[4:53] 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.

[5:07] And we are happy to have with us today, our friends from MISD Board of Trustees, Madam President.

[5:15] Yes. Thank you, Mayor. At this time I call the meeting to order for Mansfield ISD and the time is now 630.

[5:25] Let us come to order for our joint Mansfield City Council in my SD board meeting.

[5:30] In terms of roll call, all trustees are present with the exception of Courtney Lackey Wilson.

[5:36] She had a previously scheduled work obligation.

[5:41] And in regard to the city side, all the present, but Councilman Larry Brosh, and we will

[5:48] proceed.

[5:49] We will have our invocation by Mr. Todd Simmons.

[5:52] We'll have our pledge of allegiance.

[5:54] My Mr. Juan Frisquez.

[5:55] We'll have our Texas pledge by Trustee Anna Horne.

[6:00] And we will ask all to please stand at this time.

[6:06] Prayer then the pledge.

[6:10] Thank you for an opportunity to come together, this joint meeting between the ISD and the City Council

[6:17] Lord.

[6:18] Just ask that you be with all the elected folks that are here in their families, but be also

[6:24] with our staff members, folks at work hard, every single day Lord.

[6:29] Just trying to provide the best we can for the citizens of Mansfield and the kids and the parents

[6:36] in our school district Lord.

[6:38] We just thank you for giving us a great place to live, and work, and we just ask special blessing

[6:45] on all this violence that's happened this week, especially for the mayor, and his family

[6:52] and their loss, and just again, thank you for all that you've done for us and continue to give

[6:57] us wisdom and discernment as we do the best we can for the folks who live here in our area.

[7:02] Purned your Holy Pursus name, Lord amen.

[7:07] I pledge allegiance to the flag,

[7:10] the United States of America,

[7:12] and to the Republic for which it stands,

[7:15] one nation under God,

[7:17] indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

[7:21] On the touch of the flag,

[7:23] I pledge allegiance to the United States,

[7:26] one state under God,

[7:27] one, and indivisible.

[7:29] Thank you.

[7:35] All right, Madam President, this time,

[7:36] 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

[7:48] 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

[7:54] All the board is we're not able to do so this will be your only opportunity to

[8:00] Speak this time now after the close of the citizen comments portion of the meeting

[8:05] Only comments related to public hearings will be heard after that.

[8:09] All comments are limited to three minutes this time.

[8:13] And I do have to have two cards.

[8:17] I will call Ms. Lee Ann Tiffing and ask Ms. Tiffing if you would

[8:22] come and state your name address and you have three minutes, man.

[8:27] Thank you, Mayor. My name is Lee Ann Tiffing.

[8:29] in my address is 1021, Pueblo Beach drop, Mansville, Texas, 76063.

[8:36] So I'm in the business of construction and I do high-end all sorts of projects for that are

[8:44] storm-related, unfortunately, storm-related. So I'm in metropolitan areas,

[8:49] been in St. Louis for two weeks, and also go to small areas. I wanted to kind of this meeting

[8:55] because of the M.S.D. and O.S.S. City.

[8:59] On May 6, I drove into a small town in Texas

[9:02] and water rescue recovery was underway

[9:04] for a 10-year-old by the name of Deva.

[9:07] Deva was leaving school to walk home

[9:11] and she didn't make it home to her earthly parents,

[9:14] but she made it home to her Heavenly Father Jesus Christ.

[9:17] I was going down there for a storm that hit the area.

[9:22] There was the emergency preparedness.

[9:24] Yes, it was a small town.

[9:26] Yes, they could have had this or whatever.

[9:27] We live in Mansville, Texas.

[9:30] We live in an area to where we can do better, I believe.

[9:35] Back up to March, my husband and I have had a good relationship

[9:40] with Mr. Councilman Todd's Nory.

[9:43] And we respect him and we reach out to him.

[9:45] And we said, hey, these are some ideas.

[9:48] What do we have?

[9:49] We've lived here since, I think, 2000.

[9:51] and we've seen things with emergency preparedness

[9:53] and just have some questions.

[9:55] And he said, hey, let's get a meeting with Mayor Evans

[9:59] and let's see what we can do.

[10:00] And so he kindly organized a meeting of Mahasmin

[10:04] and Mahasal and some school board employees,

[10:09] city employees, and emergency employees, and so forth.

[10:15] And a lot of us just didn't know

[10:16] is about education and that not every child has a cell phone.

[10:21] Texas messages just don't always work.

[10:23] I grew up in Oakland and also in Emerald Texas.

[10:26] And both of those areas, the school district,

[10:29] they taught us to listen and what to know to get

[10:33] where when weather was coming.

[10:34] It was taught to us in the schools.

[10:37] So that's why I wanted to say the school board.

[10:40] Thank you for all the school members, which I'll do.

[10:43] I had no idea what sacrifices are made

[10:45] until my husband ran and so I think you all

[10:48] for everything you do.

[10:50] 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.

[11:06] 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.

[11:18] 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.

[11:35] Okay, they're doing a great job.

[11:37] Thank you.

[11:38] Thank you for coming.

[11:38] Thank you.

[11:39] Thank you so much.

[11:42] All right.

[11:44] Ms. Saida Saeed, if you have come to your name and address, and you may have three minutes.

[11:52] Good evening, Mayor Cancel, Dr. Reed, and School Board Trustees. My name is Saida Saeed.

[11:59] And my address is 67, 05, Sapphire, Circle, North, Colleable, Texas, 76034.

[12:06] I'm here because I am one of the dead board of directors candidate as all you know

[12:13] The nomination period is right now until October 14 since the January of 2025

[12:20] I have represented

[12:23] Cities like Colleville, Crowley, Benbroke, Haltum City, Richland Hills

[12:28] grapevine, Haslett, Isle, Lakeside, White settlement

[12:32] Grand Prairie, Fort IISD, Arlington IISD, and Everman IISD, in all the tab meetings and

[12:40] tab entities meeting.

[12:42] I would like to mention that all tab entity meetings are closed door meetings.

[12:48] And you are the only city and school district combined.

[12:53] Your representative were present in each and every entity meetings.

[12:57] So that's the only school district in person meeting and I'm the candidate running who has a

[13:07] appraisal review board experience only the one currently not a single that board member has that experience since July of 2024

[13:17] 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,

[13:34] the equal and uniform appraisals, not only that, but equal and uniform treatment to all entities

[13:44] and the taxpayer. That is very important. The accuracy and integrity of tax rule is my first priority.

[13:54] Cities like Mansfield, currently they have 82 votes. That is 4.1% stake on that vote.

[14:01] Oh, no, sorry, that's Mansfield ISD has 82 votes, city of Mansfield has 24 votes, that's

[14:10] 1.2% but combined you have 106 votes, the good thing is no one has enough votes to give

[14:19] all the votes to one candidate and grab a seat on that vote, even city of forward doesn't

[14:27] have that stake this time. Another good thing, you do not have five percent stake. So, you

[14:35] can vote between late October, until December 14, as many times as you want, if you put

[14:45] it on a agenda, since last year, World Will ISD voted very last minute again and change their

[14:53] So, probably you will have 10 times, you can vote.

[15:00] And if you want to change vote, you can change last minute. And I would say whoever is running for that

[15:06] would, please do that. Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

[15:09] Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

[15:11] Thank you very much.

[15:13] Thank you. All right. This time, we have announcements. Madam President, are there any trustee announcements?

[15:24] Mayor, they are not trustee announcements at this time.

