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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I want to call the meeting of Monday, September 11, 2023, call it to order after 301 p.m. We are going to, I just received this notice, we're going to go into recess into executive session real quick and then we're going to come back in. So a pursuant to Section 551.071, the Texas government, code the council reserves arrived to, convene an executive

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session from time to time is deemed necessary during this meeting or any posted agenda item to receive

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advice from its attorney as permitted by the law to discuss following pending or contemplated

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litigation or to seek the advice of the City Attorney, pursuant to Section 551.0071, seek the

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advice of City Attorney regarding pending litigation, calls numbers 352-3424443-233,

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Calls number 4 by 23cv-00131-0, seek advice of the city attorney regarding public-private partnerships, seeking the advice of the city attorney regarding enforcement activities in the downtown area, seek advice of the city attorney regarding legal issues pertaining to economic development projects listed in section 3-D of the agenda discussion regarding possible purchase, exchange, lease of value of real property, pursuant to section 3-D.

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Section 551.072, Land Acquisition for Future Development.

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Personnel matters pursuant to Section 551.074, Board of Pointments.

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Deliberation regarding commercial or financial information received from or the offer

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of a financial or other incentives made to a business prospect seeking to locate

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state or expand in or near the territory of the city with which the city is conducting

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economic development negotiations, pursuant to Section 551-087,

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economic development projects 22-23, 23-08, 23-1, 1, and 23-1, 3.

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The council will now recess into executive session at 303 p.m.

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We're going to reconvene at 339, and we'll start with our discussion

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regarding the draft Mansfield 2040 future land use plan at this time.

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Thank you Honorable Mayor, good afternoon city council.

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We have freezing nickels with us this afternoon to go over a draft version of

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the Mansfield 2040 plan, which is also our future land use plan.

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I will pause here and turn it over to Mr. Daniel Harrison to lead us further in that discussion.

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Thank you, Council, for having us here today.

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We're honored to be here to talk about the future Laney's plan and we'll go ahead and

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jump on into it.

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So what would I like to do?

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My name is Daniel Harrison.

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I work for a company called Freeze and Nichols and with me today is Erica Craigcraft and also

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Connor Roberts.

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We've been critical and putting together your draft free and we've seen several of you at

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the different meetings working through the Conference of Plan Steering Committee.

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other members of our team, Kaitlyn, working on our special planning areas,

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working on different details for downtown and our other areas.

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We'll take a look at here in just a minute, and then some of our other members of the team.

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So what we'd like to do is walk you through the planning process real quick,

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and then we'll take you through the mission statement and the guiding principles.

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We'll look at the future lane use plan, the special area plans,

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and then we'll talk about next steps.

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So, real quick, where we are in the process, we started back in February.

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That was where we were collecting our initial input and then in March through May, we were

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working with the steering committee to propose concepts based upon that input.

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June through October, we've been working to draft and review the plan with the steering

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committee.

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In October here, we're collecting more community feedback now that we've had a draft.

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And now we are moving closer to November revising the plan and still shooting for December for that adoption date.

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So we can have that done before the end of the year.

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Wanna do a few highlights here, open the open house, our first open house that we had was back in February 2023.

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We had approximately 43 people in attendance, there's a few photos that you can see from that meeting.

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We also had an online component available for a couple of weeks for people to participate

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as well and to collect their input.

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Our citizen planning steering committee, very important to the process, it serves as

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our sounding board to identify ideas and to talk about the details.

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And they're a really great group of citizens to work with to really talk about the key issues.

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We've had six meetings so far, and we have one final meeting later this month to discuss final changes.

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Other engagements that we've had, we had seven special area plans, stakeholder focus group,

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interviews where we met with different stakeholders to discuss different areas of the city.

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If you remember, we had the February 24th Council retreat, we had that workshop where we were in Waco,

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We also have the open house, virtual open house number two.

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That's going to be upcoming here in a little bit.

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Here's a little bit about how that schedule looks.

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Of course, we are here today.

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We're tentatively looking at October 5th to have another meeting with the Conference of Plan Steering Committee.

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And then that open house will occur at the end of October, beginning of November,

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before having another joint workshop with you and the PNZ.

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The steering committee is going to be invited to that, but it's really for the council and the PNC to discuss and then moving on to the adoption process.

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So when we talk about the mission and vision statement, or the mission statement, you guys had already established the mission statement.

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So one of the key things that we wanted to focus on, the guiding principles that we have here in the plan,

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And look at the mission statement to deliver adaptive plan that embodies sustainable

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lane use practices and results in a community that is highly regarded for its elevated quality of life.

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Protection of the built natural environment and an inclusive future for all.

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So we have those guiding principles right there that were outlined.

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And so we could sort of take a look when we get into our future lane use plan strategies and

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the special area plan strategies.

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We can look back and are we touching on what you guys had in the mission statement and we're

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making sure that everything that we're doing is pointing back to the guiding principles

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and the mission statement and then also the true North concepts that are that the city

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has as adopted.

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So this is just a little hierarchy chart that you could sort of see sort of like if we

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want to call this a waterfall diagram the true North principles on the top flowing into

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our mission and guiding principles for the conference of plan are for the future land use plan.

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Then when you get into the plan itself, it's divided into two areas.

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We have the land use section, which we touch on neighborhoods and housing,

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mixed use, parks and open space, retail environment.

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And then we have goals for each one of those and then we have strategies and

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actions that fall under those.

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And then when we move over to our special areas, we have downtown,

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link the entertainment district western promise and the ETJ. Same structure there. We have goals for each one of those areas that are followed up with strategies and then actions to provide that fine-tune detail that we need in the plan move forward.

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And so what we'll do is we'll highlight some of the strategies on the higher level than of course we can talk about anything that you'd like.

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Here is the map itself, the future lane use map, and so you can see we have our different lane use categories.

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We'll take a look at what each one of these means and what each one of those colors mean.

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But you could sort of see how the city is mapped out.

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So in our first one, a state residential, this is more for our rural areas.

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As these transition from agricultural uses to more developed, there's supposed to be more rural in nature.

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These are on the outskirts of town, really located in the ETJ, as we know state laws change with our ETJ, those areas may or may not ever come into the city, but we are planning for those to know what's going to be right around the borders of the city.

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I then move into our suburban residential and this is our traditional housing stock that we have in the community.

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You can see we have a little part of the compass here.

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If we look at the city as a whole at build out, we'd say this is about 85% residential, 15% non-residentials.

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What that would generally equate to if you're just looking at how many acres, how much land this covers.

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Then we have our urban neighborhood.

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This is transitioning between the traditional suburban that we have to the historic downtown.

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So it could be little denser, some different types of uses.

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is the residential mix drops a little bit to be in just 70% residential, which is still

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the dominant use, but then we have a little bit more non-residential because we're moving

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closer into downtown.

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We have our mixed use categories, and these are our low to medium scale mixed use that about

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50% residential, 50% non-residential.

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Here's a couple of examples, pictures that we have on what that could look like.

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Then we move to our regional which is going to be a more high-intensity residential designation so taller buildings you'd have in this area still about the same as a 50.

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Number 50, residential versus non-residential mixture. We do have a parks and open space category. This is going to be for as you can tell by the name, our parks and open space that we have there. We want to distinguish that on the map because that's a very useful tool when you're looking at the map to see where these elements are. Very similarly, we do our public and semi public lane use category to see where the schools or other institutional uses are located.

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Then we have our retail and office.

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This provides our shopping, employment, and commercial services, mostly all non-residential,

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but there could be a little bit, 10 percent, we would say, residential in this category.

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Commercial and light industrial provides for higher intensity commercial operations and clean

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industrial practices, mostly all non-residential and a few examples of what that could look like.

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And then here's just, you can sort of see a close-up of the map, you can see the different

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colors, how those are all shaded on there, and those lane-use categories that we just

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looked at, those are on the map, and then when you come across zoning cases, or those are

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presented to you, and staff's making a report, and someone's wanting to do a change in zoning,

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they'll look at this area, they'll look at the area on this map, and sort of see what

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that area is currently zone, what's this envision to be in the future and be able to provide

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you a good recommendation, an agreement with the conference plan, whether that's only

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a change would comply.

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And then just a little bit further to the south so you can see the map.

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So when we move on to the land use categories and when we look at our goals, we have our

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Our first goal number, goal here, encourage, inclusive housing options.

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So that's a goal, these are broad goals.

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And then when we move down into our strategies, we talk a little bit more about like, well, how are we going to reach that?

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So we have our first strategy here, and I'll really highlight these red text here on the screen.

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But the first one here for our strategy, provided variety of multi-generational housing types.

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Through the input, we heard from a lot of different people about wanting to be able to live here for their entire life cycle.

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So whether they can have kids here, raise their kids here, retire here, can someone move here.

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So really being a community where we could really house the full generation whether you're coming straight out of college,

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or high school, or if you're moving here at a different time, but that you'd have an opportunity to live your whole life cycle here in the city.

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Number two, encourage housing attainability within neighborhoods, so what we have under here is another level of actions where we talk about there could be zoning updates to the zoning ordinance that we can help encourage attainable housing and different options that we have under there.

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Moving on to goal number two for our neighborhood and housing support existing neighborhoods.

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Existing neighborhoods of course are very important, there were our current residents are living.

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So what are some strategies to help support those contextual infill housing developments?

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So as new things come in existing neighborhoods, we want to make sure that those match, those are compatible.

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Number two strategy here, we have encouraged private and public investment in neighborhoods,

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includes beautification efforts and infrastructure improvements.

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So those are two things that the infrastructure and the beautification,

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those are things that we can do to current neighborhoods right now to help support them.

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Number, our letter C, I should say here, support the character and

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history of the existing neighborhood and promote distinct place making opportunities,

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whether this is bringing an area as historical with our sign toppers,

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different elements like that that we can really do to support existing neighborhoods.

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Number three, we wanted to plan for livable neighborhoods.

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So three strategies here, number A, we have the inclusion of access to pedestrian connections.

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And so we want to be sure that as people are out there enjoying their neighborhood, it's walkable.

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People can get from point A to point B, whether it's just a recreational walk or

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if they want to walk to a restaurant or some other type of destination.

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Number, letter B here, we have a wide variety of lot sizes.

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So that's something else that we can help plan for livable neighborhoods.

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When we have different lot sizes that can lead to different product types and also price points for

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different housing products. So that could be that's one strategy that we have.

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Letters C emphasize pedestrian mobility, safety, and experience. And so looking at street

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escapes, what ways can we improve the pedestrian feel to make our neighborhoods more livable?

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Then we move to our mixed use, that's our second out four categories for our land use.

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And we want to support vibrant intensity.

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So our letter A here, we have higher intensity residential uses within the mixed use setting

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at intentional locations within the city.

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So not everywhere needs to be a high intensity area, but we've identified areas on the map.

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That would be supportive of that, because we want to make sure that we're taking the

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the best use of our current roadway infrastructure, our water waste water infrastructure,

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all those investments that we've already made, having higher intensity in those areas.

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Letter B, we talked about pedestrian-oriented urban design and

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integrated gathering spaces and connections to the outdoors.

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Once again, this is a way that we can support vibrant intensity.

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Letter C, we wanted to leverage mixed use developments to diversify the city's commercial tax base and employment opportunities.

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a lot of different opportunities for jobs coming into the city.

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We want to make sure that we have a diversification of opportunities for people.

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Number two, goal under our mixed uses promote quality, mixed use development.

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Letter A, we have encouraged efficiently shared amenities between a variety of users and

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uses including parking, improvements if we can share parking, if we can find ways for

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these neighboring uses to co-exist in a great manner, that can really help improve our quality as

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far as our mixed use developments go. We want to incentivize higher quality building techniques and

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materials such as our masonry products, decorative finishes, the way these areas look and feel are

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very important. Let us see, we want to establish a balanced and complementary mixture of uses within

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within these buildings, residential, office, retail,

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those type of uses that are really going to be beneficial to the residents and also the business owners.

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Goal number three, under mixed use, create unique destinations throughout the city.

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We talk about letter A here integrating public and private amenities aimed towards residents, businesses, and visitors.

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So whether it's recreational type, public-private partnerships, whether that's more on the private side with things that are taking place right next to our public spaces, those are opportunities to help support both the public investment that we have, and also the private investment so people can businesses can take advantage of whether it's a highly utilized park, and there's a restaurant or some type of commercial facility next to that, that can be a beneficial

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relationship. A letter B, utilized mixed use applications around existing neighborhoods

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to provide local destinations and services. So when we think about our existing residents,

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we of course want to have opportunities for them to shop and dine and to be entertained.

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And these mixed use elements are part of one of the things we're trying to achieve that goal.

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Living on to the third goal out of our fourth for our land use, we want to foster a sense

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of place.

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So we talked about public and private, but we're talking about art installations here.

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So there's a way that we can promote the community vision, whether it's encouraging local artists

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to really help beautify the city and finding ways that we can integrate local things here

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into the city to help build our character and identity.

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Letter B, we use trails and parks to link community gathering spaces.

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So when we think about what families are doing on the weekends, or

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if someone's trying to train for a race or something like that.

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Are there ways that we can be connected throughout the city to go from one place to the other?

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So we have good, yes, we have individual neighborhoods, but

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But we want to make sure that someone can get from one neighborhood to another throughout the entire city.

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Gold number two, under our parks and public spaces, protect and leverage the natural environment.

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So, tailor development, strategy A, tailor development of existing to the existing topography and ecology.

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So, we do have hills, we do have natural areas, we want to make sure that we're building upon those.

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because one of the things that make us unique is the land that we sit on, so there's no other land exactly like it, so that's why we want to preserve it and keep it as it is and build upon that relationship.

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Letter B, we want to preserve environmentally sensitive areas for open space and more recreational programming and letter C, mitigate potential impacts to the natural environment using innovative and effective engineering solutions.

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And so if we're looking at different designs and buildings, there could be really some opportunities to work with some of our creeks and natural areas to have some some really tailored buildings.

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Goal number three, expand outdoor entertainment options.

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We want to improve access and marketing for the city's existing outdoor venues such as big league dreams and a lot.

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So there's some opportunities we have with the existing things that we want to expand that.

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provide recreation for people to enjoy the outdoors.

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Now that we have some nice weather, everyone would like to be outside.

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Now letter B here, we develop open spaces with recreation in mind, including opportunities for residents and visitors of all ages.

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We want to make sure that there's a lot of investment going into our parks and our public spaces.

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And we want to make sure that those appeal to just not families with young kids, but

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but also families with older kids and also families that don't have kids.

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And also, our kids may have been out of the house for a long time.

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We still want parks and open spaces to appeal to them as well.

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Moving on to our fourth out of four for our land use category, our goal areas here, retail and employment.

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So we want to expand regional and global employment opportunities.

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strategies, strategy A, market the city towards local, regional, and global partnerships in areas with appropriate context and infrastructure.

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So we talked a lot at the steering committee level about a lot of opportunities for growth and

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development here in Mansfield.

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So we really wanted to appeal to that, and we really think we have a special city to offer that offers a lot to employers who will

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will in turn offer that to their employees.

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So, when we were looking at, yes, we want to expand our regional, if it's a regional north Texas employer but also global employment opportunities to move here to the city.

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Let her be, ensure that the impacts of high intensity uses do not burden man's fields existing or future residents.

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We were very cautious about as things change over time, existing residents may be concerned about what happens in other parts of the city,

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especially parts that are probably closest to them.

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So we want to be mindful of that,

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and that is part of the future Laney's plan

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and one of our strategies here.

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expand local employment opportunities, letter A,

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we want to integrate small-scale offices and businesses

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within close proximity to our residential.

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to get to your small-scale offices,

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whether it's your dentist or your chiropractor,

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something along those lines, that's not going to be too far and that's not having to

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drive two cities over for that.

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Letter B, encouraged local jobs by targeting employers that want the knowledge, skills

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and talents of area residents.

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A lot of good education programs going on, when we were doing the stakeholder interviews,

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we interviewed the people with the hospital, they talked about their nursing program.

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What opportunities do we have to expand our employment with local knowledge here?

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So that's one of the strategies that we have in the plan.

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Goal three, increased neighborhood centered, retail.

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We wanted to remove barriers to infill neighborhood serving,

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retail and commercial establishments within residential areas.

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So there could be some barriers that we could take out of the zoning that could help some of our existing neighborhoods.

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If there was a small store or

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whether once again it was a dentist or some type of maybe a real estate agent office that could help as well.

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Let it be established access to fresh food and necessary services for daily life within walking distance for residents.

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And so one of the things we want to focus on is, can people get to the services that they need?

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And that was one of the things that we wanted to make sure that that would be in all areas of the city.

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Goal number four, support the existing business community.

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Of course our existing businesses has helped Mansfield become who it is right now.

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So we want to continue to support our business community.

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So letter A, anticipate adaptive reuse and

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reinvesting opportunities for existing businesses such as big box retail space.

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So we have landowners who own businesses here, but their tenants may change.

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So we want to go ahead and anticipate that and allow for reuse of those buildings.

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Letter B, encourage business coalitions and partnerships between private and public entities.

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So there could be some public private partnerships that could be very, very fruitful.

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So with that, and I'll take a sort of pause here cuz I know I've gone through a lot of goals and strategies.

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And what I'd like to do if there's any questions you have right now about anything on the map.

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And we'll have opportunities at the very end of the presentation to we'll do Q&A there as well.

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But I just want to take a little pause here to see if there's any.

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Immediate questions that you wanted to talk about and then because the next phase is we'll get into the special area plans in their recommendation. So any questions that we have? All right. On my left, any questions? You're OK? All right. All right. Any questions? No. All right. Thank you. You may proceed, sir. Thank you. All right. So moving over to our special area map.

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map. Okay, so what we've done is we mapped our different areas and that you can see our

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five areas. We have the ETJ, that's the area in purple that you see in the screen. I'll

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go from west to east. Then we have the western promise. You can see area outline are shaded

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in green. Downtown is shaded in the blue. We have the link shaded in the orange and then

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the entertainment district shaded in that light red peach color.

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And so what we do is we have a vision and a primary focus based upon the stakeholder input

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that we got for our five different areas.

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We provided additional level of details related to land use, goals, strategies and actions

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that move beyond the regular future land use plan, goals and strategies.

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We identified special physical assets, opportunities and barriers and once again, this is creating

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the physical framework for these areas moving forward.

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So when we're looking at downtown, so we have our downtown goal to enhance the public

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realm and to provide a remarkable experience in downtown.

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So, letter A, update the tax increment reinvestment zone and the downtown zoning boundaries.

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That's one thing that we can do to help expand the area.

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Letter B, plan for capital improvements on broad and main street.

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Letter C, identify locations for additional small gathering places in downtown.

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downtown, once again, we're trying to encourage as much use of downtown and people spending

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time in downtown and being a destination for them to go to.

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Promote a park once and walk everywhere concept, so you can park your car and you won't have

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to move that vehicle around to go from one side of the street to the other side of the street.

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Letter E provide public restrooms in downtown, so that would be helpful for some of the business

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owners, people not having necessarily to use their

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restrooms, but we could have some public restrooms in

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downtown as well. Letter F, identifier, promote alternative

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routes for heavy truck traffic to keep them off main

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street and to make downtown more pedestrian friendly and

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focus. There could be some opportunities to reroute some of

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the truck traffic, so you're not having those large 18

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wheelers sort of rumble down the street. Second goal, promote

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development that creates a unique identity.

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And so some of the ways that we can do that, letter A, create urban design standards aimed at enhancing streetscapes and

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building forms both within downtown and the supporting neighborhoods.

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So we could look at ways to approach things through a zoning manner.

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Letter B, identify opportunities for

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Enthil and redevelopment projects and preservation of historic aesthetics to support the downtown vision.

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have some great buildings downtown, of course want to protect those and see those last another hundred years moving forward.

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Let us see, review and update the codes and ordinances as necessary to ensure regulations are consistent with downtown and the supporting neighborhoods.

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Looking at the vision that we have in the special area plan, there could be updates to the downtown zoning that really when someone is trying to build or redo something,

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that we're making sure the zoning is supportive of the vision that we have.

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Goal number three, prioritize pedestrian and cyclist.

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Letter A, implement road diets, we're equitable.

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Now when we're looking at road diets, there could be ways to whether we're talking about narrowing some of the lanes

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and providing some extra areas for sidewalks, for people to walk and feel safe.

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The narrow lanes can also help to slow down some of the traffic as well.

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Whether there is cycling, bicycle lane, or something along those lines to really help to have different ways for people to get up and down Main Street.

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Provide mid block protection, letter B, provide mid block protection pedestrian crossing across Maine, both North and South of Broad Street to promote walkability and accessibility.

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If you look at a map sometimes, it doesn't really look too far to go to the signals, to the lights, and to do the crossing.

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But there could be opportunities where we can have some mid-block crossing, whether it's signal lines or not, to allow people to cross mid-block to let people go from both sides of the street.

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That would also be one way to encourage people to park once and to walk throughout the different parts of downtown.

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Now, goal number four, nurture and sustain small and local businesses.

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Once again, they're really the lifeblood of downtown.

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That's why people are coming downtown because there's something to do.

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So we want to support our downtown businesses.

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So prepare an events plan for reoccurring activations, programs, events.

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You already have some great, great events downtown.

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So working on just expanding that.

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Letter B maintain and support a working group of downtown businesses and business leaders in order to better engage them in the future of the area.

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Once again, during our stakeholders, interviews where we were talking to them on the phone.

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They were happy to be talked to and sort of share what was important to them.

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And also to sort of know what other people were saying because we were just sharing information.

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and what everyone else had told us.

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And there's a lot of common interest among the business owners.

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All right, moving to the entertainment district.

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So moving on to the east side, this is our first goal,

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attract visitors with distinct entertainment choices for all ages.

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Letter A here, we have support the development of major experiential destinations.

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So, there's some opportunities for some great ideas have been proposed, and that's sort of the idea of the entertainment district for people to come out here to be entertained whether it's sports, whether it's something similar to that, but really a destination that's really going to provide an experience for the visitors.

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Let her be utilized the highway frontage to create identity and recognition of the district.

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Of course, we have lots of traffic along the highway.

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That's another way that we can help sort of brand and build that identity of the entertainment district.

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Let her see, utilize, enhance and promote the trail and its ability to connect this district to the rest of the city.

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We have some trail opportunities and maybe for some of our more avid cyclists and

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and people who like to walk longer distances maybe.

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Baby now, like I said, since it's a little bit cooler,

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there would be opportunities for trail connections

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on the east side as well.

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And then letter D, promote family friendly park spaces

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within the districts.

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Once again, law has been talked about the sports

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and that type of entertainment.

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But there's also when you have these type of sporting events

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going on, whether it's family friendly

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So you can bring the whole family out for the day to entertain.

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He may have one child or a family member participating in a sport.

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Be good opportunity for the other family members to take advantage of the offerings in the entertainment district.

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Goal number two, create the ability to spend the entire day.

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This was sort of leaning into a little bit.

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Letter A, promote mixed-use nose of development of varying intensities within the district.

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That includes a variety of appropriately scaled retail, dining, residential, and office uses.

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So there be just a wide variety of things that someone could do.

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Letter B, identify the location of large central outdoor gathering places with space for

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food trucks or a food hall.

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Now, once again, having people here, yes, there would be restaurants and retail, but there could be also opportunities to visit food trucks, maybe a little bit quicker for people spending the day.

