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I mean, we'll go ahead and start the Wednesday, January 9th, 2019 City Council meeting. This time, we'll have the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance.

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He's done the...

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I'll do it.

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Okay.

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You're having the time. We're so thankful for this day. We appreciate the opportunity to represent our city in the things that are important to the community.

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We thank you for our many blessings and ask that you help us through this

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meeting to do the things that are right for our citizens. In your name we pray.

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At

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this time we have the minutes from the November 14th 2018 meeting that

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need to be approved. They do approve. Second. Mosheville, Westbrook, a second by

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Moore. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. And Kedrick is going to come

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up and present an award.

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Good morning, Mayor. Good morning. Good morning. I'm a proud to

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be here for you today to discuss an award that our Finance Department and

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other staff here at the City of Tyler work hard to obtain.

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This is a

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To request that City Council consider accepting a Certificate of Achievement Award in Excellence

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in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Office of the Association of the United

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States and Canada.

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This is for our 2016-2017 annual audit report.

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This is the 32nd consecutive year that we've received this award.

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And this award is judged by an impartial panel.

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They judge our CAFR to determine if it has a spirit of full disclosure,

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if it communicates our true financial story,

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and motivate potential users and user groups to read the annual report.

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Now I don't know much about the motivation part unless you're a numbers person,

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But it's a pretty intimidating document, but it's very comprehensive of our financial story here at the City of Titans.

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The best we can guess, there's about 35,000 cities in the United States.

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There's about 3,000 counties in the United States.

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And we know that there were 4,300 awards awarded for 2016 CAFRA.

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They're still working on doing the evaluations on the 2017 CAFERS.

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So it's a pretty hard item to get, and it takes a lot of work to achieve this award.

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And I've got my staff here today.

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We've got Lauren Justice, Blake Catty, Jimmy Acker, Samantha.

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these individuals, they work tirelessly to make sure we get this award and it's

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definitely a department-wide award. Can you all stand up so everybody can see

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and we can clap for you.

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Thank you very much for your efforts. So I haven't said

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that, I just recommend that you all accept the award on behalf of City of

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Tyler. Well absolutely and thank you all very much for the hard work that

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which I'll put in each and every year.

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And this year is an easier year

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since the sales tax is doing so well,

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but y'all do such a very good job throughout the year

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and we appreciate your service very much.

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Thank you.

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Move to approve A-1.

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Second.

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Motion in the second.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Yes, have it.

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Heather?

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Good morning, Mayor and Council.

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Good morning.

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This first item is a special use permit renewal request.

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This item has previously gone before the council for renewal for the Gateway to Hope, a homeless day resource center.

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This is located in our downtown area. To the north is general commercial.

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To the south is industrial. To the west is also general commercial.

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And to the east is industrial.

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And it's developed with a mixture of a cellular communications tower, single family home, a bus transportation office, and storage facilities.

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This use received an annual SUP approval in 2012 and 2015.

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And then the management of the use has changed, and that changed in 2015, and the use was approved for three years.

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This is the first renewal request for the current manager, Highway 80 Rescue Mission.

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An action plan has been incorporated into the special use permit approval.

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The majority of the items are related to the facility prohibiting criminal activity.

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Non-compliance with the action plan can be a reason to revoke the SUP at any time.

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The applicant has identified actions that it will employ to deter improper actions

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from its clientele up to and including suspension of services.

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And you can see here, this is a listing of the action plan requirements.

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The Code Enforcement Department has not identified any cases in the past three years, which have

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been tied to Gateway to Hope.

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The Police Department has also run a report of responses made in this area since 2013

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and most common reasons reported were suspicious persons and disturbance.

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If there are any questions about the data, there has been a representative of the Police

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Department here.

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However, the amount of calls were very minimal in this area and pretty much consistent with

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other low criminal activity and suspicious persons in other neighborhoods.

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The staff also contacted Highway 80 to get figures about their operations and the data

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shows success from the program.

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It also identifies that some clients have received revocation of services and that

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That indicates that Highway 80 has been enforcing the provisions that were approved in the action

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plan.

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And their successes are listed here, which are great.

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You see the clients that have received services, 123 are now employed, 75 have home.

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So they're doing wonderful work for the community.

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There was a protester that said their main concern was approving the use for an indefinite

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period of time, which was the original request.

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However, the staff did change that, modified that duration to another five-year renewal,

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and the protester was satisfied with that renewal.

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And of the 16 notices, one was returned in opposition at just over a 3.5% protest,

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and the Planning and Zoning Commission approves this special use permit renewal

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along with the action plan for five years unanimously.

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Okay, we do have a court. It's from Eric Berger, but he is here for questions only. Go ahead.

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Sure. I have been involved with Gateway to Hope since 2012 with the previous board.

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And it changed hands to Highway 80 several years ago, and Aaron and Eric are in the audits.

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can y'all just raise your hand.

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Since the change in the folks that have actually run it,

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there's more rules now.

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There's more expectations of the people

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that come there from day to day.

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And before, back in 2012, 2013, it

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was more of a place for people to gather.

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And now it's a place where people actually are gathering,

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but they have expectations to look for a job,

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try to get a job.

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And I've got to give one plug to Onedale is how any rescue mission is actually opening

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up a place called Triumph Village, which is Highway 64 out by the airport.

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And what this place will be is for guys that go through the recovery program in Longview.

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Once they graduate from that over a 10 month period, they'll come back to Tyler, and

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they will actually live at Triumph Village and get plugged back into the community.

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So I just say all this just to say I see success with this program.

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And Erin, Eric, all the folks at Highway 80, thank you for what you do.

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And that being said, I'd like to move to approve Z1.

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Second.

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Motion by Warren and a second by Nix.

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Any other questions or comments?

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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The ayes have it.

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Z2.

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This is a request to change the zoning from single family R1A to single family attached

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detached, R1D, by Grace Community. The applicant is requesting this in order to

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build townhomes. The to the north is zone C2 and is undeveloped and to the south

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is a light commercial and PXR which are the locations of a single family home

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and undeveloped property. To the west you see R1A which is developed with a

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single family home and to the east is C1 which is developed with a parking

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lot associated with the church. Our future land use request would be amended to single

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family and single family attached. The property is currently being used as part of the parking

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lot associated with the church. The applicant proposes to build two attached units on these

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two green parcels that you see here on two individual lots on Goliad Street.

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that parking lot into the single family neighborhood.

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And the property is located in our north end,

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revitalization area.

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And this is a, this request is consistent with our goal

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to develop infill in the north end.

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The 13 notices mail zero returned in favor

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or in opposition to this request.

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And the planning and zoning commission

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by a seven zero vote recommends approval.

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I do have a card from Steve Niggs, the representative of Grace, and it says just for questions as

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well.

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Are there any questions?

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Moved or approved, Z2?

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Second.

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Motion by McGee, is second by Moore.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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The ayes have it.

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Z3.

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The applicant is requesting a change from industrial zoning to general commercial.

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in order to develop a daycare facility.

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The surrounding properties are zoned M1 and are developed

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with a mixture of warehouse and retail uses.

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And then you can see in that white area that's outside of city limits.

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So this is right on the border of our city limits.

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The future land use map would be amended from light industrial warehouse

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to general commercial.

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The applicant is requesting this for a daycare with a pediatric daycare aspect

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and specifically for children and young adults who have medical special needs.

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Of the 13 notices, mail 0 returned in favor or in opposition,

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and the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends this 5-7-0 vote.

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I do have a card here in favor of a Barbie Clark.

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Would you like to speak or just want to be here for questions only?

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Great. Okay.

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Are there any questions?

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No questions.

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Move to approve Z3.

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Second.

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Motion by Warren, second by Sellers.

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Any other questions, comments?

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed to you.

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I was happy.

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Oh, one.

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Let's just pause for just one second.

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So if any of the zoning applicants want to go ahead and leave.

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You're welcome to stay for another hour and a half with this.

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This is a request to reappoint members to the tax increment reinvestment zone number one.

