[16:25] All right, I have 433. This time I'm going to call the meeting and King State

[16:29] Commission to order with that part. Dear heavenly father, we're so grateful

[16:36] to be here and have the opportunity to represent the the people of C. Lord,

[16:42] please just help us make wise decisions. We just uh we thank thank you for all

[16:48] all of our city employees and everything.

[16:52] Just

[16:55] ask all this in your name, Jesus.

[17:00] Amen.

[17:04] I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic

[17:10] for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[17:16] justice for all.

[17:20] [clears throat]

[17:22] » To item number four, public comment comments from citizens.

[17:29] » That's right. No one has been here before.

[17:33] Okay. Item number five, approval of the minutes to be August 18th, 2026.

[17:40] There's no addition.

[17:46] » Have a motion, a second uh to accept as written. All in favor? 65 by

[17:54] motion passes.

[17:58] [clears throat] All right. Um item number six,

[18:02] uh consider and take appropriate action on ordinance number 1259, an ordinance

[18:07] of the city commission for the city of King, Texas, committing the city's

[18:11] budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026, and ending September

[18:16] 30th, 2027, providing a decrease of expected property tax revenue and

[18:22] adjusting related revenues, expenses, and transfers of certain funds.

[18:27] Providing that prior parts of ordinance number 1257 inconsistent with and in

[18:33] conflict with any provision of this ordinance are hereby expressing repeal

[18:38] to the extent of any such inconsistency or conflict providing for building

[18:44] providing for. >> Yes sir. Thank you.

[18:48] The property tax rate that was adopted on August 18th is expected to generate

[18:52] less revenue than was included in the 2026 2027 budget. Therefore, next year's

[18:58] budget needs to be amended. Uh, the proposed amendment would lower property

[19:02] tax revenue in the general fund by $396,191.

[19:07] Lower the transfer expense from the general fund to the TIER fund by $4,744

[19:13] and lower the budgeted revenue in the TI fund by that $4,744.

[19:18] Implementing these changes would result in a budgeted general fund deficit of

[19:22] $364,447,

[19:25] which will be covered by the proceeds of this year's sale of Kim Road property.

[19:30] Staff recommends the adoption of ordinance 1259 amending the 2026 2027

[19:35] fiscal year budget. Move to approve second. Have a motion

[19:41] and second uh to approve [clears throat] ordinance number 1259. Is there any

[19:46] further discussion? All in favor?

[19:55] Thank you. Thank you.

[19:59] Okay. Uh [clears throat] item number seven, consider take

[20:03] appropate action on purchase of police department vehicles.

[20:08] » Yes, sir. Uh next year's budget includes $350,000

[20:12] for the purchase of five vehicles for the Canyon Police Department. Staff

[20:16] would like to place this order now as it takes several months uh after the order

[20:20] is placed before delivery is made. quotes for these vehicles totaling4

[20:24] $341,419 has been received which is $8,581

[20:30] below budget. The five vehicles include one detective Ford Explorer, one Ford

[20:36] Explorer out upfitted to facilitate a K9 unit, and three Ford Explorers to be

[20:41] used as patrol units. Staff recommends the city commission

[20:45] authorize the purchase of five vehicles for the police department not to exceed

[20:49] $350,000.

[20:55] Have [clears throat] a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion?

[20:59] All >> in favor of the motion signify by

[21:01] raising your right hand like that. Motion passes.

[21:06] » Thank you.

[21:09] » All right. Item number eight, consider take appropriate action on proposed CEDC

[21:14] budget for 2026 2027.

[21:20] Good evening everyone.

[21:26] So [clears throat] before you I hope is is the uh the

[21:30] budget for next fiscal year. Uh in the previous year the EDC dispersed a little

[21:36] over 109,000 for marketing and promotion efforts and uh just under 500,000 in

[21:43] project commitments of 49196. So, if you look at the the budget's

[21:49] going to look different than what y'all seen in the past. So, I've uh created a

[21:53] a chart of accounts that matches exactly what we have in QuickBooks, which is

[21:59] going to make this so much uh easier in the future. And I can run a a actual

[22:04] versus projected at any point and and see where we're at. So, you're going to

[22:08] see three categories of marketing and promotion, operations, and projects. And

[22:14] the white the white columns are our current fiscal year uh that we're in

[22:18] now. The yellow columns are the proposed budget. Uh if you look at the at the

[22:23] marketing and and promotion budget, there's no change in the total from last

[22:27] year. Um if you look at the operating budget, you're actually going to see a

[22:34] decrease of about 27,000. A lot of that's mainly due to our

[22:40] insurance cost. We uh joined TML with all of the EDC property last year and

[22:46] dropped our insurance premiums drastically. So uh that's that's why

[22:51] you'll see that number uh smaller. [snorts] One thing that was done

[22:55] differently this year, last year we actually showed a net profit in the

[23:00] budget. Uh this year this is a zero budget with any additional proceeds

[23:05] outside of marketing and operations is all going into projects. So, if you look

[23:10] at the far right column, uh you'll see that $67,000 number. That's the net, uh

[23:16] outside of projected expense, and that just all went into project. So, it's

[23:20] available for project uh expense throughout the year. And so, it makes it

[23:24] makes it a zero budget about 6.8% increase on our proposed

[23:30] sales tax revenue uh from from the current fiscal year. And so that gives

[23:36] us a a budget that we're proposing of 1,442

[23:41] 200. Uh at the very bottom of the page, you

[23:45] can see on August the 17th, we can look at a balance sheet here in just a

[23:48] second, but on August the 17th, that shows what our checking account balances

[23:52] were. So, you're not going to really see much

[23:57] change in any of the line item numbers other than we did create we we did not

[24:02] have a category for any repairs and maintenance on the property that the EDC

[24:07] owns and we're always having to work on an air conditioner, do something, and we

[24:11] didn't have I didn't have a category to pull that out of. We now have a budgeted

[24:14] repairs and maintenance category. Uh so that'll be something different from from

[24:20] the previous year. And we have itemized uh cost of uh benefits on for staff.

