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Okay, I believe it is six o'clock. So I'll call the meeting to order. This is special meeting of the town council, Monday, August 10, 2026.

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But the record reflect that all of our council is here. If you would rise for the pledge to the US and Texas.

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I

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pledge allegiance to the fire of the United States of America and take the Republic for which it stands.

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One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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In the Texas Five.

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Honor the Texas Five.

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I pledge allegiance to the Texas.

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One state under God, one and indivisible.

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Thank you.

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And Mayor Flo Chan will give our invocation.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we come to you tonight asking you to watch over us, watch over our town, our country,

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our state.

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We ask you to guide us on our decision making for the best interest of our citizens.

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We thank you for all you do for our town.

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We thank you for what you do for this little area.

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We call home.

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We ask you to watch over our military and we ask you to watch over our first responders

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in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Thank you. All right, items of community interest, pursuant to Texas government code section 551.04515,

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the town council may report on the following expressions of thanks, congratulations,

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or condolence, an honorary or salutary recognition of an individual, a reminder about an upcoming

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event organized or sponsored by the governing body and announcements involving an imminent threat

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to the public health and safety of the people in the municipality or county that has arisen after

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the posting of the agenda.

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Does anyone have anything?

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We'll move on.

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Hold on.

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We'll get to my next page.

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Public comment.

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This item allows the public an opportunity to address the town council on both agenda and non agenda items

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to comply with the provisions of the Open Meetings Act.

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The town council cannot discuss or take action on items brought before them.

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Not posted on the agenda.

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Please complete a request.

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if you wish to address the town council.

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Comments will be limited to three minutes total

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for any and all items being presented.

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Public comment is for information only.

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No charges, enter complaints will be heard

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against any elected official.

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Board member, the town, or employee of the town

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that are prohibited by law.

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I want to say I have two people.

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Mr. Fartick.

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I have put my hands back and I'd like to do something.

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OK.

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Resonance,

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Gloria Fertek, 1500 Terrible Road, Hickory Creek, Texas.

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I want to thank you.

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I know you don't understand why I'm thinking you could run and I thank God to always lead us and we listen.

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God calls us all to be courageous, kind, empathetic.

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Ron Fertek said in incredible mail with tremendous compassion,

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our tenants thank him regularly for giving them a second chance of life.

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We know our people, many of them are retired senior citizens living on a fixed income.

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Others have faced hard times and lost their jobs.

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We have one tenant who's actively dying of cancer right now, and several others with severe medical conditions.

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These vulnerable people are the ones who are going to bear the bronze of your actions.

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It's going to be extremely hard for them to move you if you have actively created a massive accrual hardship on them.

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You don't care about the consequences because you're not the ones paying for this.

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It's clear to us that the town turned up the heat as soon as my husband began running for town council and then from Mayor.

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But because he ran, people have reached out to us.

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And we know that we're not alone in this fight against, we believe this corruption.

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He used over 20 years of negative propaganda to win a race.

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And then you use the power of a badge to finish us off.

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Your town attorney stands with a constant smile on this face, but then comes out of his mouth.

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At the court hearing, he showed up with six staff members sitting there with him alongside

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the town manager in the city secretary.

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We use tax payers, hard earned money to fund your endless legal expenses and payers

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staff to sit in court rooms all while you destroy our business and wipe out our personal

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livelihood.

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Your attorney thinks he's funny calling my husband a slogan word of a compound and falsely

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claiming that the 600 to 800 we collect for a lot of pure profit.

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Our books are not your privilege.

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Let me teach you some simple business path.

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We pay for electricity, water, trash pickup, and property taxes.

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We pay for the maintenance of the grass, weeds, roads, and heavy costs of lot preparation.

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The IRS states of business, must-show profit for two or five years.

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Yes, we make a profit because we run an honest and awful business, but claiming the gross rent

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is pure profit.

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It's a lie, meant to turn the community against us.

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You fight dirty, put slander on your official website, combing our property, and eat legal, ramshack, and trailer compound.

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You use an evicted 10 in Tammy Colison, and publish your police report as proof of bad conditions.

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I hope the official file of this woman, I have proof of exactly what happened in that courtroom.

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She was an addictive person who owed us back rent.

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She went to the place because she was being evicted for non-payment.

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She threatened to shoot my husband in front of the judge.

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You took the garbage of this grittled tenant who threatened her landlord and published them

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on a city website as your official evidence.

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If this was truly about safety and poor maintenance,

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any honorable town would have given a long-standing local business affair chance to fix the issues.

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Mr. Kordick.

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State your name and address for the record, please?

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Prone for at a 1500-turvy bill, Hickred Creek, tonight you're going to be told by your

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attorney that you have just won a great victory. You have not. You have only succeeded in damaging

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approximately 100 cities of the citizens of the town of Hickred Creek, and none of whom deserve

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the abuse. I am proud to be able to provide a stable neighborhood for working and retired people

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to park their homes, but I am simply unable to fight against your base, endless lies, cheating, and stealing.

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This town is operated more like an organized crime syndicate than the municipality, your lies are epic.

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In a recent hearing, the town manager lied under oath, committed perjury, which is a third-degree felony.

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Your independent third party witness also committed perjury. He's actually a paid town contractual

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employ with a huge conflict of interest.

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He lied and will have to discuss his testimony

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with the accreditation board that handles his electrical license.

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Regarding cheating, you have sent surprise inspectors

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to my part twice using municipal warrants

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and then broke district court rules

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by introducing these reports in without.

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I'd like to turn on a letter and notice allowing us to attend like the district court requires. This administration has used the town's website to promote libel and slander to disparage my name and to create a toxic environment, which the citizens are in general, and has manifested itself in damaging my business and high vacancy rates.

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Finally, I'd like to talk about stealing.

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This administration has allegedly stolen large quantities of cash as kickbacks from construction

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contracts that have been inflated.

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sidewalk contracts and parks development are potentially a lucrative source of kickbacks.

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This town is developed into a cleftocracy.

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Now the town is using its lies and cheating and stealing to impact my rental business.

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I'm nearly 70 years old and was planning on using this income for my retirement.

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I believe that this is theft, this theft is viewed by current administration as political

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payback for having the audacity to run for mayor.

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In national politics today, destroying one's political enemies is currently an accepted blood

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sport.

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I can accept my losses, but I mourn for my tenants losing their home.

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Most of our V's, uh, parks reject trailers older than 10 years. Most of my tenants who were

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evicted will have, uh, by your lives and cheating and stealing our, have homes that are older

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than 10 years and will have an extremely difficult time finding any vacancies. Most parts will accept

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them only with, uh, our extremely far north, which will burden everybody. As you know, the

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Secretary alone with cheating allowed the mayor, council mayor, and manager to have their

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municipal immunity stripped.

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This clip talk received what put you in jail, and the production of lives, yes, and

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my tenets are sitting down.

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Next, Mr. Grisham, John Grisham, did you state your name and address for the record

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please, sir?

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John Grisham, I'm the one I know with in the Unclave neighborhood.

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Good evening Mayor, council members and fellow residents.

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My name is John Grishman.

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Tonight I speak not only for myself, for my family and many of our neighbors who are tired

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frustrated and frankly outraged.

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We are discussing this property has been allowed to deteriorate into what it is today.

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Every one of us who drives by sees the same thing, a property that has become an embarrassment

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to e-creek.

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It is an ice-sour that stands and start contrast to the pride that so many residents take in

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homes and this community. My family works hard to maintain our property because we respect

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our neighbors and respect this town. We pay our taxes. We follow the rules and we expect

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those rules to apply equally to everyone. When one property is allowed to remain in this

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condition year after year, it sends the message that the standards the rest of us live by

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somehow don't matter. But this isn't simply about appearances. This is about protecting our

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community. The town is publicly stated in its court filings that this property has been the subject

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of extensive code, enforcement efforts, and alleged serious violations involving wastewater

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and sewer infrastructure, conditions that it says threatened public health and safety.

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Those are not minor issues.

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Those are the kinds of concerns that keep families awake at night because they affect more

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than one property.

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They affect an entire neighborhood.

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Parents should never have to wonder whether a neglected property nearby could pose a risk

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of their children.

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Homeowners should never have to question whether years of neglect will impact the value of the homes they have invested their lives in

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And residents should never have to ask why one property appears to receive endless chances while everyone else is expected to comply with the law

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The vast majority of people in Hickory Creek are good neighbors. We mow our lawns. We maintain our homes

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We clean up after ourselves. We do these things not because someone forces us to but because we care about the community

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we call home. This is why the situation is so deeply frustrating. It undermines the pride we

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have in our town and the confidence we should that our ordinances are enforced fairly and

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consistently. I want to take the town thank the town for taking this matter seriously and continuing

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to pursue legal action. I know these cases are not easy, they are not quick, they are not inexpensive,

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but there comes a point where protecting the rights of one property owner cannot come at the expense

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of an entire community's quality of life.

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Tonight I ask you to say the course, continue enforcing the law, continue protecting the

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residents who elected you, continue demonstrating that Hickory Creek would not tolerate

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conditions that the town believes in danger public health, diminish our neighborhoods

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or a role to standards that make this such a wonderful place to live.

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Our families deserve better, our neighborhoods deserve better, our children deserve better.

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And the people who have spent years investing in this community deserve to know that

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one is above the rules that exist to protect us all.

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Please finish what you started.

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Show this community the Hickory Creek stands for Accountability, Fairness, and the Protection

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of every resident.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, sir.

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Okay.

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I don't have any other plans, so we'll move on to the informational update.

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This is item number one, update and discussion regarding town of Hickory Creek versus

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Ronald Ferdick at all.