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Goal number three, generate a, once again, here in the entertainment district, similar to what we did in the downtown district, but a park once, and walk everywhere philosophy, whether we have shared parking, so you can, you don't have to worry about, is that this business is parking lot or

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or that, it's okay to park in this district, walk and spend the day.

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Letter B, consider providing a hop-on, hop-off type shuttle.

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Similar to during major events, there could be a shuttle that can help.

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Of course, this may be a little bit more useful, too, when we get back into our hotter months.

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Letter C, enhanced streetscapes to allow comfortable walking and bicycling.

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When we talk about shade, you know, we hear in Texas, we try to make things as pedestrian

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as we can and friendly, but we're always battling the summer.

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And so no matter how beautiful and enticing it may look if it's 110 outside, we're not

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going to want to walk it for too long.

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So there's opportunities for streetscape and to encourage that comfortable walking.

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Moving on to the link.

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So a little bit to the west.

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We want to capitalize on the intersection of location and opportunity, excuse me.

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So we want to focus density in a mixed-use town center within the district,

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letter B.

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We want to attract and retain and expand high-paying employment opportunities.

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The link is a good opportunity for employment.

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Like I said, we talked to a lot of stakeholders in the areas of whether it's research

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search development, flex manufacturing, corporate offices, all these things that really help a town center type development.

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Let her see, promote the link as a regional destination to be known throughout the North Texas region here as a place to have a business,

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locate your headquarters, have a second headquarters there, different opportunities.

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It's letter B, consider creating a standalone innovation district plan, so that could dive into a little bit more about types of uses and how these things would interrelate a little bit more to each other.

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Letter E clearly define the boundaries of the link and the updated tours number one as necessary.

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So we have the boundary on the map that you've seen, but if there's any updates as an expansion of the TURRS number one that needs to happen, just making sure that if those can overlap, that would be beneficial to the district.

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Goal number two, facilitate the next level of creativity, learning, innovation, and collaboration.

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So, letter A, concentrate activity generating uses in the Mixed Use Town Center.

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So, we really want this to be a place where, you know, thinker spaces, people are trying to come

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up with the next big idea or whether it is people moving here because, let's say, you know,

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So there's already industry here that we want to build upon, so maybe that's one of the elements.

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But one of the things that we can do when we're planning is we want to look at the possibilities that,

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hey, how can we support and facilitate this next level generation of ideas?

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And one of the ways is of course to the town center.

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Letter B here, Kraft Urban Design Guidelines for the district.

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Once again, we want people to be able to spend time down here, and it'd be a unique, nice destination for people to spend their time and invest their time, resources, and talents.

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Goal three, under the link, infuse health and wellness into residents and employ lifestyles.

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Letter A here, promote active transportation via safe and comfortable infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists, so people can get around the area.

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We want to be sure that people can either walk or hop on a short bike ride to get from

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point A to point B. Letter B encourage or require minimum sustainability performance

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for new construction in the district.

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So if this is looking at, you know, connectivity to trails, different ways that we can think

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about how can this area be sustainable in the long term.

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Let us see, establish an activation programs and events plan that provide opportunities for residents and employees in the district to enhance their physical, mental and social well-being.

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As we look and understand what companies are trying to think about when they relocate from one area to another, they want to be sure that quality of life is important and that when they're trying to find an area for their employees to live health.

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happy, healthy lives.

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These are the sort of things that they're taking a look at or they're taking a look at schools.

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Can they be active?

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00:44:07,370 --> 00:44:08,590
What are these types of things?

409
00:44:08,870 --> 00:44:12,490
So, the things about their physical, mental, and social well-being,

410
00:44:12,490 --> 00:44:17,590
these are all things that were focused on trying to create a really unique place for

411
00:44:18,290 --> 00:44:23,170
these type of people that value these things to move to and to have their business.

412
00:44:24,690 --> 00:44:27,010
Moving over to the Western Promise,

413
00:44:27,010 --> 00:44:29,030
So go on once again, a little bit further to the west.

414
00:44:29,610 --> 00:44:34,190
Foster complete communities and residential neighborhoods in mixed use areas.

415
00:44:34,850 --> 00:44:38,670
So letter A, we have identify opportunities for new neighborhoods serving parks,

416
00:44:39,450 --> 00:44:41,930
playgrounds, and recreational services and programs.

417
00:44:42,710 --> 00:44:48,950
So as we move further to the west, what opportunities we have some natural areas for

418
00:44:48,950 --> 00:44:55,910
that would be good for parks and playgrounds, those type of recreational services that are going to be needed out in the western promise.

419
00:44:55,910 --> 00:44:59,150
Let her be expand quality retail and services.

420
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,980
And the neighborhoods to serve local residents. We want to make sure that as the city grows, that we have opportunities in the western promise for quality retail. Let her see, promote a wider variety of housing in the area. So, of course, we have a lot of different single family out there. And there's some different opportunities, whether it be duplex or town homes or mixed use, those different types of elements that, once again, going back to sort of looking at how we're trying to be a full life cycle community, what opportunities could there be.

421
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:33,280
be, we want to make sure that that is occurring also in the Western Promise.

422
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,260
Goal number two, improve access connectivity and mobility for residents.

423
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,860
So letter A, transform Broad Street into a thriving mixed-use corridor.

424
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,980
So we'd have opportunities for businesses, residents as well.

425
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,380
Letter B, promote enhanced streetscapes and multi-modal infrastructure.

426
00:45:52,940 --> 00:45:59,580
Of course, there's already some great landscaping that's been done along there with the streets

427
00:45:59,580 --> 00:46:03,800
streetscapes, but also looking about how that will look when we have more development

428
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,320
occurring along broad.

429
00:46:07,350 --> 00:46:12,330
Goal number three, promote community stability and existing in future neighborhoods.

430
00:46:12,730 --> 00:46:15,090
We want to promote community resiliency.

431
00:46:15,470 --> 00:46:21,550
So we want to be sure that we have sort of a variety of uses in the Western promise to

432
00:46:21,550 --> 00:46:29,330
really make sure that there's opportunities for this area if one business decides to move

433
00:46:29,330 --> 00:46:30,290
or relocate.

434
00:46:30,290 --> 00:46:36,410
It's not detrimental to the Western promise, so we have something that's going to be resilient over time.

435
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:44,540
Goal number four, generate and deliver meaningful economic development in the southern portions of the Western promise.

436
00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:52,060
So if you remember, the Western promise is quite, ETJ is bigger, but the Western promise is the second largest area.

437
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,440
It's quite a large area.

438
00:46:54,320 --> 00:47:01,500
So, letter A here, support the creation of a equestrian center in rodeo grounds.

439
00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:05,920
There could be some opportunities for that type of development.

440
00:47:07,270 --> 00:47:13,140
Letter B, we have provides space for clean and environmentally sensitive industrial development.

441
00:47:13,220 --> 00:47:19,500
So there could be some opportunities for some more clean and safe that are environmentally

442
00:47:19,500 --> 00:47:21,400
friendly type development.

443
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,360
could also offer, offer job opportunities as well.

444
00:47:26,980 --> 00:47:30,500
Gold number five, enhance the infrastructure and promote sustainable growth.

445
00:47:30,820 --> 00:47:37,680
So letter A, promote, proactively identify and plan for the capital improvement plan,

446
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,060
the need, the different needs that we have in those areas.

447
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,000
So just looking out, like I said, very large area.

448
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,120
So the capital needs to improve roads, those type of elements,

449
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,560
Once, once more development occurs, that will be part of the planning process.

450
00:47:53,100 --> 00:47:58,000
Let her be focus growth in areas that won't strain city resources.

451
00:47:58,340 --> 00:48:01,840
Once again, so we talked a little bit before on the future lane use plan side.

452
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,140
When we're looking at those goals about focusing and

453
00:48:05,140 --> 00:48:17,960
housing, when we were talking about focusing, when we had some more intense mixed use development areas where we have city infrastructure for roads, where we have sewer, where we have water, same element here.

454
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:26,160
So we want to make sure that those are an investment that we have in tax dollars, and we want to make sure that we utilize that to the best of our ability.

455
00:48:27,460 --> 00:48:31,500
Last area is the ETJ or the extraterritorial jurisdiction.

456
00:48:32,300 --> 00:48:36,860
We want to create a positive transition into the city, because once again,

457
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,800
just for everyone who may not know in the crowd, state law has changed with ETJs.

458
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:49,240
And so, really, people can petition or they can ask for an election to be removed out of the ETJ.

459
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:54,260
ETJ is an important area for cities because it's the only place that we can expand our city limits.

460
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:59,720
We can only expand through voluntary annexations into the area that we have in ETJ.

461
00:49:00,020 --> 00:49:09,940
So it's the only place for a city to physically grow its boundaries, which, like I said, with a change that's a state law, many cities won't be able to expand the boundaries.

462
00:49:09,940 --> 00:49:15,880
So when we look at this area, it's really the transition from our more rural area into the city.

463
00:49:16,220 --> 00:49:23,860
So letter A, we wanted to ensure a thoughtful and intentional approach to providing city-led services and utilities into the ETJ.

464
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:30,300
Of course, you could still, people may want to voluntarily come into the city limits with infrastructure.

465
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:36,960
That could be a, of course, that would be something to look at, because it may not make sense, but

466
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,680
that could be, that's why it's thoughtful and intentional that we have in there.

467
00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:47,320
Let her be navigate the jurisdictional environment of the ETJ to provide positive regional partnership.

468
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,580
Because we're looking out and seeing what's happening in the ETJ.

469
00:49:50,820 --> 00:49:54,020
There could be some benefits for that area coming out, whether that was like I said,

470
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,880
an exchange for type of city services.

471
00:49:58,740 --> 00:50:06,400
Goal number two, support the city's economy, encourage space for industrial uses in the ETJ.

472
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:11,000
Let her be recognized that the ETJ is an important lifestyle choice.

473
00:50:11,420 --> 00:50:17,460
So a lot of people live out in the ETJ, they like being in the unincorporated area,

474
00:50:18,420 --> 00:50:20,100
provides a rule feel.

475
00:50:21,140 --> 00:50:29,400
So we recognize that, and some people choose to live out there because that's the lifestyle that they really want to achieve.

476
00:50:32,020 --> 00:50:38,380
Goal number two, preserve environmental, the, preserve important environmental areas.

477
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,120
So we want to promote regional conservation programs.

478
00:50:41,380 --> 00:50:48,460
So there could be some opportunities as, you know, creeps don't necessarily notice when

479
00:50:48,460 --> 00:50:52,500
they go from one jurisdiction to the other outside of the city limits into the ETA.

480
00:50:53,100 --> 00:51:01,240
These are all regional benefits and areas that we want to try to preserve when possible and conserve.

481
00:51:03,700 --> 00:51:10,020
So that is really taken through our five different special area plans and the different elements that we have.

482
00:51:10,180 --> 00:51:12,840
So like I said, each one of those are treated differently.

483
00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:19,420
They're all unique areas that we have in light of how the city is planning for those areas.

484
00:51:19,420 --> 00:51:48,900
So, next steps where we move from here is we want to discuss the draft plan and ask if there's any questions right now and then we'll consider any desired revisions prior to the final steering committee and the open house because if there was something that you heard about today that you're like, hey, maybe we changed this before we go to the open house or before you go back to the to the conference of plans steering committee or if there's something you want the conference of plans steering

485
00:51:48,900 --> 00:51:50,200
the steering committee to consider.

486
00:51:51,060 --> 00:51:54,200
It's all sort of open for discussion, but once again,

487
00:51:54,300 --> 00:51:56,480
we wanted to present this to you today,

488
00:51:56,740 --> 00:52:00,160
just so you knew exactly where we are.

489
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,120
And some of the things that we've talked about,

490
00:52:03,180 --> 00:52:05,380
and like I said, we haven't had our second open house yet,

491
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,040
but we'll meet with the steering committee next,

492
00:52:08,140 --> 00:52:12,080
and then we'll schedule that open house for consideration.

493
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,080
And then just sort of looking at the schedule,

494
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,580
Where would we go from today?

495
00:52:20,500 --> 00:52:26,060
We are looking at October 5th, Thursday to meet with the Conference of Plan Steering Committee

496
00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:32,280
to go over the final document that we have here, and I think it's been included in your

497
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:33,040
packet that details.

498
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:39,020
We have even more details in here, but all that is detailed, and we'll go through that with

499
00:52:39,020 --> 00:52:44,920
them on the 5th, because we want to make sure that they're 100% on board before we have

500
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:45,940
that open house as well.

501
00:52:45,940 --> 00:52:50,320
So asking you is it okay if we go to the open house and that's the same question we're going to also going to ask

502
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:55,500
Ask the steering committee on October 5th is it okay to have that open house and then we'll look if

503
00:52:56,300 --> 00:53:00,140
Hopefully you will tell us it's okay today. Hopefully they will tell us what the fifth is okay

504
00:53:00,140 --> 00:53:01,940
And then what we'll do is

505
00:53:02,660 --> 00:53:10,000
Sometime at the end of October or the beginning of November November will have that open house and then after we get the feedback from that

506
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,360
Open house will meet with you with the PNZ

507
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:34,760
We'll invite the steering committee to come out so you could ask them any questions as part of that development and we'll have that joint workshop so you'll know everything else we can talk about anything and then hopefully we're good at that meeting and then we'll go through the adoption process, which may not be a joint public hearing, maybe two separate meetings, but still looking for December to get everything wrapped up.

508
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:42,440
So with that, we'll go to any questions you may have, and then on my left,

509
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,380
make sure you're here, ma'am.

510
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:51,880
As you've gone through this process, have you seen some changes in the committee from the way they

511
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:59,080
thought about what the law then you should be and where they've come to now? Have you seen any

512
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,040
Mine's opened up, thoughts change about things?

513
00:54:02,980 --> 00:54:11,040
I think so, because what we've had is a lot of discussion, and you're staff and you have

514
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,560
assembled a really good comprehensive plan steering committee.

515
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:19,500
There's a lot of people with a lot of knowledge and a lot of long term city experience and

516
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:23,440
seeing things change from when they were very small to now.

517
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:28,740
Now, so I think hearing what the stakeholders had to say was very educational.

518
00:54:29,380 --> 00:54:35,560
I think hearing the dialogue that we had from the different steering committee members about what they thought was important.

519
00:54:36,060 --> 00:54:39,500
There was a lot of agreement that a lot of people had.

520
00:54:39,740 --> 00:54:42,720
There were a lot of people that were excited.

521
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:50,580
I think they've done whether it's going back to everyone's sort of the mindset of true north or

522
00:54:50,580 --> 00:54:56,720
whether it's the mission being very reflective of your community and the people in the community.

523
00:54:57,180 --> 00:55:02,560
There's a lot of like-minded people who are very excited about the future of Mansfield and where we're going.

524
00:55:02,740 --> 00:55:06,380
So I think there was a lot of education, that a lot of people learned what was going on.

525
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:11,860
It was nice for a lot of people to really start to understand the Western promise,

526
00:55:12,260 --> 00:55:18,580
or what area that we're defining the link as, or what's really occurring in the entertainment district,

527
00:55:18,580 --> 00:55:33,360
or what could happen in the ETJ, so I think it was a great planning exercise for a lot of people to get excited about what's going on in the city and what's going to happen in the next five years and also what can happen in the next 20 years.

528
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:42,380
So there's a lot of excitement about what we're going to look like and how we're going to be really a unique community that people are really going to be happy to move in here.

529
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,700
So I think we did have that education people got excited.

530
00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:48,020
That's great. Thank you.

531
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,320
All right, Mr. Lewis, and then we'll hear from Mr. Brosh.

532
00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:52,480
Thanks, sir.

533
00:55:53,360 --> 00:56:09,940
A couple of just comments of things that I see as I went through the whole plan, I think in general a good functioning layout and all of that, but I didn't see anywhere either at the top or that goes really dives into what the public response was.

534
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:23,760
I know I've seen you guys do plans in other cities where it details like this is how many people we had at the open house, and this is how many website visits came in, and these were the comments that we received in all of those meetings.

535
00:56:24,580 --> 00:56:32,860
I think it's important before we dive into the plan to recognize that this is a plan that the city council wrote, our PNZ didn't write, our city staff didn't write it.

536
00:56:32,860 --> 00:56:42,340
that we list, we went first before we formed a plan to our community and asked what do you guys envision dream big with us?

537
00:56:43,180 --> 00:56:48,720
And, and restart receiving that feedback and then we let the steering committee have their meetings.

538
00:56:49,420 --> 00:57:01,500
So, this isn't just something that's coming from us or anybody else but really clear at the very beginning before we dive into how the plan was established that it came from, from Mansfield residents.

539
00:57:03,780 --> 00:57:09,180
A couple of just simple comments in the special area plan for the link.

540
00:57:09,860 --> 00:57:13,680
I'd love to see pictures of what we have for the link already.

541
00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:15,520
I know there's the Admiral Legacy Project.

542
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:22,200
This could be just imagery that helps kind of the more we can help people envision

543
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,660
what that entertainment district is going to look like and what the link are going to look like.

544
00:57:25,660 --> 00:57:28,480
that we already have mock images of those,

545
00:57:28,740 --> 00:57:32,740
I think including those rather than just the big bubble diagram.

546
00:57:33,340 --> 00:57:37,580
Things would be beneficial in the special area plan for

547
00:57:37,580 --> 00:57:42,460
the downtown district, goal two,

548
00:57:46,090 --> 00:57:49,550
maybe work with Mr. Alexander on that one.

549
00:57:49,730 --> 00:57:52,830
But it seems very, that we've already accomplished that.

550
00:57:53,310 --> 00:57:57,810
So it was all about the zoning case, well we've already re-zoned all of our downtown.

551
00:58:00,670 --> 00:58:03,450
to match what we were wanting to accomplish.

552
00:58:05,670 --> 00:58:08,170
Western Promise, goal number three,

553
00:58:08,370 --> 00:58:11,010
promote community stability and existing in future neighborhoods.

554
00:58:12,010 --> 00:58:16,190
Promote community resilience seemed non-specific or

555
00:58:16,190 --> 00:58:20,230
descript to me, if there's a way to kind of drill into what that actually

556
00:58:20,230 --> 00:58:20,630
would mean.

557
00:58:24,750 --> 00:58:29,540
And then I didn't know how I felt when I saw

558
00:58:29,540 --> 00:58:31,980
the equestrian and rodeo grounds in there,

559
00:58:32,580 --> 00:58:45,280
10 years from now, and when we look back, or in 2040, if we look back, was that the best thing, or should it be more like some sort of entertainment menu that respects the history of Mansfield or something along those lines?

560
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:50,920
Because I don't know if it's going to be rodeo grounds, we probably, it probably won't be straight rodeo grounds.

561
00:58:54,620 --> 00:58:59,680
I think those were all of my comments.

562
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:08,020
Thank you.

563
00:59:08,020 --> 00:59:08,860
All right.

564
00:59:09,180 --> 00:59:09,640
Mr. Brosh.

565
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:11,120
Yes, Mayor.

566
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:16,980
I just heard a reference to a packet that he thought that we had.

567
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:18,360
I'm missing one.

568
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:23,500
It's in the by-way.

569
00:59:24,180 --> 00:59:24,620
Yeah.

570
00:59:25,060 --> 00:59:25,840
Miss Morse.

571
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:27,020
Miss Faith.

572
00:59:27,300 --> 00:59:27,560
Okay.

573
00:59:27,820 --> 00:59:28,160
Thanks.

574
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:30,080
Mayor.

575
00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:30,400
Sorry.

576
00:59:30,540 --> 00:59:31,080
There was one more.

577
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:32,660
All right.

578
00:59:32,780 --> 00:59:32,880
No.

579
00:59:32,940 --> 00:59:33,260
Sorry.

580
00:59:33,820 --> 00:59:34,420
You're good.

581
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:35,000
Sorry.

582
00:59:35,100 --> 00:59:35,120
Sorry.

583
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:36,760
I didn't write it down as you went through.

584
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:48,260
But we've got to slide in the presentation that the, or in the actual written text that highlights in planning practices, the 15-minute city.

585
00:59:48,740 --> 00:59:54,500
And unfortunately, I think there's a lot of political turmoil around that phrase.

586
00:59:55,020 --> 00:59:59,920
And so if you could figure out how to wordsmith that so that it talks about the concept.

587
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:16,840
That of being having your neighborhood grocery stores and your daily essentials within an easy walk of your home rather than just blasting the 15-minute city. That's fallen subject to political turmoil. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

588
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:24,400
All right, anyone else? Mr. Nore, you're good? All right, Ms. Bounds.

589
01:00:26,060 --> 01:00:30,000
So go back to the timeline if you will, please, for a second.

590
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:32,260
So-

591
01:00:36,390 --> 01:00:37,550
And you said downtown?

592
01:00:38,150 --> 01:00:39,030
No, timeline.

593
01:00:39,130 --> 01:00:39,730
You have a timeline.

594
01:00:39,810 --> 01:00:40,610
Thank you, pastor.

595
01:00:41,470 --> 01:00:42,270
Yeah, I thought.

596
01:00:42,530 --> 01:00:43,210
Well, okay.

597
01:00:43,870 --> 01:00:46,230
All right, I went too far. There you go.

598
01:00:46,690 --> 01:00:47,170
There you go.

599
01:00:47,170 --> 01:00:59,050
So this packet that we have tonight with the additional comments that you received will go to the steering committee, correct?

600
01:00:59,630 --> 01:00:59,730
Correct.

601
01:01:00,410 --> 01:01:03,330
And we will go over all of that in the steering committee.

602
01:01:04,230 --> 01:01:11,150
And then there will be an open house and feedback from the draft plan.

603
01:01:11,150 --> 01:01:18,510
And so will that draft plan already have the changes in it before we go to the public with it?

604
01:01:19,210 --> 01:01:20,270
Yes, yes.

605
01:01:20,530 --> 01:01:27,790
So whatever changes that we make today from the input you provide us, we're going to make these changes from today's meeting.

606
01:01:28,470 --> 01:01:38,510
And then whatever changes that we have on the October 5th meeting from the steering committee will make those changes as well and then present that, present that to the public at the open house.

607
01:01:38,510 --> 01:01:43,750
And then that goes to the joint workshop, correct, with any other changes, correct?

608
01:01:43,890 --> 01:01:44,150
Yes, ma'am.

609
01:01:44,450 --> 01:01:45,770
Okay. Thank you.

610
01:01:45,910 --> 01:01:53,510
Ms. Bounds, is the concern, and Mr. Lewis kind of mentioned that is the concern that this

611
01:01:53,510 --> 01:02:02,710
goes to maybe the open house, open ended before we give them a plan, so to speak.

612
01:02:03,250 --> 01:02:05,890
I think that's some of what I was hearing.

613
01:02:05,890 --> 01:02:12,510
Is that, am I correct in that, in about hearing different in regard to public input,

614
01:02:13,210 --> 01:02:22,050
maybe having public input first, and then we craft the plan, you understand what I'm saying?

615
01:02:22,910 --> 01:02:31,570
Yes, and I think that's what is being highlighted by one of my colleagues in that regard.