[15:26] All right. In regard to the council, Ms. Bounds.

[15:30] I'll write Mr. Nore, none for me, Mayor. Mr. Simmons, none for me, Mayor.

[15:37] Mr. Fescais, none for me, Mayor. All right, Mr. Newsom.

[15:41] All right, and none from here. All right, Madam President.

[15:46] I will share the agenda with you, Madam.

[15:53] This evening, trustees, we do not have any public comments, so we can proceed to the discussion.

[15:59] All right, and that discussion will be update on the developments

[16:02] paying to the land swap, turn it over now to staff in that regard.

[16:16] Good evening council and Board of Trustees, Matt Jones, Assistant City Manager, City

[16:20] Mansfield, prepared a brief presentation for you all tonight just to go over a little

[16:25] bit of the background on the project, guide comments, a little bit of the history and then

[16:31] give you an update on some of the construction efforts being done out there and then also

[16:35] provide a timeline. So if we can, maybe get that presentation pulled up shortly.

[16:42] But just jumping in, measure where we did the land swap back in late 2023.

[16:48] It was a collaborative effort between the border trustees and the city council.

[16:53] Working with staff to really accommodate two growing organizations keeping up with growth

[16:59] and not just the city but also the ISD itself.

[17:03] and so working together to come up with a plan that really benefited both organizations as well as

[17:09] the taxpayers. So between those two efforts of the two boards is ready, get it switched?

[17:20] Well, this is not me. If you'll pardon me, I'm going to go through some slides here and pardon

[17:26] if I'm stepping on any toes, but I am not going to cover your taxes.

[17:31] Here we go.

[17:33] All right, I love the love of there.

[17:35] Okay, so again, out growing our current spaces, collaborative effort with the board of trustees and

[17:41] city council and really come into a common sense or practical exchange, making the both of making

[17:47] the most of the properties already owned by both the city and the ISD.

[17:52] So, Gaire Commons, it's a public park, but it's more than that, it's an incubator space,

[17:56] So to help economic development, help entrepreneurs here in the city, grow their business, start roots here and then hopefully move on to

[18:05] larger efforts, so within the city itself.

[18:07] It's got a lot of civic space, open lawns, splash pad, public restrooms, and probably the most noticeable

[18:15] 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.

[18:23] So we drew inspiration from several projects, not just locally and regionally, but also nationally.

[18:29] 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.

[18:37] And in continuing that effort to provide those great remarkable experiences for not just our residents, but our visitors like.

[18:44] 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.

[18:58] 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.

[19:08] Improving quality of life and keeping that kind of small town charm

[19:12] They're in downtown Mansfield and again trying to continue to build upon

[19:17] Several key projects within the city that really bring a uniqueness to the city of Mansfield and help form our identity as a community

[19:26] So go through a few renderings

[19:28] You can see that on the left. This is phase one A

[19:31] 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

[19:39] And then you'll see the picture on your right side of the screen, so that's a project update.

[19:45] As with any construction project, the moment we take the picture, it's a little outdated.

[19:50] So you might even see some changes out there.

[19:52] I know a lot of you drive that on a daily basis.

[19:55] But really just trying to hold true to the vision that was set at the community level

[20:00] and deliver just a really remarkable project.

[20:03] So here you can see, again, the splash pad and some of the pavilion areas and the open spaces.

[20:07] 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.

[20:22] 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.

[20:30] Once phase one A, one B, and then phase two, come along.

[20:35] This will act as a great view corridor for the Mansfield High School as well.

[20:40] Here's just kind of another one of the green spaces open spaces and then the cottage market.

[20:45] So these will be rented out at least to different individuals.

[20:50] You can see kind of the finish out on there.

[20:52] They will be air conditions, so you can enjoy them even in the Texas heat.

[20:56] And then they all will also have a few other amenities to serve the tenants as well.

[21:01] There will be 12 cottages, 11 of those, or currently going to be made available.

[21:07] 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.

[21:16] We are going to look at having up to 12 vendors initially.

[21:20] But you can see here that we initially received this over 60 or 69 vendor application.

[21:26] So really just an incredible opportunity and just a lot of interest in coming and being a part of that market.

[21:34] They will be open or the park will be open daily from 5 to 9 as you can see.

[21:39] And then the required hours for the cottage market will be Friday and Saturday and Sunday.

[21:44] Now, vendors will be allowed to be open, past those initial hours, but in terms of making sure

[21:51] that they're operating, and making that space available and activating that space, that

[21:56] will be a mandatory Friday Saturn Sunday with the operating hours as you can see there.

[22:04] This is a phase one B. So, after the initial phase one A, these are some historic structures

[22:10] that will be reconstructed on the site, as well as, so it will be five total, total structures

[22:17] there.

[22:18] You can see the Cumberland Church, Julian Field House.

[22:22] We had the manhouse that was already done over at the Dog Park, so I wanted to honor Mr.

[22:28] Julian Field in the same way that Mr. Man was honored, and so we'll be rededicating that

[22:33] here at Garacomans as well.

[22:35] We had the Wallace Hall House, the Mansfield Coate College, and then Citizens Bank.

[22:40] Citizens Bank was actually over in the Old Town of Britain, a funny story or fun fact about

[22:46] that.

[22:47] Why it's unique to Mansfield, it's believed to be one of the only banks that was not robbed

[22:51] by Bonnie and Clyde, because they like to frequent an ice cream parlor across the street.

[22:57] So they didn't want to be recognized while getting ice cream and whatever they did in their

[23:01] day job.

[23:02] So we're going to be bringing that back to Man's field.

[23:05] There are other comments as well.

[23:06] So we're excited about that.

[23:09] Phase two, just a brief overview.

[23:11] You can see there on the right hand side.

[23:13] We'll be having a Wifelball field, additional green spaces

[23:16] for community gatherings or just to have different activities.

[23:21] And we'll also be improving the existing parking lot.

[23:24] You can see here from the drawing moving from broad street

[23:27] to the north or to the top of the screen

[23:30] When the complete city hall is done in the administration staff for the ISD is able to relocate here.

[23:38] 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.

[23:47] So, very excited about that.

[23:49] And again, just creating a gathering space for all residents in the community alike.

[23:54] And just briefly, the project timeline, so we kicked off design for phase 1A and April of 2024.

[24:01] And that commenced and followed or ended in fall of 2024.

[24:06] Construction on the site began in December of 2024 and we're hoping to wrap that up this fall.

[24:12] With a grand opening scheduled right now for December of 2025.

[24:17] So we're getting really close to having that phase 1A open and we're really looking forward to delivering on that project.

[24:23] Phase one, B, or the historic homes, so we're under design currently.

[24:28] I'm hoping to wrap that up again this fall, and then pending a project to move forward

[24:34] for construction and bidding and funding will kind of a date to be determined on when

[24:40] those are complete. Again, with Phase two, that's all predicated on us moving to a new city

[24:46] and ISD administrative staff moving to this current facility, and so that will also be a

[24:54] two-be determined date sometime after 2027. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions

[25:01] you may have. All right. I ask our trustees, Madam President. Any questions?

[25:09] Yes, trustees, do you have any questions for Mr. Matt Jones from the City of Mansfield?

[25:14] You know, just these to my left,

[25:19] just these to my right?

[25:22] No questions.

[25:23] Thank you so much for your presentation.

[25:25] All right.

[25:26] Thank you very much, sir.

[25:30] Sure.

[25:33] Go ahead, Ms. Simp.

