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Notice is hereby given for a meeting of the City Council of the City of Cuero to be

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held on August 10th, 2026 at 5:00 PM, located at City Hall Council

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Chambers for the purpose of considering the following agenda items.

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The City Council of the City of Cuero will meet, consider, deliberate, and may take

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action on all agenda items. I now call this meeting to order and go

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into roll call. District One, Mr. Henson?

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Here.

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District Two, Mr. Glover?

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Here.

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District Three, Mr. Allen?

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Here.

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District Four, Mr. Adams?

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Here.

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At large, Mr. Arroyo?

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Here.

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And at large, Mr. Townley?

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Here.

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All right. Thank you. We have a full council, and I now announce a quorum.

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Before we get into the body of the meeting, we are going to have an invocation led

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by James K. Crain III, and the pledge of allegiance to the American flag and the

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Texas flag, led by Terry Glover. Please stand.

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Let us all pray. Dear wise and loving Father, we thank you on behalf of all who

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have gathered here today. Thank you for your blessings.

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Thank you for the ability to be involved in useful work, for the honor of bearing

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appropriate responsibilities. We pray for our mayor and these council members, that

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you grant them the knowledge and the wisdom and the understanding of the needs of

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our community. We pray, dear Lord, for the agenda you have set before us today.

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Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Amen.

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

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Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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I honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God,

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one and indivisible.

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Moving on to section 2, public comment.

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This is an opportunity for the public to address council on concerns not on the

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agenda. It is limited to two minutes per House Bill 3636.

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Is there anyone who's got any green cards? No. All right.

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Moving on to section 3, presentation and recognitions.

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3.1, introduction of new police officer, Officer Mark Torres. Chief?

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Mayor, Council, I want to introduce our newest officer. This is Mark Torres.

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Mark spent some time with College Station PD and in Webb County, correct?

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And wanted to get back closer to home, so he is now officially a Cuero resident

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and has been with us since the 20th. So, he brings a lot of experience with him.

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So we're glad to have him on board. With him today is his family and who do you

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have, Kenny?

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My fiancée.

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His fiancée. So come up here.

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Okay, I understand mom and dad is here too?

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Yes.

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Yeah. Have them either get up, we can all acknowledge you. Yeah.

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That is awesome.

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All right. So if you go right out here. All right. You can stay up if you want.

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Don't stick them too...

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Yeah. Don't hurt them too bad.

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Here's your chance.

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All right. Y'all get a photo together and then we'll get the rest of the family up

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Yes, come on up. Mom, Dad.

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She's excited.

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Cheese. Cheese.

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Thank you.

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Okay. Thank you all.

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Thanks, Chief. All right. Moving on to Section 4, the consent agenda.

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Does anyone wish to pull an item from the consent agenda for discussion?

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All right. Seeing no discussion, is there any action by

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council on the consent agenda?

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Mr. Glover?

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I make a motion that we accept the consent agenda.

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All right. Mr. Glover has made a motion that we accept the consent agenda as

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Mr. Allen has seconded the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right.

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Consent agenda is approved as written and presented. All right.

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Moving on to Section 5, resolutions.

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5.1, consider, discuss, and take possible action on Resolution Number

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2026-30, approving and awarding the bid for the City of

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Cuero Stockdale Avenue waterline replacement. Mr. Crain?

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Resolution Number 2026-30, a resolution of the City Council/City of Cuero, Texas

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approving, accepting, and awarding the bid for the City of Cuero Stockdale Avenue

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waterline replacement to Mercer Construction.

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All right. Mr. Berger?

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Mayor, Council, on July 15th at 2:00 PM, we received closed seal bids, two bids for

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this project, one from Mercer Construction and one from JR Contracting Services.

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The total base bid,

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we did receive a recommendation from our engineer, Urban, to award the total base

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bid to Mercer Construction, who was the low bid.

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The total base bid is just the bore underneath the railroad tracks only.

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There was also an alternate bid one,

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plus the bid number one, I didn't do the math here, but for about another

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$54,000,

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they would extend after the bore and connect to Main Street.

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I've talked to Ronnie, the water wastewater supervisor, and they want to just do

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the bore itself, for $123,220, and then in-house they will finish out the waterline

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and connect it on Main Street. And they can do that project right around $5,000 or

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$6,000 in-house and save that money for other projects.

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This will take place, if you recall, it's in next year's budget, so the work will

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not take place until after the weekend of Turkey Fest, at some point afterwards, so

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we don't have anything torn up down here near Main Street during that time.

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All right. Thank you, Mr. Berger. Is there any discussion, any questions for Mr.

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Berger concerning Resolution Number 2026-30?

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Hearing no discussion, is there any action from council on Resolution Number

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Make a motion that we go ahead and accept Resolution 2026-30 and award the bid to

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the City of Cuero Stockdale Avenue waterline replacement to Mercer Construction.

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Mr. Townley has made a motion that we accept Resolution Number

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2026-30.

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Second.

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Mr. Allen has seconded the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

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All opposed respond with nay.

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Ayes have it. Resolution Number 2026-30 is hereby

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approved unanimously. Moving on to 5.2, consider,

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discuss, and take possible action on Resolution Number

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2026-31 for environmental assessment services

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under the

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and Storm Sewer Improvements, which is grant

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CDV25-0178. Mr. Crain?

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Resolution Number 2026-31. Resolution of City Council/City of Cuero, Texas

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awarding a contract between the City of Cuero and Public Management Services in the

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amount of $9,500 to provide administrative services environmental

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assessment for the 2025 TXCDBG Street Sewer and

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Storm Sewer Improvement Grant, CDV25-0178, and

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authorizing the execution of said agreement by the city manager.

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Hey, Miss Stephanie.

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Thank you, Mayor and Council. This is going to be our new contract with the Texas

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Department of Agriculture, a $750,000 project that the city is matching with

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$75,000 of funds for the work on West Morgan from Esplanade to

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Douglas Street. I will in-house administer the entire project except

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for the environmental, because they take about a good three months of intense work,

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so we're going to hire a consultant to do just the environmental assessment on this

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so as to free up my time to do other things.

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Awesome. And you said how much was the grant? $750,000.

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The grant is $750,000. And the $9,500 is in the grant to-

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... pay for that service.

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This is the project that's going to take place on West Morgan from Esplanade to

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Douglas.

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It's going to have some

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sewer improvements, curb and gutter, and some drainage improvements in there.

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And then rehab the street.

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Rehab the street, yes.

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Okay. Is there any discussions or any questions from Council concerning resolution

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number 2026-31?

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Is this going on?

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So by the time we get to them, it'll be next year's.

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And the grant funds, it's a kind of an in and out. Nothing... Yeah.

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But it's there.

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Yeah, it is. The $75,000 of the city funds would actually be next year as well,

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because we have to do the environmental first before we can bid out the project,

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and it'll be a year from now.

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I'd say hopefully this time next year we'll actually be going out for bids.

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We'll be under construction. Yeah.

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Getting ready for construction.

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Cool. All right. Any more questions on

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2026-31?

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Is there any action from Council on resolution number 2026-31? Mr. Allen.

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Motion to adopt the resolution

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2026-31. Mr. Allen has made a motion that we adopt resolution number 2026-31. Mr.

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Henson has second the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

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All opposed, respond with a nay.

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You always have it. Resolution number 2026-31 is hereby approved

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unanimously. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to 5.3.

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Discuss, consider, and possible action on Resolution 2026-32,

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authorizing the request for bids for the Fryer Ag Building expansion and

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improvement project. Mr. Crank. I need that resolution. It is not in my book.

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I don't have it. Is it on the screen? Is it on the screen?

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Right here.

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Yeah, that's all I got.

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I think this is the resolution we adopted

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as an action item.

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Yeah. It should've been a action.

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A resolution.

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Okay. This is not it.

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Yeah, it's just to authorize the city to move forward with going out with this.

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When you approve the bid, then you have to come back with a resolution authorizing

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the contract.

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Okay. So that would be an action item then?

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Still an action item.

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Right. But we don't have it listed as an action item. No, it's under resolutions.

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So we have to have a resolution in order to- Solution ... table it.

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I think, can we still have discussion on it?

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At this point, we're not ready to go out to bid tomorrow- Okay. Good question ...

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but we could have some individuals here.

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We can have a discussion and get ready to move forward. Okay. Thank you. Got it.

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Okay. We can do that.

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All right. Mr. Burger, then. You're on.

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Mayor, Council, as you recall,

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probably six, seven months ago, we hired TSG Architects to work with the City of

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Cuero and Cuero Livestock, Inc, with an addition, I believe around 8,500 square

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It's 8,500.

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8,500 to the rear, what I would call the west side-

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Yes, sir

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... of the current Fryar Ag Center.

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As well as it looks like we're adding around an 1,800 square foot drive-through

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covered area.

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We've got to the point now where we've the plans, and you'll see in your packet

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some renderings of what they say. They do have a projected cost estimate right now,

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right around $1.4 million. This is a project that Cuero Livestock would like to

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see move forward and have completed by the stock show, which is at the end of

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February, beginning of March.

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Yeah, end of... Yes, sir. That should be about right. Yeah.

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So we do have-

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That would be our plan, if we can.

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We do have Mr. Greg Gossett here to give a little more detail about this project

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and answer any questions that y'all might have.

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Yeah, I think I can. Well, thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Council, for giving us

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a chance to come and speak to you. I would like to say before we start on that,

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that we had our rodeo this past weekend, and it was very successful.

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I want to thank the city for all their help.

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David Danis is always very helpful to us in getting ready for that, and Wayne and

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all the other staff. So the rodeo was very successful Friday and Saturday night,

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real good attendance. But what we're trying to do, and as I mentioned when I was

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here before, and you can see the rendered drawings, is we're trying to add on about

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8,500 square feet to the west end of the Ag Center.

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And the main purpose of that is to bring our commercial heifers up to the show and

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not house them at the auction barn.

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We've had to do that for several years because the number of pens that we had, we

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just could no longer house them there. So our goal is to try to do that.

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And with this add-on, it will give us enough square footage to

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probably have at least 100 pens, which should hold us for quite some time.

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We do have some money. We've had a couple of, or one particular nice

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donation by the Fryer Thomas Foundation for $300,000.

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We have some money. So at this point, we probably have about a half a million

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dollars, but we're also talking to some other people about that so that we can

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hopefully get close to that $1.4 million.

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I never would've thought when Tim made that estimate that this project would be

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that much, but everything is getting so high. But it will have water.

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It's all concrete, so it can be used for other events.

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I think that's what's cool about the whole thing is that you can open that up from,

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say, that office all the way to the back and someone else can use it for, if all

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the pens are removed, you could use it, Turkey Fest or anybody that would like

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to could get that facility. But we will have water, electricity, the big

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fans in it. But our goal is to try to finish this, and Tim has us on a schedule.

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Now if we can go out for bids, and if everything goes right, we'll be through

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before the stock show.

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When is the stock show?

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End of February, 1st of March. I can't remember the exact-

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Yeah.

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I remember the... Oh, I also have with me Mr.

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Greg Nemet, who is the FFA Ag teacher here at Cuero, and Mr.

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Ty Ludike, who's also a director.

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Thank you.

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Sorry, fellas, I should've introduced you at first.

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Does the board first start the 1st of March?

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1st of March.

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1st of March. Okay.

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I think we can do it if we... It just takes time.

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Yes, sir.

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Okay. Council, I do want to just remind you that the building is a city building.

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It is a city asset. Look on our sheet that we talked during budget workshops, and

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Mr. Gossett in the past, this is whenever we get ready to approve bids.

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Because it is our building, they're unable to go use it as collateral for loans.

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They are asking the city to help contribute as a loan and

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pay us back. At that time, we'll have a better idea of whenever we're ready to

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approve bids, what that number might be that it might be asking for.

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We do have money in the general fund of our revenue and do have enough to make some

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sort of agreement. We have checked with our auditors, and

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we should have no issues. Even if we choose to

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do a no-interest loan as part of our contribution to this project, they definitely

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recommend having an agreement drafted with the dollar amount as determined and

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include a proposed repayment schedule.

