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David Prescott

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Offices

City Councilmember (Place 3), City of Amarillo

Sworn in after the June 7, 2025 runoff.

Jun 24, 2025 – present
Mayor Pro Tem, City of Amarillo

Announced Nov 18, 2025 for "the next six months".

Nov 18, 2025 – end not yet sourced
Audit Committee member, City of Amarillo

Appointed in place of Don Tipps.

Nov 18, 2025 – end not yet sourced

Events

  1. Council awards the City's auditing services agreement to CliftonLarsonAllen, 5-0
  2. Council adopts the 477.36-acre annexation (Ordinance No. 8200) on second reading, 5-0
  3. Council approves Civic Center temporary staffing contract funded by event revenue and hotel tax
  4. Council renews Flock Safety ALPR service for $164,818.44
  5. City Council approves $700,000 AEDC job incentive and tax abatement for International Aerospace Coatings, 5-0
  6. Council fills the AEDC board seat vacated by Alex Fairly; first nomination fails 2-0 with three abstentions
  7. Staff drop the single new plant concept; estimate falls below $1.5 billion
  8. FY2025/26 rate set at $0.43070 (5-0)
  9. FY2025/26 budget ordinance raises the landfill fee from $38.34 to $39.49 per ton
  10. Council approves transfer of the Courtyard by Marriott's TIRZ #1 incentive to the hotel's buyer, 4-1
  11. Councilmember Prescott publishes water-use calculations for the Fermi agreement
  12. Council approves the Fermi water supply agreement 4-1 on second reading
  13. Council approves a Chapter 380 agreement with Herring Hotel Partners, 4-0
  14. Council renews Flock Safety ALPR system for one more year at $255,000
  15. Council votes to close Southwest Pool permanently and Southeast Pool temporarily
  16. City Council approves Amendment No. 2 to the AEDC-Texas Tech incentive agreement, 5-0
  17. Council approves Specific Use Permit 208 for the Netplex, 3-2, on first reading
  18. Council adopts the Netplex alcohol permit (Ordinance No. 8234) on second reading, 3-2
  19. Council tables filing of the fiscal 2025 annual financial report, 5-0
  20. Council adopts Resolution No. 04-14-26-2 directing a study of shelter fees and repeat-impound penalties
  21. Public meeting and draft environmental review for the Hollywood Road II facility
  22. Council approves 18 Verkada intersection cameras after public comment
  23. Council tables acceptance of the fiscal 2025 annual financial report to June 23, 5-0
  24. Council approves 4-1 a $246,000 Kimley-Horn amendment to design the 58th Avenue sanitary sewer extension
  25. Amarillo City Council approves the non-binding CRMWA II memorandum of understanding, 4-0
  26. Council passes 4-1 on first reading a specific use permit for an asphalt batching plant near Triangle Drive (Ordinance No. 8252)
  27. TWDB approves $60 million loan for planning and design of the Hollywood Road expansion
  28. Council adopts the asphalt batching plant permit (Ordinance No. 8252) on second reading, 4-1
  29. Rates recalculated after errors in figures sent to tax offices; ceiling set at $0.4307
  30. Budget and $0.43070 tax-rate ordinances pass first reading 4-1
  31. City Council votes 5-0 on AEDC purchase of 51.45 acres from Cooper Crouse-Hinds for $1,080,000
  32. MH Civil Constructors awarded Phase II settling basin repairs ($3,071,000)
  33. $1.35 million transfer and $3.30 million SW 45th and Lamar storm drain award
  34. FY2026/27 budget book raises the City's CRMWA payment line to $14.2 million
  35. Audit committee splits the forensic audit into water/sewer and community-improvement components
  36. Audit committee splits the forensic audit into water/sewer and community improvement components
  37. FY2026/27 budget adopted with an 11% water and sewer fee increase
  38. Fermi agreement raised at the FY2026/27 budget hearing on water and sewer fees
  39. Council passes four residential rezonings and a Town Square alcohol-use change on first reading
  40. Council passes a Town Square alcohol-use change (Ordinance No. 8273), 3-2, on first reading

Council votes

Roll calls recorded in the City Council's minutes, May 11, 2021 – Aug 25, 2026. All members' votes · How these are counted

PeriodVotesAyeNayLone nayAbstainAbsentWith majority
May 2025 – present273260331998.5%

By topic

Decisions where David Prescott did not vote aye

  1. Appointment to an AEDC board vacancy (first motion, failed for lack of a majority)

    Aye = make the appointment · Failed 2-0

    Minutes · Storyline event

  2. Temporary landscape maintenance agreement

    Aye = approve the agreement · Passed 4-1

    Minutes

  3. Specific use permit for an asphalt or concrete batching plant in the 66 Village light-industrial area (Ord. 8252, both readings)

    Aye = approve the rezoning · Passed 4-1, 4-1 (2 votes)

    Minutes 1 · Minutes 2 · Storyline event