Thank you. you you you you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Here are our Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I want to call the meeting of Monday, August 26, 2024 to order at 2 p.m. Are there any consent agenda items that you all would like to have pooled at this time? All right, hearing none, saying none. I think I'm hearing none, saying none. I am. We'll recess in two executive sessions. The council will now retire into executive session. Presented sections 551.071 551.072 551.074 and 551.087 to discuss the item as outlined on the agenda. So the council will now recess into executive session at 201 PM. to a 1 p.m. you you you you you you you you you you Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. Good evening ladies and gentlemen we're going to reconvene into our regular business session at 621 p.m. We will have our invocation by Brother Johnny Sanchez, Children's, at Walnut Ridge Baptist Church, will have a pledge of allegiance by Mr. Brent Newsom, Councilman and our Texas pledge by Councilman Larry Brosh. I would ask if we would all stand, and if there's any wearing a hat if you remove it for the pledge and the prayer, please. Let's pray. God we love you and we thank you for this evening. Lord, I thank you for all the people that are here this evening, Lord, as we're all convened for one purpose, God, to seek your will for how we can make our city a better place. God, I thank you for the people that are seated on these seats, Lord. I thank you because you have placed each and every single one of them in their seats. And Father, I pray that they may continuously seek your will and your guidance, Lord. As we very quickly find out that we can't do anything by ourselves Lord, but we need to rely solely on you. Father, pray that you may keep us safe and I pray that you may continue to show us the way in which we need to walk Lord. We love you and we pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. 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. Honor the Texas flag, a pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state under God, one in indivisible. Thank you, you may be seated. But the Sanchez. But Sanchez you mine sharing with us what God is doing through the children's ministry and Walnut Ridge, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. You know, it's funny. for that ministry. We've been growing steadily. We have one goal. We want to make sure that we equip and empower our kids to be able to be confident and fearless in their sharing of the word, especially in a world that becomes dark every day. We want to inspire them to continuously be a light, especially in a place that so desperately needs it. So we're happy to be providing that to them, while also providing a sports program for them to be able to come and learn fundamentals of sports through soccer and T-Ball and the cross. And so we're very excited. The Lord's Tewin really big things and we're just we're happy to be following the Lord's will. All right. Thank you, Sarah, and keep up the good work. Thank you for coming tonight. the all right. All right. Thank you, sir. Keep up the good work. Thank you for coming tonight. All right. At this time, we'll move to our citizens comments. Those citizens that are wishing to address the council on non-public hearing agenda items and items not on the agenda you may do so at this time. Due to the regulations of the Texas Open the meeting. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. We have a few questions. All comments are limited to five minutes. Again, in order to be recognized during the 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 and to your left. And 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 regulations of the Texas Open Meetings Act. All right. The seeker, we have two cards. Is that correct? All right. Call for Mr. Gary Cardnell. If you will come, please, sir. Just state your name and your address and sir you have. Oh okay, all righty. Thank you. We will move then to Miss Tammy Miller. Will you please come and just state your name and your address. Thank you. Tammy Miller 1348 Breckenridge Road, Mance Field. Good evening mayor and councilmembers. My name is Tammy Miller and I am not a disgruntled former city employee. On the contrary, like many in this community, I care deeply about the future of Mansfield. Over the years, our city has been built on principles of transparency, physical responsibility, and service to our residents. These values have guided us through challenging times and have made Mansfield a place where all proud to call home. At the last council meeting two weeks ago, Mr. Cardonelli proposed several questions of concern for the mayor and council members. Since that time, several news sources have exposed the hiring of an ex-city council member as a city consultant with an annual salary of $220,000. This package includes a car allowance, a city email, an office and city hall, and a city phone extension. The ex-counselman's pay ranks fifth out of 543 budgeted city employees. As a retired city of Mansfield employee who spent 30 plus years managing vendors and contractors within the fire department, I can say with confidence that never was a contract awarded with built-in benefits like these. This action not only violated the city charter, but raised concerns about the principles that have always guided our city. the public. The public is not the right to be the right to be the right to be the right to be the right to be made. These actions have the appearance of favors granted at taxpayers' expense rather than fulfilling an actual need. These decisions not only raise serious questions about fiscal responsibility, but I can only imagine how it must impact the morale of our current employees. How do you think they feel knowing that a consultant with minimal oversight is receiving such benefits? How has this hiring helped police, fire, streets, or utilities? There's no added value here that justifies this expense. We have yet to see a written response or direct quote from the mayor or council members or city manager addressing those questions of concern or justification for this decision. At best these decisions were made without fully considering their impact on our city's financial health and employee morale. At worst they reflect a disregard for the transparency and fiscal responsibility that have always been the foundation of Mansfield success. I urge you, the City Council, to reconsider these actions, remove this position and its funding from the fiscal year 2425 budget. Let's redirect these resources to where they truly belong, public safety, essential services, and the future of Mansfield. Our community deserves leadership that honors the trust and hard work of the people who built this city. Let's make decisions today that reflect the values we all hold dear. I believe the citizens of Mansfield deserve to hear the truth about this concern. I urge each of you to do your due diligence by doing your own research and not just trusting what someone else has told you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Miller. Do we have any more cards, ma'am? All right. All right, we move down to our council announcements. Miss Short? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Brosh? No. Mr. Genoa? No. Mr. Friskers? Sir. Mr. Newsom? None for me. Councilwoman Miss Bounds. Yes, ma'am? I'd like to take a moment if you will indulge me. I promise it won't take too long. I want to take a moment to recognize all the city staff in the room with us tonight. If all of you will come to the front, please, that's all of you. I'm looking at all of you. That means you. I'm looking at all of you. That means you. That means Joe. All the city staff, that means all of you all, that are city staff. It's, I feel compelled. That's all of you. For those of you that are watching and for the public that is watching, look around at all these people here. These people represent about 450 plus years of talent and experience. We have many of these people who spend their time to work and dedicate themselves to working for all the citizens in this city to come up with the best efficiencies, tools, to problem solve any of the issues and concerns to reduce the tax payers burden and to create a city sustainable and all of this within legal boundaries. These decisions that we make as a city are not done in a vacuum. They are done with all of these people up here giving us hours of input, scrubbing the financials, looking through the projects to give us the best opinion that they have. With all of this talent and experience that we have around us, you need to realize that we've got this as a council and as a city. So I personally want to thank all of you for what you have done for us and all the citizens here what you've done to work to get our tax burden down and what you'll continue to do for us every day. For me, thank you. All right. I have no comments. I can't tap that. All right. Moving to item 10. Thank you, Ms. Miles. Good job. Moving to item 10. Approval of Subcommittee meetings. Item 24-614-5. Minutes. Approval of the August 12, 2024 Housing Market Growth Strategy Subcommittee meeting. six, one, four, five minutes, approval of the August 12, 2024 housing market growth strategy subcommittee meeting minutes. And of course, Ed vote will only be by members of the subcommittee team. And Ms. Short, Councilwoman Short, is our chair, along with Mr. Newsom and Ms. Bounds, who said on that committee. Ms. Short. Mayor, I'll just make a motion to approve. Yes, ma'am. Second. All right, motion second. Questions hearing none. Please cash your votes. All right, the motion carries 4 to 0. That shouldn't go. And that's 3. That's right. Somebody got a little happy on me. Mr. President, ask for a subscriber. Yes, I will. Mr. Frasker, is this not a problem? We were right along. I don't 24, you good brother. I don't 24 dash, 6146, minutes approval of the August 12, 2024, a local transportation issue, subcommittee meeting minutes, and again, and the vote will be only by members of the subcommittee. Mr. Norr, chairs