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City staff said the September shift is intended to avoid a conflict with community commemorations on Sept. 11 and to accommodate a budget-focused special session preliminarily set for Sept. 10. Staff also told the council they will adjust permit and Planning & Zoning submittal deadlines as needed to avoid applicant deadlines being missed by the schedule changes.

Councilmember Redden made the motion to move the September meeting and cancel the second November and December meetings; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.

Councilmembers asked staff to keep them informed as agendas grow and to issue the 72-hour public-notice requirement should a special meeting be needed. No ordinance or budget action was taken as part of the scheduling changes; the action affects only the calendar of regular meetings.

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Public Works staff reported a blowout in a 10-inch line on June 29 under the bridge between the Public Works building and the water shop. Because the break occurred at the bottom of a creek, city crews contracted specialized contractors to perform the repair; the work included installing two insert valves and replacing pipe sections.

Public Works Director Mister Gray said the crew handled concurrent system needs while contractors worked on the creek repair. \"We did not lose any customers during this time that we were out,\" he told the council. The repair work was complete and the contractor was scheduled to finish concrete cap work the following day.

Council voted to ratify the emergency purchase order by voice vote; the motion was seconded and recorded as unanimous.

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Langford said the city's total market value rose from about $4.02 billion in 2024 to roughly $5.23 billion in 2025, and that commercial value had grown especially rapidly. \"Now, it's up to $2,200,000,000 in commercial value for '25,\" he said.

He explained how Texas homestead and circuit-breaker caps affect assessed value: \"The homestead provides for a 10% cap on the assessed value, but not the market value,\" Langford said. That 10% cap limits year-to-year increases in assessed value for homesteaded residences even when market value jumps.

Langford summarized bills from the most recent legislative session and their local effects. He said Senate Bill 4 would raise the homestead exemption to $140,000 and would appear on the November ballot; House Bill 9 creates a $125,000 exemption for business personal property and is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2026. He also described a transparency bill that will allow appraisal sketches and street-level images to be posted online. He said some temporary caps that limit increases on non-homesteaded properties (the so-called circuit breaker) were not extended and will expire after 2026.

Langford described tools WCAD has added for taxpayer transparency, including a sales-comparison grid accompanying many appraisal notices and a Power BI dashboard for taxing-unit data. He walked council through why modeled values and recent sales can push appraised values higher and noted that appraisal districts are audited by the state comptroller's property-value study to ensure values are at market.

Council members pressed Langford on effects to downtown commercial property owners and small businesses, asking whether sales tied to outside investment (which some council members said inflated local sale prices) must be used in valuations. Langford said the district uses sales to adjust models and that if sales are anomalous they can be treated as outliers, but when they become the market the district must recognize those sales to avoid risking state funding to local school districts.

Council action: Mayor Pro Tem Semeric made a motion to receive the WCAD presentation as presented; Councilwoman Cobb seconded. The motion passed by voice vote.

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Speakers described the planned site as inside the city loop and close to generational family homes on First and Second avenues in the Royal neighborhood. Many called for a full environmental and noise study and for earlier, broader community engagement.

\"There has got to be a very...we have got to shine a very bright light on this situation and not let this happen where people are having to be impacted in their personal lives and their personal property,\" resident Lisa Drummond said during the public-comment period.

Community organizer Nikivia Miller, who said she grew up in the area, framed the dispute as part of a longer history of planning decisions that placed industry on one side of town. \"Why would you not rezone it for something the people actually want and need? Affordable housing,\" she said.

Several residents described the loss of a community center and other neighborhood institutions as part of a pattern of disinvestment. Jose Orda told the council that the project site was designated as an employment zone but that the BPP project, once built, would deliver \"only 5 jobs,\" a figure residents said was not sufficient to offset potential harms.

Quentin Parker, a U.S. Army veteran who lives on Second Avenue, said the plant would be “literally in my backyard” and warned the facility could worsen symptoms of his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Council procedure note: before the council recessed into closed session, Mayor Dwayne Arriola said public comments were limited to three minutes and the council would not respond to items not on the posted agenda. After public comment, the council adjourned to executive session for a consultation with the city attorney under the Texas Open Meetings Act, Section 551.071, on \"BPP Projects LLC, zoning and land use.\" The council reconvened in open session at approximately 9:16 p.m. and announced no action would be taken on the item that evening.

No formal vote on the BPP project or on rezoning was recorded in the meeting minutes; the publicly posted agenda referenced the consultation only. The council did not adopt or deny any ordinance or resolution during open session related to the data center.

Looking forward, several speakers asked the council to slow the process and increase transparency, and multiple residents asked the council to consider alternate uses — including housing and community amenities — for the designated employment zone.

","Nine citizens spoke about the proposed BPP Projects LLC data center, citing lack of notice, environmental and noise concerns, and few local jobs; council moved into an attorney consultation about BPP zoning and returned with no action.","actionData","errors"]

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