[0:02] Please stand for the invocation followed by the pledge of allegiance.

[0:08] Let us pray. We're so thankful for what you do for us in our lives, Lord. We're thankful for how you bless this community, Lord. We're in a robust area of growth, Lord. We have exciting things coming forward, Lord. But we do need your guidance. We need your presence as we make important decisions every time that we meet about the future of our community, Lord. But we can't do it alone, Lord. We need you.

[0:33] Lord, we just love you and we thank you so much for what you do for us.

[0:36] It's in Jesus' name that we pray.

[0:38] Amen.

[0:39] Do you join me in the pledge?

[0:41] I pledge allegiance to Jesus Christ, the United States of America, and to the Republic for

[0:47] which it stands, one nation, and the God, and the indivisible, with liberty and justice for

[0:53] all.

[0:59] Okay.

[0:59] Okay, before the citizens' communications, I do want to recognize some employees that

[1:10] recognize and announce four internal management promotions.

[1:15] Mr. Tyler Baibi is now the interim assistant city manager.

[1:21] Daniel Seguin is the interim executive director of community services.

[1:25] as Betsy Schultz is the interim Parks and Recreation Director and y'all please

[1:30] come forward for a picture. And Jared Kingery is the communications manager and

[1:35] I don't know who's going to take a picture.

[1:45] Great job to a city manager for

[1:48] growing from within.

[1:53] Awesome. Great to see you.

[1:58] And you'll just let me veer here

[2:02] just a second.

[2:05] It's a sad week for the City of Taylor.

[2:13] We had the loss of John

[2:15] John B. Nelson Jr., this year, a long time Taylor Wright, just a heck of a human being

[2:23] and his daughter is Beth Allen and Evelyn are at home now watching this.

[2:27] But I grew up in their house with his wife, Emmy, Nelson.

[2:33] She was just a sweetheart and they raised three most beautiful daughters.

[2:37] But John's father came from, immigrated from southern Sweden.

[2:43] I'm not going to read his whole open to where he went.

[2:46] And his mother, Veronica, was a first-generation Polish-American, neither of them attended

[2:53] high school.

[2:54] And John graduated from St. Mary's in San Antonio and went on to receive a PhD in nuclear

[2:59] physics, nuclear physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and he remained a proud

[3:04] long-worn to his death.

[3:06] He worked for decades in the Texas nuclear, at Texas nuclear where he was president, he had

[3:13] his own company called Mingo, where he partnered with his childhood friend, Karl Delugus.

[3:19] He ultimately helped found the Taylor Economic Development Corporation, the TEDC for what

[3:26] we have today.

[3:27] And in 2025, the TEDC dedicated their board to John for his service and leadership.

[3:36] He was an outstanding, he was a long-standing member of the Taylor Rotary Club and embraced

[3:41] and lived the motto of service above self.

[3:46] And that is so true for John.

[3:48] He served on many boards, including John's Community Hospital,

[3:51] where I was born, and facilitated his transition

[3:55] to the Baylor-Scotten White Hospital.

[3:58] While serving as executive director of the TEDC,

[4:01] he was led on many community projects.

[4:03] He set the trajectory that this led to changes in Taylor

[4:05] that will continue to impact it today and in the future.

[4:09] He was a member of the Temple College of Taylor, T-Cat Board for 31 years and was instrumental,

[4:17] instrumental in bringing Temple College to Taylor.

[4:20] And his work at the T-Cat Board helped lead to the commitment by the University of Texas in 2024 to establish a UT campus here in Taylor.

[4:30] By 2029, he was smart enough to say, UT, we're going to give you this land, but you got five years to build it, so get hot.

[4:37] But he was proudest of that accomplishment because he understood that it would change

[4:43] lives for generations to come.

[4:45] Even after retiring, John worked tirelessly for a community he loved Taylor.

[4:49] He loved Taylor, Texas.

[4:52] John was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church for over 50 years during which time he served

[5:00] on many capacities of supporting the recent Capitol campaign to remodel the beautiful church.

[5:05] He was also a long time member of the Knights of Columbus 40 plus years and participated in many activities.

[5:13] Again, just a genuine man, people tell me Taylor was racist when I was growing up.

[5:22] But it's because of people like Mr. John Nelson, I never saw it.

[5:26] He was a really good man. He never saw the color of your skin.

[5:29] And so Taylor lost a really good man's in my condolences to the Nelson family.

[5:36] The City Council welcomed his public comments on item, not listed on the agenda.

[5:40] However, the council cannot respond until the item is posted on a future meeting agenda.

[5:45] Public comments are limited to three minutes.

[5:48] Mrs. Newman, I apologize for stealing your thunder, but this is Newman.

[5:53] If you come,

[5:57] I had it on my agenda first.

[6:01] Dwayne, okay. Thank you so much for doing that. My name is Maureen Boeman. I've been

[6:08] resident in Taylor for 22 years. I live in 1515 West Lake Drive and John Nelson was my

[6:16] neighbor. And I just want to say that Taylor lost a general giant this week. His current

[6:24] My wife, Rosemary, who brought joy to his life in the last 18 years, they were married

[6:31] the last 18 years together, she just brought the joy that helped create this atmosphere

[6:44] that John and she eventually she brought John home and that's where he passed but as I said

[6:55] we lost a gentle giant. Everyone knew who knew him loved him and thank you Dwayne for doing this.

[7:04] I just wanted to make sure that it was in the public record that how much we appreciate this specific

[7:11] person. Yes ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Next is D. D. Yolverton. Topic is on

[7:18] core polls. Thank

[7:26] you. My name is D. D. Yolverton. I live on Howard Street

[7:29] in Taylor and I guess we've lived here maybe around 25 years on it counted

[7:33] exactly. So today I just wanted to come and talk to you briefly this morning I

[7:40] was jared out of my seat by the sounds of jackhammers or something similar

[7:45] and drilling of three giant holes in my front yard.

[7:50] No prior headset or communication about what that activity

[7:56] was going to be or might be.

[7:58] So I went outside and hugged to the crew.

[8:00] I feel sorry for them that it was kind of like dumped on them

[8:03] to provide the lack of communication to the residents.

[8:08] They didn't seem to be phased.

[8:10] Maybe they've already been through that a lot.

[8:11] but anyway, there were great guys, great crew,

[8:16] were very professional, I found out they were from encore.

[8:19] So again, I wanted to just point out that

[8:21] this was the first I'd heard about these poles being dug

[8:24] in our front yard, and I want to say in the front yard,

[8:29] on the front yard side, not on the side close to the street.

[8:33] So that was also kind of an extra surprise.

[8:37] So I'd like to see better communication, you know,

[8:41] So I did call the city and I said on core was supposed to communicate with residents.

[8:45] They didn't kind of a side question is well what are the consequences if a vendor doesn't

[8:51] meet their obligations on that communication and if there aren't any consequences then there

[8:56] really aren't any rules.

[8:57] But aside from that really whether I liked it or not, communication and transparency ahead

[9:04] of time would really go a long way I mean you know and my neighbor next door a couple of

[9:09] once ago, same exact scenario.

[9:12] First she ever heard about it,

[9:13] was the crew was digging in her yard.

[9:16] I mean, come on, we can do better than that.

[9:18] And we have a great communication team here

[9:20] at the city.

[9:22] I know they can really help improve on that.

[9:25] I'd love to see the vendors take their permits.

[9:27] The men said they're supposed to be communicating

[9:28] with the citizens.

[9:32] So really, that's what I wanted to talk about today.

[9:34] Thank you.

[9:35] Thank you, Mr. Mio.

[9:43] We may need to change that mic on.

[9:45] It's coming in and out in batteries, it's out, yes, sir.

[9:51] Next item is the consent agenda.

[9:54] The consent agenda includes non-controversial and routine items that the Council may act

[9:58] on with one single vote.

[10:00] Any council member may pull any items from the consent agenda to discuss and act upon

[10:04] individually on the regular agenda.

[10:08] Council, do we have anything to pull or not?

[10:11] I'll take a motion.

[10:17] I'm motion to prove consent agenda items as present.

[10:21] I'll second motion made by Councilman Redroom, seconded by Mayor Pro Temsmert, any discussion?

[10:29] All those in favor, please say aye.

[10:31] Aye.

[10:32] Aye.

[10:32] Opposed?

[10:34] Thank you.

[10:35] I want the public hearings and ordinances.

[10:38] Excuse me.

[10:39] Remind me that we do have a citizen that wants to talk after the presentation.

[10:44] Hold the public hearing and introduced ordinance 2026-10, a place type amendment from P2 Rule to P2C.

[10:52] Rule commercial for property generally located at 600 Potomac Street.

[10:57] Legally described as Washington Heights, part of Block 52 and part of Block 58, consisting of approximately 2.5 acres of land.

[11:05] More particularly described by Williamson Central, appraisal district parcel R018516 Taylor,

[11:12] Williamson County, Texas.

[11:14] Mr. Greeks.

[11:17] Thank you, Mayor.

[11:19] Unfortunately, I was sick this past week, so you all are going to get to have the Luke

[11:25] Ryan version of me providing the presentations tonight.

[11:31] But before you tonight, this is the public hearing for this place type of amendment.

[11:37] Let's go from P2 to P2C, generally at 600 Potomix Street.

[11:43] The applicant is wanting to construct a convenience store and gas station at that property

[11:49] in order to further that desired development that we're going to go through this process

[11:55] to have the zoning updated, which then leads to this place-type designation, which then

[12:02] would follow with the final plat site development and then the building permit running through

[12:08] in order for in the ground construction to start.

[12:13] Where you're seeing now is the location map where it faces out, generally, on to Carlyst

[12:21] G. Parker Boulevard.

[12:23] You can see the notice map.

[12:26] We did send out three notifications.

[12:28] There was one public comment in response for approval that was from the neighbors of

[12:36] the north with the Gulf Course, generally in favor, wanting to further develop the

[12:44] area and have further detention taken care of in the area.

[12:52] Here you can see the growth sector map and the future land use.

[12:57] This is with the intended growth area, or growth sector G3, and then it is a neighborhood

[13:05] green field property.

[13:09] On the left hand side is the current zoning, on the right hand side is the proposed going

[13:15] from that P2 to P2C.

[13:18] And then here's a look at the property, you can see it's generally vacant, undeveloped.

[13:27] And then this is their concept plan.

[13:30] As you can see, it has one convenience store, several pumps, and then locations for tractor-trailer movements.

[13:39] So the planning and zoning commission took a look at staffs analysis with that they analyzed

[13:48] if the place type of amendment was consistent with the comprehensive plan.

[13:53] The staff used this as being consistent with the comp plan and the future land use plan and the growth sectors,

[14:00] and that the proposed development would use existing infrastructure and increased density to the area.

[14:07] Following that, the place type of amendment is compatible with the surrounding area.

[14:12] In this case, the place type is compatible with the current adjacent uses.

[14:17] There's no conflict with the golf course to the north, to the south, as Carlisery Parker

[14:23] provides a buffer between the subject property and residential homes, then to the east with

[14:29] Potomac Street and the adjacent land providing a buffer for those rural residential homes.

[14:36] The West, the land provides buffer to the rural residential home that is in existence on

[14:43] a roughly 10-acre property, both adjacent residential properties exceed the one-acre minimum

[14:49] lot size, then does place-type amendment promote public health safety and general welfare.

[15:00] The staff's analysis, the proposed change for the job of your property will likely promote public health safety in general. And then whether or not this has had adequate infrastructure, it's currently served or has the ability to be served by water and waste water. And then do current conditions indicate that the place type is necessary. This place type change is brought on by the applicant and that applicant is desiring to develop the property.

