Feb 17, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting

[CALL TO ORDER]

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MY CANDY BACK. RECORD PACE. RECORD PACE. GOOD EVENING. IT IS 6:02 P.M. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF MCKINNEY'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING. IT IS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY THE 17TH. CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS. OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WOULD BE TO WELCOME YOU TO CITY HALL. WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ON TV, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AS WELL.

OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WILL BE OUR INVOCATION GIVEN BY PASTOR TOMMY BRUMMETT. PASTOR BRUMMETT, PLEASE PRAY FOR US. I WILL, I WILL. HELLO, FRIENDS. I BRING YOU GREETINGS FROM THE 5000 GOOD FOLKS AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN MCKINNEY.

WHAT AN HONOR IT IS TO STAND WITH YOU. WE PRAY FOR YOU REGULARLY, BUT IT'S NICE TO BE ABLE TO PRAY FOR YOU OFFICIALLY. SO LET'S DO THAT NOW. YES. PRAY WITH ME. GRACIOUS GOD, WE GIVE YOU THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE AND YOUR MERCY. WE GIVE YOU THANKS FOR YOUR SPIRIT THAT CALLS US TO LIVE TOGETHER IN COMMUNITY, TO CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER, TO WALK ALONG BESIDE ONE ANOTHER.

AND WE GIVE YOU THANKS FOR THE WORDS OF JESUS THAT REMINDS US. AND EVERYTHING THAT WE SAY AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. WHEN WE CARE FOR THE LEAST OF THESE, WE ARE DOING YOUR PERFECT WILL.

BLESS THESE MEN AND WOMEN. GIVE THEM WISDOM. GIVE THEM COURAGE. GIVE THEM PATIENCE. GIVE THEM LOVE. IN THE NAME OF JESUS. AMEN. AMEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. AND OUR PLEDGE TONIGHT WILL BE BY THE MCKINNEY BRANCH. MEMBERS OF THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB. SO YOU GUYS COME UP AND COME AROUND THE MICROPHONE, AND WE'LL HAVE YOU LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. OH! FACE US. YEAH. SO LOOK RIGHT HERE. ARE YOU READY? FOLLOW YOUR LEAD. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.

ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. FANTASTIC JOB.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. NEXT ITEM WILL BE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ON A ON AN AGENDA ITEM THAT DOES NOT HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING. SEEING

[CONSENT AGENDA]

WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CLAUDIA TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. AND THAT WOULD BE SPECIFICALLY ITEM 26-0111 THROUGH AND INCLUDING 260118. WE HAVE A SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM FELTZ. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE. THAT MOTION CARRIES.

[Consider/Discuss/Act on Adoption of a Resolution Determining a Public Necessity to Acquire Certain Property in Fee Simple and Easement Rights for Public Use by Eminent Domain for Right-of-Way (in Fee Simple), a Drainage Easement, and a Slope Easement associated with the Collin McKinney Parkway Extension Project (DEV2024-00135) which Property is Located East of Hardin Boulevard Between McKinney Ranch Parkway and SH 121 and Authorizing the City Manager to Establish Procedures for Acquiring the Right-of-Way (in Fee Simple) and Easements on Said Property, and Take All Steps Necessary to Acquire the Needed Property Rights in Compliance with all Applicable Laws and Resolutions]

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THE PROPERTY OWNER THEN HAS THE ABILITY TO ACCEPT THAT COUNTEROFFER, GET THEIR OWN APPRAISAL, NEGOTIATE WITH THE CITY. WHEN WE GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS, WE MAKE A FINAL OFFER.

IF NO AGREEMENT IS REACHED, THEN WE'RE WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO INVOKE EMINENT DOMAIN THROUGH YOUR APPROVAL. DURING THE EMINENT DOMAIN PROCESS, THE COLLIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NAME A SELECT SET OF CITIZENS SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS TO EVALUATE THE REQUEST. BOTH THE CITY AND THE PROPERTY OWNER MAKE THE THEIR CASES TO THIS SPECIAL GROUP OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS. THOSE SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS EVALUATE ALL THE INFORMATION, AND THEN THEY WILL DETERMINE WHAT THE FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR THE PROPERTY IS. SO EMINENT DOMAIN IS NOT A TAKING OF THE PROPERTY. IT'S A PROCESS TO ESTABLISH FAIR MARKET VALUE AND TO COMPENSATE THE PROPERTY OWNER FOR THE LAND NEEDED FOR THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT. WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS. QUESTIONS. WE DO HAVE. THERE IS NOT A PUBLIC HEARING COMPONENT, BUT WE DO HAVE LANGUAGE FOR A MOTION. IF SOMEONE WOULD LIKE TO. MR. MAYOR I MOTION I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE CITY OF MCKINNEY, TEXAS CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THIS ITEM AS WRITTEN AND ADOPT THE RESOLUTION DESCRIBED IN THIS AGENDA ITEM, AND AUTHORIZE THE USE OF POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN TO ACQUIRE, FOR PUBLIC USE ALL NECESSARY PROPERTY INTERESTS FROM ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY, LLC, IDENTIFIED AS THE OWNER OF RECORD BY THE COLLIN CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT AND ANY OTHER PERSONS OR ENTITIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST TO THE PROPERTY DEPICTED ON AND DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS ATTACHED TO SAID RESOLUTION.

