Special City Council Meeting

City Council · Olmos Park, TX · 2026-09-14 · More Olmos Park, TX meetings · More Texas meetings

Agenda

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Call meeting to order

1. Roll Call

Pledge of Allegiance

Citizens to be Heard

Regular Agenda

2. Public hearing on the FY 2026-2027 Budget

3. Public hearing on the FY 2026-2027 Ad Valorem Tax Rate

4. Discussion and possible action to postpone the final vote on the Ad Valorem Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2026-2027 until Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.

Announcements from Council Members

Adjourn

Required Notice:

5. CITY OF OLMOS PARK, TEXASTAXPAYER IMPACT STATEMENTHouse Bill 1522, passed by the Texas Legislature in 2025, amends section 551.043 of the Texas Government Code to require that the notice of a meeting required to be posted under section 551.043(a) of the Texas Open Meetings Act, at which a governmental body will discuss or adopt a budget for the governmental body, must include a taxpayer impact statement showing, for the median-valued homestead property, a comparison of the property tax bill in dollars pertaining to the property for the current fiscal year to an estimate of the property tax bill in dollars for the same property for the upcoming fiscal year.The City of Olmos Park has proposed a budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. The City intends to adopt its budget on September 16, 2026.2025 Value of Median-Valued Homestead Property in the City: $1,015,6752025 Property Tax Bill for the Current Fiscal Year ($0.511411): $5,194.272026 Value of Median-Valued Homestead Property in the C

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[0:00] And I don't know whether I'm terrified or actually more comforted by the thought of drivers who live at the E-mail, drivers who are at the scary, now we have the drives.

[0:11] But there is an SD card and a lot, I'm going to make sure you read it.

[0:14] I'm looking for the mask for this.

[0:19] Okay, I'm still hiding there.

[0:21] driver, they can send it to drivers, so the Texas transportation code is not up to the way that they're running the way in those guys.

[0:29] I, like, how am I supposed to issue you with the phone?

[0:32] How about car?

[0:33] Where'd you go?

[0:34] Can you defend it?

[0:36] I mean, why would you need to?

[0:38] You know, who's going to pay the taker?

[0:41] Yeah.

[0:41] But what if it goes nuts?

[0:43] And here's the thing too, like, they're not licensed drivers.

[1:13] I have never been worried about it.

[1:16] My life with whatever I have, definitely a little bit in and over, clearly somebody is very relaxed, and this is a little right now.

[1:28] So is this something different than in here?

[1:30] That's for tomorrow or the Wednesday.

[1:32] That's the update to the packet.

[1:34] See that.

[1:43] So the answer to your question.

[1:45] It's Texas Transportation Code 504945.

[1:48] It's a leave of the drive of the license plate that is obstructed and covered or altered in any way that blocks readability.

[1:53] So to me that would be obstructed are all altered because they've altered it to be able to obstruct the

[2:01] readability of it.

[2:04] But again, who are you going to find?

[2:06] Yeah, what, well, what defines readability.

[2:08] Like, eventually you could read it.

[2:09] You just couldn't read it from most angles and you had to go and do so.

[2:13] Well, it's altered to block the readability.

[2:16] Just like the frames.

[2:20] That's what she was talking about.

[2:21] but now the way I'm all in it.

[2:25] Okay, they've signed up to steal one signed up.

[2:28] We just dropped her and figured we have four of them.

[2:31] Yeah, I read that.

[2:32] Okay, part.

[2:33] There they are.

[2:33] I did it today.

[2:35] Oh, okay.

[2:36] Checked it.

[2:44] Also didn't the bad rap.

[2:46] Right.

[2:46] That's why I was there.

[2:48] There you go.

[2:51] I was on my defense lawyer.

[2:55] I was on my defense lawyer.

[2:56] I was on my defense lawyer's threat today.

[2:57] As long as that's going to bother us a lot of,

[3:01] thank you.

[3:03] 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 5th,

[3:08] 5th.

[3:08] That's okay.

