Thursday, October 8, 2026

A second Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area today, Parker County among the 13 counties on the NWS Air Quality Alert; sunny, high near 86; mostly clear tonight, low around 66

The National Weather Service active-alerts feed for 32.7593 N, 97.7972 W listed one alert at 5:14 a.m.: an Air Quality Alert issued at 2:29 p.m. Oct. 7 by NWS Fort Worth, in effect until 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8, for Wise, Denton, Collin, Hunt, Parker, Tarrant, Dallas, Rockwall, Kaufman, Hood, Johnson, Ellis and Henderson counties. The alert says the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Thursday, October 8, 2026, and that atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing high levels of ozone air pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Thursday; the Oct. 7 edition carried the same alert for Wednesday. The forecast: sunny today, high near 86, northeast wind 0 to 5 mph; tonight mostly clear, low around 66, with temperatures rising to around 68 overnight; Friday sunny, high near 87; Friday night clear, low around 64, with temperatures rising to around 66 overnight, east wind 0 to 5 mph.

Source: NWS active-alerts feed for the courthouse point, updated 5:14 a.m. Oct. 8 (Air Quality Alert issued 2:29 p.m. Oct. 7, expires 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8); National Weather Service forecast for the point, generated 5:19 a.m. Oct. 8

Oct. 13 council agenda: public hearing on the 2026 Impact Fee Study Update, with water and wastewater fees proposed at $2,800 per standard unit and roadway fees cut; staff puts the net change at a $45 reduction per single-family home

The agenda posted to Granicus on Oct. 7 for the Tuesday, Oct. 13 council meeting at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 303 Palo Pinto Street lists a public hearing on recommendations to the 2026 Impact Fee Study Update and adoption of Ordinance O2026-39, amending water, wastewater and roadway impact fees. The staff memo gives the current rates as $2,332 per standard unit for water and $2,227 for wastewater, and roadway rates per service unit of $691 residential and $461 nonresidential in Service Area A, $394 and $262 in Area B, and $386 and $258 in Area C, with no Area D. The proposed rates are $2,800 for water and $2,800 for wastewater, and roadway rates of $460.53 residential and $420 nonresidential in Area A, $159.65 and $240 in Area B, $152.41 and $240 in Area C, and $280.92 and $300 in a new Area D. The memo says the water and wastewater fees increase by a combined $1,041 per single-family home and that the roadway reductions offset that for a combined net reduction of $45 per single-family home. It traces the steps: the council appointed a Capital Improvements Advisory Committee on Feb. 10, 2026; the committee met May 20 and Aug. 19; the council adopted Resolution R2026-19 on Sept. 22 setting the Oct. 13 hearing; and the Municipal Utility Board accepted the committee's recommendation on Sept. 24. The memo says the water and wastewater fees were last updated by an ordinance adopted Nov. 16, 2021, and the roadway fees by an ordinance adopted Nov. 18, 2025, and that the new rates would be effective upon adoption. Staff recommends adoption.

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Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 13, 2026 council agenda and agenda report 2026-1098-AR (Matt Leppla, Director of Public Works), posted to Granicus Oct. 7, read 5:20 a.m. Oct. 8

Council to consider a notice of intention to issue up to $3,000,000 in certificates of obligation for lead and galvanized service line replacement, sold to the Texas Water Development Board and repaid from water rates

