commission. It is our goal tonight to talk about sections 1 through 4. And really one section one is our general provision that allows us to do this. So, we're really going to be talking about sections 2 through 4, which are our zoning regulations. This is not intended to be a meeting where we make any decisions on section 2 through 4 or where it certainly is not a meeting where uh next the next time we talk about this, you cannot talk about sections 2 through 4. Uh instead, our goal is to talk about sections 2 through 4 tonight to give you a time in the coming month to think about those things, to raise questions about sections 2 through 4 that you might have. And then when we meet again next month, even we though we'll be talking about sections 6 to 8, we'll have a more open discussion about issues if you've seen any dealing with sections 2 through 4. So, let me say that your planning and zoning uh commission has put in hundreds of hours reviewing and working on this IDC. These hours included many included many many meetings where public comments were received and considered. Uh there are people who were on the planning and zoning commission when we began this project that are now on city council. Uh uh people have changed. Uh we have spent

uh some subjects uh such as the definition of home business. We spent four to six meetings with active public comment working out what we wanted a public how we wanted to defined a public business and made substantial changes to what is in the IDC today. There were concerns if we did changing zoning zones would it affect would traffic be affected? This city council approved traffic studies which planning and zoning commission used in making decisions and I know councilman sland's committee has used in making its recommendations. Uh we spent over a year of research with developers coming in and talking to us. uh people who uh placed restaurants coming in to talk to us and other experts in the field trying to find out as best we could what what where this city was going in the undeveloped land that we have with your help. Uh we even had a a public meeting regarding this area from Wellman Road to research forest about what the uh community would like to see or not see with regard to future development and had I believe close to a hundred people attending that meeting. In short, there has been so far a lot of time and effort by your planning and zoning commission and others trying to work on good solutions here.

Uh now as to the planning as to actually the recommended changes to the planning and zoning uh as I'm sorry to the IDC section one I'm going to cover quickly there are no real substantive changes to section one in the packet that you got. You'll see on pages 11 and 13 that we've removed a couple of unnecessary sentences, but other than that, no substantive changes. Now, let's go to section two. That's where our zoning ordinance begins. And thank you, Chris. if you would put up uh uh on as Chris has put up on the screen and if you have your packet it's at page 16 of the IDC and if you look at the very bottom you'll see of each page it'll say page 16 of 491 that's the page that we're looking at right now and you will see uh A chart table 2.1.1 shows that we currently have 24 zones in the city and you will see two four of those struck out in red and actually that's because we missed one in red. Ju un just below PH is the 01 that also is struck out. Planning and zoning is recommending that we eliminate these five or eliminate four of these zones and change the C3 zone.

First of all, if you would look at the two zones R35 and R22, the R stands for residential. We have five single family residential zones in the city. R six, R10, R8, R10, R22, and R35. The only difference in R10, R22 and R35 is the minimum lot size. R10 is a 10,000 square f foot minimum lot size. R22 is a 22,000 minimum single family resident lot size. And R35 is almost an acre uh would be 35,000 square foot lot for a single family residence. Currently, we do not have and for the last 15 years have not had any land in the city designated R22 or R35. And I think if you think about it and think about the existing land we have available for single family residents, uh you will see that there probably will not be many 35,000 square ft lots or 22,000 square ft lots left. In addition to that, the requirements for a 10,000 square lot, a 22,000, and a 35 are the same except for the lot size. So, if you choose to follow city c uh planning and

zoning's recommendation, you can still build a single family residence on a on a 35,000 ft lot. you just would use the qualifications for R10, which are the same. Okay. Now, if you go down, then you'll see in redph that's the sports hospitality district. Uh in 2011, there was a thought, an idea that the area around uh Conro Stadium would develop uh with maybe sports bars or sports related fields or sports things. Uh the market has told us in the last 16 years that's not going to happen. And so we have zero uh we have we don't have anyone in the sports hospitality district. For that reason we would recommend eliminating uh that category. The next one which like I say did not get struck out on the copy you have is 01 and that is restricted office. We do not have any restricted office is in the city. Zero. And that is generally because anyone a developer that comes in and looks at that has immediately seen that OC office commercial is a much broader district gives them a lot more flexibility. And so uh the few that have looked at this have immediately said rather have more flexibility. and they choose the

office commercial. So again, for lack of use, we would recommend taking out and eliminating the office one category. And then you will see C3. It was the community commercial district and we are recommending that that be changed to the redevelopment z district. Uh, and let's talk about that a second. Chris, can you put up our zoning map? And I'm sorry, I don't have the red. Uh,

has got it. There it is. I don't either.

