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The City Council of North Richland Hills met for a work session starting at 5:31 PM and a regular meeting starting at 8:06 PM on June 22, 2026. The meeting, which adjourned at 11:07 PM, included discussions on potential amendments to data center regulations and sex offender residency restrictions, a presentation on the FY 2027 Special Revenue Funds budget, and receipt of the Capital Program Advisory Committee's (CPAC) recommendations for a November 2026 bond election. Several zoning cases were adjudicated, and appointments to various boards and commissions were approved.
The consent agenda was approved 7-0. It included the approval of the June 8 meeting minutes, updating authorized investment officers, updating authorized agents for the Texas SmartBuy Membership Program, amending a cooperative purchasing agreement with O'Reilly Auto Parts (increasing the not-to-exceed total to $250,000), authorizing a joint administrative agreement with Tarrant County for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, authorizing payment to Bound Tree Medical for medical supplies (cumulative amount not to exceed $578,996), and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
I mean Alamand in the money over there. So what the time procedures? Oh, I can just go from there. I mean, I can see it. It's just not I'm just not in the deal. So that's what I'm going to do. Okay. We're gonna get rolling here. Good evening. Welcome to the North Hirton Hill City Council Work Session. It is five thirty-one, and I will call the Monday, June twenty-second, twenty twenty-six. City Council work session to order. A quorum of the city council is present. The meeting has been duly hosted in accordance with the Text Hope 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 staff and the city council will not take action on any of the items listed in discussion during the work session. Any members of the public wishing to address the council regarding items listed on the work session agenda may do so during the public comments portion of the regular meeting. First item is is there opportunity for any question on the council on any of the regular agenda items? Any questions? Nope. Okay, moving on to the next one. Chase fiscal year twenty twenty-seven proposed budget. Special revenue funds. Excuse me, for fiscal year twenty-seven since November, with budget requests from departments currently being reviewed by city management before the proposed budget is formally shared with City Council on July thirty-first. Looking at just the special revenue funds, you can see that in fiscal year 26, the drainage utility fund was the largest by far, followed by the promotional fund, donations fund, and others. As a reminder, special revenue funds typically have legally constrained revenue sources that can only be used for very specific purposes, hence the need to treat them as their own separate funds. I will go over each of these funds individually to walk through high level changes, but in total, the fiscal year 27 proposed budget for the special revenue funds is approximately $4.4 million, which is approximately $2.7 million less than the current year's adopted budget. State law specifies what these fees can be used for, which include court security, technology, and truancy diversion programs. High level changes within the court special revenue fund include the elimination of a transfer into this fund from the general fund to pay for teen court expenses that are not fully covered through annual truancy diversion fees. Sufficient reserves exist within this fund to cover this cost difference for years, which will help alleviate some pressure from the general fund. Expenditures within this fund are approximately $74,000 lower than last year due to elimination of one-time expenses from the current fiscal year for technology upgrades. The fund has a planned appropriation of fund balance of $30,000. The public educational and governmental access channels or PEG fund accounts for revenues from cable fees. These funds can only be used for public broadcasting capital costs and cannot be used to fund day-to-day operations. Revenue is expected to stay very similar to fiscal year 2026 adopted amounts with expenditure changes including the purchase of a professional drone camera for approximately $3,000 and elimination of $138,000 in one-time expenses for broadcasting equipment upgrades that were funded this fiscal year. This fund has a planned appropriation of fund balance of $30,000. The promotional fund accounts for revenue from hotel occupancy taxes, which can be used for initiatives that encourage tourism and increase visitors to the city. This fund pays for marketing, community programming, public art, as well as the new destination marketing organization or DMO currently under development. Revenue is projected to increase significantly compared to the fiscal year 26 adopted budget due to implementation of the city's short-term rental program. This funding will pay for implementation of the new DMO, which is comprised mostly of marketing expenses. The proposed budget as currently configured also backs out one-time expenses associated with the 2026 Restaurant Rewards Program, although council can direct staff to include this expense and eliminate the planned contribution to fund balance. This will be discussed further during the budget work session on July 31st. The donations fund accounts for voluntary donations from various sources with corresponding expenditures that are consistent with the donors' intentions.