616
01:02:31,570 --> 01:02:42,210
So just kind of thinking that through because he is 100% correct and of course we would hear the same thing that is something that we did as opposed to allowing the public to

617
01:02:43,870 --> 01:02:51,750
crap to just a little bit more. I do want to say though you all are doing an outstanding job though in regard to meeting, exposing

618
01:02:52,460 --> 01:03:00,990
the steering committee to different ideas, plans, innovations, so really do appreciate what you're doing.

619
01:03:00,990 --> 01:03:05,950
But yeah, just if you would think about what that would look like.

620
01:03:06,110 --> 01:03:10,290
I don't even know what the logistics would be, but I do think that's important.

621
01:03:10,450 --> 01:03:17,550
That would help out a lot in regard, I think, to public buy-in, to be honest with you.

622
01:03:17,950 --> 01:03:19,170
So, what coordinate?

623
01:03:19,590 --> 01:03:21,990
Okay, and excuse me, Mr. Newsom, do you have?

624
01:03:23,250 --> 01:03:24,990
Okay, all right, all right.

625
01:03:25,690 --> 01:03:26,030
I'm good.

626
01:03:26,190 --> 01:03:28,250
If everybody else is all right, we're all right.

627
01:03:28,370 --> 01:03:29,190
Thank you so much.

628
01:03:29,190 --> 01:03:30,430
We'll

629
01:03:35,550 --> 01:03:39,930
move now to a discussion regarding the proposed neighborhood design standards.

630
01:03:40,710 --> 01:03:42,510
There, Mr. Alexander.

631
01:03:43,150 --> 01:03:44,270
Thank you, Mayor.

632
01:03:44,870 --> 01:03:45,030
Yes.

633
01:03:45,290 --> 01:03:52,030
This is a good dovetail of source on the draft future land use plan.

634
01:03:52,510 --> 01:04:01,830
It also comes on the hills of some of the conversations that we've had about wanting to rework some of our standards for our commercial zoning districts.

635
01:04:01,830 --> 01:04:31,810
And what we're thinking in light of the environment that we're in right now in terms of legislation that has been passed by our state government is to provide a parallel set of standards that would allow us to get more of the neighborhood oriented development that we're looking for that also introduces some residential and other civic activities to ensure that we're not placing ourselves in the

636
01:04:31,810 --> 01:04:37,390
a position where we're potentially creating non-conforming uses and structures.

637
01:04:38,130 --> 01:04:42,510
So in particular, the purpose and intent of these proposed neighborhood development

638
01:04:42,510 --> 01:04:47,970
standards is to promote compact, mixed use, walkable and sustainable development patterns,

639
01:04:48,690 --> 01:04:51,750
establish a pedestrian friendly focal point for surrounding neighborhoods,

640
01:04:52,570 --> 01:04:58,190
deliver daily goods and services in a five to ten minute walk or cycle for

641
01:04:58,190 --> 01:05:02,510
And then activate development standards that complete and enhance neighborhoods.

642
01:05:03,250 --> 01:05:08,590
So a really good example of that would be what we saw in New Town, St. Charles, the corner market here.

643
01:05:10,130 --> 01:05:13,930
And then even a little bit of what we saw in Alphoretta.

644
01:05:14,710 --> 01:05:20,450
So the idea for the proposed applications to build on the development standards that have come before,

645
01:05:20,450 --> 01:05:23,910
or the planning is only commission and city council vis-a-vis,

646
01:05:24,190 --> 01:05:33,070
Starlin Ranch, Parkside, and other amendments to our development regulations and even other PD plan developments to have come before you.

647
01:05:33,470 --> 01:05:40,290
These would create new zoning standards within our ordinance and it would be section 155.057,

648
01:05:40,410 --> 01:05:45,410
which if memory serves me correctly will come right behind the community design standards.

649
01:05:45,410 --> 01:05:50,310
It would also include specific standards for corner markets that, again, coming from

650
01:05:50,310 --> 01:05:57,390
Stalin-Range part side with some other development proposals that have come before you and have been approved.

651
01:05:57,890 --> 01:06:03,410
And then, again, one to ensure that the provisions that were proposed and they do not conflict with those that are existing

652
01:06:03,410 --> 01:06:07,650
nor create situations that could be perceived as non-conforming.

653
01:06:08,070 --> 01:06:13,890
So that being said, as applied, if these standards are approved by City Council,

654
01:06:13,890 --> 01:06:17,210
So they will run parallel to the following zoning districts.

655
01:06:17,550 --> 01:06:23,490
O.P. Office Park District, we have very little property zoned as O.P. Office Park District.

656
01:06:24,010 --> 01:06:26,790
The same would go for C1 Neighborhood Business District.

657
01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:34,550
But the bulk of our conventional commercial zoning districts are zoned C2 Community Business District.

658
01:06:34,810 --> 01:06:41,530
And there's a little bit of C3 commercial manufacturing district that is primarily located on the western side of town.

659
01:06:41,530 --> 01:06:56,650
And I would be remiss if I did not share that the freeway overlay district in the secondary freeway overlay district would also fall potentially under the proposed application of these requirements.

660
01:06:57,350 --> 01:07:08,690
Like SOMA and like the D downtown district, there would be no minimum lot size that would run exactly as how it is today for our non-residential zoning districts,

661
01:07:08,690 --> 01:07:16,470
including the four commercials on the districts that are in front of you under contemplation for these standards this afternoon.

662
01:07:17,010 --> 01:07:21,870
Principal buildings would be set back a maximum of 30 feet as you create a street edge.

663
01:07:22,430 --> 01:07:29,250
Neighborhood oriented commercial goods and services would be the primary commercial uses as proposed no drive through.

664
01:07:29,630 --> 01:07:35,730
And it would also introduce row houses, manner houses, flats and accessory dwelling units.

665
01:07:35,730 --> 01:07:40,150
For flats, however, they will only be permitted on the second story and above.

666
01:07:40,570 --> 01:07:45,950
That's to ensure that we have the ground floor space dedicated purely to commercial activity.

667
01:07:46,270 --> 01:07:50,330
And then not allowing grow houses within a certain distance at corners.

668
01:07:50,750 --> 01:07:54,570
That's to ensure that our corners are set up for their highest,

669
01:07:54,830 --> 01:08:00,030
best use economically and physically, which is for commercial activity.

670
01:08:00,590 --> 01:08:06,050
The principal buildings would be a minimum of two stories in height and a maximum of four stories.

671
01:08:06,430 --> 01:08:07,750
I do want to pause there.

672
01:08:07,990 --> 01:08:11,150
There was some conversation that emerged from the steering committee.

673
01:08:11,530 --> 01:08:14,410
I really wanted to see buildings that have height to them.

674
01:08:14,910 --> 01:08:21,530
And there would potentially be an ability for a property owner or a developer to come to City Council.

675
01:08:21,650 --> 01:08:29,890
Maybe request a waiver to do a one-story building, but perhaps we could work with them to ensure that it reads more like a two-story building.

676
01:08:29,890 --> 01:08:33,930
Alaw the 7-11 at Broad Street and Matlock Road.

677
01:08:34,490 --> 01:08:39,210
Urban design and other place making considerations will be provided to reinforce scale.

678
01:08:39,530 --> 01:08:44,990
Those will harp in back to what we see in the D downtown district.

679
01:08:45,470 --> 01:08:50,230
And then a building front of just what also be included that will be limited to the door yard,

680
01:08:50,650 --> 01:08:55,230
the stoop, the shop front, and they will be required at the ground floor of all principal buildings

681
01:08:55,230 --> 01:09:01,310
fronting a thoroughfare or civic space. So kind of what that will look like. Here in Franklin

682
01:09:01,310 --> 01:09:08,130
Towns is a good example of a door yard that is attached to row houses. And then in Norton

683
01:09:08,130 --> 01:09:14,410
Commons there's a shop front treatment at the ground floor. And then the same with the shop front

684
01:09:14,410 --> 01:09:21,730
treatment that then bleeds over into attached row houses. And then you've seen this image from

685
01:09:21,730 --> 01:09:27,350
from Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia, and still saying on the proposed application,

686
01:09:27,950 --> 01:09:32,970
civic space must be incorporated into the site, a little bit different than downtown in

687
01:09:32,970 --> 01:09:38,410
Soma, and that civic space would be designed as a courtyard, a park, or a small plaza.

688
01:09:39,010 --> 01:09:44,250
Civic space must have tree canopies, that's another thing that we heard a lot of coming out

689
01:09:44,250 --> 01:09:51,390
of the steering committee, and a civic space must occupy at least 5% of the site, which would

690
01:09:51,390 --> 01:09:57,510
give way potentially to something like this, as well as this.

691
01:09:59,070 --> 01:10:04,690
And connectivity will be prioritized, balanced between motorists, pedestrian and bicyclists.

692
01:10:05,170 --> 01:10:07,070
No parking permit between buildings and

693
01:10:07,070 --> 01:10:11,570
the thoroughfares and civic spaces on street parking enabled and encouraged.

694
01:10:12,070 --> 01:10:16,130
And what we are looking at presenting to the Planning and Zoning Commission,

695
01:10:16,130 --> 01:10:25,430
and to City Council, if we are headed in the right direction, are parking requirements that are similar to that in a D downtown district and in SOMA.

696
01:10:25,990 --> 01:10:35,330
And the idea is going back to northern commons as you see here in this image that all of the parking is behind buildings.

697
01:10:35,930 --> 01:10:41,730
There's opportunities there for parking to be integrated into the public realm and

698
01:10:41,730 --> 01:10:50,750
And ensure that there is an activated node, a center in which daily uses are within a five to ten minute walk for most.

699
01:10:53,700 --> 01:10:58,700
So some considerations, this would enable and encourage mixed-use development, as a matter of right.

700
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:11,020
It would expedite the development review and approval process, as it would run parallel to the existing provisions in our zoning ordinance for the OPC-1, C-2 and C-3 zoning districts.

701
01:11:11,020 --> 01:11:15,180
And then with the other amendments that we're working on, right now, an

702
01:11:15,180 --> 01:11:19,760
accepted vision control ordinance, which would allow for administrative review,

703
01:11:20,020 --> 01:11:24,040
this would create something along the lines of what developed and

704
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:26,860
unfolded in the Wheeler District in Oklahoma City.

705
01:11:27,220 --> 01:11:32,080
What was key there when the Congress for a new urbanism met was talking about the

706
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,880
plating process, and the fact that the developer could go back and

707
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:40,120
have property replatted up to three times without having to go through a public

708
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:46,600
the hearing, one, and then two, having standards in place that are flexible and predictable enough

709
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:53,420
that they have the assurances that they need to move forward with projects of varying scales.

710
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:59,140
So with that, I'll pause there to answer any questions that you may have, and to see if

711
01:11:59,140 --> 01:12:02,000
we are on the right path with these proposed standards.

712
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:03,340
All right,

713
01:12:05,460 --> 01:12:06,580
Mr. Brown, should be good.

714
01:12:07,380 --> 01:12:10,800
All right, good, good, good, good, good, good, all right to my right.

715
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:20,680
All right. We're all good. Thank you, sir. Good job. All right, discussion regarding the

716
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:28,520
September 11, 2023. Consent agenda, counsel, do you have a sense of agenda item that you

717
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:36,380
would like highlighted for this time, I believe, Kieran, of groups, they'll put it on the screen

718
01:12:36,380 --> 01:12:39,820
So, you want to do all the like polls at this time?

719
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:40,720
Go ahead and make sure.

720
01:12:42,420 --> 01:12:44,940
May your 23-5586.

721
01:12:46,060 --> 01:12:46,540
All right.

722
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:48,900
All right.

723
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:51,140
I'm going to pull that up for us, ma'am.

724
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:59,040
And all right, let me, if you don't mind, let me speak to that one.

725
01:12:59,380 --> 01:13:04,820
If counsel wouldn't have mind that we have this discussion in executive session.

726
01:13:05,180 --> 01:13:05,620
Okay.

727
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:07,340
All right, appreciate you, ma'am.

728
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:08,680
All right, is there another?

729
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:24,070
I'm sorry, Larry. Go ahead, Srin. 23-574. All right, it's 574. She's pulling that one up. Mr. Newsom, I saw your hand, sir.

730
01:13:29,020 --> 01:13:31,160
75. All right.

731
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:43,900
All right. Let me read 557-4. It's a resolution of the City Council. Of the City of Manceville, Texas approving a parking lot agreement with Open Range Properties LLC for the public use.

732
01:13:43,900 --> 01:13:51,240
of open range properties LLCs, parking lot for an amount, not to exceed $14,300.

733
01:13:52,020 --> 01:13:53,920
All right, is that you, ma'am?

734
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:55,680
All right, Vanessa, thank you.

735
01:13:56,180 --> 01:13:57,400
Good afternoon, Mayor Councilor.

736
01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:58,020
Thank you, Miss Ramirez.

737
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,680
So this resolution would authorize an improvement agreement which would allow us

738
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:07,540
to enter into a five-year lease for the public use of the parking lot located

739
01:14:07,540 --> 01:14:08,900
at 208, he's brought.

740
01:14:11,050 --> 01:14:18,750
Go ahead. So, okay. I, Vanessa, I am having trouble. It's probably me, but we're talking,

741
01:14:19,010 --> 01:14:22,250
we think we're talking around 60 parking spaces there.

742
01:14:22,990 --> 01:14:26,330
They mentioned there would be about 50 to 60. So there, as a part of the agreement,

743
01:14:26,490 --> 01:14:31,370
they will have to do an overlay and then restriping to make sure that we are having that many

744
01:14:31,370 --> 01:14:31,950
spaces there.

745
01:14:32,250 --> 01:14:39,310
I have stretched every way I can down there in Corsedia. It's poorly marked, so there'd

746
01:14:39,310 --> 01:14:52,870
I have to be more, I'm coming up with really stretching it 20 to 21 spaces that are not dedicated by open range or already owned by the city.

747
01:14:53,610 --> 01:14:59,750
So on the left side of the property, right next to the yellow.

748
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:28,300
I'm not catching that in and of itself gives us about 29 spaces. And then the portion in front should give us the remaining amount. Are you talking about the yellow? The portion that's right next to the yellow. So the one that's right about in the building. Gives us about 27 to 29. It's next to the building. Yes. Now understand and correct me if I'm wrong understand that they want to dedicate 10 of those for their own.

749
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:36,420
residents or there. But one of the tenants, they will put signs where it will be limited

750
01:15:36,420 --> 01:15:42,340
to their tenant during certain times. During certain times. So that would leave us with

751
01:15:42,340 --> 01:15:49,140
an additional about 50 spots. I don't know where they're coming from. I can't.

752
01:15:51,770 --> 01:15:52,210
I would

753
01:15:52,210 --> 01:16:00,030
love to have someone from the city go down there before we vote on this tonight and do some

754
01:16:01,450 --> 01:16:22,150
I'm looking for a rough number, I'm coming up with about 20 and I'm not counting those that you have on the left or next to the building because I thought there were only about 10, let's say there are 15 there or so, I think they're 16, I believe they're 16 there.

755
01:16:22,150 --> 01:16:27,850
Yeah, we can absolutely have someone go there and verify the amount of spots before we burn it.

756
01:16:28,030 --> 01:16:29,770
Okay, thanks.

757
01:16:31,150 --> 01:16:35,490
All right, let's see everyone on the City of Managing in regard to an explanation as well.

758
01:16:36,370 --> 01:16:45,670
I would agree, it is so poorly maintained at the moment, it's tough to make heads or tails of how many spots you could have.

759
01:16:45,670 --> 01:16:53,690
So I think what this does is it contemplates a maximum of 60 spots, correct?

760
01:16:53,890 --> 01:16:54,410
I mean, if I'm wrong.

761
01:16:54,590 --> 01:16:57,710
Ten of which, we already have ten down there.

762
01:16:57,950 --> 01:17:01,890
So because we're trading property, we would exclude those ten from them.

763
01:17:02,030 --> 01:17:06,050
And then just like the heritage baptist church across the street,

764
01:17:06,250 --> 01:17:10,730
they have certain times that they can mark off certain number of spots.

765
01:17:10,910 --> 01:17:13,830
So that would work the same way essentially there.

766
01:17:14,610 --> 01:17:20,230
But we can't, even if I were to go down there, and this is a very astute observation, Mr.

767
01:17:20,350 --> 01:17:25,730
Pras, if I were to go down there right now and crawl on that thing, I bet I couldn't identify

768
01:17:26,730 --> 01:17:28,530
exactly how many spots there are.

769
01:17:28,570 --> 01:17:32,570
That requires an overlay and then striping.

770
01:17:32,930 --> 01:17:38,530
Now, if it comes out to where there are just 30 spots, then, and he wants to reserve 10,

771
01:17:38,530 --> 01:17:44,550
And then we wouldn't be leasing more than 20 spots for public parking.

772
01:17:45,230 --> 01:17:48,150
I don't know if that answers that question for you or not.

773
01:17:48,750 --> 01:17:55,010
Like I said, I don't know that you can go out there right now at the condition of parking lot is in, and count exactly that number spots.

774
01:17:55,230 --> 01:18:01,290
And I don't know if Raymond, if you have a different opinion, but I don't think you can count the exact.

775
01:18:01,290 --> 01:18:10,130
But if we're doing the difference between 20 and 60, it shouldn't be hard to get a rough idea.

776
01:18:10,670 --> 01:18:16,730
And, Mr. Brush, if you would like what we can do as well as if we want to proceed with this resolution

777
01:18:16,730 --> 01:18:23,430
tonight, we can make it contingent on verifying the amount of spots and making that as an amendment to the agreement.

778
01:18:25,910 --> 01:18:30,690
But put a percentage, like say, I'm not into the exactness at all.

779
01:18:31,030 --> 01:18:36,270
I'm just sure that if we're paying for something and we're hitting a third of what

780
01:18:36,270 --> 01:18:40,610
we think we're getting, I would make sure that it makes good sense.

781
01:18:41,010 --> 01:18:47,610
You could also, we could also table this and say until there's an exhibit put together

782
01:18:47,610 --> 01:18:50,610
with measured out spots, we can do that.

783
01:18:50,610 --> 01:18:51,350
That's better.

784
01:18:51,750 --> 01:18:51,950
All right.

785
01:18:52,250 --> 01:18:52,330
Good.

786
01:18:52,490 --> 01:18:53,470
I think that seems a good message.

787
01:18:53,890 --> 01:18:54,910
I think that's what we're going to.

788
01:18:55,430 --> 01:19:00,310
Well, to piggyback off that, I would agree that we should look at table in it.

789
01:19:00,550 --> 01:19:07,070
I had a question about looking across the street because I looked across the street about

790
01:19:07,070 --> 01:19:09,010
the church parking lot over there.

791
01:19:09,110 --> 01:19:10,350
That's a big park in space.

792
01:19:10,570 --> 01:19:11,830
How many do we have over there?

793
01:19:12,330 --> 01:19:14,050
I believe we are leasing 90 from them.

794
01:19:15,010 --> 01:19:17,550
And so we'd only be looking at 30 different.

795
01:19:18,110 --> 01:19:22,410
And this park in space looks a lot smaller than the other.

796
01:19:22,930 --> 01:19:27,730
So I would also agree to maybe table it and look at it a little closer.

797
01:19:28,250 --> 01:19:28,450
All right.

798
01:19:28,750 --> 01:19:33,170
Well, when this comes up tonight, we'll do just that, remove it and table it.

799
01:19:33,910 --> 01:19:34,330
All right.

800
01:19:34,710 --> 01:19:35,330
Go ahead, though.

801
01:19:35,630 --> 01:19:37,330
Go ahead, Mr. Nor you had one.

802
01:19:37,590 --> 01:19:42,290
I'm just curious, you say there's ten spots reserved for, is that a current tenant?

803
01:19:42,810 --> 01:19:45,350
How many spots will be reserved when the center's full?

804
01:19:45,350 --> 01:19:49,310
So he wants to reserve them for the dance academy.

805
01:19:49,510 --> 01:19:50,770
That's the current tenant that they have there.

806
01:19:50,770 --> 01:19:54,910
But he has open space in there when future tenants come in.

807
01:19:55,510 --> 01:19:57,610
He has to reserve them spots as well.

808
01:19:58,290 --> 01:20:01,730
So there's nothing in the lease that, and he understood that there was nothing that

809
01:20:01,730 --> 01:20:03,150
would be future reservation.

810
01:20:03,430 --> 01:20:07,730
All of that would be open to the public unless it was specifically written into the agreement

811
01:20:07,730 --> 01:20:10,630
and the only thing that's written into the agreement right now is those tin spots.

812
01:20:13,950 --> 01:20:17,970
So we're going to give it another look, see, and we'll see what we come up with.

813
01:20:19,010 --> 01:20:20,490
All right, point well taken.

814
01:20:20,950 --> 01:20:28,450
Thank you very much, item 23 dash 5575, and Mr. Newsom asked questions about that.

815
01:20:28,770 --> 01:20:28,990
Yes.

816
01:20:29,350 --> 01:20:32,250
You mind pulling that up for so we can read that for the public?

817
01:20:33,050 --> 01:20:39,830
All right, that's an ordinance of the City of Mansfield, Texas, granting to on-core electric delivery company LLC,

818
01:20:39,830 --> 01:20:45,310
We'll see its successors and assigns, a non-exclusive electric power franchise to use

819
01:20:45,310 --> 01:20:49,930
the present and future streets, alleys, highways, public utility, easements,

820
01:20:50,250 --> 01:20:53,870
public ways, and public property of the City of Mansfield, Texas.

821
01:20:55,070 --> 01:20:55,870
All right, Mr. Ramirez.

822
01:20:56,630 --> 01:20:57,050
Go ahead, sir.

823
01:20:57,470 --> 01:21:01,430
I guess just a couple clarification points for myself.

824
01:21:02,410 --> 01:21:05,910
This is, as it reads, this is a non-exclusive agreement.

825
01:21:06,070 --> 01:21:09,650
I just want to confirm that so that it's not just exclusive to Encore.

826
01:21:09,650 --> 01:21:13,130
for any utility that would need to be there.

827
01:21:13,610 --> 01:21:18,910
Okay. Is the 20 year term, does that normal?

828
01:21:19,630 --> 01:21:20,570
It seems pretty long.

829
01:21:20,890 --> 01:21:22,410
Normally, it is a 20 year term.

830
01:21:22,750 --> 01:21:26,170
The first agreement that we had with encore was back in 1965,

831
01:21:26,170 --> 01:21:27,910
and that was a 50 year term.

832
01:21:28,370 --> 01:21:29,910
The standard now is about 20 years.

833
01:21:30,010 --> 01:21:33,890
Yeah, I mean, just still, I mean, I'm not talking about what we used to do.

834
01:21:33,910 --> 01:21:35,970
I'm just talking about now that we were correcting,

835
01:21:35,970 --> 01:21:39,270
I think several correcting stuff, but is 20 years

836
01:21:39,270 --> 01:21:40,010
is that reasonable?

837
01:21:40,190 --> 01:21:44,310
Because that seems like a long time for an agreement.

838
01:21:44,890 --> 01:21:45,990
Yes, normally for an agreement.

839
01:21:46,430 --> 01:21:48,090
Franchise agreements are normally given

840
01:21:48,090 --> 01:21:50,690
for a longer term period just because we anticipate

841
01:21:50,690 --> 01:21:52,790
that the infrastructure they put into the ground

842
01:21:52,790 --> 01:21:54,790
will provide those utilities for our residents

843
01:21:54,790 --> 01:21:56,990
for a longer period of time.

