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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I will call to order the meeting of Monday, September 15, 2025, to order at 630 p.m. from the side of the city council.

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And we are happy to have with us today, our friends from MISD Board of Trustees, Madam President.

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Yes. Thank you, Mayor. At this time I call the meeting to order for Mansfield ISD and the time is now 630.

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Let us come to order for our joint Mansfield City Council in my SD board meeting.

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In terms of roll call, all trustees are present with the exception of Courtney Lackey Wilson.

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She had a previously scheduled work obligation.

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And in regard to the city side, all the present, but Councilman Larry Brosh, and we will

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proceed.

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We will have our invocation by Mr. Todd Simmons.

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We'll have our pledge of allegiance.

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My Mr. Juan Frisquez.

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We'll have our Texas pledge by Trustee Anna Horne.

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And we will ask all to please stand at this time.

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Prayer then the pledge.

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Thank you for an opportunity to come together, this joint meeting between the ISD and the City Council

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Lord.

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Just ask that you be with all the elected folks that are here in their families, but be also

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with our staff members, folks at work hard, every single day Lord.

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Just trying to provide the best we can for the citizens of Mansfield and the kids and the parents

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in our school district Lord.

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We just thank you for giving us a great place to live, and work, and we just ask special blessing

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on all this violence that's happened this week, especially for the mayor, and his family

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and their loss, and just again, thank you for all that you've done for us and continue to give

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us wisdom and discernment as we do the best we can for the folks who live here in our area.

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Purned your Holy Pursus name, Lord amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag,

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the United States of America,

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and to the Republic for which it stands,

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one nation under God,

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indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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On the touch of the flag,

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I pledge allegiance to the United States,

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one state under God,

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one, and indivisible.

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Thank you.

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All right, Madam President, this time,

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We will, our gender calls for citizens comments, a citizen's wishing to address the city council on non public hearing agenda items and items that are not on the agenda

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You may do so at this time due to the regulations of the Texas open meetings act. Please do not expect a response from the council

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All the board is we're not able to do so this will be your only opportunity to

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Speak this time now after the close of the citizen comments portion of the meeting

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Only comments related to public hearings will be heard after that.

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All comments are limited to three minutes this time.

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And I do have to have two cards.

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I will call Ms. Lee Ann Tiffing and ask Ms. Tiffing if you would

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come and state your name address and you have three minutes, man.

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Thank you, Mayor. My name is Lee Ann Tiffing.

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in my address is 1021, Pueblo Beach drop, Mansville, Texas, 76063.

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So I'm in the business of construction and I do high-end all sorts of projects for that are

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storm-related, unfortunately, storm-related. So I'm in metropolitan areas,

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been in St. Louis for two weeks, and also go to small areas. I wanted to kind of this meeting

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because of the M.S.D. and O.S.S. City.

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On May 6, I drove into a small town in Texas

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and water rescue recovery was underway

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for a 10-year-old by the name of Deva.

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Deva was leaving school to walk home

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and she didn't make it home to her earthly parents,

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but she made it home to her Heavenly Father Jesus Christ.

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I was going down there for a storm that hit the area.

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There was the emergency preparedness.

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Yes, it was a small town.

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Yes, they could have had this or whatever.

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We live in Mansville, Texas.

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We live in an area to where we can do better, I believe.

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Back up to March, my husband and I have had a good relationship

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with Mr. Councilman Todd's Nory.

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And we respect him and we reach out to him.

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And we said, hey, these are some ideas.

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What do we have?

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We've lived here since, I think, 2000.

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and we've seen things with emergency preparedness

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and just have some questions.

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And he said, hey, let's get a meeting with Mayor Evans

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and let's see what we can do.

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And so he kindly organized a meeting of Mahasmin

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and Mahasal and some school board employees,

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city employees, and emergency employees, and so forth.

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And a lot of us just didn't know

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is about education and that not every child has a cell phone.

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Texas messages just don't always work.

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I grew up in Oakland and also in Emerald Texas.

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And both of those areas, the school district,

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they taught us to listen and what to know to get

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where when weather was coming.

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It was taught to us in the schools.

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So that's why I wanted to say the school board.

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Thank you for all the school members, which I'll do.

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I had no idea what sacrifices are made

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until my husband ran and so I think you all

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for everything you do.

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And so with that we found out as we were sitting there in the meeting that $8,000, $8,000 is spent a year from our understanding for emergency preparedness.

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And we were told that sirens are known to be too expensive. I don't care how much a siren cost if it saves one life like Diva's life. Diva Woods is her name.

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And so, I'm asking that there be, I don't know if there's focus groups, it was brought to the May, I believe the May meeting, I'm not, you know, from the city, they can only, city employees can only do what they can do on a budget.

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Okay, they're doing a great job.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for coming.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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All right.

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Ms. Saida Saeed, if you have come to your name and address, and you may have three minutes.

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Good evening, Mayor Cancel, Dr. Reed, and School Board Trustees. My name is Saida Saeed.

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And my address is 67, 05, Sapphire, Circle, North, Colleable, Texas, 76034.

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I'm here because I am one of the dead board of directors candidate as all you know

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The nomination period is right now until October 14 since the January of 2025

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I have represented

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Cities like Colleville, Crowley, Benbroke, Haltum City, Richland Hills

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grapevine, Haslett, Isle, Lakeside, White settlement

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Grand Prairie, Fort IISD, Arlington IISD, and Everman IISD, in all the tab meetings and

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tab entities meeting.

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I would like to mention that all tab entity meetings are closed door meetings.

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And you are the only city and school district combined.

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Your representative were present in each and every entity meetings.

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So that's the only school district in person meeting and I'm the candidate running who has a

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appraisal review board experience only the one currently not a single that board member has that experience since July of 2024

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A presyl district board of directors are responsible to appoint ARV members going on with my vision for that is not to adopt and follow property tax code, but have a uniform,

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the equal and uniform appraisals, not only that, but equal and uniform treatment to all entities

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and the taxpayer. That is very important. The accuracy and integrity of tax rule is my first priority.

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Cities like Mansfield, currently they have 82 votes. That is 4.1% stake on that vote.

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Oh, no, sorry, that's Mansfield ISD has 82 votes, city of Mansfield has 24 votes, that's

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1.2% but combined you have 106 votes, the good thing is no one has enough votes to give

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all the votes to one candidate and grab a seat on that vote, even city of forward doesn't

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have that stake this time. Another good thing, you do not have five percent stake. So, you

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can vote between late October, until December 14, as many times as you want, if you put

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it on a agenda, since last year, World Will ISD voted very last minute again and change their

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So, probably you will have 10 times, you can vote.

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And if you want to change vote, you can change last minute. And I would say whoever is running for that

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would, please do that. Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

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Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you. All right. This time, we have announcements. Madam President, are there any trustee announcements?

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Mayor, they are not trustee announcements at this time.

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All right. In regard to the council, Ms. Bounds.

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I'll write Mr. Nore, none for me, Mayor. Mr. Simmons, none for me, Mayor.

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Mr. Fescais, none for me, Mayor. All right, Mr. Newsom.

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All right, and none from here. All right, Madam President.

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I will share the agenda with you, Madam.

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This evening, trustees, we do not have any public comments, so we can proceed to the discussion.

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All right, and that discussion will be update on the developments

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paying to the land swap, turn it over now to staff in that regard.

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Good evening council and Board of Trustees, Matt Jones, Assistant City Manager, City

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Mansfield, prepared a brief presentation for you all tonight just to go over a little

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bit of the background on the project, guide comments, a little bit of the history and then

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give you an update on some of the construction efforts being done out there and then also

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provide a timeline. So if we can, maybe get that presentation pulled up shortly.

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But just jumping in, measure where we did the land swap back in late 2023.

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It was a collaborative effort between the border trustees and the city council.

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Working with staff to really accommodate two growing organizations keeping up with growth

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and not just the city but also the ISD itself.

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and so working together to come up with a plan that really benefited both organizations as well as

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the taxpayers. So between those two efforts of the two boards is ready, get it switched?

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Well, this is not me. If you'll pardon me, I'm going to go through some slides here and pardon

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if I'm stepping on any toes, but I am not going to cover your taxes.

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Here we go.

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All right, I love the love of there.

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Okay, so again, out growing our current spaces, collaborative effort with the board of trustees and

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city council and really come into a common sense or practical exchange, making the both of making

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the most of the properties already owned by both the city and the ISD.

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So, Gaire Commons, it's a public park, but it's more than that, it's an incubator space,

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So to help economic development, help entrepreneurs here in the city, grow their business, start roots here and then hopefully move on to

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larger efforts, so within the city itself.

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It's got a lot of civic space, open lawns, splash pad, public restrooms, and probably the most noticeable

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addition right now is the cottage market and in his store downtown Mansfield now touch on that and a little bit more detail here in a second.

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So we drew inspiration from several projects, not just locally and regionally, but also nationally.

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You can see a few of those there, and really wanted to bring the best of all those projects and bring something that is uniquely man's filled.

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And in continuing that effort to provide those great remarkable experiences for not just our residents, but our visitors like.