Let me just walk over here. Currently, the area along Research Forest on the north side is zoned neighborhood services as well as from Wellman Road down to Research Forest is zoned neighborhood services. The recommendation is to take this area from Wellman Road down to research forest and to redesate it as a redevelopment zone. The reasons uh well let me say I'm going to come back and talk about exactly what that redevelopment zone means in just a second. But if you'll look then at we've been on the first page of section two, the rest of section two simply talks about the general requirements within each district. So if you looked at R10, it would tell you it would has to be a single family residence on a 10,000 square foot lot, that type of thing. Planning and zoning went through each of these and had no recommendate no recommended changes to any except eliminating these zones that we just talked about other than C3. So if you turn your pages in the packet that you were gotten that you will see that section 2.3 R35 is simply crossed out. we can eliminate it. We can eliminate section 2.4 uh because it was uh R22.

But if you turn over to page 30 of 491, still you're in section two, but you will see it is called instead of community commercial district, the redevelopment zone. And the reason we did this is let me uh try not to bore you but let me read you the description that already exist for the C3 zone. It says, "This commercial district is intended for the conduct of business activity which is located at the edge of residential areas, but which serves a larger trade area than the immediately surrounding residential neighborhoods. Business uses will most often be found in a wide variety of commercial structures, normally on individual sites with separate ingress, egress, and parking. Because of the varied uses permitted, it is important to be separated as much as possible visually and physically from any nearby residential areas and to limit the harmful effects of increased traffic noise and general nonresidential activity that will be generated. So, I think you can see why we said this general description fits the area from Wellman Road to Research Forest along uh I45 and is uh the the recommendation that planning and zoning has. In addition to that, if you turn the page

to page 31 of 491, you will see uh subp part E, limited permanent outdoor display has been eliminated. And at the last meeting of planning and zoning when we were looking at this again, we also eliminated subp part D. No, which would mean there would be no outdoor storage permitted in the C3 zone. And again, part F, no temporary outside display of merchandise or amusements. Bill, I have a question about that.

Yes. Does that uh the the no permanent outdoor does that affect our 7-Eleven stop and goes uh the the gas station retail where they have the ice machines sometimes and what have you cuz it it did mention the answer is yes and so that would require them to ask for a variance. Okay. Okay. So there there is an exception uh provided

that that they have available. So uh that is those are the recommended changes to section two uh which deal with the zones and those are of course eliminating the zones that we have talked about in changing uh the C3 zone section three of your IDC are uh the physical uh restraints such as building setbacks, side setbacks, uh minimum lot acreage, front o uh lot acreage. Planning and zoning did not see any need to change any of those that were existing in section 3 except for the C3 zone. and that this was in your handout and it's a very few changes. The one thing I want to comment is that planning and zoning also on maximum building height eliminated the 75 ft and it is determined now instead by section 5.4 which brings that down to two or three story maximum in this zone. Now, that takes us to section four. Section four, I'm going to tell you, is the most difficult. Section four is where the most time was spent by far. Uh, section 4 deals with uses. So, remember we talked about we had

