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The Mansfield City Council met on June 8, 2026, for a work session at 3:00 PM followed by a regular business session at 6:15 PM. The meeting included updates on the FY 2026-2027 budget, approval of routine consent items, and public hearings on two high-profile zoning requests for commercial developments.
Item 26-2235 (ZC26-003): Somerset Town Crossing (Kroger)
Item 26-2237 (ZC26-004): Heritage Parkway Development
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I want to call the meeting of Monday, June 8th, 2026, to order at 3 p.m. And we will begin our work session with Mr. Listina talking to us about FY 2627, our budget updates. Mr. Listina. Yes, thank you, Mayor and Council. Good morning. As tradition uh has happened here in the past several years. Uh we started this first meeting with a very uh high overview uh of our budget, and we're gonna continue that this year. Um so we're gonna start off with uh the calendar, the important dates. Uh we'll look at the the the 27 departmental request. We'll take a brief peek at our property and sales tax, uh, and then we'll talk about future work sessions. So this is meant to be very preliminary today, and as we get into each of these work sessions, we'll dive a little bit deeper into anything. With that said, if you have some preliminary questions, certainly ask those if we don't have the answer today. Uh we'll bring it to you at the next uh work session. So just starting here, again, this is a calendar. Uh you've seen this format for several years. This is where we are today. It's our first uh work session. Uh the next in two weeks, uh, we'll talk and we'll discuss the homestead exemption. Um the ability whether staff feels we have the ability to do that. We'll we'll talk in depth about that at that at that time. Um, as you see there on the July, the deadline for the to submit the homestead exemption increase. Um that is a deadline, that's a state statute, statutorial deadline that we have to meet. Um so if we're able to take action on June 22nd, we'll take that action that night in your regular scheduled meeting that night, and then uh be able to have plenty of time to pass that along to the appraisal districts should we decide to increase the homestead exemption. You can see the meeting, uh, first meeting there in July, and then on July 25th, uh again, a state deadline received the certified property tax rolls uh from the appraisal districts. That is a t that is a Saturday. July 25th is a Saturday. So I want to just everybody to be aware of that. Um we're hoping to get some numbers, get our numbers on Friday the 24th. Um, but there are no guarantees and no promises uh that we will have our numbers on 724. 727, there's another regularly scheduled work session. Um we'll talk about these various work sessions here at the end and what what we're gonna be working on in each of those work sessions. And then on 7.30, uh, we have a special council meeting. Um that is 60 days before the end of the uh fiscal year. And so that per charter, uh the city manager will prepare and submit a proposed balanced budget. Um we'll also vote on the proposed tax rate at that time. Now knowing that our budget won't be perfect on July 30th. We'll still have some maybe some tweaks in and there at the end, but we're going to be very close at that July 30th. Now, last year we went out of town. This year we're not. This meeting will be here, most likely within these chambers. We haven't exactly decided if we'll just have it here or just off site within the city somewhere, but it will be within the city limits. So we will have that special meeting on July 30th. You can see the dates in August, regular meeting on the August the 10th, and then on August the 24th, we'll have our first public hearing. And then on September 14th, just the way the calendar falls this year, we'll have our second public hearing and the final reading and vote on the budget ordinance and the tax rate. With that, I'll just pause for any questions or comments, Mayor.