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It was in 1998 that the city of Tyler designated the Tyler Industrial Park as reinvestment

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zone number one.

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The board consists of nine members with members serving staggered two term, two year terms.

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The board of directors makes recommendations to the governing body of the municipality that

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creates the zone, which is City of Tyler, concerning the administration of the project

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planned for this zone.

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And you can see here this is a map that represents the Tyler Industrial Park.

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The Tyler Economic Development Council has requested that the city council as an administrator

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for the zone. Reappoint members to this board. So it would be the reappointment of

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Dean Kegel as chair until January of 2020. It's a one-year reappointment for the

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chair. And then Fred Carl and Billy Hibbs Jr. to be reappointed until January

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of 2021. And with that we recommend approval. Any questions?

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motions.

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Move through approval one.

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Motion from Westbrook.

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Say it from McGee, all in favor.

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Aye.

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Oppose?

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The ayes have it.

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Thank you.

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O2.

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Yes, Mayor and Council, the next two items on the agenda

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will be related to the budget.

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Item O2 is the first item that we'll take.

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This is an ordinance to amend the budget.

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As a request, the city council

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consider adopting ordinance amending the FY18-19 budget to provide funding to

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complete various construction projects.

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Purchases that were not completed by September 30th, 2018.

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I'll just kind of hit some of the highlights for the general fund. We're looking at amending

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the budget for $58,055. And that is related to just some street striping and some concrete

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for utility cut repairs that were not completed by September 30th. Tourism

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fund, a total of 334,000 approximately there for the tourism fund. A big part

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of that is rose garden improvements that were not completed by year-end. Then

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Then for transit UT shuttle service that's being added there.

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The water utilities operating fund, we've got a total of $335,000 there, $129,000 of that,

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which is really a new item, is for a maintenance payment to the upper Natius River Authority.

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They had a dam inspection done by TCEQ and they had a little surprise that they needed

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to do some repairs, so they're passing that on to all of the cities that participate in

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Lake Palestine.

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Also there's various pumps that we need to repair at some of the water plants.

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And then we'll go to the water capital fund.

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We're looking at about $675,000 there.

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$500,000 is for emergency sewer repairs.

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And $100,000 to half an associate is for some text dot utility relocates.

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And then some data tracking software for a fog ordinance, about 75,000 there.

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And then solid waste, extending sewer lines to Lindsey Park, about 91,000 there as well.

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And then storm water, management fund, a million dollars for some emergency repairs that you were discussed,

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that was covered with you in previous council meetings.

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So having said that, that kind of summarizes everything on item 02.

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So it is recommended that you all approve this ordinance to amend the budget.

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Questions?

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Okay.

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I'll entertain a motion to approve.

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Motion from McGee.

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Second.

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Second by Warren.

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All in favor?

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Opposed?

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Yeah.

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Let's have it.

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Goal three.

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Item 03 is a budget amendment as well for our grants.

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This is related to our CBG home FAA and housing choice voucher program.

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And for CBG we are basically requesting that you all amend the budget for about $620,000.

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Some of that is about 85, 86,000 related to demolition.

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Public facilities, which are some carbon gutter projects, about 260,000 there as well.

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Home, we're looking at some total of 537,000 approximately.

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looking at some reconstruction of $216,000 and some program income to be used on various

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projects of about $279,000.

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Our housing choice voucher program, we're looking at amending the budget for $273,000

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there as well for admin costs, full-time salaries, so about $273,000.

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On our airport grant fund for grant 37, 38, 39, we're looking at amending the budget for

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approximately 2.2 million there.

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Those are just carryover funds that we didn't spend in last fiscal year that we've had to spend

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throughout the first part of this fiscal year.

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So we need to do a little cleanup and get the budget amended for that as well.

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So, having said that, once again, I recommend that you all approve item 03, which is an ordinance

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to amend the budget for various grant funds.

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Any questions?

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Robert, since it's your first year, we generally do this in the first meeting of the year where

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we have funds left over from the previous year just to make sure we book it properly.

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And so we can move forward into this year.

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To approve 03.

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A motion by Warren.

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A second by.

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Second.

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By Mohor.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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The ayes have it.

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M1.

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Morning Mayor Council.

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M1 is a request for Council to reject a proposal for RFP 18-012 for

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repair transit services, Tyler Transit issued an RFP in May of 2018 and only one proposal

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was received from MDMJ and we went through the RFP process after the bid was received

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in June of 2018 evaluating the proposal. We did run into some stumbling blocks with

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FTA in regards to the proposal. The aspect FTA, when we did our cost analysis for what

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the total project was allowed, they weren't in favor of it because it was in a balance

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of teeter-totter one way or the other financially if it was just a few thousand less or a few

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thousand more savings or expense, it wasn't validated enough to move forward with project.

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They basically asked the question, why would we do it?

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And the secondary problem, which brought back up a history,

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even though the vehicles, as far as liquidating the assets

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that we do own, the aspect of it was

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is when we went to FTA, because we went to Textile,

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on that part, they wouldn't make a decision.

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And they're the major money stake in that,

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as far as our grants are concerned and they wouldn't make the decision and they

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referred us to FTA. And then FTA, we, we, technically, we've, we've, and as kind as I

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can say, there are a lot of emails back and forth that took a long time to get

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responses and even what we had to do with, if you remember back in a couple

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years ago when we did the full transit bid, I finally had to have a meeting.

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We went, took Terence Gorman with legal, and we went to FDA and had a meeting with them,

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all their legal team, and I don't even know his official title, but the leader of the

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Region 6 of FDA, Ogden, and they had said that we would be under breach of contract

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at that time if we were to liquidate all the vehicles, everything that was grant

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related and so they weren't in favor of that and the one thing that FTA that

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came back that really made it hardest for us to make a decision was part of the

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bid was a hundred thousand dollar in-kind donation and FTA has the

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capability of making those decisions of yes no with us and there was no they

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they refused to accept the $100,000 donation and so we finally that that made

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the deal far as money to the city savings because 80% of that would be

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paid by the in-kind donation would actually reduce our local match dollar

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figure in that percentage and but because they refuse that it made it

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even more difficult to with the cost analysis so it takes me back to the

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cost analysis. It just does not make it feasible to happen. The only way that we

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could take this any further is basically you could table it. Our

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recommendation is to reject it and then if we can get anything out of FTA as we

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put it back out to bid. We've already extended a little bit of our portion

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dealing with FTA on this. I'd have to ask staff but I think it was six

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months but we've extended past the six months with dealing with this RL

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and or this bid and and so it really the whole aspect of it is until FDA no

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matter what they do in the United States and other locations region 6 is

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refusing to allow us to use the hundred thousand in kind they're not

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favorable of the analysis of when we did the cost analysis of how we do business

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and they weren't in favor of us liquidating vehicles especially some that

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we just purchased within the last year, two years ago.

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And other than bringing one of the FTA people here,

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I'm limited to what I could tell you other than that's,

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I'm hitting a brick wall.

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Yeah, but you've made it very clear.

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So I mean, you don't need to have somebody from FTA here.

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We got it.

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But if in the past they've encouraged donation,

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in-kind contributions and now they are not and they're disallowing that hundred

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thousand. Are the rules of the game changing? Well they've never been a good

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proponent of in-kind donations. When there's some that'll tell you yes they

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will and then when you get to them they don't allow it. They've frowned

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upon any kind of in-kind donation but this is what happened last time in the

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bid because it was in the, it came as not part of our bid to, as far as transit services,

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we didn't put it in our bid packet to allow any kind of in kind or that type of operation.

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So they rejected because when that bid come in on the transit operation, they said nobody

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but else had that opportunity, so thus they killed it.

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And this time, putting it in, as they have a flyer

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in the, as far as the, go to Washington DC

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that does talk about in-kind donations,

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and it is, to me it's a moving target,

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because I think we did everything,

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we put it in the bid proposal

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to give them free standing of doing anything they can,

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and then the target moved,

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and that's the kindest way I can say it.

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I mean, you go ahead.

