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the screen should be facing
more so that they can see it too see i

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don't know

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you sure you don't want it just a little
bit more so you can see it you can see

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the attachment the attachments will come
up on the screen

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we've got it on our screen yeah we have
all the downloads on our screens

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i got caught down there

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welcome back

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good job myron

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you just have to be a little sideways to
look at it

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but i mean they couldn't even see it

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once we added

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okay here we go guys go ahead girl
uh mr mayor counts i want to give you a

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free out free
a few messages here on some of the

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things that have been developing as it
relates to the covet 19 issue

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it does impact us here at the city and a
lot of work has been going on

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in the last 24 48 72 hours
on this issue this afternoon as you know

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the president said
no more than 10 people should gather

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we've taken steps tonight to limit the
number of staff who are participating

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the meeting is being live streamed so
it's still available to the public

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and that will continue in fact we're
talking about making every meeting

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that such as a work session for example
if in fact we have a work session

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even live streaming that to make it
available those discussions are going on

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right now
the departmental reports are being

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submitted in written form
that helped us eliminate many of the

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people
who are not here tonight we can't tell

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people not to attend but we're asking
people to use their best judgment

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we've eliminated the closed session for
tonight i know that saddens you

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in order to limit the length of the
meeting we've delayed some regular

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agenda items
so we're trying to shorten to get people

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out of here as quickly as possible
because we knew there would be no way to

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keep it to 10 because with the people up
here

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we are at 9 already with all the staff
and the elected officials so there's no

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way we can stay with that 10 so we're
trying to keep the meeting as short as

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possible

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all of these agenda issues will be
revisited in future meetings we won't

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ignore them we won't cancel them
we are postponing them at the conclusion

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of this meeting we'll talk about some of
the things we'll be doing to help with

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the covid
19 issue so the purpose of this is just

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let you to let you know what's happening
tonight

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and also as far as this meeting goes
and we officially haven't begun the

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meeting but
the city secretary is taking notes as

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far as these comments go
and then we'll make some comments about

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what has happened today
at the end of this when the mayor has an

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announcement also
so that's all i have mr mayor okay well

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i'm going to call to order the regular
meeting of the city of aransas pass city

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council
march 16 2020 at 6 pm

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let's all rise for the invocation and
pledge of allegiance

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dear father we we thank you my father to
know that you're still in control

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you still got over everything my father
you know the situation

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that our country the entire world is
going through my father i pray that your

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peace be upon us
knowing my father that you've got it all

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under control give us the assurance my
father that you will protect us and you

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will be with us lord
thank you for that for your faithfulness

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and for your love for us my father i
pray that you guide us

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the city council our city leaders my
father

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city manager and staff that are having
to

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take care of our residents my father
make the best decisions for our citizens

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as we ask in jesus name amen amen
and to the republic for which it stands

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one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and

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justice for all

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okay house bill 2840 approved by the 86
legislature states that governmental

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bodies shall allow each member of the
public who desires to address the body

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regarding an item on the agenda
may do so either before or during

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consideration of the item
citizens who wish to speak on an agenda

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item will have an opportunity to address
the body before the item is discussed

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and we're given a three-minute time
limit to make their comments

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now we're going to go to boarding
commission appointments and it's for the

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planning and zoning commission
yes the the first sport we have on is

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the planning and zoning
ms sweat kathleen swett has resigned

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from the committee
and mr schultz has submitted a board

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application for consideration of
appointment to this

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to this commission michael schultz

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when i make a motion we appoint michael
schultz to the planning and zoning

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commission
all second all in favor

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and now we're going to go to the zone
board of adjustments

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zoning board of adjustments and mr
michael

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schultz serves on that board he serves
on that board as a regular voting member

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and we spoke with him last week and he's
taken on a project

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that um conflicts with with the meeting
time for this board

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so he asked if the council would
consider

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moving him to alternate um and then
what you can do if you decide to move

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into alternate member you can appoint
one of the alternate members to take the

