Taylor’s waste collectors will give a pile of updates Thursday.
On July 28, the Taylor City Council will receive an update from Waste Connections on its sanitation program from the 2021-22 calendar.
Waste Connections collects solid waste weekly and recyclables biweekly. The company provides dumpsters as well as open top containers for commercial solid waste collection. There are six residential rear load trucks. Thirteen employees are staffed free to Taylor for the yearly City Wide Clean Up Day. Waste Connections had over 400,000 contacts with Taylor curbside services last year. The company also reportedly donated $10,000 to the Percussion Playground in Murphy Park.
In other business, the council is scheduled to:
• recognize Taylor Main Street as a 2022 Accredited Main Street America Program by Main Street America and the Texas Main Street Program;
• introduce an ordinance entitled Right-of-Way Management to repeal and replace the Code of Ordinances’ Chapter 25, Article II – Street Cuts;
• hold a public hearing an introduce an ordinance in regards to a request to amend ordinances on the RCR-Taylor Logistics Park Commercial Planned Development, consisting of approximately 756 acres of land, located at 201 FM 3349, part of and out of the Watkins Nobles Survey and James C. Eaves Survey;
• hold a public hearing and introduce an ordinance in regards to a change of zoning on approximately 27.89 acres addressed as 1910 CR 452 from single-family residential to the same but with a residential planned development overlay;
• hold a public hearing and introduce an ordinance in regards to a request to amend the designations on the future land use and growth sectors maps for land consisting of approximately 61.54 acres, located north of the end of Rydell Lane and the beginning for CR 398, more particularly described by Williamson Central Appraisal District parcels within and out of the Samuel Pharrass Survey;
• consider an ordinance authorizing the issuance of a limited tax note to approve a paying agent/registrar agreement, prescribing the form of a note, levying an ad valorem tax to pay the note, awarding the sale and enacting other provision relating thereto;
• consider approving a six-month lease agreement extension with the American Legion in Murphy Park; and
• enter into executive session on a Taylor FM 973, LLC, ETJ release petition and a petition for services otherwise provided by North Fork Municipal Utility District and Rummel & Rohde Farms Limited.
The council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 400 Porter St., in the council chamber. Those wishing to address the council have a three-minute limit and must sign up by 5:45 p.m.
The council agenda and live video stream of the meeting can be found at http://www.taylortx.gov.