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So this is something that we can do, and auditors have signed off on.

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Also, just want to point out one other area in the back. This is also utilized.

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Billy, you might have something to say to this.

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During Hurricane Harvey, this area is utilized for

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animal center relocation area.

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Oh, yeah. It's utilized for the shelter, and then we've also just recently finished

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a reunification

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with the school.

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That's awesome. That's good. A place for them to take shelter in.

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It'll be nice when we get it done.

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Okay. And I apologize for the confusion.

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We'll get this

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fixed up. And like I said, we weren't ready to go out to bid tomorrow.

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We can still get our dates in order and get ready to move forward.

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Does anybody here have any questions-

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Questions

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... in regards to this or concerns with this project moving forward?

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We have to have a special meeting for this one?

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Well, my recommendation is going to be to have a special meeting so we can get

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that, and also I was going to recommend that there's still some hot funds that me

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and Justin need to sit down and look at.

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We did receive some payments,

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and we need to finalize those in our final budget before we adopt the budget in

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September. So I was going to recommend a special meeting just for hot funds, and we

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can add this topic to it and get this moving forward.

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That'd be great.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Mr. Gausset. Thanks for what you all do. All right.

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So seeing that

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we can't take any action on item 5.3 tonight, do I

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hear a motion that we postpone any action on 5.3 for the next

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scheduled

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council meeting?

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Table?

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Postpone would be-

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Postpone.

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Postpone. Okay.

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For the next scheduled meeting. All right. Mr.

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Kelly's made a motion that we table 5.3 or postpone 5.3 to the

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next scheduled meeting. Mr. Hansen has seconded the motion.

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All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed respond with a nay. Ayes have it.

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Item 5.3 is postponed till the next scheduled meeting. All right.

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Moving on to Section VI, Ordinances. 6.1, Emergency Reading.

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6.1.1. Discuss, consider, and possible action on emergency reading

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of Ordinance 2026-14, authorizing and approving a right-of-way

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easement for electric distribution lines, fiber optic, and other communications

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equipment and facilities from the City of Cuero as grantor to

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Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative as grantee

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upon and over real property being across that certain

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20.69 acre tract of land in the Jose Antonio Valdez and

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Gonzales League, Abstract 47 in DeWitt County, Texas, and authorizing the mayor's

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execution of said right of way and easement. Mr. Crane.

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Ordinance number 2026-14 of the Ordinances of the City of Cuero, Texas,

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authorizing and approving a right-of-way easement for electric distribution lines,

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fiber optic, and other communications equipment and facilities from the City of

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Cuero as grantor to Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative as grantee upon and over

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real property being across that certain 20.69 acre tract of land in the Jose

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Antonio Valdez Gonzales League, Abstract 47 in DeWitt County, Texas, and

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authorizing the mayor's execution of said right-of-way easement and a declaring of

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emergency.

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Mr. Berger.

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Mayor, Council, this is the portion of the property, the five acres that we leased

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to Caprock about a year and a half, two years ago.

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They're moving forward with their battery project on our Cheatham property, and

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this is an easement. If you look at the map, Exhibit A, toward the back, it is

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only the small portion, Exhibit B .069 acres, 3,000 square feet.

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It looks like a much bigger, but that is the substation itself, and that is a

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separate easement that they are working on with LCRA.

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So this is just to allow the lines from the substation to come in and get to the

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batteries and to the transformers on our property.

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Okay. Is there any discussion or any questions for Mr.

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Berger on Ordinance

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2026-14?

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Is there any action from Council on Ordinance

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2026-14 Emergency Reading? Mr. Adams.

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I move that we approve Ordinance 2026-14.

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Mr. Adams has moved that we approve Ordinance

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2026-14 Emergency Reading.

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Mr. Allen has seconded the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

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All opposed, respond with a nay. The ayes have it.

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Ordinance 2026-14 is hereby approved at emergency

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reading unanimously. Thank you very much.

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Moving on to 6.2, First Reading of an Ordinance.

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6.2.1. Discuss, consider, and possible action on first

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reading of Ordinance 2026-09, Sewer and Wastewater

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Rate Adjustment Amendment. Mr. Crane.

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This is Ordinance number 2025-09, which should be

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2026.

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2026.

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Is that right?

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Yes, sir.

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Or no, 2026-09. The Ordinances of the City of Cuero, Texas, amending the

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Code of Ordinances of the City of Cuero, Appendix A, Fee Schedule.

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Article A6.000, Utility Rates and Charges,

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Division Four, Sewer Service, Wastewater.

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Section A6.091, Monthly Rates. A, inside city

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limits, and B, outside the city limits, making detailed findings related thereto,

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repealing all ordinances, parts, and clauses in conflict therewith, providing for a

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severability clause, and prescribing an effective date.

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This is the first reading of two.

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Mr. Berger.

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Mayor, Council, as discussed during our budget workshops, this is an increase on

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the wastewater rate. If you look at the very back of the-- You go through the

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ordinance, we have a '25, '26 comparison where you can actually see what the

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current rates are and what the proposed rate would be.

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The monthly base rate is currently $17.61. It would be moving to $19.

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The volumetric rate is $5.90 per thousand, moving to $6.20 per thousand.

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And then if you look down, you can see some industrial rates inside and outside the

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city limits. Put that in perspective,

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with the current rate of-- We base wastewater on your bills on winter averaging if

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you're residential. That is during the months of December, January, February, so it

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is based on your water usage during those three months.

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That way, in the summertime when individuals are watering or doing anything like

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that, it does not take and bill you sewer for what you're putting on your yard, is

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the thought process behind winter averaging.

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With this increase, if you use 10,000 gallons of water, was

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what your wastewater, your sewer bill was based on, your old rate would be $76.61.

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With the new rate, it would move your bill to $81. That's a $4.39 increase.

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So if you use 10,000 gallons, basically you're paying, at the new rate, $2.61

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per day, to have your wastewater treated.

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These would go into effect on October 1st.

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It would not be seen on any customer's bill until the bill they received in

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November for October's usage.

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All right. Is there any discussion or

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questions for Mr. Berger on first reading of Ordinance 2026-09?

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Is there any action from Council on the first reading of Ordinance 2026-09?

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Mr. Allen.

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Motion to adopt the ordinance

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2026-09.

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2026. Okay. Mr. Allen's made a motion that we adopt Ordinance

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2026-09.

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Mr. Arroyo? Second the motion. All in favor, say aye.

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Aye. All opposed, respond with a nay.

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All right. Ordinance 2026-09 is adopted upon first reading.

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Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to 6.2.2,

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discuss, consider, and possible action on first reading of Ordinance

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2026-10, Water and Bulk Water Rate Adjustment

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Amendment. Mr. Crane.

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Ordinance number 2026-10, Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Cuero,

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Texas, amending Appendix A, Fee Schedule, Article A6.000, Utility

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Rates and Charges, Division 5, Water Service, Section A6.121, Monthly Rates,

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A, inside city limits, and B, outside city limits, and Section

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A6.121 (c) , Bulk Water Rate, of the City of Cuero's Code of Ordinances, making

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detailed findings related thereto, repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances

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in conflict therewith, providing for a severability clause, and prescribing an

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effective date.

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Mr. Berger.

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Mayor, Council, again, on this one, similar to the other one, if you go to the back

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of the ordinance, you have a comparison.

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Comparing on the residential 5/8 by 3/4 meter, which is what the majority of the

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residents have, you would be moving the base charge from $15 to $16.

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And then the volumetric rate, which we do in tiers, 0 to 10,000 would go from

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250 to 262. 10,000 to 20,000 would go from 374 to 392.

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20,000 to 50,000 gallons would go from 496 to 520.

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50,000 gallons above would go from 742 to 779.

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We are also going up on the bulk water customers from $15.50 to $16 per

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thousand. That being said, if you have a residential meter and you use

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10,000 gallons of water,

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the old rate you would be paying $40, the new rate you'd be paying $42.20 per

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month. And that would cost you roughly $1.36 per day, is what it averages out

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to for the full year.

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Okay. Is there any discussion, any questions from Council

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for Mr. Berger on Ordinance 2026-10?

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Hearing no discussion, is there any action by Council on Ordinance

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2026-10 first reading?

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I make a motion to approve Ordinance 2026-10.

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All right. Mr. Connolly has made a motion that we approve Ordinance 2026-10 first

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reading. Mr. Glover has seconded the motion. All in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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All opposed, respond with a nay.

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The ayes have it. Ordinance 2026-10 is here approved

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first reading unanimously. Thank you very much.

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Moving on to 6.2.3, discuss, consider, and possible action

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on first reading of Ordinance 2026-11, Amend the Solid

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Waste Garbage Charge Rate Adjustment Amendment. Mr. Crane.

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Ordinance number 2026-11, Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Cuero,

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Texas, amending the Code of Ordinances of the City of Cuero, Appendix A, Fee

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Schedule, Article A6.000, Utility Rates and Charges, Division 3,

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Solid Waste Collection, Section A6.361 ,

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Rate Schedules, making detailed findings related thereto, repealing all ordinances

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or parts of ordinances in conflict therewith, providing for a severability clause,

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and prescribing an effective date.

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Mr. Berger.

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Mayor, Council, this is our TDS contract.

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It does have a 4%

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increase annually that we are going into year two of 10.

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Again, if you go to the back of the ordinance, we do have an additional page that

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shows you what the current rates are for each type of service and what the new

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rates are being proposed at, the same as it was presented during the workshop.

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Again, will not go into effect till October 1st, and won't be until the

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bills received in November. I'd also want to point out that after we do the second

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reading and final approval, that these will all be in the paper within 10 days of

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the final approval with the ordinance.

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Okay. Is there any discussion or any questions for Mr.

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Berger in regards to the first reading of Ordinance 2026-11?

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Hearing no discussion, is there any action from Council on the first reading of

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Ordinance 2026-11? Mr. Allen.

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00:32:02,089 --> 00:32:02,508
Motion to adopt Ordinance 2026-11.

472
00:32:02,568 --> 00:32:06,933
Okay. Mr. Allen has made a motion we adopt the Ordinance

473
00:32:07,248 --> 00:32:12,723
2026-11 on its first reading. Mr. Connolly has seconded the motion.

474
00:32:12,768 --> 00:32:16,788
All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, respond with a nay.

475
00:32:17,958 --> 00:32:23,178
The ayes have it. Ordinance 2026-11 is hereby adopted on first reading

476
00:32:23,779 --> 00:32:26,448
unanimously. Thank you very much. All right.

477
00:32:26,538 --> 00:32:32,419
Moving on to 6.2.4, discuss, consider, and possible action on first reading

478
00:32:32,478 --> 00:32:38,089
of Ordinance 2026-12, Amend Electric Rates. Mr.

479
00:32:38,358 --> 00:32:38,748
Crane.

480
00:32:39,018 --> 00:32:44,193
This is Ordinance number 2026-12, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of

481
00:32:44,238 --> 00:32:47,928
Cuero amending the Code of Ordinances of the City of Cuero, Texas, Chapter 12,

482
00:32:48,169 --> 00:32:52,698
Utilities, Article 12.03, Electrical Service, Section

483
00:32:52,728 --> 00:32:58,473
12.03.001, Schedule of Rates, by adopting and approving an

484
00:32:58,518 --> 00:33:02,779
amended schedule of electric rates, amending the schedule of electric rates to

485
00:33:02,808 --> 00:33:08,328
Appendix A, Fee Schedule, Article A6, Utility Rates and Charges, Division

486
00:33:08,419 --> 00:33:12,589
2, Electric Service, designated as Code Section

487
00:33:12,708 --> 00:33:18,618
A6.034, Schedule of Electric Rates, making detailed findings related thereto,

488
00:33:19,248 --> 00:33:23,478
repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict therewith, providing

489
00:33:23,508 --> 00:33:25,998
for a severability clause, and prescribing an effective date.

490
00:33:26,808 --> 00:33:27,348
Mr. Berger.

