>> thank you. Good evening. Welcome to the city council meeting for the city of anna.
city council of the city of anna will meet on tuesday, september 23rd, 2025 at 6:00 pm.
the anna municipal complex, council chamber is located at 120, west 7th street, to consider the following items. Again, welcome to the meeting.
if you wish to speak at an open session agenda item, please fill out the opinion speaker registration form,
and turn it into the city secretary before the meeting starts.
item number 1, the agenda to call this meeting to order which we are.
roll call the entire council is present, and of course, we do have a quorum.
at this time, I'm going to ask councilwoman hernan, if you will lead us in our invocation and pledges.
we're doing two pledges tonight. We're going to do american texas and from now on.
>> let us bow our heads. Dear heavenly father. As we gather this evening,
let us be mindful that every life matters. On september 10th, charlie kirk lost his life to a tragic act of violence.
may this loss remind us to listen to one another, to choose compassion over animosity,
and courage over fear. We ask you father to give strength to his family and loved ones,
comfort to his supporters and peace and direction to all who were touched by this loss.
lord, we also lift up our own community after the storms on sunday. Some of our neighbors were spared while others suffered great damage.
we ask your protection and provision over every family affected and for your healing hand in the days ahead.
help us come together, offering grace and support to those carrying heavier burdens.
guide us in our work tonight so that our decisions reflect integrity, unity, and peace.
may our deliberations heal rather than divide and may our city be a place where voices are heard and differences are respected.
in jesus name, I pray. Amen. >>
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.
I pledge allegiance to thee one state under god, one and indivisible.
I'm a texan and I screwed that up. [laughter]
>> thank you. That will take us to item number 3, neighbor comments.
at this time, any person may address the city council regarding an item on this meeting agenda that's not scheduled for public hearing.
also at this time, any person may address the city council regarding an item that is not on the meeting agenda.
each person will be allowed up to three minutes to speak. No discussion or action may be taken at this meeting on items not listed on this agenda,
other than to make statements of specific information in response to a citizens inquiry or to recite existing policy in response to the inquiry.
I do have one speaker this evening. It's andrew mckenna.
>> good evening. My name is andrew mckenna. I live at 902 4 born drive,
and of texas 75409.
I'd like to start on the proclamation that you did for september for service stocks.
on the last where as on the proclamation,
the city of anna texas continues to work toward becoming
an inclusive community in which all citizens and their trained service dogs are embraced.
when I moved here in 2010,
I brought my service dog with me and we're wondering why we didn't have a city park.
well, I couldn't get really any answers. On 2018, I was appointed to the parks board,
and I started asking some questions and wasn't really getting any answers and I requested
documentation from the city and went through it and found out that the city had
authorized a city park and it had been budgeted three years in a row.
cleo and myself, we were going to
parks board meetings and once I found out that you had authorized the dog park,
my dog held up this sign to the city council at the time,
wanted to know what the dog park was. Well, time went on
and they went ahead
and they built a dog park in december of 2019.
I have a picture here where she held up a sign thanking the city council.
would you like me to start it down there so you guys can look at it?
since then at the age of 17,
with 15 years of service dog training and experience,
cleo passed away may 8th, 2023.
at this time, I would request that the city council think
about maybe honoring cleo by naming
the dog park at natural springs park in her memory. Thank you for your time.
>> thank you. That's something we can definitely consider. Thank you. Any more cards?
that's it. Then it takes us to agenda item 4, reports.
receive reports from staff or city council about items of community interest.
first up, I have a presentation from anna community service results,
assistant to the city manager, kimberly winarski.
>> good evening, mayor and council. Kimberly winarski, assistant to the city manager.
I'm inviting tobin mccarran to come up here and present the community survey results for 2025.
he's from polco, the national research center, which is the group we consult with to do this survey so that it's statistically valid.
with that, I will turn it over to him, and I'll be here for any questions.
>> good evening. I'm tobin.
while they're pulling the slide show up, or am I supposed to press that? There we go. I'm excited to be here to present
the national community survey results from anna using the ncs this year.
I'm tobin mccarran. I was a 25 year air force officer.
I understand one of you was in the marines, one of you was in the navy, so I appreciate your service there.
I do want before I start to thank charlie wagner,
who was instrumental in helping us develop and implement the survey,
and we worked with her the whole time. I'd also like to thank my colleague, lily vasquez, who did all the work for polco,
and with charlie and the city of anna in order to come to these conclusions and get these results.
I get the honor of presenting. She did all the work. Whole purpose of polco is to get data into the hands of
community leaders so that they can make better data informed decisions.
we acquired the nrc back in 2019. The nrc had actually been implementing the ncs,
the survey that you performed with us since 2001. They had implemented other versions of it from 1994 and on.
because of how long it goes back, we then can also compare you to communities
like yourself when we are presenting these results.
there are a few different ways communities use these results. They're up here.
one is monitor trends and resident opinion, and also to benchmark against other communities.
another is to measure government performance. Probably the most common way is they use these results to help inform their budget,
land use, and strategic planning decisions. My hope is while I'm presenting this,
that you will think of things that you could use this data for, maybe where you want to dive even deeper and
how you can actually use this to make your community better. The ncs is a five-page questionnaire that has about 15 questions,
but each question is like 10-15 parts so there's really a lot in there and we say 15 questions,
but it's more like 120 ish that you end up getting asked on. All these questions focus in on 10 areas of community livability.
these are the 10 facets that are up here. After extensive survey research,
the survey research team has deemed that these are the ones that residents care
the most about and really affects their quality of living and how they feel about the community.
we ask overall questions that generalize into this and then we ask specific ones in each of these.
these 10 facets also happen to really line up well with departments and a municipality.
your city specifically has a parks rec department, an economic development department,
a utilities department, and a myriad of others, and those department heads and departments might want to specifically look into
that area and look at the questions that are asked there to get some more information and more detailed stuff.
about your survey, we conducted it starting on june 23rd of this year,
and it went for about seven weeks. How we actually make it a scientifically,
statistically valid survey is we have to have a random distribution and a random population that we pull our sample from.
what we do in order to get that is first, we from the usps,
purchase a list of all households within the zip code that serves anna, texas.
we then use the gis boundary provided by your city to overlap on that list of households so that we can see here's the zip code overall,
and here's the city of anna, and we can take out the houses that are outside of anna.
that leaves us with the households in the zip code and anna. We then randomly sample 3,000 of those households.
here you can see we heard from 261 that fully completed the survey.
the 261 responses alone is the reason we can say,
our estimates that we're providing you are within 6% of the actual value 95% of the time.
that 6% margin of error comes about because of those responses.
if we were to have only gotten about 100 responses, you'd be like a 10%. If we were to get 10,000 responses, you'd be about 1%.
we're at around 260, and so it's a 6% margin of error.
that 95% confidence interval just means if we were to administer the survey 100 times,
that 95% of the confidence intervals with that margin of error would contain the true estimate.
we also performed a non statistically valid survey,
where we allowed the city to just email out and flash out to the residents, say,
here's a url you can go to and take this and then you
don't randomly sample any group or type of people could get that.
you could have some bias in there, and so we don't present with those results,
but we have a pdf that we provided and there's a tableau report online that you can look that you would
see the entirety of the results if you wanted to include those 588 responses.
the results I'm about to show you are off the 261 because that's the scientifically valid ones.
after we get the responses, we do weight them so that you can see how it is for the representativity of anna,
and waiting is simply providing more weight towards those groups that respond less.
simple way to think of this is if you had 1,000 men and 1,000 women in anna,
and we surveyed 500 of each of them, and we only heard from 200 men and 100 women.
well, then we would give the women twice the weight when we were telling you what the actual impact of the city or the feelings of the residents are.
there are over 500 communities we have in this benchmarking database that we can compare you against.
we actually have 40 of them here within texas. I just presented to mckinney probably two months ago.
there's a few others that are right around us here in the dallas metroplex.
I actually live in lucas, texas, so I'm 30 minutes south of here. I'm going to start out with an overview of your results.
I'm going to keep a high level. About five slides of that, and then we're going to get into some specific key findings.
the first slide I'm showing you is that we ask, what do your residents perceive as the quality of each of those 10 facets.
here you can see what they said. They can rate that as excellent,
good, fair, or poor, and we're showing you how many rated as excellent or good.
the darker green that you're seeing is showing that that is similar to the benchmark,
meaning that those residents rated the quality of safety, similar to residents in other communities.
the light green is lower than the benchmark, and the yellow is much lower than the benchmark.
in order to get lower and much lower, that's 10 percentage points, and then 20 percentage points different than what
the national averages are. That's quality. The next one we ask is about importance of those same 10 facets.
here, how important do you perceive each of these 10 things and they can rank them as percent essential,
very somewhat or not important. Here we're showing you the ones that said it was essential or very important.
here your standard is very normal to what the national benchmarks are. There's two exceptions.
one, you can see that that blue, the community design, your residents rank that much more important than other residents and other communities.
the other thing that's a little different on here is that utilities are so high. We typically see safety and economy as a number one and two, almost all the time.
here, utilities tops both of those, which is still within benchmark standards,
but is a little different than we would normally see. Now, here on this slide,
we're putting the quality and the importance on the same graph, and we like to do this so that you can see the gap that's really there.
where is it that we suggest the city of anna could focus efforts on?
when I look at this, I see that the two biggest spreads are utilities and community design.