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regular voting slot
and what traditionally what has happened

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is you take the longest serving
member and you move them up to the to

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the regular voting slot
um and in this case i believe mr dr

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bailey is
has been the longest serving um board

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member but you have two alternates which
is carol salinas and

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and lawrence bailey

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well i'll make a motion that we move
dr bailey up to the board position

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and move mr schultz down to an alternate
on the

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zoning board of adjustments second all
in favor

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all right all right now we're going to
go to the consent agenda

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all of the following items on the
consent agenda are considered to be

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routine by the city council
and will be enacted with one motion

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there will be no separate discussion of
this item unless the

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council members are request if the
discussion is desired

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that item will be removed from the
consent agenda and will be considered

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separately
i'll make a motion we approve the

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consent agenda
second i'm all in favor all right and

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now we're going to go to the city
manager

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which is consider enacting a proven
change order number one to the contract

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with
our geo yes argio arduino

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roofing and construction for the roof
repairs

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at the city hall police department fire
department and municipal court

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for the amount not to exceed 32 274
dollars and 10 cents

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yes uh mr mayor and council this is
one of the issues that we really need to

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act on tonight
and hint and because of that we did not

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eliminate it
but the bids for the roof project they

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were opened uh back in july the lowest
in qualified bidder was argio

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uh notice the proceed was issued on
january 27th

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the reason we're here there is so much
time between the bid opening and the

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notice to proceed that fema
because fema was disputing the extent of

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the damage to the roof and the need to
replace it

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this took several months for fema to
agree with city staff and the engineers

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and it was a lengthy discussion about
the extent of damages caused by

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hurricane harvey
and the time delay created the uh the

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5755.82 cents cost
the original and this is interesting the

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original architectural plans from 1991
call for rooftop unit curb structural

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supports
for the ac units the rfp bid was created

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under the assumption that the original
plans were followed

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the contractor discovered that the ac
units did not have the structural

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support as the original design called
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without the structural support it would
not meet the windstorm units

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it would not be the windstorm
requirements and the units could be

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blown away during a storm we're now
having to correct the problem from years

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ago
this will increase the cost of an

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additional 26518-26
and the contractor will need an

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additional 38 calendar days to complete
the project

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fema will inverses 90 percent we carry
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again this is for the most part the
biggest part is correcting the problem

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from years past make a motion that we
have

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change order number one for the roof
repairs

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can we do that yeah but yeah
i'll wait for the next one second all in

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favor
aye aye aye aye okay we go to consider

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an act on approving change order number
two

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to the contract with rgo roofing and
construction for

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roof repairs at city hall police
department fire department and municipal

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court for an amount not to exceed
fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty

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dollars this is more technical
in nature the north side of the roof is

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requiring decking
to be extended to the second joist this

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is increasing the amount of deck to be
replaced the reason for

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this is that it was discovered that the
existing decking splice

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is past the first joist and is not
attached to a structural

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member and this has made for a weak
connection which we don't want

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this repair will increase the cost by uh
an additional fifteen thousand three

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sixty uh fema will immerse us again
ninety percent on this particular issue

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staff recommends
uh that the uh change order be approved

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if you so
agree okay well i got one question

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whenever we give out a bid like that for
rrsp

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do the contracts contractors ever come
out to the job site and remove any

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ceiling tiles and look exactly what
they're bidding on to know

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stuff like this right up right from the
start that

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is it seems to me like every time we get
a job

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or we get an rsp that they come and they
start the job

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and then oh guess what we messed up we
didn't see this

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it's an oversight come back with a
change order

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in the future can we really really try
to get the the contractors to come out

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and actually look at the job to make
sure

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that we don't get change orders like
this like for instance that one right

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there if you could have removed the
ceiling tiles you would actually be

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able to visually look and see if that
was

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already set versus just getting the
plans

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or getting this piece of paper and
actually just

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it's okay we can just do a change order
it don't make no difference

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to directly answer your question a good
question um

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there's that pre-bid conference and of
course we walk through everything with

