City of Brackettville Special City Council Meeting 8-20-2013

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[0:15] plays one joking junior
[0:19] alderman plays two frank rodriguez elder woman plays three rachel munoz
[0:27] outdoor woman plays for francisca chica hernandez
[0:31] alderman plays five andre mayor you have before thank
[0:37] you please rise
[0:47] the united states of america into the republic for which it stands
[0:52] one nation under god
[0:55] indivisible with liberty and justice
[1:04] and at this time
[1:16] and here i would like to address um sorry
[1:20] i had the partners of progress give me a call which is an organization we're
[1:24] going to do the main street program called to let me know that
[1:29] they're going to pull out the grant they don't have confidence in their city
[1:33] council to be able to proceed so they want to head out austin so they've known
[1:37] to pull it out and that maybe they'll try
[1:42] um
[1:54] actually what i'm doing is i'm asking for status report
[1:58] our attorneys are not president
[2:03] i um
[2:08] who was rather emphatic about the situation and rather
[2:13] upset about the actions that are taking place
[2:16] regarding the law that we
[2:20] wanted to
[2:32] apparently um i didn't know who she was when she came
[2:36] to see me i realized who she was
[2:42] uh her story is it and i told her that i'm afraid for the
[2:46] attention of the council and unfortunately
[3:03] it was table due to the fact that the island had not been advertised
[3:09] again we've not followed the secret
[3:13] so the island's taken
[3:30] it wasn't table because it was an adder tag it was table
[3:36] because we wanted to go out and look at the lot as we've done before with
[3:39] another box we wanted to see what property we were selling
[3:51] somebody raised the question of whether they had advertised it or not and the
[3:56] answer was no so the end in it and you may be you may
[4:00] be correct that and i'm not correct too because
[4:04] that was one of the reasons i don't recall
[4:09] what you're saying but then again i don't care
[4:26] okay there was nothing done until august the 13th apparently this our august
[4:31] eight i have a copy of the public notice here where they
[4:35] a lot is being advertised for sale
[4:40] now the problem here as i see it
[4:47] is that when we discussed it on june 11 the bed was made public
[4:52] the 500 bed was made public so
[4:58] as a result has been tabled it was publicized on august the 8th
[5:04] 2013. on august 13th
[5:21] why we didn't act on it but we did not act on it
[5:25] so
[5:28] there seems to be no it doesn't seem to be there is quite a bit of confusion
[5:34] regarding this thought so maybe we should ask our attorney how we should
[5:38] proceed with this uh seeing how we have two bids
[5:44] for 500 but the process
[5:48] has been compromised
[6:24] okay she's been in limbo for about three to four months now
[6:28] she did the right procedure now what happened what happened is mr
[6:33] garcia took in a bid after the friday deadline
[6:40] after the he was he wanted all the paperwork
[6:44] anything on the tinder we put on
[6:49] before he publishes the agenda correct
[6:53] she had done that now the next bidder
[6:58] put in his bid after fed
[7:02] he put it on a monday at 9 05 and we're still we're still
[7:08] thinking uh mr suffered for
[7:12] somebody else's mistakes okay
[7:17] during that meeting i have a good idea when did this second vidcon
[7:23] and he said today well irrespective of whether it was monday or june
[7:44] when previously we've sold several properties with other individuals
[7:49] for less than five hundred dollars
[8:09] uh
[8:33] um
[8:51] he did do a lot for us it's just the fact that i couldn't
[8:55] access this fixed year
[8:58] but i do want to thank him for his efforts
[9:00] um
[9:43] it is now 6 10 um
[10:08] beautiful
[10:21] this is
[10:42] it is now 7 24 and today is
[10:56] department of the city
[11:10] i'd like a motion to authorize police department
[11:36] is
[11:53] that's my big
[12:08] yes
[12:21] let me rephrase that the financial statement that we have received
[12:27] is at least nine months
[12:30] after the fact the last thing we got we did i think
[12:35] november of 2012 my math is correct since about eight or
[12:40] months eight or nine months ago that does not give us a true picture of
[12:46] where we stand financially at this point we don't know
[13:18] the individual it's not about the individual it's about the hiring process
[13:23] i have nothing to do with the individual as long as you deal with following the
[13:28] things that follow our coordinates
[13:32] if we fall into the habit of violating our old ordinances and coming back and
[13:37] reaffirming them i think we're in trouble
[13:40] but based on those facts
[13:45] i agree on a temporary basis i did ask the ladies at the office to give me some
[13:51] figures as far as
[13:53] the expenses on the cheap the department and then it was very hard for them to
[13:59] come up with anything but what i did see kind of worried me uh
[14:05] it's going to be very tight so yes one temporary basis
