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[1. CALL SESSION TO ORDER ]
WE'LL CALL THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 2023 TO ORDER.WE'LL START WITH, UH, ROLL CALL COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON.
NEXT, WE'LL BE LED AN INVOCATION TONIGHT BY PASTOR ARTHUR L. SPENCE FROM LITTLE EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, IF YOU'LL PLEASE STAND.
SHALL WE PRAY? HEAVEN, FATHER LORD, WE COME NOW, LORD, JUST TO GIVE YOU THANKS HEAVEN.
FATHER LORD, WE ASK YOU AND FATHER TO BLESS THIS MEETING THAT WE HAVE IN STORE FAMILY.
FATHER, WE ASK LORD TO HAVE YOUR HOLY SPIRIT AMONGST US.
HEAVEN, FATHER LORD, LET IT BE ABLE TO FILL UP THE ROOM, LORD JESUS.
LORD, MAY IT BE ABLE HEAVEN, FATHER, TO BLESS EVERYONE THAT'S HERE, LORD.
THAT'S EVERY HOUSEHOLD, HEAVENLY FATHER THAT'S REPRESENTED.
LORD, WE ASK LORD TO TOUCH LORD THAT ARE HERE.
HEAVEN, FATHER LORD, WE THANK YOU, LORD FOR YOUR BLESSINGS.
THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR MIRACLES, LORD.
AND THANK YOU LORD FOR LETTING US BE ABLE TO SEE ONE MORE DAY, LORD.
LORD, WE GIVE YOU ALL THE HONOR.
WE GIVE YOU ALL THE PRAISE, LORD, AS WE LEAVE THIS PLACE AS WELL.
LORD, HAVE YOUR ANGELS AND PROTECTION AROUND US.
LORD, MAKE OUR, MAKE OUR DAYS, LORD, AND OUR DESTINATIONS BETTER THAN WHERE WE LEFT THEM.
FATHER, WE GIVE YOU ALL THE HONOR IN JESUS' NAME AND EVERYBODY IN THE HOUSE SAID, AMEN.
PLEASE THROW ME IN A PLACE I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, AN INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FRAUD.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD.
ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE PROCLAMATIONS.
[5.1. Domestic Violence Proclamation]
IF THE COUNCIL WILL JOIN ME UP FRONT.UH, FIRST WE HAVE THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROCLAMATION.
I WAS AT, I WAS AT YOUR WEDDING.
AND ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER H P D AND SUPPORT STAFF I THOUGHT WAS KY.
THIS IS A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH.
WHEREAS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A SERIOUS AND PERVASIVE CRIME AFFECTING MORE THAN 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES EVERY YEAR.
AND WHEREAS INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST PREVALENT, YET UNDER-REPORTED CRIMES IN THE NATION, ON AVERAGE, NEARLY 20 PEOPLE PER MINUTE ARE PHYSICALLY HARMED BY AN INTIMATE PARTNER IN THE UNITED STATES.
ONE IN THREE TEXANS WILL EXPERIENCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THEIR LIFETIME.
AND WHEREAS RACISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA, AGEISM, AND DISCRIMINATION BASED ON PHYSICAL ABILITY, NATIONALITY, OR OTHER FACTORS, HELP TO PERPETUATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MAKE FINDING HELP AND SAFETY DIFFICULT FOR MANY VICTIMS. AND WHEREAS ANY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE REQUIRES COMMUNITY AWARENESS, THE COURAGE AND SAFETY OF SURVIVORS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, THE SUPPORTIVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, THE COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, SAFE SHELTERS AND VICTIM ADVOCATES.
AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF HUDA JOINS OTHERS ACROSS THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS AND THE NATION IN SUPPORTING VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS WELL AS LOCAL PROGRAMS, STATE COALITIONS, NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER AGENCIES NATIONWIDE, WHO ARE COMMITTED TO INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SENDING A CLEAR MESSAGE TO ABUSERS THAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NOT TOLERATED IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
THEREFORE, WE CALL UPON ALL HU DDO CITIZENS, CITY LEADERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICES, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICIALS, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, ADVOCATES, AND ALL DIRECT CARE PROGRAMS TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ACTIVELY SUPPORT PREVENTIVE EFFORTS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS BY ASSISTING FAMILY, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS WHO ARE SURVIVORS OF VIOLENT CRIMES TO FIND SAFETY AND LIVE THEIR LIVES FREE FROM HARM.
NOW THEREFORE, WE, THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF HUDU, TO HEREBY PROCLAIM OCTOBER AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS THIS MONTH IN THE CITY OF HUDU.
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KYLA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOME WORDS? SURE.I'M THE VICTIM'S ASSISTANT COORDINATOR FOR THE HUDDLE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
I'M SO HONORED TO BE HERE TODAY.
I THANK OUR CITY COUNCIL, OUR MAYOR, OUR UH, ASSISTANT, OUR CHIEF OF POLICE, OUR ASSISTANT CHIEF, AND ALL THE OFFICERS AND SUPPORTIVE, UH, PERSONNEL THAT ARE HERE, THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND, UM, ONE OF THE GREAT ORGANIZATIONS THAT HELP US DO OUR JOB IN MAKING SURE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS GET THE HEALING THAT THEY DESERVE IS HOPE ALLIANCE.
AND THEY'RE HERE TODAY, AND I'M SO HONORED TO HAVE THEIR LEADERSHIP TEAM HERE, AND I JUST WANNA PASS THE MIC TO THEM IF THEY CAN SAY SOMETHING VERY BRIEFLY.
HI, I AM JIMMY WITH HOPE ALLIANCE.
I'M THE VP OF CLIENT SERVICES, AND THIS IS DONNA.
AND LARRY, HE IS A FINANCIAL, ONE OF OUR FINANCIAL ADVISORS.
AND, UM, WE DO, WE PROVIDE HOPE, WE PROVIDE HEALING.
WE HAVE ONE HERE IN HURO, AND WE, WE HAVE ONE IN ROUND ROCK.
UM, WE PROVIDE COUNSELING, UM, ADULTS, CHILDREN, WE PROVIDE LEGAL ADVOCACY.
UM, MANY PEOPLE COME TO US AND THEY HAVE LOST HOPE.
THEY HAVEN'T HAD HOPE IN A VERY LONG TIME.
AND SO WE WORK VERY HARD TO RESTORE THAT HOPE AND GIVE THEM THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED, UM, TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES.
SO WE REALLY LOVE THE WORK THAT WE DO, UM, AND ARE HAPPY TO BE HERE.
THANKS, COUNCIL MEMBER JORDAN SUPPORTING THE PURPLE SHIRT.
[5.2. Anti-Bullying Month Proclamation ]
HAVE AN ANTI-BULLYING PROCLAMATION.IF THERE'S ANYBODY FROM, WE DO, WE HAVE COUNSELORS FROM HOW DO I S WE FOCUS ON CHARACTER EDUCATION IN THE HIPA WAY.
WE'VE GOT SOME STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE HIPAA WAY, CHARACTER EDUCATION.
AND THEN WE'VE GOT MS. KYLIE FROM HU MIDDLE SCHOOL WHO IS A, AN ADVOCATE FOR ANTI-BULLYING.
AND SHE WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER TODAY.
UH, THIS IS A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING BULLYING PREVENTION MONTH.
WHEREAS BULLYING IS DEFINED AS UNWANTED AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OR INTIMIDATION THAT MAY INFLICT PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, OR SOCIAL HARM ON A PERSON OR GROUP OF PEOPLE.
AND WHEREAS BULLYING HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY PREVALENT AND DAMAGING TO CHILDREN AND ADULTS, ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY, ALSO KNOWN AS CYBER BULLYING.
AND WHEREAS VARIOUS RESEARCHERS HAVE CONCLUDED THAT BULLYING IS THE MOST COMMON FORM OF VIOLENCE AFFECTING MILLIONS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS ANNUALLY.
AND WHEREAS TARGETS OF BULLYING ARE MORE LIKELY TO ACQUIRE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND LEARNING PROBLEMS. AND STUDENTS WHO ARE REPEATEDLY BULLIED OFTEN FEAR SUCH ACTIVITIES AS RIDING THE BUS, GOING TO SCHOOL, AND ATTENDING COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES.
AND WHEREAS WE AS A CITY COUNCIL ALL AGREE THAT UNWANTED AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR HAS NO PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO OFFERING ALL RESIDENTS AND ENVIRONMENT THAT HOLDS PROMISE, PROVIDES SECURITY, AND GIVES RESIDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE, WORK, PLAY, AND LEARN.
AND WHEREAS AT A TIME WHEN ENGAGING IN CIVIC AFFAIRS HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY DIVISIVE, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE HOW PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS AND PERSPECTIVES CAN COME TOGETHER IN CIVIL DISCOURSE.
AND WHEREAS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES ARE COMMEMORATING BULLYING PREVENTION MONTH IN OCTOBER, CHALLENGING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO PLEDGE TO END UNWANTED AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR.
NOW, THEREFORE, WE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUDU DO HEREBY PROCLAIM OCTOBER, 2023 AS BULLYING PREVENTION MONTH AND ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS, ALL HUDA RESIDENTS TO WORK TOWARD THE PREVENTION OF BULLYING AND CONSIDER PLEDGING TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION TO END BULLYING IN ALL OF ITS FORMS. LIKE THE, HOW MANY WORDS, KYLIE? YEAH.
BEING THE VICTIM OF BULLYING HAS TAUGHT ME THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HEARD.
WE MUST WORK TOGETHER TO TAKE A STRONGER STAND AGAINST BULLYING.
IF THOSE, IF THIS HELPS EVEN ONE PERSON, THEN IT HAS SERVED A PURPOSE.
BULLYING TAKES A MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TOLL THAT MAKES YOU FEEL UNSAFE AND UNWELCOME, AND MANY TIMES GOES
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IGNORED.BULLYING IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS DRAMA, WHICH PUTS DOWN THE VICTIM.
WE AS HIPPOS CAN DO BETTER AND TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AGAINST BULLYING.
I'M NO LONGER A VICTIM, BUT CHOOSE TO BE AN ADVOCATE.
CAN I SAY ANYTHING? YOU DID GOOD.
I ALWAYS GET NERVOUS WHEN I SPEAK IN FRONT OF PEOPLE, SO, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU TELL THEM IN HIP WAY? ME? YEAH.
CAN Y'ALL DO IT? BE RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE, SAFE.
I NEED YOUR BEAUTIFUL PICTURE NOW.
NEXT STEP BRINGS US UP TO CITY MANAGER
[6. CITY MANAGER COMMENTS ]
COMMENTS.MAYOR, COUNCIL, CITIZENS OF HUDDLE.
UH, FIRST I JUST WANT TO, UH, NOTIFY EVERYONE THAT IS A WATER CUSTOMER IN THE CITY OF HUDA THAT WE'RE STILL UNDER STAGE THREE CONSERVATION, EVEN THOUGH THE WEATHER'S COOLING.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE WATCHING THE, UH, THE SEASONAL WEATHER PATTERNS.
WE'LL PROBABLY BE MAKING A DECISION THE FIRST MEETING OF NOVEMBER ABOUT WHETHER WE WILL LOOSEN THE RESTRICTIONS OR NOT.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE, UM, THINGS ARE CERTAINLY IMPROVING.
UH, ANYTIME YOU DON'T HAVE 110 DEGREE WEATHER, YOU KNOW, FOR 45,000 DAYS STRAIGHT, UM, IT, IT CERTAINLY STARTS TO IMPROVE, BUT ALL THE SAME.
WE'RE NOT QUITE THERE YET, SO WE'LL BE, WE SHOULD BE MAKING A CALL THE FIRST MEETING OF NOVEMBER, WHETHER WE WILL CONTINUE STAGE THREE FOR ANOTHER MONTH OR WHETHER WE WILL BACK OFF TO STAGE TWO.
WHAT WE DON'T WANNA DO IS BOUNCE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE STAGES, YOU KNOW, A LOT.
SO FALL EVENTS, UH, THIS SATURDAY WE HAVE HU OLD TOM DAYS, SO THAT'S, THAT'S EXCITING.
IT'S RUN BY THE AREA CHA, THE HUDU AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STARTS AT 10:00 AM OVER HERE DOWNTOWN.
IT RUNS UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.
UM, ALSO ON SATURDAY AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME AS HU OLD TOM DAY STARTS.
UH, WE HAVE THE PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE THAT WILL BE VIEWABLE HERE IN HUDU, UH, AROUND MIDDAY, I THINK IT'S JUST BEFORE NOON.
UH, SO DO CHECK THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE LOCAL, UH, INFORMATION ON THE EXACT TIME.
AND, AND THEN DO, REMEMBER, DON'T LOOK AT THE SUN WITHOUT THE, THE SPECIAL GLASSES OR SOME OTHER DEVICE.
UM, I STILL ACTUALLY, PERSONALLY HAVE A SUN SPOT ON MY RETINA FROM WHENEVER I WAS A KID, UH, LOOKING AT THE, AT THE SOLAR ECLIPSES.
UH, DON'T BE JAMES, THAT, THAT SHOULD BE LIKE A THEME.
UH, YOU KNOW, USE THE SPECIAL PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR IF YOU CAN.
IF NOT, LOOK AT IT THROUGH A DEVICE.
THAT'S ALWAYS A, ANOTHER WAY TO PROTECT YOUR EYES TOO.
UH, WE DID HAVE SOME OF THE ECLIPSE SHADES HERE IN THE HUDDLE LIBRARY, BUT, UH, A AS YOU WOULD EXPECT, THOSE WENT PRETTY RAPIDLY.
IF YOU HAPPEN TO GET SOME, MAKE SURE YOU HOLD ONTO THEM FOR THE FULL ECLIPSE THAT COMES IN APRIL-ISH TIMEFRAME OF NEXT YEAR.
UM, WE DO EXPECT THERE MIGHT BE SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, ACTIVITY IN THE COMMUNITY.
JUST THERE'S PEOPLE TRAVELING TO THE AREA TO VIEW THE ECLIPSES, SO WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING SPECIALLY, UH, SCHEDULED FOR THAT.
UH, BUT IT MAY JUST BE A LITTLE BIT HEAVIER TRAFFIC THAN NORMAL.
UH, AROUND TOWN IN APRIL, WE'RE EXPECTING PEOPLE TO BE CAMPING OVER THE WEEKENDS AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
THAT'S, EVIDENTLY THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL FOR SOME PEOPLE.
THEY REALLY ENJOY GOING AND TRAVELING AND SEEING THAT.
UH, REGISTRATION'S ABOUT TO CLOSE FOR THE HALLOWEEN HOUSE OFF.
SO THIS IS THE HALLOWEEN DEC DECORATION CONTEST THAT'S BEING RUN BY THE PARKS DEPARTMENT.
UH, THE REGISTRATION CLOSES ON THE 19TH.
SO TO ENTER THE CONTEST, PLEASE VI VISIT THE HU PARKS RECREATION, UH, ON THE CITY WEBSITE AND SUBMIT YOUR HOUSE.
THERE WERE SEVERAL DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT YOU COULD COMPETE IN.
UH, SO THAT SHOULD BE A GOOD TIME.
UH, PARKS AND REC IS ALSO HOSTING A FAMILY CAMP OUT NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT, SO I'M, LET'S HOPE THAT THE WEATHER CONTINUES TO BE NICE AND GENTLE, UH, WHICH WOULD BE PRETTY NEAT.
THAT'LL BE AT ADAM ORAIN PARK THIS YEAR, I THINK LAST YEAR THAT, UH, THAT EVENT SOLD OUT AS FAR AS THE SPACES WERE ALLOWED.
UH, BUT IT'S A GREAT EVENT TO COME OUT, PITCH A TENT, HAVE A CAMPING EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR FAMILY IN A, IN A RELATIVELY SAFE ENVIRONMENT, UM, AND NOT TOO TERRIBLY FAR FROM HOME.
SO, UH, YOU GET ALL THE, UH, BENEFITS OF THE BIG TOWN AND, UH, SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE NICENESS OF BEING OUT IN NATURE.
UH, THE BIG FIGHTS AT FRESH FESTIVAL IS ALSO COMING UP ON OCTOBER 28TH, SO THAT'S A SATURDAY.
AND THEN TOUCH A TRUCK, UH, WHICH IS EVER POPULAR WITH THE FAMILIES IS ON NOVEMBER 1ST.
SO QUITE A FEW OF ACTIVITIES THAT ARE COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE FOR EVERYONE.
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GONNA BE HOSTING THEIR CRAFTY CORNER ON OCTOBER 24TH.AND THE ADULT BOOK CLUB, I THINK THAT'S A BOOK CLUB FOR ADULTS.
JUST TO BE CLEAR,
SO ALL OF OUR EVENTS ARE ON THE WEBSITE, OF COURSE, BUT WE ALWAYS TRY TO USE THIS TIME TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE, THAT ARE IMMEDIATE AND COMING DOWN THE, COMING DOWN THE, UH, CALENDAR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
AS YOU MAY KNOW, WE HAVE SEVERAL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS WHERE RESIDENTS CAN VOLUNTEER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
THE FIRST COUNCIL MEETING OF EACH MONTH, WE TEND TO UPDATE NOW, UH, ABOUT THE, UH, EXISTING OPENING, SO THAT WAY THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE HERE CAN IDENTIFY THE BOARDS THAT ARE, UH, LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE ON THEM, UH, AND MAYBE BE INCLINED OR INSPIRED TO PUT IN YOUR APPLICATION TO SERVE ON ONE.
UM, THE NEXT SLIDE THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT, THIS IS GOING TO SHOW YOU THE BASICS OF THE PROCESS.
UM, SO YOU EFFECTIVELY, YOU KNOW, REGISTER IF YOU LIVE IN THE, THE HU CITY LIMITS.
UM, YOU CAN CHOOSE THE BOARDS OR COMMISSIONS.
YOU GO ONLINE TO THE CITY WEBSITE, YOU FIND THE, THE APPLICATION, UM, AND THEN YOU JUST PUT ON THERE THE ITEMS THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SERVING ON.
SOME OF THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS WILL ALLOW YOU TO SERVE EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIVE SPECIFICALLY IN THE CITY LIMITS OF HUDU, IF YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTY OR IN THE E T J, BUT THERE'S ONLY A FEW OF THOSE THAT ARE ACTUALLY OPEN TO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T CITIZENS.
UM, AND THEN WE JUST ASK THAT IF YOU, UH, PUT IN AN APPLICATION THAT YOU MAKE A COMMITMENT TO ATTEND AND, AND TO SHARE YOUR PASSION FOR THE TOPIC THAT, THAT YOU'RE, THAT YOU'RE SERVING FOR.
SO NEW BUDGET'S NOW IN EFFECT, UH, WE BEGAN THAT LAST WEEK, SO THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF WHO PUT IN THE MANY TIMES AND ALL THE HOURS, UH, TO DEVELOPING THE BUDGET, UH, TO THE COUNCIL FOR THE GREAT DELIBERATIONS, AND THEN THE ULTIMATE ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET.
AND THEN TONIGHT, YOU'RE GONNA SEE A LOT OF ITEMS THAT ARE IMMEDIATELY GETTING KICKED OFF AS THAT ARE CAPITAL PROJECTS.
AND THOSE ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW BUDGET.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A LOT OF DOWNTIME THIS, THIS YEAR.
SO WE IMMEDIATELY HAVE ITEMS GOING RIGHT OUT THE GATE.
UH, THERE'S 15 ITEMS ON TONIGHT'S BUDGET ON TONIGHT'S, UH, COUNCIL MEETING THAT'S STRICTLY RELATED TO THE BUDGET.
ALSO, OUR CITY ENGINEER MATT RECTOR, HE'S GONNA BE GIVING HIS MONTHLY UPDATE TONIGHT ON THE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ARE ALREADY ONGOING.
AND I, IF MEMORY SERVES THERE, WERE, THERE WERE ROUGHLY 30 TO 33 OF THOSE.
AND THEN WE'RE ADDING ANOTHER, IS IT 40? HOW MANY ARE WE ADDING MATT? TOTAL OF 60 CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WILL BE UNDERWAY IN THE YEAR OF 23 TO 24.
SO I HOPE THE COMMUNITY DOESN'T GET TOO GRUMPY WITH ALL THE PROGRESS CONES BEING UP IN, IN THE WAY OF EVERYTHING.
SO, UM, THERE'S ONE THING THAT I HAVE ASKED THE, THE, THE COMMUNITY, UH, COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT TO DO.
AND THAT WAS TO SHARE THEIR LAST EPISODE OF, UH, THE ONGOING SERIES CALLED BUILDING THE FUTURE.
I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL HAVE BEEN CATCHING THESE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE OR ON THE CITY'S FACEBOOK OR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES, BUT THEY'RE PRETTY FANTASTIC.
I MEAN, THEY'RE WELL NARRATED, THEY'RE WELL PUT TOGETHER.
THIS IS THE LAST ONE OF THIS SERIES.
I MEAN, THERE'LL BE A, A PLAN FOR THIS YEAR TO DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY ALONG THE SAME LINES, BUT THIS IS THE, THE LAST AND FINAL ONE.
SO I JUST ASKED IF WE COULD, UH, TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND JUST SHARE THAT WITH THE, WITH THE, UM, WITH THE GROUP TONIGHT.
SO I'LL PAUSE RIGHT HERE WHILE WE PLAY THE VIDEO.
I'M GONNA SET THE MOOD AND DIMM THE LIGHTS.
AS THE CITY OF HUDU HAS LAUNCHED NUMEROUS ROADWAY AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
WE ARE FOCUSED ON STEERING THESE PROJECTS THROUGH THE STEPS OF BUDGET, DESIGN AND APPROVALS NECESSARY TO MAKE THE VISION A REALITY.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT WHERE WE STAND.
THE OVERHAUL OF FM 1660 NORTH AT U S 79 IS WRAPPING UP NOW, WHICH WILL RESULT IN MUCH BETTER TRAFFIC FLOW JUST DOWN THE ROAD.
AT FM 1660 SOUTH AND US 79, DESIGN WORK IS 95% COMPLETE ON ONE OF OUR MOST CHALLENGING PROJECTS.
WE CONTINUE TO LEAD THE COMPLEX COORDINATION OF OUR STATE, FEDERAL, AND RAILWAY PARTNERS.
SO THAT WORK ON THIS YEAR LONG PROJECT CAN BEGIN IN THE SPRING OF 2024.
FURTHER UP FM 1660 NORTH AT LIMMER LOOP, A COMPLETE OVERHAUL OF THE INTERSECTION IS TAKING SHAPE.
DESIGNS ARE COMPLETE, CONTRACTORS ARE HIRED, MATERIALS ARE BEING SOURCED, AND UTILITY WORK IS NOW UNDERWAY.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN IN THE SPRING
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OF 2024, DO WEST AT THE INTERSECTION OF LIMMER LOOP AND EXCHANGE BOULEVARD.WE'VE PARTNERED WITH HUDU I S D TO IMPLEMENT PLANS THAT WILL ALLOW STUDENTS SAFER PASSAGE TO COTTONWOOD CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND GIVE PARENTS PEACE OF MIND.
WORK IS PROJECTED TO BE COMPLETED IN 2024 TO THE SOUTH.
WE'LL COMPLETELY RECONSTRUCT EXCHANGE BOULEVARD FROM U S 79 TO HOLLAND STREET, GREATLY IMPROVING ACCESS TO THE HUDU CO-OP DISTRICT, HU MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS.
A HIGH VOLUME STRETCH OF ROADWAY IS CURRENTLY BEING ASSESSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS THAT WILL MITIGATE THE GROWING RETAIL TRAFFIC.
FURTHER WEST LIMMER LOOP INTERSECTS WITH INNOVATION BOULEVARD AT A HAZARDOUS FOUR-WAY STOP THAT EXPERIENCES HEAVY TRAFFIC.
IN 2024, WE'LL INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNALS IN ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS THAT WILL DRASTICALLY IMPROVE SAFETY.
THE INTERSECTION OF FM 1660 AND CR 1 37 IS A KEY ROADWAY WE'VE TARGETED FOR IMPROVEMENT.
WE ARE CURRENTLY FINALIZING PLANS WITH OUR TX PARTNERS TO THE EAST OF TOWN COUNTY ROAD.
1 99 WILL BE REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH A BRAND NEW ROADWAY STRETCHING FROM CR 1 32 TO FM 1660 SOUTH.
IT WILL INCLUDE WIDER LANES AND SIDEWALKS FOR NEIGHBORING COMMUTERS AND PEDESTRIANS.
WE ANTICIPATE DESIGN WORK TO BEGIN THIS YEAR.
ONE OF OUR MOST EXCITING PROJECTS IS THE MULTIPLE LANE OVERPASS AT CR 1 32 AND U S 79 THAT WILL ENERGIZE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEARBY COTTONWOOD PROPERTIES.
IT IS A HIGH PRIORITY FOR THE CITY AND IS MOVING SWIFTLY THROUGH THE DESIGN PHASE AT THE MEGA SITE.
WE'RE PLEASED TO REPORT THAT WATER AND WASTEWATER LINES ARE CURRENTLY BEING BUILT AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPINE ROAD WILL START THIS FALL.
WE'RE ALSO PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON PROJECTS AT THE FRAME SWITCH SITE, INCLUDING A 3 MILLION GALLON STORAGE TANK THAT WILL ENSURE A RELIABLE WATER SUPPLY.
WE ANTICIPATE PUMP STATION UPGRADES TO ALSO BE FINISHED IN 2024.
AND FOR OUR WASTEWATER NEEDS, WE'RE ABOUT TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION ON A NEW INTERCEPTOR AND THE SOUTH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT'S UPGRADED UV DISINFECTION SYSTEM.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, LAKESIDE ESTATE'S RESIDENTS WILL BE HAPPY TO HEAR THAT SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION IS NEARLY COMPLETE.
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY THIS YEAR AND ACCOMPLISHED A LOT, BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO ACCOMPLISH ON THE ROAD AHEAD TO KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE JOURNEY.
THE CITY IS WORKING TO IMPLEMENT IMPROVED SOFTWARE ON OUR WEBSITE SO YOU CAN TRACK PROGRESS WITH REAL-TIME UPDATES.
THESE PROJECTS ARE COMPLEX AND REQUIRE CAREFUL STRATEGY AND COLLABORATION WITH COUNTY, STATE, AND FEDERAL PARTNERS.
BUT REST ASSURED, THE CITY OF HUDU IS DEDICATED TO BUILDING THE FUTURE OF HIPPO NATION TO CREATE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE WE ALL NEED FOR YEARS TO COME.
I THINK THAT'S CERTAINLY WORTH APPLAUSE AND, UH, COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, GREAT JOB ON THAT.
UM, AND TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND TO THE STAFF.
AND TO THE CITIZENS, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT.
AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT, THAT THE TIME OF HURO NOT BEING ABLE TO GET THINGS DONE HAS PASSED.
AND THERE IS, THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY, SO I'M VERY THANKFUL FOR THAT.
THE LAST THING I HAVE TO COVER TONIGHT IN MY TIME IS, UH, PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION.
SO, UM, I JUST WANT TO, NORMALLY WHAT WE DO IS THE FIRST MEETING WE INTRODUCE OUR NEW EMPLOYEES AND OR PROMOTIONS.
AND, UM, RIGHT NOW WE, WE CURRENTLY, BECAUSE IT'S THE NEW FISCAL YEAR, WE CURRENTLY HAVE 10 POSITIONS POSTED ONLINE.