[25:35] Have we made any progress on whittling down

[25:37] that those 69 applications for 12, 11 colleges?

[25:43] Yes, we absolutely have.

[25:44] We've had a couple committee meetings,

[25:46] which Councilwoman Downs has been a member of that,

[25:49] your board representative. One, actually just this morning, to whittle that down, I've

[25:54] lived, went from 69 applications down to 20, and then making a short list to 12, which

[26:01] I believe it's 6 or 7, or so, or Mansfield residents, but I will, I will turn it over to

[26:07] Councilwoman Downs, and I'm sure she can provide you an update as well.

[26:10] Please speak to that Ms. Bound?

[26:11] Yes, we did have a meeting today, and so, it is my understanding.

[26:18] Per the applicants that we've had 24 out of 68 of the applicants were man's

[26:25] field residents. So 35% of those that applied were man's field

[26:31] applicants. We have gone through some of the applicants and today we had the

[26:37] pleasure of setting, I mean we were so serious about this we sampled popcorn today.

[26:44] 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

[27:04] And, you know, as far as the business is in there.

[27:08] And then we also discuss the incubator spaces

[27:11] and what those cottages, a percentage of those cottages

[27:15] would be and worked with the MEDC as well

[27:18] to take on some responsibilities for some education

[27:23] and some areas with that.

[27:26] So we gave some more feedback and gave Sarah some more stuff

[27:30] to do today.

[27:31] and so we should have that all narrowed down in the next week or so of who the 11 are and it's

[27:43] going to be awesome. It's really going to be really awesome and diversified big time. So very positive

[27:50] meetings and one more to go and y'all will all know about it. And then just one more. Once the

[27:58] for Wallfield plan to be done?

[28:00] Yeah, so that's in phase two.

[28:04] So that'll be after City Hall is completed,

[28:08] and then administration staff

[28:09] for that is to relocate to City Hall or this current building.

[28:12] So we're all here, I'm just going to put it out there.

[28:15] Can we challenge this?

[28:18] You know, I think that should happen,

[28:21] but to be honest with you, I'm a little bothered

[28:23] because Tamad didn't bring us any popcorn.

[28:25] I mean, council will not bounce.

[28:27] They didn't want to know if I wanted to bring popcorn and I said no, just because it'll take us on.

[28:35] I don't know.

[28:36] Okay, well you didn't ask us.

[28:37] But okay.

[28:37] Thank you very much.

[28:39] All right.

[28:40] All right.

[28:41] Thank you.

[28:42] Any further questions in this regard?

[28:43] Because we do have another presentation.

[28:45] Yeah, Mayor.

[28:45] Real quick.

[28:46] Speak to the least term.

[28:50] No.

[28:50] So our citizens understand that all those 11 will be chosen.

[28:55] And that's only a two-year-laced correct?

[28:59] Up to two years, the terms will be six months essentially, but then up to two years and

[29:06] re-evaluated that point.

[29:10] Matt, let me add so for those that are watching that there was a very objective data on a point

[29:18] system for some of these that applied to even be scored.

[29:24] 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.

[29:42] So very objective data for that.

[29:50] All right, any others? All right, my left. Good. All right. And president. Yes, sir.

[30:00] 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?

[30:12] Okay, we have one more. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Matt. I'm sorry.

[30:15] Mayor, I'll be brief. Just want to bring everybody to speed on the batted ball.

[30:21] And then I believe Deputy City Manager Troy Miss Listina has a brief update for you as well.

[30:26] So quickly, just bringing up to speed.

[30:31] So we did commence our infrastructure.

[30:33] So the horizontal infrastructure for the city hall

[30:37] made 2025 and the vertical construction

[30:40] followed just shortly behind that in June of 2025

[30:43] is when we kicked off that vertical construction.

[30:46] So as we sit today, we are looking for completion

[30:50] and the new city hall to be completely operational.

[30:53] So, sometime early spring of 2027, so that's when we would be making the move over to the

[31:00] canals at the reserve for the new city hall, and I just have a couple of images here,

[31:06] so you can see the new building, it's a brick building and cast stone, it's kind of a throw

[31:11] back to the old county courthouse style, so it's a very beautiful building that will front

[31:16] on a civic plaza or town plaza out there, and then have some additional development around

[31:21] 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

[31:28] 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

[31:36] 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

[31:44] Not only for our residents, but for our staff as well and we're certainly

[31:48] excited to make the move over there in spring of 2027.

[31:52] And with that mayor, I can take any questions on the city hall as well.

[31:56] All right.

[31:57] All right.

[31:58] We'll start with our trustees if you all have any questions.

[32:03] All right.

[32:05] Council.

[32:08] Okay.

[32:09] Thank you, sir.

[32:18] Madam President, mayer,

[32:19] following the agenda if we'd like to jump back to the ISD's presentation on the

[32:27] And then I'm sure the strong guard in myself can come and and be the closers today.

[32:32] Let's do that. Okay, we'll back up here. We'll turn it back over and apologize for the

[32:39] Slide deck.

[32:40] We have trustees and the batter's box there. We don't want it.

[32:44] There we go.

[32:48] Thank you Mr. Mason.

[32:54] Good evening.

[32:55] Mayor Evans, Board President Dr. Reed, ladies and gentlemen of the City Council in board.

[33:01] Again, my name is Cameron Mason.

[33:03] I'm the Assistant Bond Program Manager in Mansfield, I see I've been given this opportunity

[33:07] my boss as in Scotland.

[33:09] So I've been given this opportunity to speak before you tonight and give you just a high

[33:13] level overview of specifically the new campuses.

[33:16] But just to give you an update that, you know, we have 13 projects that are currently

[33:20] under construction from a capital improvements and addition renovation standpoint.

[33:25] Middle schools getting, getting additions and renovations.

[33:28] All five high schools getting turf projects, all of which are have started, started construction,

[33:32] started moving dirt, and then also Ben Barber, Frontier High School and the Phoenix Academy,

[33:38] all of which getting shelters to make our kids safer and additions and renovations.

[33:44] But the new construction projects specifically tying into the land trade or the land swap,

[33:51] and speaking to both the Safety Operations Center and the Early Learning Academy 2.0.

[33:56] So, the Safety Operations Center from a schedule standpoint, we are in construction, as you may

[34:04] or may not have noticed, about 200 feet that way.

[34:08] There is venting up.

[34:09] There is a job trailer in place, and we are getting going.

[34:14] So, while the schedule overview that we're showing here is predominantly past tense.

[34:20] How we got through our design phase, our pre-construction services, our bid phase, now we

[34:25] ramping up construction and we're going to get going. We're going to get going hard. The overall

[34:30] construction timeline on this is just under just right around 12 months and so we're looking

[34:36] for substantial completion in August of 26. While the fencing is up in the trailer is in place,

[34:44] we're actually doing a official round breaking week from today. Open invitation to everyone to

[34:51] these join us. We're looking forward to that. We always like kind of examples are showing

[34:58] off the growth and the development that's happening here. From an estimated budget standpoint,

[35:06] the total project budget is not just the district budget, but actually the inclusive budget

[35:11] that has the architectural fees, the permit, the soft cost, the FF&E. All of all of that's included

[35:17] in that total budget of about 31.31 million dollars.

[35:22] But the GMP, the gross, it's made the guaranteed maximum price.

[35:26] That was awarded in the June board meeting at about 25 million in change.

[35:34] So as I mentioned, right behind us is where this is going on.

