All right, good evening. March madness is done. So congratulations to the Gators. And now it's finally baseball season, that's right. Yeah. So if you're ready for a nap, now's the time to take it. No ranges. All right, welcoming to a wonderful day. It's kind of nice to have winter at 7 a.m. Spring at 10 a.m. and summer by 4 p.m. so we get three three in a day. So we're going to start this council meeting off tonight with the Pledge of Allegiance, the U.S. flag led by Comrade Stephanie O'Banion. The Texas Pledge will be led by City Manager Sam Listy and the Wayne Carpenter will have the invocation. Please rise. Please join me in the pledge. Applied allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. On our depts is flag, one pledge allegiance to the Texas one under God. One and in the pistol. Please join me in prayer. Our dear Heavenly Father, we thank you so very much for this beautiful that we've having today and all the blessings you've been on us. But we also know that we have our fellow countrymen in the South East are suffering from floods and tornadoes and we ask your special care for them. Thank you for the opportunity to serve here in Belton, Texas and for the great community that we have. The city staff that we have are first responders and all those who contribute to make this simple place to live. Help us in goddesses, we make deliberations and give us when we fail to ask by amen. Amen. All right. We will call this council meeting to order Tuesday, April 8th at 5.32 p.m. here at the Harris Community Center. Again, welcome. The first item on the agenda are public comments. I have at least one that has signed up for public comments. If not, sign up. You're welcome to come and speak your piece. You've got three minutes. Now the first person that I have is Dr. Gary Kent. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Well, Mr. Mayor, St. Council members, City Manager, to the rest of the city leaders, and most of all to the citizens ofk County. It is an honor to just be able to stand up here before you all. On behalf of the Central Texas Cathedral Worship Center, we extend a heart-wilt welcome to each and every one of you all to come down and join with us and help lift up the name with Jesus as well as to encourage the young people to get involved because so often the young people want to go in the house and play games. It's time to come on out. But your dedication to growth, your well-being of Belton is inspiring. We recognize the hard work and the sacrifice that you all do to make sure the belted has a bright future. Together we can foster a spirit of collaboration and unity that uplift every member of our beloved city. I thank you, my nation thank you for your leadership, your vision, your dedication. We look forward to being able to partner with you all in future events. And I think I still have a few minutes or half a minute. We have also coming up. I just wanted to let you all know that on April 26th, we have what you call a cowboy cowgirl date. That way, if you're not a cowboy cowgirl, you can put your boots and hats on and you right on in. Empty, we had a horse, a house, free food, sit again, free food. You know, I'll tell you what, kids were walking by like, what's going on over there, you know? And we just had an exciting time and we're really excited. And it wasn't most excited about, hopefully I can go back and tell my colleague, hey, some of the city councilman's and ladies will come by. Where's the location? Main street seven. Let me put my DJ for it. Well, gentlemen, that's 700 South Main Street here in Belton. Thank you. So if you that's where we are, we're right down the street on Main Awesome. And we just excited about things that are going on here in Belting. And we're excited that we're going to be a part of it. We will be celebrating our eighth year here on April 18th and 19th. You got to open Invitation Thank you very much All right anyone else to address the council One way or the other all right there being no other Public comments. I will save the radio voice and just use my own Item three is a fire department promotional announcement and pinning Assistant chief Gilbrough. The stage is yours. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Councilor. We're here tonight to recognize a few of our outstanding individuals in our department that recently have promoted. You know, we don't have them very often, so when we do, we kind of try to make it kind of a big deal. And that's why we're here tonight to have the pinning ceremony for a few of these guys. So after months of studying and preparation, three individuals stood out ranking at the top of the list. Jeff Booker, who could not be here tonight, is driver operator Carter Davis, has now promoted to Lieutenant and Josh Isbel who promoted to Captain. So we're not privileged to take a special decision with two of these individuals to be formally Captain Isbel and Davis, who have their badges pinned by their families. It's a longstanding tradition of the fire service, the pending representation not just a new title, but an achievement and a transition for greater responsibility. So, first up, since Carter just got, we're going to do Lieutenant Davis and his family's going to be pinning him. Don't go straight in on those pins. All right, and next up we have Captain Josh Isbel. He will be pinning him. I'm going to get it. Oh, yeah, you get it. Thank you. And I guess we'll give Jeff Parker his badge to at some point. All right. Alright, he's on that channel. It's always great to be able to be part of that and witness that promotion. So again, congratulations to you guys. Alright, item number four is always the party favorite when David gets to read a proclamation. Today's proclamation is for Arbor Day, April 25th, 2025. I will be this and James. You're going to, okay, I'll read it from here and then I'll hand it to you. So apologies for the vocabulary, my limited, but you're going to see it. So here goes. Whereas from towering pine trees to sprawling oaks and hearty alms, the managerie of types of trees in Texas are prominent features of our unique landscape. And whereas as Texans, we value our trees and their benefits, clean air, clean water, seeing the erosion of just top soil by wind and water, reducing heating and cooling costs, moderate temperatures, and providing habitat for wildlife. And whereas Texas first observed Arborday in 1889 following in the footsteps of Nebraska in 1872, where they only had one tree, by the way, anyway. And 1872, when citizens of that state planted 1 million trees and established that day in April, shall be set aside for the planting of trees. And whereas the city of Belton's own design standards ensure Belton's heritage trees are protected and new trees are established with new buildings and neighborhoods because of the, we understand the value to our city, the increase in property values, the enhancement of economic vitality, the commitment to environmental stewardship and beautification of our community. And whereas the 19th century American poet Lucy Larkham wrote, he who plants a tree, plants hope, plants joy, he plants peace, he plants youth, he plants love. And whereas the city of Belton encourages the planning of new trees and caring for existing trees in our community, now therefore I, David Lee, mayor on behalf of the city of Belton, Duke, per claim today, well, not today, April 25th as Arbor Day. There we go. Done. It's your home. Applause. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's been spelling. I just said that the shoulder receiver is like this. Yes. That's the crew here. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank job. Thank you. Mayor, I also think this is part of the process to get the city of Belton designated as an Arbor tree. Tree City USA. Okay, that's great. I will say a lot of cities, it's a...belton is one of those that really does have pretty trees. And it's glad that people believe in that and keep that. A little tidbit, the tradition, or at least wives tale, and it's probably true, you wait to do a lot of your gardening until after the pecans have their leaves because you won't have her have any snow after the pecans leaf out. So the pecans still have not leafed out. They're starting though. So anyway, so the spring really starts with the pecans. So, yeah. Barbara, farmer story or a line? Well, farmer story and all wise tell, I guess they're both related. So, yeah, that's the tradition. So, all right, on to bigger and bolder things are contingent. and items 4 for 8 can be enacted by a single motion by the council if they so choose or they can remove any of the items that I'm about to read and we can consider them individually, I will read the items. Item 5 is approving the minutes 25th council meeting. Item 6 is approving the resolution authorizing the award of a contract to RM Quality Construction for the construction of one house as part of the home program grant awarded by Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. Item seven is adopting an ordinance for a legitimate number one to the City of Belton fiscal year 2025 annual budget. The state is authorizing the city manager to enter into professional services agreement with statewide right of way services for right of way acquisition of 32 parcels pertaining to the South Connell reconstruction project. Those are the items on the Consent Agenda and the Chair would entertain a motion. Or we could pull one off. I move we approve items. Five through eight. Is there a motion? Second. We have a motion a second to prove items 5 through 8 any other discussion before we move all in favor say aye Was opposed all right passes six to zero All right item nine is receive an update Updated presentation and consider authorizing the building life safety grant program. Mr. Bob. Thank you, sir. Thanks. I'm trying not to take that personally. I'll say here and listen Bob. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. I had that same effect, so it's okay. Other ones? You have sent the standards there with that. Okay. Let's begin. Building life-safety grants. We talked about this back in March and at that that particular time, the council asked us to go back and just make some changes based on those conversations. And our recollection is that we wanted to include in addition to non-residential buildings, vertical mixed-use buildings, that kind of thing. That we would exclude non-extremely new construction and then prepare the application pack as a whole and I think that's, we'll put that in your packet so hope you've had a chance to see that. So the grant program in summary is, is, is, is, they would provide a $50,000 per project grant, a 5050 match for the grant, for life safety improvements and as I mentioned non-residential vertical mixed use buildings existing and then the geography would be the central down to street and uptown zones. And we essentially would suggest that we distribute the funds based on a reimbursable basis that holds folks accountable and would allow for many of the same administrative requirements that we have on the FIG grant that we are familiar with over the last couple of years or the years that the FIG program has been around. You have to spend the money or if you awarded a grant, you wouldn't be able to apply for another one for three years, that kind of thing. So there's a consistent rules that we've had in the past. to spend the money or if you awarded a grant you wouldn't be able to apply for another one for three years that kind of thing. So there's a consistent rules that we've had in the past. Continuing on with this, it's intended to interior building life safety improvements such things as fire suppression as best the subatement led removal, environmental issues, accessibility issues, things like that. And we would also include things. I think these are written in the staff report in terms of designing construction costs we would like to provide the funding for a total almost term key project. The geography is as shown here, we're suggesting that the uptown, the central downtown and the main street areas are included as you can see the red is the Turs district and that provides you know currently much of the funding. Of course as we roll into the next fiscal year the there will need to be some more discussions about where the money's, not where the money's coming from, but allocating additional fund, 26 fiscal year. And that's it really. We recommend that you approve the proposed building, the life-safety grants, and I'd be happy to answer any questions if you have any. Thank you. All right, thank you, Bob. I think the public hearing is just for deliberations. Easy for me to say. Any comments or questions? Bob. Thank you for the additional work on the next few. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm very excited about the program and before several subcommittees which was beneficial, the EDC is on board. I think it comes on the heels of the facade grant which is going to very very successful program for us. So looking forward to I move we'll improve it into item number nine. We have motion and second to approve item nine in the other comments. Just clarification question, this does not include the turz zone. You have to be in the central downtown or uptown. Yes, and the Main Street areas, right? Okay, but not if you're in the turz. So if you're outside those areas, then in the turz, if you're outside the areas, but in the turz, the policies say you have to be within that jogger, unless you decide to expand it from there. The main reference to the terms is that the existing funding within the program right now is Turr's Funding. So if someone comes in with a request right now, it would have to be in the Turr's Boundary until October, where we would be commuting our budget for BEDC funding and also additional Turr's funding. So. Gotcha. Yeah, so there's a few areas that appears that are it would be eligible for the grant and not have ability to have funded currently. Correct. Yes. All right. Any other comments or questions? All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. Again. Passes 6-0. Thank you. All right. Item 10. Hold the public and consider an ordinance amending chapter 10 article 3 section 10-48 related to claim of impounded vehicle or other property. Chief Berg. Mayor Counsel, I appreciate the opportunity to present this. The first, this one here specifically is is just cleaning up some of the verbiage we already have that's in conflict with the Attorney General's opinion. So in the ordinance, the record section, what it is is we were going to require the impound company to make a fair, fire they have insurance when this order is put in place. The Attorney General has come out out with the opinion say that they're because they're not licensed peace officers So the conflict is we just can't allow them to do that so the solution for that Well, I think it's just go ahead and strike out that portion and all they have to do is verify ownership Open any questions Right Any questions before they can't drive it. The record company can't ask to have insurance. They all can do is verify proof of ownership and then release it to them and what they do from that point. It's strictly up to them. This isn't them picking up from RN. No, okay. All right. This being public hearing will close our deliberations. We'll open the floor. If anyone wishes to speak in favor or against this amendment, now's the time to do so. There being no one rushing to talk about this, we'll close the floor and we'll reconvene the chair with an obtained emotion. I'll make a motion to agenda out and number 10 is presented. It's like a motion of second has been made to not require insurance. I'm sorry, and I'm not to ask for insurance. Sorry, did I come out? All right, sorry. It's all of his to follow the law. Yeah, follow the law. Yeah, right. Any other comments or questions before we vote? All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right. All passes 6-0. That's number 11. Number 11 is hold a public hearing and consider and ordinance amending the code of ordinances by add after 14, Article 5, sections 14 through 70, through 14 through 80, 14-80 establishing a child safety zone within the city limits of Belton. Again, Chief Burke. So Council, State law allows us to go ahead to establish a child safety zone. And what that is is basically a restriction of 1,000 feet for registered sex offenders to take up residency within from the child safety zone. Some examples of a child safety zone would be parks, playgrounds, private public schools, amusement arcades, bus stops, things like that. Looking at the bus stops though, there was a lot of them and so we haven't really targeted those as far as because they move. But talking to BISD today, they have a system in place where they will move their bus stops based on where registered sex offenders are living. So that covers that on that end. Local cities that have it, it's clean. Comverse cove, I didn't see an article back in from 2021 or a news report where Temple was talking about doing. They still haven't got it across the finish line yet. So this is just something that we think is going to enhance safety for children and really just makes a lot of sense. People that already have residency would be grandfathered in. I'm not going to sit there and say people have to move. But the people that it would affect was you know five to the eight district 27 and 26 and we do have one transient that is basically considered homeless. He just couldn't bed down with a thousand feet of the zones. Other restrictions that are in corporate in that is Halloween night. You can't participate to run a portion of time to see tie a seat, kids to your residents, which a lot of places have that. And the renting out the resencies to somebody that you know as a registered sex offender would be a city ordinance. Any questions? Any questions? I think it's a good tool. The question I asked earlier and I'll ask it publicly is it grandfather's right so there's no requirements to move at this point but if they do move they can't move back into the same area. Absolutely. We're working right now. I'm working with GIS to actually do a map that will be an overlay, connect all the dots and stuff and then we'll look at how that plays out. But everybody's grandfather didn't just currently live in there. And our churches included in the. Churches with playgrounds and things like that. Public hearing? Yeah, there is a public hearing. Thank you. Now that we've asked our questions, you get to speak your piece anyone who wishes to speak in favor or against this ordinance And you can brave enough to do so Come on forward All right, they're being nobody speaking for against this we will close the floor and reopen the council for emotion Motion to approve item. Second. We have motion and second to approve. Adding. for emotion. A motion to approve item. Is this second? We have motion and second to approve adding this chapter. Are this section all in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right. Passes 6-0. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Chief Burke. Item 12. An public hearing. Hold a public hearing and consider ordinance amending Chaffrey Aron of the Code of Ordinances that establishes regular for annexation when connecting to city utilities. Mr. Vantill. Thank you again. This item, it's a very straightforward, simple ordinance and I hope y'all will agree. This ordinance requires property owners when they want to tie into our water and sewer system to agree to voluntary annex into the city that that triggers the voluntary annexation process, pretty streamlined, straightforward things like that. It also deals with municipal utility districts that are proposing to operate or open in our E.T.J. not in the city, but in the in the ETAJ. And basically what that says, it formalizes the policy that says you have to come to the table and you will be talking to us about a development agreement or a strategic partnership agreement. It is our practice, it will be our policy. We think that's very important for us. Only speaking, the value of this, what I believe is a very straight forward and simple, but powerful ordinance is that it helps us kind of put us back into the driver's seat of the growth management aspect of it. Because, as you know, the legislature over the last several sessions has been kind of shifting from what we are accustomed to internexation which we need for growth to more of a voluntary system. And so we have to find ways to trigger that mechanism as opposed to finding it when we find out. So here, so we have the need to to to leverage this ability with our utility system and so to compel the annexation but it becomes a voluntary annexation at that point. You want the utilities, you volunteer to join us in the city. And of course the muds in terms of the agreements, those those as you know are structured structured slightly differently because they'll be more future-oriented when the debt is retired or certain trip points occur and they'll be also voluntarily added into the state. That may be several decades from now, or it just kind of depends on how the deal is structured. So I recommendation for this ordinance as you know we have to have a public hearing and I recommend that you approve the ordinance as presented. All right. Any questions before we have a public hearing? All right. Open the floor for public comments regarding this item Voluntary annexation Anyone Anyone Right there's been a lot of Mueller stuff since the whole tariff thing so I've been watching all the videos and memes about that Anyway, what's it called? What's the smooth? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a great depression. Yeah. Alright, no comments for... Anyway, what's the smooth? Yeah, it's a great depression. All right. No comments will reopen the deliberation on this item and comments, questions, or emotion. I'd like to make a motion that we approve. I hope that the legislature does not pass anything that will keep us from moving forward with it. Second. We have a motion and a second to prove the amendment of CHAPI-23 regarding annexation when connecting to city utilities. The question I have is as the state moves more towards general rule from home rule and we lose ability to enforce certain things in our ETJ, there are some people that have already connected to city utilities. If we have an agreement, let's just say the new mud that will start constructing homes. Do we lose this when someone physically connects their house to us, Italy not as part of the mud developer? Are the legal requirements for them to then subsequently be? It's like, hey, we now have an ordinance. If you connect to utilities, Joe Blow connected to the utility. He wasn't subject to the mud agreement because he wasn't there, but he did pay his first utility. And we didn't make him get annexed. Is he then potentially... Is there... That's the question is, could we create a potential challenge to the group annexation by having and then not enforcing that as they connect to utilities. I want to say that the shorter answer is no. The more elaborate answer is there is an agreement which covers that, you know, if you're talking about river farms, that agreement cuts all the current phases and subsequent phases And so that's considered within that agreement in terms of managing how many homes get built, the debt they issue, and the ability and infrastructure, and all this kind of stuff. So it's baked into that agreement that folks that'll be moving out there will tie in. Eventually, the whole area will end extended to the city. 30 years from now, 25, something like that. Farms at the dates or if it's if you're talking about something outside of rooms an individual law Mainly mainly where reforms what I'm thinking about is because we have the Fresh my memory so when when Joe below buys the house he has to sign something. Yes, yes. And essentially in advance, the developer has agreed to the Strategic Partnership Agreement, which they will be come part of the city limits after 30, it's a date certain 30 years, I believe, not like three creeks, which every bond issue extends that time period out. And so it's a date certain. So that's a pretty powerful pretty powerful tool the strategic partnership agreement and so as owners By homes there. They're subject to that agreement. Okay, all right Okay, so a new out of mud would be required to go through our process To have access to our water. So they would absolutely they would have to evaluate we'd have to evaluate the utilities, determine how out of city mud is going to be allowed, or whether we would require annexation, and perhaps consider it as an in-city mud, or just a standard development. All right. Any other comments or questions? All right. Chair with entertainment motion. Oh, I'm sorry't that's the where I'm sorry. Yes, you're ahead of motion. I'm this all in favor say aye. Aye those opposed. Sorry. Item 13 received report on the Main Street traffic study and the River Fair traffic impact analysis. Mayor council I appreciate a chance to present this to you. We're making pretty good pace this night tonight. So I'm not going to try to slow us down. We've got an audience that I think is familiar with the studies. We circulated that memo in advance. So I'm going to move through these. But this is meant to be interactive. I want you to get questions. We do also have, we have the engineer who has done some work. You'll see some roundabouts here soon. At second six, the gentleman who's done that work is on the call. Joining us virtually with Lee Engineering. We have the engineer who has done some work. You'll see some roundabouts here soon. At second six, the gentleman who's done that work is on the call. Joining us virtually with Lee Engineer. I'm going to start first with River Fair. I think we'll just kind of tackle this TIA. Remember there was two. There was one, there was the Main Street, which we really south of this Main Street corridor downtown. And then we did a River Fair Boulevard. This started when McDonald's and Pandora Express were ready to come in that was a requirement for them to do a TIA. We've done a TIA, which they would have been within their right to do. That was just within their kind of radius. We capitalized on that thinking we actually really need to study the area the whole. And so we split it into thirds cost. I think it was a great partnership with Borge and the team. And so that was kind of our opportunity to look at this because everyone is aware with this river fair, especially I think as Starbucks has gone as the whole area has developed. It's a tricky area to try and specifically let's turn the mood. So we are gonna kind of cover this, right? So watch out now, Matt got the drone out And we're gonna kind of walk. This is recent. This is recent. This is 8am as of Friday. Okay. See Starbucks is completely packed. You can see it's kind of the lines wrapped around. And you're gonna start to see how these turns start to work. Right. No, you're not gonna see a wreck. You may see some traffic violations, but we blurred the license plates out. So they may not have insurance, I don't know. Oh, well, would that say I'm listed with the list? Yeah. So you'll see I mean if you're watching right now, I'm kind of watching this white car. He's kind of stuck there like we this is kind of