[0:08] 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.

[0:15] 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.

[0:23] Section 531.071, subsection 2, 551.074, 551.087 in accordance with agenda items V1, V2, and V3.

[0:34] All right, thank you.

[0:35] Council will reconvene into open session at 7 p.m.

[0:44] All right, I call back into open session

[0:45] a regular scheduled meeting

[0:46] at the Cedar Park City Council, a quorum is present.

[0:49] I apologize for running a few minutes behind tonight.

[0:52] As many of you may know,

[0:54] a very beloved member of our community

[0:56] and member of our Economic Development Board,

[0:58] Jim Cooper, passed away entirely too early last week.

[1:03] And most of us were at his funeral service,

[1:06] which is this evening,

[1:07] which it says back by a few minutes.

[1:09] appreciate your patience.

[1:13] As you all know we start every meeting with invocation

[1:16] we take turns doing that. Tonight is, it happens to be my turn, but the Christmas

[1:23] season I know a lot of us tend to think about our grandparents during this time

[1:27] of year. I doubt you think of your grandfather for some reason I do for my

[1:37] My grandfather grew up in Chicago in the German-speaking neighborhood.

[1:41] His parents never learned to speak English.

[1:44] And every, you know, you'd be at Christmas Mass, and he would always insist on singing

[1:47] all the Christmas carols in the original German.

[1:51] And so every time Christmas rolls around, I think of my grandfather Francis singing

[1:56] oh holly goodnight, while the rest of us sing oh holy night.

[2:01] And as I noted, my grandfather's name was Francis, and his favorite saint was

[2:06] St. Francis of Assisi, and that's kind of how it's been like the patron saint of our

[2:09] family. The first line of it is described inside my West Point ring, so I thought I would lead

[2:15] us off tonight with the prayer of St. Francis for our invocation. So please join me in prayer.

[2:23] Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, whether it's hatred, let me so love, whether

[2:27] it's injury, pardon, whether it's doubt, faith, whether it's despair, hope, whether it's

[2:33] darkness, light, whether a sadness, joy, or divine master grant that I may not seek to

[2:41] be consoled as to be understood as to understand, as to be loved as to love. For it is in giving

[2:48] that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are

[2:52] born to eternal life. Amen.

[2:56] Thank you for joining me in that, and please join me in

[2:58] the Pledge of Allegiance.

[3:01] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

[3:05] And to the Republic which stands, one nation under God,

[3:11] it is well delivered to the justice world.

[3:15] Honor of the Texas law, I pledge allegiance to the city of Texas,

[3:20] one state under God, for honor and glory.

[3:30] Please call item C3.

[3:31] A presentation regarding review of non-profit malls.

[3:46] In multiple conversations over several years now,

[3:50] with both Taisa and Kerry from Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center.

[4:00] And as things are progressing forward, I wanted Taisa to come and talk to us about what she's looking for,

[4:09] what she's doing, and what the path forward might be so that it can hopefully inspire future discussions.

[4:20] Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, Senator Cancel. Good evening, City Manager. My name

[4:24] is Taisha Holloway, and I'm the Executive Director for Hill Country Community Ministries.

[4:29] We are a non-profit resource center that serves Western Williamson and Northwest Travis

[4:34] County primarily. We're 40 years old. We started back in 1983. And a few years ago,

[4:41] we created, after COVID, and we saw such a drastic entity in the need of the Family

[4:46] we started the capital campaign because we are still housing physically out of

[4:52] Leander and a portable building that's 900 square feet. Last year we served 136

[4:57] thousand people and we distributed 1.3 million pounds of food and people

[5:02] always ask me what is 1.3 million pounds of food look like and I say think

[5:06] about 35 semi trucks just going by about that 900 square feet. 85% of our

[5:12] clients reside in Cedar Park in Leander and so a couple years ago we started our

[5:17] capital campaign and about a year ago we had a church that was willing to give

[5:23] us some land and we had a foundation that was going to build a

[5:27] stability and six months ago that foundation pulled out. Now while most of

[5:32] the community most the people that were involved in this project were kind

[5:37] of heartbroken I always kind of think of it as that means that there's

[5:39] bigger and better things on the horizon. Carrie and I with the Children's

[5:45] Advocacy Center, I do want to acknowledge Carrie's here. She's their CEO. She's got

[5:49] a couple of her board members and I want to thank them for attending and then I

[5:52] also have some of my board members at Hill Country Community

[5:54] Ministries attending as well because we've been working on this for quite

[5:57] some time. But to kind of fast forward is at our board retreat in

[6:02] July we kind of presented the option of what Hill Country Ministries could

[6:08] do next when that foundation pulled out. We can build on Lacey Drive, and I just finished

[6:14] doing the zoning on that change. We could work with the church that was going to give

[6:18] us a land, but there were some restrictions associated with that. We could go seek our

[6:22] new land, but one of the gifts of having this time to pause allowed us to increase

[6:27] our donor base by 200 new donors, and we received a $1 million endowment to create

[6:31] a legacy beyond us. And so our board of directors enlisted

[6:35] of me to go ahead and try to find an existing building because we've seen so much increase

[6:41] in need, not just for us. When people come to Hill Country Community Ministries, they

[6:47] need more than just food. They need mental health. They need financial assistance. They

[6:51] need medical health. There's so many other programs that they need and most of the time

[6:55] they need. We have to send them on the other side of county. So we created just six

[7:00] slides just to kind of show you what we're wanting to do. The reason is that

[7:04] That Hill Country Community Ministries was pre-approved to purchase a $5 million piece

[7:08] of property, and as I mentioned, that would give us about 15,000 square feet.

[7:13] And we can do what we want to do.

[7:15] We can build a feed pantry, have some office space for resources, and serve our community

[7:20] just Hill Country Community Ministries.

[7:22] But in the last nine years that I've been there, I have really established relationships

[7:27] with not just the community, but a bunch of nonprofits, and we have 22 very active

[7:33] of collaborative partners that we again exchange referrals

[7:36] for these families in need.

[7:38] And so about two months ago, a property came on the market

[7:42] in your city, on the northeast side of your city,

[7:45] it sits on the border of Cedar Park in Leander,

[7:47] and it's 30,000 square feet for $8 million.

[7:51] And people are like, you can't afford $8 million.

[7:54] And I'm like, you're right, I can't.

[7:56] But could the community come together

[7:58] and afford a nonprofit loan?

[8:00] During the last couple of years that Cary and I have been working on the resource center

[8:05] and this nonprofit or this foundation that was going to build it, we have visited an

[8:09] organization called ServeDent in multiple times and we've had multiple conversations.

[8:13] We have visited resource centers out in Marble Falls and all up and down in Texas.

[8:17] But ServeDent serves a model that we really can get behind and that is it was anchored

[8:22] by a food pantry, it is anchored by a children's advocacy center and is also anchored

[8:28] by a medical clinic with a pharmacy.

[8:31] It's 40,000 square feet and it houses all these other entities

[8:35] that when families come up on hard times,

[8:37] they can get the help.

[8:39] So that's kind of the overview and the history

[8:40] of why I'm here, just presenting the idea

[8:43] because the letter of intent was accepted

[8:45] as of last Thursday night.

[8:48] And so I'm just presenting this because at some point,

[8:51] when we get the contract signed,

[8:53] I have to 90 days to come up with that $3 million.

[8:57] 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,

[9:04] but also what it's going to do for the communities.

[9:08] And I've had meetings with Cynthia Long, I've had meetings with the other cities and stuff,

[9:13] and so we don't know yet what that looks like.

[9:14] This is just really for your information, and I don't know if you guys can ask questions,

[9:18] but we're here to answer questions.

[9:20] But just to real quick, as far as the non-profit for Williamson County is, again, the serve

[9:26] debt model.

[9:27] It's a non-profit model that houses a variety of services under one roof.

[9:32] The model has been brewed and effective in its streamlining accesses and vital resources,

[9:39] fostering collaboration, which we really do have already, is just bringing it all

[9:43] under one roof.

[9:45] And then making a real difference, obviously, in the residents in Denton and also Louisville

[9:49] and the surrounding areas. They have one in Lewisville and they too have multiple

[9:53] sites. These are all the things that are housed under one roof. Food, mental health,

[10:01] housing, and I'm not saying that people can live there but resources to get

[10:05] housing, health care, financial support, women's support, legal support, children,

[10:10] as we mentioned. They have a satellite location in Denton County. Denton

[10:14] County has multiple children advocacy center. It's a satellite location for

[10:18] them and then of course senior care. The fostering the collaboration obviously

[10:23] increases efficiency when I first started at Hill Country nine years ago

[10:27] when I write for grants about how we can help our community my two favorite

[10:32] words are effective and efficient. I mean when you're in a 40-year-old portable

[10:36] building it's 900 square feet and they're held together by duct tape or

[10:39] glue there's not a lot of efficiency or effectiveness you know we have to be

[10:44] very creative, but it increases efficiency, it

[10:46] improves communications within the non-profits.

[10:50] We miss so many opportunities to come together

[10:53] and collaborate together, obviously shared resources.

[10:57] You know, when I talk to people about

[10:58] why are we seeing 140,000 people, right?

[11:02] We don't live in a very polished area.

[11:04] We all know that there's pockets of poverty,

[11:07] but Hill Country Community Ministry has participated

[11:10] in a survey this past year with a community needs

[11:13] assessment survey with Central Texas Food Bank in Healthy Williamson County.

[11:18] That report came out back in October and our families are $400 shy of having to

[11:25] come see us. I mean that's like a brain set of tires maybe you know one trip to

[11:30] the ER and you had to pay your co-pay. You know this is why families need us and

[11:34] all these other resources and I tell people it's like when they come see us

[11:38] they have to tell their story and they're on their last tank of gas.

[11:41] when we have to send them other places to get those other resources typically

[11:46] they're on the other side of the county which you'll see in a second you know and

[11:50] they don't want to drive we lose them they don't want to tell their story over

[11:53] and over and over again so again the shared communication shared risk

[11:57] resource and then obviously United support not just with the nonprofits

[12:01] but with our cities that we serve and obviously our county these are the

[12:07] distances and this was kind of an aha even for me to kind of see where

[12:11] Here our resources are, as I mentioned to you, Opportunity is a Williamson-Bernet County.

[12:16] They provide financial assistance, 14 miles.

[12:20] I've Googled that today just to see how long it would take me to drive 14 miles at about

[12:24] four o'clock this afternoon.

[12:25] It was 28 minutes.

[12:26] That's 38 minutes, you know, 28 to 30 minutes and stuff.

[12:30] And again, who has time to do that?

[12:33] Samaritan Health is the closest one to us.

[12:35] We live on at Trails.

[12:36] They are partners that we've actually talked to.

[12:38] I know that they just got a Cedar Park location, but they have so many other resources even

[12:43] beyond what that Cedar Park location is going to participate.

[12:47] We have talked to a couple of medical clinics.

