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Tom Scherlen

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Offices

City Councilmember, Place 3, City of Amarillodates not yet sourced

Events

  1. Council discusses the COVID-19 communications and marketing service agreement
  2. Council awards Dell Technologies up to $582,948.89 to develop a website "digital human"
  3. Council approves the AEDC's FY2023/24 budget 4-1; motion to restore $200,000 to the Enterprize Challenge dies
  4. Council approves the TIRZ #1 FY2023/24 budget 4-1
  5. Council awards Western Builders the $4,595,000 Hodgetown upgrade contract "under duress," 4-1
  6. Council discusses state abortion law and possible local ordinances; 49 people speak
  7. Council work session reviews three draft abortion ordinances; no vote
  8. Council votes 5-0 to publish notices of up to $13.5 million in street COs and $3.25 million in taxable airport-hangar COs
  9. Council adopts the airport-hangar COs 5-0; no action taken on the $13.5 million street COs
  10. Council designates Reinvestment Zone No. 24 in the South Georgia Business Park on first reading, 3-2
  11. Council finalizes Reinvestment Zone No. 24 and approves Sage Oil Vac incentive and tax abatement
  12. Council awards a $49,975 charter consulting agreement to Baker Tilly
  13. Council adds $4.97 million Grant Street drainage work to the City Hall construction contract, 5-0
  14. Petition presented to council and tabled 5-0; mayor presents an alternative ordinance
  15. Charter Review Citizens Committee meets five times
  16. Council approves a $118,036.01 change order on the Hodgetown upgrade contract, bringing it to $4,731,666.08
  17. Council votes 5-0 to sell the Grant Street property to JM Conkling, LLC for $1.3 million
  18. Council rejects the committee's amended and original ordinances, each 4-1
  19. Council approves AEDC incentive of up to $250,000 for Brushwood Acre Farms, 4-1
  20. Initiating committee certifies that it wants the ordinance put to voters
  21. Council revises and passes on first reading the ordinance calling the charter election
  22. Council orders the charter election with Propositions B-E, 3-2
  23. Council orders a vote on a citizen-initiated abortion ordinance as Proposition A, 4-1
  24. Council orders the Proposition A election, 4-1, after changing "establishing a criminal offense" in the ballot text
  25. Council approves a second Baker Tilly addendum, bringing the contract to $87,218.57
  26. Council shortens the Proposition D ballot language and rewrites Proposition A's
  27. Council condenses the Proposition A ballot text at the counties' request, 5-0
  28. Council approves an AEDC FY2024/25 budget limited to salaries, contractual obligations and operating expenses
  29. Council approves an AEDC expenditure request of $83,512.50, 5-0
  30. Council approves $1.52 million furniture, fixtures and equipment purchase for the new City Hall, 5-0
  31. Council appoints a temporary AEDC board, 5-0
  32. Council canvasses the November 5 special election results
  33. Council renews Dell's hosted digital-human agreement for $553,052
  34. Council approves a $724,994.63 AEDC expenditure request and $50,000 to design gateway signs, 5-0
  35. Council grants S.E.A. Market a school-distance variance for beer and wine sales, 5-0
  36. Council tables, then grants, Cafe Moonwater a variance near a private school, 5-0
  37. Council adopts Ordinance 8174 codifying Proposition E
  38. Council approves amended and restated AEDC articles of incorporation, 4-1
  39. Council approves amended AEDC bylaws and an amended FY2024/25 AEDC budget, 5-0
  40. Council grants the Big Texan RV Ranch a school-distance variance for beer and wine sales
  41. Specific use permit for alcohol service at a Bell Street barbershop, capped at 50 percent of sales
  42. Council approves revised AEDC policies and appoints board members in split votes
  43. Council passes 4-1 on first reading the owner-requested annexation of 477.36 acres near I-27 and Sundown Lane

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 2023 – May 2025466456862098.3%
May 2025 – present2624210088.5%

By topic

Decisions where Tom Scherlen did not vote aye

  1. Concession trailer for the Santa Fe Depot pavilion ($79,795)

    Aye = approve the purchase · Passed 4-1

    Minutes

  2. TIRZ #1 FY2023/24 operating budget

    Aye = approve the budget · Passed 4-1 · Development incentives

    Minutes · Storyline event

  3. Reappointments to the Convention and Visitors Bureau board

    Aye = make the reappointments · Passed 4-1

    Minutes

  4. Resolution supporting an affordable-housing application to the Federal Home Loan Bank

    Aye = adopt the resolution · Passed 4-1

    Minutes

  5. Reinvestment Zone No. 24 in the South Georgia business park (Ord. 8130, both readings)

    Aye = designate the zone · Passed 3-2, 4-1 (2 votes) · Development incentives

    Minutes 1 · Minutes 2 · Storyline event

  6. East Gateway TIRZ #2 grant of $90,000 for the Bug Ranch project

    Aye = approve the grant · Passed 4-0 · Development incentives

    Minutes

  7. Rezoning (Ord. 8136, first reading)

    Aye = approve the rezoning · Passed

    Minutes · roll call partly illegible in the scan; members not listed were not legible

  8. AEDC incentive agreement with Brushwood Acre Farms

    Aye = approve the agreement · Passed 4-1 · Development incentives

    Minutes · Storyline event

  9. Motion to put charter Propositions C, D and E on the ballot without Proposition B

    Aye = drop Proposition B · Failed 2-3

    Minutes · Storyline event

  10. City's votes for the Potter County Appraisal District board

    Aye = cast the votes as moved · Passed 4-1

    Minutes

  11. Construction of parking lots at John Stiff Memorial Park and Rick Klein Athletic Complex ($3,466,422)

    Aye = award the contract · Passed 3-2

    Minutes

  12. Annexation of 477.36 acres on the owner's petition (Ord. 8200, first reading)

    Aye = approve the annexation · Passed 4-1

    Minutes · Storyline event