[35:38] You can see by the footprint it's going to fit very nicely behind the size and the footprint

[35:43] of City Hall of this building, from a circulation standpoint, we're bringing in an addition to

[35:52] the drive on the south and creating a loop all the way through the property and to the west,

[35:57] on the south and the west. That'll be an access easement for traffic from the Mac and over

[36:05] and through. That'll also serve as the fire lane. That's going to be the first thing to go

[36:16] That's going to help relieve some of that.

[36:17] That's going to be the construction traffic predominantly coming on that south side.

[36:22] We've already relocated the two trash dumpsters that were there serving the Mac.

[36:27] And so those are out of the way.

[36:29] And that drive is going to be the first thing that the contractor puts in place.

[36:33] One from afar goes to standpoint that we need it.

[36:35] But two also maintaining that circulation.

[36:37] So we're going to stay as much away from from from from broad as far as an access

[36:43] easement or to me as far as an access as we can.

[36:46] So using with Syria using that back drive along the rail track is going to be really our goal.

[36:52] As you can see we have a

[36:55] On the east side of the property adjacent to where the park is or where the park will be

[37:01] We have our Sally Port and our access access through there.

[37:06] That's all fenced off and that's going to have private some private parking for staff and the police officers.

[37:13] While the public parking will just be a continuation of the parking that's on the west side of the campus.

[37:20] 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.

[37:31] 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.

[37:46] While colorful, this plan is pretty straightforward. Everything in there is safety operations related.

[37:53] So whether it's the safety and security team, predominantly shown off by the kind of a teal,

[37:59] the darker teal color, or the police department functions with the yellow, where the offices

[38:05] are, the purple, being a training and support spaces, and then the kind of salmon color would

[38:13] be the Sally Court and holding spaces.

[38:17] There is a training function in the kind of line green area, and that can be utilized through

[38:25] not just the police department and not just safety and security, but whether it's the

[38:31] district or other people as well.

[38:36] So from a design standpoint, Huckabee was the architect and they did a phenomenal job really

[38:40] tying in the design with this new facility to the current city hall, bringing in the same

[38:48] materiality, the same brick, the same cast stone, bringing a little bit more contemporary

[38:55] feel to it, a little more technological, as the spaces would seem fit. But in general, the

[39:04] colon aid, a little bit more glass, but again, you can see in the rendering on the right,

[39:09] how it ties together, and it's really going to be very seamless as we proceed.

[39:16] So, the early learners Academy 2.0, this one as well, for the most part, we are through

[39:25] the design and pre-construction and did phases.

[39:30] We are a little bit behind on this, and I'll show you when we get to the site plan.

[39:35] We did have some complications, as it pertains, there's a drainage ditch running through the

[39:39] site, and we really wanted to make sure that we managed that watershed appropriately, and so

[39:43] working with the city and working with your engineering department,

[39:46] really trying to make sure that we did that correctly.

[39:49] So that's taken a little bit longer than anticipated.

[39:51] So while originally we had wanted to open this mid-year of

[39:56] of 2027 in January of 2027, we're probably not going to be substantially

[39:59] complete until later in that spring, it actually works out well,

[40:04] because that's going to give the teachers, that's going to give the

[40:06] administrators a better opportunity to become familiar with

[40:09] spaces and really be prepared when the kids come into play that fall. Also it doesn't mean

[40:15] moving kids mid-year from other campuses to the new campus. So substantial completion,

[40:22] we can mention April May of 2027. Again, the total estimated project budget,

[40:29] inclusive of all the soft costs and costs and fees, have had any, is about 57 million

[40:35] with a guaranteed maximum price going to the board, a week from tomorrow, at about $50 million

[40:43] in change.

[40:48] So, like I mentioned, from the other campuses, both from a design standpoint,

[40:56] from a final completion standpoint, as well as from a construction standpoint, the first thing

[41:01] to go into this site, we back up. This location is on the corner of Reda and Broad. So, where

[41:08] 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.

[41:14] So that's where this is all happening.

[41:18] So from a traffic circulation from the construction standpoint and from the final solution,

[41:26] we're looking at enter ingress off a broad and probable egress on to redda.

[41:33] That's going to be important in a couple of ways.

[41:36] One, it's going to let the traffic, when it's in a slowdown capacity,

[41:41] coming in off a broad rather than jamming up the retto,

[41:45] which is already getting filled with the developments that are happening up there.

[41:51] But then the egress will be happening more during the day,

[41:55] and instead of during the high hours of drop-off and pickup.

[42:00] So, the color schemes here that you can see, the orange splitting off to the red and green

[42:07] are showing the two different loops that are intended for the for the for the parent drop-off.

[42:13] Currently at Jan Drucco we have a single drop-off point and you really have a bottleneck.

[42:20] This is going to increase the population.

[42:22] This is a larger campus and so we wanted to go ahead and split that out and make it where you

[42:27] can have two different loops, and then the blue lane or the blue line would be all of the

[42:33] egress for those parent drop-offs. The north lane that's not colored would be the bus and

[42:43] the functional lane for receiving and drop-offs as well as that north parking lot would be

[42:48] for the daycare, which they would utilize that as well.

[42:55] So, as I mentioned, you know, obviously, Jan's Rucco is a facility that was one of

[43:03] a kind when it was done, and numerous places, not just in Texas, but nationally and

[43:09] probably globally have taken that template and ran with it.

[43:16] In doing so, the staff and administration have an opportunity to go and see what people took

[43:22] from the original Jandruco and really develop off of it.

[43:25] One of the largest items that you can see here

[43:28] is the central courtyard and playground.

[43:32] So internalized in the space so you're completely secure

[43:35] from the outside.

[43:38] You have a very large centralized playground space.

[43:41] And that's going to be a huge element.

[43:44] We've seen it on some other campuses

[43:45] and it's just a great design.

[43:48] It's a great idea just having that security,

[43:51] you, but also having just a great internal space.

[43:54] The overall design, while taken from the original

[43:58] Djindrucco, you can see it's a very different layout,

[44:01] but it still has the four pods, each pod having four

[44:05] experiences, the way that we've increased this is by also

[44:09] adding on some partner classrooms.

[44:11] That's going to help facilitate the experiences in a different

[44:16] learning capacity.

[44:17] So the population is going to increase by nearly

[44:20] double with those with that functionality. Other than that, this also will have a shelter at

[44:26] just north of the playground in courtyard space in the activity area. The purple is the

[44:31] daycare, it's very similar to what we did at Jandruku.

[44:37] And then the renderings, you know,

[44:40] similar to what was Jones said, you know, from a materiality standpoint, you want to maintain

[44:46] the thoughtfulness that we have here in Mansfield, so while there is brick masonry, there's

[44:52] a fibrous mental panel that is both in a wood aesthetic to kind of bring warmth to the space,

[44:58] but also something cl-

[45:00] If also there's also utilizing some panel that has the color to bring playfulness to show that

[45:05] this is an early learner academy rather than something that's a little higher higher age and

[45:10] a little bit more technological and straightforward. But in the bottom right-hand corner, for those

[45:16] of you that have been to Jandruku and I would imagine it's a lot of you. You can see that

[45:21] that classroom space is very similar to what Jandruku has developed and has made so

[45:29] So, amazing and popular for the students,

[45:33] so, very much the field of Jandrugo with a lot of updates.

[45:41] And that's what I had for you. Any questions?

[45:46] Thank you so much, Mr. Mason, for that presentation.

[45:49] We want to thank you and your team for all of our work and courses to broaden in this absence.

