I'm going to call this meeting to order at 5:31.
we have bob massie going to say our invocation tonight. He's pastor emeritus at the grace bible fellowship.
and if you would, please rise for our pledges and our invocation.
our father, who art in heaven. Lord, we hallow and we honor your name, lord and father god, we pray your kingdom Influence of righteousness, peace and joy.
influence every agenda discussed and every decision made this evening for our community.
lord, and the satisfaction of this council into the honor of your name and, lord, the Reinstatement of mayor fletcher.
amen. Everybody say amen. Amen. I'm ready.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for Which it stands one nation under god,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I pledge allegiance to the texas one state under god, one and indivisible.
and. Good evening, mayor and council.
tonight, we have some items to dispense of before we get into the actual meeting here.
so I'll change this over here. There we go. So tonight we are going to administer the oath of office.
but prior to that, we will have a resolution and a canvasing of this election that we Will need to do before you.
you will see the unofficial results. Tally. Summary of the election that took place may 6th, 2023.
the reason we do that is to make sure that we've gotten all the votes in. There were also often some provisional ballots, some mail ballots.
we want to make sure all the precincts were in. And as of this afternoon, all precincts have reported.
so the numbers will not change from what they are right there in front of you. So the first thing that I would ask this council to do is to make a motion to approve and Accept the tabulations that are presented before you this evening.
so if you'll take a minute to say that, please. And mayor, if you could ask for a motion for that and this will be not an electronic Motion, if you will do it with a verbal motions and then a physical hand raise
. Is there a motion? Move to approve.
is there a second? Second. Have a motion by the mayor and a second by rick.
please vote. All in favor.
I'm sorry. Passes unanimous. Thank you, mayor and council.
then the second thing we will do is I will ask the council to please accept the Resolution canvasing the elections and naming the following people duly
elected. Chris fletcher to the position of mayor.
phil anderson to the position of city council place two. Larry scott to the position of council place four.
and adam russell to the position of council place six.
is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Have a motion by dan and a second by tamara.
all in favor? Passes unanimous.
thank you, mayor and council. The next thing I will do is administer oaths of office to the newly elected elected Officials.
I will note that council place six. Adam russell is not with us this evening, so he will take his oath of office, the first Meeting in june.
so if I could have chris fletcher, phil anderson and larry scott come forward at this Time and whoever else is going to stand with them to take the oath.
we will do these oaths individually. Once you have taken your oath, if you will just have a seat in the front row because We're going to do some pictures and some different things for you all here in a minute.
and I'm going to use the microphone here, but I'd like you to use the microphone.
they don't really need to hear me. There you go. All right.
if you will raise your right hand, please, sir, and recite after me.
go. I and then state your name. I, chris fletcher, do solemnly swear.
I do solemnly swear that I have. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. One.
one is that. Is that argentina?
start again. Start again. Okay. Raise your right hand.
I state your name, please. Chris fletcher. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear.
that I will faithfully execute. Will faithfully execute the duties of the office.
mayor. City of burleson. Mayor. City of burleson of the state of texas.
and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and defend.
preserve, protect and defend. The constitution. The constitution. And the laws of the united states.
and the laws of the united states. And the laws of this state. And of this state.
so help me god. So help me god. Congratulations.
next. I'd like phil anderson, please, to come forward.
you'll stand right there to please.
okay, phil, you will raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name.
phil anderson. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute.
that I will faithfully execute. The duties of the office. The duties of the office.
city of burleson council place two. City of burleson council place two. Of the state of texas. Of the state of texas.
and will to the best of my ability. And will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and defend.
preserve, protect and defend the constitution. The constitution. And the laws of the united states.
and the laws of the united states. And of this state. And of this state. So help me god. So help me god. Congratulations.
and larry scott.
okay. You will raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name.
I, larry scott. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute.
that I will faithfully execute. The duties of the office. The duties of the office.
of council place four city of burleson. Of council place four city of burleson.
of the state of texas. Of the state of texas. And will to the best of my ability. And will to the best of my ability.
preserve, protect and defend. Preserve, protect and defend. The constitution.
the constitution. And the laws of the united states. And the laws of the united states.
and of this state. And of this state. So help me god. So help me god. Congratulations. Thank you.
so at this time, if mayor fletcher and his family would like to come forward and take Some pictures, we will do that.
we'll have some official pictures right here by marcus, our employee of the quarter, by The way, for the first quarter of the year.
and now, if anybody that's here for council member anderson, please come forward.
. Okay. So we've got I've got a little bit of this ceremonial going on here.
but I need also larry scott's family to come forward, please, and take pictures, too.
okay. So, yes, if you'll just wait a minute, I'll move you guys up there.
but we're going to do some more pictures, people. Sorry. But first first, I would like to move on to the next item, which is the Presentation to our exiting council members.
so I would like to say that it's going to be a little emotional for me with this.
I don't know that you guys realize how closely that I work with the council and then Being here for 22 years I've worked with a lot of councils and I tell you each time it's
it is a little heartfelt for me because what you guys see is one thing and what I deal With is another.
and each council member up here, whether you agree with them or not agree with them.
what you need to understand is they've dedicated some time and what you see is every First and third monday, a couple of hours seems pretty easy.
but what I will tell you is every council member puts in hours and hours and their Families understand that and their families have sacrificed for them, and they bring them
forward and they give us the best that they have and they give us all that they have.
and so for the new council members coming in, sorry, family, they will be talking to me a Lot more than they talk to other people.
so I will be nice. I will be firm sometimes.
don't be surprised. And so what I would like to do first is call down council member payne, please.
so what I would like to present to you is a token of our appreciation. We hope that you feel this every week with brand new flowers, and I'm going to say what I Always say, right?
I can buy myself flowers so you can buy yourself flowers.
you don't need anybody else to buy your flowers. I think you've proven that while you've sat on council, you can buy your own flowers.
you're welcome. And then and then a small token for you to hang in your office
or wherever you would like to put your official portrait here.
next I would like to call up council member green, please.
now. I had a hard time with council member green only because I was trying to think of How I can express our
gratitude as the city and what I would like to present to council member green is what I Will present to council member johnson also is a compass, so you can always
find your way back here and always remember where home is. So we hope that you always remember this is your home.
we hope you remember that we are very proud of you. That I am very proud of you, that you've served the city well.
and we appreciate your service. Thank you. And so then I was thinking of a picture for
you. I said, I know the perfect one that I know he'll hang up.
this is a picture of the mayor, vera calvin plaza, that we took an aerial for him there, Says city of burleson mayor vera calvin plaza and
rick green council place two. So we hope that you remember that you were instrumental in this and we appreciate it.
thank you. And then if council member johnson can
come down and I am going to give time to take pictures because I do want pictures with The family, but I wanted to try to get through this without me crying.
it's the same thing with council member johnson. I just wanted you to another compass here to just tell you how to find us.
I don't know if you'll. If it'll be hard for you to find us. I think he'll always know where to find us.
probably will. But we would like you to know that we appreciate your years of dedication.
you worked hard for the city, and you went through a lot. Just like council member, green and council member.
payne. I mean, we've gone through quite a bit in the last probably five years that have Really kind of changed us as a society and as a people.
but I will say this at all times, I understood where council member johnson was coming From.
might not have always agreed with council member johnson, but I always understood where He came from.
but I also wanted to give you a token of our appreciation, and this is a collage of all The councils that you have served on so you can see your fellow council members.
wow. Yeah.
I've always got something to say, but I'll be brief.
folks, I thought the other day about all the folks I'd served with for 31 years.
a lot of them. I want to tell you, I think we have the same interest every one of us that I've served With.
and that is a love of the city and the people in the city. And for that, I will tell you, I could not be more appreciative than all the support I've Got for the 31 years.
last of all, I'll say my family, they they've done great.
it's not easy. It's not easy for them to to go through all of this with me.
but they have. They have. And they've always helped me. So thanks for the memories.
and thanks to all of you.
if if I could get council member, payne, green and johnson to come back up here.
we're going to take a picture. We're going to take more pictures.
council that's seated, too. So just a minute. Yeah, if you'll come down.
we're going to take we're going to take we're going to take those three first. And then I want the rest of the council to come up.
so, marcus.
and then if you want to if I could get the new council members and the other council Members, if you all could come forward, we'd like to have a big group picture with all of
y'all, please.
and
then each council member that's departing. If you would like to have a picture with your family or anybody else that's here for you, Would council member payne would you like to take a picture?
council member payne, would you like to take a picture with friends and family up here?
no, but you've got a great representation right here.
.
and
council member green if your family would like to come up here.
so if you could join me in a round of applause for
our council members that are departing.
so what I would like is council member scott, please come up and take your spot.
and council member anderson, if you would come up. Oh, council member anderson, you're already making me have to come chase you.
come on. Come on, sir. Come on, sir. If you will take your spot up there, too.
thank you. And the rest of the council members, you guys are free to go or stay if you Want to stay, I mean for a few
minutes. If you want to stay, you know, go through it, you can with us. If not, you are free to go, but don't leave forever.
come back. And that concludes my show.
thank you.
may I make a quick announcement? Yes, please. I just, my sincere apologies.
I have kindergarten graduation this evening, and so it starts in five minutes and I'm Going to head on down the road to experience that with my little one.
but I wanted to say thank you, too, for the service of ms. Payne and mr. Johnson and mr.
green. And I also wanted to say welcome, gentlemen, and I'll be glad to work with you.
but excuse me for the evening. I'm going to go be mom. Thanks. That really was with four people.
mayor and council. That brings us to item two public presentations.
there is a proclamation. A proclamation recognizing may 21st through may 27th, 2023, as national public works week In the city of burleson, the recipient,
it says. Here is eric oscarson, director of public works.
would you like to come forward and say anything?
good evening, mayor. Council new council members this week is national public works week.
it's a celebration of all things, public works. We have staff here today and it's really about celebrating all the work that public works Does keeping us moving, keeping us moving forward.
and it's really about, you know, making sure we honor the staff that does all those great Things.
so I appreciate the proclamation and we have staff here today as well.
so mayor, if you would like to announce that now, therefore, mayor chris fletcher, on Behalf of the citizens of burleson and the entire city council, dubai hereby complain,
complain, proclaim the week of may 21st, 27, 2023, as national public works week in Burleson, texas, and urge all
citizens to join with representatives of the american public works association and the Government agencies and activities, events and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to
our public works professionals, engineers, managers and employees, and to recognize the Substantial contributions that make to protecting our national health,
safety and quality of life. Thank you. And if there's anybody else here from public works to accept the proclamation And then mayor and council, if you come down and please take a picture.
mayor and council. That brings us to item 2b, which is presentations.
this evening. We have a presentation by the burleson professional firefighters Association, a donation to the burleson center for asd.
lisa, if you would like to come forward, too, and everybody else that's representing.
