City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning.

Good morning, Lloyd. Quiet water is still water.

morning and welcome to the july 22nd city council meeting we will begin with the invocation from councilman nichols followed by the pledge let's pray nearly five thank you for this day thank you for all the beautiful weather and the rain you provided lord as we move into the summer we know that your provision is still there just without the rain well we look forward to the rest of our summer and the beauty that east texas brings We ask for your blessings for us today as we meet and discuss the business of the city. May we make wise decisions. Thank you for all of our city employees, first responders. We know that you're with them as they go about the business of our city. And Lord, right now we also pray for our nation's first responders as they are engaged in the families and loved ones that are going through trials right now. The harm's way is affecting them, Lord. We thank you for their service. Thank you again for everything you do for us. Thank you for your many blessings. In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

All right, everybody had a chance to look at the minutes. Yes, sir. From the June 10th meeting. And if so, I'll entertain a motion.

Move to approve the minutes from June 10th.

I second.

We have a motion from Councilman Nichols and a second from Councilwoman Marsh. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, the minutes are approved. All right, this time we're going to come down. We have several awards to present, so we'll come down for some awards and photos. All right, the first one we have is Todd Lustig. He's a federal audit in the parks department, 30 years of service. about Todd. I first met Todd when I served on the Parks Board. Gosh, that feels like 30 years ago. What?

Are you dirty? Yes. Let's see if I can hide these.

I think we should do this. This is fun. That's up. Yes.

All right, next one is Sherry Bennett. All right, next one is Jarrell Hudlin, city marshal, 25 years of service. Okay, next one we have is Amy Fortry, Library Operations Specialist. All right, Thomas Guerrero, police officer, 20 years of service. I saw him this morning and he said his whole family. Sergeant Chad Homer, he is here, all right.

Is he blocking you?

Uh, there she is, Tish Loftus. So, Letitia, I call her Tish, she's my workout partner in the gym every Monday morning, so we share such fun. Kevin Kennedy, Equipment Operator 2018. These employees represent 185 years the dedication that you all have says something about our atmosphere here and about the city. So thank you all for your dedication and your service.

Appreciate it. Man.

That was good.

Where'd everybody go? I know, right?

I guess it's clear now. Let's get out of here before they even get started.

Oh, wait. This says 185. This says 230.

And that said 230. Yeah, on the screen it said 230. Which one is it? 60, 80, 60 and 50 is 110, 135, or 55. Wait, wait, wait.

Hold on, Cameron. It's 230. It's 230. So slight correction.

This piece of paper says 185 years of service, and this one says 230.

So we're going to go with 230 years of service.

You said the right number for the people that were here.

Oh, that's true. Okay. Okay. There you go.

Yeah, because Bill Steinmiller was not here.

Yeah, so a special shout out to Officer Steinmiller, 20 years of service, who could not be here this morning as well. Okay. All right, Cameron, P1.

Good morning, Mayor, Council, Cameron Williams, Director of Engineering Services. Good morning. Good morning.

Thank you.

