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[0:04] 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.
[0:19] I believe it's through the life of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands.
[0:36] Item 3 are, we'll call in declaration of a form.
[0:39] Jason Hardcastle.
[0:41] Here.
[0:41] Gerald Wilson.
[0:42] Here.
[0:43] Bob Brown.
[0:44] Here.
[0:44] Bill Pumit.
[0:46] Jan Collier.
[0:47] Here.
[0:47] Carlos Gatta.
[0:51] Jeannie Hughes.
[0:52] Here.
[0:52] Elizabeth Matthews.
[0:54] Here.
[0:54] Robert Contero.
[0:55] Here.
[0:56] You have a form.
[0:57] Great.
[0:57] All right. And then we'll move on to item 4 conflict of interest declarations.
[1:07] Okay.
[1:08] Seeing them, then we'll move on to item 5, request to address the board.
[1:16] Seeing them there, we'll move on to item 6 month with Spotlights A, Employees Spotlight,
[1:21] or Nova Valencia. And Susan and Anna.
[1:24] Thank
[1:35] you Mr. Chair and Trustees. Each of you had an opportunity to meet,
[1:39] and don't, of course, so last month at the board meeting.
[1:42] In follow-up, I wanted to take a little bit of time to share some information about
[1:46] her background and what she'll be doing here at the park board.
[1:49] So she holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Arizona State University
[1:54] and will complete for Masters in Organizational Leadership
[1:57] from Arizona State next month.
[1:59] Prior to joining the park board,
[2:01] Rianna served as a shift supervisor with Starbucks from 2017 to 2024.
[2:06] She completed a Cuban Resources Internship with Schlumberger in 2023 and was a
[2:13] technical recruiter with Connective Talent from 2024 to 2026. She will serve in
[2:20] a generalist role working with managers as well as frontline staff and will
[2:25] have a strong focus on projects and daily activities to support a strong
[2:30] associate experience. This will include recruiting, onboarding, culture, associate
[2:35] of Relations, Associate Recognition, and Training.
[2:39] And beginning today,
[2:40] Reanne and Will Spotlight our Associate each month,
[2:43] so I will turn the mic over to her.
[2:49] Okay, today I have the honor
[2:51] to Spotlight our one and only Nova Valencia.
[2:56] Nova joined the Park Board in 2021,
[2:58] shortly after graduating from Ball of High School.
[3:01] He began his journey at Stewart Beach
[3:03] as a ticket booth attendant and quickly worked his way up
[3:07] through multiple roles, including trash operations
[3:10] and general maintenance.
[3:13] Through his strong work ethic and willingness to learn,
[3:16] he was later promoted to the C-Wall
[3:18] where he now also serves as an ambassador.
[3:21] As a Gabiston local and proud B-O-I,
[3:24] Noah brings a strong sense of community
[3:26] right to his work.
[3:28] In his current role, Noah supports the maintenance
[3:31] and upkeep the public spaces along the C-Wall,
[3:35] including cleaning, repairing signage,
[3:37] and assisting with bus stops and surrounding areas.
[3:41] One notable experience during his time with the park board involved assisting the aftermath
[3:46] of a serious car accident near Pusher Pier.
[3:50] Renewa was a part of the cleanup crew and their efforts were recognized by the mayor
[3:55] and both the newspaper feature and a town hall meeting.
[3:58] Noah shares that what he enjoys most about working for the park board is his co-workers
[4:03] who have played a significant role in his growth since joining straight out of
[4:08] high school. He describes his team as supportive and collaborative with everyone
[4:13] working together to get the job done. Outside of work, Noah enjoys exploring his
[4:19] creativity and learning new skills. He has taught himself how to pay, is currently
[4:25] learning salsa dancing and piano, and is researching how to achieve 4K
[4:30] care more quality at more affordable price points. Something that not a lot of people
[4:35] know is that he knows American sign language. Noah's supervisor Matthew Johnson shares that he
[4:42] consistently demonstrates initiative and a strong work ethic. He takes on more challenging tasks
[4:48] without hesitation and works independently without needing direction. His supervisor also noted Noah's
[4:54] significant growth and strong potential for the future.
[4:58] From a peer perspective, one of his co-workers shared that NOAA brings humor and energy
[5:03] to the team and makes shifts more enjoyable while contributing greatly to the group's success.
[5:09] We are grateful to have NOAA on the team and appreciate the positive energy and dedication
[5:14] to his role every day.
[5:17] Congratulations to Noah on reaching his five-year anniversary milestone.
[5:21] Go Noah!
[5:28] Thank you for having me.
[5:29] I'm grateful for the opportunity.
[5:31] So I guess, celebrate my five years.
[5:33] Grateful for you all.
[5:35] Grateful for the cardboard and everything.
[5:36] But I really want to give a big thank you.
[5:38] Obviously, as you said, my co-workers, especially to know.
[5:42] In Devin, because without them, I wouldn't know as much as I do now.
[5:45] So I'm forever grateful for that.
[5:47] But I have another big thank you to my friend Cole because she was there since the first day and
[5:53] There ever since helping me get through every single spot that I've been in every single
[5:59] 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
[6:12] 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
[6:19] 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
[6:26] Again, I appreciate all these opportunities to get to thank you all personally because
[6:31] 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
[6:37] So thank you so much and please keep up the work because it benefits the entire community
[6:46] Alright,
[6:51] so now we'll move on to
[6:53] Item 7 consent. A, discuss to consider approval of March 24, 2026. Part Board of Trustees meeting minutes.
[7:01] B, discuss to consider approval of tours and development expenditures. C, discuss to consider approval of the city.
[7:07] 2027, a virtual agency penny value. And D, discuss to consider approval of part board standing policies.
[7:15] And would any of the part board trustees like to?
[7:21] I have a question and I know we talked about this at the Joint Council trusting me.
[7:30] What did the value of the pity was 3.3?
[7:34] 0.3.
[7:35] All right.
[7:36] Well, I would like to discuss item D, discussing a certain approval of the part board
[7:41] standing policies individually.
[7:43] I had that one as well.
[7:45] Great.
[7:46] Well, my motion will be to accept, well, you know, we'll just do it after the discussion.
[7:51] Okay, you said D. D, the last one. Can we pull out the C? I just had a question, we'll see.
[7:56] Okay.
[7:58] I'm going to make a motion to approve the men's.
[8:00] Okay.
[8:02] What about item D?
[8:06] Make a motion to approve A and D?
[8:08] Yes.
[8:10] Several.
[8:11] All right.
[8:12] In GD, that sounds okay.
[8:14] I am making a motion to approve A and D.
[8:16] All right.
[8:16] Second. All right. Thank you very much, Robert. Any other discussion of those two consent items?
[8:23] All right, so you know I'll call for a vote. All those invaders.
[8:28] And if you didn't notice by those present and
[8:31] Carlin's it's my understanding that you're able to participate in discussions, but I'm able to vote today.
[8:43] So then we'll go on to item C,
[8:46] We discussed and considered approval of the city, 2027 Hotel Occupancy Pity Value.
[8:51] And Stuart, are you available?
[8:54] I think Gerald had a minute of a question for you.
[8:56] I just had a real quick question.
[8:58] First of all, thanks for the preview.
[9:00] I think it's certainly been helpful for us.
[9:03] The question I had in that question came up also in the Financial Operations Committee meeting.
[9:08] Did we get clarification from the city on if there is, if we outperform the 3.320
[9:15] value that that money will continue to stay in these respective funds did we get
[9:19] clarification from the city on that the state and a yes the city penny no okay
[9:26] state penny yes and city the city penny don't correct okay you do have
[9:32] confirmation on that that's not all the questions thank you okay any other questions
[9:39] for Siri I think for the next item all right well then I'll go ahead and look
[9:47] for a motion to approve.
[9:50] Set approval for a motion to approve item 716.
[9:55] Great. Thank you very much, Robert.
[9:57] In a second by Gerald, any further discussion?
[10:00] I'd say none. I'll call for a vote.
[10:01] All those in favor.
[10:03] And it is unanimous for this president.
[10:06] Good. All right.
[10:09] And then I indeed discuss to consider approval
[10:11] of part board standing policies.
[10:14] And Kelly,
[10:19] you know, I was...
[10:20] 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.
[10:30] This has been a prolonged effort since 2023, perhaps even before, to tighten policies related to credit cards, procurement and expensing as well.
[10:41] 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.
[10:49] 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.
[11:09] 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.
[11:23] 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.
[11:35] So, I would just, you know, maybe recommend it sometime in the future, go through and just
[11:40] add a sunset to force the review because this is extremely important material, but also
[11:47] it is very easy to put on the back burner.
[11:50] So, when they have sunsets come up, they just kind of force a review and everything.
[11:55] And it may be a stamp same, it's all applicable at present day.
[11:59] So thank you all very much.
[12:01] And I would like to make a motion to approve.
[12:04] item D, the specialised city approval of part board standing policies.
[12:09] Thank you very much, Bill. Any further discussion or comments?
[12:16] Seeing none, I'll call for a vote. All those in favour?
[12:19] And it's unanimous by this present here. Thank you very much.
[12:26] All right, so when we move on to item 8, business 8,
[12:29] Galveston City Council item update.
[12:32] And Bob.
[12:33] Okay, thanks.
[12:36] Jason, we had to workshop in a council meeting
[12:42] We also had a workshop after our last joint meeting with the park board, so I haven't
[12:46] been able to report any of that yet.
[12:48] So from that workshop, after our joint meeting, one of the things we discussed that maybe
[12:53] the interest of park board is downtown amenities, in particular downtown restaurants.
