[1:01] 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

[1:30] session from time to time is deemed necessary during this meeting or any posted agenda item to receive

[1:38] advice from its attorney as permitted by the law to discuss following pending or contemplated

[1:43] litigation or to seek the advice of the City Attorney, pursuant to Section 551.0071, seek the

[1:50] advice of City Attorney regarding pending litigation, calls numbers 352-3424443-233,

[1:58] 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.

[2:28] Section 551.072, Land Acquisition for Future Development.

[2:33] Personnel matters pursuant to Section 551.074, Board of Pointments.

[2:38] Deliberation regarding commercial or financial information received from or the offer

[2:43] of a financial or other incentives made to a business prospect seeking to locate

[2:49] state or expand in or near the territory of the city with which the city is conducting

[2:54] economic development negotiations, pursuant to Section 551-087,

[3:00] economic development projects 22-23, 23-08, 23-1, 1, and 23-1, 3.

[3:09] The council will now recess into executive session at 303 p.m.

[7:12] We're going to reconvene at 339, and we'll start with our discussion

[7:19] regarding the draft Mansfield 2040 future land use plan at this time.

[7:27] Thank you Honorable Mayor, good afternoon city council.

[7:31] We have freezing nickels with us this afternoon to go over a draft version of

[7:36] the Mansfield 2040 plan, which is also our future land use plan.

[7:41] I will pause here and turn it over to Mr. Daniel Harrison to lead us further in that discussion.

[7:53] Thank you, Council, for having us here today.

[7:55] We're honored to be here to talk about the future Laney's plan and we'll go ahead and

[8:00] jump on into it.

[8:03] So what would I like to do?

[8:05] My name is Daniel Harrison.

[8:07] I work for a company called Freeze and Nichols and with me today is Erica Craigcraft and also

[8:11] Connor Roberts.

[8:12] We've been critical and putting together your draft free and we've seen several of you at

[8:16] the different meetings working through the Conference of Plan Steering Committee.

[8:19] other members of our team, Kaitlyn, working on our special planning areas,

[8:24] working on different details for downtown and our other areas.

[8:29] We'll take a look at here in just a minute, and then some of our other members of the team.

[8:33] So what we'd like to do is walk you through the planning process real quick,

[8:37] and then we'll take you through the mission statement and the guiding principles.

[8:40] We'll look at the future lane use plan, the special area plans,

[8:44] and then we'll talk about next steps.

[8:45] So, real quick, where we are in the process, we started back in February.

[8:50] That was where we were collecting our initial input and then in March through May, we were

[8:55] working with the steering committee to propose concepts based upon that input.

[9:01] June through October, we've been working to draft and review the plan with the steering

[9:07] committee.

[9:08] In October here, we're collecting more community feedback now that we've had a draft.

[9:13] And now we are moving closer to November revising the plan and still shooting for December for that adoption date.

[9:23] So we can have that done before the end of the year.

[9:27] Wanna do a few highlights here, open the open house, our first open house that we had was back in February 2023.

[9:34] We had approximately 43 people in attendance, there's a few photos that you can see from that meeting.

[9:39] We also had an online component available for a couple of weeks for people to participate

[9:44] as well and to collect their input.

[9:48] Our citizen planning steering committee, very important to the process, it serves as

[9:54] our sounding board to identify ideas and to talk about the details.

[9:58] And they're a really great group of citizens to work with to really talk about the key issues.

[10:04] We've had six meetings so far, and we have one final meeting later this month to discuss final changes.

[10:12] Other engagements that we've had, we had seven special area plans, stakeholder focus group,

[10:18] interviews where we met with different stakeholders to discuss different areas of the city.

[10:23] If you remember, we had the February 24th Council retreat, we had that workshop where we were in Waco,

[10:29] We also have the open house, virtual open house number two.

[10:34] That's going to be upcoming here in a little bit.

[10:39] Here's a little bit about how that schedule looks.

[10:41] Of course, we are here today.

[10:43] We're tentatively looking at October 5th to have another meeting with the Conference of Plan Steering Committee.

[10:51] And then that open house will occur at the end of October, beginning of November,

[10:55] before having another joint workshop with you and the PNZ.

[10:59] 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.

[11:10] So when we talk about the mission and vision statement, or the mission statement, you guys had already established the mission statement.

[11:17] So one of the key things that we wanted to focus on, the guiding principles that we have here in the plan,

[11:23] And look at the mission statement to deliver adaptive plan that embodies sustainable

[11:28] lane use practices and results in a community that is highly regarded for its elevated quality of life.

[11:34] Protection of the built natural environment and an inclusive future for all.

[11:39] So we have those guiding principles right there that were outlined.

[11:44] And so we could sort of take a look when we get into our future lane use plan strategies and

[11:49] the special area plan strategies.

[11:50] We can look back and are we touching on what you guys had in the mission statement and we're

[11:55] making sure that everything that we're doing is pointing back to the guiding principles

[11:59] and the mission statement and then also the true North concepts that are that the city

[12:04] has as adopted.

[12:06] So this is just a little hierarchy chart that you could sort of see sort of like if we

[12:10] want to call this a waterfall diagram the true North principles on the top flowing into

[12:16] our mission and guiding principles for the conference of plan are for the future land use plan.

[12:22] Then when you get into the plan itself, it's divided into two areas.

[12:25] We have the land use section, which we touch on neighborhoods and housing,

[12:31] mixed use, parks and open space, retail environment.

[12:35] And then we have goals for each one of those and then we have strategies and

[12:38] actions that fall under those.

[12:40] And then when we move over to our special areas, we have downtown,

[12:43] 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.

[12:59] 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.

[13:07] Here is the map itself, the future lane use map, and so you can see we have our different lane use categories.

[13:14] We'll take a look at what each one of these means and what each one of those colors mean.

[13:18] But you could sort of see how the city is mapped out.

[13:21] So in our first one, a state residential, this is more for our rural areas.

[13:25] As these transition from agricultural uses to more developed, there's supposed to be more rural in nature.

[13:32] 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.

[13:49] I then move into our suburban residential and this is our traditional housing stock that we have in the community.

[13:55] You can see we have a little part of the compass here.

[13:59] If we look at the city as a whole at build out, we'd say this is about 85% residential, 15% non-residentials.

[14:07] What that would generally equate to if you're just looking at how many acres, how much land this covers.

[14:13] Then we have our urban neighborhood.

[14:15] This is transitioning between the traditional suburban that we have to the historic downtown.

[14:20] So it could be little denser, some different types of uses.

[14:24] is the residential mix drops a little bit to be in just 70% residential, which is still

[14:29] the dominant use, but then we have a little bit more non-residential because we're moving

[14:32] closer into downtown.

[14:35] We have our mixed use categories, and these are our low to medium scale mixed use that about

[14:41] 50% residential, 50% non-residential.

[14:44] Here's a couple of examples, pictures that we have on what that could look like.

[14:49] 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.

[15:00] 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.

[15:29] Then we have our retail and office.

[15:31] This provides our shopping, employment, and commercial services, mostly all non-residential,

[15:37] but there could be a little bit, 10 percent, we would say, residential in this category.

[15:42] Commercial and light industrial provides for higher intensity commercial operations and clean

[15:49] industrial practices, mostly all non-residential and a few examples of what that could look like.

[15:56] And then here's just, you can sort of see a close-up of the map, you can see the different

[16:02] colors, how those are all shaded on there, and those lane-use categories that we just

[16:07] looked at, those are on the map, and then when you come across zoning cases, or those are

[16:12] presented to you, and staff's making a report, and someone's wanting to do a change in zoning,

[16:19] they'll look at this area, they'll look at the area on this map, and sort of see what

[16:25] that area is currently zone, what's this envision to be in the future and be able to provide

[16:30] you a good recommendation, an agreement with the conference plan, whether that's only

[16:35] a change would comply.

[16:38] And then just a little bit further to the south so you can see the map.

[16:44] So when we move on to the land use categories and when we look at our goals, we have our

[16:51] Our first goal number, goal here, encourage, inclusive housing options.

[16:56] So that's a goal, these are broad goals.

[16:58] 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?

[17:04] So we have our first strategy here, and I'll really highlight these red text here on the screen.

[17:12] But the first one here for our strategy, provided variety of multi-generational housing types.

[17:17] Through the input, we heard from a lot of different people about wanting to be able to live here for their entire life cycle.

[17:24] So whether they can have kids here, raise their kids here, retire here, can someone move here.

[17:30] So really being a community where we could really house the full generation whether you're coming straight out of college,

[17:37] 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.

[17:45] 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.

[18:03] Moving on to goal number two for our neighborhood and housing support existing neighborhoods.

[18:10] Existing neighborhoods of course are very important, there were our current residents are living.

[18:15] So what are some strategies to help support those contextual infill housing developments?

[18:20] So as new things come in existing neighborhoods, we want to make sure that those match, those are compatible.

[18:27] Number two strategy here, we have encouraged private and public investment in neighborhoods,

[18:32] includes beautification efforts and infrastructure improvements.

[18:35] So those are two things that the infrastructure and the beautification,

[18:38] those are things that we can do to current neighborhoods right now to help support them.

[18:43] Number, our letter C, I should say here, support the character and

[18:47] history of the existing neighborhood and promote distinct place making opportunities,

[18:51] whether this is bringing an area as historical with our sign toppers,

[18:55] different elements like that that we can really do to support existing neighborhoods.

[18:58] Number three, we wanted to plan for livable neighborhoods.

[19:02] So three strategies here, number A, we have the inclusion of access to pedestrian connections.

[19:10] And so we want to be sure that as people are out there enjoying their neighborhood, it's walkable.

[19:15] People can get from point A to point B, whether it's just a recreational walk or

[19:19] if they want to walk to a restaurant or some other type of destination.

[19:24] Number, letter B here, we have a wide variety of lot sizes.

[19:28] So that's something else that we can help plan for livable neighborhoods.

[19:31] When we have different lot sizes that can lead to different product types and also price points for

[19:38] different housing products. So that could be that's one strategy that we have.

[19:42] Letters C emphasize pedestrian mobility, safety, and experience. And so looking at street

[19:48] escapes, what ways can we improve the pedestrian feel to make our neighborhoods more livable?

[19:54] Then we move to our mixed use, that's our second out four categories for our land use.

[19:58] And we want to support vibrant intensity.

[20:01] So our letter A here, we have higher intensity residential uses within the mixed use setting

[20:07] at intentional locations within the city.

[20:11] So not everywhere needs to be a high intensity area, but we've identified areas on the map.

[20:17] That would be supportive of that, because we want to make sure that we're taking the

[20:21] the best use of our current roadway infrastructure, our water waste water infrastructure,

[20:26] all those investments that we've already made, having higher intensity in those areas.

[20:31] Letter B, we talked about pedestrian-oriented urban design and

[20:34] integrated gathering spaces and connections to the outdoors.

[20:38] Once again, this is a way that we can support vibrant intensity.

[20:42] Letter C, we wanted to leverage mixed use developments to diversify the city's commercial tax base and employment opportunities.

[20:48] a lot of different opportunities for jobs coming into the city.

[20:54] We want to make sure that we have a diversification of opportunities for people.

[21:01] Number two, goal under our mixed uses promote quality, mixed use development.

[21:07] Letter A, we have encouraged efficiently shared amenities between a variety of users and

[21:12] uses including parking, improvements if we can share parking, if we can find ways for

[21:17] these neighboring uses to co-exist in a great manner, that can really help improve our quality as

[21:26] far as our mixed use developments go. We want to incentivize higher quality building techniques and

[21:31] materials such as our masonry products, decorative finishes, the way these areas look and feel are

[21:39] very important. Let us see, we want to establish a balanced and complementary mixture of uses within

[21:44] within these buildings, residential, office, retail,

[21:48] those type of uses that are really going to be beneficial to the residents and also the business owners.

[21:57] Goal number three, under mixed use, create unique destinations throughout the city.

[22:01] We talk about letter A here integrating public and private amenities aimed towards residents, businesses, and visitors.

[22:08] 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

[22:38] relationship. A letter B, utilized mixed use applications around existing neighborhoods

[22:42] to provide local destinations and services. So when we think about our existing residents,

[22:48] we of course want to have opportunities for them to shop and dine and to be entertained.

[22:54] And these mixed use elements are part of one of the things we're trying to achieve that goal.

[23:01] Living on to the third goal out of our fourth for our land use, we want to foster a sense

[23:09] of place.

[23:10] So we talked about public and private, but we're talking about art installations here.

[23:16] So there's a way that we can promote the community vision, whether it's encouraging local artists

[23:21] to really help beautify the city and finding ways that we can integrate local things here

[23:27] into the city to help build our character and identity.

[23:32] Letter B, we use trails and parks to link community gathering spaces.

[23:36] So when we think about what families are doing on the weekends, or

[23:41] if someone's trying to train for a race or something like that.

[23:45] Are there ways that we can be connected throughout the city to go from one place to the other?

[23:51] So we have good, yes, we have individual neighborhoods, but

[23:54] But we want to make sure that someone can get from one neighborhood to another throughout the entire city.

[24:00] Gold number two, under our parks and public spaces, protect and leverage the natural environment.

[24:08] So, tailor development, strategy A, tailor development of existing to the existing topography and ecology.

[24:16] So, we do have hills, we do have natural areas, we want to make sure that we're building upon those.

[24:22] 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.

[24:35] 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.

[24:50] 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.

[25:03] Goal number three, expand outdoor entertainment options.

[25:07] We want to improve access and marketing for the city's existing outdoor venues such as big league dreams and a lot.

[25:14] So there's some opportunities we have with the existing things that we want to expand that.

[25:20] provide recreation for people to enjoy the outdoors.

[25:23] Now that we have some nice weather, everyone would like to be outside.

[25:28] Now letter B here, we develop open spaces with recreation in mind, including opportunities for residents and visitors of all ages.

[25:35] We want to make sure that there's a lot of investment going into our parks and our public spaces.

[25:41] And we want to make sure that those appeal to just not families with young kids, but

[25:46] but also families with older kids and also families that don't have kids.

[25:50] And also, our kids may have been out of the house for a long time.

[25:54] We still want parks and open spaces to appeal to them as well.

[25:59] Moving on to our fourth out of four for our land use category, our goal areas here, retail and employment.

[26:07] So we want to expand regional and global employment opportunities.

[26:11] strategies, strategy A, market the city towards local, regional, and global partnerships in areas with appropriate context and infrastructure.

[26:21] So we talked a lot at the steering committee level about a lot of opportunities for growth and

[26:26] development here in Mansfield.

[26:27] 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

[26:37] will in turn offer that to their employees.

[26:40] 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.

[26:53] Let her be, ensure that the impacts of high intensity uses do not burden man's fields existing or future residents.

[26:59] We were very cautious about as things change over time, existing residents may be concerned about what happens in other parts of the city,

[27:06] especially parts that are probably closest to them.

[27:09] So we want to be mindful of that,

[27:11] and that is part of the future Laney's plan

[27:14] and one of our strategies here.

