Name: Aug 11, 2026 City Council
Duration: 2 h 10 min 1 s
Description: We'll do number 16, consider the ad volume tax rate for year 2026 instead of public hearing date on the proposed physical year 2026, 2027 budget and proposed tax rate.

[1:40] March, we have today, council, we have a mayor for the day. In March, she is going in the fourth grade tomorrow, and here at Edge Elementary. So, in just a few minutes, the fire department is going to come get her and take her on a tour, and then she will take a tour of the police department. And she's going to meet us back there, either in here or in the council chambers.

[2:00] Thank you for being so.

[2:03] All right.

[2:04] Thank you, ma'am.

[2:05] Yes.

[2:06] Today is August 11th.

[2:09] It is 6 o'clock.

[2:11] This is the early work session on how the city council.

[2:14] We are going to get started with an update on federal emergency management agencies.

[2:19] National flood insurance program.

[2:21] Community ratings system.

[2:39] I am very excited, this is my jam, like, very excited about this, I used to teach fun to do this, I am nervous, and I am raised in energy and loves it again.

[2:52] Don't let her ask questions.

[2:57] We still have a bunch of it, so we should have come up there.

[3:01] All right.

[3:02] Well, thank you, Mayor, for the day, and Council members.

[3:05] I appreciate your time.

[3:07] So the first couple of slides are kind of a reminder of where we came from,

[3:11] and then I'll get into where we are now.

[3:14] So the CRS stands for the Community Rating Service System,

[3:18] and we have actually been preparing for this program since 2010.

[3:25] It's similar to the fire insurance rating system, but it determines your flood insurance premium discount and the things that the city does to help reduce the flood risk.

[3:47] Village, you're not ensuring the quicker.

[3:50] On

[3:59] the side, you turn on.

[4:01] Thank you.

[4:03] Thank you.

[4:05] Thanks.

[4:06] It takes a billion.

[4:09] So, in at the beginning of fiscal year 2526,

[4:14] and staff came to council and asked during the,

[4:20] asked during the budget process for $22,000 for one-time cost for consulting services to help jumpstart us into the program.

[4:29] And at the time, this is still current data.

[4:33] Currently, we have 596 residential properties

[4:35] in the special flood hazard area,

[4:37] and over 60 insurance policies in the city.

[4:40] The 60 insurance policies actually,

[4:41] I think is a little bit low,

[4:44] and we're working on getting updated data.

[4:47] With the community rating service,

[4:49] if we get a level of seven or better,

[4:53] you get as much as a 15% discount,

[4:55] the residents can save.

[4:56] that's an average of $408 on their flood insurance policy.

[5:01] We've had 21 flood claims have been paid since 2011.

[5:04] There's a lot of data in here.

[5:05] I'll kind of skip through the discountifies

[5:07] to any flood insurance policy in our village,

[5:09] regardless of whether they're in the special flood hazard video

[5:13] or out.

[5:14] And then over time, we can continue to improve that discount

[5:18] to the savings to the residents.

[5:19] We're going to pay for itself in the first year

[5:22] with an estimated average of $24,000 in 480.

[5:25] We are 24,480 dollars in savings.

[5:31] Our current timeline so the city did engage with the L.A.N.

[5:34] Incorporated for a professional services.

[5:36] We started meeting in preparing documents in November.

[5:39] We were so excited.

[5:40] We met with FEMA virtually during our little ice storm because they couldn't travel.

[5:44] We couldn't travel.

[5:45] We were all able to meet virtually so that was really nice to do preliminary assessment and

[5:50] then everything shut down.

[5:51] And then the program went into a freeze.

[5:54] We were told by both the community rating service representative and by our professional

[6:01] service representative that they don't know if the program was going to be continued.

[6:05] It went on a hiatus, it went through revamping.

[6:10] We thought this was going to be a multi-year process.

[6:13] And then I got an email back in June saying, hey, we're back up and running and you have

[6:17] 60 days to get all your documentation and so we had the crowd running because I didn't want to lose

[6:23] this window because I didn't know if there would be another one. So we had our community assisted

[6:29] on-site visit which was once called a cab. They've now renamed it to an audit on August 6th. Our 30-day

[6:36] letter was issued yesterday and so the shop const or so. One of the things that one of the biggest

[6:42] things that I need your help with is that we need to make changes to our 2011 ordinances,

[6:48] ordinances to our floodplain ordinance to get the most credit out of it. We already got a lot of

[6:54] credit for the things that were already in it, but if we tweak some of the language and improve some

[6:59] of the definitions, we could get even more credit.

[7:05] So this ordinance was officially adopted in

[7:08] or would April 12, 2011, the same time we adopted our firm maps, the firm stands for federal insurance

[7:16] rep maps. And the ordinance also gave permission for the creation of a certified flood lane manager

[7:24] position and provided governance for said position and created higher standards for planned

[7:30] risk reduction. The city attorney had copied the ordinance in 2012. The CRS rep reviewed and made

[7:37] recommendations in July. Kevin, I'm going to actually get Kevin a couple of shout-outs through

[7:43] this entire process. This is shout-out number one, but there will be many to come. I have Kevin some

[7:49] side dinner and frosty beverage of his choice because he reviewed all of the changes that the FEMA

[7:57] representatives recommended. He also reviewed my changes and had that all back to us by August 7th to

[8:05] to be in the packet.

[8:09] And here we are. Okay, there's a lot of stuff here. But I wanted you

[8:15] all to know every place where we had revised it. And a lot of cases, it was really kind

[8:20] of small, just an insert of some language here, some clarification of language here. We

[8:26] were already had two feet above the base flood elevation, which is considered a higher standard.

[8:31] We just needed to add the machinery so we did not have the AC units and all the machinery

[8:45] had to be two feet above the base flood elevation as well, so we were already regulating

[8:50] to that higher standard but we didn't have it stated in the ordinance.

[8:54] Every change that we made here, we were already doing in practice.

[8:57] So this was a way to align the ordinance with what we were already doing.

[9:04] To find regulatory, to find and regulate accessory structures.

[9:08] So do we do not, as practice, allow for any residential structures to be built in the existing special flood hazard area.

[9:16] But we do allow for accessory storage structures as long as those storage structures meet our higher standards.

[9:22] And so, that in the nutshell is what we did here.

[9:38] So it's on a scale of 10 being you just filled out the paperwork and one being the best.

[9:44] There's only about seven or eight cities in the entire country that have a one.

[9:49] So most cities come in somewhere between a nine and an eight, but with all the things

[9:54] that we were doing for higher standards, I really thought we could get to a seven and to

[9:58] be honest, we actually had enough points to come in as a six.

[10:03] The only thing we didn't have to make it to a safe,

[10:06] and that can be something we could put into a future project,

[10:09] is we've got two minimum requirements,

[10:11] and that was our uniform building codes needed

[10:13] to be 2021 or higher.

[10:15] And then our community services division needed

[10:17] to have a building code effectiveness grading,

[10:19] which is kind of like what we're going through

[10:21] for the flooding side, or with the fire department goes,

[10:25] or even police department, they have a whole grading system

[10:27] for what community services and the building officials could go through there.

[10:31] So, we're going to go quick on that first one.

[10:34] Yes.

[10:36] How quickly can we get that one not off if they're good with it because price they're ready

[10:41] to go and we're planning on probably presenting them for the option here within this couple

[10:48] of council meetings.

[10:49] That is great.

[10:50] That'll give us a few more points but it won't jump us up to it because we've got to have

[10:55] that.

[10:56] Thank you.

[11:00] Okay, so we have 30 days as of yesterday to provide proof of everything that we said in

[11:06] our presentation last week.

[11:10] And this ordinance is part of that process.

[11:13] We will of course work with communications and see secretaries office to advertise our

[11:17] entrance into the program and how residents can apply for their insurance discounts.

[11:22] We'll continue to expand and document our outreach.

[11:24] Which, that's the thing that they really, really loved was how much outreach we currently

[11:29] did, especially in all of our flyers, all of our social media posts.

[11:34] We got a lot of points for that.

[11:36] And they were very impressed with everything that we had on the website, all of the work

[11:40] that Carmen had done to put a lot of fluid information on there.

[11:44] And they just had kudos of accolades for all of the things that we were currently doing.

[11:50] They were very impressed with what our current program was.

[11:53] So you'll see a little bit more outreach, so one of the things they recommended is for

[11:57] like the TX fallen officers will probably partner with the parts department to have a

[12:02] booth out there and have additional flyers and pamphlets at the community that will get

[12:08] points for that.

[12:09] If you'll notice in every one of the buildings now, we all have pamphlets.

[12:12] If you walked in, if you've seen all of the flood pamphlets that, you know, we had available

[12:16] right now on every single surface that we could put in there, so thanks to the parts department

[12:21] for letting us put them there and public works as well.

[12:24] So we actually get additional points for every single building

[12:27] that we have that information out.

[12:29] And there is an online review every year

[12:31] and then on site visits every five years.

[12:34] And then we can decide if we wanted to pursue

[12:36] that prior to my practitioner discounts.

[12:40] And I want to give a huge shout out.

[12:42] This would not be possible without council support

[12:45] and you are helping take the initiative last year

[12:48] and I want to hire the professional services.

[12:50] I will say not have been able to make this window without their help.

[12:55] I mean, they were valuable in helping us go through the checklist, making sure everything

[13:01] we had met all of the requirements.

[13:04] Honestly, we could not have done that without their assistance.

[13:07] Community services, Kim, Autumn Gary Clark, Carmen DeVee, heavy lifting, all of the mapping,

[13:14] all of the analysis, all the website information could not have done that.

[13:19] all of this without her Lori and Jenny, Scott,

[13:22] Landon, Scott Green with Fire Department,

[13:24] because even the Fire Department had to be involved

[13:26] because we needed to use their emergency management plan,

[13:31] action plan, and flooding as a flood recovery

[13:35] is one of those tabletop exercises

[13:38] and so will they talk about them as well.

[13:40] And then of course Angie,

[13:41] you can find out what being being tracked down ordinances

[13:43] and signatures and then I cannot stress how much

[13:49] Kevin did in literally 48 hours.

[13:52] I mean, I was firing back, oh, then they said this,

[13:54] and they said this, and they said this,

[13:56] the camera's like, got it, got it, got it, got it.

[13:58] And then when I tried to type what I wanted to say,

[14:01] he was like, okay, just tell me what you're trying to do.

[14:03] And I'll make sure it gets in there properly.

[14:06] And so, and of course, Paul, thank you for so much

[14:09] for all the support, allowing us to take the classes

[14:12] and allowing us to basically codify everything

[14:16] we were already doing and get credit and be able to pass that credit to actual financial savings

[14:22] to the residents. Who is our CFM? We have two, we have three, actually CFMs, so you have myself,

[14:32] you have Carmen, and then you have Lance and Drake. So we have lots of backup.

[14:39] It's not the ordinance that you can be talking about is part of the agenda tonight.

[14:47] Yes, the ordinance you have in front of you has all of those changes. I mean go back here

[14:55] all of these changes and what what changes they were in which section

[15:00] We made those changes to.

[15:05] I didn't know we had, we did not, but we had that. We do not. Currently, have a.

[15:17] I mean, again, shout out to Kevin. I mean, it was hot off the press. I mean,

[15:27] So then right after I got the information from our audit,

[15:33] you know, I was typing everything out,

[15:35] got it to Friday morning and kept in turn around that thing

[15:38] and got it into everybody else's amended packets.

