[0:09] Colony to order. Our first item of business is an invocation, and with us tonight is Pastor

[0:18] Zeke Trezevant with the Hope, Faith, I'm sorry, with the Faith, Hope and Love Fellowship. Please

[0:27] join us in prayer or lead us in prayer. Yes.

[0:33] First of all, good evening and thank you

[0:34] for the invitation. We certainly do appreciate it, and I hate to turn my back on you, but

[0:38] such it is as it is. If you don't mind, let's go to prayer.

[0:42] Definitely, Father God, Lord, we just come before you as your servants, Father. And Lord,

[0:46] we pray a special blessing on these, your special servants for the city of the colony

[0:50] that they may be able to do your will, your way, and then by following your word,

[0:55] Father, we ask that you just touch these, the citizens of the colony and help us

[1:01] said collectively and individually to give you glory through works of service. Allow us

[1:05] to be obedient to the things that you've already ordained and ask us to do. Continue to strengthen

[1:10] us and camp your angels all around us that we might be able to be good servants to you.

[1:16] And Father, we worship you. We honor you. We thank you for the opportunity just to

[1:20] be of service because you will have service to us when you died on Calvary's cross.

[1:25] So we thank you right now. It's in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

[1:29] you, we pray, amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you and we look forward to having you join

[1:34] us again. Thank you. Everyone please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

[1:40] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

[1:46] Worcester Stamps, one nation under God, indivisible.

[1:53] Now the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state

[1:59] Under God, one and indivisible.

[2:03] Thank you.

[2:11] We move on to items of community interest.

[2:14] We receive a presentation from the library regarding upcoming events and activities.

[2:19] Welcome for the first time in 2022.

[2:22] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[2:24] Good evening.

[2:24] I am Megan Charters.

[2:26] I'm the library director at the Collin Public Library.

[2:28] I'm just going to share about the activities and events going on this month

[2:31] and the beginning of February.

[2:34] So our early literacy activities are in full swing.

[2:37] We have storytime on Tuesdays at 10.15 a.m.,

[2:40] music and movement storytimes on Thursdays at 10.15 a.m.

[2:44] We have a monthly storytime at Chick-fil-A in the colony

[2:47] where we sing, do crafts and have stories.

[2:49] That's the first Monday of every month at 10.15 a.m.

[2:52] And starting in February, we are having our discovery play workshop.

[2:56] This is through a grant we received in 2019.

[2:59] We put on a workshop for parents and caregivers and their very young children age one through

[3:05] three to connect and play and we bring in community resource professionals so they can

[3:09] ask questions about child development.

[3:11] Registration is required for this and you can do that at tcpl.ticketweep.com.

[3:18] For family activities, we have our story walks continuing this year.

[3:22] We started this last year when a lot of people were needing to get out of the house

[3:26] but didn't have the place to go.

[3:27] So we set up story walks around the colony.

[3:29] we use the local parks. We take a storybook in English and Spanish, put it on

[3:33] boards around the park so they can interact with the story. We have

[3:36] interactive prompts for them and enjoy nature at the same time. So that is this

[3:40] Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We'll have it up at Slate Baker Park.

[3:46] For teen

[3:47] activities, we have a couple activities this month. We have make your own mug

[3:50] on Thursday January 20th. You can make your own coffee mug, design it, and we'll

[3:54] bake it for you in the oven. We have a take-home kit where you can use an

[3:59] old book and turn the pages into a book bouquet of roses. That is take home so you can register

[4:04] starting Monday February 7th and you can pick it up at our drive-through window or at our

[4:08] circulation desk. And we also have team cupcake decorating on February 17th after Valentine's

[4:13] Day.

[4:16] For adult activities, we just started registration today for AARP Foundation Tax Aid.

[4:23] This is free tax assistance provided by trained AARP volunteers to assist in 2021

[4:28] 21 income tax returns. There's no age or income limit on this. You can sign up for free. You

[4:34] just need to call our reference desk at 972-625-1900, extension 3 will set you up with an appointment.

[4:40] You can either drop it off or they can do it in person for you this year. And that

[4:43] runs February through April.

[4:48] And we are also going with Spice Club again. If you don't

[4:51] know what Spice Club is at the library, the first rule of Spice Club is try something

[4:58] new. We do want to talk about Spice Club. We believe that learning includes trying new

[5:05] things. So every month we have samples of two different spices from different regions or

[5:10] cuisines around the world. In January we went back to basics with black truffle sea salt

[5:15] and pink peppercorns that sold out today. It's all gone. But next month we will have

[5:21] our theme is love it or leave it for lavender and licorice root. So you can register at

[5:27] at tcpl.ticketleaf.com.

[5:28] The third Monday of every month we'll have new spices.

[5:32] And that is partially sponsored

[5:33] by Friends of the Collin Public Library.

[5:35] As is one of our new classes, Sewing Basics.

[5:38] We have hands-on sewing instruction for sewing machines.

[5:41] Our next class is Saturday, February 12th

[5:44] from 10, 15 to 12, 15.

[5:46] And you can register online at tcpl.ticketleaf.com.

[5:52] And our continuing computer education classes

[5:55] are just ongoing through spring.