Item 8.d on the Oct. 13 agenda is Resolution R2026-21, directing publication of a notice of intention to issue up to $3,000,000 in Tax and Utility System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Taxable Series 2027, for utility system improvements. The staff memo says the proceeds would finance the replacement of public and private water service lines made of lead or galvanized pipe, to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Lead and Copper Rule Revisions and Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, which require 100% lead pipe replacement within 10 years beginning in 2027, and that city staff have set a goal of completion by December 2027, subject to the Texas Water Development Board's review schedule. The memo says the TWDB invited the city in May 2024 to apply for funding of up to $14,982,440 at 51% principal forgiveness and 49% loan, that the application has been approved, and that after the inventory phase the estimated replacement cost was reduced to approximately $6 million, so the certificates are capped at $3,000,000 as the city's 49% share. The certificates would be sold directly to the TWDB at a rate set by its Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program and carry a taxable rate because private service lines are included; debt service would be paid solely from Water Utility rate revenues, with no property tax revenue and no effect on the Interest & Sinking tax rate. Of the $3,000,000, approximately $2,872,500 would go to the project fund, $67,500 to costs of issuance and $60,000 to the TWDB loan origination fee. The financial advisor's preliminary estimate, at a 5.00% rate over 20 years, is annual debt service of approximately $245,000, total debt service of approximately $4,741,583, and a first-year interest-only payment in FY27 of approximately $94,583. If approved, the notice would be published in the Weatherford Democrat on Oct. 17 and Oct. 24, the ordinance authorizing issuance is anticipated before the council on Dec. 15, 2026, and closing with the TWDB is anticipated on or about Jan. 14, 2027.

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Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 13, 2026 council agenda, item 8.d, and agenda report 2026-1089-AR (Rick Shaffer, Director of Water Utilities), read 5:20 a.m. Oct. 8

Based on DRAFT minutes, not yet approved: Draft minutes of Sept. 22, attached to the Oct. 13 agenda for approval, record 5-0 votes to join the 287(g) Task Force Model with ICE, to join the Parker County Public Utility Agency and to buy a $2,457,711 Holland Lake Park playground; the archive still shows no minutes for Sept. 22 or Sept. 24

These are draft minutes attached to the Oct. 13 agenda; the council had not approved them as of this edition. The Oct. 13 agenda's item 6.a asks the council to approve the minutes of its Sept. 22 meeting, and the draft minutes are attached to the agenda. They record that the council voted 5-0 on item 7.g to authorize the City Manager to execute a Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for Weatherford Police Department participation in the Section 287(g) Task Force Model; the draft says Chief of Police Jason Hayes presented the request and explained that a small number of selected officers would receive federal training and limited immigration enforcement authority while performing their normal duties, and that one resident expressed concerns with participation before the vote. The draft also records 5-0 votes to adopt Resolution R2026-20 joining in the formation of the Parker County Public Utility Agency, with Mayor Paschall requesting an update in one year; to approve Whirlix Design, Inc. for the Holland Lake Park playground for a total expenditure of $2,457,711, with construction to begin in late October 2026 and completion anticipated in June 2027; to adopt Resolution R2026-15, the 2026 City Council Policy Manual; to set a fiscal year meeting schedule with two meetings in November 2026, one in December and two in July 2027; to adopt Resolution R2026-19 setting the Oct. 13 impact fee hearing; and to renew fleet maintenance contracts with 2033 Automotive and Black Fox Services at a combined amount not to exceed $175,000. The consent agenda, approved 5-0, included an Axon Enterprise, Inc. TASER 10 agreement not to exceed $303,383, a legal services agreement with Taylor, Olson, Adkins, Sralla & Elam, LLP not to exceed $400,000, Ordinance O2026-35 adopting the FY27 fee schedule, a $308,404 Freightliner trash truck and up to $120,000 for a 2027 Chevrolet Tahoe police vehicle. The meeting ran from 6:02 to 7:08 p.m. These are draft minutes until the council approves them; the Granicus archive as of 5:19 a.m. Oct. 8 still lists the Sept. 22 council and Sept. 24 Municipal Utility Board meetings with an agenda, a packet and a video and no minutes, 16 and 14 days after the meetings.

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Where it stands: The Sept. 22 council and Sept. 24 Municipal Utility Board minutes were not posted on Granicus as of Oct. 4; the Sept. 8 council minutes, posted Oct. 2, are the newest.