the issue right? You're trying to the obviously wants to get across or he wants to turn left. And one of the things we don't like are what's called two stage turning movements and get ready to see one. So edge across, and he's going to wait for that truck to get that is not that great. That's definitely the dangerous element of it. Well, this is just this drone can I keep going on, but basically you'll see that's kind of how it rolls out. There's many more minutes of this footage, but we're gonna move on for a time sake. There has been 32 crashes since 2019. At this general location, Chief was able to kind of run a report for me and I appreciate that. So it may be not necessarily at, it's just in that kind of vicinity. But 15 resulting injury 65 units involved and 96 people involved in that. So I think I broke down the summary is River Fair TIA really boiled down to when can we get a traffic light there at Starbucks and River Fair? I think that was really the leading I think the barge, a team, the developments around there would like to see traffic signal. I think community wise would like to maybe see a traffic signal. First issue that we ran to, we've kind of floated it gently to text up. This is their roadway. But we were telling them we have had some issues there. The thing immediately off the bat is that this in its very close in text dot terms to another signalized intersection. They like to see 1400 feet in distance between. As a kind of a standard, there are always exceptions to that rule, but 1,400, anything below that needs to be kind of justified through a signal warrant. The example that I can best tell you that y'all will probably know is if you go towards the mall and you exit the HK Dodgin, it kind of jump off there, right there, the Taco Bell, and then you go down to the today's car wash. That's 500 feet. I mean, that's closer than this. So we have local examples of places that are this. So I think TechStyle was aware of that. They were, their answer wasn't a kind of a no. And like I said, it was a more of a not yet. Let's see what kind of develops. So the study kind of went through. I think what really bore out of that, there was some short-term recommendations. But really at the crux of it, there is not enough traffic throughout the majority at this intersection for text-out to consider this being a signal it because really we need their approval. We likely I think I've shared this we would likely have to pay for such a signal if we wanted to install it and which maybe we may be ready to as a community interest to put one in. But first we really need text up onboard of this and this study didn't produce the numbers yet that we kind of needed to do that. but we have a kind of a plan on that. It did have some short term. It studied all the way out to Lake Road, Loop 1-21. There's got some adjustments signaling, some left turns. I think I've talked to a few folks, there is, I mean, this intersection, I think has gotten worse since the widened. The road's got great, but this intersection is, They're out there you guys remember every phase of Loop 1-21, it felt like it took two or three months to get the signals kind of. And we would take any complaint that came in, we would forward that, and we'd relationship Scott and the local off, they would get out there, and I've seen the crews out there working, I'm not quite seeing the improvement in the timing. It's a very long wait time there. Another option was to put an additional left turn lane. This is northbound. You're coming out of HEB. You're coming up. You see the encore power grid down here. An additional left turn for additional volume. Right here at another example, another recommendation was to turn the shoulder into a dedicated right turn, which technically, that's what they're doing anyway. But you know, you'll kind of, you'll kind of be able to go from there. One of the things that I want to kind of explain real quick and this is from text out and this is what they're going to say is is you're gonna see Panda and McDonald's come up here, okay, and and I believe that that's gonna bring more traffic just is And so you've got all all the development there they are gonna suggest to anybody who Would complain so that it's not they say you guys need to come out of here to intersection right here. And we want you to come down here and you turn if you want to go this way. Don't, don't try and come this way in turn. Because they said their safety studies suggest that you turns are far safer than unprotected left turns. So that's just something that can short term what they're asking. I do think that before Matt's opinion here, but before we have a signal light, they probably will start, they'll be pressured to make RIVA fair a right turn only. So too. And we may want to consider that ourselves. I'm not sure, sometimes when you take away a turning movement, you kind of hard, but I think if we really see that development and that traffic takeoff We may want to consider that we've had similar examples with some private businesses in that growthway square area Where we just try to take some of these driveways and it's safe we had the car wash remember that behind take five that just came through This happens all up and down Main Street and I think that we may get to the point eventually where we go right turn here. And we're prepared and that's a city decision. We own that roadway so go ahead. You started. If you did that, wouldn't you want to put a media there? Yeah, really where people aren't shooting across because they right turn all the way. Yeah and they're just be about that. 100% yeah. So something that would kind of demarcation right there. So. Would that prevent someone from turning left off of 317 to get on river fair? Nope. If you're going north, northbound, you could still go left. You would. Yeah, that turning movement is just a dual lane cross. It's the one that we saw with that white car where it's four lanes and you're trying to get across and especially unprotected two-stage turning movement. You're jetting out. just a dual lane cross. It's the one that we saw with that white car where it's four lanes and you're trying to get across. And especially unprotected, two stage turning movement, you're jetting out. And it's just a- The way they do this, these offset curves, where you can kind of, they can't- You can still go in, but they can't come out. Yeah. So I think anyway, that's kind of the river fair recommendations. So what does that mean? Things that I've proposed because it's important that Belly's been done. I've talked to Scott, I've talked to our plan, this doesn't go on to a shelf and collect dust, right? This needs to, because we know we all are aware that the issue is more serious than maybe it's reflected in the report. If that's a fair way, say I'm not saying the report's inaccurate, we understand that issue. I've heard many of people in the community complain about that. So what I would like to suggest is once McDonald's and Panda open, which probably could be the end of this year, and the cottages develops out, and then we're going to have River Play some of the heels of that. We're're gonna have some serious development happening along that River Fair Boulevard, but we're gonna know at some point, there's a time to go strike, and at that point we'll go do another signal mark. So it's not a TIA, we'll actually go higher a company to count, to count all the turning moving people than a TIA, but still a cost, hoping that we can, text dots kinda sit in there like, you show us the need and will evaluate it. Right, I think that's been an honest conversation right now. They don't see the merit, but they'll hear us out if that's the case. So that's where TIA, anything, I'll have a whole lot more to add any questions on that before I move on to Main Street. Go ahead. Appreciate the report. I'm disappointed. And the speed coming into Wardtown, they're absolutely major concern from me. We have to cross it frequently. And that, bracing you ad where one car was trying to do that, often it's two or more cars trying to do that. Yeah. And I understand their traffic count, but I'm concerned about the speed and the people taking really risky behaviors to get across that situation. And we're going to share the crash data. I think sometimes text.collects fatality data. And while there may not be fatalities, A, one doesn't mean that we they may not one day and B, we have a lot of crash data in that area that is suggesting that maybe it's not Super dangerous. Yeah, I don't want to I can make a couch my words that but you know what I mean in sense of But there's enough accidents occurring that is something wrong with that intersection and so did they discuss the speed No, sir. No, no speed. Yes But but but that certainly could be and I think that what will happen, my gut, the text was open to receiving for us working through any other option that wasn't putting it right there. So we're going to have to exhaust all those options, which could be when, hey, we're ready to speed. This is getting too dangerous, especially the Southbound would start pulled down. And then we're