Quick take
- The council meets at 6 p.m. Mon., Nov. 9, in the council chambers at City Hall, 220 Texas Blvd., according to the agenda.
- Two consent items would approve the airport’s ground lease to Texarkana College for the old terminal and the land around it, and a $10 sale of the buildings there. Lease acreage, rent and term details below come from TXK Today’s reading of the packet. TXK Today reported the college plans a flight school.
- An action item would spend up to $200,000 in downtown enhancement funds on lighting along W. Broad Street from State Line Avenue to Spruce Street. The 16-pole plan and $225,460 estimate are from TXK Today’s packet summary. Another item is a $50,000 facade loan for 218 Main St.
- Also up: a $554,320 Waggoner Creek wastewater plant contract, a $931,801.36 Beaumont Street sewer contract, 12 breathing air packs for firefighters, rezonings and the city’s priorities for the 2027 Texas Legislature.
The Texarkana, Texas, City Council meets at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the council chambers at City Hall, 220 Texas Blvd., according to the agenda. Just before the meeting, at 5:30 p.m., the city dedicates a Texas historical marker at City Hall.
Old airport terminal to Texarkana College
Two consent items would approve deals the Texarkana Regional Airport has worked out with Texarkana College: a ground lease for the land and premises around the old airport terminal building (Res. 2026-174), and a purchase and sale agreement for $10 (Res. 2026-175). The airport is owned by both Texarkanas, so the Texas council signs off too, TXK Today reported.
The city agenda lists the ground lease (Res. 2026-174) and the $10 building sale (Res. 2026-175). TXK Today, reading the staff memo in the packet, reported the lease covers about 4.3 acres “for the development of a flight school and other aeronautical activities,” that the college would pay about $8,800 a year, adjusted for inflation, for 10 years with up to four five-year extensions, and that the $10 sale covers the buildings while the land stays with the airport. We did not open the full packet ourselves.
Two more airport items are on the consent agenda: a contract to restore the outside of the Jim E. Yates Terminal, the airport fire and rescue building and its wooden signs, paid with a TxDOT grant and airport money, and a $269,000 Garver work order to add paving in the Runway 4/22 safety area, paid with an Arkansas Economic Development Commission grant. The council also holds a public hearing on the airport’s 2027 to 2032 capital plan.
Downtown lights and a facade loan
An action item (Res. 2026-185) would spend up to $200,000 from the city’s downtown enhancement funds on lighting along W. Broad Street from State Line Avenue to Spruce Street, in partnership with the Texarkana Community Development Corp. TXK Today, citing the packet, reported the plan calls for 16 new light poles plus string lights, with the project estimated at about $225,460 and the rest covered by donations and grants. The agenda itself lists the $200,000 city cap and the State Line to Spruce stretch.
The council also votes on a $50,000 facade improvement loan to Letsgetlit TXK LLC for the building at 218 Main St. (Res. 2026-177).
Also on the agenda
- A contract of up to $554,320 for structural work at the Waggoner Creek wastewater treatment plant.
- A contract of up to $931,801.36 to replace a 15-inch sewer line on Beaumont Street and Caddo Street (phase II).
- Twelve self-contained breathing apparatus units for firefighters, up to $114,350.
- Public hearings and votes on three rezonings (505 S. 8th St., 824 Richmond Road and a tract near Richwood Place on Galleria Oaks Drive) and a permit for a funeral home at 1314 Main St.
- A public hearing and vote on the city’s legislative priorities for 2026 to 2027.
- First briefings, with votes set for Dec. 14: a zoning change for new HUD-code manufactured homes, a rezoning at 209 W. 38th St. and the yearly Community Development Block Grant report.
The meeting is open to the public. Speakers in open forum fill out an information sheet for the city secretary and get five minutes, the agenda says. The next regular meetings are Dec. 14 and Jan. 11, both at 6 p.m. We will update this story with the results.