Round Rock City Council Packet Briefing - May 6, 2025
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Round Rock City Council Packet Briefing - May 6, 2025
The Round Rock City Council held a packet briefing on May 6, 2025, at 7:30 AM to review agenda items for the upcoming May 8 City Council meeting. No public comments were made, and no votes were taken. Staff provided briefings and answered council questions on several items including public safety training center upgrades, a window replacement project, utility easements, and updates to the Brushy Creek Regional Utilities Authority (BCRUA) agreements.
Public Comments & Testimony
- No members of the public spoke during the citizen communication period.
Discussion Items
- G1: Public Safety Training Center – Additional Design Fees (Brinkley Wiggins Architects) – The original contract included a basic oval track for $2.5 million. Staff recommended a high-speed track with safety features (wider pavement for skid recovery, interior rural roads, observation decks, and a skills pad for extrication), increasing the track cost estimate to $6.2 million. Total project cost estimate is now $25 million (up from $13 million when the center was constructed in 2016–2018). The change order for design fees is $710,000, based on an 8% fee (below the typical 8–12% range). Council discussed sharing the facility with other agencies and potential cost recovery. The item will be considered for approval on May 8.
- G2: Window Replacement at Griffith Building (Braun and Butler/Anchor Ventana) – Nineteen historic windows were found to be leaking during renovation. Originally thought to be a facade issue costing $1.1–$1.4 million, the replacement project will cost significantly less. The subcontractor will replicate historic appearance. A pass-through change order is requested.
- G3: Interlocal Agreement with City of Georgetown for Electric Line Crossing – Georgetown needs to extend a buried electric line across a Round Rock waterline easement on Westinghouse Road. The agreement requires the electric line to be placed under the waterline (at least 10 feet deep) and encased, with liability for damage. Recommended approval.
- G4 & G5: BCRUA Amended and Restated Master Contract and Bylaws – These cleanup documents consolidate seven amendments since 2008. The bylaws now formally appoint a general counsel and board secretary, and set director terms at two years (all beginning and ending simultaneously). Council discussed the lack of staggered terms, the role of the operating committee, and water conservation coordination among Round Rock, Cedar Park, and Leander. Round Rock holds 38% of BCRUA capacity (Leander 47%, Cedar Park 15%) and uses an education-based water conservation approach rather than mandatory restrictions. Lake Travis levels were noted as low (45 feet below full). The items will be voted on May 8.
- G6: BCRUA Water Treatment Plant Expansion – Engineering Contract with Walker Partners – This $3.8 million contract covers bid and construction phase services for an expansion that will add 10.6 million gallons per day (MGD) of treatment capacity for Round Rock. Project completion is expected around 2028. Approval from all three BCRUA member cities is required.
- H1: Speed Limit on Kenny Fort Boulevard (Forest Creek to SH 45) – A traffic study on the newly opened segment (late 2024) recommends a speed limit of 55 mph, consistent with state guidelines. The segment has no access points except signalized intersections. A previous section from Forest Creek north to Old Settlers Boulevard was set at 50 mph.
- H2: Ordinance Updating After School Recreation Program Standards of Care – The proposed ordinance adopts revised standards of care (ratios, policies) for camps and after-school programs to maintain compliance with the Texas Human Resources Code. Staff recommended approval.
Key Outcomes
- No votes were taken during the briefing. All items listed above are scheduled for formal consideration and possible action at the May 8, 2025, City Council meeting. Staff recommendations are to approve each item as presented.
Meeting Transcript
Mayor Morgan here. Mayor Pro Tim Stevens here. Councilmember Lee? Yeah. Councilmember Flores? Here. Councilmember Fleming? Here. Councilmember Otega? Here. Councilmember Montgomery. Here. All right. So communication. Anybody with switch to speak? Seeing nine. Staff Bravens D1. Consider staff briefings and council member discussion andor questions regarding items on the agenda for the May 8 2025 City Council meeting. We have several proclamations. Councilmember McGombray, do you want to do the air quality awareness week? One okay. Consent. Anybody have any questions on consent? G1 consider resolution authorized mayor to execute supplement agreement number two with architectural services, bring uh Brinkley Wiggins and architects. Chad. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. So as we as we start going through public safety training, we realized that there was a uh a need slash a want/slash better safety features we could bring to our public safety training center. Um with that, we decided we we as in the chiefs and your city manager would try to figure out how do we design this so it's the lifetime. How is it the work we got we could potentially go out there do everything all at once, and this will be for uh a lifetime public safety training center. And so what that meant is there's some additional scope that we're designing in there through programming. And so that will come to you. This will be just for the design fees. So this is a going to be a contract to um give Brinkley Sergeant some more money for the additional design fees, and then there'll be additional costs for the construction that will be coming to you later on, whether you for you to approve or not to approve, and you'll have the ability to approve or not to approve. I'm gonna kind of walk through it. Um I do have Chief Carmichael in the back for some specific questions. I can answer probably most of them, but just just in case. And so when we get into it, we can see the first the first one right there, main building. We had a little bit of design fee extras in this right here, a little bit of IT. Those were mostly generated because of the bathrooms. Um we didn't anticipate add having to add some additional bathrooms, but we are. We have some what we thought was going to be a basic classroom. There's a little bit of design fees on there. These aren't these aren't really too bad. Um we get into the evoc, and that's what I want to talk about. The Evoch a little bit. Um, the Evoch really jumped. We originally had a track, um, and it was just an oval track. And as we were going through the design of this, we met with some professionals and decided that well, let's is this really what what we want is just asphalt on the ground. And so, what we determined is we really want to put a high speed track out there, and we want to we have a need for a high speed track, but we also have a need for interior roads, rural roads in the center of it as well, and that's what you're seeing here.
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