I would think that my efforts could be best used in those two areas
to try and bring that quality closer to where the importance is according to your residents.
but then you also always face trade offs and so, where am I going to take resources from,
whether that's time, money, people? I would look at this also for that and say, well, where are my smallest gaps?
where is it closest that my quality is to my importance? Up there, I can see that parks and
rec and natural environment look like they have the closest gap where those two are.
perhaps I can take from those in order to give to the others. Obviously, this is the trade off you face and have to make the tough decision of.
compared to national benchmarks. I've been sticking to the 10 facets.
now we're breaking into all the individual questions that actually inform those different facets and you can see here there's
121 questions that we can compare to national benchmarks. Most of them were similar to the nation.
two of them were actually higher than national benchmarks, and 49 of them were actually lower than national benchmarks.
the two that were higher, I remember water resources was higher. I don't remember the other one. I can get up for you though.
I brought it up here on my piece of paper if you want to hear that, but we won't go over the ones that are lower in the next few slides.
this is comparing to national benchmarks. The next one is comparing to how you did back
in 2022 when you implemented the survey with us. Here you can see that most of them received
a similar or lower rating relative to how they were in 2022. There were four that received higher ratings.
I talked about 10 percentage and 20 percentage in order to be different from national benchmarks for the time trends to be different as eight percentage points.
>> now I'm going to get into the key findings. I've got seven to present to you and then your custom questions that you all asked on the survey.
the first key finding is that safety remains and a strongest asset consistent with national averages despite some declines.
here we're showing you about nine in ten residents feel safe
in the neighborhood during the day and in the downtown or commercial areas during the day.
this is similar to the national benchmarks. This is similar to your trend that you had your results from 2022,
but you should be proud of this. I think I know it was 89% on the top one and
86% in the downtown commercial area felt they were safe during the day.
then over there on the right, I'm also showing you two others that did did well in and fire services and ambulance or
emergency medical services of your residents feeling like these were very top safety rated services.
key finding two, environmental services are steady with progress in water resources,
but overall ratings falling below benchmarks, and so getting into the details of that,
you can see here that recycling, yard waste, and pick up, open space, and preservation of natural areas is similar to national benchmarks.
your overall quality of the natural environment is lower, and then your water resources are much lower than national benchmarks,
but there is good news. Your water resources did trend up, trended up more than eight percentage points.
it was at, like, an 18%, and it's now up at what you see up there. Unfortunately, the overall quality of the natural environment
actually declined relative to when you took it in 2022. The third key finding.
engagement and inclusivity remain on par with national benchmarks and norms,
but do trend downward. When I said on par, this is shown that every one of
these is similar to what the national benchmarks are. It also shows those two attracting people from
diverse backgrounds and making all residents feel welcome, do have a significant decline relative to what they were in 2022.
the fourth key finding is that the quality of life has fallen below
benchmarks with significant decline since 2022. Unfortunately, all four of these,
we actually can measure this in five different ways, or we have five different questions that pertain to this,
and all five of them are lower than national benchmarks. None of them are much lower all four of them.
then these four are also trending downward relative to where they were in 2022.
the other one that's not shown on here is also lower, but is the same or similar to what it was in 2022.
the fifth key finding is that economic health and development have declined,
falling below national benchmarks. While unfortunate and definitely something we all need to be aware of.
this is a common theme we are seeing throughout the country on all the surveys we're performing this year,
that most of the residents are rating the economy as worse relative to the last time they took it.
I'm sure we can all speculate and hypothesize why that is, but know that it's a common sentiment among residents out there.
if I'm looking at this specifically for anna, you can see that economic development,
overall economic health are similar to the benchmarks. The overall quality of business and service establishments,
and the other two that are in light green are lower than the national benchmarks.
then there are two that are much lower and that's the vibrancy of your downtown commercial area and the shopping opportunities.
we do have two downward trends here. You can see with the arrows over to the right,
the top one and the overall economic health relative to 2022.
public library services is on the rise, rate of the highest upward trend in services.
we actually ask about 33 different questions on services, and this one was the highest trending up.
it is still low relative to the benchmarks,
but it is much better than it was in 2022. You can see that that's most that is a doubling of the percent that it was back in 2022,
yet lower than the national benchmark. The other three that are up there on the top all similar,
and then the health services is below the national benchmarks.
the last key finding is that traffic and travel ratings show steep declines,
making transportation a top priority, and I have two slides to show you on this one.
this one is showing that two of these at the top are below national benchmarks,
and the other three on the bottom are much lower. Unfortunately, three of them do have a decline
going down relative to where they were in 2022. This next slide, all of these are actually similar to the national benchmarks,
so your street cleaning traffic enforcement sidewalk maintenance and street repair, all on par with how the other cities are doing,
but are downward declining trend relative to where you were in 2022.
you can see on the left, roughly half of those people, half of your residents are rating those as excellent or good,
whereas one third of rating street repairs excellent or good.
you do have five custom questions that you'll asked in our survey.
you don't need to worry about reading this slide, you're welcome to. I can't read it, but on the next slide,
we're going to break down each questions so you can just see how it was responded, it's a little easier to read.
in the past 30 days, how have you or members of your household typically traveled to places in town like the grocery store,
work or doctor's appointment? Where you commonly go and you can see that most people use their vehicle.
next, most would be r with the family member, and next is walked. Those are the three common ways that people seem to be getting around.
there will be another question that kind of shows that. Next custom question was, how easy or difficult is it for members of
your household to access basic services in town? You can see that roughly 88% said it is pretty easy,
somewhat are very easy, whereas about 12% say that they have trouble actually accessing those basic services.
the third question, would you support the city exploring new programs to improve transportation access,
even if it required relocating funds, reallocating funds, or seeking outside funding?
again, you can see the majority of people 69% say they would support it,
and then the rest are somewhere between strongly opposed to oppose.
your fourth custom question was, how important is it for the city to invest in each of
the following in order to relieve traffic congestion? No doubt with the growth anna has seen,
you've got traffic congestion. It's a common thing amongst growing cities, and you can see that pretty much everyone says we should work on road improvements,
but when we get specific, like, well, how do we improve the roads? Adding more adding more vehicle lanes, bike lanes,
and then sidewalks, or pedestrian walkways seem to be common amongst what your people want?
the last custom question, is that in a typical week, how often do you use each of the following travel modes for work or personal reasons?
it's kind of similar to that first question. You're seeing similar responses here, most people drive themselves.
that's 84% are driving themselves. Then the next group, there's about 19%,
there are walking either three to five or six to seven, and the rest are car pooling.
there are a few below that, but for the most part, that's what most people are doing within your community.
I'd like to point this out.
as a customer of ours, you do have free access to use gage,
which just allows you to pull your residents. You actually have 1,100 resident 1,152 that are subscribed at [inaudible].
so if you were to post a question, hey, we want to put a park here. Do you like it? They could go on there, and those 1152 would automatically get
an e mail saying your city council has posted a question. Would you please go on and respond?
it's a great way to engage with your residents. Think of it like survey monkey with two benefits that you've already got
this panel built that we can verify that they're actually residents of your city.
other thing I want to point out, and I will say, if you'll want to know how to use this,
we do offer free training for it so that people can use it. It is a free service that you have or it's included with what you've already paid us for.
this one, we normally don't put in presentations, but I wanted to bring it here because
your resident sentiment isn't as great as you'd probably like it to be.
I know we'd love it to always be flowers and fantastic information, and this one is a little harder to receive,
but if I look at publicly available data, so this is not resident sentiment. This is the american community survey,
this is federal law data. There's dozens of data sets we pull
from that we can do this for every community in the country, and we do it for every community.
you can see when I look at publicly available data out there, anna is doing pretty good.
anna is above the national average in most categories. The only one that they're not above the national average is the natural environment.
then there's a few that they are pretty much in par with the national average. Your residents might have high expectations.
they might not have full information, or they might just be upset of something that's gone on in the past few years and you
might be seeing that and the sentiment that's expressed by the resident survey. All that stuff on the left is also free.
you can get those domain scores and see how you're doing and get a little bit of detail. The stuff on the right is extra,
but the stuff on the left is free, and I'd encourage you to look at that just so you can see how you're doing publicly.
last thing I want to point out, we appreciate you taking the national community survey with us.
we do have other surveys that we are happy to administer for you that
would get you resident input on your older adults or businesses,
and really, this balancing act, especially when I hear someone get up here and talk about the parks,
request was a lot different than I was expecting at first, and definitely have sympathy for you and respect your request,
but if you were to want to talk to your residents and you had $2 million to spend towards a park and you
wanted to get their impression of how they should spend it. You can actually put them in the driver's seat through a simulation so that they can be the budget person with
all the information and give you their input of how they would actually allocate that money.
we find that residents when they do this are actually very sympathetic and empathetic then towards the decisions you're making,
because they realize it is a trade off, and there's always something that has to give if you're going to take something else.
thanks so much for having me. I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
>> yes, couple of questions for you. First of all, really appreciate the slide. Tons of data there.
