Good evening and welcome to the excuse me and welcome to the North Richland Hill City Council work session.

It's 5 30.

And I will call the Monday, April 27, 2026, City Council work session to order.

Quorum of the City Council is present.

The meeting has been duly posted in accordance with the Texas Meetings Act of the Texas Government Code.

Items listed for discussion on the work session agenda provide an opportunity for the city council to discuss the items and receive information from the staff.

The city council will not take action on any of the items listed for discussion during the work session.

Any members of the public wishing to address the council regarding these items listed on the work session agenda may do so during the public comments portion of the regular meeting.

The first item is to give the council the opportunity to ask questions of the items on the regular agenda that has not had clarification at this time.

Welcome tonight.

I'm sure it'll be uneventful while you're

here.

Nope.

We will move on to the next item.

Board and commission term limit research.

Alicia.

Mayor and council.

We are here tonight to discuss and for you to receive our presentation on the research that, and I will say that Rainey Hamilton in the city secretary's office conducted on board and commission term limits.

The city council directed staff to come back at the next meeting after we did some research.

So let's go through the slides.

I'm going, I'm already going off track here.

So May 11th, as you know, an ordinance was adopted that's establishing the process for the board and commission members.

In November, we had a charter amendment election, and

the

city the residents approved propositions A and B.

They approved all of them, I might say, but propositions A and B is the reason why we're here having our discussion tonight.

Proposition A is the term length of our elected officials, where it changed from two to three years, and term limit, which is the term limit for any elected official that can only serve three terms as a council member and then three terms as a mayor or vice versa back and forth.

So

at your February 9th meeting, staff presented to the city council information and research that we found talking about possibly doing an adjustment to the term length of boarding commission members to coincide in align with the new term length of the elected officials following

the

successful propositions for the charter election in November.

So

in addition to the term length, council also talked about the term limit.

So at the February 9th meeting, city council or staff directed City Council directed staff, gosh, I said that backwards.

City Council directed staff to move forward with the term length to match that of the elected officials, but then asked us to provide additional research and come back and present those findings to

you

regarding term limits for boarding commission members, and that involved looking at our benchmark cities in addition to some other Texas cities.

So I'll go through that here in just a few minutes, and that's what the next few slides are going to um show.

So

then as I said, Rainey Hamilton and the City Secretary's office conducted the research, spoke with the representatives.

If it was not the city secretary, representatives in the city secretary's office at the various cities.

So on this slide, it illustrates the 17 peer cities that North Richland Hills uses for salary surveys and other benchmarking purposes.

Six of the 17 have term limits for board and commission members.

The orange represents those cities that have term limits for their board and commission members.

You will see that it's DeSoto, Duncanville, Frisco, Lewisville, Richardson, and South Lake.

On this slide, you'll see of the cities that have board and commission term limits.

Again, it's the orange bar.

But we're just providing a bunch of different information for

you.

Now the other Texas cities.

It included other Texas cities in North Texas that are not included as our benchmark cities.

And those two cities are Harling and Flugerville.

And then you'll see on the slide that two of nine Flugerville and San Marcos have term limits for their board and commission members.

Again, it's going to be the orange bar graph that's there.

So that's 22% of the additional North Texas cities that we researched.

Now,

and I've got this one over to jumped ahead.

So of the Texas Cities Research, two cities have term limits for board and commission members.

Again, it's Flugerville and San Marcos.

Seven cities that you can see of the other Texas cities have term limits for their elected officials.