The Kyle Report: KPD accepting applications for victim services tra...

The Kyle Report: KPD accepting applications for victim services tra...: The Kyle Police Department is currently accepting applications from anyone who wishes to become a victims services volunteer, a person train...

The Kyle Report: City to sponsor bulky trash, hazardous waste drop-off

The Kyle Report: City to sponsor bulky trash, hazardous waste drop-off: Got any old batteries, cell phone, fluorescent lights, you want to get rid of safely and legally? How about old furniture, mattresses or tir...

The Kyle Report: City manager outlines Heroes Park groundbreaking, ...

The Kyle Report: City manager outlines Heroes Park groundbreaking, ...:  City Manager Scott Sellers told the city council Tuesday night the groundbreaking for the Heroes Memorial Park will take place Memorial Day...

The Kyle Report: How the city council voted Tuesday night

The Kyle Report: How the city council voted Tuesday night:  CONSENT AGENDA Item 7: Approve a development agreement between City of Kyle and Meritage Homes of Texas, LLC or assigns. Item 8: Terminatio...

The Kyle Report: Council passes sex offender residency ordinance

The Kyle Report: Council passes sex offender residency ordinance: The city council unanimously approved on second and final reading last night an ordinance designed to discourage certain sex offenders from ...

The Kyle Report: A challenge to Kyle City Council members: Persuade...

The Kyle Report: A challenge to Kyle City Council members: Persuade...:  I’ve received considerable feedback from readers concerning the article I wrote and published just prior to this one. I can’t say for sure,...

The Kyle Report: Going out on The Wire to condemn Kyle’s “Hamsterdams”

The Kyle Report: Going out on The Wire to condemn Kyle’s “Hamsterdams”: To me, HBO’s The Wire is the best television series ever. And when I say “ever,” I really mean it — the best show I have seen in my lifetime...

The Kyle Report: City says it has upgraded its utility billing system

The Kyle Report: City says it has upgraded its utility billing system:  City officials announced today it has “upgraded” its online billing system, effective today, “that allows customers more on-demand access t...

The Kyle Report: City to host business development webinar

The Kyle Report: City to host business development webinar: The city’s Economic Development Department is partnering with the Kyle Chamber of Commerce and Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area to hos...

The Kyle Report: Mass COVID vaccine distribution set for next month...

The Kyle Report: Mass COVID vaccine distribution set for next month...: City Manager Scott Sellers announced last night a mass COVID 19 vaccination event will be held between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, May 16, at ...

The Kyle Report: How the City Council Voted Tuesday Night

The Kyle Report: How the City Council Voted Tuesday Night:  CONSENT AGENDA Declaring additional parks maintenance equipment as surplus and directing city staff to identify equipment to be place on th...

The Kyle Report: City to co-host food distribution event next weekend

The Kyle Report: City to co-host food distribution event next weekend: The Central Texas Food Bank in partnership with the City of Kyle and Texas Disposal Systems will be hosting a mass food distribution April 2...

The Kyle Report: Property valuations: today's actual numbers don’t ...

The Kyle Report: Property valuations: today's actual numbers don’t ...:  Up. There’s no doubt that’s the direction Kyle is heading when it comes to property valuations. Of course, that’s not exactly news — Kyle h...

The Kyle Report: Kyle’s commercial property valuations soar to reco...

The Kyle Report: Kyle’s commercial property valuations soar to reco...: The Kyle Report has learned that the commercial property valuations in the city increased this year more than in the last six years combine...

The Kyle Report: Proposed recycling plan helps but it doesn’t go ne...

The Kyle Report: Proposed recycling plan helps but it doesn’t go ne...: Council member Dex Ellison tag-teamed with Chief of Staff Jerry Hendrix at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting to unveil a proposed plan to...

The Kyle Report: How the City Council Voted Tuesday

The Kyle Report: How the City Council Voted Tuesday:  APPOINTMENTS Item 6: Consider approval of a resolution confirming the reappointments of Tim Samford, James Earp, and Derrick Turley to the ...

The Kyle Report: The Kyle City Council is a mess

The Kyle Report: The Kyle City Council is a mess: There’s a semi-joke enjoyed by sports afficionados about attending a boxing match when suddenly a hockey game breaks out. I have that same k...