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So, this, some of the goals, so obviously to support historic downtown, really to create a central gathering space for community events, for commerce, for just having a place to get together.

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Activate downtown, as well as supporting the local businesses, I talked about entrepreneurs having that cottage market there that will help promote economic growth within the city.

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Improving quality of life and keeping that kind of small town charm

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They're in downtown Mansfield and again trying to continue to build upon

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Several key projects within the city that really bring a uniqueness to the city of Mansfield and help form our identity as a community

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So go through a few renderings

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You can see that on the left. This is phase one A

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So you can kind of see the splash pad there the public restrooms from the open lawns as well as a few of the cottage

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And then you'll see the picture on your right side of the screen, so that's a project update.

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As with any construction project, the moment we take the picture, it's a little outdated.

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So you might even see some changes out there.

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I know a lot of you drive that on a daily basis.

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But really just trying to hold true to the vision that was set at the community level

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and deliver just a really remarkable project.

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So here you can see, again, the splash pad and some of the pavilion areas and the open spaces.

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This will be the progress on that, and then the entryway kind of into that splash pad and the makers market, you'll have the overhead announcement sign as you enter that space coming off the main strip.

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This would be the main road headed in two-guar comments, they're off of Broad Street, and again a picture looking back at there.

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Once phase one A, one B, and then phase two, come along.

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This will act as a great view corridor for the Mansfield High School as well.

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Here's just kind of another one of the green spaces open spaces and then the cottage market.

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So these will be rented out at least to different individuals.

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You can see kind of the finish out on there.

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They will be air conditions, so you can enjoy them even in the Texas heat.

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And then they all will also have a few other amenities to serve the tenants as well.

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There will be 12 cottages, 11 of those, or currently going to be made available.

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We're going to reserve one for city staff to help get that going as well as provide some different materials to those different vendors.

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We are going to look at having up to 12 vendors initially.

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But you can see here that we initially received this over 60 or 69 vendor application.

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So really just an incredible opportunity and just a lot of interest in coming and being a part of that market.

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They will be open or the park will be open daily from 5 to 9 as you can see.

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And then the required hours for the cottage market will be Friday and Saturday and Sunday.

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Now, vendors will be allowed to be open, past those initial hours, but in terms of making sure

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that they're operating, and making that space available and activating that space, that

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will be a mandatory Friday Saturn Sunday with the operating hours as you can see there.

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This is a phase one B. So, after the initial phase one A, these are some historic structures

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that will be reconstructed on the site, as well as, so it will be five total, total structures

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there.

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You can see the Cumberland Church, Julian Field House.

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We had the manhouse that was already done over at the Dog Park, so I wanted to honor Mr.

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Julian Field in the same way that Mr. Man was honored, and so we'll be rededicating that

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here at Garacomans as well.

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We had the Wallace Hall House, the Mansfield Coate College, and then Citizens Bank.

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Citizens Bank was actually over in the Old Town of Britain, a funny story or fun fact about

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that.

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Why it's unique to Mansfield, it's believed to be one of the only banks that was not robbed

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by Bonnie and Clyde, because they like to frequent an ice cream parlor across the street.

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So they didn't want to be recognized while getting ice cream and whatever they did in their

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day job.

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So we're going to be bringing that back to Man's field.

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There are other comments as well.

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So we're excited about that.

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Phase two, just a brief overview.

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You can see there on the right hand side.

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We'll be having a Wifelball field, additional green spaces

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for community gatherings or just to have different activities.

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And we'll also be improving the existing parking lot.

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You can see here from the drawing moving from broad street

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to the north or to the top of the screen

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When the complete city hall is done in the administration staff for the ISD is able to relocate here.

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It'll have that great opportunity to open some of that space up and really pay onage or homeage and honor to the high school in the rock gym as well.

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So, very excited about that.

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And again, just creating a gathering space for all residents in the community alike.

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And just briefly, the project timeline, so we kicked off design for phase 1A and April of 2024.

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And that commenced and followed or ended in fall of 2024.

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Construction on the site began in December of 2024 and we're hoping to wrap that up this fall.

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With a grand opening scheduled right now for December of 2025.

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So we're getting really close to having that phase 1A open and we're really looking forward to delivering on that project.

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Phase one, B, or the historic homes, so we're under design currently.

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I'm hoping to wrap that up again this fall, and then pending a project to move forward

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for construction and bidding and funding will kind of a date to be determined on when

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those are complete. Again, with Phase two, that's all predicated on us moving to a new city

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and ISD administrative staff moving to this current facility, and so that will also be a

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two-be determined date sometime after 2027. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions

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you may have. All right. I ask our trustees, Madam President. Any questions?

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Yes, trustees, do you have any questions for Mr. Matt Jones from the City of Mansfield?

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You know, just these to my left,

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just these to my right?

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No questions.

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Thank you so much for your presentation.

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All right.

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Thank you very much, sir.

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Sure.

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Go ahead, Ms. Simp.

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Have we made any progress on whittling down

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that those 69 applications for 12, 11 colleges?

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Yes, we absolutely have.

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We've had a couple committee meetings,

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which Councilwoman Downs has been a member of that,

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your board representative. One, actually just this morning, to whittle that down, I've

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lived, went from 69 applications down to 20, and then making a short list to 12, which

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I believe it's 6 or 7, or so, or Mansfield residents, but I will, I will turn it over to

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Councilwoman Downs, and I'm sure she can provide you an update as well.

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Please speak to that Ms. Bound?

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Yes, we did have a meeting today, and so, it is my understanding.

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Per the applicants that we've had 24 out of 68 of the applicants were man's

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field residents. So 35% of those that applied were man's field

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applicants. We have gone through some of the applicants and today we had the

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pleasure of setting, I mean we were so serious about this we sampled popcorn today.

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I mean, we had two vendors and we were like torn between the two, that's how serious it is to where we had them bring their popcorn and we didn't know who's was who and we sampled it to help us decide you know what we're looking for as far as good brand and

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And, you know, as far as the business is in there.

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And then we also discuss the incubator spaces

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and what those cottages, a percentage of those cottages

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would be and worked with the MEDC as well

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to take on some responsibilities for some education

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and some areas with that.

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So we gave some more feedback and gave Sarah some more stuff

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to do today.

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and so we should have that all narrowed down in the next week or so of who the 11 are and it's

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going to be awesome. It's really going to be really awesome and diversified big time. So very positive

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meetings and one more to go and y'all will all know about it. And then just one more. Once the

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for Wallfield plan to be done?

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Yeah, so that's in phase two.

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So that'll be after City Hall is completed,

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and then administration staff

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for that is to relocate to City Hall or this current building.

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So we're all here, I'm just going to put it out there.

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Can we challenge this?

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You know, I think that should happen,

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but to be honest with you, I'm a little bothered

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because Tamad didn't bring us any popcorn.

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I mean, council will not bounce.

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They didn't want to know if I wanted to bring popcorn and I said no, just because it'll take us on.

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I don't know.

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Okay, well you didn't ask us.

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But okay.

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Thank you very much.

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All right.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Any further questions in this regard?

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Because we do have another presentation.

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Yeah, Mayor.

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Real quick.

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Speak to the least term.

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No.

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So our citizens understand that all those 11 will be chosen.

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And that's only a two-year-laced correct?

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Up to two years, the terms will be six months essentially, but then up to two years and

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re-evaluated that point.

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Matt, let me add so for those that are watching that there was a very objective data on a point

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system for some of these that applied to even be scored.

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So all of this was very objective and not subjective, but even at that, then there was bringing in people and actually having more interviews with them and more testing of what they would offer man's field.

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So very objective data for that.

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All right, any others? All right, my left. Good. All right. And president. Yes, sir.

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Mayor, we do have a presentation from Ms. Vice-D. It would be Mr. Cameron Mason. Are you here to provide us with an update regarding the developments?

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Okay, we have one more. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Matt. I'm sorry.

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Mayor, I'll be brief. Just want to bring everybody to speed on the batted ball.

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And then I believe Deputy City Manager Troy Miss Listina has a brief update for you as well.

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So quickly, just bringing up to speed.

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So we did commence our infrastructure.

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So the horizontal infrastructure for the city hall

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made 2025 and the vertical construction

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followed just shortly behind that in June of 2025

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is when we kicked off that vertical construction.

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So as we sit today, we are looking for completion

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and the new city hall to be completely operational.

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So, sometime early spring of 2027, so that's when we would be making the move over to the

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canals at the reserve for the new city hall, and I just have a couple of images here,

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so you can see the new building, it's a brick building and cast stone, it's kind of a throw

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back to the old county courthouse style, so it's a very beautiful building that will front

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on a civic plaza or town plaza out there, and then have some additional development around

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So it would really be a gathering space for the communities so we can host different events and we're we're certainly excited for it

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As far as the interior you can kind of see that classic architecture flow into the interior as well kind of the classic courthouse with some of the

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The materiality some of the siding and just kind of the color tone it kind of lends itself to that classic courthouse feel so it will be a great building

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Not only for our residents, but for our staff as well and we're certainly

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excited to make the move over there in spring of 2027.

