[10:47] Everybody, it's 5:30, so we'll go ahead and get started. Want to welcome all of

[10:51] you, all of our guests and visitors, uh, staff, and all of council. Thank you all

[10:56] so much for being here. Um, I will open the meeting right at 5:30 on the nose.

[11:02] » Mr. Suri, if you wouldn't mind leading us in our invocation this evening, call

[11:05] us. >> Please join me in prayer. Heavenly

[11:08] Father, thank you for the opportunity to gather and and look at the city's

[11:13] business to hope to concentrate on our job ahead to work

[11:19] together for the betterment of this community. Lord, we thank you for the

[11:23] members here on city council, for the city staff, for our first responders

[11:28] that works so often. And we're going to thank the uh the 100 club who look out

[11:34] for those first responders families when tragedy strikes. We also want to thank

[11:38] the members of our Woodway Youth Commission for all that they do and

[11:42] their part in this endeavor. Lord, we just ask that uh you help us

[11:49] move through these uh agenda items quickly but with good thought and always

[11:56] keeping you and what you would expect us to do at the forefront. It's your son's

[12:00] name that we pray. Amen. >> Amen.

[12:03] » Amen. Nice job.

[12:08] » Okay. At this time, if you're able, please rise for the pledge of

[12:10] » allegiance.

[12:16] Aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it

[12:22] stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

[12:28] for all.

[12:36] Thank you very much. Our next item is our public comment time. Uh the city

[12:40] council would like to invite our citizens and guests to address the

[12:44] council on any matter, including items that are on the agenda except for public

[12:48] hearings. We don't have any of those tonight, but um we ask that you please

[12:53] limit your comments to three minutes per resolution R87-11.

[12:58] There's a timer on the screen up here behind us. so you can keep track of your

[13:02] time. The council is not permitted to take any action or discuss any item

[13:06] that's not listed on the agenda. When you're called to speak, we ask that you

[13:10] please state your name and address. And if you're speaking on a specific agenda

[13:14] item, please state the item before beginning your comments. Thank you so

[13:18] much. The podium is now open for anybody who'd like to address council.

[13:27] Okay, there being none, I will close the public comment time and move on to our

[13:32] presentations. Item number four is the introduction of our new public safety

[13:36] officer. >> Chief, is that you?

[13:38] » Yes, sir. >> Um, so, as uh is customary, wanted to

[13:42] introduce our new public safety officer to our council and to our community.

[13:47] Again, another uh layer of accountability that we utilize so we

[13:52] know who we're serving and who we are accountable to. Quinn, if you don't mind

[13:55] stepping up. Quinn Huntington, Officer Huntington, is 23 years old. He

[14:00] graduated high school from Eagle Christian Academy and graduated college

[14:04] from Baylor University with a bachelor's of science and education. Um, one thing

[14:08] about Officer Huntington, when he came and initially met with me about working

[14:12] here, I could tell he had a strong uh moral compass and he uh always want to

[14:17] do what's right. Doing his background check, everybody we talked to told us

[14:21] how lucky we were to attract with such ethical and moral strength. So he's uh

[14:30] completed his police academy which he thrived in. He um completed his FTO

[14:35] training as well which he thrived in. Um, usually we wait a semester to send

[14:40] somebody to the fire academy. Um, but he's been excelling so greatly that

[14:44] we're sending him to the fire academy starting in July. So, he is doing well.

[14:49] Um, he is one of those that we look to to continue to train serve our

[14:53] community.

[14:58] I think I've done a lot to introduce yourself.

[15:00] » Absolutely. I I've always grown up in Mlennon County and I've always heard of

[15:04] the Woodway reputation. It's a very prestigious one. When applying for this

[15:08] job, I I was just telling my parents every day I'd be very lucky to be here

[15:12] because it's a great community that supports the officers, which is rare in

[15:16] today's time. My father also served law enforcement

[15:20] county.

[15:42] » Thank you so much, Chief. Welcome. All right. Uh, item number five is the

[15:49] presentation of yard of the month for the month of May. So, let's see here.

[15:56] Do we have the Busies here? Is the Busby family here? Wonderful. All right. Uh,

[16:01] Patricia. >> Okay. Welcome. Um, everybody, this is

[16:04] Patricia Busby. Her house on Treeline Drive. You can see the yard over here.

