Hello everyone! Mayor DeOme was unable to attend the Council meeting last night, he made an unexpected visit to St. Davids in Bee Cave. He is fine and at home and is expected to make a full recovery. I hear those kidney stones are really painful!
Here are the highlights from Council's agenda. Our financials continue to be a bright spot in Lakeway. We again were above budget in revenue and below budget in expense - both GOOD news!
Items 5, 6, and 7 were delayed until the next meeting at the Mayor's request.
Item 8 was approved to clean up ownership of a section of Hayden Ridge Lane - although the City has been maintaining the road, it appears it was privately owned by The Hills POA and now it is City ROW.
9. The City is authorized to hire a firm for collection of Municipal court fines and fees. The City has about $2 million outstanding that if pursued will net $700 - $800 thousand dollars. 30% will go to the collection agency.
10. A resolution was passed to not impose a subscriber fee for operation of a Public channel since Lakeway does not have an entity to pursue this.
11. Lakeway Airpark South was denied R-1 zoning last October and is requesting reconsideration of their zoning ahead of the normal 1 year anniversary. This was granted, however there were questions about the new plan that will need to be answered.
12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 were all passed pertaining to Annexation and Zoning of property in the Highlands at the request of the developer.
17, 18, and 19 were all passed instituting new ordinances for Short Term Rentals in Lakeway.
20. A zoning code amendment addressing sexually-oriented businesses was passed unanimously.
21-22. Council spent a few minutes discussing and requesting additional information from Staff on the FY2012 budget. Since we intend to use the current tax rate of $0.1996 per hundred, no action was required.
The meeting ended a little before 8PM, well ahead of expectations because of the items that were deferred.
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Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
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