Source: Draft minutes of the Sept. 22, 2026 City Council meeting (09.22.26 CC Minutes, five pages), attached to item 6.a of the Oct. 13 agenda on Granicus; Granicus archive page, read 5:19 a.m. Oct. 8

1726 North Main annexation and commercial rezoning return to the council Oct. 13 after no action Aug. 25; the city's building official inspected the ten structures Sept. 29 and Oct. 1

Items 8.b and 8.c are public hearings on Ordinance O2026-32, a voluntary annexation of a 9.434-acre tract owned by Pat and John's Adventures and Investments Dedicated to St Joseph LLC., and Ordinance O2026-31, a General Plan and Zoning Map Amendment from AG Agriculture to C1 General Commercial on the same tract at 1726 North Main. The annexation memo says the property is in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction and contiguous to the city limits, that the request was presented to the council Aug. 25, 2026 and the council did not take action, that the Building Official inspected the ten existing structures on Sept. 29 and found a small number of minor code items, and that a follow-up inspection Oct. 1 confirmed all had been corrected. It says Parker County had identified an unpermitted on-site sewage system serving a laundromat on the property, that a county follow-up inspection Sept. 8 confirmed the laundromat had been voluntarily shut down until sewer service could be obtained, and that the county lifted its notice of violation. If annexed, the tract takes AG zoning until the amendment is approved. The zoning memo lists the applicant as Kellan Black, says the property contains an existing business park that the applicant proposes to expand with additional commercial buildings and a restaurant, and says the Planning & Zoning Commission voted 6-0 on Aug. 12 to recommend approval; the applicant also asks to change the Future Land Use Plan designation from Manufacturing & Warehouse and Suburban Living to Community Commercial. The P&Z's Oct. 14 agenda carries a final plat for the same tract as North Weatherford Business Park Addition, one lot on approximately 9.434 acres. Staff recommends approval of both ordinances.

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Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 13, 2026 council agenda, items 8.b and 8.c, agenda reports 2026-1084-AR and 2026-1085-AR (Scott McDonald, Director of Development Services); Oct. 14, 2026 Planning & Zoning Commission agenda, item 3.e; read 5:20 a.m. Oct. 8

Downtown square: a proposed 10-year interlocal agreement would give the city authority to operate and maintain the four corners of the Courthouse Square and the county's York Avenue and West Spring Street parking lots

Item 8.g asks the council to authorize the City Manager to enter into an Interlocal Agreement with Parker County for the operation, management and maintenance of downtown properties. The staff memo says the city already maintains the stone walls, sidewalks and bollards around the Courthouse Square, plants the median flower beds, maintains the trees and paves and stripes the parking lots, and that the agreement formalizes those responsibilities at all four corners of the square and adds the county parking lots at York Avenue and West Spring Street, which the city does not currently maintain. Under the agreement the city would set parking and pedestrian rules, install signage, and approve license or encroachment agreements for business use; the county retains use of the properties for official county business, including court operations, and county-sponsored special events would go through the city's special event permit process. The city would get a right of first refusal if the county sells the properties. The initial term is ten years with automatic ten-year renewals unless either party gives 180 days notice; the agreement does not transfer ownership. The memo lists the financial impact as N/A.

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Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 13, 2026 council agenda, item 8.g, and agenda report 2026-1102-AR (Chad Marbut, Assistant City Manager), read 5:20 a.m. Oct. 8

Also on the Oct. 13 agenda: $745,497.53 for breathing apparatus and fire equipment, a $230,081 Fire Station 3 generator, $700,000 in road materials, $600,000 in concrete work, $267,000 for Tyler Technologies, and an executive session on Project Apex