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the contractors and the pre-bid
and so there is an opportunity to find

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the things you are talking about
i cannot explain why they did not find

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it you raised a good point but it was
not found

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and it has to be addressed okay can we
in the future yes you you are correct

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appreciate it

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was this one of those contracts that we
said with no change orders

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uh yeah but that's beside the point we
need to change

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yeah you're right so making
contracts with no change orders doesn't

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matter

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i don't know if i can't answer that as
far as if this was

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stated just hopefully in the future
whatever whatever

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just keep them to a minimum i think that
would make that's the word we're looking

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for keep them to a minimum
well this is almost 50 000 different i

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know but but
you know but let me let me point out let

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me further point out and the chief just
reminded me

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we had a meeting on these issues with
the contractor

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staff was there we had like 34 staff
members there

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quite a few exaggerating a little bit
but quite a few staff members

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and we grilled them on this why didn't
you do this why didn't you do that

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and they had their answers but still yet
we're in agreement with you they should

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have found it
they did not find it so it's not a

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matter of
them just getting a free ride well

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as far as discussion and us being aware
of it

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and us trying to nail them to the wall
on this

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it was a lengthy meeting on this issue
right here and

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you are correct you raised the concern
why have change orders

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we don't want change order they do
happen and sometimes there's an

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allowance in there for
in this case there is also an allowance

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for uh
overages but they were

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under the grill uh by staff members
during this meeting on these change

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orders
one thing also to mention if we back

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when the
roof was originally done if whoever was

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engineering
firm at that particular time or

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overseeing it
should have caught it so now they're

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getting the
the brunt of this so going forward that

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are well that's change order number one
i think

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i'm just going back to that we can guess

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absolutely correct
okay after all that i'll make a motion

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to prove
change order number two not to exceed

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the fifteen thousand
right fifteen thousand three hundred and

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sixty dollars
a second all in favor aye aye

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okay consider an act in approving the
finance of the truck for the

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harbormaster and designating the city
manager

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as the authorized signatory
that's right this is for the financing

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of the truck uh
and um it's something that you have you

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authorize us to move forward with it
this is the financial part

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sandra's been working on that and
we would need your okay to move forward

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with financing any
anything to add to that okay

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well i make a motion we approve the
financing of the truck for the harbor

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master in designating the city manager
as the authorized signatory

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i'll second all in favor aye now we go
to the monthly municipal court report

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february 2020. and you have it in
writing

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thank you paper report perfect okay

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look at this

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anything else

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we're going to go to community
enrichment it's considered an act of

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insurance and requests for
proposals for the 2020 independent

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celebration fireworks displayed to be
held

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at community so this is park asking you
all for permission to start the rfp

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process with
advertising and um posting these and

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then executing
those and then again when we do receive

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those we'll bring that
before you again so it's just permission

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to start the day process

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okay make a motion that we give you
permission to go out for the

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rfp for fireworks
well second all in favor aye aye

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consider an act on requests from
ransom's past project graduation for the

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use of the aquatic center on may 29 2020
a monetary donation of five thousand

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dollars
table 11 for 2019. we're asking to delay

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this
if if the council agrees with that okay

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if that's okay with you
perfect okay then we're going to go to

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monthly community
community enrichment report february

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2020.
and it's submitted in writing uh and the

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reason let me just add the reason that
sarah's here i'm going to call on her

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later when i make some comments on the
uh covid 19 issue as it relates to the

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civic center very relevant to that whole
issue of the kovitz center so that's the

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reason she's here
so but i didn't want to the others are

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in
written report so i wanted to be

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consistent

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excuse me
okay now we go to development services

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consider enacting approving a lease
agreement with the ransom's past little

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league

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yes uh we're asking that that be delayed
okay okay that's all right then we're

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going to consider
an act on awarding the request for bits

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for the wastewater treatment plant
clarifier to

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civil construction in the amount of 162
075

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yes this we would like to move forward
with if you agree

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um and um let me pull that up
uh you can the vids were opened uh