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And with that mayor, I can take any questions on the city hall as well.

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All right.

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All right.

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We'll start with our trustees if you all have any questions.

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All right.

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Council.

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Okay.

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Thank you, sir.

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Madam President, mayer,

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following the agenda if we'd like to jump back to the ISD's presentation on the

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And then I'm sure the strong guard in myself can come and and be the closers today.

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Let's do that. Okay, we'll back up here. We'll turn it back over and apologize for the

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Slide deck.

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We have trustees and the batter's box there. We don't want it.

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There we go.

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Thank you Mr. Mason.

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Good evening.

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Mayor Evans, Board President Dr. Reed, ladies and gentlemen of the City Council in board.

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Again, my name is Cameron Mason.

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I'm the Assistant Bond Program Manager in Mansfield, I see I've been given this opportunity

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my boss as in Scotland.

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So I've been given this opportunity to speak before you tonight and give you just a high

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level overview of specifically the new campuses.

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But just to give you an update that, you know, we have 13 projects that are currently

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under construction from a capital improvements and addition renovation standpoint.

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Middle schools getting, getting additions and renovations.

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All five high schools getting turf projects, all of which are have started, started construction,

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started moving dirt, and then also Ben Barber, Frontier High School and the Phoenix Academy,

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all of which getting shelters to make our kids safer and additions and renovations.

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But the new construction projects specifically tying into the land trade or the land swap,

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and speaking to both the Safety Operations Center and the Early Learning Academy 2.0.

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So, the Safety Operations Center from a schedule standpoint, we are in construction, as you may

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or may not have noticed, about 200 feet that way.

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There is venting up.

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There is a job trailer in place, and we are getting going.

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So, while the schedule overview that we're showing here is predominantly past tense.

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How we got through our design phase, our pre-construction services, our bid phase, now we

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ramping up construction and we're going to get going. We're going to get going hard. The overall

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construction timeline on this is just under just right around 12 months and so we're looking

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for substantial completion in August of 26. While the fencing is up in the trailer is in place,

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we're actually doing a official round breaking week from today. Open invitation to everyone to

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these join us. We're looking forward to that. We always like kind of examples are showing

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off the growth and the development that's happening here. From an estimated budget standpoint,

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the total project budget is not just the district budget, but actually the inclusive budget

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that has the architectural fees, the permit, the soft cost, the FF&E. All of all of that's included

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in that total budget of about 31.31 million dollars.

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But the GMP, the gross, it's made the guaranteed maximum price.

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That was awarded in the June board meeting at about 25 million in change.

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So as I mentioned, right behind us is where this is going on.

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You can see by the footprint it's going to fit very nicely behind the size and the footprint

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of City Hall of this building, from a circulation standpoint, we're bringing in an addition to

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the drive on the south and creating a loop all the way through the property and to the west,

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on the south and the west. That'll be an access easement for traffic from the Mac and over

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and through. That'll also serve as the fire lane. That's going to be the first thing to go

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That's going to help relieve some of that.

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That's going to be the construction traffic predominantly coming on that south side.

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We've already relocated the two trash dumpsters that were there serving the Mac.

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And so those are out of the way.

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And that drive is going to be the first thing that the contractor puts in place.

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One from afar goes to standpoint that we need it.

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But two also maintaining that circulation.

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So we're going to stay as much away from from from from broad as far as an access

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easement or to me as far as an access as we can.

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So using with Syria using that back drive along the rail track is going to be really our goal.

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As you can see we have a

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On the east side of the property adjacent to where the park is or where the park will be

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We have our Sally Port and our access access through there.

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That's all fenced off and that's going to have private some private parking for staff and the police officers.

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While the public parking will just be a continuation of the parking that's on the west side of the campus.

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From a design standpoint, really the biggest element to this is in the center, the green portion in the center, the green and blue portion of the center is a tornado shelter.

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Tornado shelter is going to be used not only for tornado and events that are natural, but also from an emergency operation center for the district to use or for the community to use when necessary.

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While colorful, this plan is pretty straightforward. Everything in there is safety operations related.

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So whether it's the safety and security team, predominantly shown off by the kind of a teal,

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the darker teal color, or the police department functions with the yellow, where the offices

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are, the purple, being a training and support spaces, and then the kind of salmon color would

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be the Sally Court and holding spaces.

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There is a training function in the kind of line green area, and that can be utilized through

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not just the police department and not just safety and security, but whether it's the

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district or other people as well.

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So from a design standpoint, Huckabee was the architect and they did a phenomenal job really

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tying in the design with this new facility to the current city hall, bringing in the same

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materiality, the same brick, the same cast stone, bringing a little bit more contemporary

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feel to it, a little more technological, as the spaces would seem fit. But in general, the

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colon aid, a little bit more glass, but again, you can see in the rendering on the right,

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how it ties together, and it's really going to be very seamless as we proceed.

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So, the early learners Academy 2.0, this one as well, for the most part, we are through

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the design and pre-construction and did phases.

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We are a little bit behind on this, and I'll show you when we get to the site plan.

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We did have some complications, as it pertains, there's a drainage ditch running through the

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site, and we really wanted to make sure that we managed that watershed appropriately, and so

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working with the city and working with your engineering department,

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really trying to make sure that we did that correctly.

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So that's taken a little bit longer than anticipated.

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So while originally we had wanted to open this mid-year of

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of 2027 in January of 2027, we're probably not going to be substantially

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complete until later in that spring, it actually works out well,

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because that's going to give the teachers, that's going to give the

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administrators a better opportunity to become familiar with

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spaces and really be prepared when the kids come into play that fall. Also it doesn't mean

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moving kids mid-year from other campuses to the new campus. So substantial completion,

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we can mention April May of 2027. Again, the total estimated project budget,

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inclusive of all the soft costs and costs and fees, have had any, is about 57 million

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with a guaranteed maximum price going to the board, a week from tomorrow, at about $50 million

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in change.

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So, like I mentioned, from the other campuses, both from a design standpoint,

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from a final completion standpoint, as well as from a construction standpoint, the first thing

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to go into this site, we back up. This location is on the corner of Reda and Broad. So, where

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the city is going to be doing the roundabout at the corner of red and broad. That's in the bottom right hand corner of the picture.

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00:41:14,890 --> 00:41:16,430
So that's where this is all happening.

441
00:41:18,490 --> 00:41:25,610
So from a traffic circulation from the construction standpoint and from the final solution,

442
00:41:26,490 --> 00:41:33,570
we're looking at enter ingress off a broad and probable egress on to redda.

443
00:41:33,570 --> 00:41:36,490
That's going to be important in a couple of ways.

444
00:41:36,990 --> 00:41:41,450
One, it's going to let the traffic, when it's in a slowdown capacity,

445
00:41:41,910 --> 00:41:45,670
coming in off a broad rather than jamming up the retto,

446
00:41:45,830 --> 00:41:51,550
which is already getting filled with the developments that are happening up there.

447
00:41:51,950 --> 00:41:55,310
But then the egress will be happening more during the day,

448
00:41:55,510 --> 00:42:00,050
and instead of during the high hours of drop-off and pickup.

449
00:42:00,050 --> 00:42:07,490
So, the color schemes here that you can see, the orange splitting off to the red and green

450
00:42:07,490 --> 00:42:13,410
are showing the two different loops that are intended for the for the for the parent drop-off.

451
00:42:13,850 --> 00:42:20,230
Currently at Jan Drucco we have a single drop-off point and you really have a bottleneck.

452
00:42:20,790 --> 00:42:22,570
This is going to increase the population.

453
00:42:22,910 --> 00:42:27,930
This is a larger campus and so we wanted to go ahead and split that out and make it where you

454
00:42:27,930 --> 00:42:33,530
can have two different loops, and then the blue lane or the blue line would be all of the

455
00:42:33,530 --> 00:42:40,330
egress for those parent drop-offs. The north lane that's not colored would be the bus and

456
00:42:43,010 --> 00:42:48,490
the functional lane for receiving and drop-offs as well as that north parking lot would be

457
00:42:48,490 --> 00:42:52,290
for the daycare, which they would utilize that as well.

458
00:42:55,460 --> 00:43:03,140
So, as I mentioned, you know, obviously, Jan's Rucco is a facility that was one of

459
00:43:03,140 --> 00:43:09,020
a kind when it was done, and numerous places, not just in Texas, but nationally and

460
00:43:09,020 --> 00:43:15,720
probably globally have taken that template and ran with it.

461
00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:22,240
In doing so, the staff and administration have an opportunity to go and see what people took

462
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:25,620
from the original Jandruco and really develop off of it.

463
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,440
One of the largest items that you can see here

464
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,160
is the central courtyard and playground.

465
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,700
So internalized in the space so you're completely secure

466
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:37,720
from the outside.

467
00:43:38,140 --> 00:43:41,240
You have a very large centralized playground space.

468
00:43:41,940 --> 00:43:43,900
And that's going to be a huge element.

469
00:43:44,380 --> 00:43:45,720
We've seen it on some other campuses

470
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,460
and it's just a great design.

471
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,100
It's a great idea just having that security,

472
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:53,700
you, but also having just a great internal space.