SAID DEPICTIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS BEING INCORPORATED IN THEIR ENTIRETY INTO THIS MOTION FOR ALL PURPOSES, INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION, ACCESS AND MAINTENANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS. LOCATED EAST OF HARDIN BOULEVARD BETWEEN MCKINNEY RANCH PARKWAY AND SOUTH HIGHWAY 121 ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLLIN MCKINNEY PARKWAY EXTENSION PROJECT STREET, 1842. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN FRANKLIN. WE HAVE A SECOND. I'LL SECOND. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CLAUDIA. WE DO NEED A ROLL CALL. VOTE. COUNCIL MEMBER FRANKLIN, CAN YOU CAN YOU MOTION ON YOUR SCREEN? OH, SURE. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. CLAUDIA. YES, MAYOR PRO TEM FELTUS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. FRANKLIN. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. JONES. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER.

LYNCH. YES. MAYOR. COX. YES. PASSED 6 TO 0. THANK YOU. GARY. THAT MOTION IS APPROVED. NEXT

[Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on a Request to Rezone the Subject Property from “PD” - Planned Development District, “BG” - General Business District, and “AG” - Agriculture District to “I1” - Light Industrial District, Located on the Southwest Corner of State Highway 5 (North McDonald Street) and Wilmeth Road, and Accompanying Ordinance]

WE DO HAVE A REZONING CASE BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING. IT IS LOCATED, AS MENTIONED, AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WILMOTH AND MCDONALD, OR STATE HIGHWAY FIVE, JUST NORTH OF THE CITY'S GOLF COURSE. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP ON THE SCREEN, THIS PROPERTY IS APPROXIMATELY 5.3 ACRES. IT IS CURRENTLY IN A FEW DIFFERENT ZONES PD, BG AND AG. THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE IT ARE STRAIGHT ZONE OF I-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL, WHICH DOES CONFORM WITH ALL OF THE ZONING AROUND IT. THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF HOUSING JUST NORTH OF HERE, BUT THAT'S SEPARATED BY SOME FLOODPLAIN AND BOTH OF THE RIGHT OF WAYS OF FIVE AND WILMOTH. THIS WOULD KIND OF COMPLETE THE REZONING TO STRAIGHT INDUSTRIAL FOR THE OTHER CORNERS OF THIS AREA THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS. PNC RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THIS REQUEST UNANIMOUSLY. STAFF ALSO RECOMMENDS APPROVAL, AND I'LL STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS. ANYONE.

LUCAS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS OUR APPLICANT HERE? YES. GOOD EVENING. ALEX. COMMONS 1434

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OKAY. ONLY KIDDING. THE QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT. NO, NO. WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THOUGH. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING ITEM. IF YOU'RE HERE TONIGHT, THEY WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ON THIS PROPOSED REZONE. PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM. MAYOR, I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND APPROVE THIS ITEM.

HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND APPROVE THE ITEM AS PER SECOND STAFF RECOMMENDATION. SECOND, BY COUNCILMAN JONES. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? SEE HOW EASY THIS IS TO DEVELOP THINGS IN MCKINNEY? TELL YOUR FRIENDS PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE. THAT MOTION CARRIES BY A VOTE OF SIX IN FAVOR AND ZERO AGAINST. YOUR ITEM HAS BEEN APPROVED. THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF OUR MEETING. WE DO HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ON ANY ITEM THAT IS NOT ON OUR AGENDA.

[COUNCIL AND MANAGER COMMENTS]