I'm a data guy, love it. How do I access the raw data to kind of slice and dice myself?
>> we do provide the raw data if you want it. Normally, people don't ask for that. We have the tableau out there that gives you all the accounts of everything,
but if you want the actual csvs of stuff, then what we'd have to do is just get that request,
which I can take it, and then know who you want us to send it to. >> are you able to provide access to table? I've used that.
>> sorry, am I what? >> access to tableau? >> we do. We provide you access to you do.
>> I can just pull it from there myself if I need the csvs. >> you could. >> fantastic, appreciate that.
now, one of the things that you mentioned was a big area for improvement for us was transportation, correct?
>> yes. >> how have we what does it look like from the last time we compared?
what was that trend? It was going down. >> it did go down relative to 2022.
in 2022, you weren't below national benchmarks. Not only were you on par with national benchmarks,
but you were at a higher level than you are now too because of a downward trend.
>> I think that's a pretty clear. I know we didn't get a lot of people to do this survey.
that's one thing I would like to do is increase that amount and look at different ways, but I think it was pretty clear was what
our priorities need to be and a lot of that is that infrastructure.
I would request on the rest of counsel that we focus on providing
either ecos or bonds or some type of avenue to try to address the transportation because that's the number one pain point in town.
I mean, our surveys reflect it. It's not good. That's that one.
now, is there a way we could do a workshop with you where you're here?
when we start really diving into the weeds, you can help us facilitate or at least prioritize the right things?
>> yes, definitely. If you were just to do that virtually and you have access to our customer service person,
and they can help you with that online, but they wouldn't be here in person helping you go through the list of everything.
we do a next steps workshop, which we'd be happy to do. It does cost more money, though,
in order to fly someone out here and help you go through everything. They would bring the survey,
but you have access to it and go through everything. Then we would also provide ways of what we've
seen other cities do in order to in order to help. >> what have you seen other cities do to increase the engagement?
because I'm going to be pretty frank here. One of the main feedbacks that I got on the survey was way too long.
it was too wordy. How do we take that feedback and make sure the next time we do this,
it's a little bit more convenient. The questions are a little bit more precise.
I think you were on the point with everything. I think it ultimately comes down to
the average attention span how do we make sure that they can go
through this very quickly and get the data we need without bogging them down?
I know that's kind of a public question, but I would really appreciate if you look
into something to mitigate the amount of time it takes. >> sure, I'm happy to talk about that more now,
but I think a quick high level answer would be we can reduce the survey.
actually, research shows that once someone sits down to take the survey,
that's the hardest thing is to get someone to take a survey. If you go over two questions, two parts,
then you're in a different group of people willing to take it, and so once you've got someone sitting down,
starting it, they're likely going to finish it. After two questions, then you're not going to have anyone quit it.
over two questions, and you're going to have people quit it. We just have to get less information if we go to a shorter survey.
some people, some communities like to time their surveys, where they would give,
like one page of the survey in january, one page in april and like do it a bit shorter.
that is definitely something that's possible. There's two weaknesses to that.
you're obviously targeting a different group of people. You're having if you're using the same household address,
then you don't have to re pull it from the usps. You don't need to worry about the boundary file, but now you're going to sample 3,000 households every time.
there's obviously a bigger expense. If you survey less people, then you're just going to get less responses with that. There's a trade off there.
if you do that over time, you can if you did three in the year 2025, you could still say, hey,
this is the 2025 results, but things could be a lot different in march than they are in november,
so you're going to get a different sentiment coming out when you do that. That's not bad or good.
it's just you got to be realized. >> some of the data may be skewed. No, that's a fair point.
>> I think that's it. Thank you, appreciate it. Sara. >> how many people took the survey in 2022 compared to 2025?
>> I do have that answer, it was 371.
>> that's for 2022 or 2025. >> 2022.
>> how many took? >> no. That's they took the paper survey. In 2022, we weren't offering the url.
don't quote me on that. We might have done it for your city. I'm not sure if the url was going yet for anna.
this year, we had 261, and we had 588 that did it off the url.
you could combine those two, but we can't say that they're scientifically valid when we combine those results for the reasons I talked about.
but those results with the combination are in the tableau. You can make the decision, hey,
do I want to go with this one that I can't claim scientific validity? You can't claim it because the academics haven't
figured out if that's really scientifically valid because it could be everyone that went to
walmart at noon is the people who saw that and took the survey, and that's a different type of person that then goes to the h-e-b at 5:00 or whatever.
>> thank you.
>> I appreciate all the hard work. It was a long survey.
I was one of those I almost gave up. I'll be honest. >> but did you?
>> no. >> good job. No struggling. >> we don't quit. >> but I mean, it paid off.
there was a lot of information and we got another 700 people, so that's good.
it's like elections around here. The poco part, we can enter in surveys.
I hope our staff uses that a lot so we can get feedback so we don't have to pay for
another firm to come in to do another survey on a park or anything.
then what caught my eye mainly is the mobility,
natural environment, guard waste recycling, stuff like that. I mean, we do have a contract coming up pretty soon.
quality of life has always been I've been on for seven years and councilman brian can state this.
I mean, quality of life has always been on our mindset. It was bothersome that it's still low or hasn't approved.
in downtown, we're finally making moves on that and I think that's a goal of everyone.
the trails connectivity, I feel we can do a lot better on
that and then the infrastructure,
councilmen seeing the roads as much as we would like to do something.
highway 5 and texto just kills us. I bet I'm willing to put my pay which not big paycheck
on something to wager about if we had control over highway 5 and we could do something,
that would be in a high percentile. We would be way above. It's horrible.
you talked about natural environment 2-3 times.
explain what natural environment? >> that's the environment of your community.
that is natural stuff, wind, hail, sun, dryness, wetness, that type of stuff.
>> were they rated us low on mother nature.
>> yes. That's one way to look at it. >> I was thinking of natural environment as maybe,
because I misunderstood it. I was thinking maybe because we're building more homes and we're
getting rid of the trees and stuff, that's the way I took it. >> well, it is trees. It's the plant life and stuff in here, too.
the building of homes would be more in community design, but obviously,
every resident might have perceived it just like you and thought, oh, when they asked me natural environment,
I think trees and building homes. Then they might have rated it like that. While the ratings of all communities that are growing as fast as anna is are
typically lower than the ratings of communities that are the same as they were three years ago.
the residents have the expectation is the same three years later if you don't have a bunch of new residents,
or it's at least more similar than it is in a case like anna. >> I appreciate it. Thank you again.
>> yes. Thank you. Thanks for completing the survey. >> thanks. I do appreciate this.
may not like the results, but I do appreciate this. I'd like to encourage our community to write the counsel.
is a big survey, but some of these are a hot button for you,
anybody who's listening to my voice. Please write us. I questioned some of it because we got rid of
the bicycle ordinances that kept bicycles from being used on most of the streets and we added golf carts.
I see a lot of people doing both. There you go.
I know that we've improved based on the feedback that we received from people.
again, regardless of any personal emotional attachment to any of these things,
if there is something specific that you're looking at this survey, going,
I wish that council would do such and such, or listen to me about this particular item or page on the survey, please write us.
let us know your thoughts, let us know your ideas. Those ideas create opportunities and dialogue and frankly make things happen.
to your organization, thank you for doing this. >> thank you.
>> one of the things that's just screaming at me right now and maybe, people in the crowd can maybe attest to this is,
nobody really knows in the public what is a text road,
what is a city road, what is a county road. Question for staff, can we create something for
public consumption that clearly delineates which road is city,
which road is county, which road is text? Would that be an opportunity for us?
maybe put it on the website or for easy access for them? Perfect. Because that would really save a lot of the back and forth,
especially online when, the biggest hurdle that I've
come across in communicating to anyone is for them to understand that certain roads are not controlled.
I think if we could just begin by educating and providing more context and providing some visuals,
I think that would help drive home that case, especially on some of the transportation items.
>> councilman, singh. I think some of that is,
I don't want to choose to harsh a word,
but I don't think they care. I think they've elected us and other people and they want to listen.
I think part of it is, I know we hate having to say, well, that's a texto road or that's a railroad item or whatever.
I think they want to know what are we doing about it as far as
communication or what can they do about it as far as communicating with representatives?
>> excellent point. That leads me to my next one. Is there also a way we can put an online project tracker?
what I mean is all the roads that we have that our city owned,
that we delineate in this map, that we have a status update,
at least bi annually, this is what's going on the road, even if nothing changes,
even if there's no new environmentals, nothing. Bi annually, we update it.
I think that providing that level of information for people will take a little bit of
the burden off us and help educate some of our residents as well.
ultimately, people don't feel the change. We may come with the best intentions.
