I will call this meeting of the Balcones
City Council to order on Tuesday, August
11th, 2026 at 6:30.
For the record, all council members are
present.
Welcome everyone.
We'll start this meeting with the
invocation.
We'll begin the meeting with the
invocation. Now, we'll ask
Pastor Jacob Forrest from Bridge Street
Church to please come to the podium and
give the invocation and lead us in
reciting the pledge.
» Heavenly Father, we come before you
today, Lord, in the mighty name of
Jesus. We thank you, Lord, for the city
of Balcones, God. We thank you, Lord,
for every person, every family, every
business, and every church, and every
school, Lord, that is represented in
this city. God, we pray, Lord, that you
would just touch this city, Lord, by the
power of your spirit. God, we just
cancel any assignment of darkness, Lord,
that would come against this city,
against any marriages, against any
people, young people of the city. And we
declare in Jesus' name that you are Lord
over the city of Balcones. God, we just
ask you, Lord, to touch, Lord. Let there
just touch this this city council, the
mayor, Lord, our city manager, Lord.
Touch our police department, our fire
department. We give you praise and we
thank you for these. Help them to make
godly and right decisions, Lord. I pray,
God, that you would bring unity to this
city, Lord. I pray that you would just
bring your will, Lord, and God, just have your way and bless this city
in the mighty name of Jesus we pray. And
bless this meeting that we're having
here today in Jesus' name. Now, let's
say the pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
Thank you, sir.
Acknowledgement of guest and visitors,
public comment. This time is for
citizens to address the the council on
issues and items of concern that are not
on the agenda. Citizens will be allowed
a comment time
on any
requested agenda item. There will be no
city council discussion
or action at this time.
There's a 3-minute
time limit per person.
Personal attacks on council staff will
not be tolerated. Doing so will forfeit
your remaining time. Persons engaged in
disruptive behavior
will be escorted from the meeting.
Have I received all comment cards
from those who would like to address the
council?
As I call your name, please come to the
podium. State your name and address
for the record. You will be given 3
minutes to speak.
Stacy Herzog.
>> It's Herzog.
I've lived at my address for
approximately 30 years.
I know Mr. Moore. He knows where I live.
I want to address the quality of the
water
here lately.
Specifically in the past
month, 3 weeks. It's not just me, my
neighbors also.
It's like mud. It's not drinkable.
I have pictures. Uh I've talked to my
neighbors today. I have two that can't
be here. One's at a volleyball game. It
did send me a text that their their
water is still
terrible, also. I have spoken to
Mr. Reed.
Uh they did come and flush the hydrant
twice.
To me, I don't know if it needs to be
for a longer period of time or what, but
that hasn't done
too much for my situation.
Um
it's to the point when I flush my
toilet, it looks like it needs to be
clean. It's It's brown. It It's
You can't drink it. You don't want to
shower in it.
Um
I I don't know how to solve this issue.
To me, somebody had stated to me that
there was a break in a main line
several weeks ago. Not sure if that's
true or not. I'm beginning to wonder now
after it was fixed, was it fixed
properly?
I'm not sure. I just want to get this
resolved because this has been a long
time. I mean, around 3 weeks is a long
time not to be able to have any water to
cook with or anything else. I do have
pictures of water coming into my home.
If you would like to look at those
pictures, Mr. Reed has already seen
them,
but I would love to show them to some of
the other council members if you would
like to see them.
>> Yeah. Would you Would you mind emailing
them to me and I'll distribute them to
the council, also?
>> They're on my phone. I mean, I can print
them out and turn them on.
>> Oh, no. Can you email them to me? That
way they can all have copies of them.
>> Yes, sure. Yeah, I'll do that.
>> Yeah, just email them to me.
Um and I will be
>> Hey, your address again, please, ma'am.
>> It's 2001 O'Dowd's Road. I'm on the
corner.
Another thing I'd like to address is
when they did come and flush the
hydrant,
they shoot that out into my yard, which
causes large ruts in my yard. Mr. Reed
has stated to me that they did have a
elbow
>> Yeah.
>> that would uh prevent that from
happening. But when the guys came over
there to do that, they stated to me that
there is not an elbow.
So, when that is done, it ruts up my
yard.
Um
They did the last time they they shot
the water out instead of shooting it to
the side where it ruts out and has
pretty much destroyed my corner, which I
had St. Augustine on. They They did
reroute it where it would go out the
front, so it wasn't quite as bad.
But, um
pretty much vandalized my yard is what
it did.
You know, I try to keep a nice yard.
I believe Mr. Moore can vouch for that.
I've got one of the nicest yards in the
neighborhood, and I try to keep it like
that.
But, this water is It's been a long
time. I'm sure I'm going to get a water
bill at the end of the month for water
that I haven't been able to use.
» I did.
>> Miss Tate, did you get put your
number on the comment card? A contact
number?
Did you put it on there?
It's right there.
>> No, I It's just
>> I'm very sorry to hear this.
>> Yeah, it's it's been going on for a
while.
Yeah, and the water isn't just a little
discolored.
I don't want to think that I'm being
just a little nitpicky. Not a little
discolored. It's a shade lighter than
this.
>> Wow.
>> It's really bad.
>> Wow.
Thank you, ma'am.
>> Thank you.
Is there anyone else that like to speak?
Thank you for your comments.
Council and the city manager report, Mr.
City Manager.
>> Thank you, Mayor. Um if I would ask Mr.
Reed to uh please come forward and give us a
just a brief real quick update on
Wheeler and Pecan, please, sir.
» Mayor and Council, it's my pleasure to
be here today to give you a little
update on a very exciting project to me.
It's a
project that's moving at a pretty rapid
pace. Uh we are finding a few items that
we have discovery related to drainage
that we're trying to
uh race through those challenges, keep
the project on schedule, but I want to
just give you a few updates and a few
reminders. Notice to proceed was issued
June 15th. The original contract was 1.6
million.
Work completed to date is about
$240,000.
Um percentage complete on construction
is about 14%.
Uh we have not mobilized over to Pecan,
so we're pretty much staying on Wheeler
and trying to get the contractor to
focus on moving that project forward.
Um original days for the entire contract
is 180.
Days used is about 40% complete. Um time
is about 22%
to date.
No days have been added to the contract,
nor have any change orders been issued.
We do have two drainage-related
uh change orders that we're looking at,
negotiating. Our engineer's been out in
the field as of today,
uh trying to figure out the best
solution. It's about old drainage sewer
network that is not tied together
properly, so it's not flowing when we
get everything tied together in the
existing contract.
