The Killeen City Council met on March 4, 2025, at 3:00 PM in City Council Chambers. The meeting included a work session and a regular session. Council discussed a golf course update, a funding request from the Innovation Black Chamber of Commerce (IBCC), and a Flock safety camera system procurement. Appointments for the Executive Director of Development Services and City Engineer as department head were approved. A public hearing was held on a zoning request. The council also entered executive session to discuss pending litigation with Oncor Electric.
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for attending today's uh workshop council slash council meeting. Let the record show that all council members are present. If you have any cellular device, would you please put it on mute? And if you have to take a phone call, you can take it outside. Thank you. We will have the invocation by Mr Solomon, Councilmember Solomon, and we will have the pledge of allegiance by me. Please rise. Father, we want to thank you for this day. This is the day you made, and we thank you for this time. This meeting, we pray your guidance on our on this council. We pray your wisdom. We thank you for this city, this great city of Galene. We pray for every citizen that's in the city, Lord, every resident. All over the country, Father. We pray for every uh all of our military and their families. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Councilman Solomon. Councilmember Adams. Councilmember Board. All in favor, yes. All opposed, no. You have three times to speak for three minutes. Madam Secretary. PR twenty-five zero zero eight. Receive golf course update. Thank you. Mr. Ozboy. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, Madam Mayor. City Council members, city managers, staff, and residents. I'm Chris Osborne. I'm the general manager at Stone Tree Golf Club. And I appreciate the opportunity to provide an update on our operations. Today I'll walk you through the golf courses financial performance for FY24, discuss key facility improvements and agronomic plans for FY25, and highlight the value of our partnership with the Clean community. There you go. Stone Tree staff works closely with the City of Clean representatives to keep things running smoothly. We meet every two weeks and stay so we can stay on the same page. We desire to start a collaborative marketing program to get more people from the community out to enjoy the course. So far this year, Stone Tree is doing great. More people are playing than we expected, bringing in extra money, and at the same time we're spending less than planned. Instead of losing like we losing money like we budgeted, we're actually coming out ahead by over $19,000. Things are looking really good. Sorry. Stone Tree has come a long way financially. In 2019, we were losing nearly $245,000 a year. By 2022, we broke even, and the last year we made over $112,000 in profit. This year we expect to stay in good financial shape with the projected profit of about $60,000. This shows the course is doing much better and moving in the right direction.