SO GO, GO TAKE A LOOK AT, UH, THE POSITIONS THAT ARE ONLINE.
MAYBE IT'S NOT A POSITION FOR YOU, BUT MAYBE SOMEONE THAT YOU KNOW, AND IF YOU THINK THAT THEY'D BE A GOOD FIT FOR TEAM HUDU, PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM TO APPLY.
UM, ALRIGHT, SO OUR NEW HIRES, WE HAVE, UH, CLIFFORD, UH, KALI SOPA CLIFFORD KALI SOPA.
UH, HE COULDN'T BE WITH US TONIGHT DUE A PRIOR COMMITMENT, BUT HE, UH, HAS WORKED IN THE COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND FACILITIES MAINTENANCE FOR OVER 15 YEARS.
UM, HE HAS RELOCATED FROM WASHINGTON STATE.
HE'S SUPER EXCITED TO JOIN TEAM HUDU AS A NEW, UH, UTILITY TECHNICIAN.
THE SECOND NEW HIRE IS MICHAEL THOMPSON II.
UH, MICHAEL CAME TO US AFTER WORKING IN THE HVAC FIELD FOR OVER THREE YEARS.
HE HAS A UNIVERSAL E P A CERTIFICATION.
UH, IT'S VERY EXCITED TO START HIS CAREER HERE.
SO WE WANNA WELCOME MICHAEL AS A NEW STREET AND DRAINAGE TECHNICIAN.
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IN THIS MONTH WE HAD ONE PROMOTION, UM, JORDAN SIMS. SO JORDAN HAS BEEN WORKING AS A PARKS AND MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN AND GROUNDSKEEPER HERE IN HUDU FOR OVER 16 YEARS.MOST OF THOSE YEARS, WELL, I'M SORRY, MOST OF THOSE YEARS HERE IN HUDU.
UH, HE'S CERTAINLY A VALUED AND BELOVED MEMBER OF THE TEAM.
AND OVER THE YEARS HE'S WORKED ON MANY PROJECTS SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
AND THIS LAST YEAR HE DECIDED TO TRANSITION OVER INTO PUBLIC WORKS.
SO HE IS NOW SERVING AS A STREET AND DRAINAGE TECHNICIAN.
I DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THEM HERE IN PERSON.
[7. PUBLIC COMMENT]
I CALL YOUR NAME.SO I'LL START OFF GREEN WINNER.
AND THEN WHEN TIME'S UP, IT'LL GO TO RED.
I ACTUALLY HOPE THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT I WILL HAVE TO BE HERE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF, UH, YOU KNOW, THE BANANA TREE AND THE MONKEY AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
I'M HOPING THIS IS THE LAST TIME I HAVE TO BE HERE.
ANYWAYS, UH, I'M PRETTY MUCH AN OPTIMIST.
YOU KNOW, I HAVE THAT PIECE THAT SAYS PEOPLE CAN CHANGE.
AND THEN I ALSO HAVE THAT PESSIMISTIC PIECE THAT STAYS IN THE BACK OF MY MIND.
WELL, IS THIS OF A DUPLICATE NATURE OR IS THERE AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE? AND I'M NOT GONNA SPEAK ON SOMETHING IN PARTICULAR THAT I KNOW MAYOR SCHNEIDER, THAT YOU DID, BUT I, I WANT, ACTUALLY, I WAS GONNA LET YOU KNOW, I WAS ACTUALLY KIND OF PLEASED WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT.
SO THIS IS A POSITIVE PIECE I WANT TO GIVE YOU.
I'M NOT GONNA SPEAK ON IT BECAUSE I WANNA SEE HOW IT'S GONNA PLAY OUT.
WHATEVER, WHAT YOU DID, I WANNA SEE HOW IT'S GONNA PLAY OUT.
AND THEN, UH, WHAT GOOD, BAD, OR INDIFFERENT.
AND HOPEFULLY IT COMES BACK AS GOOD AS I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE.
'CAUSE IT LOOKS INTERESTING, IT LOOKS GOOD.
AND I WILL COME BACK AND SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A GOOD JOB.
OR NO, HEY MAN, IT WAS A DUPLICITOUS NATURE AND SOMETHING ELSE WAS GOING ON THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ANYWAYS.
BUT FROM MY PERSONAL, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES, I KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN'T CHANGE.
BUT I OFFER THIS TO NOT JUST EVERYONE UP HERE, BUT EVEN THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE OUT HERE IN THE AUDIENCE.
WHO ARE YOU? 'CAUSE IT'S HARD TO CHANGE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
NOW, IF YOU TELL ME MY NAME IS MAURICE, YOU'D BE ANSWERING THE WRONG QUESTION.
THAT'S WHAT IS YOUR NAME? IF YOU TELL ME THAT I AM A LECTURER, THEN I'D SAY, NO, THAT'S WHAT YOU DO.
SO WHO ARE YOU? AND IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO START WITH HISTORY.
IF YOU KNOW IT, YOU LEARN WHO YOU ARE.
IT'S A PA, IT'S A, IT'S A KIND OF A PATH THAT WILL LEAD YOU.
AND I SAID THE FIRST TIME I WAS HERE, EVERYTHING THAT YOU LEARN AFTER BIRTH, THERE'S ONLY TWO THINGS YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEARN.
THAT'S HOW TO EAT AND NOT TO EXPEL WASTE.
ONLY TWO THINGS YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEARN.
BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS TAUGHT.
IT'S READ AND WHAT IS IMPORTANT, IT IS LIVE.
IT CONNECTS YOU AND TEACHES YOU WHO YOU ARE.
AND WITH THAT, WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO, YOU HAVE TO OPEN UP MY PHONE JUST FOR A SECOND HERE AND HERE.
AS NEARLY NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW, HISTORY IS NOT MERELY SOMETHING TO BE READ.
AND IT DOES NOT REFER MERELY OR EVEN PRINCIPALLY TO THE PAST.
ON THE CONTRARY, THE GREAT FORWARD OF HISTORY COMES FROM THE FACT THAT WE CARRY IT WITHIN US AND UNCONSCIOUSLY CONTROLLED BY IT IN MANY WAYS.
AND HISTORY IS ACTUALLY PRESENT IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO.
IT COULD SCARCITY BE OTHERWISE SIN IT SINCE IT IS TO HISTORY THAT WE OWE OUR FRAMES OF REFERENCE OF OUR IDENTITIES AND OUR ASPIRATIONS.
AND THAT WAS WRITTEN IN 1945, BETWEEN 45 AND 48 BY JAMES BALDWIN.
UH, HE WAS ONE OF THE RENAISSANCE HARLEM RENAISSANCE WRITERS.
AND THERE WAS ANOTHER PIECE THAT CAME AFTER THAT.
THERE IS NO LIFE THAT DOES NOT CONTRIBUTE TO HISTORY.
THAT WAS WRITTEN BY DOROTHY WEST, ANOTHER RENOWNED HARLEM RENAISSANCE WRITER.
AND WHILE I'M BRINGING THAT UP ABOUT HISTORY, AND MY FATHER WAS
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INVOLVED IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE SIXTIES, HE WAS INTRICATELY INVOLVED IN IT.AND WHAT SOMETHING THAT HE WOULD SAY ALL THE TIME WAS, UH, SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF, UH, INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS IN THE INSTITUTIONS, OUR SCHOOLS, IT WAS IN THE GOVERNMENT, IT WAS IN THE INSTITUTION.
NOW WE CALL IT SYSTEMIC RACE, AND WE'VE CHANGED THE NOMENCLATURE, BUT IT'S STILL THE SAME THING.
LIKE I SAID, EVERYTHING IS TAUGHT.
SO YOU'RE LEARNING FROM YOUR FAMILIES, YOU KNOW, YOU LEARN FROM YOUR SCHOOLS, YOU'RE LEARNING FROM YOUR FRIENDS.
AND WE HAVE TO EXAMINE OUR OWN PERSONAL HISTORIES, OUR OWN PERSONAL LIVES TO SEE WHERE WE HAVE THESE IDEALS.
WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? WHY IS IT THAT I THINK THIS PARTICULAR WAY? ANYWAYS, I'M SAYING THIS TO SAY THAT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE OFFERED MISS, UH, MAYOR SNYDER, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE OFFERED AS FAR AS EXPLANATIONS TO ME, THEY'RE EXCUSES.
THAT'S NOT AN APOLOGY TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
I SAID IT BEFORE AND I SAY IT AGAIN, I'VE SAID IT SEVERAL TIMES.
THE CITY OF HUDDLE CAN BE A GREAT CITY TO WHERE, AND YOU'RE DOING SOME, SOME OF THESE, HEY, THIS LOOKS GOOD, SOME THINGS ARE HAPPENING HERE.
AND THEY CAN LOOK AT HUDDLE AND SAY, WOW, HOW ARE THEY DOING THAT? AND I'VE LIVED THIS, I'VE READ ABOUT IT WITH TULSA, OKLAHOMA.
EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT BLACK WALL STREET.
AND I LIVED IT BECAUSE THE SOUTHWEST SECTION OF DETROIT THAT I GREW UP IN, IT WAS ALSO VERY ECLECTIC.
THERE WAS SLOVAKS WHEN I WAS GROWING UP THERE, THERE WAS SLOVAKS, THERE WAS POLISH, AND THERE WERE CHECKS THAT LIVED.
AND WHAT HAPPENED IN TULSA, EXCUSE ME, YOU KNOW, WAS THEY BURNED IT DOWN BECAUSE OF JEALOUSY, SO ON AND SO FORTH IN SOUTHWEST DETROIT.
WHAT HAPPENED, THE ERA THAT I GREW UP IN, WHICH WAS ALSO LIKE A TULSA, HAD BLACK BANKS AND WHAT HAVE YOU AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAD, YOU KNOW, SO WHEN, UH, IT WAS AN ASTRONAUT BEFORE, UH, FATS, THEY P*****S, ALL THOSE THINGS WERE, YOU KNOW, EVERYWHERE YOU COULD SMELL IT IN THE AIR.
THE ROMAN, IT WAS ALSO AN ECLECTIC GROUP OF PEOPLE.
AND SOUTHWEST DETROIT FELL APART BECAUSE AFTER THE, UH, I MEAN AFTER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, PROMINENT BLACKS MOVED AWAY.
SOME OF THE POOR PEOPLE THAT WERE SUFFERING THE SAME DISCRIMINATIONS THAT WE SUFFERED WERE MOVING AWAY.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT IT.
BUT THOSE OF US THAT GREW UP THERE IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES, WE ALL TALK ABOUT HOW ECLECTIC AND HOW GREAT IT WAS.
ANYWAYS, I'M SAYING ALL THAT TO SAY, MIKE.
WE'LL STICK WITH DECORUM AND ALL THE PROPRIETIES TODAY.
MAYOR SNYDER, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO CHANGE.
THIS IS JUST A SIMPLE APOLOGY, NO EXCUSES, NO, NO NOTHING.
JUST APOLOGIZE TO THE CITIZENS AND LET'S START A NEW ROAD.
IT'S REAL SIMPLE, JUST A SIMPLE APOLOGY.
AND THAT WAY WE CAN MOVE ALONG.
AS I WAS SAYING, WHO ARE YOU? DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE, BE THE GREAT LEADER THAT YOU CAN BE TO WHEN THEY LOOK AT HUDDLE.
LIKE I SAID, IT CAN BE BETTER THAN AUSTIN ROUND ROCK, WHERE THEY WOULD SAY, OH, WHAT AUSTIN RAH, ROCK.
HOW, HOW DO PULL THIS OFF? JUST SOME THOUGHTS.
I HAVE NO INTENTION OF COMING BACK TO SPEAK ON THIS AGAIN.
I JUST WANTED TO READ THAT LITTLE PIECE ON HISTORY.
I THINK MAYBE TO GET EVERYONE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT WHERE WE'RE FROM, WHO WE ARE.
I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOUR NAME.
I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOUR JOB.
AND YOU GOTTA DIG DEEP WITH THAT.
AND IT STARTS WITH YOUR HISTORY.
NOW, PLEASE PONDER ALL PONDER.
CONSIDER, THINK ABOUT IT, LET'S MAKE A CHANGE.
LEAD THE CITY THE WAY IT SHOULD BE LED, THE WAY YOU CAN LEAD IT.
YOU MAY SAVE AND BE REELECTED, AVOID SANCTIONS AND ALL THE OTHER SILLY THINGS, RECALLS AND ALL THE OTHER SILLY THINGS THAT COME WITH.
IT'S A DOOR OPEN THAT YOU CAN TAKE.
AND AGAIN, THE ONLY TIME I COME BACK WAS AFTER I SEE THE RESULTS OF SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE DONE.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW I WAS QUITE PLEASED.
I'LL FIND OUT SOON WHAT I DID.
I'M SURE WHAT I DID, I DON'T KNOW.
OH, HOPEFULLY, AGAIN, HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE POSITIVE.
'CAUSE I, I TOOK IT THAT WAY WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT AND THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT.
SO WHEN I COME BACK, PEOPLE KNOW THAT'S WHY HE BROUGHT IT UP.
NO ONE BUT ME AT, AT THIS POINT KNOWS.
NEXT WE HAVE ANISHA WILLIAMS. ARE WE ABLE TO, UM, HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON 12.2?
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YES.IF, IF IT WAS PUBLIC COMMENT, I NO, THAT'S OKAY.
YOU'RE ALWAYS ABLE TO TALK AT PUBLIC COMMENT AND YOU CAN TALK ABOUT ANY ITEM, ANY SUBJECT, AND THEN SPECIFICALLY YOU CAN TALK AND GET LIKE, WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK BACK TO YOU IN UH, PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT WHEN IT'S ON AN ACTUAL ITEM, YOU CAN HAVE DISCUSSION BACK AND FORTH AND IT CAN CHANGE.
HEY Y'ALL, I LOVE SEEING YOUR SHINY FACES UP THERE, YOU KNOW, AND HAPPY, BUT THIS IS NOT A HAPPY TIME IN HU AND IT SEEMS THAT OUR MARE IS OBLIVION TO THAT.
SO I WANNA START WITH SAYING, UM, WITH THE PROCLAMATIONS MAYOR THAT YOU READ TONIGHT, DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THOSE WORDS? DO YOU OWN THOSE WORDS ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND BULLYING? ARE YOU WILLING TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE LINE AND SAY IT'S NOT OKAY? BECAUSE YOU MAYOR AND ACTUALLY I CALLED YOU MAYOR, YOU BULLY EVERYBODY.
YOU BULLIED WOMEN IN EXECUTIVE SESSIONS, YOU BULLIED WOMEN ON THE DA.
SO WHEN YOU GET UP THERE AND READ THESE PROCLAMATIONS, WHAT, WHAT DO THEY MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A POST ABOUT THAT ON FACEBOOK TOMORROW.
DO THEY MEAN ANYTHING? DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A SUBTLE ISSUE.
IT DOESN'T ALWAYS END UP WITH BRUISES AND BLACK EYES AND BROKEN BONES.
SOMETIMES IT COMES UP AS EMOTIONAL ABUSE WHERE YOU QUESTION YOUR WORTH AND WHO YOU ARE.
AND YET MARY, YOU TEXTED ME AND SAID, MY EX-HUSBAND WAS AT YOUR CAMPAIGN LAUNCH AND HE WAS TALKING TO TANNER AND HE WAS TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO USED HIS INFORMATION AGAINST ME, YOUR GROUP OF FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, CRONIES, WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL 'EM.
AND DAN, I'M CALLING YOU TOO BECAUSE I TALKED TO YOU ABOUT IT PRIVATELY.
UM,
I, WHAT I WANNA SAY TO COUNSEL TONIGHT, HAVING SERVED AS WELL, Y'ALL ARE UNDERAPPRECIATED FOR WHAT YOU GO THROUGH.
I'M TALKING TO YOU BRIAN, DAN RANDALL, PETER, DANA, AND AMBER LEE.
THERE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN AND SOME OF THEM DON'T EVEN LIVE HERE THAT AIM THEIR TARGET AT YOU TO MAKE THEIR WORD KNOWN.
AND THEIR WORD IS THE WORD THAT COMES FROM THAT GUY.
I WANNA SAY THAT I APPRECIATE STAFF CITY MANAGER ERP, YOU ARE THE BEST THING THAT'S HAPPENED TO THE CITY IN A LONG TIME.
THE STAFF THAT HAS STAYED AND ENDURED THE RELENTLESS ATTACKS FROM MIKE DESERVE APPRECIATION AND LOVE.
I AM NOT GONNA STAY ALL NIGHT, UM, BECAUSE I'D RATHER GO HOME AND HAVE A NAP
BUT UM, I JUST WANNA SAY WITH THIS WHOLE THING WITH THE RELEASE OF THE MEMO FOR RECALL, PLEASE VOTE 'CAUSE THE CITIZENS OF HURO DESERVE TO KNOW HOW WE CAN RECALL SOMEBODY WHO IS ELECTED AND KNOW IT FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE AND FOR OUR FUTURE HERE IN HURO.
I AM NOT SURE ANYMORE BECAUSE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING, BUT I WANNA APPLAUD Y'ALL FOR STANDING BY THE TAX RATE
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Y'ALL STOOD BY.IT'S NOT FIVE BANANAS SITTING UP THERE.
IT'S FIVE PEOPLE WHO THINK LOGICALLY AND LOOK AT THE NUMBERS AND LOOK AT WHAT THE CITIZENS WANT.
I LOVE YOU ALL EXCEPT FOR YOU.
NEXT WE HAVE IS ZACH, UH, Z HOPWOOD, WHO'S YIELDING TO HEATHER AND GREG ORTIZ, WHICH IS YIELDING TO HEATHER MACK.
AND THEN WE HAVE HEATHER MACK.
UM, I THINK WE'RE ALL PRETTY FAMILIAR WITH THE NOW FAMOUS SONG BY JELLY WOOL CALLED NEED A FAVOR.
THE GIST OF THE SONG IS HE ONLY TALKS TO GOD WHEN HE NEEDS A FAVOR.
WELL, THE REASON I BRING THAT UP IS BECAUSE I HAD NEVER ATTENDED A CITY COUNCIL MEETING UNTIL IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION.
SINCE THEN, PEOPLE IN OUR COM COMMUNITY HAVE WANTED IT TO ALL GO AWAY AND, AND THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD GO AWAY QUICKLY.
ALL THEY WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WERE THEIR TAXES AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN HERE ANYMORE NOW.
YES, I AGREE, TAXES ARE IMPORTANT.
HOWEVER, I WILL NOT STAND HERE AND SAY TAXES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN RACISM.
TO ME, THAT'S LIKE TRYING TO DECIDE WHICH OF MY TWO CHILDREN IS MORE IMPORTANT.
WELL, I'M NOT GONNA STAND HERE ONLY WHEN THEY NEED SOMETHING LIKE JELLY ROLL WOULD SUGGEST IN HIS SONG.
THIS IS HOW WE GET INTO THOSE SITUATIONS.
I HAVE SINCE FOUND A LOT GOING ON BECAUSE I JUST KEPT MY HEAD UNDER A ROCK AND DIDN'T GET MYSELF INVOLVED IN MY COMPU COMMUNITY AS I SHOULD.
A REPORTER FROM THE DAILY BEAST ARTICLE PI HAS REPORTED MOST RECENTLY THAT YOU'RE ALLERGIC TO BANANAS.
JUST TO RANDOMLY APPEAR WEEKS AFTER WE'VE ALL BEEN ASKING FOR AN APOLOGY, YOU JUST RAN RANDOMLY STATED THAT YOU'RE ALLERGIC.
NOW PICTURES AND POSTS ARE ON FACEBOOK OF YOU ATTE, UM, ATTENDING A BANANA BREAD CONTEST FROM 2002, 2022 RIGHT HERE IN HU.
AND YOU ARE QUOTED SAYING, I'M SO READY FOR THIS.
THERE IS WHERE YOUR STORY GETS EVEN MORE COMPLICATED IF YOU'RE ALLERGIC.
HOW COULD A BANANA SIT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE FOR TWO HOURS WHILE YOU'RE AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING? AND WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THEM HOME WITH YOU AND THROW THEM AWAY? THESE ARE YOUR WORDS, MIKE, FROM THE DAILY BEAST REPORT THAT YOU GAVE PILAR.
YOU LITERALLY SAT THERE, BREATHED THEM IN FOR TWO HOURS, AND THEN YOU TOUCH THEM.
WHEN YOU MOVE THEM, YOU TOUCH THEM AGAIN TO PUT THEM IN YOUR CAR AND THEN YOU TOUCH THEM AGAIN TO TAKE THEM IN YOUR HOUSE, TO THROW THEM AWAY IN YOUR TRASH IN YOUR HOUSE.
ARE YOU REALLY ALLERGIC TO BANANAS? SO LET'S TALK SOME MORE ABOUT YOUR INTERVIEW WITH THE DAILY BEAST.
YOU DO HAVE A AWAY WITH WORDS.
I DID SOME MORE RESEARCH BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED AUGUST 19TH, 2022.
IN AN EFFORT TO BE TRANSPARENT, YOU WOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN THE QUICKTRIP LAND PURCHASE ON THE CORNER OF TEXAS ONE 30 AND STAR RANCH.
THAT WOULD MEAN YOU'RE AN EMPLOYEE OF THE QUIKTRIP COMPANY.
I ACTUALLY SHARED YOUR POSTS FROM YOUR MAYOR'S FACEBOOK PAGE TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD PAGE.
THAT'S HOW I KNEW YOU WORKED FOR QUIKTRIP.
THAT BEING SAID, IN THE DAILY BEAST INTERVIEW, YOU ARE QUOTED AS SAYING, I TRIED EVERYTHING I CAN DO TO UNDERSTAND THINGS.
FOR INSTANCE, I WORK AT A COMPANY WHERE OUR MARKET IS RUN BY A BLACK MAN AND HIS BOSS WHO RUNS THE ENTIRE COMPANY, IS A BLACK MAN.
THEY KNOW I'M IN POLITICS AND I RUN A LOT OF THINGS BY THEM.
SNYDER SAID, WELL, I RESEARCHED THE C E O QUIKTRIP AND HE'S NOT A BLACK MAN.
I WILL BE THE FIRST TO GO ON PUBLIC RECORD AND APOLOGIZE IF I'M WRONG.
HOWEVER, THIS IS THE MAN THAT RUNS QUIKTRIP AND HE'S NOT BLACK.
SO I'M CONFUSED ON WHAT YOU TOLD THE DAILY P BEAST AND PILAR ABOUT.
THERE ARE SEVERAL OF US THAT SPOKE TO PILAR ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCE WITH THE BANANA AND MONKEY.
I SPOKE TO HER AND I SPOKE MY TRUTH AND SHE PUBLISHED MY TRUTH.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE RETRACTED FROM YOUR PUBLICATION?
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MIKE, I HAVE HER NUMBER.I WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE HER REACH OUT SO THAT YOU COULD CLARIFY ANYTHING SHE MIGHT'VE MISREPORTED ON YOUR BEHALF.
WHEN YOU TELL THE TRUTH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMEMBER THE LIE.
THAT'S A QUOTE FROM JUDGE JUDY.
IF A MAN WOULD LIE ABOUT INSIGNIFICANT THINGS, HOW CAN WE TRUST THAT HE CAN MAKE DECISIONS ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS? WHEN WE HAVE ASKED FOR AN APOLOGY AND WEEK AFTER WEEK, IT HAS FALLEN ON DEAF EARS.
ONCE AGAIN, I WILL STATE THIS IS NOT ABOUT A BLACK COMMUNITY MAD AT A WHITE MAYOR.
THIS IS ABOUT A COMMUNITY MAD AT A MAYOR FOR NOT DOING THE RIGHT THING.
INSTEAD OF A MAN BEING A MAN OF INTEGRITY, HE CONTINUES TO SPIN LIES TO WIGGLE OUT OF THE MESS HE GOT HIMSELF INTO BANANA LIES.
C E O LIES ABOUT THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN.
I, FOR ONE, WILL NOT STAND HERE AND LET THIS GO.
I'M NOT SURE WHERE YOUR 12.5 MILLION COURT CASE IS RIGHT NOW.
IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME WHEN WE WILL ALL KNOW.
FOR ME IT'S A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD.
ON THE RESULTS THOUGH, A LITTLE ABOUT ME FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING, YES, I OWN A BUSINESS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I HAVE FOUGHT FOR 30 YEARS OF THE STIGMA THAT HAIRSTYLISTS ARE NOT JUST DUMB PEOPLE THAT STAND AROUND AND DO HAIR.
WE ARE EDUCATED PEOPLE WHO SUE, WHO SUE OUR COMMUNITY.
YOU, MIKE MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT I HAVE A BACHELOR'S DEGREE AS WELL.
I ACTUALLY HAVE ENOUGH CREDITS FOR TWO AND I'M HALFWAY DONE WITH MY MASTER'S.
I ALSO AM A BUSINESS CONSULTANT FOR A NATIONAL COMPANY.
YES, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE AND HONOR OF HELPING OTHER S SALON COMPANIES GROW THEIR BUSINESS.
I'M ALSO A SERVANT LEADER AND I'M PROUD OF THAT.
I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP FOLLOW PHILOSOPHY IS BUILT ON THE BELIEF THAT LEADERS STRIVE TO SERVE OTHERS RATHER THAN ACCRUE POWER AND TAKE CONTROL.
SEE, WHEN WE SERVE OUR COMMUNITY FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF PEOPLE, THEY WILL BELIEVE YOU.
THEY SUPPORT YOU AND YOUR COMMUNITY WILL GROW AND BLOSSOM WHEN YOU LIE, CREATE HOSTILE WORKING ENVIRONMENTS.
TURN TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO CREATE CONFLICTS AND BELIEFS.
YOU ARE NOT BEING A SERVANT LEADER.
YOU MAKE POSTS ON YOUR MAYOR'S FACE FACEBOOK PAGE THAT ARE HALF, THEY'RE FULL OF HALF TRUTHS ONLY TO CREATE CONFLICT.
IT IS DEPRESSING AND SAD TO SEE A LEADER OF OUR COMMUNITY DO THIS.
YOU MADE A SPECIFIC POST ABOUT HATO HAS ABILITY TO HAVE EVENTS LIKE THIS.
IT WAS REGARDING THE AMPHITHEATER, KNOWING DAMN WELL DUE TO THE SHAPE OF THE ROAD THAT IT SITS ON AND THE NOISE ISSUE IT HAS.
YET YOU OPENED A CAN OF WORMS TO WATCH 175 NEGATIVE COMMENTS COME THROUGH.
YOU ALSO MADE THE POST ABOUT YOUR POLICE OFFICER'S PAY INCREASE.
NO REASON TO MENTION THE THE 800 K DROP TO 500 K.
HOWEVER, I DID FIND THE VIDEO RECORDINGS OF YOU BEING CALLED OUT THAT YOU LITERALLY PULLED 800 K OUT OF THE AIR AND COUNCILWOMAN WILCOTT SECOND YOUR MOTION AND THE NUMBER PASSED.
THEN YOU WERE ALL OVER BUDGET.
SO COUNCILMAN GORDON MADE THE MOTION TO DROP IT TO 500 K SO THAT THE UM, TAXES WOULDN'T INCREASE.
I BELIEVE IT WAS A SEVEN HOUR LONG MEETING.
YOU FORGOT TO TELL THE WHOLE MEETING ON THAT POST.
EVEN THE COMMUNITY ASKED WHY IT WAS DROPPED AND YOU WOULDN'T TELL THE COMPLETE TRUTH.
I HAD TO DROP THE VIDEOS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO SEE MY QUESTION.