[12:49] We don't know who, you know, again, we don't have any signed agreements with these non-profits.

[12:54] These, again, are collaborative conversations that we've been talking to for the last

[12:57] couple of years.

[12:58] Volunteer Legal Services, obviously the Children's Advocacy Center, the Veterans Services.

[13:03] We love our veterans, and then Hope Alliance, and I know that they've got

[13:06] the location coming up in Leander, but again,

[13:09] it's just another location and it's not even built yet.

[13:12] A pathway forward, bringing a nonprofit model to life.

[13:15] You know, what are the next steps?

[13:17] You know, again, I'm seeking funding

[13:19] from some of our foundation partners.

[13:21] Just this past week, we received a 200,000 dollar match.

[13:25] I just got that letter yesterday from a donor.

[13:27] So we'll be promoting that.

[13:29] And we received a corporate contribution from Toyota's

[13:32] in commitment from Toyota's to your part for 250,000.

[13:35] And that's just in the last week.

[13:36] So that's already half a million almost.

[13:39] Identifying not just securing this location,

[13:42] but who are the partners that want to be in there?

[13:45] Who are the partners that need to be in there?

[13:47] All of you saw those red lines,

[13:49] those red dots on the other side of the county.

[13:52] Do they need space on our side?

[13:54] Absolutely.

[13:55] And then obviously collaborating

[13:56] with other key stakeholders.

[13:58] I've met with some of you.

[14:00] We had a community needs meeting back in the early summer

[14:03] like late May and Eugene.

[14:04] And we all talked about, not just with C Departonese, but what is Leander name?

[14:10] And then again, just lastly is, this is my contact information.

[14:13] That building right there, if you were at our 40th anniversary, that is the front door,

[14:17] not the exact front door, but that is truly where people started entering Hill Country

[14:22] community ministries to get food back in 1985.

[14:25] It's the still same building, the still same location.

[14:28] And people have asked me, what would we do with this property?

[14:31] The wonderful gift, if you've been following at all, is that I got the approval to build

[14:36] a food pantry on Lacey Drive.

[14:38] We have almost an acre and a half now, but I kept the housing component because the other

[14:42] number one need besides food is housing in our community, and we can put tiny homes

[14:47] on this land.

[14:48] And I kept that on their zoning for that specific reason because if we can go into

[14:52] the non-profit mall, we can now put some traditional housing on here, and it's different.

[14:57] our homelessness is a little bit different than what

[15:00] It looks like an awesome, we don't have Pam Hamler's on the street corners.

[15:03] We have families that have faced an eviction of this who have been without a job, you know.

[15:07] And I'd love to be able to put our families in a home.

[15:11] So that's it.

[15:14] So presentation, can I make a comment?

[15:17] Well, I guess my comment would be, I don't know if I missed it within the slides.

[15:21] It's OK not to have to try to go back and find if it was in there.

[15:24] But you referenced the debt piece as an example, and I was just wondering if, you know,

[15:30] If your presentation included any language about whether or not that was a public-private

[15:36] partnership?

[15:37] It was a private.

[15:38] It is completely private.

[15:40] And I can send you a, excuse me, there's a website called SerbDenton.org, and it tells

[15:47] you about how they got started.

[15:48] It was a private nonprofit entity that started this, that saw the collaboration.

[15:53] They do not receive city funding from Denton, but they do from Lewisville, and they

[15:58] to see additional funding through mostly private donors and foundation partners.

[16:02] All right. Well, I mean, you're obviously on to something with the, you know, we get

[16:05] updates from the, the Williamson County Summit. We got one coming up on the next

[16:08] week, and I remember one last year we talked about how Williamson County would be

[16:13] bigger than Travis County, you know, 12 years. And so, you know, that it's

[16:18] going to grow exponentially the need across the deal, how that happens,

[16:21] where it's at, and all that, is something that you're obviously

[16:23] you're passionate about, but I appreciate the presentation.

[16:27] So, Sir Lewisville is actually a public-private partnership.

[16:31] And they did receive seed money and loans from the city

[16:38] or county or the boat.

[16:40] The city, it was a loan that they, yes, from Lewisville.

[16:43] They did receive a loan from the city

[16:46] that they have been paying back to the city.

[16:48] Right.

[16:49] Yes.

[16:49] So there's a few different ways to do that.

[16:51] 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.

[17:21] I mean this is, I think this is bigger than the dollar donation that we do for non-profits

[17:29] every year.

[17:30] I think this is something that could be transformative for the people on this side of the account

[17:34] because like she mentioned, we are all just one health crisis, one car crash away from

[17:42] meeting her services.

[17:45] No, it's funny, you mentioned, you know, CRC, I think we already have a few locally.

[17:51] And how that would, you know, when I first saw this I wanted to impact a lot of us volunteers

[17:55] in different places.

[17:57] But again, knowing what the number is going to look like in the county in the next few

[18:00] years, there's obviously room around.

[18:03] You know, I'm just kind of curious in how that will play itself out as far as the

[18:07] collaboration piece.

[18:08] We've already been meeting with them.

[18:09] I met with Doug on Monday, Doug James,

[18:12] and they know about it too, and we would be in conjunction.

[18:16] We don't wanna overlap services, you know.

[18:19] We don't need another Christian Resource Center.

[18:21] They do fabulous work and stuff.

[18:23] We partner a lot with Reveal

[18:24] and all the other food pantries as well,

[18:26] but this would kinda be in addition.

[18:28] What are we missing?

[18:29] You know, what is CRC missing and stuff?

[18:32] And what is the western side of the county missing

[18:34] that we have to send them on the eastern time?

[18:36] That really is the big piece of this, you know,

[18:39] And also to kind of talk about the money thing, you know, and again,

[18:42] I mentioned the fact that we're not, we don't really live in a poverty

[18:44] area. Again, again, that needs assessment from the healthy county district and

[18:48] central Texas food bank had to do with the fact that, you know,

[18:51] our poverty, our poverty population is small in Western Louisiana.

[18:54] I mean, it's 16, maybe 17% poverty, but what they call Alice.

[18:59] And if you haven't heard of Alice, it's an acronym that United Way

[19:02] came out with several years ago, especially during COVID and its

[19:05] asset limited income constraint you know it's 35 to 40 percent and that's that one

[19:11] crisis that's the one divorce one death in the family one lost job that people

[19:15] have to come see us. The other piece of it is the Children's Advocacy Center is

[19:21] is based in Georgetown but they serve their task with serving the entire

[19:25] county and the majority of their clients of the children who have been

[19:31] abused and need services are coming from our side of the county, not the eastern side of the county.

[19:37] And that is a long drive for people in crisis.

[19:40] Well, and...

[19:41] Well, our side has to hire a population.

[19:43] Cedar Park, Leander, the Rowan, obviously.

[19:45] Yes.

[19:46] It's going to be there.

[19:47] But that speaks to the whole regional impact.

[19:49] It leaves the county over the next 10 years of the growth.

[19:52] The population number is going to be, you know, bigger than traffic.

[19:54] Absolutely.

[19:55] This is a good thing to get in front of.

[19:59] Thank you.

[19:59] I love the collaborative spirit and I think there's a lot of like second

[20:03] derivative benefits from the collaboration my experience with nonprofits

[20:06] is you know it really plays more to sustainability right and best practices

[20:10] you know that could be shared between those two and then that could be shared

[20:14] between you know all the potential partners and then obviously there are

[20:17] smaller nonprofits and people that have a vision and you know movement in

[20:21] their heart to start something but they don't know you know really have

[20:24] to engage it from a business standpoint and I guess the sharing of those

[20:27] types of practices and I think you know I mean having that collaborative spirit I

[20:31] think you can have one plus one equals two two and a half or three or you know

[20:35] right so I mean you get more benefit out of it obviously the service is

[20:39] important but I think the collaborative making nonprofits stronger as entities

[20:44] Oh, absolutely, for sure.

[20:46] Yeah, thank you.

[20:48] I don't know.

[20:49] I mean, I've been working with Tysiv for five or six years.

[20:55] Whatever this is going to look like.

[20:57] I would invite, we took a trip up to Marble Falls

[21:00] and they have a similar thing that you could maybe

[21:03] put eyes on and kind of see what the intent is.

[21:07] But again, I think you mentioned efficiency.

[21:10] 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.

[21:19] 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.

[21:30] Like, oh, you're in crisis because you're dealing with this, you know, tragic thing that happens to your child.

[21:37] I can't even think about going to work, how am I going to pay, you know, so it just kind of snowballs.

[21:42] I mean, I'm not trying to say anything that you know, but I've been a part of this.

[21:49] I'm going to ask her questions because I know about it, but I would mention the marble falls

[21:55] and it just took creative leadership of their kind of judge to kind of get that ball rolling up there.

[22:02] So it's very, it's very accessible to go and make sure and I'm sure that's it.

[22:06] We serve getting these services are also really great models.

[22:10] If you are interested in really helping to, or to have eyes on it before we talk about this further,

[22:18] that's like they're always willing to do tours and talk to you about how this works,

[22:26] with the financial pieces, what the community benefit is,

[22:31] what the outcomes that they've seen are.

[22:34] And I will add kind of the touch on,

[22:37] elaborate what Anne was saying too,

[22:39] is it's not even just to fit the emergency needs,

[22:42] kind of like Christian Resource Center.

[22:43] They have so much job training there.

[22:45] And for us, we want to add more life skill training.

[22:47] Like right now we have a partnership

[22:49] with your city library, you know?

[22:51] And it was also to like,

[22:52] if they don't know who we are and come see us

[22:54] or they don't want to go to a church,

[22:57] they're going to go to your library,

[22:58] and we bring case managers to your library.

[23:00] And the number one thing we're doing right now

[23:01] is just application assistance.

[23:03] We're doing job applications, we're doing financial.

[23:06] We have a lot of people that are eligible

[23:07] for disability and social security.

[23:09] I mean, some of these applications are 32 pages long.

[23:12] We want to treat that,

[23:13] we've been helping with resume building.

[23:15] I know with Children's Advocacy,

[23:17] yes, they meet an emergency need,

[23:18] but there's so much counseling and love on these families

[23:22] for years to come that they miss them when they're on the other side of the county because

[23:25] who wants to go to counseling 30 minutes away?

[23:27] They have so many resources that are life sustaining for these children and that's the

[23:31] other piece of this is yes we want to meet those emergency needs but we also only want

[23:35] to empower families to get out of what we, what they, why they need us.

[23:41] You know, inflation you can't control that and stuff but more importantly is what do

[23:44] they need beyond just us to be able to get out of from them seeing us and that's

[23:48] what we'd also like to bring to this is empowering these families.

[23:50] It's not just enabling but empowering.

[23:52] Meet the emergency needs, helping them train,

[23:55] referring to the creation of resources,

[23:56] again, a big collaborative piece,

[23:58] but really just kind of getting them out

[24:01] of having to come see us.

