>>> all right, good evening everyone.
I would
like to call the buda city council
to
order at 6:31. We have
an invocation from cole phillips
from the connection church. If you
would
please rise for the invocation and
remain standing for the pledges.
>>
I
just want to mention jeremiah
29/7 tells us to seek the
peace and prosperity of the city. Pray
to
the lord for it. If it prospers, you, too, will
prosper, so we want to pray for our
peace and
prosperity tonight. Let's do that. Dear
heavenly father, thank you that we
can
come
before you today recognizing you,
who you are,
that you bless the meeting and guide
our leaders with
wisdom as they make decisions that
will impact
so
many lives in our community. We ask
that you
give them understanding to seek the
good with
integrity and fairness. Help them
to work together in unity for the
betterment of our city. I pray for
their families as well. As they are
given their time tonight
to serve in this way. And each day
that they give,
help their decision to be
marked with understanding, with empathy,
with
a true desire to serve our community and
we lift up our city to you
and all of our residents. We ask
for your
protection over our city. That you
provide
with prosperity. Bless
us with peace and
we ask
that buda is well known for its compassion
and love. We ask
all
this in jesus' name. Amen.
>> all
right, please be seated. Ms. Ramirez,
can
we have a roll
call? The mayor
is
here, ture, smith, davidson, horne-williams.
>>
we are
all present and a quorum. This brings
us
to items
of community interest. School is back
in
session and still hot. But things
are happening.
>> city hall
will be closed on
labor day,
monday, september 1st. There are the
upcoming
public meetings, remainder
of august and
going into september. Of note, our
next
city council meeting will be september
2nd and september
16th and september 17th we will host
a joint
meeting between the parks and recreation
commission
and buda bond oversight committee. Bboc.
here are some remaining programs for
the month of
august hosted by our
awesome buda public library. As you
heard earlier, the buda edc is hosting
in partnership
with a number
of agencies in the area. The future
career
expo is this thursday, august
31st here
at
city
hall. We are looking for
opinions. Help us to identify how
we will move
forward with our historic guidelines. And then, on
friday,
august 22nd, we are a, a sun
radio southbound series
will take place at meridian. On september
13th,
this saturday, we are going to be
participating in the preparedness
fair. I
believe this is
going to be hosted in kyle. Wendy
smith will
be at that hosting
that. And
is
currently
planning for our presence. September
10th we will be, the buda chamber
of commerce
will be eaching our honorable mayor
who will be
given
the
state of the community. This will
be at the ctx center. You are
large and in charge there
sir. We have a couple
of remaining
summer concert series. September
20th
at
the buda amphitheater. The buda
arts festival october. Coming up a
couple of months. And
get ready for buda
halloween,
the vendor
applications are open. We
have
rail
car revival coming back.
>> any
questions for con sill? Thank
you.
>>>
this
is emergency preparedness month. Wendy smith.
as the mayor mentioned
this
is recognizing august as capcog.
where
it is a political subdivision
of the state
of texas serving caldwell,
fayette. Hays, lee, travis, williamson
counties. The state of
texas historically leads
the nation
in
federally
declared disasters. Where local agency. School. Dedicate
countless hours to preparedness. Response,
mitigation, to protect the
lives, businesses, property, and the
environment in
their communities. And whereas the
efforts of
the region's emergency managers
have assisted communities to repair,
recover, rebuild, and become more
resilient in the face of continuing
threats,
emergencies and
disasters. The region's local agency,
school, university, previous
avenue
private sector emergency
managers are greatly appreciated by
the
counties they deserve. We declare
the
month
of august,
2025 as capcog emergency appreciation
month. Commitment, dedication, of
local agency school,
university, private sector manager
managers in the capcog region.
>> just
an observation, we
do
this
every
year
in
august. Leading
up to hurricane month. A lot of
things. I'm very proud
of our
county. How we can
come together. But, it is impressive
how different
organizations
do work together, come together. For the
record
I have a cool little badge.
we pause in
august to look back.
am I ready
for.
>> our focus
in texas.
all of our
[ inaudible ]
and then we
also have .
we feel like it
is
part
of, we look ahead
, there,
and
that will be held.
>> all right, that
brings us to our public
comment and public testimony portion. So,
members of the public who
wish to participate during public
comment must
complete a forum and turn that forum
into city clerk before this
time is called
and members of the public who wish
to
participate must complete a form. And
turn that in before that agenda
item is called this evening. I
do
have one public comment form. Only
one. So
if I could have brandon clark
please
come to the podium? If you would state
your name and address. You have your
three
minutes, sir.
>> hi, good evening. My
name
is brandon clark. I have been a buda
resident since
august 23rd, 2019 at 2230 intrepid
drive
in the meadow
park subdivision. Good evening
councilmembers, mayor. Brandon clark,
I'm proud buda
resident and we have been here since
I
was just before I turned 30. Purchased our
home,
august 23rd, two days before
my 30th birthday which is a proud
moment for myself, I was
able to move out and
own my own home without being 30 living
with my parents
which was pretty great for me. It
is a great quiet neighborhood and
we have great neighbors. It is nice
to have a place to
call my own. But that time was
pretty short
lived. August 23rd, 2023,
at the address 750 f.m. 2001 which
is right behind
my backyard. We had
progress coffee open. And, progress
coffee was initially
offered as a cafe and coffee shop
which was short lived. About
a month after they opened, they had
switched
to a bar. And, within that first
day of opening, they celebrated their
opening which is great
with a five
piece band. And, that band was about
as loud as you would
imagine it
being at buck's backyard. So with
that band
playing very loud, it was something,
where
doing what we could. Tried calling
the business. Got
no response from the business. They
we ended up
calling the deputies for
assistance with sound complaints. We
initially thought we reached out to
the
buda police but the deputies
which we quickly learned
that the buda sound ordinance we had
followed up
with did not
apply to progress. Apparently
to the address, they
fall in county. The surrounding neighbors
all are within the city limits. Not
sure if the council
is aware, but for county, there is
no sound ordinance. Buda sound ordinance,
the ordinance for
residential is 63 during
the day. There is nighttime and
die time stipulated
for the county. There is an 85-decibel
limit any time, any day, no matter
what. So with no sound ordinance in
place, there is no nighttime, no daytime
established. For progress, they are
able to
come through and play music as loud
as they
want. It started out on
a friday, saturday, sunday. That quickly
turned into live music and d.j.s
so I'm not
sure what bars really have ded.j.s
that play outside of a
six street
bar. But that's what we experienced. I
guess
we are looking for assistance with
annexation to
be
able to bring their little bubble
into buda city
limit to
abide by
the taxes. Thank you.
>> thank
you. All right, the next section is
consent agenda. They are considered routine
by the city council
and will be enacted by
one motion unless
separate discussion is required. We
have two items on
consent agenda. The approval of august
5, 2025 special and
regular city council
meeting minutes and h2, the
approval of the final fiscal year,
the
budget for the economic development
corporation. We had a prior meeting
about h2
before this meeting in the public. Anyone
on council want
to pull one of these
items or approve them
as slate?
>> mayor, can we pull h2
real quick? But I will
make a motion
we approve h1.
>> second. >> all right,
a motion
and a second for h1. All
in favor say aye. Any
opposed? Motion carries on
h1. That brings h2
as the fiscal year budget
for the buda edc. Ms. Storm.
>>
this will be very quick.
>> okay. >>
just want the
rest of our community to hear
the amazing work our edc has done
in my experience the last
six years
alone under the leadership of jennifer
storm. Many of her board members are
incredible. And the
things that they have brought to the
community and continue
to bring are absolutely
astounding. And it will change
buda forever. We are
still a small town. But we do sit
next to austin
on the 35 corridor. So this group
is charged with
ringing right development here in
terms of industry, business, so I just
want to go on
the record saying I appreciate y'all. And
thank you for everything you have
done for buda.
>> thank you very
much. But five of you sitting up there
have served on
the edc and without that guidance and
relationship these last few years we would not
be
where we are today. So thank all of you
for your support and our
staff. And board and everything
they do every day. So thank you
with the recognition.
>> with that
I will make the motion to approve.
>>
we have a motion and
a second. All in favor,
aye. Any opposed? Page two carries. That
brings us to our first
and only workshop this evening so
I
i1 is west
oak public improvement district. Workshop. This
is from
our city engineer
and development service
director.
>> good evening mayor and
council. I
want to introduce the
west oak development proposed off
fm1626. They
are here to present a public
improvement district concept for the
west coke development. And I will
pass off
the presentation
to the development team to bruise
themselves and
give the workshop.
>> good
evening. Mr. Mayor, council members. For
the record, my
name is steven simsick with
the west oak development. Our
team is here as ms. Kennedy stated
to give a pit workshop, but
also to give you an update on
where the project stands. Since we
saw you last in december, we have
been
working on a lot
of details on the project and we think
we solved a lot of key
elements of the project and we want
your feedback on
that today. And
the public improvement district is
a key element of
that. We have our full
team here. And particularly patrick
bourn to wac you through
what we
are looking at
there. So to introduce our team,
we are the developers. , derook couldn't
be here this evening but
he passes on his regards. We added
a
few members. Corresponding with the
pid and some other
features of
the project. Jeff howard, of mcclain
and howard is
our development counsel. I mentioned
patrick
bourn of sun dance analytics. He
is our pid
financial consultant. Elliot jones
is on the
residential portion of our
project. And bryan grace remains our
engineer but he is not available tonight.
before
we get to the pid, just a few update
slides to
let you know where
the project stands today. West oak
was always intended to
be a
key development, a walkable missioned
use development to
meet the comprehensive plan. 250 for
sale town hole units
which will increase the median
density housing options in the area. Along
with that, 40,000 square foot
of retail amenities. We are protecting
a large grove of trees,
70 plus trees in
the protected signature heritage categories. That
is kind of
embedded in a two acre park with
5,000 feet of trails weaving through
the project. And $19
million of infrastructure investment
are part of the project. We
have other details we will
show you, but those
are the the key elements. I also wanted
to state tonight, we
listen to
the community. To
go back
about 16 months march march 26 of
2024. We
kind
of
took the feedback and
listens to the reasons
why it wasn't
approved. We drop it down to 2019. Folks
said it
was too tall, the four stories would block
view
of the hill country. We
heard that for sale
was preferable to rental. Folks also
said
it was too dense at 20.7 units an
acre so we dropped that down to
nine units
an acre. We heard the impervious
cover was too high. We heard that four
drive
throughs was too many. So we dropped
that down to two. And plus the possibility
of a drive through
attach today the inline building. We
did all of
this by maintaining the
amenities. Open space drops because
open
space is con figured
per the
number of residential units. We have
a lot of enhanced landscaping along
the
right
of way,
coal springs road. Retail did drop
from 97,000 square
feet down to 40. And I have another
slide I will cover
the reasons for that. So maybe
I'll hold on that topic for
now. But we
did
that maintaining the curb. Keeping
a
signature restaurant building in
the plan. As well as the inline for
smaller shops
and
restaurants that
served the community. So the details on
the
retail program, 40,000 square foot. 9,500
square
foot family concept. That's the picture
on the
top. 7,500
square foot signature restaurant. That
is the picture on the
lower left. And we also have
16,000 square foot inline shops. And
two
3,500
square foot individual buildings.
so one of
the things asked of us was to look
at some of the
other successful projects in buda. So
we did that and did a bit of
a comparison to show where we stack
up. And I think
when you look at
it, we
have a really contextual project. We
looked at the
bend, the corner on main, and compared
that with west oak. So if
you look at land
area for example devoted to commercial. We
are at
13 acres in the middle of the pack
with others
ranging from nine
to 14
acres. In terms of building area for
commercial, we
are at 40,000 feet. Right at the middle
of the sed, the others
are at 50,000,
48,000 or 15,000 square feet. We have
a nice anchor. A family concept,
the moon water saloon, tap
in golf. Same thing with tenants. Food
and
beverage related. Service for the
local
community. And then, amenities, some
folks have a little bit
of amenities. The bend has a nice
set. We have a nice
set. With parks, trails,
outdoor
uses like pickle ball. And
rural heritage. We will have the 40-foot landscape
buffer in the front
of our project which helps
a lot with curb appeal. And we have
a
lot of infrastructure we have to bring. A
new traffic
light. New collector road. Which other
projects don't have to do. So those
are the metrics, curb appeal is something that
we
are, that is very important. It is
to
us, the city, to tenants. This image
shows what you
can
do with landscaping, signage. The
highway. This image shows the outdoor
family concept. Kind
of embedded in the
trees and
the park to create a sense of place. This
shows
the restaurant building with outdoor
space around it to
kind
of activate the area. Along coal
springs road with a multiuse pass
to create
a nice boulevard effect. This shows
how the
whole plan comes together
with the two signature buildings framing
the
pond and coal springs road in
a park like setting. So in terms
of the
residential, the program is
215 town home units for sale. This
help it is retail to
have this residential
behind it. We dropped it down to two
stories. Adds to the development
of housing options in
west buda. And
more importantly, it is compatible
with commercial. The corridor studied
to
have commercial along the frontage. And
some kind
of
medium density use behind it. And
we
are
basing the town homes
off of harvest meadows but
we have
made some improvements. One of them
being
sure we have a 50-foot. A lot of times
you don't
have the right space for streetscape. And
the other thing we are
doing is increaseing the setback of the
buildings of
25 feet from 20. To ensure that cars
and
trucks when they park in the
driveway
don't
encroach on the sidewalk.
the traffic is
reduced by 45%. We are able to
maintain all of the
traffic improvements that
total $6 million. One of each entrance
of safety. The new extension of coal
springs
road. These are public roads we build
and dedicate to the
city. These
all kind of go along, we
are
building a portion of
that. Parks trails and open space,
5,000 feet,
trails through the projects. Two acres of
open space will be
accessible to the public. And
a
one acre
private amenity. So now to infrastructure. This
slide shows how west okay kind
of fulfills the puzzle. The colony
and the reserve
are
bringing roads, traffic, infrastructure,
as well
as water and waste water utilities
all
the way to
the f.m. 1626 corridor and west oak
completes
that. The last piece of the puzzle.
so there is a
lot of detail on
this slide that got cut off. And I
didn't intend to
go through every number on this page anyway. But,
the idea was
to show you all the categories of
infrastructure that we are bringing. Right? So,
we
are bringing
what utility lines east of f.m. 1626. That is the blue and
orange on the page. We are also up
sizing utilities through west oak. And
that's going
west, south, and north. So above and
beyond what we are bringing
to serve our project. We are up
sizing to kind of connect to future
development around
us. We are also creating a water loop. So
that again, other developments can
tie
in fairly easily. Then we have road
and traffic
infrastructure
we have talked about already. Then
there are some categories of
other including, you know, the water
quality pond and
water treatment. And then, a number
of items are
going to the residential infrastructure. Some
of which is public.
those become public infrastructure. It's
a little unfortunate this slide didn't come through and we
had some of this
information
we provided to staff.
some of
these categories we are proposing
impact fee credits for. These items
are for the cip. These
projects
you would have built otherwise. We
have a number that is applied for
the pid
that patrick is going
to explain. And I thought I could
read that off the
screen
but
social security not there.