844
01:21:57,610 --> 01:22:05,950
Okay, in section one letter E, it refers to Irish prosperity

845
01:22:05,970 --> 01:22:14,470
or their response should be a reasonable amount of time, legally what is considered a reasonable amount of time.

846
01:22:16,630 --> 01:22:24,610
So legally that would be subjective as to what a reasonable person would expect to be addressed.

847
01:22:25,050 --> 01:22:31,210
And the reason I ask that because there's a language in here that gives us a specific amount of time to respond to something.

848
01:22:31,530 --> 01:22:34,210
But everything on therein it just says reasonable.

849
01:22:34,770 --> 01:22:40,450
And the reason one of the reasons for that is because they did mention that they have in the event of a storm event

850
01:22:40,450 --> 01:22:46,190
Then they wouldn't be able to be tied to a specific time period, right, but I'm sorry don't we need to rub it

851
01:22:46,190 --> 01:22:54,670
That's just emergencies. I'm obviously that we account for those separately then for a normal transactional or day-to-day operations, you know, if we're

852
01:22:55,490 --> 01:23:00,830
Requesting some information from them with regards to whatever's going on

853
01:23:00,830 --> 01:23:07,350
when, um, within that right away, they, it doesn't seem like they really even have a set

854
01:23:07,350 --> 01:23:09,610
time for them, but they truly have to get back with us.

855
01:23:10,110 --> 01:23:11,450
For specific information?

856
01:23:11,950 --> 01:23:12,050
Yes.

857
01:23:12,050 --> 01:23:12,570
What you're talking about?

858
01:23:13,190 --> 01:23:13,590
Okay.

859
01:23:13,970 --> 01:23:16,710
I mean, that's something that we can put into the agreement.

860
01:23:16,870 --> 01:23:21,690
If you would like, we can either table this and go back to them and ask them to give us specific

861
01:23:21,690 --> 01:23:25,330
set periods of time for information that they're supposed to provide to us.

862
01:23:25,490 --> 01:23:25,610
Sure.

863
01:23:25,670 --> 01:23:28,690
I mean, there's, well, I mean, there's seven of us up here, and Joe and I was probably

864
01:23:28,690 --> 01:23:32,690
been working on this for a while. So it'll probably be able to comment on if it's even a reasonable

865
01:23:34,150 --> 01:23:35,030
usable expectation.

866
01:23:37,550 --> 01:23:41,330
I guess the other thing I wanted to address or has some additional

867
01:23:41,330 --> 01:23:48,950
information on was section 3-K about tree mitigation. What are ultimately going to be their

868
01:23:48,950 --> 01:23:53,890
responsibilities? I'm not talking about emergency situations, storms or whatever. I'm just

869
01:23:53,890 --> 01:23:57,610
taken on their day-to-day, they decide they want to go cut up onto trees.

870
01:23:58,050 --> 01:24:04,190
What are their responsibilities to either the city and or the citizens that it will affect?

871
01:24:06,030 --> 01:24:12,790
So I believe the provision indicates and it may, if not, there was a discussion that I had with them where they are

872
01:24:12,790 --> 01:24:17,970
to give us notice and the property owner notice that they would be performing those acts.

873
01:24:18,370 --> 01:24:23,130
They mentioned that they do it on two different times either on a scheduled basis or if one of

874
01:24:23,130 --> 01:24:25,490
the citizens' calls and lets them know that it needs to be cut.

875
01:24:26,030 --> 01:24:30,570
What recourse, if any, do we and or the property owners have?

876
01:24:31,810 --> 01:24:36,830
As far as, well, they can always file a complaint against them with the Public Utility

877
01:24:36,830 --> 01:24:37,130
Commission.

878
01:24:37,230 --> 01:24:39,470
That's regulated through the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

879
01:24:40,710 --> 01:24:42,210
After they cut the trees?

880
01:24:44,780 --> 01:24:48,680
Well, normally they would only cut it if it's on a schedule base so that it doesn't

881
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:53,480
grow into their electric lines, and that's regulated by the Public Utility Commission of

882
01:24:53,480 --> 01:24:55,320
or if a citizen contacts them.

883
01:24:55,440 --> 01:24:56,680
Just what I would like to see,

884
01:24:57,460 --> 01:25:00,220
I don't even know if this is even something we've thought about,

885
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:06,960
but are there other mitigations that we can look at achieving,

886
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:12,020
if they've noticed us that they're going to start cutting down a bunch of trees?

887
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,980
Are there other mitigations that we can look at to be noticed by that,

888
01:25:16,100 --> 01:25:18,320
would give the city a way,

889
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:30,260
We are potentially on our alternative way to address that need, where we figure out a way of me, we go to bury those lines instead of cut all the trees.

890
01:25:30,900 --> 01:25:38,400
So with regard to the vegetation, since that is regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, that those regulations have to come from them.

891
01:25:38,780 --> 01:25:47,960
If we required on court to go underground, then we would have to pay for the additional cost of that, and that is also regulated by the state law.

892
01:25:49,820 --> 01:25:52,780
That if we decided to pay for it's regulated by state law.

893
01:25:53,260 --> 01:25:59,480
No, the fact that we have to pay for it, that if we ask them to go to the other line, then we pay for the additional cost to go underground.

894
01:25:59,480 --> 01:26:12,120
Okay, so I sort of understand, I just want to make sure everybody else understands as well that we really don't have a lot of control over much of any of this.

895
01:26:12,740 --> 01:26:13,360
All right.

896
01:26:13,700 --> 01:26:13,980
Thanks.

897
01:26:14,140 --> 01:26:21,540
I think those are great questions and Mr. Mayor has did a good job in helping us to understand that on the core has a lot of power.

898
01:26:22,180 --> 01:26:22,500
All right.

899
01:26:22,500 --> 01:26:28,820
May or for my, Mr. Newton, my I agree, there's a really, really good questions.

900
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:35,240
And as Mr. Mera's alluded to and I identified, there is so much authority that

901
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:41,380
Encore has from the state that authorizes them to operate within the procedures and

902
01:26:41,380 --> 01:26:42,920
the guidelines that they operate with.

903
01:26:43,460 --> 01:26:49,200
And in those ways, once they receive that authorization from the states, our hands are tied in so

904
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:50,580
So many of those scenarios.

905
01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:56,680
The ones you identified undergrounding is a very difficult thing for us to control.

906
01:26:57,300 --> 01:27:01,480
Exert control over and their maintenance of the easement itself as well.

907
01:27:01,940 --> 01:27:10,920
I guess what I would like to see if there's any way, because I'm not saying that we should commit to funding any of this at any time.

908
01:27:11,480 --> 01:27:17,580
But before they decide, do we have any ability to say, okay,

909
01:27:17,580 --> 01:27:40,240
If you're going to go cut down a hundred-year-old tree, do we have the ability to say hey, wait and let us decide if we want to figure out a way from the city's perspective to say no, we want to save this section of trees because it's important for the city as a whole to give us time to make that decision or decide if we want to find ourselves.

910
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:54,880
I think that could be a negotiating subject, and maybe we could have some conversation, I think that the appropriate conversation for executive session, if there are issues like that that we wanted to go back and negotiate on, we could discuss what those terms might look like.

911
01:27:55,460 --> 01:27:55,940
Okay.

912
01:27:56,220 --> 01:27:56,520
Thanks.

913
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:00,500
All right.

914
01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:01,680
Thank you very much.

915
01:28:03,480 --> 01:28:04,140
All right.

916
01:28:04,660 --> 01:28:05,560
Anyone else?

917
01:28:06,020 --> 01:28:06,880
Anymore or none?

918
01:28:07,620 --> 01:28:08,040
All right.

919
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:12,960
All right. And thank you all very much. We're going to recess into executive session,

920
01:28:13,220 --> 01:28:19,000
pursuant to section 551, 9071, the Texas Government of Code, the Council

921
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,260
reserves the right to convene in executive session. From time to time, it's deemed

922
01:28:23,260 --> 01:28:28,220
necessarily during this meeting for any posted agenda items to receive advice

923
01:28:28,220 --> 01:28:32,940
from its attorney as permitted by the law to discuss following a pending or

924
01:28:32,940 --> 01:28:36,360
contemplated litigation or to seek the advice of the city attorney pursuant

925
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:43,220
Section 551.071, seek advice of city attorney regarding pending litigation,

926
01:28:43,700 --> 01:28:53,540
calls number 352-342-443-233, calls number 4-23-CV, that is 0-01310,

927
01:28:54,860 --> 01:29:01,960
public-private partnerships, enforcement activities in downtown, legal issues pertaining

928
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:06,640
planning to economic development projects listed in Section 3D of the agenda.

929
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:11,820
Be discussion regarding possible purchase, exchange, lease, or value, or real property

930
01:29:11,820 --> 01:29:17,140
pursuant to Section 551-072, land acquisition for future development.

931
01:29:17,440 --> 01:29:23,580
Personnel matters pursuant to Section 551-074, board appointments, D deliberation.

932
01:29:24,100 --> 01:29:28,340
Regarding commercial or financial information received from all the offer of a financial

933
01:29:32,860 --> 01:29:57,340
of the city and with which the city is conducting economic development negotiations pursuant to section 551.087, economic development project's numbers 22-23-0-823-11, 23-13, at this time we will recess into executive session at 502.

934
01:29:57,340 --> 01:29:58,780
O2PM.

935
01:35:30,290 --> 01:36:00,010
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We are going to reconvene into our regular business session at 7.14 p.m. We will have our invocation by Azak Snifle of the community of Hope Church, after which we will have our pledge of allegiance by Miss Tamara Bounds, and then our Texas pledge by Mr. Todd Tenura, after which we will also acknowledge what day this is in the life of our country.

936
01:36:00,010 --> 01:36:06,730
So I'm going to ask, if we would all stand at this time, and I'll ask all men to please

937
01:36:06,730 --> 01:36:10,110
remove your hats during the prayer and the pledge.

938
01:36:11,030 --> 01:36:11,410
Thank you, well.

939
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:22,220
Gracious God, we ask that on a day like this one, we are moved to remember, to remember

940
01:36:22,220 --> 01:36:29,820
what happened, to remember the impact that took place, and Lord, help that make us strive

941
01:36:29,820 --> 01:36:36,400
to something better or thank you for what you have done in this city, what you've done through

942
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:40,720
this group of people and the way that they are continuing to push toward a place of excellence.

943
01:36:41,260 --> 01:36:46,680
Got an everything that happens tonight and in the meetings moving forward we ask that we

944
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:53,340
that we would be moved to be like you told the prophet Micah that we would love mercy,

945
01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:59,620
that we would act justly and most importantly God. We would walk humbly with you. We pray all

946
01:36:59,620 --> 01:37:01,440
of this in your name. Amen.

947
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:40,900
With our police fire first responders.

948
01:37:41,780 --> 01:37:48,460
Of course we know that 22 years ago that our country was attacked.

949
01:37:49,860 --> 01:37:57,120
We lost over 400 police fire first responders over 3000 American citizens.

950
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:03,880
Our pledge to them this morning chief was that we will not ever forget

951
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:06,740
what took place on this Patriot's day.

952
01:38:07,500 --> 01:38:13,720
So if you would, this bow your heads for a moment of silence for them and their families.

953
01:38:28,970 --> 01:38:30,890
Thank you so very much. You may be seated.

954
01:38:41,620 --> 01:38:43,880
Item 9, our citizens' comments.

955
01:38:44,540 --> 01:38:48,020
Citizens who are wishing to address, oh, wait, no.

956
01:38:48,780 --> 01:38:51,100
Where's, oh, I lost my preacher.

957
01:38:51,820 --> 01:38:52,240
All right.

958
01:38:53,020 --> 01:38:53,920
All right.

959
01:38:54,480 --> 01:38:55,020
Got it.

960
01:38:55,440 --> 01:38:56,040
All right.

961
01:38:56,040 --> 01:39:00,260
For those who are new, we always like to hear what God is doing with those who come

962
01:39:00,260 --> 01:39:01,240
before us in praise.

963
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:03,920
So, all right, we'll bring him back so he can tell us.

964
01:39:04,240 --> 01:39:04,500
All right.

965
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:09,260
We're at item 9, our citizens' comments, our citizens wishing to address the counsel

966
01:39:09,260 --> 01:39:14,600
on non-public hearing agenda items and items not on the agenda may do so at this time.

967
01:39:14,740 --> 01:39:20,260
Due to the regulations of the Texas Open Meeting Act, please do not expect a response

968
01:39:20,260 --> 01:39:21,240
from the counsels.

969
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:22,300
We're not able to do so.

970
01:39:22,300 --> 01:39:26,420
So, this will be your only opportunity to speak unless you're speaking on a scheduled

971
01:39:26,420 --> 01:39:28,140
public hearing item.

972
01:39:28,300 --> 01:39:32,360
After the close of the citizen comments portion of the meeting, only comments related

973
01:39:32,360 --> 01:39:34,760
to public hearings will be heard.

974
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:37,700
All comments are limited to five minutes.

975
01:39:38,180 --> 01:39:42,480
In order to be recognized during citizen's comments or during a public hearing,

976
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:46,240
applicants included, please complete a blue or yellow card.

977
01:39:46,500 --> 01:39:51,960
It is located at the entrance of the chambers and present in the and presented

978
01:39:51,960 --> 01:39:55,820
it to the Assistant City Secretary, seated to my right or your left.

979
01:39:56,240 --> 01:40:01,560
As a reminder, this will be your only opportunity to speak unless you're speaking on a scheduled

980
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:02,600
public hearing item.

981
01:40:03,060 --> 01:40:07,880
Council may not respond due to regulations of the Texas Open Meetings Act.

982
01:40:08,740 --> 01:40:09,100
All right.

983
01:40:09,320 --> 01:40:11,320
As a matter of fact, we have any cards for you.

984
01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:12,060
All right.

985
01:40:12,180 --> 01:40:12,840
Thank you very much.

986
01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:14,000
We'll move forward.

987
01:40:14,500 --> 01:40:17,200
Item 10, then, is Council announcements.

988
01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:18,020
Mr. Brosh.

989
01:40:20,820 --> 01:40:21,620
Thank you, sir.

990
01:40:21,880 --> 01:40:22,380
Mr. Janore.

991
01:40:23,440 --> 01:40:24,380
Yes, sir.

992
01:40:24,780 --> 01:40:25,400
Miss Short.

993
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:27,060
Yes, ma'am.

994
01:40:27,540 --> 01:40:28,180
Mr. Newsom.

995
01:40:28,440 --> 01:40:28,820
Mr. Newsom.

996
01:40:29,240 --> 01:40:29,660
Yes, sir.

997
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:30,920
Miss Bounds.

998
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:32,720
Yes, ma'am.

999
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:33,580
Mr. Lewis.

1000
01:40:34,780 --> 01:40:35,140
Yes, ma'am.

1001
01:40:35,140 --> 01:40:35,940
Okay, and none from me.

1002
01:40:36,260 --> 01:40:37,180
Thank you very much.

1003
01:40:37,660 --> 01:40:39,900
We move now to item 11.

1004
01:40:40,220 --> 01:40:42,760
That is our subcommittee reports.

1005
01:40:43,460 --> 01:40:46,220
Item 23-5562 minutes.

1006
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:51,100
Approval of the August 28, 2023 housing market growth strategy.

1007
01:40:51,100 --> 01:40:57,000
committee meeting minutes, and the votes will be only by members of the subcommittee.

1008
01:40:57,500 --> 01:41:03,480
And that's Mr. Lewis, short, bound, and Mr. Lewis is the chair, Mr. Lewis.

1009
01:41:04,020 --> 01:41:04,560
Thank you, Mayor.

1010
01:41:05,580 --> 01:41:06,320
Give everybody an update.

1011
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:12,700
The Housing Growth Subcommittee did meet on August 28th, and we discussed a couple of things.

1012
01:41:12,700 --> 01:41:16,920
There were some recommendations that will be coming before the Council, so I want to go through those.

1013
01:41:18,100 --> 01:41:24,320
As you know, there were a bunch of legislative changes, this legislative session that impact things like subdivision control.

1014
01:41:24,560 --> 01:41:31,620
And so we wanted to get an update from Mr. Alexander on what those would look like and how that was going to be taking place.

1015
01:41:32,480 --> 01:41:44,620
You guys may remember that we tabled an update to the accessory dwelling unit ordinance back in January or February of this year with the intent of running that alongside of our land use plan.

1016
01:41:45,360 --> 01:42:13,300
But also in the midst of if we're updating subdivision control ordinances and other things due to state legislation that it was time to revisit that and bring it back up, we've seen a lot of feedback through the land use plan and the public feedback which was the goal of delaying it was to go through public feedback process so that update should be going through the planning and zoning commission at their next meeting and then it'll be on ours to review in a work session at the

1017
01:42:13,300 --> 01:42:15,900
the meeting after that.

1018
01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:20,480
So those were the discussions that we had, and that was it.

1019
01:42:20,980 --> 01:42:21,640
Thank you, Mr. Chair.

1020
01:42:22,240 --> 01:42:23,260
Any others on that subcommittee?

1021
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:26,520
All right, calling for a motion of this time.

1022
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:27,540
Motion to approve.

1023
01:42:27,820 --> 01:42:28,520
Thank you, Mr. Short.

1024
01:42:29,060 --> 01:42:29,840
Thank you, Ms. Bounds.

1025
01:42:30,100 --> 01:42:30,960
Please catch votes.

1026
01:42:33,290 --> 01:42:35,410
And the motion carries 3-0.

1027
01:42:35,590 --> 01:42:36,350
Thank you very much.

1028
01:42:36,690 --> 01:42:40,830
Move now to item 23-556-3.

1029
01:42:41,370 --> 01:42:44,310
These are minutes approval of the August 28th, 2023.

1030
01:42:44,310 --> 01:42:52,130
the tax increment and re-investment zone number one, board meeting minutes, and Mr.

1031
01:42:52,230 --> 01:42:55,590
Brosh is the chair, Ms. Bounds Evans and Tanora on that committee.

1032
01:42:57,860 --> 01:42:58,620
Yes, thank you, Mayor.

1033
01:42:59,220 --> 01:42:59,560
Yes, sir.

1034
01:43:00,200 --> 01:43:05,560
The committee, subcommittee came together on 28th.

1035
01:43:06,140 --> 01:43:11,260
We were asked to discuss and have a possible action regarding the TERS-1 funding request.

1036
01:43:11,260 --> 01:43:17,760
that came from Leon's capital group regarding the design and construction of Cannon Drive.

1037
01:43:18,620 --> 01:43:30,040
And we listed a presentation from Leon's capital group who spoke on the deal points

1038
01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:35,260
for the terms request, answered all those questions that we had.

1039
01:43:35,260 --> 01:43:43,500
and so as a result, Councillor Embertenori moved

1040
01:43:43,500 --> 01:43:46,620
to recommend the approval and had it seconded

1041
01:43:46,620 --> 01:43:50,300
by Councillor Laydee Bounds and the motion carried

1042
01:43:50,300 --> 01:43:55,600
unanimously for us to approve that and bring it forward.

1043
01:43:57,690 --> 01:43:57,990
All right.

1044
01:43:58,450 --> 01:43:58,770
Thank you.

1045
01:43:58,990 --> 01:43:59,770
All right.

1046
01:44:00,190 --> 01:44:00,810
Appreciate it.

1047
01:44:00,870 --> 01:44:01,190
Thank you.

1048
01:44:01,230 --> 01:44:02,710
Any other comments from that committee?

1049
01:44:04,090 --> 01:44:04,670
All right.

1050
01:44:04,670 --> 01:44:08,050
All right, you're not saying that I'm ready to receive a motion at this time.

1051
01:44:08,590 --> 01:44:09,610
Motion to it, please.

1052
01:44:09,770 --> 01:44:10,550
Thank you, Ms. Bounds.

1053
01:44:11,110 --> 01:44:11,670
I'll second.

1054
01:44:12,090 --> 01:44:13,030
Thank you, Mr. Norris.

1055
01:44:13,570 --> 01:44:15,030
All right, please catch the votes.

1056
01:44:20,380 --> 01:44:22,800
Right, the motion carries for zero.

1057
01:44:23,060 --> 01:44:23,820
Thank you very much.

1058
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:27,140
We move now to item 12, staff comments.

1059
01:44:27,480 --> 01:44:30,420
Mr. Smolensky, do we have staff comments at this time, sir?

1060
01:44:31,620 --> 01:44:36,120
I do, I'm going to ask Mrs. Coleman to come down to the front and she's got a report for us.

1061
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:36,720
That's Coleman.

1062
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:45,760
Good evening, Mayor and Council, I just want to bring your attention to a few items in the monthly financial report just as a summary.

1063
01:44:46,580 --> 01:44:53,700
Of course, this is the report for July 2023, which is about 83% of the budget year.

1064
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:59,920
I would like to bring your attention to page three, which is our year-to-day progress on our campus.

1065
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,680
Partial project, specifically to bring your attention to the police headquarters. Of course, that contract was about $36 million. The life to date is about $6.42 million or 21% of the budget. Moving on to the general fund, pages 4 to 6 of the report. We have overall revenues outlined there, which at our target month of 10 months, which is 83%.

1066
01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:33,200
our revenues are actually at 89%.

1067
01:45:33,200 --> 01:45:37,480
You can see the details of the general fund statement

1068
01:45:37,830 --> 01:45:41,140
in the appendix on page a 17.

1069
01:45:42,020 --> 01:45:45,420
Also on the expenditure side for the general fund,

1070
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:48,100
we're looking at the August bin,

1071
01:45:48,380 --> 01:45:51,280
which is historically a little bit more,

1072
01:45:51,460 --> 01:45:52,660
so about 7 million,

1073
01:45:52,980 --> 01:45:56,880
but I also want to point out that coming months September

1074
01:45:57,330 --> 01:45:58,660
will be a little bit higher

1075
01:45:58,660 --> 01:46:02,180
because we have some of the end of the year accruals that we put in.

1076
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:07,760
So just kind of, you know, a head of time on that, I'm bringing that to your attention.

1077
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:13,620
Moving on to the utility fund that stated on page is seven through eight of the report.

1078
01:46:14,460 --> 01:46:19,740
And overall, the utility fund details, you know, can be seen on the fund statement

1079
01:46:19,740 --> 01:46:22,460
in the appendix on page 18.

1080
01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:33,580
Do you want to point out on the page 8, you may be saying why is revenues seeming a little bit down for the months of June and July?

1081
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:43,080
Just want to bring to your remembrance that this report is a progress report, so we do have some other revenues that will be recorded before they end of the year.

1082
01:46:43,300 --> 01:46:47,660
So it's a little bit of lag there, and of course the same on expenditures.

1083
01:46:47,660 --> 01:46:57,680
measures. Moving on to page 14 is the sales tax report. And we are about 81% of the budget

1084
01:46:57,680 --> 01:47:04,340
collected. Of course, we have a lot more details on the sales tax report in your appendix

1085
01:47:04,340 --> 01:47:15,080
pages A32 to A35. And currently, we're at 10.51% gear over year. And looking forward to

1086
01:47:15,080 --> 01:47:20,820
the next few months, of course August we actually have that data already, you will

1087
01:47:20,820 --> 01:47:27,460
be seeing it at the next council meeting, but August we'll see a slight decrease, but

1088
01:47:27,460 --> 01:47:34,240
that will recapture up in September and also to note September we do have some accruals.