[15:29] in order for the property to be developed and they're desired,

[15:32] it would need to go through this place type of amendment.

[15:37] All of this was presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission

[15:40] at their February 10th meeting.

[15:43] They heard a presentation from the applicants,

[15:45] held a brief conversation before voting.

[15:49] They voted unanimously to recommend approval

[15:52] of this place type change from P2 to P2 sitting.

[15:57] And with that, we'll finish my presentation.

[16:01] Thank you, sir.

[16:03] We'll hold up public hearing first and then see if councilions have any questions.

[16:09] The time is 16 and we will open the public hearing.

[16:15] Miss Amanda Brown, you can come up first.

[16:22] Hi.

[16:22] My name is Amanda Brown with HD Brown Consulting.

[16:25] I'm actually the applicant on this project and I just wanted to make myself available for any questions that you may have.

[16:30] Thank you.

[16:32] And even if you didn't sign up if anybody wants to talk on this topic you can come forward.

[16:48] Having none, I will close the public hearing at 6.17.

[16:59] Council, any questions for Mr. Bragg's?

[17:04] Are y'all moving the house that's there?

[17:08] Amanda?

[17:12] Couldn't ask that while she was up there.

[17:15] I don't think we've gotten that far yet.

[17:17] I'm not quite sure what the plan is for the existing structure on the property.

[17:20] I was told by the neighbor it was going to get moved yeah but we'll see we'll let you sit down then call you back up.

[17:34] Anybody else?

[17:37] Mr. City Attorney if you can introduce the ordinance.

[17:40] take mayor ordinance number 20, 2025-10, an ordinance changing the place type zoning

[17:47] of property located at 600 Potomac Street from P2 rural to P2C rural commercial,

[17:53] meaning the official place type zoning map of the city of Taylor, Texas to show

[17:57] the place type zoning change adopted here and providing a savings clause.

[18:02] Thank you.

[18:03] Moving on to item 10, and the applicant's representative is here if we have any questions for them.

[18:13] We will hold the public item 10, hold the public hearing, introduce ordinance 2026-11, a special use permit to allow 3, 2, 6 multi-family residential dwellings for plant development referred to as Gateway, generally located in 505 Carlos G. Parker, Boulevard, Southwest, legally described as approximately 38.099.

[18:33] makers of land situated in the GM re-survey after track number 533,

[18:39] or particularly described by Williamson Central appraisal district parcels R019657 R020063,

[18:48] and R33103 Taylor Williamson County, Texas Mr. Greeks.

[18:56] Thank you, Mayor.

[18:57] So, once again, this is the special use permit public hearing to allow for that increase in

[19:05] multifamily. This property has already gone through and received a neighborhood plan

[19:10] with that. They are working towards updating some of the specifics once they got into actual

[19:20] design and working through that plan. So, the plan is administratively approved, but the

[19:26] number of units that they are looking to add that were previously approved is what council

[19:34] is voting on and hearing tonight.

[19:38] So with that, I'll run through the development process

[19:41] and slides real quick. Again, they are still at kind of the plan phase and this will follow

[19:47] preliminary plan, subdivision improvement plans, and then the construction of those public

[19:54] utilities and roadways, development of final flat, then site development, and building permitting.

[20:04] And again, all of this is due to the special use permit is due to the change from last

[20:10] year with the multifamily and bringing that back forward for council consideration.

[20:16] So this is the subject property, you can see it's there at the southeast corner of 973

[20:23] and Carlisery Parker Boulevard, we did send out seven notices to the surrounding property owners, received no comments in opposition or approval.

[20:39] Here you can see the growth sector where this is in the G3 for intended growth sector.

[20:47] and then it's also within the future lane use for market community type

[20:54] place.

[20:57] This is previously gone through and has the P5 designation to it also has

[21:04] a plain development overlay and all of this is kind of leading towards that it

[21:09] has a plan. It's got certain mechanics that are built into it and it's the the

[21:15] change now in what they originally proposed, versus what their desire to do now.

[21:21] Let's causing them to come back forward to give some time.

[21:24] Here's a look at the vacant property, and then this is what is being proposed, and I want

[21:34] to quickly jump back to what was originally, and then we'll get into a little bit of a deeper

[21:38] dive.

[21:39] So, this was what the original plan showed.

[21:44] You can see the two hotel units here closer to the corner,

[21:49] followed by some retail, some commercial, some lighter homes,

[21:55] townhomes, and then the denser multifamily back here

[21:59] towards the rear of the property with a clubhouse.

[22:06] Throughout both of these plans, there is this kind of detention feature here in the middle

[22:12] that makes for a good buffer in between, but also provides kind of a shared amenity in

[22:16] between both sides of the development.

[22:20] Here on the proposed plan, you can see that they're still maintaining that kind of a miniatized

[22:27] area in between the two halves of the project.

[22:32] They've more heavily created a non-residential

[22:37] commercial hotel retail opportunity area and then moved a lot of the town homes and

[22:45] apartments towards the southern half of the development on the other side of that a

[22:57] So it's a, there's a lot of moving parts to this, which is where we really concentrated

[23:05] on what's actually changing.

[23:08] So in one, before you move on, is that still a retention pump or a detangent pump?

[23:14] I believe so.

[23:19] Want to skip over to this slide.

[23:21] This was included in the applicants packet, so generally speaking you can see that they're

[23:27] originally had 62 units, now they're providing 58 of the town homes, and that they're increasing

[23:34] the multifamily by 70 units to get up to 326 units in total.

[23:42] Larger speaking, there's a lot of change that happens, and there's a lot of change that's

[23:49] proposed in between this plan and this plan.

[23:55] As you can see there's a broad amount of square footage

[23:58] that's changing in between the various place types

[24:02] and an increase in the amount of that special district

[24:07] which where they've got their parkland

[24:10] and amenities that they're proposing.

[24:14] So with all of that said, I wanted

[24:15] to give you kind of an overview of the totality of the project

[24:20] and then, you know, provides you what the applicant has given as justification and reasoning for this amendment.

[24:29] They're stating that land use adjustments to the allocation of commercial residential and mixed use spaces

[24:36] that more reflect the current economic and community needs,

[24:42] update to circulation and roadway enhancements, modifications to internal road alignments

[24:48] to improve traffic flow, parking count, increase by two percent, pedestrian accessibility and emergency access.

[24:56] Density and lock configuration updates, adjustments to unit count, lot size, transit zones,

[25:03] to help optimize land use while maintaining compliance with city standards.

[25:09] Open space and amenity revisions, refinements, park space, landscaping, public gathering areas,

[25:14] to enhance livability and environmental sustainability

[25:18] and then utility and infrastructure considerations,

[25:21] coordination of water to wastewater and drainage plans,

[25:25] and city engineering requirements to support long-term service ability.

[25:29] So these are things that are broadly expected as you go

[25:32] from a planning stage to getting more into the finer details

[25:38] of laying out lots and figuring out what types of buildings can fit

[25:44] after you've gone through the planning stage.

[25:49] So, in staff's analysis, is the special use permit with the comp plan, plan is consistent

[25:58] with the comprehensive plan, and the proposed SEP would allow uses that are consistent

[26:03] with future land use, is the special use permit compatible with surrounding area, the plan

[26:09] Is it compatible with the surrounding properties and staff's opinion?

[26:13] Does the special use permit promote public health safety in general?

[26:17] Where, for welfare, staff's analysis determined that the proposed plan for the subject property will promote public health safety and general welfare.

[26:26] In addition, planning principles and policy guide and the comp plan aim to promote health safety and general welfare by managing growth while promoting safe and orderly developments.

[26:39] And then is adequate infrastructure available or plan to meet the need for the proposed land use

[26:45] This property will be able to be

[26:47] tie in to city utilities with existing infrastructure to the surface of the property

[26:52] And then do current conditions indicate that the special use permit is necessary

[26:59] Properties currently zone p5 over the urban center and that plan development overlay and the proposed amendments to the neighborhood plan require

[27:08] this SEP in order for them to get those additional 70 units that they are

[27:12] proposed. So with that, this was presented to P&Z at their February 10th meeting.

[27:20] They heard the presentation from the applicant, discussed the overall process, much like I've done today,

[27:28] and how this was being brought back to their attention for discussion.

[27:32] They also discussed traffic in the area and at the intersection of 973 and Carlishe parker and that

[27:41] whether there would be an impact study conducted for upgrades to those new and existing signals

[27:48] which there will be as the plan progresses forward. With that planning commission voted unanimously

[27:56] to approve and recommend approval for this special use permit for the 8-byte, with that

[28:03] mayoral pass back to you.

[28:04] Thank you.

[28:07] And then time.

[28:08] Wait a minute.

[28:09] We're going to move to.

[28:10] The time is 628.

[28:12] I will open up the public hearing.

[28:14] If anybody wants to come up and talk on the subject matter and the applicant is standing by

[28:22] I can't sort of answer any questions having

[28:37] no one closed the public hearing at 6.29

[28:41] So

[28:45] any question before having seems pretty simple with just an additional 70 multi-family

[28:52] units.

[28:52] Yes.

[28:54] No issues with that.

[28:56] Okay.

[28:57] I'm sorry.

[28:58] I just want clarification.

[28:59] So I was at that P and Z meeting and so I guess the need for the S U P was triggered because

[29:05] as they amended the original plan that had already been accepted or administratively approved, correct?

[29:11] Correct. So the only way that-

[29:14] Because they changed the building title.

[29:16] It's not only administratively approved the retail, the non-residential portion of the development and the town home portion of the development.

[29:27] It's the multifamily portion and their desire to increase the unit count.

[29:32] So that change is what triggered it, then it would change it and do what they need, but it's that does additional units that spread right now.

[29:39] Yeah, because it basically changes the basis of the original approval.

[29:44] Yes, and so this was, and this is also, this is connected to that recent ordnance, the 20, 20, 25 dash 15.

[29:55] Just correct all right, I'll be else

[30:03] Let's see if you can introduce the ordinance, please. Thank you, Mayor. Ones number 2026-11. In

[30:10] the ordinance approving a specific use permit for 326, 326, multi-family residential dwellings

[30:16] generally located at 505 Southwest College to parkable of art, more particularly described

[30:21] by the Williamson Central Prades and District. Partials R01-9657, R02-0063, and R33-1030 Taylor,

[30:32] Williamson County, Texas, to show the specific use permit approved here in providing a savings clause.

[30:40] Thank you.

[30:41] Item 11, hold the public hearing and introduce ordinance 2026-12, regarding a request for a place type amendment from P4 mix to P3M manufactured housing for property generally located.

[30:55] at 1025 Scot Street, legally described as approximately 0.15 acres of land situated in the P Cursey

[31:03] Survey after Act 1-3-1 block 317, track 12, more particularly described by Williamson Central

[31:09] Appraisal District Parcel R-0-1-8962, Taylor, Williamson County, Texas. Mr. Griggs.

[31:19] So this place type amendment is for at P4 to P3M, the P3M is intended for manufacturing

[31:29] housing to be able to be provided on that site.

[31:34] P3M is very limited throughout the city, so it's kind of a special one-off district that

[31:41] You know, its basis is to allow for manufacturing housing to be developed on the property.

[31:49] So with that, the stage that we're at right now is adjusting the place type designation

[31:57] from there and they'll go on to a minor flat, final flat and then submit for building permits.

[32:04] here you can see the subject property. It's a narrow, long lot on the Scott Street.

[32:16] You can see the

[32:17] notification buffer here. I can advance that 200 foot notification area. We received no

[32:25] responses either in approval or opposition for this request.

[32:33] You can take a look at the picture of

[32:37] the property. You can see that there are a large amount of vehicles that are out there.

