[0:04] Good evening, everyone. I'm Mayor Rachel Proctor. It is 6.30 p.m. and I want to welcome everybody to our

[0:12] April 4th, Mayor's 360 Quarterly meeting. I'm going to ask if we're going to do our invocation.

[0:20] I'm going to ask if Pastor Bivens will come and lead us in just a quick word of prayer while he's here.

[0:25] You can actually utilize, I think that microphone is on. Tasha, can you check to see if that microphone is on?

[0:29] he could stand right there so we don't have to move the stand.

[1:09] I want to start

[1:10] some introductions and again welcome each and every one of you to our quarterly

[1:14] 360 meeting. I'm Mayor Rachel Proctor here with the DeSoto City Council. I see

[1:19] possibly one other Council person. Dr. Dinah Marx is here. Oh, Mayor Pro Tem.

[1:24] Dr. Dinah Marx who represents place five as well as Mayor Pro Tem LaTisha Hughes

[1:28] who represents place seven is here with us tonight. I'm going to ask if

[1:32] Each of our directors and our staff that are here tonight to respond to your questions would introduce themselves

[1:39] I'll start immediately to my left with our interim

[1:43] deputy city manager

[1:46] Tracy Cormier intern deputy city manager

[2:29] Hi, everyone. My name is Kayla in the community relations coordinator. Thank

[2:51] you. Thank you all for those introductions at this time

[2:54] we will have a DeSoto Comprehensive Plan progress update, and I believe Mr. Brewer will be making that presentation.

[3:07] Mayor, you're going to cut me off tonight?

[3:09] What are you saying?

[3:10] You're going to cut me off tonight?

[3:12] No, sir. I'm going to let you do your thing tonight.

[3:16] All right. Charles Brewer, Director of Development Services.

[3:21] I made a little PowerPoint presentation and helped things flow.

[3:24] And actually, Mayor, I have kind of all of mine accumulated together, so I'm going to flow from one end to the other.

[3:30] So I'll show the, this is about the comprehensive plan. The city has a 2015 plan that it's been working to update since 2022.

[3:42] And as I've included here the timeline to help identify there's been several public meetings, several workshops, several surveys.

[3:51] The plan was actually presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission in December of last year.

[3:55] the City Council conducted this form of public hearings in January and

[4:01] officially adopted the the new 2024 company has a plan on February the 6th

[4:07] 2024. This complaint is available online if you go to the city's website at the

[4:13] top of the page you go to departments go to the planning is only in

[4:17] department and you'll be able to get a link to have access to get to it.

[4:24] So

[4:25] Because we still have to come back, there are two more sections that are being required

[4:29] to work on.

[4:30] One is a streetscape and one is an urban design.

[4:33] The urban design cannot be completed because of the character-based code work that we have

[4:39] going on on Hampton Road.

[4:41] So should that get adopted, it's under the Council's purview right now.

[4:46] They've had their first public hearing, but the rezoning of properties is past Tuesday

[4:50] and I'll get back into that later.

[4:53] A part of the comprehensive plan is land use, and this is the city's updated comprehensive plan.

[5:00] The section that I was referring to that we're still working on is going to be this Hampton Road corridor section.

[5:08] It's a one-mile stretch going just north of Pleasant Run to just south of Beltline,

[5:14] encompassing property on both Pleasant Run and Beltline.

[5:18] and so that needs to be incorporated into a couple of chapters before we can

[5:25] come back for phase two, which will be the full adoption of the plan itself.

[5:31] I mentioned the character-based code for Hampton Road.

[5:34] The proposal is looking at five separate zoning districts.

[5:39] You see driven down Hampton Road, you've seen these message-force signs

[5:42] that we have in the middle of the median,

[5:44] giving notice about the rezoning of properties. This is a two-phase process.

[5:50] The first process involves amending and updating the zoning ordinance. It's the

[5:55] text amendment. You have to get your regulations and districts established, so

[5:59] there are five districts associated with this. The character code itself was

[6:04] officially adopted by City Council on March the 5th, which gives the text

[6:10] amendment of those five districts. Just a quick overview of those five districts

[6:17] all you have an urban center which is forecast to have buildings from three to

[6:22] five stories. All this information is online you can go to www.invisionhamptonroad.com again

[6:33] and that's www.envisionhamptonroad.com.