so we have a presentation this morning on the half-cent sales tax twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven annual work program so this is a presentation so there's no action item this morning uh... but to get us kicked off is we do an annual call for projects for our half-cent sales tax we did that back in april uh... our staff did a great job this year and also working with communications of getting the word out and also setting up time for citizens to meet. We had a lot of one-on-one meetings with citizens and phone calls. But it did result in about 188 kind of unique project submissions from different things. And so as we sorted through those, we kind of put those into different categories and buckets from things that were maybe not half cent related that would be other city departments. Maybe it's not applicable. There could be something we could address through maintenance and operations. Also, maybe it's an existing project, so maybe it was a street or something that we already had in our work plan. And then we put sidewalks into their own category because there's enough of those requests, and we also have an annual sidewalk project. And so, like, of those 45, 15 of those were specific to Reek Road between Donnybrook and New Copeland, which we're already putting into design and working on design on that. And then lastly, about 71 that could be projects that ultimately turned into 61 new projects on our list of annual work plan. So these are a lot of numbers, don't definitely need to get, but four things to focus on is we have tiers, and then that's what you see at the top where we kind of break it up into years to kind of give an idea of where the projects fall with tier one being what we have right now through 28. Tier 2 is 29 through 32, and then Tier 3 projects are 33 through 36. And then the next things is really just revenues, expenditures, and fund balance. So on the revenues piece is you just see that we have a 1% annual increase as far as a growth is what we forecast. Expenditures is what we plan to expend. I will say, we'll talk a little bit more about 2027, but 2027, 2028 are pretty aggressive from a total expenditures. So we may not actually hit those. And if we don't, then those just kind of get shifted out as far as projects or, and then lastly, the fund balance that you see, we wanna keep that positive. We don't want to go negative. And so in this way, too, in 27-28, we still have, at least 27, a pretty healthy fund balance projected. So if we have any projects that the costs come in higher, then we have some flexibility to accommodate those. This just kind of gives you a very high level view of how we over cross the tiers, break those into different categories. And you see streets and traffic or roadways, different things still being our major focus of the HACCP program. And those first tier one and tier two drainage continues to see a pretty healthy. And then tier one with the public safety. So we have a lot of fire and police facilities here in the next couple of years that we'll be focusing on. And so you kind of see that reflected and how the spending goes across the different years. Now I want to kind of start focus more on 2027, the next year. What do we look at what we're spending? So you have here projects that are in progress that we have already underway in construction or design. So there's four projects that count for about 38% of our expenditures that we're forecasting. for next year, about six programs that we do annually. And we'll talk a little bit more about those. And that's about 24%. And then potentially, again, this is where I say pretty aggressive, potentially 26 more projects that are new, that we haven't started or kicked off in any form or fashion that would represent about 36% of our expenditures. So on those projects that are ongoing, you do have our downtown community space, fire station number two, the downtown improvement project, and the traffic signal reconstruction at Lake Street and Fleschel. And so those are the things that are currently in progress. And I'm not talking about projects that we plan to wrap up. These are things that are carrying over into the next fiscal year. So there's a lot more of the projects that are going on beyond these four. those annual work programs and so these are things again that we kind of do on an annual basis and that we we do work on uh... you see those kind of highlight the sidewalk improvements that's something we started back in twenty twenty four we're actually wrapping up those first two years of construction right now and that's gone really well and that kind of focused on transit stops and connections to some of the highway safety improvement projects where we've done pedestrian improvements at intersections so trying to tie those and build off of other projects that we've had. And we're currently working on design again where it's kind of a focus to parks. And so I mentioned Reek Road, so that neighborhood over there connecting over to the Southside Trail system. And also another big portion of that is 32nd Street up near Glass Rec, getting from Glass Rec over to Walden Park. along that one so those are two main things that we're working on currently in design and then what we've talked about in the future is focusing on schools and neighborhoods is closing some gaps there is what the next round that we'd be focusing from a pedestrian improvement uh... also within that annual program is the railroad crossing improvements we have been kind of building up a fund from that standpoint because we have some pretty high expenditures with some of the downtown crossings that we will be coming in the next year so with that uh... to convert those from one way to two way and improve pedestrian stuff as well as the crossing at lake street So those are the, those projects. As far as new projects, I'll kind of break those 26 down into two different groups. About 13 of those are projects that were already on the work plan, we just haven't started yet. And that's what you see here. For example, the ATC tower relocation is something that's been on there that the air traffic control for the airport. Won't go into a whole lot of detail at this time. The next set of projects that were new, that were not on our work plan, that we looked to start. And the question I think you'd ask, well why weren't they, what brought them up to the top if they weren't already on the work plan? And it's really kind of four different areas. Is one, grants. If maybe there's a grant opportunity that came up and we can move that up on the project. And so that's, for example, that small community air service development for the airport. They're looking to bring in another airline. And so that's a way to kind of guaranteed revenue if they don't meet their points. And so we're allocating money for that grant if we get it. Another piece would be emergency projects. Things that came up in the past year that we didn't anticipate. For example, Elm Street culvert. We have some issues over there that we've been looking at and addressing. And also the Hillside Park. On the soccer field, there's some drainage culvert there that needs some work. And so we're allocating money to do that, but also be working with parks with that project and coordinating some timelines. So those would be some emergencies. And then new developments. So things that are coming online that weren't necessarily in the pipeline a year ago, one for example would be Patina Point, is the Jenico development down there is starting to grow. There's gonna need to be some city participation in some of that infrastructure. And so that's where you see those projects come up. And then just if there's any type of need, for example, we do add in some street reconstructions. We've seen some benefit from our pavement condition index is doing some additional funding to reconstruct roads completely. in addition to just the seal code and asphalt stuff that we're doing at this time.

Cameron, before you go to the next slide, on the airport one, the reason that got moved up, just so everybody's aware, that wasn't something that we were going to put or able to put a lot of money into, but because of that federal grant, they're contributing the majority of those funds, correct?