[15:42] So good to see you.

[15:43] And Sonny's, Sonny's, you know,

[15:45] granting me more credit than I really did.

[15:48] I appreciate it, but you're not going to take credit.

[15:54] I think I'll take some credit

[15:55] for getting it for putting it on a priority list

[15:57] because one thing is I wanted to make sure she got those updates before the authors came in on

[16:02] Thursday, I guess. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[16:04] So it was their statement. We, you know, had it ready to go to council for tonight or first reading.

[16:11] But, you know, they weren't extensive. They are. I've done enough these over the years. The

[16:16] ordinance thankfully was already in pretty good shape, even as old as it was.

[16:20] was, you know, and so that was good. But I, again, I appreciate the accolades, but I don't

[16:27] know that it's just a, that a few so of that.

[16:34] It's an, it was already a good shape and she, you know, she announced her good job, you

[16:39] know, getting it done. So I'm just going to use the eye.

[16:42] No.

[17:00] I don't know if we would have gotten another one for, I don't know how long, because even

[17:05] the auditors were there were like, we don't know how long this window is going to be open,

[17:09] And then that's why there was such pressure

[17:12] to get it done as fast as we possibly could,

[17:14] because there's a potential that can shut it all down

[17:17] for reband again.

[17:19] I will say one thing.

[17:20] I actually, I think, because you've got it to me Friday.

[17:24] I was thinking, I think I get this target on the hospital.

[17:26] Oh, my God, you're making me feel you're worse.

[17:29] OK.

[17:29] Your dinner's been upgraded to include dessert.

[17:32] I can't pass it over.

[17:34] I can't pass it over.

[17:34] They're not good.

[17:36] Yeah, so are there any questions before things, firstly, Shake Shack, so for tomorrow's the work out if you'd like to, number two, just to clarify, make sure I'm 100% all of these are being added to the ordinance are things we were already doing, just now being officially added to the ordinance.

[17:53] It's a good thing because it's not going to hit residents and say, oh, here's new requirements.

[17:57] That's correct.

[17:57] Absolutely.

[17:58] Everything we were already doing in practice,

[18:01] but you don't get credit for it

[18:02] if it isn't written down.

[18:03] Right.

[18:04] And so even having fit, I did buy a bus tomorrow.

[18:07] I really wanted to make sure it was all written down

[18:09] so that the practice continued and it didn't change.

[18:12] Which is great.

[18:13] Yeah, the two foot above BFE is really,

[18:15] is always a big ease, you know,

[18:17] because I've done ordinances to other cities in the past

[18:20] where they've been at one foot if that

[18:24] and make a big jump. And then it impacts, you know, then when you make a jump

[18:31] between going from just basically to two foot above or in one to two, any

[18:37] future additions to homes get impacted as well. And so that's, you know, so

[18:44] made your remodels, other than just in here, that may affect the foundation, get

[18:50] impact it and so yeah it is already fortunate for you know long all these years and maybe

[18:56] before that was the practice to the BFB for your foundations so no negative impact only

[19:07] positive.

[19:07] Yes and you know my favorite quote comes from the Army Corps of Engineers as water does not

[19:12] stop in a line on the map and so by having these higher standards and we do you know we

[19:19] have a lot of beautiful residences that are along the lake shore and along our

[19:23] trees and by having these higher standards it reduces their risk of

[19:29] potentially having worsened flood damage in the case of the flood.

[19:34] I had four things when I'm keeping it to two. 75% of all floods do not happen in flood

[19:40] zones.

[19:42] 35% of all flooding in the homes is outside of female regulated flood

[19:47] And so that's why we're working very closely with storm drain and getting those notices out to residents saying, hey, bag your leaves and grass clippings so they don't clog up the storm drains because clogging up the storm drains can increase localized

[20:03] funding in your area.

[20:06] So getting that message out, we were already getting that message out and just adding that one or two additional words to help reduce flood risk will give us additional points in the future.

[20:16] Thank you.

[20:20] I'm open.

[20:22] No, that's fine.

[20:23] Because I geek out on this too.

[20:25] I'm very passionate about it.

[20:27] And you will see me give more talk about this.

[20:30] Because like I said, the more community outreach that we do.

[20:33] The more points we get.

[20:34] But obviously, the whole point is to educate our residents.

[20:39] I don't know if you have seen this recently, but Carmen did a lot of analysis and work.

[20:44] And the committee was extremely proud of this.

[20:48] but we showed where all of the homes are below street level.

[20:52] And there's an interactive map where you can type in your address

[20:55] and you can kind of see how far you are below street level.

[20:58] Because like you said, one of the majority things about flooding

[21:01] is it may not come from the creek, it may come from the infrastructure.

[21:05] So knowing that your home is below the infrastructure can help you

[21:08] make a better informed decision about hearing concerns.

[21:11] Can you go back a slide or two please?

[21:14] We mentioned in one of these, there are 596 properties I think.

[21:21] Yes, so 596 properties.

[21:24] Okay.

[21:25] So we counted every property that was currently completely in the special flood hazard area

[21:31] or touched the special flood hazard area in GIS.

[21:35] So it was very easy to say, oh, this is property in line touching this area.

[21:39] So we put a lot of structure just into the property line.

[21:43] Correct.

[21:43] the structures we are less than a hundred structures actually touched a special

[21:48] plant after 60 that you referenced then.

[21:50] No, so the average was 60 flood insurance policies that's how many people

[21:55] and again the state is a little bit old and so talking with our auditors they're

[22:00] going to try and get us more relevant and newer data but at the time of the data

[22:04] that we had only 60 properties had filed a flood insurance claim or no 60

[22:11] property's had flood insurance in the city.

[22:13] I'm sorry.

[22:13] I didn't get all this news.

[22:15] Correct.

[22:16] Yeah.

[22:16] It's policy holders.

[22:18] But the 596 are not required to have policies.

[22:23] It's then.

[22:23] Yes.

[22:24] Right.

[22:25] So it depends on their mortgage company to be perfectly honest.

[22:29] If they have a mortgage, then the mortgage companies have a little bit of flexibility on whether

[22:35] or not they're required to have flood insurance.

[22:37] So if a house is on a property that's in the special flood hazard area but the house is out,

[22:43] it's self is outside the special flood hazard areas. Like we have many properties in the city.

[22:49] The mortgage company can say, oh, where your house is out, you have an elevation certificate

[22:53] where you have a letter of a map of it, we're not the supplier insurance or some mortgage

[22:59] that's what you're saying. That's your

[23:00] plan. You're 60 of the 596. That's what brought it to my

[23:05] attention. Everybody on Lake. They have floodplain.

[23:08] Anybody who's back to Lake Louisville and they have the 537 in their yard,

[23:13] they have floodplain. Even though they might be really. I have

[23:16] a floodplain in my yard, but I'm a happy. Higher. Like no is coming in my

[23:20] neighbors and washed down the road before my house gets in.

[23:23] The last house I owned in Midland literally had the floodplain

[23:28] boundary right through the middle of my house and I had to flood flood shirts

[23:33] because my base flood elevation in the front of my house was like three

[23:42] quarters of an inch of foot up below the base flood plain elevation but the

[23:49] map when I got my floodplain certificate literally went right through the

[23:55] And there's some cleanup, too, the RCFs.

[23:58] Yeah, there's a lot of people in maps, I mean, Quero.

[24:01] There are people on their map, but they shouldn't be there.

[24:06] Well, and one of the things that we've got a lot of credit for,

[24:09] is we do keep every single elevation certificate

[24:11] that comes through our office.

[24:14] We keep every letter of map on them.

[24:16] That comes for our office, and those are available.

[24:19] Well, okay, they will be available online

[24:21] online before the 30 things is very

[24:28] proud. And again, I, I don't know. Oh, I didn't do my last button,

[24:33] which was, thank

[24:37] you. So

[24:40] we're going for a seven, not a six, right? Yeah. So basically, my last

[24:45] quote was, I stand on the shoulders of giants. Honestly, a lot of staff have been paired

[24:50] preparing for this point. I don't know if you remember the right, but then she actually started

[24:55] the file holders for this program, then Rob did a lot of work for it, and then Carmen,

[25:01] and a lot of people along the way have gotten us to this point as far as all the documents.

[25:08] It was long to look at all of them, and all of them was happy because it was one good thing to do with them, and it was a good thing to do with them.

[25:17] Yes, that usually pushes the work very hard, and then I'll come with the mapping and everybody, and I do remember several years ago

[25:24] that we did a presentation to. A lot of us made a presentation that it would be more.

[25:30] So, we started talking about the flood playing management. The rest of us were chocolate

[25:34] liver like in Carlos. So, we just looked for a representation. I think the 2011 remapping

[25:42] has been really pushed this forward because every mapping, a lot of people who were on

[25:47] and bluffs on Lake Louisville, Holland Village,

[25:50] were put in the floodplain.

[25:53] And so that's when I've talked with Levin,

[25:56] and that's when the first, I think,

[25:57] the city started seeing them, that's an issue.

[25:59] Well, and the other thing, and again,

[26:01] the city was so pre-antive and active in the fact

[26:07] that we had an unsteadyed aison that ran down a tributary

[26:10] right through the center of the city,

[26:13] and the city paid for a letter of map revision

[26:16] to have over 80 homes removed from the floodplain,

[26:20] and because the city paper wasn't a developer,

[26:23] the paper would get credit for all that as well.

[26:25] So, Zee has been very proactive in trying

[26:29] to help residents reduce their flood risk,

[26:31] as well as the cost of insurance.

[26:34] Keep in mind, floodplain designation showing up

[26:41] or property being in a floodplain impacts value

[26:44] of the property and the real estate value of the property, both assessed value as well

[26:52] as an actual value.

[26:54] And so, you know, to the extent that the city sometimes does what Sunny just said, it

[27:02] actually can be a cost benefit to the city to get those help removed because it can increase

[27:07] the value as well as saving your savings for the rest of the property.

[27:18] The next council we have is the presentation on the utility fund budget for follow-up,

[27:23] especially the general fund, and this is in the case of 2020.

[27:28] The so that you talk up left-wing.

[27:32] You can talk about that, but if you've got a news, I've got the bad.

[27:35] Sorry, I have a bad news.

[27:59] We're discussing to let it be fun to the A's as our last button here, although we

[28:05] would be touching a little bit, again, on the top of the board.

[28:14] We always forget to add our current year budget and you know, having our projections of

[28:23] how we're going to think of it as being shot in the year, so just looking at revenue, what

[28:31] We shall be expected to be $3,000 and $2,000 in your budget.

[28:38] And that's mainly related to more than expected consumption

[28:44] in the months of October 2025 and July of 2026.

[28:49] With the projections, we are a little bit next two months,

[28:53] a little conservative about 90% of what we've rejoined

[28:56] than just because of just to be considered conservative

[29:01] and unfair compared to what we saw in July.

[29:08] And then for sewer sales, we're expected to be about $55,000

[29:13] over budget.

[29:18] So just so we were pretty much like part

[29:22] easier

[29:22] to predict because there's some gaps and assumptions.

[29:34] So looking at our expenditures for administration

[29:38] expensive. It's going to be about $17,000 over budget. It's mainly related to about $13,000 in personnel cost from insurance and city contribution.

[29:53] and also

[29:59] I

[30:00] $5,000 increase.

