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Votes at a glance: key approvals and budget items from The Colony City Council meeting
Summary
Council approved consent agenda items, several contracts and ordinances including Microsoft licensing renewal, a construction contract for street overlays, a groundwater well engineering contract, a short‑term rental policy discussion was directed for follow‑up, and an ordinance amending smoking‑lounge rules passed with a condition on separation.
The Colony City Council took the following recorded actions during the meeting. Vote tallies were not recorded in the transcript when items passed; where the transcript notes an abstention or other condition it is listed.
- Consent agenda (items other than 4.2 and 4.4): Motion by Ms. Insweiler, second by Mr. Marks; council approved the balance of the consent agenda. (No tally recorded in transcript.)
- Item 4.2 — Resolution: budget adjustment of $89,137.83 for revenue earned from Lake Highlands land sale, to Parks Fund maintenance/yard upgrades. Action: approved; the transcript records an abstention for conflict of interest (council member name not specified in the minutes). Motion and second recorded; item passed with abstention noted.
- Item 4.4 — Resolution: three‑year agreement with SoftwareONE Inc. for Microsoft Enterprise licensing at $149,991.91 per year (total $449,975.73). Action: approved (motion by Mr. Wade, second by Ms. Holtz); council approved the contract.
- Item 5.1 — Ordinance adopting Standards of Care policy for day camp (annual DFPS exemption requirement). Action: approved (motion by Ms. Insweiler, second by Mr. Marks); public hearing opened and closed with no speakers.
- Item 5.2 — Ordinance amending Appendix A, Sec. 10 (definitions and use schedule) to add/clarify "smoking room" and "smoking lounge" uses; the council added a stipulation to require that new smoking uses not be located within 500 feet of a school or daycare (the staff draft included a 1,000‑foot separation between smoking establishments). Action: approved (motion by Mr. Wade, second by Ms. Holtz); council adopted the ordinance with the added separation condition.
- Item 5.3 — Ordinance (SUP amendment) to allow the existing Holiday Inn’s detached covered drive‑through (porte cochere) to remain detached where the SUP required attachment. Action: approved; council approved the SUP amendment after staff and applicant explanation.
- Item 5.4 — Resolution authorizing a construction contract with Texas Materials Group in the amount of $972,626.77 for Newton Street and Nash Drive asphalt overlays. Action: approved (motion and second recorded); council authorized the contract and scheduled construction for summer months.
- Item 5.5 — Resolution authorizing an engineering services contract with Freese and Nichols in the amount of $694,500 for the Tribute groundwater well project. Action: approved (motion by Barry, second by Joel); council authorized the engineering contract; construction will be competitively bid later.
- Item 5.6 — Ordinance amending FY24‑25 budget by transferring $150,000 from the general fund to the property damage expense line (to raise that line to $300,000 given recent claims). Action: approved (motion by Ms. Insweiler, second by Mr. Marks); council authorized the transfer.
For all items where motions and seconds were recorded in the transcript, the minutes show the council approved the measures; some items included further staff direction (for example, staff to return with lease/variance language for towers and to draft STR ordinance options). The transcript does not include detailed roll‑call vote tallies for these items.
