…but the next one could be a doozey

Nothing much to report from tonight’s Kyle City Council meeting. Council members, during the obligatory open mike session, heard from a couple of homeowners with what seemed, at first glance, legitimate concerns that their abodes may soon be swallowed by giant sink holes. They extended a gracious welcome to new City Manager Scott Sellers. They unanimously reappointed someone to the Civil Service Commission, passed on first reading a non-controversial zoning change for a small plot of land (10.111 acres) on the east side of town, approved a resolution to authorize the Police Department to submit a grant application next October for money to partially cover police overtime that may or may not occur in the next fiscal year, and passed a resolution supporting legislation that will help a Municipal Utility District northeast of the city limits.

That was it. Pretty simple. The whole thing took a grand total of 47 minutes. See what happens when the council manages to avoid an executive session.

But there was this: Mayor Todd Webster said he wants the council to receive at its next meeting "a comprehensive update" on the city’s major road projects including a complete report on the Marketplace right-of-way "progress," which, I guess, means how successful the city has been in talking land owners to turn over their property to the city so Marketplace can be extended, hopefully in a relatively straight line, to Burleson Road. That means the Jan. 20 council get-together has the earmarks of being far more lively than this one was.

Oh, and someone, I think it was councilman David Wilson, reminded the mayor they just might want to put this whole sink hole business on the agenda as well.

So there was that.