Continuing on from Agenda Item #8:
8. Buy some Athletic gear for G/ary Sports Complexes. (I’m google-proofing just because I don’t have my sea-legs yet on this blogging thing, and wouldn’t like it to be found prematurely. It is still being posted publicly. I just don’t think anyone is paying attention.)
9. A grant for 45K to the PD’s victim services unit.
10. Buying a small tract (.7 acres) for 210K in Blanco Vista, for wastewater.
11. 80K for electrical.
12. Bike lane stuff, 174K.
13. An “Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract” for demolition, for 125k, through a CDBG grant. That’s quite a phrase for a contract!
Finally, we’re on to public hearings! I’m definitely going to need to find some efficiencies in this bloggy process. This is taking forever and I’m not even yet listening to them drone on.
14. 72 acres to be zoned for mobile homes. East of 35 and just north of the airport.
15/16: Annex a bit into the city to hopefully be a retirement home, on the corner of Redwood and Old Bastrop.
17/18/19: La Cima fire station stuff. Annex it. Rezone it.
20: Downtown TIRZ presentation. This is economic development stuff involving tax breaks. Should I find out more? Or just keep plugging away for the sake of establishing a habit? I have a fear that if I expect myself to dip down every rabbit hole, this thing will balloon in size and get out of control.
21: More of 17/18/19: Make the Senior home qualify as low income housing.
22. Whis/per So/outh PID. Where is this thing? It looks like maybe it’s the same area as item 14? But much larger?
Done with public hearing. On to the non-consent agenda!
23: Pollution policy. Just wonky text, no presentation slides to thumb through.
Note: The actual packet that City Council gets is 1000 pages. Being on city council is a ton of work.
Maybe it is not feasible to do this pre-reading AND watch the damn meeting. Maybe it should be one or the other.
24. Motor-assisted scooters. Do we hate these? Are we talking about electric bikes here? Stand-up Vespas?
Interesting: my memory is that we banned these, because we didn’t want companies coming in and leaving rentable ones all over the place. Now it looks like we’re quietly walking that back, probably because it was a dumb ban and now some company is dangling some financial incentive. (I’m just speculating.)
Ah, I see. We banned them in May 2020. By June 2020, the university’s buses had to run under capacity and they wanted to use scooters.
JEEZ THIS TAKES SO LONG TO DO. Only 10 more items to preview, but alas, I’m out of time for now.
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