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Votes at a glance: Lampasas council approves rodeo hot-funds, CDBG change order, development amendment and hotel incentive
Summary
At its March 23 meeting the Lampasas City Council approved $10,000 in hot funds for the county rodeo, a $29,447 change order on a CDBG project, an amendment to a Badger Lane development agreement, and a Chapter 380 incentive package for an approximately 84-room hotel; council also conducted routine consent-business and first-reading ordinance action.
Lampasas City Council took several formal actions on March 23 during its regular session.
The council approved a request of $10,000 in hotel-occupancy-tax (hot) funds to support promotion of the county rodeo scheduled April 22–25; the applicant (listed in the packet as submitted by Alexis Thompson) said funds would be used for advertising and promotion and agreed to provide post-event documentation of expenditures.
Council also approved a contract change order of $29,447 for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project to remedy field-discovered construction issues, including adding a 24-inch culvert at the Spring Street crossing to help drainage as requested by a prior public commenter. The engineer/staff explained the grant did not cover change orders and the adjustment is required to complete the project while the contractor is on site.
An amendment to a November 2021 development agreement was approved to combine two planned lots (lots 7 and 8 on Badger Lane) into a single lot — reducing the project from 12 to 11 homes — and to extend the developer performance deadline by two years to November 2028 because of market conditions.
Following an executive session under Texas Government Code Chapter 551, the council approved a Chapter 380 economic development agreement with a hotel developer (named in the motion as Lampasas Hotel Holdings LLC) to provide incentives for construction of a hotel of approximately 84 rooms; the approval was entered into the minutes after the executive session.
Other routine actions included first reading approval of a sewer-maintenance ordinance amendment (Chapter 82, adding section 82-216), the nomination of a city candidate for the Central Texas Water Supply Corporation board, and several fleet surplus declarations or actions that staff said would be finalized after repair estimates were obtained. Most motions were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote with no roll-call tallies provided in the meeting transcript.
The council voted to place the rodeo funding and the change-order approval on the record as approved; staff will return with supporting paperwork (contracts, grant paperwork, invoices) and any follow-up items required by the grants or funding sources.