473
00:43:54,620 --> 00:43:58,640
The overall design, while taken from the original

474
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,320
Djindrucco, you can see it's a very different layout,

475
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,140
but it still has the four pods, each pod having four

476
00:44:05,140 --> 00:44:09,540
experiences, the way that we've increased this is by also

477
00:44:09,540 --> 00:44:11,500
adding on some partner classrooms.

478
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:16,100
That's going to help facilitate the experiences in a different

479
00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:16,820
learning capacity.

480
00:44:17,460 --> 00:44:20,040
So the population is going to increase by nearly

481
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:26,700
double with those with that functionality. Other than that, this also will have a shelter at

482
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:31,600
just north of the playground in courtyard space in the activity area. The purple is the

483
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,260
daycare, it's very similar to what we did at Jandruku.

484
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,920
And then the renderings, you know,

485
00:44:40,060 --> 00:44:45,780
similar to what was Jones said, you know, from a materiality standpoint, you want to maintain

486
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:52,020
the thoughtfulness that we have here in Mansfield, so while there is brick masonry, there's

487
00:44:52,540 --> 00:44:58,160
a fibrous mental panel that is both in a wood aesthetic to kind of bring warmth to the space,

488
00:44:58,780 --> 00:44:59,980
but also something cl-

489
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,760
If also there's also utilizing some panel that has the color to bring playfulness to show that

490
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,920
this is an early learner academy rather than something that's a little higher higher age and

491
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:16,040
a little bit more technological and straightforward. But in the bottom right-hand corner, for those

492
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:21,240
of you that have been to Jandruku and I would imagine it's a lot of you. You can see that

493
00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:29,820
that classroom space is very similar to what Jandruku has developed and has made so

494
00:45:29,820 --> 00:45:31,440
So, amazing and popular for the students,

495
00:45:33,460 --> 00:45:40,220
so, very much the field of Jandrugo with a lot of updates.

496
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,480
And that's what I had for you. Any questions?

497
00:45:46,950 --> 00:45:49,210
Thank you so much, Mr. Mason, for that presentation.

498
00:45:49,710 --> 00:45:55,010
We want to thank you and your team for all of our work and courses to broaden in this absence.

499
00:45:55,670 --> 00:45:58,850
Do we have any questions, trustees, to my left?

500
00:46:01,660 --> 00:46:03,840
Trust these to my right?

501
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:06,080
Council.

502
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:09,700
It's amazing.

503
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,760
It's all I can say.

504
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:13,720
Outstanding.

505
00:46:14,860 --> 00:46:15,340
Outstanding.

506
00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:16,680
Yeah.

507
00:46:16,820 --> 00:46:18,880
The community should be proud of that.

508
00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:20,280
Mayor, may I have an opportunity?

509
00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:27,000
I'd like to allow Dr. Cantu to say something about the Lanswap or something we do appreciate.

510
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,080
The Lanswap and all that you all live all for us.

511
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,920
We're going to use it very well because we are growing.

512
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:40,660
So, Dr. Cance, would you like to say anything in reference to the landswap or what the city?

513
00:46:42,690 --> 00:46:46,850
I would just, the only thing I would add is it's just been a fantastic part, well that is really loud.

514
00:46:47,950 --> 00:46:54,830
It's been a fantastic partnership and we are really excited about all the opportunities that the landswap has provided us to continue to grow,

515
00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:59,590
right and expand and have our people not on top of each other, right, which is, which is going to be amazing

516
00:46:59,590 --> 00:47:02,110
and how it's pairing Somasu with Under Safety Center.

517
00:47:02,710 --> 00:47:04,750
So we just want to say thank you for partnering with us.

518
00:47:04,850 --> 00:47:06,590
We appreciate it.

519
00:47:07,110 --> 00:47:09,530
Thank you for allowing us to rent a space.

520
00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:14,800
All right.

521
00:47:14,940 --> 00:47:19,920
In regard to the other presentations that we would have this time,

522
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,120
you'll may come and set order.

523
00:47:31,180 --> 00:47:33,080
He just wants to take the mannequin.

524
00:47:35,740 --> 00:47:36,820
Thanks, Matt.

525
00:47:37,780 --> 00:47:39,040
Jones, Mr. Matt Jones.

526
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,220
I would have gladly traded presentations with you.

527
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:43,660
Here's a little more exciting.

528
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:46,100
Okay.

529
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,740
So Mayor Evans, Dr. Benina Reed, President Reed,

530
00:47:52,060 --> 00:47:54,620
and Board of Trustees, Dr. Kintu City Council.

531
00:47:55,340 --> 00:47:57,200
Thank y'all for having us here tonight.

532
00:47:57,860 --> 00:48:01,000
That does actually say Mansfield, ISD on it,

533
00:48:01,180 --> 00:48:03,440
but for some reason, the print didn't come out.

534
00:48:03,540 --> 00:48:05,320
So this is Mansfield, ISD.

535
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:10,540
talking about the Terran County appraisal district and targeting really the repraisal plan and

536
00:48:10,540 --> 00:48:17,380
what's, how does it affect us? It affects us three different ways. Stayed aid, maximum

537
00:48:17,380 --> 00:48:24,800
could press, tax rate, and debt service. And it's talking to Mr. Ladez and we were saying how they're

538
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:35,300
very different from the school district to cities and municipalities. So mine might be a little bit

539
00:48:35,300 --> 00:49:00,440
So this is a TEA presentation that was brought to the House committee back in the early phases of the legislative session in March and it basically asked can I use this stuff and she said absolutely so with this formula, this is how it works in school districts step one, they look at your local share they see how much money is your appraisal district what are the taxes coming in at the tax rate.

540
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:05,040
They take that bucket of money and that comes in from the taxpayers and then they say,

541
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,760
okay, this is how much the state aid should come. They're going to write a check and there's a

542
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:15,560
line drawn there that's the entitlement. So this is how some districts might be very rich and some

543
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:20,460
may be poor. Thank Highland Park, you know, that's the rich. That's what they call the recapture

544
00:49:20,460 --> 00:49:26,040
districts and they send money back to the state. So then back in the day they said, well, it's not

545
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:33,680
If they have a very high property value in school district will then they came out with this school district property value study.

546
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:38,040
And the purpose of that was to distribute state funding equitable.

547
00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:49,620
And the government code right there says the Texas Comptroller has to come and conduct the study to determine the total tax will value all property in each school district at least once every two years.

548
00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:54,780
Our appraisal district certified values come out July 25th, but then the

549
00:49:54,780 --> 00:49:59,240
Comptroller's property value study preliminary values come out in January, the

550
00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:03,040
following January. So when we're adopting our budgets, we don't even really

551
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:08,180
know for sure that total state aid payment until January comes around. So then

552
00:50:08,180 --> 00:50:13,260
the Comptroller context study on school district's total property value and it's

553
00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:18,260
their job to kind of ensure that the state legislative budget is intact with

554
00:50:18,260 --> 00:50:20,640
what the appraisals districts are doing.

555
00:50:21,300 --> 00:50:24,000
So that way, they're supposed to be at market value.

556
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,620
So this property plan here, or the property value study,

557
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,720
it says it just the local appraisal values to market value.

558
00:50:32,860 --> 00:50:36,980
But if they fall, if they go below that acceptable range,

559
00:50:36,980 --> 00:50:38,020
there's a range in there,

560
00:50:38,140 --> 00:50:39,820
won't get into the technicalities.

561
00:50:40,380 --> 00:50:43,840
They're certified, otherwise the state values are used,

562
00:50:44,340 --> 00:50:45,940
unless a grace period applies.

563
00:50:46,060 --> 00:50:47,940
So they do allow grace period for one

564
00:50:47,940 --> 00:50:52,560
two years. This reprisal plan is actually for three years in

565
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:58,420
Tert County because they had a buy in 2026 and Johnson County as well as

566
00:50:58,420 --> 00:51:02,800
as also three years. An invalid founding doesn't affect your local

567
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,600
property taxes, which means whatever we collect from the

568
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:11,500
praisal districts numbers, it's not going to affect that, but it's based on the

569
00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:16,500
local appraisals. So let's go and see, here's an example. This is an equity

570
00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:22,980
issue with the state funding. district day has a praise values, it's 75% of market value.

571
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:28,400
Last is school district taxable property value, gives you more state funding,

572
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:35,120
meaning they're bringing in less property taxes. On district B, you got 100% of your praise values

573
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:39,840
at market value, meaning your, your bucket's full. You're going to get less state funding

574
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:44,500
because you get more from your state, but there's that line drawn. There's your line and that's

575
00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:46,720
how the two buckets look, right?

576
00:51:46,740 --> 00:51:50,200
So the one on the left, they actually have district A on the right

577
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,700
and district B on the left, but this is how it's calculated.

578
00:51:54,340 --> 00:51:57,080
So there's, therefore, it's an equitable system.

579
00:51:58,260 --> 00:52:01,160
All right, then what happens if the funding fails

580
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,300
a school district property value study?

581
00:52:03,980 --> 00:52:07,420
Well, it uses certified property value from the controllers

582
00:52:07,420 --> 00:52:11,220
district property value study to determine the local share.