1089
01:47:34,740 --> 01:47:40,120
So we do believe that at the end of the fiscal year, we will still make budget, over budget

1090
01:47:40,120 --> 01:47:43,480
actually, about 10% year over year.

1091
01:47:43,480 --> 01:47:51,280
And finally, want to bring your attention to page 15, which is our cash and investment

1092
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:56,200
report, which gives you a summary of all of our cash and investments.

1093
01:47:56,880 --> 01:48:03,980
Again, this information is way more detailed in your appendix by the fund level and by the

1094
01:48:03,980 --> 01:48:08,260
type of investment in your appendix A24 through 31.

1095
01:48:08,260 --> 01:48:17,460
And later on in the Council meeting, you'll see that the PFIA investment policy is on your agenda

1096
01:48:17,460 --> 01:48:22,820
on consent, and we are in compliance with all of those requirements, according to State Law.

1097
01:48:23,300 --> 01:48:24,880
So that's my report.

1098
01:48:25,380 --> 01:48:28,260
I want to know if you had any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

1099
01:48:30,130 --> 01:48:31,230
After there are any questions?

1100
01:48:32,270 --> 01:48:32,750
We're good.

1101
01:48:33,230 --> 01:48:33,650
Am I right?

1102
01:48:33,850 --> 01:48:34,350
Any questions?

1103
01:48:35,670 --> 01:48:36,370
All right.

1104
01:48:37,090 --> 01:48:37,510
All right.

1105
01:48:37,510 --> 01:48:40,050
All right, hearing none's in and thank you so very much.

1106
01:48:40,590 --> 01:48:43,210
All right, Mr. Mullinski, do we have any other, sir?

1107
01:48:43,470 --> 01:48:44,110
No, thank you.

1108
01:48:44,290 --> 01:48:45,050
All right, thank you.

1109
01:48:45,370 --> 01:48:47,110
I'll move now to item 13.

1110
01:48:48,430 --> 01:48:52,150
Is there any action to take a pursuant to our executive session?

1111
01:48:52,670 --> 01:48:53,170
Yes, Mayor.

1112
01:48:53,790 --> 01:48:54,530
All right, Mr. Lewis.

1113
01:48:54,870 --> 01:49:04,950
I'd like to make a motion to approve the deal points discussed in executive session regarding item number 23-08 and direct staff to proceed as discussed in executive session.

1114
01:49:06,690 --> 01:49:08,070
All right, is there second?

1115
01:49:09,170 --> 01:49:09,570
Second.

1116
01:49:10,050 --> 01:49:10,730
Thank you, ma'am.

1117
01:49:11,750 --> 01:49:14,410
All right, it has been motioned in second question.

1118
01:49:16,150 --> 01:49:17,890
Hearing none, please, can I ask your votes?

1119
01:49:26,460 --> 01:49:29,040
All right, the item carries 7-0.

1120
01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:29,960
Thank you very much.

1121
01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:33,640
We're in item 14 now, which is the consent agenda.

1122
01:49:33,880 --> 01:49:34,680
All mannered.

1123
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:39,200
I do have one other item I'd like to move forward through the executive session.

1124
01:49:39,200 --> 01:49:39,780
Okay, good.

1125
01:49:40,120 --> 01:49:40,260
I'm fine.

1126
01:49:40,460 --> 01:49:45,980
Pursuant executive session, item number 23-13, I make a motion to approve.

1127
01:49:46,160 --> 01:49:51,720
Dill point says, discuss an executive session and direct the staff to proceed as discussed in executive session.

1128
01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:52,220
Second.

1129
01:49:52,880 --> 01:49:55,140
All right, thank you, and I'm sorry about that, sir.

1130
01:49:55,840 --> 01:49:57,120
All right, we've had a motion in a second.

1131
01:49:58,020 --> 01:49:58,900
Call question.

1132
01:50:01,290 --> 01:50:03,190
All right, hearing on, please, can I ask you votes?

1133
01:50:10,480 --> 01:50:10,960
Okay, we're good.

1134
01:50:11,900 --> 01:50:14,060
All right, thank you, all right.

1135
01:50:14,340 --> 01:50:15,540
Item carry 7-0.

1136
01:50:15,960 --> 01:50:17,220
Thank you, Mr. Newsom.

1137
01:50:18,660 --> 01:50:26,460
Are there any other items? Are there any other items? Okay. All right. Moving to item 14,

1138
01:50:26,460 --> 01:50:31,140
consent agenda. All matters listed under the consent agenda. They have been previously

1139
01:50:31,140 --> 01:50:36,400
discussed, require little or no deliberation or are considered to be routine by the council.

1140
01:50:36,580 --> 01:50:41,400
If discussion is desired, then an item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered

1141
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:46,780
separately. Otherwise approval of the consent agenda authorizes our city manager to implement

1142
01:50:46,780 --> 01:50:49,440
in each item in accordance with staff's recommendation.

1143
01:50:50,060 --> 01:50:53,140
Council, are there any items that you would like to remove at this time?

1144
01:50:53,540 --> 01:50:53,560
There.

1145
01:50:54,060 --> 01:50:54,460
Yes, sir.

1146
01:50:54,700 --> 01:50:57,140
I'd like to pull two, three, dash five, five, eight, six.

1147
01:50:57,640 --> 01:50:58,120
Yes, sir.

1148
01:50:59,300 --> 01:51:00,040
Is there another?

1149
01:51:00,700 --> 01:51:01,580
Yes, Mayor.

1150
01:51:02,020 --> 01:51:03,780
Two, three, five, five, seven, five.

1151
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:05,680
Seven, five, okay.

1152
01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:06,920
Thank you.

1153
01:51:07,420 --> 01:51:11,600
And I'm going to ask our assistant secretary to prepare to pull those up.

1154
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:12,580
Is there another?

1155
01:51:12,940 --> 01:51:15,080
Two, three, dash, five, five, seven, four.

1156
01:51:15,080 --> 01:51:22,200
4. Okay. 2, 3, dash 5, 5, 7, 4. Is that correct, Mr. Rush?

1157
01:51:23,340 --> 01:51:24,260
Okay. Yes, Mayor.

1158
01:51:24,600 --> 01:51:24,940
Yes, sir.

1159
01:51:25,160 --> 01:51:25,880
All right, is there another?

1160
01:51:27,660 --> 01:51:28,960
All right, so I have items.

1161
01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:29,600
Sorry.

1162
01:51:30,020 --> 01:51:30,400
I've.

1163
01:51:30,540 --> 01:51:31,020
Yeah, go ahead.

1164
01:51:31,120 --> 01:51:31,700
Just a question.

1165
01:51:31,900 --> 01:51:39,280
If we're, I've overheard the work session discussion for 2, 3, 5, 5, 7, 4, there's

1166
01:51:39,280 --> 01:51:42,860
is related one, two, three, five, five, seven, two.

1167
01:51:43,480 --> 01:51:49,640
Do we need to pull that also or is that separate, separate instance?

1168
01:51:49,900 --> 01:51:50,040
Okay.

1169
01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:53,120
All right, would you like them and pull the wheel, okay?

1170
01:51:54,460 --> 01:51:55,840
Okay, all right.

1171
01:51:56,320 --> 01:52:00,300
Then, I'm calling for a motion for those items that we're not pulled.

1172
01:52:01,340 --> 01:52:01,820
Motion to approve.

1173
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:03,080
Second.

1174
01:52:03,900 --> 01:52:05,820
All right, motion, second.

1175
01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:07,420
Got it, Brent, okay.

1176
01:52:08,240 --> 01:52:12,360
All right. Call question. Hearing none, please cash votes.

1177
01:52:14,700 --> 01:52:28,020
Those items carry 7-0. All right. I'll ask our assistant city secretary to pull up item 23-5575, please.

1178
01:52:32,780 --> 01:52:39,200
All right. That is an ordinance of the City of Mansfield, Texas, granting to on-core electric delivery company LLC.

1179
01:52:39,200 --> 01:52:46,180
see its successors and assigns a non-exclusively electric power franchise to use the present

1180
01:52:46,180 --> 01:52:51,640
and future streets, alleys, highways, public, utility easements, public ways, and public

1181
01:52:51,640 --> 01:52:55,380
property of the city of Mansfield, Texas, Miss Ramirez.

1182
01:52:56,140 --> 01:52:57,360
Good evening, Mayor Council.

1183
01:52:58,160 --> 01:53:06,000
This ordinance would grant, on court, a non-exclusive franchise for 20 years to run their facilities

1184
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:09,840
in our public right away to provide electricity to the city.

1185
01:53:10,580 --> 01:53:17,340
The last agreement that we had with them was executed in 1965, that has since expired in 2015.

1186
01:53:17,700 --> 01:53:20,800
We have been running on a holdover agreement with them since then.

1187
01:53:21,400 --> 01:53:28,060
This new agreement allows us to provide additional provisions where encore would have to adhere to when working it in our right away.

1188
01:53:29,260 --> 01:53:30,840
Okay, thank you very much.

1189
01:53:31,200 --> 01:53:31,980
All right, Mr. Newsom.

1190
01:53:31,980 --> 01:53:35,520
Yeah, I mean, I really don't so much have any questions about this.

1191
01:53:35,520 --> 01:53:40,780
It's more so just comments from, you know, our perspective up here, citizens of perspective.

1192
01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:52,460
One of the things we most often hear concerns about is when on court goes to do work or they decide they need a trim trees and when it's related to power lines.

1193
01:53:52,960 --> 01:53:56,060
Unfortunately, we as a council do not have control over that.

1194
01:53:56,060 --> 01:54:06,060
So I just want to reiterate that level, or that control comes down from the state, and the powers that they give on court to operate within side of that right away.

1195
01:54:06,500 --> 01:54:11,860
So if, for some reason you feel that needs to change, we need to change that to the state level.

1196
01:54:12,700 --> 01:54:13,160
That's it.

1197
01:54:13,580 --> 01:54:14,120
Yes, sir.

1198
01:54:14,340 --> 01:54:15,960
Thank you very much, and you are correct.

1199
01:54:16,440 --> 01:54:21,780
Any other comments on that particular item, if not, I am ready to receive a motion.

1200
01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:24,100
Motion to approve.

1201
01:54:24,540 --> 01:54:25,180
Thank you, sir.

1202
01:54:25,180 --> 01:54:25,360
Second.

1203
01:54:25,740 --> 01:54:26,620
Thank you, ma'am.

1204
01:54:27,480 --> 01:54:27,760
All right.

1205
01:54:27,900 --> 01:54:28,280
Questions?

1206
01:54:30,720 --> 01:54:31,780
Earing none, please.

1207
01:54:31,960 --> 01:54:32,480
Cash to vote.

1208
01:54:34,480 --> 01:54:36,480
Item carries 7-0.

1209
01:54:36,680 --> 01:54:37,520
Thank you very much.

1210
01:54:38,080 --> 01:54:40,220
The next item, 23-5574.

1211
01:54:42,180 --> 01:54:42,440
All

1212
01:54:48,710 --> 01:54:48,910
right.

1213
01:54:49,050 --> 01:54:52,510
And that is a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mansfield,

1214
01:54:52,510 --> 01:54:56,610
Texas, proving a parking lot agreement with open-range properties,

1215
01:54:56,930 --> 01:55:00,030
LLC, for the public use of open-range properties.

1216
01:55:00,690 --> 01:55:06,090
LLC is a parking lot for an amount not to exceed $14,300.

1217
01:55:07,390 --> 01:55:08,250
All right.

1218
01:55:09,230 --> 01:55:15,610
So, this resolution will approve a five-year parking lot agreement with open-range

1219
01:55:15,610 --> 01:55:19,590
properties for public use of their parking lot located at 208 East Frod.

1220
01:55:21,110 --> 01:55:22,770
All right, thank you very much.

1221
01:55:24,170 --> 01:55:32,210
I understand in our work sessions afternoon that Council is in agreement to table this until the next meeting.

1222
01:55:32,950 --> 01:55:35,430
All right, I'm prepared to receive a motion in that regard, sir.

1223
01:55:36,450 --> 01:55:37,970
So move, thank you.

1224
01:55:38,910 --> 01:55:39,350
Second.

1225
01:55:39,730 --> 01:55:40,310
Thank you, ma'am.

1226
01:55:41,150 --> 01:55:41,410
All right.

1227
01:55:43,290 --> 01:55:44,050
Questions, go ahead.

1228
01:55:44,050 --> 01:55:51,830
Yeah, questions just like to, Councilman Brosh, did you have a specific date and time in the future that you wanted this table to?

1229
01:55:51,830 --> 01:55:53,310
were we tabling this? Definitely.

1230
01:55:53,490 --> 01:55:54,870
I asked for next.

1231
01:55:56,110 --> 01:55:56,810
Next meeting.

1232
01:55:57,070 --> 01:55:57,390
Next meeting.

1233
01:55:57,630 --> 01:55:58,330
I did not hear that.

1234
01:55:58,950 --> 01:56:01,950
Which would be 24 or 25th.

1235
01:56:02,370 --> 01:56:02,550
Right.

1236
01:56:02,710 --> 01:56:02,910
Thank you.

1237
01:56:03,090 --> 01:56:03,470
Meeting date.

1238
01:56:03,650 --> 01:56:07,330
All right. Any other questions, statements in that regard?

1239
01:56:08,910 --> 01:56:09,470
All right.

1240
01:56:09,670 --> 01:56:10,910
Hearing none, please cast your votes.

1241
01:56:13,570 --> 01:56:13,950
All right.

1242
01:56:14,110 --> 01:56:15,390
And that is tabled.

1243
01:56:15,930 --> 01:56:16,430
All right.

1244
01:56:16,570 --> 01:56:17,930
And the motion carries 70.

1245
01:56:17,930 --> 01:56:18,950
Thank you very much.

1246
01:56:19,450 --> 01:56:19,730
All right.

1247
01:56:19,790 --> 01:56:20,890
Item 23 dashed.

1248
01:56:20,890 --> 01:56:28,170
5, 5, 8, 6. All right, Mr. Ramirez, we got you really busy today.

1249
01:56:28,770 --> 01:56:28,930
Yes.

1250
01:56:29,550 --> 01:56:31,450
So this, I'm sorry.

1251
01:56:32,010 --> 01:56:32,430
You good?

1252
01:56:32,770 --> 01:56:37,950
This resolution would authorize the council to early termination of the maintenance and

1253
01:56:37,950 --> 01:56:40,770
operations agreement with Bigley Dreams, Mansfield, LLC.

1254
01:56:41,530 --> 01:56:46,590
The city executed an agreement with them to maintain and operate the sports park back in 2004.

1255
01:56:48,230 --> 01:56:56,790
As a part of that agreement, they are supposed to provide the city with or make payment to the city of base maintenance and operation fees at certain dates.

1256
01:56:57,150 --> 01:57:03,910
The city sent them a notice of default on August 25th that they were late on one of the payments.

1257
01:57:05,010 --> 01:57:08,890
The 10-day period for a cure has last and they are still in default.

1258
01:57:09,090 --> 01:57:12,450
The agreement now allows the city to terminate the agreement if we so choose.

1259
01:57:13,410 --> 01:57:21,770
All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Matt Young. We hear from Matt in regard to discussions that we've had on this particular item.

1260
01:57:25,030 --> 01:57:25,890
Thank you, Mr. Rivera.

1261
01:57:28,750 --> 01:57:32,610
Thank you, Mayor and Council. I'm really just available for questions that Council does.

1262
01:57:33,090 --> 01:57:45,010
Take action like this. We will work with BLD management as well as city administration and address any of the interested parties that have activities out there and keep operations as continuous as possible going forward.

1263
01:57:45,010 --> 01:57:50,170
All right. Thank you very much. All right. Council members, there are any other statements

1264
01:57:50,170 --> 01:57:58,230
in regard to this particular matter 23-5-5-8-6. We want to make it really clear that those

1265
01:57:58,230 --> 01:58:04,770
individuals who already have our in-contractual agreements with us in regard to big league

1266
01:58:04,770 --> 01:58:11,530
dreams they will continue. However, it appears as if as a council we are definitely leaning

1267
01:58:11,530 --> 01:58:18,010
toward taking another move in regard to just terminating this relationship.

1268
01:58:18,270 --> 01:58:19,850
Is that correct, that would you for?

1269
01:58:20,170 --> 01:58:20,410
Yes, sir.

1270
01:58:20,650 --> 01:58:20,890
Okay.

1271
01:58:21,190 --> 01:58:21,390
All right.

1272
01:58:21,790 --> 01:58:24,490
Anybody else need to offer anything in that regard?

1273
01:58:25,130 --> 01:58:28,730
If not, ready to, go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead.

1274
01:58:28,790 --> 01:58:33,170
I know anybody that's watching along, especially the sports leagues and everybody that are out there,

1275
01:58:33,290 --> 01:58:40,510
Mr. Jones, will if this goes through in termination proceeds, the city would have the ability

1276
01:58:40,510 --> 01:58:53,170
to still figure out maintenance and utilization of fields and make sure that we're maintaining the fields and that everything's taking care of so that there may be some hiccups, but it will be minor, we'll be able to adjust to those.

1277
01:58:53,810 --> 01:59:05,690
Yes, sir. We'll work with the existing management and identify all partners that have contracts, practices, reservations, and work with them individually as needed to make sure that their events and activities are continuous.

1278
01:59:05,690 --> 01:59:10,330
Yes. Okay. Thank you. All right. I'm missing anybody.

1279
01:59:11,430 --> 01:59:12,870
All right. Go ahead, Mr. Norton.

1280
01:59:13,610 --> 01:59:19,410
Yeah. Just for those watching, I think it's important for our citizens to know that one

1281
01:59:19,410 --> 01:59:25,390
of the primary reasons driving this from our standpoint is the sheer condition of the facility.

1282
01:59:26,070 --> 01:59:32,930
Our current, the folks that currently are partnered with the city and this facility have neglected

1283
01:59:32,930 --> 01:59:44,030
to take care of it. It's an absolute embarrassment. If you go out there I think you'll agree with all of us, so it's definitely time we can't overlook this any longer.

1284
01:59:44,670 --> 01:59:58,810
This is a facility that draws more people in our community than any other facility in town. So it ranks way high right now on this council and hopefully we can come up with some resolutions pretty quick.

1285
01:59:58,810 --> 01:59:59,750
There.

1286
02:00:00,430 --> 02:00:30,410
Yes, sir. Go ahead, Mr. Lewis. Just for clarification, the resolution that we are adopting tonight, while I don't disagree with any of Mr. Tenori statements, they didn't pay us money on a skit, regularly scheduled time that they were supposed to, they're supposed to deliver to us quarterly. We as you notice of default and they have not replied since then, is that correct? Yes, that's correct. So that's the resolution that we're voting on and taking action on this evening. Yes, so upon approval of this resolution, we would send them a note.

1287
02:00:30,410 --> 02:00:33,330
notice of termination and that would be effective 30 days after.

1288
02:00:33,610 --> 02:00:34,250
Perfect, thank you.

1289
02:00:34,830 --> 02:00:37,830
And with that said, I am prepared to receive a motion.

1290
02:00:38,330 --> 02:00:39,250
Motion to proceed.

1291
02:00:39,450 --> 02:00:40,370
Thank you, Ms. Bounds.

1292
02:00:40,590 --> 02:00:40,750
Second.

1293
02:00:41,230 --> 02:00:42,010
Thank you, Ms. Short.

1294
02:00:42,750 --> 02:00:45,550
All right, questions, hearing none, please cast your votes.

1295
02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:51,900
And that item carries 7-0.

1296
02:00:52,120 --> 02:00:53,640
Thank you all very much.

1297
02:00:54,460 --> 02:00:59,640
All right, we move now to item 15 on public hearing and resolutions.

1298
02:00:59,640 --> 02:01:11,900
I'm 23, dad, 558 to a resolution public hearing on a resolution approving the fiscal year 2023, 2024 services and assessment plan for

1299
02:01:11,900 --> 02:01:21,040
the South Point Public Improvement District, PIT, providing a severability clause and providing an effective date.

1300
02:01:21,600 --> 02:01:22,920
All right, Mr. Lestina.

1301
02:01:22,920 --> 02:01:24,200
Thank you, Mayor.

1302
02:01:24,880 --> 02:01:30,440
What you have before you this evening is what you just read, the South Point Public Improvement District,

1303
02:01:31,720 --> 02:01:34,180
our services and assessment plan.

1304
02:01:35,160 --> 02:01:41,220
They are obligated to submit a new plan, a new five year plan every year.

1305
02:01:42,560 --> 02:01:48,920
Last Thursday evening, there was a meeting held by the management company of all the

1306
02:01:48,920 --> 02:01:54,200
South Point residents, if they were available to come, they came to that, had those discussions

1307
02:01:54,200 --> 02:01:59,480
outside HOA meetings that night as well. And again, this is just the annual process that

1308
02:01:59,480 --> 02:02:04,540
we go through for the public improvement district. And with that, I'll turn it over to you

1309
02:02:04,540 --> 02:02:05,140
for any questions.

1310
02:02:06,140 --> 02:02:12,560
Thank you, sir. I'll start on my right this time. The questions, statements on my right on

1311
02:02:12,560 --> 02:02:25,100
on my left. All right, everybody. Good. All right. Well, I will open the public hearing at 741 PM. Do we have any cards, ma'am?

1312
02:02:26,000 --> 02:02:32,100
All right. I'll close the public hearing at 741 PM and I will call for a motion.

1313
02:02:32,980 --> 02:02:37,840
Move to approve. Thank you, Ms. Short. Second. Thank you, Ms. Bounds. Questions?

1314
02:02:38,540 --> 02:02:45,190
hearing none, please cash votes, and the item carries 7-0.

1315
02:02:45,370 --> 02:02:46,350
Thank you all very much.

1316
02:02:47,010 --> 02:02:54,450
All right, we move to item number 16, and that's item 23-5-4-9-9.

1317
02:02:54,830 --> 02:02:55,290
Yes, ma'am.

1318
02:02:55,890 --> 02:02:59,890
Public hearing, and first and final reading on an ordinance,

1319
02:03:00,030 --> 02:03:05,530
amending chapter 1-5-5 of the code of ordinances of the City of Mansfield zoning

1320
02:03:05,530 --> 02:03:12,450
by amending Special Purpose District regulations and creating a new section 155-074-T,

1321
02:03:12,790 --> 02:03:19,730
Toe Row 360, Form-Based Development District 0A, number 23-0-0-2.

1322
02:03:20,090 --> 02:03:20,610
I heard someone.

1323
02:03:20,930 --> 02:03:21,630
Yes, Mr. Mayor.

1324
02:03:21,870 --> 02:03:30,930
I'd like to offer table this particular item until our next order of schedule meeting on September 25th.

1325
02:03:31,250 --> 02:03:32,530
All right, thank you, Mr. Newsom.

1326
02:03:33,330 --> 02:03:34,170
Is there a second?

1327
02:03:35,310 --> 02:03:42,610
All right. I think we all tied. All right. Miss short gets it. All right. Questions?

1328
02:03:43,750 --> 02:03:45,810
Hearing none, please cast your votes.

1329
02:03:50,960 --> 02:03:55,100
All right. And that motion carries 7-0. Thank

1330
02:03:55,100 --> 02:04:01,620
you all very much. It is tabled. Item number 17, item 23, dash 5-5-0-0. It's an ordinance.