[12:59] I've been working with the series of downtown stakeholders in a series of meetings to see what
[13:03] their priorities are for downtown and what rose to the top in all these meetings was
[13:08] restrooms downtown. So City Council we talk about they authorize me to work with the city staff on
[13:15] coming up with locations and facilities for restrooms downtown not only in the strand but also
[13:21] on post office street and there's kind of two options what we're talking about. One is a short
[13:27] term option where we would certain to business businesses downtown in particularly restaurants would
[13:34] allow the public to use their restrooms at the city would support them in some way and
[13:39] I've talked to the city manager about that and one of the ways we've discussed is, first
[13:43] of all, with signage, the city could provide some signage but people know where there's
[13:47] a restroom and secondly, we talked about, this is not final deal or anything but we talked
[13:52] about maybe waving the feed for the license to use right away for some of those restaurants
[13:57] to actually use the right away.
[14:00] So we're looking into that. The second part is more long term and that would be putting
[14:06] horrible restrooms downtown and strategic locations in the city right away. So they'd
[14:12] be horrible because, first of all, if we were to build a restroom downtown somewhere that
[14:17] was accessible, it would have to have a ramp and the thing would be this high. So that's
[14:22] not that's out of the question, but we could do horrible restrooms that we could hook up
[14:26] and pull away if there was a storm coming and so we're looking into doing that as well
[14:30] and I'm going to be having more meetings with this downtown group and more discussions
[14:34] with the city staff to be able to make recommendations and how to pay for this also coming up.
[14:41] So it's been a longstanding issue downtown but we're finally making some headway on getting
[14:46] restrooms down downtown.
[14:48] So it's a merchants said what they really hated to do was tell families that it had been
[14:53] 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.
[15:00] 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.
[15:30] council meeting. So if you haven't seen it yet, go by and check it out. We
[15:36] installed a sprinkler system and seated it with a bermuda mix and the grass
[15:40] is finally growing. There's still a little fence around it though to keep people
[15:43] we want the grass to have a chance to grow before people start walking on it. So
[15:47] it's a really big deal. There's going to be more work to come in the future like
[15:51] coming up with what I hope to do is come up with a neighboring joint neighborhood
[15:56] 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.
[16:06] We'll have some goals to work on it and we can raise some money and get things done on it.
[16:12] Another thing we talked about at the April 23rd workshop was a discussion of private beach ownership.
[16:19] You know, the mayor has been in discussion with Commissioner Buckingham for a while on this.
[16:23] And there was a vendor on the beach that put up private beach, private property beach
[16:27] signs on there.
[16:29] And the GLO sent them a letter saying, but you can't do that, those have to be gone in
[16:33] the 14 days.
[16:34] So the GLO is finally getting engaged.
[16:37] What they're going to, first thing they're going to do is conduct a survey of the ownership
[16:42] of the beach all the way up and down the sea wall.
[16:45] Because, you know, until we do that, we have no reliable way of knowing who owns what.
[16:50] 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.
[16:58] This is seen as the first step to get the geo involved and finally get some kind of a resolution on this whole thing.
[17:06] Another thing we talked about that may be of interest is Steve Galveston is partnering
[17:11] with Malaga Spain, it's hometown of Bernardo de Galvest to put a mural on the east side
[17:20] of Maguardia.
[17:21] It's already a mural on the Banshell over there, this is going to be one on the east side.
[17:26] They're going to pay for everything so we'll provide the man-lift to get him up there.
[17:31] 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.
[17:39] So we, we seem to be getting murals and public art in a whole lot of places these days.
[17:47] 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.
[17:57] We have a local astronaut here in town, so they're working on that.
[18:02] We also talked about Pelican Island Bridge, you know, there's a discussion of, instead
[18:07] of doing the high bridge, do what we call, some people call it land bridge, but it's
[18:12] not a land bridge, it's a die.
[18:14] And so, that's what it really is.
[18:18] And Texdot is going to complete their work, their construction documents, or they're probably
[18:24] about 60% or 70% complete right now, they're going to complete that work and then stop
[18:28] if they're not going to support anything where there's a controversy.
[18:32] So that we're going to be taking that, that's going to stop it
[18:36] whenever they get to 100% contract documents.
[18:40] In the meantime, the warped board is going to be undertaking
[18:44] a core of engineers' feasibility navigation study
[18:48] that look at the impact of building, shutting off that, basically shutting off that
[18:52] to make a land bridge that would have rail on it and cars and pedestrians and bicycles and all that.
[19:00] But functionally, it would be shutting off that end of the chip channel.
[19:04] So that's why it's a navigation study.
[19:06] It's also why tech stuff would be pulling out because it's not a bridge.
[19:11] So in our workshop, we directed staff to get with all of our stakeholders.
[19:18] as you know we're the local sponsor for the bridge that is we got to come up with a local share.
[19:23] And there's a bunch of other people participating in that navigation district,
[19:27] A&M, the worst board board of Houston.
[19:30] And so just in the spirit of transparency,
[19:32] and so we may be able to maintain our partners over this time.
[19:37] We directed the city council, the city staff, to meet with them,
[19:43] you know, get with them and let all of us get on the same page,
[19:46] understand what we're doing where we're going and what the timeline is and try to
[19:50] try to maintain our local partnerships right there. I think that's all city
[19:58] council. Anybody have any question?
[20:03] GM and Gene? I just wanted to make a couple of
[20:05] comments. Can you tell the story in workshop you told the story about it was the
[20:10] park and then it was a school and now it's gone back to the park. I thought that was
[20:13] That's very interesting.
[20:15] Yeah, that is an interesting circumstance when the city was charted by Michelle Minnard
[20:21] and the Galson City Company in 1836, that was a part and it was plated as a part.
[20:27] And then Rosenberg's school was to the west of that, the original one, was to the west
[20:33] of that on what it's addued part right now.
[20:35] But then in the 60s, as GISD won the Barrett down and built a new school, the city gave him
[20:41] that property that is now the Roosevelt School property, it goes a new school on that one.
[20:46] And so now we kind of come full circle of the schools, the school is gone, and so now
[20:52] we're going to give that property back to the city.
[20:54] So if there's nothing, it's never been anything on that side except that one building in the
[20:58] 1960s, otherwise it's always been a city park or a school, so it really is continuing to function
[21:04] as a piece of property that serves the public in some way.
[21:07] I thought that was very interesting.
[21:09] I did, I enjoyed hearing that.
[21:11] I just have a couple other things.
[21:13] I'm very glad to finally see that the GLO is getting involved
[21:16] with the body and the beaches.
[21:20] So hopefully we can get some closure on that
[21:22] because I know that there are people saying that they are on private beach
[21:26] but they are infringing upon people that have contacts with us
[21:31] and I'm a very fair person and I don't think that's very fair.
[21:35] So I'm glad to see the GLO is getting involved with you.
[21:39] You know, regardless of the private property ownership, they're still yet to have to maintain
[21:44] beach access to the public.
[21:46] And that's why the GLO got involved in that fine.
[21:49] Glad to hear that.
[21:50] And the arts department is doing a fantastic job for the city.
[21:54] Like you said, you're seeing murals and statues, Antoinette and the group that she is working
[22:01] with.
[22:01] They are really taking hold of this program and really making a big difference there
[22:07] That so I really want to make sure that we acknowledge them because they have really stepped up and are doing a great job
[22:12] You know not to mention it and other things that we did that the Archivism mission
[22:16] You know, but I've been working on a plan for the maintenance of all city maintenance
[22:21] Monuments around town public monuments, you know stored monuments and darks commission is going to take that job over
[22:27] of getting a consultant and doing an analysis of all of our city-managed
[22:33] mining, you know, which ones do we own that we manage, which ones would not
[22:37] own that we manage. What is their condition? What's the priority? What's the best
[22:41] practice for restoring them? Because through everything, some big chunks of gun saw
[22:45] granite to bronze and everything in the clean. And where are the priorities and
[22:49] where's our plan for managing and what's going to cost. And so there are
[22:51] commissions going to cut that out. I'm so happy to hear that we're a city that's
[22:55] built on history and steeped in history and it's wonderful to see somebody take hold of
[23:01] that and put some care into it like she has. So I just wanted to give a wonderful recognition
[23:05] to the arts community because they've really taken great care of this.
[23:13] About Resort Park, I was involved in that somewhat and I don't live in that area but that
[23:19] neighborhood, it takes a lot of money and time and love to invest in those homes and bring
[23:24] them up because when I was growing up here, most of those were not restored homes.
[23:28] And to, you know, it's basic, I don't know if you've been by seeing that part, it looks
[23:34] up the home neighborhood.
[23:35] It doesn't matter if you're in a Victorian or not, it lifts up the home neighborhood.
[23:39] I don't know why there were such, I won't go in there.
[23:44] Okay.
[23:45] And I think that, you know, again, I would like to bring up the park board, should work
[23:51] with the more with the historical part of the to promote that part when we reach out to
[23:58] tourist groups that come here and hopefully that part could be a centerpiece of
[24:02] pointing in that direction. Let them go around the neighborhood because I think it would
[24:05] like central park or it's nothing like that but you know it's a it's a good way for people to have
[24:12] a starting point to look at our beautiful historical district and that's my first point in
[24:18] something that made the park board to get involved in pushing that part of the
[24:23] island because I think it's a treat for people to drive around. Number one,
[24:27] number two, was there any more discussion with the city on Botic or out or well
[24:33] we did at our joint meeting.
[24:37] City Council alone, no, but that is
[24:40] something that we will be addressing here. The City Council direction at that
[24:44] joint meeting was that the park board former committee to look at
[24:48] I don't think they're laying what we can do, and I think we're going to be doing that.
[24:51] I don't see on this agenda, but I think we're going to be doing that.
[24:55] I'm very interested in participating in that in my district.
[24:59] Yeah, I think it's a gem.
[25:02] Yeah, you're right about Rosenberg.
[25:04] I thought it was phenomenal and probably the best example of residents getting involved in their community
[25:11] and in their government that I've ever seen, to raise that amount of money and care that much
[25:15] for their neighborhood and supported and do something like that.
[25:19] It's really not special.
[25:21] Joe, yeah, let me also jump on that bandwagon about Rosembourg,
[25:24] because I thought it was phenomenal with that
[25:26] the community did, at 2.2 million dollars a day raised,
[25:30] and how they did it, followed all the processes,
[25:33] so I commend you guys on that.