that and long with Ms. Founds and Mr. Fresquez, that serves on that committee. Mr. Tanora. Yeah, Mayor, thank you. During our meeting, we address possible corridor enhancement programs. Naturally, most of our citizens know. We've got fences that need to be mended throughout our city. Also address medians, not sure if everyone's aware. I think last year we spent a little over half a million dollars just maintaining the medians throughout our city. So we're also looking for other ways to reduce those costs and possibly creating a turds over these corridors. So we can make, when you come into Mansfield, you know you're in Mansfield. So those are things we're going to continue to work on in this committee and at this time I'll call for a motion. All right. Second to know. All right, second to norm. All right, second to Ms. Franskis. All right, questions, comments? Earing none, please cash evokes. And then motion carries three, zero. Thank you very much. All right, we move now to staff comments. Are there any staff comments, Mr. Smolenski? We do have several mayor. Thank you sir. I think before we get to the Trinity Metro thing, we have a video we'd like to show you about the 100 acre park where you're right. Let's go right ahead. Actually attention to the Jambotron. We're proud to announce the purchase of 100 acres of lush open space in the heart of West Mansfield, land that will one day become the city's next nature preserve. Not only is this a major achievement towards realizing the vision that was said forth in the Parks Master Plan, it encapsulates so many of the goals that we have been working towards over the last few years, those strategic priorities that you hear us mentioning over and over again, all coming together in this exciting project. As we focus on the future that residents want to see, that includes remarkable experiences unlike anywhere else. This property includes ponds, creeks, thick woods and open spaces, all prime for recreational activities like fishing, hiking, and wildlife tracking. Today's purchase preserves the habitats of native species and allows them to flourish and grow, while also giving guest true wilderness to explore in the heart of their favorite hometown. Building a safe community sometimes means knowing when not to build. This purchase gives rising water in place to go when needed, keeping the grass green and the surrounding homes dry and protected from floods. We're proud to share with our residents a future vision that prioritizes conserving the natural spaces throughout the city that makes Mansfield a beautiful and neat place to live. Even free public parks can have a significant impact on developing a strong economy. Research says quality parks increase property values for nearby homes and generate millions of dollars in tourism and recreation revenue. Of course, the true value of this land is not in the green of a dollar bill, but the majestic green spaces we're able to preserve for our residents to enjoy. This project will improve citywide mobility with a network of soft surface paved and even mountain biking trails, all with a connection to the phase 4 expansion of the award-winning Walnut Creek linear trail and man's best field dog park. We're always working to build strong neighborhoods by bringing noteworthy city services closer to home and proud to say this project more than doubles the park land available for residents in West Mansfield. I also including a world class development of much needed retail options as well as a neighborhood services facility. And like most major projects, this is only the first step in what will be a long process toward developing and opening this incredible new park. But it's an exciting step in the right direction towards realizing the remarkable vision for Mansfield that we all share. We're proud to be on this journey with you and look forward to reaching many more great milestones together along the way. Thank you, Mary and Council. We appreciate your commitment to making sure that we're preserving some green space as well. I know there's a lot of talk about development, development, development, but part of that is making sure that we preserve some of the man's fields, most beautiful land as well. So great job. We appreciate everything that you do. Matt, you want to come up and talk about Trinity Metro ride share please. Good evening Council or Mayor City Council. As a part of the pilot program for the Trinity Metro zip zones, right zones, right share program we committed to bringing you regular updates in an effort to keep you up to date on what was going on with the program during the first few months of its duration as we did commit to funding it for years as part of the pilot program. So just wanted to give you some updates on the ridership and what that looks like. So I have five weeks of data. We're about through the first month or so of the program. And you'll see the number of rides, the number of unique riders, the wait time and then the on time percentage there. So for the first week, you can see we had 258 rides. And that's from a point of origin to a destination. That's what is considered one ride We had 85 active unique riders and average weight time of a little over 14 minutes and then the on time percentage Again was 93% so I'll go through these pretty quickly Week two we had 402 rides up to 116 active unique riders. Average weight time you can see wind up as we only have three vehicles in circulation currently and the average on time percentage 92%. Week three we sell 356, 114 active riders, weight time of almost 24 minutes and then average on time percentage at the 98 percentile. Week 4 we had 398 rides, 111 active users, an average wait time of approximately 27 minutes and then a 99 percent on-time percentage. And then lastly in week 5 we had 378, 116, 24 and a half minutes of wait time and then the average on time percentage was 99%. So this is just the first month of data that we have to present to you all. We'll continue to keep you update and bring these to you. This is part of the key performance indicators that was put into the interlocal agreement. This data, we're happy to answer any questions you might have. We also have one additional point of interest and this is kind of the heat map. This shows the different origins as well as the destinations for these rides. And this is for the time frame from July 15th through July 31st. So you can see certain landmarks pointed out here on the map. We have Methodist Mansfield, H.E.B., Walmart, Mansfield Town Center, Kroger as well as the TCC Southeast campus. So with that in mind, I'm here to answer any questions I may have from you all at this time. All right. All right. Are there any questions Ms. Mounds? Matt, for this pilot program, how many vehicles did we originally approve for this time frame? It was considered that three would be the initial launch for the first six months and then contemplated up to five in Month 7 through 12 Thank you Anybody else I'm all right on my left All right, all right. Thank you sir Mayor deputy city manager and CFO Troy Listine is going to come make a budget presentation Good evening honorable mayor and council This is the Budget and proposed tax rate presentation for FY25. Just following along on our calendar here. We've seen this many times. We've had several regular work sessions. They've all been before the public session of the meeting tonight. We wanted to have this budget presentation during the public meeting. As you can see, next meeting, we will have a public hearing on the budget and the building permit fees, both of those requirements of statute, the building permit fees, that's something that needs to happen on a 10-year basis. And so we're fulfilling that requirement. And then next week, or in the next meeting, you will vote on adopting the budget ordinance and the tax rate. Just wanted to point this out. We bring these things to you periodically. Every year, the city has submitted the budget document and the reward for the annual comprehensive financial report the GFOA for review. And April of this year, we received that Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for the 38th consecutive year. We are waiting on the results of the one for the annual comprehensive financial report that ended September 30th, but we anticipate receiving that as well, along with a clean audit, and that will be for the 37th year in a row there. As we move forward, looking at our financial stability and our bond ratings, these are the current bond ratings by the issuers or I'm sorry by the companies that do the ratings, standards and boards, fits and moodies. You can see for the various funds, what each of those ratings are. I want to highlight one here for you. We sent this out earlier and our communications team has made a press release about this. Moody's, which is typically one of the harder ones, one of the harder rating agencies. Recently upgraded the Mansfield Park Facility Development Corporation from an AA22 to an AA1. So we applaud them and the diligence work that they do there. We also confirmed the economic developments ratings and that's on their subordinate leans. They also have senior leans that have a higher rating than that as well. Moody's maintains an AA1 on the city's general fund Along with an AA2 on the utility and there's the AA1 on the senior leans for the economic development corporation So as we move into the budget Let's kind of we've we've seen this slide. We'll kind of talk about this as we go through each one here so in June This council and voted to increase the homestead exemption by 2% up to 16%, that has taken place and is in effect. We are proposing a tax rate of 64 and a half cents. So that's 2.4 cents below the no-new revenue tax rate and it's five and a half cents below the voter approval rate. So we're gonna talk about that here and just a little bit more and in a few more slides we'll talk about that in a little bit in depth. Last meeting, we had 24 positions there. I will fill you in here in just a couple of slides on what we're proposing for another additional