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YEAH.[1. Call to Order]
LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.I'M ON JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF AN UPPER RESPIRATORY INFECTION, SO I'M GONNA DO MY BEST AND I'VE GOT MY TEAM HERE TO BACK ME UP IF I NEED IT.
UH, WITH THAT, UH, WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND FOR THE INVOCATION? PLEASE? PLEASE JOIN ME.
IT WAS A GOLD LORD, THE LORD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS DAY THAT YOU PROVIDED FOR US.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER AND THE RAIN THAT YOU JUST RECENTLY BLESSED OUR LAND WITH.
WE, UH, ASK THAT YOU WATCH OVER THESE PROCEEDINGS AND I GIVE THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WISDOM IN ALL THE DECISIONS THAT THEY MAKE.
AND LORD, WE DO, UH, LIFT UP THE WAR THAT'S GOING ON OVER IN THE EAST AND WE PRAY FOR A QUICK RESOLUTION TO THAT CONFLICT SO THAT OUR, UH, MEN AND WOMEN CAN COME HOME.
IF YOU WOULD JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE, I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
FOR ALL HONOR, HONOR, HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG, A PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO BE TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE.
DO WE DON'T HAVE AN HONOR THERE, DO WE? NO, WE HAVE ONE NEXT WEEK.
[4. Announcements/Presentations]
BRINGS US TO ITEM FOUR B, PROCLAMATION, RECOGNIZING MAY AS NATIONAL PRESERVATION MONTH ITEM MAYOR, IF I MAY, WHEREAS HE TURNED IT OFF.WHAT'S THAT? HE TURNED IT OFF.
WHEREAS FOUNDED IN 1850, WAXAHATCHEE IS LONG SERVED AS A VITAL AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND TRANSPORTATION CENTER IN NORTH TEXAS.
AND WHEREAS WAXAHATCHEE KNOWN AS THE GINGERBREAD CITY, BOTH ONE OF BOAST, ONE OF THE STATE'S RICHEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN ERA RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE, INCLUDING 80 BUILDINGS INDIVIDUALLY LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 23, TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
MARKERS 23 RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARKS, THREE STATE ANTIQUITIES LANDMARKS, AND SIX NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICTS.
AND WHEREAS ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARK LANDMARKS SUCH AS THE ELLIS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CHATAUQUA AUDITORIUM, SIMS LIBRARY, JOSHUA CHAPEL, A ME AND THE MMKT TRAIN DEPOT ARE AMONG THE MANY HISTORIC SITES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL FABRIC THAT DEFINES THE CHARACTER OF OUR COMMUNITY.
AND WHEREAS WAXAHATCHEE ARCHITECTURAL LEGACY EMBODIES THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER AND HISTORY OF OUR COMMUNITY, CREATING A LIVING CONNECTION TO THE PAST, AND FOSTERING A STRONG SENSE OF PRIDE AMONG OUR CITIZENS.
AND WHEREAS PRESERVING THESE HISTORIC PLACES SUPPORTS LOCAL ECONOMIC VITALITY THROUGH TOURISM, REINVESTMENT, AND SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH BY CREATING SPACE AS PEOPLE LOVE TO LIVE, WORK AND VISIT.
AND WHEREAS THE NATIONAL PRESERVATION MONTH HONORS THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND LEADERSHIP OF THOSE IN THE PAST, WHOSE DEDICATION AND FORESIGHT HELP SHAPE AND PROTECT THE PLACES WE CHERISH TODAY.
AND WHEREAS NATIONAL PRESERVATION MONTH ALSO RECOGNIZES AND GIVES THANKS TO THE ONGOING EFFORTS OF CITY OFFICIALS, INDIVIDUALS, AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO CHAMPION THE CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC PLACES, DEMONSTRATING THAT EVERYONE CAN PLAY A PART IN PRESERVING WAXAHATCHEE UNIQUE LEGACY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
NOW THEREFORE, BILLY WALLACE MAYOR, THE CITY OF WAXAHATCHEE, ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF MAY, 2026 AS A NATIONAL PRESERVATION MONTH IN THE CITY OF WAXAHATCHEE AND CALL UPON THE PEOPLE OF WAXAHATCHEE TO JOIN THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
IN RECOGNIZING AND CELEBRATING THE SPECIAL NATIONAL OBSERVANCE PROCLAIMED THIS FOURTH DAY OF MAY, 2026, MAYOR BILLY WALLACE.
DO WE HAVE A GROUP THAT WOULD LIKE TO STAND UP WITH THE PHOTO? PLEASE JOIN US.
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OH, YEAH.THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM FOUR C PROCLAMATION, RECOGNIZING MAY 3RD THROUGH THE NINTH, 2026 AS PROFESSIONAL MUNICIPAL CLERKS WEEK, MADAM MAYOR.
WHEREAS THE PROFESSIONAL PROFESSION OF MUNICIPAL CLERKS IS ESSENTIAL TO THE EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN TEXAS, ENSURING TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THE SMOOTH OPERATION OF MUNICIPAL SERVICES.
AND WHEREAS THE OFFICE OF THE UNI OF MUNICIPAL CLERK IS THE OLDEST AMONG PUBLIC SERVANTS, AND WHEREAS MUNICIPAL CLERKS HAVE PLEDGED TO BE EVER MINDFUL OF THEIR NEUTRALITY AND IMPARTIALITY WHILE SERVING AS THE PROFESSIONAL LINK BETWEEN CITIZENS, LOCAL GOVERNING BODIES, AND AGENCIES OF GOVERNMENT AT ALL AT OTHER LEVELS.
AND WHEREAS MUNICIPAL CLERKS SERVE AS THE OFFICIAL RECORD KEEPERS MANAGING VITAL DOCUMENTS, CONDUCTING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, PROVIDING LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT AND ENSURING COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN CITIES ACROSS TEXAS.
AND WHEREAS MUNICIPAL CLERKS DEMONSTRATE EXCEPTIONAL DEDICATION, PROFESSIONALISM, AND INTEGRITY IN THEIR WORK, OFTEN GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITIES AND FACILITATE THE EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
AND WHEREAS THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL CLERKS ASSOCIATION REPRESENTS MORE THAN 1100 MUNICIPAL CLERKS WHO CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE SUCCESS AND EFFICIENCY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF TEXAS.
AND WHEREAS MUNICIPAL CLERKS WEEK PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE THE INVALUABLE WORK OF MUNICIPAL CLERKS, ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR VITAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICE AND HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANT ROLE THEY PLAY IN THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS OF OUR CITIES.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, BILLY WALLACE, MAYOR OF WAXAHATCHEE, ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY RECOGNIZE THE WEEK OF MAY 3RD THROUGH NINTH 2026 AS PROFESSIONAL MUNICIPAL CLERK'S WEEK AND FURTHER EXTEND APPRECIATION TO OUR CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE AND TO ALL PROFESSIONAL MUNICIPAL CLERKS FOR THE VITAL SERVICES THEY PERFORM AND THEIR EXEMPLARY DEDICATION TO THE COMMUNITIES THEY REPRESENT.
PROCLAIMED THIS FOURTH DAY OF MAY, 2026, SIGNED MAYOR BILLY WALLACE.
JUST FOR THE RECORD, WE HAVE THE BEST MUNICIPAL CLERKS IN WAXAHATCHEE AND, AND PROBABLY ELLIS COUNTY.
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AND THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM FOUR D PROCLAMATION, RECOGNIZING MAY 3RD THROUGH THE NINTH AS NATIONAL TRAVEL AND TOURISM WEEK, MADAM MAYOR.WHEREAS THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY IS ESSENTIAL TO THE SUCCESS OF EVERY INDUSTRY AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CRITICAL PART OF W'S ECONOMY, DEVELOPMENT AND WORKFORCE.
AND WHEREAS TRAVEL SPENDING SUPPORTS VIBRANT AND SAFE COMMUNITIES IN WAXAHATCHEE, TEXAS AND ACROSS THE UNITED STATES BY GENERATING $92 BILLION IN STATE AND LOCAL TAX, TAX REVENUE IN 2025 TO SUPPORT ESSENTIAL SERVICES SUCH AS EDUCATION, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AND PUBLIC SAFETY.
AND WHEREAS IN WAXAHATCHEE TRAVEL GENERATED $86.1 MILLION IN DIRECT SPENDING, SUPPORTED 590 JOBS, PRODUCED $31.2 MILLION IN EARNINGS AND GENERATED 84 8 0.4 MILLION IN LOCAL AND STATE TAX REVENUE IN 2025.
AND WHEREAS WITHOUT TRAVEL SPENDING, TEXAS HOUSEHOLDS IN THE PRAIRIE AND LAKES TOURISM REGION WOULD PAY $813 MORE IN STATE AND LOCAL TAXES EACH YEAR TO MAINTAIN CURRENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES.
AND WHEREAS TRAVEL ENABLES SUCCESS FOR ALL INDUSTRIES, INCLUDING MANUFACTURING, AGRICULTURE, DEFENSE, AND HEALTHCARE BY DRIVING SALES, GROWTH, INNOVATION, EDUCATION, AND OPERATIONS THAT POWER OUR ECONOMY LOCALLY AND NATIONWIDE.
AND WHEREAS ONE IN EVERY 11 US JOBS DEPENDS ON TRAVEL, MAKING IT A CRITICAL DRIVER OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND COMMUNITY VITALITY.
AND WHEREAS AMERICAN AMERICA'S TRAVEL INDUSTRY CANNOT REMAIN GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE WITHOUT MAXIMIZING GROWTH IN DOMESTIC LEISURE BUSINESS, INTERNATIONAL INBOUND TRAVEL.
AND WHEREAS TRAVEL IS AN ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY THAT FUELS ECONOMIC GROWTH, SUPPORTS LOCAL BUSINESSES, FOSTERS MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND CONNECTS COMMUNITY ACROSS THE NATION.
NOW THEREFORE, BILLY WALLACE, MAYOR OF ATCH, ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY RECOGNIZE THE WEEK OF MAY 3RD THROUGH NINTH 2026 AT NATIONAL TRA TRAVEL AND TOURISM WEEK IN WAXAHATCHEE, TEXAS, AND URGE ALL CITIZENS TO RECOGNIZE THE VITAL ROLE THIS INDUSTRY PLAYS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
PROCLAIM THIS FOURTH DAY OF MAY, 2026, MAYOR BILLY WES.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
WHAT A GREAT DAY IT IS TO BE IN WAXAHATCHEE, TEXAS.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT 45 YEARS AGO IN 1981, THE WAXAHATCHEE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU WAS FOUNDED.
OUR TEAM HAS GROWN TO OVER 400 EMPLOYEES DURING THAT TIME BECAUSE IN THE CITY OF WAXAHATCHEE, TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS.
LOOKING AROUND THE ROOM, I SEE FACES OF TEAMS WHO HELP CREATE GREAT EXPERIENCES DAILY.
FOR OUR VISITORS, THE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU AND CIVIC CENTER STAFF, PLEASE WAVE OUR DOWNTOWN AND HERITAGE PRESERVATION STAFF AND THEIR BOARD MEMBERS.
I KNOW THEY'RE WITH US TONIGHT.
OUR PARKS AND RECREATION TEAM.
PLEASE STAND AND WAVE OUR STREETS TEAM, OUR WAXAHATCHEE SPORTS COMPLEX TEAM, OUR PLANNING TEAM, BUILDING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES, CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE, COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, POLICE, FIRE, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, FINANCE, PURCHASING, AND MANY OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES THROUGHOUT OUR CITY OF WAXAHATCHEE.
WE'RE ALSO HONORED TO HAVE A FEW COMMUNITY HOSPITALITY STAKEHOLDER PARTNERS WITH US TONIGHT.
I'VE GOT MS. JENNIFER GWEN AND CHANTELLE WILLIAMS OF THE COMFORT SUITES WAXAHATCHEE WITH US.
I HAVE MR. MICHAEL HOOPER OF OUR NEWEST LODGING PARTNER RESIDENTS IN BY MARRIOTT WITH US TONIGHT, MICHAEL, AND HE SAID THEY ARE A HUNDRED PERCENT ON THE MOVE RIGHT NOW.
I'VE GOT MS. CARLA GARZA FROM THE FAIRFIELD INN AND SUITES.
SANDY EMMONS, OF COURSE, WE KNOW HER FROM THE ELLIS COUNTY MUSEUM AND SHE'S ALSO OUR VISITOR CENTER VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR.
SANDY, WE'VE ALSO GOT MEMBERS OF HISTORIC WAXAHATCHEE INC.
THEIR BOARD MEMBERS WITH US TONIGHT.
I SAW IN THE ROOM AMBER ADAMS, APRIL GONZALEZ AND
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TRUDY HANKINS ALL REPRESENTING OUR WAXAHATCHEE DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.LADIES, COUNCILMAN ATKINS, REPRESENTING OUR WAXAHATCHEE FOOD AND BEVERAGE COLLECTIVE TONIGHT.
AND MS. CANDY FRANKLIN SUMMER SOUL EVENT, SUMMER SOUL AFFAIR EVENT FOUNDER, AND ALSO A VITAL PART OF OUR MUSIC FRIENDLY COMMUNITY PROGRAM.
I DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S WITH US.
SHE WAS GONNA BE HERE SO WE CAN STILL GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE.
'CAUSE SUMMER SOUL AFFAIR IS A BIG THING.
WE GOT MR. TERRY SMITH REPRESENTING THE TEXAS MOTORPLEX WITH US.
VANESSA WEBB, UH, ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR OF SCARBOROUGH RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL IS WITH US TONIGHT.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, PLEASE TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO THE BACK OF THE ROOM AND MAKE WELCOME FROM THE VILLAGE OF SCARBOROUGH QUEEN CATHERINE PAR.
Y'ALL DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD A TREAT TONIGHT, DID YOU?
WELL, WHILE MY HUSBAND, HENRY GATE, KING OF ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND OF FRANCE, AND WE SAY FRANCE BECAUSE IT'S A LITTLE SLIP OF CALLAY AND IT IRRITATES TRANS FATHER, FIRST KING OF FRANCE, WHEN WE SAY THAT SAME BUT HENRY, WE WOULD USE A SWORD.
I, HOWEVER, BEING ALL ABOUT PEACE, WE'LL USE MY FAN BECAUSE WE ARE THE GREATEST FANS OF WAXAHATCHEE HERE.
AT STARR RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL.
AND SOMEHOW MY PILL IS STUCK IN MY FAN.
I YOU'RE NOT GONNA GO THIS WARDROBE.
IT'S PROOF THAT EVERYTHING IS MASTER THAN THE SWORD.
SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, IN THE NAME OF GOD, ST.
I CREATE YOU ALL NIGHTS OF THE REALM.
AND SO IT IS A VERY GREAT HONOR TO RECOGNIZE ANOTHER NIGHT OF THE REALM DAME WILLIAMS FOR 10 YEARS OF TOURISM EXCELLENCE FOR THE COMFORT SUITES IN AT WAXAHATCHEE.
AND ALSO, TIS MY GREAT HONOR TO PRESENT THE CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION TO DAME JENNIFER GWYNN FOR 14 YEARS OF TOURISM EXCELLENCE AT THE COMFORT SUITES IN WASA.