MY QUESTION ACTUALLY IS WHY DID YOU EVEN MENTION THE 800 K? IT WAS ONLY TO CREATE CONFLICT.
THAT STORY WAS ACTUALLY A SLOW DAY FOR YOU AND ONLY HAD 22 COMMENTS.
DO YOU SEE WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS? THERE WAS NO REASON TO TELL HALF, HALF TRUTHS WHEN YOU MAKE POSTS.
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS MAKE A POSITIVE POST ABOUT OUR POLICE OFFICER OFFICERS GETTING A MUCH NEEDED PAY INCREASE.
OUR COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE MUCH MORE RESPECT FOR YOU.
YES, I WILL CONTINUE TO RESPOND WITH FACTS OF YOUR LIES AND EVIDENCE.
IT IS NOT RIGHT OF YOU TO CONTINUE TO CREATE CONFLICT IN OUR COMMUNITY.
IT NEEDS TO STOP HERE AND NOW.
NOT EVERY DAY IS ROSES AND SUNSHINE.
HOWEVER, SOME OF THIS STUFF WAS DONE PRIOR TO THE COUNCIL THAT SITS IN FRONT OF YOU.
LET'S FIGURE OUT A WAY TO WORK WITH THEM AND TO STOP THROWING THIS COUNCIL AND CITY MANAGER UNDER THE BUS ON A DAILY BASIS.
STOP GOING TO FACEBOOK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TO CREATE HALF TRUTHS FOR 175 NEGATIVE COMMENTS.
WHEN I CHOSE, CHOSE HU TO START MY BUSINESS, I HAD THE CHOICE BETWEEN PFLUGERVILLE AND HU AS I HAD ALREADY STARTED IT IN PFLUGERVILLE.
I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE COMMUNITY OF HUDU.
AND FIVE YEARS AGO HUDU WAS SMART AND PROGRESSIVE
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AND HAD EVERYTHING GOING FOR THEM.I STILL BELIEVE THAT TO MY CORE, HUDU WAS NOT FULL OF CHAOS, HOSTILITY, AND CONFLICT.
MIKE, IT FEELS LIKE YOU WAKE UP EVERY MORNING TO SEE WHAT YOU CAN POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO GET EVERYONE STIRRED UP IN FIGHTING.
THAT VIDEO THAT OUR CITY MANAGER POSTED IS THE SAME VIDEO THAT YOU COULD HAVE POSTED ON YOUR FACEBOOK.
IT FEELS LIKE WE ARE DEALING WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS.
BETWEEN THE RACISM THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CONSTANT CREATIVE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS.
THIS IS NOT THE PERSON WHO SHOULD BE LEADING HURO.
I ASK ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR RESIGNATION AS MAYOR OF HURO.
YOU'VE ALSO MADE COMMENTS ABOUT WANTING TO HAVE CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS.
I, I FOR ONE, HAVE AGREED TO THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
NOT ONE TIME HAVE I EVER BEEN INVITED TO THE TABLE.
I HAVE MY TIME TO CONNIE GOODING.
NEXT WE HAVE CONNIE GOODING WORK.
UH, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER, CITY STAFF, AND HURO PD IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM.
MY NAME IS CONNIE GOODING AND I'M A 17 YEAR RESIDENT OF HURO.
AND I WOULD SAY I WOULD ADD TO THAT A VERY HAPPY AND VERY PROUD RESIDENT OF HURO.
UM, I WANNA BEGIN BY APOLOGIZING FOR THE FACT THAT LAST WEEK I DID, OR TWO WEEKS AGO, I WENT OVER MY THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT.
WHEN I READ THE PUBLIC COMMENT FORM, IT SAYS, CLEARLY YOU HAVE A TIME.
I DIDN'T ASK FOR SOMEBODY TO YIELD TO ME.
I ALSO NOTICED ON THAT FORM IT SAYS THAT YOU WILL BE APPROPRIATE AND I WANNA TELL YOU THAT I OBSERVED COMMENTS THAT WERE NOT APPROPRIATE AND LACKED SOME DECENCY.
AND I HOPE THAT THAT PART OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT IS HELD FROM HERE FORWARD.
THERE'S A POEM THAT WAS WRITTEN IN 1996 ENTITLED THE DASH, WHILE MOST FEEL THAT DASH BETWEEN THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN AND THE YEAR OF YOUR DEATH IS INSIGNIFICANT, IT REALLY SYMBOLIZES THE TOTALITY OF WHAT YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN ABOUT.
I REFER TO THIS, I WANNA BRING THIS HOME AND ASK YOU TO VISUALIZE THE YEAR YOU WERE FIRST ELECTED AND THEN FOLLOW THAT YEAR WITH A DASH AND THEN THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT DASH WILL REPRESENT.
WHEN YOUR TERM IN OFFICE IS ENDED, WHAT WILL THAT DASH ACTUALLY TELL YOUR COMMUNITY AND YOUR FAMILY ABOUT WHAT YOU DID AND HOW YOU SPENT YOUR TIME REPRESENTING HUDU.
TWO WEEKS AGO I ASKED YOU AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS A TEAM, HOW DID YOU MEASURE UP? IT REFERRED TO THE WAY YOU USE POWER.
I HOPE YOU AT LEAST GAVE IT A MOMENT'S THOUGHT.
I WANNA ASK YOU TONIGHT, HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO TAKE HUDU FROM WHERE IT IS TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE? THAT REQUIRES YOU, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO MOVE FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU NEED TO BE, TO WHERE HUDU NEEDS YOU TO BE.
THERE'S A WRITER AND A POET BY THE NAME OF KAYLIN DION.
HE SAYS, AND I QUOTE, POWER IS NOT CONTROLLING OTHER PEOPLE.
POWER IS CONTROLLING YOURSELF.
IT'S A LESSON THAT I FEAR MANY PEOPLE MIGHT NEED TO HAVE REMEDIATED FOR THEM.
HOW DO CITIZENS ALSO HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY? WE HAVE TO DO OUR PART.
WORDS THAT ABSOLUTELY ECHO HOW I FEEL.
MR. DION ADDS LISTEN, NOT JUST TO WORDS BUT THE INTENTION BEHIND THEM, THE WAY THOSE WORDS ARE USED AND DETAILS THAT ARE INTENTIONALLY LEFT OUT THAT WILL REVEAL EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW.
I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT WHEN YOU LISTEN.
LISTEN WITH INTENTIONALITY, WE AS A CITIZENS MUST CONTINUE TO FIGHT DISINFORMATION.
ZERO INTEGRITY IS EXPENDED WHEN YOUR GOAL IS TO DESTROY A COMMUNITY.
YOU CAN'T CREATE CHAOS IN A COMMUNITY AND EXPECT PEACE, NOR CAN YOU CAUSE PAIN TO ITS CITIZENRY AND EXPECT THEM TO HEAL.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I TRULY BELIEVE SILENCE DOES NOT EQUAL KEEPING THE PEACE BECAUSE I WANT MY COMMUNITY FIXED.
I WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP AS LONG AS I SEE EVIDENCE OF DISRESPECT AND A LACK OF HONEST ACCOUNTABILITY.
OUR NEIGHBORS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND I JUST LIKE EVERYONE.
THEY ARE ENTITLED TO SAFETY, DIGNITY, AND HOPE.
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YOU ALL HAVE A ROLE IN MAKING THAT HAPPEN.I WANT YOU TO KNOW I HAVE, I HAVE ROAD GOALS.
I HAVE THREE ROAD GOALS AS WELL.
I WANT ROADS THAT BETTER SERVE OUR COMMUNITY, NOT SO MUCH DIFFERENT ROADS THAT LEAD TO A BETTER WAY OF LIFE, HOPEFULLY FOR ALL.
AND THIRD, MY THIRD ROAD GOAL IS THIS, THAT WE WILL BUILD ROAD THAT ROADS THAT WILL LEAD TO EQUITY.
I WANNA GO BACK AND END WITH THE DASH LOOK AND I DON'T HAVE A RED LIGHT YET,
I WANNA GO BACK AND END WITH MY DASH.
WHO IS GOING TO TELL YOUR STORY? WHAT WILL LEAD YOUR PERSONAL ASCENT TO THE NEXT LEVEL? I BELIEVE AS LONG AS YOU ARE TRYING TO DO BETTER, BETTER WILL HAPPEN.
BUT IF YOU BELIEVE THE PURPOSE OF LEADERSHIP IS TO PURSUE ONLY YOUR YOUR OWN PERSONAL GOALS, THEN SADLY YOU'VE LOST SIGHT OF WHAT BEING A LEADER MEANS.
I MAY MISPRONOUNCE YOUR LAST NAME.
DID I SAY THAT RIGHT? THANK YOU.
MY NAME IS BEATRICE BORA AND I LIVE IN CREEKSIDE OF ESTATE.
I'M A VETERAN SERVICES OFFICER FOR WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND I CURRENTLY SERVE ON THE CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION.
FOUR MONTHS NOW, MULTIPLE CONTRACTORS HAVE BEEN INSTALLING FIBER IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
THIS PAST SUNDAY, MY HOUSE FLOODED AND AFTER DOING SOME INVESTIGATING, I REALIZED THAT THERE WAS SOME SORT OF OBSTRUCTION ON THE CITY SIDE OF MY DRAINAGE SYSTEM, WHICH BY THE WAY, WE HAD A GREAT RESPONSE TIME ON A SUNDAY BY A CITY EMPLOYEE WHO WAS GREAT.
IT TURNS OUT THAT A FIBER CONTRACTOR BROKE THROUGH A PIPE AND SEWAGE HAD BEEN SPILLING OUT.
A COUPLE DAYS LATER, MY NEIGHBORS TO MY LEFT EXPERIENCED THE SAME ISSUE.
MY NEIGHBOR TO MY RIGHT DECIDED TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO HIS PROPERTY AND FOUND THAT HIS MAIN CUTOFF VALVE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY BURIED.
THE SMITH FAMILY STATES THAT A CONTRACTOR ALSO BROKE THEIR PIPES, BUT IN A TEMPORARY, UH, PUT IN A TEMPORARY FIX AND NEVER RETURNED.
THE CITY OF HURO PROVIDED TWO CONTACT NUMBERS FROM BOTH COMPANIES DENIED WORKING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
RECENTLY THE CITY OF HURO, UH, A CITY OF HURO EMPLOYEE DID RESPOND, AND I HAVE THAT COMMENT AVAILABLE IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT.
THE KKI FAMILY TOLD A CONTRACTOR WORKING ON THEIR YARD THAT THEY HAD BURIED THEIR MAIN WATER OFF VALVE.
THE CONTRACTOR'S, UH, EMPLOYEE SAID THAT SOMEONE ELSE THAT DOES THAT WILL RETURN IN A WEEK OR TWO AND THEY'LL BE FROM A DIFFERENT COMPANY.
THE FAMILY TELLS THEM, WELL, YOU DUG THE HOLE, YOU NEED TO FIND THE VALVE IN CASE I HAVE AN EMERGENCY.
THE COMPANY'S EMPLOYEES RESPONSE WAS, NOPE, NOT MY JOB, AND WALKED AWAY.
THIS HAS BEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF MULTIPLE HOMES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND OUT WHO WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.
MY CONCERNS ARE, IS THERE A VETTING PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THESE CONTRACTORS ARE LICENSED? IS THE CITY INSPECTOR ENSURING THAT REPAIRS ARE MADE UP TO CODE AND YARDS AREN'T FILLED IN BEFORE THAT INSPECTION TAKES PLACE? DO WE KNOW WHO THESE CONTRACTORS ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT THEM? WHO WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY MOLD OR OTHER ISSUES THAT MAY ARISE IN THE FUTURE? DID THE CITY STEP IN AND ENSURE THAT ANY COMPANIES DOING THIS WORK AND OUR CITY HAVE THE PROPER PERMITS? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
I HOPE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES SOON BECAUSE IT IS COSTING THE CITIZENS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD A LOT OF MONEY AND PROBABLY ALSO CITIZENS IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS HARO.
AND OFTENTIMES PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT A MORE THAN LIKELY IS DAMAGE CAUSED BY THESE FIBER CONTRACTORS.
AND SO PEOPLE ARE PAYING OUT OF POCKET, OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKET, HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO REPAIR THE DAMAGES UNDERNEATH THEIR HOMES WHEN THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT.
SO THIS IS A HUGE MESS AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE CONTACTED WITH FURTHER INFORMATION.
DEAR MAJOR, CAN WE HAVE MAYBE AN ITEM NEXT WEEK THAT WE CAN WALK THROUGH SOME OF HER, ANSWER SOME OF HER QUESTIONS AND OTHERS THAT THE COMMUNITY MAY HAVE ALSO? YES, SIR.
ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
NEXT WE MOVE ON TO ITEM EIGHT ONE, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS PRESENTATION UPDATE.
MAYOR, BEFORE WE DO THAT, I'D LIKE TO REQUEST IF WE COULD MOVE ITEM 16 ONE.
IT'S GENERAL COUNT COMMENTS FROM CITY COUNCIL.
ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS? HEARING NONE, WE'LL GO TO 16.
ONE GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY COUNCIL AND, UH, MAYOR, BUT THE REASON I ASKED FOR THIS IS BECAUSE I WANTED TO GIVE A REPORT.
UM, ON THE T M L CONFERENCE THAT SEVERAL OF US WENT TO LAST WEEK, I THOUGHT THAT THE CITIZENS WOULD LIKE
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TO HEAR, UH, WHAT THEIR TAX DOLLARS WERE PAYING FOR, UH, BECAUSE WE DID SET ASIDE MONEY IN THE BUDGET FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GO TO THAT, UM, THAT EVENT.AND SO, UM, IT WAS A, UH, THREE DAY EVENT.
IT WAS WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY OF LAST WEEK.
FOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE ABLE TO GO.
UM, THERE WERE ROUGHLY 5,000 INDIVIDUALS IN PRESENCE THERE.
I WAS PUT ON BY THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE.
THE 5,000 PEOPLE CONSISTED MAINLY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE AS WELL AS EMPLOYEES OF CITY GOVERNMENTS.
WE HAD A COUPLE OF OUR CITY STAFF THAT WAS THERE.
I BELIEVE OUR CITY SECRETARY WENT AS WELL.
WAS SHE THERE? I THINK SHE, I THINK SO.
UM, AND UH, WE WERE ABLE TO JUST, JUST HAVE A, A, A REALLY, REALLY WONDERFUL, UH, EXPERIENCE THERE.
I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU, UM, SIX OF THE CLASSES THAT I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND AND THERE WERE OTHER CLASSES.
WHAT WE DID WAS WE KIND OF SPLIT UP BETWEEN OURSELVES TO COVER AS MANY OF THE CLASSES AS WE COULD.
'CAUSE THERE WERE A LOT OF CLASSES THAT HAPPENED AT THE SAME TIME.
UM, AND SO, UM, THE SIX CLASSES THAT I ATTENDED, UH, COVERED TOPICS RANGING FROM CHALLENGES POSTED BY SOCIAL MEDIA.
UM, I THINK THAT'S A, A BIG ONE,
UM, SOME OF THE OTHER COMMUNITIES, UH, BASICALLY SAID THAT THEY WERE EXPERIENCING SOME OF THE SAME THINGS WE ARE.
UM, THE SECOND ONE, UH, WAS, IT WAS CALLED FETCHER RIDE PH WITH, WITH A PH FOR FETCH RIDE.
AND IT WAS PUT ON BY PFLUGERVILLE.
AND THEY HAVE A PROGRAM WHERE THEY'RE, UH, TRYING TO INCORPORATE SOME KIND OF A WAY TO DO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND TO DO SOME KIND OF A, A A GO BETWEEN, UH, INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR THE, UH, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION LIKE AUSTIN DOES, WHICH COSTS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR.
AND SO IT'S REALLY NEAT, UM, REALLY NEAT TO, TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING THERE.
UH, ONE CALLED PROBLEMS HAVE SOLUTIONS AND PLANS ARE FUELED BY DATA, UH, WHICH GAVE A LOT OF REALLY GOOD INFORMATION TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ON HOW WE CAN PLAN, HOW WE CAN USE DATA TO BACK UP WHAT WE WANT TO DO.
UM, AND GAVE US A LOT OF REALLY GOOD, UM, INFORMATION THERE.
UH, WE RECEIVED, UM, AN UPDATE FROM A BUNCH OF ATTORNEYS ON THE 88TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION, UH, THE THINGS THAT AFFECT CITIES THE MOST.
I LEARNED A LOT FROM THAT ONE, UH, ONE ON WATER AND SEWER, UM, FOR THE CITY AND HOW I KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MONEY, UM, THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED TO BE SPENDING OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
AND SO THEY GAVE US SOME IDEAS OF HOW WE CAN, UH, MANAGE OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER RATES, UM, AND GAVE US A LOT OF, UM, UH, ADVICE THERE.
UH, I THINK MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT WE HAD, UH, TWO CYBERCRIME INCIDENTS IN THE LAST YEAR, UH, THAT HIT THE CITY AND WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES.
I THINK OURS TOTALED ABOUT, UH, $193,000.
THERE WAS ONE CITY THIS PAST YEAR IN TEXAS THAT HAD A $900,000 HIT, UM, TO THEIR CITY.
AND SO A LOT OF INFORMATION THERE ON HOW WE CAN MITIGATE THOSE.
AND SO WHAT I PLAN TO DO IS, UM, REQUEST SOME TIME IN UPCOMING, UH, WORK SESSIONS, UH, TO GO OVER SOME OF THESE, TO SHARE THIS WITH THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND, SHARE IT WITH SOME OF THE CITY STAFF AND SEE IF WE CAN IMPLEMENT SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT, UH, THAT WE LEARNED ABOUT.
UM, AND, UH, HOPEFULLY, UH, THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WERE ABLE TO GO OR BE OR WOULD BE WILLING TO LEAD SOME OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS ON SOME OF THE CLASSES THAT THEY TOOK.
SO I WANTED, AGAIN, THANK THE CITIZENS FOR ALLOWING US TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, FOR ALLOWING US AND, AND SUPPORTING US IN OUR BUDGETING EFFORTS TO BE ABLE TO, TO GO TO THESE KIND OF EVENTS.
THEY ARE VERY, VERY WORTHWHILE AND THEY WILL BENEFIT THE CITY OF PATO.
ANY OTHER COUNCIL COMMENTS? YEAH, GO AHEAD.
YEAH, I THINK WE ALL HAD, WE ALL TOOK AWAY A LOT.
IT WAS GREAT TIME FOR COLLABORATION.
UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR ANY FUN BECAUSE WE WERE ATTENDING SO MANY SESSIONS.
UM, I DID A LOT OF THE SMALL TABLE TALKS 'CAUSE IT WAS LIKE THAT COLLABORATION, THAT SMALL TABLE WITH ISSUES, UM, THAT CAN HAPPEN IN A SMALL CITY.
UM, ONE OF THEM WAS HOW TO CHEW GUM AND WALK AT THE SAME TIME, WHICH WAS A PANEL OF, UH, CITY SECRETARY, A MAYOR, A CITY MANAGER.
AND IT WAS COVERING, UM, ISSUES THAT SMALL CITIES HAVE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EACH PERSON AND HOW THEY CAN HANDLE IT IN THEIR AREA.
UM, AND IT WAS REALLY GOOD TO SEE ALL OF THAT COME TOGETHER AND WHAT COLLABORATION WITH THE COUNCIL AND, AND, AND THE STAFF TRULY LOOKS LIKE.
I DID ONE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WAS ON, UM, SHARING BEST PRACTICES AND HOW TO ENGAGE DIALOGUE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BRINGING THOSE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE IN HOWTO.
UM, ANOTHER GOOD ONE WAS THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, WHICH WAS, UM, CIVIL DISCORD AT PUBLIC MEETINGS IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT.
UM, AND IT, AND IT WAS REALLY LIKE DIS
IT WAS, UM, VERY EYE-OPENING, UM, TO SHARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED AND TO HEAR WHAT OTHER CITIES THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND HOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FOR THEM.
UM, IT WAS, IT WAS VERY EYE-OPENING.
UM, DEVELOPING ORGANIZATION, ORGANIZATION THROUGH LEADERSHIP.
A LOT OF, UM, LIKE SOME OF THE COURSES AND CLASSES THAT OTHER CITIES ATTEND SO THAT THEIR LEADERSHIP CAN GROW TOGETHER AND LEARN TOGETHER.
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Y'ALL KNOW, I'M ALL ABOUT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SO IT WAS REALLY GOOD TO SEE THAT.AND THEN I ALSO WENT TO THE ONE ON VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT FOR CITY EVENTS, BOARDS AND COMMISSION, WHICH FOR US IS HUGE AS WE TRY TO GET OUR BOARDS AND OUR COMMISSIONS, UM, FILLED UP SO THAT WE CAN HAVE SOME OF THOSE STRONG VOLUNTEERS IN THE CITY.
UM, AND IT WAS JUST, IT WAS AN ALL AROUND AMAZING EVENT.
UM, LEARNED A LOT, TOOK A LOT OF NOTES, UM, AND JUST COMMUNICATING WITH, UM, ALL THE OTHER CITY LEADERS FROM, FROM TEXAS WAS GREAT.
AND I REACHED OUT TO THEM TO JOIN THE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS COHORT THAT STARTS IN JANUARY.
AND SHE SAID IT WAS THE SECOND LARGEST CONFERENCE THAT THEY'VE EVER HAD.
UM, WE COULDN'T TELL BECAUSE IT WAS RAN SO SMOOTHLY AND SO EFFICIENTLY, BUT SHE SAID THEY WERE WORKING THEIR TAILS OFF BEHIND THE SCENES.
UM, SO IT WAS, IT WAS A TREAT TO GET TO GO AND LEARN AND I, I CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN.
SO I ATTENDED DIFFERENT CLASSES AS WELL.
SOME I ATTENDED, UM, WITH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER WILCOTT.
BUT, UM, I DID TAKE A CLASS ON, UH, CAPTURE, CAPTURING AND MAXIMIZING SALES TAX.
UM, OF COURSE I'LL BE REACHING OUT TO OUR C F O ABOUT IF WE ALREADY DO THIS OR HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD, UM, IN IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THESE IDEAS THAT WERE PROPOSED.
UM, I ALSO ATTENDED A CLASS ON THE ERCOT POWER GRID BECAUSE TEXAS IS, UH, ITS OWN UNIQUE ENTITY WITH, UM, OUR EXTREME WEATHER, UH, THAT WE HAVE AND OUR, UM, POWER GRID AND IT'S, UH, STABILITY OR THE FUTURE OF THINGS AS, UH, THE STATE GROWS AND ESPECIALLY THE CITY OF HU AS WELL.
UM, I TOOK A CLASS ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.
UM, I ALSO DID GO TO A LEGAL CLASS.
UM, I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER I COULD ACTUALLY ATTEND OR NOT, BUT EVERYTHING WAS ACTUALLY OPEN.
BUT IT WAS A ROOM FULL OF LAWYERS AND THEY WERE DOING THEIR LEGAL THING.
AND IT WAS, I ACTUALLY DID THE CLASS BECAUSE IT WAS VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE IT WAS, UM, ON ORDINANCES RELATING TO DIGGING IN PEOPLE'S, ON THE RIGHT OF WAY ON PEOPLE'S PROPERTY FOR FIBER.
I HAVE A LOT OF NOTES, I HAVE A LOT OF PICTURES 'CAUSE EVERYTHING WAS GOVERNMENT CODE, THE P U C PERMITTING THROUGH THE P U C.
AND I WAS JUST TAKING PHOTOS BECAUSE IT WAS THE LEGAL WORLD, RIGHT? AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I'LL BE SHARING WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND LEGAL SO THAT MAYBE BY NEXT WEEK WE CAN HAVE SOMETHING HOW THE CITY OF HU CAN IMPROVE OUR ORDINANCES ON THESE ISSUES WITH THE FIBER COMPANIES.
UM, MOVING FORWARD, I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO ANYTHING RETROACTIVELY.
THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A, A LEGAL QUESTION.
UM, BUT AT LEAST WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE COMPANIES COMING INTO OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, I ALSO ATTENDED A MEETING ON, UM, ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING DECORUM AND MEETINGS.
I THINK THAT WAS ONE THAT WE DID TOGETHER.
UM, ALSO I WENT TO PUBLIC WORKS, UM, AND IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING THAT ONE OF THE TAKEAWAYS THAT I GOT WAS THAT VENDORS WON'T HOLD PRICING FOR MORE THAN 30 DAYS.
SO THEY, ONCE YOU SET A PRICE FOR SOMETHING, SO IT'S LIKE SAY A THOUSAND DOLLARS, THEY'LL ONLY HOLD THAT PRICE FOR 30 DAYS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THINGS, THE SUPPLY CHAIN, IT'S KIND OF, UH, SLUGGISH.
AND IF YOU GO BEYOND THAT, THEN NEXT MONTH IT'LL BE 1500 BUCKS.
AND JUST TO, IT WAS EYE-OPENING BECAUSE THE CITY WE HAVE TO AT LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE, INTO FIVE AND 10 YEARS, ESPECIALLY WITH PUBLIC WORKS, WITH ALL THE WATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON, THERE IS GOING TO BE AN INFLATIONARY DOLLAR SIGN ON THOSE THINGS UNFORTUNATELY.
BUT AT LEAST IF WE CAN BE PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE AND, AND KNOW ABOUT THIS, THAT WE, WE CAN UNDERSTAND IT BETTER BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THOSE OUTTA SIGHT OUT OF MIND.
NO, WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS AND WHY.
UM, ALSO, UM, UM, I WAS, UM, ENCOURAGED TO FIND OUT WHO OUR TOP, TOP TAXPAYER, UM, PAYERS ARE IN THE CITY.
WHETHER THEIR BUSINESSES INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE CITY, HOW MUCH AMAZON CONTRIBUTES TO OUR TAX BASE, RIGHT? THEY'RE NOT IN OUR CITY, BUT WE DO GET THOSE TAX DOLLARS, UM, INTO THE CITY.
SO THAT'S LIKE SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO KNOW WHO THE BIG PAYERS ARE IN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT IT COULD BE PEOPLE WHO ARE RIGHT HERE IN OUR CITY RUNNING SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES AS WELL.
AND WE NEED TO LOVE ON THEM AND, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY WANNA STAY IN HU THAT THEY DON'T WANNA LEAVE AND SKIP TO THE NEXT TOWN, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, IT WAS ALSO GREAT TO, UM, KIND OF GO ON THE VENDOR FLOOR.
UM, THEY ALL HAVE SAID GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE CITY STAFF THAT THEY'VE MET, MET WITH, UM, MATT RECTOR, OUR CITY ENGINEER 'CAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO SELL SOMETHING AND, UM, THEY ALL HAVE GOOD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT OUR CITY STAFF, UM, FOR PRESENTATIONS.
UM, IT WAS GREAT TO MEET OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS.
AND ALSO I MET HUDU RESIDENTS THERE.
SOME WORKED FOR OTHER, UM, CITIES.
SOME WERE ACTUALLY WORKING THE BOOTHS THERE AND THEY WERE LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, I LIVE IN HUDU.
SO IT WAS JUST ACROSS THE BOARD, LIKE
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DIFFERENT LEVELS AND LAYERS OF EVERYTHING AND IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THE RESIDENTS OF HUDU FOR ALLOWING ME TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE.
AND I'LL SAY, UM, I WAS THE OTHER COUNCIL PERSON THAT WAS ABLE TO GO, UM, COMING INTO BEING ON COUNCIL, THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO BOOK, THERE'S NO, UM, YOU KNOW, HERE'S YOUR GUIDELINES, HERE'S YOUR RULES, HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE DONE BEFORE YOU GET ON COUNCIL.