[27:16] Goal number two under this category,

[27:19] expand local employment opportunities, letter A,

[27:22] we want to integrate small-scale offices and businesses

[27:24] within close proximity to our residential.

[27:27] We want to make sure that you don't have to drive too far

[27:29] to get to your small-scale offices,

[27:33] whether it's your dentist or your chiropractor,

[27:35] something along those lines, that's not going to be too far and that's not having to

[27:39] drive two cities over for that.

[27:42] Letter B, encouraged local jobs by targeting employers that want the knowledge, skills

[27:47] and talents of area residents.

[27:50] A lot of good education programs going on, when we were doing the stakeholder interviews,

[27:54] we interviewed the people with the hospital, they talked about their nursing program.

[27:58] What opportunities do we have to expand our employment with local knowledge here?

[28:04] So that's one of the strategies that we have in the plan.

[28:09] Goal three, increased neighborhood centered, retail.

[28:11] We wanted to remove barriers to infill neighborhood serving,

[28:15] retail and commercial establishments within residential areas.

[28:19] So there could be some barriers that we could take out of the zoning that could help some of our existing neighborhoods.

[28:24] If there was a small store or

[28:27] whether once again it was a dentist or some type of maybe a real estate agent office that could help as well.

[28:36] Let it be established access to fresh food and necessary services for daily life within walking distance for residents.

[28:43] And so one of the things we want to focus on is, can people get to the services that they need?

[28:49] And that was one of the things that we wanted to make sure that that would be in all areas of the city.

[28:56] Goal number four, support the existing business community.

[29:00] Of course our existing businesses has helped Mansfield become who it is right now.

[29:06] So we want to continue to support our business community.

[29:10] So letter A, anticipate adaptive reuse and

[29:13] reinvesting opportunities for existing businesses such as big box retail space.

[29:18] So we have landowners who own businesses here, but their tenants may change.

[29:22] So we want to go ahead and anticipate that and allow for reuse of those buildings.

[29:28] Letter B, encourage business coalitions and partnerships between private and public entities.

[29:34] So there could be some public private partnerships that could be very, very fruitful.

[29:40] 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.

[29:47] And what I'd like to do if there's any questions you have right now about anything on the map.

[29:51] And we'll have opportunities at the very end of the presentation to we'll do Q&A there as well.

[29:56] But I just want to take a little pause here to see if there's any.

[30:00] 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.

[30:27] map. Okay, so what we've done is we mapped our different areas and that you can see our

[30:34] five areas. We have the ETJ, that's the area in purple that you see in the screen. I'll

[30:39] go from west to east. Then we have the western promise. You can see area outline are shaded

[30:44] in green. Downtown is shaded in the blue. We have the link shaded in the orange and then

[30:51] the entertainment district shaded in that light red peach color.

[30:58] And so what we do is we have a vision and a primary focus based upon the stakeholder input

[31:03] that we got for our five different areas.

[31:06] We provided additional level of details related to land use, goals, strategies and actions

[31:11] that move beyond the regular future land use plan, goals and strategies.

[31:17] We identified special physical assets, opportunities and barriers and once again, this is creating

[31:25] the physical framework for these areas moving forward.

[31:29] So when we're looking at downtown, so we have our downtown goal to enhance the public

[31:36] realm and to provide a remarkable experience in downtown.

[31:41] So, letter A, update the tax increment reinvestment zone and the downtown zoning boundaries.

[31:49] That's one thing that we can do to help expand the area.

[31:54] Letter B, plan for capital improvements on broad and main street.

[31:59] Letter C, identify locations for additional small gathering places in downtown.

[32:04] downtown, once again, we're trying to encourage as much use of downtown and people spending

[32:10] time in downtown and being a destination for them to go to.

[32:14] Promote a park once and walk everywhere concept, so you can park your car and you won't have

[32:20] to move that vehicle around to go from one side of the street to the other side of the street.

[32:27] Letter E provide public restrooms in downtown, so that would be helpful for some of the business

[32:34] owners, people not having necessarily to use their

[32:37] restrooms, but we could have some public restrooms in

[32:39] downtown as well. Letter F, identifier, promote alternative

[32:43] routes for heavy truck traffic to keep them off main

[32:46] street and to make downtown more pedestrian friendly and

[32:50] focus. There could be some opportunities to reroute some of

[32:53] the truck traffic, so you're not having those large 18

[32:55] wheelers sort of rumble down the street. Second goal, promote

[33:01] development that creates a unique identity.

[33:05] And so some of the ways that we can do that, letter A, create urban design standards aimed at enhancing streetscapes and

[33:11] building forms both within downtown and the supporting neighborhoods.

[33:16] So we could look at ways to approach things through a zoning manner.

[33:20] Letter B, identify opportunities for

[33:22] Enthil and redevelopment projects and preservation of historic aesthetics to support the downtown vision.

[33:28] have some great buildings downtown, of course want to protect those and see those last another hundred years moving forward.

[33:37] Let us see, review and update the codes and ordinances as necessary to ensure regulations are consistent with downtown and the supporting neighborhoods.

[33:46] 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,

[33:56] that we're making sure the zoning is supportive of the vision that we have.

[34:01] Goal number three, prioritize pedestrian and cyclist.

[34:06] Letter A, implement road diets, we're equitable.

[34:11] Now when we're looking at road diets, there could be ways to whether we're talking about narrowing some of the lanes

[34:16] and providing some extra areas for sidewalks, for people to walk and feel safe.

[34:22] The narrow lanes can also help to slow down some of the traffic as well.

[34:28] 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.

[34:41] 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.

[34:53] 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.

[35:02] 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.

[35:13] That would also be one way to encourage people to park once and to walk throughout the different parts of downtown.

[35:20] Now, goal number four, nurture and sustain small and local businesses.

[35:27] Once again, they're really the lifeblood of downtown.

[35:29] That's why people are coming downtown because there's something to do.

[35:33] So we want to support our downtown businesses.

[35:35] So prepare an events plan for reoccurring activations, programs, events.

[35:41] You already have some great, great events downtown.

[35:45] So working on just expanding that.

[35:47] 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.

[35:58] Once again, during our stakeholders, interviews where we were talking to them on the phone.

[36:04] They were happy to be talked to and sort of share what was important to them.

[36:09] And also to sort of know what other people were saying because we were just sharing information.

[36:14] and what everyone else had told us.

[36:16] And there's a lot of common interest among the business owners.

[36:21] All right, moving to the entertainment district.

[36:24] So moving on to the east side, this is our first goal,

[36:29] attract visitors with distinct entertainment choices for all ages.

[36:35] Letter A here, we have support the development of major experiential destinations.

[36:40] 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.

[37:00] Let her be utilized the highway frontage to create identity and recognition of the district.

[37:05] Of course, we have lots of traffic along the highway.

[37:08] That's another way that we can help sort of brand and build that identity of the entertainment district.

[37:14] Let her see, utilize, enhance and promote the trail and its ability to connect this district to the rest of the city.

[37:21] We have some trail opportunities and maybe for some of our more avid cyclists and

[37:27] and people who like to walk longer distances maybe.

[37:31] Baby now, like I said, since it's a little bit cooler,

[37:33] there would be opportunities for trail connections

[37:37] on the east side as well.

[37:39] And then letter D, promote family friendly park spaces

[37:43] within the districts.

[37:45] Once again, law has been talked about the sports

[37:49] and that type of entertainment.

[37:51] But there's also when you have these type of sporting events

[37:54] going on, whether it's family friendly

[37:56] So you can bring the whole family out for the day to entertain.

[38:00] He may have one child or a family member participating in a sport.

[38:07] Be good opportunity for the other family members to take advantage of the offerings in the entertainment district.

[38:15] Goal number two, create the ability to spend the entire day.

[38:19] This was sort of leaning into a little bit.

[38:22] Letter A, promote mixed-use nose of development of varying intensities within the district.

[38:30] That includes a variety of appropriately scaled retail, dining, residential, and office uses.

[38:36] So there be just a wide variety of things that someone could do.

[38:42] Letter B, identify the location of large central outdoor gathering places with space for

[38:47] food trucks or a food hall.

[38:49] 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.

[39:03] 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

[39:18] or that, it's okay to park in this district, walk and spend the day.

[39:23] Letter B, consider providing a hop-on, hop-off type shuttle.

[39:27] Similar to during major events, there could be a shuttle that can help.

[39:32] Of course, this may be a little bit more useful, too, when we get back into our hotter months.

[39:38] Letter C, enhanced streetscapes to allow comfortable walking and bicycling.

[39:42] When we talk about shade, you know, we hear in Texas, we try to make things as pedestrian

[39:49] as we can and friendly, but we're always battling the summer.

[39:52] And so no matter how beautiful and enticing it may look if it's 110 outside, we're not

[39:58] going to want to walk it for too long.

[40:00] So there's opportunities for streetscape and to encourage that comfortable walking.

[40:08] Moving on to the link.

[40:10] So a little bit to the west.

[40:12] We want to capitalize on the intersection of location and opportunity, excuse me.

[40:18] So we want to focus density in a mixed-use town center within the district,

[40:27] letter B.

[40:28] We want to attract and retain and expand high-paying employment opportunities.

[40:33] The link is a good opportunity for employment.

[40:37] Like I said, we talked to a lot of stakeholders in the areas of whether it's research

[40:41] search development, flex manufacturing, corporate offices, all these things that really help a town center type development.

[40:49] 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,

[41:00] locate your headquarters, have a second headquarters there, different opportunities.

[41:04] 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.

[41:20] Letter E clearly define the boundaries of the link and the updated tours number one as necessary.

[41:26] 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.

[41:42] Goal number two, facilitate the next level of creativity, learning, innovation, and collaboration.

[41:49] So, letter A, concentrate activity generating uses in the Mixed Use Town Center.

[41:55] So, we really want this to be a place where, you know, thinker spaces, people are trying to come

[42:00] up with the next big idea or whether it is people moving here because, let's say, you know,

[42:08] So there's already industry here that we want to build upon, so maybe that's one of the elements.

[42:14] But one of the things that we can do when we're planning is we want to look at the possibilities that,

[42:20] hey, how can we support and facilitate this next level generation of ideas?

[42:25] And one of the ways is of course to the town center.

[42:30] Letter B here, Kraft Urban Design Guidelines for the district.

[42:33] 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.

[42:46] Goal three, under the link, infuse health and wellness into residents and employ lifestyles.

[42:53] Letter A here, promote active transportation via safe and comfortable infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists, so people can get around the area.

[43:03] We want to be sure that people can either walk or hop on a short bike ride to get from

[43:10] point A to point B. Letter B encourage or require minimum sustainability performance

[43:16] for new construction in the district.

[43:19] So if this is looking at, you know, connectivity to trails, different ways that we can think

[43:25] about how can this area be sustainable in the long term.

[43:30] 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.

[43:41] 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.

[43:59] happy, healthy lives.

[44:01] These are the sort of things that they're taking a look at or they're taking a look at schools.

[44:05] Can they be active?

[44:07] What are these types of things?

[44:08] So, the things about their physical, mental, and social well-being,

[44:12] these are all things that were focused on trying to create a really unique place for

[44:18] these type of people that value these things to move to and to have their business.

[44:24] Moving over to the Western Promise,

[44:27] So go on once again, a little bit further to the west.

[44:29] Foster complete communities and residential neighborhoods in mixed use areas.

[44:34] So letter A, we have identify opportunities for new neighborhoods serving parks,

[44:39] playgrounds, and recreational services and programs.

[44:42] So as we move further to the west, what opportunities we have some natural areas for

[44:48] that would be good for parks and playgrounds, those type of recreational services that are going to be needed out in the western promise.

[44:55] Let her be expand quality retail and services.

[45:00] 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.

[45:29] be, we want to make sure that that is occurring also in the Western Promise.

[45:34] Goal number two, improve access connectivity and mobility for residents.

[45:38] So letter A, transform Broad Street into a thriving mixed-use corridor.

[45:43] So we'd have opportunities for businesses, residents as well.

[45:47] Letter B, promote enhanced streetscapes and multi-modal infrastructure.

[45:52] Of course, there's already some great landscaping that's been done along there with the streets

[45:59] streetscapes, but also looking about how that will look when we have more development

[46:03] occurring along broad.

[46:07] Goal number three, promote community stability and existing in future neighborhoods.

[46:12] We want to promote community resiliency.

[46:15] So we want to be sure that we have sort of a variety of uses in the Western promise to

[46:21] really make sure that there's opportunities for this area if one business decides to move

[46:29] or relocate.

[46:30] It's not detrimental to the Western promise, so we have something that's going to be resilient over time.

[46:38] Goal number four, generate and deliver meaningful economic development in the southern portions of the Western promise.

[46:45] So if you remember, the Western promise is quite, ETJ is bigger, but the Western promise is the second largest area.

[46:52] It's quite a large area.

[46:54] So, letter A here, support the creation of a equestrian center in rodeo grounds.

[47:01] There could be some opportunities for that type of development.

[47:07] Letter B, we have provides space for clean and environmentally sensitive industrial development.

[47:13] So there could be some opportunities for some more clean and safe that are environmentally

[47:19] friendly type development.

[47:21] could also offer, offer job opportunities as well.

[47:26] Gold number five, enhance the infrastructure and promote sustainable growth.

[47:30] So letter A, promote, proactively identify and plan for the capital improvement plan,

[47:38] the need, the different needs that we have in those areas.

[47:41] So just looking out, like I said, very large area.

[47:44] So the capital needs to improve roads, those type of elements,

[47:48] Once, once more development occurs, that will be part of the planning process.

[47:53] Let her be focus growth in areas that won't strain city resources.

[47:58] Once again, so we talked a little bit before on the future lane use plan side.

[48:02] When we're looking at those goals about focusing and

[48:05] 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.

[48:17] 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.

[48:27] Last area is the ETJ or the extraterritorial jurisdiction.

[48:32] We want to create a positive transition into the city, because once again,

[48:37] just for everyone who may not know in the crowd, state law has changed with ETJs.

[48:42] And so, really, people can petition or they can ask for an election to be removed out of the ETJ.

[48:49] ETJ is an important area for cities because it's the only place that we can expand our city limits.

[48:54] We can only expand through voluntary annexations into the area that we have in ETJ.

[49:00] 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.

[49:09] So when we look at this area, it's really the transition from our more rural area into the city.

[49:16] So letter A, we wanted to ensure a thoughtful and intentional approach to providing city-led services and utilities into the ETJ.

[49:24] Of course, you could still, people may want to voluntarily come into the city limits with infrastructure.

[49:31] That could be a, of course, that would be something to look at, because it may not make sense, but

[49:36] that could be, that's why it's thoughtful and intentional that we have in there.

[49:41] Let her be navigate the jurisdictional environment of the ETJ to provide positive regional partnership.

[49:47] Because we're looking out and seeing what's happening in the ETJ.

[49:50] There could be some benefits for that area coming out, whether that was like I said,

[49:54] an exchange for type of city services.

[49:58] Goal number two, support the city's economy, encourage space for industrial uses in the ETJ.