[6:38] We also have picture board signs

[6:41] outside of the council chamber to the left.

[6:44] We will continue to allow those to be installed

[6:47] all the way through this process

[6:48] so citizens can have an opportunity

[6:51] to come view those at any time.

[6:54] With the city council doing their consideration

[6:57] at the last Tuesday, a motion was made

[7:00] to allow the public hearing to remain open, and they're going to have a continuation of

[7:06] that public hearing during their first meeting in May, it'll be May the 7th.

[7:11] One of the plans we are working on, we are going to have a couple of community meetings.

[7:17] We're trying to work it out to get the actual date.

[7:19] We will be sending out the green postcards again to all the property owners, not

[7:24] only within that character based zone but within 200 feet since we know they're

[7:29] impacted also. We'll also be putting that information on those message board

[7:34] signs again when we get definitive what those dates are. So again this is the

[7:39] urban center. The next one is a and all of these kind of like a transition down

[7:44] most intense higher density and a transition down. Same thing with the

[7:51] building elevation. The first one, as I said, was five storage. This is three. So

[7:56] transition down. Next will be neighborhood services. Next transition

[8:02] urban neighborhood.

[8:06] Next transition neighborhood transition.

[8:13] And so those

[8:13] are the proposed districts that the council is considering. We have any

[8:18] questions personally. I have my business cards up on the table. Feel free

[8:21] to call either myself or any member of my staff. We'll be glad to work

[8:25] with you one-on-one to help you understand more about the character-based codes.

[8:31] Next part of my presentation, as always, is about capital projects.

[8:37] This is updated on the city's website.

[8:39] Again, if you go to the city's webpage, at the top there are five links.

[8:43] Go to the link that says Departments.

[8:46] Click on that.

[8:47] It'll show all the departments.

[8:48] Go to the far left-hand side and you'll see Development Services.

[8:53] Within the development services section, you will see engineering, click on engineering,

[8:58] and when you get to that page, look to the left, it's the second one, and it identifies as capital projects,

[9:05] or projects updates. This is the map. The map will show all of our projects that we currently have,

[9:14] most of them in the design. All our construction projects were completed last year.

[9:20] right now we're working on a lot of alley projects and the list will tell you

[9:25] what those are. After I finish or at some point our Director of Parks and

[9:31] Recreation will be able to give you an update about the McCowen sitter.

[9:38] This is the update. When you go you'll actually see that we have now

[9:44] added a link you can click to where this map that I just show you will

[9:49] come up. And this section of the department's web page will be updated every quarter. It

[9:56] was last updated March of this year.

[10:01] I highlighted a few projects.

[10:06] Our master capital approval

[10:08] projects that we still have going on with Dallas County are is Daniel Dale. It is currently

[10:13] still in the design phase. Delay had incurred because both Dallas County and the city

[10:19] was waiting on a federal grant. We applied two years in a row. It was the race grant and

[10:26] we failed to get it. So, we've now had to direct our consultants to change the plans

[10:33] from federal standards back to local standards. We also did value engineering to try to find

[10:38] out where we can do some savings. So, they are working on that right now. Right now,

[10:42] we only have a design contract with Dallas County. The next phase will include coming

[10:47] back to our City Council with a Project Pacific Agreement to go into construction.

[10:54] We also have an MCI project with unpleasant run. Those plans are 100% completed. We're

[11:01] still going to have to meet with our Council and staff to kind of talk about ranking of

[11:07] these projects, determining funding mechanisms to determine when one project is going to

[11:14] proceed.

[11:17] Westmoreland, if you've driven down Westmoreland, south of Beltline you will see the

[11:21] private utility companies have already done much of their relocations. We did go to our

[11:27] city council on this past Tuesday because Dallas Water Utility has a 30-inch major trunk line

[11:33] that comes from Daniel Dale, runs through the city all the way to Glen Heights. That actually

[11:37] has some conflict with our reconstruction project in about 660 linear feet, but being

[11:45] Dallas Water Utility, they're a little different than we can treat the private utilities. We

[11:52] just can't tell them to get out of our right of way. So we took a 50-50 in a local agreement

[11:56] to our council on this past Tuesday and it was approved. It's projected just

[12:00] on the water line relocation itself. It's going to be over one million, which is

[12:05] going to commit us to about 600,000 a piece.

