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All right, so it is now 1.30. We'll go ahead and call our meeting to order for the part board of trustees of City of Galveston Tuesday, April 28th, 1.30, year 20.26. And I will go on to our plentiful agents.

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I believe it's through the life of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands.

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Item 3 are, we'll call in declaration of a form.

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Jason Hardcastle.

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Here.

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Gerald Wilson.

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Here.

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Bob Brown.

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Here.

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Bill Pumit.

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Jan Collier.

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Carlos Gatta.

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Jeannie Hughes.

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Here.

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Elizabeth Matthews.

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Here.

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Robert Contero.

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Here.

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You have a form.

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Great.

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All right. And then we'll move on to item 4 conflict of interest declarations.

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Okay.

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Seeing them, then we'll move on to item 5, request to address the board.

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Seeing them there, we'll move on to item 6 month with Spotlights A, Employees Spotlight,

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or Nova Valencia. And Susan and Anna.

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Thank

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you Mr. Chair and Trustees. Each of you had an opportunity to meet,

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and don't, of course, so last month at the board meeting.

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In follow-up, I wanted to take a little bit of time to share some information about

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her background and what she'll be doing here at the park board.

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So she holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Arizona State University

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and will complete for Masters in Organizational Leadership

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from Arizona State next month.

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Prior to joining the park board,

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Rianna served as a shift supervisor with Starbucks from 2017 to 2024.

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She completed a Cuban Resources Internship with Schlumberger in 2023 and was a

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technical recruiter with Connective Talent from 2024 to 2026. She will serve in

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a generalist role working with managers as well as frontline staff and will

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have a strong focus on projects and daily activities to support a strong

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associate experience. This will include recruiting, onboarding, culture, associate

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of Relations, Associate Recognition, and Training.

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And beginning today,

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Reanne and Will Spotlight our Associate each month,

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so I will turn the mic over to her.

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Okay, today I have the honor

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to Spotlight our one and only Nova Valencia.

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Nova joined the Park Board in 2021,

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shortly after graduating from Ball of High School.

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He began his journey at Stewart Beach

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as a ticket booth attendant and quickly worked his way up

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through multiple roles, including trash operations

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and general maintenance.

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Through his strong work ethic and willingness to learn,

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he was later promoted to the C-Wall

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where he now also serves as an ambassador.

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As a Gabiston local and proud B-O-I,

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Noah brings a strong sense of community

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right to his work.

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In his current role, Noah supports the maintenance

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and upkeep the public spaces along the C-Wall,

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including cleaning, repairing signage,

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and assisting with bus stops and surrounding areas.

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One notable experience during his time with the park board involved assisting the aftermath

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of a serious car accident near Pusher Pier.

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Renewa was a part of the cleanup crew and their efforts were recognized by the mayor

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and both the newspaper feature and a town hall meeting.

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Noah shares that what he enjoys most about working for the park board is his co-workers

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who have played a significant role in his growth since joining straight out of

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high school. He describes his team as supportive and collaborative with everyone

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working together to get the job done. Outside of work, Noah enjoys exploring his

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creativity and learning new skills. He has taught himself how to pay, is currently

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learning salsa dancing and piano, and is researching how to achieve 4K

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care more quality at more affordable price points. Something that not a lot of people

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know is that he knows American sign language. Noah's supervisor Matthew Johnson shares that he

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consistently demonstrates initiative and a strong work ethic. He takes on more challenging tasks

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without hesitation and works independently without needing direction. His supervisor also noted Noah's

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significant growth and strong potential for the future.

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From a peer perspective, one of his co-workers shared that NOAA brings humor and energy

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to the team and makes shifts more enjoyable while contributing greatly to the group's success.

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We are grateful to have NOAA on the team and appreciate the positive energy and dedication

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to his role every day.

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Congratulations to Noah on reaching his five-year anniversary milestone.

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Go Noah!

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Thank you for having me.

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I'm grateful for the opportunity.

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So I guess, celebrate my five years.

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Grateful for you all.

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Grateful for the cardboard and everything.

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But I really want to give a big thank you.

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Obviously, as you said, my co-workers, especially to know.

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In Devin, because without them, I wouldn't know as much as I do now.

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So I'm forever grateful for that.

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But I have another big thank you to my friend Cole because she was there since the first day and

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There ever since helping me get through every single spot that I've been in every single

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Promotion that I've had in the part board and without her I went and made it as part. So again, thank you. Thank you for having me. I appreciate

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Well, no real quick. I would just like to say thank you on behalf of the board for all the work you and your colleagues

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Conduct along the sea wall. I'm fortunate enough. I get to commute down it almost every single day and see the fruits of your labor and

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Again, I appreciate all these opportunities to get to thank you all personally because

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The beach looks better than it ever has the sea walls look better than it ever has and it's because the dedication of you and your crew

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So thank you so much and please keep up the work because it benefits the entire community

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so now we'll move on to

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Item 7 consent. A, discuss to consider approval of March 24, 2026. Part Board of Trustees meeting minutes.

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B, discuss to consider approval of tours and development expenditures. C, discuss to consider approval of the city.

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2027, a virtual agency penny value. And D, discuss to consider approval of part board standing policies.

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And would any of the part board trustees like to?

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I have a question and I know we talked about this at the Joint Council trusting me.

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What did the value of the pity was 3.3?

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0.3.

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All right.

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Well, I would like to discuss item D, discussing a certain approval of the part board

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standing policies individually.

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I had that one as well.

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Great.

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Well, my motion will be to accept, well, you know, we'll just do it after the discussion.

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Okay, you said D. D, the last one. Can we pull out the C? I just had a question, we'll see.

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I'm going to make a motion to approve the men's.

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Okay.

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What about item D?

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Make a motion to approve A and D?

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Yes.

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Several.

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All right.

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In GD, that sounds okay.

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I am making a motion to approve A and D.

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All right.

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Second. All right. Thank you very much, Robert. Any other discussion of those two consent items?

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All right, so you know I'll call for a vote. All those invaders.

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And if you didn't notice by those present and

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Carlin's it's my understanding that you're able to participate in discussions, but I'm able to vote today.

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So then we'll go on to item C,

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We discussed and considered approval of the city, 2027 Hotel Occupancy Pity Value.

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And Stuart, are you available?

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I think Gerald had a minute of a question for you.

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I just had a real quick question.

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First of all, thanks for the preview.

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I think it's certainly been helpful for us.

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The question I had in that question came up also in the Financial Operations Committee meeting.

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Did we get clarification from the city on if there is, if we outperform the 3.320

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value that that money will continue to stay in these respective funds did we get

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clarification from the city on that the state and a yes the city penny no okay

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state penny yes and city the city penny don't correct okay you do have

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confirmation on that that's not all the questions thank you okay any other questions

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for Siri I think for the next item all right well then I'll go ahead and look

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for a motion to approve.

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Set approval for a motion to approve item 716.

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Great. Thank you very much, Robert.

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In a second by Gerald, any further discussion?

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I'd say none. I'll call for a vote.

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All those in favor.

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And it is unanimous for this president.

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Good. All right.

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And then I indeed discuss to consider approval

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of part board standing policies.

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you know, I was...

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I'm so glad to see this item come through, I just really wanted a chance to pay stuff and the Finance Committee as well.

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This has been a prolonged effort since 2023, perhaps even before, to tighten policies related to credit cards, procurement and expensing as well.

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So after being derailed several times while we're trying to get through this process, I'm so glad to see this perseverance finally paying off.

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and I just wanted to take this chance to thank you specifically Kelly and then the rest of the staff who supported you in this. Thank you Marty as well for seeing it for me because this has been a very long effort started by previous administrations in previous board members here as well.

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so I'm excited to see it. The only thing that I would recommend for consideration, and I don't want to say that we hold it now for that, but perhaps bring it back, is that I would recommend a sunset.

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It's simple in the future just to force a thorough review over these policies because what is good for 2026, you know, over the next 10 years or so, maybe come antiquated.

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So, I would just, you know, maybe recommend it sometime in the future, go through and just

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add a sunset to force the review because this is extremely important material, but also

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it is very easy to put on the back burner.

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So, when they have sunsets come up, they just kind of force a review and everything.

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And it may be a stamp same, it's all applicable at present day.

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So thank you all very much.

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And I would like to make a motion to approve.

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item D, the specialised city approval of part board standing policies.

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Thank you very much, Bill. Any further discussion or comments?

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Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favour?

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And it's unanimous by this present here. Thank you very much.

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All right, so when we move on to item 8, business 8,

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Galveston City Council item update.

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And Bob.

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Okay, thanks.

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Jason, we had to workshop in a council meeting

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We also had a workshop after our last joint meeting with the park board, so I haven't

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been able to report any of that yet.

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So from that workshop, after our joint meeting, one of the things we discussed that maybe

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the interest of park board is downtown amenities, in particular downtown restaurants.

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I've been working with the series of downtown stakeholders in a series of meetings to see what

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their priorities are for downtown and what rose to the top in all these meetings was

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restrooms downtown. So City Council we talk about they authorize me to work with the city staff on

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coming up with locations and facilities for restrooms downtown not only in the strand but also

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on post office street and there's kind of two options what we're talking about. One is a short

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term option where we would certain to business businesses downtown in particularly restaurants would

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allow the public to use their restrooms at the city would support them in some way and

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I've talked to the city manager about that and one of the ways we've discussed is, first

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of all, with signage, the city could provide some signage but people know where there's

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a restroom and secondly, we talked about, this is not final deal or anything but we talked

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about maybe waving the feed for the license to use right away for some of those restaurants

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to actually use the right away.

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So we're looking into that. The second part is more long term and that would be putting

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horrible restrooms downtown and strategic locations in the city right away. So they'd

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be horrible because, first of all, if we were to build a restroom downtown somewhere that

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was accessible, it would have to have a ramp and the thing would be this high. So that's

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not that's out of the question, but we could do horrible restrooms that we could hook up

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and pull away if there was a storm coming and so we're looking into doing that as well

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and I'm going to be having more meetings with this downtown group and more discussions

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with the city staff to be able to make recommendations and how to pay for this also coming up.

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So it's been a longstanding issue downtown but we're finally making some headway on getting

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restrooms down downtown.

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So it's a merchants said what they really hated to do was tell families that it had been

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driving for an hour to get here and have to use the restroom that you got to go all the way down to 25th and strand at the transit terminal, that's the only public restroom.

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So we're making a headway on that. Now, from our April 23rd meeting, after working on this project for about three years, we finally passed unanimously the city's acceptance of the Rosenberg property as a city park. It's a big deal. It's been a long time making this group raised over $2.2 million to purchase it from GISD and then give it to the city and that finally happened to our last meeting.

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council meeting. So if you haven't seen it yet, go by and check it out. We

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installed a sprinkler system and seated it with a bermuda mix and the grass

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is finally growing. There's still a little fence around it though to keep people

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we want the grass to have a chance to grow before people start walking on it. So

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it's a really big deal. There's going to be more work to come in the future like

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coming up with what I hope to do is come up with a neighboring joint neighborhood

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city master plan for that part face a master plan so we could identify what we really want that part to be in the end and then over time as time goes on.

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We'll have some goals to work on it and we can raise some money and get things done on it.

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Another thing we talked about at the April 23rd workshop was a discussion of private beach ownership.

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You know, the mayor has been in discussion with Commissioner Buckingham for a while on this.

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And there was a vendor on the beach that put up private beach, private property beach

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signs on there.

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And the GLO sent them a letter saying, but you can't do that, those have to be gone in

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the 14 days.

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So the GLO is finally getting engaged.

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What they're going to, first thing they're going to do is conduct a survey of the ownership

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of the beach all the way up and down the sea wall.

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Because, you know, until we do that, we have no reliable way of knowing who owns what.

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You know, so we already know the parkour only sets up on, does not set up on private property for vendors, but there's still a question out there.

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This is seen as the first step to get the geo involved and finally get some kind of a resolution on this whole thing.

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Another thing we talked about that may be of interest is Steve Galveston is partnering

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with Malaga Spain, it's hometown of Bernardo de Galvest to put a mural on the east side

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of Maguardia.

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It's already a mural on the Banshell over there, this is going to be one on the east side.

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They're going to pay for everything so we'll provide the man-lift to get him up there.

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But that's, there's also a sculpture that I just found out about, that's a Bernardo de Galvez is going to also go at Maguarda.

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So we, we seem to be getting murals and public art in a whole lot of places these days.

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Speaking of wellness even, another thing we've talked about was the city is work, Davis Smith, it says we're coordinating to get a, to hold an Artemis II astronaut's parade.

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We have a local astronaut here in town, so they're working on that.

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We also talked about Pelican Island Bridge, you know, there's a discussion of, instead

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of doing the high bridge, do what we call, some people call it land bridge, but it's

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not a land bridge, it's a die.

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And so, that's what it really is.

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And Texdot is going to complete their work, their construction documents, or they're probably

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about 60% or 70% complete right now, they're going to complete that work and then stop

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if they're not going to support anything where there's a controversy.