I believe mike jones is going to speak.
good evening, mayor and council. So kind of give everybody a background. We in the association got together.
we've been doing a lot of training and going over to the center for training firefighters To deal with with individuals when we run the calls with autism.
and so it really afforded us to build a really good relationship with them and talk with Them about needs.
and so our association got together and voted to go ahead and make t shirts that you guys Maybe seen around the light blue t shirts with the association logos on it.
and then the vote was after that to donate the proceeds from that 100% to back to the Center for asd.
so with that, I'm happy to say tonight we're going to present a check for $3,000 to the Center for asd.
so.
before before you take a picture, I believe lisa wanted to say a couple of words about The center for asd, which we're very appreciative.
I had to type this out. It's been a long day. So for those of you that don't know me, my name is lisa boltenhouse and I'm the ceo and Founder for the center for asd.
at the center. It is our mission to deliver a lifelong support for the well-being of the Special needs community.
and as the mother of a six foot two, 215 pound young man, it, I want to make sure that Our kids are taken care of.
part of that mission includes safety, so it is always a fear of mine that he is Misunderstood in the event of an emergency where he does not have someone who knows him
and is familiar with him to help him, he may shut down. He may seem non-compliant when in all honesty, he's a giant, lovable, sassy, fun loving Kid.
it's our duty as parents to educate the community about our loved ones needs. That includes making sure first responders have knowledge of the resources at their Fingertips to help with difficult situations.
there is no other way to say this, but depending on the situation, an individual with Autism or other special needs can often appear to be under the influence.
so we just we we are here to educate and to make sure that the city of burleson and our Kids don't end up in the headlines.
so I'm going to pass this off to ashley real quick.
hello. So my name is ashley vasquez. I'm with the reach across johnson county coalition.
and we're a coalition that works on mental health promotion as well as substance misuse Prevention within our community and with youth.
and I'm the mental health project coordinator. So I've had the privilege of working with lisa and at the center.
and we are going to talk about these bags that we've gotten the privilege to put together And pass to our first responders.
and I'm just really excited to be a part of it and just see this project come to Fruition. We've been working on it for a really long time and yeah, I'm grateful to be a part of it.
so with that being said, it is our privilege in conjunction with reach across johnson County, to provide these sensory bags that can hopefully assist in situations and support
good outcomes. Each bag contains noise canceling headphones, fidgets and communication cards.
also, before they are handed off to the assigned individual, they will be required to Watch a small video which am the star of, and so that way they can get a better
understanding of the purpose behind these bags. And I do believe amanda was able to send that video out to city council so that y'all Would be able to to view it whenever you have a chance.
all we can do is educate and be here and support. So here we are.
all right. We have 22
going out to the city of burleson specifically, and the remainder 40 are going to be Going
out.
okay. Mayor and council. That brings us to item 2c community interest items.
council members. Mayor pro tem, would you like to start?
it hasn't been mentioned yet this evening, but this will be the last meeting that city Manager bryan langley will attend in his capacity here.
and I want to say to him, because I didn't get an opportunity to be here this afternoon When he was feted for his performance as a city council
member, as a city manager. Thank you. I'm the council member.
I'll get it straight in a minute. But I just want to say I've been here now through three city managers and I don't like to Make comparisons, but I felt as comfortable as I've ever felt and more
comfortable meeting you and knowing you and working hard with you side by side.
I think it's it's sad to see you go, but I want to thank you for the for the years of Service and for the friendship that I felt like we've shared and for the
times that we've worked together and and achieved things on behalf of all of our Citizens.
and I also want to say a shout out to tommy ludwig, who has volunteered, agreed, chosen Bravely
to accept the post of interim city manager, and I only request from department directors And employees of the city all the way
down to get fully behind tommy, to work with him to support him.
he's doing a very difficult job at a great handicap of having a lost a very substantial Part of the management team around here.
and until we get to where we're going to get wherever that may be, I would just hope that Everyone will pitch in and work a little extra hard to keep the city's mission
going. And, tommy, I will make it my pledge to you that I will get this council moving Forward to the extent that I'm able as a member to
to make a resolution. As soon as we're able to confidently feel that we've made a swift and solid resolution Towards a permanent appointment that will do that and get things moving forward.
didn't get a chance to say it to the outgoing members. So, tamara, I see you're still here, so thank you for the fun times that we've had up Here.
I was going to ask if anyone had a penny I could borrow that I could let ronnie johnson Pinch for me so that I would have a a memento of
serving with with him during his time that he's been here. But it's been good. It's been blessed.
and rick, his wise sage counsel and calm demeanor and ability to see through issues has Been invaluable as
well. And finally, to the new incoming council members, I feel as optimistic as I ever Have that this council will be able to get things
done that will be able to get the city moving in the right direction, that there will be Peace and tranquility among the ranks and calm and sedate
judgment. And I'm really looking forward to the to the times that are ahead.
okay. Phil, you got anything?
I want to reiterate on what dan just said.
I'm very excited about the council. I want to show appreciation to rick and ronnie and tamara.
this is not an easy job. At times, decisions to be made that people don't understand, don't like, but you still Make them.
and I appreciate everybody that that has served.
and what do you say about bryan and haven't figured that one out yet.
I'm very appreciative. My first two and a half years as mayor, I couldn't imagine being in that position without Bryan being
around. He's been a rock for the council. He's. He's always there for us.
every time he says council, I can I can give you those options or I can.
it's never biased. It's always the option of the council and the integrity, the rock solid personality of This man has.
I pray for him and his family. I hope your job goes well.
if it don't know. I said, we appreciate you a bunch.
you're a good friend. Thank you.
thank you, mayor and council. That brings us to section three reports and presentations.
three ayes to receive a report, hold a discussion, and give staff direction on the new Enhancement for cpr response with automated external defibrillators
aed deployed in police vehicles. The staff presenter tonight is kt freeman, fire chief fire chief extraordinaire.
good evening. Good evening, mayor. Council and thank you, amanda, for that introduction.
kt? Of course. Casey. Oh, there is. We are going to be talking about aeds tonight.
and casey is going to maybe just pass around. We've got a toy.
do you want to just just feel free to pass it amongst yourselves? But this is an opportunity.
mayor and council that is going to be a culmination of a lot of work that's been done in The past.
I'll wait and let you all pass that around as truly a game changer right there.
no, no, I don't know if it's got batteries in it.
oh, my god. Just one. Just one.
we're actually going to hook it up to bryan in just a moment and get a pulse check.
he has one. So again, I'm very excited about this
presentation tonight. Mayor and council. It's very brief, but I don't know that I've had the opportunity to to Present a more important presentation.
it's going to be a clear example of how this city works together and then the the Outcomes that are absolutely truly life saving
that I'll get into in just a second.
tonight I'm going to be sharing with you again the collaborative teamwork of our public Safety team.
you know, many times I think when we talk about public safety, it's kind of the easy Thing to think about or a lot of people think about, is you're firing police.
but without a doubt, our team and our communications public safety communication center, Without any hesitation, I
would tell you, is probably as important or at times more important than anything that The fire side does or perhaps the police side does.
I will also be talking about the chain of survival for our cpr patients and implement Implementation date.
and then we're going to wrap it up with what it looks like when everything comes together In a really, really good way.
again, fd, pd and our public safety communications, the three legged stool, so to speak, Of our public safety team have
partnered up in this and without any one of us, this collaboration would not been able to Take place.
and deputy chief doug stanford is here tonight as well as paul bradley.
if you've got any questions regarding pd or of our communications division.
so I'm going to speak very briefly about this. But when you look at this, this is what we call the survival chain, and there's five key Links.
we're going to focus on the first four because that's really the in-house aspect of it, Starting at the very, very beginning of any incident where a person suffers, a sudden
cardiac arrest is early access. And I'll take you back to the conversations that we had some time ago when we were Talking about our fire based ems.
why this is going to be an enhancement is when we flip that switch come october 1st.
our public safety communications center is a primary point of contact.
so whenever someone calls 911, it'll be going into our center and the enhancement is we Will no longer have to transfer calls over to our current provider.
and at times that's going to save minutes. So when we flip the switch, october first, early access is going to be as immediate as Possible.
and I've got some stats I'm going to share with you in just a second to show how Effective our team is.
early cpr that's getting whether it's a bystander, whether it's pd, whoever it is.
we can't overemphasize the criticality of having early cpr started.
and then there in the center, early defibrillation is where really this link is going to Come in.
when we share the initiative with our pd officer is going to have access to aeds.
this right here, as you'll see statistically in just a moment, it is absolutely a game Changer that translates to better patient outcomes.
this is where your fireside generally would be us. Our early advanced life support efforts would come in.
and the the fifth link is where basically in the hospital, the post emergency incident.
there's a lot of definitive actions that take place for a survivor after they have a Heart attack and they survive.
and feel free to stop me at any time for any kind of questions or comments.
this statistic is really, to me, staggering. Let me walk you through it.
this stat right here is where ems only takes place.
so kind of to set the scene up for this, a person goes into sudden cardiac arrest, people Could be on around, but nothing is being done.
the person is just lying there in what we would call a full arrest. And there's no resuscitative attempts going on whatsoever.
minutes passed by and then ems folks, first responders get there.
and we look at it's about a 6% survivability rate.
and, you know, that's not as good as what we want it to be, and it will be here in the Future.
this next chart is where a person suffers sudden cardiac arrest and bystander cpr takes Place.
and so we do get a little bit of a more positive outcome on that, probably about 2 to 3%.
this chart right here shows the same scenario. A person suffers sudden cardiac arrest.
this would be more likely like in a public place to where someone recognizes it very Quickly.
an aed is available. They go get an aed and at least they know a little bit more and they're taking action.
the key is knowing what to do, when to do it, and that is prompt.
this chart right here is we're working toward and what we're going to be able to achieve.
this is the gap. The gap excuse me, the stop gap right here with our officers having aeds in their police Cars and when they arrive on scene and now they're going to be better
equipped to be able to truly save lives by administering a shock whenever a patient is in A shockable rhythm.
so we go from about a 6% survivability rate to almost a 40% survivability rate by just Implementing
this initiative that we're going to over the next couple of months. And that's why I say. This is truly life saving.
taking us back to some of the conversations we've had and and bryan, this is where I want To share with you our gratitude, my gratitude to you and your leadership.
the my gratitude to the the leadership from the previous councils.
this these initiatives we've worked on. I've been here for seven years and these works have been in the process for for many, Many years.
and it's a culmination of your leadership and the hard work and the dedication of our Elected officials as well.
the public safety communications. As I said earlier, I can't overstress the improvement that under bryan's leadership you Got here and you saw that they needed people, they needed processes, they
needed ultimately money and which the council supported.
clearly, the leadership under paul bradley and ashley manning have been incredible.
and without it, we would not be where we are right now. We have a debt of gratitude to them and we're just now really starting to hit our stride.
they're going to become even more important as we move into our fire based ms and we Start our transportation component of it.
and the next couple of months, our emd that's going to come online, emergency medical Dispatch, they're going to play an absolute key role whenever we switch over to
fire based ems, the phoenix g-2 alerting system.
that was not cheap at all. It was about a half $1 million. But again, it's paying dividends and lives and it will continue to pay dividends in lives Which we all know doesn't have a price tag on.