YOU HAVE A DESIRE TO, TO BE THAT SERVANT LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS ARE REALLY, UM, GREAT TO GO AND, AND LEARN HOW OTHER CITIES ARE DOING THINGS, LEARN WHAT, UH, WHAT WHAT, UH, ACTIVITIES OR WHAT THINGS IN YOUR PAST HAVE HAVE HELPED YOU TO GET TO WHERE YOU ARE.
AND THEN REALLY HONE THOSE SKILLS IN ORDER TO, TO BE A GOOD COUNCIL MEMBER.
AND SO, UM, I ECHO THE SENTIMENTS OF MY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WERE ABLE TO GO, UM, THANK YOU TO THE CITIZENS OF HU FOR PROVIDING THIS OPPORTUNITY SO THAT WE CAN BETTER SERVE YOU.
UM, IT, IT WAS GREAT TO, I THINK EVERYONE WENT TO THE, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE REAL UGLY ON, ON ON DECORUM
UM, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT OBVIOUSLY, UH, YOU KNOW, REALLY RESONATED WITH US.
UM, ONE THING THAT REALLY, UH, THAT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION IN AND WAS A GREAT SESSION WAS, UH, COLLABORATING TO GET THINGS DONE.
IT WAS A, A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION AND WE WERE ABLE TO TALK WITH OTHER CITIES ON HOW THEY COLLABORATE, UM, WITH THINGS SUCH AS LIKE PARKS AND RECS TO, TO GET SIDEWALKS BUILT, OR HOW DO THEY, HOW DO THEY WORK WITH, UH, OTHER CITY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTS TO, UM, TO, TO MANAGE WATER AND WASTEWATER.
AND SO THAT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, TO HEAR WHAT SMALLER CITIES BUT ALSO LARGER CITIES, UM, ARE DOING IN ORDER TO COLLABORATE.
I THINK SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE LEARNED, WE CAN APPLY, UM, WITH THE HELP OF THE CITY MANAGER, WITH SPEAKING WITH OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS AND EDUCATING THEM.
UM, THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, LOOK TO OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEIGHBORING CITIES TO, TO HOPEFULLY PARTNER UP WITH US AND, AND HELP US TO REALLY, UH, SHORE UP OUR, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND, AND, AND C I P PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY.
SO I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE, UH, SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, I'LL BE ABLE TO, TO SPEAK TO.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, ONE OF THE OTHER SESSIONS THAT I'LL TOUCH ON REAL QUICK IS, IS SMALL, IS SMALL CITY TALKS.
AND THIS WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, TO UNDERSTAND, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE, THE, THE SHORT TERM AND THE LONG TERM GOALS FOR CITIES OUR SIZE AND IN CITIES THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT SMALLER THAN US, TO SEE HOW WE CAN, UM, IF WE CAN, UM, DUPLICATE SOME OF THEIR EFFORTS IN, IN GOAL SETTING SO THAT WAY WE CAN HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, A GOOD STRATEGIC PLAN MOVING FORWARD.
AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO CREATE, UH, CREATE FROM THE GROUND UP.
MAYBE WE COULD TAKE SOME OF THE, THE LEARNINGS, THE BEST PRACTICES, UM, AND APPLY THOSE TO OUR CITY IN ORDER TO HAVE BOTH SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM GOALS.
AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER, UM, YOU KNOW, THING THAT I WAS ABLE TO TAKE AWAY AND, AND REALLY HOPEFULLY WORK WITH, YOU KNOW, MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS AS WELL AS A CITY MANAGER IN INCORPORATING SOME OF THOSE GOALS.
SO AGAIN, UM, ECHOING THE SENTIMENTS OF, UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WENT, IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND, UM, I REALLY BELIEVE THAT, UM, EXPERIENCES LIKE THIS WILL HELP US TO SERVE THE, THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE BETTER.
ANY OTHER COUNCIL COMMENTS? SO I HAD, I HAD ONE THING.
UM, I HAVEN'T REALLY SHARED ANYTHING PUBLICLY, BUT, UH, MY MOTHER PASSED AWAY FROM CA COMPLICATIONS OF BREAST CANCER, UM, THIS SUMMER.
AND, UH, I WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH AND WE'RE HAVING THE PINK OUT GAME AT THE HU HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, SO I DEFINITELY PLAN ON ATTENDING AND IT WAS ACTUALLY MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY THIS FRIDAY, SO IT'LL BE A VERY SPECIAL TIME TO BE OUT THAT PINK OUT GAME.
AND SO I'M HOPING ANYONE WHO ELSE CAN COME, LET'S COMPLETELY FILL OUT THE STADIUM AND LET'S SUPPORT, UM, THIS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS AND, UH, AND, AND SUPPORT OUR HUDDLE HIPPOS AND, UM, THAT'LL BE THIS FRIDAY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT GOT OUT THERE.
COUNCILOR THORNTON, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING? NO.
ALRIGHT, THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM EIGHT
[8.1. Capital Improvement Projects Presentation - Update (Matt Rector)]
ONE, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS PRESENTATION.YEAH, WE, I NEED TO GO BACK, UH, TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
THERE'S A PUBLIC COMMENT THAT ACCIDENTALLY MISSED.
UM, TRACY JANOWITZ, THANK YOU.
I AM REALLY SORRY BECAUSE YOU GUYS WERE KICKBOXING.
IT'S ALMOST PAST MY BEDTIME, YOU GUYS COMING UP.
I'M A HU OF BUSINESS OWNER AND ACTIVE COMMUNITY MEMBER.
I, ALONG WITH MY HUSBAND NICK OWN PATRIOT SPORTS AND FITNESS AT 32 50 LIMMER LOOP AND PROUDLY SERVE THE HU AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
IN ADDITION, UH, WE ARE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE I S D WITH MYSELF SERVING AS A SHINE MENTOR AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
WHILE NICK VOLUNTEERS AS TIME WRESTLING, WE ARE ALSO PARENTS, UH, KYLA AND NICHOLAS, UH, 10 AND 13 WE'RE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND WE'VE OWNED AND OPERATED FIVE GYMS FOR OVER 15 YEARS.
YOU LEARN A LOT ABOUT A PERSON'S BEHAVIOR, ROUTINES AND HABITS BY THE WAY THEY
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INTERACT AND ENGAGED AT THE GYM.MY COMMENT TONIGHT, CENTERS ON THE CITY PILLAR OF CREATING THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE.
OUR HAPPINESS OR A DEMISE RESIDES IN THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.
THE PROBLEM IS WE ARE EXPERIENCING AN INDOOR EPIDEMIC, BUT WHO IS SOUNDING THE ALARM? HEALTH IS NOT SIMPLY THE ABSENCE OF DISEASE.
THE C D C STATES THAT 60% OF ALL AMERICANS HAVE AT LEAST ONE CHRONIC DISEASE, MOSTLY ALL PREVENTABLE BY LIFESTYLE CHOICES.
SEVEN OUTTA 10 PEOPLE HAVE ARE EXPERIENCING DEPRESSION OR WORSE.
SOME OF YOU ARE SUFFERING SILENTLY IN THIS ROOM AS I SPEAK.
WHAT WOULD OUR LIVES BE LIKE IF OUR DAYS AND NIGHTS WERE AS IMMERSED IN NATURE AS THEY ARE IN TECHNOLOGY? LET'S SCREEN MORE GREEN.
I, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHERS WHO LIVE AND DWELL IN THIS COMMUNITY ARE INITIATING AN OUTDOOR REVOLUTION.
WE ARE PASSIONATE, BUT ARE WE PURPOSEFUL? FIRST, WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOMETHING IS MISSING OR WE FAIL TO MOVE FORWARD.
WHERE'S THE ACTION? FOR US, IT IS CREATING AN OUTDOOR MOVEMENT DESTINATION REVOLVING AROUND OUR PILLARS, FUEL, MOVEMENT AND CONNECTION.
OUR MOTIVATION MAY BE DIFFERENT THAN YOURS AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHY COMMUNITY IS POWERFUL.
WE NEED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO BE AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN IT.
IT'S BIGGER THAN YOU AND I AND ANY MOVEMENT, GOOD OR BAD, THAT HAS SHIFTED THE WAY WE LIVE WAS NOT JUST IN THE HANDS OF ONE.
YOU SEE, THIS PODIUM IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF US, ALL OF US TO HAVE A VOICE AND BE SEEN AND HEARD.
BUT THIS MICROPHONE IS WHERE THE WORK BEGINS, NOT WHERE IT ENDS.
YOU SEE, AS A PEOPLE, WE ARE FRUSTRATED, ANGRY, AND LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BLAME.
BUT TO BLAME ONE PERSON, PARTY, ORGANIZATION, OR GROUP, IT'S NOT ACCURATE.
THE TRUTH IS THERE'S TOO MANY TO BLAME.
AND IF WE CONTINUE TO WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO TAKE CHARGE, THE PASSION THAT IS SO ALIVE WITHIN THESE FOUR WALLS ALSO DIES.
HUDDLE THE ONES IN THIS ROOM, THE ONES AT HOME.
ASK YOURSELF THE CAUSES THAT YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT AND GET YOU TO SHOW UP AND SPEAK AT MEETINGS SUCH AS THIS.
IS THIS WHERE IT STARTS OR IS THIS WHERE IT STOPS FOR YOU? IT IS US.
THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM ARE THE HEARTBEAT OF THIS COMMUNITY.
BUT IF WE CONTINUE TO SHOW UP ONLY DIAGNOSING PROBLEMS, WE NEVER PROGRESS.
WE SIMPLY JUST REPEAT THE SAME PATTERNS, EXPECTING DIFFERENT OUTCOMES, WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO ACT.
IF YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT BY NOW, OUR PASSION IS WELLNESS.
AND HOW WE'RE WE PURPOSEFUL? WE STARTED COLLECTING PEOPLE IN AND AROUND OUR COMMUNITY WHO WERE JUST AS PASSIONATE.
WE CAME UP WITH A PLAN, WE ASKED QUESTIONS, DID RESEARCH, WE STRATEGIZE AND WE PUT IN COUNTLESS HOURS JUST WHAT EQUITY NO WAS JUST AN OPPORTUNITY TO PIVOT, NOT TO SURRENDER SOMETHING WE'VE LEARNED AS ENTREPRENEURS OVER THE YEARS.
UH, A FEW MONTHS AGO WE STARTED TO DO THE WORK TO HEAD UP A TWO-PART PROJECT OF DEVELOPING NATURE TRAILS ON THE 27 ACRES OF GREEN SPACE, WHICH YOU KNOW IS HOTAN SQUARE.
OVER 50 VOLUNTEERS HAVE COME OUT IN A HUNDRED DEGREE PLUS HEAT TO LITERALLY GET THEIR HANDS IN THE DIRT.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY SAW THE VISION AND BELIEVED IN OUR OUTDOOR REVOLUTION.
AND YOU WILL COME TO KNOW THIS PHYSICAL CAMPUS AS THE HIPPO SOCIAL CLUB.
THERE'S A SENSE OF PRIDE AND PURPOSE AND PLACE BY GETTING YOUR HANDS IN THE DIRT.
YOU WALK ON THE HIPPO SOCIAL CLUB IS A LIFESTYLE BRAND AND IT'S OUR WAY OF TAKING ACTION.
WE GRANT TO OPEN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27TH WITH AN EVENING THAT ASSURED TO LEAVE YOU FEELING INSPIRED TO FIND NEW WAYS TO LIVE BALANCED.
WE INVITE THE COMMUNITY TO COME AND SEE WHAT WE'RE UP TO.
UM, AND YOU CAN FIND THOSE TICKETS ON OUR WEBSITE.
UM, IN CLOSING, MARTIN LUTHER KING OFTEN SAID THAT ANY MOVEMENT, ANY CULTURE WILL FAIL.
IF IT CANNOT PAINT A PICTURE OF WHAT A WORLD THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO GO TO.
WE BELIEVE THE HIPPO SOCIAL CLUB IS THAT WORLD AND THAT CANVAS ON WHICH A BRAND NEW CULTURE WILL BE REALIZED, ONE THAT PLACES OUR MIND AND BODY BACK TO CENTER STAGE WHERE IT BELONGS LIVING, LOVING, MOVING, AND CONTRIBUTING TOGETHER OUTDOORS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
THAT IS THE WORLD I WANT MY FAMILY TO LIVE IN.
ALRIGHT, SO IT BRINGS US ITEM EIGHT ONE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT PRESENTATION.
OKAY, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD.
UM, SO BEFORE I START, LET ME JUST CALM EVERYBODY DOWN.
I AM NOT GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH ALL 60 PROJECTS TONIGHT,
UM, BUT BEFORE I GET TOO FAR INTO THIS, I DO WANT TO POINT OUT SOME CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING, UM, ON THESE SLIDES BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN PRESENTING THESE NOW FOR NINE MONTHS THAT I'VE BEEN HERE.
AND SO I'M SURE EVERYBODY'S GOTTEN USED TO SEEING MY SLIDES OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
UM, SO THE FIRST THING THAT I WANNA POINT OUT IS YOU'LL SEE THAT THE NEW, UM, PROJECT NUMBERS ARE SHOWING UP THERE, THEY DON'T NECESSARILY CORRELATE WITH THE PROJECT NUMBERS THAT YOU'VE SEEN FOR THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS.
AND THAT WAS BECAUSE THE DIRECTIVE THAT I WAS GIVEN WHEN I GOT HERE WAS WE NEED SOMETHING THAT'S CONSISTENT,
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SOMETHING THAT'S SUSTAINABLE, AND SOMETHING THAT WE CAN FOLLOW.BECAUSE WHEN I GOT HERE, ALL OF THE C I P PROJECTS WERE JUST KIND OF W ONE, W TWO, T ONE, T TWO, AND THEY HAD NO CORRELATION TO ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE TO TRACK THROUGH THE C I P OR ANY YEAR TYPE.
SO NOW YOU SEE THAT WE HAVE THE, THE DISCIPLINE.
SO TRANSPORTATION WOULD BE A T, WATER WOULD BE A W, WASTEWATER, IT'S A DOUBLE W, UH, THEN YOU HAVE THE PROJECT NUMBER 0 1, 0 2, 0 3, SO ON AND SO FORTH.
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE YEAR IN WHICH THE PROJECT STARTED.
NOW LET ME CAVEAT THAT AND SAY THAT SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, I WON'T SAY WHICH ONES BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA
SO THAT IS THEIR, UM, EVERYTHING ELSE IS PRETTY MUCH STAYING THE SAME WITH THESE.
WE'VE STILL GOT THE SAME TITLES.
UH, WE'VE GOT THE ENGINEER UP THERE, UM, WE'VE GOT THE STATUS AND YOU KNOW, ANY UPDATES ARE EITHER RED, YELLOW OR GREEN RED, MEANING THAT WE'RE TAKING A STEP BACKWARDS SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM.
SOMETHING IS NOT THE WAY WE EXPECTED IT TO BE.
GREEN MEANS THINGS ARE GOING WELL.
UH, YELLOW JUST MEANS THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING THAT I NEEDED TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW ABOUT, BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY GOOD OR BAD.
UM, SO THE FIRST ONE UP HERE TONIGHT IS THE 1660 NORTH AT 79 PROJECT.
UH, IF YOU HAVEN'T DRIVEN IT LATELY, PLEASE TAKE A, TAKE A TOUR.
UH, STRIPING IS COMPLETE, WHICH MEANS PAVING IS COMPLETE, WHICH MEANS UTILITIES ARE COMPLETE.
SO WE ARE SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE.
SO, UM, WHEN, WHEN I CAME BACK TO THE CITY, A CITY MANAGER WAS LIKE, GET THE C I P GOING, GET THE C I P GOING.
WE NEED TO GET SOME DIRT MOVING.
WELL, NOT ONLY HAVE WE GOT DIRT MOVING, BUT WE ARE ABOUT TO WRAP UP THIS PROJECT.
I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN, UH, THIS HAS BEEN KIND OF A THORN IN YOUR SIDE FOR A LONG TIME, BUT IT IS ABOUT TO GO AWAY.
UM, SO, UH, THE OTHER THING THAT I'LL TELL YOU IS YOU'LL SEE THAT THE TOP NUMBERS THERE ARE ALL ZEROS.
THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE IN A NEW BUDGET YEAR.
AND SO I'VE ZEROED OUT ALL THOSE NUMBERS FOR F Y 24 ON THIS ONE PARTICULAR, WE HAVE NO BUDGET IN 24 BECAUSE WE ARE FINISHING THE PROJECT.
AND SO ALL OF THE EXPENDITURES, ALL OF THE ENCUMBRANCES WE'RE DONE IN 23.
UM, BUT YOU'LL SEE ON ON, ON OTHER PROJECTS WHERE WE DO HAVE A BUDGET IN 24, BUT WE HAVEN'T ENCUMBERED ANYTHING YET.
WE HAVEN'T SPENT ANYTHING YET.
SO, UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S THE BIG CHANGE THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE THERE.
UM, SO, UH, THEN THE 1660 AT LIMMER, AS YOU SAW IN THE VIDEO EARLIER, N T P HAS BEEN ISSUED.
UH, WE ISSUED THE, SO WE AWARDED THE CONTRACT ALREADY.
WE MET WITH THE CONTRACTOR LAST WEEK.
UH, THEY'RE MOBILIZING YOU, YOU CAN ALREADY DRIVE UP THERE AND SEE LIKE THE, THE POWER POLES BEING DELIVERED ONTO SITE SO THAT WE CAN START MOVING THE UTILITY LINES OUT OF THE WAY.
SO, UH, THIS ONE, THIS ONE IS MOVING FORWARD AND THEN THERE YOU CAN SEE WE DO HAVE A 24 BUDGET.
UM, THE ENCUMBRANCE IS BECAUSE WE JUST AWARDED THAT CONTRACT AND THEN WE HAVEN'T SPENT ANYTHING YET 'CAUSE NOBODY'S REALLY DONE MUCH.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING, UH, WE HAD CHANGED THE FORMAT OF THESE PRESENTATIONS TO SAY THAT WE WERE ONLY GONNA TALK ABOUT TRANSPORTATION ON THE REGULAR MEETINGS AND THEN QUARTERLY WE WOULD GIVE UPDATES ON ANY UTILITY PROJECTS.
SO THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE A WATERLINE BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF A NEW QUARTER.
UM, AND SO MEGASITE WATERLINES, WE ARE A HUNDRED PERCENT DESIGN COMPLETE.
WE OPENED BIDS ON SEPTEMBER 29TH.
WE WERE EVALUATING THOSE 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T JUST DO LOWEST BIDDER.
WE DID A COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSAL.
UM, AND BASICALLY FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T MAYBE FAMILIAR WITH WHAT THAT PROCESS IS, COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSAL MEANS THAT YOU DON'T JUST HAVE TO TAKE THE LOWEST PRICE BECAUSE THE REALITY OF CONSTRUCTION IS YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
SO IF YOU'RE ALWAYS TAKING THE CHEAPEST GUY, THEN YOU MIGHT BE GETTING CHEAP WORK.
UM, SO COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSALS ALLOW YOU TO BASICALLY BREAK UP YOUR DIFFERENT CRITERIA AND YOU EVALUATE THE PROPOSAL.
A BIG CHUNK OF THAT IS GONNA BE PRICED, BUT YOU CAN ALSO EVALUATE THEM ON SCHEDULE.
YOU CAN EVALUATE THEM ON, UM, PAST LITIGATION HISTORY.
YOU CAN EVALUATE THEM ON PAST PERFORMANCE.
YOU CAN DO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT YOU CAN, SO WE DID COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSALS.
I PERSONALLY PREFER COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSALS BECAUSE THAT MEANS THAT I CAN LOOK AT EVERYTHING, THEIR PAST PERFORMANCE, THEIR CORPORATE STRUCTURE, ALL THESE THINGS AND MAKE SURE THAT I'M GETTING THE BEST VALUE FOR THE CITY'S DOLLAR.
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SO, UM, UNLESS IT'S JUST WHAT I TELL EVERYBODY IS I ONLY DO LOWEST BID IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT I COULD HAVE MY KIDS DO AND THEY DON'T NEED ANY DIRECTION.NOT DEMEANING MY KIDS AT ALL, BUT I'M JUST SAYING IF THEY COULD DO IT WITHOUT ANY DIRECTION, THEN WE DON'T NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF EXTRA MONEY ON IT, UH, ANYWAY, SO THAT WE'VE, WE ARE EVALUATING ALL THE BIDS AND UM, WE ARE ALSO FINALIZING ALL THE EASEMENTS.
SO THIS ONE WILL NOT BE STARTED ON CONSTRUCTION UNTIL ALL THE EASEMENTS ARE IN PLACE.
SOUTH WASTEWATER TREATMENT CAPACITY RERATE STUDY.
REMEMBER THAT WE WERE BASICALLY, THIS IS A PAPER EXERCISE TO CHANGE THE CAPACITY OF THE PLANT WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHANGING ANYTHING PHYSICALLY AT THE PLANT.
WE HAVE GONE BACK AND FORTH WITH T C E Q, WE'VE GONE THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
WE WERE ADMINISTRATIVELY COMPLETE AND THEN WE WENT THROUGH THEIR TECHNICAL REVIEW, WENT BACK AND FORTH, GOT THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
WE HAVE NOW COMPLETED THEIR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WITH NO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
AND SO NOW WE ARE JUST WAITING ON THEM TO ISSUE THE FINAL PERMIT.
SO THIS ONE IS BASICALLY DONE.
THOSE ARE ALL THE BIG UPDATES THAT I HAD FOR YOU.
THE, THE ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IS, I KNOW THAT PRIOR, I DON'T KNOW A COUPLE MEETINGS BACK, I WAS JUST REMINDED THAT THE COUNCIL HAD ASKED FOR US TO INCLUDE, UH, THE COUNTY PROJECTS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN HUDU.
AND SO I JUST WANNA LET YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THAT.
IN FACT, I HAD A MEETING WITH, UH, THE COUNTY'S PROGRAM MANAGER TODAY AND ASKED THEM, 'CAUSE I GET THE BIWEEKLY UPDATES FROM THE ROAD BOND PROGRAM, BUT I DIDN'T REALLY FIGURE YOU WANTED ME JUST TO THROW THOSE TABLES UP HERE AND FOR YOU TO LOOK AT.
AND SO I'VE ASKED THEM TO PUT TOGETHER A MAP OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY PROJECT ROAD PROJECTS THAT IMPACT HUDU AND THEN WE CAN COMBINE THAT.
WE'RE GONNA WORK TOGETHER, COMBINE THAT SO THAT I CAN ADD THAT TO THIS PRESENTATION SO THAT YOU'LL KNOW NOT ONLY WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR PROJECTS, BUT WHERE WE STAND WITH THEIR PROJECTS.
AND SO WITH THAT, UM, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS.
QUESTIONS FROM COUNSEL? I HAVE A QUESTION.
ARE ANY OF OUR PROPOSED PROJECTS FOR ROADS THAT WE SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY, DID THEY TAKE ANY OF THOSE ON? NO, I THINK LIKE ONE WAS THE 1 37, MAYBE 1 99.
THE THREE THAT WE SUBMITTED WAS THE, UM, THEY CALL IT THE HU ARTERIAL, WHICH IS THE CONNECTION FROM CHANDLER ROAD TO 1660 SOUTH.
IT'S THE BIG, IT'S WHERE OUR OVERPASS IS GOING AND IT WAS GONNA CONNECT ALL THE WAY ACROSS.
UH, WE ALSO SUBMITTED THE EAST WEST PORTION OF COUNTY ROAD 1 32 AND THEN WE SUBMITTED THE, UH, COUNTY ROAD 1 37 FM 1660 IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THE ONLY ONE THAT MADE IT THROUGH THEIR FIRST CUT WAS THE EAST WEST PORTION OF COUNTY ROAD 1 32.
HOWEVER, WHEN THEY STARTED DIGGING DOWN AND, AND RESTRICTING EVEN FURTHER, THAT ONE GOT CUT AS WELL.
SO NONE OF OUR ROAD PROJECTS AND WE ONLY SUBMITTED ONE PARK PROJECT, WHICH WAS THE, UH, I WANNA SAY IT WAS THE CROSS CREEK TRAIL PROJECT AND THAT DID NOT MAKE THE CUT EITHER.
SO NONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT JUDO SUBMITTED WERE INCLUDED IN WHAT'S GOING IN THE BOND PACKAGE THAT THE COUNTY'S PUTTING FORWARD.
OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? MATT? I'VE GOT A QUICK ONE ON T O THREE, THE, THE, UM, LI LOOP AND 1660.
WE HAD TALKED ONCE ABOUT MAYBE THAT COULD, SOME OF THAT WORK COULD BE DONE AT NIGHT IN AN EFFORT BECAUSE IT'S SO BACKED UP.
ONE OF THE SIGNS A A WEEK AGO I MEANT MEANT TO LET JAMES KNOW ONE OF THE SIGNS POSTED SOMETHING ABOUT CONSTRUCTION DURING THE DAY AND ONE WAS POSTING TIMES AT NIGHT.
ARE WE DOING ANY KIND OF WORK AT NIGHT OR ARE THOSE JUST OFF? UM, I NEED TO CHECK AND SEE.
I NEED TO CHECK AND SEE WHY THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SIGNS.
'CAUSE THEY SHOULD BE CONSISTENT, BUT RIGHT NOW ALL WE'RE DOING IS UTILITY WORK, SO THAT SHOULDN'T AFFECT THE ROADWAYS AT ALL ANYWAY.
BUT I, I'LL CHECK AND SEE WHY THERE'S A DIFFERENCE THERE AND THEN I'LL, I'LL GET BACK TO YOU AND LET YOU KNOW.
SO WHEN THE UTILITY RELOCATES ARE DONE, IS UH, MAIN WORK GONNA BE DONE DURING THE DAY OR ARE WE ABLE TO DO THAT AT NIGHT? SOME OR HAVE WE
OH, ONCE WE START THE ROAD WORK RIGHT.
WHEN WE'RE JUST GRADING AND, YOU KNOW, DOING ALL THAT SORT OF THING.
UM, I, I WANNA SAY DON'T HOLD ME TO THIS 'CAUSE I NEED TO GO BACK AND REREAD THE CONTRACT.
I WANNA SAY THAT ALL OF THE STUFF THAT CAN BE DONE WITHOUT NEEDING, WITHOUT IMPACTING TRAFFIC IS BEING DONE DURING THE DAY, JUST LIKE WE DID WITH 1660 NORTH AT 79.
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AND THEN THE STUFF WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA HAVE TO SHUT DOWN LANES AND IMPACT TRAFFIC WILL BE DONE AT NIGHT.[9.1. Conduct a public hearing and consider possible action on Ordinance No. O-2023-071 regarding a Co-Op Planned Unit Development Amendment, 35.102 acres, more or less, located on US 79 West at CoOp Blvd (First Reading) (Ashley Bailey) ]
CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER POSSIBLE ACTION ON ORDINANCE NUMBER O DASH 2023 DASH 0 7 1 REGARDING A CO-OP PLAN U UNIT DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT 35.102 ACRES, MORE OR LESS LOCATED ON US 79 WEST AT CO-OP BOULEVARD.GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNSEL, THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS FOR THE P U D OR PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT THAT MATCHES THE MOST RECENTLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT HAPPENED IN MAY OF THIS YEAR.