zones, now we have uses. And Chris, would you put up uh for me the the map? I mean the chart, pardon me. 4.2 4.9.2. And if you would, I'm going to walk over uh just and point out here what we're talking about. This chart is extremely important. Uh first of all, if you'll look on the left hand side with no color, you will see uses. Uh and that goes on for about three or four pages of different uses. To give you an example, uh a use could be a restaurant. If you look at if you look at the screen that Chris has up, you'll see uh the very at at the very bottom of the page. It is you'll see this next to last line says group care facility. That would be a use. And so, can you have a group care facility in the city of Shannondoa? Well, to determine that, you go across the page and you'll see uh first of all, there's an S in the first column. In the Z's, an S means that you need a special use permit if you're going to have that. If you see a an X, it means it is permitted. You don't need permission from city council, planning and zoning,

anyone. You can just do it. And if it is blank, you cannot do it. So if we look at our group care facility on the next to last slide, you'll see that in the RHD zone, it's permitted. A group care facility, you'll see if you keep going across in the RC zone, it's not permitted and in other zones, it requires a special use permit. That's how this chart works. Yes. Can I ask a question? Can you use for the sake of it getting recorded uh in Can you use the mic when you go over to that?

I'll steal. Yes, I'll steal. Thank you. Yes. So, this chart is what really tells a developer that comes into the city, if I'm in a certain zone, can I do this or not? Whether it's a hotel, a restaurant, a shop, it doesn't it doesn't really matter. You'll see on the the page that's up on the screen some black lines. Those are just the zones uh that we would eliminate uh if if you approve that. Planning and zoning spent a long time looking at these uses in particular areas and made very very few changes except in the redevelopment zone. And in your paperwork, uh there was a the changes in the C3 zone recommended by city uh by planning and zoning. And it looks like this. And I tried to make this so you could get all the uses. And we just had just showed the C3 zone. And what you'll see is almost everything is a special use permit. A lot of thought went into this and planning and zoning said if this is going to back up to residential neighborhoods. We think it ought to go in front of planning and zoning for consideration and should go to city council for approval.

One last thing I want to uh uh mention and comment on is back on this big section is section 4 2.9 which is on page 45 of 491 and that is 4.2.9 yeah 4.2.9 2.9 and it's on page 45 of 491.

It used to say home occupation. It now says home business. And if you look at this, you're going to see everything has been struck out. And you go over three pages and there is a new in blue 4.2.9. This is the result of these four to six months of planning and zoning meetings and and a a tremendous amount of public comment. Uh I want to say that since uh this 4.2.9 2.9 was written up. Uh, planning and zoning has come back and made one additional change and it's it's on page 47 and it's in the fourth line. Uh, and it says on the fourth line which must be an inhabitant and primarily reside in the dwelling. Okay? and you'll see that uh uh printed uh the next time you see this. So in short, those are the changes that planning and zoning have recommended for sections 2 2 to 4. In our next monthly meeting, we will be presenting to you changes in sections 4 to six. But but it is also a time that we would ask that you look at these changes. If you have questions or comments, we would be

delighted to address them. If you don't see a change until our third meeting and we're on section 20 and you find a change in section 4, we want to hear about it. Uh our goal here is to have these monthly meetings so that the citizens can hear each month a piece at a time the changes that we're recommending that you of course can hear that and then when it comes time for public hearings the public will have been given an opportunity five or six or seven times to have heard these changes that we're talking about and they're not forced into one public meeting and looking at 400 pages. So, that is our goal. Uh I'm happy to answer any questions tonight. Uh I'm also happy and delighted if you say, "Hey, I need to study this and think about it. Th I'm not saying the other sections aren't important." I'm saying th this section four and 2 three and four are really important and require uh your thought.

How much discussion did P&Z devote to RC? So

that's a great question Charlie. Uh I don't know in terms of meetings. I I would say it was discussed in at least 8 to 10 meetings. Uh and we're down to only one it may be two I may be it may be two pieces of land that are in the RC zone which is uh the retail commercial zone. One of the pieces that is in the retail commercial zone is at the corner of I45 and research forest across would be the southwest corner across the street from Denny's. It's vacant land. The only thing that sits between it and the uh between research forest the vacant land is Memorial Herman Hospital. For those of you that don't know, the retail commercial zone is unique in that it requires a developer to build the first floor of anything with retail, specifically sales tax generating retail. And then if you want to build a three or four or five story building, you can and it can be above that. It can be offices. And that was done. I wasn't there. Charlie probably was. It was specifically uh that zone was created to protect our sales tax revenue for pieces of land that that we knew should be sales tax generating.