[30:04] Those increases probably.

[30:09] Right, yeah, so when we, when our customers, you know, use your credit comments. And they raise their fee. And that's why we're seeing an increase in that cost. It's mainly just utilization. And the rhythm, they always can increase. It is.

[30:30] So that there is, and

[30:36] then, you know, I just want to mention, it's not really reflected

[30:38] in the budget, but in some time in the next few months our ERP system will no longer work

[30:48] with the credit card process, and then we're going to be using, so we'll be looking at

[30:53] at another concessor, there's a really option to process it.

[31:02] And with that, we may consider passing on that cost to the customer.

[31:11] So I'm going to be coming back to y'all to discuss that later in the year when we make that transition.

[31:16] So,

[31:23] we expect our working capital to be on the way to Florida communities.

[31:30] Our principal policy or target is 90 days, we're

[31:53] going to go into this goal of 2027.

[32:00] Just looking at our, okay, to our water own cells, we are participating in a

[32:10] increase in our utility rates and I'll kind of go into more detail a little

[32:15] later on in the presentation so that these numbers can mine increase

[32:27] that more

[32:28] of 2027 expected to be total of 600 and

[32:39] for sewer cells in

[32:43] the rate increase

[32:44] would include both the water cells and the sewer cells for presentation here we

[32:48] We just put it in a home line so that we can see that it's $640,000, and we can be

[32:54] called with the same rates.

[33:04] And expenditures, we expect administration to go to increase about $20,000 over last year.

[33:18] And that's primarily $10,000 mean from personnel, cost, working adjustments that discussed earlier

[33:26] in this budget session, and then $6,300 increase in the credit card processing fee, although

[33:34] no, my get eliminated as pass through to the customer later on in the year.

[33:41] And then a $3 million increase in the bill printing and delivery costs.

[33:48] three thousand. Do we do we instead of do we incentivize going papers that

[33:59] we

[33:59] you know advertise it you know you know I encourage it I'm just not a discount or

[34:05] anything that sure our discounts for if someone sets out just to be out of

[34:12] drafted from the bank also a discount for our residents that are over 65 to

[34:21] our

[34:21] here, though, also goes in the water.

[34:23] Does that count for the bill in the newsletter?

[34:25] I think this is a water bill.

[34:27] Yeah, that's included.

[34:28] That answer is included.

[34:35] Looking at operations, one of our biggest categories,

[34:39] we were actually seeing a decrease of 19,000

[34:43] compared to 2016.

[34:46] There's a lot of little ins and outs,

[34:48] so I'm kind of displaying the big bigger items.

[34:53] For personnel, again, when in the cost of living

[34:56] and marketing adjustments that would increase personnel calls by $50,000.

[35:03] Produced in membership, we're going to see a $55,000 increase.

[35:09] And that's related to the groundwater usage fee.

[35:13] The north Texas from the water district.

[35:16] Restructured their fees from being just a flat 10 cents per 1,000 gallons to a tiered pricing.

[35:26] 10 cents for $1,000 gallons of $10 million gallons and then from 10 to 20 increase

[35:35] them into 20 cents and then after 20 to 30 cents, so just a little bit, so I don't

[35:43] want to ask the subscription service on top of it.

[35:46] I'm going to say what's our normal million gallons usage?

[36:08] We're going to get to submit monthly

[36:12] review pay

[36:17] quarterly.

[36:18] I get it.

[36:18] So they do the misread every month

[36:20] that resets to zero, but we pay

[36:23] it off work.

[36:24] Basically,

[36:28] 30 cents.

[36:30] But it's much cheaper.

[36:31] for the opportunity. Yeah, we'll talk about that.

[36:37] We have 80 million. I mean, that's

[36:38] essentially double. Yeah.

[36:45] And then for a well-plot maintenance, we'll see a decrease of 80,000.

[36:52] And that's again, contributed to a lot of different things. But one would be in 20s, 26, we had 175,000

[37:00] $1,000, but $1,000 is a budgeted for the 12-centre.

[37:07] And then we're adding in, we're not doing that in 2027, but in 2027, we have $75,000 of

[37:17] at least linked fees for finance, for placement at Southwood and I don't want to.

[37:30] and then

[37:36] for water storage tank maintenance,

[37:40] we're gonna see a decrease of $150,000.

[37:44] And that is basically,

[37:46] it was delayed vista ground storage repainting projects.

[37:52] It was originally a covered in 2025.

[37:54] Part of it was paid in 2025.

[37:56] Part of it was paid in 2026.

[38:00] So it's really related to that.

[38:03] to make that decrease as well into the I-bound project,

[38:09] and then lift station maintenance.

[38:13] It's going to increase by $7,000, and there's the overlook lift station 10 side rehab.

[38:27] Just about those. How many lift stations do we have?

[38:31] I

[38:35] guess do we know what the pressure was on the ground water district.

[38:40] they just needed more revenue, they were having issues.

[38:44] You know, they just, they do their budget based upon, you know, what they're offering.

[38:52] As if they're distributed out to all that.

[38:54] As if it had since, it's for $1,000 for a while, or is this something that we see frequently.

[39:00] And that's what it's being, that's what it started out as.

[39:07] Like I said, they're implicated with somebody for

[39:12] a year.

[39:12] They didn't rate increase.

[39:14] Okay.

[39:15] How long have you been using that?

[39:17] was created for a Senate bill in 2009 so everybody in the state is to have this

[39:23] another revenue generator. The first time that's been created in 17 years the

[39:33] many ground-worn districts around the state and this one just takes every piece

[39:37] to know what types of securities. Yeah, copy. Thanks, Scott.

[39:42] Look, didn't call and leave me a question.

[39:46] That's a great sentence.

[39:49] Here's some comments.

[39:53] So it's good didn't even been coffee or just a mix of our map.

[40:02] Because there's some map of coffee.

[40:05] And it reads to learn to see an important time.

[40:07] I do not think so.

[40:09] So these nice few slides to summarize.

[40:19] So this first section is the water volume cost, they had increased their fee from $1.72

[40:31] to $20.26 to $1.79.

[40:35] So, um, based upon the consumption that we're expecting, we expect to see, not a $16,000 increase

[40:45] to

[40:48] what the new houses see over 400%

[41:01] last year.

[41:02] 4% to 22%?

[41:04] No,

[41:10] 4% we've had our wells.

[41:16] And the next category is the water-to-ban charges.

[41:20] to the data increase over last

[41:32] year.

[41:33] And what is the water demand charge?

[41:37] No subscription, right?

[41:38] Yeah, sorry.

[41:40] This is five to three million gallons per day.

[41:43] So it's just our subscription.

[41:45] So it's pretty much a, you know, we get build the same amount

[41:49] every month.

[41:50] That's not good.

[41:51] You're paying for your reservation?

[41:53] I'm paying for your reservation.

[41:55] Yep.

[41:56] and I need $3 million to hold it on reserve for how much money we pay for that.

[42:01] Thank you.

[42:02] Yeah.

[42:03] Some cities trying to sell their reservation to other cities.

[42:10] But what else has that been like then?

[42:13] Well, how much is this paying for the new reservoirs?

[42:19] Oh, or one of those upper trendies.

[42:22] Oh, darkness.

[42:26] Our sewer affluent volume charges increase from $1.40 from last year to $1.43 is shared.

[42:34] the

[42:37] facility and 16,000 dollars increase.

[42:41] I'll

[42:49] sell this for all of the goods.

[42:52] Yeah, but that is safe.

[42:54] The

[43:04] joint facilities charge.

[43:07] So that is increasing also.

[43:09] I'm going to do about,

[43:11] about, about, to convince each,

[43:14] not to come on.

[43:16] And I just wanted to do something with,

[43:19] like, what are we facilitating and joining?

[43:29] So it's like shared equipment, like we're sharing with others, the

[43:40] Holland Village

[43:41] sort of similar to the U.S. Trinity, um, you've reached $5.7.

[43:51] What is it?

[43:52] Why did you go down and then back up?

[43:56] Why is that?

[43:58] Everything that they do is a pass through to us.

[44:01] Really?

[44:01] Is it like the maintenance and stuff?

[44:03] Okay.

[44:04] I'll go down.

[44:18] So, you know, how we handle the wholesale prices we review it every year to look at a cost

[44:28] recovery service and whatever we are paying for trending, we charge to cut our customers

[44:35] and pass that cost along.

[44:38] It's a little different than the utility, you know, like the city rates because we separate

[44:44] our utility rates into components is the whole cell pass room and the city

[44:49] rate. Every year by ordinance we will review what opportunity is charging us

[44:57] for their services and then look at

[45:07] So, our current wholesale water rates are listed here. For the water is $24.25 is the base charge and then $1.37, $3,000. And then for the waste water is $22.40.

[45:26] since base charge with $1,000 to $2,000.

[45:40] So, you know, if we like to do the wholesale pass through to get a full recovery as the

[45:46] amount that the opportunity is charging us to increase, we would need to adjust our rates

[45:53] to be choosing water $25.25 as a base charge in the $1.42 as a volume charge and then

[46:05] from sewer actually $3.10 from the base charge in the $1.7 for the volume charge.

[46:14] So this is just reflecting, incorporating these new rates into the budget so that we're

[46:24] trying to just kind of wash out that cost.

[46:28] The future years does not incorporate in rate changes because we just kind of look at the

[46:34] first year, but we want to demonstrate, you know, if we don't make the adjustments, this is, you know, our

[46:44] overage, you know, a lot of small player.

[46:57] I'm interested, but

[46:59] this adjustment is just to the pass-through. Just for the adjustment, the right adjustment is for

[47:06] the pass-through, right here. Well, there will be a city rate adjustment too that I'll review as well.

[47:12] of this piece is just for the whole sale.

[47:22] Looking at this senior utility rate,

[47:26] our current rate for water is $11,000.

[47:30] The base charge is $11,000.

[47:33] And then the usage for $4,050,000 is $3,000 or $3

[47:39] for $1,000.

[47:42] And then after $50,000, $15,000 for $1,000.

[47:48] announced. You know, we looked at it at the feedback. We last updated our city

[47:55] rates back in 2017. And we purposely kind of for the higher users incorporated a higher

[48:05] rate at that point. And then for this, the wastewater or sewer, the minimum base charge is

[48:15] $17,000 with the usage from $2,000 to $50,000

[48:21] with the $3,000 and $70,000 for $1,000.

[48:30] And so the purpose for today is kind of review

[48:33] and just with you some of the options, you know.

[48:37] We will come back to you when we're ready to review

[48:46] the rates

[48:47] to the past ordinance to increase those three rates,

[48:50] but I just want to kind of show you a few different options just to get that

[48:55] amount that we need to balance the budget essentially. So option one would be

[49:04] just to increase the base rates so go from for water from $11 to $17 and then

[49:22] of the base rate and the volume rates changes from, you know, a low dollars to 13.8 for a water and then increase the volume charge for 4,000 to 15,000 from $3 to $3.25.

[49:40] since, and then for sewer, change in the base fray to $19 a good to since, and then the

[49:50] volume charge from $3 a few cents to $3 a 90 cents.

[49:56] Remind me of the option that we've typically done in the past, because of what else you want

[50:00] to do.

[50:01] We've typically done a combination.

[50:04] You

[50:11] know, we're taking more rates here and, you know, you're using a basis of like 12,000 gallons of water usage and 5,600 gallons of sewer usage.

