A workshop that started at 4:30.
We were in executive session, but we have nothing to report
from executive session, so I'm adjourning
the workshop from 4:30.
Now we're going to call to order the city council
meeting for July 22, 2025.
Please stand for the invocation and pledge led by Council
Member Kent McKinney.
Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to gather
this evening to address some real important business as we
tackle our issues that we've had lately.
I want to thank you for especially for the city staff,
first responders, really, the whole city staff had
to pitch in and do extra work.
Dalton, our city manager gets special mention is
his extra effort, long hours and providing
really sound leadership to the whole team here in town.
Also, the state of Texas was fabulous in helping us
from the Texas Division of Emergency Management
to the DPS, the Texas Parks and Wildlife division
with their game wardens.
Even the Cajun Navy came in and too many
groups to really even begin to name them all.
We see your hand at work in assistance.
We're getting with material, with financial aid,
and with spiritual help for.
Please keep in mind all of those who have lost
loved ones and possessions.
Especially difficult time for them.
Give us strength and guidance as we rebuild
and rebuild better our community.
We have a long way to go and we'll need your assistance.
In Jesus's name I pray.
Amen I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which
it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you, Mr. McKinney Mr. Coons
does not have any announcements of community interest today.
So does any council member have an announcement
of community interest.
No I don't know if this is appropriate to say tonight,
but with.
Everybody that's been here helping and doing what
they can for our community.
There's a group that was here, and it's the civilian crisis
response team, and one of their team members that was down here
went home and passed away suddenly.
And it was a k-9.
So I just wanted to say Excuse me.
Of course.
I want to say thank you to Roxxy.
And her end of watch was 7, 17, 20, 25.
So thank you.
To everyone assembled.
We are a little more casual this evening,
wearing casual clothes in honor of Jeff's birthday this week.
And amid all the tragedy and all the destruction,
it's important also to remember to celebrate.
So happy birthday, Jeff.
Thank you.
All right.
Visitors citizens.
Form do we have anybody signed up.
Yes, sir.
We have two.
All right, let's do those.
Glenn Andrew Mr. Andrew.
Andrew Glenn.
Andrew 3553.
Lecumberri you have on your desk an extended version
of what I'm about to share.
The July four flood of epic proportions
has cast a pall of pervasive sadness
over our tranquil Guadalupe River Valley.
But I sense points of light points of hope.
That's it.
Hope is a necessary ingredient for successful recovery
and rebuilding our communities, refusing
to yield to the angry waters.
Why do I have this hope.
The thousand points of light offering us hope and recovery
by the people who came from near and far, just to help Texans
in any manner they could.
Our community's gratitude to these and to many others
is immeasurable and will never ceasefire.
But many of the points of light and reason I have hope
are sitting in this room tonight.
The Kerrville city staff have been exemplary,
leading the efforts of rescuing, recovering, reporting,
developing future plans, all the while
keeping our city operating, whether visible
or behind the scenes.
You operated without boundaries, the city's first responders have
been heroes without boundaries.
The Cape pub team has determined in their determined actions
to restore power to the entire flooded area
was astounding, all for the Kerrville community.
To those five individuals behind the city council dais,
none of you, when standing for election,
imagine in your wildest fears the July four event.
We don't control those events.
We react and recover from them in a sentence.
You for city council members have been leaders.
We consider role models.
You have been in too many but necessary meetings.
Your community has been hugged by you and the flower Memorial.
You have directed traffic at the ELC.
You have shared words laden with emotion,
and you have cared for our community's furry friends.
You have endured unfair darts, but you always demonstrated
professional, personal, insightful and deeply caring
leadership without boundaries.
Thanks is sharp.
For what.
What you are due.
But I know I speak for the entire Kerrville community when
I say we are so blessed to have the four of you sitting
behind those in that desk.
My here.
For your leadership since early July 4 has and continues
to be superlative.
I am not one who believes in predestination,
but I do believe raises up and empowers
leaders when disasters occur.
You're the best, most skilled individual,
the one who has been perfected to be a leader at this time.
You lead with strength, empathy, and vision,
but your main leadership is the love
for the Kerrville community.
No one loves our community more than mayor Joe.
We've heard and felt your words when
they were difficult to say which captured your pain,
your love and your faith.