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So that we're going to be taking that, that's going to stop it

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whenever they get to 100% contract documents.

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In the meantime, the warped board is going to be undertaking

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a core of engineers' feasibility navigation study

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that look at the impact of building, shutting off that, basically shutting off that

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to make a land bridge that would have rail on it and cars and pedestrians and bicycles and all that.

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But functionally, it would be shutting off that end of the chip channel.

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So that's why it's a navigation study.

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It's also why tech stuff would be pulling out because it's not a bridge.

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So in our workshop, we directed staff to get with all of our stakeholders.

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as you know we're the local sponsor for the bridge that is we got to come up with a local share.

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And there's a bunch of other people participating in that navigation district,

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A&M, the worst board board of Houston.

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And so just in the spirit of transparency,

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and so we may be able to maintain our partners over this time.

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We directed the city council, the city staff, to meet with them,

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you know, get with them and let all of us get on the same page,

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understand what we're doing where we're going and what the timeline is and try to

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try to maintain our local partnerships right there. I think that's all city

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council. Anybody have any question?

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GM and Gene? I just wanted to make a couple of

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comments. Can you tell the story in workshop you told the story about it was the

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park and then it was a school and now it's gone back to the park. I thought that was

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That's very interesting.

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Yeah, that is an interesting circumstance when the city was charted by Michelle Minnard

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and the Galson City Company in 1836, that was a part and it was plated as a part.

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And then Rosenberg's school was to the west of that, the original one, was to the west

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of that on what it's addued part right now.

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But then in the 60s, as GISD won the Barrett down and built a new school, the city gave him

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that property that is now the Roosevelt School property, it goes a new school on that one.

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And so now we kind of come full circle of the schools, the school is gone, and so now

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we're going to give that property back to the city.

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So if there's nothing, it's never been anything on that side except that one building in the

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1960s, otherwise it's always been a city park or a school, so it really is continuing to function

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as a piece of property that serves the public in some way.

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I thought that was very interesting.

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I did, I enjoyed hearing that.

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I just have a couple other things.

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I'm very glad to finally see that the GLO is getting involved

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with the body and the beaches.

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So hopefully we can get some closure on that

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because I know that there are people saying that they are on private beach

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but they are infringing upon people that have contacts with us

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and I'm a very fair person and I don't think that's very fair.

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So I'm glad to see the GLO is getting involved with you.

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You know, regardless of the private property ownership, they're still yet to have to maintain

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beach access to the public.

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And that's why the GLO got involved in that fine.

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Glad to hear that.

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And the arts department is doing a fantastic job for the city.

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Like you said, you're seeing murals and statues, Antoinette and the group that she is working

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with.

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They are really taking hold of this program and really making a big difference there

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That so I really want to make sure that we acknowledge them because they have really stepped up and are doing a great job

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You know not to mention it and other things that we did that the Archivism mission

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You know, but I've been working on a plan for the maintenance of all city maintenance

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Monuments around town public monuments, you know stored monuments and darks commission is going to take that job over

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of getting a consultant and doing an analysis of all of our city-managed

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mining, you know, which ones do we own that we manage, which ones would not

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own that we manage. What is their condition? What's the priority? What's the best

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practice for restoring them? Because through everything, some big chunks of gun saw

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granite to bronze and everything in the clean. And where are the priorities and

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where's our plan for managing and what's going to cost. And so there are

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commissions going to cut that out. I'm so happy to hear that we're a city that's

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built on history and steeped in history and it's wonderful to see somebody take hold of

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that and put some care into it like she has. So I just wanted to give a wonderful recognition

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to the arts community because they've really taken great care of this.

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About Resort Park, I was involved in that somewhat and I don't live in that area but that

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neighborhood, it takes a lot of money and time and love to invest in those homes and bring

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them up because when I was growing up here, most of those were not restored homes.

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And to, you know, it's basic, I don't know if you've been by seeing that part, it looks

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up the home neighborhood.

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It doesn't matter if you're in a Victorian or not, it lifts up the home neighborhood.

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I don't know why there were such, I won't go in there.

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Okay.

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And I think that, you know, again, I would like to bring up the park board, should work

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with the more with the historical part of the to promote that part when we reach out to

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tourist groups that come here and hopefully that part could be a centerpiece of

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pointing in that direction. Let them go around the neighborhood because I think it would

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like central park or it's nothing like that but you know it's a it's a good way for people to have

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a starting point to look at our beautiful historical district and that's my first point in

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something that made the park board to get involved in pushing that part of the

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island because I think it's a treat for people to drive around. Number one,

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number two, was there any more discussion with the city on Botic or out or well

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we did at our joint meeting.

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City Council alone, no, but that is

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something that we will be addressing here. The City Council direction at that

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joint meeting was that the park board former committee to look at

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I don't think they're laying what we can do, and I think we're going to be doing that.

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I don't see on this agenda, but I think we're going to be doing that.

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I'm very interested in participating in that in my district.

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Yeah, I think it's a gem.

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Yeah, you're right about Rosenberg.

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I thought it was phenomenal and probably the best example of residents getting involved in their community

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and in their government that I've ever seen, to raise that amount of money and care that much

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for their neighborhood and supported and do something like that.

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It's really not special.

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Joe, yeah, let me also jump on that bandwagon about Rosembourg,

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because I thought it was phenomenal with that

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the community did, at 2.2 million dollars a day raised,

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and how they did it, followed all the processes,

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so I commend you guys on that.

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Jan, I asked a couple of questions I was going to ask

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and a couple more.

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The Portland laws that we have on C-Wall

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Is that not a consideration at all for the strain?

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Well, those are good, but they're not portable.

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To be portable, you have to be able to hook it up and hollow it away.

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That means quick connect, seward and water, and something with wheels of some kind.

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So it's a good model if it's portable, but there's other places that do this.

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The old town spring is, they have something that's, I'm not sure if it's portable.

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I don't think it's portable, but it is a public restaurant, but something that looks

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appropriate for the downtown, but is also portable is what we're going to have to do.

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I'm just envisioning photopoddies and I'm thinking that statically that's not the look

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that we want down to.

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We understand the nature of where we're putting these things in, and this context is critical.

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Okay.

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A couple of things.

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Is there going to be any input from the public on the rendering of what it's going to look like before they go out with it?

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I really don't know the answer to that.

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I'm not sure. It's going to be like I said, it's going to be Bernardo.

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Some depiction of Bernardo. Yeah, that's right.

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Just curious about that.

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The other thing would be, my understanding of it, are you seeing that TXDOT will not fund

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the land bridge consideration, but they are going to fund the scribe bridge.

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Is that, that's not understanding, kind of, what I said, it's what I was declared by.

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They're going to continue their obligation for design and documentation of what they started.

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In other words, they're probably 60 to 70 percent done with the construction documents.

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So they're going to finish that and then stop, but what they've also said is that we should

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also stop or at least halt for now acquisition of right away, you know, until we get this

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settled.

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But, you know, tech stuff, tech stuff, so this, this, their participation is directly related

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to a land bridge, I mean, to a bridge, a bridge is set, right, and a land bridge is set.

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They don't consider this other thing a bridge, it's a dig, it's, it's a navigational issue.

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What it does to the ship channel is what's being discovered,

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what's being looked at by this Section 203 feasibility analysis

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that the Ford is going to be doing.

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It's got to take about 18 months to a couple of years to do that

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and then it goes down to look at it.

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It's going to slow down every time.

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But in the end, if we don't look at this 10 or 20 years from now

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and there actually is something built there,

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we've got to make sure we build the right thing

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or people are going to wonder what we're going to see.

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Let me ask you, is this an easy or option for the city?

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Can they not have both?

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Can we not have some form of a land bridge as well as the

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subscriber bridge?

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I mean, well, the city, they're going down both tracks right

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now.

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But at some point, when textile finishes their

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documentation, that's going to stop.

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But we'll live a lot more when the 203 study is done.

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But that's still, it's gotten started, the process is

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started, but it's still way down the road.

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So, and again, TechStyle doesn't consider that a bridge that we're calling and dying.

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And even if the city picks up the other portion of this dynamic library, it just seems

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like there is value of having both to me.

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Well, you know, it was the one opposite of it.

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Yeah, I think the important part right now is that we're completely transparent with our

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local partners on this, because we will be the local representative on either one of

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these projects.

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So we've got to make sure that we keep our partners on board right now for the long haul.

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You know, we'll probably have to change the AF.

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I'm sure of the change the AFA at some point if we do this.

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But, you know, if it winds up being a dyke, of course it would have a rail connection,

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which is critical.

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The growth in development in the Pelican island wouldn't have road access,

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pedestrian access, bike access.

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It would provide all the same things that I've never had bridgewood.

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And probably cost less than the construction than a overhead bridge with cats.

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That's all I have to say.

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All right.

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Well, thank you, Bob.

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Ian will stay with you.

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—A합 you, review for a city Council update, on southern district development? Yes.

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Peace.

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Oh, I have communications.

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I have a question. I also do something that very much talks with the city of Spain right

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for the...

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I have never heard in the last two years or about two years, a little bit less than two

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years.

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Anything about what the city does, how the city has to work with the sister cities that the

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the city already holds. I've never, in any way or anything, I've been contributing, like

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another bit, where is our sister city in Mexico, there are cruise, a pixel, a port of

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their cruise, or what kind of railroad I will remember is one of them. I believe in Japan,

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the city of Shiba in Japan is still, I believe, there's a city, the sister city. So, how

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We have

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a resume with each other. How in the city do it this and then now we're looking at another city

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For

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a man that never ever

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In Galveston, it was a gift to him, but he never thought he never even paid attention

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To Galveston being the person that never ever in the history of you read about it

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So

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if I need one it to be nice to him

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city does have a city sponsor committee called sister city committee, and they're the

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ones that kind of manage and look at all these sister cities that Galison has.

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And actually, an official from Malaga approached the mayor a while back with the offer to do

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this mural as part of a, you know, reaching across the ocean kind of a gesture.

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I don't know, maybe we should consider some kind of interpretive fact or something that

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providing a more history about it, I don't know, but the sister said, your question about

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the sister said, he's addressed by the city through that committee.

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But I know that Gallagher approached Galveston, but like again, I don't, I said, the story

450
00:32:39,550 --> 00:32:45,350
of the whole city and then put in the face of a person that really didn't care about

451
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:00,320
So

452
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,840
that will move on to you, item B, City Council update on Stuart Beach development.

453
00:33:10,420 --> 00:33:13,680
The RFP for the Stuart Beach was issued on the 23rd.

454
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,860
The last day for questions is going to be May 21st.

455
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,640
You know, all the contractors get the RFP and then they turn in their questions.

456
00:33:24,580 --> 00:33:31,680
And the responses will be posted on the 28th, the deadline for submittal is June 18th.

457
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:32,880
so we're giving them plenty of time to,

458
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,280
because it's pretty complex,

459
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,340
giving them plenty of time to look at that.

460
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:38,840
There will be, as I understand,

461
00:33:39,460 --> 00:33:42,240
there's always a mandatory pre-bid conference

462
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,080
on these kind of things,

463
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,880
and that's where you really find out

464
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,200
what kind of interest you have.

465
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,640
And so that's, as I understand,

466
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:51,820
that's gonna be before our May City Council meeting,

467
00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:54,320
so we'll be able to have some kind of measure

468
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,680
or evaluation of the interest that we have in it.

469
00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:58,200
That's what I'll be looking forward to.

470
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,160
Is that a mandatory PRP?

471
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,480
Yes, the mandatory pre-bid meeting, so I know it will be by Zoom.

472
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:05,640
I may ask.

473
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,660
If they're interested, you can beat it.

474
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,220
Yeah, if they're interested, they've got to be there.

475
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:11,700
All right.

476
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:18,340
I have some other issues that are not city council but they are part board related.

477
00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:22,600
I can wait till future agenda items or announcements are up to now.

478
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,580
We can wait till future agenda looks fine.

479
00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:29,320
So I guess I'm looking at the, this is RFB.

480
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:38,180
And I would just go on through making sure at least I understand a site drainage, does that address the issue that was before us at the joint meeting?

481
00:34:39,820 --> 00:34:43,720
It is in there, there is a path in there about it.

482
00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:48,220
It's more of a recognition that this is an important thing for us.

483
00:34:48,980 --> 00:34:56,540
And again, when we get this RFP back, if there's interest in it, then we can start looking at what we're going to do about it.

484
00:34:56,940 --> 00:35:00,800
At that point, but until then, I think Marty made a point of the joint meeting that

485
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,560
doesn't make a sense for us to start doing something now, because a developer will certainly

486
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:10,040
have some, you don't develop a piece of property of any size anywhere without property

487
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:10,420
range.

488
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:19,040
Well, I'm glad to see it in, yeah, it's in there, it could be the source of some of these

489
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,620
questions we're going to be getting in the next month.

490
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:21,080
Good.

491
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:22,260
Good.

492
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:22,980
Thank you.

493
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:23,900
Not to clarify it.

