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The North Richland Hills City Council convened for a work session at 4:30 PM and a regular meeting at 7:35 PM on Monday, January 27, 2025, at City Hall. The work session included discussions on ethics training, ambulance service fee adjustments, credit card processing recovery fees, and carport regulations. The regular meeting featured public comments on the rental inspection program and carport rules, followed by the approval of a full consent agenda, multiple grant applications, a zoning case for a Starbucks, and several policy ordinances.
We're waiting on you. Or you, either one. Pick one. Yeah. I was actually just giving him a hard time, not you. Okay. Well, let's go ahead and get started since we have a rather long one today. Um good evening and welcome to the Northwitzland Hills City Council work session. It is 4:30, and I am calling the Monday, January 27, 2025, City Council work session to order. A quorum of the city council is present, and the meeting has been duly posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act of the Texas Government Code. Items listed for discussion in the work session agenda provide an opportunity for city council to discuss the items and receive information from staff. City council will not take action on any of these items listed for discussion during the work session. Any members of the public wishing to address the council regarding items listed in the work session agenda may do so during the public comments portion of the regular meeting. The first item is to give the council here an opportunity to ask questions on any of the items on the regular agenda that the council has not had clarification for at this time. Anyone? Yeah, I was hoping we could get some kind of a good explanation or overview on uh items B2, B3, and B4 in the consent agenda relating to the uh tag stuff. Okay, I can address that. Um essentially, so we we are part of the Texas anti-gang unit, and what are what our role is as part of that is we are the fiduciary for that group caught tag. Um and what that means is we are the entity that uh receives and then distributes the money, the grant funds. So what those items are are positions that are funded through tag, they are not our positions and the money isn't the city money, it's um positions that are with the tag unit and that are funded with those tag funds, but because we're the fiduciary, we distribute those funds to the entities or or tag itself where those positions are okay. So when when people see that you know we're increasing compensation rates for someone to 193,000 plus dollars, we're not spending city money, these are things that we are in charge of distributing the money. And we're not the ones making the decision on those increases for those employees or anything like that. Uh that that's a that's the tag itself in some of these instances because those are positions that lie with the tag unit. Um and in some instances it's if there are positions that are funded in different cities, it's that, but we're not the ones, we're just distributing the money that we're told to distribute. That's why we place those on consent a lot of times because it's not really a decision for the council to make, but as the fiduciary, you have to approve distributing the funds. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah. Are we getting kind of an uh update about our position soon related to this? Yes, and so uh the next meeting on February 10th and work session, we're gonna be bringing you a detailed presentation about our role in tag and about um our role as a fiduciary and asking the the council whether or not you want to based on the information we present, whether or not you want to continue as the fiduciary in that regard. Um we can maintain our membership in tag. There's some other requirements that we would have to do if we aren't the fiduciary, and we'll present that as well next council meeting. Anyone else? Anything else? Nope. Moving on. Ethics training, Bradley. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. I'm excited to be here with you again this afternoon.