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Anna Tuesday, February 11, 2025 @ 5:30 PM
Anna Municipal Complex - Council Chambers
120 W. 7th Street, Anna, Texas 75409
The City Council of the City of Anna met on 02/11/2025 at 5:30 PM in the Anna
Municipal Complex -Council Chambers, located at 120 W. 7th Street, to consider the
following items.
Call to Order, Roll Call, and Establishment of Quorum.
Mayor Cain called the meeting to order at 5:30 PM.
Members Present:
Mayor Pete Cain
Mayor Pro Tem Stan Carver II
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Elden Baker
Council Member Jody Bills
Council Member Kelly Herndon
Members Absent:
Council Member Kevin Toten
Council Member Lee Miller
2. Closed Session (Exceptions).
Under Tex. Gov't Code Chapter 551, the City Council may enter into Closed Session to
discuss any items listed or referenced on this Agenda under the following exceptions:
a. Consult with legal counsel regarding pending or contemplated litigation and/or
on matters in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the
Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas
clearly conflicts with Chapter 551 of the Government Code (Tex. Gov't Code
§551.071).
b. Discuss or deliberate the purchase; exchange, lease, or value of real property
(Tex. Gov't Code §551.072).
C. Discuss or deliberate Economic Development Negotiations: (1) To discuss or
deliberate regarding commercial or financial information that the City has
received from a business prospect that the City seeks to have locate, stay, or
expand in or near the territory of the City of Anna and with which the City is
conducting economic development negotiations: or (2) To deliberate the offer of
a financial or other incentive to a business prospect described by subdivision
(1). (Tex. Gov't Code §551.087).
d. Discuss or deliberate personnel matters (Tex. Gov't Code §551.074).
MOTION: Council Member Herndon moved to enter closed session. Council
Member Baker seconded. Motion carried 5-0
Mayor Cain recessed the meeting at 5:32 PM.
Mayor Cain reconvened the meeting at 6:00 PM.
The Council further reserves the right to enter into Executive Session at any time
throughout any duly noticed meeting under any applicable exception to the Open
Meetings Act.
3. Consider/Discuss/Action on any items listed on any agenda - work session, regular
meeting, or closed session - that is duly posted by the City of Anna for any City Council
meeting occurring on the same date as the meeting noticed in this agenda.
No action was taken.
4. Adjourn.
Mayor Cain adjourned the meeting at 6:00 PM.
APPROVED this Of' c--L L day of 2025
—,Mavor Pete Cain
ATTEST:
City Secretary Carrie�nd
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Meeting Minutes
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Anna Tuesday, February 11, 2025 @ 6:00 PM
Anna Municipal Complex - Council Chambers
120 W. 7th Street, Anna, Texas 75409
The City Council of the City of Anna met on 02/11/2025 at 6:00 PM in the Anna Municipal
Complex -Council Chambers, located at 120 W. 7th Street, to consider the following items.
Call to Order, Roll Call, and Establishment of Quorum.
Mayor Cain called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM.
Members Present:
Mayor Pete Cain
Mayor Pro Tern Stan Carver II
Deputy Mayor Pro Tern Elden Baker
Council Member Jody Bills
Council Member Kelly Herndon
Members Absent:
Council Member Kevin Toten
Council Member Lee Miller
2. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
Deputy Mayor Pro Tern Baker led the Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
3. Neighbor Comments.
Alexa Sonck spoke about concerns over the draft amendment to the 2050
Comprehensive Plan.
4. Reports.
a. Recognition of Mayor Cain by the Salvation Army.
Mayor Cain was presented with a Certificate of Thank You and a bell from the
McKinney Salvation Army, for his participation in the Mayor's Red Kettle
Challenge.
Neighbor Engagement and Inclusion Advisory Commission January 27, 2025
Meeting Action for Advisement. (Assistant City Manager Taylor Lough)
Assistant City Manager Taylor Lough presented an action taken by the Neighbor
Engagement and Inclusion Advisory Commission to advise City Council.
On September 23, 2024 Commissioner Jodi Foster presented an item for future
consideration in regard to freezing property taxes for Anna senior citizens. The
Commission approved placing the item on the next agenda. At the October 28,
2024 Commission Meeting staff provided a presentation, and the Commission
moved to table the item.
On November 27. 2024 the Commission moved to take no action to advise the
City Council in regard to freezing property taxes for Anna senior citizens. A
second action was passed unanimously to place an item on the next meeting
agenda to advise the City Council to form a coalition to review property tax
programs for senior citizens.
At the January 27, 2025 Commission Meeting, Commissioner Jodi Foster made
a motion to [Advise] the City Council [to] appoint an ad hoc commission made
up of tax experts and advisors (not city employees) as soon as possible to study
the issue and research and present proposals to the City and Anna citizens to
lessen and alleviate the problem, whether it be tax breaks, city tax exemptions
and/or freezes, resources to aid senior citizens in tax preparedness or other
solutions that are viable and beneficial. This item passed unanimously.
