Uh we're gonna invite uh Pastor Neil Rowe to come up from Waterhouse Church.

Pastor Rowe is gonna leave us in our invitation.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, and Merry Christmas, everyone.

Father, we come before you today and we just ask for wisdom on all these agenda items.

Lord, I pray blessings over everyone in this room over the city, over this council.

Lord, we ask you to be with everyone, give them protection, give them peace, give us wisdom in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Thank you, sir.

Merry Christmas to your family.

We'll stand by momentarily for the clock to strike 12 minutes and get going.

Good afternoon.

It is 12 noon on Thursday, December the 18th.

I'd like to call the order of the municipal utility board regular session.

Announced that we have a quorum present.

We all all members here for this meeting today.

Thankful for that.

Item three on the agenda is Pledges of Allegiance to the United States and Texas flags.

Be led by board member Lindsay Hester.

Legislatures to do the flag of the United States of America.

Texas flag.

One state under God.

One remember the Alamo.

There you go.

Thank you for that, Mr.

Hester.

Item four on the agenda is approval of the minutes.

4A is considered approval of the minutes of the municipal utility board meeting held November 20th, 2025.

Appears to be a motion for approval by Lindsay Hester.

Second provided by Ken Davis.

Any questions or conversations on the minutes?

Hearing none, please in the K are now your touch screens.

The minutes pass.

We'll shift down to item five, which is consent agenda items.

We have items five A, B, and C.

With the utility board, we can entertain these as a body or split off anything you want to talk about individually.

Appears that we have a motion for approval of the body by uh last chair Hester.

Is there a second?

Second provided by Zach Smith.

Thank you for that, sir.

Any questions or conversation on the consent items?

Please indicate you or near your touch screens.

Let's take a vote on them.

And they pass.

Item six on the agenda is regular agenda item.

Six A is discuss, consider a policy on impact fee credits for water and wastewater impact fees.

And consider a recommendation to the city council to approve ordinance 02025-5-0 to implement said policy.

Rick Schaefer, good afternoon, sir.

Thank you, Mayor and Board members.

Um, and I I do need to make one correction in that uh that title on that.

Uh, due to the timing uh at the end of the year, we did have to take this item to city council on Tuesday night.

So it has already been considered by uh city council.

So this year the state legislature made some changes to the impact fee programs, uh they're required uh water providers.

If you have an impact fee program, you had to uh basically come up with a policy to provide credits for anything that is a water conservation uh reuse measure, things like that would that would reduce the amount of water flow or wastewater flow uh from the development.

Um they didn't provide any directions or or really any restrictions on how to do that, they just said it had to be done, uh, and it needed to be effective by January 1 of 2026.

Uh and so each entity was required for developing the policy uh themselves.

It actually was presented in the first legislative session that was vetoed by the governor.

It didn't come back in the first special session, but they brought it back in the second special session, and that's when it did get approved uh in late September.

So with that, excuse me, um, city staff did prepare a policy that's in your packets uh as well as ordinance 0 2025-50 uh for adoption uh that addresses the requirements in the the new legislative bills.

Um with that it does provide up to a 10% credit on the standard residential meter size.