AND NOW A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION TO THE TEXAS MOTORPLEX FOR 40 YEARS OF TOURISM EXCELLENCE.
AND NOW A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR DAY MONICA BOYD FOR 10 YEARS OF TOURISM EXPERTS
AND NOW WE, WE, UH, COUNCIL HAS A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION.
UH, THIS CERTIFICATE IS AWARDED TO SCARBOROUGH RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL FOR 45 YEARS OF TOURISM EXCELLENCE.
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YEAH, WE'LL DO A GROUP PHOTO AFTER AS OUR TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY PARTNER.THERE'S NO WAY WE'RE GETTING, WE'LL HAVE TO LIKE THE, OH, MY 1, 2, 3 AND ONE, TWO.
THANK YOU ALL FOR INDULGING US FOR THANK.
THAT BRINGS US TO FOUR E 2026 RECOGNITION STATUS.
KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL AFFILIATION.
UH, MADAM MAYOR, THIS CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION PRESENTED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL ON MAY 4TH, 2026 TO THE KE WAXAHATCHEE BEAUTIFUL COMMITTEE IN, IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND DEDICATION TO COMMUNITY BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP THROUGH YOUR EFFORTS, KEEP WAXAHATCHEE BEAUTIFUL, HAS ACHIEVED A HISTORIC MILESTONE EARNING GOLD STAR AFFILIATE RECOGNITION FROM THE T FROM THE KEEP TEXAS.
FOR THE FIRST TIME, THIS HONOR REFLECTS EXCELLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
ENGAGEMENT, LITTER PREVENTION, RECYCLING, AND SUS SU HMM.
THIS ACHIEVEMENT REPRESENTS THE COLLECTIVE EFFORTS OF STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, AND THE COMMUNITY MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH YOUR VISION AND COMMITMENT.
WITH, WITH, WITH SINCERE APPRECIATION.
AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT, MAYOR BILLY WALLACE.
MAYOR WALLACE, IF I COULD BRIEFLY SPEAK TO DEE, YOU AND DAM.
MONICA AND I WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN SCARBOROUGH AFFAIR FIRST OPENED AND THE TOURISM OF OUR FIRST CITY BEGAN.
WE, UM, I MENTION IT BECAUSE I WAS A WINCH.
THEY MADE US DO THAT IF WE WERE IN DRAMA.
AND I'VE NEVER HAD SO MUCH FUN.
OH, I'M JUST SO PROUD THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY HAVE SO MANY REASONS TO CELEBRATE.
I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF KEAP WAXAHATCHEE BEAUTIFUL.
AND OUR CHAIR MADELINE BRACKEN.
TRULY THOUGH THIS HAS BEEN THE EFFORT OF THE ENTIRE CITY TO OUR VOLUNTEERS, TO THE CITY EMPLOYEES, AND TO ALL WHO HAVE MADE IT POSSIBLE.
WE ARE SO THANKFUL TO HAVE BEEN SMALL PLAYERS AND A PART OF COMMUNICATING.
WE BELIEVE OUR COMMUNITY TO BE GOLDEN.
BRIEFLY, I WILL MENTION JUST KEY PHRASES FOR WE WHO ARE PRESENT TO CONTINUE TO LIVE
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INTO, AND, UM, HIGHLIGHTING A CITY'S DEDICATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, TO HIGH VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT AND EFFECTIVE SUSTAINED COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS. UM, THAT WE HAVE SO MANY AREAS THAT ARE CLEAN, GREEN, AND BEAUTIFUL.UM, I REALLY AM A TINY PART, SO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK AND BESTOWING THIS HONOR ON WE, THE KEEP WAXAHATCHEE BEAUTIFUL COMMITTEE AS WELL AS ON THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
JUST I KNOW JUST CHILDREN SOMETIMES SHE WEARS HER MOM HAT.
[5. Public Comments]
TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.PERSONS MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ON ANY ISSUES.
THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE TIME FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON ANY CONCERN WHETHER ON THIS AGENDA OR NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT.
THE COUNCIL MAY NOT COMMENT OR DELIBERATE SUCH STATEMENTS DURING THIS PERIOD, EXCEPT AS AUTHORIZED BY SECTION 5 5 1 0 4 2 OF THE D THE, UH, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SPEAKERS MUST OBSERVE THE THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT.
JENNIFER WICK, JENNIFER WICK, 2222 OF BELLA DRIVE, WAXAHATCHEE WANNA START BY CONGRATULATING TRACE AND PATRICK AND CHRIS ON THEIR REELECTIONS, AND I HOPE YOU START TO FEEL BETTER, MAYOR.
I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE ANIMAL PROBLEM IN THE CITY OF WAXAHATCHEE.
I KNOW THERE ARE SEVERAL PEOPLE IN OUR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM THAT REALLY HAVE NO APPETITE FOR PARKS AND ANIMALS AND PLA SPLASH PADS AND SUCH, AND FIND MONEY FOR OTHER THINGS, WHICH WE ALSO NEED.
BUT PART OF KEEPING OUR CITY BEAUTIFUL IS MAKING SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANIMALS WITH MANGE AND DISEASE WANDERING THE STREETS, ANIMALS THAT GET HIT BY CARS AND THEY'RE JUST LAYING BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND NO ONE COMES TO PICK THEM UP EXCEPT FOR PEOPLE LIKE US WHO PUT A LINER DOWN THE BACK OF OUR CAR AND PUT 'EM IN THERE.
OTHER PEOPLE WHO HELP THESE ANIMALS THE BEST THEY CAN, BUT WE NEED HELP.
THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE THAN PRAYERS AND MORE VOLUNTEERS.
WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME KIND OF A FACILITY.
AND I DON'T APPRECIATE THROWING OUT THESE VERY HIGH TICKET NUMBERS WITH THE LITTLE CAVEAT OF, WELL, PEOPLE HAVE TO VOTE TO RAISE THEIR TAXES.
THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE WAY IT HAS TO BE.
THE SWPA BUILDING, I KNOW IT HAD ITS ISSUES, BUT IT WAS THERE AND IT WAS A GOOD OPTION.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT $16 MILLION.
IT'S NOT EVER DISCUSSED WITH THE PUBLIC WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT $16 MILLION.
NOR DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT HAS TO BE, BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING OTHER THAN THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AND VOLUNTEERS TO GET THE ANIMAL PROBLEM FIXED IN THE CITY OF WAXAHATCHEE.
AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US LIVING HERE OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF IT.
[6. Consent Agenda ]
THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM NUMBER SIX, THE CONSENT AGENDA.THIS WILL BE FOR ITEMS A THROUGH I ALL MATTERS LISTED UNDER ITEM SIX OF THE CONSENT AGENDA ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ROUTINE BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND WILL BE ENACTED BY ONE MOTION.
THERE WILL NOT BE SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF THESE ITEMS. APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA AUTHORIZES THE MAYOR, CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL MATTERS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT EACH ITEM.
ANY ITEM MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR SEPARATE DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION BY ANY MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL A THROUGH I COUNCIL.
MADAM MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO TO PULL OUT ITEM H FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
AND OTHERWISE I MOVE TO APPROVE ALL ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, A THROUGH I WITH THE ACCEPTABLE H AT THIS TIME, YOUR HONOR, I DON'T HAVE THAT OUT YET.
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THE ONE FOR 900? YES.DO WE HAVE A SECOND FOR THAT MOTION? SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
JUST TO, TO, AS A PREFACE, IT'S NOT THAT I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THIS ITEM OTHER THAN THAT, IN THE FOUR YEARS I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL, YOU GUYS ALL KNOW THAT IF IT'S ANYTHING ANYWHERE NEAR THAT DOLLAR FIGURE, I'M GONNA OBJECT TO IT BEING IN THE CONSENT AGENDA.
I THINK IT OUGHT TO BE ON THEIR
SO THE 963 58, IF THERE'S ANYONE HERE, CAN JUST EXPLAIN TO HIM WHAT THE CONS, WHAT A CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK IS AND WHAT THIS DOLLAR FIGURE IS FOR.
SO, UM, THIS IS FOR THE CON CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK FOR THE NEW FIRE STATION.
ONE THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED SEVERAL TIMES.
AS YOU KNOW, UH, WE'RE IN THE DESIGN PHASE RIGHT NOW.
UH, THE DESIGNS ARE LARGELY DONE.
UH, THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER WOULD BE BROUGHT ON BOARD TO, UH, PROCURE ALL THE SUBCONTRACTORS AND GET, GET US A GUARANTEED, UH, GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE.
UH, SO THAT WE CAN GO FORWARD THROUGH CONSTRUCTION.
WE WOULD WORK WITH THEM HAND IN HAND ALONG WITH THE ARCHITECT, UH, AND THE ENGINEERS, UH, TO BRING THE, THE PROJECT TO COMPLETION.
AND SO THEY'RE THE, THEY'RE THE TEAM THAT WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING'S DONE AND DONE CORRECTLY AND BRING IT OVER THE GOAL LINE.
UH, WE, WE WENT THROUGH THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS ADVERTISED AS REQUIRED LELA'S HERE.
UH, CAN YOU COME UP TO THE PODIUM? LELA PLEASE.
HELLO? UM, UH, MY NAME'S LELA COLE AND I WAS PART OF THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS AND THERE WERE, WERE AT LEAST, UH, 12, AT LEAST 12 THAT RESPONDED TO THAT RFP.
AND WE DID A THOROUGH EVALUATION PROCESS TO SELECT THE, THE BEST CONTRACTOR THAT COULD PROVIDE US THE BEST VALUE FOR, FOR THESE SERVICES.
OKAY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT ITEM? I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[7. Public Hearing on a request by David McDill, Davis & McDill for a Replat of part of Lot 2, Block 175, TOWN ADDITION, to create Lots 2R-A, 2R-B, and 2R-C, Block 175, of the TOWN ADDITION, 3 Residential Lots, being 0.679 acres, located at 305 Frieson Street, (Property ID 171328, 171339, & 171340) – Owner: Scott Ronald and Kimberly R. (SUB-27-2026)]
THAT MOVES US TO ITEM SEVEN.DID NOT HAVE ANYONE SIGN UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, BUT IT IS A REQUEST BY DAVID MCDILL FOR A RELA A PART OF LOT TWO BLOCK 1 75 TOWN ADDITION TO CREATE LOTS TWO RA TWO RB, AND TWO RC BLOCK 1 75 OF THE TOWN ADDITION THAT IS THREE RESIDENTIAL LOTS BEING 0.679 ACRES LOCATED AT 3 0 5.
FRIERSON STREET OWNER IS SCOTT, RONALD, AND KIMBERLY R.
THE REASON WHY THIS PLATS COMING FOR YOU TODAY IS 'CAUSE THEY'RE REQUESTING TO REPL THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, UH, INTO THREE LOTS.
UM, ALSO IS THAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR VARIANCES IN ACCORD TO OUR SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS.
UH, THE VARIANCES THAT THEY'RE REQUESTING IS PART OF OUR REGULATIONS REQUIRE RIGHT OF WAY DEDICATION AND SOME OTHER EASEMENTS THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED AS PART OF ANY PLAT PROCESS.
IF THEY WERE TO DO THAT, IT WOULD REQUIRE THEM TO TEAR DOWN BOTH EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES.
UM, THE ORIGINAL PROPERTY HAS BEEN SPLIT INTO THREE FROM YEARS BEFORE, THREE DIFFERENT PARCEL IDS.
AND THIS WOULD JUST TO MATCH UP, THIS WOULD BE JUST TO MATCHUP, UM, WHAT'S ALREADY ACCORDING TO THE ELLIS COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, THEY WILL BE GIVING EASEMENTS ELECTRICAL EASEMENTS UP TO, UH, THEIR PROPERTY, UH, TO ALLOW FOR WHAT WE WOULD NEED FOR ANY FUTURE UTILITIES, UM, STAFF RECOMMENDED APPROVAL WHEN THIS MOVE FORWARD.
P AND Z, THEY ALSO RECOMMEND APPROVAL AND I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
TRENTON, IS THE APPLICANT HERE? YES, I DON'T, WE MAY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.
UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY SIGN UP TO SPEAK DURING THIS ITEM.
UM, SO WE'LL BE CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING.
ANY DISCUSSION, COUNSEL, BEFORE WE CALL FOR A MOTION FOR EIGHT? THE ONLY QUESTION I'D HAVE, AND I'M SORRY SHE CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING, BUT YOU DO UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE TO MEET ALL NINE OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY GAVE YOU.
IT HAS NINE CONDITIONS LISTED, SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE YOU'RE AWARE OF THE NINE CONDITIONS BEFORE WE APPROVE IT.
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THE NINE CONDITIONS, UH, BUT I BELIEVE THAT DAVIDSON MCDELL KNOWS ABOUT 'EM.I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO ADDRESS 'EM.
SO THE SITE WILL BE ABLE TO MEET THE NINE DISCUSSING DAVIS, DALE, THE SITE WILL BE ABLE TO MEET THOSE CONDITIONS.
UM, PRIOR OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM, JUST WANNA MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT.
THEY CALLED ME THIS MORNING AND BRIEFED ME ON IT.
SO IT WAS KIND OF LIKE LAST MINUTE.
SO, BUT THEY, THEY EXPLAINED TO US ON THEIR END THAT THEY WAS GONNA TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING TO SATISFY THE CITY.
SO WHATEVER THEY NEEDED TO DO TO SATISFY THE CITY.
YOU'RE OKAY WITH IT? I'M COOL WITH IT, YES.
UH, SO I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS PROPERTY FROM A FEW YEARS BACK.
UM, THERE WERE ISSUES WITH, WITH PROPERTY THAT WAS ESSENTIALLY ENC ENCROACHED ON, UM, BY A NEIGHBORING PROPERTY.
WERE, WERE THOSE EVER ADDRESSED? DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT, IT, IT, IT GOT RESOLVED? OKAY.
EVERYTHING'S, EVERYTHING'S GOOD NOW.
SO WE DON'T NEED TO HELP OUT IN ANY WAY THERE.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN TAKEN CARE OF.
NO, THAT RIGHT THERE GOT RESOLVED AND, OH, BY MAYBE ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO.
[8. Consider approving SUB-27-2026]
EIGHT.CONSIDER APPROVING SUB 27 20 26.
MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE SUB 27 DASH 2026.
A REPLAY OF THE TOWN EDITION LOTS, TWO R DASH A TWO R DASH B AND TWO R DASH C BLOCK 1 75 SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE STAFF REPORT AUTHORIZING THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONER TO SIGN AND, AND SIGN THE ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS ACCORDINGLY.
ALL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[9. Public Hearing on a request by Josh Yusten, Evolution Homes, for a Zoning Change from a PD-23-SF-1 zoning district to Planned Development Single Family-1 (PD-SF-1) zoning district located at 101 Waterfront Drive (Property ID 175089) – Owner(s): JRM-REI LLC (ZDC-9-2026)]
HEARING ON OUR REQUEST BY JO JOSH HOUSTON.EVOLUTION HOMES FOR A ZONING CHANGE FROM A PD 23 SF ONE ZONING DISTRICT TO A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT SINGLE FAMILY ONE ZONING DISTRICT LOCATED AT 1 0 1 WATERFRONT DRIVE.
