you you you you you you you you you you you you you All right. You're about to get. Good afternoon. I want to call the meeting of Monday, August 12, 2024 to order at 2.05pm. We're going to begin with the recognition of our interns. The attorney of Tanaantham is Faith Morse. Council let's go ahead and get the staff. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Faith Morris. I serve as internship coordinator here for the city. And we want to highlight all of our incredible summer interns that joined us this semester. If y'all could come up for a moment. Awesome. All right, so we just have some certificates and challenge coins for each of y'all, so I'll call your name, share a little bit about the department that you worked in, and then you'll shake everyone's hand and we'll take a picture at the end. So starting, we have Miss Isabella Delahose. She is a MPA student at the University of Texas at Arlington right now, and she is studying sustainable urban land use. All right, D'Akari Buie is studying business at Tarrant County College, and he and turn with our finance department. Christian Sullivan is back for another semester with our HR department and he is heading off to the University of Texas at Dallas to study global business. Then we have Ms. Breonna Day. She is a returning intern as well. She was actually our very first intern a part of this program back in 2021 as it was founded whenever she was still in college. So full circle moment for her to be back with us. And then last but not least we have Courtney Thor who wasn't able to join us today. She interned with our AEDC group as well as our courts department. So we appreciate all the contributions I all made over the semester and I'm going to hand it over to Noah to share a few words. So first off, I think on behalf of all of us, thank you guys so much for introducing this program and breathing a big part of that. I know all of us, we were able to learn quite a bit from this program and we're all really excited about the future it holds. So thank you guys. Let's take everyone take a couple steps forward. Everyone, three, two, one. One more big smile. Three, two, one. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you again for outstanding interns and we appreciate them for the good work that they do. So at this time we're going to recess into executive session council will now retire into executive session pursuant to section 551.071 551.072 551.074 and 551.087 to discuss the items as 10 PM. you you you you you you Thank you. All right, we're going to reconvene. In fact, into our regular business session here at 5.06 p.m. and we will enter into our work session at this time. All right, Mr. Estita. Whoever's it? I'm going to be a mayor. Forgive me, ma'am. I'm going to be presenting this afternoon, the council with the petition for local option. I'm going to go through here. I'm going to go through the petition timeline and the petition findings. And later on on the agenda, you will see two resolutions under consent for approval. So on April 29th, our office received an application for local option petition. Petitions to be issued on May 2nd, my office issued those petition forms to be circulated around the city. And the Texas Election Code, Chapter 501, it spells out the requirements for local option. Petitions and based on section 501.032 of the code, the total number of valid signatures required for a petition to be sufficient is 35% of the registered voters who voted in the last gubernatorial election. So for Mansfield, the required number of signatures would be 9109. On July 1st, I was presented with petition pages containing 14,830 signatures. We contracted with Terrent County Elections Administration for the verification process and acceptance of signatures. And I'll let you know that Terrent County Election Office, they verify signatures based on chapter 501 of the election code and its requirements. On July 30th, I received the petition along with the certification letter from Tarant County, verifying and accepting 8,788 signatures. After notifying the applicant, I received an appeal from that person on Tarant County's findings and they requested that I review signatures that were rejected by Tarant County based on the direction from our City Attorney's Office in case law related to this matter. I move forward and review in reviewing approximately 350 signatures that had been rejected by Tarant County. Out of the 350 signatures that I reviewed, I verified and accepted 334 of those. Combining the total number verified by Tarant County and the ones that I, the 334 that I verified, it brought a total signatures verified and accepted to 9,122. That being said, there are enough signatures to cause a local option election to be held. As I told you guys earlier under the consent agenda, you will see two items. One, accepting the results of this petition. And the second item is a resolution calling for a November election. So we will have an election on November 5th for a local option. For the voters, they will vote on the legal sale of all alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption only. Right, thank you, Ms. Mary. Are there any any questions for Ms. Mary? I'm a little too, all right. All right, thank you so much. We appreciate it. And again, council, we will see this shortly for us. All right, at this time, we move now to our discussion regarding the fiscal year 2025 budget, Mr. Lestina. Thank you, Mayor and Council. If I may before I start, it's a day of mixed feelings, right? We have behind me, our executive director, Community Services Matt Young, his back. He's joined us after a prolonged absence. We're happy that he is back and healthy with us. Back to showing you all his spreadsheets that he loved to show his color coded spreadsheets. You guys love those, we all love those. But then it's with sadness, right? That Jason Alexander AKA Swaggy. This is his last formal meeting with us as well. But we're happy for him. He's moving on to bigger and better endeavors. And so they have mixed feelings here, a little bit. Yes, it is. So as we get into, this is our last budget work session. The next time that we meet will be our first public hearing on the proposed budget and tax rate. So I just wanted to point out a few dates on here. As I said, September or August 26 will be our regular council meeting. We'll have a public hearing that night on the proposed budget and tax rate. And then on September 9th, we'll have the public hearing, we'll have the final reading and vote on to adopt the budget ordinance and the tax rate. Where we are, we'll talk about this a little bit as we go into this, pardon me, but as we get into the tax rate and those kind of things, knowing that we're only required to have one public hearing to adopt the budget, but in the essence of transparency, and as we've done in the past, we'll have two public hearings on those particular items. So here's what we're going to talk about tonight. We're going to talk about our junior fund revenues, where our property tax, the sales tax are, a recap of our fee schedules from July 22nd. Also the general fund expenditures, our other major funds as well. And then as we're required to do, it's present a five year capital plan. You saw that last one of the couple meetings ago where our executive directors and our directors went through their FY25 capital plan. What's on the immediate horizon, but we'll also show you what's out there on a five year process as well. So let's get into our general fund revenues. And these are all pictures, except with the fee schedule of properties in Mansfield. So property tax, certified values. We receive our certified values on July the 25th. And that's where they landed. Now know that that $12.2 billion includes our turd valuations. There you can see the homestead exemption. That's a result of the increase to 16% that Council voted on in late May or late June. And so we have those numbers there. You can see where we started out in April. A little over $13 billion in landed right at $12.2 billion. And that's about where we were last year in 2023. A 6% decrease from where we started to where we ended up in July each year. New construction, this is always a number that everybody's interested in. So there's $503 million in new construction, almost $504 million in new construction. You can see the breakdown by county, by residential and commercial, the split there, and then what that generates is $3.3 million in property tax. Okay? And that's at the current rate of $659293. We'll talk about that here in just a little bit as well. So this is the truth and taxation form. So, or the result of the truth and taxation form. So what happens just for a little background knowledge here, what happens is the appraisal districts provide us their certified values. We take those certified values and provide them to the Tarrant County Assessor Collector's Office. Miss Burgess is currently that person. And they prepared the Truth and Taxation Calculation Form which I have here in front of me. We just received this earlier today. So we apologize that this wasn't part of your package, but we'll put this out and get you guys a copy. And I put this out on the website late tonight or first thing in the morning for everybody to see. There's two rates on the truth and taxation form that are calculated. The no new revenue tax rate and the voter approval tax rate. So the no new revenue tax rate hasn't indicated so there, I'll just kind of summarize, is the rate that would produce the same amount of revenue when applied to the same properties in both years. Okay? And then the voter approval rate is the highest rate that any taxing unit may adopt without holding an election to seek voter approval. You can go above that, but you would allow the voters to roll back, which is what it used to be called, the roll back tax rate, or now the voter approval rate, to come back to that essentially 70 cents. So you can see the both rates there, the no-new tax rate is 66 cents, just almost 67 cents. And the voter approval rate is right at 70 cents. Our current tax rate is 65.659293. That's the rate that was adopted by this board last year, last September, and we are proposing a rate of 64.5 cents. And so what that is is a 2 cents, just a tad over two cent reduction from the no new revenue rate. Just wanted to make that known to everybody. One of the things here, this is kind of our five year history and our proposed tax rate. So we want to talk about a couple things on this particular screen. So in the total tax rate, you can see back in 2019. Now that's tax year 2019. So that's