[32:44] Those vehicles are still there. However, in order to develop the property, they'll have

[32:48] to remove the vehicles in order to have that development take place.

[33:00] With that, this

[33:01] is in the infill neighborhood sector where additional density and growth is

[33:08] desired and then it does have the neighborhood infill future land use

[33:15] category to it. Here you can see some of the zoning and then the desired zoning on

[33:23] the other side. You can see there's a mixture of both the P3 and the P4 in that

[33:29] area. I wanted to highlight that there are three existing manufactured homes in the area.

[33:41] So in staff's analysis, this request for the playstyle amendment is consistent with

[33:47] the comprehensive plan and the land use policies in the future land use and growth sectors.

[33:55] And the proposed manufactured home would use existing infrastructure and increased density

[34:00] with an area. The place type is compatible with the current adjacent uses. It is inconsistent

[34:09] with the neighborhood as it is currently transitioning to P3 neighborhood, but the zoning does

[34:16] not permit manufactured housing as a primary structure, which is, again, the reason why the

[34:22] change is necessary.

[34:25] In staff's analysis, staff determined that the proposed zone change

[34:30] will likely promote public health safety in general welfare.

[34:34] Google Maps indicates that this lot was used for car storage, which conflicts with the

[34:40] adjacent residential uses, and that the change of use to a dwelling is more consistent

[34:46] with the surrounding uses.

[34:51] The property is currently adequately served by water and wastewater, and it does have

[34:57] ability to have some utilities and the property is currently zone P4 mix and the proposed

[35:04] building type of manufactured home is considered non-conforming unless the place I'm in is needed

[35:11] to allow the proposed building type to be compliant with the development code.

[35:18] So all of that said this was introduced to the planning and zoning commission.

[35:23] In there they discussed the vehicles on the property, the intent to develop the property

[35:29] as a single lot, manufactured home, and if there was intent to operate a business on

[35:36] the site, the applicant was there at the P&C meeting and she did state that they were

[35:41] not going to be housing a business there, which is what my following statement says.

[35:48] So during the motion there was discussion about whether or not there could be a tie or some

[35:55] clause action having the vehicles removed with the ordinance but in discussion that's going

[36:03] to be a part of the development process.

[36:06] So after that the commission voted 8-0 unanimously to recommend approval for this to go from

[36:14] and P4 to P3, with that mayoral perspective.

[36:20] Thank you.

[36:22] The time is 6.36.

[36:26] I will open up the public hearing.

[36:29] If anybody wants to come up and speak, please do so.

[36:42] Having no one, the time is 6.37.

[36:47] Close the public hearing.

[36:51] Council, any comments?

[36:55] I have a comment just in general.

[36:57] We don't need to pull it back up, but this whole neighborhood is zoned as P4 mix.

[37:06] So that's just something to look at in the future.

[37:08] It's another reason why we want to look at it in the future.

[37:11] There's already mobile homes, manufactured homes in this neighborhood, but

[37:15] they've got to go through this process to add additional ones.

[37:19] So just more added work.

[37:21] So something for the future council and the citizens to look at during the comprehensive plan and LEC review.

[37:27] Council, any other questions or comments on this topic for item 11?

[37:32] If I understand correctly, the existing mobile homes that are there, they're legal non-conforming

[37:36] units. That's why they're still there. Otherwise, like you said, the presentation said it's

[37:42] retrying to transition that to P3 correct. So this would still be another exception to

[37:50] the current.

[37:51] Correct. Instead of it being, for instance, that they've tried to change out one of those

[37:55] existing ones state law would let them change out that but since it's not

[38:00] existing and they're trying to put a new manufacturer on that lot that's

[38:06] what's required with some change. Well I dropped by there last night and there's a lot

[38:10] more cars than so I just wanted to go out there and look and so I could have a

[38:16] context you know visual context of what we were looking at.

[38:21] Anybody else?

[38:25] Yeah, you can come to the plank, please.

[38:27] I already closed the public hearing, didn't I?

[38:29] I'll let you, but you should have talked

[38:31] during the public hearing.

[38:33] That's all right.

[38:36] But these properties were they just stacking the cars up?

[38:39] Is that going to change?

[38:40] Yes, ma'am. They were stated.

[38:42] The cars are going to go out of the way.

[38:44] Because that's not the only property they did that's got cars.

[38:47] Oh, everywhere.

[38:49] Yes. Yes.

[38:50] Thank you for bringing that up.

[38:51] appreciate you. All right, my apologies for not calling the same.

[38:57] We have code enforcement. I mean, Brian, what's our what's our policy on having

[39:01] junk cars in your residential property in a neighborhood like this? I know we

[39:05] have a policy and sounds like we're not enforcing it. Yes, we'll get code

[39:11] enforcement all that. So look at that. I made another one, but we can tie it to

[39:16] We can look at this manufactured home and obviously tied it to the to the law for it moves in.

[39:25] Okay, Mr. Attorney, I introduce the ordinance.

[39:29] Thank you, Mayor.

[39:30] Ordinance number 2026-12, an ordinance changing the place type zoning and property located at 1025 Scott Street from P4 mix to 3M manufactured housing.

[39:41] I'm ending the official place type zoning map of the city of Taylor, Texas to show the place type zoning change adopted here and providing a saving clause.

[39:49] Thank

[39:52] you, sir.

[39:52] Item 12, hold the public hearing and introduce ordinance 2026-13, regarding a request for an employment center plan.

[40:01] Referred to as on-core Muscovy switch, generally located at highway 79, legally described as approximately 51.19 acres of land in the JCE survey.

[40:14] Aptrak number 213, more particularly described by the Williamson Central appraisal district parcels, are 5'6, 5'2, 1'8", Taylor, Williamson County, Texas, Mr. Greggs.

[40:28] Thank you, Mayor. So, you all are just getting to see all types of plans tonight.

[40:33] Yeah, this is an employment center plan for Ankara or Moscow V-switch station.

[40:39] A switch station is different from a substation as they're not

[40:44] transforming voltages, but it allows for a disconnected area, you know, shouldn't need happen.

[40:53] So this is again at the plan stage for the employment center.

[41:01] Here you can see the location map near the entryway into the city of Taylor.

[41:10] We sent out notices to property owners within the 200-foot of the subject property.

[41:19] There was no response in either opposition nor approval.

[41:24] and then here you can see the properties in the controlled growth sector too and within

[41:34] the employment center zoning district which requires them to come through this process in order to

[41:42] refine their plans before getting into the ground.

[41:47] So, as you can see, it's in the employment center and their proposed overlays the employment

[41:56] center plan, which is an indicator on the right-hand side.

[42:01] Here you can get a good look at the property.

[42:05] It's relatively flat.

[42:08] It does have those new poles that have been installed to the west left-hand side of the

[42:15] property.

[42:18] And then here is their proposed regulating plan. There is a large amount of

[42:24] right-of-way dedication as well as some additional overhead utilities that will be provided

[42:32] along the front edges of the property. This is an illustrative plan that is within the

[42:41] the council packet and then one area of note is this front screening that's being provided.

[42:52] You can see it noted out as a six-foot tall earthen berm with drought-resistant native

[42:58] and war mill grasses.

[43:00] We do have a rendering of that that was provided by the applicant, and

[43:07] it's this next slide.

[43:08] So, here you can get a visual of what they're proposing, they'll look like with that kind

[43:16] of mound of earth and then with the native grasses planted on top of it.

[43:23] This is also their proposed design standards.

[43:28] One thing of note is this 80% maximum lot coverage.

[43:34] They did originally propose 100% to allow for the totality of the property to be developed.

[43:43] But staff worked with them to get some landscaping built into it so that way the site wouldn't be 100%

[43:53] conquered, gravel, and their equipment that they're developing.

[44:02] So the plan is consistent with the conference of plan as it's within an employment center.

[44:09] The proposed plan would allow uses that are consistent with future land use.

[44:16] Is the employment center compatible with the surrounding area?

[44:21] The plan is compatible with the surrounding properties to the north, south, east, and

[44:26] but require additional mitigation for visual impacts on 79.

[44:31] This is one of the first properties

[44:32] that is seen when traveling into Taylor from the west,

[44:37] and it's important gateway into the city.

[44:41] So with that, staff is asked the applicant

[44:44] to provide visual screening along the fringe of the property

[44:48] with some additional landscaping, screening,

[44:52] including a mixture of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs or a precast masonry wall.

[45:00] The applicant is proposing this six-foot-high earth and berm with drought-resistant native

[45:07] oriental grasses. There was some additional discussion about what happens when you put trees

[45:15] next to electoral equipment, which is one of the reasons why they're chosen to propose

[45:22] the grass. However, we did bring that forward to planning and zoning commission to make

[45:29] to hear and make additional recommendations on what I'll get to that. I'm getting ahead

[45:36] of myself. In staff's analysis, they determine that the proposed employment center will likely

[45:44] promote the health safety and general welfare and that there is existing infrastructure adequate

[45:53] to serve the proposed property and that there are not going to be using much if any water

[46:02] or wastewater. They may use some in the initial construction but switch stations typically

[46:08] we have brushroom facilities or other uses of water other than minor irrigation.

[46:19] And then does the current conditions indicate that the employment center plan is necessary?

[46:26] As it's properties within the employment center, it has to have a joining plan with it in

[46:35] order to move further into the development process and then it is to be consistent with

[46:42] the future land use and that plan or our requirement of the land development code.

[46:49] With all of that said, this was presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission with

[46:55] an encore representative there to discuss the project.

[46:59] I guess there was discussion about the site being an entry point to the city and potential

[47:07] opportunities for screening, but ultimately PNZ voted to recommend what they saw, which

[47:15] was the 6 foot perm with the native grasses.

[47:21] There was one commissioner recusing themselves, which is why you see a 701 vote there for

[47:31] the memorials, consideration, with that marital aspect to you.

[47:35] Thank you.

[47:38] The time is 6.47, I will open up the public hearing.

[47:44] The applicant is here, if you have any questions, if anybody in that,

[47:52] please state your name.

[47:53] We don't know who you are.

[47:58] Frequent flyer, I guess.

[48:00] I'm Carrie Deanna, I'm in District 1.

[48:03] I think this is a great opportunity to, I don't know,

[48:09] I'll be back up.

[48:10] I was at PNC and watched PNC when they talked about this plan

[48:14] for the Muscovy Squitch.

[48:16] And I was really impressed about how much effort has been put

[48:19] in around the berm and how it looks from the highway.

[48:22] And just, you know, we're coming into Taylor.

[48:24] We do really care about how people are transitioning from

[48:25] one city to the next and the way that appearance is.

[48:28] And we spent a lot of time caring about how that looks and how much property is there and

[48:33] if there's landscaping and making sure that it's consistent with the rest of our plan

[48:38] in that area as it develops.

[48:40] And what I also thought is interesting that this switch is directly related to the transmission

[48:47] lines that are going to go right across multiple districts.

[48:50] This is a really great opportunity for us to pause and leverage this moment to say not only

[48:56] is important that this looks good from the highway, that we're carrying about the look

[49:00] of that.

[49:01] But we're also carrying about the people that this enables these transmission lines to

[49:08] go forward.

[49:09] And until we have a plan around whether those transmission lines go, I think that we should

[49:13] hold off on completely approving this switch because that is the next process in line.

[49:20] And I feel like that just as equally as important as a berm full of graphs and the way the lines

[49:25] look, you can already see the polls that are in the pictures that we saw and being able

[49:29] to care so much about how that looks on our highway and as we approach our town to

[49:33] care equally as much as we care as how it comes through our properties, how it goes

[49:38] through the different sections of our town and how that affects not only visually but also

[49:42] the financial worth of that area.