The regular agenda includes item 8.e, purchases from Casco Industries, Inc. not to exceed $745,497.53, which the staff memo breaks into a $665,497.53 Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus purchase, reduced from a budgeted $778,866 by a buy-one-get-one promotion on cylinders, plus up to $80,000 in other FY27 purchases; Parker County Emergency Services District No. 3 approved $120,649.61 of the SCBA purchase for 12 SCBA, 24 cylinders, 12 facepieces and one rapid intervention kit. The consent agenda carries a $230,081 construction contract with McDonald Municipal & Industrial for the Fire Station 3 Emergency Stand-by Power Generator, the lowest of six bids opened Sept. 22, funded in part by FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program award 4586-0263 of $185,784 with reimbursement of up to $167,205.60 and an anticipated net city cost of $62,875.40, for a station the memo says opened in 2001 without a permanent backup generator; Bid #2026-019 for annual aggregate and road materials to Reynolds Asphalt and Construction Company and Texas Materials Group, Inc., combined not to exceed $700,000; the third and final renewal of Bid 2023-015 for miscellaneous concrete improvements with Garcia Welding, not to exceed $600,000; Tyler Technologies support contracts not to exceed $267,000; a Siddons Martin Emergency Group services agreement for fire vehicle maintenance not to exceed $115,000; fire and police uniforms from M-Pak, Inc. not to exceed $130,000; and the FY27 Tarrant County Regional Auto Crimes Task Force interlocal agreement. Item 8.a is the Texas Municipal League Region 8 director ballot, with staff recommending Mary Sarver. Item 5 lists a proclamation in recognition of Virginia Cotten Scott and a proclamation declaring October 2026 Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Item 10.a is an executive session under Section 551.087 on economic development negotiations for Project Apex.

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Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 13, 2026 council agenda and agenda reports 2026-1095-AR, 2026-1096-AR and 2026-1091-AR, read 5:20 a.m. Oct. 8

Planning & Zoning, Oct. 14: a fueling-station permit on 7.341 acres at 1802 Old Brock Road, a 48-acre single-family rezoning at Causbie Road and Old Airport Road, and a Nov. 4 meeting date in place of Nov. 11

The commission's Oct. 14 agenda at 2:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers lists a public hearing on a Conditional Use Permit for Fueling Station use on an approximate 7.341-acre tract at 1802 Old Brock Road, case CUP-26-0007; a public hearing on a Zoning Map Amendment from AG Agriculture to SF 7.5 Single Family 7.5 with a Planned Unit Development overlay on an approximate 48-acre tract at the northeast corner of Causbie Road and Old Airport Road, case ZCH-26-0014, with Heritage Park Estates Design Standards among the attachments; final plat approval for Hook'em Subdivision, one residential lot on approximately 0.336 acres at the northwest corner of East Simmons and Bois D Arc Street; final plat approval for North Weatherford Business Park Addition at 1726 North Main; and a staff recommendation to reschedule the Nov. 11 regular meeting to Nov. 4 because of Veterans Day. The commission also takes up approval of its Aug. 12 minutes. Staff recommends approval of each case. Granicus's upcoming-meetings list, which rendered seven October rows on Oct. 7, rendered 103 rows on Oct. 8 running through Dec. 30, 2027, with agenda and packet links for Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 only; the Ledger's calendar now carries the 2027 city meeting dates as posted.

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Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 14, 2026 Planning & Zoning Commission agenda, posted to Granicus Oct. 7; Granicus upcoming-meetings list; read 5:20 a.m. Oct. 8

Burn ban: 157 counties on the state list stamped 2:27 p.m. Oct. 7, down from 163 the day before; Parker County still listed, Hood, Johnson and Denton still not

The Texas A&M Forest Service list stamped 2:27 p.m. Oct. 7 carries 157 counties under a burn ban, Parker County among them, with Tarrant, Palo Pinto, Wise, Jack, Erath and Somervell also listed and Hood, Johnson and Denton not listed. The list stamped 2:05 p.m. Oct. 6, as the Ledger carried it Oct. 7, had 163 counties with the same nine neighbors listed the same way.

Source: Texas A&M Forest Service burn-ban county list, feed stamp 10/7/2026 2:27:19 PM, read 5:18 a.m. Oct. 8; the Oct. 6 list as the Ledger carried it in the Oct. 7 edition

Ribbon cutting, JAG Metals, 10 a.m., 1813 Banks Drive

Source: per Parker County Chamber of Commerce

Applications due for the Weatherford ISD Facility Planning Committee

The committee will examine the district's long-term facility and capital needs and help develop recommendations for consideration by the Board of Trustees; the notice says the work does not assume that a bond proposal will move forward, that applicants must live within Weatherford ISD boundaries, and that four meetings are planned: Oct. 26, Nov. 9, Dec. 7 and Jan. 7, 2027.