[50:28] So the typical bill with this level of usage would be $1.37.

[50:37] If we decide to go with the auction line and just change the bank rate or raise the wholesale adjustment

[50:49] so as well to kind of show you the whole picture of how it would change, it would be $1.50

[50:56] and

[51:01] it's also $1.50 because you just kind of change it around the base upon the $12.350.

[51:11] $150 dollars.

[51:18] So what we the percentage change for the wholesale

[51:28] password is a 4% and then for the city portion it's a 16.5%

[51:34] with it being combined in this example based upon this usage

[51:38] a 10% increase.

[51:45] Through this exercise in 2017 you never

[51:47] what the combined percentage was back then?

[51:54] Yeah, but

[51:58] no, it seems like it's a lot.

[52:01] And I will say this,

[52:03] looking when we're asking you to go back

[52:05] or when you go back to the few slides back

[52:07] where you show the how years and when the outcome will be,

[52:11] we don't do anything this

[52:15] year.

[52:15] I remember when we went through this in 2017,

[52:18] we were already way in the ditch.

[52:21] So I'm appreciating being creative.

[52:24] I'm talking about this before it becomes a role before we start seeing a map.

[52:29] I'm really made sure some of the back then there was already a really big

[52:33] shortfall. So I'm glad we're being preemptive I find 10% that we're being

[52:39] preemptive about. Yeah and with the 10% but you know I'm also looking you know

[52:44] five years in advance. So I'm not just looking at this year because I don't want

[52:49] to change right through a year let's show up. It's a good change right in

[52:52] every year. It's kind of a, it's looking at, you know, projections. I have, um, and we implemented,

[52:59] we implemented the tiered usage. That was like 2021 ish. Sorry. That's all right. I think it was

[53:15] We did a lot of changes in the conversation.

[53:18] We didn't change the deposits.

[53:20] And, uh,

[53:22] we ignite fees.

[53:24] And so we,

[53:25] we kind of did a whole big,

[53:27] big,

[53:28] little bit more.

[53:31] And we'll kind of go through the same things.

[53:33] You know, when we

[53:35] get to that point,

[53:37] it will probably be October,

[53:38] November timeframe.

[53:39] I'm going to bring it back to you and we'll have discussions on what exactly we wanted to do.

[53:45] This is just for budget purposes.

[53:48] I know that being out to meet our target, working capital balances.

[53:56] You know, this is the amount of money we need to make.

[53:59] So, doing this, do you know or do you have anything that would be out years?

[54:06] This is good.

[54:13] Just so you know as a reference and pulled in what other cities nearby are charging for their underserved utility price.

[54:23] So how do you see the same usage compared our rates, the bill for our rates and the other cities nearby.

[54:32] So she's going to get a comparison.

[54:44] So again, the utility rate adjustment here,

[54:49] this 645,000 for this year, is assuming those increases.

[54:58] The reason why we need to do this is for a couple of reasons

[55:04] is we have, we are now funding water tank

[55:09] paintings out of our writing budget instead of issuing bonds

[55:13] for them, those projects, and also we have a lot of projects

[55:18] coming up, we're going to be issuing new debt soon.

[55:21] So it's just, you know, we'll have, with it, new debt,

[55:24] additional debt service requirements.

[55:34] I'm just real quickly on impact fees.

[55:37] You know, we calculate the working capital for urine, that's going to be 3.5 million.

[55:46] We also have our impact analysis, impact fee analysis.

[55:52] So we're going to have, we anticipate about $150,000 in impact fees and block interest.

[56:00] and then we typically transfer $150,000 to the utility fund for debt service

[56:10] a year or so. We expect to be at $1.1 million at the end of the next year.

[56:20] And so this is that projection.

[56:27] So with the right adjustments on that line with the whole past,

[56:32] also pass through adjustment and includes, you know, incorporating those adjustments. And then this anticipated zero rate within corporate, you know, based on why I was saying, you know,

[56:51] in there so you can see it like for our operating days it will you know we're

[56:58] starting off except to be 140, or 140 days at the end of this fiscal year that

[57:06] will go down to 102 in 2027 and then we'll be operating right around our target of

[57:14] 90 days.

[57:22] I think I understand but that's what a stated just to make sure it's very clear

[57:25] but that is the total number of days that we will all be able to pay for expenses if we have no revenue coming in.

[57:32] That's correct.

[57:34] It's three months.

[57:36] Not yet.

[57:37] I'm kind of the same.

[57:39] The length is considerably equivalent to 25, 20 to 25 days for the general fund that's in your months to be good.

[57:46] Then

[57:52] we're, I guess, just in a sort of reminder where some of the debt issues we're expecting to come across over the next five years.

[58:01] We're going to have a $10.5 million issue coming up here real soon, bringing that to

[58:09] y'all soon.

[58:11] And then after that, maybe

[58:21] in two.

[58:24] I'll get to like, I'm sorry, I don't remember.

[58:26] Do you know what's part of that 10.5?

[58:28] What projects?

[58:30] Have we seen it?

[58:30] I'm sure we've seen it.

[58:31] I just can't remember.

[58:35] We're going to have the Bistro Edge oil.

[58:39] Is it just the 10 point manages utility?

[58:42] Yeah.

[58:44] We're going to leave this to well.

[58:46] We've got

[58:49] a lot of station line,

[58:52] reconstruction,

[58:54] manhole rehab along the lake frontage.

[58:59] We're going to have three big ones.

[59:04] Rebuilding the system.

[59:06] Yeah.

[59:07] We just want to ask,

[59:08] because I want to be able to talk to you.

[59:26] Just to recap, so there's two rate changes. The city rates and then the wholesale rates.

[59:31] The wholesale rates is the same strategy, passing whatever ED passes down to us. We've passed

[59:37] down to them. So, in our ordinance, related to the wholesale rate, it's built in New Orleans,

[59:42] and we evaluated every year and changed it every year. Sometimes we don't, because if we had,

[59:48] You know, it's based upon consumption, so our consumption changes and we overfliped it and then we might not increase it for a year until we, you know, we use our debt.

[1:00:00] Right, that we might have.

[1:00:06] Like October, November. Okay, post budget. Yes, post budget. We need to have a decision on either of those options going into budget. No, just, you know, we're, we just have a place to hold on budget. Those increases, but we're not going to specify any rights and the same thing with the drainage. Okay. You know, we will have that discussion. It's an ordinance that we have to pass. So that's not what we're not doing.

[1:00:32] of improving the budget is, in this case, going to be improving and improving increase in revenue, not specific on the rate.

[1:00:44] Not a specific rate increase.

[1:00:47] Yeah, it's not going to be specifically defined as what the rate is going to be, but it's saying it's counting.

[1:00:51] We just don't know exactly what it's going to be.

[1:00:53] This is an operation.

[1:00:54] We're trying to.

[1:00:54] Yeah, and I just didn't say it straighted on the city side just different scenarios that's gone

[1:01:01] You know me by the time I come back to y'all there may be a difference, you know, I'm calling up more options. No, no, that's that's fine

[1:01:08] I just want to be very clear. Thank you

[1:01:24] in the year.

[1:01:26] I have to say that with the

[1:01:27] year in 2020, it's going to be

[1:01:28] in the next year.

[1:01:36] So, you know, this meeting

[1:01:38] later I'll recognize that

[1:01:41] actually item.

[1:01:44] Number 16.

[1:01:46] Number 16.

[1:01:47] Okay, we're going to consider a motion to propose a tax rate

[1:01:52] and set a public hearing on the rate

[1:01:55] and the fiscal 2016 seven budget.

[1:02:00] So, you know, we will propose a no rate

[1:02:07] but Council's not committed to dodging that rate.

[1:02:11] So we actually go through the adoption process in September.

[1:02:14] or it's a rate that we can adopt, but we can't exceed.

[1:02:21] You know, our rate that we adopt cannot exceed the amount that we propose today's meeting.

[1:02:32] So I just kind of want to give you all some calculations from the tax rate and how we can love it then.

[1:02:38] This is for current year, our taxable value is 3.5 billion dollars.

[1:02:47] We had said that had adopted was at 0.5, 0, 0, 3, 4, so that made our levy at the time

[1:02:57] of the certification, 17,600, and 20,000 years involved.

[1:03:05] So for our fiscal 2027 budget, our taxable value at the time of certification was 9.20

[1:03:18] been. We had $3.4 billion. We also had, at the time, $31 million that were still under

[1:03:31] protest or under review by the board. And then we have our new growth at $6.1 million.

[1:03:41] So our, what we call it, adjusted tax

[1:03:44] for all is 3.4 billion dollars.

[1:03:49] So what's the plus protest?

[1:03:51] Is that saying that that's the money that's still in protest?

[1:03:54] Yeah, so it's still in protest.

[1:03:56] And what the pretzel district does in that case is they estimate

[1:04:01] a lower value and provide that sort of high cost value.

[1:04:06] Okay, so that number could go up.

[1:04:08] Yeah, that may number the after goal.

[1:04:09] the road test isn't successful for the homeowner, but the district gives it to us

[1:04:16] at the local value just to be conservative.

[1:04:19] Which I appreciate.

[1:04:26] So that's a 2.8 percent decrease over last year's tax road.

[1:04:35] Or $100 million.

[1:04:35] In

[1:04:41] calculating the no-new revenues rate, we take our last year's leddy, and it's adjusted

[1:04:51] for, you know, during the year between the time that it was certified today, or the

[1:04:59] date that the new tax rate was certified, the different, you know, supplements, litigations,

[1:05:06] things that were adjusted from that back. And then we take the by that by our adjusted tax

[1:05:17] growth. So our no new revenue rate on this year is 0.5085. And

[1:05:28] then we calculate the

[1:05:29] voter approved rate. So that is the no new revenue rate essentially or just the maintenance

[1:05:38] and it's an operation portion.

[1:05:40] That's actually a lower number than we were before.

[1:05:42] 12-month-old.

[1:05:45] Yeah, we can talk about it.

[1:05:46] Yeah, point out very, yeah, this whole time.

[1:05:50] There's good and bad.

[1:05:51] So all

[1:05:57] the numbers, though, is being on another number.

[1:06:00] Like, all of our hygiene numbers, yes.

[1:06:02] So I had to make some adjustments to a budget.

[1:06:10] So just to make sure I'm understanding

[1:06:12] that top number on that second one on the right

[1:06:15] is the M&O portion of our tax property tax savings.

[1:06:20] So that's that 0.42 to 397 out of the 3.5 billion.

[1:06:27] Because

[1:06:31] our tax lovelier last year, you're saying it's 17.62, not 1.7 billion.

[1:06:34] Yeah, it's actually the full, I don't know why not, but I know I shouldn't have it in the

[1:06:38] end.

[1:06:38] Okay, it's not true.

[1:06:39] It's the full, right?

[1:06:40] Yeah.

[1:06:40] So it should not be M&O, that should be the total.

[1:06:44] It's INS and M&O.

[1:06:45] So it should be 17.62, does that change that number?

[1:06:49] from .508. Well, that's the no new revenue rate. So there's a different rate set or calculated

[1:06:56] about it, you know, calculated we have the no new revenue rate.

[1:07:02] But it's that .508 should

[1:07:05] be 17.65 to 5 by 3.41 billion. No, this was this was a levy at a time that is certified

[1:07:12] last year. Over the year there's been adjustments. That's what I have to say. Thank you. So

[1:07:19] So this is at the time that the new tax rate role is certified, that's what our levy was.