So I just my problem with it was too broadly just placed on everything without a lot of thought. That property that you're talking about is one of the the uh main things that let's say uh Costco was looking at very strongly. Yes. Hilton was going to put a five-story a five-star hotel there some and they so uh a lot of that because of the proximity of the freeway and being corridor commercial it was very problematic and of my mind it's just you know

I'm not a real estate developer I have been told that that corner that 11 acres is probably the most valuable 11 acres in Montgomery county. That's right. And so, uh, planning and zoning, when we talked about that, uh, specifically, no one on planning and zoning was willing to give up, uh, the sales tax revenue aspect of that. Uh, and that's why there were no changes recommended for that zone. Well, it'll come up again, you know.

Yeah, I'm sure it will. Bill, I'd like to explore the possibility of maybe maybe discussing it with planning and zoning to see if we can double up on the meeting so we could expedite the process of of uh of uh analyzing the uh the IDF so we can get this done. I know it's it's like you said before, it's been it's been a working effort for a number of years and I know I saw it when I was in planning and zoning. Anybody else here? Who's

I think we're down now, mayor, to three meetings. Uh we've got chapters 6 to 8. Then we skip over to 20 to 25. uh one of those I believe it's 22 uh we're going to recommend almost totally to eliminate because uh we uh the city has now adopted uh Joseph our uh what I'm brain dead that design

design manual and that would make it much easier for us to make changes in the design manual versus amending ing uh that. So I and the bottom line is you're you're going to have everything in three minutes in three meetings. Oh, okay. Well, that's that's good. Yeah, we've we've gone over all of these in the past, right? What we're doing right now is you heard three or four changes that people we're going over and taking a final look and saying making sure this is what we want to do. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Bill.

All right, we're going to move on to item 17, discussion and possible action to ratify the accounts payable for February 2026. Motion to approve. Have a motion to approve by Councilman Ray Maker. We get a second. Second. Second by Councilman Summerland. All in favor say I. I. Any discussion? If not, motion carries. Item 18, civic club updates. What is

after I did the tower the other day, it's like we need to have a little little fun especially after all of the conversation. Incredibly informative, very time consuming. Uh so good evening mayor and council. Uh three things for tonight. Uh the first is we just finished up with a fantastic safety expo. Our Shannido Police Department did an absolutely amazing job. We were there purely to support with with food. We served I think about 45 lbs of pulled pork uh 200 plus hot dogs. We we ran out of essentially everything for the first time. So, uh, that means that you're bringing more people in, uh, cuz we we added a lot more food this year and all of it got eaten. Uh, and everything that I heard from the people that attended that were friends of mine and friends of my wife's said that you guys just did an absolutely amazing job. The second thing is the scholarship. We closed uh, it's well, it was on the it was like a last Friday, I think it was, uh, at 5:00. We had 14 applicants for our scholarship. Uh unfortunately, we don't have the funds to be able to provide for 14 scholarships. Uh so we have five fantastic judges from our civic club that are currently in process of reviewing those. The intent is that on the 2nd meeting of April, which I think might be the 22nd, uh that we will have the scholarship presentations uh that evening and invite the scholarship winners uh to come have that be presented at the 7 or at the council meeting. And then the final thing, in case you didn't guess, was we have our Easter in the park event coming up this Saturday. Uh as last year, we have 5,000 eggs. Uh we will have uh five special

golden baskets that will essentially there will be a golden ticket hidden in each one of the age groups uh that are out there and they will receive a special really cool basket. Uh in addition to that, we will have snacks and uh Sweet Swirl will be there. Again, it's been such a hit. We're going to kind of alternate going back and forth between Kona Ice uh and Sweet Swirl for our events. And I think that's about it. So, Charlie, uh how long did it take for all those eggs to disappear? Oh my gosh, it was like just over a minute. I think like maybe a minute and 17 seconds. It was absolutely insane.

