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Votes at a glance: Katy City Council actions, Jan. 27, 2025
Summary
A compact roundup of formal actions taken by the City of Katy City Council at its Jan. 27 meeting, including zoning changes, code amendments, contract approvals, and election-related items.
The City of Katy City Council took the following formal actions on Jan. 27. This roundup lists each item recorded in the meeting transcript and the immediate outcome as stated on the record.
• Ordinance: Rezoning (Agenda Item 4A) — Change approximately 4.89 acres from R‑1 single family district to C‑2 general business (JG Bennett survey). Motion by Council member Gina Hicks, seconded by Council member Roy Robertson; public hearing opened and closed; ordinance adopted. (See staff description in meeting.)
• Ordinance: Zoning ordinance amendments (Agenda Item 4B) — Amend City zoning ordinance No. 6‑21 (section 2 definitions, section 11 MS industrial district, section 15 special use permits) to require SUPs for heavy industrial uses and to add battery energy storage systems to the SUP section. Motion by Mayor Pro Tem Chris Harris, seconded by Council member Gina Hicks; ordinance adopted. Council additionally directed staff to return with more BESS information and options for an advisory group within three months (motion by Council member Dan Smith, amended on the floor to three months and adopted).
• Acceptance: Charter Review Commission final report (Agenda Item 5) — Council accepted the commission’s final report (procedural). Motion carried.
• Direction to staff: Charter ballot language (Agenda Item 5) — Council voted to direct staff to prepare ordinance text and ballot language for proposed charter amendments discussed in item 5 (motion by Council member Dan Smith, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Chris Harris); motion carried.
• Ordinance: Call election (Agenda Item 6) — An ordinance calling a May 2025 election for mayor and related matters was moved and seconded and approved on the record; council approved execution of a joint election agreement with Katy Independent School District and other matters related to the election.
• Resolution: Construction change order #2 (Agenda Item 8A) — Authorize the mayor to sign construction change order #2 with John Reed & Company LLC, extending the Tenth Street Bridge replacement contract by 88 calendar days (GLO contract #20-065-137-C503) to an extended completion date of April 16, 2025. Motion moved and seconded; resolution adopted.
• Resolution/Contract: Coban Technologies cloud subscription (Agenda Item 8B) — Authorize contract/quote Q69752 with Coban Technologies for cloud subscription services for body and vehicle cameras for the Katy Police Department (initial set for 80 cameras). Motion moved by Council member Roy Robertson, seconded by Council member Janet Court; contract authorized. Staff noted existing data (~65 terabytes) to be migrated, roughly 57 officer cameras currently in use, 1‑year retention policy for unretained videos, and that approximately 40% of current storage is in use.
• Ordinance: Employee classification change (Agenda Item 9) — Amend job description and salary grade for Marketing and Tourism Event Coordinator in the employee classification and compensation plan. Motion moved and seconded; ordinance adopted.
• Consent agenda (Agenda Item 7) — Approved as presented by motion moved by Council member Roy Robertson and seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Chris Harris.
Where the transcript recorded only a voice vote or the clerk’s reading of procedural motion results, the minutes report the motion, seconder and that the motion carried; the transcript did not provide roll‑call vote tallies by individual member names for most items. If specific vote tallies are required, the official minutes or staff can provide the certified roll call.
