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Good evening. It is Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024. The time is 6 p.m.

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I will call this regular meeting of the Dickinson City Council to order.

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Item 1, call to order and certification of quorum.

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Mayor Skippworth?

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Here.

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Mayor Pro Tem Simpson, Jr.?

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President.

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Council Member Simpson?

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Here.

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Council Member Townsend?

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Here.

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Council Member Brantley?

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Here.

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Council Member Schick?

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Here.

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Council Member Linton?

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Here.

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We have a quorum.

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Thank you.

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We'll move on to item two, the invocation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Mayor Protin, would you please lead us?

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Let us pray.

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Oh Lord our God, how excellent is your name,

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from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,

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your name is great and greatly to be praised.

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We thank you for every good and perfect gift that comes from above.

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We ask your blessing upon this meeting,

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upon the citizens of the city of Dickinson,

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this county, this state, and this great nation.

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Allow this to be an effective and efficient meeting and your name we pray

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right. Next, we have proclamations and awards. This is the most proclamations that

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we have had since I have been the mayor. We have four proclamations this evening, so

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I'm going to take care of those now. I'll come up, and we're going to start. We're

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going to go with the order listed on the agenda. So we'll begin with the Strawberry

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Festival. So I'm going to head on up, and y'all are welcome to come up to the

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front if you want while I read it or wait or whatever you'd like to do if

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like to.

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All right,

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you're good. Okay, glad you're here. All right, a proclamation.

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Whereas in the early 20th century the city of Dickinson with its fertile soils

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considered the garden of Galveston County and known for growing figs and

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strawberries became known as the strawberry capital of the world at the

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time and whereas the Holy Trinity Strawberry Festival, a beloved tradition that commenced

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in the year 1930, has flourished as a testament to the enduring spirit of community and celebration

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and whereas the Holy Trinity 91st Strawberry Festival, which will begin on April 27, 2024,

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is expected to be a vibrant renewal of the tradition and the spirit of innovation, offering

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a delightful fusion of old world charm and contemporary taste with the iconic strawberry

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shortcake serving as a delectable bridge between past and present.

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Now therefore, the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Dickinson, Texas, do hereby

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proclaim April 27, 2024 as Holy Trinity Strawberry Festival Day.

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In the City of Dickinson, I encourage all citizens to join in on the festivities.

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At witness thereof, I have herein too set my hand and caused the seal of Dickinson,

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Texas to be affixed the 23rd day of April, 2024.

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24. If you please join me in congratulating them for all the work that they're doing.

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Who should I give this to? Okay. Thanks so much.

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Alright. Thank you. Thank you.

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Oh, if you want to do another bit, go for it.

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Okay. Alright.

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Appreciate it.

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Thank you. Alright, next up we have the proclamation concerning

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Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Do we have with some people

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here for that? Okay. Yeah. For the yes. If you want to come up to the front or not, it's up to you.

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Wherever you want to stand, sir. You're welcome. Okay. All right. A proclamation. Whereas sexual

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assault is a growing concern for our community, state, and nation, and needs to be noted and

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addressed. Sexual assault has no bias regarding gender, age, economic status, education,

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education, achievement, religion, sexual orientation, or social status.

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And whereas, during the month of April, the resource and crisis center of Galveston County

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will be intensifying efforts to promote public understanding of sexual violence and along

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with victims of sexual violence.

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The resource and crisis center of Galveston County will be emphasizing the need for

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citizen involvement in efforts to reduce sexual assault through public education and changing

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public attitudes.

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and whereas Dickinson's residents rely on the resource and crisis center of

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Galveston County programs to provide a range of essential services to assist

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victims of sexual assault and whereas Dickinson's residents join with all

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Americans in supporting victims of sexual assault and believe that a month

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long observance specifically focused on sexual assault in communities across the

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nation helps to reinforce the loud and clear message to abusers that

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sexual violence will not be tolerated now therefore now therefore we the

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Mayor and the City Council of the City of Dickinson, Texas, do hereby proclaim April

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as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the City of Dickinson and call on all Dickinson

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citizens to support local efforts to prevent violence and assist victims of these crimes

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and finding the help and healing they need.

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And witness thereof, I have herein to set my hand and cause the seal of Dickinson,

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Texas to be affixed this 23rd day of April 2024.

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If you would please thank them for all of the work they're doing out in the

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community.

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Next, we have a proclamation for Crime Victims Week.

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Do we have anyone here for that proclamation?

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It does not look like it.

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If you want to, but okay.

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Chief Michael Barrison is going to come up.

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A proclamation.

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Whereas surviving a crime can have myriad lasting effects on victims, including physical,

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psychological, social, and financial issues.

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and, whereas, countless survivors never tell anyone about what happened to them, and whereas,

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we must do everything we can to show survivors that hope, the belief that the future will

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be better, is not just tangible, but within their reach, and whereas, one goal of National

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Crime Victims' Rights Week encourages all people to ask themselves the question, how

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would you help a victim of a crime?

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Whereas, Resource and Crisis Center of Galveston County, Inc. is hereby dedicated to raising

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awareness of the options services and hope for crime survivors. Now therefore we the mayor and

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city council of the city of Dickinson Texas do hereby recognize the efforts of crime victims

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programs and proclaim April 21st to April 27th 2024 as crime victims week in the city of Dickinson

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and encourage all citizens to embrace compassion and support for all crime victims.

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And witness thereof I've herein to set my hand and cause the seal of Dickinson Texas

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is to be a fix this 23rd day of April, 2024.

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If you please join me in congratulating these folks

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for all the work that they're doing.

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So people, are you going to, okay.

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All right, thank you.

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Was that you as well?

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That's what I asked for, okay.

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Yeah, all right, there they are.

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I figured somebody was here for that.

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Okay, all right.

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You're welcome, you're welcome.

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All right, and then lastly

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for the National Library Week.

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I know we have a number of our library staff here,

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so yep, please come on up

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And we'll do this one.

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Proclamation.

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Whereas National Library Week was first sponsored

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by the American Library Association in 1958

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as a national observance of libraries across the country

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and a time to celebrate the contributions

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of our nation's libraries, librarians and library staff,

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and to promote library use and support.

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And whereas Dickinson Public Library librarians

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and library staff are organizers and information experts

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who guide people to the best information resources, Dickinson Public Library librarians and library staff provide the expertise, services and guidance for patrons to access credible sources of information, and whereas Dickinson Public Library librarians and library staff offer more than books, they're committed to a shared goal to improve life and learning opportunities for all Dickinson residents at all stages of their literacy and learning journey from birth and early childhood to school age, to graduates who are ready for college and careers.

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year to civically engaged adults who are empowered by free access to information to make informed

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decisions for the betterment of the Dickinson community.

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And whereas Dickinson Public Library librarians and library staff play a critical role in

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the economic vitality of communities by providing internet and technology access, literacy

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skills and support for job seekers, small businesses and entrepreneurs.

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And whereas Dickinson Public Library librarians and library staff strive to develop and

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programs and collections that are as diverse as the community they serve and ensure equality

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of access for all, and whereas Dickinson Public Library librarians and library staff create

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a welcoming environment for all citizens of Dickinson to celebrate the joy of literacy,

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learning, creating, communicating, and cultural exchange, now therefore be resolved that

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I, Sean Skippworth, the Mayor of Dickinson, in celebration of the 66th year in National

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Library Week, has been celebrated.

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Do hereby recognize the Dickinson Public Library staff and their dedication to their

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jobs in the community that they serve. I encourage all residents to visit your library

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and honor the individuals who work in our library by engaging with your librarian and

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the staff who make your library possible. A witness hereof, I have herein to set my

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hand and cause the seal of Dickinson, Texas to be affixed this 23rd of April 2024.

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If you would please give them a hand for all the work that they're doing.

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you. There you are. Okay. Thank you. All

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right. We'll move on to item four

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or announcements and presentations.

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Announcements concerning items of community interest.

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No action will be taken or discussed.

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Council member comments regarding items

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of community interest in accordance

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with Texas government code, section 551.0415.

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Item 4A, council comments.

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Mayor, would you allow me to go first?

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I was actually just about to say

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that we're not gonna have Fred go first

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because he gave me grief last time

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about always going first, so.

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Yeah, please.

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Tonight I'm gonna be using my council comments

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to facilitate an award, so I want to go ahead and get it out of the way and go first.

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Here we go.

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I can turn it around.

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Good evening, everybody.

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Like I said, tonight I'm going to be using my council comments to facilitate a student

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recognition.

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My name is Jenna Simpson.

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I'm the advisor to the Dickinson Youth Action Council.

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I'd also like to bring up Ms. Judith Oppenheim.

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She's a voter project chair for the League of Women Voters Bay Area.

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Finally, I'd like to call up our DEAC representatives, these children right here, who are going

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to help us hand out the awards.

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So, together, the Dickinson Youth Action Council and the League of Women Voters work together to bring civic awareness to students at Dickinson High School.

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The League of Women Voters works with Dickinson High School throughout the year to provide unbiased voting information to students who are curious about how to register to vote, what documents are needed, and what voting is actually like when you get there.

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City of Dickinson's 10-member Youth Advisory Group at Dickinson Youth Action Council, or DIAC, strives to build a culture of active citizenship within our local community through pillars of service learning, action civics, and youth-led advising.

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This year's DEAC participated in many projects to engage their peers and bring awareness.

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Through our wonderful partnership with the League of Women Voters, our organizations formed

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the very first I Voted sticker contest.

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Students were invited to draw their own unique I Voted sticker design that reflected voting

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patriotism Gator Nation or Dickinson.

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We had some outstanding entries come out of this year's Dickinson High School art

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classes.

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Thank you to the party chairs and Galveston County elections for supporting this project

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and thank you to all the artists who submitted an entry.

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The stickers will arrive this week and you'll be able to get one of the three winning stickers

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if you go to vote at one of the Dickinson voting locations, Dickinson Community Center

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or Dickinson City Hall in the upcoming elections in 2024.

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So you'll be able to get a special unique sticker that says I voted when you go to vote

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drawn by some of our very own students.

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I want to start off with this recognition by inviting our two high school art teachers

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up here.

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Without their help, we wouldn't have gotten this contest off the ground.

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They stressed to their students how important this was and how outstanding it would

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be to have their artwork featured in an election.

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The first recognition I want to give is to Ms. Jennifer

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Somerall of

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our Dickinson High School, our teachers.

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Thank you so much.

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And then Ms. Laura Scully.

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Thank you very much for getting your students involved in this.

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We had a lot of wonderful entries.

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And here's some of the entries right here.

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If you want to take a look at these,

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they work together in the art classes

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to come up with these different things.

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And then we took submissions.

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And then we had a lot of voting

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to determine who would be the winners.

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So tonight we're going to announce the winners.

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So, third place, third place winner was Isai De La Cruz, a sophomore from Dickinson High School.

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And there's our artwork up there.

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Second place was James Walker, a junior from Dickinson High School.

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And then first place was Samantha Sausato, class of 2024 senior at Dickinson High School.

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Thanks very much for participating. If you don't mind, we're going to take a couple of photos.

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We're going to hit us with a little more, but OK. All right. And next up, Councilman Townsend.

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Welcome everybody that's out tonight.

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I see there's a lot of tree limbs out. I know you've got your updates. You can let us know on that.

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But I also see that there's a bunch of green ones that's showing up. People need to know that we're trying to clean up the storm, not do your housekeeping today.

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That's it.

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OK. All right. Councilman Brantley.

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Good evening. Thanks for everybody's here in person. Everybody attending online.

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I don't have a lot of comments this morning this evening. Just wanted to thank everybody for being here. Thank you very much

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I thought it was the morning. So you definitely definitely don't all right councilman shake

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Thanks everybody for showing up just a brief overview two weeks ago. I attended a

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fireworks informational

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meeting and met with

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city staff and I

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Talked with councilwoman Simpson about it

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That's going to come up later today

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I also attended a basic weather radar Zoom call.

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Now you would think that that would be the most boring thing in the world,

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but I'm telling you an hour and a half later I was enthralled by this.

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Everything you never thought you needed to know about weather radar.

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Last Friday we attended the wine and roses gala.

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Very well attended. It was at the KC Hall.

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last Saturday we attended the citizens all patrol social media again very well

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attended just a reminder even though they were already here the strawberry

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festival is Saturday from 10 to 4 please come out there it is a great city event

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reminder that on May 4th Saturday we'll have our fourth annual bucketers on the

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bayou boat parade. Everybody come out and bring your little pirate with you.

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One last thing

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if we will keep our friends who emit in our prayers for a speedy recovery. Thank you.

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All right. Thank you. I'm Councilman Linton.

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Good evening everybody. I wanted to mention

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the storm that came through. I took some time off from work to drive around town

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just to view the damage and drove pretty much the entire city.

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So thanks again to my manager for allowing me the time off to go do that after the storm

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had hit.

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Also related to the storm, kudos to Derek Hunt, EMS director, emergency management coordinator

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for keeping us informed with the local weather and taking photos for national weather service

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for their post storm analysis.

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Also kudos to Public Works for all their hard work during and post storm.

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and also to reiterate public works is only picking up storm-related debris,

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specifically green debris, vegetative matter, not fences or appliances, building

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materials. Also they they did rent another grapple truck and as of the 18th

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they have collected 1,931 cubic yards of debris. Next the Hughes Road project

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meeting. I apologize for missing that. I had a project at work which continues. I could

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not make it. I went over the engineering documents. The only question that I really had was related

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to the rectangular drainage and liths geometry and their flow rates from inlet to outlet.

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I contacted Mr. Tarani and I'm supposed to talk with him probably next week when he

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gets a chance just to give me some specifics. I don't see any major issues. I just wanted

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to have a complete and full understanding of it.

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Bayou Animal Services Update.

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Nina Baker, director of Bayou Animal Services,

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wanted me to mention that it is springtime.

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Baby cats and wildlife, if you see anything,

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do not touch it, do not feed it.

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Contact the animal Bayou Animal Services and let them know

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and they'll put you in touch with a wildlife support

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specialist if necessary.

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Also, I'd like to mention that the last dog that I saw

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that I looked at last year when I was trying to adopt a dog and in fact the

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one that I was going to pick and somebody adopted it and then brought him

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back. Storm was adopted last week finally. So all the dogs I looked at are now

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adopted and my residual guilt has ended. Thank you all very much for being

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part of the solution and not the problem. I met with Yvonne Briscoe the

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senior planner for planning and zoning. We discussed GIS data

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specifically that is that which is available in the public domain. I've

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We used some of that in Google Maps to kind of help me visualize the various aspects of

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this job and with multiple public domain layers and they can be used in Google Earth.

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So I'm trying to clean up the file and then I have one of the layers which basically

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has notes about various projects going on in the city, drainage issues, crime stats,

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what have you.

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I think it will be a very useful tool for counsel in the future as soon as I clean that

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up.

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That is also on my wish list of AI to evaluate ordinances as well, Theo, so I've been a bit

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busy with the job that pays my bills, but I'll get that to you as soon as possible.

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Also I'm going to be meeting with Imai Lewis, with the Executive Director for Imai Lewis,

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Angelica Hanley.

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I'll be meeting with her tomorrow at lunch to discuss various issues, including some

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of the poverty that the city experiences.

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I'm also going to be meeting with TextDOT next week if everything stays to plan to discuss

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several issues.

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Market on the Bayou will be on the 27th of April from 9 to 2 at 2801 FM 517 Road East

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right across the street in the parking lot and I did not forget this time.

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So it is hosted the second and fourth Saturday of each month.

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Starbury Festival has been mentioned. Also the 40th annual American Legion Post 554

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Spring Barbecue Cook-Off fundraiser will take place this Saturday for 427 from 10

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to 5 and it'll be there on Highway 3 at that Legion Post and the last thing I

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wanted to mention was the conversation with Colin. Colin Coker, there he is in

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the back, president of the Dickinson Economic Development Corporation. He

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We had an open town hall over at Moray about two weeks ago.

