Okay.

Good afternoon.

Welcome to this meeting of the Denton City Council.

The date is Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025.

It is 201 p.m.

call the meeting.

We do have a quorum, so I'll call the meeting to order first thing is citizens' comments on the consent agenda items of which I have one card.

Dem Armitar, if you can come up and give your name, you'll have three minutes.

Hi, my name is Deb Armentar.

I'm here to speak on consent agenda item V, which is about uh the voting on the action plan for 2025 HUD Home and CDBG funds.

Uh I urge and expect that you all will be voting yes to this.

Um what I am here to talk about is to urge you to consider as you vote yes, uh, the implications of what is left out of this action plan for the future.

Um, and I want to explain what I mean by that.

Uh the action plan repeated repeats and uh numerous times the phrase and the commitment to make homelessness quote rare brief and non-recurring.

That phrase appears again and again in this plan.

And there's a good reason for that.

That is a phrase directly uh from the uh housing first uh HUD values and HUD agenda.

Okay, um, and I know the city has uh been committed to that.

Uh recently, as you know, there was an audit done that showed uh that the city shelter um had not been practicing uh the uh hub required housing first practices that uh this action plan uh espouses when it talks about making homelessness rare, brief, and recurring, reverie even non-recurring.

That's why I assume the shelter is not listed in here as receiving those funds and will be receiving as I understand it only general funds.

I understand that.

Okay.

Um however, what I don't understand is how this council could commit to making homelessness real brief and non-recurring while allowing the shelter to on August 1st reduce shelter services and hours, and then on August 1st and September 1st to reduce their overnight shelter uh to just a um arbitrarily you know hand picked uh few uh favorites that that this organization as the audit shows um you know picks without any kind of truage or reasonable process while all of the other people who once depended on this uh once 247 365 shelter um will be left out on the street.

Uh this is a huge concern.

Um, and most of all it's a concern for the people who it affects who are um I really freaking out uh about what's going to happen to them.

And that is your time.

Okay, I just want to add one more thing.

Um, just if you could please uh show HUD and your constituents that you mean what you say in this action plan and use your authority to prevent these changes from happening at the shelter that will leave so many constituents out on the street.

Thank you.

All right, that takes us to item two request for clarification on agenda items listed on the agenda for public hearing and individual consideration.

Any questions for staff around those?

Seeing none, that takes us to um our work session, and first up is item 3A ID 242617.

Receive a report, hold discussion, give staff direction regarding the fiscal year 2025-26 preliminary capital capital improvement program.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Mayor, members of council.

I'm here today to review the capital improvement program for fiscal year 25-26 with you.

I also have with me our directors who are here to answer any specific questions about listed projects within their departments.

So today we're going to review the preliminary five-year CIP and capital budgets for solid waste, electric water, wastewater drainage, and we'll go over some general governmental updates on the bond programs and other funds.

So we're gonna jump right in and look at general government.

So as a reminder, this is the would be the planned issuance for next fiscal year.

So this is not the current year, this is next year.

And these amounts have reduced from the original schedules as we've gone through more of a challenging financial time this last several months.

For the 2023 bond program, the planned issuance would be 44.2 million.

That is down from 72.7 million, which was the original plan.

Uh for street improvements and traffic, we have both listed here.

We're gonna do 19.3 for neighborhood streets, 7.8 for Ryan Road, uh traffic improvements, some of their biggest is going to be $5 million for the DCTA trip program.

Oh, excuse me, that won't be issued.

That's one of their projects.

Um the signal cabinet rebuilds and road safety improvements.

Um just a reminder on the schedule.

So when we talk about what we're looking at for fiscal year 25-26, this is what we're gonna build into the capital improvement program that you will adopt with this budget.

And then in the fall, staff will come forward with a refunding ordinance where they will scrub through these projects again to start the list as to what would be issued in the spring.

So there's still a lot of time for these numbers to reduce as you go through the process.

Um additional major projects that we are looking at going into 25-26.

Uh we will be issuing an additional 1.5 million for fire stations five and six.

Those are the changes that we talked about back in the spring.

4.5 uh additional for the Linda McNat Animal Shelter, 12.1 for facility improvements, 2.24 for park improvements, six million dollars in fleet vehicles and fleet equipment, six point two million for technology improvements, and four point four million for drainage.

So we'll move now into the department specific information.

So for fiscal year 25-26 for solid waste, the department anticipates new capital appropriations totaling 21.71 million.