I'm confident that we do, but somewhere in between our intentions and the delivery,
the message is getting lost. I think that's an opportunity for all of us to take a step back and say,
do we need to retailer our message? If what we did from the last survey to now,
we initially thought was we were trying to do our best. What happened? Where did we fall short?
because the next time we do this survey, if this goes down again, that's three in a row. That's not good.
we want to make sure that we are very careful and methodical as we work through this.
it's like in corporate. So like I work in corporate. What we sometimes think of in
the executive c suites doesn't always trickle down to the front line staff.
I think we need to also assess, is our vision, is our communication making it all the way down?
just food for thought. Thank you.
>> anybody else? I have a small beef,
by the way with mother nature right now. Thank you very much. Thank you.
I'm that's home with you. >> briefly. At the conclusion of the last survey,
I presented the survey results to all of our boards and commissions. I think it'd be fantastic if
the council liaisons to the boards and commissions would take these survey results and have a conversation at the upcoming board meetings
about the things that may be most relevant to those boards and commissions. Obviously, maybe arts and culture isn't most relevant to planning and zoning,
but to the boards that things are most relevant to, I think that would be fantastic.
I think it would have a lot of value coming from the council liaison.
>> thank you, kimberly. >> sorry, if I may add to that. Are you able to track who is actually accessing that data?
>> that's a great question. >> if that's possible, because what I want to see is,
are the people accessing the data? Are they the ones still on the other side, not understanding?
is there some type of disconnect? I think that would really help us to see who's actually accessing the information and who's actually asking the questions. Thank you.
>> thank you. >> that takes us item 4b,
fire prevention week, 2025, chief isam?
>> mayor, counsel. Good evening. Ray island fire chief. I also have with me tonight,
one of our fire prevention captains, galen davis.
just for the record, I'm very pleased with the results, but I may be a little skewed on that.
I'll take an 88 and 92 any day. I got to get that 88 up to 92,
but we can work on that. This item relates to a proclamation,
which is a national fire protection association on
an annual basis created years and years ago decades ago, fire prevention week.
this is an important week for us in the fire service.
we are a very pro prevention department.
this year's theme is charge into fire safety lithium ion batteries in your home.
there's been a trend across the nation of individuals using what are called
unlisted burn or you might call them cheap chargers for their lithium batteries,
and when they're overcharged, they can get very hot and cause fires.
that's been a trend. We always like to focus in on those type of things.
this is simply a proclamation for that and we'll be doing some psas on our facebook page,
and we also partner with the school district on several initiatives throughout the year.
this just heightens the awareness of that. >> I do have a proclamation to read. If you're ready?
>> yes, sir. >> the city of anna texas proclamation for fire prevention week,
october 5 to 11, 2025. Whereas, the city of anna is committed to ensuring the safety and
security of all those living and visiting our city, and whereas fire remains serious public safety concern both locally and nationally,
and the presence of lithium ion batteries in many household devices introduces unique fire risks.
whereas most of the electronics use in homes daily, including smartphones, tablets, laptops,
power tools, e bikes, e scooters, and toys are powered by lithium ion batteries, which if misused,
damaged or improperly charged, can overheat, start a fire or explode.
whereas the national fire protection association reports an increase in battery related fires,
underscoring the need for public education on the safe use of lithium ion batteries,
and whereas residents should follow three key calls to action, buy only listed products,
charge batteries safely, and recycle them responsibly to prevent battery related fires.
whereas lithium ion batteries store a large amount of energy in a small space and improper use of such as overcharging,
using off brand charges without safety certification, or exposing the batteries to damage can result in fire or explosion.
whereas the proper disposal of recycling of lithium ion batteries helps
prevent environmental hazards and reduce fire risk in the home and community. Whereas the city anna of first responders are dedicated
to reducing the occurrence of fires through prevention, safety, education, and community outreach.
whereas a 2025 fire for week theme charge into fire safety.
lithium ion batteries in your home serves to remind us the importance of using,
charging and recycling lithium ion batteries safely to reduce the risk of fires in homes and communities.
therefore, I mayor pete cain, city of anna do hereby proclaim october 5 through the 11th,
2025 as fire prevention week throughout the city. I urge all the people of the city of anna to practice fire safety and to
support the public safety activities and efforts of the anna fire department.
what is the set to my hand, this day of september 23, 2025, signed by me.
>> thank you very much for your support of the fire department. We really appreciate it.
>> we love you guys, and thank you for everything you are doing. I know we've got some storms rolling in.
thanks for keeping us safe, guys. God bless you and god bless us, please.
>> thank you. Appreciate
him. [applause]
>> thank you. [applause] >> that takes us to agenda item 5a, work session. A is discussion on the anna 96 development.
council member herndon, please.
>> as the liaison for the planning and zoning, I wanted to update you guys on their comments for this property.
one of the main key points, they wanted to see more than just the 'standard development.'
they would like to see larger homes and larger lots. You see the gas utility easement running through there,
dividing the smaller lots from the larger ones? That's supposed to be used as green space.
they don't necessarily want to see that as green space.
it's inadequate for residents. You can't build anything on it. They also suggested that the retention pond up in
the top corner be used as a fishing area for those homeowners,
and the lack of amenities stood out to them as well.
there's no parks, no pool plan. They also asked what the families here would have to
do and suggested putting amenities in first to help attract homeowners if this developer does try and want amenities on it.
>> thank you. That'll take us to agenda item 6, consent items.
these items consist of non controversial or housekeeping items required by law. Items may be considered individually by any council member making
such requests prior to a motion and vote on the consent items. Council, is there anything anyone would like to pull?
>> not poll, but if I'm asking the wrong question, let me know.
is there a way to approve all consent items if no one has an issue with them in one shot?
>> yeah. >> perfect. Fantastic. >> no one polling. I'll make a motion to approve item 6a through, aye.
>> second. >> we have a motion and a second.
if you would, please, cast your votes.
item passes unanimously. Takes item 7, items for individual consideration and public hearings.
at the time and place of any public hearing held during this meeting, all persons who desire will have an opportunity to be heard in
opposition to or in favor of the ordinance application or other proposed item.
7a is considered discuss and act on a resolution entering into a pre-annexation development agreement regarding 15.2
acres plus or minus at the southeast corner of west foster crossing road and south powell parkway.
planning manager, lauren macke. >> good evening, council. In order to respect your time,
I have put together all four of these items together since it is regarding the sign property.
the first item, 7a is the pre annexation development agreement with foursquare healthcare ltd. Then items 7b,
c and d are with the current property owner for the municipal services agreement,
the annexation and zoning. The applicants are requesting to annex 14.1 acres and zone
15.2 acres at the southwest corner of west foster crossing road in south powell parkway.
this is for a medical office complex that is anchored by an assisted living facility.
we have not received any responses to the mailers that we sent out.
this property is currently surrounded by all vacant properties,
a portion of which is in the etj, a portion is in the city limits.
the comprehensive plan identifies all of these areas as employment mix,
and it is closest to the holt property,
which will be opening up soon. This is their concept plan.
on the corner closest to highland is the assisted living facility,
and they will also have several office buildings. Now, the zoning is not restricting this concept plan specifically for the out parcels.
it is only tied to the assisted living facility, and for the subdividing of the property.
as I said, this property is identified as employment mix on our comprehensive plan,
which this clearly meets. For the first item 7a,
it's recommended for approval as submitted and the applicant has a few slides.
>> good evening. My name is ashley johnson, 5050 capitol avenue, dallas, texas 75206.
just here to speak a little bit for the developer. I'm the civil engineer on the project with kimley-horn.
I'll go the next slide. Just want to reiterate a little bit about the nursing home property.
it's actually a skilled nursing development, which skilled nursing is a little bit of a term that most folks may not know,
but it's really the in between for patients who are exiting the hospital and may not be able to go home yet.
it's really a rehabilitation center for illnesses, injuries, surgeries, and whatnot there.
it's pretty low traffic, which is good. The whole development is trying to bring in more medical uses.
the property of the north that will be subdivided for all kinds of
other medical uses is a good asset for the skilled nursing specifically development as well.
I just wanted to provide some photos of an existing building that the developer has done in princeton.
the skilled nursing facility is a pretty low profile building,
one story with masonry finishes, really trying to fit into the surrounding areas.
I'll provide a couple of photos as well. I'll provide some little amenity areas for the current patients.
then just an overall look at their princeton development. Again, low profile building to try to fit into the surrounding neighborhoods,
and I'm available for any questions. >> first of all, thank you.
very good presentation. Love the visuals. Love the thought that you guys put in to help blend into some of the local community.
I guess you guys have been watching some of our council videos, good job on that.
what I want to explain to people is we laid out a vision
earlier this year to bring a hospital to anna and to really create some type of medical park city.
this brings us closer to that. This is a really good use of space.
councilman toten and I, we live right next to it.
other uses in the past have been apartment, apartments, and what about this type of apartment?
it's all we've ever really gotten in this area. This allows us to move forward with something unique. I really love this.
but let me ask you this. This may not be a question for you, but whoever, are the roads around it going to get upgraded as well?
