Welcome as I call the order, the September 2nd, a regular city council meeting.

Uh time is 6 p.m.

Rise with me as I offer the indication, lead flight for legiance.

Our Heavenly Father bless us as we consider the agenda in front of us tonight.

Give us the wisdom to act with compassion and vision for what is best for the community.

Bless and watch over our public safety officials and the community they serve.

In your name we pray.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice.

All right, I'll turn the time over to uh City Secretary Will and Certification Reform.

Mayor Scott Radley?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tim Elizabeth Abraham.

Deputy Mayor Pro Tim Janay Butler.

Here.

Councilmember please two Scott Smith.

Here.

Councilmember please three injured Chay.

Here.

Council member place four can open.

Here.

Council member place five Laura Deals.

Mayor certified by the presence of a quorum.

Thank you very much.

All right.

We will move into public comments.

It's time we set aside on the agenda to allow residents to address council on an item not on the agenda this evening.

I do have two public comment forms.

If you haven't had a chance to fill one out, you'll have a chance after I call these individuals up.

Mr.

Little.

Good evening all.

I wish to comment on two separate topics that can become intertwined.

But first I wish to apologize to you for repeatedly asking for data and seeking explanations for actions of staff and council.

I'm merely trying to understand some of the actions taken by staff and council and to comprehend the spending priorities and justification for some of the spending.

It may appear that I am asking the same question or seeking the same data numerous times.

However, I'm only trying to obtain clear and concise information and have yet to receive it.

I have often asked each council member the same question because I hope that each of you can think independently and form opinions of your own.

As an example, I asked each of you if you had to estimate the monthly and yearly negative impact the proposed substantial tax and fee increases will have on the average household.

I stated that I calculated it to be at least $500 per year and have now revised it to close to a thousand.

I got a response from only one council member, which did not include an estimate of the negative impact.

Another example, uh in another example, I asked questions regarding the stormwater rate study, received replies, and still do not understand the math.

I asked to meet with someone that could explain it to me, and I'm still waiting waiting on response.

Another, I asked for clarification for what was presented at the budget session July 31st, and what was pre presented in the council meeting August 19th, since slides uh from each conflict with each other.

One showed an average household homestead tax bill will decrease $61, and the other showed an increase of $123.

I have yet to receive clarity on this.

These examples bring me to two topics I wish to address.

Transparency and the proposed budget.

I'll shelve the proposed budget till next time, because I don't I will run out of time.

City leaders have stated numerous times that the workings of the city and leaders are transparent.

Are they in all matters?

Sadly, the city's government of Murphy is not.

In fact, consultant staff and council members have used deception to avoid transparency transparency.

Where there is deception, there is no transparency.

If all is transparent, there is no deception.

Deception can be achieved via numerous forms, lies, ambiguous or evasive language to avoid a direct answer, concealment, exaggeration, understatement, half-truths, gaslighting, fabrication, and false accusations.

During the FY26 presentation, when a staff member states that the proposed new property tax rate will reduce the tax on the average home by $61, but omits the fact that the average homestead bill will increase $123 is deception.

Every year since New Gen started the water and wastewater rate analysis for the city, their presentation has been rife with deception.

For years, the analysis of the city used city comparisons of 10K water, 10K wastewater.

I noticed all council members that the figures were not representative due to winter averaging and comparisons of 5K water, 2K wastewater, or 10K, 4K would provide a more realistic comparison.

My comments were ignored because a true comparison showed that the city of Murphy had one of the highest combined rates in the area.

Additionally, the base rate comparison did not normalize for volumes of water or wastewater that uh comparison cities included in their base rate.

I never suggested that the city include any volumes for water or wastewater in the base rates.

Again, I showed council and staff the results of the normalization of the water base.

Murphy was the highest.

Even in the most recent presentation, New Gen only annotates base volumes, but does not adjust the bar chart to normalize their dollar amount charged by each city.

When the normalization is done, Murphy continues to have the highest water base rate in the area.

The most recent presentation used projected rate increas, a projected rate increase of five cents higher than the known known district actual rate.

Thus the calculated revenue required to cover the increase is greater than needed, and this inflated number is compounded over the subsequent years.

The study also admits the fact that the city receives a rebate for using less water than the annual cap and omits the fact that some cities used used in the comparison, grant a disabled or and or senior discount for water or wastewater.

Obtaining data and information from the city has been a real challenge.

It seems that some city leaders do not want to have residents understand spending priorities, increases in taxes and fees, and why dollars are moved from one account to another.

After the July 31st budget session, I requested the notes and other data that the staff and council received for the three water rate scenarios that were mentioned in the session.

I was told that I would have to wait to get them until after the council meeting on August 19th, when new gen would present their analysis.

Thus, no evaluation of scenarios could be done before the city council meeting because the data was withheld.

I also pointed out that in the brief presentation given at the budget meeting, used much lower volumes than average to minimize the impact of the increase on each scenario.

The new gen presentation then used average volumes in counts in the council meeting.

Perhaps someone should have evaluated the proposed rate scenario structure.

