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Bertram council adopts 2026 Capital Improvement Plan land-use assumptions; fee decisions deferred
Summary
The City Council approved Ordinance 93-060926 adopting the 2026 Capital Improvement Plan's land-use assumptions while deferring dollar-and-fee decisions to a statutory hearing next month; staff said fee-setting will consider TCEQ storage rules and must meet a 10-year spending requirement.
The City Council of the City of Bertram approved Ordinance 93-060926, adopting land-use assumptions in the 2026 Capital Improvement Plan and leaving fee amounts for a later hearing. The ordinance passed on a motion by Betty with a second from Randall; council members voted to approve the land-use assumptions as recommended by staff and the city's impact-fee committee.
Gary of Utility Engineering Group, PLLC, told the council the land-use assumptions mirror the 2023 comprehensive master plan and that staff recommended no changes to those assumptions. He said two water projects were added to the CIP (two additional production wells and an elevated storage tank) and explained the TCEQ limit on how much standpipe volume counts as elevated storage. "Their surveyor is gonna mobilize on Monday, I think that's the 15th, to stake the tank," he said, and added that the contractor had not yet requested payment despite being more than halfway through its contract.
Gary stressed that fee-setting — the subject of a future hearing — will be the harder discussion because the statute permits setting fees anywhere from the maximum permissible down to zero and requires collected impact fees to be spent within 10 years. Council members pressed for clarity that the fees would primarily affect developers and not existing homeowners who are not adding meters. The ordinance adopted land-use assumptions only; the council deferred discussion of fee amounts to next month's hearing.