>> yes. Highland road will be upgraded with the skilled nursing specifically.
then foster crossing is on the thoroughfare plan and will be
upgraded potentially with the future lots and potentially with the city too.
but the half of highland road on our property will be expanded.
>> perfect. That's what I wanted to talk about is the highland road. Then where is your entrance exit going to be?
I didn't catch that. I apologize. >> the back button. That obvious?
>> have we thought about maybe do we need a decel lane into something this small?
I'm not sure, but just something to consider.
>> south powell parkway is txdot and sometimes they require decel lanes at the driveway entrances.
we have one access point off there. There's another access point off highland road,
and then in the future, for the northern office buildings,
there will be a couple points of access from there as well. Was your question specific to the highland road decel lane?
>> yeah. Highland road, not so much decel. Decel is going to be probably on five or you're not even touching collin county routes.
it's mostly just going to be on five. Then my question for highland, which you answered, that's going to be upgraded as well.
that's going to provide a lot of relief for those residents that go in and out of that corner. >> yeah. Depending on, I guess,
the future lot and the uses that are in there may warrant a decel lane with the traffic,
but for the skilled nursing lot, it's pretty low traffic.
I think with the improvements based on the thoroughfare plan, I think it should be sufficient without a decel lane into that driveway.
>> perfect. I also want to just touch on, that's one of the entrances coming in from melissa into anna.
it helps accelerate a little bit of that development on that entrance.
it's better than having any apartment or any other type of multifamily development on there.
that's something that, I think council is trying to move from. But this also allows us for
high school and the collin college that's going to come here that we're working on. It's going to allow those children and those kids to have
career pipelines or training or some other type of internship.
hopefully, if that's something that you guys would consider, please have a conversation with the school.
if there is anything that the developers or the owners of this facility can work on with the isd would be much appreciated.
but otherwise, a great job, yes. >> awesome. >> two questions for staff. You're in the clear.
[laughter] on 7a, section 3a for the annexation deadlines and service obligations,
owner must submit an annexation petition within 60 days,
and must complete a 90 owner can terminate after 30 if the city fails. What will happen if something happens?
it's neither, so you control or their control. How would that be handled?
>> in this case, the annexation is on your agenda tonight,
so we don't have to worry about it. It is applicable in other cases.
this is a pretty standard pre-annexation development agreement that we use for a lot of developments.
but in this case, the annexation is on your agenda.
it's not the next item, but the item after. >> next question. Are these uses aligned with long term city planning?
is there any conflicts with surrounding zoning already there?
>> let me go back to the side. Currently, the surrounding properties to the north,
you have single family residential large lot and then the properties that are on the west,
south, and east actually are all still etj.
>> future zoning changes, how will this affect those?
>> how would it affect those? The proposed zoning that's in this pre-annexation development agreement as well as
item 7d is in line with the comprehensive plan.
we don't have control over land uses in the etj. Unfortunately, any of those properties
if they choose not to submit an annexation petition, we don't have control unless they enter into an agreement with the city.
then with the property to the north, that one,
the zoning would come before you to decide whether or not what that development is wanting to do lines up.
this property doesn't have quite as much of an impact on those adjacent properties from developing right now.
>> thank you. Appreciate.
>> first question for staff or maybe just a statement.
this is like half a highland. I would be very interested in the city looking at ways of,
if they're going to improve their part. Let's do it all at once.
then even foster crossing, that whole little,
it's like a mile long, maybe. Councilman singh said,
I do live there, and that road does need some attention. A lot of people are using it.
then economic development. Hopefully we can spark something that whenever you are building the skilled nursing home,
and also the medical offices next to it that are along foster crossing fires up,
we just do it all at one time. That's the goal. This one might be for her?
what is txdot told you guys on highway 5, right there, your section?
I know what it looks like now. What have they told you?
>> about needed improvements at the timing on theirs? >> we were told they're stopping.
are they stopping at innaloo? What is it going to be like right there?
>> we have not had conversations specifically with txdot but
my understanding is they at least have plans to extend this all the way up.
>> yeah, for five years, but I'm talking about you are going to be open way before that.
personal experience, four years ago, my mother needed this.
I had to search. Most of the time, you find nursing homes that have one wing is skilled nursing.
it would have been awesome have to find the place. I searched everywhere because you never want to just leave your mom anywhere.
it took days, and just the wing of it.
but this is needed and it's not just for seniors.
it's for anyone, any age level and stuff like that. Like councilman singh said,
it opens up the opportunity for our cte program at our high school for internships.
but yeah, this is needed because just not even two miles of, what's that say?
bird stone throw? Yeah, bird fly. There's are over senior 55 living and stuff like that.
>> got you. >> this is needed. I really appreciate the way it looks,
the willingness to improve the roads. I really hope that it all develops at the same time. Thank you.
>> thank you. >> I agree with those sentiments.
you are aware the right across the street to your east is fully industrial.
>> bulldozers and who knows what else may come? We don't know yet. But it is industrial.
we also have a train that likes to jump the track. Hopefully they've got that fixed.
but just want to be aware that's what everyone will be seeing to your east.
>> don't try to scare them away. We need this. >> I'm not trying to scare them away. I just want to make sure they're bringing a project to us,
I want to make sure they know what they've got. On the play.
I just want to confirm that those circles that's a detention ponds?
>> correct. >> your portion of foster crossing will be developed as part of this?
>> as part of the future retail, not as part of the skilled nursing specifically.
>> got you. We've had two councilmen refer to it.
does your organization do internships with high school and college students?
>> for square health, you're asking? I personally don't know.
>> I like how you do to that. You're coming out with.
>> good evening. Shane lewis, 4515, harry's lane, dallas 75229.
>> welcome, j. Obviously, there's a lot of interest in this. I'll give you the question.
>> fire away. >> does your organization do internships
and that thing with high school and college students? >> councilman, we typically end up working with
almost junior college and trade school levels that are in nurse tech
and in nursing personnel.. Our typical building employs about roughly 100 people,
and that goes all the way from physicians to physician assistants to pts,
physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, registered personnel nurses,
med techs, dietary housekeeping and laundry, the whole thing.
in several communities that we operate with, we work closely with the junior college programs and if
the school has the local high school has a vocational program for nursing or nurse tech.
we will enter into an agreement with them where we effectively act as an intern and in precept site.
>> got you. We have several we call the cotes.
that's our students. I call cotes here. We have several that are in medical programs here at collin college.
some of them are doing enrolled during high school,
pretty smart bunch of young people. I'd love to see them be able to have an opportunity in a facility.
the fact that they're bringing 100 plus jobs is also encouraging.
we on a regular basis receive requests in our community for services like this,
so thank you have a good opportunity here. >> it's interesting and just elaborate.
it's significantly significant under service, as councilman toten already pointed out with his search.
I grew up in a small town, east texas, athens, texas, if anybody knows where athens is.
athens, we have 11 or 12,000 people in town,
and that community is served by four skilled nursing facilities.
I've been doing this for three decades and really longer than that
and we try to stay out of what we call the big metro markets,
how the metro keeps catching up with us somehow. I'm not sure. When we built our building in princeton,
we thought we were in the country, and by the time we got it built, we weren't in the country anymore.
but because we do tend to operate in standalone markets,
market needs a skilled nursing facility for roughly every six or 7,000 residents.
by the time you get the 10, you're really really stretching. Again, I think about my little town of athens,
I grew up in and those are flourishing buildings I've been here a long time. It's not like they're not all full and operating.
this is a great opportunity to extend north just from our princeton location.
we have two buildings in farmersville, and we have a building in princeton.
this is just the next, right up the road. I'm local. We are the developer.
we are the user of the land as well. As I was telling the p&z committee, the thing that will give you guys some comfort about what we're doing there,
we are not developers who are building something and flipping out to some guys and leaving,
we are the owner user of the site. It's different like renting a home and owning a home.
we are super super conscientious about what
happens and then I don't want to train to fall off the tracks and come across the road have you.
but we're very familiar with this. What we really tend to blend in is a residential back to our north and to our west here.
we try to get close to the houses. This is a very localized business.
people want to be within a mile or two or three because they want to come by, they see their loved one while they're there, while they're recovering.
this works very well with us despite what's going on to the east of us.
>> sure. >> thank you. I don't know if the camera shows up,
but I can see your enthusiasm. This is part of the gateway to anna,
so I'm glad to be able to show that we care about every level of life here.
thanks for doing that. That's all I got. >> we're very excited about the project.
>> hey, excellent points, everyone. If I may just add, it's the entrance of our city.
I have a humble request. Keep in mind a level of esthetic beauty when you're building this structure.
it really does blend into the area. It has a high level of stone.
it has the peaked roofs. Just keep that in mind,
what you're showing us, if this is the level that you're going to bring to us, fantastic.