[49:44] And so I'm going to ask the council to be bold enough to say, hey, on court, we love that

[49:49] you put so much effort into this.

[49:50] We want to see the effort that you commit to going around our city and making sure you're

[49:55] not encouraging property damages through these districts with your transmission lines

[50:00] before we're able to move ahead with this switch.

[50:03] Thank you.

[50:05] Anyone else?

[50:13] Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council.

[50:15] My name is Ashley Miller.

[50:15] I'm a siding specialist with Encore.

[50:18] I'm really just here to answer any questions that you may have as I'm sure that you may.

[50:24] We also have Mr. Corey here, our local area manager with Encore, that can also address any

[50:30] of your questions or concerns. Thank you. I'm sorry, you said you were a sighting specialist.

[50:36] Yes, ma'am. And what is this fighting sighting specialist?

[50:38] So I review any new stations that we have across our service territory and evaluate them

[50:46] from a zoning and permitting perspective. That's my background. I used to work for a city in

[50:52] the planning department. And so I advise on core on what's going to be required in order

[50:57] to meet the local standards across different jurisdictions

[51:02] and counties across our service territory.

[51:05] Fine job.

[51:06] It's busy.

[51:08] So not this topic, so I want to veer off, but just like last

[51:13] meeting in our instructions to encore, we don't want the power lines

[51:18] going through the city of Taylor.

[51:20] Period, we're pretty adamant of that.

[51:23] As Mr. M just said, this is just one, this is the base if you will.

[51:27] You've got to beer all from there, so let's just reiterate the lines need to go around Taylor and not through Taylor, so.

[51:35] Yes, sir.

[51:36] And one thing I will ask.

[51:37] But your site, according to Mr. site coordinator.

[51:39] Yes.

[51:40] Around.

[51:40] Yes, sir. One thing I will say to that is that this substation, or I'm sorry, this switching station will connect into the existing lines that are there today to better serve the city of Taylor so that.

[51:54] What power can be drawn from one area connected to this and switch and

[51:58] divert to different areas across Taylor should there be an outager, things of

[52:03] that nature. So it will serve directly the lines that are existing there today.

[52:10] So it's not going to serve any new lines at all.

[52:14] There's not that I know of today and I know that with the new lines the

[52:19] The CCN application has to be filed with the PUC and approved and that application has

[52:27] not been filed to my knowledge as of today and so the routes have not been fully vetted

[52:34] out and determined.

[52:35] And what we know today is that this switching station will connect into the existing ones

[52:39] that are there.

[52:40] Okay.

[52:41] But you're not saying it won't ever in the future connect to the ones that are being proposed

[52:45] currently.

[52:46] Yes, ma'am.

[52:47] I don't have a glass fall to know what the PEC is going to rule for those routing studies.

[52:53] But I know Corey is very plugged in with the concerns of the city rightfully so.

[53:01] And I know that we're hosting neighborhood meetings for those different routes and things

[53:08] like that as a requirement as a part of the filing process.

[53:12] So okay, but just one more so but if you when those transmission lines when the route has been determined

[53:18] It's unlikely that you're going to build another switch

[53:21] You're going to want to connect to one that you already have existing. I am not a hundred percent sure on that question

[53:28] No, if that was the plan

[53:29] It shows going from this switch that goes all the way to Rockville. Yeah

[53:35] So that's that's the biggest concern right there is we've got you know, same son highway is going around Taylor

[53:40] So let's make the transition line for the 347 go around take it also.

[53:44] We don't want those things in the city and we'd appreciate some kind of confirmation

[53:52] from on core that look the switch is going in and yes as Kerry said the berm hides it

[53:58] nicely because if you drive into huddle you see the one on the south side of 79 it's just

[54:04] glaring.

[54:04] So to hide it is great, but with the news that's come out and about the power lines going

[54:13] to Rockdale, we want to be firm that we want it around Taylor, because as you can tell

[54:22] in some of the growth that we have, we're already starting to go south, and we're going south

[54:26] to 79, and you're really going to hamstring the city of Taylor where you put those because

[54:33] the easement that you have to give, so you're going to hamstring development of Taylor by putting those in and it doesn't do us any good at all in the city.

[54:46] So we'd love for you to go south with it with those power lines, so that's.

[54:52] Yes, sir.

[54:53] Well, and we also want to consider our citizens of Taylor and the use and enjoyment of their land and we don't want a repeat of what happened with we have homeowners who have a huge gigantic poll in their front yard.

[55:06] There has to be some consideration of the residents in our town and that consideration needs to be given very thoughtfully and very diligently because everybody in this town who owns homes or whatever they have a right to enjoy that land.

[55:21] And they don't have they don't need to be looking at these big big transmission lines going right through their property

[55:29] Thank you sir for showing up. Appreciate you

[55:33] Any other citizens want to come up?

[55:35] Not the time is 6.55 and then we'll close the public hearing council any other questions

[55:42] for staff

[55:46] Not you have one cool. I guess a couple of things

[55:49] So in center in EC plan employment center plan

[55:53] It allows this use worth Martin that I mean it's obviously an allowed use in our code right now

[56:00] Employment center plan

[56:02] Because it matches the building form and the place tight the use is not a question now the screening thing is nice

[56:09] But what about the sides in the back?

[56:11] You know the screening berm six feet on the six feet tall close to it

[56:16] Not quite but

[56:17] But that's not very tall.

[56:20] Again, somebody else made the comment about huddle, when you're driving to huddle, and

[56:23] the things are ugly.

[56:26] And this is our future.

[56:27] This is right across from our side.

[56:28] I would love to do more than just a berm in the front.

[56:31] I don't know what that looks like.

[56:32] Maybe a taller berm.

[56:33] I don't know.

[56:33] Put something on the side.

[56:34] Some fencing.

[56:35] I don't know.

[56:36] Guys, y'all typically do fencing all the way around these things.

[56:38] I mean, obviously the one in huddle doesn't have it.

[56:40] But do you have fencing?

[56:41] Is that pretty typical?

[56:43] Ashton or Corey?

[56:44] So just to provide a quick answer, or they walk up, they are proposing a seven-foot-tall chain link fence.

[56:53] Chain link doesn't do anything for visual screening from the sides, but with that the plan showed a one-foot barbed wire section to provide an additional security for their site.

[57:07] I don't care about security. I want to know. Yeah. And with that work, the security is important. Don't get me wrong. Of course, of course, the visual

[57:15] With that, though, just more so the baseline of what they're proposing

[57:22] Yeah

[57:28] See your question is what else could we do? I guess it's what I'm I guess it's what I'm getting now

[57:32] What else can we do beside just a chain link fence on the side? You got the berm in the front

[57:36] You got chain link on the back. I guess chain link would actually go all the way around for security, which is great

[57:41] But what else can we do from a visual aesthetic standpoint as people are coming to tell you what else can you do for a session?

[57:49] This is where I'm getting that yeah, um, so

[57:52] What encore has done for other stations

[57:57] Across our service territory. We've we've got the chain link option the seven foot with a strand of barbed wire on top

[58:03] We have done where we add the plastic slats in between the chain link fence to better hide it and to screen it from public view.

[58:16] And we have also constructed an eight foot masonry wall which it's a panel wall that's concrete.

[58:26] essentially it slides into place in between the post and it looks like a

[58:33] typical masonry. It looks like stone. It's not break. It looks like like a

[58:38] masonry stone wall. I think that's what we want, isn't it councilman? I mean, what do we think?

[58:43] Is that probable? I mean, would that be appropriate? I mean, that would really

[58:48] give an 8-foot masonry wall. I think that would provide at least some visual

[58:53] screening all the way around. Not just on the front. What do you guys?

[59:00] You can

[59:00] set that condition, Mayor Protoom, Council, and then we can get back with the

[59:06] applicant and work on something to come back to the next council meeting.

[59:09] Right. This is only the first reason. Correct. Yep.

[59:12] So that's what you're asking for. I agree. Yeah, I'll be honest with guys. I'm just

[59:18] I'm just a point we had another citizen. This is off topic, but we had another

[59:21] system come tonight and said people are digging in a yard and you got to

[59:24] even let them know. I'm sorry to be like this, but Manage just that got me hot

[59:28] from Mr. Yeoverton that was here earlier after we had all this conversation about

[59:32] this before. You know Corey, I know you're a good guy, but this keeps happening over

[59:39] and over again. We've got to communicate with these people and just would just

[59:46] need to deal with that better guys.

[59:47] Yes sir, we can certainly work with staff in between now and our next reading for Council.

[59:56] and I just want to also give a shout out to your staff.

[1:00:00] They have been very communicative and great to work with. I do this across all of our service territory and it's not always that way. So I just really want to commend your staff as well. Thanks. I'll add on topics last off topic. Just put on your checklist. Your staffs know what they're doing tomorrow. So one of the checklists or tomorrow's worklists have the citizens been informed. It needs to be a yes or no question.

[1:00:29] And if it's a no, then don't show up the next day and start digging in somebody's yard.

[1:00:34] How is notice typically, or supposed to go out in a perfect world?

[1:00:38] And we're getting a little bit too much off topic.

[1:00:40] So that's not in my data.

[1:00:41] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:00:43] You're correct.

[1:00:43] That's fine.

[1:00:45] Yeah, last question, Cory, because this is not the agenda item.

[1:00:49] But thank you for showing up to get beat up again.

[1:00:52] It's no problem.

[1:00:53] No beat up.

[1:00:53] So, yes, no, I did go out and speak with the,

[1:00:56] I think we're running out of the, yes.

[1:00:59] And did explain to our light, you know,

[1:01:02] we should have knocked on doors,

[1:01:03] we should have done better on that.

[1:01:04] I told her that we're gonna take it back

[1:01:05] and see what we can do better

[1:01:07] to give better information to customers.

[1:01:09] I mean, we do have, honestly,

[1:01:10] you know, we have a lot of work going on

[1:01:11] and we do need to do a better job

[1:01:13] of letting people know what's going to the city.

[1:01:15] So, we're gonna take that back

[1:01:16] and see what process we can do to pawn to,

[1:01:19] to let them know of work coming.

[1:01:21] So, I know work with the city,

[1:01:22] We're looking at how we can put it out there, so that's kind of where we are right now.

[1:01:27] Thank you, sir.

[1:01:28] All right.

[1:01:28] Thanks, Court.

[1:01:29] Thank you.

[1:01:30] I do have a question for staff.

[1:01:35] Martin, the decision before us is to approve the Employment Center plan, but what are their options do we have?

[1:01:42] I mean, obviously we can deny it, but what would be the ramifications of denying this application?

[1:01:48] The ramifications behind denying it essentially puts them back at square one of redesigning the new plan.

[1:01:54] And then proposing that back through the process.

[1:01:58] As opposed to waiting until the further down the phase say we approve it and then further down the phase in you guys work out the aesthetics of what we want.

[1:02:08] Or can we deny it and then they have to put it in their in their employment.

[1:02:13] I'm just asking, right, and just let everyone have a good conversation here.

[1:02:20] With this being first reading, it gets an opportunity to put in additional stipulations.

[1:02:26] We've already heard Mayor Pratton talk about the wall of the whole way around the property.

[1:02:32] We'll definitely show back up with that as a condition for the final reading.

[1:02:38] But if there's discussion about additional landscaping, whether that be shrubs, trees, on the front side,

[1:02:48] they want to move the fence or the wall interior to the property and provide a good landscape against the front,

[1:02:55] to really beautify and create an interior way for the city, rather than just hiding everything behind the wall.