Alfred do this last year because the residential bill for 18,000 water through 30,000 water is greater than the comm than the commercial amount.

Is the intent of council to have residents built at a higher rate than commercial?

I could not commit compare the two above 30K because two different rates for volumes 30K to 60K were posted for the commercial rates.

One 798, the other 867, which is correct.

These are just a few examples of the lack of transparency when trying to obtain data to receive explanations and substantiations of huge budget increases in spending.

Nevertheless, the hope is that in the future city leaders will not will not only proclaim transparency, but ensure transparency throughout exists throughout city government.

And I'll save my second analysis, I'm sure out of time.

So thank you for your attention.

Mr.

Little, did you stop uh including me in the emails?

I uh my council members have said they've received emails from you, but I haven't.

I'm sorry, I'm hard of hearing.

Have you have you removed me from your email list?

Negative.

I sent you the one on the for sure.

I sent you the one on the uh calculate the amount of increase.

I I'll take a look.

I didn't see it.

I I my council members have reached out to me and asked me questions about some of your uh um some of the the details that you've requested, and I did not see those, so I'll take a look.

Yeah, again, I think the point is that the rate studies are deceptive and have been for years.

And nobody's addressed it.

Thank you.

Are you thank you, Mr.

Little?

Moving on, Mary Lang.

Good evening.

My name is Mary Am Lying.

I'm a board member of the Murphy Veterans Tribute.

My address is 804 Easter Drive, Wiley, Texas.

I'm a Vietnam era Air Force Veteran, and I served 1968 to 1972.

Good evening, members of the Murphy, Texas City Council.

Scott Smith, Andrew Chase, Mayor Bradley, Janae Butler.

I'm here to give an update on the Murphy Veterans Tribute to Murphy City Council and to the citizens of Murphy, Texas.

Mary Pat Ellich sent an email dated Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 116 p.m.

to Murphy City Manager Aretha Adams.

Quote Hello, Aretha, I'm checking in with you to see what progress is being made on our request for withdrawal of the land in Murphy Central Park in Proclamation Forum paperwork to be presented at the next council meeting on September 2nd as requested last week from the MVT board.

We need this for our 501c3 compliance paperwork.

We have not been contacted by any council members for a meeting to discuss our current status and whether the site we wanted to discuss has been proposed yet.

As you and the council are aware, we are under a tight deadline to make decisions because we are at risk of losing our grant from the Collin County Parks Commission if we cannot submit a progress report by the end of September.

Please give me some directions so I can report back to the MVT board on any progress being made.

She responded Wednesday the 27th of August at 143 p.m.

Thank you for the message.

Paragraph 1 and 2 states.

Regarding the 501c3 compliance paperwork, the letter I previously provided on June the 9th confirming that the land dedication was rescinded as the appropriate and legally sufficient documentation.

Council will not be considering any further proclamation or resolution on this matter.

I am working to place this item on the September 16th council agenda as September 2nd was not possible.

And I would like to schedule a meeting with you andor the MVT board prior to that date to discuss the next steps.

Paragraph 4 states to clarify the city is not asking the MVT to raise additional funds beyond what is currently available, approximately 50,000.

The project wherever it ultimately lands within the city of Murphy will be modest and designed to remain within those resources.

Additionally, the city is not requiring the MVT to donate its funds to the city.

The board may choose instead to partner with another existing veterans memorial effort or distributed funds in another way.

However, the city will not take on the construction of the Veterans Tribute project without a donation of funds from the MVT.

As a board, we are looking forward to meeting to the next meeting with Murphy City Manager Aretha Adams.

And in addition, we've received no drawings or facts of what it might look like.

We're just told that it ain't gonna happen this way.

And you also don't, and what we have been told is it'll just probably be very small, there'll be no bricks or anything like that.

Thank you.

All right.

Very good.

Anyone else like to address council on item this evening?

That is not on the agenda.

Seeing none.

Anyone from council have anything to report this evening?

I have excuse me.

The only thing that I have to report is that this month is suicide prevention month.

Um so this is a month that lets awareness spread about the mental health issue of suicide.

It also is a time to spread hope and spark meaningful action around one of the most urgent mental health issues of our time.

So we just ask for people to keep that in mind uh for this month.

Thank you.

Anything else?

All right, moving on to item 6a, graduation.

Citizens Academy Awesome Gross.

Good evening, everyone.

Okay, great.

So tonight is just a reflection over the last couple months of all the hard work of the individuals you see in this room that has the branded City Murphy Citizens Academy Murphy U t-shirts.

As we go through this presentation, this is just a snippet of what has been done, not only from the residents, but also staff themselves.

Okay.

So our purpose and goals.

So our purpose were pretty much just to educate, educate residents on the operations, to strengthen the community connection that we are that's already have and to make it even better, and to build trust through transparency and engagement.

Okay, and some of those goals were, and I believe that later in the slides that you will see that, that we empower residents to actively participate in shaping Murphy's future, not only as informed leaders but community ambassadors.

So what was going on during this time?

So there were seven sessions held during that time frame.

We kicked it off with the city administration, community economic development, police and court, fire rescue, public works, parks and rec recreation, and internal services.