That's correct. And so I believe, I can't remember the exact match, but also I think it's something like 80-20 potentially. But also what that does is if for some reason they do not meet their projected revenues, there's about a $200,000 per year that we could be, you know, to help them meet those revenues and keep that service. But if they meet those revenues and service and people are using it and it's successful, That is not needed. So that's the really kind of the big, very high level, quick overview of the annual work plan. We will have a 60 day comment period starting today through September 20th and opportunity for citizens to comment on any of these specific projects that are on the work plan, not necessarily adding anything new. but what's presented there. It will be available on the city website or by contact the engineering department, and then we'll bring that back to council after that point for an action item at that time. I think that's everything.

So y'all were able to meet yesterday. You have a new chairperson. How'd that work out? Was that okay?

It went all right. A little rough. Closing out the meeting, we had to give him some pointers, but it was as well.

Anybody have any questions for Cameron?

I got a quick question. From what I've seen on Hillside and Elm Street, both of those drainage issues were going under structures, right? Have we identified where that's anywhere else in the city where we might have that type of potential in the future of a collapse that has a building sitting on top of it?

There are some other storm drains that go under private property, not of that size that I'm aware of, specifically like Elm Street. And so those are things that we definitely are paying attention to and we'll have to take a further look at.

And that's an old practice. That's not something that's acceptable anymore in the city, right?

That is correct. So anything new would definitely be in an easement and definitely not underneath a structure of that sort.

All right, thank you. Anybody else have any questions for Cameron?

Come on, one more, Noel.

No. Does that need action items? This is just presentation. Okay.

Thank you all very much. Thank you, Cameron.

Appreciate it. All right, zoning. Kyle.

Good morning, Mayor and Council. Good morning. Kyle Kingman, Planning Director. The first item we have is E1, which is a request for a zone change. from R2 two-family and RMF multifamily to PUR plan unit residential district. This is in District 1. The applicants requesting the zone change to develop a private gated development consisting of duplexes. As you see here, the surrounding properties are developed or zoned for residential use, largely developed to the west as multifamily and single family to the east and the south. As you see, the property is currently split zone, so it's two family on the east side, multi-family on the west side. This change actually represents a down zoning or a reduction in density on the property. The request is consistent with the future land use guide, identifying the property as mixed residential. As you see, the current site is undeveloped. The applicant has proposed a site plan, as you see here, which consists of 85 duplexes for a total of 170 units on the property. It's intended to be developed on one lot. with private drives accessing the property. They do have three driveways to the street network, one to Tyler Park Drive on the northwest, and then two to Plantation. The duplexes are proposed to be single-story, and the setbacks around the property are at least 25 feet. as you see the surrounding properties here. Of the notices that were sent out, one was received in favor, two in opposition, with the general concern about the impact of traffic. Staff notes that the proposal does not meet the threshold for a traffic impact analysis. And the plan to commission by a 7-0 vote recommended approval of this request. uh... the applicant has indicated uh... that they would like to table the request for uh... until august twenty-six due to uh... uh... factors related to the real estate transaction and so at this point they would they prefer to to have this item heard at the august twenty-sixth meeting and not considered today all right anybody have any questions for cal

question I have go back to the previous script there so we're taking all of that pervious ground if you will and we're channeling it all into the the center Creek that showed right there are we requiring additional engineering here to you know not have negative effects downstream south of there with the tension ponds or whatever to really really make sure that that we're not having any negative impact on the neighbors south of there.

So the applicant is currently working with an engineering company who is aware of this design. And so they will be required to meet the minimum requirements. With this site being, as you see, a lot of open space provided, which is probably a lot more than you anticipate for a typical subdivision. the impact should be mitigated.

Thank you. Anybody else have any questions for Cole? This is in District 1, and so with District 1 vacant, somebody else will have to make a motion so we're not up here just sitting in silence. So with that, I'll entertain a motion.

Motion to table Z1. I'll second.

We have a motion to table Z1 by Councilwoman Hawkins and a second by Councilwoman Dark-Bays. All in favor?

Mr. Mayor, can we make it clear for the motion that it's tabled to the August 26th meeting?

Yes. Can you clarify your motion?

Sure. A clarification of Z1 to table until the August 26th meeting.

Okay. I continue to second that.