>> this is virtual of the building. In fact, our engineer with our general contractor is just right behind me.
his firm and the group he works for has built all of our buildings for over the last two decades.
they built this building. They built another one almost just like it in farmersville,
very similar for us. Because most of these buildings just
with the business model and the reeds and the private equity. Most of these buildings, the real estate is not owned by the guys that operate inside.
we're fairly unique and that we own the building, we are the license operator and we're the license management company and just three guys.
it's by my two partners and we don't have outside investors and this is what we do.
this is our business. Because of that, we tend to put quite a bit more a punch into the building.
the masonry, if you walk into the buildings, I know several of the ps z members went and saw,
I think a few of the ps z members went and saw the building. When you walk in, they're very nice. They're really nice buildings.
this building will end up, all in $20 million. Perfect.
>> when did you all open in princeton, if you don't mind me asking? >> well, I'll tell you when we opened in princeton,
I have quite vivid memories of it. It was right in the middle of covid.
[laughter] here's another $20 million building
or so I opened right in the middle of a building and when you couldn't bring anybody into the building.
it was quite interesting. Yeah. >> let me ask you this. When are you breaking ground?
what is your timeline to break ground? >> as soon as we can get out here tonight,
rick is going to call his boss and say, let's go. We're just waiting for tonight to be honest with you and we're moving.
>> give it time line from going in. >> in fact, we actually just be very specific to answer your question.
our land contract has been contingent upon the a section,
the zoning and other qualification approvals we need to get tonight.
this is the sentinel event of that, so we will close the land in I think 36 hours now,
take the land down and we immediately go into build it as fast as we can build it.
>> do we have something in the pada? I love it. You guys are on it.
>> yes. On page seven of the development agreement is the timelines.
that includes the zoning, the planting. >> he already won me. [laughter]
>> then on page 20 of the development agreement is the development standards,
which includes the requirement for meson. For if some reason, they do not develop the out parcels,
those will have to maintain those standards. >> very impressed. Fantastic work.
>> just one thing on that, and sometimes like they don't answer the question hadn't been asked,
but just because we are the owner operator user of that, you met dane, sure.
I am very consistently concerned about what goes on the rest of that.
>> I love it. You got keys [inaudible]. >> they're just like to be your house. Those are my neighbors and it's just like what do
you want built next to your house and what do I want built next to my building. >> definitely. One thing I want people to understand,
this is one component in a larger pipeline that we've created for seniors.
one of the things that a lot of the people on council and my understanding is some of
the commitments we made was to provide a service pipeline for some of our seniors.
some of the things we've talked about a is the uber transport system. This adds on to that providing services for some of our seniors as well.
also, one of the conversations our wonderful mayor has led us in is the senior center.
I want people to understand that we're thinking about a full holistic approach to providing services for our seniors as well.
this is one thing that's been really requested. Then do you have any specifics and I'm sorry if I missed this.
what type of services? I think you said x ray, some other type.
what type of medical services are going to come in? >> well, you mean inside our facility?
>> yes. >> we are operating primarily as a rehab site.
most of our patients that come in, they're coming for the most part,
directly from an acute care setting. In fact, lot of times were referred to as post acute medicine or
post acute care because that's where we get most of folks.
they are typically coming in needing some level of very high level therapy.
or some level of wound management because maybe they're coming out,
maybe they had a major joint repair, which comes with major iv work.
they're coming in with very high end iv antibiotics and medications.
we are attempting to basically finish the job at the hospital started.
you know the deal, you go in the hospital, you're there two or three days. It doesn't matter whether you get a new heart or a new shoulder or or a few stitches.
it's two or three days. These individuals they can't come out after two or three days and go home.
without being significantly stabilized more than they have been. That's what we do.
our job is to stabilize those individuals, get them up and moving again of the at new joints,
get surgical wounds healed up,
get iv antibiotics done. That's really the bulk of what we're doing.
all of these buildings also have a component of long term care. We talk about every 10 people that walk through our door,
we think we can get about eight out of 10 back home back to their prior setting.
that's what we like to assure. But that two out of 10 that can't builds up.
in our buildings, you talked about one wing of skilled nurse, ours just flipped.
we have the whole building is actually set up as skilled,
but we will temporary take a wing or so of that building and we tend to do some long term care as well.
we have to be careful how much of that we do because we've got such a churn with the guys that are coming out of the hospital.
if they need x-ray, we bring in services for x-rays.
we do a lot of x-rays actually. We do a lot of x-ray and a lot of lab work.
but the way these buildings are licensed in texas, you cannot have those actually inside the building,
so we use specialized services that they are mobily bringing those services to us,
just like they do pharmacy.we've got giant med rooms in these buildings,
but we don't actually operate a pharmacy. We're bringing in pharmacy, we're bringing x-ray,
and we're bringing in lab and they're coming in multiple times every day for the type
of needs that we're having with this top level of patient resident.
>> perfect. Let this
be a lesson to other developers out there when you're looking at multifamily, something like this helps us create something in
the spirit of south lake west lake, a high end product. This is a great use for some of those zonings.
it also gives us leverage, once again, as I mentioned before for the hospital.
it's key. But other than that, guys, I'm so impressed.
you guys are absolutely fantastic. >> but we always do partner with our closest hospital because they also need an outlet.
at the end of the day, they're trying to sort of open up beds.
the very first thing we will do then is begin communicating with our hospital partners,
particularly the ones to the south of us here and let them know that there's
now within a year or so they're going to have an outlet for their discharges that are coming up to this area.
>> I love it. I'm very impressed with you guys. I hope the rest of council is as well. Great job.
>> thanks. >> mayor, I'll make a motion if you're ready.
>> I'll second. >> seven a. We have a motion in a second,
if you would, please, cast your votes?
that passes unanimously. Not a shock. Taxes item 7b.
consider, discuss entering in a municipal services agreement regarding 14.1 plus or
minus acres at the southeast corner of west foster crossing road and south powell parkway. Ms. Mickey.
>> per state law, the city is required to enter into a services agreement prior to annexation.
this municipal services agreement is recommended for approval as submitted.
>> mayor, I'll make a motion that we approve item 7b. >> I'll second.
>> before we do that. I don't mind the motion.
we don't have sewer on that part of that little stretch of five.
what is the plan there? Are you using lift stations or what? >> I will defer to public works director joseph cotton.
unless kimley-horn wants to answer. But [inaudible] is close by. [laughter]
>> it's like they're racing to get up there to answer the question. >> with this project, we'll have to extend the sewer
be lift station/gravity force main also.
>> joseph is there sewage right there at phase four of peon grove.
>> yes, sir. But the grade difference between there and
their southern buildings will require that they're going to have to lift it to a certain extent to get it there.
that's why she's had had a combination of gravity force main,
and just various other improvements. >> they're going to have to have a lift station?
>> that's what we're looking at right now is just require gravity.
>> the asthetics of it is going to be a nice.
we'll work with them on I've seen something aesthetic, please.
we're not going to have a chaining fence around it. We're going to have something else. We'll work on them.
>> we'll work with them on making it aesthetically pleasing. We haven't quite gotten to that detail yet,
but we'll make sure that we're making it something that's going to fit in with the entirety of the development.
thank you. Circumstance. >> [inaudible] we have a motion in a second.
is there any more discussion? If not, please cast your votes.
out of passage unanimously, takes us 7c.
conduct a public hearing to consider discuss and act on an ordinance regarding a request to
annex 1441 plus or minus acres at the southeast corner of west foster crossing road in south powell parkway.
I'm going to open this public hearing at 7:29.
>> this item was recommended for approval. >> thank you. I don't have any cards on this, nothing over there.
anyone wish to speak on this last call. Closing the public hearing at 7:29 p.m.
I will entertain discussion or a motion. >> I'll make a motion that we approve item 7c.
>> I second. >> I think she faster.
>> we have a motion in a second. Yes. If you would,
please cast your votes.
passed unanimously. Item d. Conduct a public hearing.
consider, discuss and act on ordinance regarding request to zone 15.2 plus or minus acres at the southeast corner of westboster crossing road and south powell parkway.
I'm going to open this public hearing at 7:30 p.m. >> ms. Mickey.
>> again, this is the same property. And I did want to point out that they are proposing to
restrict the uses within the c one district, so that it does comply with that medical office feel.
we did not want to put it specific uses just in case
there's something like a scrub retail store.
we wanted to leave it still flexible enough that the appropriate uses could come in.
this item is recommended for approval. The planning and zoning commission recommended approval as submitted.
>> I have no cards on this, either. Anyone wishing to speak on this last call.
I'm going to close this public hearing at 7:31 p.m. Council, any discussion or motions?
>> is bait shop allowed? >> it is on the prohibited uses list.
>> good. I'll make a motion that we approve it 7d. >> I second.