Um
but we're trying to manage that. We're
trying to work through it and keep the
project moving.
Current impacts to the community of full
closure is now between Cain and Fisher.
We've moved away from the school and St.
Paul's. I mean it looks like a base
roadway, but that's the intent of where
we're at today.
That base roadway has been tested. It
has been graded and it is fully
compacted. So once we get all of Wheeler
done, we'll come in there with one
asphalt course that gives you a lot
better uniform look, but it also gives
you something more structural that keeps
water from penetrating down into the
road.
>> How thick is that asphalt layer going to
be?
The top coat. You're going to do a top
coat of 2 in? 2 in, okay. 2 in. Good.
>> And that's pretty standard.
>> Yeah.
>> We do have a meeting
on
Thursday. A few things we're going to be
talking about is how we reconcile some
of the time
ideas that we have or additional
construction crews, extended work hours.
We've already started letting them work
on Saturdays and we do inspection on
those Saturdays to keep the project
moving for some catch-up time.
We're talking about them bringing
additional equipment and maybe starting
on Bacon a little earlier than what they
had originally planned.
From a standpoint of the project, I know
it's a big inconvenience to the
community when you have that many
traffic control devices out there. We've
got road closures, we've got partial
road closures.
We're trying to communicate with the
community when they reach out to my
office. We do meet them in the field and
try to explain where we're at and where
we're headed.
I do need to do an update cuz school's
starting pretty quick and that will be
update will go out tomorrow morning.
That kind of gives everybody a status of where we are within the
limits of Wheeler
and what we're looking at in about 30
days to come. So that will go out
tomorrow.
Beyond that, I just want to thank the
community for being patient with us.
Most of the people we talked to have
been very courteous.
They've reached out to us. We go out in
the field and they're welcoming us for
answers and we try to give them those
answers and if not, we follow up with
them on another day.
So, that's my update. If you have any
questions, I'd be glad to
>> With the all open and up to Cain Street
so far to help with school, is that it?
That Does that all the way down to their
main entrance or just the one entrance
closer between Cain and Maxwell?
>> It's the one right at right at Cain.
>> So, the school I just have to detour the
parking lot for the
>> Yes, sir. And they've been briefed.
Contractors been in their door and I've
sent out some messages about that.
>> Awesome. Thank you.
>> We're very sensitive to that and I think
the progress that the contractor has
made in that particular segment, we can
start moving those barricades that are
road closure even further down towards
the civic center.
So, we're going to work with the school
anyway. That first day of school, it's
always an adventure.
>> Yes, sir.
>> And we'll be out in the field monitoring
that and making sure that it functions
well.
>> Thank you.
>> Yes, sir.
» Thank you, sir.
Um the next couple items I'll catch you
up on is
please keep in mind October sounds like
a long time away, but it's not. Our
October and November meetings will start
at 5:30 with um strategic visioning and planning
council workshop with SGR coming in and
then after the after 7:30, we hope to
have short quick meetings to get those
moving forward. Uh and followed by that,
then what we will do is hopefully after
that session, we will uh bring in our
financial consultants to give council
some options on what they can do in the
future, whether they want to go bonds,
certificates of applications or they
want to do nothing. Uh but that's what
we are uh moving forward to.
We are still
anxious and awaiting the um
one big grant for 21 million. Hopefully,
it'll come through. Uh but, I I assume
you'll probably be the third to know it.
After Jim and Karen and I will
immediately let you know if that's
awarded or not. So, we're anxiously
awaiting that one. And the county did us
a uh favor
uh by rejecting the agricultural
district proposed by data center. So, we
do not have to take any action on that.
I talked to the county judge, and he
felt that the uh action that they took
covers the entire county.
And I would be happy to address any
questions you have or anything that
you've heard.
Thank you.
» Next up is presentations.
PR 20 26-10,
presentation of lifesaving award
to Sergeant Rendon and Officer Mills
and Smallridge.
Chief.
» If um
while I was coming up here, I know I've
asked uh
Chief to come up here and
recognize these outstanding
uh officers for uh the actions that they
took.
» Mayor, city council, thank you for your
time.
Ladies and gentlemen of the audience,
thank you for being here and those that
are here in support of each individual.
If I could get uh Officer Smallridge
and Officer Mills.
Uh tonight, Sergeant Rendon was not able
to attend. He apologizes for his uh
absence.
And Lieutenant Rowe, if you and Officer
Solace would come up front, please.
>> Guys, would y'all stand closer to the
dais?
» While we're doing that, if family
members want to stand up and come over
here and take pictures, you are
perfectly welcome to do so.
The reason that we're here tonight um
these officers, along with our
uh
team players here from the Waco Police
Department, was also on the scene.
Officer Solace was a part of this. We've
invited him here tonight uh to accept an
award uh for a life-saving award for all
of these officers' efforts.
And so, if you'll bear with me for just
a minute,
on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026, at
approximately 10:25 a.m.,
officers were called upon to to respond
to an unresponsive male that was lying
on the roadway who was not breathing.
Once the officers
began to arrive, they immediately
assessed the situation,
recognized the severity of the medical
emergency, and without hesitation began
to administering chest compressions
while simultaneously
notifying responding officers and
emergency medical personnel of the
subject's condition.
As other additional officers began to
arrive, which included Sergeant Rendon,
Luis Rendon of the Bellmead Police
Department, Officer Dustin Smallridge of
the Bellmead Police Department,
Officer John Mills of the Bellmead
Police Department, and Waco Police
Officer Ivan Solace,
they joined in providing life-saving
care to this individual.
Officer Smallridge retrieved a medical
bag from his patrol unit and began
administering oxygen to the subject
while CPR efforts continued.
Upon arrival of the Bel Meade Police Bel
Meade Fire Department and AMR personnel,
Officer Smallridge further
utilized his training and experience as
a paramedic to assist medical personnel
with advanced patient care.
Because of this immediate response,
teamwork, and unwavering commitment dis-
demonstrated by each and every police
officer and individual here,
medical personnel
were able to restore the subject's pulse
and began breathing on his own before
being transported by ambulance to the
hospital for further treatment.
There is little doubt that had
each and every one of you
um not acted as quickly and decisively
as you did, the outcome would have been
tragic. And that individual, by the way,
for an update, he is still alive and
well and doing fine. Uh he is retired
but doing well.
The Life Saving Award is one of the
highest honors bestowed upon a Bel Meade
police officer or any police officer.