[1:03:04] There are opportunities and just because this is before

[1:03:09] each night doesn't mean that we can't amend or come up with a better plan than have those conditions

[1:03:16] sliced into the final reading.

[1:03:18] Okay.

[1:03:18] I just wanted to understand the process.

[1:03:20] I think it's the final reading and y'all aren't happy with it.

[1:03:22] You're more than willing to still have your action to deny the application and take it back

[1:03:33] I don't

[1:03:37] think I've closed it, have I?

[1:03:39] I did.

[1:03:40] Okay.

[1:03:41] Let me write it down.

[1:03:44] City Attorney, if you introduce the ordinance, please.

[1:03:47] Ordnance number 2026-13.

[1:03:49] An ordinance approving an employment center plan referred to as on-core

[1:03:52] misgivist switch station, consisting of approximately 51.19 acres of land.

[1:03:57] In the JCE survey, abstract number 2, 13, more particularly described by Wimpsons central appraisal district parcel, R5, 6, 5, 2, 1, 8,

[1:04:06] Taylor Wimpsons County, Texas, amending the official zoning map of the city of Taylor, Texas to show the zoning change adopted herein, providing the savings clause.

[1:04:16] Thank you.

[1:04:17] Now moving on to the regular agenda.

[1:04:19] Item 13 received the annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 2025.

[1:04:24] Mr. Roth.

[1:04:26] Thank you, Howard.

[1:04:27] Thank you, Mayor.

[1:04:29] It's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Mike Brooks

[1:04:32] with the accounting firm of Brooks Watson

[1:04:34] and Company.

[1:04:36] Mike is city's auditor and has been working

[1:04:39] with city staff to present this report to you tonight.

[1:04:44] Before he makes his presentation and remarks,

[1:04:48] I just want to give a public shout out to my staff

[1:04:51] that has worked diligently for the last couple of months

[1:04:54] helping to get Mike and his team the information they need.

[1:04:59] Also, it pains me, but I do want to thank my fellow directors

[1:05:03] because they did help as well, and their staff is great,

[1:05:08] but I will give them a compliment because we couldn't do it

[1:05:13] without them, so thank you.

[1:05:14] Thank you.

[1:05:20] Mayor Counsel, thank you, Robert.

[1:05:23] My name is Mike Brooks, Outer Department with Brooks Watson and Company, and I will be

[1:05:27] presenting you with your audited financial statements for the year-end at September 30th

[1:05:31] of 2025.

[1:05:33] You all do have a copy of the complete Comprehensive Financial Report.

[1:05:38] That is an extremely long report, I think we're somewhere in excess of 160 pages, so I don't

[1:05:45] anticipate that anybody had read it, covered cover, but I have prepared a summary presentation.

[1:05:51] This is going to go over some of the more important numbers and statements within the report still think I'll try to make it fast

[1:05:58] It is summarized so it's not going to touch on everything, but it is going to touch on a few important things

[1:06:03] So I would go over that and open enough questions

[1:06:07] Just to start Robert did think his staff. I also want to thank thank the city

[1:06:12] And audit is a two-way street, so we can't do our job unless the city participates

[1:06:16] So city the great job for us was able to give us everything we needed

[1:06:20] and the audit went smoothly, so we appreciate that.

[1:06:26] All right, first, I just want to briefly go over the audit process.

[1:06:29] The audit can be broken into...

[1:06:32] Sorry, I didn't know if I needed a pleasure or not.

[1:06:40] The audit can be broken into three general phases.

[1:06:42] The first is the planning and risk assessment phase.

[1:06:45] So this comes out...

[1:06:46] This is when we come out prior year-end, typically during the summer months.

[1:06:49] We are doing our fact-finding mission.

[1:06:51] So we are looking at all the internal controls, talking to staff, trying to find out what's

[1:06:56] been going on during the year, and putting together our preliminary audit plan.

[1:07:00] The next phase is the bulk of what we do.

[1:07:02] So this is our year in field work.

[1:07:03] So this is when we are auditing all material assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenditures

[1:07:09] across the city.

[1:07:11] And the final stage is the conclusion in reporting.

[1:07:13] So this is the wrap up of many findings that we do have, the preparation of the financial

[1:07:17] report, and the presentation of that report to Council.

[1:07:22] I do want to point out that the city has prepared a comprehensive annual financial report.

[1:07:27] This is opposed to a standard financial report.

[1:07:30] So there are some additional sections within your report here that are not required.

[1:07:35] They are optional.

[1:07:36] Not all cities are capable of preparing this.

[1:07:38] It does have a lot of useful information for the city and the citizens.

[1:07:41] In addition, this report is submitted to the GFOA and the GFOA does review it and potentially

[1:07:47] issue the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting. This is not an easy

[1:07:52] award to get. The city has submitted and received for the last 17 years this prestigious award so

[1:08:00] that city should be commended for that. The report you have in front of you will also be submitted

[1:08:06] and we fully anticipate that the city will receive it for an 18th year.

[1:08:15] All right. Next,

[1:08:16] Let's just want to briefly go over the components or the sections of your comprehensive financial

[1:08:21] report.

[1:08:22] First, we have the letter of transmittal, and I think we have the auditorium, followed by

[1:08:26] the management's discussion and analysis, then the financial statements, followed by the

[1:08:31] notes to the financial statements, then the required supplementary information, required

[1:08:37] supplementary information, and finally the statistical section.

[1:08:40] I do want to focus here on the auditorium's opinion.

[1:08:44] Now, the auditor's opinion is our contribution to your financial report.

[1:08:49] So everything you see in front of you in this report is derived from city data, city records

[1:08:53] and city financial data and policies.

[1:08:57] The auditor's opinion is our opinion over those financial statements.

[1:09:02] So are these financial statements reliable and accurate?

[1:09:04] Are the numbers that you're seeing within this report reliable and are they consistent

[1:09:10] with generally accepted accounting principles?

[1:09:13] So, we're happy to say that we were able to issue a clean, unmodified audit opinion over

[1:09:18] the financial financials.

[1:09:19] That is the highest level of assurance that we can give that these financial statements

[1:09:23] are free of any material misstatement, and all footnotes are disclosed.

[1:09:28] Why can you say that again?

[1:09:30] Because I think that's important for the citizens to understand that we handle their tax money

[1:09:35] and their money, because it's their money in the end.

[1:09:37] We handle it well.

[1:09:37] and we account for properly and we're taking care of things appropriately, so the fact that we're getting the highest level of assurance, that's a big deal.

[1:09:47] I think we can't overemphasize that.

[1:09:49] Yeah, absolutely.

[1:09:50] And if there was one thing that I pointed out this evening, that would be it.

[1:09:53] So our auditors opinion really is the stamp of approval on the financial statements as far as being reliable and accurate.

[1:10:01] And the fact that you said that we go above and beyond an inspection, we're not required

[1:10:08] to do that, but the city has always done that, so that's awesome, thank you, sir.

[1:10:13] All right, so next, do you just want to touch on several financial highlights?

[1:10:21] So first we're going to point out some of the changes in revenues for your governmental funds.

[1:10:26] This does not include your utility revenues or any other enterprise funds, but it is just

[1:10:30] your general fund that's every special revenue capital projects funds so the

[1:10:37] total M&O property taxes this year were about 6.6 million this was a decrease

[1:10:41] of about just under 900,000 from the prior year that's related to your M&O rate

[1:10:47] which also decreased from 0.3607 and 24 to 0.31 and 25. Your INS property tax is

[1:10:57] This was an increase of about 2.3.

[1:11:00] Your INS taxes should be consistent with your tax debt service.

[1:11:06] It should mirror that debt service or whatever you bring in.

[1:11:10] It should pay your tax back debt.

[1:11:15] The city did issue about 12.7 million and new CO debt during the year.

[1:11:20] and your INS tax rate increased from 2.681 to, I'm sorry, it increased 2.2681 from point,

[1:11:32] yeah, I'm sorry, from point 2681, my apologies, 2.2813 in the current year. Your total sales

[1:11:41] taxes were just under 9.4 million. This was a decrease of about 11.3 million. Now this seems

[1:11:48] a big due increase but I think it brings it where that the same sum manufacturing boosted

[1:11:52] your sales tax and that was not a permanent change. Your grant revenues for the year

[1:11:58] totaled 4.4 million almost 4.5 and had an increase of about 2.8 million in your investment

[1:12:04] income this year totaled about 5.8 million.

[1:12:12] Next do you want to go over the general fund

[1:12:15] your changes in fund balance and your budget to actual for the general fund. First we're going to

[1:12:19] talk about the budget results for the year. On the left hand side, you do see your budgeted

[1:12:25] revenues, expenditures, other financing sources and uses which are generally going to be your

[1:12:29] transfers, and your overall net change in fund balance for the year. To the right of that,

[1:12:35] you see your actual results and then the positive or negative budget variance all the way to the right.

[1:12:41] So the first number I want to point out is your revenue changes in revenue. So you did have a

[1:12:47] negative revenue variance this year, about 4.3 million, that was almost entirely related to

[1:12:54] your estimate on sales tax. I know that was probably not an easy thing to estimate, but that

[1:12:59] made up the majority of that negative variance. Below that you had a positive expenditure variance,

[1:13:04] just under just over 1.1 million. So that means you spent about 1.1 million dollars less than you

[1:13:11] anticipated with your final budget and you had a other financing sources and

[1:13:16] uses which I said are primarily transfers. You had a negative budget variance

[1:13:20] about 653,000 there so while you budgeted for an overall increase in fund

[1:13:25] balance of just just under 2.5 million the city had an actual decrease in

[1:13:31] fund balance this year about 1.3 million and that resulted in an overall negative

[1:13:37] a budget variance of $3.8 million.

[1:13:40] All right, so your general fund balance decreased this year by $1.3 million.

[1:13:46] Now that does roll into certain categories of fund balance.

[1:13:51] It can be assigned or unassigned.

[1:13:55] So what I want to point out is your unassigned fund balance.

[1:14:00] The GF away recommends at least a two month or 15% reserve in unassigned fund balance for

[1:14:06] future expenditures or just a rainy day fund. The city has a policy of having at least 25 percent

[1:14:14] in this unassigned fund balance category. As of the end of the year, the city ended with just

[1:14:20] over 22 million, which equated to about 79 percent of your annual general fund expenditures.

[1:14:27] So certainly above city policy and in a very healthy position.

[1:14:38] Next, I do want to touch on your

[1:14:40] proprietary funds, this includes your utility, airport, cemetery, and sanitation funds.

[1:14:45] These funds are different than your governmental funds in that they are supported by rates

[1:14:50] and they should be self-supporting.

[1:14:51] So those rates should be set at the level to do fund operations, debt service, and any

[1:14:56] capital improvements.

[1:14:58] So really the most important thing we want to do is to make sure that you have a lot of

[1:15:00] I want to point out here is just, are these funds self-supporting? So are those rates set at the appropriate level? If you see year over year decreases in your net position, so you have losses for the year, no single year is going to be the, you know, by itself an indicator, you wouldn't look at a trend. But I do want to point out that the utility fund had an increase in that position this year about 9.5 million. And a lot of this was related to capital contribution.

[1:15:29] So, you did have about, you know, an excess of 4 million in capital contributions come

[1:15:34] in.

[1:15:34] So, that shows up as revenue recorded as an asset and then depreciated.

[1:15:39] Your airport fund had an increase of about 2.3 million.

[1:15:43] Also had some capital contributions contributing to that.

[1:15:46] Symmetry fund had an increase of 21,000 and your sanitation fund had an increase of about

[1:15:52] 251,000.

[1:15:54] So, overall, all your funds were in good shape and we didn't see any indications of any

[1:15:58] rate issues or operational issues.