I'm going to share some incredibly impressive numbers in just a moment of how rapid this Dispatch team now dispatches and how quickly they process
calls and just the improvements again, that has taken place over the last couple of Years.
our police department, outstanding department, what will be taking place there is dr.
cordova, our medical director, will be leading the training that they're going to have.
they already are cpr certified. But we've got some nuances and some nuanced training that we're going to need to have Them do, because the way we provide cpr and it's a very organized it's very systematic.
and when we do a handoff, so to speak, we've got to make sure that everybody is trained And trained to how we do cpr in our system.
we've got ten aeds that we're going to deploy in the patrol cars. Initially. We're going to count on chief kardell and pd leadership to let us know if they Need more.
and we'll have a plan for providing however many aeds they ultimately need as they turn On more police cars.
we're going to be able to support that. Key component, as I said earlier, is the rapid response that we get from our pd officers.
they do a great job at times. They're on scene first and that's a great thing because now they already are doing cpr, But they're about to be able to apply an aed.
as I said earlier, that's going to have incredibly positive outcomes. Then our side, as you know, we're going to fire based ems and that component is not only A quicker transport, we're going to be able to provide advanced life support like we have
and then the rapid response.
so what are our next steps? We're going to as I said earlier, we're going to be providing we'll be coordinating with Pd leadership to have our folks get in and train pd folks specifically under our
protocols. We purchased the 22 zoll aeds.
and this is really, I think, just a great opportunity to kind of show how we try to Maximize efficiencies.
we had some aeds about two years ago that we couldn't get batteries for, so we went out And purchased other aeds because we had to keep our stock going.
we finally got the batteries, the replacement batteries in. So we put these to good use and this is how we were able to already have the capacity to Expand this system.
so I just want to share that with council and our community that we, we, we use every tax Dollar appropriately and efficiently.
we're going to provide additional training to all city employees. We did this about a year or two ago, and we're going to circle back and make sure all of Our city employees are know recertified, not only with cpr, but I'd use
and then we're going to be doing a deep dive into our current facilities to see what Facilities may not have.
aeds will come up with a plan and a rollout on how to get aeds in all of our city Facilities if we do have any gaps.
and I would mention this, that council member elect adams shared some comments with tommy And I that I'm going to be presenting
to all the council on june 22nd, I believe is my strategic plan about how we can expand This program not only in the city facilities, but look at
local businesses. So I'm working out the details on that, but we'll be coming to full council with that Idea and some recommendations.
our start date. We want to get this started as soon as possible, as soon as practical.
we can get our officers trained and then get our aeds deployed. We're hoping july no later than august would be our rollout date implementation date.
and this is the conclusion of my presentation. But as I stay here, public safety partnerships save lives.
so let me tell you the back story here. It's obvious we have our police officers, we have our dispatchers, we have fd.
but what you're seeing there, the second picture with the firefighters, that's lieutenant Kevin hunter and then engineer ben eason and the young lady
there. And we have permission to to share this. You're seeing kyra and kingston leach, and she is the survivor story that we're looking For in the
future. Give you a little background on march 15th of 2022, 1:46 a.m., kyra, suffered a Sudden cardiac
arrest. Our dispatchers processed that call in 27 seconds.
we were in route in 26 seconds, and then we arrived on scene within 3.5 minutes.
kyra was in full arrest. Our paramedics and crews were first on scene.
they immediately went into our protocols and and aggressively started doing providing Life support, using aed, went through all of our
protocols. And again, this is a success story. Pd got there and they assisted with the chest compressions.
but this picture right here is worth a thousand words, so to speak. There's no price that any of us would can put on that.
but that's a success story. That is one of the close to 40% that we're looking for.
and it's all about having the right equipment, getting there quick enough, getting the Dispatch, this whole team together that this city leadership has been working
toward. We are we are finally almost there. So when we roll this out, there's no question we're going to be celebrating more of these Events.
and so I'm very humbled and very proud to say this is the partnership that we could not be Standing before you today implement and be successful without pd,
our dispatch and working together. So we thank you for that. That concludes my presentation of be willing to answer any kind of questions or comments You might have.
chief, I'm really glad to hear that we have the opportunity to do this.
and it's clear from the statistics that this is likely to save lives, and I think that's A great thing.
for me, one of the more significant things I'm hearing you say is this the fact that Burleson fire ms will be providing
protocol training to pd and that dispatch is a part of this as well.
I think this will become one of those circumstances that proves that the whole will be More than the sum of the parts, because it's always
been my goal to to help these various functions within the city work together for a Common objective.
and it's really encouraging to see that that's a significant part of what you're trying To do here.
so, yes, sir. This is great. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. It's been a work in progress, but all the key players are together and It's finally come together like we said earlier, the b and burleson
centric that it has arrived and it's going to be a great thing.
okay. Thank you. Thank you, chief.
thank you, mayor and council. That brings us to section. Section four. Changes to the posted agenda four a is items to be continued or withdrawn and four b is Items to be withdrawn from the consent agenda for separate discussion by the city
council staff or members of the public in attendance or items to be added to the consent Agenda which require an official vote to add.
is there anything I want to tell the new members here on this.
the staff is available to you to understand these these items.
and it's really helpful when you're looking at agendas and consent and all that stuff.
so really lean on these guys. You got a gold standard in this building, so use them.
does anybody have any changes?
that brings us to section five citizens appearance. Each person in attendance who desires to speak to the city council on an item not posted On the agenda shall speak during this section.
speaker card must be filled out and turned into myself prior to addressing the city Council and each speaker will be allowed three minutes.
I currently do not have any speaker cards. I will have a speaker card here shortly.
okay. So the first speaker card I have here is bill janisch. Bill janisch 117 northeast clinton.
first, I want to congratulate the winners, phil, chris, larry and adam.
adam is not here, but he will be in a few weeks. One thing I did over friday, I attended an all day conference it's a planning conference Over at great wolf lodge.
there was over 300 participants that were there mayors, city council members, city Planners, engineers, city managers, all
levels. It was well worth it. Anybody up here could benefit from it.
you meet a lot. It was 8 to 5:30 type thing. I ended up hanging around for about four hours after.
I mean, a lot of interesting people. I ran across two people that used to work for the city of burleson.
upper level is good to see them again.
I just want to briefly speak on one concern. Chief freeman was here earlier, the bond money for the emergency for police and fire.
I know it's got ambiguous language in it. That's something that worries me.
the words emergency, anything. Money can be moved around as long as it's deemed emergency.
I'd like to see city council adopt irrevocable language to at least compensate for some Of it.
I know that a few were wanting to possibly move to telecommunications part, maybe offsite Somewhere else, but if we can lock up that money, make sure
police monies don't get messed with, fire department money doesn't get messed with.
I know that there's a way that you guys can do irrevocable language because I would hate To see money get taken away from them.
thanks. The next speaker card I have is susan kato.
susan kato. 820 cedar ridge lane. Congratulations to the winner.
I'm excited for the new council that's coming in.
I wanted to say just a few comments or excerpts from a facebook post that I read.
this community is great because of the efforts of many people over many years. If we want to stay great, we need to be respectful of each other even when we don't Agree.
I'd like to ask all my supporters to remain respectful and to remember that our community Is so much more than politics or an election.
that post was by ronnie johnson. Ronnie ran a clean campaign unlike mr.
fletcher, you have allowed a huge division in our city where anyone who objects to you or Doesn't support you
for whatever reasons they deem they get attacked via facebook. They get nasty memes made about them.
they get talked about on trashy radio shows. My kids were talked about on a radio show for speaking up a few weeks ago.
my kids. Because they were upset about how mr.
stanford did the library. That's unacceptable. And not once did you say to your supporters, this is not okay.
you made no post saying, I don't want this in my name.
and I'm hoping that over the next three years of your term that you address that and help Unify this
council, because all it is right now is division. There's you and stanford against five wonderful people.
and that's very concerning. And I'm hoping over the next few years that you can do better and be a unit and not just Out for yourself and win at all costs.
is there anybody else in attendance who would like to address the city council on an item Not posted on the agenda?
seeing no one. We will move on to item section six consent agenda.
all items listed on the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the city council And will be enacted with one motion.
there will be no separate discussion of the items. Approval of the consent agenda authorizes the city manager to implement each item in Accordance with the staff recommendations.
tonight, the consent agenda consists of items six a through six g.
mayor, if you could ask for a motion, please, and we will be using the voting system.
is everybody on board with the voting? Yes, sir. Okay.
is there a motion?
I have a motion by dan a second by larry. Please vote.
passes unanimous.
thank you, mayor and council. That brings us on to section seven, general.
I will call forward items seven a and seven b to be considered together, but on a motion Each independently, please.
seven a is to hold a public hearing and consider approval of an ordinance amending the Reinvestment zone number two city of burleson project and financing plan by
adopting a new district projects the pedestrian improvement project for sidewalks and Mobility improvements along renfro street and johnson avenue and the parking
improvement project for additional public parking. This is before city council on first reading and then seven b is to consider approval of An ordinance amending the city's budget for fiscal year 2022
-2023 by increasing the appropriations in the tiff #2 fund in the amount of $874,393 for The renfro and
johnson avenue pedestrian improvements. Purchase of real estate track for future parking lot and the fiscal year 23 debt service Payment for the 2022 co bonds and finding that this
ordinance may be considered and approved at only one meeting because time is of the Essence.
so this is before council on first and final reading. The staff presenter for both of these items is martin avila, finance director.
mr. Avila, you're up. Thank you, amanda. Mayor and council.
in summary, for the discussion points of these items, the first one is part of adding to The tiff plan as it relates to the
amendment of the tiff plan and the project is the renfro street and johnson avenue Pedestrian improvement project.
and the other one is the purchase of the independent back lot. And in essence, going after that is the construction of the parking lot.
but the main purpose of when we talk about the budget amendment, it is going to be the Purchase of the actual lot itself.
so there'll be the three the two projects that we're going to add to the tiff plan and Then the budget amendment that will support the two projects that are being
added plus an additional budget item. As it relates to the budget of the the debt service payment of the 2022 cos that we issued With the tiff.
the first item is the renfro street and johnson avenue pedestrian improvement project in Fiscal year 2023 as part of the cip plan
for the additional projects the renfro street and johnson avenue pedestrian improvement Project was was was submitted.
