Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/16/2023 2:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Work Session Room & Council Chambers
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda  
Agenda packet: Agenda Packet Agenda Packet
Attachments:
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ID 23-635 1A. Citizen ReportMeeting Questions, Responses & Handouts   Video Video
ID 23-431 1A. Work Session ReportReceive a report, hold a discussion, and give staff direction regarding an overview of the compensation and classification study conducted by Evergreen Solutions LLC. [Estimated Presentation/Discussion Time: 1 hour]   Video Video
ID 23-853 1B. Work Session ReportReceive a report, hold a discussion and give staff direction regarding an amendment to expand the boundaries and increase the term of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number One (Downtown TIRZ). [Estimated Presentation/Discussion Time: 1 hour]   Video Video
ID 23-215 1C. Work Session ReportReceive a report, hold a discussion, and give staff direction on pending City Council requests for: (1) Request for a work session to discuss the possibility of making Election Day a municipal holiday. (2). Request for adoption of ordinance and 60-Day Implementation Plan for Proposition B (Chapter 21.V). [Estimated Presentation/Discussion Time: 30 minutes]   Video Video
ID 23-858 1A. Closed Session ReportDeliberations regarding Real Property - Under Texas Government Code Section 551.072; Consultation with Attorneys - Under Texas Government Code Section 551.071. Receive information from staff, discuss, deliberate, and provide staff with direction pertaining to the potential lease of real property interests identified on the City Hall East Addition Plat, Block A, Lot 1, City of Denton, Denton County, Texas, and located generally along the south side of East McKinney Street, east of Frame Street in the City of Denton, Texas. Consultation with the City’s attorneys regarding legal issues associated with the lease of the real property interests described above where a public discussion of these legal matters would conflict with the duty of the City’s attorneys to the City of Denton and the Denton City Council under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas, or would jeopardize the City’s legal position in any administrative proceeding or potential litigation.   Video Video
ID 23-1039 1B. Closed Session ReportConsultation with Attorneys - Under Texas Government Code Section 551.071. Consult with the City’s attorneys regarding the creation of Tabor Ranch Municipal Utility District of Denton County, and to provide the City’s attorneys with direction, where public discussion of these legal matters would conflict with the duty of the City's attorneys to the City of Denton and the Denton City Council under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas.   Video Video
ID 23-1040 1C. Closed Session ReportConsultation with Attorneys - Under Texas Government Code Section 551.071. Consult with the City’s attorneys regarding contracting for the provision of utility services to Hickory Creek Municipal Utility District of Denton County, and to provide the City’s attorneys with direction, where public discussion of these legal matters would conflict with the duty of the City's attorneys to the City of Denton and the Denton City Council under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas.   Video Video
ID 23-750 1A. Public PresentationProclamation: Mental Health Awareness Month   Not available
ID 23-779 1B. Public PresentationProclamation: Internal Audit Awareness Month   Not available
ID 23-787 1C. Public PresentationProclamation: Drinking Water Week   Not available
ID 23-836 1D. Public PresentationProclamation: Denton Bike Month   Not available
ID 23-964 1E. Public PresentationProclamation: National Military Spouses Appreciation Day   Not available
ID 23-995 1F. Public PresentationProclamation: National Safe Boating Week   Not available
ID 23-1033 1a. Citizen ReportMr. Stephen Dillenburg regarding Public Welfare Concerns and Breaches of Fiduciary Duties.   Video Video
ID 23-060 1A. AppointmentConsider nominations/appointments to the City’s Boards, Commissions, and Committees: Special Citizens Bond Advisory Committeeapproved  Not available
ID 23-938 1B. ResolutionConsider approval of a resolution of the City of Denton providing the April 21, 2023 meeting absence of a Community Services Advisory Committee Member be excused; and providing an effective date.approved  Not available
ID 23-723 1C. ResolutionConsider approval of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Denton nominating PACCAR, Inc., to the Office of the Governor Economic Development and Tourism through the Economic Development Bank as an Enterprise Project; and providing an effective date.approved  Not available
ID 23-917 1D. ResolutionConsider approval of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, approving the 2021 - 2022 Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number One (TIRZ #1) Annual Report; and declaring an effective date. The Downtown TIRZ #1 Board recommends approval (7-0).approved  Not available
