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Mayor Pro Tem Nick Stevens wants to tap tree, parkland and sustainability funds for neighborhood environmental grants; Council Member George Ferrie wants a work session on homelessness, which he calls residents' top priority.
The city auditor will walk the City Council through three ways to run ethics cases, from keeping today's complainant-driven process to having a city employee investigate and prosecute.
Staff will ask the City Council on Tuesday which options to study for the South Branch Library and Active Adult Center, two 2023 bond projects carrying a combined $96.9 million.
More than 120,600 Denton County ballots were cast in the first four days of early voting, and polls are open 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. today and every weekday through Oct. 30.
The Texas Water Development Board money carries a 4.29% borrowing cost over 30 years, which staff say saves about $12.2 million compared with selling city bonds on the open market.
Staff will show the council Tuesday how a 3% base rate increase could raise a typical bill to $137.56 a month, or leave it at $135.36 if the energy cost adjustment is lowered.
Andy Eads and Nick Pappas meet in the county judge race, Kevin Falconer and Candace Valenzuela in Precinct 2, and David Wylie and Stephanie Draper for the open Precinct 4 seat.
A resolution up Tuesday, Oct. 27, would put the city behind TxDOT's alignment B and its B2 variation for the planned six-lane freeway from I-35 to the Dallas North Tollway.
Voters approved $96.9 million in 2023 for a new South Branch Library and Active Adult Center; staff will ask the council whether to build together, separately, expand the current sites or buy existing space.
A staff planning calendar lists closed sessions to review applicants Nov. 17 and candidates Dec. 1, then interviews Dec. 15, more than six months into Cassey Ogden's time as interim manager.
Republican Alan Wheeler, a former prosecutor, seeks a second term against Democrat Brandon Chase McGee, who gave up a Denton council seat to run; early voting starts Monday.
A state software glitch sent Denton County 42,000 voter registrations; officials say about 2,500 remained as of Tuesday and should be cleared before early voting Monday.
Council members adopted code changes Tuesday that confine data centers to industrial and public facilities zoning, add a 300-foot setback, and set an Oct. 27 hearing on a 90-day pause.
Kris Cox, Michael Herron, Sunny Busby and Ward Franz are running in the Nov. 3 special election; the League of Women Voters hosts the first District 1 forum Oct. 17.
The Nov. 3 general election ballot includes contested races for federal, state, county and Denton city offices.
Denton’s Great Pumpkin will stay at City Hall despite the county’s decision to allow it back on the courthouse lawn.
The joint session also covers a Denia Park soccer field due Nov. 30 at the old Borman Elementary site and a Bonnie Brae lane shift starting this month.
Resolutions on the consent agenda would end the Community Partnership Committee and the Committee on the Environment, with hotel tax and sponsorship money going straight to the full council.
Staff findings point to limited Denton Municipal Electric capacity and water demand as reasons to pause new data centers, while a separate vote that night would require 300-foot setbacks and closed-loop cooling.
The Clear Creek Interceptor would run along Milam Creek from I-35 and Ganzer Road to the Clear Creek Water Reclamation Plant, and staff want condemnation authority if talks with landowners stall.
The Suffragist, by composer Nancy Hill Cobb and playwright Cavan Hallman, runs three performances at Margo Jones Performance Hall as Texas Woman's University closes out its 125th anniversary.
Denton, Sanger and Rainbow Valley residents are pressing state regulators over a Megatel sewage plant planned north of Denton after TCEQ referred the permit to a contested hearing.
Resolutions on the Oct. 13 consent agenda would end the Community Partnership Committee and the Committee on the Environment, and the same list backs two Outer Loop routes and renews the city's Washington lobbyist.
The proposal would require council members, planning commissioners and council candidates to report private conversations with developers to the city auditor within 10 business days, with a public log kept.