it was part of the plan. It was for $192,000.
that item was approved as part of the cip plan, but it was never really added as part of The tiff #2 plan.
so this is what we're bringing in as part of that item. The item has not been started. The project has not been started.
these are just dollars that are being set aside for this project and we wanted to make Sure we introduce that as part of the tiff plan, as part of the projects that are being
part of that plan or tiff. Again, this is an item, this is what was introduced as part of that cip plan in regards To the pedestrian improvements and there is an image there.
the other item has to do with the purchase of a bank lot piece of property right outside In front of the plaza.
it is 0.264 acres. The land currently is the purchase price is approximately $450,000.
this item was not part of the original budget process. It was never included as part of the tiff plan.
so this is one of the items that we're asking to also be included in the tiff plan, as Well as the budget amendment to that to the purchase of that piece of property.
the lot itself is is two big improvements to two parking lot area.
alex will be providing a little bit more information in regards to the contract of that Purchase.
but this is the item that we're also asking to be able to add to the plan and the Financing of the tiff #2.
so in taking into account what we're adding to the tiff plan, we're also asking for Approval of a budget amendment.
so in essence, the budget amendment is $200,000 for the renfro and johnson avenue, Pedestrian improvement, $450,000 for the purchase of the lot
and $224,000, which is the debt service payment that we will be making in 23.
that when we did the bond sale right during the time of the budget, that item was not Added to the budget amendment.
and so we're adding that now as part of part of the appropriations for that fund.
and so the actions today is is to approve or deny the first reading of the ordinance.
amending the tiff #2 project and financing plan or in the other item is to approve or Deny the first and final reading of the budget amendment ordinance for the tiff #2.
do you have any questions? Also don't forget the public hearing please, sir. Open the public hearing at 6:37.
is there anybody who would like to speak on this item during the public hearing?
I have no speaker cards.
this? Hello, martin.
yes, sir. I want to thank you in advance for helping me out here and answering some Questions since I'm new on the council.
I'm kind of rolling into this. My question would be on the payment to the co bond.
which co bond is that? It is the 2022 co bond.
it is when the bond is issued. There was several supporting projects that were in there.
so it is it is a piece of that that pertains to the tiff #2 as it relates to the ellison Street project.
so it's the 2022 series, and I guess this will be the interest payment.
this is actually the principal and interest payment for 2023.
so this will be the first initial payment of the co bond of 2022.
normally when we issue the bonds in 22, the first payment will always be the year after.
and this is the first payment of that bond issue. The tiff is 720 acres, the tiff, is this going to be tiff money that's going to be used To pay that?
yes, that is correct. And the 2022 series was that for all of that, for within that 720 acres of tiff.
the tiff funding. Can it only be used within the tiff zone?
that is correct. Okay. And the 2022 series bond or co.
a portion of that bond was pertaining to the tiff #2 specifically, not the entire bond Issue.
it was just a certain portion of that. And I think it was I would have to go back and look at that.
but about maybe about 2 to $3 million of 2022 co bonds that were issued were specifically For the ellison street project supported by the
tiff #2. Okay. That's what I was able to come up with. So my question would be, being that we're using tiff funding to pay that payment on the Co bond and some of it is not within the tiff zone, is that completely
okay? No, all of it is within the tiff zone. All of it pertains to that pertains to what was issued within on that 22 co.
okay. There was a portion of the 22 co that was specifically for the tiff #2 and that Portion of it that's allocated and supported by the
tiff #2 is specifically all of that is tiff #2.
okay. So the part of the 2022 series, that's for the water and sewer lines and the other Is all for the water and sewer line projects.
it's all supported. So and when we're dealing with cos and again, when we do the june 5th Presentation and we talk about the debt, we'll talk about the
different cos that are supported by different funding sources.
okay. And one is the tiff #2 one will be the water, one will be for b two, b for a as Well.
so all of that is encompassing how that those cos are being paid out of.
so it'll be paying tiff #2 debt only?
yes. Okay. That was my question. I was a little confused on it. Thank you very much, sir.
anyone else. Comment.
purchasing the lot and constructing the parking lot. I think we should probably be up front about the fact that this is $30,000 approximately Per parking space, which is a pretty high number.
that's comparable to the number of dollars per parking space to build an elevated garage.
but what you can't do is take a $18,000 parking place and build it right over there.
so it's very significant that it is what it is, where it is.
and this answers a recurring call that we get from patrons of businesses in old town and The owners of
the businesses themselves that we provide parking, parking, parking for old town.
so but it comes at a price. So before anyone makes the comparison, let's just get it out there.
we know what we're doing. And by purchasing this property, we also open it up for sometime down the line.
further development, which we know old town will grow that way because that's the Direction
old town will grow and at some future point we'll be very glad we have this parking lot so That we can turn it into a much higher use than just parking cars on a slab on the
ground. So I'm going to make a motion to where are we?
yeah, we need a motion to approve. That would be seven a correct.
correct. That you're making a motion to approve the ordinance amending the reinvestment Zone number two?
that is correct. Okay.
do I have a second? Second the motion.
use your mouse.
there you go. I have a motion by dan and a second by bill. Please vote. Passes unanimously.
thank you, mayor and council. Now, if you could take up item seven b for a motion too please.
I'll second that.
passes unanimous. Thank you, mayor and council.
that brings us to item seven c. Consider approval of a resolution authorizing a contract for the acquisition of Approximately 0.264 acres of real property in burleson johnson county,
texas, and authorizing the expenditure of funds the staff presented this evening is alex Phillips, economic development director, mr.
phillips. Thank you, amanda. Good evening, mayor and council and welcome new council members.
alex phillips, economic development director for the city of burleson, bringing forward a Real estate contract in regards to the bank property that martin was just talking about.
parcel details it's 0.264 of an acre. It's currently being used as a partial parking lot and as well as grass lot over there Just on warren street on the other side of the of the
plaza. We did do an appraisal did appraise for $450,000.
that is the contract price that independent bank agreed to.
purchase price again, $450,000. There is no realtor on either side of this transaction, so there is no realtor fees.
the deed restriction of no financial institution was the one deed restriction that Independent bank wanted in that deed.
it leaves flexibility in the future to be developed on that lot if we want to develop it Anything else other than a parking lot in the future.
the comps in the area on the appraisal was from $27 a foot to $40 a foot down here.
so it's kind of depending on where it was located. Here's kind of a high level look at what it could look like.
30 new parking plus public parking places exist.
it would match existing parking lots in the old town district. Estimated cost of construction would be about $500,000.
the design of the new parking lot would be completed by in-house staff. The west parking lot was constructed in a way that we if we did secure the site, we could Extend it, connect the two for connectivity and construction more than likely would come
forward in fiscal year 24. So the options in front of you approve the resolution authorizing the contract with Independent bank and authorizing the expenditure of the funds or deny the resolution.
I'm here to answer any kind of questions that you may have.
any questions? Is there a motion?
I make a motion to approve.
please vote. Thank you.
passes unanimous. Thank you, mayor and council.
that brings us to item seven d. Consider approval of a construction contract with texas material group, inc.
doing business as texas bid for the neighborhood street rebuilds fiscal year 2022 project In the amount of
$1,775,979.91 the staff presented this evening is eric thompson, deputy
director of public works engineering. Mr. Thompson, you're up.
thank you and good evening, mayor and council. Congratulations to the new members.
tonight I have a relatively large contract, but it's for just three streets that we're Going to improve the
20 the 2022 go bond program established what we call the neighborhood street rebuild Program.
and while its name, the neighborhood street, we it's really focused on significantly Distressed local streets.
and in the middle of the slide here, we see that there's just under $3.2 million Allocated in that go bond program for these
local street rebuilds from fy 22 or last year, there was $100,000, the current year, $825,000 and so
on through fy 26. So each year, in theory, we would bring forward another contract, another construction Contract to rebuild some number of local streets.
there's $100,000 of funding in each year that's really to help plan and design the Following year's construction contract.
so that's why you see a little bit of a bump in fy 23. There's 750,000 f or construction in the current year and then the other $100,000 was for Is for designing what
we're going to bring forward in fy 24. It's important to note down at the bottom of the slide there that staff is constantly Reviewing all available funding sources to deliver capital projects and when
possible, we try to match or combine a number of funding sources to create the economies Of scale is one of the big objectives there.
often with a larger contract, more streets or longer streets, we're able to get better Pricing from contractors at
times. And then it also helps us to address additional needs that might be in close Proximity but possibly funded from a different source.
and we'll talk about a couple of examples of that in a few slides here.
so this contract includes asphalt paving, subgrade stabilization and reconstruction, Something called fog sealing that if you're not familiar,
we'll touch on a little bit more in the next slide and then some associated pavement Markings.
as you can see in the map on the right, there are four street segments that are included And we'll talk about each one of those in a little more detail in just a
minute. Wanted to kind of give a very basic overview of asphalt streets.
I would imagine. Council member mcclendon could probably teach us all a course on this, But you know, your road is is built from multiple layers.
we all drive on the surface that's providing skid resistance and smoothness, and it's Also trying to help
keep water rain from getting to the the lower levels.
under the surface you've got your base course and that might sit on native ground or you Could actually have another
layer really just depends on the how extensive the roadway is used, how much traffic it Carries, whether or not you would have a
subbase course. But each of these layers of the pavement serve at least one function.
and in this neighborhood street project, we're basically going down to the to the base Level to
rebuild and strengthen the the project of the street.
depending on the characteristics, native soil can be enhanced with cement or lime Stabilization.
that's a huge component of this project. So we'll talk a little bit more about that as well here.
it's a can be a relatively messy construction operation.
it's primarily done with either lime or cement. It can also be done with geosynthetic materials that also provide strength.
and it's really kind of a project by project design decision and often a cost decision to Figure out which of these is better for your particular
project. Fog sealing I mentioned, this is really a low cost preventive treatment, really Used to restore flexibility
and postpone the time that you need to resurface an asphalt street.
it's often used on things like parking lots or low volume roads.
you'll see in a couple of slides that we have some of those areas in this contract.
it's basically an asphalt emulsion that takes about 4 to 6 hours to cure before people Can drive on it.
so our first street segment is west buford street between warren and main and south main.
and this is a go bond funded street so specifically called out in that bond program.
you'll see in the picture to the upper right, yellow and green lines.
so the yellow basically is showing you the travel lanes that we'll reconstruct.
there's a lot of on street parking that's really in fairly decent shape.
so here we're choosing to fog seal that and then restripe.
so everything will have a nice fairly uniform appearance once we're done.
this is about $67,000 in total.
and that's funded from a combination of the 2022 go bonds, some older street bonds and Then non bond capital,
which I'll oversimplify and call basically interest earnings on previous bonds.
next we have north commerce street between the I-35 service road and state highway 174 Service road.