>> and
steven, I see what you see on the
screen. But the link on
the website, it shows the full picture.
>> so you guys are able to see
it.
>> I'm looking at both all
the time. But, we do see that is
$19
million. 2.6
is impact fees. Funded
by pid, 7.8 million. It is on the
bottom of
the screen you can't see, what the developer
pays. If you really
want to, we can
kind of switch it and go and make
it. I think this is
an important page
is what I'm getting to.
>> if you are
able to
do
that,
that would be great.
>> but
as we work on that, you can keep moving
forward. We will find
it on the city's website. It is on
the presentation for us. So
we have it.
>> I
think it
is a different slide actually.
>>
is
there a different file we can call
up
up? , is that what you
are saying?
>> she actually went back to the
power point
slide.
>>
these don't line
up.
>> okay. >> there you
go, that's the full picture. We entered
comments
like the developers
posted to
build this infrastructure. We also heard
comments like be
careful about asking for
incentives. So this was our plan to drag
it ourselves. The
city doesn't have the contract to
do it. They don't have to manage the
construction
of any of these items. And again,
we are doing this
without asking y'all to write any
kind
of checks for these things. The way
we do
that again,
to cover that 19.3, there's 2.6
that
come from impact fees. 7.8
come from the pid. Patrick and jeff
and
else yont can
explain this better than I. That is
like a lower
cost of debt for us. That is paid
for by the
project or paid for by residence. We
are actually going
to
attach that
to the retail. Administrative cost,
all of that is
paid for out of the pid funding and we pay
the rest out
of our project finance. This is our
way to
bring all of this
infrastructure. And all the benefits. Basically
having
us drag it
and run the project.
we can come
back to this. But the other thing
that we could
ask is you know, why should buda do
this. We thought it would be
good to lay out all of the benefits
of
west oak on one page. And, go through
that before we
get into the pid. So, the benefits
of west oak again,
the $19 million of
infrastructure question just mentioned. 8.6
of these
are public utilities. Traffic improvements. 3.3 of these
are already on
the
cip or the
transportation master plan which
would lower your cost. They generate
fiscal and economic benefits. $88million
investment in the corridor. This generates
$10
million of positive fiscal impacts
over 20 years to buda. This is
to the city of buda. There's also
benefit to the
county and the school district. This
is 10 million
directly to buda. It will
generate 40 plus permanent
jobs. And the zoning benefits. We
designed this to be
the realization of the
corridor as we mentioned. And we are
bringing 40,000 square foot
of retail. And
diversifying the housing stock. And
I think
in some,
we are trying to just ask for as little
as
possible and deliver as much as possible
so we really trimmed down our ask. We
worked with staff to
eliminate as many zoning modifications
as possible. The old
plan had a request of
$5 million of incentives with
edc. We
have taken that out. So we have tried today lower
the ask and keep
all the benefits and we are asking
y'all
to
look at this comprehensively. Hopefully, you look
at it like we do as a good deal for all.
so I think I will turn
it over to patrick to go over the
pid. Unless you
want to
stop to talk about the infrastructure
now.
>>
let's go ahead and do the
pid. We have
a couple now. So we do understand
the terminology manufacture than we
did. Let's put the whole package together
and
we will
circle
back with questions.
>> mayor, member
of council, I appreciate your
time. This evening to allow us to
go through this
presentation
with you. My name
is patrick horne. I want to reintroduce
myself to you and thank
you for your time. I know that you
have been through the pid process
before so I don't want to go through
this in a
super amount of details. But I did
think it would be beneficial to at
least
touch iten from an
overall view as to the way public
improvement districts
work. As
we
look at
the public improvement district, the
way it works putting it in a nutshell
is that the developer requests the city
to
place a lien on their property. That
lien is then repaid over a period
of time, typically
30 years. The city using those repayment
that's are coming
over, coming back over that 30 year
period is able
to issue tax exempt bonds. Which
provide a lower interest rate, a lower
cost of financing, those bonds are
then
repaid by the property owners, repaid
by those
30 years of payments. Those payments
are only made by
property owners within the district of
this pid which would be coterminous
with the boundaries
of the project itself. No payments
would be placed on
any property outside
the boundaries of this project to
repay
the tax exempt bonds being issued
by the city. As we
look at this, just one of the things
I like
to remind councils and members
of the public is that this lien, these
pids have no impact
on property outside the boundaries
of the pid
itself at the project. That lower
interest rate, that
lower cost of financing is what provides
the ability to
put in the amount of infrastructure
that was
being
discussed through this presentation.
that infrastructure is the
lardest hurdle to get any development moving
forward particularly when you are
looking
at a smaller development with large
amounts of off
side
infrastructure. Bringing in regional
infrastructure. It is critical to
maintain
the lowest cost financing
as possible. The pid proceeds can't
be used for
private improvements. They can't be
used for vertical. They can only be
used
for public infrastructure dedicated,
conveyed or leased
for the benefit of
the city. We talked about the
type of bonds, not rated. These bonds
are in no way
on able grace by the city. They
are only secured by the property that
is within
the boundaries of the pid. Though
the ponds are issued
by tax exempt bonds by the city, the
city
and its
residents have no responsibility whatsoever. It was
only secured by
the property within
the boundaries of the pid.
we insist the city create a you said
p lick improvement district to help
fund the cost for a
portion
of that public infrastructure.
did that move forward? The way we
are looking to propose this public
improvement district, is that
first of all, all costs associated
by the pid will be
paid by the pid. The city would not
come out of pocket for
any
of the creation costs, or out of pocket
for any
of the bond issuance cost. It would
be paid for by the pid and
not be paid by
any residents of the city. I know
you had experience
with other pids in the past. We anticipate
that this
would be
a
single pid bond issue.
to help
assist with the construction
financing for
the public improvements only. We are
currently looking at a
tax rate of 299 per $100 of
assessed
values on the project.
one of
the things we are looking
at, this pid would be a level structure. It
would remain
approximately level the entire term
of that third year period. No escalation. Though
home
values and values make increase over
time, the payments would remain essentially
level and not
inflate or escalate with the
value of the homes. One of the other
things
we
wanted
to point out here,
annexing in the city
boundaries. They are voluntarily taking
on the
city tax break. In an effort
to keep them competitive.
we are
not requesting this. As mentioned
by steven, we are not requesting
the benefits
from the city. The pid installments
would
be paid
by the
property owners. As we move through
process, the
request would be to work, continue
working
with
the
city and their staff.
as
we go through each one of those steps,
approve will
be required by city council. As
we provide a pid petition. As we
go forward with hopefully the creation
of the pid. And ultimately,
the issuance of the bonds. All of
those are different steps where
we would be working with
staff. The whole time. And continually
providing feedback and receiving approval
from the
city council prior to moving forward
with
any
of those those steps. That
kind
of
wraps up the overview.
>> thank you. Thank you patrick. We
will,
questions
from council? We have a few.
>> thank
you
very much for the presentation. I
have a couple of
questions about the infrastructure. So,
if we could go back to the slide where
I think you
outlined
some of the items.
so we are talking about
a pid to cover the
utility
lines. The regional water loop. Roads. What
else is in here? Residential infrastructure. So,
on a typical bill, those are things
that
you would
normally cover half.
>> it is
common for residential projects when
you have this much infrastructure,
that you do something with a pid or
a mud. We were trying
to
keep this presentation a little we
didn't
want to pound you with a lot of detail
but we
have something we can provide where
we
looked at west oak versus the other
pids and muds that
had been done in buda. So
like although
we
are a little smaller. That is
similar
to projects like
persimmon
that had done something similar. If
there is a
lower amount of investment, you might
not need
a pid or a mud. We were
able to spread the
infrastructure across the project. But when
question drop the
number of units, the project
doesn't work without a pid or
a mud structure.
>> okay. So then,
my follow-up question would be
is if you weren't
granted a pid, how would you finance
this?
>> I don't
think we can. I don't know
how we would do it. Maybe a further answer to
your question is there
are some
project that's
don't have to build the extension
of
a public road. Maybe they have water
and sewer to their property
and don't have
as many off site. It is really on
a site by
site basis, whether you have
all of those
infrastructure items. And how much
you spend
over your total project. Did I get
that right as
to why the residential projects need
the
pids and the
muds?
>> good
evening council. Elliot jones. I heard his
answer. I guess if I were to
add anything,
how would
you finance it? The reason behind
the
request is really what he
had described that it provides low
cost financing alternative that allows
you
to put more infrastructure
in because of the access to
the tax exempt debt. Basically it
is lower interest rate. The effect
of
the pid, it is money that
has to be paid back. It is borne by
taxpayers to the extent
that someone will buy and pay a town
home. What they can
pay for it, it has to be offset by selling
the town
home for less for example. To
make the same payment. So, but since it
is a cost of debt
that is lower than what
you get, just raising debt
or, traditional debt financing through
a
bank. And equity, it improves the
project economics to the
extent to allow you to fit more infrastructure
in. So
sorry
for that explanation. But, that's
all I got.
>> no worries. I have a
couple more real quick questions. So,
what's
the average square foot you
are looking as for these 219
town homes?
>> they
are
about 2,000 square feet.
>> what
what is
your average price?
>> right around 400,000.
>> do you think that is viable in the
market right
now?
>> we do. This is
an
attractive sub market. There's been
successful town home project ins the
area
and they have resold well. When they
go back on
the market,
they are selling very well and there
is not a lot of that product here so
I think it will be attractive.
>> okay. I'm going to trust that
you are good with that. Because I'm thinking
at 2,000
square feet, we have homes right now
in neighborhoods
that are pretty well established that
are 2600
square feet and they are not selling
for
400,000. I get these are new. I get
that you will sell it
as a
new
development. But just keeping in mind
once we have this workshop, we
have having these conversations, coming
back to us will be a whole other
conversation if we have
to revisit this because that will
be your gap. Can you sell
it for the price you are selling it
for. If we approve a pid,
how high can you go on the amount
you can charge
on that
in order to recoop something. And
whether or not financially it will
work
for you guys to build
this. So I am going to trust that
you are good with
that.
>> we are good with it. And
the
project moves
forward
along with the pid the
other financing decisions are made at
the same
time we initiate the
pid funding. We wouldn't go forward
with the pid if we weren't going to
sell
the units. It wasn't as
easy
as it was in 2020. In 2021. It is
a little harder
in the housing market. But
that is why we need
this. We have engineered this as
far
as we could go.
>> affordability is an
issue. They are looking for communities
south of
boston and affordability. If we build 219
town
homes
at 200 square foot each. Maybe two
or three
or four could squeeze in there and
$400,000 is
a lot of
money for 2,000 square feet. I don't
want
this to be performative. I want to
make
sure you guys have buttenned your
belts and are coming at
us
with
what's going to be. No bait and switch.
>>
no, we
are not bait and
switching. We believe
this project works.
>> questions? Comments? Mr.
smith?