[12:11] Another major project is the Hampton Road

[12:13] Corridor. This is the redesign of the roadway. It is currently 15% design. An update will

[12:21] be coming to the Council in the presentation by the consultants to give everyone a public

[12:26] update. In design now we have a 2023 renovation and replacement project. When we say renovation

[12:34] and replacement. We'll also use the acronym R and R. That is a two-phase project. We will

[12:40] call it Phase A1, excuse me, in Phase 2. Phase 1 will all be associated with the

[12:46] utility reconstruction development services. We really take our lead from

[12:51] our fellow Department of Public Utilities where they have identified

[12:55] infrastructure needs dealing with the water and sewer line. So they are

[12:59] defining what those streets are and so Phase 1 will be the utilities and

[13:04] and base two will come back with the street overlay.

[13:07] Those streets are Woodhaven Drive, Ray Ardra Drive,

[13:12] Vince Lane, Redbud Drive, Oak Trail,

[13:16] Oak Trail, Woodhaven Drive, and Woodlake Drive.

[13:21] The plans are 90% complete for the utilities

[13:24] and 75% complete for the street itself.

[13:27] We do bid these separately

[13:29] because we realize we get a better price going separately.

[13:32] The 2021 project is one of the ones, we'll call it 99%.

[13:37] That's the one we just did last year where we reconstructed South Yule Road,

[13:44] the section of the Meadows Parkway, section of Parkerville Road, section of Wintergreen,

[13:49] and we even added a section of Westmoreland to the project.

[13:54] What is remaining, we're having a difference of opinion with our contractor.

[13:59] for the section of Parkerville between Westmoreland and going west.

[14:05] In an area that was cracking before, it has started re-cracking again.

[14:09] So we are right now holding them accountable.

[14:13] We feel it was designed for our standard, which was a complete streak of reconstruction

[14:18] that involved treating the subgrade with a lime partner coming back with so many thickness of asphalt.

[14:27] but we are requiring them at their cost to pay a geotechnical service to come back

[14:33] do some core drillings and we're still gonna have to come back to the table so

[14:37] that cracking is still there but we're holding them hostage till they give us

[14:42] that information to determine whether or not we can release them from that

[14:46] because is it a situation where there is water coming from the property to

[14:52] the south it's reoccurring particularly with it being in the exact same place

[14:55] that had been before, but that's why that project is 900%.

[15:00] But we are holding the retained money on that project.

[15:05] 2023 Alley Projects, we just recently had the design 100 complete.

[15:11] Those alleys are Oak Meadows, Woodbridge Drive, Glen Avenue, Pine Tree Slash, Shadywood,

[15:20] Hillside Crestwood, Cloudcrest, Blue Sky, Stardust, Blue Sky, Westway Alley.

[15:29] These may be alleys between the streets.

[15:32] So we're getting ready to actually solicit bids on that and start those projects.

[15:37] We also have several stormwater drainage projects that we are working on.

[15:43] Shoreline Drive, the site has been complete. We're getting ready to go out to bids.

[15:50] Methodist Care Center.

[15:51] This is an erosion that is causing our fear of a sanitary sewer line falling in the creek,

[16:00] so we're really pushing this as an emergency.

[16:03] We're working on that Oak Grove erosion.

[16:07] Wolf Creek Estates is an drainage project.

[16:11] The council has authorized staff to proceed with.

[16:15] We're in the design phase.

[16:17] We just had a meeting with the consultants actually yesterday.

[16:20] part of their process they're needing to get involved with the Corps of

[16:24] Engineers because we are talking about working a drainage channel and they're

[16:28] these are called Waters of the States and there are certain permit regulations so

[16:32] as soon as we get that understanding of what all these permit requirements are

[16:36] we'll be taking a report to the City Council and I invite you to come to

[16:40] that meeting to get that update also. We also have some sewer projects

[16:45] Heath Creek, B branch, West Drive, and as I mentioned earlier, the McCowen Center, which

[16:54] our fellow director, Chris, will speak about.

[17:02] And Mayor, that completes my report.

[17:06] Thank you, Mr. Brewer.

[17:08] I want to allow just really quickly, I know we have a Q&A, but just in case since we're

[17:13] here on this topic, if there are any questions from those in the audience regarding any

[17:17] of the projects that he mentioned.