[16:10] She's the winner of the yard of the month. So, Miss Busby, thank you so much

[16:16] for keeping Woodway beautiful. Um, I'm going to give you a certificate, but the

[16:21] certificate says, "Thank you for your outstanding contribution to help make

[16:25] the city of Woodway beautiful." So, can we please give it up for the Busies?

[16:38] » We have a sign for you. It's not a for sale sign.

[17:12] Excellent.

[17:28] Excellent. Congratulations.

[17:32] » Thank you for keeping our streets so beautiful and beautiful.

[17:40] » And he sure doesn't get this sign. >> All right, one more time for this.

[18:00] Well, since we've done one of those, I'm glad there's a rack. Fun.

[18:05] » All right.

[18:09] All right. Item number six is the recognition of uh our Woodway Youth

[18:13] Commission members and our graduating seniors. Chief.

[18:18] » Yes, sir. So, um annually, we like to uh bring up our Woodway Youth Commission

[18:23] members um and recognize them and also recognize graduating seniors um Corporal

[18:29] Officer canister. Officer Kester was our community resource officer. Uh

[18:33] transitioning to patrol and corporal web has been given the opportunity to be our

[18:40] new community resource officer. So if you don't mind

[18:44] » Yeah, absolutely. So uh over here in the corner tucked away are our youth

[18:48] commission members who absolutely do an awesome job at helping us and the city

[18:53] of Woodway, you know, create these really cool community events. uh they're

[18:57] kind of the backbone a lot of the time picking up trash, showing people where

[19:00] the bathrooms are, uh face paint, tattoos, stickers, fun stuff like that.

[19:04] And these kids, they're all in high school or middle school, and they

[19:07] actually take time out of their day, uh their, you know, their busy youthful

[19:11] days to come up here and do meetings regularly and then go to these events to

[19:16] get community hours to help for their college resumes, things like that. So, I

[19:19] personally think it's an awesome awesome thing that they do and they definitely

[19:22] deserve recognition. So, we can get a little quick round OF APPLAUSE FOR

[19:31] AND I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE graduating senior here with us today.

[19:36] » If you wouldn't mind telling the the room what your plans are after

[19:40] graduating. >> My name is Stephanie Starks and I went

[19:43] to Mid High School this year and next year I will be attending Baylor

[19:47] University.

[19:55] So, the mayor has a certificate. >> Oh, perfect. So, if you don't mind

[19:58] coming up here, we got a little certificate for you.

[20:02] » Of course, please. This is your house. >> Congrats.

[20:06] » Thank you so much. >> Okay. We're so proud of you. Well, well

[20:08] done. Have a little certificate.

[20:16] I'm so happy.

[20:21] » Exactly. So, this is a certificate of recognition presented to Stephanie

[20:26] Starks in sincere appreciation for your dedication, your hard work, and your

[20:31] valuable contributions to the Woodway Commission. Stephanie Starks.

[20:50] Uh, so we kind of wait till they're seniors that we can, you know, do the

[20:53] whole spill like that. But I mean, all our youth commission members, if you

[20:56] would please stand real quick. >> There we go.

[21:05] » Thank you, guys. All

[21:18] right. Item number seven is the presentation of the Heart of Texas 100

[21:22] Club. Chief, is that you again? >> Yes, sir. As promised, I'm almost done.

[21:25] You won't have to see me again. Um, if all the the youth commission group could

[21:30] come up here, um, this is a team effort. every February they work really hard on

[21:35] putting together um the bound for the brave and 100% of those proceeds are

[21:41] given to the 100 club. Um we have president of the 100 club Scott Holt,

[21:45] chief of uh Marina, please come up here as well. Um and this is the greatest way

[21:51] to support your local law enforcement is being part of the 100 club. Uh they are

[21:55] the ones who support the ones who support our community. um their their

[21:59] number one thing is to financially support grieving families of fallen law

[22:04] enforcement officers in the Clinton County surrounding in some surrounding

[22:07] counties and not just law enforcement first responders they also firefighters.

[22:11] So within Can you give some details on within 24 hours how that works?

[22:16] » Yeah. So we represent 2400,000

[22:30] recently.

[22:52] reason.

[23:24] giant

[23:35] in the middle.

[23:52] Every year over the last I believe 15 years the

[23:57] youth commission and B for the brave have given over

[24:03] every year it adds up next year we're gonna do it even bigger

[24:22] Chief, thank you. Youth Commission, thank you. Captain Holt, thank you so

[24:26] much. Chief Holt, thank you so much for being here and for all you do.