1331
02:04:02,260 --> 02:04:07,560
Public hearing and first reading on an ordinance approving a change of zoning from PR

1332
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:37,400
our pre-development district to the T Toe Road 364 based development district on approximately 210 acres being a 20 points in six acre track of land situated in the Jay Lawrence Survey, abstract number 16 and a 189.4 acre track of land situated in the M Greg Survey, abstract number 385 Jay Lawrence Survey, abstract number 616 and the H Henderson

1333
02:04:37,400 --> 02:04:40,300
in the survey, abstract number 432, city of Mansfield,

1334
02:04:40,460 --> 02:04:43,880
Ellis County, Texas, located east of State Highway 360,

1335
02:04:44,380 --> 02:04:48,000
south of Lone Star Road, and south of Britain Road,

1336
02:04:48,160 --> 02:04:54,720
Arcadia, developer, ZC, 23s, only case 23-0-0-5.

1337
02:04:55,320 --> 02:04:55,880
Mayor?

1338
02:04:56,320 --> 02:04:56,800
Yes, ma'am.

1339
02:04:57,140 --> 02:05:00,980
I'd like to table this item until the next meeting

1340
02:05:00,980 --> 02:05:02,620
at September the 25th.

1341
02:05:03,060 --> 02:05:05,780
All right, Mr. Bounds, they are second.

1342
02:05:05,780 --> 02:05:07,260
Thank you, sir.

1343
02:05:08,440 --> 02:05:09,260
All right.

1344
02:05:10,280 --> 02:05:10,800
Questions?

1345
02:05:11,840 --> 02:05:13,480
Hearing none, please catch votes.

1346
02:05:16,500 --> 02:05:17,040
All right.

1347
02:05:17,160 --> 02:05:18,000
That item carries.

1348
02:05:18,300 --> 02:05:19,020
Six, one.

1349
02:05:19,400 --> 02:05:20,580
Thank you all very much.

1350
02:05:22,460 --> 02:05:22,980
Okay.

1351
02:05:23,200 --> 02:05:23,540
All right.

1352
02:05:24,360 --> 02:05:25,200
All right.

1353
02:05:25,520 --> 02:05:27,820
Let the record show.

1354
02:05:28,940 --> 02:05:32,840
Yeah, we'll let the record show bless us heart that he did mention this.

1355
02:05:33,220 --> 02:05:36,640
So we will ask you to please catch votes.

1356
02:05:38,200 --> 02:05:47,920
do over. Here we go, 7-0. Happy day. All right, Mr. Carey. All right. We move now to item

1357
02:05:47,920 --> 02:05:59,380
18. It's public hearing, continuation, second, and final rating. Items 23-5547 and 23-5546.

1358
02:05:59,760 --> 02:06:05,460
Council, spare in mind that we will vote on these under the new business.

1359
02:06:05,460 --> 02:06:12,000
All right. So, let me read these. 23-5547 is public hearing, public hearing, continuation

1360
02:06:12,000 --> 02:06:16,820
of the second and final reading on the budget for the fiscal year of beginning, October

1361
02:06:16,820 --> 02:06:22,620
1, 2023, and ending, September 30, 2024, in accordance with the charter of the City

1362
02:06:22,620 --> 02:06:29,020
of Mansfield and the appropriation of various amounts thereof. Mr. Smolinsky, I have you

1363
02:06:29,020 --> 02:06:32,900
listed as the presenters, sir, but I say Mr. Listina, stand in there.

1364
02:06:33,500 --> 02:06:35,600
So when they call in the relief pitchers there.

1365
02:06:35,900 --> 02:06:36,260
All right.

1366
02:06:36,560 --> 02:06:39,200
So hopefully I won't be as bad as the Texas Rangers.

1367
02:06:39,420 --> 02:06:41,860
You know you said that.

1368
02:06:42,320 --> 02:06:50,940
So this presentation will cover this item mayor as you indicated 5547 as well as 5546.

1369
02:06:52,200 --> 02:06:55,360
So just so everyone knows that.

1370
02:06:57,020 --> 02:07:01,380
Here we are on our final budget meeting and hearing.

1371
02:07:01,940 --> 02:07:18,240
As you indicated, mayor, later on in the meeting, the budget ordinance, and then the tax rate ordinance are up for vote later on in this meeting as well, and you can see on the calendar where we are here at 9-11 at the end of the process.

1372
02:07:19,520 --> 02:07:24,780
So each year, Mr. Sponency covered this in the last meeting.

1373
02:07:25,220 --> 02:07:32,260
Each year, the city submits their budget document in the annual comprehensive financial report to the GFOA.

1374
02:07:32,860 --> 02:07:45,980
And I'm happy to say that for 37 years on the budget award and then 36 years on the annual report, the current annual report for FY22 is still being evaluated.

1375
02:07:45,980 --> 02:07:49,220
But we do anticipate that we will receive that award as well.

1376
02:07:49,380 --> 02:07:51,340
So we'll have those both for 37 years.

1377
02:07:51,780 --> 02:07:56,740
And again, that started not with this staff or with this city manager,

1378
02:07:56,740 --> 02:08:01,600
but with Mr. Chandler back in the late 80s.

1379
02:08:01,780 --> 02:08:04,960
Tommy Johnson was here at that time as the finance director.

1380
02:08:05,240 --> 02:08:06,880
That's when this tradition started.

1381
02:08:07,900 --> 02:08:14,960
And we and the staff over here just happy to carry to continue to carry that tradition that was started so long ago by Mr.

1382
02:08:14,960 --> 02:08:16,500
Mr. Chandler and Ms. Johnson.

1383
02:08:18,380 --> 02:08:24,140
Also, 36 years, again, with a clean audit, no findings in there as well, and that's always

1384
02:08:24,140 --> 02:08:28,760
indicated in our annual financial report, and we'll start that process here in just a

1385
02:08:28,760 --> 02:08:29,600
couple months as well.

1386
02:08:29,700 --> 02:08:34,760
Our auditors will be on site, coming through our books like they always do, and we'll bring

1387
02:08:34,760 --> 02:08:37,740
that presentation to you late February or March.

1388
02:08:39,100 --> 02:08:41,020
What does our financial stability look like?

1389
02:08:41,620 --> 02:08:46,820
Here we go, you can see that we have a AAA rating by standards and poor and our general fund bonds.

1390
02:08:47,160 --> 02:08:53,840
We have a AAA rating from Fitch in both the water and sewer revenue bonds along with the drainage bonds.

1391
02:08:54,540 --> 02:08:57,180
And we've had those for several years.

1392
02:08:57,800 --> 02:09:08,200
Moody's in 2022 upgraded our sales tax revenue bonds, which are the MEDC and the MPFDC, our economic development and our parks facilities corporations.

1393
02:09:08,800 --> 02:09:15,600
We're upgraded to the second highest rating that you can get, or the next rating that

1394
02:09:15,600 --> 02:09:18,160
they would get there is that AAA rating as well.

1395
02:09:20,660 --> 02:09:25,120
So as we pour into the budget, let's talk about some of the budget highlights.

1396
02:09:27,000 --> 02:09:34,140
Back in June, this board voted to raise the homestead exemption 2% to 14%.

1397
02:09:34,720 --> 02:09:38,620
We have a two little over greater than 2 cent tax reduction.

1398
02:09:39,000 --> 02:09:43,500
The proposed rate that you'll see tonight is going to be 6, 5, 9, 2, 9, 3.

1399
02:09:44,520 --> 02:09:49,460
And like we indicated there, just a little bit greater than 2% reduction in the tax rate.

1400
02:09:49,940 --> 02:09:51,600
There's 10 new position citywide.

1401
02:09:51,600 --> 02:09:53,440
We'll touch on those here in just a little bit.

1402
02:09:53,880 --> 02:09:58,180
Along with about $5.4 million in capital improvements.

1403
02:09:58,180 --> 02:10:00,040
Again, those are all funds citywide.

1404
02:10:00,600 --> 02:10:02,960
Those are just some of the highlights that we wanted to touch on.

1405
02:10:02,960 --> 02:10:06,940
Here are the positions in the general fund.

1406
02:10:07,340 --> 02:10:12,720
We talked about this throughout the last couple of meetings that we've presented these things.

1407
02:10:12,720 --> 02:10:14,080
There's eight full-time positions.

1408
02:10:14,480 --> 02:10:19,460
Those eight full-time positions cost just a tad over $775,000.

1409
02:10:20,380 --> 02:10:29,820
However, the budget impact is only $355,000 due to the reduction in some contractual savings that's in our current FY23 budget,

1410
02:10:29,820 --> 02:10:35,100
along with some position reclassifications, taking a higher level position and

1411
02:10:35,100 --> 02:10:40,020
reclassing into a lower level position that is a need in the city.

1412
02:10:40,180 --> 02:10:44,120
You can see those positions up there that are make up the eight.

1413
02:10:44,500 --> 02:10:49,000
There's 4.1 in capital equipment, we'll get to that detail here in a minute as well.

1414
02:10:49,540 --> 02:10:52,240
And then $3.2 million in street maintenance.

1415
02:10:52,680 --> 02:10:56,800
Now that's a 17% higher amount than we had last year.

1416
02:10:56,800 --> 02:11:04,920
And we'll recall, we talked about this several times, the citizen satisfaction service says street, street, street congestion, congestion, congestion.

1417
02:11:05,600 --> 02:11:11,420
So two years ago, we added, we upped the budget 50% and added two FTEs.

1418
02:11:11,740 --> 02:11:14,640
Last year, we increased the budget another 10%.

1419
02:11:15,100 --> 02:11:21,760
This year, we're increasing it another 17% along with another street tradesperson in this budget as well.

1420
02:11:21,760 --> 02:11:28,960
And so we're trying to address those needs that our citizens say is the most need that we have in the city.

1421
02:11:29,500 --> 02:11:34,440
And then within the budget as well, there's a market and merit-based assumptions for personnel of 3%.

1422
02:11:38,200 --> 02:11:41,150
So here's a slide I think that everybody wants to see, right?

1423
02:11:41,810 --> 02:11:48,250
So it's clear, we're in this budget, there's a council stipend of $2,000 per month.

1424
02:11:48,590 --> 02:11:53,590
For council member, you can see the authorizations there that we have from the local government code at the state level.

1425
02:11:53,590 --> 02:11:59,630
along with the what's in our charter, and I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Swoonskine

1426
02:11:59,630 --> 02:12:01,170
let him make a couple comments.

1427
02:12:01,790 --> 02:12:02,250
Thanks, Troy.

1428
02:12:02,450 --> 02:12:06,310
I mean, everybody can read that word for word if they'd like to.

1429
02:12:06,550 --> 02:12:11,090
I just want to point out again that we're looking at this slide.

1430
02:12:11,230 --> 02:12:16,770
I said last year that when we did the budget presentation that I would put this up here,

1431
02:12:16,830 --> 02:12:22,230
and I've remained true to my word, I also said that I would say it wasn't enough,

1432
02:12:22,230 --> 02:12:26,250
And I want to reiterate those comments again here tonight.

1433
02:12:27,690 --> 02:12:32,010
I think it's fitting that tonight, you guys are voting.

1434
02:12:32,250 --> 02:12:35,390
You guys are actually going through an agenda that has three sets of minutes.

1435
02:12:36,170 --> 02:12:40,430
You know, you met three times, three separate meetings on August 28th.

1436
02:12:40,430 --> 02:12:42,270
It was an all day affair for several of you.

1437
02:12:42,390 --> 02:12:47,390
Miss Bounds, I know you were one of those that was here for all three of those meetings.

1438
02:12:47,690 --> 02:12:49,670
And I appreciate you being willing to do that.

1439
02:12:49,670 --> 02:12:59,530
I want to read a couple of comments here and I think the section, first of all, I want

1440
02:12:59,530 --> 02:13:04,830
to say that this section of the charter was voted on twice by the members of the public.

1441
02:13:05,670 --> 02:13:12,590
September of 1974 was voted, the charter was voted on that allowed for council, it said

1442
02:13:12,590 --> 02:13:22,990
Councilmen, men could receive salary and then in August of 1979 it was amended to say

1443
02:13:22,990 --> 02:13:30,810
that the mayor and Councilmen may be paid. Section 304 compensation is where you can find

1444
02:13:30,810 --> 02:13:37,270
that. It says the mayor and each Councilman may receive a salary set by the Council, plus

1445
02:13:37,270 --> 02:13:43,910
the actual unnecessary expenses incurred in the performance of his specified official duties of the office.

1446
02:13:44,590 --> 02:13:48,010
All expenses shall be subject to the approval of the council.

1447
02:13:48,930 --> 02:13:50,930
I think they were smart in doing that.

1448
02:13:51,230 --> 02:13:59,510
There was just one flaw in that section, and it's assumed that all of the council members would always be men.

1449
02:13:59,910 --> 02:14:01,450
Thank God that was not the case.

1450
02:14:02,590 --> 02:14:31,010
As I've stated previously, the amount of time that each City Council member, the City Council member dedicates to the Council meetings, the meeting preparation, subcommittee meetings, preparation for those meetings, professional and continuing education, community tours, travel, various periodic, elected official training opportunities, ribbon cuttings,

1451
02:14:32,150 --> 02:14:38,670
All of these things, visiting with members of the community that call and want to spend time with you, they want your ear.

1452
02:14:39,410 --> 02:14:44,690
All of those things represent an extreme demand on each council member.

1453
02:14:45,850 --> 02:14:49,790
And the demands on their time aren't limited to the council members themselves.

1454
02:14:50,210 --> 02:14:53,230
This demand affects their families.

1455
02:14:53,830 --> 02:14:59,870
see Mr. Short just walked out probably didn't want to listen me say this again, but he

1456
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:20,940
Even he comes to all of these meetings. And everyone up here is missing time with their families, and whether it's children, grandchildren, or spouse, loved one, whomever it is. So it affects their families as well. It affects their employers. I know, Mr. Bounds has to take PTO to come to these meetings. She went to three of them on August 28th alone.

1457
02:15:23,060 --> 02:15:29,280
You know, affects their private businesses, many of them own businesses in town, some of

1458
02:15:29,280 --> 02:15:33,340
them own many businesses in town, and it affects every one of those things.

1459
02:15:33,500 --> 02:15:38,380
So before any of us utter the phrase, you know, they knew what they were signing up for,

1460
02:15:39,820 --> 02:15:41,460
because I've heard people say that.

1461
02:15:41,560 --> 02:15:43,840
Well, they knew what they were signing up for, so what?

1462
02:15:45,100 --> 02:15:48,960
Let's remember that the job description for a council member can be found in section

1463
02:15:48,960 --> 02:15:54,140
Section 309A of the Charter, so if anyone has that in front of you, you're welcome to look at that.

1464
02:15:54,860 --> 02:15:58,180
And it states that Council shall meet regularly twice a month.

1465
02:16:00,620 --> 02:16:06,900
It's found as far recall you met three times on August 28th, and everyone else met twice.

1466
02:16:07,900 --> 02:16:13,660
One Council member told me more than a year ago that being on Council is a rich person's game.

1467
02:16:14,920 --> 02:16:17,640
And this comment wasn't made with pride.

1468
02:16:17,640 --> 02:16:26,320
It wasn't a boastful comment, it seemed to be to be more of an alarm going off in this individual's mind.

1469
02:16:27,260 --> 02:16:35,380
And in an effort to make service on the City Council possible for more than just a small fraction of the citizens.

1470
02:16:36,980 --> 02:16:44,640
I think that this $2,000 a month that we're recommending, Troy, you and I, recommending tonight that they accept.

1471
02:16:44,640 --> 02:16:49,660
it doesn't replace the revenue lost by each of these council members, it doesn't even

1472
02:16:49,660 --> 02:16:57,980
come close. However, for a large segment of the population, for our citizens, our voters,

1473
02:16:58,260 --> 02:17:03,660
our residents, I think this may very well make serving on the council after being elected

1474
02:17:03,660 --> 02:17:10,540
by the voters at least possible to dedicate the sort of time that it takes to do this job

1475
02:17:11,100 --> 02:17:12,600
and do this job well.

1476
02:17:14,940 --> 02:17:17,760
I know for a fact that many of them donate their stipends

1477
02:17:17,760 --> 02:17:21,960
to Mansfield Charities, and I don't know a single one of them that does this for

1478
02:17:21,960 --> 02:17:27,000
personal gain, regardless of what, what do they call Hell on Earth, what it's

1479
02:17:27,000 --> 02:17:30,660
actually, social media. Sorry, whatever social media says.

1480
02:17:33,080 --> 02:17:34,060
You know, I don't know

1481
02:17:34,060 --> 02:17:38,680
a single one of them that does, but even if it did somehow cover all of the

1482
02:17:38,680 --> 02:17:44,880
hours missed or revenue lost. Is that a bad thing? You know, that doesn't, that doesn't

1483
02:17:44,880 --> 02:17:53,080
make sense to me. And it, it, it, it does make, it does make service to the city as a

1484
02:17:53,080 --> 02:17:59,120
member of the city council possible to more people if this is available. I know that many

1485
02:17:59,120 --> 02:18:03,660
of them take it not for themselves, they take it so it is possible for somebody else to

1486
02:18:04,500 --> 02:18:23,600
I strongly recommend to the Council that this type and be said at $2,000 a month and I ask every voting member of the City Council that they accept it, knowing that it may make service to the community as a council member possible to as many people as possible, whether that's today or in the future.

1487
02:18:24,700 --> 02:18:27,740
That's all I have to say about that. It's for Scott, let's say.

1488
02:18:27,740 --> 02:18:32,240
All right, thank you.

1489
02:18:33,570 --> 02:18:39,940
Moving on, so do we have in the other funds in their various budgets or positions or capital?

1490
02:18:40,840 --> 02:18:47,160
There's one new position in the parks fund, the MEDC, economic development corporation has one new position as well.

1491
02:18:47,460 --> 02:18:51,860
It's approximately a million dollars of capital equipment in the utility fund and

1492
02:18:51,860 --> 02:18:57,180
then the environmental services fund or what is also collected we've referred to as the drainage fund has

1493
02:18:57,180 --> 02:18:59,840
about $34,000 capital equipment in that.

1494
02:19:00,400 --> 02:19:04,520
We'll see the detail broken down here on these next few slides.

1495
02:19:04,940 --> 02:19:09,120
Here's the detail for the general fund, that $4.1 million.

1496
02:19:09,460 --> 02:19:14,780
You can see the majority of this capital is related to our public safety.

1497
02:19:15,340 --> 02:19:21,100
Over $2.7 million of the $4.1 is related to public safety.

1498
02:19:21,700 --> 02:19:25,400
One of those largest things being a new Spartan fire engine.

1499
02:19:26,200 --> 02:19:34,580
that has been ordered and that will take about 12 to 18 months to get delivered, but we have that in there.

1500
02:19:36,440 --> 02:19:41,580
Capital equipment and the other funds that we talked about, there's the $217,000 for the Parks Fund,

1501
02:19:42,200 --> 02:19:51,720
that's slightly over a million dollars in the utility fund and then a pickup truck for $34,000 in the Environmental Services Drainage Fund as well.

1502
02:19:52,740 --> 02:19:55,980
So let's start getting into the actual numbers.

1503
02:19:56,560 --> 02:19:59,240
We'll start with the economic development corporation.

1504
02:20:00,140 --> 02:20:04,160
Again, this was funded by a half cent sales tax.

1505
02:20:04,660 --> 02:20:06,660
It was approved by the voters in 1997.

1506
02:20:07,420 --> 02:20:18,080
This past May, the voters approved additional uses of these funds, giving them the ability to spend on other things than just 4A or type A projects.

1507
02:20:18,080 --> 02:20:22,660
They also now have the ability to spend on type B projects as well.

1508
02:20:23,280 --> 02:20:29,980
You can see on the left, every screen will have the revenues on the right or the expenditures.

1509
02:20:30,860 --> 02:20:36,940
The charter requires us to have a balanced budget and have these things voted on by September the 15th.

1510
02:20:37,080 --> 02:20:41,980
And so we are complying with all of those charter requirements.

1511
02:20:42,820 --> 02:20:46,460
As we move on to the parks facility, development corporation.

1512
02:20:46,460 --> 02:20:51,660
Again, you can see on the screen, this was approved by the voters as a half-cent sales

1513
02:20:51,660 --> 02:20:58,280
tax in 1992, again sometimes called for B or type B activities.

1514
02:20:58,700 --> 02:21:03,660
They have a little bit of water revenue source here, not just the sales tax, they have the

1515
02:21:03,660 --> 02:21:09,740
least revenues from our public-private partnerships and then the MAC, and its activities fall

1516
02:21:09,740 --> 02:21:12,060
in this category as well.

1517
02:21:12,060 --> 02:21:16,660
So again, presenting a balanced budget for FY 24.

1518
02:21:17,920 --> 02:21:20,000
Moving on to the Utility Fund.

1519
02:21:20,500 --> 02:21:26,440
This is an enterprise fund that accounts for all of the water and sewer operations and

1520
02:21:26,440 --> 02:21:27,900
capital equipment within the city.

1521
02:21:30,980 --> 02:21:35,000
Balance budget, water and sewer sales are the biggest sources of revenues there.

1522
02:21:35,960 --> 02:21:41,500
And then the cost of water and sewer are a part of the operations they make up the majority

1523
02:21:41,500 --> 02:21:48,020
of those costs as well for the operational piece along with the salaries and the individuals

1524
02:21:48,020 --> 02:21:55,080
in that department. As we move on to the Environmental Services Fund or the Drainage Fund, they

1525
02:21:55,080 --> 02:22:01,400
only have one revenue source, just a nice big blue dot up there, offset by their expenditures

1526
02:22:01,400 --> 02:22:08,300
on the left again, balance budget for everyone to see there. The next fund that we always

1527
02:22:08,300 --> 02:22:15,380
want to show here is the hotel motel fund. In the past years we've had presentations from

1528
02:22:15,880 --> 02:22:21,760
the applicants to council. We've done that in the past. This year we had one application.

1529
02:22:22,780 --> 02:22:27,900
It was for the Waterburger basketball tournament or championship basketball tournament

1530
02:22:28,360 --> 02:22:36,120
that is held at the MISD campuses around town. There was one allocation of $10,000. At this time

1531
02:22:36,120 --> 02:22:41,400
I'm going to turn it over in this short if she's the chair of this committee if you want to say a few words or not

1532
02:22:41,400 --> 02:22:46,600
I'm putting you on the spot so we didn't talk about this before so I was putting around the spot there but

1533
02:22:48,140 --> 02:22:53,980
That there was only one allocation there this year and so we can see that there is a balanced budget here as well

1534
02:22:53,980 --> 02:23:01,420
One big blue dot all the hotel motel taxes collected from our hotels in the city the general fund will focus first on the revenues

1535
02:23:01,420 --> 02:23:04,900
Let's see the majority of our revenue is coming from property taxes.

1536
02:23:05,500 --> 02:23:10,740
The second most revenue line there is our sales utility and

1537
02:23:10,740 --> 02:23:19,020
mixed drink taxes and then decreasing down from there the eight point almost four million dollars in franchise fees that

1538
02:23:21,140 --> 02:23:26,100
we show for the going back here just slightly.

1539
02:23:27,630 --> 02:23:36,550
No, I'm sorry, but a little quick question, then on other non-departmental piece of that, what is that allocated to?