here we're reconstructing the travel lanes, but then also widening the approach to the Railroad crossing.
this is primarily to better accommodate larger trucks and trailers that navigate this for This industrial area.
this is about $291,000 and it's all 2022 go bonds and and older street bonds.
next is dobson street. We have a couple of sections of dobson. This is the northern section from town creek up to renfro.
a portion of that east ellison to east renfro is go bond funded.
from beaufort to town creek. We have some on street parking between miller and east ellison that will be striped as Well.
and this is a priority segment that we want to have the contractor start on first so that We are out of the way by the time school starts for nola dunn there
in august. South buford to east renfroe.
this section is scheduled to be foxhill. And this is because the east ellison mobility project is planned to start designing fy 24, and that's going to completely
reconstruct this portion of dobson. There are some great change that's going to happen as well.
so we wouldn't want to spend more than we need to at this point on dobson knowing that We're going to have to tear it up with that
larger east ellison mobility project that likely starts construction in the 25 to 26 time Frame.
this segment is just under $400,000, $394-93,000 funded from a combination again, I said That we try to to the
extent we can use all the different sources that apply or that the project is eligible For.
so we've got 2022 go bonds here, older street bonds and also some non bond capital Primarily used on those things that aren't
capital eligible. So fog sealing and striping in this case.
and then there's a little bit of water and sewer capital because a portion of this street Also had a sewer line replaced.
so the portion that sewer related is funded by the water sewer capital fund.
and in the southern portion of dobson between hidden creek and about 401 south dobson.
this section will be reconstructed. The new pavement, new subgrade and then there's also pavement marking edge deflectors and Buttons
planned for that section. This is a longer segment and it's about $863,000 in 2022 go bonds, as well as some older Street
bonds. So we had a public bidding process advertised that back in march, end of
march, received two bids in april of 23.
specifications allowed for 180 calendar days of contract time once we issue a notice to Proceed.
texas materials doing business as texas bid was our low bidder at $1.614 million.
we added 10% contingency that allows us to be more responsive.
should we run into changes in the field for a total contract amount of $1,775,979.91
. So this slide kind of gives you a little bit of a recap of the funding so that $1.78 Million uses a good
portion of the 2022 go bond neighborhood street program allocation.
it uses $884,000 of previous street and drainage bonds, $332,000 from the water sewer Capital fund.
again, for that portion of dobson that has that had utility relocation replacement and Then just under $20,000 of non bond capital for the fog sealing and
corresponding pavement marking.
the next or the remainder of the current year's neighborhood street rebuild program Allocation would just automatically roll forward to next year's contract.
that hopefully allows us to do at least one more street segment so it stays within the Program.
and again, the larger we can or the more we can bundle streets.
generally the better bids we get.
so timeline. We're here today seeking approval of the construction contract.
assuming that passes, we'll have notice to proceed early in june.
I think we're actually looking to have a pre-construction meeting later this week Actually, to make sure that they can begin early june, because we really want to be away
from nola dunn before school is close to starting. And then january of 24 these four segments would be complete.
so two very general options to approve the contract with texas bid for $1,775,979 or to Deny.
I'd be happy to take any questions from you. Anybody? I have to make a comment.
I can't help it. But one of the earliest pavement reconstruction contracts that my Company had was
to reconstruct the pavement of dobson street between renfro and the soccer fields.
and this was prior to my service on city council, in case you may wondered. But it's interesting to go back now and see 20 years later that it's finally served its Life.
but these things happen when you stick around long enough. I guess coincidentally, texas bid as a company with which I have god, 50 years of Familiarity, I suppose because
they were around bidding work against the company that I worked for back in 1976 and Forward and recently
absorbed that company into the texas bid organization.
so these are these are people I know. And it's a it's a good company.
I am concerned about one thing. How will the citizens along dobson street be able to get in and out?
and I ask in particular interest because my sister in law who lives on south dobson is Going to be asking me, what do I do?
or will they be [inaudible] to get people in and out at all times? Or how will you manage that?
yes, sir. Thank you for that question. They will absolutely maintain access at all times.
there will be a neighborhood engagement process as well.
she'll she or any of the neighbors will have a phone number they can call if they have Any issues, they're going to call me.
we'll try to spare you some of those calls. But as a standard, there would be project manager, contact information provided, Contractors information provided.
the intent would not be to block anyone from being able to access their home or leave Their home for the few weeks that we'll likely be there.
all right. You also you have considered the soccer fields and stuff and that Participation, too.
so that's a valid point. We got a lot of this facing us with all the new roads and reconstruction and adding Lanes.
it's going to be tough around here for a while.
byproduct of growth. Yeah. Anybody else?
well, I'm for it. I'm totally for you because I walk quite a bit every day and walk around the city.
and then I've been driving around the city, and I got stopped by five people last night Just walking.
and one of the major concerns of the citizens of this town have been here a long time.
when are you going to take care of the roads in town? And I you know, I'd say hopefully as soon as possible.
what you've mentioned here, I've got a list I've already given to tommy. You can add a lot more to it.
we've got a lot of old roads that's been in for 30 some years and we need them fixed Because that's the first thing that citizens see that see come into town and drive on
them. And that's the first impression they get of burleson. Well, they're just letting their streets go.
not any good. Just one of the first things. So I'm supporting what you got. Thanks. Thank you.
yeah, there's at least that $3.2 million in this current bond program. And you'll hear more in the coming months about other ways we may be able to fund some Other streets, but it's definitely a priority.
so, larry, you got anything? Yes, eric, I've got a question.
I understand this is about the bid and the contract, but I've got a question about how The roads were identified in case citizens asks me
why this road? Why not my road? Because they will notice the work that you're doing, which is good work.
I didn't bring that slide. But there's a there's a map of all the roads that were actually specifically called out In the go bond program.
so that's how these were selected, with the exception of the south dobson piece, it was Not a 2022 go bond program
project, but we're basically trying to again, I mentioned where possible connect adjacent Issues that we know have issues.
and there have been a lot of, as I understand, a lot of complaints and feedback about the South portion of dobson.
a portion of it just north of here has been done. So there's kind of a gap. So we're basically filling in from where it hasn't been redone down to hidden creek.
so did we originally pick these streets, all of these streets, because of the amount of Maintenance that was being done by calls or by a go vehicle combination, combination
of the status, the condition of it, how much traffic is on it.
and this was all part of the 2022 go bond program development process.
we're working well. We're almost starting data collection on an update to the pavement condition index and The whole pavement management program.
so at some point we're hopeful to get to a point where we have a much more robust annual Pavement management program that you wouldn't have
to wait for a go bond program to have a better chance at getting your street addressed.
so it's part of the part of the work plan for us. Eric, if you don't mind, for the sake of the new members and anybody else that might be Listening, I recall in a recent meeting that we awarded a contract for pavement condition
analysis to a new company. Can you kind of map that how that works from from your recollection?
yes, sir. We're we should have contracts fully executed almost any day now.
I think it's going to take them about three months on the outside to drive all the Streets and collect that data and then go back to process it.
and again, that was what I mentioned about we'll have a more up to date assessment with Using a lot of technology to really
rank and prioritize which ones are worse and then what does worse look like?
and then we're also working on the actual.
what will help us develop the annual work plan for it.
my recollection of the process is that they use some pretty sophisticated data gathering Equipment mounted on vehicles that they drive all the city streets, all the streets in the
etj, also for which we have maintenance responsibilities and try to ascertain their Condition there
and also taking into account maintenance expenses, pothole repairs and things like that These streets have done.
but the whole effort there is in order to create a comprehensive analysis of where and how We can spend most
wisely the limited amount of money that we have to spend on street maintenance.
so hopefully when this new data comes available, we'll have a little better handle Citywide.
it's not just a as you may think of a response to complaints or just that a public works Employee happen to be driving through and saw a new pothole.
it's a much more sophisticated approach than that, and it eventually comes to the council To have to decide how much money to spend, where to get the money, what source to get it
from and where to apply it. So you're going to have some analysis to make.
the staff will somewhere down the line provide us with the information that we need, but Sooner or later we'll have to decide what we can fix, when we can fix it, how to pay for
it and what the to pull the trigger on. So it's it's far from being a random thing.
it's very, very well orchestrated, very well planned.
mayor and council, I do have a speaker card for this item. Bill janusca.
bill janusca, 117 northeast clinton. I always like when dan speaks up on this because dan's like the wizard.
he knows everything about streets and all
no, I completely trust you. I've been driving these roads since I was 16, at least 45 years.
there's roads that, like the one renfro from my parents house, 500 block. I think it's been there forever.
I mean, it's it's still tough. It can be. I've seen roads just deteriorate.
I don't know if when we interview or take bids from some of these companies.
is there a review on some of their past history? I know that you mentioned before, dan, that I think some of them offer like a two year or Three year.
to me, that's nothing on a road. It should be like a ten year guarantee or something like that.
well, let me let me clarify. It's not a guarantee of performance of the roadway.
it's just a guarantee. It's actually a workmanship.
maintenance. Yeah. Maintenance bond. Basically a workmanship guarantee.
in other words, if during the period of time following the contract, the stipulated time Of two years is pretty standard, if a if a problem arises with the pavement, then
the staff will contact the contractor and tell him the contractor will come out and find That there was probably some flaw in something that was done.
the pavement was too thin, the subbase wasn't properly compacted or something, but it's Not a guarantee of performance or suitability for purpose.
so if a city decides to go out and build a one inch thick asphalt pavement on a road that Carries 50,000 cars a day, it's it's obviously not going to last very long.
but this is a good design. I can tell you that from my own personal experience
five inches of asphalt base, two inches of asphalt topping over an eight inch cement Stabilized subgrade.
I didn't see any. I noticed you mentioned geotextile, but I see no payout as for Geotextile fabric.
so I think that staff's decided that that's not something that's necessary. It's sort of an experimental thing anyway.
but seven inches of asphalt over a stabilized base is, is a good pavement.
you know, the previous pavement wasn't that good. What we were paid to build back in the early 2000 was thinner asphalt and approximately The same subgrade.
but by adding the extra inches of asphalt, we're going to extend the pavement life. But pavement life is a very fluid thing.
you know, you can build on stable soils and put down a 25 year pavement and get 50 years Of life out of it and it's still going.
you can put down a 50 year pavement on active soil that heaves every year, that swells, That breaks that, that moves around and that pavement can fail
within a much shorter period of time. I don't think the soils along south dobson street are particularly active for burleson.
I know we have some soils that are, but I don't think this is a particularly active area.