[14:10] you know i respect the decision but
[14:14] um it all depends again on our finances i think everybody here remembers mr
[14:22] garcia stated we were paying attention to paycheck so uh it is a concern for
[14:28] his finances
[14:43] yes
[15:10] there um
[15:38] uh
[15:59] is
[16:33] supposedly
[16:41] discussion possible action to admit job title and job responsibilities of
[16:45] existing city secretariats
[16:57] discussion possible action to establish dark responsibilities for the city
[17:01] secretary for the city of brazil
[17:09] our recommendation that's also a no action type item
[17:13] as long as and i think we'll
[17:16] let nora know that for the meantime because there is no
[17:19] city manager administrator in place she's having to undertake additional
[17:25] jobs and responsibilities
[17:51] thank you i appreciate it i i just want the puppet to know that myself
[17:57] marisela and veronica garcia have
[18:01] had and will continue to do the best for the city we are there to do our job we
[18:06] continue to do our job every day we've offered our services to the
[18:10] council members any questions that they have they can come and ask us we just
[18:14] ask some time for give us time because sometimes it's hard
[18:17] for us to do our everyday task plus get information that is being asked for but
[18:23] we are at your services all three of us are more than willing
[18:27] to help you um just a little note ida was coming back to work she's not
[18:33] feeling well so we asked you for prayer for item but aya was planning to come
[18:38] back to work as of yesterday so we are at your disposal so just give
[18:43] us a little bit of time when you ask us for information because we help each
[18:47] other we answer phone calls we attend to customers that walk into the door also
[18:52] thank you
[19:07] and i believe
[19:36] several
[20:04] that's not
[20:15] um
[20:32] and i'm just wondering whether we need to continue in water
[20:37] i would support an even tighter
[20:41] moratorium on any further film than water
[20:45] maybe uh the last time i
[20:56] um
[21:03] um
[21:27] the accuracy of these tests
[21:37] is there any possibility by some act of nature
[21:42] you know and nature's
[22:10] the city water wheel let's check
[22:19] baby the the water
[23:01] are they being read correctly i
[23:05] we should have i noticed uh what
[23:10] money was shown to us for us on the blackbeard and i believe there should be
[23:16] a lot more and i'm not saying or anything anyone updating anything i'm
[23:20] saying
[23:34] you know i can see from my experience you know i know the mistakes can be made
[23:40] but but it's easy to to fix those mistakes so i i don't know
[23:46] if we're gonna go the entire year making the same
[24:02] the
[24:15] i believe louise is being used and maybe the track field
[24:22] i am
[24:44] is um if i remember correctly when david
[24:50] was alive david was the one that read them so i'm assuming now it's joe kelly
[24:55] but i i could be corrected mike would you happen to know it'd be
[24:59] whoever gets the work order if joe does it himself or because it's somebody else
[25:03] to do it just about if it's a work order
[25:15] unless we have a contract with someone i don't know we have a fiscal contract
[25:19] with the key west we have
[25:21] account if we don't have a contract with that we can stop but if we have a
[25:25] contract with someone we need to obligate that contract
[25:29] but at the same on the same hand we need to
[25:32] have a place where those meters are read properly i think
[25:37] uh that's getting energy said it was step 340
[25:40] and
[25:54] hasn't
[26:22] okay
[26:50] 11 o'clock
[27:04] they would have access to the to the water meter 24 7. who was reporting the
[27:09] number we would just go and get the numbers at the beginning
[27:13] let's say we open today we'll get the numbers today and then on
[27:17] the 15th of the month
[27:28] right and that's how we determined
[27:44] we don't have an automatic system
[27:49] okay
[28:15] the uh the type of leaders you have next mechanical meters that with time can
[28:20] slow down it gets stuck and whatnot so if you go in with the latest technology
[28:26] you know
[28:28] we use that right over there there is money and some
[28:34] possibilities as far as how you meet how often
[28:38] a guy has uh
[28:47] a couple years
[28:55] in the city
[29:09] so you really want to monitor an industrial account you can only take it
[29:14] to those accounts and so you don't have to make spend
[29:18] millions of dollars a hundred thousand dollars
[29:20] for the entire city and this is
[29:50] the city owns everyone
[29:58] for sure
[30:12] in the last six to eight months
[30:28] is
[30:55] is
[31:07] you know there's always speculation about what's going on
[31:11] i believe in going to
[31:14] the amen asking a direct question and
[31:30] investigation
[31:43] is
[31:50] i believe we sent it by certified mail and i believe we sent it by certified
[31:55] mail and by regular member no you haven't received a response
[32:13] no no i don't right
[32:15] uh
[32:31] um