494
00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:32,230
All right. Any other questions for all? Okay. Thank you, Bob. Now we'll move on to item

495
00:35:32,230 --> 00:35:37,890
C, discuss to consider revisions to the board approved FY27 State Legislative Agenda.

496
00:35:38,510 --> 00:35:38,950
And Cheryl.

497
00:35:41,050 --> 00:35:47,370
Good afternoon. Thank you very much. We're here today to bring the state legislative

498
00:35:47,370 --> 00:35:56,950
agenda back. We are in review through conversations with the city, specifically south of the city.

499
00:35:57,610 --> 00:36:09,790
I met with her to go over both the federal and the state legislative agenda just to let them know what had happened at the board meeting and some of the items we were looking at.

500
00:36:10,430 --> 00:36:23,450
This item that's on your agenda was specifically brought to our attention that it would be recommended that we go ahead and remove this from our discussions.

501
00:36:23,450 --> 00:36:29,410
In reviewing it, I looked through everything and reviewing it with Marty, it in fact is

502
00:36:29,410 --> 00:36:35,230
something that was inadvertently left in from a previous year and probably should not

503
00:36:35,230 --> 00:36:36,910
have been carried over.

504
00:36:37,330 --> 00:36:42,010
It was an unintentional mistake on my part to leave it in the agenda in the first place.

505
00:36:42,830 --> 00:36:49,010
And it's basically one of the items that caused a lot of concerns from the past.

506
00:36:49,010 --> 00:36:57,830
So we're coming before you today to make a request to remove this one item from your state legislative agenda documents.

507
00:36:59,930 --> 00:37:02,310
All right. Any questions or comments?

508
00:37:02,570 --> 00:37:05,970
Bob, Cheryl, I appreciate you working with Sally on this.

509
00:37:06,230 --> 00:37:12,970
And I think this goes a long ways towards our current mode of being transparent working with the city,

510
00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:17,450
making sure we're on the same page with the city when it comes to what's going on in Austin.

511
00:37:17,450 --> 00:37:19,150
And I think that's a little critical.

512
00:37:19,530 --> 00:37:20,550
Thank you for giving that.

513
00:37:20,870 --> 00:37:21,350
You're welcome.

514
00:37:21,790 --> 00:37:28,290
She was very appreciative of both Brandon and Thorne Runs' work.

515
00:37:30,010 --> 00:37:31,870
And yes, you're welcome.

516
00:37:34,370 --> 00:37:35,590
Any other questions or comments?

517
00:37:37,450 --> 00:37:38,490
I'll make a motion to approve.

518
00:37:39,090 --> 00:37:39,370
Back up.

519
00:37:39,950 --> 00:37:40,890
OK, thank you, Gerald.

520
00:37:41,130 --> 00:37:41,610
Thank you, Bill.

521
00:37:41,870 --> 00:37:43,070
Let me walk into this minefield.

522
00:37:43,390 --> 00:37:47,410
So in the past, I mean, this was seen

523
00:37:47,410 --> 00:37:51,690
as a convincing threat by multiple administrative staffs

524
00:37:51,690 --> 00:37:54,070
in recommended and approved by the board.

525
00:37:55,030 --> 00:37:57,950
So my question is, has there been a definitive change

526
00:37:57,950 --> 00:38:03,490
in the perception of a threat to the allocation

527
00:38:03,490 --> 00:38:05,010
of hotel occupancy tasks?

528
00:38:05,490 --> 00:38:06,610
Not that I'm aware.

529
00:38:08,050 --> 00:38:13,940
OK, so is the partwood staff recommending

530
00:38:13,940 --> 00:38:18,260
the legal forward of the benefit of the partwood of this item

531
00:38:18,260 --> 00:38:19,840
from the legislative agenda.

532
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:29,540
I believe that with this being a state legislative agenda, we also have our state groups

533
00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:34,740
that also advocate and lobby for hotel occupancy tax and its protection.

534
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:43,860
The recommendation is really being made out of the, as mentioned in the document out of

535
00:38:43,860 --> 00:38:57,100
the spirit of transparency and cooperation and collaboration and not trying to give the impression that we're trying to make changes that would affect the city as well.

536
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:12,180
Okay, I mean the reason I asked these questions is first I want to make sure we're approving something after remember we're ultimately trustees for the park board here and we have to look out as fiduciaries for the park board ultimately what is good for the park board.

537
00:39:12,180 --> 00:39:16,420
And I understand that there's other concerns and everything is very complex.

538
00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:27,180
So in this particular item, as over the years, we consumed a lot of time and energy from

539
00:39:27,180 --> 00:39:28,340
some people still in this room.

540
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:34,820
So I just want to make sure that we're not removing it because of external pressure.

541
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:41,640
And this is something that staff has perceived, the threat has changed so that we don't have

542
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:46,960
to be concerned about this any more before we vote to approve it. Does that make sense?

543
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:54,020
Well, I think there's another way to say that, which is that we are not actively working

544
00:39:54,020 --> 00:39:59,320
on that, nor is our representation for active working on that, nor do we want them to be

545
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,220
active working on that at this time.

546
00:40:02,380 --> 00:40:10,380
Excellent. Well then, honestly, with that answer, I feel like there's a lot to be very happy

547
00:40:10,380 --> 00:40:21,020
about removing this item is because if there's no longer a reason to have it then that automatically

548
00:40:21,020 --> 00:40:29,340
indicates that cinemas and relationships are better than they have been in the past. So I'm

549
00:40:29,340 --> 00:40:39,240
actually extremely pleased that this item is here. Yes. As someone who took a lot of strays for this

550
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:50,800
issue as well. So I'm great. They were direct. So I'm very, very pleased to see this recommendation.

551
00:40:51,300 --> 00:41:00,710
Bill? Well, following up on that conversation, I think I hope this is also a statement that

552
00:41:00,710 --> 00:41:11,860
we're redirecting our focus from the state level to a consensus between the city and the

553
00:41:11,860 --> 00:41:18,260
part more on the best way to move forward, and that the goal is to work together to come

554
00:41:18,260 --> 00:41:25,160
to some suitable agreement through the interlocal or whatever it means is necessary to achieve

555
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:35,380
the goal of the appropriate distribution rather than to try to go up to the state before

556
00:41:35,380 --> 00:41:37,120
we have that agreement with the city.

557
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:42,700
It's much more important to go up there, in my opinion, as a trustee, to go up there

558
00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:53,340
with a consensus that it is to try to, one of a better phrase, error, laundry in public.

559
00:41:54,260 --> 00:42:01,720
And so I would hope that this would just be the start of the process of coming to some

560
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:08,100
kind of long-term understanding and agreement on the distribution and use of hot taxes.

561
00:42:12,650 --> 00:42:17,030
Maybe I'm going to a minefield here, but the way I read it really was that they were going

562
00:42:17,030 --> 00:42:23,610
to advocate to protect allocations.

563
00:42:23,990 --> 00:42:26,650
I read opposite of what it actually states.

564
00:42:26,830 --> 00:42:28,910
I thought, well, yeah, of course we're going to do that.

565
00:42:29,830 --> 00:42:36,150
I mean, and I'm not sure how to say, I was not here when all the other,

566
00:42:36,310 --> 00:42:38,430
I'm not sure how the state legislature works.

567
00:42:38,430 --> 00:42:43,810
But if there was a move for them to change anything about hot-tags, allocations, or transit,

568
00:42:44,310 --> 00:42:49,210
not necessarily pertaining to Galveston, maybe as an item in San Antonio that they were,

569
00:42:50,070 --> 00:42:54,730
you know, well, why wouldn't we want to know about that and be alerted to that?

570
00:42:55,710 --> 00:42:59,370
I mean, I'm not trying to muddy the waters with them.

571
00:42:59,990 --> 00:43:04,690
I'm not saying we need to protect ourselves, and not the city, I'm just trying to say we

572
00:43:04,690 --> 00:43:10,570
We need to be aware of anything brewing in the state legislature regarding allocations

573
00:43:10,570 --> 00:43:10,890
of how.

574
00:43:10,890 --> 00:43:11,110
Sure.

575
00:43:11,730 --> 00:43:17,910
And from what I, the way that Marty explained it, it does sound like our legislative advocate

576
00:43:17,910 --> 00:43:23,490
will still be an ostent to alert us of any concerns that could arise because you're absolutely

577
00:43:23,490 --> 00:43:23,810
right.

578
00:43:23,930 --> 00:43:26,790
And that's something that we have to remain sensitive of.

579
00:43:27,050 --> 00:43:33,910
Everyone that has anything to do with hot, that the actions here have repercussions across

580
00:43:33,910 --> 00:43:40,090
across the state. And vice versa, the actions across the state can have reactions here as

581
00:43:40,090 --> 00:43:45,730
well. So that's why I think it's so important to have someone in Austin who is going to

582
00:43:45,730 --> 00:43:51,430
have relationships in a network there that can hear of anything. And then I trust that

583
00:43:51,430 --> 00:43:57,050
that will be relayed directly to us. If there's some reason that thankfully the legislative

584
00:43:57,050 --> 00:44:03,850
agendas items are fluid and dynamic so they can change if the need arises. And I'm

585
00:44:03,850 --> 00:44:10,290
confident the buy and we'll let us know if there is any that we need to but by

586
00:44:10,290 --> 00:44:14,690
taking this out as it shows that we love that as far as priorities or I don't

587
00:44:15,110 --> 00:44:18,670
I don't think so I just think that it's not something that we're proactively

588
00:44:18,670 --> 00:44:24,830
concerned about right now Martin I'm not sure this this might help and

589
00:44:24,830 --> 00:44:30,830
close also remember we talked about early start schools it's really affected

590
00:44:32,370 --> 00:44:35,570
He's not going to chase him, but we'll know everything that happens.

591
00:44:36,510 --> 00:44:37,810
And I feel this is the same thing.

592
00:44:37,810 --> 00:44:38,010
Okay.

593
00:44:38,490 --> 00:44:39,110
Exactly.

594
00:44:40,450 --> 00:44:40,850
Carlos?

595
00:44:45,830 --> 00:44:51,590
Also, I agree with Jason on the B&T's that he's there.

596
00:44:52,090 --> 00:44:58,370
I think he reflects the relationship of the body as generated with the city.

597
00:44:58,370 --> 00:44:59,970
Thank you.

598
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,800
I think

599
00:45:09,290 --> 00:45:20,930
that's why that line was somehow in there. The relationship has done much better. I think the relationships of agreement between much

600
00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:29,320
better and I believe I'm also pleased because I think that's

601
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,600
like that. There's more an understanding of that.

602
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,160
But I want to stick

603
00:46:09,050 --> 00:46:17,610
to people over there that actually receive a paycheck signed by you. There's not one subject that they don't know more about than I do.

604
00:46:18,450 --> 00:46:25,030
That's the expertise so I'm working on relationships and I'm working on

605
00:46:25,030 --> 00:46:29,530
overall picture and I'm working on culture and those things but don't think it's

606
00:46:29,530 --> 00:46:33,570
Marty it's that bad group knows more about everything we do than I do.

607
00:46:38,900 --> 00:46:40,380
Hopefully in each other it's a trust.

608
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:46,840
In a lot of way, the interest is good and in Marty's your credit you got to stay

609
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:55,020
You brought this to Bill T.S. and we thank you for it, so I'm going with it.

610
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,520
That's two. Any other questions or comments?

611
00:47:04,780 --> 00:47:08,240
Do you mind repeating the unit of motion in your second?

612
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,180
I think I made it.

613
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,940
General made the motion in Bill's second.

614
00:47:16,860 --> 00:47:20,180
I've seen the further comments. I'll call for a bit. All those in favor?

615
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,300
and it's unanimous by this President.

616
00:47:23,700 --> 00:47:24,160
Thank you.

617
00:47:24,460 --> 00:47:24,860
Thank you.

618
00:47:27,610 --> 00:47:29,970
And now we'll move on to Item D.

619
00:47:30,090 --> 00:47:31,690
Can you discuss the yesterday's approval

620
00:47:31,690 --> 00:47:34,770
of the annual Consolidated Peace Guests in Vince?

621
00:47:43,550 --> 00:47:45,350
Just sing to them and read that.

622
00:47:46,050 --> 00:47:46,630
That's a good idea.

623
00:47:48,090 --> 00:47:49,710
Good afternoon and good morning.

624
00:47:50,910 --> 00:47:52,430
I just heard a comment about the song,

625
00:47:52,770 --> 00:47:53,990
the song side of the work,

626
00:47:54,610 --> 00:47:55,710
or spreadsheets.

