McAllen approves budget amendment to pay eminent‑domain award for property north of Lark Community Center
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The commission approved a budget amendment to pay an eminent‑domain acquisition award to Adara LLC and proposed temporarily reallocating funds from a reservoir development budget line to cover the payment, to be replenished in a later capital planning cycle.
The McAllen City Commission approved a budget amendment to pay an acquisition award stemming from a condemnation hearing for property north of the Lark Community Center, directed to be paid to Adara LLC.
Staff told the commission that the city had budgeted $16,000,000 for reservoir development but would not incur the full amount this fiscal year; the manager proposed reallocating approximately $7.75 million from that line to cover the eminent‑domain award now and replenish the funds when the capital plan is revisited. "So I propose taking $7.7500000.0 needed to pay the acquisition fee or the eminent domain award from the reservoir development," staff stated in the record (transcript formatting of the numeric value is unclear). A commissioner moved to approve the amendment; the motion passed by voice vote.
City staff said the structure of the reallocation is intended to avoid issuing bonds or raising taxes for the acquisition and that funds would be replenished through future capital planning or property sales.