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I went up there and I saw a couple of people that I usually stay offline as far as social

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media, but some of the people I know that have had issues in the past and haven't been

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too happy with the city were in there.

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When I saw them in there, I hesitated for a second, but then I just walked in.

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I'm glad I did.

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you know it's it was a very cathartic and healing moment for not just me but

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those people there because they saw that I am just a guy that is trying to help

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the city that's it I'm just Fred doing what I can actually I told them I was

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wondering what I could do to make $75 a month and still upset people at the

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same time I was on for city council that's what I'll do but they I had a

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a very good conversation with a lot of them, and it seemed that most of the issues were

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resolved with just accurate information. That's all these people need. They need to be listened

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to and given accurate information. And so I hope that that can help because it's been

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kind of contentious and volatile the last several months. I hope that things can improve

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and once again to those people out there that are still upset and that weren't at

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that meeting. My contact info was on the website, and so is the contact info of everybody up

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here, and I'm sure they would be more than happy to answer your questions as much as

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I would. That's all I had. And kudos to you, Collin.

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All right. Thank you. Councilman Simpson.

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Thank you, Mayor. Welcome, everybody. Glad

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to see you all here. Since the last council meeting I've attended, of course, we have

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the workshop on the Hughes Road project. Also conducted via committee with the

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mayor and councilman Brantley of interviews for people desirous of being

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on some of the city boards. Also attended the Wine and Roses celebration as well.

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Like I said well attended always a great time. I need to find out who makes the

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bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers. That's a favorite of mine. Also spent a week in

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Round Rock for the TML Leadership Academy training. I got to go back in May to

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finish that training, but great information there. Also went to the

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Houston Galveston Area Council for our regular meetings. I attended the plans

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and projects committee meeting. I served on that committee and just a

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The general reminder that going forward, if we want federal funding for projects, particularly

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anything transportation related, the federal government has required that we get a letter

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saying our plan is consistent with the regional transportation plan for 2045.

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We had some spirit to discuss it around that at the board meeting.

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meeting. Vice chair of finance and had to chair that meeting because the chair was absent

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and then an board of directors meeting had to chair the finance portion of that meeting

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as well. Those are all my comments right now.

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Mayor. All right. Thank you. I'd like to welcome

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everybody this evening as well. It's good to see so many people here. The big thing

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I'd like to talk about really two things. One was of course the storm that we had

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a couple weeks back. I want to thank all of the staff, especially public works,

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the first responders, PD, EMS, the volunteer fire department for doing a really good job,

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but really all of the staff plays some role in something like that happens, and everybody's

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happened to help out and coordinate everything, so I really want to thank them for really dealing

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with this. We're dealing with it that happened very suddenly, very severely, and I think we're

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doing an admirable job out there. Please be patient. I know Theo will talk more about it

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in a moment, but we're going around picking stuff up. They're working as hard as they

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can as fast as they can, and they're going to get to you.

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So please keep that in mind, and know that they're busting it

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out there as best as they can.

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But I also like to say I also attended the Wine and Roses,

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and I had the honor of getting to cut the 200th anniversary

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cake with a sword that Mary Dunbaugh gave me, which

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was not what she told me when I got there.

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But we got through it OK.

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There were no injuries, no insurance claims were made.

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So it all worked out OK.

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Okay, but I appreciate everybody, the invite up to that event and getting to participate.

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With that, we'll move on to item 4B, the city manager update.

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So I will turn it over to our city manager, Theo Malonzo.

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Mayor, council, thank you so much.

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This is going to be a few minutes, but I wanted to start off, we have our audit firm here.

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We have a representative, Louis Breedlove, if you would be gracious enough to come on up.

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As you know, we are in the midst of our FY21 audit.

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And as promised, he was going to come in April to give us the status update and kind of give

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us the timeline as he sees it.

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So, Lewis, thank you for being here.

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Sorry.

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I'll turn this back around.

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Is that good?

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Sorry.

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Thank you for having me here, counsel.

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Yes.

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So last time I was here, I gave you all kind of a general outline for what our expectations

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were timeline-wise.

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I'm happy to say that we are on track for that timeline.

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Sarah and the rest of the finance team have been working very diligently to get us everything we need.

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We're very, very close at the moment at wrapping up the financial audit piece of the audit.

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A few items that we're discussing today are getting wrapped up.

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I anticipate those being wrapped up within the week.

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And then we are at the beginning stages of starting the single audit as well,

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getting all the data necessary for that piece of the audit.

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So...

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Lewis, can you explain a single audit, why we have to have one, and so forth, just for

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counsel to understand?

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Yes, sir.

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So the single audit is, any time may, currently, any time may, anyone spends $750,000 or more

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federal funds, it's not about when you receive it, it's all about when you spend

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it.

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When it's spent and meets that $750,000 mark, it triggers a single audit, which

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which is a detailed audit over those grant funds specifically.

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So there are specific federal guidelines on how those funds are supposed to be spent and

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so it is our job then to test to ensure that those guidelines were met and so it's very

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detailed audit over those funds specifically to ensure that all the proper, depending on

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which one it is, but there's various requirements for who you use, how it, with the process

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and spending those funds and all these various requirements on how you go about getting those

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vendors, which a lot of that does get captured in just the normal operations of the city,

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but there's additional requirements on top of that.

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So it's testing.

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Those specific funds and then those get the separate report that is included in the back

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of your report or often a separate report as well, and that gets uploaded to the federal

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audit clearinghouse, which is required once you meet that requirement of a single audit.

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So there are extra specific requirements for that. This just entails more time than on

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on top of the usual procedures performed on a general financial audit.

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So we are, as I mentioned at the beginning stages of that part of the audit and wrapping

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up that financial piece of the audit.

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In terms of just general timeline, so I had mentioned previously, last time I was here,

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the plan would be to have the 2021 audit to start at the end of March and get that

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done by the end of spring.

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We are on target for that.

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I anticipate being able to get that wrapped up within the month of probably mid to late

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May, which would probably be too late for the May meeting, but so that should be aligned.

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I know I think we have an audit committee or a finance committee that we'll have to meet

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with as well, so that would give us plenty of time to make that then June meeting.

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And then the plan would be to start off that 22 audit in June, and the goal for

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that one would be, and it would be a single audit associated with that as well, and the

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plan would be to have that done by the end of July. So that would hopefully be able to

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allow us to present in August and start in July, August for that 2023 fiscal year audit.

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And assuming everything goes according to plan there, I know that 2023 fiscal year

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is also that transition year from previous finance software. So there may be a slight

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right delay compared to the 22 audit in comparison, but should be able to get that done ideally

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by the end of, issued by the end of September and presented in October, which would then

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put its right on target to be able to start planning and performing the 2024 fiscal year

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audit. So we'll be right where we need to be for the current fiscal year we're in

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right now. So that is the goal based on how diligently the team here has been working

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for this audit, especially with it. We're asking a lot of questions. There's been a

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lot of cleanup on a few accounts. Sarah and her team have done a lot of digging, some

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accounts that have been sitting for a few years that have been cleaned up and dug

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into and so this audit will be has been has received a deep scrub to get it

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cleaned up and in good shape so so I want to assure council that you have a hard

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working team that's making it happen and so we're we're we're seeing the light

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at the end of the tunnel so thank

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you Lewis council I didn't while we had

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Lewis here if you had any questions or anything for him I want to open that

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I know we'll have this as an item later, but yeah, if you do have any questions, go ahead, Councilman.

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Yes, thanks for bringing this up.

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I'll turn the mic back on.

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I appreciate you doing this.

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I'd ask to, you know, hopefully help some people in the city with concerns to have this update done at every council meeting.

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00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:30,800
Just give us a status on the audit.

463
00:33:31,140 --> 00:33:32,140
So I appreciate that.

464
00:33:32,820 --> 00:33:34,160
I'm glad we're still on schedule.

465
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,100
And correct me if I'm wrong.

466
00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:42,980
But the process right now is related to the previous audit being inaccurate and so you have to have an accurate source

467
00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:46,380
To allow you to you know perform the current audit

468
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:51,640
So is that correct? I mean that's a very high-level assessment. No, no

469
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:57,260
We did not have an inaccurate order audit from 2020. Just want to be very clear that is not what's going on

470
00:33:57,260 --> 00:33:58,920
2020 was issued

471
00:33:59,980 --> 00:34:00,540
21

472
00:34:01,340 --> 00:34:06,920
was mid-audit, didn't get completed, we were engaged to come in, and we couldn't just pick

473
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:12,820
up mid-audit for 21, we had to start fresh, and so we do a full complete audit at 21,

474
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,980
but also because we were the new auditors, we did a lot of beginning balance procedures

475
00:34:16,980 --> 00:34:21,440
for 22 to ensure that we were comfortable with the material accuracy of your starting

476
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,160
numbers for the fiscal year 2020 to 21.

477
00:34:24,980 --> 00:34:30,360
So maybe I phrased that incorrectly, but essentially you're trying to ensure that

478
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:35,060
that the source information is accurate to allow you to perform the current audit and

479
00:34:35,060 --> 00:34:36,100
have an accurate result.

480
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:36,960
Is that correct?

481
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,520
Well, in the audit, we would be sure that the source details behind everything that we're

482
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:42,460
testing is accurate.

483
00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:48,560
So I'm not sure if I'm fully getting your question or not, but...

484
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:53,780
He's asking if you're having to, you know, some of your work was, since you hadn't

485
00:34:53,780 --> 00:34:58,780
done the audit for 20, you know, that you had to kind of validate and ensure

486
00:34:58,780 --> 00:35:06,120
that the ending balances of the FY20 audit were good so that you could begin the FY21 audit?

487
00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:10,200
That would be correct. Yes, we did. I'm sorry. That's what you were sorry.

488
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,180
Yeah. Sorry. You said it was inaccurate. It may have been aware.

489
00:35:15,020 --> 00:35:19,420
But yeah, so 2020, we were doing beginning balance. We've done beginning balance procedures

490
00:35:19,420 --> 00:35:26,420
for 2020 to ensure we've all balance sheet items are accurately presented for 2020.

491
00:35:26,420 --> 00:35:33,180
So although there were, there was an audit issued for 2020 to ensure that we knew that

492
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:37,060
the beginning balances were good and accurately going to be able to roll forward and set year

493
00:35:37,060 --> 00:35:44,600
under audit, we made sure that those were true and some of the beginning balances did

494
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:50,520
require some adjustments, but not too, too many items.

495
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,560
That's all I had.

496
00:35:53,940 --> 00:35:59,500
Mayor, have you had any trouble getting documentation from the staff?

497
00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:02,040
Not at all.

498
00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:08,020
There's definitely been some items requested that they've had to go into storage for and dig for,

499
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,400
and maybe didn't have the answer for right away.

500
00:36:11,220 --> 00:36:16,520
With some of that, we are looking at 21, so there's some folks here that weren't here during that time period,

501
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,580
so they're having to do a little bit of extra digging to get the support necessary, but

502
00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:26,440
everyone's been working as hard as possible to get it done, and so far we've not had an

503
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,000
issue with obtaining support.

504
00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:28,920
Okay.

505
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:30,840
Next question.

506
00:36:31,180 --> 00:36:37,980
And I know the report is not complete, but thus far have you seen any transactions

507
00:36:37,980 --> 00:36:42,840
that would lead you to believe funds were misappropriated, or any transactions that

508
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,960
that would have led you to refer to a law enforcement agency thus far?

509
00:36:47,780 --> 00:36:48,380
No, sir.

510
00:36:48,780 --> 00:36:49,080
Okay.

511
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,900
What about solvency?

512
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:56,920
Is the city bankrupt or trending towards bankruptcy based on your findings thus far?

513
00:36:57,460 --> 00:36:57,880
No, sir.

514
00:36:58,240 --> 00:36:58,440
Okay.

515
00:36:59,260 --> 00:36:59,560
That's all.

516
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:01,360
Great.

517
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:01,960
Thank you.

518
00:37:02,060 --> 00:37:03,780
Are there any other questions at this point?

519
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:04,040
All right.

520
00:37:04,220 --> 00:37:05,400
Theo, I'll turn it back over to you.

521
00:37:06,340 --> 00:37:06,640
No.

522
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:07,740
Thank you very much, your Lewis.

523
00:37:07,860 --> 00:37:09,000
Appreciate you very much.

524
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,700
I just want to take a moment and say that you guys have been great to work with.

525
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:19,200
Brooks Watson has done an excellent job in picking up where our prior audit firm had left off

526
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,400
of the FY21 audits. I do want to take a moment and thank you in front of council for the hard work

527
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:28,600
y'all are doing to try to hurry up and pick up where things kind of got left off.

528
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,700
We weren't supposed to be working together to FY22, but here we are in 21, so I got you.

529
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,580
We're going to get it done. Thank you very much.

530
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:36,040
Absolutely.

531
00:37:39,020 --> 00:37:42,780
I think that's it, Louisa. Thank you, sir. I appreciate you. Anything else before I let

532
00:37:42,780 --> 00:37:45,360
them go before I release them? All right. Your release, sir.

533
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,500
All right. You do have my contact info, so feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

534
00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:51,120
I'm standing. Thank you, guys.

535
00:37:51,180 --> 00:37:59,020
All right. Nina Baker, come on up. We have some Bayou Animal Service staff update as

536
00:37:59,020 --> 00:38:03,260
as well as a certificate presentation as well.

537
00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:07,660
So we'll have that up next.

538
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:23,760
Hello.

539
00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:28,060
I am Nina, Bayou Animal Services Shelter Manager.

540
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,260
Good evening, everybody.

541
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:32,900
I'm a little nervous.

542
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:33,340
Sorry.

543
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:34,220
OK.

544
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,560
So in 2022, we were awarded this beautiful plaque

545
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:45,340
because we were able to keep our live release rate 90% or above,

546
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,840
and we were actually at 96% that year.

547
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,680
As you can see with hard work and dedication,

548
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,160
we held true to those numbers

549
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:57,420
and had a live release rate of 96% last year as well.

550
00:39:05,140 --> 00:39:08,360
So this report of intakes and outcomes

551
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,220
and much more available on our website.

552
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,600
You just go to buyyouanimalservices.org.

553
00:39:14,380 --> 00:39:19,000
You click on the about tab and we provide our monthly data reports.

554
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:26,680
So anytime you're curious as to how the shelter is doing, how many numbers we have, how many dogs we might have in the shelter at that time,

555
00:39:27,540 --> 00:39:29,920
it's going to show you everything that you want to know.

556
00:39:33,490 --> 00:39:34,230
So happy sales.

557
00:39:35,110 --> 00:39:37,130
This is a part of the shelter that most people know.

558
00:39:38,030 --> 00:39:42,750
You usually get to see the wonderful pictures along with short stories of animals being adopted,

559
00:39:42,870 --> 00:39:44,790
but there's a whole other side to animal control.

560
00:39:45,370 --> 00:39:46,690
and that's animal cruelty.

561
00:39:50,290 --> 00:39:52,750
So the following pictures are a little graphic. I

562
00:39:52,750 --> 00:39:57,030
didn't put the worst ones up trying to save everyone's soul but and these are

563
00:39:57,030 --> 00:40:02,830
pretty bad and all of these pictures were taken here in Dickinson. So animals

564
00:40:02,830 --> 00:40:08,110
being treated like trash, unloved, and malnourished. These are just a few of the

565
00:40:08,110 --> 00:40:12,130
hundreds of animals that come to buy you a need of help. Sometimes we're

566
00:40:12,130 --> 00:40:15,750
able to identify the owners and hold them responsible for not caring for

567
00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:17,050
the animals that depend on them.