[5:57] In January and February,

[5:57] We have computer basics, saving and finding files, Excel functions and formulas, Word basics

[6:04] and Excel sort and filter. And these are all registration required, tcpl.ticketleaf.com.

[6:10] You get very hands-on instruction in these classes.

[6:16] And we have a monthly book club.

[6:17] This month's pick is Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. You can find this on our shelves

[6:21] in the library or through our digital Hoopla app. You can get the eBook or the audiobook.

[6:25] book. We meet virtually for this and it's going to be Thursday, February 3rd from 12 to 1 p.m.

[6:33] And we are doing a reading challenge in 2022. It's a nonfiction challenge. So every month

[6:37] we're challenging readers to read a different new e-class. So January is the zeroes. This

[6:41] is general information in computer science and libraries fall under general information.

[6:46] So our pick this month is the library book by Susan Orlean and this is available to

[6:50] check out at the library. And it is National Hobby Month. So our resource spotlight

[6:56] are our craft and hobby resources. With your library card, these are all free.

[7:01] CraftSea and CreativeBug are video-on-demand craft tutorials and

[7:04] projects. And then Hobbies and Crafts Resource Center is linked to hobby and

[7:09] craft magazines and projects for that. So we invite you to come to the library

[7:13] to enrich, engage and explore. We'll see you next month. Thank you so much.

[7:21] Any other questions about library activities? While we're on the topic

[7:25] of community events, community enrichment, community interest. Hopefully everybody will

[7:35] be interested in what we have to show here. Those of you who may have walked in, you might

[7:41] have seen a big trophy and here is the award-winning trophy-winning dance from our own Joe Perez

[7:49] at the United Way's Dancing with the Stars fundraiser this past Saturday.

[8:00] Joe, you want to walk us through this at all?

[8:18] All right, well, we appreciate you stepping up and doing that and representing the city.

[8:23] and is this a are you have you already made your tours with the trophy I heard

[8:29] you brought it to the directors meeting already and you're saying you

[8:42] You don't have a key?

[8:43] I don't have a key.

[8:44] We don't have a key.

[8:45] Okay.

[8:46] You might have trusted with a key in the case.

[8:48] Take the key to the seat.

[8:50] Congratulations.

[8:51] Well thank you and congratulations and definitely a great job.

[8:59] Is this like the Stanley Cup?

[9:04] I officially retired as of this event, the end of it on Saturday night.

[9:09] But I do want to say that myself and 20 other dancers, including my partner,

[9:15] raised over $230,000 for the United Way for this year.

[9:18] $230,000?

[9:19] Yeah.

[9:20] So that, and that helps the United Way reach their million-dollar goal since the,

[9:25] since they started this event 10 years ago.

[9:27] So this is the 10th annual tribute for United Way.

[9:30] So, and thank you all to the council who showed up and in support of me.

[9:35] It was pretty nerve-racking, but yeah.

[9:38] I didn't fall and I didn't drop her, so that's good.

[9:41] Yeah.

[9:42] So since you're not going to defend your title, I've heard that Councilman Wade is thinking

[9:49] about trying to take up the mantle for next year.

[9:51] Well, you know, there's several people who expressed interest in me today.

[9:54] I mean, I thought that they could do a better job.

[9:56] So I may be nominating some other folks, too.

[10:02] Thanks a lot, Joe.

[10:04] We appreciate it.

[10:07] We move on to citizen's input, Tina, do we have any cards?

[10:13] There's anyone that would wish to speak on citizen's input on an item, not on the agenda.

[10:18] You might fill out a card.

[10:21] Come to the mic.

[10:22] All right.

[10:23] Seeing none.

[10:24] We'll move on to our work session, which the only thing we have here is 3.1, Council

[10:32] to provide direction to staff regarding future agenda items? Are there any other agenda items

[10:37] that you would like covered in a future work session?

[10:43] All right. Before I get to the consent

[10:45] agenda, just mention that Councilman Schrag is out ill tonight and we hopefully will

[10:54] see him here in our next meeting here in a couple weeks.

[11:01] Consent agenda, I will read

[11:03] off the items and then we will, council may pull an item. I will be pulling item 4.1.

[11:14] I'll read the rest of these into the record. Item 4.2, consider accepting Jennifer Simmons

[11:21] resignation from Keep the Colony Beautiful Board. 4.3, consider accepting a resolution

[11:26] authorizing the city manager to execute a renewal contract for services with Todd

[11:30] code consultant services to provide assistance in the development of a hotel convention center.

[11:36] 4.4, consider approving resolution authorizing city manager to execute a renewal contract

[11:41] for LPGA consultant and event coordinator liaison.

[11:45] 4.5, consider approving resolution authorizing the mayor to amend the authorized representative

[11:51] to text pool.

[11:53] 4.6, consider approving a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a professional

[11:58] services agreement with Infinity Law and Landscape LLC for the purposes of

[12:02] contractual services throughout the city. Anyone wishing to pull an item other

[12:07] than 4.1? I'd like to pull 4.3. All right. We have item 4.1 and 4.3 pulled.