[45:55] Do we have any questions, trustees, to my left?

[46:01] Trust these to my right?

[46:05] Council.

[46:09] It's amazing.

[46:10] It's all I can say.

[46:13] Outstanding.

[46:14] Outstanding.

[46:16] Yeah.

[46:16] The community should be proud of that.

[46:19] Mayor, may I have an opportunity?

[46:20] I'd like to allow Dr. Cantu to say something about the Lanswap or something we do appreciate.

[46:27] The Lanswap and all that you all live all for us.

[46:30] We're going to use it very well because we are growing.

[46:33] So, Dr. Cance, would you like to say anything in reference to the landswap or what the city?

[46:42] I would just, the only thing I would add is it's just been a fantastic part, well that is really loud.

[46:47] 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,

[46:55] right and expand and have our people not on top of each other, right, which is, which is going to be amazing

[46:59] and how it's pairing Somasu with Under Safety Center.

[47:02] So we just want to say thank you for partnering with us.

[47:04] We appreciate it.

[47:07] Thank you for allowing us to rent a space.

[47:14] All right.

[47:14] In regard to the other presentations that we would have this time,

[47:20] you'll may come and set order.

[47:31] He just wants to take the mannequin.

[47:35] Thanks, Matt.

[47:37] Jones, Mr. Matt Jones.

[47:39] I would have gladly traded presentations with you.

[47:42] Here's a little more exciting.

[47:46] Okay.

[47:47] So Mayor Evans, Dr. Benina Reed, President Reed,

[47:52] and Board of Trustees, Dr. Kintu City Council.

[47:55] Thank y'all for having us here tonight.

[47:57] That does actually say Mansfield, ISD on it,

[48:01] but for some reason, the print didn't come out.

[48:03] So this is Mansfield, ISD.

[48:05] talking about the Terran County appraisal district and targeting really the repraisal plan and

[48:10] what's, how does it affect us? It affects us three different ways. Stayed aid, maximum

[48:17] could press, tax rate, and debt service. And it's talking to Mr. Ladez and we were saying how they're

[48:24] very different from the school district to cities and municipalities. So mine might be a little bit

[48:35] 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.

[49:00] They take that bucket of money and that comes in from the taxpayers and then they say,

[49:05] okay, this is how much the state aid should come. They're going to write a check and there's a

[49:09] line drawn there that's the entitlement. So this is how some districts might be very rich and some

[49:15] may be poor. Thank Highland Park, you know, that's the rich. That's what they call the recapture

[49:20] districts and they send money back to the state. So then back in the day they said, well, it's not

[49:26] If they have a very high property value in school district will then they came out with this school district property value study.

[49:34] And the purpose of that was to distribute state funding equitable.

[49:38] 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.

[49:49] Our appraisal district certified values come out July 25th, but then the

[49:54] Comptroller's property value study preliminary values come out in January, the

[49:59] following January. So when we're adopting our budgets, we don't even really

[50:03] know for sure that total state aid payment until January comes around. So then

[50:08] the Comptroller context study on school district's total property value and it's

[50:13] their job to kind of ensure that the state legislative budget is intact with

[50:18] what the appraisals districts are doing.

[50:21] So that way, they're supposed to be at market value.

[50:24] So this property plan here, or the property value study,

[50:29] it says it just the local appraisal values to market value.

[50:32] But if they fall, if they go below that acceptable range,

[50:36] there's a range in there,

[50:38] won't get into the technicalities.

[50:40] They're certified, otherwise the state values are used,

[50:44] unless a grace period applies.

[50:46] So they do allow grace period for one

[50:47] two years. This reprisal plan is actually for three years in

[50:52] Tert County because they had a buy in 2026 and Johnson County as well as

[50:58] as also three years. An invalid founding doesn't affect your local

[51:02] property taxes, which means whatever we collect from the

[51:06] praisal districts numbers, it's not going to affect that, but it's based on the

[51:11] local appraisals. So let's go and see, here's an example. This is an equity

[51:16] issue with the state funding. district day has a praise values, it's 75% of market value.

[51:23] Last is school district taxable property value, gives you more state funding,

[51:28] meaning they're bringing in less property taxes. On district B, you got 100% of your praise values

[51:35] at market value, meaning your, your bucket's full. You're going to get less state funding

[51:39] because you get more from your state, but there's that line drawn. There's your line and that's

[51:44] how the two buckets look, right?

[51:46] So the one on the left, they actually have district A on the right

[51:50] and district B on the left, but this is how it's calculated.

[51:54] So there's, therefore, it's an equitable system.

[51:58] All right, then what happens if the funding fails

[52:01] a school district property value study?

[52:03] Well, it uses certified property value from the controllers

[52:07] district property value study to determine the local share.

[52:11] And it's responsible for appraising the appraisal district, so responsible for appraising

[52:16] that value of the property in the county, county, rich-eats taxing unit is, but it's school districts

[52:22] that are collected on this appraisal district's assessment regardless of whether state values

[52:27] are substituted.

[52:28] So, bottom line is that last buck button there, last bullet talks about when the local values

[52:34] are invalid, meaning they're not within the range, and the state values are substituted

[52:40] for local values, then we collect taxes on local values

[52:43] that receive less state funding based on,

[52:46] it goes on a versus higher state base,

[52:49] because the state comp trailers values

[52:51] are at a higher rate based on market value

[52:54] with the reappraisal plan.

[52:56] Okay, so this is what happens when you fail,

[53:01] and you get out and you're out of grace,

[53:03] and they say, okay, we gotta use the comp trailers values

[53:06] because that's what we're told to do.

[53:08] And there's a gap there, so where you get your local values, both sides are there, but then you see that gap.

[53:15] The revenue shortfall, this state doesn't make up for it because it only goes by the higher number.

[53:21] But the school district is not collecting that higher number taxes, right? That's the problem.

[53:27] So what options do we have?

[53:29] So they have limited ability to affect the price of process, and we can do and appeal those values, which we do.

[53:38] 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.

[53:46] 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.

[53:57] So, we're going to talk a little bit about elections, and then, and then notes to the

[54:01] Pricle districts, basically they're going to say, look, we're going to take a look at

[54:05] your chief of priser if it's going to be out of whack, right?

[54:10] Here is a visualization of how the process works.

[54:18] There's the local Pricle district in the middle, and the local values go both sides, the

[54:22] of District on the left or you're right, left, and then the

[54:27] Controllers go to the right, and then the taxes are collected on the

[54:32] left that go to the ISDs, but then the state aid is calculated through TEA

[54:36] through their funding. That's basically how it works. And a mock property value

[54:43] study estimated ratios. This is that range where I said, I said I didn't give

[54:47] you the number, but there's a range in here that says really 95 to

[54:52] out of about a hundred hundred five is good, these districts, this was just shared at the

[54:59] parent, a prison district meeting in July 10th of a mock, like this is what they think

[55:04] could happen. And a lot of those districts that, why are they not saying a lot? You're looking

[55:11] at Greyvine Coliville, you're looking at some of those, what's that, Carolized D, all those

[55:18] are really, really low or out of whack.

[55:20] The reason they're really not speaking a lot on that

[55:23] is because they recapture districts.

[55:25] And if you're recapture district,

[55:27] then it's a different scenario.

[55:28] It doesn't penalize them as much.

[55:31] So therefore, that's why we're 95.

[55:34] I was glad to see that in July, we're 0.95,

[55:37] but I don't know what's going to be in year three.

[55:40] So this was an example.