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Oh, Bruce, I like to ask is this, when you're talking about the in-kind donation, do you know whether this is statewide or just town?

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What other cities have received the in-kind donation that you aware of?

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I don't have, there's some that have been indicated but not that I've had a conversation with that's in the United, or in Texas anyways, in Region 6.

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I'm

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not saying they're not out there, but I have not, in fact, talking to FTA, they go

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with the aspect that this is not acceptable.

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And, Bob, you've got a question you're going to ask.

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I do.

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So, if we reject this proposal, how's that going to impact our pair of transit?

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There is no way impact.

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FTA really looks at, you know, to come in staffing, that we've continued to do a

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good job. We have had an influx of higher demands with we do do service with

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MDMJ with an overflow contract. We had a higher amount last year because we didn't

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run through a period of time losing bus driver staff that type of thing and so

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it still shows we're saving money we're still utilizing local vendor with

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that and and so it's still we're just we're at a break even of even if

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If our budget, one of the things that, I mean, it's in my deal that says additional oversight.

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I don't even look at the oversight at this point as a check against them because I can't

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get past FTA.

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If I was to turn it over, we would probably have to have oversight because we do require

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it now and we do it in-house and if we gave up a large portion of our operation,

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we would want to have oversight because if you don't, you will find FTA getting

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into our pocket later, and that could be costly.

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We do have a card for Jamal Mohair to come up if he wants to speak, but look, we have

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been through this for, I've been around here for 10 years, right?

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Well, nine years, I guess, but several occasions we have had discussions with FTA.

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FDA pays the bulk of the money towards all our paratransit and our busing system.

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We don't play by their rules. They pull all those funds and they also ask us to pay back previous funds that they granted to us.

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So there is no logical reason for us to put ourselves in a position to be at odds with FDA.

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Okay. So let's not do that. Okay. Jamal.

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Good morning, Mayor. Members of the Council.

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Good morning. For the record, my name is Jamal Mohair. I reside at 1190 County Road 3504.

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and truce

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To be told, Russ Jackson just told you the truth. So did the man.

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He does always tell the truth.

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So did the man.

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Russ sometimes goes into much more detail than necessary. He always tells the truth, I will tell you that.

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And I appreciate that with him, yes.

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But listen, but you're right and truth have been said.

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The truth really should outrage you.

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You really should because it does mean

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because it does affect my operation

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and really it just cost you $100,000.

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And that's just to say the least on the financial side.

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That money was going to help

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having those most vulnerable in our community have the same amenity and

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access to transportation as you do. You like, you Uber, but you know that is not

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available to those most vulnerable. This technology would have made those most

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vulnerable have the same access to the technology. Now you know in conflicts

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Like most casualties, most severe casualties are caused by friendly fire and you need to

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find out why this friendly fire is damaging or hurting our systems and our budgets.

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Having said that,

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the rules are not changing at FTA.

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The rules are published in a circular, in a document to help us guide our operation.

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They're not negotiable, they're written, and they're practiced here in our region.

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We have made contributions to other transit providers and used as local match as of today.

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Why is City of Tyler denied that option, that tool?

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There is a tool in your tool chest that they're withholding from you.

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I can go on, you know, I've been in business here 30 years, doing fine.

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But why are they disallowing what they're allowing others is not allowed for you to use?

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We'll be more happy to ask them that question.

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We'll be happy to ask that question through Deborah Pullum, the legal department.

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We'll ask that question of FDA.

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But if FDA gives this answer, then you are more than welcome to call the congressman to

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work on federal issues that are above our pay grade here, but we will request that answer

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from FDA.

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Just to be clear, Mr. Mayor, you have a higher pay grade than I do.

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You can call the congressman.

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Be more than happy to reach out and ask that question to the congressman and to FDA and

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then the answer will be the answer.

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But the recommendation today is to deny or to vote in favor of denying the RFP18-012.

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Do I have a motion to do that?

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So moved.

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I have a motion by Moore.

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Second.

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Second by McGee.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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The ayes have it.

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On to M2.

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Thank you, Mayor Counsel.

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M2 is one we've talked about in recent past.

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It's a request that you award bid number 19-016

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016 for Lindsey Park sewer installation to JDR contracting LP of Van, Texas, and a mount

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not to exceed $340,000 or $340,000 or $29. And also change the dollar amount in the

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agreement to Huckabee properties, which is a developer in that area. Original developer

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was $73,000 and we went back to negotiate because we weren't going to put any more

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money into the project and they came up to $133,000 to be their part, so it was just an

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initial change.

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Russ, do you have a different presentation that you want me to show on the fund for?

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Yeah, this one needs to go down, I apologize, I didn't do one for this one,

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too many ends

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for me today.

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So this one again is a taking from the Greenbrier lift station all the way to the

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property going through the developer property and then cutting across it's the

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most advantageous which we do have the Brandon Corporation if you had

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questions for them to ask any more wiser in that reason but it does save

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quite a bit of money instead of going straight up and some of the hill

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advantages of the terrain going straight up the road it really is a better

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fit for the property. It takes it all the way to the existing bathroom

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concession stand there on the soccer side and then that allows us to get future

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access. We do have a bathroom that was donated that will start that process

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once we finalize these things to get that bathroom up and going and get the

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sewer to that point. There are some additional half-cent funds to get a

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bathroom on the other side and then I'll work with the water department

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in regards to going under lensing and we'll be able to tie in and save a

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of money of multiple runs and then be on sewer instead of a septic system?

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Are you

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ready for questions? I'll give you a head yes sir. Okay yeah this is this is great

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to move forward because we have discussed upgrading those restrooms with

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at Lindsey Park now for ten years or so, nine or ten years, so this is this is

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really important step to get that started and completed. So there is a

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card here from Bob Reed Love at Branding for questions. Does anyone have

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questions?

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Move to approve M2. A motion by Nix, a second by Sellers. All in

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favor? Aye. Opposed the ayes have it. Thank you.

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Mr. Jackson? All right. Now

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That one, you can have it up now.

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Thank you.

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M3 is a request for consider authorizing the city managed award, the bid number 19-019

473
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:56,300
for Fund Forest Park and Wilder Park renovations to the sole bidder, Garrett and associate general

474
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:57,560
contractors of White House.

475
00:36:58,580 --> 00:37:03,000
They will furnish all necessary materials, equipment, superintendents, labor and the

476
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:15,680
amount not to exceed $491,850 for part A, which is fund fours, and $437,174 for part B and

477
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:22,840
the alternates of Wolder Park. On December 20th, we opened up bids, which happens to

478
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:30,020
be the second bid. We did two bids. The first bid did not come in, any bids at all. Excuses

479
00:37:30,020 --> 00:37:37,600
from the contractors, we had four visible at the bid and they advised the brand

480
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:42,540
incorporation that they needed more time, but we didn't have enough time to make

481
00:37:42,540 --> 00:37:47,400
a change order to extend. It just was best to run it and see where it went and

482
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,320
nobody came in. We did the same thing. I think we had about seven this time

483
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:59,680
contractors at the bidding, you know, pre-bid proposal and this time we still

484
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:06,960
only received one bid. I'll let them Mr. Brandon is with us to maybe explain a

485
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,400
little more detail on the what the reasons might be. Some of it would be

486
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,840
the timeframe, some of it was a size. We had one one bidder that came back

487
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:25,440
like I just said, it's too big of an operation for what I have time for people for and across.

488
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:32,480
The way it's broke down, I'll kind of give you an update, FunForce, Park, the original

489
00:38:33,420 --> 00:38:40,180
look at lay of the land and go to their proposal. The shaded area to the left was

490
00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:47,760
This is a reminder was the splash pad and the food court vent trucks would be able to come

491
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,760
through and be accessed to that.

492
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:58,740
And the main building would have ADA, all the ramps had to be redone for ADA.

493
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:05,080
Well, the biz came in extremely high for installation, which when we went through

494
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:11,120
this process, even through the design features and the other companies that installed the

495
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:17,660
splash pads and the type of equipment, we only have so much money to do this project

496
00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:21,760
because it's feasible and that was the understanding we had that this would be feasible to be

497
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,420
done with funds that were available.