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february 27th two bids were received low
bidder on the project including the

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alternate bid was uh saguaro
civil construction total of 162 75 this

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whole
this whole thing is very important to

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our process bid tabulation
sheet and with all bids is attached you

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have a copy of that
staff recommends awarding the project to

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the low bidder and that is
sawara civil construction this project

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is part of the scp program and you're
familiar with the scp program we have

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with tceq and funding is already
allocated for it

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but we couldn't wait on this we have to
bring that to you

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yeah well i make a um a motion
that we approve the wastewater treatment

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plant clarifier
to sequera civil construction in the

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amount of 162
075 dollars second all in favor

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aye aye considering approving the
2019-2020

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road projects we're going to bring that
back to you in fact all the rest of the

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items under nine we're asking
uh that that be delayed for a future

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meeting if the council agrees
okay i'm good with that let's go to the

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finance
monthly financial report february 2020

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um no
to be consistent uh it's you have the

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written report
if you have any questions feel free to

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ask of course uh but
uh once again that's uh something that's

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submitted to you in writing and it's
pretty clear

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i think so that's that's a suggestion
from staff anyway

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okay now we're going to go to public
safety which is monthly public safety

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yeah uh same thing to be consistent uh
the chief

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uh said uh he really wants to do it uh
i had to pull him back

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being as conscientious as he is but to
be consistent uh we're asking the same

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thing
okay monthly fire department report

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february two thousand same thing
written report it's incredible writing

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okay okay no announcements okay now
we're going to go to the city council or

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staff
announcements yes

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there have been changes that i've made
notes of here i want to

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begin this is all related to covid19
you about to say something mayor he i

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thought the mayor had a statement to it
oh that thank you yeah do you have a

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statement
thank you this one first yes please okay

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before the meeting today
i signed a declaration of disaster due

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to the public health
emergency the kobet 19. we are taking

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every precaution necessary to ensure the
health and safety of our citizens

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and by signing this declaration it
expedites the use of resources to

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enhance
preparedness and respond in our

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community
okay and i'm going to follow up on that

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thank you mayor
uh under staff announcement we have

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a work session scheduled for march 23rd
we'll see we'll see what you want to do

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we'll see what's happening
we just don't know it's happening so

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fast
and the chief and i were talking about

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it earlier i mean it's changing by the
hour so we'll see what happens as we get

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closer to the 23rd
under city highlights the first two

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items are what do i know what i want to
talk about we started

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to this uh the issue of city highlights
what's happening want to bring it up to

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you in the future
not in this meeting unfortunately

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because some other things we need to say
some of the things are happening around

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the community but the first two items
are related to what we're talking about

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tonight with covet 19.
i want to talk with you about some of

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the things that happened today
as as you know the president the

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governor
san patricio county and aransas county

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too
i understand today and now the city of

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aransas pass as you just heard from the
mayor

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have all approved an emergency
declaration

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and in a meeting with um there was a
meeting today

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at the this level the aransas pass level
with department heads

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emergency personnel the chamber
the chamber was theirs also and ems were

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there also
i want to point that out to uh to remind

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you that we're taking this seriously
until we hear otherwise

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until we hear that there's nothing to
worry about

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right now when the president says no
more than 10

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and we think it's time to to at least
look at it seriously

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there's some things we're doing and you
need to be aware of some of the things

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that we are doing
city offices the way we are planning at

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this point
uh we'll operate in normal hours here's

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some options
the pain instead of coming into the

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office in other words
instead of every citizen coming into

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many citizens coming to the office to
pay

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and that creates that creates large
crowds in the lobby many times

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um the idea was uh presented it's a good
idea

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that the three dollar fee for payment
over the phone

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that's been waived uh evaluate we're
again i think in 30 days is that correct

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30 days
online payments are available and

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water department drive up box available
those are other options

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for payment mail also is an option
that's in the water department

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under the municipal court three dollar
fee over the phone

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we are waiving that we ran across some
issues but i think that's being

