City Council
Regular MeetingDenton, TX · October 27, 2015
Agenda
City Hall
City of Denton 215 E. McKinney St.
Denton, Texas 76201
www.cityofdenton.com
Meeting Agenda
City Council
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 1:00 PM Work Session Room
Cancelled
After determining that a quorum is present, the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas will convene
in a Work Session on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. in the Council Work Session Room at
City Hall, 215 E. McKinney Street, Denton, Texas at which the following items will be considered:
1. Work Session Reports
A. ID 15-1058 Receive a report, hold a discussion, and give staff direction regarding a proposed
Economic Development Chapter 380 Grant Agreement with O’Reilly Hotel Partners
Denton for a convention center and hotel development to be located in Rayzor
Ranch Town Center and a proposed third amendment to the economic development
program grant agreement between the City of Denton and Allegiance Hillview
(RED Development).
B. ID 15-1025 Receive a report, hold a discussion, and give staff direction regarding a management
contract between the City of Denton and the Dallas Entrepreneur Center for the
management of co-working space and an entrepreneur center located at 608 East
Hickory, Denton, Texas, 76201.
Following the completion of the Work Session, the City Council will convene in a Closed Meeting to
consider specific items when these items are listed below under the Closed Meeting section of this
agenda. The City Council reserves the right to adjourn into a Closed Meeting on any item on its Open
Meeting agenda consistent with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, as amended, or as
otherwise allowed by law.
1. Closed Meeting:
A. ID 15-1009 Deliberations regarding Real Property - Under Texas Government Code Section
511.072; Consultation with Attorneys - Under Texas Government Code Section
551.071.
Receive information from staff, discuss, deliberate, and provide staff with direction
regarding the potential acquisition of real property interests generally located in
Denton, Denton County, Texas, South of Jim Christal Road, West of South Masch
Branch Road, for the possible construction of an electric generation facility where
deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of a
governmental body in negotiations with a third party. Consultation with the City’s
attorney’s regarding legal issues associated with the acquisition of the real property
interests described above where a public discussion of these legal matters would
conflict with the duty of the City’s attorneys to the City of Denton and the Denton
City Council under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the
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State Bar of Texas, or would jeopardize the City’s legal position in any
administrative proceeding or potential litigation.
B. ID 15-1059 Deliberations regarding Economic Development Negotiations - Under Texas
Government Code Section 551.087.
Receive a report and hold a discussion regarding economic development issues
regarding a proposed economic development incentive agreement for O’Reilly
Hotel Partners Denton and a proposed third amendment to the economic
development program grant agreement between the City of Denton and Allegiance
Hillview (RED Development). This discussion shall include commercial and
financial information the City Council has received from O’Reilly Hotel Partners
Denton and Allegiance Hillview (RED Development), business prospects which the
City Council seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the city,
and with which the City Council is conducting economic development negotiations;
deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to O’Reilly Hotel Partners
Denton and the amendment of the economic development program grant agreement
between the City of Denton and Allegiance Hillview (RED Development).
C. ID 15-1078 Consultation with Attorneys Under Texas Government Code Section 551.071.
Consult with the City’s attorneys regarding legal issues associated with a proposal
for amending the Oak-Hickory Historic District overlay ordinance where a
discussion of these legal matters would conflict with the duty of the City’s attorneys
under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of
Texas.
D. ID 15-1087 Deliberations regarding Economic Development Negotiations - Under Texas
Government Code Section 551.087.
Receive a report and hold a discussion regarding economic development issues
regarding a proposed economic development incentive agreement for Project
Cartoon. This discussion shall include commercial and financial information the
City Council has received from Project Cartoon, a business prospect, which the City
Council seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the city, and
with which the City Council is conducting economic development negotiations;
deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to Project Cartoon.
E. ID 15-1088 Deliberations Regarding Real Property Under Texas Government Code Section
551.072; Deliberations Regarding Economic Development Negotiations Under
Texas Code Section 551.087; Consultation with Attorneys Under Texas
Government Code Section 551.071
Receive information from staff, discuss, deliberate and provide staff with direction
regarding the potential acquisition, exchange, lease or sale of real property located
generally in the 200 block of N. Cedar and the 200 block of W. McKinney in the
City of Denton, Denton County, Texas. Consultation with the City’s attorneys
regarding legal issues associated with the potential real property matter where a
public discussion of these legal matters would conflict with the duty of the City’s
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attorneys to the City of Denton and the Denton City Council under the Texas
Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas, or would
jeopardize the City’s legal position in any administrative proceeding or potential
litigation.