[55:42] And I used this.

[55:43] This was the one that I said, this could happen.

[55:46] 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.

[56:01] Next one is the maximum compressed tax rate.

[56:04] That is the maintenance and operation tax rate.

[56:07] A district must levied to receive it.

[56:09] We call it full tier one allotment and state funding.

[56:13] This rate is set by the state.

[56:16] People think, wow, school districts have all this ability to lower the tax rate, do these things.

[56:22] This rate is set by the state based on a district property values and it helps to stabilize the state budget.

[56:29] If they would go lower, then the state has to pick up more, but they made this box.

[56:36] The floor and the ceiling said districts have to stay within this box so that our budget doesn't get out of whack.

[56:43] All right, so that's why they have a limit there, and why they set it.

[56:48] 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.

[57:00] 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.

[57:11] In November, on the 140K Homestay exemption, and the over 65 disabled exemption to 60K.

[57:18] It showed that Tarant County went down 4.14%, Johnson due to new construction, basically,

[57:25] is 6.43% higher, and then overall was a 3% decrease overall.

[57:31] In the bottom section, it shows you where the changes were really made.

[57:35] This shows you where the flat reappraisal plan took place, and it's a 13% decrease from

[57:41] 2024 to 2025. 12% of that is really homestead exemptions. So those values are included in that.

[57:52] And then when we do our tax strike that we send it taxes education agency, this is to give them that

[57:57] calculation to do our first tier one. And that's the number that goes right there is our chief of

[58:03] that the user's certified taxable values.

[58:06] That's where it shows the 3% decrease and it shows that the bottom how they get that maximum

[58:11] compressed tax rate calculation.

[58:14] Another thing that hits us is on the debt service side.

[58:18] Our bond capacity we went to our voters and said in May of 2024,

[58:22] hey, we're not going to raise the tax rate.

[58:24] We're not going to do anything.

[58:25] Based on a very conservative growth estimates in property values.

[58:29] But now we're like wait a minute.

[58:31] This might affect this.

[58:32] But because now you're going to have to face the bond capacity at 36 cents, and then if they

[58:39] lower the property values, there's very little state aid in the interest in sinking fund

[58:44] on the debt service side for mensual honesty. So with that, that's concern, we're okay, we feel

[58:52] better about it, but it is a concern. If other potential impacts is really the existing debt

[58:58] statement, instructional facilities,

[59:00] additional state aid for homestead exemption.

[59:03] They call it a saahi for facilities.

[59:05] And that's when homestead exemptions are

[59:07] getting approved.

[59:09] The state makes up the difference.

[59:11] Kind of like the property tax collections.

[59:13] We lose those collections.

[59:14] They may get the difference.

[59:15] That's called a saahi.

[59:17] So we lose out a little bit on that too.

[59:20] And that's it.

[59:21] Any questions?

[59:23] Good job.

[59:25] I know.

[59:32] All right. Any questions from the City Council side of the House? On the right side?

[59:39] Left. All right. Go ahead, Ms. Bounds.

[59:44] Could you go back to the slide that showed all the ones that were at risk or no risk or that

[59:49] were at grace this way out this one? What causes the at risk of no grace? It looks like there's

[59:56] 2 within that category.

[59:59] What that is.

[1:00:00] Actually, it causes that, and then there was one that is no grace.

[1:00:05] 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.

[1:00:12] I don't know the answer to that one.

[1:00:14] Okay, and then can you go to the one that shows the decreases in the property, it's on, well, no, right there.

[1:00:27] 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?

[1:00:47] Yes, ma'am, and this also includes new construction.

[1:00:50] So that is all the new construction, and then overall residential will be less.

[1:00:57] Correct, and this is Terrent County for Mansfield ISD, yeah. Okay, it's not just a say. Thank you.

[1:01:05] It's good.

[1:01:08] All right. Thank you. Great job. Thank you. Great job. Let's try and guard.

[1:01:13] Trustees to my left. Do you have any questions from Mr. Drungart?

[1:01:18] Yes, sir. Trustee Thomas.

[1:01:21] Mr. Drungart. Thank you for your wonderful presentation.

[1:01:24] It's had a quick question.

[1:01:26] And the last two years, the frequency of appraisals changed.

[1:01:36] It was changed by the elected tab board.

[1:01:39] What was it changed?

[1:01:41] What does that mean not only for the school district, but for the city, with the changes

[1:01:46] that they implemented?

[1:01:47] Sure, yes, Mr. Thomas.

[1:01:49] So they implemented it at this last, for this year, was our first year.

[1:01:54] the reappraisal plan for, it's supposed to be in a two-year plan.

[1:01:59] That was the vote.

[1:02:01] However, they made an exception for 2026.

[1:02:06] So it becomes a three-year plan.

[1:02:08] So just the first three years is reappraisals

[1:02:11] for residential, anti-rac County.

[1:02:15] And then it'll start going in every two years.

[1:02:19] And then Johnson County, same thing.

[1:02:21] that they did all three years, their first year,

[1:02:25] which they did it the same time.

[1:02:27] So does that mean they didn't re-assess values

[1:02:31] on homes for a three-year period?

[1:02:33] That's correct.

[1:02:34] Now we'll say you saw the increase

[1:02:36] for Johnson County.

[1:02:37] I didn't show their specific breakout,

[1:02:39] but that is due to the major construction going down there

[1:02:43] in South Point and through all down in that area.

[1:02:47] And it's overall impact on the ability to budget and everything else, what does that do for the district and the city?

[1:02:57] So really, as far as a budget standpoint for the district, we mainly do enrollment drives our budget.

[1:03:06] It used to be property values at a big play in that, as far as the maintenance and operations fund goes.

[1:03:12] the general fund day-to-day operations, so it's really revenue-neutral based on kind of what

[1:03:17] I showed you that funding equity box here, but on the debt service side, that does impact

[1:03:23] our ability to pay our bonds and principal and interests on that and to do what we call

[1:03:29] defeasants, pay it down like your mortgage, pay it down. So yeah, it could impact that.

[1:03:36] And just last question, how much do we have in bond debt right now, are we potentially issuing?

[1:03:44] So we are, we've done our final issuance of the last bit of the 588 and a half million dollar bond.

[1:03:52] It's coming.

[1:03:53] I think we have, we author the parameter to sell, so we're waiting on the rat time to do that.

[1:03:59] And that's about, it's another 388.5 million.

[1:04:03] So we run the risk of not being able to pay that back should value is not it possibly

[1:04:10] bad however that won't happen. I believe I believe it will not do such a great job

[1:04:15] to shake that. We have a good fun balance for that. All right great thank you.

[1:04:22] Trust me. Okay thank you so much Mr. Trongard for all of your work you and your team

[1:04:28] doing amazing job and explaining it all so that we understand it. Thank you so very much.

[1:04:33] Okay. All right. Mr. Lestin and regard to your presentation, if you would just have in mind

[1:04:43] as we kind of build the context as well, how does the change in regard to the appraisal from

[1:04:52] year one to every other year? How does that affect us as well? They don't think it'll be a good

[1:04:58] question for listeners and those who are in the audience.

[1:05:01] Yeah, we will definitely talk about that here right off the bat.

[1:05:07] So as Mr. Trunkard said, you know, there's the TAD plan, Johnson County is very similar to the TAD plan,

[1:05:18] freezing residential property values for the 2025 tax year, and it shifts the residential

[1:05:25] appraisals to every other year, there was a pause in that, and so it kind of took a pause

[1:05:30] there, and also imposes a 5% threshold on any increase.