583
00:52:11,220 --> 00:52:16,040
And it's responsible for appraising the appraisal district, so responsible for appraising

584
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:22,320
that value of the property in the county, county, rich-eats taxing unit is, but it's school districts

585
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:27,020
that are collected on this appraisal district's assessment regardless of whether state values

586
00:52:27,020 --> 00:52:28,020
are substituted.

587
00:52:28,260 --> 00:52:34,560
So, bottom line is that last buck button there, last bullet talks about when the local values

588
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:40,220
are invalid, meaning they're not within the range, and the state values are substituted

589
00:52:40,220 --> 00:52:43,440
for local values, then we collect taxes on local values

590
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,140
that receive less state funding based on,

591
00:52:46,140 --> 00:52:49,040
it goes on a versus higher state base,

592
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,200
because the state comp trailers values

593
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:54,340
are at a higher rate based on market value

594
00:52:54,340 --> 00:52:55,980
with the reappraisal plan.

595
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:01,040
Okay, so this is what happens when you fail,

596
00:53:01,980 --> 00:53:03,700
and you get out and you're out of grace,

597
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,760
and they say, okay, we gotta use the comp trailers values

598
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,540
because that's what we're told to do.

599
00:53:08,540 --> 00:53:14,740
And there's a gap there, so where you get your local values, both sides are there, but then you see that gap.

600
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:20,680
The revenue shortfall, this state doesn't make up for it because it only goes by the higher number.

601
00:53:21,140 --> 00:53:27,240
But the school district is not collecting that higher number taxes, right? That's the problem.

602
00:53:27,980 --> 00:53:29,720
So what options do we have?

603
00:53:29,720 --> 00:53:37,820
So they have limited ability to affect the price of process, and we can do and appeal those values, which we do.

604
00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:45,500
And it may not change significantly. We have to pay a fee to charge to do this audit for that, and then we can get those values back.

605
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:57,480
The other option, and I know Troy is going to talk about this a little bit, is the local voting into entitlement on a price of boards, but I have a majority.

606
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,920
So, we're going to talk a little bit about elections, and then, and then notes to the

607
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,920
Pricle districts, basically they're going to say, look, we're going to take a look at

608
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,280
your chief of priser if it's going to be out of whack, right?

609
00:54:10,340 --> 00:54:17,160
Here is a visualization of how the process works.

610
00:54:18,220 --> 00:54:22,940
There's the local Pricle district in the middle, and the local values go both sides, the

611
00:54:22,940 --> 00:54:27,920
of District on the left or you're right, left, and then the

612
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:32,420
Controllers go to the right, and then the taxes are collected on the

613
00:54:32,420 --> 00:54:36,800
left that go to the ISDs, but then the state aid is calculated through TEA

614
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:43,460
through their funding. That's basically how it works. And a mock property value

615
00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:47,760
study estimated ratios. This is that range where I said, I said I didn't give

616
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:52,240
you the number, but there's a range in here that says really 95 to

617
00:54:52,240 --> 00:54:59,520
out of about a hundred hundred five is good, these districts, this was just shared at the

618
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:04,840
parent, a prison district meeting in July 10th of a mock, like this is what they think

619
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:11,160
could happen. And a lot of those districts that, why are they not saying a lot? You're looking

620
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:18,040
at Greyvine Coliville, you're looking at some of those, what's that, Carolized D, all those

621
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,500
are really, really low or out of whack.

622
00:55:20,900 --> 00:55:23,260
The reason they're really not speaking a lot on that

623
00:55:23,260 --> 00:55:25,240
is because they recapture districts.

624
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:27,140
And if you're recapture district,

625
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:28,680
then it's a different scenario.

626
00:55:28,980 --> 00:55:30,960
It doesn't penalize them as much.

627
00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,100
So therefore, that's why we're 95.

628
00:55:34,220 --> 00:55:37,400
I was glad to see that in July, we're 0.95,

629
00:55:37,740 --> 00:55:39,640
but I don't know what's going to be in year three.

630
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,780
So this was an example.

631
00:55:42,820 --> 00:55:43,680
And I used this.

632
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,820
This was the one that I said, this could happen.

633
00:55:46,820 --> 00:55:59,980
We do not know what will certainly happen, but this was the one we've shared if this, if it ends up being a 10% difference, that's the worst case scenario could be and that's where that number came from 15 million.

634
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,920
Next one is the maximum compressed tax rate.

635
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:06,860
That is the maintenance and operation tax rate.

636
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,260
A district must levied to receive it.

637
00:56:09,420 --> 00:56:12,340
We call it full tier one allotment and state funding.

638
00:56:13,220 --> 00:56:15,300
This rate is set by the state.

639
00:56:16,100 --> 00:56:21,820
People think, wow, school districts have all this ability to lower the tax rate, do these things.

640
00:56:22,740 --> 00:56:28,760
This rate is set by the state based on a district property values and it helps to stabilize the state budget.

641
00:56:29,980 --> 00:56:36,440
If they would go lower, then the state has to pick up more, but they made this box.

642
00:56:36,820 --> 00:56:43,000
The floor and the ceiling said districts have to stay within this box so that our budget doesn't get out of whack.

643
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:48,120
All right, so that's why they have a limit there, and why they set it.

644
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:59,220
Now, Maine's for the SD is generally maintaining the lowest MCR tax rate of all the school districts where the lowest recall the floor due to the consistent increases in our property values over the years.

645
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:11,580
All right, this is an example of what happened, well, it's the true, it's not an example, this is what happened with the 140 K homestead exemption that will be voted on by voters.

646
00:57:11,580 --> 00:57:18,440
In November, on the 140K Homestay exemption, and the over 65 disabled exemption to 60K.

647
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:25,600
It showed that Tarant County went down 4.14%, Johnson due to new construction, basically,

648
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:30,820
is 6.43% higher, and then overall was a 3% decrease overall.

649
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:35,300
In the bottom section, it shows you where the changes were really made.

650
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:41,220
This shows you where the flat reappraisal plan took place, and it's a 13% decrease from

651
00:57:41,220 --> 00:57:51,420
2024 to 2025. 12% of that is really homestead exemptions. So those values are included in that.

652
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:57,940
And then when we do our tax strike that we send it taxes education agency, this is to give them that

653
00:57:57,940 --> 00:58:03,800
calculation to do our first tier one. And that's the number that goes right there is our chief of

654
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,120
that the user's certified taxable values.

655
00:58:06,700 --> 00:58:11,660
That's where it shows the 3% decrease and it shows that the bottom how they get that maximum

656
00:58:11,660 --> 00:58:13,560
compressed tax rate calculation.

657
00:58:14,940 --> 00:58:17,980
Another thing that hits us is on the debt service side.

658
00:58:18,060 --> 00:58:22,060
Our bond capacity we went to our voters and said in May of 2024,

659
00:58:22,660 --> 00:58:24,500
hey, we're not going to raise the tax rate.

660
00:58:24,580 --> 00:58:25,620
We're not going to do anything.

661
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,280
Based on a very conservative growth estimates in property values.

662
00:58:29,860 --> 00:58:31,100
But now we're like wait a minute.

663
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:32,900
This might affect this.

664
00:58:32,900 --> 00:58:39,100
But because now you're going to have to face the bond capacity at 36 cents, and then if they

665
00:58:39,100 --> 00:58:44,760
lower the property values, there's very little state aid in the interest in sinking fund

666
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:52,040
on the debt service side for mensual honesty. So with that, that's concern, we're okay, we feel

667
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:58,660
better about it, but it is a concern. If other potential impacts is really the existing debt

668
00:58:58,660 --> 00:59:00,220
statement, instructional facilities,

669
00:59:00,660 --> 00:59:02,800
additional state aid for homestead exemption.

670
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:04,880
They call it a saahi for facilities.

671
00:59:05,180 --> 00:59:07,760
And that's when homestead exemptions are

672
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:08,520
getting approved.

673
00:59:09,060 --> 00:59:10,780
The state makes up the difference.

674
00:59:11,020 --> 00:59:12,980
Kind of like the property tax collections.

675
00:59:13,460 --> 00:59:14,680
We lose those collections.

676
00:59:14,860 --> 00:59:15,800
They may get the difference.

677
00:59:15,980 --> 00:59:16,860
That's called a saahi.

678
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:19,960
So we lose out a little bit on that too.

679
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:21,580
And that's it.

680
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:22,380
Any questions?

681
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:24,400
Good job.

682
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:26,200
I know.

683
00:59:32,950 --> 00:59:38,610
All right. Any questions from the City Council side of the House? On the right side?

684
00:59:39,290 --> 00:59:43,150
Left. All right. Go ahead, Ms. Bounds.

685
00:59:44,270 --> 00:59:49,770
Could you go back to the slide that showed all the ones that were at risk or no risk or that

686
00:59:49,770 --> 00:59:56,690
were at grace this way out this one? What causes the at risk of no grace? It looks like there's

687
00:59:56,690 --> 00:59:58,830
2 within that category.

688
00:59:59,650 --> 00:59:59,970
What that is.

