Behind the Gavel: Sept. 9, 2025
The Bryan City Council meets on Tuesday, Sept. 9, for their workshop and regular meetings at City Hall. Learn everything you need to know about the meeting here.
Behind the Gavel: Sept. 9, 2025
The Bryan City Council meets on Tuesday, Sept. 9 for their workshop and regular meetings at City Hall.
4 p.m. – Workshop Meeting
- Presentation regarding AMG/Holiday Lights: Downtown Bryan Holiday Experience Feasibility Report and Strategic Plan prepared by Audience Media Group.
- Presentation by Dan Rudge, Bryan-College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization Executive Director, regarding University Drive and South College Avenue study.
View the workshop agenda here.
4:30 p.m. – First Regular Meeting
Closed to the public for Council’s executive session. View the first regular meeting agenda here.
5:30 p.m. – Second Regular Meeting
Proclamations
- Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
- 100th Anniversary of the Central Church
Public Hearings
- Public hearing and first reading of an ordinance on a proposal to adopt a property tax rate of $0.624000 per $100 valuation, increasing the total tax revenue from properties on the tax roll in the preceding taxable year by 5.96% (percentage by which proposed tax rate exceeds lower of No-New-Revenue Rate or Voter-Approval Rate as calculated under Tax Code, Chapter 26). Consideration of the first reading of an ordinance fixing the tax levy of the City of Bryan, Texas for the Taxable Year 2025 at $0.624000 per $100 assessed valuation. (Note: This maintains the current tax rate).
- Rezoning request to change the classification from Planned Development – Mixed Use District (PD-M) to Planned Development – Housing District (PD-H), on 26.65 acres of vacant land, located between Atlas Pear Drive and Mahogany Drive.
- Presentation and consideration of an ordinance to designate Texas Triangle Park Reinvestment Zone No. 1.
Consent
- Award liability insurance to Beazley for a one-year term beginning Oct. 1, 2025, at a premium not to exceed $144,696.
- Resolution approving the negotiated settlement agreement for Atmos Energy Corporation, Mid-Tex Division’s rate filing regarding 2025 Rate Review Mechanism.
- Resolution ratifying the creation of the Bryan Youth Sports Association (BYSA) as a not-for-profit corporation, and the appointment of its registered agent and initial Board of Directors.
- Third extension of an annual contract with Brazos Dozer Services for the demolition of structures and related services, in an amount not to exceed $250,000.
- Rejection of all proposals received for the Clara B. Mounce Library Removal and Installation of Flooring.
- Corridor Beautification Partnership Grant request to Gilmore Electric, LLC., located at 1901 South College Ave., for façade and parking improvements in the amount of $59,000. The grant, if approved, will be in the form of a reimbursement once receipts for eligible improvements are submitted to the city by the applicants.
- Corridor Beautification Partnership Grant request to Jays Kars, located at 2700 South Texas Ave., for façade and signage improvements in the amount of $40,000 for property. The grant, if approved, will be in the form of a reimbursement once receipts for eligible improvements are submitted to the city by the applicants.
- Resolution amendment to provide additional clarification on lease rates for specific hangars at Coulter Airfield.
- Appoint two individuals with professional expertise to the Bryan/College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization Technical Advisory Committee.
- Sewer easement for property owned by The Texas A&M University System, located at 3869 F&B Road in College Station, and is within the City of Bryan’s sewer service territory.
- Ordinance amendment to clarify the functions, duties and powers of the City Attorney and the Legal Department.
Statutory
- Ordinance amendment to assist the City of Bryan with ensuring all operators of hotels and short-term rentals are registered in existing hotel tax collection system.
- Resolution adopting the annual investment policy.
- 2026 Health Plan Medical and Prescription Stop Loss Insurance to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas for an estimated annual premium of $1,218,901.
- Casualty Insurance Program to include General Liability, Law Enforcement Liability, Errors & Omissions Liability, Auto Liability, Auto Physical Damage, and Auto Catastrophe to Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool in the annual premium amount of $570,909.
- Property insurance to Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool at a premium rate of $0.1485 per $100 insured value for an annual premium of $630,460.
- Excess Liability Insurance to AEGIS for Bryan Texas Utilities at an annual premium not to exceed $253,696.
- Excess Workers’ Compensation Insurance to Safety National Casualty Corporation for the annual premium of $269,880.
- First of two additional one-year periods with Ochs, Inc. for Employee Group Life and AD&D Insurance and Employee Group Long Term Disability Insurance with a combined annual cost of $288,064.
- All-Risk Property and Equipment Breakdown Policy for Bryan Texas Utilities power generation assets to AEGIS/Zurich at a rate of $0.3223 per $100 insured value for an annual premium of $1,293,918 (includes surplus lines and engineering fees).
