[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