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I call the order of the regular scheduled meeting of the city park city council. A quorum is present, please note the roll, please call the executive session.

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In accordance with chapter 551 of the government code, the city council will now convene in a closed executive session pursuant to the following provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act.

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Section 531.071, subsection 2, 551.074, 551.087 in accordance with agenda items V1, V2, and V3.

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All right, thank you.

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Council will reconvene into open session at 7 p.m.

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All right, I call back into open session

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a regular scheduled meeting

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at the Cedar Park City Council, a quorum is present.

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I apologize for running a few minutes behind tonight.

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As many of you may know,

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a very beloved member of our community

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and member of our Economic Development Board,

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Jim Cooper, passed away entirely too early last week.

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And most of us were at his funeral service,

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which is this evening,

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which it says back by a few minutes.

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appreciate your patience.

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As you all know we start every meeting with invocation

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we take turns doing that. Tonight is, it happens to be my turn, but the Christmas

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season I know a lot of us tend to think about our grandparents during this time

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of year. I doubt you think of your grandfather for some reason I do for my

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My grandfather grew up in Chicago in the German-speaking neighborhood.

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His parents never learned to speak English.

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And every, you know, you'd be at Christmas Mass, and he would always insist on singing

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all the Christmas carols in the original German.

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And so every time Christmas rolls around, I think of my grandfather Francis singing

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oh holly goodnight, while the rest of us sing oh holy night.

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And as I noted, my grandfather's name was Francis, and his favorite saint was

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St. Francis of Assisi, and that's kind of how it's been like the patron saint of our

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family. The first line of it is described inside my West Point ring, so I thought I would lead

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us off tonight with the prayer of St. Francis for our invocation. So please join me in prayer.

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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, whether it's hatred, let me so love, whether

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it's injury, pardon, whether it's doubt, faith, whether it's despair, hope, whether it's

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darkness, light, whether a sadness, joy, or divine master grant that I may not seek to

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be consoled as to be understood as to understand, as to be loved as to love. For it is in giving

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that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are

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born to eternal life. Amen.

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Thank you for joining me in that, and please join me in

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the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

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And to the Republic which stands, one nation under God,

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it is well delivered to the justice world.

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Honor of the Texas law, I pledge allegiance to the city of Texas,

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one state under God, for honor and glory.

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Please call item C3.

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A presentation regarding review of non-profit malls.

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In multiple conversations over several years now,

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with both Taisa and Kerry from Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center.

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And as things are progressing forward, I wanted Taisa to come and talk to us about what she's looking for,

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what she's doing, and what the path forward might be so that it can hopefully inspire future discussions.

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Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, Senator Cancel. Good evening, City Manager. My name

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is Taisha Holloway, and I'm the Executive Director for Hill Country Community Ministries.

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We are a non-profit resource center that serves Western Williamson and Northwest Travis

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County primarily. We're 40 years old. We started back in 1983. And a few years ago,

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we created, after COVID, and we saw such a drastic entity in the need of the Family

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we started the capital campaign because we are still housing physically out of

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Leander and a portable building that's 900 square feet. Last year we served 136

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thousand people and we distributed 1.3 million pounds of food and people

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always ask me what is 1.3 million pounds of food look like and I say think

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about 35 semi trucks just going by about that 900 square feet. 85% of our

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clients reside in Cedar Park in Leander and so a couple years ago we started our

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capital campaign and about a year ago we had a church that was willing to give

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us some land and we had a foundation that was going to build a

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stability and six months ago that foundation pulled out. Now while most of

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the community most the people that were involved in this project were kind

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of heartbroken I always kind of think of it as that means that there's

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bigger and better things on the horizon. Carrie and I with the Children's

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Advocacy Center, I do want to acknowledge Carrie's here. She's their CEO. She's got

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a couple of her board members and I want to thank them for attending and then I

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also have some of my board members at Hill Country Community

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Ministries attending as well because we've been working on this for quite

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some time. But to kind of fast forward is at our board retreat in

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July we kind of presented the option of what Hill Country Ministries could

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do next when that foundation pulled out. We can build on Lacey Drive, and I just finished

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doing the zoning on that change. We could work with the church that was going to give

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us a land, but there were some restrictions associated with that. We could go seek our

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new land, but one of the gifts of having this time to pause allowed us to increase

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our donor base by 200 new donors, and we received a $1 million endowment to create

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a legacy beyond us. And so our board of directors enlisted

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of me to go ahead and try to find an existing building because we've seen so much increase

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in need, not just for us. When people come to Hill Country Community Ministries, they

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need more than just food. They need mental health. They need financial assistance. They

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need medical health. There's so many other programs that they need and most of the time

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they need. We have to send them on the other side of county. So we created just six

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slides just to kind of show you what we're wanting to do. The reason is that

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That Hill Country Community Ministries was pre-approved to purchase a $5 million piece

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of property, and as I mentioned, that would give us about 15,000 square feet.

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And we can do what we want to do.

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We can build a feed pantry, have some office space for resources, and serve our community

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just Hill Country Community Ministries.

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But in the last nine years that I've been there, I have really established relationships

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with not just the community, but a bunch of nonprofits, and we have 22 very active

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of collaborative partners that we again exchange referrals

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for these families in need.

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And so about two months ago, a property came on the market

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in your city, on the northeast side of your city,

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it sits on the border of Cedar Park in Leander,

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and it's 30,000 square feet for $8 million.

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And people are like, you can't afford $8 million.

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And I'm like, you're right, I can't.

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But could the community come together

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and afford a nonprofit loan?

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During the last couple of years that Cary and I have been working on the resource center

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and this nonprofit or this foundation that was going to build it, we have visited an

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organization called ServeDent in multiple times and we've had multiple conversations.

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We have visited resource centers out in Marble Falls and all up and down in Texas.

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But ServeDent serves a model that we really can get behind and that is it was anchored

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by a food pantry, it is anchored by a children's advocacy center and is also anchored

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by a medical clinic with a pharmacy.

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It's 40,000 square feet and it houses all these other entities

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that when families come up on hard times,

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they can get the help.

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So that's kind of the overview and the history

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of why I'm here, just presenting the idea

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because the letter of intent was accepted

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as of last Thursday night.

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And so I'm just presenting this because at some point,

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when we get the contract signed,

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I have to 90 days to come up with that $3 million.

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But on top of that, it's not just what we have to come up with in the next 90 days to offset that cost,

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but also what it's going to do for the communities.

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And I've had meetings with Cynthia Long, I've had meetings with the other cities and stuff,

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and so we don't know yet what that looks like.

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This is just really for your information, and I don't know if you guys can ask questions,

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but we're here to answer questions.

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But just to real quick, as far as the non-profit for Williamson County is, again, the serve

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debt model.

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It's a non-profit model that houses a variety of services under one roof.

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The model has been brewed and effective in its streamlining accesses and vital resources,

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fostering collaboration, which we really do have already, is just bringing it all

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under one roof.

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And then making a real difference, obviously, in the residents in Denton and also Louisville

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and the surrounding areas. They have one in Lewisville and they too have multiple

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sites. These are all the things that are housed under one roof. Food, mental health,

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housing, and I'm not saying that people can live there but resources to get

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housing, health care, financial support, women's support, legal support, children,

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as we mentioned. They have a satellite location in Denton County. Denton

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County has multiple children advocacy center. It's a satellite location for

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them and then of course senior care. The fostering the collaboration obviously

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increases efficiency when I first started at Hill Country nine years ago

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when I write for grants about how we can help our community my two favorite

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words are effective and efficient. I mean when you're in a 40-year-old portable

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building it's 900 square feet and they're held together by duct tape or

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glue there's not a lot of efficiency or effectiveness you know we have to be

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very creative, but it increases efficiency, it

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improves communications within the non-profits.

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We miss so many opportunities to come together

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and collaborate together, obviously shared resources.

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You know, when I talk to people about

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why are we seeing 140,000 people, right?

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We don't live in a very polished area.

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We all know that there's pockets of poverty,

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but Hill Country Community Ministry has participated

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in a survey this past year with a community needs

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assessment survey with Central Texas Food Bank in Healthy Williamson County.

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That report came out back in October and our families are $400 shy of having to

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come see us. I mean that's like a brain set of tires maybe you know one trip to

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the ER and you had to pay your co-pay. You know this is why families need us and

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all these other resources and I tell people it's like when they come see us

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they have to tell their story and they're on their last tank of gas.

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when we have to send them other places to get those other resources typically

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they're on the other side of the county which you'll see in a second you know and

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they don't want to drive we lose them they don't want to tell their story over

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and over and over again so again the shared communication shared risk

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resource and then obviously United support not just with the nonprofits

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but with our cities that we serve and obviously our county these are the

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distances and this was kind of an aha even for me to kind of see where

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Here our resources are, as I mentioned to you, Opportunity is a Williamson-Bernet County.

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They provide financial assistance, 14 miles.

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I've Googled that today just to see how long it would take me to drive 14 miles at about

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four o'clock this afternoon.

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It was 28 minutes.

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That's 38 minutes, you know, 28 to 30 minutes and stuff.

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And again, who has time to do that?

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Samaritan Health is the closest one to us.

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We live on at Trails.

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They are partners that we've actually talked to.

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I know that they just got a Cedar Park location, but they have so many other resources even

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beyond what that Cedar Park location is going to participate.

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We have talked to a couple of medical clinics.

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We don't know who, you know, again, we don't have any signed agreements with these non-profits.

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These, again, are collaborative conversations that we've been talking to for the last

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couple of years.

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Volunteer Legal Services, obviously the Children's Advocacy Center, the Veterans Services.

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We love our veterans, and then Hope Alliance, and I know that they've got

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the location coming up in Leander, but again,

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it's just another location and it's not even built yet.

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A pathway forward, bringing a nonprofit model to life.

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You know, what are the next steps?

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You know, again, I'm seeking funding

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from some of our foundation partners.

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Just this past week, we received a 200,000 dollar match.

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I just got that letter yesterday from a donor.

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So we'll be promoting that.

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And we received a corporate contribution from Toyota's

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in commitment from Toyota's to your part for 250,000.

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And that's just in the last week.

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So that's already half a million almost.

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Identifying not just securing this location,

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but who are the partners that want to be in there?

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Who are the partners that need to be in there?

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All of you saw those red lines,

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those red dots on the other side of the county.

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Do they need space on our side?

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Absolutely.

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And then obviously collaborating

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with other key stakeholders.

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I've met with some of you.

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We had a community needs meeting back in the early summer

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like late May and Eugene.

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And we all talked about, not just with C Departonese, but what is Leander name?

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And then again, just lastly is, this is my contact information.

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That building right there, if you were at our 40th anniversary, that is the front door,

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not the exact front door, but that is truly where people started entering Hill Country

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community ministries to get food back in 1985.

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It's the still same building, the still same location.

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And people have asked me, what would we do with this property?

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The wonderful gift, if you've been following at all, is that I got the approval to build

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a food pantry on Lacey Drive.

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We have almost an acre and a half now, but I kept the housing component because the other

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number one need besides food is housing in our community, and we can put tiny homes

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on this land.

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And I kept that on their zoning for that specific reason because if we can go into

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the non-profit mall, we can now put some traditional housing on here, and it's different.

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our homelessness is a little bit different than what

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It looks like an awesome, we don't have Pam Hamler's on the street corners.

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We have families that have faced an eviction of this who have been without a job, you know.

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And I'd love to be able to put our families in a home.

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So that's it.

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So presentation, can I make a comment?

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Well, I guess my comment would be, I don't know if I missed it within the slides.

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It's OK not to have to try to go back and find if it was in there.

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But you referenced the debt piece as an example, and I was just wondering if, you know,

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If your presentation included any language about whether or not that was a public-private

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partnership?

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It was a private.

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It is completely private.

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And I can send you a, excuse me, there's a website called SerbDenton.org, and it tells

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you about how they got started.

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It was a private nonprofit entity that started this, that saw the collaboration.

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They do not receive city funding from Denton, but they do from Lewisville, and they

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to see additional funding through mostly private donors and foundation partners.

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All right. Well, I mean, you're obviously on to something with the, you know, we get

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updates from the, the Williamson County Summit. We got one coming up on the next

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week, and I remember one last year we talked about how Williamson County would be

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bigger than Travis County, you know, 12 years. And so, you know, that it's

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going to grow exponentially the need across the deal, how that happens,

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where it's at, and all that, is something that you're obviously

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you're passionate about, but I appreciate the presentation.

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So, Sir Lewisville is actually a public-private partnership.

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And they did receive seed money and loans from the city

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or county or the boat.

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The city, it was a loan that they, yes, from Lewisville.

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They did receive a loan from the city

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that they have been paying back to the city.

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Right.

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Yes.

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So there's a few different ways to do that.

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And, while I don't think that Cedar Park should necessarily fund this alone, I do think the importance of having a community resource center, a non-profit mall, is so great in the western side of the county that if we can collaborate with the county and our neighboring cities so that we all have some skin in the game here to help make this work and function.

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I mean this is, I think this is bigger than the dollar donation that we do for non-profits

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every year.

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I think this is something that could be transformative for the people on this side of the account

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because like she mentioned, we are all just one health crisis, one car crash away from

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meeting her services.

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No, it's funny, you mentioned, you know, CRC, I think we already have a few locally.

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And how that would, you know, when I first saw this I wanted to impact a lot of us volunteers

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in different places.

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But again, knowing what the number is going to look like in the county in the next few

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years, there's obviously room around.

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You know, I'm just kind of curious in how that will play itself out as far as the

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collaboration piece.

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We've already been meeting with them.

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I met with Doug on Monday, Doug James,

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and they know about it too, and we would be in conjunction.

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We don't wanna overlap services, you know.

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We don't need another Christian Resource Center.

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They do fabulous work and stuff.

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We partner a lot with Reveal

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and all the other food pantries as well,

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but this would kinda be in addition.

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What are we missing?

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You know, what is CRC missing and stuff?

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And what is the western side of the county missing

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that we have to send them on the eastern time?

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That really is the big piece of this, you know,

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And also to kind of talk about the money thing, you know, and again,

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I mentioned the fact that we're not, we don't really live in a poverty

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area. Again, again, that needs assessment from the healthy county district and

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central Texas food bank had to do with the fact that, you know,

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our poverty, our poverty population is small in Western Louisiana.

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I mean, it's 16, maybe 17% poverty, but what they call Alice.