568
00:40:19,030 --> 00:40:23,790
Because Dickinson Municipal Court has worked so hard to become a court of record and a

569
00:40:23,790 --> 00:40:28,230
close relationship with Dickinson Police Department, justice is closer than ever for

570
00:40:28,230 --> 00:40:28,630
these pets.

571
00:40:31,050 --> 00:40:33,850
I thought you might enjoy an after-rescued photo.

572
00:40:34,630 --> 00:40:37,070
This is Susan, Amina, and Kitty.

573
00:40:38,010 --> 00:40:42,090
These girls found justice, care, and love in Dickinson, thanks to this city's commitment

574
00:40:42,090 --> 00:40:42,610
to shine.

575
00:40:45,630 --> 00:40:49,270
One of the stories that you probably heard recently is the story of Lakota and Bruno.

576
00:40:50,270 --> 00:40:56,750
This father and son duo were found in a field staked out with no food, no water or shelter.

577
00:40:57,530 --> 00:40:59,970
They were emaciated, full of worms and depressed.

578
00:41:00,930 --> 00:41:04,250
Bruno also had an injured eye that hadn't been treated and it was infected.

579
00:41:04,990 --> 00:41:08,870
This was our first seizure case for horses and we knew we were going to need help because

580
00:41:08,870 --> 00:41:10,370
leaving them out there wasn't an option.

581
00:41:11,330 --> 00:41:16,310
Sergeant Jeremy Kahn of the Galveston County Constables Office was ready to assist us by

582
00:41:16,310 --> 00:41:19,750
helping us get a seizure warrant and to follow through with animal cruelty charges.

583
00:41:21,250 --> 00:41:25,510
Dickinson Public Works quickly showed up with a horse trailer and built living quarters

584
00:41:25,510 --> 00:41:27,010
for the horses on their property.

585
00:41:28,110 --> 00:41:32,010
Dickinson Feed generously donated the food and supplies we needed to care for these

586
00:41:32,010 --> 00:41:32,570
gentle boys.

587
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,340
We were able to find a rescue that would cover all the medical costs and get them

588
00:41:38,340 --> 00:41:41,300
adopted, but they had no open fosters to take the boys in.

589
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,920
For a couple of months, BAS and Public Works shared the responsibility of the boys.

590
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,980
In January, we were expecting a hard freeze and were worried that the horses were still

591
00:41:51,980 --> 00:41:54,200
too thin to withstand the cold winter temperatures.

592
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,040
We reached out to Dickinson Bayou Ranch for help.

593
00:41:59,580 --> 00:42:03,680
They provided two stalls to keep Lakota and Bruno safe and warm, and Holly cared

594
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:04,460
for them every day.

595
00:42:05,260 --> 00:42:09,280
Day from Dickinson feed and the Crowder family coordinated the transport to the

596
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:09,500
ranch.

597
00:42:11,730 --> 00:42:15,730
Just a few weeks ago Lakota and Bruno were taken in by Blue Bonnet equine

598
00:42:15,730 --> 00:42:21,110
rescue for training and adoption. This is a fantastic story of a community coming

599
00:42:21,110 --> 00:42:25,510
together to help animals in need. None of these people have ever asked for

600
00:42:25,510 --> 00:42:30,790
recognition or even a thank you. So tonight we would like to officially show

601
00:42:30,790 --> 00:42:34,570
our appreciation to everyone involved in saving these horses and many other

602
00:42:34,570 --> 00:42:35,870
animals that needed our help.

603
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,460
Sergeant Jeremy Kahn, would you come up from please?

604
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:21,980
Dickinson

605
00:43:21,980 --> 00:43:23,240
Bayou Ranch, Ms. Holly.

606
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,420
Cameron. Cameron from Dickinson Feed and Supply.

607
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:08,280
Ms. Gina Vega

608
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:09,820
from Dickinson Municipal Court.

609
00:44:36,850 --> 00:44:38,830
Mr. Phillip from Dickinson Public Works.

610
00:44:56,530 --> 00:44:57,230
And last but

611
00:44:57,230 --> 00:44:58,270
It definitely is not least.

612
00:44:58,990 --> 00:44:59,590
Chief.

613
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,100
From Dickinson Police Department.

614
00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:18,680
Thank you, everyone. Good night.

615
00:45:31,420 --> 00:45:38,220
Next up, I just wanted to go over a little bit about the tree pickup issue. First, I just want to say

616
00:45:38,220 --> 00:45:44,780
public works has done an outstanding job on their part, you know, really, you know, helping to clear

617
00:45:44,780 --> 00:45:50,240
roadways, working with the police department to ensure that, you know, if people were calling

618
00:45:50,240 --> 00:46:00,680
the administration line, that all of the calls were being handled, yes, we are kind of running

619
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,900
into an issue council of people deciding that spring cleaning and pruning would be a great

620
00:46:05,900 --> 00:46:11,240
time of year to go ahead and get those trees trimmed.

621
00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:16,300
And so what we're trying to do, and actually we're probably about a few days away from

622
00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:24,240
public works that basically we're at a place where if we see that the, you know, the greenery

623
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:31,860
is actually still very green, fresh cut, that public works will be actually taking note

624
00:46:31,860 --> 00:46:36,540
of that and letting the homeowner know that, you know, obviously it's been multiple weeks

625
00:46:36,540 --> 00:46:42,340
since said storm that, you know, we can visibly see that this is, you know, the

626
00:46:42,340 --> 00:46:46,800
leaves are fresh, they're not dried out by now and so we are going to be working on tightening

627
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:57,860
that up and ending the tree pickup process. We had a budget line item for equipment to

628
00:46:57,860 --> 00:47:03,680
be rented in some events such as this, so we had ample funding in that line item to

629
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:09,780
go ahead and get a grapple truck for a four-week rental to help out so we could

630
00:47:09,780 --> 00:47:13,360
We've run three crews simultaneously through the city.

631
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,480
We are well above 2,000 cubic yards at this point.

632
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:24,460
Do want to thank Novus Group as well who's been working with us in opening gates and

633
00:47:24,460 --> 00:47:24,940
things of nature.

634
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:32,760
In fact, we're going to be working on some type of public-private agreement in the

635
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:38,160
event of storms for gate access and things of that nature, so that should be coming

636
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:44,340
into council in the coming months in preparation of hurricane season, just if, you know, it'd

637
00:47:44,340 --> 00:47:49,220
be good to be able to have access and work with them in a partnership when we're in need.

638
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,940
So with that, I would turn it back over to you, Mayor.

639
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:55,220
All right.

640
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:55,680
Thank you.

641
00:47:56,340 --> 00:47:58,640
Moving on to item five, public comments.

642
00:47:58,780 --> 00:48:01,140
We don't have any general public comments for this evening.

643
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,200
We have some for specific agenda items.

644
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,740
So without moving on to the consent agenda.

645
00:48:05,740 --> 00:48:11,040
And the following items are considered routine by the City Council and will be enacted by

646
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:11,520
one motion.

647
00:48:11,820 --> 00:48:14,980
There will not be a separate discussion on these items unless the Council member requests

648
00:48:14,980 --> 00:48:18,700
in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and discussed after the

649
00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:19,380
consent agenda.

650
00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:21,100
Okay.

651
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,060
I was going to pull 6D.

652
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:27,040
Anyway, the staff asked that we remove that one, but we'll pull all of them.

653
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:27,280
Okay.

654
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:32,460
So item 6A, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Dickinson, Texas, accepting

655
00:48:32,460 --> 00:48:36,500
the actions of the City of Dickinson Employee Benefits Trust to accept the offer for employee

656
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:41,660
medical pharmacy dental and vision insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield authorizing funding

657
00:48:41,660 --> 00:48:45,880
providing for the incorporation of preamble authorizing execution of the offer and renewals

658
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:51,360
by the City Manager and providing an effective date. So moved. Second. Motion approved by

659
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:58,960
Councilman Brantley. A second by Councilman Schick. Is there any discussion on this item?

660
00:48:58,960 --> 00:48:59,640
Write None.

661
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:01,480
Well, take this to a vote.

662
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:02,800
All those in favor say aye.

663
00:49:03,140 --> 00:49:04,360
Aye, opposed?

664
00:49:05,420 --> 00:49:06,220
Motion carries.

665
00:49:06,900 --> 00:49:07,920
All right, item 6B.

666
00:49:08,060 --> 00:49:10,140
Consideration impossible action to approve the minutes

667
00:49:10,140 --> 00:49:13,340
from City Council's regular meeting held on March 26, 2024.

668
00:49:13,940 --> 00:49:14,300
So moved.

669
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:15,380
Move with one correction.

670
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:16,240
Two.

671
00:49:16,500 --> 00:49:17,140
Two, vote.

672
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:19,840
OK, what?

673
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:20,700
What's your correction?

674
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:25,880
My correction is on, it

675
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:30,920
is a vote

676
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:31,740
on

677
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:46,880
item 9b the first vote listed it says it's failed at 4-2 but it was 3-3 okay and

678
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,920
Councilman Townsend he had a correction well he could if you say he could add it

679
00:49:50,920 --> 00:50:02,700
to his motion yeah also under 6e it says that Linton made the first and the

680
00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:09,580
second. I think Brantley made the second on that item. Okay. And your other

681
00:50:09,580 --> 00:50:13,000
correction was what Councilor Simpson said? Or you said you had two?

682
00:50:16,940 --> 00:50:17,620
The other one?

683
00:50:17,780 --> 00:50:25,440
Was that the other one that you had? Yeah, that was one of them. Okay. All right, so my motion. Yeah, one he

684
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,740
brought up. Okay. It's supposed actually it's supposed to be on like the first

685
00:50:28,740 --> 00:50:33,700
vote. Yeah, there'd be two votes. Instead of four it should be three and the two

686
00:50:33,700 --> 00:50:36,120
You should agree with Townsend, Shig, and Brantley.

687
00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:37,100
Correct.

688
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,660
Okay, so you make the motion with those corrections.

689
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:42,540
All right, there's a second.

690
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:44,600
Second?

691
00:50:44,780 --> 00:50:46,140
All right, second by Councilman Brantley.

692
00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:47,020
Any further discussion?

693
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,180
Hearing none, we'll take this to a vote.

694
00:50:49,260 --> 00:50:50,440
All those in favor, say aye.

695
00:50:50,860 --> 00:50:51,140
Aye.

696
00:50:51,820 --> 00:50:52,180
Opposed?

697
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:53,360
Motion carries.

698
00:50:53,860 --> 00:50:55,840
Item 6C, a resolution of the city council

699
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:56,980
of the city of Dickinson, Texas

700
00:50:56,980 --> 00:50:59,300
to select the proposal submitted by Utility Inc.

701
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,240
In response to RFP 2401 for body

702
00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:08,800
slash in car slash interview camera systems as the best proposal and authorizing the city manager to execute any and all documents necessary

703
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:13,120
To secure an agreement for such services where they motion on that item

704
00:51:15,690 --> 00:51:19,290
So lose there's a motion to prove by councilman schick. Is there a second?

705
00:51:20,950 --> 00:51:24,430
Second right second by councilman Brantley

706
00:51:25,310 --> 00:51:25,870
discussion

707
00:51:28,150 --> 00:51:32,590
Maybe not if we don't okay. Are there any

708
00:51:34,250 --> 00:51:39,510
We're going to present first but okay go ahead if you've got something that you want to basically

709
00:51:39,510 --> 00:51:44,270
It's a resolution give the city manager the opportunity to determine if we want to move forward with the utility

710
00:51:44,270 --> 00:51:46,810
And we'd like that to move to be the case

711
00:51:46,810 --> 00:51:51,390
Utility is one of the two vendors that responded to our RFP

712
00:51:51,390 --> 00:51:56,070
Our camera system that we're currently using watch guard is it end of life?

713
00:51:56,530 --> 00:52:00,870
In fact some of the equipment we're buying we're having to buy off eBay because it's not made anymore

714
00:52:00,870 --> 00:52:05,430
And we've had donations from another adjacent city of some of their equipment that they

715
00:52:05,430 --> 00:52:05,990
had in storage.

716
00:52:05,990 --> 00:52:08,330
It gave us to kind of keep us moving forward.

717
00:52:08,530 --> 00:52:10,730
So we need a new system.

718
00:52:10,850 --> 00:52:14,570
And this will cover the body cameras, the in-car systems, and two interview rooms.

719
00:52:14,930 --> 00:52:18,910
Basically the infrastructure we currently have now, except this will be new technology.

720
00:52:19,650 --> 00:52:22,770
The gentlemen officers are standing with me, almost all of them.

721
00:52:22,770 --> 00:52:32,130
And one IT representative or part of the committee that reviewed the scoring matrix for the two

722
00:52:32,130 --> 00:52:39,850
vendors that submitted proposals, and utility came out above the other vendor.

723
00:52:40,830 --> 00:52:42,290
They were actually very close.

724
00:52:42,790 --> 00:52:51,270
The median average was 95 for utility and 91 for axon, which is the other vendor.

725
00:52:51,270 --> 00:52:58,740
So, also, utility has unlimited storage where Exxon doesn't.

726
00:52:58,940 --> 00:53:07,740
So the long-range cost with utility is less than Exxon also, as well as the upfront cost

727
00:53:07,740 --> 00:53:08,220
is lower.

728
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:13,260
So the initial year, as will be paid out over a five-year period, the initial year will

729
00:53:13,260 --> 00:53:19,000
use narcotic seizure funds to the tune of about $88,000 or so to get us up and running.

730
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,720
that the subsequent years, the following four fiscal years, will make a budget

731
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:29,880
request to cover that. So that'll be roughly about $50,000 per year. So

732
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:35,260
$88,000 roughly to get us kicked off and then $50,000 for an additional four

733
00:53:35,260 --> 00:53:39,400
years to pay off the system. Any questions? Do you have any questions or

734
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:40,300
comments on this item?

735
00:53:42,820 --> 00:53:47,800
You said you had two RFPs. We did. That was my

736
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:52,740
question how many you had we had it out we had you know advertised for the length

737
00:53:52,740 --> 00:53:58,000
of time it's required by law and had several people send inquiries as it was

738
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,340
posted but at the end we only received two oh

739
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:05,900
councilman shake I'm sorry what

740
00:54:05,900 --> 00:54:09,740
are the other agencies in the area using which equipment are they use oh

741
00:54:09,740 --> 00:54:16,280
it's a variety Galveston PD's using this utility system a lot of people are

742
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,980
using axon because axon used to be taser when the first body camera

743
00:54:20,980 --> 00:54:24,840
a push came out, that was one of the companies that would provide you a bunch of cameras

744
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:30,440
for free and then of course the back end software, which that's all the expense, then you had

745
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:31,060
to pay for that.

746
00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:33,500
So a lot of people went with that and stayed with it.

747
00:54:34,340 --> 00:54:37,780
So both these companies, we wouldn't have lost either way with either one of these companies,

748
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:38,600
or both quality.

749
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:45,900
And we have officers here that have experience with the Taser axon, and I actually had

750
00:54:45,900 --> 00:54:49,880
experience with the utility, but I actually stayed completely out of the committee part

751
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:53,760
part of it, let these guys look at it and evaluate themselves, including RIT people.

752
00:54:55,720 --> 00:54:58,340
What do you think the lifespan of a camera is?

753
00:54:59,900 --> 00:55:02,760
Well, these things I know for sure will last five years.

754
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,960
A lot of that has to do with the conditions in which they were used.

755
00:55:07,740 --> 00:55:12,180
The utility system basically is just like your phone, your phone is a computer with

756
00:55:12,180 --> 00:55:12,700
a phone app.

757
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:17,320
Utility looks just like a cellular phone, it's basically a computer with a camera

758
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:23,260
app that does a whole lot of other things with GPS and it's got an officer down warning system

759
00:55:23,260 --> 00:55:29,800
so if the camera goes horizontal it starts a 10 second countdown and then if the officer

760
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:34,320
is still down, if that camera is still down, it will pinpoint within the size of a parking

761
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:35,640
space where the officer is.