I don't know. Have you all run geotech on this? You got p.I. Reports? We did and that's how we came up with the the cement rate that we're going to use.
geotech design on it? Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah. So there you go. There's a there's an engineering company called a geo technician Or geo tech company.
and that's basically what they do is analyze the conditions of of the soil, the moisture, The the drainage, all the various considerations that can add to or
take away from pavement life. And they will create a predictive model basically for the type of pavement that would be Suitable because there's no sense in
building nine inches of concrete pavement if six inches of asphalt would suffice, you Know, a residential street, something like that.
but yeah, the there's an entire science to just deciding what kinds of pavement to build In what areas.
and we have apparently availed ourselves of that. So the drawing did look more than sufficient and I was pleased seeing that.
and just like you mentioned dobson, it got 20 years of use out of it. That thing is pretty well traveled by a lot of big trucks, too.
I'm really surprised. And this is a partial rebuild. This isn't an entire rebuild. All of the curbing and all of that still survives.
it'll go another 20 or 30 years. This is just the center surface between the curbs and gutters.
so the curb and gutter, you only have minimal pay quantities for curb and gutter repairs Like a couple of hundred feet over the whole project, including all the streets.
so they're obviously not anticipating a full rebuild. This is just for the pavement driving lanes that they're going to do on these.
in my line of work, it's typically groundwater that gets up underneath driveways and Stuff like that where I see the cracking and stuff like that.
and that's the one thing I'm sure that these guys did an excellent job on studying all That ahead of time.
and one thing I don't know if the city will ever consider again or if dan would, but dan Did some excellent work back in the day, and I'd like to see him have the option of
bidding on some of these projects. I mean, I don't know if you'd want a part of it, but it's not, it's not I'm not looking At saving money.
I'm looking at somebody. I think that horse got beat to death back in 2019. I do not care. I do not care.
I'm fine with things the way they are. I wouldn't want to pursue that again.
so. No, but thank you. All right. I appreciate your time anyway. Thank you. All right.
are we ready? Any other questions?
is there a motion on this?
have a motion by dan and a second by larry. Please vote. Passes unanimous.
thank you, mayor and council. That brings us to item seven e discuss, discuss and consider taking possible action, Supporting or opposing filed legislation that would
positively or negatively affect the city of burleson in the 88th texas legislative Session.
the staff presented this evening is matt ribitzki. Deputy city attorney, which is why the wording is so neutral.
thanks, amanda. Good evening, mayor and council. Matt ribitzki, deputy city attorney.
the item before you tonight is to give you a brief update on the current legislative Session.
in this presentation, I'm going to give you just some background on the current session And the council's legislative program.
we'll discuss 14 different bills that are making their way through the legislature, and Then at the very end, council will have an opportunity to give staff direction
on any bill mentioned or not mentioned in this presentation.
the purpose of this presentation is to close the loop.
this council in january, before the beginning of this legislative session, passed a Legislative program.
it specified its wishes, its desires of what would occur down in austin during this During this legislative session.
two weeks from today this session will close at the last day is may 29th.
so the purpose of this presentation is to highlight some of the big bills that focus Advocacy and a couple of departments think are important for
council to keep in mind. Looking at its legislative program as this session comes to a close.
all right. So we'll jump in. The 88th session began on january 10th and like I said earlier, it's scheduled to end on May 29th.
council adopted a resolution that created the city's legislative program on january 9th, Outlining the city's position on bills that council would support or oppose.
council's policy supports bills that would advance the city's strategic goals and Interests while improving health and safety and oppose bills that would erode local
control. This session, over 8,000 bills were filed.
staff has briefed council and tracked bills throughout the legislative process with Updates from tml and focused advocacy.
the city's legislative consultant focused advocacy was hired by the city in 2020 to Represent our interest in austin at the 88th legislative
session. The specific bills that are presented tonight are selected from a pool of bills That focus advocacy has provided to staff and are consistent with
council's legislative program.
so for those who don't know, the texas municipal league is an organization with the Purpose of advancing and sustaining the interest of texas cities.
to achieve this purpose, the organization represents municipal interests before Legislative and administrative bodies.
when tml reviews all the bills during the session and classifies them into special Categories.
and these are the same categories that we'll use to classify the 14 bills that council Will look at tonight.
the following categories in no particular order are preemption, land use, debt and public Safety.
to navigate this presentation, staff will speak to priority bills in each of these Categories that were developed by focus advocacy in an effort to demonstrate the greatest
impact to our city. The bills are consistent with the city's legislative program and are actively moving Through the legislature.
so I'm going to go through 14 different bills. It's going to this is like the opposite of greatest hits album.
it's like the worst bills from from our standpoint. A lot of them are the ones that you support, obviously wouldn't be the I'm going to give You a brief synopsis on each bill and tell you where it where it is
in the current status going through the legislative process.
it's important to know, again, council, that this is your legislative program.
it's entirely up to you to determine which bills the city should support or oppose.
the purpose of this, again, is just to highlight, based on your legislative program, Bills that we think are important.
all right. So preemption is the first category.
we only have one bill in this category, but it is a big one. Preemption is the legal doctrine that allows for a higher level of government to limit or Even eliminate the power of a local lever, local level government to regulate a
specific use. House bill 2127 is the super preemption bill.
that's the kind of name given to it. Under the bill, cities and counties cannot regulate activities governed by specified list Of state codes.
those codes are agricultural, business and commerce, finance, insurance, labor, natural Resources, property and occupations.
unless explicitly authorized, it almost turns home rule on its head.
additionally, it would award attorneys fees to those who successfully challenged city Ordinances.
so obviously this bill greatly reduces local control.
the status of this bill is that it is out of senate committee. I probably should have put something in my presentation thinking about it, about how a Bill becomes law.
if you remember the what was that campy 70s?
what's that? Yeah, schoolhouse rock or something like that. How a bill. He's sitting on the steps of capitol hill.
like I'm almost starting to sing it. I couldn't remember the second ago, so I'm going to Put out here on the status of where these bills are.
essentially, there's six steps for a piece of legislation to become a law in the state of Texas.
the first one is you have to be has to be filed. Then it goes to a committee.
let's say it's a house bill, it's filed in the house, and then it goes to committee. That's the second step. It gets out of committee.
it goes to the third step. It goes to the floor of the house. Right. Then it's passed by the house.
that goes to the other chamber. It goes to the senate start committee. There has to get a city.
that's the fourth step, get out of the senate. That's the fourth step. Then it goes to the senate chamber.
if it's passed by the senate, that's a fifth step. Then it goes to the governor's desk and then it has to be signed into law and then it can Dance on the courthouse steps or whatever it does.
so those are the six steps that essentially have to occur for a bill to become a law.
so when I have status, that's a very long winded way of saying when I say out of senate Committee, what that means is it has been approved by the house and is been to the senate
committee, has been approved by the senate committee is now in the senate floor. So it is achieved achieved four out of six steps necessary to become law.
I should have just come up with a graphic instead of that whole explanation but.
all right. Second category of bills is land use.
and we have a few in this category. Senate bill 369 is really meant to address a very specific issue in the city of austin, Where they have annexed properties around lake jackson.
however, tml feels that the law could be read to apply in a much broader context and Affect other cities like our own.
senate bill 369 would provide for the automatic annexation on december 31st, 2023, of an Area in the city that is not receiving full municipal
services. Although the senate bill functionally only applies in one city, league, Attorneys do not read the bill that way.
the bill is not bracketed and would lead to the automatic annexation of areas in cities Across the state.
importantly, the automatic annexation provision applies to any area not receiving full Municipal services, not just annexed areas, not receiving full municipal services pursuant
to a previously adopted annexation service plan. Further, the annexation requirement applies even if the property owner wishes to remain In the city.
again, it would have drastic consequences in this city.
looking at what the status of this bill, it has passed the senate. It is in committee in the house.
so it has accomplished three of the six steps necessary to become law.
continuing on land use. Go back to that man. Yes, sir. So this happens in this annexation.
are we still obligated to give services to those areas? Not if you become dis annexed.
and another question. Who defines what full city services is?
that's one of the inherent difficulties with the legislation that's currently presented. It very poorly defines what constitutes full municipal services, and it totally ignores The fact that municipalities do not always control their ability to provide the
service. Water and wastewater services can only be provided if you have a certificate of Convenience and necessity, and the
state approves those through the texas public utility commission. Although an area we may annex, they can argue that they're entitled to dis annexation Because the city is not providing water or sewer.
but we can't do that without the pucs authority. And in many instances these people would prefer to stay in the city and work with the City to get services in the future.
but this removes that authority entirely. And if we talk about providing services, what level of fire service, ems service or Police service meets that requirement and where?
we have an emergency service district in some areas, in counties in texas, if that Already exists, we're not authorized to provide service if the ems
is assessing attacks to provide that service, that creates another tripwire that nobody Can sort out.
so if this bill becomes law, we are going to have a great deal of litigation to sort out What the effective impacts are on different communities.
so this annexation will go back to the county. So the counties ought to be against this, too.
the counties are quite concerned because they do not know what their service Responsibilities will be.
counties generally require in their public works infrastructure, the development of a County level set of infrastructure.
they do not require the same level of roadbed, preparation, right of way, dedication or Road surface on most county roads because they're designed
to support relatively low density rural development.
cities are supporting urban development and have enhanced development standards.
and so you've got a real dichotomy in the planning as to what kind of road surface Stormwater surface or where appropriate water or sewer
services will be provided. And it's it's an issue of a lot, a lot of concern.
and the house may not ultimately come to terms with the senate over how this bill will be Structured.
let's hope not. Thanks for all the good news at the end of the meeting.
no good news in the 88th legislature for cities. And we're just getting started here.
continuing on land use house bill 14 that would require third party review of plans, Plats and inspections by a certain time period after a
plat is approved in the city, it does utilize third party inspections in certain Situations.
so this bill would affect our operations. The status of that bill has changed.
it is passed the house and it is actually in committee in the senate.
so it has accomplished three of the six steps.
senate bill 2037 would eliminate the application of any element of a city subdivision Ordinance, an ordinance relating to access to public
roads or an ordinance relating to pumping, extraction and use of groundwater in the City's etj.
additionally, the bill would prohibit the city from directly or indirectly regulating use And density of buildings in the etj, including a new prohibition on regulating minimum lot
sizes in the etj. The city is the platting authority in the etj talking to staff.
I'll be honest, we're not exactly sure how this would affect us and how many ways it Would affect us, but I'm pretty sure that it would limit our ability in the etj.
continuing on with land use. Senate bill 1412 would prohibit political subdivisions from permitting residential Property owners, from a building or from building or erecting an accessory
dwelling units by right.
the problem with this bill is it could drastically increase density in the area.
when we when people much smarter than myself plan areas, they're expecting a certain kind Of density, things like that.
when you're looking at a single family home, it's a single family neighborhood.
this could automatically double the amount of density in any one given area.
the status of this bill is passed the senate. It is out of committee in the house.
so it is accomplished four the six steps necessary to become law.
senate bill 1787 would prohibit municipalities wholly or partly located in a county with A population of 300,000 or more from requiring residential lots to be larger than
1,400 square feet, or for density regulations to require density less than 3.31.1 units Per acre.
obviously the same kind of problem here. This bill would create major problems with our zoning and subdivision ordinance.
obviously, we would fit within the confines of of this senate bill.
the status of this bill is that it's passed the senate. It is in committee in the house.
so it has accomplished three of the six steps necessary. Council needs to understand that you and your planning and zoning commission are going to Be faced with a rubicon that's impossible to
envision. We will not be able to require in our zoning or subdivision ordinance lots Greater than 1,400 square feet.
that is a mobile home site.
