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The Richland Hills City Council held its work session at 5:30 PM on October 12, 2026, at City Hall, 3200 Diana Drive. After the work session, the council entered executive session, reconvened at 6:43 PM, and began the regular session at 6:44 PM, adjourning at 7:24 PM. The agenda included FY27 schedules, holiday and training discussions, a City Secretary personnel matter, consent agenda approvals, the Cecil Drive street project, a one-time civilian salary supplement, and adoption of updated building and fire codes. All formal votes were unanimous.
Yeah, there appears to be a lot of interesting that we've got to be able to do that. Good evening everyone. Welcome to this meeting of the uh work session of Richland Hills City Council for October 12th. The time is 5 30 p.m. Item 1A is our review of the tonight's posted agenda. We'll not take formal action on any of these items during the work session. And Jason, are there some items that you'd like to highlight for us tonight? Yes, sir. Um we do have uh your two new business items that we'll we'll get into presentations for um as well as a public hearing related to the international code council updates. Um and then on uh work session we'll we can talk through calendars, um council calendars, but I'll pause if you have any questions about the rest of the agenda, like the Cecil drive, this uh non-compounding salary supplement for civilian employees or the con uh code updates, happy to answer those first. Or wait till those presentations. Okay. Okay. So item one B is the FY27 schedules. So what we tried to do was put together three calendars. One that shows you what your council calendar is for fiscal year 27, you know, your second and fourth Monday of every month and kind of where you've historically canceled some of those meetings. Um the two meetings in the holiday season, so November, the second meeting in November, and the second meeting in December. So I wanted to uh ask is that still council's desire to eliminate those two meetings unless there's a special meeting needed. I think that's a good idea. Yeah, yeah. And then in June and July, um also I guess in the past you have done that where you've done the second meeting in June and the first meeting in July. This last year we met, I think the second meeting in June, but we we did cancel the first in July. I will say, you know, I think staff's recommending eliminating both, but we would reserve the option to come back in a special called meeting for budget purposes if we needed to, just a heads up. Like if you're planning vacations for the summer, um the second meeting in June or the first meeting in July, it's just such a tight window that we get, especially if we are looking at a de minimis rate that we would need to make sure that we've got enough council meetings um where you guys can make decisions prior to the the deadlines that the state puts on us. I was gonna say with all the issues we had this summer with all the tax stuff going on. Are you sure that won't be squeezing it? Or we'll just have one special if we need it and then I think uh play it by ear that way. You know, trying to allow time for summer vacations or whatever, but yeah, we have a lot going on. We probably need to be here. Sure. We would try not to make your first meeting in June or your second meeting in July like marathon style meetings, sure. That's that's what we'll you know keep in mind as we get in closer to May. So if that's okay, with council will just continue that. Yeah, I mean we could always push the meeting and just make it a week later and go ahead and set it for that time, right? So that we'll have a special meeting that we could always cancel. Sure. That means so we could push it. Yeah. We'll have a meeting one week one the next week, and then we'll go back to our regular schedule. Yeah. That way you'll have a three-week window when people can take off too.