position along with our infrastructure there. And so all that CIP includes which will show you those here and just a minute the FY25 streets utilities parts and drainage funds those are all the infrastructure improvements that are proposed for FY24 I apologize FY25. Here are the personnel that are included in the FY25 budget. Again, this is only the general fund. There are seven positions within the police department, six positions, firefighters, paramedics. You can see the other positions. So previously that was 1.3 in engineering development. Now, it's hard to get 0.3 of a person. And so what that relates to is that there are three engineers that will be included in that budget, but only 10% of each person is in the general fund. The other ones are in the construction funds, whether that's streets or the utility construction funds. So that's why we get that weird number there. The other number that we added here is one in that engineering development, mainly in the development services. And that is for a day-poorter. This past week a committee of employees got together and reviewed the custodial contract that is included as part of this budget. We sent out the RFPs, went through those custodial proposals, and it was determined with all the activity that goes on on the various buildings in the city, the custodial contract only provides services overnight. So typically from 7 p.m. to sometime about 7 a.m. in the morning, just depending on how many people that they hire and when they will come and clean your building. So with all the activity that happens all of our buildings, we're requesting that we include a day porter or custodian in there as well for during the day. That would be a full time person. That will also help alleviate some of the facilities maintenance. Andy Hale and his folks, and then Andy's sitting in the back. Andy and his folks, it will help them as well. the building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's building's not in there last time. I'm going to pause there for questions before we move on since that was a change. On my left. All right. Thank you, sir. See. Again, same number that we've seen here. This is $4.6 million in capital equipment. 2.8 of that will be covered in cash. The 1.8 is short term issuance bonds with a life of one to two years. We're still working through that with our financial advisor, and that would be for a fire truck and an ambulance. It would be the short term issuance. Another change that we have that, this is the first time you're seeing this as well, we talked about all the various fees that had changed previously. This is a fee that we did not inform you of. We just kind of have gone through this and brought this about. Later this evening you're going to see an item on the regular agenda for the approval of the GMP contract for the ACO and service center. So this is partly related to this. There are no changes in adoption fees or any of these things. These are mainly just the fees that you see up here are changing. The boarding fees and the owner relinquish fees along with the impound fees. What we're discovering is is that to board your dog, it's $5 a day. And so some folks just kind of drop their dog off, and then they come back and pick them up. And so we're trying to raise that to help the animal control staff there. So those are the proposed fees that would go into effect on October the 1st. And what that would look like is there will be an ordinance on the September 9th meeting. We're going to remove all fee schedules and references to fee schedules and we will have this one document. This is just a sample of what it will look like that will be loaded onto the city's website. So you can go there to find all the fees. Now this does not include roadway or water sewer impact fees. These are just the regular fees that a citizen would encounter. With that I'm going to pause there for a question as well before we move on. I'm on my right this time. Any questions? Go ahead, Mr. Friskett. So how does those fees compare to other local cities? Uh, with the animal control specifically, uh, we are in line or a little bit lower than most of our neighboring cities as well of with all our fees. All right on my left. Good. All right. Go ahead, sir. So as we move on and start to look at the budgets by fund, we'll look first at the economic development corporation. So if we'll recall, this budget is funded with the half-cent sales tax that the voters improved in 1997. A lot of large projects in there this coming year. Next we'll move on to the Parks Facility Development Corporation. Again, the other side of the half-cent sales tax that was approved by voters in 1992. This is where many of the park's recreation, the Mac, all those things come out up here. Again, balance budgets in each of these as required by the statute. The water sewer utility fund, which is funded by the water and sewer sales. Mainly, the environmental services fund, which is the drainage infrastructure to fund capital improvements. This one's unique. There's only one fee, so it's just a big blue dot. We were going to divide it in half and make the other half a different blue and just say drainage fees, but in a different color. But nobody thought that was funny, so we just kept going. That was a bad joke, Mayorrainage fees, but in a different color. But nobody thought that was funny. So we just kept going. That was a bad joke, Mayor. Bad joke, sorry. That's my own bad joke. So same on the hotel motel fund. Again, just one revenue source in there. As we move on to the general fund, we'll just focus on the revenues. We can see that the property tax or ad valorum tax is about 57% of the budget. Sales tax is about 21%. And then you can see the other various fees that are associated. Reflecting back to the fee schedule, if you recall, of all the fees that we were changing, the net increase in the various fees that were changed this year, the estimated revenue increases only about $30,000 from those fees, so that we're not placing a large burden on our residents by increasing fees. And then the general fund expenditures, again, presenting a balanced budget. You can see the various categories there and public safety is about 49%. So that would be police and fire there. And then one of the things that we require to do show you our general fund debt schedule. So one thing I wanna point out here is that next meeting as well, we will be bringing in ordinance that you will approve along that we'll pay down an additional $5 million of debt. So in four years, we've eliminated $15.1 million in debt. This payment of FY25 will occur in February of 25, working with our financial advisors to do that. And again, this is not a refunding or refinancing. This is early prepayment of debt, okay? That's what this is. The bottom note down there, if we'll recall, the voters approved the general obligation bonds for our trail system of $10.5 million. Reflected in this principle is $5.2 million. We've paid some of that down, but reflected at initial issuance of $5.2 million for the trails. We'll work with Matt Young and his staff on when they're ready to borrow that second half of that GeoBond. So just wanted to make that note in there as well that the geobahn's increase has not been passed along to the tax payers. Capital improvement plan, these are the same sheets that you saw previously. There are the various street projects that are engineering and street departments will undertake in FY25 along with future years as well. Just continuing to look at the projects in 26, 27, 28, and 29. The CIP for the utility construction fund. Again, these are the projects that they would undertake in FY25. See, many of the projects here are for HP or Harvest Point out in the Britain Heritage Alonestar area. Those are also reflected on the streets as well. And I believe later this evening, you also have an item about proving infrastructure out there as well. All that money has been incorporated into the various budgets for those various departments, and the other things that we have to do is to provide the appropriate infrastructure out there as well. All that money has been incorporated into the various budgets for those various departments wherever that infrastructure may lie. Again, here are the 26, 27 and 28, 29 CIP projects for the utility fund as well. the construction. Looking forward to the parks. Here are the FY25 parks. Construction. Everyone is really busy. There is the linear trail, the Walnut Creek linear trail. That has various phases under design and or construction or purchasing right away to complete those. Catherine Rose Park being one of the bigger ones on here. I think we've seen the new road in there, and we've seen the project, James Brought That James Fish, brought that to us of seeing the new playground equipment that's gonna be there, that's gonna make that a signature park and draw people to Mansfield. Here are the projects for the future years for Parks Construction as well. And then moving on to our building construction fund. So what we have in here is a little bit of rollover from this year. Our public or police headquarter building is nearing completion. However, we will have to make some payments in FY 25 as that building wraps up. We'll have the fire station relocation, beginning construction of City Hall, a multipurpose sports venue, the Animal Control Service Center expansion, which will be on your agenda tonight. Gire Commons, the canals at the reserve, Southwest Community Park, the sports park, formerly known as Big League Dreams, and then Veterans Memorial. All these projects have allocations in there to have authorization to spend on those with various funding sources for all of those particular projects. And then our drainage construction fund. So the big one there is the Watson Branch drainage improvements. That is grant funded. We are waiting to see where that is. We had an initial pause on that on the grant funding as they are going through and determining the order of projects and hopefully there's some funding left there that we'll be able to receive for that