[50:06] Let her be recognized that the ETJ is an important lifestyle choice.

[50:11] So a lot of people live out in the ETJ, they like being in the unincorporated area,

[50:18] provides a rule feel.

[50:21] So we recognize that, and some people choose to live out there because that's the lifestyle that they really want to achieve.

[50:32] Goal number two, preserve environmental, the, preserve important environmental areas.

[50:38] So we want to promote regional conservation programs.

[50:41] So there could be some opportunities as, you know, creeps don't necessarily notice when

[50:48] they go from one jurisdiction to the other outside of the city limits into the ETA.

[50:53] These are all regional benefits and areas that we want to try to preserve when possible and conserve.

[51:03] So that is really taken through our five different special area plans and the different elements that we have.

[51:10] So like I said, each one of those are treated differently.

[51:13] They're all unique areas that we have in light of how the city is planning for those areas.

[51:19] 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

[51:48] the steering committee to consider.

[51:51] It's all sort of open for discussion, but once again,

[51:54] we wanted to present this to you today,

[51:56] just so you knew exactly where we are.

[52:01] And some of the things that we've talked about,

[52:03] and like I said, we haven't had our second open house yet,

[52:05] but we'll meet with the steering committee next,

[52:08] and then we'll schedule that open house for consideration.

[52:14] And then just sort of looking at the schedule,

[52:17] Where would we go from today?

[52:20] We are looking at October 5th, Thursday to meet with the Conference of Plan Steering Committee

[52:26] to go over the final document that we have here, and I think it's been included in your

[52:32] packet that details.

[52:33] We have even more details in here, but all that is detailed, and we'll go through that with

[52:39] them on the 5th, because we want to make sure that they're 100% on board before we have

[52:44] that open house as well.

[52:45] 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

[52:50] Ask the steering committee on October 5th is it okay to have that open house and then we'll look if

[52:56] Hopefully you will tell us it's okay today. Hopefully they will tell us what the fifth is okay

[53:00] And then what we'll do is

[53:02] 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

[53:10] Open house will meet with you with the PNZ

[53:13] 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.

[53:34] So with that, we'll go to any questions you may have, and then on my left,

[53:42] make sure you're here, ma'am.

[53:45] As you've gone through this process, have you seen some changes in the committee from the way they

[53:51] thought about what the law then you should be and where they've come to now? Have you seen any

[53:59] Mine's opened up, thoughts change about things?

[54:02] I think so, because what we've had is a lot of discussion, and you're staff and you have

[54:11] assembled a really good comprehensive plan steering committee.

[54:13] There's a lot of people with a lot of knowledge and a lot of long term city experience and

[54:19] seeing things change from when they were very small to now.

[54:23] Now, so I think hearing what the stakeholders had to say was very educational.

[54:29] I think hearing the dialogue that we had from the different steering committee members about what they thought was important.

[54:36] There was a lot of agreement that a lot of people had.

[54:39] There were a lot of people that were excited.

[54:42] I think they've done whether it's going back to everyone's sort of the mindset of true north or

[54:50] whether it's the mission being very reflective of your community and the people in the community.

[54:57] There's a lot of like-minded people who are very excited about the future of Mansfield and where we're going.

[55:02] So I think there was a lot of education, that a lot of people learned what was going on.

[55:06] It was nice for a lot of people to really start to understand the Western promise,

[55:12] or what area that we're defining the link as, or what's really occurring in the entertainment district,

[55:18] 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.

[55:33] 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.

[55:43] So I think we did have that education people got excited.

[55:46] That's great. Thank you.

[55:48] All right, Mr. Lewis, and then we'll hear from Mr. Brosh.

[55:51] Thanks, sir.

[55:53] 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.

[56:10] 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.

[56:24] 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.

[56:32] 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?

[56:43] And, and restart receiving that feedback and then we let the steering committee have their meetings.

[56:49] 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.

[57:03] A couple of just simple comments in the special area plan for the link.

[57:09] I'd love to see pictures of what we have for the link already.

[57:13] I know there's the Admiral Legacy Project.

[57:16] This could be just imagery that helps kind of the more we can help people envision

[57:22] what that entertainment district is going to look like and what the link are going to look like.

[57:25] that we already have mock images of those,

[57:28] I think including those rather than just the big bubble diagram.

[57:33] Things would be beneficial in the special area plan for

[57:37] the downtown district, goal two,

[57:46] maybe work with Mr. Alexander on that one.

[57:49] But it seems very, that we've already accomplished that.

[57:53] So it was all about the zoning case, well we've already re-zoned all of our downtown.

[58:00] to match what we were wanting to accomplish.

[58:05] Western Promise, goal number three,

[58:08] promote community stability and existing in future neighborhoods.

[58:12] Promote community resilience seemed non-specific or

[58:16] descript to me, if there's a way to kind of drill into what that actually

[58:20] would mean.

[58:24] And then I didn't know how I felt when I saw

[58:29] the equestrian and rodeo grounds in there,

[58:32] 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?

[58:45] Because I don't know if it's going to be rodeo grounds, we probably, it probably won't be straight rodeo grounds.

[58:54] I think those were all of my comments.

[59:07] Thank you.

[59:08] All right.

[59:09] Mr. Brosh.

[59:10] Yes, Mayor.

[59:11] I just heard a reference to a packet that he thought that we had.

[59:17] I'm missing one.

[59:22] It's in the by-way.

[59:24] Yeah.

[59:25] Miss Morse.

[59:26] Miss Faith.

[59:27] Okay.

[59:27] Thanks.

[59:29] Mayor.

[59:30] Sorry.

[59:30] There was one more.

[59:32] All right.

[59:32] No.

[59:32] Sorry.

[59:33] You're good.

[59:34] Sorry.

[59:35] Sorry.

[59:35] I didn't write it down as you went through.

[59:36] 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.

[59:48] And unfortunately, I think there's a lot of political turmoil around that phrase.

[59:55] And so if you could figure out how to wordsmith that so that it talks about the concept.

[1:00:00] 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.

[1:00:18] All right, anyone else? Mr. Nore, you're good? All right, Ms. Bounds.

[1:00:26] So go back to the timeline if you will, please, for a second.

[1:00:31] So-

[1:00:36] And you said downtown?

[1:00:38] No, timeline.

[1:00:39] You have a timeline.

[1:00:39] Thank you, pastor.

[1:00:41] Yeah, I thought.

[1:00:42] Well, okay.

[1:00:43] All right, I went too far. There you go.

[1:00:46] There you go.

[1:00:47] So this packet that we have tonight with the additional comments that you received will go to the steering committee, correct?

[1:00:59] Correct.

[1:01:00] And we will go over all of that in the steering committee.

[1:01:04] And then there will be an open house and feedback from the draft plan.

[1:01:11] And so will that draft plan already have the changes in it before we go to the public with it?

[1:01:19] Yes, yes.

[1:01:20] So whatever changes that we make today from the input you provide us, we're going to make these changes from today's meeting.

[1:01:28] 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.

[1:01:38] And then that goes to the joint workshop, correct, with any other changes, correct?

[1:01:43] Yes, ma'am.

[1:01:44] Okay. Thank you.

[1:01:45] Ms. Bounds, is the concern, and Mr. Lewis kind of mentioned that is the concern that this

[1:01:53] goes to maybe the open house, open ended before we give them a plan, so to speak.

[1:02:03] I think that's some of what I was hearing.

[1:02:05] Is that, am I correct in that, in about hearing different in regard to public input,

[1:02:13] maybe having public input first, and then we craft the plan, you understand what I'm saying?

[1:02:22] Yes, and I think that's what is being highlighted by one of my colleagues in that regard.

[1:02:31] 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

[1:02:43] 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

[1:02:52] the steering committee to different ideas, plans, innovations, so really do appreciate what you're doing.

[1:03:00] But yeah, just if you would think about what that would look like.

[1:03:06] I don't even know what the logistics would be, but I do think that's important.

[1:03:10] That would help out a lot in regard, I think, to public buy-in, to be honest with you.

[1:03:17] So, what coordinate?

[1:03:19] Okay, and excuse me, Mr. Newsom, do you have?

[1:03:23] Okay, all right, all right.

[1:03:25] I'm good.

[1:03:26] If everybody else is all right, we're all right.

[1:03:28] Thank you so much.

[1:03:29] We'll

[1:03:35] move now to a discussion regarding the proposed neighborhood design standards.

[1:03:40] There, Mr. Alexander.

[1:03:43] Thank you, Mayor.

[1:03:44] Yes.

[1:03:45] This is a good dovetail of source on the draft future land use plan.

[1:03:52] 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.

[1:04:01] 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

[1:04:31] a position where we're potentially creating non-conforming uses and structures.

[1:04:38] So in particular, the purpose and intent of these proposed neighborhood development

[1:04:42] standards is to promote compact, mixed use, walkable and sustainable development patterns,

[1:04:48] establish a pedestrian friendly focal point for surrounding neighborhoods,

[1:04:52] deliver daily goods and services in a five to ten minute walk or cycle for

[1:04:58] And then activate development standards that complete and enhance neighborhoods.

[1:05:03] So a really good example of that would be what we saw in New Town, St. Charles, the corner market here.

[1:05:10] And then even a little bit of what we saw in Alphoretta.

[1:05:14] So the idea for the proposed applications to build on the development standards that have come before,

[1:05:20] or the planning is only commission and city council vis-a-vis,

[1:05:24] Starlin Ranch, Parkside, and other amendments to our development regulations and even other PD plan developments to have come before you.

[1:05:33] These would create new zoning standards within our ordinance and it would be section 155.057,

[1:05:40] which if memory serves me correctly will come right behind the community design standards.

[1:05:45] It would also include specific standards for corner markets that, again, coming from

[1:05:50] Stalin-Range part side with some other development proposals that have come before you and have been approved.

[1:05:57] And then, again, one to ensure that the provisions that were proposed and they do not conflict with those that are existing

[1:06:03] nor create situations that could be perceived as non-conforming.

[1:06:08] So that being said, as applied, if these standards are approved by City Council,

[1:06:13] So they will run parallel to the following zoning districts.

[1:06:17] O.P. Office Park District, we have very little property zoned as O.P. Office Park District.

[1:06:24] The same would go for C1 Neighborhood Business District.

[1:06:27] But the bulk of our conventional commercial zoning districts are zoned C2 Community Business District.

[1:06:34] And there's a little bit of C3 commercial manufacturing district that is primarily located on the western side of town.

[1:06:41] 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.

[1:06:57] 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,

[1:07:08] including the four commercials on the districts that are in front of you under contemplation for these standards this afternoon.

[1:07:17] Principal buildings would be set back a maximum of 30 feet as you create a street edge.

[1:07:22] Neighborhood oriented commercial goods and services would be the primary commercial uses as proposed no drive through.

[1:07:29] And it would also introduce row houses, manner houses, flats and accessory dwelling units.

[1:07:35] For flats, however, they will only be permitted on the second story and above.

[1:07:40] That's to ensure that we have the ground floor space dedicated purely to commercial activity.

[1:07:46] And then not allowing grow houses within a certain distance at corners.

[1:07:50] That's to ensure that our corners are set up for their highest,

[1:07:54] best use economically and physically, which is for commercial activity.

[1:08:00] The principal buildings would be a minimum of two stories in height and a maximum of four stories.

[1:08:06] I do want to pause there.

[1:08:07] There was some conversation that emerged from the steering committee.

[1:08:11] I really wanted to see buildings that have height to them.

[1:08:14] And there would potentially be an ability for a property owner or a developer to come to City Council.

[1:08:21] 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.

[1:08:29] Alaw the 7-11 at Broad Street and Matlock Road.

[1:08:34] Urban design and other place making considerations will be provided to reinforce scale.

[1:08:39] Those will harp in back to what we see in the D downtown district.

[1:08:45] And then a building front of just what also be included that will be limited to the door yard,

[1:08:50] the stoop, the shop front, and they will be required at the ground floor of all principal buildings

[1:08:55] fronting a thoroughfare or civic space. So kind of what that will look like. Here in Franklin

[1:09:01] Towns is a good example of a door yard that is attached to row houses. And then in Norton

[1:09:08] Commons there's a shop front treatment at the ground floor. And then the same with the shop front

[1:09:14] treatment that then bleeds over into attached row houses. And then you've seen this image from

[1:09:21] from Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia, and still saying on the proposed application,

[1:09:27] civic space must be incorporated into the site, a little bit different than downtown in

[1:09:32] Soma, and that civic space would be designed as a courtyard, a park, or a small plaza.

[1:09:39] Civic space must have tree canopies, that's another thing that we heard a lot of coming out

[1:09:44] of the steering committee, and a civic space must occupy at least 5% of the site, which would

[1:09:51] give way potentially to something like this, as well as this.

[1:09:59] And connectivity will be prioritized, balanced between motorists, pedestrian and bicyclists.

[1:10:05] No parking permit between buildings and

[1:10:07] the thoroughfares and civic spaces on street parking enabled and encouraged.

[1:10:12] And what we are looking at presenting to the Planning and Zoning Commission,

[1:10:16] 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.

[1:10:25] And the idea is going back to northern commons as you see here in this image that all of the parking is behind buildings.

[1:10:35] There's opportunities there for parking to be integrated into the public realm and

[1:10:41] And ensure that there is an activated node, a center in which daily uses are within a five to ten minute walk for most.

[1:10:53] So some considerations, this would enable and encourage mixed-use development, as a matter of right.

[1:10:59] 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.

[1:11:11] And then with the other amendments that we're working on, right now, an

[1:11:15] accepted vision control ordinance, which would allow for administrative review,

[1:11:20] this would create something along the lines of what developed and

[1:11:24] unfolded in the Wheeler District in Oklahoma City.

[1:11:27] What was key there when the Congress for a new urbanism met was talking about the

[1:11:32] plating process, and the fact that the developer could go back and

[1:11:35] have property replatted up to three times without having to go through a public

[1:11:40] the hearing, one, and then two, having standards in place that are flexible and predictable enough

[1:11:46] that they have the assurances that they need to move forward with projects of varying scales.

[1:11:54] So with that, I'll pause there to answer any questions that you may have, and to see if

[1:11:59] we are on the right path with these proposed standards.

[1:12:02] All right,

[1:12:05] Mr. Brown, should be good.

[1:12:07] All right, good, good, good, good, good, good, all right to my right.

[1:12:10] All right. We're all good. Thank you, sir. Good job. All right, discussion regarding the

[1:12:20] September 11, 2023. Consent agenda, counsel, do you have a sense of agenda item that you

[1:12:28] would like highlighted for this time, I believe, Kieran, of groups, they'll put it on the screen

[1:12:36] So, you want to do all the like polls at this time?

[1:12:39] Go ahead and make sure.

[1:12:42] May your 23-5586.

[1:12:46] All right.

[1:12:48] All right.

[1:12:49] I'm going to pull that up for us, ma'am.

[1:12:55] And all right, let me, if you don't mind, let me speak to that one.

[1:12:59] If counsel wouldn't have mind that we have this discussion in executive session.

[1:13:05] Okay.