[12:18] The

[12:18] remaining.

[12:20] Second. Second from Mr. Wade. I think he snuck in there. Any other

[12:28] discussion. Council, please vote.

[12:33] The rest of those items pass. I ask that item 4.1 be

[12:40] pulled. This is, I'll read the record, I'll read the item in for the record. Consider

[12:46] approving City Council regular session meeting minutes for January 4, 2022 and special session

[12:52] meeting minutes for January 10th, 2022.

[12:59] There's a correction in the minutes that we need to make

[13:04] on the special session that we had on January 10th. We need to, for our appointments to

[13:16] to keep the colony beautiful board for appointee Jenna Nalan that should read

[13:25] place seven rather than place four for her. So we need to make that correction.

[13:32] And so I will accept a motion with that correction. Make a motion that we

[13:40] improve the correction as stated.

[13:45] All right, so we would be approving the regular

[13:50] session meeting minutes for the fourth to understand your motion correctly for

[13:55] the fourth and the corrected minutes for the tenth. Yes. Or as amended. As amended.

[14:01] Yes, the regular session meeting minutes on January 4th approve those as

[14:06] stated and the corrections to the special session meeting minutes for

[14:10] January 22, 2022.

[14:12] Seven.

[14:18] So we just, when we accept, when we passed the rest of the consent agenda, we created the vacancy in four.

[14:26] So we intended to put her in seven.

[14:31] That's how we do.

[14:32] We have a motion and a second.

[14:33] Any other discussion for item 4.1?

[14:36] Council, please vote.

[14:39] That item passes.

[14:44] I think I just noticed there were some changes in dates regarding the compensation.

[14:51] If you look at item C on 4.3, it indicates that compensation should begin on February

[14:57] 26, 2021.

[15:00] And go through January 28th, 2022. However, the contract in the agreement is effective

[15:05] February 1st, 2022, and extends through January 31st of 2023. So it's a change in the compensation.

[15:14] Those of us that still write checks, you know, you make that date, you know, you get over into

[15:19] January, you still put the previous year ahead. A similar thing with that where it had the

[15:24] of the previous year's, year's still on there.

[15:31] So that's the correction that needs to be

[15:32] made. That is correct. Make a motion that we, make a motion that we, excuse me, make a motion

[15:40] that we make a motion, make a motion to change the date from February 26, 2022 and to January

[15:49] January 28th, 2023, as stated by Ms. Hensweiler.

[15:55] Is there a second?

[15:56] I have a second.

[15:57] Excuse me.

[15:57] Okay.

[15:58] We have a motion to second any discussion.

[16:03] Council, please vote on item 4.3.

[16:07] That item passes.

[16:08] We're actually hoping Judy wouldn't find that.

[16:10] So then when Todd asked to campaign,

[16:12] he would be like, I'm sorry, man.

[16:13] Great, messed up the date.

[16:15] You can't pay anymore.

[16:16] Sorry.

[16:20] All right, we'll move on to the regular agenda.

[16:22] Item 5.1 Discuss and consider an ordinance regarding a request for a site plan to allow

[16:30] the construction of fire station number five on approximately 3.429 acre tract of land south

[16:36] of the intersection 11 on road and Scotty's Lake Lane within plan development 18 also

[16:43] known as the tribute plan development zoning district Mr. Williams.

[16:48] Thank you Mr. Mayor and Council.

[16:50] We do have a site plan application for the development of Fire Station 5 with us.

[16:57] We have our Chief to come in and tell us about the beginnings of the project.

[17:04] Mayor, Councilor City Manager, thank you.

[17:06] We're really excited about this obviously a long time coming.

[17:10] This will be our fifth and final fire station.

[17:13] Just a brief overview.

[17:14] We're going to build a two bay firehouse full service firehouse

[17:17] and we're going to open it with an engine company, paramedic engine company.

[17:20] I know in P&Z there was a couple questions about the level of service.

[17:25] So this will be fully staffed, fire company with paramedics,

[17:29] capable advanced life support, the only thing it can't do obviously is transport.

[17:33] This will help greatly reduce our response times to that area.

[17:37] Right now the average is 7 to 11 minutes and we'll cut those in half

[17:42] when we get this open and and we've done a lot of work to make sure that that

[17:46] those things those numbers work out so we're excited about it and we've worked

[17:52] with the tribute very closely to get this done I think we're gonna have a

[17:56] project they're all gonna be very proud of that will serve the colony for a

[17:59] long time. Are there any questions that I can answer for you before? Yes you

[18:06] mentioned that decreasing the response time. We've talked about this

[18:10] before, that residents out there should also see a small reduction in their insurance now

[18:16] that we're going to be building this fire station closer to those homes because your

[18:21] insurance is based on, can be based on response times for local fire departments, so hopefully

[18:28] you'll see.

[18:29] Hopefully we had someone who knew anything about insurance.

[18:31] I was just thinking.

[18:33] If I knew somebody.

[18:34] If I knew somebody.

[18:35] Oh, wait a minute.

[18:36] My insurance person's here.

[18:37] And most companies don't update changes like that till renewals, but yes, most people will

[18:43] see that change.