Next time I need my yard picked up, I'm just going to put eggs up, invite everybody to come on over. Uh yes, it was it was very very quick. So we the the time uh just for reference because I didn't say that earlier, it's from 10 to 12. The Easter egg hunt itself will commence like precisely at 10:15 and will probably be over at 10:16. Uh so we encourage everybody I put out a little uh thing on social media today uh encouraging everybody if you're going to be there for the event, the actual egg hunt to please be there before 10:15 cuz if you come rolling in at 10:30 expecting to go wandering and find some eggs,

uh you are not going to find those eggs there. In fact, I think by that point everybody will be doing the little water things and visiting with the Easter Bunny and all those kind of special things. Thank you. Thanks, Charlie. Thank you all. Thank you. Item 19, city administrator updates.

All right, Charlie. You only took two of my my updates, so not bad. Um, I do want to reiterate the traffic study survey is out. It just recently came out. I know we've talked about it a lot, but you know, please please spread the word, share with your neighbors. Um, we are going to be putting out inserts and the community signs to get that word out. And we can also have flyers at the events like we do. So, if there are people that want to spread the word, we'll take vol we'll have a lot of extra flyers and you can hand them to the neighbors because I assure you that's much more vulnerable than um hiring someone to do it out of the city fund. So, we'll take any volunteers, and I appreciate some of the residents that vol, you know, said they would volunteer to help spread the word. The the survey is quick, only take a minute to fill it out. We just need to get it in front of people. Uh, also, we had Trash Bash. You know, we had the PD Expo going on and Trash Bash over here at the public works building. I don't have all the breakout like I typically do yet, but we'll have that ready for the next meeting. But we did have just over a hundred visitors come through. So it was a little bit slower than our usual. We usually hit about 150 160. Thinking it's because the weather was so nice, people would rather go to the PD Expo or play than haul trash. Don't blame them. Uh, also and my last update. So, last night in this room, we held a Woodlands Chamber of Commerce meet the new member meeting and that was a partnership between the city and the Woodlands Area Chamber of Commerce and it went beautifully. had great reception that had about 75 people attend that event and we're just able to meet new business owners in the area, build those relationships not only with them but also with the the Chamber of Commerce. So, it it went really well, very well

received. And that's it. March is always busy and we always have a lot of city and civic club events. So, we've got Easter coming up at the park. Don't miss it. It'll be great. Thank you. Item 20, council inquiry pass. Council Sullivan pass. Council Pollock

just wanted to compliment Court to compliment Courtney, Abby, and Allison for the uh job that they did last night. The uh the food that they prepared, they handp prepared uh to feed all those people with burgers, uh with all all kind of food. Uh even hand things that they made. Uh I'm looking shuttery cups. Yeah. Short short is cheese stuff.

It's really really beautiful. Yeah. What she said. Just a lot of cheese. Uh but people couldn't believe it. It's one of the best. And I got I've gone to a lot of the uh uh new new member uh sessions before over the years with uh that that organization. This is one of the very best. They did a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Senator. So now when we have a long meeting, we know who to go to. I pass Robinson.

Uh yes, last night uh several of us attended the elected officials reception at the economic development partnership. And I'm sure the mayor will probably have a comment about that, but I just wanted to say that uh it was a very well attended event. some of the sponsors of that event. Uh I think we should take a look at being more actively involved in that in the future. That's all I have.

Uh yes, I echo what you what you said. I uh we we do have a good representation with with the economic development partnership. I'm on the board of that uh of that uh organization and uh uh they do a lot. they have referred us a few uh uh with a few projects and we've uh actually met with developers who wanted to do business with us. So, it's a very productive partnership that we have with them. Okay. Uh so uh city council will recess the regular meeting and go into close executive session at 8:06 p.m. according to the Texas Open Meetings Act chapter 551 of Texas Government Code Texas code of annotated in accordance with the authority containing the Texas government code as follows. Texas Government Code 551.087 087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations.