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Next, on ECN, a regulatory scheduled meeting of the Edward City Council. On the council, Mayor

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Lamido Vazza Jr., council member Daniel Dan Diaz, council member Jason Velloni, council

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member Johnny Garcia, and mayor pro-temp David White. Sitting in as advisor, city manager

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Myra El Ayala and City Attorney Omar Ochoa and now live from Edinburgh City Hall

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the Edinburgh City Council.

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Edinburgh

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City Council it is 6 o'clock by my watch July 31 on Monday welcome to

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this evening's regular City Council meeting. I do see visibly that we have a

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quorum we're gonna go ahead and get started first today with our prayer. We have

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Rabbi Asher Hack if you can please step forward for today's prayer. Everybody

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please stand, please.

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Good evening. Friends, let us join together in prayer. Almighty God, we have

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assembled here today for the purpose of communal service on behalf of the residents of our beautiful

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city. And what makes this city even more beautiful is the very fact that its monthly meetings begin with

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you God in mind through this prayer. Bless our work here today. Bless the work of

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the Honorable Mayor, City Counselors, City Manager, City Officials, and all their

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staff along with all of our fellow citizens. Bless us that our efforts be our

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fruit, good fruit, that our thoughtful, honest and respectful dialogue lead to

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constructive results. Please guide our hand as we make important decisions for our community.

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In our civic service, we fulfill the mandate that you have bestowed upon us,

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instructed to Noah and his day, and conveyed through Moses at Mount Sinai, and reinspired by the

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Lebabah Chereba, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the seven universal ethics of Noah.

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1. To worship you and you alone, 2. Never to curse your holy name, 3. Not to commit murder,

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4. Not to commit adultery, incest, or any sexual misdeed, 6. Not to steal, lie, or cheat,

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7. Not to be cruel to any living creature.

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All to make your garden our world, which you have given us to inhabit a safe moral and constructive

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place, a beautiful place, one filled with goodness and kindness that expresses the beauty of the

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divine intent. Almighty God in the merit of our sincere efforts bless us all with good health,

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success in all of our endeavors and positive results from our work. Bless our wonderful city

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and communities so that it continues to prosper and grow to be a model city within our great state

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in our beloved country. Almighty God bless us with clarity, bless us with strength.

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and bless us with peace and redemption, and let us say amen.

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Thank you. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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All right, thank you. We're going to move on to item two certification of public notice. Yes, sir mayor. The meeting was posted in accordance with the Texas Public Meeting Act on July 20th.

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2823 at 4.45 p.m. sir.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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And item three is disclosure of conflict of interest?

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Yes, sir mayor, under state law,

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a conflict of interest exists if a council member

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or certain members of that person's family

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has a qualifying financial interest in an agenda item.

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If there is a conflict,

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the council member can't participate or vote on the item.

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Are there any conflicts of disclose?

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No, sir.

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Thank you.

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All right, thank you.

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We're going to move on to item four, city managers report.

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Yes, ma'am, I wanted to present an update

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to Mayor and Council in the public regarding the city audit as well as the budget update.

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At this time, the city and EDC's audit information has been provided to the auditors.

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The auditors have been provided all the supporting documentation for EDC in May.

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However, the audit is still ongoing and should be completed within the next few weeks.

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Auditors estimate the completion of the EDC audit to end in August.

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The auditors were also provided the supporting documentation for the city's audit at the end of June.

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However, the audit is still ongoing process, and the city's fixed assets information is still pending submission.

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But at this point, that information does not delay the auditors from continuing their work on the city's audit.

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Staff continuously provides any additional notes and information to the auditors during this process.

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And in addition to the daily conference calls and the meetings with the auditors on a weekly basis to discuss the process and

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the progress of the audit. Auditors estimate the date of completion to be September.

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Are there any questions at this time on the audit?

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What date is September, will they be?

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Probably towards the end.

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We're also communicating with them to see if they can expedite that date, so

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we're working with them on that information.

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Anybody else come up with any questions?

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Okay, on the budget, the budget process is still underway.

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way. As you know, we did hold two work sessions to discuss the city's goals, objectives as

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far and also their performance indicators for the different departments. And as you all

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know in July, early July, we did hire our director of finance, Mr. Essence-Hoonalonso, which has

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provided an updated budget calendar that I have sent to the mayor and council for your review

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and comments. So the budget is still underway. We're still working towards having another

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work session August the 29th. That's a tentative scheduled budget work session date.

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Of course, the city secretary will coordinate with the council, make sure everyone is available

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at that time. At the time of that work session, we'll discuss the city manager's proposed

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those detailed budget, a five-year capital improvement program, and we have received input.

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And the submission of outside agencies funding requests.

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So city management and staff are currently reviewing that information to see what the funding allocations will be for those outside agencies.

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And then finance is still reviewing the preliminary certified tax numbers that have been issued

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issued by the Hedago County appraisal district.

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They were just issued this Friday, so the Director of Finance, Mr. Alonso, is still currently

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reviewing those numbers to provide council that data and information.

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Does anyone have a question at this time regarding the budget?

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Anybody have any questions from council?

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I just have a couple, Ms. Ayala, so August 29th, it's getting real close September.

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Well, we have to approve our budget, so could we expedite that and have it on our regular

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meeting, let's say the 15th. That's where we meet today and then of course in two weeks

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because our next meeting September after the 15th is September 5th and then we have

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the 19th. We have to adopt our budget September so we just want enough time to get all the information

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and review everything that's been provided. I don't know Council will be all having a

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feedback but what happens is otherwise they're going to have to schedule special meetings

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and I'd like to avoid that if we can.

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Okay, so I spoke to the Director of Finance.

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We'll go ahead and work on that requested date.

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But I'll go ahead and discuss with Director of Finance

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and then contact the council,

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let them know and confirm that we will be having a budget work.

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On bad date. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Anything else? No. At this time, I do not have any other comments. Okay. We're going to move on to proclamations. We have on item A. I know we have a lot of people here for this item. So we should have probably had this item first. So I apologize. But I'm going to bring up now our director of parks and recreation. We're going to recognize this evening, the City of Edinburgh Parks and Rec Department, literally softball and baseball champions for the 2023 spring season.

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for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, 14, age divisions.

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Yes, sir.

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Good evening.

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Have you guys the Director of Parks?

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I want to thank our City Council and our Mayor and our City Management as well.

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For all the support you give our programs so successful and without your help, it wouldn't be possible.

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I also want to thank our parents for trusting us with their children and with our programs.

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Without them, of course, it wouldn't be possible to have such a great baseball, softball leagues.

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Also, my staff, Eric Molina, Director of Parks, also present is Ronnie Rodriguez, our sports manager, and also our supervisors, Sonny Rodriguez, and Polly Vada, the tremendous job out there to help us get this lead going.

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With that being said, I'd like to bring up Ronnie Rodriguez to announce the kids and their coaches as well. Ronnie.

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So, what

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do you mean mayor, City Council, Ronnie Rodriguez, recreation manager, partial recreation department, tonight I have the honor, and the privilege to be able to announce our champions for this year, the 2023 little league baseball and softball this year was a great year, we had over 112 teams participate, so they're very excited.

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Thank you to the parents, like Mr. Garza said, thank you to the parents, we were having 18 to 20 games per night going on Monday through Thursday.

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So as a department, we're very excited.

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Without further ado, we're going to start with the Lady Bacchero's T-Bot team, coached by Leo Trevino.

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First up, Avery Trevino.

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Emma Montenegro.

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Sofia Elisondo.

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Melanie Castillo.

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Sofia Castillo.

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Joslyn Perez.

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Hazo Montalvo.

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Avery De Leon.

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Me Kayla Montalvo.

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Tennessee Martinez.

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Sofia Abrego.

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and Arya Fuentes. Again, this is our Lady Vakeros T-Ball Champions for the five and six-year-old division.

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Let's give a round of applause.

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Mayor and City Council, please take a picture.

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Thank you.

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Congratulations, Lady Vakeros.

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And now our five and six-year-old boys division in baseball, the Yankees T-Manager, Joe Michael Granados.

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The players consist of Jacobi Granados and Jeremiah De Los Santos.

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Josiah De Los Santos, Mateo Martinez, Omar Rodríguez, Danny Torres, Tristan Trevino,

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René Verdusco, Lucas Verdusco, Andrew Rubio, Elijah Salce, Noah Garza, and Liam

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Pimentel. Congratulations Yankee's five and six-year-old champions, T-Bot Division.

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Next up is our coach pitch division, the 78-year-old division. For our softball champions this year were the lady ratlers. Team manager was Rick Ramirez. The players consist of Daniela Cáceres, Julia Ware, Alessandra Ynojosa,

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Adriana Lianos Sabrina Ledesma, Olivia Reyes, Emily Nkastro, Ella Mills, Madison Gonzales,

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Mila Rodriguez, Jordan Philoteo, and Ella Vega. Congratulations, Lady Rattlers, 78-year-old

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division coach pitch champions.

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Congratulations, Lady Rattlers.

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And now our champions in the 78-year-old

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division, the Astros coach by Kevin Acosta, Noah de Martino, Julie in

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Iglesias, William Angulo, Ezra Rodriguez, Mark Islas, Kevin Acosta, Adán

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Hernández, David Davila, Esteban Salinas, Javier Barera, Marcos

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Ravera, Ramirez, and Abram Reese. Unfortunately, the Astros could not make it

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today, but we still want to make sure we acknowledge them, 78-year-old

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division league champions.

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And now in the nine and ten-year-old, Lady

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Cougars, also who were not able to attend, Emma Beltran,

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Kaley Ramirez, Laura Zuniga, Emma Cantu, the Laney Rivera,

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Eileen Piherina, Amelia Cortinas, Isabella Cantu,

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Alexandra Morales, Zahero MacArthur, Athena Navarro,

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and Leon Salis.

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Again, these were the Laney Cougars,

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9 and 10-year-old Minor League Division Champions.

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Next up, the 9 and 10-year-old Minor League Division

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Adrian Champions are the Astros coach by Alberto Vasquez.

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The players consist of Matthew Vasquez, Adrian Garza, Ari Hernandez, Santiago Corona, Ascension

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Gonzales, Eastern Badillo, Diego Padron, Marco Vargas, Nicholas de la Vigna, Adrian Inohosa,

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Jaylen Rua Calva, and Gilbert Trevino.

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Again, congratulations to the Astros, 1910 Minor League Division Champions.

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Congratulations,

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Astros, 1910-year-old division.

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And now, in our 11-12 major division, the Lady Islanders, Champions of the Software

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Division.

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Coach Gloria Rocha, the players consist of Katherine Lee Estrada, Jalen De La Rosa, Julie,

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Juler Aguirre, Giana Olivares, Jocelyn Chavez, Jazeal Carrillo, Verónica Herrera, Mackenzie

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Canales, Trista Herrera, Kaleen Briones and Kimberley Morelos.

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Again, Lady Islanders, Major Division Champions.

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Congratulations, ladies, islanders. 11 and 12 reds consist of Julio Castro, Alexander Castro,

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Andrews Castro, Alejandro Cantu, Katie Deden, Vincent Rodriguez, Sergio Lopez, Max Levia,

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Riley Orozco, Zachary Solis, Ethan Fuentes, Jose Camacho, and Santiago Morales. Unfortunately,

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they could not be here tonight. We would like to recognize the reds in the major division

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in 11 and 12-year-old champions this year.

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In the 13th and 14-year division, coach by Arturo Martinez,

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we have the Lady J. Hawks as this year's champions.

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The players consist of Angela Vecera, Nicole Luna,

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Max Wilkinson, Alexis Rocha, Ariana Alviso,

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Josel Hernandez, Scarlett Diaz, Andromeda Reyes,

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Vivian Guerra, Kaelin Lerma, Bailey Cardona,

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and Victoria Martinez.

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Congratulations, Lady J. Hawkes.

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Congratulations, Lady J. Hawkes, 13 and 14-year-old division.

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In the district tournament, they ended up

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with second place in the valley.

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Congratulations, Lady J. Hawkes.

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And now for our 13, 14-year-old division champions

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in the junior division, the Padres.

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Coach by Mr. Gonzalez and Alberto Ponce,

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the team consist of Caleb Gonzalez, Joseph Almeida,

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Pablo Lopez, Evan de la Garza, Jaden Garcia, Damian Arevalo, Aaron Ponce, David Salazar,

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Lee Garnet, Alejandro Martinez, Chris Rodriguez, and Anthony Plena. Congratulations, boys.

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13 and 14-year-old champions.

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Congratulations to the Padres. They also represented the City of

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Enberg in the All Stars, 13 new division, and they were second place in district. Congratulations.

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questions.

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Mayor City Council, thank you for all the support you do at the Parks and Recreation.

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I also want to acknowledge our coaches. This year, with the 112 teams, I'm happy to say that we had 100%

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volunteer coaches. Some of them are city councilmen, some of them you see work for the city.

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They're out here, they're doing what they can to support our programs, and we want to thank you for that.

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Have a good evening and God bless.

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Thank you, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Ronnie.

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Sure.

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That's an all-parks and wrecks that.

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Thank you for all you all do.

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I know there's a lot of kids that sign up every year, so thank you for all the work you'll

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And all the volunteers.

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A lot of people don't realize all these coaches are all volunteering.

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So thank you, everybody, for making it a success was it is this year.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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We're going to move on to item B. This is a proclamation recognizing City of Edinburgh

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Robert retiree Estilita Rodriguez, a human resource generalist, human resource department

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for 44 years of service.

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That deserves a hand.

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Thank you.

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Come on out.

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And she's here this evening to join us and it's a little bit shy.

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I saw her sitting over there towards the back and it seems like she wants to leave.

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Don't let her leave.

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We're about to recognize her.

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I'm going to read the proclamation for the record Salitaro de Regas,

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Human Resource Journalist, Human Resource Department.

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Whereas on October 16, 1978,

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Salitaro de Regas was hired as clerk one by the City of Edinburgh Community Development Housing Department.

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In on October 1, 1980, she was promoted to Secretary One and

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Very second, 1981, Mr. Oedegas was reclassified as secretary. And whereas on April 9, 1984, Mr. Oedegas was promoted assigned to the housing assistance, supportive services, operation division. And on November 5, 1984, Mr. Oedegas was promoted to senior secretary. And whereas on October 1, 1985, Mr. Oedegas transferred to the utilities department as senior secretary. Whereas on December 3, 1987, Mr. Oedegas

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He is transferred to the personnel department at Senior Secretary, on October 2nd, 1989,

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Mr. Oeddeus was promoted from Senior Secretary to Personnel Assistant, and on October 2nd, 1992,

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Mr. Oeddeus was promoted from Personnel Assistant to Personnel Coordinator.

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On October 2nd, 2009, she was reclassified a Human Resources Coordinator.

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And on October 27th, 2014, Mr. Oeddeus was reclassified a Human Resources Generalist, and

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And on October 5th, 2020, due to reclassification and restructuring,

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Mr. Rodriguez title change, to Human Resource Journalist 2.

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And whereas during her use of service, Mr. Rodriguez received many, many certificates of attending completing numerous trainings.

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The certificates of training included the SJA Independent School District,

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Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, Customer Service Techniques, City of Edinburgh Customer Service,

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Texas, Texas Municipal Retirement System,

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NTC Drug Testing, and City of Edinburgh,

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Stormwater Prevention Training, certificates of completion,

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with the Warm Springs Rehabilitation,

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Key Productivity Center, Texas Attorney General,

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Texas Chapter Public Risk Managers Association,

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Rockhurst University Continuing Education Center,

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FMLA National Seminar Training,

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South Texas College,

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and the International City Manager Association.

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Certificates appreciation for the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and Texas Workforce Commission.

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Certificate accomplishment from Cook Data Solution, Certificate of Participation of the Texas Library,

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Certificates of Attendance, Text Municipal League, Intergovernmental Risk Pool, and Pride Prior Seminar,

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and Certificate of Participation of World Class Training Resources.

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And we're asked Mr. Oeddy is received the following certificates, Texas Notary Public

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Association, Certified Public Notary, Names 100, and FEMA, U.S. Department of Homeland

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Security.

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And we're asked Mr. Oeddy is received letters of commendation on June 18, 1981, May 21,

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1990, April 6, 1992, June 2, 1992, and January 15, 1993.

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and appreciation letter on May 20, 1991, and employee of the month award in July 1996 in January of 2000.

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And we're asked Mr. Oeddy is an active member of the Edinburgh Crime Stoppers and an active member of the Holy Family Catholic Church.

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And we're asked on June 30, 2023 after 44 years of service as the Oeddy is retired from the City of Edinburgh.

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Now, therefore, I, Ramido Garza Jr., Mayor of the City of Edinburgh, Texas, by the power

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of SME by law.

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Do you hear by recognize, as the leader of the years, Human Resource Journalist 2, Human

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Resource Department, for her years of loyalty and dedicated service to the City of Edinburgh.

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The Edinburgh City Council would like to express our sincere gratitude and wish you as the

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leader a happy retirement.

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Congratulations.

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You are on the history books, officially the longest serving city employee for the city of Edinburgh. Congratulations.

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I thought Peter was a bit of an MP.

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Well, you're welcome to say any, I know you don't like these recognitions.

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Estellita, but I think it's more than deserving for us to take this time to recognize your years of service to our city.

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and we sincerely appreciate, you know, your loyalty, your dedication to our city and all

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the mentoring you did to a lot of employees, including myself, when I started working for

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the city, so.

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I know I call you different names, but I know you do.

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I was going to say, Mayor, there was a little griping in there too, but was he a boss at

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some time?

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Was he your boss at one point?

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No.

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Well, yes and no, but it's just that I call them different names instead of where I'm going to go there.

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I remember, yeah. I was here for you retirement luncheon.

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I think he already went through it already, though.

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Well, thank you for all the long list that only helped me not to mention it myself.

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but just working for the city for this.

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I did gain a lot of experience, a lot of tasks, and with that in mind, it helped me with the employees that, you know, came in, you know, with the city to help us. But I did work with different department directors, as you mentioned, with a listing of all the ones that I went through. But I learned from them also. With that in mind, all the employees that I helped with,

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Of course, they were all different and a lot of them did stay as my friends and after all those years, I did take a lot of memories with me and, of course, I felt coming here to work for the city for this long, that it was like my second home, my second family and then, of course, with HR it's a little bit different.

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So, that's where I gained more experience and I gained more employees' friendship because

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we were there like to assist employees on a first-come-for-faces per se.

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But, yes, it's going to be hard for me because I was used to coming in and out for these years

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But taking a lot of memories with me, experience and knowledge that I'd be able to say that it's something that I gained from.

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But I will miss it, and it is going to be hard, and it is hard.

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But I thank everybody that was patient with me for these years.

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and thank you and bless you all for still staying with the city as long as I

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did but I was very grateful and I thank God for being with me for all this time

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that I stayed with you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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You know at your

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remarks to reflect who you are as a person and I think for the city what our

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city staff and body and just for everybody for the record the name she would call me was another name

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It was Robert so well she's to call me Robert for whatever reason and and I would always I never corrected her

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I would say I would answer to Robert

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Because I didn't want to you know give her a hard time and so

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She's the first person I met when I got hired at the city because she was the one at HR

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You have to go through and you know and but she always made you feel home

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You know, she always made you feel like everything's gonna be okay, you know, you're and she made all the employees feel that way some of them that are here

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You know, thank you on behalf myself and a lot of employees because you really did you know have an impact on them

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And just your remarks right now show, you know how

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Special you work to the city and we just want to let you know that we appreciate you know all your years of service and

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You know you are retiring, but you can always come back and volunteer or you know do whatever you like because

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You know everybody here and everybody knows you but thank you so much on behalf of myself

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And I'm sure the council and you know your service and yours that you spent here did not go notice and we really appreciate it

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I hang in there.

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Thank you.

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Well, congratulations.

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We're going to go down there and take pictures with you.

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All right.

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So we're going to move on to also with HR, we have an employee, the month, also award recipients for the month of April and May of 2023.

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a month of April Miss Adele Fuentes, she's a communications operator with the police department and she's been with us since July of 2021.

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I'll let Chief Ayala tell us a little bit about her.

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Good evening Mayor and Councilor Aymeala, police chief. I just want to share what a fabulous employee Miss Fuentes has been.

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In May, you know, we had a lot of disturbance with rain and thunder and a lot of damage.

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and she recognized that communications would be under pressure and she

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reached out to her supervisor and said, do you need help? Can I come in? And

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obviously we needed help and she came in and gave of her time because she knew

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they were going to be under pressure. They were limited with resources and in the

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field our officers were being pushed to the max to deal with all of the of the

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weather related events we had. So we really appreciate her service to the

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community and and watching out for the officer she is the calm voice on the

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other side of the radio as a as a first responder for the police department.

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Congratulations.

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Well thank you for your service and thank you for going

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above and beyond for our city of Edinburgh and to the residents in our community.

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We really appreciate it. Thank you. Can you say a few words because I think they

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want to match a face to that the work the voice on the other side of the phone.

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Of course, I've been working for PD for two years now, and well, I'm here because of my supervisors, especially Adiaz, and he's a manager, and he has a huge heart, and he's always taught us to take each call one time at a time.

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One, I'm nervous, I'm sorry.

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One call at a time.

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And there you go.

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And that's what we do, you know, and we try our best to give it our best.

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And that's it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for all the work you have done.

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going to go down there.

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Today is Ms. Vanessa Castillo. She's a human resource, one with the Human Resources Department. I will say for transparency reasons. We did not vote, HRG, and I participated in the vote of this selection, and she was selected by the Engagement Committee. Ms. Vanessa is a role model when it comes to excellent customer service, her critical thinking skills and positive attitude, leader to excel when presented with opportunities and challenges. Ms.

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the necessary creativity and persistence to produce maximum results is to be admired.

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When coordinating events for city employees she works very hard, creates a vision and takes

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the task to an extraordinary level. As you all can see by some of the events you've attended here

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for our employees. She's strategically plans events to maximize engagement with one goal to create

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positive work culture for all. And so I'd like to bring Ms. Minnesota.

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Well first of all I want to

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thank my department, my director, our managers, our assistant director. They're amazing women,

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not just in the work staff but as well as the mothers, they really motivated me to

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to do better and to acknowledge the training, the guidance works always fun but they always hold

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you accountable to make sure you're at your top percent. There's never a dumb

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moment in HR and I love it. It keeps you on your toes. I love what I do. I love

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being a public servant, not just to the community but to our fellow employees as

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well. And I'm really nervous.

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So yeah, so thank you so much. It's humbling.

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Thank you and thank you for your service and congratulations and we

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appreciate all that you do and going above and beyond and as Linda said they

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didn't even vote on it so that means it says a lot that all the other

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departments did so that are part of the committee. Congratulations again and

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and you know keep on doing the great job you'll do.

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Madam don't be nervous this is just an unrecorded for history for the history books

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for a hundred years.

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Our shaky voice.

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Move

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on to presentations.

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Item A is presentation by the Public Works Department regarding our

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street paving report.

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Good evening mayor council, a mental public

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works director. I just want to thank you for the opportunity to present the paving report

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for public works. The report covers in house paving performed by city crews under the capital

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improvement paving program. I'm trying not to spend all day talking about paving because I love

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paving. We'll hit the highlights and at the end of the presentation I'll be happy to answer any

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questions.

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I thought I was going to be able to read my notes here so forgive me but it's

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different setup. Street improvements to date include 41.5 lane miles. This

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equates to 52 streets we paved at 32 lane miles of paving. 20 streets were

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seal-coded at 9.5-lane miles.

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And a total of 72 streets at 41.5 lane miles were completed in total. We also did two city parking lots in 12 speed homes.

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Street improvements are identified using a combination of the C click fix work order system, in house requests, and then they're prioritized using a PCI street assessment.

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The PCI is a street assessment used to determine the types of distresses and severity such as rambling, longitudinal cracking,

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Packing, traverse alligator cracking, patching, and potholes.

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Once the street is assessed, it's assigned to score which is used to prioritize it on

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the paving list.

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The following list consists of street improvements that have been completed under the paving program.

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The list consists of streets and subdivisions such as stone crest subdivision, Wisconsin road,

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Mon Mac road, and South Doe little road.

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So,

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summary field subdivision off-ready and lemon tree also off of Dawson.

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The following is a street preservation list, the list of streets that have been completed

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under the preservation will also work, I'm sorry, this is also red but still part of the

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paving list.

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Red but is the one that we're actually currently working on since to date, it's been updated

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a little bit so we actually are only pending red but walnut was just recently completed.

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streets in the following subdivision have received preservation, which is a seal coat,

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spray metal, castle heels, via a legbrae, west subdivision, as well as heritage oaks in

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theater when a subdivision.

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City Hall and the Ebony Golf Course also parking lot were also preserved.

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This is an example of some of the quality of the work that the city crews performed.

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the streets are prepped by making any necessary repairs of the street before the paving or preservation

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improvements are made. This here's a mill overlay on McIntyre. You can see the before and the after.

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This is lemon tree court. This was repaved, complete repave. If you notice on the left,

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the before all the asphalt was completely removed due to the severity of the condition of asphalt

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and the base was reworked before we paved.

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The next one is counting road.

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This was an overlay from Role, Angoria, going east.

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I'm sorry, from frontage, going east to Role, Angoria.

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On this one, the note of interest is that this was

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a two-lane road because of the existing width

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of the road we were able to reconfigure with

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through striping and create a four-lane road

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improving east to westbound traffic.

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The next one is Riverban, Heritage, Jokes,

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and via Legra, these were presentations, these were all completed as well under this CIP program.

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This is Shiver in 17 and a half. This is a full-duck reclamation, meaning that the base was

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bad as well as the payment. We did this actually through a demo. The city crews did the work,

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but we had a demo equipment and it's a full-duck reclamation, complete reconstruction.

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This is something that we hope to be able to do in the future in a lot of the intersections.

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These are the pending streets that we have under the CIP program. Redwood is

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00:49:08,090 --> 00:49:12,430
actually complete in Baywood and Walnut are complete. They just finish those in

431
00:49:12,430 --> 00:49:16,890
the last few days. Redwood is still pending. After Redwood we'll be going to

432
00:49:16,890 --> 00:49:22,870
Seminary Road and I actually spray road and then Seminary Road last. Once we've

433
00:49:22,870 --> 00:49:27,510
finished these streets we'll have exhausted the CIP funding under the current

434
00:49:27,510 --> 00:49:33,070
budget. We do have our five-year list that we're submitting for your approval to request

435
00:49:33,070 --> 00:49:38,650
a future funding also to continue paving in house. At this point if you have any questions

436
00:49:39,470 --> 00:49:45,010
I'll be happy to. Anybody on council have any questions at this time regarding the presentation

437
00:49:45,010 --> 00:49:49,590
on street paving? I want to know why you like paving vents.

438
00:49:50,050 --> 00:49:55,490
I you know it's it's the accumulation of everything that we prep for so when we're paving

439
00:49:55,490 --> 00:49:57,370
And the guy said, yeah, we're paving today.

440
00:49:57,590 --> 00:49:59,970
It's like, it's like, finally it up.

441
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:29,400
It came together. But, yeah, paving is, it's our high point. It's when we finally get something completed that. Right. And I say that for chuckles, but it's, there's a big difference between paving and covering potholes, right? Big, big, big difference. And just for the record, I want that stated. It's a big deal to do overlays. These overlays are good for how long? The overlays basically are good for at least 15 years. The preservation will add at least seven years. The preservation is just to extend it.

442
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:36,240
And as long as we keep doing regular maintenance like preservation, we can keep extending that life of that road indefinitely.

443
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:44,340
Yeah, because when we run into residents, a lot of people say, hey, we have issues and a quick fix is the, you know, fix the potholes, right?

444
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,320
But the first good rain, and though that those potholes are evident again.

445
00:50:48,340 --> 00:50:50,760
So overlaying and paving is very important.

446
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,220
I want to thank you for all the work you guys have done.

447
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:58,460
On average every year, how many streets get overlaid in your experience?

448
00:50:58,460 --> 00:51:04,420
I did we do more than normal or double triple or along the same pace.

449
00:51:04,780 --> 00:51:09,960
We've been doing more than normal because of the bond, the CIP funding, but a lot of that

450
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:13,800
just depends on the funding, but what we've been establishing benchmark since I've been

451
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:19,840
here as far as what we can do, and what we can do is roughly, and I left more of the notes

452
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:26,540
because they were on there, but roughly what we can do is about 1.6 million worth in

453
00:51:26,540 --> 00:51:30,900
Paving and then another probably 400,000 a year in preservation

454
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:36,740
That would try and every street is different some of our streets are a thousand feet somewhere 300

455
00:51:37,340 --> 00:51:39,840
But that would translate like in this year

456
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:45,240
I want to say it was something like oh, I read it earlier, but it was like 75 streets and all

457
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:52,040
So it's quite a bit and so at the pace we're going because I know there's a lot of the streets in need

458
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,420
You need, you know, some love and some touch, right?

459
00:51:55,820 --> 00:52:03,440
But at this pace at what point, so this is about a year, 41 miles a year, is that about right?

460
00:52:03,540 --> 00:52:04,580
No, no, those are streets.

461
00:52:05,100 --> 00:52:06,220
Those are 41 miles a year.

462
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:11,720
So we, and if you're talking miles, let me go back.

463
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:19,160
The question I was getting through is how long would it take at this pace to make sure we encompass the city entirely?

464
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:20,880
And is this with only one paving machine?

465
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:25,080
Yes, it's with one paving machine and we are limited, we have it only a certain amount of trouble.

466
00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:27,320
But did we approve a second paving machine?

467
00:52:27,780 --> 00:52:29,000
We did not, but we will.

468
00:52:29,220 --> 00:52:31,760
We don't have the resources to mount a second paving machine.

469
00:52:32,260 --> 00:52:36,940
It takes pretty much the whole street crew just to pay, I mean, you got drivers that are on hand.

470
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,260
We don't have the resources to mount a second paving machine, okay.

471
00:52:41,620 --> 00:52:48,440
And so my original question at this rate, how long would it take to make sure that we cover all the areas of need?

472
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:52,900
So in order to give you that answer, Councilman, we would need a full-blown street assessment

473
00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:58,040
in which would be where they come in and they assess every street, determine what is

474
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,640
acceptable as far as our payment condition index or PCI score.

475
00:53:02,020 --> 00:53:04,940
If we said, you know what, we can live with a 75.

476
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:07,560
They're going to evaluate every street, give it a rating.

477
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,320
We're doing this all in-house with the same resources that pay.

478
00:53:10,580 --> 00:53:15,280
So they would come in and they have all the technology to give us a rating for each street,

479
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:22,000
tell us what that street needs to bring it up to that level that we're asking for a 75 and then at that point

480
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:27,200
They would give us the numbers that go with that in the number of years that it would take to correct and just just so people understand

481
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:32,120
We the streets were done on as a need basis, right? The worst streets were done first

482
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:37,200
So currently in the five-year plan we have over seven million dollars worth of streets

483
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:42,820
We have 250 streets already identified that need work and those are pretty much the ones that need

484
00:53:43,460 --> 00:53:47,480
overlaid. So they're already in pretty bad condition. And we do have several

485
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:53,780
also about maybe 75 that would work under preservation. They're not too far

486
00:53:53,780 --> 00:53:57,400
gone yet. We can go and do minor repairs and then preserve it. A lot of the

487
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,780
streets that you saw there were in that condition where we might have one or two

488
00:54:00,780 --> 00:54:04,460
little bad spots. We would go in there, do the repair, do all the crack ceiling,

489
00:54:04,660 --> 00:54:08,640
fix any curbing gutter, and then do the preservation. And honestly, Councillor

490
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:12,020
they came out really good. I mean everybody was pleased with it. And at the cost

491
00:54:12,020 --> 00:54:16,720
for preservation, we want to take advantage of that because that's a lot lower cost it would

492
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:22,520
have cost to mill overlay. So we'll say that yeah we'll say a lot of this work it causes a lot of

493
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:26,680
headaches and heartache for the residents will ask for their patients while we do this because

494
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:31,660
the heartache is worth the product at the end right and I will ask staff to always just communicate

495
00:54:31,660 --> 00:54:35,860
with the residents I think that's key let them know what's happening let them know when you're going

496
00:54:35,860 --> 00:54:41,900
to move any items that belong to them or on their grass and when we talk to them then they understand

497
00:54:41,900 --> 00:54:44,720
and the end goal, and I thank everybody for all their hard work.

498
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:45,920
Yes, sir. Thank you.

499
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,080
Thank you. We had mayor for them.

500
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:48,060
It Vince, yes.

501
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,680
You know that one thing just let public know you're only one storm away from being behind

502
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:52,460
on all your work, right?

503
00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:58,080
The real question, the question I have is like, some of these streets here, I see that are

504
00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:59,780
older subdivisions, and I'm not talking-

505
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:29,500
We're talking about the main thoroughfare type streets because they definitely get a different wear and tear. We're talking more like the residential, like Laurel Oakway. We see some of here, self-piano, and stuff. Some of these are older streets, but I also notice that we have some of our newer streets that don't seem to be lasting as long. Is that a fairer? So it is hard to say why, but it could be the mixed design on the asphalt. It depends, you know, the testing, the density, the compaction, whenever it was constructed, it didn't have proper compaction.

506
00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:33,660
or if the mixed design on the asphalt was bad or it wasn't you know the right

507
00:55:33,660 --> 00:55:39,060
percentages it could be a lot of things it could be the load that's on the road

508
00:55:39,060 --> 00:55:42,980
some of these roads get yeah I was trying to get away from the load side that's

509
00:55:42,980 --> 00:55:45,660
why the busier loads is what kind of stuck to residential it's hard to

510
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:49,940
judge a road that's getting a concrete truck down every day and against one

511
00:55:49,940 --> 00:55:55,960
else getting mom and pops yeah station wagon for us all folks that that's what I'm

512
00:55:55,960 --> 00:56:07,460
but do you work? I mean, from what you see on the roads and their condition is your department work with our PNZ and that stuff to make sure we have the conditions.

513
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:22,040
Yes, we do it for the concrete that we're making or the concrete, the pay mean, the carbon gutter that's being poured in our city and the new subdivision stuff are up to the standards that we want or that you're seeing.

514
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:28,000
because some of it I just one of them is yellow rolls yellow rolls was remember

515
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:32,700
that street when it first came in I needed to be fixed but that street there

516
00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:37,080
was hardly any traffic on that street it's a dead end two curves nobody goes on

517
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:41,740
it but it's surprising that I think had to be redone so to me there was always

518
00:56:41,740 --> 00:56:46,520
like something wrong with original construction that now that we are eating as

519
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:50,280
the city when it's probably managed should have been the developer didn't do

520
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,680
the quality at the time. Is that something we, or maybe it's not fair to ask you, maybe

521
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,060
it's for the city manager or somebody else. Is that something we're missing in our

522
00:56:57,060 --> 00:56:57,420
design?

523
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:05,840
No, there's a city spec that they have to follow, but it's really honestly the workmanship,

524
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:10,800
the skill set. If they know how to pave, then you're going to get a good paving job. If

525
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,880
they really don't, there's so many things that can happen. You can have good material,

526
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:18,620
but if they take too long to get the material here and it cools off, it segregates, you're

527
00:57:18,620 --> 00:57:23,600
You're going to have you're going to have problems and there's tricks you can do if you know how to pay but if they don't know what they're doing

528
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,400
Then they're going to get out there and they're going to have some issues. You may not see it up front

529
00:57:27,900 --> 00:57:30,600
If the road is not sealed right with proper compaction

530
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:35,360
You're going to have infiltration with water and you're going to start getting potholes a lot sooner

531
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:39,540
So there's a lot of there's a lot of variables that could contribute to that

532
00:57:39,540 --> 00:57:44,000
Guess what you say in that is that something we need to when we when we accept the subdivision or we

533
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:45,580
Is that something we should be

534
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:51,380
maybe Tom might be the one to answer that but I know a lot of the public would like to know

535
00:57:51,380 --> 00:57:57,620
answers to why. Good evening Tom right now assistant city manager. Good evening. Yes

536
00:57:57,620 --> 00:58:03,840
Councilman and to your to answer your question the engineering department does do all the inspections

537
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:08,660
for any of the subdivisions that were out there we test compaction the payment design

538
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:14,960
the ultimate product at the very end. I know this is going to sound cliche but what we have been

539
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:19,320
notice it. And yes, we do look at those kind of things. With the heat now, the heat

540
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:26,340
is extremely more now, so the oil is drying out. So that's what causes that mix to start

541
00:58:26,340 --> 00:58:30,620
losing up. It's just the oil is drying at a quicker rate. So that means we have to do

542
00:58:30,620 --> 00:58:36,160
a faster section of preservation, just like we did here, the picture that's on the screen

543
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:43,020
now is try to re-introduce the oil back into that roadway. We're also looking at different

544
00:58:43,020 --> 00:58:44,460
and pavements designs for that way,

545
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:48,140
we can catch some of this heat for that at this point.

546
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:50,220
Appreciate it.

547
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:51,540
Thank you, thank you.

548
00:58:51,940 --> 00:58:52,380
Got some of them?

549
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,340
Sure, Vince, I just want to thank you and your team

550
00:58:54,340 --> 00:58:56,220
for the report on this preservation

551
00:58:56,220 --> 00:58:58,180
and of course also for paving.

552
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,960
But I want to say thank you to on behalf of the residents

553
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:02,340
because every time I call you,

554
00:59:02,780 --> 00:59:04,600
right away you're on these streets trying to pave them

555
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,100
and get them prepared for the rains that are coming in.

556
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,740
But I think we need to find a way to highlight

557
00:59:09,740 --> 00:59:11,020
your department a little bit more

558
00:59:11,020 --> 00:59:12,480
because one of the complaints that we get a lot

559
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:42,000
That is, you know, we have particles here and there, and you guys are not doing anything about it, but we need to highlight your department so that the community can see that our taxpayer money is really being used, and, you know, we're seeing a lot more streets be paved now than behind, than behind what we used to be behind, but you're just being the past, but, you know, every time we see you guys, everybody's out there working at full force, you know, and that's what it's about us working for the community, and so that they can see the results of where their money is going, you know, because no another number of concerns that people have, like, well, where's my taxpayer money? If tax keeps on going up, but we don't see anything,

560
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:47,920
That's what you all are doing, you know, you are helping pave the streets getting everything ready for this weather changes and we appreciate it

561
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,440
Thank you, sir. Thank you. Anybody else?

562
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,520
Just a couple comments on myself also just wanted to reiterate as council members pointing out

563
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,700
Thank you and your staff for all the work that you do

564
00:59:59,140 --> 00:59:59,980
It's it's a lot of

565
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,820
Our city's growing and we're talking about heat and how the impact is having, but it's also the growing pains we're having. We have so much more traffic on the road. So, you know, that's adding to our challenge. But I did have just one thing on the information. Is this available on our website on our dashboard by any chance or work at residence access, because I think the council member got a serious point. If we, like this map, you have here. And I think we have talked about showing the map.

566
01:00:29,820 --> 01:00:35,840
of streets that are not only have been paid, but more importantly, those that are on the schedule

567
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:42,740
to be paid. I think that would be very, very helpful. If we can do that, add these lists to our

568
01:00:42,740 --> 01:00:47,680
website so that residents, you know, are up the date, you know, on what's coming up. I think that

569
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:53,320
will go a long way. And then also just to confirm, so out of all these lists that have been done,

570
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,780
is that represent the three million dollars that were set aside?

571
01:00:56,780 --> 01:01:03,600
Yes, sir. Okay, so that's from May of 2022 today, is that correct? It's a little bit from 2021

572
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:08,500
We had stone crest. Okay, we had a few subdivisions that had to be done

573
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:14,280
But we didn't really get full blow in with it until I believe April which was April 2022

574
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:21,640
Yeah, and we had 50 streets if I remember correctly at that time have we done most of those from we were able to do

575
01:01:22,260 --> 01:01:24,060
Approximately 74 with the preservation.

576
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,420
So we did more than what we just, okay great, excellent.

577
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:30,980
And how much, I know that you say you're out of funding,

578
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,300
but my question is, how much more funding is going to be needed

579
01:01:33,300 --> 01:01:34,960
so we can keep up with?

580
01:01:35,140 --> 01:01:36,740
And I know you're going to have the five year plan.

581
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,520
And I'm mentioning this because we're going through budget right now.

582
01:01:39,780 --> 01:01:42,160
And I just, it'd be important for us to keep in mind

583
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,700
as we work towards finalizing our budget.

584
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,400
So the benchmark that we establish is what I'm requesting

585
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:55,060
is approximately a little over two million per year because that's what we can do. I don't

586
01:01:55,060 --> 01:01:58,980
want to ask for more than what we can do per year, what we can utilize. But we would be using

587
01:01:58,980 --> 01:02:06,200
1.6 million for repaving at approximately 400,000 for preservation. And that would be something

588
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:11,320
that we could as long as mechanical equipment, everything holds up. We don't get too many hurricanes,

589
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:17,760
we should get to keep that pace. You know, on piggybacking on the mayor's question and your comment

590
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:19,620
and I don't mean to put you on the spot,

591
01:02:19,620 --> 01:02:22,180
but shooting up the hip, if we were to double the streets,

592
01:02:22,540 --> 01:02:23,640
and I know we don't have the manpower,

593
01:02:23,820 --> 01:02:25,040
so if we were to sub this,

594
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:26,680
what would the cost be for that?

595
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:28,800
You're saying three million would do all these streets,

596
01:02:28,940 --> 01:02:30,980
so we three times, we're doing three times.

597
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:32,600
Yeah, because we're utilizing the manpower.

598
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:34,160
Because of the manpower and city equipment.

599
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:36,600
So basically all we have to pay for is material.

600
01:02:37,420 --> 01:02:39,360
So we're doing it for a third of what anybody would do.

601
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,820
So to double the streets, it would be nine million.

602
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,000
It would be three times, yeah, it would be nine million.

603
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,360
Yeah, for what we did, it would have cost you

604
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,120
about nine million or more. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

605
01:02:49,580 --> 01:02:52,600
And the good thing about us doing it, sir, is we provide the customer service.

606
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,140
If they call us, go right back down. Yeah. Yeah.

607
01:02:55,320 --> 01:03:00,380
I thought about that because if we get we have headaches and nightmares with our own staff, we can imagine.

608
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:01,240
Yeah.

609
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:02,500
Other staff.

610
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:04,840
Thank you again. Thank you for all that y'all do.

611
01:03:05,540 --> 01:03:07,780
Mayor also have a second part of the presentation.

612
01:03:08,180 --> 01:03:12,080
We wanted to give you an update on the striping for the courthouse.

613
01:03:12,380 --> 01:03:14,960
Okay. That was also part of the agenda item.

614
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:17,280
and we're also been working with Hidalgo County

615
01:03:17,700 --> 01:03:20,820
on determining a permanent temporary solution.

616
01:03:21,340 --> 01:03:22,820
I know that sounds contradictory,

617
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:28,120
but what we're looking at is the 107 street improvements

618
01:03:28,420 --> 01:03:30,940
won't be in the courthouse until roughly maybe

619
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,900
the end of 2025 beginning of 2026

620
01:03:34,300 --> 01:03:36,120
for the construction around the courthouse.

621
01:03:36,740 --> 01:03:39,220
So we're looking for a permanent solution,

622
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,940
a temporary permanent solution, until then

623
01:03:42,940 --> 01:03:48,400
is due to the rise of accidents within the area that we really feel that we really need

624
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:54,080
to do that myself Miss Ayala City Manager, we met with the county about a week and a

625
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:59,180
half ago to discuss all these. A plan has already been in place which we've been reviewing.

626
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:05,040
We've already reviewed it and sent it back for our comments. We did do a cost estimate

627
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:09,600
as you can see on your agenda item, the cost estimate for all those repair we're looking

628
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:14,140
in about 125,000, which we have not discussed with the county

629
01:04:14,140 --> 01:04:16,480
yet on if we're going to do a car share

630
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,000
or if they're going to pay for that for the meantime.

631
01:04:19,660 --> 01:04:23,060
But we will have a plan in place ready to move forward

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01:04:23,620 --> 01:04:24,240
to go that.

633
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:25,960
I'm also looking at different options

634
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:28,540
on different contractors to hopefully bring down

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01:04:28,540 --> 01:04:29,040
that price.

636
01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:30,000
OK.

637
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:33,160
Thank you, sir.

638
01:04:33,420 --> 01:04:34,100
I appreciate it.

639
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,400
We're going to move on to item B presentation

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01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,140
regarding your-to-date crime data

641
01:04:38,140 --> 01:04:40,100
by the city of Edinburgh Police Department.

642
01:04:48,260 --> 01:04:50,800
Good evening, Mayor and Council, I'm Ayala with the Police Department.

643
01:04:51,380 --> 01:04:55,820
I want to first start out by sharing and inviting everybody to National Night Out tomorrow

644
01:04:55,820 --> 01:04:56,900
night, August 1st.

645
01:04:57,460 --> 01:04:59,000
It's our 27th annual.

646
01:05:01,130 --> 01:05:26,910
And so please come out to municipal park, begins at 5.30. It's going to be a great night with lots of things to do, lots of food, backpack giveaway by our mayor and council. And then we will end up the night with a performance from several bands, but group of control will be there as our headliner. So. So chief, what time do we need to be there and what's the best access point to get there? Because I know we're going to have a lot of people. The way into the park is off.

647
01:05:26,910 --> 01:05:29,550
I will go to the office break.

648
01:05:31,130 --> 01:05:32,110
Sometimes we, okay.

649
01:05:32,750 --> 01:05:33,970
And that'd be the entrance and exit.

650
01:05:34,530 --> 01:05:34,750
Yes.

651
01:05:35,010 --> 01:05:35,170
Okay.

652
01:05:35,470 --> 01:05:39,510
Once we purge people at the end, we'll open other parts of the park to get people out.

653
01:05:39,710 --> 01:05:44,510
The park is going to be limited when overload parking at HB Park.

654
01:05:45,150 --> 01:05:46,870
And so there should be plenty of parking.

655
01:05:47,030 --> 01:05:50,410
We just have, might have some people have to walk a little bit to the event itself.

656
01:05:50,750 --> 01:05:51,030
Thank you.

657
01:05:51,290 --> 01:05:53,210
Appreciate your support and you all being there.

658
01:05:53,210 --> 01:05:58,250
as well to our night. I appreciate the opportunity to share some data coming off the end of

659
01:05:58,250 --> 01:06:03,150
report from last meeting. We've had some things happen and so I just want to be able to

660
01:06:03,150 --> 01:06:09,050
share some things that we are working on and working towards. So one of the things we do in

661
01:06:09,050 --> 01:06:13,310
policing is really look at data. Data is critical and important. I want to share with you that we

662
01:06:13,310 --> 01:06:19,410
have currently 83 patrol officers and two traffic enforcement officers. Those two traffic enforcement

663
01:06:19,410 --> 01:06:24,370
when officers are our motorcycle officers that work traffic details in school zones and

664
01:06:24,370 --> 01:06:25,550
throughout the cities and neighborhoods.

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01:06:26,490 --> 01:06:28,570
As of today, we have nine vacancies.

666
01:06:28,570 --> 01:06:30,710
As of next week, we will have ten vacancies.

667
01:06:31,290 --> 01:06:36,290
Our next academy we expect to begin October and November in partnership with the low-rogram

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01:06:36,290 --> 01:06:37,630
valley development corporation.

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01:06:38,130 --> 01:06:42,550
We have four officers currently in training in the field, should be getting them out soon,

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01:06:43,150 --> 01:06:48,090
and we have 15 officers that are in the academy undergoing training now and they'll come

671
01:06:48,090 --> 01:06:52,450
out after graduation at the end of September, and go into their field training modes.

672
01:06:52,610 --> 01:06:55,930
We should get them to us by the end of the year, early January.

673
01:06:57,710 --> 01:07:03,090
Our crime analyst is kind of the quarterback as to identifying crime trends, crash locations,

674
01:07:03,370 --> 01:07:05,850
data, looking where we need to deploy our officers.

675
01:07:06,370 --> 01:07:08,570
We currently have one crime analyst in the department.

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01:07:09,170 --> 01:07:11,550
I'll share with you shortly in the next slide.

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01:07:12,030 --> 01:07:16,130
We brought some training in, a department our size, they recommend that we have at least two

678
01:07:16,130 --> 01:07:21,790
crime analysts. Currently we have somebody from the Texas Army National Guard that is assigned

679
01:07:21,790 --> 01:07:27,670
to the police department here in Edinburgh. They're from the Joint Counter Drug Task Force and we

680
01:07:27,670 --> 01:07:32,930
are able to utilize Mr. Throvino to assist us with our crime analysis as long as there's a drug

681
01:07:32,930 --> 01:07:42,190
nexus from that aspect. We've brought this association in several times to do training on data

682
01:07:42,190 --> 01:07:47,910
driven approach is to crime and traffic safety. And basically what this is is you overlay

683
01:07:47,910 --> 01:07:53,790
crash data with crime data and then you deploy your resources to address traffic issues and

684
01:07:53,790 --> 01:08:00,710
crash issues because you're also going to be impacting crime. This visible presence by officers

685
01:08:00,710 --> 01:08:06,130
doing traffic enforcement is proven to reduce crime from occurring in those same areas where you're

686
01:08:06,130 --> 01:08:07,890
focusing your resources.

687
01:08:08,730 --> 01:08:11,510
It's called the DDAX model, data driven accountability

688
01:08:11,510 --> 01:08:12,450
to crime and traffic.

689
01:08:13,630 --> 01:08:15,970
We look at calls for service on a weekly basis.

690
01:08:16,130 --> 01:08:17,450
Actually, we get a report every morning

691
01:08:17,450 --> 01:08:19,250
as to where we're having our calls for service,

692
01:08:19,350 --> 01:08:21,070
how many calls for service we had during the day.

693
01:08:21,770 --> 01:08:24,330
We do this, we have identified locations,

694
01:08:24,330 --> 01:08:27,330
where we have concerns, high call volume,

695
01:08:27,330 --> 01:08:31,110
so that we can really focus our efforts into those areas.

696
01:08:31,530 --> 01:08:33,250
I have the diagram there on the right,

697
01:08:33,250 --> 01:08:37,710
and this is from the problem oriented policing website.

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01:08:38,430 --> 01:08:42,050
If you can reduce one of the three, the offender,

699
01:08:42,530 --> 01:08:46,010
the location, or the target victim, you don't have a crime.

700
01:08:46,910 --> 01:08:49,890
And so we must focus our resources and our efforts on location,

701
01:08:50,770 --> 01:08:54,190
on our repeat offenders, and try to educate our community

702
01:08:54,190 --> 01:08:57,530
on how not to become a victim by making good choices

703
01:08:57,530 --> 01:09:00,470
of where you park, leaving things in your vehicle, and whatnot.

704
01:09:00,810 --> 01:09:02,590
And that is something that we're going to be doing

705
01:09:02,590 --> 01:09:07,570
at the end of August, we're going to be bringing in a consultant and every sworn officer

706
01:09:07,570 --> 01:09:12,690
will be going through training module on problem-oriented policing and the Sarah model for how

707
01:09:12,690 --> 01:09:19,110
to address problems and eliminate them as a problem in order to not have crimes occurring.

708
01:09:20,250 --> 01:09:23,410
This is just the face sheet of what we get weekly from our analyst.

709
01:09:23,710 --> 01:09:25,270
It is a very detailed map.

710
01:09:25,770 --> 01:09:26,890
It has repeat locations.

711
01:09:26,930 --> 01:09:31,430
It has high-call-bounding locations, and I just wanted to share at least the cover sheet

712
01:09:31,430 --> 01:09:34,930
with you because it is very detailed on the information that our analyst is

713
01:09:34,930 --> 01:09:40,250
putting in the hands of our officers. So when we look at performance what are

714
01:09:40,250 --> 01:09:44,630
we doing with our time? We've made some decisions as a recent to try to free up

715
01:09:44,630 --> 01:09:49,410
more officer time to do more proactive engagement activities with the community

716
01:09:49,410 --> 01:09:54,110
but also traffic enforcement and other types of enforcement to try to reduce

717
01:09:54,110 --> 01:09:58,150
crimes and crashes. This year, as of the end of June, we've

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01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:29,920
All of last year, we made 19,303 traffic stops. You'll see the citations and the warnings. When I look at this, we're on pace to make over 28,000 traffic stops this year. That's a 45% increase for more we were last year. And I share that with you to let you know our officers are out there working. They're taking the time. They're doing enforcement. They're being visible, not necessarily to be punitive with citations, but to try to focus on correcting

719
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:34,580
driving behavior so that we reduce the number of crashes that we have in our

720
01:10:34,580 --> 01:10:39,860
city. This is our motorcycle unit which I mentioned that the last meeting they're

721
01:10:39,860 --> 01:10:45,100
extremely active together. Over 5,500 traffic stops in 2022 this year already

722
01:10:45,100 --> 01:10:50,240
through June. They're over 3,000 so we expect them to be even higher than they

723
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:51,780
were in their enforcement last year.

724
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:57,220
Now DWIs we've talked about internally

725
01:10:57,220 --> 01:11:04,660
quite a bit. I've talked with our city leaders quite a bit about DWIs in our city and how DWI is a

726
01:11:04,660 --> 01:11:12,840
problem for us in the Edinburgh community. Last year we made 342 DWI arrests. July of 22 to July

727
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:23,080
of 23 we've made over 404 DWI arrests. Currently as of July, middle of July we have made 225 DWI arrests

728
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:28,540
which tells me we're on pace to break 400 for this year when we were at 342 last year.

729
01:11:28,900 --> 01:11:34,120
That's two things. Are more people driving impaired? Or are officers taking stronger action

730
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:38,120
to identify those that are driving impaired and removing them from the street?

731
01:11:38,580 --> 01:11:42,060
We can never tell how many lives were saved by the arrest that was made,

732
01:11:42,420 --> 01:11:48,180
just like we can't tell with the crime reduction by visible patrols in the neighborhoods.

733
01:11:48,180 --> 01:11:53,080
Now, you can see June, a difference of two DWI arrests.

734
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,580
But what's important to this is not just the enforcement, it's education.

735
01:11:57,240 --> 01:12:02,640
Since February of this year, we've done 29 DWI-related presentations in schools,

736
01:12:03,140 --> 01:12:09,460
even with law enforcement federal partners and our stakeholders to educate our community

737
01:12:09,460 --> 01:12:14,100
about how dangerous it is to get behind the will of a car if you are impaired.

738
01:12:15,940 --> 01:12:20,760
and sadly I bring it to this slide because last Monday night we had a very tragic accident in our city

739
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:25,940
One that isn't an anomaly. It doesn't happen very often, but has happened in years past

740
01:12:26,660 --> 01:12:30,900
Of these six crashes resulting in nine deaths

741
01:12:30,900 --> 01:12:36,540
The the one the father's go down the list motorcycle crash solo vehicle a

742
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:39,400
construction worker on

743
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,300
North to 81 that was working with a crew

744
01:12:42,300 --> 01:12:47,220
another motorcycle at 25th and Wisconsin, a single vehicle. We don't have

745
01:12:47,220 --> 01:12:52,940
toxicology on those motorcycles back yet. 20th and university was somebody on a

746
01:12:52,940 --> 01:12:58,920
pedocycle and was struck by a vehicle. Then we had the pedestrian right here by the

747
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:03,780
courthouse at 10th and Connell and then on last Monday night we had the head on

748
01:13:03,780 --> 01:13:12,280
collision that occurred on Jackson. Last year for the entire year we had three

749
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:14,440
recognize this in June when they started.

750
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:18,780
In fact, I had information, research, put information out.

751
01:13:19,340 --> 01:13:21,740
On Friday, a Friday night, we had a fatal

752
01:13:21,740 --> 01:13:22,520
on East University.

753
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:25,140
I put something back out in Monday morning.

754
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:28,520
Within an hour, we had the auto pedestrian

755
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:29,400
by the courthouse.

756
01:13:30,060 --> 01:13:32,040
And so we're aware, our officers are aware.

757
01:13:32,300 --> 01:13:32,960
They're out there working.

758
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:36,020
You can look until by the data that they're out there doing

759
01:13:36,020 --> 01:13:39,200
what they need to do to try to reduce this year-to-date.

760
01:13:39,340 --> 01:13:40,760
So far, we've had two homicides.

761
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:47,140
one has been solved the other we are still pursuing the suspect as he's still at

762
01:13:47,140 --> 01:13:53,980
large. 1446 crashes till January to June and that does not include parking lot

763
01:13:53,980 --> 01:13:58,640
crashes. We have a lot of crashes in Edinburgh we need to do a lot more at

764
01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:02,060
trying to reduce those crashes but what do we do when we have a violent crime

765
01:14:02,060 --> 01:14:07,220
that happens in a neighborhood? We have implemented a community restoration effort

766
01:14:07,220 --> 01:14:10,220
We redeploy officers into that neighborhood.

767
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:13,220
We have them do foot patrol, we have them drive through the neighborhood.

768
01:14:13,440 --> 01:14:15,460
We want them making contact with community members.

769
01:14:15,980 --> 01:14:18,920
The old days of officer, what is happening down the street?

770
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:21,520
Go back in your house, it doesn't concern you.

771
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:22,640
Those are old days.

772
01:14:23,340 --> 01:14:26,240
The answer should be, we're working a death investigation.

773
01:14:26,820 --> 01:14:28,180
There's no threat to your neighborhood.

774
01:14:28,820 --> 01:14:30,960
More information will come out as it's developed.

775
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,940
Because we engage the community, we inform them, and we reduce any concerns.

776
01:14:34,940 --> 01:14:41,560
And so, that is an effort that we put in place last year to continue to make sure that we're engaging to community when bad things happen.

777
01:14:42,940 --> 01:14:46,480
I just want to talk briefly on our initiatives and resources.

778
01:14:47,300 --> 01:14:52,060
So, you know the number of programs that we have. I won't touch on them greatly, but we have our community watch groups.

779
01:14:52,440 --> 01:14:58,920
We've had 10 neighborhood meetings this year are upcoming. We just announced our business watch, which mirrors the community watch.

780
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:30,380
We're going to try to get our businesses involved in being a part of the solution when we have vehicle burglaries and things in their parking lots. Our Coach 5-O mentoring program, we're going to start the second year. That's our officers with two pilot schools, Robert Bella and Edinburgh North, that go, they engage, they work out with them, they attend games and events to help be a mentor and let them know what to do on a traffic store. Let them have a resource other than school or family that they can reach out to if they have a question. And it's a really good program.

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01:15:30,380 --> 01:15:41,440
Our clergy and police partnership I'll tell you that last Monday night we had three of our seven clergy members that are part of our volunteer program with the city show up to that event.

782
01:15:42,020 --> 01:15:51,200
We were on they were on site of the scene of the crash and they were in the hospital offering prayer and support for not only the victims but for our officers who responded.

783
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:55,540
and then on Tuesday at briefing on evening shift we're the majority of the

784
01:15:55,540 --> 01:15:59,240
officers responded to that crash. Our clergy were there and actually did

785
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:04,180
prayed with officers who wanted to be involved with prayer before they went on

786
01:16:04,180 --> 01:16:08,760
the truth of duty that day. And we have our Citizens Police Academy. This

787
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:12,440
upcoming here soon we're going to have one but it's going to be in total Spanish

788
01:16:12,440 --> 01:16:17,860
for our Spanish speaking community because they matter too and a lot of

789
01:16:17,860 --> 01:16:19,500
sometimes we don't have the programs for them.

790
01:16:20,180 --> 01:16:21,640
So we're gonna put our officers to work

791
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:22,860
as big as vanishing the classroom.

792
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,100
Just to touch on it, these are three of the programs

793
01:16:26,100 --> 01:16:28,120
I mentioned, community or in policing,

794
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:30,520
is a very strong one.

795
01:16:31,420 --> 01:16:35,920
And last year you remember we rolled out citizen connect

796
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:38,400
for the transparency of what's happening in our city

797
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:39,220
and in our neighborhoods.

798
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:41,820
And our citizens have the ability to go online,

799
01:16:42,380 --> 01:16:44,600
researched by week, by day, by month,

800
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:49,880
particular area we continue to utilize that we also continue to utilize the

801
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:54,080
law for inside of that where our officers can go on there and look in the zone

802
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:57,600
that they're working today and look what's happened in the last week in

803
01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:01,360
order to be knowledgeable and aware in support of what the intelligence

804
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:06,420
analyst is doing they have the information at their fingertips as well some

805
01:17:06,420 --> 01:17:11,380
school initiatives that we do we do a lot of enforcement in school zones we do

806
01:17:11,380 --> 01:17:14,480
walkthroughs in the schools we're about to meet with the school district again

807
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:20,620
And as we kick off this year's school year, and as well, last year, we did an operation

808
01:17:20,620 --> 01:17:23,920
because we have a lot of people that when the bus pulls over to pick up kids and the

809
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:26,340
stop sign comes out, they continue to go.

810
01:17:26,900 --> 01:17:33,480
And so we put an officer on a school bus with video in order to find those violators and

811
01:17:33,480 --> 01:17:34,600
stop and cite them.

812
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:39,800
And I anticipate we would be doing operations like that again this year if it's a problem

813
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:43,880
in our school zones in order to keep our students as safe as possible.

814
01:17:45,540 --> 01:17:49,460
Drag race and enforcement we've heard about all over the state about takeovers and intersection

815
01:17:49,460 --> 01:17:53,600
takeovers in a lot of the major cities here we mostly have dealt with drag racing.

816
01:17:54,300 --> 01:17:59,160
So we partnered, we led the charge, we partnered with Texas DPS, the sheriff's office here in

817
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:00,800
Adagio County and for PD.

818
01:18:01,260 --> 01:18:03,980
The majority of what was happening was happening in the municipal park.

819
01:18:04,540 --> 01:18:08,420
We gathered intelligence, we knew where they were going, we met them there, we were able

820
01:18:08,420 --> 01:18:12,140
to disrupt a lot of the gatherings and we're not seeing them come back to our city.

821
01:18:12,860 --> 01:18:17,080
As of recent, this year alone we've made 20 arrests for drag racing.

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01:18:19,910 --> 01:18:21,930
And how do we share information with the public?

823
01:18:22,130 --> 01:18:23,970
Well, you've seen the digital boards that are out there.

824
01:18:24,630 --> 01:18:26,910
We have some information that we push out.

825
01:18:27,390 --> 01:18:31,490
A lot of it is acquired through grants and so it's very limited on where we can use it.

826
01:18:32,010 --> 01:18:38,050
But we have a message board in LPR at 69 and 2812 and 69 and 1925.

827
01:18:38,050 --> 01:18:42,610
And then we have Skywatch towers and speed trailers that we're able to deploy throughout

828
01:18:42,610 --> 01:18:42,950
the city.

829
01:18:43,550 --> 01:18:49,690
We just received two from the RGB tag as part of the anti-gain grant that we received

830
01:18:50,290 --> 01:18:54,710
and they're going to be ready to be deployed out into the community as well.

831
01:18:55,370 --> 01:18:56,710
How do we communicate internally?

832
01:18:57,370 --> 01:19:04,090
A year ago we signed on with the Evertail application and this affords us several rooms.

833
01:19:04,470 --> 01:19:06,090
We have a room that's just for patrol.

834
01:19:06,090 --> 01:19:09,590
I turn that one off at night because when they're sharing information at night

835
01:19:09,590 --> 01:19:15,650
I don't want the phone to go off right and less unless it's a command notification and we have a room for command notification

836
01:19:15,650 --> 01:19:24,290
We have a room for detectives. We have a room with other agencies around us that participate with Everettel like for PD and Westlaco in the Sheriff's Office

837
01:19:24,290 --> 01:19:25,830
It's military encrypted

838
01:19:26,950 --> 01:19:28,590
We are able to share information

839
01:19:29,410 --> 01:19:32,790
Instantaneously so you'll see it the right. This is in the patrol division room

840
01:19:32,790 --> 01:19:38,590
Here's an office that happens, somebody committing thefts, we got surveillance video, the officer took pictures at the scene,

841
01:19:39,070 --> 01:19:44,830
pushed it out on the EverTell app, everybody working on that night got it instantly, so what they're looking for,

842
01:19:45,350 --> 01:19:48,110
what the suspect vehicle looks like, and what the suspect looks like.

843
01:19:48,630 --> 01:19:52,930
The other thing we do internally is our analyst prepares a briefing scroll.

844
01:19:53,530 --> 01:19:59,570
It's a rolling power point that has most recent crime data, it has information from the department, things that are coming up.

845
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:29,900
Just to keep them informed as they're sitting and briefing to get as much information as they can. Now, a lot of what we do is because you afford us to apply for and receive grants. And I won't go into all the grants. Two of the most important ones are the cops grants that we got in 21 and 22. That gave us 16 more officers. The last eight are the ones that are going to be graduating here in September. But we have Stone Garden, Border Star, our Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant. And then we have our Step Grants, which is speed enforcement.

846
01:20:29,900 --> 01:20:35,000
which is impaired driving enforcement and so we have a lot of opportunity to

847
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:39,840
leverage the existing resources we have with visible enforcement which is what

848
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:44,720
we want to decrease crimes from happening. And in all of that we ask ourselves

849
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:49,620
what do we do to take care of our officers? There's a stigma in policing across the

850
01:20:49,620 --> 01:20:54,120
country about city programs that are offered to officers. They're going to

851
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:57,840
report to my boss. They're going to tell him I reached out for help. We were able

852
01:20:57,840 --> 01:21:02,520
with the grants department to acquire a grant this past year for mental health for our officers.

853
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:08,260
And just this week, we started issuing out this purple chip.

854
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:12,420
And on this chip, there's a therapy dog and a phone number.

855
01:21:12,940 --> 01:21:16,440
And our officers can call this phone number, give the code word we've given them.

856
01:21:16,820 --> 01:21:19,080
They can make an appointment to see it as a psychologist.

857
01:21:19,620 --> 01:21:24,040
By law, they have to give their name, however, they don't give us the name.

858
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:29,760
And they just send us the bill, and we currently were able to pay that bill with the grant that we currently have in place still.

859
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:37,300
So there is an anonymous avenue for our officers to get help, and we know that some officers have already signed up to reach out to do that.