It's received for those extraor-
extraordinary occasions when an
officer's decisive actions, sound
judgment, courage, and commitment to
preserving human life directly
contributed to saving another person's
life. It recognizes those rare moments
when training, professionalism,
dedication to public service come
together under the most critical
circumstances.
They're going to be presented with a red
and white pin tonight.
And let me tell you the meaning of that
red and white pin.
The white symbolizes hope, compassion,
and preservation of life.
While the red represents courage,
sacrifice, and the willingness to act
without hesitation when another person's
life hinges hangs on the balance.
In the balance. The colors embody the
values of our professional profession
and serve as a reminder of the oath that
has been taken to protect and serve our
whole community.
Now, to each and every one of y'all,
I want to tell you your actions on June
3rd exemplified those values.
Each and every one of you just
demonstrated exceptional composure under
pressure,
exercised sound judgment, and displayed
unwavering commitment to preserving
life.
Because of your your efforts,
this individual was given another
opportunity of life and able to return
home to his family.
While law enforcement officers rarely
seek seek
recognition for simply doing their job,
it is important that we encourage those
whose actions rise above the ordinary.
Your professionalism, courage,
dedication reflect credit upon yourself,
the Bellmead Police Department and La
Vega Police Department,
the city of Bellmead,
and the community that we serve.
So, on behalf of the city of Bellmead, Police Department, it is my
honor
to present you each and every one of
you, and I'm going to let Lieutenant
Raul present Officer Solis, but each and
every one of y'all at the Bellmead
Police Department
with the life-saving pin.
And if y'all will give a round of
applause for each and every one of these
officers and their brave actions.
» The last thing that I'll mention is I
want to thank each and every one of the
family members of the officers that are
here
because without your support them not
being home every night when you want
them home
they're out here doing great things like
this and we appreciate you loaning them
to us for the the time that they're here
and serving us. We appreciate it.
» Thank you all very much.
And we've got another
recognition for Lieutenant Gresham
for successfully completing the Texas
Police Chiefs Association Law
Enforcement Command Officers Program.
LECOP
Secretary
>> Thank you, Mayor. Uh LECOP is not an
easy program. It's an intense program.
And I believe uh Lieutenant Gresham
would
totally concur
uh that is not it's not a piece of uh
cake. It is an intense program created
by Texas Police Chiefs.
And we are very proud of um
Lieutenant Gresham for completing that.
Chief.
» You want me to back up? Okay. Sorry.
Mayor, city council, thank you for your
time again.
Lieutenant Gresham, if you'll come up
here and join me.
This is one of the his most favorite
things to do in his job.
This is a very special thing for me to
do. Uh I get to work with uh Lieutenant
Gresham every day, Monday through
Friday, and
his growth
um is beyond any words that I can
express to you all tonight. So, it is
definitely an honor and a privilege to
be able to
talk about this and and recognize him
for this and all the hard work that he's
put in tonight.
I have the privilege of recognizing
Lieutenant Gresham for his outstanding
professional
achievement that reflects his commitment
to leadership, service, and the future
of the Balch Springs Police Department.
Lieutenant Grisham has successfully
completed the Texas Police Chiefs
Association
command
law enforcement command officer program,
which is called LECOT,
and has earned the distinction of LECOT.
And when I say earned, he did earn it.
The modules are not simple.
This is not simply another training
course or a certificate. It is a
rigorous
leadership development program designed
to prepare
law enforcement leaders to meet
challenges of today's profession while
developing the character,
judgment, and vision necessary to lead
tomorrow's agencies.
One of the things I appreciate most
about this recognition is that it
represents far more than the classroom
instruction. The LECOT LECOT award
symbolizes a commitment to servant
leadership, ethical decision-making,
accountability, and willingness to
continually
grow both professionally and personally.
It reflects someone who understands that
leadership is not about rank, it's about
influence, integrity, and earning the
trust of those that they lead.
As a part of this achievement,
Lieutenant Grisham received a LECOT
certificate,
a com- a commemorative coin,
an award bar, and a label pin. I want to
talk about that for a minute.
The label pin has certain colors, and I
want to tell you what those colors
represent. They're very symbolic
the of the values of law enforcement
that a leader should have or strive to
uphold. They represent honor,
integrity, courage, professionalism, and
an unwavering commitment to serving
others.
Those are the values that Lieutenant
Grisham demonstrates every day
in the way that he leads our officers
and serves the citizens of Belle Meade.
As the chief, one of my priorities is
developing future leaders within the
department. Lieutenant Grisham has
embraced that responsibility.
He leads by example. He mentors younger
officers and continually looks for ways
to improve himself and the organization.
His willingness to invest in his own
professional development makes our
department stronger today and better
prepared for tomorrow.
Lieutenant Grisham, thank you for your
dedication, your professionalism, and
your commitment to excellence. Your
accomplishment is one
that you, your family, this department,
and the community should be proud of.
On behalf of the City of Belle Meade and
the Belle Meade Police Department,
congratulations on earning this
prestigious designation of Lee Cop.
Please join me in congratulating
Lieutenant Grisham on this well-deserved
accomplishment.
» No No speech?
>> Thank you.
sir.
» Next consent agenda.
All consent items listed below are
considered routine and non-controversial
by the City Council and will be approved
by one motion. However, any City Council
member or city manager may remove an
item
from the consent agenda to allow for
discussion and voting on the item
individually.
Mr. City Manager, we can go through the
consent agenda.
>> Thank you, sir.
Um
First one is 008.
That is the approval of the minutes of
the July 14th City Council meeting.
The next item is 009, which is the
approval of a special
uh City Council meeting held on July
28th.
The next item is the memorandum
approving the City of Bellaire
investment
report, and you have all the details
there.
Um resolution 32
is consider resolution appointing Brooks
Watson uh to uh finish or start their um audit, which they've already started,
and they will continue to do um until
they get it complete, and will be
presenting it uh to the City Council.
Uh I would ask you to please fill out
the surveys when you do get them. Uh
they all they really rely heavily on
those.
The uh next item is resolution 33,
which is uh to consider uh setting September 8th as the official
date for the
public hearing on the proposed 2027
budget.
Um item 34,
uh resolution 34
is the resolution uh setting
the upcoming tax rate at 409351
per $100, which is the voter approval
rate.
And the last resolution, resolution
035 is authorizing the purchase of four
patrol cars
and the additional equipment. Patrol
cars at 225628
and the
additional equipment uh hopefully at 124
uh 372.
Uh just for um some may wonder why we're
ordering equipment cars now. Last year
we uh put the order in for July and we
just received those cars and put them in
service in the last couple of weeks.