Please pray for our community.
We have heard your stern yet professionally delivered
words saying, this is our town and that's not how we
act in the Kerrville community.
Your words and actions share our pain, but it also gives us hope.
Joe mayor.
You've been the leader of the Kerrville community,
and we are truly blessed to have you answering
to the title of Mayor.
Thanks be to God for mayor Joe, the Kerrville city
council, our staff, and the thousand points of hope,
we will recover.
We will be the Kerrville community again.
And you, all 5 and the staff are some
of the most important points of hope that will lead us back.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Paul Mitchell.
Mitchell thank you.
Thank you.
My name is Paul Mitchell.
1,300 Barbara Ann street.
And I wish I didn't have to follow that,
but too, am here to express a sentiment of gratitude and hope.
And, Mayor, you ended the last session quoting Rogers.
Well, I'm going to quote a different Rogers
doctor, Adrian Rogers, a great preacher of the last century.
He said it doesn't take much size to criticize.
Well, I'm not here to criticize.
I want to exhort and encourage you, along with this brother,
here, to express a sentiment of gratitude, first of all.
And that's for each and every one of you elected officials,
all the elected officials.
We as a community are grateful for you and what you're doing
and how you're doing it.
A tremendous expression of humility and compassion.
Thank you.
We're grateful for the local individual volunteers, the
businesses and the churches.
Staggering it's awesome what they're doing.
There's plenty of water.
There's plenty of food.
Plenty of shelter.
That's an awesome thing to be able to say in a time like this.
A lot of disasters in other parts
of this country where they didn't get anything,
they didn't have anything.
We have it.
And it's a lot to be grateful for.
I saw a church that had a person taking no more donations.
The gym was full of water and people wanting to bring more.
A lot to be grateful for.
Grateful for the state and federal resources.
The helicopters I was able to deal with the gentleman.
He's tired of the helicopters.
They bother me.
They hurt me.
It just reminds me.
I said no, we got to be grateful for them.
What if we didn't have them.
But the helicopters and all of the state and federal resources
that have come to our aid.
There's a lot to be grateful for.
I can't get my mind around how all
of the non-local volunteers, they didn't vet us,
they didn't judge us.
They just came running in, just come running in the lot
to be grateful for.
It's actually staggering.
Now, what are we hoping for.
This is, as a community, what we're hoping for
to be able to say if and when.
And it's likely it will, that this gorge, this river
will flood again.
We want to be able to say that we
endure that without the immense loss of life.
That's what we're hoping for.
It wouldn't be realistic to hope that it never floods.
At least we can't see that now.
But we can hope of getting to a place where
we know it's going to flood.
If it does flood.
We don't experience the immense casualties
that we did this time.
I don't think we're far from connecting those dots.
I believe that can happen.
And I know many are already working on it.
We can employ the technology and hit that advancing high bar.
And that's what I want to encourage you guys
and exhort you guys in.
It's incumbent upon you to see that those
above you and on up the line don't forget.
And that we get that technology, that we
get those things in places.
It's incumbent on our elected leaders to get that done,
and it's incumbent on individuals like myself
to press you.
May God may yahuwah bless you and keep you and cause
his face to shine upon you.
Thank you.
Thanks, Paul.
All right.
And that's the end of the citizen speakers.
Thank you.
The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda.
All items are considered routine and can be approved
in one motion unless a council member, staff
or member of the public asks for separate consideration
of an item.
Council staff.
Public all right.
I would entertain a motion.
I move to approve the consent agenda.
Second Motion has been made and seconded.
Any discussion.
All in favor.
So vote.
Passes unanimously.
Item for a resolution number 2025.
Sorry 20 2025.
Concerning the transfer of ownership of funds from the city
of Kerrville to the city of Kerrville employee
benefit trust MS Meissner.
Sir OK.
Just a shorter version of what we went through
at the four o'clock meeting.
City core and voluntary benefits are core benefits.
That's the benefits that the city contributes
to the cost of these benefits.
Medical, dental life and accidental
death and dismemberment and long term disability.
The voluntary benefits, where there's no city contribution
to the benefits is vision, supplemental life and AD&D,
and short term disability.
Aflac and mass of the emergency medical transport.