498
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:30,120
As it turned out, the splash pad alone install came in at a little over a million dollars.

499
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:36,600
The slide came in almost 400 and I got those numbers ahead of us in just a

500
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:44,640
second but over $400,000 and so we do not have the funds and so we in order not

501
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:49,360
to kill the bid as a whole we decided because the way we did this is we did

502
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,000
line item bidding and I express that so that if there's anything that would

503
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,160
come in we wouldn't have the problem we had such as what hillside was a

504
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:02,920
problem. We way overbid, we had no line item capability, and thus we had to start all over

505
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:10,340
several times. And so this process allowed me to eliminate line items in this case. That's

506
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:12,860
where we did it. Okay, tell me what we're getting. And what

507
00:40:12,860 --> 00:40:22,960
we're getting is the bathroom remodel, which means when the ADA came in, they said

508
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:29,380
said we had to have X number of facilities in a bathroom facility and this brings this

509
00:40:29,380 --> 00:40:34,780
up to code. There's a ramping that needs to be redone at the, if you look at the south

510
00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:38,240
end of this picture, at the bottom of the picture, there's a ramp coming out of the

511
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,420
building that has to be redone.

512
00:40:41,580 --> 00:40:49,040
Wuldert, the splash pad to the right corner of your picture there is being eliminated.

513
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:54,100
That is a splash pad sidewalk and some additional type parking for ADA.

514
00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:58,680
That again came in way over and so we eliminated that.

515
00:40:59,460 --> 00:41:02,600
The everything else that we've talked about in the past.

516
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:10,980
The parking, the sidewalk coming from Woldert all the way to the basketball court,

517
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:16,600
the pavilion over the basketball court and some of the additional concrete

518
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,100
and pavilion to the building to help with some things that we do during the

519
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:25,020
summertime for the children cook out the things we do in that regard. So this

520
00:41:25,020 --> 00:41:30,560
this whole process just really eliminate anything to do with the splash

521
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:35,260
pad. We actually are going to allow them to do the demo that came in at about

522
00:41:35,260 --> 00:41:41,120
$16,000 and so just go ahead and clean that side up of there the old pool

523
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,740
building and to get it looking nice in that area.

524
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:51,240
These are the dollar figures for Fund

525
00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:57,700
Force Part A, TOLA 491,850, just to keep moving with the project.

526
00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:01,800
Again, Part B with

527
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:11,660
the alternates, the PV and 162, we actually estimated 150, so we felt comfortable with

528
00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:13,060
moving on with these projects.

529
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:14,900
Every one of them that's in here,

530
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,600
that besides the splash pad repair,

531
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,120
we're really very comparable to work

532
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,240
that's been done with the city

533
00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:23,700
and Garrett has worked with us before.

534
00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:26,160
The pool, splash pads,

535
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:27,920
everything just was way out of the ballpark.

536
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:31,880
And so that's why we deleted those items.

537
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,960
If I went with the total bid packet,

538
00:42:34,980 --> 00:42:36,320
including the splash pad,

539
00:42:36,380 --> 00:42:38,120
which I have stopped, we stopped,

540
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:44,920
we never did was able in time to stop the purchase of the splash pad if this is

541
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,420
the case if we're going to be dealing with a million dollars I did stop that

542
00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:52,660
purchase and until we get this reevaluated which is what's what we

543
00:42:52,660 --> 00:42:59,020
will be doing through Brandon and the contractors looking at actual going

544
00:42:59,020 --> 00:43:03,400
through the process of looking at change order is there a change order

545
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,940
that we can do and I know Mr. Brandy can explain all that if y'all like

546
00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:14,300
to listen to that part yeah Terry would you like to come up it's been it's been a

547
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:15,100
few years since you

548
00:43:17,380 --> 00:43:23,500
made a presentation to us so I'm Terry brand for the record

549
00:43:24,140 --> 00:43:31,060
Terry when Terry when were you city engineer 73 to 77 yeah that's right

550
00:43:31,060 --> 00:43:31,620
That's right.

551
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:32,240
That's right.

552
00:43:32,380 --> 00:43:32,980
Long time ago.

553
00:43:33,100 --> 00:43:33,520
I remember.

554
00:43:35,980 --> 00:43:44,920
Gentlemen and Miss Sellers, the, I'm sorry, and Miss Poole, the, what he's talking about

555
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,540
there on the splash pads is that we work with splash pads and aquatics all over the United

556
00:43:48,540 --> 00:43:48,820
States.

557
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:54,220
In fact, we have projects overseas, military bases and those just like that.

558
00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:59,580
We got one bid from one Dallas subcontractor who did splash pad and he bid a million

559
00:43:59,580 --> 00:44:02,840
dollars for the installation of a feature that the city was already in

560
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:08,280
purchase in other words just the installation which was about in our

561
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,580
opinion at least twice to high maybe three times more than it should have

562
00:44:11,580 --> 00:44:17,060
been. We met with Mr. Garrett for Garrett construction and he's going to talk

563
00:44:17,060 --> 00:44:20,920
with some other suppliers that we we know we put him in contact with two

564
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,540
others already and he's in negotiation with them to see what kind of

565
00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:28,800
prices they might come to an agreement on and if they got if

566
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,820
If they reduce the price from a million dollars to say 300,000 or something, now we're back

567
00:44:32,820 --> 00:44:37,680
into money. We're back, we're okay. And at that point they could come back to the council

568
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,640
for a change order number two to add that back in, or we can put it back on the streets

569
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,520
and bid that separately if that's what council decides to do. So it gives us some leverage.

570
00:44:47,380 --> 00:44:52,800
Before we can do anything at Fun Forest, we have to do the ADA. It absolutely has

571
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,080
to. The buildings will build, if some of you have been around here in line,

572
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,580
Now that was built in the 30s and that building does not comply with ADA.

573
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,540
Any shape or fashion. The restrooms don't comply. Access to the building doesn't comply. Access

574
00:45:04,540 --> 00:45:09,040
to the pool doesn't comply. The parking spaces don't comply. There's just a lot of ADA issues

575
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:16,160
out there. Going forward with this reduced contract that Russ had just presented to you would

576
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:20,060
allow us to get those ADA issues off the table right now, get them taken care of, and

577
00:45:20,060 --> 00:45:24,740
then give us another month or so to work out the details on the splash pads and

578
00:45:24,740 --> 00:45:28,920
present that back to you and see whether or not you want to move forward with Garrett

579
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:33,560
doing that work with a subcontractor or whether you choose to put that back out on the streets

580
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:39,160
and we revid that separately. So that's kind of where we are. We would recommend this change

581
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:44,220
order to you as your consultants and so we can move on forward with the project not delaying

582
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:44,500
longer.

583
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:47,760
Yes. Yes, please.

584
00:45:48,180 --> 00:45:52,180
What is the actual cost for the Spass Pad at the Wood Park?

585
00:45:52,180 --> 00:45:52,320
water park.

586
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,340
I got mine if you don't mind.

587
00:46:02,730 --> 00:46:05,170
The splash pad, while I was looking for that,

588
00:46:05,270 --> 00:46:09,590
the splash pad at Water Park was basically, it's the type of splash pad that doesn't have

589
00:46:09,590 --> 00:46:13,830
a lot of structure up above the ground. It has fountains that are embedded in the concrete

590
00:46:13,830 --> 00:46:16,210
so they can't be vandalized or stolen during that day.

591
00:46:16,250 --> 00:46:17,170
That's if you redo the old pool, right?

592
00:46:17,310 --> 00:46:23,110
Yeah, it knows, so this would be, this would be bigger and it would be over,

593
00:46:26,030 --> 00:46:26,030
it

594
00:46:26,030 --> 00:46:31,670
to the south east corner of the glass center, okay?

595
00:46:31,850 --> 00:46:32,890
And it'd be up on that little hill,

596
00:46:32,970 --> 00:46:34,690
there's a little clearing there above the pavilion,

597
00:46:35,470 --> 00:46:37,170
and it would be in that grassy area there.