[24:02] But if they have to come see us,

[24:03] making it more efficient, right?

[24:06] Not having to go on the other side of the county

[24:07] to get the counseling and the help they need, so.

[24:10] Yeah, it's very forward-thinking, obviously,

[24:14] but one of the things that healthcare has done

[24:18] and is, you know, when you have comorbidities

[24:20] and trying to go to multiple appointments.

[24:24] So one of the things we did in the Dell Children's side

[24:26] is you go to one office and all the different providers,

[24:30] you have the appointments they come to you.

[24:32] And so it's really just, you know,

[24:36] and when you're empowering folks in that way

[24:39] and providing everything in like

[24:40] at the one stop shop at Duo,

[24:42] the likelihood that they're going to be able

[24:44] to follow through and have that

[24:46] because they know that support is there instead of having to traverse across the county and figure it all out.

[24:52] And I have to speak again on Hill Country Community Ministries, just the different things, because you did

[24:58] Vengeance CRC and a lot of what the Twin Lakes folks, the whole campus does, but one of the things that was a

[25:06] I got a call in the summer from a firefighter's wife because they attended to a woman they were familiar with

[25:13] and they had gone to their home and all she had was a ceiling fan.

[25:17] And so they knew to get a hold of me and I was able to get a hold of Tyuset

[25:21] and they were able to get her a lingo unit with them within like a few days.

[25:26] 24 hours. Yeah. So I mean, just having that

[25:30] Veltman shop shop is just a really great opportunity.

[25:34] So I have a question. I mean, under this construct do you see like having

[25:37] like an in-peg officer that's like a share of pre-sports amongst all the...

[25:41] 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

[25:48] 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

[25:54] 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,

[26:01] of all of these 20-service offerings, these people are, you know, qualified for these seven modalities or whether you have a case offer,

[26:09] they're just going to decide and kind of...

[26:11] Like what resources they need, right?

[26:14] I mean, there's certain things that we won't be able to share.

[26:16] I mean, obviously for certain entities that will be in there,

[26:19] but more than like, yes.

[26:20] But like the CRC, when she talks about the community resource

[26:23] in our mobile halls, it's like a much smaller scale.

[26:25] It's about 15,000 square feet anchored by, you know,

[26:28] two bigger non-profits with their resources and you see,

[26:31] but they have one intake person.

[26:33] And they set up the appointments

[26:34] with the different entities that these families need.

[26:37] 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

[26:42] But overall, yes, better case managing. Yes

[26:50] You know your work is

[26:54] Something like this many people talked about and you see the need overall

[26:58] But it's going to take somebody like you who's got to experience in the background and kind of

[27:03] see how the tools came together.

[27:05] Yeah, and I just want to kind of build on that a little bit.

[27:08] I read this week that Steve Houston announced a large effort

[27:12] to end homelessness in Houston.

[27:14] Of course, Austin and Travis County

[27:15] pour a lot of resources into homelessness.

[27:18] And of course, they still have a very visible problem.

[27:22] And what I really hope for here in Williamson County

[27:25] and Cedar Park is that we continue

[27:28] to be able to leverage the incredible generosity

[27:32] the vision of people like yourself, as well as your board members, to continue really to

[27:38] take up, frankly, the slack. We run a very lean city here, and that's generally a good

[27:45] thing, but we couldn't do it without the generosity of spirit and the hard work that you bring

[27:50] to it and all your volunteers bring to it. But I really think it's so important for

[27:56] our northern end of the region here to continue to lean forward because those problems

[28:00] are coming right and you know we're lucky to have so much new things in our community and people who

[28:08] as they buy their house are doing well the time you know moves on and challenges will continue to

[28:13] arise especially you know if there's challenges the economy and so thank you for your thoughtfulness

[28:20] and vision and coming and explaining us this is best I learned a lot tonight and look forward

[28:26] to learn a lot more, thinking about ways how we can all continue to collaborate.

[28:30] Hopefully there are more to come and I'll just end with this is I know when we

[28:34] started our capital campaign two years ago our tagline was break the hardship

[28:39] of or break the grip of hardship, hunger and hopelessness and we hope to do

[28:44] that not just with what we can do but with this whole collaboration piece

[28:47] between the cities the county and our other nonprofits so thank you all for

[28:50] much for your time all

[28:56] right please call item c4 public communications right

[29:00] this is the part of the meeting where anyone can address the council not listed

[29:03] on items not listed on tonight's agenda council cannot deliberate galley

[29:06] respond with factual statements for sighting existing policy or request

[29:09] I have to be placed on a future agenda anyone here wish to address the

[29:14] council on items not listed on city's agenda seeing none and none signed up

[29:21] to speak electronically, we'll move on.

[29:24] Please call item C5.

[29:27] I'm there.

[29:27] That's been removed from the agenda.

[29:30] It's being removed from the agenda.

[29:33] He was unable to attend, so we'll place it on a future agenda.

[29:36] I was wondering where, OK.

[29:39] Well, we'll all look forward to celebrating

[29:42] Stephen's amazing 10 years with our city.

[29:46] Please call item C6.

[29:47] The city manager report for an update on the capital

[29:50] improvement program projects.

[29:55] All right, good evening, Mayor and Council. Randy

[29:58] Leader, Director of Engineering Capital Project.

[30:00] We have a lot of questions about the update on our CIP program. So, similar to our previous

[30:04] updates, we just want to first point you guys to the website. We try to stay up to date pretty

[30:13] frequently. I'm making sure the information on the website is up to date. And if you have

[30:18] questions about projects, go there. Or, obviously, reach out. But we try to keep it as up to

[30:29] I just picked a few projects that I thought maybe you guys would be interested in, some

[30:35] projects that are complete under construction, and then a project that's in design.

[30:40] So I'll start with just the Capital Improvement Program projects.

[30:45] This project, the Ranchettes for Road Resurfacing, was completed in the fall.

[30:51] And if you know these streets out there, they are older streets in town that don't

[30:56] have curving gutter and the pavement on there was in pretty bad shape. You can see in the

[31:00] before picture you've got patches and lots of crack seal and obviously just an older

[31:08] section. So we didn't really have a great tool to address those streets in our toolbox

[31:14] and so we looked around other communities to find something that we thought could

[31:20] work out here and we found this product called pressure pave which is not

[31:25] necessarily as expensive as a full full depth reconstruction and so you know from

[31:32] a from a budget standpoint it allowed us to do more square feet of treatment

[31:36] and so you can see this product in the after picture did a pretty good job of

[31:41] sealing up and adding a new wearing surface on top of the streets but also

[31:47] So not high and not thick enough to where you have a big drop off at every curb as you

[31:51] go into the driveways.

[31:53] And so this was a pretty successful project that we'll look to obviously see how it ages,

[32:00] but so far so good.

[32:02] And you can see kind of the ranch at Spore area in red on here.

[32:09] Moving on to the New Hope Drive expansion project.

[32:12] I think everybody's probably pretty familiar with this project, but it's a widening

[32:16] of new hope from four to six lanes, which includes a new innovative intersection at 1-8-3-A

[32:23] in New Hope that started in the fall and has a duration of about two and a half years.

[32:29] And the main thing I really wanted to mention on this is the holiday schedule, especially

[32:33] with all the shopping that's going on out there.

[32:36] The contractor will work through the end of next week, but then the two weeks of

[32:40] Christmas and New Year's are planning to take off, so you shouldn't see any construction

[32:44] going on out there to keep traffic moving. But I did include a few pictures so you can

[32:49] kind of see what's going on. Most of the work right now is focused under 183A so you can

[32:54] see the, obviously the overpass there. But lots of work on U-turn lanes and then also

[33:01] digging out, excavating four retaining walls within the ponds that are out there.

[33:08] And

[33:09] I can't tell you how happy I am that this is the last time I'll give you an update

[33:12] on the Brushin Creek Northboard Trail. I feel like I've given you this update many times over

[33:17] a few years, but you can see in the green section we are, we have about 17,000 linear feet of trail

[33:25] completed and poured but there's still some restoration that needs to happen on the outside

[33:30] and maybe pulling up some erosion controls, but the only piece that's remaining is that piece

[33:35] of yellow you see and if you remember back in the summer and fall we added a connection over

[33:41] to Colonial Parkway, which actually connects to a shared use path that right now ends at

[33:47] Colonial and Palmer. So that section in yellow has been cleared. They're proof rolling, setting

[33:53] forms and we're setting concrete the rest of this month and hopefully we'll plan to

[33:58] open that up in January. So three and a half miles of trail almost ready to go.

[34:06] Moving into mobility master plan project, we don't always talk about the sidewalk

[34:11] what gap projects, but it's been our super successful program for us over the years.

[34:15] This is phase six that 4B has been funding for us, where we basically go find gaps in

[34:22] the sidewalk network across the city and close them.

[34:27] And so this phase six is substantially complete, included 12 different project locations,

[34:33] including some safe pedestrian crossings, two trail connections, 20 new ramps, and

[34:39] and about 1,100 linear feet of new sidewalk across the city.

[34:43] This map just shows that it's spread out.

[34:45] There's not necessarily any one certain area

[34:47] that we're focusing on, but it's kind of across the city.

[34:51] And then I just pulled in a couple of pictures.

[34:53] You can see the picture on the left is on dark woods

[34:55] as you go down towards Brush Creek Road near the toll road.

[34:58] And then the picture on the right

[35:00] is actually a crossing of Brush Creek Road

[35:03] at Champion Park Arrange Trails.

[35:05] and so now you've got the orange net around there will be where the flashing

[35:12] beacons will get installed and then those are actually just going a little

[35:20] farther on that one for being approved for a traffic signal at that location so

[35:24] this is really more of an interim improvement until we can get the traffic

[35:27] signal at the champion part and range trails correct I like this is

[35:32] remind people, many of whom weren't here, but we actually had a young lady and her brother

[35:42] come and speak to us, I think about three years ago, about this very intersection, and so it's

[35:48] pretty cool to see it finally happen. We can track them down and let them know. Probably

[35:53] a college city care point. But thank you, Randy, for picking up on that.

[36:00] And then those flashing beacons will be able to just pull the, when the signal goes up,

[36:04] we'll pull those off and then keep them in stock and be able to put them up somewhere else.

[36:08] So they won't go to waste.

[36:11] Moving on to just some bond projects.

[36:14] I know all of you are aware of this project.

[36:16] We saw you guys this morning at the ribbon cutting.

[36:19] We've put hot off the press on the screen.

[36:22] And it's 15 acres apart along Club Creek adjacent to the Bell District.

[36:26] It includes about 3,500 linear feet of trail, a pavilion, two restroom buildings, some

[36:32] fun open space along the creek, and of course Bell, the Mockingbird play structure that

[36:38] you see on the screen.

[36:40] This project was funded by Bond Project, Bond Money, obviously, but also some Type E money.