>> lightning fast. >> hey, by a second do that.
if you would, please cast your votes.
item passes unanimously takes us to 7e, conduct a public hearing to consider,
discuss and act on an ordinance regarding request for specific use permit for an auto repair light on rosemond crossing,
southeast corner, block a, lot 2, miss mecke. >> this item is for a specific use permit for auto repair light.
a specific use permit is used to allow
the city council to really analyze to make sure that a use is appropriate.
it can be appropriate in all locations, but maybe it's not.
we would not want this use adjacent to a residential property.
this is part of the larger kroger development. It will face 75.
this is their proposed concept plan. This property was zoned regional commercial in 2024.
it's one of 10 parcels. The future land use plan identifies it as regional activity center.
with the auto repair light, it requires that all activities take place within
the enclosed space and that it is greater than 150 feet from residential uses,
which in this case, it is. We received zero responses in favor or in opposition.
the planning and zoning commission recommended approval 5-0 with the condition that the site plan develop in accordance with the site plan attached,
and the applicant has slides. >> I'm going to ahead and open up the public hearing at 7:32 p.m. No cards.
anyone wishing to speak on this? Last call.
closing the public hearing at 7:33 p.m. Council,
any discussion or questions? >> yes. I have a couple.
keep in mind this is the entrance of antlata. We don't want to have a situation where we've recreated white street inadvertently.
I want to be very clear on that. Did you maybe look at how many shops we have in antlata already?
>> how many auto repairs? >> yes. >> we do have quite a few.
however, this is off of rosemont, which does not have any currently.
>> is there not one off of white street close to the quick trip,
I think there's a body collision center or something there? >> you're talking about caliber collision.
>> caliber? >> yes. That's over off on white street in future stan ridge boulevard.
>> we still have something there. I don't want to say no,
but I just don't see the value in it, that is prime corner, that is the entrance of our city,
and here we are giving it up for an auto shop when we've got more than enough all across town.
now, unless it's a specialized one or a specific one, I might be more interested,
but unless the council feels otherwise, this does not meet the threshold of what we need in that entrance of antlata.
that's just my $0.02. I would love to hear anyone else's. >> councilman saying we also have one
approved in front of the falls next to the texas bank.
>> good point on that. I'm thinking about it in technical terms.
when we look at each square foot, especially at certain lots and corners.
we only have a limited number of corners in hard corners and prime corners in the city.
each square foot, we have to think through that whatever we're putting there has to be the best and maximum amount
of use that we're going to get out of there. I just don't think that this meets that threshold, respectfully.
maybe a great product. Fortunately, I think just the timing is wrong on my end.
council may feel different, and I'll leave it up to them. >> before you make your full decision,
can we hear from the developer and what type? I think I think I know what type it is just by looking at the thing,
but that just answered my question.
as much as I agree. 30,000. To me, rosemond match away.
I got to say right. Is insurance you for coming from the north?
rosemond I kroger is going there, groundbreaking friday, if anybody want to attend.
if you drive around dfw, you see kroger, you see heb,
you see costco and guess what's right next to him,
abelin, jiffy lube, five minute I forget what that one's called.
this is a needed service and some as much
because there's that many cars and to in antlata.
it's off the highway a little bit, so it's not there's going to be things in front of it.
but to me, I would I would welcome this because it's going to be it's a needed service.
it's someone that I can go get my old change from my work truck.
>> is there a service that they're providing or that they're looking to provide that we don't maybe have?
or is it a service that we already have that they're looking to replicate?
>> I just want to ask what exactly what services would be performed here.
is it strain up oil changes? Is it break work? Is it spark plugs?
>> thank you. Richard goes,
valine 100 valvoline wave in lexington, kentucky.
most of our services, we're quick loop service.
we stay in your car type. It's about 15 minute service.
we do any fluid replacements. Not just oils, we'll do radiator flushes, transmission flush.
we can check breaks. We don't replace breaks.
if breaks are needed, then we'll refer them to a brakes plus or dealership or anything like that.
we we primarily do preventative maintenance on vehicles.
there's no vehicles that stay overnight. >> is there any specialized service that you're
providing that is not already being provided in eta? >> I would say as far as preventative maintenance parts.
>> is that not something I can do at ricky's or jiffy lube or like,
I'm just trying to understand, are we being provided a service here with this product that we already do not have,
or is it just adding on to services that we already provide? >> I would say we're we're we're similar to jiffy loop and take five,
there probably our two biggest competitors nationwide.
but as far as, we do set ourselves apart
from the mom pops kind of places like that because the other places like we just mentioned,
they have a similar model that we do. We before we go into a piece of property or a site, like,
we do a lot of diligence for me to stand in front of you tonight.
we're probably six, eight months to a year into
investing into this the site into the community.
>> I totally understand that. Do you have any average household numbers or income numbers for your average customer?
>> I want to say I don't have the exact numbers off the top of my head,
but we do look at that. We do look at all the demographics.
>> do you have a general ballpark number, what your average income is for your [inaudible] >> yeah. Our target is 100 k plus.
>> let me ask you this. If your target is 100 k plus, how many locations do you have in south lake or west lake?
>> I can't tell you off the top of my head. I know around the dfw area,
and we do have some in south lake, we've probably got about 30 to 40 locations in the dfw area.
>> what I'm essentially getting to is, if we're working to create especially entrances and
an overall city that's in the spirit of a high end town, high end city.
once again, I may be on my own island, which is fine with this. I just do not see the value it's providing services that are already provided.
it's not bringing anything new. It's at one of the main entrances as we come into the city.
I understand other krogers and whatnot will have and I think that's a very valid point.
but we're not looking to create what everyone else has. We're looking to create something specific for antlata, something unique.
I really respect that you came out here. I truly appreciate you.
for me, personally, it just does not meet the threshold. My colleagues here may feel different.
I respect that. Just for me, I can't get there, so I appreciate you. >> I'm just looking at it along your lines there,
but I also look at it that, you know, I I change my oil regularly,
and that's the reason I drive cars for 25 years and hundreds of thousands of miles.
that's not the sales pitch, but that's what I do. I really don't like going to mckinney to do an oil change because that's the sales tax
that mckinney gets when I change my oil every three or four months. I'm all in.
I mean, I like the product. It's not it's not joe's garage. It's it's a national reputable brand.
I was just thinking what we have here in town, we've got walmart quit car.
I think there's I don't know where else you can get oil change. I don't agree that this is something that we have all over town so I'm in.
>> more on your note. You said walmart and quicar. Those are more in the middle of antlata.
I'm far north. I have nothing. I can't even get gas. I have to go all the way to the middle of antlata on the way out to mckinney,
and I prefer to spend my money here. This would be a good addition for me. Personally.
>> just to touch on that too and to address your point coming from an automotive background.
this is actually a specialized. It's specifically a quick service maintenance only.
they're just doing fluid changes and then letting you know if they see anything,
but they're not there to fix it. Quick car, for instance, is a full service automotive or brakes plus,
any of the shops, the first choice, they do everything. But this place is just to get in,
get out, and get you back on the road. Also to touch on that,
from what I've been exposed to in the automotive industry, 30 some odd years.
I've watched the alveoln a quick service places come up. They're generally the higher end of these quick service quick loops. Just thought.
>> I mean, great points. I appreciate you providing a context.
on that. I'm divided.
I understand where you guys are coming from. There's nothing on the northern side. To your point it may be a higher end product but,
once again, it just for me, it doesn't reach here. I would highly encourage you if you guys feel it does vote where you guys need to,
but just for me alone. It's going to be a hard hurl, but I really do appreciate you.
I think the product is great. It's just not for me. But thank you so much.
>> you've closed the public hearing, correct? >> yes. I'll make a motion that we approve. >> I second.
>> how about that. We have a motion in a second, if you would, please cast your votes.
thank you, sir. Motion carries 5, 2.
takes us to item f. Conduct a public hearing to consider,
discuss and act on an ordinance to amend article 9.04 of the zoning ordinance of the city of anna code of ordinances,
ta 25-0002, ms. Mickey. >> hope you're not sick of me.
this item is a result of
having several years with our new zoning ordinance from august of 2023.
we've only made one change since then, and that was for the vape shops, the cbd.
as we have gone through projects, we have seen,
maybe there are too many of one certain type of use, and the zoning ordinance is intended to be
a living document where changes are made as we see problems. Additionally, state law has made some changes to noticing requirements.
I came before you a couple of meetings ago and gave you this list.
the planning and zoning commission recommended approval with an additional change to the board of adjustment section.
some examples is removing references to the comprehensive plan in each zoning district,
as well as excluding powell parkway for a distance of 1,500 feet for residential districts,
providing more flexibility within our downtown district. We've run into a few problems because there are utilities on these properties,
and the build-to zones weren't making any sense as well as having a landscape buffer that overlaps with a build-to zone.
providing some clarity. We had put in the sign regulations about what enhanced landscaping means,
but we did not put that in the landscape ordinance. We are cleaning that up,
as well as adding for the stepback regulations
about rooftop patios and making that clear that if you're going to build a four story building,
you're not going to put a rooftop patio in that stepback zone.
we had accidentally removed the stacking requirements for banks,
dry cleaners, kiosks, so we're adding that language back.
requiring fencing and shrubs to protect children at play.
we have run into a lot of hoas putting playgrounds right up against the street,
and this is how we are trying to push that back,
and provide safety to our residents. This one is in regards to the state laws.
all zoning cases now have to be posted on the city website. Then if a property is being rezoned or there's a text amendment in
regards to land uses that will make the current property land use,
a non-conforming land use. We have to provide a special notice to that property owner.
this one, it was defining what frontage build-out means for the downtown district.
the current definition did not make any sense, and so I grabbed this from another city.
then for the makeup of the board of adjustment,
basically, we are just wanting to make it consistent with all of the other boards.
the state allows for two alternates, but it doesn't say that we have to have five members and two alternates.
we're just cleaning it up to say seven members that way everyone knows who's voting and who's not.
then the planning and zoning commission did catch
that we needed to take out may and change the number of members.
the planning and zoning commission recommended approval.
