The Killeen City Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 3:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers, 101 N. College Street. The agenda included a work session, citizen comments, a regular session, and an executive session. All council members were present for roll call. The council approved the consent agenda, discussed the FY2027 budget, marijuana enforcement, zoning, legislative priorities, and took multiple formal actions.
It is three PM on July the twenty-fourth, twenty-second, twenty-first, twenty twenty-six. I called the city council meeting to order. Let the record indicate that all council members are present. The invocation will be led by council member Kimball and the a pledge of leads by council member Nash King. I'll ask each of you to uh pray in your faith as I pray in my Heavenly Father. We thank you for this absolutely beautiful warm day that you have given us today. Heavenly Father, we ask you to look over these proceedings. We ask you to give this council wisdom, knowledge, and understanding in your most precious name, I pray. Amen. Thank you. Councilmember Kimball and Councilmember Nash King. Council, I need a motion to approve the agenda. Move to your proof of the agenda. Second by Council Member Kimball to approve the agenda. All in favor of Signify by saying yes. All opposed, no motion approved is approved. Motion carries seven to zero. Can I make a proposal? Mayor, my proposal is that we forego the staff presentations for the following items on our agenda. R S two six one RS two six one and R S two six one four city attorney. Is it appropriate to make that motion now? I think you can make it at any time. Is that a motion? Is that a motion? It's not a motion, it's a proposal for consensus. 14 city attorney is it appropriate to make that motion now I think you can make it at any time is that a motion is that a motion it's not a motion it's a proposal for consensus that is now even a process so it is in order um I'm gonna ask the council I'm gonna ask the council to please uh let me speak back and forth with the attorney please the presentations are a function of your governing standards that included and so if you get a consensus among all council members that a consensus among all council members or motion would also be in order either way okay so we can do a consensus uh at this time uh is there a consensus to yes okay that's one two three no consensus okay so let's shoot S4 could you raise your hands again so we can clearly see so if it's if it's not unanimous as a consensus then a motion would be in order if you wanted to do it by uh majority vote okay there's no consensus if everyone doesn't agree council member bass would you want to make that uh mayor I would like to make a motion to forego the staff presentations on the following agenda items RS 26108 RS 26109 RS 2610 RS 261 RS 2612 and RS2614 okay it was a motion by council member bass to forego RS 26108 R S 109 RS 110 RS 111 R S 112 RS 114 is there a second council member Nash King second by council member Nash King is there any discussion there is no discussion all in favor signify discussions council member brown respectfully as stated our governing standards currently call for having discussions on all of the items it's only fair to the people who are here to hear them and we have people from outside of the city here to present that they should have the opportunity to present um although based on the non-consensus I can see I'm probably not going to get for to vote to continue on and have the respect for the citizens to actually discuss these items so I would like to make a motion to amend to include discussion and presentation on items number five and six which is RS 26108 and RS 26109 Councilmember Brown would you repeat that again please the um the motion to amend to include in presentation and discussion items uh five and six which is RS 26108 RS 26109 okay there was a motion to amend is there a second is there a second there's no second you second second by mayor pro tem is there any discussion on the amendment yes I do sir council um mayor pro tem my recommendation would be to add in as well RS 26-114 as it is in the best interest of the community to hear that presentation as it relates to those particular topics thank you so we have a motion on the floor and a motion to amend with a second and now we've got an additional I I'll re send my amendment and rephrase if you'll reason your second resend that second so uh motion to amend to include in discussion RS 26108 RS 26109 and RS26114 okay the the amendment was rescinded and reinstated to add again Mrs Councilmember Brown two RS 26108 RS 26109 and RS 26114 okay is there um a second I do have a second on that sir I say council member bass mayor um is there a second uh there was already a second with uh mayor pro tem mayor pro tem second okay council member bass Okay, is there um a second? I do have a second on that, sir. I see council member Bess. Mayor. Um is there a second question? There was already a second with uh Mayor Pro Tim. Mayor Pro Tim second, okay. Councilmember Bass. Discussion. Uh Mayor, our uh city manager um in a previous meeting laid out for us the exact definition of a consent agenda. If it is my contention that if we the city council members have done our homework, and if interested parties have looked at the presentations which are posted online, then we do not need to spend an hour or two hours or three hours having these staff presentations and long discussions about these items. So in the interest of time, in the interest of efficiency, and in the entrance interest of professionalism, I propose that we forego the presentations on these items. Thank you. Councilmember uh Kimball. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um there is in my opinion, there is I think Councilmember Bass brought up some great points, but I think there needs to be a a better process in doing this just to uh when we already have published this agenda. If we're gonna move to a true consent agenda, it needs to be done before we get to this meeting. So we have people here that are here here to hear to hear these items. We should do that. If we want to move into a true consent agenda, we need to do it not when we're sitting at the diet, sir. Thank you.