627
00:47:56,090 --> 00:47:59,030
I do that to help try to get this item

628
00:47:59,030 --> 00:48:06,210
pass through quickly as we all warm in this room together. The Consolidate of T scheduled

629
00:48:06,210 --> 00:48:10,830
us before you today was established about three years ago. Each year we bring this item

630
00:48:10,830 --> 00:48:16,030
before this board for your thoughts, your considerations, your view, your feedback and

631
00:48:16,030 --> 00:48:22,210
ultimately your approval. This is the document that we as staff use to execute the work that

632
00:48:22,210 --> 00:48:28,610
you want done through policy. So this is everything from every fee that we charge throughout

633
00:48:28,610 --> 00:48:35,330
the organization, whether it's renting up a facility, our concessionaire fees, to printing

634
00:48:35,330 --> 00:48:42,310
fees, copy fees, credit card fees, marketing services fees, anything that we have a cost

635
00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:51,330
of business that we would charge an external person or business or event to that fee is captured

636
00:48:51,330 --> 00:48:57,670
in this document. I went ahead in the past two years, we've really just brought changes

637
00:48:57,670 --> 00:49:06,130
to you. This year we brought the entire document and I color-coded it hoping to streamline and

638
00:49:06,130 --> 00:49:14,090
keep it simple. The goal here was anything in yellow is considered either a new fee or an increase

639
00:49:14,090 --> 00:49:21,270
that was greater than the 10%. Anything that is in that peach color is a 10% increase. We

640
00:49:21,270 --> 00:49:26,530
We have not made a broad across the board increase in several years, so this is something

641
00:49:26,530 --> 00:49:31,130
just to kind of keep with market and make a base level adjustment on there.

642
00:49:32,030 --> 00:49:35,890
Items that are within the blue are going to be items that we are recommending that would

643
00:49:35,890 --> 00:49:37,150
not have a change.

644
00:49:37,570 --> 00:49:41,330
A lot of times that's more of the service type thing that we provide such as junior guards

645
00:49:41,750 --> 00:49:44,270
or some of the marketing that is, again, more of a pass through.

646
00:49:44,270 --> 00:49:49,810
So I did have an item that I failed to put in this documents of my apologies.

647
00:49:50,590 --> 00:49:51,930
Before you do that, can I share?

648
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:03,160
This was getting ready to come to you with less aggressive than it is today.

649
00:50:03,980 --> 00:50:07,720
In my opinion, since we haven't touched pricing in at least three years or approximately

650
00:50:07,720 --> 00:50:13,600
three years, we're going up 10% unless you can convince me that we're going to lose business

651
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,120
or do something wrong for the public.

652
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:20,420
So, you, as vital parts of the public, I want you to be prepared when somebody comes

653
00:50:20,420 --> 00:50:22,580
you and says, hey, do you know that that went up 10 percent?

654
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:23,840
It did.

655
00:50:24,380 --> 00:50:25,820
That's why I'm hoping you'll approve.

656
00:50:26,620 --> 00:50:30,780
You know, if you look at the 10 percent, well, wages have gotten up nine during those three

657
00:50:30,780 --> 00:50:31,080
years.

658
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:35,620
And go get a burger on the island and start at $17 now, right?

659
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:42,380
So my point is, we don't owe anybody something as a lost leader.

660
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:50,480
We need to be competitive, and we need to make sure that because of our pricing, we don't

661
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,820
have to provide less services, does that make sense?

662
00:50:54,740 --> 00:50:59,760
But services cost more to provide, so we need to increase our prices from time to time.

663
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:06,060
So the real interesting ones, frankly, are the ones that are in blue, which is, we agreed,

664
00:51:06,180 --> 00:51:11,160
okay, leave them alone, but the rest, I don't want you to be caught off guard when your neighbor

665
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,680
says hey why'd that go up? Because everything costs one.

666
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,020
Is that fair? Thank you very much for that

667
00:51:20,020 --> 00:51:25,140
clarification. That is correct. The other item I want to just call to your attention and again I

668
00:51:25,140 --> 00:51:32,140
started to say I failed to put it in here. This is a one-off price at the board have proof we did

669
00:51:32,140 --> 00:51:39,380
add the 10% variable to it. If this document is approved today I would ask that the motion include

670
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:44,240
the supplement that is before you, this one-page document, that is the

671
00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:48,480
parking fees for the plaza. This is when we have a third party who rents the

672
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:54,220
parking lots from us for Loanshar Valley, Biker Valley, and Dickens on the

673
00:51:54,220 --> 00:51:59,120
Strand. So these are those fees associated with that. So if there is a motion, I

674
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:04,000
would appreciate to include this document. What we will do is we will take this

675
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,580
Excel spreadsheet, we will remove all the color codes, we will get rid of all

676
00:52:08,580 --> 00:52:12,720
the lines, we will make a streamline, you know, just be the cost of services and the units

677
00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:13,180
of measure.

678
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,680
We will then PDF that and that will be updated on our website.

679
00:52:17,060 --> 00:52:21,760
So we are fees of services, we're always open to the public and to those that use in

680
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:22,260
our services.

681
00:52:24,380 --> 00:52:35,540
Two comments, one, just kind of a process comment, perhaps if we printed this, I don't even

682
00:52:35,540 --> 00:52:37,800
Still didn't come out that good, okay.

683
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,180
That's a lot of things, let's cancel that idea.

684
00:52:41,260 --> 00:52:44,740
Second idea, I'm involved with another organization

685
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,840
who did not raise rates on a regular basis.

686
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,180
And then they got, had to go through with the larger increases.

687
00:52:53,980 --> 00:52:57,020
So from my personal opinion is in the future,

688
00:52:57,700 --> 00:53:02,700
let's try to increase these prices every year

689
00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:09,820
by the amount that's necessary to stay current with inflationary cost increases.

690
00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:15,260
I'm not in the profit making business for the park board but I'm also not going to

691
00:53:15,260 --> 00:53:20,620
be in the loss leader business and that's my opinion as a trustee, of course.

692
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:29,460
But I think that's our obligation is to charge the public the cost plus the overhead to use

693
00:53:29,460 --> 00:53:35,240
particular service. And all the way back to parking on the seawall, I've said

694
00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:41,120
there's nothing wrong with asking someone to pay for the services they use. A fair

695
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:46,620
fair a fair a fair fee. And I think here we need to be a little more cautious in

696
00:53:46,620 --> 00:53:51,160
the future of what I'm saying. Hey, we'll make everybody feel good. Because frankly

697
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,500
they don't feel good. They don't even notice it if we don't increase the price.

698
00:53:54,500 --> 00:53:59,620
So let's get the let's keep that schedule as current as we can it's my

699
00:53:59,620 --> 00:54:05,220
opinion Marty is that you have the our folks keep it as hard as possible without

700
00:54:05,220 --> 00:54:12,120
some having to do this. That's it. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm in the

701
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:18,420
line with Bill. If we did it every other year I think we'll be able to be equal

702
00:54:18,420 --> 00:54:22,920
apart with the rate of inflation as opposed to jumping up to 10 percent. I think

703
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,780
is a great idea that actually I'm finding myself actually the question is 10% or some

704
00:54:27,780 --> 00:54:33,980
of these even enough maybe it may in it you may look at it be more than that. So I agree

705
00:54:33,980 --> 00:54:38,680
with Bill there every other year maybe when we'll go back and look at it to make sure we keep

706
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:43,980
up with the rate of inflation. The other thing I'm looking at in the additional doctor that you add

707
00:54:44,660 --> 00:54:50,960
and it's just a question for me. We got the Dickens on the Strand the current fee is $800 but the

708
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:57,440
Deposit is a thousand so the deposit is actually exceed the current the rate of defeat. Is that

709
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,280
That seems yeah

710
00:55:01,580 --> 00:55:05,360
The the deposit itself is a

711
00:55:06,420 --> 00:55:14,200
In the path. We've had one provider who's actually done the rentals and they keep that deposit with us and that deposit stays from

712
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,020
would be meant to be rolled it forward.

713
00:55:16,580 --> 00:55:21,060
Part of the reason why we've kept that level at $1,000,

714
00:55:21,220 --> 00:55:22,900
so that's what the current level is at.

715
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,020
And then it's also if they were to leave the parking lot,

716
00:55:27,140 --> 00:55:29,160
a lot of garbage and debris, we would actually

717
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:29,940
deduct it from that.

718
00:55:30,460 --> 00:55:33,280
And then also if they were to cancel on us

719
00:55:33,820 --> 00:55:36,500
right before the event, and now we don't have anybody

720
00:55:36,500 --> 00:55:39,660
to fill that void for that service, then we

721
00:55:39,660 --> 00:55:41,760
would want to take care of the funds

722
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:42,920
that we would be missing out on.

723
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:48,060
That explanation helps. Thank you. Any other questions, Jim?

724
00:55:48,620 --> 00:55:56,360
I just want to say, information is fantastic. I mean, yeah, I have to take my glasses off

725
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,400
so I could get close enough to read it, because it is so much good information. But it's

726
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:05,140
fantastic information. I like how detailed it is. I like the way that it's laid out.

727
00:56:12,460 --> 00:56:12,900
It's

728
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:14,420
I mean, I'm a restaurant person.

729
00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:17,080
Restaurants have to go up on their prices

730
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:18,500
because their food cost rises.

731
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:24,060
And we all know we're in an inflation set in this hard

732
00:56:24,060 --> 00:56:24,580
right now.

733
00:56:25,060 --> 00:56:27,420
So it is justified to have to go up on some things.

734
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,260
But in smaller increments make it a lot easier

735
00:56:31,260 --> 00:56:33,120
for everybody to handle.

736
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,480
But it's a necessary step that needs to be taken.

737
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,220
I think the other interesting thing when you look at that list

738
00:56:39,220 --> 00:56:40,480
is how much stuff we do.

739
00:56:40,620 --> 00:56:41,700
You had no idea we're doing.

740
00:56:41,700 --> 00:56:48,180
Yeah, exactly. No, 100%. I learned a lot looking at this, just the difference between

741
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:53,620
winning half the quarter of the beach, winning half the beach, you know, it's very, very

742
00:56:53,620 --> 00:56:58,060
good information. There's a lot that I really didn't have any idea. But now I do.

743
00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:04,460
We appreciate it. Again, this was a really important milestone for us as an organization when we created

744
00:57:04,460 --> 00:57:09,500
this and developed it, because it does allow us to put policy to refer back to the

745
00:57:09,500 --> 00:57:13,680
consolidate fee schedules so we can update policy and not have to change the fees.

746
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:20,060
We can do that in one action and it also is very transparent to the public of our

747
00:57:20,060 --> 00:57:23,720
fees and services. So you're not having to go hunt for those different things.

748
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,400
You can look in one location. So yeah, thank you very much.

749
00:57:26,940 --> 00:57:28,860
I think Gerald had another question.

750
00:57:29,380 --> 00:57:33,120
Yeah, I just got to find a question. Again, I agree with everyone. I think this is a great idea.

751
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:40,380
of Park, Villanera Park. Have we socialized this with the city and maybe there are even

752
00:57:40,380 --> 00:57:45,220
some thoughts of they might want to sit or take us on the fees on those two parks up?

753
00:57:47,140 --> 00:57:55,120
I mean just on our document the only thing that was related to Seawolf and Villanera was

754
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:59,540
our removal of our fees last year and we kept them in because we were still managing the

755
00:57:59,540 --> 00:58:08,840
parts today we don't manage them so therefore we should be seven. Oh, I understand that, but they're aware that we're increasing our fees at all the other areas under

756
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:14,800
several and maybe they want to go back and consider that even for single even though it's not out of jurisdiction anymore.

757
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:21,780
She's right there Barbara yeah Barbara's here today. We'll definitely

758
00:58:21,780 --> 00:58:24,760
Do you have a conversation? Yeah. Just a good idea. Yeah.

759
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:30,380
Thank you, Bob. Well, it's not late. We're good talking about that.

760
00:58:30,700 --> 00:58:37,820
Go. I'm going to make a motion that we have proved the request that presented with

761
00:58:37,820 --> 00:58:42,400
the inclusion of the supplemental document that was provided to the trustees.

762
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:51,160
In a second from Robert and I'll ask June does that motion satisfy the need to include

763
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:51,420
this?

764
00:58:51,580 --> 00:58:51,680
Okay.

765
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:51,960
Great.

766
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:52,960
All right.

767
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,160
Any further comments or questions?

768
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:56,880
Okay.

769
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:57,300
See no.

770
00:58:57,440 --> 00:58:58,780
I'll go ahead and call for a vote.

771
00:58:58,920 --> 00:58:59,560
All those in favor.

772
00:59:00,820 --> 00:59:02,200
And it's unanimous about this.

773
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:02,520
Present.

774
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:03,800
All right.

775
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:04,600
Thank you, Vince.

776
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:09,540
And please stay with us for item E update on our official artificial intelligence parking

777
00:59:09,540 --> 00:59:10,760
system at Beach Parks.

778
00:59:13,740 --> 00:59:17,540
again thank you for allowing me to be here this afternoon to provide a quick

779
00:59:17,540 --> 00:59:23,540
update on our parking our AI parking at both East Beach and Stewart Beach here

780
00:59:23,540 --> 00:59:29,480
to let you know that this week as of Friday we will be turning the system

781
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:33,880
fully on and when I say fully on I mean signs will be posted we will be

782
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:42,480
collecting funds and we will start the process of using AI in our pay by app

783
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:48,440
system to start collecting funds and to do the non-payment collection in the

784
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:54,140
previous action. You've established the non-payment collection fee. For those

785
00:59:54,140 --> 00:59:58,700
that do not pay, there will be a process in which we will go about collecting

786
00:59:58,700 --> 00:59:59,620
those fees.