598
00:46:38,230 --> 00:46:40,090
Rosford, could you pull that flat back up

599
00:46:40,090 --> 00:46:41,150
where it's gonna be?

600
00:46:41,350 --> 00:46:43,250
I basically know what you're talking about.

601
00:46:43,370 --> 00:46:43,910
I do, okay.

602
00:46:44,910 --> 00:46:47,270
I guess my concern and question would be,

603
00:46:47,730 --> 00:46:48,630
since you're the engineer,

604
00:46:49,410 --> 00:46:51,170
what would be the difference in savings

605
00:46:51,170 --> 00:46:53,890
if we would try to do the splash pad

606
00:46:53,890 --> 00:46:58,330
based on the old swimming pool facility where the pool is located right now.

607
00:46:59,010 --> 00:47:02,330
Willard Park, I'm sorry, Willard Park. We do have a pool at Willard Park,

608
00:47:02,490 --> 00:47:06,550
especially close to years. Well, there'd be no savings at all. We still

609
00:47:06,550 --> 00:47:10,790
have to do the demolition of the pool. Whether we put the splash pad at the

610
00:47:10,790 --> 00:47:15,330
location shown on the map there in the lower right-hand corner, or whether we

611
00:47:15,330 --> 00:47:20,070
put the splash pad up by the old present pool, it's probably immaterial as

612
00:47:20,070 --> 00:47:25,310
part of the cost. It's not going to save any money, but it probably wouldn't cost us any

613
00:47:25,310 --> 00:47:29,370
more money, planning on doing the demolition anyway. The demolition of the present bath

614
00:47:29,370 --> 00:47:36,790
house, pool and splash pad. I think that has to happen anyway, no matter what you do there.

615
00:47:37,290 --> 00:47:38,490
So did you find the number?

616
00:47:38,830 --> 00:47:40,530
There's millions when you talk about the water.

617
00:47:40,670 --> 00:47:40,850
Water?

618
00:47:41,110 --> 00:47:41,350
Uh-huh.

619
00:47:41,470 --> 00:47:42,150
There's four or something.

620
00:47:52,090 --> 00:47:55,390
Okay. Just the splash pad. Now this one did include

621
00:47:55,390 --> 00:48:00,090
the contractor providing the piping and the nozzles that go in the deck and a

622
00:48:00,090 --> 00:48:05,550
controller so that these didn't all run at the same time and it involved the

623
00:48:05,550 --> 00:48:11,150
concrete deck and the fencing around in that $394,000. Now that was again we

624
00:48:11,150 --> 00:48:15,690
think that that's roughly at least a third maybe half too much for that

625
00:48:15,690 --> 00:48:18,770
splash pad. Now we're not we still think that splash pad needs to be built

626
00:48:18,770 --> 00:48:22,350
and that's a great place for it right there by the entrance to the park and

627
00:48:22,350 --> 00:48:25,170
and it'd be a beautiful thing, but I think this is not the right price.

628
00:48:25,810 --> 00:48:27,510
You think it should be less?

629
00:48:28,870 --> 00:48:32,910
I think it'd be closer to $200,000 is where it needs to be.

630
00:48:33,190 --> 00:48:35,930
And you're working with Garrett on that as well?

631
00:48:35,970 --> 00:48:39,370
Yes, I met with Garrett after the bid and said, where's the money?

632
00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:42,570
I said, show me where the money is because the bids were...

633
00:48:42,570 --> 00:48:44,830
We felt like the total bids were too high.

634
00:48:45,410 --> 00:48:49,450
When we looked at the individual line items, it was the splashpot items that were too high.

635
00:48:49,450 --> 00:48:53,570
Everything else, the buildings, the concrete work, the flat work, the ADA work seem to be reasonable.

636
00:48:53,990 --> 00:48:59,450
But this flashpad work was just unreasonable with, and we asked him why, and he said,

637
00:48:59,510 --> 00:49:01,810
well, I only had one quotation from one bidder.

638
00:49:02,130 --> 00:49:07,970
So the process that you're recommending is that we go ahead and do the ADA work

639
00:49:07,970 --> 00:49:10,530
that absolutely has to be done.

640
00:49:10,690 --> 00:49:11,130
Yes, Your Honor.

641
00:49:11,290 --> 00:49:12,610
And the upgrades to the buildings.

642
00:49:13,230 --> 00:49:18,550
And then in the meantime, once we approve those, we approve those today.

643
00:49:18,550 --> 00:49:25,610
Then you're saying that you plan to go back and begin immediately, and they already have

644
00:49:25,610 --> 00:49:29,530
really started working on repricing both splash pads.

645
00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:34,070
Mr. Garrett, Garrett is already pricing with these alternative bidders.

646
00:49:34,170 --> 00:49:35,490
He's already looking at those numbers.

647
00:49:36,030 --> 00:49:40,710
I believe we can come back to you at your meeting in February with an option for you

648
00:49:40,710 --> 00:49:45,610
and show you the amounts of both the splash pads.

649
00:49:45,610 --> 00:49:51,110
then that you're working on the good repricing for on our behalf you're

650
00:49:51,110 --> 00:49:58,730
working on that yes okay make sense make sense a little disappointing but I

651
00:49:58,730 --> 00:50:03,090
understand I understand finances also but don't appreciate the work that you

652
00:50:03,090 --> 00:50:08,330
guys are doing with that we'll continue to stay on and just keep in mind and for

653
00:50:08,330 --> 00:50:13,990
my own sake that there's water at fun forest there's no water for kids playing

654
00:50:13,990 --> 00:50:27,050
at Woodard Park. Okay. Thank you. So that, when the councilman just said that, I, that would

655
00:50:28,850 --> 00:50:38,850
ask, have me ask one other question, or make one other statement. Then price both, but

656
00:50:38,850 --> 00:50:45,950
Let's really work on the price of Waldert and then that might be if if we have an

657
00:50:45,950 --> 00:50:51,050
either or situation, Waldert would be the first selection.

658
00:50:51,470 --> 00:50:51,750
Thank you.

659
00:50:52,050 --> 00:50:52,350
You're right.

660
00:50:52,510 --> 00:50:52,890
Yes, sir.

661
00:50:53,130 --> 00:50:53,310
Okay.

662
00:50:53,530 --> 00:50:53,830
Be great.

663
00:50:54,790 --> 00:50:55,230
Okay.

664
00:50:57,380 --> 00:51:02,900
With that said, you want to make a motion to make a motion to accept the M three.

665
00:51:04,020 --> 00:51:04,540
Second.

666
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:05,200
Second.

667
00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:07,660
A motion by Moore, a second by McGee.

668
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:08,640
All in favor.

669
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:09,580
Aye.

670
00:51:09,580 --> 00:51:13,680
opposed, the ayes have it. Thank you gentlemen.

671
00:51:22,070 --> 00:51:25,990
I just shuffled my paperwork for M4. Thank you Mr.

672
00:51:26,150 --> 00:51:34,370
Brandy. This will be the last one I hope quicker for you too. I'm going to make sure it is. M4 is

673
00:51:34,370 --> 00:51:40,970
strictly accepting the bids for a swan electric service to furnish all necessary materials

674
00:51:40,970 --> 00:51:48,090
equipment. Superintendent Slaver in the mount not to exceed $29,911. Only bid

675
00:51:48,090 --> 00:51:56,630
received out of about seven bids and the this is due demo work of old existing

676
00:51:56,630 --> 00:52:01,230
poles. Walter Park has some poles that are in the playing field area that are

677
00:52:01,230 --> 00:52:05,810
I'm probably guessing 40 years or better just to get them out of the way at

678
00:52:05,810 --> 00:52:10,610
this point so we can do our dirt work we need to do. Fun Forest part of

679
00:52:10,610 --> 00:52:12,910
This is to eliminate one pole.

680
00:52:13,550 --> 00:52:16,070
We're still going to utilize the deep lighting

681
00:52:16,070 --> 00:52:21,230
and the area that we're redoing to have a soccer field.