860
01:21:37,500 --> 01:21:43,560
And so in addition to what we offer as a city, we were able to get this grant, and it's been extremely effective.

861
01:21:44,540 --> 01:21:51,240
Now we can't do any of this without training, and we know the academy occurs, we know a lot of those in service trainings occur.

862
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:54,640
But here in Edinburgh, we don't have consistent in service training.

863
01:21:55,160 --> 01:22:01,600
So this year, just a few weeks ago, we started our first module of 40 hours of annual in service training.

864
01:22:01,940 --> 01:22:05,940
Where officers refresh on tactics, they do their qualifications, they get legal updates.

865
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:11,440
40 hours a year, they're going to be able to receive training to keep them up to speed.

866
01:22:11,940 --> 01:22:18,460
We are creating 40 hours of annual supervisory in service to continue to work with our supervisors on leadership,

867
01:22:18,460 --> 01:22:22,980
on accountability, on the things that we want them to be focused on.

868
01:22:23,460 --> 01:22:26,240
But we can't forget our support staff, our professional staff.

869
01:22:26,780 --> 01:22:30,320
And so we're working on 24 to 48 hours of non-sworn annual

870
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:34,180
in-service training to keep their skills up to date with technology,

871
01:22:34,480 --> 01:22:37,120
like Microsoft Office, and just different things that will enhance

872
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:38,640
the police department's capabilities.

873
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:43,300
And as I mentioned earlier, later in August, we do have this consultant coming in

874
01:22:43,300 --> 01:22:47,380
to specifically train on problem-oriented policing for our officers and

875
01:22:47,380 --> 01:22:52,780
our dispatchers, so that we give them tools to identify what a problem is, to utilize

876
01:22:52,780 --> 01:22:59,720
the Department of Justice Cops Office on resource material that allows us to research and make

877
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:02,780
recommendations on a response to deal with a problem.

878
01:23:03,380 --> 01:23:08,020
And so that's a snapshot of the day-to-day of what we're doing in the police department

879
01:23:08,020 --> 01:23:13,240
using data and using our resources to deploy to the areas that they're needed.

880
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:17,240
I'm extremely proud if you look at the numbers and the increase in the numbers, not only

881
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:23,500
for DWI arrests, but for traffic stops, which when there's lights bouncing off of houses,

882
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:27,140
bouncing off of buildings, the research will tell you, people are going to go somewhere

883
01:23:27,140 --> 01:23:31,040
else to commit crimes. So with that, I'll take any questions that you

884
01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:33,980
might have. Thank you, Chief, for your presentation.

885
01:23:34,620 --> 01:23:37,920
Anybody on council has any questions for Chief at this time?

886
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:43,080
Chief, will you be doing a community outreach for, I know you did it in the past a few months

887
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:47,740
to go about educating parents about keeping their children and car seats and all that and

888
01:23:47,740 --> 01:23:50,680
just keep throwing that message out. Will there be anything in that comment?

889
01:23:50,900 --> 01:23:56,240
Our COPSO, our COPSO continues to do public education if you will. I'd have to check

890
01:23:56,240 --> 01:24:00,520
with them to see if we have any schedule, but we will continue to do that. And we are focused

891
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:05,000
I feel dimensioned next week. We will be doing a press conference to roll out a new

892
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:10,160
initiative dealing with speed and impaired driving. But we will continue the training

893
01:24:10,160 --> 01:24:14,720
models that we currently have for public education like that to keep people in our car seat.

894
01:24:14,860 --> 01:24:19,340
I think it's very effective, which you all did in the past, but it doesn't even have to be,

895
01:24:19,340 --> 01:24:23,100
you have to host something, you know, just simply hosting it on your website just to remind people,

896
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:27,000
you know, keep, you know, certain age, your kids in a car seat, things like that go a long way.

897
01:24:27,100 --> 01:24:30,520
Just a friend of mine, you're no different than your training that you're doing for your officers,

898
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:31,660
you know, me? Absolutely.

899
01:24:33,870 --> 01:24:37,130
The chief, the question I have on the COP program,

900
01:24:37,130 --> 01:24:45,330
I know they go out to talk to neighborhoods, but do we have any numbers on actual neighborhood watch groups being formed in subdivisions?

901
01:24:46,130 --> 01:24:53,230
My area, they're real interested in doing it, and I just think it's a way to get the community involved with policing.

902
01:24:53,790 --> 01:24:59,970
Also, I know you once mentioned about residents who can sign up to have-

903
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:29,080
Any of PD access to their camera and footage? Can you touch on that a little bit? So I don't have the number of groups that we currently have active. I can tell you we have a quarterly community watch meeting and there's at least a dozen folks that show up, but I know that we've added groups. We've added groups like Elena. We've added the one that's there north of Vela where you just put up the street signs because of parking here in school. And we continue to want to add those groups, and that is the next step that we're going to want to try to do is citizens on patrol.

904
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:33,740
members of those groups actually logged their hours to patrol their own neighborhood

905
01:25:33,740 --> 01:25:38,240
and report things that are suspicious. And there's some other neighborhood-based programs

906
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:43,380
that we'll look at over the next six to 12 months. The second part of it was cameras.

907
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:50,320
So currently we don't have the ability to pipe in camera feeds. In fact, this year it's

908
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:54,560
budgeted in our capital outlay. There was money to start trying to create our own camera

909
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:58,380
system in and around the promenade, right? And we're still researching and working on

910
01:25:58,380 --> 01:26:02,600
that. But there is a real-time crime center software that we've looked at that we've

911
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:09,100
demoed that allows those neighborhoods to give us access to their feed. And there's

912
01:26:09,100 --> 01:26:14,440
actual intelligence software that if we're looking for a particular suspect or vehicle,

913
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:19,280
the software searches for it instead of an officer sitting there for 12 hours looking

914
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:24,380
through the video, the software does it for you and pulls it up. So it's really, really,

915
01:26:24,380 --> 01:26:30,560
really high tech technology and we're asking for it in the budget this year to see if we can bring

916
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:35,260
that to fruition so we can begin to partner not only with neighborhoods that have cameras but

917
01:26:35,260 --> 01:26:41,400
with mom and pop grocery stores or convenience stores or anyone who has a camera that we can

918
01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:46,120
access on the network and they give us permission to we would have that I can tell you that in less

919
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:53,900
in a year the city of Atlanta added over 10,000 cameras that were piped in from businesses and

920
01:26:53,900 --> 01:26:58,780
communities in around Atlanta into their crime center where they were able to review it on software.

921
01:26:59,500 --> 01:27:00,800
They're called donor cameras.

922
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:01,540
Thank you.

923
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:04,120
All right.

924
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:05,980
Chief, thank you so much for your presentation.

925
01:27:06,660 --> 01:27:08,760
I appreciate all the work that department does.

926
01:27:08,900 --> 01:27:13,620
As I mentioned earlier on the streets, paving presentation as their city grows.

927
01:27:13,620 --> 01:27:21,560
It affects all our departments, but I think police department also, given how much more traffic is in the road and all that.

928
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:27,680
and you know it is very unfortunate these numbers that we've seen I know with what happened last

929
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:33,300
Monday and I appreciate the department going to the service of the families you know stop by and I

930
01:27:33,300 --> 01:27:40,120
saw you all there it just goes a long way poor family that's poor family members and you know

931
01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:45,740
anything that we can do anything that we can come up with to help advocate and make people aware

932
01:27:45,740 --> 01:27:54,040
where it goes beyond, in my opinion, DWI-related incidents just distracted driving, just simple

933
01:27:54,040 --> 01:27:59,340
slowing down in areas that, you know, all those things contribute to accidents.

934
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:04,140
And so, you know, let us know, if I know you have a press conference coming up, I don't

935
01:28:04,140 --> 01:28:08,100
know if you mentioned that, August 9th, right?

936
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:13,700
But any events like that that we can come up and help advocate and just make our community

937
01:28:13,700 --> 01:28:16,440
do where, just let us know and we're happy to do it.

938
01:28:16,620 --> 01:28:20,980
I can truly appreciate your support because we wouldn't have the resources available to

939
01:28:21,480 --> 01:28:24,520
deal with the things we're dealing with without your support and without you all giving

940
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:25,620
us the tools that we need.

941
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:26,580
So thank you all very much.

942
01:28:26,740 --> 01:28:26,980
Yes sir.

943
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:28,000
Thank you.

944
01:28:28,140 --> 01:28:28,520
Thank you.

945
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,220
All right.

946
01:28:31,460 --> 01:28:35,280
We're going to move on to item 7 of public comments.

947
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:37,480
Yes, Vermeer.

948
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:41,780
The Animal City Council allows for a specific portion of the city council meeting to be dedicated

949
01:28:41,780 --> 01:28:42,800
to public comments.

950
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:47,760
Public comments are limited to three minutes. I will be taking time. Please note, the public

951
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:51,300
comment period is not interactive. The council may not respond to public comments.

952
01:28:51,980 --> 01:28:56,320
At this timer and council, there are two public comments. The first public comment is burn

953
01:28:56,320 --> 01:29:01,940
declarity. Reminder of the penalty interest and collection fee.

954
01:29:04,660 --> 01:29:11,160
Yes, I would like to tell the gentleman about potholes on McCall between McCall and 10th Street

955
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:16,680
don't change it. I don't know what you're using, but if it even barely sprinkles, it's gone,

956
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:21,280
it's been removed. So it's an older road, but there's a school over there, and we have

957
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:28,260
a lot of traffic, so I'd like to see some over there. I gave you this form, it shows penalty

958
01:29:28,260 --> 01:29:34,280
interest and collection fee charges. This is what someone, if they don't pay their property

959
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:40,120
taxes in January of the following year, the February, then all the penalty and interest

960
01:29:40,120 --> 01:29:48,240
starts each month it goes up 7% 9% 11% 13% on top of what you already owe and you

961
01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:55,960
couldn't pay in July the delinquent tax firm puts in 15% so by the time you

962
01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:59,320
go around as I'm always telling on the next January

963
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:08,140
The taxes that you owed in the year before, the interest and penalty of the total fees is 39%. So that's why I'm always

964
01:30:08,140 --> 01:30:15,200
hauling and talking about your spending and things because there's a lot of people that are being stuck. We can so far

965
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:26,400
are able to pay our taxes but there are a lot of people that can't. And today, I also have signed up for agenda items. And one of them is 8A, which I'm hoping

966
01:30:26,400 --> 01:30:30,060
hoping before you vote on it that you will answer the question.

967
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:35,800
We're giving city property to the university and the ECISD.

968
01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:39,800
The market value is $63,360.

969
01:30:40,740 --> 01:30:47,680
And the justification is the university project seeks to bring new student housing and more vibrant

970
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:51,340
on campus life in the downtown area of the city.

971
01:30:51,340 --> 01:30:55,940
both the ECISD and the City have signed an agreement to sell.

972
01:30:56,360 --> 01:30:59,440
I called our President School Board and she didn't know about it,

973
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:02,080
so I'm trying to find out about that.

974
01:31:02,180 --> 01:31:05,380
But once again, each time we look up the University

975
01:31:05,380 --> 01:31:09,480
is constantly purchasing, buying, given whatever property

976
01:31:09,480 --> 01:31:11,240
that belong to the people.

977
01:31:11,940 --> 01:31:14,320
And they own, I believe, on Chapin and Sugar,

978
01:31:14,780 --> 01:31:18,420
a huge piece of property that they're not doing anything with.

979
01:31:18,420 --> 01:31:22,300
and then on 10C tonight you have imminent domain.

980
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:24,800
I really don't like imminent domain.

981
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:28,680
A public necessity for the welfare of the city of Edinburgh

982
01:31:29,210 --> 01:31:32,620
and the public or what I can't remember on writing

983
01:31:32,620 --> 01:31:35,440
at publication or whatever at large.

984
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:39,100
Can you explain why you're taking so much property?

985
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:40,300
I don't know who it is.

986
01:31:40,500 --> 01:31:43,080
I looked to try to find it on the website.

987
01:31:43,540 --> 01:31:45,320
You didn't give where it was at.

988
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:53,540
I did talk, and I think I know where it is now, but can you explain where you're giving the university something and you're taking

989
01:31:54,260 --> 01:31:58,200
Eminent domain on a net the piece of property from an individual.

990
01:31:59,100 --> 01:32:08,420
Again, I hope that y'all will keep this penalty and interest and collection fee near your heart through the end of the year and keep it there.

991
01:32:08,420 --> 01:32:15,520
that this is what the people look at and what the people are having to do and they can't afford it.

992
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:16,160
Thank you.

993
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:17,340
Thank you, ma'am.

994
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:36,400
Ms. McKery would also like to speak on items A, A, 9, A, 10, B, 10, C, 11, B, and 13, B.

995
01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:42,640
And the last public comment is Magdele Castle regarding the UFO Festival and Conference.

996
01:32:51,220 --> 01:32:52,440
Good evening, Mayor of Council.

997
01:32:52,620 --> 01:32:54,080
Thank you for your constant and continued support.

998
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:56,340
My name is Magdele Castle, Assistant Director of Cultural Arts.

999
01:32:56,900 --> 01:33:02,880
This marks the 13th annual UFO Festival and Conference happening here in Edinburgh on August 11th and 12th.

1000
01:33:02,900 --> 01:33:06,380
The festival takes place here in the courtyard on the 11th from 7 to 11.

1001
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:13,500
And the conference will be at the Region 1 Education Service Centre at 1900 West Shrine Street.

1002
01:33:15,100 --> 01:33:20,440
The festival focuses on an event that happened here in Edinburgh in 1966, which aspires

1003
01:33:20,440 --> 01:33:21,040
to the festival.

1004
01:33:21,500 --> 01:33:28,480
Now in its 13th year, we invite the entire community to come out and put on their tinfoil

1005
01:33:28,480 --> 01:33:35,600
hats and get their laser light show activities going.

1006
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:39,400
We have a DJ show at the end of the night and the conference will be a ticket event at the

1007
01:33:39,400 --> 01:33:41,840
Edinburgh Region 1 conference center.

1008
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:42,320
Thank you.

1009
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:42,740
Great.

1010
01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:43,700
Thank you.

1011
01:33:46,310 --> 01:33:47,910
There are no other public comments, ma'am.

1012
01:33:48,610 --> 01:33:49,170
All right.

1013
01:33:49,390 --> 01:33:50,890
We're going to move on to ordinances.

1014
01:33:51,170 --> 01:33:52,050
Item 8A.

1015
01:33:52,310 --> 01:33:53,110
And I know we have a comment.

1016
01:33:53,250 --> 01:33:55,630
But I got to ask for motion second first.

1017
01:33:55,870 --> 01:33:59,170
This is to consider ordinance abandon vacating and convene.

1018
01:33:59,270 --> 01:34:02,150
Portion public street known as North 6th Avenue from the South

1019
01:34:02,150 --> 01:34:05,230
right away line of Peter Street and North right away line of

1020
01:34:05,230 --> 01:34:07,190
Coon Street within the city of Edinburgh.

1021
01:34:07,670 --> 01:34:10,970
To the abutting property owners, Edinburgh consolidated independent

1022
01:34:10,970 --> 01:34:13,690
school district and the border regions of the University of

1023
01:34:13,690 --> 01:34:14,490
the Texas system.

1024
01:34:22,880 --> 01:34:26,160
Motion to approve. We have a motion. Is there a second?

1025
01:34:30,140 --> 01:34:30,480
Second.

1026
01:34:30,700 --> 01:34:36,240
There's no second. We have a second. We had a question before we proceed.

1027
01:34:36,740 --> 01:34:38,800
And then I'll ask if there's any other discussion. Go ahead, men.

1028
01:34:38,900 --> 01:34:42,640
Just, you know, explain why you're doing this and what it's for, if you would.

1029
01:34:42,740 --> 01:34:46,360
Because I had a couple of calls and I know a little bit about it, but not enough.

1030
01:34:46,740 --> 01:34:49,420
Sure. I'll have our city manager address that, man.

1031
01:34:52,130 --> 01:34:59,970
Yes, or mayor. So this item is basically being brought before you for your consideration on a request that there is

1032
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:29,980
He's a property on the school district, excuse me, the school district owns. So there's a transaction that's being held, if I'm not mistaken, Omar. There's a transaction that's being held through the school district and the university. But in order for that transaction to clear, we need to be able to abandon this area. So it's an area that's not used. We're not utilizing it.

1033
01:35:29,980 --> 01:35:37,820
this area and so in an effort to continue that project, this is being requested from the city.

1034
01:35:41,910 --> 01:35:45,710
Okay, are we able to disclose what the plans are at this time?

1035
01:35:46,070 --> 01:35:52,350
Just I think that was part of the other question and I'll ask our attorney firm because I'm not sure but.