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Marin Council, it's my pleasure to provide you this update on that matter, which is the Towns

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Law Society against Mr. Fertic and his property. I'm going to start by giving everyone a brief

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historical overview on how we got to where we are today. Mr. Fertic owns and operates any

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legal and unpermitted trailer compound on a property at 1500 through the dual road. That property

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has been in the talemit since 1999. That property is owned C1 commercial. In that particular

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zoney district, mobile homes are not allowed.

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Recreational vehicles are not allowed.

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Mobile home parks, recreational vehicle parks,

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and recreational vehicle storage jars are not

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unallowed use.

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Lastly, that particular zoney district that

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covers the property on the compound

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does not allow residential uses of any kind.

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As I'm sure you were all well aware, the compounds

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sits directly next to the Founders Academy Elementary School

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and the Grand Prix of single-family subdivision.

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The only permitted town-permated septic system for the property

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was designated in the design served no more than five mobile homes

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of not more than 896 square feet each.

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As we sit here today, the compound currently includes,

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at least 13 mobile homes, the majority of which are occupied,

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and approximately 75 recreational vehicles,

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approximately 66 of which are occupied by residents.

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Based on the concerns for the health safety and welfare of the public, and possible criminal

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violations that had been served based on prior inspections of the compound, the town recently

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conducted inspections of the compound on June 16th and August 3rd, and the results of those

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inspections were disturbing and telling because they revealed a number of serious life, health,

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and safety concerns for both the occupants and tenants of the compound but also the

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joining neighbors and the public and I will just highlight some of those briefly for you.

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The inspection resulted and revealed deteriorated and damaged electrical connections and

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The representative threat of the...

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Secondary and fire hazard. Exposed electrical wiring and shock hazards, similarly. Overloaded electrical patterns, extension cords being used as a pot power to units. No GECF GFC eye protection for a number of the outlets. No black flow prevention on water meters or hose bibs.

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Clarences between the units that are too tight to allow for access from emergency personnel in the event that's such fire damage or injury to person or to occur.

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In response to the town's efforts in this matter, the most recent response indicated that because nobody had been injured or died today, those issues must constitute no more than a technicality.

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The town's contingent is the exact opposite that those life-seafed by health and safety concerns

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represent a genuine threat that must be remedied because you have a duty to protect the public's health

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safety and welfare and that's what you've been doing in this manner. That inspection, those June 16th

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August 3rd inspections were conducted by an independent third party. Who was a master electrician

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licensed by the Texas Department of License in Regulation, and a licensed permanent inspector.

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When you look at the compound overall, any claim I must refer to the grandfathered status

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of the mobile home was abandoned entirely in 2013 when you began to add recreational vehicles.

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It did not exist in 1999, and we're not present on the compound until 2013.

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Based on the totality of concerns from those inspections, the town applied for and obtained

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this temporary restraining order on July 24th, and that particular temporary restraining

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order prevented the further expansion of the compound, because, as we sit here today, there

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is a property owner, Mr. Frederick, continues to advertise the property for additional

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residential occupancy that is specifically not allowed by your zoning ordinance. As a follow-up

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to the town's obtaining of that temporary restraining order,

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we went back to court on August 5th,

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and had a hearing regarding the town's application

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for a temporary injection.

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Thankfully, the town's efforts in that regard

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were successful because on the evening of August 7th,

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the judge sitting for the county court on number two,

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granted the town's requested relief

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and is going to sign an order eminently,

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that will require all recreation videos

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added from 2013 onward to be removed within 90 days. Additionally, in the remaining mobile

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homes must be brought into compliance with applicable health safety and welfare codes.

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The conclusion of the inspection today is that they are not. And that fact jeopardizes

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the occupants, it jeopardizes the neighbors and it jeopardizes the public at large.

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For years, you have heard Mr. Frederick professes plans and intention to develop what it calls a walkable downtown on the compound.

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Based on those claims, many years ago, the town that emitted its zoning ordinance to create and establish new mixed use zoning districts.

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To date, no application of any kind has been filed by Mr. Frederick to redevelop the compound, no zoning application.

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The results of the inspection are going to add to what is currently a list of 700 citations

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that remain pending in your municipal court because the inspections revealed approximately

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130 additional violations that have resulted in citations and additional notices that

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will be sent to the property owner and a brief review of what the basis of some of those

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additional citations or includes substandard buildings and structured structures, junk vehicles,

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trash debris, rubbish, absence of building numbers, all with high grass and weeds.

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The town's goal has been in a remains to protect the health safety and welfare of the public.

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The opportunity for Mr. Frederick to do the right thing by his tenants to do the right thing,

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by the public to do the right thing, by his neighbors to do the right thing, by the town,

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is been open for many, many years.

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We remain cautious to hopeful

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the Mr. Frederick will use this as an opportunity

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to actually put substance behind his words

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and do something other than continue to operate

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any legal, neglectful, and dangerous compound on the premises.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, sir.

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All right,

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we'll move on into the consent agenda.

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I also in the consent agenda are considered to be self-explanatory

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and will be enacted with one motion.

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No separate discussion of these items will occur and was so requested by at least one member of the town council

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So council you have items two through 13

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Mr. Yes, may I pull item 11, please?

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Okay,

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this Rogers that can you do that?

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Force pull item number 11

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All right

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Yes, I'd like to move to a proof.

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to do I don't want through 10 and 12 and 13.

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Two through.

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Two through 10 and 12 and 13.

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Okay.

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Have a motion.

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Second.

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Second.

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By Councilman Gordon.

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I have a second by Councilman Theodore.

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Council, cast your votes.

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Okay.

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Motion carries.

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So item number 11.

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Consider an act on acceptance of medical rates from signate.

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Dental, vision, life, accidental death, short-term disability, and long-term disability rates from

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respondor health and supplemental benefit for an employees household, from new benefits for

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employee coverage for fiscal year, 2026, 2027, authorizing the town manager and town secretary

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to execute the necessary documents. Mr. Goodman. Yeah, if you don't mind there was no backup in

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our packet and so I don't know what I'm approving with this. And so I was just trying to get some

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more information from staff before I prove this. So basically this is what we had this. We have two

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options on our health side that we're looking at.

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We are going to move forward with one of those options, but we do as we took the greater amount

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of that particular option and put in our budget that we're going to be discussing here

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in a moment and move forward with that.

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How much detail would you like?

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I mean, we can come back to this item if you like and we could upload some more data in

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there.

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From a procedural standpoint, we're going to talk about it here in a little while, maybe we

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about it then and come back. I don't know. I just without knowing what we're approving. I can't

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just approve it. Okay. But I don't know, Mayor. How do you want to proceed? I'd like to hold it until

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after we have the discussion and at least reviewing what those options are to be able to evaluate

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to give you direction on which one's to approve. Maybe I'm confused. So this year we were used for

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for eight different companies we are using.

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Current claim that we have, and we had a rating increase. The other claim we have was an HMO, and the difference was the cost savings was very minimal.

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Okay, so if we approve this, we're just approving staying with the current provider, or are we approving plans A or B? So, are you deciding?

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The choices that we have basically left are to stay with the current provider.

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So what we can do, we can move forward on the budget still tonight and on this particular item,

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we can bring it back and have the details for each one of those plans if the attorney

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would never problem with that.

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Kevin.

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All of those, but I'm good either way.

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I don't, I don't, I'm going to detail that.

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I think if I understand what we're staying with the same company, we've had a rate increase.

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We returned down by eight other companies that we've had a high claims here and so that's the reason why the rates have gone up.

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Everybody all around that I've talked to is having rate increases not as significant maybe is what we've had because we're a small group.

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You know, we've had some claims that have caused it to go up.

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So we can work on the budget and then bring this back if you want to see the details on it.

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We can do that.

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We can do that.

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And it also mentions in there all the

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Ancillary.

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Those actually went down to 7.2 percent, but not just if I

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But what the medical went up on that side right there.

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So what we're looking at currently, uh,

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Counselor gives is, uh, a net increase on the

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Townside and a net net substantial increase on the

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Employee side along with the boy family and

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Employee with kids as well.

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So we initially had this in the agenda body to

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discuss, there are so many plays on this that you could do and change and so forth, but

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yet we're still limited to the providers on what we can, you know, what we were not, you

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know, given the chance to work with.

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So the recommendation is coming out of a company called Hub that's basically our broker that

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we use and we're down in the basically two companies of choice.

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And so we decided that we're probably going to move with the company that we currently have

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with and so forth and then look at those rates again next year, but we'd be glad to put it on as a

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agenda item and the upcoming media on August 24th and then we'll include, I believe it's a 95 page booklet,

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you know, where everybody can see it and we'll put it out there for folks.

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There's something, anything you're doing.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm confident that's what I'm going to say.

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I'm going to hit the things inside that as well.

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We can't put out there.

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Mayor, based on that, I'm comfortable with this in here.

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I just wanted to, at least, because there was nothing in the packet, I didn't want to blindly

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just approve it.

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So I appreciate the context, and I'm okay with being forward and approve it, but...

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Okay.

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I don't know if there's other counsel questions.

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Anybody else have questions or comments?

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No, I understood what Mr. Smith was saying, I understand your stance as well, but I think

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it's a tough choice.

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It's a tough situation for the town, and they didn't have a choice, so I think they thought

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was best for the employees.

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So I'll make a motion to approve item 11 from the case of the second.

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Okay, we all need a hand vote on this.

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Okay, go ahead.

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I'll make a motion that we approve item 11 from the consent agenda.

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Okay.

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I have a motion by councilman.

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Gibbons, I have a second by councilman.

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If you, everybody who's in favor, please say yes.

