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I'm on. All right, let's find our seats and we're going to get started real quick. It is seven o'clock, so we'll get started.

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We've got to wait on an illustrious fire chief to make his way back over here.

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Good evening, good evening, and thank you very much for coming out here for our town hall meeting.

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It's always a joy to be at this meeting and see the citizens that show up. Some familiar faces, we've got some new faces in the crowd.

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We're here to answer your questions and so that's what we're going to do this

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evening. First off, I'm Gary Landers. I'm your police chief. It is my honor to

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serve as the police chief for you for the past 14 months and 15 days. We'll see

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if it lasts into tomorrow depending on how I do tonight. But just some

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housekeeping things. If you need to use a restroom, if you don't know the

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restrooms are at the top of this stairs to the right in that hallway there's

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also restrooms outside this door and in the corner over there if we have to

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leave the building for some reason I'm going out this door if anyone wants to

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follow me I'm going that way that is to the outside but we got to exit here

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and exit down here and up there all right any questions about that all

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right here's how we're going to conduct the meeting before I start doing

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and some introductions.

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This meeting is for you.

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We're here to answer any questions that you have

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about the city of Eulahs,

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about what's going on in the city of Eulahs.

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We ask that you limit your questions to one at a time

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so that we can answer that.

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We have some microphones in the room, correct?

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We got microphones in the back,

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so if you will raise your hand and one over here,

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this good-looking officer, Jay Kansen over there.

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They'll bring a microphone to you

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so that everybody hears what your question is.

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We do have some presentations that we'll get into later

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or if a question is related to that,

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we might start those at any given time.

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If you notice when you came in,

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also there is a little area down here

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at the bottom of the stairs

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and into the pre-counsel room.

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We have tables set up.

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Those tables are set up for every department

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after we are finished inside here,

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After three hours of being in here then we're going to go outside.

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This will last about an hour and 15 to an hour and 30 minutes.

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We're going to stop at 8.30, one way or another, but we are here to answer your questions until

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the last person leaves.

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If you have a specific question for a department and you think it would be better for you

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to ask that question individually instead of in a group, ask that you hold that question

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because you'll have a chance afterwards at the tables to go visit with them

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personally and ask that question. All right? The last thing is let's all be

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respectful to each other. All right? If you disagree with someone that's okay,

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but that person has the right to ask that question. So let's keep our, let's

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keep our heads on our shoulders. All right? All right, now let's start

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introducing the illustrious staff that's here tonight and I would ask

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that you hold your applause till the end. I'm going to introduce each one of them. They'll

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wave their hand to you, and at the end we can give them a big round of applause.

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City Secretary Kim Sutter, Director of Finance Janina Joule, Director of Public Works Major

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Jones over here against the wall, Interim Director of Planning and Economic Development

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Lisa Payne, Director of Human Resources and Risk Management. I always mess hers

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up somehow. Heather Moorhead, Interim Library Director Angela Jones, Fleet and Facilities

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Director Kyle McAdams, Texas Star General Manager Glinda Hartsell Shelton, Municipal

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Court Manager Claudia Quintero, Fire Chief Chance Bennett,

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Brian and Assistant City Manager Stephen Vieira. Let's give all of them a

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round of applause for being here.

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You might notice a bunch of uniforms and a

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bunch of different city department uniforms around the room. Those are all

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representatives of the different departments in the city and they're

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here to answer your questions as well after the evening and they may answer

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some of them during the evening. All right now let's talk about the

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the distinguished individuals up here at the table.

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And the city council.

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City council member Annabelle Eads.

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City council member Tika Padel.

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Mayor Pro Tem Tim Stenerford.

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His you really gotta hold till the end.

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Council member Eddie Price.

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Council member Perry Vynum.

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And everyone knows and loves our mayor, Linda Martin.

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Let's give them a round of applause.

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One person I forgot to introduce is the distinguished gentleman with the white

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beard in the middle of the table there. This is our city manager Chris Barker

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and he deserves his own round of applause.

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Now it begins. Who has the first

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question? Not you. No, I'm just joking. Ellen, right here. Get a microphone.

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Where's Bob? He's learning how to spell his name.

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Right here in the back.

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you for the opportunity to speak to you.

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I have a couple of comments I'd like to make.

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First, I'd like to thank the Parks and Recs Department for the wonderful job that they're doing.

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I've lived in the City of Ulus for more than 40 years,

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and my original time that I spent was a very small circle,

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and I've decided to explore the Parks and Recs Department.

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I'm very impressed.

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I want to express my gratitude with a great job you've done with walking trails,

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keeping the parks well maintained.

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I have never seen a bunch of trash overflowed.

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The paths are clear.

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They're lighted well, so thank you for that.

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I have a couple of comments concerning things that I've seen in the city.

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One of them is at 1102 Oak Ridge Drive.

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You have painted the fire hydrants.

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I don't know if the city did it or if you hired a vendor,

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but the one at 1102 Oak Ridge Drive remains unpainted.

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They have it primed and there's plastic around the coupling and I have reported it twice maybe three times to various departments in the city that that one's been missed.

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And as of 5.30 today, I drove by to make sure that if I spoke tonight that it was true, it still remains unpainted.

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The other thing that I'd like to talk about is public safety is a big concern for everyone, every citizen.

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And I know there are instances where there is a, shall we say, a violent or somewhat altercation in home.

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I don't know if it's the common practice of the police department to do a background check

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when they go to one of those events of the individuals that are there.

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If they notice that there's a lot of guns or that the violent acts happened.

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I was very thankful many years ago.

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Some strange person showed up at my door.

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I called the non-emergency number and said,

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this is not an emergency, but this guy is kind of weird the way he's acting.

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Thankfully, the police department responded,

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and they followed up with me and said,

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yeah, we located him, and he had a warrant in Ohio for burglary.

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He was probably cased in your home.

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He's in jail. He's going to be sent back to Ohio.

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So thank you for that.

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I do have one area of concern.

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It is the intersection at Signet and Industrial.

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That intersection, there's just three very small lanes.

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I realize that the building of Wilshire Park School is a temporary thing,

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but we have big trucks, we have equipment that are going up that way.

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That's temporary. I realize that but school buses, when they try to make that turn,

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it is very hard for them to do.

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We have children on those buses, we have traffic problems, that light is forever before it changes.

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So I would ask the City Council to please consider not just improving it,

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but expanding those lanes so it is easy for school buses and other, even me in a car,

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if there's two people in the lanes that are going to go south,

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it's hard for me to make that sharp turn to go up-sign it.

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So okay, so thank you for the comments. Thank you for the

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Nice things you said about the police department. We appreciate that

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I'll pay you afterwards

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To your first question about the fire hydrants Chris. I know there's some work being done on that

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But maybe you can expand. Yeah, I'm gonna get major raise your hand right over there

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So major Jones are public works director. Believe it or not firemen don't paint fire hydrants

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I don't know why that's the case. I've asked them to and they refuse. I think they say it's skilled labor or something like that

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But no majors group is in charge of that. We do use a contractor

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And I think I've written down that address major. You probably did as well, but we can double-check on that

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I appreciate you bringing that to our attention. I don't have the last accurate count

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But the last time I had looked not that long ago

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we have over 1,800 fire hydrants in the city of ULIS and painting those as you

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might expect is a continuous job. So you may notice a few years ago we went from

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red to silver that has everything to do with them looking nice or longer and

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not fading into a lovely shade of pink within the first two years of

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painting those. So major if you'll make a note and check on that one. The

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other one since we're talking about major there is the signal at industrial

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and excuse me the signal out at signet and industrial. If you will visit

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with major afterwards. He can give you a real detailed update. That is a intersection where

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we have some upcoming plans in the next year. I don't know, to be honest with you, that those

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will meet every expectation you have, particularly if you're wanting to add lanes or widen that.

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But there are some signal improvements coming there with TextDOT that I think will

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absolutely make that a better intersection, and we do hear that occasionally. So

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I think, Chief, that the comments that she made that were complimentary were towards the

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Parks Department, if I recall.

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That was the very beginning.

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She snuck the police in the middle,

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but I'm gonna let you talk about that public safety piece

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just a little bit if that's something you can answer.

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From your question about do we background check,

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do we, the calls that we go on,

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if we go on a call for service,

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regardless of what that call is,

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we try to learn everything we can about the person

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that we're dealing with at that particular time.

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Obviously, when we go to the house

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for the very first time or business

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or wherever we go and we contact that person

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the very first time. We know nothing about them at that point. So, but we do document everything

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and what they're here for if they've ever been arrested or any of that stuff. We document that

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as part of that call for service. So, I hope that answers your question. We try to learn

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everything we can about the people, but it's just as we come in contact with them.

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All right.

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That was a lot of questions. I think I'm all used up. Anyone else have a question?

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A question? Right over here, the first one in the back. Then we'll go boom, boom.

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There you go. Good evening everyone. My name is Charlie. I live on West Parkway

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Circle and there's a couple of things I'd like to mention while we're talking

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about fire hydrants and intersections. At West Parkway, and I believe it's

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Tibbets, the one that goes up to the hospital, is there any way that we

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We could possibly take that fire hydrant that's right there on that corner and get rid of

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it, because it's leaking most of the time.

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It seems to never be used, never be maintained.

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But the main thing there is to get rid of that and use that space as a turn lane on

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to dip tibets, because that would really, really alleviate the backup on West Parkway,

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headed south.

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That's the number one question.

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You want to answer that one first?

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Yes, please.

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We'll have to wait and come all the way back around to you to get nothing or

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I'm just joking.

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Go ahead, Chris.

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Charlie, we'll look at that.

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I can't commit to you from sitting up here whether that's something that could be done

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Fire hydrant spacing is not, it is an exact science.

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It's not something that we just throw a fire hydrant where we think we need one.

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If we have one leaking, we do repair those and I've made it out there that we need

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to take a look at that one.

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But sometimes we find a fire hydrant maybe in a site visibility triangle or in a place

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that's just not perfect and we do have the ability to move that, may not move

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a long way but we do have the ability to move that into a better position.

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the part that I couldn't answer for you tonight is can you know can you then move

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that and make that into a right hand turn lane we can sure look at it and I do

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understand I know exactly where you're talking about it I know what you're

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talking about so I'll just commit to you to take a look at that. Excellent thank

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you very much. Next question. That leads me into the police department. Thanks

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so much for the comments back here. Right next door to me is a I recall an

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Airbnb it's not really that it's a short-term rental which to my

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this may continue to exist and exhibit some issues, but the problem I have is for

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the police department, I don't have a problem, actually they've done really good

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responses, but I want to call the attention to the fact that they've

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responded to that property several times, I guess on the presumption of a

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break-in or suspected break-in, and suddenly the police are in my yard

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looking over my fence and kind of, it's kind of scary for me because they

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might think that I'm a perpetrator and it's really something that I don't really like happening.

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But the point is it would be happening if that was not an Airbnb with who knows who

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renting there and not renting there. Right now it's vacant for a few weeks but it'll

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be busy. I never know who's going to be in there from time to time. Very dismaying

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for me.

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We do. Thanks for bringing it up. We do have the city ordinance and we they have

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to register. I know our code enforcement folks who are here in the room can answer

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that question if you get with them afterwards or you can talk to planning

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and development which is Lisa Payne over here and they can talk

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There is a registration process. I could not tell you right now whether that home is actually registered or not, but we can certainly check into it.

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And probably the calls for service are neighbors being good neighbors and neighbors watching what's going on, and they may be calling in of different people going in and out of that house,

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and they have no clue. They don't belong in the neighborhood, and they may be going in and out of it, and they look at a place.

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But we do have a city ordinance that deals with that and if you'll get with code enforcement

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I don't know where James Patterson is right over here if you'll get with him

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He's wearing that cool-looking cowboy hat like me

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You get with him afterwards and he can certainly answer that question for you and tell you whether they're part of us or not

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Okay, all right. The other thing is you said too. Oh

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Said that was the first I didn't say I had to

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I will yield if I need to, because I don't really want to take the thing, but I believe

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this is an interest to people across the city.

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The density of these Airbnb's seems to be proliferating, and that's something that

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I as a citizen do not want to tolerate, because these are no longer rent out of room type

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things, these are rent out of house type things, these are rent out of several houses

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type things.

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And what we're seeing now is businesses are buying all these houses up and then turning them into Airbnb's and our city council

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Has taken a very proactive up approach to this to try to combat that and try to keep that out of our neighborhoods

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Or at least limit the amount that can go in there and there's a lot of strict

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Guide up guidelines that they have to abide by and like I said again

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If you'll just talk to him afterwards he can give you everything there is on that one

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Chief, real quick, I want to add one thing to that, Charlie, and just for everybody in

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the room.

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Gary's correct.

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We've got a short-term rental ordinance that the council passed.

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I would tell you that that ordinance is, in my words, as aggressive as it can be by state

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law.

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So the council's trying to do everything that they possibly can.

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For some of you, you may not think that it goes far enough, but again, I would like

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to give you the comfort that it goes as far as state law would allow us.

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What I would tell you is there is part of that ordinance as a proliferation ordinance

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and only so many are allowed within a certain area to address your specific concern.

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One of the difficulties the city has is discovering those.

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We rely on folks to tell us honestly that they're running a short-term rental and they

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do not all do that.

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If you've ever booked a short-term rental and I have, so I'm not saying they're

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bad, they won't disclose the address to you specifically until you make the full

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rental.

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So if you go online and look, they're not going to be real easy to figure that

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out.

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We have on the city's website on the planning developments page under short-term rentals the full ordinance that you can read and you can see the application

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But there is a list on there Charlie of all the short-term rental properties that have a have a

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Permit that we know about so so if you've got a neighbor or got a couple houses down and you don't see them on that list

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We would love to know about it because that means they do not have a do not have a permit

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Well, there's 23 houses on that list.

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I wonder if that's really a complete list because that's kind of short to me.

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That list is probably 10 or 15% of the total short-term rentals in US.

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It's that hard to discover, but there is a way for a residence to proactively help us.

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If you know that that's going on and you don't see that on the list, please give us

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a call and that'll help us to be able to check into that.

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That would be real good.

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The other thing is there is a requirement for these people to have a 24-hour response

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months for emergencies. A week or two ago, I went out to my backyard and it was covered

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with water. It turned out that the Airbnb's pool was overflowing due to the fact that

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their automatic cutoff valve wasn't working. And I could not get ahold of the owner, so

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I had no recourse but to try to make sure that water got cut off. And the people

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that were in the house at the time, they just seemed to, I mean, they're renters.

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They don't care.

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Part of the registration helps us out with that. I think this, do you have a question

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right here sir? My name is Michael and I love walking on the trails in Ulysses and at the entrance

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are some places along the trails that says no motorized vehicles so I'm wondering I mean I'm

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a little tired of being buzzed by these e-bikes all the time so I'm wondering is that I'm glad

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you brought that up and and Chris if you don't mind I kind of talked about that.

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The law does not say that the e-bike is equivalent to a bicycle.

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The legislation hasn't caught up with society and what's out there.

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So there's nothing to regulate them with headlights and tail lights and things like

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that.

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They can ride on sidewalks, they're allowed by law to ride on sidewalks, they're allowed

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by law to ride on streets that are 35 miles an hour or under.

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and so residential streets don't have a posted speed limit.

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The unposted streets are 30 miles an hour so they can ride on residential streets.

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I will tell you that this is something that continuously comes up

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and I know council brings it up on a regular basis on the trails and things like that

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and it is dangerous.

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I will tell you parents in the audience if you have kids that have these and utilize them,

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our goal is all the same.

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Let's keep them safe the best that we can teach them the right ways to use those maybe put some headlights on it

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Tail lights because at night they are very hard to see and they move very quickly

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So what we will do is a police department is we're going to try to prepare something and we will bring that to the council and

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With their approval then we can we can start regulating them as a city and the state will catch up at some point time

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I have no clue whenever they're going to get to that piece in the law.

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It's just not there.

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You wish it would say, okay, they're equivalent to bicycles,

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and bicycles are bound by certain things,

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but it's like they're just left out there in no man's land.

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So I appreciate you bringing it up.

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And 100%, we are going to try to put something together

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and bring to the council whether that's an ordinance or something like that,

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and if they'll prove it then we can go out and enforce that. Thank you. Yes sir.

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Right here. I think we got a question right here. Here I'll just let you use mine.

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This is a special mic. Oh, I'm excited. But you've got to give it back.

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I live in Morristale. We love our trees. Ulysses is a tree city. This time of

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year the trees are an issue of all the leaves and I'm wondering is it

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feasible to have occasional street sweepers that maybe could lighten the

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load on our trashman this time of year. Good point. I think I'm gonna let Mr.

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Barker tackle that one. He likes leaves.

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I've gotten very familiar with leaves

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here in the last few weeks as most of you all have to. The weather changed a

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little late this year and they seem to all come at one time and a lot of

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folks were off for Christmas or New Year's or both at that time and so we

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experienced a lot of leaves. I have been around the city long enough to remember a

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time that we did street sweeping and we had our own street sweeper many many

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many years ago and I will tell you and I would be happy to kind of look into that

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again but I will tell you a couple things at the time that we did that

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street sweepers were highly inefficient and nobody including the city staff or

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the residents were happy with the job that a street sweeper did when it got

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done sweeping sweeping your street. The other issue that we used to have

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is we would announce that we would be sweeping a street the following week and

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at the time and the day that we would do that so that folks could move their

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cars off the street and we could get a better cleaner sweep. That resulted in

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everybody coming out the weekend before blowing all their leaves into the

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gutter for the street sweeper to pick up and the street sweeper could not

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make much progress in a in a given day. So one of the things that we're

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going to talk about tonight and this is just a good point a good time to

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bring that up and I think it's going to get into everything that we talk

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about tonight and it gets into what you're seeing throughout the state and

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honestly throughout the country but particularly here in our state. Well one of

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the things that you're talking about really boils down to local control and

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local control to me is if street sweeping and leaf pickup is important

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enough to our citizens and to a number of our citizens then that is a service

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that could be added and provided for. Realize that that service would have

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an expense and that expense would have to be paid for and that's

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typically paid for your taxes and that's how we did. We might not all agree in

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this room if we want to implement street sweeping, but there might be enough of

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us that want to. That's the beauty of local control. The city of Bedford would

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not have to decide the same that the city of U.S. did and the city of

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Hearst would not have to make the same decision. We could all have our local

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control. Folks up here when they heard from the citizens would direct me to

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figure out what we needed to do to implement a program like that and we

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would go about doing that. We would put that as part of our budget and we would

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bring that forward and do that. And so I'm using your question a little bit if

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you don't mind to talk about the things that we're going to set the stage for.

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But it's a great example. We ought to be able to do in our community within

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the reason of the state law what's important to us. The state law is not

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going to regulate whether we pick up leaves or not. And if that's something

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that we find important and important enough that we're willing to provide

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for that service and candidly pay for that service, then that's something

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we could look at. We do have a history of doing that. I will tell you, and I'm just going to use

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this opportunity as well to talk a little bit about Republic Waste Services, who's our

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solid waste provider, and the issues that we had over the Christmas and the holiday break.

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Big picture, I'm going to tell you, Republic Waste Services does a great job for our city and

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have for a number of years. They service each of you twice a week, every week of the year.

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If you look at what you pay for monthly trash service and you divide it by the eight times a month that they come to your house

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It costs a dollar and forty seven cents every time that trash truck pulls up at your house and removes your trash

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And I would tell you that's an excellent value

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You would have a hard time getting rid of all of your trash legally you can go to Gary's house and throw it in the yard

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But don't put it out for my house. I got enough for a dollar and forty seven cents

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In fact, a lot of us may have more than a dollar 47 cents in the bags that we have sitting

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out for the trash folks to haul off.

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But they did have a struggle during the holidays.

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I'll tell you a couple things about that.

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Number one, the holiday season always brings a proliferation or an increase in just sheer

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volume.

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We're home a lot more, we get gifts and all those kind of things, and that increases

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the volume.

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Now these folks have been picking up trash for a long time, so they know that

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and they try to plan for that, but the volume does increase.

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Number two, I mentioned earlier that the weather was late in changing this year

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and it seemed like the leaves fell later and they fell kind of at one time and I

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personally believe they fell at a time that a lot of folks were off and had

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time to rake them up and clean their yards and do those kind of things. There

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were, I can't even tell you how many bags of leaves out. I drove through town and

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looked and did some inventory and worked to do that but particularly in

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some of our neighborhoods like Moorstale, Trailwood estates, it would not be

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uncommon for us to go by a house and there may be sixty, sixty-five, seventy bags of leaves.

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We had a cul-de-sac in the north in the town that had four houses. There was a hundred

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and twenty-five bags of leaves set on the curb. That cul-de-sac alone would fill up

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a garbage truck and they would have to leave the city and go dump. And all they

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did was pick up leaves at four houses. So I'm not saying that as an excuse for

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Republic services, but I do want you to know just some of the volumes that

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they were facing. In addition to that, over the holidays, they have their own labor shortages.

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That's not our problem. It's the public's problem. They've got to fix that, but it is

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a true operational problem, and I do understand that. And then they had some mechanical issues

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as well. When I talk about that, they don't provide that service obviously just for

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our city. They provide that for many of the cities around here. I spoke with the

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other city managers in the cities that I know when they were seeing similar issues.

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What can we do about that? That's what everybody wants to know. What can we

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do about that. We monitor that. In our office, we work hard. Jessica, are you

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around here? Jessica's right over here on the corner. She's raising her hand. How

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many? I don't even ask you how many calls you took for Ms. Trash or Ms.

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Services. We coordinate that with with Republic. Jessica handles that. On her

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lunch hour, she would come back and have told me that she drove through the

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city and drove to the neighborhood and notated which houses by address

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hadn't been picked up and we would call Republic and do that. I will

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tell you that this is the worst year that has been for us. We had some residents that

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got missed either Monday or Tuesday before Christmas, the week of Christmas, but before

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Christmas itself. If you remember then, the end of that week shifted, right? So if you

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were Thursday, you shifted to Friday, if you're Friday, you shifted to Saturday.

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We had some of those residents get missed then as well. So now you're two times. Come

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around to the following Monday or Tuesday and that's the next week. We had some residents

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get missed at that time as well. So that is atypical. We sometimes have folks

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get missed, we get them out there and picked up that day or the next day.

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That's just kind of how the business works. But that was an atypical shift. It

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reached a point the Tuesday after the week of Christmas that it was bad

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enough when we were getting enough calls. Republic was in our mind doing

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everything they could. I did something that I don't think we've

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ever done here before and I reached out to some of our city departments and

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we sent city employees out. We don't own trash trucks. We don't have trash trucks.

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We took pickup trucks and trailers and we sent some city employees out to the

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worst areas of town and we helped. Republic was able to provide us some

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roll-off dumpsters and on that Tuesday the week after Christmas, employees of

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this city filled over six 20-yard roll-off dumpsters with trash. I tell

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you that, number one, because that's the caliber of employees that you have

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working at the city for you. We don't say that's not my job. The other side of

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that is I realize there was still even with that some people that didn't get

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picked up until the next day or the next day but I want you to know that the

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city takes those kind of things serious and that we jump in there and do

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everything that we possibly can. Beyond that I visited with council after that

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event and we have sent to Republic Services a certified letter that

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exercises a clause in our contract that is a penalty performance because

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they missed so many services. We'll see how they respond to that and those kind of things, but

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when somebody says, Chris, I didn't get my trash, and what are you going to do about it? I just

439
00:29:36,380 --> 00:29:40,080
want you to know what we are doing about it and what we're trying to do about it. And that was

440
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:45,480
the longest answer you've ever seen to, can you sweep my streets and pick up the leaves? But

441
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:53,340
I appreciate the question. I know it was long. I almost fell asleep over here. No, and to

442
00:29:53,340 --> 00:29:58,340
to City Manager's statement that he made about the quality of...

443
00:30:21,860 --> 00:30:25,220
All right, let's get to another question. This side of the room hasn't asked anything.

444
00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:29,080
I will come back to you in just a second, but we've got one right up here at the top. Scott?

445
00:30:30,020 --> 00:30:34,460
Thank you very much. Thank you everybody for everything you do for us and to the

446
00:30:34,460 --> 00:30:38,500
gentlemen and ladies around the room too who supports the city. Question for you

447
00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:45,100
Chris, any update from TechStot on some of the highway signs that are you know

448
00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:49,920
covered over with graffiti and making them hard to read on 36 year 183? Thank

449
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,300
you. So again Major raised his hand over there and he can give you a much

450
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,220
more specific answer to a certain area what I will tell you is they

451
00:30:56,220 --> 00:31:01,580
They replaced the signs, give me the right direction major, they replaced the ones northbound

452
00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:02,140
or southbound.

453
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:04,400
Northbound.

454
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,380
They replaced half of them and not the other half.

455
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,140
If you drive around the Metroplex, I have started to notice that throughout the Metroplex

456
00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:13,240
on Text Dot roadways.

457
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,080
I drove up by 35 in Fort Worth through the downtown area the other day and if you

458
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,780
didn't know where you were supposed to exit, you wouldn't know where to exit

459
00:31:20,780 --> 00:31:23,320
because you cannot read the sign at all.

460
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,320
And so we we stay on them about that it obviously they've got a tremendous volume of work to do

461
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,840
You may know that there's a text out office in a shop in in the city of Eulis

462
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:38,540
That helps us out a little bit, but I'll refer you to major on any other specific parts to that

463
00:31:38,540 --> 00:31:40,260
But it's it's from our standpoint

464
00:31:40,260 --> 00:31:46,320
It's often the squeaky wheel that gets the grease and so we just kind of try to stay on that major anything you want to add to that

465
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,380
Yeah, just briefly there was a project that was

466
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:59,500
let and awarded for that and then some additional work came up for TextDot and

467
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:05,260
so they rolled the rest of that project in with another project that's 121 all

468
00:32:05,260 --> 00:32:11,160
the way down to 30 along through 60 and so it's just been on hold so we really

469
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,300
haven't been able to get an update on when that might be released. If you

470
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,720
want to have a little fun go home and look up the word retro reflectivity

471
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,900
which is with text dot calls when you can't read a sign like that and see if

472
00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:26,860
you can't I don't know what's that worth on Scrabble mayor you know a lot look

473
00:32:26,860 --> 00:32:33,930
that one up and you'll be able to use it next time all right over here come back

474
00:32:33,930 --> 00:32:37,950
up to you in just a second okay you're gonna love me okay another trash

475
00:32:37,950 --> 00:32:42,330
question I've lived in three states Texas is the only place that we get

476
00:32:42,330 --> 00:32:46,850
two days a week pick up why is it just one today so I will tell you that's

477
00:32:46,850 --> 00:32:47,610
It's not a Texas thing.

478
00:32:47,710 --> 00:32:49,150
That's a Uless, Texas thing.

479
00:32:49,310 --> 00:32:52,710
Many cities around us only receive trash service one day a week.

480
00:32:53,390 --> 00:32:56,290
We have had two-day-a-week service since I've been here.

481
00:32:56,790 --> 00:33:00,610
We have tried very hard to keep that.

482
00:33:01,530 --> 00:33:05,910
That obviously comes at a price, and we try to also keep a good, efficient price for

483
00:33:05,910 --> 00:33:06,330
those things.

484
00:33:07,050 --> 00:33:11,170
I would challenge you to look around the Metroplex, and you're not going to find

485
00:33:11,170 --> 00:33:11,870
any other city.

486
00:33:12,030 --> 00:33:15,550
There are other cities that get two-day-a-week pickup, but you're not going to find

487
00:33:15,550 --> 00:33:20,470
somebody that still has that for the price that we get. Now that being said

488
00:33:20,470 --> 00:33:26,250
we are all going to be forced to going to a cart trash pickup that the trash

489
00:33:26,250 --> 00:33:30,390
company is able to use a hydraulic lift to dump that cart. In many cities have

490
00:33:30,390 --> 00:33:34,570
already done that the last contract that we signed with Republic which is a

491
00:33:34,570 --> 00:33:37,810
five-year franchise agreement we acknowledged in that contract that

492
00:33:37,810 --> 00:33:41,410
that was coming and that the city would work in good faith to do that.

493
00:33:41,610 --> 00:33:44,590
My hope is that we're able to continue to negotiate for that to be

494
00:33:44,590 --> 00:33:50,050
twice a week but many cities are once a week for that one container and in that

495
00:33:50,050 --> 00:33:55,690
the lid has to be shut so we really do have a great service of a take all

496
00:33:55,690 --> 00:34:00,590
service twice a week and we're going to try to keep it as long as we possibly

497
00:34:00,590 --> 00:34:00,890
can.

498
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:09,620
Another question right here. Good evening everyone my name is Edgar

499
00:34:09,620 --> 00:34:14,480
Ramirez I just want to thank the city for everything that you guys do. I have

500
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:20,320
a question and some comments pertaining to noise issues that my

501
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,960
neighborhood has been facing. So my question is, what is the city doing to

502
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:31,140
help mitigate any noise issues, particularly around cars and vehicles

503
00:34:31,140 --> 00:34:39,900
without loud mufflers? And also my comments being, I live at 805 Hensley

504
00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:46,140
drive and I've been dealing with where the neighborhood in general has been

505
00:34:46,140 --> 00:34:51,320
dealing with some noise issues particularly pertaining to the church

506
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:57,260
that's right next to me that the parking lot is being used as a hangout

507
00:34:57,260 --> 00:35:09,880
spot every Thursday Tuesday and Thursday and so a lot of times you know we're

508
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:21,680
all of a sudden you get awakened to people hanging out, yelling, cracking jokes, and just being verbally loud.

509
00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:34,040
Now, that's been happening for a very long time, and the last, I want to say the last six months, it's changed into loud vehicles.

510
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:42,000
So there's been a few members of the church that have just different vehicles

511
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:49,880
and these vehicles have modified multiple systems that, you know, they're pretty loud.

512
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:56,560
They'll leave the parking lot and then, you know, just wake up the neighborhood at night.

513
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,020
So, you know, we're sleeping at 11.30. We get awakened all of a sudden.

514
00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:06,160
And so that's my question is, what is the city doing to help mitigate these issues that

515
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,520
our neighborhood has been facing for a very long time?

516
00:36:12,150 --> 00:36:18,950
As you and I have discussed on the telephone one time, and I think we shared emails back

517
00:36:18,950 --> 00:36:23,050
and forth, we are doing everything we can.

518
00:36:23,310 --> 00:36:27,070
We're asking you and the neighbors to call us every single time it happens.

519
00:36:27,650 --> 00:36:31,450
Unfortunately, a lot of that is they're in the car, the noise is there.

520
00:36:31,450 --> 00:36:36,410
they're gone by the time the officer gets there. I will tell you our officers, I've told all of them,

521
00:36:36,750 --> 00:36:41,210
there's several of our night shifts officers, I see you standing in the in the four year out there

522
00:36:42,010 --> 00:36:47,230
that are paying attention to that and trying to catch that. I know the church has worked with

523
00:36:47,230 --> 00:36:52,070
us, I know Officer Gilliam is in here, she's right back here, she has gone to the church and

524
00:36:52,070 --> 00:36:58,330
actually talked to the administrative staff there and tried to get them to come on board,

525
00:36:58,330 --> 00:37:05,650
I think some of them are actually trying to pay attention to that end of the parking lot. It is a it's it's something that we're continuing to work on

526
00:37:05,650 --> 00:37:09,150
It takes you continuing to call us as you are

527
00:37:10,190 --> 00:37:13,970
And I know in December it was a little worse than it was in the months before

528
00:37:14,670 --> 00:37:17,830
But can you agree? We just had a conversation a minute ago

529
00:37:17,830 --> 00:37:20,030
But can you agree that this is getting a little bit better?

530
00:37:20,310 --> 00:37:26,370
And we will continue to work forward so that we can continue to curtail that and we will work with the church

531
00:37:26,370 --> 00:37:31,370
That's the big deal, is get with the church, continue to work with the church, even told

532
00:37:31,370 --> 00:37:35,390
you at one point in time, we're going to ask the church if they can put someone outside

533
00:37:36,370 --> 00:37:41,510
to go ahead and hurry those people along to get them out of the parking lot because nothing

534
00:37:41,510 --> 00:37:44,950
against the younger generation, but I think it's those individuals that have the loud

535
00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:48,050
exhaust and they're the ones hanging out letting their car idle.

536
00:37:48,370 --> 00:37:53,910
Probably while they're doing a TikTok or something inside the car or talking about

537
00:37:53,910 --> 00:37:58,570
what they did the day before we're going to do the next day. So we'll continue to combat it.

538
00:37:58,950 --> 00:38:03,310
We do have a noise ordinance. You continue to cause. We catch them there and they're violating

539
00:38:03,310 --> 00:38:08,190
that noise ordinance. We will cite them and then they'll have to go to court in order to get that

540
00:38:08,190 --> 00:38:13,110
ticket disposed of. And just real quick to add to that. A lot of times in this meeting

541
00:38:13,110 --> 00:38:17,530
we end up getting nice things said about various city departments and those kind of things. Let

542
00:38:17,530 --> 00:38:22,430
me let me flip that around. Edgar if you don't mind you and I have corresponded by email

543
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:26,270
chiefs indicated that to you. We've not been able to just completely solve your

544
00:38:26,270 --> 00:38:30,130
problem yet, right? You would agree, right? It's still a problem. What I would

545
00:38:30,130 --> 00:38:33,870
tell you is that I appreciate not only Edgar bringing it to our attention but

546
00:38:33,870 --> 00:38:38,090
the manner in which he's done it. He's always been very respectful. He sends

547
00:38:38,090 --> 00:38:42,250
pictures. He documents these things. It makes it easier for me to be able to

548
00:38:42,250 --> 00:38:45,250
say to the police chief, here's what's happening. And so we'll continue. My

549
00:38:45,250 --> 00:38:49,230
commitment is just to continue to work on that with you. I told

550
00:38:49,230 --> 00:38:53,490
Edgar, some things, painting a fire hydrant, we go out there and paint the fire hydrant,

551
00:38:53,570 --> 00:38:57,790
right? It's none. Let's check. We can do that. Some issues are a little harder. I just

552
00:38:57,790 --> 00:39:01,470
appreciate the way that you've worked with us on that, even though I know we haven't

553
00:39:01,470 --> 00:39:02,870
solved your problem yet. So thank you.

554
00:39:05,380 --> 00:39:08,140
Next question, right here. Here, I'll hand you the mic.

555
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,700
I promise. I just had a real small question. I've actually recently moved here from

556
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:20,280
Arlington, and whenever they would do their mosquito spraying, they'd always put

557
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:25,120
these signs everywhere and that's how I always kept track of it. I was just wondering if there was

558
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:29,460
how they kept track of it here since I was an asthmatic pet.

559
00:39:32,930 --> 00:39:35,670
Chris? So real quick when we test

560
00:39:35,670 --> 00:39:39,890
mosquitoes during mosquito season with Tarrant County Public Health they perform the actual

561
00:39:39,890 --> 00:39:43,530
test force but we cooperate that we have traps all over town. We've got the city divided up

562
00:39:43,530 --> 00:39:48,510
into different zones and if we get a positive mosquito that's going to be positive for West

563
00:39:48,510 --> 00:39:51,730
West Nile virus or where's Brett? Brett's back here. What else is the other one, Brett?

564
00:39:52,170 --> 00:39:58,990
West Nile or Zika? Then we're going to put that information on the city's website. We

565
00:39:58,990 --> 00:40:02,790
do some social media posts with that. But we also have a place on our website that you

566
00:40:02,790 --> 00:40:07,970
can sign up. If it interests you that much, you can sign up for an email directly for

567
00:40:08,570 --> 00:40:12,170
any and all city activities or if all you care about is a mosquito spraying, you

568
00:40:12,170 --> 00:40:15,290
can sign up just for mosquito spraying and we will send that out.

569
00:40:18,070 --> 00:40:18,490
We're going

570
00:40:18,490 --> 00:40:21,870
hardest to always do that at least 24 hours before the spraying to give folks

571
00:40:21,870 --> 00:40:26,130
time to do that and of course we do that spraying overnight. We spray in

572
00:40:26,130 --> 00:40:28,950
accordance with Tarrant County and we use the product that they are

573
00:40:28,950 --> 00:40:32,030
specifying and I say Tarrant County, Tarrant County Health even though it's

574
00:40:32,030 --> 00:40:35,850
our folks physically it's our Public Works Department physically performing

575
00:40:35,850 --> 00:40:39,930
that spray. We do not spray the entire city when we have a positive. We've

576
00:40:39,930 --> 00:40:43,930
got that city divided up into zones again so that we can spray within

577
00:40:43,930 --> 00:40:46,810
the area that we found those positives. We don't want to just be

578
00:40:46,810 --> 00:40:50,390
throwing things out there right and left that we don't need to. So that's kind of our

579
00:40:50,390 --> 00:40:54,490
piece about that, a lot of information on our website about that, but in your case I

580
00:40:54,490 --> 00:40:58,250
would encourage you to sign up and get that very specific message coming straight to

581
00:40:58,250 --> 00:40:59,090
you about when we're spraying.

582
00:41:00,950 --> 00:41:06,070
Another question. No one has any questions. You've used up your tokens.

583
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,080
But I liked

584
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:10,780
what you said earlier, so that's it.

585
00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:16,140
Okay, so what is the new Palm Police Department and Animal Service is going to be opened?

586
00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:22,760
I can answer one he can answer the other or we can go to us. I thought nobody would ever ask to see slides

587
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:27,040
And so I think that's an ask to see slides Gary. That's an ask right there

588
00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:33,700
Mr.. Joyce we're gonna flip this around want you can you give me slide? Let's see here slide 58

589
00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:36,600
Let's start at slide 58 not 158

590
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,140
But just slide 58 and I've got a couple other things in here

591
00:41:40,140 --> 00:41:44,080
But the two project you specifically asked about will be will be addressed in here as well

592
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:49,300
So how many of you have been to the new fire station number two that was opened earlier this year very very nice

593
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,240
Beautiful station very very proud of that station

594
00:41:52,860 --> 00:41:58,080
If you want a good story sometime ask the police chief or the fire chief how you get

595
00:41:58,940 --> 00:42:01,780
fire station door motors out of

596
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:03,080
Customs

597
00:42:05,930 --> 00:42:09,950
that's a picture of the station there on the corner of west parkway and west pipeline road

598
00:42:10,590 --> 00:42:15,210
Fort Bay Station. It also has, I think I've got a picture here in the rear, that

599
00:42:15,210 --> 00:42:19,330
is a training tower over to your right, so that allows our folks to train on a

600
00:42:19,330 --> 00:42:23,470
variety of operations within the city and not have to leave the city to do

601
00:42:23,470 --> 00:42:28,930
that. This is just down the street, if you will, down West Park from the old

602
00:42:28,930 --> 00:42:32,150
fire station number two, which in just a minute will relate back to the

603
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:36,170
animal shelter question you had, and we did move that. We moved that on to a

604
00:42:36,170 --> 00:42:38,830
piece of property that if you've been here a long time you know as the

605
00:42:38,830 --> 00:42:43,190
Voss property. Johnny and Helen Voss were longtime residents of this community,

606
00:42:43,310 --> 00:42:46,630
very involved in the city and actually very involved in the fire department.

607
00:42:46,790 --> 00:42:49,810
So it's kind of neat that we were able to do that on the property that they

608
00:42:49,810 --> 00:42:53,950
owned. If you go ever to Visit Station 2 and walk in the front entry,

609
00:42:54,050 --> 00:42:56,910
there's a nice plaque there that talks a little bit about Johnny and Helen

610
00:42:56,910 --> 00:42:59,130
and their history in the city that I'd encourage you to read.

611
00:42:59,390 --> 00:43:03,030
But really nice station there. I've got the fire chiefs here.

612
00:43:03,250 --> 00:43:07,070
You can ask him why the ceilings blew. It's a ridiculous answer,

613
00:43:07,070 --> 00:43:11,670
but he can tell you the answer better than I can, but that's just an inside of the four bay

614
00:43:12,470 --> 00:43:18,010
station there. And everybody loves a firehouse. In fact, if you go down there on occasion,

615
00:43:18,310 --> 00:43:23,470
you just find the city council just hanging out down there on a fire truck. So I don't know,

616
00:43:23,550 --> 00:43:26,470
mayor. They wouldn't give you a towel. You're the only one there that doesn't have a towel.

617
00:43:26,710 --> 00:43:30,570
I'm not sure what happened. Plenty of. Okay. You've been to more than one fire station

618
00:43:30,570 --> 00:43:34,250
opening. That's right. So no, that's that's a beautiful facility. If you haven't seen it,

619
00:43:34,250 --> 00:43:37,010
I'd encourage you to take a look at that whenever you can.

620
00:43:39,630 --> 00:43:40,530
Police and court building.

621
00:43:42,030 --> 00:43:44,530
You'll hear the staff always say court, not courts.

622
00:43:44,750 --> 00:43:45,890
That's because Claudia over here,

623
00:43:45,950 --> 00:43:46,870
Claudia raise your hand.

624
00:43:47,410 --> 00:43:50,410
Claudia has rung into us that there is only one

625
00:43:50,410 --> 00:43:52,690
municipal court of record in the city of Elis.

626
00:43:53,530 --> 00:43:55,970
But courts sure slips off my tongue really easy

627
00:43:55,970 --> 00:43:56,870
every time I say it.

628
00:43:56,870 --> 00:43:58,750
So that is the police and court building.

629
00:43:59,730 --> 00:44:02,150
You'll recall, that's an artist rendition.

630
00:44:02,810 --> 00:44:05,350
We showed you this exhibit last year

631
00:44:05,350 --> 00:44:08,670
at this very meeting. That is the police and court building as it existed.

632
00:44:10,750 --> 00:44:15,650
Overlay just real quick, the yellow area is the existing building that we are in the process of renovating.

633
00:44:16,370 --> 00:44:21,230
The kind of pink color or whatever that is is the area that we're expanding the building,

634
00:44:21,410 --> 00:44:23,490
both on the front of the building and you can see to the rear.

635
00:44:24,130 --> 00:44:29,150
And then that little green triangle represents an area that's just outside that does some outside PT

636
00:44:29,150 --> 00:44:34,050
for the officers that have a locker room and training right there.

637
00:44:34,050 --> 00:44:38,870
So if you think about that, we're still reusing the original building. We're just updating it

638
00:44:38,870 --> 00:44:45,710
But we're adding on to that building to accommodate all the various needs of the city as the city has grown over the last

639
00:44:46,470 --> 00:44:51,530
Gosh Gary 22 years since that building opened or something in 2001. We moved into that

640
00:44:51,530 --> 00:44:52,270
so

641
00:44:52,990 --> 00:44:58,010
Cities grown and you wouldn't believe the things that have just changed or maybe you would believe the things that have changed over

642
00:44:58,010 --> 00:44:59,870
That time one easy example is

643
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,940
We relocated code enforcement years ago over to the police department. It's been a great

644
00:45:03,940 --> 00:45:08,020
move for us, but there was never any room planned for code enforcement. So now they're going

645
00:45:08,020 --> 00:45:13,160
to have some room. I'll give you a couple of shots that were taken by our, actually by

646
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,200
our police department. I took some of these aerial photos that you're going to see tonight.

647
00:45:18,820 --> 00:45:21,700
Really nice way to be able to look at some of the projects we're doing and some projects

648
00:45:21,700 --> 00:45:25,340
around town. But these are just some shots kind of rolling from left to right. You

649
00:45:25,340 --> 00:45:29,480
can really see the new extension on the front and the back of the building and how

650
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,500
everything is going along there from an exterior standpoint. Again, this is just

651
00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:36,020
standing out in front of the building looking at that really start to look and

652
00:45:36,020 --> 00:45:41,900
match with that artist rendition was that tall area that you see when you walk

653
00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:44,800
in is actually basically the service counter the customer service counter

654
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,760
that you can see starting as an interior shot of that same area and the rest of

655
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,840
the building looks like a lot of framed-in walls and sheetrock going up

656
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,960
and miles and miles and Scott Joyce do you have any idea I mean miles of data

657
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,520
cable are in that building it is a lot he says he's got that's an official

658
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:08,320
report from the IT director a lot if you get the police chief after this and

659
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:12,620
asking him about a home run run of cable he'll tell you a lot about I'll be

660
00:46:12,620 --> 00:46:15,940
happy to tell you all the runs but chief anything else I just got this

661
00:46:15,940 --> 00:46:19,140
picture to see if you wanted to add no but I'll answer the question you asked

662
00:46:19,140 --> 00:46:28,860
when we are going to move in 2026. So at some point in time this year. I did a

663
00:46:28,860 --> 00:46:33,540
newsletter today and I promise the people in the department that we would

664
00:46:33,540 --> 00:46:37,840
have our PD annual Christmas party in that building. So if it doesn't happen I

665
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:43,440
guess I'm out of a job. I would tell y'all just want to give a little shout

666
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,620
out to the police department here. They've been working the last two

667
00:46:45,620 --> 00:46:49,580
years in four different locations in three five locations five locations in

668
00:46:49,580 --> 00:46:54,680
three cities and they've carried on without missing a beat and that's a

669
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,540
lot harder than it sounds. That group that group is used to being

670
00:46:57,540 --> 00:47:00,820
together and being able to communicate and we've got them spread out to just

671
00:47:00,820 --> 00:47:03,680
accommodate this facility and so really appreciate that and when they get back

672
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,060
in later this year Gary I know y'all throw big so we'll have to get to know

673
00:47:07,060 --> 00:47:10,480
each other again. That's right. Also when we get back in we'll have a big

674
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,240
open house for the public so please plan to come to that we'll get more

675
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:16,440
information out when we know that should be next fall, or this coming fall.

676
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,740
While we're talking facilities, I want to talk about the animal shelter real quick.

677
00:47:21,260 --> 00:47:24,900
This is the artist's rendition of the new ULIS Animal Services Center.

678
00:47:25,980 --> 00:47:29,300
If you've ever been to the old Animal Services Center, it was on the right-hand side of

679
00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:29,720
this picture.

680
00:47:29,820 --> 00:47:33,440
It was built in 1978, and other than a few minor things, it hadn't had a lot

681
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,520
done to it in that amount of time, had not grown any, and was pretty undersized

682
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,280
for a city of our size.

683
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:45,420
to the left of the picture is the old fire station number two. From the street

684
00:47:45,420 --> 00:47:48,140
they may have looked like a singular building but they were actually two

685
00:47:48,140 --> 00:47:52,200
standalone buildings with a gap in between them so once the fire station

686
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,740
two moved and the firemen moved down to their new location we began demolition

687
00:47:55,740 --> 00:48:00,280
of those buildings and combining those into a single structure that would be

688
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,660
the new animal services building and if you've had to use animal services

689
00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:06,320
in about the last year year and a half you know that they're in a

690
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:12,740
temporary facility on State Highway 10. Again the blue in the picture represents

691
00:48:12,740 --> 00:48:17,040
the two facilities that were there the pink or whatever color that is

692
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:24,740
represents salmon excuse me thanks chief. The salmon represents the part that

693
00:48:24,740 --> 00:48:27,960
was added on to combine those two building and then the green areas you

694
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:32,900
see there are actually turf areas that are covered areas for the animals to

695
00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:36,980
exercise and behind that not pictured is the outdoor areas and runs that

696
00:48:36,980 --> 00:48:38,900
that we have that we've always had.

697
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,000
So this is actually a picture from the street.

698
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:43,220
So not an artist rendition.

699
00:48:43,420 --> 00:48:45,340
That building is getting very, very close to opening.

700
00:48:45,500 --> 00:48:46,960
I think that we will probably open

701
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,300
that building later this spring.

702
00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:51,140
Most likely in May, Kyle, would you say?

703
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,580
End of April 1st of May.

704
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,960
Again, we'll have a big public open house

705
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,500
and have everybody out there.

706
00:48:56,660 --> 00:48:58,140
I think you'll be very, very impressed.

707
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,680
Long overdue for us to do something there.

708
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,080
So not much had been done since 1978.

709
00:49:03,660 --> 00:49:05,600
We are expanding our capacity there

710
00:49:06,220 --> 00:49:10,380
depending on what exactly, for instance dog kennels is four and a half times more

711
00:49:10,380 --> 00:49:14,600
dog kennels than that we had. So a lot of expansion there. A couple preview

712
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,880
inside, oh we got a couple more drone aerials you can kind of see, but here's

713
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,520
a preview inside shot. So if you look at that top right corner that was the

714
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,320
floor plan I described to you, the red dot shows you where you are in the

715
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,280
building that is out in the apparatus bay, the old fire apparatus bay, and

716
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,200
that's looking down where we've taken that entire apparatus bay and turned

717
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:35,300
it into dog kennel runs and you can see some of that there. This is a

718
00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:39,000
shot interior again I can show you on that red dot we're in the old building

719
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,580
this is going to be cat and small animal areas here any

720
00:49:46,430 --> 00:49:48,130
specific question I can

721
00:49:48,130 --> 00:49:51,330
tell you as city manager there's two ways to get in trouble really quick don't

722
00:49:51,330 --> 00:49:56,050
pick up the trash and do something to the kitty cats so that's any I give

723
00:49:56,050 --> 00:49:58,570
everybody quite anybody have any particular questions about the animal

724
00:49:58,570 --> 00:49:59,650
shelter in the very back

725
00:50:01,730 --> 00:50:04,930
renovations to the police oh we'll take that one

726
00:50:04,930 --> 00:50:14,470
So is that going to be a PSAP Center where the 911 specialists or telecommunicators are going to be dispatching fire EMS calls there or no?

727
00:50:14,790 --> 00:50:21,330
It already is. It was prior to this but all we're doing is giving that area a facelift so the answer is yes.

728
00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:23,690
But they're currently not housed there. Are they not dispatching?

729
00:50:23,690 --> 00:50:26,170
No, they're currently in Colleyville.

730
00:50:26,310 --> 00:50:31,210
Colleyville. Okay. And how many dispatch councils are you going to have?

731
00:50:31,770 --> 00:50:36,970
We will have five of those. We currently use three. So we have room for expansion.

732
00:50:37,250 --> 00:50:42,330
All right thanks. Well I'm rolling on facilities here real quickly. I want to

733
00:50:42,330 --> 00:50:44,730
talk to you about what's going on out front. You might have seen that and

734
00:50:44,730 --> 00:50:48,110
wondered what the heck's going on out front out there. How many people

735
00:50:48,110 --> 00:50:52,170
remember the Euless Berm out of shrubs? Everybody remember that? It was neat.

736
00:50:52,330 --> 00:50:55,490
It was great. I loved it. It was ridiculously hard to keep alive during

737
00:50:55,490 --> 00:50:58,810
all the different weather and over time and when a piece of that dies

738
00:50:58,810 --> 00:51:03,650
it's really hard to get a piece back in that's the same size to still spell out eulahs.

739
00:51:03,830 --> 00:51:08,390
So during the winter storm a couple years ago that thing took its last breath and we had to remove

740
00:51:08,390 --> 00:51:15,170
that. And so we began to look at what we could do to brand the main city hall, the main area for

741
00:51:15,170 --> 00:51:19,750
city if you will. And so we looked at some different things that we could do. We ended up

742
00:51:19,750 --> 00:51:24,810
with the monument sign. What I would tell you is the intention of this is to obviously brand

743
00:51:24,810 --> 00:51:30,330
the city like it always has there but the things have changed since that berm was put in and as

744
00:51:30,330 --> 00:51:35,570
you might know it's no longer just viewed from the service road we now were worried about a good

745
00:51:35,570 --> 00:51:40,490
view from the overhead freeway if you don't know it we probably don't have time to get into it

746
00:51:40,490 --> 00:51:46,350
tonight but the long-term plan for additional lanes on that freeway elevate lanes over the

747
00:51:46,350 --> 00:51:51,510
eight lanes that you see today so if you think about what that's going to look like in the

748
00:51:51,510 --> 00:51:55,150
future to have elevated lanes over the current lanes that you see today and then

749
00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:58,410
again we have a lot of folks with the airport that fly over our city so we

750
00:51:58,410 --> 00:52:02,050
wanted to be able to brand that maybe from straight aerial piece too so this

751
00:52:02,050 --> 00:52:05,630
is an artist rendition that uses a monument sign out in front of the three

752
00:52:05,630 --> 00:52:09,110
existing flag poles and then you kind of see the star there that's the switch

753
00:52:09,110 --> 00:52:13,650
star that is kind of the ULIS logo that we did everywhere this is what

754
00:52:13,650 --> 00:52:18,710
that sign would look like at night it would be backlit and this is again

755
00:52:18,710 --> 00:52:21,210
artist rendition of what that would look like from the sky so you can

756
00:52:21,210 --> 00:52:26,330
as you get a little higher you get to see that. What you see out there today is actually pretty

757
00:52:26,330 --> 00:52:31,470
close to the artist's rendition. It's in progress it's not done but that's the star that's the sign

758
00:52:31,470 --> 00:52:35,590
and starting next week they should be delivering the stone to start putting around that monument

759
00:52:35,590 --> 00:52:40,470
piece once the stone's in then the the lettering will come in the backlit lettering electricity

760
00:52:40,470 --> 00:52:44,530
has already been run and then the parks department has got a nice lovely landscape

761
00:52:44,530 --> 00:52:48,270
design that they're going to be doing inside of the star so if you think outside the star

762
00:52:49,210 --> 00:52:52,470
grass open area like it's always been but inside the stars some seasonal

763
00:52:52,470 --> 00:52:55,390
landscaping to really give a pop of color there I think it's something that

764
00:52:55,390 --> 00:52:58,910
everybody will be able to be proud of and it will be easier believe it or not

765
00:52:58,910 --> 00:53:04,890
to maintain than the shrubs so I'm gonna go back I don't want to go there

766
00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:15,840
yet yeah any other questions here I just have a couple questions so going in

767
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:22,840
the theme of new buildings and remodeling. Any thought about the post office? Or is

768
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,760
that something from the city or is that the post office that is in charge of the building?

769
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:30,240
It would be the United States Postal Service, the government. You're a federal government

770
00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:33,900
that would redo that. I'm sorry, what was that? The federal government would redo

771
00:53:33,900 --> 00:53:37,200
that. I was going to tell you, I've got a lot of thoughts about the post office,

772
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:41,940
but unfortunately I don't have any swing there. So there's not anything that the

773
00:53:41,940 --> 00:53:47,560
city can, it's just, you know, I've lived here 35 years and I don't think anything has changed.

774
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:54,280
Even just a good, you know, cleaning, I mean those windows were filthy whenever I went in there,

775
00:53:54,560 --> 00:54:00,660
just the landscaping even if that could be, you know, just to go in alignment with some of these

776
00:54:00,660 --> 00:54:04,860
other wonderful places. To honestly answer your question, there's nothing the city can compel them

777
00:54:04,860 --> 00:54:08,520
to do. Can we go in and ask and try to make contact and we can do that through some of

778
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:13,400
the elected officials, but I just want you to know that they would absolutely be us asking

779
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:14,500
or requesting them to do so.

780
00:54:14,620 --> 00:54:15,440
We've done it in the past.

781
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,340
We can continue to do that, but cannot compel them to do anything.

782
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:19,060
Okay.

783
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:26,720
So the other question may be also not something within our realm, but I've also noticed now

784
00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:33,360
it's gotten maybe a little bit better, but going down 183 from Main Street just seems

785
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:39,520
like there's been a lot of times it's just trashy and just not very well

786
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:44,360
maintained a lot of weeds is there in is that again within our control or is

787
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:48,380
that somebody else and I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses but 183 is

788
00:54:48,380 --> 00:54:52,660
a state highway and I will tell you it is gets a little more confusing than that

789
00:54:52,660 --> 00:54:55,820
even for us we obviously are in Tarrant County City of Uleses holy

790
00:54:55,820 --> 00:55:00,000
within Tarrant County right when the NTE project was done and the freeway

791
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:06,440
was expanded. The state chose to draw the division line at FM 157. The Dallas

792
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:14,260
District of Textot manages the freeway from 157 eastward, even though it doesn't

793
00:55:14,260 --> 00:55:18,920
fall along the traditional county lines. Candidly, we don't have the

794
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,780
relationship in the Dallas District that we do in the Fort Worth District. So

795
00:55:21,780 --> 00:55:26,780
that's a Textot freeway. Again, it's something that we can ask and beg and

796
00:55:26,780 --> 00:55:31,940
for them to do. It is not something that I can compel the state of Texas to do. We have

797
00:55:31,940 --> 00:55:35,900
actually looked at trying to do some stuff with our own city crews. It is extraordinarily

798
00:55:35,900 --> 00:55:40,620
dangerous and in many cases we just don't own the equipment that would allow us to do

799
00:55:40,620 --> 00:55:44,960
that safely, but don't mind making another run at Tech Stop. I do understand exactly

800
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:45,380
what you're talking about.

801
00:55:45,380 --> 00:55:49,780
I appreciate it. I mean just going to other, you know, areas, Plano, you know, which

802
00:55:49,780 --> 00:55:53,620
I realize they are newer, but just so nice and clean. You know, it would just be

803
00:55:53,620 --> 00:55:56,680
nice to have kind of that same feeling.

804
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,440
Scott, will you jump to slide number seven real quick because I'm going to jump in here

805
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,580
and do some development updates because I know there's a bunch of folks here that like to

806
00:56:03,580 --> 00:56:07,420
know what's going on around town and we'll still let you ask some questions and again

807
00:56:07,420 --> 00:56:12,040
as Gary said we've got folks here and we've got in essence we've created a fair out

808
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:15,260
here where you can come talk to somebody at each department and get some questions

809
00:56:15,260 --> 00:56:21,180
answered but let me run through a little bit of a development update but before I

810
00:56:21,180 --> 00:56:24,420
do that I would I'd like to go back and just do something we talked about a

811
00:56:24,420 --> 00:56:28,060
little bit when we start talking about local control and and the leaf pick up

812
00:56:28,060 --> 00:56:31,320
and be in peace but before I get into this let me take a minute just to kind

813
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,940
of set the stage for some things we're going to talk about but all these folks

814
00:56:34,940 --> 00:56:39,360
up here in front of you the elected officials myself I'm not elected I'm

815
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,440
an employee the employees that are in the staff in the audience here

816
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:48,640
tonight all around the room and there's 417 employees in the city of

817
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,240
ULIS they're not all here tonight some of them are at home because they've

818
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:54,380
already gotten off work some of them are out there working right now to protect you

819
00:56:54,380 --> 00:56:58,340
and I while we're here doing a variety of different tasks but all of us that I

820
00:56:58,340 --> 00:57:02,300
just named really have one single specific goal here and that's to serve

821
00:57:02,300 --> 00:57:06,720
you all as the citizens of ULIS and to provide high quality services that you

822
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:11,440
want even if it's leave pickup and that's that's why we're here that's

823
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,240
why the city council is here and the way this works is as the citizens

824
00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:17,480
y'all work and speak through the city council and the city council directs

825
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:22,400
me and I direct staff and we try to make this community the very best place that it can be

826
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:28,600
and provide the services that you want to demand and that you really want to have.

827
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,160
Those services, it doesn't matter whether it's top tier public safety services through

828
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:39,400
police and fire department or library or major in his group providing quality drinking

829
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:44,080
water and sanitary sewer and drainage and good streets to drive on.

830
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:48,520
All those things come down to what I would call our local community and the quality of

831
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:49,320
life that we enjoy.

832
00:57:50,020 --> 00:57:53,600
And at the end of the day, they all come down to the taxes that each of you pay in

833
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:53,980
our city.

834
00:57:54,500 --> 00:57:58,360
And we take that tax money and we try to plug it in to provide those different services

835
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:02,980
and to do that in the most possible efficient way so that you're getting a good value

836
00:58:02,980 --> 00:58:03,940
for your tax dollar.

837
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:09,640
I'm just going to tell you in today's world there's a whole lot of talk about taxes

838
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:11,220
and specifically property taxes.

839
00:58:12,820 --> 00:58:16,440
Tax reduction, cost cutting, efficiency, all those things are very, very popular.

840
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:17,720
Those are all good.

841
00:58:17,940 --> 00:58:19,680
I'm not here to tell you that any of those are bad.

842
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:21,140
I pay property taxes.

843
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:22,960
I don't like to pay property taxes.

844
00:58:23,020 --> 00:58:24,280
I wish I didn't pay property taxes.

845
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:25,280
I'd rather keep that money.

846
00:58:26,060 --> 00:58:28,380
But I do like the services I get for those taxes.

847
00:58:28,620 --> 00:58:30,780
And I do count on the services I get for those taxes.

848
00:58:31,300 --> 00:58:34,520
And I will tell you that many of us are so used to those services,

849
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:37,240
we don't even think about that, how that works.

850
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:44,080
So Scott actually go to slide two for me. I'm gonna preach just a little bit. My

851
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:49,320
dad was a preacher, my granddad was a preacher, so I apologize for that. But I

852
00:58:50,220 --> 00:58:52,780
want to give you a little bit of sense of what you're getting for your taxpayer

853
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,000
dollars. One of the things I love about working at this city is I think that we

854
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,340
provide great services and I think you get a great value for those taxpayer

855
00:59:01,340 --> 00:59:06,420
dollars. I think when we get none talking here tonight that I can

856
00:59:06,420 --> 00:59:07,980
and convince you if you don't already feel this way

857
00:59:07,980 --> 00:59:09,940
that you do get a good value for those services.

858
00:59:10,740 --> 00:59:12,760
And if I don't convince you, please come see me afterward

859
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:13,900
and we'll talk about it further

860
00:59:13,900 --> 00:59:15,600
because that's the goal of everybody

861
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,840
that you see down here before you tonight.

862
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:21,380
I wanna talk to you a little bit about

863
00:59:21,380 --> 00:59:23,920
where your taxes go, what they support,

864
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:29,040
but also just how proud I am of your city, our city,

865
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:30,580
that is the most efficient

866
00:59:30,580 --> 00:59:32,200
and high quality services that we deliver

867
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,540
and how I think it's a really good return

868
00:59:34,540 --> 00:59:37,740
on your what I would call your tax dollar investment because that's what it is

869
00:59:37,740 --> 00:59:40,860
you're investing in your community. We're gonna talk about a lot of things

870
00:59:40,860 --> 00:59:43,680
tonight. We're gonna talk about H.E.B. grocery store that everybody's excited

871
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:48,040
about. H.E.B. is privately held. We didn't spend tax dollars to get H.E.B. to come

872
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,600
here. They chose to come here. Why did they choose to come here? There's a lot

873
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,540
of reasons but one of those is it's a quality community. It's a well run

874
00:59:54,540 --> 00:59:58,720
community. It's got good water sewer drainage and streets. It's got a good

875
00:59:58,720 --> 00:59:59,300
police service.

876
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,980
They're not going to invest their private monies in a community that they don't feel like

877
01:00:02,980 --> 01:00:09,040
will give them a good return. So those are the kind of things that I think, even though I

878
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:12,260
think we all probably think our tax dollars go to support the police or the fire or those

879
01:00:12,260 --> 01:00:16,060
kind of obvious services, but they go to support a whole lot more than that. And so I'm a numbers

880
01:00:16,060 --> 01:00:21,100
guy. Bear with me if you all want to give you a couple numbers and we can play a little

881
01:00:21,100 --> 01:00:24,800
bit of guessing game here if you want to. But let me run over a couple of numbers

882
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:30,180
for you real real quick. Anybody know what this number represents? 320,251.

883
01:00:32,420 --> 01:00:33,080
Number of

884
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:37,920
leaves, right here, I heard that, it's pretty close. Very very good. Angela, raise

885
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:42,320
your hand. Angela in the library, if you've been to the Mary-Lib solid U.S.

886
01:00:42,340 --> 01:00:46,400
public library in 2025, that's the total number of physical and digital

887
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:50,300
checkouts that the library processed. So your public library, your tax

888
01:00:50,300 --> 01:00:57,700
dollars, 320,000 checkouts, if you will, both digital and physical. Major race his

889
01:00:57,700 --> 01:01:03,620
hand while ago, 240,000 dollars, 240,000. These are not dollars. 240,000 is the

890
01:01:03,620 --> 01:01:07,080
square foot of asphalt streets that Public Works Group milled and

891
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,840
overlaid in the city of Uless last year. That may or may not be a street that's

892
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,580
in front of your house, but it'll eventually be a street that's in front

893
01:01:13,580 --> 01:01:17,060
of your house and that's something that's done every every year that the

894
01:01:17,060 --> 01:01:21,000
council is approves in the budget to allow us to keep those streets up and

895
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,380
running in good shape. I'm going back here to the library a little bit. There

896
01:01:25,380 --> 01:01:30,380
were 208,578 visits to the library last year.

897
01:01:32,390 --> 01:01:33,470
I'm not telling you this

898
01:01:33,470 --> 01:01:38,830
to brag. I love to read, but I read audiobooks. I don't know, Angela, that I

899
01:01:38,830 --> 01:01:44,210
went to the library more than 34 times last year. So don't let even that

900
01:01:44,210 --> 01:01:47,330
fool you. That's people going into the library. That's not people like

901
01:01:47,330 --> 01:01:51,930
myself checking them out digitally. That's people actually visiting the library and that

902
01:01:51,930 --> 01:01:56,250
may be for a variety of reasons because Angela and her group provide a lot of services over

903
01:01:56,250 --> 01:02:03,910
at that library. 51,776, that's the total number of visits to the Aquatic Center, both

904
01:02:03,910 --> 01:02:07,350
the indoor and outdoor pool. That's the number of people that are swimming over there

905
01:02:07,350 --> 01:02:11,210
at the Midway Rec Center. That's pretty impressive because that facility is not

906
01:02:11,210 --> 01:02:14,990
even open all year long when we're talking about the outdoor facility.

907
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:18,540
How many of

908
01:02:18,540 --> 01:02:22,480
you been to the Eulah Senior Center. Zarian you haven't because you're not old

909
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:28,100
enough looking in there anybody else. Well you and 37,444 of your friends

910
01:02:28,100 --> 01:02:33,040
paid a visit to the Eulah Senior Center. That is an amazing number to me and a

911
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:37,040
lot of people that get a lot of good use out of that center and to be honest

912
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:41,040
with you there's a lot of friendships and a lot of people rely on that

913
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:45,880
center a tremendous amount. So Dwayne and his group in the Parks Department

914
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:52,960
that run that center provide that. This is how many 24,935. That's how many 9-1-1

915
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,680
calls that we took this year. Somebody in the back asked about how many

916
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:58,840
dispatchers we have and how many terminals and where they're at and all

917
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:05,860
that good stuff. Almost 25,000 calls came through 9-1-1 last year. 18,539

918
01:03:05,860 --> 01:03:09,720
citizens request for police service. That's how many calls your police

919
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:12,160
service is running. That's not self-initiated calls or things.

920
01:03:15,100 --> 01:03:15,540
Those

921
01:03:15,540 --> 01:03:20,060
calls like Mr. Edgar that he calls and says we need you to come check out something like that.

922
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:26,080
16,382, in case you don't know, I'm counting down here. I'll hurry up. We don't have a number

923
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:30,200
for everything, but that's Miss Claudia over there. That's how many municipal court cases

924
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:35,560
they processed last year. That's a lot of municipal court cases. Every one of those has

925
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:41,900
got a story. 13,909 back to the leaves. That's how many accounts are in the city.

926
01:03:41,900 --> 01:03:46,600
they get serviced twice a week on trash. Now that's residential and commercial, but that's

927
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:51,660
how many accounts get serviced in the city. So when I get on a typical week, you know,

928
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:59,620
a couple calls of missed service and I realized that they had, you know, 26,000, 27,000 opportunities

929
01:03:59,620 --> 01:04:03,020
for a missed service than missed a couple. That's why I tell you that Republic traditionally

930
01:04:03,020 --> 01:04:07,420
does us a good job, not to excuse again what happened here over here recently, but

931
01:04:07,420 --> 01:04:09,400
But that's a lot of trash to be picked up.

932
01:04:09,900 --> 01:04:14,060
The fire department ran 6103 emergency calls last year.

933
01:04:15,180 --> 01:04:16,820
So do the math on that.

934
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,280
That's a lot of calls running out of those three stations for our fire department.

935
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:24,240
Our building department, Lisa raised your hand over there, planning and economic development.

936
01:04:24,420 --> 01:04:29,420
They did 5,614 building inspections of various types throughout the year.

937
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:35,740
3,846, that's the number of inspections performed by the fire department.

938
01:04:36,740 --> 01:04:40,480
These are typically going to be on new buildings and buildings throughout the town and businesses

939
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,020
that are operating throughout the town.

940
01:04:42,740 --> 01:04:44,180
This is a crazy number to me.

941
01:04:44,260 --> 01:04:46,600
That is the number of times the ambulance ran last year.

942
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:47,580
And I say ambulance.

943
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:48,180
We have three.

944
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:50,200
I guess, Chief, we got five.

945
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,340
But there's three in service at any one time, two in backup.

946
01:04:52,500 --> 01:04:56,180
But those three ambulances are running and look at that, 365 days a year.

947
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,760
So, Mr. Stineford, you're always the mental math guy.

948
01:05:00,060 --> 01:05:05,140
Over 10, over 10 a day of ambulance runs that are happening.

949
01:05:05,140 --> 01:05:10,560
Again, not something you care about until until you care about it, and then you really care about it, right?

950
01:05:11,900 --> 01:05:15,500
We had 800 kids participate in summer camp last year

951
01:05:15,500 --> 01:05:20,380
That's kids that are doing something constructive with their summer and not doing something

952
01:05:22,020 --> 01:05:27,320
Destructive cheap in there, right? So that's a that's a good number and that's a summer camp that with that the city runs

953
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,560
314 does anybody know what a truck mounted attenuator is

954
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:34,940
What if I said scorpion?

955
01:05:35,740 --> 01:05:39,120
What if I said it's the truck out there on the freeway that lowers that thing and blocks

956
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:41,420
stuff from getting hit when they're working on the road?

957
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:43,240
The city of Eulahs has one of those.

958
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,940
We had to buy it because there were so many accidents happening on the freeway.

959
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:51,700
We couldn't protect our officers for both police and fire and at one time, I guess

960
01:05:51,700 --> 01:05:58,580
about two years ago we lost six vehicles in just a few months to them pulling over

961
01:05:58,580 --> 01:06:01,940
to help somebody and luckily none of our officers were hurt but while they were

962
01:06:01,940 --> 01:06:05,900
of the vehicle helping somebody in front of them somebody would slam into their

963
01:06:05,900 --> 01:06:12,120
back end on that freeway so 314 times so not quite once a day but 314 times that

964
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:16,480
a 10-year waiter went out and provided protection for not only a citizen or

965
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:18,940
resident but also for the police and fire personnel that were out there

966
01:06:18,940 --> 01:06:24,940
working those accident on our freeways. Lisa and her group issued 109 COs for

967
01:06:24,940 --> 01:06:30,880
new businesses. A lot of times we talk about HEB and other big folks we

968
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,340
We don't always talk about all the little folks that are out there in the mom-and-pop

969
01:06:34,340 --> 01:06:37,420
operations that are keeping operations going in our city.

970
01:06:37,540 --> 01:06:41,460
That's 109 new businesses in our city last year received a CO.

971
01:06:42,420 --> 01:06:43,720
Now we're getting down to the last end.

972
01:06:43,940 --> 01:06:44,220
38.

973
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:45,660
Janina, where are you at?

974
01:06:45,780 --> 01:06:46,580
Raise your hand.

975
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:47,800
Janina is the finance director.

976
01:06:48,420 --> 01:06:53,340
Janina and her group won the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial

977
01:06:53,340 --> 01:06:55,340
reporting for the 38th year.

978
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,320
That's what 38 stands for, 38 straight years of excellence in financial reporting.

979
01:07:02,860 --> 01:07:06,360
She's keeping the books and reporting on your tax money, so if it's my tax money,

980
01:07:06,420 --> 01:07:09,920
I want the person winning the award from the Government Finance Officer's

981
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:16,400
Association for Excellence in Reporting. Last number I got for you is one. It goes

982
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,980
back to where we started this. I would tell you there's one mission of

983
01:07:19,980 --> 01:07:22,780
everybody that's here working for you whether they're sitting up here or

984
01:07:22,780 --> 01:07:25,960
out in that audience and this is the city's mission statement. Provide our

985
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:29,800
citizens the most efficient services possible to protect and enhance the

986
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:33,380
quality of life through planning and visionary leadership. That's what we're

987
01:07:33,380 --> 01:07:40,080
all pushing for really really quickly. This is a dollar phase, a dollar

988
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:44,400
divided up. It's intended to show you where your dollar goes. I always try to

989
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:47,980
talk about this. Josh is here with the school district, Josh I didn't put this

990
01:07:47,980 --> 01:07:51,080
in here to talk about about the school district I promise, but when you pay

991
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,840
your property taxes, and that's what we're talking about, property taxes,

992
01:07:54,220 --> 01:07:59,460
realize that whether you're in Great Vine Collieville ISD or HEB ISD at

993
01:07:59,460 --> 01:08:04,320
It varies a little bit, but either 24 or 26% of your property taxes are actually going

994
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:05,380
to the city of Ulysses.

995
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:11,440
You can see the respective percentages for the school districts and then for Tarrant

996
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:11,720
County.

997
01:08:14,900 --> 01:08:19,160
When you think about the average home value in Ulysses, which in case anybody is wondering,

998
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:22,920
the average home value in Ulysses is $339,533.

999
01:08:23,700 --> 01:08:27,460
Your particular home may be valued at more than that or it may be valued at

1000
01:08:27,460 --> 01:08:29,180
less than that, but that's the average home value.

1001
01:08:30,300 --> 01:08:33,400
The person with the average home value in ULIS that has a homestead exemption

1002
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:38,040
filed with Tarrant County on that, which most of us do, their annual tax bill is

1003
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:48,160
$1,294. That's $107 a month or $3.55 a day for all that stuff I was trying to

1004
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,320
show you with all those numbers. Obviously I couldn't talk to you about

1005
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:54,480
everything that you get for your taxpayers money. We don't have

1006
01:08:54,480 --> 01:08:57,180
enough time to do that. I probably took more time than I should. I can feel

1007
01:08:57,180 --> 01:09:04,160
mayor looking at me right now while I'm trying to finish this. Too late, she said, but I would just

1008
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:08,000
tell you, and by the way if you're a senior and you've got a senior tax reason, a senior exemption

1009
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:16,000
on their average home value, you're paying $91 a month or $2.99 a day. As we go through the

1010
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:21,120
night and even beyond that, when you think about the city, what I tell you is think about

1011
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:30,180
the services in your own budget that you pay $100 a month for. Cell phone, internet, TV,

1012
01:09:30,480 --> 01:09:34,740
streaming services, coffee, those kind of things when you add them up. I'm not saying

1013
01:09:34,740 --> 01:09:38,120
you shouldn't do that. I'm not saying they're bad values. I'm saying I think your taxes

1014
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:47,240
provide you an excellent value in what you get for your basically $3.55 a day on average.

1015
01:09:48,900 --> 01:09:52,100
As we go through the town hall meeting again as you leave, if you'll just kind of think

1016
01:09:52,100 --> 01:09:55,580
about that, I think it'll help put all that in perspective.

1017
01:09:55,860 --> 01:09:57,420
Why would I take the time to say all that?

1018
01:09:58,220 --> 01:09:59,080
Here's my conclusion.

1019
01:09:59,300 --> 01:10:00,840
This is my third point here on my sermon.

1020
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:07,640
As we go forward, cities in your community, your city, are feeling the pressures from

1021
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:08,600
all kinds of places.

1022
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:14,780
There are being limitations put on the money that they can actually raise through taxes.

1023
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:17,080
Not necessarily a bad thing.

1024
01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:21,300
I'm not saying that. There's also pressure coming from the other way, just like there

1025
01:10:21,300 --> 01:10:25,180
is at your house, things cost more. Everything that we buy, just like at your house, costs

1026
01:10:25,180 --> 01:10:30,300
more. Those two things are going to meet in the middle. My simple, I guess, plea to you

1027
01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:30,960
all is,

1028
01:10:33,330 --> 01:10:36,730
all cities should not be treated the same. We should have the ability to

1029
01:10:36,730 --> 01:10:41,750
have local control. That's the message I'd like for the citizens to help us with.

1030
01:10:41,950 --> 01:10:45,810
Because when I say help us, it's not us. It's help you with. This is your community.

1031
01:10:46,530 --> 01:10:48,930
you ought to be able to decide what's important.

1032
01:10:49,130 --> 01:10:51,030
You ought to be able to decide whether we want street sweeping

1033
01:10:51,450 --> 01:10:52,510
or not have street sweeping.

1034
01:10:52,970 --> 01:10:55,790
You ought to be able to decide do we want four dispatchers

1035
01:10:55,790 --> 01:10:56,970
instead of five dispatchers.

1036
01:10:57,050 --> 01:10:59,010
And I know that that's not necessarily a decision

1037
01:10:59,010 --> 01:11:00,410
that a citizen makes,

1038
01:11:00,470 --> 01:11:03,150
but they make the decision for what quality of services

1039
01:11:03,150 --> 01:11:04,070
that they want.

1040
01:11:04,310 --> 01:11:06,650
And my argument is that that decision ought to be left here

1041
01:11:07,270 --> 01:11:08,030
not somewhere else.

1042
01:11:08,190 --> 01:11:09,370
So that's my preaching.

1043
01:11:10,070 --> 01:11:12,310
I apologize real quick just so you know.