I mean, that's what you're basically looking at. The city of fort worth, which has relatively lax urban development standards.
the smallest lot it will allow in the city is 5,000ft², 100ft in depth and 50ft in width.
we're talking something a third of that size is the maximum we can require.
and that that puts us in a real box. And the difficulty is your citizens will come to you complaining about changes in the Character of their neighborhoods, in adjoining properties,
in density, loading at schools, on roadways.
and we will be in a situation where there is not a blessed thing we can do because the State will have taken that authority away from us.
and as the statute shows, we can't put a regulation in place that will that will keep Density
at less than 31 units per acre.
which is frightening, but that's how the bill is currently configured.
there are efforts being made in the house to try and raise that number to 5,000ft², but It has not been successful to date.
so we go back to the first bill where they're taking power away from the city.
we can't tell people the size of the lots.
this would preempt us totally. And we could not have a regulation that would contravene this provision.
the original bill, the original super preemption bill that matt addressed at the front End.
is as dangerous as any piece of legislation we've seen, because the way it is worded, it Says if the state has adopted a regulation
within finance code, agricultural code, insurance code, labor code, occupational code, Then we are preempted from regulating.
no one can yet define the parameters of the impact of the bill, because in some of these Codes, they address
issues about local activities, sales activities in an occupation code that may take away Our ability to regulate garage
sales. It may take away our ability to regulate payday lending, anything of that nature, Which a lot of cities have chosen to not prohibit, but to simply
regulate. All of that will be gone because the state has chosen to regulate in that area.
so it takes away our authority. The legislative committees put out reports saying, well, we think this is only if there Is a direct preemption, but the wording does not clarify that.
so what that guarantees is the next 4 to 6 years after this bill would become law.
cities across the state will be in courthouses seeking to define what the level of Preemption is, and that's going to make growth
management extremely difficult and land use regulation extremely difficult.
and as matt pointed out, the more frightening aspect is they've taken away our immunity And therefore citizens can bring suit where before that
suit would have been prohibited under the doctrine of sovereign immunity. So it's going to be the trial lawyers full employment act.
allen this particular sb 1787, though, applies to cities with a population of 300,000 or More or cities within a county?
county. So the portion of our city that's in tarrant county would be affected by this.
okay. That's troubling. And of course, the northern part of the city and moving to the west out of chisholm trail Are going to be the areas where we're anticipating a lot of new growth, and that's where
we're going to get caught. Got it. Or could if this becomes law.
all right. The next category is debt.
and we have four bills in this category. House bill 4082 currently certificates of obligation.
cos can be used for public works, any public work.
but the the term public work is not defined. This bill creates a definition for public work that specifically excludes stadiums, Arenas, civic centers, and hotels.
the status of this bill. It has passed the house and it's in committee in the senate.
senate bill 1810 prohibits the issuance of tax anticipated notes if a bond proposition for Similar purpose was voted down in the
preceding five years, that is pending the senate committee.
again, it's just the legislature taking away certain tools in the city's toolbox.
the last two bills we have regarding debt. Senate bill 2035 will extend the length of time from the current three years to five Years that a taxing entity is prohibited from using cos
to fund a voter rejected project. Additionally, much like the last bill, this bill would prohibit the issuance of tax Anticipation notes for five years if the voters reject a proposed bond.
the status of this bill is that it's passed the senate. It's in committee in the house, so it's accomplished three of the six steps necessary to Become law.
in senate bill 1252 as you're all aware, anytime the city passes a budget or assesses a Tax rate, there's a bunch of
statutory language that has to be read. This is some statutory language they want us to put on ballots.
so this one will add this is a tax increase language to the ballot.
if a proposition is submitted to the voters for approval of the imposition or increase of A tax rate for cities, counties and special purpose districts,
like the bill before the status of this bill, it's passed the senate.
it's in committee. The house. It's accomplished three of the six steps necessary to become law.
last four bills. Are all related to public safety.
the first one is house bill 2468. What that does it amends the labor code, a specific section in the labor code that gives Severely injured first responders access to lifetime
benefits if they receive a specific catastrophic injury while on duty.
currently, that statute covers very specific injuries, and the bill would essentially Broaden that definition to
be to include more injuries. It does not the benefit would be paid through workers comp.
the status of this bill is that it has passed the house and it's passed the house and It's been voted out of senate in
senate committee. So it's accomplished four the six steps necessary to become law.
house bill 718. Now, I should back up before I just jumped in here. These four bills have been given to us by staff, specifically fire department and police Department.
and so this next one here, house bill 718, it amends the transportation code to remove Provisions authorizing essentially
paper tags for temporary license plates.
it is that the recommendation from pd? It has passed the house.
it's in committee, the senate. It's accomplished three of the six steps to become law.
house bill 471 again, just like it states there seeks to address the inadequacies Establishing illness and
injury, leave protections for certain county and municipal responders.
revising the scope of provision, making certain cancer coverage, presumptions and Applicable to a first responder due to tobacco usage, and allowing first responders to
claim a presumption for a heart attack or stroke. That occurred up to eight hours post shift.
the kind of in a nutshell, what this means is this essentially.
there are certain cancer coverages that are provided to first responders, but if they're Tobacco users, it doesn't apply to them.
this relaxes some of those coverages that the tobacco use isn't related to the actual Cancer that is found.
the law would still apply to help them out.
the last one there is house bill 2455, and it amends the local government code to require Fire, department of municipality, county or special purpose district
to offer to each firefighter employed the fire department an annual occupational medical Evaluation at no cost to the firefighter.
and it has certain inclusions. This has passed the house.
it's in committee in the senate. It is accomplished three of the six steps to become law.
all right. So again, council, this is your legislative program, so it's entirely up to You to determine what bills that you support or oppose.
I've just tried to highlight some of the bills. I think the last four the public safety bills aren't necessarily bills that we would Oppose, just listing those there that are important to specific departments in the city.
so council action tonight is you don't have to take any action specifically, but you Could direct staff to write letters of support or opposition
on any of these bills. You could just have staff go back to focus advocacy to continue the city's interests and Let them know about our discussion tonight.
or again, I'm certainly not a subject matter expert on any of these things.
if you have additional questions, I'll try to get that information as back to you as Quickly as possible.
mayor and council I do have a speaker card for this, for this item. Whenever you're ready to call.
go ahead. Okay. Mike jones. Some of this is kind of open ended, though.
you're talking like some of these have they can change the wording down the road or Stuff.
so that's a very good point, mayor. I mean, we're right in the thick of these things. I mean, literally they're changing by the hour.
there could be massive amendments to any of these bills, substitutions, language changes That could alter greatly the way these bills affect the city.
we're just kind of giving you a snapshot in time two weeks out before the finish line.
and really, that's the best we can do at this point. But it's all technically up in the air at this at this moment.
one of the things that matt mentioned is the different steps of moving through the house Process and the senate process.
we're seeing situations emerge now where the house produces a version of the bill and Forwards it to the senate.
the senate considers it and says we won't accept it in that form, and they approve a Different version.
it has to go back to a conference committee between the two chambers to try and resolve The issues, and they negotiate.
that's the difficulty that matt and I are facing. They play let's make a deal in austin as to what bill they think they could get support Sufficient for passage from both bodies.
and so we literally won't know until possibly hours before a final vote in both chambers What the language of a proposed bill will
be. So we'll try and keep the council alerted. But at this point, with two weeks left, we're guessing what will come out of these Committees.
with that said, I don't see a whole lot about some of these bills that they could change To make us like them no matter what they do.
mike jones president, burleson firefighter association. And we rise today to ask you guys to particularly maybe support and try to support two Bills.
first would be house bill 471. And that's actually going to committee tomorrow for senate hearing.
and that one is like like mr. Ribitzki said it right now we have a presumptive bill for cancer and heart.
and a lot of times what the fire service is finding is when we have cancer that hits the 13 cancers they're being denied if they use any
kind of tobacco. And so it's really just asking legislation to define what is tobacco use In worker's comp, because some cancers that firefighters sustain, because the jobs
we do and the byproducts that we're exposed to don't particularly increase the cancer for What we're getting.
so that's really what that one is. And then before you before you go on.
do we need to be for that and then change the the type of cancers down the road?
well, it's not really the types of cancers. This is just would be for the bill.
and also in there in the 471. Is it just kind of because of the injuries that firefighters and police officers can Sustain in the job?
it just kind of increases the amount of time for worker's comp up to a year.
so we're just asking you to be in support of that again, because, you know, sometimes When firefighters and police officers get injured, we can't really go right back to work
as not knocking any other job. But like you would be able to, particularly in another job.
but you can have, you know, ten year public safety that you lose, you know, a lot of Years of experience there and they may just need a few more months.
so that's part of that 471 bill as well. But it's really just trying to get them to define what that tobacco use and all that is.
and like I said, I talked to our president, john riddle of texas association of Firefighters day, and he's actually going 8:30 in the mornings when they're having the
senate hearing committee hearing on that one. So he's going to be testifying. So if you guys want to pull it up, you'll be able to watch It and hear more about it out of committee.
okay. And then the second is obviously 2468 that one almost passed last year, and Nobody's really sure why it didn't, but it has made it out of the house and it's
actually being voted on on the senate floor, I've heard probably wednesday.
but that one's actually particularly tied to two firefighters, andy allison and matt Dawson.
matt dawson's a firefighter in lubbock. You guys may have seen it. He was run over while he was working at accident scene, Apparently in a wheelchair now and then, andy allison's very tall, walked outside while
working a structure fire, hit a weather head, was electrocuted and same thing, permanent Disability.
so that would just give firefighters, you know, right now, if we're down the line of duty Death and through worker's comp and all that we're getting, our families are getting
compensated through that. But this would be if we had a debilitating injury, fire and police that we could not go Back to work.
it would just offer our families and us lifetime benefits to keep from catastrophic Financial on that like matt said, is paid through worker's comp.
but it just gives a peace of mind to the families. You know that if you know, I've been a firefighter since I was 19, this is all I've done.
so had I. Unfortunately, fortunately, it didn't happen. But when I had my wreck, if I'd have been permanently disabled from that, it would have Just given the opportunity to offer benefits.
now you do have to get recertified every year and you got to go to doctors and things Like that.
or if you get another job, things like that, then it falls off. But this is just in the event like those two firefighters that if you can't work, that it Would provide the benefits.
so again, we just ask for you guys to strongly consider supporting those. You guys have always been great to us and I know down in austin they appreciate to hear From cities to make sure that public safety officers are taken care of.
so thank you guys for your time. Any questions for me? Are you in support of 2455.
so 2455 we are. And I didn't put that in or talk about it because right now we do do annual physicals in The fire department and we have a cancer screening and things.
but obviously we are we are in support of it. It just adds some some meat to it if we wanted to look in different areas of doing and I Know chief's here too, but to do
more screening because not you know the annual physicals we do right now they don't catch And can't catch everything.
but these are put in there different screenings and cancers and things like that because As we know, especially with cancer, if you catch it early, then you can really save a life
and keep people, people in work. But again, we are in support of 2455.