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Motion carries.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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We'll move on to the regular agenda item number 14, consider an act on a final

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plat for the linen to addition of Lot 9, Block A, being 1.767 acres of land situated

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from the MAP and PRR company survey.

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Abstract number 915, Town of Fickery Creek, Dent and County, Texas.

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The property is located in the 3,280 block of FM2181.

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Mr. Smith.

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You know, Councillor Mayer, this is the platform.

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These Eastern property on the linen property over there, which is the shopping center

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that they're getting ready to start.

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But roughly 14,000 square feet did stop there.

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When we started reviewing it, we found some dimensional changes.

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The different things that also got brought up in the letter that's here with half.

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Thus far, all the comments have been addressed and it's approved by the B&Z.

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Okay.

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Councillor questions or comments?

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I'll just comment.

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I was a really brief meeting, and there weren't a lot of comments on it.

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It was approved unanimously.

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Same thing.

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I mean, Mr. Smith said, I mean, our engineers covered it as well.

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So everything's going to address from what I see.

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I think this is just a formality, silly, from every call.

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And the decision, if you recall a couple of years ago, y'all have granted me authority to sign

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off on some of the changes minor, but we felt like this was a little bit more than minor.

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And we needed to send it back through P&Z in council.

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So that's why it's before you today.

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And then, how soon do you anticipate the start construction?

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We have a pre-construction meeting this week.

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Okay.

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Council, though, the questions are comments.

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Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion in a second.

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Mayor, I'll make a motion that we approve the final platform.

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In addition, a lot of nine block A, being in 1.767 acres of land situated in the

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creek as presented. Okay, I have a motion that the Mayor

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Pro Tem do I have a second? Second? I have a second by Councilman

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Theodore Council cast your votes.

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Okay, motion carries. I'm

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having trouble seeing the. Okay, I don't know 15. Consider an act on an

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ordinance of the town council of Hickory Creek, Texas, ordering a

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special election to be held on November 3rd, 2026 to submit a

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proposition on dissolving the Hickory Creek Texas type B economic

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development corporation, eliminating the sales tax associated with the Hickory Creek

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Texas type B economic development corporation, adopting a local sales in use tax at

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a rate of one and three or fourth percent.

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Councillor, we had a discussion last month that discusses this has also been before the

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EEC as well.

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Tonight, it's on your agendas to act on, and this would be dissolving our talents

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economic development corporation and the quarter percent that they take in currently into

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their their fund. So I believe the mayor went through a lot of points last month and what the

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EDC has done for us over time and over history when we first put the EDC together many years ago after

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discussions of what we had in the EDC as well we decided that you know what it may be telling me

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that quarter percent over to the budget our budget when I say I are the talent side and not the

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side down front and dissolve that down that board. You know, the EDC has been really good

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to the town for parks, things, problems.

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So we're not leading that out there. We don't have that toolbox that we can go back to for a chapter of 380 agreements or some of the other agreements that we can do with EDC, or even the purchase of land. A lot of those things, all of those things can be done by the town.

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So what we like to do but to not with this vote with y'all is we will take this to the November election and we'll let the citizens vote and they'll do the voting on whether or not we maintain an EDC and continue it or we disall the EDC and it goes over to the town side the funding which is a quarter percent.

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So currently the town collects one and a half percent of the general fund, of course,

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is for the EDC and of course it's for property tax relief.

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So that's why you see that it will be one and three fours, the local use and sales tax.

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the state puts it half of 2% on the state's tax that is taxed or city can't collect.

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Right. And we already do, we've done the quarter percent for property tax relief for 15 years or so.

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Probably 2008.

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Okay.

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So we don't always talk about that.

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Yeah, that's for to keep our values, you know, that, that, that, that, that's something that helps our citizens, right on the

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process.

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So, that, that, that, that would stay the same.

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So, that does it change.

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Right.

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It's just a quarter percent that's left, and, and money standards, it's about $380,000 a year that the

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EDC scene right now, and that's, without the businesses down the street that are just not coming in.

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When you look at our budget and that the fire increase that we have, of $180,000,

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a new contract that's coming up on October and some of the other increases along the way

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that money is going to be used to keep that so that we can still maintain a low tax rate

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you know amongst the other cities and didn't get any.

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So.

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Okay.

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Questions?

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Comments?

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We're not taking action to dissolve the EDC tonight.

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We're sending this to the voters.

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The voters would have to determine that in November for the election.

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And just sort of nobody knows in the audience that we can't educate the public on what the EDC does and what it's done in the past and so forth.

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But we can't promote the, you go to the polls and voting for it.

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Yes.

457
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:40,500
We can't advocate.

458
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:46,080
You won't see that in the polls at all or any kind of anything that we put out that we can't educate.

459
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:50,380
You know, when we started the EDC, what it can do, what it's done and all those things and that's it.

460
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,040
So basically it's an education.

461
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,220
And that's it.

462
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,320
And I'm happy to walk back through what the EDC has accomplished.

463
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,000
I brought that list with me tonight.

464
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,620
The purpose of an EDC is to create and retain jobs and encourage a business investment,

465
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,780
expand the local tax base, support commercial and industrial development, improve community

466
00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:13,880
amenities, tied to economic growth, promote long-term vitality.

467
00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:20,220
So we can do targeted infrastructure, which Ronald Reagan Avenue was something that was

468
00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:27,320
on years ago, engineering costs associated with projects, marketing, park improvements, other

469
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,160
targeted infrastructure improvements in the commercial area.

470
00:33:31,180 --> 00:33:38,700
We've done a road up near the three restaurants on Turbyville and 35 land holdings.

471
00:33:38,740 --> 00:33:42,300
We've done restaurants and incentives, the pickleball center.

472
00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:58,300
So we have just off the top of my head, I could come up with about seven and a half million dollars that the EDC has contributed to the town of Fickery Creek through incentives or infrastructure improvements and those sort of things.

473
00:33:58,860 --> 00:34:05,300
And originally when I was appointed the corporation in 2003, it was planned to help pay for this town hall.

474
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:10,160
that the law changed and the EDC was not able to pay for a municipal building.

475
00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:18,280
So, there was a pivot and we took on some other things that have been extremely beneficial for our town.

476
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,980
So, anyway, yes, question for just education.

477
00:34:23,620 --> 00:34:30,180
So, by dissolving the EDC, what could the EDC do that the town could not do with us switching that over?

478
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,960
So, what are we losing between doing this?

479
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:34,880
I don't know.

480
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:36,020
Mr. Bullwark.

481
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:36,600
Can you?

482
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,180
And make the almost nothing.

483
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,900
Any difference would be effectively imperceptible.

484
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,820
Because we have avenues through chapter 3, 80s or different things like that, that we can still

485
00:34:47,820 --> 00:34:50,680
do what the EDC has done.

486
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:56,680
But you're right now, you're segmenting that income off, where it can, it's separated out.

487
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:58,340
So.

488
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:58,720
Very good.

489
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,160
Anybody else?

490
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:00,540
Yeah.

491
00:35:00,540 --> 00:35:03,520
So just, if someone goes to a store in Hickr Creek,

492
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,220
they're actually going to be paying what percent in sales tax.

493
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,040
The same sales tax.

494
00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:08,580
Same thing.

495
00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:10,580
Eight and a quarter, or eight,

496
00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:12,100
because since we're not going to fold two.

497
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:13,880
Six and a quarter, so this thing.

498
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:14,220
Right.

499
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,420
So we still get two percent to Hickr Creek,

500
00:35:17,460 --> 00:35:19,100
not one and three-fourths.

501
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,240
It's just where it's allocated.

502
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:24,800
Yes.

503
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:27,700
Right.

504
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,620
Any other questions?

505
00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:29,980
No, I just comment.

506
00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:31,780
I think it's good as going to the voters.

507
00:35:31,780 --> 00:35:39,020
I think it's the citizen's tax pay in dollars anyways, it's just coming back into one bigger

508
00:35:39,020 --> 00:35:44,880
fund basically of the town. And I think the EDC did a great job with what its purpose was.

509
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:52,400
I think the EDC probably hasn't had a lot of demands for building health situations other than

510
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,400
what we created with the restaurants up there. And I think it was a great tool and really

511
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,840
changed the look and dynamics of our town again back to the better after we lost those those

512
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,340
restaurants. I think it's like even the building right there on

513
00:36:04,340 --> 00:36:08,480
swisher they didn't come to EDC at all. They did that themselves and that's what

514
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,480
you want most developers to do anyways. You don't want to help the developer make

515
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,560
a ton of money. You want to help them if we need it. But I think what we're doing is

516
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,160
actually a good thing. Then as we all know and we're going to hear in the next

517
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,100
month or two I think a lot of these towns you're going to hear some tax increases

518
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:27,280
going on and this will hopefully help us in the years to come keep our taxes as

519
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,120
is even, or the same, not increasing basically,

520
00:36:31,220 --> 00:36:32,740
but I think you're going to hear a lot of towns

521
00:36:32,740 --> 00:36:34,380
that are going to have some trouble coming up.

522
00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:37,400
And I think this will be a very important point for us

523
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,560
as citizens to make this a beneficial thing

524
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:41,540
for our town long term.

525
00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:44,560
Right, and one thing I think we need to make sure

526
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,800
that's understood is this is sales tax money.

527
00:36:47,860 --> 00:36:50,220
This has nothing to do with property taxes,

528
00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:51,160
ad balloon tax.

529
00:36:52,020 --> 00:36:55,760
And so anyone who shops, does business, does anything

530
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,560
in Hickory Creek and pay sales tax,

531
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:58,860
whether they're from Hickory Creek

532
00:36:58,860 --> 00:37:00,080
or the surrounding community,

533
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,740
or if they're in town going to the lake

534
00:37:02,740 --> 00:37:04,200
and they chop Walmart,

535
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,360
that sales tax is what we're talking about.

