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City of Colleyville
City Council Worksession
Minutes
City Hall
100 Main Street
Colleyville, Texas 76034
817. 503.1000
www.colleyville.com
Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:00 a.m.
Mayor Richard Newton called the Colleyville City Council Worksession to order on
June 20, 2019, at 10:03 a.m.
ROLL CALL: Mayor Richard Newton, Mayor Pro Tem Bobby Lindamood, and
Councilmembers Tammy Nakamura, Kathy Wheat, George Dodson, Chuck Kelley,
and Callie Rigney.
ALSO PRESENT: City Manager Jerry Ducay, Assistant City Manager Mark Wood,
Assistant City Manager Adrienne Lothery, and City Secretary Christine Loven.
2. PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION
2a Establish goals and objectives for the ensuing year
Mayor Newton thanked the City Council and staff for meeting and noted the
Council’s Rules of Procedure call for a strategic session to be conducted following
the election in May. Mayor Newton stated when the Council was elected they went
through a very detailed and specific goals, objectives, and strategy session, and
he believes they are now at a point where the strategies are in place . The purpose
of this worksession is to establish more specific objectives for the ensuing year.
Assistant City Manager Adrienne Lothery facilitated the workshop. She began with
a recap of high priority objectives and strategic plans from 2016 to the present.
Discussion topics included:
• Long-term financial strategy
• Economic Development strategy
• Defensive zoning strategy
• Citizen Survey
• Risks, strengths, concerns
Mayor Newton called a lunch recess at 12:03 p.m. and reconvened at 12:30 p.m.
Manager Lothery facilitated the open discussion and charted the Council’s
objectives which will become the 2019-2020 High Priority Objectives and
strategies which Council and staff will work to achieve. A summary of the final
objectives include:
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1. SH26 Corridor enhancements
Finalize Design: January 1
Construction Documents: March 1
Lighting Installation: Spring 2020
Construction: Summer 2020
2. Master Plan the site of the current Senior Center
3. Open Entrepreneur Center by January 2020
4. Pedestrian Transportation
Approval of Committee recommendations by City Council: December
31
City Council determines implementation plan: March 2020
5. Glade Phase II
Utility relocation design: Complete?
Utility relocations: Start October 1, 2019 / Finish April 1, 2020
Bidding: February / March 2020
Attempt to coordinate with Bluebonnet (grant portion of the project)
6. Build McDonwell & John McCain Roundabouts at same time
Relocate utilities: Start October 1, 2019 / Finish February 1, 2020
Bidding: Winter 2019/2020
Construction: Start April 2020 / Finish December 2020
7. Park bathrooms
New at Nature Center and Reagan Park
Renovations at City Park (2)
8. Drainage
Master Plan completion: Fall 2019
Implementation Plan: December 31, 2019
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Zoning Strategy
Retain larger lots community-wide
Retain character of existing neighborhoods
Drive quality
Adapt Code continuously to achieve quality
Empower all levels to speak with cohesive voice consistent with the strategy
Economic Development Strategy
1. Improve aesthetics/quality
2. New business
3. Business retention
4. Entrepreneurism
Financial Strategy
1. Maintain an exceptional City
2. Cash funded / avoid debt
a. Measure: Fund balance of 100+ days
b. Measure: Transfer $1.5 M from General Fund to Capital Projects Fund
c. Measure: Maintain a General Fund net surplus at end of year
3. Strive for an effective tax rate only after the first two objectives are satisfied
3. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business before the City Council, Mayor Newton adjourned
the worksession at 3:03 p.m. without objection.
Minutes taken and prepared by:
Christine Loven, TRMC
City Secretary