[1:05:35] Now for the city, it specifically talks about market values, OK?

[1:05:44] What our values are based on are based on the praise values.

[1:05:49] So if you recall, you used to get that blue piece paper in the mail.

[1:05:53] Now, let's switch to it.

[1:05:54] It's a white piece of paper.

[1:05:55] It comes out in April of every year.

[1:05:58] and it tells you your market value, and it tells you your praise value, okay?

[1:06:02] Now we all want the market value when we sell our house, and we want the lowest possible value

[1:06:07] when the tax tax comes, right?

[1:06:09] We're all human. We all want that. I live in the city of Mansfield. I want the same thing.

[1:06:15] But at the end of the day, what that does is when the appraisals

[1:06:20] aren't growing the way the market value is, and we've seen tremendous growth in our market

[1:06:27] for the past several years because of the tremendous growth, not only in

[1:06:31] Mansville, but in the Metroplex as a whole, right? So we average

[1:06:36] residents about three to five thousand given in any given year increase in the

[1:06:44] population just of the city of Mansville. I didn't put our appraisal numbers up

[1:06:49] here, but the city of Mansville's corporate limits are much smaller than the

[1:06:55] these overall purview, right?

[1:06:59] And so we're only in about the 12 to 13 billion dollar range of the total of the corporate

[1:07:06] limits of the city of Mansfield, where you saw there in the mid-20s, or low-20,

[1:07:12] million, 20 billion, and so there were much different there.

[1:07:17] Obviously we do it a little bit different, we're based on the appraisals, and those appraisals,

[1:07:24] Then we look at that. We get the same data. We're always at the TAD board meetings as the

[1:07:31] 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

[1:07:40] And so we're in tune to these things now SB 973 as you can see on there

[1:07:46] Is a new state law that started just two weeks ago

[1:07:51] That said, hey, annual appraisals are required.

[1:07:55] That was already in the tax code, okay?

[1:07:59] They are saying that, hey, you need to follow the tax code.

[1:08:02] And it's not very deep in the tax code, okay?

[1:08:06] The tax code is chapter 23.

[1:08:08] Texts chapter code 23 talks about appraisals.

[1:08:11] It's 23.01A annual appraisals on January 1st.

[1:08:17] So it talks about it in the tax code.

[1:08:19] And what that does, as you can see there, it protects our tax base and ensures fair distribution

[1:08:26] of property taxes and provides stable revenue for all the city services.

[1:08:32] One of the things that is not on the slides, Johnson County residents, on a residential

[1:08:40] side, have not seen in the praisling crease in three years.

[1:08:45] We have staff members that are Johnson County residents and these are all public records.

[1:08:51] You can pull up their tax bills.

[1:08:53] You can see their appraised values have stayed the same for the past three years.

[1:08:58] So we have been already managing with the existing residential stock when it hits its

[1:09:06] point for the last three years has not changed.

[1:09:09] Now that doesn't now new construction, obviously if there's a new residential home somewhere

[1:09:13] in the process on January 1st of that year, it's going to reset.

[1:09:17] So for reset on January 1st, 2023, January 1st, 2024, and January 1st, 2025, which is the

[1:09:25] tax here that we're currently in, have remained the same.

[1:09:28] So we've already, with at the city level, been working within kind of those restrictions that

[1:09:34] that Johnson County is working through.

[1:09:40] So with TAD, continuing on its current plan, you know, we'll kind of see those tax

[1:09:46] appraisals or those annual appraisals that see the true effect of that in 2026.

[1:09:51] Again, this is one of the reasons why from City Staff's standpoint and Council

[1:09:56] we had talked about this for the trustees or probably aware, as we went through our

[1:10:01] budget process. We did not increase our homestead exemption this year. The city is currently

[1:10:06] at 16 percent. Council has given us direction to continue to get that on the city side

[1:10:12] that maximum homestead exemption is 20 percent. Our goal is to get there but knowing that

[1:10:19] these things were kind of sitting on the horizon is one of the reasons why we took a just

[1:10:23] a little brief pause until we can understand the actual ramifications of what the tad and

[1:10:30] Johnson County, appraisal districts, what their annual appraisal plans would, how they would

[1:10:36] actually affect us.

[1:10:38] This should be the impact of SB 973, making sure that we have stable revenue, fair share

[1:10:45] across the board, making it reliable from the budget standpoint, and then also protecting

[1:10:51] the schools as you heard from Mr. Trunkard.

[1:10:53] So, I'm going to pause there, Mayor.

[1:10:57] I have one more slide to talk about the nomination process and the voting process.

[1:11:04] I want to pause here for any questions for you or the Madam President.

[1:11:09] All right.

[1:11:10] Thank you.

[1:11:11] Madam President, we're going to trustees.

[1:11:14] You all have any questions?

[1:11:18] All right.

[1:11:19] We're going to the council.

[1:11:21] Mayor.

[1:11:21] Yes, Mayor.

[1:11:22] I have a question.

[1:11:23] What is it about?

[1:11:24] All right, so Troy, let's talk about the homestead exemption versus the rate.

[1:11:33] We had decided based on everything that was going on that we would still continue to look

[1:11:39] on down the road at increasing that.

[1:11:42] But for those watching, am I correct when I say that the homestead exemption once we give

[1:11:49] that percentage, it always has to be that, whereas if you have a rate, you can move the

[1:11:57] rate up or you can move the rate down, but the home state exemption is fixed.

[1:12:02] Yes, ma'am. Yes, the home setting is mentioned as fixed. I don't remember the bill, but there's

[1:12:10] a bill out there that it is fixed for the next three years. Whatever rate you're at, you cannot

[1:12:16] lower it. I'm sure in future legislative sessions they will continue that. So yes,

[1:12:22] legislatively we cannot lower the homestead exemption from 16 percent. We can certainly increase

[1:12:30] it and your correct. We can work continue to work on the tax rate and continue to drive the tax

[1:12:37] rate down, which has been direction from city council. So it's very conservative of the council

[1:12:43] to know that that homestead exemption while we're trying to get there that we have to take

[1:12:50] very be very vigilant on how the rates are going and these appraisals are going so that we know

[1:12:58] that we can continue to make the homestead exemptions and we don't have to go backwards.

[1:13:04] Yes, Mayor? That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead, Ms. Sim.

[1:13:09] And just as a reminder, the reason that we didn't do the homestead this year was the percentage

[1:13:17] of protest was significantly greater this year than in the past, is that true?

[1:13:23] From the percentage, probably was probably about the same, but the value that was protested

[1:13:32] was certainly much higher that has been in years past.

[1:13:35] Yeah. Yes.

[1:13:37] Right, Mr. Thomas?

[1:13:39] Yeah, I did have just one quick question.

[1:13:41] I heard somewhere a long time ago

[1:13:43] when these classes I was in at home

[1:13:45] values naturally go up 3 to 5% per year.

[1:13:48] Just natural appreciation.

[1:13:50] What has been the city's trend on tax rate

[1:13:53] over the last so many years

[1:13:55] has been going down?

[1:13:57] Yes sir, so for the last

[1:13:59] I believe it's been six years

[1:14:02] in well we'll start in 2020 we were at 71 cents that year we lowered it currently the last

[1:14:13] budget that was passed last Monday was approved by City Council was 639 cents so that's been

[1:14:20] a 7.0701 cent in decrease over that time from 2020 to today and so I don't have that percentage

[1:14:30] off the top of my head, but roughly 10% decrease. But home values have been increasing with the

[1:14:39] exception of Johnson County in the last few years.