UH, NO ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.
IS THE APPLICANT HERE ON THIS ONE PRESENT? OKAY.
1 1 4 BELLS CHAPEL WAXAHATCHEE COUNSEL, HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE APPLICANT? THANK YOU.
[10. Consider proposed Ordinance approving ZDC-9-2026]
NUMBER 10, CONSIDER PROPOSED ORDINANCE APPROVING ZDC 9 20 26.COUNSEL MADAM MAYOR, MOVED TO APPROVE ZDC DASH NINE DASH 2026.
A ZONING CHANGE FROM A PD DASH 23 DASH SF DASH ONE TO PLAN DEVELOPMENT SINGLE FAMILY ONE SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE STAFF REPORT AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND OR MAYOR TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[11. Public Hearing on a request by Dutch Neuweiler, Minto Communities Texas, LLC, for an Amendment to Ordinance No. 3704, to revise the location of the Welcome Center and update associated Exhibits within the approved Planned Development, located at 300 Brookside Road (Property ID’s 179468, 179534, 182520, 187960, 189323, 189326, 189333, 189336, 192306, 193815, 193822, 193823, 234203, 263786, 264568, 303651, 303652) – Owners: Minto KR, LLC (ZDC-24-2026)]
A PUBLIC HEARING ON A REQUEST BY DUTCH NEW WALLER, MINTO COMMUNITIES TEXAS LLC FOR AN AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE NUMBER 37 0 4 TO REVISE THE LOCATION OF THE WELCOME CENTER AND UPDATE ASSOCIATED EXHIBITS WITHIN THE APPROVED PLAN DEVELOPMENT LOCATED AT 300 BROOKSIDE ROAD OWNERS OF MENTO, K-R-L-L-C STAFF.WE ARE REQUESTING CI TO BE CONTINUED AT THE JUNE 1ST, 2026 CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
THIS WAS ALSO CONTINUED AT THE PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION MEETING AND I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY SIGN UP ON THIS ONE.
ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT? YEAH, I, UH, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF TRANSPARENCY, 'CAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS ON THE AGENDA, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF PARCEL IDS AND MOVING PARTS THAT, THAT IF YOU'RE NOT REALLY TUNED IN WITH WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE THE FOGGIEST IDEA.
UM, BUT CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG AND EXPAND HOWEVER YOU WANT TO.
UM, THIS ESSENTIALLY IS JUST ESTABLISHING WHERE EXACTLY THE, LIKE THE WELCOME CENTER AND UM, LIKE THE CARRIAGE HOUSE TYPE THINGS.
LIKE, LIKE WHERE THERE THOSE WILL BE PLOTTED AT.
UH, BRIAN KALE, 89 39 STEEL FIELD ROAD, PANAMA CITY BEACH.
ESSENTIALLY THE WELCOME CENTER WAS ORIGINALLY SHOWN TO BE, UM, RIGHT
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AT THE INTERSECTION OF 35 AND AND BROOKSIDE ESSENTIALLY.AND WE'VE MOVED IT ABOUT I THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE INTO THE DEVELOPMENT INTO AN AREA THAT WAS ORIGINALLY IDENTIFIED AS PART OF THE, UH, LINEAR PARK IN THAT AREA.
IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD ADDRESS THROUGH NOT HAVING TO GO THROUGH? 'CAUSE I THOUGHT IN THAT AGREE.
I, I THOUGHT IN THE PD WE KIND OF ADDRESS SMALL THINGS LIKE THIS WHERE IF IT'S JUST SO NO, UM, WE WOULD'VE TO DO AN AMENDMENT TO THE ORDINANCE 'CAUSE THE DISTRICTS WERE ESTABLISHED AND IT'S ACTUALLY, IF IT WAS WITHIN THE, A CERTAIN ZONING DISTRICT, WE COULD MOVE IT AROUND.
BUT BECAUSE IT'S MOVING FROM ONE ZONING DISTRICT TO ANOTHER, THAT'S WHAT CHANGED.
THAT'S WHAT'S TRIGGERING THE AMENDMENT PROCESS.
SO WHEN, WHEN, WHEN WE, BECAUSE I IF, IF THEY DECIDE TO BUILD AN EXTRA CLUBHOUSE FOR SOME REASON AND IT'LL BE IN THE SAME AREA, I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO WASTE IT ANYBODY'S TIME.
THIS, THIS SHOULD BE ABLE TO RESOLVE THAT.
IF THEY DO A SIMILAR USE IN THE EXACT SAME AREA THAT THEY'RE CHANGING THIS AMENDMENT, IT WOULD, IT, IT FIX THAT.
JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT WASTING TIME.
I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
[12. Consider proposed Ordinance approving ZDC-24-2026]
THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM NUMBER 12.CONSIDER PROPOSED ORDINANCE APPROVING ZDC TO CONTINUE MAD MAYOR, MOVE TO CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ZDC 24 DASH 2026 TO THE JUNE 1ST, 2026 CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[13. Public Hearing on a request by William Dahlstrom, Jackson Walker LLP, to amend the adopted Waxahachie Comprehensive Plan, solely to amend the Thoroughfare Plan for the Kemp Ranch property]
A PUBLIC HEARING ON A REQUEST BY WILLIAM DAHLSTROM JACKSON WALKER, LLP TO AMEND THE ADOPTED WALKS HATCHIE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SOLELY TO AMEND THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN FOR THE KEMP RANCH PROPERTY.THIS IS, UH, IF YOU REMEMBER THIS CAME BEFORE YOU FOR A PD AMENDMENT.
UM, ONE, THE, THE CONCEPTUAL PLAN HAD A VARIOUS THOROUGHFARES THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT.
UH, THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO OUR THOROUGH FAIR PLAN AND WAS REQUIRED PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND PD ORDINANCE.
UH, THIS WOULD MAKE IT CONSISTENT WITH WHAT OUR WOULD MAKE THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THEY PROPOSED AND WAS ADOPTED AS, AS THE CONCEPT PLAN.
AND SO THIS, UH, WENT BEFORE THE PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION.
UH, STAFF IS ALSO RECOMMENDING APPROVAL WITH, WITH THE CONDITIONS LISTED.
AND I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY SIGN UP FOR THIS ITEM.
TRENTON, JUST TO CONFIRM FOR ANY OF THOSE WATCHING OR HERE IN ATTENDANCE, UM, THIS DOES NOT, UH, DOWNGRADE ANY OF THE REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE FOR OUR THOROUGHFARE OR FOR DRAINAGE OR FOR FLOODING CONTROL OR ANY OF THOSE ISSUES, CORRECT? NO, THIS IS JUST FOR THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN.
ALSO, WERE Y'ALL ABLE TO CONVINCE KATHY THAT THIS WAS NOT CUTTING OFF BROOKSIDE ROAD? UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER THAT
UM, WE, WE TRIED TO, I I, I WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE ALL THE, ALL THE FACTS OF THE CASE, UM, TO ANYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT.
IF THAT DID ANY SORT OF CONVINCING OR BETTER UNDERSTANDING, I WOULDN'T WANNA SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF.
BUT WE DID SHARE THE FACTS OF THE CASE AND THE INFORMATION BEING PROVIDED TODAY.
BUT HAVING THIS THOROUGHFARE PLAN AND IT CONNECTING UP AT THE END OF BROOKSIDE ROAD MEETS ALL OF THE CITY'S CURRENT STANDARDS.
CORRECT? IT WOULD MEET THE CURRENT STANDARDS AND THE, AND THE ORDINANCES THAT WERE APPROVED AS PART OF THE PD AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
[14. Consider proposed Ordinance approving an amendment to the Thoroughfare Plan]
BRINGS US TO ITEM 14.CONSIDER PROPOSED ORDINANCE APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN.
MAD MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED THOROUGHFARE PLAN AMENDMENT FOR THE KEMP RANCH PROPERTY.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[15. Consider a request by James Johnston, Waxahachie Office Condos LLC, for an Amendment to the Montclair Heights Development Agreement (INST. No. 2528373) to allow payment in lieu of the completion of construction of the required traffic signal]
CONSIDER A REQUEST BY JAMES JOHNSON WALKS AT YOU OFFICE CONDOS, LLC FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE MONTCLAIR HEIGHTS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT TO ALLOW PAYMENT IN LIEU OF THE COMPLETION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE REQUIRED TRAFFIC SIGNAL.UH, AS PART OF THIS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR THE MONTCLAIR DEVELOPMENT, UM, IF YOU REMEMBER IN THE ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, IT DID REQUIRE A TRAFFIC LIGHT TO BE CONSTRUCTED, UM, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DEVELOPMENT WHEN THEY WENT TO FORWARD WITH THE PROPER PROCESS OF A WARRANT STUDY FOR THAT TRAFFIC LIGHT, A TEXT OUT DEEMED IT WAS NOT WARRANTED AS OF YET.
UM, TEXTILE WILL NOT LET THE TRAFFIC LIGHT BE CONSTRUCTED WITHOUT IT BEING WARRANTED.
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A CHICKEN AND EGG KIND OF SITUATION.THEY CAN'T MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THIS BEING DONE.
UM, BUT THEY CAN'T, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT'S COMPLETELY HALTED.
SO IT'S THIS AGREEMENT, UH, AMENDMENT WOULD ALLOW THE CITY SOME, UH, SECURITIES AND WHEN THE LIGHT IS WARRANTED, WHEN WE CAN PUT IT IN THAT THE COMPLETE COST WILL BE COVERED BY THE DEVELOPER.
AND WE DID PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION TO OUR LEGAL, AND THEY DID AGREE THAT THIS LANGUAGE AND THE CHANGES WOULD BE, WOULD SUFFICE.
THEIR REQUIREMENT WOULD SUFFICE THE CITY'S REQUIREMENT, TERRY, WE'RE POSITIVE THAT, THAT THIS, THIS WOULD PROTECT US ON BOTH ENDS OF THIS AND, AND THAT THE DEVELOPER WILL PAY THE FULL COST AND THAT'S THE FULL COST OF HAVING TO RUN ANY, ANY CABLING ON UNDERNEATH THE ROADWAY.
ANY, ANY INCREASE IN THE COST OF A TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR CABLING OR THE POLE OR THE ARM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? CORRECT.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE WANTED TO DO.
AND WE, WE, WE HAD, THEY HAD A REWARDING IN THERE FOR LIKE A BOND AS AN EXAMPLE.
I'M NOT SURE HOW YOU GET A BOND WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW THE COST YET.
AND SO WE WANT TO HAVE SOME PROTECTION THAT, THAT WHEN THE TIME COMES, FOR EXAMPLE, A LETTER CREDIT IS ANOTHER METHOD, BUT YOU CAN'T GET A LETTER OF CREDIT FOR FOUR YEARS OUT AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY.
SO THE LANGUAGE WAS CHANGED TO SAY THAT YOU, THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL, SOME INSTRUMENT THAT'S SUCCESSFUL TO THE CITY THAT COVERS ALL THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
SO I THINK THAT THIS GIVES US GREATER FLEXIBILITY THAN WHAT THEY ORIGINALLY PROPOSED.
TO, TO MAKE SURE THE COSTS ARE COVERED.
AND THEN TRENTON, I MEAN THAT, I DON'T KNOW HOW IT DIDN'T MEET THE TDOT STANDARDS, BUT HOW DID IT NOT MEET THE T.IT IT WAS IF IT WAS WARRANTED.
SO IN ORDER FOR A LIGHT TO BE WARRANTED, YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMEWHAT SO MUCH TRAFFIC RUNNING THROUGH THERE.
AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW HOW IT DIDN'T MEET IT.
SO WHAT, WHAT, HOW SHORT WAS IT OF, I I WOULDN'T HAVE THAT ANSWER.
DO WE HAVE ANYBODY THAT HAS THAT ANSWER? DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW, I MEAN, IF IT WAS, WELL, MY BIGGEST CONCERN ISN'T WITH THE MONEY.
I'M, I'M SURE TERRY AND THOSE GUYS WILL GET IT SET UP.
BUT IS THERE ANYTHING IN THERE ABOUT THE TIMING? I, I REALIZE IT JUST SAID THEY CAN'T DO IT UNTIL THE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON THAT DEVELOPMENT.
BUT THE LAST THING I WANT THEM DOING IS PUTTING THOSE RED LIGHTS ON THOSE TWO PLACES WHILE THAT HIGH, RIGHT WHEN SCHOOL'S GOING ON THE TRAFFIC THERE IS ALREADY BAD ENOUGH, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THERE THAT THEY HAVE TO DO IT LIKE IN THE SUMMER WHEN SCHOOL'S NOT GOING ON? 'CAUSE YOU'RE TALKING TWO RED LIGHTS ON EITHER SIDE OF 2 87 WITH ALL THOSE KIDS RUNNING UP AND DOWN THERE.
ONE OF MY CONCERNS WOULD BE WHEN YOU HAVE A PROVISION IN THE ORDINANCE OR IN THE AGREEMENT SUCH AS IT HAS TO BE DONE DURING THE SUMMERTIME, UM, WITH TEXTILE AND YOU'RE USING OUTSIDE ENTITIES, UM, IT'S REALLY HARD TO GUARANTEE THAT CAN HAPPEN, ESPECIALLY ON TEXTILES SCHEDULE.
UM, I, I WOULD BE VERY HESITANT TO PUT A, A CERTAIN TIMING MECHANISM.
WE CAN DO OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE IT'S DONE IN THE SUMMER OR DURING THOSE OFF HOURS, BUT REQUIRING IT TO BE DONE IN SUMMER.
I, I THINK, WELL, EVEN IF WE CAN'T DO THAT, THEY WORK AT NIGHT ALL THE TIME.
CAN WE MAKE 'EM DO IT AT NIGHT WHEN THE SCHOOL'S NOT IN OPERATION? IF IF IT COMES TO A TIME, IF THEY WANT TO DO IT WHILE THE OPERATING IS, CAN WE HAVE 'EM DO IT AT NIGHT? I, I KNOW THE DEVELOPER WOULD BE OPEN TO IT AND THEY'D BE WILLING TO DO THAT.
UM, FROM THE CONVERSATIONS I'VE HAD WITH THE DEVELOPER, THEY'RE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING IN ORDER TO GET THIS THING CONSTRUCTED, UM, AND MOVE FORWARD.
UM, IT WOULD JUST BE GETTING TECHS OUT TO AGREE TO ALLOWING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOUTH LIGHT AT NIGHT.
I JUST THINK THAT WE AS A CITY NEED TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT'S THE SAFEST WE CAN AROUND THAT SCHOOL.
'CAUSE YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE INEXPERIENCED DRIVERS COMPARED TO EVERYBODY ELSE.
TRENTON, IS THERE ANY WAY, I'M JUST THINKING OF LEAD TIMES BECOMING WORSE AND WORSE FOR, I MEAN FOR EVERYTHING, BUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS HAVE GOTTEN PRETTY LONG.