[1:13:06] All right, appreciate you, ma'am.

[1:13:08] All right, is there another?

[1:13:11] 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.

[1:13:29] 75. All right.

[1:13:32] 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.

[1:13:43] of open range properties LLCs, parking lot for an amount, not to exceed $14,300.

[1:13:52] All right, is that you, ma'am?

[1:13:54] All right, Vanessa, thank you.

[1:13:56] Good afternoon, Mayor Councilor.

[1:13:57] Thank you, Miss Ramirez.

[1:13:58] So this resolution would authorize an improvement agreement which would allow us

[1:14:02] to enter into a five-year lease for the public use of the parking lot located

[1:14:07] at 208, he's brought.

[1:14:11] Go ahead. So, okay. I, Vanessa, I am having trouble. It's probably me, but we're talking,

[1:14:19] we think we're talking around 60 parking spaces there.

[1:14:22] They mentioned there would be about 50 to 60. So there, as a part of the agreement,

[1:14:26] they will have to do an overlay and then restriping to make sure that we are having that many

[1:14:31] spaces there.

[1:14:32] I have stretched every way I can down there in Corsedia. It's poorly marked, so there'd

[1:14:39] 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.

[1:14:53] So on the left side of the property, right next to the yellow.

[1:15:00] 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.

[1:15:30] residents or there. But one of the tenants, they will put signs where it will be limited

[1:15:36] to their tenant during certain times. During certain times. So that would leave us with

[1:15:42] an additional about 50 spots. I don't know where they're coming from. I can't.

[1:15:51] I would

[1:15:52] love to have someone from the city go down there before we vote on this tonight and do some

[1:16:01] 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.

[1:16:22] Yeah, we can absolutely have someone go there and verify the amount of spots before we burn it.

[1:16:28] Okay, thanks.

[1:16:31] All right, let's see everyone on the City of Managing in regard to an explanation as well.

[1:16:36] 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.

[1:16:45] So I think what this does is it contemplates a maximum of 60 spots, correct?

[1:16:53] I mean, if I'm wrong.

[1:16:54] Ten of which, we already have ten down there.

[1:16:57] So because we're trading property, we would exclude those ten from them.

[1:17:02] And then just like the heritage baptist church across the street,

[1:17:06] they have certain times that they can mark off certain number of spots.

[1:17:10] So that would work the same way essentially there.

[1:17:14] But we can't, even if I were to go down there, and this is a very astute observation, Mr.

[1:17:20] Pras, if I were to go down there right now and crawl on that thing, I bet I couldn't identify

[1:17:26] exactly how many spots there are.

[1:17:28] That requires an overlay and then striping.

[1:17:32] Now, if it comes out to where there are just 30 spots, then, and he wants to reserve 10,

[1:17:38] And then we wouldn't be leasing more than 20 spots for public parking.

[1:17:45] I don't know if that answers that question for you or not.

[1:17:48] 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.

[1:17:55] And I don't know if Raymond, if you have a different opinion, but I don't think you can count the exact.

[1:18:01] But if we're doing the difference between 20 and 60, it shouldn't be hard to get a rough idea.

[1:18:10] And, Mr. Brush, if you would like what we can do as well as if we want to proceed with this resolution

[1:18:16] tonight, we can make it contingent on verifying the amount of spots and making that as an amendment to the agreement.

[1:18:25] But put a percentage, like say, I'm not into the exactness at all.

[1:18:31] I'm just sure that if we're paying for something and we're hitting a third of what

[1:18:36] we think we're getting, I would make sure that it makes good sense.

[1:18:41] You could also, we could also table this and say until there's an exhibit put together

[1:18:47] with measured out spots, we can do that.

[1:18:50] That's better.

[1:18:51] All right.

[1:18:52] Good.

[1:18:52] I think that seems a good message.

[1:18:53] I think that's what we're going to.

[1:18:55] Well, to piggyback off that, I would agree that we should look at table in it.

[1:19:00] I had a question about looking across the street because I looked across the street about

[1:19:07] the church parking lot over there.

[1:19:09] That's a big park in space.

[1:19:10] How many do we have over there?

[1:19:12] I believe we are leasing 90 from them.

[1:19:15] And so we'd only be looking at 30 different.

[1:19:18] And this park in space looks a lot smaller than the other.

[1:19:22] So I would also agree to maybe table it and look at it a little closer.

[1:19:28] All right.

[1:19:28] Well, when this comes up tonight, we'll do just that, remove it and table it.

[1:19:33] All right.

[1:19:34] Go ahead, though.

[1:19:35] Go ahead, Mr. Nor you had one.

[1:19:37] I'm just curious, you say there's ten spots reserved for, is that a current tenant?

[1:19:42] How many spots will be reserved when the center's full?

[1:19:45] So he wants to reserve them for the dance academy.

[1:19:49] That's the current tenant that they have there.

[1:19:50] But he has open space in there when future tenants come in.

[1:19:55] He has to reserve them spots as well.

[1:19:58] So there's nothing in the lease that, and he understood that there was nothing that

[1:20:01] would be future reservation.

[1:20:03] All of that would be open to the public unless it was specifically written into the agreement

[1:20:07] and the only thing that's written into the agreement right now is those tin spots.

[1:20:13] So we're going to give it another look, see, and we'll see what we come up with.

[1:20:19] All right, point well taken.

[1:20:20] Thank you very much, item 23 dash 5575, and Mr. Newsom asked questions about that.

[1:20:28] Yes.

[1:20:29] You mind pulling that up for so we can read that for the public?

[1:20:33] All right, that's an ordinance of the City of Mansfield, Texas, granting to on-core electric delivery company LLC,

[1:20:39] We'll see its successors and assigns, a non-exclusive electric power franchise to use

[1:20:45] the present and future streets, alleys, highways, public utility, easements,

[1:20:50] public ways, and public property of the City of Mansfield, Texas.

[1:20:55] All right, Mr. Ramirez.

[1:20:56] Go ahead, sir.

[1:20:57] I guess just a couple clarification points for myself.

[1:21:02] This is, as it reads, this is a non-exclusive agreement.

[1:21:06] I just want to confirm that so that it's not just exclusive to Encore.

[1:21:09] for any utility that would need to be there.

[1:21:13] Okay. Is the 20 year term, does that normal?

[1:21:19] It seems pretty long.

[1:21:20] Normally, it is a 20 year term.

[1:21:22] The first agreement that we had with encore was back in 1965,

[1:21:26] and that was a 50 year term.

[1:21:28] The standard now is about 20 years.

[1:21:30] Yeah, I mean, just still, I mean, I'm not talking about what we used to do.

[1:21:33] I'm just talking about now that we were correcting,

[1:21:35] I think several correcting stuff, but is 20 years

[1:21:39] is that reasonable?

[1:21:40] Because that seems like a long time for an agreement.

[1:21:44] Yes, normally for an agreement.

[1:21:46] Franchise agreements are normally given

[1:21:48] for a longer term period just because we anticipate

[1:21:50] that the infrastructure they put into the ground

[1:21:52] will provide those utilities for our residents

[1:21:54] for a longer period of time.

[1:21:57] Okay, in section one letter E, it refers to Irish prosperity

[1:22:05] or their response should be a reasonable amount of time, legally what is considered a reasonable amount of time.

[1:22:16] So legally that would be subjective as to what a reasonable person would expect to be addressed.

[1:22:25] 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.

[1:22:31] But everything on therein it just says reasonable.

[1:22:34] And the reason one of the reasons for that is because they did mention that they have in the event of a storm event

[1:22:40] 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

[1:22:46] 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

[1:22:55] Requesting some information from them with regards to whatever's going on

[1:23:00] when, um, within that right away, they, it doesn't seem like they really even have a set

[1:23:07] time for them, but they truly have to get back with us.

[1:23:10] For specific information?

[1:23:11] Yes.

[1:23:12] What you're talking about?

[1:23:13] Okay.

[1:23:13] I mean, that's something that we can put into the agreement.

[1:23:16] If you would like, we can either table this and go back to them and ask them to give us specific

[1:23:21] set periods of time for information that they're supposed to provide to us.

[1:23:25] Sure.

[1:23:25] I mean, there's, well, I mean, there's seven of us up here, and Joe and I was probably

[1:23:28] been working on this for a while. So it'll probably be able to comment on if it's even a reasonable

[1:23:34] usable expectation.

[1:23:37] I guess the other thing I wanted to address or has some additional

[1:23:41] information on was section 3-K about tree mitigation. What are ultimately going to be their

[1:23:48] responsibilities? I'm not talking about emergency situations, storms or whatever. I'm just

[1:23:53] taken on their day-to-day, they decide they want to go cut up onto trees.

[1:23:58] What are their responsibilities to either the city and or the citizens that it will affect?

[1:24:06] So I believe the provision indicates and it may, if not, there was a discussion that I had with them where they are

[1:24:12] to give us notice and the property owner notice that they would be performing those acts.

[1:24:18] They mentioned that they do it on two different times either on a scheduled basis or if one of

[1:24:23] the citizens' calls and lets them know that it needs to be cut.

[1:24:26] What recourse, if any, do we and or the property owners have?

[1:24:31] As far as, well, they can always file a complaint against them with the Public Utility

[1:24:36] Commission.

[1:24:37] That's regulated through the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

[1:24:40] After they cut the trees?

[1:24:44] Well, normally they would only cut it if it's on a schedule base so that it doesn't

[1:24:48] grow into their electric lines, and that's regulated by the Public Utility Commission of

[1:24:53] or if a citizen contacts them.

[1:24:55] Just what I would like to see,

[1:24:57] I don't even know if this is even something we've thought about,

[1:25:00] but are there other mitigations that we can look at achieving,

[1:25:09] if they've noticed us that they're going to start cutting down a bunch of trees?

[1:25:12] Are there other mitigations that we can look at to be noticed by that,

[1:25:16] would give the city a way,

[1:25:18] 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.

[1:25:30] 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.

[1:25:38] 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.

[1:25:49] That if we decided to pay for it's regulated by state law.

[1:25:53] 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.

[1:25:59] 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.

[1:26:12] All right.

[1:26:13] Thanks.

[1:26:14] 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.

[1:26:22] All right.

[1:26:22] May or for my, Mr. Newton, my I agree, there's a really, really good questions.

[1:26:29] And as Mr. Mera's alluded to and I identified, there is so much authority that

[1:26:35] Encore has from the state that authorizes them to operate within the procedures and

[1:26:41] the guidelines that they operate with.

[1:26:43] And in those ways, once they receive that authorization from the states, our hands are tied in so

[1:26:49] So many of those scenarios.

[1:26:51] The ones you identified undergrounding is a very difficult thing for us to control.

[1:26:57] Exert control over and their maintenance of the easement itself as well.

[1:27:01] 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.

[1:27:11] But before they decide, do we have any ability to say, okay,

[1:27:17] 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.

[1:27:40] 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.

[1:27:55] Okay.

[1:27:56] Thanks.

[1:28:00] All right.

[1:28:00] Thank you very much.

[1:28:03] All right.

[1:28:04] Anyone else?

[1:28:06] Anymore or none?

[1:28:07] All right.

[1:28:08] All right. And thank you all very much. We're going to recess into executive session,

[1:28:13] pursuant to section 551, 9071, the Texas Government of Code, the Council

[1:28:19] reserves the right to convene in executive session. From time to time, it's deemed

[1:28:23] necessarily during this meeting for any posted agenda items to receive advice

[1:28:28] from its attorney as permitted by the law to discuss following a pending or

[1:28:32] contemplated litigation or to seek the advice of the city attorney pursuant

[1:28:36] Section 551.071, seek advice of city attorney regarding pending litigation,

[1:28:43] calls number 352-342-443-233, calls number 4-23-CV, that is 0-01310,

[1:28:54] public-private partnerships, enforcement activities in downtown, legal issues pertaining

[1:29:01] planning to economic development projects listed in Section 3D of the agenda.

[1:29:07] Be discussion regarding possible purchase, exchange, lease, or value, or real property

[1:29:11] pursuant to Section 551-072, land acquisition for future development.

[1:29:17] Personnel matters pursuant to Section 551-074, board appointments, D deliberation.

[1:29:24] Regarding commercial or financial information received from all the offer of a financial

[1:29:32] 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.

[1:29:57] O2PM.

[1:35:30] 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.

[1:36:00] So I'm going to ask, if we would all stand at this time, and I'll ask all men to please

[1:36:06] remove your hats during the prayer and the pledge.

[1:36:11] Thank you, well.

[1:36:16] Gracious God, we ask that on a day like this one, we are moved to remember, to remember

[1:36:22] what happened, to remember the impact that took place, and Lord, help that make us strive

[1:36:29] to something better or thank you for what you have done in this city, what you've done through

[1:36:36] this group of people and the way that they are continuing to push toward a place of excellence.

[1:36:41] Got an everything that happens tonight and in the meetings moving forward we ask that we

[1:36:47] that we would be moved to be like you told the prophet Micah that we would love mercy,

[1:36:53] that we would act justly and most importantly God. We would walk humbly with you. We pray all

[1:36:59] of this in your name. Amen.

[1:37:37] With our police fire first responders.

[1:37:41] Of course we know that 22 years ago that our country was attacked.

[1:37:49] We lost over 400 police fire first responders over 3000 American citizens.

[1:37:58] Our pledge to them this morning chief was that we will not ever forget

[1:38:03] what took place on this Patriot's day.

[1:38:07] So if you would, this bow your heads for a moment of silence for them and their families.

[1:38:28] Thank you so very much. You may be seated.

[1:38:41] Item 9, our citizens' comments.

[1:38:44] Citizens who are wishing to address, oh, wait, no.

[1:38:48] Where's, oh, I lost my preacher.

[1:38:51] All right.

[1:38:53] All right.

[1:38:54] Got it.

[1:38:55] All right.

[1:38:56] For those who are new, we always like to hear what God is doing with those who come

[1:39:00] before us in praise.

[1:39:01] So, all right, we'll bring him back so he can tell us.

[1:39:04] All right.

[1:39:04] We're at item 9, our citizens' comments, our citizens wishing to address the counsel

[1:39:09] on non-public hearing agenda items and items not on the agenda may do so at this time.

[1:39:14] Due to the regulations of the Texas Open Meeting Act, please do not expect a response

[1:39:20] from the counsels.

[1:39:21] We're not able to do so.

[1:39:22] So, this will be your only opportunity to speak unless you're speaking on a scheduled

[1:39:26] public hearing item.

[1:39:28] After the close of the citizen comments portion of the meeting, only comments related

[1:39:32] to public hearings will be heard.

[1:39:35] All comments are limited to five minutes.

[1:39:38] In order to be recognized during citizen's comments or during a public hearing,

[1:39:42] applicants included, please complete a blue or yellow card.

[1:39:46] It is located at the entrance of the chambers and present in the and presented

[1:39:51] it to the Assistant City Secretary, seated to my right or your left.

[1:39:56] As a reminder, this will be your only opportunity to speak unless you're speaking on a scheduled

[1:40:01] public hearing item.