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And if you haven't heard of Alice, it's an acronym that United Way

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came out with several years ago, especially during COVID and its

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asset limited income constraint you know it's 35 to 40 percent and that's that one

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crisis that's the one divorce one death in the family one lost job that people

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have to come see us. The other piece of it is the Children's Advocacy Center is

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is based in Georgetown but they serve their task with serving the entire

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county and the majority of their clients of the children who have been

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abused and need services are coming from our side of the county, not the eastern side of the county.

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And that is a long drive for people in crisis.

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Well, and...

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Well, our side has to hire a population.

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Cedar Park, Leander, the Rowan, obviously.

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Yes.

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It's going to be there.

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But that speaks to the whole regional impact.

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It leaves the county over the next 10 years of the growth.

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The population number is going to be, you know, bigger than traffic.

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Absolutely.

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This is a good thing to get in front of.

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Thank you.

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I love the collaborative spirit and I think there's a lot of like second

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derivative benefits from the collaboration my experience with nonprofits

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is you know it really plays more to sustainability right and best practices

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you know that could be shared between those two and then that could be shared

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between you know all the potential partners and then obviously there are

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smaller nonprofits and people that have a vision and you know movement in

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their heart to start something but they don't know you know really have

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to engage it from a business standpoint and I guess the sharing of those

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types of practices and I think you know I mean having that collaborative spirit I

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think you can have one plus one equals two two and a half or three or you know

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right so I mean you get more benefit out of it obviously the service is

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important but I think the collaborative making nonprofits stronger as entities

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Oh, absolutely, for sure.

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Yeah, thank you.

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I don't know.

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I mean, I've been working with Tysiv for five or six years.

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Whatever this is going to look like.

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I would invite, we took a trip up to Marble Falls

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and they have a similar thing that you could maybe

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put eyes on and kind of see what the intent is.

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But again, I think you mentioned efficiency.

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And for me, you know, especially like I have said, you know, families in crisis traveling to the east side of the county for a lot of things.

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Just even all of our officers and, you know, even the bluebonnet folks, like, it's so limited and to have a one-stop shop, just the efficiency.

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Like, oh, you're in crisis because you're dealing with this, you know, tragic thing that happens to your child.

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I can't even think about going to work, how am I going to pay, you know, so it just kind of snowballs.

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I mean, I'm not trying to say anything that you know, but I've been a part of this.

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I'm going to ask her questions because I know about it, but I would mention the marble falls

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and it just took creative leadership of their kind of judge to kind of get that ball rolling up there.

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So it's very, it's very accessible to go and make sure and I'm sure that's it.

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We serve getting these services are also really great models.

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If you are interested in really helping to, or to have eyes on it before we talk about this further,

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that's like they're always willing to do tours and talk to you about how this works,

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with the financial pieces, what the community benefit is,

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what the outcomes that they've seen are.

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And I will add kind of the touch on,

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elaborate what Anne was saying too,

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is it's not even just to fit the emergency needs,

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kind of like Christian Resource Center.

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They have so much job training there.

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And for us, we want to add more life skill training.

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Like right now we have a partnership

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with your city library, you know?

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And it was also to like,

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if they don't know who we are and come see us

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or they don't want to go to a church,

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they're going to go to your library,

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and we bring case managers to your library.

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And the number one thing we're doing right now

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is just application assistance.

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We're doing job applications, we're doing financial.

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We have a lot of people that are eligible

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for disability and social security.

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I mean, some of these applications are 32 pages long.

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We want to treat that,

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we've been helping with resume building.

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I know with Children's Advocacy,

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yes, they meet an emergency need,

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but there's so much counseling and love on these families

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for years to come that they miss them when they're on the other side of the county because

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who wants to go to counseling 30 minutes away?

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They have so many resources that are life sustaining for these children and that's the

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other piece of this is yes we want to meet those emergency needs but we also only want

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to empower families to get out of what we, what they, why they need us.

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You know, inflation you can't control that and stuff but more importantly is what do

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they need beyond just us to be able to get out of from them seeing us and that's

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what we'd also like to bring to this is empowering these families.

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It's not just enabling but empowering.

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Meet the emergency needs, helping them train,

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referring to the creation of resources,

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again, a big collaborative piece,

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but really just kind of getting them out

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of having to come see us.

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But if they have to come see us,

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making it more efficient, right?

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Not having to go on the other side of the county

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to get the counseling and the help they need, so.

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Yeah, it's very forward-thinking, obviously,

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but one of the things that healthcare has done

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and is, you know, when you have comorbidities

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and trying to go to multiple appointments.

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So one of the things we did in the Dell Children's side

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is you go to one office and all the different providers,

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you have the appointments they come to you.

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And so it's really just, you know,

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and when you're empowering folks in that way

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and providing everything in like

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at the one stop shop at Duo,

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the likelihood that they're going to be able

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to follow through and have that

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because they know that support is there instead of having to traverse across the county and figure it all out.

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And I have to speak again on Hill Country Community Ministries, just the different things, because you did

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Vengeance CRC and a lot of what the Twin Lakes folks, the whole campus does, but one of the things that was a

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I got a call in the summer from a firefighter's wife because they attended to a woman they were familiar with

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and they had gone to their home and all she had was a ceiling fan.

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And so they knew to get a hold of me and I was able to get a hold of Tyuset

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and they were able to get her a lingo unit with them within like a few days.

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24 hours. Yeah. So I mean, just having that

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Veltman shop shop is just a really great opportunity.

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So I have a question. I mean, under this construct do you see like having

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like an in-peg officer that's like a share of pre-sports amongst all the...

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So because I mean you mentioned something and I know other non-profits have tried, you know, the audacious model of like being a slave to different masters

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and like all the modalities that people come in. It's like, you know, I think what we're trying to avoid is like they come here for this

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and I've got to go someplace else and they don't know. They don't know the questions to ask and then just having an intake officer that says that, you know,

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of all of these 20-service offerings, these people are, you know, qualified for these seven modalities or whether you have a case offer,

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they're just going to decide and kind of...

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Like what resources they need, right?

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I mean, there's certain things that we won't be able to share.

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I mean, obviously for certain entities that will be in there,

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but more than like, yes.

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But like the CRC, when she talks about the community resource

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in our mobile halls, it's like a much smaller scale.

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It's about 15,000 square feet anchored by, you know,

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two bigger non-profits with their resources and you see,

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but they have one intake person.

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And they set up the appointments

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with the different entities that these families need.

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You know and again, there's certain ones that we won't be able to touch because a hippo or whatever, you know privacy stuff

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But overall, yes, better case managing. Yes

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You know your work is

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Something like this many people talked about and you see the need overall

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But it's going to take somebody like you who's got to experience in the background and kind of

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see how the tools came together.

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Yeah, and I just want to kind of build on that a little bit.

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I read this week that Steve Houston announced a large effort

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to end homelessness in Houston.

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Of course, Austin and Travis County

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pour a lot of resources into homelessness.

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And of course, they still have a very visible problem.

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And what I really hope for here in Williamson County

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and Cedar Park is that we continue

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to be able to leverage the incredible generosity

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the vision of people like yourself, as well as your board members, to continue really to

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take up, frankly, the slack. We run a very lean city here, and that's generally a good

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thing, but we couldn't do it without the generosity of spirit and the hard work that you bring

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to it and all your volunteers bring to it. But I really think it's so important for

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our northern end of the region here to continue to lean forward because those problems

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are coming right and you know we're lucky to have so much new things in our community and people who

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as they buy their house are doing well the time you know moves on and challenges will continue to

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arise especially you know if there's challenges the economy and so thank you for your thoughtfulness

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and vision and coming and explaining us this is best I learned a lot tonight and look forward

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to learn a lot more, thinking about ways how we can all continue to collaborate.

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Hopefully there are more to come and I'll just end with this is I know when we

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started our capital campaign two years ago our tagline was break the hardship

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of or break the grip of hardship, hunger and hopelessness and we hope to do

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that not just with what we can do but with this whole collaboration piece

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between the cities the county and our other nonprofits so thank you all for

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00:28:50,850 --> 00:28:53,210
much for your time all

459
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,260
right please call item c4 public communications right

460
00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:03,040
this is the part of the meeting where anyone can address the council not listed

461
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,460
on items not listed on tonight's agenda council cannot deliberate galley

462
00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:09,920
respond with factual statements for sighting existing policy or request

463
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,240
I have to be placed on a future agenda anyone here wish to address the

464
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:21,360
council on items not listed on city's agenda seeing none and none signed up

465
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,280
to speak electronically, we'll move on.

466
00:29:24,420 --> 00:29:25,400
Please call item C5.

467
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:27,760
I'm there.

468
00:29:27,980 --> 00:29:29,300
That's been removed from the agenda.

469
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,940
It's being removed from the agenda.

470
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,800
He was unable to attend, so we'll place it on a future agenda.

471
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,460
I was wondering where, OK.

472
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:42,880
Well, we'll all look forward to celebrating

473
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,660
Stephen's amazing 10 years with our city.

474
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,560
Please call item C6.

475
00:29:47,860 --> 00:29:50,060
The city manager report for an update on the capital

476
00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:51,820
improvement program projects.

477
00:29:55,650 --> 00:29:58,210
All right, good evening, Mayor and Council. Randy

478
00:29:58,210 --> 00:29:59,970
Leader, Director of Engineering Capital Project.

479
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,680
We have a lot of questions about the update on our CIP program. So, similar to our previous

480
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:12,300
updates, we just want to first point you guys to the website. We try to stay up to date pretty

481
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:18,700
frequently. I'm making sure the information on the website is up to date. And if you have

482
00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:29,900
questions about projects, go there. Or, obviously, reach out. But we try to keep it as up to

483
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:34,380
I just picked a few projects that I thought maybe you guys would be interested in, some

484
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,140
projects that are complete under construction, and then a project that's in design.

485
00:30:40,860 --> 00:30:44,220
So I'll start with just the Capital Improvement Program projects.

486
00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:50,940
This project, the Ranchettes for Road Resurfacing, was completed in the fall.

487
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,080
And if you know these streets out there, they are older streets in town that don't

488
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,900
have curving gutter and the pavement on there was in pretty bad shape. You can see in the

489
00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:08,300
before picture you've got patches and lots of crack seal and obviously just an older

490
00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:14,360
section. So we didn't really have a great tool to address those streets in our toolbox

491
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:20,140
and so we looked around other communities to find something that we thought could

492
00:31:20,140 --> 00:31:25,580
work out here and we found this product called pressure pave which is not

493
00:31:25,580 --> 00:31:32,540
necessarily as expensive as a full full depth reconstruction and so you know from

494
00:31:32,540 --> 00:31:36,860
a from a budget standpoint it allowed us to do more square feet of treatment

495
00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:41,700
and so you can see this product in the after picture did a pretty good job of

496
00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:47,140
sealing up and adding a new wearing surface on top of the streets but also

497
00:31:47,140 --> 00:31:51,580
So not high and not thick enough to where you have a big drop off at every curb as you

498
00:31:51,580 --> 00:31:52,440
go into the driveways.

499
00:31:53,060 --> 00:31:59,960
And so this was a pretty successful project that we'll look to obviously see how it ages,

500
00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:01,740
but so far so good.

501
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,760
And you can see kind of the ranch at Spore area in red on here.

502
00:32:09,470 --> 00:32:12,170
Moving on to the New Hope Drive expansion project.

503
00:32:12,930 --> 00:32:16,530
I think everybody's probably pretty familiar with this project, but it's a widening

504
00:32:16,530 --> 00:32:23,690
of new hope from four to six lanes, which includes a new innovative intersection at 1-8-3-A

505
00:32:23,690 --> 00:32:28,470
in New Hope that started in the fall and has a duration of about two and a half years.

506
00:32:29,550 --> 00:32:33,790
And the main thing I really wanted to mention on this is the holiday schedule, especially

507
00:32:33,790 --> 00:32:36,030
with all the shopping that's going on out there.

508
00:32:36,490 --> 00:32:40,430
The contractor will work through the end of next week, but then the two weeks of

509
00:32:40,430 --> 00:32:44,310
Christmas and New Year's are planning to take off, so you shouldn't see any construction

510
00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:49,790
going on out there to keep traffic moving. But I did include a few pictures so you can

511
00:32:49,790 --> 00:32:54,430
kind of see what's going on. Most of the work right now is focused under 183A so you can

512
00:32:54,430 --> 00:33:00,430
see the, obviously the overpass there. But lots of work on U-turn lanes and then also

513
00:33:01,350 --> 00:33:05,490
digging out, excavating four retaining walls within the ponds that are out there.

514
00:33:08,630 --> 00:33:09,030
And

515
00:33:09,030 --> 00:33:12,270
I can't tell you how happy I am that this is the last time I'll give you an update

516
00:33:12,270 --> 00:33:17,190
on the Brushin Creek Northboard Trail. I feel like I've given you this update many times over

517
00:33:17,770 --> 00:33:25,270
a few years, but you can see in the green section we are, we have about 17,000 linear feet of trail

518
00:33:25,270 --> 00:33:29,730
completed and poured but there's still some restoration that needs to happen on the outside

519
00:33:30,390 --> 00:33:35,170
and maybe pulling up some erosion controls, but the only piece that's remaining is that piece

520
00:33:35,170 --> 00:33:41,510
of yellow you see and if you remember back in the summer and fall we added a connection over

521
00:33:41,510 --> 00:33:47,410
to Colonial Parkway, which actually connects to a shared use path that right now ends at

522
00:33:47,410 --> 00:33:53,570
Colonial and Palmer. So that section in yellow has been cleared. They're proof rolling, setting

523
00:33:53,570 --> 00:33:58,390
forms and we're setting concrete the rest of this month and hopefully we'll plan to

524
00:33:58,390 --> 00:34:04,470
open that up in January. So three and a half miles of trail almost ready to go.

525
00:34:06,390 --> 00:34:11,290
Moving into mobility master plan project, we don't always talk about the sidewalk

526
00:34:11,290 --> 00:34:15,050
what gap projects, but it's been our super successful program for us over the years.

527
00:34:15,410 --> 00:34:22,270
This is phase six that 4B has been funding for us, where we basically go find gaps in

528
00:34:22,690 --> 00:34:26,750
the sidewalk network across the city and close them.

529
00:34:27,250 --> 00:34:33,490
And so this phase six is substantially complete, included 12 different project locations,

530
00:34:33,530 --> 00:34:39,590
including some safe pedestrian crossings, two trail connections, 20 new ramps, and

531
00:34:39,590 --> 00:34:42,630
and about 1,100 linear feet of new sidewalk across the city.

532
00:34:43,550 --> 00:34:45,370
This map just shows that it's spread out.