491
00:33:27,768 --> 00:33:32,928
Mayor, Council, this is going up $1 on the base charge on the

492
00:33:32,958 --> 00:33:36,527
residential, and then $5 on small, medium, and large

493
00:33:38,328 --> 00:33:42,078
commercial, and small and medium industrial, as well as on the

494
00:33:43,669 --> 00:33:48,873
small industrial going from a rate per kilowatt hours from rate from

495
00:33:48,948 --> 00:33:53,118
.01725 up to .0201.

496
00:33:55,488 --> 00:34:01,399
Whenever

497
00:34:01,428 --> 00:34:05,298
we do increases on electric, I compare ourselves to GVC and also just what it would

498
00:34:05,358 --> 00:34:08,808
cost increase per day. With this base increase,

499
00:34:10,578 --> 00:34:16,128
compared to GVC, if you use 1,500 kilowatt hours, we currently are

500
00:34:16,368 --> 00:34:22,218
$1.02 more than GVC. With this rate increase, it would put

501
00:34:22,248 --> 00:34:24,169
us at $2.77

502
00:34:26,508 --> 00:34:30,768
above GVC based on 1,500 kilowatt hours used per month.

503
00:34:30,919 --> 00:34:36,828
That being said, with that rate, it would cost you right around $6.16 per day to

504
00:34:36,888 --> 00:34:39,949
have electric provided to your household.

505
00:34:41,538 --> 00:34:45,753
Okay. Is there any discussion, any questions for Mr.

506
00:34:46,098 --> 00:34:50,779
Berger on the first reading of Ordinance 2026-12 from Council?

507
00:34:52,458 --> 00:34:56,988
Hearing no discussion or questions, is there any action from Council on the first

508
00:34:57,048 --> 00:34:59,748
reading of Ordinance 2026-12?

509
00:35:02,268 --> 00:35:02,898
Mr. Adams.

510
00:35:04,038 --> 00:35:06,483
I make a motion to approve Ordinance 2026-12.

511
00:35:06,483 --> 00:35:12,438
Mr. Adams has made a motion that we approve Ordinance 2026-12 first reading. Mr.

512
00:35:12,978 --> 00:35:17,627
Glover has seconded the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

513
00:35:17,688 --> 00:35:19,338
All opposed, respond with a nay.

514
00:35:20,779 --> 00:35:26,328
The ayes have it. Ordinance number 2026-12 is hereby approved first reading

515
00:35:26,418 --> 00:35:28,338
unanimously. Thank you very much.

516
00:35:28,968 --> 00:35:34,668
Moving on, 6.2.5, discuss, consider, and possible action on first

517
00:35:34,728 --> 00:35:40,308
reading of Ordinance 226-13, Hauled Waste Fee

518
00:35:40,728 --> 00:35:43,608
Rate Adjustment Amendment. Mr. Crane.

519
00:35:43,878 --> 00:35:48,318
Ordinance number 2026-13, ordinance of the City Council of the City of Cuero,

520
00:35:48,378 --> 00:35:52,279
Texas, amending the Code of Ordinances of the City of Cuero, Appendix A, Fee

521
00:35:52,398 --> 00:35:57,558
Schedule, Article A6.000, Utility Rates and Charges, Division 4,

522
00:35:58,308 --> 00:36:03,918
Sewer Service/Wastewater, Section A6.094, Trucked or

523
00:36:03,949 --> 00:36:09,681
Hauled Fee, making detailed findings related to repealing all ordinances or

524
00:36:09,786 --> 00:36:13,701
part of ordinances in conflict or with providing for a severability clause and

525
00:36:13,716 --> 00:36:14,901
describing an effective date.

526
00:36:15,876 --> 00:36:16,401
Mr. Burger.

527
00:36:16,896 --> 00:36:21,427
Mayor, Council, this is what we call hauled waste fee.

528
00:36:21,876 --> 00:36:25,971
It's mostly oil field waste, either from porta potties, which is delivered to our

529
00:36:25,986 --> 00:36:29,826
wastewater treatment plant directly, or if it's gray water, it goes out to our

530
00:36:29,856 --> 00:36:31,416
prison site, which is monitored by cameras.

531
00:36:32,106 --> 00:36:35,091
Currently, the rate is $105 per thousand.

532
00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:38,196
We're requesting to go up to $110 per thousand.

533
00:36:39,996 --> 00:36:45,156
Okay. Council, is there any discussion or

534
00:36:45,216 --> 00:36:50,346
questions for Mr. Burger on the first reading of Ordinance 2026-13?

535
00:36:52,177 --> 00:36:56,001
Hearing no discussion, is there any action from Council on the first reading of

536
00:36:56,047 --> 00:36:58,656
Ordinance 2026-13? Mr. Allen.

537
00:37:01,116 --> 00:37:04,641
Motion to adopt Ordinance 2026-13.

538
00:37:04,656 --> 00:37:10,236
Mr. Allen has made a motion that we adopt Ordinance 2026-13 first reading.

539
00:37:14,226 --> 00:37:19,056
Mr. Adams to second the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.

540
00:37:19,476 --> 00:37:22,986
All opposed, respond with a nay. The ayes have it.

541
00:37:23,076 --> 00:37:28,086
Ordinance 2026-13 is hereby approved on its first reading unanimously.

542
00:37:28,146 --> 00:37:33,786
Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to section number seven,

543
00:37:34,266 --> 00:37:36,966
council consideration and action items.

544
00:37:37,536 --> 00:37:43,146
For my colleagues, 7.1, just a quick, there will be a roll call

545
00:37:43,986 --> 00:37:49,567
vote. So we're going to discuss, consider, and possible action on accepting

546
00:37:49,596 --> 00:37:54,802
proposed tax rate for public hearing for fiscal year

547
00:37:55,326 --> 00:37:58,416
2026-2027. Mr. Burger.

548
00:37:59,076 --> 00:38:04,536
Mayor, Council, Jess has been working with Ashley at the appraisal district.

549
00:38:05,016 --> 00:38:07,356
And if you look in your binder, you should have a

550
00:38:10,056 --> 00:38:11,856
paper that looks like this, that's final at the top.

551
00:38:12,396 --> 00:38:18,276
Our current tax rate is 0.30675. The no new

552
00:38:18,366 --> 00:38:24,216
revenue rate is 0.29702. Voter approval rate is 0.32305.

553
00:38:24,726 --> 00:38:27,756
The de minimis tax rate is 0.40983.

554
00:38:28,236 --> 00:38:34,221
We are required this year, due to our audit being late, to adopt the no-new revenue

555
00:38:34,297 --> 00:38:39,486
rate. So that would be a decrease of 0.00973.

556
00:38:39,726 --> 00:38:45,067
So then what I suggest we propose, because it's the highest we can go, is the

557
00:38:45,126 --> 00:38:50,826
no-new revenue rate of 0.29702. That would have the

558
00:38:50,886 --> 00:38:56,586
maintenance, M&O rate, would be 0.25570 of that total, and then

559
00:38:57,186 --> 00:39:02,136
I&S rate is 0.04132 to make the total of 0.29702.

560
00:39:03,186 --> 00:39:08,406
All right. Is there any discussion from Council

561
00:39:08,556 --> 00:39:14,106
on the accepting of the proposed tax rate for public hearing for fiscal year

562
00:39:14,256 --> 00:39:16,581
2026-27?

563
00:39:18,156 --> 00:39:22,986
Hearing no discussion, is there any action from Council on

564
00:39:23,976 --> 00:39:27,396
accepting the proposed tax rate? Mr. Henson.

565
00:39:27,486 --> 00:39:30,756
I have a motion to approve the proposed tax rate of

566
00:39:30,771 --> 00:39:36,666
0.29702. Okay. M&O at

567
00:39:36,906 --> 00:39:42,036
2.25570, and I&S at 0.04132. All right. Mr.

568
00:39:42,427 --> 00:39:47,166
Henson has made a motion that we approve the proposed tax rate of

569
00:39:47,346 --> 00:39:52,986
0.29702. M&O is

570
00:39:53,047 --> 00:39:57,696
0.25570, and I&S is

571
00:39:57,710 --> 00:40:03,471
0.04132. Mr. Townley has

572
00:40:03,516 --> 00:40:09,186
seconded the motion. All right, I will now go into roll call. Emil Garza, aye.

573
00:40:09,817 --> 00:40:11,226
Shannon Henson, District One.

574
00:40:13,626 --> 00:40:18,006
Here. Aye. Okay, that's fine. Terry Glover, District Two.

575
00:40:18,427 --> 00:40:18,726
Aye.

576
00:40:20,047 --> 00:40:21,606
Tony Allen, District Three.

577
00:40:23,047 --> 00:40:23,061
Aye.

578
00:40:23,076 --> 00:40:24,756
Mitch Adams, District Four.

579
00:40:26,331 --> 00:40:28,146
Aye. Charles Townley, at large.

580
00:40:30,216 --> 00:40:30,290
Aye.

581
00:40:30,290 --> 00:40:31,746
Adam Arroyo, at large.

582
00:40:31,986 --> 00:40:33,006
Aye.

583
00:40:33,096 --> 00:40:34,896
All right. The ayes have it.

584
00:40:37,236 --> 00:40:43,116
The approved tax rate of 0.29702

585
00:40:43,206 --> 00:40:47,856
is hereby adopted. Thank you very much. All right.

586
00:40:48,456 --> 00:40:54,126
Moving on to 7.2, discuss, consider, and possible action on setting the

587
00:40:54,186 --> 00:40:59,766
time and the place for the public hearing on the proposed tax rate for

588
00:40:59,856 --> 00:41:04,236
fiscal year 2026-27. Mr. Burger.

589
00:41:04,927 --> 00:41:10,776
Mayor, Council, we've spoken to Ashley at the appraisal district, and we don't need

590
00:41:10,806 --> 00:41:14,526
to have any special meetings. We can actually ask for this public hearing to be

591
00:41:14,646 --> 00:41:19,071
held at our next regular scheduled council meeting, September 14th at 5:00 PM, if

592
00:41:19,086 --> 00:41:20,406
that works for you all.

593
00:41:21,486 --> 00:41:21,891
All right.

594
00:41:23,286 --> 00:41:23,361
Mr.

595
00:41:24,726 --> 00:41:30,306
Burger has suggested that we set the time and the place for a public hearing for

596
00:41:30,427 --> 00:41:35,047
September the 14th, 2026, at 5:00 PM.

597
00:41:35,076 --> 00:41:37,596
Is there any action from Council on 7.2?

598
00:41:38,226 --> 00:41:43,026
Make a motion to accept the date 9/14/26, and set the time and place.

599
00:41:43,446 --> 00:41:49,386
Okay. Mr. Townley has made a motion that we set the time

600
00:41:49,536 --> 00:41:54,321
and place for a public hearing on the proposed tax rate for September 14th at 5:00

601
00:41:54,366 --> 00:41:54,817
PM.

602
00:41:56,346 --> 00:42:00,696
Second. Mr. Allen has seconded the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

603
00:42:01,177 --> 00:42:06,922
All opposed, respond with a nay. The ayes have it. 7.2 is hereby approved.

604
00:42:07,686 --> 00:42:12,966
7.3, discuss, consider, and possible action on accepting the

605
00:42:12,996 --> 00:42:18,246
proposed budget for public hearing for fiscal year

606
00:42:18,396 --> 00:42:21,906
2026-2027. Mr. Burger.

607
00:42:22,401 --> 00:42:24,666
Mayor, Council, you have a proposed budget in front of you.

608
00:42:25,086 --> 00:42:28,297
I do want to point out there's still going to be little tweaks to it throughout the

609
00:42:28,356 --> 00:42:32,735
next few weeks. Once we get the final exact numbers from getting the tax rate to

610
00:42:33,547 --> 00:42:35,047
Ashley, and we get those numbers back.

611
00:42:35,797 --> 00:42:39,681
Also with the hotel-motel funds, as I discussed earlier, I would like to have

612
00:42:39,966 --> 00:42:44,797
another special workshop so we can work on those once me and Jess get the numbers

613
00:42:45,336 --> 00:42:49,776
adjusted on that. It is currently a balanced budget of

614
00:42:49,806 --> 00:42:55,446
$9.655 million. That is an increase.