And internal services is HR IT, finance, and public affairs, media.

Okay.

So when it came down to city administration, we call that steering city.

So the residents had opportunity not only to learn about council management form of government, but those functions within the city manager's office, the city secretary office, and as they learned those concepts, we ended the night with a mock council meeting, which not only tied into what they learned, but they left understanding what you do on a monthly basis.

So the next night we uh next week we did we built this city, and that was a record uh reflection of community economic development.

The residents learned more, I would say, about planning and zoning.

They learned the key details about economic development within Murphy, much questions about HB there.

And then we also went over building and code compliance, uh, which was a very interesting topic in itself.

And the night ended with not only uh as was two different types of cases for uh planning and zoning boards.

So kudos to community development.

Okay.

Okay, so everybody will echo in this room that this night was jam-packed with a lot of information and a lot of things, uh, a lot of activity and a lot of interest.

Uh as going forward, we do understand that this uh this night was police and court.

Uh we have a wonderful police department, and we also have a wonderful court team.

Uh and they both came hitting uh heavy hitters that night with information, which led us to the conclusion that this needs to be separated going forward.

But police uh not only showed them who they are, but why they existed and to protect and serve.

They showed those specialized capabilities that we've heard throughout the time here, well, I've heard throughout the time here, not only locally but within the state and naturally.

And Judge Cowley gave a and this team gave an awesome presentation on what it means to give justice but with dignity.

And the activity in the night police gave it awesome drone overview, and the residents actually got a chance to do some firing with some uh simulation rounds.

So that was unique in itself.

And the night ended with Jeff Calloway's going over a case review where in that same justice dignity of a uh a dog attack in the community, and still that person and that dog getting the rights that they deserve until, of course, is it innocent to proven guilty.

Fire rescue.

So probably the most excited nights as you as uh the mayor and uh a lot of us uh attended the reception, I'm sorry, at 5:30, heard that fire was one of the run of the residents' uh favorite night.

I'm sure you could echo in this room, uh, only because of this picture right here.

Uh I believe the fire park did an amazing job when it came to the preparation of the activity, but also led into why they did it, to present that mission of service, why what why they do what they do, and that unique capability of being firefighters and also paramedics.

Not only the history, how it became how Murphy fire came to be, and also its growth, which led it to its recent leadership and operation changes that they're experiencing.

And the night of course ended with that uh wonderful car of a Toyota Corolla being demolished.

So the next uh parks of recreation for the love of leisure.

Uh the parks team parks work team did a great job.

And the words here is enhancing quality of life, but they did a great job from that point from just parts, not only the park side, but the recreation side, but it's how we take care of parts, how we plan for the parks, how we make sure things that we need in those aspects, and also doing that community connection also through parks and recreation and bringing the community together.

And the residents that night had a wonderful time, not only getting an two activities where they had to design and build a park and they had limit certain resources and certain guidelines they had to follow, but also they had another activity called pitch tank, where they where they had to pitch their own recreational program and with some guidelines, and that uh it was some fun ideas that I believe were taken away by the parks and rec team.

Public works.

So laying the groundwork, but from the team that you've seen over the time here, they're the infrastructure backbone.

The residents got to see that.

They're gonna see how the hard work that goes in day day in, day out when it comes to public works, they're they're the solid ones, right?

They're the ones that you call on, they're always the one first on scene, right?

And then going forward.

And also they provided that safety and reliability.

What does that mean going forward?

What does what does that mean when it comes to like how does PubWorks provide safety and reliability when we we have all the first responders like police and fire, but in the day, it's the infrastructure, it's building for the future.

How do we do that going forward?

And then the activity was uh equipment tour, they got the residents got to see what they use and how they use it, and also got a hands-on uh view of what it takes to uh do the work within the city.

Internal services.

Uh this was again this is marketing communications for public affairs, human resources, IT, finance, and budget.

Uh this night just encompassing all those internal services.

When we talk about the solid ones, these are truly the true professionals day in and day out that getting all the administrative work done while we have the uh field guys and and uh troops in the field doing the doing the work outside.

And the activity tonight was they had our uh actual way activity to budget prioritization simulation.

So understanding what it takes to prioritize the budget when it comes to budget audit, uh, finance and customer service in those respective fields.

Any questions on the department nights?

As I go forward.

Okay.

So that was the departments.

But there was another aspect of this program that we wanted to do, which brought the residents together, making decisions together, and that's the community project.

They were giving, I would say about 10 ideas to choose from, and get to know your city, connecting residents to city services was the one that they chose.

Why?

Because they really love the concept of not only becoming part of this academy, but also putting out there.

We have some CERP members, we have some members of community that's already volunteered within the city, and just doing this program not only showed their continued support, but it helped the ones that were in the program to even see, oh, I missed out.

I'm gonna join CERT, I'm gonna join these other engagements.

So we did we want to do this by three key areas awareness, engagement, and outreach.

So the community project were short short videos that were recorded that will highlight city services and how those departments support residents each day.

Yes, we could have done that, we could have gave them the script, but we wanted them engagement to share their own words.