For our benefit budget, the total
estimated cost of benefits is $12,576 per employee per year.
Our budget is 12,900.
It's more than what we estimate because the medical bids were
based on 322 employees, dental on 321 life AD&D,
and long term disability bids based on 323 employees.
We're budgeting for 347 employees,
and if we are ever fully staffed,
we will need funding to pay the city portion of the benefits
selected by the employee.
In addition, changes in coverage cannot be predicted.
We'd also, like the council, are asking the council
to authorize the use of the employee benefit reserve
if needed, to pay for any overages.
So the council action tonight is due to the action taken
by the trustees of the city of Kerrville employee benefit trust
to approve the 2026 employee benefit
plans, rates and funding.
Staff recommends council adopt resolution number 20 2025,
authorizing the transfer of the ownership
of funds from the city of Kerrville
to the city of Kerrville.
Employee benefit trust to pay for employee related
group benefits for FY 2026.
Any questions for MS meissner?
We did have a workshop on this earlier,
so we had a series of questions at that time.
Is there a motion then on this transfer of funds.
I'll make a motion.
Oh go ahead.
Go ahead.
Your turn.
I did the last one.
Anyway, I would move to approve resolution number 20 2025.
Second Motion has been made and seconded.
Any discussion.
All in favor.
So vote.
Passes unanimously.
Item 4 B resolution number 21, 2025.
A resolution authorizing the Kerr County tax assessor
to calculate the voter approval tax rate in the manner
provided for a special taxing unit.
And, Mayor, we do have four citizen speakers signed
up after the presentation.
We'll get to the speakers.
Good evening, Mayor and council.
So hot topic tonight.
I'm going to try to give this to you
the best that I can in a simple way as I can.
Bob Reeves, the Kerr County tax assessor collector,
is here as well.
If you need any other information
regarding this resolution.
But I do want to make it clear.
We're not here to discuss proposing or setting a tax rate.
I want to make that clear before we get into this.
And so if you'll indulge me to walk through this presentation
with you, then I can answer any specific questions
that you have after that.
So information about the resolutions section
2020 2642 of the Texas tax code basically
says that when there's a disaster, the tax assessor
collector who calculates our tax rate
and as during our budget process,
can calculate the voter approval rate at 8% over the no
new revenue rate instead of 3.5% I
know this gets very complicated, and people love it
when I talk about property, tax and budget presentations,
so I won't get too deep into calculation.
But basically what this means is that currently the tax assessor
calculates our tax rate, our no new revenue and our voter
approval rates based on Senate Bill 2,
which basically says that our voter approval rate
for the portion of our taxes cannot
be more than 3.5% over the calculation of new revenue rate.
So that's kind of in simple form.
What this resolution does is direct him by,
according to state law, to calculate that rate for us
also at an 8% which is allowable under the disaster rate
within the code.
So this resolution is just directing him to calculate that
so that we have the information as we
start talking more about budget and how
that's going to impact us.
We're not proposing a tax rate.
You're not taking any action on a tax rate whatsoever.
Without this directive from council,
then the tax assessor collector cannot calculate this at the 8%
He has to calculate it under SB 2, which is at the 3.5%
that we typically see.
So budget and tax rating process,
budget, and tax setting process is going to continue as normal.
So I know we've pushed one of our budget workshops
just because of the flood, and I think none of us
were really in the right frame of mind
to be doing a budget workshop in that week.
So we'll be doing that on the 29th.
It's a little bit later than we would like to although we have
had one budget workshop already and lots of discussions
about this.
So we can't even consider a tax rate
until the calculation is done.
And so we talk a lot about deadlines
and those kind of things.
And so this is normal process for tax rate setting.
And that tax rate calculation is the basis for our budget.
So what are we going to do this really it's extra due diligence
for council.
So it's going to let you review a disaster
rate during the budget process.
See how that impacts the budget.
And really consider a rate that's necessary to generate
revenue for recovery efforts.
So this is not something that we're saying
we should go and do this.
We shouldn't go do this.
It just gives us a mechanism to look at what that looks like.
Other notes.
Just for clarification, it's too early for us
to estimate damage or loss to city property or infrastructure.
And we talked about this a lot in workshop.
We talked about recovery actions.
So I won't go through those again.