The Kyle Report: Just when it would seem the City would want public...

The Kyle Report: Just when it would seem the City would want public...:  As part of its ambitious plan to remake Mary Kyle Hartson City Square Park, the City is planning on constructing a building across Burleson...

The Kyle Report: City announces Easter-related activities, summer camp

The Kyle Report: City announces Easter-related activities, summer camp:  City manager Scott Sellers informed the City Council Tuesday about a series of Easter-related events, including an Easter-egg hunt and a ph...

The Kyle Report: How the Council voted Tuesday night

The Kyle Report: How the Council voted Tuesday night: (Editor’s note): Mayor pro tem Rick Koch was not present at the beginning of the meeting. CONSENT AGENDA Item 6: Consider a resolution susp...

The Kyle Report: Police still investigating hoax call

The Kyle Report: Police still investigating hoax call: The Kyle Police Department continues to investigate the prank call involving an active shooter that alarmed the Silverado subdivision yester...

The Kyle Report: Once again, City seeks resident input with annual ...

The Kyle Report: Once again, City seeks resident input with annual ...:  The City has placed its 2021 survey on-line ( click here to take the survey ). City Manager Scott Sellers not only uses the results of the ...

The Kyle Report: Sellers fails to say the words citizens wanted to ...

The Kyle Report: Sellers fails to say the words citizens wanted to ...:  On Sept. 29, 1982, the first person in the Chicago area died after taking an Extra Strength Tylenol that had been deliberately contaminated...

The Kyle Report: Our sex offenders are OK, yours are degenerates

The Kyle Report: Our sex offenders are OK, yours are degenerates: The City Council once again postponed action last night on a proposed sex offender ordinance so that the city attorney could add language th...

The Kyle Report: How the City Council voted Tuesday night

The Kyle Report: How the City Council voted Tuesday night:   CONSENT AGENDA Item 12: Consider authorizing the city manager to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City of Kyle and ...

The Kyle Report: The semi-impossible revitalization task facing P&Z

The Kyle Report: The semi-impossible revitalization task facing P&Z: The Planning & Zoning Commission held the first of what promises to be dozens of meetings Wednesday night to figure out what the City Co...

The Kyle Report: The nature and challenges of downtown revitalization

The Kyle Report: The nature and challenges of downtown revitalization:  Following an apples-to-oranges discussion that was, for the most part, wildly off-subject, the City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to dire...

The Kyle Report: Council erects barriers to affordable housing in Kyle

The Kyle Report: Council erects barriers to affordable housing in Kyle:  Affordable rental housing has three requirements. The first requirement is that it be housing, places where individuals can actually live. ...

The Kyle Report: How the City Council voted Tuesday night

The Kyle Report: How the City Council voted Tuesday night:  APPOINTMENTS Item 4: Appointment of Brandon James to the Planning and Zoning Commission to fill unexpired term. Approved 7-0 Item 5: Reappo...

The Kyle Report: Kyle is missing one sex offender

The Kyle Report: Kyle is missing one sex offender: Two weeks after unveiling a proposal to (1) effectively prohibit sex offenders from moving to Kyle and/or (2) creating sex offender ghettos ...

The Kyle Report: City seeking volunteers for one-day trash pickup d...

The Kyle Report: City seeking volunteers for one-day trash pickup d...: The Blanco River comes close, I guess, but really there aren’t any rivers flowing through Kyle. That minor inconvenience, however, is not st...

The Kyle Report: Hays County: When they get it right ...

The Kyle Report: Hays County: When they get it right ...:  Last month, I wrote a story about how Hays County officials totally botched its Covid vaccine distribution with a plan that made receiving ...

The Kyle Report: Council endorses new name for Rebel Drive

The Kyle Report: Council endorses new name for Rebel Drive: The City Council last night seconded the recommendation of the committee it appointed to come up with a new name for Rebel Drive and said it...

The Kyle Report: Kyle police call city “hotbed for sex offenders”

The Kyle Report: Kyle police call city “hotbed for sex offenders”: You can add yet another distinction to the city of Kyle. In addition to being “The Pie Capital of Texas” and whatever honor the city plans t...