533
00:34:45,490 --> 00:34:47,310
There's not necessarily any one certain area

534
00:34:47,310 --> 00:34:49,670
that we're focusing on, but it's kind of across the city.

535
00:34:51,050 --> 00:34:53,090
And then I just pulled in a couple of pictures.

536
00:34:53,370 --> 00:34:55,590
You can see the picture on the left is on dark woods

537
00:34:55,590 --> 00:34:58,090
as you go down towards Brush Creek Road near the toll road.

538
00:34:58,650 --> 00:35:00,210
And then the picture on the right

539
00:35:00,210 --> 00:35:02,710
is actually a crossing of Brush Creek Road

540
00:35:03,490 --> 00:35:05,470
at Champion Park Arrange Trails.

541
00:35:05,470 --> 00:35:12,650
and so now you've got the orange net around there will be where the flashing

542
00:35:12,650 --> 00:35:20,750
beacons will get installed and then those are actually just going a little

543
00:35:20,750 --> 00:35:24,750
farther on that one for being approved for a traffic signal at that location so

544
00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:27,430
this is really more of an interim improvement until we can get the traffic

545
00:35:27,430 --> 00:35:32,970
signal at the champion part and range trails correct I like this is

546
00:35:32,970 --> 00:35:42,190
remind people, many of whom weren't here, but we actually had a young lady and her brother

547
00:35:42,190 --> 00:35:48,470
come and speak to us, I think about three years ago, about this very intersection, and so it's

548
00:35:48,470 --> 00:35:53,830
pretty cool to see it finally happen. We can track them down and let them know. Probably

549
00:35:53,830 --> 00:35:59,290
a college city care point. But thank you, Randy, for picking up on that.

550
00:36:00,010 --> 00:36:04,550
And then those flashing beacons will be able to just pull the, when the signal goes up,

551
00:36:04,570 --> 00:36:07,590
we'll pull those off and then keep them in stock and be able to put them up somewhere else.

552
00:36:08,310 --> 00:36:09,030
So they won't go to waste.

553
00:36:11,010 --> 00:36:13,010
Moving on to just some bond projects.

554
00:36:14,090 --> 00:36:16,230
I know all of you are aware of this project.

555
00:36:16,470 --> 00:36:18,490
We saw you guys this morning at the ribbon cutting.

556
00:36:19,330 --> 00:36:21,030
We've put hot off the press on the screen.

557
00:36:22,590 --> 00:36:26,250
And it's 15 acres apart along Club Creek adjacent to the Bell District.

558
00:36:26,250 --> 00:36:32,290
It includes about 3,500 linear feet of trail, a pavilion, two restroom buildings, some

559
00:36:32,290 --> 00:36:38,110
fun open space along the creek, and of course Bell, the Mockingbird play structure that

560
00:36:38,110 --> 00:36:38,770
you see on the screen.

561
00:36:40,150 --> 00:36:45,430
This project was funded by Bond Project, Bond Money, obviously, but also some Type E money.

562
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,880
Since we're talking about the Bell District, I wanted to go ahead and mention a project

563
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,800
that is in design, the Bell District Shared Use Path Connection, which would connect

564
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:01,100
the Bell District over to the 183A shared use path. This excerpt you see here is from

565
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:08,420
our trails plan with this trail identified as one of the priority trails. But it is

566
00:37:08,420 --> 00:37:13,560
about 4,000 linear feet of 10 to 12 foot wide shared use path, which includes a crossing

567
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:21,140
of the CapMetro Ride-Away. Right now we're in the process of easement and ride-away

568
00:37:21,140 --> 00:37:25,000
acquisition, finishing up design and then getting the permitting, which obviously

569
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:30,980
includes permitting with cat metro. So that'll all be grade separated from the

570
00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:35,600
road itself? It'll be behind that there's not there's curve in some spots but not

571
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,760
in all the spots there but it will be sort of separated from the road. Yeah but

572
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,640
so it's not not like a bike lane in the parts I guess that what I always

573
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,340
pictured this is awesome. Yep, it's great.

574
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,520
And then anticipated construction or

575
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,500
go out for bid this summer and then subsequently following up the

576
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:56,560
construction. So basically that trail would be behind the bar ditch that's

577
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:04,780
right. So basically to get through the bar ditch. Yeah. And then another question is

578
00:38:04,780 --> 00:38:12,460
yeah I know that we're for our parks we're looking at using reprocessed water

579
00:38:13,020 --> 00:38:17,260
that's right now flowing in the brush you create up to water our parks are we

580
00:38:17,260 --> 00:38:21,320
gonna be sleeving or doing any kind of purple pipe along this trail since we

581
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:28,200
digging it up and put some pipe in the ground so that we could possibly water the bell park

582
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,540
in other areas so we don't have to go do that in the future.

583
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:37,960
We haven't been planning that yet, but I certainly work with to see if there's any opportunities

584
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,560
to where it makes sense to do that.

585
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:46,000
Because you're digging up the area right now, this is the best time, you won't get another

586
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:52,480
chance to put a pipe on the ground without digging it all up again, or should we go

587
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,320
And that, that was all the projects I had tonight, obviously go to the website,

588
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,700
if you have questions, reach out, but I'll also answer any questions tonight.

589
00:39:03,820 --> 00:39:04,300
Great problem.

590
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,120
What are you going to do next year?

591
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:09,520
20.

592
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:13,460
What's it going to be without it?

593
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,120
We've been cutting every couple of weeks for Randy leaders.

594
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,780
Well, we got one next month.

595
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,160
Now we can stay in the office and work.

596
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,920
Yeah, we'll take it some stuff for you.

597
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:23,500
Yeah, sure.

598
00:39:23,780 --> 00:39:24,680
Thanks for having me.

599
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:25,900
Do you have any questions?

600
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:27,140
Thank you.

601
00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:27,500
Awesome.

602
00:39:29,830 --> 00:39:31,790
All right, please call the consent agenda

603
00:39:31,790 --> 00:39:34,010
except for item F1.

604
00:39:36,630 --> 00:39:40,450
For so to council roll 2.3, the city council consent agenda

605
00:39:40,450 --> 00:39:45,410
consists of agenda items D, E, and F, excluding F1.

606
00:39:46,090 --> 00:39:50,710
I move to approve consent items D, E, and F,

607
00:39:50,950 --> 00:39:52,630
excluding item F1.

608
00:39:52,630 --> 00:39:53,790
Second.

609
00:39:54,410 --> 00:39:57,630
I'll motion by W. Second by Jeff's.

610
00:39:57,770 --> 00:39:59,230
If there's no questions or comments,

611
00:39:59,350 --> 00:40:02,510
go ahead and please cast your votes.

612
00:40:07,060 --> 00:40:09,540
Motion pass unanimously with one member absent.

613
00:40:11,180 --> 00:40:12,120
Please call item F1.

614
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,320
Consideration to review a resolution

615
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:18,700
authorizing issuance of a special use in parks permit

616
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:21,240
to, I'm not going to say that first,

617
00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:24,180
to tell at Lakeland Park on January 4th, 2021.

618
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:31,400
Mayor, I have to have this item pulled because I have several questions related to this.

619
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:40,080
Number one, we're just now seeing this, this event's going on on January 4th, this is the

620
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,300
last meeting before that time.

621
00:40:43,450 --> 00:40:49,340
I'm concerned, you know, this event has over 1,400 people going, they're going to

622
00:40:49,340 --> 00:40:54,280
using the park from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. they have at least they have more than one

623
00:40:54,280 --> 00:41:00,500
food truck which requires additional permitting and and requirements and

624
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:04,880
you know they also have some things in here about music I keep bringing this

625
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:10,460
up but we need to have a stronger policy in place with these events that use a

626
00:41:10,460 --> 00:41:15,800
park for an entire Saturday because that's time our residents don't get to use

627
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:20,340
So really, especially if 1,400 people, that's going to fill up the entire parking lot then.

628
00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:26,840
So I just feel like there's a lot more to go into these than just filling out an application like this.

629
00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:30,240
And I'm concerned they're going to overwhelm our facilities.

630
00:41:31,940 --> 00:41:36,780
So one of the reasons why these sometimes do come to you all a little bit late

631
00:41:36,780 --> 00:41:40,840
is because we're working with the applicant to vet through some of those questions

632
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,080
to make sure that they're in a position to operate the event the way you would like them to.

633
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:49,860
before we take it to you all but I do agree we need to do a better job of

634
00:41:49,860 --> 00:41:53,300
getting that a little more offline. This applicant did come in a little bit late

635
00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:58,680
last year they ran this event out of the park. They did not have a parks SVP for it

636
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:04,100
so when we just came back to us later this year obviously we knew based on

637
00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:08,200
what we saw last year this needs to have a parks SVP so since it came in a

638
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,820
little bit later we kind of worked with them they're fully prepared to

639
00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:14,280
have those permits for their food trucks they're gonna provide insurance

640
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:20,240
for the events as well and then they're also have some pretty strict instructions on what

641
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:22,740
they need to do for posting that cleanup and things like that as well.

642
00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:28,340
So that's all been worked through with them and then ultimately like I said going forward

643
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:32,660
we are going to implement a new process next year where we're going to require that

644
00:42:32,660 --> 00:42:37,000
these get to us at a specific date so that we have plenty of time to do that work

645
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,380
and get it to you all with the reasonable amount of time on top of that.

646
00:42:44,310 --> 00:42:48,810
And again, that's a problem, there needs to be a deadline,

647
00:42:49,910 --> 00:42:54,730
three months out for one group that's going to use a major park.

648
00:42:55,430 --> 00:42:58,870
Right now kids are in school, we'll be out of school for the holidays,

649
00:42:59,570 --> 00:43:05,430
but any other time of the year, Saturday's the big day to be in the parks,

650
00:43:05,630 --> 00:43:09,470
and nobody else is going to be out there that day.

651
00:43:10,470 --> 00:43:14,210
There won't be any parking. How many parking spaces are there on the parking lot?

652
00:43:14,590 --> 00:43:17,190
There's about 500, I believe.

653
00:43:17,390 --> 00:43:18,490
500 and we have 1,400.

654
00:43:20,090 --> 00:43:23,810
How many sporting activities are going on in the fields at the same time?

655
00:43:23,890 --> 00:43:25,490
On January of that date, there won't be any.

656
00:43:26,130 --> 00:43:26,530
Okay.

657
00:43:28,470 --> 00:43:30,650
You know, but you have the play escapes and everything else.

658
00:43:30,990 --> 00:43:35,130
So, I just feel like this is, you know, again, there's another larger van.

659
00:43:35,130 --> 00:43:40,870
and it seems to me we're in the holidays everybody trying to wind down for the

660
00:43:40,870 --> 00:43:46,610
holidays you know when I was working you know we laid low I didn't even have people

661
00:43:46,610 --> 00:43:57,270
to get back until in January on visas so it's a lot for me. I have a question so

662
00:43:57,270 --> 00:44:01,610
they didn't have an SEP last year but they had the same event so I kind of

663
00:44:01,610 --> 00:44:08,930
explain that a little bit. This was one of those when we were, we had an issue

664
00:44:08,930 --> 00:44:15,810
last year where you could go on and you can rent a pavilion and things and there

665
00:44:15,810 --> 00:44:19,370
wasn't like a good vetting process to like make sure we were catching these

666
00:44:19,370 --> 00:44:22,750
when they were coming in and some people just they don't know any better so

667
00:44:22,750 --> 00:44:26,990
they just go in there. So that's kind of what happened last year so that's

668
00:44:26,990 --> 00:44:31,130
why we came in with it this year we caught it kind of right away. So did

669
00:44:31,130 --> 00:44:36,450
we discovered like there was like entirely too many people at one park at

670
00:44:36,450 --> 00:44:41,870
this time or like were there any issues I mean last year the the attendance side

671
00:44:41,870 --> 00:44:47,250
of it I don't think was an issue it was more just it's it's a it's a kite festival

672
00:44:47,250 --> 00:44:50,050
and I think there was just an issue with some of the debris that was left

673
00:44:50,050 --> 00:44:53,350
behind so we talked with them about that but the actual overall attendance

674
00:44:53,350 --> 00:44:56,850
I don't think was a problem actually I think I was at last

675
00:45:00,050 --> 00:45:08,550
It was kind of a guerrilla kite festival. Which is all actually this way of saying, like,

676
00:45:09,630 --> 00:45:13,430
obviously it would be even better this year. I appreciate you guys kind of leaning forward

677
00:45:13,430 --> 00:45:17,830
and thinking about that. I'm very sensitive to customer work. Kirkland's great point about

678
00:45:17,830 --> 00:45:23,150
trying to continue to find the process. Obviously, this is our first, like, super big park with,

679
00:45:23,910 --> 00:45:28,190
you know, the high end pavilion. So there's going to be a learning curve here?

680
00:45:28,190 --> 00:45:33,030
It sounds like you guys are being afforded to learn on it and this was one of the reasons

681
00:45:33,030 --> 00:45:36,770
we built this park that way was to be able to have these types of events, but we want

682
00:45:36,770 --> 00:45:40,390
to make sure that we're respectful of the residents that are also using the park and

683
00:45:40,390 --> 00:45:44,170
know, you know, the time people want to get out, it's not 105 degrees out.

684
00:45:45,330 --> 00:45:47,130
So we want to be mindful of that too.

685
00:45:47,370 --> 00:45:51,710
Like I said, going forward next year, we're going to start with that application's not

686
00:45:51,710 --> 00:45:54,970
in our office 90 days before the event, we'll be more than likely kicking it back

687
00:45:54,970 --> 00:45:55,310
to them.

688
00:45:55,310 --> 00:46:00,670
So that gives us more time to give you all more time and then it'd be clear like the place gates of stuff will still be open

689
00:46:00,670 --> 00:46:04,290
They're absolutely. Yeah, they're just gonna use the last year

690
00:46:04,290 --> 00:46:09,930
They did a pretty decent job of just staying within that amphitheater area. That's kind of the expectation for this as well

691
00:46:09,930 --> 00:46:14,330
Is that gonna be fenced off like when a city doesn't event like that when the city does it?

692
00:46:14,430 --> 00:46:17,550
We'll fix that part off right that's not gonna happen in this case

693
00:46:17,550 --> 00:46:23,230
No, they only typically we only do that type of fencing if it's like we're charging the mission

694
00:46:24,610 --> 00:46:28,810
So this is a public kite festival that he's having then?

695
00:46:30,210 --> 00:46:31,010
Yes, yes.

696
00:46:33,210 --> 00:46:34,710
So it's open to the public.