So, with that um Mayor, we would uh
recommend your
uh
council's approval on the resolutions.
Thank you.
Yes, sir.
>> Uh the special meeting was changed.
>> It was to 49.
>> No, 4.40.
>> Auction of those surplus police
vehicles.
>> Yes, sir.
>> What do you think they would bring in
How much have they done in the past?
>> Um do you recall off the top of your
head
what happens when we're getting for
those cars?
>> Well, two of them have motors that are
blown.
So, I'm not sure that they're going to
bring in that much.
>> Yeah, they'll bring some Two of them
Okay, two of them are going to bring
salvage value, but the other two I don't
recall what we've been roughly getting
for them.
>> I don't either.
>> But we can we can get that.
>> Yeah, two of them got two blown motors.
>> Yes, sir.
>> We hadn't even used them.
>> I'm sorry?
>> We hadn't used them, but how long have
they been sitting around with blown
motors?
>> Um couple of months.
>> Yes, sir. That's correct.
>> By the time you get the estimates and we
got the estimates and the chief made the
correct decision of not reinvesting that
much money in cars
when we could just
share.
>> And the other two, they were kind of
indisputable.
>> Well, they're police cars that have been
driven safely, but hard. Chief, you can
add to that.
>> be an That would be an accurate
statement. They're both '21 models. Um
it's hard to tell. Sometimes we do
really well with the auction and then
sometimes we do less than what we
uh anticipated. So, it's it's really
hard to tell, sir, what we'll get for
them because
uh police cars are not a big demand for
somebody buying a personal vehicle.
>> Yeah.
And so, when we know the new vehicles
that we're going to purchase, when we do
we expect to get those in?
>> Well, as the city manager alluded to a
while ago, sir,
uh the reason that we do this early is
it takes time and we get in line. So, if
we order them now, um
if y'all approve this tonight, uh we
will
put them on order and I anticipate about
around February
before we receive them or March of next
year.
And just to keep in mind, sir, that's
just getting the vehicles here. That's
not including the time to get them
upfitted, sir.
It usually takes about a month to a
month and a half to have that taken care
of.
>> Thank you.
>> Please, Chief, would you happen to know
roughly how how much mileage do we get
on a car? car before it needs to be
retired? I know that it's mostly city
driving. I I know, but I I'm just
curious.
>> So,
um
it varies in miles.
One thing you have to keep in mind is
what we try to follow as an industry
standard. And our industry standard is 5
years. You start getting beyond that,
maintenance cost to keep the vehicle is
going to cost you more than keeping it
in
>> So, it's not miles, but it's years.
Okay.
>> It's years in use of service, and then
also cost is what that's based on.
>> Okay. Thank you, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
» Are there any other questions?
>> Yeah, I got one question on
Sorry.
On uh RS 2026 uh 035,
I was looking over the contract proposal
for the to put them out for the bids,
and I noticed that there is no HUB men
on there.
They're all three big.
The contract for the vehicles,
there is no HUB bids on there.
» There's typically not any HUBs for
vehicle purchases. You're talking about
historically underutilized businesses.
>> Mhm.
>> That's also no longer a requirement for
the state comptroller.
>> I'm pretty sure that I read it on here.
Where is it at?
>> Those rules changed under the um
previous comptroller.
» I just
» But even with the prior rules, what we
had to do was we were supposed to look
to see if there was a hub in McLennan
County and if there's not, then you
don't have to have a hub.
>> there is. Yeah, I don't think there is
one here.
>> Right.
» And we're going through buy board,
right?
» Yes, sir. It is a buy board contract.
» That's all I have.
Any other questions?
Is there a motion to approve RS
2026-035?
1 through 9.
>> Yeah.
» I make a motion to approve the consent
agenda um number 3 through 9.
» Is there a second?
» I'll second it.
>> Do any have discussion?
Will the city secretary please call the
council?
>> Mayor Cleveland?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor pro tem Bainbridge?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Gibson?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Moore?
» Abstain.
» Councilman Wingate?
>> Yes.
>> And Councilman Boxford?
>> Yes.
>> The motion passes.
» Next regular agenda,
ordinances.
OR 2026-08,
consider memorandum
ordinance amending chapter 9
health and human services article 1 in
general
to make changes to local regulations
relating to operation of mobile food
units, MFUs,
food trucks and mobile food truck mobile
food vendors
in conformance with House Bill 2844
and regulations of the Texas Department
of State Health Services first first
reading.
» Mayor, thank you. Um
I'll I'll turn this over to our director
of community development, uh Mr. Morris,
but what we're basically trying to do is
come in compliance with the new rules
and regulations, and this effort has
been coordinated with the public works
department, the fire marshal, and the
building official.
Uh Mr. Mayor and council, y'all may
recall back in March of 2025,
we made a lot of amendments to our to
our ordinance uh because we had so many
illicit connections to our sewer system.
Uh food trucks, mobile food units were
dumping grease
down the sewer, down cleanouts, and we
had a lot of backups
causing backups of of sewer into
businesses and backing up into homes. We
had just a lot of problems. We had
illicit connections to our water system
that were risking uh contamination of
the entire water system. So, we made a
bunch of changes back in March of 2025.
Since then, the state of Texas has
decided they're going to take over
regulation of all mobile food units and
the licensing and regulation of those,
and they enacted new standards through
the Texas Department of State Health
Services. Uh basically, they've removed
all local authority to regulate and
oversee food trucks. Uh state will
provide the inspections, and the state
will collect the fees, and the state
will issue the licenses. Um the city, we
will continue to regulate locations. Uh
they will be allowed in business and
industrial zoning districts, and we will
continue to limit the ability to connect
to our water and sewer system so that we
don't have sewer backups, and we don't
have uh risk of cross-contamination to
the potable water system.
Our previous ordinance also restricted
mobile food units to generators
for power. We would like to rescind that
and allow our food trucks uh in our
community to hook up to a dedicated
circuit
uh from a uh from a a property, uh but
they cannot daisy chain a bunch of
extension cords and run it down the
block. They got to plug into a dedicated
outlet, uh and that's going to be for
fire safety. We don't want We don't want
fire issues. And
um
we we want to maintain that prohibition
on connecting to the water and sewer
system because we don't want to contaminate our
drinking water, and we don't want to
clog up our sewers.
Um
that's kind of the s-
down and dirty summary. I'd be glad to
try and answer any questions.
>> Will they still have to move every 24
hours?
>> Nope.
Kind of going back to the way we were.
>> We're going to try to get all the ones
we lost back to Bell Mead.