going to do a right turn only out of River Fair. And we're going to put a median in the middle, all that kind of stuff where we may have to go that route. But it is our commitment to all as a council and to our community that from public work standpoint, we're going to stay on this. That it kind of is routinely evaluated over the several, you know, years out, you know. So, I know that you're gonna talk about this later. Why wouldn't you do a roundabout there? Because if you did a roundabout, it's the same as a U-turn, right? It just, you know, you keep you turning infinitely, right? But just, that one. I think a roundabout could really work. I think that that has some merit. They even took there's even some configurations around about that aren't round as much as they The dog bone types and there's some stuff that they can do that that helps. So I think that if that was That may be part of our repertoire as well as we go back out and John who's on the call and we go out to someone like John who's an expert in this stuff and say hey, that wasn't something we added to the study. Similar to what we did with men, we did the study, told us you'd probably really need to consider doing some roundabouts and then we before bringing that out to tell you the obvious, we just went ahead and did the roundabout study to bring that to. So this may be a two-part, so we'll follow up on that as well. Okay, we're going to move on to Main Street. This is, I'm not going to break any news here on to Main Street. This is, I'm not going to break any news here, about Main Street. I will point out, I do appreciate Dr. Theodor with UMHB being here. He's being a huge partner throughout this process. We've kind of met out there and kind of explained the issues. And I appreciate him coming along to support. And like I said, once we get to the roundabout portion, We're going to have John, you won't be able to see him, but you'll be able to hear him from that. So again, this is 5 PM, Andy and Belton, we know, pick your day, but it's kind of this backup traffic situation. Again, I think you all know the scope. We start to really focus in. If you read that Main Street summary, the issue really highlights itself between second and sixth. And I know the, but really that was helpful for us because central avenue was fine, avenue D was fine. But these areas, the intersections that were further down were fine in terms of fine when I say by a level of service that they didn't work with protecting any improvements. But really a second avenue This this is the view from second avenue and this is something that y'all will We've all experienced this and so you feel like you got a pretty good gap traffic up here You can see it's starting to move northbound and here these cars are turning left up there and We're thinking oh gosh And and you can see the lights probably turn orange now and this guy's like oh I got to go I got to go I got to go and they start creeping out in the middle of the lane right and so and that blue car was up in the back of it but he dart he darted over and so anyway that this is stuff you see routinely at second with it I'm gonna run through the Main Street recommendations and then we're gonna talk about it. So Main Street offered, there was a few things that they initially recommended in the short term. One was to try and get a bypass lane here at Northbound 6th Avenue. So using some of what would be ASE Hardware is lot create more of a dual lane. Again, you'll know this, but it's a capacity issue. The rip as you should really widen it to four lanes. I know. I mean, like that would be brilliant, but we know we can't do that with all the historic homes and the property up there. So this was a bypass right here. The other one that I have, I'm optimistic by nature, but I'm really optimistic about this. They haven't adjusted the signals in over 10 years, the time in. And think about how different we were in 2015. I mean, that feels like a different time. So one of the things that we will be taking, probably my leading recommendation is after this, to go visit with our TechStyle team. And I would like to encourage them to work with our engineering team, set the signals the way that they believe they need to be set because our folks are looking at from what we experience as a community. Not from a system or that may say you can do that, I can hear TechS text outs and you can do that if you pay for it. And we may have to pay for it, but at least we're addressing it. I think what we want to do with this report was find any way that we could to improve the situation and not just throw our hands up and go, well, yeah, we know it's bad. Interesting one was to possibly add an additional lane going northbound. We talked to this is over the viaduct. We've talked a lot, but as you get close to that part of Main Street, you feel that relief. The road finally opens up and it's just as quick as we can to try and get to that relief. So that's an option. There is width enough to do two northbound lanes without removing the sidewalk. You may have to do some median work. That might be a median priority, I would say, short term signals first, and let's kind of go that route. And then obviously, the main thing that the study came back and said, hey, second avenue and sixth avenue, you may need to have a look at this. So, I'm always reminded about Dave's story about his brother, the first time he drove around, so I'm going to talk about it on that. It was sorry, sorry Dave, it was a big bump at the sum like that. So I'm going to show, so we can't come and and and John's on the call here. So I do hope if there's some technical stuff you want, John be able to give James going to explain a couple things here. The approach to this twofold is to study second avenue of sixth avenue. It wasn't just draw around about, we'll take that forward. I didn't know if roundabouts would actually help me or Sam, we were kind of talking, It doesn't help. And so that's what that was the basis. And so they start to really run it and it was clear that a roundabouts would work. The problem is much up and down in Main Street. If you do one thing at one place, it improves that one spot, but it has a domino effect somewhere. You just back up the exit. Exactly. I mean at six. Right. And so what we realized is when we talk about this one of the first things I would point it has to be both. If we go if we go around about it, it really would lose the impact if you do too. Really it kind needs to be. MLK, UMHB can put a really big sign out there because it's going to be back there. And people part of it go. And people part of the world are being ready. A little advertising. Free advertising. So this is second avenue. Again, these are conceptual by nature. So we're not trying to scare anybody from public wise, but also it's reality of right away that's needed. So this is what it looks like in some configuration at second avenue. You see this some right away impacts to To all four corners really And so we'll we'll be aware that is what we would call a four-leg Single-lane roundabout, okay, there's no additional bypasses. We're gonna talk about all this stuff But that's your traditional roundabout with it. That's 18-wheeler? Yes, sir. Can you describe the, I think I can assume with like what the green war? Yes, I believe the green is sidewalk because the orange is a buffer for the pedestrians is, is, is how I understand that. It may be the orange is the sidewalk and the green is a, green is right away. Yeah, oh, so yeah. Orange yeah. The John here is am I right on that? The orange was sidewalk. The green is generally grass or buffer over to the right away. At the scale the the concepts printed out you can't really see it but there is actually a a small grass buffer between the back of curb and the large sidewalks. But sidewalks are orange. And then the light blue is in the center that's truck apron. It would be intended for the 18 wheeler to track their rear axles across it. It'd be designed for that specifically. And then the other light blue areas are raised islands. Awesome. Any questions at Second Avenue? Before we move on to the main character here at the state. Okay, so we're gonna head to Sixth Avenue. Sixth Avenue has real, there's a lot of options is what I'll say, I'll call it options. And I appreciate Steve being here with the acquisition of First Baptist Church that the college has. The UMHB owns so much of what fronts mainstream. And they have a huge impact, good or bad, whatever they decide to do in any location. So we've given a headlisten as close as we can be without being in the nitty-gritty of what your old conversations are. So we asked a lot, hey, church plans, and Steve's been very upfront and candid throughout that there are no plans. There's nothing planned right now, and I do think that that matters for didn't have a conversation, right? It really matters what's a three-leg roundabout, which is what you're looking at here. Now this is the three-leg roundabout. That's the ultimate condition, they would call it, the best level of service, okay? You can see that you have a bypass lane, a long-died