05-29-2025MINUTES OF 1 WORKSHOP MEETING
OF THE CITY OF PARIS,
ParisMay 29, 2025
The City Council of the City of met workshop
Thursday, May 29, 2025, at the City Council Chamber, 107 Kaufman Street, Paris, Texas. I
Mayor: Mihir Pankaj
Mayor Pro -Tem: Gary Savage
Council Members: Rebecca Norment, Mickey Ellis, Alix Putnam, and
Tracy Attebury
City Staff: Rose Beverly, City ager; Bruce Ballard,
Finance Director; Janice Ellis, City Clerk; and
Stephanie Harris, City Attorney
Absent:b-Moore
Call meeting to order.
Mayor Pankaj called the meeting to order at 5:02 p.m.
2. Discuss monthly financial reports.
City Manager Rose Beverly presented the City Council with an example of the new
layout for financial reports. Finance Director Bruce Ballard reviewed the document and
answered questions from City Council, along with Ms. Beverly.
3. Discuss special projects to be funded out of the $400,000.00 received from the Solar
Farm Disannexation Project.
Ms. Beverly reported that Rob Vine had been working on this and she would place the
item on a future workshop, as he was no longer with the City.
4. Discuss the eligibility requirements and criteria for the residential tax abatement
program.
Ms. Beverly explained the program was established in 2013 and it was clear from the
minutes that the abatements were for additions to single family homes or construction of a new
single family home. She said this tool was not intended for subdivisions, apartments or duplexes.
Ms. Harris added that the Council at that time did not want to include subdivisions. City Council
discussed this subject at length and more specifically, repealing the residential tax abatements
and developing a new residential abatement policy and tax abatement agreement. Ms. Harris
said she would have an ordinance repealing the current program ready for the next City Council
meeting.
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5. Discuss a city-wide Rental Home Inspection Program.
Ms. Beverly said that she and City Attorney Stephanie Harris were working on this and
had a rough draft. She also said they would continue to work on it and bring it back to Council.
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Ms. Beverly explained as staff was going through the budget, it was learned that ther-Y
were other items needed for health and safety reasons, as described in Exhibit "A." She said this
would amount to an additional $517,000.00, bringing the total to $4,139,316.00 and this was
allowable on the INS side. She said some of these capital items had been pushed out for some
time. Mayor Pro -Tem Savage asked Mr. Ballard if he was comfortable financially with this and
Mr. Ballard answered in the affirmative. Ms. Beverly said she would bring an item to their June
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for these type of capital items.
City Clerk Janice Ellis said there had been several workshops and that each time 1enen4
Johnson had to work, hard to find a date for each Council Member that would work. Ms. Ellis
suggested they select days and times that would work for all of them. City Council favored
workshops be scheduled on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 5:00 p.m. at the Library. Mayor Pro -Tem
Savage said in June he will not be able to meet on Tuesdays. Ms. Harris said if they have a
workshop the week prior to a Monday City Council meeting and wanted to proceed with an item,
theg will need to defer the item to the
review the documents.
There being no furthR
k1husingqp, Mayor Pankaj adj oumed the meeting at 6:30 p.m.
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MIHIR
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*�ICE ELLIS, CITY CLERK
Tax Note Requet Update: 5/29/25 Workshop
Original request:
Aerial Apparatus:
$2,162,015.00
Pumper Truck:
$1,114,070
Brush Truck:
$286,846
Command Vehicle:
$111,385
HGAC Fee:
$2,000.00
$3,676,316.00
Additional requests:
Swatt Police Van: 60k
Generator for the Police Department: 50k
Outdoor warning sirens: 70k
Secondary Police Department Channel Repeaters: 35k
Truck for Wildland Paramedic Unit: 60k
Breathing Air Compressor (FD)- 60k
Dive Boat (FD) -60k
Tractor with side cut shredder -122k
517k
With additions, the new total is:
$4,139,316