UM, IS THERE ANY WAY THAT TEXTILE WOULD ALLOW THEM TO AT LEAST INS INSTALL THE BASE AND THE BOXES, UM, AND RUN THE CABLING FOR FUTURE BUILD? I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO REACH OUT TO 'EM AND TO ASK THEM THAT.
I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION OR ANSWER FOR YOU AT THIS TIME BECAUSE AT LEAST THEN WE HAVE THE BOX TRUNKS ARE IN PLACE AND ALL OF THE ELECTRICITY IS THERE AND THE BASE FOR THE ARM IS THERE.
I I, YEAH, I MEAN, I'M MORE THAN WILLING TO ASK.
I DON'T HAVE THAT ANSWER AND I KNOW THE DEVELOPER WOULD BE WILLING TO DO THAT.
UM, ONCE AGAIN, THEY'RE WILLING TO CONSTRUCT TOMORROW IF THEY HAD THE GREEN FLAGS FROM OP.
SO WOULD WE NEED TO ADD AN, AN AMENDMENT IN THERE OR NOT? WOULD WOULD WE NEED, WOULD WE NEED TO AMEND ANYTHING TO I THINK WE HAVE DIRECT, I MEAN YOU'VE GIVEN STAFF DIRECTION.
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TO MOVE FORWARD AND JUST KIND OF SEE IF WE CAN PRESS TEXT.TO SEE IF THEY'RE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING BEFOREHAND.AND THEN HOW OFTEN ARE THEY GONNA BE REQUIRED TO DO, UM, TO CONDUCT A TIA TO TO SEE WHEN, WHEN THEY, WHEN IT IS WARRANTED IN THE ORIGINAL PD? THERE'S NOT A TIMEFRAME OF, UM, HOW OFTEN, HOWEVER, DEPENDING UPON THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT, THE AMOUNT OF DEVELOPMENT THAT'S OCCURRING COULD TRIGGER DIFFERENT TIA REQUIREMENTS AS, AS THE DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD.
BUT CURRENTLY IN OUR, IN OUR PD AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, THERE'S NO LANGUAGE IN THERE.
UM, FOR INSTANCE, THE MINTO DEVELOPMENT, RIGHT, THAT DEVELOPMENT, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE MY HEAD WENT WAS SHOULD WE ADD SOMETHING IN THE LANGUAGE HERE TO REQUIRE A TIA EVERY, EVERY SIX MONTHS AFTER THE FIRST PLAT HAS BEEN GIVEN OR EVERY, AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR ON A SET DAY? SHOULD WE, SHOULD WE PROTECT OURSELVES THAT WAY OR ELSE IT, IT COULD REACH A POINT WHERE THERE'S, THAT'S THE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER LOTS OF TRAFFIC AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE THE TIA YET.
IF YOU DON'T MIND, I THINK I CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT QUESTION.
MY NAME'S TODD WINTERS WITH PETIT ECD AT, UH, 2 0 1 WINCO CIRCLE IN WILEY, TEXAS.
I'M THE ENGINEER ON THE PROJECT AND WE ALREADY HAVE IT REQUIRED TO BE INSTALLED WITH PHASE ONE OF THE DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS THE SINGLE FAMILY PORTION OF THAT.
ALL THE, ALL THESE GUYS ARE TRYING TO DO IS, UH, PUT SOME OFFICE CONDOS UP FRONT RIGHT NOW.
SO IT DOES NOT MEET THE WARRANTS THAT, THAT TRENTON WAS REFERRING TO AT THIS POINT.
IT WILL, WELL ACTUALLY WE'VE ALREADY DONE A TIA AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS PROCESS AND IT SAYS IT DIDN'T ACTUALLY WARRANT IT UNTIL, TILL I THINK TILL PHASE TWO STARTED OR SOMETHING.
BUT WE AGREED, UH, AT THE ZONING PART OF THIS OR THE PD OR THE DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT MAYBE TO, UH, TO INSTALL THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL WITH PHASE ONE OF THE, OF THE DEVELOPMENT.
SO PHASE ONE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT'S PROBABLY NOT NEAR AS FAR AWAY AS, AS YOU'RE SAYING, SO THAT WE'RE ALREADY REQUIRED TO PUT IT IN WITH PHASE ONE.
SO IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AS SOON AS WE BREAK GROUND WITH THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE OF THIS.
SO, AND THE TIA AT THAT TIME SAID THAT BECAUSE THIS WAS, I THINK I WAS, I WAS ON THE COUNCIL FOR LIKE A WEEK WHEN WE APPROVED THIS.
UM, THE TIA AT THAT TIME SAID THAT BY THE END OF PHASE ONE IT WOULD BE REQUIRED.
THAT'S CORRECT BY TXDOT, BUT WE AGREED TO DO IT WITH AT THE BEGINNING OF PHASE ONE.
WELL, I JUST DON'T WANT US TO BE, IT'LL BE DOWN SOONER THAN LATER IS ALL I'M SAYING, I DON'T WANT US TO GET THROUGH PHASE ONE AND THEN TXDOT SAY, NOT QUITE YET, YOU NEED THREE MORE HOMES.
AND THEN WE'VE ALREADY AGREED TO IT.
AND I BELIEVE TDOT DID SAY THAT WOULD TAKE IT ONE, THERE WAS ACTUALLY SOME TRAFFIC COMING THERE BECAUSE WE'RE ACTUALLY, WE'RE NOT EVEN CONSTRUCTING THE, THE FEEDER ROAD THAT'S GOING TO FEED TRAFFIC TO THIS TRAFFIC LIGHT YET.
SO IT REALLY DOESN'T WARRANT IT AT THIS TIME, BUT IT WILL WHEN WE BUILD THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE.
AND DO YOU THINK THAT THE DEVELOPMENT GROUP WOULD'VE ANY ISSUES IF ALLOWED TO GO AHEAD AND INSTALL LIKE THE TRUNK BOXES? AND I MEAN IT WRITTEN SAID, I THINK THEY WOULD DO WHATEVER'S REQUIRED.
I DON'T, IT'D BE CHEAPER NOW THAN IT WOULD BE IN MAYBE A YEAR.
LIKE, AND LIKE YOU SAID, I MEAN THE ELECTRICAL COM COMPONENTS ALONE ARE SEVEN TO EIGHT MONTHS OUT FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
SO WE WOULD LIKE TO GO AND WE'VE ACTUALLY ALREADY DESIGNED IT.
WE'VE ALREADY SUBMITTED IT TO TEXDOT.
SO AS SOON AS THAT TRAFFIC WARRANT, YOU KNOW, TRIPS THAT, YOU KNOW, START DATE, WE WOULD, WE WOULD START IT THEN.
I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WOULD REALLY BENEFIT TO DRILL PIERS AND SET BASES.
I MEAN, I GUESS WE COULD, I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WOULD, UH, REALLY BENEFIT US A LOT BECAUSE THERE'S SUCH A LONG LEAD TIME ON THE EQUIPMENT ITSELF.
SO, BUT, BUT LIKE HE SAID, AND, AND JAMES WILL VOUCH FOR THAT, I MEAN, THEY'RE WILLING TO, WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO TO GET THIS DONE, I JUST DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE OF, OF ANY BENEFIT TO THE CITY OR TO THEM HONESTLY.
SO I'M JUST GONNA DISAGREE ON THE BASIS OF WE'VE WATCHED IT HAPPEN ON MONROE STREET IN DOWNTOWN AND THEN ON EIGHT 13 IT WAS THAT THEY HAD THE LIGHTS UP BUT THEY HAD NOTHING ELSE DONE.
UM, SO LIKE THEY, THEY HAD THE SIGNALS, THEY HAD THE SIGNALS IN ARMS, BUT NOTHING ELSE DONE YET.
SO IF WE CAN REVERSE THAT AND LEARN FROM THAT DELAY, I, I WOULD BE OKAY.
I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION, UH, FOR, UH, TO CONSIDER THIS AMENDMENT.
MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE AN AMENDMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR MONTCLAIR HEIGHTS TO ALLOW PAYMENT IN LIEU OF THE COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE REQUIRED TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[16. Consider budget transfer for Asphalt Reconstruction: Grace, W. Parks & Marshall Projects in the amount of $130,000 ]
16, CONSIDER BUDGET TRANSFER FOR ASPHALT RECONSTRUCTION, GRACE WEST PARKS AND MARSHALL PROJECTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $130,000.JAMES MAYOR COUNSEL, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY.
UH, SO TODAY WE HAVE THIS ITEM, UH, IT IS FOR THE ASPHALT REHABILITATION FOR GRACE PARKS.
AND, UH, WE'RE REQUESTING FOR $130,000.
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WAS TO, UH, ADDRESS SOME CHANGE ORDERS WE NEED FOR THIS PROJECT.UH, ONE OF THE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER ONE WAS TO BE ABLE TO ADD MARSHALL ROAD, WHICH WAS IN REALLY BAD SHAPE, AND UH, GO FROM 21 INCH, UH, 21 FEET TO 24 FEET AND THEN, UH, ON THE, ALSO TO CHANGE THE TEXTILE TO PATRICK ROAD.
AND SO THIS, THIS CHANGE ORDER, RIGHT? THE CHANGE NUMBER TWO WAS TO DEAL WITH, UH, THE, WE ENCOUNTER, UH, CLAY SOILS ON PATRICK.
AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UH, USE LYME TREATED SO PATRICK AND PARKS.
AND SO THIS WAS ONE OF THOSE IN-HOUSE DESIGNS.
SO WE DIDN'T GET A GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER AT THE TIME.
SO WE BASICALLY, AS WE GOT STARTED CONSTRUCTION, THEY REALIZED, HEY, THERE'S REALLY FAT CLAY RIGHT HERE AND LYME TREATMENT IS RIGHT APPROACH TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH THAT CLAY.
SO THIS RIGHT HERE IS TO BE ABLE TO, UH, DEAL WITH, UH, ADDING THAT BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THESE CHANGE ORDERS.
AND WE'RE GONNA BE FUNDING THIS, UH, CHANGE ORDERS FROM THE, UH, STREET CAPITAL FUND, UH, 6 0 1 IN THE AMOUNT OF 130,000.
SURE IS, IS THIS THE SAME PROJECT TIED TO WHAT WE SIGNED WITH THE COUNTY? THIS IS NOT, THIS IS SEPARATE.
SO THIS PORTION OF MARSHALL ROAD IS FROM, UH, PATRICK STREET TO, UH, I WANNA SAY THE FIRST STREET RIGHT THERE BY UM, SELLERS GLEN.
SO ON THE, ON THE EAST SIDE OF FM 6 64.
AND THE ONE FOR THE COUNTY IS ON THE WEST SIDE OF FM 6 64.
SO IF WE ASSURE THAT THE COUNTY'S GONNA BUILD THEIR ROAD, THAT'S ALSO OUR ROAD TO 24 FEET, THEY'RE NOT, UH, ON THE PORTION THAT'S ON THE WEST SIDE OF FM 64, UH, THEY'RE GOING TO BASICALLY MATCH THE SAME WIDTH OF THE EXISTING ROAD, WHICH IS ABOUT 21 FEET.
DID WE NOT DISCUSS IN THIS SAME ROOM THAT IF WE'RE GONNA FUND THAT WITH OUR CITY FUNDS, IT NEEDS TO BE BUILT TO CITY STANDARD ROADS AND NOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CHOKE POINT THAT'S GONNA HAVE WITH THE SAME CLAY TOPSOIL AND SUBSOIL THAT EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT OUR LAND, ESPECIALLY IN THAT AREA KNOWS IT'S CLAY, AUSTIN, BLACK CLAY TOPSOIL AND SUBSOIL SITTING ON A ROCK BASE THAT'S NOW GOING TO RUN OFF AND RUN ONTO OUR 24 FOOT ROAD, WHICH IS GONNA ACT AS ESSENTIALLY BOOKENDS.
SO HAVE WE ADDRESSED ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DRAINAGE OR FLOOD MITIGATION OR RUNOFF WITH THE COUNTY SIDE THAT WE'VE ALREADY PAID THEM FOR THAT'S NOW GONNA LEAD TO OUR SIDE THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO MATCH THE COUNTY SIDE WITH, EVEN THOUGH THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN REQUIRES 24 FEET.
AND I CAN'T ANSWER ALL THOSE QUESTIONS BECAUSE UH, THAT WAS, UH, JUSTIN STOKER WAS WORKING ON THAT.
SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE COORDINATION THAT HE HAD WITH THE COUNTY ON THAT PORTION ON THE, I WANNA SAY THE WEST SIDE OF IF IT 64.
I CAN CHECK ON THAT AND, AND CHECK FIND OUT.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IT'S GONNA STAY THE 21 FEET, UH, WIDE AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT 24 FOOT WIDE ON THE WEST SIDE, BUT THEY DON'T EVEN BUILD OUT PAST THE 24 FEET.
THEY GO TO 21 FEET AND STOP HARD.
SO THAT'S GONNA BE A STOP HARD DITCH AT 21 FEET WIDE.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT LEADING TO 24 PLUS A LITTLE EXTRA FOR LIKE THE RUNOFF.
SO, AND BASICALLY RIGHT THERE IS, IS UH, YOU KNOW, THE CITY STANDARDS IS IS DIFFERENT AND THE THING IS RIGHT, CITY STANDARDS IS 27 FEET.
SO THAT'S THE, GIVES YOU THE, THE TWO LANE ROAD PLUS THE SHOULDER AND THEN YOU HAVE SPACE FOR THE, THE DITCHES.
UH, IN THIS CASE RIGHT HERE, IT BECAUSE OF COSTS AND BECAUSE OF IT IS A COUNTY DOING THE CHIP SEAL, UH, BASICALLY WAS JUST TO MATCH THE EXISTING PAVEMENT WITH AND NOT MAKE IT WIDER.
THE, THE PLAN IS THAT WHENEVER LONESOME DOVE, THAT'S LIKE THE, THE PROPERTY TO THE NORTH OF MARSHALL ROAD, WHEN THEY DEVELOP, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO PUT UH, FOUR LANES WITH A DIVIDED MEDIAN ON THEIR, UH, CONCRETE ROAD.
AND THAT'S THE POINT THAT WE ACTUALLY THEN THEY SPEND THE MONEY OF ACTUALLY PUTTING THAT ROAD, UH, TO THE CITY STANDARDS.
BUT RIGHT NOW TO BASICALLY, UH, NOT INCREASE THE COST OF THE RESIDENCE IS TO KEEP IT THE SAME WIDTH AND UH, NOT HAVE TO LIKE, DO A LOT OF GRADING OF THE DITCHES.
THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT I REMEMBER FROM THAT MEETING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
SO ARE, ARE WE GONNA RUN A CULVERT OF ANY KIND UNDERNEATH O VILLA TO GET THE WATER? 'CAUSE IT'S GONNA RUN THAT DIRECTION, RIGHT? I MEAN, LIKE, IT IT WANTS TO RUN BACK TOWARDS THE CREEK, WHICH IS SO THERE TOWARDS THE HIGHWAY.
SO IT'S, ARE WE GONNA DO ANYTHING TO, TO KEEP THE WATER OFF THE TOP OF THE ROAD BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE A CHOKE POINT ISSUE? I I, YEAH, I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION AND I, I AM FAMILIAR WITH THE DRAINAGE IN THAT AREA, UH, FROM YEARS AGO.
I, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH WHAT THEIR PROPOSAL IS RIGHT NOW, BUT THE, THE WATER DRAINS, UH, ACTUALLY FROM VELA TOWARDS, UM, THERE'S LIKE A CULVERT THAT GETS UNDER MARSHALL ROAD, I WOULD SAY ABOUT THREE OR FOUR PROPERTIES TO THE WEST
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AND WATER DOES OVERTOP THE ROAD RIGHT THERE.AND THAT PORTION RIGHT THERE IS ACTUALLY IN THE COUNTY, IT'S NOT IN THE CITY OF LIMITS.
AND WE TALK WITH THE COUNTY ABOUT THAT RIGHT THERE.
AND SO, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY ADD ANY CULVERTS RIGHT THERE TO DEAL WITH THAT, UH, AREA.
BUT IF WE DO HAVE A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD EVENT, IT IS GOING TO OVERTOP THE ROAD.
UH, WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO BE DOING IN THE COUNTY PORTION? I I CAN'T, I CAN'T SPEAK ABOUT THAT ON, I CAN ASK THAT QUESTION TO THEM.
SO ON OUR PORTION, MY WORRY IS WATER TOPPING THE ROAD REGULARLY, UM, BECAUSE THERE IS, I MEAN, THERE'S NOWHERE ELSE FOR IT TO GO MM-HMM
SO IF IT'S COMING OVER FROM THEIR SIDE, IT'S COMING ACROSS O VILLA ROAD, WHICH IT DOES REGULARLY.
WE CAN'T FIX WHAT THE COUNTY DOES, BUT WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT MONEY INTO OUR SIDE OF IT AND WE CAN PRETEND LIKE THOSE TRUCKS WHEN, WHENEVER THE STORAGE THINGS ARE BUILT, UM, THAT TRUCKS WON'T DRIVE THERE, BUT THEY'RE GONNA DRIVE THERE.
SO NOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE A SOFT SURFACE THAT'S HAD WATER SITTING IN IT, FREEZE HOT, FREEZE HOT, RIGHT? ARE WE DOING ANYTHING TO PREVENT US FROM HAVING TO COME BACK AND ASK FOR MORE MONEY IN THE FUTURE FOR THE SAME ROAD? I, I, I GET, I GET WHERE YOUR CONCERN IS RIGHT HERE.
AND SO, UH, IN REGARDS TO THE DRAINAGE RIGHT THERE ON NOLA, I CAN'T SPEAK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS.
THAT'S A TEXO ROAD, RIGHT? AND I KNOW THAT THEY, WHEN THEY DO THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, THEY DO HAVE, UH, QUITE A BIT OF A DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT INTERSECTION.
'CAUSE I REMEMBER SEEING THOSE PLANS.
UH, WHEN IS THAT GONNA HAPPEN? YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S PART OF, THAT THEY'RE WAITING FOR, UH, LIKE ALL THE UTILITIES TO GET OUTTA THE WAY.
SO THAT'S A PART OF THAT 24 INCH BORDERLINE THAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
ALSO ENCORE AND ALL THE OTHER FRANCHISE UTILITIES.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY'RE GONNA GO OUT TO BID WITH THAT PORTION OF THE FM 64, UH, BY THE END OF THE YEAR ASSUMING THAT WE GET ALL THESE UTILITIES OUTTA THE WAY.
SO, SO THAT'S GOING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THAT, THAT DRAINAGE RIGHT THERE ON VELA ITSELF.
UH, BUT UH, YOU KNOW, ON THE, ON MARSHALL ITSELF, ON THE, I'M WANNA SAY ON THE WEST SIDE, UM, I HAVE TO TALK WITH JUSTIN TO SEE WHAT THE DISCUSSION WAS, TO LOOK AT THE, IF THERE'S GONNA BE ANY, I'M JUST IMPROVEMENTS, I'M JUST TALKING MORE ON THE EAST SIDE BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT, AGAIN, WE KNOW THAT THE TOP SOIL AND THE SUB SOIL ARE THE CLAY AND YOU'VE GOT FARMLAND RIGHT THERE WITH A DI WITH THE DITCH THAT'S ALMOST NON-EXISTENT.
SO AGAIN, WATER WANTS TO RUN TOWARDS THE HIGHWAY.
ARE WE DOING ANYTHING IN THIS PROJECT OR IN THIS SCOPE TO PROTECT OUR INVESTMENT ON THE EAST SIDE OF THAT ROAD? UH, I HAD TO CHECK WITH THAT WITH JUSTIN AS WELL.
SO THIS WAS ONE THE PROJECT THAT THEY WERE WORKING ON.
SO SINCE I TOOK OVER THE, THE CAPITAL PROJECTS, I WOULD'VE TO ASK THAT QUESTION TO HIM.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE PROTECTING WHAT WE'RE INVESTING IN AND RIGHT.
THAT AREA'S NOT GONNA GET ANY BETTER UNTIL IT YEAH, AND, AND THERE'S A LARGE INVESTMENT INTO THE DRAINAGE, WHICH IS OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTROL, RIGHT? AND ANYTHING WITH THE MARSHALL RIVER, THAT PORTION RIGHT THERE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS A SMALL PIECE OF, UH, ASPHALT, UH, THAT WE'RE TALKING BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S IN REALLY BAD CONDITIONS RIGHT NOW.
IT IS BASICALLY JUST A TEMPORARY FIX UNTIL THAT PROPERTY TO THE NORTH, UH, IT GETS DEVELOPED.
AND THEN WE WANTED TO LOOK AT ACTUALLY MAKING THAT PORTION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW, UH, MAKING THAT CONCRETE AS WELL.
RIGHT NOW IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO MAKE IT CONCRETE UNTIL WE DO THAT NORTHERN PORTION.
UM, BUT, UH, WE DEFINITELY WILL BE LOOKING AT THE DRAINAGE WHENEVER THAT NORTHERN PORTION COMES IN AND THAT'S GONNA BE DEVELOPER DRIVEN, UH, TO, TO BUILD THAT NORTHERN HALF OF THAT ROAD.
SO, SO IS THE PORTION OF MARSHALL ROAD THAT JUST GOT REP PAVED PART OF THIS OR NO? SO THIS IS, I HAVEN'T GONE OUT THERE TO LOOK, BUT I HAD A GUY YESTERDAY JUST TELL ME HE WANTED ME TO TELL YOU GUYS THANK YOU BECAUSE HE LOVES WHAT Y'ALL DID ON MARSHALL ROAD AND I HADN'T GONE OUT THERE TO LOOK, BUT HE SAID YOU JUST PAVED IT.
SO THIS PORTION IS PAVED ALREADY.
AND SO THIS, THIS CHANGE ORDER, LIKE RIGHT HERE IS FOR THE LIME ON THE PARKS AND PATRICK ROAD.
SO THE PORTION ON MARSHALL'S IS DONE.
OKAY, THAT'S, SO THIS IS THE PART ON MARSHALL, BUT IT'S ALREADY DONE THAT, THAT PORTION IS DONE.
WELL THAT'S PART OF THE CHANGE ORDER ONE THAT CITIZEN SAID YOU DID A GREAT JOB.
FOR THE PARKING THAT YOU'VE DONE.
I IT'S, AND I PART TAKE CREDIT FOR THAT.
I'M GIVE THAT CREDIT JUSTIN
SO I'M JUST AS THE PRETTY FACE HERE ASKING FOR MONEY.
ALRIGHT, IF THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSION ON ENTERTAIN A MOTION MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE A BUDGET TRANSFER OF $130,000 FROM THE STREETS CAPITAL FUND, 6 0 1 TO THE ASPHALT RECONSTRUCTION, GRACE W. PARKS AND MARSHALL PROJECT AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[17. Consider budget transfer for the Drainage and Sidewalk Improvements at BNSF Railroad Project in the amount of $300,000]
17, CONSIDER BUDGET TRANSFER FOR THE DRAINAGE AND SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS AT BNSF RAILROAD PROJECT IN[01:05:01]
THE AMOUNT OF 300,000.THIS, UH, THIS ITEM RIGHT HERE, UH, YOU MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH IT.
UH, WE DID ASK MONEY FOR THIS PROJECT, UH, BUT THIS, THE MONEY WE ASKED FROM YOU WAS FOR THE BSF PORTION.
THEY WERE GOING TO PUT A, A, A STORM PIPE UNDER THE RAILS, ACTUALLY PULL OUT THE RAILS, PUT A STORM PIPE, PUT THE RAILS BACK IN, AND THEN PUT CONCRETE, UH, PANELS, UH, FOR THE FUTURE SIDEWALK.
THIS MINE RIGHT HERE IS FOR US TO NOW CONNECT TO THE STORM PIPE AND THEN ALSO HAVE MINE FOR THE SIDEWALK AS WELL.
SO THIS IS OUR PORTION OF THE PROJECT, UH, TO, TO DO THE IMPROVEMENTS.
THIS INCLUDES, UH, UH, THE NECESSARY REQUIRED, UH, FLAGGING THAT BNSF REQUIRES WHENEVER WE'RE DOING ANY WORK WITHIN THE RIDEAWAY OR PROXIMITY TO THE RAIL.
SO, UH, THIS WILL COVER OUR PORTION OF THE PROJECT.
WE'RE GONNA BE FUNDING THIS PROJECT FROM, UM, THE, UH, FUND, UH, SORRY, FROM OPERATING FUND FROM THE, THE STREETS, UH, DEPARTMENT, UH, THREE 20.
I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION IF THERE'S NO DISCUSSION.
MA'AM, MAY I MOVE TO APPROVE THE BUDGET TRANSFER TO THE DRAINAGE AND SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS AT B-A-N-S-F RAILROAD PROJECT FOR $300,000 FROM THE OPERATING BUDGET FUND THREE 20 AND AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[18. Consider budget transfer for the John Arden Drive and Grove Creek Road Asphalt Reconstruction Project in the amount of $1,500,000]
ITEM NUMBER 18, CONSIDER BUDGET TRANSFER FOR THE JOHN ARDEN DRIVE IN GROVE CREEK ROAD ASPHALT RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN THE AMOUNT OF 1,500,000.UH, SO WE HAVE SOME SAVINGS ON THE CAPITAL STREET CAPITAL FUND.
AND, UH, ONE THING THAT WE'VE, UH, HAVE DEALT WITH IS JOHN ARDEN AND THE CONDITION OF JOHN ARDEN.
AND WE MULTI PAVED THAT MULTIPLE TIMES.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY LOOKING AT HIRING A GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER, HIRING ENGINEER TO ACTUALLY GO IN THERE AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE SOILS.
I HAVE SEVERAL RUMORS ABOUT WHY THIS HAPPENS IN JOHN ARDEN.
WE WANNA GET AN ENGINEER THAT ACTUALLY GOES OUT THERE, GETS SOIL SAMPLES AND WE PROVIDE US A, A, UH, ACTUAL RECOMMENDATION TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH THE, THE CRACKING THAT WE'RE SEEING OVER THERE IN JOHN ARDEN.
AND SO I'VE HEARD, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT BUT EVERY TIME IT'S BASICALLY JUST REPAVING IT.
RIGHT NOW WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE GET A, A GOOD GEOTECH TO BE ABLE TO GIVE US SOUND, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEALING WITH AND WE'RE JUST DEALING WITH A PORTION THAT'S IN BAD CONDITION RIGHT NOW FROM, UM, EACH UNIVERSITY TO, UH, CEDAR STREET.
THAT'S THE WORST CONDITIONS RIGHT NOW, THAT, THAT PORTION OF ROAD, IT FEELS LIKE A ROLLERCOASTER IT DOES ON THAT ROAD.
AND SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE ADDRESS IT, BUT DO IT RIGHT AS WELL.
SO THE REQUEST IS TO, UH, IT ALSO, THIS INCLUDES ALSO, UH, GROVE CREEK ROAD AND THIS IS A PORTION THAT'S BEYOND WHAT SAM'S CLUB WILL BE BUILDING.
SO IT'S BASICALLY FROM VISTA WAY TO THE, TO THE EAST, UH, RIGHT TO THE CURVE.
THAT STREET'S REALLY BAD CONDITION AS WELL.
AND SO THE PLAN IS, UH, WE DON'T WANNA SPEND AND WASTE MONEY FOR THE PORTION THAT'S GONNA BE ABANDONED WHENEVER THAT, UH, CARDINAL ROAD GETS CONNECTED TO VISTA WAY.
IT'S JUST FROM THE PORTION, FROM, UH, THIS WAY TO THE WEST THAT WE WANT TO REMAIN IN PLACE.
SO THIS RIGHT HERE IS TO GET THE ENGINEERING GEOTECHNICAL TO BE ABLE TO IMPROVE THAT PORTION OF ROAD AS WELL.
UH, SO WE'RE REQUESTING FOR, UH, ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, UH, TO BE, UH, FUNDED FROM THE STREET CAPITAL, UH, PROJECT.
UH, SO FUND 6 0 1, I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.
JAMES, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
WHICH ROAD DO YOU WANT TO ADDRESS FIRST? WHICH ONE DO YOU PICK? UH, THE HARDEST ONE.
I ALWAYS PICK THE HARDEST FIRST.
'CAUSE NOBODY'S EVER FIGURED IT OUT.
UM, I ASKED YOU A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND IT KIND OF JUST NONCHALANT, JUST, I THINK IT WAS AFTER A MEETING I'D BOUNCE THE ID OFF TRACE.
UM, HAVE, HAVE WE EVER REALLY CONSIDERED AND COULD WE, WITH THIS KIND OF ENGINEERING STUDY, ACTUALLY CLOSING JOHN ARDEN TO FERRIS TO TRY AND DECREASE THROUGH TRAFFIC AND TRUCK TRAFFIC SO THAT IT'S NOT ONE, IT WOULD ELIMINATE THAT AWFUL TRIANGLE THAT IS, I DON'T KNOW HOW, WE HAVEN'T HAD MORE WRECKS THERE.
UM, AND THEN WE'VE INVESTED SO MUCH IN THOSE CONNECTOR STREETS, LIKE SYCAMORE IN THOSE STREETS THAT, THAT, THAT IT WOULD, OR THE STREETS THAT CONNECT TO SYCAMORE, THAT IT, THERE'S PLENTY OF WAYS TO GET AWAY FROM NEEDING TO USE THAT, THAT ONE CONNECTION AT FERRIS.
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RIGHT.SO THE, THE, YEAH, I REMEMBER THAT CONVERSATION, UH, BACK THEN.
AND SO THE, THE CHALLENGE IS, YOU KNOW, THAT IT, IT IS A FUNKY INTERSECTION AND WE, WE WOULD HAVE TO BUY A, A PROPERTY, BUT EVEN THEN IT WOULD NOT LINE UP WITH THE STREET ACROSS, UH, FERRIS STREET.
AND SO ONE THING THAT WAS TRYING TO WORK WITH, UH, THAT CAR WASH AT ONE POINT, UH, TO SEE HOW WE COULD MAKE IT WORK, AND WE ALMOST GOT THERE, BUT THEN SOMEBODY BOUGHT THE, THE PROPERTY TO THE NORTH OF THERE AND THAT FELL THROUGH THEN BECAUSE WE COULD HAVE THEN MAKE IT WORK.