536
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,620
We're not talking at all about property tax

537
00:37:09,620 --> 00:37:13,580
and we work very hard to keep our property tax

538
00:37:13,580 --> 00:37:15,520
and you'll hear more about that in future in the meeting.

539
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:19,980
So this is the sales tax amount is not changing.

540
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,020
It's just how it's a portion to the town.

541
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:29,960
So, Mary, if the council decides to move forward to put this on the November agenda.

542
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:39,600
What is the plan for the staff perspective to get this prepared to do an education or to educate the public about what this means?

543
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,500
So, I'm just curious what the...

544
00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:51,580
So, we have the next newsletter coming out. We've got a segment that's going to be in there. As far as that, a lot of it's going to be part of what the mayor went over at the last meeting and this meeting as well.

545
00:37:51,580 --> 00:37:58,560
some history on it, and then plans, you know, on, you know, when it's gone, you know, what happens

546
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,440
and those kinds of things, if it's gone, and everything, but just education and that's it.

547
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,380
So it's going to be the newsletter which should hit just before the, you know, remember,

548
00:38:06,380 --> 00:38:10,480
elections where people got enough time where they could look for themselves and find out, you know,

549
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,680
more, more information if they need to, on the way or so forth. But it's going to be an educational piece

550
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:16,640
only in the newsletter.

551
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,420
Okay, might I recommend we use our social media

552
00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:23,160
aspects as much as we can to help promote?

553
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,120
I mean, I think there's a good portion

554
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,440
that read the newsletter, but I don't know

555
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,500
that everybody does, but thank you for putting that out.

556
00:38:37,790 --> 00:38:41,210
Okay, any other comments or questions?

557
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:44,980
Good.

558
00:38:45,260 --> 00:38:47,080
I want to entertain a motion when you're ready.

559
00:38:48,020 --> 00:38:48,160
Where?

560
00:38:48,460 --> 00:38:48,980
Yes, sir.

561
00:38:48,980 --> 00:39:11,160
I'd like to move to approve an ordinance of the Town Council of Fickery Creek Taxes ordering a special election to be held in November 3rd, 2026 to submit a proposition on dissolving the Hickery Creek Taxes type B economic development corporation, eliminating the sales tax associated with Hickery Creek Taxes type B economic development corporation, adopting a local sales and use tax at a rate of one and three-fourths percent.

562
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,900
Okay, I have a motion by Councilman Gordon. Do I have a second?

563
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:15,900
That was second.

564
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,900
That was second by Mayor Protem, Council Councillor Dodes.

565
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:21,140
Okay.

566
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:21,900
Motion carries.

567
00:39:22,740 --> 00:39:23,420
Item number 16.

568
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:27,920
Consider an act on an ordinance of the Town of Hickory Creek Denton County, Texas, amending

569
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,020
Chapter 8.

570
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:34,720
The code of ordinances through the addition of a new section 8.1 to establishing requirements

571
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:38,280
and regulations for the use of aircraft, helicopters, and helicopters.

572
00:39:40,420 --> 00:39:44,240
Council Mayor, so this was put in your, this was a request that it's in the agenda for

573
00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:49,780
discussion tonight, and this was brought up when we had the event over the Alana here

574
00:39:49,780 --> 00:39:53,820
about six, believe it, about six weeks ago, and which hill captures where I'm involved

575
00:39:53,820 --> 00:40:01,060
in so forth, and not a whole lot of communication took place between events that I just

576
00:40:01,060 --> 00:40:02,960
say we're going to be doing this in so forth.

577
00:40:03,340 --> 00:40:09,280
So our attorney, Mr. Boyle, drafted a potential ordinance that we can go through here in just

578
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,580
a moment to kind of go through what we like and what we don't like in the ordinance,

579
00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:15,900
and discuss it and then vote on it.

580
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,300
So Mr. Boarded put everything in there that you can, I think that you could think of, because

581
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:23,580
we didn't want anything else.

582
00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:27,100
It's easier to take things out of it than it is to go back and try to add stuff that's

583
00:40:27,100 --> 00:40:29,060
not already a starting point.

584
00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:32,620
So that's why it's so loaded up with a lot of different things.

585
00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:36,260
And some of these, you know, we may discuss and say, you know what, we're not going to allow

586
00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:37,300
this, we're not going to allow that.

587
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,600
But I think the biggest piece that we need to take away, and when we look at adopting this

588
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:46,900
not about this is the communication piece that we need from the Alana when they have these big events.

589
00:40:47,780 --> 00:40:53,900
And that was, so I was probably the one that raised this issue because I just think,

590
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:59,380
how is it looking for a heliport to be built or anything like that, but just communication

591
00:40:59,380 --> 00:41:05,540
so that we can notify the neighborhoods that this is going to happen and it has been approved

592
00:41:05,540 --> 00:41:07,140
It's a one-time event.

593
00:41:07,660 --> 00:41:11,300
I mean, this has happened once a year for the past two years.

594
00:41:11,460 --> 00:41:15,040
It's a huge, it's called the exotic network,

595
00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:19,620
because the one that I've seen with tons of McLaren automobiles

596
00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:21,140
and it's pretty incredible.

597
00:41:21,180 --> 00:41:23,520
It's a big July 4 event out there.

598
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,360
So that was just where this came from.

599
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,560
I think, anyway, comments, council, Mr. Gibbons?

600
00:41:30,860 --> 00:41:32,600
Yeah, no, I appreciate it, Maria.

601
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,900
I agree with you.

602
00:41:35,140 --> 00:41:39,300
I think I've got some notes that I'd like to send back to staff based on what I read through

603
00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:39,560
here.

604
00:41:39,820 --> 00:41:45,540
I think to me, and I appreciate Mr. Blue's business together for us, and I know it's like a

605
00:41:45,540 --> 00:41:50,360
tall subject to do, but one of the things I'm not particularly keen on is, I don't think

606
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,440
this needs to come to council every time a permit needs to be issued.

607
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:59,780
I was looking for something more, just almost like a specific use permit of some sort,

608
00:41:59,780 --> 00:42:03,340
It could be dollars as attached to it, it could be free.

609
00:42:03,420 --> 00:42:07,160
It just more notification so that staff knows what's going on.

610
00:42:07,460 --> 00:42:12,160
I'd also like it to exclude more of the emergency services,

611
00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:16,780
like ambulances and let's see.

612
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,420
Military search and rescue operations, other emergencies,

613
00:42:21,340 --> 00:42:23,200
just things that are naturally occur.

614
00:42:23,740 --> 00:42:27,260
This is really specific to anywhere in our town

615
00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:33,340
that if you're having some sort of an ant or something needs to land, that we just know about it,

616
00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:34,400
I think, more than anything.

617
00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:41,300
So more commercial use, anything commercial that's not public safety.

618
00:42:41,780 --> 00:42:47,510
Well, I think it's also a good reach because with the rise of personal aviation craft,

619
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:54,220
you could have a one-person helicopter in your driveway, and even though there's some rules and regulations

620
00:42:54,220 --> 00:43:00,480
for by the FAA, but there's nothing in our ordinances that govern if you have a big enough spread

621
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,020
that you couldn't go flying.

622
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:03,360
All right.

623
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,260
Shady Shores does have that subdivision, that's aircraft.

624
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:14,140
We don't have anything like that, but with the small helicopters and electric flying things

625
00:43:14,140 --> 00:43:15,600
that we have, someone could have it.

626
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:20,460
So I think it's good that we're putting this in place and to answer your question, we did cover

627
00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:22,240
an exclude, because I was looking for that.

628
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:23,800
we did exclude public safety.

629
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,520
So they are not covered by this band,

630
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:30,800
which is just the residential and commercial scenarios.

631
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,380
I could see, I don't know if we could work for them.

632
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,760
So I'm working, you know, personal flying craft

633
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,300
and I want to fly down there.

634
00:43:40,020 --> 00:43:41,240
So it's a great network putting this.

635
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,240
So how do you want to handle this, Mr. Gibbonship?

636
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,260
Not act on it tonight and maybe forget it further?

637
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:50,720
I think there's quite a bit of work

638
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:51,960
that still needs to be done on it.

639
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:52,200
Okay.

640
00:43:52,200 --> 00:44:04,940
I agree. I'm not ready. I don't want to work Smith it in this environment, but I appreciate here in some other comments by the council and kind of try to get us into a direction.

641
00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:08,360
I think it was just a stab in the dark to throw it out there.

642
00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:17,100
Myself, I wouldn't mind postponing it to the whenever, but I'm not ready to act on this and try to work Smith it tonight.

643
00:44:20,060 --> 00:44:20,480
Anybody

644
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:31,420
else? Mr. Board, do we need a motion to table this? How should we handle this?

645
00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:35,200
Mary, you're going to syndicate to the side. I'm just going to be set aside.

646
00:44:35,460 --> 00:44:37,280
Then brought by staff when it's ready.

647
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:38,780
Okay. Okay.

648
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:39,460
No action.

649
00:44:39,460 --> 00:44:39,760
No action.

650
00:44:41,540 --> 00:44:42,360
Then we will do that.

651
00:44:42,380 --> 00:44:44,760
It's going to be set aside in the work by staff.

652
00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:46,660
And we'll bring it back at a future meeting.

653
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:50,660
I don't want to name a specific meeting because that

654
00:44:50,660 --> 00:44:51,660
I don't know what's coming up.

655
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:54,100
All right, thank you.