>> That would be the hope. I think folks
like their food trucks.
There's a couple of them that I'm pretty
fond of.
>> Yep.
» So, how how we going to monitor the
illegal connections that they were doing
illegal connections to the water system?
>> I'm sorry, sir.
>> How we going to monitor the You said
that they were doing illegal connections
to the water system.
Is that correct?
>> Correct.
>> going to monitor that?
>> We're going to
>> And the grease trap?
>> drive by and look and and check.
>> Who is we?
>> Code enforcement, fire department,
public works. We're all of
everybody chips in.
>> I mean, so so how many food trucks have
we lost since we put that ordinance into effect?
>> Oh, I'd have to City secretary ran those
licenses. I I
if I was going to just ballpark it, I'd
say three or four.
Most of them complied. They didn't like
having to move every 24 hours. It was
inconvenient for them.
>> We've also gained a couple, too.
>> That's true.
>> So, how many we have altogether?
>> Right now?
Maybe a dozen.
» We got the one back up the street that
was pretty good.
>> Yeah, there's uh
there's the red one up the street at the gas station. There's the one on
the corner at the
uh at the car wash. And and they those
guys that's a big trailer and they're
moving that.
So, they you know, they can continue to
move if they want to. They can continue
to use generators if they want to, but
if they want to connect to the power, we'll make sure that it's
not going to catch on fire.
» Will they be allowed to put the lights
we had that
one truck was asking about the the pole
being put back in place that was
removed? Are we going to allow that or
>> I'm sorry. You do
>> The one food truck that had contacted
you and I
in a while back
>> in Hogan Lane and Burnside Circle.
>> Like she was asking about the previous
pole that
>> Yeah, they're on the property They're on
that property that's by that at the
convenience store. Or if that
convenience store wants to put a circuit
in
a plug for that, then they can connect
to it.
They will not have an in There won't be
a like a vacant lot
with a pole and a meter. It has to come
off that
>> off the store itself. Okay, I got you.
» Any more questions?
I think this is going to make a lot of
people cuz a lot of people were
not real happy when we enacted that
other ordinance and now we're kind of
going back. Thank you all.
Appreciate it.
» Is there any other questions?
Is there a motion to approve the first
reading
for OR 2026-08?
>> I'll make a motion to approve it.
» Is there a second?
>> I'll second it.
>> Is there any Any other discussion?
Will the city secretary please call the
council?
>> Councilman Gibson?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Moore?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Wingate?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Box Board?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Cleveland?
>> Yes.
>> And Mayor Pro Tem Bainbridge?
>> Yes.
>> Thank Motion passes.
» OR
2026-08
Consider memorandum ordinance amending
chapter 9 health and human services
article 1 in general to make changes to
local regulations relating to the
operation of mobile food units MFUs
food trucks and mobile food truck
vendors
in conformance with HB 2844
and the regulations of the state of
Texas Department of State Health
Services second reading.
Any council members have any questions?
Is there a motion to approve OR 2026 or
2026-808?
Second reading.
>> Motion to approve second reading.
>> Is there a second?
>> Second.
>> Is there any other discussion?
Will the city secretary please poll the
council?
>> Councilman Moore?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Wingate?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Foxworth?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Kleinman?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor pro tem Bainbridge?
>> Yes.
>> And Councilman Gibson?
>> Yes.
>> Motion passes.
» Next item
OR 2026-09
Consider ordinance
amending master fee schedule attached
appendix A for the city of Bellaire mean
code of ordinances appendix B repealing
all ordinances or of parts of the
ordinance in conflict herewith providing
for certain medical calls
providing for in inclusions
in code and providing for an effective
date first reading first and second
reading.
» Thank you, Mayor. Um
what you have before you is all the
updates we have.
Um this is what is new, what is
required, what the new state laws are,
what the new fees are,
and what we always want to do is is
always put them in one
um,
area.
That way any council member or any
citizen can literally go on the website
or literally Google
um,
how much is something or what does this
cost, if it's a fee, and they can
literally pull it up without having to
dig through the entire ordinance books
and the various documents. So, this is
the master fee schedule. And all these
have been reviewed and approved by every
uh, department director.
Uh, the only fees that city council
really doesn't have any control over, of
course, are the court fees, cuz they're
set by the judge.
» I had a question, Mr. L.
So, the drainage monthly drainage fund,
is it actually working? Have we seen a
reduction in in drainage and we had no
rain early early part of the summertime.
>> I'll address the first part of that, Mr.
Reed. Yes, I have definitely seen an
improvement in the
in in at least the areas being cleaned.
Um,
for example, Concord, they probably hit
that once a month.
Um, and they hit the major areas. I know
they've hit
So, to answer your question, yes. Have
we solved the problem? No. But, have we
made it significantly better?
Absolutely.
Mr. Reed, do you want to add anything to
that or does that kind of summarize it?
>> Yeah.
I think you did a great job summarizing.
I would say that drainage is more than
just structures that drain from one side
of the road to the other. It's curbing
gutters. So, we've started a program.
Uh,
council gave us uh, money to buy a
Gator.
And we use that Gator to go around the
city and start spraying curbing gutter
to kind of eliminate the grass that
inundates some of our curbing gutter,
which that grass introduces water into
the sub layer of any street which causes
a lot of problems.
So, yes, I think you all have covered it
very well.
And we we got improvements to make. I
think all the way across our department
we can look at different things, but I
think the drainage crew they put a lot
into each day and they do everything
they can. So, we'd love to hear feedback
if there's certain areas that you feel
like we may be missing.
>> How much revenue is that generated?
A a year?
>> Yeah, I don't I don't know those exact
figures today, but
» I think that's on page 225 in your book.
Somewhere around there.
» The drainage fees generate about
$450,000
a year.
>> And that 450 goes for like the the the
equipment that we bought and
paying those guys go out there and clean
those gutters out.
>> That is correct.
» Anything else?
» No, I I would just say we've got a a
small team of three individuals and
they're very committed. I'm very lucky
to have them. So, I don't think they do
a great job with the money that we have
and and try to spend it
uh I'd say in the best interest of the
citizens here in Belmont.
>> Thank you.
» The water rate increases in the master
fee schedule, is that for what's going
forward on this next budget or are these
going up and then it's going up again
with the new budget?
>> No.
>> You want You want me to say something,
Aaron? I Go ahead.
>> Those are the rates that are included in
the in this next upcoming budget.
» So, are we able to approve them today
with us not approving the budget yet?
>> We're approving the master fee schedule.