697
00:46:35,550 --> 00:46:41,630
You do have to purchase a ticket for this event, but we're not going to require them to be fencing because it's their event.

698
00:46:41,910 --> 00:46:46,130
So if they don't want to fence it off to regulate who's coming in and out, that would be up to them.

699
00:46:46,130 --> 00:46:50,710
You know, I think, you know, the January date actually probably helps, you know,

700
00:46:50,990 --> 00:46:54,950
tendons and all that, you know, because I think when you start getting into the summer

701
00:46:54,950 --> 00:46:59,190
and competing, I think the point is really valid on consideration of, you know,

702
00:46:59,250 --> 00:47:02,510
the access to how many people to park, especially I just think it's built.

703
00:47:03,130 --> 00:47:07,530
And this might be a good opportunity to assess, you know, what is the public usage number?

704
00:47:08,110 --> 00:47:12,130
I mean, you know, I know they say 1,400 and I don't see a thousand cars.

705
00:47:12,130 --> 00:47:16,670
three to five people to car all that whatever color that works out but you

706
00:47:16,670 --> 00:47:20,750
know you don't know until you get some data yeah so the other data point on what

707
00:47:20,750 --> 00:47:26,170
is the max number of events for somebody running a space for that part that's

708
00:47:26,170 --> 00:47:30,010
non-city right and that's one of the things we've learned to going forward is

709
00:47:30,010 --> 00:47:33,110
when we when we're going to rent out and do a larger event like this at the

710
00:47:33,110 --> 00:47:37,010
Amphitheater it probably means we need to make sure that we're not also

711
00:47:37,010 --> 00:47:40,030
renting out the small pavilions around the playground the soccer fields

712
00:47:40,030 --> 00:47:43,190
things like that. So those are all part of that learning curve as we go forward and make

713
00:47:43,190 --> 00:47:46,250
sure we're balancing out that. Yeah, there's forty hundred sounds like a lot, but I don't

714
00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:49,950
know what that looks like on the ground. Right, but I do have a question. It's a family event,

715
00:47:50,130 --> 00:47:54,430
so. And I'm not sure. We'll pass. We have to have insurance from a security standpoint

716
00:47:54,430 --> 00:47:57,630
because I'm thinking in terms of like, you know, this would be a question for Chief

717
00:47:57,630 --> 00:48:03,470
or John, but you know, like, where's the public safety component that comes in

718
00:48:03,470 --> 00:48:06,870
in that there's some sort of mass casualty or big event,

719
00:48:07,270 --> 00:48:08,870
we are responding to that.

720
00:48:09,610 --> 00:48:11,610
And that's a lot of people there.

721
00:48:12,190 --> 00:48:15,230
And so are they aware all these folks are gonna be there?

722
00:48:15,430 --> 00:48:18,550
You know, that's another thing to consider,

723
00:48:18,650 --> 00:48:20,030
not to put all this on you right now.

724
00:48:20,350 --> 00:48:24,430
I just, I don't know, I like that it is a big park

725
00:48:24,430 --> 00:48:26,190
and people are wanting to use it,

726
00:48:26,250 --> 00:48:32,130
but it's almost 10 hours that it's for one group.

727
00:48:32,130 --> 00:48:36,030
So a lot of that's kind of set up and time to clean up what I mean.

728
00:48:36,170 --> 00:48:39,650
There was a little bit of what they needed to do, a little bit of a better job of clean up

729
00:48:39,650 --> 00:48:43,710
to build some extra time for that. So to put it in terms of, I don't know,

730
00:48:43,770 --> 00:48:47,210
I don't remember how many of y'all came out to our opening event, that concert we had.

731
00:48:47,890 --> 00:48:51,830
That was about 1,300, 1,400 people. So that's about

732
00:48:53,390 --> 00:48:55,870
100. So that's about it.

733
00:48:55,870 --> 00:49:00,170
And at the same time we are looking at trying to end this out, try some new

734
00:49:00,170 --> 00:49:02,350
festivals, no events, things like that.

735
00:49:03,610 --> 00:49:04,830
No, I agree with you.

736
00:49:04,850 --> 00:49:05,650
I'm not disagreeing.

737
00:49:05,730 --> 00:49:07,690
It's just this is a group that is not based

738
00:49:07,690 --> 00:49:09,830
into your park that's having their own permanent name.

739
00:49:10,450 --> 00:49:12,670
That I guess, if you wanted to go,

740
00:49:12,710 --> 00:49:14,570
you could find out about how to get a ticket to it.

741
00:49:14,670 --> 00:49:20,350
But it's kind of in a way exclusive of our residents.

742
00:49:21,490 --> 00:49:24,270
Not to say there's not residents that are attending it,

743
00:49:24,290 --> 00:49:25,770
but it's very exclusive of our residents.

744
00:49:25,950 --> 00:49:28,710
Yes, we want to monetize and have people using.

745
00:49:28,710 --> 00:49:36,730
But again, that's ten hours is quite a long time for an exclusive group of folks on the regular.

746
00:49:37,410 --> 00:49:38,050
I'm just saying.

747
00:49:38,710 --> 00:49:44,870
I think I really appreciate Mel bringing this up and pulling off the agenda because this

748
00:49:44,870 --> 00:49:48,010
has been a really insightful conversation for me and like there's obviously all this

749
00:49:48,010 --> 00:49:54,830
to balance and try to plan for and I think it's great to see, you know, hear Mike explain

750
00:49:54,830 --> 00:50:00,910
I mean, the hallways of that were kind of continually improving the process to make sure all those things are balanced.

751
00:50:01,650 --> 00:50:05,110
And you've got to have experience to figure some of this out.

752
00:50:06,470 --> 00:50:09,330
Yeah, I mean, to establish the boundaries.

753
00:50:09,630 --> 00:50:11,570
I think it's a little bit of an open-season right now.

754
00:50:11,690 --> 00:50:13,130
We don't know until we know.

755
00:50:13,390 --> 00:50:15,170
But how much is too much?

756
00:50:15,410 --> 00:50:22,950
I completely recognize that this is an issue we need to mindful of and work towards finding a better solution for.

757
00:50:23,690 --> 00:50:27,190
You know, because the people on the side, it's different if it was a city function.

758
00:50:27,450 --> 00:50:29,390
Right, we're going to have things in place, right?

759
00:50:29,850 --> 00:50:34,070
But when you run it out, they may not have the requirement to send you everything

760
00:50:34,070 --> 00:50:37,130
through the cost associated security and all those other things.

761
00:50:37,410 --> 00:50:38,830
So that's what we've got to figure out.

762
00:50:39,150 --> 00:50:43,930
Is what's the number allowable outside of city?

763
00:50:44,090 --> 00:50:46,570
Well, in that, just what are the guards' real thoughts?

764
00:50:46,970 --> 00:50:47,870
What are the citizens' views?

765
00:50:47,950 --> 00:50:49,030
Yeah, those types of things.

766
00:50:49,030 --> 00:50:59,210
And I just feel like, you know, looking at it through the other lines, too, I mean, somebody filled this application out in good faith, you know, because we didn't have those gargoyles or those boundaries in place.

767
00:50:59,570 --> 00:51:03,470
So, you know, I mean, it's like, so that is what we're for, right?

768
00:51:03,670 --> 00:51:05,330
Is this out of the way before it's really shut down?

769
00:51:05,330 --> 00:51:08,470
Which, you know, we're not going to need to collect for that.

770
00:51:08,670 --> 00:51:11,750
So, I mean, you hold this up, you know, hold this in advance.

771
00:51:12,750 --> 00:51:17,450
well something that I think I mean I mean we're gonna have to build some

772
00:51:17,450 --> 00:51:21,430
experience in the boundaries are and we can in good faith you know tell the

773
00:51:21,430 --> 00:51:24,370
residents and I'm right here the guardrails of your non-resident that

774
00:51:24,370 --> 00:51:30,110
here's your here here's your boundary less here your guardrails and also the

775
00:51:30,110 --> 00:51:34,910
balance between non-resident running because we are inviting city a lot of

776
00:51:34,910 --> 00:51:40,430
people that will visit spend time in the city too and we did update our fee

777
00:51:40,430 --> 00:51:45,090
scheduled to include a higher rate for non-residents so they are paying the

778
00:51:45,090 --> 00:51:49,310
higher non-resident rate there are there are paying that a 50% deposit for

779
00:51:49,310 --> 00:51:51,510
that so they're paying almost $5,000.

780
00:51:53,550 --> 00:51:56,250
I think I owe money because I didn't buy a

781
00:51:56,250 --> 00:52:04,510
ticket last year we just showed up with some kites so that guy, I didn't know.

782
00:52:04,510 --> 00:52:09,930
that might be something that we look at, it's like, you know, the time and duration and all of that.

783
00:52:10,370 --> 00:52:19,050
And one of the things on the time, too, is at some point, we don't want to have, like, multiple large events in the same pavilion on the same day,

784
00:52:19,110 --> 00:52:23,790
so we kind of are, like, we're only going to have one event, so it's, so we're going to have it all back.

785
00:52:26,030 --> 00:52:28,270
I guess I'll, I'll go ahead.

786
00:52:29,850 --> 00:52:36,650
I was just, I'm a little elected to use this application as an instrument of policy, I guess

787
00:52:36,650 --> 00:52:36,970
right.

788
00:52:37,510 --> 00:52:37,690
Absolutely.

789
00:52:37,690 --> 00:52:43,290
That's a little, yeah, so I mean, and I appreciate the conversation.

790
00:52:43,550 --> 00:52:46,390
I think there are really some valid arguments and maybe some things that we can look at,

791
00:52:46,550 --> 00:52:51,970
but I'm inclined to, you know, to move forward, allow this petition this one time, but then

792
00:52:51,970 --> 00:52:55,930
school and then maybe we get back and say, hey, some of these questions with regard

793
00:52:55,930 --> 00:52:56,570
to duration.

794
00:52:56,570 --> 00:52:59,410
And those are things we've already circled back to this.

795
00:53:01,190 --> 00:53:03,490
I'll make a motion we approve F1.

796
00:53:03,930 --> 00:53:06,570
Well, it was going to be until Kevin's coming.

797
00:53:09,150 --> 00:53:11,110
Kevin's a man of an issue.

798
00:53:12,830 --> 00:53:15,990
Motion made in second to approve F1 is presented.

799
00:53:16,550 --> 00:53:19,050
Any other questions or comments?

800
00:53:20,950 --> 00:53:22,990
Bring up our voting screen.

801
00:53:29,940 --> 00:53:30,540
All

802
00:53:34,030 --> 00:53:39,990
right, so the motion has approved five, four, one against, and one member absent.

803
00:53:40,850 --> 00:53:45,030
All right, there's nothing under G.

804
00:53:47,290 --> 00:53:49,210
Please call item H-1.

805
00:53:50,930 --> 00:53:55,510
Consideration for appointment of Crescent Vaughn-Wofferfield to place forward on the type B.

806
00:53:57,090 --> 00:54:01,050
Mayor, thank you. First, I'm going to say I'm a respectful

807
00:54:01,050 --> 00:54:09,370
assidus. I didn't be reposted for the January 9th meeting, and I'll tell you why. I am very

808
00:54:10,070 --> 00:54:19,950
mixed emotions here on this, and the reason is on the one hand, I'm excited to appoint

809
00:54:19,950 --> 00:54:24,710
somebody to board. Obviously, a resident that's very interested in serving the city

810
00:54:24,710 --> 00:54:32,790
what not, but on the other hand too I'm very sad to have the loss and

811
00:54:32,790 --> 00:54:36,810
mourn the loss of the gentleman that served in this role and his cancer

812
00:54:36,810 --> 00:54:40,790
diagnosis and his ongoing struggle against cancer was a reason why this

813
00:54:40,790 --> 00:54:46,930
vacancy exists and so with that and I did talk to Christian about this and

814
00:54:46,930 --> 00:54:53,690
being a fellow retired Army officer that he certainly respected and

815
00:54:53,690 --> 00:54:59,970
wanted to give all deference to the fact that, as you mentioned earlier, that we just had

816
00:55:00,350 --> 00:55:05,810
a very touching and moving memorial service for Jim Cooper, who was my pointee of 4A and

817
00:55:05,810 --> 00:55:13,170
served for many years, until he couldn't serve anymore, and just for the record I was in

818
00:55:13,170 --> 00:55:17,470
dialogue with Jim as early as the spring when he was going through his experimental

819
00:55:17,470 --> 00:55:22,550
treatments and then during the summer and then realized that, I mean, he was struggling

820
00:55:22,550 --> 00:55:29,250
for strength and so and I said well let's circle back in September and I'm

821
00:55:29,250 --> 00:55:32,710
going to hold this appointment open and if you're up to it I would love for you to

822
00:55:32,710 --> 00:55:36,710
continue to serve but when I talked to him and said at the end of September it

823
00:55:36,710 --> 00:55:41,270
was clear that in his mind we made the mutual decision that he would gracefully

824
00:55:41,270 --> 00:55:50,490
exit and so I began to look for the follow-on appointment and so you know

825
00:55:50,490 --> 00:55:52,130
And then, of course, Jim having passed.

826
00:55:52,330 --> 00:55:55,390
And we all learned of this after the meeting last Thursday.

827
00:55:56,110 --> 00:55:59,470
And like I said, many of us attended a very touching

828
00:55:59,470 --> 00:56:04,470
and very emotional memorial service for Jim Cooper.

829
00:56:05,470 --> 00:56:09,190
And I just like to, if I may, use this time just

830
00:56:09,190 --> 00:56:12,690
to give a little personal testimonial,

831
00:56:12,910 --> 00:56:14,550
because he was a friend of all of us.