[36:48] Since we're talking about the Bell District, I wanted to go ahead and mention a project

[36:51] that is in design, the Bell District Shared Use Path Connection, which would connect

[36:55] the Bell District over to the 183A shared use path. This excerpt you see here is from

[37:01] our trails plan with this trail identified as one of the priority trails. But it is

[37:08] about 4,000 linear feet of 10 to 12 foot wide shared use path, which includes a crossing

[37:14] of the CapMetro Ride-Away. Right now we're in the process of easement and ride-away

[37:21] acquisition, finishing up design and then getting the permitting, which obviously

[37:25] includes permitting with cat metro. So that'll all be grade separated from the

[37:30] road itself? It'll be behind that there's not there's curve in some spots but not

[37:35] in all the spots there but it will be sort of separated from the road. Yeah but

[37:38] so it's not not like a bike lane in the parts I guess that what I always

[37:41] pictured this is awesome. Yep, it's great.

[37:45] And then anticipated construction or

[37:48] go out for bid this summer and then subsequently following up the

[37:51] construction. So basically that trail would be behind the bar ditch that's

[37:56] right. So basically to get through the bar ditch. Yeah. And then another question is

[38:04] yeah I know that we're for our parks we're looking at using reprocessed water

[38:13] that's right now flowing in the brush you create up to water our parks are we

[38:17] gonna be sleeving or doing any kind of purple pipe along this trail since we

[38:21] digging it up and put some pipe in the ground so that we could possibly water the bell park

[38:28] in other areas so we don't have to go do that in the future.

[38:32] We haven't been planning that yet, but I certainly work with to see if there's any opportunities

[38:37] to where it makes sense to do that.

[38:40] Because you're digging up the area right now, this is the best time, you won't get another

[38:46] chance to put a pipe on the ground without digging it all up again, or should we go

[38:54] And that, that was all the projects I had tonight, obviously go to the website,

[38:58] if you have questions, reach out, but I'll also answer any questions tonight.

[39:03] Great problem.

[39:05] What are you going to do next year?

[39:09] 20.

[39:12] What's it going to be without it?

[39:13] We've been cutting every couple of weeks for Randy leaders.

[39:16] Well, we got one next month.

[39:18] Now we can stay in the office and work.

[39:20] Yeah, we'll take it some stuff for you.

[39:23] Yeah, sure.

[39:23] Thanks for having me.

[39:24] Do you have any questions?

[39:26] Thank you.

[39:27] Awesome.

[39:29] All right, please call the consent agenda

[39:31] except for item F1.

[39:36] For so to council roll 2.3, the city council consent agenda

[39:40] consists of agenda items D, E, and F, excluding F1.

[39:46] I move to approve consent items D, E, and F,

[39:50] excluding item F1.

[39:52] Second.

[39:54] I'll motion by W. Second by Jeff's.

[39:57] If there's no questions or comments,

[39:59] go ahead and please cast your votes.

[40:07] Motion pass unanimously with one member absent.

[40:11] Please call item F1.

[40:12] Consideration to review a resolution

[40:14] authorizing issuance of a special use in parks permit

[40:18] to, I'm not going to say that first,

[40:21] to tell at Lakeland Park on January 4th, 2021.

[40:25] Mayor, I have to have this item pulled because I have several questions related to this.

[40:31] Number one, we're just now seeing this, this event's going on on January 4th, this is the

[40:40] last meeting before that time.

[40:43] I'm concerned, you know, this event has over 1,400 people going, they're going to

[40:49] using the park from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. they have at least they have more than one

[40:54] food truck which requires additional permitting and and requirements and

[41:00] you know they also have some things in here about music I keep bringing this

[41:04] up but we need to have a stronger policy in place with these events that use a

[41:10] park for an entire Saturday because that's time our residents don't get to use

[41:15] So really, especially if 1,400 people, that's going to fill up the entire parking lot then.

[41:20] So I just feel like there's a lot more to go into these than just filling out an application like this.

[41:27] And I'm concerned they're going to overwhelm our facilities.

[41:31] So one of the reasons why these sometimes do come to you all a little bit late

[41:36] is because we're working with the applicant to vet through some of those questions

[41:40] to make sure that they're in a position to operate the event the way you would like them to.

[41:45] before we take it to you all but I do agree we need to do a better job of

[41:49] getting that a little more offline. This applicant did come in a little bit late

[41:53] last year they ran this event out of the park. They did not have a parks SVP for it

[41:58] so when we just came back to us later this year obviously we knew based on

[42:04] what we saw last year this needs to have a parks SVP so since it came in a

[42:08] little bit later we kind of worked with them they're fully prepared to

[42:11] have those permits for their food trucks they're gonna provide insurance

[42:14] for the events as well and then they're also have some pretty strict instructions on what

[42:20] they need to do for posting that cleanup and things like that as well.

[42:23] So that's all been worked through with them and then ultimately like I said going forward

[42:28] we are going to implement a new process next year where we're going to require that

[42:32] these get to us at a specific date so that we have plenty of time to do that work

[42:37] and get it to you all with the reasonable amount of time on top of that.

[42:44] And again, that's a problem, there needs to be a deadline,

[42:49] three months out for one group that's going to use a major park.

[42:55] Right now kids are in school, we'll be out of school for the holidays,

[42:59] but any other time of the year, Saturday's the big day to be in the parks,

[43:05] and nobody else is going to be out there that day.

[43:10] There won't be any parking. How many parking spaces are there on the parking lot?

[43:14] There's about 500, I believe.

[43:17] 500 and we have 1,400.

[43:20] How many sporting activities are going on in the fields at the same time?

[43:23] On January of that date, there won't be any.

[43:26] Okay.

[43:28] You know, but you have the play escapes and everything else.

[43:30] So, I just feel like this is, you know, again, there's another larger van.

[43:35] and it seems to me we're in the holidays everybody trying to wind down for the

[43:40] holidays you know when I was working you know we laid low I didn't even have people

[43:46] to get back until in January on visas so it's a lot for me. I have a question so

[43:57] they didn't have an SEP last year but they had the same event so I kind of

[44:01] explain that a little bit. This was one of those when we were, we had an issue

[44:08] last year where you could go on and you can rent a pavilion and things and there

[44:15] wasn't like a good vetting process to like make sure we were catching these

[44:19] when they were coming in and some people just they don't know any better so

[44:22] they just go in there. So that's kind of what happened last year so that's

[44:26] why we came in with it this year we caught it kind of right away. So did

[44:31] we discovered like there was like entirely too many people at one park at

[44:36] this time or like were there any issues I mean last year the the attendance side

[44:41] of it I don't think was an issue it was more just it's it's a it's a kite festival

[44:47] and I think there was just an issue with some of the debris that was left

[44:50] behind so we talked with them about that but the actual overall attendance

[44:53] I don't think was a problem actually I think I was at last

[45:00] It was kind of a guerrilla kite festival. Which is all actually this way of saying, like,

[45:09] obviously it would be even better this year. I appreciate you guys kind of leaning forward

[45:13] and thinking about that. I'm very sensitive to customer work. Kirkland's great point about

[45:17] trying to continue to find the process. Obviously, this is our first, like, super big park with,

[45:23] you know, the high end pavilion. So there's going to be a learning curve here?

[45:28] It sounds like you guys are being afforded to learn on it and this was one of the reasons

[45:33] we built this park that way was to be able to have these types of events, but we want

[45:36] to make sure that we're respectful of the residents that are also using the park and

[45:40] know, you know, the time people want to get out, it's not 105 degrees out.

[45:45] So we want to be mindful of that too.

[45:47] Like I said, going forward next year, we're going to start with that application's not

[45:51] in our office 90 days before the event, we'll be more than likely kicking it back

[45:54] to them.

[45:55] 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

[46:00] They're absolutely. Yeah, they're just gonna use the last year

[46:04] They did a pretty decent job of just staying within that amphitheater area. That's kind of the expectation for this as well

[46:09] Is that gonna be fenced off like when a city doesn't event like that when the city does it?

[46:14] We'll fix that part off right that's not gonna happen in this case

[46:17] No, they only typically we only do that type of fencing if it's like we're charging the mission

[46:24] So this is a public kite festival that he's having then?

[46:30] Yes, yes.

[46:33] So it's open to the public.

[46:35] 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.

[46:41] So if they don't want to fence it off to regulate who's coming in and out, that would be up to them.

[46:46] You know, I think, you know, the January date actually probably helps, you know,

[46:50] tendons and all that, you know, because I think when you start getting into the summer

[46:54] and competing, I think the point is really valid on consideration of, you know,

[46:59] the access to how many people to park, especially I just think it's built.

[47:03] And this might be a good opportunity to assess, you know, what is the public usage number?

[47:08] I mean, you know, I know they say 1,400 and I don't see a thousand cars.

[47:12] three to five people to car all that whatever color that works out but you

[47:16] know you don't know until you get some data yeah so the other data point on what

[47:20] is the max number of events for somebody running a space for that part that's

[47:26] non-city right and that's one of the things we've learned to going forward is

[47:30] when we when we're going to rent out and do a larger event like this at the

[47:33] Amphitheater it probably means we need to make sure that we're not also

[47:37] renting out the small pavilions around the playground the soccer fields

[47:40] things like that. So those are all part of that learning curve as we go forward and make

[47:43] sure we're balancing out that. Yeah, there's forty hundred sounds like a lot, but I don't

[47:46] know what that looks like on the ground. Right, but I do have a question. It's a family event,

[47:50] so. And I'm not sure. We'll pass. We have to have insurance from a security standpoint

[47:54] because I'm thinking in terms of like, you know, this would be a question for Chief

[47:57] or John, but you know, like, where's the public safety component that comes in

[48:03] in that there's some sort of mass casualty or big event,

[48:07] we are responding to that.

[48:09] And that's a lot of people there.

[48:12] And so are they aware all these folks are gonna be there?

[48:15] You know, that's another thing to consider,

[48:18] not to put all this on you right now.

[48:20] I just, I don't know, I like that it is a big park

[48:24] and people are wanting to use it,

[48:26] but it's almost 10 hours that it's for one group.

[48:32] So a lot of that's kind of set up and time to clean up what I mean.

[48:36] There was a little bit of what they needed to do, a little bit of a better job of clean up

[48:39] to build some extra time for that. So to put it in terms of, I don't know,

[48:43] I don't remember how many of y'all came out to our opening event, that concert we had.

[48:47] That was about 1,300, 1,400 people. So that's about

[48:53] 100. So that's about it.

[48:55] And at the same time we are looking at trying to end this out, try some new

[49:00] festivals, no events, things like that.

[49:03] No, I agree with you.

[49:04] I'm not disagreeing.

[49:05] It's just this is a group that is not based

[49:07] into your park that's having their own permanent name.

[49:10] That I guess, if you wanted to go,

[49:12] you could find out about how to get a ticket to it.

[49:14] But it's kind of in a way exclusive of our residents.