682
00:52:21,330 --> 00:52:22,550
So we just got to move one pole.

683
00:52:23,770 --> 00:52:25,910
And then there's one of the old fields

684
00:52:25,910 --> 00:52:27,490
that we're doing that we're just removing

685
00:52:27,490 --> 00:52:29,950
because it has not been used in the last several years.

686
00:52:30,210 --> 00:52:32,190
And just for maintenance purposes,

687
00:52:32,190 --> 00:52:35,410
we're just going to remove the existing playing field

688
00:52:35,410 --> 00:52:37,470
so that we don't have any maintenance cost of having

689
00:52:37,470 --> 00:52:39,870
to fix it up one time a year

690
00:52:39,870 --> 00:52:44,730
or none and so it's a it's really a cost savings in the end.

691
00:52:44,930 --> 00:52:51,230
Thank you very much and I know you're very conscious and conscientious and

692
00:52:51,230 --> 00:52:55,630
you're doing a great job and so I do appreciate it but I'll entertain a

693
00:52:55,630 --> 00:53:02,550
motion to approve M4. Motion by Nix, a second by Sellers.

694
00:53:02,550 --> 00:53:03,650
Thank you.

695
00:53:06,050 --> 00:53:11,190
All in favor? All in favor? Opposed? The ayes have it.

696
00:53:13,530 --> 00:53:14,810
Linda made the second.

697
00:53:15,950 --> 00:53:18,930
Kind of. Sort of. I'm

698
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:29,800
sorry. She said it faster than I could read on my little pad here. Hello, Mr. Taylor. M5.

699
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:35,980
Good morning. The first item before you is M5 and I'll be here for the next four items also.

700
00:53:37,820 --> 00:53:43,280
This is requesting the city council authorizing city manager to execute a contract, an engineering

701
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:51,480
services contract with half an associates for 147,625 for the 2019 Water Main Improvements

702
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:56,280
Project and then also there's a resolution to allow us to reimburse ourselves with proceeds

703
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:01,580
future debt. What this design project is, it goes with the enhancement asphalt

704
00:54:01,580 --> 00:54:07,020
and seal coat programs. We started this program last year where we go in those

705
00:54:07,020 --> 00:54:11,660
areas that we are looking at doing either seal coat or the overlay and

706
00:54:11,660 --> 00:54:15,640
identify water lines that need to be replaced or aged or the two inch lines

707
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:19,820
and smaller lines and that's what this project is. We've identified the

708
00:54:19,820 --> 00:54:24,400
streets engineering working closely with Tyler Water Utilities identified the

709
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:30,780
areas that need these water lines replaced and this will be bid with the overlay project.

710
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,220
We include that so the contractor controls his own destiny on those.

711
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:38,460
But that's that's what this will be the start of this is the engineering design for that.

712
00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:44,100
We will come back later in the year and give you an overview of the entire seal coat

713
00:54:44,100 --> 00:54:48,500
and overlay program because not all the streets on this will require utility work.

714
00:54:48,740 --> 00:54:49,200
Any

715
00:54:51,250 --> 00:54:52,410
questions of Mr. Taylor?

716
00:54:53,450 --> 00:54:54,250
No, it's a good thing.

717
00:54:54,250 --> 00:54:58,330
We, more we can consider what's under the road before we spend the money on the

718
00:54:58,330 --> 00:54:58,510
overview.

719
00:54:59,230 --> 00:54:59,570
That's correct.

720
00:55:00,310 --> 00:55:01,450
Moved to approve in five.

721
00:55:01,870 --> 00:55:02,690
Motion by Nix.

722
00:55:03,070 --> 00:55:03,410
Second.

723
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,560
Second by Westbrook.

724
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:07,980
All in favor.

725
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:09,120
Aye.

726
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:10,620
Opposed the ayes have it.

727
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:11,600
M6.

728
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:16,600
Mayor and Council, this is a request that the City Council consider authorizing the

729
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:21,520
City Manager to execute an engineering services contract in the not to exceed

730
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:28,560
amount of $486,000 with half associates in conjunction with CT Brandon Corporation for

731
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,960
the preliminary engineering water system inventory and improve a resolution reserving a right

732
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,160
to reimburse expenditures with the proceeds of future debt.

733
00:55:36,720 --> 00:55:43,040
As part of our capital projects, we show two more booster pump stations and then possibly

734
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,740
some other improvements to the system to increase pressure.

735
00:55:47,440 --> 00:56:01,180
One of the items that I wanted to consider in discussing this with staff was to come back and to make sure that we identify correctly where those booster stations may need to be or where is the best location.

736
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:11,480
TCEQ has also mentioned to us in the past that we may have a deficit in elevated storage, but it's not significant enough yet to cause us to have to do something.

737
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:18,040
so we want to look at all alternatives. So what staff, my discussion with them, we have decided

738
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:24,020
to go forward with doing a water system inventory as part of the preliminary engineering for those

739
00:56:24,020 --> 00:56:29,740
future projects. In doing this, we'll get immediately two benefits. First of all, we will

740
00:56:29,740 --> 00:56:34,440
be able to identify the type of material and the age of the pot because this will be off

741
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:41,560
of record drawings. And so that will also help us in the future if or when we get into

742
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:47,660
a water line replacement program as we start looking at some of the older water lines.

743
00:56:48,340 --> 00:56:53,980
We know we have issues with older sewer lines. The water lines have a finite age also. And

744
00:56:53,980 --> 00:56:59,980
considering the Tyler Water Utilities has been in business since 1916, there may be

745
00:56:59,980 --> 00:57:02,400
– I don't think there's any of those pipes still in the ground, but there might

746
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:08,700
be and we need to look at that. The second thing going forward from that would be to

747
00:57:08,700 --> 00:57:14,640
improve the accuracy of our water maps and right now we are aware that our GIS layer

748
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:19,640
for the water system is not as accurate as we would like it to be so we will also be

749
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:25,380
doing that at the same time and then that will lead to another step which we have discussed

750
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:39,900
as part of the recommendation from Ibsen Todd and Improtech on the water issue that we had in the summer of 2017.

751
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,840
They recommended that we improve or upgrade our water distribution model.

752
00:57:44,460 --> 00:57:49,900
And so with this data collected, then we can do the water distribution model that then will allow us to perform engineering.

753
00:57:49,900 --> 00:57:52,920
and also in the future, when we have water quality issues,

754
00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:57,100
we can actually use the model to determine what's going on by that data.

755
00:57:57,260 --> 00:57:59,000
So this is the first step.

756
00:57:59,460 --> 00:58:04,120
The good part of this is that as part of the Comprehensive Stormwater Master Plan

757
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,160
that HAF and Brandon are working on right now,

758
00:58:08,780 --> 00:58:11,940
they have scanned a lot of sheets for the drainage,

759
00:58:12,380 --> 00:58:14,860
which happened to include water lines and sewer lines.

760
00:58:15,340 --> 00:58:18,000
And so we've got some data that things start processing.

761
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:23,180
There'll be more data collected because, again, they were not searching strictly for every subdivision.

762
00:58:23,300 --> 00:58:25,180
They were just looking at the ones that might have drainage.

763
00:58:25,740 --> 00:58:31,460
So by doing that process, we will begin to have identifiable data that they can process

764
00:58:31,460 --> 00:58:33,740
and then include that in our GIS layer.

765
00:58:36,270 --> 00:58:43,030
Scott, thanks for great leadership and everything else you bring to your team.

766
00:58:44,350 --> 00:58:49,370
When you've got the right tools, it's easy to develop a plan and to work that plan.

767
00:58:49,370 --> 00:58:51,850
And so with that, I move to approve M6.

768
00:58:53,070 --> 00:58:55,110
The motion by Westbrook, a second by Warren.

769
00:58:55,750 --> 00:58:57,690
Any other questions, comments?

770
00:58:58,430 --> 00:58:59,090
All in favor?

771
00:59:00,590 --> 00:59:01,070
Opposed?

772
00:59:01,210 --> 00:59:01,790
The ayes have it.

