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City of Mascotte Council — August 19, 2025

Meeting Overview

Type: Regular Meeting + Budget Workshop Location: Tedder-Thomas Memorial Civic Center


Agenda Items

New Business

  • Police Bargaining Association (PBA) Contract Ratification Placeholder (operational)
  • SRO Agreement — Mascotte Charter School (2025-2026)
  • Zumba Additional Class request

Old Business

  • Waste Pro Draft Agreement

Ordinances

O1: First Reading of Ordinance 2025-08-660 — Moody Annexation

  • Type: Annexation (First Reading)
  • Case Number: Ordinance 2025-08-660
  • Acreage: 8.173 acres
  • Request: Approve / deny / continue first reading of Ordinance 2025-08-660 to annex approximately 8.173 acres into the municipal limits of the City of Mascotte.
  • Status (per agenda): Pending Council vote (first reading, following August 5 LPA finding)

O2: Final Reading of Ordinance 2025-06-658 — Crittenden 01 Zoning Map Amendment + Development Agreement

  • Type: Rezoning (Final Reading) + Development Agreement
  • Case Number: Ordinance 2025-06-658
  • Acreage: 37.98 acres
  • Current Zoning: Mascotte Unassigned
  • Proposed Zoning: PUD Community Mixed-Use
  • Two motions:
    1. Approve / deny / continue adoption of the rezoning ordinance.
    2. Approve / deny the Development Agreement (and Exhibit B) as consistent with the Comp Plan and LDC.
  • Status (per agenda): Pending Council vote (this is the second appearance of the Crittenden 01 final reading — first attempted at July 15 meeting; refer to next-month minutes for the actual outcome)

City Council

  • City Manager Evaluations

Budget Workshop

  • Proposed Operating Budget for FY 2025-2026

Public Hearings Summary

Published agenda; no public testimony record yet. Final reading public hearing on Crittenden 01 conducted at this meeting.


Key Signals

  • Crittenden 01 Final Reading attempting passage for the second time — the file is sticky: The Crittenden 01 rezoning (37.98 ac, "Mascotte Unassigned" → PUD Community Mixed-Use) was on the July 15 agenda for final reading; it returns here on August 19. Either the July meeting did not finalize it (continued, or returned for a development-agreement amendment) or the agenda repetition is procedural. This is one of the longest-running planning files in the Mascotte 12-month corpus — recurring through August 19, September 10 (Development Agreement Amendment #4), and February 17, 2026 (further Development Agreement / EAR readings).
  • Moody Annexation first reading the same night as the Crittenden 01 final reading produces a planning-heavy single agenda: Two large planning ordinances on one night. Moody (8.173 ac) and Crittenden 01 (37.98 ac) together represent ~46 acres of boundary or zoning motion at a single meeting. For Mascotte's scale, this is a heavy planning night.
  • Budget Workshop appended to the regular meeting signals fiscal stress: Following the July 15 millage cap-not-to-exceed of 5.0000, this evening's budget workshop produces the FY 2025-2026 operating budget. Track whether the actual millage rate adopted matches or undercuts the cap; a heavy planning evening combined with a budget workshop is a typical pattern when annexation tax-base implications are being calibrated against the millage decision.

Raw Notes

  • Source: Council agenda PDF from CivicWeb portal, doc ID 78371.
  • City Manager Evaluations on the agenda — track the city manager identity for the Decoder Index entity registry.
  • Crittenden 01's "Mascotte Unassigned" → PUD Community Mixed-Use rezoning sequence: First Reading June (presumably) → July 15 final reading attempt → August 19 final reading attempt. The Aug 19 path may have ended in continuation given the September 10 Dev Agreement Amend #4 follow-up.