After years of discussion â and rejection â of developer impact fees, the Killeen City Council is set to renew that discussion.
At its Tuesday workshop, the council heard two presentations â one in public hearing and the other in the discussion items section â from City Public Works Director Danielle Singh. Both presentations dealt with impact fees, about which the city is hosting a public hearing next Tuesday, March 9.
Charged to developers and builders, water and wastewater impact fees help municipalities recoup costs of building roads and infrastructure up to new developments and structures.
Singh again touched on how the Capital Improvement Plan and Land Use Assumption factor into impact fees. Related to this, Singh presented a formula by which such fees are calculated, whereby overall recoverable Capital Improvement Costs are divided by the number of new service units.
At its last meeting of 2020, the Killeen City Council hired a new fire chief for the city.
At the meetingâs outset, Mayor Jose Segarra expressed his condolences to the families of former Councilmember Claudia Brown and Judy Kilpatrick, wife of Councilmember Jim Kilpatrick, who both recently passed away.
âItâs sad, the tragedies we have today,â Segarra said.
Kilpatrick and Councilmember Debbie Nash-King were not present for the meeting Tuesday.
In a 5-0 vote, the council approved the hiring of James Kubinski, currently an assistant chief with the Naperville, Illinois, fire department.
City Manager Kent Cagle had earlier announced his intention to hire Kubinski as the next chief of the Killeen Fire Department, following the retirement of Chief Brian Brank in July.