762
00:55:36,540 --> 00:55:42,160
So that's, I don't really want to use that ever, but that's certainly a nice part for

763
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:42,900
this camera system.

764
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:44,200
Okay, great.

765
00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:44,840
Thank you.

766
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:46,560
Any other questions or comments?

767
00:55:47,380 --> 00:55:48,540
Oh, yeah.

768
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:49,240
Councilman?

769
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,760
Will this system replace everything we have altogether?

770
00:55:53,020 --> 00:55:55,620
Will there be any transition where we have two systems running at the same time?

771
00:55:55,780 --> 00:55:56,200
Should not.

772
00:55:56,700 --> 00:55:59,200
No, this is the entire total solution.

773
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:03,260
And everything that we keep like record of, for example, videos and whatnot,

774
00:56:03,620 --> 00:56:06,500
how is the transition for that going to be held like a storage for all of that?

775
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:08,560
Does that come with this software as well?

776
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,860
It's unlimited storage with utility.

777
00:56:11,720 --> 00:56:12,900
Where's Mina at?

778
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:13,520
I'm George.

779
00:56:14,260 --> 00:56:15,220
My IT folks say,

780
00:56:15,220 --> 00:56:23,820
Once you started talking to IT, that's why they were on the committee, but the one company

781
00:56:23,820 --> 00:56:28,160
offered, I think 10 terabytes, was that correct, Mina or George?

782
00:56:28,940 --> 00:56:31,860
And then you had to buy additional terabytes, so would you answer that?

783
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:32,260
Hello.

784
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:39,500
So yes, AXON, it was going to be five terabytes initially, and then we were going to have

785
00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:42,960
to purchase terabytes in bulk.

786
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:58,680
So the next five would have been a couple of $18,000 and then if we were going to do an unlimited storage with them it would have been like close to $50,000 for only 33 body cameras.

787
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:03,600
So the more body cameras you would add the more expensive it was going to be for the storage.

788
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,360
Is that like a cloud storage or a hard storage?

789
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:15,920
So the initial costs would have been a la carte and then the after that the

790
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:21,780
unlimited after you hit a certain amount of storage it would have been for the

791
00:57:21,780 --> 00:57:30,600
five-year duration of the contract. Hey George just to answer two questions one

792
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:40,800
One is, is this company going to, is this a cloud solution or is it going to be one

793
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:42,180
that we have to maintain servers?

794
00:57:42,980 --> 00:57:43,940
So utilities?

795
00:57:44,380 --> 00:57:44,540
Yes.

796
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:45,720
It's going to be cloud-based.

797
00:57:45,900 --> 00:57:46,640
Okay, cloud-based.

798
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,120
Part two is to address the previous question.

799
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:56,880
What is going to be the transition and data retention for our current camera system

800
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,660
or do we have a transition plan for that?

801
00:57:59,660 --> 00:58:04,120
What are we going to be doing to maintain that, at least for the short term, obviously

802
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:09,740
we have some things that will be active cases or even a certain data retention, are we going

803
00:58:09,740 --> 00:58:13,120
to be keeping that locally or is that going to be transitioned over to utility?

804
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:18,660
No, so from what I understand, I think that we do have that storage separate.

805
00:58:18,980 --> 00:58:22,220
It's going to be totally separate system that we will still have access to.

806
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,740
But we'll be saving that locally, correct?

807
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:30,580
We're going to be keeping it on servers or is that going to be in a cloud-based system?

808
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:36,900
The one we have now, that's a, I believe it's going to be, that's a question for my IT director.

809
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,100
It's going to have to be local, just to answer the question for you.

810
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,880
I was mostly trying to figure out what is going to happen to our existing records.

811
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,600
Are they going to be merged into the new system or are they going to remain on a separate system?

812
00:58:46,820 --> 00:58:48,120
Oh, okay, yeah, it'll be separate.

813
00:58:48,940 --> 00:58:51,230
Do you have an answer?

814
00:58:51,230 --> 00:58:51,810
All right.

815
00:58:52,130 --> 00:58:55,150
So the current flood guard system, it's on-prem system.

816
00:58:56,030 --> 00:59:02,710
So I have no information if utility will move this information over, but we can keep the

817
00:59:02,710 --> 00:59:07,270
records since it's on-prem server, just in case if needed for any information.

818
00:59:07,690 --> 00:59:10,290
Yeah, it'll probably be a lot easier if we just keep them separate, usually whenever

819
00:59:10,290 --> 00:59:13,590
you start merging systems and start asking them to communicate with each other.

820
00:59:13,730 --> 00:59:14,990
That's usually how you get data loss.

821
00:59:15,270 --> 00:59:17,910
So we'll probably have to really look at if we're going to bring it into the

822
00:59:17,910 --> 00:59:18,690
utility system.

823
00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:19,230
Absolutely.

824
00:59:19,490 --> 00:59:19,710
Thank you.

825
00:59:19,710 --> 00:59:23,610
Yeah, for clarity, the utility system is unlimited storage.

826
00:59:23,990 --> 00:59:26,470
It's included with the system that George was talking about.

827
00:59:26,590 --> 00:59:28,110
That's the other vendor.

828
00:59:28,330 --> 00:59:30,570
They offered five terabytes up front,

829
00:59:30,730 --> 00:59:31,830
but then you had to buy additional.

830
00:59:31,970 --> 00:59:34,630
And we were running about 15 terabytes now.

831
00:59:34,810 --> 00:59:35,530
Yeah, 17 terabytes.

832
00:59:35,890 --> 00:59:36,710
17 now.

833
00:59:36,930 --> 00:59:40,190
So that would have been an additional cost.

834
00:59:40,270 --> 00:59:42,070
It wasn't part of the RFP that we had to.

835
00:59:42,470 --> 00:59:44,670
The community actually dug into that a little deeper

836
00:59:44,670 --> 00:59:46,150
and was able to discover that.

837
00:59:46,430 --> 00:59:48,770
So the committee did a fantastic job, I think,

838
00:59:48,770 --> 00:59:53,890
evaluating these these two vendors. Appreciate it, thank you. Any other

839
00:59:53,890 --> 00:59:59,650
questions or comments? I have a question and it's more for you Theo, but

840
01:00:01,330 --> 01:00:13,990
I'm looking at this thing and the resolution to approve the RFP response, all that's in the packet is the RFP itself.

841
01:00:14,570 --> 01:00:27,330
There's no response, or it states in the resolution that city council, the evaluations attached here to this exhibit, having been reviewed by the city council city of Dickinson

842
01:00:28,950 --> 01:00:30,450
I don't see any of that.

843
01:00:34,620 --> 01:00:35,680
Are they attachments?

844
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:38,140
Are you saying it's the resolution or the RFP itself?

845
01:00:38,340 --> 01:00:39,240
I'm going to it right now.

846
01:00:39,300 --> 01:00:41,100
The only thing attached is the RFP.

847
01:00:44,740 --> 01:00:46,560
There should be, like, six attachments.

848
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:50,120
No, he's saying the resolutions there,

849
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,740
but the stuff that the people submit it is not.

850
01:00:54,220 --> 01:00:56,040
It's just a call for the RFP,

851
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:59,240
but not the actual responses to it.

852
01:01:08,950 --> 01:01:14,330
I hate to do that but you can do what you want but there's you know there's

853
01:01:14,330 --> 01:01:18,890
reason why we put an RFP committee together but yeah we'll get it back we'll

854
01:01:18,890 --> 01:01:25,270
get it back next month you can or not it depends I don't understand the

855
01:01:25,270 --> 01:01:29,840
problem you're asking us to approve something and that and what you're

856
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:37,220
asking us to approve is not in the agenda there's

857
01:01:40,170 --> 01:01:41,370
a motion to table from

858
01:01:41,370 --> 01:01:46,610
Councilman Brantley we got motion on the floor or is Brantley taking back his

859
01:01:46,610 --> 01:01:50,830
second shit taking back his first so they get table will have precedence over

860
01:01:50,830 --> 01:01:57,930
motion the table is no motion the table is is perfectly acceptable there's a

861
01:01:57,930 --> 01:02:02,130
motion table of a councilor Brantley second my councilman shit all those

862
01:02:02,130 --> 01:02:03,150
in favor say aye.

863
01:02:03,410 --> 01:02:03,670
Aye.

864
01:02:04,730 --> 01:02:05,170
Opposed?

865
01:02:05,990 --> 01:02:06,690
Motion carries.

866
01:02:07,110 --> 01:02:07,310
All right.

867
01:02:07,930 --> 01:02:10,090
Item 6D was asked, staff asked.

868
01:02:10,230 --> 01:02:11,410
I'm sorry?

869
01:02:11,850 --> 01:02:19,990
Oh, item 6D was asked, was asked to pull that item because it is moot at this point.

870
01:02:20,150 --> 01:02:21,930
I think they're working on resolving the issue.

871
01:02:23,850 --> 01:02:24,710
The is poo?

872
01:02:25,230 --> 01:02:25,590
Yeah.

873
01:02:25,910 --> 01:02:28,070
And we don't need to take action on it.

874
01:02:28,310 --> 01:02:29,230
The issue's being resolved.

875
01:02:29,230 --> 01:02:36,310
You know, as if I can just real quick so this acreage here is just so you know is that this

876
01:02:36,310 --> 01:02:45,050
is going to be coming up as a donation because a property owner has had their property reclassified

877
01:02:45,050 --> 01:02:50,690
as a floodway which is going to severely restrict their ability to do anything with

878
01:02:50,690 --> 01:02:51,250
the property.

879
01:02:52,030 --> 01:02:55,970
And so this may be an opportunity for us to use that for future flood mitigation

880
01:02:55,970 --> 01:02:57,810
and detention.

881
01:03:02,590 --> 01:03:08,290
It's on the survey it has it's up on California so it's on the so there's a survey attached

882
01:03:08,290 --> 01:03:14,790
that should be about 4.7 acres on there and it's on California kind of it's near a mobile

883
01:03:14,790 --> 01:03:21,550
home park can we get a real good I guess we can just skip the item so there's no action

884
01:03:21,550 --> 01:03:26,430
on this nobody makes a motion there's there something legal that they need to clear up

885
01:03:26,430 --> 01:03:26,930
on the title.

886
01:03:26,930 --> 01:03:32,330
All right, I'm going to move on to items, to number seven, public hearings and action

887
01:03:32,330 --> 01:03:33,370
items from public hearings.

888
01:03:33,890 --> 01:03:39,050
Item 7A, conduct a public hearing concerning a request for a specific use permit for a church

889
01:03:39,050 --> 01:03:41,950
in a neighborhood commercial, neighborhood commercial zoning district for approximately

890
01:03:41,950 --> 01:03:50,970
.33 acres located at 5818 East FM 517, excuse me, legally described as abstract 36, WG banks

891
01:03:50,970 --> 01:03:58,050
We're as a block one replant, FKA Watts, 5-6-7, and eight block two tropical gardens.

892
01:03:58,370 --> 01:04:01,830
We will begin this public hearing at 7.04 p.m.

893
01:04:02,290 --> 01:04:03,970
Start with the staff presentation.

894
01:04:04,970 --> 01:04:07,650
Council, you've actually seen this previously.

895
01:04:08,070 --> 01:04:09,810
It actually came before you a couple of times before.

896
01:04:10,130 --> 01:04:13,610
They were approved for a specific use permit about two years ago.

897
01:04:13,710 --> 01:04:19,470
They were approved for a six-month extension about a year ago, and that has lapsed.

898
01:04:19,470 --> 01:04:23,410
And so now they are seeking approval for the specific use permit for the church again.

899
01:04:24,570 --> 01:04:27,110
They had site-a-plan approval through planning and zoning.

900
01:04:27,570 --> 01:04:30,170
If this gets approved, they'll have to go through that process as well.

901
01:04:30,770 --> 01:04:31,590
That's what staff has.

902
01:04:32,110 --> 01:04:32,350
All right.

903
01:04:32,430 --> 01:04:32,670
Thank you.

904
01:04:32,850 --> 01:04:34,630
Does the applicant have...

905
01:04:34,630 --> 01:04:34,930
Are they here?

906
01:04:35,010 --> 01:04:35,570
They want to say anything?

907
01:04:36,250 --> 01:04:36,650
Yeah.

908
01:04:36,690 --> 01:04:38,510
I think we had one person signed up.

909
01:04:39,110 --> 01:04:40,010
Is this...

910
01:04:40,690 --> 01:04:41,830
It doesn't have a name.

911
01:04:41,890 --> 01:04:43,050
It just says approval expiring.

912
01:04:46,590 --> 01:04:46,970
Okay.

913
01:04:47,510 --> 01:04:47,850
All right.

914
01:04:48,570 --> 01:04:49,370
All right.

915
01:04:49,450 --> 01:04:51,270
No applicant presentation.

916
01:04:51,270 --> 01:05:00,910
no rebuttal so we will adjourn the public hearing at 7.05 p.m. and move on to item 7B.

917
01:05:01,450 --> 01:05:05,430
Consideration and possible action to approve an ordinance on a specific use permit for a church in a

918
01:05:05,430 --> 01:05:09,450
neighborhood commercial zoning district for approximately plus or minus .33 acres located at

919
01:05:09,450 --> 01:05:17,530
5818 East FM 517. Legally described as abstract 36 W.G. Banks Rez 8 block 1 replant FKA lots 5-6-7

920
01:05:17,530 --> 01:05:23,590
and eight block to tropical gardens approved by Councilman Brantley a

921
01:05:23,590 --> 01:05:29,710
second by Councilman Simpson is there any discussion is sorry mayor is this one

922
01:05:29,710 --> 01:05:34,710
of the ones where they got approval and then the hold up was them getting the

923
01:05:34,710 --> 01:05:39,370
state stuff in yes they were they did not get their text on approval until

924
01:05:39,370 --> 01:05:43,690
September and last year and that pushed everything back and these expired in

925
01:05:43,690 --> 01:05:50,230
December. Okay. So they get text dots approval? They do have a text dot driveway approval now.

926
01:05:50,310 --> 01:05:53,710
They don't have nothing in the way now other than they got to go through the process again.

927
01:05:54,010 --> 01:05:55,610
That's correct. Thank you.

928
01:05:57,770 --> 01:06:02,130
And the approval is for how long? The approval that you're

929
01:06:02,130 --> 01:06:05,650
granting for the specific use permit is for them to obtain permits within one year.

930
01:06:07,820 --> 01:06:12,680
Why do we need to do it a year? They've already done everything. Why can't we

931
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:15,240
We put a limit on that of six months.

932
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:16,860
You can if you want.

933
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:21,780
Our code does say that the initial approvals for a year and then extensions are for six

934
01:06:21,780 --> 01:06:22,120
months.

935
01:06:22,700 --> 01:06:26,020
But you can set it at whatever you want to.

936
01:06:28,450 --> 01:06:31,010
Do they have a specific timeline?

937
01:06:31,490 --> 01:06:33,190
Do they need a year to do what they're doing?

938
01:06:33,610 --> 01:06:36,050
So no, right now they actually have permits in.

939
01:06:36,170 --> 01:06:37,650
They need to do revisions on their plans.

940
01:06:37,830 --> 01:06:42,130
They do not meet our current requirements, but they do have an application in and

941
01:06:42,130 --> 01:06:47,450
we're going under review with that waiting for a resubmission and they're pending this

942
01:06:47,450 --> 01:06:49,650
outcome for the resubmission currently.

943
01:06:50,170 --> 01:06:53,850
So just to be clear, maybe Yvonne or Theo or both can answer this question.

