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The North Richland Hills City Council convened on Monday, August 24, 2026, for a Work Session at 5:30 PM and a Regular Meeting at 7:01 PM. The Council discussed amendments to building codes, the adoption of a new property maintenance code, and legal guidelines for bond election advocacy. During the Regular Meeting, the Council held public hearings on the Fiscal Year 2027 Operating and Capital Budget and the proposed tax rate, awarded major construction contracts, approved the issuance of debt for a fire engine and ambulance, authorized real estate purchases, and adopted a program to recover credit card processing costs.
The Council approved the consent agenda in a 7-0 vote. Items included the approval of the August 10, 2026 City Council minutes; renewal of the Northeast Tarrant Teen Court Interlocal Agreement; amendments to the Texas Anti-Gang (TAG) Center Administrator and Analyst Agreements (totaling $201,461 for Kevin Scott McRory, $104,681.20 for Rebecca Ciferri, and $98,863.70 for Jessica Mast); Resolution No. 2026-050 authorizing a Regional Asset Transfer to the City of Irving for drone detection software and a shoot tank ($57,160); an amendment to the contract with Halff Associates, Inc. for the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Master Plan ($140,050); an interlocal agreement for the Mid-Cities Drug Task Force; and Ordinance No. 3973 approving a negotiated settlement with Atmos Energy Corp.
Yeah, I didn't mind. Marty blue morning blue. Good evening and welcome to the Northwestern Hill City Council work session. It is 5:30, and I will call the Monday, August 24th, 2026 City Council work session to order. Quorum of the city council is present, and the meeting has been duly posted in accordance with the Texas Meetings Act of the Texas Government Code. Items listed for discussion in 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 of the items listened to the 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. Moving to the first item, it's give the opportunity, the city council the opportunity to uh ask any questions of the items on the regular agenda that the council has not had a clarification done at this time. I mean everyone's shaking their head no. The next one we begin the uh Stephanie Martinez show, uh discuss amendments to the adopted 2024 international codes. Well, thank you and welcome to my show this evening. Um so the first item I wanted to go over is the uh proposed amendments to the 2024 International Codes. Um if you recall back in February of this year, we did bring forward uh the adoption of all those codes to council. Um that document was over a hundred and forty pages-ish. Um so there was quite a bit involved in that adoption of all those codes. There's a total, I think nine books and the um National Electric Code. Um but with all that, we did identify now that there are a couple of um items that do need to be corrected with typographical errors or omissions. Um so we're asking to come back to you all with that change. Um we're also gonna look at eliminating some what we believe overly restrictive commercial uh energy requirements that were adopted in February, and then with this amendment, we'd look to um align some of the standards throughout all of those code books. So just a summary really quickly, um regarding the IRC or the residential code, we're looking at amending um the accessory permit where for an accessory structure of 144 square feet. We would not ask for any that they would be exempt from any permit fee. Uh we would like like to look at it though, however, for the placement of that shed. Um again, that's for safety oversight without any fees associated with that. Um on the IBC, we're looking at deleting a couple of items and additionally match the fire code with the address number size. Um fire code has one size specific for the numbers on the address where the IBC is a little bit different. We're trying to make make those align better for emergency response. Um on the energy code, this is what I I talked about a little bit ago. We're gonna go further in depth with that on the next few slides. Um, but we do believe that there's some uh problematic uh energy requirements that we'd like to um have removed. And then also on the plumbing code, we're gonna talk about the clean out and uh the change to the placement of that so that it doesn't impact our residents, but is accessible to the city uh crews that have to go out. So on the residential code, um on the accessory permits, like I said, it would delete the blanket permit exemption for accessory accessory structures regardless of size, uh, so that we can maintain that and look at where the placement of that structure is going to be. So the permit would be required, but we would eliminate any fee that would be associated with that just to confirm that the placement of it is appropriate. Um again, the next item says fee exemption. There would be no fee for that. Um we're not trying to charge anybody anything. We just want to make sure where it's placed is appropriate. Um