WELL, I WOULD, I EVEN HAVE THE THOUGHT OF JUST PUTTING A CUL-DE-SAC THERE INSTEAD.
UM, BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S, WE CAN'T KEEP UP WITH JOHN ARDEN.
I MEAN, WE'VE, WE'VE PAID TO REPAVE IT, I THINK TWICE SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE COUNCIL.
DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF IT, BUT IT, WE CAN'T KEEP UP WITH IT.
SO IF WE CAN REMOVE SOME OF THE THROUGH TRAFFIC, WOULD THAT TAKE SOME OF THE STRESS OFF OF IT? UH, I WOULD'VE TO LOOK AT HOW MUCH TRAFFIC'S ACTUALLY GOING THERE.
SO I CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND SEE WHAT THOSE DIFFERENT OPTIONS ARE.
THE, YOU KNOW, I STILL THINK THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A CONNECTION TO IT AND HOW DO WE MAKE THAT CONNECTION TO IT SO THERE'S NOT, UM, I GUESS DISCOURAGING.
THAT'S WHAT SOUNDS TO ME THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DISCOURAGE THAT THE TRUCK TRAFFIC GOING THROUGH THERE, BUT STILL LEAVE IT OPEN FOR, WELL, SHE COULD STILL COME FROM SOLEN OR GRAND, RIGHT.
AND TURN DOWN JOHN ARDEN AND THEN TAKE ANY OF THOSE SIDE STREET TO GET TO SYCAMORE STREET OR WHEREVER ELSE.
I MEAN, AND, AND THERE'S, AND, AND THOSE STREETS, WE'VE, WE'VE INSTALLED TRAFFIC IN GROUND DRAINAGE AND, AND I MEAN, THEY'RE, THEY'RE WIDER STREETS.
AND THEN THAT REMOVES A, A NASTY LITTLE INTERSECTION POINT THAT JUST HAS YIELD SIGNS.
IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S 17 OF THEM.
UM, BUT, BUT TO NOT DISCOURAGED THE USE OF IT, BUT ENCOURAGE THE USE OF OUR WIDER STREETS, THAT I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DISCUSS AS, AS, AS A COUNCIL.
UH, DO WE WANT TO CLOSE THAT, THAT INTERSECTION TO FERRIS ROAD AND MAKE THAT A CUL SAC OR HAVE A CONNECTION THAT GOES TO, YOU KNOW, SYCAMORE AND HAVE THAT AS A CONNECTION THAT'S A MORE OF A RESIDENTIAL ROAD VERSUS THE, OR THE THOROUGHFARE SHOWS RIGHT NOW TO HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT TO BE A 90 FOOT OR A HUNDRED FOOT, UH, RIDE UP AWAY RIGHT THERE, WHICH IS GONNA BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE IT HOUSES OUR PRETTY CLOSE TO THE ROAD RIGHT THERE, ESPECIALLY FROM CEDAR STREET TO, UM, 77.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE PORTION THAT I FEEL LIKE IS THE WORST.
AND IT'S, 'CAUSE IT'S, I MEAN, THE DITCHES ARE LIKE, WE'VE DUG THEM OUT TO LIKE 16 FEET AT THIS POINT.
UM, IT, IT JUST FEELS LIKE IF WE COULD INCLUDE SOME OF THAT IN THIS JUST TO SEE IF THAT WOULD EVEN BE A, A FEASIBLE OPTION.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN, WE CAN ACTUALLY TAKE, DEFINITELY TAKE A LOOK AT, UH, AND, UH, SEE IF WE CAN REVISE THAT, UH, THAT, UM, THAT, UH, ENGINEERING, UH, PROPOSAL, RIGHT NOW, THE PROPOSAL IS ACTUALLY, UH, LESS THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
SO WHAT THE CITY MANAGER COULD APPROVE IT, BUT WE CAN LOOK AT ACTUALLY ADDING SOMETHING TO IT SO WE CAN LOOK AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR THAT, UH, INTERSECTION AND THEN COME TO BACK TO COUNCIL AND SEE IF YOU ARE OKAY WITH WHAT OPTION DO YOU WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH.
UH, SO THAT'S UP TO THE COUNCIL, IF THAT'S WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? ANYBODY ELSE WANNA PURSUE THAT? 'CAUSE IT, I THINK IT'S WORTH LOOKING AT.
SO IS THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PROBLEM IS THE TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD, OR IS IT THE GEOLOGY OF THE LAND UNDERNEATH IT? YES, BECAUSE THAT
THERE'S A FAULT LINE THAT RUNS UNDER, THERE IS A CREEK THAT RUNS UNDER VOLCANO'S GONNA EXPLODE.
SO, AND THAT'S THE THING THAT, THAT'S WHY I SAID AT THE BEGINNING THAT THERE'S SOME RUMORS OUT THERE.
WE WANNA GET ACTUAL, UH, YOU KNOW, GEOTECHNICAL SOIL, UH, SAMPLES TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON REALLY RIGHT THERE.
BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS, LIKE OVER THE YEARS, EVEN BEFORE ME, UH, THEY DID REPAVE, UH, JOHN AR LEASE TWICE, YOU KNOW? AND, UM, AND BASICALLY IT, THEY BASICALLY PUT TWO INCHES OF ASPHALT IN THERE.
THEY, THEY MILLED THE, THE, THE ASPHALT AND PUT LIME IN IT, WHICH, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THEY PUT TWO INCHES OF ASPHALT, TWO, TWO INCHES OF ASPHALT IS, IS NOT ENOUGH, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY FOR THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC.
BUT YOU KNOW, ALSO YOU HAVE THE STEEP DITCHES RIGHT THERE TOO.
AND SO THERE'S DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, MAINTAIN THE MOISTURE UNDERNEATH THE PAVEMENT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S KEY RIGHT THERE.
AND SO IT'S ONE LOOKING AT SOILS, IS THERE REALLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOILS, LIKE A FAULT OR SOMETHING THAT WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT, BUT THEN, UH, WHAT IS THAT GEOTECH RECOMMEND TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, I KNOW RIGHT NOW IT'S FOURTH, THE MAY THE FOURTH STAR WARS DAY, YOU KNOW, THE
SO, UH, THAT'S THE THING IS, UH, GETTING ACTUAL,
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UH, DATA ENGINEERING, UH, INFORMATION, NOT JUST, HEY, LET'S GO AHEAD AND MILL IT AND PAVE IT AGAIN.WELL, CAN I PLANT A SEED OF A THEORY THAT I WOULD'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF OR SAID OUT LOUD? 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW IT EVEN EXISTED UNTIL WE DISCUSSED TURF, TURF ON THE NOT, I'M NOT SAYING THE TURF, THE ROAD.
I'M SAYING THE THEORY BEHIND HOW THEY DO TURF NOW.
SO BECAUSE THOSE DITCHES ARE SO DEEP, COULD IT LITERALLY BE THAT THE DITCH IS PUSHING AGAINST THE ROAD 'CAUSE OF THE NEGATIVE IONS OR WHATEVER IT IS? NO.
SO BECAUSE OF THE AUSTIN CLAY, AND THEN ALSO CAN WE PUT A POOL LINER ON THERE? AND THEN, SO THAT'S ONE THING WE'RE LOOKING AT.
AND SO IT'S SIMILAR TO WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED OVER THERE ON, UM, OH, CLEAVER STREET.
SO ON CLEAVER STREET, THERE WAS THE SAME SITUATION WHERE THE SOILS WAS SHIFTING QUITE A BIT.
AND WHAT THEY DID IS, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY PAVED IT AND LIKE TWO YEARS LATER IT WAS SHIFTING AGAIN.
AND SO WHAT THEY DID THERE IS ACTUALLY PUT A, UH, MOISTURE BARRIER, UH, THEY USED, UH, FLOW FILL.
AND SO TO BE ABLE TO KEEP THE MOISTURE UNDERNEATH THAT PAVEMENT CONSISTENT.
AND SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT SOMETHING RIGHT HERE.
IS IT, YOU KNOW, FLOW FILL, LIKE WHAT THEY DID OVER THERE? IS IT A, YOU KNOW, A HEAVY DUTY LINER TO BE ABLE TO KEEP THAT WATER, YOU KNOW, WELL THE TURF GUY SAID THE NEGATIVE IONS PUSHED AGAINST EACH OTHER AND YOU'VE INJECTED WITH THE POSITIVE AND PUT A PULL LIGHTER ON IT AND IT'S GOOD FOR THE NEXT A HUNDRED YEARS.
SO, BUT THEN WE HAVE OTHER THINGS WE HAD TO CONSIDER AS WELL IS, UH, ALL THE FRANCHISE UTILITIES ARE THERE TOO.
AND SO THAT, THAT, THAT CAN NOW THE COST CAN INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY IF WE'RE HAVING TO DEAL WITH EVERY SINGLE UTILITY CROSSING RIGHT THERE TOO.
SO THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO GET ACTUAL DATA INSTEAD OF JUST EYEBALLING AND, YOU KNOW, SPENDING MORE MONEY ON IT, UH, WITHOUT GETTING ACTUAL DATA.
AND THE OTHER, THIS, THIS ONE'S QUICK.
ON GROVE CREEK, WE GET COMPLAINTS FROM THE RESIDENTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT NEW NEIGHBORHOOD STARTED A FLOODING IN THE FRONT YARDS, ALMOST, ALMOST ANY TIME IT RAINS NOW, UM, WE'VE ADDRESS, WE'VE ADDRESSED IT, WE'VE HAD THE DEVELOPER ADDRESS IT.
SOME, IT'S NOT ADDRESSED COMPLETELY YET.
WILL ANY OF THIS ENGINEERING, WILL ANY OF THAT GO INTO SEEING HOW WE CAN ACTUALLY FIX THAT ISSUE? SO ON, ON, I KNOW WHICH PORTION YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE IT ALL WANTS TO GO TO, IT ALL WANTS TO GO TO SPRING CREEK.
SO ONE THING THAT WE WOULD, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT, WHENEVER SAM'S CLUB DOES THEIR, THEIR PORTION, THAT'S THE PORTION THAT WE ARE HAVING.
THE BIGGEST ISSUE WITH THE DRAINAGE IS TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT HOW WE CAN GET THE WATER TO CROSS, UH, I WANNA SAY CARDINAL ROAD, UH, BECAUSE, OR ELIMINATE THOSE CULVERTS WHENEVER WE ABANDON THE, THAT PORTION OF GROVE CREEK, WE TAKE OUT GROVE CREEK AND OPEN IT UP SO WE CAN ALLOW THE DRAINAGE TO GO TO SOUTH TO THE CREEK LIKE IT'S SUPPOSED TO GO.
WELL, IT WANTS TO GO NORTH TO SPRING CREEK, SO IT, IT IS, THERE'S A, THERE'S NORTHEAST PORTION THAT'S GOING TO THE WEST.
I I DEALT WITH A LOT OF COUNTY PEOPLE UP THERE AND, UH, I WOULDN'T COUNT ON THEM.
WHAT'S THAT? I WOULDN'T COUNT ON THEM TO KNOW LEFT AND RIGHT WORKING SOUTH.
WELL, I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR 10 YEARS NOW,
SO, UM, SO I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE DRAINAGE RIGHT THERE IN THOSE AREAS.
AND, UH, THERE IS ONE PORTION THAT WE DID REPLACE A CULVER JUST RECENTLY, UH, BECAUSE IT WAS CRUSHED.
AND SO, UH, BUT WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT THAT AS WELL THROUGH AT LEAST A PORTION, THIS PORTION THAT WE'D BE WORKING ON THE PORTION THAT'S, YOU KNOW, TO THE WEST OF THIS FROM VISTA WAY.
WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THAT WITH WHENEVER SAM'S CLUB BUILDS THEIR PORTION OF CARDINAL ROAD.
NOW, YOU MENTIONED WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT GROVE CREEK THAT WE WERE GONNA ABANDON PART OF THE ROAD.
SO I'M ASSUMING THAT FIRST NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S GOT THE ENTRANCE WHERE WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LITTLE CONNECTION TO THE CARDINAL.
SO ONE THING WE DISCUSSED WAS LIKE, I THINK THAT'S ROYAL ROYAL BEND, I THINK ROYAL PARK LANE.
SO ACTUALLY HAVING THAT CONNECT TO CARDINAL ROAD, RIGHT.
AND BASICALLY CLOSE GROVE CREEK.
SO THAT WAY WE DON'T, WE DON'T USE CARDINAL UP TO VISTA UP TO VISTA WAY AND THAT WAY.
AND THEN FROM VISTA WAY, WE'RE GONNA TRANSITION BACK INTO, UH, GROVE CREEK, UH, THIS PORTION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT HERE.
AND, UH, RECONNECT THE DRIVEWAYS TO.
SO THE REASON I'M ASKING IS, SO IF WE WERE GONNA CLOSE BETWEEN THAT SECTION AND WE'RE GONNA REPAVE THE OTHER PART.
WHAT TIME KIND OF TIMEFRAME ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? FOR SAM'S CLUB PORTION? FOR NO, FOR THE, FOR THE PART.
WE'RE GONNA DO ASPHALT ON GROVE CREEK.
WHEN WHAT? SO WE, WITH THIS RIGHT, THIS APPROVAL, WE, WE WILL GET THE ENGINEERING CUT LOOSE TO BE ABLE TO START THE DESIGN.
WE'RE LOOKING ABOUT FOUR MONTHS TO GET THAT DONE.
AND WE'RE ABSOLUTELY 100% POSITIVE CERTAIN THAT SAM'S IS GONNA BUILD CARDINAL ROAD THERE.
WE'RE DOING IT AND WE'RE SEEING HOW MUCH IT'S GONNA COST US.
SO IT'S MY LAST, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING FORWARD TOWARDS GETTING THEM, UH, THERE'S GONNA BE A DEVELOPER AGREEMENT COMING SOON OKAY.
TO THE COUNCIL TO BE ABLE TO, UH,
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SHOW THAT OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT PORTION OF THE PARTNER ROW FROM THAT POWER LINES TO VISTA WAY, THAT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY, AND THAT WE WOULD BE PAYING THAT FROM IMPACT FEE.DO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THAT ONE? 18.
I MOVE TO APPROVE THE BUDGET TRANSFER OF $1,500,000 FROM THE STREET CAPITAL FUND, 6 0 1 TO THE JOHN ARDEN DRIVE IN GROVE CREEK ROAD ASPHALT RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
[19. Consider supplemental appropriation for security cameras at the Sports Complex in the amount of $303,809.54 ]
19, CONSIDER SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR SECURITY CAMERAS AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX IN THE AMOUNT OF $303,809 AND 54 CENTS.JAMES, GOOD EVENING, MADAM MAYOR.
COUNCIL MEMBERS, THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU IS, UH, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION OF A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF SECURITY CAMERAS OUT AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX DURING A BUDGET WORKSHOP.
UH, LAST SEPTEMBER-ISH, UH, YOU GUYS, UH, DIRECTED ME TO SECURE A QUOTE FOR SOME SECURITY CAMERAS OUT AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX.