656
00:44:54,180 --> 00:44:56,120
Thank you, Mr. Boyle, for working on that,

657
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,940
and we'll see if we can work on it.

658
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:24,560
Okay, item number 17, consider an act on a resolution in the town council of the town of Fickery Creek, Texas, proposing a tax rate, which represents the no new revenue tax rate for 2026, placing adoption of the 2026 tax rate on the town council's special meeting agenda for September 10th, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the town council chambers of town hall.

659
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:25,220
Town Hall.

660
00:45:26,100 --> 00:45:26,300
Okay.

661
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:26,680
Council.

662
00:45:27,020 --> 00:45:28,660
If you have questions on this.

663
00:45:29,780 --> 00:45:30,940
Mr. Smith, do you want to?

664
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,880
Is the meeting September 10th or August 30th?

665
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:34,460
Thank you.

666
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:37,380
Gotcha.

667
00:45:40,140 --> 00:45:44,560
So based on Mayer, Council, the staff is recommending that we go with the non-new revenue.

668
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:55,340
And what that means is if you look at that bottom rate, that 0.213303 amount, which if you like

669
00:45:55,340 --> 00:46:00,180
if you'd like to define, you know, what an honor revenue versus not, you know, for the folks

670
00:46:00,180 --> 00:46:04,980
watching, for the folks in the audience, I think it's a rate that we can approve tonight

671
00:46:04,980 --> 00:46:09,840
and it makes sense for the growth that we've had and so forth, and we'll get into the budget

672
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,780
a minute, but we're fixing the recommended budget.

673
00:46:12,460 --> 00:46:16,840
It's also zeroed out as well, so that reflects that number coming into this rate.

674
00:46:16,980 --> 00:46:22,320
So this is something we have to do every year and so forth, but it keeps us still at the very,

675
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,060
bottom of all the cities in didn't county, you know, with services that we have,

676
00:46:27,140 --> 00:46:32,640
lease, fire, everything that's in our town today, but if you'd like to take it from

677
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:33,780
mayor and deserve that.

678
00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:39,880
Yeah, so the no new revenue rate means that we can raise basically the same amount of revenue

679
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,920
from Apple Warren taxes that we raised last year.

680
00:46:43,980 --> 00:46:52,300
So when values fluctuate all the time, but that no new revenue rate tries to walk in so that

681
00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:57,840
you are basically paying the same amount that you were last year.

682
00:46:58,380 --> 00:47:01,780
Now obviously there's going to be some fluctuations in values and those sort of things

683
00:47:01,780 --> 00:47:02,680
that we don't control.

684
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:11,380
But this is what we've always done the no new revenue rate for the past 10, 12 years, I think.

685
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:18,520
And so this is, and I will say I've talked with mayors from other cities and they are not

686
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,180
able to do the no new revenue rate.

687
00:47:20,180 --> 00:47:25,020
many of them are going to what's called the voter approval rate, which is a rate which is kind

688
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:29,040
of a misnomer because it's a rate that you can go to without, that's a highest rate you can go

689
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:39,490
to without voter approval. So anyway, this is, you know, it's, our council has always been committed

690
00:47:39,490 --> 00:47:47,370
to being fiscally responsible and keeping our costs under control, some of which we can't control

691
00:47:47,370 --> 00:47:53,330
such as insurance, we can't control that, but operating within the funds that we have.

692
00:47:54,210 --> 00:47:57,510
And I think what's, we all pay the taxes too.

693
00:47:58,050 --> 00:48:01,970
So we want that tax rate to be as low as possible for all of our citizens.

694
00:48:02,510 --> 00:48:05,790
So I hope that that explanation helps to understand,

695
00:48:06,770 --> 00:48:11,690
so our no-new revenue rate is 0.213303.

696
00:48:11,870 --> 00:48:15,590
So that's the rate that we're looking at.

697
00:48:15,590 --> 00:48:18,410
This is just to set the rate for Hickory Creek.

698
00:48:18,690 --> 00:48:22,690
This does not set the rate for Denton County in order to set the rate for school districts.

699
00:48:22,970 --> 00:48:24,690
That's nothing to do with your school tax.

700
00:48:25,450 --> 00:48:29,470
This is, in Hickory Creek you pay the three components are county,

701
00:48:30,850 --> 00:48:34,410
school, and Hickory Creek unless you live in a pit,

702
00:48:34,550 --> 00:48:36,090
then there's something separate there.

703
00:48:36,610 --> 00:48:39,510
But so we don't have anything to do with the school tax rate.

704
00:48:39,610 --> 00:48:41,670
We don't have anything to do with the county tax rate,

705
00:48:41,670 --> 00:48:44,670
although I have to say the county is also pretty low.

706
00:48:44,670 --> 00:48:50,610
also does, I mean, I haven't seen what their tax rate is going forward, but this past year

707
00:48:50,610 --> 00:48:59,270
was the lowest it's been since the 80s. And so this is the lowest, you know, we always

708
00:48:59,270 --> 00:49:03,130
go as low as we possibly can that, you know, you're ready.

709
00:49:03,970 --> 00:49:08,370
And you know, the options, the mayor's discussions, as far as the vote approval, if we were to

710
00:49:08,370 --> 00:49:13,190
take it to elections, we would be looking at if it was approved by the 185,000, that's what we're

711
00:49:13,190 --> 00:49:19,090
talking about, you know, with that right going up to the 0.22, the next variable up was

712
00:49:19,090 --> 00:49:27,610
at 227777. So it comes out to roughly $69 per house sold at a $480,000, you know, home.

713
00:49:28,090 --> 00:49:31,470
So that's what you're talking about in the increase for. And then we looked at, we actually

714
00:49:31,470 --> 00:49:34,530
discussed, what's in the middle, you know, from that, do we do something in the middle and

715
00:49:34,530 --> 00:49:40,430
not go with the non-neur revenue? And in the book? Yeah, but I'm sorry, the voter approval.

716
00:49:40,430 --> 00:49:44,530
And so looking at that and looking at future revenues coming in with what we still have coming in and

717
00:49:44,530 --> 00:49:45,310
make you pretty commercially.

718
00:49:46,070 --> 00:49:51,090
And so forth, excluding whatever happens at the polls for the EDC, we still felt comfortable

719
00:49:51,090 --> 00:49:53,250
taking that rate.

720
00:49:53,610 --> 00:49:54,750
So I'm recommending that.

721
00:49:54,970 --> 00:49:56,750
So what remind me, we don't have that on here.

722
00:49:56,890 --> 00:49:58,630
What's the voter approval rate?

723
00:49:59,210 --> 00:49:59,850
Do you have that?

724
00:50:00,850 --> 00:50:01,470
I'm sorry.

725
00:50:01,690 --> 00:50:01,950
I'm not.

726
00:50:02,010 --> 00:50:04,830
The voter approval rate is 0.2277.

727
00:50:05,370 --> 00:50:05,650
Okay.

728
00:50:05,650 --> 00:50:09,910
to 1. And so we're 0.21, 3, 3, 0, 0, 3.

729
00:50:10,710 --> 00:50:11,930
Okay. All right.

730
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:19,140
So any questions?

731
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:20,740
If not, I'll entertain a motion.

732
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:23,200
Mayor.

733
00:50:23,540 --> 00:50:23,920
Yes, sir.

734
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:26,600
I'm going to try to prove a resolution of the Town Council of the Town

735
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:27,020
of the Town of the Creek.

736
00:50:27,220 --> 00:50:31,060
Texas proposing a tax rate, which represents the no-new revenue tax rate for

737
00:50:31,580 --> 00:50:35,960
2026, placing adoption of the 2026 tax rate on the Town Council.

738
00:50:35,980 --> 00:50:39,700
Special meeting agenda for September 10, 2026 at 6 p.m.

739
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,040
and the Town Council chambers of Town Hall.

740
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,040
Okay, we have a motion by Councilman Gordon to have a second.

741
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:47,020
A second.

742
00:50:47,020 --> 00:50:48,200
Second by Councilman Peter.

743
00:50:48,420 --> 00:50:53,520
So before we go, just as in a way of explanation, this is the proposed tax rate.

744
00:50:53,820 --> 00:50:56,660
We actually adopt this tax rate in September.

745
00:50:57,380 --> 00:50:59,840
So we're not planning to change.

746
00:51:01,020 --> 00:51:01,220
Okay.

747
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,900
Council passed from Castro votes, please.

748
00:51:14,270 --> 00:51:14,770
Motion carries.

749
00:51:14,990 --> 00:51:15,970
Thank you.

750
00:51:15,970 --> 00:51:22,030
I don't know for 18 discussion regarding the proposed 2026-2027 fiscal year budget.

751
00:51:22,610 --> 00:51:25,810
We had a discussion last meeting on this,

752
00:51:28,870 --> 00:51:31,270
so I know we had gotten the insurance numbers

753
00:51:31,270 --> 00:51:31,670
in.

754
00:51:32,030 --> 00:51:35,290
We didn't have those at that time, so they've been brought in.

755
00:51:36,350 --> 00:51:37,410
It's just a myth that you have any.

756
00:51:37,410 --> 00:51:40,130
Yeah, what I was going to do is just kind of walk through the highlights that we discussed

757
00:51:40,130 --> 00:51:44,850
last month and maybe possibly just the heavy years on costs and so forth.

758
00:51:44,850 --> 00:51:48,910
So just so everybody knows what we have. So looking up there at the budget right now

759
00:51:48,910 --> 00:51:51,190
as you notice it's zero at the top. So basically

760
00:51:51,690 --> 00:51:56,410
With that rate that we're moving towards school. I'm just giving you a question to say can you make it a little bit

761
00:51:56,410 --> 00:52:02,770
Expand it. Okay, still on the bottom right bottom right corner. There's the plus bottom bottom right

762
00:52:05,210 --> 00:52:07,810
Holy control button down in school to wheel.