They're creating those genuine, transparent stories that connect the residents to city services.

And here soon, that outreach portion, you will see these videos and social media posts coming very soon.

So kudos to media team and the residents on this one.

So we wouldn't know what's going on until we got some feedback.

Every night, every time we had a session, we got feedback from what they loved, from what they didn't like, from what was the most valuable takeaway.

Uh this is very interesting because uh there were quite a few of the same and quite quite some different.

But let's just kind of go through it.

Uh participant highlights, some of the things that highlighted.

They appreciated that direct access to city leadership and department staff.

They enjoyed the interactive activities, particularly the first night.

So kudos to CMO and CD Secretary.

Seen as a unique opportunity to learn how Murphy operates behind the scenes, and then reported a stronger sense of connection and trust within their local government.

So the big kicker here, opportunities for enhancement.

You can't get better until you know what to fix or what to get better at.

So being our first one in a while, I would say Citizens Academy, there's some things that we learn.

And that being some of these consensus items here is ensure balance pacing between speaker time and interactive activities.

We only had two and a half hours a night.

These nights could have gone for four hours, four hours easily.

But we had to respect staff time and resident time, so that's something to go look into going forward.

And then consider streamlining sessions to maintain high energy and engagement.

Once again, it's the time concept here.

Most valuable takeaways, gain new knowledge on home rule governance and how city council makes decisions, understand how departments collaborate to deliver services, and learn about how uh roles, uh role roles of boards, commissions, and opportunities for civic involvement.

Uh so some topics for future interest that we would like to highlight in front of you today is deeper insight to how police fire public works coordinate during crisis.

So, once again, those activities that everyone got, they all got their own individual activities that night.

But I believe this is one uh this comment is talking about uh a continued effort, one big exercise or activity to see how it comes together, how we all win together.

Uh environmental sustainability, uh those policies and practices in Murphy, and that government governance and planning, understanding the long-term vision for the city.

Any questions on this?

Okay.

So how do we know how how well we did?

We get we got quiz.

Uh we got uh feedback every night, but how well do we know if we did a good job being being the academy that we haven't done in such a long time?

So we've brought we made up some engagement metrics.

Okay, what are those things that we're going to find that help us measure that success?

Uh participant questions.

Our goal was 10 per session, and that's raising their hands in the mid in the presentation.

This is not just at fun during the activity, no, it's doing the presentation.

Whereas it's sometimes it could be less engaging than the activity, but uh we got that goal every night.

Yeah, we achieved 15 to 20 every night.

Uh quiz scores.

So after every presentation, before the activity, residents were given a quiz.

Our goal was 80% average.

Uh we've achieved 89%.

And interactive activities, our goal was 10 participants actually doing the activity, and then we achieve an average of 10 to 11.

So you can see our overall goal was 95, we achieved that 100%.

Okay.

Before I get started, I will have all the any questions so far before I move on.

Thank you.

So if you are a participant and have your t-shirt on, of course, please move to that wall.

As we transition to the graduation proportion.

It doesn't matter what order.

Thank you.

So what's next?

This video is just a snippet of what we're meaning by local ambassadors.

And you're going to hear firsthand some of the reviews that they uh from this entire session on what some of the residents thought uh that we're able to make it this night.

So once we watch the video, we'll head into the graduation.

So please, uh Mayor City Manager, please step down after the video.

So City School Academy is absolutely fantastic.

It's a two and a half hour once-a-week session that I would encourage anybody to take.

It covers police department, fire department, planning department, finances.

Before Citizens Academy, I didn't know much about the inner workings of local government.

Now I know so much more about City, how City Council works, boards and commissions, and how decisions are made.

Um I feel really good knowing how well our Murphy Fire Department and Rescue is prepared and trained for assisting our community.

And one thing I learned from Murphy Citizens Academy is the great hands-on experience I had during each session of the Citizens Academy.

It was incredible.

I got a shoot a glock, operate a back home, design a park, and even participate in a mock city council meeting.

I would highly recommend attending the next Citizens Academy.

You won't regret it.

Great, great, great.

So as you see this uh wonderful photo here, once again, not everyone was there to participate.

So every tonight uh you will all have a new group photo after you get your uh certificates.

Um so uh please step down as we move into the graduation portion.

And as they're making their way down, so tonight, so uh every night uh on the quiz nights on the when they did the quizzes, they actually it was just not a quiz.

So they they did the quiz, but they also got city branded swag.

So every night there was something, at least five of the residents that scored the highest five, uh was able to.

So this is just a small token of their appreciation, but they got hooked up all throughout the session.

Um so uh for an example, so you guys uh so everyone can see you have a certificate of completion and a photo frame.

So and I did replace it with you guys.

So the crowd can see.

All right.

I'm going to call things and go speak.

Okay, so do you want us to go?

So I'm actually going to call an at work.

So uh please be careful going downstairs.

Say, so please uh do a congratulating hand cap as they come down.

Stand in the middle.

Yeah.

There you go.

Congratulations, thank you.

Once again we're doing this.

Sharon Talbot.