We can always amend that if you change
it.
>> The reason we have it on this
on today's is because we have to take it
to y'all twice.
So, this is the first and second
hearing.
I can't talk today. First and second
reading, and then the third reading will
be at the September council meeting when
you actually do approve the budget.
» And then I see also that
the carport permits, we ain't even had
that permit out a year and it's already
doubling on the permit fee.
>> I saw that, too.
» What page are you on?
>> It would be page 92, sir.
>> We compared all of these fees with our
surrounding cities.
» The only thing that's inspected during a
carport is the footing, so I believe. Is
that correct, or am I wrong? So, it's
just a concrete
inspection.
No?
>> Location.
Setbacks, widths, depths.
» Page uh
Did you say
>> 92.
At least on my
tablet it shows paid or sorry that we
have carports is 92.
Listed right under general permits.
» You're in the council packet?
>> Mhm. We're trying to find the page
number.
Oh, well, I don't have a hard copy. I'm
on the tablet.
>> Okay. Thanks.
» Yes.
>> It's in under the general permit. Keep
going.
>> In your budget book at 271.
» I just figured they were numbered the
same.
So, which surrounding communities do we
take these prices off of
in comparison to what other cities are
charging?
» Yeah.
>> It's under air urban that's
» What was it before?
>> What was the permit before? It was $100.
It went from 100 to 200.
>> It will next month.
>> Or it will. Yeah, it will
next month after the third reading.
And I don't think that was I don't even
think it's been a full year. I think we
approved it in March or April. So, it
ain't even been 6 months.
» Do you want to
move forward with that and have them do
some more research and bring it back to
you?
Cuz you can always amend it.
>> I was just curious cuz we I mean, it
ain't even been an ordinance for 6
months and it's already doubling before
most people even get a fair shake at the
first price.
But, what's what other cities do we
compare the ordinances to?
>> Our peer cities usually around here. I
don't know which one specifically on the
carport, but
>> We compare to Waco, Hewitt,
um Robinson,
all of the surrounding cities of this
area.
>> Well, I was just checking cuz I'm
I've heard in the past on comparisons
we've compared on different stuff from
cities in the Metroplex and other
places.
So I was just curious if it was outside
of McLennan County or everything inside
McLennan County.
>> No, we don't compare with cities outside
McLennan County. We compare with the
ones inside.
>> I'm not aware of any comparison that we
ever done.
>> Well, when y'all done ordinance changes
and stuff like that I've heard where
y'all mimicked off of Grand Prairie or
different places up in the Metroplex and
compared Metroplex and compared to
ordinances before. So I was just curious
if we go outside.
>> That is a valid that is a valid
point
and it is because
their legal has already drafted it and
I'd much rather give our city attorney a
draft to review and approve
rather than draft. Sorry, sir. It's
cheaper.
Because their legal has already approved
it. So we just basically
take what other cities have done and
particularly when it comes to ordinances
because they're very complex and very
detailed. So yes, that is a good point
but we I don't I don't believe in the
last 8 years that we've ever compared
fees
to any Metroplex cities.
>> Okay, thank you.
And what's the garbage rate increases? I
thought we were locked in in a deal.
I see the dumpsters and everything have
increased. Is that from the fuel rates
or did that just naturally go up?
>> Commercial those are all commercial.
Residential rates did not go up at all.
The only thing that went up
were the
commercial rates
and we do compare those with our other
peer cities.
What I'm sorry, go ahead.
>> And that's how we keep the residential
rate low.
>> Okay, well, it didn't say right here on
commercial, so that's why I was asking.
It just showed dumpster rates based on
monthly billings.
» Good questions.
» I would also like to point out that many
of these fees we are trying to recu-
rec- recoup the cost of the employees
that are going out there. It's supposed
to be fee for service.
So, we don't want the taxpayers to be
subsidizing the services that are being
provided, which is the reason that we
try to
think about how much does it cost for
the specific employee to go out and
provide this service.
And so, how many times do they have to
go out and provide this service? And
then that's part of also how we try to
come up with this fee so as to
recoup the cost of the services.
» I know one year I don't know if it was a
couple of years ago they kept the tax
rate
>> Can you speak into the mic cuz we can't record it in the morning, yeah.
>> Yeah, a couple of years ago, I don't
know if it was 2 years ago, but doing
the budget we kept the tax rate the
same, but we increased everything on the
master fee schedule. What year was that
in?
>> Ooh.
>> That was 24.
>> It would've been one of It wasn't last
year, probably the maybe the year
before.
>> I don't remember.
>> I will say that increasing the rates on
the master fee schedule
are they do not bring in significant
revenues
other than the water sewer rates.
So, the onesy-twosy fees they just they
don't bring in significant revenues.
» I got a one quick question. The addition of a fee for the hometown
hero banner program.
>> Yes, sir. I'm glad you asked that.
That's an exciting program.
>> out of her. I'm happy now.
>> That's an exciting program that we want
to bring to y'all.
Um so
Civic Center I I hope you've noticed the
banners that are that we have flying out
front.
>> Mhm.
>> We're going to have more. And one of the
new programs that we have come up with
is Hometown Heroes. And so what we want
to do is promote this to the citizens
and if you are a veteran, your family
member's a veteran, you're a first
responder,
you can basically buy a banner and we
will put it out there. We'll say
um
Jonathan Smart is a hometown hero and
we'll put his face on that banner and
we'll fly it during, you know, specific
times of the year. And then when we're
done, he gets to keep that banner and
then his family can fly it on their
little flagpole and it costs $75. And
we'll do that every year.
And so
>> Well, they used to do that in the
newspaper back in the day, back in the
80s, 90s up till about then and then
social media kind of took over the
program. So
the verbage caught my attention, so
>> Yeah, so we're thinking like around
Veterans Day, Memorial Day, those type
of days will be those type of
around that time of year will
we'll fly those banners. And so we we
had to get it on the fee schedule before
we can develop it and kick it off.
» I got one more question.
The senior room, that's that little
building right behind the baseball field
that we use for storage now, or has it
been completed and remodeled?
>> No, actually the senior room is in the
civic center. We have the senior room,
the Lions room, and the auditorium.
You're thinking of the old senior
center, which has been uh
re-commissioned into the parks
maintenance building.
>> Okay.
Do you have any other questions?
» I have one real quick.
I don't know where I read this so and it
may have been one of the tow shops that
I deal with. I heard that
the towing fees are going to change for
McLennan County here soon.
» Y'all actually passed an ordinance
regarding tows and we have a maximum uh
for Bell Mead of what they can
>> Okay.