615
00:42:56,677 --> 00:42:59,916
Last year's budget was around a little over $9.1 million.

616
00:43:00,276 --> 00:43:05,526
So it's an increase of $562,852, with the majority of the increase

617
00:43:05,946 --> 00:43:11,317
coming in the police department. It did have right around $300,000

618
00:43:11,406 --> 00:43:14,886
additional for three additional police units.

619
00:43:15,156 --> 00:43:15,906
But also,

620
00:43:17,346 --> 00:43:20,976
another big increase is the North Borough Watershed.

621
00:43:21,036 --> 00:43:26,946
Our contribution went from $10,000 to $25,000 in a transfer to the general fund

622
00:43:27,067 --> 00:43:32,436
CIP. If you recall, we were moving $350,000 over to the CIP

623
00:43:33,936 --> 00:43:37,536
fund for the Industrial Boulevard project by the school.

624
00:43:38,406 --> 00:43:44,031
And then there's also $284,000 of a contingency that's required to be in that

625
00:43:44,106 --> 00:43:45,756
budget, makes up part of that increase.

626
00:43:47,391 --> 00:43:50,811
Okay. Is there any discussion or any questions for Mr.

627
00:43:51,067 --> 00:43:56,346
Burger on the accepting of the proposed budget for a public

628
00:43:56,436 --> 00:44:01,356
hearing for fiscal year 2026-27? Any questions from Council?

629
00:44:02,677 --> 00:44:06,576
Any action from Council on 7.3?

630
00:44:10,026 --> 00:44:13,986
Are we accepting the proposed budget? Yes.

631
00:44:14,047 --> 00:44:18,817
Except for us to have a public hearing on, especially with-

632
00:44:18,906 --> 00:44:20,241
The public hearing will be a whole separate issue.

633
00:44:20,241 --> 00:44:20,241
Right.

634
00:44:20,256 --> 00:44:25,192
This is accepting the proposed budget as presented, and the CDC budget is part of

635
00:44:25,236 --> 00:44:26,706
this budget as well.

636
00:44:26,826 --> 00:44:30,590
I move to accept the proposed budget. Okay. Mr.

637
00:44:31,177 --> 00:44:37,101
Adams has made a motion that we accept the proposed budget for a public hearing for

638
00:44:37,146 --> 00:44:38,331
item 7.3.

639
00:44:39,576 --> 00:44:44,121
Mr. Henson has seconded the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.

640
00:44:44,196 --> 00:44:47,346
All opposed, respond with a nay. The ayes have it.

641
00:44:47,916 --> 00:44:53,166
7.3 is hereby approved. Moving on to 7.4, discuss,

642
00:44:53,466 --> 00:44:59,331
consider, and possible action on setting a time and a place for a

643
00:44:59,496 --> 00:45:03,427
public hearing on the proposed budget fiscal year

644
00:45:03,576 --> 00:45:06,306
2026-27. Mr. Burger.

645
00:45:06,846 --> 00:45:11,916
Mayor, Council, we can also set this public hearing at the regular September 14th

646
00:45:11,976 --> 00:45:13,446
meeting at 5:00 PM

647
00:45:15,186 --> 00:45:19,266
Next month. Any discussion from council on 7.4?

648
00:45:20,826 --> 00:45:26,646
Any action from council on 7.4, setting a time and a place for a public hearing

649
00:45:26,736 --> 00:45:31,506
on proposed budget for fiscal year 2026-27?

650
00:45:33,966 --> 00:45:39,067
Mr. Glover? Mr. Glover has made a motion that we set the time and place for public

651
00:45:39,096 --> 00:45:44,736
hearing on proposed budget fiscal year 2026-27 on September the

652
00:45:44,766 --> 00:45:49,866
14th, 2026, at 5:00 PM in council chambers. All right. All in favor say...

653
00:45:50,016 --> 00:45:50,856
Oh, is there a second?

654
00:45:52,896 --> 00:45:58,656
Mr. Henson has seconded that motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

655
00:45:58,716 --> 00:46:02,346
All opposed respond with a nay. The ayes have it.

656
00:46:03,817 --> 00:46:09,501
7.4 is here approved. 7.5, discuss, consider, and

657
00:46:09,547 --> 00:46:15,186
possible action on golf fees updates 2026. Mr. Berger.

658
00:46:16,116 --> 00:46:21,067
Mayor, council, this is not putting it out ordinance, this is by action item.

659
00:46:21,666 --> 00:46:25,026
Worked with David Danish, I believe he's here today, too.

660
00:46:26,376 --> 00:46:32,317
You can currently see what the current rates are, what's being proposed for '26,

661
00:46:32,556 --> 00:46:38,256
'27. It is an increase for the nine-hole and 18-hole weekday and weekend

662
00:46:38,677 --> 00:46:44,600
of $2, and then up a dollar, only a dollar on the nine hole and

663
00:46:44,616 --> 00:46:50,106
18 hole for seniors. And then $50 increase for the annual

664
00:46:50,166 --> 00:46:56,047
membership, $75 for the family membership increase, and then the big ones are

665
00:46:56,166 --> 00:46:57,336
an increase in

666
00:46:58,836 --> 00:47:04,311
$100, $50 on the old cart shed, and then $100 on the two newer golf cart sheds, and

667
00:47:04,356 --> 00:47:08,946
then leaving the rate at $700 where we just opened up the, what I would call the

668
00:47:09,067 --> 00:47:12,276
extra big new golf cart sheds for the oversized golf carts,

669
00:47:13,986 --> 00:47:15,366
have keeping those at $700.

670
00:47:17,317 --> 00:47:23,047
All right. Is there any questions, any discussion from council on

671
00:47:23,916 --> 00:47:26,317
7.5 on golf fees updates?

672
00:47:27,606 --> 00:47:31,236
David, I don't know if you want to give any update on the golf course.

673
00:47:31,956 --> 00:47:34,672
I tell you all I hear good things all the way around,

674
00:47:36,096 --> 00:47:39,216
with the way the course looks, the way everything's handled.

675
00:47:39,606 --> 00:47:42,696
We do have some irrigation that needs to be addressed.

676
00:47:42,756 --> 00:47:44,031
That is in this year's budget of-

677
00:47:44,302 --> 00:47:44,302
Yeah

678
00:47:44,346 --> 00:47:48,906
... right around $65,000 of additional heads in the fairway.

679
00:47:48,936 --> 00:47:52,656
We've got all this nice grass out there, but with the prevailing winds, it doesn't

680
00:47:52,716 --> 00:47:56,526
allow, it catches too much of it and doesn't get everything that needs to be

681
00:47:57,096 --> 00:48:01,746
irrigated in the fairway. So that is a bigger project in this next year's budget.

682
00:48:01,776 --> 00:48:03,711
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Danish.

683
00:48:05,436 --> 00:48:05,826
Is there

684
00:48:07,146 --> 00:48:12,096
any questions or discussion for Mr. Danish or Mr. Berger on 7.5?

685
00:48:14,166 --> 00:48:19,776
Hearing no discussion, is there any action from council on 7.5?

686
00:48:25,297 --> 00:48:28,146
Mr. Adams. Move we approve the recent

687
00:48:30,995 --> 00:48:36,876
golf cart golf. Okay. Mr. Adams has made a motion that we approve the

688
00:48:37,266 --> 00:48:43,116
golf fees, or 7.5. Is that Mr. Allen has seconded the motion?

689
00:48:43,686 --> 00:48:48,065
All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed respond with a nay.

690
00:48:49,177 --> 00:48:54,172
The ayes have it. 7.5 is hereby approved unanimously. Thank you very much.

691
00:48:54,696 --> 00:49:00,366
All right. Moving on to 7.6, discuss, consider, and possible

692
00:49:00,456 --> 00:49:05,886
action on a request for temporary closing of the Cuero Airport for the event

693
00:49:06,006 --> 00:49:09,606
Whamsley Performance Tarmac Takeover. Mr. Berger.

694
00:49:11,736 --> 00:49:12,306
Mayor, council,

695
00:49:14,256 --> 00:49:15,846
we have Jeremy and Allison Whamsley here.

696
00:49:15,906 --> 00:49:19,776
If you recall, they put on the event at the airport last year that

697
00:49:21,126 --> 00:49:22,356
had a very large turnout.

698
00:49:24,186 --> 00:49:28,806
They met with Mr. David Danish, Parks Superintendent, and they are requesting to

699
00:49:28,836 --> 00:49:32,797
have this event again on January 29th and 30th.

700
00:49:32,826 --> 00:49:37,446
But if I recall, looking at this, they were asking to actually close the airport

701
00:49:37,552 --> 00:49:41,226
down a little bit earlier. I don't... Do you recall the dates, David?

702
00:49:43,927 --> 00:49:48,052
I was going to say, in the application we've just put on there to start or to close

703
00:49:48,096 --> 00:49:48,996
it for the week.

704
00:49:49,177 --> 00:49:49,190
Yes, sir.

705
00:49:49,626 --> 00:49:52,567
Tuesday the 26th through Tuesday the 2nd.

706
00:49:54,966 --> 00:49:55,986
Yeah, February 2nd.

707
00:49:56,317 --> 00:49:56,526
Yes.

708
00:49:56,586 --> 00:50:01,686
So Tuesday, yes. So a full week. I think part of that is we did have an after

709
00:50:01,806 --> 00:50:07,567
action meeting last year after the event and discussed different things that the

710
00:50:07,596 --> 00:50:13,116
fire department, emergency management, myself, the mayor, I think David would want

711
00:50:13,146 --> 00:50:18,096
to see, and I think this allows us more time to install some extra...

712
00:50:18,621 --> 00:50:20,302
And add anything to this, and tell me if I'm wrong, but-

713
00:50:20,526 --> 00:50:21,786
You're doing good. Really

714
00:50:21,802 --> 00:50:26,061
... install any extra equipment, barricades, different things like that that might

715
00:50:26,106 --> 00:50:26,496
be needed.

716
00:50:26,646 --> 00:50:26,781
Correct.

717
00:50:26,826 --> 00:50:27,726
All right. So

718
00:50:28,927 --> 00:50:32,496
mayor and council, first of all, I wanted to thank you guys again for letting us

719
00:50:32,526 --> 00:50:34,971
try this last year. Well, I guess it was this year.

720
00:50:36,396 --> 00:50:41,690
Had a huge turnout. Still, we were actually at another local business in

721
00:50:41,736 --> 00:50:47,376
Victoria two weeks ago. People are still asking, "Is this going to happen again?

722
00:50:47,466 --> 00:50:50,526
If so, can we do it twice a year?" Which we don't have the fiscal...

723
00:50:51,186 --> 00:50:52,416
We don't have it in us to do it twice a year.

724
00:50:54,006 --> 00:50:56,797
But we are here again to ask

725
00:50:58,297 --> 00:51:01,326
if we can do this again. Like I said, we had a great turnout.

726
00:51:01,356 --> 00:51:06,681
The weather wasn't the greatest, and still we were blown away at both the

727
00:51:06,756 --> 00:51:10,536
spectators that showed up, the competitors that showed up.

728
00:51:12,696 --> 00:51:15,936
Within probably the first couple hours, we realized we were way outgunned.

729
00:51:16,146 --> 00:51:18,485
We didn't have near enough manpower to put on.

730
00:51:18,846 --> 00:51:20,661
Luckily, we had a lot of support from

731
00:51:21,936 --> 00:51:24,786
competitors, other local businesses, even some businesses from out of town, the

732
00:51:24,816 --> 00:51:26,826
guys who jumped in to give us a hand to run the event.

733
00:51:27,636 --> 00:51:30,786
We are going to try to make some changes this year.

734
00:51:31,206 --> 00:51:32,661
We won't need the pavilion this year.

735
00:51:33,696 --> 00:51:37,596
We're looking to scrap the Dino Day idea, move the whole thing over to-

736
00:51:37,807 --> 00:51:38,226
I was going to ask you about Dino.