763
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:16,760
Thank you

764
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:17,060
Okay

765
00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:25,040
Okay, so I'm going to go to the expenditure side because that's the big part when we're looking for this.

766
00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:28,460
One of the big items we talked about is 54 of 6.

767
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:29,960
So if we want to go to that.

768
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:59,420
Which is the basis of the tables. And you've got 600,000 dollars for an allocation out there for the tables. And that is still in our budget. If you recall, we had allocated about two million dollars towards that project. 600,000 being the first phase of the the center and on a thousand towards our contract or done away that's going to be working on the analysis of the building and so forth like that. So that is still in the budget that has not changed.

769
00:53:00,180 --> 00:53:07,880
Moving over to health insurance, which is 5510, there was the increase that we put in there with the

770
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:19,140
Delta difference of that, which is if you do the math on that, it's roughly $197,000 increase, which is pretty substantial, you know, on our side and very substantial

771
00:53:19,140 --> 00:53:21,900
substantial on the appeal side as well.

772
00:53:23,220 --> 00:53:31,360
So, this is a level of plan and with that, we have interest rates and then they also have

773
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,840
what they anticipate that planes are.

774
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:41,740
If our planes are not like they were this year, then we get two thirds of that amount back.

775
00:53:43,260 --> 00:53:47,000
But the way we budget it, we went ahead and just put it out there as the full.

776
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,060
And then a scarcity state, it could come back to two thirds.

777
00:53:51,140 --> 00:53:54,260
So upwards of two thirds, which is very good, you know, for the tail.

778
00:53:57,260 --> 00:53:58,500
Any questions on that?

779
00:54:02,940 --> 00:54:05,780
No, look, that was two thirds of the increase.

780
00:54:07,260 --> 00:54:07,580
About, right?

781
00:54:07,940 --> 00:54:08,180
Correct.

782
00:54:08,380 --> 00:54:10,940
Yes, which was 100 and you said it was 107.

783
00:54:11,580 --> 00:54:16,940
So roughly what you're saying is that if no additional claims were made or reduction in claims,

784
00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:21,880
that we would roughly receive about 120,000 back, give or take.

785
00:54:23,620 --> 00:54:30,140
two thirds of 200. That was a two that the limits two thirds. So you know it could be

786
00:54:30,140 --> 00:54:33,380
half it could be less than that but we went ahead and I can send a budget to the full

787
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:34,720
amount.

788
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:37,160
Yeah,

789
00:54:39,300 --> 00:54:42,420
everybody okay with that? We did that. I see head shaking and everything.

790
00:54:42,580 --> 00:54:45,060
I want to make sure everybody understands it. It wasn't any

791
00:54:45,060 --> 00:54:50,300
increase that we wanted to see for sure. If you look back and we had a long discussion

792
00:54:50,300 --> 00:54:57,380
with our broker, who basically shops this are benefits across a lot of multiple groups

793
00:54:57,380 --> 00:55:00,900
at NABU gross breachield, you name it, it's out there.

794
00:55:01,260 --> 00:55:03,620
When you look back, you'll look back for the last five years.

795
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:08,940
We've actually had, we've made the benefits better for the employees, cost-wise, and we've

796
00:55:08,940 --> 00:55:12,960
also taken decreases as well, and not had any kind of increases at all.

797
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:17,620
When we moved the signal, we rewarded credits that helped us with the increase on that side.

798
00:55:17,620 --> 00:55:21,400
that covered it for two years, two years of knowing

799
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:22,240
Greece on that side.

800
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,700
So for the past five years, it's been really great.

801
00:55:24,740 --> 00:55:27,720
For this last year, there was a higher rate of claims

802
00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:29,440
amongst the employees.

803
00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:32,660
And when they go to look at these numbers and put the rights

804
00:55:32,660 --> 00:55:34,940
to get in so forth like we talked about earlier,

805
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,380
there were some groups that were going

806
00:55:37,380 --> 00:55:39,180
to have a hard time carrying this.

807
00:55:39,260 --> 00:55:42,140
And then the ones that we had a call

808
00:55:42,140 --> 00:55:43,780
back from, they were very high.

809
00:55:43,780 --> 00:55:49,980
And so we decided to stay with Signa for this time and then look at our rights again next year.

810
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,560
With the anticipation of what hopefully every employee has held here this year,

811
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,740
they had to use the rights or next year than they were this past year.

812
00:56:00,940 --> 00:56:01,020
Right.

813
00:56:02,380 --> 00:56:05,860
So of the 197, I need two different.

814
00:56:06,220 --> 00:56:10,540
So what is that equate to and sales tax or the tax rate?

815
00:56:10,820 --> 00:56:12,420
Or is that like one cent?

816
00:56:12,420 --> 00:56:20,700
Well, if you look at it like that, Councilman Gimmons, if you figure the quarter percent coming off the EDC is generated about 380,000.

817
00:56:21,340 --> 00:56:26,340
So you could say that it's probably maybe an eighth, you know, a little bit less than that.

818
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:27,860
So an eighth of that increase.

819
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:29,300
Potentially.

820
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:30,120
Potentially.

821
00:56:31,300 --> 00:56:34,060
And that could go down to 16th or less, or 32nd.

822
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,040
So it just depends on what it comes into the next year.

823
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:44,400
And then as far as the 197 is that stating that the town is going to cover the entire

824
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:49,600
increase or is that some of it was higher than that and some of it was being covered by the

825
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,620
employee to or how did you balance that out?

826
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,480
So that the 197 we

827
00:56:59,230 --> 00:57:05,050
have still contributing 50% to the independent coverage, employees,

828
00:57:05,050 --> 00:57:12,850
have just paid for. So we have not had our meeting yet, our bit of bit meeting, but the

829
00:57:12,850 --> 00:57:16,190
rates are increasing for employees as well.

830
00:57:18,550 --> 00:57:19,930
At that same percentage.

831
00:57:20,710 --> 00:57:22,050
So, sorry.

832
00:57:22,670 --> 00:57:31,150
So, just looking at the numbers though, from 24 to 25, what we spent was 262,000,000, and we

833
00:57:31,150 --> 00:57:42,190
projecting 330,000, but true June we've owned this gone 250. So we're expecting a big jump

834
00:57:42,190 --> 00:57:45,590
in the latter four months,

835
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,140
just reading across the line. For the adopt, we adopted a higher

836
00:57:51,140 --> 00:57:59,040
budget last year of 330. And so now the insurance companies are rating us up higher based on

837
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:09,800
perceived claim amount that we haven't actually done because we're only right and I

838
00:58:16,460 --> 00:58:18,300
guess

839
00:58:27,260 --> 00:58:31,420
the thing that I was just trying to draw is that insurance costs are going up across the border

840
00:58:31,420 --> 00:58:39,580
across all industries but it just seems like they're hitting us super hard us and we haven't really

841
00:58:39,580 --> 00:58:45,680
I had that much increase in our premiums from 24 to 25.

842
00:58:47,100 --> 00:58:48,520
Right, not good.

843
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,460
So what you see the difference when you go from those of the years, we use those credits.

844
00:59:01,340 --> 00:59:04,380
And that basically drilled down that cost and kept it as low as it did.

845
00:59:04,380 --> 00:59:09,040
Super deflated as compared to where it should have been, you know, with anybody else.

846
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:13,000
So if you go to your back, we'll take you over to that left-hand column, 2425.

847
00:59:13,460 --> 00:59:24,640
That's where you see those rates at the day of 60, 250, and so forth, and again, the difference between there and the 2625, too, is like Chris, he said, the mountain of boys.

848
00:59:25,380 --> 00:59:34,840
So if you had boys quitting, you know, and so forth, as we did have some officer turnover at that time, going back two years, and then we've had public works turnover as well.

849
00:59:35,220 --> 00:59:39,600
So then the rate was quite a sign, and we still have some payments to go before they enter the year as well.

850
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:47,680
Three payments. So if you do the math, it's going to get you pretty close to what we're, you know, what have been in the 25 to 26 fiscal year.

851
00:59:50,380 --> 00:59:51,600
It's probably about 30.

852
00:59:55,670 --> 00:59:57,670
Okay. Any other questions?

853
00:59:59,610 --> 00:59:59,770
All right.

854
01:00:02,420 --> 01:00:11,240
So we did have under equipment, 572. We had it allocated for the boom truck and for the implement, for the tractors. So we kept in there as well.

855
01:00:14,730 --> 01:00:30,330
And we also added the fire service, which is 5820, which was additional 180,000 over here. One thirty, I'm sorry. I always want to say one eighty. It's one thirty year. And if you recall how we do our fire contract, it's a fire contract with the city current.

856
01:00:31,390 --> 01:00:40,030
It's fogging here, so what we do is we average out with the total amount, is it's the incrementally going up every year, and we get the average and pay it like that.

857
01:00:40,210 --> 01:00:40,670
That amount.

858
01:00:40,790 --> 01:00:41,190
That amount.

859
01:00:41,510 --> 01:00:45,270
So that way it's always easier to budget instead of those increases.

860
01:00:46,930 --> 01:00:47,770
Those were the service.

861
01:00:48,330 --> 01:00:56,950
Just so for the public understand, we're going from 970,000, 692 dollars to 1.1 million, 742 dollars.

862
01:00:57,070 --> 01:00:59,010
And those costs are completely out of our control.

863
01:01:00,650 --> 01:01:06,570
Those are, that's a contract with Lake City's fire, which is controlled by current city of current.