>> Mhm.
>> All right. That's it.
>> And that's actually in this fee
schedule.
>> that's what I was saying. That's That's
up here in the master fee schedule right
here.
Record resolution.
It's a $100 tow.
>> Yeah, that's what we were talking about
earlier with the registration.
>> Yeah, she caught where I was fixing to
go with it so yeah, we're good.
That's all I had there.
» Is there a motion to approve OR 2026-09
first and second reading?
» I'll make the motion to approve OR
2026-09.
» Is there a second?
>> I'll second it.
>> Is there any other discussion?
Will the city secretary please call the
council?
>> Councilman Wingate?
» Yes.
>> Councilman Boxpart?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Cleveland?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor pro tem Bainbridge?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Gibson?
>> Yes.
>> And Councilman Moore?
>> Yes.
>> Okay, motion passes.
» Is there a motion
to approve OR 2026-09 second reading?
» I'll make a motion to um pass OR 2026-09
second reading.
>> Is there a second?
» I'll second it.
>> Is there any other discussion?
Will the city secretary please call the
council?
>> Councilman Boxpart?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Cleveland?
>> Yes.
>> Mayor pro tem Bainbridge?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Gibson?
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Moore?
>> Yes.
>> And Councilman Wingate?
>> Yes.
>> Motion passes.
» Now we go to executive session.
Uh
Adam 12
DS 2026-02
budget Q&A.
» Thank you, Mayor.
We've had three workshops and I talked
to the mayor, asked him how we wanted to
handle this and he figured this would be
as good of a time as any that anybody
that has any questions we would sure
like to discuss them and give you
appropriate answers, hopefully.
» Anybody like to ask any questions over
the budget?
» Did y'all say we're not giving cost of
living allowances this year you all are
trying to change to a new program?
If I remember correctly from 2 months
ago.
>> Yes, sir. There are no Cola uh increases
for employees this year.
» Surrounding cities are giving employees
a Cola.
>> Yeah, they're doing anywhere from about
2. I think 2.8 to 3.5, 3.8.
Um
what we are going to try to offset it
with is
uh they've been after asking for a
while. What we'll do is we'll go to the
uh retirement system which will benefit
the employees in the long run.
Which the state now authorizes from 7 to
8 so we will do that.
Um but I
You've asked for conservative budgets.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Would Would I love to do a Cola?
But the numbers just were not there this
year.
>> Yeah, isn't that no good, man?
>> I I
>> but I'm like you know, we got we got
some hard working employees.
>> We do.
>> That's the around the town
>> So, how
>> is working hard.
>> And they will get married. They will get
married increases.
>> His own is this kind of that's uh
subjective.
merits
>> Right. And if I'm
I know finance. The rest of directors
don't want to hear this, but if if the
numbers look favorable
I won't I've never done this before, but
if the numbers look favorable, I'll be
the first one to come back to you
mid-year, January and say, "Hey, can we
amend the budget to give COLAs?" I want
to feel comfortable with the numbers.
We're only going with the voter approval
rate.
So, that's really all the money that we
had.
You want to add anything? I mean, we've
tried to
every which way.
And this isn't not a surprise to the
employees. We've talked to them. They
understand.
Um
>> But will we see any drop from employees?
Will they look to seek elsewhere because
they'll get those COLAs or is that going
to affect anything on us losing
employees?
>> I don't think so because the directors
have done a pretty good job.
Now, some some positions just have a high
turnover. Let's just be honest with it.
They just do.
But I think overall the employees see
what this council is trying to do and
that is retain employees and get them
thinking long-term. Why don't you think
about staying at Bel Meade for 5, 10, 15
years instead of coming here for 2
years?
I think the retirement system will be an
absolute huge draw.
Because employees are looking at that
now. They're thinking
um
What am I going to do 10 years from now?
Am I going to have a paycheck? And yes,
TMRS retirement system is as good as
they come.
>> When is that going to go into When is
that going to affect?
>> January is when we have it programmed,
correct?
>> 27
>> Yeah, I'm going yeah, like four four
months.
>> And when you say program, what what do
you mean?
>> The um
the TMRS right now is 7 to 1, it'll go 8
to 1. Karen, you want to add any more
details to that?
» I have the rate built into the budget to
go into effect January 1st. So, what we
will need to do is bring an ordinance
resolution to y'all um in November,
December for y'all to approve that, and
that way we'll send that to TMRS and it
can become effective in January.
» And it's going to be better is it going
to be better for the employees?
>> Absolutely, yes, sir.
>> And and what way?
How's it going to be better? I'm just
asking cuz
I know there's a lot of people with the
everything going up except paycheck, and
it's just tough.
So, I'm just asking cuz I've always had
a good
employee.
>> Right.
>> And I would
hire an employee.
>> Right. And we actually talked to some of
our employees. What Which would you
rather have? That was a That was a
discussion point. Would you rather have
a COLA, or would you rather us increase
your TMRS?
And the answer was increase your TMRS
because that's long-term. We could look
at the short-term, or we could look
long-term. And our employees said we
want to look long-term.
Um
>> have we had
that was with the city over 10 years?
>> Sir?
>> How many employees have we had that has
been with the city
10 years?
>> 10 years.
» I don't know offhand.
>> Yeah, off top of my head I don't know. I
know that it's gone from like 3 and 1/2
to over 5. They have correct.
>> When
back in 2018, 2019, I was track I've
been tracking the average tenure, and
our average tenure was around three years.
Um and now it's ticking up to around six
years. And we're hoping to push that up.
And we think that raising the re
uh, increasing our retirement rate will
continue to make people stay here
longer.
Because when people leave, it
we have to retrain, we have to recruit.
It costs the city more money, and we
lose all of that knowledge that they
have.
Um,
so we we do think it's going to be a
huge benefit to the city.
And to our employees to raise that
retirement benefit.
>> one more question. What what's the
increase on the retirement?
And what's it going to increase to?
>> It's going to go from a 7%
um, employee contribution with a
two-to-one match to 8%.
» It's um, while while we're up in that up
it's probably not going to benefit
somebody like perhaps me or
perhaps Fred that's that's towards the
end of their career that maybe has you
know, three, four, five years left.
Where you will see a tremendous benefit
is for that employee
um, well, I'll just pick on those two
back there, Mr. Womack and Mr. Smart. It
will make a tremendous benefit to them
when they get ready to retire at 25 or
30 years.
Um,
if I would have had
this back when I started,
my retirement check in the future would
have been considerably
much more.
So it it's a significant change.