[17:19] If you have a question, you can go to that middle aisle where the microphone is.

[17:25] Tasha, can you verify that that microphone is on?

[17:28] Because we used it earlier and it didn't.

[17:31] It is on? Okay.

[17:33] If there are any questions specifically to any of Mr. Brewer's presentation,

[17:37] you can come to the middle aisle.

[17:40] Okay, hearing none.

[17:41] If you do have a question, how many of you in the audience have a question

[17:44] you would like to be responded to by staff tonight?

[17:49] Okay, please fill out a card. Are there cards on the table? You need to fill out a card on the table and then you can turn it into Ms. Tasha here in the front and you'll be called on when that question is, when we get to our Q&A portion.

[18:06] At this time, we will call up Ms. Becky Lewis and she will address, we had a question that

[18:13] was submitted in advance of tonight's meeting regarding HOAs and so she created some very

[18:19] specific responses.

[18:23] Ms. Lewis, do you have copies of this available?

[18:25] There are copies available if you want to have that information after she concludes

[18:30] that and you can have that for your hearing.

[18:33] Thank you.

[18:34] Thank you Mayor Proctor. And actually there were five questions that were posed. Again there is a packet at the back with the responses here.

[18:45] So the first question is what is the relationship between the City of DeSoto and HOAs?

[18:52] HOAs are separate and distinct entities apart from the City of DeSoto. However the City of DeSoto considers HOAs to be vital to the success of the community

[19:02] and as such, the city works to do the following. Strengthen and improve neighborhood associations,

[19:09] improve the appearance of city neighborhoods, cement the relationship between the HOA and city

[19:15] government, stimulate inter-neighborhood coordination, encourage new communities to develop

[19:21] their own neighborhood associations, and stimulate interaction between all DeSoto HOAs.

[19:27] The city fosters these relationships also with a few other programs, including the citizen

[19:34] emergency response team, which is also known as CERT, the mayor's 360 quarterly meeting,

[19:41] which is where we are tonight, the adopt the street program, where an individual family

[19:46] or an established group can adopt an area with the commitment to ensure it stays clean

[19:53] and Safe Year Round. Recycling events that are hosted by a community service

[19:59] relations coordinator, an annual HOA involvement workshop which is hosted in

[20:05] the early fall to provide an integrated opportunity for education on any city

[20:09] office service or event that may directly affect a neighborhood. There's

[20:16] the neighborhood grant program which is going on right now. There are two

[20:20] rounds for this program that offer grant opportunities for neighborhood beautification and other projects.

[20:27] The Eyes and Ears program, which is where we ask for you to report any violations that you may see

[20:35] to cold enforcement and DeSoto Civic Academy, which is an opportunity for a limited number of DeSoto residents

[20:42] to learn about and interact with each department and program administrators within the city.

[20:48] We also offer complementary meeting space at the DeSoto Civic Center that can be utilized once per quarter, which is up to four meetings each year.

[21:00] Question number two reads, is there a document that outlines the parameters of the relationship and who would be able to provide that document?

[21:10] Again, HOAs are separate and distinct entities apart from the City of DeSoto, and there

[21:16] is no document or formal agreement between the two that outlines any parameters.

[21:22] The City does, however, require the submission of the following documentation in order to

[21:29] be eligible to apply for the Neighborhood Matching Grant.

[21:32] That is, your articles of incorporation, bylaws, organization meeting minutes, proof of elected

[21:40] board members, map of your boundaries if that's available, and current contact information

[21:46] for all officers and or your managing entity.

[21:51] Question number three.

[21:53] What steps should citizens take when they have an unresolved problem or dispute regarding

[21:59] their HOA, the board, and or management.

[22:03] Municipalities like the City of DeSoto do not govern any HOA or neighborhood association.

[22:10] These entities are established as non-profit groups through registration and compliance

[22:15] with the State of Texas Office of the Secretary of State.

[22:20] Any disputes that cannot be resolved internally should be directed to the Texas Attorney

[22:25] Attorney General's Office or address through legal channels.

[22:30] Question four, what types of influence have any of the City Council members had in HOA

[22:37] issues, problems or disputes?

[22:40] City Council members may receive requests for information or assistance from an individual

[22:45] resident regarding their private property or common areas in a neighborhood.