particular project. If not, then we will gather and determine how we would fund that or go back out in the next fiscal year for funding on that particular one. Here is the total proposed ordinance. We'd like to show this to you guys so that you can see what you would be voting on. And so this has, like I mentioned earlier, the construction funds from prior year projections and open POs that are being rolled into 25 because that cash will actually be spent after October 1st. The equipment replacement also includes some budget roll over for 24. The issue there is, and I think the chiefs in the back can attest. We put an order in for a vehicle, and it takes sometimes 12 to 18 months to get simple vehicles. We're not talking anything specialized. We're talking about police taos. We're talking about pickup trucks. We're talking about the basic things that we need. The supply lines haven't caught back up. And so there still is a demand there. And there still is a lengthy time before we get vehicles. And so there is some roll over there from FY25 as well. So as we move on to our property tax rates. Again, this isn't a new slide. We've seen this slide before. Just showing what the rate calculations are. Those are posted on the city's website. The tax assessor collector's office prepares that for us. It is signed by her. Again, it's on our city website. There are the definitions of the no-new revenue tax rate and the voter approval tax rate. There are the amounts of the no-new revenue tax rate and the voter approval tax rate. There are the amounts that were calculated and you can see our current tax rate is 659293. So as we indicated a few slides ago, we're reducing even that tax rate about 1.4 cents. So we were well under about 2.2 cents under the no-new revenue rate. So, again, trying to do everything that we can here. Just showing the breakdown between our operations and maintenance and our debt service. We talked about debt a little while back. That is the amount there, the 22 cents, to fund our debt service payment for FY 25. Again, here is a history of everything showing. As you can see in 29 and 20, that was pre-SB2. And so they had different names. They were the rollback rate back then. And so we just wanted to indicate that for everybody then SB2 happened in F in 2022 but we've continued to at the advice of council drive down the tax rate increase the homestead exemption to get there just kind of highlighting those two particular amounts there. So I talked a little bit at the beginning about the public meeting and those things. And so normally we are required to have for the proposed tax rate a public meeting. This year because we are have a rate, a proposed tax rate that does not exceed the lower of the new no revenue rate or the voter approval tax rate, we are not required to have a rate, a proposed tax rate that does not exceed the lower of the new no revenue rate or the voter approval tax rate. We are not required to have a public hearing, we will have a public meeting on the tax rate. So again, this is sections of the notice out of tax code 26. I couldn't fit that all on this slide. It would have been too busy, but I just wanted to highlight some of the things that are on there, particularly number three. The proposed tax rate is not greater than the no-new revenue tax rate. This means that the city is not proposing to increase property taxes for the current year. And with that, we'll take any questions that you may have. Thank you, I'll start on my left, any questions? Is short, okay? Make sure, okay. So boss, better good, just a great job. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. Mr. Nor. I'm all right. I'll go ahead Mr. Nusom. I'm sorry to put you on the spot. Do you have a sense for the year over year and as far as where the money's coming from had the increase in the sales tax percentage versus property tax percentage decreases and so forth. So this year in our budget, we only have a 2% sales tax increase. We talked about that as we did the various other budget workshops. It's just been in the last two months that our year over year, month over month, comparison sales tax has exceeded what we were receiving last year. And so with that, that's why we're only proposing about a 2% sales tax increase. As a percentage of the budgets, sales tax is starting to creep up and the ad to lorum is starting to fall. I don't have the specific numbers off the top of my head, but we can have those at the next meeting. Yeah, I was just curious sort of what it looked like say five years ago versus what it looks like now. We can show that. Okay, we'll certainly show that. Council member. All right, thank you, Councilwoman Bound. Just again, I want to thank all the staff for all your hard work and your input for all of this I Think the plan is working pretty good myself Thank you for all you do so if I have the luxury there's four of them that over there that are they're doing the job I just get to be the one that stands up here in talks. So those are the four of four of the eight that Come in every day and knock this stuff out of the park. All right, we appreciate them. Thank you all and you. Thank you for your leadership. All right, moving right along to item number 12. Council, is there any action to take pursuant to executive session? Yes, Mayor. Yes, miss short. I'd like to make a motion to authorize the city manager or his designated to negotiate, finalize, and execute contract documents for the deal points and land transaction concerning approximately 21.47 acres. Generally located off easy drive in 7th Avenue with super studios, Mansfield, LLC, as discussed in executive session. Thank you, ma'am. They're a in executive session. Thank you, ma'am. They're a second. Second. Thank you, sir. Mr. Newsom. All right. Questions? Statements not hearing any, please cash votes. Item carries 7-0. Thank you very much, ma'am. All right, we move now to item 13. That is our consent agenda. All items listed under the consent agenda have been previously discussed, require a little 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 in accordance with staff's recommendation. Council, are there any items that you would like to have removed at this time? All right. Here we are. I'll call for a motion then. Move to a group. Thank you, sir. Mr. Brosh. Second. Thank you, ma' Mr. Brosh. Second. Thank you, ma'am. Spounce. Call questions. Hearing none, please, gash your votes. Item carries 7-0. Thank you very much. We move now to item 14, public hearing. First and final reading. Item 24-6155. It is the ordinance public hearing and first and final reading. I don't 24-6155, it is the ordinance public hearing and first and final reading on an ordinance. Amending the title of 15 of the Mansfield Texas Code of Ordinances in Title Land Usage, Section 155.1012, and by adding a definition of memory care facility and subsection 155.105.4B and 012 by adding a definition of memory care facility. And subsection 155, down to 05, 4B, 2 revised permitted use table E to establish memory care facility as a permitted use in the C2s and C3 and PD districts, providing for the repeal of all ordinances and conflict providing a separability clause providing a penalty of fine not to exceed the sum of $2,000 for each offense and providing for an effective date and that will be 08 number 24-008 Mr. Rodriguez. All right thank you Mayor and Council. Sir. Arty Wheaton Rodriguez with the Planning Department. The mayor did great with that caption that was very lengthy. It sort of goes over all of the details. But this is an ordinance amendment that was requested of staff. And staff is providing this ordinance in order to provide some distinction between memory care and other medical uses that are already within our use table. Some of those other uses would be things like nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and similar items like that. This of course does create a definition for memory care facility and that is that it would be a facility meeting all applicable federal, state, and local, certificate, licensure, and regulatory requirements and that provides long-term, specialized resident care, residential care for people living with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of progressive, degenerative dementia. Resident staff necessary for operation of the facility are allowed to live on site. Essentially this ordinance amendment also amends our permitted use table to allow for these facilities to be within our C2 community business district, C3 commercial manufacturing district, and PD plan development districts. With that, on August 19th, 2024, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-1 with two absences to recommend approval of the amendments as presented. The Department of Planning and Development Services does recommend approval of these amendments as presented and staff is available for any questions. All right, I'll show them all right. Are there any questions? All right, on my left. We're good. All right. Thank you very much. Well then I will open the public hearing at 7.09 p.m. Missy. Do we have any? No, we are. All right. Thank you. I will close the public hearing at 7.09 p.m. And I will call for a motion. Move to approve. Thank you, sir. Mr. Brosh. Second. Thank you, Ms. Bounds. Questions? Hearing none, please cash the votes. Item carries, 7-0. Thank you all very much. All right, we move now to item 24-6156. It's an ordinance of public hearing and first and final reading on an ordinance All right, we move now to item 24-6156. It's an ordinance of public hearing and first and final reading on an ordinance amending title 15 of the Mansfield Texas Code of Warton City's Entitle Land Use Section 155.072B by adding definitions of boutique, hotel and door yard. Section 155.054J4 related to principal building height in the D3 and the TOD zone, section 155.072K related to standards for boutique hotel, section 155.072N related to standards for Doer section one five five nine zero seven two building a function and specific use table three to add a boutique hotel as a permitted use in the D3 zone and