ID 23-747 1E. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton providing for the abandonment, release, and quitclaim of 1) a portion of Audra Lane right-of-way located between the east line of Loop 288 and the northwest line of Prominence Parkway and 2) an electric easement conveyed to Texas Power & Light company recorded in Volume 264 Page 149, Deed records, Denton County, Texas and assigned to the City of Denton in Volume 756 Page 669, Deed records, Denton County, Texas, all located in the W. Lloyd Survey, Abstract No. 774, within the City and County of Denton, Texas; providing for the quitclaim thereof to Us Alliance Prominence Venture, LLC; providing for the terms and conditions of the abandonment and quitclaim herein; providing for the reservation and conveyance of a needed public utility easement therein to the City of Denton; providing for the indemnification of the City of Denton against damages arising out of the abandonment herein; providing for barricading; providing for consideration to be paid to the City of Denton; providing for severability and an effective date.adopted  Not available
ID 23-748 1F. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the City Manager or designee, to execute and deliver a third amendment to lease agreement between the City of Denton, as landlord, and SBC Tower Holdings LLC, as tenant, leasing an additional 150 square feet of land, located near Frame Street, being identified on Block A, Lot 1, City Hall East Addition, City of Denton, Denton County, Texas, for the use and maintenance of a communication tower; and providing an effective date.adopted  Not available
ID 23-915 1G. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas, authorizing the City Manager to execute a first amendment to agreement by and between the City of Denton, Texas and Forestar (USA) Real Estate Group, Inc. for roadway impact fee and assignable credits for Eagle Creek Addition Phases 1-4; and providing an effective date.adopted  Not available
ID 23-824 1H. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton granting All American Entertainment a noise exception for the Monster Truck Shows on Friday, June 2, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, June 3, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the North Texas Fair Grounds - 2217 N. Carroll Boulevard; and providing an effective date.adopted  Not available
ID 23-988 1I. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the City Manager to execute an Advanced Funding Agreement (AFA) and Landscape Maintenance Agreement (LMA) with the Texas Department of Transportation for the purpose of providing landscape, scenic enhancement and irrigation on US Highway 377 from Roselawn Drive to Country Club Road (the “Agreement”); authorizing the City Manager to perform all obligations of the City under the Agreements including the expenditure of funds; and providing an effective date.adopted  Not available
ID 23-859 1J. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the City Manager to execute an Interlocal Agreement between the City of Denton and Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority (LCMUA) for the construction of an eight-inch (8”) potable water line to provide service to the City of Denton Lake Lewisville Raw Water Pump Station. The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (6 - 0).adopted  Not available
ID 23-876 1K. ResolutionConsider approval of a resolution of the City of Denton authorizing the submission of an application to the Texas Department of Transportation’s 2023 Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TA) Program in the amount of $13,346,259 for the installation of 3.25 miles of the Pecan Creek Trail Shared Use Path; and providing an effective date.approved  Not available
ID 23-906 1L. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance by the City of Denton authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to execute a 1) Advanced Funding Agreement Amendment No. 1 for the termination of the original Advanced Funding Agreement and 2) execute a new Advanced Funding Agreement for funding under the North Central Texas Council of Government’s’ Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program, providing financial assistance for the city’s Pecan Creek and Nette Shultz Elementaries Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) sidewalk project; CSJ 0918-46-267, through the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), in an amount not to exceed four hundred thirty-eight thousand, eight hundred twenty and 00/100 ($438,820.00) dollars; authorizing the expenditure of funds therefor; and providing an effective date.   Not available
ID 23-893 1M. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, a Texas home-rule municipal corporation, authorizing the City Manager to execute a professional services contract with Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC, dba BerryDunn, through The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) Cooperative Program Contract #200601 for the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Assessment; providing for the expenditure of funds therefor; and providing an effective date (File 8232 - awarded to Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC, dba BerryDunn, in the not-to-exceed amount of $130,000.00).   Not available