[49:21] Not to say there's not residents that are attending it,

[49:24] but it's very exclusive of our residents.

[49:25] Yes, we want to monetize and have people using.

[49:28] But again, that's ten hours is quite a long time for an exclusive group of folks on the regular.

[49:37] I'm just saying.

[49:38] I think I really appreciate Mel bringing this up and pulling off the agenda because this

[49:44] has been a really insightful conversation for me and like there's obviously all this

[49:48] to balance and try to plan for and I think it's great to see, you know, hear Mike explain

[49:54] I mean, the hallways of that were kind of continually improving the process to make sure all those things are balanced.

[50:01] And you've got to have experience to figure some of this out.

[50:06] Yeah, I mean, to establish the boundaries.

[50:09] I think it's a little bit of an open-season right now.

[50:11] We don't know until we know.

[50:13] But how much is too much?

[50:15] I completely recognize that this is an issue we need to mindful of and work towards finding a better solution for.

[50:23] You know, because the people on the side, it's different if it was a city function.

[50:27] Right, we're going to have things in place, right?

[50:29] But when you run it out, they may not have the requirement to send you everything

[50:34] through the cost associated security and all those other things.

[50:37] So that's what we've got to figure out.

[50:39] Is what's the number allowable outside of city?

[50:44] Well, in that, just what are the guards' real thoughts?

[50:46] What are the citizens' views?

[50:47] Yeah, those types of things.

[50:49] 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.

[50:59] So, you know, I mean, it's like, so that is what we're for, right?

[51:03] Is this out of the way before it's really shut down?

[51:05] Which, you know, we're not going to need to collect for that.

[51:08] So, I mean, you hold this up, you know, hold this in advance.

[51:12] well something that I think I mean I mean we're gonna have to build some

[51:17] experience in the boundaries are and we can in good faith you know tell the

[51:21] residents and I'm right here the guardrails of your non-resident that

[51:24] here's your here here's your boundary less here your guardrails and also the

[51:30] balance between non-resident running because we are inviting city a lot of

[51:34] people that will visit spend time in the city too and we did update our fee

[51:40] scheduled to include a higher rate for non-residents so they are paying the

[51:45] higher non-resident rate there are there are paying that a 50% deposit for

[51:49] that so they're paying almost $5,000.

[51:53] I think I owe money because I didn't buy a

[51:56] ticket last year we just showed up with some kites so that guy, I didn't know.

[52:04] that might be something that we look at, it's like, you know, the time and duration and all of that.

[52:10] 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,

[52:19] 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.

[52:26] I guess I'll, I'll go ahead.

[52:29] I was just, I'm a little elected to use this application as an instrument of policy, I guess

[52:36] right.

[52:37] Absolutely.

[52:37] That's a little, yeah, so I mean, and I appreciate the conversation.

[52:43] I think there are really some valid arguments and maybe some things that we can look at,

[52:46] but I'm inclined to, you know, to move forward, allow this petition this one time, but then

[52:51] school and then maybe we get back and say, hey, some of these questions with regard

[52:55] to duration.

[52:56] And those are things we've already circled back to this.

[53:01] I'll make a motion we approve F1.

[53:03] Well, it was going to be until Kevin's coming.

[53:09] Kevin's a man of an issue.

[53:12] Motion made in second to approve F1 is presented.

[53:16] Any other questions or comments?

[53:20] Bring up our voting screen.

[53:29] All

[53:34] right, so the motion has approved five, four, one against, and one member absent.

[53:40] All right, there's nothing under G.

[53:47] Please call item H-1.

[53:50] Consideration for appointment of Crescent Vaughn-Wofferfield to place forward on the type B.

[53:57] Mayor, thank you. First, I'm going to say I'm a respectful

[54:01] assidus. I didn't be reposted for the January 9th meeting, and I'll tell you why. I am very

[54:10] mixed emotions here on this, and the reason is on the one hand, I'm excited to appoint

[54:19] somebody to board. Obviously, a resident that's very interested in serving the city

[54:24] what not, but on the other hand too I'm very sad to have the loss and

[54:32] mourn the loss of the gentleman that served in this role and his cancer

[54:36] diagnosis and his ongoing struggle against cancer was a reason why this

[54:40] vacancy exists and so with that and I did talk to Christian about this and

[54:46] being a fellow retired Army officer that he certainly respected and

[54:53] wanted to give all deference to the fact that, as you mentioned earlier, that we just had

[55:00] a very touching and moving memorial service for Jim Cooper, who was my pointee of 4A and

[55:05] served for many years, until he couldn't serve anymore, and just for the record I was in

[55:13] dialogue with Jim as early as the spring when he was going through his experimental

[55:17] treatments and then during the summer and then realized that, I mean, he was struggling

[55:22] for strength and so and I said well let's circle back in September and I'm

[55:29] going to hold this appointment open and if you're up to it I would love for you to

[55:32] continue to serve but when I talked to him and said at the end of September it

[55:36] was clear that in his mind we made the mutual decision that he would gracefully

[55:41] exit and so I began to look for the follow-on appointment and so you know

[55:50] And then, of course, Jim having passed.

[55:52] And we all learned of this after the meeting last Thursday.

[55:56] And like I said, many of us attended a very touching

[55:59] and very emotional memorial service for Jim Cooper.

[56:05] And I just like to, if I may, use this time just

[56:09] to give a little personal testimonial,

[56:12] because he was a friend of all of us.

[56:15] And the council's blessing may be

[56:19] a moment of silence at the end, but maybe give us some time to visit, because this is

[56:24] a rare occurrence and we don't usually, you know, lose people that are active in our community

[56:30] like this, but when I first talked to Jim about, approached him about the 4A appointment,

[56:37] you know, we met a good lot and it was supposed to be an hour and we talked for three and,

[56:42] you know, we talked about a lot of things other than the city business, faith and

[56:46] family and my office next to him for six years and even though we were kind of de facto competitors,

[56:57] we never viewed ourselves as such. We had wonderful conversations and he'd asked me about

[57:02] client circumstances and I'd ask him and we did a lot of information sharing and he was

[57:06] just one of the most genuine and generous people that I've known. He was one of the

[57:16] You know helped to convince me that the Chamber was a very viable and very active and very fruitful

[57:22] Organization for me to become a part of it

[57:26] Obviously that eventually led to me sitting in this chair today. So and I do credit Jim for a lot of

[57:35] His wisdom and generosity and just an incredibly

[57:39] incredibly good person and I felt like the timing of this appointment

[57:43] and don't get me wrong, Christian's very excited.

[57:46] But I think with all due respect,

[57:49] I'd like to memorialize Jim Cooper's service

[57:53] and recognize him.

[57:55] And then we'll have another time next month

[57:58] to recognize and welcome Christian,

[58:01] hopefully to our 4A board.

[58:03] But that's kind of my thinking on that.

[58:07] And I just, I love Jim as a person

[58:12] and I know we'll all miss him and so.

[58:18] And Will said, Will said, I mean,

[58:20] he's been at the committee a long time

[58:21] and a lot of us have known him for many, many years.

[58:24] The ceremony, they was moving

[58:26] and really encouraging to see the amount

[58:30] of community showing up for that, you know,

[58:32] for their family as well, so it was like well lived.

[58:36] Like well lived indeed.

[58:39] Yeah, Jim is a very good man.

[58:44] definite leader in our community through, you know, all the different

[58:49] organizations that we all seem to volunteer with a true leader, a person

[58:55] who led with quality integrity, a person that had discipline, a person that never

[59:06] when you were standing in front of him, you know, his attention was on you, for

[59:12] not for the person you were, not for what you could provide.

[59:18] And, yeah, I've had the opportunity to volunteer or reveal with his wife Cindy several times with her son.

[59:28] You know, and I was asked about Jim and how he was doing.

[59:30] I got to talk to him about a month ago and I feel blessed that I got that opportunity.

[59:35] I guess it was a good day. It was a good day for both of us.

[59:41] 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.

[59:50] 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.

[1:00:01] We'll miss him, love him, appreciate everything he did, appreciate his family. And, uh, uh, Eric,

[1:00:10] thank you for pulling the item out. I agree. It's kind of a little too soon.

[1:00:18] I had the last couple of times today, because when they talked about his love of the Braves,

[1:00:23] because I was giving him a hard time, because, um, he was Cardinal's fan, and we just,

[1:00:27] and just had to agree to disagree on that.

[1:00:29] But I remember kind of he was coming on before A,

[1:00:35] I think it was after we had our break-in seat

[1:00:37] for another council and the interview for that night.

[1:00:42] I met him for coffee and tried to convince him

[1:00:44] to run for council when he looked me in the face

[1:00:47] and he said, I don't want to put my family through that.

[1:00:49] And I had to laugh because I said, well, take it from me.

[1:00:53] Yeah, it's a lot.

[1:00:55] So I mean he he his conviction was so strong and you know it's it's really a

[1:01:00] testament to the person who was if you could just try to be even a little bit

[1:01:05] insightful and just servant leader that he was it was great to be a part of like

[1:01:14] ever ever when a fellowship today for the appointment you know because when I

[1:01:22] came up with, I honestly didn't know who was gonna apply

[1:01:25] and how that was gonna look.

[1:01:26] But Jim had told me kind of to your reflection

[1:01:30] that he said, I don't wanna run a campaign,

[1:01:32] but I would love to serve.

[1:01:34] I'd love to find a way to serve.

[1:01:35] He was just that kind of a person.

[1:01:37] So I encouraged him to throw his hat in the ring

[1:01:39] and obviously I think it,

[1:01:41] and he was very happy to be considered

[1:01:45] and just a warm heart.

[1:01:48] I just wanted to say, to tell Cindy,

[1:01:50] Again, this is being memorialized on video and archive, but it's memorialized that we

[1:01:56] send our hearts and our prayers out to Cindy and kids and their extended family, and if

[1:02:04] anybody else has anything to say, please jump in, but otherwise I'd like to maybe entertain

[1:02:09] a moment of silence.

[1:02:21] Thank you.

[1:02:26] Alright, we'll talk a little more about Jim at the meeting and that was a beautiful service today for sure.

[1:02:35] Please call item H2.

[1:02:37] Consideration of a future line use plan amendment petition requesting an amendment to regional office retail commercial for a prospect with 7.79 acres

[1:02:48] Generally located at the southwest corner of East Whitestone and Arrow Point Drugs.

[1:02:54] Good evening, Mayor and Council. Andreyina Tavila with Development Services.

[1:02:58] So as stated in the item before you tonight is a petition to be able to amend the Future Land Use Plan,

[1:03:04] which as you may recall is the first step in the process whenever a developer or property owner

[1:03:09] wishes to rezone a property to a zoning district that's not consistent with the current Future Land Use Decimation.