737
00:51:38,256 --> 00:51:38,527
Yeah.

738
00:51:39,966 --> 00:51:43,356
For multiple reasons. Dino Day's always been great.

739
00:51:43,626 --> 00:51:48,816
It was a reason to bring people to Cuero that never really knew the place existed

740
00:51:48,846 --> 00:51:49,716
out outside of that.

741
00:51:50,106 --> 00:51:50,256
Right.

742
00:51:50,302 --> 00:51:53,076
The race is

743
00:51:54,277 --> 00:51:54,891
far more-

744
00:51:55,266 --> 00:51:56,932
The main event, right

745
00:51:56,946 --> 00:51:57,396
... entertaining.

746
00:51:58,746 --> 00:51:59,976
Lots of people from

747
00:52:01,326 --> 00:52:04,146
towns around, counties around, hadn't seen something like...

748
00:52:04,446 --> 00:52:08,541
States around that haven't seen something like this put on in a,

749
00:52:09,996 --> 00:52:11,406
I guess, in such a rural community.

750
00:52:11,976 --> 00:52:14,241
I can't tell you how many times we've been asked, "How in the world did you make

751
00:52:14,286 --> 00:52:18,126
this happen?" And of course, most of it fell on y'all's shoulders.

752
00:52:21,277 --> 00:52:22,536
So we're going to scrap the Dino Day.

753
00:52:23,616 --> 00:52:27,935
We're looking to move it all to the airstrip, make it a two-day race event.

754
00:52:29,286 --> 00:52:31,027
And yes, if we can

755
00:52:32,916 --> 00:52:38,886
close it longer, it allows us a longer setup time, so that we can add

756
00:52:38,916 --> 00:52:42,337
more barricades to it. We can add more crowd control to it.

757
00:52:42,906 --> 00:52:46,611
We can make it flow the way, I guess, in a much safer manner.

758
00:52:47,661 --> 00:52:51,922
We had difficult time controlling the crowd, A, because we weren't expecting the

759
00:52:51,996 --> 00:52:53,587
crowd that we had.

760
00:52:54,876 --> 00:52:58,221
And so luckily the weather wasn't that great, because I can't imagine if it

761
00:52:58,236 --> 00:53:02,856
would've been a nice warm, sunny day. I can't imagine what we would've done.

762
00:53:04,716 --> 00:53:07,446
And so I'm sure, I think you guys have a map that

763
00:53:09,277 --> 00:53:13,446
Allie put together for you. She can talk and explain some of the changes that we're

764
00:53:13,476 --> 00:53:14,106
looking to make.

765
00:53:14,736 --> 00:53:19,446
Right. So on the map, that is also the same one that we had looked at at the

766
00:53:19,506 --> 00:53:23,841
post-event meeting, and took in consideration some of the

767
00:53:23,946 --> 00:53:29,646
advice that y'all had for it. But really, the biggest thing for

768
00:53:29,736 --> 00:53:34,761
me, the changes would be crowd control and keeping people where they need to be,

769
00:53:34,837 --> 00:53:38,136
because I've learned that if there's a sign, they don't read it.

770
00:53:38,646 --> 00:53:43,281
The things that maneuver people in crowds are going to be your barricades,

771
00:53:43,476 --> 00:53:49,087
and also staff on our side to help with that.

772
00:53:49,206 --> 00:53:54,922
But now that we have a better idea of what to expect, I think that

773
00:53:54,966 --> 00:54:00,756
this year, or this next year, would be a lot more beneficial.

774
00:54:00,786 --> 00:54:05,856
And so, Jeremy is wanting to keep it in that timeframe, the

775
00:54:05,916 --> 00:54:11,797
January 29th and 30th. Really, the big thing is for other

776
00:54:11,856 --> 00:54:16,221
events in our industry is that this would be the only one in the-

777
00:54:17,982 --> 00:54:22,572
... that in January. And then whenever spring kicks off, we're also going to be

778
00:54:22,633 --> 00:54:28,212
battling weather. We had a really wet spring this year, and then

779
00:54:28,302 --> 00:54:30,942
also the sports complex and things like that.

780
00:54:31,603 --> 00:54:37,182
I have reached out to the scheduling lady with the

781
00:54:37,272 --> 00:54:42,012
Fire X Center, and she is going to be getting with,

782
00:54:43,663 --> 00:54:48,913
I guess, the directors and everything on seeing about if we are able to rent that

783
00:54:49,032 --> 00:54:52,932
out, so less traffic through that. We don't have to worry about it.

784
00:54:52,962 --> 00:54:55,722
That's one of the things I think is very important. We were fortunate last year.

785
00:54:55,812 --> 00:54:58,572
There was nothing going on at the rodeo or at the Fire X Center.

786
00:54:58,603 --> 00:55:03,402
We were able to put barricades up right there across the roadway and force

787
00:55:03,462 --> 00:55:06,791
everybody into the airport, not let spectators get down there in the middle, walk

788
00:55:06,822 --> 00:55:07,422
around the fencing.

789
00:55:07,692 --> 00:55:12,072
Right. And so I believe she had told me that there wasn't anybody on the schedule,

790
00:55:12,222 --> 00:55:16,962
but they were trying to come up with a price for me because it's going to sit

791
00:55:17,112 --> 00:55:22,482
empty. We're not going to be in it, use it, nothing. I don't even need keys to it.

792
00:55:22,572 --> 00:55:27,792
I just need that road closed off for crowd control and everything.

793
00:55:27,913 --> 00:55:29,592
So we are working on that as well.

794
00:55:29,892 --> 00:55:31,032
Check on the rodeo arena.

795
00:55:31,482 --> 00:55:31,633
Okay.

796
00:55:31,677 --> 00:55:34,917
I do know, on the Homeland Center, I got in touch with Shirley-

797
00:55:35,112 --> 00:55:35,383
Okay

798
00:55:35,862 --> 00:55:37,182
... a couple of weeks ago.

799
00:55:37,242 --> 00:55:37,873
Okay.

800
00:55:37,932 --> 00:55:43,542
And I asked her today, and she still has not had a conversation with their board

801
00:55:43,663 --> 00:55:45,312
yet on closing it.

802
00:55:45,402 --> 00:55:45,702
Mm-hmm.

803
00:55:46,003 --> 00:55:47,922
Giving y'all a certain fee for it.

804
00:55:48,012 --> 00:55:48,282
Right.

805
00:55:49,362 --> 00:55:53,052
Hopefully she'll have more coming up this month later on.

806
00:55:59,892 --> 00:56:03,103
Building it or getting it out there, getting the news and stuff out there.

807
00:56:03,133 --> 00:56:05,862
How are we doing? How are we doing that? How are we doing?

808
00:56:05,952 --> 00:56:06,253
So-

809
00:56:06,312 --> 00:56:08,742
As far as hotels, y'all going to go two days?

810
00:56:09,373 --> 00:56:09,552
Yes.

811
00:56:09,642 --> 00:56:14,008
Just for this event? So are we anticipating a crowd coming in and-

812
00:56:14,322 --> 00:56:17,592
And a lot of your No Prep guys come in from quite a ways away.

813
00:56:17,607 --> 00:56:17,607
Right.

814
00:56:17,637 --> 00:56:20,682
And so a two-day event means they're going to be getting hotels.

815
00:56:21,163 --> 00:56:22,332
Well, a lot of them are coming in Thursday.

816
00:56:22,572 --> 00:56:22,767
Mm-hmm.

817
00:56:23,232 --> 00:56:25,782
So they'll get hotels Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

818
00:56:25,842 --> 00:56:31,332
And so there again, like this last year, the racers just came in for Saturday.

819
00:56:31,512 --> 00:56:32,277
So a lot of them got hotels-

820
00:56:32,383 --> 00:56:32,397
Right

821
00:56:32,413 --> 00:56:33,373
... for Friday and Saturday.

822
00:56:33,867 --> 00:56:33,867
Yep.

823
00:56:33,867 --> 00:56:37,992
And so we're going to add another day to that if they intend to compete both days.

824
00:56:39,822 --> 00:56:41,982
And so, as this event grows,

825
00:56:43,242 --> 00:56:46,932
this year we had in the ballpark of about 4,000 people there.

826
00:56:46,992 --> 00:56:52,692
That's spectators, contestants, those of us running the show.

827
00:56:53,052 --> 00:56:58,782
And if the weather permits, it wouldn't shock me if we double that.

828
00:56:58,842 --> 00:57:01,137
It really wouldn't. We've had so much...

829
00:57:01,242 --> 00:57:03,942
Like I said, even now, six months down the road, seven months down the road, we

830
00:57:03,972 --> 00:57:05,172
still got people asking us about it.

831
00:57:06,492 --> 00:57:10,902
That's not something that we have had in years past with just the dyno day.

832
00:57:10,962 --> 00:57:11,353
Typically,

833
00:57:13,212 --> 00:57:17,248
after the event passes, we don't hear anything again until about September or

834
00:57:17,292 --> 00:57:19,633
October when people start like, "Hey, is this going to happen?

835
00:57:20,112 --> 00:57:25,753
If so, what's the date?" It's died off a little bit, but we still hear

836
00:57:25,962 --> 00:57:29,892
people call, ask. We run into people. We're getting asked about it every week.

837
00:57:29,951 --> 00:57:29,966
Mm-hmm.

838
00:57:30,552 --> 00:57:31,152
And so-

839
00:57:31,211 --> 00:57:35,847
I have vendors and also people that are interested in sponsoring already reaching

840
00:57:35,922 --> 00:57:37,092
out to me. And so-

841
00:57:37,362 --> 00:57:41,383
We had a porta potty company out of Luling send us an email yesterday or Friday.

842
00:57:41,472 --> 00:57:41,667
Mm-hmm.

843
00:57:42,192 --> 00:57:44,351
Like, "Hey, we were at your event. We rent porta potties.

844
00:57:44,383 --> 00:57:46,332
We'd love to rent porta potties to your event."

845
00:57:46,527 --> 00:57:46,527
Wow.

846
00:57:47,503 --> 00:57:51,732
And so if it's reaching out that far on a vendor scale-

847
00:57:52,152 --> 00:57:52,332
Yeah

848
00:57:52,542 --> 00:57:52,542
...

849
00:57:53,742 --> 00:57:58,753
I think just both the spectator and the competitor, I think it'll continue to grow.

850
00:57:58,962 --> 00:58:03,402
And one thing I was going to mention as well is, there were a lot of people that

851
00:58:03,462 --> 00:58:05,772
made videos about the event.

852
00:58:05,788 --> 00:58:05,788
Yes.

853
00:58:05,802 --> 00:58:11,607
And so if you go on YouTube and just type it in and everything, there's at least 10

854
00:58:11,652 --> 00:58:13,226
that'll pop up that people, spectators-

855
00:58:13,226 --> 00:58:13,932
Some very cool footage.

856
00:58:13,992 --> 00:58:14,396
Yeah.

857
00:58:14,413 --> 00:58:14,862
Very cool.

858
00:58:14,982 --> 00:58:19,316
And so there's some, I know there's one gentleman in particular that he was

859
00:58:19,362 --> 00:58:25,032
videoing his truck in the hotel parking lot, and he did a span of the parking lot

860
00:58:25,062 --> 00:58:27,732
and the trucks that were there for the event.

861
00:58:27,748 --> 00:58:33,492
And so, I know that there were a lot that came in for out of town and stayed in

862
00:58:33,566 --> 00:58:39,253
hotels, even for that event that was kind of two-day, but two separate

863
00:58:39,282 --> 00:58:40,242
events. So.

864
00:58:40,603 --> 00:58:43,857
Mayor and Council, I do want to point out, I don't know the message got relayed to

865
00:58:43,902 --> 00:58:48,462
y'all during the hot funds presentations, but they do have a request in for $15,000

866
00:58:49,753 --> 00:58:52,242
for hot funds toward this hot event.

867
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:54,522
For advertising and marketing uses.

868
00:58:54,552 --> 00:58:54,972
Yes.

869
00:58:55,062 --> 00:58:55,212
Yes.