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addressed
and there's something else i want to

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talk about related to the courts in just
a minute

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um and also mail is a possibility for
municipal court

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under building departments three dollar
fee for payment over the phone that's

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been waived
uh mail is also an option for payment

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and you can submit paperwork online at
to naomi

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at a at a email address there
the library i didn't realize how

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active and how much of an incubator
the the computers were over at the

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library
incubator for disease so the library is

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going to remain open at least at this
point but we're

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shutting down usage of the of the
computers

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but they can check out books etc etc
just not use

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the computers now it's possible they
could be cleaning off

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after every usage but what if we miss
and uh that's a problem

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um i have a question gary absolutely
how's that gonna affect the

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census that we're telling people they
can go to the library that

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that's what we talked about that today
uh

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and uh that's something that i don't
have an answer for you on we don't uh

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we we're gonna have to take that into
consideration and see how that can be

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addressed as of this moment i don't have
an answer for you but that was discussed

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today
um there was no decision

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and lynn headed up a meeting
did a very good job there was no

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decision
on how how to limit the group limit the

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number of groups
this morning before the president made

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his announcement this afternoon we were
looking at

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would it be 50 people would it be like
uh corpus christi 500 people where

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there's
where they're saying 500 there 50 people

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would you see
what cdc is saying and we kind of

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concluded that we'd leave it open or
follow cdc

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um as far as numbers go
i really it's tough to to to come up

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with a real number until we get a
better handle on what's happening out

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there i don't know if you have anything
you want to say on that

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lynn just i'm talking to both
of our two big they're not putting the

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number on anything at this time
i think the general consensus is

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we only want to pull that trigger when
we have confirmed cases

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in our area still at this time we have
no

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okay thank you an interesting issue is a
lot of people are scheduled for court

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don't have an answer on this and talk
with a judge

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just before this meeting actually a lot
of people i mean the numbers she was

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talking about
they're huge uh and it's going to be

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difficult to change that
don't have an answer on that right now

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but
she was talking about one possibility

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dividing it up into
different sections different court

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sessions
that's a possibility but it's being

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looked at i don't know how to address
that at this point but it's something

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that is being looked at
there are some large there are some

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large numbers uh coming down as far as
the court docket goes

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so uh that's something that's being
we're gonna have a addressed to do with

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the um the roundup or
where we're over with the roundup

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partially around the
problem um

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i think we can address a lot of that
with just social space

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okay brothers have our top rows here we
can spread chairs we can put some

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gaps in the line at the window to get
checked okay

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thank you very much thank you very much
um

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uh the uh city council meetings being
live streamed

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um uh we're working on essential
personnel if it gets to that we're not

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there but if against that
i just want to make you aware so you're

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you're aware
that we're working on these things what

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if we get to the point of
saying only essential personnel should

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be at city home
that's something we're working on who

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are those essential personnel
i can't answer that at this point but

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we're working on that we're looking at
that

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working from home would be part of that
and who is equipped to do that we've

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involved i.t
into that discussion at this morning's

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meeting that's an ongoing discussion
and hopefully we don't reach that stage

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but this is a way to let you know we're
trying to get ready for it

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um

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that's personnel issues are are not
being implemented right now just want to

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point out
but we're studying them and we'll see

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what
what where that takes us and what

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happens in the
milieu and the environment that's out

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there and what's going to be required of
us we just don't know at this point

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meetings have been held all day on this
issue not here

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only here in every city in this state
every city in these united states

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they're going to the
same thing that we're going through

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right now some cities are doing
real drastic things like uh the

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mayor and uh mayor pro tim can't be in
the same room at the same time in case

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something happens
uh so you're they're they're taking

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those kinds of steps
we want to go for this meeting tonight

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so you're aware of all these issues
uh but um and some cities are looking at

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that
and the news is just filled and i've had

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people
who are in the news business some people

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i know just
keep me updated on what's happening out

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there as far as the
minute by minute hour by minute