832
00:56:15,710 --> 00:56:19,210
And the council's blessing may be

833
00:56:19,210 --> 00:56:24,670
a moment of silence at the end, but maybe give us some time to visit, because this is

834
00:56:24,670 --> 00:56:30,730
a rare occurrence and we don't usually, you know, lose people that are active in our community

835
00:56:30,730 --> 00:56:37,030
like this, but when I first talked to Jim about, approached him about the 4A appointment,

836
00:56:37,490 --> 00:56:42,190
you know, we met a good lot and it was supposed to be an hour and we talked for three and,

837
00:56:42,290 --> 00:56:46,310
you know, we talked about a lot of things other than the city business, faith and

838
00:56:46,310 --> 00:56:56,710
family and my office next to him for six years and even though we were kind of de facto competitors,

839
00:56:57,090 --> 00:57:02,050
we never viewed ourselves as such. We had wonderful conversations and he'd asked me about

840
00:57:02,050 --> 00:57:06,350
client circumstances and I'd ask him and we did a lot of information sharing and he was

841
00:57:06,350 --> 00:57:16,290
just one of the most genuine and generous people that I've known. He was one of the

842
00:57:16,290 --> 00:57:22,750
You know helped to convince me that the Chamber was a very viable and very active and very fruitful

843
00:57:22,750 --> 00:57:25,270
Organization for me to become a part of it

844
00:57:26,110 --> 00:57:33,070
Obviously that eventually led to me sitting in this chair today. So and I do credit Jim for a lot of

845
00:57:35,510 --> 00:57:38,650
His wisdom and generosity and just an incredibly

846
00:57:39,210 --> 00:57:43,930
incredibly good person and I felt like the timing of this appointment

847
00:57:43,930 --> 00:57:46,250
and don't get me wrong, Christian's very excited.

848
00:57:46,950 --> 00:57:48,890
But I think with all due respect,

849
00:57:49,090 --> 00:57:53,890
I'd like to memorialize Jim Cooper's service

850
00:57:53,890 --> 00:57:54,990
and recognize him.

851
00:57:55,490 --> 00:57:58,590
And then we'll have another time next month

852
00:57:58,590 --> 00:58:01,490
to recognize and welcome Christian,

853
00:58:01,650 --> 00:58:03,490
hopefully to our 4A board.

854
00:58:03,950 --> 00:58:06,810
But that's kind of my thinking on that.

855
00:58:07,770 --> 00:58:12,150
And I just, I love Jim as a person

856
00:58:12,150 --> 00:58:15,710
and I know we'll all miss him and so.

857
00:58:18,110 --> 00:58:19,730
And Will said, Will said, I mean,

858
00:58:20,310 --> 00:58:21,410
he's been at the committee a long time

859
00:58:21,410 --> 00:58:23,310
and a lot of us have known him for many, many years.

860
00:58:24,950 --> 00:58:26,530
The ceremony, they was moving

861
00:58:26,530 --> 00:58:30,090
and really encouraging to see the amount

862
00:58:30,090 --> 00:58:32,470
of community showing up for that, you know,

863
00:58:32,770 --> 00:58:36,570
for their family as well, so it was like well lived.

864
00:58:36,970 --> 00:58:38,030
Like well lived indeed.

865
00:58:39,770 --> 00:58:42,390
Yeah, Jim is a very good man.

866
00:58:44,030 --> 00:58:49,870
definite leader in our community through, you know, all the different

867
00:58:49,870 --> 00:58:55,850
organizations that we all seem to volunteer with a true leader, a person

868
00:58:55,850 --> 00:59:05,410
who led with quality integrity, a person that had discipline, a person that never

869
00:59:06,790 --> 00:59:12,030
when you were standing in front of him, you know, his attention was on you, for

870
00:59:12,030 --> 00:59:15,570
not for the person you were, not for what you could provide.

871
00:59:18,510 --> 00:59:25,950
And, yeah, I've had the opportunity to volunteer or reveal with his wife Cindy several times with her son.

872
00:59:28,170 --> 00:59:30,570
You know, and I was asked about Jim and how he was doing.

873
00:59:30,730 --> 00:59:35,050
I got to talk to him about a month ago and I feel blessed that I got that opportunity.

874
00:59:35,530 --> 00:59:39,470
I guess it was a good day. It was a good day for both of us.

875
00:59:41,050 --> 00:59:49,550
but he'll be missed. There's a hole in the community. It'll get filled, but right now it's very raw and very emotional.

876
00:59:50,290 --> 00:59:58,570
And I want to say that there was at least 1,500 people at that service today, and that shows a true quality of a person's care.

877
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:10,400
We'll miss him, love him, appreciate everything he did, appreciate his family. And, uh, uh, Eric,

878
01:00:10,540 --> 01:00:14,440
thank you for pulling the item out. I agree. It's kind of a little too soon.

879
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:23,340
I had the last couple of times today, because when they talked about his love of the Braves,

880
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,620
because I was giving him a hard time, because, um, he was Cardinal's fan, and we just,

881
01:00:27,620 --> 01:00:29,780
and just had to agree to disagree on that.

882
01:00:29,940 --> 01:00:35,360
But I remember kind of he was coming on before A,

883
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:37,120
I think it was after we had our break-in seat

884
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:41,660
for another council and the interview for that night.

885
01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:44,980
I met him for coffee and tried to convince him

886
01:00:44,980 --> 01:00:47,520
to run for council when he looked me in the face

887
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:49,380
and he said, I don't want to put my family through that.

888
01:00:49,820 --> 01:00:52,680
And I had to laugh because I said, well, take it from me.

889
01:00:53,980 --> 01:00:55,040
Yeah, it's a lot.

890
01:00:55,040 --> 01:01:00,600
So I mean he he his conviction was so strong and you know it's it's really a

891
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:05,300
testament to the person who was if you could just try to be even a little bit

892
01:01:05,980 --> 01:01:14,300
insightful and just servant leader that he was it was great to be a part of like

893
01:01:14,300 --> 01:01:22,080
ever ever when a fellowship today for the appointment you know because when I

894
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:25,280
came up with, I honestly didn't know who was gonna apply

895
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:26,340
and how that was gonna look.

896
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:30,480
But Jim had told me kind of to your reflection

897
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,600
that he said, I don't wanna run a campaign,

898
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:34,140
but I would love to serve.

899
01:01:34,300 --> 01:01:35,520
I'd love to find a way to serve.

900
01:01:35,820 --> 01:01:37,060
He was just that kind of a person.

901
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,460
So I encouraged him to throw his hat in the ring

902
01:01:39,460 --> 01:01:40,920
and obviously I think it,

903
01:01:41,580 --> 01:01:45,500
and he was very happy to be considered

904
01:01:45,500 --> 01:01:47,840
and just a warm heart.

905
01:01:48,100 --> 01:01:50,780
I just wanted to say, to tell Cindy,

906
01:01:50,780 --> 01:01:56,520
Again, this is being memorialized on video and archive, but it's memorialized that we

907
01:01:56,520 --> 01:02:04,460
send our hearts and our prayers out to Cindy and kids and their extended family, and if

908
01:02:04,460 --> 01:02:09,320
anybody else has anything to say, please jump in, but otherwise I'd like to maybe entertain

909
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:10,040
a moment of silence.

910
01:02:21,490 --> 01:02:22,210
Thank you.

911
01:02:26,710 --> 01:02:34,580
Alright, we'll talk a little more about Jim at the meeting and that was a beautiful service today for sure.

912
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:37,080
Please call item H2.

913
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:48,300
Consideration of a future line use plan amendment petition requesting an amendment to regional office retail commercial for a prospect with 7.79 acres

914
01:02:48,300 --> 01:02:53,740
Generally located at the southwest corner of East Whitestone and Arrow Point Drugs.

915
01:02:54,340 --> 01:02:58,120
Good evening, Mayor and Council. Andreyina Tavila with Development Services.

916
01:02:58,620 --> 01:03:03,680
So as stated in the item before you tonight is a petition to be able to amend the Future Land Use Plan,

917
01:03:04,420 --> 01:03:09,460
which as you may recall is the first step in the process whenever a developer or property owner

918
01:03:09,460 --> 01:03:14,600
wishes to rezone a property to a zoning district that's not consistent with the current Future Land Use Decimation.

919
01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:21,500
The action tonight from by the council which is simply give direction to both the applicant

920
01:03:21,500 --> 01:03:26,440
as well as the staff in order to how to proceed with the request should the council accept

921
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:30,960
the petition it will not change the future language plan which is simply allows the

922
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:35,100
applicant to proceed and move forward with the formal amendment process in associated

923
01:03:35,100 --> 01:03:38,440
rezoning which will come back to you at a future date.

924
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:44,780
And so this petition is for a property that's just a little bit under 8 acres located south

925
01:03:44,780 --> 01:03:49,980
and west of the intersection of Weisston Boulevard and Aeropoint Drive highlighted in yellow on

926
01:03:49,980 --> 01:03:50,940
the screen in front of you.

927
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:56,900
So you can see this property is currently vacant and it is surrounded by commercial uses including

928
01:03:56,900 --> 01:04:01,680
a mix of retail, restaurants, personal services and other commercial uses to the north.

929
01:04:02,460 --> 01:04:05,600
To the east you have a mix of restaurant and hotel uses.

930
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:10,460
to the south is single-family residential and then to the west we have some single-family

931
01:04:10,460 --> 01:04:14,220
residential as well as commercial development along the Whitestone Boulevard Fronage.

932
01:04:14,780 --> 01:04:19,340
The current destination is local office retail commercial and it is zone professional office

933
01:04:19,820 --> 01:04:24,640
and the petition is to be able to amend this destination to the regional office retail

934
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:25,760
commercial destination.

935
01:04:26,980 --> 01:04:30,860
So on the screen in front of you you will see on the left hand side the existing future

936
01:04:30,860 --> 01:04:36,220
relation of the subject property in surrounding areas which if you can see most of this portion

937
01:04:36,220 --> 01:04:41,280
of Weissman Boulevard is envisioned for regional office retail commercial particularly on the

938
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:45,800
north side and then on the left hand side you see the requested regional office retail

939
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:52,920
destination. So this request is to be able to develop the property with a mix of commercial

940
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:57,480
as well as some office showroom warehouse uses as you can see on the concept plan

941
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:03,240
in front of you. It'll be approximately five buildings totaling 64,000 square feet which

942
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:08,400
will include that grocery store along the northern end of the property and then the flex office

943
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:13,320
warehouse buildings on this other portion. And here you have the criteria to consider

944
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:18,680
when reviewing future land use and plan amendments. That concludes my presentation. I'm happy

945
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:22,460
to answer any questions and the applicant is here and has a brief presentation point.

946
01:05:24,300 --> 01:05:29,680
Any questions for staff or should we move on to the presentation by the applicant?

947
01:05:37,910 --> 01:05:41,230
Mayor, Council, thank you for making my job pretty easy.

948
01:05:41,390 --> 01:05:45,950
I just went through the whole boring part of the process of what we're here to discuss

949
01:05:45,950 --> 01:05:49,790
on amending the future lane use, or at least starting that process.

950
01:05:50,370 --> 01:05:52,790
As a way of introduction, my name is Austin McWilliams.

951
01:05:52,790 --> 01:05:56,050
I'm part of the development company that is proposing this mixed use development

952
01:05:56,050 --> 01:05:59,610
at the southwest corner of Whitestone Boulevard and Arrow Point Drive.

953
01:06:00,390 --> 01:06:01,830
Currently it's local office.

954
01:06:02,350 --> 01:06:05,690
We are petitioning to go forward to allow for regional office,

955
01:06:05,810 --> 01:06:07,570
ultimately for general business zoning.

956
01:06:09,230 --> 01:06:09,350
The

957
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:20,720
proposal is based upon a client of ours that we represent,

958
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:22,580
that we typically build for.

959
01:06:23,180 --> 01:06:28,900
And that is a national specialty grocer that is about 13,

960
01:06:28,900 --> 01:06:35,100
14,000 square feet that we have site planed on the north side of this project. Along with that we

961
01:06:35,100 --> 01:06:43,220
would build three to four other small flex retail commercial buildings about 12 to 15,000 square feet

962
01:06:43,220 --> 01:06:48,920
each all to support the overall development. So the overall project ultimately would be about

963
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:55,260
60 to 70,000 square feet depending on the final site plan. These are all single story small

964
01:06:55,260 --> 01:06:57,280
bay commercial buildings in the rear.

965
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:08,020
Our request here we're hoping that we are we

966
01:07:08,020 --> 01:07:13,240
can get the support of council that our vision here is aligned with the

967
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:17,560
comprehensive plan as you can see the other three corners at the intersection

968
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:21,360
also have the regional designation and the general business zoning that we're

969
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:26,080
petitioning for ultimately should we be allowed to go forward but ultimately

970
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:31,000
we believe that the proposed development that we're pursuing here with your

971
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:35,920
blessing is to add a lot to the local community. We've been starting our

972
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,180
coordination process with the neighborhood, with our residential

973
01:07:39,180 --> 01:07:44,620
neighbors, with HOA surrounding there, with staff over many many months to EDC.

974
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:50,340
But we believe adding that specialty grocer that is not in market, that is

975
01:07:50,340 --> 01:07:56,500
highly desired, adds a benefit to the local community. Obviously the sales tax,

976
01:07:56,500 --> 01:08:00,960
the local jobs that will be created kept here in Cedar Park all their value

977
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:06,180
adds to the local community but also we have we've worked for many months with

978
01:08:06,180 --> 01:08:11,680
transportation and tech stock to iron out an improvement to the traffic and the

979
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:15,520
congestion of this intersection and I think we found the solution for that.

980
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:22,360
We got some final approvals from transportation today as well as tech

981
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:29,020
out in the last couple of weeks to get our access point on 1431 approved and the addition

982
01:08:29,020 --> 01:08:35,760
of a 500 foot deceleration lane on Whitestone Boulevard which would be a benefit to our

983
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:40,360
project, our neighbors to the west and no cost to them and it's something that's currently

984
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:44,420
not in place today. So with that I'm happy to answer your questions you might have.

985
01:08:47,270 --> 01:08:55,950
So we've seen, you know, a few proposals on this piece of land over the years.

986
01:08:56,910 --> 01:09:02,030
And one of the things that's important to me is that White Stone's a state highway.

987
01:09:02,970 --> 01:09:07,230
At one point, the state was even looking at maybe Keanu Ray's highway,

988
01:09:07,330 --> 01:09:09,730
which kind of ruins a lot of the frontage and see your part.

989
01:09:11,610 --> 01:09:18,310
But, you know, I've always seen this one location as general business to match all the surrounding

990
01:09:18,310 --> 01:09:19,030
businesses.

991
01:09:19,710 --> 01:09:25,970
I mean, you have BMC, you know, they're on the frontage, I was there before anything

992
01:09:25,970 --> 01:09:35,850
else, two hotels, restaurants, a hotel across the street, a large flooring store, and then

993
01:09:35,850 --> 01:09:39,850
and all of the mixed-use light industrial flex space

994
01:09:39,850 --> 01:09:40,870
to the north.

995
01:09:41,430 --> 01:09:44,490
So this seems like it's the appropriate zoning

996
01:09:44,490 --> 01:09:45,730
for this property.