[3:09] All right.

[3:12] Okay.

[3:13] Good evening.

[3:14] It is 6 p.m. on Monday, September 14th, 2026.

[3:18] And I hear by call the special session of the City Council of almost part Texas 2 order.

[3:23] I'll take roll to determine if a super quorum is present, beginning at my far right.

[3:27] Please state your name for the record.

[3:29] Chris, bell for you, man.

[3:30] President.

[3:30] Sharon Plant President James Griffin present will Brooks present and I am the Mayor Aaron Harrison and we have a quorum with four out of five members present

[3:42] Super quorum

[3:44] All right, will you all please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance

[4:00] of liberty and justice.

[4:04] Thank you.

[4:06] Our next item is citizens to be heard.

[4:08] All members of the public wishing to speak during citizens to be heard, must sign up to speak prior to the start of the meeting.

[4:14] In accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, no action canner will be taken on issues raised under this portion of the meeting.

[4:19] Please state your name and address for the record and limit your remarks to a period not to exceed three minutes.

[4:24] All remarks will be addressed to the Council as a body and not to any individual member there of.

[4:29] any person being disruptive while addressing the city council may be requested to leave the meeting.

[4:35] And we have citizens, we have a citizen to speak both for public hearing and citizens to be heard.

[4:44] So, Mr. Keena?

[4:48] So, I just have a question actually.

[4:51] On the notice for the meetings, there's a statement that says we can contact you guys at your

[5:00] offices? Where would that be? And then I'll just sit down. That was my question.

[5:04] Um, email. We don't have Council doesn't actually have physical offices here.

[5:09] Um, but all of our emails are listed on the website.

[5:16] Okay.

[5:19] Our next item is public hearing on fiscal year.

[5:26] Sorry, 2026-2027 budget, so I will now open the public hearing on the proposed operating

[5:33] budget for the city of almost park, beginning October 1st, 2026 through September 30th,

[5:39] 2027 at 603 PM.

[5:50] Reconedige, you want to speak during OK?

[5:52] Wonderful.

[5:57] Can I come up right now or do I speak up during the meeting?

[5:59] Right now it's for this item, it is open, so we'll have you come back up to the podium.

[6:05] So is there a point that I can have the copy of the budget or just look at my phone?

[6:10] I can do that too.

[6:19] Just to reference so that you all can look at it, I just have a specific section, I think

[6:24] that I'm concerned with.

[6:35] I mean, that's what we're here to talk about, right, kind of.

[6:39] So it's basically, can I just go ahead and tell you, so on the, of course, the police,

[6:47] a portion of the of the proposed or I think adopted.

[6:51] We sponge it, police, yes, so basically they're, that's kind of why I want to look at the

[6:59] on.

[7:00] If you blow your screen up, I'm just curious if what she can see would it correspond to,

[7:04] because you're looking at the online packet agenda.

[7:08] Yeah.

[7:08] I was there a little page number at the bottom that might help us.

[7:11] So it kind of, I did access it and then last few days it doesn't come up on my phone for some reason anymore.

[7:19] However, when I'm in second.

[7:25] Okay.

[7:29] 42.

[7:30] 55 and 42.

[7:34] 42.

[7:34] Pay page 42.

[7:43] Is that something new?

[7:44] It's the 42.

[7:45] Around 42?

[7:47] Yes.

[7:52] I think it's legal.

[7:53] 42 is police.

[7:55] Aye, it's an hour.

[7:56] I'll come to you at 1 2 3 4.

[8:02] B.C.

[8:03] Yeah.

[8:05] I'm sorry.

[8:06] I'm sorry.

[8:08] I'm sorry.

[8:09] I'm sorry.

[8:30] Okay, so those two sections,

[8:38] okay, vehicle maintenance, would not be car washers, that I believe it on a previous copy of the, I guess, the paperwork for that.