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hour-by-hour changes that are occurring
out there

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so want to make you aware of all that
and make you aware that we're working

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aggressively on it so
are there any legal issues roxanne that

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i'm overlooking that you need to
make us aware of just some basic ones

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for
the city council to be aware of anything

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more specific i'd be more than happy to
go into executive

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session for a discussion on that however
generally speaking the mayor and the

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mayor pro tem
and the city council are very important

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to our community
when it comes into states of emergency

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the mayor has full authority on his own
to declare a local disaster

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that declaration is good for seven days
an extension of that disaster would

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require the governing body
so we would have to have a majority of

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the governing body here
or quorum of the of the body here to be

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able to vote on that extension
with that said i really ask each of you

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to please
invoke social distancing and

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remember that you should not only
recognize yourself as an individual with

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family but obviously your
responsibilities to the entire community

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as
as it comes to passing ordinances

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receiving public funding receiving
emergency grants

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that kind of thing that comes down so
this past

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legislative session it used to be that
we had to post

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an emergency meeting for the city
council with a two-hour notice now it's

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a one-hour notice
so i'm going to ask that our council

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members remain nearby
for those emergency meetings you'll have

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one hour notice to hopefully get back to
us and

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be present for a vote as we
talk about how we're not in extreme

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emergent measures one of the reasons why
we have declared the state of local

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disaster due to a public health is for
any federal funding to come down so as

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we incur
any issues in our municipality involving

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loss of revenue or loss of
funding them somehow we at least have

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the emergency disaster declared for
those to be reimbursed

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hopefully in the future so we certainly
must

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use common sense i am also going to ask
as you always do one of the great things

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about being the city attorney is i call
any of you and you immediately answer i

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call my husband and he never answers but
i can call you and you'll answer which

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is awesome
so please make sure that you answer or

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immediately get back to any phone calls
from your city administration which it

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close
of course includes the city manager the

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city secretary
the city attorney and your police chief

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if we're contacting you obviously we're
contacting you for important reasons

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and we ask that you you keep that in
mind

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with that said in the future
if we need to declare any emergent

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ordinances and we need the governing
body to do that

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i have been trained as a city attorney
who's been through several disasters of

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her own as a city attorney
to prepare any ordinance and resolutions

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that may be necessary
so i am a part of your team thank you

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for giving me that privilege
and i'm on standby while i may be in san

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antonio or another city i'm available 24
7.

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thank you thank you one final point
we're trying to be as factual

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as possible non-emotional and we don't
want to

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generate a feeling that a fear or
anything of that sort but

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it's important to understand the facts
that are out there and that we are

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working with
and that that you understand what your

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staff is doing
on this to protect the community

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thank you thank you thank you
okay now we're going to go to citizen

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comments
citizen comments are intended for the

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matter that are not scheduled on the
agenda

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please limit your comments for three
minutes and state your name and address

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for the record
be advised that the texas open meeting

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act prohibits the city council from
responding and discussing your comments

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the law authorizes the following make a
statement

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of factual information recite existing
policy

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advice that this subject may be placed
on the agenda for a subsequent meeting

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i have a suggestion but i'm going to
keep it myself to

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and then they're giving us new uh
regulations on what we should be doing

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so like
i'm just getting up to date on it as

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well uh they told us to like
cut off breakfast and stuff too that's

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got to come to a minimal
we just heard about the band or about

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the recommendation
for 15 days at home and

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you know 10 people so that
recommendation even the hotels are

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taking consideration as well too
so i know that they won't be looking at

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locally they're going to be looking at a
broader

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spectrum to do it across the nation so
i'm not really sure what's going to

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happen
i've even heard in some cases on the

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east coast they've turned some hotels
into

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testing zones and facilities and stuff
so i don't know where it's going to go

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right now um but i do know that they've
done some official releases

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uh with the influence of cdc and um
who as well so just wanted you guys to

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know
that's what's happening on our site

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thank you thank

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well you make a motion we adjourn this
meeting i'll second

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all in favor