TOD zone and section one five five nine zero seven two by adding a new diagram number twelve related to door yards, providing for severability clause, providing a penalty of fine, not to exceed the sum of $2,000 for each offense, and providing for an effective date that would be a 0-824-005 Rodriguez. All right, thank you again, Mayor and Council. Thank you, Mr. Rodriguez. The purpose of this ordinance as we heard is to do a couple of things and the first I'll go over our two definitions that this ordinance is adding to our D downtown district which if the council members who were on the council at that time recall that was passed in October of 2021. With that, I'll go over the new definition for boutique hotel and a lot of these changes are being done to our D district in order to make sure that we have the right tools in place as we move forward with development in the area, but also to make sure that we're responding to new market needs. With that said, the boutique hotel provides a minimum of 10 but no more than 125 bedrooms. It provides food service at all times. It provides a premium guest experience dedicated to the arts, culture, history, with distinguished accommodations. It allocates 10% of its total building area to a combination of uses that could include anything from a bakery a cafe coffee shop Personal service or other meeting space This use would be allowed within our D3 urban center We're also adding another definition for door yard. I think the council has been Made very familiar with door yards as we have process projects within the Soma District as well as PDs where we are requiring residential frontages that create pedestrian pedestrian environment along that frontage of the building Some of the other terms that we use in this in these same similar instances would be things like door yards, patios, porches, stupes, all other frontages that we have within our ordinance today. In this case a door yard would be a type of frontage with a shallow setback and a front garden or patio, usually with a low wall or hedge at the front. You can see that this is the image that will be included within our ordinance to describe that door yard. You can see just in front of the homes here, everybody has a private four-court or yard in front of that front door. And finally, we are asking for some considerations to the maximum height in the D3 and TOD areas. The language you see that's not in italics is how the ordinance reads today and that is principal buildings in the D3 and TOD shall not exceed a maximum of six stories and height. So that we can make sure that we're responding to future development. We are adding the items in italics there, which state an increase in building height with which exceed six stories may only be granted subject to the review and recommendation by the director of planning and approval by the city council. This map here, just because we've talked a lot about what happens in D3, right? So boutique hotels are allowed in D3. boutique hotels are allowed within the TOD area. This is a map showing all of the D3 areas within the D downtown district. Same goes for the height considerations. Again, this would be height considerations for the most intense district, which is that along Main Street. With that said, on August 19th, 2024, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 with two absences to recommend approval of the amendments as presented. The Department of Planning and Development Services recommends approval of the amendments as presented as well. And staff's available for questions. All right, thank you. Any questions for Ms. Rodriguez? I'm all right. I'm all right. Good. All right, thank you very much. I will open the public hearing at 715 PM. We have any cards, ma'am? I will close the public hearing at 715 PM. And I will call for a motion. Move to approve. Thank you ma'am. Second. Thank you, sir. Mr. Nora short All right, of course, Madam Mayor go right ahead sir on In section two paragraph four that Mr. Rodriguez just read An increase in the building hath which exceeds six doors may only be granted except to a review and recommendation by the director of planning and approval by the City Council. I want to make sure that I'm understanding correctly. If I understand this right, and maybe this question for legal, does that mean both have to to agree to that or does the applicant have the right to come to City Council in the event that the director of planning zoning decides it's not a good idea? I believe it's the second, the latter of what you suggested that they have a right to come to City Council. Okay. I just picked up on that as a misdroid because I was reading it and I thought, okay, I wasn't sure. Normally they do have the right to come on if they feel strongly that they have a good case. Okay, thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Brosh. Are there others? All right, please cash your vote. And the motion carries, 7-0. Thank you very much. All right, we are at item 15, item 24, dash 6158. It's an ordinance public hearing and first reading on an ordinance approving a change of zoning. From a PD plan development district to S, Salveman's field form based development district on approximately 9.48 acres in the W. Howard survey abstract number 690 city of Mansfield, Taren County, Texas on property addressed at 620 South Cannon Drive and 400 North Miller Road Leon capital group applicant is on the case number 24 dash zero zero to Saradrigas. All right. Thank you again, Mayor and Council. This is our first rezoning case tonight. So I'll go over the case facts. Okay. All right, this is an aerial view looking at the piece of property. The property is outlined in red. As you can see, just south of Broad Street, along Canon Drive, where Canon would currently dead end in DeConifer. The land use here is the crogre that we're all familiar with at the intersection of Broad in 360. The current zoning for the piece of property is PD. More specifically, it's within the reserve PD in the neighborhood center one district. All of the property, though, is being requested to be rezoned to SOMA, so our S district. The Mansfield 2040 Land Use Designation looks at creating a development that is low to medium scale and supports mixing uses within the same project. It also ensures that we promote walkability and pedestrian mobility through reduced front and side setbacks and implement plazas and other public gathering spaces in order to put more of an emphasis on the pedestrian as opposed to the vehicular modes of transportation. Looking at the overall land use map, you can see and the reason why I've zoomed out a little bit on this image is so you can see where this project is in relation to other special area plans, including the entertainment district and the link to our west. Looking at the overall site this is a look from the southern edge of the site looking north you can see there out in the distance that's where Canon currently dead ends and Kroger would be just beyond the trees there. From the other view, from the north looking south, you can see looking down Canon Drive, the property is there on the left hand side of the image with the Sydney down further south. Overall the developers provided us a conceptual site plan to look at. That conceptual site plan puts a mix of uses at the hard corner of Conifer and South Canyon Street. That would be this area here. You can see this building shaded in red that has all ground floor retail and restaurant. As you move further south along the property, you do have units that front along South Canaan but you also have non-residential uses such as their leasing office, mail room, fitness center, those types of uses there on the ground floor. As you can see, as stated, within our future land use plan, all of these buildings are brought up towards that South Cannon Drive creating that pedestrian edge. This development also has two features that the developer is wanting to bring and that is two small parking garages in order to provide not just surface parking but structured parking as well for the residents and for the future retail and restaurant. This is a look at the Conceptual Landscape Plan and I'll get into a little bit more detail about what this landscape plan shows that's different than what you just saw on the Conceptual Plan. Specifically, you can see a park area that the developer is working on making sure that they could bring to the city and making sure they could bring to that edge in order to create that non-residential civic space along the northern edge of the property. Looking at that conceptual pocket park plan in a little bit more detail, you can see some of the artist's renderings and I know the developer does have a presentation where they will go over some of this in a little bit more detail. But you can see things like a plaza with fountain, a small amplitude, a walking trail that goes along, some programmed park areas that include shade structures as well as placecapes. The developers provided a rendering in order for us to understand what the building will look like as you see the development and this is an image looking if you're on that north side of the property looking south. You can see the outdoor patio as well as the building fronts along can in can in drive. In summary the provision of the provisions of the South Mansfield Form-based Development District enable and encourage varying levels of mixed use intensity. The S South Mansfield Form-based Development District is structured to allow for increased flexibility without the expense of aesthetic quality and delivering a coherent urban fabric. The change of zoning request to the South Mansfield Form-based District is consistent with the development patterns in the area. The change of the zoning request is generally consistent with the visions and goals in the Mansfield 2040 plan and the change of zoning request is generally consistent with the overall strategic priority set forth by city council. With that said, on August 5th, 2024, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 with one absence to recommend approval of the zoning change. During the hearing, there was commentary about the overall pedestrian access and parking garages and their screening. Again, I believe the developers provided us with some new images that they'll go over during their presentation to show some of those screening elements that are going to be provided for the parking garage. With that said, the development of planning and development services recommends approval of the change of zoning requests as presented and staff is available for any questions. All right. Thank you. Any questions from Mr. Rodriguez? All right. I believe that we have a presentation. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. All right. I believe that we have a presentation is that correct? Yes. Okay. All right. May come and please state your name and address. And if you haven't filled out a card, please feel one out before you leave today. Yes, sir. We'll do. Thank you. I feel like signs on Capitol Group. We office at 3,500 Maple Avenue in Dallas, Texas. I appreciate your time. I hope to be able to kind of demonstrate and show to you some of the work that we've done with staff in order to kind of create a development that is additive to Mansfield into the area. Leon Capel Group is a group of companies that really is focused on kind of two different types of things. First is real estate development and investment and second is a little bit more direct investment in operating companies. Now, our real estate side, we're mostly focused on multi-family and industrial. We do have a long history in kind of doing some other product types as well. We actually developed the market street that's over kind of on the northwestern side, broad and 360. And the quality of our work is just it's high quality kind of class A, class A, plus development. We like to treat each development as multi-family development as its own unique kind of design to really fit the area. And so this is kind of just an example of the quality of work in the elevations that we do. I would point to Hillstone Riverwalk as one that is probably most consistent with what we are looking to accomplish here with you guys. That really has an urban form that with buildings pushed up to the road with a lot of masonry and really just kind of creating a streetspe that is urban and walkable. And once again, these are kind of a sample of kind of the quality we bring and kind of what we aim to accomplish. Each one is designed on its own and we really aim to do kind of a nice, really nice job. So kind of a little bit bigger context. And, you know, I don't, I know already hit on probably a lot of this stuff, but I just wanna make sure kind of reiterate. We're currently about two weeks away from starting construction on our project, just north of Heritage Parkway. That's called the Revel. And together with that project, we're going to be constructing project just north of Heritage Parkway. That's called the Revel. And together with that project, we're going to be constructing Canon Drive there from Matt Locke on the west side, all the way to Miller, kind of on the east. And so with that multifamily development, we'll be putting that stretch of Canon in. It's our goal and we've been in our discussions with city staff and with Jason with the EDC. Our goal then would be to with this almost as a second phase install cannon drive from Miller all the way up to conifer where it stops today. And so I see cannon drive as being this really neat ring road that kind of surrounds Broad Street, which is an incredible corridor. And so I think it's beneficial that we're able to kind of help see that project along and help kind of bring that to fruition that I know has been kind of waiting out there for a long time. I really just want to touch and I know already been kind of waiting out there for a long time. I really just want to touch, and I know already went over this, it's like we've worked with staff on this plan for quite a while, and so much of it has been just geared towards achieving like an urban form and achieving, you know, buildings pushing up to the road. We've got kind of urban streetscape there, alone can and drive. Kind of this drive that bifurcates our site in the middle and then kind of along the southern end as well. So that's kind of step one towards the urban form and towards accomplishing Soma. And as already mentioned, doing some retail space there on building five closest to Conifer, and then working to design and dedicate a public park as well. And I really just wanted to note that I think it's pretty incredible kind of what this entire area has turned out to be as far as a mix of uses go. You know, starting west, you have the hospital, you have very, very activated retail. You know, you've got school, you've got, like I said, retail and then, like we're offering to, or we'd like to kind of contribute with civic space, a little bit more retail and then multi-family. And so you kind of have this neat fabric of uses that is very activated and seems to me to be a lot more successful than in many other areas where this kind of kind of mix of uses is tried. And already kind of went over this, but this is kind of our conceptual rendering. And here is, here is kind of the 2D. Now, our retail, this looks, our retail on the top side here. Looks like it might be three-story, but the reality is that, that, uh, it's double loaded, kind of on that bottom floor. So retail space with large ceilings and then on the backside, that would be four story. And this park design and this park idea, really what I wanted to showcase here, we're real proud of the consultants that we use. And so we're working with Bud Creative here and you can kind of see the quality of work that Mike Lefkewicz over there does. But, you know, his company, I think recently completed updates for Highland Park Village down in Dallas, and they're currently working on some landscape updates for Toyota Music Factory. And so you can kind of see the way he approaches things in kind of placemaking and activation of kind of those places that, you know, like I said, we're proud to be working with him. And I think within, you know, the coming weeks, we'll be sitting down with Matt Young and we'll be bringing Mike out to that. To kind of continue these conceptual ideas and really getting something concrete. So, I did. I know that kind of building heights and single family adjacency, I think that's something that it's important that we pay attention to because within the SOMA zoning, I know that kind of the minimum unless you get a warrant or a variance, I'm not quite sure which it is, but SOMA kind of calls for four stories here. And so what we did for your consideration and just kind of for deliberation, say, we went together and put together kind of a sightline study. And I think part of just the nature of it is that you do have single family there. And this area is just by the future land use plan and by the reserve and slated for more of kind of an urban sort of development. So this is kind of what sightlines look like for three versus four story. And then we're able to grab a picture here just from Google Earth of the Sydney as it exists today, which is kind of three story along there, and then the single family adjacent, just to kind of help the, help the, kind of demonstrate what this is gonna kind of look like. So, and then I know at P and Z, the, there was some concern about kind of what these parking decks are doing, what do they look like? I think there was suggestion that rather than doing two decks consolidate them all into one, that ends up being pretty difficult to do because like it's really important for the civic space for the community to function, for the retail function, for kind of parking to be evenly distributed. And so what we went ahead and did, if you see these two arrows, we put together a rendering from Canon Drive. We thought that this was the area that the parking deck would be most exposed. And so from Canon Drive, this arrow, kind of looking east, northeast. And so this is kind of what the from Cannon Drive, what we envision the parking deck, how for it to be screened number one and then two for it to be fairly unobtrusive. And then considering from 360 itself, I think it's going to be really, really difficult for I think that the parking decks kind of going to be naturally screened by the existing gas well and then by kind of those trees and landscape. And also, you know, we aim to screen it as best we can there also. So those are just some of the things I wanted to hit. I want to thank you again for your time and consideration, let you know that we're here for questions. All right. Thank you. If you can remain there, let me see what questions we have for you. Shall I am all right? Questions? None? My left. Go ahead and miss short. Councilwoman short. I just wanted to make sure I'm looking at this correctly. Does Emily Lane allow access out to 360 service road? As it is today, yes, correct. And we don't intend to change that. I mean, Emily Lane is kind of built in there. And so there is that curb cut off of 360 onto Emily. Okay. And so the drives within our development would then allow access to future cannon drives as well. So it would be easy for the residents here to just access 360 if that's the direction they're going easily rather than hit broader heritage parkway. Oh yes, yeah. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, they would just, you know, come out of our development and then they turn turn right net south on at 360. I know that's always a concern adding traffic under our already busy streets, especially those two. So I just want to make sure this should be helpful when you guys finish Canon all the way over to Matlock so it gives people another option instead of being on broad or heritage to at least move around somewhat off of the busiest streets. Felix, I wanna be sure to show that path that Felix is talking about. Residents that do live in the development may come out within the driveway system and exit out onto use Emily Lane to exit out onto 360, is that what you were asking? And the same would be for those that are coming into the development and then can ultimately get into the development using that same path. So currently already can rustic meadows access Emily Lane? Currently there is a, it's some drainage rip wrap that is there along this edge that doesn't allow that connection today. And it's my understanding, and I believe that there may be other individuals that have a little bit more of the history on this. It's my understanding that in order to connect Emily Lane to Canon Drive. There is some future discussions that will have to be had with TechSot in order to allow that connection to ultimately connect over into Canon. Outside of that, though, there's still connectivity through the development and through what they're creating as a, although it's a private access eas good way to create as a although it's a private access easement it acts as a roadway because you can you can access cannon through that area. So residents from resting meadows would still be able to go through this development to get over to 360. Yes, that would be designated as a public access easement within the. Platt as that project came forward. Okay, thank you. Mr. Newsom? I was just going to comment on that because from what I recall, I mean, Texat had some concerns about the exit and then direct access to ultimately canon through Emily. They didn't want all that traffic sort of trying to make that right turn that quick. Am I missing that or am I recalling that incorrectly? I that right turn that quick. Am I missing that? I remember calling that incorrectly. I can speak to that already. Yeah, Raymond, I got that. You're correct, Councilmember. You are recalling that correct without some reconstruction and reconfiguration of 360 in the access road that drive, Emily will not be allowed to connect into Canon Drive style. So anybody wishing to use that route would have to use the public access through this development. and the county council will not be allowed to connect into Canandrive style. So anybody wishing to use that route would have to use the public access through this development. I do want to make sure to address overall connectivity though because I know councilwoman short, one of your specific questions is, you know, are we making sure there are other options so that we're not spilling more traffic onto broad street specifically. I think that's the beauty of allowing the construction of Can and Drive to continue with this project as well. Because traffic can make it down Can and Drive to Miller and ultimately out to Heritage as that roadway network gets completed. Any other questions. I've got a question regarding the just the height of the building and I know of course what what is permitted. Have you had any feedback from the neighbors the neighborhood that would put up against this concerning the sight lines. I appreciate you showing that to us in your presentation. Have you had anything from the neighbors? We have a neighborhood and I don't know that staff has really either. Staff hasn't received direct communications either. Okay. Are we thinking about then in regard to being proactive? We're thinking about doing something that can maybe somehow alleviate looking into somebody's backyard. As the overall street skate project comes in, I think, sorry, as the overall street skate project comes in with Can and Drive, I think there are ways to ensure, or that we can make sure that strategic placement of canopy trees and other types of natural screening may also mitigate some of that negative impact. As you can see here, a tree that would be placed within the parkway does provide that screening, but I think that we can make sure that we're very mindful of where we place those trees. Okay, and I guess my question is that that part of the proposal, are we going to do that? We're going to put those trees up there to screen that. We do have street trees planned with the Canon drive Expansion. Yes. This this development would Install those on their side Mayor but to speak back to Mr. Sons is exhibit that showed their plans to improve Canon The street trees on the west side of Canon would be installed With the completion of that project. Okay, yes sir. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? All right, hearing none. Thank you all very much. I will open the public hearing at 740 PM. Do we have any cards, ma'am? All righty then. I will continue the public hearing at 7.40pm. And let me just again just remind our developer to be sure and fill out a card and see that our secretary gets it. All right, I'll call for a motion. Mayer, Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve. Thank you, Miss Short. the motion. May I make a motion to approve? Thank you, Miss Schor. They're second. May I make a motion to second? You're ms. Bounds. All right. You all make cash to both. Any questions? I would just like to say that this we've talked about the reserve and what's allowed in the reserve before and I know we've gone over that with our citizens and that this is in that area. Got you. I'm Mr. Noria of the work. Yeah same same comment. The multifamily and this component will be subtracted from the allowed in the reserve PD. So it was approved way back before this council. So the extension of the roadway to May is a huge benefit, especially back behind the hospital and just gives us more access to heritage. So thank you. Are there any other statements? Aren't hearing none, please scan your votes. All right. That item carries 6-1. Thank you very much. All right. Under new business. carries 6-1. Thank you very much. All right, under new business, item 24-6-1-1-1. Resolution, resolution of the city council of the City of Mansfield, Texas, approving an amendment to the construction manager, address contract with steel and freeman for the expansion of the service center and animal shelter project for guaranteed maximum price of $38,296,658. Finding that the meeting in which this resolution is passed is open to the public as required by law and declaring an effective date certificates of obligations and utility fund Mr. Jones. Thank you, Mayor and Council. This is a resolution tonight or running a warning still in freement of contract for the Expansive to the Service Center, the utility work as well as the Animal Shelter Project. It would be a proposal of me to mention at this time that it is National Dog Day. So these fun friends that you see here on your screen tonight, Mr. Frank, Mr. Tyreese and Dallas, or actually up for adoption tonight at our existing facility. So just wanted to throw that out there as today is National Dog Day. To get into it a little bit, just to give you an overview of the existing facility so you can see there, the shelter in 2004, and there as it exists in 2024 today. So we've definitely gotten our useful life out of this facility. Currently there are less than 50 facilities, no dedicated service or care there for the animals. There's no adoption center or area for prospective new owners to come in and interact with the animals. So that's something that was very important in the creation of this new space. Overall, it's just cramped and the experience is really not remarkable as you come into our facilities. So we're trying to change that. And I won't dwell on that, but again, here's our kind of existing facilities. We're out of storage space. We're kind of utilizing spaces that weren't intended as such for different uses. And the facility that Corm and their team have designed with us and work with staff will absolutely change the way our residents and visitors interact with our animal control facilities. So you can see there there's ample opportunity to expand for the Kindle area, for the dogs and as well as the cats. So all of our furry friends, these are just some rendering so you can see they'll have updated medical facilities as well as design spaces for community outreach and education great places for prospective or prospective new owners to come and interact with their new furry friends and then we do expect this facility to be able to be delivered in 2026 the summer in 2026, the summer of 2026. And just a rendering of the outside of the animal control facility. Here is the service center. So these are again, our conditions today. So as we've continued to expand, we have utilized all kinds of creative ways to get more useful life out of our buildings. You can see here in some of these corridors. We now office up to four to eight additional employees in those areas. So we're well overdue for an expansion as well as park ops on the existing property that we own next door to the current ACO service center or ACO center, excuse me. And then this would be the expansion there for that it will allow we will be able to accommodate the growing parks team and consolidate parks and park ops as well as some of our other public works team as well. So again this is being about focused on the future you can see the dates here that we had conversations and came with you all and I will like to say that both Corman and still in Freeman were great to work with. I'm bringing us a project that we can be proud of. So with that, I'm available for any questions and still in Freeman is also here this evening. All right. On my left, the question will go in my short. It's more of a comment because I, you know, I know looking at this number, it sounds crazy. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. in a major way over those 20 years, I would challenge anyone who doesn't think we need this to go tour the current facilities that we do have. It's very obvious that we have to do something. And in touring some of the facilities that we looked at when we were contemplating how to make this the best, how to get the biggest bang out of our buck, I learned a lot about shelters and having to separate animals because of disease and things like that. And what shelter employees go through when there is an outbreak and they have to to use them as animals and things like that. So a lot of thought was put into this. There are many things in our city that over the past few years and even over the next few we are having to bring up to date for our population growth and just for the time that has passed with current facilities. So just want to make that comment before we vote. Good job, man. All right, anyone else on my left? Am I right? Go ahead job, ma'am. All right, anyone else on my left? All right, go ahead, Mr. Newsom. I mean, Mr. Newsom. Yeah, I just want to say I'm excited that we're getting to the point where we're being able to accomplish this. I mean, I know it's been as Councilman Short alluded to a tremendous amount of time where this old and extremely outdated facility's been in use is I mean it's legit's life and you know we were proud you know parent of sheltered ourselves so I know I it goes up to my wife we'd have probably 20 more at our house but I don't think that's I know at least available right now. So that being said, I'm excited to see this new facility come on board. I think it's extremely well thought out. And definitely be an asset to our residents. And they're in and just make that whole adoption period, whether it's cats or dogs or I guess whatever nowadays, there's a lot more common to do and make those decisions because it is very important to adopt pets. Thanks. All right, Ms. Mouse, then Mr. Fesquez. Matt, I want to clarify that the total dollar amount here is for two, three, four, five, four, five, four, five, Ms. Mouse, then Mr. Fesquez. Matt, I want to clarify that the total dollar amount here is for two services, right? It's just not for the animal shelter. That's correct. 38 million is part of it's for the service center and part of it is for the animal shelter. Yes, ma'am. And so of that, essentially everything in this rendering. So it will be the expansion of the service center. This is a new building to the service center. Of course, the animal control, all the associated site work. This is a CMAR, so it includes things like contingencies, insurance, and the like. So that is a total $1 amount, not to exceed guaranteed maximum price to deliver this project. It's also out of several funding since it's housing several departments. We have the ability to utilize a lot of different funds to help source and pay for this project, to help spread that out as well. So join his team and did a great job. Again, Kudos to them working with our consultant, working with our FA as well as peak program value, PPPV, to make sure that we're delivering a phenomenal project on time and on budget. Thank you for that. Good deal, Mr. Fresquez. Yes, Thank you. To Councilwoman Schwarz, you know, comment. You know, it is a big number. And I did have the opportunity to go and tour the current facility and it is not up to what we need today for Mansfield. Mansfield's grown quite a bit. And it's not on, to go. I think it's a good place to go. I think it's a good place to go. I think it's a good place to go. I think it's a good place to go. I think it's a good place to go. I think it's a good place to go. I think it's a good place to go. I think it's a well put together and I've had an opportunity to see these renderings in details and a little more specificity and I feel that That they did a really good job. And so thank you, Matt and team All right, I'll say to you, managing Thank you, Mayor Matt, I think you did a great job presenting this. I just want to make sure that everybody knows this is not an animal control facility. This is animal care and control. This is for park operations. This benefits utility department, benefits street department. This is more, this is like, this is two separate facilities in that combined number. And all of the work that goes along with it, everything you see on the screen right now is included in that. Is that a correct statement, Matt? Yes, sir. That's accurate. Yeah. Everything that's in color, that building off to the left, that's blacked out and already exists. But yeah, it's overdue. We definitely have an animal control facility that you look like you have to rescue the animals from. And so you call them rescues for a different reason out there. But yeah, this is a much larger project and scoped and just animal control. So while the number gave me sticker shock as well. That's accurate. Yeah, so it was the first way I said it. But yeah, gave me shock as well. But when you put it all together and look at what we're getting for that, it's a really good project. That's right. Thank you all for the re-interation. I think that's important for the public to know as well. So with all those great things having been said, and I'll just join in with the choir. Good job. Thank you very much, sir. All right. I'll call for a motion. Motion to please. All right, Miss. Okay. Okay. All right, Miss Bounds and Miss Short. All right. Happy day. All right. All those in favor? Raise your okay, there we go. All right, you may cast your vote. All right, the motion carries 7-0. All right, we're an item 24-6154, it's a resolution resolution of the city, Council of the City of Mansfield, Texas approving and amendment to the construction manager at risk contract with mosque construction for the harvest point public infrastructure project. One guaranteed maximum price of $35,971,518. Finding that the meeting at which this resolution is passed is open to the public as required by law and declaring an effective day general fund, turners number of four and Mr. Moore. Thank you mayor. Good evening council. So I know this is a big number as well and I just want to start by saying that this infrastructure will unlock over $2.5 billion of private development. The return on this, on this this is our TERS number four, will return over $350 million to our TERS and over $360 million to the general fund over that same 40 year period. So this is the key, the critical first step to unlock this sports and entertainment destination. You approved a contract with Moss Construction back in June, awarding a C-MAR process. This is the GMP for the Guaranteed Maximum Price for the actual construction of what you see in red. On the screen, the red dash lines indicate the roads, water, sewer, streetscapes. All the components needed to deliver pad-ready sites by October of 2025. For high five, the stadium, hotel, the city's community. All the components needed to deliver pad ready sites by October of 2025 for high five, the stadium, hotel, and future mixed use developments. Moss provided this exhibit, this gets attached into the existing contract that the city attorney has reviewed and approved. And if council considers and approves this tonight, we'll get this signed and included into their existing contract. Happy to answer any questions. and if Council considers and approves this tonight, we'll get this signed and included into their existing contract. Happy to answer any questions. All right. I would just like for you to, and I see Ms. Bounds just restate. This will unlock how much in regard to private development. We have estimates of two and a half billion on the front end. It'll grow to close to four billion over the life of the Turks. Thank you. Excellent. Ms. Bounds. And I would just like for you to clarify that this contract came in I believe at about 5 million lower than what we thought. When we originally looked at the estimates for this infrastructure we had programmed in our numbers around 42 million. And so some of the bridges that were in that number, about $2 million worth are not in this particular number. So overall, about $5 million savings. All right. Miss Short? I just have another comment because I just want to make sure that it is known by our citizens that when we look at projects like this, it isn't just about a soccer stadium. I feel like that is just so that's such a small thing to talk about with this whole project. Is that these are business decisions that we're making for our community and we always look at the return on investment and that's got to be there for us to move forward and it's got to add value to our citizens and remarkable experiences but it's always a business decision when we talk about doing these things and we look at that return on investment and you look at like you said how much private development is opened up by putting this infrastructure in and all of the the sales and the visitors and things that come to our city and I know when I first got on council I felt like one of the things that was missing in our city was entertainment and now we're getting an entertainment district and we're adding so the things that was missing in our city was entertainment. And now we're getting an entertainment district and we're adding so many things that it really is becoming a place where you live, workshop, play, we had been missing pieces of that over the years. So I'm excited that we're continuing to move forward in that. And I hope that people can grab onto this and see the big picture. And just by virtue of the fact that we're increasing the homestead exemption lowering the tax rate, it is showing that the plan is working, like Ms. Bound said, that diversifying that tax base, taking some of the burden off of our homeowners and getting other people's money by offering places that we have visitors to tax base taking some of the burden off of our homeowners and you know getting other people's money by offering places that we have visitors to and then they go away we were making money off of them that is what we're looking at the whole picture. You know I'll just say a man. Yeah Doug That was good. All right. Moving my long. Then I will call for a motion. Luke do approve. All right. Okay. All right. I believe that Mr. Friskwiz got it in and then he'll be seconded by Mr. Genora, our writing, any questions or statements? Okay. All right. All those in favor raise your, you know, every time I do that, it pops back on. You know, what are you all doing? Okay. All right. Cash votes. Motion carries. 7, 0. Motion to adjourn. Yes. Mr. Newsom, I heard that. Second. And Ms. Mounder, heard that. Cash evokes. I'll see, I didn't blink out this time. 7-0, it passes. We are adjourned at 7-59 PM. You all have a great one. Thank you for a great meeting.