773
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:05,120
M7.

774
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,120
Mayor and Council, this is a request

775
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,340
that the city council consider authorizing the city manager

776
00:59:11,340 --> 00:59:17,120
toward a construction contract in the amount of $233,874.40

777
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:21,520
cents to rentals and K for the utility relocations at the Azalea and

778
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:28,080
Camelia street bridges on Sunnybrook Drive. As y'all are aware, we are,

779
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:32,660
TextDOT is replacing two of those structures. Those at Azalea and

780
00:59:32,660 --> 00:59:34,480
Camelia, the city is doing the other one.

781
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,780
Prior to TextDOT bidding these

782
00:59:38,780 --> 00:59:41,800
two, they do require that any utilities that are in the way need to

783
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:45,500
be relocated and that is what this construction contract will do at both

784
00:59:45,500 --> 00:59:51,680
of those intersections. We're also very thankful we've got one contractor so they can do a

785
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:56,740
much better job of controlling traffic as we all know Sunnybrook does get busy at several

786
00:59:56,740 --> 00:59:59,840
times during the day and so they'll be able to deal with that traffic.

787
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,300
And we will not do both of those abridges simultaneously. They will be done in some sequence

788
01:00:06,300 --> 01:00:11,080
that the contract will term. But we will not be closing a chunk of Sunnybrook or a whole

789
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:14,840
lane of Sunnybrook at any one time. There will be some local in the area they're working.

790
01:00:15,140 --> 01:00:19,820
But anyway, we're recommending authorizing award of this construction contract.

791
01:00:20,660 --> 01:00:25,200
So what all utilities are being? It's water and sewer lines. It's city

792
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:30,960
utilities. So I think there's waterline and sewer line on both of these. In fact, I think

793
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:35,860
our sewer line is really part of it, maybe actually under part of the existing bridge

794
01:00:35,860 --> 01:00:36,280
structure.

795
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:38,800
It is.

796
01:00:41,900 --> 01:00:45,360
So I have a motion to approve. Any questions?

797
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:56,680
Motion by Warren, a second by Councilman Sellers. All in favor. I opposed. The ayes

798
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:57,020
of it.

799
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:03,460
Mayor and Council, this is a request that the City Council consider authorizing the

800
01:01:03,460 --> 01:01:08,800
City Manager to execute a contract in the amount of $43,000 with ELGE Engineering Corporation

801
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:13,580
for the Community Development Block Grant sidewalk project near Austin Elementary.

802
01:01:14,260 --> 01:01:19,040
This project will improve pedestrian traffic in that area and considering it's adjacent

803
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:24,980
to the school makes it a much better type of project as give children that may walk

804
01:01:24,980 --> 01:01:29,640
to that school, the walking on a sidewalk along the street.

805
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:40,320
The sidewalks covered by this, go back to my notes right here, is on the west side of

806
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:45,920
Palace from Queen to Franklin, and then the south side of Franklin from Palace to Moore,

807
01:01:46,340 --> 01:01:50,020
and then on the west side of Moore from Cochrane to Franklin, and there was a map

808
01:01:50,020 --> 01:01:53,040
attached with this. So we're recommending awarding this engineering

809
01:01:53,040 --> 01:02:01,020
services contract to Eldage. May I? Sure. Thank you for this. This has been a

810
01:02:01,020 --> 01:02:04,840
project that I've been looking at for the past four or five years due to my

811
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:09,680
heart and I want to say this public that I know I have been a thorn in

812
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:14,720
Prentice and Renisha side since they started this project and she's worked

813
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,560
with me and her department pretty good on this. This is a project where we

814
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:25,420
of young people, hit-os, 34-year-old walking in the streets coming back and forth from school.

815
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:30,760
And I think it's something that we needed long, long time ago. And I certainly appreciate

816
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:36,460
working with everybody involved with this to get this project going. This is a project

817
01:02:36,460 --> 01:02:40,160
that I want to see through, regardless of whether I'm sitting in this seat or not.

818
01:02:40,700 --> 01:02:45,960
This is dear to my heart. And I appreciate you guys speeding the process up. So hopefully

819
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:52,200
by the end of the new school year, those kiddos will have sidewalks to walk on on more and

820
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:56,380
power street. So thank you very much and I'll make a motion to accept M-8.

821
01:02:57,420 --> 01:02:58,820
We have a motion. Do I have a second?

822
01:02:59,340 --> 01:02:59,620
Second.

823
01:03:00,340 --> 01:03:07,040
Second by McGee. I do have one clarification. I want to make sure that the engineering group

824
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:15,160
has one meeting with the class at Austin. They might not even be there anymore because

825
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:26,700
But years ago, I was invited to a class room where they made this proposal to the mayor about adding these streets as well.

826
01:03:26,940 --> 01:03:39,660
And so if that class is still in existence, I would like the engineering firm to reach out to Austin Elementary School and go meet with the class.

827
01:03:40,020 --> 01:03:40,900
We will do that.

828
01:03:41,100 --> 01:03:41,500
About that.

829
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:42,500
And I'll agree with you.

830
01:03:42,500 --> 01:03:51,220
I think that would be a wonderful learning experience, especially for those kids and some of the teachers that reached out to us years ago.

831
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:52,260
And I think it would be great.

832
01:03:52,460 --> 01:03:59,780
And for information purposes, I was there and I think the four-year-old class gave us a letter stating, please give us some sidewalks.

833
01:03:59,780 --> 01:04:00,300
Yeah, they did.

834
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:01,160
So it was great.

835
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:01,820
Very emotional.

836
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,160
I will make sure that happens and they'll tell them that there's a project.

837
01:04:05,500 --> 01:04:09,460
I'll vote in favor of it as long as they'll agree to meet with one of the classes.

838
01:04:09,820 --> 01:04:10,720
All right, great.

839
01:04:10,820 --> 01:04:11,400
We will do that.

840
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:15,680
Okay. So I have a motion and a second. All in favor?

841
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,520
Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it.

842
01:04:22,990 --> 01:04:23,690
Keith Rick, you're back.

843
01:04:30,730 --> 01:04:34,130
Mayor Counsel, you have item M9 in front of you.

844
01:04:34,850 --> 01:04:39,630
This is our quarterly financial report for the period ending

845
01:04:40,610 --> 01:04:44,130
September 30th of 2018, so this is the end of our fiscal year,

846
01:04:44,270 --> 01:04:50,070
last fiscal year. And the item that you have, the detail in your

847
01:04:50,070 --> 01:04:56,810
packet. It represents about 70% of the appropriations for the 17-18 budget. The

848
01:04:56,810 --> 01:05:00,770
other 30% are special revenue fines, internal service fines, and capital

849
01:05:00,770 --> 01:05:08,230
project fines. The report that you have, this report compares actual revenues

850
01:05:08,230 --> 01:05:12,450
to date with revenues at the same period last year and actual expenditures

851
01:05:12,450 --> 01:05:17,630
to date with incremental budget appropriations. Budgeted revenues and

852
01:05:17,630 --> 01:05:22,470
expenditure amounts for the fiscal year can also be compared to current projection amounts.

853
01:05:23,310 --> 01:05:25,070
And so I'll just hit some of the highlights.

854
01:05:27,450 --> 01:05:28,870
We've got the general fund.

855
01:05:29,690 --> 01:05:36,790
Revenues from all sources are projected to be about 1.3 million greater than budget.

856
01:05:37,270 --> 01:05:40,370
Large part of that is due to sales tax.

857
01:05:41,710 --> 01:05:50,370
And general fund expenditures from the fiscal year are projected to be about 1.7 million below budget.

858
01:05:50,890 --> 01:05:53,810
A large part of that is just due to salary savings.

859
01:05:55,950 --> 01:06:03,250
Water utilities revenues are projected to be about 785,000 greater than budget.

860
01:06:03,250 --> 01:06:09,950
and expenditures are projected to be about 2.9 million less than budget.