689
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,320
Actually, it causes that, and then there was one that is no grace.

690
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:12,240
Okay, now you're in a territory, I'm not an expert in. So I don't know the answer to this piece at risk of no grace.

691
01:00:12,300 --> 01:00:13,820
I don't know the answer to that one.

692
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:27,740
Okay, and then can you go to the one that shows the decreases in the property, it's on, well, no, right there.

693
01:00:27,740 --> 01:00:47,130
So if I'm looking at the taxable 2025, the taxable 2024, and the difference is, am I reading it right that commercial industrial property commercial is going to be more?

694
01:00:47,590 --> 01:00:50,030
Yes, ma'am, and this also includes new construction.

695
01:00:50,810 --> 01:00:57,950
So that is all the new construction, and then overall residential will be less.

696
01:00:57,950 --> 01:01:03,990
Correct, and this is Terrent County for Mansfield ISD, yeah. Okay, it's not just a say. Thank you.

697
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:06,100
It's good.

698
01:01:08,710 --> 01:01:12,910
All right. Thank you. Great job. Thank you. Great job. Let's try and guard.

699
01:01:13,650 --> 01:01:17,110
Trustees to my left. Do you have any questions from Mr. Drungart?

700
01:01:18,410 --> 01:01:19,530
Yes, sir. Trustee Thomas.

701
01:01:21,030 --> 01:01:23,830
Mr. Drungart. Thank you for your wonderful presentation.

702
01:01:24,790 --> 01:01:25,830
It's had a quick question.

703
01:01:26,510 --> 01:01:36,610
And the last two years, the frequency of appraisals changed.

704
01:01:36,970 --> 01:01:39,690
It was changed by the elected tab board.

705
01:01:39,950 --> 01:01:40,970
What was it changed?

706
01:01:41,810 --> 01:01:46,150
What does that mean not only for the school district, but for the city, with the changes

707
01:01:46,150 --> 01:01:47,030
that they implemented?

708
01:01:47,530 --> 01:01:48,870
Sure, yes, Mr. Thomas.

709
01:01:49,730 --> 01:01:54,610
So they implemented it at this last, for this year, was our first year.

710
01:01:54,610 --> 01:01:59,010
the reappraisal plan for, it's supposed to be in a two-year plan.

711
01:01:59,810 --> 01:02:01,250
That was the vote.

712
01:02:01,970 --> 01:02:05,330
However, they made an exception for 2026.

713
01:02:06,110 --> 01:02:07,650
So it becomes a three-year plan.

714
01:02:08,390 --> 01:02:11,450
So just the first three years is reappraisals

715
01:02:11,450 --> 01:02:14,150
for residential, anti-rac County.

716
01:02:15,490 --> 01:02:18,710
And then it'll start going in every two years.

717
01:02:19,290 --> 01:02:21,130
And then Johnson County, same thing.

718
01:02:21,130 --> 01:02:24,830
that they did all three years, their first year,

719
01:02:25,170 --> 01:02:27,090
which they did it the same time.

720
01:02:27,630 --> 01:02:31,130
So does that mean they didn't re-assess values

721
01:02:31,130 --> 01:02:33,290
on homes for a three-year period?

722
01:02:33,510 --> 01:02:34,230
That's correct.

723
01:02:34,430 --> 01:02:36,250
Now we'll say you saw the increase

724
01:02:36,250 --> 01:02:37,570
for Johnson County.

725
01:02:37,630 --> 01:02:39,790
I didn't show their specific breakout,

726
01:02:39,950 --> 01:02:43,730
but that is due to the major construction going down there

727
01:02:43,730 --> 01:02:47,570
in South Point and through all down in that area.

728
01:02:47,570 --> 01:02:56,490
And it's overall impact on the ability to budget and everything else, what does that do for the district and the city?

729
01:02:57,090 --> 01:03:05,610
So really, as far as a budget standpoint for the district, we mainly do enrollment drives our budget.

730
01:03:06,370 --> 01:03:12,410
It used to be property values at a big play in that, as far as the maintenance and operations fund goes.

731
01:03:12,410 --> 01:03:17,670
the general fund day-to-day operations, so it's really revenue-neutral based on kind of what

732
01:03:17,670 --> 01:03:23,990
I showed you that funding equity box here, but on the debt service side, that does impact

733
01:03:23,990 --> 01:03:29,630
our ability to pay our bonds and principal and interests on that and to do what we call

734
01:03:29,630 --> 01:03:35,410
defeasants, pay it down like your mortgage, pay it down. So yeah, it could impact that.

735
01:03:36,690 --> 01:03:43,130
And just last question, how much do we have in bond debt right now, are we potentially issuing?

736
01:03:44,310 --> 01:03:52,430
So we are, we've done our final issuance of the last bit of the 588 and a half million dollar bond.

737
01:03:52,650 --> 01:03:53,230
It's coming.

738
01:03:53,790 --> 01:03:59,150
I think we have, we author the parameter to sell, so we're waiting on the rat time to do that.

739
01:03:59,250 --> 01:04:03,010
And that's about, it's another 388.5 million.

740
01:04:03,010 --> 01:04:10,480
So we run the risk of not being able to pay that back should value is not it possibly

741
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:15,860
bad however that won't happen. I believe I believe it will not do such a great job

742
01:04:15,860 --> 01:04:20,040
to shake that. We have a good fun balance for that. All right great thank you.

743
01:04:22,340 --> 01:04:28,060
Trust me. Okay thank you so much Mr. Trongard for all of your work you and your team

744
01:04:28,060 --> 01:04:33,460
doing amazing job and explaining it all so that we understand it. Thank you so very much.

745
01:04:33,460 --> 01:04:43,380
Okay. All right. Mr. Lestin and regard to your presentation, if you would just have in mind

746
01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:51,420
as we kind of build the context as well, how does the change in regard to the appraisal from

747
01:04:52,100 --> 01:04:58,720
year one to every other year? How does that affect us as well? They don't think it'll be a good

748
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,540
question for listeners and those who are in the audience.

749
01:05:01,540 --> 01:05:06,200
Yeah, we will definitely talk about that here right off the bat.

750
01:05:07,580 --> 01:05:17,380
So as Mr. Trunkard said, you know, there's the TAD plan, Johnson County is very similar to the TAD plan,

751
01:05:18,660 --> 01:05:25,100
freezing residential property values for the 2025 tax year, and it shifts the residential

752
01:05:25,100 --> 01:05:30,820
appraisals to every other year, there was a pause in that, and so it kind of took a pause

753
01:05:30,820 --> 01:05:34,720
there, and also imposes a 5% threshold on any increase.

754
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:42,280
Now for the city, it specifically talks about market values, OK?

755
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,560
What our values are based on are based on the praise values.

756
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:52,600
So if you recall, you used to get that blue piece paper in the mail.

757
01:05:53,060 --> 01:05:54,100
Now, let's switch to it.

758
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:55,200
It's a white piece of paper.

759
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,600
It comes out in April of every year.

760
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:02,040
and it tells you your market value, and it tells you your praise value, okay?

761
01:06:02,740 --> 01:06:07,520
Now we all want the market value when we sell our house, and we want the lowest possible value

762
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:09,260
when the tax tax comes, right?

763
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:13,420
We're all human. We all want that. I live in the city of Mansfield. I want the same thing.

764
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:20,040
But at the end of the day, what that does is when the appraisals

765
01:06:20,700 --> 01:06:27,260
aren't growing the way the market value is, and we've seen tremendous growth in our market

766
01:06:27,260 --> 01:06:31,520
for the past several years because of the tremendous growth, not only in

767
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:36,560
Mansville, but in the Metroplex as a whole, right? So we average

768
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:44,040
residents about three to five thousand given in any given year increase in the

769
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:49,840
population just of the city of Mansville. I didn't put our appraisal numbers up

770
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:55,380
here, but the city of Mansville's corporate limits are much smaller than the

771
01:06:55,380 --> 01:06:58,980
these overall purview, right?

772
01:06:59,340 --> 01:07:06,800
And so we're only in about the 12 to 13 billion dollar range of the total of the corporate

773
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:12,680
limits of the city of Mansfield, where you saw there in the mid-20s, or low-20,

774
01:07:12,860 --> 01:07:16,960
million, 20 billion, and so there were much different there.

775
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:24,560
Obviously we do it a little bit different, we're based on the appraisals, and those appraisals,

776
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:31,700
Then we look at that. We get the same data. We're always at the TAD board meetings as the

777
01:07:31,700 --> 01:07:39,320
One speaker spoke about tonight. She'll always see myself and then Mr. on guard there and or our staff are with us as well

778
01:07:40,140 --> 01:07:46,340
And so we're in tune to these things now SB 973 as you can see on there

779
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:51,180
Is a new state law that started just two weeks ago

780
01:07:51,180 --> 01:07:55,220
That said, hey, annual appraisals are required.

781
01:07:55,860 --> 01:07:58,580
That was already in the tax code, okay?

782
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,440
They are saying that, hey, you need to follow the tax code.

783
01:08:02,820 --> 01:08:05,740
And it's not very deep in the tax code, okay?