Congratulations.

Once you're done taking a picture, please wait for it.

Heather Jones.

John Richard.

Same as the Diki.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So that's our first couple here.

Tina, right, sir?

Thank you.

So now it's Mukaran.

And last but not least, and our last couple of employees.

If you have a step in front of the podium here.

And squish in like you uh didn't just, you know, the last eight weeks in the nose in it.

And if you're a family member of guests with them, please take your photo on photos.

Are you wanting to read it?

I wouldn't.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I will be breaking your stuff right now.

Thank you.

Uh believe we're done.

Any last questions before I have my seat?

No, but thank you, all the city and the staff for putting this together, all the participants, because we didn't know how many people were going to participate.

So this was a great showing of residents that came out to support this.

So we really, really appreciate that.

Learning so much about our city government, what we do here.

Hopefully we'll see some of you on parks and recreation boards, maybe one day sitting up here taking one of our places.

So just kudos to everyone for spending your time because do you have to spend your time with us, your free time?

You don't.

So y'all chose it to do it with us, so we appreciate it.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

All right.

With that, we're going to move on on to item seven.

Uh City Mayor Staff Reports.

All right, Mayor and Council, just a few updates tonight.

Food Truck Friday is uh back again this Friday, September 5th, from 5 p.m.

to 8 p.m.

at Murphy Central Park.

Moonlight Movie Series is also happening on September 19th at Travis Farm Park beginning at dusk.

The movie will be a Minecraft movie.

So bring the kids, have fun.

Annual Mays Days Festival.

Our biggest event of the year is coming up on October 4th at Central Park beginning at 12 noon and going to 9.30 p.m.

with a fireworks show.

For a schedule of the events, parking, and more information, please visit our website at www.maysdays.com.

Also happening in the month of October is our fire department open house, which is taking place on October 11th at 206 North Murphy Road at the fire station from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

Activities will include station tours, medical helicopter landing, extrication demonstration, fire safety movies, and so much more.

The cleaning green will also be happening on October 11th at 20 uh at 206 North Murphy Road, that is City Hall, from 9 to noon.

Stay tuned for more information and check the website.

An additional event in October is scelebration.

Uh happening on October 24th at Murphy City Hall Complex from 6 p.m.

to 9 p.m.

Our trunk retreat event will have a variety of activities including an inflatable, face painting, and other activities.

For more information, please go to the website, Murphy TX.org.

The drug takeback event, the annual event will be happening this year, October 25th at 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

at the police station.

The Animal Shot Clinic will also be happening on October 25th from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

at the animal shelter across the street at 203 North Murphy Road.

Our next council meeting will be in this same room on September 16th at 6 p.m.

And I also want to give a warm welcome to our new public works director, Donald Reese.

Raise your hand, Donald.

That's uh so if you have problems, only go to him.

He loves problems.

And I also want to give a big pre-happy birthday shout out to Deputy Mayor Pro Tim Janae Butler, whose birthday is Saturday.

Oh, happy birthday.

Thank you.

Yeah, 30, 30 is a hard hard number.

All right.

Thank you, Aretha.

All right, moving on to consent agenda.

All consent agenda items are considered to be retained by the City Council, be enacted by one motion.

There will be no separate discussion of these items unless council member so requests in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and voted on separately.

Would anyone like to remove an item from the consent agenda this evening?

I would like to hear a little bit more about item C.

Very good.

With that, I will take a motion on A, B, and D.

May I move that we have to move items A, B, and D as presented.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

All is in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Motion passes unanimously.

Moving on to item 8C, consider and or act on the request by Carroll Consulting Group for a final plat of the Murray Center for Islamic Knowledge, located at 10030 North Murphy Road.

Reagan.

Evening, Mayor Council.

I don't have a presentation for it.

This is a effectively a plat of record for already a lot that is subdivided by meets and bounds many years ago.

It's a it's effectively plating an existing tract in order to allow for future development on the site if they were to do so.

Just to give you a little overview of what I know of the site thus far, the applicant for this plates intend to submit in the future a site plan for religious center use.

Keep in mind that any kind of use such as that would have to follow the commercial zoning guidelines, 100-foot setbacks, those kind of things, and the usable area on the lot is pretty small if you look on the plat.

So relatively small lot, so to speak.

But I do not have any official submittals as of yet.

Of course, this item is simply just getting the lot platted.

It's the very first step of any kind of development for any kind of development that could occur in our city.

Do we have there many more properties that have never been platted like that?

Is that common or uncommon?

Um it uh there are many properties in the city that still remain unplatted, actually.

Uh I think of South Maxwell Creek Road, multiple residential lots along South Maxwell Creek or along maybe a few along Kinney.

Older developments in town that were not platted, they were subdivided by meets and bounds many years ago.

This is one of those similar examples.

It's been many years since those the home was constructed on the site.

Was this originally set up as like two different properties that combined into one property?

It's one whole property.

It always has been one property, and there's only there's there's one I would say usable structure there now.

The other structure is intended to be used for non-residential purposes.