[1:03:16] The action tonight from by the council which is simply give direction to both the applicant

[1:03:21] as well as the staff in order to how to proceed with the request should the council accept

[1:03:26] the petition it will not change the future language plan which is simply allows the

[1:03:30] applicant to proceed and move forward with the formal amendment process in associated

[1:03:35] rezoning which will come back to you at a future date.

[1:03:38] And so this petition is for a property that's just a little bit under 8 acres located south

[1:03:44] and west of the intersection of Weisston Boulevard and Aeropoint Drive highlighted in yellow on

[1:03:49] the screen in front of you.

[1:03:51] So you can see this property is currently vacant and it is surrounded by commercial uses including

[1:03:56] a mix of retail, restaurants, personal services and other commercial uses to the north.

[1:04:02] To the east you have a mix of restaurant and hotel uses.

[1:04:05] to the south is single-family residential and then to the west we have some single-family

[1:04:10] residential as well as commercial development along the Whitestone Boulevard Fronage.

[1:04:14] The current destination is local office retail commercial and it is zone professional office

[1:04:19] and the petition is to be able to amend this destination to the regional office retail

[1:04:24] commercial destination.

[1:04:26] So on the screen in front of you you will see on the left hand side the existing future

[1:04:30] relation of the subject property in surrounding areas which if you can see most of this portion

[1:04:36] of Weissman Boulevard is envisioned for regional office retail commercial particularly on the

[1:04:41] north side and then on the left hand side you see the requested regional office retail

[1:04:45] destination. So this request is to be able to develop the property with a mix of commercial

[1:04:52] as well as some office showroom warehouse uses as you can see on the concept plan

[1:04:57] in front of you. It'll be approximately five buildings totaling 64,000 square feet which

[1:05:03] will include that grocery store along the northern end of the property and then the flex office

[1:05:08] warehouse buildings on this other portion. And here you have the criteria to consider

[1:05:13] when reviewing future land use and plan amendments. That concludes my presentation. I'm happy

[1:05:18] to answer any questions and the applicant is here and has a brief presentation point.

[1:05:24] Any questions for staff or should we move on to the presentation by the applicant?

[1:05:37] Mayor, Council, thank you for making my job pretty easy.

[1:05:41] I just went through the whole boring part of the process of what we're here to discuss

[1:05:45] on amending the future lane use, or at least starting that process.

[1:05:50] As a way of introduction, my name is Austin McWilliams.

[1:05:52] I'm part of the development company that is proposing this mixed use development

[1:05:56] at the southwest corner of Whitestone Boulevard and Arrow Point Drive.

[1:06:00] Currently it's local office.

[1:06:02] We are petitioning to go forward to allow for regional office,

[1:06:05] ultimately for general business zoning.

[1:06:09] The

[1:06:16] proposal is based upon a client of ours that we represent,

[1:06:20] that we typically build for.

[1:06:23] And that is a national specialty grocer that is about 13,

[1:06:28] 14,000 square feet that we have site planed on the north side of this project. Along with that we

[1:06:35] would build three to four other small flex retail commercial buildings about 12 to 15,000 square feet

[1:06:43] each all to support the overall development. So the overall project ultimately would be about

[1:06:48] 60 to 70,000 square feet depending on the final site plan. These are all single story small

[1:06:55] bay commercial buildings in the rear.

[1:07:04] Our request here we're hoping that we are we

[1:07:08] can get the support of council that our vision here is aligned with the

[1:07:13] comprehensive plan as you can see the other three corners at the intersection

[1:07:17] also have the regional designation and the general business zoning that we're

[1:07:21] petitioning for ultimately should we be allowed to go forward but ultimately

[1:07:26] we believe that the proposed development that we're pursuing here with your

[1:07:31] blessing is to add a lot to the local community. We've been starting our

[1:07:35] coordination process with the neighborhood, with our residential

[1:07:39] neighbors, with HOA surrounding there, with staff over many many months to EDC.

[1:07:45] But we believe adding that specialty grocer that is not in market, that is

[1:07:50] highly desired, adds a benefit to the local community. Obviously the sales tax,

[1:07:56] the local jobs that will be created kept here in Cedar Park all their value

[1:08:00] adds to the local community but also we have we've worked for many months with

[1:08:06] transportation and tech stock to iron out an improvement to the traffic and the

[1:08:11] congestion of this intersection and I think we found the solution for that.

[1:08:16] We got some final approvals from transportation today as well as tech

[1:08:22] out in the last couple of weeks to get our access point on 1431 approved and the addition

[1:08:29] of a 500 foot deceleration lane on Whitestone Boulevard which would be a benefit to our

[1:08:35] project, our neighbors to the west and no cost to them and it's something that's currently

[1:08:40] not in place today. So with that I'm happy to answer your questions you might have.

[1:08:47] So we've seen, you know, a few proposals on this piece of land over the years.

[1:08:56] And one of the things that's important to me is that White Stone's a state highway.

[1:09:02] At one point, the state was even looking at maybe Keanu Ray's highway,

[1:09:07] which kind of ruins a lot of the frontage and see your part.

[1:09:11] But, you know, I've always seen this one location as general business to match all the surrounding

[1:09:18] businesses.

[1:09:19] I mean, you have BMC, you know, they're on the frontage, I was there before anything

[1:09:25] else, two hotels, restaurants, a hotel across the street, a large flooring store, and then

[1:09:35] and all of the mixed-use light industrial flex space

[1:09:39] to the north.

[1:09:41] So this seems like it's the appropriate zoning

[1:09:44] for this property.

[1:09:47] Just wondering on that store,

[1:09:51] do you have like a letter of intent

[1:09:54] or anything like that that, you know,

[1:09:57] we were to commit that that's gonna actually happen?

[1:10:00] Absolutely.

[1:10:00] We do, we have a purchase-assail contract.

[1:10:03] Okay.

[1:10:04] We're happy to provide that for the record.

[1:10:08] So my question is, you know, to the point made about that particular property and things in the past,

[1:10:14] say I recall a meeting we had probably a year ago, Florida Corp was trying to go there.

[1:10:21] And the reason why it's not there and didn't get approval partly because, you know, the residents showed up.

[1:10:27] You know, they voice, I think, a valid concern.

[1:10:30] And frankly, I think, you know, the flow to court

[1:10:33] on the other side of the street actually was probably a better location anyway.

[1:10:37] So how do you address the concern?

[1:10:43] Because what was expressed at that meeting by some of the residents is that, you know,

[1:10:46] the whole local office thing they wanted to keep.

[1:10:48] And I understand, you know, I don't blame them when I understand their position,

[1:10:51] How do you address that process versus this and how much of a change is that?

[1:11:01] Of course, that's a valid concern and it's something we anticipated as part of this process of course.

[1:11:08] And that's why we've started to communicate with the neighborhood groups around there.

[1:11:13] We know that they have concerns from previous proposals that have been here.

[1:11:20] We are doing our best to be as transparent as we can.

[1:11:23] And thankfully we have a site plan that we intend to build.

[1:11:26] Assuming we move forward on the entitlement process and get the rezoning.

[1:11:30] We'll be submitting a site development permit with the plans or

[1:11:33] something very similar to what you've seen tonight in very short order.

[1:11:38] We're just waiting for the entitlement process to proceed in order to be able to do so.

[1:11:42] But we'll be presenting those plans with the HOAs and

[1:11:46] We've already had certain direct conversations with some of the property owners directly behind our property.

[1:11:53] And what's the preliminary feedback as well?

[1:11:56] It's the same general concerns of what are you wanting to do and how could that potentially negatively impact.

[1:12:03] It's positive and there's some normal concerns.

[1:12:07] It's going from what is green space today to ultimately would not be green space.

[1:12:11] 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.

[1:12:23] 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.

[1:12:34] We're working with our site planning now to re-orient some of it to where

[1:12:38] Detention ponds and certain green space are buffered closest to the residential all the normal things you would try to do

[1:12:45] To be a good neighbor, and so we're working through that process

[1:12:48] and I think

[1:12:50] To to your point when the furniture store came in

[1:12:53] they were kind of set down on the lower part of the property which was closer to the Brady's neighborhood and

[1:13:00] You know obviously they had to have all their loading dots

[1:13:02] which would have been back loaded closer to the neighborhoods and the residents and then the residents in the ETJ

[1:13:10] Can you go back to the picture where you kind of divided the property?

[1:13:15] So the one business is way up in front

[1:13:19] basically, you know closer to the right-of-way and I I guess the

[1:13:24] Decel will be back there towards the very west upper west corner of the property. That's right

[1:13:29] That's on the very north end of the top of the site,

[1:13:33] plain, plain north.

[1:13:34] That is obviously Whitestone Boulevard.

[1:13:36] That's where our deceleration lane will terminate.

[1:13:38] It will start 500 feet west of there.

[1:13:41] OK.

[1:13:42] We'll go past the dialysis center

[1:13:43] just after the people at home will begin.

[1:13:46] They'll be happy for a decel line off that roadway

[1:13:49] with no curbing gutters.

[1:13:51] And with the flow there and through over the arrow point,

[1:13:55] it's going to keep a lot of that traffic right on the north side

[1:13:57] closer to 1431, which ultimately I think will I think appease some of the

[1:14:02] concerns from the neighborhood once I understand the traffic flow. And as you

[1:14:08] from Whitestone down to it may you know engineering wise the detention bond is

[1:14:13] always going to be at the bottom of the property which is where you have it on

[1:14:15] the drive. It is and I think it may actually we're working on that now

[1:14:19] our civil engineers happily can answer any questions but I think we're

[1:14:24] looking to try to reorient that along the whole southern boundary and push that

[1:14:28] other building further to the north just to enhance some separation from the

[1:14:32] network. I do like that. So for me not at all a deal breaker but when we

[1:14:39] chatted about the traffic really that I think the only sticking point with

[1:14:45] that traffic is going to be everybody who's coming west bound on 1431 is

[1:14:50] going to have to be on aero point and entering from aero point because there won't be a

[1:15:00] Just after that intersection.

[1:15:02] 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.

[1:15:11] So my only concern is going to be what does that left turn onto Arrow Point look like?

[1:15:17] And that'll be considerations for our department moving forward with you.

[1:15:23] And then what does that right turn from Arrow Point into the parking lot look like?

[1:15:28] I mean, like I said, not a deal breaker, these are things that we can definitely work through in the process.

[1:15:33] But that will be my sticking point is how you address those two issues.

[1:15:39] Of course. And we'll work with staff, we'll work with the neighborhood.

[1:15:44] But obviously, thankfully on our point, this site is not lacking any depth.

[1:15:50] It's a very deep property which allows for good turning radiuses even for any large trucks that have to come here.

[1:15:56] other than grocery store really shouldn't be any, so the turning radius and access

[1:16:01] point should be fairly substantial here, but we're happy to work with staff on it.