997
01:09:47,540 --> 01:09:50,110
Just wondering on that store,

998
01:09:51,100 --> 01:09:54,530
do you have like a letter of intent

999
01:09:54,530 --> 01:09:57,190
or anything like that that, you know,

1000
01:09:57,670 --> 01:09:59,990
we were to commit that that's gonna actually happen?

1001
01:10:00,210 --> 01:10:00,550
Absolutely.

1002
01:10:00,970 --> 01:10:03,270
We do, we have a purchase-assail contract.

1003
01:10:03,830 --> 01:10:04,130
Okay.

1004
01:10:04,690 --> 01:10:06,430
We're happy to provide that for the record.

1005
01:10:08,390 --> 01:10:14,590
So my question is, you know, to the point made about that particular property and things in the past,

1006
01:10:14,790 --> 01:10:20,770
say I recall a meeting we had probably a year ago, Florida Corp was trying to go there.

1007
01:10:21,670 --> 01:10:27,850
And the reason why it's not there and didn't get approval partly because, you know, the residents showed up.

1008
01:10:27,850 --> 01:10:30,430
You know, they voice, I think, a valid concern.

1009
01:10:30,970 --> 01:10:33,930
And frankly, I think, you know, the flow to court

1010
01:10:33,930 --> 01:10:36,970
on the other side of the street actually was probably a better location anyway.

1011
01:10:37,790 --> 01:10:42,850
So how do you address the concern?

1012
01:10:43,090 --> 01:10:45,970
Because what was expressed at that meeting by some of the residents is that, you know,

1013
01:10:46,030 --> 01:10:47,990
the whole local office thing they wanted to keep.

1014
01:10:48,590 --> 01:10:51,770
And I understand, you know, I don't blame them when I understand their position,

1015
01:10:51,770 --> 01:11:01,250
How do you address that process versus this and how much of a change is that?

1016
01:11:01,750 --> 01:11:07,650
Of course, that's a valid concern and it's something we anticipated as part of this process of course.

1017
01:11:08,470 --> 01:11:13,310
And that's why we've started to communicate with the neighborhood groups around there.

1018
01:11:13,630 --> 01:11:18,910
We know that they have concerns from previous proposals that have been here.

1019
01:11:20,150 --> 01:11:23,010
We are doing our best to be as transparent as we can.

1020
01:11:23,310 --> 01:11:26,230
And thankfully we have a site plan that we intend to build.

1021
01:11:26,410 --> 01:11:30,130
Assuming we move forward on the entitlement process and get the rezoning.

1022
01:11:30,530 --> 01:11:33,230
We'll be submitting a site development permit with the plans or

1023
01:11:33,230 --> 01:11:37,510
something very similar to what you've seen tonight in very short order.

1024
01:11:38,330 --> 01:11:42,170
We're just waiting for the entitlement process to proceed in order to be able to do so.

1025
01:11:42,610 --> 01:11:46,750
But we'll be presenting those plans with the HOAs and

1026
01:11:46,750 --> 01:11:53,310
We've already had certain direct conversations with some of the property owners directly behind our property.

1027
01:11:53,650 --> 01:11:55,970
And what's the preliminary feedback as well?

1028
01:11:56,230 --> 01:12:02,610
It's the same general concerns of what are you wanting to do and how could that potentially negatively impact.

1029
01:12:03,390 --> 01:12:07,070
It's positive and there's some normal concerns.

1030
01:12:07,230 --> 01:12:11,750
It's going from what is green space today to ultimately would not be green space.

1031
01:12:11,750 --> 01:12:23,090
That's always going to be, you know, some sort of change, and so you may be in a position to maybe, you know, have some enhanced landscaping from buffers in case where it could fit and work.

1032
01:12:23,510 --> 01:12:34,330
That's right. On the boundary line with the residential communities, obviously we'll be building a masonry wall. There'll be enhanced landscape buffers.

1033
01:12:34,330 --> 01:12:38,350
We're working with our site planning now to re-orient some of it to where

1034
01:12:38,350 --> 01:12:45,310
Detention ponds and certain green space are buffered closest to the residential all the normal things you would try to do

1035
01:12:45,310 --> 01:12:47,910
To be a good neighbor, and so we're working through that process

1036
01:12:48,770 --> 01:12:49,990
and I think

1037
01:12:50,990 --> 01:12:53,710
To to your point when the furniture store came in

1038
01:12:53,710 --> 01:12:59,730
they were kind of set down on the lower part of the property which was closer to the Brady's neighborhood and

1039
01:13:00,350 --> 01:13:02,790
You know obviously they had to have all their loading dots

1040
01:13:02,790 --> 01:13:09,330
which would have been back loaded closer to the neighborhoods and the residents and then the residents in the ETJ

1041
01:13:10,170 --> 01:13:13,450
Can you go back to the picture where you kind of divided the property?

1042
01:13:15,150 --> 01:13:18,510
So the one business is way up in front

1043
01:13:19,670 --> 01:13:24,190
basically, you know closer to the right-of-way and I I guess the

1044
01:13:24,190 --> 01:13:29,730
Decel will be back there towards the very west upper west corner of the property. That's right

1045
01:13:29,730 --> 01:13:32,910
That's on the very north end of the top of the site,

1046
01:13:33,050 --> 01:13:33,650
plain, plain north.

1047
01:13:34,270 --> 01:13:35,990
That is obviously Whitestone Boulevard.

1048
01:13:36,130 --> 01:13:38,910
That's where our deceleration lane will terminate.

1049
01:13:38,990 --> 01:13:41,330
It will start 500 feet west of there.

1050
01:13:41,550 --> 01:13:41,810
OK.

1051
01:13:42,030 --> 01:13:43,910
We'll go past the dialysis center

1052
01:13:43,910 --> 01:13:46,490
just after the people at home will begin.

1053
01:13:46,670 --> 01:13:49,050
They'll be happy for a decel line off that roadway

1054
01:13:49,050 --> 01:13:50,750
with no curbing gutters.

1055
01:13:51,330 --> 01:13:55,170
And with the flow there and through over the arrow point,

1056
01:13:55,330 --> 01:13:57,870
it's going to keep a lot of that traffic right on the north side

1057
01:13:57,870 --> 01:14:02,590
closer to 1431, which ultimately I think will I think appease some of the

1058
01:14:02,590 --> 01:14:07,070
concerns from the neighborhood once I understand the traffic flow. And as you

1059
01:14:08,130 --> 01:14:13,090
from Whitestone down to it may you know engineering wise the detention bond is

1060
01:14:13,090 --> 01:14:15,590
always going to be at the bottom of the property which is where you have it on

1061
01:14:15,590 --> 01:14:19,890
the drive. It is and I think it may actually we're working on that now

1062
01:14:19,890 --> 01:14:24,110
our civil engineers happily can answer any questions but I think we're

1063
01:14:24,110 --> 01:14:28,310
looking to try to reorient that along the whole southern boundary and push that

1064
01:14:28,310 --> 01:14:32,550
other building further to the north just to enhance some separation from the

1065
01:14:32,550 --> 01:14:39,670
network. I do like that. So for me not at all a deal breaker but when we

1066
01:14:39,670 --> 01:14:45,230
chatted about the traffic really that I think the only sticking point with

1067
01:14:45,230 --> 01:14:50,470
that traffic is going to be everybody who's coming west bound on 1431 is

1068
01:14:50,470 --> 01:14:57,790
going to have to be on aero point and entering from aero point because there won't be a

1069
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,280
Just after that intersection.

1070
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:11,380
That's right. They'll take a left and go southbound on Arrow Point and then immediately west into the curb cut you see here.

1071
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:17,080
So my only concern is going to be what does that left turn onto Arrow Point look like?

1072
01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:22,960
And that'll be considerations for our department moving forward with you.

1073
01:15:23,220 --> 01:15:27,500
And then what does that right turn from Arrow Point into the parking lot look like?

1074
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:33,220
I mean, like I said, not a deal breaker, these are things that we can definitely work through in the process.

1075
01:15:33,500 --> 01:15:38,380
But that will be my sticking point is how you address those two issues.

1076
01:15:39,060 --> 01:15:43,940
Of course. And we'll work with staff, we'll work with the neighborhood.

1077
01:15:44,380 --> 01:15:50,360
But obviously, thankfully on our point, this site is not lacking any depth.

1078
01:15:50,580 --> 01:15:56,520
It's a very deep property which allows for good turning radiuses even for any large trucks that have to come here.

1079
01:15:56,520 --> 01:16:01,820
other than grocery store really shouldn't be any, so the turning radius and access

1080
01:16:01,820 --> 01:16:06,320
point should be fairly substantial here, but we're happy to work with staff on it.

1081
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:09,940
So you wouldn't anticipate in that flex commercial space like none of those

1082
01:16:09,940 --> 01:16:15,960
should have loading docks? If there is one, which I highly doubt based

1083
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:19,180
upon the tenemix we envision there, but if there is it'd probably be a common

1084
01:16:19,180 --> 01:16:23,240
docks and we're sure it wouldn't be multiple, but really this type of

1085
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:30,140
product in this type of setting with the national brochure that we're working to put here, it's

1086
01:16:30,140 --> 01:16:37,320
going to go for more retail, some professional office. There may be a retail showroom or

1087
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:42,620
part warehouse or something, but at most you'd expect some vans or maybe a box truck. That's

1088
01:16:42,620 --> 01:16:44,040
really what's going to be on the side of that.

1089
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:56,620
any large trucks, any large trucks would be to the grocery store and that's in the far north of the project.

1090
01:16:59,420 --> 01:17:05,480
And a lot of that, of course, we'll deal with that, you know, with this coming back for rezoning, if approved,

1091
01:17:05,780 --> 01:17:11,780
so I'm just going to remind everybody to go to the audience that this is just a change in the free-to-your-landings plan.

1092
01:17:11,780 --> 01:17:18,440
And this really kind of kick starts the rezoning process of go through planning and zoning as well as back through this council for two years.

1093
01:17:19,140 --> 01:17:24,640
So we're all doing a pretty good job for us. I'm not jumping down too far in the weeds.

1094
01:17:25,860 --> 01:17:34,460
You know, I think you hear more from us. You hear from PNZ about, you know, some of the same topic, particularly trying to preserve as much of that trees as you can.

1095
01:17:34,460 --> 01:17:36,740
and our ordinance certainly incentivizes you to do so.

1096
01:17:38,180 --> 01:17:43,360
But I certainly appreciate your early and hopefully rigorous

1097
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:45,860
dialogue with the neighborhood folks that make sure you get there.

1098
01:17:46,140 --> 01:17:50,780
But I do want to know that we do have one person signed up to speak on this issue.

1099
01:17:51,380 --> 01:17:55,480
Does anybody else have any other questions for the applicant while he's lined up here?

1100
01:17:55,520 --> 01:18:00,360
Can we get a, because we don't have the formal public hearing on this.

1101
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:05,680
I mean, I'd like to go ahead and make a motion to approve item H2, but we'd leave the motion

1102
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:07,620
on the table and hear those citizens comment.

1103
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:08,140
Okay.

1104
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:14,320
I'll second his motion since the motion is made, but I'll wait for a second on the table

1105
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:16,360
and I'd love to hear what the citizens have to say.

1106
01:18:16,380 --> 01:18:16,540
Okay.

1107
01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:18,300
So the motion is made and the seconded.

1108
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:23,400
If you have any other questions for the applicant, I'll call up Ms. Jim McGuire, who is

1109
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:31,960
signed up to speak. Jill lives in the city and is it against the IEA?

1110
01:18:42,780 --> 01:18:46,640
I'm back. Anyway, we

1111
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:55,360
just recently heard we became aware of the future land position

1112
01:18:56,380 --> 01:18:58,900
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to start all over, I'm a little nervous.

1113
01:19:00,940 --> 01:19:08,480
I'm one of the people who lives right behind where they're planning on building this store

1114
01:19:11,260 --> 01:19:14,780
and other buildings.

1115
01:19:19,270 --> 01:19:25,850
And we just recently learned about this future land use this past week.

1116
01:19:25,850 --> 01:19:34,410
And we have concerns about change in the future land plan and also change in the zoning.

1117
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:46,080
This property was originally zoned as general business. However, when they decided to build our community,

1118
01:19:46,440 --> 01:19:54,440
they changed the zoning to professional office for the reason that it would be the most optimal

1119
01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:59,320
and gentle transition into our neighborhood.

1120
01:20:01,870 --> 01:20:06,190
With this new petition, we would be taking

1121
01:20:06,190 --> 01:20:16,690
away a part of our community in which these zones were originally put into place to protect

1122
01:20:16,690 --> 01:20:17,070
us.

1123
01:20:20,980 --> 01:20:26,120
I really do appreciate the opportunity to visit and to speak tonight and I thank

1124
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:29,960
I think all of you and my condolences for your loss.

1125
01:20:32,170 --> 01:20:33,170
Thank you, Mr. Clarence.

1126
01:20:33,930 --> 01:20:38,410
Appreciate your input and I know that we all hope you stay engaged throughout the process.

1127
01:20:38,690 --> 01:20:43,110
Yes, you'll remind her that she's having many more opportunities to voice the PNZ.

1128
01:20:43,370 --> 01:20:48,150
Right, and this is just step one of the process and so this is just a conceptual grind.

1129
01:20:48,170 --> 01:20:50,370
So there's lots of work left to be done.

1130
01:20:53,050 --> 01:20:55,550
All right, so we do have a motion and a second.

1131
01:20:55,550 --> 01:20:59,090
Any questions or comments from the members of the council?

1132
01:21:00,890 --> 01:21:05,850
So, just for our technology folks, we still have item H1 up here for the vote.

1133
01:21:06,070 --> 01:21:07,550
So, small technical issue.

1134
01:21:11,190 --> 01:21:14,270
So, yeah, our little box here still has H1.

1135
01:21:14,670 --> 01:21:18,170
We need the cycling through to get to the voting box.

1136
01:21:20,690 --> 01:21:27,810
Why are you doing that? I just want to emphasize for me as I cast this vote into this, just kind of really emphasize that it's beginning of that conversation.

1137
01:21:28,170 --> 01:21:35,330
My threshold on these is like, is there any chance this could work? You know, it's not dispositive towards eventual zoning.

1138
01:21:35,930 --> 01:21:42,750
I think we've gotten some feedback to get some more about, you know, how we really want to make sure this looks.

1139
01:21:42,750 --> 01:21:46,470
and I think what will be key is continued conversations

1140
01:21:46,470 --> 01:21:48,210
with the neighborhood to make sure

1141
01:21:48,210 --> 01:21:50,190
we can kind of balance it out.