But remember that not everything that we do will be reimbursable,
and it will be potentially several years
before we see any reimbursement to this.
It's too early for us to estimate a proposed tax rate.
I did talk to Kirkwood and they are planning on certifying,
so we won't see that until the 25th of September at that time.
Then Bob will start his calculation process.
And we'll go through the scenarios that we usually do,
and we'll be bringing you multiple scenarios, as always,
based on if then situations with multiple different scenarios
for tax rates to consider.
When we talk to you on the 29th and as always,
we'll bring you impact to homeowners based on various
scenarios that we bring.
I think it's also important to point out that property owners
can apply for exemptions.
So for someone who had damaged property,
I know that it's been circulating a little bit,
about taxing people on losses, but they
do have an exemption process.
So for people who have losses, they
can apply for that exemption.
And that is prorated based on the time that the governor
declared the disaster.
And so those are available online at kerkut
and I believe, on Kerr county's website.
I don't speak out of turn on that,
but they're on kirkwood's website.
So basically this is just a mechanism for us
to do a little more due diligence as we're
talking about the tax rate.
So of course I'll take any questions that you might have.
But I have the action that we're requesting here.
And that's to just approve resolution 2021 dash
25 authorizing the Kerr County tax assessor collector
to calculate the voter approval rate at 8%
when calculating the rate for the 2025 tax year.
And I am happy to answer any questions.
Bob is also here and would be happy to answer
any questions Mr. Reeves, do you have
any comments, sir Mayor council.
I'm only here to answer any questions.
This is just a tool in the tool belt. As MS Barron said,
it's not setting a tax rate.
It's just providing you with the information to do your business.
Thank you.
Any questions for Mr. Reeves or miss Barron.
If we don't pass this resolution,
we do not have the option to do anything other than the 3.5.
That is correct.
But if we do pass the option, we still have the option
for 3 and 1/2 the resolution.
It's just showing you additional scenario,
but I can't give it to you without the authorization.
Had to be approved by the community.
I'm sorry ma'am.
I knew I'd have to be approved by the community.
We're going to get to public comment in just a minute.
OK OK.
I'm sorry.
Any other questions for Mr. Reeves or miss behrens?
No All right.
Now for public comment.
Look, if you want to get up and talk about tax rates, please do.
Please do.
But we're not setting a tax rate tonight.
We're talking about getting information
from the tax assessor collector on possible scenarios.
I pay taxes.
Everyone here pays taxes.
I don't want my taxes to go up.
Also, I didn't want a flood to come down the river
and kill 120 people.
OK, we're trying to figure out how to pay
and how to rebuild critical infrastructure in our community.
We don't even have an estimate of the total expenses
we're facing.
I guarantee you.
We will be transparent and discuss every step of the way.
It's prudent in my opinion, and we haven't
voted in my single opinion.
It's prudent to have the information before us so we can
make a more informed decision.
Does that mean we're going to change the tax rate.
No it doesn't.
But if the evidence suggests that's the most prudent
course for our community.
I'll be paying more taxes next year.
We all will.
We'll all be pitching in to help rebuild our community.
And with that said, who are our speakers that have signed up.
Yes, sir.
Garrett baxby.
Garrett if you wouldn't mind stating your name
and if you're comfortable, your address for the record.
Yeah Garrett Baxley 1082 Bluebonnet.
I just want to say thank you to Councilwoman, Councilwoman
and Mr. Joe mayor Joe, for letting us in here
and listening to us.
As I was just thinking about what I might say,
I don't want to bring anything about flood victims.
I know y'all are.
Your hearts are inclined toward them.
And as somebody who doesn't do this very often,
a few things just come to mind quickly.
I love Kerrville, and I think there's a difference
between liking and loving.
And that difference to me is that I
want to raise a family here, and I want to also
bring family and friends here.
And I know the same is true for many
of my other extended family.
We love it.
We love it here.
And unfortunately, and I know you've clarified this,
that there's no action being taken yet,
but if the taxes were to go up to 8%
it would be very difficult to love Kerrville in the way
that I want other people to love it.
And so I'm afraid that would be the same for many more
people of my generation, people my age
who want to love Kerrville but wouldn't have the option to
and I would.
I would just hope that things would
stay the way that they are, obviously before the flood.