870
00:58:55,722 --> 00:58:57,552
For advertising and the lot.

871
00:58:57,972 --> 00:59:02,322
Yeah. I did some pricing on banners and signs and things like that.

872
00:59:02,367 --> 00:59:02,367
Yes.

873
00:59:02,442 --> 00:59:04,902
And it's quite expensive.

874
00:59:04,992 --> 00:59:06,373
Oh, yeah. It's not cheap.

875
00:59:06,522 --> 00:59:07,332
No, not at all.

876
00:59:07,422 --> 00:59:11,967
Well, and we're also looking, the signs, the banners that y'all have for Turkey

877
00:59:12,042 --> 00:59:15,462
Fest and the ones that we saw up for the rodeo and stuff where they have the

878
00:59:15,822 --> 00:59:18,628
removable date. The banner stays the same, you can just change the date.

879
00:59:19,452 --> 00:59:23,832
We're looking into doing those. If we're going to continue to do this, on a yearly

880
00:59:23,862 --> 00:59:28,572
basis, we're wasting a lot of money making new banners every year.

881
00:59:28,587 --> 00:59:28,587
Yeah.

882
00:59:28,603 --> 00:59:34,212
And so, we're looking at doing basically reusable banners, which are expensive the

883
00:59:34,332 --> 00:59:38,217
first time you buy them. But then, of course, every year you're able to use them

884
00:59:38,232 --> 00:59:39,133
and just change the date.

885
00:59:40,152 --> 00:59:42,417
And then, of course, with the hot funds, y'all will keep track of the heads and

886
00:59:42,492 --> 00:59:46,782
beds in the hotels and how many rooms y'all have. So.

887
00:59:48,282 --> 00:59:51,253
But we did reach out again, just like last year, to TML.

888
00:59:51,342 --> 00:59:56,383
David and Lori talked to TML today. I know James asked to do that again.

889
00:59:56,952 --> 00:59:58,302
And David, do you want to share?

890
01:00:03,822 --> 01:00:09,476
Yeah, we explained what was going to be taking place, and the gentleman at

891
01:00:09,522 --> 01:00:13,212
TML said, what we did last year was perfect.

892
01:00:13,258 --> 01:00:17,816
And having the city, as an additional insured, he said that was the way to go, and

893
01:00:17,862 --> 01:00:19,482
he said it's not a problem at all.

894
01:00:20,217 --> 01:00:20,217
Mm.

895
01:00:20,262 --> 01:00:23,742
So what we did last year was perfect, and keep that up.

896
01:00:24,462 --> 01:00:27,612
And I know we had a lot of back and forth trying to get the insurance stuff lined

897
01:00:27,732 --> 01:00:30,222
out and, I guess, get the verbiage right.

898
01:00:30,253 --> 01:00:32,383
We shouldn't have those problems this year.

899
01:00:32,562 --> 01:00:32,726
No.

900
01:00:32,742 --> 01:00:35,682
If we need to change any of the values, that shouldn't be difficult.

901
01:00:35,712 --> 01:00:41,292
But a lot of the back and forth that we had to do to get it worded properly,

902
01:00:42,251 --> 01:00:44,981
it should be a simple copy and paste from last year.

903
01:00:45,913 --> 01:00:51,702
With it being a two-day race, no dyno, we're going to have to change some of that.

904
01:00:51,792 --> 01:00:56,022
I'm sure the insurance will change with wanting to close the airport for a longer

905
01:00:56,052 --> 01:01:01,962
duration. But hopefully we don't have the back and forth issues where everybody's

906
01:01:01,992 --> 01:01:04,753
getting frustrated trying to get what they need.

907
01:01:05,307 --> 01:01:07,782
So I think we were down to one more edit from the insurance company, and they were

908
01:01:07,812 --> 01:01:08,051
out.

909
01:01:08,832 --> 01:01:10,092
I believe all the work is done.

910
01:01:10,212 --> 01:01:10,422
Yeah.

911
01:01:10,512 --> 01:01:12,012
I'll just copy that.

912
01:01:12,732 --> 01:01:12,853
Okay.

913
01:01:12,942 --> 01:01:16,572
Also, when this event was going on, myself and Mr.

914
01:01:16,782 --> 01:01:17,322
Danish

915
01:01:19,182 --> 01:01:22,722
figured out that we also, this year, have one more hoop to jump through-

916
01:01:22,753 --> 01:01:22,767
Yeah

917
01:01:22,767 --> 01:01:28,722
... with TexDot Aviation. We do need to receive a, not only issuing the closure, a

918
01:01:28,812 --> 01:01:34,062
NOTAM closure, but also getting a temporary closure for non-aeronautical special

919
01:01:34,212 --> 01:01:38,606
event request form. So if y'all approve going forward with this-

920
01:01:39,103 --> 01:01:39,957
I will start on that tomorrow

921
01:01:39,957 --> 01:01:44,248
... ASAP, we will be submitting this to TexDot Aviation to get that processed.

922
01:01:44,383 --> 01:01:48,883
Because it takes months for them to give you a yes or no.

923
01:01:48,942 --> 01:01:50,652
So the sooner we get started, the better we are.

924
01:01:51,103 --> 01:01:54,042
It's a minimum 45-day notice to initiate the evaluation.

925
01:01:54,342 --> 01:01:54,672
Yes.

926
01:01:54,732 --> 01:01:55,498
But any prior, you know-

927
01:01:55,542 --> 01:02:01,452
That's to kick it in, and then a couple more months to finalize it, but it

928
01:02:01,512 --> 01:02:02,322
could happen sooner.

929
01:02:03,312 --> 01:02:07,032
And that's something too, the good thing about going through the paces of this is

930
01:02:07,092 --> 01:02:11,682
we figure out, both you guys and us figure out the hoops that we have to go

931
01:02:11,742 --> 01:02:14,652
through. And I think you guys have been approached by a couple other people about

932
01:02:14,742 --> 01:02:18,297
possibly closing the airport. I think one was for a car show or something like

933
01:02:18,342 --> 01:02:23,937
that. And so I guess once we get this polished up and figure out this is what it

934
01:02:23,982 --> 01:02:29,937
takes to do, it kind of opens another avenue of, I guess, other events that

935
01:02:29,952 --> 01:02:33,672
can come to the area. Because it worked great for us.

936
01:02:34,572 --> 01:02:36,913
Yeah. And just keep this in mind, Jeremy.

937
01:02:36,972 --> 01:02:42,642
One of the things that really sold me was the capability you guys

938
01:02:42,702 --> 01:02:48,492
had. Just, God forbid, some light plane needs to land, how fast

939
01:02:48,582 --> 01:02:52,482
you guys could clear the runway to make sure that that would happen.

940
01:02:52,512 --> 01:02:53,442
Luckily, nothing-

941
01:02:53,503 --> 01:02:53,697
Yeah

942
01:02:53,802 --> 01:02:56,067
... physically has to be on the runway.

943
01:02:56,232 --> 01:02:57,987
Right. And that's what I like about it.

944
01:02:57,987 --> 01:03:02,128
The barricades, the light towers, everything is actually set off the surface.

945
01:03:02,128 --> 01:03:02,128
Right.

946
01:03:02,142 --> 01:03:05,562
And so if something were to happen and they do have to make an emergency landing,

947
01:03:05,623 --> 01:03:06,883
within minutes we can have it cleared.

948
01:03:06,972 --> 01:03:09,432
Right. Yeah, that's what I liked about it.

949
01:03:09,732 --> 01:03:10,422
That's a plus.

950
01:03:10,452 --> 01:03:13,242
That you didn't have any permanent stuff on that runway.

951
01:03:13,302 --> 01:03:16,182
Just in case, like I said, God forbid, somebody needed to make an emergency

952
01:03:16,242 --> 01:03:19,603
landing, you guys could do that. So thank y'all for that.

953
01:03:19,663 --> 01:03:22,692
Keep that in mind as well this year if we approve it.

954
01:03:22,753 --> 01:03:26,472
So I know last year y'all did have a rain weekend or date.

955
01:03:26,712 --> 01:03:28,603
Do y'all have anything scheduled or?

956
01:03:28,753 --> 01:03:31,392
I don't have anything scheduled right now.

957
01:03:31,512 --> 01:03:35,606
I'm- I know with the closures and things like that, that's something that we're

958
01:03:35,623 --> 01:03:36,612
going to have to keep in mind.

959
01:03:36,642 --> 01:03:37,437
Yeah. True.

960
01:03:38,232 --> 01:03:43,032
So I don't have anything today to propose gate wise.

961
01:03:45,312 --> 01:03:50,022
Okay. Is there any other discussion from council for

962
01:03:51,913 --> 01:03:55,272
the Wamsleys or from David or anything?

963
01:03:55,392 --> 01:03:56,623
I was asking David.

964
01:03:56,712 --> 01:03:57,702
Yeah. For sure.

965
01:03:58,812 --> 01:04:00,492
We invite all of you out. We had a great time.

966
01:04:00,522 --> 01:04:02,592
Oh, no. That was great. Oh, we did VIP passes?

967
01:04:02,742 --> 01:04:06,147
Absolutely. If that's what it takes, I think it just so happened to know people

968
01:04:06,163 --> 01:04:06,972
that can make that happen.

969
01:04:07,603 --> 01:04:10,932
It was kind of funny because the airport sat empty, but-

970
01:04:11,112 --> 01:04:11,232
Yeah

971
01:04:11,353 --> 01:04:15,103
... Mr. Berger actually had to kick two airplanes off of it for the weekend, and I

972
01:04:15,133 --> 01:04:16,572
was like, "What are the chances?"

973
01:04:17,562 --> 01:04:21,478
And did y'all have proposed time limit in the evenings?

974
01:04:21,552 --> 01:04:22,272
What time would y'all-

975
01:04:22,422 --> 01:04:24,462
It would be 10:00 PM.

976
01:04:24,522 --> 01:04:25,707
And nothing after 10:00.

977
01:04:25,707 --> 01:04:25,707
10:00 PM.

978
01:04:25,722 --> 01:04:30,207
Yeah. And that's a good thing about having a two-day event, is anything Friday can

979
01:04:30,222 --> 01:04:35,592
be transferred over to Saturday. And then for the most part, everybody that's going

980
01:04:35,607 --> 01:04:38,322
to be racing Saturday is there Friday.

981
01:04:38,413 --> 01:04:41,682
So we'll already have a pretty good head count and know what time we're going to be

982
01:04:41,772 --> 01:04:42,552
finishing it up.

983
01:04:46,123 --> 01:04:48,373
Okay. Billy, did you have any?

984
01:04:48,792 --> 01:04:48,822
No.

985
01:04:49,362 --> 01:04:50,217
Okay. All right.

986
01:04:50,413 --> 01:04:50,802
Change of mind.

987
01:04:50,952 --> 01:04:53,472
All right. Sounds good. Thank you, guys.

988
01:04:54,282 --> 01:04:59,862
Is there any action from council on 7.6 on the

989
01:04:59,892 --> 01:05:04,692
request for a temporary closing of the Cuero Airport for the event Wamsley

990
01:05:04,753 --> 01:05:07,152
Performance Tarmac Takeover?

991
01:05:09,253 --> 01:05:10,003
Mr. Glover.

992
01:05:13,392 --> 01:05:13,572
I move

993
01:05:15,133 --> 01:05:18,853
for approval of the temporary closure of the Cuero Airport for the Wamsley

994
01:05:18,867 --> 01:05:19,991
Performance Tarmac Takeover.

995
01:05:20,112 --> 01:05:21,732
All right. Mr. Glover.

996
01:05:22,603 --> 01:05:25,362
James, do you want to also say pending Texdot approval?

997
01:05:25,542 --> 01:05:30,987
Pending Texdot approval, whatever other things is necessary to resolve it.

998
01:05:31,003 --> 01:05:34,512
Okay. Pending Texdot approval, and everything else he said.

999
01:05:36,192 --> 01:05:36,522
Okay.

1000
01:05:37,003 --> 01:05:37,812
It's go time.