[18:43] And that with the ISO2 classification will help and then of course when this facility

[18:49] is completed we'll look at the possibility of going to an ISO1, which predominantly

[18:54] helps commercial.

[18:55] Yes, the homeowners will certainly see the possibility of a benefit.

[19:01] Mr. Terry?

[19:02] Thank you.

[19:05] That is a really dream come true for me.

[19:08] I've been involved 10 years out there in the tribute.

[19:10] We had 30 homes all the way up to 2,000.

[19:14] And it's amazing what we've done.

[19:16] That is the best resort hotel community type in the state.

[19:20] Texas maybe everywhere. People love it.

[19:22] I've yet to meet one person who has said,

[19:25] I wish I had moved out here.

[19:26] And this will help so much on response time.

[19:29] The other thing I wanted to, I think, have you clarify is that we are building it with

[19:37] two bays, but we have set our plans up so we can enlarge and redesign it based on the

[19:45] way we're building it, so if we need to do some changes to it based on what's going

[19:51] on, we can do that.

[19:51] That was my understanding when I talked to Shannon at the P&Z meeting.

[19:56] Yeah, absolutely. And the most likely thing would be to add an ambulance for medical calls

[20:02] when the numbers justify that. But we do have the option of putting like an engine company,

[20:07] a truck company out there, you know, if we get some high-rise or mid-rise stuff. So,

[20:11] yes, we certainly have the flexibility to do that. And that's, you know, the lot

[20:16] was kind of funny shape, but we believe that it's going to be plenty to provide service

[20:21] for a long time out there and do the things that we need to do.

[20:24] It's also going to help the system.

[20:26] It's adding another fire company to the city, so it's going to reduce some of our dependence

[20:31] on our neighbors for mutual aid and those types of things.

[20:34] We have multiple calls when we have a working building fire.

[20:38] And we're looking at potentially subject to weather and those kind of elements by

[20:43] one year once we start digging and getting it going on.

[20:48] That's the hope.

[20:49] You know, right now with everything the way it is, but we're using a lot of the same people that we use for the firehouse for.

[20:55] We had great luck, so I believe it will get done as quickly as it can possibly get done, you know, depending on those factors that you mentioned that we have no control over.

[21:06] That's great. Thank you.

[21:08] You know, there are questions, Mr. Marks.

[21:14] So congratulations.

[21:16] Thank you, sir.

[21:17] Thank you for the support.

[21:18] And when you talk about ambulances, do we need another one at fire station number two?

[21:24] I knew it was coming.

[21:27] I feel pretty certain I won't stay there until I retire.

[21:30] That's why I chuckled before I pressed my microphone because I just had to say something.

[21:34] You want to know, reciprocal agreement with the other cities and all,

[21:41] what effect would that have on that station if there was an issue on the north side,

[21:45] you know, a little Elm or Frisco and things?

[21:47] Well, it's going to be interesting.

[21:50] You know, we won't really get into those talks

[21:52] until it's near done.

[21:53] This is going to be very close to the Frisco border.

[21:57] So we have a great relationship.

[21:59] I mean, it's going to be positive,

[22:01] but exactly how that plays in, we don't exactly know yet.

[22:05] I mean, we're certainly willing to help whenever we can.

[22:09] And we certainly utilize a lot of help.

[22:11] So I think it's just going to enhance all of that

[22:14] and just make the working relationship stronger.

[22:18] I know that our relationship with fire departments

[22:21] and police departments are great with other cities too,

[22:23] so I wasn't questioning that type of thing,

[22:26] but just if you had to go somewhere north

[22:30] out of that station, does another fire station,

[22:34] somebody else come up there and kinda hang out?

[22:36] Yes.

[22:36] Okay.

[22:37] Yes, we have a time limit,

[22:39] but we have the small response vehicle

[22:42] that you gave us a few years back,

[22:44] and that's one of the primary purposes of that, is to move quickly, go up there and fill in

[22:49] if they're going to be gone for a while so that we try to keep everything with at least one apparatus in it.

[22:55] Good. All right. Thank you.

[22:58] One last quick, quick one here. I think also in over the years I've heard that the Frisco and

[23:07] Lewisville have been really good about helping us when we needed more help than they needed help.

[23:11] So, in essence, we now maybe can do some of the payback for the help they gave us over

[23:17] and above what we were able to provide them.

[23:19] Is that the first thing?

[23:20] Absolutely.

[23:20] We've seen that trend, I think we're at the point now where we're providing as much

[23:24] as we're receiving.

[23:26] I mean, we've really been able to step up with the growth, adding an ambulance and

[23:30] adding station 4.

[23:32] We're pretty much, you know, on a level.

[23:36] Yeah, we're able to take care of our own pretty much now, less dependent on help.

[23:40] Right.

[23:40] And with that, unless there are other questions, comments, it would be an honor to make the

[23:44] motion to approve the additional FAR station number five.

[23:49] Second.

[23:50] We'll have a motion to second.

[23:53] Council, any further questions or discussion?

[23:57] All right.

[23:58] Council, please vote.

[24:00] Thank you.

[24:01] That item passes.

[24:03] Thank you, Chief.