your fiscal year 20, okay? The tax rate was 71 cents. What we're proposing for FY 25 is that 64 and a half cents. So that is a reduction from the 71 cents to the 64 and a half of 6.5 cents reduction over those years. Also, you can see on the far right column the homestead exemption that did not exist in tax year 2020. This body, member of you, many of you were part of that board at that time. Proposed the 10% and then currently we're at the 16% homestead exemption. I'm going to pause there for any questions. Any questions to my left? All right. Thanks, sir. Welcome. Let's talk about this next big component of the general fund budget, which is sales tax. If you've been following along and I know you guys have, but if you've been following along at home, tax, the sales tax has been down slightly from at the beginning of this fiscal year. We received the value or received the amounts last Friday for the most recent month, and that was up 12%. So we're trending where we thought we would be trending. So at this point, where we were last year, an FY23 to this year, you can see now we've moved ahead not quite about $225,000 ahead of where we were at this point last year. We expect that trend to continue. So for FY25, we proposed a 2% increase in the sales tax. Again, a conservative number, but we believe that's where that will come in. And recall, please, that this is only the 1% portion. There's half of the $20 million that goes into our MEDC fund or economic development fund. And the other half, the 10%, the other 1, half percent, 10 million dollars goes into our M. E. C. fund or economic development fund and the other half, the 10%, the other 1%, half percent, $10 million goes into the Mansfield Park Facilities Corporation. Our fees, this is just going to be a recap of the July 22nd meeting. We had again many members of our directors, assistant directors, our fire chief presented proposed fee schedules. So I'm going to briefly go through these just again to help you recall. For the ambulance fees, Chief Ross presented a simplified rate schedule, which was much more in line with the state averages. Going away from resident, non-resident fees and just having one fee for all in there. The parks and rec, everything was staying the same with the exception of the pickle ball rates, making a slight adjustment there. For trash and recycling, we were going up. Remember we are entered a new contract at the, in October 1st of 2023 with frontier waste. There's going to be a rate increase of 71 cents to 1849, that's for residential only. Compared to what Republic was proposing at the time, in the second year of their new contract, they would have been at $20.57, which is $2.08 savings. Where it really starts to climb is in year three, Frontier proposed a rate of 1923, which we'll hear since we signed that contract. The Republic proposed a rate of $34.20, which is almost a $15 difference in year three of the contract. The biggest other difference between Frontier and Republic was that Frontier was going to maintain the twice a week trash collection where Republic was only going to once a week trash collection. So just a reminder of all of that. Health and rental fees, the health inspections and the rental inspections. Nicolette proposed those and there were several small adjustments between $25 and $50, depending on the particular fee that they were engaging in. That just brings us up with other local municipalities and what they're doing. In the planning department, the planning amendment fee, there was only one fee adjusted there, and that was for developers that wanted to make an adjustment, an amendment to a previously submitted plan. It's $250 on that particular thing. Engineering development fees, House Bill 3492 requires us to calculate those based on actual cost. So engineering and finance have worked together to develop those new fees again. Just in line with what the state bill is asking us to do. And then finally, water sewer, the pass through fees from TRA and TRWD. The TRA fee for sewer is 33 cents per thousand gallon and then the water is five cents per thousand from TRWD. So again those fees are coming through from our providers not as a cost increase in the city of Mansfield services or the services that we provide. There are no pending fees scheduled and we did not include any of the roadway impact fees in this particular schedule. We're still assessing those and continuing to work on those and we'll have a plan in the future for those. Our general fund expenditures, most of our expenditures are in our personnel cost. We'll get through that here in just a minute and then our equipment. So our personnel requests that are included in the general fund, there's 19.3 full time positions or equivalents. And I'll discuss that how we got to such a weird number here in just a second. But you can see in each individual area where the positions are coming. Converting a part time position to full time, we'll have a half time position for the chief sustainability officer. Seven members of our police department, a dispatcher, a fire patrol officer, is a property room clerk, six firefighter paramedics, one code officer in regulatory compliance and community engagement and outreach. There's two social media content creator along with the public arts manager and then in development services and planning. There's one planner in there and then the capital project engineers, while that is three individuals, only 10% of their salary is calculated in the general fund. The other portions of their salary are contained within our construction funds. We're not just hiring a tenth of a person. We're hiring a whole person. We're just breaking them up how we pay for them. And then finally in street maintenance, there will be one signal tech. And that's an impact of $2,150,000. Finally, our capital requests, these are just in the general fund. Here are all the capital requests that will be funded through the general fund. What you don't see on here, or you do see on here the ambulance and the fire truck. They are not part of the 2.8 million. Although we will spend money on those, we will do a short term financing for those, a one or two year financing option for the fire truck and ambulance, as those are in need in our fire department as well. And as promised, the balance budget. So we're at 99,778,080 dollars. As you can see, it's balanced. You can see our property tax and sales tax that we just talked about. And then the various departments on the right hand side. Our other major funds, each of them are balanced as well. As you see them on the screen, they do include if there was a fee increase, such for the Water Sower Utility Fund. That is included in there. Their balance at 50,283,000 are Environmental Services Fund, which is funded mainly from drainage fees. It's 2,872,523 in our parks facility development corporation, 13,368.33. And finally in the economic development corporation, a balanced budget of $19,45 59 to 99. A five year capital program, again, the charter calls for us to present a five year capital program when we present the balance budget. You have seen from each of these individual directors, the one year, the FY25 capital plan. A slight change here. Binewood has increased as the project that was not presented in the workshop before. So just pointing that out to you that that's the difference there. We have where we're going to fund that from our economic development corporation. I needed to move that back over here to the general fund. And so that's the difference there. You can see the various sources and where everything is coming from and then you can see FI26, 27, 28 and 29. There are a couple of big costs out there. There's some bridges that need to be built in the future. Bridges are expensive and so that's those cost increases out there in the future. Again, just kind of summing the projects of 26, 27, 28, 29. Again, not knowing in 29 exactly what will happen, but we'll be refined as we move closer to that date. For our utility fund, same thing. This is the projects for FY25, seeing all the various water and sewer lines that are needed, storage as well to help the system out of what's needed there in our utility department. Again, there's the 27, 27, 28, 29, knowing that again, some of those projects as we get closer to those years may change or may prior work to these may move around a little bit. But these are according to the master plan as they are today. And then parks construction. Here's what's slated for FY25. Just note that some of that Catherine Rose park redevelopment, while it's in their budget is coming from our ARPA funds, our American Rescue Plan Fund, so they know that that money's coming from there as well. The trail system, which the voters approved a couple years back, will continue to work there. And then the projects for 26, 27, 28, 29 as well. Again, more projects as we get out further in the future. We'll come on as we continue to enhance the park system throughout the city. So a budget summary briefly talk about this. So again, there's the 2% increase approved by City Council on June 24th. We went from 14 to 16%. You saw that number reflected earlier, almost $1.2 billion reduction there in valuation. There is the tax rate reduction that we're proposing. Again, we're almost 2.4% below the no-new revenue tax rate. And then we're 5.5 cents below the voter approval rate. Overall, it's a reduction of a 1.4 cents from the current tax rate of 659293. Citywide, there's 24 new positions. There's $5.8 million in capital equipment. Again, some of that will be coming from bond funds. The majority of it from cash. And then infrastructure improvements are over $66 million. We are happy to present staff over here as worked diligently with the departments to present a fiscally responsible and balanced budget. And with that I'm turning it over to Mr. Smolinsky for a few comments. Mr. Smolinsky. Thank you, Mayor. No, I just, Troy, I just wanted to say thank you to your team. All of you guys sitting over here. Thank you so much. I know it's been a tireless budget preparation season. It always is and it was no different this time. Thank you to all the executive directors and directors, both chiefs, thank you so much for all the effort that you put in to make sure we could one come in with a balanced budget, but two, make sure that we had the ability to go up to 16% and the homestead present council with a tax rate that's 2.4 cents below the new revenue rate. Very proud of all of you. Thank you so much for what you did and what you've done. What you do every day. Thank you. Mayor, we're very proud of this