1001
01:05:39,342 --> 01:05:44,532
Mr. Glover has made a motion that we approve the request for the temporary closing

1002
01:05:44,592 --> 01:05:49,902
of Cuero Airport, R7.6. Mr. Allen has

1003
01:05:50,472 --> 01:05:53,472
seconded the motion. All in favor say aye.

1004
01:05:54,402 --> 01:05:54,417
Aye.

1005
01:05:54,432 --> 01:05:58,332
All right. All opposed, respond with a nay. The ayes have it.

1006
01:05:58,603 --> 01:06:02,562
7.6 is hereby approved unanimously pending

1007
01:06:03,103 --> 01:06:08,562
what Mr. Crain said. All right. Number eight, reports,

1008
01:06:09,012 --> 01:06:13,242
8.1, Building and Standards Commission report. Who's got that?

1009
01:06:14,022 --> 01:06:15,492
We have Mr. Carl Finney here

1010
01:06:17,652 --> 01:06:20,277
out of the Building Department. Y'all had a couple questions on building and

1011
01:06:20,383 --> 01:06:22,272
standards during the budget workshop.

1012
01:06:22,617 --> 01:06:26,472
And this is for, and I need to apologize, Carl, I did not realize when putting on

1013
01:06:26,487 --> 01:06:28,633
the agenda that he was on vacation.

1014
01:06:28,692 --> 01:06:29,952
I told him we can always-

1015
01:06:29,998 --> 01:06:30,163
Oh, dang

1016
01:06:30,177 --> 01:06:33,222
... table this and go to next month, but he said, "I'm going to come in and address

1017
01:06:33,253 --> 01:06:33,432
this."

1018
01:06:33,508 --> 01:06:34,212
It's okay. Thank you, Carl.

1019
01:06:35,112 --> 01:06:36,717
Thank you, Carl.

1020
01:06:38,457 --> 01:06:39,642
Thanks. So want to start with questions?

1021
01:06:40,753 --> 01:06:43,692
You want to-- I think one of the first questions is where are we at on building and

1022
01:06:43,722 --> 01:06:45,612
standards, when's the last time we met, and

1023
01:06:48,373 --> 01:06:49,692
some of the houses that you're proposing.

1024
01:06:49,722 --> 01:06:51,282
Well, currently we have

1025
01:06:52,603 --> 01:06:57,282
probably about between 15 and 20 on our shortlist.

1026
01:06:58,692 --> 01:07:03,012
We have five that we're hoping to bring in front of Building and Standards within

1027
01:07:03,042 --> 01:07:05,862
the next month and a half, two months, as soon as we can get them on there.

1028
01:07:07,003 --> 01:07:11,383
One of the things that we did is we started the whole procedure all from scratch.

1029
01:07:11,832 --> 01:07:17,413
Jamie had some stuff that he already had from historical issues, so we just started

1030
01:07:17,426 --> 01:07:21,012
to send the notifications again and posted notifications on site.

1031
01:07:22,482 --> 01:07:25,422
We did end up getting seven of them just torn down, period.

1032
01:07:25,482 --> 01:07:29,712
They just went and did it on their own over the last, I think, six months or so.

1033
01:07:30,253 --> 01:07:32,172
So that was pretty effective right there.

1034
01:07:33,732 --> 01:07:39,402
I can tell you the ones that are on our short, short list are 315

1035
01:07:39,522 --> 01:07:44,532
Stockdale, 905 Starker, 1018 West Church,

1036
01:07:45,642 --> 01:07:50,592
and 407 Garrett. But the big one is going to be the nursing home, which is on

1037
01:07:51,253 --> 01:07:52,482
110 MacArthur.

1038
01:07:52,842 --> 01:07:54,822
Yeah. 236.

1039
01:07:55,302 --> 01:07:55,317
236.

1040
01:07:55,332 --> 01:07:56,112
That's what we found out.

1041
01:07:57,432 --> 01:07:59,682
Yeah. Well, okay. He has it down as MacArthur.

1042
01:07:59,742 --> 01:08:00,582
It is considered MacArthur.

1043
01:08:01,302 --> 01:08:02,592
It's MacArthur. Yes, sir. But it's-

1044
01:08:02,652 --> 01:08:04,152
So we

1045
01:08:06,582 --> 01:08:12,522
moved Bridge out of the top priority because Herb Lancaster just

1046
01:08:12,582 --> 01:08:15,342
got-- He's had some medical issues.

1047
01:08:15,462 --> 01:08:15,913
Right.

1048
01:08:15,942 --> 01:08:17,907
And that's kind of turned around for him.

1049
01:08:18,792 --> 01:08:24,057
He's doing better, and he called me a couple of weeks ago and said that he's going

1050
01:08:24,057 --> 01:08:27,282
to pull a permit to demo it. He's going to do it all himself.

1051
01:08:27,913 --> 01:08:31,572
He doesn't need the city's help anymore because he's got it taken care of.

1052
01:08:32,112 --> 01:08:35,593
So I'm giving him a little time. We'll just take care of these five at first.

1053
01:08:36,762 --> 01:08:41,922
But whenever you get into-- I was just texting the state asbestos inspector.

1054
01:08:42,883 --> 01:08:45,402
Whenever we get into stuff like the

1055
01:08:50,623 --> 01:08:54,732
nursing home, that's probably going to have asbestos in it, and we're going to have

1056
01:08:54,762 --> 01:08:57,926
to do surveys, and then we're going to have to do all that mess if we got to tear

1057
01:08:57,972 --> 01:09:01,753
it down. So that's going to be a big pain.

1058
01:09:02,248 --> 01:09:05,262
I don't think Bridge will have much in there.

1059
01:09:05,442 --> 01:09:11,142
Bridge has some eight-by-tile that I know that will be asbestos, but it'll be a lot

1060
01:09:11,202 --> 01:09:17,142
cheaper to handle than if we have to take on the nursing

1061
01:09:17,202 --> 01:09:21,583
home. So that's going to be a pretty expensive project if we get into that one.

1062
01:09:22,032 --> 01:09:26,952
The other stuff, as long as it's between-- We got to be more than

1063
01:09:27,702 --> 01:09:31,766
650 feet apart when we're demoing, then we don't have to deal with the asbestos

1064
01:09:31,812 --> 01:09:36,462
part on the residential. So I think everything else on our list is residential, so

1065
01:09:36,522 --> 01:09:38,322
we can avoid that cost. But

1066
01:09:40,603 --> 01:09:44,383
what our goal is, is to do as many as need to be done.

1067
01:09:45,072 --> 01:09:46,873
We want to get all of them taken care of.

1068
01:09:48,462 --> 01:09:54,432
So I would say ones that we consider high danger are probably about 20 to

1069
01:09:54,612 --> 01:10:00,133
30, just a guess, and then we got a bunch of just ones that are just a

1070
01:10:00,192 --> 01:10:04,332
mess that we need to take care of. Part of the problem is getting in touch with

1071
01:10:04,391 --> 01:10:04,843
people.

1072
01:10:06,672 --> 01:10:11,202
I don't think any of the staff was here last time that this process was done, and

1073
01:10:11,262 --> 01:10:15,883
that's been a problem. So we're going into

1074
01:10:17,353 --> 01:10:20,142
steps that we've never done before as a staff together in

1075
01:10:21,582 --> 01:10:25,152
accordance with our ordinances and state law.

1076
01:10:26,142 --> 01:10:27,702
But we're getting there.

1077
01:10:29,652 --> 01:10:35,562
When we have the next BSC, which is we're hoping in

1078
01:10:35,622 --> 01:10:40,572
two months, our plan is to do one every month after that,

1079
01:10:40,722 --> 01:10:45,957
and slowly bring more and more until we run out of money to clean stuff up.

1080
01:10:49,662 --> 01:10:52,422
In that nursing home, those folks just totally abandoned it?

1081
01:10:52,512 --> 01:10:54,807
You guys got to-- Or y'all can't get a hold of anybody?

1082
01:10:54,822 --> 01:10:58,182
They've communicated with us every now and then.

1083
01:10:59,202 --> 01:11:02,682
Like the difference between, say, Mr. Lancaster, he's always communicated with us.

1084
01:11:02,802 --> 01:11:03,777
Right. Yes, sir. Yeah.

1085
01:11:03,822 --> 01:11:07,512
Doesn't really always do what he says, but the nursing home, they just don't even

1086
01:11:07,542 --> 01:11:12,042
answer our call most of the time. Every now and then, they will, and they'll tell

1087
01:11:12,103 --> 01:11:15,657
us they're going to get the grass cut, and we go over there, and the grass is not

1088
01:11:15,972 --> 01:11:16,272
cut.

1089
01:11:17,802 --> 01:11:20,262
We noticed that they're breaking windows over there again.

1090
01:11:22,782 --> 01:11:28,767
Yep. And just in case anybody didn't know, during Winter Storm Uri, I walked up to

1091
01:11:28,812 --> 01:11:32,712
that nursing home, there's a back door on the back L part of it, and then the side

1092
01:11:32,772 --> 01:11:36,192
door, and water was coming out of it about that high.

1093
01:11:36,732 --> 01:11:40,902
And we ended up having to break into the fire room, which is located on the outside

1094
01:11:40,962 --> 01:11:42,222
of it, and cut the fire

1095
01:11:43,633 --> 01:11:46,782
sprinkler system off because it had frozen and busted.

1096
01:11:50,892 --> 01:11:51,027
Well, yeah, they were competing against the owners. Obviously the same issue.

1097
01:11:51,027 --> 01:11:52,093
Well, that's what this would be.

1098
01:11:52,122 --> 01:11:52,603
That's what this process-

1099
01:11:52,692 --> 01:11:52,917
Now,

1100
01:11:54,672 --> 01:12:00,282
I'm actually hoping that the owners will decide to sell it

1101
01:12:00,372 --> 01:12:04,843
once they really get some pressure on them. Because I know they've had offers.

1102
01:12:05,022 --> 01:12:08,127
I know some of the people around here have made some offers on that building.

1103
01:12:08,202 --> 01:12:08,997
Yes, sir. Yeah.

1104
01:12:09,042 --> 01:12:13,887
But they won't sell it. But if they find out, well, you're going to lose it all.

1105
01:12:14,202 --> 01:12:14,952
We have to demo it anyway.

1106
01:12:15,072 --> 01:12:15,432
Yeah.

1107
01:12:15,462 --> 01:12:19,272
And if we demo it, we would put a lien against the property so if they do sell it

1108
01:12:19,332 --> 01:12:19,872
afterwards,

1109
01:12:22,242 --> 01:12:25,093
we have the ability to recoup it.

1110
01:12:26,052 --> 01:12:31,152
And that 312 Stockdale, that's that two-story house that Mr.

1111
01:12:31,242 --> 01:12:31,887
Mitchell owned

1112
01:12:33,228 --> 01:12:35,058
Last time I talked to his family members,

1113
01:12:36,408 --> 01:12:38,418
they said the bank was going to repossess that.

1114
01:12:38,538 --> 01:12:43,578
Y'all been talking to family members of the bank because he still owed money on

1115
01:12:43,638 --> 01:12:43,878
that.

1116
01:12:44,688 --> 01:12:50,028
Well, we would send that to whoever's the legal owner at the time.

1117
01:12:50,299 --> 01:12:52,308
I don't know if it would've been sent to the bank or-

1118
01:12:52,488 --> 01:12:52,908
Okay

1119
01:12:52,924 --> 01:12:56,823
... but probably, it sounds to me like in either case, none of them would care what

1120
01:12:56,897 --> 01:12:57,678
happened to it at that case.

1121
01:12:57,709 --> 01:12:57,858
Yeah.

1122
01:12:59,088 --> 01:13:02,808
I talked to his sisters to get rid of those vehicles that he had.

1123
01:13:03,228 --> 01:13:08,928
They volunteered the vehicles to some veterans organizations for stuff.

1124
01:13:09,018 --> 01:13:11,388
So yeah, they didn't want anything to do with it.

1125
01:13:11,418 --> 01:13:14,209
They said they were going to let the bank do whatever they wanted to do with it.