UH, AND, AND SO, UH, IN DOING SO, I CONTACTED CHRIS CUNNINGHAM.
UH, HE THEN CONTACTED MICHAEL GRAY WITH NCS, UM, NETWORK CABLING SYSTEMS OR SERVICES.
AND, UH, WE SCHEDULED A MEETING.
UH, WE WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH HIM, UH, IN APPRO IN NOVEMBER SOMETIME.
WE SPENT ALMOST, UH, ALL DAY AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX DRIVING GOLF CARTS AROUND, UH, TRYING TO, UM, FIND THE BEST LOCATIONS FOR SECURITY CAMERAS.
UH, AT THAT TIME, WE WERE SPECIFICALLY, UH, MAKING SURE THAT OUR, OUR ENTRANCES WERE COVERED, OUR BUILDINGS RECOVERED, AND OUR PARKING LOTS RECOVERED.
UM, REALIZING THAT THAT WAS A HUNDRED ACRE, THAT THAT'S A HUNDRED ACRE FACILITY, UH, MICHAEL SAID THAT IT WOULD TAKE APPROXIMATELY TWO MONTHS TO TWO AND A HALF MONTHS TO DESIGN.
AND WITH, UH, US GOING INTO THE HOLIDAY SEASON, UH, IT MAY PUSH IT BACK A LITTLE BIT.
IT DID, UH, IN MARCH, UH, THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, I RECEIVED, UH, A QUOTE FROM, FROM MICHAEL GRAY, UM, AND THE AMOUNT OF, UH, $225,000 FOR, UH, 35 CAMERAS.
AND LIKE I SAID, WE CONCENTRATED ON GATES PARKING LOTS AND BUILDINGS.
UM, AS I WAS PREPARING TO BRING THAT ITEM TO YOU, I BEGAN THINKING, WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU GONNA ASK? AND SO I GOT ON THE PHONE AND I CONTACTED CHRIS AND I SAID, HEY, I THINK WE NEED TO REEVALUATE THESE CAMERAS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T DISCUSS THE ACTUAL PLAYING FIELDS.
AND I TOLD HIM ABOUT A SITUATION THAT WE HAD PROBABLY RIGHT AROUND THAT TIME.
WE HAD THAT BUDGET WORKSHOP OF A SITUATION THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON A FIELD WITH ACTUALLY, UH, SOME YOUTH AND, UH, CAMERAS WOULD'VE HELPED.
AND SO HE WAS ABLE TO SCHEDULE ANOTHER MEETING WITH MICHAEL PRETTY FAST.
AND WE WENT AND WE TOOK, WE TOOK A LOOK AT ALL THE, UH, FIELDS.
UM, AND, UH, HE DESIGNED THAT IN, UM, THE BEGINNING OF APRIL.
UH, HE SENT THE SECOND, THE SECOND QUOTE WAS FOR 13 ADDITIONAL CAMERAS.
UH, AND YOU SEE THAT THERE FOR A TOTAL OF 48 CAMERAS.
UH, I WILL SAY THAT, UH, THOSE, UH, CAMERAS ON THE FIELDS ARE, ARE SPECIFICALLY FOR SECURITY.
UH, I KNOW, UH, SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY ASKED ME ABOUT, UH, COULD WE STREAM GAMES OR, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
WE CANNOT, THESE ARE, THESE ARE SPECIFICALLY FOR SECURITY CAMERAS.
UH, WE CAN'T, WE DO HAVE, UH, WE DID, UH, HAVE LICENSE PLATE READERS, UH, QUOTED SO THAT, UH, IF WE NEED TO, UM, TRY TO LOCATE A VEHICLE, UH, I BELIEVE THE CHIEF EVEN MENTIONED, UH, UH, DURING THAT WORKSHOP THAT THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF, UH, IF SOMEONE'S WEARING A RED HOODIE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE CAN TAP INTO IT.
AND I DID ASK, AND, AND THAT IS, THAT IS CORRECT.
UH, IF, IF, IF SOMEONE WE FEEL HAS DONE SOMETHING, WE CAN TAP INTO THE SYSTEM AND TRY TO, WE CAN PUT IN A RED HOODIE OR WHATEVER, AND WE CAN FIND THAT.
SO, UM, ALSO, AND ALSO, UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE TIMELINE.
SO IF THIS, UH, WERE TO BE APPROVED TONIGHT, UH, DEPENDING ON ALL THE MATERIALS THAT HAVE TO BE ORDERED, WE'RE LOOKING A LITTLE, A LITTLE BIT OVER A MONTH.
AND THEN HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF THE SUMMER, UH, WE COULD HAVE ALL THESE, UH, CAMERAS INSTALLED.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, HOPEFULLY, I, I'VE ANSWERED SOME QUESTIONS.
IF NOT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.
IF, IF YOU HAVE ANY, JAMES, WOULD, WOULD ANY OF THESE, I MEAN, I, I CAN ONLY
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IMAGINE HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR SOMEONE TO POSITION AND THINK THROUGH ALL OF LIKE THE DEAD SPOTS.UM, WOULD, WOULD ANY OF THESE IN ANY WAY, I'LL SAY BENEFIT FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, BUT, UM, CATCH ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS AT THE, AT THE JUNIOR HIGH AND OR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE AREA, OR AT LEAST THE APPROACHES, THE, UH, THE, UM, CAMERAS ON THE FOOTBALL CONCESSION COULD CATCH, CAN CATCH THE ENTRANCE COMING IN FROM HOWARD JUNIOR HIGH? WE HAVE A WALKTHROUGH ENTRANCE.
THAT'S ABOUT AS FAR AS IT GOES.
UH, SO IT DOES CATCH THAT ENTRANCE, THAT WALKTHROUGH ENTRANCE, AND OF COURSE, IT, IT CATCHES THE ENTIRE TRACK FOOTBALL FIELD.
SO, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.
UM, AND WE, WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE PARENTS REACH OUT ABOUT THE SAFETY OF STUDENTS WHO WANNA WALK TO THE JUNIOR HIGH FROM, UH, INDIAN HILLS, GARDEN VALLEY, INDIAN HILLS.
FROM THERE, UM, THEY'RE ABLE TO WALK THROUGH THE PASS THROUGH GATES.
SO THIS, THESE WOULD MAKE THOSE QUITE A BIT SAFER STARTING AS SOON AS NEXT SCHOOL YEAR, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY.
SO EVEN WITHOUT THE SEVEN 11 BEING THERE AND BUILT TO PUT IN THOSE SIDEWALKS, THEY COULD, THEY COULD EASILY JUST WALK BY THAT LITTLE POND OVER THERE THAT NEEDS A SPRAYER IN IT AND YEAH.
THEY WALK BY MY OFFICE EVERY AFTERNOON.
AND, AND, UH, A LOT OF THEM, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE NOTICED, BUT UH, WE, UH, WHEN WE DID THE WR IRON FENCE OR THE WR IRON GATE AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE SPORTS COMPLEX TOWARDS THE NORTH, UH, WEST CORNER, WE LEFT AN OPENING IN THE CORNER AND, AND A LOT OF THOSE KIDS CUT ACROSS AND GO THROUGH THAT CORNER TOWARDS THE, THE, UH, DENTIST OFFICE.
AND SO STAFF RECOMMENDS, I'M GONNA SAY STAFF RECOMMENDS THE ENTIRE 3 0 3, SO THAT COMES OUT TO ABOUT $7,000 A CAMERA.
AND DOES THAT INCLUDE ANY ONGOING MAINTENANCE OR THAT'S JUST THE PURCHASE OF, SO DO WE KNOW WHAT THAT COST IS LIKE FOR LIKE, THE ONGOING CLOUD SERVICES OR ANY OF THAT? I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T LOOK INTO THAT.
IS THAT GONNA BE ON US? I GUESS IT, YEAH.
IF, IF WE DECIDE TO, UH, MONITOR IT AND REMEMBER THESE, THESE ARE JUST SECURITY, SECURITY, BUT THEY WILL RECORD TO THE CLOUD.
MIGHT BE QUESTION FOR CHIEF SINCE HE MIGHT KNOW MORE ABOUT THOSE.
JAMES, HAS THERE BEEN ANY, UH, TALK AT ALL ABOUT ANY CONNECTIVITY ISSUES, UH, WITH ANY OF THE, THOSE CAMERAS? NO, MA'AM.
IN ANY OF THOSE? THERE, THERE WAS, THERE, THERE'S A, UM, THERE'S A DISTANCE THAT, UM, I HAVE IT IN HERE.
I WANNA, I WANNA BE SURE I TELL YOU, CORRECT.
UM, THERE'S A, THERE'S A DISTANCE THAT THE WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS CANNOT EXCEED AND WE FALL UNDER THAT.
DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YES.
AND I, I, I CAN, WELL, I CAN SHOW YOU RIGHT HERE.
SO THE FURTHER, SO, UH, IF YOU KNOW WHERE MY OFFICE IS, THE MAINTENANCE BUILDING IS, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THE ENTIRE CABINET AND ALL THE TRANSMITTERS AND EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE.
AND SO THE FARTHEST DISTANCE, UH, FROM THE MAINTENANCE BUILDING ALL THE WAY EAST TO THE BASEBALL FIELDS IS ABOUT, UH, 1500 FEET.
AND I, I THINK IT'S 2000 FEET, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WELL, WE'RE WELL UNDER IT.
AND I KNOW WE HAD ASKED THIS BEFORE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WE INITIALLY START WITH, IF IT IS THE 40 CAMERAS, COULD WE ADD TO THOSE? ABSOLUTELY.
AND, AND THAT'S ONE REASON I WAS VERY, I'M VERY CAREFUL NOT TO SAY THAT WE ARE AT A HUNDRED PERCENT COVERAGE, BECAUSE ALTHOUGH THEY'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK IN TRYING TO POSITION THESE CAMERAS, YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL YOU PUT 'EM UP.
RIGHT? AND, AND SO WE MAY COME BACK IN A YEAR OR TWO, GO, HEY, WE NEED ADDITIONAL TWO MORE CAMERAS OR WHATEVER.
DOES THIS NUMBER INCLUDE ANY, ANY DEVICES THAT YOU'RE GONNA NEED IN THE OFFICE, LIKE A IPAD OR, I MEAN, YOU GOT A BIG TV IN THERE, I'M SURE IT COULD PROBABLY CONNECT, RIGHT? WE'VE ALREADY, I TALKED TO CHRIS ABOUT THAT ALREADY.
THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE CABINET ITSELF THAT THEY'LL, THAT THEY'LL BE, BE, UH,
AND ARE ANY OF THEM HARDWIRED? ARE THEY ALL WIRELESS? UH, THE, THE ONES THAT ARE GONNA BE AT THE BUILDINGS, UH, THERE, THERE THERE'LL BE, THEY'LL BE HARDWIRED INTO THE ELECTRICITY.
NOW THEY'LL BE STILL TRANSMITTED THROUGH WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? MM-HMM
SO DO YOU HAVE GOOD WIRELESS SIGNAL AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX? WE, I HEAR PEOPLE OUT A LITTLE FARTHER OUT COMPLAINING ALL THE TIME THAT THE WIFI SUCKS OUT THERE.
WE, WE DO NOW, COUNCILMAN WRIGHT, WE, UM, WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, UH, ALONG PARK PLACE BOULEVARD, THEY, UH, BURIED FIBER AND, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO TAP INTO THAT.
PRIOR TO THAT, I WOULD'VE TOLD YOU NO, WE USED TO HAVE TO, UM, BOUNCE
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OUR SIGNAL OFF THE WATER TOWER TO THE MAINTENANCE BUILDING FOR OUR CONNECTIVITY.SO, AND THEN MY SECOND QUESTION IS, IT'S 303.
THIS IS ALREADY, DID THIS GO, I KNOW YOU TALKED TO WCDC ABOUT IT, BUT WE'VE BEEN HITTING THEM UP FOR A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY FOR A WHOLE LOT OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS, AND THEY'VE BEEN PLANNING THEIR MONEY AROUND IN ALL THIS.
AND IF THEY'RE PAYING FOR THIS, DID THEY KNOW THEY'RE PAYING FOR THIS? WELL, SO THIS WAS, THIS, THIS WAS AN ENHANCEMENT ITEM, IF YOU REMEMBER FROM LAST YEAR THAT WE DISCUSSED.
DURING THAT BUDGET WORKSHOP, THERE WERE TWO ENHAN ENHANCEMENT ITEMS. UH, ONE WERE THE SECURITY CAMERAS, AND ANOTHER ONE WAS PHISHING PADS.
UH, BECAUSE THAT ONE WAS IFFY, OR I'M SORRY, BECAUSE THIS ONE WAS IFFY, I HAD, UH, A PLACEHOLDER OF $150,000 IN THERE, IF YOU REMEMBER.
AND YOU COULD ASK ME, UH, HAD I, HAD I SECURED ANY QUOTES? AND I SAID, AT THAT TIME, I SAID, I, I HAVEN'T BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS IFFY.
AND SO THEN THERE'S WHERE YOU GUYS DIRECTED ME TO, UH, 'CAUSE YOU, YOU AS WELL AS MYSELF, WE DIDN'T THINK THAT THAT WOULD FALL UNDER 150.
THAT WAS JUST MORE OF A PLACEHOLDER.
WELL, I'M ASKING BECAUSE AT THE TIME THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS, WE WEREN'T EVEN CONSIDERING ANY KIND OF ASTROTURF OR SOCCER FIELDS OUT THERE, AND WE WEREN'T EVEN CONSIDERING.
SO NOW WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING WCDC AND HITTING THEIR MONEY AND YEAH, I I, I DID MENTION IN, IN A BUDGET MEETING THE TODAY TO, TO CHAD, AND HE DIDN'T, HE DIDN'T SEEM LIKE THERE WOULD BE ANY ISSUE WITH IT.
SO RIGHT IN LIONS PARK AND YEAH.
AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING 'CAUSE YEAH, SYNTHETIC TURF, WHATEVER,
DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE TO APPROVE A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF $303,809 AND 54 CENTS FROM THE WCDC UNRESTRICTED FUND BALANCES TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL SECURITY CAMERAS AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM 20 TO CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
[22. Comments by Mayor, City Council, City Attorney and City Management]
WE DO THAT, UM, I'M GONNA ASK FOR COMMENTS, UM, FROM EVERYONE, AND WE'LL START DOWN TO THE RIGHT.TERRY, YOU GOT ANYTHING? NOTHING.
UH, I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE TRACE DOWN THERE.
HE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD AN OPPONENT.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR, ON YOUR, YOUR WIN.
AND I WANNA THANK MR. ALEXANDER FOR RUNNING.
WE HAVE A HARD TIME GETTING PEOPLE TO RUN, AND I THINK HE LEARNED A LOT OF LESSONS IN THERE, AND MAYBE HE'LL CONTINUE TO RUN IN THE FUTURE IN THE NEXT ELECTION AS WELL.
AND, UH, THANK MS. WICK FOR COMING AND GIVING HER THOUGHTS ON, ON THE ANIMAL ISSUES.