787
01:00:00,780 --> 01:00:27,220
This is new to us. We've learned a lot over the last four to six months, and we know there's still a lot more for us to learn. And we are diligent and going to be diligent and providing updates on a regular basis. We will be monitoring every transaction and action. And we will be coming back with regular updates. And we will be, we'll make sure that if the system is not functioning as we need it to be,

788
01:00:27,220 --> 01:00:31,140
We will be quick to make adjustments on that as well.

789
01:00:32,060 --> 01:00:34,820
There will be additional signage that you will see at the park.

790
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:40,300
Very clear that there is a payment system.

791
01:00:40,900 --> 01:00:42,860
What to do, how to go in, what to look for.

792
01:00:43,340 --> 01:00:45,580
There will also be a reminder before you leave the park.

793
01:00:45,580 --> 01:00:50,760
This is, did you pay before you leave to avoid additional collection fees?

794
01:00:51,740 --> 01:00:54,560
So again, we will continue to monitor the success

795
01:00:54,560 --> 01:01:03,220
and or not success and take appropriate flick and appropriate adjustments as needed from that point.

796
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:09,000
So happy to answer any questions for you on the system.

797
01:01:09,860 --> 01:01:10,480
If you're already.

798
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:12,920
Any questions or comments from the trustees?

799
01:01:15,740 --> 01:01:18,280
Well then I'll say is that I'm excited to see this.

800
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:25,060
I mean every successful organization on the planet is incorporating AI to increase their margins.

801
01:01:25,060 --> 01:01:31,420
So, this is great to see the part we're going in that direction too, and I can't wait to see the results.

802
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:33,760
And I'm hoping for the best.

803
01:01:34,420 --> 01:01:38,940
And maybe that can be applied elsewhere, and you can find other applications for AI as well.

804
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:40,020
Great.

805
01:01:42,170 --> 01:01:42,530
All right.

806
01:01:43,530 --> 01:01:44,730
Thank you very much, Vince.

807
01:01:45,270 --> 01:01:47,550
And now we'll go on to item F.

808
01:01:47,910 --> 01:01:50,810
That date you discussed sale 250 and money.

809
01:01:51,630 --> 01:01:53,590
Real quick, are you still counting time?

810
01:01:54,170 --> 01:01:55,450
All right, I'll go first.

811
01:01:56,210 --> 01:01:57,110
Sand 250.

812
01:01:58,250 --> 01:02:01,290
I'll tell you where we are today, and then I'll let you ask questions.

813
01:02:04,290 --> 01:02:10,070
GHF had a very good meeting, the Tony and I attended late last week, and I'll tell you

814
01:02:10,070 --> 01:02:10,930
kind of where they are.

815
01:02:12,170 --> 01:02:18,030
One thing that's very cool was they got HEB to sponsor 100% of the food for the crew

816
01:02:18,030 --> 01:02:19,230
of the entire three months.

817
01:02:19,230 --> 01:02:27,630
So shop at your local HEP, but very nice of them, it's very cool and apparently at one

818
01:02:27,630 --> 01:02:33,210
point they were given a list of the kind of things they needed, HEP is going way above

819
01:02:33,210 --> 01:02:36,130
and beyond what they're actually going to provide, so very cool.

820
01:02:37,930 --> 01:02:42,750
Everything is now online, including ticketing, you can buy your tickets now and ticket prices,

821
01:02:43,170 --> 01:02:49,110
the tickets they landed on, for the Friday the third sale or $5,000, Saturday the fourth

822
01:02:49,110 --> 01:02:57,750
sale or $10,000. They have been successful in getting the port of call. That's not what you call it.

823
01:02:58,110 --> 01:03:03,510
The stops, the summer tall ship festivals and summer just us showing up where I've been

824
01:03:03,510 --> 01:03:08,890
shooting the past about appearance fees and those things. That all is coming together very well.

825
01:03:09,830 --> 01:03:15,170
There's a lot of detail if you go online and look in the pricing the prices according

826
01:03:15,170 --> 01:03:21,830
to which events you may want to participate if you were to travel to one of those activation locations.

827
01:03:23,950 --> 01:03:26,830
They have a struggle they talked about which is captains.

828
01:03:29,530 --> 01:03:34,590
Everybody that's sending a ship is looking for the same captains because there's legal requirements.

829
01:03:36,010 --> 01:03:40,830
And while I feel very good that they'll get it done, there is a genuine concern.

830
01:03:40,830 --> 01:03:43,610
But if you have it right amount of captains, you can't go.

831
01:03:44,690 --> 01:03:52,030
So I mean, I think that's a, if they have 10 things that are wrong, that's the only

832
01:03:52,030 --> 01:03:52,650
one that matters.

833
01:03:53,510 --> 01:03:55,790
Everything else will figure it out and then come together.

834
01:03:56,070 --> 01:04:02,230
So if you know certified, registered, whatever the right term is, captains send them their way.

835
01:04:03,210 --> 01:04:07,830
And they'll probably end up in a bidding war because they're wanted everywhere related

836
01:04:07,830 --> 01:04:09,770
to sell to 50.

837
01:04:13,820 --> 01:04:14,720
Any questions?

838
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:23,260
Well, I guess, you know, we've come, we've had that agreement

839
01:04:23,260 --> 01:04:27,300
with the city, you know, that sponsorship, so we still need to work through what's going

840
01:04:27,300 --> 01:04:32,280
to happen to that. Some of that has been spent on action. We have, we have no agreement.

841
01:04:33,940 --> 01:04:42,040
We have, we owe them nothing, we have no liability with them. And while the city approved

842
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:55,820
The city approved us doing a revenue guarantee up to $600,000 that is now no longer a

843
01:04:55,820 --> 01:04:57,080
requester of what possible.

844
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:57,720
It's dead.

845
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:00,700
Is that the question you were asking?

846
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:02,280
I couldn't hear the question.

847
01:05:03,060 --> 01:05:09,840
I was asking about the $600,000 the city had offered as an investment in this project.

848
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:14,200
Well, the city approved our budget amendment, it was always hard for money.

849
01:05:15,380 --> 01:05:19,060
The city money was the World Cup, $600.

850
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:22,680
I think, if I'm wrong, please.

851
01:05:22,900 --> 01:05:30,580
But I think we never had a signed agreement with G.H. F. So we would, I would hope, have

852
01:05:30,580 --> 01:05:35,100
never transferred any funds or forgot any financial support.

853
01:05:35,100 --> 01:05:51,580
So, I think in terms of the unfortunate situation where it didn't work out, it was handled beautifully by our staff in terms of protecting the park board and working toward it, and then coming to the realization there was kind of a stop.

854
01:05:52,340 --> 01:05:52,680
That's right.

855
01:05:55,580 --> 01:06:01,300
And I would like, you know, to take a moment to thank the part board staff for getting

856
01:06:01,300 --> 01:06:08,120
this project off the ground, because, you know, in talking to Marty and also spoke to

857
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:12,320
Gerald to build about it, there's a couple of things that we realize is that one of our

858
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:14,340
primary objectives are still intact.

859
01:06:15,100 --> 01:06:22,200
I mean, one, the illicit is looking very promising that it's going to be in the sale

860
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:28,960
250 event and on the 4th of July in New York Harbor and that's the number one objective

861
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:34,220
and cannot wait to see that happen. In the number two we're still able to promote

862
01:06:34,220 --> 01:06:39,640
Galveston as a destination for cultural and historical assets because we will be involved

863
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:44,100
in some of the promotion work as my understanding as well. The way would normally be involved

864
01:06:44,100 --> 01:06:47,700
in just promoting the illicit in such going forward.

865
01:06:47,900 --> 01:06:52,880
So I'm excited about this, remain excited about it,

866
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:57,100
remain optimistic, and look forward to a wonderful result

867
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:02,440
led by GHF for the community overall.

868
01:07:03,860 --> 01:07:06,140
Did they get a response from our bank loan

869
01:07:06,140 --> 01:07:10,780
or is there any of our things that I don't know?

870
01:07:10,780 --> 01:07:14,860
of the answer to is there a lead sponsor? I really don't know.

871
01:07:20,250 --> 01:07:21,390
I'm sure that nothing's

872
01:07:21,390 --> 01:07:25,650
been said, so I would guess probably not. I would guess there's something being negotiated

873
01:07:25,650 --> 01:07:30,550
but at this time the answers no. They just didn't need our assistance anymore.

874
01:07:32,490 --> 01:07:32,970
Well

875
01:07:35,370 --> 01:07:42,910
specifically they decided it was advantageous to them to get their own line of credit and

876
01:07:42,910 --> 01:07:48,870
fund it themselves. Their board said, wait a minute, we can do this, which means that

877
01:07:48,870 --> 01:07:56,350
of any profit split that was going to happen, they now can maintain all of that. And frankly,

878
01:07:56,830 --> 01:08:02,550
I think a couple of you knew this. I predicted that could happen. And frankly, if I was a

879
01:08:02,550 --> 01:08:05,850
GHF, I might have done it because it makes sense.

880
01:08:08,050 --> 01:08:10,450
We need to be proud. And I don't mind

881
01:08:10,450 --> 01:08:14,590
that we're on TV or any world. We need to be proud that we got them to do this. Without

882
01:08:14,590 --> 01:08:17,090
us, Alyssa would not be going any more.

883
01:08:17,170 --> 01:08:17,750
I agree.

884
01:08:18,850 --> 01:08:24,270
And so, what I give a credit to a lot of people outside our organization that made us

885
01:08:24,270 --> 01:08:30,130
aware of where we were and what it could be. Anyway, and so I'm really proud of that, really,

886
01:08:30,250 --> 01:08:34,750
really proud of that. I am a little sad that we're not going to be standing next to them.

887
01:08:35,910 --> 01:08:39,990
I'm happy for them that they don't have to negotiate every decision because we're not

888
01:08:39,990 --> 01:08:46,150
easy to deal with. Nor are they. So, but when it's all said and done, I think Jason said it well,

889
01:08:46,730 --> 01:08:54,250
it's gonna be, it's gonna be a great, it's great for the citizens, it's great for our

890
01:08:54,250 --> 01:08:59,510
historical tourism, and we're just great for the reputation of Galveston. It's all good.

891
01:09:00,130 --> 01:09:06,510
One of the things too that we're grateful for GHF finding out about it for us when we did is that

892
01:09:06,510 --> 01:09:11,810
There were some limitations on some of what we had envisioned to be sponsorship opportunities

893
01:09:11,810 --> 01:09:23,350
that's right, placed on by CL250 in New York, not us, not anyone else, but if we push

894
01:09:23,350 --> 01:09:30,090
hard on that, we've done heavy leverage to negotiate with them, CL250, and we did not want

895
01:09:30,090 --> 01:09:36,910
to jeopardize GHF being able to make this happen on their own, if possible, and thank

896
01:09:36,910 --> 01:09:40,050
God knock on wood so far, it looks like it's very possible.

897
01:09:41,170 --> 01:09:46,310
There's two other things I failed to mention which are interesting is they do have dancing

898
01:09:46,310 --> 01:09:51,250
wears firm under contract and she's working, they're working river artifact, she's the one

899
01:09:51,250 --> 01:09:57,610
that brought HEB, HEB is one of her clients for 18 or 20 years, so having her and her team

900
01:09:57,610 --> 01:10:02,890
on board, there's a lot more that I think just leads to more potential successes.

901
01:10:03,590 --> 01:10:06,530
And the other thing, and I don't know all the details yet, but you might want to put it

902
01:10:06,530 --> 01:10:12,510
on your calendar, is that May 15th, there's going to be a launch party leaving here, 21

903
01:10:12,510 --> 01:10:13,410
with a list of leads.

904
01:10:13,790 --> 01:10:21,430
So I don't know that she's actually leaving on the 15th, but there is a party, and she's

905
01:10:21,430 --> 01:10:23,830
not leaving the 15th, she's probably leaving the next morning.

906
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:26,380
Great.

907
01:10:26,380 --> 01:10:30,520
I'd like to request this and I take this candy ball like that.

908
01:10:30,940 --> 01:10:33,860
I think that Karla says that the question is coming.

909
01:10:39,500 --> 01:10:47,610
Yes, I went to follow up with the park board like you said.

910
01:10:47,830 --> 01:10:51,630
I think you guys made sure that their

911
01:11:00,210 --> 01:11:04,470
eyes open and showed them that they would be a possibility for them to go out.

912
01:11:04,470 --> 01:11:12,370
And then we were there as partners and the guys should be very proud of you guys, but basically open their eyes to see okay

913
01:11:12,370 --> 01:11:15,550
Oh, yes, we can do it. You know, give them that extra push

914
01:11:15,550 --> 01:11:22,650
Use double looking for those sponsorships after outside and I think we showed them we showed the

915
01:11:22,650 --> 01:11:23,610
other

916
01:11:25,110 --> 01:11:34,010
Other entities around galson that if they need help who right there to help them if it that helps promote galson and I think that was a very

917
01:11:34,010 --> 01:11:35,470
Very, very great things.