>> probably more comments
than questions. Thank you for being
here tonight. And
all the presents for providing an
update. This project
has
been going around and around. Trust
has
been mentioned. Trust will verify. When
I hear words like project doesn't
work, we have a developer
in front of us. I can
respect that. I absolutely can. We all
work to make money to
support our families. I totally get
that. We
have no idea. We are working blindly
here on what
that number truly is. We start talking
about public financing, like pids,
to change what's out
there now, into a medium density residential
development, and we are
in a year right now where tax rates
are going
up. Home values are going down. Revenues
are tight on the city
side. And we look at a $400,000
town
home and a
potential 353500 annual additional
cost. If this trend
continues that will squeeze the homeowners
in the future. It will squeeze them,
it will squeeze us as far as what
we can expect a
homeowner to pay in the form
of all kinds of taxes. Whether it
is school bonds, city boppeds, property
taxes. It just
need to
be perfect. And the 17
months I believe you referenced earlier. A
bait
and switch was mentioned. That is
what we are treading here
on this development. We saw something
when times were, looked
like it was workable and every time
it came back, it was
a little bit different. And this one,
the
financial piece of it is already a
challenge. It
is a
challenge for you guys
to make the project work. We see the challenge
it will be on the homeowners.
that is something we will
collectively
have to work out. I would like to
make
a recommendation side by side. This
speak to
that trust factor. At the beginning
of the presentation it was
a side by side comparison
that favored
okay let's do this. But then, when
councilmember williams was asking
about infrastructure, it gets tough
to compare
side by side
right? So setting a precedent comparing
the sites,
just not a good look. So back to
the
slide I mentioned. The bend. No residential
component whatsoever. The shops at
garlic creek. Quarter and
main. You
have this mixed model
okay? My interpretation of you can't
compare side by side. Those
are not good comparisons. They
are sales tax generating
commercial retail development. If
we are going to compare, I want to
compare
something apples to apples which you
guys are willing to
do it. Buda
is in a position where
every project is unique. Every project should
bring something to the
community especially when we are going to
roll out a pid program when we know
the resident ins
the future will be wedged between
paying what they are
required to pay and watching
their
other tax rates fluctuate. That will
be a challenge
so we have to nail this. It will be
amazing. We said this
in our previous pids. They are not
just
there for regular infrastructure. They
are there for amazing
blow us away. Which we saw from the
very first
presentation. I was sitting right
here. The drone
flying over,
the whole thing. It was amazing. On
board. Then
things changed and we were not on
board. I
love the workshop environment
because it allow
this feedback. I'm nowhere near making
a commitment
on anything. Is there is nowhere you
cannot squeeze the homeowners,
take on responsibility for the development
itself and I'm not
talking about the oversized public
infrastructure, I understand the impact
for
your credit. Not talking about that. We
are asking you
guys to oversize. Where you wouldn't
need
to. Not even worried about that. That's
on
us. But if you guys can lessen the
future burden
on these future home buyers, our future
citizens that
will come here, you can
increase your sales tax generators.
you can very much further down on
the list behind
those two. But, make
it unique. I
love the buildings further to
the south, southeast, the
buildings on the south. When you creep
back toward the
north. I didn't see any elevation
on those so I don't know what
it looks like from
the road. It was all aerial on those
but we got
nice elevation on those other buildings
and they look
amazing. If we
can match the north side
I think we are getting closer to a wow factor,
I will leave
that up to you guys. But
feel
free. It is a workshop. There wasn't
really a question in there. These
were
more observations and comments.
>> councilmember
smith,
I appreciate the
feedback. That
is what this is for. There is a lot
in what you
said. So I want to
respond. Maybe first on
the trust thing. We just can't do
what we showed you
back then. We have been trying
to put this
together. It ends up being,
I'll call it a contextual
project. Something that is similar
to the other retail projects and I
will
get to the side by side
thing in a minute. I asked
the staff some questions on this. Like
what
should this look like. We went back
on
forth on rural heritage. And they
talked about some examples, circle
c onslaughter lane was one. That
is mentioned in the comprehensive plan. So
I took
a look at that. You have setbacks
for trees
which
I have. We said okay. We were resisting a
bit
on rural
tore damage. It is very
specific. It is
very specific about design criteria. We
have
a few tweaks for rural heritage. But
we said okay, is it
okay if
we do
that? Kind of yeah. So, I get it
on the wow factor. It is just that
is
not something that we can do so
we are trying to
do something that is contextual. And
when you drive around, you see
a
lot
of stone. You see that
rule character. And we have, we are
trying to manage how much detail we
gave you all. But we have
elevations of the other buildings. They
match up with the
udc. They match up
with rural heritage. So, we are happy
to do
that. And, we wanted a mix. An inline
building
looks like an inline building but
if you
look at circle c, they are like inline
buildings. They are inline buildings
with stone. With a lot
of landscaping around them. So
we can do that. And when you mentioned
the side by
side,
the infrastructure thing is kind of
a tricky thing to look
at. Someone said how much infrastructure
went into those? And
we just didn't know. We put the presentation
together and we have to do it
like a week out to give it to
you all. So we can look at that and
see how much did they
have to put in for that? Did they
do
a traffic
light or new roads? So, it is kind
of case by case. You
know. We have another analysis
and looked at projects and
why they needed pid. So we can go
through that with staff and you all. But
we are trying to
get over that hurdle of where we
were. I have to do some
math. Two
years
ago, something like that. We are trying
to
put the pieces together. Responding
to staff
comment. And to the zoning and then,
putting together
the financing of it. Right? So, we
are happy
to kind of walk staff through that
a little bit more if that's
the best way to
do it. So, we hear you. I think we
have
addressed it. It is just sometimes,
we haven't had a chance to talk about
it. And you know, we have gone through
a lot of detail
in the past nine months with this. And
it
is hard to get it all in here. Maybe
after
this session, we'll talk with staff
about what's the best
way to get you folks that information to
get the
answers to those questions.
>> more questions? >> one more question
on the
financial side. And
I appreciate
that most of what I was going
to ask was by smith and horne-williams.
>>
: would
they be charged the same $3,500 that
would be attach
today the retail units or
is that split
up differently? Would that make it
lower for
homeowners?
>> the way we take a look
at that. By law, payments have to
be allocated in equitable
fashion based on the benefit they
receive from the public infrastructure. When
we were looking at the $3,500 on average we
thought just so you guys
could get an idea. When we
say
88 cents per assessed value, so the way
you look at
it from the retail, the retailers
would be paying
their fair share based on
their estimated value as
well. Of 88 cents per
assessed value. That way it
is being equitable. Consistent with
the legal requirements that we have
to
pursue when
creating a public improvement district.
>> okay. >>
we just don't have that
on a per unit basis.
>> just a couple of
other comments and stuff. I was remembering
back
to the last workshop. This is, you have the
last piece
of the puzzle
for this whole corridor. To
me this is really setting
a
precedent for that corridor. I want
this to have that
wow factor, we want
to get it right. I know there is that
presentation to the community at the
garlic creek
center tomorrow. I
was hoping that would happen before
this workshop. I was interested in
the
feedback from the community. I will
be
following up on that. And things that I
think
this was very
financially based, this workshop. But
concerns I had from the
last one, you know, turning out or
not having a way to get
to that light from the brewery,
I still see
that as
a problem for me. And
then, I saw
you did an extra five feet of setback
on the
driveway to accommodate large
trucks for parking in the front. I
know parking in the street, parking
in stuff is a problem
in
a lot
of communities. 2,000 square
foot. Family of four. I see
two vehicles in the driveway
and that quickly becomes more. I saw a thing
there there was
parking in the back to keep the parking
in the streets better
and a cleaner look up front. That
is something that I know has been
talked
about. But something that I would
look
at.
>> so, we have
extra parking kind of dispersed through
the
project
about 30 spaces. Throughout the project
each unit will
have a garage. Even if folks put
things in the garage,
they'll have two. Space for two car
ins the driveway. And
some spaces kind
of integrated into the project.
>>
okay, thank
you.
>> and, let's talk also about the, you
said getting in and
out
of the brewery location?
do you mean turning left into
the project?
>> it is a busy road
and it is getting
busier and busier. So whereas
all the other commercial, they can
go up. I don't know what the
name of that street will be. But they
can come out and go
to the light. If they are turning
left
going northbound, they are protected. But,
coming out of there, there is no
way to get to that
main road. So, folks that are going
north,
they will cut across a pretty
busy intersection
there.
>> yeah. You know, we don't
have our
traffic here today. We went through
all
of this with tex
dot and hayes county. Let me get a
little more
detail
on how
that works.
>> mr. Ture, go ahead. >>
thank y'all for the presentation. Some
things have
already been said, including your
question just there, I
was
going to check on that split so thank
you for
that walk through. Is it 30-year is
expected on the installments? Like,
basically, the pid would be
paid down in 30
years?
>> yes. >> based
on this current
preliminary but 3500? Per unit? Estimated?
>>
that is correct. And that
is consistent with most of the pids that
you see throughout the
state
of texas. That 30 year term.
>> that question
and that question
for my key to finalizing my understanding
of the pid. You
have gotten a lot of feedback already. I
will sum mine up by saying
some agreement and just caution. But
broadly, I
think what really is key is what y'all came
back with based on the feedback you
got. So, you know, you had
it on I think the
second
slide. Reduction in units. Reduction
in height. Going to
for sale
from rental. The
density. Impervious
cover. Drive throughs, open space. While
keeping some of the signature buildings. It
is so obviously
key or we made it key is keeping some
of
these signature trees in
the environment? Terms of just the
heritage aspect of
that project. And what's around that
house that is there today. The point
is that
grove, if you will. Just a lot of
things I think y'all came
back with. Which is good. I want to
see the retail number
go up. I understand the pressures. But
if it is workshop and
you are looking
for that feedback, that is one that
is I think you have made
a lot of good moves. That
retail portion is important
to us. To see it go down
that much is tough. But I understand
where you are at. The pid, I
can generally see and get
behind. It is
super tight
on that three cents.
just being at 299 is right
up against and y'all are aware of
that. I'm not telling
you anything you don't know. It is
tight. And our pid policy is
a
pretty bright line there. So, I think
some
of the cautioner you heard. That makes
it sound like motions are happening
when
I second
it. I will
echo. Some of the caution. We are
not interested in
moving that policy number. Just know
that is where we
are at. And so, y'all are up against
it but came back with
a lot of the changes that
you heard feedback on. So, as far
as workshop, I think that those are
some of
my notes. I would appreciate a bunch
of those moves working
to make something
that still matches our tmnp. And,
our master plan. And a
lot of the responses you got in
the original design. While coming
back
with something. So yeah. Thanks.
>>
all right. I appreciate that. And
to that,
we wanted to keep a close eye on that
line. And I think as you
mentioned, the pid rate overall as
a line,
we are looking at that $3,500 as well
as the pid rate and looking at communities
in and around buda as well to make
sure
that we are not boxing ourselves
out from a competitive standpoint. We
wanted to make sure we were competitive
with other
project ins the area. The other thing
we wanted to look at as we
are doing this and coming back. I
would like
to just kind of reiterate item is
we are voluntarily
annexing the property
into the
city to bring property tax revenues
into the city of buda. We wanted to
keep that rate where
it is without having to request
any tax increment reinvestment zones. We
didn't want the city to have to
participate to
buy that down further. So we were
trying to hit a
spot
we thought was competitive
in the mark without
requesting any city assistance. We
are trying to juggle all of those
while having
a project we can produce. It doesn't
do to set a rate where we can't
sell the units so we are being very
careful with
that as well. So thank you for bringing
that up and
I appreciate your comments. Thank
you.
>> certainly. And got notes.
there is not just our cap
but
the markets.
>> exactly. >> acceptability. Good notes. Very helpful. Thanks.
>>
looking left and
right. Anyone else? Ms.
davis?
>> I will just add being on
here when
we saw the original plans, very much
what everyone has said. It is
a very
different look
from original. Pictures we saw while
I
appreciate the
reduction and density. Not excited
about the
retail space. And while the market
will do
what
it
is going to do, we didn't quite understand
what
they bought into. They got approved. And,
they
started
seeing
the bills come in. Similar
to what the councilwoman stated, being
careful about the
product
we put out there. From a pit
standpoint, it has already been said. I
don't know what the
wow factor is for us to go
down this path. The infrastructure
is
fantastic. That
would come anyway eventually. I'm
just real
neutral on this right now. I just
wanted to get that feedback
to you. Thank you.
>> well, this is
a workshop so there will be no action
taken this evening but
we bounced around a bunch of
feedback and concepts back
with you. This item is heavy
on the pid piece of it. Most of
my questions are on the planned development
side
as well as the details of what are
you
asking for as far as
mitigation on other things?
that comes with more vetting out the
process. As far as
the pid, we talked about that one
quite a bit. We
have
been through a few now. But we did
voice our concerns about the viability. And
that is
the developers, that's your problem
to sell them. But we are just doing
the math and trying to
figure out it is going to
be a big murder
on that individual homeowner. And
fast forward
a couple of years, they come and find
us and ask why their
taxes are so high. Because you bought
into a
pid. What's a pid? We have those conversations. And
those are real conversations
I
am expecting to happen. I do appreciate
the
changes
that have been made. There has been
some
significant movement
toward what you listened. We listened
to the complaints and the input from
us
and the public. And you put yourself
out
there. I'm looking to see
how
the neighborhood meetings go. Because
I will get feedback from those as
well. I appreciate you guys putting
yourself out there and getting
in front of the tomatoes in some cases and taking it.
more of
my
questions are that financial page. If
you would flip back to the
one we are trying to expand. I hate
to use
the
word color of money. But, in this
role together,
so I can see that the wet utility
line, you are pulling the water
and the sewer from where elliot had stopped
on
the west
side. Pulling
it under the freeway. That is absolutely something
that we should help you
with. I
get that is infrastructure.
it is the bottom
section of that that gets fuzzy. What
is funded by the pid and what is funded
by you as a
developer. And so when we
have this conversation, going forward,
it
would be beneficial to look at where
that is being funded at
least in your mind for conversations. I
understand
that it is all dollars and accounts
and all
of those things. But I don't
think
that
pid should pay
for
excavation and grating. There are
details in that bottom section I would
like to see
what part of our seven is going into
that
and what part of your eight goes into
that. That is not clear the
way that is presented right now.
>>
mr.
mayor, we have that. And, weed ad
that to the presentation
after we submitted the slides. It
just
didn't make it
into tonight. I have it right here.
>>
this was a workshop. I
am
glad
you have that answer. I
said this from
the very beginning. Through the projects
we have on coal springs. The
bridge on coal springs. All
of those
things are creating the avenue
to pull it
across 1626 which
would rejuvenate, accelerate this whole
area. And the
water loop
doing the same thing. What you are
offering I don't take lightly, I appreciate the
infrastructure you are bringing to
the area. It is not four stories,
600 units
that
we were looking at. The
first time
around. It seemed heavy. I would like
to understand
it a little more. As to what goes
in the pid and
you
guys. In
your mind at least.
what is impact fee items that could
be
and should be used. You came
to this
meeting with a list of list
of wishes and goals. Do you
need something
else from us?
