Let's call to order the regular Heath City Council meeting at 6.30 p.m. On May 13th, 2025, if you all would rise for the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Dear Lord, we come to you when we thank you. We thank you for the dedication of these council members. We thank you for their sacrifices for their family and for how hard that they've worked. There are countless hours of study and just giving it all to the city to do what they believe to be best for the city on behalf of everyone that's here. Lord, we ask that you honor them, and you keep them safe, and you take care of them. As they go into these different chapters, it's not farewell. It's just an honor, Lord. And thank you for all your many blessings, Lord. We thank you for all that you've done for us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. All right. Congratulations. We'll leave you to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation of the United Arab, and visible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Very good. Moving into agenda item number two. This is our general election. So 2.A. Discussion and Action regarding a resolution canvassing the returns, including the returns of early voting ballots cast in connection therewith, and declaring the results of the general election held on May 3rd, 2025, for the purpose of electing four. Council members, one for place one, one for place two, one for place four, and one for place six. For two year terms each authorizing issuance of a canvas of general municipal election. At this time, the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion. Oh, make a motion to approve. We have a motion on the floor to approve the canvassing of the general municipal election. Do we have a second? Seconded. We have a second by Councilman Caldwell. All of those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? It passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. At this time, we'll move into item 2.B. This is the issuance of the oath of office. Council members, place one. If you would please rise. Miss Cindy Horn, you can take the middle. And you are honored today to have our own County Commissioner Lauren Lickley, Pass Mayor, et cetera,, please repeat after me. I, Cynthia Horn, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties. Of the Office of Council Member on the City Council of the City of Heath, Texas. Of the Office of Council Member on City Council of the City of Heath, Texas. And will to the vest of my ability. And will to the vest of my ability. Preserve, protect, and defend. Preserve, protect and defend. The Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state. The Constitution and the laws of the United States and of this state. So help me God. So help me God, and congratulations. Congratulations. All right, the issuance of the Oath of Office, Council member, place two, please rise, Mr. Johnny Myers. And he is honored to have our very own county court judge to at law. Miss Stephanie Woodward. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Johnny Myers. I, Johnny Myers. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of council member. On the city council of the city of on the City Council of the City of Heath. On the City Council of the City of Heath. Texas. Texas. And will to the best of my ability. And will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and defend. Preserve, protect and defend. The Constitution and laws. Constitution and laws. Of the United States. And of this state. And of this state. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations. Applause. All right. Continuing with the issuance of the oath of office, councilmember, place four. Miss Michelle Thurgood. And you are honored to have, Mr. Tim Hartley, our very own municipal court judge. So, raise your right hand and repeat after me. I'm Michelle Thurgood. I'm Michelle Thurgood. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. But I will faithfully execute. The duties of the office. Of council member on the city council of the city of heave. Of council member on the city council of the city of heave. That's my fault I didn't know. And will to the best of my ability. And will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect. Preserve, protect. And defend the Constitution. And defend the Constitution. And the laws of the United States. And the laws of the United States. And of this state. And of this state. So let me get. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Very well. Continuing the issuance of Oath of Office, Councilmember, place 6, Mr. Mitch Omey. And you're honored to have our very own, the one and only, Rockwell County Judge, Frank Nguyen. Mitch, raise your right hand please. Pete after me. I'm Mitch Ounby, do solemnly swear. I'm Mitch Ounby, do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute the duties. That I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Council member on the City Council of the City of Heath, Texas as a council member on the City Council of the City of Heath, Texas and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend. Preserve, protect, and defend. The Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state. The laws of the United States end of this state. The laws of the United States end of this state. So help me, God. So help me, God. Thank you. Applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. time as they're signing this oath of office if we could have all of these new council members come to the front? No, there's nothing. It's not going to happen. Hi there. Hi there. Hi there. Hi there. Hi there. Hi there. Hi there. Hi there. Hi there. Hi right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Okay, at this time we will change seats, council members, newly elected. Please come up. Please give a warm round of applause to council I don't know what does. And you will see your name plates. Very well. All right. What a wonderful day. Thank you for those that did this wearing in. We will now move into agenda item number three. This is our public comment section, Mr. Dell. Yes, we have one person signed up, Ms. Virginia Hannon. All right. Good evening. My name is Virginia Hannon, and I serve as the district director for Congressman Pat Fallon. Congressman Fallon is in DC this evening. My name is Virginia Hannon and I serve as the district director for Congressman Pat Fallon. Congressman Fallon is in DC this evening, but he wishes to send his regards to each and every one of you. It's my honor to be here tonight on this special occasion as we officially welcome and celebrate our newly elected city officials. to our incoming leaders. Congratulations on earning the trust of your community. Your election to the city of City and city officials. To our incoming leaders, congratulations on earning the trust of your community. Your election to the City Council is a testament to your dedication, vision, and willingness to serve. Today marks a new beginning for our beloved city. Our community looks to you with great hope and high expectations, and we are confident you will meet these expectations with wisdom fairness and determination. May your time in office be defined by progress unity and shared commitment to the residents of the city of Heath. Thank you once again God bless you and your families and God bless the city of Heath. I also have some certificate. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Virginia. All right. Miss Adele. That is all. That's all for public comment. Moving on into agenda item number four. This is our council and city manager's comments. Miss Adele. Thank you. I do have a few announcements and some recognitions to share with the room tonight. This is National Police Week, running from May 11 to May 17. And Peace Officers Memorial Day is also this week on May 15. And we join with the nation in paying tribute to the local, state, and federal peace officers who have died or have been disabled in the line of duty. We also want to recognize our exceptional heath DPS for all they do to protect and serve heath. We truly are best with blessed with the very best here in heath and they keep us the seventh safest city in Texas and it's improving all the time, so we're thankful for that. Speaking of improving the HEFDPS is currently undergoing a promotional process to promote forlutinance and for sardines. This is a monumental change for our public safety department and it was made possible by the fiscal year 2425 budget that was approved by your city council. The promotions not only allow our staff the opportunity to grow in their careers, but it also allows for there to be a supervisor available for both police and fire operations at all times. So these are exciting times and it's great progress for the HEATH DPS. Next week is Public Works Week. And we are grateful beyond measure for our hardworking and dedicated public work staff. If you don't know what Public Works does, they manage our water and sanitary sewer systems, streets, drainage, city facilities, and parks. So you know, no big deal. They do it all without fanfare and they really hate attention. They really did not even want us to make mention of next week being dedicated to their service, but we're doing it anyway. They show up 24, 7, 365. They are literally always at work working in the background to advance the quality of life here in Heath. show up up before dawn, they work after dark, they work when it's 100 plus heat, when it's freezing rain, freezing cold, pouring rain and snow. Public Works is currently also blessed to have six certified water and wastewater operators and two certified park professionals. So they are loaded with professionals and we're thankful for the service that they provide. The Public Works Leadership Team is made up of Director Brian Creed, Assistant Director Mike Schuch, Randy Patton, who's our division manager for streets, parks, and facilities in Martin Chavez, who's division manager for utilities. The team has 16, and a couple of them have been with the City of Heath for 17 and 18 years. So it's commendable service. So if you could, please give a round of a pause and appreciation to these five folks. Applause. Lastly, I would like to make everybody aware of a recent letter of commendation that was presented by Chief Siri to our Sergeant Weedeman and Detective Tongkab for their assistance in helping the ROW-LET police department solve an aggravated robbery that was featured in the series Track Down on Fox 4 News. Weedeman and Tongkab's assistance played a crucial role in the successful resolution of that robbery case and it highlights obviously the importance of law enforcement coordination and the exemplary work of our professional staff. So we're thankful that Raulette can feel safer knowing that case is resolved and we're glad that those two guys are ours. So that is it for me mayor. Thank you. At this time council, does anyone have any comments? And at this time I would like to say a continuation of those that break you in their seat, the dedication that they've brought into the city truly is blessing blessing. There's very much a thankful job. The emails, the phone calls, that these individuals have dealt with over the many years. And so if you can reach out to them and tell them, thank you. We're very honored to have had that in our city. We had a wonderful reception for them. I hope to see that for many years to come. I think that was very necessary. Thank you. I also like to say thank you to the new income and council members. We're very proud to have you with us and working on behalf of the city and taking business of the city seriously and wanting to volunteer your time and buckle your seat. You just never know. Alright, very good. Moving into our consent agenda. This is agenda item number five. This is five. A, discussion and action regarding the minutes of the April 22nd, 2025 regular meeting. Five. B, this is action regarding resolution number two513A. The purchase of taser equipment and training services for the Department of Public Safety from Axon Enterprise Inc. through the source well cooperative purchasing agreement. I believe everyone's had time to review the consent agenda. At this time, the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion. Motion to approve the purchase of the TASER equipment and training services for the Department of Public Safety. Okay, motion on the floor by Councilman Dodson. As stated, do we have a second? I'll second. Wait a second. By Councilman Mormon. So the motion moves. All of those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. Mayer, I just want to point out that the motion was only covering item 5B. It didn't cover 5A. So we need a motion on that. Very well. We will continue that motion to open the floor, to entertain a motion to accept the minutes of April 22nd. I'll make a motion to approve 5A discussion and action regarding the minutes. May April 22nd. Okay. Make a motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Councilman Dodson. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed. Passes unanimously. Thanks, Council. Moving into agenda item number six. These are items for individual consideration. We will begin with discussion and action regarding the appointment of Mayor Pro Tem. Just for clarity, Mayor Pro Tem is for if the mayor is not able to attend a meeting. The mayor Pro Tem then runs the meeting and serves as the mayor in my absence. At this time I'd make a nomination for Councilman Dodson. Do we have any secondary nominations? At this time the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve Mr. Dodson. Okay we have a a motion on the floor to approve Councilman Dodson to a term for mayor pro 10. Do we have a second? A second. We have a second by Councilman Oumbi. The motion moves all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. 