All right. So we have a motion by Councilwoman Hawkins and a second by Councilwoman Dark-Bays. To table Z1 to the August 26th meeting. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. That is tabled to 826. Z2. Okay.

spectrum uh... requested so change from our winning single-family residential to our team to family residential district the song arnold street as you see here that the properties currently zone for residential use the surrounding properties are all residential as well single-family to the northwest and south uh... to the east is uh... developed with duplexes currently This request to allow for duplex development is consistent with the future land use guide. As you see here, there's currently a house built on the north side of the property. The applicant plans to reconfigure the lots. They do own all the properties, this property and the properties to the east. And they plan to build a duplex on the south side or the back part of that lot there and plan to reconfigure the property to make that work. As you see the current surrounding area in there, of the notices that were sent, none were returned in favor or in opposition. The plan to commission by a 7-0 vote recommended approval.

Anybody have any questions for council? I'll move to approve Z2. Second. We have a motion to approve Z2 by Councilman Childs and a second by Councilman Nichols. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Z2 is approved. Z3. Z3.

This is a request for a zone change from light industrial to institutional district. This is on the west loop. The applicant's proposing the request to use the properties, the old optimum office. They plan to use it for medical facility with the ability to have overnight care, so overnight stay associated with emergency medical situations. And so the surrounding properties to the north and east are industrial and to the south is commercial. Most of those properties have been or are or have been developed with more institutional uses such as or office uses like Heat and Eye Care, Tyler ISD and then TJC to the north. To the west is commercial and is being developed with, has been developed and being developed with commercial activity. This request would amend the future land use guide to community activities center. As you see the surrounding properties there are largely transitioned into campus or office type uses and so this would fit with that pattern. Of the notices that were sent, none were returned in favor or in opposition. The plan to commission by a 7-0 vote recommended approval.

Any questions for Kyle? So moved. Second. I have a motion to approve Z3 by Councilman Hawkins and a second by Councilman Nichols. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Z3 is approved. Z4.

This is a request for a distance variance to the required 300 feet that a location that sells alcohol must observe in order to sell from a public school. And so this property is within 300 feet of Rice Elementary to the southwest. And so for them to be able to obtain a TABC license certification from the city. It needs to be more than 300 feet away. We have a process through the special use permit to allow a variance to that requirement, which has been applied in other cases, especially in this case to the property to the south developed with Grand Slam or the old Times Square Shopping Center. that received a variance a number of years ago, which is actually closer to rice. And so, let me go to this map. So this property is developed with a restaurant site, previously had alcohol sales. And because of a lapse in activity, they lost whatever authorization that they had for that. And so it was really a cleanup where they can reauthorize the ability to sell alcohol there where we've had it before. The distance between the doors of the restaurant and Rice Elementary, closest door to Rice Elementary is just over 600 feet. The distance to the property line is pretty much the right-of-way Old Boulder Road. And so the code allows the city council to, when the requirement is not evident or the need for the protection between a school and a restaurant is not evident, which has been the direction in the past for Times Square, the city council can grant that exception. We did notify all the surrounding property owners within 200 feet, which included Tyler ISD. We did not receive any feedback in favor or in opposition to this variance from the protected use from the school district, which has been common practice. They have not historically opposed restaurants selling within 300 feet of the schools. The Planning Commission reviewed this request and recommended approval by a 7-0 vote.

Colin, years past, we've taken a hard look at some of these issues, but just to reiterate what you've said, the restaurant that was there previously was able to sell alcohol at that seafood restaurant, and then Grand Slam right next door, same type deal, right?

Yes, sir.

And Kyle, there's not a specific term that this special use permit is requesting?

No, this is more of a variance special use instead of a term special use.

Anybody else have any questions for Kyle? With that, I'll entertain a motion on Z4. I move to approve Z4. Second. We have a motion to approve Z4 by Councilwoman Marsh and a second by Councilman Nichols. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Z4 is approved. Z5.

This is a request for a thoroughfare closure for a portion of Robertson Road. So this portion is associated with the west side, the Bellwood development. And so when it was planted a few years ago, they planted a roundabout right away, as you see there in the circle. Last month, the city council granted a site plan amendment to the development, which removed that Roundabout configuration for the intersection with Whiteside Road and so really this is a way or the process to to to follow that up because within six months they need to to address that and so So this request is to eliminate that to abandon that portion of the plan and right-of-way because it's no longer needed based off the plans and based off the direction of City Council And so with that, the Planning Commission, by a 7-0 vote, recommended approval of the abandonment of this portion of Robertson Road, subject to being replanted within six months.

Anybody have any questions for Kyle? Second.