>> I think there is
just rolling your sleeves up
to work on it. And we had a
call with y'all, you have a pid consultant. We
had patrick. A call last week to start
that
dialogue. There is probably
a little more
financial
engineering to get that
right. There will be a little more
work for you all to tease that
out to optimize that and
get it
where it should be. So one request,
we will get
the pid right. The other one will
be, we understand the comments about
what we had showed y'all
a few years ago right? And I think
we have had this cross to bear since
then. And we are
trying to do good work
to bring
back a good
project. Nobody can tell
us
what it will be.
nobody is elsing us if you do it
in this buildings, it will work. Even
if we are following the
corridor study and the comprehensive
plan. So
it would
be good to get, and I'm not asking
y'all to do that here. I would
be good to get a little more guidance
on okay, we
like this. If you
guys can change
that. It will work. We do have some
modifications but we
have cut the modifications. We had over
30
modifications in the other project. Because
it was
apartments
and more complicated project. If question
can look at it and live
with it, we cut
it
out as a
modification. What you want the buildings to
look
like and what works.
>> that's
what I was talking about. This is
more of
a financial discussion. But that is
a
question that I have is exactly that. If
it
is a planned development,
it has a list of the wants and tweaks. If
you walked in and said I will build
everything according
to your zoning book and
everything is fine, I think the road
sizes and
the density and the driveway sizes
and some of
that other stuff plays into a little
bit. But that is further
in this conversation than
this
evening is planned for.
>> we have
a couple of tweak to
the town home roads.
it
is 100% stone. And you will see this
building for example. As
stone, but also some wood. And some
metal
panels. So we ask for some flexibility
in design
on that. But it is really
not a dramatic modification we were
looking for before.
>>
that is good to know. This is all
a workshop. I'm looking
left
and
right. See if anyone else.
>> the
applicant will be going
back and forth through zoning commission
for their pid. That would be coming
back at some point in
the next few months. They have
not officially applied for a pid yet. So
we have had a
few conversations with them with our
pid consultant who has not been
engaged to start a pid review with
them. I believe that is
happening very soon. They want him
to get the pulse and temperature
from
city council before doing that. If
city council is open to the idea of
exploring pid more, it will be
to
make the pid application. We partner
or contract with
p3 works. P3 works will come in along
with our financial
advisers and that entire team. And
they will do
a
really deep analysis of this pid and make
sure
it
will pay for itself. And, that built
in look
at the bonds themselves, and start
setting that
up for success. So that
if council if and when the
pid comes to city council,
you'll have all that information
to make an informed decision. The concepts
of the public
cost and infrastructure presented
and get the temperature check on whether
a pid would be supported. That
would
be the next steps.
it was june of
last year, when count till previous
took action on this project. And the
developer
is hoping and anticipateing to
have direction to
move forward with the
development.
>> thank you for
the clarification. More questions, comments? Workshop? Anything
else? Steven, thank
you.
>> thanks everybody. Appreciate it.
>> that
was
our workshop. One
presentation. J1. Presentation on
state
highway 45 gap study findings. Ms.
kennedy again.
>> this item
is an update on the findings
of the 45
gap study. That the city
supported. With bond dollars. I am
here to introduce aaron
gonzalez
to give the
presentation.
>> thank you very much. Good
evening. My name is erin gonzalez,
I'm with bge. I
serve as the gec
project manager representing both
hayes county and the city
of buda.
>> : overseeing the works
being done by the design team. We
were here
to give you an update to
the
work we were doing. We
have try today come back, at this
time, I will hand it over to paul who
will give you
an update on those items. Ly come
back and we will talk through
next steps at the end. And open
it up for questions.
>>
thank you erin. I
was part
of the study team. We
did
want the
presentation last january. The purpose of
the
study
began
in
fall of 2022. Local partners,
we are working in collaboration to
develop a solution that
works well for the area and considers
the
interesting concerns of all
involved. The goals of the
study, do things in a productive and
clear way. We
collected input from wide range
of stake holders that identify conceptual
route
options and work to minimize impacts
on current and
future development. We also wanted
to identify strategies to
protect the environment and follow
best practices for doing so.
consistent with that, the study we
met with staff from several cities
and surrounding agencies,
we
had
three meetings with staff. We had
met with various property owners. Had
a total
of 26 of those meetings. We
conducted three open houses, june
and december of
2023. And
then in
august of 2024. What we
learned from that, this was about
a year on this
map. It is not 100% up to date. What
we learned during
that process from the landowners
is that the yellow hatched areas are
areas
that are planned
to be developed. That included nearly
900
acres. 27% of the study area was planned
for development
as of that
time. So, that underscores the need
to develop what the infrastuckture
needs
will be for this
area as that development continues. The
first open
house is conducted june of 2023 at
sunfield station. We had both an in-person
open
house and a virtual online one. We
had
more than 60
people
in the in-person one. We had 615
unique views
on the website. We responded to all
the
comments received and summarized that
in a pronounced summary report that
included a matrix of all those comment
responses. That
was posted on
the website. In addition to that,
we have
large maps we put input on
the public. I
will
show
you those here. The in-person open
house. They
are kind of magenta shading. What
we
got from the
in-person. We took all the comments,
we put
them together. Created one, all inclusive
map
of all the
suggestions. What you see, aggregated
those. Almost all of
them reflected similar concept. You
see in the light blue. One exception
was in the red. We got one
suggestion for a more northerly route. All
other
suggestions were kind of
had a similar concept there toward
the southern
or central part of the study
area. After that, we worked to apply
engineering standards to these suggestions
and develop
actual routes that we
could apply our analysis
to. So what you see here is those
route
suggestions with
the engineering criteria applied.
would
have had three residential displacements. Also
the
engineering technical side of that
was less desirable mainly
because it crossed, as you can see
there,
toward the
middle of the large bend. And
crossed large floodplain areas in
onion and garlic creeks. As
an effort to minimize the
impacts, we modified that red alignment to
what
you see in the yellow. That
removed
the crossing of the
bend. The crossing of the floodplains
for
the eastern side there. The blue route
represented all the other suggestions. That
route had no displacements as of
the
time of the study.
avoided that
bend in little bear creek.
from that
analysis, we recommended
for
further study, in the blue. That was presented
at the second open house
in december. As of that time, had
no displacements. Had
that more desirable engineering perspective
and less
of that floodplain impact. And then
for those reasons
we eliminated from further consideration
in
black those northern routes.
the preliminary recommendation, it was
not
finalized at this time. And
subject to further retirement assumeing
the project
would continue into future phases. Along that
line, you see
we looked at a couple of
different options, what that
configuration
would look like. Consistent with
what it looks like. We assume the
gap project
would be controlled access. Which
means no
direct driveways or cross
streets
crossing the lanes. And we looked
at
two options. One with and one without
frontage roads and
the
final concept could include some frontage
roads
or not. Also
note,
the shared use path
which would accommodate the users
along the route. So, with these
concept, we created two right away
footprints. One would be about 250
feet ride. At the
top there. Without frontage roads. And
if you had the frontage
roads that
was about a 400-foot wide. So,
we took those footprints. Applied
some
criteria to those. And then looked
at what the evaluation of those would
be. The table here shows impacts
from the two scenarios. Would
result again in no
residential or commercial
displacements. Also, no impacts were
being anticipated
to facilities like schools, hospitals,
emergency services,
dedicated parkland cemeteries, short
properties, oil gas wells
or other
hazardous material site sites.
we had an in-person component there. We
had the
online option as well. We
had a few
more
attendees to that one. 797 unique
views on the website. It is as with
the first open house,
we
got all
those
comments responded no those. Coming
out of
that second open house,
we provided refinements. What you
see in
blue there
is the preliminary route. We refine
that to the
pink shading. One was to avoid utilities
out there. The transmission line more
toward the western side
of the study area. And then, we also
aligned the route with the right of
way that was being used for the
per year
road extension
on the
east end. With no anticipated
displacementss
a
of that time. We took
that corridor. Applied more engineering
to that. Created an access assessment
to look at how
would users access that facility. First,
we
started with the changes at each end of
the route
one on the
west you see there. Sh45
southwest ends at f.m. 1626. That would
be an interchange
and access to the new route. And
then on the east
side would align with where sh45
comes in at I-35. Between those, we
assessed
and saw that you could
have two additional inner changes
in the middle of the route
essentially dividing up
the corridor into one-third.
full access to
and from the route. We looked at where
frontage
roads could
be located. Basically, the main lanes
would connect to existing sh45 on
the west. And
sh45
southeast on
the east side. At each
one
of those intermediate interchanges. Proposed
development, would be
needed for the eastern third from
the interchange just
east of
the railroad there. Over to I-35. And
again,
that note, these are preliminary subject
to
change
based on future development. As well. Once
we have
had that access assessment,
we
conducted a traffic study. In
an origin destination study. We share
the
traffic study, they reviewed
that. The destination
study what you
see here, we took data from origin
and destination
of trips along
the sh45 existing corridor. We
looked at both directions. Where trips
would begin and end. The origin of
each trip is shown
there in blue. And,
the
destination is shown in orange. It
represents a
higher number of trips. Looked at
a.m. And p.m. Peaks
as well as both directions
along sh45. And, what you may expect,
the main take away
there is that there is
heavy movement in
the a.m. Period from northern hayes
county
and the southern
mopak area. From south austin
back into northern hays county. Second
part of the
traffic study was conducted. Looked
at the travel demand model. And evaluated
that with the
access
points
that you saw before.
the traffic would
increase regardless. Improvements
we
saw along the road network that would
result
in
building the gap network. In the study
network. We see reduction in traffic
volumes
and increase in speeds on
most
of the arterial streets.
would
be increased by up to five miles per
hour by f.m. 967 and robert s
light boulevard and we see a reduction
of traffic
volumes depending on the time
of day. About a 20 to
30% in volumes on robert. Then,
if you go to f.m. 1626, we
would see reduction volumes there. Depending
on time
of day. 10 and 15% reduction and you
can see speed
increases up to 10 miles per hour
on average during those
peaks. And then, finally
on I-35, we saw an increase from the
model results of travel speeds up to
about four miles per
hour. Once you got 45 where you saw
that traffic
coming off. 35 and going over
to what
would be sh45. So those are the improvements
we
saw. A couple of the impacts. Sh45
the existing route
to the west would stay at or near
capacity
for most
of the day. And start to
exceed
capacity in the p.m. Peak. We see that
begin to
use
all of its compass capacity. Once
you got north of slaughter we saw
the effects of the gap
project go away and not have much notable
effect of the travel
speeds. And then, mopac as expected
already would remain at
or
near its design capacity. And
the other effect we saw, it would
still have
some sections
that are over
capacity even with
the project. Between 45 southwest. With
all that information, we presented
that at the
open house about a year ago. Like
the
first two we had both the
in-person meeting and a virtual online,
we had 70 attendees at
that in-person open house. 95 comments. And
655
unique
views on the website. And
then,
responded to
all the comments. The overall findings
we
had from the study, a few of those
included
the
project assuming
that full 400-foot wide right of way foot
present would require 190
acres. It would be generally
supported by the affected property owners. Based
on our discussions
with them. And the project would not
displace
any existing homes or bids or impact
parks, recreation areas. And
incorporate environmental
best practices and controls. Now I
will,
bear with me, I will go back
to
one of the maps. I will
read through
the bullet
point. We created a preliminary scheme
attic design. We are not display tag quite yet. But
I will show
you
on the map here. So you get a visual. But
a few
of the things
included, the connection to the main
lanes. Great
separations at that
intersection
as well
as
across over f.m. 1626. The two
intermediate interchanges with the
buda city
of transportation plan. We had future
arterial locations again in
line with master plan. One of those
arterials would
remain west
of the union
pacific railroad. And one of those would connect
to
the
east of the railroad. Between cullen
boulevard and hailey's way. The other
future
arterial
that was
east of the
railroad the
connection was for
that western arterial near cabella's drive. The
frontage roads
as I mentioned would
extend from that
eastern interchange
to I-35 to address
access
needs for
the existing development. Then we
would have the
sh45 southeast
connect to the
main lanes. Finally, we would
have flyover ramps from
I-35. We
developed
consensual designs allowing
them in all
directions between that footprint. With
that, I will let
erin
go through next steps.
>> so
currently, what paul mentioned,
the study
is complete. The
reports are complete and
schematic is final review ready
to be published. The process
doesn't stop. We continue to provide
them information on our lay-outs and
trying
to work with them
on their developments. We are looking to identify
the
right of
way needed. And create documents moving forward but
that's
where the scope of our work on this contract ends
so we
will be looking for hays county and
the city overby
da for any next steps
on how to
move forward. But our
project
concludes here with the feasibility I
will open it up for
questions.
>>
you want to go first?
>> sure. Thank
you
very
much for
the study. Help me understand if you
would go
back to that preliminary access map
that
was just up. Okay. So, we are
at 1327 and 35. And, it looks
like the roadway is being
proposed to extend out past 1327. So
I'm thinking about all
of the new apartments and homes being built off of
old san antonio road. There will
be
additional
stuff put back there. That whole makeup
of the way it looks now in five
years will
not be there.
>> yeah.
subject to
change but as the preliminary design, there
would be no direct
access to that. So, does it necessarily
take its consideration. Some
of the development. But I guess it
doesn't preclude it or
doesn't
do anything negative toward difficult.
>>
is
plan is to go
up correct?
>> we had a couple of
concepts going up above or below without
showing it to
you. Probably not going to make
a lot of sense. It would not cross
directly
with old san antonio. The sh45
lanes would
be either above or
below.
>>
okay. That would affect the slide
that you had
that talked
about having access roads. You
are going to stick to the concept
of it
being maybe elevated roadway that
goes above that
area,
I could probably get there. If
you
are talking in access roads. There's
a lot in that space. It is super dense
back
there right now and it is
just continuing
to be built. These feasibility studies
are
done
with current conditions. Hopefully,
there has been some thought in what
the
city of austin is doing. Because,
they
are building on every piece of property that
is back there
this they can get their hands on. And
then
of course, the city of
buda, we have our school
down there with buda
elementary. And you will have potentially heb or some
other business built off that road. So I
think when we start thinking about
going up,
up
would be a better choice. Then trying
to put everybody
in that same compacted space.
what we will create
is another 162-6967.