[22:50] Those requests are typically forwarded to the appropriate city department or manager for review and follow-up.

[22:58] Any issues related to roads, alleys and right-of-ways that could affect the HOA as an entity would also be directed to the appropriate department

[23:08] but could also escalate to the city manager's office if unresolved.

[23:14] And the last question, in what types of unresolved HOA issues have city council members had to involve themselves?

[23:25] The city is not aware of any such instances where a city council member was expected or required to resolve an issue with an HOA.

[23:35] So those are the answers to the questions that were submitted, Mayor Proctor.

[23:40] Also in the packet are some other information about HOAs, how they are established, how they are run, how we interact with them with the city.

[23:50] And there's also a copy of the City of DeSoto, Texas Code of Ordinances,

[23:57] which explains about mandatory homeowners associations in the city, which was passed in April of 2001.

[24:06] Thank you. Ms. Lewis, before you step away, are there any specific follow-up questions to any of her information that was presented?

[24:14] Okay. You can call their name and they can come step to the microphone.

[24:19] Mayor, we have Mr. Arthur Anderson.

[24:23] He's coming with HOA questions regarding, is the relationship purely information, exchanging

[24:30] and programming?

[24:32] His other question is, have the City Council members been involved in HOA matters, involved

[24:38] in crime, and what does that look like?

[24:41] I

[24:51] want to make sure I'm reading this correctly.

[24:52] is the relationship purely information, exchanging, and programming. Yes, we do not run the HOAs.

[25:02] We don't monitor them. We cannot do anything to them. They are separate entities. We just

[25:09] have a partnership with them.

[25:11] So the partnership is purely information exchange and programming that you have listed in

[25:15] the...

[25:15] Right. And the main program is the Neighborhood Matching Grant. That's the only

[25:21] exchange of information that goes on. That does happen twice a year. It is

[25:26] voluntary for the HOAs to participate and they get funds from the city in the

[25:32] form of a grant.

[25:35] We do have the, Ms. Lewis, I wanted to reiterate and underscore

[25:39] your workshop that you do with the, was that mentioned as well? Yes. Okay.

[25:44] Yes, I did. The workshop is hosted here usually August or September of the

[25:50] year. Anyone is invited. You don't have to be a part of an H.O.A. to participate, but

[25:55] we do have an opportunity for you to speak to all the departments here with the city,

[26:00] ask questions, and also I always try to provide some professional, probably usually an attorney

[26:08] who is well-versed with H.O.A. Legislature, rules, laws, anything that has come down

[26:14] on the pipe since the last year.

[26:19] And then the second one says,

[26:20] have city council members been involved in HOA matters,

[26:27] involving crimes, and what does that look like?

[26:30] Can you be a little more specific with that?

[26:32] Yeah, sure.

[26:33] I'm just wondering if there are,

[26:35] like for example, if someone has a crime

[26:37] that happens to them in their HOA

[26:38] or later through their HOA,

[26:40] if they come to the city council member,

[26:42] how does the city council member get involved,

[26:44] it at all or have they have they done that in the past? Well if it's a crime you need to be in

[26:49] contact with the police department and not necessarily the city offices or departments.

[26:56] And then if and either the HOA board or its members or even members I mean residents in a

[27:07] particular area you can always reach out to your council member to ask for assistance or

[27:12] guidance with HOA issues or anything else in the neighborhood and like I read

[27:18] before they typically will pass that along to the appropriate department or

[27:22] manager to respond directly to that resident or entity.

[27:29] There

[27:36] is a response

[27:36] if a city council member has transferred a request to a department

[27:41] usually that will definitely involve the city manager's office but within

[27:47] And those questions, well, that responsibility is delegated according to the department needed.

[27:54] Thank you.

[27:55] I appreciate it.

[27:56] Thank you.

[27:56] Anything else?

[28:00] I believe that's the only question unless anyone else has any follow-up or clarification

[28:03] needed specifically for our questions about HOAs.

[28:06] If not, then thank you, Ms. Lewis, we'll take any other questions that you have received

[28:11] cards for.

[28:12] Thank you.

[28:15] Are there any other questions that we can address for you here tonight?

[28:21] We have all of our directors here ready to give information if needed.

[28:29] I guess everybody just likes coming to the 360 meetings.