SO WHAT WE HAVE, YOU'LL SEE A TON OF PAPERWORK IN YOUR PACKET.
UM, BUT JUST THE HIGHLIGHTS HERE IS THAT, UM, THE MAIN RETAIL SPACE IS ADDED TO THE APARTMENT PROJECT THAT WE KNOW THAT'S COMING.
AND THERE WERE A LOT OF OTHER CHANGES AS FAR AS UPDATED PROHIBITED USE LIST, CUMULATIVE CHANGES, AND THEN ALSO REDUCING ANY COMPACT PARKING TO A MAXIMUM OF 10%.
I WILL POINT OUT THAT THERE ARE NO COMPACT COMPACT PLACES IN THE CO-OP RIGHT NOW, BUT THIS STILL DOES ALLOW THEM TO HAVE A FEW, BUT CERTAINLY NOT WHAT IT WAS.
UM, IN THE PRIOR P U D, EVERYTHING ELSE STAYS THE SAME.
SO, SO I HAD MY ONLY ONE QUESTION, UM, RECENTLY, UH, WHEN I WAS ON A BUSINESS TRIP, I ACTUALLY, THE ONLY RENTAL CAR I COULD GET WAS AN EV MM-HMM.
AND SO, UM, THAT WAS ACTUALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE THERE WAS PLACES TO ACTUALLY PLUG IN AND CHARGE ONE.
UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE, SO I'M JUST SAYING WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS PARKING GARAGE AND EVERYTHING.
UM, I KNOW THIS IS PROBABLY GONNA BE FOR RESIDENTS, BUT IS THE PUBLIC GONNA HAVE SOME SPACES I THOUGHT IN THIS, UH, PARKING AREA WHEN THEY GET READY TO BUILD? I'M JUST WONDERING, ARE WE LOOKING AT REQUIRING LIKE TWO, THREE SPACES OF EV CHARGING STATIONS ON PARKING SPACES WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT DEVELOPING THINGS? WE CAN, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WAS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
I'M JUST WONDERING IF THAT'S YEAH, I DON'T REMEMBER, I DON'T REMEMBER CALLING IT OUT SPECIFICALLY THAT THERE HAVE TO BE EV SPACES, BUT FRANKLY THE, THE, THE BUILDERS OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES ARE GENERALLY STARTING TO DO THAT ANYWAY.
UM, I DON'T KNOW THE RATIOS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT, UM, I DON'T REMEMBER BUILDING THAT INTO THE DA SO IT WOULDN'T BE IN THE, IN THE PUT AMENDMENT.
SO I'M JUST SAYING IS JUST BRINGING TO MY THOUGHT THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD, WHEN WE'RE REWRITING THE U D C CODE, ABSOLUTELY.
BUT WE SHOULD START LOOKING AT SOME EV REQUIREMENTS LOOKING AT SOME OTHER CITIES OF JUST MINIMUM TWO OR THREE SPACES PER, PER HUNDRED OR SOMETHING JUST SO THAT WE'RE FUTURE LOOKING.
AND I KNOW THAT I WILL ALSO HAVE A FIRE CODE AMENDMENT FOR YOU BECAUSE I KNOW THAT E S D ALSO DID, UM, AN EV AMENDMENT FOR THEIR FIRE CODE.
BUT CERTAINLY WE'LL PUT THAT ON THE LIST FOR THE U D C BASED ON THAT.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO, HOLD ON.
DO YOU STILL DO PUBLICATION? WE OPEN UP A PUBLIC HEARING.
IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ASHLEY BEFORE I PUT UP THE PUBLIC HEARING? ALRIGHT, HEARING NONE.
WE'LL OPEN UP TO PUBLIC HEARING AT 8:33 PM IS THERE IN FROM THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO COME UP AND SPEAK REGARDING THIS PUTT AMENDMENT FOR THE CO-OP? SEEING NO ONE, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 8:33 PM AND THEN OPEN IT UP FOR COUNCIL DISCUSSION OR ACTION.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBERS.
O DASH 2023 DASH OH SEVEN ONE IS PRESENTED.
SECOND MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLARK, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM GORDON.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? THE MOTION HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.
SO ONE QUESTION, DO WE, ARE WE ABLE TO WAIVE A SECOND READING TONIGHT OR DO WE HAVE TO POST AGAIN? UM, I KNOW IT WAS FIRST READING ON THIS.
I'D HAVE TO CHECK THE, UH, THE RESOLUTION ITSELF, SEE IF IT LOST WA TYPICALLY FOR ZONING WE DON'T JUST BECAUSE THE WAY THE CHARTER'S WRITTEN.
UM, YEAH, I THINK WE ALREADY PUT IT ON FOR THE 19TH.
UH, DOTTIE, IM IMPERSONATION FOR MARK AND SAY, UM, BECAUSE IT'S, UH, ZONING AND ZONING CAN POTENTIALLY, UH, RESULT IN A FINE, THEN TYPICALLY IT REQUIRES THE SECOND FOUR WEEKS.
WE'LL JUST PUT IT ON 'CAUSE CONSENT FOR NEXT TIME.
[9.2. Conduct a public hearing and possible action on Ordinance No. O-2023-033 for the proposed Specific Use Permit request for the property known as 901 Ed Schmidt Boulevard, to allow a drive-through facility (UDC 10.304.10) (Ashley Bailey) (Part 1 of 2)]
NINE TWO, CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON ORDINANCE NUMBER O DASH 2023 DASH 0 3 3 FOR THE PROPOSED SPECIFIC USE PERMIT REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 9 0 1 EDGE SCHMIDT BOULEVARD TO ALLOW A DRIVE[01:35:01]
THROUGH FACILITY MAYOR AND COUNSEL.I APOLOGIZE, I DON'T THINK I INTRODUCED MYSELF LAST TIME.
I'M ACTUALLY BAILEY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR.
WHO ARE YOU, WHO ARE YOU IN? NO, I WAS THINKING JUST STANDING HERE THINKING ABOUT THAT.
SO, UM, TONIGHT IS SOMETHING YOU'VE ACTUALLY SEEN PRIOR.
IT WAS, CAME FORWARD OVER THE SUMMER AND IT ACTUALLY FAILED THE FIRST JUST FOR A LACK OF SECOND.
SO THE MAIN COMMENT THAT I GOT WAS, CAN WE HAVE ANY MORE DETAILS ON WHAT THE BUILDING MIGHT LOOK LIKE OR ANY OTHER DETAILS? SO WITH THAT, THIS DID JUST GO BACK TO PLANNING COMMISSION, UM, TUESDAY.
SO TUESDAY, UM, WITH THESE ADDITIONAL, SO REALLY THIS IS MOSTLY AROUND, UM, EVERYTHING TO THE NORTH IS GONNA BE COMMERCIAL AS ARE A LOT OF CORNERS IN THE CITY.
AND THEN SOUTH OF THERE IS SOME RESIDENTIAL THAT'S ALREADY EXISTING AND IT'S A 1.3 ACRE PARCEL, BUT AGAIN, KIND OF SOUTH OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LIMMER AND SCHMIDT.
SO AGAIN, IT UH, FAILED TO PROCEED FOR THE LACK OF SECOND MOTION.
SO THE S U P REALLY IS JUST FOR THAT DRIVE-THROUGH USE BECAUSE OF THAT COMMERCIAL ZONING.
SO WE, I HAVE ALL OF THIS IN YOUR PACKET AS WELL, BUT REALLY IT'S JUST FOR THAT DRIVE THROUGH FACILITY JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS HAS ENOUGH BUFFERING FROM THE RESIDENTIAL ADJACENT, UM, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE, THERE IS AN INTERVENING LOT HERE.
UH, BUT WHAT YOU COULD SEE IS THE BUILDING IS HERE AND THEN THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO STACK THE CARS AROUND THE BACK OF THE BUILDING TO THE SIDE.
SO IT WOULD GO TO THE SOUTH AND THEN HERE YOU CAN SEE THE ADDITIONAL ELEVATION.
SO THEY WILL HAVE, IT WON'T JUST BE ONE DRIVE-THROUGH, IT'LL HAVE THE DRIVE-THROUGH ELEMENT, BUT THEN IT'LL ALSO HAVE SOME MORE RETAIL SPACE THERE AS WELL IN THAT BUILDING WITH A LARGE CANOPY, UM, AREA COVERED, UM, AREA IN THE FRONT.
AND THEN AGAIN, HERE'S THE BACK AND THEN THE SOUTH ELEVATION.
SO IF YOU WERE LOOKING NORTH TO THAT DRIVE THROUGH, THAT'S WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.
SO WITH THAT, IT DID GET APPROVAL AT PLANNING COMMISSION DRIVE THROUGH FACILITIES.
AGAIN, THEY HAVE TO BE AT LEAST A HUNDRED FEET FROM THE RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICT AND THE APPLICANTS WOULD STILL NEED TO MEET ALL THE DESIGN GUIDELINES OF THAT B ONE DISTRICT THROUGH SITE PLAN APPROVAL.
AND THAT HAS NOT OCCURRED YET BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE IF THEY'RE APPROVED FOR THAT DRIVE THROUGH.
SO WITH THAT, UM, THIS WAS HEARD AGAIN AT TUESDAY NIGHT AND IT DID PASS AGAIN FOR RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL.
THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST READING.
AGAIN, WE DO HAVE TO HAVE A SECOND RATING ON THE ZONING, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE GETTING TO SEE THIS ONE BACK.
UM, IT WASN'T THAT, UH, I WASN'T WILLING TO DISCUSS IT BEFORE.
I WANTED TO WAIT AFTER THE STUDY CAME UP AND WE HAD THAT, UM, LAST COUNCIL.
SO, UM, SO THAT WAS, UH, THAT WAS GOOD TO HEAR.
UM, SO DO YOU, THAT WAS MY, THAT WAS MY QUESTION.
SO I GUESS WE NEED TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION FROM COUNSEL BEFORE WE DO A PUBLIC HEARING? SO MY, UH, JUST MY ONE QUESTION WAS, UM, IF THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO DRIVE-THROUGH, THEY COULD JUST, THEY WOULDN'T NEED TO COME TO US FOR THIS PERMISSION BECAUSE THAT'S, UM, THAT'S THE ONLY PORTION THAT'S NEEDED FOR OUR APPROVAL.
LIKE IF THEY WANTED TO BUILD A RESTAURANT WITHOUT A DRIVE-THROUGH, THEY COULD JUST DO IT.
ANYONE ELSE? WE'LL OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 8:38 PM IS THERE ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO COME UP AND SPEAK REGARDING THE DRIVE-THROUGH, UH, SS U P? SIR, IF YOU'D JUST STATE YOUR NAME AND YEAH, MY NAME IS, UH, GUILLERMO CALVIO.
I WORK WITH JAMESON CIVIL ENGINEERING.
I'M THE APPLICANT ON THIS PROJECT AND I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE.
DO YOU RECOMMEND
IT'S A REALLY GOOD CHICKEN AND MEAT.
SO I DO HAVE A QUESTION, IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, THIS IS GONNA BE AN EL POLO LOCO.
IS THAT THE SAME, DO THEY HAVE A LOCATION ON 79 ON THE SOUTH SIDE? I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE HOW MANY RICOS THERE ARE, UM, IN THE CITY, BUT UM, I'M NOT SURE HONESTLY.
JUST ONE IN ROUND ROCK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SEVEN NINE.
I SEE A COUPLE OF, THIS MAY BE MORE A QUESTION FOR ASHLEY, BUT SO I GO TO WORK EVERY DAY DOWN THAT AND IT SEEMS LIKE IF IT'S, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IF IT'S A TEMPERATURE ISSUE OR IF IT'S A HUMIDITY ISSUE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE TIMES IT'S JUST BLANKETED.
I MEAN, I THINK THEY MUST DO CHARBROIL CHICKEN THERE BECAUSE IT'D BE BLANKETED WITH SMOKE ALL, I MEAN THE WHOLE SOUTH SIDE.
AND SO MY ONLY CONCERN IS IF THIS WAS LIKE BY THE HOME DEPOT OR SOMETHING, UH, IT WOULDN'T BOTHER ME.
BUT BEING RIGHT NEXT TO RESIDENTIAL HOUSES, WHAT I'M AFRAID IS, IS THAT WHAT, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT CAUSES IT, BUT IF YOU HAVE THIS BLANKET OF SMOKE AND IT'S IN PEOPLE'S BACKYARDS, BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY ONLY ONE PAD AWAY FROM A RESIDENTIAL, THAT'S MY
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FEAR.SO MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE ANYTHING IN OUR ORDINANCES OR ANYTHING TO WHERE IF PEOPLE DRIVING BY AND A RESTAURANT'S EMITTING, I MEAN EVEN IF IT DOESN'T SMELL, BUT THEY'RE JUST EMITTING SMOKE, THAT THAT WOULD BE LIKE A, WHAT DO THEY CALL, LIKE A NOXIOUS USE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? I'M, I'M TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T DO SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF CHICKEN WOULD COMPLY WITH THAT, BUT I CAN CERTAINLY LOOK INTO IT ONLY BECAUSE IF WE CALLED IT FOOD OR SOMETHING ELSE, IF IT WAS A VAPOR POTENTIALLY, UM, BUT WE COULD CERTAINLY BRING THAT TO THEM DURING THE BUILDING PERMIT AND SEE IF THERE'S UPGRADED, UM, VENTING THAT THEY COULD DO VENTILATION.
YEAH, BUT WHEN, BECAUSE WE CAN'T PROHIBIT THE SPECIFIC RESTAURANT USE.
SO EVEN IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE DRIVE THROUGH, THEY COULD STILL GO AND WE'D STILL HAVE THE SAME THING.
BUT IT'S LIKE TELLING MCDONALD'S THEY CAN'T HAVE A DRIVE THROUGH THEN THEY SOMETIMES DON'T BUILD THE, THE MCDONALD'S.
AND SO I, I'M NOT TRYING TO, I'D RATHER SEE THEM BE, IF THEY WERE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE INTERSECTION, THERE WON'T BE RESIDENTIAL WRITEUP THAT'S LIKE 12 ACRES OR 13 ACRES OF COMMERCIAL.
THE EAST SIDE OF THE INTERSECTION IS A HUNDRED, 150 FEET BEFORE YOU GET TO SOME MULTI-FAMILY.
UM, THAT'S JUST MY ONE CONCERN.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE ENCOUNTERED THAT BEFORE.
UM, I KNOW THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A UM, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE BARBECUE RESTAURANT DOWN IN AUSTIN, BUT IT GOT TO WHERE THE SMOKE ON CERTAIN DAYS IT GOT TO WHERE THEY HAD TO PUT IN SOME ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT TO KEEP THE SMOKE FROM HITTING THE NEIGHBORS.
I CAN CERTAINLY TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE COULD DO AND TALK TO, UM, THE BUILDING PLANS REVIEWER AND SEE IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO THAT WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY IN THE BUILDING CODE TO REQUIRE THAT.
BECAUSE YOU CAN STILL APPLY CONDITIONS TO A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT AND WE DO STILL HAVE A SECOND READING.
UH, I COULD SAY SOMETHING TO THAT A LITTLE BIT.
WE'VE, I'VE SPOKEN TO MY CLIENT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THAT WAS A CONCERN JUST BECAUSE OF THE REG RESIDENTIAL AREA BEHIND IT.
UM, THE CLIENT HAS SPECIFIED THAT HE COULD LOOK INTO DOING SOMETHING LIKE A SMOKE SCRUBBER.
NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT THAT ENTAILS.
SO WE DON'T REALLY DEAL WITH THE BUILDING SIDE OF THE PERMIT PROCESS AND ALSO DOING SOME COOKING PROCESS CHANGES SO THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SMOKE BEING GETTING LET OUT OF THE ACTUAL RESTAURANT ITSELF.
SO WE, WE ARE WILLING TO LOOK INTO THAT AS WELL AND TAKE CARE OF THAT AS WELL WITH THE BUILDING PLAN REVIEW PROCESS.
YOU GUYS WANNA LOOK INTO IT BEFORE OR AFTER WE APPROVE YOU? 'CAUSE ONCE WE APPROVE YOU AND WE DON'T HAVE U D C CODES, THEN THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO.
BUT IF WE, IF WE TABLE IT OR SOMETHING, LET'S SAY I SAY I'D LIKE TO TABLE US AND TELL YOU GUYS COME BACK WITH A, SOME KIND OF PLAN TO, TO DO THAT.
UM, UM, I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT THE CLIENT WOULD LIKE TO DO.
HE DID SPECIFY SPECIFICALLY THE SNOW SCRUBBER.
AGAIN, I CAN'T SPECIFY HOW THAT EXACTLY WORKS JUST 'CAUSE WE DON'T DEAL WITH THE BUILDING PLANS THEMSELVES.
UM, BUT HE IS WILLING TO, TO LOOK INTO THAT AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S PUT IN THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RESIDENTS BEHIND THE PROPERTY DON'T HAVE ANY ADVERSE EFFECT.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE FROM THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK? ALRIGHT, HEARING NONE, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 8 43.
OPEN IT BACK UP FOR COUNCIL COMMENT INTERACTION.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
UM, 9.2 AS PRESENTED MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER LAR.
SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM GORDON DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION.
I WOULD JUST LIKE FOR A SECOND READING FOR US TO GET SOME KIND OF A UNDERSTANDING ON THAT BEFORE WE VOTE ON THE SECOND READING.
BUT THING I CAN, UM, LOOK INTO THE SMOKE SCRUB.
BUT THAT WAS MENTIONED IN THE, ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH THAT WOULD BE IN THE BUILDING CODE.
YEAH, I MIGHT TAKE A VIDEO AND GIVE IT TO YOU GUYS.
I MIGHT GO BY TO, TO SHOW AND, AND UH, THAT WAY IF I SHOW IT THEN YOU CAN SHARE IT WITH THE COUNCIL.
'CAUSE I THINK IT'S ONE OF THESE THINGS THAT, UM, AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE.
WE MAY, IT REMINDS ME A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WE DID WITH RIO.
LOOKING BACK, I DON'T THINK WE WOULD EVER ALLOW AN OUTDOOR MUSIC PATIO FIVE FEET FROM SOMEONE'S BACKYARD.
UM, AND SO ONCE IT'S DONE, YOU, YOU CAN'T DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
BUT YEAH, WE DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY MORE INFORMATION.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, UM, JUST WITH WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE WAY A BUSINESS OPERATES, THAT'S SO UNCERTAIN AND IT'S, THERE'S A SCIENCE, SCIENCE TO IT THAT WE CAN'T CONTROL AS A CITY COUNCIL OR GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL.
UM, SO THAT'S JUST ANOTHER VIEW OF THAT AS WELL.
JUST, YOU KNOW, BUT I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE, YOU KNOW, ANY EXTRA MITIGATION FROM THAT.
UM, LOOKS LIKE THEY DO CHARCOAL GRILL.
MAYBE THAT'S KIND OF WHAT IT IS, BUT I MEAN, WE CAN'T PREVENT, PREVENT HUMID DAYS, YOU KNOW, AND HOW TO, SO, SO OUR NEXT MEETING IS A WEEK FROM TODAY.
UM, IS A WEEK ENOUGH TIME TO GET BACK TO CITY? I'M ASKING THE GENTLEMAN THAT CAME UP BEFORE IS, IS A WEEK ENOUGH TIME TO GET BACK TO CITY STAFF ON THAT UH, CONFIRMATION OF THE SMOKE SCRUBBER? YEAH.
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THAT TO YOU.ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION FROM COUNCIL? HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.
[10.1. Consideration and possible action regarding possible appointments, re-appointments and/or removals to City Boards, Commissions, Task Forces, Economic Development Corporations, Local Government Corporations and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Boards, City Council Liaisons, and Area Government appointments. ]
TO ITEM 10.ONE CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING POSSIBLE APPOINTMENTS, REAPPOINTMENTS AND OR REMOVALS TO CITY BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, TASK FORCES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS.
IT'S GONNA BE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS AND TAX INCREMENT, REINVESTMENT ZONE BOARDS, CITY COUNCIL LIAISONS AND AREA GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.
I HAVE ONE FOR, UM, DIVERSITY INCLUSION.
I THINK WE'VE ALL TALKED TO BRUCE.
UM, THEY ONLY MEET ONCE A QUARTER AND THEY'RE WAITING TO DEVELOP.
SO HE WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THE DIVERSITY INCLUSION BOARD.
AND YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS MET AS A GROUP WE ALL MET SEPARATELY.
ALRIGHT, SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY M WILCOTT, SECOND BY CUSTOMER.
LAR A APPOINTING BRUCE ANDERSON TO D N I.
YEAH, I'M NOT, I'M NOT ON THE, I GUESS NOMINATING COMMITTEE, BUT I KNOW, UM, MR. ANDERSON, JUST AS AN ADVOCATE FOR THE LIBRARY AND JUST, UM, AN INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY MEMBER.
UM, I THINK HE'S AN ADVOCATE FOR ALL, YOU KNOW, ALL THINGS CITY AND HE'S, YOU KNOW, GETTING INVOLVED AND SO HE'S A GREAT PERSON FOR THE D N I COMMISSION ANXIOUSLY WAITING TO SERVE MORE.
SO I MAY HAVE MISSED IT, BUT JUST AS SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE, I, I KNOW BRUCE PRETTY WELL.
I DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE AN ISSUE WITH HIM BEING ON BOARD, BUT I WAS THINKING WE WERE GONNA START GETTING THEM EMAILED TO US, THE APPLICATIONS THAT COME IN.
AND I'M STILL NOT GETTING ANY APPLICATIONS.
AND SO THE FIRST TIME EVER HEAR A NAME IS AT THE MEETING, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS ARE SEEING THEM OR SENT TO EVERYBODY FROM ANGELA ON, IT WAS SEVERAL WEEKS AGO.
UM, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1101 AM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH.
I DID, I DID HAVE A QUESTION ON THAT, THAT LAST ITEM, BUT I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE BEFORE.
I MEAN, IT, IT DOESN'T MATTER ON THE BOOK 'CAUSE WE HAVE THE SECOND READING, BUT SINCE, UH, HOLD ON, HOLD ON.
WE'RE WE'RE NOT, WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT AN ITEM.
YOU CAN RE YOU CAN RECALL IT HERE IN A MINUTE, BUT WE'RE JUST STICKING TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS RIGHT NOW.
I, LIKE I SAID, I DON'T NECESSARILY, I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE, BRUCE.
I JUST LIKE TO READ ALL THOSE THINGS AND I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING THAT I ALREADY, YEAH, I DON'T HAVE, I DON'T HAVE AN EMAIL ON THE 28TH ON THAT.
SEE, I DON'T, MAY NOT HAVE BEEN SENT TO EVERYBODY, SO THAT'S, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
BUT SEPTEMBER OR AUGUST? YEAH, YOU SAID SEPTEMBER NINE.
I MEAN, IS THAT THE ONLY APPLICATION WE, WE'VE GOT? I THINK THE, THE GOAL I THINK ULTIMATELY RIGHT, IS FOR ALL APPLICATIONS TO COME TO THE COUNCIL, BUT THE ODD YEAR, THE ODD NUMBER GROUPS ARE MEETING WITH THEM AND THEN THE EVEN NUMBER OF YEARS, EVEN NUMBER OF POSITIONS.
SO I HAVEN'T GOTTEN ANY, ANY APPLICATION.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MEANS NO ONE'S APPLYING OR THAT IT'S, THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ANY SINCE THAT ONE? NO.
HEARING NO OTHER DISCUSSION, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.
ALRIGHT, NOW DO YOU WANNA RECALL ITEM NINE TWO? I DID.
BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I'VE JUST GOT ONE QUESTION ON 10.1.
DO WE HAVE ALL OF THE COUNTY POSITIONS FILLED ON THE TWO BOARDS OR I GUESS THREE TOURS BOARDS NOW THEY WERE ONLY PARTICIPATING IN TWO.
WERE THEY IN TWO? ARE THEY FILLED? DO WE KNOW WHO'S TRACKING? I THINK, UM, I THINK DOTTIE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING SINCE SHE'LL BE PRESENT, I THINK SHE'S GONNA GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THAT BECAUSE I ASKED FOR, UM, AN UPDATE ON THE TS BOARDS TO KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT, WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO I THINK MAYBE JUST SUBMIT THAT TO HER.
AS LIKE ANOTHER LAYER JUST ASK.
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OKAY.IT SHOULD BE ON HER RADAR ONCE SHE RETURNS.
IF THERE'S NO OBJECTIONS, WE'LL
[9.2. Conduct a public hearing and possible action on Ordinance No. O-2023-033 for the proposed Specific Use Permit request for the property known as 901 Ed Schmidt Boulevard, to allow a drive-through facility (UDC 10.304.10) (Ashley Bailey) (Part 2 of 2)]
RECALL ITEM NINE TWO, CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON ORDINANCE NUMBER O DASH 2023 DASH 0 3 3 FOR THE PROPOSED SPECIFIC USE PERMIT REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 9 0 1 EDGE SCHMIDT BOULEVARD TO ALLOW A DRIVE THROUGH FACILITY.YEAH, SO I JUST, I HAD A, A QUESTION.
SO IF SOMEONE'S PROPERTY THAT IS A VOTING MEMBER IS WITHIN 500 FEET OF THAT THING, DO THEY HAVE TO RECUSE THEMSELF AS POSSIBLE? CONFLICT OF INTEREST? I'D HAVE TO, SORRY, I HADN'T SEEN THIS BEFORE.
WHICH PROVISION ARE WE REFERRING TO? THE 500 FEET? UM, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU COULD SAY, WELL, BRINGING UP SMOKE AND AFFECTING PROPERTY VALUE, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
AND IF THAT COUNCIL PERSON, IF SOMEONE HOUSE IS WITHIN 500 FEET OF THAT PROPERTY, WOULD THEY HAVE TO FILE IT, FILE A, A MOTION OR A DISCLOSURE TO SHOW THAT CONFLICT OF INTEREST? POSSIBLY IN FULL TRANSPARENCY TO THE PUBLIC? YEAH, NO, IT'S, IT'S TOTALLY FAIR.
I'D HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT TO CONFIRM.
UMM, I'M NOT GONNA, I'M NOT GONNA SHOOT FROM THE HIP AT THE MOMENT.
THAT'S A, UH, I'D HAVE TO RESEARCH A LITTLE BIT INTO THE RECUSAL REQUIREMENTS.
DO SO I WILL GET BACK TO, I THINK HE'S PROBABLY TALKING ABOUT ME AND PREVIOUSLY, UM, WHAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM DOTTIE WAS THAT IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT IMMEDIATELY AFFECTS YOUR PROPERTY VALUE NEGATIVELY OR POSITIVELY, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED THAT YOU NEED TO RECUSE YOURSELF.
IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S NOT SPECIFICALLY TO YOU, YOU DON'T.
UM, IF I NEED TO RECUSE MYSELF, THEN MORE THAN HAPPY TO.
UM, BUT GOING ON PREVIOUS GUIDANCE FROM DOTTIE, I DIDN'T SEE THIS, UH, SOMETHING THAT WAS GONNA PERSONALLY MAKE MY HOUSE WORTH MORE OR PERSONALLY MAKE MY HOUSE WORTH LESS.
AND I MAY, IF I LIVE 500 FEET AWAY, IT'S LIKE 5 0 1 BECAUSE, UM, I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SEE IT FROM MY HOUSE.
BUT IF THAT WAS DOTTIE'S PREVIOUS ADVICE, UM, UM, REGARDING MATTER, PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK.