[1:40:03] Council may not respond due to regulations of the Texas Open Meetings Act.

[1:40:08] All right.

[1:40:09] As a matter of fact, we have any cards for you.

[1:40:11] All right.

[1:40:12] Thank you very much.

[1:40:13] We'll move forward.

[1:40:14] Item 10, then, is Council announcements.

[1:40:17] Mr. Brosh.

[1:40:20] Thank you, sir.

[1:40:21] Mr. Janore.

[1:40:23] Yes, sir.

[1:40:24] Miss Short.

[1:40:26] Yes, ma'am.

[1:40:27] Mr. Newsom.

[1:40:28] Mr. Newsom.

[1:40:29] Yes, sir.

[1:40:30] Miss Bounds.

[1:40:31] Yes, ma'am.

[1:40:33] Mr. Lewis.

[1:40:34] Yes, ma'am.

[1:40:35] Okay, and none from me.

[1:40:36] Thank you very much.

[1:40:37] We move now to item 11.

[1:40:40] That is our subcommittee reports.

[1:40:43] Item 23-5562 minutes.

[1:40:46] Approval of the August 28, 2023 housing market growth strategy.

[1:40:51] committee meeting minutes, and the votes will be only by members of the subcommittee.

[1:40:57] And that's Mr. Lewis, short, bound, and Mr. Lewis is the chair, Mr. Lewis.

[1:41:04] Thank you, Mayor.

[1:41:05] Give everybody an update.

[1:41:06] The Housing Growth Subcommittee did meet on August 28th, and we discussed a couple of things.

[1:41:12] There were some recommendations that will be coming before the Council, so I want to go through those.

[1:41:18] As you know, there were a bunch of legislative changes, this legislative session that impact things like subdivision control.

[1:41:24] 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.

[1:41:32] 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.

[1:41:45] 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

[1:42:13] the meeting after that.

[1:42:16] So those were the discussions that we had, and that was it.

[1:42:20] Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[1:42:22] Any others on that subcommittee?

[1:42:24] All right, calling for a motion of this time.

[1:42:26] Motion to approve.

[1:42:27] Thank you, Mr. Short.

[1:42:29] Thank you, Ms. Bounds.

[1:42:30] Please catch votes.

[1:42:33] And the motion carries 3-0.

[1:42:35] Thank you very much.

[1:42:36] Move now to item 23-556-3.

[1:42:41] These are minutes approval of the August 28th, 2023.

[1:42:44] the tax increment and re-investment zone number one, board meeting minutes, and Mr.

[1:42:52] Brosh is the chair, Ms. Bounds Evans and Tanora on that committee.

[1:42:57] Yes, thank you, Mayor.

[1:42:59] Yes, sir.

[1:43:00] The committee, subcommittee came together on 28th.

[1:43:06] We were asked to discuss and have a possible action regarding the TERS-1 funding request.

[1:43:11] that came from Leon's capital group regarding the design and construction of Cannon Drive.

[1:43:18] And we listed a presentation from Leon's capital group who spoke on the deal points

[1:43:30] for the terms request, answered all those questions that we had.

[1:43:35] and so as a result, Councillor Embertenori moved

[1:43:43] to recommend the approval and had it seconded

[1:43:46] by Councillor Laydee Bounds and the motion carried

[1:43:50] unanimously for us to approve that and bring it forward.

[1:43:57] All right.

[1:43:58] Thank you.

[1:43:58] All right.

[1:44:00] Appreciate it.

[1:44:00] Thank you.

[1:44:01] Any other comments from that committee?

[1:44:04] All right.

[1:44:04] All right, you're not saying that I'm ready to receive a motion at this time.

[1:44:08] Motion to it, please.

[1:44:09] Thank you, Ms. Bounds.

[1:44:11] I'll second.

[1:44:12] Thank you, Mr. Norris.

[1:44:13] All right, please catch the votes.

[1:44:20] Right, the motion carries for zero.

[1:44:23] Thank you very much.

[1:44:24] We move now to item 12, staff comments.

[1:44:27] Mr. Smolensky, do we have staff comments at this time, sir?

[1:44:31] I do, I'm going to ask Mrs. Coleman to come down to the front and she's got a report for us.

[1:44:36] That's Coleman.

[1:44:36] 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.

[1:44:46] Of course, this is the report for July 2023, which is about 83% of the budget year.

[1:44:54] I would like to bring your attention to page three, which is our year-to-day progress on our campus.

[1:45:00] 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%.

[1:45:29] our revenues are actually at 89%.

[1:45:33] You can see the details of the general fund statement

[1:45:37] in the appendix on page a 17.

[1:45:42] Also on the expenditure side for the general fund,

[1:45:45] we're looking at the August bin,

[1:45:48] which is historically a little bit more,

[1:45:51] so about 7 million,

[1:45:52] but I also want to point out that coming months September

[1:45:57] will be a little bit higher

[1:45:58] because we have some of the end of the year accruals that we put in.

[1:46:02] So just kind of, you know, a head of time on that, I'm bringing that to your attention.

[1:46:08] Moving on to the utility fund that stated on page is seven through eight of the report.

[1:46:14] And overall, the utility fund details, you know, can be seen on the fund statement

[1:46:19] in the appendix on page 18.

[1:46:23] 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?

[1:46:33] 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.

[1:46:43] So it's a little bit of lag there, and of course the same on expenditures.

[1:46:47] measures. Moving on to page 14 is the sales tax report. And we are about 81% of the budget

[1:46:57] collected. Of course, we have a lot more details on the sales tax report in your appendix

[1:47:04] pages A32 to A35. And currently, we're at 10.51% gear over year. And looking forward to

[1:47:15] the next few months, of course August we actually have that data already, you will

[1:47:20] be seeing it at the next council meeting, but August we'll see a slight decrease, but

[1:47:27] that will recapture up in September and also to note September we do have some accruals.

[1:47:34] So we do believe that at the end of the fiscal year, we will still make budget, over budget

[1:47:40] actually, about 10% year over year.

[1:47:43] And finally, want to bring your attention to page 15, which is our cash and investment

[1:47:51] report, which gives you a summary of all of our cash and investments.

[1:47:56] Again, this information is way more detailed in your appendix by the fund level and by the

[1:48:03] type of investment in your appendix A24 through 31.

[1:48:08] And later on in the Council meeting, you'll see that the PFIA investment policy is on your agenda

[1:48:17] on consent, and we are in compliance with all of those requirements, according to State Law.

[1:48:23] So that's my report.

[1:48:25] I want to know if you had any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

[1:48:30] After there are any questions?

[1:48:32] We're good.

[1:48:33] Am I right?

[1:48:33] Any questions?

[1:48:35] All right.

[1:48:37] All right.

[1:48:37] All right, hearing none's in and thank you so very much.

[1:48:40] All right, Mr. Mullinski, do we have any other, sir?

[1:48:43] No, thank you.

[1:48:44] All right, thank you.

[1:48:45] I'll move now to item 13.

[1:48:48] Is there any action to take a pursuant to our executive session?

[1:48:52] Yes, Mayor.

[1:48:53] All right, Mr. Lewis.

[1:48:54] 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.

[1:49:06] All right, is there second?

[1:49:09] Second.

[1:49:10] Thank you, ma'am.

[1:49:11] All right, it has been motioned in second question.

[1:49:16] Hearing none, please, can I ask your votes?

[1:49:26] All right, the item carries 7-0.

[1:49:29] Thank you very much.

[1:49:30] We're in item 14 now, which is the consent agenda.

[1:49:33] All mannered.

[1:49:34] I do have one other item I'd like to move forward through the executive session.

[1:49:39] Okay, good.

[1:49:40] I'm fine.

[1:49:40] Pursuant executive session, item number 23-13, I make a motion to approve.

[1:49:46] Dill point says, discuss an executive session and direct the staff to proceed as discussed in executive session.

[1:49:52] Second.

[1:49:52] All right, thank you, and I'm sorry about that, sir.

[1:49:55] All right, we've had a motion in a second.

[1:49:58] Call question.

[1:50:01] All right, hearing on, please, can I ask you votes?

[1:50:10] Okay, we're good.

[1:50:11] All right, thank you, all right.

[1:50:14] Item carry 7-0.

[1:50:15] Thank you, Mr. Newsom.

[1:50:18] Are there any other items? Are there any other items? Okay. All right. Moving to item 14,

[1:50:26] consent agenda. All matters listed under the consent agenda. They have been previously

[1:50:31] discussed, require little or no deliberation or are considered to be routine by the council.

[1:50:36] If discussion is desired, then an item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered

[1:50:41] separately. Otherwise approval of the consent agenda authorizes our city manager to implement

[1:50:46] in each item in accordance with staff's recommendation.

[1:50:50] Council, are there any items that you would like to remove at this time?

[1:50:53] There.

[1:50:54] Yes, sir.

[1:50:54] I'd like to pull two, three, dash five, five, eight, six.

[1:50:57] Yes, sir.

[1:50:59] Is there another?

[1:51:00] Yes, Mayor.

[1:51:02] Two, three, five, five, seven, five.

[1:51:04] Seven, five, okay.

[1:51:06] Thank you.

[1:51:07] And I'm going to ask our assistant secretary to prepare to pull those up.

[1:51:12] Is there another?

[1:51:12] Two, three, dash, five, five, seven, four.

[1:51:15] 4. Okay. 2, 3, dash 5, 5, 7, 4. Is that correct, Mr. Rush?

[1:51:23] Okay. Yes, Mayor.

[1:51:24] Yes, sir.

[1:51:25] All right, is there another?

[1:51:27] All right, so I have items.

[1:51:29] Sorry.

[1:51:30] I've.

[1:51:30] Yeah, go ahead.

[1:51:31] Just a question.

[1:51:31] If we're, I've overheard the work session discussion for 2, 3, 5, 5, 7, 4, there's

[1:51:39] is related one, two, three, five, five, seven, two.

[1:51:43] Do we need to pull that also or is that separate, separate instance?

[1:51:49] Okay.

[1:51:50] All right, would you like them and pull the wheel, okay?

[1:51:54] Okay, all right.

[1:51:56] Then, I'm calling for a motion for those items that we're not pulled.

[1:52:01] Motion to approve.

[1:52:02] Second.

[1:52:03] All right, motion, second.

[1:52:06] Got it, Brent, okay.

[1:52:08] All right. Call question. Hearing none, please cash votes.

[1:52:14] Those items carry 7-0. All right. I'll ask our assistant city secretary to pull up item 23-5575, please.

[1:52:32] All right. That is an ordinance of the City of Mansfield, Texas, granting to on-core electric delivery company LLC.

[1:52:39] see its successors and assigns a non-exclusively electric power franchise to use the present

[1:52:46] and future streets, alleys, highways, public, utility easements, public ways, and public

[1:52:51] property of the city of Mansfield, Texas, Miss Ramirez.

[1:52:56] Good evening, Mayor Council.

[1:52:58] This ordinance would grant, on court, a non-exclusive franchise for 20 years to run their facilities

[1:53:06] in our public right away to provide electricity to the city.

[1:53:10] The last agreement that we had with them was executed in 1965, that has since expired in 2015.

[1:53:17] We have been running on a holdover agreement with them since then.

[1:53:21] This new agreement allows us to provide additional provisions where encore would have to adhere to when working it in our right away.

[1:53:29] Okay, thank you very much.

[1:53:31] All right, Mr. Newsom.

[1:53:31] Yeah, I mean, I really don't so much have any questions about this.

[1:53:35] It's more so just comments from, you know, our perspective up here, citizens of perspective.

[1:53:41] 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.

[1:53:52] Unfortunately, we as a council do not have control over that.

[1:53:56] 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.

[1:54:06] So if, for some reason you feel that needs to change, we need to change that to the state level.

[1:54:12] That's it.

[1:54:13] Yes, sir.

[1:54:14] Thank you very much, and you are correct.

[1:54:16] Any other comments on that particular item, if not, I am ready to receive a motion.

[1:54:23] Motion to approve.

[1:54:24] Thank you, sir.

[1:54:25] Second.

[1:54:25] Thank you, ma'am.

[1:54:27] All right.

[1:54:27] Questions?

[1:54:30] Earing none, please.

[1:54:31] Cash to vote.

[1:54:34] Item carries 7-0.

[1:54:36] Thank you very much.

[1:54:38] The next item, 23-5574.

[1:54:42] All

[1:54:48] right.

[1:54:49] And that is a resolution of the City Council of the City of Mansfield,

[1:54:52] Texas, proving a parking lot agreement with open-range properties,

[1:54:56] LLC, for the public use of open-range properties.

[1:55:00] LLC is a parking lot for an amount not to exceed $14,300.

[1:55:07] All right.

[1:55:09] So, this resolution will approve a five-year parking lot agreement with open-range

[1:55:15] properties for public use of their parking lot located at 208 East Frod.

[1:55:21] All right, thank you very much.

[1:55:24] I understand in our work sessions afternoon that Council is in agreement to table this until the next meeting.

[1:55:32] All right, I'm prepared to receive a motion in that regard, sir.

[1:55:36] So move, thank you.

[1:55:38] Second.

[1:55:39] Thank you, ma'am.

[1:55:41] All right.

[1:55:43] Questions, go ahead.

[1:55:44] Yeah, questions just like to, Councilman Brosh, did you have a specific date and time in the future that you wanted this table to?

[1:55:51] were we tabling this? Definitely.

[1:55:53] I asked for next.

[1:55:56] Next meeting.

[1:55:57] Next meeting.

[1:55:57] I did not hear that.

[1:55:58] Which would be 24 or 25th.

[1:56:02] Right.

[1:56:02] Thank you.

[1:56:03] Meeting date.

[1:56:03] All right. Any other questions, statements in that regard?

[1:56:08] All right.

[1:56:09] Hearing none, please cast your votes.

[1:56:13] All right.

[1:56:14] And that is tabled.

[1:56:15] All right.

[1:56:16] And the motion carries 70.

[1:56:17] Thank you very much.

[1:56:19] All right.

[1:56:19] Item 23 dashed.

[1:56:20] 5, 5, 8, 6. All right, Mr. Ramirez, we got you really busy today.

[1:56:28] Yes.

[1:56:29] So this, I'm sorry.

[1:56:32] You good?

[1:56:32] This resolution would authorize the council to early termination of the maintenance and

[1:56:37] operations agreement with Bigley Dreams, Mansfield, LLC.

[1:56:41] The city executed an agreement with them to maintain and operate the sports park back in 2004.

[1:56:48] 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.

[1:56:57] The city sent them a notice of default on August 25th that they were late on one of the payments.

[1:57:05] The 10-day period for a cure has last and they are still in default.

[1:57:09] The agreement now allows the city to terminate the agreement if we so choose.

[1:57:13] 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.

[1:57:25] Thank you, Mr. Rivera.

[1:57:28] Thank you, Mayor and Council. I'm really just available for questions that Council does.

[1:57:33] 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.

