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City services, fees & property
Service contracts, fees, parks and facility work, transit service, and purchases, sales and leases of City property.
Each member's votes on these 14 decisions
| Member | Aye | Nay | Abstain | Absent | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Craft | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Elaine Hays | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ginger Nelson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Freda Powell | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| David Prescott | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Reid | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Eddy Sauer | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tom Scherlen | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Les Simpson | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Howard Smith | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cole Stanley | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Don Tipps | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of decisions, not readings: an ordinance's two readings are one decision. "Mixed" means the member voted differently on different readings of the same decision. Members served different spans, so totals are not comparable across people without the dates below.
May 2019 – May 2021 · 3 decisions
Residential building permit fees recalculated by square footage (Ord. 7788, both readings)
Staff brought the change after House Bill 852, which the City Manager said took effect June 1, 2019; the City's fees had been based on the value of the improvement. The ordinance used the square footage of construction instead, and staff said housing permits would pause until it was approved.
Aye = adopt the ordinance · Passed 4-1, 4-0 (2 votes)
Design contract for an aquatics facility in Thompson Park (Schrickel Rollins|PSC)
The professional services agreement covered design of a new aquatics facility in Thompson Park. The council later approved certificates of obligation for the pool in May 2020 and, on Sept. 8, 2020, a $6,218,200 construction contract with Wiley Hicks Jr., Inc.
Aye = approve the agreement · Passed 4-1
Revised parks and recreation fees (Ord. 7832, both readings)
The ordinance rewrote fees in the parks and recreation chapters of the municipal code (Chapters 12-1 through 12-4), presented by the Director of Parks and Recreation.
Aye = adopt the fees · Passed 4-1, 4-1 (2 votes)
The minutes list Councilmember Hays as voting both aye and no on each reading; her no vote matches the stated 4-1 tallies.
May 2021 – May 2023 · 2 decisions
Sale of former Fire Station No. 9 at 3445 S. Western ($401,000 less closing costs)
The council authorized the City Manager to sell the former Fire Station No. 9 at 3445 S. Western for $401,000 minus closing costs. Councilmember Stanley abstained.
Aye = authorize the sale · Passed 4-0
Purchase of buildings and land at 501–517 S. Grant Street ($1.3 million)
The downtown properties at 501, 509 and 517 S. Grant were bought from a trust for $1,300,000 plus closing costs. The agenda memo listed the funding as excess hotel occupancy tax collections and excess general fund cash, under the council priority of economic development and redevelopment.
Aye = authorize the purchase · Passed 4-1
May 2023 – May 2025 · 5 decisions
Concession trailer for the Santa Fe Depot pavilion ($79,795)
The $79,795 purchase from Phoenix Contracting was for a concession trailer to serve the new pavilion at the Santa Fe Depot. The Civic Center Complex's general manager presented the item.
Aye = approve the purchase · Passed 4-1
Grazing lease of 549 acres at the Hollywood Road wastewater plant
The five-year lease let a private bidder graze livestock on 549 acres at the Hollywood Road Wastewater Treatment Facility. The council accepted the bid of $30,207 total, about $6,041 a year. Councilmember Craft abstained.
Aye = approve the lease · Passed 4-0
Transit service outside the city limits to the Randall County Jail
The resolution let City Transit serve the Randall County Jail on a will-call basis on Route 41, Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. The staff memo said no added funding was needed because the stops fit the route's normal hours. It followed the council's 5-0 approval of a revised jail-services agreement with Randall County.
Aye = approve the resolution · Passed 3-2
Sale of 501, 509 and 517 S. Grant Street to JM Conkling, LLC ($1.3 million)
The City bought the downtown buildings and land in December 2022 and sold them for the same price. The memo said the sale needed no notice or bidding because the property is in Center City TIRZ No. 1, and cited an April 21, 2022 appraisal. Proceeds went to the general fund.
Aye = approve the sale · Passed 5-0
Airport marketing and advertising services contract (three years)
Nobox Creative won the contract to manage Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport's marketing, media buying, digital campaigns, website and social media from November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2027. It cost $360,000 a year ($1.08 million total, $1.8 million with a two-year option), paid from airport operating revenues.
Aye = award the contract · Passed 3-0
May 2025 – present · 4 decisions
Motion to table the parks parking-lot construction contract
After the $3,466,422 parking-lot contract was pulled from the consent agenda, Councilmember Scherlen moved, with the mayor's second, to postpone it to the next meeting. The motion failed, and the council then awarded the contract 3-2.
Aye = table the item · Failed 2-3
Construction of parking lots at John Stiff Memorial Park and Rick Klein Athletic Complex ($3,466,422)
The turnkey contract with Tri-State General Contracting Group, Inc., bought through a Sourcewell cooperative contract, covered north ($874,200) and south ($774,400) lots at John Stiff Memorial Park and a multipurpose lot at Rick Klein Athletic Complex ($1,817,822), paid from 2025 bond proceeds.
Aye = award the contract · Passed 3-2
Engineering amendment with Kimley-Horn for the 58th Avenue sanitary sewer extension
The $246,000 amendment added design of about 5,280 feet of sanitary sewer along 58th Avenue to Kimley-Horn's Osage Reconstruction contract, raising it to $555,300. It was unbudgeted and was paid from water and sewer fund reserves. The Amarillo Tribune reported that Councilmember Simpson said the project should be weighed against other projects during budget season.
Aye = approve the amendment · Passed 4-1
Temporary landscape maintenance agreement
The agreement hired a new contractor to maintain parks, public buildings and other City property from July 15 to December 31, 2026, for up to $416,428.32 from the general fund. NewsChannel10 reported that the City had ended the previous contract on June 30, citing repeated documented performance problems.
Aye = approve the agreement · Passed 4-1