WE HAD OUR JOINT MEETING WITH MISD LAST WEEK, WHICH WAS A REALLY NICE. IT'S ALWAYS A NICE ANNUAL SORT OF UPDATE AND A GREAT WAY FOR US TO CONTINUE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE CITY, SO I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE ONGOING COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND ISD. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN EVERY CITY THIS WAY, SO WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP. I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE A DISTRICT THREE RESIDENT, JAMES JENKINS, WHO HAD A RIBBON CUTTING WITH THE CHAMBER FOR THE OPENING OF HIS NEW OFFICE. IT'S RISK. WELL, AND IT'S RIGHT THERE ON EL DORADO AND THIS IS A PERSON I WANT. JAMES AND I WENT THROUGH LEADERSHIP TOGETHER, AND HE WASN'T A RESIDENT OF MCKINNEY AT THE TIME, AND WE GAVE HIM A REAL HARD TIME ABOUT THAT. AND NOT ONLY DID HE MOVE HIS FAMILY TO MCKINNEY, BUT HE HAS GROWN HIS BUSINESS HERE. SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK HIM FOR BEING SUCH AN AWESOME DISTRICT THREE REPRESENTATIVE. AND THEN LASTLY, LAST WEEK, BETH BENTLEY AND THE LEGACY KEEPERS OF OLDEST MCKINNEY HAD A VERY WONDERFUL BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT HERE IN CITY HALL LAST WEEK. WE GOT A REALLY GREAT LESSON ON THE FIVE LEGACY NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH ARE PRIMARILY BLACK AND BROWN FAMILIES HERE ON THE EAST SIDE OF MCKINNEY. TO REPRESENT THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, WE HAD LARRY AND LINDA JAGERS, WHO ALSO INTEGRATED MCKINNEY ISD. WE HAD MR. MALVERN, WHOSE FATHER WAS AN EDUCATOR, AND THERE'S A SCHOOL NAMED HERE AFTER HIM. WE HAD MR. MCGOWAN, WHO WAS A COUNSELOR AND ALSO WAS ONE OF THE FEW FACULTY THAT ALSO INTEGRATED MISD. MR. CHARLES WATLEY WAS HERE. HIS FATHER SERVED ON CITY COUNCIL FOR 24 YEARS, WHICH IS VERY REMARKABLE. AND THEN THE EVANS WAS WAS HERE AND THERE'S AN EVANS SCHOOL AS WELL. SO WE HAD GREAT REPRESENTATION ACROSS THE BOARD FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN INGRAINED IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR MULTIPLE GENERATIONS. IT WAS JUST SO WONDERFUL TO SIT AND LISTEN TO THE STORIES THAT THEY TOLD, AND CERTAINLY REMINDS US THAT WE HAVE A VERY, VERY RICH HISTORY HERE IN MCKINNEY. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN FRANKLIN. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TONIGHT. I JUST HAVE ONE THING, MR. MAYOR.

I ATTENDED THE POLICE ACADEMY GRADUATION LAST WEEK, AND WE HAD 14 GRADUATES ARE NEW TO OUR MCKINNEY POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS THE LARGEST ACADEMY CLASS WE'VE EVER HAD HERE.

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BRIEF COMMENTS. WANT TO THANK THE CITY STAFF FOR WHAT THEY DO. WE CAN'T SAY ENOUGH HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE WHAT THE PROFESSIONALISM THAT THEY EXHIBIT WHEN WHEN WE'RE UP HERE AND WE GET TO READ THESE REPORTS AND ALL THE EASY STUFF. AND, MR. GRIMES, WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR TEAM THAT YOU HAVE ASSEMBLED. AND THEN LASTLY, I'D LIKE TO WISH COUNCILMAN BELLAR A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. HE COULD NOT BE WITH US THIS EVENING. BUT, JUSTIN, IF YOU'RE THERE, WE WISH YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, MR. MAYOR. AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, FEW ITEMS TO ANNOUNCE. MCKINNEY PARKS AND RECREATION IS HIRING FOR SUMMER POSITIONS AND WILL BE HOSTING A SUMMER JOB HIRING FAIR ON SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH, FROM 8 A.M. TO 1 P.M. MCKINNEY CITY HALL. IT IS A COME AND GO EVENT. WE ENCOURAGE ANYONE LOOKING FOR A SUMMER JOB TO STOP BY. NEXT MONTH IS SPRING BREAK, SO WE WANT TO REMIND RESIDENTS THAT OUR RECREATION CENTERS IN APEX CENTER HAVE BOTH HALF AND FULL DAY CAMPS AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS. YOU CAN REGISTER YOUR CHILDREN FOR THESE PROGRAMS ONLINE. MCKINNEY, TEXAS.ORG. AND THEN FINALLY THIS FRIDAY IN THIS ROOM, WE WILL BE HOSTING OUR ANNUAL CITY COUNCIL STRATEGIC GOAL SETTING RETREAT OR WORKSHOP, IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT THAT, FROM 8 A.M. TO NOON RIGHT HERE. YOU CAN TUNE IN IF YOU'D LIKE TO WATCH, BUT THIS IS WHERE THE CITY COUNCIL WILL AFFIRM REAFFIRM THEIR STRATEGIC GOALS. WHICH STAFF WILL TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND COME BACK WITH SOME DETAILS, WITH SOME MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES IN WHICH THE COUNCIL WILL THEN ADOPT IN USUALLY IN MAY, IN TIME FOR PREPARATION AND PRESENTATION OF THE BUDGET. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BUDGET IS REFLECTING AND ALIGNED WITH THE COUNCIL'S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES.

SO WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR. AND THIS ONE THIS YEAR IS THIS FRIDAY RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM.

THANKS ALL I HAVE SIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. CITY MANAGER. WE DO NOT HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. SO WITH THAT WE WILL NEED A MOTION TO ADJOURN. SO MOVED THE MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM FELTON TO ADJOURN. I'LL SECOND. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CLAUDIA, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSIO

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.