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The Richland Hills City Council held its regular meeting on Monday, June 8, 2026, at City Hall, 3200 Diana Drive. The 5:30 p.m. work session reviewed agenda items and received a Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) development overview; the regular session began at 6:31 p.m. and adjourned at 7:30 p.m. All voting items on the agenda were approved by voice vote without audible opposition, and no citizen comment cards were submitted.
Everybody got one of these all the time set up for we're good mics on Travis. All right, good evening, everyone. I'll call this work session of the Richmond Hill City Council to order where we review items listed on tonight's agenda and receive a CIP development over there. No formal action will be taken during the work session. Any item action items will be considered during the regular session. And we'll start out with Jason Moore. No, thank you, Mayor. Good evening, council. Um I'm gonna kick it off, and then I've got uh JP Duque, Kelly Morris, and Eric Valdez here to kind of help um kind of talk through what the strategy is for putting together a new CIP plan. So we don't have specific projects and cost estimates broken down for you tonight. What we do have is the framework on how we prioritize the infrastructure and the facilities and all of our assets throughout the city that would fall under a CIP plan. And the point would be to bring back to you a resolution on the June 26th meeting or June 22nd meeting uh that would outline like an official framework for how we score and weight uh CIP projects, and at that same meeting we'll also have a list of projects uh and their associated cost with those. So for the purpose of of tonight, uh we would just want to be very clear on what your objectives are for how we would rank capital projects. And I'll go through what staff's recommendation is based off of other examples across the state of Texas and how other cities are managing capital projects and how they score and rank those. The point is is to give you as council very clear data-driven objective reasons why you would fund a capital project. So we take streets, water, sewer, drainage, uh facilities, parks, all those things, and decide okay, you have X dollars a year, how are you gonna fund, or which projects are you gonna fund? This will give you a very objective list uh to pull from. And then it still gives you the flexibility to change how those get scored at any point in time. Um so we'll kind of talk a little bit about what staff's uh recommendation is and why a matrix uh is being presented to you tonight. So the problem with status quo right now is you know, the the limited funding that we have for capital projects, uh there's not a significant amount of funding where we can tackle multiple projects. So you're getting very limited uh ability to knock down some of the projects that are really needed for a city, our age and size. And so by putting together a scoring matrix, um this will allow you to kind of move projects up and down based on the dollar amount, the size of the project, and then whether it's a life safety issue or or based on some of these different criteria. So I think once we get into the criteria, it'll make a little more sense of what we're what we're proposing. So just for the public's benefit, what is a capital improvement plan uh for City of Richland Hills in our charter? We're required to adopt a five-year CIP plan. And that uh allows you to foresee out the next five years what capital projects uh would you would tackle as part of your annual uh budget. Uh capital project is anything fifty thousand dollars or total or or above uh in terms of its cost. It's typically has a useful life of ten plus years. It's not a routine something that we do annually, like fixed potholes or do a mill and overlay. That would be a maintenance maintenance and operation expense versus a full reconstruction or replacement of utility.