[1:16:07] Next, I just want to touch on several major

[1:16:10] capital outlay events that are included in this report. So the city spent about

[1:16:15] $580,000 on your memorial track renovation. Your new public works in utility

[1:16:21] billing, utility building. You had about 4.6 million spent on adoring the year.

[1:16:27] City added a custom bumper of $666,000. Mustain create drainage improvements

[1:16:33] totaled 854,000. You're quite a center renovation, totaled just over 6 million.

[1:16:40] Bull branch and Donna, Donna Channel drainage, totaled just over a million.

[1:16:44] You had 20, you had street maintenance of about 2.6 million. You had improvements,

[1:16:50] wastewater improvements to FM 1973 and County Red 401 of 477,000. You were

[1:16:56] Bull branch sanitary sewer improvements totaled 6, just over 600,000 and you had

[1:17:01] airport terminal design and the fuel facility costs of about 2.5.

[1:17:13] Next next is a

[1:17:14] summary of the public funds investment act. So in addition to the city's

[1:17:18] financial audit we are required to come in and audit the city's compliance with

[1:17:22] the public funds investment act. So has the city adopted an investment policy

[1:17:27] that's in accordance with this act, have all the investment officers attended the

[1:17:31] correct training are the correct correctly put together investment or

[1:17:37] force being presented to council at least quarterly so we do review a number

[1:17:41] of factors related to this this act and I'm happy to say that the city was

[1:17:45] in compliance with all requirements of the PFI all

[1:17:54] right so in addition to the

[1:17:57] audit report I have provided two additional letters one is our required

[1:18:00] order to disclosure letter. This has certain communications in it. One of the more important

[1:18:07] things are the journal entries that we proposed for the audit. So when we come in and audit

[1:18:11] the books quite often there are corrections that need to be made to bring the accounts

[1:18:15] into accordance with GAP. So if we need to make it just different accrual or change an estimate

[1:18:21] or capitalization of an asset, we do propose those entries and then the city will enter those

[1:18:27] into the city's accounting system, so the numbers that you guys receive in your report

[1:18:32] should be consistent with the gap financials in the effort.

[1:18:39] In addition we have our findings and recommendations.

[1:18:41] We did have a few minor findings over each of the details, but if you did have any questions

[1:18:48] on those, I would be happy to touch them.

[1:18:52] So that does conclude my summary presentation, I try to keep it quick for you, but like I

[1:18:58] said, if you have questions, I would be happy

[1:18:59] to talk about anything in more detail.

[1:19:05] Council, questions for Mr. Brooks?

[1:19:13] No, nothing down here either.

[1:19:15] I just want to thank you again, Mr. Brooks,

[1:19:17] for coming in for said eyes every year

[1:19:21] and keeping us honest,

[1:19:22] and even though it pains Robert to.

[1:19:25] Yeah, we thank his fellow directors, but.

[1:19:28] Yeah, it's not an easy process,

[1:19:30] and it does take quite a bit of effort.

[1:19:32] We come in and try to summarize it in 10 minutes,

[1:19:35] but city works really hard on it and it's a several month process.

[1:19:40] And I think I do want to point out is not all cities are able to issue their audit report in February.

[1:19:46] So getting it, getting it early is a benefit to all the readers and not an easy thing to do.

[1:19:55] Now pertaining to the city of Taylor, by doing this audit annually, it just baffles me that we see news all the time

[1:20:02] that cities get in a trouble of can't find $10 million, $30 million, and how is that even possible,

[1:20:10] but we're not here to solve other people's problems.

[1:20:13] Yeah, you know, it's easy to say for granted when things are functioning correctly,

[1:20:17] and the will of turning how they're supposed to, when the car goes off the track and get bad pretty quick.

[1:20:23] Yeah, for sure. No questions? Not, I'll take a motion.

[1:20:28] I'll make a motion to receive the annual comprehensive financial report.

[1:20:32] The Court has presented.

[1:20:34] Motion made by Mayor Plutim-Someric.

[1:20:36] Go ahead a second.

[1:20:37] I'll second it.

[1:20:38] Thank you.

[1:20:38] By Councilman Redden.

[1:20:41] Any comments?

[1:20:43] All those in favor, please say aye.

[1:20:45] Aye.

[1:20:45] Opposed?

[1:20:47] Thank you, sir.

[1:20:48] Thank you.

[1:20:49] Appreciate it.

[1:20:50] Item 14, discussion, consideration, and possible action on ordinance 2026-02, a special use

[1:20:58] This permit to allow lodging without a full time onsite operator at property generally located at 3,004 Donhill Lane, legally described, prop broadest dates, block C, 94.027 acres of land.

[1:21:12] More particularly described by Williamson Central appraisal district parcel R427227 Taylor Williamson County, Texas.

[1:21:22] Mr. Griggs.

[1:21:28] So this has previously been brought to y'all and discussed so I'll make the presentation fairly short.

[1:21:36] But do stop me if you want to touch on these slides in particular.

[1:21:43] Here's the property on downhill lane.

[1:21:46] The notification area has been shared previously.

[1:21:49] Obviously, this slide has not been updated, so it is original to the original presentation.

[1:21:57] As you may recall, there was some discussion at the last account meeting where this was

[1:22:03] discussed, I want to say, in December, and of course there was, you know, that exchange

[1:22:12] then.

[1:22:13] And so here's a look at the property where the short term

[1:22:18] rental is proposed.

[1:22:21] Short term rental is required to gain the special use permit

[1:22:27] within the P3 district as lodging with a full time

[1:22:33] onsite operator is allowed.

[1:22:35] However, if there's not a full time onsite operator,

[1:22:39] and that's what drives the need for a special use permit to be approved.

[1:22:46] The applet has provided certain stipulations.

[1:22:51] Those stipulations are being utilized to inform and kind of hold through with the ordinance

[1:23:00] and then staff has recommended changes to reduce the overall time period for this specific

[1:23:10] S&P from three years to one year and that a renewal permit will need to be submitted each

[1:23:20] year to permit the use of the short-term rental and that the short-term rental would have

[1:23:27] have to post that permit to be in compliance.

[1:23:32] So again, this was the Planning and Zoning Commission

[1:23:37] the November 12, 2025 meeting where

[1:23:41] they voted 401 to recommend this approval of the request.

[1:23:47] And then this was brought to the City Council on December 11th

[1:23:53] at that time.

[1:23:55] the applicant, Mr. Orain Opinion, spoke in support.

[1:24:00] David Castanan spoke again from their council discussed

[1:24:05] providing an inventory of all the short-term rentals

[1:24:08] throughout the city and building towards process

[1:24:13] for the ordinance, or building an ordinance for the process

[1:24:18] to gain a permit for the short-term rentals.

[1:24:22] staffs currently working on that and we'll have a draft over to the City Attorney

[1:24:28] Food Review and then we'll bring it back with consideration on our future agenda.

[1:24:35] At that time on December 11th, the election was taken.

[1:24:41] So just to put a bell on it, what's in front of you tonight is first approval for

[1:24:49] that specific, that special use permit with a non-transferable one-year timeframe to it and that will coincide with us bringing forward, with staff bringing forward that additional ordinance to have a more formalized process for short-term rents.

[1:25:13] that mayor will pass back to you.

[1:25:16] Thank you, sir.

[1:25:18] Councilor Lee, questions, I know I have some comments

[1:25:21] at least on this.

[1:25:23] I guess on this new ordinance.

[1:25:25] Right.

[1:25:28] If we approve this tonight,

[1:25:30] would the new ordinance supersede this

[1:25:32] and make the applicant doing the additional,

[1:25:35] or I have to take the additional steps

[1:25:38] to maintain this allowing the lodging

[1:25:43] with that now full-time operator on site.

[1:25:47] So if you approve this, they will have to abide by whatever terms

[1:25:53] and conditions get approved in that new ordinance.

[1:25:57] However, they probably won't have a public hearing that's attached

[1:26:00] to it.

[1:26:01] This public hearing takes care of their ability to go

[1:26:05] and perform up until that year and deadline.

[1:26:09] So they may have like a license or a permit that they have to, you know, pay in order to

[1:26:18] get the hotel occupancy taxes, start rolling in, that sort of thing, but it wouldn't be

[1:26:25] like this.

[1:26:28] I'm, you know, kindly disagree with that statement because they've agreed or recommending

[1:26:36] meeting, max capacity of five people, no pets allowed, guests are not permitted, quiet

[1:26:42] hours, staffs recommending, they're setting all these precedents if we were to approve

[1:26:49] it tonight, then they have 12 months to live by that. And then if we, if future councils

[1:26:57] change the ordinance, it's kind of like changing the rules after the game has started. I don't

[1:27:03] I think they can do that.

[1:27:04] I guess, yeah, maybe that's a question for legal.

[1:27:06] Will this applicant be vested with this SUP?

[1:27:10] At least for the new ordinance has.

[1:27:12] For one year.

[1:27:15] I don't have the SUP in front of me.

[1:27:16] I have an issue that we talked about

[1:27:18] in discussing this new ordinance.

[1:27:20] And so I think there's some unknowns

[1:27:21] kind of cutting on how the ordinance ends up reading.

[1:27:24] There are probably some things we can enforce.

[1:27:26] Maybe some things that are specifically set out

[1:27:28] in this SUP that may be different

[1:27:31] from the ordinance that we could not enforce

[1:27:33] was until it was ended a year.

[1:27:36] Yeah, yeah, but my apologies.

[1:27:39] I was trying to lay out a two option.

[1:27:42] Yes, sir.

[1:27:43] No worries, no worries.

[1:27:45] I've just, I've approved enough SUPs on this type of stuff.

[1:27:51] So I just want to be fair to this applicant.

[1:27:54] And I think reducing it to one year is great,

[1:27:59] especially with the ordinance coming up the road.

[1:28:02] And as well as the listing of all the SUPs that are out there so we know we can kind of do apples to apples and

[1:28:09] Figure out where they're at and put her in our GIS system and say hey, here's all the SUPs. Bam.

[1:28:14] It's easy pickings and but when you start picking and choosing the winners and losers

[1:28:20] I think that's a little unfair, but because it's the one year

[1:28:25] I know how I'm gonna vote council

[1:28:27] Well, I sort of like to see the SUP go through before you that way

[1:28:32] we know what the game plan is because when you look at the police report for this location

[1:28:40] in the first quarter of last year there was you know a threat for a threat and some noise

[1:28:47] complaints and a dog bite and that may be why we're not least doing no pets in it.

[1:28:53] But this is just that was just a small sample of what they had when we asked for it for last

[1:28:59] last year and so the S.U.P. would help us to show this is what we're going to have to go

[1:29:07] by.

[1:29:08] And I may have miss spoken on that to infer that the S.T.R. requirements that are built

[1:29:15] in the land development code are still going to exist.

[1:29:19] The permitting aspect is what the future ordinance is going to discuss and I realize that it's

[1:29:27] There's a nomenclature issue of permit here and permit there, but there are two separate

[1:29:32] issues as far as I see it.

[1:29:36] So the SUP, it would still come forward with the SUP, we would still have public hearings

[1:29:42] in order to say which ones are, because it will be an outside ordinance not necessarily tied

[1:29:52] to each second. There would be it within the code of ordinances.

[1:29:57] And what's the time? Estimated time for...

[1:30:02] I'm looking forward to taking it and bringing it forward to y'all in March.

[1:30:08] I think we have five or six S U P's currently for short term rolls with no. Yeah, it wasn't very many.

[1:30:22] I think this is just the first time we've had. Push back from a neighbor, specific issues. I like that answer of March, because it's only a month.