1036
01:35:52,750 --> 01:35:57,710
It's a utility easement I think that's on that property that the school district owns.

1037
01:35:57,710 --> 01:36:03,830
But you're right, so the overall project, this relates to the Midtown development board.

1038
01:36:03,850 --> 01:36:06,210
I mean, this has been ongoing for several years.

1039
01:36:07,250 --> 01:36:14,670
UTRGV is looking to build student housing facilities and other related facilities in this area.

1040
01:36:14,850 --> 01:36:19,850
They are purchasing property from the school district and from the city to make one contiguous

1041
01:36:19,850 --> 01:36:21,730
tract where they can do this development.

1042
01:36:22,090 --> 01:36:24,350
But right now, there's a road that buy sex.

1043
01:36:25,030 --> 01:36:26,950
And so this is an abandonment of that road.

1044
01:36:26,950 --> 01:36:31,850
that section. Exactly. So they can have that entire property to do the facilities.

1045
01:36:32,130 --> 01:36:36,030
All part of the development. Yes correct. And this is on the north part on Peter Street.

1046
01:36:36,590 --> 01:36:42,650
I'm referring to that section right there between what is it six street and seventh right that

1047
01:36:42,650 --> 01:36:46,730
goes into the parking lot of the school district right. That's a section that we're talking about.

1048
01:36:46,970 --> 01:36:50,370
Yes correct. And this will encompass all that area I guess. That's correct. Yes.

1049
01:36:51,030 --> 01:36:54,770
I don't know that answers the question. Okay. Yeah, Miss Fern. So there was a piece of property there

1050
01:36:54,770 --> 01:36:57,390
that the city owned, that we did sell you TRGV.

1051
01:36:57,830 --> 01:37:00,550
This is just that abandoning that street that easement.

1052
01:37:01,990 --> 01:37:04,310
All right, any other questions, discussion by Council?

1053
01:37:05,450 --> 01:37:06,710
If not, I'll call for a vote.

1054
01:37:06,830 --> 01:37:08,690
All those in favor of the motion, please, there is the right hand.

1055
01:37:09,170 --> 01:37:13,210
I'll suppose same sign, motion carries, item nine, A,

1056
01:37:13,690 --> 01:37:14,130
contractuals.

1057
01:37:14,290 --> 01:37:16,170
This is a consider authorizing city manager

1058
01:37:16,170 --> 01:37:18,870
to enter into task order, job task order number two,

1059
01:37:19,550 --> 01:37:21,530
with Alvarado, architects and associates.

1060
01:37:21,530 --> 01:37:32,250
This is part of RFQ 2022-06 for architectural services for the renovations of animal care facility for an amount not to exceed a $55,000.

1061
01:37:32,650 --> 01:37:38,030
So motion and the second there was also a question on this item.

1062
01:37:38,030 --> 01:37:45,430
But yes, I was just saying that I know that the county is looking to build their own and

1063
01:37:45,430 --> 01:37:48,390
not use that utilize the one over their own Trenton.

1064
01:37:48,890 --> 01:37:57,230
So how much have we been paying the taxpayers to do the humane society compared to what

1065
01:37:57,230 --> 01:37:58,630
y'all are looking at now?

1066
01:37:59,010 --> 01:38:01,050
What is there a big difference?

1067
01:38:01,390 --> 01:38:02,270
Is there big savings?

1068
01:38:02,770 --> 01:38:05,410
and hopefully we'll do a better quality.

1069
01:38:06,210 --> 01:38:08,850
I know that the news showed the dogs were underwater

1070
01:38:09,570 --> 01:38:10,990
and the county got a bill

1071
01:38:11,470 --> 01:38:13,850
and then they were told the animals couldn't,

1072
01:38:13,990 --> 01:38:15,770
they wouldn't take any animals.

1073
01:38:16,030 --> 01:38:18,310
They take the money, so that's why I was asking.

1074
01:38:18,630 --> 01:38:18,870
Sure.

1075
01:38:19,450 --> 01:38:22,870
Yeah, I believe this is part of our efforts

1076
01:38:22,870 --> 01:38:24,870
to supplement what we're trying to do.

1077
01:38:25,170 --> 01:38:26,970
You know, as far as animal care and the facility,

1078
01:38:27,230 --> 01:38:30,270
this is just to add to our facilities, that correct?

1079
01:38:30,510 --> 01:38:31,010
That is correct.

1080
01:38:31,010 --> 01:38:35,870
at our existing facility, but the relationship will continue.

1081
01:38:36,090 --> 01:38:38,790
We have to work with Palm Valley at this time.

1082
01:38:39,370 --> 01:38:41,070
This is not to go on our own.

1083
01:38:41,170 --> 01:38:44,050
This is as I understand to just supplement what we're doing.

1084
01:38:44,430 --> 01:38:47,770
Yeah, Mr. and so, so if I'm interject just like I asked about

1085
01:38:47,770 --> 01:38:51,290
the paving $3 million investment with our own manpower,

1086
01:38:51,470 --> 01:38:54,970
if we were to sub it out, it would cost three times the amount.

1087
01:38:56,410 --> 01:38:57,590
It's on our site.

1088
01:38:57,590 --> 01:39:03,990
I think we spend over a million dollars on pets, on cats and dogs, to make society.

1089
01:39:04,190 --> 01:39:09,190
So we're trying to bring that in, rein it in, because every year it jumps, it jumps.

1090
01:39:10,310 --> 01:39:15,630
I think chief was one of the advocates for this, because apparently PD did that way back in the day.

1091
01:39:15,750 --> 01:39:21,730
And so we thought if we had our own system, we could at least pull back on that large number,

1092
01:39:21,730 --> 01:39:30,210
have our own facility and use, not get rid of any existing relationships, but try and see if we can mitigate some of the cost on our own.

1093
01:39:30,650 --> 01:39:34,470
So this will not be the humane society. This will be the cities.

1094
01:39:34,690 --> 01:39:35,430
Yes, that's right.

1095
01:39:35,830 --> 01:39:36,990
Thank you.

1096
01:39:37,850 --> 01:39:48,190
And if I may add, this is, you know, obviously what we're doing here is just part of what we can do to address this challenge. It's a challenge throughout our city throughout the county.

1097
01:39:48,770 --> 01:39:51,830
But we need to work together with Palm Valley with our residents.

1098
01:39:52,570 --> 01:39:56,910
We need to do a lot more awareness and education of this issue.

1099
01:39:57,030 --> 01:39:58,810
But this is just doing our part as Councilmember.

1100
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:24,240
I think we've met with Palm Valley on this issue. They actually welcome this improvement we're looking to do because it's going over our help. Not only our city, but the area. So anybody else have any questions from council? Can you add anything that we didn't say? It's just an expansion. This is only to start the design process. We currently have 15 canals. We're looking to go three, two, four times more.

1101
01:40:27,420 --> 01:40:30,380
Thank you. All those in favor of the motion creators are at hand.

1102
01:40:30,380 --> 01:40:57,320
I'll suppose, same sign, motion carries, item 10, A, this is resolution, this is to consider resolution, and approve fiscal year 2023-2027 consolidated plan and strategy, which includes the community development block grant, fiscal year 23-24, annual action plan for the proposed use of funds for the period beginning October 1st, 2023 through September 30th, 2024.

1103
01:40:57,320 --> 01:41:04,720
for. So we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Any question? I just had a quick

1104
01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:11,240
question. Ms. Gacha on the I noticed that there was a couple of projects. I say city projects

1105
01:41:11,820 --> 01:41:17,660
are I just wanted to make sure that those departments that we include them in our budget. We're going

1106
01:41:17,660 --> 01:41:24,280
to have to have a match. Is that correct? For those projects. So good evening, Marisa. I have

1107
01:41:24,280 --> 01:41:26,180
some of the director of grants administration.

1108
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:31,320
The projects that were submitted for consideration

1109
01:41:31,800 --> 01:41:33,900
was at a larger amount.

1110
01:41:34,320 --> 01:41:36,340
However, we did work with the departments

1111
01:41:36,340 --> 01:41:39,360
when we were strategizing on how we were going to move forward

1112
01:41:39,360 --> 01:41:40,380
and fund them.

1113
01:41:41,020 --> 01:41:44,720
And they are able to face these projects out.

1114
01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:50,360
So it just depends on the proposals that come in at the time.

1115
01:41:50,680 --> 01:41:53,600
If it does go over the allotted amount,

1116
01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:59,260
And yes, you will have to at that time, then look at other sources of funding.

1117
01:42:00,060 --> 01:42:03,520
And I know it's a Brennelline Cedar drainage project, right?

1118
01:42:04,180 --> 01:42:07,020
And then there's a sidewalk improvement project in someone's field.

1119
01:42:07,020 --> 01:42:12,900
So they're all able to be scaled back as well, and including the sidewalk project.

1120
01:42:13,060 --> 01:42:18,760
We did meet with public works with Mr. Vince Romero and Mr.

1121
01:42:18,760 --> 01:42:23,500
your, you know, whole summer of O'Kale to make sure that we were able to scale the project

1122
01:42:23,500 --> 01:42:28,200
back and that it would still be, you know, completed and functioning, you know, would be

1123
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:30,700
able to function with the amount of money that we're going to provide.

1124
01:42:33,460 --> 01:42:34,420
I don't know if you want to.

1125
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:38,820
I just wanted to ask city management to keep these projects in mind as we're going through

1126
01:42:38,820 --> 01:42:43,000
budget process, what will happen is if they get funded and then we don't appropriate funds

1127
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:48,080
on the city side, you know, the residents are going to be asking, okay, where are we finishing

1128
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:55,600
So I just want to make sure as we accept this or these projects that we also commit to the city funding because

1129
01:42:55,600 --> 01:43:03,560
We do have a bushes mayor with the director's department heads as far as making sure that they're budgeting any difference that they

1130
01:43:04,220 --> 01:43:07,580
Yeah, and I and I would highlight these

1131
01:43:07,580 --> 01:43:10,960
Missile on the on the budget when we're reviewing them

1132
01:43:10,960 --> 01:43:16,280
That's for councils consideration because this will be tied to these are federal monies and so you know

1133
01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:19,520
We'll make sure we comply so that is correct. Yes, thank you mayor

1134
01:43:20,200 --> 01:43:26,460
All right, there's all the questions all those in favor. Please raise your right hand. I'll suppose same sign motion carries

1135
01:43:26,460 --> 01:43:33,840
The next item be is consider resolution. Excuse me. No consider approval not a resolution of the American Rescue Plan Act

1136
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:38,360
Arpa coroner virus state and local fiscal recovery funds program budget amendment

1137
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:39,800
Council

1138
01:43:40,420 --> 01:43:41,480
so move

1139
01:43:42,180 --> 01:43:45,540
We have a motion and a second and I believe there was a

1140
01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:47,740
Question on this one as well.

1141
01:43:50,480 --> 01:43:59,900
Yeah, because it shows here the city has received a total of 27 million one hundred thirty two thousand five hundred thirty six dollars in

1142
01:43:59,900 --> 01:44:05,840
Two separate allocations one was in September 21 and one was in August 22

1143
01:44:07,580 --> 01:44:14,160
How much more of the COVID money is out there that seems to be always

1144
01:44:14,160 --> 01:44:20,120
dwindling in, is it ever end? And I know that between the school district, the county

1145
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:26,720
and the city is easily spent. I mean, and I know these are tax dollars wherever they're

1146
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:32,860
coming from. And someone wanted me to ask, you know, how much more are we going to keep

1147
01:44:32,860 --> 01:44:35,140
going? And I said, I didn't know.

1148
01:44:35,940 --> 01:44:41,400
I have our city manager dressed up, Miss from, but I think this is the last amount that

1149
01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:44,100
That is correct, Mayor.

1150
01:44:44,480 --> 01:44:50,400
We did receive only two allocations, Ms. Earn, and we are currently trying to get the

1151
01:44:50,400 --> 01:44:56,380
council's input as well as present some items that have come up for the projects and

1152
01:44:56,380 --> 01:44:57,060
for the funding.

1153
01:44:57,300 --> 01:44:59,600
So we're trying to leverage the monies that have-

1154
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,680
Time to expedite some of these projects and move forward to, I believe through 2026 if I'm not mistaken. So you might see these items come up from time to time as they come up. Again, like I mentioned, we want to try to leverage the funding that has been allocated to the city based on the needs of the community and the input from the council. And I believe online we have a listing of all the projects.

1155
01:45:30,300 --> 01:45:30,940
Yes, sir.

1156
01:45:31,240 --> 01:45:31,820
Yes, sir.

1157
01:45:32,460 --> 01:45:33,760
Is it on our city side?

1158
01:45:33,880 --> 01:45:34,860
Do you all know what link?

1159
01:45:35,120 --> 01:45:36,640
Just so that the residents can go to it.

1160
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:44,240
I believe it might be under the Department of Finance, if it's not through the Department of Grants, because it's a resolution that his is approved.

1161
01:45:44,880 --> 01:45:46,240
So I believe it's on there.

1162
01:45:46,800 --> 01:45:50,300
As the as-a-projects get approved or the items get approved.

1163
01:45:50,300 --> 01:45:53,760
So there's a link under fiscal transparency on our website.

1164
01:45:53,900 --> 01:45:54,660
Under finance support.

1165
01:45:54,720 --> 01:45:56,060
But that's under finance, that is correct.

1166
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:56,680
Yes.

1167
01:45:56,680 --> 01:46:04,320
Okay, but I do want to say if I may add mayor that the ARPA funding just to further explain and clarify

1168
01:46:04,320 --> 01:46:08,820
It has been allocated to the to the city and we've had this funding

1169
01:46:08,820 --> 01:46:14,500
We do have projects that are undergoing that are underway and there there has been a

1170
01:46:14,500 --> 01:46:15,120
surplus

1171
01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:23,300
So we are able to then we want to maximize these funds so we're able as other projects come in city manager

1172
01:46:23,300 --> 01:46:34,740
Manager will reach out to our office and will the departments and the city management team will meet and then they come to us to ensure compliance for these additional projects as we're adding them

1173
01:46:34,740 --> 01:46:42,260
My compliance team will be reviewing everything. Yeah, and let me just see it through its life. Yeah, let me just answer it for Fern

1174
01:46:42,980 --> 01:46:48,380
Just for clarification. Our our amounts was allocated from the county correct

1175
01:46:53,300 --> 01:46:59,220
So the first allocation I believe you might be referring to is the CARES, this one's ARPA.

1176
01:46:59,580 --> 01:47:08,480
Yeah, so yeah, there was a CARES misprint that was given to the county, they spread it out throughout the cities, and then this was ARPA.

1177
01:47:08,940 --> 01:47:15,880
And this was all back in 2020, around that time funding was coming in, and there's been a plan on the two tranches that were coming in.

1178
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:21,320
So it's not new monies, just old monies that are finally, they gave us a few years to utilize.

1179
01:47:21,980 --> 01:47:29,540
And I'd like to mention too, as Ms. Garza made comment that as the projects are being complete,

1180
01:47:30,360 --> 01:47:33,200
believe it or not, sometimes we do have some money left over.

1181
01:47:33,420 --> 01:47:37,660
So we need to reallocate those so that we can leverage them and at least put them towards

1182
01:47:37,660 --> 01:47:41,020
another project that we foresee that is needed here in the city.

1183
01:47:41,300 --> 01:47:47,000
So you will continue seeing these from time to time, but hopefully some of these projects

1184
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:48,480
can get completed sooner than later.

1185
01:47:48,480 --> 01:47:48,960
And

1186
01:47:51,390 --> 01:47:56,090
yes, thank you for that question just to answer the part of your question too is as far as I'm concerned

1187
01:47:56,090 --> 01:48:01,310
The federal government and the state government wants to keep giving us money to do something with I'm going to take it

1188
01:48:01,310 --> 01:48:08,830
Now it is tax dollars to you know in general, but I'm not going to sit here and say no and deprive my citizens of the benefit of that

1189
01:48:08,830 --> 01:48:14,350
So any dollar they want to send down here be happy to take it if we've got a good use for it unless you've got some match to it

1190
01:48:14,350 --> 01:48:20,550
That we can't afford is a different story, but if the feds or the state accounting wants to send some money over here

1191
01:48:20,550 --> 01:48:22,390
here, I'll open my pocket and we'll take it.

1192
01:48:23,230 --> 01:48:27,390
Power pocket for the scene, now mine, I'm not, yeah, that's going to cost me a voter

1193
01:48:27,390 --> 01:48:27,670
too.

1194
01:48:29,090 --> 01:48:35,690
Yeah, and for the record, part of this funds is what we used for tax relief last year just

1195
01:48:35,690 --> 01:48:42,230
as a reminder, that was I think in the previous year, this current fiscal year.