5. Work Session.
a. Discuss a program for the painting/decoration of sanitary sewer manholes
adjacent to the Pecan Grove Trail project. (Assistant City Manager Greg Peters)
Assistant City Manager Greg Peters presented the item to discuss and consider
a potential program for decorating sanitary sewer manholes along the Pecan
Grove Trail Project.
The City of Anna has an active capital improvement project to construct a new
hike and bike trail in the Pecan Grove neighborhood. The City of Anna has a
public sewer main which is located adjacent to the new trail. There are between
8 and 10 elevated sanitary sewer manholes which will be visible from the trail.
The City Council of the City of Anna, Texas approved Resolution 2024-08-1663
to award the construction of the Pecan Grove Trail to Perfect Finish
Landscaping at the August 27, 2024 City Council Meeting. The motion made
included language requesting the decoration of manholes to be done with the
project.
After reviewing available options for manhole painting, staff identified a potential
public art program which could achieve the intended goal. Staff is seeking
feedback on the concept of a public art program for Anna Neighbors to paint the
manholes. A presentation attached to the agenda packet showed the concept
of the program. Once feedback is received, the City will take the next steps
based on the direction of the City Council.
Council would like to see this program further developed and brought back at a
future meeting.
6. Consent Items.
Council Member Herndon requested to pull item e for individual consideration.
MOTION: Council Member Herndon moved to approve consent items a through
d. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Baker seconded. Motion carried 5-0.
a. Approve the City Council Meeting Minutes for January 28, 2025. (City Secretary
Carrie Land)
b. Review Minutes of the November 25. 2024, Neighbor Engagement and
Inclusion Advisory Commission Meeting. (Assistant City Manager Taylor
Lough)
C. Review Minutes of the October 28, 2024, Neighbor Engagement and Inclusion
Advisory Commission Meeting. (Assistant City Manager Taylor Lough)
d. Approve a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a franchise utility
construction agreement with Grayson Collin Communication for the installation
of fiber optic infrastructure to the Hurricane Creek Regional Wastewater
Treatment Plant (CIP Manager Muhamad Madhat)
This item is for the approval of a construction agreement in the amount of
$210,122.25 with Grayson Collin Communication to install fiber optic
infrastructure to connect the Hurricane Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment
Plant with the City of Anna's Dark Fiber internet system.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF ANNA, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE A FRANCHISE UTILITY AGREEMENT IN THE
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND, ONE
HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
($210,122.25) TO GRAYSON COLLIN COMMUNICATIONS, TO PROVIDE
DARK FIBER INTERNET AT THE HURRICANE CREEK REGIONAL
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT: AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
e. Approve a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to approve or disapprove a
Special Event Permit Application submitted by Pate Rehabilitation for a 5K Run
and Wheelchair Push on Saturday, March 29th, 2025 at Natural Springs Park.
(Neighborhood Services Director Marc Marchand)
Jennifer Garcia of Pate Rehabilitation submitted a Special Event Permit
Application on December 17, 2024 to seek approval for a 5K Run and
Wheelchair Push on Saturday, March 29, 2025 at Natural Springs Park. The
application was reviewed by staff at the Interdepartmental Event Logistics
Meeting on Wednesday, February 5. 2025. The application was also reviewed
by the Parks Advisory Board on Monday. February 10th and recommended for
approval.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF ANNA, TEXAS AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE THE SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT
APPLICATION FROM PATE REHABILITATION FOR A 5K RUN AND
WHEELCHAIR PUSH ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29TH. 2025 AT NATURAL
SPRINGS PARK.
MOTION: Council Member Herndon moved to approve. Deputy Mayor Pro Tern
Baker seconded. Motion carried 5-0
Items For Individual Consideration.
a. Acting as the Anna Public Facility Corporation Board of Directors,
Consider/Discuss/Action on a Resolution authorizing and approving final
transaction and financing documents in connection with the acquisition,
financing and construction of the `Anna Apartments" to be located at 900 S
Buddy Hayes Blvd in the City of Anna, Texas. (Director of Economic
Development Bernie Parker)
Anna Apartments (Meryl Street Holdco, LP) is a proposed 340-unit multifamily
development at the southeast corner of US Highway 75 and FM 455. This
development will boost density in the area and help attract additional retail and
restaurants along US Highway 75. The site is currently zoned for multifamily.
Board action is requested to approve the participation of the APFC entities in
the transaction described above, including to approve the final documents
related to the acquisition, lease, regulatory restrictions and financing of the
project.
Representatives from Chapman and Cutler LLP. as legal counsel to the APFC
and its subsidiaries, Hilltop Securities Inc., as financial advisors to the APFC
and its subsidiaries, and NRP were present to answer questions from the APFC
Board.