Um,
I I think it's a good long-term
solution. Especially for the young ones,
cuz the young ones are who we're trying
to
and nothing against the guys that have
been here, the Billy Havinkers that have
been here
what, 310 years or what or is it 31
years? I can't don't
34.
Um, but it is a huge benefit to the ones
that are coming in.
And I know it'll be a huge recruiting
tool
because we're going to be one of the few
that have that in the area.
>> I would have to my last question to you.
What about those employees that are
going to like those uh
See the lady watching on the windows
every day.
I come up here. Is it going to benefit
her? Is that a no?
She benefit from it or does she or does
it have tiers on it or might
» It'll It'll benefit everybody. It's just
going to benefit the younger ones that
plan on staying here 5, 10, 15 years a
lot more than it will somebody
like our custodian.
>> And they left with them, what would they
find? It's not the It's not the
>> No. Teacher retirement system follows
them.
>> It follows them but they're going to
have to find a city
that goes
My retirement follows me from Woodway to
Bellmead.
But
they're If they leave here, they're
going to have to find a city, correct me
if I'm wrong, a city that matches it
eight has the 8% or else they're going
to take a pay a cut in pay.
You want to clarify that?
» I I can't hear everything that's being
asked.
Um but I think I
Did you ask if it follows from
>> No, I was like I'm working for my school
teacher right now that Texas Teacher
Retirement
The teacher retirement system follows
me. I left them WISD and I went to
Conroe this year, right? But my
retirement follows me.
>> Okay.
>> was at My question was those employees
that
say on the lower scale of the pay and
they go somewhere else with the
this TMRS, did I say it correctly? Would
that follow that employee?
>> Yes, sir. If they go So and we also are
It also uh
So the counties and the school districts
we could it
it's kind of like a sister program with.
Um but yes, it does. So, if if one of
our employees was to go to the city of
Hewitt, city of Lorena, city of
Robinson, yes, that time goes to that
other city. So, it does follow them.
>> Okay. That was my question.
>> Yes.
>> Sorry, I complicated it.
Okay.
>> Any other thoughts? I'm sorry. Yes, sir.
I'm just going to say any other
thoughts, questions?
>> So, one of the things that came up,
I believe it was the parks
uh
during the discussion, there was some
things about like them needing a dump
trailer. Now, some of the big equipment
I know is way out of out of reach. But
is there's some of the
where we could work it where they could
get the dump trailer so that they can
move
I think it's a two-wheel trailer to
haul the lawnmower.
I have to go back and look at my notes,
but
>> Yeah, there there is there is trucks,
drainage trailers, server patrol units,
consoles, and a fire marshal's truck all
in the capital outlay. So, yes, all
those have been addressed.
>> Okay. Because that's one of the things,
you know, if you can't
pay more
because of restraints, then what can we
do to help improve their job and make it
easier? So, you know, that's why I'm
looking at it that away is, you know,
even if we're trading one piece of
equipment from one department to another
and buying a piece of equipment that
department needs and swapping, you know,
to kind of
help balance out instead of buying two
trailers.
>> Yes, sir.
That's pretty valid. Yes, we're taking
care of that.
» All right.
Thank you unless there's any other
questions.
» I think Councilman Gibson had to
run to the back room real quick.
» Executive session?
>> Waiting on Gibson.
>> Waiting to see if there's any other
questions.
Mr. Gibson's not in here.
» I do have a water question, but it's not
particular with the budget while we're
waiting.
So,
the building on
Hogan and Paris that we tore down.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Okay. So, we removed that and well, I
think they're still in the middle of
cleaning up on part of it and the
concrete and stuff.
Is there
any thoughts from our last meeting that
we discussed about
because of the room constraints behind
the building of maybe possibly moving
the animals to that location and putting
a privacy fence around the tower?
» I I we have a we can look at that, sure.
>> Yeah, I was just
>> Yeah, but can look at that.
>> the last time we talked it was during
y'all's meeting is that, you know, some
of the restraints that they had was like
parking area out back that
>> But that was in public
>> Pro wants to expand a little bit, but
that takes parking space. So,
since we cleared off that space is that
something that y'all have looked at?
>> We're talking about for public works
vehicle or moving animal control out
there from here?
>> Well, where the animals are, not
control. Control is part of the PD, but
I'm saying like
where the animals are housed.
>> They're housed here on this parking lot,
right?
>> Right.
>> Yeah.
so
to create more space here
moving it to that tower area and looking
at what it would cost to build a a fence
or a building.
I've seen other cities around here that
they've built a a steel building with
air conditioning and they've got kennels
inside which are basically
chain link fence with the steel fence poles anchored to the
concrete and they're usually 6-8 ft
tall.
And they have, you know, open
ventilation across them. I mean, you
know, that's money, but it's
some of the problems looking forward is
that something we're looking at maybe
possibly doing in that area because
that's kind of a where the old fire
station was is kind of an empty spot
now.
>> Right.
We can sure look at it.
>> You know what I'm saying? And then
it's Chief Hall, but I'm just saying,
you know, like trying to come up with a
solution to a problem before it becomes
a bigger problem.
>> Okay, we can sure look at that and we're open to any suggestions.
» I'm sorry.
» Councilman Gibson, did you have any more
Q&A questions?
>> I'm good.
>> Okay.
There'll be no more Q&A questions. We'll
close that part out.
Go to executive executive session.
Constitution
with legal counsel
for the city pursuant to Texas
Government Code
551071
to receive confidential legal advice
concerning written complaints regarding
the conduct of an elected
city council member including
the member's request for
and use of attorney fees attorney
services and authority
of the individual council member to
request such services on behalf of the
city the city responsibility for
resulting legal fees
and the city's available options to
remedy.
We'll convene an executive session at
7:54.
» Mics are on.
>> Okay.
Reconvene at 9:17.
Line item 13, the city council may
reconvene in a regular session and take
any action
authorized by law on the matters
considered in the closed meeting as
required by the Texas Open Meetings Act.
At this time, we've given the city
attorney direction and we will reconvene
on that on the next meeting.
Last item, adjournment.
Is there a motion
to adjourn there being no further
business on the agenda?
>> So moved.
>> Is there a second?
>> I second it.
>> I see a second. Please call the council.
>> Mayor Cleveland.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Pro Tem Bainbridge.
>> Yes.
>> Councilman Moore.
>> So
moved.
>> Councilman Wingate.
>> Yes.
>> Councilman
>> Motion passes.
» I was about to
>> We're adjourned at 9:18.
>> Did you have anything