1142
01:21:51,190 --> 01:21:53,210
So okay, this reads as H2.

1143
01:21:53,630 --> 01:21:54,910
If anybody else has any other comments,

1144
01:21:55,050 --> 01:21:57,030
if not, we can go ahead and cast our votes.

1145
01:22:01,450 --> 01:22:04,630
All right, so the motion to proceed with the petition

1146
01:22:04,630 --> 01:22:07,070
and passes six to zero.

1147
01:22:08,150 --> 01:22:11,630
Thank you all for coming and bringing us forth tonight.

1148
01:22:13,350 --> 01:22:14,690
Please call item H3.

1149
01:22:16,810 --> 01:22:17,950
Consideration of a resolution

1150
01:22:17,950 --> 01:22:20,810
authorizing the purchase of vehicles and equipment funding

1151
01:22:20,810 --> 01:22:24,990
in the FY2025 vehicle for Equipment Services Fund

1152
01:22:24,990 --> 01:22:29,350
operational budget in addition to all matters set forth

1153
01:22:29,350 --> 01:22:31,870
for the auction sale of previous equipment.

1154
01:22:32,510 --> 01:22:33,130
Thanks, Leanne.

1155
01:22:33,730 --> 01:22:34,790
Good evening, Mayor and Council.

1156
01:22:35,970 --> 01:22:36,870
My name is Nick Long.

1157
01:22:36,990 --> 01:22:38,910
I'm the superintendent over fleet facilities

1158
01:22:38,910 --> 01:22:39,890
for the city here.

1159
01:22:40,770 --> 01:22:42,470
And tonight we're asking for your approval

1160
01:22:42,470 --> 01:22:45,590
in this resolution authorizing the purchase of new

1161
01:22:45,590 --> 01:22:48,850
and replacement vehicles as funded in our FY25 budget.

1162
01:22:50,690 --> 01:22:53,390
A little background, but many of you are aware,

1163
01:22:53,730 --> 01:22:56,570
but as a reminder, we are discussing two types of purchases today.

1164
01:22:57,290 --> 01:22:58,750
The first is replacement vehicles.

1165
01:22:59,370 --> 01:23:01,170
These are units that are already in service,

1166
01:23:01,470 --> 01:23:03,810
vehicles that have reached the end of their useful life.

1167
01:23:04,530 --> 01:23:07,630
We're replacing these vehicles through our VES,

1168
01:23:07,910 --> 01:23:11,730
which is a dedicated replacement fund for existing vehicles and equipment.

1169
01:23:12,330 --> 01:23:17,670
The VES is funded by annual contributions to this account by the end-user departments

1170
01:23:17,670 --> 01:23:20,610
in anticipation of the vehicle's replacement date.

1171
01:23:21,210 --> 01:23:24,150
We also deposit money made from the sale of existing equipment

1172
01:23:24,650 --> 01:23:27,830
or proceeds from insurance claims that result in a total loss.

1173
01:23:28,310 --> 01:23:32,490
The new vehicles that we're also purchasing or getting authorized to purchase today,

1174
01:23:33,070 --> 01:23:35,350
these are enhancements to the fleet, end-user departments.

1175
01:23:36,450 --> 01:23:38,710
These units are identified through the FY25.

1176
01:23:38,710 --> 01:23:41,510
standard budget process and funding has

1177
01:23:41,510 --> 01:23:42,430
hard to identify.

1178
01:23:43,850 --> 01:23:46,590
So before you use a snapshot, it's also in your packet

1179
01:23:46,590 --> 01:23:49,110
of the vehicles that we'll be looking at replacing.

1180
01:23:49,990 --> 01:23:52,990
In all, you've got 28 vehicles dedicated to the

1181
01:23:52,990 --> 01:23:54,250
police services.

1182
01:23:55,090 --> 01:23:57,290
Some of the large vehicle purchases there.

1183
01:23:57,410 --> 01:23:58,790
It's a VATCon combo truck

1184
01:23:58,790 --> 01:24:00,970
dedicated to safer

1185
01:24:00,970 --> 01:24:02,570
digging processes.

1186
01:24:03,010 --> 01:24:04,550
That's also a street super replacement

1187
01:24:04,550 --> 01:24:06,690
and a large bucket truck replacement.

1188
01:24:08,650 --> 01:24:13,210
Some new vehicles that we'll be adding, a few units for our police department, as well

1189
01:24:13,210 --> 01:24:18,990
as a service truck for one of my departments, as well as a new trailer and tractor for our

1190
01:24:18,990 --> 01:24:21,010
parks and then a service truck for our pump and motors.

1191
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:32,140
All in for the FY25 VES replacements, you guys are looking at it, $3,743,000 for the

1192
01:24:32,140 --> 01:24:39,660
enhancements around that at $360,000 for a total of $4,108,000 and you can kind

1193
01:24:39,660 --> 01:24:43,140
see a breakdown of the percentages of what we're spending on public safety versus

1194
01:24:43,620 --> 01:24:48,840
general fund and utility fund. And if there's any questions, I'd be happy to

1195
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:49,380
answer them.

1196
01:24:53,150 --> 01:24:54,450
Press a year for police cars.

1197
01:24:55,450 --> 01:24:58,770
It's a big number. We won't have to go back too soon.

1198
01:25:00,050 --> 01:25:01,390
This keeps it bigger.

1199
01:25:01,770 --> 01:25:04,380
Are you looking at me or Brenda?

1200
01:25:08,890 --> 01:25:11,750
I'm just glad we have the VES program.

1201
01:25:11,750 --> 01:25:16,150
that we plan for this year's in advance. This isn't something that just popped up.

1202
01:25:16,290 --> 01:25:21,290
It's been something in planning in the works for many, many years that this

1203
01:25:21,290 --> 01:25:22,510
would come up at this time.

1204
01:25:26,290 --> 01:25:28,650
So I'll make a motion to approve H3 as presented.

1205
01:25:31,910 --> 01:25:37,310
I heard Anne, it's the second on that. So we'll make her second by Duffy.

1206
01:25:39,810 --> 01:25:41,270
Any other questions or comments?

1207
01:25:41,270 --> 01:25:44,010
And I guess we have to go ahead with both.

1208
01:25:45,130 --> 01:25:49,270
Thank you for the outstanding stewardship of our people, please.

1209
01:25:58,080 --> 01:25:59,040
Cameron, we decided.

1210
01:25:59,560 --> 01:25:59,940
Yeah.

1211
01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:05,940
We actually don't need to call this up at this time, and so we're actually ready to talk

1212
01:26:05,940 --> 01:26:06,740
about cap talk.

1213
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:07,700
Okay.

1214
01:26:08,580 --> 01:26:09,400
I have H5.

1215
01:26:10,060 --> 01:26:14,080
Consideration of appointments to the Capital Area Council of Governments.

1216
01:26:14,220 --> 01:26:14,820
General Assembly.

1217
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:17,820
Good evening, Mayor and Councilor Jacob Ward.

1218
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:19,020
This is into the City Manager.

1219
01:26:19,700 --> 01:26:21,140
No presentation for you this evening.

1220
01:26:21,700 --> 01:26:23,320
As Leigh Ann mentioned, this is consideration

1221
01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:25,400
of appointments to the Cap College General Assembly.

1222
01:26:26,060 --> 01:26:28,340
The park does get three nominations,

1223
01:26:28,740 --> 01:26:31,400
and I believe previous nominations during 2023

1224
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:32,700
were included in your packet.

1225
01:26:33,380 --> 01:26:34,820
That turned over to the council.

1226
01:26:41,690 --> 01:26:42,570
How did that move?

1227
01:26:42,810 --> 01:26:43,370
Wow.

1228
01:26:44,270 --> 01:26:45,150
I can't.

1229
01:26:45,450 --> 01:26:48,210
Yes, we have three seats on the General Assembly.

1230
01:26:48,210 --> 01:26:54,970
Really it needs twice a year in September and December and it would be really helpful

1231
01:26:54,970 --> 01:27:01,730
if we had more members that came so that we can try to work our way back onto the Executive

1232
01:27:01,730 --> 01:27:07,430
Committee which we have not had a seat on since 2019.

1233
01:27:09,590 --> 01:27:13,090
But you serve on the Air Quality Committee?

1234
01:27:13,090 --> 01:27:21,130
I do serve on the air quality committee and have since 2017, but being the only one, I

1235
01:27:21,130 --> 01:27:27,350
can't really work either myself or another council member on to the executive committee.

1236
01:27:28,310 --> 01:27:30,730
That's not a requirement, that would be good.

1237
01:27:30,870 --> 01:27:38,130
No, it just means that you have more to do, more say in the direction of Capcom.

1238
01:27:40,010 --> 01:27:40,990
Yeah, so how does that work?

1239
01:27:41,130 --> 01:27:45,510
Because I'm on the EG side in those meetings.

1240
01:27:45,670 --> 01:27:48,830
Me, Corey, said that your views are on CapCop right now.

1241
01:27:50,050 --> 01:27:50,070
Right?

1242
01:27:51,970 --> 01:27:53,790
He's not on General Assembly.

1243
01:27:53,890 --> 01:27:54,730
I'm not on General Assembly.

1244
01:27:54,950 --> 01:27:56,410
I'm just a member of the CapCop.

1245
01:27:56,670 --> 01:27:57,070
I'm a developer.

1246
01:27:58,470 --> 01:27:59,770
I was like, something is wrong here.

1247
01:28:01,250 --> 01:28:02,350
It's twice a year.

1248
01:28:02,630 --> 01:28:04,150
It's September and December.

1249
01:28:05,590 --> 01:28:06,390
For General Assembly.

1250
01:28:11,290 --> 01:28:15,310
Well, okay, so now you have six meetings a year.

1251
01:28:15,550 --> 01:28:16,290
Do you have lunch?

1252
01:28:17,010 --> 01:28:18,210
Anne's nominated for dinner.

1253
01:28:18,610 --> 01:28:19,770
Yes, they serve food.

1254
01:28:20,210 --> 01:28:21,830
Okay, Heather, I assume you want to continue.

1255
01:28:23,090 --> 01:28:25,110
I would like to, if that's okay.

1256
01:28:25,370 --> 01:28:29,170
If there's not three other people that want to serve lunch, we'll come again.

1257
01:28:29,870 --> 01:28:30,350
Okay.

1258
01:28:30,770 --> 01:28:32,750
And declining interest?

1259
01:28:33,310 --> 01:28:33,470
No.

1260
01:28:34,010 --> 01:28:34,570
Any interest?

1261
01:28:34,570 --> 01:28:43,310
I've done it for over six years. Okay, that's one of the conflicts with the

1262
01:28:43,310 --> 01:28:44,270
Chamber lunches.

1263
01:28:47,910 --> 01:28:50,850
Two per year guys, two per year.

1264
01:28:57,140 --> 01:29:18,840
I got to be sherry but I'm busy I'll nominate Bobby that's that's what happens when you miss

1265
01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:26,440
We should have subcommittees that I mean y'all are both engaged in examples of that and there

1266
01:29:26,440 --> 01:29:34,040
are others that yeah there's like a there's like a regional safety task force there's

1267
01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:39,020
a council on the aging there's the economic development there's clean air coalition yeah

1268
01:29:39,020 --> 01:29:45,600
there's there's multiple subcommittees that generally meet quarterly yeah I like the

1269
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:47,880
The value of the regional aspect that's going on,

1270
01:29:47,980 --> 01:29:52,040
where the county comes to the right of the next big year,

1271
01:29:52,280 --> 01:29:54,460
which is good kind of no, you know,

1272
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:57,280
what the state and those people think about those,

1273
01:29:57,640 --> 01:29:59,280
talking about water and everything.

1274
01:30:01,490 --> 01:30:07,450
Yeah, certainly the regional conversation on these is more important than ever, but you might remind of that.

1275
01:30:07,610 --> 01:30:12,310
Earlier this week the air will come as well. Do we have to take action tonight?

1276
01:30:12,810 --> 01:30:13,530
You don't.

1277
01:30:13,990 --> 01:30:14,730
Yeah, I'd like to.

1278
01:30:14,730 --> 01:30:16,370
Wait, I said no, you don't.

1279
01:30:17,470 --> 01:30:18,150
Check it?

1280
01:30:20,770 --> 01:30:21,830
Okay, technically you don't.

1281
01:30:22,210 --> 01:30:23,910
Is it because it's holding years?

1282
01:30:24,050 --> 01:30:24,390
Can we?

1283
01:30:24,950 --> 01:30:27,610
The term is for two years, even years?

1284
01:30:27,930 --> 01:30:28,490
Yeah, it's coming.

1285
01:30:28,770 --> 01:30:31,670
Two upcoming years.

1286
01:30:31,910 --> 01:30:32,830
Yeah, it's for two years.

1287
01:30:32,830 --> 01:30:36,010
So it's usually for council members, it's for their term.

1288
01:30:36,950 --> 01:30:39,770
Okay, so it would just be one year

1289
01:30:40,270 --> 01:30:42,890
because it will come up for renewal next December.

1290
01:30:43,490 --> 01:30:44,970
Yeah, I was saying since.

1291
01:30:45,890 --> 01:30:49,030
Yes, we can put it back on January 9th.

1292
01:30:49,070 --> 01:30:53,690
Maybe as much as we'd like it to be on,

1293
01:30:53,850 --> 01:30:55,650
we should let her have to then put it.

1294
01:30:56,130 --> 01:30:59,690
So if we add it for our January meeting,

1295
01:30:59,690 --> 01:31:03,870
to make a decision and have to develop a chance to stick up to themselves.

1296
01:31:04,670 --> 01:31:12,690
All right, so I'm doing a motion to table or anything like that formally.

1297
01:31:13,090 --> 01:31:16,550
I'll make a motion to table item H, hotel 5.

1298
01:31:19,390 --> 01:31:25,030
I'll second that, and so I guess we'll vote on table item H5.

1299
01:31:33,620 --> 01:31:35,940
We will take it up at our next meeting.

1300
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:43,300
I'm going to go ahead and recess us back into Executive Session to complete our work.

1301
01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:47,720
And of course the Chapter 5-21 of the Government Code, the City Council will now convene a closing

1302
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:51,300
Executive Session pursuant to the following provisions of the Texas Openings Act.

1303
01:31:51,700 --> 01:32:00,380
Second 5-21.071, subsection 2, 5-21.074, 5-21.087, and of course we're going to go to either B-1, B-2, and B-3.

1304
01:32:02,440 --> 01:32:05,480
Council reconvene, whenever we're done, y'all don't feel you gotta hang out.

