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The Fredericksburg City Council held its regular meeting on October 20, 2026, addressing a consent agenda, contested land-use items, and several city operations contracts. The council approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for a short-term rental expansion on a 3-2 vote, denied a zoning change for a commercial use in a residential area, and heard an initial informal discussion on a voluntary annexation request.
Good morning. It is October twentieth, twenty forty six. Welcome to Fredericksburg City Council regular session. We do have a quorum. Please rise for the invocation by Alex Garcia, Frederick's work Bible Church, followed by our pledges. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this mayor and these council members, and we thank you for their willingness to serve. And we ask that you would give them wisdom and judgment in terms of making decisions for this community, which is your community. And uh we ask that you would give them a uh an appetite to pursue you and your ways and your truth, the only truth that matters. And we make this prayer in uh the only name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved, Jesus Christ. Amen. On the eighth, I attended the second cultural tourism advisory group at the Convention of Visitors Bureau. On the 19th, I attended the uh Chamber of Commerce board meeting uh in place of Todd, who was out of town at the time. So thank you. I don't necessarily have any meetings at 10, unfortunately. I didn't make the last two uh commissioners' courts. But I did want to, and in general, make a comment because I know people are complaining about it. All that construction work that's on Main Street, remember Main Street is tech stoc. And so all we can do is ask, but we don't really control that. And so it's getting to be ridiculous. But apparently that's the uh gas company doing uh constant repairs or new implements. So anyway, just FY. The city really doesn't control that. I attended the EDC meeting on the 16th. The last time I attended the EDC meeting. Uh AI quoted me that I said I learned something. So I'll say I learned something again last Friday. Well these days I'll tell you what I learned. That's good. Uh last Wednesday with was Coffee with City Manager, Mr. Jim McCullough is uh keynote speaker there. It was uh I think a well done session, a lot of education was shared with the community. So if you haven't been to Coffee with City Manager, uh please take a look at your calendars. Second second Wednesday of every month, please attend. I think there's a lot of great information. Uh we can discuss anything that you like. So please please come and attend. Also, a shameless plug. Uh the I think it's the second week of November. I have an OLI class that I'm putting on. Uh it'll be the first class. So if you come be kind and gentle and all that sort of good stuff. But I'm looking forward to sharing a little bit of history of Fredericksburg and also city council priorities, some of our council members and uh the vision we have for Fredericksburg. So please uh please consider that as well. Uh I will move to item five, uh, which is consent. We have several things here, but I know I'm gonna pause here because uh uh item five B. We have a confirmation of appointment of Jim Sheffield, and a number of folks haven't met him yet.