784
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:08,360
The tax code is chapter 23.

785
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:11,300
Texts chapter code 23 talks about appraisals.

786
01:08:11,660 --> 01:08:17,860
It's 23.01A annual appraisals on January 1st.

787
01:08:17,900 --> 01:08:19,980
So it talks about it in the tax code.

788
01:08:19,980 --> 01:08:26,580
And what that does, as you can see there, it protects our tax base and ensures fair distribution

789
01:08:26,580 --> 01:08:31,320
of property taxes and provides stable revenue for all the city services.

790
01:08:32,060 --> 01:08:40,160
One of the things that is not on the slides, Johnson County residents, on a residential

791
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:44,400
side, have not seen in the praisling crease in three years.

792
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:51,320
We have staff members that are Johnson County residents and these are all public records.

793
01:08:51,540 --> 01:08:53,180
You can pull up their tax bills.

794
01:08:53,340 --> 01:08:57,800
You can see their appraised values have stayed the same for the past three years.

795
01:08:58,340 --> 01:09:06,140
So we have been already managing with the existing residential stock when it hits its

796
01:09:06,140 --> 01:09:08,600
point for the last three years has not changed.

797
01:09:09,180 --> 01:09:13,180
Now that doesn't now new construction, obviously if there's a new residential home somewhere

798
01:09:13,180 --> 01:09:16,940
in the process on January 1st of that year, it's going to reset.

799
01:09:17,500 --> 01:09:25,000
So for reset on January 1st, 2023, January 1st, 2024, and January 1st, 2025, which is the

800
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:28,040
tax here that we're currently in, have remained the same.

801
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:34,980
So we've already, with at the city level, been working within kind of those restrictions that

802
01:09:34,980 --> 01:09:38,640
that Johnson County is working through.

803
01:09:40,500 --> 01:09:46,360
So with TAD, continuing on its current plan, you know, we'll kind of see those tax

804
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:51,020
appraisals or those annual appraisals that see the true effect of that in 2026.

805
01:09:51,700 --> 01:09:56,240
Again, this is one of the reasons why from City Staff's standpoint and Council

806
01:09:56,240 --> 01:10:01,340
we had talked about this for the trustees or probably aware, as we went through our

807
01:10:01,340 --> 01:10:06,220
budget process. We did not increase our homestead exemption this year. The city is currently

808
01:10:06,220 --> 01:10:12,260
at 16 percent. Council has given us direction to continue to get that on the city side

809
01:10:12,260 --> 01:10:19,300
that maximum homestead exemption is 20 percent. Our goal is to get there but knowing that

810
01:10:19,300 --> 01:10:23,680
these things were kind of sitting on the horizon is one of the reasons why we took a just

811
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:30,580
a little brief pause until we can understand the actual ramifications of what the tad and

812
01:10:30,580 --> 01:10:36,860
Johnson County, appraisal districts, what their annual appraisal plans would, how they would

813
01:10:36,860 --> 01:10:38,200
actually affect us.

814
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:45,580
This should be the impact of SB 973, making sure that we have stable revenue, fair share

815
01:10:45,580 --> 01:10:51,000
across the board, making it reliable from the budget standpoint, and then also protecting

816
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,860
the schools as you heard from Mr. Trunkard.

817
01:10:53,860 --> 01:10:56,540
So, I'm going to pause there, Mayor.

818
01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:04,140
I have one more slide to talk about the nomination process and the voting process.

819
01:11:04,620 --> 01:11:08,720
I want to pause here for any questions for you or the Madam President.

820
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:09,760
All right.

821
01:11:10,380 --> 01:11:11,240
Thank you.

822
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:13,580
Madam President, we're going to trustees.

823
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:15,380
You all have any questions?

824
01:11:18,260 --> 01:11:18,460
All right.

825
01:11:19,140 --> 01:11:20,140
We're going to the council.

826
01:11:21,220 --> 01:11:21,260
Mayor.

827
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:22,320
Yes, Mayor.

828
01:11:22,500 --> 01:11:23,040
I have a question.

829
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:24,020
What is it about?

830
01:11:24,860 --> 01:11:31,500
All right, so Troy, let's talk about the homestead exemption versus the rate.

831
01:11:33,100 --> 01:11:39,380
We had decided based on everything that was going on that we would still continue to look

832
01:11:39,380 --> 01:11:41,300
on down the road at increasing that.

833
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:49,180
But for those watching, am I correct when I say that the homestead exemption once we give

834
01:11:49,180 --> 01:11:57,220
that percentage, it always has to be that, whereas if you have a rate, you can move the

835
01:11:57,220 --> 01:12:01,980
rate up or you can move the rate down, but the home state exemption is fixed.

836
01:12:02,460 --> 01:12:10,960
Yes, ma'am. Yes, the home setting is mentioned as fixed. I don't remember the bill, but there's

837
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:16,060
a bill out there that it is fixed for the next three years. Whatever rate you're at, you cannot

838
01:12:16,060 --> 01:12:22,520
lower it. I'm sure in future legislative sessions they will continue that. So yes,

839
01:12:22,820 --> 01:12:30,700
legislatively we cannot lower the homestead exemption from 16 percent. We can certainly increase

840
01:12:30,700 --> 01:12:37,380
it and your correct. We can work continue to work on the tax rate and continue to drive the tax

841
01:12:37,380 --> 01:12:43,240
rate down, which has been direction from city council. So it's very conservative of the council

842
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:49,240
to know that that homestead exemption while we're trying to get there that we have to take

843
01:12:50,900 --> 01:12:58,400
very be very vigilant on how the rates are going and these appraisals are going so that we know

844
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:03,760
that we can continue to make the homestead exemptions and we don't have to go backwards.

845
01:13:04,220 --> 01:13:09,840
Yes, Mayor? That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead, Ms. Sim.

846
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:17,880
And just as a reminder, the reason that we didn't do the homestead this year was the percentage

847
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:22,820
of protest was significantly greater this year than in the past, is that true?

848
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:32,000
From the percentage, probably was probably about the same, but the value that was protested

849
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:35,120
was certainly much higher that has been in years past.

850
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:36,700
Yeah. Yes.

851
01:13:37,460 --> 01:13:38,380
Right, Mr. Thomas?

852
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:41,440
Yeah, I did have just one quick question.

853
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:43,200
I heard somewhere a long time ago

854
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,580
when these classes I was in at home

855
01:13:45,580 --> 01:13:48,380
values naturally go up 3 to 5% per year.

856
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:50,060
Just natural appreciation.

857
01:13:50,260 --> 01:13:53,240
What has been the city's trend on tax rate

858
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:55,240
over the last so many years

859
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:56,840
has been going down?

860
01:13:57,180 --> 01:13:59,300
Yes sir, so for the last

861
01:13:59,300 --> 01:14:02,040
I believe it's been six years

862
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:13,220
in well we'll start in 2020 we were at 71 cents that year we lowered it currently the last

863
01:14:13,220 --> 01:14:20,400
budget that was passed last Monday was approved by City Council was 639 cents so that's been

864
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:30,400
a 7.0701 cent in decrease over that time from 2020 to today and so I don't have that percentage

865
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:39,960
off the top of my head, but roughly 10% decrease. But home values have been increasing with the

866
01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:42,460
exception of Johnson County in the last few years.

867
01:14:45,700 --> 01:14:49,880
I don't think we, Karen County was only counting it went down this year, right, and that

868
01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:50,760
Yeah,

869
01:14:54,010 --> 01:14:55,150
yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

870
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,460
All right, you may proceed, sir.

871
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:07,020
Hey, the final slide here in the final topic tonight.

872
01:15:08,480 --> 01:15:16,180
We will be briefing council next Monday night at our regularly scheduled council meeting on the 22nd.

873
01:15:16,180 --> 01:15:22,480
Just about the appraisal nomination process. This is for the city, all three counties.

874
01:15:23,780 --> 01:15:27,960
And this is a statewide legislative mandate.

875
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:31,400
So nominations are due by October the 15th.

876
01:15:31,480 --> 01:15:35,660
Balots then will be delivered by October the 30th to the boards.

877
01:15:35,900 --> 01:15:42,500
And then the boards would have until December the 15th to submit

878
01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:45,820
their votes back to the various Parasal Districts.

879
01:15:45,820 --> 01:15:47,280
And that is all I have, Mayor.

880
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:59,860
Okay. Thank you very much as there are other any statements to be made regarding what we have heard tonight from first our trustees.

881
01:16:03,440 --> 01:16:04,880
Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Thomas.

882
01:16:05,500 --> 01:16:13,820
I just wanted to make note that not only do we have these appointments coming up on this fall, that's for two four year positions on tab or

883
01:16:13,820 --> 01:16:16,780
and it's two out of the nine positions.

884
01:16:17,480 --> 01:16:20,700
Also, on next November, there will be three positions

885
01:16:20,700 --> 01:16:22,640
on the ballot, if I'm not mistaken.

886
01:16:23,740 --> 01:16:24,320
Oh, you're so, yes.