[24:03] Oh, I don't chance we get to do this, you know.

[24:05] Yeah?

[24:06] I'm excited.

[24:07] It's going to look very nice.

[24:19] All right, item 5.2 Discuss and consider an ordinance regarding a site plan application

[24:24] in the Live Oak Logistics Center Phase 2B, a multi-building commercial development located

[24:30] on two tracks of land, totaling approximately 26.26 acres located west of the Northwest

[24:36] Intersection of Live Oak Drive and Memorial Drive within Plan Development 19 and the Gateway Overlay District.

[24:44] Mr. Williams.

[24:45] Thank you. The subject area is as reflected on the map here. The area highlighted in red is between two phases of the overall Live Oak

[24:57] logistic center, phase 1A which was approved in 2020 and then 2A which was approved in 21.

[25:07] This middle section is 2B.

[25:10] The original concept plan reflected the development to occur over three phases.

[25:17] The third phase was further broken down to incorporate phase 2A and 2B.

[25:23] This is the final site planning for the overall site, which is the area before you.

[25:32] The original concept plan was as reflected, building E or building F was ultimately combined

[25:41] with building G to make a larger building, so it is not a part of phase two.

[25:47] Phase two is building E and building D.

[25:50] The overall square footage of the two buildings contains approximately 242,000 square feet

[25:59] between the two buildings.

[26:01] Both sit along Live Oak Drive.

[26:05] The front building sits along Live Oak Drive and Memorial Drive.

[26:09] There are multiple entrance points along each section feeding into the site.

[26:14] the red represents the fire lanes encompassing the entirety of the site.

[26:22] The

[26:23] buildings will be developed with passenger and truck parking. All of the

[26:29] parking that is reflected on the site plan is consistent with the development

[26:35] needs as well as those that are required for in accordance with the PD, PD-19.

[26:43] The landscape plan that was associated with the development reflects a

[26:47] landscape buffer along the front portions of the development as well as perimeter

[26:52] screening along the periphery of the site. There is also an adjacent 250 foot

[27:01] landscape buffer, well not landscape buffer, but Greenbell buffer that separates

[27:06] the development of the site to the adjacent residential development ridge

[27:10] point to the north as required as a part of the original development or the

[27:16] original amendment to the PD. That was to remain untouched throughout all of the phases.

[27:23] There's been no disturbance to the 250 foot buffer and it remains intact. With regards

[27:29] to screening, the subject site will provide winged walls to screen from the adjacent

[27:38] from the adjacent right-of-ways, the trailers, and there will also be a level of vegetative

[27:45] screening from Standridge, which would have to look through the green belt that is to

[27:51] the north.

[27:54] The elevation plans reflect a contemporary warehouse aesthetic, consistent of tilt

[27:59] wall construction, predominantly with earth tone colors.

[28:04] Each of the non-loading facades contain horizontal and vertical articulations,

[28:09] fenestrations, and color changes to offer breaks of continuous and monotonous building elevations,

[28:14] which are typical of large warehouse buildings.

[28:17] The elevation plan also, as I mentioned, reflects a earth-tone color palette with shades of gray.

[28:22] The color selection and percentages are consistent with the approved concept plan and the gateway overlay district.

[28:30] It's a bit tiny on here, but it was included in your packet.

[28:32] You can kind of see the overall aesthetic.

[28:36] Again, the traditional Alper's Warehouse buildings.

[28:39] The max height is 42 feet of these buildings.

[28:45] And you can see the individual breaks, these dark areas here,

[28:50] and then there's horizontal breaks as well.

[28:54] The photometric plan, it's basically what you're looking

[28:58] at here is the reflection of illumination based off

[29:01] of the site. So illumination happens right adjacent to the site. These are the parking

[29:06] courts for phase 2B and phase 2A. So all of the light associated with the development

[29:13] is concentrated within those areas for passenger and truck courts. The purple area, those

[29:19] are all reading at zero foot candles, basically meaning that there's no light that will

[29:25] be illuminating this area here. And these will be the areas that are most closest

[29:29] to the residential, as you can see along Standridge and then along those residences that are right

[29:35] along the bank front of the creek. There's no illumination from the site. And this is

[29:44] basically a breakdown of that also.

[29:49] Staff took a few pictures from the adjacent properties

[29:53] just to kind of get an idea as to how dense the vegetation is, even through

[30:14] On December 28, 2021, the Colonies Planning and Zoning Commission recommended 6-0 to approve

[30:25] the site plan for Live Oak logistics interface to be multi-building commercial development

[30:30] located on two tracks of land totaling approximately 26.26 acres located west of the northwest

[30:37] intersection of Live Oak Drive and Memorial Drive within the plan development 19 and get

[30:41] way over the districts. The development review committee recommends approval. Our

[30:45] staff finds that the site plan is consistent with the approved concept plan of plan

[30:49] development 19 and meets the requirements of the zoning ordinance where applicable.

[30:53] That concludes the presentation on this item and I'll take any questions and a representation

[30:59] from the development is also present.

[31:01] So Isaac, I want to just for a point of clarification for anyone who is watching or interested.

