# City Council on October 20, 2026


**Body:** CityofWichitaFalls
**Date:** October 19, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Construction & Infrastructure, Public Safety, Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding


The Wichita Falls City Council meeting on October 20, 2026, approved the consent agenda, including several purchasing and funding resolutions. Purchases included a sewer-cleaning unit from Houston Freightliner for $591,191; a forklift from Crown Lift Trucks for $119,448; dump trucks from Lone Star Truck Group for $243,303.08 and $260,668.08; 165 Axon tasers and related items for $997,425; a John Deere articulated truck and water tank from Yellow House Machinery for $773,250; and refuse trucks from Bruckner Truck Sales totaling $1,998,211 across three purchases. The council also authorized up to $800,000 from housing voucher administrative fee reserves for a 2026 housing assistance payment shortfall, and approved up to $1.5 million in Type A and Type B sales tax corporation funding for Shepherd Air Force Base runway-overrun repairs. Two excess city parcels were approved for sale for a combined $7,154.

On the regular agenda, the council approved applying for and accepting a $2.95 million Texas Military Preparedness Commission grant for the Shepherd Air Force Base Runway 33L South overrun repair project; the roughly $6 million project is also expected to receive $1.45 million from the Department of War and the previously approved $1.5 million in local sales-tax corporation funding, contingent on the grant award. The council approved purchasing a fire department administration building and parking facility from 2B Holding Company LLC for $440,000, and approved a $177,535.69 supplemental flood-mitigation engineering agreement with HTR Engineering. The flood work will support a request to FEMA to revise flood maps; no construction contract was awarded. No other procurement-related policy changes were identified.

**Source:** CityofWichitaFalls