918
01:11:35,750 --> 01:11:38,410
Now other entities can say, oh well, you know what?

919
01:11:38,610 --> 01:11:40,190
I don't think it's going to happen.

920
01:11:40,670 --> 01:11:42,510
Let me go check where the park were.

921
01:11:42,630 --> 01:11:43,990
Let me see if they can help us.

922
01:11:44,330 --> 01:11:48,930
Let me see if they can open our eyes.

923
01:11:49,050 --> 01:11:49,970
Or if they can be our backup.

924
01:11:51,170 --> 01:11:53,630
Racking us with a file and see if needed.

925
01:11:53,870 --> 01:11:55,450
If it's something that is really worth it.

926
01:11:55,610 --> 01:12:00,030
And I think that's, we're showing the whole Galveston Island

927
01:12:00,030 --> 01:12:04,610
that what we are capable of being there.

928
01:12:04,610 --> 01:12:09,830
And also telling them, you can do it through, I think you guys did an amazing job of creating

929
01:12:09,830 --> 01:12:15,210
that and showing them that there was an opportunity because I, if I remember correctly, when

930
01:12:15,210 --> 01:12:19,590
Marty went and talked to them, they were like, we are isolated, they're arms down, they

931
01:12:19,590 --> 01:12:25,150
were kind of, I'm not saying that we're defeated, but they were kind of want to do it.

932
01:12:25,390 --> 01:12:30,870
When you came in, just brought more power, more energy to them and that energy now, where

933
01:12:30,870 --> 01:12:34,510
they were able to catch their own, they were able to help

934
01:12:34,510 --> 01:12:36,170
and anything, no A.T.D. is helping them.

935
01:12:36,770 --> 01:12:39,150
And those things that they didn't even

936
01:12:39,150 --> 01:12:42,440
got from regulation to do.

937
01:12:51,710 --> 01:12:54,670
From seven to nine, on the 15th of May,

938
01:12:54,950 --> 01:12:56,130
call the sunset kickoff.

939
01:12:56,670 --> 01:12:59,410
First loop to sunset kickoff, so it's good.

940
01:13:00,330 --> 01:13:01,390
And tickets are available.

941
01:13:02,250 --> 01:13:02,570
Great.

942
01:13:03,050 --> 01:13:03,150
Good.

943
01:13:06,220 --> 01:13:09,160
Well, thank you very much, Marty, for that day.

944
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:13,140
and if I can read the room properly,

945
01:13:13,660 --> 01:13:15,680
it looks like for item G, update,

946
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:17,940
discuss people will come to age 26,

947
01:13:18,620 --> 01:13:19,400
expecting the melody.

948
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:21,900
I'm not turning.

949
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:23,760
Correct.

950
01:13:26,340 --> 01:13:26,640
That's right.

951
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:30,880
Tony is an officer in a trade organization

952
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:32,060
that he had to be at,

953
01:13:32,220 --> 01:13:34,640
so he literally drove to Austin this morning at him.

954
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:39,260
Okay, well thank you, good afternoon.

955
01:13:39,860 --> 01:13:42,180
I'm not sure if he saw two very large balls

956
01:13:43,980 --> 01:13:46,400
We'll touch on those, you've heard about that a little bit.

957
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:50,040
I wanted to show you visually what we've been working on.

958
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:53,520
So again, visit Galveston, we're a marketing organization.

959
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:57,280
So what we're trying to do is build content, add different things so we can market.

960
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:03,620
As a reminder, as part of the Limited Promotional Partnership, we are featured in this is the

961
01:14:03,620 --> 01:14:11,080
link we're driving people to on the official World Cup website and then also on the app.

962
01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:17,820
So this is where, so that's why we're trying to build as much content as possible here, so I'm just going to briefly walk you through this page.

963
01:14:18,440 --> 01:14:28,200
So we're trying to use some fun little lingo, you know, kick it on the beach, the match schedule that has all been finalized now, and then the navigation.

964
01:14:28,540 --> 01:14:29,920
So this is what we're focusing on.

965
01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:34,880
You know, with part of the promotional partnership, we have to speak about World Cup.

966
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:38,440
They really want people to know what it's all about, the information.

967
01:14:38,440 --> 01:14:47,200
So that has to be a primary focus, the proximity because that's what we're counting on is we are so close to everything, come on down here, why choose Galveston, where to stay?

968
01:14:47,860 --> 01:14:53,800
Attractions, things to do, dining drinks, and then watch parties. We listed all of these sports bars on the island as well.

969
01:14:54,260 --> 01:14:59,980
Plus there are some local watch parties. We had a great call last week with Delpapa, Michelobel Church.

970
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:29,980
So, we're adding all of that information once we find out all the details. So, again, this is just a very fluid area that we can add a lot of content. We're also adding blogs, adding relevant content. So, the PR team, they've written several things, Galveston, and it's cultural history. We're trying to tie back up, you know, what is it? What is it called?

971
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:32,080
connection and what would drive traffic here.

972
01:15:32,620 --> 01:15:35,560
And then itineraries from that day to beach day

973
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,040
just different things to do,

974
01:15:37,340 --> 01:15:39,900
where to eat, drink and experience.

975
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:41,540
So we're just adding just a bunch

976
01:15:41,540 --> 01:15:42,720
of different content here.

977
01:15:43,100 --> 01:15:44,440
Again, we talk about the proximity,

978
01:15:44,440 --> 01:15:46,360
different things to do from NRG

979
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:49,560
to the interesting things on the way down,

980
01:15:49,740 --> 01:15:51,480
from the airports, to space center,

981
01:15:51,580 --> 01:15:53,740
Houston, KEMA, to Galveston.

982
01:15:54,020 --> 01:15:58,260
And then again, just a lot of other good content

983
01:15:58,260 --> 01:15:59,020
for the website.

984
01:15:59,020 --> 01:16:05,760
I did want to briefly call out the Art of Soccer Program because again I know we've touched

985
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:10,800
briefly here but I did want to let you know we've done some interactive elements to it.

986
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:16,640
So with this, not only did we add a group map of where they're going to be located so we

987
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:20,380
will keep updating this because the thought is every month we kind of move it around and

988
01:16:20,380 --> 01:16:23,080
just make it a traveling exhibit of where all they're going to be.

989
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:33,910
We added this interactive where you can I'm looking at the screen and not on the computer if you go

990
01:16:33,910 --> 01:16:44,330
into full screen. These are all 3D elements of the network. And so you can go to each one of them and see them in detail.

991
01:16:47,310 --> 01:16:53,530
So the the beach culture one is here and as you will notice it's the new

992
01:16:53,530 --> 01:17:01,510
lifeguard tower color, fishing on the pier, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing,

993
01:17:02,330 --> 01:17:07,830
chair umbrella, kites, seagulls, so it's just, you know, it's a fun, fun

994
01:17:07,830 --> 01:17:13,450
reposition station and then the nature one which you've seen out there and then the

995
01:17:13,450 --> 01:17:20,390
maritime one, it's just everything, so it's nice, it has the steering wheel and

996
01:17:20,390 --> 01:17:28,070
everything from the battleship Texas to the Talship Elissa, tripping cargo, all

997
01:17:28,070 --> 01:17:32,150
the different, all the different elements. So we did want to make sure you were aware

998
01:17:32,150 --> 01:17:37,670
of that. We are getting a lot of leverage about this from Ernst Media. There's a

999
01:17:37,670 --> 01:17:43,850
organization called News O'Matic. And it's an international group that teaches

1000
01:17:43,850 --> 01:17:48,810
elementary and middle school kids, just different random history. So they reached

1001
01:17:48,810 --> 01:17:53,570
out, they saw the article about the soccer balls and they wanted to, specifically

1002
01:17:53,570 --> 01:17:57,850
in the Juneteenth Ball, but now they're adding this element in their E-blast in

1003
01:17:57,850 --> 01:18:02,470
June that's going to send out worldwide to all of their, so you know, teaching, teaching

1004
01:18:02,470 --> 01:18:08,970
children around the world. Again soccer or football is an international language so it's

1005
01:18:08,970 --> 01:18:16,090
a great way to just educate people. That's it. I'm open to any questions. Yes sir.

1006
01:18:16,550 --> 01:18:22,270
I want to add to her presentation that at noon today the soccer balls were not there

1007
01:18:23,050 --> 01:18:28,190
and somebody jumped to all kinds of hoops because I said I want the trustees to see them.

1008
01:18:28,190 --> 01:18:34,250
So somebody got them here, Donna, with that you thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

1009
01:18:40,110 --> 01:18:42,550
It takes ability, this is team sport.

1010
01:18:44,410 --> 01:18:49,490
I just thought you guys need to see it, you're such a huge part of this, we got two of them here.

1011
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,900
Those two were at the visitor center, right?

1012
01:19:00,340 --> 01:19:06,020
What's missing from those is, and should be ready in about four more weeks, three more weeks.

1013
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:10,960
Is there actually going to be a logo stand that they go on, which is a fabric?

1014
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:12,480
Have we scaled you that before?

1015
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:14,640
It's about a foot tall.

1016
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,900
It will sit off the ground and will sit on top of it.

1017
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:23,440
In about a month, those will be ready, so they'll sit on something.

1018
01:19:23,620 --> 01:19:27,940
There's also a plexiglass case, like a trophy case,

1019
01:19:27,940 --> 01:19:33,840
it sits over the top of it. And we have decided they will all be interior shot. They won't.

1020
01:19:34,140 --> 01:19:39,940
If you leave right now and you touch it, the humidity already is making the paint.

1021
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:45,740
Anyway, so we just need to be and we did it all right. We just need to be very careful

1022
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:54,220
that we get many, many, many years out of this. And I don't know, what was the story on the

1023
01:19:54,220 --> 01:19:58,980
June 10th where it might end up? Traveling leisure the June the June issue. No,

1024
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:04,680
would I mean life forever? Okay. Well, not forever. We said it was on loan. We

1025
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:08,220
have sent out several letters. So again, very proud of this, but again, we're

1026
01:20:08,220 --> 01:20:12,760
trying. It can't hurt. So we found out that Obama is opening the presidential

1027
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:19,660
center on June 10th. So we sent a letter to their curator in Chicago and Chicago is

1028
01:20:19,660 --> 01:20:23,880
not a host city. So what does that mean? They're opening this on June 10th. They're

1029
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:28,400
not a host city. This is a way for them to bring in World Cup and then also

1030
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:31,980
Juneteenth. And they don't have anything from the birthplace, but he's

1031
01:20:31,980 --> 01:20:35,660
opening on Juneteenth. So we thought it was just kind of a perfect storm. So we

1032
01:20:35,660 --> 01:20:38,620
wrote a pitch letter to the curator. It's been a week and a half. I haven't

1033
01:20:38,620 --> 01:20:42,040
heard back. We were waiting till the end of this week to send that another

1034
01:20:42,700 --> 01:20:47,240
another email. Then last week, we sent to two of the curators at this

1035
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:53,300
Smithsonian. The one is focused on sports. The other one is emancipation, a

1036
01:20:53,300 --> 01:20:59,460
reconstruction and so we're hoping we're hoping so stay tuned but again we're

1037
01:20:59,460 --> 01:21:02,920
saying on loan that we'd like this to be a traveling exhibit and get a lot

1038
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:16,820
of mileage out of it so if we had information on the artist so here at the

1039
01:21:16,820 --> 01:21:21,280
bottom of the page we mentioned every single one of the artists and a little bit

1040
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:23,360
of information about them.

1041
01:21:26,180 --> 01:21:30,120
It's beautiful. Yes, yes it's so important because

1042
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,400
again we wouldn't have them without the talented artists to put them on the

1043
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:38,580
other. But let me just say I have received a tremendous amount of feedback

1044
01:21:38,580 --> 01:21:45,180
positive about these balls. It is the buzz word in the community. It really

1045
01:21:45,180 --> 01:21:51,700
truly is and I got to think the individual artists and certainly think you know

1046
01:21:51,700 --> 01:21:56,260
the park boy staff for bringing this whole thing together but it has been the

1047
01:21:56,260 --> 01:21:59,980
buzz word for the last two to three weeks in community particularly in the

1048
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:05,300
Juneteenth and it's been a lot of the special about it they're super proud about it

1049
01:22:05,300 --> 01:22:11,500
as well as I so thank you guys. I got an email saying you need to get to

1050
01:22:11,500 --> 01:22:12,140
It's neocultural.

1051
01:22:12,540 --> 01:22:13,540
You've got to get over there.

1052
01:22:13,820 --> 01:22:14,140
So, yeah.

1053
01:22:15,340 --> 01:22:18,580
Before I even know they were ready to move to this place, I thought they were waiting

1054
01:22:18,580 --> 01:22:19,080
for the stand.

1055
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:20,380
I don't know.

1056
01:22:20,480 --> 01:22:27,220
If you look at the one of them, they're all amazing, and they're all just so unique and

1057
01:22:27,220 --> 01:22:27,600
different.