[25:36] Jan, I asked a couple of questions I was going to ask
[25:39] and a couple more.
[25:41] The Portland laws that we have on C-Wall
[25:43] Is that not a consideration at all for the strain?
[25:46] Well, those are good, but they're not portable.
[25:52] To be portable, you have to be able to hook it up and hollow it away.
[25:55] That means quick connect, seward and water, and something with wheels of some kind.
[26:00] So it's a good model if it's portable, but there's other places that do this.
[26:06] The old town spring is, they have something that's, I'm not sure if it's portable.
[26:11] I don't think it's portable, but it is a public restaurant, but something that looks
[26:15] appropriate for the downtown, but is also portable is what we're going to have to do.
[26:20] I'm just envisioning photopoddies and I'm thinking that statically that's not the look
[26:26] that we want down to.
[26:26] We understand the nature of where we're putting these things in, and this context is critical.
[26:33] Okay.
[26:34] A couple of things.
[26:40] 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?
[26:48] I really don't know the answer to that.
[26:51] I'm not sure. It's going to be like I said, it's going to be Bernardo.
[26:54] Some depiction of Bernardo. Yeah, that's right.
[26:58] Just curious about that.
[26:59] The other thing would be, my understanding of it, are you seeing that TXDOT will not fund
[27:05] the land bridge consideration, but they are going to fund the scribe bridge.
[27:12] Is that, that's not understanding, kind of, what I said, it's what I was declared by.
[27:17] They're going to continue their obligation for design and documentation of what they started.
[27:22] In other words, they're probably 60 to 70 percent done with the construction documents.
[27:27] So they're going to finish that and then stop, but what they've also said is that we should
[27:33] also stop or at least halt for now acquisition of right away, you know, until we get this
[27:40] settled.
[27:40] But, you know, tech stuff, tech stuff, so this, this, their participation is directly related
[27:45] to a land bridge, I mean, to a bridge, a bridge is set, right, and a land bridge is set.
[27:50] They don't consider this other thing a bridge, it's a dig, it's, it's a navigational issue.
[27:55] What it does to the ship channel is what's being discovered,
[27:58] what's being looked at by this Section 203 feasibility analysis
[28:03] that the Ford is going to be doing.
[28:05] It's got to take about 18 months to a couple of years to do that
[28:08] and then it goes down to look at it.
[28:10] It's going to slow down every time.
[28:11] But in the end, if we don't look at this 10 or 20 years from now
[28:17] and there actually is something built there,
[28:19] we've got to make sure we build the right thing
[28:21] or people are going to wonder what we're going to see.
[28:23] Let me ask you, is this an easy or option for the city?
[28:26] Can they not have both?
[28:27] Can we not have some form of a land bridge as well as the
[28:30] subscriber bridge?
[28:30] I mean, well, the city, they're going down both tracks right
[28:35] now.
[28:35] But at some point, when textile finishes their
[28:38] documentation, that's going to stop.
[28:42] But we'll live a lot more when the 203 study is done.
[28:46] But that's still, it's gotten started, the process is
[28:48] started, but it's still way down the road.
[28:50] So, and again, TechStyle doesn't consider that a bridge that we're calling and dying.
[28:56] And even if the city picks up the other portion of this dynamic library, it just seems
[29:01] like there is value of having both to me.
[29:04] Well, you know, it was the one opposite of it.
[29:06] Yeah, I think the important part right now is that we're completely transparent with our
[29:11] local partners on this, because we will be the local representative on either one of
[29:18] these projects.
[29:18] So we've got to make sure that we keep our partners on board right now for the long haul.
[29:24] You know, we'll probably have to change the AF.
[29:25] I'm sure of the change the AFA at some point if we do this.
[29:29] But, you know, if it winds up being a dyke, of course it would have a rail connection,
[29:35] which is critical.
[29:37] The growth in development in the Pelican island wouldn't have road access,
[29:40] pedestrian access, bike access.
[29:44] It would provide all the same things that I've never had bridgewood.
[29:47] And probably cost less than the construction than a overhead bridge with cats.
[29:54] That's all I have to say.
[29:57] All right.
[29:58] Well, thank you, Bob.
[29:59] Ian will stay with you.
[30:00] —A합 you, review for a city Council update, on southern district development? Yes.
[30:03] Peace.
[30:04] Oh, I have communications.
[30:10] I have a question. I also do something that very much talks with the city of Spain right
[30:17] for the...
[30:23] I have never heard in the last two years or about two years, a little bit less than two
[30:29] years.
[30:30] Anything about what the city does, how the city has to work with the sister cities that the
[30:37] the city already holds. I've never, in any way or anything, I've been contributing, like
[30:44] another bit, where is our sister city in Mexico, there are cruise, a pixel, a port of
[30:49] their cruise, or what kind of railroad I will remember is one of them. I believe in Japan,
[30:56] the city of Shiba in Japan is still, I believe, there's a city, the sister city. So, how
[31:04] We have
[31:16] a resume with each other. How in the city do it this and then now we're looking at another city
[31:21] For
[31:25] a man that never ever
[31:29] In Galveston, it was a gift to him, but he never thought he never even paid attention
[31:34] To Galveston being the person that never ever in the history of you read about it
[31:40] So
[31:44] if I need one it to be nice to him
[31:46] But the
[31:53] city does have a city sponsor committee called sister city committee, and they're the
[31:58] ones that kind of manage and look at all these sister cities that Galison has.
[32:02] And actually, an official from Malaga approached the mayor a while back with the offer to do
[32:10] this mural as part of a, you know, reaching across the ocean kind of a gesture.
[32:16] I don't know, maybe we should consider some kind of interpretive fact or something that
[32:22] providing a more history about it, I don't know, but the sister said, your question about
[32:26] the sister said, he's addressed by the city through that committee.
[32:33] But I know that Gallagher approached Galveston, but like again, I don't, I said, the story
[32:39] of the whole city and then put in the face of a person that really didn't care about
[32:59] So
[33:04] that will move on to you, item B, City Council update on Stuart Beach development.
[33:10] The RFP for the Stuart Beach was issued on the 23rd.
[33:17] The last day for questions is going to be May 21st.
[33:19] You know, all the contractors get the RFP and then they turn in their questions.
[33:24] And the responses will be posted on the 28th, the deadline for submittal is June 18th.
[33:31] so we're giving them plenty of time to,
[33:33] because it's pretty complex,
[33:34] giving them plenty of time to look at that.
[33:37] There will be, as I understand,
[33:39] there's always a mandatory pre-bid conference
[33:42] on these kind of things,
[33:43] and that's where you really find out
[33:44] what kind of interest you have.
[33:47] And so that's, as I understand,
[33:48] that's gonna be before our May City Council meeting,
[33:51] so we'll be able to have some kind of measure
[33:54] or evaluation of the interest that we have in it.
[33:56] That's what I'll be looking forward to.
[33:58] Is that a mandatory PRP?
[34:00] Yes, the mandatory pre-bid meeting, so I know it will be by Zoom.
[34:05] I may ask.
[34:06] If they're interested, you can beat it.
[34:07] Yeah, if they're interested, they've got to be there.
[34:11] All right.
[34:12] I have some other issues that are not city council but they are part board related.
[34:18] I can wait till future agenda items or announcements are up to now.
[34:23] We can wait till future agenda looks fine.
[34:26] So I guess I'm looking at the, this is RFB.
[34:30] 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?
[34:39] It is in there, there is a path in there about it.
[34:44] It's more of a recognition that this is an important thing for us.
[34:48] 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.
[34:56] At that point, but until then, I think Marty made a point of the joint meeting that
[35:00] doesn't make a sense for us to start doing something now, because a developer will certainly
[35:05] have some, you don't develop a piece of property of any size anywhere without property
[35:10] range.
[35:11] Well, I'm glad to see it in, yeah, it's in there, it could be the source of some of these
[35:19] questions we're going to be getting in the next month.
[35:20] Good.
[35:21] Good.
[35:22] Thank you.
[35:23] Not to clarify it.
[35:23] All right. Any other questions for all? Okay. Thank you, Bob. Now we'll move on to item
[35:32] C, discuss to consider revisions to the board approved FY27 State Legislative Agenda.
[35:38] And Cheryl.
[35:41] Good afternoon. Thank you very much. We're here today to bring the state legislative
[35:47] agenda back. We are in review through conversations with the city, specifically south of the city.
[35:57] 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.
[36:10] 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.
[36:23] In reviewing it, I looked through everything and reviewing it with Marty, it in fact is
[36:29] something that was inadvertently left in from a previous year and probably should not
[36:35] have been carried over.
[36:37] It was an unintentional mistake on my part to leave it in the agenda in the first place.
[36:42] And it's basically one of the items that caused a lot of concerns from the past.
[36:49] So we're coming before you today to make a request to remove this one item from your state legislative agenda documents.
[36:59] All right. Any questions or comments?
[37:02] Bob, Cheryl, I appreciate you working with Sally on this.
[37:06] And I think this goes a long ways towards our current mode of being transparent working with the city,
[37:13] making sure we're on the same page with the city when it comes to what's going on in Austin.
[37:17] And I think that's a little critical.
[37:19] Thank you for giving that.
[37:20] You're welcome.
[37:21] She was very appreciative of both Brandon and Thorne Runs' work.
[37:30] And yes, you're welcome.
[37:34] Any other questions or comments?
[37:37] I'll make a motion to approve.
[37:39] Back up.
[37:39] OK, thank you, Gerald.
[37:41] Thank you, Bill.
[37:41] Let me walk into this minefield.
[37:43] So in the past, I mean, this was seen
[37:47] as a convincing threat by multiple administrative staffs
[37:51] in recommended and approved by the board.
[37:55] So my question is, has there been a definitive change
[37:57] in the perception of a threat to the allocation
[38:03] of hotel occupancy tasks?
[38:05] Not that I'm aware.
[38:08] OK, so is the partwood staff recommending
[38:13] the legal forward of the benefit of the partwood of this item
[38:18] from the legislative agenda.