1044
01:11:13,270 --> 01:11:15,090
This is where we get our money in the general fund,

1045
01:11:15,090 --> 01:11:21,030
general funds a single largest fund we get our money look at that 73% property

1046
01:11:21,030 --> 01:11:24,570
taxes and sales taxes largest single piece is property taxes and that's why

1047
01:11:24,570 --> 01:11:27,790
I spent time talking about that you can see the other places that we get

1048
01:11:27,790 --> 01:11:35,970
things a lot of it is again 73% of that sales in property tax or do we

1049
01:11:35,970 --> 01:11:39,410
spend our money no surprise here look at that police department 28% fire

1050
01:11:39,410 --> 01:11:43,750
department 21% so 50% of that money comes in goes to police and fire the

1051
01:11:43,750 --> 01:11:45,070
The city does not make widgets.

1052
01:11:45,710 --> 01:11:46,690
We provide services.

1053
01:11:47,130 --> 01:11:49,350
Those monies come back out to you as far as those services.

1054
01:11:49,510 --> 01:11:51,670
That's those ambulance calls and those calls for service.

1055
01:11:52,590 --> 01:11:54,850
Those things are free that you're paying for them.

1056
01:11:55,210 --> 01:11:56,770
Those are your tax dollars paying for them.

1057
01:11:57,110 --> 01:12:00,590
We want to provide the best quality service at the most efficient level that we can.

1058
01:12:00,670 --> 01:12:02,850
But I do want you to just kind of look at where that goes.

1059
01:12:04,510 --> 01:12:07,750
One of the issues that I have with some of the pressures being put on cities as

1060
01:12:07,750 --> 01:12:13,550
a whole on these areas is it's very easy for people to want to support

1061
01:12:13,550 --> 01:12:16,690
police and fire because of what they do for us and I do understand that.

1062
01:12:17,590 --> 01:12:20,810
Recognize for a minute that as much as I like the police department, as much as I

1063
01:12:20,810 --> 01:12:23,830
like the fire department, if the water doesn't come out that hydrant,

1064
01:12:23,890 --> 01:12:27,250
whether it's painted or not, if the water doesn't come out of that hydrant,

1065
01:12:27,950 --> 01:12:30,750
they can't put a fire out. If the road's not in the condition that the

1066
01:12:30,750 --> 01:12:35,410
fire truck can get there, there's no, not a whole lot they can do about it.

1067
01:12:35,410 --> 01:12:39,870
I say that to say police and fire are dependent on public works.

1068
01:12:40,630 --> 01:12:43,230
There's not a fireman in our city that's going to come to work if we

1069
01:12:43,230 --> 01:12:47,150
could pay in them. So police and fire are dependent on Janina and her finance

1070
01:12:47,150 --> 01:12:52,410
group to process payroll and do those. We put pie charts up and it looks nice

1071
01:12:52,410 --> 01:12:56,490
and easy and we can quantify where things go. Realize this is like parts of a

1072
01:12:56,490 --> 01:12:59,590
body. All those pieces are tied together and for it to be fully functional

1073
01:12:59,590 --> 01:13:03,950
and official all those pieces have to have to work together. So wanted to

1074
01:13:03,950 --> 01:13:06,810
show you those two things. I'll quit preaching and give you a quick

1075
01:13:06,810 --> 01:13:10,870
development update. I do you got about 10 minutes. I'm being mindful of time

1076
01:13:10,870 --> 01:13:15,930
I'm gonna go quick real quick. H.E.B. is coming. You can see it out there. It'll open this year on a Wednesday

1077
01:13:15,930 --> 01:13:20,850
I don't know what month they always open on a Wednesday in 2026. They're gonna open

1078
01:13:20,850 --> 01:13:25,450
I'm gonna show you a little something. There's the mayor out there last year. We showed this picture at Town Hall

1079
01:13:25,450 --> 01:13:28,030
We had just done the groundbreaking mayor. I was there

1080
01:13:28,470 --> 01:13:31,270
They didn't let me up there with a shovel, but they let you up there with a shovel

1081
01:13:31,270 --> 01:13:35,770
So that was a good thing, but what's happened in a year. I'm gonna show you this little shot right here

1082
01:13:35,770 --> 01:13:41,890
This is an aerial view at the bottom of the screen is Rio Grande at the left of the screen is cheeks Barger

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01:13:41,890 --> 01:13:46,650
And I'm going to let this roll this again shot by our police department with their drone footage

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01:13:46,650 --> 01:13:49,210
This is a really recent shot

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01:13:49,210 --> 01:13:53,230
You can see there as we come up on what's going to be the fuel island and car wash

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01:13:53,230 --> 01:13:57,570
We proceed into the parking lot area that you can see is

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01:13:57,570 --> 01:13:59,010
near completion

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01:13:59,650 --> 01:14:04,910
That is a 126,000 square foot grocery store all under one roof

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01:14:06,210 --> 01:14:07,790
They are working on that thing.

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01:14:07,930 --> 01:14:11,770
If you go by there, that thing literally changes daily.

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01:14:12,490 --> 01:14:16,110
It's going to have the Texas Best Barbecue with a separate drive-through.

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01:14:16,710 --> 01:14:21,510
It's going to have a pharmacy with a separate drive-through.

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01:14:22,230 --> 01:14:25,410
And it's going to be a really nice asset to our city.

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01:14:26,010 --> 01:14:28,790
I just wanted to be able to show you that video and to show you that.

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01:14:29,090 --> 01:14:31,230
That's trendy union apartments that are turning in.

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01:14:31,350 --> 01:14:32,930
That's right next to that.

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01:14:33,070 --> 01:14:35,530
And then to the north of that is the remainder of Lake Park.

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01:14:35,530 --> 01:14:40,910
So again that will open this year and let me see if I did this right now we don't get

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01:14:41,730 --> 01:14:47,690
we don't often get petty mayor around here but every once in a while we do. You may have heard

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01:14:47,690 --> 01:14:52,150
that this is in Eulah's you may have heard it's in Bedford the truth is it's in both

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01:14:52,150 --> 01:14:55,690
cities and it's that land's been that way for a long long time.

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01:14:56,270 --> 01:14:59,970
H.E.B. bought this property in 2015 and when we wanted to make

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,720
Make it somewhere that they wanted to come. So we got together with Bedford and we wrote

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01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:07,680
an interlocal agreement between the two cities to cooperate and make it as easy as possible

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01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:11,880
for HEB to come here. And what we mean by that is we combined our planning departments

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01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:15,620
and the permitting process and we didn't want these folks to have to go through two different

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01:15:16,020 --> 01:15:19,040
pieces and part of the buildings in Eulis and parts in Bedford and you're running

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01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:22,320
and you're trying to get permits in both cities. So we proactively came to the

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01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:26,920
other and tried to make that part easy. We also agreed to share revenue on that

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01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:33,080
part easy. But that right there, if you ever get asked, that's the part that's in

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01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:36,160
Bedford. That's the part that's in Ulysses.

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01:15:38,220 --> 01:15:41,680
Just so you know. Glade parks just to

1113
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:46,240
the north. We got a flex building going on up there closer towards the target.

1114
01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:49,500
That's going to have a Korean barbecue and a couple other places have signed

1115
01:15:49,500 --> 01:15:52,480
letters of intent. I think you'll see that finished in the next couple months

1116
01:15:52,480 --> 01:15:55,380
and you'll start to see some additional shops going to that spot.

1117
01:15:55,380 --> 01:16:01,760
Zap is down where in the Lifestyle Center where Dickies barbecue used to be. If you

1118
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:05,420
haven't been to Zap it's absolutely delicious. If you need talk to the city

1119
01:16:05,420 --> 01:16:08,920
manager's office once a week you'll find Stephen and Lawrence and I there at

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01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:15,120
lunch having a having lunch that we all like that place. This is if you know

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01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:18,560
Sal and Saviano's up off Main Street. This is their pizza place that went in

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01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:21,960
the old Medici area there. Again in the Lifestyle Center you should try

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01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:26,260
that wood fire pizza if you haven't going across the street over to shops at

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01:16:26,260 --> 01:16:29,540
Vineyard Village the old party city this is Cavenders boot city that is a

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01:16:29,540 --> 01:16:33,280
massive store if you've not ever been in that I've been in a lot of boot stores

1126
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,460
but that that one may take the case how big that is you got to go try that out

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01:16:36,460 --> 01:16:40,320
also shops at vineyards this year shoe Palace opened in the old famous

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01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:43,760
footwear spot and then many so and I'm going to be honest with you I've

1129
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,460
not been in many so but as I understand it's some novelty got

1130
01:16:46,460 --> 01:16:50,820
gifts that's also in shops at Vineyard Village and batteries plus

1131
01:16:50,820 --> 01:16:53,360
us out there next to brass tap in the out parcels.

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01:16:55,020 --> 01:16:58,460
Looky there, picture of HTO that opened this year.

1133
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:04,480
There's no truth to the foot cast

1134
01:17:04,480 --> 01:17:06,580
you're where you did not drop a gallon of tea on your foot.

1135
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:07,780
Is that OK?

1136
01:17:08,020 --> 01:17:10,160
Just make sure this is up on Main Street.

1137
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:12,000
If you haven't been to HTO, you should go.

1138
01:17:12,180 --> 01:17:12,980
I go all the time.

1139
01:17:13,100 --> 01:17:14,600
They got to drive through it, makes it real easy.

1140
01:17:14,980 --> 01:17:17,720
And I even have an app about for HTO.

1141
01:17:17,820 --> 01:17:18,700
So appreciate that.

1142
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:21,520
This is a picture we showed at this meeting last year.

1143
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:25,640
this is Hearst Electric up on say Highway 183 if you've been around a

1144
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:31,020
long time. This is in the old Owls formal wear shop. This is the picture from

1145
01:17:31,020 --> 01:17:34,340
last year Town Hall. This is the picture from this year at Town Hall. That

1146
01:17:34,340 --> 01:17:38,060
building should be occupied and operational within the next month or

1147
01:17:38,060 --> 01:17:41,440
so. So we're happy to have Hearst Electric even though they're in

1148
01:17:41,440 --> 01:17:44,920
Ulysses now. I guess they're going to keep the name Hearst Electric. This is

1149
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,620
a picture again that we showed you last year for Holiday Inn Express at

1150
01:17:47,620 --> 01:17:49,740
at Harwood Road and State Highway 360.

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01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:52,260
I love doing these, what we showed you last year,

1152
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:53,600
and then this is a picture from this year.

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01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:55,580
That thing ought to open sometime

1154
01:17:55,580 --> 01:17:57,120
late this spring, early summer.

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01:17:57,700 --> 01:17:59,600
Four stories, just over 100 rooms,

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01:17:59,700 --> 01:18:01,680
right there at the corner of 360 and Harwood Road.

1157
01:18:02,740 --> 01:18:05,740
This is the second of three hotels that are gone going.

1158
01:18:05,860 --> 01:18:06,880
This is the Cambria Hotel.

1159
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,800
This sits out on the old Arbor Day's site,

1160
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:11,880
if you ever went to the old Arbor Day's site,

1161
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:12,780
just south of the tent.

1162
01:18:13,380 --> 01:18:15,300
Again, four stories, about 100 rooms,

1163
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:16,900
and that thing actually is due to open,

1164
01:18:16,900 --> 01:18:19,620
but I think at least in the next 30 to 45 days or so.

1165
01:18:19,740 --> 01:18:20,580
So it's very, very close.

1166
01:18:21,340 --> 01:18:22,460
Right over the top of that,

1167
01:18:22,580 --> 01:18:24,260
you're gonna see some of the multifamily product

1168
01:18:24,260 --> 01:18:26,300
at what used to be called water color.

1169
01:18:26,500 --> 01:18:27,560
It's now Waters Bend,

1170
01:18:27,740 --> 01:18:30,840
because the water color development in Florida

1171
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,360
did not like them using the name water color,

1172
01:18:33,380 --> 01:18:34,860
so they've rebranded to Waters Bend.

1173
01:18:35,660 --> 01:18:36,500
Right out in front,

1174
01:18:36,660 --> 01:18:38,080
that's Cambria to the back right of the corner,

1175
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:40,380
right out in front of that is a fueling station,

1176
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:41,740
gas station that's going in.

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01:18:42,020 --> 01:18:43,620
They're on the hard corner directly across

1178
01:18:43,620 --> 01:18:44,780
from Uncommon Church.

1179
01:18:45,700 --> 01:18:49,040
This is water bin. Again, form is the water color. We've shown you this for a

1180
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:52,400
couple years. I want to talk real quick about the multifamily piece that's

1181
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:57,100
located there along State Highway 183 and Bear Creek Parkway. Again, a picture

1182
01:18:57,100 --> 01:19:01,120
from last year's Town Hall meeting. That multifamily being built. A picture from

1183
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:04,760
this year's Town Hall meeting. That multifamily is completed and a lot of

1184
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:10,540
that is already occupied. The rest of it is almost ready to be occupied. Just

1185
01:19:10,540 --> 01:19:13,120
a couple of shots of that. You can see here they're still working on their

1186
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:18,280
pool and amenity center. If you look right over the top of the multi-family we're talking

1187
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:22,060
about you're going to see start to see some of the single family residential coming out

1188
01:19:22,060 --> 01:19:26,660
of the ground. If I go back to the map I'm going to put a red box over that top right

1189
01:19:26,660 --> 01:19:30,940
hand corner just to orient you that's State Highway 360. This next picture is going to

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01:19:30,940 --> 01:19:35,020
start there and it's going to move over that residential area towards the multi-family

1191
01:19:35,020 --> 01:19:38,940
that we started at. Again just a little video I think is the easiest way to show

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01:19:38,940 --> 01:19:43,540
this but you'll start to see some of those single family homes come out. Those are rear

1193
01:19:43,540 --> 01:19:47,220
lot line rear loaded through an alleyway. That's what you see there in the back is a rear alley.