6.B. Discussion in Action Regarding a Change Order for $209,601 and 30 cents to the Hill and Wilkinson contract to require the installation of new water lines to support the City of Heath Well Number very same scope of work, a little changes in a large monetary change. So if I could, I'm just going to ask for a denial on this. Okay, very loud. It was very stable, so we're happy. And what this was was, we were, for the new council members, the director of public works was working with Hillin Wilgerson to get our water lines in place before these drainage lines go in. So, we're under some time constraints, however, after working and walking through the job, he realized, hey, there are some provisions and some changes that we can make. Obviously, those were sizable differences in the amount of money. So, this was a tabled item. So therefore that's why he's asking for a denial. So then that way we can move into the next agenda item six dot C. So I will make a motion to deny. Do we have a second? We have a second by Councilman Ombi. So the motion moves all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. Passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. Moving into 6.C. Discussion and action regarding a change order for 111,000 in $71.51 to the Hill and Wilkinson contract to require the installation of new water lines to support the City of Heathwell number one project. Mr. Creed. All right, Mayor and Council. So what we have here is this part of our bridge plan was to install the well to irrigate our park. And when this was originally concepted, it was only for irrigation of the park. And we decided to upside the well and make it potable as well or potable, some people might say. And so it's kind of a bullhead water lines that come out of the wells out here in the park. And there's a pond over here. some people might say. And so it's kind of a bullhead water lines that come out of the wells out here in the park. And there's a pond over here in the corner of the park that it will feel on this end that we irrigate out of. So we irrigate the park with the well water. And in the other direction, the lines would run out and go over to where the water tower area is, where there'd be a small treatment facility before we pump it up into the tower. So we needed those lines putting both directions. This is only for those lines. The reason we broke this out is we have the park project ongoing, which I'm sure you'll hear more about it than we move forward. And they need, I don't know if you've seen all the storm pop we have out there. All the RCP that come and feet pop, we just take a track. So some of this waterline goes under that. So we have a contractor out here that's kind of waiting on us and we're not quite ready to start drilling the well yet but we need to get these water lines in the ground to move forward with the rest of the park and not have these guys sitting out here just charging this money to hang out. So what we did was we got with the engineers, we broke out the water lines and we're going to make a change order to have essentially trophy and I believe that's in your packet to break out that they have. Install the water lines in there, actually the same folks are going to install the storm lines as they go. So it was a good action for us, materially. And we did find some areas where we could save some money. We had some station identification. It had to be changed. And we reduced some haul off. And so that's why this change would have occurred. From the last one to this one, because the way the agendas are set up, the time I was able to review it to the point where I caught that, it was already in the packet. So you're already in, you're already out of go, it's gonna be on the agenda. And so we just requested a table. And then... it to the point where I caught that, it was already in the packet. So you're already in, you're already going to be on the agenda. And so we just requested a table and then Rem brought the new amount forward. And I'll be happy to entertain any questions. I know it's a crash course for you guys on what we're doing. You can kind of see it there on the plans that Bullhead I was talking about. You see it goes up in the corner up there to the tower and it comes over to this bottom left-hand corner to feed the pond and the well is, all right, I can't remember how to use the pointer. So the well is right here and you see this line goes here, goes down and feeds into the pond. It actually drops into a storm drain and the storm drain carries it the rest of the way into the pond area and then that's a point towards the council when it's going up there. All right. And then this one carries all the way up to that direction, up to the tower. Very good. I'll be happy to interpain any questions. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Creed. So yes, as a reminder, obviously this is a key element for getting our first, hotable water well here in the city of Heath, gaining, hopefully, anywhere from 750,000 gallons a day to a million gallons a day that we'd be bringing online. And then also it will serve as pumping water to the pond, which will just be irrigation, but the rest will all be going to the tower. So are there any questions by Council for staff? Councilman Dodson? Brian, how many days lost has there been as we've been waiting for this vote to occur? So the day that we've been able to move them around and do some other things, I am going to be able to have to come back for general conditions. We probably lost about 20 days. So first and foremost, congratulations on knocking this down from what it was to 111. That's a material reduction. That's more than just pencil sharpening. So great, great job to you and Phil and Wilkinson. When you come back with the day's loss article 4 and here talks about a park completion date, and I'd like to see that included here as well. No pun intended, but on the well, what is the activation date and the plan for the activation date? So our request for that was to be having water coming out of September 1st. We're probably looking at September 15th or 20th now at this point where we're still needing to get some documents taken care of before we can put that down. So that's September this year so that we'll be able to have the analysis done on the metabolic content and things like that at that point in time. Correct. Yeah Got it. Got it. And we're still looking to have that up and going and producing a creative water at some point next year. Yes. Yeah. Theoretically, it would be online by early March where we can actually use it as as portable. We can use it as irrigation immediately. Right. So my last question is more of a comment. It would be helpful as we review this just given the the large nature and the overrides or the overrides that we've already seen in terms of change orders and things like that to have a gantt cart chart that we can follow and that the public can follow as well with regards to where we're at what the next critical milestones are and kind of what You know the next puts and takes are as well. Okay. I'll be happy to provide that I will say that right now we are within budget. We are working with in contingency We've had some ups in the contingency. We've had some reductions in the contingency So we're playing within those margins and staying within the contract. This, however, was externally funded because it's a well project, so I had to adjust the contract for it. Gotcha. Yeah, I saw that was highlighted as the well components were not a component of the original contract, but great job on the reduction. Thank you, Senator. Questions, Mayor? Great questions, Councilman Dodson. Any further questions for staff, Council? Okay, at this time, the chair will open the floor the intertain of motion. Motion to approve the change order for $111,071.51 to Hill and Wilkinson to support the installation of new water lines to support the city of Heathwell number one project. Very well. We have a motion on the floor. I stated do we have a second? Oh, second. We have a second by Councilman Myers. The motion moves. All of those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Thank you, Council. Thanks, Madam. Moving into agenda item six.d. This is a discussion regarding the 2020-25 comprehensive plan update, Mr. Dell. Thank you. On the table in front of you tonight, you have a document that's titled City of Heath 2025 Comprehensive Plan Summary of Updates. I'm going to be talking from that. I also want to point your attention to in your packet you received a draft document of the 