I have a motion to approve Z5 by Councilwoman Hawkins and a second by Councilman Nichols. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Z5 is approved. Z6?

This is a request for a zone change from R1A single family to C1 light commercial. University Boulevard and Old Omen Road. And so this is a request to rezone a portion of this property to commercial because the owner of the convenience store on the corner, they plan to purchase this portion to expand, redevelop the site and expand the gas station and convenience store on the intersection there. I'll go back. So the surrounding properties are generally undeveloped other than some commercial activity to the west and then UT Tyler to the northwest. This request is consistent with the land use plan which it will support the campus activity. As you see here, they do plan to redevelop this site and incorporate this new area into that which requires it also be zoned the same way. Of the notices that were sent, none were returned in favor or in opposition. The Planning Commission recommends approval.

Anybody have any questions for Kyle? Kyle, do you know if the plan is to move the Ingress-Egress down University? Is that part of the...

Yes, sir. So when they redevelop the site, the driveway on University will have to shift to the east and be a shared access. A little bit safer. Yes.

You still don't have a park, but you get a bigger gas station.

I move to approve Z6.

Second.

We have a motion to approve Z6 by Councilman Nichols and a second by Councilwoman Dark-Bays. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Z6 is approved. Z7.

This is a zone change request from R1B single-family residential to PMF plan multi-family district. The applicant plans to develop a five-plex residential structure on this lot on Spring Avenue. So as you see here, the surrounding properties to the north, west, and east are R1B single-family. There are some undeveloped lots to the north and west, some homes to the east. TO THE SOUTH IS ZONE R22 FAMILY WHICH ARE DEVELOPED WITH DUPLEXES. JUST SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD. YOU SEE THERE THE REQUEST TO ALLOW FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE LAND USE PLAN IDENTIFIED AS NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTIAL. The, here's the property right now as it's currently undeveloped, well, developed with the home, but you see the surrounding properties, how they're currently developed. The applicant has proposed a site plan for the development, which shows a five-plex residential structure oriented towards North Spring Avenue. The request is a modest increase in density to help achieve the North End's housing goals and infill development. As you see, the site plan does show, again, it's oriented towards Spring Avenue. If this property were zoned R2 or something more like the properties to the south, the applicant could develop two duplexes on the site. So the request is really to allow for an additional attached unit, one additional than you might expect for the property. of the notices that were sent out, the staff received two in opposition. As you see there to the south side, there was some concern about the additional increase in traffic with multifamily development. Staff would note that the zoning classification is called multifamily, but the development itself is more of a townhome development, single-story townhome development. And so it's not a traditional multifamily that you might expect more traffic from. The Planning and Zoning Commission, by a 7-0 vote, recommended approval of this request.

Any questions for Kyle? I move to approve Z7. Second. Second.

We have a motion to approve Z7 by Councilwoman Marsh and a second by Councilman Nichols. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Z7 is approved. Thank you, Kyle. Thank you. Our one Leanne's not here. So I guess Christie's filling in for Lee. Welcome Christie.

Good morning, mayor and council. I'm Christie Baker. Good to see you. Um, I'm with the parks department and I'm here today to request that the city council consider adoption of a resolution, authorizing the filing of an application with Texas parks and wildlife for a local parks grant for golden road park and authorizing the city manager to take all actions needed to receive and expend those funds.

please and christy the these funds uh... if we are working these funds with this great uh... can you explain a little bit about what the funds will be used for and others phase one proposal at golden road in a phase two Some part of phase one has a redo of the bleachers and some of the park benches and adding shade covers. And then hopefully addressing the restrooms out there. So can you go into a little bit of detail what the funds would be used for?

Absolutely. So this park hasn't received significant upgrades in a number of years. So a lot of what we're doing is more infrastructural things that are going to significantly improve the visitors, their stay at the park, I guess. Not as much big flashy improvements, but we are looking at improving the fencing, adding some additional lighting and improving the existing lighting, some definitely improvements to the bathroom facilities there. I know that there's often backups and problems with the plumbing. So we're gonna address all those concerns as well as some additional items.

Would the addressing the restroom issues, would that be a demo

A little of both. So the upper restrooms, it's split into two facilities, so we're looking at demolishing that and doing a new structure at that location that's a single structure and then improving the plumbing there and redoing the lower restrooms, which is a single facility, so that'll get kind of an upgrade rather than a full demolition.