[1:16:06] So you wouldn't anticipate in that flex commercial space like none of those

[1:16:09] should have loading docks? If there is one, which I highly doubt based

[1:16:15] upon the tenemix we envision there, but if there is it'd probably be a common

[1:16:19] docks and we're sure it wouldn't be multiple, but really this type of

[1:16:23] product in this type of setting with the national brochure that we're working to put here, it's

[1:16:30] going to go for more retail, some professional office. There may be a retail showroom or

[1:16:37] part warehouse or something, but at most you'd expect some vans or maybe a box truck. That's

[1:16:42] really what's going to be on the side of that.

[1:16:44] any large trucks, any large trucks would be to the grocery store and that's in the far north of the project.

[1:16:59] And a lot of that, of course, we'll deal with that, you know, with this coming back for rezoning, if approved,

[1:17:05] 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.

[1:17:11] 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.

[1:17:19] So we're all doing a pretty good job for us. I'm not jumping down too far in the weeds.

[1:17:25] 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.

[1:17:34] and our ordinance certainly incentivizes you to do so.

[1:17:38] But I certainly appreciate your early and hopefully rigorous

[1:17:43] dialogue with the neighborhood folks that make sure you get there.

[1:17:46] But I do want to know that we do have one person signed up to speak on this issue.

[1:17:51] Does anybody else have any other questions for the applicant while he's lined up here?

[1:17:55] Can we get a, because we don't have the formal public hearing on this.

[1:18:00] I mean, I'd like to go ahead and make a motion to approve item H2, but we'd leave the motion

[1:18:05] on the table and hear those citizens comment.

[1:18:07] Okay.

[1:18:10] I'll second his motion since the motion is made, but I'll wait for a second on the table

[1:18:14] and I'd love to hear what the citizens have to say.

[1:18:16] Okay.

[1:18:17] So the motion is made and the seconded.

[1:18:19] If you have any other questions for the applicant, I'll call up Ms. Jim McGuire, who is

[1:18:23] signed up to speak. Jill lives in the city and is it against the IEA?

[1:18:42] I'm back. Anyway, we

[1:18:49] just recently heard we became aware of the future land position

[1:18:56] I'm sorry, I'm going to have to start all over, I'm a little nervous.

[1:19:00] I'm one of the people who lives right behind where they're planning on building this store

[1:19:11] and other buildings.

[1:19:19] And we just recently learned about this future land use this past week.

[1:19:25] And we have concerns about change in the future land plan and also change in the zoning.

[1:19:36] This property was originally zoned as general business. However, when they decided to build our community,

[1:19:46] they changed the zoning to professional office for the reason that it would be the most optimal

[1:19:54] and gentle transition into our neighborhood.

[1:20:01] With this new petition, we would be taking

[1:20:06] away a part of our community in which these zones were originally put into place to protect

[1:20:16] us.

[1:20:20] I really do appreciate the opportunity to visit and to speak tonight and I thank

[1:20:26] I think all of you and my condolences for your loss.

[1:20:32] Thank you, Mr. Clarence.

[1:20:33] Appreciate your input and I know that we all hope you stay engaged throughout the process.

[1:20:38] Yes, you'll remind her that she's having many more opportunities to voice the PNZ.

[1:20:43] Right, and this is just step one of the process and so this is just a conceptual grind.

[1:20:48] So there's lots of work left to be done.

[1:20:53] All right, so we do have a motion and a second.

[1:20:55] Any questions or comments from the members of the council?

[1:21:00] So, just for our technology folks, we still have item H1 up here for the vote.

[1:21:06] So, small technical issue.

[1:21:11] So, yeah, our little box here still has H1.

[1:21:14] We need the cycling through to get to the voting box.

[1:21:20] 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.

[1:21:28] My threshold on these is like, is there any chance this could work? You know, it's not dispositive towards eventual zoning.

[1:21:35] I think we've gotten some feedback to get some more about, you know, how we really want to make sure this looks.

[1:21:42] and I think what will be key is continued conversations

[1:21:46] with the neighborhood to make sure

[1:21:48] we can kind of balance it out.

[1:21:51] So okay, this reads as H2.

[1:21:53] If anybody else has any other comments,

[1:21:55] if not, we can go ahead and cast our votes.

[1:22:01] All right, so the motion to proceed with the petition

[1:22:04] and passes six to zero.

[1:22:08] Thank you all for coming and bringing us forth tonight.

[1:22:13] Please call item H3.

[1:22:16] Consideration of a resolution

[1:22:17] authorizing the purchase of vehicles and equipment funding

[1:22:20] in the FY2025 vehicle for Equipment Services Fund

[1:22:24] operational budget in addition to all matters set forth

[1:22:29] for the auction sale of previous equipment.

[1:22:32] Thanks, Leanne.

[1:22:33] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[1:22:35] My name is Nick Long.

[1:22:36] I'm the superintendent over fleet facilities

[1:22:38] for the city here.

[1:22:40] And tonight we're asking for your approval

[1:22:42] in this resolution authorizing the purchase of new

[1:22:45] and replacement vehicles as funded in our FY25 budget.

[1:22:50] A little background, but many of you are aware,

[1:22:53] but as a reminder, we are discussing two types of purchases today.

[1:22:57] The first is replacement vehicles.

[1:22:59] These are units that are already in service,

[1:23:01] vehicles that have reached the end of their useful life.

[1:23:04] We're replacing these vehicles through our VES,

[1:23:07] which is a dedicated replacement fund for existing vehicles and equipment.

[1:23:12] The VES is funded by annual contributions to this account by the end-user departments

[1:23:17] in anticipation of the vehicle's replacement date.

[1:23:21] We also deposit money made from the sale of existing equipment

[1:23:24] or proceeds from insurance claims that result in a total loss.

[1:23:28] The new vehicles that we're also purchasing or getting authorized to purchase today,

[1:23:33] these are enhancements to the fleet, end-user departments.

[1:23:36] These units are identified through the FY25.

[1:23:38] standard budget process and funding has

[1:23:41] hard to identify.

[1:23:43] So before you use a snapshot, it's also in your packet

[1:23:46] of the vehicles that we'll be looking at replacing.

[1:23:49] In all, you've got 28 vehicles dedicated to the

[1:23:52] police services.

[1:23:55] Some of the large vehicle purchases there.

[1:23:57] It's a VATCon combo truck

[1:23:58] dedicated to safer

[1:24:00] digging processes.

[1:24:03] That's also a street super replacement

[1:24:04] and a large bucket truck replacement.

[1:24:08] Some new vehicles that we'll be adding, a few units for our police department, as well

[1:24:13] as a service truck for one of my departments, as well as a new trailer and tractor for our

[1:24:18] parks and then a service truck for our pump and motors.

[1:24:23] All in for the FY25 VES replacements, you guys are looking at it, $3,743,000 for the

[1:24:32] enhancements around that at $360,000 for a total of $4,108,000 and you can kind

[1:24:39] see a breakdown of the percentages of what we're spending on public safety versus

[1:24:43] general fund and utility fund. And if there's any questions, I'd be happy to

[1:24:48] answer them.

[1:24:53] Press a year for police cars.

[1:24:55] It's a big number. We won't have to go back too soon.

[1:25:00] This keeps it bigger.

[1:25:01] Are you looking at me or Brenda?

[1:25:08] I'm just glad we have the VES program.

[1:25:11] that we plan for this year's in advance. This isn't something that just popped up.

[1:25:16] It's been something in planning in the works for many, many years that this

[1:25:21] would come up at this time.

[1:25:26] So I'll make a motion to approve H3 as presented.

[1:25:31] I heard Anne, it's the second on that. So we'll make her second by Duffy.

[1:25:39] Any other questions or comments?

[1:25:41] And I guess we have to go ahead with both.

[1:25:45] Thank you for the outstanding stewardship of our people, please.

[1:25:58] Cameron, we decided.

[1:25:59] Yeah.

[1:26:00] We actually don't need to call this up at this time, and so we're actually ready to talk

[1:26:05] about cap talk.

[1:26:07] Okay.

[1:26:08] I have H5.

[1:26:10] Consideration of appointments to the Capital Area Council of Governments.

[1:26:14] General Assembly.

[1:26:16] Good evening, Mayor and Councilor Jacob Ward.

[1:26:18] This is into the City Manager.

[1:26:19] No presentation for you this evening.

[1:26:21] As Leigh Ann mentioned, this is consideration

[1:26:23] of appointments to the Cap College General Assembly.

[1:26:26] The park does get three nominations,

[1:26:28] and I believe previous nominations during 2023

[1:26:31] were included in your packet.

[1:26:33] That turned over to the council.

[1:26:41] How did that move?

[1:26:42] Wow.

[1:26:44] I can't.

[1:26:45] Yes, we have three seats on the General Assembly.

[1:26:48] Really it needs twice a year in September and December and it would be really helpful

[1:26:54] if we had more members that came so that we can try to work our way back onto the Executive

[1:27:01] Committee which we have not had a seat on since 2019.

[1:27:09] But you serve on the Air Quality Committee?

[1:27:13] I do serve on the air quality committee and have since 2017, but being the only one, I

[1:27:21] can't really work either myself or another council member on to the executive committee.

[1:27:28] That's not a requirement, that would be good.

[1:27:30] No, it just means that you have more to do, more say in the direction of Capcom.

[1:27:40] Yeah, so how does that work?

[1:27:41] Because I'm on the EG side in those meetings.

[1:27:45] Me, Corey, said that your views are on CapCop right now.

[1:27:50] Right?

[1:27:51] He's not on General Assembly.

[1:27:53] I'm not on General Assembly.

[1:27:54] I'm just a member of the CapCop.

[1:27:56] I'm a developer.

[1:27:58] I was like, something is wrong here.

[1:28:01] It's twice a year.

[1:28:02] It's September and December.

[1:28:05] For General Assembly.

[1:28:11] Well, okay, so now you have six meetings a year.

[1:28:15] Do you have lunch?

[1:28:17] Anne's nominated for dinner.

[1:28:18] Yes, they serve food.

[1:28:20] Okay, Heather, I assume you want to continue.

[1:28:23] I would like to, if that's okay.

[1:28:25] If there's not three other people that want to serve lunch, we'll come again.

[1:28:29] Okay.

[1:28:30] And declining interest?

[1:28:33] No.

[1:28:34] Any interest?

[1:28:34] I've done it for over six years. Okay, that's one of the conflicts with the

[1:28:43] Chamber lunches.

[1:28:47] Two per year guys, two per year.

[1:28:57] I got to be sherry but I'm busy I'll nominate Bobby that's that's what happens when you miss

[1:29:18] We should have subcommittees that I mean y'all are both engaged in examples of that and there

[1:29:26] are others that yeah there's like a there's like a regional safety task force there's

[1:29:34] a council on the aging there's the economic development there's clean air coalition yeah

[1:29:39] there's there's multiple subcommittees that generally meet quarterly yeah I like the

[1:29:45] The value of the regional aspect that's going on,

[1:29:47] where the county comes to the right of the next big year,

[1:29:52] which is good kind of no, you know,

[1:29:54] what the state and those people think about those,

[1:29:57] talking about water and everything.

