[0:00] So it would be the start of our regular called city council meeting. I could get a roll call.

[0:06] Council member war. Council member Fitzpatrick. Present. Council member Lou Ellen. Here. Council member Barbara. Council member Evans. We are Mayor. You have a quorum. Thank you. And Pastor Shannon is here to do our invocation.

[0:27] Thank you. Let us pray.

[0:31] Gracious God, we come before you in gratitude for this great community in which we live. We ask Lord that you will be with us tonight in this meeting.

[0:39] We pray that you will be with all of these leaders who so graciously give of their time, their talents, their energy.

[0:46] We pray for wisdom for them, we pray for our first responders, may they always have safety.

[0:52] And Father, we pray for the citizens of this community, may we be represented well, and may we all work together in unity.

[1:00] Be with us and lead us in guidance in Jesus' name. Amen.

[1:04] Thank you.

[1:08] the United States of America, to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,

[1:17] indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, with the types of flag, pledge allegiance

[1:24] to the Texas, one state, and one indivisible.

[1:29] All right,

[1:34] public comment.

[1:35] Did we have anybody here for a citizen's idea there?

[1:38] No, ma'am.

[1:42] Mayor and council member announcements?

[1:48] Thanks.

[1:49] I'd like to have a agenda item on it,

[1:52] or at least have a discussion on talking about what

[1:56] to do with having a more effective parks and record.

[2:00] What to give them to do, make sure we get it staffed.

[2:05] Perhaps set up a liaison from council to it.

[2:10] And determine if we're going to be able to, you know, go forward on projects like Garza

[2:15] Days or if we're going to, you know, in the future for Fourth of July or Homecoming,

[2:21] those kinds of events, if that's going to be something we can manage through that kind

[2:25] of a board.

[2:26] And that's kind of take a little bit of a back part of it because we haven't had a lot

[2:29] of people to volunteer for, but they've got some people that are city of Louisville employees

[2:38] that's working there. I know there's a couple people out there looking at some

[2:42] agreements and everything. I think Jonathan's on it if I remember correctly.

[2:46] We're going to host Arbor Day in October. I just want to have some feedback and

[2:52] some interaction with them. The other thing I'd like to think about doing is maybe

[2:56] setting up a couple of workshops if that's more appropriate or at least one

[3:02] workshop with people who were in the areas affected by the atmas reconstruction funds.

[3:17] Yeah, we just got the documents this week or late past week from that.

[3:22] They're sent over to the lawyers. They're going to have $2.9 million and they can

[3:28] install our plan to kind of see if we can manage that and do that. We've got to have some workshops

[3:35] with the people who live in it.

[3:39] That's it, so I got it.

[3:41] Great.

[3:42] To kind of follow up on Steve with the parks and recreation,

[3:45] I was going to ask if we could get kind of an update

[3:47] with where we're at.

[3:48] I know that they were looking at some grants

[3:51] and writing some grants for the parks in particular,

[3:56] the

[3:58] disc golf over it, covered by thousand oaks.

[4:05] And then also, I'd like to see if we could have a workshop

[4:09] just to talk about the zoning. I know I have some questions about why things

[4:15] are zoned the way that they are and how changes can be made and what that

[4:20] process looks like just kind of a like a five-year-old explanation of it and

[4:25] workshop tech thing. That's all I have. Thank you. Great.

[4:37] I just want to thank

[4:38] Berba for running the last couple meetings. I appreciate you being ready to take

[4:43] over when I needed you to. And then I did attend the team out like a slice of policy summit

[4:48] as a delegate and we spent a day and a half reviewing different policy updates and so

[4:53] that was very interesting. I also got an opportunity to meet with Representative, a representative

[5:00] from Senator Ted Cruz's office with four other local mayors and we talked about some of the

[5:05] issues that we're having as cities with zoning and things like that and we talked extensively

[5:11] about public safety and infrastructure things.

[5:17] We attended the ribbon cutting for Dondos,

[5:23] the Dondos ink and piercing.

[5:28] But it was good. They're a great couple.

[5:32] And I think they're going to be well-received in the community.

[5:34] They're really anxious to really get involved.

[5:37] So thank you, Luke.

[5:38] Luke and Paul and Arlene were there, right?

[5:43] Is that it?

[5:44] Okay.

[5:45] And then for everybody that participated in the Freedom Walk,

[5:50] thank you.

[5:50] That was Sunday, Chief and his family were there.

[5:53] So thank you for bringing the kid us out

[5:54] and Luke and his family were there and then Rachel was there.

[5:58] So that's always a great event.

[5:59] I know the other local mayors and cities appreciate that.