WELL, I WAS JUST SAYING BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING A DISCUSSION ABOUT PREVENTING THEM FROM GOING BECAUSE OF SMOKE AND POSSIBLY SMELLING SOMETHING, WHICH WITHIN 500 FEET YOU WOULD.
AND SO ARE YOU TRYING TO GET AN ADVANTAGE FOR YOUR HOUSE? WHICH COULD BE A NE THAT WAS MY QUESTION.
'CAUSE NOBODY ELSE UP HERE MAKING A VOTE ON WHETHER THIS BUSINESS CAN BE HERE, HAS A MATERIAL INTEREST CLOSE TO THAT PROPERTY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS A PART OF THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION.
SO, CHRIS, HAVE WE MEASURED IT? AM I YEAH, IT'S 500 FEET.
IS IT RIGHT ON THE DOG? EXACTLY.
IF YOU WENT FROM THE CORNER WHERE THE SMOKE WOULD BE, IT'D BE EVEN CLOSER.
SO, OH, YOU'RE IN THE DANGER ZONE.
MIKE, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO OUR ATTENTION.
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER ACTION ON NINE TWO? NOPE.
[11.1. Consideration and possible action on Resolution No. R-2023-252 adopting the City of Hutto Sponsorship Policy (Community Experience and Engagement Hub)]
WE MOVE ON TO ITEM 11 ONE CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION ON RESOLUTION NUMBER R DASH 2023 DASH 2 52 ADOPTING A CITY OF HUS SPONSORSHIP POLICY.HEY, YOU'RE UP HERE A LOT EARLIER THIS TIME.
UH, I'M TRUDY WILLIAMS, THE LIBRARY MANAGER FOR THE RECORD.
UM, I'M PART OF THE HUB, UM, THAT WORKED ON THIS SPONSORSHIP POLICY.
DID ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I DID.
UM, SO WHEN I READ IT, SO THE SPONSORSHIP POLICY, IF I, WHEN I WAS READING LIKE ITEM NUMBER TWO UNDER DEFINITIONS, IT SAYS THAT THIS IS WHEN AN ENTITY WILL PROVIDE THE CITY WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR AN ACTIVITY.
SO LET'S SAY THE CITY'S DOING SOME KIND OF ACTIVITY, UM, A A PRIVATE BUSINESS WANTS TO PROVIDE SOME KIND OF A SUPPORT USUALLY IN, IN, UH, EXCHANGE FOR SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, RECOGNITION AND THEY WOULD OFFER MONEY OR IN KIND DONATIONS.
UM, IS THIS, IS THERE EVER, UM, AN INSTANCE UNDER THIS POLICY WHERE IT WOULD GO THE OTHER WAY WHERE THE, WHERE LIKE A, THERE'S ANOTHER EVENT THAT SOMEBODY ELSE IS PUTTING ON AND THE CITY WOULD THEN PROVIDE FUNDS AND SPONSOR THAT? OR IS IT ONLY THE ONE WAY WHERE THEY WOULD BE GIVING MONEY TO OR IN KIND TO THE CITY? IT'S ONLY ONE.
BEFORE YOU ANSWER THAT, CAN YOU JUST TELL US AND EVERYBODY AROUND US, UM, WHAT THIS PROCESS, PROCESS IS? WHAT IT'S OH YEAH, YEAH.
GIVE US A SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU GUYS WERE WORKING ON.
OH, UM, THIS WAS A, UM, POLICY FOR, UM, SPONSORSHIPS ON HOW THE CITY COULD, UM, WORK WITH DIFFERENT COMPANIES, ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS,
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CITIZENS, UM, IN SPONSORING DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND, AND SO FORTH.UM, SUCH AS FESTIVALS, UH, COMMUNITY PROJECTS, SO ON AND SO FORTH.
CAN YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE? LIKE HOW WOULD IT WORK, UM, SAY FOR INSTANCE, UM, WITH THE FARMER'S MARKET, UM, SAY, UM, WELL ACTUALLY, UM, ACTUALLY HAD A, UM, ONE OF THE SWAT LADIES LET ME KNOW TODAY THAT HER CHURCH IS HAVING A, A DRIVE OF SOME SORT, AND SHE WANTED THE LIBRARY TO HAVE A BOOTH AT THE, UM, FOOD DRIVE.
UM, AND, UM, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, REGISTRATION FEE AND, UM, REGISTRATION FORM.
SO IT'S THINGS LIKE THAT WHERE THEY WANT YOU TO CONTRIBUTE TO, UM, UH, AN EVENT THAT THEY'RE HAVING.
SO THEY'RE ASKING FOR MONEY, THEY'RE FOR CITY MONEY FOR THEIR EVENT THAT'S FOR THIS PARTICULAR ORGANIZATION IS, BUT SOMETIMES THEY JUST WANT YOUR PRESENCE OR SOMETIMES THEY, UM, LET'S SEE.
UM, WANT, UM, WELL CAN YOU, MAYBE YOU CAN EXPLAIN IT BETTER.
LET, LET ME JUMP IN HERE FOR YOU.
SO NO, THE, THE, THIS SPONSORSHIP POLICY WAS IN DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE REQUEST THAT, UM, THE CITY BE ABLE TO ACCEPT DONATIONS IF AND WHEN THERE'S AN APPROPRIATE CIRCUMSTANCE FOR THAT.
UM, SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS ULTIMATELY LED TO COULD WE EVEN CREATE LIKE A MENU OF ITEMS THAT, UH, WE WOULD BE SEEKING SPONSORSHIPS FOR A PAVILION OR A, YOU KNOW, A SPLASH PAD OR A BENCH OR WHATEVER.
AND, BUT THERE'S CURRENTLY NOT A POLICY OR PROCEDURE IN PLACE TO BE ABLE TO ACCEPT THOSE SORTS OF DONATIONS.
UM, EVEN IF THEY WERE TO BE, YOU KNOW, OFFERED.
SO THE HUB WAS CHALLENGED WITH, LET'S START WITH A RECOMMENDATION OF A POLICY FOR COUNCIL SO WE CAN AT LEAST GET THE FOUNDATION IN PLACE.
AND THAT'S WHAT, UM, TRUDY'S TALKING ABOUT THAT, THAT THEY HAD CREATED AND THAT THEY'RE PRESENTING TONIGHT IS BASICALLY THE, THE BASE POLICY THAT WOULD START THE PROCESS.
THERE'S NO MENU OF, OF PROPOSED ITEMS FOR DONATIONS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AS OF TODAY, BUT THIS, THE, THIS BASICALLY TALKS ABOUT WHO CAN CONTRIBUTE IN WHAT FORM OR FASHION, HOW DO WE ACCEPT IT, UH, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
SO AN IN KIND CONTRIBUTION IS CERTAINLY GENERALLY SOMETHING THAT'S NOT CASH GENERALLY IN KIND IS I'M PROVIDING A SERVICE OR I'M PROVIDING A GOOD, UM, OR SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S OTHER THAN MONEY.
THEN OF COURSE THERE'S SPONSORSHIPS FOR PARTICULAR THINGS.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE NECESSARILY LIKE A BENCH OR SOMETHING PHYSICAL.
IT COULD BE A SPONSORSHIP TOWARD A FESTIVAL OR ANOTHER EVENT OR ACTIVITY.
UM, SO THOSE ARE THE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF OF SPONSORSHIPS THAT THIS PARTICULAR POLICY IS, IS GEARED TO TALK TO.
UM, AND IT'S FAIRLY, IT'S FAIRLY SIMPLE 'CAUSE IT'S MEANT TO BE A FOUNDATION, YOU KNOW, TO BEGIN THE PROCESS.
SO IF COUNCIL HAD ANY SPECIFIC, UH, I GUESS FEEDBACK WOULD BE THE RIGHT WORD, OR MAYBE INSIGHTS OF OTHER THINGS THAT YOU WANTED TO SEE, THEN THAT COULD BE WORKED INTO, YOU KNOW, THE BASE DOCUMENT.
SO THIS IS NOT DESIGNED FOR, UH, FOLKS ASKING THE CITY TO GIVE THEM MONEY.
UM, ALL, ALL, YOU KNOW, ALBEIT THAT THAT DOES HAPPEN ON OCCASION, UM, THAT THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS POLICY IS ACTUALLY INTENDED TO DO.
IT'S MEANT TO BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
SO, AND THAT'S, THAT WAS MY QUESTION, WAS THE DIRECTION, IS IT PEOPLE OFFERING TO PROVIDE MONEY TO THE CITY OR IN KIND DONATIONS TO THE CITY? OR WERE THEY ASKING FOR CITY MONEY FOR THEIR EVENT? AND THE EXAMPLE THAT I HEARD SOUNDED LIKE THE LATTER, WHERE SOMEBODY WAS SAYING, HEY, WE'RE ASKING THE CITY TO GIVE US MONEY OR TO, TO GET A BOOTH.
AND, AND YEAH, I JUST THINK IT WAS AN EXAMPLE OFF THE HIP.
PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT, PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT ONE.
BUT, AND, AND THE MAIN REASON I ASKED FOR IT WAS BECAUSE IN THE POLICY IT SAYS, UM, WELL, THERE'S BULLETS UNDER POLICY.
I'M NOT GONNA COUNT THE BULLETS.
IT'S SECOND TO THE LAST ONE, UH, WHERE IT SAYS, ANY SPONSORSHIP ABOVE 49 9 9 9 MUST BE APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO THAT'S WHERE I WAS THINKING, WELL, WE ONLY APPROVE WHEN WE'RE PAYING OUT MONEY.
IT JUST SEEMED CONFUSING TO ME THAT WHY WOULD THE CITY COUNCIL NEED TO APPROVE IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO COME AND SAY, YEAH, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A MILLION DOLLARS.
AND WELL, SO LET'S SAY IT'S, LET'S SAY IT'S, UH, IT'S PLAYBOY INTERNATIONAL AND, AND THEY WANT TO OFFER A MILLION DOLLARS TO SPONSOR THE NEW CHILDREN'S, YOU KNOW, LIBRARY ROOM.
I WILL TAKE IT
YOU DON'T WANT YOUR CITY MANAGER GENERALLY SAYING YES TO THAT WITHOUT SOME SORT OF OVERSIGHT.
SO I THINK THEY CHOSE THE DO I WASN'T A PART OF
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THIS, SO I'M JUST INTERPRETING, BUT I BELIEVE THEY, THEY CHOSE THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT AS THE THRESHOLD, BECAUSE THAT'S THE THRESHOLD THAT I COULD APPROVE AS AN EXPENDITURE.SO LOGIC FLOWS THAT IT, IF THERE'S A DONATION THAT'S MORE THAN THAT, THEN THE COUNCIL WOULD NEED TO ACCEPT IT BECAUSE OF PROBABLY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT WOULD COME ALONG WITH SUCH A, A LARGE DONATION.
YEAH, I MEAN, THAT WAS REALLY MY ONLY, I GUESS, QUESTION OR MAYBE RESERVATION ON IT IS RATHER THAN HAVE A DOLLAR AMOUNT, I ALM I ALMOST LIKE IT BETTER TO SAY THAT THE TYPE, LIKE IF THERE'S A QUESTIONABLE, LIKE, LIKE PLAYBOY INTERNATIONAL VERSUS, BUT THEN YOU, BUT THEN YOU GOTTA LEAVE IT UP TO ME TO DECIDE WHAT'S QUESTIONABLE.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE I'M OKAY WITH, UH,
SO, YEAH, THAT, THAT'S, THAT ONE JUST THREW ME FOR A LOOP.
'CAUSE WHEN I READ THAT, THEN I'M LIKE, OH, WELL THIS IS, THEY'RE ASKING FOR CITY MONEY TO GO OUT AND I THOUGHT IT WAS CITY MONEY, MONEY COMING INTO THE CITY.
AND SO THAT JUST, THAT'S WHY THAT JUST, IT, IT CONFUSED ME A LITTLE BIT.
MAYBE THIS IS FOR ANN BECAUSE SHE'S OUR NUMBERS PERSON, BUT WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT THE CITY RECEIVED A DONATION AND WHAT WAS THE AMOUNT, IF YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T, THAT'S TOTALLY FINE.
WE HAD TO HAVE A POLICY FIRST.
BEFORE, SO WE, WELL, I MEAN, YEAH, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE BEFORE, SO MAYBE WE JUST ACCEPTED IT AND WE THREW IT IN THE BAG.
WE HAVE HAD, WE HAVE HAD SPONSORSHIPS.
SO I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY I KNOW THIS IS A POLICY KIND OF CREATING THE FRAMEWORK, BUT I JUST WANNA KNOW, I GUESS WHAT'S COMING OUR WAY, WHAT'S FLOWING THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS ESTABLISHED? I'M JUST CURIOUS.
I DON'T SEE WHY WE NEED A POLICY, BUT LIKE THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD GROCERY STORES TO SPONSOR.
SO NOW WE HAVE A POLICY ON THAT STUFF.
SO WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'VE HAD THAT WE'VE HAD SPONSORSHIPS FOR? VERY, VERY, I MEAN, WE DO GET SPONSORSHIPS FOR SOME OF THE FESTIVALS, BUT, BUT REALLY WHAT DROVE, THIS WAS CONVERSATION THAT WAS HAPPENING AT THE DAIS PROBABLY IN THE SPRING MM-HMM.
I THINK IT WAS FRITZ PARK SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PAVILION OR FOR BALL FIELD OR FOR, YOU KNOW, UM, BENCHES OR WHATEVER ELSE.
BUT IF, EVEN IF, EVEN IF, SAY HOME DEPOT WANTED TO DONATE A WHOLE BUNCH OF MONEY TO GO PAINT THE, THE, THE PAVILION ROOF ORANGE AND PUT HOME DEPOT ON IT OR SOMETHING, THERE IS NO POLICY CURRENTLY TO BE ABLE TO ACCEPT SUCH.
WE ACCEPT OTHER THINGS GENERALLY, LIKE PEOPLE DONATE BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY AND, YOU KNOW, THEY DONATE THINGS HERE AND THERE THAT ARE, THAT ARE, I WOULDN'T SAY INCONSEQUENTIAL, BUT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, AT DOLLARS, THEY'RE INCONSEQUENTIAL.
SO THIS WAS MEANT TO BE MORE ABOUT FORMALIZING THOSE SORTS OF ITEMS THAT WOULD BE MORE CONSEQUENTIAL.
SO THIS ISN'T LIKE TAKING MONEY FROM SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO SET UP A TABLE IN CITY HALL OR HAVE AN EVENT HERE.
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD TAKE MONEY FOR THAT.
THIS IS FOR BIG TICKET ITEMS. OR IF THEY WANNA ADVERTISE ON SOMETHING IN THE CITY, THIS IS A, A VEHICLE POLICY POLICY.
I DON'T, I'M NOT AWARE OF ANYTHING SPECIFIC IN THIS CITY THAT'S BEEN DONATED.
DO YOU HAVE OTHER EXAMPLES IN OTHER CITIES? YES, I DO HAVE EXAMPLES FOR OTHER CITIES.
HOWEVER, I WAS IN A MEETING WITH, UM, ENTERPRISE RENT A CAR, AND WE DO A LOT OF BUSINESS WITH ENTERPRISE RENT A CAR BECAUSE WE HAVE OUR, UH, CAR LEASING THROUGH THEM.
AND, UH, THE, UH, ACCOUNT REP LOOKED OVER THE TABLE AT ME AND SAID, YOU KNOW, ENTERPRISE IS A FAMILY OWNED BUSINESS, THE TAYLOR FAMILY, VERY PHILANTHROPIC, AND THEY DONATE AND WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE CITY WOULD LIKE US TO DONATE TO.
AND, AND I, I TALKED TO OUR CITY MANAGER ABOUT IT AND HE SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM AND I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THEM A COPY OF OUR POLICY.
AND I WOULD LOVE THE NEW PAVILION AT FRITZ PARK TO SAY SOMETHING LIKE ENTERPRISE PAVILION.
OR THE AMPHITHEATER INSTEAD OF BUSHY CREEK AMPHITHEATER.
HOW ABOUT AT AND T AMPHITHEATER? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF AT AND T STADIUM
AND IT'S NAMED THAT BECAUSE AT AND T CONTRIBUTES MONEY TO THE CITY OF ARLINGTON MM-HMM.
THAT'S WHAT THIS POLICY WILL ALLOW.
BUT UNDER, SO I, SO I DID A
THAT WAS ABOUT SMALL CITY TALKS.
AND WE HAD A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WAS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT SPONSORSHIPS.
AND ONE OF THE CITIES, I CAN'T REMEMBER, I I WANNA SAY IT WAS MAYBE THE CITY OF HONDO COMING OUT OF, UH, GOING TOWARDS SAN ANTONIO.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DID, UM, WAS THEY HAD A PROGRAM THAT THEY, UM, REVIEWED ON A,
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I WANNA SAY IT WAS A BIANNUAL BASIS.UM, THE CITY COUNCIL REVIEWED IT ON A BIANNUAL BASIS, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE, THE THINGS THAT WERE IN THEIR C I P TAKE, WHAT WAS, YOU KNOW, THEIR SHORT-TERM, LONG-TERM GOALS.
UM, AND THOSE WERE THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE POSTING SO THAT PEOPLE COULD KNOW THESE ARE WHAT WE WOULD LIKE SPONSORSHIP DOLLARS TOWARDS.
AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THE PACKET ON THIS ITEM, UM, THAT WAS ONE OF THE RESERVATIONS THAT I HAD, WAS, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THIS POLICY IS MORE OF A CATCHALL.
UM, I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE CITY NEEDS.
I WOULDN'T REALLY DONATE IF I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF CAUSE IT WAS GOING TO.
UM, JUST BECAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M DONATING TO, I CAN SEE THE RESULTS OF, OF WHERE THE MONEY'S GOING TO.
AND SO I SAY ALL THAT TO SAY, I THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED TO, I MEAN, I APPRECIATE THE POLICY AND, AND THE LEGWORK THAT'S BEEN DONE.
I THINK THIS NOW SHOULD COME BACK ONTO CITY COUNCIL AND UNDERSTAND WHAT DO WE WANT, WHAT ARE THE THINGS IN THE C I P WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HEARD TONIGHT, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE STRIVING FOR BEING UP HERE? UM, MAYBE WE COULD LOOK AT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE STRIVING TO, TO GET ACCOMPLISHED, COME TO SOME SORT OF CONSENSUS, PUT THAT OUT AS THIS IS WHAT WE'D LIKE SPONSORSHIP DOLLARS FOR.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IN, IN, IN OUR RETREAT, MAYBE WE RE-LOOK AT THOSE THINGS THAT WE ORIGINALLY ASKED FOR, FOR DOLLARS FOR WE, WE EDIT IF NEEDS BE.
BUT THAT JUST GIVES PEOPLE AN IDEA OF WHAT WE WOULD, WHAT THEY BE DONATING TO.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT IT'S GONNA BENEFIT.
AND THEY KNOW THAT IT'S GOT THE BACKING OF EVERYBODY IN THE CITY BECAUSE THE CITY OF COUNCIL APPROVED IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, IT WAS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, STAFF PRESENTED AS WELL.
WELL, I THINK THIS WORD, OH, SORRY.
AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS, YOU KNOW, AS WAS STATED, THIS IS A STEP ONE AND STEP TWO IS LOOKING AT COMING UP WITH A MENU OF THOSE ITEMS. I THINK YOU COULD PROBABLY TAKE THE ENTIRE PARK, C I P AND JUST, THAT'S PART OF THE MENU RIGHT THERE.
BECAUSE IF ANYBODY WANTS TO PAY FOR ANYTHING ON THAT C I P, WE WOULD GLADLY ENTERTAIN THAT AND, AND GET A PROJECT DONE OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE SOMEBODY WANTED TO PAY FOR IT.
UM, AND THEN IT'S LOOKING AT THE OTHER THINGS THE COMMUNITY NEEDS.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO SPONSOR BUILDING A LIBRARY, WELL, HEY, FANTASTIC.
UM,
BUT, UM, T STATION, ANYTHING THAT PEOPLE WANT TO DO, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GET TO A LIBRARY, SOMEBODY MIGHT WANNA SPONSOR A SECTION, YOU KNOW, THE CHILDREN'S SECTION IN THE LIBRARY OR A READING ROOM OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN.
SO I THINK GETTING A POLICY, WE SHOULD JUST GO AHEAD AND GET THE POLICY IN PLACE.
AND THEN YES, WE DO NEED TO KEEP COMING BACK AND JUST ADDING TO THAT MENU AS WE GO.
'CAUSE IT SAYS, UM, SPONSORSHIPS COULD INCLUDE MONETARY OR IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS AND SPONSORSHIPS FOR LOCAL FESTIVALS, SPECIAL EVENTS, COMMUNITY PROJECTS, PORTIONS OF CITY FACILITIES, ARTS OR PROGRAMS. SO I THINK IT IS LIKE A CATCHALL, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT MENU ATTACHED AND BE MORE SPECIFIC BECAUSE IT IT DOES, IT CAN ENCOMPASS ANYTHING, WHICH IS WHY I WAS LIKE, WHAT EXACTLY WERE WE SPONSORING? IS IT A TABLE OUTSIDE? UM, SO YEAH, A MENU OF SPECIFIC ITEMS WOULD BE GREAT.
'CAUSE IT CAN, BUT, BUT I THINK THAT'S GETTING INTO THE DAY-TO-DAY.
I THINK FOR THE SMALL THINGS, THAT'S WHY I SAID, LET'S JUST GET THE POLICY IN PLACE AND THEN WE MAKE IN OUR STRATEGIC SESSION, THIS IS WHAT WE WANNA PRIORITIZE.
'CAUSE THOSE ARE ALL, ANY OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU WOULD CARE ABOUT ARE GONNA BE MORE THAN 50,000.
IT'S GONNA HAVE TO COME TO COUNCIL ANYWAYS.
AND THEN WE JUST PROVIDE, AS A COUNCIL, THE LIST OF THIS RULING BODY WANTS THESE FIVE TO BE WHAT'S THE CITY MANAGER PROMOTES.
AND THEN THEY SAY, OH, I DO WANNA DO THAT.
OH, THIS IS THE PROCESS TO DO THAT SPONSORSHIP.
SO I THINK THERE ARE TWO THINGS.
YOU PILE A POLICY OF HOW YOU DO A SPONSORSHIP, THEN YOU PROVIDE A LIST OF, THESE ARE THE SPONSORED FUNCTIONS THAT COUNCIL ALREADY KIND OF LIKE PRE KNOWS THAT IF THESE CAME, WE'RE GONNA APPROVE THEM.
SO THE OTHER IS, YOU, YOU JUST HAVE A POLICY, SOMEONE COME UP WITH SOME GREAT IDEA AND THEY CAME UP AND IT WAS OVER 50,000.
IT'S GONNA HAVE TO COME TO COUNCIL ANYWAYS, UM, AT THAT POINT.
AND THEN YOU MAY SAY, NO, WE HAVE THIS LIST.
OR WE SAY, YEAH, THAT'S, WE STILL WANNA DO THAT.
AND, BUT I THINK THAT'S WHERE THE ISSUE IS, IS LIKE, BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A, SOMEONE COULD, ANYBODY COULD COME UP HERE AND SAY, HEY, I'D LIKE TO DONATE TO THIS.
AND IT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WANT.
AND I'D HATE TO TURN SOMEONE DOWN AND THEY THINK, YOU KNOW, HEY, YOU'RE, YOU HAVE SOMETHING PERSONAL AGAINST ME BECAUSE IT'S NOT WRITTEN IN OUR POLICY, WHAT SPECIFICALLY WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE NEED.
UM, I THINK THAT COULD JUST OPEN US UP TO UNWANTED ISSUES.
BUT IT'S COMING FROM THE CITY STAFF FIRST THOUGH, RIGHT? YEAH.
IT DOES SAY 60 DAYS PRIOR TO THE EVENT CONSIDERED BY CITY MANAGER.
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JUST SEEN HORRIBLE SITUATIONS.I GUESS I'M, I'M BEING A DEVIL'S ADVOCATE HERE, LIKE THAT ONE GROUP ON THE NEWS WHO WAS AT TORCHY'S TACOS, UM, IN ARLINGTON.
WHAT IF IT'S A GROUP, YOU KNOW, THAT MAY NOT REPRESENT? OH YEAH.
I DON'T THINK IT'S A DIFFICULT, THAT WOULDN'T BE A CITY EVENT.
THAT'D BE A PRIVATE FUNCTION AT A PRIVATE RESTAURANT THAT WOULD NOT, I DON'T THINK IT'S A DIFFICULT THING THOUGH TO JUST HAVE THEM COME BACK AND IT WAS A SPONSORSHIP
I DON'T THINK IT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO JUST HAVE SOMEONE GO OUT, YOU KNOW, ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE TO IT AS FAR AS WHAT WE'D WANT RIGHT NOW AND THEN, YOU KNOW, BRING IT BACK FOR APPROVAL VERSUS JUST DOING SOMETHING OFF THE CUFF NOW.
I'M, I'M OKAY WITH HAVING A BASIC FRAMEWORK AND THIS FULL STOP THERE.
RIGHT? THIS MAY BE A FUTURE BATTLE, AN ISSUE THAT I HAVE, I, I DO SUPPORT ARE RECEIVING DONATIONS, YOU KNOW, TO THE CITY FOR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THAT PERSON OR COMPANY WANTS TO, I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF THE BRANDING, ADVERTISEMENT LABELING AND LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, THE WHATABURGER PAVILION IN FRITZ PARK WITH THE NEON ORANGE.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU JUST COME UP WITH NEON ORANGE.
I'M, THAT'S GONNA BE MY BATTLE, IS I, I'M NOT OKAY WITH THAT.
UM, BUT I'M JUST GONNA BE CLEAR ON WHERE I'M AT WITH THAT.
I, I, I'M, I'M OKAY WITH, UM, RECE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY RECEIVING IN KIND DONATIONS, BUT I'M NOT OKAY WITH LABELING THINGS.
A LOT OF PE SOME, SOME PEOPLE I THINK, UH, THE MAYOR HAS KIND OF CRITICIZED THE I S D FOR KIND OF THEIR ADVERTISE ADVERTISEMENTS ON BUSES.
UM, THAT'S KIND OF A SIMILAR EXAMPLE, RIGHT? OF JUST, JUST KIND OF PLASTERING THINGS.
AND SO I WANNA KEEP, KEEP IT CLEAN, NICE AND TIGHT.
FUTURE, FUTURE BATTLE THAT I WILL HAVE TO FIND.
CAN WE LOWER THE AMOUNT BEF UNTIL WE GET MORE LIKE DEEP PINPOINT THINGS THAT WE WOULD ACCEPT DONATIONS FOR? 'CAUSE I MEAN, THAT WOULD JUST ELIMINATE ANY SORT OF ISSUES.
THAT I THINK THE BUS THING IS A GREAT IDEA.
SO THE HOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION IS ACTUALLY THE ONE WHO GETS THE MONEY FROM THE BUST ADVERTISEMENT.
IT GOES SPECIFICALLY TO THE FOUNDATION.
SO IF WE HAD LIKE, SOMETHING THAT WE WERE PUTTING IT INTO, OR A PLAN OR WHERE THE MONEY'S GOING, LIKE THAT MONEY GOES STRAIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
BUT TO THAT, UM, I CAN SEE THIS AS A JUMPSTART, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHAT OTHER, YOU KNOW, WE COLLABORATE WITH OTHER CITIES.
I'D LOVE TO SEE WHAT OTHER CITIES' PLANS ARE.
MAYBE THEY HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE MORE STREAMLINED AND SPECIFIED THAT WE CAN KIND OF, UM, TAKE PIECES TO MAKE IT HOW TO ESQUE.