[1:14:45] I don't think we, Karen County was only counting it went down this year, right, and that

[1:14:49] Yeah,

[1:14:54] yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

[1:15:00] All right, you may proceed, sir.

[1:15:03] Hey, the final slide here in the final topic tonight.

[1:15:08] We will be briefing council next Monday night at our regularly scheduled council meeting on the 22nd.

[1:15:16] Just about the appraisal nomination process. This is for the city, all three counties.

[1:15:23] And this is a statewide legislative mandate.

[1:15:28] So nominations are due by October the 15th.

[1:15:31] Balots then will be delivered by October the 30th to the boards.

[1:15:35] And then the boards would have until December the 15th to submit

[1:15:42] their votes back to the various Parasal Districts.

[1:15:45] And that is all I have, Mayor.

[1:15:47] Okay. Thank you very much as there are other any statements to be made regarding what we have heard tonight from first our trustees.

[1:16:03] Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Thomas.

[1:16:05] 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

[1:16:13] and it's two out of the nine positions.

[1:16:17] Also, on next November, there will be three positions

[1:16:20] on the ballot, if I'm not mistaken.

[1:16:23] Oh, you're so, yes.

[1:16:24] Yeah, the elected positions are back up for election,

[1:16:27] and they'll be on November, instead of in the spring,

[1:16:29] like they were the first go-round.

[1:16:31] So just to make people aware that your voice matters,

[1:16:37] and there's an opportunity coming up next November,

[1:16:41] to hear your ledger voices be heard.

[1:16:47] Go ahead now.

[1:16:48] Dr. Crutchfield.

[1:16:50] Yes, thank you.

[1:16:52] Could you go back a slide or to keep going?

[1:16:57] So the impact on the city.

[1:16:59] And so while I'm here with my city council colleagues,

[1:17:02] I'm a emailed you guys last year when we're doing the

[1:17:05] the votes for a tad and for Jad and encouraging you all to look at that last bullet thinking about

[1:17:13] folks who will protect schools from funding cuts and so I'll make that plea to you guys while I

[1:17:18] hear now. The 24 vote that you have as you consider those candidates actually be sharing your

[1:17:23] votes for please consider us in my SD. Thank you. Thank you Trustee Crutchfield. I can only speak for myself.

[1:17:33] I do believe that it is important that city entities, and also just in regard to the county itself.

[1:17:43] Mansfield is the third largest city in the county, and of course, our school district is twice the size of our city.

[1:17:53] I think it's important that we definitely become more vigilant and also more educated

[1:18:02] in regard to who these candidates are as they come before us because we've seen tonight

[1:18:07] of the impact that has on us because again, when you look at the possible budget shortfalls

[1:18:15] for the school district, that affects all of us in the city of Mansfield as well and of

[1:18:23] we see, the impact that it causes on us in regard to the way that they

[1:18:30] delivery their own business and we see it. And I think it's very important for us

[1:18:37] because it did cause us to hit the pause button as our goal continues to be.

[1:18:43] That 20% ceiling and we are going to do that. But I think it would have been

[1:18:50] premature for us to make said decisions this year, not knowing, of course, what the legislative

[1:18:57] temperature was in regard to this particular subject.

[1:19:02] And I appreciate Ms. Trongard, just you and as well as our own CFO and our team being

[1:19:13] physically conservative. I think to do anything otherwise, this year would have really been

[1:19:18] reckless. And we sure would have been bitten by that if we were not able to do what we need

[1:19:26] to do. So, thank you also very much. But I believe that I have colleagues sitting on these

[1:19:32] day-offs that would say to you that we're going to be more vigilant. And even in speaking

[1:19:38] of those potential candidates, I think that we need to be a bit more forceful in helping

[1:19:44] them to know that they need not attempt to earn our vote if they're not going to be friendly

[1:19:49] to municipalities as well as to our school districts.

[1:19:53] We work together.

[1:19:54] The very reason that we're here tonight is to communicate the fact to the community that we

[1:20:00] work together because what goes bad for the city is not good for the ISD and vice versa.

[1:20:06] So thank you all very much, the two of you, and for who you are, what you do, and keeping us

[1:20:12] physically responsible. Thank you very much for that. So I'm going to have a metapresdenette.

[1:20:21] Is there any other business for us? Trustees? What we want to thank you, Mayor, and City Council members.

[1:20:29] We appreciate your hospitality. I should we say swap hospitality. Sure, not sure what we should

[1:20:36] but Dr. Can't sue our superintendent would you like to say anything as we conclude this

[1:20:42] part of our meeting?

[1:20:48] No, man, I don't have anything other than just it was a wonderful time

[1:20:51] to come together and we're a glad to partner as always. And that's what I believe all of us would

[1:20:58] say here as we appreciate your continued support and partnership with Mayor Evans and City Council

[1:21:06] We appreciate that we do come together to support each other in various activities and as

[1:21:12] always we support our students and I believe them and I've hold them and advocate for

[1:21:17] them over 35,000 students and over 9,000, nearly 9,000 staff, we appreciate the partnership

[1:21:24] and the continued support.

[1:21:26] All right, you know, I would be remiss not to call on our city managers since you called

[1:21:30] and superintendent twice.

[1:21:32] So I need to call on our hired gun as well.

[1:21:36] So Mr. City Manager, would you have any remarks

[1:21:38] for us before I call for a motion to adjourn?

[1:21:41] I'm sure.

[1:21:42] Now I would just echo Dr. Kentu's sentiment.

[1:21:46] It's nice to meet with our colleagues

[1:21:48] in the school district and our admin folks meet regularly

[1:21:51] and it's good to see that school trustees

[1:21:54] and council meet as well.

[1:21:56] So we're grateful for the partnership that we have.

[1:22:00] We look forward to making this even stronger as we move forward.

[1:22:05] Go right ahead.

[1:22:06] Do you recess and then we're going to, I'll call for a motion to adjourn.

[1:22:11] Sure.

[1:22:11] Go ahead, ma'am.

[1:22:13] Mayor Evans and City Council members as well as those who are participating here and

[1:22:18] watching on line.

[1:22:21] Those of us who are trustees for Mansby, I see school board.

[1:22:24] We would like to thank you at this time.

[1:22:26] we would recess at 747.

[1:22:30] All right.

[1:22:31] Thank you very much.

[1:22:32] And again, we welcome you to your space

[1:22:35] and we're so glad that you all allow us

[1:22:37] to abarrate for these next two and a half years.

[1:22:41] I will call for a motion to adjourn.

[1:22:44] Motion to adjourn.

[1:22:44] That's Mr. Nussel.

[1:22:46] OK, I heard a second down here.

[1:22:48] There's Ms. Fresck with.

[1:22:50] Down there, whisperer.

[1:22:51] All right.

[1:22:52] All right, questions.

[1:22:54] Hearing none, please catch votes.

[1:22:55] Can't catch the votes.

[1:22:57] All those of the favor you sound vote by, all the polls same sound vote.

[1:23:01] I have it.

[1:23:02] So what it did pass.

[1:23:03] We'll adjourn at 7.8 PM.

[1:23:06] Thank you all very much.

[1:23:09] All right.

[1:23:10] We're going to hit it real hard.

[1:23:11] All right.

[1:23:12] Thanks, Jim.

9/15/25 Joint Meeting with Mansfield Independent School District Board of Directors

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