[38:20] I believe that with this being a state legislative agenda, we also have our state groups
[38:29] that also advocate and lobby for hotel occupancy tax and its protection.
[38:35] The recommendation is really being made out of the, as mentioned in the document out of
[38:43] 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.
[38:58] 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.
[39:12] And I understand that there's other concerns and everything is very complex.
[39:17] So in this particular item, as over the years, we consumed a lot of time and energy from
[39:27] some people still in this room.
[39:29] So I just want to make sure that we're not removing it because of external pressure.
[39:35] And this is something that staff has perceived, the threat has changed so that we don't have
[39:41] to be concerned about this any more before we vote to approve it. Does that make sense?
[39:47] Well, I think there's another way to say that, which is that we are not actively working
[39:54] on that, nor is our representation for active working on that, nor do we want them to be
[39:59] active working on that at this time.
[40:02] Excellent. Well then, honestly, with that answer, I feel like there's a lot to be very happy
[40:10] about removing this item is because if there's no longer a reason to have it then that automatically
[40:21] indicates that cinemas and relationships are better than they have been in the past. So I'm
[40:29] actually extremely pleased that this item is here. Yes. As someone who took a lot of strays for this
[40:39] issue as well. So I'm great. They were direct. So I'm very, very pleased to see this recommendation.
[40:51] Bill? Well, following up on that conversation, I think I hope this is also a statement that
[41:00] we're redirecting our focus from the state level to a consensus between the city and the
[41:11] part more on the best way to move forward, and that the goal is to work together to come
[41:18] to some suitable agreement through the interlocal or whatever it means is necessary to achieve
[41:27] the goal of the appropriate distribution rather than to try to go up to the state before
[41:35] we have that agreement with the city.
[41:37] It's much more important to go up there, in my opinion, as a trustee, to go up there
[41:42] with a consensus that it is to try to, one of a better phrase, error, laundry in public.
[41:54] And so I would hope that this would just be the start of the process of coming to some
[42:01] kind of long-term understanding and agreement on the distribution and use of hot taxes.
[42:12] Maybe I'm going to a minefield here, but the way I read it really was that they were going
[42:17] to advocate to protect allocations.
[42:23] I read opposite of what it actually states.
[42:26] I thought, well, yeah, of course we're going to do that.
[42:29] I mean, and I'm not sure how to say, I was not here when all the other,
[42:36] I'm not sure how the state legislature works.
[42:38] But if there was a move for them to change anything about hot-tags, allocations, or transit,
[42:44] not necessarily pertaining to Galveston, maybe as an item in San Antonio that they were,
[42:50] you know, well, why wouldn't we want to know about that and be alerted to that?
[42:55] I mean, I'm not trying to muddy the waters with them.
[42:59] I'm not saying we need to protect ourselves, and not the city, I'm just trying to say we
[43:04] We need to be aware of anything brewing in the state legislature regarding allocations
[43:10] of how.
[43:10] Sure.
[43:11] And from what I, the way that Marty explained it, it does sound like our legislative advocate
[43:17] will still be an ostent to alert us of any concerns that could arise because you're absolutely
[43:23] right.
[43:23] And that's something that we have to remain sensitive of.
[43:27] Everyone that has anything to do with hot, that the actions here have repercussions across
[43:33] across the state. And vice versa, the actions across the state can have reactions here as
[43:40] well. So that's why I think it's so important to have someone in Austin who is going to
[43:45] have relationships in a network there that can hear of anything. And then I trust that
[43:51] that will be relayed directly to us. If there's some reason that thankfully the legislative
[43:57] agendas items are fluid and dynamic so they can change if the need arises. And I'm
[44:03] confident the buy and we'll let us know if there is any that we need to but by
[44:10] taking this out as it shows that we love that as far as priorities or I don't
[44:15] I don't think so I just think that it's not something that we're proactively
[44:18] concerned about right now Martin I'm not sure this this might help and
[44:24] close also remember we talked about early start schools it's really affected
[44:32] He's not going to chase him, but we'll know everything that happens.
[44:36] And I feel this is the same thing.
[44:37] Okay.
[44:38] Exactly.
[44:40] Carlos?
[44:45] Also, I agree with Jason on the B&T's that he's there.
[44:52] I think he reflects the relationship of the body as generated with the city.
[44:58] Thank you.
[45:00] I think
[45:09] that's why that line was somehow in there. The relationship has done much better. I think the relationships of agreement between much
[45:26] better and I believe I'm also pleased because I think that's
[45:33] like that. There's more an understanding of that.
[46:03] But I want to stick
[46:09] 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.
[46:18] That's the expertise so I'm working on relationships and I'm working on
[46:25] overall picture and I'm working on culture and those things but don't think it's
[46:29] Marty it's that bad group knows more about everything we do than I do.
[46:38] Hopefully in each other it's a trust.
[46:41] In a lot of way, the interest is good and in Marty's your credit you got to stay
[46:48] You brought this to Bill T.S. and we thank you for it, so I'm going with it.
[46:58] That's two. Any other questions or comments?
[47:04] Do you mind repeating the unit of motion in your second?
[47:08] I think I made it.
[47:11] General made the motion in Bill's second.
[47:16] I've seen the further comments. I'll call for a bit. All those in favor?
[47:21] and it's unanimous by this President.
[47:23] Thank you.
[47:24] Thank you.
[47:27] And now we'll move on to Item D.
[47:30] Can you discuss the yesterday's approval
[47:31] of the annual Consolidated Peace Guests in Vince?
[47:43] Just sing to them and read that.
[47:46] That's a good idea.
[47:48] Good afternoon and good morning.
[47:50] I just heard a comment about the song,
[47:52] the song side of the work,
[47:54] or spreadsheets.
[47:56] I do that to help try to get this item
[47:59] pass through quickly as we all warm in this room together. The Consolidate of T scheduled
[48:06] us before you today was established about three years ago. Each year we bring this item
[48:10] before this board for your thoughts, your considerations, your view, your feedback and
[48:16] ultimately your approval. This is the document that we as staff use to execute the work that
[48:22] you want done through policy. So this is everything from every fee that we charge throughout
[48:28] the organization, whether it's renting up a facility, our concessionaire fees, to printing
[48:35] fees, copy fees, credit card fees, marketing services fees, anything that we have a cost
[48:42] of business that we would charge an external person or business or event to that fee is captured
[48:51] in this document. I went ahead in the past two years, we've really just brought changes
[48:57] to you. This year we brought the entire document and I color-coded it hoping to streamline and
[49:06] keep it simple. The goal here was anything in yellow is considered either a new fee or an increase
[49:14] that was greater than the 10%. Anything that is in that peach color is a 10% increase. We
[49:21] We have not made a broad across the board increase in several years, so this is something
[49:26] just to kind of keep with market and make a base level adjustment on there.
[49:32] Items that are within the blue are going to be items that we are recommending that would
[49:35] not have a change.
[49:37] A lot of times that's more of the service type thing that we provide such as junior guards
[49:41] or some of the marketing that is, again, more of a pass through.
[49:44] So I did have an item that I failed to put in this documents of my apologies.
[49:50] Before you do that, can I share?
[49:58] This was getting ready to come to you with less aggressive than it is today.
[50:03] In my opinion, since we haven't touched pricing in at least three years or approximately
[50:07] three years, we're going up 10% unless you can convince me that we're going to lose business
[50:13] or do something wrong for the public.
[50:15] So, you, as vital parts of the public, I want you to be prepared when somebody comes
[50:20] you and says, hey, do you know that that went up 10 percent?
[50:23] It did.
[50:24] That's why I'm hoping you'll approve.
[50:26] You know, if you look at the 10 percent, well, wages have gotten up nine during those three
[50:30] years.
[50:31] And go get a burger on the island and start at $17 now, right?
[50:36] So my point is, we don't owe anybody something as a lost leader.
[50:43] We need to be competitive, and we need to make sure that because of our pricing, we don't
[50:50] have to provide less services, does that make sense?
[50:54] But services cost more to provide, so we need to increase our prices from time to time.
[51:00] So the real interesting ones, frankly, are the ones that are in blue, which is, we agreed,
[51:06] okay, leave them alone, but the rest, I don't want you to be caught off guard when your neighbor
[51:11] says hey why'd that go up? Because everything costs one.
[51:17] Is that fair? Thank you very much for that
[51:20] clarification. That is correct. The other item I want to just call to your attention and again I
[51:25] started to say I failed to put it in here. This is a one-off price at the board have proof we did
[51:32] add the 10% variable to it. If this document is approved today I would ask that the motion include
[51:40] the supplement that is before you, this one-page document, that is the
[51:44] parking fees for the plaza. This is when we have a third party who rents the
[51:48] parking lots from us for Loanshar Valley, Biker Valley, and Dickens on the
[51:54] Strand. So these are those fees associated with that. So if there is a motion, I
[51:59] would appreciate to include this document. What we will do is we will take this
[52:04] Excel spreadsheet, we will remove all the color codes, we will get rid of all
[52:08] the lines, we will make a streamline, you know, just be the cost of services and the units
[52:12] of measure.
[52:13] We will then PDF that and that will be updated on our website.
[52:17] So we are fees of services, we're always open to the public and to those that use in
[52:21] our services.
[52:24] Two comments, one, just kind of a process comment, perhaps if we printed this, I don't even
[52:35] Still didn't come out that good, okay.
[52:37] That's a lot of things, let's cancel that idea.
[52:41] Second idea, I'm involved with another organization
[52:45] who did not raise rates on a regular basis.
[52:50] And then they got, had to go through with the larger increases.
[52:53] So from my personal opinion is in the future,
[52:57] let's try to increase these prices every year
[53:02] by the amount that's necessary to stay current with inflationary cost increases.
[53:10] I'm not in the profit making business for the park board but I'm also not going to
[53:15] be in the loss leader business and that's my opinion as a trustee, of course.
