Good afternoon and welcome to this meeting city council.

Today is September 30th, 2025.

It is 201 p.m.

We have a quorum call the meeting order.

First thing are citizen comments are in the consent agenda items.

Having none takes us to before we get to request, I do need to uh give the city manager direction on it's it's my understanding that council gave direction to staff that we are to have our questions in by Sunday.

And we now are afforded two extra days because the agenda comes out on Wednesday, so instead of Friday, you get it two days.

So council rules state that uh we get those in by Sunday.

So I'm gonna give the city manager direction uh that questions that come in after Sunday can be worked as allowed but aren't uh pressing.

So that's the council direction that was given.

Uh and so I'm giving that to the city manager's office if there's uh that's the direction we gave before.

But and so just wanting to put that back forward top of mind so that we can address those things accordingly and they can govern their time accordingly unless there's any dissenting uh issues with that.

I've been operating under by 8 a.m.

Monday.

Is that should I be doing it by end of Sunday?

Okay, just by 8 a.m.

Monday.

Okay.

You're good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Representative from District 2.

Are we posted for that, Mr.

Mayor?

Doesn't that require consensus of council to do things like that?

No, it we're not doing anything.

I'm making a reminder because council already gave direction, so I was just putting in a reminder.

We've already given direction.

So there's no direction sought.

Takes us to our next item.

Um that is requests for clarification on agenda items listed on this agenda for public hearing and individual consideration.

Any questions there?

Individual consideration or and we don't have any public hearings, but uh any individual consideration question.

Great.

Takes us to our first work session, which is 3A ID 25157 receive report whole discussion and give staff direction regarding the capital improvements advisory committee.

Okay, good afternoon, Mayor and members of council.

Angie Manglaris, Development Review Manager, here to talk to you today about the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee or the CIAC.

Uh, this is in follow-up to an ISR you all received a couple of weeks ago.

Um but SB 1883 was recently passed with this legislative session and amended several sections of the Texas Local Government Code as it relates to the CIAC.

Uh specifically, the City of Denton's been utilizing provisions in state law that allowed the Planning and Zoning Commission to also be the CIAC, but with those amendments, we will have to change um how we conduct business going forward.

So staff is seeking direction on the establishment of a new CIAC, including um membership requirements, term lengths, and number of members on the committee.

Just real quickly, Chapter 395 of the Texas Local Government Code authorizes impact fee collection for water, wastewater, and roadway capital improvements.

In order to assess impact fees, a city must first establish a CIAC.

Their role is to comment on land use assumptions, capital improvement plans, and those proposed impact fees.

Furthermore, um Texas Local Government Code outlines composition and meeting requirements for the CIAC, including that that body be not less than five members, that not less than 40 percent of those members be representatives of the real estate, development, or building industries, that those members may not be employees or officials of the government entity.

It did previously allow that the planning and zoning commission could be utilized as the CIAC, and also if cities um assessed impact fees in the ETJ, a representative from the ETJ is required to be on the CIAC.

So currently the City of Denton has um imposed impact fees for water and wastewater since 1998 and for roadway improvements since 2016 and has been utilizing the planning and zoning commission plus one ad hoc ETJ member to serve as the CIA seat.

Uh their primary roles are to advise and assist City Council in adopting land use assumptions to file semi-annual reports with respect to the progress of capital improvement plans and advise and assist in and um regular updates to land use assumptions, improvement plans, and impact fees.

With respect to changes that recently went into effect on September 1, uh there are several key amendments that were made that are um necessitating this conversation.

Uh first and foremost, the state statute has removed language that previously authorized the use of the planning and zoning commission to also be the CIAC.

In addition, now a minimum of 50% of the membership is required to be a representative of the real estate development or building industries.

Those members may not be employees or officials of the city.

In addition, a new section was added that requires an independent financial audit that does need to be presented to the CIAC prior to adopting any new impact fees or an increase in existing fees.

The CIAC meeting requirements and time commitment.

So given all of this, uh staff has several recommendations, and this is what we're seeking direction from you all on today as it relates to the creation of a new CIAC.

So first staff does recommend creating a new committee to serve as the CIAC, meeting the requirements that 50% of the members are from representatives of the real estate uh development and building industries, and that these representatives are not employees or officials of the city.

Staff recommends requiring a resume prior to an individual being appointed to the CIAC to help us in our monitoring our compliance with the membership requirements.

Staff suggests a body of seven members, allowing each member of council to have an at-large appointee.

Keeping in mind we do need to include one representative from the ETJ that is in addition to our seven standing members.

Staff suggests four-year term links with a maximum of three terms consecutively, and suggests staggering those terms so that odd numbered places end on August 31 of odd numbered years and even numbered places, plus the ad hoc term ends on uh August 31 of even ending years.