1126
01:13:14,808 --> 01:13:17,959
Yeah. We made sure all the electrical and all that was disconnected from the house

1127
01:13:17,988 --> 01:13:21,497
and pulled up, so it cannot even have power turned back on to it.

1128
01:13:22,128 --> 01:13:23,643
Wow. That's crazy.

1129
01:13:23,688 --> 01:13:27,618
But that's our plan. We're definitely gotten a little more organized.

1130
01:13:27,648 --> 01:13:32,073
We've gotten somewhat of a plan going to bring us into next year.

1131
01:13:32,118 --> 01:13:37,293
That's our big thing, is to get organizationally set up to be able to handle this,

1132
01:13:37,368 --> 01:13:41,658
not only on a one-time basis, but to keep the process going.

1133
01:13:41,748 --> 01:13:42,049
Right.

1134
01:13:42,528 --> 01:13:42,828
So.

1135
01:13:43,488 --> 01:13:45,378
All right. Well, thank you, Carl.

1136
01:13:45,438 --> 01:13:45,799
Mm-hmm.

1137
01:13:45,858 --> 01:13:46,998
Yeah. Yes, Mr. Nichols?

1138
01:13:47,058 --> 01:13:48,648
Is anybody living in there?

1139
01:13:49,218 --> 01:13:49,518
Yes, sir.

1140
01:13:49,638 --> 01:13:52,113
I've seen people in there.

1141
01:13:52,128 --> 01:13:55,788
They're not supposed to be in there that I know of, in that two-story house.

1142
01:13:56,388 --> 01:13:58,368
No, I'm talking about the nursing home.

1143
01:13:58,459 --> 01:13:59,358
Oh, the nursing home.

1144
01:13:59,418 --> 01:13:59,688
No.

1145
01:13:59,808 --> 01:14:00,573
No, sir. No.

1146
01:14:00,588 --> 01:14:06,468
Well, keep in mind, we're not planning on any houses that people are living on, and

1147
01:14:06,738 --> 01:14:11,118
these would be-- I guess first phase would be just the ones that are-

1148
01:14:11,328 --> 01:14:11,538
Abandoned

1149
01:14:11,568 --> 01:14:15,799
... totally abandoned, and everybody would agree that these things need to go.

1150
01:14:17,358 --> 01:14:18,049
What about the pavements?

1151
01:14:18,078 --> 01:14:19,128
Well, we can't.

1152
01:14:19,188 --> 01:14:19,203
Yeah.

1153
01:14:19,203 --> 01:14:19,549
Yeah.

1154
01:14:20,088 --> 01:14:24,528
If you definitely see any movement in the nursing home area, make sure you reach

1155
01:14:24,618 --> 01:14:26,299
out to the PD, and

1156
01:14:28,188 --> 01:14:28,488
thank you.

1157
01:14:28,518 --> 01:14:28,968
Yeah, let

1158
01:14:32,628 --> 01:14:35,658
PD know, and actually, we would like to know that, too, because I would like to

1159
01:14:35,688 --> 01:14:37,788
find out who's-- I know kids have been over there.

1160
01:14:38,209 --> 01:14:38,328
Yeah.

1161
01:14:38,448 --> 01:14:42,497
That's probably who it is, but yeah, so.

1162
01:14:42,828 --> 01:14:43,518
Is it still open or no?

1163
01:14:44,268 --> 01:14:44,748
It-

1164
01:14:44,808 --> 01:14:45,528
No, it's not.

1165
01:14:46,038 --> 01:14:46,758
They'll get in there.

1166
01:14:47,418 --> 01:14:49,818
There's way too many access points to that.

1167
01:14:51,078 --> 01:14:51,288
Yeah.

1168
01:14:51,424 --> 01:14:53,268
There was one time they just-

1169
01:14:53,388 --> 01:14:55,938
Yeah, there's windows broken, there's-

1170
01:14:55,968 --> 01:14:58,383
Owner did come down, met with us, said they're going to meet with Carl, said we're

1171
01:14:58,398 --> 01:15:02,658
going to board it up next weekend, and maybe they did a little bit here and there,

1172
01:15:02,748 --> 01:15:02,868
but-

1173
01:15:02,988 --> 01:15:07,428
They had a guy out go and measure windows, and then nothing showed up.

1174
01:15:07,878 --> 01:15:11,418
Well, one thing that's going to help a little bit is that school's getting ready to

1175
01:15:11,478 --> 01:15:15,768
start again. All this stuff happens is when these kids don't have anything to do,

1176
01:15:15,828 --> 01:15:21,108
so that's what they'll do. Put some cameras at Dolay, and

1177
01:15:22,248 --> 01:15:22,459
they

1178
01:15:23,778 --> 01:15:26,388
threw the bird at the cameras. They know the cameras are there.

1179
01:15:27,618 --> 01:15:33,378
So what can we do? It's one of those kind of things. So, okay.

1180
01:15:33,438 --> 01:15:37,638
Hey, y'all got any council, y'all got any more questions for-- Thank you for taking

1181
01:15:37,788 --> 01:15:38,793
your time. We didn't know if you were registered.

1182
01:15:38,808 --> 01:15:39,888
Yeah, no problem. Glad to do it.

1183
01:15:39,978 --> 01:15:43,038
All right, man, appreciate you and what you're doing. All right.

1184
01:15:44,088 --> 01:15:48,108
Moving on to section number nine, items of community interest.

1185
01:15:48,858 --> 01:15:52,113
9.9 holiday schedule, September 7th, 2026. Mr. Berger.

1186
01:15:52,698 --> 01:15:58,578
Yeah. In observance of Labor Day, September 7th, city offices will

1187
01:15:58,638 --> 01:16:02,538
be closed and will reopen at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 8th.

1188
01:16:03,228 --> 01:16:06,709
The sanitation schedule for residential and commercial, there will be no changes.

1189
01:16:06,768 --> 01:16:11,058
It will remain the same. The collection and recycling center will also be closed

1190
01:16:11,088 --> 01:16:16,398
Monday and will reopen Tuesday at 8:00 a.m., as well as the Cheatham site will be

1191
01:16:16,459 --> 01:16:18,228
open for brush disposal.

1192
01:16:20,448 --> 01:16:22,308
And then we also had another item.

1193
01:16:22,368 --> 01:16:23,358
Oh, yeah. Skate park.

1194
01:16:23,418 --> 01:16:29,118
Yes. I'd like to announce the grand opening and ribbon cutting on Wednesday, August

1195
01:16:29,178 --> 01:16:35,013
19th at 5:30 in the Crow Municipal Golf Course on MLK Drive, the skate

1196
01:16:35,058 --> 01:16:37,728
park. So everybody grab your skateboards-

1197
01:16:37,743 --> 01:16:37,743
Bring your skateboards

1198
01:16:37,788 --> 01:16:39,648
... and helmets and pads,

1199
01:16:41,118 --> 01:16:44,538
and come out to this ribbon cutting.

1200
01:16:44,613 --> 01:16:50,058
And also, if you haven't made it out to the park yet, they've already poured the

1201
01:16:50,148 --> 01:16:55,578
two slabs for the pickleball courts. So they're already out there. They're waiting.

1202
01:16:55,998 --> 01:17:00,392
It's going to be around-- They want to wait, I think David said it was around 25 or

1203
01:17:00,528 --> 01:17:04,188
30 days for the concrete to cure before they come in there and put the coating

1204
01:17:04,218 --> 01:17:07,158
that's going to be on the court itself and the striping and all that.

1205
01:17:07,818 --> 01:17:09,918
But he should be able to start moving forward with the fencing.

1206
01:17:10,008 --> 01:17:13,128
It will be a 10-foot fence around there to keep balls from-

1207
01:17:13,608 --> 01:17:14,238
From going all over

1208
01:17:14,268 --> 01:17:14,988
... all over the place.

1209
01:17:15,408 --> 01:17:17,598
All right. Sounds good.

1210
01:17:17,688 --> 01:17:19,084
One other quick thing on the skate park.

1211
01:17:19,908 --> 01:17:25,549
We did announce that there's going to be some demonstrations there, so do please

1212
01:17:25,578 --> 01:17:27,738
bring y'all's skateboards so y'all can show.

1213
01:17:28,459 --> 01:17:30,049
Yeah, see some demonstrations.

1214
01:17:30,078 --> 01:17:30,453
Are you-

1215
01:17:30,799 --> 01:17:33,978
Don't mind if my boy had that real long when I-

1216
01:17:35,838 --> 01:17:38,178
Are you inviting EMS as well?

1217
01:17:38,283 --> 01:17:38,868
Yeah, we're inviting EMS.

1218
01:17:38,959 --> 01:17:39,828
Emergency management.

1219
01:17:40,518 --> 01:17:41,898
Yeah, that's probably what you're doing.

1220
01:17:41,913 --> 01:17:42,408
Snuck out of here.

1221
01:17:42,424 --> 01:17:44,209
Bring your skateboard, make sure you get out.

1222
01:17:44,688 --> 01:17:45,198
We will have

1223
01:17:48,738 --> 01:17:48,812
Justin Park and Molly there.

1224
01:17:48,812 --> 01:17:48,828
That's awesome.

1225
01:17:48,888 --> 01:17:48,978
James-

1226
01:17:49,023 --> 01:17:49,188
Yes.

1227
01:17:50,508 --> 01:17:51,918
He started the whole conversation.

1228
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:57,033
James will be there as well. We did invite the skate park, the woman that built the

1229
01:17:57,033 --> 01:17:57,273
skate park, and

1230
01:17:58,668 --> 01:17:59,448
we've had some

1231
01:18:00,678 --> 01:18:04,968
other communities reach out to us, and I think they're going to be here as well.

1232
01:18:06,108 --> 01:18:11,613
So we'll have some refreshments, and we will power to the stage in case

1233
01:18:11,628 --> 01:18:12,978
anybody-

1234
01:18:13,668 --> 01:18:16,038
Did you hear from the designer, and were they going to be able to make it?

1235
01:18:17,299 --> 01:18:17,658
They're going to try,

1236
01:18:19,368 --> 01:18:19,608
yes.

1237
01:18:19,938 --> 01:18:20,178
They'll try.

1238
01:18:20,222 --> 01:18:20,253
Yeah.

1239
01:18:20,253 --> 01:18:20,253
Yeah.

1240
01:18:20,253 --> 01:18:20,312
They should be able to make it.

1241
01:18:20,343 --> 01:18:23,478
I think the only thing left there to do complete is this Wednesday.

1242
01:18:23,598 --> 01:18:25,488
We'll be relocating the overhead.

1243
01:18:25,728 --> 01:18:30,228
We have one fiber left going over it, that will be relocated underground.

1244
01:18:30,348 --> 01:18:33,678
Actually, we already had it relocated, just need to splice it over, get the last

1245
01:18:33,709 --> 01:18:38,148
pole removed, and then I think David has some touch-up on some signs.

1246
01:18:39,288 --> 01:18:44,959
All right. And to my colleagues, thank you all so much for what y'all do.

1247
01:18:45,078 --> 01:18:49,053
I know these last couple of months, man, being here for three and a half hours and

1248
01:18:49,068 --> 01:18:49,998
stuff, but it's

1249
01:18:51,258 --> 01:18:54,978
part of it. Yeah. It's part of what we do.

1250
01:18:55,098 --> 01:19:00,049
So this is the time of the year where I dread, but it's a necessary evil and we

1251
01:19:00,078 --> 01:19:04,037
have to do that. I think we got maybe one more special meeting, and we'll talk

1252
01:19:04,097 --> 01:19:05,088
about it before-

1253
01:19:05,568 --> 01:19:07,338
I don't look for that one to be a marathon.

1254
01:19:07,398 --> 01:19:11,568
It's not going to be that long, I'll tell you. It's not going to be that long.

1255
01:19:11,688 --> 01:19:14,013
So y'all just keep that in mind. All right.

1256
01:19:14,058 --> 01:19:17,688
If there's no further business for tonight, we are adjourned.

1257
01:19:17,718 --> 01:19:18,272
Thank you all.