[53:20] But I think that's our obligation is to charge the public the cost plus the overhead to use
[53:29] particular service. And all the way back to parking on the seawall, I've said
[53:35] there's nothing wrong with asking someone to pay for the services they use. A fair
[53:41] fair a fair a fair fee. And I think here we need to be a little more cautious in
[53:46] the future of what I'm saying. Hey, we'll make everybody feel good. Because frankly
[53:51] they don't feel good. They don't even notice it if we don't increase the price.
[53:54] So let's get the let's keep that schedule as current as we can it's my
[53:59] opinion Marty is that you have the our folks keep it as hard as possible without
[54:05] some having to do this. That's it. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm in the
[54:12] line with Bill. If we did it every other year I think we'll be able to be equal
[54:18] apart with the rate of inflation as opposed to jumping up to 10 percent. I think
[54:22] is a great idea that actually I'm finding myself actually the question is 10% or some
[54:27] of these even enough maybe it may in it you may look at it be more than that. So I agree
[54:33] with Bill there every other year maybe when we'll go back and look at it to make sure we keep
[54:38] up with the rate of inflation. The other thing I'm looking at in the additional doctor that you add
[54:44] and it's just a question for me. We got the Dickens on the Strand the current fee is $800 but the
[54:50] Deposit is a thousand so the deposit is actually exceed the current the rate of defeat. Is that
[54:58] That seems yeah
[55:01] The the deposit itself is a
[55:06] 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
[55:14] would be meant to be rolled it forward.
[55:16] Part of the reason why we've kept that level at $1,000,
[55:21] so that's what the current level is at.
[55:23] And then it's also if they were to leave the parking lot,
[55:27] a lot of garbage and debris, we would actually
[55:29] deduct it from that.
[55:30] And then also if they were to cancel on us
[55:33] right before the event, and now we don't have anybody
[55:36] to fill that void for that service, then we
[55:39] would want to take care of the funds
[55:41] that we would be missing out on.
[55:42] That explanation helps. Thank you. Any other questions, Jim?
[55:48] I just want to say, information is fantastic. I mean, yeah, I have to take my glasses off
[55:56] so I could get close enough to read it, because it is so much good information. But it's
[56:00] fantastic information. I like how detailed it is. I like the way that it's laid out.
[56:12] It's
[56:12] I mean, I'm a restaurant person.
[56:14] Restaurants have to go up on their prices
[56:17] because their food cost rises.
[56:18] And we all know we're in an inflation set in this hard
[56:24] right now.
[56:25] So it is justified to have to go up on some things.
[56:28] But in smaller increments make it a lot easier
[56:31] for everybody to handle.
[56:33] But it's a necessary step that needs to be taken.
[56:36] I think the other interesting thing when you look at that list
[56:39] is how much stuff we do.
[56:40] You had no idea we're doing.
[56:41] Yeah, exactly. No, 100%. I learned a lot looking at this, just the difference between
[56:48] winning half the quarter of the beach, winning half the beach, you know, it's very, very
[56:53] good information. There's a lot that I really didn't have any idea. But now I do.
[56:58] We appreciate it. Again, this was a really important milestone for us as an organization when we created
[57:04] this and developed it, because it does allow us to put policy to refer back to the
[57:09] consolidate fee schedules so we can update policy and not have to change the fees.
[57:13] We can do that in one action and it also is very transparent to the public of our
[57:20] fees and services. So you're not having to go hunt for those different things.
[57:23] You can look in one location. So yeah, thank you very much.
[57:26] I think Gerald had another question.
[57:29] Yeah, I just got to find a question. Again, I agree with everyone. I think this is a great idea.
[57:34] of Park, Villanera Park. Have we socialized this with the city and maybe there are even
[57:40] some thoughts of they might want to sit or take us on the fees on those two parks up?
[57:47] I mean just on our document the only thing that was related to Seawolf and Villanera was
[57:55] our removal of our fees last year and we kept them in because we were still managing the
[57:59] 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
[58:08] several and maybe they want to go back and consider that even for single even though it's not out of jurisdiction anymore.
[58:14] She's right there Barbara yeah Barbara's here today. We'll definitely
[58:21] Do you have a conversation? Yeah. Just a good idea. Yeah.
[58:26] Thank you, Bob. Well, it's not late. We're good talking about that.
[58:30] Go. I'm going to make a motion that we have proved the request that presented with
[58:37] the inclusion of the supplemental document that was provided to the trustees.
[58:44] In a second from Robert and I'll ask June does that motion satisfy the need to include
[58:51] this?
[58:51] Okay.
[58:51] Great.
[58:52] All right.
[58:53] Any further comments or questions?
[58:56] Okay.
[58:56] See no.
[58:57] I'll go ahead and call for a vote.
[58:58] All those in favor.
[59:00] And it's unanimous about this.
[59:02] Present.
[59:03] All right.
[59:03] Thank you, Vince.
[59:04] And please stay with us for item E update on our official artificial intelligence parking
[59:09] system at Beach Parks.
[59:13] again thank you for allowing me to be here this afternoon to provide a quick
[59:17] update on our parking our AI parking at both East Beach and Stewart Beach here
[59:23] to let you know that this week as of Friday we will be turning the system
[59:29] fully on and when I say fully on I mean signs will be posted we will be
[59:33] collecting funds and we will start the process of using AI in our pay by app
[59:42] system to start collecting funds and to do the non-payment collection in the
[59:48] previous action. You've established the non-payment collection fee. For those
[59:54] that do not pay, there will be a process in which we will go about collecting
[59:58] those fees.
[1:00:00] 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,
[1:00:27] We will be quick to make adjustments on that as well.
[1:00:32] There will be additional signage that you will see at the park.
[1:00:35] Very clear that there is a payment system.
[1:00:40] What to do, how to go in, what to look for.
[1:00:43] There will also be a reminder before you leave the park.
[1:00:45] This is, did you pay before you leave to avoid additional collection fees?
[1:00:51] So again, we will continue to monitor the success
[1:00:54] and or not success and take appropriate flick and appropriate adjustments as needed from that point.
[1:01:03] So happy to answer any questions for you on the system.
[1:01:09] If you're already.
[1:01:11] Any questions or comments from the trustees?
[1:01:15] Well then I'll say is that I'm excited to see this.
[1:01:18] I mean every successful organization on the planet is incorporating AI to increase their margins.
[1:01:25] So, this is great to see the part we're going in that direction too, and I can't wait to see the results.
[1:01:32] And I'm hoping for the best.
[1:01:34] And maybe that can be applied elsewhere, and you can find other applications for AI as well.
[1:01:39] Great.
[1:01:42] All right.
[1:01:43] Thank you very much, Vince.
[1:01:45] And now we'll go on to item F.
[1:01:47] That date you discussed sale 250 and money.
[1:01:51] Real quick, are you still counting time?
[1:01:54] All right, I'll go first.
[1:01:56] Sand 250.
[1:01:58] I'll tell you where we are today, and then I'll let you ask questions.
[1:02:04] GHF had a very good meeting, the Tony and I attended late last week, and I'll tell you
[1:02:10] kind of where they are.
[1:02:12] One thing that's very cool was they got HEB to sponsor 100% of the food for the crew
[1:02:18] of the entire three months.
[1:02:19] So shop at your local HEP, but very nice of them, it's very cool and apparently at one
[1:02:27] point they were given a list of the kind of things they needed, HEP is going way above
[1:02:33] and beyond what they're actually going to provide, so very cool.
[1:02:37] Everything is now online, including ticketing, you can buy your tickets now and ticket prices,
[1:02:43] the tickets they landed on, for the Friday the third sale or $5,000, Saturday the fourth
[1:02:49] sale or $10,000. They have been successful in getting the port of call. That's not what you call it.
[1:02:58] The stops, the summer tall ship festivals and summer just us showing up where I've been
[1:03:03] shooting the past about appearance fees and those things. That all is coming together very well.
[1:03:09] There's a lot of detail if you go online and look in the pricing the prices according
[1:03:15] to which events you may want to participate if you were to travel to one of those activation locations.
[1:03:23] They have a struggle they talked about which is captains.
[1:03:29] Everybody that's sending a ship is looking for the same captains because there's legal requirements.
[1:03:36] And while I feel very good that they'll get it done, there is a genuine concern.
[1:03:40] But if you have it right amount of captains, you can't go.
[1:03:44] So I mean, I think that's a, if they have 10 things that are wrong, that's the only
[1:03:52] one that matters.
[1:03:53] Everything else will figure it out and then come together.
[1:03:56] So if you know certified, registered, whatever the right term is, captains send them their way.
[1:04:03] And they'll probably end up in a bidding war because they're wanted everywhere related
[1:04:07] to sell to 50.
[1:04:13] Any questions?
[1:04:19] Well, I guess, you know, we've come, we've had that agreement
[1:04:23] with the city, you know, that sponsorship, so we still need to work through what's going
[1:04:27] to happen to that. Some of that has been spent on action. We have, we have no agreement.
[1:04:33] We have, we owe them nothing, we have no liability with them. And while the city approved
[1:04:44] The city approved us doing a revenue guarantee up to $600,000 that is now no longer a
[1:04:55] requester of what possible.
[1:04:57] It's dead.
[1:04:59] Is that the question you were asking?
[1:05:01] I couldn't hear the question.
[1:05:03] I was asking about the $600,000 the city had offered as an investment in this project.
[1:05:09] Well, the city approved our budget amendment, it was always hard for money.
[1:05:15] The city money was the World Cup, $600.
[1:05:20] I think, if I'm wrong, please.
[1:05:22] But I think we never had a signed agreement with G.H. F. So we would, I would hope, have
[1:05:30] never transferred any funds or forgot any financial support.
[1:05:35] 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.
[1:05:52] That's right.
[1:05:55] And I would like, you know, to take a moment to thank the part board staff for getting
[1:06:01] this project off the ground, because, you know, in talking to Marty and also spoke to
[1:06:08] Gerald to build about it, there's a couple of things that we realize is that one of our
[1:06:12] primary objectives are still intact.