2025 comprehensive plan update working draft. It looks like this. It's about 62 pages. And I also placed on your on the table in front of you a blown-up a copy of the future land use map. Tonight's item is a discussion item only. I want to bring the new council members up to speed on where we are today in regard to this project and then talk about next steps to get us toward adoption. So the comprehensive plan typically gets updated every five years. There was a major re-working of the plan that was approved in 2018. I believe all of you have a copy of that plan. 2023 marked the five-year point. So the city began the process of updating the plan at that time. And the project has followed a colorful, non-traditional trajectory, if you will. And I'm going to explain what I mean by that. Beginning in January 2023, we prepared an RFQ to go out for a planning consultant. And at that time, it was the City Council's direction and vision to maintain for the most part, the vision in the 2018 plan, the content of the goals, objectives, strategies, and recommendations that were included in that 2018 plan. And focused just on updates that reflect new developments and completed implementation tasks that have happened between 2018 and 2023. So I spent about a decade as a planning consultant specializing in comp plans and at the direction of the council they changed the approach to the project. It changed from a consultant led project to a staff led scope. And the council appointed a comprehensive plan steering committee at that time to help direct the project. The consultant budget was redirected and work began in June of 2023 with the steering committee and staff. So the steering committee appointed to help direct this project, included former council member Weaver, planning and zoning commissioners Wayne Gordon and Thomas Bishop, architecture review board members Jason Thompson and Richard Anderson, EDC members Mike Salinsky and Scott Dodson prior to being elected to council and Katie Dyer who's our park board chairman and then we had several staff involved, Aretha Adams, then Kevin Lashir now me, I've changed roles several times during the project. We've brought in David Gonzales as our community development director, Richard Dormier, our city engineers worked on this, Brian Creed, public works director, Jay Ayers, finance director, and Suzanne Brooke as our communication and park board in EDC liaison. So the Comprehensive Plan steering committee met many times and edited every single word of the 2018 plan to make it into a current document that's representative of the continued vision of heath. And the pace was lower at some times than it would have been with the consultant because the work being staff-led effort had to be folded in with our other workload of our lean staff. So it was done in conjunction with a massive software integration and also standing up a third party hosted GIS system. So we're incredibly grateful that we already had plans in the works to launch a GIS system because it ended up being crucial to this effort. So as I said, we've gone through a non-traditional set of circumstances and process to get to where we are today. The steering committee completed their work in February and the draft that they created was reviewed and edited by the P&Z in March at their regular meeting. With the draft mostly complete, the steering committee met again in April to finalize the future land juice map. And then the P&Z held a special meeting on April 16 and gave their blessing to the future Lane Juice Map with some comments that you'll see in our spurs in the document. The draft in your packet, as is indicated in the staff report, is a working draft. The staff is actively editing the document to finalize some of the demographics and will present the final document next Wednesday, May 21st, to the P&Z for their final consideration and recommendation. So we're coming to you tonight to put this working draft in your hands because it's about 95% complete and because I've been the project lead on this for the last couple of years and my time in Heath is coming to an end next Thursday and I wanted to do the heavy lifting to get this project to the finish line with the P and Z and with the council and not leave that and adding that on to David's plate. He joined the very late in the process, but he's been a huge help in wrapping things up, especially in coordinating with the GIS consultants and pulling the demographics together. The final document will be on your agenda for the May 27th meeting. And as we pointed out in in the staff report tonight, the staff is actively working on the document we're editing and revising a few of the tables. I think the maps are all finished, is that correct? Yeah. And we're doing a little bit of tweaking on some of the associated text that describes the tables and maps, just to make sure that we've got that all buttoned up. So we're incredibly grateful to the an associate for really churning out our mapping in a very timely manner. We wouldn't have been able to accomplish this without all those efforts coming together. In the summary of updates that you have in front of you I'm going to show you a couple of things that we're going to do in the next few years. We're going to do a couple of things that we're going to do in the next few years and we're going to do a couple of things out all those efforts coming together. In the summary of updates that you have in front of you, I manner. We wouldn't have been able to accomplish this without all those efforts coming together. In the summary of updates that you have in front of you, I want to point out a few of the key updates and to reiterate the original scope and focus of the project that began in 2023 was really to carry forward the ideals, the vision, the recommendations that were really clearly stated in the 2018 plan. Not to depart from that, if anything, to actually double down and to expand on some of those policies, recommendations, and objectives. So you're going to see that in the document when you look through it. As far as updates are concerned, we did not make, we didn't modify anything with regard to the one dwelling unit per one acre of developerable residential density. We added in a preference for use of the SFE3.0, three acre and larger district in areas of heat that are undeveloped and where it's situated around areas that are developing as large rural estate development. So you're going to see that depicted on the future land use map. As we work our way down, I'm just going to start by reading out the vision and then I'm going to highlight a few goals, objectives and some of the strategy recommendations. So the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee slightly tweaked the vision statement from 2018 to read now. Heath is a premier outdoor lifestyle community of spacious upscale neighborhoods, open spaces, parks and trails, cultural amenities, an exemplary educational system, and distinctive economic development to provide the highest level of public services a place to call home for a lifetime. So to that end, the committee and the staff worked together and came up with a few modifications to the document. We wanted to make reference more often and with more clarity the need to require sidewalks and trail connectivity. We also wanted to make sure that applicants who are applying for development action in the city of Heath know that we take very seriously parkland dedication and open