[6:03] The Friends of the Lake Dallas Library book and bake so,

[6:06] which they didn't do a citizen's comments all do it for them. It's coming up

[6:13] September 17th 18th and 19th. So if you want to donate any bait goods reach out

[6:18] to the friends and if you want to volunteer your time or available to volunteer

[6:21] your time. I'm going to reach out to the friends that'll be located here at

[6:25] City Hall and Miss Terry is not leading it but somebody else is Miss Shelley is

[6:35] leading it. So if you have questions that you can reach out to Terry and so forward you to

[6:38] Shelly. And then I don't know if Luke is going to say this so I'm just going to. The meet

[6:48] at the stations from morning of prayer and support for her first responders is going to be on September

[6:52] 23rd at 8 a.m. at the Hickory Creek Police Station slash City Hall. And so that's a good event

[7:01] to go to and you can see me in front of City Hall on Saturday to greet all the

[7:07] biker people through the bike rally like that. I hope that's you know city

[7:14] managers report. Mayor council we're finishing up working on a

[7:19] agreement for the lease at the fire station with current so that that'll be

[7:23] coming to you on the 24th. We're also just kind of going through the projects

[7:29] right now all the main streets that we had looked at for the

[7:35] atmosphere construction. We've contacted a couple of our

[7:37] contractors getting price quotes on that. Make sure we're all

[7:41] in line getting the same numbers that Amos had, but who they

[7:44] checked with. We do feel pretty comfortable with what we

[7:47] have moving forward with that. And we can get that meeting

[7:50] scheduled with everyone. It's not going to be like road

[7:53] expansion or anything like that. It's going to go back to

[7:56] where it's currently at, even though we don't have the funds to do that, but we will try

[8:03] our hardest to get it done the most appropriate way possible.

[8:07] And just working on Hunlean Shady items and just finishing up the budget, and I do want

[8:12] to thank Sarah and the rest of the staff for the hard work on this budget this year.

[8:17] There's been a lot of long hours and if Sarah's been up here, one, two o'clock, three o'clock

[8:21] in the morning, keep an hotel to go home.

[8:23] So I just want to express my appreciation for all they do.

[8:28] So that's it.

[8:29] So when you say idea, we're not going to do an expansion.

[8:35] I'm not pulverizing with three in general.

[8:37] But some of those roads had significant deterioration

[8:40] where they weren't at the normal width.

[8:41] You're talking about back to their 10 or 12 foot width,

[8:45] whatever they were.

[8:45] Whatever they originally were.

[8:48] And then is there, I guess, when you're negotiating that,

[8:51] would it be possible that if we want it, if there happened to be one that needed some

[8:56] new culverts.

[8:57] Even though that's not part of the admiss money that we can couple and some of that money

[9:00] that were brought to me for the free and drainage repairs this year, I'm assuming is that

[9:05] will that be part of the plan?

[9:07] We're going to look at our agreement with them to limit us to say what we can only hold

[9:13] around the road.

[9:14] No, no.

[9:15] We have the opportunity while we're on the road toward up, it's a chunk of culvert in that needs

[9:20] to be reported.

[9:20] No, no, yeah. We'll be able to do that. This is just, it's basically releasing the agreement is to release them for many liability after they cut us the check, which is going to be roughly almost $3 million that we'll be using for these road projects.

[9:35] So, but there's culverts. I know Jeremy and I have had that conversation again today on what culverts need to be replaced and stuff like that. So there will, we will have those.

[9:44] And there's ones that work damage preview like they're not necessarily part of the atmosphere

[9:48] No, no, no, no, they're fall but now it's a good time to fix that

[9:51] Yeah, if they're like cross like I'm going underneath the street crossing any street

[9:56] Crossing's everything like that will be able to do those at that time

[9:59] Did opportunity to pay all the way to the end of Lakeland that previously hasn't been ever

[10:05] Like things like that where we can chuck a little bit of our money on top of it

[10:08] I think we'll have just enough I think we'll have enough to cover this cost

[10:13] and then that's an agreement that's coming to us, I don't know, and I

[10:24] like to make sure

[10:25] that there's something that earmarked it. I don't want that money going into the general

[10:29] fund. I want to make sure it's, even though, you know, I don't know how that agreement will

[10:34] work out, so I'll stop offline with that, but I'm assuming why I'm going to approve that

[10:37] agreement.

[10:38] Yeah, you're going to have to, yeah, you're going to have to approve the agreement, yeah,

[10:40] to release them of liability at that point. But yeah, and I'm still waiting. LCMEA is

[10:46] also pulling up their GIS mapping system so we can identify where we're going to have

[10:51] issues at with water and sewer lines.

[10:53] I would also anticipate that because some of those roads were when we were starting out

[10:58] looking at the roads and the ones that are in bad condition, the ones that need to be replaced,

[11:02] that will actually free up a little bit of city money to maybe move some of those other projects

[11:07] forward.

[11:08] In other words, so many.

[11:09] So one of the roads that might have been, gee, we're going to do that in 2028,

[11:14] we might be

[11:16] worried about doing some of these local, these.

[11:18] Correct.

[11:18] Like, Mosley was going to be a very expensive road for us,

[11:21] and that's going to be covered through this.

[11:24] But it may free us up to do some of the road hairs out

[11:29] here on Main Street or right.

[11:32] Yes.

[11:33] We're pretty much going to have almost every road

[11:35] under construction here pretty soon.

[11:37] Unfortunately, unfortunately.

[11:39] We're still on target for doing a hundly

[11:45] West. They started cutting that today. I think it was today or yes. I think they started

[11:50] it today. They started cutting that today on the south side so they can get that done.