[1:57:45] All right. Thank you very much. All right. Council members, there are any other statements

[1:57:50] in regard to this particular matter 23-5-5-8-6. We want to make it really clear that those

[1:57:58] individuals who already have our in-contractual agreements with us in regard to big league

[1:58:04] dreams they will continue. However, it appears as if as a council we are definitely leaning

[1:58:11] toward taking another move in regard to just terminating this relationship.

[1:58:18] Is that correct, that would you for?

[1:58:20] Yes, sir.

[1:58:20] Okay.

[1:58:21] All right.

[1:58:21] Anybody else need to offer anything in that regard?

[1:58:25] If not, ready to, go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead.

[1:58:28] I know anybody that's watching along, especially the sports leagues and everybody that are out there,

[1:58:33] Mr. Jones, will if this goes through in termination proceeds, the city would have the ability

[1:58:40] 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.

[1:58:53] 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.

[1:59:05] Yes. Okay. Thank you. All right. I'm missing anybody.

[1:59:11] All right. Go ahead, Mr. Norton.

[1:59:13] Yeah. Just for those watching, I think it's important for our citizens to know that one

[1:59:19] of the primary reasons driving this from our standpoint is the sheer condition of the facility.

[1:59:26] Our current, the folks that currently are partnered with the city and this facility have neglected

[1:59:32] 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.

[1:59:44] 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.

[1:59:58] There.

[2:00:00] 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.

[2:00:30] notice of termination and that would be effective 30 days after.

[2:00:33] Perfect, thank you.

[2:00:34] And with that said, I am prepared to receive a motion.

[2:00:38] Motion to proceed.

[2:00:39] Thank you, Ms. Bounds.

[2:00:40] Second.

[2:00:41] Thank you, Ms. Short.

[2:00:42] All right, questions, hearing none, please cast your votes.

[2:00:49] And that item carries 7-0.

[2:00:52] Thank you all very much.

[2:00:54] All right, we move now to item 15 on public hearing and resolutions.

[2:00:59] I'm 23, dad, 558 to a resolution public hearing on a resolution approving the fiscal year 2023, 2024 services and assessment plan for

[2:01:11] the South Point Public Improvement District, PIT, providing a severability clause and providing an effective date.

[2:01:21] All right, Mr. Lestina.

[2:01:22] Thank you, Mayor.

[2:01:24] What you have before you this evening is what you just read, the South Point Public Improvement District,

[2:01:31] our services and assessment plan.

[2:01:35] They are obligated to submit a new plan, a new five year plan every year.

[2:01:42] Last Thursday evening, there was a meeting held by the management company of all the

[2:01:48] South Point residents, if they were available to come, they came to that, had those discussions

[2:01:54] outside HOA meetings that night as well. And again, this is just the annual process that

[2:01:59] we go through for the public improvement district. And with that, I'll turn it over to you

[2:02:04] for any questions.

[2:02:06] Thank you, sir. I'll start on my right this time. The questions, statements on my right on

[2:02:12] 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?

[2:02:26] All right. I'll close the public hearing at 741 PM and I will call for a motion.

[2:02:32] Move to approve. Thank you, Ms. Short. Second. Thank you, Ms. Bounds. Questions?

[2:02:38] hearing none, please cash votes, and the item carries 7-0.

[2:02:45] Thank you all very much.

[2:02:47] All right, we move to item number 16, and that's item 23-5-4-9-9.

[2:02:54] Yes, ma'am.

[2:02:55] Public hearing, and first and final reading on an ordinance,

[2:03:00] amending chapter 1-5-5 of the code of ordinances of the City of Mansfield zoning

[2:03:05] by amending Special Purpose District regulations and creating a new section 155-074-T,

[2:03:12] Toe Row 360, Form-Based Development District 0A, number 23-0-0-2.

[2:03:20] I heard someone.

[2:03:20] Yes, Mr. Mayor.

[2:03:21] I'd like to offer table this particular item until our next order of schedule meeting on September 25th.

[2:03:31] All right, thank you, Mr. Newsom.

[2:03:33] Is there a second?

[2:03:35] All right. I think we all tied. All right. Miss short gets it. All right. Questions?

[2:03:43] Hearing none, please cast your votes.

[2:03:50] All right. And that motion carries 7-0. Thank

[2:03:55] you all very much. It is tabled. Item number 17, item 23, dash 5-5-0-0. It's an ordinance.

[2:04:02] Public hearing and first reading on an ordinance approving a change of zoning from PR

[2:04:07] 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

[2:04:37] in the survey, abstract number 432, city of Mansfield,

[2:04:40] Ellis County, Texas, located east of State Highway 360,

[2:04:44] south of Lone Star Road, and south of Britain Road,

[2:04:48] Arcadia, developer, ZC, 23s, only case 23-0-0-5.

[2:04:55] Mayor?

[2:04:56] Yes, ma'am.

[2:04:57] I'd like to table this item until the next meeting

[2:05:00] at September the 25th.

[2:05:03] All right, Mr. Bounds, they are second.

[2:05:05] Thank you, sir.

[2:05:08] All right.

[2:05:10] Questions?

[2:05:11] Hearing none, please catch votes.

[2:05:16] All right.

[2:05:17] That item carries.

[2:05:18] Six, one.

[2:05:19] Thank you all very much.

[2:05:22] Okay.

[2:05:23] All right.

[2:05:24] All right.

[2:05:25] Let the record show.

[2:05:28] Yeah, we'll let the record show bless us heart that he did mention this.

[2:05:33] So we will ask you to please catch votes.

[2:05:38] do over. Here we go, 7-0. Happy day. All right, Mr. Carey. All right. We move now to item

[2:05:47] 18. It's public hearing, continuation, second, and final rating. Items 23-5547 and 23-5546.

[2:05:59] Council, spare in mind that we will vote on these under the new business.

[2:06:05] All right. So, let me read these. 23-5547 is public hearing, public hearing, continuation

[2:06:12] of the second and final reading on the budget for the fiscal year of beginning, October

[2:06:16] 1, 2023, and ending, September 30, 2024, in accordance with the charter of the City

[2:06:22] of Mansfield and the appropriation of various amounts thereof. Mr. Smolinsky, I have you

[2:06:29] listed as the presenters, sir, but I say Mr. Listina, stand in there.

[2:06:33] So when they call in the relief pitchers there.

[2:06:35] All right.

[2:06:36] So hopefully I won't be as bad as the Texas Rangers.

[2:06:39] You know you said that.

[2:06:42] So this presentation will cover this item mayor as you indicated 5547 as well as 5546.

[2:06:52] So just so everyone knows that.

[2:06:57] Here we are on our final budget meeting and hearing.

[2:07:01] 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.

[2:07:19] So each year, Mr. Sponency covered this in the last meeting.

[2:07:25] Each year, the city submits their budget document in the annual comprehensive financial report to the GFOA.

[2:07:32] 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.

[2:07:45] But we do anticipate that we will receive that award as well.

[2:07:49] So we'll have those both for 37 years.

[2:07:51] And again, that started not with this staff or with this city manager,

[2:07:56] but with Mr. Chandler back in the late 80s.

[2:08:01] Tommy Johnson was here at that time as the finance director.

[2:08:05] That's when this tradition started.

[2:08:07] 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.

[2:08:14] Mr. Chandler and Ms. Johnson.

[2:08:18] Also, 36 years, again, with a clean audit, no findings in there as well, and that's always

[2:08:24] indicated in our annual financial report, and we'll start that process here in just a

[2:08:28] couple months as well.

[2:08:29] Our auditors will be on site, coming through our books like they always do, and we'll bring

[2:08:34] that presentation to you late February or March.

[2:08:39] What does our financial stability look like?

[2:08:41] Here we go, you can see that we have a AAA rating by standards and poor and our general fund bonds.

[2:08:47] We have a AAA rating from Fitch in both the water and sewer revenue bonds along with the drainage bonds.

[2:08:54] And we've had those for several years.

[2:08:57] 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.

[2:09:08] We're upgraded to the second highest rating that you can get, or the next rating that

[2:09:15] they would get there is that AAA rating as well.

[2:09:20] So as we pour into the budget, let's talk about some of the budget highlights.

[2:09:27] Back in June, this board voted to raise the homestead exemption 2% to 14%.

[2:09:34] We have a two little over greater than 2 cent tax reduction.

[2:09:39] The proposed rate that you'll see tonight is going to be 6, 5, 9, 2, 9, 3.

[2:09:44] And like we indicated there, just a little bit greater than 2% reduction in the tax rate.

[2:09:49] There's 10 new position citywide.

[2:09:51] We'll touch on those here in just a little bit.

[2:09:53] Along with about $5.4 million in capital improvements.

[2:09:58] Again, those are all funds citywide.

[2:10:00] Those are just some of the highlights that we wanted to touch on.

[2:10:02] Here are the positions in the general fund.

[2:10:07] We talked about this throughout the last couple of meetings that we've presented these things.

[2:10:12] There's eight full-time positions.

[2:10:14] Those eight full-time positions cost just a tad over $775,000.

[2:10:20] However, the budget impact is only $355,000 due to the reduction in some contractual savings that's in our current FY23 budget,

[2:10:29] along with some position reclassifications, taking a higher level position and

[2:10:35] reclassing into a lower level position that is a need in the city.

[2:10:40] You can see those positions up there that are make up the eight.

[2:10:44] There's 4.1 in capital equipment, we'll get to that detail here in a minute as well.

[2:10:49] And then $3.2 million in street maintenance.

[2:10:52] Now that's a 17% higher amount than we had last year.

[2:10:56] And we'll recall, we talked about this several times, the citizen satisfaction service says street, street, street congestion, congestion, congestion.

[2:11:05] So two years ago, we added, we upped the budget 50% and added two FTEs.

[2:11:11] Last year, we increased the budget another 10%.

[2:11:15] This year, we're increasing it another 17% along with another street tradesperson in this budget as well.

[2:11:21] And so we're trying to address those needs that our citizens say is the most need that we have in the city.

[2:11:29] And then within the budget as well, there's a market and merit-based assumptions for personnel of 3%.

[2:11:38] So here's a slide I think that everybody wants to see, right?

[2:11:41] So it's clear, we're in this budget, there's a council stipend of $2,000 per month.

[2:11:48] For council member, you can see the authorizations there that we have from the local government code at the state level.

[2:11:53] along with the what's in our charter, and I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Swoonskine

[2:11:59] let him make a couple comments.

[2:12:01] Thanks, Troy.

[2:12:02] I mean, everybody can read that word for word if they'd like to.

[2:12:06] I just want to point out again that we're looking at this slide.

[2:12:11] I said last year that when we did the budget presentation that I would put this up here,

[2:12:16] and I've remained true to my word, I also said that I would say it wasn't enough,

[2:12:22] And I want to reiterate those comments again here tonight.

[2:12:27] I think it's fitting that tonight, you guys are voting.

[2:12:32] You guys are actually going through an agenda that has three sets of minutes.

[2:12:36] You know, you met three times, three separate meetings on August 28th.

[2:12:40] It was an all day affair for several of you.

[2:12:42] Miss Bounds, I know you were one of those that was here for all three of those meetings.

[2:12:47] And I appreciate you being willing to do that.

[2:12:49] I want to read a couple of comments here and I think the section, first of all, I want

[2:12:59] to say that this section of the charter was voted on twice by the members of the public.

[2:13:05] September of 1974 was voted, the charter was voted on that allowed for council, it said

[2:13:12] Councilmen, men could receive salary and then in August of 1979 it was amended to say

[2:13:22] that the mayor and Councilmen may be paid. Section 304 compensation is where you can find

[2:13:30] that. It says the mayor and each Councilman may receive a salary set by the Council, plus

[2:13:37] the actual unnecessary expenses incurred in the performance of his specified official duties of the office.

[2:13:44] All expenses shall be subject to the approval of the council.

[2:13:48] I think they were smart in doing that.

[2:13:51] There was just one flaw in that section, and it's assumed that all of the council members would always be men.

[2:13:59] Thank God that was not the case.

[2:14:02] 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,

[2:14:32] All of these things, visiting with members of the community that call and want to spend time with you, they want your ear.

[2:14:39] All of those things represent an extreme demand on each council member.

[2:14:45] And the demands on their time aren't limited to the council members themselves.

[2:14:50] This demand affects their families.

[2:14:53] see Mr. Short just walked out probably didn't want to listen me say this again, but he

[2:15:00] 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.

[2:15:23] You know, affects their private businesses, many of them own businesses in town, some of

[2:15:29] them own many businesses in town, and it affects every one of those things.

[2:15:33] So before any of us utter the phrase, you know, they knew what they were signing up for,

[2:15:39] because I've heard people say that.

[2:15:41] Well, they knew what they were signing up for, so what?

[2:15:45] Let's remember that the job description for a council member can be found in section

[2:15:48] Section 309A of the Charter, so if anyone has that in front of you, you're welcome to look at that.

[2:15:54] And it states that Council shall meet regularly twice a month.

[2:16:00] It's found as far recall you met three times on August 28th, and everyone else met twice.

[2:16:07] One Council member told me more than a year ago that being on Council is a rich person's game.

[2:16:14] And this comment wasn't made with pride.

[2:16:17] It wasn't a boastful comment, it seemed to be to be more of an alarm going off in this individual's mind.

[2:16:27] And in an effort to make service on the City Council possible for more than just a small fraction of the citizens.

[2:16:36] I think that this $2,000 a month that we're recommending, Troy, you and I, recommending tonight that they accept.

[2:16:44] it doesn't replace the revenue lost by each of these council members, it doesn't even

[2:16:49] come close. However, for a large segment of the population, for our citizens, our voters,

[2:16:58] our residents, I think this may very well make serving on the council after being elected

[2:17:03] by the voters at least possible to dedicate the sort of time that it takes to do this job

[2:17:11] and do this job well.

[2:17:14] I know for a fact that many of them donate their stipends

[2:17:17] to Mansfield Charities, and I don't know a single one of them that does this for

[2:17:21] personal gain, regardless of what, what do they call Hell on Earth, what it's

[2:17:27] actually, social media. Sorry, whatever social media says.

[2:17:33] You know, I don't know

[2:17:34] a single one of them that does, but even if it did somehow cover all of the

[2:17:38] hours missed or revenue lost. Is that a bad thing? You know, that doesn't, that doesn't

[2:17:44] make sense to me. And it, it, it, it does make, it does make service to the city as a

[2:17:53] member of the city council possible to more people if this is available. I know that many

[2:17:59] of them take it not for themselves, they take it so it is possible for somebody else to

[2:18:04] 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.

[2:18:24] That's all I have to say about that. It's for Scott, let's say.

[2:18:27] All right, thank you.

[2:18:33] Moving on, so do we have in the other funds in their various budgets or positions or capital?

[2:18:40] There's one new position in the parks fund, the MEDC, economic development corporation has one new position as well.

[2:18:47] It's approximately a million dollars of capital equipment in the utility fund and

[2:18:51] then the environmental services fund or what is also collected we've referred to as the drainage fund has

[2:18:57] about $34,000 capital equipment in that.

[2:19:00] We'll see the detail broken down here on these next few slides.

[2:19:04] Here's the detail for the general fund, that $4.1 million.