And so I would just urge if there's any action that might be
taken later down the road, that you all would look
for a middle ground that hopefully would
not make it hard for people.
My age and our families who want to stay here.
And thank you for your time.
You did well.
I was once your age.
I raised my family here.
I hear what you're saying.
So thank you for coming.
All right.
Thank you.
Who's next.
Ian Doherty.
Ian Doherty, that guy on your shirt.
I met him the other day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I wish I could have as well, but I understand.
My name is Ian Doherty.
I live 115 Plaza drive.
At the Lakeside apartments.
I was about two blocks, literally away from the river.
And I was one of the very lucky few that didn't get touched.
And that is simply a blessing of God, period.
God had his hand definitely upon this community
and still does have his hand upon this community.
There are many people around here,
and I thank each and every single one of them that
are putting their time, their lives on hold
to be able to help out people that they don't even necessarily
but they still care about.
And not just Texans, but people around the country and even some
around the world that have come here to be able to help
Kerrville out because they understand what's going on.
It's one of those things where you
don't quite understand it until it actually happens to you.
And I think a lot of people here in Kerrville
do finally understand that, unfortunately.
And the reason I'm here today is because of this.
And I understand, as you said, nobody wants things like that.
Nobody wants their taxes to go up.
Nobody wants.
For instance, as you said, nobody wanted the flood to come.
But we also do need to take action to address
the situations as they are.
And I understand you have to have
the information to be able to make an informed decision.
I agree with that 100% The one thing I do
need to make sure that people understand
is that just like what happened with the commissioner's court,
the public came out and made a point of pointing
all this information out.
That may happen.
May not happen, but they made a point to point it out
and the world took notice.
Remember what we do here today.
What you do here today won't just affect Kerrville.
Will affect this entire country.
And you will be under a spotlight.
You will be under a magnifying glass
because people will look into each and every nook and cranny
about what is going on.
And I understand that it was not exactly
the best time to be able to do certain things before.
And I think that's one of the reasons
that the commissioners court got so
much blowback, because they did it at a very inappropriate time.
Waiting might have been a better idea,
but you still got to understand people are
going to look at everything.
Everything you do, everything you don't do.
And people are starting to look at now that things have started
to get a little bit better and time has passed,
people are going to start looking at accountability.
So everyone here needs to make sure that they understand that.
And this is the Court of public opinion,
whether you all like it or not, and you all
are going to be on blast, you all
are going to be on every single social media account,
probably in the country, if not the world.
So remember what you do here and do the right thing.
And the people of Kerrville need to know every single detail
when it's happening.
Thank you.
Next George.
Baroody Mr. Baroody hello.
George Baroody, 1616 Glen road.
Hello so let me clarify a couple of things.
And one, I'm going to ask Mr. Reeves to clarify me.
Not in my time, but afterwards.
One is this notion that you're not taking any action tonight.
We all understand.
Technically speaking, no tax rates
are being set and all that.
However, the only reason to take the action that you're taking
is to set the stage for the ability to do so.
I would argue that you don't need to do that,
and we'll get to that.
The other is the potential increase.
You actually can get this information.
It's really simple to figure it out.
The increase the cap of increase is not about the rate.
It's about the revenue that you're able to collect over
what you collected last year.
And this is where Mr. Reeves can correct me if I'm wrong.
But what you're choosing to do is
look at the possibility of collecting 8% more
than you collected last year.
That comes to about $600,000 based on last year.
So you can loosely get that number.
In my view, $600,000 is not worth the bad
optics of raising the tax cap on a community already in distress.
Especially since the fund balance, which you all
are fully aware, is already well in excess of the policy standard
and is designed to be a cash flow emergency fund.
It's already approximately $2.5 million
above what it needs to be by policy.
The better alternative, in my estimation,
would be if you're going to get $600,000 out of somewhere,
the first place would be out of the fund balance.
And you don't have to change any taxes to do that.
Further, the impact of a tax increase on a community
with such a large frozen tax population
means any increase in tax revenue
hits the working families doubly hard.
As an example, council of five people, three of you,
I believe are in the frozen tax rate.
That means the dollar that's raised instead of being split
five ways is split two ways.
That's just a microcosm of what's going to happen
in the community again.