What you can do. Apply through the link in the district's Sept. 21 notice by Friday, Oct. 9.

Source: Weatherford ISD news, published Sept. 21, 2026, read Oct. 8

Kangaroos at Arlington Lamar, 7 p.m., University of Texas at Arlington, District 3-6A

Weatherford is 3-2 and 1-1 in district, sixth in the Ledger's compilation of MaxPreps team pages refreshed Oct. 8, and Arlington Lamar is 3-2 and 1-1, fifth, with Lamar 3-0 on the road and 0-2 at home; Lamar lost to Little Elm 30-10 and to Arlington Bowie 29-23 and beat Crowley 35-31, Northwest 33-15 and Arlington 41-31, per the same compilation. Arlington Martin, 5-0 and 2-0, plays at Arlington Sam Houston tonight, per MaxPreps. The district's schedule lists the site as University of Texas at Arlington; the game is away, so the district's HomeTown Ticketing page for home games does not apply.

What you can do. Kickoff 7 p.m., per Weatherford ISD Athletics; volleyball plays at Arlington Lamar the same evening at 5:30 p.m., per the district's page as of Oct. 8. Friday night in Weatherford: clear, low around 64, per the NWS.

Source: Weatherford ISD Athletics football and volleyball schedules, read Oct. 8; MaxPreps District 3-6A team pages, compiled Oct. 8; NWS forecast, generated 5:19 a.m. Oct. 8

Weatherford College Lone Star Region Rodeo, 6:30 p.m., Parker County Sheriff's Posse, 2251 Mineral Wells Highway

Friday, Oct. 9 and Saturday, Oct. 10, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., as the chamber lists it.

Source: per Parker County Chamber of Commerce

Monster Bash, 6 p.m., 503 Santa Fe Drive

What you can do. Listed on the city's calendar for Oct. 10 from 6 p.m. at 503 Santa Fe Drive.

Source: City of Weatherford calendar RSS, read Oct. 8

City Council, 6 p.m., City Hall, 303 Palo Pinto St.: public hearings on impact fees and the 1726 North Main annexation and zoning

The agenda and packet posted to Granicus Oct. 7; the items are above. Volleyball hosts Granbury the same evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Weatherford NGC Activity Center, per Weatherford ISD Athletics.

What you can do. Public participation and written comments are invited on all open session business items, per the agenda; to speak on a non-agenda item, turn in a speaker card to the Secretary five minutes before the start of the meeting, three minutes per speaker.

Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 13, 2026 council agenda on Granicus and the city's calendar RSS, read Oct. 8; Weatherford ISD Athletics volleyball schedule, read Oct. 8

Planning & Zoning Commission, 2:30 p.m., City Hall, 303 Palo Pinto St.: fueling station, 48-acre rezoning, two final plats

The agenda and packet posted to Granicus Oct. 7; the items are above.

What you can do. Public hearings on the Old Brock Road fueling station and the Causbie Road rezoning are on the agenda; cases go to the council afterward.

Source: City of Weatherford Oct. 14, 2026 Planning & Zoning Commission agenda on Granicus and the city's calendar RSS, read Oct. 8

Coffee with a Cop, 9 a.m., 1225 Holland Lake Drive; Pet Vaccination and Microchip Clinic, 9 to 11 a.m., 403 Hickory Lane

What you can do. Both are on the city's calendar for Oct. 15; the draft Sept. 22 council minutes list the clinic at the Animal Shelter.

Source: City of Weatherford calendar RSS and the draft Sept. 22, 2026 council minutes on Granicus, read Oct. 8

Trackers: where each matter stands

Impact fees, the lead service line program, the Parker County Public Utility Agency and the other matters the Ledger follows, with the record behind each.

The calendar you can subscribe to

Every posted city, district and county meeting, now with the city's 2027 dates as Granicus lists them, plus the Kangaroos schedule.