1058
01:22:27,820 --> 01:22:33,980
But the icon ball, if you haven't, I know, sorry, this one in the middle, the icon ball,

1059
01:22:34,440 --> 01:22:37,240
the opportunities are endless when you can put this.

1060
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,840
there's, you know, you have Bishop's Palace, but then Rudy Manchin.

1061
01:22:41,060 --> 01:22:43,920
The good thing is people are clamoring, there's, I want the ball.

1062
01:22:44,060 --> 01:22:44,760
No, I want the ball.

1063
01:22:44,940 --> 01:22:46,480
So, take your turn.

1064
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:50,880
Rudy Gardens, Pleasure Pier, up top, here's Old Red.

1065
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:51,740
It's big, really, really.

1066
01:22:52,300 --> 01:22:53,820
Then, you know, the Galvestes.

1067
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:56,500
So, there's just so many, so many locations and places

1068
01:22:56,500 --> 01:22:57,960
where we can put the ball.

1069
01:22:58,420 --> 01:23:01,660
And look at the, I mean, just how seamlessly it's all integrated

1070
01:23:01,660 --> 01:23:04,260
of you think about your favorite icons on the island.

1071
01:23:04,540 --> 01:23:07,140
So, again, thank you for,

1072
01:23:07,140 --> 01:23:09,240
or the support of letting us do the project,

1073
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:14,800
but it was fun, the gentleman at B.O.I. on Broadway,

1074
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,260
who did the priming,

1075
01:23:17,540 --> 01:23:19,720
and then also put the clear coat

1076
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,060
to protect it from paint and different issues.

1077
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:25,480
He said, these balls are beautiful.

1078
01:23:26,020 --> 01:23:28,760
He said, there's so much better than in Houston.

1079
01:23:30,540 --> 01:23:32,240
And he said, are you all gonna sell them?

1080
01:23:32,460 --> 01:23:33,880
He said, I don't want to buy one in balls.

1081
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:36,360
I mean, this gentleman at an auto repair shop

1082
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:38,320
is wanting to buy the ball.

1083
01:23:38,480 --> 01:23:40,220
So it's everybody's excited about it.

1084
01:23:40,780 --> 01:23:42,960
But Houston did the same thing.

1085
01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:44,660
This is the artist's soccer.

1086
01:23:44,780 --> 01:23:47,160
They kicked it off as part of their pitch

1087
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:49,120
to become a host city.

1088
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:51,560
So they've been doing them for a while,

1089
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:52,400
but it's a fundraising.

1090
01:23:53,020 --> 01:23:56,140
So for $10,000, companies have been buying these balls

1091
01:23:56,140 --> 01:23:57,460
and branding them and putting,

1092
01:23:57,840 --> 01:23:59,900
you know, having just different people paying them.

1093
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:01,120
So if you go to Hobby Airport

1094
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:02,620
in the baggage claim, you'll see them

1095
01:24:02,620 --> 01:24:04,220
in just around different areas.

1096
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:09,720
No, I've got a question. Is this at all coordinated with our art wall?

1097
01:24:09,860 --> 01:24:11,220
Not yet.

1098
01:24:13,260 --> 01:24:13,820
I can't.

1099
01:24:13,980 --> 01:24:18,340
That might be an opportunity to ask for the word a little bit.

1100
01:24:18,900 --> 01:24:19,380
Absolutely.

1101
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:20,440
That's great.

1102
01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:26,560
So, May 12th, Mark your calendar for May 12th is Tourism Summit.

1103
01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:32,580
We're having all five of the balls at Tourism Summit and then we will distribute them.

1104
01:24:32,580 --> 01:24:38,660
So that would be from 10 to 3 and it's a great day of education, everything from AI to

1105
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:43,240
economic impact trends, lots of good

1106
01:24:45,100 --> 01:24:46,160
Good topics

1107
01:24:47,620 --> 01:24:54,180
Melody I have a quick question over marketing the island is a place to stay

1108
01:24:54,900 --> 01:25:00,400
Those of us that spend part of our lives in Houston and Galveston realize that this time of year

1109
01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:06,200
there's a noticeable improvement in temperature and sea breeze as you get to the coast.

1110
01:25:06,500 --> 01:25:14,560
So I was wondering if that was being promoted on the island is a place to it's more comfortable

1111
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:20,300
to stay down here because as we all know the almost it's more comfortable here than almost

1112
01:25:20,300 --> 01:25:26,200
anywhere else in Texas as well when it comes to heat and the sea breeze.

1113
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:26,280
Yes.

1114
01:25:27,300 --> 01:25:31,540
We've done those primarily in the summer kind of the heat campaign, because it's always

1115
01:25:31,540 --> 01:25:35,960
about 10 degrees cooler beer than it is anywhere else, especially like San Antonio's pure

1116
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:36,340
concrete.

1117
01:25:36,340 --> 01:25:39,040
So yes, we do have those campaigns going.

1118
01:25:39,440 --> 01:25:45,020
We haven't right now because it's been so pleasant, but yes, those will kick up.

1119
01:25:45,340 --> 01:25:50,020
I think that would be something, yeah, to capitalize on for our guests who are coming into Houston

1120
01:25:50,020 --> 01:25:55,060
and everything and are probably a lot of them be shocked with how hot and humid it is.

1121
01:25:55,060 --> 01:26:00,900
and then that there is a place 48 miles south that does provide some relief.

1122
01:26:01,540 --> 01:26:02,020
I

1123
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:15,040
think I know I'm in Mexico and I have one of the bolognese who called it.

1124
01:26:15,140 --> 01:26:21,660
It was football and where I met it because of the lobbies where I put those in, I got one.

1125
01:26:22,220 --> 01:26:27,440
And even though I'm biased, sometimes the worst Mexico would do is the city where I would pour and grew up.

1126
01:26:28,420 --> 01:26:31,180
I would say in this case, we dealt with another old job

1127
01:26:31,180 --> 01:26:38,560
compared to the way that they curated the Valonis in Gomstum compared to the one that

1128
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:39,220
they have here.

1129
01:26:39,580 --> 01:26:40,360
They are prettier.

1130
01:26:40,900 --> 01:26:41,740
I can tell you.

1131
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:43,880
That's a

1132
01:26:47,950 --> 01:26:51,270
soccer ball right there, but they got here.

1133
01:27:13,850 --> 01:27:17,950
Indeed, the artist that they did, it's very, very, very, very amazing.

1134
01:27:18,590 --> 01:27:22,930
And I'm excited about it, everybody spoke here in Mexico City,

1135
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:26,440
went to the games, the games

1136
01:27:26,440 --> 01:27:31,260
are kind of happy here at Mexico City because they're already planning on to use them and plan

1137
01:27:31,260 --> 01:27:38,160
for some of the cows to go watch games. So I'm excited and I'm proud of what part of the head

1138
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:38,260
about.

1139
01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:46,140
So I now understand completely why you have dialed into this meeting. I can't believe it.

1140
01:27:47,300 --> 01:27:50,940
Thank you for that visual demonstration. That's incredible.

1141
01:27:54,900 --> 01:27:57,800
Any other comments over FIFA World Cup

1142
01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:58,660
up 2026.

1143
01:28:01,150 --> 01:28:09,890
All right. We'll move on to item nine, future agenda items. And I know Bob, you had an announcement. I don't know if it's an agenda item or an announcement.

1144
01:28:10,330 --> 01:28:16,410
Okay. We can wait until the announcements. All right. Any future agenda items from the group? Okay.

1145
01:28:18,740 --> 01:28:21,680
Then we'll move on to item 10. Announcements.

1146
01:28:23,940 --> 01:28:29,360
Well, I bring this up because earlier today I was in a meeting of the real estate committee

1147
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:36,880
which is a joint city council and worst board committee and the part board came up in

1148
01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:42,680
conjunction with a project that we're doing and pushing through and that's a, you know,

1149
01:28:42,820 --> 01:28:48,200
the worst board is done a pretty good job of evaluating and getting people on the island

1150
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:51,880
and onto the cruise ships. Pretty good. They've done a good job of that and the infrastructure

1151
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:55,880
is under construction to make that more efficient. But what we haven't done yet is look at the

1152
01:28:55,880 --> 01:29:01,000
impact on additional cruise ships. You know, we have four right now. We've got fifths

1153
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:05,040
knocking on the door. Like we have as many as seven. But what we haven't done yet is look

1154
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:12,080
at the impact of this additional traffic on the adjacent neighborhood and downtown. In

1155
01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:22,520
happens south of Harborside. So this committee did a scope of work and issued an RFQ to get

1156
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:27,260
a consultant to do this for us and what we're looking at is making projections for additional

1157
01:29:27,260 --> 01:29:37,340
traffic based on more cruise ships on an area between 33rd and 14th and of course the water

1158
01:29:37,340 --> 01:29:43,640
front to a church tree. So that takes in downtown, it takes in the neighborhoods, Jason,

1159
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:48,940
East End neighborhoods. And what we're looking for, if you live in East End or you've been

1160
01:29:48,940 --> 01:29:53,140
in the East End, you've probably seen some people walking in the street pulling, pulling

1161
01:29:53,140 --> 01:29:56,820
a luggage, maybe pushing a baby carriage in our like 3 or 4 blocks away from the Christian

1162
01:29:57,440 --> 01:29:59,920
and they're doing that because there's no sidewalk, which is

1163
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,980
It's not acceptable, it's not safe. So what is our infrastructure deficit that we need to improve on to be able to handle that kind of traffic? How are people going to get across downtown, across harbor side from downtown? And then in addition to that, we're going to be looking at parking downtown. Parking downtown has been an issue for, is it? And everybody's lifetime has been an issue. So, you know, when we talk about mobility, it's not just moving around. It's what you do with what you're moving around.

1164
01:30:29,980 --> 01:30:34,220
around with when you get there. That means parking. So we're going to be looking at getting

1165
01:30:34,220 --> 01:30:40,240
the data on how many spaces do we have available, how many of them are loading zones or

1166
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:45,680
anticast spaces, how many parking lots do we have, how are they managed, where they cost

1167
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:50,820
or they private public valley, how many parking garages I know we got four downtown and they're

1168
01:30:50,820 --> 01:30:57,080
all sitting there half empty. Are there some opportunities there to be able to utilize these

1169
01:30:57,080 --> 01:31:02,360
parking garages or any of our assets more effectively for people like people who work

1170
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:07,200
down to, for instance, people who live down to, people who run a business down town,

1171
01:31:07,380 --> 01:31:09,840
downtown owners, as well as the tourists.

1172
01:31:11,300 --> 01:31:16,860
There's, downtown has an unusual demand on its infrastructure because there's so many

1173
01:31:16,860 --> 01:31:19,200
different types of stakeholders, it's not like living in a neighborhood.

1174
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:24,800
It is a neighborhood but it's also a commercial area and it's also loaded with tourists and

1175
01:31:24,800 --> 01:31:30,020
And so we're going to be looking at the impact of additional cruise ships on downtown mobility

1176
01:31:30,020 --> 01:31:31,160
and parking.

1177
01:31:32,380 --> 01:31:38,260
And so what we talked about was there's a lot of different mobility studies out there.

1178
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:40,460
The port has one called Safe Streets.

1179
01:31:40,980 --> 01:31:46,580
The city is also got a $24 million grant for downtown, a living book communities grant.

1180
01:31:46,980 --> 01:31:52,200
This kind of address amenities and pedestrian connectivity among the downtown.

1181
01:31:52,900 --> 01:31:55,040
And so there's a lot of these other studies going on.

1182
01:31:55,220 --> 01:32:00,200
The thanks of Parkport has been coordinating with the Warport on their waypinding project.

1183
01:32:01,040 --> 01:32:05,980
And so it came up that our, we approved this study that we're talking about.

1184
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:06,780
It's in two phases.

1185
01:32:07,020 --> 01:32:10,900
We approved the first phase to recommend to the City Council on the Warport.

1186
01:32:11,340 --> 01:32:16,160
The second phase is going to be more about parking the first phase of like $380 something thousand dollars.

1187
01:32:16,480 --> 01:32:19,240
And we're looking at doing, looking at pricing right now, the second phase.

1188
01:32:19,240 --> 01:32:27,880
But we want to have our partners at the table with us to review all of this and coordinate it and that means of course the city the worst work

1189
01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:36,020
But we want also the park board leadership to to sit in on this next meeting with us and get up speed on all of this because it's going to have to do with

1190
01:32:36,020 --> 01:32:41,640
Moving people around that means tourists moving tourists one of the things we're looking at is a

1191
01:32:42,160 --> 01:32:49,020
Is a trolley bus circulating from the cruise ship terminal to downtown on a regular basis like every 30 minutes on weekends

1192
01:32:49,020 --> 01:32:54,100
or something like that, was the idea of getting cars off of the downtown that come from the cruise

1193
01:32:54,100 --> 01:32:59,420
ship traffic. One of the ideas we talked about was providing incentives for those on cruises to

1194
01:32:59,420 --> 01:33:05,260
arrive early or stay late, leave their luggage in their car and just get on this trail and go downtown

1195
01:33:05,260 --> 01:33:10,040
for an hour or so and then go right back to their car. And what you would incentivize that is

1196
01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:17,100
provide them with a break on the price for parking in that garage before and after. So they pay

1197
01:33:17,100 --> 01:33:20,760
one rate when they go on a cruise, if they're going to go downtown hang out, they pay

1198
01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:21,220
another rate.