1196
01:48:42,950 --> 01:48:47,430
So there's still funds available, it's up to council, they want to do that again this year,

1197
01:48:47,610 --> 01:48:48,130
this budget year.

1198
01:48:48,130 --> 01:48:55,190
So just trying to put everybody on the spot here for this next budget, but anyway, so that's what we've used this last year.

1199
01:48:55,310 --> 01:49:01,830
But it has been put to good use and I urge all the residents to really go into that fiscal transparency.

1200
01:49:01,910 --> 01:49:07,510
So you have all the projects there, all of them are listed, whether or not and I appreciate all the work that staff's doing so.

1201
01:49:07,530 --> 01:49:15,930
And in this latest budget that we included in your packet, it does have all the most current expenditures for all the projects.

1202
01:49:16,410 --> 01:49:20,090
We updated that, we worked closely with Ms. Segura to do that.

1203
01:49:20,610 --> 01:49:21,650
Great, thank you.

1204
01:49:22,210 --> 01:49:23,430
All right, there's no other discussion.

1205
01:49:23,610 --> 01:49:25,290
All those in favor of the motion, please raise your right hand.

1206
01:49:25,790 --> 01:49:27,470
I'll suppose same sign, motion carries.

1207
01:49:27,770 --> 01:49:31,910
Next item, see, this is to consider the use of eminent domain to condemn property.

1208
01:49:32,550 --> 01:49:40,130
This is a .067 acre track of land out of lot 49 in Lehigh Plaza, Ithalo County, Texas.

1209
01:49:42,150 --> 01:49:45,490
Out of saving accept, this is all the legal description of the property.

1210
01:49:45,490 --> 01:49:58,190
The seven and a half acres line east of center line railroad describe a warrant to deed dated October 3rd, 1972 recording volume 1337, page 110, deed records in approving a resolution determining a public

1211
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:17,560
Necessity for acquiring property and authorizing the filing of eminent domain proceedings to acquire property. Motion to prove the resolution. We have motion, is there a second? If I may interrupt, I'm sorry. There's a specific motion that's required by state law. If you look at the cover sheet, it's on the last paragraph under part two.

1212
01:50:25,560 --> 01:50:35,620
So the state law has a specific, you know, phrasey

1213
01:50:35,620 --> 01:50:38,540
that you need to use when making the motion to approve this resolution?

1214
01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:45,880
And so to the extent you want to approve the resolution, there's language included in there to use for the motion.

1215
01:50:46,420 --> 01:50:47,760
Can you refer to this section again?

1216
01:50:48,160 --> 01:50:48,900
I'm sorry, sure.

1217
01:50:49,300 --> 01:50:51,840
So it's the cover page for this agenda item.

1218
01:50:53,240 --> 01:50:58,020
And it's the last paragraph of section two, which is the description and scope.

1219
01:50:58,540 --> 01:51:01,840
The paragraph begins if the City Council wishes to proceed with the authorization.

1220
01:51:07,140 --> 01:51:08,940
So we have to have that part of it.

1221
01:51:08,940 --> 01:51:11,220
Yeah, we have to read the rest of the year.

1222
01:51:11,600 --> 01:51:11,960
Correct.

1223
01:51:12,460 --> 01:51:23,900
Okay, we'll ask for the approval for the resolution for the state's I move that the city of Edinburgh authorizes the use of the power of a minute domain to acquire the property described in this agenda item for the public purpose of constructing and operating a hike and bike trail.

1224
01:51:23,900 --> 01:51:31,000
Yes, is there a guns motion? We have a second and we had a question on this as well, I believe.

1225
01:51:34,450 --> 01:51:40,850
This was taken property from a taxpayer for imminent domain and I can't find out.

1226
01:51:41,070 --> 01:51:49,730
Here it is, that a public necessity for the welfare of the city of Edinburgh can you explain why it's a public necessity?

1227
01:51:50,250 --> 01:51:52,270
I guess it's the person we're asking.

1228
01:51:52,270 --> 01:51:57,850
and at large the public, so if you just kind of answer what that is.

1229
01:51:57,850 --> 01:52:00,670
Sure, so that it's for public improvements.

1230
01:52:00,950 --> 01:52:03,390
There's a high-convictor that's being built along this corridor,

1231
01:52:03,950 --> 01:52:06,050
and this is a section of property that is still needed.

1232
01:52:06,830 --> 01:52:08,190
Is this all with all the owners?

1233
01:52:08,890 --> 01:52:09,870
No, with all the owners.

1234
01:52:11,130 --> 01:52:12,090
Yeah, sure.

1235
01:52:13,090 --> 01:52:16,170
There's a grant that we received from MPO back in 2019.

1236
01:52:16,650 --> 01:52:18,810
By the time we got executed, it became 2020.

1237
01:52:19,350 --> 01:52:25,510
and we received about $800,000 in funding plus $400,000 that we threw in, and my

1238
01:52:25,510 --> 01:52:29,690
calendar also threw in another $400,000, and this is to build the hike and bike

1239
01:52:29,690 --> 01:52:34,010
trail to connect both cities, us from Jackson, going to the city of

1240
01:52:34,010 --> 01:52:37,310
McCallan, McCallan connecting on their second street side into their ditches.

1241
01:52:38,990 --> 01:52:42,990
This particular project required two parcels on one of them we have been able to

1242
01:52:42,990 --> 01:52:48,170
agree with one of the property owners which was a larger track. This is actually

1243
01:52:48,170 --> 01:52:53,410
the southeast corner of the intersection of McCall Road and Wisconsin. This is the only

1244
01:52:53,410 --> 01:52:59,190
pending parcel to be able to get the project into construction. Plants are at a hundred

1245
01:52:59,190 --> 01:53:04,330
percent already. Okay, it was the, we're all the owners notified about us trying to do

1246
01:53:04,330 --> 01:53:10,330
any money, were they all notified? They were notified. It's only one owner. This is no one

1247
01:53:10,330 --> 01:53:14,190
owner for this parcel, one owner for the other parcel, the other parcel we agreed on this

1248
01:53:14,190 --> 01:53:18,030
when we did not agree to terms based on what they knew about today's council meeting.

1249
01:53:18,830 --> 01:53:23,510
I'm sorry. They knew about coming today at today's council meeting. They know that it was

1250
01:53:23,510 --> 01:53:27,270
coming. We did send the final offer and that's how it looked.

1251
01:53:27,930 --> 01:53:32,110
Yeah, for the record, what did we offer and what was the disparity? What were they asking?

1252
01:53:33,690 --> 01:53:35,350
How were you able to discuss that?

1253
01:53:38,610 --> 01:53:41,850
You can, you can't discuss it, but it is also subject

1254
01:53:41,850 --> 01:53:47,250
to confidentiality as well. So it's up to the council if they want to retain that confidentiality or not.

1255
01:53:47,390 --> 01:53:53,610
Okay, well I'll rephrase how long did we talk to the owner and try to offer him a fair settlement

1256
01:53:53,610 --> 01:53:59,870
and what was the conversation back without mentioning numbers. Let's just say that we started the

1257
01:54:00,550 --> 01:54:07,470
we appraised the property back in March and the offer was sent as soon as we got out the

1258
01:54:07,470 --> 01:54:15,550
The appraisal value was the offer at the appraisal value and it was a significant amount to three times

1259
01:54:16,890 --> 01:54:22,130
More like 35 to 40. 35 to 40 times of appraisal value is what the property owner wanted

1260
01:54:22,650 --> 01:54:24,410
I just wanted that for the record

1261
01:54:25,310 --> 01:54:30,250
And and after we we said we couldn't we can only by law we can only offer a

1262
01:54:31,190 --> 01:54:32,330
appraisal for the most part

1263
01:54:32,330 --> 01:54:40,790
For the most part, there's a little bit of room for negotiations but appraisal value, it's generally the market value, which is what's required.

1264
01:54:41,050 --> 01:54:44,190
Definitely never at 35 to 40 times appraisal value.

1265
01:54:47,480 --> 01:54:48,240
Anything else you want to add?

1266
01:54:48,760 --> 01:54:49,080
No sir.

1267
01:54:49,580 --> 01:54:57,940
That we need to let the public know is we don't take your land, it's kind of a forced sale at market value, that's fair.

1268
01:54:57,940 --> 01:54:59,160
and so I'm going to go

1269
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:29,980
No, we still pay a market value. Is that what happens? We still pay for the land. We still have to pay for the product. We're not taking anyone's property. We were paying the market value when they wanted 35 to 40 times the value for the benefit of greater good. And we would have lost roughly a million dollars in improvement, other improvements if we wouldn't get this piece of land. Right. We lose there the rest of the hike and bike trail. That's correct. We can't complete our portion. Correct. And not only our part but the city of McAllens, the part that's willing to work.

1270
01:55:29,980 --> 01:55:32,540
I can't worry about us. We lost ours.

1271
01:55:32,840 --> 01:55:36,120
Well, we're together and we have an interlocal agreement with them.

1272
01:55:36,240 --> 01:55:38,420
And most importantly, the safety, you know, the hike and bike trail.

1273
01:55:38,580 --> 01:55:42,360
We need, you know, the sidewalks having to be safer for the people to ride their bikes.

1274
01:55:42,360 --> 01:55:46,540
And I think it's just important for us to take that initiative and acquire that.

1275
01:55:47,460 --> 01:55:49,760
Fern, I guess what they're really trying to tell you is we did everything.

1276
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:52,660
We did everything we could to negotiate with the property.

1277
01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:55,780
And then finally, this is the last step where we as a council

1278
01:55:55,780 --> 01:56:02,100
I also feel that this needed to go, so we don't lose another portion of what's best for our total community.

1279
01:56:02,500 --> 01:56:13,320
I just know as a property owner, a lot of times we don't want to sell our property for what it, and like I say I don't know who owns this or anything, but when we don't want to sell, that's what hurts.

1280
01:56:14,100 --> 01:56:22,780
Yeah, and I do want to say, and I understand that, and I do want to stay for the record, this is 0.0, and I know it's any property size 0.0670, which is about

1281
01:56:22,780 --> 01:56:26,100
Well, 2,100 square feet.

1282
01:56:26,280 --> 01:56:27,360
I just want to state that for the record.

1283
01:56:27,360 --> 01:56:29,340
We're not talking about a five acre track,

1284
01:56:29,380 --> 01:56:33,080
or this is a section of property on the north part

1285
01:56:33,080 --> 01:56:34,160
of the problem.

1286
01:56:34,300 --> 01:56:36,440
It's a parcel that's 22 feet in depth.

1287
01:56:36,860 --> 01:56:36,940
Yeah.

1288
01:56:37,840 --> 01:56:39,640
Well, I was just looking at one point,

1289
01:56:39,660 --> 01:56:40,640
y'all mentioned, or something.

1290
01:56:40,780 --> 01:56:42,280
I heard it's 7.5 acres.

1291
01:56:42,360 --> 01:56:45,620
Yeah, we have to state for the record the legal description.

1292
01:56:45,820 --> 01:56:46,460
It's out of that.

1293
01:56:46,820 --> 01:56:50,040
But it's, as you know, also pointed out,

1294
01:56:50,060 --> 01:56:51,080
was it 22 feet?

1295
01:56:53,960 --> 01:57:02,240
And it's just a front section of that property, not anybody's home, not it's just a front section which actually is going to make improvements all through that area.

1296
01:57:02,320 --> 01:57:09,420
And it is a right away piece. So it was always intended for improvement or expansion.

1297
01:57:10,520 --> 01:57:13,900
All right, if there's no other discussion, I'll cough for a vote.

1298
01:57:14,020 --> 01:57:15,440
All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

1299
01:57:15,900 --> 01:57:17,900
I'll suppose same sign, a motion carries.

1300
01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:20,160
We've been move on to item 11, economic development.

1301
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:33,340
We have item A, consider approval of sponsorship from the Edinburgh Economic Development Corporation to the City of Edinburgh Library and Cultural Arts Department to sponsor the South Texas International Film Festival in the amount of $10,000.

1302
01:57:34,100 --> 01:57:40,480
second discussion motion the second go ahead Mayor just want to ask who's here just rather

1303
01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:45,840
Is this the maximum that we're able to assist for the film festival or how did we come up with this amount?

1304
01:57:46,720 --> 01:57:51,580
This amount was basically come up we came up with the amount because we had a budget

1305
01:57:52,300 --> 01:57:54,100
That was about to be exceeded

1306
01:57:54,760 --> 01:57:58,580
But it was also because we did an economic impact analysis and

1307
01:57:58,580 --> 01:58:05,000
And based on that economic impact analysis, a $10,000 sponsorship is a good sponsorship

1308
01:58:05,000 --> 01:58:13,860
for the amount of attendees and also for the amount of projected expenditures for that

1309
01:58:13,860 --> 01:58:14,220
weekend.

1310
01:58:14,760 --> 01:58:16,780
What do we, a system was last year?

1311
01:58:17,080 --> 01:58:17,300
Do you know?

1312
01:58:18,120 --> 01:58:21,180
Last year they didn't ask for anything because they did everything virtual.

1313
01:58:23,580 --> 01:58:24,240
Was it virtual?

1314
01:58:24,540 --> 01:58:25,560
Was it last year or no?

1315
01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:25,960
No.

1316
01:58:26,220 --> 01:58:27,240
Last year was $20,000.

1317
01:58:27,760 --> 01:58:33,940
two years ago was was virtual. Yeah because I know last year we went to attend it so we're doing less this year than last year.

1318
01:58:34,300 --> 01:58:38,840
We're doing less this year than last year. Correct. Is there any way that we can help with more or this is the max.

1319
01:58:39,280 --> 01:58:41,880
I'm only saying because it gets bigger every year and we're decreasing.

1320
01:58:42,900 --> 01:58:48,620
Last year was 750 attendees and before that it was a little bit less because it was virtual.

1321
01:58:51,040 --> 01:58:55,580
But Council can override. I'm just asking. You're the one that leads the department.

1322
01:58:56,160 --> 01:59:01,820
Yeah, no. Our recommendation was $10,000. The board agreed with it. It was a unanimous vote by the board.

1323
01:59:02,380 --> 01:59:05,860
Right. All right. Thank you. Anybody else have any discussion?

1324
01:59:07,540 --> 01:59:10,920
If not, I would just ask if there is additional funds needed.

1325
01:59:11,380 --> 01:59:16,580
Can we use a hotel occupancy tax for this since it is bringing people to the city?

1326
01:59:17,360 --> 01:59:22,080
Yes. The hot tax can be utilized for an event such as this.

1327
01:59:22,080 --> 01:59:27,500
I know we have a lot of people coming so just right. I will add so this discussion go back and forth

1328
01:59:28,260 --> 01:59:28,700
Katsumagarsia

1329
01:59:29,860 --> 01:59:33,760
We asked the initial ask based on recommendations for the 10

1330
01:59:34,560 --> 01:59:37,600
To give the other 10 we asked for an impact study

1331
01:59:38,380 --> 01:59:41,820
EDC of course as you know has been separated from the city its own entity now

1332
01:59:41,820 --> 01:59:47,860
We're trying to establish guidelines on on sponsorships on how much the that they want to give for each festival

1333
01:59:49,040 --> 01:59:54,040
To be fair, the cultural arts didn't know about the economic study, but there's other festivals

1334
01:59:54,040 --> 01:59:58,400
that has a much greater economic impact, and I'm sure now they'll know to come educated

1335
01:59:58,400 --> 01:59:59,900
with guns loaded.

1336
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:31,140
Asking for the sponsorship. And before we agreed on that, we also reached out to City Manager to make sure that the hot tax could be utilized to cover the other 10, but of course, it comes to Council for approval so we can always change it if we think so. All right. Any other questions? If not, call for the vote. I'll pay for the motion to raise the right hand. I'll suppose same sign, motion carries. Item B,

1337
02:00:31,140 --> 02:00:33,560
to consider approval of fiscal year 22-23,

1338
02:00:33,980 --> 02:00:37,060
semi-annual report presented by the Edinburgh GDC Board

1339
02:00:37,620 --> 02:00:39,620
to the City of Edinburgh City Council.

1340
02:00:41,120 --> 02:00:42,980
So, let me introduce myself.

1341
02:00:44,040 --> 02:00:46,900
I'll go outside with the Edinburgh Economic Development Corporation.

1342
02:00:47,600 --> 02:00:50,720
One of the provisions and the bylaws of the corporation

1343
02:00:50,720 --> 02:00:52,740
is to make a semi-annual report.

1344
02:00:53,160 --> 02:00:54,720
That's the report that's in your packet

1345
02:00:54,720 --> 02:00:56,760
for the first six months of the fiscal year.

