Fulshear City Council Meeting 10/10/2016, RED BIRD LANE FLOODING SOLUTIONS

Costello engineering firm presented multiple concepts ranging from 360K (an emergency access road) to 8 mil (bridge).

The issue is not the houses flooding but access to households being cut during flooding. The goal was to find the emergency access solution. This became an issue only a couple of years ago. This used to happen once every twenty years. The financing was the large part of the discussion.

Former mayor Kuykendall stated during his citizen speech he is the author of one of the preliminary permanent plans solutions presented by Costello, this solution helped to cut some of the cost.

He also suggested that once a possible funding mechanism could be through 4A and 4B EDCs. He proposed instituting of a municipal development district, that could help bring more sales tax revenue. He proposed to eliminate 4A Development Corporation and substituting it with the Municipal development district, that would have the flexibility with streets, infrastructure, phase 1 of parks. Voters would have to approve this. Each development corporation brings about 350K per year. He also recommended to maximize relationships with the County to get the funding.