>> I'm going to go open this public hearing at 7:47 pm.
I have no cards up here, anyone wishing to speak? Last call?
I'm going to close this public hearing at 7:47 pm. Council, any questions or discussion?
>> yes. Can you go back one slide, please? I just had a question on number 5.
it says vacancies shall be filled for unexpired terms, but no member shall be appointed to a term in excess of two years.
that's if someone steps off or something, just a vacancy that's appointed, correct? >> correct.
>> is there any language in there or does it also meet that no more than two consecutive terms,
so someone steps off and then can get back on? Make sure that's somewhere.
>> the way that the city charter is written, for the board of adjustment,
it specifically says reference the boards and commission section of the charter.
however, we do have to have this portion within the zoning ordinance about board of adjustment.
>> perfect. Thank you.
>> if there's no discussion, I'll move to approve. >> second.
>> who second? >> I did.
>> we have a motion and a second. If you would, please cast your votes.
[background] [laughter]
>> good call. >> motion passes unanimously.
that takes us to item g. Consider discuss an act on a resolution authorizing the purchase of a mobile command center from blackstone tower partners,
llc., dba draxxon for the use by the anna police department. Police chief dean habel.
>> good evening, mayor and council. I'm dean habel, the police.
I've also got corporal josh up here, and I challenge you to stump him with any question
about this that you can because he knows every inch of it. We'll have a q&a at the end.
but I wanted to talk a little bit about how we got here.
about six or seven months ago, we had draxxon in and they demoted a trailer for us.
it is a 16' trailer. It has a drone takeoff area from it.
it also has a pole cam and we'll get into some of the specs on the next slide.
but we were absolutely blown away by the product.
we invited a lot of city departments in to take a look at it. Everybody said the same thing,
that wow, this would be a nice addition of the city, but at the time, there was no money available, we didn't have anything budgeted for it.
mr. Marshon reached out about six weeks ago and mentioned that there might be some one time funds available,
so we put together this proposal and that's why we're here tonight. Some of the purposes and some of the reasons we
would be looking at this in some of the use cases, it enhances public safety with increased situation awareness
for officers and emergency management staff. There's a lot of different uses for this beyond the police department.
emergency management being one. If you've got a natural disaster and you need to deploy this for three or four days,
you can leave it in the field and rotate staff through it over that time period.
it also has more effective communication with the eoc or emergency operation center during natural disasters.
can be deployed areas where drone and over-watch capabilities are needed.
this comes with a matrice drone, which is a little bit more of a robust larger drone,
a little more weather resistant drone than the ones that we put in the air that you've seen some of the videos from.
it also has a 26' pole cam that's got a pretty good sit line.
provides mobile command post capabilities, live feed streaming for drones to field supervisors
and command and serves multiple city departments. Some of the components.
it's climate controlled, three interior work stations, with monitors and an additional two 47" flat screen tvs.
it's got independently powered wi-fi. If wi-fi ever were to go down here at city hall or throughout the city,
this has its own wi-fi source, it's generator powered, so we would be able to have connectivity there.
like I mentioned, it's got the 26' exterior mounted pole cam.
exterior media base. It's got a lift top,
almost like a store front to where you can put an awning out and operate it from the outside as well.
integrated with dronesense and fusus. Fusus is the newest addition to our technology platform,
which we can pull up any city camera. We can pull it up by a geofence.
we're adding vendors to that very soon through axon,
and we'll be able to have citywide access to different video feeds if we're given permissions.
the minimum staffing required to operate this is just two, but it can accommodate probably up to
about eight if you include the exterior individuals.
with that, we'd be happy to answer any questions. Wait one more thing. I'm sorry.
we did reach out to arlington. We wanted to get a use case and an example to draw from locally because there was a lot.
they've got these deployed nationwide, but we want somebody local that we trusted and knew that was a reputable department.
we reached out to arlington. Corporate spoke to their staff and uses these for all their special events,
any prolonged incident, they had nothing, but good things to say about draxxon,
the product, and the customer support. Now we're ready for questions.
>> council. >> [overlapping] I'm sorry. Go ahead.
>> how big is this drone? >> the drone itself,
I would say probably about three times the size of the ones that you see, the little mavic.
do you know the specs on the drone specifically? Move on.
>> it's about 80" square all the way around. It's about twice the size of what we currently deploy.
>> thank you.
>> are you going to use this to support any of the neighboring cities as well [inaudible] any of the other partners around here?
are you going to use this to support any of our other cities nearby? >> absolutely. This would be one of the things that we came before you
with was this ila that we put together with princeton, melissa, and celina.
this is something that we would be able to use to support other cities. Va, we would be happy to support them.
but there's a lot of individual instances where we could pull this thing out and help neighboring cities.
we wanted to have something that we could offer that is unique to us.
some of these cities are propping up swat teams that we're going to be drawing from,
potential dispatch centers that we've got a meeting on tomorrow. There's a lot of different things that other cities are going to be offering,
we want to have something as well. >> I truly appreciate you taking leadership with
your police service around the general area and helping provide these services.
then one final thing, when you get those cool drone videos, can you put some bad boys music or something on it?
because that first one was so cool. [laughter] >> we'll give it a shot. >> thank you.
>> a couple of questions. So natural disasters, it happens.
the texas hurricane we had two weeks ago. If we ever had a major one,
I worked for power line service, so I see it like mobile cell boosters,
tower, temporary cell towers. Is there going to be anything like that,
or are we just internet only? >> this would not be included in that.
generally, we can reach out to vendors and they can bring out the boosters.
>> sorry. Let's say power does go out in the city.
this has power, this has the internet. What about your communications to your officers throughout the city?
does this help boost that signal as well? >> no, it's not going to boost the radio signal,
but it would provide a charging station. We could put charging stations in there to charge the radios.
we could operate out of there for a short period of time, almost like it's a police department, mobile police post.
>> I hate asking this question, please don't put your hand on the gun.
will we need a different truck to pull it or what we have now currently,
we have something that will be dedicated to this trailer or how does that work?
>> I'll let you talk a little bit about that. >> because it looks heavy, because you got generator,
you got tvs, you've got equipment, so it's heavy. I don't know if can our tahoe pull it because of the capacity and whatnot.
>> the size of the trailer was specifically chosen so that the tahoes and
our current pickups could handle being able to pull that and deploy it.
>> that's right. We do have a pickup, don't we? >> yes, sir. >> I forget about that.
so I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank and I'll take an opportunity. Thank you, you guys for everything you do and all that. So appreciate it.
>> well, mark and jeff, I think this outdoes our drone that we use for the parks. It's about this big.
this has a range of 21, 22 miles from the base station. It's incredible.
if anybody wants to look it up is the ggi matrix. It looks very,
let's say something from the terminator movies. It's really intimidating. To maximize its usage,
I know we're setting side phones used for public safety, but we'll be available for other city functions
or will planning and zoning be able to use it or any of that thing?
>> absolutely. We're limited basically by our own imagination. We can use it for the special events.
historically, we've borrowed minuteman responses much larger trailer.
this is going to let us operate out of that. We would be able to use it at boots and booms or any of the other city special events.
we have incorporated the use of the drones recently at the city events.
we were providing security for the prayer vigil that was out here last weekend.
we had drones in the air. We're trying to stay out of sight out of mind, but we also wanted to protect the people that were there.
this is just another way we can do that.
>> I got to ride with mark during the previous storm.
I noticed this handles quite a bit of wind and stays in place.
from someone who loves flying drones, I'm telling you this is really impressive.
I'm hoping that city council gets a chance to fly it too. That's all I got.
I appreciate the homework on this. I think it's a much needed piece of equipment. I'd like to meet [inaudible]
>> straight question on real quick. I mean, I'm looking at the equipment and the unit itself.
is there a life expectancy, a lifespan on this? Is there a backup to it that y'all have?
>> we did not get into life expectancy of it.
essentially, the components that go out in it,
we would probably replace them on an ad hoc basis and plan on holding onto this for quite some time.
I don't see us retiring it in five years or anything like that. This thing we're going to have it for the long haul,
and as technology upgrades, we'll be able to swap it out, keeps rolling.
>> mayor I'll make a motion that we approve item 7g if there's no more questions.
>> I'll second. >> I thought I did that. >> no, [inaudible]
>> you got to be quick. I have a motion and a second, you get the second.
if you would, please cast your votes.
thank you, gentlemen. Motion passes unanimously.
unless I'm mistaken, there is no reason for closed session, am I right?
no reason for closed session. Seeing no objection, we adjourn.