[28:33] This happens more often than not lately.

[28:36] We've just come to be entertained, I guess, with what information we're going to present.

[28:41] Hearing none, I also see Council Member Parker who joined us,

[28:45] as well as Council Member Andre Byrd.

[28:47] He represents Place 4.

[28:48] Council Member Parker represents Place 2.

[28:51] Thank you all for being here as well.

[28:53] If there are no additional questions, our agenda calls for closing comments and announcements.

[29:00] I have several announcements with many things that are happening in our city.

[29:05] Many of this happening very soon over the weekend, so I want to make sure you all have

[29:09] that information.

[29:10] The City of DeSoto will be celebrating our 75th birthday with a black tie gala tomorrow

[29:17] night.

[29:18] This is a sold out event.

[29:20] So we're looking forward to it.

[29:23] We have our homecoming king and queen that have been announced

[29:26] as well as our homecoming court that have been announced.

[29:31] Mr. Glover?

[29:35] Oh, you have a report? I'm sorry.

[29:48] Well, we have a little time.

[29:50] I mean, do you want to come talk about it?

[29:52] Do you have slides or are you just going to be talking from expertise?

[29:56] All right. Well, come on up, join us.

[29:58] Mr. Glover is our Parks and Recreation...

[30:01] Director of Recreations, and he wants to give us some information, some very exciting information I'm sure, about the McCowen Aquatic and Recreation Center, which I believe you can come to this podium here, because that will be better for our online audience, that we're getting ready, I believe, and I hope we are still getting ready to break ground on in the month of May, is that correct?

[30:23] Don't say it.

[30:27] Don't leave me out there like that, Mr. Glover. Okay, we'll let you proceed.

[30:30] We'll make it happen. And I'm not going to be very long. I didn't actually do any preparation for this,

[30:37] but we're really excited the way that the project is coming along for those that don't know.

[30:43] our new Aquatics and Recreation Center at McAllen Park across from Katherine Johnson.

[30:53] Intermediate school is where it's going to be located. We're going to break ground in May.

[31:01] We're going to work on our groundbreaking, so there's something.

[31:04] We need to talk about that a little bit, but we are going to break ground in May.

[31:07] and it is an 18 month project.

[31:10] So in December of 2025,

[31:13] we will have a brand new aquatics and recreation center

[31:16] here in the city of DeSoto.

[31:19] And so, okay, so what's so impressive about it?

[31:21] Glad you asked that question.

[31:24] It is really gonna be something that's different.

[31:27] We're gonna have a couple of basketball courts

[31:30] that run one direction on a full length court

[31:32] that runs the opposite direction.

[31:34] There are gonna be some rental spaces

[31:36] that are going to be there but most excitingly there's going to be a

[31:39] Natatorium and there is going to be actually a recreational Natatorium and

[31:45] there's also going to be a competition Natatorium so it's really going to be

[31:50] awesome. Our fitness area again it's going to be one of the best and in the

[31:56] fitness area we're going to have physical therapy services that will

[32:00] be in there and it is going to be a multi-generational facility so

[32:05] Everyone is going to be more than welcome. We have a teen area that's designated in it as well. The project overall project cost

[32:12] $53 million.

[32:14] So it will be something that we're going to be extremely proud of and we can't wait to get it opens.

[32:21] And so we would like for you all to help us spread the word to get people more and more excited about it.

[32:26] And once it actually touches down, it'll be something that we can all be extremely proud of.

[32:32] And that's it unless anyone has any questions once or twice.

[32:40] Thank you, Mr. Glover.

[32:40] Okay. Thank you.

[32:41] Are there any questions regarding our soon-to-come Natatorium?

[32:48] We're very excited about that particular project.

[32:51] So thank you, Mr. Glover, for giving us a very high-level overview of what is to come.

[32:57] We appreciate you.

[32:58] So back to the announcements.

[33:00] I see council member Chisholm who represents place six. She also made her arrival. Thank you for being here. I think that's yeah

[33:07] So I want to get back to our announcement about the 75th birthday gala which happens tomorrow night doors open at 6 30

[33:15] And we will be kicking off roughly at about 7 p.m. It's going to be very exciting

[33:20] To just kind of see it is it is a bit of a homecoming type of an event

[33:25] and the planning committee was giving information.