here. So there's two lanes coming, okay. You have your little turn lane over here, and then also the same wise here, you're able to bypass that traffic. So you actually have multiple legs into each one that bypass the traffic. So that's critical. This is where the answer lies. And I'm going to draw you down to essentially what John did is he studied every single option that there was, depending on the weightings. And this might be where we end up going. We got this right away, but we don't have this right away yet, or we don't. And so what John's given us is multiple different options of configuration. What we are looking at on that screen, but this one, it has everything in there for the maximum level of service. So that is your highest rated, best rated. You want, we want to fix mainstream as best we can. It would be that configuration. So what happens if you add a fourth lane, right? That's going to be a huge planning question and something that we want to be hand in hand with you, MHB. Because here's the fourth lane. We're going to show it here in a second. But you can see it's a little better than what we have up here. But it's not as good as this. So you do lose a bit of a level of service. Your level of service drops if you add a fourth leg. And so I'm going to show you fourth leg office would be if you HB were to do something with the church that essentially involved a street going through the middle of it. This is kind of how that might look. It does shift the right away slightly away from where we were creeping more easterly before and now heading west. But this is a four lane, this is the four lane configuration still have bypasses that I'm talking about. But what tends to happen is you're going to have a dominant flow of traffic, which the report says in John Corring is the southbound traffic is going to be higher than northbound, which even surprised me, but I think we see some of the stacking occur at second and sixth. It's not actually reflective of how much traffic is coming southbound. And what's going to happen is these folks and southbounds can be peppering that outer lane and the folks coming let's say out of campus would be struggling to kind of get in and make that turn. And if they do and they're going back around it you know there's there's just impacts to every every which way that you have. So I think that that is about what I want to show between the three leg and the four leg. We know that TechSOT is expressed that they are open, if not, I think, on board with planning roundabouts in these areas. They do not have, I think, our level of schematic that John will work with them on. I think they've been shared, but in terms of us ensuring that our level of service that we're hoping for, we would want to make sure. So I think that they're on board planning. There are no plans. FM93, as you're aware, kind of got bumped with some of the funding that that's second avenue. And then also, sixth avenue is due for a full reconstruction on 2027. It would be awesome to do this with it, but I would hate to push up that project back because we're waiting on. I think as you can see, there's serious property impacts, I'll call it, to any of the configurations, but certainly here at Sixth. And so, and again, as we march through, Steve, we'll hear from me every six months to we catch up, hey, have you got any plans? Because that's going to change things if they do, and we can start to incorporate them early on rather than being reactive and committing to 3th when we really could have been planning for 4th and an alternate layout So that's that. There's three partners at play. UMHB, again Steve, appreciate you being here. Blackburn's been a great partner. He's been involved as we've kind of walked through it. He texted up. These are text.roads. And they have been open and listening to us. I think we've got a good relationship with local office. But obviously, you know, it'll just be trying to make our priority, their priority with you. So that is my presentation on signal time. Or not signal time, traffic studies, which involves the signal time. All right, this is for you guys. It's a report and time for comments and questions. There is no action required and no public hearing. So any comments or questions from Matt? Thank, I just say thank you. It's exciting to see some really discussion with legs and meat on it to move forward to try and solve a very complicated issue. And it'll be good for our community to see that. I do think, I appreciate that. I mean, I do think we're further along. We have a better understanding than we did. A year and a half ago, we started the study process. So it has been valuable. It didn't produce that speedy bullet, but it produced answers and context that I think we're better off from knowing. So right away, acquisition, so it does impact. It looks like the second is less of an impact, it doesn't look like you or any businesses with that one, but it would definitely impact the station that's pumping gas, so that is probably, who pays for that type of stuff? Like when we start looking at cost share, relocation of utilities, construction way. The traditional extent is a textile project. Textile would handle it right away. And that's been the conversation we've had so far that as they're doing second avenue which is 93 that's an active project and so they're already working on that. They certainly recognize the traffic studies demonstrate that you really need to do both of them. And so there already, sixth avenue is an active project. It's a major maintenance project. But again, both are in dialogue. But no commitments today at this point in time. Exactly how that would work or timing of that. But again, if it's a text-opt project, they would secure the right way. We may have a percentage share. Another important idea here is if we can get to a project identification, we could add these to K-Tempo. And then they'd be in the list, basically, and again, come up for funding. But there's certainly some potential they might have been sooner than that. What was one of the most exciting things about it is text dots, receptivity to roundabout text dot rounds. That was a surprise when we had our early meetings with them. But they have their experts that are next up. And you see as you drive around. We've had a few retirements and a few young people before we start. You see them as you drive around town. The number of FM roads and others already have roundabouts on them. So they are receptive. They recognize that signals are not the answer everywhere. Well, it's cheaper to maintain. And if you do have an accident, it's rarely fatal. They were so excited. They put around about on loop 121 and we were like, OK, all right, guys. Well too much, but yeah, we're still open to that I think So great man, I hope there is some input on the light Time you know like yes, sir. Yeah, there's a big issue Seems a couple of lights nobody moves. We're all looking at each other. Yeah, okay, who's supposed to be going? I don't even, I use the other roads to bypass that intersection. I rarely will go. I'll take seconds. Zigzag, get back on second and keep going. Everybody stay calm, but I don't know if there's any talk or consideration about two LL fours. I'm ready for one way. I don't know how to get out, but I'm going to get in. or two in one out, we have room for three lanes, don't we? Yes, we talked about. We threw everything. That was initially where we were going. We thought we were really pushing two lanes going southbound and cutting off any turning movement to anything on the left. But just two, because it's all about capacity, it's all about getting loading up. It didn't really, that was one of the interim solutions that had a domino effect somewhere else, it bounced down. So we'll do that. I will give a plug. I mean, 20 years on, and the engineer says, have y'all thought about maybe going one way on penalty? And so vindication for Sam here being 20 years on, But we like no we'll leave that alone But never consent He's like he got this great North Sound Street. You should totally use it But yeah, no John I think that that stuff's on the table It'll leave a mark That's a good report. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. that the actions are usually less in that situation given the way that there is a hand. So, keep it up. I will say if this were to be done with all the other effort that we've been putting into downtown Belton, this is an economic development tool. It's not just allowing people to move through quicker. It's unique. It's part of the character who we are. It's real thing that I think is an economic development tool. So, you know, Kudos to the team. Yeah, I'd say adding roundabouts versus extra lanes, more lights, preserves small-time field. You want to just keep moving, and even if that's slower pace, you're still pointing to moving. Yeah, you're moving. question is when you say if it's one it's both, are you talking about is that simultaneous construction? It may not have to be simultaneous, but it loses a dim back if you don't do both. If you don't really make a commitment to try to get to both, it may mean that one, and plus, if textiles are doing it, I'm not sure that we're going to be, you know, two upset that they're going to do it, And then, hopefully as long as we keep this project on the ground. So. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, guys. All right, item 14, consider an ordinance authorizing the issuance of City of Belton, Texas, combination tax and limited revenue certificates of obligation series 2025. Mr. Rogers. Good evening, Mayor and Council. You might have heard that financial markets are in a bit of turmoil. Torre Moin? Come on. Treasuries came down. Yeah, today. With a yellow button. A couple days ago. So yeah, so we're here tonight. We had on India only agenda to to possibly sell bonds adopt an ordinance to authorize the issue and certificates of obligation for 2025 I'm to give you some update of the happenings over the last well 24 hours essentially um late yesterday a post three o'clock, our financial advisor sends me an email with the quote, it's a blood bath in the muni market today. I mean, if your financial advisor tells you that, that should my careers go like this. Do not enter. Do not enter. Yes, exactly. In fact, yesterday, the interest rates in the muni market increased 36 basis points, I believe, was the number one day. That's the third of one percent essentially, and just one day. So started expressing some caution of us hitting the market today. So what we did was we scheduled a call with our financial advisor this morning. We were supposed to issue at 1030 today. Mayor Pro Tem, Holmes, and City Manager and I, and we all participated in a phone call with our financial advisor. And so we had kind of two options. We could wait until 10.30, receive the bids from the box, look at what those are, and then bring them to you tonight. And then just if they're too high, just decline them, just reject all bids. Option two, which is what I was kind of recommended, was let's just call it off for now, delay, delay today's sale, post-pone is what we're going to talk about in a bit. Today's sale because of the volatility. So our concern is that our bond buyers would build a lot of fluff, if you will, in their interest rates offer higher rates because they don't know where the market is headed with all of the uncertainty. And so that's the option that they recommend. So just to give you an idea, Harker Heights also issued today. Their spread was from 4.1 to 4.8. I mean, and that's a spread in people trying to buy the same bonds. I mean, you know, that's a why. So that shows you the volatility that's what's happening today. So instead of approving an ordinance, instead of adopting an ordinance approving the sale, tonight what I'm asking you to do is make a motion to a resolution that delays the action on that ordinance until April 22nd at 5.30. I mean that's our next regular schedule council meeting. So that buys us two weeks to kind of let things settle down. Let's see what the market's going to do. What we can do is if on April the 22nd, it still looks weird and there's some big plus that are hitting the market that are on that night. So we can again delay on the 22nd if we need to, to another meeting, maybe even a special council meeting to authorize the assurance of those bonds. We have 90 days from today to take action on that ordinance without really reposting the whole start and the whole process over. So we're okay with this resolution and I would recommend adoption of that resolution delaying action on the ordinance to issue certificates of obligation. Be happy to answer any questions. What happens if in the next two weeks she calls you a morning says hey we need to go to markets today Like is that a possibility? We can. So I think and there's bond council folks here please. Okay. This is Clayton. Is that correct? I'm a partner of Richard Dyni. Yes. No one will represent it in you. going to jump in on the next slide. Please do. You're smarter than I am. To jump in on a day certain, it could be challenging because of open meetings act, hosting a large open meeting. Yeah, that's just, that's, that was the question. Yeah, yeah., so so using these delay resolutions, it's as of now we're basically delay the process until the 22nd, right? And it might notice if for some reason in effect they just not work. We could in fact, in effect we did not another delay resolution to a more specific date, as Mike mentioned, that it's a phenomenal measure of things that the point of second may not be great, but three days later, we think, you know, it would be an opportunity time in the market. We could look at noticing a special meaning in a not-gate delay resolution for three days after the point of second. So exactly. You could do it maybe just the exact day that you need three or even a time to post and comply with your own opinions, all in half to do an out of date set of the link by the wish. That makes sense. It's a little bit funny, confusing, but this is a process. It's a testing process that, as the rest of the general, it's the job that we've review of approval, um, den issuance advining for submissions and tests. The late process is a, is a, from a safe armor within the aging protocol to allow the council to visit, might send the lay process without having to restart the entire CO mission process. Thank you. Thanks, Stan right there. Oh, you're right. So you used a fancy word, resolution. And typically we have a resolution that's printed out, written out, and then ensigned. Do we actually have a resolution? He has it in your hands. We prepare one. Do you mind allowing us to see that resolution before we adopt a resolution that might be a good idea? No idea. Yeah. Other than that, I would be more comfortable just the action not adopting a resolution but if you got a delay action on something. What we really did was give to us April and on the call great call this morning called our municipal bond desk first thing this morning that guy was out of breath So the end was at least a 30, 35 bit being increased. And it would be great. In addition, that's a real key to that is bidders looking to add a quarter of point to that just to be because. Yeah, samples of that's a big big job. The one to be signed. I'll start with the mirrors a bit. Your city manager also designed it on that cell. That's been tapped for breakfast. And it's a resolution. I don't know if it's a resolution. The resolution on the ordinance that was originally planned. Correct. Correct. Yeah. And with several dates, as we talked about calling it, possibly calling a special meeting if we needed to, the April date works and knowing that we could delay that out to May if rates had not come back to town. And so feel very strongly that the best time from a debt issuer, not the issue new debt is in a market of panic. It sure just makes a lot of sense. And so divide a little time, make a little delay, and the broad range of bids from the Harper Heights issuance of 4.14.8 was pretty drastic. And I think 67 is better than that. Yeah. There's a much smaller issue too. It only for me. And so just in place to step to step in, like so the action, the item that's posed tonight is authorization of the ordinance to consider the authorization of an ordinance to issue bonds, talking to a bond council even though so the action that we're taking tonight on that ordinance is simply delaying it by documenting it through this resolution. For the sake of the Attorney General who likes documentation, your action tonight is delaying the authorization of that ordinance, if you will. Make sure I use the right term here, date certain, which is August 20th August, April 22nd. Clayton, what I'm concerned with is we don't have anything posted for a resolution. We have action on this ordinance. I'm sure there's a way to walk through it, but you need to walk through whatever motion they make. It's going to be okay with our agenda. So I wrote down, I've read, I was thinking the same thing and it also says, ten we proposed and we don't tentatively propose when we vote. It's not a, it's, right. So I just, I, I, I, I was jumped, so I wrote, I wrote down a motion that I think would do this is that we, the chair would entertain a motion to take delaying action on the issuance of the combined tax and limited revenue certificates of obligation series 2025 to the April 22nd meeting. So it was delaying action to that meeting for this bond. And then now, I mean, that's that that wouldn't say that wouldn't be the resolution. With the proof of resolution. I think the resolution is what maintains our notification process for this meeting. It just moves all that forward. But what John just. We had you in a positive way. Oh, it's in it's in David's crack what my little It's under whereas about the today's meeting Second paragraph. Second paragraph. Basically this meaning is the City Council authorize the issuance. Right. I think with that, what the second is getting at is that we had noticed an intent in the notice intent publication was an intent issue. Okay so that on today today's date, and I think that resolution is just describing that the council tentatively proposed to