budget. We'll be having our public hearing next month. But wanted to make sure you understood how hard everybody worked and how proud we are of the budget we're presenting today. All right. Mr. Moulinsky, I just want to say, Joe, you all should be proud of it. 13 of the 19 positions are police and fire. And that's highlights the fact that we are growing in our city. And our council colleagues we see that together and we appreciate the fact that we're able to do that and all the other areas that have been mentioned we appreciate you for the good work and Mr. Lestina you all have a you have an outstanding group of people to continue to do a great job for us and you have throughout the year. So, just from here we thank you. Let me give other colleagues an opportunity to offer comments to my left. Miss Shorten. I just wanna say thank you as well and just appreciate staff's work. And also just I think it's proof that the plan is working, that diversifying our tax base and being smart about the decision moving forward. It's a working, it's proven in the fact that we've been able to reduce that tax rate and to start the homestead exemption and continue to move it up every year. Go ahead, Mr. Broad. Can't add to what's been said, Troy, the plan is working. That's great. Thank you. All right. Todd. Mr. Norris. Thank you, Troy. Appreciate the efforts of all of staff and so proud of this council and staff from lower in the tax rate, from 71 cents just a few years ago, all the way down to 64 and a half and increasing the homestead exemption from zero to 16%. That's pretty impressive. So, you know, we don't get a lot of credit sometime, but this staff and council deserves a lot of credit for just those two things. And I appreciate the effort that you make in order for us to be able to allow our citizens that privilege. Thank you. All right, Ms. Bounds. Troy, I have one more question for you. If you could just go over this one more time. Yes ma'am. So our tax rate last year was .659 and then we're looking at .645. Can you tell me once more what the no new revenue tax rate is and then what the voter approved tax rate would be. Go back to that slide if you'll permit me here. So there you go. So the no new revenue tax rate is there's the definition that's in SB2 for you. Before, this was called the effective rate and the rollback rate. So SB2 changed the names of the tax rates, but they're still the same thing. So the no-new revenue rate is to signify that at 668845 we would generate the same amount of property taxes or revenue that we did at the previous rate. Okay? So the no-new revenue rate there is 66, almost 67 cents. Our current tax rate is under that at 0.659, and we're proposing 664 and a half cents as the tax rate. So we're well below that no new revenue tax rate. And how we're offsetting that to miss shorts, comments, and the comments over here is the diversification of the economy. Our hope that answers your question. It does. We continue to move forward on offering the home state exemption as well. I appreciate everything that you and your staff does. I appreciate it. I hope that you have a good time. I hope that you have a good time. I hope that you have a good time. I hope that you have a good time. I hope that you have a good time. I hope that you have a good time. continue to move forward on offering the homestead exemption as well. I appreciate everything that you and your staff does. I appreciate everything that all of the staff that we have on our team looks at as far as being responsible for what we are paying for not throwing ourselves into more debt. As a matter of fact, I've been tracking some of that myself and we've been able to prepay debt down and not to be confused with refinancing debt, but prepaid debt down. Yeah, so to your point, thank you for bringing that up. There is not a slide in here, but in the past three years, we've paid down over $10 million of debt as you're well aware and as those this council and so when we bring in the final public hearing we'll bring a resolution to pay down another $5 million pre pay debt, not refinance debt as you just indicated but pay down debt early in the amount of $5 million. And then it'll also save us money because we typically do that with the high interest rates of some of that debt. And so it stands to save us even more money down the road for not paying on that. I appreciate all that y'all do. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that point of. Mr. N. Noob. So sir. Yeah, Troy. Thank you so much. I just I guess I don't want to not that we've, you know, played over by any means, but the fact that we are still that we're coming in 2.4 cents below the no new revenue rate that it seems like, you know, locally in Tarrant County everybody is likes to discuss budget wise from a city's perspective, a county's perspective. I want to give you a lot of acculate, not only for your staff and city staff and all the other departments that really truly crunch the numbers on a monthly daily annual basis to help us achieve from a council's perspective a goal of annually looking to reduce our tax rate increase our home set exemption still be able to hire the employees at a proficient rate that we need to hire to sustain the growing city. And I'm not mistaking, I believe, as far as efficiency of employees, we're right up there on the top on the county, as far as our cities that are around us. If you look at the number of employees we have per capita, we're far below our surrounding municipalities. So I think being able to manage, I don't think Joe does a really good job from a leadership standpoint, maintaining that balance of providing the city services, increasing our budget, getting the roads in the budget, increasing our maintenance budget for the roads. All those little things add up to where we're still able to provide a true, good tax relief to our citizens because not only does, I mean the homestead exemptions great because it definitely helps our homeowners, but when you look at it from a business financial standpoint, the fact that we're actually able to lower the tax rate, that actually helps our business community as well. So thank you for the hard work you're doing. I appreciate it. That's all I'll have to say. Thank you. John Mishinus. Oh, Mr. Fresquez. I'd like to also say thank you to Joe, Troy, the entire city staff for putting together all this work on the budget and having it come to us. Making our work a lot easier each year. In particular, as our community grows, I'm really happy to see the additions to our first responders, both in staff and as well as capital expenditures. I think that's going to be very important to keep us safe and thriving. So good job to all. Thank you. Thank you all for your comments. All right. All right, council. This time we're done here. Good job, sir. Discussion regarding the August 12, 2024 consent agenda items. Council are there any consent agenda items? Excuse me, all, that you would like to have pulled it this time. Mayor. All right, yes, Ms. Ma'am. Ms. Ma'am. I have one and it's 24-6-1-1-9. It's the minutes. Okay. I was not here on that day, so I would like to pull it. Yes, ma'am. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Is there another? Is there my right? Okay, only that one. All right there another. All right. Okay. Only that one. All right. It's cool. All right. Good deal. Tell you what. The schedule to start the public session about 20 minutes. Excuse me, y'all. Councilor, what we can do at this time. I can move to item 14, which is the consent agenda. All matters listed under the consent agenda. They've been previously discussed. They require literal or no deliberation are considered to be routine by the council. If discussion is desired, then an item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately. Otherwise, approval of the consent agenda authorizes the city manager to implement each item city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of All right, let me go ahead and call for motion on 24-6119 then moved to proof. Thank you, sir. Mr. Rush, ma'am I get a second, please Second, thank you, miss short. All right questions hearing none, please cash your votes And that item carries 6-0 Again noting that Ms. Bounds was not present the . That item carries 6-0. Again noting that Ms. Bounds was not present. All right. I'm ready to receive a motion on the other consent agenda items at this time. Move here, Peruv. Thank you, Ms. Short. Second. Thank you, Ms. Bounds. Questions. Hearing none. Please cast your vote. Item carries 7-0. here. Here we go. Here we go. All right. We'll look at our subcommittee minutes of this time. That's item 11, ladies and gentlemen. I'm 24-6102. Minutes approval of the July 8th, 2024 tax increment. Investment zone number one board meeting minutes. And our chair is Mr. Brosh, and on their committee's bounds Evans and to know all right this chair is there words sir Mayor there just a quick word we met everyone that comprises that board met except for commissioner Alyssa Simmons. And we had no citizens comments, but we did discuss for consideration, the first amendment to the TURRS reimbursement agreement to the Hilton Garden end project. And the motion was made in past that we would recommend that we would approve that first amendment for that TURRS agreement. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. All right. Are there any others? If not, I'm ready to entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Thank you, ma'am. Ms. Bounds. All right. A second. I'll second. All right. Thank you ma'am. Miss Bounds. All right. The second. All second. All right. Thank you, sir. All right. All right. Questions hearing none. Please cash evokes. And the item carries for zero. Thank you. And 24-6120 minutes approval of the July 22, 2024 local transportation issue subcommittee meeting minutes. At this time, the chair of that committee is Mr. Genora, and on that committee is Ms. Bounds and Mr. Fesquez. Mr. Chair, do you have a word? Yes, Mayor, we met in discussion, primarily in reference to Garc Commons and also entryways into downtown looking at different options as far as archways and and primarily aesthetics. So at this time I'll look for a motion. Okay, thank you, Mr. Sonor. Motion to approve. All right, Ms. Fresquez, second that. Thank you. All right, questions here and now those in our committee please cash votes. All right, that item carries two. Two look like one, was that an abstention? Yes, I want to. Okay, thank you. I'm carries two, zero again with one abstention? Yes, I want to. Okay, thank you. I'm carries 2-0 again with one abstention. Thank you all very much. In that regard, it looks like the business that we can do with this time. So we'll take a 15-minute break at this time. We'll convene at 6 p.m. Thank you all for good work. you you you you you you you you you you you you We're going to reconvene into our regular business session at 6 p.m. We will have the invocation by Ken Butler, who is the regional director for FCA. We'll have our pledge of allegiance by Mr. Juan Frascas, Texas Pledge by Ms. Julie Short. I want to ask if we would all stand at this time. In respect to the prayer and the pledges, please, men, remove your hats. Just thank you for a chance to gather tonight with our city leadership. And we thank you for strong city leaders that come and provide guidance and care for our city. And we love the city and we thank you for strong city leaders that come and provide guidance and care for our city. And we love this city and we thank you for faithful leaders. So I pray for our leadership. You have shown me over the years that you are faithful to faithful people and we have faithful leadership. So I pray that you bless them and their endeavors, their businesses, the things they put their hands to, they're blessed. God and I pray for this meeting tonight that it would go well, it would be a meeting that is unified and that you would give our city leaders wisdom as they make decisions. We pray this in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. On of the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one in the business. Thank you very much. Mr. Butler, you mind sharing with us what God is doing through FCA, sir? Yes, sir, Mayor, thank you so much for the opportunity to come and just share with it. What's going on with FCA? I took over as a staff person here nine years ago for FCA and it's just we've seen such tremendous growth and this one I think we're about to the point where we can't do much else. More doors open and more opportunity comes about. So I'm excited to report this year, we will be continuing to grow throughout my ISD. We have been approached, we now have a presence in every middle school and high school, and now have been approached to do FCA at two elementary schools and two intermediate schools this year. So, parents want their kids around positive things, good things that will expose their children to things that will help them grow in their faith. So I'm excited about that. Our team is growing, one of the other things that's exciting now grow in their faith. So I'm excited about that. Our team is growing. One of the other things that's exciting now that we've been doing this awhile is Sylvester Stemley, myself. Actually, I'm carrying away back in the back here as who's on our team. As we've been mentoring and serving kids in this community for many years, now we're starting to see the fruit of that because we have two Mansfield-Asti students that are graduated from college are now coming on our staff team. So they have come back to Mansfield and said, hey, we appreciate what you did for us. Now we want to go do that for the next generation. So Jalen Momma who played football at Mansfield Lake Ridge is joining the team right now. Monty Thompson who was the student body president at McLake Ridge a few years ago, he's graduating from Grand Canyon University in December and he'll be joining our team in January. So very excited about that. And we're committed to taking care of our community. I ask you guys as a city of leadership to look to us as a way to serve. And if you hear something, you hear the need, you need something for our schools. Please look at us as a resource to help get that done. I am thankful for the needs you have heard about peanut butter and jelly. If it's the simple things, I'm making sure kids get fed. Happy to report, we've met with the HEM Center, they have partnered with us, so they will be getting 500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches going out to these kids every day, every week, making sure kids get fed, online food pantries and in four of our schools this coming school year to make sure kids are getting fed. I mean that just comes about, it's just working together and that's a little outside the SCA box, but I'm just thankful that we get a chance to serve our community. And so this next couple weeks, Representative Cook, he'll be hosting a dinner force down the street, and Cora event center. Consider this my invitation to everyone up there to come and be a part of that, to come here more about what's happening with FCA in the community. And then I do appreciate many of you guys that came out to the fields of faith event last year. Legacy, we will be doing that again in October, so again consider this an invitation to that event. Because we want to unify our community to come together to worship and to just see what the Lord will do. I'm crazy enough to believe we can change the city and that through the power of prayer, through the power of what I believe in my faith that we can change the city through that. So thank you for your support. Thank you for everything you guys provide us to let us go out there and get it done. So thank you guys. Thank you, Ken, for the great work that you guys do. We appreciate it. I want to apologize, ladies and gentlemen. I'm having to kind of cover up today because I'm getting over COVID. So that's why I'm covered. All right, moving right along. We're now at our citizens comments, citizens wishing to address the council on non-public hearing agenda items and items not only agenda may do so at this time. Due to regulations of the Texas Open Meeting Act, please do not expect a response from the council as we are not able to do so. This will be your only opportunity to speak unless you are speaking on a scheduled public hearing item. After the close of the citizen comments portion of the meeting, only comments related to public hearings will be heard. All comments are limited to five minutes. In order to be recognized during citizens comments or during a public hearing, applicants included, please complete a speaker card located at the entrance of the chambers and present it to the Assistant City Secretary, seated to my right, until you're left, the deadline of the 555 PM. As a reminder, this will be your only opportunity to speak unless you are speaking on a scheduled public hearing item. Council may not respond due to the regulations of the Texas Open Meetings Act. This may or do we have any cards, ma'am. Thank you. All right. This time I would like to call Mr. Gary Carnelli. You would come and state your name and address for the record, sir. You have five minutes. Thank you, Mayor Members of Council. My name is Gary Carnelli. Five Velvet Court, Mansfield, Texas. Thank you mayor members of council. My name is Gary Cardnelly. Five velvet court, Mansfield, Texas. I'm the retired budget and purchasing director of the city of Mansfield. First I want to talk about basically if the 2008 financial crisis taught us anything it is that we need to scrutinize every development thoroughly considering both fiscal impacts and quality of life implications for our citizens. We remind the City Council and upper management that they are accountable to the taxpayers. Decisions involving taxpayer funds should reflect this accountability. However, recent developments have raised significant concerns about transparency and fiscal responsibility in our city. I have a series of concerns that I will read in this brief presentation and I know you can't respond, but the taxpayers of Mansfield are entitled to some kind of explanation possibly to later date. First of all, let's talk about a landswap and the new City Hall. This is probably the largest facility project in our history estimated to be between 60 million and 80 million dollars. This was not put to a citizen vote. This decision tends to bypass the democratic process and raises questions about transparency. The current city hall could be expanded, reducing the need to spend dollars for new designs and a new city hall in a soccer field. $14.5 million worth, no vote. In February of 2024, the city bought more than nine acres and one of the most expensive land price areas of Mansfield. For an undisclosed price for this project without vote or approval. Soccer complex estimated design $8.5 million. No vote from the citizens projected costs 30 to 50 million dollars. We need clarity on these costs and a timeline when the taxpayers can expect a return. How does this align with our community priorities? Fire station move. Moving the fire station just six blocks will cost nearly 15 million dollars. This decision raises concerns about its impact on traffic and future debt. As there have been a comprehensive impact study, what are the long-term benefits? Program expansion since 2021 approximately $4.5 million annually has been added for new and expanded programs, not including public safety. This significant increase in spending requires justification. Where are the savings from shutting down the law enforcement center? What happened to the promised health insurance cost reductions? Development concerns. Projects like New Urbanism and Somazoning have been adopted by the city to reduce traffic and expand the tax base. But at what expense to the quality of life of the people who presently live here? What is the total amount, dollar amount of the incentives promised to developers? Are these apartments and mixed use centers benefiting the community? Out-of-town trips and planning sessions over the past four years, how much has been spent on out-of-town strategic planning sessions and development trips? Local venues and services should be utilized to support shop man's field. Can these expenses be justified? And are they providing value to our taxpayers? Council pay and hiring ex-counsel members. Recent council pay increases in the hiring of an ex-counsel member on a $220,000 annual contract with additional perks raise ethical conquestions. To his appointment as a contractor, meet the city's charter requirements at the time it was appointed. Are you in now in the process of changing the charter to justify your decision? Are we treating this contract like any other vendor contract with appropriate transparency and competition? The job description of a chief sustainability officer appears to be the same role in responsibility of several existing employees. Is this a needed position at the taxpayers' expense? The concerns raised today highlight the need for greater transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility in our city's leadership. We urge you to consider, reconsider, these recent financial decisions and decisions that engage openly with the community. Answer these 13 questions and ensure that every dollar spent is justified and transparent. I've included more detailed information and questions in the packet given to you. Thank you for your time and consideration. If anybody else needs any information I'm available with some cards and I'll be happy to send you some more information. Thank you Mr. Carnaval. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you mayor. All right. We have Mr. John Presley. Mr. Presley would you come again state your name and address. Thank you very much. You have five minutes, sir. My name is John Presley. I live at 1306 Brittany Lane right here in Mansfield. And I'm sure y'all are all just thrilled as heck that I'm not wearing a green shirt right now. I'm here to talk about Mansfield Cares. Mansfield Cares was formed on August 2nd, 1999 by a group of concerned citizens who felt more could be done to help those less fortunate in our community. Since our inception, we have donated over $4 million to our community. The fundraising activities of Mansfield Cares is an annual charity ball that's held in February at Walnut Creek Country Club, along with our consent of not this month. And we are also having a wine tasting event at the vault in November. Our purpose is to feel any needs that are not already being met by our local charities, organizations, and our community. In 2003, Mansfield Cares opened Mansfield Cares Medical Clinic located at 1670 East Broad Street. The clinic provided non-emergency medical care to anyone in the from ages five years old to an adult on a first come first serve basis. In 2009, our dream of building a facility to provide free low cost health care for those who qualified was realized with the opening of the Nick's family caring place. In 2013, we completed a Mansfield Care Center, Caring Center, a 15,000 square foot warehouse, which houses a local food bank operated by harvesting international ministries. Because of Mansfield cares, we are proud to say that harvesting international ministries has been operating the food bank for the last 14 years rent free and Currently you're serving over 43,000 people every month in our community In 2019 Mansfield Cares gifted the next center to the Mansfield mission to enable them to better serve the mission to help Mansfield residents in a physical and financial way. Just in this past month in July, Mansfield cares donated $30,000 to feed the kids and allow them to provide meals over 15,000 children and families who are unable to receive nursing meals during the summer programs. Mansfield cares is also the largest donor to the MISD scholarship program. Last year we donated over $16,500 in scholarships to our local students. And in 2023, we donated $35,000 in food vouchers for the holidays. And just this past week, we donated over 5,000 new shoes for the back-to-school bash. So our local children could have a new pair of shoes on their first day of school. Mansfield Cares is also extremely proud to say that over 94% of the money raise stays right here in our community. I would like to invite each of you and everyone here to attend our casino night, which is coming up August 24th at 6.30 at the new grand view at Selmerk. We look forward to seeing you there and I thank you for your time. Thank you sir. All right at this time move to council announcements and miss short. All right. One second before I do that, we do have one non speaker card and it's supposed to agenda item 24 dash 6 1 1 5 that is listed under our new business and that would be from Michael D. Layman. Forgive me Chief. All right. Thank you very much. All right. That would be from Michael D. Layman, forgive me Chief. All right, thank you very much. All right, make sure it's brought. No mayor. Mr. Nora. Sresquez. Nope, no mayor. Mr. Newsom. I just real quick just want to make sure I'm sure a lot of people were, but if you're not, City of Fort Worth lost an officer recently. Sergeant Billy Randolph, I just want to make sure that we all keep him, his family in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you, sir. Mr. Bounds. None for me, Mayor. All right. And along that note, Mr. Newsom, thank you, Mr. Newsom. On a day when our DFW community, of course, that lost another police officer working a traffic incident on I-35 Sergeant Billy Randolph, serving for 30 years. We offer our condolences to his family, the men and women who put their lives on the line every day. In that context, here's a letter written by Subject Says, praises for your cops from a black grandmother. Dear Chief Aaron, I wanna take this time to thank you and the cops you hire and employ. And if you could only share your compassion, your sternness, a good sense of leadership with other departments and and around the DFW area, I'm sure that you're wondering why I'm saying this, and I've never met you or any of your cops. Well, here it goes. Your cops have responded to my sickly daughters duplex over behind the library and railroad track where my grand boys, all four of them, also live. And for whatever reason, hasn't been making good decisions. And in some cases, your officers have been called only in few cases, have the same officers showed up. But these are the most non-confrontational, argumentative, patient cops I've heard of, are seen in my life. I just want you to know that whatever it is that you're instilling in these young men, you are the best. Continued success. And also tell your officers that one day, if they pull up and see a 65-year-old black grandmother with a belt who've been four grand boys, that everything's okay. I'm just helping the four-star. But seriously, continued success into the officers who respond it on King's way for the Joneses. I love you and I love you all and wish you continued success from Ms. Carolyn Jones. Ladies and gentlemen, let us take time now for a moment of silence in memory of Sergeant Billy round off and all those who've lost their lives, the man and women who wear blue. Hey, man. Thank you. Now you. Thank you. Now round of applause for these men and women who give a laugh. Thank you, chief. This time, Mr. Smolensky, do we have any staff comments? Yes, just a few. Mr. Smolensky, do we have any staff comments? Yes, just a few. We've got a presentation of the monthly financial report for the period ending June 30th. Been made available to you. We're here to answer any questions if you have any. That's first. And then second, I just want to say to the public out here that's watching, you know, earlier we had an opportunity in a work session to present a balanced budget to the City Council. I'm proud of this year's budget and most of all I'm proud of the executive directors, the directors, the chiefs and all of the staff members, especially those folks from the budget office for all the hard work they put in to make that happen. This year's budget includes an increase in the homestead exemption from 14% to 16%. We've been able to go from zero to 16 just here in the last four years. It also includes a tax rate reduction from $65.93 per $100 evaluation to $64.5 per $100 evaluation. This represents a tax rate reduction of about 1.4 cents, which is almost 2.4 cents below the no-new revenue rate this year. I know Mr. Corbin asked that question every year, so I'll go ahead and get that answer out now. Again, I'm very proud all the staff that participated in putting this budget together. Thank you for all of your efforts. Additionally, I should mention this as well, we're gonna be able to pay down $5 million of higher interest rate debt this year. We're gonna pay that down and not have to raise taxes to do that. So thank you very much. I appreciate everybody. Council, I appreciate your support. And I think you guys have done a terrific job of reducing the tax rate and increasing the homestead over the years, especially over the last four years. Thank you, sir. All right. Item number 13. Is there any action to take for soon to executive session, ladies and gentlemen? Nope, hearing none. Thank you all very much. We will move from we've taken care of the consent agenda already. We move now to item 15, which is our public hearing on 24-6131 public hearing and consideration of a specific use permit for a quick service restaurant the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of Please, Debbie Lane, first hard for the Realty Corporation, honor and developer, Boila Engineering, Engineering Survey, S&P number 24-002, I call now the honorable Jason Alexander. Thank you, honorable mayor, and how I propose to have the opportunity to stand in front of you this evening and present this specific use permit to you. Mayor City Council, good evening. It is a request for a specific use permit for a quick service restaurant with a drive-through facility on the screens in front of you. Here is an aerial view generally showing the property just north of the Debbie Lane, US Highway 287 interchange, just north of the race track. Here is the current zoning of the property, which is C2 Community Business District. Within the Mansfield 2040 Plan the land use designation for this property is retail and office. And on the map you see it designated as such. Here are some photographs of the site. And if I may provide some history of the property that is in front of you this evening for review, consideration, and possible action is that back in March of 2023, a portion of the property that is in front of you this evening was presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission as part of an application for for its only change request from C2 Community Business District, 2PD, Plant Development District. That request was for two quick service restaurants. When it went before the planning is owning commission on March 22, 2023, there was a recommendation of Denau by the planning is owning commission 5 to 0 with two absences. Prior to that application coming before City the . The . The . The . The . The . The . The . The . along North of the U.S. Highway 287. It should be noted that the site design has been substantially modified, and that is due to the drive-through facility being located to the rear of the proposed restaurant. Salt walks and other pedestrian paths have been provided to facilitate interpersonal connectivity for motorists and pedestrians. Here is the site plan in front of you, and it shows a drive-through facility again to the rear. It also shows pedestrian paths and other elements that support walkability on the site. In terms of the building, the exterior finished material consists primarily of brick and stone. The