space, especially in our residential developments and that there will be an expectation of their development to provide those things. We also talked, you'll see references throughout the plan to a combination of high quality, low residential density, low commercial intensity, open atmosphere, and all of those things being done intentionally. Gull VI said the plan creates a whole new section that focuses on rural by design. It defines what rural by design character means in heath, which includes maintaining open space, low residential density, low commercial intensity, and a low impact on infrastructure. And we will, you'll be seeing more of a mentioning of that terminology as development proposals are reviewed and compared against the ideals of the plan in the future. Heath, as far as land use mixes are concerned, we really see a mix of land use only within the town center overlay district and it's a mixture of commercial uses within that district. That is a continued theme in the updated plan. With regard to resource protection, we added more language into this document to talk about the importance of year-round water conservation schedule and also an emphasis on drought tolerant landscape materials and encouraging irrigation that does not utilize the city's irrigation system. So the use of wells, rain barrels, other types of technology, if you will, to provide for residential irrigation and commercial irrigation. Another important topic facing the city of of heath and every city in our area, especially right now as we're in a legislative session, is the need to collaborate well with our surrounding cities. And you'll see objectives in here that speak to that. For instance, objective 12.4 and 12.5 both speak to that and seeking alignment with our elected officials at the state level and higher regarding legislation that can have an impact on the city. And then with regard to the town center around the time of the 2018 plan, an effort began to do a design manual to guide the design standards for our town center overlay district. That was completed following the adoption of the 2018 plan. So the 2018 version spoke to that as a future state, like we're going to create this, we're going to do this planning exercise, and then we need to do something with the results of that. Well, now we have results and we've done some things with that to codify it. But the 2025 comp plan, I mentioned doubling down. It kind of doubles down on that and it says that not only do we want like the Texas historic architectural style and the farmhouse chic style as appropriate for our town center. We would like to see those design standards implemented or complemented by all development in our local retail and other commercial areas that are outside of the town center overlay. That's not to say that those areas have to comply with the 20 plus pages of regulations that are specific to the town center, but we are saying the committee and the PNZ ratified the committee's stance that our commercial development, it's in the cities of East Bess interest for our commercial development to have a common high quality aesthetic and that the chosen aesthetic is depicted in that Town Center overlay design manual. Now as far as land-use strategies go, a theme that came out in the steering committee's work was a desire to not burden existing citizens to all, to the degree possible, with the impact of future growth. So that's an ideal that you'll see mentioned in the plan. They also suggested that the city should require all retail development when rezoning action is needed to be done in a planned development. And they specifically mentioned, and you'll see it listed in here, get listed in here features that those planned developments should consider. A combination of a list of features should be present in planned developments when they're brought before the city, PNZ and the Council for your action. And in order for that to happen, it needs to be put into the code of ordinances. So the recommendation, the specific recommendation in here is to amend the ordinance to require these things to happen. And some of the features that are listed out in here will all of them have been desired features in the plain developments that have been presented to the city for the last few years. And it's, to date, it's been a give and take negotiation between the city, staff, the developer, the council, the P&Z, to try to accomplish these features. And it's a very iterative process. And anytime you're negotiating for things, there's risk of not getting everything that you want, right? So the plan is talking about making some adjustments to our ordinance to really have a fighting chance of getting all the things that the city wants with regard to these development features. So you're gonna see a list in here that includes things like ample open space, modest signage, noise buffering, preservation zones to preserve tree stands and landscape areas around the exterior border of developments, a miniatized common areas, trail connectivity throughout a development as well as connection to existing trail segments. The use of gray water irrigation wells, gray water slash irrigation wells, drought tolerant landscaping, uniform fencing, curvilinear streets, a variety of building designs to reduce monotony, and the use of the environmental features that are already there, ponds, water features, floodplains, etc. So those are mentioned as desirable features in a local retail plan development, which is our only commercial zoning district as local retail. That's why I keep saying that. And then also those are features that are also desirable in residential plan developments. So an implementations action that's suggested is to go forward and update our zoning ordinance and our subdivision regulations to make these things part of our vernacular. And then there's also some other recommendations that deal with, let me get to it, capital improvement programming and planning and the prioritizing of maintenance and improvements to our existing infrastructure and facilities. There's some encouragement in here for HOAs, for the city staff and the council to be actively involved in encouraging our HOA leadership to adopt restrictions for the development of accessory dwelling units on properties within their association. And also to prohibit short-term rentals, Airbnb, VRBOs, etc. within their associations. The reason we're calling that out specifically as an encouragement for HOAs is because that's a that's been a move of the legislature in recent years to limit or remove 90% or more of the city's ability to regulate those uses but they have seen fit to leave some authority with the HOAs. ways. So it, instead of the city being able to regulate that, now it gets to become a civil matter between neighbors within a neighborhood. So we've had one open house with HOA leadership talking about this and giving some draft suggested language for your deed restrictions and that would be a good measure to take again as the city moves forward with implementation. The last thing I'm going to mention is the future land use map. There are a number of other recommendations that were amended and updated but in the interest of time I'm not going to list them all for you tonight. You've got them in the document. They are all highlighted in yellow to make it easy for you to find them. But there was a change made to our approach to the future Land Use Map. And of course, that's this big map that