600,000 not worth the effort of the bad optics.
Also, this situation highlights the reason it is never,
in my estimation, under any circumstances,
advisable to rebate or exempt property taxes as an incentive
or otherwise.
As has been stated here many times,
property tax is not profit to the government,
it is fee paid for services.
So under collecting is nothing more than underfunding
the budget you create.
I suspect someone in the city actually finally snapped
to understand that as the whiskey springs development
agreement with its million of tax rebates
is conspicuously not on the agenda tonight.
Obviously, the optics of raising the cap in order to raise taxes
on the community is while at the same time diverting millions
of dollars of future property tax to a developer over 40
years does not look good.
And will not sit well with this community, I wouldn't think.
Again, the main thing is to focus
the attention on not the increase in the rate
because that gets confusing.
Just focus it on the amount of revenue
you're going to collect by doing this arguably unnecessary act.
So please just consider that.
Thank you.
Nathaniel Hall Mr. Hall.
Howdy, y'all.
I want to thank you all, first off,
for your leadership in this very unprecedented disaster.
And it's Nathaniel Hall, 175 pine lane.
And really, where I like you specified,
we're not specifying the exact rate increase,
but I want to encourage you all, as the gentleman before me said,
to not even take this action to consider it,
because as a young person, the way this will affect me,
even though I don't own a home, is rents go up.
It makes it that much harder for me to own a home someday
and raise a family, which I have every intention of trying
to do here in Kerrville.
I know we've been decimated and you all are in a tight position,
but I just really, really encourage you all
to try and find another way outside of a tax increase,
any budgetary adjustments.
Or like the gentleman said before me,
lots of great suggestions.
So I would just really encourage you all to please
not do this tax increase.
It will really hurt the young people in this community.
Thank you.
What about the insurance question.
Anybody else.
That's the end of the citizen speakers.
I vaguely remember being a young person.
It was some time ago.
Look, even if we authorize the calculation,
we're not required to do the full 8% We're just finding
out what the revenue is.
And if it turns out to be not sufficient,
I'm sure we're going to see that.
The thing about this is George broody has been on city council
before.
I'm looking around Glen Andrews.
Been on city council before.
I'm trying to see who else here has been on city council before.
The truth is, none of us have ever been here before.
We've never had a natural disaster
of this magnitude to deal with.
What we're asking for tonight, if the council approves it,
is information.
That's all we're looking for.
And we'll be very transparent about all those discussions.
And if you can't attend the meetings, they'll be on YouTube.
You can watch them at your leisure.
But the truth is.
We're driving down a road that doesn't have any signs on it
doesn't have any lane markings.
It doesn't have any shoulders.
We've never been here before.
And it in my opinion, and I may be the only one
that feels this way.
Having information as we try to process
the cost of this community is preferable to not
having information.
That's my opinion.
We will have a budget workshop next week.
I believe that's a Tuesday.
We should have had it earlier, but flood intervened.
I guarantee to every person in this room we will do our best.
None of us up here want to.
We don't have to raise taxes.
I mean, it sounds like we do, but now we
want to provide services to the citizens
of Kerrville in an efficient and transparent manner.
That's what we want to do, and that's
what we're going to work to do at our budget workshop
next week.
We have a resolution before us.
And if there's anybody wants to make a comment or make a motion,
I'd be happy to entertain it.
Comments is there a motion then.
I move that we approve resolution number 21 2025,
authorizing the Kerr County tax assessor and collector
to calculate the voter approval rate
at the 8% Is there a second.
I'll second.
We have a motion and a second.
Any discussion.
All in favor.
So vote.
That passes unanimously.
Keep an eye on us.
We have a budget process next week.
What time is that meeting.
By the way, I don't know.
When is that meeting.
Let me look.
I think it's three o'clock three to five.
3:00 3:00.
OK, good.
And you can.
And you can see it online, too, if you can't be here.
Again, this is.
This is on uncharted territory for us.
Item 4.
See reconciliation of executed contract change.
Order for the callow theater roof Mr. Burrow.
Good evening, Mayor and council.
I'm going to wait a little bit as people transition out.
Billy, I'd like to motion while you talk.
If you want to hear me, I can yell a little bit louder.
I can hear you.
Go right ahead.