861
01:06:10,950 --> 01:06:19,390
And that is largely due to salary savings, also savings in utilities,

862
01:06:20,150 --> 01:06:26,690
and some constructions out at Lake Tyler in high-drilla treatment.

863
01:06:27,330 --> 01:06:27,770
Yes, sir.

864
01:06:27,950 --> 01:06:29,090
But some of that was transferred?

865
01:06:29,770 --> 01:06:30,150
Yes.

866
01:06:30,150 --> 01:06:36,170
Some of that is transferred to the meeting to transfer to other projects this year.

867
01:06:38,030 --> 01:06:49,950
Yes, if you go back to the budget amendment, we will be using a portion of this savings for the emergency sewer repairs.

868
01:06:51,190 --> 01:06:51,530
Yes, sir.

869
01:06:55,380 --> 01:07:01,500
Also, we've had savings in services in town as well.

870
01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:11,600
If we go down to the solid waste department, the revenues are projected to be about 406,000

871
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:22,480
greater than budget, expenditures are about 375,000 more than budget, airport fund revenues

872
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:30,080
are projected to be less than budget by about $171,000, and expenditures are projected

873
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:38,800
to be less than budget by about $239,000. Development services, we had a strong year in development services.

874
01:07:40,020 --> 01:07:49,380
Revenues are projected to be about $625,000 greater than budget. And expenditures are about $85,000 less than budget.

875
01:07:50,100 --> 01:07:53,680
Hotel-Motel fund remains relatively flat.

876
01:07:55,180 --> 01:07:59,600
Also, just we don't have a summer here in the packet,

877
01:07:59,620 --> 01:08:01,560
but just to touch on the health fund a little bit,

878
01:08:01,660 --> 01:08:03,200
we had a great year in health fund.

879
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:06,860
Claims came in less than expected.

880
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:10,960
Can you give us an idea what that was?

881
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,580
Yes, we on the health fund,

882
01:08:15,180 --> 01:08:18,840
we came in about 2.1 million less than budget on expenditures.

883
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:25,520
Like I said, a large part of that is due to health claims and great work of you all in

884
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,300
conjunction with our HR department.

885
01:08:28,180 --> 01:08:29,860
This is a great thing.

886
01:08:32,500 --> 01:08:35,220
Also, health claims are kind of like sales tax.

887
01:08:35,780 --> 01:08:36,800
It's up and down.

888
01:08:37,020 --> 01:08:41,220
You never know what it's really going to do, but we'll take it when we can get it.

889
01:08:41,220 --> 01:08:49,140
Also, on the revenue side, we got additional revenues from RX rebates and the performance

890
01:08:49,140 --> 01:08:49,700
penalty.

891
01:08:51,500 --> 01:08:55,500
That was quite a bit of dollars there and that was due to the hard work of everyone

892
01:08:56,140 --> 01:08:56,980
as well.

893
01:08:57,660 --> 01:09:02,040
So, I'm very pleased with the way we ended on the health fund.

894
01:09:02,380 --> 01:09:08,600
We're building a nice fund balance there to be able to absorb any challenges that

895
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:13,120
that we may see in the future, and if we just continue to work on that fund, I think

896
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:13,160
that...

897
01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:15,940
So no funds were transferred from that fund?

898
01:09:16,740 --> 01:09:17,260
I'm sorry?

899
01:09:17,440 --> 01:09:20,160
No funds were transferred from that fund?

900
01:09:20,460 --> 01:09:24,540
We didn't transfer any funds from other funds to this fund.

901
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:26,140
Or from that fund?

902
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:26,720
That's correct.

903
01:09:26,980 --> 01:09:27,860
Yes, ma'am.

904
01:09:29,940 --> 01:09:35,500
Having said that, that kind of wraps up everything as far as, of course we have

905
01:09:35,500 --> 01:09:38,980
a lot more funds than this, but these are kind of the major funds that we track

906
01:09:38,980 --> 01:09:40,280
and report to you all.

907
01:09:42,500 --> 01:09:45,900
So it's recommended the City Council review and

908
01:09:45,900 --> 01:09:50,180
accept the revenue expense report for quarter-ending September 30, 2018.

909
01:09:52,780 --> 01:09:59,220
Motion by Nick. Second. Second by Moore. All in favor? Opposed? The odds have it.

910
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:04,840
At this time we're to the consent agenda. Are there any items that need

911
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:08,840
to be pulled, or can I have a motion to approve?

912
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:11,620
Move to approve the consent agenda.

913
01:10:11,980 --> 01:10:13,660
Motion by Sellers.

914
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:15,500
Second by McGee.

915
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:16,300
All in favor?

916
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:17,380
Aye.

917
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:18,240
Opposed?

918
01:10:18,340 --> 01:10:19,000
The ayes have it.

919
01:10:19,620 --> 01:10:21,500
Now we're on to the city manager's report.

920
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:24,540
Thank you, Mayor and Council.

921
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:30,060
We've been working on our Runway 422 ribbon cutting event

922
01:10:30,060 --> 01:10:34,380
that's for next Thursday, January 17th at 2 o'clock p.m.

923
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:36,500
We hope all of the council can attend.

924
01:10:36,820 --> 01:10:39,660
We have, it'll be an exciting event for us

925
01:10:39,660 --> 01:10:41,640
as we are excited to celebrate this important milestone

926
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:43,700
for Tyler in East Texas Transportation.

927
01:10:44,740 --> 01:10:48,020
The 2018 SEAL Code and Project is complete

928
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and traffic striping is now underway.

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The 2018 asphalt overlay is still underway

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and those projects are estimated to complete

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in April of 2019.

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Cambridge Road Improvement Design is under way.

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Traffic counts are completed.

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Surveying is completed and the conceptual analysis is being done to identify right-of-way needs.

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We anticipate that we will be meeting this project in September.

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The communications team worked with streets, police and fire during the past couple of weeks

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on our city communications during ICE event.

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As we typically see in January and February,

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is when we'll have usually ICE events here in the Tyler area.

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And we've been able to kind of make sure to know how to be able to communicate with our

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media partners and through social media on where we are seeing different issues and being

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able to get that out.

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We also identified which priority areas we would work on to keep open using our new

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sanding methods.

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This we write a limit and will emphasize that we cannot keep streets outside of our

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emergency areas open during major freeze events.

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Keydrick was mentioning earlier during the budget just some of the healthy numbers, but we also just today received our numbers on sales tax.

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We saw a 6.3% increase for this month on our sales tax as compared to the previous year.

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So the numbers on sales tax revenues continue to see good trends upwards.

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And also, finally, I want to be able to complement our United Way Campaign Committee that we put together.

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And Davis Dixon might be here since we had an airport item or he might be gone.

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But Davis has been traditionally led that in this year put together an employee team to assist on our United Way campaign for our Smith County United Way work that we do.

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The results came in this year and they raised $27,045 from city employees with their payroll deductions and other just donations that they've done.

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And this is about $11,000 more than the previous year.

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So this was very exciting at what our employees are willing to give out of their heart in

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order to be able to help those in our community have a better quality of life.

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And finally, we have our half-cent summary report for your distribution and usage.

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So if you have any questions on different projects, please let us know.

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And I also saw in an email that the Gilgore Water Treatment Plant is going to

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all the repairs that we've been doing the last several years will be up and

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functional in the month of January. Is that correct? That is correct. Yes sir.

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Okay that's great. Good news. With that said we do not have any executive

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session item listed, so I will enter.

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Mayor, before you entertain a motion to adjourn, just simply wanted to make a comment today

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is National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, and I just wanted to thank Jimmy and his team

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for everything they do and as they keep us all safe in the community.

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We certainly all appreciate our first responders, but this is your special day.

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Thank you, Jimmy.

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Now, Mr. Mayor.

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I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

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So moved.

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We have a motion by Warren.

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A second by.

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Second.

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By Moor.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Aye.

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Aye.

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01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:18,840
Aye.

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01:14:39,210 --> 01:14:39,450
Aye.

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01:14:40,110 --> 01:14:40,710
Aye.

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Aye.

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01:14:47,290 --> 01:14:47,330
Aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Order.