[31:09] There is a separate item regarding a request from the developer on an adjustment for this.

[31:19] This does not cover that.

[31:20] That is something that will come to us.

[31:22] We'll go to P&Z and then come to us in the future.

[31:27] So I know that they had had discussions with residents in the nearby area, and this item

[31:35] does not cover that.

[31:36] I want to just make sure that we're clear about that.

[31:40] Any questions from Council for Isaac?

[31:43] Mr. Marks?

[31:44] Isaac, are there mezzanines in these buildings?

[31:48] Do you know of any?

[31:51] Let me see.

[31:51] I mean, it's not critical, I'm just curious.

[31:53] I don't think that there are.

[31:56] And there will be, and there will also be, you know, some development too sweet,

[32:00] so there may be a tenant that doesn't require that,

[32:03] but at this point we're not seeing that as a present.

[32:05] Okay, thank you.

[32:07] Any questions from Council?

[32:11] Okay.

[32:14] Motion.

[32:20] We have a motion.

[32:24] Second.

[32:25] Second by Mr. Wade.

[32:28] Any further discussion?

[32:29] Questions?

[32:32] Council, please vote.

[32:36] That item passes.

[32:37] Thank you, Isaac.

[32:42] Item 5.3.

[32:44] Conduct a first public hearing

[32:47] and discuss an ordinance

[32:49] readopting, ratifying,

[32:51] republishing, extending.

[32:53] Chapter 13, article 3,

[32:55] sections 13-31

[32:58] through 13-37

[33:00] of the Code of Ordinances

[33:01] regarding curfew hours

[33:03] for minors. Chief Cuan. Mayor, Council, Mr. City Manager. So we have a curfew

[33:08] ordinance for kids 16 and under and on the weekdays it's 11 p.m. on weekends

[33:14] it's midnight. We are required by the state law every year to have hearings

[33:20] and then re-approve it every single three years. So that's what we're here

[33:26] to do. I can answer any questions y'all have about curfew before you do the

[33:30] hearing if you like.

[33:33] Questions?

[33:34] Marks?

[33:35] The time limits.

[33:37] Is that state mandated?

[33:40] Or do we set up?

[33:41] No, we can set it.

[33:43] No, I mean the state does not impose any certain time.

[33:46] Those are our choice.

[33:49] Because it's been that way for quite a while.

[33:51] And just to clarify, there's no action tonight.

[33:54] The statute says we've got to conduct public hearings.

[33:57] It doesn't say how many, so I guess reading the statute, I implied two, so I guess next

[34:02] time we'd have another public hearing and then potential action.

[34:06] Thank you.

[34:07] Chief, you said it was 16 and under?

[34:10] Yes.

[34:11] So it's...

[34:12] I did say under 17.

[34:14] It's 17 and under?

[34:15] Yeah.

[34:18] Okay, I was just making sure it's still applied to my daughter.

[34:20] Oh, she does.

[34:20] Yeah.

[34:21] If it didn't, we were going to have to raise the age this time around.

[34:24] We've been out here many times.

[34:25] Okay, good.

[34:26] Good.

[34:27] We do write about seven curfew tickets a year. Last year we wrote seven. That doesn't mean

[34:33] all the kids we found outside after curfew got a ticket. As you can imagine, there's

[34:38] a wide range of kids outside, you know, at midnight. There might be, you know, the good

[34:43] kids who parents care. They're just out, you know, past midnight playing basketball

[34:47] across the street. Typically an officer goes out on that. He just tells them to

[34:51] go home. That's the end of it. But then on the other end, you have the kids

[34:55] kids doing sketchy stuff, who we catch all the time outside, parents just don't care.

[35:01] And so, you know, we do take them to the station. They get a ticket. Tickets usually run about

[35:06] $350. The judge can do whatever he wants on that. And then he requires community service.

[35:12] So those are the situations where we actually even have trouble getting the parents to

[35:17] come get the kids. So there's a wide range and we kind of have discretion. I mean,

[35:22] almost you know I mean police officers don't want to write kids tickets I mean

[35:25] we'd rather be the hero in the building so we tried to adjust to just kind of

[35:30] depending on the situation. Mr. Terry? Okay I think for clarification what we're

[35:37] doing is working so you are not suggesting any changes in what we

[35:42] currently have it's just renewing and going forward in three years what we

[35:46] currently have is that correct? Yes sir. Okay. Alright with that I will go

[35:50] ahead and open the public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak on this item, please step

[35:55] to the microphone, state your name and address for the record.

[36:04] Seeing those

[36:07] speakers, we will go ahead and do we leave this with multiple hearings, so we

[36:12] close it. Yeah, close the public hearing and this will come back at the next

[36:16] meeting. We will close the public hearing.

[36:21] Any further questions?

[36:22] Yeah, I have a comment. I've got the ordinance in front of me, and I know that Andretti's

[36:30] right now has a 1 a.m. curfew or 1 a.m. closing on, I believe, Friday and Saturday night.

[36:38] And so I know that there are probably some 17 and under-year-olds in there. Have you

[36:44] had any issues with that?

[36:46] So there's an exception in the code that if you're traveling home from work, you're fine.