you have in front of you. You'll see at the bottom there's a legend that identifies categories for future, the way that land should be used in the future. And I'm going to focus specifically on the residential uses that are on this map. They're called out as rural estates, medium density residential, and high density multifamily, and then residential townhouse. In 2018, a rural estate designation on the future land juice map said that that land should be developed at least one acre, available land per lot in a residential development, and could also be compatible with the three acre zoning district and the Ag district, which allows for 10 acre minimum lot size with an accompanying ag use. So the committee in its deliberation determined that rural estates really should be 3-8-8-8-8-8-8 option out of rural estates and kind of moved it down into the medium density residential. Medium density residential previously had included a half acre lot, zoning district, which is inactive now. It was made inactive after the comp plan was adopted in 2018. So we, the committee took that half acre and bumped it down and reclassified it into the high density residential. So what you'll see on the map and in the table, which is the second to last page in your little summary handout, is the revised future land use designations and the descriptions for those. So with the desire to see more three-acre and larger residential uses in Heath, the committee sat and looked at the map and said, well, okay, it doesn't make sense for every undeveloped piece of property in heath that could go to a residential use to be three-acre and larger. There are some areas that we already have deliberated over with a one-acre and larger proposal. So you'll see on the map that the focus is really on designating areas for rural estate, again that's three-acre and larger, in places where it's already surrounded by that kind of development. And then also it's noted in a bay end that kind of lines the major thoroughfares that come into the city. The idea there of the committee was that as you're driving through North Ridge, 549, and McDonald, you're gonna see, or five, that's 550, anyway, you're to see a strip of land that preserves that rural, residential, aesthetic that is really what has drawn a lot of people to Heath and is really an emblematic, what we identify ourselves as in a lot of ways. So you'll see that on the future land use map. That's why there are some Hale Yellow strips that line these major 549, 550 in Ridge, as well as Heathland Crossing. So that kind of captures the major emphasis of the update to date. This is a discussion item, so if you've reviewed the document or if you've heard me say anything that brought questions to mind, I'd be happy to answer those. The next step is next Wednesday, the finalized document and maps, and the whole shebang will be on the a special meeting agenda for the P&Z. They're going to deliberate that on the 21st next Wednesday. It's the only item on the agenda. And then their recommendation will come to you the following week on May 27th for your final action. You'll be approvingving adopting body. Dodson and McHler were on the committee, and if I'd left anything out or if I didn't focus on something that was crucial, please fill in those gaps for me. Yeah, and this and anything. Nope, very good. Thank you, Mr. Del. Great summary overview. Before we go into discussion and questions from council, part of the future land use and really redefining, if you go back to 2018, and the massive work that it took and for some of us, you know, we packed out the high schools auditorium and the consultants took notes and feedback from everybody on what do you want? What do you want to see? And so the 2018 really embodied that and then obviously this is a tightening up, if you will. Obviously looking for where are vulnerabilities is the city. Some of you that have been coming to the city council meetings know that some of our ordinance has been around since 2005. In many cases we've actually missed those opportunities. When we implemented the comprehensive plan in 2018, we probably didn't quantify some of that stuff that's still sitting from 2005. We saw that in our anti-monotony ordinance, where for every 400 foot, you could have a similar home, which therefore creates that track builder concern, right? But also with density management, the concerns there. And then also getting into the open space ordinance. That's a new ordinance that we've never had before. But really, it really just embodied what was in the Comprehensive Plan, almost for beta and then we codified it into an ordinance. So these are some of the things that we're going through as we look at this comprehensive plan and as we look for passing this new comprehensive plan, you know, the next steps are let's codify it. Let's make sure that we have city ordinances that substantiate it and bring it into fruition because ultimately a comprehensive plan is a future state and it's a guidebook. No different than the Town Center overlay district. None of us were here when the Town Center overlay district was created. That was a whole other council. They worked tirelessly with consultants and a lot of feedback and surveys from the community and that's where that came from. So what we want to do is we just want to make sure that as we move forward that we're protecting our city through ordinances that are applicable to the comprehensive plan. And so some of the things that were made note is, you know, some of these ordinances are no longer even in existence. Some of the past council, you know, we've made some of them obsolete. You know, you get into multi-family, obsolete. You get into, you know, smaller lots than half an acre, obsolete, obsolete. So these are all obsolete. So it's one home on one developer, Blakeer Plus. And so that's the SFE3.0. So as you do look at the map, we do need to make note, Mr. Dell, on page 12 of the summary and on page 13 of the comprehensive plan. It's actually 13, but it has a secondary page number of 232. The coloring for the rural estate needs to match the map. So that's just an easy, clerical item to address. As you look at your future land use, when she's talking about major thoroughfares, and it's not just about continuity within the city, but it's also a density management. It's stressing our resources and making sure that we have some alignment with what our expectations are as we catch up our infrastructure. But as you'll see on the 550 and the 549 as well as you'll see someone ridge and you'll see someone 740, that's what these areas are trying to showcase is these more identified as rural estates as SFE3.0. So you will also find it to be some interesting reading as you look at the Comprehensive Plan and I'll also tell the audience please make sure that your voices are heard when these meetings come speak. You know, if you're in favor or if you're not, We want the community to be behind this. Ultimately, this body worked for two years on trying to get this up to where it's at today, but we want to continue to create that engagement and feedback from the community because we're here to represent everybody within the community. So please come to PNZ and please come to the council meetings. And those of you that are on as elected officials, let's continue to rally all of our constituents to make sure that they see it understand it and can comprehend it with any questions that the more heads and the more eyes, it