944
01:06:54,270 --> 01:06:58,330
So if I understand you correctly, you were telling Councilman Schick that the ordinance

945
01:06:58,330 --> 01:07:02,450
has an extension of six months, but is this a new, this is a whole new application

946
01:07:02,450 --> 01:07:04,910
so it would be a year, the default motion would be a year.

947
01:07:05,030 --> 01:07:08,270
Yeah, because you already did one extension, another extension is not allowed.

948
01:07:08,610 --> 01:07:08,850
I see.

949
01:07:08,950 --> 01:07:09,810
So you were doing the whole.

950
01:07:09,810 --> 01:07:14,410
I just bring that up just to understand what we what is on the table at present so the current motion would do it for a year

951
01:07:14,410 --> 01:07:15,670
I just want to be sure works

952
01:07:19,710 --> 01:07:21,450
We already approved this once

953
01:07:22,450 --> 01:07:27,590
Now they're having to go through because it doesn't meet the code. So why not meet the code the first time

954
01:07:27,590 --> 01:07:30,050
They're not going through it again because they did not meet the code

955
01:07:30,050 --> 01:07:34,550
They're going through it because they let it expire understand that but then you said they have to make some changes

956
01:07:34,550 --> 01:07:38,310
some because it doesn't meet her code their site plan so how did the site plan

957
01:07:38,310 --> 01:07:43,990
get approved last time did it meet her plan and something changed that it

958
01:07:43,990 --> 01:07:48,490
doesn't meet it now it was a general site plan that had two entrances that are

959
01:07:48,490 --> 01:07:52,110
not quite wide enough to meet fire code and so they were given a

960
01:07:52,110 --> 01:07:58,290
conditional approval on the site plan at that time okay thank you any other

961
01:07:58,290 --> 01:08:03,130
questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll take this to vote. All those in favor say

962
01:08:03,130 --> 01:08:11,190
aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. The staff has also asked that we pull item 7C. It is

963
01:08:11,190 --> 01:08:16,890
not ready to be discussed as of yet. So unless someone is going to take some action, I'm

964
01:08:16,890 --> 01:08:24,210
going to go past that one to item 7D. Item 7D, conduct a public hearing concerning

965
01:08:24,210 --> 01:08:27,850
prescribing that the notice be given of the time and place of the public hearing

966
01:08:27,850 --> 01:08:31,550
to be held for the future proposed adoption of the Unified Development Code in Associated

967
01:08:31,550 --> 01:08:35,690
Citywide Resoning, shall be by publication of said notice in a newspaper as provided

968
01:08:35,690 --> 01:08:40,670
by the Texas Local Government Code, Section 211.006A.

969
01:08:40,990 --> 01:08:44,330
We will begin this public hearing at 7.08 p.m.

970
01:08:44,670 --> 01:08:46,090
We'll start with the staff presentation.

971
01:08:46,990 --> 01:08:51,070
We've been working on the Unified Development Code for, I would say, two, two-and-a-half

972
01:08:51,070 --> 01:08:51,570
years now.

973
01:08:51,570 --> 01:08:59,430
we're reaching the point where we have released a draft of the code and then

974
01:08:59,430 --> 01:09:04,090
also a draft of the proposed zoning map. We're actually preparing to go ahead

975
01:09:04,090 --> 01:09:09,090
and release that to the public, probably, you know, by next week most likely, and

976
01:09:09,090 --> 01:09:14,910
we're basically looking at what it would take to do the rezoning of that

977
01:09:14,910 --> 01:09:18,230
citywide rezoning and adoption of the unified development code.

978
01:09:18,230 --> 01:09:21,960
All right, so we'll move on.

979
01:09:22,180 --> 01:09:25,480
We do have one public comment on this item with Mr. Garland Copeland.

980
01:09:27,830 --> 01:09:29,050
Okay, all right.

981
01:09:29,810 --> 01:09:34,650
We have no other comments for this item, so I will adjourn to public hearing at 7.09 p.m.

982
01:09:35,410 --> 01:09:40,730
We'll move on to item 7e, consideration and possible action concerning prescribing

983
01:09:40,730 --> 01:09:44,430
that the notice to be given of the time and place of the public hearing to be held

984
01:09:44,430 --> 01:09:47,390
for the future proposed adoption of the unified development code

985
01:09:47,390 --> 01:09:51,850
and associated city-wide rezoning shall be by publication of said notice in a

986
01:09:51,850 --> 01:09:56,890
newspaper as provided by Texas local government code section 211 point zero

987
01:09:56,890 --> 01:10:03,010
zero six eight second by Councilman Simpson any discussion

988
01:10:04,130 --> 01:10:06,750
I got a question so we're

989
01:10:14,950 --> 01:10:18,450
just setting this up for the public comments and

990
01:10:18,450 --> 01:10:23,270
everything for the new unified development code yeah to start the

991
01:10:23,270 --> 01:10:35,470
process we have to announce the public hearing. So I thought somewhere in here I've seen where they were talking about taking away the, they were changing it on the SUPs.

992
01:10:35,810 --> 01:10:42,610
Oh, you're talking about 7 and C, that was the item that they asked me to poll, yeah, to skip over. Yeah, this is just about the UDC.

993
01:10:43,010 --> 01:10:47,250
I'm looking at the right one. Right. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

994
01:10:47,250 --> 01:10:50,990
What kind of time frame are we looking at to do the public hearing?

995
01:10:51,270 --> 01:10:55,910
We're actually looking at an open house and two public hearings in May and then adoption in June.

996
01:10:57,010 --> 01:10:57,490
Okay.

997
01:11:01,590 --> 01:11:02,010
Okay.

998
01:11:02,390 --> 01:11:03,450
Any other questions or comments?

999
01:11:04,870 --> 01:11:06,430
Hearing none, we'll take this to a vote.

1000
01:11:06,710 --> 01:11:07,970
All those in favor, say aye.

1001
01:11:08,550 --> 01:11:08,950
Aye.

1002
01:11:09,530 --> 01:11:10,010
Opposed?

1003
01:11:10,690 --> 01:11:11,330
Motion carries.

1004
01:11:11,950 --> 01:11:13,090
Item 8, ordinances.

1005
01:11:13,330 --> 01:11:19,590
Item 8A, consideration and possible action to approve an ordinance of the city of Dickinson, Texas to amend Chapter 4,

1006
01:11:19,590 --> 01:11:24,250
four animals of the City of Dickinson Code of Ordinances by amending Section 4-3 entitled

1007
01:11:24,250 --> 01:11:29,890
definitions, repealing Section 4-14 entitled license and registration fees, retitling Division

1008
01:11:29,890 --> 01:11:37,110
2 of Article 2, amending Sections 4-41 entitled required and 4-42 entitled exceptions, repealing

1009
01:11:37,110 --> 01:11:43,930
Sections 4-43 entitled proof of vaccination, 4-44 entitled ballot period, 4-45 entitled

1010
01:11:43,930 --> 01:11:48,670
animals brought into the city and 4-4-6 entitled identification tags and a

1011
01:11:48,670 --> 01:11:52,490
many section 4-6-7 entitled vicious animal registration required

1012
01:11:52,490 --> 01:11:58,090
providing a repealer clause, a penalty clause and an effective date. Move to

1013
01:11:58,090 --> 01:12:02,050
approve. It's a motion approved by Councilman Simpson. Is there a second? Second by

1014
01:12:02,050 --> 01:12:05,750
Councilman Linton. Any discussion? If you didn't guess what this is, it's

1015
01:12:05,750 --> 01:12:12,290
about dangerous animal registration. So is it for dangerous animal only or for

1016
01:12:12,290 --> 01:12:16,730
For any animal, you've got to explain what you're doing, please.

1017
01:12:18,450 --> 01:12:24,590
So the only reason why we changed the dangerous animal portion is because it included the licensing and registration.

1018
01:12:25,170 --> 01:12:31,410
We're actually taking the licensing completely out of the ordinance because the licensing actually means when they would have to come to the shelter,

1019
01:12:31,930 --> 01:12:35,510
do some paperwork, get a physical tag that they would hang on their collar.

1020
01:12:35,510 --> 01:12:40,730
what we've changed is that we want it to be a mandatory microchip so one time

1021
01:12:40,730 --> 01:12:44,510
once in a lifetime implant for a microchip and so as long as that

1022
01:12:44,510 --> 01:12:49,430
microchip is registered then there are compliance. It's only for dangerous animals.

1023
01:12:49,950 --> 01:12:54,510
No, for every. Somebody moves into town tomorrow with a non-dangerous animal. They

1024
01:12:54,510 --> 01:12:58,250
don't have to have the microchip and all that stuff. They do and even a

1025
01:12:58,250 --> 01:13:02,090
dangerous animal would every animal would need to be microchipped. With

1026
01:13:02,090 --> 01:13:07,710
this change. Yes sir. So everybody in town has to get a microchip now? Yes sir.

1027
01:13:07,890 --> 01:13:13,270
One year to do it. Yeah so first we're gonna be offering a whole a lot of free

1028
01:13:13,270 --> 01:13:16,470
microchip events to kind of get everybody on board. The whole purpose for

1029
01:13:16,470 --> 01:13:22,750
this, so we did the numbers for the last two years because our record

1030
01:13:22,750 --> 01:13:27,430
keeping is outstanding these days and we were able to see that 40% of the

1031
01:13:27,430 --> 01:13:30,610
animals that were brought into Dickinson were actually from people that

1032
01:13:30,610 --> 01:13:36,930
don't live in Dickinson. Our current protocol requires us to take the animal in as long as

1033
01:13:36,930 --> 01:13:42,610
the animal was found in Dickinson. But because we're on no kill shelter, people shelter shop.

1034
01:13:43,010 --> 01:13:49,570
And so these dogs I'm sure are coming from all over the place to get to us. And so once

1035
01:13:49,570 --> 01:13:54,110
we change that protocol, if a citizen's dog is picked up by someone that might be

1036
01:13:54,110 --> 01:13:58,770
traveling through from Galveston or something, we're not going to take that dog in unless

1037
01:13:58,770 --> 01:14:02,650
that person that found the dog is from Dickinson and they have a Dickinson driver's license

1038
01:14:02,650 --> 01:14:07,590
or if that dog is microchipped and registered to a citizen of Dickinson.

1039
01:14:07,930 --> 01:14:08,370
So

1040
01:14:10,990 --> 01:14:12,210
let me ask a hypothetical question.

1041
01:14:12,770 --> 01:14:12,850
Okay.

1042
01:14:13,390 --> 01:14:14,090
All right.

1043
01:14:14,490 --> 01:14:18,670
What would happen if you discovered somebody didn't have their dog?

1044
01:14:18,910 --> 01:14:22,630
Like, their dog was lost and they were at the shelter and they end up seeing that

1045
01:14:22,630 --> 01:14:27,310
they're there and they show up and we see that it wasn't microchipped?

1046
01:14:28,050 --> 01:14:29,670
What would happen then?

1047
01:14:29,670 --> 01:14:36,810
So once we're we don't actually plan on taking action writing tickets and

1048
01:14:36,810 --> 01:14:40,590
things for about six months probably because I'd really like to we have a

1049
01:14:40,590 --> 01:14:45,270
plan to put out flyers and do a lot of events we have the option to have

1050
01:14:45,270 --> 01:14:48,370
completely free microchips right now because we have a good partnership with

1051
01:14:48,370 --> 01:14:52,370
Finano so every time we put a microchip in and we register it they

1052
01:14:52,370 --> 01:14:56,190
automatically send us a free microchip and so we'll be getting the word out

1053
01:14:56,190 --> 01:14:59,910
there for I'm assuming six months is gonna do it I think I need

1054
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,160
I want to see the kind of turnout that we get from the events.

1055
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:07,080
How common is this in other cities, do we know?

1056
01:15:07,860 --> 01:15:15,700
It's pretty common. I think the licensing portion of our ordinance is pretty outdated because even with a rabies tag, dogs lose those all the time.

1057
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:17,040
Yeah, people often don't do that.

1058
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:18,840
Cats don't even wear collars, so.

1059
01:15:19,060 --> 01:15:25,220
Right, okay. Just curious. And offhand, what is the fine schedule for this?

1060
01:15:25,900 --> 01:15:31,840
it's going to be the same as everything else and it's a $200 I think it's not

1061
01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:38,200
more than 2,000 okay yeah the normal the birds yeah all right yeah so

1062
01:15:39,900 --> 01:15:44,960
everybody's clear whether you move in the town or you already live here you got

1063
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:54,280
one year to get a chip microchip put in your animal yes there yeah cuz people

1064
01:15:54,280 --> 01:16:00,480
lab-packed bags and horses. We've recently come into a lot of horse issues.

1065
01:16:00,660 --> 01:16:04,440
I understand you and I didn't come if they got the microchip.

1066
01:16:04,820 --> 01:16:06,380
Yes, sir. I ain't got no problem with that.

1067
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:12,780
About the curiosity, I know we have this free program in place.

1068
01:16:12,900 --> 01:16:16,320
What does a microchip cost if it's not, if somebody had to pay for it?

1069
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:21,860
It would cost the shelter probably like $3 and on a normal day we would charge $15

1070
01:16:23,380 --> 01:16:36,360
Just on a regular day, we've actually been giving free microchips this whole year so far just to try to get people on board and we've done a couple events, but if you guys approve tonight, we'll be hitting that hard and giving out a lot of them.

1071
01:16:39,460 --> 01:16:40,640
I'll refer to the city of Dickinson.

1072
01:16:40,900 --> 01:16:41,160
Go ahead.

1073
01:16:41,340 --> 01:16:42,240
It counts one.

1074
01:16:43,300 --> 01:16:44,200
I have a question about it.

1075
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:52,240
You mentioned that if you found an animal and it wasn't chipped and it didn't belong to anybody here, where did those animals go if they're not turned over to the animal shelters?

1076
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:55,440
They would go to the jurisdiction that the person's driver's license is in.

1077
01:16:55,580 --> 01:16:58,840
Whoever found them, so if you found them and you live in wherever you send them over there.

1078
01:16:59,180 --> 01:17:03,100
And so what if the person lives like kind of far away and how does the we absorb the cost for that

1079
01:17:03,100 --> 01:17:08,080
or what happens for that? If the person that found that is visiting they live in like

1080
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:10,860
A. Lee for something like how are we going to get that animal over there?

1081
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:14,440
They would take them. We wouldn't even take the animal in.

1082
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:15,520
You have to take it with you. You can't leave it here.

1083
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,400
right okay thank you

1084
01:17:20,670 --> 01:17:25,330
when you get an abandoned dog call or a dog loose so

1085
01:17:25,330 --> 01:17:28,150
you're gonna go out there and you're gonna check to see if it's got a

1086
01:17:28,150 --> 01:17:32,850
microchip in there yes sir we got to do that every single time and then what

1087
01:17:32,850 --> 01:17:38,010
happens if you run across this dog and it has no microchip then we're gonna

1088
01:17:38,010 --> 01:17:41,910
bring it to the shelter if it's animal control bringing a dog in animal

1089
01:17:41,910 --> 01:17:44,650
control can still bring dogs in because I know that they found them in our

1090
01:17:44,650 --> 01:17:49,310
jurisdiction. They most likely belong there. The problem that we're having is

1091
01:17:49,310 --> 01:17:54,150
that the people that are they're not citizens of Dickinson so they maybe

1092
01:17:54,150 --> 01:17:57,150
don't want to bring their animals to another shelter that is a high-kill

1093
01:17:57,150 --> 01:18:01,390
shelter and so they're coming all the way here to drop their animals off. So

1094
01:18:01,390 --> 01:18:06,010
this won't prevent people from dumping dogs in the city of Dickinson? No sir.

1095
01:18:06,510 --> 01:18:09,810
I don't know anything that would honestly. Our cats or whatever it is.

1096
01:18:11,230 --> 01:18:16,910
It's not going to stop it, but there's two numbers in our little reports that we do every

1097
01:18:16,910 --> 01:18:18,610
month that we can certainly change.