[36:54] No, I'm thinking loitering outside. I'm thinking maybe not the kids that are working.

[36:58] No, I don't think so. We haven't had anything that I know of.

[37:01] Okay.

[37:05] Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and 12 a.m. on Saturday or Sunday.

[37:11] I'm guessing Fridays.

[37:14] Yeah, they actually wrote it 1201 the next day, so it's very clear which night set is.

[37:21] So I summarized when I said Friday is Saturday night, it's the midday.

[37:25] Are there questions? All right, there's no action to be taken on that item.

[37:30] Thank you, Chief.

[37:33] Item 5.4, discuss the formation of a committee to review and make recommendations to council regarding the boundaries of the single member council districts.

[37:46] Councilman Terry and Councilman Marks. You guys were here last time we did this.

[37:54] Yep, I was here last time we did this.

[38:03] I agree with that 100%. And so for this half of the dais over here.

[38:12] Well, your district is one of the problems.

[38:19] So after the census numbers come out, we try to balance out the population for each district.

[38:31] And to do that, we form a committee made up of residents as well as a couple of council

[38:38] members to work on with our IT or GIS person, David Stone King, and Chris

[38:48] Quayar to whatever extent he wants to participate in this as well, and basically

[38:54] tried to, based on the criteria that we work under, and it's for three four five

[39:03] you know, districts 3, 4, 5, and 6, and we try to balance those numbers out.

[39:08] Does it like within a 10% variance?

[39:11] Okay, so the...

[39:12] And correct me if I misstate anything, Jeff.

[39:17] The last time we did this, there was...the maps had to go through DOJ approval,

[39:24] and that was the rule that the largest district and the smallest district had to be within a 10%.

[39:31] I don't think we're under quite as strict rules this time, but we need to kind of work

[39:37] in that same sort of spirit to come as close as we can.

[39:40] Well, there's two things.

[39:41] Yeah, the mathematical precision is not required, and court cases have said that.

[39:46] But also, the U.S. Supreme Court, six, eight years ago, declared that part of the Voters

[39:55] Rights Act unconstitutional.

[39:58] And so currently, we would not have to resubmit to the Department of Justice this redrawn map.

[40:07] Those election changes or this map, we would not have to submit it to the DOJ this time.

[40:15] And so we don't have that issue to deal with.

[40:23] Well, I mean, I guess 10% is probably a good number.

[40:26] But you don't have to be, yeah, the courts have said mathematical precision is not mandated.

[40:35] Well, I mean, you want to keep them, you know, the concept of, you know, one vote and that

[40:42] each, you know, equal representation.

[40:48] Well, you know, those, those, the higher you get the invites challenge.

[40:54] So, I don't know if there's a magical number, but, yeah, the higher disparity would invite some issue.

[41:01] So, we obviously have a couple areas of town that have been adding population faster than others,

[41:10] just because that's the only place there is to continue to grow.

[41:14] So we'll try to balance that out.

[41:17] So, what I'd like to do now is I will appoint two council members to the committee to kind

[41:25] of co-chair that committee and then the rest of us who are not appointed to the committee.

[41:34] We need to appoint a member of the community to that who's willing to serve in that capacity.

[41:43] I would prefer it not to be someone who already serves on one of our boards.

[41:48] So to get some new ideas, new voices, I don't know that that can be a hard and fast rule,

[41:53] but I would prefer it if we found somebody that isn't already on a board.

[41:58] And I would like those names submitted to the city secretary just so we can organize that

[42:05] and we're not doing emails to each other when we're not meeting in public by the end of the month.

[42:11] Like I would like this for this committee to begin meeting at some point in February.

[42:17] So we'll have our, we'll have our appointees, you know, put together by the end of the month

[42:24] and try to work out a time with those folks that is workable for when to meet.

[42:32] So to that committee, I wanted to put one single member representative and one at

[42:40] large representative on there, so I'm appointing Councilman Schrag and Councilman Holtz to

[42:50] that position, and meaning the rest of us will have to come up with someone to appoint

[42:56] to that, and if for whatever reason that we meet before Councilman Schrag is back,

[43:02] then I'll fill in, and I'll probably participate at least the first meeting just to kind

[43:07] of go through.

[43:09] So, just real quick on that, the main guideline is, or the main goal is we're not drawing

[43:17] anyone out of their district.

[43:19] So that's just because of where you guys live makes it a little more difficult sometimes.

[43:26] But so, you know, we're not going to draw two people into the same district and create

[43:31] a new unrepresented district for that time.

[43:35] The goal would be that we would work on this and hopefully by May or June have maps to

[43:43] bring back the council to discuss, have a couple of public hearings, which is what we

[43:48] did last time.

[43:48] I think we did one here and then we did one not in City Hall, somewhere out in the

[43:55] community where we invited folks to come and look at the proposed maps and provide

[44:01] feedback to those.

[44:03] and then those would we do this in this off-year where we don't have municipal

[44:11] elections and so the new lines and new districts would take effect with the

[44:16] single-member district elections in 2023. So that's the that's the goal

[44:23] no one's gonna get drawn out of their district that's the rules and then we

[44:26] will try to to balance those out.