helps us be a great city in establishing this comprehensive plan. But the interesting reason that you'll see is that as you really have seen and you see the quadrant of identification markers, we didn't rebrand or reload go. We're very proud of really, you know, being a sailing community, Rush Creek being, you know, it's a speedster sailing community. And so we want to be very proud of that. But we also want to talk about the other things that people identify with. And so you'll see horseback riding. That's something that's very unique. If you go into Dallas and you want to stable a horse, guess what? You may be driving 30 miles outside of town to go find a place to stable your horse so that a question in lifestyles not mate maybe readily available. Well we have that here and we have it with our neighboring cities but what we have it within our community. We have fishing and boating so you'll see that in the in the quadrants. You'll also see that we have two golf courses so as a a community, it's a mile by mile to have two golf courses and in fact we have the US Open Qualifier this week so again great beautiful community but also the sailing so we want to make sure that that we're identifying that in our brand and who we are as a city But but as you go through and really understand a premier outdoor lifestyle community is to make sure that whether it be people wanting to develop their property or it be ourselves as a city trying to strategically plan. We want to make sure that we encompass what that means. So I've heard many people say, well, what makes us premier outdoor lifestyle community. Well, it's coming. If you don't see it today, which I already see it, but it is coming. And working on trail systems, we had a number of people within this committee talk about a question lifestyle and a question in trails. And so whether it be walking, biking, hiking, or even with a questions Lifestyle so those are the things that I think that you'll see within this comprehensive plan So thank you for the summary at this time the chair will open the floor to allow discussion and questions with staff Do we have any any items of discussion or questions? Very well, may, could I mention a couple of things I forgot? Where can you find the draft? It was included in the packet for tonight's meeting, the draft that these guys have in front of them and that I was referring to. After the P&Z meets next Wednesday, we will package that and it will be on the homepage. Sus Susanne will shimmy a little link in there above the fold and you can get to it easily that way. And then the document did result in a laundry list, if you will, of other ordinances that need to be revised to implement the plan. And those are listed in your summary document summary document and I'm just gonna read them off real quickly because there aren't that many of them But they're important and on page 11 and 12. They're not number but they're on the very back effect Yeah, so with regard to the zoning ordinance reviewing retail design standards to align with the town center design manual Requiring amenities for residential lots. Requiring water infrastructure, adequate water infrastructure for domestic and irrigation uses. Requiring adequate sanitary sewer infrastructure and requiring adequate transportation infrastructure. Other ordinances to either revise or create that came about through the planning process are parking lot design to include shade, space dimensions, cart corals, curbside pickup, et cetera. Food trucks, ordinance to regulate car washes and either through a conditional use permit or deal with them in another way. Or, and other high water use land uses. Short-term rentals, we're tracking legislation all the time. Our city attorneys are very involved in paying attention to that. There have been some cities that have gotten themselves in a lot of hot water over that. So we're treading lightly and kind of leaning hard on our HOAs, but when we get the word from Marie and Andy that we can implement some regs, then those should come before you. Sign consistency within commercial developments, outdoor storage, regulations, perhaps creating an overlay for the reserve, rural street standards, golf carts, collection. Oh, that's pretty taboo. Yeah. I almost split this city right down the middle. I almost skipped your own golf cart. Collection and donation bins, trailer, trail connection requirements, sidewalk replacement program, three more. Water for new neighborhoods, codifying residential development amenities and planned developments, and also in the straight zoning districts, and then codifying design standards for concrete and natural trails. So those are just some of the ones we came up with. Thank you, Mr. Dell. At this time, Councilman Dodson, did you have a question for staff? Yeah, I've got a couple. First of all, Aaron, you were really the driving factor of hurting the cats in that meeting and typically the objectives that you had laid out, there's no way that we could have to accomplish that event any of the meetings that we were in, but yet you set those objectives in that early eye for us. So thanks so we would still be in that room back there meeting on this thing. So thank you very much for doing that. Also, thank you very much for all of your efforts here in the city of New York being this, not only as a leader in this area, but somebody with great subject matter and domain expertise would all of the things associated with the city and the care that you're taking with staff and the professionalism that you exhibited at the council is not unnoticed. And I just wanted to say thank you very much for that. With regards to this particular plan, you mentioned that this is coming back to us on May 27th, right? Is that to approve this plan? Okay. So the two things that are that any kind of hit on them is citizen input, which I also think is really critical. I believe we talked about two readings of this with the citizenry of heat. Is that correct? That's very common. Yeah, we can certainly handle it that way. Right. So I just wanted to make sure I was clear on that, because I think it's really important to make our mention that the citizens have a chance to see it, hear it, understand it, and provide input to it so that we can codify this with everybody's input and not just the steering committee as we met on this You know the course of a couple years. So with that with that process in mind the 27th I would be the become the first reading and then it would come back to you again in June For a final. Yeah, correct. We need two readings of the. Sure. So I'll add on to that. The law, the government code requires the public hearing, the adoption of the comprehensive plans. So there'll be one for that. So either on the first or second reading, we'll discuss that offline now. Very good. Right. So the timing of the updates that staff is working under some critical numbers in there, particularly as it calls out, what is our plan for build out? The build out piece drives a lot of what we're looking for in terms of water, in terms of roads and infrastructure and what have you. And what that's really moving towards beyond SF3 or SF43, SFV3.0, that's going to hopefully dampen the overall numeric requirements for population standpoint here in heat. So I just didn't know where you all were with bringing those numbers together so that we could populate that. Yes, They are included in the working draft. And we'll be fine tuning it. Yeah, we