Regarding the city’s communication efforts on the project, Communications and Marketing Director Rose Hoffman told the council she was utilizing feedback from previous projects.
“One of the things that we looked at is there were a lot of people that felt like they didn’t have a good two-way dialog with the city. So that’s one of the things we really wanted to establish with our communications plan for this project,” Hoffman said.
She told the council the city has placed door notices on properties or to let people know about the town hall meetings concerning the project. In addition, the city has utilized social media, the city’s bulletin board, notices in The Community News, text and email alerts, and a centralized web page for the project.
Hoffman said the engineering for the project is about 90 percent complete. The next step would be to secure funding, then take bids.
“Once the first shovel turns, the project is anticipated to take approximately one year,” Hoffman said.
Council member Buddy Wright moved to direct staff to begin negotiations for funding options, and to bring that back to the council in November. The motion passed unanimously.
The council voted unanimously to approve a 12-month extension of a Chapter 380 agreement with Pulido’s Westland Willow Park LLC.
In February, the city and the developer entered into an economic incentive agreement with Pulido’s. The developer anticipated expenses of about $400,000 to renovate the structure at 104 S. Ranch House Road. The anticipated annual taxable sales at the location is about $2.5 million.
The city agreed to provide an economic incentive grant equal to half the city’s portion of sales tax collected for the years 2026, 2027, and 2028. The grant shall not exceed $150,000 in total.
The extension was needed due to unforeseen construction expenses.
Derek Turner, representing Jacob & Martin, the city’s engineering firm, addressed the council on a proposed update the the city’s Comprehensive and Capital Improvement Plan.
Turner said the city’s existing plan was updated in 2022, and the typical cycle for updates is five years.
“There are maybe some reasons why you would want to consider updating it anyway, even though you haven’t hit that five year mark yet, but, but you have some time there to determine whether you want to do that,” Turner said.
Because there are a number of uncertainties due to changes in the city, the council voted to direct city staff to start working on the comprehensive and capital improvement plans.
In other actions, the council:
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