1540
02:23:37,050 --> 02:23:38,940
The $259,000?

1541
02:23:39,370 --> 02:23:39,610
Yes.

1542
02:23:40,030 --> 02:23:40,250
Okay.

1543
02:23:40,690 --> 02:23:46,130
So $250,000 of that is a carryover from FY23.

1544
02:23:47,050 --> 02:23:52,650
The Council allocated $250,000 for the museum repairs downtown.

1545
02:23:53,530 --> 02:23:57,390
Unfortunately, those repairs were not being, we're not able to be done in this fiscal year.

1546
02:23:57,590 --> 02:24:01,210
So we're carrying them over to the next fiscal year so that they can still be completed.

1547
02:24:01,650 --> 02:24:02,230
Okay, thank you.

1548
02:24:02,410 --> 02:24:12,470
The $9,000 is for hotel audits just to make sure that the hotels are remitting to us the proper amount of hotel audits, hotel occupancy tax.

1549
02:24:12,710 --> 02:24:13,170
All right, thanks.

1550
02:24:14,030 --> 02:24:17,130
I apologize, I missed your cue there for a question.

1551
02:24:17,130 --> 02:24:27,120
So back to the general fund revenues, again, property tax, sales tax, the two biggest pieces of the revenues there as well.

1552
02:24:27,720 --> 02:24:37,520
Down in other, we have interest earnings, sale of city property, expense recoveries, our contractual jail housing, grants, and

1553
02:24:37,520 --> 02:24:40,580
other gas royalty revenues in there as well.

1554
02:24:41,880 --> 02:24:48,420
As we move to the expenditure side, you can see there the largest share as I indicated in our

1555
02:24:48,420 --> 02:24:54,300
Our capital equipment, our largest share, is public safety keeping the community safe with police and fire dispatch.

1556
02:24:55,180 --> 02:25:04,980
Those services make up not quite 50% of the general fund pie, and then coming down you can see the rest of those as well.

1557
02:25:05,680 --> 02:25:13,600
In our transfers department, we have the transfer out of $4.1 million to the equipment replacement fund that's accounted for in here.

1558
02:25:14,200 --> 02:25:18,160
We have our insurance, we have other transfers, we have economic incentives.

1559
02:25:23,300 --> 02:25:45,760
and some of our chapter 380 agreements that benefit the city as a whole in my chapter 380, I mean those sales tax agreements that we have with various builders in town that get the sales tax in Mansfield that didn't exist in Mansfield before, so we've done things proactively to increase the revenue by doing those certain 380 agreements.

1560
02:25:45,760 --> 02:25:50,320
And we share in that with those individuals, those companies.

1561
02:25:51,040 --> 02:25:55,080
Here's our debt service for the general fund for next year.

1562
02:25:56,140 --> 02:25:59,280
You can see that went from $16 million to $20 million.

1563
02:26:00,100 --> 02:26:07,020
What's the increase there for all recall, we're building a public safety building.

1564
02:26:07,020 --> 02:26:11,260
Ms. Coleman talked about it a little bit on that $36 million contract.

1565
02:26:11,260 --> 02:26:16,480
So we borrowed those funds last year at this time and started that process so that we could build that

1566
02:26:17,140 --> 02:26:21,900
Naturally drove that up, but if you'll recall what our policy is in the first 10 years

1567
02:26:22,620 --> 02:26:27,980
In the issuance of our debt. We pay down 60% of our debt in the first 10 years

1568
02:26:28,500 --> 02:26:32,940
And that's been the longstanding policy and so we get that debt on the books

1569
02:26:32,940 --> 02:26:38,160
But we try to get it off as quickly as possible as well and then last meeting as well on the

1570
02:26:38,160 --> 02:26:45,900
the right-hand side of the screen there, the 2023, this Council authorizing a pre-payment

1571
02:26:45,900 --> 02:26:49,160
that will happen in February of $24 million.

1572
02:26:50,600 --> 02:26:57,460
So in the course of three years, we paid down over $10 million in principal getting those

1573
02:26:57,460 --> 02:27:02,200
things off of our books, saving the taxpayers interest in the long run.

1574
02:27:02,200 --> 02:27:11,300
The other thing I want to mention on here is the general obligation debt that was issued last fall for approximately $5.1 million.

1575
02:27:11,900 --> 02:27:23,540
That was the Mansfield Trail System that in May of 22, the voters approved to expand that trail system from east to west and north to south and coming out of downtown.

1576
02:27:24,240 --> 02:27:28,420
That was a $10 million ask at the time.

1577
02:27:28,420 --> 02:27:30,740
we borrowed half of that last year.

1578
02:27:30,860 --> 02:27:32,320
That was about on the ballot.

1579
02:27:32,320 --> 02:27:34,420
It said it was just under a penny increase.

1580
02:27:34,420 --> 02:27:38,020
It was .008, just under a penny increase.

1581
02:27:38,700 --> 02:27:44,340
We did not pass that penny increase that we said we would need to along to the voters.

1582
02:27:44,620 --> 02:27:46,200
In fact, last year we reduced the tax rate.

1583
02:27:46,740 --> 02:27:50,060
We were reducing the tax rate again this year and you'll see that in just a few slides.

1584
02:27:50,540 --> 02:27:52,540
So I want to bring that to your attention as well.

1585
02:27:53,340 --> 02:27:55,620
So as we move into our capital improvement plans,

1586
02:27:56,600 --> 02:28:02,480
This is one of our requirements to show Council and residents as well.

1587
02:28:03,080 --> 02:28:07,140
These are the projects that are in progress for FY24.

1588
02:28:07,760 --> 02:28:09,540
I'm not going to read all of those up there.

1589
02:28:10,320 --> 02:28:14,540
These are the projects that will be under design in FY24.

1590
02:28:15,220 --> 02:28:19,560
And then these are the projects that construction will happen or continue to happen

1591
02:28:19,560 --> 02:28:22,500
on in FY24 as well.

1592
02:28:22,500 --> 02:28:30,360
So, utility construction, there are the FY-24 projects that will start in FY-24.

1593
02:28:31,020 --> 02:28:32,700
Some of those will be able to be completed.

1594
02:28:33,020 --> 02:28:38,820
The major one there are those, the water treatment, plant expansion, and as we go to let

1595
02:28:38,820 --> 02:28:44,000
that contract later on in the year, that will obviously come back to this board for their

1596
02:28:44,000 --> 02:28:44,400
approval.

1597
02:28:44,400 --> 02:28:54,040
The parks system and their FY24 plans, those first three, the Walnut Creek Linear Trail,

1598
02:28:54,280 --> 02:29:00,520
phase two, eight, three B, four A and B. Again, relate to that GO bond money that we borrowed

1599
02:29:01,640 --> 02:29:05,280
to complete those, and then you can see the rest of those on there as well.

1600
02:29:05,840 --> 02:29:10,380
Many of those are under design or have started development as well

1601
02:29:10,380 --> 02:29:13,560
and making those improvements in these various areas.

1602
02:29:15,750 --> 02:29:19,850
And our other funds, what are we doing for capital improvements?

1603
02:29:20,550 --> 02:29:23,410
As we talked about, there's the police headquarters design.

1604
02:29:24,010 --> 02:29:28,150
We'll be finishing up the animal control and service center design as well.

1605
02:29:28,510 --> 02:29:29,450
We brought that forward.

1606
02:29:29,950 --> 02:29:32,790
Council brought that to us last year and wanted to push that forward.

1607
02:29:32,910 --> 02:29:34,210
We're moving forward on those.

1608
02:29:34,890 --> 02:29:38,850
In the drainage construction fund, those are the continuation of the projects from FY23.

1609
02:29:38,850 --> 02:29:45,210
The first three, and then the last will be new projects that will be started in FY24.

1610
02:29:47,940 --> 02:29:52,520
So what does your proposed ordinance look like that you will be voting on later on tonight?

1611
02:29:52,680 --> 02:29:59,920
This is the proposed ordinance, a total budget of $355 million in all these.

1612
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:28,660
There are various funds. Now, this has changed just slightly since our last public hearing. And that is due to the fact that some of our street projects aren't quite finished. And so we roll over those funds into the next year. We keep the PO open. The purchase order open and roll it into the next year so that we have authorization to be able to finish spending those. So that's where that slight increase is coming.

1613
02:30:28,660 --> 02:30:32,660
if anybody notices that from our last public hearing.

1614
02:30:34,860 --> 02:30:44,320
As we move on to the property tax rates, these are the calculations that we get from the tax assessor collector, Miss Burgess's office.

1615
02:30:45,200 --> 02:30:48,080
So there's the no new revenue rate and the voter approval rate.

1616
02:30:48,800 --> 02:30:57,440
You can see the difference there, and then what we're proposing this year is 659293.

1617
02:30:58,500 --> 02:31:08,280
Almost six cents under the voter approval rate, about 5.2 under the voter approval rate.

1618
02:31:08,720 --> 02:31:27,060
The no-new revenue rate, if I can just speak about that real quickly, that rate, if we were to adopt that rate, would be difficult to maintain our current operations and the level of service that we all have come expected from everyone within the city.

1619
02:31:28,520 --> 02:31:36,180
As we move on, again, this is just a breakdown between our INS and operations rate, and then

1620
02:31:36,180 --> 02:31:45,280
just again comparing the 2002 tax year, which is FY23 to the tax year, FY23 or FY24 budget.

1621
02:31:46,000 --> 02:31:51,600
Sometimes those dates get a little confusing even for staff.

1622
02:31:52,400 --> 02:31:56,360
Here's the history of the proposed tax rate.

1623
02:31:57,340 --> 02:32:01,960
As you can see, we started with the homestead exemption in 2020.

1624
02:32:02,620 --> 02:32:07,180
10% kept it there for one year and then the last two years have raised it 2%.

1625
02:32:07,180 --> 02:32:13,240
We've had a steady decrease as well in the overall tax rate.

1626
02:32:13,640 --> 02:32:17,600
Starting with two cents in going into 2020.

1627
02:32:17,600 --> 02:32:24,820
kept it there for 21 and then a pinning increase and now just a tad over two

1628
02:32:24,820 --> 02:32:31,400
cents decrease going into 23. Our various percentages have stayed relatively the

1629
02:32:31,400 --> 02:32:37,900
same throughout this process. It looks like it ticked up there just a little bit in

1630
02:32:37,900 --> 02:32:45,720
23. That has more to do with the reduction in the rate than in the actual rate or

1631
02:32:45,720 --> 02:32:53,720
the percentages itself. You can see our INS side has stayed fairly constant throughout

1632
02:32:53,720 --> 02:33:01,320
the last five years. We've slowly ticked down the operational side due to the decreases

1633
02:33:01,320 --> 02:33:10,020
in the tax rate. The first two years for rollback rates, SB2 started in 2020. So that's why

1634
02:33:10,020 --> 02:33:18,960
Now you have the different names there, the different definitions of those various rates.

1635
02:33:20,920 --> 02:33:24,660
And with that, I will end my presentation there.

1636
02:33:25,340 --> 02:33:30,160
As I indicated, this is also for the next public hearing on the tax rate as well.

1637
02:33:31,540 --> 02:33:35,100
And with that, Mayor, I'll turn it back over to you for any questions for you, or can you say?

1638
02:33:35,700 --> 02:33:36,680
Thank you very much, sir.

1639
02:33:37,320 --> 02:33:39,400
All right, Mr. Lewis, thank you, Mayor.

1640
02:33:39,400 --> 02:34:07,120
So, I'm sure if you could go back one slide, we talked about this at the last public hearing, we've talked about it several times, and then I actually, in reading the ordinance had something that stood out to me, just for anybody that's followed along in this budget process, we talked early on about why the, why the no-new revenue rate wouldn't work, but obviously it's 7% inflation, we had, we've grown 14% in population, we've got roads and streets and all of the things to happen, fuel costs through the roof.

1641
02:34:07,120 --> 02:34:33,500
If the cities in Tarant County that have been able to adopt a new revenue rate also aren't growing cities they're built out cities or in some cases have a reduction in their population year over year so they're able to kind of absorb some of those things and then we still have the inflation cost of a fire truck is substantially more and the lead time to be able to get some of those things.

1642
02:34:33,500 --> 02:34:39,400
in this environment that maybe other cities in the area don't necessarily have to deal with right now.

1643
02:34:40,850 --> 02:34:48,680
But what stood out to me is, if we look at the general operating rate, just how much that has come down over the time period.

1644
02:34:50,700 --> 02:34:56,340
And then you mentioned on the INS side, that's were aggressively paying off debt.

1645
02:34:57,060 --> 02:35:03,260
And what I kind of weighed out early on in this budget process was we've got two citizens satisfaction.

1646
02:35:03,260 --> 02:35:09,080
action surveys, that the primary thing is fixed streets, fixed roads, make better interconnectivity.

1647
02:35:09,720 --> 02:35:13,420
And don't let me get a flat tire on a pothole on Debbie, right?

1648
02:35:14,160 --> 02:35:20,040
And so we went through what the balance of those were.

1649
02:35:20,420 --> 02:35:26,440
And it's interesting when I look at the, I know we're not proposing to accept the known revenue rate.

1650
02:35:26,440 --> 02:35:34,740
I appreciate that you dropped us a full penny from the last time, but in the actual ordinance,

1651
02:35:36,000 --> 02:35:42,560
the line-up says that this tax rate will raise more taxes from maintenance and operations than last year's tax rate.

1652
02:35:42,760 --> 02:35:47,140
That tax rate will effectively be raised by 1.18%.

1653
02:35:48,180 --> 02:35:50,580
So we're in a 7% inflationary environment.

1654
02:35:53,820 --> 02:36:02,800
And all of the pieces in there and maintenance and operation side were 1.18% increase to be able to.

1655
02:36:03,220 --> 02:36:09,800
You talked about we increased the street maintenance budget 15%, which is after a year of raising it by over a million dollars.

1656
02:36:11,440 --> 02:36:19,480
And then everything else is going to pay down aggressively debt so that we can create funding capacity, get rid of high interest debt.

1657
02:36:19,480 --> 02:36:31,400
to then be able to issue new debt at our triple A bond ratings now to be able to fund more street projects and road projects both this year and in future years.

1658
02:36:32,100 --> 02:36:37,700
And so what I had to weigh out as we looked at this is no new revenue versus the proposed rate.

1659
02:36:38,360 --> 02:36:44,720
It's not a substantial difference to the average, I get every penny counts, I get that.

1660
02:36:44,720 --> 02:36:51,180
But if I were to ask the majority of Mansfield residents, would you like to save this $1 amount, which is a relatively minor?

1661
02:36:51,780 --> 02:36:53,680
Or would you rather fix broad in 360?

1662
02:36:54,420 --> 02:37:02,300
I think the vast majority of Mansfield residents would say I'd rather pay a little bit more and get our roads and streets and infrastructure ahead.

1663
02:37:04,620 --> 02:37:15,610
So, when we look at this chart, you can see that this council and the council before have been aggressively after 20 years of not changing the tax policy as 71 cents.

1664
02:37:15,610 --> 02:37:19,730
and no homestead exemption, we're not at 14% homestead exemption.

1665
02:37:20,130 --> 02:37:28,350
The rate has fallen now seven cents almost and I don't see that policy slowing down.

1666
02:37:28,430 --> 02:37:33,210
That's going to continue as we offset even rising appraisal ties.

1667
02:37:33,450 --> 02:37:40,610
So I just wanted to give Kudos to your staff again and just kind of give my perspective as how we've started this process all the way through.

1668
02:37:41,470 --> 02:37:45,190
It's great to be able to say, yeah, no new revenue but what does that mean to the city?

1669
02:37:45,190 --> 02:37:49,450
It means that the police don't get raises, it means we can't increase the funding that we do on streets.

1670
02:37:49,530 --> 02:37:54,810
It means we're delaying purchasing new vehicles or equipment for our first responders.

1671
02:37:55,330 --> 02:37:59,330
Those aren't the things that Mansfield's known for either, so great job.

1672
02:37:59,870 --> 02:38:00,230
Thank you.

1673
02:38:00,530 --> 02:38:01,850
Good job, very well said.

1674
02:38:02,490 --> 02:38:04,510
One else, Mr. Newsom?

1675
02:38:05,310 --> 02:38:07,050
Yeah, thank you Troy for the presentation.

1676
02:38:07,670 --> 02:38:11,010
You know what, I think overall it's a very good budget.

1677
02:38:11,010 --> 02:38:17,670
I mean, there's still other things we would like to see different little pieces here, little pieces there, yeah, for sure.

1678
02:38:18,390 --> 02:38:26,490
I mean, my goal has elected is continue to see that tax rate come down and increasing that homestead exemption.

1679
02:38:26,510 --> 02:38:36,790
And then also making sure that we continue to look to increase our employees, whether it's from the parks department to the fire department to our police department.

1680
02:38:36,790 --> 02:38:44,810
We're just making sure that we have a good solid balancing act, which I think this budget overall does a very good job of accomplishing.

1681
02:38:45,770 --> 02:38:47,030
So thank you for your time.

1682
02:38:47,490 --> 02:38:59,430
I still think we have plenty of work that we can continue to do, but I have where confidence that between staff will be able to continue to lower that tax rate and that increase that homestead exemption.

1683
02:38:59,670 --> 02:39:00,150
So thank you.

1684
02:39:00,610 --> 02:39:00,890
Thank you.

1685
02:39:01,390 --> 02:39:01,970
All right, good job.

1686
02:39:02,630 --> 02:39:04,430
All right, anyone else to my left?

1687
02:39:06,630 --> 02:39:07,050
All right.

1688
02:39:07,050 --> 02:39:09,050
All right, Ms. Lucina, good job.

1689
02:39:10,470 --> 02:39:19,130
All right, so I will continue the public hearing at 8.18 p.m.

1690
02:39:19,630 --> 02:39:22,330
Do I have any cards, ma'am, for this particular item?

1691
02:39:22,810 --> 02:39:23,830
All right, now for this one.

1692
02:39:23,950 --> 02:39:29,310
All right, well then I will close the public hearing at 8.18 p.m.

1693
02:39:29,850 --> 02:39:30,510
Thank you very much.

1694
02:39:30,630 --> 02:39:33,110
Council just to be reminded we will act on this

1695
02:39:33,110 --> 02:39:33,990
under new business.

1696
02:39:34,750 --> 02:39:36,270
All right, moving right along.

1697
02:39:36,270 --> 02:39:45,450
to item 23-5546, and again, the presentation has been given, and I will read this public hearing.

1698
02:39:45,590 --> 02:39:49,070
Public hearing continuation, second and final reading on the tax rate,

1699
02:39:49,150 --> 02:40:00,990
leaving the Adelorm Taxes for the fiscal year 2024 at rate of 0.659293 per $100 assessed valuation

1700
02:40:00,990 --> 02:40:08,350
and bless you on all tax full property within the corporate limits of the city as of January 1, 2023.

1701
02:40:08,750 --> 02:40:14,090
To provide revenues for the payment of current expenditures as to provide an interest and

1702
02:40:14,090 --> 02:40:22,990
sinking fund on an outstanding debt of the city and providing for due and delinquent dates together

1703
02:40:22,990 --> 02:40:30,470
with penalties and interest. All right, I will continue the public hearing

1704
02:40:30,470 --> 02:40:41,810
at 819 p.m. and I believe we have one court here in that regard. And I'll call Mr. Tom Corbin.

1705
02:40:42,250 --> 02:40:48,410
Judge Corbin, all right. And you have five minutes, sir. Please state your name and your

1706
02:40:48,410 --> 02:40:55,310
address yet. Honorable Mayor, City Council of Persons, my name is Tom Corbin.

1707
02:40:58,270 --> 02:40:58,870
Post all

1708
02:40:58,870 --> 02:41:00,510
I am a resident of Mansfield.

1709
02:41:02,770 --> 02:41:07,330
Each year I come and ask the same question I believe and so Troy is probably ready for

1710
02:41:07,330 --> 02:41:07,570
it.

1711
02:41:09,230 --> 02:41:14,190
And I'm sure he may have covered that already, but this is a technical area when you compare

1712
02:41:14,190 --> 02:41:18,330
a praised values which continue to grow up everywhere in Texas.

1713
02:41:19,310 --> 02:41:25,950
And as a little background, probably five or six years ago, there was a public hearing put

1714
02:41:25,950 --> 02:41:31,030
gone by the state of Texas at the University of Texas at Arlington, there were representatives

1715
02:41:31,030 --> 02:41:36,950
of the city there, there were a number of typical citizens, and there were another number

1716
02:41:36,950 --> 02:41:41,910
of citizens that are barely making it because of the bad but warm taxes.

1717
02:41:43,090 --> 02:41:48,250
And as we know from most of us have been here in Texas for a while, that is the major source

1718
02:41:48,250 --> 02:41:53,210
of income that we run our state off of because we don't have an income tax.

1719
02:41:53,210 --> 02:42:00,550
And I'm not up here advocating for income tax, but nonetheless, the legislature passed

1720
02:42:01,410 --> 02:42:09,230
a law that has to deal with a cap on the growth of appraisals and revenue for the city.

1721
02:42:09,930 --> 02:42:15,230
What that cap is, and each year I ask where we fall under that cap.

1722
02:42:16,050 --> 02:42:20,130
And if Troy is prepared to tell us that tonight, that's your direction.

1723
02:42:21,670 --> 02:42:26,650
I'm willing to hear it, or if we need to meet later on, I can't find you that.

1724
02:42:27,050 --> 02:42:27,930
Now we can let him do that.

1725
02:42:30,510 --> 02:42:39,810
So the majority of the residential properties were at the 10% cap, commercial properties

1726
02:42:39,810 --> 02:42:41,710
don't have a cap on them.

1727
02:42:42,170 --> 02:42:45,090
The majority of residential properties were at the 10% cap.

1728
02:42:46,310 --> 02:42:51,470
But as you'll hear, Mr. Lewis kind of referred to it when we get to the motion on the tax

1729
02:42:51,470 --> 02:42:57,930
rate, we're not raising our taxes, which is going to be generated this year versus last year.

1730
02:42:58,430 --> 02:43:02,970
It was 1.8% is what we're going.

1731
02:43:03,410 --> 02:43:10,830
We know inflation has been in double digits in some months and so that's why we proposed

1732
02:43:11,210 --> 02:43:18,970
the rate that we did the 6, 5, 9, 2, 9, 3, just a 1% increase, 1.8% increase.

1733
02:43:19,690 --> 02:43:25,170
I wonder if we're talking about the same law a few years ago, it was about 4 percent.

1734
02:43:25,450 --> 02:43:26,930
Now, this is not necessarily the rate.

1735
02:43:27,030 --> 02:43:30,690
It's the revenue that's about a 4 percent cap, 3.5 percent.

1736
02:43:30,690 --> 02:43:34,830
Okay, so I apologize, Mr. Corbyn, so you're talking about the SB2.

1737
02:43:35,810 --> 02:43:38,250
So SB2, that's code, what does that mean?

1738
02:43:38,830 --> 02:43:40,110
That was a Senate bill.

1739
02:43:40,370 --> 02:43:41,490
That's the Senate bill, yes, sir.

1740
02:43:41,730 --> 02:43:43,750
That was the Senate bill, too, that was passed.