[1:07:26] Okay, I understand that. Thank you.

[1:07:28] That makes sense.

[1:07:29] Um, we've cleared this line.

[1:07:31] I know.

[1:07:31] There's a comment made.

[1:07:33] I'm just showing you all a few steps.

[1:07:34] This is really like a 60-step.

[1:07:37] We're shooting.

[1:07:38] Thanks for walking through it.

[1:07:41] Um, so when we're calculating the voter group rate, we're just looking at the end of the row.

[1:07:48] How to do in the same thing, taking the last year's

[1:07:53] lefty just related to, you know.

[1:07:56] And then dividing that by the trusted tax flow.

[1:08:03] And then we get a rate and we're able to apply the one,

[1:08:09] you know, the 33.5 revenue cap, I guess that.

[1:08:14] And that is our, no new revenue.

[1:08:16] or I'm sorry, a voter approval rate, or just the M&O.

[1:08:24] And then we have our interest in sinking rate,

[1:08:30] which is a little bit more simple.

[1:08:32] It's just our debt service requirements divided by

[1:08:36] these types in the role.

[1:08:38] But in this case, we put that new growth back in.

[1:08:45] There's a lot of different numbers in it.

[1:08:48] But that's, um, so our voter approved rate will be is calculated at 0.528, 0.548 line.

[1:08:57] Oops.

[1:08:57] I just did critical math.

[1:08:59] I'm not sure my math is right.

[1:09:00] Between the 50984 and the 528541, I added it basically.

[1:09:07] I'm not an hour percent increases that right.

[1:09:10] I don't think I'm calculated.

[1:09:12] and then increase between, between the, between the lower group rate and what our existing

[1:09:19] rate is, how much of an increase that is.

[1:09:24] Um, I have a slide later.

[1:09:26] Okay.

[1:09:27] Okay.

[1:09:32] This is just providing a history of what our race had been.

[1:09:43] I got five and a half.

[1:09:50] So many questions.

[1:09:51] I'm just reading.

[1:09:53] I'm just reading.

[1:10:00] It's been easy since we did it with when they don't know when it was in the morning was it 2019?

[1:10:08] I just wouldn't know.

[1:10:09] It was physical.

[1:10:10] It was 2020 when we did it back.

[1:10:18] This is a fly that you know I provided earlier when we first started talking about the journal fun bath.

[1:10:23] It was just updated with the two situations.

[1:10:49] So,

[1:10:56] I mean, really, it's a lot of the same information just to be telling, like, the different

[1:11:00] how the impact on the average tax payter, based upon the new average taxable value, that

[1:11:09] It decreased by about 10,000 from last year.

[1:11:13] Just the implications it has on the city,

[1:11:17] on this tax rate, compared to last year.

[1:11:22] So I assume that impact on average tax payer

[1:11:24] for the voter approved rate

[1:11:28] went down from the last time you showed us.

[1:11:30] You know, it was like $146 last time we shot.

[1:11:56] So, it's going to decrease our revenue from the last time that we're talking on it.

[1:12:02] So, we are looking at, for, um, 2027, we're back to 1.8, and we're going to be able to

[1:12:12] and

[1:12:15] then balance will be below the 20% and the 20% where were we three weeks ago after we

[1:12:25] got to say percent at the end. I'm not talking about the deficit was it was like one

[1:12:33] two nine hundred seven thousand I think we'll be finished what right. No it's like one point six.

[1:12:39] We were not 900 when we started, when we had everything removed from, from the, yeah, because it was just like 1.4 and then we removed like a half a million, that got us down to 980 something, I think.

[1:12:53] We ended up at 1.6 million.

[1:12:55] I think what you're talking about was that was just the total value of those options if we decided to put them in was about 1.4 million

[1:13:02] And then we took half that out so whatever was left went into the budget, which I'm

[1:13:18] sorry, I'm glad.

[1:13:19] Oh, good.

[1:13:21] Really all that has changed is the property tax.

[1:13:27] And those all those additional items that we took so long to go through those are in this.

[1:13:33] Once that we decided to add back in, they're all in there.

[1:13:40] Once you decided to leave out, which was the three vacant positions.

[1:13:46] Now I'm going to go in memory.

[1:13:50] Recreational activities.

[1:14:10] So when we went down for the county days of 2019 the legislature was the decision already

[1:14:21] they were going to trim down from eight percent,

[1:14:24] but we could take in poverty tax revenue.

[1:14:26] The cap was eight percent.

[1:14:28] They were proposing a two and a half percent cap.

[1:14:31] So we went down with the idea that the trains left the station.

[1:14:34] We actually said that they're going to reduce the cap.

[1:14:37] So our proposal at times four and a half percent,

[1:14:39] and this is what it would do to us

[1:14:41] is how we could limit four and a half percent.

[1:14:43] They ended up asking three and a half percent.

[1:14:45] So I asked, I asked, can you give us a look at what,

[1:14:48] if they had approved 4.5% where we would be today.

[1:14:52] Okay, big one.

[1:14:53] So, just kind of giving you a history,

[1:14:56] I'll wait back all the way back to 20.

[1:15:01] I was a little confused because it was the fact of June 2019, so I've thought we've had

[1:15:10] to issue a private meeting.

[1:15:16] So I went back to 2019 and reestablished the rates. Based upon

[1:15:24] or with the assumption that we would always go to the voter group, right? Now, historically

[1:15:49] And so, with that, it would, you know, this is where we would have been today, if we

[1:15:58] create things that we're asking for.

[1:16:01] Yeah.

[1:16:02] Yeah.

[1:16:03] Yeah.

[1:16:03] And part of the reason I wanted to, as we look to adopting our legislative agenda for

[1:16:09] talking to them next year, I want to be able to say, take this look versus reality and show them

[1:16:19] as well as pull it out. And my ask for you was to go back and find that legislative agenda from

[1:16:26] of 2019, I think there's a page in there where we show our outlook at 4.5% to

[1:16:41] be able

[1:16:41] to put that in front of them so they can see what we said then, what reality is, and

[1:16:48] what reality would have been had they take it in our request.

[1:16:53] Not so much of it, but I told you so as much as it is, this was never, this can be

[1:17:02] This needs to be adjusted, it's the kind of,

[1:17:05] and there's a whole idea behind what we can help

[1:17:08] and be adjusted, but I want to be able,

[1:17:10] I wanted to be able to demonstrate

[1:17:13] that cities like ours are beyond,

[1:17:15] we would not be having these tough conversations

[1:17:18] that we're having to have,

[1:17:19] the impact, you know,

[1:17:21] the impact on the level of service we're providing.

[1:17:24] This is not just time being taxed out on my home,

[1:17:27] people complaining about their tax rates being too high.

[1:17:29] We're literally taking things away, just to stay afloat and I want to be able to show them that we predicted this and who we are.

[1:17:38] As long as I think there's a couple we should throw into that basket as we're having those discussions.

[1:17:43] Builder being written now. So having a discussion of them in county days, you must vote. They're being written now.

[1:17:50] So, if we need to have those discussions, they need to have them now, because in county days it's great, you can see people, but the bill was in file and they're down the road.

[1:17:59] This is the problem.

[1:18:00] Yeah.

[1:18:01] This is start having.

[1:18:02] Yeah.

[1:18:02] They're right and bills right now.

[1:18:03] And they'll be in line filing them.

[1:18:05] Right.

[1:18:06] No, they'll work.

[1:18:07] So, we've got to give, but yeah, there's a few things we can ask for adjustments that I can help our city.

[1:18:32] I think the one thing is, I think what I love about it is the way he was challenging what

[1:18:41] what it's have and to see saying all the 70 cities are raising their taxes and all this

[1:18:46] sort of tax release has gone away, which to some extent is true to be at the same time

[1:18:53] with the installation of the CPI, the cost of goods and services, which is not sustainable.

[1:19:03] And you look at who can find their taxes and who can.

[1:19:06] So our homeowners were getting paid 8, 9.99%.

[1:19:11] You know what the average increase our commercial buys are paying?

[1:19:14] Zero to 1.5.

[1:19:17] Because they have the lawyers.

[1:19:18] And that's where a real big tax base is.

[1:19:21] And I don't know how we find that.

[1:19:22] But the homeowners are shoulder in the burden of everything.

[1:19:26] And for that session, the big, one of the good conversations was, we put black box.

[1:19:35] Yeah, and black stores, it was one of the one that I put, the

[1:19:45] other thing was, is the

[1:19:46] cost of state, state mandates, I'm 100 mandates on this, I don't know, I'm gonna see that

[1:19:52] number.

[1:19:52] Yeah, we've got to lose, if I agree with you, that would represent the little game of all

[1:19:59] that information.

[1:20:02] And

[1:20:05] I'm pushing.

[1:20:06] I mean, you listen to the ones on the top.

[1:20:08] Never pushing to make it worse.

[1:20:11] I had an opportunity to talk to one of our representatives just in passing and mentioned

[1:20:17] And it's very thing about, you know,

[1:20:19] about looking at me doing his number

[1:20:22] and, you know, number four and a half.

[1:20:25] He said, well, what was your life for it to me?

[1:20:27] And I said, three and a half percent check.

[1:20:29] He said, four and a half, and he said,

[1:20:30] oh, you see me?

[1:20:31] And I better represent it was standing there,

[1:20:33] and he said, she wants us to move it to four and a half,

[1:20:37] and they both said, it's going to go down

[1:20:43] and, or it's going to go away.

[1:20:46] they know they do have a

[1:20:48] temporary policy and they want

[1:20:50] to do with it.

[1:20:52] It will not we will not

[1:20:54] much with fliction agencies.

[1:20:58] I'm wondering if I am

[1:21:00] interested to you is small

[1:21:03] cities like ours that have a

[1:21:05] hypothetical idea have a sales

[1:21:07] tax rate that accounts for less

[1:21:10] less than 20 or 25% of your overall revenue.

[1:21:13] Maybe there's an exemption, you get extra half a percent

[1:21:15] or 1% and that doesn't just affect cities like Harlem,

[1:21:19] those that will affect their counties in Texas

[1:21:22] who have the same challenges on county scale

[1:21:25] but we've had just in our city that could benefit

[1:21:28] from some sort of an exemption like that.

[1:21:30] Yeah, really about that.

[1:21:31] And we are, as we talked about,

[1:21:32] because if we're in rural vows in the economy,

[1:21:35] everything else is approved.

[1:21:36] It's still a minimum in cities like Frisco.

[1:21:37] go frisco's raising their tax rate and then it hasn't been raised in ten years or something

[1:21:42] like that. Some other cities are going out further to the elections to to increase it.

[1:21:49] Everybody to everybody's feeling it.

[1:21:51] One of the few things that legislatively that can help our city.

[1:21:56] Yeah, for one of the two sets of our sales tax.

[1:22:02] So guys, one of the things that we need to decide on is those, I don't know what kind of

[1:22:07] have for you.

[1:22:13] I

[1:22:18] need

[1:22:21] to post the budget on the website. To me, the publication required

[1:22:29] are missed by September or, I'm sorry, all you just 20 seconds. It's going to be very

[1:22:33] nice before the budget. So, you know, I just need some direction on this one piece. There's

[1:22:46] Well, the other thing I was going to say is that we have to do a correction on the nonprofits

[1:22:54] if we're going to be protecting the budget for this year, for this year, or not, if we're

[1:23:02] going to do that again, because Angie needs to be able to reach out to them and let them

[1:23:09] know whether to make an application and go informed.