AND AS ANYBODY IN HERE THAT KNOWS ABOUT THE, THE PET COALITION AND THE DIFFERENT GROUPS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PROBABLY GONNA SHOW UP EVERY WEEK AND SPEAK BECAUSE WE DO HAVE AN ISSUE THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS.
SO I'LL BE SUPPORTING THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
AND I'M SURE MANY PEOPLE UP HERE WILL BE SUPPORTING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
AND HOPEFULLY THE THINGS WITH THE COUNTY WILL COME OUT AND WE'LL HAVE SOME PARTNERS ON THAT.
SO IT'LL BE COST EFFECTIVE FOR EVERYONE.
FIRST, TO PIGGYBACK OFF WHAT MR. WRIGHT JUST SAID, UM, THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSION AS IT RELATES TO WHAT WE CAN DO, WHAT'S FEASIBLE.
AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT, THAT COUNCILMAN WRIGHT AND MYSELF HAVE STARTED DISCUSSIONS ON ALTERNATIVES THAT MAY LEAD US TO A LONG-TERM SOLUTION.
UM, WE JUST STARTED TALKING ABOUT IT AND, UM, HE'S BEEN VERY PROACTIVE IN THAT REGARD AND PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE COMMITMENT THAT BOTH OF US AND MANY PEOPLE UP HERE HAVE, BUT, UM, MAY NOT BE EVERYTHING, BUT LET'S LET US THROW SOME STUFF TOGETHER AND SEE WHAT WE CAN'T COME UP WITH.
SECONDLY, THE LAST, UH, COUNCIL MEETING IN THE CLOSING, UH, COMMENTS.
I MENTIONED ISSUES AS IT RELATED TO DATA CENTERS.
I PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT AS A CITIZEN AND NOT AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF WAXAHACHIE AT THE LAST MEETING.
UM, AND MENTIONED THAT I WAS GONNA BE A PROPONENT FOR REIGNING THESE THINGS IN.
AND I'VE TAKEN STEPS TO, TO DO THAT.
I'M JUST GONNA TELL YOU TO WAIT AND SEE.
Y'ALL GOT ANYTHING? NO, MA'AM.
COUNCILMAN SMITH? YEAH, JUST TO QUICKLY DISPEL A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WAS SAID AT THE BEGINNING IN REGARDS TO THE SWFA BUILDING, UM, THAT WAS SOLD TO SOME OF THIS COMMUNITY,
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UH, ON, ON A BED OF FALSEHOODS.UM, THE ANIMAL SHELTER WAS NEVER GONNA BE INSIDE THAT BUILDING FROM WHEN IT WAS PRESENTED.
IT WAS GONNA HAVE TO BE CONSTRUCTED OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING AND THE ADJACENT LAND.
UM, SO TO THINK THAT WAS A VIABLE OPTION IS JUST UNTRUE.
THAT'S WHAT THE EXTRA $6 MILLION WAS FOR, WAS, WAS TO BUILD THE ACTUAL STRUCTURES TO HOUSE THE ANIMALS.
THEY WERE NEVER GONNA BE INSIDE THAT BUILDING.
IT'S ALL, IT'S ALSO ON SEPTIC.
UM, AND THE AMOUNT OF WATER AND WASTE WATER THAT'S GONNA HAVE TO RUN THROUGH THAT SYSTEM, UM, THE SEPTIC WOULD NOT SUPPORT IT.
AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF GETTING T-C-E-T-C-E-Q TO SIGN OFF ON SEPTIC WITH THAT MUCH VOLUME THAT CLOSE TO THE CREEK, UH, BEING A WATER SOURCE AND THAT'S A NAMED CREEK, NOT A UNNAMED TRIBUTARY, LIKE SOME OF THE MUD USED, UM, WAS LIKELY NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
SO I FEEL LIKE SOME OF THAT CITIZENS WERE MISLED.
UM, 'CAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE WERE ALSO MISLED ON THIS COUNCIL WHEN, WHEN WE GOT THERE AND WE SAW THAT WE'RE BUYING A BUILDING, WE STILL HAVE TO BUILD WHAT WE ACTUALLY THOUGHT WE WERE COMING HERE TO LOOK AT.
UM, SO JUST TO PUT THAT TO BED, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE $16 MILLION THAT WAS ALLOTTED CAME FROM, 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T EVER HAVE THAT.
UM, BUT THAT WAS THE PROJECTED, ESTIMATED COST ON THE SHELTER ITSELF AT THAT TIME, IF WE USED THAT STRUCTURE AND THE LAND ADJACENT.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UM, ON SOME POSITIVES, I MEAN, SATURDAY WAS AWESOME.
SATURDAY WAS A CELEBRATION OF WAXAHATCHEE, OUR HERITAGE, OUR COMMUNITY, ALL ACROSS THE BOARD.
UM, YOU GOT TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE, YOU GOT TO GO TO THE COPS AND KIDS PICNIC.
AND I KNOW OUR 9-YEAR-OLD LOVES SWINGING FROM THE CRANE.
THE, UH, CRANE SWING, WHICH I'M GLAD THE POLICE OFFICERS DID, DID NOT SHUT THAT DOWN 'CAUSE IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN LEGAL.
BUT IT WAS A WHOLE LOT OF FUN FOR THEM.
UM, AND THEN JUST TO SEE ALL OF, ALL OF THE KIDS, UM, TRULY EXCITED AND EXCITED ENOUGH THAT THEY WERE RIDING THE BIKES THAT WERE BEING GIVEN AWAY TO THEM AT THE FESTIVAL.
SO CHIEF TO Q AND YOURS, THANK YOU.
AND FOR EVERYONE ELSE WHO HELPED PULL THAT OFF, IT WAS GREAT.
UM, CHRIS PAT TRACE, CONGRATULATIONS.
UM, YOUR OPPONENT WAS ACTUALLY THE DJ AT THE COPS AND KIDS PICNIC.
UM, AND ALEX, I, I, I CALLED HIM THAT NIGHT.
AND I THINK IT'S JUST AN IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR ANYONE WHO PUTS THEIR NAME ON A BALLOT.
ONE, YOU'VE GOT MY UTMOST RESPECT.
'CAUSE A LOT OF FOLKS WILL TALK A LOT, A LOT OF NOISE ON FACEBOOK AND SOCIAL MEDIA AND TELL YOU HOW BAD YOU ARE.
UH, BUT THEY WON'T STEP UP AND ACTUALLY TRY TO CHANGE SOMETHING.
SO HE HAD 400 FOLKS, APPROXIMATELY WHO, WHO AGREED AND THOUGHT THAT, UM, HE, HE WOULD BE FIT TO LEAD.
AND THAT'S 400 ENDORSEMENTS OF HIS CHARACTER.
SO, UM, IF YOU EVER DO DECIDE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON A BALLOT, REMEMBER THAT, EVEN IF IT'S THREE VOTES, AS LONG AS THEY'RE NOT ALL THREE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD, UM, YOU, YOU DO HAVE SOME SUPPORT OUT THERE.
UM, AND THEN TO END THE EVENING, I ENDED THE EVENING, UM, AT THE CINCO DE MAY FESTIVAL.
AND I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW MUCH THAT THING HAS GROWN.
UM, IT'S A GOOD THING WE PUT IT BACK ON THE DOWNTOWN SQUARE BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT FIT ANYWHERE ELSE AT THIS POINT.
UM, I'M EXCITED TO SEE THE NUMBERS WHENEVER THOSE DO COME.
UH, THERE ARE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE CAN PROBABLY MAKE.
AND I THINK IT'S PROBABLY TIME FOR THE CITY TO REALLY, REALLY PARTNER WITH IT, UM, AND HELP COORDINATE WITH DAY TO DAY, UH, WHERE, WHERE BOOTHS LAND, UH, EMERGENCY PLANNING, ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
AND, AND PROBABLY BRING THAT INTO THE FOLD THE SAME WAY WE, THAT, THAT, THAT WE HAVE THE CROSSROADS.
UM, 'CAUSE IT IS, THAT WAS A FUN TIME.
IT'S A LOT OF FOLKS THERE WHO WERE JUST THERE TO CELEBRATE.
UM, AND MY GOODNESS, I 6,000, 8,000, 10,000.
DO WE EVEN KNOW YET? WHAT? OH, I'LL HAVE THOSE NUMBERS TOMORROW.
BUT I MEAN, I GUARANTEE YOU LIKE LOOKING AT THE PAST SUMMER THROUGHOUT THE DAY BECAUSE IT'S A SLOW BUILD.
AND IN THE PAST WE'VE HAD UPWARDS OF 14,000.
I MEAN, THE PHOTO THAT I TOOK FROM ABOUT FOUR STEPS UP THE STAGE, YOU CAN'T SEE ANY OF THE STREET IN FRONT OF THE COURTHOUSE.
SO TO ALL THOSE, INCLUDING THE, THE CITY STAFF THAT HELPED WITH THAT, UM, THANK YOU.
IT WAS, IT WAS A GREAT SATURDAY.
IT TRULY WAS WHAT MADE WAXAHATCHEE SO SPECIAL.
COUNCILMAN ATKINS? WELL, I THINK, UH, COUNCILMAN SMITH PRETTY MUCH COVERED IT ALL, BUT, UH, COPS FOR KIDS OR COPS FOR KIDS.
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I WANNA SEND OUT A, YOU KNOW, A A THANK YOU TO MY OPPONENT.YOU KNOW, HE RAN A, HE RAN A CLEAN RACE, AND WE NEED TO SEE MORE OF THOSE.
WE NEED TO SEE PEOPLE RUN ON THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY'VE DONE OR WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, MUD SLINGING.
SO I HAVE ALL THE RESPECT IN THE WORLD FOR MY OPPONENT, AND, UM, I ENCOURAGE HIM TO CONTINUE TO, TO SERVE AND WANT TO SERVE.
UM, ME PERSONALLY, I, I, I WISH, I WISH WE ALL HAD OPPONENTS.
I THINK IT MAKES US MORE ACCOUNTABLE.
I THINK IT MAKES US, UH, WORK HARDER AT OUR, AT OUR JOBS.
AND, UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, UM, IT, IT WAS, IT WAS A GOOD, IT WAS A GOOD, IT WAS A GOOD CAMPAIGN.
AND, UM, MY ONLY, UM, DISAPPOINTMENT IS, IS I JUST, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO GET MORE PEOPLE OUT TO VOTE.
UM, WE, WE, WE HAVE, WE'VE ECLIPSED 50,000 RESIDENTS IN THIS COMMUNITY AND TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, 3%, 4%, THREE AND A HALF, 4% SHOW UP.
IT'S, IT'S JUST, IT'S CONCERNING.
I MEAN, IT, IT, UH, IT IS, AND SOMEHOW WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO REENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY AND GET 'EM OUT TO THE POLLS.
EVEN THOUGH IT'S ALREADY BEEN SAID, I DO, I DO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR RECOGNIZING, UH, THE EFFORTS OF OUR TEAM.
UH, I WAS OUT THERE SATURDAY AT ALL THE EVENTS AND, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE SO WELL PUT ON.
AND I THINK LORI SAYS AT BEST, THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED IN THOSE THINGS.
AND THE COST FOR KIDS PROGRAM IS JUST, UH, THE, THE ATTENDANCE OUT THERE WAS AMAZING.
UH, I DIDN'T STAY LATE UNTIL THE EVENING FOR SINK OF THE MAYO.
I WAS THERE IN THE AFTERNOON, AND EVEN AT THAT TIME AS WELL ATTENDED.
TAKE A LOT OF PLANNING AND WORK FROM A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE.
AND ALSO FOR THE COUNCIL FOR RECOGNIZING SANDY AND HER EFFORTS.
AND ALONG WITH TRENTON IS DOING A GREAT JOB HELPING OVERSEE, UH, NATIONAL PRESERVATION.
AND AMBER, JAMIE, AND CLARICE'S OFFICE, UH, CAN'T THANK THEM ENOUGH.
I, I, I TELL HER QUITE OFTEN THAT ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE TO KEEP UP WITH IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND IT'S NOT NOTICED, BUT IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS, IF IT WASN'T DONE PROPERLY, YOU WOULD NOTICE IT.
AND SO I NOTICE IT, AND I APPRECIATE THEIR EFFORTS, UH, LAURIE AND MONICA AND, AND THE, AND THE TEAM THERE, UH, FOR ALL THE EFFORTS AND, AND KEEPING THINGS GOING.
AND THEN OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, LIKE KEITH WALKS ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL.
THAT'S, UH, UH, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO HELP, UH, GET THOSE THINGS.
AND THE RECOGNITION THAT THEY'VE, UH, OBTAINED THIS YEAR IS, UH, WELL DESERVED.
AND THEN, UH, AGAIN, THANK YOU, UH, UH, TRACE AND PATRICK AND, UH, CHRIS, AND CONGRATULATIONS, UH, FOR CONTINUING ON ON THE COUNCIL.
LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU AGAIN IN THE FUTURE.
WELL, GOSH, WHAT, WHAT DO I HAD TO SAY TO FOLLOW THAT
UM, WE HAVE SO MANY GREAT THINGS GOING ON IN THIS CITY, AND SO MANY THINGS TO BE PROUD OF, AND SO MANY PEOPLE, UM, LIFTING THE LOAD, UH, WE COULD GO ON AND ON AND ON AND ON.
SO, JUST A HEARTFELT THANK YOU, UM, TO EVERYBODY.
THE DIFFERENT EVENTS, UH, SATURDAY AND, YOU KNOW, THAT JUST WENT OVER REALLY FLAWLESSLY BECAUSE IF IT DIDN'T, WE WOULD HEAR ABOUT IT.
AND, UH, WE, WE'VE ONLY HEARD GOOD THINGS.
SO, UH, I WAS OUT THERE AT, UH, CINCO DE MAYO, I GUESS ABOUT FOUR, WELL, FROM, I GUESS FOUR OR FIVE.
IT'S, IT'S GROWN BIGGER THAN IT EVER HAS BEEN.
I JUST WAS JUST IN AWE OF HOW MUCH IT'S GROWN.
AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT TO CONTINUE TO GROW AND TO ADD MORE VENDORS AND, UH, MORE ACTIVITIES AND, AND JUST SEEING THE FAMILIES OUT THERE DANCING AND SINGING AND LAUGHING.
I MEAN, WHAT'S BETTER THAN THAT? SO, WITH THAT,
[20. Convene into Executive Session to deliberate economic development incentives, as permitted by Texas Government Code Section 551.087; to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property for municipal purposes, as permitted by Texas Government Code Section 551.072; to deliberate personnel matters, including the appointment, evaluation, duties or dismissal of any member of a City board or commission, as permitted by Texas Government Code Section 551.074; to consult with City Attorney regarding legal issues associated with City Code and Charter provisions and consultation with City Attorney regarding pending and anticipated litigation, as permitted by Texas Government Code Section 551.071, and all matters incident and related thereto]
WE'RE GONNA CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND, UH, FEEL FREE TO STAY HERE, UH, UNTIL WE RETURN OR, OR GO TO THE HOUSE.THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING TONIGHT.
[21. Reconvene and take any necessary action]
RIGHT.WE ARE BACK IN SESSION AT WHAT TIME? 9 25.
UH, SO WITH THAT, UH, THAT ENDS OUR MEETING.