Following the completion of the Closed Meeting, the City Council will convene in an Open Meeting at
which the following items will be considered:
1. Items for Individual Consideration
A. ID 15-1010 Consider adoption of an Ordinance authorizing the City Manager, or his designee,
to execute a contract of sale, containing contingencies for cancellation, between the
City of Denton, Texas (“City”), as buyer, and Eagle Farms, Inc., a Texas
Corporation, and John Porter Auto Sales, Inc., a Texas Corporation, (“Owner”), as
seller, to acquire fee title to a 166.791 acre tract situated in the Gibson Myers
Survey, Abstract No. 843, The Johnson, Green, Myers, and Brummell Survey,
Abstract No. 1699, the Moses H. Davis Survey, Abstract No. 377, and the William
Wilburn Survey, Abstract No. 1419, located in the City of Denton, Denton County,
Texas, and more particularly described in the Exhibit “A” attached to the Contract
for Sale and located generally south of Jim Christal Road and west of Masch Branch
Road (“Property Interest”) for the purchase price of SIX MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
FOUR DOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($6,538,874.00), and other consideration, as
prescribed in the Contract of Sale (the “Contract”); authorizing the expenditure of
funds; and providing an effective date.
B. ID 15-1060 Consider adoption of an ordinance approving an Economic Development
Agreement under Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code to promote economic
development and to stimulate business activity in the city of Denton and under
Chapter 351 to promote travel, tourism, meetings, conventions, and events for the
economic growth of the city of Denton, between the City of Denton and O’Reilly
Hotel Partners Denton (OHPD), regarding the development of an approximate 12
acre parcel of land generally located on the south side of U.S. Highway 380 (West
University Drive) ending at Scripture Road, between I-35 and North Bonnie Brae
Street in Denton, Texas; authorizing the expenditure of funds therefor; and
providing an effective date.
C. ID 15-1061 Consider adoption of an Ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas approving a third
amendment to an Economic Development Program Grant Agreement dated June 15,
2010 between the City of Denton and Allegiance Hillview; and providing an
effective date.
D. ID 15-1062 Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas,
authorizing the City Manager to execute a Management Agreement between the
City of Denton and O’Reilly Hotel Partners Denton for the management of the
Denton Convention Center; and providing an effective date.
E. ID 15-1026 Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas,
authorizing the City Manager to execute a Management Agreement between the
City of Denton and the Dallas Entrepreneur Center for the management of the
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entrepreneur center located at 608 East Hickory, Suite 128, Denton, Texas, 76201;
and providing an effective date.
F. ID 15-1080 Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton authorizing the City
Manager, or his designee, to execute on behalf of the City of Denton a lease of
property between the City of Denton, Monsignor King Outreach Center in
substantially the same form as attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference,
for the operation of a homeless shelter at 300 Woodrow Lane; and providing for an
effective date.
2. Concluding Items
A. Under Section 551.042 of the Texas Open Meetings Act, respond to inquiries from the City
Council or the public with specific factual information or recitation of policy, or accept a proposal
to place the matter on the agenda for an upcoming meeting AND Under Section 551.0415 of the
Texas Open Meetings Act, provide reports about items of community interest regarding which no
action will be taken, to include: expressions of thanks, congratulations, or condolence; information
regarding holiday schedules; an honorary or salutary recognition of a public official, public
employee, or other citizen; a reminder about an upcoming event organized or sponsored by the
governing body; information regarding a social, ceremonial, or community event organized or
sponsored by an entity other than the governing body that was attended or is scheduled to be
attended by a member of the governing body or an official or employee of the municipality; or an
announcement involving an imminent threat to the public health and safety of people in the
municipality that has arisen after the posting of the agenda.
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I certify that the above notice of meeting was posted on the bulletin board at the City Hall of the City of
Denton, Texas, on the ________day of ___________________, 2015 at ________o'clock (a.m.) (p.m.)
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CITY SECRETARY
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