864
01:01:07,130 --> 01:01:10,810
Which is, if you recall, a contract we negotiated actually two years ago.

865
01:01:11,590 --> 01:01:15,870
The child of lock-in costs more so we were kind of able to have a look at what that was going to be.

866
01:01:16,390 --> 01:01:20,410
And not anticipating that everybody's interest was going up and so forth.

867
01:01:20,410 --> 01:01:22,070
So this is a good thing that we did.

868
01:01:22,430 --> 01:01:24,270
We also went back and looked at the formula.

869
01:01:24,810 --> 01:01:31,470
And as you recall over the last 15, 20 years, the formula has always been a big deal when it comes to talks regarding the fire department.

870
01:01:31,750 --> 01:01:35,550
And so we had changed the formula before this contract five years ago.

871
01:01:35,870 --> 01:01:41,650
But for this contract two years ago, we renegotiated a new contract and a new formula.

872
01:01:42,350 --> 01:01:45,490
And it included the amount of calls that they received.

873
01:01:45,690 --> 01:01:48,610
And so that was part of the formula that it was the amount of calls.

874
01:01:49,530 --> 01:01:53,510
One of the things that it was anticipated that they were going to change was values.

875
01:01:54,290 --> 01:01:56,610
And if you look at our values for our town, they've gone,

876
01:01:56,610 --> 01:01:58,870
it could constantly keep going up and up and up,

877
01:01:59,250 --> 01:02:00,950
which is a good thing, especially if you're going to say,

878
01:02:01,070 --> 01:02:02,030
you're going to ask, I mean, not such a good thing,

879
01:02:02,130 --> 01:02:02,910
if you're going to stay in the forever.

880
01:02:03,970 --> 01:02:09,250
But values went up and we did want that to be part of one of the

881
01:02:09,250 --> 01:02:12,830
determination factors of how that rate was going to be produced,

882
01:02:13,330 --> 01:02:15,430
because we would get hit really hard with that.

883
01:02:15,430 --> 01:02:17,990
Now, if you look at the call volume, the call volume for our town,

884
01:02:18,370 --> 01:02:21,570
which is good because we have a lot of newer houses and homes

885
01:02:21,570 --> 01:02:24,230
and so forth in the town is actually less than a lot.

886
01:02:24,430 --> 01:02:26,530
If you look at the percentage for the numbers,

887
01:02:26,730 --> 01:02:27,470
it's pretty low.

888
01:02:27,750 --> 01:02:29,210
So we wanted to have that in the formula,

889
01:02:29,630 --> 01:02:31,130
because we knew that was going to help us,

890
01:02:31,390 --> 01:02:33,390
which is why when you look at the comparison

891
01:02:34,210 --> 01:02:36,490
of the 970 compared to one, one,

892
01:02:36,790 --> 01:02:39,990
130,000 increase on a contract when you go shaded

893
01:02:39,990 --> 01:02:41,750
two years ago, that's really not that bad.

894
01:02:42,350 --> 01:02:45,010
I mean, that is one farming salary by itself.

895
01:02:46,390 --> 01:02:49,390
So it was good that city of Corinth worked with some that day.

896
01:02:49,450 --> 01:02:50,930
Yeah, and they really did.

897
01:02:51,850 --> 01:02:56,890
And they looked at it, they saw it, and they also recognized that they were going to have a lot of growth.

898
01:02:57,770 --> 01:03:05,030
And a lot of residency that was going to be moving in the town over there in so forth, and some divisions because they've got the land to expand.

899
01:03:05,930 --> 01:03:13,870
And so they took a step back and said, you know what, a lot of this growth is going to come from us on the residential shots, so we're going to take that yet on the increases well.

900
01:03:13,870 --> 01:03:16,370
So this is, they serve, Hickry Creek,

901
01:03:16,830 --> 01:03:18,890
Parent, Lake Dallas, and Shady Shores.

902
01:03:19,930 --> 01:03:22,450
And so this will be the 1.1 million

903
01:03:22,450 --> 01:03:26,690
will be our rate for the next, this is a five-year contract.

904
01:03:26,930 --> 01:03:29,490
So over the next five years, this is the amount that we'll pay.

905
01:03:30,970 --> 01:03:32,490
So we're locked in.

906
01:03:32,710 --> 01:03:35,570
Now, at what point do we renegotiate that?

907
01:03:35,650 --> 01:03:38,910
So we've always had a one-year in the last square round.

908
01:03:39,050 --> 01:03:42,130
We started at the second year, you know, two-year-out.

909
01:03:42,130 --> 01:03:48,930
So that would be one year, but we'll probably start before then, because it's, you know, when you get to that point, I'm sure it's going to be pretty costly.

910
01:03:49,330 --> 01:03:50,310
We'll just need to plan it for that.

911
01:03:50,310 --> 01:03:50,510
Right.

912
01:03:50,650 --> 01:03:51,130
Down the road.

913
01:03:51,670 --> 01:03:51,910
So.

914
01:03:53,530 --> 01:03:53,850
Okay.

915
01:03:54,290 --> 01:03:56,250
Questions, anything we miss? Anything.

916
01:03:57,790 --> 01:04:01,210
When you look at some of these and, you know, when you look through the budget, you look at it and go,

917
01:04:01,430 --> 01:04:03,190
okay, are we fighting some of this stuff?

918
01:04:03,490 --> 01:04:05,570
I don't see one thing in our council's dinner. We'll get a job of it.

919
01:04:05,590 --> 01:04:06,970
It's making sure we are ready to be fun.

920
01:04:07,970 --> 01:04:10,390
And so we are taking part of that out in every year.

921
01:04:10,390 --> 01:04:12,430
we have raw that we always end up adding back.

922
01:04:12,730 --> 01:04:14,090
So I'm confident that's what we're going to do.

923
01:04:14,250 --> 01:04:15,210
We're going to be really close.

924
01:04:15,850 --> 01:04:18,650
So that's why we want to move forward on this particular budget

925
01:04:19,650 --> 01:04:21,190
and feel confident we'll wrap.

926
01:04:22,930 --> 01:04:23,150
So.

927
01:04:23,210 --> 01:04:26,190
And we tap into that for one time expenses.

928
01:04:26,350 --> 01:04:26,970
That's correct, Mayor.

929
01:04:27,150 --> 01:04:29,530
So we look at our reserves and they're there for that

930
01:04:29,530 --> 01:04:31,310
to look at this budget.

931
01:04:31,850 --> 01:04:34,010
You know, we try to look as forward as we can

932
01:04:34,010 --> 01:04:35,330
and what we're going to see on sales tax.

933
01:04:35,790 --> 01:04:37,770
We haven't had the clip of sales tax.

934
01:04:37,770 --> 01:04:39,750
It's coming out of the new shopping center down there.

935
01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:45,690
We anticipate when we think it's going to be and we think it's going to be very good for the town and when they build a second one as well

936
01:04:46,530 --> 01:04:49,590
But it just shows how important commercial is we don't

937
01:04:50,590 --> 01:04:55,330
We don't place our budget in like a lot of cities with that lean on the residential component. They have a long

938
01:04:55,730 --> 01:04:59,570
Because we have such a little right we we rely on that self-stacks and you know

939
01:04:59,570 --> 01:05:02,550
We're grateful for the businesses here the Walmart's you know

940
01:05:02,550 --> 01:05:06,890
Everybody shelf-tams on because that self-stacks comes our town. I mean that that's there as well

941
01:05:06,890 --> 01:05:12,130
They a lot has been a huge contributor with their new business venture that they've built over there

942
01:05:12,130 --> 01:05:16,110
So all those add up and when you when you look at that sales tax coming in

943
01:05:16,110 --> 01:05:22,510
That's what helps us kind of keep that out of the warm right down where it is and we're not relying on residential bill because it's some point

944
01:05:22,510 --> 01:05:24,490
We're gonna level out and there's not gonna be any

945
01:05:25,410 --> 01:05:27,710
So the record what's the

946
01:05:28,510 --> 01:05:33,750
Tax highest tax getters in town next one one two three. I know it's Walmart. I'm with on which what's

947
01:05:35,710 --> 01:05:38,770
Yeah, I'll just throw them at them, I'll say the order because I got to be careful.

948
01:05:39,110 --> 01:05:39,590
Thank you.

949
01:05:39,750 --> 01:05:40,630
Yeah, okay.

950
01:05:41,230 --> 01:05:43,810
But I mean, we all know it's, it's, it's never through.

951
01:05:44,290 --> 01:05:45,790
Yeah, it's, well, some of it.

952
01:05:45,790 --> 01:05:46,050
That's not right.

953
01:05:46,430 --> 01:05:47,790
When it comes to that sales and everything.

954
01:05:48,390 --> 01:05:49,630
But it's Walmart, Chick-fil-A.

955
01:05:49,790 --> 01:05:50,930
It's racetrack.

956
01:05:51,070 --> 01:05:51,610
The lineup.

957
01:05:52,850 --> 01:05:53,630
It's water burger.

958
01:05:54,070 --> 01:05:56,690
You know, Amazon and it's very high.

959
01:05:57,270 --> 01:05:58,630
Just good for us to all know that.

960
01:05:58,810 --> 01:06:00,770
But the more you support Hickory Creek, the better it is.

961
01:06:00,830 --> 01:06:01,070
Right.

962
01:06:01,070 --> 01:06:06,990
And then when you look at the three set-down restaurants, you know, they're substantial contributors as well.

963
01:06:07,810 --> 01:06:13,710
So when you look at all those, it's their every little one as their amount, and then it just all adds up before you know it.

964
01:06:13,830 --> 01:06:20,090
You're going to go and wow, it arows me animals, you know, over $2 million for me and ours, for me and ours, it keeps going up the sales tax.