[1:06:15] I mean, one, the illicit is looking very promising that it's going to be in the sale
[1:06:22] 250 event and on the 4th of July in New York Harbor and that's the number one objective
[1:06:28] and cannot wait to see that happen. In the number two we're still able to promote
[1:06:34] Galveston as a destination for cultural and historical assets because we will be involved
[1:06:39] in some of the promotion work as my understanding as well. The way would normally be involved
[1:06:44] in just promoting the illicit in such going forward.
[1:06:47] So I'm excited about this, remain excited about it,
[1:06:53] remain optimistic, and look forward to a wonderful result
[1:06:57] led by GHF for the community overall.
[1:07:03] Did they get a response from our bank loan
[1:07:06] or is there any of our things that I don't know?
[1:07:10] of the answer to is there a lead sponsor? I really don't know.
[1:07:20] I'm sure that nothing's
[1:07:21] been said, so I would guess probably not. I would guess there's something being negotiated
[1:07:25] but at this time the answers no. They just didn't need our assistance anymore.
[1:07:32] Well
[1:07:35] specifically they decided it was advantageous to them to get their own line of credit and
[1:07:42] fund it themselves. Their board said, wait a minute, we can do this, which means that
[1:07:48] of any profit split that was going to happen, they now can maintain all of that. And frankly,
[1:07:56] I think a couple of you knew this. I predicted that could happen. And frankly, if I was a
[1:08:02] GHF, I might have done it because it makes sense.
[1:08:08] We need to be proud. And I don't mind
[1:08:10] that we're on TV or any world. We need to be proud that we got them to do this. Without
[1:08:14] us, Alyssa would not be going any more.
[1:08:17] I agree.
[1:08:18] And so, what I give a credit to a lot of people outside our organization that made us
[1:08:24] aware of where we were and what it could be. Anyway, and so I'm really proud of that, really,
[1:08:30] really proud of that. I am a little sad that we're not going to be standing next to them.
[1:08:35] I'm happy for them that they don't have to negotiate every decision because we're not
[1:08:39] easy to deal with. Nor are they. So, but when it's all said and done, I think Jason said it well,
[1:08:46] it's gonna be, it's gonna be a great, it's great for the citizens, it's great for our
[1:08:54] historical tourism, and we're just great for the reputation of Galveston. It's all good.
[1:09:00] One of the things too that we're grateful for GHF finding out about it for us when we did is that
[1:09:06] There were some limitations on some of what we had envisioned to be sponsorship opportunities
[1:09:11] that's right, placed on by CL250 in New York, not us, not anyone else, but if we push
[1:09:23] hard on that, we've done heavy leverage to negotiate with them, CL250, and we did not want
[1:09:30] to jeopardize GHF being able to make this happen on their own, if possible, and thank
[1:09:36] God knock on wood so far, it looks like it's very possible.
[1:09:41] There's two other things I failed to mention which are interesting is they do have dancing
[1:09:46] wears firm under contract and she's working, they're working river artifact, she's the one
[1:09:51] that brought HEB, HEB is one of her clients for 18 or 20 years, so having her and her team
[1:09:57] on board, there's a lot more that I think just leads to more potential successes.
[1:10:03] And the other thing, and I don't know all the details yet, but you might want to put it
[1:10:06] on your calendar, is that May 15th, there's going to be a launch party leaving here, 21
[1:10:12] with a list of leads.
[1:10:13] So I don't know that she's actually leaving on the 15th, but there is a party, and she's
[1:10:21] not leaving the 15th, she's probably leaving the next morning.
[1:10:26] Great.
[1:10:26] I'd like to request this and I take this candy ball like that.
[1:10:30] I think that Karla says that the question is coming.
[1:10:39] Yes, I went to follow up with the park board like you said.
[1:10:47] I think you guys made sure that their
[1:11:00] eyes open and showed them that they would be a possibility for them to go out.
[1:11:04] 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
[1:11:12] Oh, yes, we can do it. You know, give them that extra push
[1:11:15] Use double looking for those sponsorships after outside and I think we showed them we showed the
[1:11:22] other
[1:11:25] 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
[1:11:34] Very, very great things.
[1:11:35] Now other entities can say, oh well, you know what?
[1:11:38] I don't think it's going to happen.
[1:11:40] Let me go check where the park were.
[1:11:42] Let me see if they can help us.
[1:11:44] Let me see if they can open our eyes.
[1:11:49] Or if they can be our backup.
[1:11:51] Racking us with a file and see if needed.
[1:11:53] If it's something that is really worth it.
[1:11:55] And I think that's, we're showing the whole Galveston Island
[1:12:00] that what we are capable of being there.
[1:12:04] And also telling them, you can do it through, I think you guys did an amazing job of creating
[1:12:09] that and showing them that there was an opportunity because I, if I remember correctly, when
[1:12:15] Marty went and talked to them, they were like, we are isolated, they're arms down, they
[1:12:19] were kind of, I'm not saying that we're defeated, but they were kind of want to do it.
[1:12:25] When you came in, just brought more power, more energy to them and that energy now, where
[1:12:30] they were able to catch their own, they were able to help
[1:12:34] and anything, no A.T.D. is helping them.
[1:12:36] And those things that they didn't even
[1:12:39] got from regulation to do.
[1:12:51] From seven to nine, on the 15th of May,
[1:12:54] call the sunset kickoff.
[1:12:56] First loop to sunset kickoff, so it's good.
[1:13:00] And tickets are available.
[1:13:02] Great.
[1:13:03] Good.
[1:13:06] Well, thank you very much, Marty, for that day.
[1:13:09] and if I can read the room properly,
[1:13:13] it looks like for item G, update,
[1:13:15] discuss people will come to age 26,
[1:13:18] expecting the melody.
[1:13:21] I'm not turning.
[1:13:23] Correct.
[1:13:26] That's right.
[1:13:27] Tony is an officer in a trade organization
[1:13:30] that he had to be at,
[1:13:32] so he literally drove to Austin this morning at him.
[1:13:37] Okay, well thank you, good afternoon.
[1:13:39] I'm not sure if he saw two very large balls
[1:13:43] We'll touch on those, you've heard about that a little bit.
[1:13:46] I wanted to show you visually what we've been working on.
[1:13:50] So again, visit Galveston, we're a marketing organization.
[1:13:53] So what we're trying to do is build content, add different things so we can market.
[1:13:57] As a reminder, as part of the Limited Promotional Partnership, we are featured in this is the
[1:14:03] link we're driving people to on the official World Cup website and then also on the app.
[1:14:11] 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.
[1:14:18] 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.
[1:14:28] So this is what we're focusing on.
[1:14:30] You know, with part of the promotional partnership, we have to speak about World Cup.
[1:14:35] They really want people to know what it's all about, the information.
[1:14:38] 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?
[1:14:47] Attractions, things to do, dining drinks, and then watch parties. We listed all of these sports bars on the island as well.
[1:14:54] Plus there are some local watch parties. We had a great call last week with Delpapa, Michelobel Church.
[1:15:10] 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?
[1:15:29] connection and what would drive traffic here.
[1:15:32] And then itineraries from that day to beach day
[1:15:35] just different things to do,
[1:15:37] where to eat, drink and experience.
[1:15:40] So we're just adding just a bunch
[1:15:41] of different content here.
[1:15:43] Again, we talk about the proximity,
[1:15:44] different things to do from NRG
[1:15:46] to the interesting things on the way down,
[1:15:49] from the airports, to space center,
[1:15:51] Houston, KEMA, to Galveston.
[1:15:54] And then again, just a lot of other good content
[1:15:58] for the website.
[1:15:59] I did want to briefly call out the Art of Soccer Program because again I know we've touched
[1:16:05] briefly here but I did want to let you know we've done some interactive elements to it.
[1:16:11] So with this, not only did we add a group map of where they're going to be located so we
[1:16:16] will keep updating this because the thought is every month we kind of move it around and
[1:16:20] just make it a traveling exhibit of where all they're going to be.
[1:16:23] We added this interactive where you can I'm looking at the screen and not on the computer if you go
[1:16:33] 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.
[1:16:47] So the the beach culture one is here and as you will notice it's the new
[1:16:53] lifeguard tower color, fishing on the pier, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing,
[1:17:02] chair umbrella, kites, seagulls, so it's just, you know, it's a fun, fun
[1:17:07] reposition station and then the nature one which you've seen out there and then the
[1:17:13] maritime one, it's just everything, so it's nice, it has the steering wheel and
[1:17:20] everything from the battleship Texas to the Talship Elissa, tripping cargo, all
[1:17:28] the different, all the different elements. So we did want to make sure you were aware
[1:17:32] of that. We are getting a lot of leverage about this from Ernst Media. There's a
[1:17:37] organization called News O'Matic. And it's an international group that teaches
[1:17:43] elementary and middle school kids, just different random history. So they reached
[1:17:48] out, they saw the article about the soccer balls and they wanted to, specifically
[1:17:53] in the Juneteenth Ball, but now they're adding this element in their E-blast in
[1:17:57] June that's going to send out worldwide to all of their, so you know, teaching, teaching
[1:18:02] children around the world. Again soccer or football is an international language so it's
[1:18:08] a great way to just educate people. That's it. I'm open to any questions. Yes sir.
[1:18:16] I want to add to her presentation that at noon today the soccer balls were not there
[1:18:23] and somebody jumped to all kinds of hoops because I said I want the trustees to see them.
[1:18:28] So somebody got them here, Donna, with that you thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
[1:18:40] It takes ability, this is team sport.
[1:18:44] I just thought you guys need to see it, you're such a huge part of this, we got two of them here.
[1:18:55] Those two were at the visitor center, right?
[1:19:00] What's missing from those is, and should be ready in about four more weeks, three more weeks.
[1:19:06] Is there actually going to be a logo stand that they go on, which is a fabric?
[1:19:11] Have we scaled you that before?
[1:19:13] It's about a foot tall.
[1:19:15] It will sit off the ground and will sit on top of it.
[1:19:20] In about a month, those will be ready, so they'll sit on something.
