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The Fredericksburg City Council met in regular session on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 9:00 AM at City Hall at East Campus. Mayor Randy Briley presided over the meeting, which included an invocation, pledges of allegiance, council member comments, approval of consent agenda items, a public hearing and vote on an Atmos Energy rate settlement ordinance, a future agenda review, and an executive session. No action was taken on executive session items. The meeting adjourned at 10:33 AM.
Item 6A – Atmos Energy Rate Settlement (Ordinance 2026-31):
Item 7A – Future Agenda Items:
Good morning. It is nine o'clock, September first, twenty twenty six. Welcome to City Council regular session. We do have a quorum. Please stand for invitation by one of my favorite pastors, Tommy Hayes. And followed by the budget. Thank you, Mayor. Members of council, let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, we draw near to you today in the name of Jesus. We thank you for your Holy Spirit here moving in this place. We pray for your wisdom. We pray for your guidance, Lord. As your word says in Micah 6 8, what is the Lord require? But to do justice, to love mercy, to walk humbly with your God. So Lord, may our leaders walk humbly with you today. May they do justice as they love mercy, and we thank you for them, their service and their leadership in our community. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honor Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas. We will start with uh council comments. Good morning. Thank you for being here. On the 20th, uh Councilman Watson and I attended the first unified development code uh committee meeting. On the 25th, I attended the CVB regular board meeting, and we are 32 days away from Oktoberfest. You're on that. Okay, good. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Uh, as Todd said, uh on the 20th, we attended the UD first UDC meeting. On the 21st, uh, I attended the Hill Country Mayor's Alliance. Uh Mayor Briley was not able to attend, so I took his place. It's a group of mayors in the Hill Country that are organizing uh to create a voice for uh the towns in the Hill Country. Um we met in Bull Verde, and we had a couple guest speakers. Uh Rick Ramirez, who's the direct director of state and federal relations with the Texas Municipal League, and uh the office of this uh state senator Don Donut Campbell uh was there to talk about property tax water rates and uh uh few other things. Um had a very good discussion about the needs and uh some of the problems we have in as far as cities in the hill country, and um a lot of talk about what the the legislature is planning for this year, and so there's a lot of questions about that. Then on the 25th, yes, say who were the city center since uh let me see if I have them pretty quickly. I would say but just one people. Yeah, it's there was uh Wimberley, Bulverde, um Marble Falls, uh yes, Blanca was there, Johnson City. Um there's about four others. I can't remember the names, but it's a pretty good group, and uh they're in the process of trying to define what's the Hill Country and uh what their role is going to be and um and then have an organization based on that.