architectural inspiration for the restaurant design, it does come from some of the newer drive-through restaurants in Mansville and it also takes from a little bit of home for me from the Atlanta, Georgia area. There is an outdoor seating area. It is compliant with section 155.092L of the Mass Fills Owning Ordinance, which is landscaping and screening. And the architecture of the proposed restaurant, it should be noted too, that it is a substantial departure from other locations throughout North Texas and beyond. And here are the elevations. Here is the landscaping plan, which is also required by the specific use permit request and by the base standards within the C2 community business district. The signage plan is in compliance with the provisions found for signage in section 155.090 of the Mansville zoning ordinance. And you see that in front of you here. And although there are multiple elements to this request that are consistent with the vision for this particular area along US Highway 287, there are some concerns that the use may have an unintended impact on surrounding properties and the cohesiveness of the existing and future urban fabric. Again, going back to site design and architecture, it is elevated. However, an SEP request is focus exclusively on land use. And pursuant to provisions found in section 155.080 of the Mansfield zoning ordinance. A specific use permit shall be issued only if all the following conditions have been met. Those have been outlined in the analysis provided by the Department of Planning and Development Services. That does include seven conditions that must be met. The Department of Planning and Development Services in reviewing the request for the specific use permit believes that it does not entirely or fully meet all of those conditions. The first being condition number two, that the establishment of a specific use permit will not impede the normal and orderly development and improvement of surrounding property. And that is considering the opportunities for undeveloped property to the north of the site to be developed for commercial uses and activities that the community is clamoring for. And number four, that the design location and arrangement of all driveways and parking spaces that they create safe and convenient movement. And while the drive-through facility is located to the rear of the restaurant, there are still opportunities that could create an environment that is more walkable, pedestrian friendly, and balances the needs of pedestrians with those of motorists. The land use that is in front of you this evening does not entirely again meet all the requirements for SUP approval. The recommendation from Department of Planning and Development Services is Denau on the basis at the land use. It's not entirely me. The conditions provided in section 155.080. And the planning and zoning commission did meet on this. They did recommend Denau of the requests for to to and with that I'll pause to answer any questions city council may have mayor city council I do believe that applicant is here and they do have a short presentation if Desire okay, let me first give council an opportunity to ask you questions sir sir if there are any I'm beginning on my right Okay on my left Go ahead miss short any beginning on my right. Okay, on my left. Go ahead and make sure. The owner of this parcel owns the adjacent property as well, is that correct? Yes, ma'am. I would think that they would want to make sure that it all worked together. So I'm not understanding why that is being pointed out as one of the reasons it doesn't meet the SUP. Yes ma'am. So going back to the site in the rear this area is being developed currently for a child day care facility that uses permit it by right. However, as not all of the elements are quite known for what could be developed to the north, that the site doesn't take into account those possibilities for a sit down restaurant or other use. Or entirely those possibilities that could be for a more walkable pedestrian oriented commercial development. And that's why there is a thought from the Department of Planning and Development Services that it does leave some opportunity to do something differently than what has been proposed and the way that it's laid out could impact something that is more creative and innovative in a design of the site. that they're also going to have an access off of Debbie Lane as well. And also going to be providing access up to where the salt grasses, through their property. I just, I see a lot of positives with this project. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Short. Mr. Brosch. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, sir. Jason, I appreciate what you're saying. I do feel like the two items you discussed that you don't feel like let this meet the requirements. They are subjective in nature. So it's everyone's opinion, which is going to differ. Can you tell me though, were there any major changes that were made between the time that PNZ saw the plans to what we're seeing them now? If I understood you correctly, I believe you said that they had made some improvements. Is that correct? That's from the first change of zoning requests. And that is with the drive-through facility being located to the rear of the facility and providing sidewalks and other pedestrian paths. Okay, all right, thank you. Yes, sir. All right, Mr. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yes, sir. All right, Mr. Genora. Yeah, Jason, I understand walkability, but where I'm struggling here, we got a Qt on one side and assault grass on the other. I mean, to me, this is not much different than any other drive through restaurant. We have on broad street. I'm not sure what you're envisioning is for as walkability. The the childcare center in the back I think is a bonus especially if you have access on to Debbie. I mean there's not a whole lot's gonna go here on a one-way service road. So I mean I'm just not I'm missing something here. No sir and if I, for consideration of the City Council this evening, in thinking about a popular dining area in grapevine off of Main Street, there's similar acreage and the collection of restaurants, while they are all sit down, they are focused and arranged around a common open space that allows for pedestrians to winger. It does support more of that walkable environment, even with the fact that it's not entirely located on the front of the road. It does take elements of walkability and of good site design and innovation and architecture to create something that is a little bit more in line with what we're hearing from the community in terms of sit down, restaurants and other desirable commercial uses. And that was a thought process behind a concern with the use limiting that ability to create something along those laws. Yeah, again, I think, you issues, which obviously that was smart, because we don't want traffic backing up on the service road at 287. It seems like they went out of their way and reconfigured it to allow to get the traffic off of that service road. Again, I'm just not seeing it. Yes, certainly, I think it's a good project for that piece of land. It's actually going to open up that land to salt grass and probably improve that business dramatically. The problem that business has now is by the time you see it, you're past it. And then you've got to come all the way back around, almost to almost to won't have to get to it. So again, I hope they do well there. A drive-through restaurant on one way service road is going to be challenging, but that's their decision. Thank you, sir. All right, Mr. Frick. So thank you, Jason. I'm kind of following up on Council Member Shorts mentioned that the property owner owns the adjacent property and then Council Member Brosch's comment that the conditions can be somewhat subjective. I'm struggling with the, with this with that one that says, a shout out, impede the normal and orderly development and improvement of the surrounding vacant property. If that, if the business owner owns that property, then you would think they would want to make sure that they're not going to do something to impede that development. Is there, is there a plan for that north space? There isn't a plan from them yet. And the idea is that, or the concern, I should say, is that because of the fact that it's introducing a drive-through use in an area that while you do have some automotive oriented uses, the presence of it there would then encourage the same to the north, and that will limit the opportunities to do again. Something that would be creative and something that would be unique in the area. You've established a use, that's the concern that that Department of Planning and Development Services has. You're very much for us, guys. Thank you, brother. All right, Mr. Nusom sir. Yeah, I mean, I'll be straight. I'm not a huge fan of a lot of drive-through locations, but drive-through location adjacent to a gas station on things that terrible use I think if you know moving forward if they're putting a daycare in between that drive through and the residential think that's a good buffer for a commercial piece of property as far as a really low in-sensity use, you know. As far as the overall development of the track to the land, if the property owners are willing to address the concerns of it being a draft or a draft or a third willing to commit to limiting that as a non-approved use for the other piece of property that that also might be a benefit. So maybe we if the developer when they come up we can get a clarification on that piece. If I may councilmember Newsom to your comments there that it would entail that that property would have to come before the Planning and zoning commission and City Council for review and consideration because the specific use permit this evening. It's only applying to that portion of the property so we couldn't have any conditions or regulations to the property to the north. I'm sorry, understood on the S U P P's. Okay, all right. Thanks, sir. All right. Thank you, Mr. News. Mr. Bounds, please, ma'am. I would like to add to a few things. When you go back and look at the overall site, it is showing number one that there's gonna be a less intensity use from what I'm here in a daycare. So less intensity use, so not a lot of traffic coming and going back in there. I'm also looking and seeing where they appear to be building a road that'll go across and connect into a salt grass area, which would also enable traffic to pass through as well as enable traffic to get to salt grass, to be honest with you. Yes, ma'am. And if I may, that's still going to be subject to text stop per view, because there has to be a minimum separation requirement of 400 feet. I believe a request has been made for that. So there's a possibility that location could change. Are we talking about the driveway up there? Are we talking about being able to have an entry lane into the property? Yes, ma'am. We're talking about the entry way into the property which would allow for that connection that you're talking about right now. Also, when we're talking about what we're imagining for that area, let's imagine what we already have there. We already have salt grass there. We already have a coffee place there that has a drive through as well well with traffic coming and going in there as well. So when I imagine a bunch of sit down restaurants in there, I don't know that I necessarily see that vision that there would be a lot in that area just simply because of what has already been built in that area already and the capability to get to all of that as well. So and then the fact that the owner owns the property and is looking at development, I agree with everyone else that there should natural incentive there to make sure that that gets developed and not just set on it. So I too don't see any major issues with this project. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. All right. Council, I'm seeing a hearing and affirmative sentiment in regard to the developer, the applicant, them needing to come forward. If I'm hearing an affirmative sentiment, unless they just insist on coming forward, I can at this time move to the public hearing. Is there any objection that you're all right, Mr. Newsom? Yeah, I mean, even though it's still, let's look to get an idea of what their vision is for the project is. I mean, I think that would be not only good for us, you know. Okay, not a problem. All right, I respect Mr. Newsom. I'm going to ask the applicant to please come and please receive said questions from Mr. Newsom. Mr. Newsom, would you like to just go ahead and ask them? Yeah, I'm just curious of what I mean, I know there's been a lot of different ideas alluded to, but just give you the opportunity to sort of explain what your vision is and as a developer, what your idea is for the way you foresee this property going forward. No, absolutely. Thank you for that and I appreciate everybody's time and attention to this matter tonight. We've been working on this project for about two years. And we have, as you saw from Mr. Alexander's presentation, the first phase that we want to kick this off with is kind of the most intensive use, the drive-through use. The sit down restaurant is permitted by ride under the C2 zoning, but we're here because we want to be able to add a drive-through lane onto the back of this restaurant. As you saw on the site plan, and I think there was a lot of conversation about the design of the site. We took extra precautions and efforts to orient the building so that the long side of it faces Highway 287, the side that has all of the windows and glass and glazing on it will be visible to the highway traffic and the public. We've really kind of hidden, if you will, the drive-through lane in the back of the property for a couple of reasons. One, just the visibility of a line of cars around the building is not something that we felt was appropriate for this highly visible corner. And secondly, you may notice that this site plan shows the ability to put, to stack about 22 cars in that drive-through lane. We certainly want and we expect for this business to be successful. It's a, the building footprint is about 15% larger than most of the other Bojangles restaurants that are being developed right now. We've the patio that we're including is about 50% larger than other patios. And overall the site, the 1.8 acres is almost twice the size of most other Bojangles restaurants. We did that so that we could incorporate the drive through lane to this orientation, as well as provide enough passive space and landscaping buffers to make this really beautiful and presentable to not only local residents but also the highway traffic that travels along 287. As far as the remainder of the project, we certainly are in in depth conversations with a daycare user in the back. We've submitted those drawings for permit review. We have submitted a replat application on the entire six acre site to the three lots that you see here as they're drawn today. And we wanted to make sure that, again, our most intensive use was up front, close to the highway where it was appropriate, and our least intensive use would be in the back. A daycare being really Monday through Friday, kind of 8 AM to 5 PM if you will, no nights, no weekends. The remainder track to the north that would sit between this Bojangles and Saltgrass is about 2.6 acres. And we've had a number of discussions with various sit-down restaurants. We've had some interest from medical office users and again something that might be a little bit lower intensity but our plan for that track is to position if we are fortunate enough to land a sit-down restaurant up in the front section of that lot. There are a number of restaurant users that are in the 6,500 square foot range that need about 100 to 120 parking spaces. That type of a project would almost entirely fit on the front 2.6 acres of that lot, not needing the back half of it to be developed. There are some other restaurant users that have been interested. They're about 8,500 square feet, or a little bit larger than the salt grass. The salt grass is 6,400 square feet for comparison sake. And so what we've allowed by creating the site plan, the way that you see is we've allowed for, there is room still for an 8,500 square foot restaurant on this pad. And if we needed to extend the parking lot back any further to allow for employee spaces or overflow spaces on a really busy night, then we would have the ability to do that. All that said, we've worked closely with staff for nine months to come up with this plan. We feel like we have a very safe option, a viable option for pedestrians and for vehicles to travel. As it was mentioned from Sevenbrue all the way back to Debbie Lane as it exists today. There are no Texas U-turns or anything on Highway 287. So if you come out of Saltgrass, if you come out of Baylor Hospital, you have to do three left turns through stoplights to get back to Debbie Lane. And that can be quite a halt to do But we we feel like between the Sidewalks and aligning all the driveways everything that you see here that's shaded in gray Will be built in the first phase of this project So that's basically the connections that will be built day one. And as Mr. Alexander said, we do have preliminary approval from TechStock for this third driveway. They have approved the variants to go less than 400 foot of spacing on that. And we have that in our written approval in our slides here. And we have also proposed doing a right turn only deceleration lane here. That front edge road is 45 miles an hour traffic and it can be a little bit challenging at times to pull out, especially as people hit go from the green light. So, that will give both restaurant customers as well as potentially the daycare users or anybody else that might be pulling this third, a little bit of breathing room. So I'll see if I can get to, yeah, here's the approval letter from TechStock that states that our application for a variance for the third driveway in the middle of our project is approved as shown. This is the drawing that they have approved. So this driveway here is the existing race track driveway, the existing salt grass driveways further north to the left, and then this is the right turn deceleration lane that would come into the north end of the Bojangles lot. So I appreciate all the concerns and questions about future development of the site and certainly safety of pedestrians and vehicle flow. Mr. Newsom, are you good, sir? All right, any other my colleagues? Okay, thank you very much. All right. Thank you, sir. At this time, I will open the public hearing at 6.48 pm. We have cards, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. I'm speaker and two on. Yes, ma'am. We have one speaker, two on. Dr. Lorraine Mayfield, if you would come forward, please. And in the state, your name and your address. And you. Yes, ma'am. Good evening. I am Dr. Lorraine Mayfield. I'm a retired public school administrator, and I am here as president of the Auburn Park H.O.A. We are the 93 home small subdivision adjacent to the property. And I am here representing our board in support of the development by both jangles. In June, the development company reached out to us, and I can't tell you how much that was appreciated, that they asked us to meet with them, see what our questions were, our concerns. My understanding, I'm fairly new here, but my understanding is that was never done when any of the other development was done. We then emailed each of our homeowners who live at Jason on the pictures you were shown. It was at the top of the screen, our homeowners who live at Jason on the pictures you were shown, it was at the top of the screen, our homeowners said are adjacent. And we asked for their input. We received only one negative comment. And that homeowner expressed concerns about traffic, car exhaust noise and smells. And on July 12th, I then participated in a Zoom with several representatives from the development company and their attorneys. And they gave me the opportunity to ask every question we had and they really satisfied our concerns during that Zoom. During that Zoom and the ongoing discussions I've had with them, I've been most impressed that they want to be a good neighbor to our subdivision. They consider themselves when they put the restaurant in to be our neighbor. And they have even expressed that they would be willing to come and participate with us in our annual neighborhood cleanup of our park area for our children. So that was very appreciated. This month I sent a detail email to all 93 of our homeowners and I went across the pros and the cons of having the Bojangles restaurant come in. One of the things that I think our homeowners really appreciated was the fact that they're going to clean out the woods that are there that currently we are having parties unknown in camp. And that is disturbing. I live by myself and I know there are other elderly people like me that live by themselves. And we've been concerned about that. So we're very glad that they're going to be cleaning that out. They're also going to put a new eight foot wooden fence down that area and set our homeowners are free to tie