[1:30:01] Yeah, certainly the regional conversation on these is more important than ever, but you might remind of that.

[1:30:07] Earlier this week the air will come as well. Do we have to take action tonight?

[1:30:12] You don't.

[1:30:13] Yeah, I'd like to.

[1:30:14] Wait, I said no, you don't.

[1:30:17] Check it?

[1:30:20] Okay, technically you don't.

[1:30:22] Is it because it's holding years?

[1:30:24] Can we?

[1:30:24] The term is for two years, even years?

[1:30:27] Yeah, it's coming.

[1:30:28] Two upcoming years.

[1:30:31] Yeah, it's for two years.

[1:30:32] So it's usually for council members, it's for their term.

[1:30:36] Okay, so it would just be one year

[1:30:40] because it will come up for renewal next December.

[1:30:43] Yeah, I was saying since.

[1:30:45] Yes, we can put it back on January 9th.

[1:30:49] Maybe as much as we'd like it to be on,

[1:30:53] we should let her have to then put it.

[1:30:56] So if we add it for our January meeting,

[1:30:59] to make a decision and have to develop a chance to stick up to themselves.

[1:31:04] All right, so I'm doing a motion to table or anything like that formally.

[1:31:13] I'll make a motion to table item H, hotel 5.

[1:31:19] I'll second that, and so I guess we'll vote on table item H5.

[1:31:33] We will take it up at our next meeting.

[1:31:36] I'm going to go ahead and recess us back into Executive Session to complete our work.

[1:31:43] And of course the Chapter 5-21 of the Government Code, the City Council will now convene a closing

[1:31:47] Executive Session pursuant to the following provisions of the Texas Openings Act.

[1:31:51] 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.

[1:32:02] Council reconvene, whenever we're done, y'all don't feel you gotta hang out.

[1:32:12] All right, I call back into open session of regular scheduled meeting of Cedar Park City Council, please call item H6.

[1:32:20] Consider action with any on items discussed in the executive session.

[1:32:24] Okay, I'm going to go ahead and-

[1:32:29] Item B2?

[1:32:31] Yes.

[1:32:31] Okay, is that okay?

[1:32:32] Sure.

[1:32:33] Yeah, thanks.

[1:32:34] So on item 2, I'm going to go ahead and make a motion to make sure I'm doing the right option here.

[1:32:47] Make a motion to authorize the mayor to execute amendment to the city manager's deployment agreement

[1:32:51] or rising section 3 to increase annual base salary by 4% along with city manager to allocate

[1:32:56] a set increase between annual base salary and or deferred compensation at her discretion

[1:33:00] motion to be effective as of the beginning of the first paid period in calendar 2025.

[1:33:06] Second.

[1:33:07] All right.

[1:33:07] Motion by Kirkland.

[1:33:12] Do you want to bring up our voting screen?

[1:33:14] Motion by you.

[1:33:15] Motion by me.

[1:33:17] Sorry.

[1:33:17] I think it's second.

[1:33:18] Thank you.

[1:33:19] I was kind of a little late.

[1:33:21] It has been a long day.

[1:33:23] Yes, it has been.

[1:33:24] Motion on one of that.

[1:33:25] I'm going to go ahead and cast your votes.

[1:33:31] Motion passes unanimously.

[1:33:34] I'm going to go ahead and make a new motion to authorize

[1:33:39] the mayor to execute an amendment of the city attorney's

[1:33:41] employment agreement for rising section three

[1:33:43] to increase annual base salary by 4% allowing the city

[1:33:47] attorney to allocate city increase

[1:33:49] between annual base salary and order for a conversation

[1:33:51] and his discretion defective at the beginning

[1:33:52] for a paid period encounter 2025.

[1:33:55] Second.

[1:33:55] All right. Motion by myself. I'm going to bring up... reset the voting screens on that.

[1:34:09] I guess this would be...

[1:34:10] This would be A and B.

[1:34:12] This is 2B.

[1:34:15] B2B.

[1:34:16] I know. The curve ball in the system. Yeah. It's posted as B2A and B2B.

[1:34:22] Well, nothing else. We can just take a voice vote or show a dance or something.

[1:34:27] Sorry. We should have let you know before then.

[1:34:29] All

[1:34:33] 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,

[1:34:47] 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.

[1:34:57] and hopefully you guys recognize that, so thank you.

[1:35:03] All right, that brings us to...

[1:35:04] Vary Council closing comments.

[1:35:07] All right, Mel, you're up.

[1:35:08] All right, just thank you for everybody attending tonight.

[1:35:12] Sorry I missed the tree lighting.

[1:35:15] I heard it was a wonderful event.

[1:35:21] And again, my sincerest condolences

[1:35:26] to the turned

[1:35:35] off to Jim Cooper's family and all the friends and and also I

[1:35:43] realize this how large his extended family at Hill Country Bible is so sorry

[1:35:50] for for all of our loss look forward to the holidays I got to go over today and

[1:35:57] take a little tour of the new 54 restaurant over on New Hope and police

[1:36:06] that place has pickleball courts that are correct sizes and with that you all

[1:36:11] have a wonderful evening.

[1:36:16] Yeah just thank you to Jim Cooper for his service to the

[1:36:21] city and I am going to say they'll maybe be bargaining even though they're not

[1:36:27] going to. So I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I know that was a theme today. What did he say?

[1:36:36] What was the last thing? Keep doing good? Keep fighting the good fight. That was the resounding message at the end.

[1:36:45] Keep fighting the good fight. And I'm going to say a shout out to Joshua Greig and the puzzler party at

[1:36:56] amazing. That's 500 piece puzzles and they're like knocking down so fast like they are serious it was

[1:37:02] awesome and thanks for a treasure the hills for helping host that and then the tree lighting was

[1:37:09] awesome so thank you to everyone that was a part of that and the unity is that unity recreation

[1:37:15] center yes and it's pretty fantastic and they had a big to-do as they did for their openings and

[1:37:23] 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.

[1:37:32] Yeah, full-size commercial kitchen. It's pretty fantastic. Thank you and have a very wonderful holidays and Christmas and all the things.

[1:37:44] 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.

[1:37:54] 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.

[1:38:03] I was a little taken aback from the picture of our chief of police.

[1:38:08] I wasn't ready to see him that way.

[1:38:11] I think you have to put that in context.

[1:38:14] Oh, I'm sorry.

[1:38:15] There's a lot of pictures.

[1:38:17] Well, our chief of police is graciously supporting the arts

[1:38:24] and going to be Mother Ginger, is that though?

[1:38:28] Yeah, he's playing Mother Ginger for the...

[1:38:31] But they posted a picture of a breast dog,

[1:38:32] and I wasn't ready to see him like that, right?

[1:38:37] Not everybody can do that. Kudos to him.

[1:38:40] Lack of an honest weekend. I mean, it's Christmas time.

[1:38:43] 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.

[1:38:53] 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.

[1:39:03] we really do have a very cool city and I enjoy it and I think as opposed to be

[1:39:09] able to serve doing this and you know the staff doesn't gain a day out and you guys

[1:39:13] are committed you know I'm very proud to be in this position thank you for all you

[1:39:17] guys do. Merry Christmas we'll see you next year.

[1:39:22] I would like to add my

[1:39:23] condolences to Jim's family and friends and all of you and I stayed away I'm

[1:39:29] not I'm under the weather right now so I'm trying to avoid as many people as

[1:39:34] possible. But he was a truly great human being and I am very sad at his passing. But very

[1:39:49] appreciative of all the city staff and everything that you guys have worked on this past year.

[1:39:54] It has been a fantastic year for the city in terms of just all of the projects and

[1:40:01] ideas and just the general day-to-day service of 80 plus thousand people just an

[1:40:11] incredible job for everybody so I know not everybody is on vacation but we are

[1:40:17] for a little while so I just wanted to say I hope everybody has a safe and warm

[1:40:23] and relaxing holiday season vacation.

[1:40:28] Thank you.

[1:40:30] You know, I appreciate everyone and their sentiments with Jim.

[1:40:35] And I guess, you know, there's a lot of people that obviously weren't there.

[1:40:37] There were a lot of people there at the Memorial today,

[1:40:40] but there are a lot of people that obviously missed it.

[1:40:42] You know, it makes you, when you sit there and you listen to the legacy that Jim has left, you know, on service,

[1:40:47] just being gracious and the humility and just the way he conducted himself and carried himself.

[1:40:55] You know, in the tragedy and the sadness of a funeral, you always try to take something away from it.

[1:41:01] So, you know, just thought of the re-emphasis on, you know, just being kind and being generous

[1:41:07] and just being a good person and trying to, you know, reflect that.

[1:41:11] I think about my kids, the way that Jim, you know, obviously had a very positive influence

[1:41:15] on his own children. So, you know, I'll think about this, this holiday season, you know,

[1:41:20] it's a time to thank, it's a, you know, time to be thankful, the time to be charitable,

[1:41:25] and, you know, I'll be thinking about all that, and obviously I'll extend my great

[1:41:31] gratitude to the staff, as I always do, but I think Heather put it very nicely,

[1:41:36] you know, with regard to all the major projects and staff that's present and staff that

[1:41:40] is escaped already and the staff that we don't usually see in this chamber that

[1:41:45] they're wearing boots and driving trucks and on the roads and all of that and I

[1:41:50] just really appreciate appreciate them and I know we have I don't think anybody

[1:41:57] mentioned Blue Santa so that's coming up Saturday so I'm excited about that and

[1:42:03] then I know a couple people mentioned the tree lighting and that was fun the

[1:42:06] weather kind of held out for us so it was really really cool but it was a

[1:42:10] 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.

[1:42:20] Thank you.

[1:42:22] 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.

[1:42:35] And so, yeah, but thanks for mentioning Blue Sand Valley,

[1:42:39] for seeing a lot of you there.

[1:42:41] It reads Across America, also on Saturday and participating as well,

[1:42:47] representing the United States Navy.

[1:42:50] So that will be a very special event.

[1:42:53] But yeah, it's been quite an emotional day.

[1:42:54] Very, you know, started off at a real high point with the Parks dedication.

[1:42:59] That's really looking beautiful.

[1:43:01] I know we're all very proud of that and I'm looking forward to seeing it filled with smiling children and faces

[1:43:10] In coming months

[1:43:13] Then you know the Jim's funeral was it was a beautiful service and just a really great representation

[1:43:20] What a true Christian gentleman he was

[1:43:23] Somebody who always just you know, I never saw him be disrespectful to anybody. Everybody always felt respected and welcome and

[1:43:32] That's just the highest standard of true leadership in the community.

[1:43:38] And so I know we will always remember his example of exactly what you want a community leader to be at any level.

[1:43:47] So, with that, I will go ahead and adjourn. I hope everyone has a very happy holiday.

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