[12:00] That's still on target. It's still on target in that section.

[12:03] And they've updated the website too with the next couple of week outlook in different sections.

[12:08] So that's a lot of good information on that.

[12:15] Consider an act on the ordinance approving and adopting the budget for the fiscal year

[12:18] beginning October 1st, 2026 in Indian September 30th, 2027.

[12:26] Mayor Councilmembers, Sarah Conquan, Finance Director.

[12:29] You have before you on your dius the compiled proposed budget for 2627.

[12:37] It contains all of the document, same documents that we have been over at the prior meetings.

[12:43] with all the changes that have been made along the project process.

[12:48] We do not have a presentation tonight unless there's something specifically you wanted

[12:51] to look at, otherwise the motions and the information is in your agenda packet.

[13:00] All right, everything to discuss.

[13:01] I just want to say thanks to you and everyone.

[13:03] I know we went through this throughout the process, made a lot of take throughout the process

[13:09] for the discussion that was had.

[13:11] And I do know you've been particular, you have to put in a lot of extra time this time

[13:16] of year.

[13:17] So I appreciate that.

[13:18] And the role I'm happy with the fact that we've got a lot of money in there for streets

[13:23] and your image.

[13:28] That's the same thing.

[13:29] I think we've done an excellent job, and I appreciate it.

[13:34] I've accumulated a pretty good stack of paper, if this is a condensation of it, you think,

[13:39] give it a hand.

[13:41] Yes, that's great.

[13:42] I'll save you some space.

[13:45] A lot of paper involved in it.

[13:47] Video?

[13:49] Thanks, Sarah.

[13:50] When everyone for the hard work,

[13:52] it's been a great addition to our city.

[13:54] Absolutely.

[13:54] So thank you.

[13:55] We appreciate you.

[13:57] All right.

[13:58] If nothing else, though.

[14:00] I'll make a motion to approve ordinance adopting

[14:03] the fiscal year 2026, 2027 annual budget

[14:06] of the city of Lake Dallas for the fiscal year

[14:09] beginning October 1, 2026.

[14:11] and in September 30th, 2027.

[14:14] I'll second it.

[14:17] I want to be any discussion on it before that.

[14:21] Anybody have any discussion, any more?

[14:26] Councilmember Ward.

[14:28] Aye.

[14:28] Councilmember Fitzpatrick.

[14:30] Aye.

[14:30] Councilmember Lou Ellen.

[14:32] Aye.

[14:32] Councilmember Barbara.

[14:33] Aye.

[14:34] Councilmember Evans.

[14:35] The motion passes 3-2.

[14:39] Consider an act on an ordinance levying

[14:41] the ad valorem for the 2026 tax year at a rate of 0.6 to 1953 per $100 assess valuation

[14:51] on all taxable property within the city's corporate limits as a January 1st, 2026.

[15:05] Mayor council members, this is the same we've reviewed the tax rate. We've looked at the charts and the increase for the average tax bill that the citizens will have. And we're bringing this presented as 0.621-953 for 2627 fiscal year.

[15:37] to 1953 per 100 assessed valuation on all taxable property

[15:42] within the city's corporate limits as of January 1st, 2026.

[15:46] I'll second.

[15:52] Listen.

[15:54] And

[15:57] you must state that in.

[15:59] I'll restate it.

[16:02] I'll restate that that motion that I move

[16:05] that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption

[16:08] of a tax rate of 0.621953, which is effectively

[16:13] at 11.12% increase in the tax rate and therefore further move the ordinance number 202612 be approved.

[16:26] I'll second.

[16:29] Council member war. Aye. Council member Fitzpatrick. Aye. Council member Luelling.

[16:35] No. Council member Verba. Aye. Council member Evans. Aye. Motion passes 3-2.

[16:43] Consider an act on a resolution ratifying the property tax increase reflected in the fiscal year 2026, 2027 budget.

[16:54] Mayor councilmembers, as you have just approved the budget and then the tax rate, we do now have to go back and ratify the budget for this new tax rate.

[17:04] So that's the information in this.

[17:09] Move that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of the tax rate of 0.621953 is reflected in the fiscal year 2026, 2027 budget as required by local government code 102.007c

[17:25] I've seen increased by which the proposed tax rate exceeds the number.

[17:32] I'll second.

[17:34] Councilmember Ward.

[17:35] Aye.

[17:36] Councilmember Pitch Packard.

[17:37] Aye.

[17:38] Councilmember Lou Ellen.

[17:39] Aye.

[17:40] Councilmember Barba.

[17:41] Aye.

[17:41] Councilmember Evans.

[17:42] Aye.

[17:43] Motion passes 3-2.

[17:46] Aye.

[17:47] Consent agenda.

[17:50] They're an act on August 13th, 2026 minutes.

[17:54] Did anybody have second?

[18:03] Council Member Warren. Council Member Fitzpatrick. Council Member Duelen. Council Member Berba. Council Member Evans.

[18:11] Aye. Motion passes. All right. The time is now 6'18 and this will adjourn the City Council meeting.

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