[33:28] We have many of the founding families

[33:31] that will be there on tomorrow night

[33:34] or have representation from those families

[33:35] rather than will be there on tomorrow night.

[33:37] So many of the names that you see on our parks

[33:40] and on our streets, members of those families

[33:42] will be joining us tomorrow to celebrate DeSoto

[33:45] throughout the years as we turn 75 years old.

[33:49] And so that's gonna be happening tomorrow night

[33:51] at the DeSoto Civic Center in the Blue Bonnet Room.

[33:54] The next thing we have on this coming Saturday, April 6th, is to keep DeSoto beautiful citywide trash pickup day happening from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

[34:03] and it's going to be in various locations. I believe it's not too late, Mr. Glover, am I correct?

[34:09] It's not too late for them to sign up if they want to participate in their cleanup event.

[34:12] You can go to DeSotoEventsWithanS.EventsBrite.com again DeSotoEventsWithanS.EventsBrite.com

[34:22] and again it's going to be in various locations throughout the city where you can help us to keep DeSoto beautiful this weekend.

[34:29] Also on Saturday April 13th is the City of DeSoto Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

[34:38] And that's going to be happening at the Westmoreland pump station at 620 North Westmoreland Road,

[34:45] again, right here in DeSoto, Texas.

[34:47] So prepare for that.

[34:49] In some entertainment that we actually have coming up on that very same day,

[34:54] we have the Not My Family stage play.

[34:57] We will have two shows that day.

[34:59] One show will be happening at 4 p.m.

[35:01] The next show will be happening at 7 30 p.m.

[35:04] Again, on Saturday, April 13th at the Corner Theater.

[35:07] here at 211 East Pleasant Round Road.

[35:10] I believe they can get tickets

[35:11] at disotoevents.eventbrite.com as well.

[35:14] So you can go to that page to get information

[35:17] and tickets and register for any of the events

[35:19] that Disoto has going on thus far.

[35:22] Again, that's disotoevents.eventbrite.com.

[35:26] Also happening on April 20th,

[35:28] we have the Autism Awareness Event from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

[35:34] And that's gonna be at Ernie Roberts Park

[35:36] at a 515 East Pleasant Run Road and not lastly we have next we have happening

[35:45] on April 24th we have the faith leaders quarterly breakfast from 8 30 a.m. to 10

[35:52] a.m. and that is going to be happening in the Blue Bonnet rooms as well on

[35:57] Wednesday April 24th again that's from 8 30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and that that does

[36:05] require registration as well. I believe that you can go and find the link to that

[36:09] on the city's website. Just look for the faith leaders quarterly breakfast or you

[36:14] can get an email if you're already on the registration list from previous

[36:17] events to register for that event. The last announcement that I do have is

[36:22] Von Miller Day which is happening on Saturday April 27th from 11 a.m. to 6

[36:28] p.m. at Zyger Park which is at 405 Eagle Drive right here in DeSoto, Texas.

[36:34] Council, am I leaving out any announcements?

[36:39] As well as, Tasha, do you have information on the election?

[36:42] I probably should have mentioned that first.

[36:46] Okay.

[36:51] Election, so we do have an election that is going on.

[36:54] What are the early voting dates?

[36:56] Tracy has those dates on the master calendar.

[37:01] It's like the first day of early voting.

[37:04] It says May 4th, but I think that's incorrect.

[37:07] That's the early voting.

[37:09] I think it's on the 22nd.

[37:11] April 22nd through the 30th, yes, thank you.

[37:15] So early voting happens for,

[37:18] and we do have a city council election that is happening.

[37:21] So early voting begins on April 22nd

[37:23] and ends on April 30th, election day is May the 4th.

[37:27] So please visit DallasCountyVotes.org

[37:31] to get more detailed information

[37:32] on the elections that are happening

[37:35] as well as make plans to vote early.

[37:38] At this time, I believe that is all the Announcements Council. Did I get everything? Yes. All right, staff, we covered everything.

[37:47] All right, so it looks like I'm going to be able to give you all a little time back. We had till 7.30. It's 7.07 p.m.

[37:54] So at this time, I will declare our Mayor's 360 adjourn. Thank you all. Have a good night.

Apr 04, 2024 Mayor’s Quarterly 360° Meeting

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