[1:19:23] There's also a plexiglass case, like a trophy case,
[1:19:27] it sits over the top of it. And we have decided they will all be interior shot. They won't.
[1:19:34] If you leave right now and you touch it, the humidity already is making the paint.
[1:19:41] Anyway, so we just need to be and we did it all right. We just need to be very careful
[1:19:46] that we get many, many, many years out of this. And I don't know, what was the story on the
[1:19:54] June 10th where it might end up? Traveling leisure the June the June issue. No,
[1:19:59] would I mean life forever? Okay. Well, not forever. We said it was on loan. We
[1:20:04] have sent out several letters. So again, very proud of this, but again, we're
[1:20:08] trying. It can't hurt. So we found out that Obama is opening the presidential
[1:20:12] center on June 10th. So we sent a letter to their curator in Chicago and Chicago is
[1:20:19] not a host city. So what does that mean? They're opening this on June 10th. They're
[1:20:23] not a host city. This is a way for them to bring in World Cup and then also
[1:20:28] Juneteenth. And they don't have anything from the birthplace, but he's
[1:20:31] opening on Juneteenth. So we thought it was just kind of a perfect storm. So we
[1:20:35] wrote a pitch letter to the curator. It's been a week and a half. I haven't
[1:20:38] heard back. We were waiting till the end of this week to send that another
[1:20:42] another email. Then last week, we sent to two of the curators at this
[1:20:47] Smithsonian. The one is focused on sports. The other one is emancipation, a
[1:20:53] reconstruction and so we're hoping we're hoping so stay tuned but again we're
[1:20:59] saying on loan that we'd like this to be a traveling exhibit and get a lot
[1:21:02] of mileage out of it so if we had information on the artist so here at the
[1:21:16] bottom of the page we mentioned every single one of the artists and a little bit
[1:21:21] of information about them.
[1:21:26] It's beautiful. Yes, yes it's so important because
[1:21:30] again we wouldn't have them without the talented artists to put them on the
[1:21:33] other. But let me just say I have received a tremendous amount of feedback
[1:21:38] positive about these balls. It is the buzz word in the community. It really
[1:21:45] truly is and I got to think the individual artists and certainly think you know
[1:21:51] the park boy staff for bringing this whole thing together but it has been the
[1:21:56] buzz word for the last two to three weeks in community particularly in the
[1:22:00] Juneteenth and it's been a lot of the special about it they're super proud about it
[1:22:05] as well as I so thank you guys. I got an email saying you need to get to
[1:22:11] It's neocultural.
[1:22:12] You've got to get over there.
[1:22:13] So, yeah.
[1:22:15] Before I even know they were ready to move to this place, I thought they were waiting
[1:22:18] for the stand.
[1:22:19] I don't know.
[1:22:20] If you look at the one of them, they're all amazing, and they're all just so unique and
[1:22:27] different.
[1:22:27] But the icon ball, if you haven't, I know, sorry, this one in the middle, the icon ball,
[1:22:34] the opportunities are endless when you can put this.
[1:22:37] there's, you know, you have Bishop's Palace, but then Rudy Manchin.
[1:22:41] The good thing is people are clamoring, there's, I want the ball.
[1:22:44] No, I want the ball.
[1:22:44] So, take your turn.
[1:22:47] Rudy Gardens, Pleasure Pier, up top, here's Old Red.
[1:22:51] It's big, really, really.
[1:22:52] Then, you know, the Galvestes.
[1:22:53] So, there's just so many, so many locations and places
[1:22:56] where we can put the ball.
[1:22:58] And look at the, I mean, just how seamlessly it's all integrated
[1:23:01] of you think about your favorite icons on the island.
[1:23:04] So, again, thank you for,
[1:23:07] or the support of letting us do the project,
[1:23:09] but it was fun, the gentleman at B.O.I. on Broadway,
[1:23:14] who did the priming,
[1:23:17] and then also put the clear coat
[1:23:19] to protect it from paint and different issues.
[1:23:22] He said, these balls are beautiful.
[1:23:26] He said, there's so much better than in Houston.
[1:23:30] And he said, are you all gonna sell them?
[1:23:32] He said, I don't want to buy one in balls.
[1:23:34] I mean, this gentleman at an auto repair shop
[1:23:36] is wanting to buy the ball.
[1:23:38] So it's everybody's excited about it.
[1:23:40] But Houston did the same thing.
[1:23:43] This is the artist's soccer.
[1:23:44] They kicked it off as part of their pitch
[1:23:47] to become a host city.
[1:23:49] So they've been doing them for a while,
[1:23:51] but it's a fundraising.
[1:23:53] So for $10,000, companies have been buying these balls
[1:23:56] and branding them and putting,
[1:23:57] you know, having just different people paying them.
[1:24:00] So if you go to Hobby Airport
[1:24:01] in the baggage claim, you'll see them
[1:24:02] in just around different areas.
[1:24:05] No, I've got a question. Is this at all coordinated with our art wall?
[1:24:09] Not yet.
[1:24:13] I can't.
[1:24:13] That might be an opportunity to ask for the word a little bit.
[1:24:18] Absolutely.
[1:24:20] That's great.
[1:24:22] So, May 12th, Mark your calendar for May 12th is Tourism Summit.
[1:24:27] We're having all five of the balls at Tourism Summit and then we will distribute them.
[1:24:32] So that would be from 10 to 3 and it's a great day of education, everything from AI to
[1:24:39] economic impact trends, lots of good
[1:24:45] Good topics
[1:24:47] Melody I have a quick question over marketing the island is a place to stay
[1:24:54] Those of us that spend part of our lives in Houston and Galveston realize that this time of year
[1:25:00] there's a noticeable improvement in temperature and sea breeze as you get to the coast.
[1:25:06] So I was wondering if that was being promoted on the island is a place to it's more comfortable
[1:25:14] to stay down here because as we all know the almost it's more comfortable here than almost
[1:25:20] anywhere else in Texas as well when it comes to heat and the sea breeze.
[1:25:26] Yes.
[1:25:27] We've done those primarily in the summer kind of the heat campaign, because it's always
[1:25:31] about 10 degrees cooler beer than it is anywhere else, especially like San Antonio's pure
[1:25:35] concrete.
[1:25:36] So yes, we do have those campaigns going.
[1:25:39] We haven't right now because it's been so pleasant, but yes, those will kick up.
[1:25:45] I think that would be something, yeah, to capitalize on for our guests who are coming into Houston
[1:25:50] and everything and are probably a lot of them be shocked with how hot and humid it is.
[1:25:55] and then that there is a place 48 miles south that does provide some relief.
[1:26:01] I
[1:26:09] think I know I'm in Mexico and I have one of the bolognese who called it.
[1:26:15] It was football and where I met it because of the lobbies where I put those in, I got one.
[1:26:22] And even though I'm biased, sometimes the worst Mexico would do is the city where I would pour and grew up.
[1:26:28] I would say in this case, we dealt with another old job
[1:26:31] compared to the way that they curated the Valonis in Gomstum compared to the one that
[1:26:38] they have here.
[1:26:39] They are prettier.
[1:26:40] I can tell you.
[1:26:43] That's a
[1:26:47] soccer ball right there, but they got here.
[1:27:13] Indeed, the artist that they did, it's very, very, very, very amazing.
[1:27:18] And I'm excited about it, everybody spoke here in Mexico City,
[1:27:24] went to the games, the games
[1:27:26] are kind of happy here at Mexico City because they're already planning on to use them and plan
[1:27:31] for some of the cows to go watch games. So I'm excited and I'm proud of what part of the head
[1:27:38] about.
[1:27:40] So I now understand completely why you have dialed into this meeting. I can't believe it.
[1:27:47] Thank you for that visual demonstration. That's incredible.
[1:27:54] Any other comments over FIFA World Cup
[1:27:57] up 2026.
[1:28:01] 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.
[1:28:10] Okay. We can wait until the announcements. All right. Any future agenda items from the group? Okay.
[1:28:18] Then we'll move on to item 10. Announcements.
[1:28:23] Well, I bring this up because earlier today I was in a meeting of the real estate committee
[1:28:29] which is a joint city council and worst board committee and the part board came up in
[1:28:36] conjunction with a project that we're doing and pushing through and that's a, you know,
[1:28:42] the worst board is done a pretty good job of evaluating and getting people on the island
[1:28:48] and onto the cruise ships. Pretty good. They've done a good job of that and the infrastructure
[1:28:51] is under construction to make that more efficient. But what we haven't done yet is look at the
[1:28:55] impact on additional cruise ships. You know, we have four right now. We've got fifths
[1:29:01] knocking on the door. Like we have as many as seven. But what we haven't done yet is look
[1:29:05] at the impact of this additional traffic on the adjacent neighborhood and downtown. In
[1:29:12] happens south of Harborside. So this committee did a scope of work and issued an RFQ to get
[1:29:22] a consultant to do this for us and what we're looking at is making projections for additional
[1:29:27] traffic based on more cruise ships on an area between 33rd and 14th and of course the water
[1:29:37] front to a church tree. So that takes in downtown, it takes in the neighborhoods, Jason,
[1:29:43] East End neighborhoods. And what we're looking for, if you live in East End or you've been
[1:29:48] in the East End, you've probably seen some people walking in the street pulling, pulling
[1:29:53] a luggage, maybe pushing a baby carriage in our like 3 or 4 blocks away from the Christian
[1:29:57] and they're doing that because there's no sidewalk, which is
[1:30:00] 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.
[1:30:29] around with when you get there. That means parking. So we're going to be looking at getting
[1:30:34] the data on how many spaces do we have available, how many of them are loading zones or
[1:30:40] anticast spaces, how many parking lots do we have, how are they managed, where they cost
[1:30:45] or they private public valley, how many parking garages I know we got four downtown and they're
[1:30:50] all sitting there half empty. Are there some opportunities there to be able to utilize these
[1:30:57] parking garages or any of our assets more effectively for people like people who work
[1:31:02] down to, for instance, people who live down to, people who run a business down town,
[1:31:07] downtown owners, as well as the tourists.