authorize the assurance of certificates at this April 8th meeting. Okay. And I think that the tentative is just to indicate that we do not consist of with this resolution, we're not bound to necessarily take. approval of the certificates. It's that we have the ability to adopt this resolution to delay the action. I think it's what was intended by the tentative. Okay. If we have bids today and we reject it all then, is the process start over? Or is there action in that that allows you to do another market? That's a good question. I think if Bids have been taken in order of Ja, I don't think there's anything that would preclude you from rejecting all of them and then also adopting this delay resolution. I think that the probably the, Mr. Holmes and Ben Saf have consented to this more of a financial advisor would be that it's taking, you know, having bidders going out and actually submitting goods and then with a strong light with other thinking that you would be advising council your counsel not to accept any good damage. Well, I'm. I'm. I'm. You lose interest in future. I was just I was just saying the process. Essentially doing this, I think all bids, we get we're at the same spot. We don't have a bond package to approve. So is a safer bet tonight to say being there's no bids, or do we? Is there a way to do it without introducing something that's not on our agenda? So, fair question, you can ask a number and see a 30th-rate, correct question. We, Richard, are not in all of this discusses and concerned with that. And we're comfortable that there's not no meetings in summer here because this resolution is on, is with respect to specifically on this ordinance. And instead of, I mean, one option, the reason this option is not to describe this, it's not really, we're not worried because the internal general is my signature. In it, we'll see a document paper on this. So, you know, while I understand, I think that the question is, we have the lay resolution now that's being considered in our meetings, posting our agenda just as it describes this ordinance. We feel comparable that under these circumstances, and based on the current general guidance, that this is an appropriate way to conduct action and would not be violating in all the standards. In reading the resolution it does instead of just delaying one of the key things that I can see is that it allows the city clerk to post the intention to issue the certificates prior to that time. So it was to act quicker that appears by allowing for some of that in the wording of the resolution. I'm comfortable with it. I just wanted to see the resolution and we can look at the resolution. I'm comfortable that it's under there. Action, so another alternative, and again, it's not recommended would be similar to what you were just saying. could you could say that you're delaying the The action on the ordinance and then just let the minutes be the record But but what the resolution it really is intended to do is really more formally formally Document the fact that you are taking that action tonight and then that will go in the file with the restnd the attorney general is going to want us to document connecting the dots from the initially planned sale date of today and then the April 22nd date work where they're actually priced. It's not a company's delay resolution. This is not a, I don't want to say it's super common but this is not, this is a visiting a Vetted concepts with the attorney general Not something you have been at this afternoon And the nature the nature of this of the entire transaction the transaction would not occur I mean does early occur until 1030 this morning. So, you couldn't have an advanced resolution handy, not having a clue into what the bids are, even until 1030 this morning. Yes. Since the resolution is not part of the post of the agenda, do we need to read that into the motion? Yeah, I would, I would, yeah, if you want want to take a moment and I would read that whole thing hold that title adopt the just ask him if you want a time to say something I think you can present I think this is yeah I'm gonna make a motion. I have no problem with going forward. I just think you need to act on the ordinance and then just the council say they're resolved and then say what's in the resolution. That's not, that's not, that's not, that's, that's, that we're acting on the ordinance to, to delay action. I think the actual ordinance is, you're posted ordinance, are that delay, we resolve whatever you say in the resolution? That's not it. That's actually, I agree with that. I'm sure you're recording the last one. Yeah. So the first four words are, the motion would be a motion to delay the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds and in place adopting a resolution. Yeah, say that day. Okay, that was a lot of input. All right, considering agenda item 14, the ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds, move that we adopt a resolution delaying action on an ordinance authorizing the issuance of the city of Belton, Texas, combination tax and limited revenue certificates of obligation, amount not to exceed $17.7 million, and other matters related there too. Whereas on February 11th, 2025, the City Council of the City of Belton, Texas, the city passed a resolution authorized on the publication of a notice of intention, notice resolution to issue the City of Belton, Texas, combination tax and limited revenue certificates of obligation in a maximum principal amount not to exceed $17.7 million, the certificates. And whereas, the notice resolution stated that the City Council tentatively proposed to authorize the issuance of the certificates and its regular meeting of the City Council to commence at 5.30pm on April 8th, 2025. Whereas upon the advice of the City's financial advisor, the City found it necessary to delay action on the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the certificates until a regular meeting of the city council to commence at 5.30 p.m. on April 22nd, 2025. Now therefore be it resolved by the city council, the city of Belton, Texas, that section one, delaying action, the city hereby delays action on the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the certificates until a regular meeting of the city council to commence at 5.30 p.m. on April 22nd, 2025. It's a regular meeting place at the Harris Community Center in the right room located at 401 North Alexander in Texas, 7.6513. Section 2, Notice of Intention. The City Clerk has authorized to update any posted notice of intention to issue the certificates with additional language reflecting the new meeting date at which the City Council will consider authorizing the issuance of the certificates. Section three, other matters, this resolution shall become effective immediately upon adoption. The mayor and City clerk are authorised and directed to execute the certificate to which this resolution is attached on behalf of the city, and to do any and all things proper and necessary to carry out the intent of this resolution. That's my motion. Can you read the motion? Can you read the motion? Six seconds. We have a motion, Wayne seconds. Any other discussion? None for me. This set a record for the longest motion in history. Thank you. Second. All right, thank you. I'm going to write that resolution from you again and leave it with my You're gonna leave it Thank you. Second. All right. Thank you. All right. Resolution from you again. And leave it. I think I'll leave you with you. I'm not assigned first. This reference to also sign and seal as part of the I've got I've got all this signature stuff up here. I'll take these and I'll get. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you All right. We have a motion and a second. Any other comments or questions? All in favor say aye. All right. Those opposed? All right. That is it. We are going to adjourn. I'm going to comment real quick. Okay. And I'm not to harp on anybody, but I don't know when this was tight available. And I applaud John for being on the phone call. call his Waymore verse, the rest of us probably are, but I don't like being surprised. This felt a bit out of place for what we normally do. So if it was last minute, so we find, but if it was like this morning, right after, the 30th is the 1 market, just to change it. I know what I'm talking about, the resolution. That's what it was. That's it. later today. That's fine. I just wanted to make that comment. We should have sent that to you as soon as we got it. We were kind of getting this direction. I apologize for that. Thank you. All right. All right. So we stand adjourned. We do have here executive session. I think we'll do it. It I say to make call? Yeah. We'll make it short. It'll be short. It'll be short executive session. So we'll move into an executive session. No action will be taken after this executive session. The executive session pursuant to the provision of the Open Meetings Act, Chapter 551, government code, burden, Texas codes annotated in accordance with the authority contained in Section 551.071, consultation with the attorney. All right, if anybody needs a five-year-old.