City staff outlines community engagement plan for ‘Historic Colored Edition’ beautification project

Brianna Miller, director of management services for the City of Flugerville, told the Equity Advisory Board on Wednesday that staff are beginning phase one of the newly adopted Historic Colored Edition beautification project, known in the presentation as HCA. "I'm Brianna Miller, director of management services for the city of Flugerville, and I am excited to talk about the historic color edition beautifification plan," she said.

Why it matters: The HCA plan combines signage, public art and historic-designation work intended to preserve and interpret neighborhood stories. Miller said the City expects phase one to focus on listening sessions and oral histories that will inform later decisions about signage and public-art placement, and that staff are coordinating with the Flugerville Public Libraries' digital history project to archive collected stories.

Staff overview and next steps: Miller described a three-phase approach: phase one (engagement, oral histories, signage-location analysis and historic-designation research), phase two (signage design, public-art themes and approvals) and phase three (installation and stewardship). She said staff are currently working on the signage-location analysis and that a public-art location analysis will follow. "I'll send this Equity Advisory Board a draft community engagement plan by the end of June," Miller said, listing deliverables that will accompany the draft: a stakeholder map, a listening-session outline, a high-level engagement timeline and an oral-history framework addressing consent, recording and filing.

Board input and process: Board members urged concrete deliverables and a clear feedback loop. They asked for a stakeholder map, historical themes to guide sessions, and a community advisory board or subcommittee with representatives of founding families and St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church. Board members also discussed who should facilitate listening sessions and recommended that staff attend all sessions to record and summarize findings while subcommittee or board members lead facilitation.

Timing and contingency planning: Staff proposed a schedule to help time the engagement work to infrastructure and funding milestones: provide the draft by end of June, accept board comments by July 24, adopt a plan at the Aug. 10 meeting, finalize listening-session dates in September and begin sessions in October with a target of completing story collection by March (staff noted construction associated with the project is not expected to finish until summer 2027). Miller also warned that certain installation opportunities depend on the outcome of a possible parks bond measure in the November election; if the bond passes, Reunion Park (a publicly owned site in the HCA neighborhood) would be a preferred location for public art.

Community outreach lessons: Staff reviewed lessons from prior listening tours: avoid summer scheduling, provide language access and surveys (staff reported offering English and Spanish surveys previously), hold sessions at accessible neighborhood locations rather than relying purely on people coming to City Hall, and balance midweek evening and occasional Saturday-morning options to improve attendance.

Public comment and meeting business: During the public-comment period, resident Naen Hendris Mackel Roy, who identified himself as a member of St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church, thanked the city council for accepting a related resolution and said he has applied for a position on the equity board. The board also approved the May 11, 2026 meeting minutes; the chair announced the motion passed but no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.

What’s next: Staff committed to circulating the draft community engagement plan before the board’s next meeting and requested written feedback by July 24 so the board could act on the plan at its Aug. 10 meeting. No formal action on the HCA plan itself was taken at tonight’s meeting.