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October 8, 2012 Special Session
MINUTES OF SPECIAL SESSION OF COUNCIL
HELD ON OCTOBER 8, 2012
The Special Session of the City COLLncit of the City of The Colony, Texas, was called to order at
6:50 p.m. on the 8th day of October 2012, at City Hall, 6800 Main Street, The Colony, Texas, with
the following roll call:
Joe McCourry Mayor Present
Kirk Mikulec Councilmember Present
Richard Boyer Councilmember Absent
Jeff Connelly Councilmember Present (6:55)
David Terre Councilmember Present
Perry Schrag Councilmember Present (7:20)
Joel Marks Mayor Pro-Tem Present
And with four council members present a quorum was established and the following items were
addressed:
1. Conduct a public hearing, discuss, and consider approving a resolution authorizing the
creation of The Colony Public Improvement District No. 1 within the City of The
Colony, Texas and malting certain legislative findings related thereto,
City Attorney Jeff Moore stated that the city had received a petition to create this Public
Improvement District (PID) on September 17`x' and on September 18`x' the city council
accepted and scheduled the required public hearing for October 8"'. He explained that the
resolution under consideration is for creation of the district and does not include the
assessment. There are more steps to be taken before an assessment will be adopted, which
probably will occur in November if approved by council. Mr. Moore further explained that
the assessment will not be citywide but only on the 439 contiguous acres as stated in the
resolution. The assessment acreage is different from the 433 acres that is included in the Tax
Increment: Reinvestment Zone (Nebraska Furniture Mart and surrounding development
property) because there was a need to include acreage for the Burlington Northern Railroad
right-of-way and the city owned right-of-way in order to maintain contiguous acreage,
however there is no specific benefit to nor any assessment to be placed on those two property
owners. The public hearing was opened at 6:57 p.m. Tom Tvardzik spoke in favor of the
PID as president of The Colony Economic Development Corporation, and as a resident of
The Colony. The public hearing was closed at 6:57 p.m. Mr. Moore told the council that in
order for this item to be approved, there must be four votes of council in favor.
Motion to approve- Terre; second by Mikulee; motion passed ivitb all ayes.
2. Council to interview applicants for appointments and vacancies on the following
advisory boards and commissions:
October 8, 2012 Special Session
Technologies, Community Development Corporation, Board of Adjustment,
Denton County Transportation Authority
City council members interviewed applicants for the above named boards.
3. Discuss and consider making appointments to the advisory boards and commissions.
The council members decided to fill the two vacant positions on the Technologies Board
plus fill Place 3 which is becoming available at the end of 2013. The BOA and CDC
vacancies will be voted on during another meeting.
The mayor clarified the terms for each vacancy. The vacancy in Place 2 ends December
2012 so the mayor indicated a nomination for that vacancy should include the following full
term.
Nominations were made as follows:
APPLICANT'S NAME NOMINATED BY VOTES APPOINTED
RECEIVED
Kevin VanWinkle Marks 5 for Pl. 2 Place 2 vacancy +
1 for Pl. 3 2013-14 term
Stephen Edwards Mikulec 1 for Pl. 5
Joseph Neubauer McCotury 1 for Pl. 2
1 for Pl. 5
Juan Carlos Martinez Schra 3 for Pl. 5 Place 5 vacancy
Joel Orte a
Roger Morehouse Connelly 1 for Pl. 5
1 for P1. 3
Allen Harris Connelly 4 for Pl. 3 Place 3 2013-14
Councihmember Terre requested that those not appointed be reconsidered for other board
positions as discussed with the applicants.
And with no further business to discuss the meeting was adjourned at 9:20 p.m.
APPROVED:
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Christie Wilson, TRMC, City Secretary `s
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