[1:23:12] So tonight we have to do a correction on that as well.

[1:23:21] So we end up saying about that out of office when we did the decision list of

[1:23:26] you guys take a residence first we're going to gain them with five and a half

[1:23:29] percent and we're going to raise no water to your rate 10 percent I mean at some

[1:23:33] point you got to take care of your own before you take care of others can you

[1:23:37] best see how much of the council is it's a consensus that that's really our

[1:23:42] because like I said, age and age, you need to be able to reach out to them.

[1:23:47] So I said,

[1:23:53] now let's talk about motorcycles.

[1:23:57] So

[1:24:00] maybe I'm going to say something.

[1:24:01] I don't know.

[1:24:01] I mean, I know that...

[1:24:04] I can't remember.

[1:24:07] I mean, even ten were a little bit on the dance on it.

[1:24:12] So I don't know if there were any decisions made or how.

[1:24:16] You all say I have an opportunity to sit down with the chief and kind of talk about

[1:24:21] her cycles.

[1:24:22] And along with that, holding and writing and all, there's a thing that's just going

[1:24:31] to make that happen.

[1:24:33] It's going to make me hurt to say this, but kind of like that, that $865,000 retaining wall

[1:24:43] that you guys have put in place kind of as a placeholder in case.

[1:24:48] I would say that I would be okay with doing this for this, but that is not to go out and buy a motorcycle, come off or do you want to talk to them or first.

[1:25:02] I'm not in support of this thing like that we need it.

[1:25:06] That's just not take.

[1:25:08] If you need to hold it, you have more to sketch about it.

[1:25:12] I mean, I think when it's dealing with colleagues and also brought up potential for some other

[1:25:21] maybe future capital budget items, they can be far forward in taking care of with that

[1:25:27] in the lieu of, is that something that was a normal, you know, I'll see an alternative on the screen.

[1:25:35] Is that in conversation?

[1:25:37] So we have a replacement schedule and there are some items not in this current, not in this fiscal well, not in the next fiscal year.

[1:25:46] We're going to be replaced in fiscal year 28 and 29.

[1:25:50] That would otherwise be funded by the years.

[1:25:56] And I have the numbers here. So it's in FY 28, there's a place department deal for 315.

[1:26:02] And there's a street department crack sealer for 315, both 31500.

[1:26:05] 100 for a point 29 it's to our department hours for 29 for

[1:26:10] But

[1:26:13] according to the question that we have, they are not

[1:26:17] dependent on what is it they're not lost in and they still got years

[1:26:21] Equipment is still working and get order. So those are essentially

[1:26:27] placeholders to plan that we try to follow. Sometimes there are

[1:26:31] issues. Sometimes it's a couple of piece of equipment that's two

[1:26:35] years now, maybe in such a way that these were placed in or so.

[1:26:39] I think what we did shift as a board of conversation, part of the conversation was he was not

[1:26:46] completed in its entirety as a research on these motorcycles, nor has he confirmed, well,

[1:26:57] I don't know if I said that, one of the pieces he would like to go is for one of his positions

[1:27:03] with an experienced motorcycle officer, should this program come forward and that's based on

[1:27:10] what positional research he does. When that gets done, we don't know and that was part of the reason

[1:27:16] we discussed putting in as a placeholder, we let him do some more research and at that point in time

[1:27:25] come back and request approval who purchased some of the motorcycles, should his research play out

[1:27:32] in the direction he'd like it to.

[1:27:34] In the meantime, we can even do asset assessment

[1:27:36] on the score things that are coming between.

[1:27:39] And I can kind of like his suggestion

[1:27:41] as far as to guide us to that guidance fee.

[1:27:48] We do this the way it is for now pending the conclusion

[1:27:53] of his research as well as tasking parks and PD

[1:27:56] to get us information on the condition of those tools.

[1:28:07] So I agree. I mean, I'm not saying okay. Take it out.

[1:28:13] So now do you think that we need to have the other equipment evaluated while they're.

[1:28:18] They're all replaced with schedule coming up. We're adding.

[1:28:22] If we do this, we're having two more things to put on replacement schedule.

[1:28:26] a lot with hiring somebody to kind of take care of that position and the position he's wanting to

[1:28:34] fill with experience writer that's already that's part of the six vacancies that he's already got

[1:28:42] that budget. We would be feeling more

[1:28:45] good.

[1:28:45] Well, probably more like one and a

[1:28:48] quarter or one and a half because

[1:28:49] we need more for it.

[1:28:52] So I don't know if it's

[1:28:55] a place for me.

[1:28:56] I'm not all for it.

[1:28:56] I'm paying the placeholder for this.

[1:29:00] And like Dan's in, like you said,

[1:29:02] let him evaluate more and come back.

[1:29:05] The instruction that he is not to go out.

[1:29:08] I have other cycles on October 2nd.

[1:29:10] I think the thing that we have, I think the thing I have,

[1:29:12] to happen is between now and I guess the deadline would be September 22nd, or RS 28th,

[1:29:23] so in the next couple of weeks, couple of weeks to month, we have to have all that information

[1:29:30] and we're going to do the answer to that.

[1:29:33] That's not necessary.

[1:29:34] Well, let me finish.

[1:29:38] If they come back and say, oh, yeah, we can, that equipment's a great shape.

[1:29:42] We anticipate it's going to, you may not even have to replace it 28, 29.

[1:29:46] So we don't need to spend that money on that.

[1:29:49] And then when it comes to consensus that maybe we don't want to spend the money on motorcycles,

[1:29:52] we've got to figure something out, or we're going to get, we're going to get, before the 2020,

[1:29:56] December of 2020 sets.

[1:29:58] Yeah.

[1:29:59] We got it soon.

[1:30:00] Yeah, we had to spend 90% I need to say. Yeah, so we have. When you say that, let's say that equipment didn't need to be replaced. There are maybe some other things that are going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[1:30:22] And I know he wants to use this for recruiting and retention, and, you know, it's just another tool in the toolbox, I can get all of that in there.

[1:30:31] And that's what's hard to use for miles in anyway.

[1:30:48] We have to make the decision before December of next year, correct?

[1:30:58] So when we're sitting here, assuming that we know how many same discussions this time

[1:31:03] next year, then it would be under the understatement.

[1:31:08] that we wouldn't wait until December to make the decision

[1:31:12] to probably happen in June or July next year, right?

[1:31:16] Well, we may need time before that.

[1:31:19] We come back with equipment,

[1:31:21] and it needs to be replaced.

[1:31:23] We can make the decision and we're going to be screened on that.

[1:31:26] Because there's already like a placeholder for $90,000 for the tax note.

[1:31:32] So whether you spend it on two motor,

[1:31:35] We spoke to cycles or whatever equipment.

[1:31:38] All in five, still.

[1:31:39] For 90 grand.

[1:31:40] A lot.

[1:31:42] OK, so we have many things to say about what you did.

[1:31:45] Tell me how that worked out for you.

[1:31:47] Heather, is there anything else now?

[1:31:50] Just after this is just a calendar.

[1:31:52] What we're doing next meeting will be, I don't know,

[1:31:56] we need a follow-up and we do.

[1:31:57] Then the follow-up is open or we need a return.

[1:32:01] And then we're presenting the budget amendments

[1:32:03] for this fiscal year.

[1:32:04] And then we're proposing, you know, a public hearing for the tax rate in the budget for September 15th.

[1:32:14] And then second grade.

[1:32:16] Just for clarification, because we always have to schedule a special meeting there for the budget adoption.

[1:32:22] But our regular meeting first meeting in September, scheduled for September 8th, which is the Tuesday after Labor Day.

[1:32:30] So it works out well if we can move that to the 15th and we'll have our two regular meetings one of the 15th and one of the twins suck it.

[1:33:08] I do want to mention one thing is we're talking about that issue as you came up on my mind, maybe y'all remember James Sabona's who's our financial advisor.

[1:33:18] Jim, I'd expect that passed away about two weeks ago.

[1:33:22] It was a real surprise.

[1:33:24] I'm going to some of our cities now, but I've been realizing.

[1:33:44] .

[1:41:42] .

[1:41:53] .

[1:41:54] .

[1:41:54] starting tomorrow, and she is going to help us tonight.

[1:41:58] Do the meeting.

[1:41:59] So thank you so much.

[1:42:01] Did you have fun?

[1:42:02] Yes.

[1:42:02] Based on the fire department.

[1:42:04] Did you get to see Holly?

[1:42:06] Uh-huh.

[1:42:06] Yeah, that's good.

[1:42:07] Did they ask for a raise?

[1:42:09] No.

[1:42:10] Oh, good.

[1:42:11] We can ask her home.

[1:42:13] That's good.

[1:42:13] I'm so glad.

[1:42:14] Maybe they've been told.

[1:42:15] Don't ask.

[1:42:17] So that's good.

[1:42:18] All right.

[1:42:19] So what was your favorite part?

[1:42:21] My favorite was going to the police station, seeing everything, and seeing Ollie.

[1:42:28] And they also gave me something like the police badge and this little thing on my neck.

[1:42:33] Oh, okay.

[1:42:35] We know you are official.

[1:42:38] We are so glad that you are here.

[1:42:40] And thanks for helping us.

[1:42:42] So we're going to do a proclamation for you in a minute.

[1:42:44] But first, we have to get started with...

[1:42:47] She has called the meeting to order.

[1:42:49] Let the record show that all council members are present.

[1:42:52] And today is August 11th.

[1:42:54] It is, we are on a little bit behind again.

[1:42:57] It is 741, and we are going to get started

[1:43:01] with a prayer by councilman Joorski,

[1:43:04] and then he's also going to lead us with the pledges.

[1:43:07] Please join me in prayer.

[1:43:09] Heavenly Father, we are grateful for the opportunity

[1:43:11] to come together for the betterment of our city.

[1:43:14] As we deliberate the issues facing our community,

[1:43:16] We ask for your wisdom and blessing for both council and residents to always demonstrate patience, offer grace, and seek to understand prior to seeking to be understood, which tomorrow being the first day of a new school year, Father, we ask that you continue to bless our students with great schools and fantastic teachers and ask that you guide both parents and residents with and without children to exercise patience and give forgiveness as everyone gets used to school traffic.

[1:43:42] And finally, we ask for your continued protection of our city staff, our police fire, public

[1:43:46] works and parks personnel, and please bless and protect our men and women wearing

[1:43:50] our nation's uniform.

[1:43:52] All this we ask in Jesus' name may men.

[1:43:54] Amen.

[1:43:55] Thank you.

[1:43:55] And then, stand for the pledges, please.

[1:44:00] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

[1:44:06] which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all of us.

[1:44:12] out. On the next slide, I'd like to leave to the Texas one state under God one.

[1:44:24] Thank you.

[1:44:25] Okay, Council, we have mayor and council reports on items of community interest. Is there anyone

[1:44:33] have anything to say? Not like our new mayor. You like your new mayor? She's pretty sweet.