>> I'll also
just
mention on, we talked about what the
city
is doing. The per
year
road right of way. This
fits within that width
. That will fit in the space that
is already reserved.
>> I get
that it
will fit. But if you
drive it, it doesn't fit. They have
done some improvements. They put a
bunch of apartments back
there. They created a light signal
there but
again, we are talking about a windy
two lane road that people
are used to
not having large volumes of traffic. And
anything that happens on 35 pushes everybody
off
of old
san antonio road.
>> we coordinated
with some
of the regional partners. Travis county,
if
the
project were to continue,
there
would be additional coordination. What
is
the
impact from traffic being added and
just working with them
on how to best facilitate.
>> great
idea. We need to make sure
they are on board with this. Because
if
they have a lot of impact
on what
moves forward because of what
they are already doing to
date. I appreciate it.
>> ms.
davidson.
>> a lot
of information. I know you guys have
spent a lot of time on
this. Could you go
to the a.m. P.m. Flow? I
want to make sure
I'm understanding.
>> the
origin destination study?
>> yes. Thank
you. So explain this to me please. Specifically
I want
to know how this affects buda. Our
traffic coming
through the downtown.
>> it is not
so much showing what the effect of
the project will be. But
what the current trips, how
they are organized
I should say. The
darker shades in blue are where trips are coming
from. You can see
in the a.m. Peak. You can see a lot
of trips coming
from areas just north of buda. You
can
see the dark blue there. And then
those trips, a
lot of them end up in south austin
there along
mopac and oak hill area. That is
really
what this
is
showing is how people are currently
moving about the area. Eastbound,
you don't see quite as many of the
heavy shades because there
are not quite as many trips going
on. You flip it on
the p.m., you see more
of that heavy trips originating from
that
oak hill area. South austin. Coming
back in
orange
on the
right there. The
orange darker shades
is where they
are getting into buda. You see light
central shadeing
in buda in the p.m. It is less in
other areas. So what
we are seeing is maybe not quite
as
many
people in the sh45,
it is central to the study area. It
is a
road that as
proposed, the
gap would connect to we thought it was
a good way to look at
who may use this facility and
how it could
benefit the community.
>> just to
add to that, origin destination is
important to understand
where people are coming from and going. All
of
you probably have a
pretty good idea because
they
are your constituents. But when a road doesn't
exist like this one today
it is harder to model the
traffic without completely understanding
where everyone is comeing from and
going to. The origin destination helps
us to understand
that and the next
steps
are the traffic results. Which you
might be asking how
will this impact. Why don't
we
go to that results?
>> we
have
the
bullets here. The traffic report. The
full tables
and maps and everything. It
may be hard to fathom it more
without seeing some visuals. But I
guess, you
have a question specifically on it?
>>
I guess to summarize here, we
are seeing a lot of the
traffic reduction in the arterial
roads
and the smaller neighborhood roads
by making this connection. We'll see
more folks that are
making the
trip in the
morning or the
evening. Using smaller roads, arterials
and local roads.
>> I guess that is kind
of where I'm getting at
understanding
the east west traveling. The way it
looks, we talk
about okay, the
south
traffic
is pushing through. It is east buda. And
sun field
area pushing through our downtown
and get to
pilpac in the mornings. Same thing
coming home. There is no other alternative
unless
you are going to try to come down
35,
cut through any of those things. Whatever
you
want
to do with
that. This study reflects that east
west
main street traffic
being
moved faster. Not just the 1626
to robert
s. Light. While still a
big problem.
>> maybe. >> is east
buda the problem
also? Moving
west? And west back to east?
>>
make sure I understand the question. Talking
about buda east of
35. Is that an issue and is this addressing that
issue?
>>
could it?
>>
could it address that issue?
>> a
lot of reasons
we look at that destination. Are
there currently people using sh-45
southwest
from the areas? You can see
some light shading there. East of
buda. Not
as much as west. Sorry, east of
35. Not as much west of 35. You can
see
a
little bit more there. In those peak.
>>
if you look
at
the left top figure.
there are a number of vehicles that
are traveling from that area over
to the orange
area. That is where they are headed. And
that's
the traffic that you are seeing
through downtown and other connections
to get them
to that orange area. And so, by making
this connection with state highway
45
at the gap, it aleves that
traffic. Some of that traffic. It
reduces the capacity on those existing
roads and increases the speeds on
those existing roads.
>> the first
part
is there a need. I think the second
part
is
could this project help that? The
key to that
is the 35 interchange. People
coming on 35 could take directly to
the gap project without
having to get on the local access
roads.
>>
right. And if they are willing to pay
a toll fee.
>> thank you
very
much. That was very helpful.
>> more questions? Mr. Bowles? >>
similar question. I drive that corridor. I
drive very frequently and it
currently backs up on the 45 now at
peak
times
in the mornings specifically.
where is that in bullet two
on the bottom paragraph there where
you will see a slight increase
in traffic where there need to be
south of slaughter? Is
that what that is
saying? By
having the new gap?
>>
the new bridges where the
new mopac lanes go. The lanes that
are two lanes each direction.
giving up, mostly to
slaughter. That is where they are
destined for
some of those areas. You see
folks traveling on
there. Taking exits
to slaughter and to win
cannon. People are getting to, folks
that
have beened added to the network are
starting to exit and
get where they are going to go.
>>
I guess,
by tying in the 35, I imagine there
is some amount of traffic
that is
not currently coming through from
sun field or other places. I believe we
would get some
18 wheelers which would make mopac
more fun but I imagine that
would back up. If it is already backing
up where
the valor school is. The
45 turning into the mopac section. By
adding more
capacity off of 35 and everything,
I imagine that section there would
back up as well. I guess
I
didn't see that specifically here. Maybe
I'm missing
it.
>> getting a little more to the
nuance
on the travel demand model, that
is what is the basis for these results. One
thing we
didn't note is that does
assume certain other projects
will happen by the study year which
was
2045. Study year we were working under
when
this study was done. So that does assume
the
additional lanes would be
added by that time. That handle traffic,
that will
increase regardless of whether the
45 gap were built or
not. But
also increases the capacity to
accommodate some additional demand
there.
>> thanks. >> mr.
ture.
>> thank y'all throughout. I
will try to be quick with my questions
and feel free to be quick
with your answers. And I can have
some more questions
to follow
up. Just
real quick, stv?
>> the
company name. The consultant working
for
hays county.
>>
sub to bge?
>> it
is a separate contract. They have
individual
contacts with hays county. Overseeing
the design
work being performed by
stv.
>>
got you. Great. This
is helpful throughout. The adjustment
on the transmission lines. And,
I think, there
is
adjustment per your lift station. To
fly a little further south on the
east end of the project. Am I tracking
what some of the feedback
you got in the coordination
study?
>> some of it was feedback. Some of
it looking at
the quarter a little closer. What
we saw kind
of
in that intermediate period was that plat
was
approved
for the road extension.
that footprint
was
reserved for a roadway.
it
doesn't
go past the
creek there. What we were planning
for was compatible for
that. And when we shifted there. What
you see
on that curve, that curve that is
going further south is more just to
meet the
design speed of the
facility. Can't make quite as sharp
of a curve if we have already
kind of turned to the south. So it
was kind of
a domino
effect there. And then, the transmission
towers was looking at
where those existing
facilities are at. And just trying
to impact
those as little
as possible.
>>
it's helpful. It's good. The tie ins are
key so
thank you for those. Good
comments previously from the councilmembers
on the east portion of the
project and just awareness
there. So
I appreciate those
notes. Is the per similar
monoproject aware and planning
simmon project working on the purple
or the
blue? There is a road being built
there
that presumably becomes the frontage
road of 45.
>> correct. We
have
been working on persimmon. Facilitating
that. So we are
aware of their latest plan and have
shared the latest line
with them so
they can preserve the correct footprint
assuming
the project were to move forward.
>>
is that just footprint
or am
I correct that east west road they
are putting
in their project.
>>
it would be compatible now. Still
based on the
final details. It would generally
be compatible with a future
45
gap.
>> that is
helpful. Did the traffic study, I
appreciate councilmember davidson's
questions and notes
on the traffic study. Did you
kind of isolate the north south traffic
and it
is
primarily
looking alternative east west?
>>
it
is very much a network based. It is
a
demand model. It is not
really looking at
say, individual vehicles. Like a micro
simulation more. It is
more of a
macro simulation. It is
a macro level assessment of what the network
looks like. What
could
be
added to it. Kind of running where
vehicles shift
around to based on purely looking at
what the demand would be.
>> one
thing just to add to that, we look
at
a study area for that. Not necessarily
isolating
east west or north south. Connections. Or,
movement. It
is really the study area. And the
movement
that happens
within that study. Area.
>>
helpful notes throughout. Yeah. Okay. That helps
me to understand
and interpret it. Is new apartments
on the
west side of the project. Talk to
me about that interchange
on the west side with those apartments
where they are being built.
>> what
you see there,
mentioned there would be the 45 main
lanes, the
controlled access would go over the top
of six and
26
and connect into
the existing 45 facility. And then,
we would
have some ramps
that would also go. The name of that
area is big
valley. It is for a reason. It
sits pretty low. So, even with
ramps would
kind
of fly over that quote unquote valley
and be
at a level above that terrain. As
far as
the apartments, that is an
active thing going on
now. Again, yeah.
>> I can
touch on that. So, the need for preserving
the right of way, this is one
example of that. And so,
in this case,
that
development did not exist. We could
not stop them from continuing their
development. We have had multiple
coordination meetings with them. Ensuring
that we
are able to maintain access
for them. In the final footprint of
the project. While you won't see
that on the schematic because we don't identify
connections
for thing that's don't exist at the
time. We have
worked through the
design effort to ensure that they
can access their
property from
this
roadway in the future. There is a portion
of their
property that has been displaced. Because
we are not ready
to purchase at the time of their
development. We were not able to avoid
that. And so,
the purpose of the preservation of
right of
way as you all know. But, so
at the end of the schematic phase,
there were no displacements. That
is in fact a displacement that
will occur in the future if right, it
will occur in the
future if and when the
project moves
forward.
>>
helpful throughout I guess. How bad? How
much is
the displacement or unclear? Unclear is
okay if
you don't have an answer.
>> it is, I don't
have a clear number. It is a portion
of
a building and
some of the parking lot. We have
identified where their water quality
is. It would
not put them into non-compliance when
and if that would happen. So it
is a portion of the property and a
structure and some of
the parking
lot. But I don't have a number or
a value for that.
>>
even
that is helpful. Thank you. Yeah. Well
let's talk about the project not
if but when. No more use of the
word if. When on
this project. Even if it is
2045 or when ever. Ultimately, what
it shows for the traffic
counts and from the traffic study
is
what is so
key. That
massive reduction on 1626 through
downtown, reducing it to
those that want to go downtown. Key
aspects of this project. Thank
you for your work. I guess, just one
last high level
question. If there is one thing that
would change that
would make travis county look
more
favorably on this project. Any takes
more
from a technical study standpoint? Are there
any particular
things that travis county brings directly
to the
table from a technical and study standpoint that
is
the
number one
thing to change?
>> the biggest thing
is having additional open communication
with them so we can
explain to them the
edwards
edwards aquifur zone. This
portion of the project is in the
transition zone. It is in the
least environmentally sensitive and
very
much less
environmentally sensitive than the
prior
state highway 45 project. Conversations
like that are important
to help them understand we are doing
everything to make
this a sensitive project to
the environment. And,
to any edwards aquifer
regulated areas or non-regulated areas. It
is really just that communication. Beyond that,
I don't have an answer for
you.
>> that was a
great answer. Do
you want my mic? Thank
you.
>> any
questions? Comments? Most of my questions asked. I'm
trying to
stay with the study
scenario going on. I have 190 acres
of land required
for the new right of way. You
have one of your meetings. I think
I went to
two of the three. And,
the
build no build scenarios. What it
does to main
street and 967 and
robert
s. Light. By the numbers, that
is how
it works. If you live in
kyle. If
you are south of 1626, check
near the google apps and try to figure out,
do
I go 35 and work my way over to south
austin
or up 1626 and work
my way to south austin? And that is
I, don't know how you
guys did it. I don't know. It's challenging
to
know those people
that make that decision. There are multiple
different
ways and we
are
creating another meandering third
way. If you can say east kyle,
they make
that choice every day. They take 1626
or where this thing is
built. They will take 35 further. And
then cut across to the west
to
get
to the same place. The
political side of the conversation, it may
be in
the bond and may not be in the bond
for the
county side and
I'm
trying to
understand why. That's not the study. It
is
all fascinating at
this point. Funding,
is there any funding
available conceptual? Is there any
funding identified through your
conversations that would push this
thing
into a
construction? Into next steps?
>>
there is currently no
construction funding for this project. We
have identified that
a project of this nature would likely
need a
larger partnership with
regional partners. The funding that
was
identified in the hays county bond
was
for design and right of way
preservation. And that as
you are aware has
been removed. How they are moving
forward with
their
bond. From the co process. The information
we
are receiving from hays county, specifically from
commissioner smith
who was here and apologizes for having
to leave is that this
is still a priority for him and they
are looking for
ways
to continue
to advance. The right of way preservation. It is
so important to
preserve this right of way. It becomes
more challenging to purchase that
right of
way with
the funding identified.
>> nothing
is getting cheaper. It is
all going up in reality now. And
being one of the items,
it is
not getting cheaper. Further questions?
it is certainly fascinating and I
hope there
is some way to
make this a reality. Because I think
it helps a
lot of our roads
within buda and the transportation
hurdles we are dealing with now. I
want to see how the
conversation keeps going
from this point. Seeing no more comments or questions
I will say thank
you. I appreciate your time and
the
work in the study.
