The proposed Comal County agreement would provide up to $553,185 in county Texas Water Development Board grant support for city flood-warning infrastructure. Comal County would maintain the installed infrastructure and give the city dashboard access. Under the proposed Comal County agreement, the city would pay for a traffic-control technician each year and half of specified vehicle and equipment costs. Its Exhibit A estimates the annual technician payment at $67,555.10 and lists $134,337.50 as the city’s one-time share of those costs. The unsigned agreement would run from its last signature through Dec. 31, 2031, subject to its early-termination and funding provisions. These are proposed terms, not expenditures approved by this meeting.
Data centers and other workshop business
Council is scheduled for a briefing on a potential data-center code amendment, rather than a scheduled adoption vote. The draft would require a Type 2 special-use permit in specified industrial districts, plus utility-capacity letters and traffic and noise studies. It proposes a 500-foot setback from residential and listed sensitive uses, a 50-foot landscape buffer, and a 55-decibel limit at residential or sensitive-use property lines. It also includes floodplain and Edwards Aquifer Recharge and Contributing Zone exclusions, water-minimizing cooling requirements, an emergency plan and post-closure equipment removal. Those provisions could shape where a future applicant may build and what nearby residents experience, but the workshop may change the text before any later ordinance action.
The workshop agenda also schedules a downtown managed-parking discussion. Residents and downtown visitors can use its agenda entry to see the scope presented to council and then check for any direction that follows. A separate New Braunfels Utilities outlook briefing could inform later service planning, while the fiscal 2026 third-quarter financial report gives council a scheduled look at city finances. The posted agenda identifies these as briefings; it does not itself set a new parking rule, utility rate or budget change.
Other business and how to follow it
Three proclamations are listed for Chamber of Commerce Week, WALKtober 2026 and Unplug Texas Day. The agenda also gives notice of executive-session topics concerning a municipal judge and interim city attorney, and the city attorney and city manager. It allows for possible action afterward in open session; that notice does not establish that a closed discussion or later public action occurred. Anyone following a particular appointment or employment matter should check the subsequent public action record.
The special meeting is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, at 5 p.m. in City Hall Council Chambers, 550 Landa St., New Braunfels. Residents can use the official agenda to locate an item and its attachments before the meeting; afterward, the next verification point is the city’s public record of council action and any revised agreement or code text. In particular, look for whether the consent agreements were acted on and whether staff received direction on data-center rules.