1098
01:18:18,710 --> 01:18:25,410
One of those numbers is intake, and that's about a 40% difference on intake would make

1099
01:18:25,410 --> 01:18:31,130
the shelter a whole different place, because literally 40% of people, they weren't citizens.

1100
01:18:31,930 --> 01:18:35,410
The other number that we can change is that return to owner number, and the microchip

1101
01:18:35,410 --> 01:18:36,110
is the way to do that.

1102
01:18:41,250 --> 01:18:49,010
After the year is up and you go through all of it, you find a stray dog and somebody comes in that says it's mine.

1103
01:18:49,530 --> 01:18:53,750
Are you all going to chip the dog and charge them or are you going to give a fine on them or what?

1104
01:18:53,930 --> 01:18:58,590
So this is going to, it's not only going to, we're not only going to be able to change the protocol of how we intake dogs,

1105
01:18:58,950 --> 01:19:02,010
but also what happens to the actual animal when they come in.

1106
01:19:02,010 --> 01:19:05,790
And so currently, we give them DHPP and Border Tele to protect them physically.

1107
01:19:06,630 --> 01:19:10,470
But with this ordinance, we can actually hit them with a microchip just as soon as they

1108
01:19:10,470 --> 01:19:11,090
go through the door.

1109
01:19:11,670 --> 01:19:12,790
And so that part's already done.

1110
01:19:13,070 --> 01:19:17,390
And then if no one comes to claim them, then we go through the whole process and get

1111
01:19:17,390 --> 01:19:17,750
them adopted.

1112
01:19:18,570 --> 01:19:18,910
Okay.

1113
01:19:19,250 --> 01:19:19,410
Thank you.

1114
01:19:19,590 --> 01:19:22,330
So could this potentially be a deal where, you know, I looked back to the scenario

1115
01:19:22,330 --> 01:19:25,210
I brought up earlier, right, where you kind of say, well, on the one hand, there's

1116
01:19:25,210 --> 01:19:25,590
a fine.

1117
01:19:25,930 --> 01:19:29,890
On the other hand, we could just tip your dog for $3 instead.

1118
01:19:30,230 --> 01:19:30,730
How does that sound?

1119
01:19:30,730 --> 01:19:34,130
So I guess what I'm getting at is you know, you don't necessarily want to start

1120
01:19:34,130 --> 01:19:39,350
I think there will be many good intentioned people who don't have their animal chip through no issue and

1121
01:19:39,350 --> 01:19:44,470
I just and I'm not saying that I think y'all would I but people are listening to this and they may be saying my god

1122
01:19:44,470 --> 01:19:46,830
We're gonna get fine $200 we don't ship our dog

1123
01:19:46,830 --> 01:19:52,790
And I just kind of want to have it laid out there that I mean I guess if you want to pay $200 or you could just say

1124
01:19:52,790 --> 01:19:58,770
Why don't we just ship your animal right right here exactly consider the matter close so for free. Yeah

1125
01:19:58,770 --> 01:19:59,630
We'll do it for free.

1126
01:19:59,870 --> 01:20:00,010
Got you.

1127
01:20:00,150 --> 01:20:00,370
Okay.

1128
01:20:00,710 --> 01:20:00,990
Good deal.

1129
01:20:01,250 --> 01:20:01,430
Good deal.

1130
01:20:01,950 --> 01:20:02,770
We would prefer that.

1131
01:20:03,130 --> 01:20:03,250
Yeah.

1132
01:20:03,410 --> 01:20:04,170
I kind of figured.

1133
01:20:04,330 --> 01:20:06,810
I just wanted to say it out loud and let you say it.

1134
01:20:06,810 --> 01:20:06,990
Appreciate that.

1135
01:20:07,510 --> 01:20:09,250
Any other questions or comments?

1136
01:20:11,070 --> 01:20:12,350
You may have answered this.

1137
01:20:12,590 --> 01:20:16,770
What is our cost to chip an animal?

1138
01:20:17,450 --> 01:20:17,750
Zero.

1139
01:20:18,590 --> 01:20:22,370
So our relationship with Finano makes it to where every time we put a microchip

1140
01:20:22,370 --> 01:20:27,130
in, whether that's a community's pet or a shelter pet, Finano automatically sends

1141
01:20:27,130 --> 01:20:29,350
This is a brand new microchip for free.

1142
01:20:30,950 --> 01:20:33,170
They make their money through the registration portion.

1143
01:20:33,610 --> 01:20:36,310
So when people adopt the pet or take their pet home,

1144
01:20:36,390 --> 01:20:37,870
you have to register that microchip.

1145
01:20:38,290 --> 01:20:40,050
And that's how they make their money,

1146
01:20:40,230 --> 01:20:43,450
mostly by ads for insurance and stuff like that.

1147
01:20:44,330 --> 01:20:46,430
Is there a cost to register the chip?

1148
01:20:47,290 --> 01:20:48,490
For some chips, there is.

1149
01:20:48,550 --> 01:20:49,710
For fine animals, there's not.

1150
01:20:50,630 --> 01:20:50,970
OK.

1151
01:20:52,310 --> 01:20:54,810
And what if you have an animal that's already chipped?

1152
01:20:54,810 --> 01:20:55,710
I

1153
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:03,520
mean one that was found no just say you double-chipped it on accident yeah

1154
01:21:04,180 --> 01:21:08,140
so we scan when they when they get before they get in our vehicles we scan

1155
01:21:08,140 --> 01:21:11,640
when they come through the door we scan when we weigh them we scan when we

1156
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:15,960
medicate them we scan when we spay neuter them it's a non-stop process

1157
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:20,060
because we've actually had a few dogs that the microchip does migrate and

1158
01:21:20,060 --> 01:21:23,480
they would be down in the elbow and someone special happened to go along

1159
01:21:23,480 --> 01:21:26,620
that time and check them so anytime before their microchip they're

1160
01:21:26,620 --> 01:21:27,720
are always scanned thoroughly.

1161
01:21:31,230 --> 01:21:31,890
Questions or comments?

1162
01:21:33,450 --> 01:21:37,070
Yeah, it's basically an identification mechanism

1163
01:21:37,070 --> 01:21:40,270
to allow you to minimize the amount of animals

1164
01:21:40,270 --> 01:21:41,450
that you have to intake.

1165
01:21:42,010 --> 01:21:43,670
So we're not full all the time.

1166
01:21:45,330 --> 01:21:49,930
And so as far as the comment that was made earlier

1167
01:21:50,550 --> 01:21:53,030
about the time, the implementation

1168
01:21:53,030 --> 01:21:55,610
shall occur by the animal reaching six months of age

1169
01:21:55,610 --> 01:21:58,590
or within 30 days after the animal was acquired or brought

1170
01:21:58,590 --> 01:22:04,350
into the city which ever is later. The year that was mentioned that is when the

1171
01:22:04,350 --> 01:22:10,050
actual, if approved, that this takes effect. Correct. I really, I don't want to

1172
01:22:10,050 --> 01:22:13,610
change the rules in the middle of the game without letting every player know. So

1173
01:22:13,610 --> 01:22:17,650
we're going to be super conscious about just letting everyone know as many

1174
01:22:17,650 --> 01:22:18,750
people as we can get to listen.

1175
01:22:20,940 --> 01:22:23,920
Any other questions or comments? All right.

1176
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,120
Hearing none, we'll take this to a vote and this is a one reading deal or is

1177
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:28,580
those two readings all

1178
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:37,320
right that's what I just wanted to clarify that okay it's

1179
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:43,100
very well we'll take the vote all those in favor say aye aye opposed motion that

1180
01:22:43,100 --> 01:22:47,920
carries all right we'll move on to item 9a discussion and possible action to

1181
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:51,160
appoint members to the zoning board of adjustments BOA billing standards

1182
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:54,780
Commission BFC and planning and zoning Commission P&Z board of directors

1183
01:22:55,300 --> 01:23:00,240
before we get to this item I would like to make a couple notes so we did

1184
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:05,320
use our we use the process of the committee process and so we had the kind of the subcommittee

1185
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:10,840
did the initial interviews with all of the people that are up for potential nomination.

1186
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,500
However, and we have asked them to be here tonight so I'm going to ask them to get up

1187
01:23:15,500 --> 01:23:19,100
and speak and say something. However, we want to be sure that council does have ample

1188
01:23:19,100 --> 01:23:23,840
time to go through everything look through the applications make sure. So it would

1189
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:28,660
be my intention to perhaps not vote this evening unless that is the stringent desire

1190
01:23:28,660 --> 01:23:32,240
council that I would say let's let everybody speak do whatever and then

1191
01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:36,800
we'll we'll do the appointments at a later date the next week. I'll make a

1192
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:44,440
motion to table it and then we can let them speak. Well before you tell I was going to say just let them speak and then we can we can do that if that

1193
01:23:44,440 --> 01:23:49,340
works out and we do have Mr. Garland Copeland signed up for this item as well we'll

1194
01:23:52,380 --> 01:23:54,600
give others the opportunity. In addition.

1195
01:24:01,410 --> 01:24:02,190
Council.

1196
01:24:05,410 --> 01:24:10,230
The agenda as written was very

1197
01:24:10,230 --> 01:24:15,550
unclear about exactly what was going to take place tonight. I'm one of the

1198
01:24:15,550 --> 01:24:23,410
members that has been on two of these the standards board and the standards

1199
01:24:23,410 --> 01:24:25,370
Commissioner and the adjustment board.

1200
01:24:27,490 --> 01:24:32,310
I've been listed as an alternate for the

1201
01:24:32,310 --> 01:24:39,570
Board of Adjustment. Were your intent tonight to wrap the slate clean and bring

1202
01:24:39,570 --> 01:24:44,130
in all new people or were you going to carry over past tonight some of the

1203
01:24:44,130 --> 01:24:46,230
existing members of these bodies?

1204
01:24:50,980 --> 01:24:55,620
I feel like that you would benefit from

1205
01:24:55,620 --> 01:25:02,760
having a few carryover with some experience on this so that's the way

1206
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:08,800
the your agenda was written I didn't I couldn't tell what was gonna happen

1207
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:13,500
tonight so I can address a little bit of that since it's on the item so I've in

1208
01:25:13,500 --> 01:25:16,660
a prior meeting we had we'd laid out our our position that we weren't going

1209
01:25:16,660 --> 01:25:20,200
to remove anybody who's currently on there so if this is to fulfill more

1210
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:23,860
vacancies in the packet itself on the cover sheet it lists out more of

1211
01:25:23,860 --> 01:25:27,740
rationale and talks about their vacancies and that the goal was to fill those

1212
01:25:27,740 --> 01:25:31,780
vacancies. So no, that wasn't the intent, but I don't think we're going to take any

1213
01:25:31,780 --> 01:25:38,800
any action tonight in any event. Well, the last comment would be as an alternate, I've

1214
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:44,960
got experience. I'd like to just be moved up to a voting member. Understood. All right.

1215
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:51,200
Thank you. Okay, so kind of what I'd like to do is give the the applicants

1216
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:54,940
against for the board's opportunity to get up and speak.

1217
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:55,900
So I'll just go in order.

1218
01:25:56,060 --> 01:25:57,020
I know one had to leave.

1219
01:25:57,220 --> 01:25:59,080
I saw that she was here and she had to go.

1220
01:25:59,340 --> 01:26:02,700
But Alyssa Rodriguez, was she here or did she leave?

1221
01:26:03,020 --> 01:26:03,520
She left.

1222
01:26:03,660 --> 01:26:04,760
She left, okay, that's one of that.

1223
01:26:06,100 --> 01:26:07,100
Oh, you're there, okay.

1224
01:26:07,820 --> 01:26:09,400
I'm sorry, there's also another,

1225
01:26:09,780 --> 01:26:12,760
there's a Jennifer Rodriguez, is the one that line, okay.

1226
01:26:15,300 --> 01:26:16,780
Hello city council members.

1227
01:26:17,700 --> 01:26:21,380
All right, so I've lived and grew up in Dickinson.

1228
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:33,320
And this would be a great opportunity to make Digginson liveable, as in when you were telling

1229
01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:38,860
me about those apartments that were not liveable,

1230
01:26:45,070 --> 01:26:46,570
this would be a great opportunity.

1231
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:50,180
Which board is she going for?

1232
01:26:51,900 --> 01:26:53,320
Planning and zoning?

1233
01:26:53,500 --> 01:26:53,820
Yes.

1234
01:26:54,260 --> 01:26:54,920
And building standards?

1235
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:56,100
And building standards, yes.

1236
01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:03,080
Yeah, several of them are for all, but a lot of people in the application checked multiple

1237
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:03,580
boards.

1238
01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:07,100
Okay.

1239
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:08,960
Next, Collin?

1240
01:27:09,220 --> 01:27:09,600
Collin?

1241
01:27:20,170 --> 01:27:20,910
Howdy, Council.

1242
01:27:21,250 --> 01:27:22,570
My name is Collin Haida.

1243
01:27:22,950 --> 01:27:27,990
My partner and I, back in October, purchased a home over on the west side of Dickinson.

1244
01:27:28,650 --> 01:27:34,480
I'm a two-time graduate of Texas A&M and aerospace engineering, and I've been here in the

1245
01:27:34,480 --> 01:27:39,140
Houston area, working in space flight for about three years now, a little over.

1246
01:27:41,080 --> 01:27:46,940
One of the reasons of why I decided to apply for boards and commissions is I think young

1247
01:27:46,940 --> 01:27:49,540
people need to provide their perspective to the cities.

1248
01:27:50,440 --> 01:27:58,140
And I think that what I would bring is really a passion to make the community better.

1249
01:27:59,440 --> 01:28:05,240
and I'm ready to jump right in and I appreciate y'all's consideration. All right, thank you very much.

1250
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:08,180
And next we have David Floyd.

1251
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:16,480
I mean, you don't have to.

1252
01:28:16,540 --> 01:28:25,500
But I will. I never pass up an opportunity. I'm David Floyd. I've been a resident of Dickinson for 30-something years now.

1253
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:31,940
I was on the Building Standards Commission for two or three years. I was chairman for two years.

1254
01:28:31,940 --> 01:28:36,620
years. I think good people need to volunteer for these jobs. I noticed that you lost some

1255
01:28:36,620 --> 01:28:41,560
good people on there. I don't know why, I don't have any idea. I'm in favor of zoning.

1256
01:28:41,820 --> 01:28:47,240
I think it's a good thing. I'm in favor of the Building Standards Commission taking

1257
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:52,660
out these old buildings and getting rid of them and making clean land that can be used

1258
01:28:52,660 --> 01:28:58,180
for something else. And I know the drill with it. I know the laws that go along

1259
01:28:58,180 --> 01:29:03,880
with it. I've been through all the training and I just volunteered my time. Thank you.

1260
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:09,640
All right. Thank you. Next, Denise King. Oh, yes, ma'am.

1261
01:29:12,180 --> 01:29:13,140
Oh, we're still going through.

1262
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:17,380
It's not in any order or anything. It's just I have a random order of people on the page.

1263
01:29:18,440 --> 01:29:24,040
I will get to you. I will get to you. Hello, Mayor, City Manager, City Attorney,

1264
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:31,020
Council. My name is Denise King. I wasn't born here in Texas, but I got here as fast

1265
01:29:31,020 --> 01:29:36,700
as I could as soon as I got out of the military. When I come from in Chicago, they don't tell

1266
01:29:36,700 --> 01:29:42,160
you that there's eight months of summer here. The only time we see y'all is when there's

1267
01:29:42,160 --> 01:29:49,520
a hurricane. So I think I would be good on the Building Standards Committee because

1268
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:57,220
He says, I come from Chicago, I've seen what is considered normal living conditions and what is not.