- Resolution approving the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget of the Brazos County Emergency Communications District (911 District) in the amount of $6,294,956 and the Fiscal Year 2026 Dispatch Agreement with the 911 District in the amount of $2,524,017.
- Purchase Projectmates software as the Capital Improvement Program management software for the City of Bryan for a not to exceed amount of $687,158.82 (over five years, inclusive of implementation costs).
- Tri-party agreement for residential reconstruction of 807 Boulevard Drive with the qualifying homeowner and contractor, Palomares Construction, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $171,300, and a note with the homeowner household in the amount of $174,535.43. This project is part of the City of Bryan’s Community Development Department Housing Assistance Major Rehabilitation/Reconstruction Program. Funds are from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HOME Investment Partnerships Program grant.
- Renewal of the Interlocal Agreement with City of College Station for the City of Bryan’s continued management and operation of the Ringer Library as part of the Bryan + College Station Public Library System.
- Design Services Contract to Goodwin Lasiter Strong, Inc. for Phase 4 of the South College Avenue Reconstruction Project, in the not-to-exceed amount of $857,100.
- Funding Agreement between the City of Bryan and the Bryan Business Council for Fiscal Year 2026 in the amount of $350,000.
- First contract extension with Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Bound to Stay Bound and Brodart for the purchase and processing of library materials in an amount not to exceed $207,300.
- Resolution approving Destination Bryan’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget and funding agreement in the amount of $3,040,000.
- Ordinance amendment increasing the expenditure budget appropriations for Fiscal Year 2025 from $526,863,500 to $548,463,500.
- Easement release request case no. ER25-000003, consideration of a resolution of the City of Bryan, Texas, authorizing the release of a 0.377-acre drainage easement and a 0.286-acre public access easement, as recorded in Volume 18858, Pages 232 and 242, of the Original Records of Brazos County, Texas, encumbering 0.663 acres of land on a 7.516-acre tract of land located generally south to southwest of the intersection of Lightfoot Lane and Old Hearne Road in Bryan, Brazos County, TexasThis Agenda Item Contains an Attachment.
- Right-of-Way Abandonment request for a portion of South Dillard Street and a portion of an unimproved public alley located southwest of the intersection of East 28th Street.
- Right-of-Way Abandonment request for 1.004 acres of public street surrounding the intersection of Hall and Lucky Streets between Saunders and West 24th Streets; north and west side of Santa Teresa Catholic Church.
- Warehouse Blanket Purchase Orders for Fiscal Year 2026 to: Core & Main LP ($450,000), Ferguson Enterprises Inc. ($100,000), ACT Pipe and Supply ($250,000) and Coburn Supply Company, Inc. ($100,000).
- Information Technology Blanket Purchase Orders for Fiscal Year 2026 to: Dell Marketing LPl ($250,000), GTS Technology Solutions ($350,000), Southern Computer Warehouse ($350,000), NWN, Inc. ($375,000), Netsync, Inc. ($375,000), SHI ($300,000), TriTech ($200,000), Kronos ($200,000), MCCI LLC ($125,000), Superion ($120,000), CitizenServe ($150,000) and SoftwareOne ($125,000).
- Fiscal Year 2026 Blanket Purchase Orders for office supplies, materials and equipment to: Amazon Business ($180,000), ODP ($45,000), Wilton’s Officeworks ($15,000), Wilton’s Officeworks furniture ($50,000), Staples ($10,000) and Perry Office Plus ($10,000).
- Fiscal Year 2026 Blanket Purchase Orders for miscellaneous utilities and services to: Frontier Communications ($120,000), Atmos Energy ($135,000), Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency ($1,200,000), Bryan Texas Utilities ($4,000,000), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Water and Wastewater Discharge Permit Fees ($200,000), Brazos Valley Groundwater Conservation District ($500,000) and Wellborn Special Utility District ($160,000).
- Annual Price Agreement for Parks and Facility Landscape Maintenance to Yellowstone Landscape Central Inc. for $726,908.38, Green Teams, Inc. for $90,867 and Grassmasters for $39,195. Since 2002, the city has outsourced landscape management and mowing services as the cost to provide the service in-house is greater than obtaining the same services from an outside contractor.
- First Contract Extension for purchase of diesel and unleaded gasoline from Fike’s Wholesale LLC., in a not to exceed amount of $1,800,000.
- Professional Services contract with Halff Associates, Inc. to prepare a new comprehensive plan for the city, in an amount not to exceed $400,000. The city’s current Comprehensive Plan was adopted on Oct. 25, 2016.
Regular
- Ordinance approving and adopting the city’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget totaling $548,670,400. The proposed budget provides for the continued day-to-day operations of city services and includes funding for capital projects.
- Meetings held in Council Chambers can be watched live at bryantx.gov/channel16 or on Optimum Channel 16.
- Non-agenda item speakers must register by 9 a.m. on meeting day.
- Agenda item speakers must register before the 5:30 p.m. meeting begins.
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