Tomorrow night, Plano City Council is expected to adopt the No-New-Revenue property tax rate for the FOURTH year in a row!
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Executive Session (starts at 5:00 PM)
(Review agenda here)
- Litigation: Constance Swanston and Women’s Elevated Sober Living vs. City of Plano
- Real Estate Discussion: Downtown Plano
- Personnel Discussion: all council appointees
Preliminary Open Meeting
(Whenever Executive Session, which starts at 5:00 PM, ends)
(Review agenda here)
- Discussion of Plano’s Sesquicentennial Celebrations (150th Anniversary, not to be confused with a Sasquatchcentennial commemorating the 1967 filming of bigfoot)
- Discussion of HOME-ARP funds
- Short Term Rental Report Status Update (full report to be given at October 10th Preliminary Open Meeting)
Regular Meeting (starts at 7:00 PM)
Notable Consent Agenda items are at the bottom of this post.
(Review agenda here)
- Proclamation: September 22 – 25, 2022 is the H-E-B | Central Market Plano Balloon Festival
- Presentation: Neighborhood Services renewed their accreditation with the American Association of Code Enforcement
- Presentation: Neighborhood Services has earned the Excellence in Code Enforcement Award from the Building Officials Association of Texas
Comments of Public Interest: every meeting, anyone can speak about anything for up to three minutes, with 30 total minutes allotted for this segment.
Items for Individual Consideration
- Item (1): request by applicant to table the appeal of the Planning & Zoning Commission’s 8-0 denial of Zoning Case 2022-011 and Concept Plan 2022-009 to rezone 7.8 acres 80 multifamily units on 6.8 acres at the northeast corner of Jupiter Road and Los Rios Boulevard
- Item (2): to approve the 2022-23 operating budget of $675.9 million based on the No-New-Revenue Property Tax Rate of $0.4176 cents per $100 of assessed property value (below)
- Item (3): to approve the 2022-23 Community Investment Program (CIP) of $332.7 million
- Item (4): third public hearing for the proposed 2022-23 No-New-Revenue tax rate of $0.4176 per $100 of taxable value
- Item (5): to approve the aforementioned 2022-23 No-New-Revenue tax rate of $0.4176 cents per $100 of assessed property value
- Item (6): to ratify the property tax revenue in the 2022-23 Budget as a result of the City receiving more revenues from property taxes in the 2022-23 Budget than in the previous fiscal year
Notable Consent Agenda Items
Total of $5,347,011 of your money in proposed expenses
- Item (c): $4.1 million over five years for temporary labor to assist in the collection of weekly residential yard debris, paid scheduled special collections, bulky waste collections, and supplemental help for Compost Operations to process and bag Texas Pure Products
- Item (d): $1,103,320 for Preston Pointe screening wall replacement involving the removal and replacement of 1,640 linear feet of 6’ high brick screening wall and 860 square yards of adjacent concrete sidewalk
- Item (l): approve a contract with the Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications in an amount not to exceed $984,841.74 in the Next Generation 9-1-1 Fund (“NG9-1-1 Fund”) for the deployment and reliable operation of Next Generation 9-1-1 Service
- Item (m): approve an Interlocal Agreement between the City of Plano and the Plano Independent School District for the Police/School Resource Officer Program, for which the Plano ISD will reimburse the City of Plano $1,946,160 for 50 percent of the funding for twenty-four (24) Police Officers and two (2) Sergeants
Review City Council agendas and minutes here.