[8:48] It did have, or you should be able to look and find that the second one, that just

[8:53] associated with the acquaintance, before I remember, like, this was when I first noticed

[8:59] it, it had like car washes and parentheses, and now, and it had the car washes on the

[9:04] carbon, carbon, fine, no, by the law, I was just thinking that's, that doesn't really

[9:14] look like me because they look a little crazy.

[9:19] Basically.

[9:24] No, I think the, not correct me from home, but I'm like for vehicle maintenance, I think it's like when they actually, we put a lot of miles on our vehicles, but when they actually like go into a dealership for if it's a lot of tire or if it actually has like maintenance work not.

[9:42] And so, my understanding when going through this would be then fuel oil changes and car washes fall into that own separate category and yes, the 511 and then actual like maintenance that's done add a dealership would be like actual physical work on the cars repairs.

[10:12] Yeah, well, it did have car washes, I believe it part of the season, I think that's better.

[10:22] Thank you.

[10:23] Thank you.

[10:25] Okay, it is.

[10:27] I want to close the public hearing at 608 PM.

[10:38] Item number three.

[10:40] Public hearing on fiscal year 2627,

[10:44] at Valorum Tax Rate.

[10:46] So I will now open the public hearing for council as unanimously a proposed, the voter approval

[10:57] rate of 0.555624 per $100. I will now open the public hearing at 608.

[11:15] You signed up to speak at the public hearing?

[11:17] Okay, I just oppose it.

[11:20] I don't agree with the numbers.

[11:23] It's now

[11:33] closed the public hearing at 609 p.m.

[11:37] We'll open item number four.

[11:43] Discussion and possible action to postpone the final vote

[11:46] on the Adelorum Tax Rate for fiscal year 26, 27,

[11:49] until September 16th, 2026 at 6 p.m.

[11:53] And there was an error on the agenda packet.

[11:57] Yeah, so the time for the meeting has been posted at 5pm,

[12:01] but in the actual agenda language that came out for this,

[12:05] it was misprinted at six, but it was posted properly

[12:09] and our meeting is in husbands at 5pm.

[12:26] So, what do you think would take an hour to discuss?

[12:30] Do you know what do you either regard

[12:40] them?

[12:40] Yeah, I saw that.

[12:41] No, kind of.

[12:45] Well, I moved to postpone the final vote on after alarm tax rate for fiscal year 202627 until September 16, 2026 at 5 p.m.

[12:59] Second.

[13:01] All right, I have a motion from Councilwoman Plant and a second from Councilman Griffin.

[13:09] All those in favor, please say aye.

[13:11] All right.

[13:12] And he opposed there being none, the motion passes unanimously.

[13:17] All right. I know item is announcements by council members,

[13:23] right?

[13:24] Just as a reminder of, yeah, our meeting is at five p.m. this Wednesday.

[13:31] And I had today is five.

[13:33] And the next one is six. So I got them flipped.

[13:42] I was looking right at it, but I still had to ask you to confer.

[13:50] I just want to say real quick, thank you for being here.

[13:53] We appreciate you showing up.

[14:02] Well, there being no further business.

[14:04] I hear by a journalist meeting at 6.11 PM.

[14:14] Good work.

[14:15] 11 minutes, maybe.

[14:16] I'm not getting paid off.

[14:18] Just don't tell my family.

[14:20] I don't already go in someplace else and play with it out.

[14:23] I'm just not ready to go home.

[14:24] I have no other plans,

[14:30] is Wednesday and the long one.

[14:41] Two late for coffee.

[14:45] Yeah.

[14:46] Would our budget and plans, especially after you usually are, but it's a priority for item

[14:52] agendas.

[14:53] So I will move as efficiently as I can.

[14:58] I believe in you.

[15:00] I was like, it looks daunting, but honestly, we've had a few that have been the song that we actually were like, oh, we're not there that a whole lot faster, so I mean, we've gone through a bunch of badgers in the times that I don't know that there's not any questions at this point, but it is always scary when I'm like, that's a lot of it.

[15:20] Budget and a long agenda.

[15:23] Just wondering if I should bring some snacks.