1199
01:33:21,380 --> 01:33:23,460
It's cheaper, but incentivizes them to do that.

1200
01:33:23,860 --> 01:33:25,340
To get out of the car, we've got to be reliable.

1201
01:33:25,900 --> 01:33:30,620
But we're looking at things like that, and that's why we're wanting to try to get some

1202
01:33:30,620 --> 01:33:36,760
part board participation and coordination in this project, because we're going to be moving

1203
01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:38,380
to our surround downtown.

1204
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:44,140
So we're looking at another meeting in May where we'll do that.

1205
01:33:44,140 --> 01:33:50,440
that we hope to bring this whole project, the City Council, and Lord's Board for approval

1206
01:33:50,440 --> 01:33:54,220
at their meetings in May, just towards the end of May, so this meeting becomes somewhere

1207
01:33:54,220 --> 01:33:54,760
before that.

1208
01:33:55,480 --> 01:34:00,080
Because this would have to go back to the real estate committee to approve the second phase

1209
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:02,020
two part of this design involved parking.

1210
01:34:03,540 --> 01:34:06,780
So that's one thing that this committee talked about today.

1211
01:34:06,780 --> 01:34:12,560
The other thing you may recall, I may have mentioned at some point, the Peer 19 project,

1212
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:20,920
we're looking to do an improvement, the Peer 19, the worst board master plan showed a bunch

1213
01:34:20,920 --> 01:34:25,920
of public space, you know, and amongst all their cruise ship.

1214
01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:32,220
And now since they have some public space places for open space parks, amenities for people,

1215
01:34:32,220 --> 01:34:37,020
people that can make places for people to get to the waterfront, you know, right now.

1216
01:34:37,140 --> 01:34:42,460
And so we looked at here in 19 as a pilot project for doing that, and we've had a couple

1217
01:34:42,460 --> 01:34:43,060
of meetings now.

1218
01:34:43,320 --> 01:34:47,520
The consultant was hired a couple of months ago, I guess, and we met with the stakeholders

1219
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:52,900
and met with the, and gone over existing conditions, and they're doing the design work right

1220
01:34:52,900 --> 01:34:53,200
now.

1221
01:34:54,020 --> 01:34:58,300
And they're going to be back here in May 19th and 20th, sometime between May 19th and

1222
01:34:58,300 --> 01:35:02,940
in 2021 to show their first look at a design for this.

1223
01:35:04,160 --> 01:35:07,500
And I think part four is going to have an interest

1224
01:35:07,500 --> 01:35:10,220
in this when we get a little further down the road

1225
01:35:10,220 --> 01:35:12,020
because it's going to be an amenity

1226
01:35:12,020 --> 01:35:16,820
for not only tourist but for people who live here

1227
01:35:16,820 --> 01:35:18,980
and it's going to result in improvements

1228
01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:21,140
to the operation and safety

1229
01:35:21,140 --> 01:35:23,780
of the working waterfront for the stakeholder group.

1230
01:35:24,560 --> 01:35:26,080
So that project is going forward,

1231
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:31,720
It's not it's not costing the city or the worst would want any. It's funded of a

1232
01:35:31,720 --> 01:35:37,540
philanthropic local philanthropy. This project design is so far. And we made windup

1233
01:35:37,540 --> 01:35:43,000
depending on the success of this pilot doing doing in another piece you know

1234
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:47,780
little further down the road near the battleship or some of the other places that

1235
01:35:47,780 --> 01:35:54,000
the master plan has indicated open space and public space. So this is a this

1236
01:35:54,000 --> 01:36:00,540
Just trying to get a little update on that particular piece of it that I think will have an interest in later on.

1237
01:36:01,080 --> 01:36:04,440
Okay. Thank you very much. Any other announcements?

1238
01:36:05,820 --> 01:36:13,560
I don't know what's the announcement. I just went on a cruise out of here and was talking to people on the cruise ship.

1239
01:36:14,260 --> 01:36:18,200
Strangers maybe they were in the bar or the cafeteria.

1240
01:36:19,380 --> 01:36:24,600
and almost say about 20 people and a lot of people do stay here, right?

1241
01:36:24,740 --> 01:36:28,000
This particular group I had talked to, we had just driven in, gone down Broadway

1242
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:33,380
at Harborside and got this truck of the cruise ship and they were not that

1243
01:36:33,380 --> 01:36:38,460
impressed with what they saw at Galveston. And I'm just saying that that's

1244
01:36:38,460 --> 01:36:41,100
something that's part of the city, I mean I know we've talked about Broadway

1245
01:36:41,100 --> 01:36:45,120
in Harborside but there's plenty of proof that experience because I said I hope you'll

1246
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:49,560
come back and visit the true Galveston, not just the main thoroughfare.

1247
01:36:50,440 --> 01:36:55,480
So again, I said, I'm on the park board, we welcome tourists as our biggest industry

1248
01:36:55,480 --> 01:36:59,600
and, you know, they were kind of surprised, which kind of shocked me.

1249
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:06,160
Number one, number two, and maybe this is not an announcement, but I hope the city is working

1250
01:37:06,160 --> 01:37:09,820
on doing something about the end of co-building, something.

1251
01:37:16,840 --> 01:37:34,200
I have three. First, a learning would be interesting to this group. If either or both of you to end up in a runoff, then the runoff is June 13th, the canvas is June 24th.

1252
01:37:35,140 --> 01:37:37,580
So that's the soonest there'd be a change here.

1253
01:37:38,060 --> 01:37:44,280
Then the city would take close to a month to get out the applications and do the interviews

1254
01:37:44,280 --> 01:37:48,360
of the new board, any of you that will be reapplying.

1255
01:37:49,500 --> 01:37:56,280
And so in any of you that don't need to reapply, everyone will be left as is until that's done.

1256
01:37:56,620 --> 01:38:02,540
So we're now probably looking at very late July instead of what would have been some of

1257
01:38:02,540 --> 01:38:05,880
but June or a very early July.

1258
01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:08,900
Another one is you probably noticed today

1259
01:38:08,900 --> 01:38:11,140
and thank you for using the sign-in sheet today.

1260
01:38:11,380 --> 01:38:12,700
There's a real reason for that.

1261
01:38:13,740 --> 01:38:17,240
I'm studying productivity and the value, frankly,

1262
01:38:17,500 --> 01:38:21,840
of that position as well.

1263
01:38:22,020 --> 01:38:23,080
It's budget time guys.

1264
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:27,300
Also, and more importantly, it's just safety.

1265
01:38:27,440 --> 01:38:28,600
We need to know who's in this room.

1266
01:38:29,260 --> 01:38:35,240
And so you ask that you make it easy for whoever is there to sign in every time you come.

1267
01:38:36,020 --> 01:38:40,600
Clearly you don't need to put your email address every time we know you, but I appreciate

1268
01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:42,420
you not making a fuss over it.

1269
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:52,320
And then the last thing which used to be a very big part of your conversations is that the

1270
01:38:52,320 --> 01:38:57,800
first comprehensive plan committee meeting is now scheduled for May 12th.

1271
01:38:57,800 --> 01:39:00,460
So it is here and getting ready to start.

1272
01:39:02,150 --> 01:39:02,650
Good.

1273
01:39:03,890 --> 01:39:05,530
And Cheryl, you had an announcement.

1274
01:39:06,470 --> 01:39:07,430
I had two.

1275
01:39:07,910 --> 01:39:11,030
You'll see on your table next to your briefing paper,

1276
01:39:11,290 --> 01:39:15,130
the letter from the executive director of ASVPA,

1277
01:39:15,550 --> 01:39:19,510
thanking the board for the proclamation that we brought forward

1278
01:39:19,510 --> 01:39:22,270
in DC celebrating their 100 year anniversary.

1279
01:39:22,550 --> 01:39:23,670
So thank you.

1280
01:39:24,590 --> 01:39:26,890
And then second, this Friday,

1281
01:39:26,890 --> 01:39:33,810
Texas A&M Galveston is going to be celebrating and providing awards. They do

1282
01:39:33,810 --> 01:39:38,170
this annually. They have four awards that they typically announce. And one of

1283
01:39:38,170 --> 01:39:41,610
them, the Young Alumni, are building a brighter future for the

1284
01:39:41,610 --> 01:39:46,610
University through their dedication of time, talent and energy. The Maritime

1285
01:39:46,610 --> 01:39:51,110
Sciences and Maritime Studies Young Alumni Award is presented annually to a

1286
01:39:51,110 --> 01:39:55,490
former student of one of the departments of the College of Marine Sciences and

1287
01:39:55,490 --> 01:40:01,370
Maritime Studies, who has demonstrated outstanding professional achievement or endeavors, exemplifying

1288
01:40:01,370 --> 01:40:06,950
the four values of Texas and in the University and the educational training from the College

1289
01:40:06,950 --> 01:40:13,190
of Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies towards the advancement of the greater good.

1290
01:40:13,930 --> 01:40:19,270
And this Friday, Elizabeth Walla, our Environmental Programs Manager will be receiving the award.

1291
01:40:19,270 --> 01:40:26,310
So, so she went to me six today or she'd be standing here, but please if you see her around

1292
01:40:26,310 --> 01:40:29,670
or have an opportunity, please give her a little coup d'etre.

1293
01:40:30,250 --> 01:40:30,990
Thank you.

1294
01:40:31,330 --> 01:40:31,850
Congratulations.

1295
01:40:32,310 --> 01:40:33,310
That's Elizabeth.

1296
01:40:34,810 --> 01:40:36,050
Robert N. Coles.

1297
01:40:37,170 --> 01:40:39,130
This Saturday made a second.

1298
01:40:39,730 --> 01:40:40,510
I don't think he's the day.

1299
01:40:40,530 --> 01:40:41,410
It's made a second.

1300
01:40:41,630 --> 01:40:46,110
We're celebrating our 44th annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta in Thorey.

1301
01:40:46,110 --> 01:40:52,950
We just reenactivated the reactivated are sick of my parade. There's a place for all of you to ride in it

1302
01:40:53,650 --> 01:40:59,870
And the parade starts at one, but we're asking everybody to get to city hall at 1130. It'll take you all from

1303
01:40:59,870 --> 01:41:09,050
25th Street down to north to the strand from strand to 21st Street and back to the old Galveston County Courthouse where you can go vote

1304
01:41:10,090 --> 01:41:11,990
Okay, so we promote voting

1305
01:41:21,330 --> 01:41:25,650
So we would love to have all of you there at Mari, please try to make it if you can.

1306
01:41:26,010 --> 01:41:26,370
Love to.

1307
01:41:26,850 --> 01:41:27,270
Thank you, Robert.

1308
01:41:27,670 --> 01:41:28,310
It's a great event.

1309
01:41:28,530 --> 01:41:28,890
11th or?

1310
01:41:29,750 --> 01:41:30,890
11th or 11th.

1311
01:41:30,890 --> 01:41:31,450
Pick up where?

1312
01:41:32,030 --> 01:41:32,570
City Hall.

1313
01:41:33,570 --> 01:41:34,170
Is that a line somewhere?

1314
01:41:35,030 --> 01:41:36,050
Is that a line somewhere?

1315
01:41:36,270 --> 01:41:36,410
Yeah.

1316
01:41:36,630 --> 01:41:36,770
Is that a line somewhere?

1317
01:41:37,110 --> 01:41:38,850
Is that a line somewhere?

1318
01:41:39,610 --> 01:41:39,710
Yeah.

1319
01:41:39,710 --> 01:41:40,910
All right.

1320
01:41:40,910 --> 01:41:42,270
All right, and I'll call us.

1321
01:41:44,520 --> 01:41:49,760
Unfortunately, I have to reiterate the need for live parts.

1322
01:41:56,850 --> 01:42:00,090
So you see some of the live cards for a full time.

1323
01:42:00,930 --> 01:42:05,070
They think that for the tribe, it's early in the season.

1324
01:42:05,950 --> 01:42:07,830
And I know it's already kind of training

1325
01:42:07,830 --> 01:42:11,790
on Facebook for some people that like to find the negative

1326
01:42:11,790 --> 01:42:12,390
and anything.

1327
01:42:12,950 --> 01:42:15,750
So I just wanted you guys to get aware that that happened.

1328
01:42:17,210 --> 01:42:22,850
by myself and what we understand and, unfortunately, I'm not interested in that.

1329
01:42:26,440 --> 01:42:27,560
Any other announcements?

1330
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:28,680
Yeah.

1331
01:42:29,640 --> 01:42:31,680
Okay, we'll be seeing that at 3.12 p.m.

1332
01:42:31,900 --> 01:42:32,620
We will adjourn.

1333
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:32,960
Thank you.