[2:19:09] You can see the majority of this capital is related to our public safety.

[2:19:15] Over $2.7 million of the $4.1 is related to public safety.

[2:19:21] One of those largest things being a new Spartan fire engine.

[2:19:26] that has been ordered and that will take about 12 to 18 months to get delivered, but we have that in there.

[2:19:36] Capital equipment and the other funds that we talked about, there's the $217,000 for the Parks Fund,

[2:19:42] 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.

[2:19:52] So let's start getting into the actual numbers.

[2:19:56] We'll start with the economic development corporation.

[2:20:00] Again, this was funded by a half cent sales tax.

[2:20:04] It was approved by the voters in 1997.

[2:20:07] 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.

[2:20:18] They also now have the ability to spend on type B projects as well.

[2:20:23] You can see on the left, every screen will have the revenues on the right or the expenditures.

[2:20:30] The charter requires us to have a balanced budget and have these things voted on by September the 15th.

[2:20:37] And so we are complying with all of those charter requirements.

[2:20:42] As we move on to the parks facility, development corporation.

[2:20:46] Again, you can see on the screen, this was approved by the voters as a half-cent sales

[2:20:51] tax in 1992, again sometimes called for B or type B activities.

[2:20:58] They have a little bit of water revenue source here, not just the sales tax, they have the

[2:21:03] least revenues from our public-private partnerships and then the MAC, and its activities fall

[2:21:09] in this category as well.

[2:21:12] So again, presenting a balanced budget for FY 24.

[2:21:17] Moving on to the Utility Fund.

[2:21:20] This is an enterprise fund that accounts for all of the water and sewer operations and

[2:21:26] capital equipment within the city.

[2:21:30] Balance budget, water and sewer sales are the biggest sources of revenues there.

[2:21:35] And then the cost of water and sewer are a part of the operations they make up the majority

[2:21:41] of those costs as well for the operational piece along with the salaries and the individuals

[2:21:48] in that department. As we move on to the Environmental Services Fund or the Drainage Fund, they

[2:21:55] only have one revenue source, just a nice big blue dot up there, offset by their expenditures

[2:22:01] on the left again, balance budget for everyone to see there. The next fund that we always

[2:22:08] want to show here is the hotel motel fund. In the past years we've had presentations from

[2:22:15] the applicants to council. We've done that in the past. This year we had one application.

[2:22:22] It was for the Waterburger basketball tournament or championship basketball tournament

[2:22:28] that is held at the MISD campuses around town. There was one allocation of $10,000. At this time

[2:22:36] 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

[2:22:41] I'm putting you on the spot so we didn't talk about this before so I was putting around the spot there but

[2:22:48] That there was only one allocation there this year and so we can see that there is a balanced budget here as well

[2:22:53] 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

[2:23:01] Let's see the majority of our revenue is coming from property taxes.

[2:23:05] The second most revenue line there is our sales utility and

[2:23:10] mixed drink taxes and then decreasing down from there the eight point almost four million dollars in franchise fees that

[2:23:21] we show for the going back here just slightly.

[2:23:27] No, I'm sorry, but a little quick question, then on other non-departmental piece of that, what is that allocated to?

[2:23:37] The $259,000?

[2:23:39] Yes.

[2:23:40] Okay.

[2:23:40] So $250,000 of that is a carryover from FY23.

[2:23:47] The Council allocated $250,000 for the museum repairs downtown.

[2:23:53] Unfortunately, those repairs were not being, we're not able to be done in this fiscal year.

[2:23:57] So we're carrying them over to the next fiscal year so that they can still be completed.

[2:24:01] Okay, thank you.

[2:24:02] 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.

[2:24:12] All right, thanks.

[2:24:14] I apologize, I missed your cue there for a question.

[2:24:17] So back to the general fund revenues, again, property tax, sales tax, the two biggest pieces of the revenues there as well.

[2:24:27] Down in other, we have interest earnings, sale of city property, expense recoveries, our contractual jail housing, grants, and

[2:24:37] other gas royalty revenues in there as well.

[2:24:41] As we move to the expenditure side, you can see there the largest share as I indicated in our

[2:24:48] Our capital equipment, our largest share, is public safety keeping the community safe with police and fire dispatch.

[2:24:55] 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.

[2:25:05] In our transfers department, we have the transfer out of $4.1 million to the equipment replacement fund that's accounted for in here.

[2:25:14] We have our insurance, we have other transfers, we have economic incentives.

[2:25:23] 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.

[2:25:45] And we share in that with those individuals, those companies.

[2:25:51] Here's our debt service for the general fund for next year.

[2:25:56] You can see that went from $16 million to $20 million.

[2:26:00] What's the increase there for all recall, we're building a public safety building.

[2:26:07] Ms. Coleman talked about it a little bit on that $36 million contract.

[2:26:11] So we borrowed those funds last year at this time and started that process so that we could build that

[2:26:17] Naturally drove that up, but if you'll recall what our policy is in the first 10 years

[2:26:22] In the issuance of our debt. We pay down 60% of our debt in the first 10 years

[2:26:28] And that's been the longstanding policy and so we get that debt on the books

[2:26:32] But we try to get it off as quickly as possible as well and then last meeting as well on the

[2:26:38] the right-hand side of the screen there, the 2023, this Council authorizing a pre-payment

[2:26:45] that will happen in February of $24 million.

[2:26:50] So in the course of three years, we paid down over $10 million in principal getting those

[2:26:57] things off of our books, saving the taxpayers interest in the long run.

[2:27:02] The other thing I want to mention on here is the general obligation debt that was issued last fall for approximately $5.1 million.

[2:27:11] 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.

[2:27:24] That was a $10 million ask at the time.

[2:27:28] we borrowed half of that last year.

[2:27:30] That was about on the ballot.

[2:27:32] It said it was just under a penny increase.

[2:27:34] It was .008, just under a penny increase.

[2:27:38] We did not pass that penny increase that we said we would need to along to the voters.

[2:27:44] In fact, last year we reduced the tax rate.

[2:27:46] We were reducing the tax rate again this year and you'll see that in just a few slides.

[2:27:50] So I want to bring that to your attention as well.

[2:27:53] So as we move into our capital improvement plans,

[2:27:56] This is one of our requirements to show Council and residents as well.

[2:28:03] These are the projects that are in progress for FY24.

[2:28:07] I'm not going to read all of those up there.

[2:28:10] These are the projects that will be under design in FY24.

[2:28:15] And then these are the projects that construction will happen or continue to happen

[2:28:19] on in FY24 as well.

[2:28:22] So, utility construction, there are the FY-24 projects that will start in FY-24.

[2:28:31] Some of those will be able to be completed.

[2:28:33] The major one there are those, the water treatment, plant expansion, and as we go to let

[2:28:38] that contract later on in the year, that will obviously come back to this board for their

[2:28:44] approval.

[2:28:44] The parks system and their FY24 plans, those first three, the Walnut Creek Linear Trail,

[2:28:54] phase two, eight, three B, four A and B. Again, relate to that GO bond money that we borrowed

[2:29:01] to complete those, and then you can see the rest of those on there as well.

[2:29:05] Many of those are under design or have started development as well

[2:29:10] and making those improvements in these various areas.

[2:29:15] And our other funds, what are we doing for capital improvements?

[2:29:20] As we talked about, there's the police headquarters design.

[2:29:24] We'll be finishing up the animal control and service center design as well.

[2:29:28] We brought that forward.

[2:29:29] Council brought that to us last year and wanted to push that forward.

[2:29:32] We're moving forward on those.

[2:29:34] In the drainage construction fund, those are the continuation of the projects from FY23.

[2:29:38] The first three, and then the last will be new projects that will be started in FY24.

[2:29:47] So what does your proposed ordinance look like that you will be voting on later on tonight?

[2:29:52] This is the proposed ordinance, a total budget of $355 million in all these.

[2:30:00] 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.

[2:30:28] if anybody notices that from our last public hearing.

[2:30:34] 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.

[2:30:45] So there's the no new revenue rate and the voter approval rate.

[2:30:48] You can see the difference there, and then what we're proposing this year is 659293.

[2:30:58] Almost six cents under the voter approval rate, about 5.2 under the voter approval rate.

[2:31:08] 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.

[2:31:28] As we move on, again, this is just a breakdown between our INS and operations rate, and then

[2:31:36] just again comparing the 2002 tax year, which is FY23 to the tax year, FY23 or FY24 budget.

[2:31:46] Sometimes those dates get a little confusing even for staff.

[2:31:52] Here's the history of the proposed tax rate.

[2:31:57] As you can see, we started with the homestead exemption in 2020.

[2:32:02] 10% kept it there for one year and then the last two years have raised it 2%.

[2:32:07] We've had a steady decrease as well in the overall tax rate.

[2:32:13] Starting with two cents in going into 2020.

[2:32:17] kept it there for 21 and then a pinning increase and now just a tad over two

[2:32:24] cents decrease going into 23. Our various percentages have stayed relatively the

[2:32:31] same throughout this process. It looks like it ticked up there just a little bit in

[2:32:37] 23. That has more to do with the reduction in the rate than in the actual rate or

[2:32:45] the percentages itself. You can see our INS side has stayed fairly constant throughout

[2:32:53] the last five years. We've slowly ticked down the operational side due to the decreases

[2:33:01] in the tax rate. The first two years for rollback rates, SB2 started in 2020. So that's why

[2:33:10] Now you have the different names there, the different definitions of those various rates.

[2:33:20] And with that, I will end my presentation there.

[2:33:25] As I indicated, this is also for the next public hearing on the tax rate as well.

[2:33:31] And with that, Mayor, I'll turn it back over to you for any questions for you, or can you say?

[2:33:35] Thank you very much, sir.

[2:33:37] All right, Mr. Lewis, thank you, Mayor.

[2:33:39] 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.

[2:34:07] 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.

[2:34:33] in this environment that maybe other cities in the area don't necessarily have to deal with right now.

[2:34:40] 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.

[2:34:50] And then you mentioned on the INS side, that's were aggressively paying off debt.

[2:34:57] And what I kind of weighed out early on in this budget process was we've got two citizens satisfaction.

[2:35:03] action surveys, that the primary thing is fixed streets, fixed roads, make better interconnectivity.

[2:35:09] And don't let me get a flat tire on a pothole on Debbie, right?

[2:35:14] And so we went through what the balance of those were.

[2:35:20] And it's interesting when I look at the, I know we're not proposing to accept the known revenue rate.

[2:35:26] I appreciate that you dropped us a full penny from the last time, but in the actual ordinance,

[2:35:36] the line-up says that this tax rate will raise more taxes from maintenance and operations than last year's tax rate.

[2:35:42] That tax rate will effectively be raised by 1.18%.

[2:35:48] So we're in a 7% inflationary environment.

[2:35:53] And all of the pieces in there and maintenance and operation side were 1.18% increase to be able to.

[2:36:03] You talked about we increased the street maintenance budget 15%, which is after a year of raising it by over a million dollars.

[2:36:11] And then everything else is going to pay down aggressively debt so that we can create funding capacity, get rid of high interest debt.

[2:36:19] 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.

[2:36:32] And so what I had to weigh out as we looked at this is no new revenue versus the proposed rate.

[2:36:38] It's not a substantial difference to the average, I get every penny counts, I get that.

[2:36:44] But if I were to ask the majority of Mansfield residents, would you like to save this $1 amount, which is a relatively minor?

[2:36:51] Or would you rather fix broad in 360?

[2:36:54] 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.

[2:37:04] 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.

[2:37:15] and no homestead exemption, we're not at 14% homestead exemption.

[2:37:20] The rate has fallen now seven cents almost and I don't see that policy slowing down.

[2:37:28] That's going to continue as we offset even rising appraisal ties.

[2:37:33] 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.

[2:37:41] It's great to be able to say, yeah, no new revenue but what does that mean to the city?

[2:37:45] It means that the police don't get raises, it means we can't increase the funding that we do on streets.

[2:37:49] It means we're delaying purchasing new vehicles or equipment for our first responders.

[2:37:55] Those aren't the things that Mansfield's known for either, so great job.

[2:37:59] Thank you.

[2:38:00] Good job, very well said.

[2:38:02] One else, Mr. Newsom?

[2:38:05] Yeah, thank you Troy for the presentation.

[2:38:07] You know what, I think overall it's a very good budget.

[2:38:11] I mean, there's still other things we would like to see different little pieces here, little pieces there, yeah, for sure.

[2:38:18] I mean, my goal has elected is continue to see that tax rate come down and increasing that homestead exemption.

[2:38:26] 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.

[2:38:36] 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.

[2:38:45] So thank you for your time.

[2:38:47] 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.

[2:38:59] So thank you.

[2:39:00] Thank you.

[2:39:01] All right, good job.

[2:39:02] All right, anyone else to my left?

[2:39:06] All right.

[2:39:07] All right, Ms. Lucina, good job.

[2:39:10] All right, so I will continue the public hearing at 8.18 p.m.

[2:39:19] Do I have any cards, ma'am, for this particular item?

[2:39:22] All right, now for this one.

[2:39:23] All right, well then I will close the public hearing at 8.18 p.m.

[2:39:29] Thank you very much.

[2:39:30] Council just to be reminded we will act on this

[2:39:33] under new business.

[2:39:34] All right, moving right along.

[2:39:36] to item 23-5546, and again, the presentation has been given, and I will read this public hearing.

[2:39:45] Public hearing continuation, second and final reading on the tax rate,

[2:39:49] leaving the Adelorm Taxes for the fiscal year 2024 at rate of 0.659293 per $100 assessed valuation

[2:40:00] and bless you on all tax full property within the corporate limits of the city as of January 1, 2023.

[2:40:08] To provide revenues for the payment of current expenditures as to provide an interest and

[2:40:14] sinking fund on an outstanding debt of the city and providing for due and delinquent dates together

[2:40:22] with penalties and interest. All right, I will continue the public hearing

[2:40:30] at 819 p.m. and I believe we have one court here in that regard. And I'll call Mr. Tom Corbin.

[2:40:42] Judge Corbin, all right. And you have five minutes, sir. Please state your name and your

[2:40:48] address yet. Honorable Mayor, City Council of Persons, my name is Tom Corbin.

[2:40:58] Post all

[2:40:58] I am a resident of Mansfield.

[2:41:02] Each year I come and ask the same question I believe and so Troy is probably ready for

[2:41:07] it.

[2:41:09] And I'm sure he may have covered that already, but this is a technical area when you compare

[2:41:14] a praised values which continue to grow up everywhere in Texas.

[2:41:19] And as a little background, probably five or six years ago, there was a public hearing put

[2:41:25] gone by the state of Texas at the University of Texas at Arlington, there were representatives

[2:41:31] of the city there, there were a number of typical citizens, and there were another number

[2:41:36] of citizens that are barely making it because of the bad but warm taxes.

[2:41:43] And as we know from most of us have been here in Texas for a while, that is the major source

[2:41:48] of income that we run our state off of because we don't have an income tax.