UM, SO I WOULD ASK IF THEY LOOKED AT OTHER CITIES AND, AND TO SEE HOW THEIR POLICIES WERE LINED OUT AND IF THEY HAD ANY MENU ITEMS OR, UM, LINE ITEMS JUST TO KIND OF SOMETHING TO COMPARE IT TO.
UH, MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, MR. JEFF YARBOROUGH, CHIEF OF POLICE FOR THE HU POLICE DEPARTMENT, AS, AS YOU ALL SO ELOQUENTLY STATED, THE WHAT WE'RE PROVIDING TONIGHT IS A FOUNDATIONAL POLICY, BUT JUST AS COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON WAS, WAS STATING, AND OTHERS HAVE STATED ABOUT THE MENU, ONE OF OUR SISTER CITIES HERE IN THE AREA, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT THEY PRINT OUT, AND IT COMES OUT IN, IN A BROCHURE TYPE OF FORMAT.
AND THEY LAY OUT, UM, THEIR EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT THEY WILL ALLOW.
IT'S KIND OF MENU ESQUE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN DECIDE, OR COMPANIES CAN DECIDE ON WHAT THEY WANT TO, UH, DONATE TO.
SO WHAT WE'RE PROVIDING IS, IS JUST THE FOUNDATION, AND WE ARE MORE THAN HAPPY AND EXCITED TO BUILD ON THE REST OF THAT.
THE CITIES THAT WE LOOKED AT WERE TAYLOR, I THINK.
NOW, I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE, UH, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT, UH, COUNCILMAN CLARK SAID THAT I WAS GONNA ALSO POINT OUT WAS THAT THE POLICY, TO ME, THE POLICY DEFINES THE HOW AND THE MENU DEFINES THE WHAT MM-HMM.
AND THEN, SO THAT'S WHY I'M, I'M KIND OF LEERY OF PUTTING THE WHAT WITHIN THE, HOW, YOU KNOW, PUTTING THAT MENU INSIDE THE POLICY, BECAUSE THEN YOU'RE GONNA BE CHANGING THE POLICY ALL THE TIME.
HOPEFULLY THE POLICY IS SET, RIGHT? IT'S DONE RIGHT TO WHERE WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, OUR POTENTIAL VENDORS KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY GET INTO THE PROCESS AND YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY NEED TO PROVIDE AND HOW THEY DO IT.
AND THEN THEY CAN LOOK AT THE SEPARATE DOCUMENT, WHICH IS THE WHAT TO SAY, OKAY, WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
OH, WHATABURGER ALREADY GOT THAT PAVILION, DANG IT,
SO I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA DO THE, I'M GONNA DO SOMETHING ELSE.
AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER.
BUT I, I, THAT'S WHY I'M KIND OF COMFORTABLE HAVING IT SEPARATE AND APPROVING A POLICY AND THEN SEPARATELY, YOU KNOW, GOING THROUGH THE LIST.
AND I THINK COUNCIL SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN THE, IN THE LIST.
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OH, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, UM, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO PRESENT TO APPROVE RESOLUTION NUMBER R 2023 DASH 2 52 AS PRESENTED WITH AN ADDITION THAT SAYS THIS POLICY IS IN EFFECT.BUT IF A WANT, UM, DOCUMENT GETS RE THAT IT SOMETHING THAT SAYS THAT IF THERE'S A, A WANTS LIST THAT'S AVAILABLE, THAT, THAT HAS, THAT SUPERSEDES THE MANAGER, THE CITY MANAGER'S AUTHORITY.
SO THAT WAY WE HAVE THE POLICY IN PLACE, BUT WE ALREADY HAVE THE HOOK FOR WHEN WE GET THE SECONDARY DOCUMENT.
OR WHAT I WOULD ALMOST RECOMMEND, IT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR IS SOMETHING THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN DO IN, IN, IN A MOTION TO APPROVE.
'CAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE, YOU'RE WANTING TO APPROVE SOMETHING, BUT THEN YOU'RE WANTING TO ADD IN A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL THING.
UM, SO IF THERE'S A WAY TO REWORD IT SO THAT WE CAN GET, 'CAUSE OTHERWISE IT COULD PASS, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AT SIX MONTHS AND THAT'S NOT WHAT WE WANTED TO DO.
HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? COULD WE PASS IT WITH THE, UM, EXCEPTION OF LOOKING AT A MENU, GETTING A MENU ATTACHED TO THE, LET'S DO THIS.
SO WE'RE GONNA NEED A SECOND TO ON THE MOTION, OR WE CAN RESEND IT.
I'LL RESEND AND JUST SAY AS, AS PRESENTED.
SO MOTION BY CUSTOMER CLARK TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED.
SO I DIDN'T GET AN ANSWER TO MY QUESTION ABOUT CAN WE LOWER THE AMOUNT, UM, ANY SPONSORSHIP 49 K, IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOWER THAT? I MEAN, YOU CAN, UNTIL NOW, YOU WANT.
'CAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE, WE'RE PROVING IT AS PRESENTED.
SO I'VE GOT A FEW COMMENTS ON THIS ONE.
I, I'D LIKE THAT THIS IS COMING UP.
UM, I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR A COUPLE YEARS FOR THE RECORD, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE SCHOOL BUSES HAVING ADVERTISING.
THE MORE ADVERTISING THAT SHOULD BE LESS MONEY SPENT BY TAXPAYERS.
I ALSO HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH, IF, IF, IF THE CITY COUNCIL SAYS IT'S OKAY THAT WHATABURGER PAINTS THE PAVILION ORANGE AND PUTS A NAME UP THERE AND, AND THEY PAID FOR THE ENTIRE THING, THEN I HONESTLY DON'T THINK ATLANTA HAS A LOT OF THIS.
YOU GO TO A LOT OF MAJOR ATTRACTIONS LIKE THE AQUARIUM, IT'S THE HOME DEPOT, THIS, IT'S A, THIS, THIS, AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THIS AND THEY'RE NOT PAYING, I MEAN, THEY'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT WITH TAX DOLLARS.
WHEN BUSINESS WANTS TO BE INVOLVED.
UM, I DO LOOK AT OTHER CITIES AND I'LL, I'VE TALKED TO THE CITY MANAGER ABOUT THIS BACK IN THE SPRING THAT YOU'LL SEE ROUND ROCK HAVE A FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY PAY FOR IT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THESE SPONSORSHIPS.
AND IF IT WAS ME DOING IT, I WOULD SAY THE HU DO FIREWORKS DISPLAY PRESENTED BY WHOEVER, AND THAT WHOEVER IS THE PERSON WHO PAID FOR THE FIREWORKS.
AND SO THEN WE LITERALLY ARE TAKING TAX DOLLARS, SHOOTING 'EM UP AND BURNING THEM UP.
IT WOULD BE BETTER TO ME TO HAVE A BUSINESS GET THE NAME RECOGNITION, BLOW THEIR OWN MONEY UP, AND US PUT THE MONEY INTO, SAY THE LIBRARY OR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO IF WE HAD A DEAL TO WHERE, IF YOU BROUGHT BACK CITY MANAGER LIKE THIS POLICY, BUT EACH YEAR AT BUDGET TIME, THE CITY COUNCIL'S GOING TO, UM, APPROVE A LIST OF SPONSORSHIP LEVELS FOR THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE HAVING AND ITEMS THAT WE'RE GONNA DO.
BECAUSE IF YOU GO TO GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THEY HAVE LIKE A 20 SOMETHING MILE TRAIL.
IT'S CALLED A SWAMP RABBIT TRAIL.
IT'S SPONSORED BY THE GREENVILLE HEALTH, UH, SYSTEM.
SO THEY'RE PAYING FOR IT NOT TO PUBLIC.
AND SO I SEE THESE THINGS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WHERE BUSINESS IS PAYING, UM, AND A PUBLIC'S NOT.
AND I DON'T KNOW, I THINK IF WE TOOK A POLL, MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY THEY'D RATHER HAVE LOWER TAXES AND BETTER AMENITIES THAN THE OPPOSITE.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A WAY TO COMPROMISE WHERE MAYBE EACH YEAR AT BUDGET TIME YOU SAY, HEY, HERE'S THE SIX EVENTS THE CITY'S GONNA HAVE.
WE'RE WE'RE HOPING TO GET A GOLD SPONSORSHIP THAT'S GONNA DO THIS.
AND OUR HOPE IS THAT THE COST OF WHATEVER EVENT IT IS, IS COVERED BY, UM, SPONSORSHIPS.
AND WE CAN STILL BUDGET MONEY TO WHERE IF IT DOESN'T COME, BUT THEN WE CAN DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO FIX IT.
SO BASED ON THAT, DO WE HAVE A NAMING POLICY FROM SPONSORSHIPS? UH, WE'VE ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT THAT TOO, ABOUT A NAMING, NOT JUST A NAMING, BUT I TALKED TO CITY MANAGER IN TERMS OF A NAMING POLICY FOR BUILDINGS, FOR ROADS.
UM, BECAUSE ALL THIS STUFF ANYMORE GETS, UM, IT GETS POLITICAL IN TERMS OF WHO YOU'RE DOING THINGS FOR.
UM, AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A POLICY THAT I, I'M AWARE AND HAVE NO NAMING POLICY.
NO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, FOR THE RECORD, JAMES A CITY MANAGER.
I DON'T THINK I'VE SAID THAT SINCE I DID MY COMMENTS EARLIER.
UM, NO, NOT, NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF AS FAR AS ANY FORMALIZED PROCESS OR, OR POLICY.
BUT IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP AND, YOU KNOW, THE, THE INTENT, WHAT Y'ALL ARE SEEING TONIGHT IS THE, IS THE WORK OF
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SUBGROUPS OF STAFF WHO ARE WORKING ON VARIOUS DIFFERENT PROJECTS.THIS GROUP, THIS HUB WAS WORKING ON THIS PARTICULAR POLICY, AND THEN BASED OFF OF WHAT THEY LEARNED FROM THIS AND KIND OF WHERE THIS ENDS UP, THEN WE MOVE ON TO, OKAY, NOW GO DO THE NAMING POLICY.
NOW GO DO SO, SO THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO PRODUCE.
UM, BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST ONE BECAUSE IT, YOU KNOW, IT DEALT WITH FISCAL THINGS AND, UM, IT JUST SEEMED TO BE TIMELY WITH BUDGET HAVING JUST WRAPPED UP.
SO, AND SO THE LAST THING I'D SAY ON THIS IS WE HAVE, AS FAR AS I KNOW, WE HAVE ACCEPTED MONEY FOR SPONSORSHIPS PREVIOUSLY.
UM, BRUSHY CREEK HAS SPONSORED BY COVERT.
WE, WE'VE ACCEPT, WE'VE ACCEPTED, UM, WE'VE ACCEPTED SPONSORSHIPS FOR, FOR THINGS LIKE THAT.
I MEAN, PARKS, YOU KNOW, HAS SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMS FOR THEIR VARIOUS DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT THEY DO.
UH, WE HAVE SPONSORSHIP FOR OUR EVENTS.
THE, IT WAS JUST POINTED OUT THAT AT THE 4TH OF JULY EVENT, YOU KNOW, H E B DONATED A BUNCH OF THINGS AND WAS A QUOTE UNQUOTE SPONSOR.
SO, SO THOSE THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
IT, THIS ISN'T, AND PART OF THE REASON I THINK, AGAIN, ON THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT THIS WAS TARGETED IS BECAUSE THE POLICY THAT WE'RE PUTTING HERE ISN'T REALLY FOR, HEY, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO DONATE FIVE BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY.
IT'S FOR, I WANT TO NAME THE ROOM OVER THERE, OR I WANT TO BUILD A WING.
IT'S FOR THOSE TYPES OF, OF ITEMS. AND, AND GRANTED, YOU KNOW, I KNOW I'VE SAID BENCH A NUMBER OF TIMES, BUT, BUT EVEN COMPOSITE BENCHES WITH THE NAME, YOU KNOW, CARVED INTO THEM AND THEN SET ON A CONCRETE PEDESTAL SO THEY STAY, YOU KNOW, SECURE THAT, THAT'S 10 OR 15 GRAND SOMETIMES.
SO, YOU KNOW, SO IT, THAT'S REALLY MORE THE INTENT OF THIS POLICY.
IT'S NOT REALLY MEANT FOR THE SMALL THINGS.
AND THAT DOESN'T PRECLUDE TO WHAT THE MAYOR, WHAT YOU WERE DESCRIBING ABOUT HAVING GOLD, SILVER, OR PLATINUM SPONSORSHIP, WHATEVER.
IT DOESN'T PRECLUDE THAT HAPPENING ANYWAY.
I MEAN, WE COULD DO THAT WITHOUT THIS POLICY.
ALRIGHT, SO THE MOTION IS TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION? HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE COUNCIL MEMBER KOHLER AYE.
MOTION PASSED TO SEVEN ZERO AYE.
[11.2. Consideration and possible action on Resolution No. R-2023-266 allowing for payment from the Utility Fund balance prior to issuance of FY24 Certificates of Obligation for Water and Wastewater projects with reimbursement to the Utility Fund from issued bond proceeds (Anne LaMere) ]
ITEM 11, TWO CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION ON RESOLUTION NUMBER R DASH 2023 DASH 2066, ALLOWING FOR PAYMENT FROM THE UTILITY FUND BALANCE PRIOR TO ISSUANCE OF FISCAL YEAR 24 CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECTS WITH REIMBURSEMENT TO THE UTILITY FUND FROM ISSUED BOND BOND PROCEEDS.MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I APOLOGIZE FOR WHEN I WAS UP HERE PREVIOUSLY, NOT STATING THAT FOR THE RECORD.
ANN LAMERE, FINANCE DIRECTOR, INTERIM FINANCE DIRECTOR, UM, LAST COUNCIL MEETING, THERE WERE TWO ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AND THE FISCAL NOTE FOR THOSE ITEMS SAID, UH, FUNDS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
AND THE UH, UH, CITY ATTORNEY HAD TOLD ME THAT THOSE WOULD BE PULLED AND DISCUSSED AND, AND THERE WOULD BE A REQUEST TO USE UTILITY FUND BALANCE.
AND IT DIDN'T EXACTLY HAPPEN THAT WAY.
THEY WERE APPROVED ON CONSENT AGENDA.
BUT IF THOSE CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED AND THEN, UM, A, AN INVOICE IS PRESENTED TO THE CITY, UH, I CAN'T PAY THAT INVOICE.
UM, THE BUDGET FOR THE CURRENT YEAR, UH, DID BUDGET MONEY FOR THOSE IN AN ACCOUNT, UH, THAT THAT ACCOUNT WOULD BE FUNDED WITH THE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECTS FOR 2024.
WELL, THOSE BONDS HAVEN'T BEEN ISSUED YET.
AND SO THE REQUEST FROM STAFF IS THAT WE, IS THAT COUNCIL ALLOW THE USE OF UTILITY FUND BALANCE, UH, WITH A RESOLUTION THAT THAT UTILITY FUND BALANCE CAN BE REIMBURSED FOR THE SOFT COSTS FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN, UH, ONCE THE BONDS ARE UH, ISSUED.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR CATCHING IT.
WHOEVER CAUGHT IT IS SOME OF US RAIL ON THINGS GETTING DONE WITHOUT HAVING THE MONEY AND IT ALL THE STEPS TAKEN.
AND HERE WE, YOU'RE SAYING WE JUST DID IT AGAIN.
SO, SO I HAVE TO SAY ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, IT, IT'S NOT TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT THAT WE DO A RESOLUTION FOR REIMBURSING SOFT COSTS.
SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT ANN HAS ASKED THAT WE DO AS A GENERAL STATEMENT, I GUESS, FOR THESE ITEMS.
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BUT THE BOND COUNCILS HAVE HAVE SAID TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A RESOLUTION FOR SOFT COSTS.SO THIS RESOLUTION JUST IS FOR THE SAKE OF TRANSPARENCY AND LOCKING DOWN THE FACT THAT WE ARE INTENDING TO REIMBURSE THESE FROM THE BONDS AS SOFT COSTS.
SO, OKAY, IT'S A SELF-IMPOSED ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT, WHICH IS GREAT, BUT IT'S NOT LIKE SOMETHING WAS MISSED.
IT'S JUST WE'RE GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND, WHICH I UNDERSTAND.
WELL, THE REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTION, I BELIEVE IS ISN'T A, IS A, A SELF-IMPOSED, BUT THE ISSUE IS YOUR CHARTER SAYS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS.
AND THAT'S THE PART WE KEEP MISSING AS A COUNCIL AND AS A CITY.
AND THAT'S WHAT GETS ME SIDEWAYS WITH EVERYBODY IS NOT THAT I THINK TREES IS A BAD THING TO PLANT, BUT WHEN WE SPEND A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ON TREES, I'M MISSING, WE'RE MISSING THE, THE STEP.
AND WHAT HAPPENS IS PRE, AND NO ONE LIKES TO TALK ABOUT THE PAST, BUT PREVIOUS ISSUES HAVE BEEN A RESULT AT TIMES BECAUSE WE SEEM TO JUMP FROM STEP ONE TO STEP SIX.
SOMETIMES WE MISS THE MIDDLE AND YOU GO BACK A WHOLE EVERY YEAR IT'S A NEW COUNCIL, YOU GO BACK TO COUNCILS LATER AND, AND A NEW C F O OR A NEW CITY MANAGER AND NOBODY HAS A CLUE WHAT'S GOING ON.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE RECONCILING BOND FUNDS FROM THE PAST 15 YEARS IS ALL BECAUSE WE'RE NOT, TO ME IT'S LIKE A DUPLICATE CHECK.
YOU WRITE IT AND THEN YOU GOT THAT DUPLICATE BECAUSE NO ONE EVER TYPES IT INTO THE, I DON'T KNOW, ANYBODY TYPES TO THE COMPUTER.
BUT IF THEY DON'T DO THAT, THEY GO BACK AND WE JUST SEND TO WRITE CHECKS AND WE DON'T, YOU KNOW.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S SELF-IMPOSED TO ME.
I THINK IT'S BEST PRACTICE SO WE DON'T WIND UP DOING A, UM, A FORENSIC AUDIT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED.
SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE RESOLUTION R 2023 DASH 66 AS PRESENTED MOTION BY COUNCILMAN THORNTON.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND BY COUNCIL LAR ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION? I DO HAVE A QUESTION.
SO FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, IT'S GONNA BE APPROXIMATELY 166 MILLION THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING FROM THE UTILITY AND THEN REIMBURSING LATER.
IT LIKE, I GUESS WHAT ARE THE, 'CAUSE I LOOKED AT THE FISCAL NOTE AND, AND IT WAS LIKE, HEY, UM, OBVIOUSLY IT LAYS OUT ALL OF THE PROJECTS.
JUST I GUESS FOR CLARIFICATION ON THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED A NOT TO EXCEED, I GUESS, WHERE ARE WE AT, I GUESS WITH THE NUMBERS OF THAT ACCOUNT VERSUS WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING TO, SO COUNCIL HAS HA BETWEEN THE TWO ITEMS FROM THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING AND THE ITEM THAT'S ON THIS COUNCIL AGENDA.
IT'S 1.7 MILLION THAT YOU WOULD BE AUTHORIZING TO BE USED FROM UTILITY FUND BALANCE.
IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT'S IN THE BUDGET, UM, 166,000 IS WHAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT FOR THESE PROJECTS.
FOR A BOND ISSUANCE PLUS, UM, THERE'S ANOTHER 90,000 FOR THE SOUTHWEST WATER TREATMENT.
BILLION MILLION, 20,000 MILLION, NOT THOUSAND, I'M SORRY, MILLION 90.
90 MILLION FROM IN 20 FISCAL YEAR 25 BUDGET.
THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE, UM, ISSUED IN BONDS BECAUSE THAT CONTRACT IS A FIRM FIXED PRICE CONTRACT AND YOU NEED ALL THE FUNDS UP FRONT IN ORDER TO ISSUE THAT TYPE OF CONTRACT.
AND SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT, UM, UM, CLOSE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, I'M DOING THIS PUBLIC MATH THING HERE AGAIN, BUT, UH, 280 ISH MILLION IN BONDS AND UH, I DON'T THINK THAT WE'RE GONNA REACH THAT LEVEL.
I MEAN THE SOUTHWEST WATER TREATMENT PROJECT, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SPEND 90 MILLION THIS YEAR.
WELL, THE ONE 66 MILLION IS INCLUDING THAT 90 MILLION, JUST SO YOU KNOW.
SO IT'S ONLY 1 66, NOT TWO 80.
SO ANYWAYS, YEAH, THERE'S A, THE TOTAL PROJECT AMOUNT IS UM, 180 MILLION.
AND SO, UM, WE WOULDN'T, WE WOULDN'T EVEN, UM, SCRAPE THE BALANCE OF THE 90, I MEAN THE 90 MILLION THIS YEAR.
I MEAN, YOUR BONDS WOULD HAVE TO BE ISSUED BEFORE YOU COULD AUTHORIZE THAT AMOUNT.
SO, UM, I, IN TERMS OF HOW MUCH I THINK THIS, THIS WOULD, UH, BE, I WOULD SAY, UM, AND I PUT IT IN THE RESOLUTION.
I BELIEVE I ESTIMATED, UH, ABOUT 15 MILLION FOR THIS YEAR.
AND THAT IS IN THE RESOLUTION.
SO WHILE SHE'S LOOKING, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL TRACKING WHAT, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS TAKING MONEY FROM OUR CURRENT EXISTING FUND BALANCE, WHICH IS LIKE A BANK ACCOUNT AND, AND STARTING THE PROJECTS, KNOWING THAT WE'RE ISSUING DEBT IN THE FUTURE, IN THE FUTURE AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
AND WHATEVER WE SPEND BETWEEN NOW AND THEN WE
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WILL REIMBURSE BACK TO THE FUND BALANCE WHENEVER WE RECEIVE THE, THE BOND FUNDS.SO, AND WHAT WE'VE ALREADY AWARDED RIGHT NOW IS 1.7 MILLION.
SO IT'S ONLY 1.7 MILLION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
THAT WOULD GET PROBABLY BEFORE WE ISSUED THE REST OF THE BONDS CURRENTLY.
AND ON PAGE 1 45 OF YOUR PACKET ON THE RESOLUTION SECTION TWO, IT ESTIMATES THAT THE MAXIMUM PRINCIP BILL AMOUNT WILL NOT EXCEED 15 MILLION.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON A MOTION TO APPROVE? HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE COUNCIL MEMBER THORNTON.
[12.1. Consideration and possible action on Ordinance No. O-2023-062 for the proposed Specific Use Permit request for the property known as 4037 FM 1660 (North), to allow an elevated water pump station (UDC 10.304.8) (Second Reading) (James Earp / Ashley Bailey) ]
HAVE ITEM 12 ONE CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON ORDINANCE NUMBER O DASH 2023 DASH 62 FOR THE PROPOSED SPECIFIC USE PERMIT REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 4 0 3 7 FM 1660 NORTH TO ALLOW AN ELEVATED WATER PUMP STATION.SO MAYOR COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD.
UH, THIS IS THE ITEM THAT WAS, UH, BEFORE COUNSEL, UH, I, I THINK TWO MEETINGS AGO, UM, THAT WAS, UH, ASKED TO BE RECONSIDERED AND BROUGHT BACK.
UM, AND I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO UPDATE YET.
I AM MEETING WITH, UH, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF JONAH TOMORROW.
UM, SO THAT'S WHEN OUR, OUR, OUR APPOINTMENT WAS SET.
SO I CAN UPDATE MORE INFORMATION THERE.
UH, BUT THIS IS THE SPECIAL, SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR THE WATER TANK THAT'S BEING BUILT BY THE FRESHMEN CENTER.
DISCUSSION OR ACTION FOR THIS ITEM? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE 12.1 AS PRESENTED.
SECOND QUESTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER KOLAR, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLARK.
I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO JONAH, UH, ABOUT ANOTHER ITEM AND BROUGHT THIS UP AND I PASSED IT ON TO THE CITY MANAGER.
I THINK THERE'S SOME KIND OF COMMUNICATION GLITCH THERE.
UH, UH, THEY'RE WILLING TO WORK WITH US ON THE OTHER DEAL.
THEY JUST DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE WANTING TO WORK ON THE OTHER DEAL.
SO I THINK IN GOOD FAITH WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD APPROVE THIS SINCE IT'S MORE OF A FORMALITY.
ANY ANOTHER DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.
[12.2. Discussion and possible action authorizing release of memo relating to Article 6, Recall of the Hutto City Charter (Legal) ]
HAVE ITEM 12.DISCUSSION POSSIBLE ACTION AUTHORIZING RELEASE OF MEMO RELATING TO ARTICLE SIX.
AND ANISHA'S STILL HERE? SHE WAS SIGNED UP TO TO SPEAK? NO, SHE WASN'T FEELING WELL.
ALRIGHT, DISCUSSION OR ACTION ON THIS ITEM? MAYOR, I MAKE A MOTION TO RELEASE, UH, THE MEMO, UH, SENT TO US BY LEGAL, UM, REGARDING QUESTIONS AROUND, UH, RECALL IN THE CITY CHARTER SECOND MOTION BY MAYOR PROAM GORDON.
SECOND BY COUNCIL MAYOR CLARK, ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION? UH, JUST A QUESTION.
SO WHEN, IF THIS PASSES AND IT DOES GET RELEASED, HOW WILL IT BE RELEASED? WILL WE POST IT LIKE WITH THE MEETING MINUTES OR
MEETING VIDEO AND THEN IT'S LIKE MEMO OR SOMETHING? YEAH, YOU GOT LIKE AGENDA PACKET AND THEN IT WOULD BE IN THERE.
I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO BE POSTED TO THE HU THE HU TEXAS, OUR HUDDLE FORMS PAGE, IF Y'ALL COULD.
'CAUSE WE CAN'T ATTACH FILES, BUT CITY STAFF CAN TO YOUR, TO YOUR COUNCIL FORM PAGE.
CAN YOU POST DOCUMENTS THERE? I'VE NEVER TRIED.
WELL ANYWAYS, THAT'S, AND YOU JUST PUT IT ON THE CITY WEBSITE AS ONE OF THOSE SCROLLING MARQUEES, WHATEVER Y'ALL VOTE ON, WE CAN DO.
I MEAN, WHY MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT? JUST PUT IT ON THE CITY WEBSITE AS A SCROLLING MARQUEE AND CALL IT.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? I SAY WE PUT IT ON THE CITY WEBSITE AS A SCROLLING.
[02:35:01]
MARQUES.ALRIGHT, SO IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO? WELL, IS THAT RIGHT NOW? IS THAT YOUR MO IS ARE YOU MOTION IS THAT MOTION MOTION TO AMEND? DO YOU WANT THEM TO, I MEAN THE, WHAT WAS THE THE MOTION WAS TO RELEASE IT.
YEAH, JUST TO RELEASE IT SO THAT IF YOU'D LIKE TO MODIFY THAT MOTION, YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO MODIFY HOW.
AND WE CAN ACCEPT IT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT OR NOT.
IT'S YOUR NO, WE CAN'T ACCEPT IT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.
WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT WRONG THE WHOLE TIME.
I NEED TO SO YOU NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND IF YOU WANNA AMEND THAT.
THERE'S ALREADY A MOTION THOUGH, ISN'T THERE? YEAH, NO, THERE IS.
SO YOU MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND OUR MOTION WHEN THERE'S A, WHEN THERE'S A MOTION, IT COULD BE A MOTION TO APPROVE SOMETHING AND SAY YOU DON'T WANNA APPROVE IT.