ID 23-943 1N. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, a Texas home-rule municipal corporation, authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract extension between the City of Denton and John Hoggard dba Utility Planning Network (UPN) through June 10, 2024, to continue to provide 311/CRM Consulting Services for Customer Service and Public Affairs; and declaring an effective date (RFQ 7485 - extending a contract with John Hoggard dba Utility Planning Network (UPN), to June 10, 2024). The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (4 - 0).   Not available
ID 23-944 1O. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, a Texas home-rule municipal corporation, authorizing the approval of a first amendment to a Professional Services Agreement between the City of Denton and Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc., amending the contract approved by the City Council on November 16, 2021, in the not-to-exceed amount of $159,300.00; said first amendment to provide approximately 1,500 linear feet of 12-inch sanitary sewer line for the Water Utilities Divisions for the Granada Lift Station Replacement Project; providing for the expenditure of funds therefor; and providing an effective date (RFQ 7574-008 - providing for an additional first amendment expenditure amount not-to-exceed $204,500.00, with the total contract amount not-to-exceed $363,800.00). The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (4 - 0).   Not available
ID 23-945 1P. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, a Texas home-rule municipal corporation, authorizing the City Manager to execute a Professional Services Agreement with Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc., to provide Owner Engineer services on several ongoing initiatives for the Denton Municipal Electric Department; providing for the expenditure of funds therefor; and providing an effective date (RFQ 7804-009 - Professional Services Agreement for professional services awarded to Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc., in the not-to-exceed amount of $763,641.00). The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (4 - 0).   Not available
ID 23-946 1Q. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, a Texas home-rule municipal corporation, authorizing the City Manager to execute a Professional Services Agreement with Black & Veatch Corporation, for substation design and capital improvement projects requiring professional engineering services for Denton Municipal Electric; providing for the expenditure of funds therefor; and providing an effective date (RFQ 8031-001 - professional services agreement for engineering services awarded to Black & Veatch Corporation, in the not-to-exceed amount of $4,244,870.84). The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (4 - 0).   Not available
ID 23-949 1R. OrdinanceConsider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton establishing classifications and positions in the Denton Fire Department; creating certain positions; repealing Ordinance No. 22-1985 relating to establishing the classifications and prescribing the number of positions in each classification for the Denton Fire Department; providing repealer, cumulative, and severability clauses; and declaring an effective date.   Not available
Z23-0004b 1A. Planning CaseHold a public hearing and consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas, regarding a change in the zoning district and use classification from a Residential 3 (R3) to a Residential 6 (R6) District on approximately 6.52 acres of land generally located on the north side of Hercules Lane, approximately 270 feet west of the intersection of Hercules Lane and Stuart Road, in the City of Denton, Denton County, Texas; adopting an amendment to the City’s official zoning map; providing for a penalty in the maximum amount of $2,000.00 for violations thereof; providing a severability clause and an effective date. The Planning and Zoning Commission voted [7-0] to recommend approval of the request. Motion for approval by Commissioner Smith and second by Commissioner Cole. A SUPERMAJORITY VOTE OF THE CITY COUNCIL IS REQUIRED FOR APPROVAL. (Z23-0004b, Camelot Street, Julie Wyatt)   Not available
ID 23-1038 1A. AppointmentSelection of a Chair and Chair Pro Tem for the Special Citizens Bond Advisory Committee.adoptedPass Video Video
ID 23-1038 1A. AppointmentSelection of a Chair and Chair Pro Tem for the Special Citizens Bond Advisory Committee.adoptedFail Video Video
ID 23-1038 1A. AppointmentSelection of a Chair and Chair Pro Tem for the Special Citizens Bond Advisory Committee.adoptedPass Video Video
ID 23-688 1B. ResolutionConsider approval of a resolution authorizing the creation of a Steering Committee to guide the development of the Southeast Denton Area Plan, generally bounded by East McKinney Street to the north, South Bell Avenue to the west, Dallas Drive and Shady Oaks Drive to the south, and South Woodrow Lane to the east; and providing an effective date.adoptedPass Video Video
HL23-0001a 1C. Planning CaseConsider approval of a resolution of the City of Denton, approving an application for a partial tax exemption of designated historic sites, in accordance with Chapter 10, Article VI, Sections 10-126 through 10-129 of the Denton Municipal Code of Ordinances, for a Local Historic Landmark, located at 1314 N Locust Street, located on the northeast corner of N Locust Street and E 3rd Street; providing for severability; and providing an effective date. (HL23-0001a, 1314 N Locust Street - Tax Exemption, Cameron Robertson) The Historic Landmark Commission recommends a favorable determination (4-0).adoptedPass Video Video