So if I read this right, this is the reason why they have to come to us is because there is no plat on file, so if they do any kind of remodeling like they intend to do, there has to be a plat on file.

Yes, sir.

So any time the improvements on the site are uh will exceed more than 50 percent of the value that's on the current tax roll, then it must be platted before you can receive a permit.

Uh it's presumed in discussion with the applicant that any future improvements would exceed 50 percent of the structures on the site.

The the valuations are currently uh relatively low.

I don't have any other questions.

I just wanted to ask those questions and to hear about this a little bit, sir.

What's the location of this property?

It's 1030 North Murphy Road.

It is uh just north of it's probably a thousand feet, 1500 feet north of the Betsy Road intersection.

It's just south of the Parker, um just south of McWurder Road as well.

Reagan, is there a house that's is there a house that's inhabited there now?

There is a residential structure that's inhabited, but from what I understand it's being used for some religious services as well.

Okay, there is a structure that you said that is not inhabited, correct?

There is one that's that is in poor condition on the south side of the site that is going to be used for from what I understand non-residential purposes.

Just to the north of that, that's where all of those there's a fence with a bunch of parking.

Right, and this property does not include that, and but that is a residentially zoned property.

So anything that would occur on this site would have to take that into consideration for residential adjacency standards and the like.

Yes, sir.

So have we rezoned it from res from residence to something else?

No, it's currently SF 15, and you are a religious purpose is a permitted uh non-residential use on the site.

Any other questions?

You guys see it?

Yeah.

Okay.

All right, I'll take a motion on this.

I move that we approve item.

Item C.

Um consider acted on the request for Carroll Consulting Group for a final plot for the Center for Islamic knowledge, located at 1030 North Murphy Road.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

All is in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right.

Moving on to item uh nine, individual consideration.

9A.

Hold a public hearing and consider and or act on the request by Murphy USA for replat of Murphy Village Edition, block A, lot I 1RB, and located at 146 West FM 544.

This is a public hearing.

Reagan.

No presentation on this item.

The only uh reason this is before you is to remove a an existing um fire lane easement on this site.

It's been determined that it's cumbersome.

It doesn't allow tanker trucks to park and fuel the center appropriately now that the site's been redeveloped.

Uh the uh Murphy uh fire department has uh agreed with this removal.

It is fine to do so.

Um when you replant a property and remove a publicly dedicated easement, it requires a hearing, so that's why this is before you tonight.

Are there any questions for me?

I just had a part of that is also um that the fire lane is not needed, and you all were saying it was redundant, right?

And then that they do have sufficient access that exists from the surrounding fire lanes in FM 544, so that it's no, you know, we're all in line there.

Um, and that the purpose is also to remove um other removal is to allow delivery trucks to park on site and not be in violation of blocking the fire lane.

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

All right.

That's all I have.

I'm gonna open the public hearing on this as 646.

Anyone along address council on this item tonight?

Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing at 646.

Any discussion on council?

No, seems pretty straightforward.

It's within the standards of the zoning.

And it's only to remove the replat, right?

So I don't have any concerns on it.

All right, I'll take a motion then.

Uh mayor, I move that we approve uh the request by Murphy USA for a replat of Murphy Village Edition Block 8 lot 1R B and located at 146 West FM 544.

Second.

I have a motion, second.

All is in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

Item B.

Consider andor act on a resolution authorized city manager to execute a professional and engineering services agreement between the city of Murphy and Burf Burkhoff Hendricks and Carter LLP for design work associated with McMillan Road paving and draining uh improvements in an amount not to exceed 753,000.

Jared.

Good evening, Mayor Council.

Don't really have a presentation for you tonight.

Just as you rattled off there.

Um you recall just a few weeks ago, council approved the sale of certificates of obligation to fund among other things the uh improvements to McMillan Road from North Murphy Road to east of the uh Maxwell Creek Ridge.

Um that would involve uh doing a 37-foot concrete roadway with carbon gutter, an eight-foot trail on the north side, drainage improvements, uh, as well as a traffic signal there at the intersection.

So this is funding the engineering design improvements for that work.

Happy to answer any questions.

Does this include the existing bridge?

Uh this includes widening.

There's still we still got to do some engineering and all that, but the current plan would be to widen that bridge to accommodate the uh increased pavement width.

That is in the floodplain, so there's a flood study that needs to be done, uh, and that may determine that we may need to do something else besides just widen it.

Well, excited for that.

I know that in my community, we have a lot of people have had questions about what we're gonna do with that road, when we're gonna repair it.

So I know people will be happy to hear that.

Definitely needed, especially the traffic light.

You know, as we've grown more traffic through that area, um, I think that will help uh tremendously.

Right.

Highly anticipated project.

All right.

Any other questions?

Take a motion.

May our move that we approve a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a professional engineering services agreement between the city of Murphy and Burkoff Hendricks and Carter LLP for design work associated with filling road paving and drainage improvements in an amount not to exceed 753,370 dollars.

Amen.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

Amen.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Motion passes unanimously.

I am glad there is so much uh uh so much interest in the expansion of McDonald's.

Yes.

So all right, moving on to item 9C.