1305
01:32:12,740 --> 01:32:20,020
All right, I call back into open session of regular scheduled meeting of Cedar Park City Council, please call item H6.

1306
01:32:20,420 --> 01:32:23,740
Consider action with any on items discussed in the executive session.

1307
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:28,040
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and-

1308
01:32:29,740 --> 01:32:30,580
Item B2?

1309
01:32:31,100 --> 01:32:31,480
Yes.

1310
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:32,440
Okay, is that okay?

1311
01:32:32,660 --> 01:32:33,160
Sure.

1312
01:32:33,540 --> 01:32:34,120
Yeah, thanks.

1313
01:32:34,120 --> 01:32:45,980
So on item 2, I'm going to go ahead and make a motion to make sure I'm doing the right option here.

1314
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:51,680
Make a motion to authorize the mayor to execute amendment to the city manager's deployment agreement

1315
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:56,320
or rising section 3 to increase annual base salary by 4% along with city manager to allocate

1316
01:32:56,320 --> 01:33:00,600
a set increase between annual base salary and or deferred compensation at her discretion

1317
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:05,460
motion to be effective as of the beginning of the first paid period in calendar 2025.

1318
01:33:06,160 --> 01:33:06,600
Second.

1319
01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:07,440
All right.

1320
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:09,600
Motion by Kirkland.

1321
01:33:12,260 --> 01:33:14,240
Do you want to bring up our voting screen?

1322
01:33:14,660 --> 01:33:15,660
Motion by you.

1323
01:33:15,940 --> 01:33:16,880
Motion by me.

1324
01:33:17,080 --> 01:33:17,200
Sorry.

1325
01:33:17,340 --> 01:33:17,800
I think it's second.

1326
01:33:18,120 --> 01:33:18,820
Thank you.

1327
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:21,300
I was kind of a little late.

1328
01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:22,920
It has been a long day.

1329
01:33:23,360 --> 01:33:23,540
Yes, it has been.

1330
01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:25,700
Motion on one of that.

1331
01:33:25,700 --> 01:33:28,260
I'm going to go ahead and cast your votes.

1332
01:33:31,430 --> 01:33:33,610
Motion passes unanimously.

1333
01:33:34,110 --> 01:33:39,050
I'm going to go ahead and make a new motion to authorize

1334
01:33:39,050 --> 01:33:41,810
the mayor to execute an amendment of the city attorney's

1335
01:33:41,810 --> 01:33:43,830
employment agreement for rising section three

1336
01:33:43,830 --> 01:33:47,550
to increase annual base salary by 4% allowing the city

1337
01:33:47,550 --> 01:33:49,050
attorney to allocate city increase

1338
01:33:49,050 --> 01:33:51,150
between annual base salary and order for a conversation

1339
01:33:51,150 --> 01:33:52,910
and his discretion defective at the beginning

1340
01:33:52,910 --> 01:33:54,770
for a paid period encounter 2025.

1341
01:33:55,430 --> 01:33:55,930
Second.

1342
01:33:55,930 --> 01:34:04,710
All right. Motion by myself. I'm going to bring up... reset the voting screens on that.

1343
01:34:09,240 --> 01:34:10,600
I guess this would be...

1344
01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:12,700
This would be A and B.

1345
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:13,760
This is 2B.

1346
01:34:15,020 --> 01:34:15,460
B2B.

1347
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:21,900
I know. The curve ball in the system. Yeah. It's posted as B2A and B2B.

1348
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:26,940
Well, nothing else. We can just take a voice vote or show a dance or something.

1349
01:34:27,540 --> 01:34:29,020
Sorry. We should have let you know before then.

1350
01:34:29,020 --> 01:34:29,720
All

1351
01:34:33,240 --> 01:34:46,300
right. All right. Motion passed unanimously. We're on attendance. It's a zero. Again, as we've often said, both in the state of the city and our discussions,

1352
01:34:47,180 --> 01:34:57,800
the entire city council is extremely appreciative of Brenda's leadership and J.P.'s council. We're very lucky to have such stellar performers willing to serve our city.

1353
01:34:57,800 --> 01:35:02,380
and hopefully you guys recognize that, so thank you.

1354
01:35:03,180 --> 01:35:04,820
All right, that brings us to...

1355
01:35:04,820 --> 01:35:06,460
Vary Council closing comments.

1356
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:08,300
All right, Mel, you're up.

1357
01:35:08,520 --> 01:35:11,700
All right, just thank you for everybody attending tonight.

1358
01:35:12,500 --> 01:35:15,380
Sorry I missed the tree lighting.

1359
01:35:15,740 --> 01:35:17,200
I heard it was a wonderful event.

1360
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:26,100
And again, my sincerest condolences

1361
01:35:26,100 --> 01:35:29,000
to the turned

1362
01:35:35,910 --> 01:35:43,290
off to Jim Cooper's family and all the friends and and also I

1363
01:35:43,290 --> 01:35:50,830
realize this how large his extended family at Hill Country Bible is so sorry

1364
01:35:50,830 --> 01:35:57,650
for for all of our loss look forward to the holidays I got to go over today and

1365
01:35:57,650 --> 01:36:06,370
take a little tour of the new 54 restaurant over on New Hope and police

1366
01:36:06,370 --> 01:36:11,370
that place has pickleball courts that are correct sizes and with that you all

1367
01:36:11,370 --> 01:36:12,290
have a wonderful evening.

1368
01:36:16,490 --> 01:36:21,050
Yeah just thank you to Jim Cooper for his service to the

1369
01:36:21,050 --> 01:36:27,610
city and I am going to say they'll maybe be bargaining even though they're not

1370
01:36:27,610 --> 01:36:35,230
going to. So I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I know that was a theme today. What did he say?

1371
01:36:36,570 --> 01:36:45,650
What was the last thing? Keep doing good? Keep fighting the good fight. That was the resounding message at the end.

1372
01:36:45,730 --> 01:36:56,110
Keep fighting the good fight. And I'm going to say a shout out to Joshua Greig and the puzzler party at

1373
01:36:56,110 --> 01:37:02,670
amazing. That's 500 piece puzzles and they're like knocking down so fast like they are serious it was

1374
01:37:02,670 --> 01:37:09,610
awesome and thanks for a treasure the hills for helping host that and then the tree lighting was

1375
01:37:09,610 --> 01:37:15,530
awesome so thank you to everyone that was a part of that and the unity is that unity recreation

1376
01:37:15,530 --> 01:37:23,010
center yes and it's pretty fantastic and they had a big to-do as they did for their openings and

1377
01:37:23,010 --> 01:37:31,790
step so it was fun to be a part of that. They have a lot of stories that they might be able to do a lot, so it was cute, full-size, that's proper.

1378
01:37:32,450 --> 01:37:41,410
Yeah, full-size commercial kitchen. It's pretty fantastic. Thank you and have a very wonderful holidays and Christmas and all the things.

1379
01:37:44,190 --> 01:37:53,130
Yeah, we would everything I would say, it goes, it's the Cooper family doing its time, you know, it's a well-lived life.

1380
01:37:54,390 --> 01:38:02,150
Special shout out to our city managers for birthdays this week, if you don't want to forget that, thank you for all you've done.

1381
01:38:03,950 --> 01:38:07,890
I was a little taken aback from the picture of our chief of police.

1382
01:38:08,690 --> 01:38:10,770
I wasn't ready to see him that way.

1383
01:38:11,850 --> 01:38:13,290
I think you have to put that in context.

1384
01:38:14,270 --> 01:38:15,090
Oh, I'm sorry.

1385
01:38:15,310 --> 01:38:16,610
There's a lot of pictures.

1386
01:38:17,390 --> 01:38:24,710
Well, our chief of police is graciously supporting the arts

1387
01:38:24,710 --> 01:38:27,770
and going to be Mother Ginger, is that though?

1388
01:38:28,210 --> 01:38:31,210
Yeah, he's playing Mother Ginger for the...

1389
01:38:31,210 --> 01:38:32,710
But they posted a picture of a breast dog,

1390
01:38:32,890 --> 01:38:35,610
and I wasn't ready to see him like that, right?

1391
01:38:37,170 --> 01:38:39,410
Not everybody can do that. Kudos to him.

1392
01:38:40,170 --> 01:38:43,050
Lack of an honest weekend. I mean, it's Christmas time.

1393
01:38:43,490 --> 01:38:53,130
And as I sat here for a moment thinking, I'm reflecting about the whole year, I really appreciate, you know, the privilege it is to serve, you know, with you all here in the Dias and the city.

1394
01:38:53,670 --> 01:39:03,210
You know, we've accomplished, I guess, together a lot. I mean, we look at all the gripping cuttings, the engagement, you know, when you go out to different events to see our community.

1395
01:39:03,650 --> 01:39:09,590
we really do have a very cool city and I enjoy it and I think as opposed to be

1396
01:39:09,590 --> 01:39:13,550
able to serve doing this and you know the staff doesn't gain a day out and you guys

1397
01:39:13,550 --> 01:39:17,310
are committed you know I'm very proud to be in this position thank you for all you

1398
01:39:17,310 --> 01:39:19,950
guys do. Merry Christmas we'll see you next year.

1399
01:39:22,430 --> 01:39:23,630
I would like to add my

1400
01:39:23,630 --> 01:39:29,090
condolences to Jim's family and friends and all of you and I stayed away I'm

1401
01:39:29,090 --> 01:39:34,210
not I'm under the weather right now so I'm trying to avoid as many people as

1402
01:39:34,210 --> 01:39:49,070
possible. But he was a truly great human being and I am very sad at his passing. But very

1403
01:39:49,070 --> 01:39:54,130
appreciative of all the city staff and everything that you guys have worked on this past year.

1404
01:39:54,310 --> 01:40:01,630
It has been a fantastic year for the city in terms of just all of the projects and

1405
01:40:01,630 --> 01:40:11,110
ideas and just the general day-to-day service of 80 plus thousand people just an

1406
01:40:11,630 --> 01:40:17,370
incredible job for everybody so I know not everybody is on vacation but we are

1407
01:40:17,370 --> 01:40:22,650
for a little while so I just wanted to say I hope everybody has a safe and warm

1408
01:40:23,310 --> 01:40:25,810
and relaxing holiday season vacation.

1409
01:40:28,340 --> 01:40:29,060
Thank you.

1410
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:35,120
You know, I appreciate everyone and their sentiments with Jim.

1411
01:40:35,420 --> 01:40:37,720
And I guess, you know, there's a lot of people that obviously weren't there.

1412
01:40:37,760 --> 01:40:40,080
There were a lot of people there at the Memorial today,

1413
01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:41,820
but there are a lot of people that obviously missed it.

1414
01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:47,980
You know, it makes you, when you sit there and you listen to the legacy that Jim has left, you know, on service,

1415
01:40:47,980 --> 01:40:54,580
just being gracious and the humility and just the way he conducted himself and carried himself.

1416
01:40:55,020 --> 01:41:01,600
You know, in the tragedy and the sadness of a funeral, you always try to take something away from it.

1417
01:41:01,940 --> 01:41:07,420
So, you know, just thought of the re-emphasis on, you know, just being kind and being generous

1418
01:41:07,420 --> 01:41:11,300
and just being a good person and trying to, you know, reflect that.

1419
01:41:11,380 --> 01:41:15,740
I think about my kids, the way that Jim, you know, obviously had a very positive influence

1420
01:41:15,740 --> 01:41:19,980
on his own children. So, you know, I'll think about this, this holiday season, you know,

1421
01:41:20,020 --> 01:41:24,840
it's a time to thank, it's a, you know, time to be thankful, the time to be charitable,

1422
01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:31,000
and, you know, I'll be thinking about all that, and obviously I'll extend my great

1423
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:36,020
gratitude to the staff, as I always do, but I think Heather put it very nicely,

1424
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:40,700
you know, with regard to all the major projects and staff that's present and staff that

1425
01:41:40,700 --> 01:41:45,960
is escaped already and the staff that we don't usually see in this chamber that

1426
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:50,180
they're wearing boots and driving trucks and on the roads and all of that and I

1427
01:41:50,180 --> 01:41:57,200
just really appreciate appreciate them and I know we have I don't think anybody

1428
01:41:57,200 --> 01:42:03,440
mentioned Blue Santa so that's coming up Saturday so I'm excited about that and

1429
01:42:03,440 --> 01:42:06,060
then I know a couple people mentioned the tree lighting and that was fun the

1430
01:42:06,060 --> 01:42:10,200
weather kind of held out for us so it was really really cool but it was a

1431
01:42:10,200 --> 01:42:19,620
It was a great celebration of community. It was a lot of fun and so I hope all of you that are traveling be safe and enjoy the time with family and really cherish those moments.

1432
01:42:20,440 --> 01:42:21,000
Thank you.

1433
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:34,260
All right. Before I launch to the Marsville, Sir Kevin's comment, I feel compelled to say that anytime Chief Harmon wants to wear a dress, I am fine with it as long as it continues being an outstanding Chief of Plates.

1434
01:42:35,820 --> 01:42:39,180
And so, yeah, but thanks for mentioning Blue Sand Valley,

1435
01:42:39,280 --> 01:42:40,520
for seeing a lot of you there.

1436
01:42:41,180 --> 01:42:47,100
It reads Across America, also on Saturday and participating as well,

1437
01:42:47,400 --> 01:42:48,900
representing the United States Navy.

1438
01:42:50,160 --> 01:42:52,640
So that will be a very special event.

1439
01:42:53,120 --> 01:42:54,400
But yeah, it's been quite an emotional day.

1440
01:42:54,580 --> 01:42:58,860
Very, you know, started off at a real high point with the Parks dedication.

1441
01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:01,280
That's really looking beautiful.

1442
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:07,860
I know we're all very proud of that and I'm looking forward to seeing it filled with smiling children and faces

1443
01:43:10,280 --> 01:43:11,840
In coming months

1444
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:19,490
Then you know the Jim's funeral was it was a beautiful service and just a really great representation

1445
01:43:20,300 --> 01:43:22,580
What a true Christian gentleman he was

1446
01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:30,330
Somebody who always just you know, I never saw him be disrespectful to anybody. Everybody always felt respected and welcome and

1447
01:43:32,240 --> 01:43:37,300
That's just the highest standard of true leadership in the community.

1448
01:43:38,040 --> 01:43:46,840
And so I know we will always remember his example of exactly what you want a community leader to be at any level.

1449
01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:52,140
So, with that, I will go ahead and adjourn. I hope everyone has a very happy holiday.