[44:32] There's not there's not necessarily one

[44:34] but I don't want to, I don't want to put a resident on a committee with an indefinite

[44:39] end date on that.

[44:42] Obviously it would be next year by the elections and I want those, those

[44:47] lines to be done. It's the way we did it last year. We did it right about this time

[44:52] at the beginning of the year and I think by the summertime we had those, we had those

[44:58] new maps approved by

[45:00] What are the parameters that we bring up to one of our residents to ask them to be on the committee?

[45:08] How do we approach that? How do we sell them to you?

[45:13] Well, first of all, it helps when you're already a salesman.

[45:18] What it is is we're redrawing the boundaries for these districts.

[45:26] I think a couple of times we met twice a month, but most of the time it was once a month.

[45:31] We meet one night a month for a couple of hours, and it was back here in the conference room.

[45:38] And it really helped the staff to make them up and really provide the help we needed on

[45:43] maps and current status, et cetera.

[45:45] And what we do, so with the GIS, with the technology we have now, you know, they're

[45:53] able to fairly quickly, if you just say, okay, well, what if we added this area right here

[45:58] on the map to this district? They can tell you pretty quickly how many people that is.

[46:05] I will say the numbers that I saw, the largest district and the smallest district, it's

[46:13] an over 30% difference right now. And so if it were smaller, maybe, you know,

[46:21] this

[46:22] I want to make sure we give this enough time.

[46:24] That's why I'm not putting it, I'm putting it,

[46:26] it'd be nice if it would be done by, you know,

[46:28] May or June, but let's get it right.

[46:30] That's more important to me.

[46:32] While we have plenty of time to do that.

[46:35] But...

[46:35] It's not personal, it's important that it becomes

[46:37] at the end of May.

[46:38] Okay, so there we go.

[46:40] That's...

[46:40] It's not personal, right there.

[46:41] There.

[46:44] So yeah, I guess it'll be before Memorial Day

[46:47] for Ms. Holtz.

[46:50] It's not personal.

[46:51] Do you have a future council member?

[46:53] Yeah, yeah.

[46:55] Any other questions?

[46:58] And, you know, if you're a single member,

[47:01] sometimes you maybe want to put someone in your,

[47:04] but I'm not requiring you to put, you know,

[47:07] someone that's in your district necessarily,

[47:09] but, you know, you probably would want that representation

[47:12] from the existing district.

[47:16] I know there's been several people

[47:18] that want to participate in place three so they can draw themselves out of Bryan's district.

[47:26] But he's got the most to shrink.

[47:33] He's second.

[47:37] Three is larger than four.

[47:39] Not by much, but three is larger than four.

[47:45] We're only counting people that people that are alive right now. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So

[47:55] he has Austin Ranch Cascades and a big part of a big part of the legends. And so that's

[48:02] That's why place three is is the largest right now, but but you're close you're close Dave

[48:17] It's close see it's close between the two biggest clothes

[48:20] But I think you're right. I think I think place six is the smallest so you're gonna probably gain

[48:29] So yeah

[48:32] So hopefully we will be able to have these names submitted, find folks that will be willing

[48:42] to serve and kick this thing off in February at some point.

[48:45] So just for clarification, we're going to have one person representing the whole city

[48:54] as a resident.

[48:56] No, no.

[48:56] Each one.

[48:58] Each one.

[48:58] Yes. Joel will appoint a person, you'll appoint a person, I will appoint a person, Brian will, and Judy will.

[49:09] So it'll be a committee of seven.

[49:13] By the end of the month, is when you'd like that at the latest?

[49:16] Yes, yes. Send those names to Tina.

[49:23] Siri wants to participate.

[49:27] You're going to appoint Siri?

[49:28] Yeah, I'm looking through it.

[49:31] Any other questions on that?

[49:35] I enjoyed it last time.

[49:37] David and I served on that committee last time, last go around,

[49:44] and I think it is going to be more difficult this time than what we did last time,

[49:50] but it actually is pretty fun.

[49:55] Yes, yes, it is neat to see how that works and you'll get into things where sometimes

[50:02] it makes sense, okay we'll make this street a boundary, well really when you make that

[50:06] street a boundary that means people across the street from each other in different districts.

[50:12] So you learn, okay we need to make the alley the boundary.

[50:17] Well, and you used to, and you used to on Baker Street, the two of you, Baker Street

[50:22] used to be one of the boundaries, so the north side was in six, the south side was in three.

[50:28] So

[50:41] sneaky.

[50:43] I'm sure they noticed it, they were just hoping you weren't.

[50:46] And that's why we appoint someone to kind of, hey, make sure they're not drawing me

[50:49] out of my district.

[50:50] All right.

[50:51] Any other questions?

[50:52] All right, that is the last item on our regular agenda.

[51:00] We have an item in executive session.

[51:02] Council shall convene into a closed executive session pursuant to section 551.087 of the

[51:09] Texas Government Code to deliberate regarding commercial or financial information the cities

[51:14] receive from a business prospect and to deliberate the offer of a financial or other

[51:20] incentive to a business prospect and with that we will go into executive session.

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