Consider and our act on a resolution authorizing city manager to execute uh professional engineering services agreement between the city of Murphy.

And did I?

No.

And Burkhoff Hendricks and Carter LLP for design work associated with a right turn lane improvements at the southwest corner of FM 544 and McQuery Road in an amount not to exceed 141,750.

I had deja vu reading that, and I'm like, Right.

A lot of repeats from the previous one.

So uh this is the design contract at that right turn lane there at the southwest corner in front of CVS.

It'll allow traffic to flow south on to McCreary Road.

We need that improvement today, I would argue.

Uh and then with the impending HEB, all the more reason to get that done.

This is being funded uh through the Murphy Municipal Development District, so they're funding this particular project.

Be happy to answer any questions you may have on this.

So it's Southwest.

Um I don't know if I've seen a uh design concept on this.

No, we'll bring something back to you on that.

So it's it's um directly in front of the CVS pharmacy.

Yeah.

Uh it will involve, if you recall there's kind of a small scale, welcome the city of Murphy.

It's red brick doesn't really match anything else.

That will be removed.

Traffic lights and utility uh lines have to be relocated, but um we'll add a right turn lane there that'll allow traffic to turn into target or go on down to Bluff Creek, other points into So it's a it yeah, it basically what you're doing is you're widening the you're giving some stacking and you're widening that entire um lane uh turning south.

Right.

So it would begin uh after the existing driveway into CVS.

Sure.

So is that the only current the only plan uh that we have right now for that intersection?

That's the only thing that the city would for that intersection.

This also uh would uh contemplate um turn improvements in coordination with the city of Wiley.

Uh as you you all know to much our consternation.

Uh we didn't really like the way that was restriped and the improvements were done.

So this would reopen discussions of that and allow some signal modifications and hopefully a double left that'll allow traffic to be able to do that.

Yeah, I I know I have a lot of residents who approve approve of that conversation.

So this this will open that up uh for us to do that.

I'm I'm quite confident that Murphy that Wiley will allow us to do that at our dime.

Well they should.

If they want to go to HEB, they better well that only require restriping, though.

That's I believe there may be some signal modifications that are being contemplated.

Uh we may also have to uh deal with um an ADA ramp over there in front of the prosperity bank on the Wiley side as well.

But that's an easier fix than I was expecting.

All right, jared.

Do you think that monument sign will stay?

No, sir.

No, no, the tall one.

Uh yes, I hope we we hope that we're not having to get into that.

So preliminarily it I I hope this will get us into that.

So we can see um I suspect there'll be a amount of right-a-way that we'll have to acquire there.

Uh the welcome the Murphy sign for sure goes away.

Uh hoping that we're not having to get into dealing with the monument, the CVS monumentation that's very good.

Thank you very much.

The little poor little red sign that doesn't match anything, is what Jared said.

But um tonight it's all about our roadways and infrastructure, which we need because I was gonna ask about the whole Wiley part.

You know, I know they've got to do their part with that.

So uh I would love to see that they would make that two left left uh turn lanes right there.

I think that would be safer for a lot of people if they would do that and help better with traffic.

Um so we definitely need that right turn lane on that corner with HEB coming, you know.

We don't want anybody to get separated from their um what is it that they go tortillas?

Torches.

Is construction uh complete or planned to be completed by time of uh H E B comes in?

I don't believe so.

H E B's uh current timeline is June.

Um I think somewhere in in in all of your documentation is a timeline there from the engineer.

Um we're probably in you want to answer that one?

We're probably in June bidding this current.

Maybe not.

So H E B as as typical with government.

H E B will be finished and we will tear it up all over again.

Uh mayor council.

Uh Ms.

Adams, great to see you the Craig Kirk off, Burkhoff and Hrickson Carter.

Um design work framewise, yes, we could have this ready to bid in no time.

However, it's textile roadway and wiley's involved and probably the most congested area of town as far as franchise utilities and traffic signals and crosswalks and everybody and their brother.

So we're going to uh expedite and try to get through as fast as we can, but there's gonna be a lot of collaboration with different parties and want to communicate with you all through that process.

So as soon as we can navigate all that, I'm happy to get it and get it going.

But we want to make sure we get the right permits and talk to the right people.

So we're all on the same page.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right, I'll take a motion on this.

May our move that we approve item C as presented.

Second.

I have a motion, second, all those in favor.

I mean opposed.

Motion passing unanimously.

M9D, consider under act on a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a contract with Cam Creek contracting for the 2025 street panel replacements.

Daniel.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Uh so bringing to you today the street panel replacements of 2025.

Uh we went out for bid and Cam Creek contracting was the lowest bid out of seven contractors.

They came in at uh $361,000.

And this work would primarily be street panel replacements, uh, mainly down McCreary Road.

That's where the majority of the streets would could go you know get replaced there uh for panels, including curbs.

And we have a couple other that are spread out, including Briar Oak, Bear Creek, Post Oak, uh Lakefield, and Spring Ridge.

Um with that, I don't really have much else other than uh I'll answer any questions if you may have.

Any questions?