The Kyle Report: How the Council voted Tuesday night

The Kyle Report: How the Council voted Tuesday night: APPOINTMENTS Item 4: Consider nominations and take possible action for reappointment of Lana Nicholson to the Kyle Parks and Recreation Boar...

The Kyle Report: Chief Barnett to propose zones to keep out sex off...

The Kyle Report: Chief Barnett to propose zones to keep out sex off...:  Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett plans to introduce a proposed ordinance Tuesday that would create “child safety zones” in the city to protec...

The Kyle Report: Hey Hays County! It’s so much easier to be competent!

The Kyle Report: Hey Hays County! It’s so much easier to be competent!: Hays County’s Friday Covid-19 vaccine registration was a blatant — one could easily argue criminally negligent — display of bureaucratic ine...

The Kyle Report: “Dialog” seeks to promote understanding

The Kyle Report: “Dialog” seeks to promote understanding: Part of the brilliance, at least to me, of Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Looming Tower is that the reader can learn to unders...

The Kyle Report: Kyle has plans, but are they the right ones

The Kyle Report: Kyle has plans, but are they the right ones:  Writing in the latest edition of the Hays Free Press , David Abdel, who, one would hope, should know better since he recently ran for mayor...

The Kyle Report: How the City Council voted Tuesday night

The Kyle Report: How the City Council voted Tuesday night:   Appointments Item 4: Appointment by council member Ashlee Bradshaw of Amanda McCullough for a position on City of Kyle Ethics Commission. ...

The Kyle Report: That pesky “fajita” business is back

The Kyle Report: That pesky “fajita” business is back: Remember when the City Council tried to change the name of Rebel Road to Fajita Drive? Remember the reasoning behind it? The fajita was inve...

The Kyle Report: Kyle’s economy considerably stronger than rest of ...

The Kyle Report: Kyle’s economy considerably stronger than rest of ...:  Directly contradicting national and statewide economic indicators in the midst of a global pandemic, Kyle’s economy seems to be stronger th...

The Kyle Report: Lack of vision still neuters P&Z

The Kyle Report: Lack of vision still neuters P&Z:  A Planning and Zoning Commission has two distinct functions. One is planning. The second is  zoning. Kyle’s Planning and Zoning Commission ...

The Kyle Report: Hays CISD cancels Monday’s in-school, virtual classes

The Kyle Report: Hays CISD cancels Monday’s in-school, virtual classes:  Hays CISD officials announced this evening that all classes — both in-school and virtual — scheduled for Monday have been cancelled due to ...

The Kyle Report: Council splits over Ethics Commission nominee

The Kyle Report: Council splits over Ethics Commission nominee:  In the overall scheme of things, 13.36 seconds is not that great a period of time. It might not seem like that long an interval. But, think...

The Kyle Report: How the council voted Tuesday night

The Kyle Report: How the council voted Tuesday night:  CONSENT AGENDA Item 9: Authorize the City's Director of Finance to dispose through an auction facility four (4) City-owned police vehic...

The Kyle Report: Koch gets second term as mayor pro tem

The Kyle Report: Koch gets second term as mayor pro tem: The City Council voted unanimously last night to award District 5's Rick Koch a second consecutive one-year term as mayor pro tem after ...

The Kyle Report: City to auction street signs, police cars, other v...

The Kyle Report: City to auction street signs, police cars, other v...:  Want a 1998 Chevy 3500 diesel that was once a Kyle Police vehicle? How about 2010 Crown Vic or a “retired” Burleson Road street sign? The c...

The Kyle Report: New name for (late, not lamented) Rebel Drive is o...

The Kyle Report: New name for (late, not lamented) Rebel Drive is o...:  Hopefully, everyone by now knows the story of Rebel Drive/Fajita Drive and I see no reason to relitigate all that mess once again. That’s h...

The Kyle Report: Local mobile COVID testing center now by appointme...

The Kyle Report: Local mobile COVID testing center now by appointme...: Due to increased volume, the mobile COVID-19 testing site located at the Hays ISD Performing Arts Center will perform tests for the virus by...