>>
all right that moves us into
our regular agenda items. K1 is
deliberation and possible action to
approve the austin
street reconstruction 30% schematic
design.
>> yes, sir, howdy mayor,
goodnight council. We are very excited
as the bond team to come forward with
the update. It has
been quite a while since we brought
it back toward council. Over the past
year, staff has been meeting
and improving the design. Meeting
with property
and
business owners along the street. Encountering
changes and more details. And they
have gotten it
to what we consider
a good 30% schematic design
and
reach that
milestone. There's still a lot more
coordination needing to be
done. However, staff believes that
a higher
level of detail in the plan sets moving
forward with
the design would help us better answer
those unknowns and
it is with
that, that staff is recommending approval
the
design has presented and allowing
the associates
to proceed with
the next design phase. This recommendation was
taken to
the bond oversight committee on the
july 31st meeting
and they
concurred with that recommendation.
rj
will walk through the more technical
bits. Walk
through with what we encountered,
public
comments, what
has been incorporated. Parts of the design
aspects. I will give it
over to rj.
>> thank you. I want to
appreciate it. Thank
you mayor council. So yeah. A lot
has happened since
june was the last time of last year
we presented and the effort since
then has been a lot
of public outreach. A lot of intentional
engagement with the property owners
as you all are aware. It is pretty
difficult to convert back
of house to front of house. There's
a lot of challenging areas
so we have progressed what we have
been able to progress. And so, the
next three
slides will summarize what that looks
like with blue being comments we
have received from the engagement
process that
still unresolved gray that our items
we have already
been able to resolve. We have incorporated
it into the design. And the red is
items we have
identified through owners meetings
that are going
to
follow
up with design changes. So
we can kind of work 27, 72, to
san antonio street here moving south
to north. Where
you can see some of the dumpsters
we had intentionally thought were
going
to be outside of the right of way
will have to remain in the
right of way. And in other areas. We
will
have to
rework and relocate some poles within it.
similar space, the design hasn't changed
a whole bunch but it starts to identify
and solidify what is happening between
peach and
live oak there
with some of the relocations there
with the modify the design. Moving
to some shared dumpsters at a couple
of those places. Some of these
properties are working through the
redevelopment ha has been
a piece that is an ongoing discussion,
moving a property on the west side
to the alley
way and crossing live oak street. And
at the end
here on the last slide here, similar
is just really showing and
highlighting some of the areas that
are slightly different. If you guys
do
recall in the schematic phase, what
was
presented, other
areas that were combined dumpsters,
they have gone into slight
different lay outs or slight different
designs. So that is where we
are at in the process. And are able
to be
able to get
to at this point. Looking back you
know at
the overall the design from where
we are going to where we are trying
to get and understand what is driving
a lot of the decisions and the
issues to get to the final
design is this dumpster decision and
how we work through with
each
of the property owners is the litmus
for
making
sure it
works effectively. We have a better
handle on
what is to be expected. And move through
that relatively quickly. It
is right back to
you.
>> thank you rj. To expand a
bit, what rj was
talking about with the pec bit, we
have this very wordy slide here, there
is
a lot of information. And the staff
is met
with pec multiple times
to discuss what
options are
possible
with following
our city
code. Our waste water treatment plant
needing that constant power and the
texas childrens we
are all aware of
needing that dedicated double stack
three-phase line. It
limits where we can go underground. We
have a most likely result that will
happen is
pec will install an upgrade, the overhead on
market street which will
allow them to install
underground electric between peach
and san antonio. Pec
would reconnect all the
services. We wouldn't leave anybody
hanging and
pec would remove
the old overhead electric between
peach and san antonio. To do this,
we need an agreement with pec. Most of
the funding would come from the
bond program or
this project. And we need additional
easements for the
new transformer pads that will
be servicing
the underground services. So,
where we are going, there is still
a
lot to do. We believe a
higher level of design will allow
us to see
these constraints more quickly. So that
is chi we
are asking we do
proceed with the next design phase. When
we get the 60% we will get a cost
estimate
of potential phasing of the project
and look at
additional funding sources for
it. It will give a better detail
for the reservation
of
improvements, along the alleys. We
will
keep the public engagement going. Working
with the
edc
on the dumpster
relocations. Once again, recommendation
is to improve
the design as presented. That conclude
it
is staff report. We are here to
answer
few questions y'all might
have.
>> questions from council? >>
any chance I get
talking to the business owners on
austin street, I'm
trying
to
talk them into this. In order
to make the back an
entrance to. And the back of house
operations they
have been doing for years. And not
wanting to shake
up their apple cart very much. Trying
to
encourage more people to access
their businesses. It
is
a dual
edged approach. I have been interested
in austin street for another main street
for as
long as I have been sitting up here. This
is a
fascinating and great thing. I'm happy
to see we are
moving forward
on the design side. We will discuss funding
at some point in the future
because we don't have the funding
for
the construction piece at this point. But
we will,
I will be encouraging
folks to try to get that option
on
the table. Questions from council? Anyone? Everyone?
everybody
loves it?
>> I don't really have any
questions
at this time. I just have a, the real
question is keep
the
high level of engagement. Echoing
some of what you said. It
is only going to help the experience
for
everyone for us to keep our ears open
and incorporate
as much or mitigate as much of their
concern as we possibly
can of the existing folks. I
am hesitant to phrase it this way. But
short term
pain, long term gain. Short term,
it will be some
painful months when we
do kick it off. It is major overhaul. When
we look back on it,
it will be
a
years long process of pain. But
in the large scheme of things when
we look at
the improvement that's will happen
when we look at what is happening
across the street between main street
and the railroad tracks and the long
term view there and you add in this
element of austin street
and what city park is
continuing to bring. In
that whole area long term. I believe
in the project 100%. I
just wanted, if nothing else, give
you guys
a little bit of motivation. Know you
still have the support to
continue to work. To the mayor's point,
we are still
away from funding and turning dirt
out there. But,
this is where we go. To me it is obvious
this
is the way to shape downtown into
keeping
the charm that we currently have. Which
is creating a little
bit more of it
for everyone
to enjoy. So, but I absolutely understand
that the short term pain is real
and it will be channeling. So just
stay engaged and
keep trying to mitigate
where you can. Thank you guys.
>>
what's the
plan for texas
children's hospital at this point?
>>
micah might
know more than me. But,
the plan is currently delayed. They
have not broken ground up there. I don't
know
if there is a given time line on when
they will
actually start initiating the improvement.
>>
do you have an
idea about roughly where that would
be?
>> the
hospital itself? Yes, ma'am. It
is located near per year and old san
antonio.
>> okay. I just need
to make sure I told somebody
else
that correct information already. Thank
you.
>> do
you mind flipping back to the pec
slide again? Thank
you. And
I caught most of it. I mess maybe
a simple question. High level is just
how much does this factor into the
potential
cost of the project?
>> could be a
good deal of it. Yes, sir.
>> that
is
>> I'll say,
most well-oriented downtown you could
make it for the long-term future ,
right? It's valuable. I appreciate
these conversations as well as all
the businesses.
just like you have outlined,
this is helpful. Thanks for watching
these through.
budget once we
get a cost estimate we will get a
better eye on what these
improvements would likely mean. One
thing I did not quite emphasize
on here,
we would use the texas children's
aspect as much as we could to positively
position some polls, that would be beneficial
for
the project
with these other aspects.
>> good notes.
>> that's a good point.
since
the new
transmission line is in the works
to do this, we are not going to
be excited about them coming into
main street. So,
if we can push -- I want to say this
is a negotiating tool for
us, but, stopping short
of saying we don't want anything on
main street. We spent a lot of money
to
clean up main street. It was kind
of a sucker punch
when they come in and say, let's put
a big transmission
line where you just spent millions
of dollars to put it underground.
all of that
being said, if we can combine the effort
,
and I would say a win-win,
they could find a way to work the
two projects together, and benefit
both sides. I think that is an opportunity
.
>> any other questions or comments?
public testimony on this item? Well,
I will make the motion that we approve
the reconstruction 30%
schematic design for austin street,
as presented. Emotion and a second?
all
in favor? Any opposed?
motion carries. Thank you.
all right, k 2.
possible deliberation to avoid
a master service agreement for general
engineering services
not to exceed
$562,003.76 .
to
hdr engineering,
executing
task order number one for fm 2770
wastewater improvements
, not to exceed amount of $562,003.76,
in conjunction with the
interlocal agreement between the city of
buda and buda
economic development corporation to
design and construct utilities along
fm 2770.
>> thank you, mayor. Didn't make it
short
on you. This is both
a recommendation to award
an msa, with
hdr engineering
, or master services agreement
for general engineering services,
and then, to also secure
task order number one, which would
be those fm 2770 wastewater improvements.
y'all may recall
that back in april, 2025, you executed
and il-8 with the edc,
and interlocal agreement
and allowing the city and edc to enter
into a cooperative purchasing program,
to
fund engineering design services related
to construction of water and wastewater
lines to save properties along
fm 2770. This project, itself,
the cip is focusing solely on the
wastewater aspect
. Blake and I
are currently working on the water side
and we will bring that to you, soon,
as well. Hdr was
selected using our prequalified
consultants list, it is the same resolution
, and it should be noted that the
msa is a general
engineering services contract. It
includes all of the services that hdr
offers within
what they submitted for that rfq .
and then
this task order itself is
the one focusing solely on the wastewater.
the scope that they presented to us
involves designing about
8200 linear feet
of hopefully gravity wastewater
maine, adjacent to
2770 and neighboring roads. The scope
has been broken down into seven main tasks,
with the main goal
ending with a construction plan set
at the end of it which is ready to
go
to bed, and hdr providing construction
phase services with that,
as well.
total cost for the msa is $562 --
$562,003.76,
to match the amount proposed in task
order 1.
this is a time and materials contract
with
a not to exceed amount. No funding
is requested right
now, and
any
future additions to this msa will
come as amendments to council. So,
if
we do want to engage another project
with hdr to expand that msa, it would
come as an amendment
, because right now, we are asking
that it just be included to the scope
of task order 1. That is why those
are the same amount. The buda adc
has pledged 540,000 for this design
project under the ila, and
the pros and cons with this project,
the city will continue its partnership
with the edc, increasing the develop
ability along
the 2770 corridor.
following along with the future conference
of plan and land
use map , so that the identified parcels
along this roadway,
most of which are light industrial
in our land use map,
but several large properties along
fm 2770 and 1626 are identified as
a corridor commercial,
which could bring several different
types of businesses to buda that we
would potentially be
able to offer city
services, too.
the cons being that
$552,003.76 is
more than the 540 we initially scoped
for the
cip. However,
public works director blake nevin
both and I thought it would
be prudent to ask hdr to throw in
a feasibility report for
this project. There is potentially
a few
alignments we could take with this project,
and some are constrained on capacity.
they are different sizes,
and if we are wanting to design this
for the
long term master planning of this area
, to ensure that we do not have to
go in and redesign it when it does
get fully developed, we want that
for
the feasibility report to show us
the ideal alignment which will benefit
us in the
future and the constructibility and
mary those two.
alternatives, if council would like,
we can go
back and renegotiate with
the scope if it does not match counsel's desire.
I will note that we
have gotten this
about three turns with the scope,
blake and I,
with hdr , there is a real good collaboration
on
talking through some of the parts that
we thought may not be unnecessary,
streamlining the scope and we
believe we got it to a point that
it meets all of our expectations and
can deliver
quality product. With that, staff
recommends the approval of the msa
which with hdr engineering inc. For
services in an amount not to exceed
562,000
dollars,
approving task order 1
for that same amount for 2770 wastewater
improvements.
>> thank you. Questions on this one?
>> just one, thank you. The question
is just,
I guess
they think it was around the whole presentation
with the work here, but specifically
including the
feasibility, because there is a lot
of
different potential
around that corner,
and the end of this line, or along
the line, I should say. The whole
thing.
what will that tell us
that the original study would not?
I think in the
original study, there is some degree
of incorporating some buildout, I think.
the feasibility
is just telling you about even
more potentials on the buildout. What
is the difference between that
and the baseline?
>> so, the buildout
has, to my knowledge
, stayed roughly the same it is just
that we have
more areas we could connect to, and
they all offer varying degrees of
capacity.
some above
railroad
crossings, some involve potentially
the need for another lift station.
we would like to
look through
the feasibility, and see what makes sense
now, and what can serve
the city long-term.
>> okay. And,
is that with different degrees of
potential lue
at the
south end of that line?
>> we have
asked hdr
to do
, is to take the future land
use map and assume the most aggressive
form of lue,
that is
where we would have the line itself
to
want to design to, and in the feasibility study
it
would execute which alignment would
serve that purpose.
>> cool, thanks.
>> questions, comments?
does
anyone want to make a motion for this one?
>> mayor, I will make a motion that we
award the msa
as presented.
>> we have a mission and a second.
all those in favor? No
public testimony? A missionary second,
all those in favor?
any opposed? All right.
motion carries.
>> do we need to execute the task
order, too?
no? All right.
>> it was as presented. >> awesome.
thank you.
>> good question, thank you. All right.
k3.
adopt resolution establishing a policy
related to artificial intelligence systems
used by or on behalf of the city
of buda to guide the ethical and responsible
use of artificial intelligence technologies,
and providing
for an effective date. Mr. Cameron?