[24:30] Items 8 through 8A through 8B are on the consent agenda. Council, are there any

[24:36] items that you'd like removed for separate discussion?

[24:40] » I do not. >> Thank you, Mayor Prom. I will move to

[24:45] item nine. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda?

[24:48] » I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda.

[24:55] » I think they >> All right, it's moved and seconded.

[24:59] Thank you. All those in favor, please say I. I. All oppose, please say nay.

[25:05] Eyes have it and the consent agenda passes as written. Thank you, council.

[25:10] Mr. Manager, your item is number 10, your city manager's report.

[25:14] » Thank you, mayor and council. Uh, first I'll brag on our assistant city manager,

[25:18] Jennifer Rogers, and city secretary, Quesa Redden, for completing the

[25:23] certified public manager CPM program through Texas State. This is an 18month

[25:29] program split up between seven tracks and 14 areas of study across general and

[25:34] executive government management. After they complete these tracks, they are

[25:38] required to complete a capstone paper which they submitted this past weekend.

[25:42] I'm happy to report they will be eligible to graduate June 8th at the

[25:46] Capitol in Austin. CONGRATULATIONS

[25:54] and a TASA sidewalk grant update. Feels like we were just talking about this a

[26:00] few months ago and it's already been over a year. Um,

[26:05] so we were required to have a a sign and easement agreement with MISD. We had an

[26:11] agreement in writing over email but the the stipulations of the grant paperwork

[26:16] dictated uh a different form to appease them. So we have satisfied that request.

[26:23] Uh that is at the school board meeting tomorrow. Their meeting is tomorrow and

[26:27] this is on the consent agenda for them. So after that it can go out to bid and

[26:34] we're okay to open bid still by June 11th and we hope to have everything

[26:38] completed on estates before school begins

[26:43] and as part of of the keep Texas beautiful program again carried out by

[26:47] our city secretary text has now completed their portion of the work by

[26:51] clearing the overgrowth and the landscaping forms underneath the highway

[26:56] 84 bridge. This completes a years long yearsong project to have lamps installed

[27:02] under the bridge and and now the second piece was to clear out any unsightly

[27:06] rebar. Our Tater Hill water tank has been that

[27:10] was recently refurbished has passed its final bacteria test and is back in

[27:14] service bringing all wells and ground storage tanks back online and

[27:19] operational. And the bid for the micro seal

[27:23] was done week before or the opening, excuse me, was week before last. And the

[27:29] bid was awarded to Viking, uh, which came in a little over budget, but

[27:34] Mr. Davidson's working negotiating the final scope of the work for that

[27:39] project. Degera laid 55 ft of line last week and

[27:44] the bypass pump will be relocated after Memorial Day weekend and that will

[27:49] hopefully also take out the heavy equipment and the blockage we've had

[27:53] over on the frontage road of 84 which what feels like forever but that we pray

[28:00] is coming to coming to an end. >> 55 down.

[28:04] » Yes sir. >> Of the 800.

[28:06] » Yes sir. >> Okay. And the splash pad is advertised

[28:09] to open Monday, but Jack shared with Jennifer that it'll it will be

[28:12] functional and and open Friday. So if anybody wants to sneak in early,

[28:19] » everything should be happy times out there. And that's all I have. Mayor and

[28:23] C. >> That's great. Thank you, Mr. Manager.

[28:25] Yes, sir. So, it sounds like um sounds like the sidewalk will be done before um

[28:31] school starts in the fall. So, it'll be completed sometime this summer.

[28:36] We're rolling toward that, I guess. >> Okay. I may go to that meeting tomorrow.

[28:40] Make sure it it's I mean the the school board meeting.

[28:45] All right. Uh, anything else for the manager? Any other questions?

[28:51] Okay. Item number 11. Any city council reports, please?

[28:59] » Nobody. >> All right.

[29:03] Okay. Uh if nobody else has anything, we will move to adjurnn. Uh move to our

[29:09] adjournment item. Do I have a motion to adjurnn, please?

[29:12] » Motion. I make a motion to second. >> Thank you. Moved and seconded. Thank

[29:16] you. We are adjourned at 5:49 p.m. Thank you everybody. Have a good night.

Woodway City Council Meeting 5-18-26 5:30pm

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