Any idea of when we might hear back on the ground?

these grants the lead time on a response is typically about six months so we're looking at maybe January possibly February and then it takes several months after that for an agreement to be given and then so by next summer or early fall we should if we receive the grant be able to begin

I have a lot of great memories from Golden Road Park as a kid, so good luck. Thank you. I'll move to approve R1.

I'll second. It used to be in my district. That's true.

All right, we have a motion to approve R1 by Councilman Childs and a second by Councilman Nichols. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, R1 is approved. Thank you, Christy. O1.

You're back, Cameron.

Cameron is back.

Good morning. Good morning. Cameron Williams, Director of Engineering Services. So we have today an ordinance item on a temporary decrease in speed limit on FM 756, which is Paluxy Drive, from 55 to 50 miles per hour. So this actually comes as a request from TxDOT as part of the upcoming construction project on FM 756. Our ordinance 1766 allows us to do a temporary decrease during construction for projects. And so the segment that we're talking about is really from Jeff Davis down to our city limits line, which is just at toll 49. So that's the portion. So it has a current speed limit of 55. The temporary decrease would go down to 50. And that was based upon textile recommendations. They have guidelines based upon the type of construction. and what's going to happen, for example, there would be a barrier out there and so it falls into a certain category. If there were other situations, then that would decrease it further. And so this really comes as a recommendation from TxDOT on that speed. And so again, you kind of see the limits of that. It would be, and this is just for your information, what that construction looks like. The top photo is that existing condition out there. It's just a two-lane roadway. And it'll be widening out to that five lanes, two lanes each direction, center turn lane. They are proposing on-street bike lanes and then sidewalks on both sides. So that's the construction. They are, I think, they had their bids in July. And so you should hopefully start seeing actual construction. They've been doing a lot of utility work out there of moving things out of the way, getting ready. And so this would be looking to take effect from the speed limit side from, we're saying, August 1st through January. i think it's june of 2030 so four years roughly on the construction side for this project there are some additional cleanups with with this ordinance change as we are doing this one you look back we had done temporary decreases on some other roadways within the city of tyler for construction those are done finished so we're deleting those off so no longer on our ordinance from that standpoint And so it is requested that City Council adopt an ordinance amending City Code Chapter 17, Article 3 speed regulations by temporary decreasing the speed limit on a portion of FM 756, Paluxy Drive, from 55 miles per hour to 50 miles per hour for the period of August 1st, 2026 to June 1st, 2030.

Anybody have any questions for Cameron?

I do. This widening is going to allow them to straighten out that curve, isn't it? That's correct.

So there's definitely some realignment of Paluxy there, specifically by the Patina Point development. And I think, too, that's why you'll see some of that. They're developing more on the backside until this project's done, and you'll start to see them develop closer up to Paluxy.

Excellent. Thank you. Any other questions for Cameron?

I'll entertain a motion. I will move to approve.

Second we have a motion to approve. Oh one by council in the dark bays and a second by councilman Nichols all in favor aye Any opposed? Oh one is approved. Thank you, Cameron That brings us to the consent agenda anything need to be pulled or do we approve as is?

Don't everybody speak at once Second

We have a motion to approve the consent agenda as is by Councilwoman Marsh and is second by Councilman Nichols. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, the consent agenda is approved, which brings us to the city manager's report presented by Stephanie Franklin today. Thank you, Mayor. Welcome, Stephanie.

I have a couple of things for you. I just wanted to remind the council and the public that this is year 13, the City of Tyler partnering on School is Cool. And so you might have seen that story not too long ago about their fundraising. They're about 70% there. So I know a lot of you volunteer. And if anyone in the community is looking for that opportunity, this is a great time for your family to come together for school supplies, haircuts, eye exams, all kinds of great things at the Rose Complex. So again, that's August 6th, 4.30 to 7 p.m. And we always have a big crowd, so hopefully everybody can attend that. The other thing I wanted to mention, sometimes we don't give ourselves a plug for our Roses and Weeds podcast. And the mayor was recently on the podcast. It is a great way for our community to get information about the city directly from the city so that it's unfiltered. I don't know if he spilled the tea on there, Mayor, but... you'll have to listen to find out most recently podcast and then one last thing just a great partner in the community which is tyler area builders association hosted the city of tyler building services department and staff so our inspectors were there doing a lunch and learn and giving information to our development community so they are a great partner they always do a good job inviting us to attend those and we get to share information and kind of help build those relationships with our building and development community. And that's really it.

Anybody have any questions for Stephanie? Good job. Good job. With that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

All right, we are adjourned.