into it, which is great because many of the people have had their own wooden back fences deteriorate, be almost destroyed from the horrible drainage and from the encroachment of the vegetation and the trees. So we really appreciated that. And we understand they're going to put in some new underground drainage that will help that situation. So when I sent that email out to all 93 homeowners, we received only one response, again, that was negative out of 93. I do want to take this opportunity selfishly, while I'm here, to tell you that the main concern of our neighborhood is the traffic problem on Debbie Lane. We do not believe that the jangles is going to significantly increase that. We really don't, but we want you to be aware of the ongoing problem. In May, I spoke with David Boskey, your assistant director for transportation about this. And he did commit to painting white stripes outside of one of our entrances, the harvest wind Debbie Lane. He promised that would be done in three months, so we were looking forward to seeing that done by the end of August. But I would like to ask the city to do more. There are many elderly people like me in our subdivision, and God forbid one of us has a heart attack. We're seconds matter for life giving care to come, for that ambulance to come. And right now there are times you cannot get into or out of our neighborhood. And ambulance would not be able to get in. So I am asking you to please consider painting stripes of both of our entrances, placing do not block entrance signs at both of our entrances. We have one only at one that is ignored and replacing that sign, making sure both of them are solar signs with flashing lights to get the attention of our motorists to make our neighborhood safe. And I thank you for your time and attention tonight. Thank you so much. Thank you, ma'am. We have two non-speakers, cards in support. Paula Gouldsby, a 24-old two, far as park, a circle. And we also have Katherine Willman, 2106 Harvest Away, again in support. For our close closed public meeting, let me make sure that I have the applicant's name, the applicant that spoke on the record. Would you please just your name and your address please, sir? No, not a problem. Absolutely. Josh Gardner, 2529, 6th Avenue for Orth, Texas 76110. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. Seeing that we have no other cards, I will close the public hearing at 6.54 PM. And I will call for a motion. Motion to approve. It's Ms. Bounds. Ms. Bounds and Ms. Brosh. All right. Statements hearing none. Question. Everyone's statement there. Sure, go ahead. Not believe Jason isn't fighting over both jangles. I'm George. He said no better, but it's okay. All right, then motion carries 7-0. Thank you all very much for some good work. All right, item number 16, public hearing and first reading and 24-6087, it's ordinance, public hearing and first reading on an ordinance, approving a change of zoning from plan development district to South Mansfield form based development district on approximately 57. Point nine five acres in the John and Roberson survey abstract number 13 17 city of Mansfield. Terrent county Texas generally located east of US Highway 287 east and west of North Mitchell Road and North of the Union Pacific Railroad right away on property address at 101 South US Highway 287 and at 20 and 24 North Mitchell Road Now LLC and the City of Mansfield applicants, zone case number two, four, dash zero, eight, eight. We'll call the honorable Mr. Alexander, after which Ms. Alexander we want to recognize Mr. Newsom. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And again, this is a request for a change in zoning to the S South of Mansfield for based development district. We did receive written notice from the applicant requesting that you consider as a body tabling this request indefinitely. All right, thank you, sir. All right, I'll call for a motion. Mayor, I look to make that motion to table this particular item indefinitely. Thank you Mr. Newsom. Is there a second? Second. Thank you Mr. Nour. All right. Call of question hearing any? There are none. Please. Here we go. And that motion carries 7-0. We are now at new business, item 24-615 resolution, resolution of the city. Council of the City of Mansfield, Texas, approving a construction manager at risk contract between the City of Mansfield and core construction for construction manager at risk services related to the new City Hall project, the project appro the proving pre-construction services in an amount, not to exceed $45,000. Related to the project, authorizing the City Manager or designate to negotiate, finalize and execute the contract, finding that the meeting at which this resolution is passed is open to the public as required by law, and declaring an effective date. Mr. Jones. Thank you, Mayor of City Council. Yes, sir. This is the next step in the City Hall project. This is for the pre-construction services for CORE. This is in an effort to help us mitigate any unforeseen issues with the design documents and then the General contractors ability to construct those so by bringing them on earlier in the design process and Working with Park Hill. We can help mitigate some of those concerns and issues that may arise to the city and help keep the project in scope and in Budget so we're bringing them on During the design process to help during those pre-construction meetings. I'll be happy to answer any questions if you have any. All right, colleagues, are my right? Are they any questions for Mr. Jones? To my left, go ahead and miss short, Councilwoman Short. Mr. Jones, is there a plan for them to be reporting to you guys regularly on ways that they have saved us money on this project? Yes, ma'am. We meet with them weekly as well as PPV, Chris Squadron, his team in the back. We make sure we go through any change orders, any change in documents, any scope. We closely regulate that. Chris and his team are very good at that. And specifically, CORE, their pre-construction services were very impressive during the interviews for the CMAR. So we feel like between internal staff, CORE and PPV, we have a pretty specialized team in making sure we're going to deliver on budget and scope. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you, Miss Short. Are there any others? All right. I'll call for a motion if there aren't any. Is it good, proof? Thank you, Miss Short. Second. Thank you, Ms. Bounds. Call a question. Hearing none, please, cash evokes. An item carries, 7-0. But now at item 24 to ask 6-1-2-7, a resolution of the City Council of City of Mansfield. Texas approving an economic development agreement between the Mansfield Economic Development Corporation and Tally's LLC authorizing the MEDDC president to execute said agreement. Finding that the meeting at which this resolution is passed is open to the public as required by law and declaring an effective date. Mr. Moore. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor. Council. This is a performance agreement between the Mansfield Economic Development Corporation and Tally's LLC. This agreement is for the expansion and addition of new space at both pre-mouse and vault restaurants. As part of our typical restaurant programs, we do have a downtown incentive program as you recall. And on the screen you see the bottom chart. Those are our programs for an incentive like this for restaurants, similar to mehans and others. Capital investment between $2 and $3 million would typically provide a cash incentive between $406,000. Outside of downtown, there's not a designated restaurant program. However, EDC dollars have traditionally been spent based on a percentage of capital investment for fire suppression systems and grease traps. And so this project is requesting incentives to help with the grease trap, with the expansion of the grease trap, as well as fire suppression and plumbing associated with that. The capital investment is a minimum of 2.5 million and then the incentive tied to that would be upon certificate of occupancy the lesser of 100% of actual cost or 5% of the capital investment not to exceed 200,000. And so what we propose and what we believe to be based on projections and capital investment Would be somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 So happy to answer any questions if council has okay. I'll start on my right this time colleagues first guess so Haven't spent time on EDC to Jason's point. This is not unusual to have, to support these type of capital investments. And so I just wanted to add that thought. Okay. All right. Go ahead and miss short. Jason, I'm really just saying this for the publics. So they understand what our thinking is here. Every time we do something like this, the MEDC, it is an investment into a local business. And all of the numbers are run. All of the data is checked. And we are ensuring there's a return on that investment that it makes it worth investing into the businesses and we want to invest in local businesses to make our city better and you know it's a little bit of a sticking point on this one because it's a current council members business but you also shouldn't be punished because you're on council if you are investing in this community and adding so much to it, not just the tax dollars, which that is huge, but a great place that people from all around come to visit. So we're getting other people's tax dollars as well. So while my first inclination is to just, you know, make the bad face when I see this come through, I also don't think it's fair that because you're a business owner, you and you love your community and you're invested in it in a very big way, serving on this council that you should be punished for that. Let me address one thing if I may that it's a great point. The sales tax that the anticipated ROI is less than two and a half years when it comes to the amount of sales tax and mixed beverage tax sites generated to the city. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Am I right? Okay. All right. Thank you very much. I'll call for motion. Motion approved. Okay. I think it was a time Mr. Brosh. Second. Our. by. Ms. Frascades. All right. More statements questions. Hearing on please cash your vote. Item carries 6-0 with one abstention. There was Mr. Genora. All right. We are at the 18. Second. All right. I heard a motion. I believe that was Mr. Newsom. And seconded. That was a brush. All right. Cash evokes. That item carries 6-0, ladies and gentlemen. You don't have a great one. We'll adjourn at 704 p.m. Thank you all very much. So you're in two weeks without my mask. I'll be out of COVID prison. you