were just looking for those updates on page 272 and 273. What's the other page number on that? I don't have my whole page. It's 272, 273. Is there a little page number on there too? A lower, yes, 53. There we go. Okay. Yes. And appendix 54. Also a few meetings ago we talked about P and Z taking a look at strengthening the ordinances up throughout. And that's like a work-killing effort, you know, kind of in and of itself. We got a quick glance at it, but the subterranean diagram, we all were going to put in on this going to be pretty substantial. Aaron is a plan that still has a PNZ. Look at that from their perspective on the audience piece or are you and staff going to take a swing of that before you kick it over to PNZ? That would be a thought. That would be an implementation step that would come afterwards. that would come afterward. I'm telling you right now if we can make it happen that should be a consultant led project. You saw how long it took to do an update for this document to go into best practices and state statute and all of the things, all the considerations into an ordinance, you know, pretty much a full-scale ordinance revision. It's, that's too heavy of a lift to be an in-house project. Sure. There's about 15 ordinances, yeah. Plus some sub-ordances. It just holds everybody off. On a deck of 8.5, we use the word encourage, as opposed to require for irrigation. Did you do that from a legal perspective? And can we strengthen that in our ordinances to require neighborhoods of the certain size to have irrigation, purple-like, plant and their development. That'd be in your PD. OK. Well, when we talk about it, I've got a first thing. So what's in the pool? This is a critical document for the city. is going to be binding by law upon the city and development that comes in. Every developer is going to have to comply with this. Here's only an order and says comply with this. Any application has to comply with this and subdivisions and PDs. So my point is this is binding and it's going to be law and it would apply for many many years So I know y'all just start now, but this is a really important document to start out with I just want you to understand the importance of it The only other comment I have in this room here is that the same you think you mentioned is happening. And I see the London City Auditor kind of a resident, Austin and Fish and others would reverse all things legislated and community impact standpoint. But if this bill comes out and is not bracketed, which currently, from what I understand, it's not slated to be bracketed by the zoning watch, meaning basically that for towns, our size and in a county of our size, any use would still be heard, excessive dwelling, it would still be possible from any worn in everywhere. So, anyone could extensively be a rental property in the area, which is kind of counter, not kind of very counter to what we're trying to preserve here in heat. So, working in the HOA, level myself area that I left earlier is critical for what we do. Any clawback that we could have in there to extend the tide of the EEP sent back in. It would be very beneficial. Thank you for that. Very well. That's all there. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Any other questions for staff? Council? Okay, there is no action to be taken on this item. If there are no further questions, we will move into agenda item number seven. This is our executive session. In accordance with the Texas Government Code, chapter 551, sub-chapter D, the City Council will recess into executive session. This is a closed meeting to discuss the following. 7.A Section 551.071 consultation with the attorney on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body into the Texas disciplinary rules and professional conduct of the state bar of Texas clearly conflicts with this chapter regarding wholesale water purchase contract between the city of Rockwell and the city of Heath, city manager position and drainage concerns raised by the property owners of five key drive, he texas, 7.B, section 551.074, deliberation regarding the appointment evaluation reassignment duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee regarding city manager position, and then 7.C, section 551.072, deliberate the purchase exchange lease or value of real property. The real estate sales, excuse me, contract by and between the Heath Economic Development Corporation, the Heath Municipal Benefits Corporation, and John Olin Buchanan and Sue Ellen Compton for the acquisition of approximately 2.875 acres of land situated in the East Teal Survey Abstract No. 207 Track 22 City of Heath, Rockwell County, Texas. And at this time we are now in executive session at 741. All right. All right. Agenut item number eight. We will now reconvene into open section at 9.28 p.m. I will open the floor to talk about what let's go back in here. In accordance with Texas Government Code Chapter 5.1 the City Council will reconvene into regular session to consider action if any. On matters discussed in executive session, our first line item would be 8.A. And that is gonna be to consider an act on the resolution of proving the real estate cell contract between EDC and NBC with Buchanan, Compton, and authorizing EDC and NBC President to execute any and all closing documents necessary for the acquisition. So the chair is open to the floor to entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve of resolution, authorizing and approving in-state sales contract by and between the Heath Economic Development Corporation and John Olin Buchanan and Sue Ellen Compton and authorize the execution of any and all documents necessary for the acquisition of the property consistent with the terms as discussed in the executive session. Very well. We have a motion on the floor. As stated, do we have a second? I will second it. Okay. Councilman Thurgood seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. Pass unanimously. Thank you, Council. Going into our deliberation regarding the appointment evaluation, reassignment duties and discipline of the dismissal of a public officer or employee regarding a city manager position, the chair will now open the floor to entertain a motion. I have two motions to make, Mr. Mayor. The first motion is to authorize the mayor to negotiate and execute an employment agreement with the city manager candidate. Very well. We have a motion on the floor by Councilman Dodson to allow the mayor to negotiate and execute city manager employment agreement Do we have a second I second it we have a second by Councilman Horn Motion moves all those in favor say aye Those opposed passes unanimously. Thank you council unanimously. Thank you, Council. Mr. Mayor, I have a second motion, sir. You are recognized. Thank you. My second motion is to appoint Chief Brandon Ciri as the interim city manager, effective May 23rd and 2025. Very well. We have a motion on the floor as we have some change in our leadership and we have a small area of time for this new senior manager to take office and so the motion is as stated to allow Chief Siri on the 23rd to be the interim city manager during that time of transition. Do we have a second? A second. We have a second by Councilman Ombi. Motion moves. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. Pastes unanimously. Thank you, Council. Job chief. All right. It's time. And we got to understand. We're going to know further items. This meeting is adjourned at 931. That's it.