The meeting was called to order at 7:30 AM with all council members present. This packet briefing reviewed agenda items for the upcoming regular council meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 22, 2026. No formal votes were taken; staff presented items and council asked clarifying questions.
Good morning. I'll call 730 packet briefing order and please call the roll. Mayor Morgan. Here. Mayor Pro Tim Stevens. Here. Councilmember Lee? Here. Councilmember Flores? Here. Councilmember Fleming? Here. Councilmember Ortega? Here. Councilmember Montgomery. Here. All right. So this communication pursuant to uh text code to text government code section 551.007, which allows public speak for a total of three minutes on any of the agenda items list below, excluding executive sessions. Gary Eldon. Good morning. Morning. I'd uh like to ask a couple of things this morning. The uh application for rezoning a 1000 uh South IH 35 with the ERCO mechanical property. Uh, I think it bears some additional due diligence before approval for a number of reasons. Uh one, there's no site plan submitted at this point, seems a little premature. The stated intended use for the property is expand warehouse operations and so forth. It would seem that uh simply rezoning the inaccessible single family uh parcel in question two light industrial would allow the applicant to do that with uh without any further ado. So a PUD seems inappropriate uh for this rezoning. If anything, it seems like it's uh setting the property up for future use, perhaps as a data center. The applicant further has a history of uh circumventing process and procedure. They were fined in 2018 by at the maximum level by TCEQ for failing for developing uh a parking lot and staging area without uh first submitting a water pollution uh abatement plan to TCEQ, and at that same violation or or same notice, they were fined for uh not containing a petroleum spill on the parking lot. So they've prematurely done that, and more recently, they've removed protected trees from the property, piling them up against the neighbor's backyard uh prior to author authorization for removal of those trees. So that seems uh a questionable history and circumvention of the minimal requirements placed upon them already. So I just think it needs a little more due diligence uh before approval. It seems a very odd request versus other options they have readily available to them. Uh additionally, the matter that will be coming before you to modify the future land use map and round route 2030 uh for parcel right at the entrance to Old Settlers Park from open space to commercial. Uh the open space that was once at Old Settlers Park is dwindling rapidly in favor of sports and entertainment venues. Uh giving more of it up to commercial uses seems a horrible misuse of that space. And of course, subsequent to the request for modifying the flum and round route 2030 is a request to rezone to commercial to allow for building an extended stay hotel effectively inside old settlers park. Please, please don't do further harm to the park than has already been done. Thank you. Questions okay, thank you all. Hey, Chief. F two consider resolution authorized Mary Day interlocal agreement with HUDO, Cedar Park, Georgetown Leander, Flugerville, and Williamson County. I know. How's it going? Good morning, Mayor and Council. How are you? I apologize. I'm wearing my glasses.