[1:30:32] If you're going to tell me six months, then I would say this guy hasn't been generating

[1:30:38] revenue in this house for how long.

[1:30:40] It's not fair.

[1:30:41] But if we're only talking next month, then, okay.

[1:30:45] Well, he can rent it out.

[1:30:46] He just can't do short-term, like, he can rent it out to somebody who sounds a year at

[1:30:51] least.

[1:30:51] That's fine.

[1:30:52] It's just the short-term nature of it.

[1:30:53] We have people coming in and out.

[1:30:55] We want a weekly basis, multi-basis are so full.

[1:30:58] I think that's what this is all about.

[1:31:03] Council.

[1:31:06] I'll

[1:31:10] make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-02 as presented.

[1:31:19] May by Councilwoman Long.

[1:31:23] Is there a second?

[1:31:33] Having no second? I will take a

[1:31:36] recommendation on actions by Council. I make a recommendation that we hold off

[1:31:41] for a month when we have the SEP that we've got some more and then revisit it at the

[1:31:49] same time.

[1:31:50] Say it in a full sentence, please.

[1:31:52] I make a motion that we hold off on this for at least one month when we get the SEP

[1:31:57] in and the ordinance so we can look at both of them at the same time.

[1:32:02] Motion made by Councilman Ridd.

[1:32:03] Did I do that?

[1:32:04] You don't need to make a motion.

[1:32:05] just action. Just like Council gives kind of a staff direction. Okay. Okay. Any discussion on the motion?

[1:32:14] As you the motion fails, yes. Yeah. Now you just give them directions. Thank you, sir. So any discussion on that recommendation?

[1:32:22] Concurrents at least. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we need to do you understand, Mr. LeVort? All right.

[1:32:29] We'll move on to item 15. Receive an update on field services and local drainage project updates

[1:32:36] Mr. Griggs, oh no, I'm sorry, Mr. Jacobs.

[1:32:40] If you'd like to, good evening Mayor and Council.

[1:32:44] As you heard in the audit, there's a lot of construction activity going on and as you

[1:32:48] see just out in the field, there's a lot of construction activity going on.

[1:32:50] So we thought this would be a good time to update you in public on things that they may

[1:32:55] see out in the streets, in space, at what they mean and they give a specific update on

[1:33:02] the local drainage products that are some in construction, some are soon to be into construction.

[1:33:07] So that's quick updates and questions today.

[1:33:12] So that ground is, we've got CFP projects all over town.

[1:33:17] They differ in their levels of impact.

[1:33:19] Some are in the street, some are in the right of way, some are in private easement.

[1:33:23] So there are different types of capital projects.

[1:33:27] They are different than also your third-party utility construction projects like we heard

[1:33:32] about earlier in the council meeting.

[1:33:36] So typically, project will require data collection at the very early stages.

[1:33:40] Sometimes these year-long engineering designs are six month longs.

[1:33:43] The first step in that is to go collect the data in the field.

[1:33:47] You do that with surveyors, geotechs, other field service folks who get out there and collect

[1:33:53] the data so that the engineers can design it to limit complications in the field during

[1:33:59] construction.

[1:34:00] But the time frame is very, very different than construction is about to happen.

[1:34:05] So this is when you'll see the survey cruise out, you'll see people out there look and it's

[1:34:09] like, oh, there's activity, that's really the very beginning of design.

[1:34:13] So there's usually a long lag time and just trying to make sure that everyone understands

[1:34:17] the differences in that.

[1:34:19] And what they mean when they see those folks out there.

[1:34:23] So what field services are?

[1:34:25] So you'll see survey markings.

[1:34:26] You see them a lot.

[1:34:27] Kind of they all have a color.

[1:34:29] Those colors usually all mean something.

[1:34:30] I won't read each one to you.

[1:34:32] But you can see there's a language in colors of paint and flags.

[1:34:37] And that's a language that Jim's apartment as well.

[1:34:41] And engineers well, no well.

[1:34:43] And contractors know well.

[1:34:44] So when they're out there doing things, colors mean things.

[1:34:47] flags and paint are set to really capture those unique features.

[1:34:52] Flag sometimes are set at boundary markers, at specific locations, sometimes they'll flag

[1:34:56] the whole right of way, sometimes they'll flag on the alignment and sometimes it's

[1:34:59] paint.

[1:35:00] But that's all intended to aid office staff in designing those lines or picked up in survey.

[1:35:08] So then the surveyors will, with GPS, say this is where all these lines are, we'll bring

[1:35:14] them into the plans and lay it all out and make sure that the infrastructure design mitigates

[1:35:19] or misses or addresses any conflicts with existing utilities.

[1:35:25] Another thing we do is and that you'll see at times are what we call SU, subsurface

[1:35:31] utility engineering.

[1:35:32] So this is, there's different layers of SU, some is just record drawings okay, Atmos says

[1:35:38] the gas line is here, on course says the electric line is here based on their record drawings

[1:35:42] and they paint that there based on full dimensions from certain known landmarks.

[1:35:46] Sometimes with Sue, you'll see a back truck out there digging a hole to find the communication line vertically and horizontally.

[1:35:56] And you know that line is exactly right there.

[1:36:00] We do that typically because it's pretty expensive to do that.

[1:36:03] You do that typically only when there's very critical conflicts going on in the field that you must avoid.

[1:36:08] you need to know very precise locations of those utilities.

[1:36:12] But the point of all of this is to reduce the risk of striking buried lines in construction.

[1:36:17] That causes delays and costs.

[1:36:19] And it aids inefficiency of the design so that the contractors have a certainty when they're bidding on the projects.

[1:36:25] These folks knew what was going on in the field.

[1:36:31] Okay, tree tagging and you'll see numbers and little metal pens on trees sometimes.

[1:36:39] Sometimes it will accompany a ribbon, sometimes not.

[1:36:42] What this is, it's a surveyor who takes the usually chest caliper diameter of the tree

[1:36:49] and will mark it with a number.

[1:36:51] And then they'll have a big tree table that says tree 11.08 is a red oak that's 30 inches

[1:36:57] in diameter at the breast.

[1:36:59] And that helps the engineering team then design it because it has a certain size canopy

[1:37:06] with the trunk and each one of those means different things for where you can put infrastructure in the ground, where you're going to mess with the roots where you're not.

[1:37:13] These do not mean the trees are going to get removed. It just means that you're collecting data on that tree so that the engineers can design it the right way.

[1:37:23] You'll see trucks like this in the near future will communicate through the appropriate channels win, but on Davis Street because that's the street that Councillor has said, yes, go maintain Davis Street next.

[1:37:36] So what geotechnical borings do is they'll come typically on existing pavement

[1:37:40] sometimes just out in the dirt but we will see a lot of it is on existing pavement

[1:37:45] they'll take a bore to see what that street is made out of. Subgrade black space

[1:37:51] how thick is the asphalt is there any lime treatment is there any water in that

[1:37:56] section so they'll tell us what is our existing street made out of so that then we

[1:38:01] can say what does it need to be made out of and the future design.

[1:38:06] The disruptions associated with this are usually only a few hours so they're out there

[1:38:11] pretty quick, they drill their hole and they get out of there.

[1:38:13] They patch it with asphalt when they're done and you'll see it anytime you see a hockey

[1:38:17] puck size brand new fresh asphalt that's usually going to be from a bore.

[1:38:24] That is kind of my stopping point on what you see out there before design during data collection

[1:38:31] And before I get into the local drainage independent updates, any questions on general field services that you'll see during a data collection phase of the project?

[1:38:41] Well, it's good information, especially on the trees, because I had a lot of neighbors on the Lexington freak out that their tree was going to be moved.

[1:38:48] Yeah, cut down.

[1:38:49] Glad to be presenting this so everybody has an understanding.

[1:38:53] Anything else on general services?

[1:38:55] I think that there's a large majority of our citizens who are really gun shy right now after the encore massive polls have shown up in their yard with no warning.

[1:39:11] And so when they start to see paint and they start to see flags and nobody's told them anything they immediately just get scared.

[1:39:20] what's happening, what are they about to do to my yard,

[1:39:24] what are they about, you know, am I getting a poll?

[1:39:29] And some of the drainage projects that you're about to discuss

[1:39:34] brought that out of a lot of people in town,

[1:39:37] a lot of my neighbors reached out for, you know,

[1:39:40] scared to death because all of a sudden there were,

[1:39:43] with no warning, no information, nothing.

[1:39:46] Our yards were just dotted with paint and flags

[1:39:49] And so people obviously were like, Shelley, what's happening?

[1:39:54] What's happening?

[1:39:54] And I'm like, Brian, what's happening?

[1:39:56] What's happening?

[1:39:59] So that's a great presentation.

[1:40:02] It's very informative.

[1:40:05] It might should have come a little earlier.

[1:40:09] And so you would really be nice for those people to know,

[1:40:13] hey, don't be alarmed.

[1:40:15] This is what you may see some of this coming up in the next

[1:40:19] few days in your neighborhood. This is what it is, you know, so that it's not just in

[1:40:24] just like the lady here tonight. No one told her anything. I know that's not the city

[1:40:30] that was on court, but no one told her anything. And a lot of people who have these huge polls

[1:40:35] in their yards right now, no one told them anything. So I think we just need to do a better

[1:40:40] job of getting ahead of scaring the death out of our citizens when stuff like that pops

[1:40:47] and communicating with them that this is coming and this is happening, why it's coming, why it's happening, what can we do about it, what can we not do about it to stop some of the some of this hysteria?

[1:41:01] No, I definitely understand it. I understand. We've been working with communications department on capital projects. There's a good plan in place to get ahead of any, any field, anything in the field.

[1:41:17] Right of way permitting is different than capital permitting. So make sure that through right away permitting they're going to be doing the same thing at the right away permitting or those third part of utilities.

[1:41:27] not just on court others that are coming and doing,

[1:41:30] they'll be paint out there for everything.

[1:41:33] They're required to buy our code,

[1:41:36] call for painting of existing utilities,

[1:41:39] anytime they're gonna do anything.

[1:41:41] And so that's where we may need to work with 8-1-1

[1:41:46] so I'm gonna see because we'll call for 8-1-1

[1:41:48] and they work all over and so they're not necessarily

[1:41:51] going to call and tell anybody

[1:41:52] they're gonna come put paint down.

[1:41:54] So we have a right away management ordinance but then also with that some utility companies

[1:42:02] we require franchise agreements on core has one at miss has one telecommunications they

[1:42:10] may have one but overall our overarching is our right away management ordinance and then

[1:42:16] there is notifications on it now do they all follow it no and it is a cat

[1:42:24] mouse game you know our projects capital projects you know we want to

[1:42:30] follow the law we want to do what's right but unfortunately with some third

[1:42:35] parties it's not that case and we have to stay on it it's unfortunate we

[1:42:40] expand a lot of city resources trying to catch them even on weekends after

[1:42:46] hours so it is unfortunate but we have to do that because we shouldn't be doing

[1:42:52] their job but sometimes we have to to notify. So but when it is our job when we do

[1:43:00] when it is a capital project we do a enable one call and they do spray paint or

[1:43:06] they start to notify yes we we we go on top of that because we have a project

[1:43:10] manager to see that but third parties if it's like a maintenance they'll submit

[1:43:14] for a permit they have the ordinance they know what to do but unfortunately we have to sometimes

[1:43:21] after the fact go after because they didn't do it what teeth do the what I mean well they have

[1:43:29] a ride by law to work in our right away understood that you said we have a franchise agreement and we have

[1:43:35] the right away ordinance but if they don't comply you can stop them till they comply

[1:43:43] She can't stop them completely.

