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The Mansfield City Council met on July 27, 2026, at 3:00 PM for a work session followed by a regular business session at 6:00 PM. The meeting covered the FY '26-'27 budget, fee changes, consent agenda items, public comments, and a public hearing on commercial drone delivery zoning amendments. Council heard from staff and the public, approved multiple resolutions, and advanced a drone ordinance to second reading with revisions.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I want to call the meeting of Monday, July 27th, 2026 to order at 3 p.m. We'll begin with our work session on the FY 2627 budget updates. And we have Mr. Listina. Right sunshiny faces. Thank you, Mayor. Council, good afternoon. Uh this is the uh budget presentation for July 27th. Uh, we're gonna go through as we've always done the uh calendar. Yes, uh, watch Clayton drop a few things, update a fee schedule, uh, and then go through uh kind of where we are with the uh balanced budget presentation. I just want to state this at the beginning. Uh we are presenting you a balanced budget. We do not, as of right now, have not received our final certified role from Johnson County. So this will not be the final budget, just want to emphasize that. This is, but it is a balanced budget. We are making an estimation in there for Johnson County. We'll show that when we get to that particular slide. Uh so here's the calendar that we've always shown where we are in the process. Um as I said, there is a balanced budget presentation today. Uh, it will not be the final budget as we move into August. Uh first date there on August 7th is a Friday. That's when uh we need to publish the effective uh rate and the new no new revenue rate. Again, having the delay in not receiving Johnson County's final numbers, we don't even have those tax numbers to talk about today. However, on August the 10th, we should have all of that information. That night we will again have another budget presentation along with the vote on the proposed tax rate as we move into the rest of August. You can see the other significant dates there. Uh, we'll publish the public hearing, um, publish notices of the proposed tax rates, and then that first public hearing on the budget will be August the 24th, and then the second hearing will be September the 14th, where we'll have the final reading vote to adopt the budget ordinance and tax rate. So the first thing we're going to do, yes. Could you clarify for everybody for just a second? If after we get the whenever we get final numbers from the appraisal district, and we get the TNT truth and taxation forms, uh if we are at or below the no new revenue rate, uh we're not required to do public hearings, right? No, sir. We are not required to do public hearings. We had that uh issue uh two years ago, I believe. I'm sure somebody's gonna correct me uh because if I'm wrong, they'll they'll correct me. Um I believe it was two years ago, it might have been three at this point. Well, there was um a year where we were under the no new new no new revenue tax rate. Um we still have the public hearings, even though we weren't required to do that, um, and we'll still follow that same process here. It's just we wouldn't necessarily be required to have public hearings uh on the budget or the tax rate if we're below the no new revenue rate. And so again, not having that information. I can't speculate to uh where we're going to be this year. Okay.