1741
02:43:43,750 --> 02:43:52,950
Prior to that, it said in the form, the TNT form, the Truth and Taxation form, which is on our website, we'll get you a copy of that.

1742
02:43:54,390 --> 02:44:00,950
Before 2020, cities could raise their rate 8%, up to 8%.

1743
02:44:02,330 --> 02:44:05,730
SB2 lowered that to 3.5%.

1744
02:44:05,730 --> 02:44:08,550
And so we're at that 1.8%.

1745
02:44:08,550 --> 02:44:13,130
So we're under the three-and-a-half that state all allows.

1746
02:44:14,350 --> 02:44:18,470
Do you know off the top of your head, how far under that 3.5 we are?

1747
02:44:19,850 --> 02:44:20,990
Almost six cents.

1748
02:44:22,010 --> 02:44:22,930
Okay, all right.

1749
02:44:24,250 --> 02:44:26,270
That's the section I was looking for.

1750
02:44:26,450 --> 02:44:28,130
We are under that, of course.

1751
02:44:28,490 --> 02:44:29,030
Oh, yes, sir.

1752
02:44:29,350 --> 02:44:31,870
I know we are. You wouldn't bring it to us.

1753
02:44:31,970 --> 02:44:35,410
But this is a very technical area for any citizen to understand with that.

1754
02:44:36,370 --> 02:44:37,270
Getting into it.

1755
02:44:37,270 --> 02:44:42,810
It is very technical and that truth in taxation form, which I refer to in my presentation

1756
02:44:43,950 --> 02:44:49,710
Taxicessor collector Miss Burgess office prepares those for us, but yes, it's on our website

1757
02:44:49,710 --> 02:44:56,830
It's on her website and I will be happy to give you a copy of that. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. That was four minutes

1758
02:45:05,460 --> 02:45:16,080
All right. Thank you very much. All right. Seeing no other cards, I will close the public hearing at 8.24 p.m.

1759
02:45:18,220 --> 02:45:30,820
Thank you very much. I'll move now to item 19 under New Business, item 23-5570. It's an ordinance, consideration, and approval of an ordinance adopting the budget.

1760
02:45:30,820 --> 02:45:38,940
of fiscal year beginning, October 1, 2023, and ending September 30th, 2024, in

1761
02:45:38,940 --> 02:45:44,040
accordance with the charter of the City of Mansfield and making appropriations

1762
02:45:44,040 --> 02:45:46,900
for each fund and department.

1763
02:45:48,520 --> 02:45:50,880
All right, there's Dylan, I'll call for the motion.

1764
02:45:51,380 --> 02:45:52,500
Motion chair approved.

1765
02:45:52,860 --> 02:45:55,760
Thank you, Miss Short, and I heard a second, I believe, I'm Mr. Brock.

1766
02:45:56,220 --> 02:45:57,080
Thank you, sir.

1767
02:45:57,080 --> 02:45:57,640
There are questions.

1768
02:45:59,540 --> 02:46:01,160
Earing non-please-gash votes,

1769
02:46:04,950 --> 02:46:07,010
all right, the motion carries 7-0.

1770
02:46:07,350 --> 02:46:08,150
Thank you very much.

1771
02:46:08,910 --> 02:46:12,570
All right, item 23-5571.

1772
02:46:12,970 --> 02:46:16,990
Yes, the apologies to interrupt, but there's some technical language that has to be read

1773
02:46:16,990 --> 02:46:20,070
with that motion, can remove to a different one until they can provide that.

1774
02:46:20,350 --> 02:46:22,530
In fact, I've got one other item.

1775
02:46:23,070 --> 02:46:26,230
On the budget, we have to take one more vote.

1776
02:46:27,210 --> 02:46:31,110
There's specifically state law requires a vote that would read such as this.

1777
02:46:31,570 --> 02:46:35,090
Motion to ratify the property tax increase reflected in the budget.

1778
02:46:35,570 --> 02:46:40,990
Again, as is required by the state law, it doesn't change what the budget actually does,

1779
02:46:41,110 --> 02:46:45,650
which is everything that Mr. Listina just described and presented to you.

1780
02:46:45,930 --> 02:46:49,010
But because the budget does have that 1.18% increase,

1781
02:46:49,610 --> 02:46:53,450
the state law requires that that additional motion be made and approved by council.

1782
02:46:53,450 --> 02:47:00,290
Okay. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Got that, ma'am. All right. Ms. Short.

1783
02:47:01,590 --> 02:47:09,310
I'd like to make a motion to ratify the property tax increase as stated in the budget. Appreciate you, ma'am. All right.

1784
02:47:09,450 --> 02:47:17,710
We've seconded that. Thank you, Mr. Brush. All right. In additional questions. All right. Hearing none, please can't vote.

1785
02:47:20,660 --> 02:47:23,980
Again, 7-0, the motion carries.

1786
02:47:24,640 --> 02:47:25,720
All right, thank you very much.

1787
02:47:25,920 --> 02:47:26,160
Be good?

1788
02:47:26,740 --> 02:47:27,400
All right.

1789
02:47:27,920 --> 02:47:28,600
All right.

1790
02:47:28,940 --> 02:47:34,240
Item 23-5571, it is an ordinance of the City of Mansfield, Texas levee-

1791
02:47:34,240 --> 02:47:44,120
leveeying, the Advalorum Taxes for Fiscal Year 2024, the rate of 0.659293 per $100,

1792
02:47:44,780 --> 02:47:50,640
assess valuation on all taxable property within the corporate limits of the city.

1793
02:47:50,640 --> 02:47:56,700
As of January 1, 2023, to provide revenues for the payment of current expended

1794
02:47:56,700 --> 02:48:03,020
chores and to provide an interest and sinking fund on all outstanding debts of the city

1795
02:48:03,020 --> 02:48:08,440
and providing for due and delinquent dates together with penalties and interest.

1796
02:48:09,080 --> 02:48:10,520
Call for the motion there.

1797
02:48:10,980 --> 02:48:11,820
Most to approve.

1798
02:48:12,220 --> 02:48:13,020
Thank you, Mr. Brown.

1799
02:48:13,120 --> 02:48:16,700
There has to be specific language choice getting it to us right now.

1800
02:48:16,700 --> 02:48:25,160
All right, Mr. Brosch, would you like to withdraw that motion and then we'll get the official motion on the record in just a moment?

1801
02:48:25,360 --> 02:48:26,420
Yes, sir. I can withdraw.

1802
02:48:27,520 --> 02:48:28,860
Okay, we need a second.

1803
02:48:29,560 --> 02:48:30,800
We'll need a second. We're good.

1804
02:48:42,320 --> 02:48:43,620
I'm down on the other end.

1805
02:48:56,500 --> 02:49:06,600
Okay, Mayor, I would like to move this tax rate or raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year's tax rate.

1806
02:49:06,600 --> 02:49:22,740
The tax rate will effectively be raised by 1.18% and will raise taxes for maintenance operations on a $100,000 home by approximately $28.27.

1807
02:49:23,420 --> 02:49:24,640
Thank you, sir.

1808
02:49:25,360 --> 02:49:26,300
There's second.

1809
02:49:27,520 --> 02:49:28,480
Second.

1810
02:49:29,240 --> 02:49:29,800
Thank you, ma'am.

1811
02:49:30,740 --> 02:49:30,960
All right.

1812
02:49:35,650 --> 02:49:37,550
Yes, sir, go ahead.

1813
02:49:38,190 --> 02:49:42,150
There is another statement that we need to include with the motion.

1814
02:49:42,530 --> 02:49:43,070
My apologies.

1815
02:50:11,920 --> 02:50:16,540
Mayer, I move that the statement that I just may be approved.

1816
02:50:19,010 --> 02:50:19,330
All right.

1817
02:50:19,950 --> 02:50:21,270
Read the additional.

1818
02:50:28,520 --> 02:50:29,380
You're all right.

1819
02:50:29,640 --> 02:50:34,940
I need to, I'll remove the previous motion, and this is reread it.

1820
02:50:34,940 --> 02:50:36,100
It will be easier.

1821
02:50:36,840 --> 02:50:37,060
All right.

1822
02:50:38,900 --> 02:50:40,420
So there you go.

1823
02:50:47,150 --> 02:50:55,350
So Mayor, I move that the property tax be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 0.659,

1824
02:50:55,570 --> 02:51:09,870
well, yes, 0.659293 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, which is effectively an 8.29% increase in the tax rate.

1825
02:51:10,550 --> 02:51:15,630
Demonstrating the City Council is of the opinion that the tax rate here and after

1826
02:51:15,630 --> 02:51:18,570
set forth as proper and should be approved and adopted.

1827
02:51:20,580 --> 02:51:23,780
All righty, that was second.

1828
02:51:24,640 --> 02:51:26,500
Miss short, you're a trooper, I tell you.

1829
02:51:27,060 --> 02:51:30,460
All right, motion and a second, any statements?

1830
02:51:30,960 --> 02:51:32,840
Mayor, that checks all the boxes, it's perfect.

1831
02:51:33,200 --> 02:51:35,160
All right, touchdown.

1832
02:51:36,320 --> 02:51:38,460
All right, any questions?

1833
02:51:38,460 --> 02:51:54,320
hearing cash evokes. There you go. Emotion carries 7-0. All righty then. I know 23-5-5-8-5.

1834
02:51:55,100 --> 02:51:59,340
Resolution to approve an economic development and performance agreement between

1835
02:51:59,920 --> 02:52:04,980
Mansfield Economic Development Corporation and EMR Development Corporation and Carlton

1836
02:52:04,980 --> 02:52:07,900
and development, L-T-D, and authorize the Board.

1837
02:52:08,020 --> 02:52:11,520
President, to execute the agreement, Mr. Moore.

1838
02:52:12,040 --> 02:52:12,940
Thank you, Mayor Counsel.

1839
02:52:13,720 --> 02:52:17,780
This is the Campbell development that's being developed by Kim McCaslin, her team,

1840
02:52:18,000 --> 02:52:20,400
just south of the Julian off the toll road 360.

1841
02:52:21,380 --> 02:52:26,580
There's an additional expenditure with the improvement to Harmon Road as required by

1842
02:52:26,580 --> 02:52:30,200
the development codes as they develop a mixed use project.

1843
02:52:30,620 --> 02:52:32,960
Since there is a commercial component to this,

1844
02:52:32,960 --> 02:52:37,120
This MEDC does have the ability to participate in those infrastructure projects and that's

1845
02:52:37,120 --> 02:52:38,460
what this agreement contemplates.

1846
02:52:38,980 --> 02:52:43,560
We met with the MEDC board on September 5th and they voted 60 for approval.

1847
02:52:44,240 --> 02:52:54,000
This agreement does cap the expenditure at 323,400 or the actual cost, the lesser of the two

1848
02:52:54,000 --> 02:52:55,580
of Harmon Road improvements.

1849
02:52:56,180 --> 02:53:01,960
50% would be paid upon commencement of the vertical construction of the commercial component

1850
02:53:01,960 --> 02:53:04,900
and then the 50% upon certificate of occupancy.

1851
02:53:05,880 --> 02:53:08,840
Happy to answer any questions, and the developer is here as well.

1852
02:53:09,600 --> 02:53:10,400
All right.

1853
02:53:11,300 --> 02:53:12,260
Any questions?

1854
02:53:12,740 --> 02:53:13,260
Still my right.

1855
02:53:15,240 --> 02:53:15,580
Yes.

1856
02:53:16,060 --> 02:53:17,160
You're just going to have Mr. Nusom.

1857
02:53:18,560 --> 02:53:21,740
Generally speaking, this would have been on our third fair plan anyway.

1858
02:53:22,420 --> 02:53:23,060
Is that correct?

1859
02:53:23,420 --> 02:53:23,740
This road?

1860
02:53:24,480 --> 02:53:24,960
Yes.

1861
02:53:25,680 --> 02:53:30,600
And you know, approximately how soon this is moving that up in that time frame?

1862
02:53:31,460 --> 02:53:34,340
It was raining, you know, the answer to that.

1863
02:53:34,720 --> 02:53:37,960
Well, it's definitely over five years, it's not on our five year current plan.

1864
02:53:38,620 --> 02:53:44,060
So it's not on a current five year schedule, so can tell you an exact date, but at least five years.

1865
02:53:44,320 --> 02:53:50,600
But it does add additional access to, like say, 360 as far as an access road.

1866
02:53:51,160 --> 02:53:51,420
Correct.

1867
02:53:51,680 --> 02:53:52,420
Yes, okay.

1868
02:53:53,780 --> 02:53:54,940
This person's track.

1869
02:53:55,520 --> 02:53:56,660
All right, anybody else?

1870
02:53:56,660 --> 02:53:59,340
to my right, to my left.

1871
02:54:00,640 --> 02:54:01,480
You're about to go.

1872
02:54:02,060 --> 02:54:02,840
All right.

1873
02:54:03,520 --> 02:54:05,580
Prepare to receive a motion at this time.

1874
02:54:06,680 --> 02:54:07,500
Move to approve.

1875
02:54:07,800 --> 02:54:08,460
Thank you, ma'am.

1876
02:54:10,170 --> 02:54:11,210
Is there a second?

1877
02:54:12,310 --> 02:54:12,870
Y'all second.

1878
02:54:13,350 --> 02:54:14,050
Thank you, sir.

1879
02:54:14,630 --> 02:54:15,430
Mr. Janore.

1880
02:54:16,110 --> 02:54:16,410
All right.

1881
02:54:17,650 --> 02:54:19,130
Please cash to both.

1882
02:54:19,330 --> 02:54:20,850
There are no questions for the questions.

1883
02:54:21,090 --> 02:54:21,570
Cash to vote.

1884
02:54:23,430 --> 02:54:24,270
All right.

1885
02:54:24,270 --> 02:54:27,650
All right, and that item carries five, two.

1886
02:54:28,490 --> 02:54:29,730
Thank you very much.

1887
02:54:30,610 --> 02:54:33,710
All right, now we're at board appointments.

1888
02:54:34,750 --> 02:54:45,070
Item 23-553, board appointments, Mansfield Park Facilities Development Corporation, and I'll call for a motion, Mr. Luce.

1889
02:54:46,010 --> 02:54:54,050
Yes, Mr. Mayor, with regards to the Mansfield Park Facility Development Corporation, I make a motion to reappoint Scott.

1890
02:54:54,050 --> 02:55:19,230
Bob Bowman, Lindsey Kadenhead, and Bob Kowalski to serve a two year term, also to appoint Shelley Isbell to a full time director position for a two year term, and also a point Melinda Nappenberger as an alternate for a two year term, and also to appoint Scott Bowman as Chair of the slash president.

1891
02:55:19,230 --> 02:55:21,090
Thank you, sir.

1892
02:55:21,610 --> 02:55:22,350
Is there a second?

1893
02:55:22,650 --> 02:55:22,910
Second.

1894
02:55:23,350 --> 02:55:24,110
Thank you, ma'am.

1895
02:55:24,990 --> 02:55:26,490
Questions hearing on?

1896
02:55:27,030 --> 02:55:28,190
Please cast your votes.

1897
02:55:29,830 --> 02:55:31,590
Item care is 7-0.

1898
02:55:32,310 --> 02:55:36,610
All right, item 23-555-4 is Board Appointments,

1899
02:55:36,970 --> 02:55:40,130
Manswell Economic Development Corporation, Ms. Schulte.

1900
02:55:40,790 --> 02:55:43,290
Yes, Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to reappoint

1901
02:55:43,290 --> 02:55:46,570
Juan Fresquez, Todd Simmons, and Nicole Zatun

1902
02:55:46,570 --> 02:55:47,990
to serve a two-year term.

1903
02:55:47,990 --> 02:55:55,210
Point Jim Vashasquez to serve a two-year term and a point David Godden as chair slash president.

1904
02:55:55,710 --> 02:55:56,950
Thank you, ma'am.

1905
02:55:57,330 --> 02:55:58,090
Is there a second?

1906
02:55:59,430 --> 02:55:59,930
A second.

1907
02:56:00,510 --> 02:56:02,430
All right, I believe Mr. Brosh won that.

1908
02:56:03,230 --> 02:56:03,570
All right.

1909
02:56:03,870 --> 02:56:04,430
Questions?

1910
02:56:04,730 --> 02:56:05,090
Hearing none.

1911
02:56:05,310 --> 02:56:06,190
Please cast your votes.

1912
02:56:09,840 --> 02:56:11,300
Item Carrier 7-0.

1913
02:56:11,600 --> 02:56:15,240
Item 23-5-5-5-5-5.

1914
02:56:15,400 --> 02:56:16,040
All right.

1915
02:56:16,040 --> 02:56:20,600
That's the planning and zoning commission board appointments, Mr. Brosh.

1916
02:56:21,280 --> 02:56:22,280
That's not in there.

1917
02:56:22,540 --> 02:56:23,800
I'm sorry, Ms. Bounds.

1918
02:56:25,020 --> 02:56:31,440
I'd like to read a point like Axon, Michael Bennett, Patrick Moses to a two-year term,

1919
02:56:31,980 --> 02:56:33,960
and a point Michael Maynard as Chair.

1920
02:56:35,400 --> 02:56:36,860
All right, is there a second?

1921
02:56:37,760 --> 02:56:38,340
Thank you, ma'am.

1922
02:56:38,800 --> 02:56:39,560
I'm sure it's second that.

1923
02:56:40,040 --> 02:56:42,940
Questions, hearing none, please cast a vote.

1924
02:56:47,300 --> 02:56:50,460
And then item carries 7-0.

1925
02:56:50,740 --> 02:56:57,980
All right, item 23-5-5-6, and board appointments, zoning board of adjustments.

1926
02:56:58,280 --> 02:56:59,080
Is that Mr. Brock?

1927
02:56:59,860 --> 02:57:00,880
All right, Mr. Brock.

1928
02:57:01,300 --> 02:57:07,040
Mayor, I move to reappoint Edith Lisa, Martin, and Noel Rendon to serve a two-year term,

1929
02:57:07,460 --> 02:57:11,700
and appoint Kat Watan as an alternate to serve a two-year term.

1930
02:57:12,240 --> 02:57:12,820
Thank you, sir.

1931
02:57:13,240 --> 02:57:13,420
Second.

1932
02:57:13,900 --> 02:57:16,080
All right, make sure it's getting all the seconds here.

1933
02:57:16,080 --> 02:57:20,920
All right, and of course hearing now, please catch your votes.

1934
02:57:21,840 --> 02:57:25,040
All right, 7-0, that motion carries.

1935
02:57:25,580 --> 02:57:28,380
Item 23-557.

1936
02:57:28,680 --> 02:57:32,700
Board appointments, as the HLC historic landmark commission.

1937
02:57:32,860 --> 02:57:33,440
Mr. Norton.

1938
02:57:34,420 --> 02:57:38,980
Yeah, Mayor, I'd like to move to a real point, Robert Smith, to serve a two-year term,

1939
02:57:39,280 --> 02:57:43,700
a point NYDAC, and Jennifer Johnston to serve a two-year term.

1940
02:57:43,700 --> 02:57:44,760
second.

1941
02:57:47,240 --> 02:57:49,280
Second. Second. Second. All right. All right. All hang on. It's called

1942
02:57:49,280 --> 02:57:54,460
midshort. All right. There's Ms. Bounds. This time. Thank you. All right?

1943
02:57:54,680 --> 02:58:05,540
Any questions? Hearing none. That item carries seven, zero. All right. Item 23-555

1944
02:58:05,540 --> 02:58:12,420
8 board appointments historic preservation advisory board. Yes, Mr. Mayor. I'd like

1945
02:58:12,420 --> 02:58:15,700
I'd like to make, excuse me, a motion to reappoint

1946
02:58:15,700 --> 02:58:20,120
Crystal Hahn and Marty Thomas to serve a two-year term.

1947
02:58:20,560 --> 02:58:21,080
All right.

1948
02:58:21,320 --> 02:58:21,820
There's second.

1949
02:58:22,240 --> 02:58:22,520
Second.

1950
02:58:23,420 --> 02:58:24,040
All right.

1951
02:58:25,220 --> 02:58:27,040
I'm going to give it to Mr. Brock.

1952
02:58:27,280 --> 02:58:27,620
All right.

1953
02:58:27,820 --> 02:58:28,200
Thank you.

1954
02:58:28,560 --> 02:58:29,060
Question.

1955
02:58:29,960 --> 02:58:30,340
All right.

1956
02:58:30,860 --> 02:58:31,960
Please cast votes.

1957
02:58:35,870 --> 02:58:36,890
7-0.

1958
02:58:37,650 --> 02:58:37,890
All right.

1959
02:58:38,010 --> 02:58:40,610
Item 23-5-5-9.

1960
02:58:41,130 --> 02:58:42,270
Board appointments.

1961
02:58:42,690 --> 02:58:44,590
Library advisory board.

1962
02:58:45,370 --> 02:58:50,750
Yes, I'd like to re-appoint Richard Aginicoco, Debra Collins, Cynthia Gray, and Bobby Quintin

1963
02:58:50,750 --> 02:58:56,770
to serve a two-year term and appoint Lee Ann Osborne to fill an unexpired one-year term.

1964
02:58:57,570 --> 02:58:57,910
All right.

1965
02:58:58,350 --> 02:58:59,210
There's a second.

1966
02:58:59,470 --> 02:58:59,650
Second.

1967
02:59:00,370 --> 02:59:01,410
All right, Mr. News.

1968
02:59:01,910 --> 02:59:02,710
Thank you.

1969
02:59:02,890 --> 02:59:03,350
Questions?

1970
02:59:05,730 --> 02:59:06,770
I ask your votes.

1971
02:59:12,300 --> 02:59:14,440
All right, then I'm Carey 7-0.

1972
02:59:14,800 --> 02:59:20,720
All right, item 23-556-0 board appointments keep Mansfield beautiful commissions.

1973
02:59:20,720 --> 02:59:28,260
Mr. Mayor, I'd like to reappoint Alex Godina and Lisa Kamez to serve a two-year term,

1974
02:59:28,620 --> 02:59:31,280
appoint Stacey Penny to serve a two-year term.

1975
02:59:32,780 --> 02:59:34,080
All right, second.

1976
02:59:34,840 --> 02:59:35,420
Second.

1977
02:59:36,340 --> 02:59:39,080
All right, Mr. Brush, questions.

1978
02:59:40,300 --> 02:59:41,300
Here we go.

1979
02:59:46,040 --> 02:59:49,120
All right, then item Carrey 7-0.

1980
02:59:49,580 --> 02:59:53,960
All right, board appointments, construction, code, board of adjustment and

1981
02:59:55,440 --> 02:59:59,680
Appeals, I'd go ahead and just like to make a motion to re-appoint Justin Gilmore, Kenneth

1982
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:29,800
Not in Bobby Tudor to serve a two-year term, and to a point, can it make night to serve a two-year term? All right. All right. Mr. Newsom, can I ask you votes? There are no questions. Motion to adjourn. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Let me call. Seven, seven. Look, look, look at there. Seven, zero. Okay. Now, miss short. Go ahead. Second. All right. Miss short. Be there. Everybody again. Who second of that?

1983
03:00:29,800 --> 03:00:35,540
That was it. Newsom. All righty. Happy day. All right. Okay. We'll say Casey. All right.

1984
03:00:35,660 --> 03:00:44,400
Carried 7-0 and we'll adjourn at 839 p.m. y'all have a great evening. Yes, ma'am.