1346
02:00:57,660 --> 02:00:59,840
But I can do, just go through some of the highlights

1347
02:00:59,840 --> 02:01:04,980
of the first six months. Number one was the hiring of the executive director which is myself

1348
02:01:05,860 --> 02:01:15,200
and then that was in November of 2022 in March which is the first the month number six is when

1349
02:01:15,200 --> 02:01:19,980
I first started hiring staff so between November and March it was basically myself and then the

1350
02:01:19,980 --> 02:01:27,120
assistance of the city manager staff and then we were negotiating the sale of two EDC own buildings

1351
02:01:27,120 --> 02:01:32,000
that closed at that time and we also have five transactions within the North Industrial

1352
02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:37,500
Park that were being negotiated and some of those have already closed. Some of those

1353
02:01:37,500 --> 02:01:45,460
are pending closing in the next couple of days. We were also considering various properties

1354
02:01:45,460 --> 02:01:51,020
for EDC office space. We have implemented some guidelines for the incentive policies.

1355
02:01:56,500 --> 02:01:57,100
We

1356
02:01:57,100 --> 02:01:59,480
We've increased marketing and social media and print media.

1357
02:02:00,160 --> 02:02:02,820
We've been upgrading the EDC website.

1358
02:02:03,500 --> 02:02:12,900
We've participated in several conferences that have led into numerous leads and prospects that are increasing our networking opportunities as well.

1359
02:02:13,600 --> 02:02:24,520
We've been exposing us the community to many retailers, developers, brokers, and of course lawmakers in the legislative session.

1360
02:02:25,820 --> 02:02:30,240
We've put on the red light and new job fair earlier in the year.

1361
02:02:30,460 --> 02:02:35,660
We put on an entrepreneurship bootcamp, which was in partnership with Workforce Solutions.

1362
02:02:36,120 --> 02:02:39,860
We're going to continue to do those kind of job fairs and boot camps.

1363
02:02:40,560 --> 02:02:45,200
And we've also started the Small Business Assistant Programs through Lift Fund and also with

1364
02:02:46,380 --> 02:02:47,840
partnerships with the SBA.

1365
02:02:48,820 --> 02:02:49,900
Those are some of the highlights.

1366
02:02:50,080 --> 02:02:54,420
I can go into more detail, but the detail is outlined in the next six pages in your

1367
02:02:57,740 --> 02:03:05,740
Thank you for providing the information beforehand. It's very helpful for our review. Does anybody

1368
02:03:05,740 --> 02:03:12,180
on council have any questions or comments or anything? I only have one question. I know

1369
02:03:12,180 --> 02:03:17,480
as was mentioned, the EDCs now you have your own office. It's not a city department anymore

1370
02:03:17,480 --> 02:03:23,660
but is our finance going to continue handily and all finances for the corporation or a second

1371
02:03:23,660 --> 02:03:27,600
work. So there's still an agreement between the city and the EEC in terms of

1372
02:03:27,600 --> 02:03:32,760
services. So the oversight as far or the just handling of finance. Yeah finance

1373
02:03:32,760 --> 02:03:36,840
will still handle the books if you will. Our engineering department can still

1374
02:03:36,840 --> 02:03:41,900
help us in terms of some of the planning that we do. City manager staff is

1375
02:03:41,900 --> 02:03:44,960
available to us for a lot of the different projects that we're working with.

1376
02:03:45,360 --> 02:03:48,840
So we're still working closely with each other as a matter of fact even though

1377
02:03:48,840 --> 02:03:52,220
we're not physically located within City Hall our phone system which was just

1378
02:03:52,220 --> 02:03:57,840
established today is such that if you call City Hall, they just patches up into our

1379
02:03:57,840 --> 02:03:58,200
offices.

1380
02:03:58,580 --> 02:04:02,160
So nothing else has changed other than just a physical location.

1381
02:04:02,820 --> 02:04:02,960
Great.

1382
02:04:04,160 --> 02:04:12,900
I will add what I'm happy with Council is that we're trying to establish guidelines on incentives

1383
02:04:13,420 --> 02:04:21,640
based on revenues, performance, a lot of jobs, wages, where before there was no real, somebody

1384
02:04:21,640 --> 02:04:27,840
We would get somebody to get a little, somebody to get a lot, and it depended on who was

1385
02:04:27,840 --> 02:04:28,240
on the board.

1386
02:04:28,400 --> 02:04:32,660
This is not kind of standardizing, and so every time someone asks me, hey, will the EDC

1387
02:04:32,660 --> 02:04:32,840
help?

1388
02:04:32,940 --> 02:04:34,100
Now we refer them to the website.

1389
02:04:34,260 --> 02:04:38,820
So, hey, look, there's incentive packages there, see if you qualify for something.

1390
02:04:39,280 --> 02:04:43,220
Now, of course, if there's an item or a store or a business that the city of Edinburgh

1391
02:04:43,220 --> 02:04:47,120
is demanding, we're going to do whatever it takes to make it happen, but overall it kind

1392
02:04:47,120 --> 02:04:54,800
kind of standardizes what the EDC does and it's just trying to make it a more organized

1393
02:04:54,800 --> 02:04:56,260
professional packet.

1394
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:29,740
I appreciate the initiative for the small business because we do need to, you know, help them as much as we can. I know you'll have partnered with Lift Fund. We're having an information session with Lift Fund coming up on Thursday. And then we also have some other programs that we're working on right now that will be coming up in front of you all for a final approval. And then we'll be implementing some of that, which is some grant programs for parking lot improvements landscaping and that type of thing.

1395
02:05:29,740 --> 02:05:31,020
Yeah, thank you for mentioning that.

1396
02:05:31,220 --> 02:05:33,340
So some of the ARPA monies we want to,

1397
02:05:33,540 --> 02:05:35,700
that we're not used initially for the facade program.

1398
02:05:35,860 --> 02:05:40,360
We want to reward some of the smaller mom and pop restaurants

1399
02:05:40,360 --> 02:05:42,540
and businesses who have parking lot issues

1400
02:05:42,540 --> 02:05:43,740
that would never get addressed.

1401
02:05:43,900 --> 02:05:47,860
We want to see council will let us utilize those other funds

1402
02:05:47,860 --> 02:05:51,500
for parking lot improvements among other things.

1403
02:05:53,700 --> 02:05:56,500
All right, if anybody else, does that have any questions?

1404
02:05:56,820 --> 02:05:57,540
So I'll call for a vote.

1405
02:05:57,740 --> 02:05:59,120
All those in favor, please raise your right hand.

1406
02:05:59,520 --> 02:06:00,480
I'll suppose same sign.

1407
02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:05,620
Thank you for the other business. Council, is there any items that you would like to request?

1408
02:06:05,920 --> 02:06:10,500
You made the motion. There was not a motion. Okay, I apologize for that.

1409
02:06:10,780 --> 02:06:16,280
I thought there was. So thank you. All right, now I'll call for the vote.

1410
02:06:16,560 --> 02:06:21,480
I'll make the motion. All's in favor of the motion to approve the report.

1411
02:06:21,960 --> 02:06:25,700
Raise it right now. I'll suppose same sign. All right, now that carries.

1412
02:06:25,700 --> 02:06:33,200
Thank you. All right. 12 other business. Council is there any items you would like to request city manager place on the next council meeting?

1413
02:06:33,740 --> 02:06:38,840
Yes, Mayor. I'd like to have the sign ordinance put on the next

1414
02:06:40,120 --> 02:06:42,340
Political sign order specifically because

1415
02:06:42,340 --> 02:06:48,420
I mean the reason is this when the political signs were being put up or in violation of our ordinance

1416
02:06:48,420 --> 02:06:55,180
I came and called the city hall to find out what's happening with that. Apparently that would be a discussion on whether we need to enforce that law or not

1417
02:06:55,180 --> 02:06:59,660
So if we need to have a discussion whether we need a force that we need to discuss whether we need it

1418
02:07:00,860 --> 02:07:01,960
All right, okay

1419
02:07:03,100 --> 02:07:07,160
All right anything else we have an ordinance you'd like that ordinance

1420
02:07:07,160 --> 02:07:11,060
But apparently before it could be enforced because signs were being put up illegally

1421
02:07:11,480 --> 02:07:16,400
We had to have a discussion with with our legal counsel and everyone else whether we're gonna enforce the law

1422
02:07:16,400 --> 02:07:21,700
So I mean the police department has to have a discussion with legal counsel before the enforce a law that's on the book

1423
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:27,620
So obviously you must have an issue with this ordinance and I'd like to have an address if there is an issue.

1424
02:07:27,820 --> 02:07:32,720
Yeah. Well, I understood it was full in effect, but that's okay. We can't discuss it today.

1425
02:07:32,820 --> 02:07:36,280
We can bring it at the next meeting. I actually was in full effect, but anyway.

1426
02:07:36,900 --> 02:07:37,580
That's exactly what I understood.

1427
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:41,340
Yeah. Okay. Well, if we could just have that, do you want the actual ordinance?

1428
02:07:41,700 --> 02:07:45,320
We need to address the ordinance if there's an issue with it on why they had to have a meeting.

1429
02:07:45,620 --> 02:07:46,900
So we can put that back on.

1430
02:07:47,580 --> 02:07:47,780
Okay.

1431
02:07:47,780 --> 02:07:50,140
If anything else, council, any other items?

1432
02:07:51,600 --> 02:07:54,520
If not, I move on to item 13 consent agenda.

1433
02:07:54,680 --> 02:07:57,380
We have items A and B, is there a motion?

1434
02:07:59,740 --> 02:08:03,740
So motion the second and I believe, unless I'm mistaken,

1435
02:08:03,940 --> 02:08:05,180
for did you have a question, item B?

1436
02:08:13,280 --> 02:08:24,240
Just got some of 11 B and you know, to go into a little bit because I did pull up the balance sheet and stuff on the other gentleman.

1437
02:08:24,240 --> 02:08:25,320
Oh, I'm sorry.

1438
02:08:25,360 --> 02:08:26,260
I moved on.

1439
02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:26,640
Okay.

1440
02:08:26,880 --> 02:08:27,400
But I.

1441
02:08:27,660 --> 02:08:27,960
Okay.

1442
02:08:28,280 --> 02:08:37,380
My thing was, I know I looked here at Santana again for me in 205,000 I think and then

1443
02:08:37,380 --> 02:08:38,080
Santana.

1444
02:08:38,360 --> 02:08:44,360
We just like a little explanation and I was hoping he'd do a little more than just the things

1445
02:08:44,360 --> 02:08:46,780
that they've been doing for their office and stuff.

1446
02:08:47,180 --> 02:08:52,400
And then the second one that you're on right now that you haven't voted for, I just wanted

1447
02:08:52,400 --> 02:08:55,740
would you explain it a little bit or someone to explain what it is?

1448
02:09:02,480 --> 02:09:06,580
Good evening, Mayor Marisa Garza, Director of Grand Administration.

1449
02:09:07,580 --> 02:09:10,220
So we are bringing this item back.

1450
02:09:10,380 --> 02:09:14,200
This is a substantial amendment to our 2019 annual action plan.

1451
02:09:14,880 --> 02:09:21,700
We are reallocating a surplus of funding that came in through the Corona virus.

1452
02:09:21,700 --> 02:09:29,680
There was a special location through the CityBG Corona virus funding from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

1453
02:09:30,440 --> 02:09:36,980
We had funded several projects and there was also a surplus on the under end.

1454
02:09:37,740 --> 02:09:44,580
And so we basically we captured the funding the last time it was before you, it was to do a public hearing.

1455
02:09:44,580 --> 02:09:50,020
we went through our 30-day comment period and now we're back here to finalize and

1456
02:09:50,020 --> 02:09:58,000
approve the the super-sip agreement with Amigos El Valle. So we did finalize our

1457
02:09:58,000 --> 02:09:59,500
our 30-day common period.

1458
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:27,860
We have submitted our substantial amendment to HUD and they already reviewed it and have cleared this project. So now we want to do an amendment to the existing original contract as we were required to do by HUD. So this is. These are for 2019. I'm sorry. Yes, because when the funding came out, the guidance that we received was to either amend our 2019 annual action plan or the 2020.

1459
02:10:27,860 --> 02:10:34,240
But when the funding was received the first allocation, it was during the 2019 fiscal year.

1460
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:39,620
So we have to stick with the 2019 annual action plan.

1461
02:10:39,760 --> 02:10:41,200
We have to amend that one.

1462
02:10:41,460 --> 02:10:42,700
And we have these funds in place.

1463
02:10:43,160 --> 02:10:48,260
Yes, yes, it's just a surplus of funding from projects that did not use for funding.

1464
02:10:48,600 --> 02:10:53,240
So amigos adviated express a need for the meals on wheels program.

1465
02:10:53,520 --> 02:10:57,340
And that is why we feel confident that when they receive the funding,

1466
02:10:57,340 --> 02:11:03,140
they'll be able to spend it on time and within the performance of period that we were given.

1467
02:11:03,840 --> 02:11:08,520
Okay, I did that answer. Okay, sorry. And I'm sorry about the other item. I can't go back to

1468
02:11:08,520 --> 02:11:15,480
but we can try to get you that answer for, I'm sure that you had on the budget. All right, I did call

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for a motion on this in a second. So all those in favor of the motion, please raise your right hand.

1470
02:11:19,940 --> 02:11:24,420
Mayor, I need to abstain from the board for a meal divine. Okay, so we have one abstention.

1471
02:11:24,420 --> 02:11:27,260
and all those, everybody else in favor?

1472
02:11:28,160 --> 02:11:29,120
Can I see you have show hands?

1473
02:11:29,300 --> 02:11:29,500
I'm sorry.

1474
02:11:30,120 --> 02:11:30,800
All right, I'm sorry.

1475
02:11:31,240 --> 02:11:32,100
This is the way I went up extension.

1476
02:11:32,320 --> 02:11:34,240
We went up extension four, and then went up extension

1477
02:11:34,240 --> 02:11:36,440
for item B, particularly correct.

1478
02:11:36,800 --> 02:11:36,920
All right.

1479
02:11:37,260 --> 02:11:39,840
And just to clarify, thank you for pointing that out

1480
02:11:39,840 --> 02:11:41,340
as a board member of Migos de Valleja.

1481
02:11:41,460 --> 02:11:42,840
This issue has come up before,

1482
02:11:42,980 --> 02:11:45,000
so it's best to abstain, and I appreciate you doing that.

1483
02:11:45,680 --> 02:11:48,900
Well, on that note, so anybody on the council's board member

1484
02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:52,700
any entity that's funding for, we require to abstain?

1485
02:11:52,700 --> 02:11:59,400
Not necessarily, but because this is the source of the funding is the community development

1486
02:11:59,400 --> 02:12:06,920
block grant, HUD has given guidance on this specific question before.

1487
02:12:07,280 --> 02:12:07,460
Okay.

1488
02:12:07,780 --> 02:12:12,060
If it wasn't involving, you know, CDBG money, then it'd be a different outcome.

1489
02:12:12,480 --> 02:12:12,760
Got it.

1490
02:12:13,200 --> 02:12:13,640
Okay.

1491
02:12:14,000 --> 02:12:14,140
Great.

1492
02:12:14,840 --> 02:12:15,440
All right.

1493
02:12:15,600 --> 02:12:16,460
So we're going to call for a vote.

1494
02:12:16,660 --> 02:12:16,900
Moving on.

1495
02:12:17,080 --> 02:12:18,600
We're going to move on to executive session.

1496
02:12:18,840 --> 02:12:20,300
Council can add an emotion to move.

1497
02:12:20,660 --> 02:12:20,800
Thank you.

1498
02:12:20,800 --> 02:12:24,600
motion in a second. All's in favor, please raise the right hand.

1499
02:12:25,080 --> 02:12:30,780
All's opposed, same sign. It is 8-10 and we are now going to convene to

1500
02:12:30,780 --> 02:12:33,300
executive session, discuss items A, B, C, and D.

1501
05:00:29,070 --> 05:00:58,330
So, session, can I get a motion to reconvene? To move. We have a motion and a second to reconvene. All those in favour, please raise your right hand. I'll suppose, same side. Motion carries. Just wanted to state that there was no action taken in the executive session. Councilor, I think we have an item. We need action. Yes, Mayor. Based on the discussion, I would recommend a motion on item B. The motion being to ratify the EDC's purchase agreement.

1502
05:00:59,150 --> 05:01:03,090
for property with Nicheal Produce on the terms discussed in executive session.

1503
05:01:03,430 --> 05:01:10,270
So move. We have a motion. Second. Any discussion? If not, all is in favor, please raise your right hand.

1504
05:01:10,910 --> 05:01:16,130
I was opposed, same sign, motion carries. Any other action? No other action needed there.

1505
05:01:16,530 --> 05:01:18,950
Okay. Got a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn.

1506
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Second, all is in favor, please raise your right hand. I was opposed, same sign. We're adjourned.

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This

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