1269
01:30:02,700 --> 01:30:08,160
All right, thank you very much. Next we have, Jennifer's not here, we have Kevin Lane.

1270
01:30:18,140 --> 01:30:25,200
Good evening. I'm Kevin Lane. I'm a retired Air Force veteran, currently on Air Force civilian working at NASA.

1271
01:30:26,100 --> 01:30:32,380
So I've been living in Dickinson for a couple, going on three years now, and so I'm volunteering my time

1272
01:30:32,380 --> 01:30:38,660
and what basically a little expertise I got in pretty much anything to help the city where I can.

1273
01:30:38,660 --> 01:30:41,020
And so you guys just please see where you want me

1274
01:30:41,020 --> 01:30:42,320
and see what happens.

1275
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:45,600
Okay, thank you.

1276
01:30:46,140 --> 01:30:47,500
And Nifip Rashid Shakur.

1277
01:30:54,540 --> 01:30:55,280
Hello all.

1278
01:30:56,860 --> 01:30:59,580
So these days I'm not working

1279
01:30:59,580 --> 01:31:01,080
because I'm a stay home dad.

1280
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:03,960
So I have a lot of free time.

1281
01:31:04,380 --> 01:31:06,020
I like to give back to the community

1282
01:31:06,020 --> 01:31:08,080
and help people as much as I can.

1283
01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:12,140
I recently did some volunteer work for IRS

1284
01:31:13,020 --> 01:31:20,620
the tax preparation centers. Unfortunately that work was ended April 15th so I was

1285
01:31:20,620 --> 01:31:25,320
looking for some more volunteer work around my house and I come across the

1286
01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:31,640
city of Dickinson website. I saw these board of adjustments, board of zoning

1287
01:31:32,980 --> 01:31:41,020
commission so I applied for these. My background I own a small business, own

1288
01:31:41,020 --> 01:31:45,560
and managed it for about 15, 16 years in Texas City.

1289
01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:48,440
So I have a lot of experience dealing with public.

1290
01:31:50,180 --> 01:31:53,160
And I did some construction work also.

1291
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:58,520
So I thought I would be a good candidate for building

1292
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:01,540
standards or zoning commissions.

1293
01:32:03,220 --> 01:32:03,900
Thank you.

1294
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:05,420
Thank you very much.

1295
01:32:05,940 --> 01:32:07,080
And next, William Brown.

1296
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:13,600
It's good to see you all face to face.

1297
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:18,400
We just saw everybody electronically, so that goes for everybody, except David who showed up anyway.

1298
01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:21,180
Yeah, I don't know about you guys, that camera doesn't do any of the justice.

1299
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:26,520
So I'm William Brown, so I've been lived in Dickinson roughly 10 years.

1300
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:34,080
I've volunteered with youth services like baseball, football for several, many years because I have a couple kids.

1301
01:32:34,820 --> 01:32:40,060
And I want to give back to the community and have an input in that, in the community for them.

1302
01:32:40,060 --> 01:32:42,640
because they are our future, not us.

1303
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:45,320
So I want to put something forward for them.

1304
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:48,400
I have different walks of life.

1305
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,240
I've had four different careers in my span of life.

1306
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:56,440
So I want to be able to put that knowledge to use

1307
01:32:56,440 --> 01:32:59,460
and to be able to use my time to be able to,

1308
01:32:59,460 --> 01:33:00,860
like I said, make something better for them.

1309
01:33:02,340 --> 01:33:03,580
Thank you very much, sir.

1310
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:05,800
And now we have Danielle Smith.

1311
01:33:06,700 --> 01:33:07,020
There you are.

1312
01:33:07,440 --> 01:33:08,840
See, I did not forget you.

1313
01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:10,000
Good

1314
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:20,380
evening Council. My name is Danielle Smith. I've been a resident for Dickinson for five years

1315
01:33:20,940 --> 01:33:27,820
I'm deeply invested in the city's growth and improvement and I feel like I can offer a unique and diverse

1316
01:33:27,820 --> 01:33:33,700
perspective when it comes to the choices and the choices that will go before the committee

1317
01:33:34,480 --> 01:33:35,080
I

1318
01:33:35,700 --> 01:33:41,320
Bear in mind that I will all my decisions that I make and will benefit all residents of Dickinson

1319
01:33:41,320 --> 01:33:45,280
And I have a passion for enhancing our city in any way that I can.

1320
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:46,340
Thank you.

1321
01:33:46,620 --> 01:33:48,080
Thank you very much ma'am.

1322
01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:49,480
And Nick, we have Sarah Simena.

1323
01:33:52,350 --> 01:33:53,050
Good to see you.

1324
01:33:55,090 --> 01:33:57,670
I'm probably one of your newest residents.

1325
01:33:58,010 --> 01:34:02,810
I actually closed escrow on my house at the end of 22.

1326
01:34:03,210 --> 01:34:09,110
So I've been here just over a year and I really am involved.

1327
01:34:09,310 --> 01:34:12,430
I was involved where I previously lived.

1328
01:34:12,430 --> 01:34:16,770
And I have to say, I am in agreement with just about everybody else that's come up here.

1329
01:34:17,250 --> 01:34:23,330
A passion to be part of the improvements, a passion to create an environment that grows

1330
01:34:23,330 --> 01:34:28,410
with the families that move here and make this a place where people not only want to

1331
01:34:28,410 --> 01:34:32,750
come and move, but want to stay and their kids want to come back to and improve and

1332
01:34:32,750 --> 01:34:33,010
build.

1333
01:34:34,330 --> 01:34:38,290
So, yeah, just to volunteer wherever you need me, I'm super happy.

1334
01:34:39,470 --> 01:34:40,110
Thank you.

1335
01:34:40,390 --> 01:34:40,650
Okay.

1336
01:34:40,950 --> 01:34:41,430
Thank you.

1337
01:34:41,430 --> 01:34:44,810
And we also have Stephanie Brown as our last one.

1338
01:34:44,890 --> 01:34:48,110
So if I missed anyone after Stephanie, please speak up.

1339
01:34:50,580 --> 01:34:53,040
Well, I'm prepared because I typed something up,

1340
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:54,780
but I do have a little bit to add.

1341
01:34:55,280 --> 01:34:58,040
My name is Stephanie Brown and I reside on Casa Grande.

1342
01:34:58,340 --> 01:35:00,500
I know I've met with several of you before.

1343
01:35:01,440 --> 01:35:04,340
Tonight I did sign up to serve

1344
01:35:04,340 --> 01:35:05,700
on Planning and Zoting Committee

1345
01:35:05,700 --> 01:35:07,620
and so I'm asking for your consideration

1346
01:35:08,500 --> 01:35:09,820
to be on the committee.

1347
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:11,920
I am a DeGreed Businesswoman

1348
01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:16,840
who can bring personal experience as well as able to use my professional skills when representing

1349
01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:23,020
the city have excellent communication skills which can bring an open dialogue. I have an

1350
01:35:23,020 --> 01:35:27,020
understanding of master plans and their importance when building the community and I'm able to

1351
01:35:27,020 --> 01:35:32,020
look at the difference of opinions and use decision making skills and the best interest

1352
01:35:32,020 --> 01:35:37,160
of the city of Dickinson, its business owners and residents. And I'm like everybody else,

1353
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:44,040
I have a passion, I had a situation on my street, and it's kind of sparked me to want

1354
01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:50,000
to be able to serve in a capacity and try to help bridge together and move the city forward.

1355
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:53,560
I know we have a new adoption that y'all are going to be making that y'all were talking

1356
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:58,440
about the unified co-development, so I'm interested to see how that plays out.

1357
01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:00,920
But I hope you consider me, and I appreciate it.

1358
01:36:01,180 --> 01:36:01,620
All right.

1359
01:36:01,840 --> 01:36:02,760
Thank you very much, ma'am.

1360
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:09,250
And I and I that should be everyone unless I miss someone Jennifer

1361
01:36:12,950 --> 01:36:17,730
Why not okay, I was gonna say you do not look like Jennifer

1362
01:36:17,730 --> 01:36:23,290
I was just texting her because I saw her world walk out. She said she had to go to work

1363
01:36:24,730 --> 01:36:28,210
My name is John O Valley. I'm a resident here in Galston

1364
01:36:29,430 --> 01:36:34,490
I've known judgment for about for about a year and a half, but I know she's been involved in this community

1365
01:36:35,090 --> 01:36:43,490
She grew up here. She's a volunteer firefighter with Dickinson Fire Department and she's also on the citizens on patrol.

1366
01:36:43,870 --> 01:36:51,310
That's where I met her. And she likes to stay involved and she comes out to a lot of functions and she makes fire calls.

1367
01:36:51,790 --> 01:36:58,110
But as I've known her, I've been trying to talk to her to get involved because she's 22, 23 years old.

1368
01:36:58,110 --> 01:37:04,230
She's a young lady and we need to get more young people involved and so she has applied I believe for the

1369
01:37:05,190 --> 01:37:06,590
Building Standards Commission

1370
01:37:07,590 --> 01:37:14,350
But anyway, you know, I think that's all she was gonna say that she really wants to serve and get involved in her community

1371
01:37:14,350 --> 01:37:18,150
Like all the young people in this town should be doing. Thank you

1372
01:37:18,150 --> 01:37:21,890
And I would like to know in her you know to her credit she was here and everything

1373
01:37:21,890 --> 01:37:24,410
You know these can just take a little bit longer some time

1374
01:37:24,410 --> 01:37:31,390
So she she was absolutely here. So I'm really pleased that everybody showed up for this as well. So that is that is awesome

1375
01:37:32,690 --> 01:37:39,050
So like I said, we want to be sure that everybody gets a chance to look over everything and so we're not gonna do anything tonight

1376
01:37:39,970 --> 01:37:41,990
but we will let everybody know and

1377
01:37:41,990 --> 01:37:47,090
It means a lot that y'all took the time to a to apply and then be to be here and speak and and all of that. So

1378
01:37:47,870 --> 01:37:48,590
Anyway, yes

1379
01:37:49,950 --> 01:37:53,410
Well, I would say we could just go past it. We don't have to take any action but

1380
01:37:55,310 --> 01:38:01,630
up to y'all. We don't have to do anything. So, yeah. It will die for lack of a motion.

1381
01:38:02,150 --> 01:38:07,690
So, okay. Now, items 9B through 9D should have been executive session items, so we'll

1382
01:38:07,690 --> 01:38:12,010
do those in executive session, then we'll come out and take any action. So we'll

1383
01:38:12,010 --> 01:38:16,290
go to item 9E, discussion regarding the prohibition of fireworks and possible options

1384
01:38:16,290 --> 01:38:22,090
to revise. Now, there's no action item listed here, even though it's under 9,

1385
01:38:22,090 --> 01:38:24,650
So, this is a discussion item, as I understand.

1386
01:38:25,950 --> 01:38:31,710
Yes, just to kind of preface some of the conversation about the fireworks was, you know,

1387
01:38:31,810 --> 01:38:38,970
Council Member Bill Schick has been, you know, kind of spearheading, kind of working on really trying to understand kind of what other municipalities are doing

1388
01:38:40,670 --> 01:38:46,130
and kind of wanted us to kind of sit down and kind of figure out what's the next steps forward, you know,

1389
01:38:46,630 --> 01:38:52,930
What's the pallet for eliminating the prohibition on fireworks and what would be, if so, what

1390
01:38:52,930 --> 01:38:58,930
would be the steps for us to take to make that happen?

1391
01:38:59,170 --> 01:39:00,710
So Bill, is there anything you want to add?

1392
01:39:00,930 --> 01:39:02,950
I just want to be able to kind of open the invitation.

1393
01:39:03,290 --> 01:39:08,330
We did have a meeting a couple of weeks ago and the committee members, we could

1394
01:39:08,330 --> 01:39:14,710
not find anything that we were breaking any laws that would increase insurance rates

1395
01:39:14,710 --> 01:39:22,370
and it's strictly a community decision and we have several ways to do it. We can

1396
01:39:22,890 --> 01:39:29,650
repeal the the existing ordinance or we could put it in front of the voters in a

1397
01:39:29,650 --> 01:39:34,310
referendum and let them decide how to do it. But we're just trying to get

1398
01:39:34,310 --> 01:39:39,810
community input into this thing as to which way you think it would be best

1399
01:39:39,810 --> 01:39:46,210
to go forward. Now I know as far as a vote I don't think we're allowed to do like a binding

1400
01:39:46,210 --> 01:39:51,530
referendum but I do know in the last charter amendment we did add because I'm the one that

1401
01:39:51,530 --> 01:39:56,250
brought it up but we added a non-binding so we could call a you could hypothetically

1402
01:39:56,250 --> 01:40:05,850
call a non-binding vote at that point. So they did Brexit. But yeah anyway. Mayor.

1403
01:40:07,030 --> 01:40:16,580
out of curiosity how many tickets do we write during the holidays that people

1404
01:40:16,580 --> 01:40:21,040
want to let off fireworks I think we've only I think this past year I think we're

1405
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:25,300
maybe one and it was because the person when was when they were told to stop

1406
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:30,320
lighting fireworks stood right in front of the fire motion went ahead and let

1407
01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:36,320
one right in her face yeah I did that ride along and that was the only one

1408
01:40:36,320 --> 01:40:37,560
that I was aware of that night.

1409
01:40:37,860 --> 01:40:38,920
Most of them were warnings.

1410
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:42,720
If we don't do, we don't really issue

1411
01:40:42,720 --> 01:40:46,300
tickets unless it's that blatant.

1412
01:40:47,140 --> 01:40:51,960
And I believe the judge enforced that to a maximum penalty.

1413
01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:54,020
Councilman Townsend?

1414
01:40:54,260 --> 01:40:57,240
One of the problems is if they're popping them

1415
01:40:57,940 --> 01:41:00,680
and they see headlights, they're

1416
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:03,180
in the house before the headlights get to the driveway.

1417
01:41:03,720 --> 01:41:06,760
There's none left but smoke and there's nobody out there.

1418
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:10,820
My neighborhood sounds like a war zone.

1419
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:15,380
My wife, she don't like it in me, I could care less.

1420
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:17,400
Actually, it in me.

1421
01:41:17,840 --> 01:41:20,940
But the law passed because they were a hazard

1422
01:41:20,940 --> 01:41:21,940
and they burned things down.

1423
01:41:22,460 --> 01:41:24,680
Taught Timbers in 1978 burned down

1424
01:41:24,680 --> 01:41:26,160
because they had a wood roof on it

1425
01:41:26,160 --> 01:41:27,660
and a bottle rocket hit it.

1426
01:41:28,260 --> 01:41:29,560
Burnt that whole building down.

1427
01:41:29,900 --> 01:41:31,560
Fourth of July of 1978.

1428
01:41:32,980 --> 01:41:34,980
That's where your laws come from, of course.

1429
01:41:35,440 --> 01:41:36,760
Which Ingalls are outlawed now?

1430
01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:40,220
But that's what we're talking about.

1431
01:41:40,940 --> 01:41:46,740
And then just to kind of add on one of the biggest changes that makes it really hard

1432
01:41:46,740 --> 01:41:54,980
to enforce as well to go along with Councilmember Townsend's sentiment is that they, you know,

1433
01:41:55,040 --> 01:41:59,180
if you actually go on social media and you go to the different Facebook neighborhood pages,

1434
01:42:00,300 --> 01:42:06,060
there's a real-time tally of where the patrol and fire marshal is at all times,

1435
01:42:06,060 --> 01:42:10,480
depending on which. So if you actually have all the social media pages up of all the neighborhoods

1436
01:42:10,480 --> 01:42:15,180
in Dickinson, I don't even have to know where my officers in Fire Marshal are because they'll

1437
01:42:15,180 --> 01:42:20,540
tell me in a matter of in real time in minutes. So it's one of the big issues is once someone

1438
01:42:20,540 --> 01:42:24,780
enters into that neighborhood, they're posting it. And so everyone hurries up and waits

1439
01:42:24,780 --> 01:42:28,820
till they get the posting that that you know person has left, you know, the patrol.