[1:31:11] There's, downtown has an unusual demand on its infrastructure because there's so many
[1:31:16] different types of stakeholders, it's not like living in a neighborhood.
[1:31:19] It is a neighborhood but it's also a commercial area and it's also loaded with tourists and
[1:31:24] And so we're going to be looking at the impact of additional cruise ships on downtown mobility
[1:31:30] and parking.
[1:31:32] And so what we talked about was there's a lot of different mobility studies out there.
[1:31:38] The port has one called Safe Streets.
[1:31:40] The city is also got a $24 million grant for downtown, a living book communities grant.
[1:31:46] This kind of address amenities and pedestrian connectivity among the downtown.
[1:31:52] And so there's a lot of these other studies going on.
[1:31:55] The thanks of Parkport has been coordinating with the Warport on their waypinding project.
[1:32:01] And so it came up that our, we approved this study that we're talking about.
[1:32:06] It's in two phases.
[1:32:07] We approved the first phase to recommend to the City Council on the Warport.
[1:32:11] The second phase is going to be more about parking the first phase of like $380 something thousand dollars.
[1:32:16] And we're looking at doing, looking at pricing right now, the second phase.
[1:32:19] 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
[1:32:27] 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
[1:32:36] Moving people around that means tourists moving tourists one of the things we're looking at is a
[1:32:42] Is a trolley bus circulating from the cruise ship terminal to downtown on a regular basis like every 30 minutes on weekends
[1:32:49] or something like that, was the idea of getting cars off of the downtown that come from the cruise
[1:32:54] ship traffic. One of the ideas we talked about was providing incentives for those on cruises to
[1:32:59] arrive early or stay late, leave their luggage in their car and just get on this trail and go downtown
[1:33:05] for an hour or so and then go right back to their car. And what you would incentivize that is
[1:33:10] provide them with a break on the price for parking in that garage before and after. So they pay
[1:33:17] one rate when they go on a cruise, if they're going to go downtown hang out, they pay
[1:33:20] another rate.
[1:33:21] It's cheaper, but incentivizes them to do that.
[1:33:23] To get out of the car, we've got to be reliable.
[1:33:25] But we're looking at things like that, and that's why we're wanting to try to get some
[1:33:30] part board participation and coordination in this project, because we're going to be moving
[1:33:36] to our surround downtown.
[1:33:39] So we're looking at another meeting in May where we'll do that.
[1:33:44] that we hope to bring this whole project, the City Council, and Lord's Board for approval
[1:33:50] at their meetings in May, just towards the end of May, so this meeting becomes somewhere
[1:33:54] before that.
[1:33:55] Because this would have to go back to the real estate committee to approve the second phase
[1:34:00] two part of this design involved parking.
[1:34:03] So that's one thing that this committee talked about today.
[1:34:06] The other thing you may recall, I may have mentioned at some point, the Peer 19 project,
[1:34:13] we're looking to do an improvement, the Peer 19, the worst board master plan showed a bunch
[1:34:20] of public space, you know, and amongst all their cruise ship.
[1:34:26] And now since they have some public space places for open space parks, amenities for people,
[1:34:32] people that can make places for people to get to the waterfront, you know, right now.
[1:34:37] And so we looked at here in 19 as a pilot project for doing that, and we've had a couple
[1:34:42] of meetings now.
[1:34:43] The consultant was hired a couple of months ago, I guess, and we met with the stakeholders
[1:34:47] and met with the, and gone over existing conditions, and they're doing the design work right
[1:34:52] now.
[1:34:54] And they're going to be back here in May 19th and 20th, sometime between May 19th and
[1:34:58] in 2021 to show their first look at a design for this.
[1:35:04] And I think part four is going to have an interest
[1:35:07] in this when we get a little further down the road
[1:35:10] because it's going to be an amenity
[1:35:12] for not only tourist but for people who live here
[1:35:16] and it's going to result in improvements
[1:35:19] to the operation and safety
[1:35:21] of the working waterfront for the stakeholder group.
[1:35:24] So that project is going forward,
[1:35:26] It's not it's not costing the city or the worst would want any. It's funded of a
[1:35:31] philanthropic local philanthropy. This project design is so far. And we made windup
[1:35:37] depending on the success of this pilot doing doing in another piece you know
[1:35:43] little further down the road near the battleship or some of the other places that
[1:35:47] the master plan has indicated open space and public space. So this is a this
[1:35:54] Just trying to get a little update on that particular piece of it that I think will have an interest in later on.
[1:36:01] Okay. Thank you very much. Any other announcements?
[1:36:05] 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.
[1:36:14] Strangers maybe they were in the bar or the cafeteria.
[1:36:19] and almost say about 20 people and a lot of people do stay here, right?
[1:36:24] This particular group I had talked to, we had just driven in, gone down Broadway
[1:36:28] at Harborside and got this truck of the cruise ship and they were not that
[1:36:33] impressed with what they saw at Galveston. And I'm just saying that that's
[1:36:38] something that's part of the city, I mean I know we've talked about Broadway
[1:36:41] in Harborside but there's plenty of proof that experience because I said I hope you'll
[1:36:45] come back and visit the true Galveston, not just the main thoroughfare.
[1:36:50] So again, I said, I'm on the park board, we welcome tourists as our biggest industry
[1:36:55] and, you know, they were kind of surprised, which kind of shocked me.
[1:37:00] Number one, number two, and maybe this is not an announcement, but I hope the city is working
[1:37:06] on doing something about the end of co-building, something.
[1:37:16] 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.
[1:37:35] So that's the soonest there'd be a change here.
[1:37:38] Then the city would take close to a month to get out the applications and do the interviews
[1:37:44] of the new board, any of you that will be reapplying.
[1:37:49] And so in any of you that don't need to reapply, everyone will be left as is until that's done.
[1:37:56] So we're now probably looking at very late July instead of what would have been some of
[1:38:02] but June or a very early July.
[1:38:06] Another one is you probably noticed today
[1:38:08] and thank you for using the sign-in sheet today.
[1:38:11] There's a real reason for that.
[1:38:13] I'm studying productivity and the value, frankly,
[1:38:17] of that position as well.
[1:38:22] It's budget time guys.
[1:38:24] Also, and more importantly, it's just safety.
[1:38:27] We need to know who's in this room.
[1:38:29] And so you ask that you make it easy for whoever is there to sign in every time you come.
[1:38:36] Clearly you don't need to put your email address every time we know you, but I appreciate
[1:38:40] you not making a fuss over it.
[1:38:44] And then the last thing which used to be a very big part of your conversations is that the
[1:38:52] first comprehensive plan committee meeting is now scheduled for May 12th.
[1:38:57] So it is here and getting ready to start.
[1:39:02] Good.
[1:39:03] And Cheryl, you had an announcement.
[1:39:06] I had two.
[1:39:07] You'll see on your table next to your briefing paper,
[1:39:11] the letter from the executive director of ASVPA,
[1:39:15] thanking the board for the proclamation that we brought forward
[1:39:19] in DC celebrating their 100 year anniversary.
[1:39:22] So thank you.
[1:39:24] And then second, this Friday,
[1:39:26] Texas A&M Galveston is going to be celebrating and providing awards. They do
[1:39:33] this annually. They have four awards that they typically announce. And one of
[1:39:38] them, the Young Alumni, are building a brighter future for the
[1:39:41] University through their dedication of time, talent and energy. The Maritime
[1:39:46] Sciences and Maritime Studies Young Alumni Award is presented annually to a
[1:39:51] former student of one of the departments of the College of Marine Sciences and
[1:39:55] Maritime Studies, who has demonstrated outstanding professional achievement or endeavors, exemplifying
[1:40:01] the four values of Texas and in the University and the educational training from the College
[1:40:06] of Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies towards the advancement of the greater good.
[1:40:13] And this Friday, Elizabeth Walla, our Environmental Programs Manager will be receiving the award.
[1:40:19] So, so she went to me six today or she'd be standing here, but please if you see her around
[1:40:26] or have an opportunity, please give her a little coup d'etre.
[1:40:30] Thank you.
[1:40:31] Congratulations.
[1:40:32] That's Elizabeth.
[1:40:34] Robert N. Coles.
[1:40:37] This Saturday made a second.
[1:40:39] I don't think he's the day.
[1:40:40] It's made a second.
[1:40:41] We're celebrating our 44th annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta in Thorey.
[1:40:46] We just reenactivated the reactivated are sick of my parade. There's a place for all of you to ride in it
[1:40:53] And the parade starts at one, but we're asking everybody to get to city hall at 1130. It'll take you all from
[1:40:59] 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
[1:41:10] Okay, so we promote voting
[1:41:21] So we would love to have all of you there at Mari, please try to make it if you can.
[1:41:26] Love to.
[1:41:26] Thank you, Robert.
[1:41:27] It's a great event.
[1:41:28] 11th or?
[1:41:29] 11th or 11th.
[1:41:30] Pick up where?
[1:41:32] City Hall.
[1:41:33] Is that a line somewhere?
[1:41:35] Is that a line somewhere?
[1:41:36] Yeah.
[1:41:36] Is that a line somewhere?
[1:41:37] Is that a line somewhere?
[1:41:39] Yeah.
[1:41:39] All right.
[1:41:40] All right, and I'll call us.
[1:41:44] Unfortunately, I have to reiterate the need for live parts.
[1:41:56] So you see some of the live cards for a full time.
[1:42:00] They think that for the tribe, it's early in the season.
[1:42:05] And I know it's already kind of training
[1:42:07] on Facebook for some people that like to find the negative
[1:42:11] and anything.
[1:42:12] So I just wanted you guys to get aware that that happened.
[1:42:17] by myself and what we understand and, unfortunately, I'm not interested in that.
[1:42:26] Any other announcements?
[1:42:28] Yeah.
[1:42:29] Okay, we'll be seeing that at 3.12 p.m.
[1:42:31] We will adjourn.
[1:42:32] Thank you.