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The Carrollton City Council met on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, for a combined Worksession and Regular Meeting. The worksession included briefings on the IH-35E Phase 2 construction project, the Lower Dudley Branch drainage study, and the Fiscal Year 2026 Proposed Budget. The regular meeting featured presentations, public hearings on the budget and tax rate, and votes on zoning cases. The Council adopted the FY 2025-2026 operating budget of $325.9 million and a total tax rate of $0.5375 per $100 valuation. While the tax rate was reduced for the 12th consecutive year, the total property tax levy increased by 4.45% over the previous year due to rising property values.
Okay, welcome, welcome to all our deficit tonight. We will uh start our work session. Uh we'll go through the consent agenda items first, and then we have a few work session items and the number of public hearing. Uh so first item is number 12. Consider authorizing the city manager to approve a contract for the purchase of two HBAC air handling units from trains through an interlocal agreement with five board purchasing co-op and not not to exceed 59,273 for city hall. Last two of our seven air handling units questions moving on number thirteen, consider authorizing the city manager to approve a contract for the energy management system libraries for the city hall HVAC system from China Electric through an interlocal agreement with TIPS uh purchasing co-op in an amount not to exceed 122,415 related to the fire questions number 14. Consider ordinance of the city of City Council of the City of Carrollton amending Article 3 chapter 30 um city council by adding a new section 30.2 um to be entitled public meeting rules of decorum, a new section 30.03 to be um entitled citizen participation during council meetings and a new section 30.04 to be entitled failure to follow rules of decorum or disruption of public meeting to the code of ordinances of the city of Carrollton. This is um at your place. I think there was a minor typo. Um so as we make the uh agenda uh motion on this or the consent, just uh make them uh for this item as stipulated. Um as you recall, um this is something that's been uh briefly discussed, but we had a um uh Capel recently changed there um or adopted a similar um ordinance and um there's uh there's been a group that goes around city to city to city doing podcasts and creating a bit of a mockery of these uh city councils. So this would be a vehicle to ensure that if that does happen, there's a warning mechanism for those types. And um the the group that does that uh is pretty just you two city council meeting in Skits, and you'll see um some of the shenanigans that are played. So that's uh what this is about. Any questions? Okay, uh number uh 15. Consider an ordinance amending chapter 31, the comprehensive fee schedule effective October 1, 2025. Most of that's uh all that's been covered, and it's rolled into the budget. Uh number 16, consider a resolution of the city council and city of Carrollton, uh approving a negotiated settlement between the Atmos City Steering Committee and Atmos Energy Corp mid Text Division regarding uh Atmos's 2025 rate review mechanism filing, declaring existing rates to be unreasonable, adopting tariffs that reflect rate adjustments uh consistent with the negotiated settlement, finding the rates to be set by the attached settlement tariffs to be just and reasonable and in the public interest, approving an attached establishment or establishing a benchmark for the pensions and retiree medical benefits requiring Atmas to reimburse ACSC's reasonable rate making expenses, determined that this resolution was passed in accordance with the requirements of the Texas Open Meetings Act, adopting a savings clause, declaring an effective date, requiring delivery of this resolution to Atmos and the ACSC's legal counsel and providing an effective date. Any questions for Meredith? Uh I have a couple. What is RRM? Is that renewable regulatory rate? RRM is rate review mechanism. Yeah. Who represents us? I mean Carrollton on the board. So we're one the it's not the member on the board. We have an attorney, Jeffrey Gay. He's with um Lloyd Gosling down in Austin, and he represents we're one of 2325 cities, and it keeps our yearly expenditure pretty low because there's so many of us. And he negotiates on behalf of all the cities to reduce it every time they file a rate, and it saves the city not just in legal fees, but having to do the appearances and stuff down in how often do they meet the the public utility commission? Yeah, well, actually the ACSC. Oh, they meet on a quarterly basis. Quarterly basis. Yeah. We do meetings by Zoom.