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The North Richland Hills City Council held a work session at 5:30 p.m. and a regular meeting at 8:21 p.m. on May 27, 2025. The council discussed the State Comptroller's Transparency Stars Program, received a quarterly financial report, reviewed the Compliance Court update, and debated a draft rental registration and inspection ordinance for single-family and short-term rentals. During the regular meeting, the council approved consent agenda items, nominated Tyson Prepared Foods for an Enterprise Project designation, reappointed municipal court judges, selected Kelvin Deupree as Mayor Pro Tem, and appointed members to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and the Park and Recreation Facilities Development Corporation. The council also authorized three economic development agreements following executive session.
Good evening, and welcome to North Richard Hill City Council meeting work session. It is five thirty, and I'm calling the Monday, May 27, 2025. City Council work session to order. A quorum of the city council is present. The meeting has been duly posted in accordance with TechSoup Meetings Act of the Texas government code. Items listed for discussion of the work session agenda. Provide an opportunity for the city council to discuss the items and receive information from staff. The city council will not take action on any items. Listen to the 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. Going to the first item, we're discussing items for the regular medium meeting. First I'm giving the council an opportunity to ask any questions of the items on the regular agenda that the council has not had a clarification at this time. Does anybody have any questions on things that are on the agenda? Nope. Okay, moving around along. Um review the state comp troler transparency stars program. Trudy Lewis. It has to be complicated. Um is that really good requirements on people about the process of the very happy apply? So it's not going to be part of it doesn't have to be actually how to read the website. And under each other headers here in the 31st working activity for the reading over 1845. So the first one's additional finding this is the mayor that we want to know. We also would have to include full revenues that the city is receiving. We've got to delineate how much that is coming for conference tax, sales tax, and also firm app. So part of the comparative analysis between our city and other cities is to look at our population and how much is it cost in the response for conference and relationship built? We do the same for expenditure. So there's a revenue fees and then there's the expenditure fee. We also would post-trick registers for the last three years. That's something we have to have posted if that will uh no longer than 90 days past the date of the second process. We could do that on a monthly basis, and we could also do that on a quarterly basis. We also have to talk about the full-time uh equivalent that we have, and we have to make sure an analysis. And then things that we already do that we have to make sure that we have easily accessible in the same location as this kind of information with our budget for the last five years, our actual audit for the last five years, and also contract information for each council as well for the office. For contract and procurement, this is combining all of the opportunities, the actual bids received and awarded bid into one place. We typically go on a prompt and issuance basis and have to put all of that information together in one place. We also would have to do some print analysis, um, and we also got a post in one place in contracts, uh from the registration forms as well as the techniques. So you can see a lot of data that would, you know, ordinarily people might have to mine a little bit to find it if you were part of our website. But this would have falls under one of the bottom. If you all will recall, you're members of the Texas municipal retirement system. We talked a little bit about that at our audit presentation. But under the public thinking section, we would need to post things like our fund rate to this disclosure to the public to what extent are the total liabilities or requirements of our control, versus how much have we actually funded for that total library. Um again, we ourselves are not managing TMRS. We pay in a rate based on their actual rare analysis, but because we have a requirement of a number to fund that, this is part