965
01:06:20,410 --> 01:06:24,410
I mean, the point of it is the Walmart's very popular here.

966
01:06:24,610 --> 01:06:25,530
Very important too.

967
01:06:27,030 --> 01:06:52,270
And if you take the, you know, the equation of the 80-20,000 staff, and you look at our population of 6400, you look at grants of 24,000, and yet in shady shores, about 2600, and yet in late hours around 7,500, 80% of those people are going to come and shop here. We're going to get the benefit of that, you know, we're that 20% out of the bottom. So that's where we see that that huge increase on our side, you know, so, you know, we gotta be grateful for everybody that shops at our businesses.

968
01:06:52,270 --> 01:07:00,290
And just a couple more points, can you explain the 56-30 outdated equipment there?

969
01:07:01,910 --> 01:07:03,470
I don't know if you're micromancer or something.

970
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:13,000
Oh, that's personnel equipment, 56-30 chief.

971
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:14,960
You want to discuss that?

972
01:07:15,180 --> 01:07:15,800
That's the tank.

973
01:07:16,180 --> 01:07:16,900
Taysers.

974
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:28,920
We can't get batteries.

975
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:38,000
Court charges, any any supplemental items for them. So we're one where we have to start phasing them out if we're going to continue to carry it.

976
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,000
And I strongly recommend we continue to carry it.

977
01:07:41,820 --> 01:07:47,080
All right, guys. Just for the records, everybody knows. I think it's great information, but I think it's a necessity, too.

978
01:07:47,300 --> 01:07:53,660
So I appreciate that. And then Mr. Smith, the 59.02 building man, maintenance supplies.

979
01:07:54,140 --> 01:07:59,640
Are we doing a different or is that just that you're seeing those increases happening as I can see him in the budget anyone is

980
01:08:02,180 --> 01:08:03,920
Just more costly

981
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:13,180
Oh, that's right. Okay, I'm sorry. I just didn't recall that what the big item was so we are looking at an increase or on the animal service

982
01:08:13,180 --> 01:08:19,120
It's said we place an age back system over there got you so I've got some preliminary cost on it

983
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:20,980
and I'm actually working with a company on,

984
01:08:21,020 --> 01:08:22,980
they came down and looked at it last two weeks ago.

985
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:24,680
So we're getting cost on the now,

986
01:08:24,820 --> 01:08:27,600
but at some point that this system's about 17 years old,

987
01:08:27,980 --> 01:08:30,800
and we keep patching it, and we've been very successful

988
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:32,720
in patching it, but at some point it's gonna go.

989
01:08:33,620 --> 01:08:35,440
And efficiency wise, you gotta remember

990
01:08:36,820 --> 01:08:38,920
for the certification to the state of Texas,

991
01:08:38,940 --> 01:08:41,360
Council McKinney's, we gotta keep that air continuously

992
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:44,060
goes through there 24 hours, seven days a week.

993
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:46,540
And it's an amy a teacher that never goes

994
01:08:46,540 --> 01:08:48,020
one way or the other for the pets.

995
01:08:48,020 --> 01:08:52,640
And so 72, 74, I think, and I'm staking.

996
01:08:53,380 --> 01:08:57,040
But that system continually runs 24-7 all the time.

997
01:08:57,340 --> 01:08:59,100
And we've been able to fix it and patch it

998
01:08:59,100 --> 01:09:01,020
in bringing in parts for it, but at some point,

999
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:02,320
we're going to have to replace it.

1000
01:09:02,460 --> 01:09:02,720
That's good.

1001
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,140
And then for the efficiency piece, if you recall,

1002
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:07,420
a few years ago, we replaced everything on the roof

1003
01:09:07,420 --> 01:09:08,080
of this building.

1004
01:09:08,940 --> 01:09:11,140
For the efficiency side, so we'll see some efficiency

1005
01:09:11,140 --> 01:09:13,700
come out of it, but still the cost is not cheap

1006
01:09:13,700 --> 01:09:14,540
for that mixed system.

1007
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:15,540
So thank you.

1008
01:09:17,620 --> 01:09:19,420
Anything else, can I need you to give it?

1009
01:09:19,540 --> 01:09:23,000
Just to remind her how many, I'm trying to find it again.

1010
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:26,820
How many police vehicles are we budgeting in this year?

1011
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:29,620
Just one in his current format.

1012
01:09:30,140 --> 01:09:33,740
One day, we also have a new built-in, a motorcycle.

1013
01:09:35,020 --> 01:09:35,920
Yes, I have one on a motorcycle.

1014
01:09:36,060 --> 01:09:38,200
One replacement, four little bit, one on a motorcycle.

1015
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:40,080
Thank you.

1016
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,420
Okay, anybody else?

1017
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:44,900
Questions?

1018
01:09:48,030 --> 01:09:48,250
Okay.

1019
01:09:48,250 --> 01:09:50,630
We'll move on to item number 19.

1020
01:09:51,470 --> 01:10:11,110
Consider an act on a resolution of the Town Council of the Town of Hickory Creek Texas, placing a public hearing on the proposed budget and vote to adopt the 2026-2027 fiscal year budget on the August 31st, 2026 Town Council special needing agenda at 6 p.m. in the Town Council Chambers at Town Hall.

1021
01:10:13,530 --> 01:10:32,990
May I like to move that we approve a resolution of the town of Council of the Town of Hickory Creek, Texas, placing the public hearing on the proposed budget and vote to adopt a 2026-2027 fiscal year budget on the August 31st, 2026 town council special meeting agenda at 6pm in the town council chambers of town hall.

1022
01:10:32,990 --> 01:10:35,790
You have a motion by Councilman Theodore, do I have a second?

1023
01:10:35,970 --> 01:10:36,290
Second.

1024
01:10:36,650 --> 01:10:39,630
I have a second by Councilman Gordon, Councilcaster votes.

1025
01:10:48,150 --> 01:10:48,870
Okay, motion carries.

1026
01:10:49,470 --> 01:10:55,410
I have number 20, consider an act on filing the proposed 2026-2027 fiscal year budget with

1027
01:10:55,410 --> 01:10:59,670
the town secretary's office as of August 10th, 2026.

1028
01:11:01,150 --> 01:11:04,050
So this is just action to file it with the secretary.

1029
01:11:05,430 --> 01:11:06,250
I'll entertain motion.

1030
01:11:06,250 --> 01:11:11,490
Mayor, I'll make a motion. We approve filing the proposed 2627 fiscal year budget with the town

1031
01:11:11,490 --> 01:11:14,250
secretary's office as of August 10th, 2026.

1032
01:11:15,090 --> 01:11:19,830
Okay. I have a motion by the Mayor Pro Tem. Did I hear a second? Okay. Second by Council

1033
01:11:19,830 --> 01:11:22,390
and Theodore. Council cast your votes.

1034
01:11:28,750 --> 01:11:32,770
There. Motion carries. Executive session. In accordance

1035
01:11:32,770 --> 01:11:37,590
with the Texas Local Government Code Chapter 551, the town council will convene into executive

1036
01:11:37,590 --> 01:11:43,370
session to discuss the following matters. Section 551.071 consultation with the

1037
01:11:43,370 --> 01:11:47,510
attorney on matters in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under

1038
01:11:47,510 --> 01:11:51,690
the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas

1039
01:11:51,690 --> 01:11:56,150
Clearly Conflicts with the State Texas Open Meetings Act or on matters pertaining

1040
01:11:56,150 --> 01:12:00,310
depending or contemplated litigation. At a number 21,

1041
01:12:00,310 --> 01:12:10,730
Talent Pickery Creek versus Ronald Ferdick at all, Section 551.071 and 551.076, consultation with the

1042
01:12:10,730 --> 01:12:14,390
attorney on matters in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the

1043
01:12:14,390 --> 01:12:18,670
Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, for the State of Bar of Texas, clearly

1044
01:12:18,670 --> 01:12:25,590
conflicts with the Texas Open Meeting Act, regarding the deliberation of deployment or implementation

1045
01:12:25,590 --> 01:12:27,530
of security personnel or devices.

1046
01:12:27,530 --> 01:12:29,730
The time is 713.

1047
01:12:35,870 --> 01:12:41,470
We will reconvene into open session at 10-0-4 discussion and possible action-regardic matters,

1048
01:12:41,890 --> 01:12:43,510
discussed in a second session.

1049
01:12:43,690 --> 01:12:44,370
We have no action.

1050
01:12:45,190 --> 01:12:45,350
All right.

1051
01:12:45,470 --> 01:12:49,770
Future agenda items, purpose of this section is to allow each council member, the opportunity

1052
01:12:49,770 --> 01:12:55,710
to propose, that an item be added as a business item to a future, any future agenda, any discussion

1053
01:12:55,710 --> 01:12:59,710
of or decision about the subject matters shall be limited to a proposal to place the subject

1054
01:12:59,710 --> 01:13:01,370
on the agenda for a subsequent meeting.

1055
01:13:01,370 --> 01:13:02,850
Let's see if I have anything. Quickly.

1056
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:08,720
Okay. I will entertain a motion to it. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I cut you?

1057
01:13:09,340 --> 01:13:10,340
Okay. Motion to adjourn.

1058
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:14,660
Okay. I have a motion by Mayor Protam to have a second.

1059
01:13:14,860 --> 01:13:15,200
Second.

1060
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,600
Have a second by Councilman Theodore Council cast your votes.

1061
01:13:24,370 --> 01:13:25,750
We're adjourned at 10.05.

1062
01:13:27,450 --> 01:13:28,230
Thank you.

1063
01:13:29,110 --> 01:13:29,370
Everyone.