[1:43:46] So we have to play that game.

[1:43:48] No, that's one issue is the right away bit.

[1:43:51] Also too, you know, a lot of our residents don't necessarily know that they might have

[1:43:55] a structure like a fence or a tree or something that's in the utility easement, you know, because

[1:44:01] a lot of them don't have their property surveys right at hand.

[1:44:05] So I think the faster we can get notification out to them and explain it to them is, I know

[1:44:10] I've talked to Daniel a couple of times and he seems to be, he's got some good ideas

[1:44:15] about how to next steps to improve this process.

[1:44:20] We have a little more control on rideaways, it makes it a little tougher when it's also

[1:44:25] textot, ride away because they have their own permitting and not often do they give

[1:44:31] us heads up so we have to also work that channel as well and that makes it challenging.

[1:44:37] And if it's not on our right away, if it's in a utility easement, it's behind somebody's house, the city really doesn't have much teeth there

[1:44:45] And they're still required to come, you know, we want them to come paint the grass because we want them to mark where our water lines are.

[1:44:51] Oh, yeah, I know you're suggesting we don't want them to do that, but we're just trying to make it.

[1:44:57] Yeah, we required them to paint.

[1:45:00] We can't find utilities. We get on to them if they don't do that. And we've seen some of the results of that on Main Street over the last two years. So Shelley, what would you have liked to see you live there? They just did all this in your neighborhood a week or two ago. I mean, just like a simple door hanger. So head is what we're doing. I think that's easy quick and and gives them a resource. Please reach out if you have any other questions. We may not have control of when those third parties are going to come out and do that stuff. But we have control of the knowledge of the project.

[1:45:29] Right. On ours. Yeah. And so with ours, absolutely. Yeah. So with ours, you know, that's definitely something we can control that. Absolutely. And even with their party, a lot of

[1:45:42] Okay, we can say on top of that. Like a yard sign. I mean, this project's coming through here. Yes. And we can do that. And typically we'll put a

[1:45:54] the IP sign.

[1:45:55] Yeah.

[1:45:56] You know, your text all the time.

[1:45:57] So we do that for our CIP.

[1:45:58] And we get some of our third party vendors when they have our ordinance and stuff.

[1:46:04] Depends.

[1:46:05] No, not really.

[1:46:06] No, they're wrong.

[1:46:07] We negotiated that.

[1:46:09] Some right now in our right-of-way management ordinance is a three by three sign that just

[1:46:14] provides notification and a number.

[1:46:17] That's really it.

[1:46:22] Yeah.

[1:46:22] And we do, and we'll get into it a little bit with the drainage projects and specific examples.

[1:46:26] So we met out on this project yesterday, but once we are into design and we start understanding what issues are, that's when we typically begin communicating with residents.

[1:46:40] We don't want to scare folks early year than needed because they're going to say, what are you doing?

[1:46:48] We don't know, we're just gathering data right now.

[1:46:50] But we understand when we can, we will do that.

[1:46:53] But typically, once we get into a design process,

[1:46:55] we understand what things are going to happen to solve the problem.

[1:47:00] Then we can say what impacts are these folks going to have?

[1:47:03] Like on Tami Lane.

[1:47:05] You know, what's going to happen is there's about 200 acres of land

[1:47:09] drains to this green box right now.

[1:47:11] So we're trying to get some of that around it.

[1:47:14] And so we're trying to, we're going to put in a 42-inch bypass pipe,

[1:47:18] get that water into that pipe and around those people's homes so that they aren't impacted

[1:47:23] anymore. Then that will dump into this channel here, just off of Kent. But what we see is okay,

[1:47:31] there's pipe up sizing that needs to happen in a city easement between homes. So we start coordinating

[1:47:37] with those homeowners and say here are the fences or you have a shrub that you have a pipe that's the

[1:47:43] city's pipe under the ground that needs to be improved because it's

[1:47:46] undersized. Then we start working with them on what it's going to take so

[1:47:51] that when we make the final plans to go to bid, all of those items are in the

[1:47:55] bid sets so that change orders down the way or.

[1:47:57] That temporary fencing, if the fence is in the way.

[1:48:01] Yeah, or replanting, or replanting vegetation, but all those things we have to call

[1:48:04] for in our plan sets so that they can be paid for in the bid.

[1:48:10] So we try to get that through design.

[1:48:11] But we're going to start doing is doing neighborhood meetings during design phase once we get towards the end of design

[1:48:16] Make sure that we've captured all those things and then do another as we just did with Donna channel

[1:48:22] With the contractor. It's really good once the contractors on board that we visit with the neighbors and the person who's gonna

[1:48:28] Actually be doing the work during the design phase. We don't know who's going to be doing the work

[1:48:32] So it's we don't have anybody to show them as their guy yet, but we can tell them what's about to happen

[1:48:39] Specifically if this project what you're going to see is street trenching and then so you'll

[1:48:42] have some road closures off and on you'll have construction noise and dust like normal.

[1:48:47] You'll have landscape and irrigation disruption potentially or we just talked about in these

[1:48:52] green areas where there are you're in you're in someone's easement that's between two property

[1:48:57] lines and there are not you know there's a fence across it so there's some coordination

[1:49:02] that's required and that's typical on existing rehabs and then select a tree removal you know

[1:49:08] this creek is filled with trees right now that they're blocking flow of water which is a big

[1:49:14] part of why sediment builds up and then it backs up so then some trees will have to go that are

[1:49:19] in that creek and that's just one one project example kind of what what people will feel and we'll

[1:49:25] begin to work with them. Similar Velma drives another one Velma we're adding curb in this 21

[1:49:31] one curbulence, try to catch the water off of the road along Velma and you'll see people

[1:49:38] or maybe seeing activity right now or in the red boxes on Pintail, Mildred, and then

[1:49:44] this I think is Carolyn, where you're seeing additional flags or information gathering

[1:49:50] because we, through design, say we need a little more survey over here so that we make sure

[1:49:54] that we have the right design to account for all of it.

[1:49:56] So activities that might be going on in these red boxes are just data gathering right now.

[1:50:03] Again, you know what might be, what might be impacts as we get there will be additional

[1:50:07] street trenching, some road closures, there will be construction noise and dust.

[1:50:12] And then anytime when we touch someone's yard we plan for a certain amount of irrigation

[1:50:15] and landscaping repair so that that is already in the bid.

[1:50:18] We don't know if there's irrigation but we count on certain amount being irrigated so

[1:50:22] they can repair those pipes.

[1:50:25] And whether we count for order not, if there's irrigation in the contractor hits it, it's always put back.

[1:50:30] It's always fixed. So, none of these things we just wipe out and go away unless it's a tree in a city easement that has to go to be able to count for the project goal.

[1:50:42] Okay, Birkett, I'll go quickly. This is just going to be ditch line grading and one culvert here, one pipe segment here.

[1:50:50] So they're going to clean up the ditches, treat the flow to work better, and the red was the original

[1:50:55] boundary, or adding a little bit more in this green and blue. So we're trying to capture a little more

[1:51:00] through design. We saw that if we stretch the project just a little bit more, we can really make benefit for the homes.

[1:51:07] We're trying to keep going fast. Now those were all local projects out of the bond.

[1:51:11] Kimbrou Shaw is the moment we're working just started design. The grant monies came from FEMA for design only.

[1:51:17] we'll have to go back to them for construction.

[1:51:19] So this is a longer project.

[1:51:22] So we're anticipating maybe construction

[1:51:24] will start late 2027.

[1:51:26] That's all dependent on FEMA.

[1:51:27] But what the folks are seeing now is survey data gathering.

[1:51:31] So they see things along this large stretch.

[1:51:34] We're two, three years away from anything actually

[1:51:37] happening out on that street.

[1:51:40] These infrastructure projects, especially

[1:51:41] when the grant related do take a while.

[1:51:44] It's going to be a great project.

[1:51:45] I mean, it's almost 4,000 foot of storm drain and channel improvements and it's going to improve the drainage around 70 plus properties.

[1:51:54] So we have survey in that Sue subsurface utilities during this happening, currently your long-med alignment.

[1:52:02] All right, Travis and Franklin, this is the one that's coming up soon.

[1:52:06] Summership here, we already have a contractor on board, Texas Road, the same one doing the Donna Channel.

[1:52:11] We're already working on planning the meat contractor event for this one.

[1:52:16] We have kind of far much further along, right?

[1:52:19] Everything's done.

[1:52:20] They shouldn't see any activity out there until we have our meat contractor start working

[1:52:25] on the plan to address their project while accommodating what their accesses to their homes,

[1:52:32] any disruption to, you know, their yards, really what this project is going to be is

[1:52:36] Reconstruction, ditch grading, inlet and drain line installation, really making a big improvement on

[1:52:43] Travis and Franklin.

[1:52:46] So communication, this is slide I talked about earlier. So door hangers with

[1:52:50] project information will be distributed prior to construction. We'll have that pre- meet the

[1:52:55] contractor meeting. We'll work a ground breaking when the ground breaking is determined necessary for

[1:53:00] each one of these prior to the construction kickoff. And then as I said individualized communication

[1:53:06] will be done on impact at home owners.

[1:53:08] If you just have a normal house and there's not really impact

[1:53:11] with the products adjacent, you're getting hangar,

[1:53:14] you're getting invited to the meet the contractor.

[1:53:16] We want to hear your input.

[1:53:17] But if we know through engineering something's going on

[1:53:20] that is specific with your home,

[1:53:22] we have individualized meetings with those folks.

[1:53:26] I think that's it.

[1:53:32] Any questions?

[1:53:33] No, I'll take a motion.

[1:53:36] Thank you.

[1:53:37] Thank you, Jacob.

[1:53:37] Yeah, thanks, Jacob.

[1:53:38] Thanks, Jacob.

[1:53:41] I'll make a motion to receive the updates as presented.

[1:53:46] I'll second.

[1:53:48] Motion made by Mayor Potion Smith, seconded by Councilwoman Cobb.

[1:53:52] Any discussion?

[1:53:54] All in favor, please say aye.

[1:53:56] Aye.

[1:53:57] All right.

[1:53:58] The City of Taylor City Council convened an open session

[1:54:00] declared a quorum on February 26, 2026,

[1:54:03] and has posted an efficient legend

[1:54:05] to indicating the possible need for an executive session.

[1:54:08] Executive Session 1, the Taylor City Council will conduct a close executive meeting under Section 551.071 of the Texas Government Code to consult with City Attorney and Section 551.087 of the Texas Government Code to consider Economic Development Negotiations regarding Project Commal and Project Red.

[1:54:26] Executive Session 2, the Taylor City Council will conduct a close executive session under Section 551.071 of the Texas Government Code to consult with City Attorney regarding wastewater treatment,

[1:54:37] I'm a bank capacity in discharge permit.

[1:54:39] Item two, Rob Mark at all versus City of Taylor at all caused number 24-0447-C425.

[1:54:48] Christopher Kibbedo and Jamie Kibbedo versus City of Taylor at all caused number 24-1746-C425.

[1:54:59] Executive station three, the City of Taylor City Council will conduct a close executive meeting under Section 551 to the Texas Government Code.

[1:55:06] to consult with City Attorney and Section 5551074, the Texas Government Code regarding

[1:55:14] update and deliberate. Deliberate the police chief recruitment and selection process,

[1:55:20] there will be no action taken in executive session. Any action resulting from the executive session

[1:55:25] will be taken in open session immediately following the executive session. The time now is 755.

[1:55:37] 940, we are back in session, is reconvening an open session announced, there's no action

[1:55:44] taken in executive session, we will adjourn it 941.

Feb 26, 2026 City Council

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