[2:41:53] And I'm not up here advocating for income tax, but nonetheless, the legislature passed

[2:42:01] a law that has to deal with a cap on the growth of appraisals and revenue for the city.

[2:42:09] What that cap is, and each year I ask where we fall under that cap.

[2:42:16] And if Troy is prepared to tell us that tonight, that's your direction.

[2:42:21] I'm willing to hear it, or if we need to meet later on, I can't find you that.

[2:42:27] Now we can let him do that.

[2:42:30] So the majority of the residential properties were at the 10% cap, commercial properties

[2:42:39] don't have a cap on them.

[2:42:42] The majority of residential properties were at the 10% cap.

[2:42:46] But as you'll hear, Mr. Lewis kind of referred to it when we get to the motion on the tax

[2:42:51] rate, we're not raising our taxes, which is going to be generated this year versus last year.

[2:42:58] It was 1.8% is what we're going.

[2:43:03] We know inflation has been in double digits in some months and so that's why we proposed

[2:43:11] the rate that we did the 6, 5, 9, 2, 9, 3, just a 1% increase, 1.8% increase.

[2:43:19] I wonder if we're talking about the same law a few years ago, it was about 4 percent.

[2:43:25] Now, this is not necessarily the rate.

[2:43:27] It's the revenue that's about a 4 percent cap, 3.5 percent.

[2:43:30] Okay, so I apologize, Mr. Corbyn, so you're talking about the SB2.

[2:43:35] So SB2, that's code, what does that mean?

[2:43:38] That was a Senate bill.

[2:43:40] That's the Senate bill, yes, sir.

[2:43:41] That was the Senate bill, too, that was passed.

[2:43:43] 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.

[2:43:54] Before 2020, cities could raise their rate 8%, up to 8%.

[2:44:02] SB2 lowered that to 3.5%.

[2:44:05] And so we're at that 1.8%.

[2:44:08] So we're under the three-and-a-half that state all allows.

[2:44:14] Do you know off the top of your head, how far under that 3.5 we are?

[2:44:19] Almost six cents.

[2:44:22] Okay, all right.

[2:44:24] That's the section I was looking for.

[2:44:26] We are under that, of course.

[2:44:28] Oh, yes, sir.

[2:44:29] I know we are. You wouldn't bring it to us.

[2:44:31] But this is a very technical area for any citizen to understand with that.

[2:44:36] Getting into it.

[2:44:37] It is very technical and that truth in taxation form, which I refer to in my presentation

[2:44:43] Taxicessor collector Miss Burgess office prepares those for us, but yes, it's on our website

[2:44:49] 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

[2:45:05] All right. Thank you very much. All right. Seeing no other cards, I will close the public hearing at 8.24 p.m.

[2:45:18] 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.

[2:45:30] of fiscal year beginning, October 1, 2023, and ending September 30th, 2024, in

[2:45:38] accordance with the charter of the City of Mansfield and making appropriations

[2:45:44] for each fund and department.

[2:45:48] All right, there's Dylan, I'll call for the motion.

[2:45:51] Motion chair approved.

[2:45:52] Thank you, Miss Short, and I heard a second, I believe, I'm Mr. Brock.

[2:45:56] Thank you, sir.

[2:45:57] There are questions.

[2:45:59] Earing non-please-gash votes,

[2:46:04] all right, the motion carries 7-0.

[2:46:07] Thank you very much.

[2:46:08] All right, item 23-5571.

[2:46:12] Yes, the apologies to interrupt, but there's some technical language that has to be read

[2:46:16] with that motion, can remove to a different one until they can provide that.

[2:46:20] In fact, I've got one other item.

[2:46:23] On the budget, we have to take one more vote.

[2:46:27] There's specifically state law requires a vote that would read such as this.

[2:46:31] Motion to ratify the property tax increase reflected in the budget.

[2:46:35] Again, as is required by the state law, it doesn't change what the budget actually does,

[2:46:41] which is everything that Mr. Listina just described and presented to you.

[2:46:45] But because the budget does have that 1.18% increase,

[2:46:49] the state law requires that that additional motion be made and approved by council.

[2:46:53] Okay. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Got that, ma'am. All right. Ms. Short.

[2:47:01] I'd like to make a motion to ratify the property tax increase as stated in the budget. Appreciate you, ma'am. All right.

[2:47:09] We've seconded that. Thank you, Mr. Brush. All right. In additional questions. All right. Hearing none, please can't vote.

[2:47:20] Again, 7-0, the motion carries.

[2:47:24] All right, thank you very much.

[2:47:25] Be good?

[2:47:26] All right.

[2:47:27] All right.

[2:47:28] Item 23-5571, it is an ordinance of the City of Mansfield, Texas levee-

[2:47:34] leveeying, the Advalorum Taxes for Fiscal Year 2024, the rate of 0.659293 per $100,

[2:47:44] assess valuation on all taxable property within the corporate limits of the city.

[2:47:50] As of January 1, 2023, to provide revenues for the payment of current expended

[2:47:56] chores and to provide an interest and sinking fund on all outstanding debts of the city

[2:48:03] and providing for due and delinquent dates together with penalties and interest.

[2:48:09] Call for the motion there.

[2:48:10] Most to approve.

[2:48:12] Thank you, Mr. Brown.

[2:48:13] There has to be specific language choice getting it to us right now.

[2:48:16] 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?

[2:48:25] Yes, sir. I can withdraw.

[2:48:27] Okay, we need a second.

[2:48:29] We'll need a second. We're good.

[2:48:42] I'm down on the other end.

[2:48:56] Okay, Mayor, I would like to move this tax rate or raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year's tax rate.

[2:49:06] 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.

[2:49:23] Thank you, sir.

[2:49:25] There's second.

[2:49:27] Second.

[2:49:29] Thank you, ma'am.

[2:49:30] All right.

[2:49:35] Yes, sir, go ahead.

[2:49:38] There is another statement that we need to include with the motion.

[2:49:42] My apologies.

[2:50:11] Mayer, I move that the statement that I just may be approved.

[2:50:19] All right.

[2:50:19] Read the additional.

[2:50:28] You're all right.

[2:50:29] I need to, I'll remove the previous motion, and this is reread it.

[2:50:34] It will be easier.

[2:50:36] All right.

[2:50:38] So there you go.

[2:50:47] So Mayor, I move that the property tax be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 0.659,

[2:50:55] well, yes, 0.659293 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, which is effectively an 8.29% increase in the tax rate.

[2:51:10] Demonstrating the City Council is of the opinion that the tax rate here and after

[2:51:15] set forth as proper and should be approved and adopted.

[2:51:20] All righty, that was second.

[2:51:24] Miss short, you're a trooper, I tell you.

[2:51:27] All right, motion and a second, any statements?

[2:51:30] Mayor, that checks all the boxes, it's perfect.

[2:51:33] All right, touchdown.

[2:51:36] All right, any questions?

[2:51:38] hearing cash evokes. There you go. Emotion carries 7-0. All righty then. I know 23-5-5-8-5.

[2:51:55] Resolution to approve an economic development and performance agreement between

[2:51:59] Mansfield Economic Development Corporation and EMR Development Corporation and Carlton

[2:52:04] and development, L-T-D, and authorize the Board.

[2:52:08] President, to execute the agreement, Mr. Moore.

[2:52:12] Thank you, Mayor Counsel.

[2:52:13] This is the Campbell development that's being developed by Kim McCaslin, her team,

[2:52:18] just south of the Julian off the toll road 360.

[2:52:21] There's an additional expenditure with the improvement to Harmon Road as required by

[2:52:26] the development codes as they develop a mixed use project.

[2:52:30] Since there is a commercial component to this,

[2:52:32] This MEDC does have the ability to participate in those infrastructure projects and that's

[2:52:37] what this agreement contemplates.

[2:52:38] We met with the MEDC board on September 5th and they voted 60 for approval.

[2:52:44] This agreement does cap the expenditure at 323,400 or the actual cost, the lesser of the two

[2:52:54] of Harmon Road improvements.

[2:52:56] 50% would be paid upon commencement of the vertical construction of the commercial component

[2:53:01] and then the 50% upon certificate of occupancy.

[2:53:05] Happy to answer any questions, and the developer is here as well.

[2:53:09] All right.

[2:53:11] Any questions?

[2:53:12] Still my right.

[2:53:15] Yes.

[2:53:16] You're just going to have Mr. Nusom.

[2:53:18] Generally speaking, this would have been on our third fair plan anyway.

[2:53:22] Is that correct?

[2:53:23] This road?

[2:53:24] Yes.

[2:53:25] And you know, approximately how soon this is moving that up in that time frame?

[2:53:31] It was raining, you know, the answer to that.

[2:53:34] Well, it's definitely over five years, it's not on our five year current plan.

[2:53:38] So it's not on a current five year schedule, so can tell you an exact date, but at least five years.

[2:53:44] But it does add additional access to, like say, 360 as far as an access road.

[2:53:51] Correct.

[2:53:51] Yes, okay.

[2:53:53] This person's track.

[2:53:55] All right, anybody else?

[2:53:56] to my right, to my left.

[2:54:00] You're about to go.

[2:54:02] All right.

[2:54:03] Prepare to receive a motion at this time.

[2:54:06] Move to approve.

[2:54:07] Thank you, ma'am.

[2:54:10] Is there a second?

[2:54:12] Y'all second.

[2:54:13] Thank you, sir.

[2:54:14] Mr. Janore.

[2:54:16] All right.

[2:54:17] Please cash to both.

[2:54:19] There are no questions for the questions.

[2:54:21] Cash to vote.

[2:54:23] All right.

[2:54:24] All right, and that item carries five, two.

[2:54:28] Thank you very much.

[2:54:30] All right, now we're at board appointments.

[2:54:34] Item 23-553, board appointments, Mansfield Park Facilities Development Corporation, and I'll call for a motion, Mr. Luce.

[2:54:46] Yes, Mr. Mayor, with regards to the Mansfield Park Facility Development Corporation, I make a motion to reappoint Scott.

[2:54:54] 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.

[2:55:19] Thank you, sir.

[2:55:21] Is there a second?

[2:55:22] Second.

[2:55:23] Thank you, ma'am.

[2:55:24] Questions hearing on?

[2:55:27] Please cast your votes.

[2:55:29] Item care is 7-0.

[2:55:32] All right, item 23-555-4 is Board Appointments,

[2:55:36] Manswell Economic Development Corporation, Ms. Schulte.

[2:55:40] Yes, Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to reappoint

[2:55:43] Juan Fresquez, Todd Simmons, and Nicole Zatun

[2:55:46] to serve a two-year term.

[2:55:47] Point Jim Vashasquez to serve a two-year term and a point David Godden as chair slash president.

[2:55:55] Thank you, ma'am.

[2:55:57] Is there a second?

[2:55:59] A second.

[2:56:00] All right, I believe Mr. Brosh won that.

[2:56:03] All right.

[2:56:03] Questions?

[2:56:04] Hearing none.

[2:56:05] Please cast your votes.

[2:56:09] Item Carrier 7-0.

[2:56:11] Item 23-5-5-5-5-5.

[2:56:15] All right.

[2:56:16] That's the planning and zoning commission board appointments, Mr. Brosh.

[2:56:21] That's not in there.

[2:56:22] I'm sorry, Ms. Bounds.

[2:56:25] I'd like to read a point like Axon, Michael Bennett, Patrick Moses to a two-year term,

[2:56:31] and a point Michael Maynard as Chair.

[2:56:35] All right, is there a second?

[2:56:37] Thank you, ma'am.

[2:56:38] I'm sure it's second that.

[2:56:40] Questions, hearing none, please cast a vote.

[2:56:47] And then item carries 7-0.

[2:56:50] All right, item 23-5-5-6, and board appointments, zoning board of adjustments.

[2:56:58] Is that Mr. Brock?

[2:56:59] All right, Mr. Brock.

[2:57:01] Mayor, I move to reappoint Edith Lisa, Martin, and Noel Rendon to serve a two-year term,

[2:57:07] and appoint Kat Watan as an alternate to serve a two-year term.

[2:57:12] Thank you, sir.

[2:57:13] Second.

[2:57:13] All right, make sure it's getting all the seconds here.

[2:57:16] All right, and of course hearing now, please catch your votes.

[2:57:21] All right, 7-0, that motion carries.

[2:57:25] Item 23-557.

[2:57:28] Board appointments, as the HLC historic landmark commission.

[2:57:32] Mr. Norton.

[2:57:34] Yeah, Mayor, I'd like to move to a real point, Robert Smith, to serve a two-year term,

[2:57:39] a point NYDAC, and Jennifer Johnston to serve a two-year term.

[2:57:43] second.

[2:57:47] Second. Second. Second. All right. All right. All hang on. It's called

[2:57:49] midshort. All right. There's Ms. Bounds. This time. Thank you. All right?

[2:57:54] Any questions? Hearing none. That item carries seven, zero. All right. Item 23-555

[2:58:05] 8 board appointments historic preservation advisory board. Yes, Mr. Mayor. I'd like

[2:58:12] I'd like to make, excuse me, a motion to reappoint

[2:58:15] Crystal Hahn and Marty Thomas to serve a two-year term.

[2:58:20] All right.

[2:58:21] There's second.

[2:58:22] Second.

[2:58:23] All right.

[2:58:25] I'm going to give it to Mr. Brock.

[2:58:27] All right.

[2:58:27] Thank you.

[2:58:28] Question.

[2:58:29] All right.

[2:58:30] Please cast votes.

[2:58:35] 7-0.

[2:58:37] All right.

[2:58:38] Item 23-5-5-9.

[2:58:41] Board appointments.

[2:58:42] Library advisory board.

[2:58:45] Yes, I'd like to re-appoint Richard Aginicoco, Debra Collins, Cynthia Gray, and Bobby Quintin

[2:58:50] to serve a two-year term and appoint Lee Ann Osborne to fill an unexpired one-year term.

[2:58:57] All right.

[2:58:58] There's a second.

[2:58:59] Second.

[2:59:00] All right, Mr. News.

[2:59:01] Thank you.

[2:59:02] Questions?

[2:59:05] I ask your votes.

[2:59:12] All right, then I'm Carey 7-0.

[2:59:14] All right, item 23-556-0 board appointments keep Mansfield beautiful commissions.

[2:59:20] Mr. Mayor, I'd like to reappoint Alex Godina and Lisa Kamez to serve a two-year term,

[2:59:28] appoint Stacey Penny to serve a two-year term.

[2:59:32] All right, second.

[2:59:34] Second.

[2:59:36] All right, Mr. Brush, questions.

[2:59:40] Here we go.

[2:59:46] All right, then item Carrey 7-0.

[2:59:49] All right, board appointments, construction, code, board of adjustment and

[2:59:55] Appeals, I'd go ahead and just like to make a motion to re-appoint Justin Gilmore, Kenneth

[3:00:00] 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?

[3:00:29] That was it. Newsom. All righty. Happy day. All right. Okay. We'll say Casey. All right.

[3:00:35] Carried 7-0 and we'll adjourn at 839 p.m. y'all have a great evening. Yes, ma'am.

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