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[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.
[16:15] 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.