[1:44:44] What

[1:44:45] So yes, a reminder tomorrow school starts. So please please please slow down

[1:44:51] If you are a parent with a child that rides a scooter or electric bike, whatever

[1:44:56] Please make them follow the rules and and and be

[1:45:00] He's safe. They are so dangerous. And so we just, everybody needs to slow down and pay attention. So, all right. And then I have one last thing to take the privilege to wish my husband, Mr. Green Jeans, a happy birthday. Today is his birthday. And he is thrilled that I am here tonight because he gets to cook whatever he wants when I'm not home. And so he's having whatever he wanted for dinner.

[1:45:28] and I didn't make him a cake, so I'll go buy the store and buy one so

[1:45:35] everywhere at day Mr. Green jeans. All right and then what else have

[1:45:41] anything? We are going to go down into your proclamation so come with me

[1:45:46] into

[1:45:52] the front.

[1:46:04] Those are the cutest shoes. All right get some of those. All right

[1:46:10] here we go, I'm going to turn this way, so mom can get your picture.

[1:46:15] Here you go, I'm going to let you hold it. This is a proclamation and I'm going to read the big ones.

[1:46:21] Whereas City of Highland Village recognizes that our youth are the future leaders of our city,

[1:46:26] county, state, and nation and understand the importance of increasing students' knowledge

[1:46:30] of the operation and complexities of local government.

[1:46:33] and whereas heritage elementary has provided Highland College students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade with a high-quality education and whereas the City of Highland Village offered a mayor for the day opportunity to one lucky student that aims to foster encourage leadership in our young students and whereas fourth grade student Vivian Parks was successful this successful recipient.

[1:46:56] Now, therefore, I, Charlotte Wilcox, on behalf of the City Council and city staff, do hear

[1:47:02] by congratulate and recognize Vivian Parks as the Highland Village Mayor for the day.

[1:47:07] Can you please give

[1:47:13] a cue to this thing, Everett?

[1:47:16] Did you get a cue?

[1:47:17] Get a picture of us?

[1:47:19] I mean, how'd this be?

[1:47:22] Perfect.

[1:47:23] All right.

[1:47:24] Would you like to say anything Mayor?

[1:47:26] More.

[1:47:29] I don't blame you.

[1:47:31] I think we've said enough.

[1:47:31] Okay,

[1:47:39] so next on the agenda, we have City Manager and staff reports.

[1:47:45] Bear I'm actually just going to tee up the video that you're about to see.

[1:47:49] We recently had the opportunity to partner with Holla Village resident, Ben Sewell, who

[1:47:53] produces food facts videos to showcase restaurants on Holla Village.

[1:47:57] Our first video focuses on Salernos.

[1:48:00] What you're seeing tonight is a full video and ultimately three separate videos will be

[1:48:04] created and posted over the span of three weeks

[1:48:07] to promote our local restaurants

[1:48:08] and encourage local dining.

[1:48:11] So with that, we will have the video.

[1:48:26] Ben Sule here with Taste Highland Village.

[1:48:28] I'm about to sit down with Aaron Voss

[1:48:29] who is fairly new owner,

[1:48:32] considering Sleernos has 40 years of history.

[1:48:34] He's on it since 2020.

[1:48:36] And we're gonna have a conversation about the restaurant.

[1:48:39] Let's get started.

[1:48:39] Good morning, Aaron.

[1:48:40] Good morning, Ben.

[1:48:41] So tell me a little bit about yourself.

[1:48:42] When did you get in the restaurant industry?

[1:48:44] What's some of the backstory?

[1:48:45] I started waiting at Olive Garden when I turned 18 in LeSquete, miles about 22, 23 years

[1:48:51] old.

[1:48:52] I was a corporate trainer.

[1:48:54] I really enjoy the service aspect of it.

[1:48:57] So, give us a little history behind Celerno's, can you?

[1:48:59] So, they started in 1995 at their old location.

[1:49:03] They moved to this new location in 2019 and I took over in 2020 and we celebrated 40 years

[1:49:09] in business last October which was a lot of fun.

[1:49:11] First time my wife never visited Slernos was at the old location and my first

[1:49:16] possible line ever. I thought I was being fancy, drinking wine, Italian wine at

[1:49:20] an Italian restaurant. Here in Slernos a lot of what you see is original but Aaron

[1:49:25] did update this bar in 2023 and it's a place where a lot of the locals like to

[1:49:31] come and it's kind of their spot. And a fun fact in the bar is he still has the old

[1:49:36] bar top from the original Slernos and actually from the original

[1:49:40] campesies in Dallas that is over 60 years old.

[1:49:43] When you walk in, there's pictures all over the walls in here,

[1:49:46] which I'm guessing aren't just random pictures.

[1:49:48] All the photos on the wall are family members.

[1:49:50] You know, their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles,

[1:49:53] cousins, and every picture has a story.

[1:49:55] To learn how a family are from Sicily,

[1:49:57] and if you ever happen to look in the private dining room,

[1:50:01] you'll be able to find a picture of their third great-grandfather,

[1:50:05] his wife and kids and grandkids.

[1:50:07] Mike's father was one of the last cobblers in Dallas County.

[1:50:11] So when you exit the building, if you look to your left,

[1:50:14] you'll see an old say in an old cobbler stand.

[1:50:18] And if you ever look above the host stand,

[1:50:20] you'll see two really old chandeliers.

[1:50:22] One of them belongs to great grandmother,

[1:50:25] Solano, and another one belongs to a great aunt.

[1:50:29] Wow, we have a lot of food here.

[1:50:31] So can you talk me to them about to dive into?

[1:50:33] The first one is our famous pecan chicken.

[1:50:35] And this is our number one cellar month and month out.

[1:50:38] This next dish is a staple all the way back from Gid station.

[1:50:41] And this is our Chikamogia salad.

[1:50:43] This is our Oreo Cust Cheesecake.

[1:50:45] Now this is the first dish that I ever created

[1:50:47] and added to the menu.

[1:50:49] This is our spicy Bolognese.

[1:50:51] This is one of our newest dishes.

[1:50:54] I like to experiment in the kitchen.

[1:50:57] This is called a Dijonese.

[1:50:59] So it is a Dijon mustard base sauce

[1:51:02] with your cream, sun-dried tomatoes and mushrooms.

[1:51:06] So you get the tanginess of the Dijon mustard,

[1:51:09] but you also complement it with the sweetness

[1:51:11] of the sun-dried tomatoes.

[1:51:13] Awesome. Thank you.

[1:51:13] I'm excited to dive into it.

[1:51:15] Yeah.

[1:51:16] I hope you got a big stomach.

[1:51:17] Yeah. Glad I skipped breakfast.

[1:51:19] Awesome.

[1:51:19] Got to hear it.

[1:51:20] From classic dishes to new favorites,

[1:51:22] make sure you stop by Salernas

[1:51:23] to come try it for yourself.

[1:51:32] Is that it? That's all.

[1:51:34] Okay. Well, thank you.

[1:51:36] All right. So next on the agenda is

[1:51:37] There's a visitor comments.

[1:51:39] Do we have any visitor comments?

[1:51:41] Nope.

[1:51:42] No cards.

[1:51:44] Nobody, no we won't have any, we're gonna move on.

[1:51:47] We have no visitor comments.

[1:51:49] So next one, the agenda then is the consent agenda.

[1:51:52] All right.

[1:51:53] All the items on the consent agenda

[1:51:55] are considered for approval by a single motion

[1:51:57] in vote without discussion.

[1:51:59] Each council member has the option of removing an item

[1:52:01] from this agenda so it may be considered separately

[1:52:04] and we're adding any item from the action agenda

[1:52:06] to be considered as part of the consent agenda.

[1:52:09] Can I just ask if anybody want to move anything?

[1:52:14] I'm at the motion, we approve the consent agenda.

[1:52:17] I haven't read them yet.

[1:52:18] I haven't read it.

[1:52:20] Just ask if anybody want to move anything.

[1:52:22] Hang on.

[1:52:23] Yeah, did we want to move item number 17

[1:52:26] out of the action agenda into the consent agenda?

[1:52:30] Item number 17 was the code of ordinances

[1:52:33] by minting its entirety of building regulation,

[1:52:35] and building regulations, building regulations,

[1:52:38] flood damage prevention that we discussed earlier?

[1:52:42] Yeah, that one.

[1:52:42] Yeah, when that's a first read.

[1:52:44] I'm sorry.

[1:52:45] That's the first read on that.

[1:52:46] It was the first read, right?

[1:52:47] And then Sonny's here and prepared to do it

[1:52:49] if the presentation, again, if you want to do it,

[1:52:52] you want to do it in the council meeting?

[1:52:55] No, I can't say that you can't move it.

[1:52:57] Yeah, we can move it if councilor, is anybody,

[1:53:01] is everybody okay with it?

[1:53:02] Or do you want to leave it on the action agenda?

[1:53:04] I would prefer to leave it on action to give the benefit of the citizens of seeing a presentation.

[1:53:11] And Sonny wants to present it.

[1:53:13] She loves to.

[1:53:13] Sonny's here, and she wouldn't be happy to do that, so okay, about the month.

[1:53:17] All right, so the consent agenda is number 11, Consider Resolution 2026-3251,

[1:53:25] authorizing a project funding agreement with the Highland Village Community Development Corporation

[1:53:30] to provide funds for the planning services to obtain cost estimates for the design and construction of certain city trails.

[1:53:38] Number 12, consider resolution 2026-3250, canceling this September 8th, 2026 city council meeting and scheduling a special city council meeting on September the 15th, 2026.

[1:53:51] There were 13 received investment report report or ending June 30th, 2026 and number 14 received budget reports for period ending June 30th, 2026.

[1:54:04] That is the consent agenda. Do I have a motion?

[1:54:07] I will make the motion approve the consent agenda as read.

[1:54:11] Thank you. We have a motion. Do I have a second?

[1:54:13] Okay.

[1:54:14] Okay, we have a motion and a second council all in favor say aye.

[1:54:19] Aye.

[1:54:19] Those opposed?

[1:54:21] Do you vote for it?

[1:54:22] Okay.

[1:54:23] I'm carried seven.

[1:54:24] No.

[1:54:24] I mean, eight oh.

[1:54:25] All right.

[1:54:26] I'm carried eight oh.

[1:54:28] Got a vote.

[1:54:30] All right.

[1:54:31] Because the mayor in the Highland Village gets to vote.

[1:54:34] Some mayors don't vote.

[1:54:36] Mayors in Highland Village?

[1:54:38] All right.

[1:54:39] So on the action agenda, we did not meet in closed sessions.

[1:54:41] We'll do number 16, consider the ad volume tax rate for year 2026 instead of public hearing date on the proposed physical year 2026, 2027 budget and proposed tax rate.

[1:54:55] Heather.

[1:54:57] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[1:55:01] So under the Texas Truth and Taxation Requirements, if the city chooses to adopt a rate that exceeds the lower of the new

[1:55:11] No new revenue rate or the voter approved rate, then we had to provide some public notice and a hearing before we can adopt that rate.

[1:55:25] So in the work session earlier this evening we reviewed the no new revenue rate and it was calculated at 0.508557 per $100 valuation.

[1:55:41] And then the voter approved rate, tax rate was calculated at 0.528541 for $100 in evaluation.

[1:55:55] So the staff is recommending that council propose the tax rate, the voter approved tax

[1:56:03] rate of 0.528451 per $100 evaluation.

[1:56:12] And since that exceeds the no-new revenue recovery, we wouldn't go ahead and

[1:56:17] need to schedule a public hearing.