[24:27] Those weren't there before. We now have that itemized out and shown as

[24:31] [clears throat] a as an expense to the EDC.

[24:36] Any questions on the budget itself?

[24:42] Okay. Um next page is our balance sheet. Again, uh the very top right is going to

[24:48] show you where we're at on our accounts. We have a a general account and then we

[24:52] have a marketing account. Uh a little over 1.2 million in the bank right now.

[24:59] Uh as you pass the balance sheet, you'll see the sales tax revenue for the year.

[25:05] Uh our last payment was 121 that we received was 121,487, which puts us at,

[25:12] and Joel can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 7.28%

[25:16] up for the year over last year. Yeah. So, that's great. We still have

[25:22] another month to go. I think our projected sales tax revenue in this

[25:25] current budget was 1.259. Uh we're at 1.206 with another month to

[25:31] go that we hope is in the six figures. So, we ought to be 50 60,000 over what

[25:35] our projected sales tax revenue was. So, that's awesome.

[25:41] Uh the last page is a new uh this is our CRM software that we're that we're using

[25:49] more now and uh we used to do a a project spreadsheet out of Excel. This

[25:54] is now being generated by our CRM software.

[25:58] And uh the biggest thing on it is you'll see the left column is the uh total

[26:03] commitment for all of those projects that are going back. Some of these go

[26:06] back numerous years like Lonear and Hampton. Some of them are just in the

[26:09] last couple of years. >> Sure.

[26:13] » But these are the these are the only projects left that that have not been

[26:16] totally fulfilled per the per the agreements.

[26:22] So you can see that the nearly 1,748 is what the commitment was from the EDC for

[26:28] these projects. If you go to the far right column, you can see what's

[26:31] remaining as far as the liability. So, uh, just a little over 300,000 left to

[26:36] fully commit, uh, these projects. I would think that most of them, uh,

[26:41] outside of Hampton will probably be complete this fiscal

[26:46] year. So,

[26:50] and I know we're going to have some some more coming your way. So, that's a

[26:54] that's a good thing in in our business. So, um, that's kind of it in a nutshell.

[27:00] Uh the EDC board met on Thursday, August 20th, and approved this budget to be

[27:06] presented to you for your approval.

[27:17] Second

[27:21] motion, second approve the EDC budget uh as presented.

[27:27] for discussion on paper favor by original right hand

[27:33] side. Thank you. >> Thank you all very much. Appreciate it.

[27:40] » All right. Item number nine, consider appropriate action on Texas municipality

[27:44] intergovernmental risk pool board and trustees election.

[27:49] » Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's that time of year for the risk pool place one,

[27:54] two, three, and four for votes. You'll see the official ballot [clears throat]

[27:59] behind the memo on there. There are three incumbents coming in and

[28:05] then there's one vacancy place. Three was previously held by

[28:11] Jeffrey Snder, city manager. uh he actually now works as the deputy

[28:18] one of the deputy executive directors for the rest. So he has transitioned

[28:22] from being a city manager to that. Uh and so place three is open. Um Mr.

[28:28] Stradling obviously you guys probably know that I have worked with over years

[28:32] my time with [clears throat] his name in the hat. There's not really a regional

[28:37] allocation on this board and so Mr. Schneider prior and claim he was our

[28:41] closest board member and so uh I would put emphasis on Mr. Straddling to be on

[28:48] place three and that uh Buzz is uh is coming back for place one. Buzz is in

[28:55] Henderson over in East Texas. Know Buzz pretty well. He was on the on the health

[29:01] board as the official when I first started on that board. Super guy. He's

[29:06] no longer mayor over there. He has stepped down. He's on our boards. He's

[29:10] in Henderson. Emily Crawford, she is our our TCMA president, Emmeritus. So, she

[29:16] just came off being our TCMA president. She is the newer city manager of

[29:21] Abalene. And then the last one would be a police.

[29:26] He's a city manager in Jersey Village who's also on the TC board.

[29:31] I can speak good about any of these guys, but I think big one is place three

[29:36] for Derek. I'm hoping we can get enough person down here.

[29:40] That'll be a tough spot. Street has a lot of people.

[29:45] This is my recommendation on those.

[30:06] We need to make it >> uh for all for

[30:13] » Yeah, you can just make a motion for the recommended

[30:21] recommendation.

[30:24] » Second motion second uh to approve the agenda

[30:32] proposed by city management. Uh is there any further discussion?

[30:39] All in favor say five by raise your right hand

[30:42] like that.

[30:47] All right. Very good. And that now takes us to exec session. Uh pursuant to

[30:54] 551.071 consultation with attorney legal advice

[30:59] 551.072 72 deliberations about real property 55174

[31:06] personnel matters municipal judge and board appointments

[31:12] candidate economic development board and 51.087

[31:17] for deliberation regarding economic development negotiations

[31:21] with that have 448

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