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Regular Council Meeting March 27, 2023 Page 4 was taking erosion control very seriously. Mr. Mack said staff would have to stay on the contractors and developers. Council Member Pankaj said he would like to meet with Mr. Mack on what he has seen in those lacking landscaping. City Manager Grayson Path said some of these projects went back in time and they were not enforced but that staff was trying to catch the new ones. Mayor Portugal inquired how was staff going to make sure erosion control was done. Council Member Knox suggested that a certificate of occupancy not be issued until all boxes checked. Mr. Path said staff could make that part of the process. Mr. Mack said the ordinance did not require landscaping for single-family dwellings. City Engineer Todd Mittge said staff had some work to do on enforcing soil erosion, and it was a large issue. Council Member Savage said if the City requires erosion control on large projects and duplexes, the City should also require erosion control on single-family dwellings. Council Member Pilgrim said he thought it was an enforcement issue. He said the Paris Development Committee had been meeting about some development guidelines and he could bring this up for review. Council Member Savage inquired of Mr. Mittge if he thought this was a high priority. Mr. Path said if it was a high priority for Council, it was a high priority for staff. Mr. Path said he would get with staff and get a CO in place for single-family dwellings and would see what was not on the books that the City needed. Council Member Savage inquired of Mr. Mittge if this was an isolated incident. Mr. Mittge said it was not an isolated incident, that he saw this type of soil erosion all over town. Mayor Portugal inquired if staff needed anything further, and Mr. Path said staff had their direction on this item 21. Discuss and act on ORDINANCE NO. 2023-014: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2019-045 TO CORRECT THE PROPERTY DESCRIPTION OF TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE NUMBER ONE DESIGNATED THEREIN; MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS; AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED THERETO. City Manager Grayson Path said he would cover items 21, 22 and 23 at this time. He explained on October 28, 2019, November 11, 2009 and February 24, 2020, a prior City Council met and approved the creation of a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ), authorized under Texas Tax Code Chapter 311. He said at that time, the City worked with a third party consultant to develop documents to create this zone and establish the boundaries. Mr. Path explained that a board was also selected, and the final document was never sent back for revisions due to significant turnover in staff. Mr. Path also said the Zone was never shared with the Lamar County Appraisal District, thus the fund did not begin to accumulate and that it was thought that these were being done. Mr. Path said there was a series of miscommunications due to the challenges the City was going through at that time. Mr. Path reported that it was discovered there were two TIRZ maps created and they were in conflict with each other, and the legal description approved in Ordinance 2019-045 did not support either one of these maps. He said the TIRZ Board had termed out and was currently vacant. He explained this was not an additional tax but taxes collected in a certain area to be set aside for use in that area. He reported there was $97,000.00 in the fund and this was from the growth in downtown. Mr. Path stated these issues were realized this last Fall of 2022 and staff went to work to correct it. Mr. Path said this item was strictly to clean up these problems.