All right, I'll take a motion.

Mayor, I move that we approve this resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with Cam Creek contracting incorporated for the 2025 street panel replacements.

Second.

I have a motion second.

All is in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right.

Consider under act on a resolution authorize the city manager to execute a contract and other necessary tasks related there too with Am Creek contracting ink for Kinney Drive repairs to include the restoration of the asphalt street in various locations, installation of concrete valve boxes, installation of one fire hydrant, and the restoration of the existing drainage ditch on Kinney Drive between South Maxwell Creek and Ridgeview Drive.

Yeah, so this is basically this is what you just read, the Kinney Drive repairs.

Uh this was a project that took place in 2020 uh sorry, 2022.

Uh uh was incomplete and never finished, and so there uh needed to be some minor repairs that needed to be done there.

We just like to get in there and clean up all the asphalt cuts and put in some splash pads, valve pads, they're replacing the existing hydrant that's uh need to be replaced on there.

And so that we would request that uh Cam Creek contracting is also the lowest bid for uh for the for the project that we went out for bid.

There was two bids on that one, and one was actually incomplete.

Um they came out, they came in at 138,250.

Uh so they would go out there and then they would do all the work that that uh you and I just had mentioned there.

Um and so we requested uh you allow us to repair that street.

What happened with the other construction company?

Uh there was a number of faults on there.

Um I think it was a money issue, and he kind of ran out of money.

Um there was some the it kind of got strung out over a long period of time.

So, you know, originally they were gonna replace three thousand feet of eight-inch water main, and they were gonna go from South Maxwall the way to ridge view, which he did that, and um it just seemed throughout the project and the the duration of it, it just seemed like he was over his head and it may have just been too much too much for him at that time.

And uh they basically went into liquidated damages and um it it just got uh it was just too much there, so we had to separate ourselves from that.

We did try um very much to hold them accountable and get them to finish out the project as they were supposed to, and it just we were not able to make any progress with them as Daniel mentioned.

And so because of that, you know, the citizens still deserve to have a street that is back to where it's supposed to be.

So that's why we're moving forward with finishing out the project on our own.

Okay.

I can't think of the name of that term, but like it's not a guarantee or there's a surety, yeah.

Yeah, there's some legal issues we're working between that.

Okay.

Daniel, I've got a qu is adding uh uh installation of one fire hydro.

Was that is that adding a fire hydrant?

Did it was something not to code or did they just incomplete on their end of the job, or well, what's the deal with one fire hydrant?

Yeah, so no, what happened was they they were supposed to reuse the hydrants that were existing because all existing hydrants were in operational order.

And what what happened was the contractor went out there and was um you know he's careless with the hydrants when he kind of put them up put them around and he ended up uh breaking a couple.

So um he was he replaced one at his cost, uh we had him replace it at his cost and didn't do anything, uh cost us anything.

But um, but then the one that got put in the he was still trying to get that one to get passed, and uh it went over before we could before we could get that one put in.

So we have one that's out of service.

It's not an it's not an in new install, it's just an existing, but it's something that was damaged by the contractor.

And so there is still there's plenty of hydrants on that road though.

I'd like to say that there is uh there's still a hydrant within 500 feet of any resident out there, so nobody is in any kind of danger for uh fire protection.

Yes.

All right, I'll take a motion.

Okay.

Mayor move that we approve um agenda item E as presented.

I have a motion, a second.

I have a motion second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

All right, moving on to item 10, you know, future agenda items.

Council members request topics for future agenda meetings.

No member of the city council may discuss any of the requested subjects until such matter has been properly placed on the agenda.

Um see we've got a meeting on the uh veterans tribute coming uh for late September.

Uh is there anything else?

We do uh we have upcoming at council's request uh an update on the trails that councilman chase asked for.

We also have an update coming forward on National Night Out that uh Mayor Pro Tim Abraham asked for.

And I do I did send an email to council asking for clarification if the information on buddy creep was sufficient to email, or do you want to have that on an agenda?

Do you want that on an agenda?

Do you want that at a meeting?

Was the information I think it's sufficient?

Yes, but what I read was so those are the only additional two items that we have coming for.

Any anything from council?

Can we get an update?

Because I know before when we had the parents that came about the um the busing where they have to get rid of that just to see how that's going for the students that have to commute um in that Oreole area.

And then 9-1, I believe, we had a lot of laws that were went into effect.

So to know, and I'm pretty sure we'll see if there are ordinances that change for us or anything that changes for the city.

Uh legislative up.

However, that's a little more difficult because it is a PISD issue.

I I haven't seen any kind of uh significant uptick in complaints from our police department.

Um I know that there have been some rumblings, but it's gonna be hard to give you an update on that policy since we don't directly impact the results of it.

Okay.

We can ask the school districts, and I can send that out of an email back.

I reached out to the you know, the parents that spoke here just to see, you know, how they were doing and if they had so I can see if they respond back.

Okay.

Yeah.

Sounds good.

Very good.

Anything else?

No.

Seeing nothing, we are adjourned.

702.

Who won the uh pool?

You know, we didn't get to Dave.