So what we have before you is the callow theater project,
and we're as a department, we're trying to move forward.
There's a lot of other stuff going on in the city.
Our contractors are still working to build better build
the community that we've already been progressing forward with.
This is not part of the rebuild project.
This is just part of our progressive movement.
So in 2023, EIC and council agreed to the sales tax
sales revenue bonds.
This was part of the project.
The callow theater HVAC and roof renovation project was
commenced earlier this year.
When we took this to council, we had an action that was taken
for the base bid plus a deductive alternate,
approximately 62,000.
There was project oversight and we actually
constructed the project with the roof,
which was the deductive alternate in the base bid.
So what we're asking is kind of a two part here before you
tonight.
One of them doesn't need action because we just
need authorization from you to move forward.
And that's the reconciliation of that amount.
The contractor did the base bid amount.
We have the money for that.
The second part of this is a change order.
So once we started peeling back the layers,
we noticed that there was a lot of damage, which we anticipated.
That's why we had a little bit more in the budget.
We had some contingency within our project budget
to account for structural components, water damage,
and is actually a little bit less than what we anticipated.
So with that, we also got some pricing from Guido
as our general contractor for Playhouse 2000,
some upgraded maintenance items that they don't have a whole lot
of fund balance within their system
to account for the full needs of what they had.
We did have some project budget.
So before you as a change order, that's
a culmination of the damages that we
incurred through the 2017 hailstorm, the 21 snow storm.
But in addition to some just routine maintenance items,
upgrading the fire retardant on the drapes, for example.
Another component is the fire suppression system,
where as soon as we got above ground in the auditorium,
we found some sprinklers that were covered up.
And so we've got to get those back open.
This was a couple of weeks that have gone by since we did this.
So the contractor contractor is still progressing forward.
We are still looking at a mid-august completion
for Playhouse 2000 to come in and do
a few more things that they had on their schedule.
Still getting a final completion and back open to the public
in September or early October for them to get all their fall
and winter activities where we get a little bit more interest.
So again, the action before you is really just the authorization
of the change order.
But we're asking you to reconcile just
so we can make a contract execution
or a change order execution.
Any questions for Mr. Burrow.
So the narrative in here has a different price of 2,000,999.
But on your breakout itemized sheet, it's three million 119.
So I just want to make sure.
So that's the revised with the authorization.
If you look at the top, the original
contract amount is a 2,000,999.
So again, that is the executed contract amount.
So the first part of this was reconciliation to get to that
so we can authorize a change order because the council
action was that 62 less so in order to bring
a change order before you.
I can't bring one.
That's the contract is 299, right.
Has nothing to do with that.
But yes, the executed change order would take this .11 OK.
So other questions or comments.
You're still well under budget here aren't you.
Yes, ma'am.
And this is also with the revisions
that we made to the funding agreement for the pool.
So we're still under everything.
OK I love it when you say under budget.
I don't know why.
Any other questions.
Somebody else behind me does to.
The questions.
Mayor, I will move for the approval
of the executed contract amount and the authorization
of the city manager to execute.
Change order number one.
Second that motion has been made and seconded.
Any discussion.
All in favor.
So vote.
Passes unanimously.
Thank you.
Item 5 is this one from or.
Sure so we have one vacancy on the Kerrville
recovery community coalition, and we have one applicant.
All right.
Who are the.
I'm sorry, I have that.
Please go ahead.
Lamar Davis has made an application is good experience
in the recovery community.
And I would move to nominate Lamar Davis to be on the board.
Recovery community.
Motion and a second.
Any discussion.
All in favor.
So vote.
And it's unanimous.
Thank you to Mr. Davis.
Next item is an executive session item
I'm going to need a motion for us
to go into a brief executive session.
I make a motion to on executive session pursuant to Section
551.004074074 Excuse me.
Is there a second.
I'll second.
Motion has been made and seconded.
All in favor.
So vote.
All right.
We will recess up to executive session and come back down
and close out the meeting.
So that guy told me.
Executive session at 743.
Are there any item.
We have nothing to report from executive session.
Are there any items for future agendas.
Yes Well, no, because we're going to have
full agendas, so that's great.
Yep hearing none, I adjourn the meeting at 743.
Woo hoo.
All right.