SO I YOU CAN, YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THAT MOTION RIGHT.
AND CHANGE A COMPLETE MAKEUP OF ANYTHING THAT WAS IN THERE.
AND THEN PEOPLE CAN VOTE ON THAT.
AND THEN THAT AMENDS THE MAIN MOTION.
SO I'LL MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION TO RELEASE THE MEMO AND HAVE IT AS A SCROLLING MARQUEE ON THE CITY WEBSITE FOR ALL TO SEE.
AND ON THE COUNCIL FORUM PAGE.
AND ON THE COUNCIL FORUM PAGE.
ALRIGHT, SO MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON SECOND.
SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLARK.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT MOTION? ALRIGHT.
WHERE, WHAT, WHAT WERE THE TWO IDENT? I'M OKAY WITH IT BEING ON LIKE, YEAH, WHAT WAS THE MOTION? HOW TO PUT IT ON THE CITY PAGE, HOW TO HAVE IT ON THE CITY WEBSITE.
SCROLLING ACROSS THE SCREEN AND ON THE, UM, COUNCIL FORUMS. LET ME SEE THE SCROLL.
YEAH, JUST, YEAH, I, I GUESS I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS JUST BECAUSE I DON'T SEE LIKE A MARQUES SCROLL ON THERE, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE NICE.
I THINK IT WOULD JUST BE CLEAN TO PUT IT UNDER GOVERNMENT CITY COUNCIL.
THIS JUST, I CAN, WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES, BUT JUST UNDER CITY COUNCIL.
'CAUSE THIS IS US AND IT CAN BE UNDER OUR TAB, BUT, UH, SO I'M NOT GONNA SUPPORT THE AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION.
OH, I THINK, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO MY AMENDMENT?
ARE YOU MAKING A MOTION TO AMEND? I MEAN, YOU CAN, YOU CAN MAKE, MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THAT TO SAY I WOULD RATHER HAVE IT HERE INSTEAD.
YOU JUST, YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY MOTIONS AS YOU WANT, THEN YOU JUST MOVE YOUR WAY BACK DOWN.
MOTION TO JUST PUT IT TO POST TO CREATE A, THE MEMO UNDER THE GOVERNMENT CITY COUNCIL TAB RIGHT UNDERNEATH CITY COUNCIL PRO PROTOCOLS HYBRID LINK.
MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLAR.
AMENDED MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER LAR, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON TO POST IT ON THE GOVERNMENT CITY COUNCIL TAB.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT MOTION OR ANY AMENDMENTS TO ADD TO THAT ONE? ALRIGHT.
HEARING NONE, WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON THE AMENDED MOTION TO POST IT TO THE CITY GOVERNMENT.
PLEASE CALL THE VOTE AND YOU'LL STILL GO UNDER THE, OH, NEVERMIND.
NOW THIS IS GONNA TRIP ME UP A LITTLE BIT HERE.
UH, CITY ATTORNEY BECAUSE NOW THE AMENDED MOTION, THIS IS SUPERSEDE WHAT THAT MOTION WAS.
IT WOULD, UH, FORMALLY I WOULD RESCIND THE UNDERLYING MOTION.
SO DOES THE PERSON WHO MADE THE MOTION HAD TO RESCIND IT? UH, YES.
SO YOU WANTED TO RESCIND YOUR MOTION? I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU.
OKAY, SO THEN WE RESCIND THAT ONE.
WE CIN BRINGS THIS TO PASSING THE RELEASE OF IT AMENDED TO WHERE WE'RE GONNA PUT IT ON THE GOVERNMENT CITY COUNCIL TAB.
ALRIGHT, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT MOTION? AND THAT'S MAYOR PROTIME GORDON.
HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE COUNCIL MEMBER CLARK.
[13. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS ]
ALL RIGHT.NEXT BEFORE US WE HAVE THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS 13 1 13 2 13 3 13, 4 13, 5 13.
8 13, 9, 13, 10 13, 11, 13, 12, 13, 13, 13, 14, 13, 15, 13 16, 13, 17, 13, 18, 13 19, 13, 20.
[02:40:07]
MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE CONSENT AS PRESENTED MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON.SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM GORDON, THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE, AND I BROUGHT THIS UP TO CITY MANAGER, I WANNA MAKE SURE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S NEEDS TO BE FOR ME, IT'S BETTER FOR A MEMO OR SOMETHING, BUT BETWEEN ALL THE PROJECTS WE DID LAST WEEK, ALL THESE PROJECTS, THE BULK OF OUR MONEY DOES NOT COME IN UNTIL MIDDLE OF JANUARY, MAYBE EARLY FEBRUARY.
AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WITH THE MILLIONS, THAT SOME OF THIS IS COMING OUT OF ROAD MONEY, SOME OF IT'S COMING OUT OF, UM, UTILITY FUNDS.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO STUFF COMING OUTTA GENERAL REVENUE, I WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? AND WE'RE NOT APPROVING SO MUCH MONEY TO WHERE WE END UP DROPPING BELOW OUR RESERVES TEMPORARILY WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE PROPERTY TAX MONEY TO COME IN IN JANUARY.
HOW DO WE FIND THAT OUT? MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, AGAIN, LA MER, INTERIM FINANCE DIRECTOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR QUESTION AND WHAT YOU'RE APPROVING.
WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE FISCAL NOTE, THERE IS AN ACCOUNT CODE AND IF THE ACCOUNT CODE STARTS WITH THE NUMBER 10, THEN THAT MEANS THAT MONEY IS BEING FUNDED OUTTA YOUR GENERAL FUND.
BUT MOST OF THOSE ACCOUNT CODES ARE COMING OUT OF FUND 12, WHICH IS BONDS FROM 22.
IT'S COMING OUT OF, UM, FUND 57, WHICH IS BONDS, UH, THAT WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED.
SO FROM OUR INVESTMENT REPORT, YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE $126 MILLION IN TREASURY BILLS.
AND I KNOW YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE INVESTMENT REPORT FOR THIS QUARTER.
IT WILL BE PRESENTED NEXT WEEK AT THE UM, OCTOBER 19TH COUNCIL MEETING.
BUT WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A DRAWDOWN ON A MATURING TBI, UH, BECAUSE WE NEED MORE OPERATING FUNDS TO PAY THE CONTRACTORS THAT ARE, UH, DESIGNING ALL OF OUR ROADS AND OUR PROJECTS.
AND SO, UM, BASICALLY IT'S THE BOND MONEY THAT WE'VE ALREADY ISSUED WHERE THESE PROJECTS ARE BEING FUNDED FROM.
NOW THERE ARE SOME, UH, FUND 10 PROJECTS AND WE DO HAVE FUND 10 MONIES AND I THINK WE'VE GOT ABOUT 10 MILLION IN, IN CASH FOR OUR GENERAL FUND.
AND SO WE ARE DOING JUST FINE ON CASH AND WE HAVE ENOUGH TO KEEP US GOING UNTIL WE DO RECEIVE PROPERTY TAX IN DECEMBER, JANUARY TIMEFRAME.
I DO NOT HAVE ANY CONCERN ON THAT AT ALL.
SO FOR A LEARNING THING FOR ME, HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN WE SET THE BUDGET STARTING OCTOBER 1ST AND WE SAY WE'RE GONNA HAVE WHATEVER, 7 MILLION TO SPEND IN THE GENERAL REVENUE MM-HMM.
AND IN THAT WE'RE BUDGETING SAY 600,000 A MONTH IN SALES TAX AND WE'RE PROJECTING, UH, PROPERTY TAX TO COME IN IN FEBRUARY OR JANUARY.
HOW DO WE KNOW, I MEAN, HOW DOES THE CITY OPERATE TO WHERE WE DON'T FALL BELOW THE RESERVES BUT WE HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO GET US THROUGH? HOW DOES ALL THAT WORK? BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE, LIKE IT'D BE COMPLICATED 'CAUSE ON PAPER I THINK IT'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOW YOU ACCRUE IT, RIGHT? BUT NOW, NOW YOU'RE STILL IN MY LINE.
IT IS COMPLICATED
SO LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT ONE THING MIGHT BE, LET'S SAY YOU HAD, UH, AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, SOMETHING THAT'S LIKE $600,000, YOU GENERALLY WOULD ORDER THAT, ASSUMING THAT IT'S NOT A LONG LEAD TIME, SO ON AND SO FORTH ISSUES, YOU GENERALLY ORDER THOSE SORTS OF THINGS IN DECEMBER OR JANUARY.
SO YOU PAIR UP THE BIG GENERAL FUND EXPENSE WITH THE TIME THAT YOU RECEIVE THE BULK OF YOUR SALES TAX.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A SIGNIFICANT FUND BALANCE IN, IN THE GENERAL FUND TO EVEN BE ABLE TO DIP DOWN, UH, YOU KNOW, IN FOR SO, SO WHAT WE GENERALLY DO, WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS MORE LIKE A CASH FLOW ANALYSIS.
AND THAT'S WHAT YOUR, YOUR TYPICALLY YOUR FINANCE DIRECTOR OR YOUR C F O, WHATEVER YOU MIGHT HAVE AS A CITY IS ALSO DOING.
SO WHILE THEY'RE CERTIFYING FUNDS, THEY'RE ALSO PAYING ATTENTION TO THE CASHFLOW PROJECTIONS SO THAT WAY THEY KNOW, HEY, EVEN THOUGH THIS EXPENDITURE OF THE GENERAL FUND TO GO BUILD THESE SIDEWALKS WAS APPROVED IN THE BUDGET AND IT'S 1.5 MILLION, IF WE GO AND SPEND ALL THAT MONEY RIGHT NOW, THEN WE'LL BE IN TROUBLE.
SO WE'RE NOT GONNA ACTUALLY AUTHORIZE AWARDING THAT UNTIL THE SPRING OR UNTIL, YOU KNOW, LATER IN, LATER IN THE YEAR.
SO IT JUST REALLY DEPENDS ON, ON THE SPECIFICS.
BUT GENERALLY IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A CASHFLOW MANAGEMENT THAT'S GOING ON THROUGH YOUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF ABOUT AN HOUR.
WELL WE'VE BEEN IN HERE FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS I GUESS, BUT ABOUT FIVE O'CLOCK, FIVE 30 THIS AFTERNOON.
[02:45:01]
THAT WILL BE PRESENTED NEXT WEEK BECAUSE WE HAVE TO ATTACH IT TO THE AGENDA TOMORROW.UM, IN THAT INVESTMENT REPORT THAT YOU'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PREVIEW THIS WEEKEND, IT DOES HAVE A, A VERY SIMPLE CASH FLOW ANALYSIS IN FLOWS AND OUTFLOWS.
IT DOES SAY THAT WE NEED ABOUT, UH, SEVEN TO 8 MILLION IN CASH PER MONTH.
AND SO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT MUCH IN OUR, UM, OPERATING ACCOUNT.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE THREE, UM, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS, THE TEXT POOL, TECHSTAR TEXT CLASS, AND WE HAVE DRAWN DOWN ON THOSE.
WE LIKE TO KEEP ABOUT 7 MILLION IN EACH OF THOSE ACCOUNTS, WHICH WOULD BE 21 MILLION.
AND CURRENTLY AS OF TODAY, I THINK WE HAVE, UM, ABOUT 15 MILLION IN THOSE ACCOUNTS BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN PAYING THE CONTRACTORS.
AND SO WHEN THE, THE, UH, T BILL MATURES IN, UM, UH, THIS MONTH OCTOBER, UH, WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO WITH THAT IS GO AHEAD AND TAKE, UM, IT'S A $21 MILLION TBI THAT WE'LL BE MATURING AND WE'D LIKE TO TAKE 8 MILLION OF THAT FOR OPERATING CAPITAL AND THEN REINVEST UM, THE REMAINING 13 MILLION INTO A NEW T BILL.
AND THAT'S THE RECOMMENDATION THAT'LL BE IN THAT REPORT.
AND I'M SORRY I HAD TO TELL YOU THAT BECAUSE I, I DON'T WANNA STEAL CHRISTINA'S THUNDER FOR NEXT WEEK, BUT I DO NOT HAVE ANY, ANY HESITATION ON CASH.
WE, IF YOU APPROVE ALL THESE PROJECTS, EVEN THE ONES YOU'VE ALREADY APPROVED, WE ARE DOING JUST FINE.
I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT UTILITY FUND AND ROAD FUNDS, BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE SO CLOSE ON OUR GENERAL REVENUE AND BEING RIGHT AT, I MEAN RIGHT AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE MINIMUM AMOUNT WE COULD HAVE FOR, UM, OUR RESERVES THAT WE, AND WE ARGUED TILL TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ABOUT DID WE TAKE A MILLION OUT BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA MAKE US DOWN LIKE AT 20 SOMETHING PERCENT, WHICH WE DIDN'T DO.
I WAS PROJECTING THAT WE WERE GONNA END THE YEAR AT ABOUT, UH, 9.3 MILLION FOR GENERAL FUND BALANCE AND THEN, UH, 20% OF OUR EXPENDITURES WAS ABOUT 4.5 MILLION, WHICH WOULD BE A RESERVE.
AND THEN THERE WOULD BE THE REMAINDER 4 MILLION SOMETHING UNRESERVED FUND BALANCE FOR THE GENERAL FUND IS WHAT I WAS PROJECTING.
AND I THINK WE'RE COMING IN CLOSER TO 10 MILLION.
UH, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE FINANCIALS.
UH, CHRISTINA'S STILL WORKING ON THOSE.
UH, I'VE SEEN SOME PRELIMINARY NUMBERS THAT FINANCIAL IS BEING COMPLETED TONIGHT, SO IT CAN BE UPLOADED TO YOUR PACKET TOMORROW.
AND SO YOU'LL HAVE SOMETHING TO READ THIS WEEKEND.
UM, BUT WE DO HAVE GENERAL FUND BALANCE ALSO ABOUT 10 MILLION.
RIGHT? SO I'M NOT TRYING TO DRAG THIS OUT, I'M JUST TRYING TO LEARN HERE.
SO WE HAVE TO RUN THE CITY, WHAT, THREE AND A HALF MONTHS THE WHOLE PAYROLL HAS TO COME OUT OF.
THIS IS A LEARNING, RIGHT? SO IF YOU HAVE 10 MILLION AND LET'S SAY 5 MILLION IS UNTOUCHABLE AND YOU HAVE 5 MILLION LEFT, WHAT IS OUR MONTHLY BURN RATE FOR OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER FOR PAYROLL? BECAUSE THAT ALL HAS TO COME OUT OF ONLY GENERAL REVENUE AND SALES TAX COMING IN TOO.
YEAH, BECAUSE I KEEP LETTING EVERYBODY START TELLING ME WHAT AND NOT NOT GETTING IT OUT.
YES, WE HAVE SALES TAX 600,000 COMING IN, BUT SOMETHING TELLS ME OUR PAYROLL OF 120 PEOPLE IS WAY OVER 600,000 A MONTH.
AND SO ON TOP OF THAT, WE'RE APPROVING PROJECTS THAT ARE CODED IN A 10.
AND SO THEY'RE COMING OUTTA GENERAL REVENUE.
AND SO WHAT I'M WONDERING, THIS IS SOMETHING I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED.
I FEEL LIKE WE ALWAYS GO UNDER THE 20 TEMPORARILY UNTIL YOU GET TO FEBRUARY IN THE BULK.
AND I, AND I KNOW YOU'RE SAYING NO, BUT I KNOW THIS, I SAT UP HERE WHEN WE RAN COMPLETELY OUTTA MONEY.
I WAS UP HERE WHEN WE LAID OFF 48 PEOPLE.
I I DON'T KNOW WHY WE LAID IT OFF.
I GUESS WE HAD PLENTY OF MONEY WE JUST SAID, SAID WE WERE WORRIED THAT WE WOULDN'T IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE OF COVID.
SO ANYWAY, IF I MAY LISTEN, I DON'T INTERRUPT YOU SIR.
I'LL LET YOU TALK WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU, WHEN I HAVE A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, YOU'RE OKAY INTERRUPTING ME WHEN YOU HAVE A DIFFERENCE OPINION WITH ME.
MY OPINION IS THIS CITY RAN OUTTA MONEY.
WE CUT ALL THE PROJECTS, WE FIRED A WHOLE LIBRARY STAFF.
THIS ISN'T SOMETHING YOU DO 'CAUSE YOU, WE ALREADY HAD A MOTION TO CALL ORDER.
IT'S ONLY A THREE MINUTE WE CALL MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE THE CONSENT ITEMS. AND WE ARE TALKING THIS THING TO DEATH BECAUSE I'M TRYING AND WE SHOULDN'T BE TALKING ABOUT THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. IF YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THE REASONS WHY YOU WANNA PULL SPECIFIC THINGS OFF, YOU CAN DO THAT.
BUT YOU CAN'T BE TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS STUFF WHEN WE'VE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND.
YOU CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT THE MERITS OF THE MOTION.
[02:50:01]
I'M TRYING TO FIND, I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT ATTORNEY AND YOU GOT ANSWERED.WE'RE FINED ON CASH FLOW AND WE'RE GOOD.
SO LET'S CALL THE VOTE PLEASE.
HEARING NO SECOND, THE MOTION FAILS.
NO, HE MADE A MOTION AND I SECONDED IT.
WHAT THE HECK?
CITY ATTORNEY, IF WE'RE HAVING A MOTION TO APPROVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF SPENDING ON PROJECTS MM-HMM.
AM I ABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS AND HAVE A, A DIALOGUE ON HOW WE'RE ACCOUNTING FOR MONEY SO THAT I KNOW WHETHER OR NOT I SHOULD BE APPROVING THIS OR NOT HOLD THEM, HOLD THEM ITEM.
IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC ITEMS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PULL, YOU COULD PULL THEM AS WELL.
SO I'M TRYING TO, IT'S IT'S LIKE LAST WEEK I HAD A ONE QUESTION ON THE BUDGET AND THE BUDGET'S IN THERE.
SO HOW DO WE KNOW SHE JUST CERTIFIED AND SAID THAT THEY WENT THROUGH AND YOUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF DID THAT? NO OFFENSE, I'M NOT TAKING ADVICE FROM YOU.
I'M ASKING THE C F O OF THE CITY OF HUDU OR THE CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF HUDU.
A QUESTION OF A, A CONCERN I MAY HAVE AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE IS IN FINANCIAL LITERACY.
I PERSONALLY QUESTION DIFFERENT PEOPLE ON DIFFERENT THINGS.
I TRUST ANN MORE THAN I TRUST ANYBODY ON COUNCIL AND I DON'T TRUST ANN A HUNDRED PERCENT.
'CAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS I DON'T TRUST EVERYBODY.
I LIKE TO HAVE THE INFORMATION TOLD TO ME.
AND MAYBE YOU GOTTA SAY IT TO ME FOUR TIMES BECAUSE I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING, BUT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE DO THIS BECAUSE CONTRARY TO WHAT THE MAYOR PRO TEM SAYS, SOMETHING HAPPENED IN HUDU THAT CAUSED A THIRD OF THE PEOPLE TO LOSE THEIR JOBS.
AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T, WE'RE APPROVING MILLIONS OF PROJECTS IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY WE'RE NOT HAVING A HOLY CRAP MOMENT.
WE MADE A MISTAKE BECAUSE JUST LIKE LAST WEEK WE PASSED SOMETHING ON AN AGENDA REALLY QUICKLY AND THIS WEEK WE HAD TO FIX IT.
SO MY QUESTION IS, WITHOUT INTERRUPTED BY THE TWO PEOPLE ON THE SIDE OF ME, PLEASE, HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THE MONEY WE'RE BURNING THROUGH, WE DON'T GET TO A POINT WHEN WE DROPPED BELOW 20% BECAUSE THE LAST TIME WE DROPPED BELOW 20%, WE DIDN'T KNOW.
AND I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW YOU KNOW THAT.
LIKE THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO RED LIGHT THAT GOES OFF.
FUND BALANCE DOES NOT EQUAL MONEY IN THE BANK, RIGHT? FUND BALANCE IS AN ACCOUNTING EXERCISE.
SO 10 MILLION IS NOT HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE IN OUR CHECKING ACCOUNT, OUR TEXT PULL ACCOUNT, OUR SO ON AND SO FORTH ACCOUNTS.
SO THAT'S PREDOMINANTLY THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE.
AND WHAT I HEAR YOU SAYING AND YOU KNOW, TRYING TO WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND, IT'S NOT THAT WE ONLY HAVE $10 MILLION IN THE BANK.
WE HAVE $10 MILLION OF ACCOUNTING DOLLARS TO, TO WORK WITH, RIGHT? BECAUSE THERE'S LIKE 3 MILLION, RIGHT? THAT THE ACCOUNT IS OWED BY AN ACCOUNT THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE 3 MILLION, RIGHT? SO, SO, SO, RIGHT.
SO I UNDERSTAND WHEN WE SAY 10 MILLION, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE 10 MILLION.
THAT'S WHAT I'M GETTING WITH THE CASH FLOW.
BECAUSE IF WE HAVE, IF WE SAY WE HAVE 10, WE HAVE MORE THAN 10 MILLION.
SO THE OTHER I, JAMES TALKED ABOUT POOLED CASH, I MEAN, UH, CASH FLOW, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE LOOK AT THE CASH FLOW.
AND EVERY DAY I COME IN AND I PULL A POOLED CASH REPORT AND WE PULL OUR CASH.
WE, WE DON'T HAVE A A, A BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERY ACCOUNT IN OUR GENERAL LEDGER, BUT WE HAVE VERY FEW CASH ACCOUNTS.
WE HAVE, UM, LIKE ABOUT 10 CASH ACCOUNTS.
AND IF YOU PULL YOUR, YOUR MONEY INTO ONE ACCOUNT, THEN IT'S YOUR LEDGER THAT'S CONTROLLING WHERE YOUR OUTFLOWS ARE GOING.
SO YOUR GENERAL FUND BALANCE IS $31 MILLION.
AND EVEN IF YOU DIVIDED THAT BY 12, YOU DON'T SPEND A 12TH OF THAT EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
GENERALLY YOUR UM, UH, BEGINNING MONTHS OF THE YEAR, YOU ARE, UM, IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER YOU'RE USING SOME OF YOUR CASH BALANCE, BUT THEN YOUR TAX REVENUE COMES IN IN DECEMBER, WHICH IS WHAT YOU'RE ALLUDING TO.
BUT YOU, YOU STILL RECEIVE OTHER REVENUES.
UM, WE BILL, UH, UTILITY BILLING EVERY SINGLE MONTH AND, AND IT'S ABOUT AN 8% INCREASE MONTH OVER MONTH.
CURRENTLY WE RECEIVE PERMITS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
YOU, THAT'S WHAT I'M GETTING CONFUSED.
AND SO UTILITY BILLING WOULD NOT EVEN GENERAL REVENUE FUND, THERE'S $31 MILLION IN EXPENDITURES.
AND SO YOU'RE NOT SPENDING LIKE 10 MILLION PER MONTH ON, ON JUST GENERAL REVENUE.
YOU'RE SPENDING MUCH LESS LIKE TWO TO 3 MILLION PER MONTH FOR YOUR GENERAL REVENUE FUND.
THERE'S $31 MILLION IN CASH IN THE BANK.
[02:55:01]
THERE'S 31 MILLION IN EXPENSE IN YOUR BUDGET FOR GENERAL REVENUE.I DIDN'T ASK A QUESTION LAST WEEK 'CAUSE THERE'S A BIG BREW HAW WHEN I ASKED A QUESTION ON THE BUDGET THAT WAS IN THERE AND SO THAT IT'S, IT'S MORE OF A THING TO WHERE I, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIGURE THIS OUT, BUT SOMETHING TELLS ME THAT IF WE, IF WE GO REAL FAST TOO QUICK, IT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID.
IT'S A CASHFLOW PROCESS AND BUSINESSES RUN OUTTA MONEY ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE SPENDING SO MUCH NOW TO MAKE IT LATER AND THAT'S WHY WE TOOK THE BONDS OUT AND WE'VE HAD THEM INVESTING.
SIR, I'VE ALREADY CALLED FOR A VOTE AND YOU JUST KEEP MONOLOGUING.
I HAVE WORKED IN CITIES WHERE I HAVE THE SAME CONCERN THAT YOU HAVE.
BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A CASH BALANCE AND BECAUSE I HAVE TO TRACK THE CASH DAILY TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS ENOUGH CASH TO PAY THE PAYROLL.
THE CITY OF HU IS, UM, VERY FINANCIALLY STABLE AND I DON'T HAVE THAT CONCERN HERE.
THIS WOULD'VE GONE A LOT QUICKER IF I COULD JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH C F O WITHOUT THE ADDED UH, COMMENTARY.
SO YOU WANNA SPEED THINGS UP? JUST LET ME ASK MY QUESTIONS.
LEMME ASK MY QUESTIONS TO CITY MANAGER.
I LET YOU TALK ALL NIGHT AND I DON'T SAY ANYTHING.
I JUST LEAN BACK AND SO I JUST ASK THE SAME RESPECT OUT OF EVERYBODY ELSE THAT I'M GIVING THEM BECAUSE I KEEP HEARING ALL THIS STUFF AND YOU WANT ME OFF SOCIAL MEDIA, LET ME TALK.
OTHERWISE I'LL GO TO THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE DON'T INTERRUPT ME.
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALRIGHT, HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE COUNCIL MEMBER THORNTON AYE.
[14. EXECUTIVE SESSION]
BRINGS US TO EXECUTIVE SESSION.WE HAVE ITEM 14 ONE, RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071 CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY RELATING TO PRESERVE HUDU L L C T P D E S PERMIT NUMBER W WQ 0 0 1 6 1 4 5 0 0 1 IN AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF A REQUEST FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING.
AND ITEM 14 TWO, RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 1 RELATED TO PENDING LEGAL REQUESTS, POTENTIAL CLAIMS PENDING LITIGATION, POTENTIAL LITIGATION AND CITY COUNCIL LEGAL REQUESTS.
UH, MAYOR, UM, JUST UH, A POINT ON UH, 14 TWO.
MM-HMM
THE TIME'S 9:58 PM ALL RIGHT, IT'S 10 30.
WE'RE BACK FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION.
[15. ACTION RELATIVE TO EXECUTIVE SESSION ]
ACTION WAS TAKEN.15 ONE CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION ON EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEMS. WAS THERE ANYTHING FOR THIS ITEM? NO SIR.
[16. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS ]
TO 16 TWO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS YOU JUST CALL THAT I'D LIKE TO REQUEST AN AGENDA ITEM IN NOVEMBER.UH, WE ARE COMING UP ON SIX MONTHS INTO THE DIRECTORS OF CHAOS CONTRACT, SO I'D LIKE TO GET A REPORT AND A REVIEW OF THE STATUS SECOND THAT WE ONLY NEED A SECOND.
ALRIGHT, ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT.
16 THREE FUTURE ADDITIONAL OR RESCHEDULED MEETINGS AS ALLOWED BY HU CITY CODE SECTION 1.0 2.03 ADDITIONAL OR RESCHEDULED MEETINGS? SO I JUST HAVE A QUESTION.
I GUESS WE'RE GOOD BECAUSE SINCE THE THURSDAY FALLS ON THE SECOND WE'RE NOT GONNA HIT THANKSGIVING 'CAUSE WE'LL HAVE THE OTHER MEETING ON THE 16TH.
ALRIGHT THEN HEARING NOTHING ELSE, WE'LL ADJOURN AT 10:31 PM.