>> good evening, mayor
and council. Recent state bills that
were passed
, house bill 150, 3512,
149,
and the senate bill 1964, set
the groundwork for a regulatory structure for
local governments
.
sorry.
groundwork for local governments in
the regulation of a.I. Systems.
outlined to the dir.
the policy that we
have created for you, is based
on the template from
geo vai
, a coalition of city governments,
some other cities within texas that
have used them, this
template specifically san antonio,
austin, round rock
and waco. With relevance to a.I.,
it is important to get ahead
of it.
it is a rapidly changing and emerging
technology, it is
important to have some form of policy
in place for how we treat it.
the policy ensures social good
, ethical,
non-discriminant
agent, and
use in government services. The policy in
front
of you,
a couple wave
tops on it, it has some definitions
to include what we consider artificial intelligence
, the scope of who it applies to,
staff, interns,
consultants, contractors, basically
anyone performing work on behalf of
the city of
buda. Outline responsibility of the
users,
and addresses what is considered pii
, specifically on how not
to use it within the a.I. Systems.
identifies prevented and preapproved
a.I. Platforms and creates a process
for requesting new ones, and
this will be incorporated into the
employee handbook .
any questions ?
>> first of all, thank
you for looking out for
us, and making our changes as we need
to, as the world changes
around us. Weston from counsel?
ms. Williams?
>> good evening, cameron, thank you
very
much for sharing this information.
I have a couple of really quick questions.
in the analysis, you're saying that
the policy is
going to outline what constitutes
an incident?
and, in response to an incident that
results from improper use?
how do you control that
with a consultant and contractor?
>> that is something that we
will have to work with
purchasing on working into our contract
language. It would
be relatively the same process , isolating
the offending device, whether
that is a laptop, desktop server,
isolating it and addressing it from there,
seeing what has been affected, and
how
we need to rollback to get to a functional
state.
>> can you give me
an example of what a negative incident
would be?
>> say that a contractor comes in
with a
platform that have developed to use
for the city, and it
goes out and
gets access to our shared drives.
we would want to isolate that, obviously,
pull
it off the network, see what it has
gotten access to, see whether the
data
is stored or shared, make sure nothing
has been deleted or
copied down.
and address it in that capacity.
>>
we are more concerned about
whether or not they gain access to
secured information that should not
have
access to?
>> yes, ma'am, that is just one sample.
>> okay. Thank you.
>> questions, comments?
>> I got the button
to work. Thank you
. Overall, I think it is a very responsible
comprehensive policy. As we start
to explore and mess around a
little bit with a.I.
,
when I first went through
and read this I thought it was a bit
too restrictive,
I know there are a lot of capabilities we could
potentially
use for automation, but pii and automation
has a
bit of conflict there, so, I think
I am good with
it as written, but I think that when
you start to get
those exceptions and requests like
a, we want to
do this and it meets all these criteria,
and state policies and everything
else, we
are protecting pii, which is
super important, that is maybe when
we come back and look to amend it
and loosen it up a bit, we will have more
experience with it as well. Other
than that, just general comments,
I think you are already doing this,
but,
make it easy for people to do the
right thing ,
sedlock devices,
lock the network and do whatever you
can to prevent people from doing the
wrong thing on accident. And then
training is critical. So, both
from what not to do, but also from
a, hey, here's how to prompt the best
way, here
is how to use these things.
I think you can do a
lot of good. And see where things
evolve.
thank you.
>>
any public testimony on this one?
anyone want to make
the motion?
>> moved to approve k3
as presented.
>> we have a motion
and a second. All those in favor?
any opposed? Motion
carries. Thank you.
k for .
deliberation and possible action to
award
rf p 25-255
buda sportsplex softball and soccer
field
complex to g hyatt construction
inc., and to authorize the city manager
to
negotiate and execute a contract. Tony?
>> good
evening, counsel. How y'all doing?
I'll try to keep this as short as
I can. For the project,
obviously we went out to bid once
, there was an issue, we had to do
some things, the
last few weeks we have been working
on trying to get a contract
done, thankfully with the help of dcs
and staff, we got
it done. These are
some of the cost savings on the project
that we negotiated
with the contractor. Utility contractor
is based
in buda
waves the mobilization fee which is
nice. Have used them on
several of our projects, so they gave
us a big contract discount.
we reduced
--I reduced the contract,
I allowed 50 more days because they
had already liquidated built
into the contract so extended that
50 days to get rid of the
$100,000 they would bill us for, which
does not cost me anything,
it still gets me what I need to get
completed, so I think that was a win
for both of us.
electrical's implications,
clarification issued after bid, there
were some things we were negotiating,
and then on tuesday
was the deadline, and then afterwards,
he called to say hey, I got extra
money from my
electric engineer, my electrical companies,
so he gave us a bit of a discount.
we also sympathize the
traffic control. It is not nearly as rigorous
as what we had put, but it is definitely
stupefied. We have eliminated
masonry
walls for the dugouts and replaced
chain-link posts and fences .
physically I got an interior that
is brick
and they concrete
exterior, for the dugouts I went to
one of his offense instead of a
cmu wall which delivered a lot of
cost savings on that aspect
of it. I can get
the markup through
my board and contractors, we are taking
that on.
eliminated in its entirety which we
did not need per our
engineering staff.
for the city of buda . We eliminated
the
masonry walls ,
replaced with metal studs. We eliminated
the stainless steel
wall panels , replaced by frp,
which is a huge savings, there.
obviously, there working
for the city so they will not pay
any permanent fees, that's a nice
little savings there
as well put city of buda purchases
the field tarps, hoses, dugout benches, helmets,
racks and bats
and fun stuff, we can buy that through
our own
catalog and that it's cheaper.
rs three, reduced the root zone to
medium depth, we cut it to 4 inches.
hyatt cost savings received after the
bid, so after we had some talks on
the final
day, tuesday, I needed to
get this to micah so he could make
a decision about what we are doing.
he passed on more cost savings. I
will tell you, and I have a
couple of more,
pre-engineered
metal sightings and batting cages
to match the roof,
that's a small savings, and delete
wet
fire sprinkler
through the concession stands, we
just did it for the
canceled system only. With
all those savings there, that was
quite a bit of savings, for us. The
biggest ones, just to give
you an example,
is the --I
don't know where I put it. Cost savings
received after bid
, that was $1 million. The electrical
was 1 million. So, hyatt did a great
job, they were
very upfront, I don't feel like they
were ripping us off
or taking advantage of us or however
you want to say it, I
think they --justin has a lot of
integrity, he talked to us straight
up, we were straightforward with each
other on what
we needed to do, and it was a
pleasure doing business with them
and having conversations. There was probably
some conversation on his part
and our part because there is a number
we need to get to, and we
were having some difficult conversations,
but, with darren's help and his team,
who did a fantastic
job, we started on thursday, having
discussions if we were talk on friday,
and
we did not stop until tuesday, so
that a saturday, sunday, all
his team doing the electrical, doing
the structural,
doing whatever we needed on any of
these things, to make sure we weren't giving up
quality and we were getting what we
were supposed to get that we wanted.
and so,
I think we have done that. I think
we have done
a heck of a job to keep the integrity
of what our original vision is
with some adjustments. And then, here
is the proposal, the base bid
and the being
12 million,
and
I missed the alternative earlier today,
so I apologize for that.
we did the maintenance building , 600,000,
bleachers at 56,
the additional parking lot is 751
and the batting cages are
879, so that gave us a total proposal
of 14,982,000
997.25.
getting that
charge taken care of, that's 572,000,
and the total with lighting
would be a
15,558,000.
here is our funding sources.
we have 2024 co bond,
which is 5.15, the
buda
edc is 1.5, once you send this, opposed
2026 co bond is
11,250,000. And that can change if
you choose to, the annual debt
estimated is 814,000 per year for
25 years.
for a total of 17.9 million. With
all the work
that we have had to do since the bid
has ended, it is probably around
1.6, and we have 16.3 available for construction.
>> thank you. Questions?
accolades?
>> just want to reiterate, this does
not
happen without
darren's staff and his team, because
we all put in
long nights to make
this
happen. Answering emails and phone calls,
that's all taken care of, I just want
to
make sure that it is us as a team
getting this done. It was
no individual, definitely a team effort
to make this happen.
>> mr. Smith? >> appreciate it.
it feels good, it will feel even
better when we see it. Right? See
them out there
playing ball. So, scaling back and
going to --going from this
concrete blocks
into a plastic polymer
finish, you mentioned quality ,
I am thinking longevity.
what is the lifespan on the material
versus
single block?
>> center block
is obviously 20 or 30 up to 50 years
depending
on how you take care of it. The way
that we move, probably
25 years , if we take care
of it, we don't beat the crap out
of it, we take care of it and clean
it, it is
all about taking care of what you
got, right?
we are truly blessed in being able
to do this. So, we will take care
of it like it is supposed to be taken
care of and like it is supposed
to stay.
>> appreciate that. What
I was looking for is, the
25 year mark or beyond, if we take
care of it is what
I was looking for. Because we will
have to do some things over
time, right? But we can at least get
paid off or
improve later .
I want it to last out there,
because it is a huge investment we
are putting in, we
don't want to put in another 10,000,005
years from now because it's
falling apart.
>>
it's just us making
sure we have a schedule and we are
taking care of it. It is on
me to make sure that we have maintenance
schedules taken care of, we are replacing
things when they're supposed to be
replaced, retaining them the way they
are supposed to be maintained. Checklists
and
recipes, those kinds of things will
be reiterated
, the stuff that
micah and lindsay have been on the
about, so we will have to work harder
at getting them all done, right? But,
it is treating it like it is
supposed to be treated. We hope that
it lasts for
100 years, but
obviously we will have to take care
of it at some point.
>> perfect,
thank you. Just to continue thinking
about quality,
with every aspect, two
areas quick, the root zone depth
? Obviously they wouldn't do it if
they were not comfortable. What do
we do on the soccer field?
>> the
same. 6 inches
on the soccer field.
>> so we are
pressing our
luck?
>>
we went thick. We went 8 inches, and
I wanted 8 inches
just because I wanted more stability.
it is not that afforded inches is
bad, it
is normal for what they do on normal
fields, high school fields, but
I was trying to go for that little
extra, so
a little more security and a better
foundation for us.
we hire it out as far as
over seeding and fertilization, so
it will
be taken care of, we will have a good
system to keep
it watered.
I am not worried about the 4 inches,
I was hoping for more
is all.
>> okay. I imagine the high-traffic areas
on the soccer field
are different than high-traffic areas out
here, and most highest traffic will
be on
the dirt ,
the infield.
>> I'm trying to get
on the leads but the mention of the
board, we're talking about the backstop?
so, those will stay. It will be a
pony wall backstop, it will just stop
the dugouts and then chain-link will
take over
around? I don't find out as much because
you start bridging
those dugouts , it gets really steamy
in their. You keep it open with chain-link
and the air flows through and I think
they are equally as safe.
>> absolutely.
cmu as a better foundation makes it
look a little better but
it is more aesthetics than functionality.
chain-link fence, they do it everywhere. There's
a bunch of colleges that have
it. I was okay with changing that.
>> very good. Appreciate all the work,
team
wide, and I'm excited to see it, now.
thank you.
>> any public testimony on this one?
go ahead.
>>
thank you. Very much respecting that
quick work, to get to --
did you say
win-win? I guess I will say it. Trying
to find that spot.
can you go back through the lists,
and
flip slowly? Of
changes? I am trying to catch something,
I think I happen to
know here, is that the first one or is there
one before
it? There we go. And the
next one? Okay. Thank you.
it makes a lot of sense, and I appreciate
you walking through it the
irrigation pump is
primarily for show
and disturbing the
water, so it is not so still of water
or didn't have a bigger function?
in other words, removing that, what
will it change?
>>
so, what we did is
the existing
water quality pond, and proposed water quality pond, we
wanted to make them wet bottom ponds
for anesthetic feature but at the
end of it
, it was $1 million just on the pond.
the irrigation system and so, reevaluating,
we changed the method of treatment
to meet water quality parameters for
batch
treatment, so we had fountains in
their, future fountains,
with the irrigation pumping station
and that drove the cost. So, still
gets
water quality, but
it is much lower cost.
>> sounds good.
tell me a bit more about batch treatment.
I know
what we do with some other ones, but
I guess
--yeah, talk a
bit about that.'s budget is a must
the same thing. So, if the original
approach
was a wet bottom pond,
we would have four or five feet with fountains
in it for more of anesthetic
feature, what we did instead is take
out the wet bottom, we raised
the bottom by four or five feet, so we
did not excavate
quite as much, and then replant native
grasses in there so we
have to mow
once per year, low maintenance.
on batch treatment, what happens is
that when the storm water comes through,
it holds,
in our case, about
four feet to six feet of water. The
irrigation system would have to commit
water and
spangled out on the grass. The batch treatment,
a valve opens from the bottom of the
pond after
a set period of time and lets the
water flow out into the creek.
so, that is where we don't have to
pump it. The same
goal and time period with
water running off the property before
it goes to the creek.
>> awesome,
thank you.
then, the electrical, tell me a
bit more about how much of a downsized.
is that the one transformer for the
park?
>>
is a great question, I'm glad you
asked.
they had about 2.5 million on electrical
, in
totality, and that excluded
the 1 million for the
irrigation pump station. What we ended
up doing is, when we took
out the irrigation pumping
station, that took out how we were routing
the conduit around the site and running
the wires , and that changed how we
were
setting up our transformers, because
we had 14,000 volt power coming into
the site ,
and we were stepping it up and stepping
down on voltage. So, that reduced
transformers, which, they are generally
100 grand per pop,
so that reduced how we are using power
and we were able to simplify things.
the phasing of the project
that we broke it up into one, two, three,
if you all saw our plans, there were
hundreds, if not thousands of exes
we were crossing out.
in the interim period we went back
and cleaned up all the
plans, we took out all the letter exes,
we took all
the text under that out, and we basically
clarified, tremendously,
because the
letter exes
really confused the contractors. Once
we clarified that,
we
could see the script much more clearly, and
that allowed them to say, this is what
you want, and then as tony mentioned,
we started
redesigning the electrical system
at about noon on friday, and we finished
around 2:00 on sunday, and
send
that to the contractor, you got it,
they started praising it, and
by monday, around 10:00 a.m., we had
a price
.