I just didn't want to get it confusing with you guys because we do in burleson. Every firefighter is tested annually and upon entry and I'm not sure what pd does and I Apologize.
I just can't answer it for them. But that's not specific to just firefighters, that's All. First responders or correct.
mayor, I can't answer that particular because obviously I'm on the fire side. But yes, I mean, I know 2468 is complete public safety 471 I'm not sure I'd have to get Get back to you guys on that if that,
because cancer is really big in the fire service. But 2455, I would assume is for public safety.
but again, I can't answer that honestly. That's okay. We're getting hit with a lot right now.
yes, sir, you are. And I apologize. Not trying to make it longer, but just we wanted you to hear from our members that, you Know, we're in strong support of these and we'd like for the city to be as well.
it makes a difference in public safety, you know, police and firefighters lives. Okay. Thank you, mike. Thank you.
very good. Thank you.
I don't even know where to go from here. Well, I mean, I think, again, there's no action required, but I think that mayor, if you If you wanted to write a letter of support or opposition to any of the bills, you could
certainly direct staff to do that. But again, it's not required. That's completely up to council.
what do you guys think? I'd like to see us write letters of support for the public safety bills specifically Requested by our bdfa, which was 24
68 and 471, I think 2455.
I would put my support behind as well, because it may not affect our local guys, but it Will affect firefighters and other areas, perhaps even things like mud
districts where there's they own you know, there may be areas that are not, you know, as Well supplied as we are.
I'd like to see those guys get covered. As far as the other bills, I mean, I'd react to all of them in different ways, but the First 10 of the 14 you read us are terrible from what I can
tell. That's a good summary. I would have to defer to our focused advocacy advocacy folks to advise us as to how to Make the most effective response.
and I would be more than pleased to send letters of support for the ones we like and for, I
don't know, letters of opposition to the some of the more.
terrible inflicting measures that they have. I'm on the same page with dan.
public safety I see a lot of possibilities down the road where they can be abused and Stuff of that nature.
but that's not fair to our first responders to say no now because of the potential Misuse.
okay. That's not right to them. They need this. But that first batch of stuff you read off is just.
that's concerning. Sure, sure. So we agree on on having a letter drafted?
yeah, I think so. Just to make sure I understand the will of the council. Is that a letter in opposition to the first ten bills in letters of support and the last Four bills covered regarding public safety?
I believe so. All right, guys. Sorry. Yes, I agreed on the board.
house bill 718 about the transportation code. I'll have to read that one to make sure what the complications are of a vehicle dealer or Converter to issue a temporary tag for a vehicle.
so removing the provision. My understanding, mr. Scott, and again, I'm not a subject matter expert on this, but Texas allows paper tags, temporary paper tags, and those
have been apparently affiliated with a lot of criminal enterprises. Texas is joining other states to have more standard issued thicker plates, not the Temporary paper tags issued that will be issued from a dealer to a new
car. I think it's try to reduce the crime associated with the paper tags.
nbc's affiliates ran a series of articles on it a couple of months ago where they did an Investigative report.
under current law, a dealer, once you're registered as a dealer, can just issue the paper Tags.
and they were they were selling them apparently for 20 bucks a piece.
and criminals were using them to replace tags to avoid criminal prosecution.
it became a big issue. And so matt's correct. The state's talking about developing a master system to control it and stop the abuses of The old system.
I thought they was fixing to just have the dealers carry their own metal tags.
that's part of the new system, is that you won't have paper tags
so is that gone? Is this part of the language on this bill? Yes, in house bill 718 and I'm sorry for not explaining that better on the front end.
okay. I'd like to add house bill 718 to support. Yes, sir. We do have another speaker card if council is ready.
I guess we're ready. Martin are we voting on.
I'm sorry, I have a speaker card, sir. Oh, I'm sorry. I was still on. If you just state your name for the record, please.
janelle martin, 1350 southwest salisbury boulevard. I have a question, and I know it's very premature, but it's something to think about Because we all support our first responders, right?
we all want to make sure that they're taken care of, especially in these times. But my concern is, is with hb 2455 specifically, what we're saying is that this will be at No cost to the firefighter,
but the city is going to absorb these costs. Correct. So the way the public safety and I haven't read the specific bills as yet, I Fully plan to.
but my concern is, is that it feels like it's a no win situation.
yes, you're taking care of your first responders and you're making sure that they don't Absorb, absorb this extra cost.
but the city is absorbing that cost. So let's just say for kicks and giggles, this is passed and it passes all six steps.
is the city prepared to absorb this cost?
we don't know what the cost is, is the problem. I mean, we can speculate, but we really don't know what the cost is going to be.
I mean, you can do and I mean, based on the current rates, you can give a roundabout Estimate if you're looking at cash pay
versus insurance. But my I think it's pretty I think it's pretty fair to come up with an Estimate per first
responder per year. But again, because we don't like you said, we don't know the wording on it.
it's just a concern on how the city is going to think fast, knowing that we're now Looking at rebuilding streets for our neighborhoods,
which is needed. But now with this coming, what does that look like?
where do we where do we table one and make priority for the other?
ma'am, I do. That's a very valid question. What I would tell you is, is that we're self-insured, meaning that when a firefighter or A public safety officer has cancer, we're paying out those claims.
so what I would tell you is this very well could be a cost deterrent if we're doing Additional screening and catching that and not paying out those larger claims when those
individuals do have cancer. But is there going to be a upfront cost associated with additional screening?
yes. And then again with us not knowing, with me, not knowing the specific language of This bill is the city in the
future. Let's just kick the can down the road within its right to say that there is a Standard that we are going to set for our
first responders. So if you're coming in as a new first responder and your levels or your Cancer screenings are above or below.
is the city liable for that? Is the city going to accept that risk or is the city within its right to say, no, we're Not going to bring you on board because of the results of your screening?
because the city is absorbing that cost. Chief, are you are you wanting to get up and say, please add some little bit of clarity To it.
mayor and council k.t. Freeman, fire chief currently we do have annual screening and annual physicals for our Firefighters and they run about $400.
and what I would share with you is I my interpretation of the bill is we're fortunate, but The bill would require other municipalities
that currently aren't providing the level of physicals that our city does.
it would require them to do that. And I would say from my experience, it is money well spent because one of the main Advantages for communities like ours who do provide the full
screening, there are some enhancements that we'll be talking about, probably in my Strategic plan is it's money well spent because with the high rate of incidents of
cancers that the firefighters are having throughout the nation, a 3 or $400 screening That could prevent maybe $1 million or a half $1 million medical
bill or even more. And then more importantly, the saving of a life.
you really can't put a value to it. So I think from a taxpayer standpoint and, you know, I'm a taxpayer, too, it's money well Spent because the key is to be preventative and be proactive in
these types of screenings, plus the benefits that you get that we have for maintaining a High health of aerobic conditioning.
so I would just try to allay any concerns that you have that it is money, but it's a very Reasonable cost for what we get in taking
care of our firefighters. My concern isn't taking care of our firefighters.
I fully support taking care of them. My concern is, are we going to be able to give them the care that they need and are we Going to
prioritize their care, for example, and be willing to reevaluate budget line items so That we can do the right thing when it is called for?
and then again, kicking the can down the road. Are we protecting our first responders in the event that they don't pass a screening?
we're not going to say, sorry, you're out on the street. So that's that's the foundation of my concern, is making sure that we are doing the right Thing for them and that we will continually be prepared to do the right thing
for them. Right. Great question. Great points. And this municipality, the answer to every one of those questions is yes.
we've unfortunately had several of our firefighters that have fallen underneath that Category and through workman's comp and different services that the city provides short
term, long term disability. In this community, we are well taken care of and I don't expect anything different.
so we are very, very blessed in this community to have to have those services.
thank you. All right.
just to make sure, mayor and council that I've received the direction, we want to send Letters of support on the first last four bills, letters of opposition to the
first ten bills mentioned. Is that correct? I believe so. All right.
thank you, mayor and council. We're good. Thank you.
thank you. That brings us to section eight city council requests and future agenda items And reports.
dan, anything? You want to go first? Oh, I'm good, larry.
okay. Okay. Dan, I have asked this offline, but I'm going to ask it publicly now.
I believe that we need a commendation of some permanent nature to be placed at the new Hill
college campus. On behalf of former mayor ken shetter and his efforts to bring hill college, and in fact, If anyone has been around long
enough to know that there would be no such thing as a hill college in burleson had it not Been for the very diligent efforts that ken made.
and I think it's it's a shame that we let it go this long that we haven't already seized The opportunity to recognize that for all time so that people in
future generations will know how hill college came to be.
when I mentioned this, it's been mentioned, and I'll definitely be open to this idea that Pam beam, formerly of hill college, also be
recognized in this way. She did retire, right? Or did I get that wrong?
so the two people I don't know enough about the inner workings of what took place to know Whether both deserve credit or ken deserves more.
I'll rely on staff to research that and make an appropriate decision, but I would like to See that initiative take place.
add on to that, let's see how hill college feels about their and where we could put it. And let's pay attention to that.
I think it's worthwhile. Anybody else. See it?
okay. That moves us on to section nine. Executive session.
in accordance with chapter 551 of the texas government code, the city council needs to Convene into executive session in the city council work room in city hall to
conduct a closed meeting to discuss any items listed on the agenda.
and pursuant to section 551.071, 551.072 and 551.087.
mayor, if you could ask for a motion and take a vote. Is there a motion to go into executive session?
move to convene in executive session. One more. Second.
the motion got a motion by dan and a second by larry. Please vote. Passes unanimous we'll go into executive session at 8:00.
for a motion to convene back into open session.
yeah. I second the motion.
I got a motion by dan a second by larry. Please vote. Passes unanimous.
we're back in session at 9:00. Mayor and council. We have no other items for consideration or discussion.
if you could ask for a motion and a second to adjourn with no vote.
is there a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. Second to adjourn.
motion by dan a second. Larry, we're finished.