887
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:27,000
Yeah, the elected positions are back up for election,

888
01:16:27,100 --> 01:16:29,300
and they'll be on November, instead of in the spring,

889
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,180
like they were the first go-round.

890
01:16:31,540 --> 01:16:37,440
So just to make people aware that your voice matters,

891
01:16:37,620 --> 01:16:39,760
and there's an opportunity coming up next November,

892
01:16:41,340 --> 01:16:44,440
to hear your ledger voices be heard.

893
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:48,080
Go ahead now.

894
01:16:48,700 --> 01:16:49,580
Dr. Crutchfield.

895
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:52,240
Yes, thank you.

896
01:16:52,500 --> 01:16:56,880
Could you go back a slide or to keep going?

897
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:58,820
So the impact on the city.

898
01:16:59,220 --> 01:17:02,220
And so while I'm here with my city council colleagues,

899
01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:05,360
I'm a emailed you guys last year when we're doing the

900
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:13,160
the votes for a tad and for Jad and encouraging you all to look at that last bullet thinking about

901
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:18,180
folks who will protect schools from funding cuts and so I'll make that plea to you guys while I

902
01:17:18,180 --> 01:17:23,860
hear now. The 24 vote that you have as you consider those candidates actually be sharing your

903
01:17:23,860 --> 01:17:33,650
votes for please consider us in my SD. Thank you. Thank you Trustee Crutchfield. I can only speak for myself.

904
01:17:33,650 --> 01:17:43,550
I do believe that it is important that city entities, and also just in regard to the county itself.

905
01:17:43,890 --> 01:17:53,970
Mansfield is the third largest city in the county, and of course, our school district is twice the size of our city.

906
01:17:53,970 --> 01:18:02,130
I think it's important that we definitely become more vigilant and also more educated

907
01:18:02,130 --> 01:18:07,530
in regard to who these candidates are as they come before us because we've seen tonight

908
01:18:07,530 --> 01:18:15,470
of the impact that has on us because again, when you look at the possible budget shortfalls

909
01:18:15,470 --> 01:18:23,950
for the school district, that affects all of us in the city of Mansfield as well and of

910
01:18:23,950 --> 01:18:30,170
we see, the impact that it causes on us in regard to the way that they

911
01:18:30,170 --> 01:18:37,310
delivery their own business and we see it. And I think it's very important for us

912
01:18:37,310 --> 01:18:43,450
because it did cause us to hit the pause button as our goal continues to be.

913
01:18:43,750 --> 01:18:49,190
That 20% ceiling and we are going to do that. But I think it would have been

914
01:18:50,510 --> 01:18:57,590
premature for us to make said decisions this year, not knowing, of course, what the legislative

915
01:18:57,590 --> 01:19:01,570
temperature was in regard to this particular subject.

916
01:19:02,430 --> 01:19:13,050
And I appreciate Ms. Trongard, just you and as well as our own CFO and our team being

917
01:19:13,050 --> 01:19:18,070
physically conservative. I think to do anything otherwise, this year would have really been

918
01:19:18,070 --> 01:19:26,210
reckless. And we sure would have been bitten by that if we were not able to do what we need

919
01:19:26,210 --> 01:19:32,050
to do. So, thank you also very much. But I believe that I have colleagues sitting on these

920
01:19:32,050 --> 01:19:38,070
day-offs that would say to you that we're going to be more vigilant. And even in speaking

921
01:19:38,070 --> 01:19:44,870
of those potential candidates, I think that we need to be a bit more forceful in helping

922
01:19:44,870 --> 01:19:49,710
them to know that they need not attempt to earn our vote if they're not going to be friendly

923
01:19:49,710 --> 01:19:52,970
to municipalities as well as to our school districts.

924
01:19:53,350 --> 01:19:54,170
We work together.

925
01:19:54,830 --> 01:20:00,230
The very reason that we're here tonight is to communicate the fact to the community that we

926
01:20:00,230 --> 01:20:06,530
work together because what goes bad for the city is not good for the ISD and vice versa.

927
01:20:06,530 --> 01:20:12,570
So thank you all very much, the two of you, and for who you are, what you do, and keeping us

928
01:20:12,570 --> 01:20:17,650
physically responsible. Thank you very much for that. So I'm going to have a metapresdenette.

929
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:29,460
Is there any other business for us? Trustees? What we want to thank you, Mayor, and City Council members.

930
01:20:29,700 --> 01:20:36,320
We appreciate your hospitality. I should we say swap hospitality. Sure, not sure what we should

931
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:42,620
but Dr. Can't sue our superintendent would you like to say anything as we conclude this

932
01:20:42,620 --> 01:20:43,780
part of our meeting?

933
01:20:48,110 --> 01:20:51,030
No, man, I don't have anything other than just it was a wonderful time

934
01:20:51,030 --> 01:20:58,010
to come together and we're a glad to partner as always. And that's what I believe all of us would

935
01:20:58,010 --> 01:21:06,370
say here as we appreciate your continued support and partnership with Mayor Evans and City Council

936
01:21:06,370 --> 01:21:12,550
We appreciate that we do come together to support each other in various activities and as

937
01:21:12,550 --> 01:21:17,510
always we support our students and I believe them and I've hold them and advocate for

938
01:21:17,510 --> 01:21:24,050
them over 35,000 students and over 9,000, nearly 9,000 staff, we appreciate the partnership

939
01:21:24,050 --> 01:21:25,890
and the continued support.

940
01:21:26,290 --> 01:21:30,050
All right, you know, I would be remiss not to call on our city managers since you called

941
01:21:30,050 --> 01:21:31,350
and superintendent twice.

942
01:21:32,150 --> 01:21:34,550
So I need to call on our hired gun as well.

943
01:21:36,190 --> 01:21:38,550
So Mr. City Manager, would you have any remarks

944
01:21:38,550 --> 01:21:40,790
for us before I call for a motion to adjourn?

945
01:21:41,930 --> 01:21:42,310
I'm sure.

946
01:21:42,930 --> 01:21:45,730
Now I would just echo Dr. Kentu's sentiment.

947
01:21:46,790 --> 01:21:48,170
It's nice to meet with our colleagues

948
01:21:48,170 --> 01:21:51,890
in the school district and our admin folks meet regularly

949
01:21:51,890 --> 01:21:54,510
and it's good to see that school trustees

950
01:21:54,510 --> 01:21:56,870
and council meet as well.

951
01:21:56,870 --> 01:22:00,510
So we're grateful for the partnership that we have.

952
01:22:00,570 --> 01:22:03,310
We look forward to making this even stronger as we move forward.

953
01:22:05,810 --> 01:22:06,570
Go right ahead.

954
01:22:06,570 --> 01:22:10,970
Do you recess and then we're going to, I'll call for a motion to adjourn.

955
01:22:11,170 --> 01:22:11,210
Sure.

956
01:22:11,410 --> 01:22:13,470
Go ahead, ma'am.

957
01:22:13,890 --> 01:22:18,910
Mayor Evans and City Council members as well as those who are participating here and

958
01:22:18,910 --> 01:22:21,130
watching on line.

959
01:22:21,750 --> 01:22:24,730
Those of us who are trustees for Mansby, I see school board.

960
01:22:24,930 --> 01:22:26,850
We would like to thank you at this time.

961
01:22:26,850 --> 01:22:28,790
we would recess at 747.

962
01:22:30,410 --> 01:22:31,030
All right.

963
01:22:31,210 --> 01:22:32,150
Thank you very much.

964
01:22:32,710 --> 01:22:35,650
And again, we welcome you to your space

965
01:22:35,650 --> 01:22:37,990
and we're so glad that you all allow us

966
01:22:37,990 --> 01:22:40,830
to abarrate for these next two and a half years.

967
01:22:41,630 --> 01:22:43,870
I will call for a motion to adjourn.

968
01:22:44,170 --> 01:22:44,850
Motion to adjourn.

969
01:22:44,870 --> 01:22:46,010
That's Mr. Nussel.

970
01:22:46,450 --> 01:22:48,710
OK, I heard a second down here.

971
01:22:48,810 --> 01:22:49,990
There's Ms. Fresck with.

972
01:22:50,370 --> 01:22:51,170
Down there, whisperer.

973
01:22:51,450 --> 01:22:51,990
All right.

974
01:22:52,630 --> 01:22:53,450
All right, questions.

975
01:22:54,030 --> 01:22:55,570
Hearing none, please catch votes.

976
01:22:55,570 --> 01:22:56,850
Can't catch the votes.

977
01:22:57,110 --> 01:23:00,910
All those of the favor you sound vote by, all the polls same sound vote.

978
01:23:01,290 --> 01:23:02,370
I have it.

979
01:23:02,450 --> 01:23:03,310
So what it did pass.

980
01:23:03,690 --> 01:23:05,750
We'll adjourn at 7.8 PM.

981
01:23:06,770 --> 01:23:08,830
Thank you all very much.

982
01:23:09,550 --> 01:23:09,910
All right.

983
01:23:10,450 --> 01:23:11,570
We're going to hit it real hard.

984
01:23:11,990 --> 01:23:12,410
All right.

985
01:23:12,490 --> 01:23:12,850
Thanks, Jim.