Council approved corrections to the 2025–26 budget ordinance and adopted the 2026–27 budget with date corrections, and voted to adopt a property tax ordinance maintaining a 0.25 total tax rate; staff flagged payroll-tax estimate and exhibit formatting errors to be corrected.

Council discussed pursuing Texas Community Development Block Grant and other community project funding, recommended designating a corridor (Main Street/I‑45/Loves) to strengthen applications and identified March 2027 and December 2026 deadlines for different programs.

Council debated whether to procure engineering drawings before issuing an RFP to pave a section of Main Street; staff cited estimates from $300,000 to $600,000 for paving alone and recommended a qualifications-based RFQ process for engineers.

Council members reconciled road-repair line items and discussed reallocating a $25,000 contract-labor line; presenters described combined road funding from a 0.25% sales-tax set-aside and sales-tax share, with adjusted totals discussed around $160,000 in possible roads funding next year.