City Council Preview – August 6, 2013
Today’s City Council meeting begins with a 3pm Work Session and continues with a Regular Session at 6:30pm at City Hall on East McKinney Street. Go here to see a full agenda with complete backup material. Here are some items of interest…
BUDGET TALKS CONTINUE
We have a Work Session item devoted to discussing the proposed budget for fiscal year 2013-14. Go here to see my post about this year’s budget along with some suggestions on how to approach it for the first time.
TEXAS LEGISLATURE ON WATER AND TRANSPORTATION
Texas voters will see constitutional amendments on the ballot for water issues (Nov 2013) and Transportation Funding (Nov 2014). What this means for our water and transportation priorities will be the subject of a Work Session item on Tuesday. Go here to read an article on the recent activity in the Texas Legislature regarding this.
NAME THE DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER AFTER EULINE BROCK
Euline Brock, former Mayor of Denton, was a visionary and instrumental voice on many things you now love about Denton, one of which was the idea to bring a regional train to the city. If you are fan of the A-Train and all its potential, you have Mayor Brock to thank for that. So it is only fitting that Mayor Pro Tem Pete Kamp championed an initiative to name the downtown station in her honor. We’ll be voting on that tonight.
LONGER SEASON FOR THE DENTON COMMUNITY MARKET
The success of the Denton Community Market as been remarkable – a weekly place for the community to come together, businesses have been launched, local entrepreneurs have been encouraged, and so much more. Their new model has them open longer than ever – that revealed a provision in our code that prevented this. Because there is strong support of the market by the city, this is a fix that will enable the market to keep going strong.