[1:56:20] In addition to that, our city charter and state requirements requires us to do a public

[1:56:28] hearing to adopt our 2627 budget.

[1:56:32] So we're proposing that we do both of those things,

[1:56:37] those, both of those hearing on the September 15th meeting.

[1:56:45] So, you know, just, just so that, you know,

[1:56:49] the approval of the proposed tax rate doesn't commit the council

[1:56:55] to adopt that right.

[1:56:57] That will be done at the, the September 15th,

[1:57:00] 2026 meeting and to approve the motion it needs to have the exact wording. I think maybe

[1:57:10] you have that in your packet. Are there any questions before that can answer? Councilor

[1:57:18] does anybody have any questions for Heather?

[1:57:24] This is always clear as mud. I know it is. I think

[1:57:30] He said earlier, it was a 16-page formula, 16-step formulas.

[1:57:38] Yeah, it's multiple.

[1:57:39] I mean, maybe in the hydrating, it might be 40-something subs,

[1:57:43] but yeah, it's a lot.

[1:57:44] It's a big calculation.

[1:57:46] Well, we appreciate them simplifying everything.

[1:57:48] Well, I try, I know it's, yeah.

[1:57:50] So, okay, still complicated.

[1:57:54] Can we see if anybody have any questions?

[1:57:56] No.

[1:57:56] All right, then I will entertain a motion.

[1:57:59] There, I'd like to move, we'll make a motion, we move that 0.528541 per 100 dollar evaluation

[1:58:10] be proposed.

[1:58:11] For adoption as a city at the Lorm tax rate for the 2026 tax year and set September 15,

[1:58:18] 2026 of the date for hold in the public hearing to receive public comment on the tax rate

[1:58:24] and the 2026, 2027 fiscal year budget.

[1:58:29] Okay, Councilor, I have a motion.

[1:58:30] Do I have a second?

[1:58:32] I'll second.

[1:58:33] Thank you.

[1:58:34] Okay, so you have a motion to second any further discussion

[1:58:36] or any other questions for Heather?

[1:58:39] Okay, all in favor say aye.

[1:58:41] Aye.

[1:58:42] That was opposed, same sign.

[1:58:44] Okay, it carries.

[1:58:45] 8-0.

[1:58:47] Any man?

[1:58:47] Thank you.

[1:58:49] All right, but I hit you.

[1:58:51] Okay.

[1:58:51] Next on the agenda is considered ordinance.

[1:58:53] amendments 2026-1337, amending the city's code of ordinances by amending any entirety, chapter 24, building regulations, article 24.04, flood damage prevention, establishing the regulations for the development of special flood hazard areas and floods within the city.

[1:59:13] This is the first of two reads.

[1:59:14] Thank you Madam Mayor, thank you council members.

[1:59:19] Last year during the budget process it was identified during supplemental that the council

[1:59:27] would provide funding to allow for the city to enter into the FEMA's Community Rating

[1:59:34] Service Program.

[1:59:35] The city has been building up for and getting ready for this program for almost 18 years.

[1:59:43] So it's a class rating system, it's similar to our insurance rating systems, and it determines

[1:59:50] our flood risk and the things that, and we get credit for the things that we do to help

[1:59:55] prevent that risk and increase education.

[2:00:00] There's a 5% discount on blood insurance policies for every level of rating that we would receive.

[2:00:08] So the consultants recommended that we might become in at an 8 or a 7 based on what we were already currently doing.

[2:00:16] That a 7 would give us a 15% discount to all residents that have a blood insurance policy.

[2:00:23] $22,000 was allocated at that time for the consulting services.

[2:00:28] We currently have 596 residential properties in the special plant hazard area and the older

[2:00:35] data stated that we had an on average 60 flood insurance policies within the city.

[2:00:42] With that discount, we would have in the first year residents that had those 60 policies

[2:00:49] would save on average of $408 and which would round up to about $24,480 in that first year

[2:00:58] with the current policy boulders. Obviously, our hope is that through education, then we can

[2:01:04] encourage other people to take advantage of the discounts and be able to purchase one insurance

[2:01:11] policies for their properties. The city contract contracted with LE and incorporating for your

[2:01:19] professional services staff might wait for that in November. Then the CRS program kind of went into

[2:01:25] a high it is. And then we got an email in June that said there was a small window opening

[2:01:30] if we were ready to enter into the program. That's what we did. We got on the ball and

[2:01:37] a lot of staff put in their time and effort to get everything that we needed to for our community

[2:01:42] assisted visit, which was held on August 6th. We got 30-day, little header yesterday and the clock

[2:01:47] has begun and we have 30 days to provide all of the documentation of everything that we said

[2:01:53] that we do in our flood risk reduction program.

[2:01:58] One of those big items is the changes to our 2011 ordinance.

[2:02:04] It was first adopted in 2011, that ordinance officially formally adopted the Flensurance

[2:02:10] rate maps and provided governance for the certified floodplain manager and set of higher standards

[2:02:15] for flood risk reduction.

[2:02:16] the city attorney had identified that in 2012.

[2:02:19] The CRS representative reviewed it and made some recommended suggestions.

[2:02:25] The attorney reviewed and revised that very quickly.

[2:02:28] And what you have before you is the fully revised version that I'm going to provide you today.

[2:02:35] Here's the list of all of the change highlights.

[2:02:38] A lot of it was just some language additions.

[2:02:42] just to make sure we got full credit for what we were already doing in our

[2:02:47] program. We already had two feet of base lid elevation for all structures and

[2:02:53] we needed to make sure to regulate the machinery so all the HVAC was a two

[2:02:58] feet above the base lid elevation for that as well. We added some definitions for

[2:03:04] accessory structures and storage structures that are allowed in the special

[2:03:12] We do not have any homes built in the special Glen Hazard area.

[2:03:17] It was in the highlights there.

[2:03:20] Anyone has any questions?

[2:03:22] Please let me know.

[2:03:24] Just a clarification, if you will.

[2:03:27] We don't have any existing residential structures that

[2:03:31] would be affected by this at this point.

[2:03:34] We do not have any fully, no home is fully

[2:03:40] inside the special Glen Hazard area.

[2:03:43] We do have some homes that have a piece of a garage or a corner of their house that does touch the special flood hazard area

[2:03:50] But all of those homes are above a minimum of two feet above the base of the house. Okay, so they fall. They all fall within the garden, right?

[2:03:59] Okay. Thank you. And our plenum area, plenum, oh

[2:04:06] Plenum area

[2:04:12] So we were very pleased with that like I said most cities usually come in around an eight or a nine because of what we were currently doing.

[2:04:21] We had enough points to come in at seven. We actually had enough points to come in at six, but we wanted to get us to a six.

[2:04:29] So, it's a part of the 30 days proof that everything that we said that we do, this ordinance

[2:04:34] is part of that process.

[2:04:36] And so, of course, staff will work with communications and the State Secretary's Office have advertised.

[2:04:42] The entrance into the program are official rating and how residents can apply for the discount

[2:04:48] for their current flood insurance policies.

[2:04:52] online we would redo every year on site there would be five years every five

[2:04:57] years they would do their site visit and then in the future we might bring

[2:05:00] forth staff might bring forward and we're ready to pursue a higher grade for

[2:05:04] deeper details. What is the site visit in tail?

[2:05:11] It went way longer than I thought it

[2:05:14] was going to go perfectly on the site honestly that they'd be on site for about

[2:05:18] four hours. They were on site for about six and a half and that was with a working

[2:05:23] lunch. I went up up each and we just worked through the rest of the day. So basically

[2:05:28] they start at the 200 level and it goes down to 600 level and it's about 480 page document

[2:05:36] and every section that we would qualify for points for, we then had to provide a documentation

[2:05:42] or procedures and policies that say we do all those things like community outreach,

[2:05:49] putting out the pamphlets, the mapping, the analysis, open space in the special flood houses or area,

[2:05:58] the ordinance.

[2:05:59] That was a lot.

[2:06:02] And they looked at all of our files.

[2:06:04] So we keep every elevation certificate for every property that we've gotten,

[2:06:08] and hopefully keep every letter of map amendment

[2:06:12] as well as we are official record keepers

[2:06:14] for all the letter of map revisions.

[2:06:17] And so they wanted to see all of that.

[2:06:19] We got points for having maps that went back

[2:06:21] to the nummies, we got points for having copies

[2:06:25] of blood insurance studies beyond what the current ones were.

[2:06:30] It was thorough.

[2:06:32] You described what they looked at, putting us into the program in the future years when they do approximately five-year site visits.

[2:06:45] It is simply going back and looking at our ordinances and all the paperwork we have.

[2:06:49] These are not site visits that they will go out to the residential properties that are in floodplains and do actual visits.

[2:06:57] So they have done so our community rating representatives did to a drive around and we did when we did the FEMA virtual visit, they actually go to ortho photography and randomly picked out six properties and wanted to see all the permits that we had done for those properties where we had approved what projects and the documentation and the surveys that we had to show that we had those properties of the higher state.

[2:07:35] We are hearing to our policy.

[2:07:39] The residents don't have to worry about someone getting on their property and walking around.

[2:07:42] I don't think it's all done through the ortho-photography and just a problem.

[2:07:49] On-site just means they're here at the city.

[2:07:51] On-site means on, yes, they're here at the city hall.

[2:07:55] Thank you for the clarification.

[2:07:57] Yes. They were on-site means they were here at City Hall.

[2:08:00] And so every five years, they wouldn't want to see if we had done any changes to our policies,

[2:08:05] any changes to the procedures, any other hard copies of the location,

[2:08:09] We had done and, of course, any online things that we have added since our initial visit.

[2:08:18] Thank you.

[2:08:18] Okay.

[2:08:20] Anybody else have any questions?

[2:08:24] I just want to thank Business and Multidepartmental Project and just really

[2:08:29] to appreciate the council support and staff support to get us across the line with this project.

[2:08:34] Thank you, Sunny, for leading the charge on this because it will be beneficial.

[2:08:39] for our residents. So staff is recommending that you consider ordinance 2026, 1337 amending the city's

[2:08:47] code of ordinances by amending in its entirety chapter 24 building regulations article 20404 flood

[2:08:54] damage prevention establishing the regulations for development of special flood ads or areas and

[2:08:59] floodways within the city. First of two. Okay councilman. How entertain a motion. I make a motion we

[2:09:07] approve ordinance 2026, 1337, as read by Sonny.

[2:09:11] Okay. Thank you.

[2:09:13] Second.

[2:09:13] I'm going to have a second.

[2:09:15] I'll approach him.

[2:09:17] Brian.

[2:09:18] All right.

[2:09:19] Any further discussion and questions?

[2:09:21] All in favor say aye.

[2:09:22] Aye.

[2:09:23] All right.

[2:09:23] That was a follow-up.

[2:09:24] Same side.

[2:09:25] Okay.

[2:09:25] Curie Zato.

[2:09:27] All right.

[2:09:27] Late work session.

[2:09:29] A status report on current projects and discussion of future agenda items.

[2:09:33] Council does anybody have anything?

[2:09:40] If

[2:09:44] not, where would you like to make the gavel and say, we're adjourned?

[2:09:54] We're adjourned at 8.8 pm.

[2:09:57] 8.8 pm.

[2:09:58] 8.8 pm.

[2:10:00] Thank you for coming.

Aug 11, 2026 City Council

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