>> and that was a reduction of how
much?
>> about 1.3
million.
>> those were the two big
ones. Just looking at the list quickly,
it seems
like those are the two.
>> yeah. One
thing the contractor did pass on
is, when they were getting their fresh
quotes from contractors, tony and
I both
said hey, we got to have this by 11:00
a.m. 11:00 I am,
you hear me? And so, he was getting
quotes in and he sent his first
quote from the illogical setups, on
the west coast
--pardon
me, they were on the east coast and
west coast hadn't woken up yet because
they
were two hours behind, so the first
quote was like 700,000,
but after two hours, he was saying,
they had been talking to each
other and saying they were bidding
and that came
down to 400. Nothing changed,
they were just using tariffs and just
doing business, trying
to push the numbers as high as they
can, but as soon as they find out
that they have competition, that drives
the price down. So, there was a lot
of
that going on. It is common for the
speed of the project,
and the fact we were able to work
in an open
dialogue with contractor, and we were
able to
project based on our personality we would
be firm, but fair, we want quality
and
we will not compromise that. But,
we need an open dialogue to have a
successful
project. So, there is a lot of nonverbal's
with good teamwork
and I believe we have a really good
team
and contractor.
>> vilsack
thank you.
>> you all did an amazing amount of
work. So, hats off,
I know where
that bid started and what you were
able to get to, working for the weekend,
that's awesome. I am struggling with
the cost, just in general.
so, we're looking
at 800,000 in debt servicing.
do you have some general projections on
revenue from field
rentals, from tournaments, from any
of that,
for phase
one?
>> phase one, I have
done some preliminary,
with a total of 24
tenants per year. What I did from
that is, you know, we
have concessions
, somebody is running I have us running
concessions 100%. And then
we get
late fees at 20%, we get a parking,
20%.
concession stands , if somebody else
runs it, at
20%. I have run multiple numbers, and
I appreciate the question, because
I finally get to
actually talk about these numbers. So,
just on
the eight fields for softball on a
revenue basis, we have
eight fields, per our fee
schedules, $500 per day to rent, there's
eight of them, times two
days, that's
a
grand. We line the seals for two days
is $480.
this is where it gets kind of confusing
in some
aspects, because you have to understand
where the numbers come from. So
on the eight fields for softball you
can run 56 teams in
the weekend. So, saturday sunday tournament
you could run 56
teams. Well, there's different ways
of doing it,
so, the numbers I am using for this
comes straight from
the sports field management association.
I did not want
to use
--obviously I'm not
just pulling numbers out of my hat,
I use the book that everybody uses
two project where we are going. It's
the sports field management association.
they do it
as this, the city shares the gate,
so 56 teams
on average with
15 spectators per team,
so they times that out,
15 spectators and then the gate fee is
$10, and then you have two days
and we get 20% of that, so that is
3360 docs.
3360, and then the same thing with
the parking lot.
they say on average it is
$10 per team for 56?10, times five
dollars for cars
to park, two days, we get 20%
of that, that is 1120. And then we
share
the concession stand. Now, you take
the same
amount of spectators, 56?15, and then
multiply that by five,
because the average spent per person is
five dollars, that is what they are using,
over two days, times 20%, we
will get $1680,
if
we split the concession stand. The
total intake for attornment on a two
day tournament
is $16,240.
that is somebody else running concession
stands, doing the gate
fees and all of that. And running
the retirement. For the soccer fields,
four rentals,
500 bucks,
per field, times two, that's 4000.
lights
are 400.
lining the field is 240. The
same aspect, not changing from 56 teams,
to when you have
four fields, you can do 28 teams because
of the hours
of the day. 28
teams you can handle with four fields, times
the same 15 spectators, times 10,
that
is 1620
, and then the same for the parking,
it
is $560.
if we did the concession stand it's
only 840. So, on the soccer side,
we make $7660. So, if you take
those and you do the
16,240?12,
and sacraments, that's 194,008 80
. And if you did the soccer,
it is 91,920. A
total of
286,800,
running per year splitting concession
stands with everyone else. That is not
us running 100%.
>>
and that is just for tournaments?
>>
that is 12 weekends in a
52-week year.
just 12 weekends. I was being conservative
but I hope to run
more.
>>
normal field rental, what is that
for the softball
field specifically?
>> well, anything over
six hours is a full day, so that's
$500
but if not it's $75 per hour. On average
we get
right now,
it's almost all day
on a saturday or sunday. It's almost the
exact same amount of money that
we are doing right now. The only difference
is that we give a
cost break for hyd essay to use it,
and then capital city
uses it
.
>>
okay. I know we don't have it tonight,
but not just for phase one, but
phase two and three, because of the
master plan,
is fantastic, but understanding the
revenue and expenses all the way
down to the batting cages that
we can rent, we have knuckleball courses
we
can rent.
with what the revenue and expenses
are,
to put
together a big picture,
but I think I heard
all in, we are looking at 286 dollars
.
>> if we split it. If we take 100%
changes the numbers. So, if we don't
split any concession stand, we don't
split the gate with parking, it changes
it.
>> okay.
we are still not
half of what the overall debt service
is projected to be?
>> correct. >>
okay.
I am still struggling there. I
am hoping , I would like
to get the big picture,
especially as we look towards
future budgets and future phases,
that kind of stuff. But
I do appreciate all the hard work that
you and the team have done to get
us
to a better place, but,
I think that for me, it is still quite
a bit
more than
what we were originally going into.
thank you.
>> you bet.
>>
, just ask a quick question. That is
16,000 on a
two day, on the baseball side, with
eight fields?
>> yes,
sir.
>> thanks. And then a question
to mike,
I think, the
item tonight , is it
impacted
--the funding sources in the presentation
is the plan, but the item tonight
is
related to contract. So if we change
funding sources or the
amount --
if we change funding sources that
would not be
impacted by our decision tonight,
right?
>> that is correct.
tony, can you go to that
slide?
>> yes, sir. >> this is
how we have put together the funding
based on
what we already had available for
the project, and
knowing what that gap was.
counsel in july past a
reimbursement resolution,
so you have taken a step already to
say that any expenses we incur are
going to be reimbursed from this proposed
seo, but you have not taken any
actions to issue a proposed seo.
it has been
talked about with the budget process,
you might remember it was originally
2025 seo and
then a 2026 seo . Based on the timing
of
how this will work out we are just
proposing to do one 2026 seo
in the spring, and the number we have
been telling you since the april presentation
on
the sports complex was about
8.25 million. That is the number we
have been carrying. Does that answer
your question?
>> I just want to make
sure that we understand,
this number that I gave you, the 286 is
just running tenants. This does not
include
weekly rentals ,
for field rentals monday through friday.
which I will
have next.
>>
good point, and I am glad we had that
conversation to break it down
that way, but it also doesn't include
hotel stays, restaurants,
all the other things , the
intangibles that ,
there are ways to try to figure it
out, but it is hard, even with the
netting and self and tabulation to find
out where people go and ask
for hotels, who is staying where,
it brings people to buda, and it is
going
to bring people to buda ,
which has carry-on
effects of retail sales tax across
the board
. Do we have any public testimony
on this item?
thank you. Working over the weekend
doing your thing, I know you're
passionate about this, and this is
your project, but we appreciate the
energy
and the work that went into getting
us here.
because, we
were a little defeated not too long ago
, and now we
have options in front of us. So I
appreciate
that energy and that effort. Does
anyone
want to make this motion?
>> mayor,
if
I could, can you go to the slide that
shows the costs.
just as a reminder, there is
a basement with alternatives, so you
can award
base bid with certain alternatives
for all
of them.
we have a contingency built into
this, so that is something counsel
wants to authorize as well, a contingency of
3% or 5% or if you want
to come back to city council, that
is at your discretion, is 20 mentioned that
this 14.98 million does not have a
contingency built into it.
>> there are
two parts to the contingency,
you are saying the funding is
not there but you still have the authorization
as manager to approve a number above
the contract, but you are saying there
is no
funding available?
>> there is proposed
funding, based
on the
proposed issuance of 11.25 million,
we
have treated projects where counsel has
issued a not to exceed amount, so
unless
counsel authorizes the city manager to
approve some change orders,
every change order would come back
to council put a
lot of our construction contract have
a contingency of, depending on
the amount, 3% or 5%, I can review
those review those with staff
, but if you just approve the base
bid without any contingency, any change
order would come back to counsel.
>> good clarification.
mr. Smith, were you ready
for something?
>> I was preparing
a motion until that last comment.
I understand the
flux ability that allows, but given
how far we have come and where we
are today, I wouldn't mind authorizing
what we have in front of us
and fit with no change orders.
maybe what we have to do is a
number of them at a time.
I think this is being engineered as
far as it possibly can and be planned
out as far as it possibly can.
I know there will always be changes,
there will be unknowns, there needs
to
be a contingency there, but I think
that we
address that as it comes in our primary
goal is to
get this straight on. So with that,
I will motion to approve
, to award rf p number
25-255 sportsplex as presented, up
to the
dollar amount in the item, which
is the total proposal
.
>> I have
a question.
>> for the discussion.
miss williams?
>>
on other things to keep in mind is
the timeline
. We only have so many
days to get this done, and bring this
back to counsel
on the change order is not going to
be efficient, that we will end up
being behind schedule. So one of the
things to think about is to
authorize the city manager to hit
change orders that do not exceed the
state required a maximum
of 25%. Then when we are done and they
can move
this project through as quickly as
possible. Because time is money in
this instance.
>> I have a
question, as well.
do we need to include
the lighting, so it needs to be 15
--now?
>> there will be a separate
action, to counsel for the lighting
in a future meeting.
>> valid point.
>> I am up
for an amendment,
on this one, I feel like if we are
going to stand firm
on any project, this is one. They
give us a timeline,
down to the dollar, and if they have
to come
back for a change they are making,
--
>>
that is not the change order. Change
order is a change that we are making,
unless there is an unknown. If there
is no contingency
and they get out there and they start
working and something happens
, or there is something in the
ground that they didn't know was there,
then that means they have to stop
work, wait to get on the agenda for
counsel, comebacks, and he has already
given away
all of our ld days, 50 days, and how
much per day
was that?
>> 2000. >> yeah. So,
we don't want to
give away more days, because they
have to wait to come back to us,
when the city manager can easily resolve
the matter.
now, if you want to set
it and say, only 10%, I am cool with
that, right? But we
want to make sure that we are not paying
for the inefficiency of waiting for it
to come back for counsel, for us to
have to make that decision on the
change order.
>> okay. I hear you.
I didn't mention this earlier, but
there is
the design factor. 15%, we
went to 16 and all of a sudden it
21.6. I am
hoping the 1.6 is worth
it and there aren't any unknowns.
with other
projects when there are
lives at stake and buildings and that
kind of stuff, I get it.
this is pretty plain jane out there.
1.6 to design a field and
softball field, you
know, my patience for that
--but I hear you, as far as not wanting
to
delay the project, as well. So,
let me ask the city
manager down there,
how tight can we make that, to where
you will not lose
sleep over it
? 10%?
>> if you make it
14.9, then it will be 14.9 , and we
will work within
the confines of that , and something
comes
up we will bring it to you and there
will be some delays. If you
do a 3%, I think that is about
$500,000, that is a good amount to get
started on. I would recommend 10%
,
if we don't have the budget
>> okay, so building and 3.5? Okay.
I hear you completely and I
don't want to slow down unnecessarily, but
at some point in time, we have to
hold these plans, and
one of these days, we will
hit what we plan on the money. That
is why we spend the money to
planet upfront, right? If we can do
it I feel like this is the project
to do it on. With that, I will amend
the motion to include the 3%
contingency. As well. And to confirm,
it is the 14.98 and change. Thank
you.
>> all right, we have a motion
and a second.
are we good?
all those in favor?
any opposed? Motion carries.
congratulations.
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the 2025 members on the city's boards,
commissions, and committees
, arts commission, main street advisory
board,
and planning and zoning
commission.
miss ramirez?
>> yes, mayor. The nominations committee
met last week, and we have
filled all the vacancies to date.
we did have an additional
one on the arts commission
which opened up another vacancy. So,
the nominations are as follows.
for arts commission, yvette
hurst. For main street advisory board,
ellen cates and
erika wasik goes.
and for planning and zoning, valerie moya
>> thank you. Anything from our committee
? Questions or comments?
>> what was that last appointment?
>> lori moya
to planning and zoning.
>> thank you.
>> questions or comments?
>> real quick, who rolled
off arts , do you know? Whose term
ended?
>> it didn't end, he resigned.
steve mccord.
>> okay.
thank you.
>>
just as a really quick note,
the applications that we reviewed
, the nominations
committee had a lot of people that
were interested in a lot of the same
boards and commissions , and being
able to balance
out folks who live
in the
number that
can be added to the board or commission
was quite the process to get
through, so, the final result that
was presented tonight has really
been thoughtfully selected
. We did interviews last time, just
to make sure that we had good fits
, so we have done due diligence, and
hope that you guys would
be accepting of the candidates that
we put forward.
>>
thank you.
>> exactly
what I was asking for. Comments from
the committee. I appreciate the time
--I know you
did interviews, we are taking steps
further than we did in the past, but,
that
is good. It is a good thing
you do.
public testimony on this item? I
will make a motion that we accept the
resignations and the appointments
as presented in k5.
>> second. >>
motion and a second. All
those in favor? Any opposed?
motion carries. That brings
us into l1. Council will recess
regular session and convene into
executive session
to deliberate on agenda items pursuant
to texas government code chapter 551,
section 551.071, consultation
with city attorney regarding her a,
hayes commons proposed development,
and b,
section 551.087,
deliberation regarding economic development
negotiations regarding performance
agreement negotiations, performance
agreement
obligations for project feathered
flames, project san antonio, and project
leather boots. With that, we
will get into executive session at 9:57.