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The City Council of North Richland Hills met in a work session at 5:30 PM and a regular meeting at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at City Hall. The work session included presentations on the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Master Plan process, the FY 2026 Q2 Financial Report and Revised Budget, and a Fund Balance and Reserve Policy Update. The regular meeting covered a consent agenda, a public hearing for a barber school, citizens' presentation on data center zoning, and multiple administrative items including appointments and a trail design contract. Council also took action following executive session to authorize property acquisition.
Good evening. Welcome to the excuse me, Northwood Sun Hills work session. It's 5 30 p.m. and I will call the Tuesday, May 26, 2026. City Council work session to order a quorum of the city council is present. The meeting has been duly posted in accordance with Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code. Let the record reflect that the Mayor Pro Tim Depre is absent. Items listed on our discussion on the work session and the agenda. Provide an opportunity for the city council to discuss the items and receive information from the staff. City council will not take any action on the 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. Our first item on the agenda is to give the council the opportunity to ask any questions from the items on the regular agenda that the council has not had clarification at this time. Any clarification needed? No. Nope. Next item, Adrian McCarney. Parks and Record. Good evening, Mayor and Council. This presentation will give a brief overview of the parks recreation and open space master plan process. This will not go into specific details, but because we have not done this process in quite some time, I thought it was be a helpful tool just to get an idea of the phases involved with the process. So the project team is City of North Ocean Hills project leadership, that's uh city staff. Half an associates is our planning and technical consultant, and then ETC conducted our citizen is in the process currently of conducting our citizen survey. So what is a master or what is a parks recreation open space master plan? There's really four components to it the internal assessment, community engagement. We're in those two uh spots right now, and then future phases are resource and data collection and analysis, and then implementation guide once that plan is drafted and finalized through uh through the council process. So, history of our NRH parks and recreation open space master plans. Um the first one was in 1992. That was the first one in 10 years. In 1995, there was a review of that one that was in 1992. In 2000 and 2007, you'll see that there was a comprehensive plan completed. In 2016, there was review and general update to that 2007 uh comprehensive plan. And then you'll see we are now in 2026 uh with the comprehensive plan again. Uh the key point to me with doing this at this time is it has really been you can see you know, 19 years from the comprehensive process, and a lot has changed in 19 years throughout our community. Um our spaces, our uh available spaces, our infrastructure that we have, newer things that have come online. Um, so it was a good time to revisit this, and again, even from the 2016 to 2006, that's 10 years, right? 10 years since we had that review. So key factors for park system master plans within largely built-out communities. That's been a question that's come up on occasion. Oh, sorry. It was pleasant and appropriate for parks and recreation. It's a concert. I thought that was just move music for us while you're you ate, you're feeling nice.