1440
01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:32,520
So I mean, we're you know, there are some things that sound good in the way the

1441
01:42:32,520 --> 01:42:36,680
ordinance was written, but it's really hard to enforce because of, you know, changes in

1442
01:42:36,680 --> 01:42:42,820
technology with whether it's the shingles changing or on the other hand, you know, the instant

1443
01:42:42,820 --> 01:42:44,780
communication that exists now.

1444
01:42:46,480 --> 01:42:48,100
So oh, go ahead, Councilor.

1445
01:42:48,300 --> 01:42:53,340
It's been a real drain on our police department during these events.

1446
01:42:53,680 --> 01:42:59,540
We we've been very fortunate that we haven't had a major event because all of our officers

1447
01:42:59,540 --> 01:43:07,340
are chasing sound all over Dickinson. It's just practically unenforceable in this situation.

1448
01:43:09,350 --> 01:43:15,850
The only way you're going to stop it is, you gotta got the ticket, he had it coming. I'm sorry.

1449
01:43:16,610 --> 01:43:20,850
But they ask you to put it out and you light it in front of them, you deserve everything you get.

1450
01:43:21,150 --> 01:43:25,050
I'm sorry. If you're that stupid, I'm too bad.

1451
01:43:26,150 --> 01:43:30,330
But some of the sentiment I heard was if you write two or three $2,000 tickets,

1452
01:43:31,630 --> 01:43:35,190
I don't get on Facebook and they'll quit popping.

1453
01:43:35,910 --> 01:43:42,810
You may not stop at all, but if you write a few tickets and you make them pay the price.

1454
01:43:45,720 --> 01:43:56,260
So I guess some of the reasons why I kind of opened the forum up was to kind of understand kind of what does council have, you know, because there are multiple routes to take one would be the non-binding referendum.

1455
01:43:56,260 --> 01:44:02,340
them say for the November ballot. Another would be for us to engage our city attorney

1456
01:44:02,340 --> 01:44:06,360
to put together an ordinance if you would like depending on how y'all want to do it.

1457
01:44:06,420 --> 01:44:10,220
Just want to let you know there are multiple avenues to where to go from here or are you

1458
01:44:10,220 --> 01:44:14,920
happy with the way things are. Obviously that's an option too but we just want to kind of

1459
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:19,100
understand what the pleasure of council is so that when we start engaging our resources

1460
01:44:19,100 --> 01:44:21,100
we know what direction we're trying to drive it in.

1461
01:44:21,900 --> 01:44:40,380
I would I'm somewhat dubious because there are a number of complaints about this that at least my sense and I could be wrong so maybe there would be a vote and I would be proven wrong that there's a large portion of the city population that does not want fireworks legalized within the city limits.

1462
01:44:41,300 --> 01:44:47,020
But even if I didn't have that view, I would still, for me, I would want to see just get

1463
01:44:47,020 --> 01:44:53,160
some like data together about, you know, I know we had that one ticket last year.

1464
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:54,820
How has it been other years?

1465
01:44:55,140 --> 01:44:56,160
What was-

1466
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:04,820
We see that night, like, to collate some kind of data about this, what other cities have

1467
01:45:04,820 --> 01:45:08,860
done, what has happened in these other cities. You know, that would be something I would want

1468
01:45:08,860 --> 01:45:15,420
to see before we were to do anything, even a non-binding reference. That's just me.

1469
01:45:16,080 --> 01:45:22,940
So I do have some call volume that we researched this year and last year. And within about

1470
01:45:22,940 --> 01:45:27,900
a three, three-and-a-half hour period, we had 40 calls within a three-and-a-half

1471
01:45:27,900 --> 01:45:28,440
hour period.

1472
01:45:30,800 --> 01:45:34,300
There was one ticket given out last year and I believe one ticket

1473
01:45:34,300 --> 01:45:39,860
given out the year before. Just out of curiosity so you know because obviously a

1474
01:45:39,860 --> 01:45:44,200
late person here is a number 40 over say three to three and a half hours. What

1475
01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:49,780
does what does 40 mean? Is that a high volume, low volume? So that's a pretty

1476
01:45:49,780 --> 01:45:53,600
high volume. That's the average of 12 to 13 calls an hour.

1477
01:45:55,810 --> 01:45:56,850
So you get 12 to

1478
01:45:56,850 --> 01:46:02,070
13 calls in one hour. You don't have enough people to address those calls.

1479
01:46:02,770 --> 01:46:05,130
I understand. Okay.

1480
01:46:07,430 --> 01:46:10,590
Are there any stats on the number of fires that were caused by the fireworks?

1481
01:46:11,270 --> 01:46:12,510
We do not have those, no.

1482
01:46:14,150 --> 01:46:19,930
I did reach out. I spoke to a councilman from Leek City and I know they are also,

1483
01:46:20,450 --> 01:46:22,730
I don't know how far they are within theirs.

1484
01:46:23,410 --> 01:46:24,250
They are discussing

1485
01:46:25,690 --> 01:46:27,450
doing something with their fireworks as well.

1486
01:46:27,650 --> 01:46:34,190
Did Santa Fe has, their farm marshal brought it up a few years ago?

1487
01:46:34,550 --> 01:46:36,270
I thought it was very recently they brought it up.

1488
01:46:36,510 --> 01:46:43,070
And they shot it down, but I did speak to some other farm marshals around our area and

1489
01:46:43,070 --> 01:46:43,950
they're in agreeance.

1490
01:46:44,030 --> 01:46:47,250
It's just, it's overwhelming and uncontrollable.

1491
01:46:47,570 --> 01:46:47,830
I see.

1492
01:46:48,150 --> 01:46:48,250
Okay.

1493
01:46:48,750 --> 01:46:49,790
So that's kind of what we're good at.

1494
01:46:49,810 --> 01:46:53,550
So from the staff level, at least from where you're sitting, you'd be more in

1495
01:46:53,550 --> 01:46:56,250
favor of repeal in the ordinance than not.

1496
01:46:56,590 --> 01:46:56,950
Yes sir.

1497
01:46:57,030 --> 01:46:58,410
Okay, I don't want to put you on a spot like that,

1498
01:46:58,410 --> 01:47:00,790
but you kind of said it, so I went ahead and did, okay.

1499
01:47:01,870 --> 01:47:03,010
And that would be some of the conversations

1500
01:47:03,010 --> 01:47:03,830
I'd like to be able to have,

1501
01:47:03,910 --> 01:47:05,750
and not necessarily put people on the spot in public either,

1502
01:47:05,770 --> 01:47:07,070
but maybe ask some staff myself,

1503
01:47:07,210 --> 01:47:09,570
like, what do you think about this and all that?

1504
01:47:09,630 --> 01:47:10,950
But I appreciate you saying that though,

1505
01:47:10,970 --> 01:47:11,830
and giving your view.

1506
01:47:14,650 --> 01:47:16,330
So, I mean, as far as where to go,

1507
01:47:16,530 --> 01:47:18,210
I mean, I'd say what I'd like to see,

1508
01:47:18,270 --> 01:47:19,950
but that doesn't mean that's what we have to do,

1509
01:47:20,130 --> 01:47:20,590
but sure.

1510
01:47:22,730 --> 01:47:26,670
If it's a non-binding referendum, I wouldn't do it in November, why waste the money?

1511
01:47:27,970 --> 01:47:35,290
Do it in May when you've got your regular elections, and why spend money on an election that doesn't mean anything?

1512
01:47:36,970 --> 01:47:40,750
Right, it's up to the pleasure of the council to do whatever it wants to do.

1513
01:47:40,750 --> 01:47:44,450
And we would have a lot of time to make that decision anyway, so sure.

1514
01:47:45,090 --> 01:47:52,910
And actually, the Charter provision that allows for that non-binding referendum does require that it be put on the same election as another city election.

1515
01:47:52,930 --> 01:47:55,350
Okay, so it would have to be during the regular, okay.

1516
01:47:55,650 --> 01:47:55,890
Yes, sir.

1517
01:47:56,650 --> 01:47:57,010
November.

1518
01:47:57,470 --> 01:47:59,590
No, it would have to be in May.

1519
01:48:00,950 --> 01:48:02,530
That would be with one of our elections.

1520
01:48:03,390 --> 01:48:05,950
If we'd be too late for May, would we not?

1521
01:48:06,490 --> 01:48:07,630
No, no next May.

1522
01:48:07,710 --> 01:48:08,710
No, it has to be next May.

1523
01:48:08,890 --> 01:48:09,890
Oh, we were definitely too late for May.

1524
01:48:10,430 --> 01:48:10,990
I was like, we're definitely too late for May.

1525
01:48:10,990 --> 01:48:13,830
You have to do it when you have a regular city election.

1526
01:48:13,870 --> 01:48:14,830
So it would have to be in May.

1527
01:48:15,390 --> 01:48:15,490
Next.

1528
01:48:16,150 --> 01:48:16,510
2025.

1529
01:48:17,090 --> 01:48:17,550
May after.

1530
01:48:19,890 --> 01:48:20,250
Definitely.

1531
01:48:20,530 --> 01:48:24,110
Maybe I'd say there's really not much to do with this exact moment given that timeline.

1532
01:48:25,010 --> 01:48:27,510
If I understood right, League City is discussing it tonight.

1533
01:48:28,510 --> 01:48:29,290
Yeah, that's what you said.

1534
01:48:29,450 --> 01:48:29,570
I'm not sure.

1535
01:48:29,950 --> 01:48:30,250
I don't know.

1536
01:48:32,050 --> 01:48:33,710
I didn't want to give false information.

1537
01:48:34,150 --> 01:48:39,810
I just spoke to a councilman in passing a couple of weeks ago and I told him that we were discussing it.

1538
01:48:39,810 --> 01:48:40,870
and he said they were as well.

1539
01:48:41,030 --> 01:48:43,090
I mean, we could pull an agenda and see what they're doing.

1540
01:48:43,770 --> 01:48:45,150
Is there anything else on this for the moment?

1541
01:48:45,390 --> 01:48:47,710
Like I said, I feel like we've got lots of time to.

1542
01:48:48,290 --> 01:48:49,390
And we'll do some homework.

1543
01:48:49,690 --> 01:48:52,250
We have some things we'll collate and get back to you guys.

1544
01:48:52,710 --> 01:48:52,890
OK.

1545
01:48:53,890 --> 01:48:54,230
All right.

1546
01:48:54,670 --> 01:48:58,450
With that, we'll move on to item 11, executive session.

1547
01:48:59,150 --> 01:49:02,650
Item 11A, consultation with attorney, section 551.071,

1548
01:49:02,790 --> 01:49:03,610
Texas government code.

1549
01:49:04,070 --> 01:49:05,830
Discussion with attorney regarding contemplated

1550
01:49:05,830 --> 01:49:07,670
slash pending litigation and regarding matters

1551
01:49:07,670 --> 01:49:13,090
protected by Attorney Client Privilege, we will adjourn into Executive Session at 7.49 p.m.

1552
01:49:18,390 --> 01:49:22,650
We will reconvene from Executive Session at 9.30 p.m.

1553
01:49:22,750 --> 01:49:29,830
And we'll move on to, so what we're going to do, Item 12A, are we just going to do the nine NEMs,

1554
01:49:29,890 --> 01:49:30,350
do you hear me right?

1555
01:49:31,330 --> 01:49:33,530
Yes, sir, go back to nine B, C, D.

1556
01:49:33,530 --> 01:49:37,570
So we don't have anything actually under 12A, it's all going to be nine B, C, D, D.

1557
01:49:37,590 --> 01:49:37,610
That's correct, yes sir.

1558
01:49:37,610 --> 01:49:39,810
Okay, so we'll move on to item 9B.

1559
01:49:40,310 --> 01:49:41,510
Consideration and possible action

1560
01:49:41,510 --> 01:49:43,170
to approve a professional services agreement

1561
01:49:43,170 --> 01:49:44,430
with Spencer and Fein LLP

1562
01:49:44,430 --> 01:49:45,710
to represent the city of Dickinson.

1563
01:49:46,090 --> 01:49:48,010
I move to approve the agreement

1564
01:49:48,010 --> 01:49:50,330
to engage Spencer Fein LLP

1565
01:49:50,330 --> 01:49:51,890
to represent the city of Dickinson

1566
01:49:51,890 --> 01:49:54,010
and litigation as recommended by the city attorney.

1567
01:49:55,570 --> 01:49:57,650
There's a motion by Councilman Simpson.

1568
01:49:57,870 --> 01:49:58,230
Is there a second?

1569
01:49:59,950 --> 01:50:01,610
All right, second by Councilwoman Simpson.

1570
01:50:02,030 --> 01:50:02,650
Any discussion?

1571
01:50:04,330 --> 01:50:05,590
Hearing none, we'll take this to vote.

1572
01:50:05,670 --> 01:50:06,890
All those in favor say aye.

1573
01:50:08,170 --> 01:50:12,370
opposed motion carries item 9c consideration and possible action to

1574
01:50:12,370 --> 01:50:16,290
approve a professional services agreement with Lewis first post this guard and

1575
01:50:16,290 --> 01:50:22,210
Smith LLP to represent the city of Dickinson the agreement to engage Lewis

1576
01:50:22,210 --> 01:50:26,570
Briss boys biz guard and Smith LLP to represent the city of Dickinson and

1577
01:50:26,570 --> 01:50:31,530
litigation as recommended by the city attorney motion made by councilman

1578
01:50:31,530 --> 01:50:35,510
Simpson is our second second second by councilman Linton any discussion

1579
01:50:35,510 --> 01:50:41,330
motion hearing none. We'll take this to a vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed.

1580
01:50:41,990 --> 01:50:46,330
Motion carries. Item 90 consideration and possible action to declare the memorandum

1581
01:50:46,330 --> 01:50:50,890
of understanding between the city of Dickinson and Creekside 2019 LLC terminated effective

1582
01:50:51,510 --> 01:50:57,410
May 4th, 2024. I move to declare the memorandum of understanding between the city of Dickinson

1583
01:50:57,410 --> 01:51:03,610
and Creekside 2019 LLC terminated effective May 24th.

1584
01:51:03,610 --> 01:51:08,630
Alright, so the motion is to make the termination effective May 24th and not May 4th is listed

1585
01:51:08,630 --> 01:51:10,590
in the agenda May 24th.

1586
01:51:10,590 --> 01:51:11,250
Is there a second?

1587
01:51:15,310 --> 01:51:15,790
Okay.

1588
01:51:16,090 --> 01:51:18,690
There's a second by Councilman Brantley.

1589
01:51:18,770 --> 01:51:19,790
Any discussion here?

1590
01:51:21,430 --> 01:51:22,110
Very not.

1591
01:51:22,250 --> 01:51:22,870
I take this to a vote.

1592
01:51:23,030 --> 01:51:24,190
All those in favor say aye.

1593
01:51:24,570 --> 01:51:25,050
Aye.

1594
01:51:25,690 --> 01:51:26,010
Opposed?

1595
01:51:26,850 --> 01:51:27,810
Motion carries.

1596
01:51:28,210 --> 01:51:30,690
That'll move us to item 13, adjournments.

1597
01:51:30,710 --> 01:51:31,110
Oh, move.

1598
01:51:31,830 --> 01:51:32,310
Second.

1599
01:51:32,570 --> 01:51:35,070
Most adjourned by Councilman Townsend, second by Councilman Simpson.

1600
01:51:35,310 --> 01:51:36,430
All those in favor say aye.

1601
01:51:38,470 --> 01:51:39,350
Motion carries.

1602
01:51:39,690 --> 01:51:41,150
We are adjourned at 9.33 p.m.