MOTION: Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Baker moved to approve. Council Member
Herndon seconded. Motion carried 5-0
b. Conduct a Public Hearing regarding the dissolution of the Crystal Park Public
Improvement District in accordance with Chapter 372 of the Texas Local
Government Code. (Economic Development Director Bernie Parker)
At the request of Bloomfield Homes, the City Council created the Crystal Park
PID in 2023. Due to a technical error in the petition that was submitted by
Bloomfield Homes at that time, the Office of the Attorney General would likely
not allow the existing Crystal Park PID to finance water and wastewater
infrastructure, which infrastructure costs comprise the majority of the public
improvements for which the District was created.
Upon consultation with Bond Counsel. the simplest way to remedy this situation
is to dissolve the original Crystal Park PID and create a new PID to be named
Crystal Park PID No. 2, which will be empowered to finance water and
wastewater infrastructure.
This dissolution and re-creation process require four separate meetings and two
public hearings, which took place during the two regular City Council meetings
in January and two in February 2025. These procedural steps are not
substantive and are ministerial in nature. and Bond Counsel recommends the
two resolutions in January be placed on the consent agendas for those two
meetings.
This Public Hearing is to dissolve the Crystal Park Public Improvement District
in accordance with Chapter 372 of the Texas Local Government Code.
Mayor Cain opened the public hearing at 6.44 PM.
No public comments.
Mayor Cain closed the public hearing at 6.46 PM.
Consider/Discuss/Action on the adoption of a Resolution of the City of Anna.
Texas Dissolving the Crystal Park Public Improvement District in Accordance
with Chapter 372 of the Texas Local Government Code: Providing for Related
Matters: and Providing an Effective Date (Economic Development Director
Bernie Parker)
The item before the City Council is a resolution dissolving the Crystal Park Public
Improvement District.
MOTION: Deputy Mayor Pro Tern Baker moved to approve. Council Member
Herndon seconded. Motion carried 5-0.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF ANNA. TEXAS DISSOLVING THE
CRYSTAL PARK PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT IN ACCORDANCE
WITH CHAPTER 372 OF THE TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE:
PROVIDING FOR RELATED MATTERS: AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
Consider/Discuss/Action on an Ordinance ordering a General Election to be
held on May 3, 2025, for the purpose of electing three City Council members:
designation of polling places, ordering notices of election to be given, adopting
a voting system: authorizing execution of joint election contracts. (City Secretary
Carrie Land)
In accordance with the general laws and Constitution of the State of Texas and
the Charter of the City of Anna. Texas, a City Council election is to be held on
the first Saturday in May for the voters to elect members of the City of Anna,
Texas' governing body.
It is necessary that the City Council order a general election to be held on the
3rd day of May 2025, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of electing three (3)
City Council Members for Places 2. 4, and 5.
The election will be held as a joint election administered by the Collin County
Elections Administrator and various other political subdivisions in Collin County.
MOTION: Mayor Pro Tern Carver moved to approve. Council Member Herndon
seconded. Motion carried 5-0.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANNA, TEXAS,
ORDERING A GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON MAY 3, 2025 FOR THE
PURPOSE OF ELECTING THREE (3) CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS;
DESIGNATING POLLING PLACES; ORDERING NOTICES OF ELECTION TO
BE GIVEN; ADOPTING A VOTING SYSTEM; AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF
JOINT ELECTION CONTRACTS: PROVIDING SAVINGS. SEVERABILITY,
AND REPEALING CLAUSES; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
8. Closed Session (Exceptions).
Under Tex. Gov't Code Chapter 551, the City Council may enter into Closed Session to
discuss any items listed or referenced on this Agenda under the following exceptions:
a. Consult with legal counsel regarding pending or contemplated litigation and/or
on matters in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the
Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas
clearly conflicts with Chapter 551 of the Government Code (Tex. Gov't Code
§551.071).
b. Discuss or deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property
(Tex. Gov't Code §551.072).
c. Discuss or deliberate Economic Development Negotiations: (1) To discuss or
deliberate regarding commercial or financial information that the City has
received from a business prospect that the City seeks to have locate, stay, or
expand in or near the territory of the City of Anna and with which the City is
conducting economic development negotiations; or (2) To deliberate the offer
of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect described by subdivision
(1). (Tex. Gov't Code §551.087).
d. Discuss or deliberate personnel matters (Tex. Gov't Code §551.074).
MOTION: Council Member Herndon moved to enter closed session. Deputy
Mayor Pro Tern Baker seconded. Motion carried 5-0.
Mayor Cain recessed the meeting at 6:49 PM.
Mayor Cain reconvened the meeting at 7:11 PM.
9. Consider/Discuss/Action on any items listed on any agenda - work session, regular
meeting, or closed session - that is duly posted by the City of Anna for any City Council
meeting occurring on the same date as the meeting noticed in this agenda.
No action taken.
10. Adjourn.
ATTEST:
Mayor Cain adjourned the meeting at 7:11 PM.
APPROVED this ct -r day of 2025
Mayor Pete Cain
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