1194
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:52,040
You'll see that all of the infrastructure is in for that development. Water sewer drainage streets,

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01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:56,600
street lights, all that good stuff. Those are bench slots that will soon be built on.

1196
01:19:56,780 --> 01:20:00,800
You will come across now we're starting to come across the pedestrian connection that

1197
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:08,740
brings the existing Bear Creek Riverwalk area down to the water feature and then you're

1198
01:20:08,740 --> 01:20:12,680
moving now into the Rowe hometown home section of that residential development

1199
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:17,720
and we will eventually end up back over here where the multifamily piece is. So

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01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:21,880
that is moving along very very quickly and it's been a long time coming in our

1201
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:27,680
city that's the last really really large spot of vacant land to be developed

1202
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:31,520
that's currently under develop right now. That is the water feature that I've

1203
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:34,020
talked to you about that I'll have the commercial section of this the

1204
01:20:34,020 --> 01:20:36,940
pad site that you see there is an at-well suites that is under

1205
01:20:36,940 --> 01:20:40,880
construction and again I don't know what's magical about four stories in a hundred

1206
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:44,860
and seven rooms but that apparently fits everywhere and that products being

1207
01:20:44,860 --> 01:20:49,260
built there that will overlook that water feature and and have some

1208
01:20:49,260 --> 01:20:54,460
interaction I guess with that water feature in some of their facility. This

1209
01:20:54,460 --> 01:20:58,020
real quickly is a little multifamily called West Spring Pines very very

1210
01:20:58,020 --> 01:21:02,360
interesting this is where Sota Grande is down on West Pipeline Road this is

1211
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:04,840
property that used to if you've been around here a long time have their

1212
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:08,200
tennis center on it. They've owned the property. It's had the zoning for that.

1213
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,880
It's just been other uses. That tennis center went away and was just kind of

1214
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:16,740
dilapidated and junky for a long, long time and they came in last year and went

1215
01:21:16,740 --> 01:21:19,980
to the site plan process and they're building some additional units on that.

1216
01:21:20,480 --> 01:21:24,080
This is looking back at that same piece but you can start to see just

1217
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:28,960
around that the existing West Hill Hills multi-family piece. If you look

1218
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:32,260
out there to the top you're going to see the the junior high and keys

1219
01:21:32,260 --> 01:21:32,880
learning center.

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01:21:36,830 --> 01:21:39,970
I used all my talking tokens. Are you done? All right, never mind, don't start it.

1221
01:21:40,290 --> 01:21:46,810
All right, good. As we said, we are here as long as you have questions to ask. We

1222
01:21:47,470 --> 01:21:54,250
do have tables set up. Chris, is it all right now if I dismiss the staff so they can go get

1223
01:21:54,250 --> 01:21:57,810
set up? We're going to dismiss the staff. They're going to go get set up at the tables.

1224
01:21:58,810 --> 01:22:03,230
But as soon as they leave the room, if you will, please stay here. Then we're going to

1225
01:22:03,230 --> 01:22:04,390
here from council and the mayor.

1226
01:22:06,550 --> 01:22:08,630
Let's throw up slide 111 real quick.

1227
01:22:08,790 --> 01:22:09,950
I've got one slide I'm going to show you.

1228
01:22:10,070 --> 01:22:11,590
I promise this will be the last one I'll show you.

1229
01:22:11,850 --> 01:22:14,030
Wanted to mention real quickly that the city council

1230
01:22:14,030 --> 01:22:17,530
is looking at some charter amendments that

1231
01:22:17,530 --> 01:22:22,010
would be on the ballot in the May election time frame.

1232
01:22:22,750 --> 01:22:24,890
The city has a charter that is the base.

1233
01:22:25,370 --> 01:22:26,450
We've got a code of ordinances that

1234
01:22:26,450 --> 01:22:27,110
come from the charter.

1235
01:22:27,230 --> 01:22:29,630
But the charter is kind of some base rules for the city.

1236
01:22:30,070 --> 01:22:32,370
Cities will typically update these every couple of years

1237
01:22:32,370 --> 01:22:35,030
just to keep consistent with state law and things that have turned out.

1238
01:22:35,310 --> 01:22:40,130
You can see the City of Uleses Charter was adopted in 1962 and we started updating it

1239
01:22:40,130 --> 01:22:45,930
in 69 and 73 and 75 and then last time we did it was 30 years ago and we haven't done

1240
01:22:45,930 --> 01:22:46,810
anything in 30 years.

1241
01:22:47,130 --> 01:22:48,930
So council is taking on that task.

1242
01:22:49,110 --> 01:22:50,450
It's a monumental task.

1243
01:22:50,890 --> 01:22:53,610
Anything you haven't done in 30 years will take a little time to do.

1244
01:22:54,110 --> 01:22:56,870
We're going to have some meetings for the public on that as we get a little further.

1245
01:22:57,450 --> 01:23:00,610
So we'll have a public meeting and we'll put out information for everybody so you

1246
01:23:00,610 --> 01:23:03,670
can see what those proposed charter amendments are, but I just wanted to

1247
01:23:03,670 --> 01:23:07,130
make you aware of that coming down the pipe as we lead into the May election

1248
01:23:07,130 --> 01:23:12,950
time, Brian. And now we're going to hear from our council. Typically we give the

1249
01:23:12,950 --> 01:23:13,770
mayor the last word.

1250
01:23:20,220 --> 01:23:21,520
We're going to get mayor the first word.

1251
01:23:36,310 --> 01:23:37,050
So the mayor's

1252
01:23:37,050 --> 01:23:40,430
asked me to read this for her and I'm just I'm going to read here what

1253
01:23:40,430 --> 01:23:43,070
she's got and says good evening. I'd like to take a moment to share a

1254
01:23:43,070 --> 01:23:46,330
personal decision with the community that I have been honored to serve.

1255
01:23:47,030 --> 01:23:51,250
After 22 years as a member of the Eula City Council, including the privilege of serving

1256
01:23:51,250 --> 01:23:53,990
as mayor, I have decided not to seek re-election.

1257
01:23:54,830 --> 01:23:59,910
This was not an easy decision, my passion for public service is strong, and the rewards

1258
01:23:59,910 --> 01:24:02,090
of serving this community have truly been wonderful.

1259
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:08,780
However, after the passing of my dear sweet Don, who was by my side for more than

1260
01:24:08,780 --> 01:24:13,280
40 years, I've come to realize that this is a time in my life when I need to focus

1261
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:15,080
on myself and on healing.

1262
01:24:15,780 --> 01:24:22,420
Dawn was my constant support and my greatest encourager, and this decision comes with deep

1263
01:24:22,420 --> 01:24:23,720
reflection and with love.

1264
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:29,520
Over the years I've made countless connections through my service, friendships and relationships

1265
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:30,700
that I treasure deeply.

1266
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:35,780
And while I may no longer serve on the City Council, these connections will remain with

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01:24:35,780 --> 01:24:35,940
me.

1268
01:24:36,300 --> 01:24:40,100
They will continue to carry me through life and will always bring me great joy.

1269
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:45,540
I will miss serving the city and working alongside dedicated colleagues and staff,

1270
01:24:46,100 --> 01:24:50,440
but I want everyone to know that I am not leaving Uless. This community is my home,

1271
01:24:50,700 --> 01:24:55,520
and I will continue to support what is best for the Uless and for our community as a whole.

1272
01:24:56,500 --> 01:25:00,440
Thank you for the trust that you have placed in me over the years and for the kindness you have

1273
01:25:00,440 --> 01:25:06,620
shown me, and for allowing me the honor of serving this great city and its residents. Thank you.

1274
01:25:32,810 --> 01:25:37,430
Now we're going to let each council member say a couple of words. Start down here on

1275
01:25:37,430 --> 01:25:43,410
the end Mr. Price. Am I on? I guess I am. Well it just continues to be my great joy

1276
01:25:43,410 --> 01:25:49,710
and privilege to serve all the citizens of ULIS. It's especially great to serve

1277
01:25:49,710 --> 01:25:53,230
you guys that show up to a meeting like this. You're the ones who are engaged

1278
01:25:53,230 --> 01:25:56,830
and involved and we appreciate that so much. Thank you for the privilege that

1279
01:25:56,830 --> 01:25:59,890
I've had to be a part of this past 12 years.

1280
01:26:02,030 --> 01:26:03,190
Thank you Mr. Price. Mr.

1281
01:26:03,750 --> 01:26:11,020
Thank you. Glad to see everybody here tonight. It's just amazing when I look out there and

1282
01:26:11,020 --> 01:26:17,920
see everybody who's so engaged. AccessUlis. Who here uses AccessUlis? If you don't use

1283
01:26:18,420 --> 01:26:23,660
AccessUlis, look around the people who raise their hands and get connected. It's a great

1284
01:26:23,660 --> 01:26:27,820
resource for you. So you don't have to wait until a meeting like tonight to ask your

1285
01:26:27,820 --> 01:26:35,400
questions. That portal, that app can help you greatly. Use your access right to

1286
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:41,740
staff and right to your city manager and we track that. So I encourage you to do

1287
01:26:41,740 --> 01:26:47,100
that. The question you had in that were great. We have challenges ahead of us.

1288
01:26:47,540 --> 01:26:52,960
Water is going to be a challenge for our city, all cities. So with that I just

1289
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:56,860
want to tell you thank you for being here and let you know I'm up for

1290
01:26:56,860 --> 01:27:01,180
election this year and I filed a run for reelection and I hope I get your

1291
01:27:01,180 --> 01:27:07,200
support through that endeavor. I appreciate every one of you. My amazing wife

1292
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:13,320
is sitting right over here 44 years and she gives me great joy, hope I give her

1293
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:18,160
joy, so thank y'all for being here tonight. Thank you, Mr. Brownham. Mrs. Eads?

1294
01:27:19,740 --> 01:27:24,300
Is this on? All right. Thank you all for being here. Like these guys already

1295
01:27:24,300 --> 01:27:29,400
said it's super important that you're here and it's just also really refreshing to see so many people

1296
01:27:30,190 --> 01:27:36,640
wanting to be involved and active in the community. That's why we're up here to have this feedback

1297
01:27:36,640 --> 01:27:43,920
with you guys and have our city the best it can be. So thank you for being here and thank you

1298
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:49,460
for electing me for your city council. I'm pretty much brand new next to all these guys over

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here but I've been on council for about a year now and I'd be honored to continue that

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for a long time. So thank you.

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Thank you Mrs. Eats. Mr. Poddell.

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Good evening. Happy new year. I really feel so proud to serve the community. I really

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appreciate all you here tonight. Anything from outside please let us know and it's going

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be Big Miss Mayor. Thank you. Thank you Mayor Pro Tempston. Thanks Gary. I've been

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fortunate enough to be on the council now finishing up my 19th year and during

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that time I've had the pleasure of serving under two incredible mayors

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Mary Lipsala for 10 years and Mayor Martin for the last nine years.

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I'm

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I'm going to be filing my paperwork tomorrow to run for mayor and my goal would be if elected

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to not drive it in the ditch, to keep it in the same progress we've been doing with the

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mantra of we're going to do the right thing.

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Every case that comes before us, that's what we decide.

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What's the best thing for our city in this particular case?

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We all get along.

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This council is incredible.

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I think we have the best staff and group of employees in the state at the very least.

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Our finance department we found out is actually the best even in Canada.

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We found that out last night.

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So anyway, I am filing tomorrow.

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I've been really privileged to work with Linda.

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In fact, her husband, Don and I used to go on police patrol

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and he's the one that convinced me to run for counsel.

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He said, it's just a couple of meetings a month, a couple of hours, it's nothing.

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And I think he's up there in heaven right now going, yeah, he'd believe me.

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Anyway, thank you for all you do, because without the citizens of Eulus, none of us

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could do what we do, and without your support.

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So thank you very much, and again, happy new year.

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I'd just like to say something very briefly. We do have a tremendous council. We've worked

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together all these years, and we haven't had a disagreement one. And if we do, we go in

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the back room, we roll our eyes, and we get over it, and then we come out of that room

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laughing and enjoying each other's company. We truly love working together, and you're

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very fortunate that these folks have chosen to run again because you've got a

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ready-made experience council right here. So congratulations, Carrie the Mantle.

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Hopefully so, that's up to all them. I think they recognize a good thing when

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they see them. I'm not talking about you.

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Let's give all of our council and mayor

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a big round of applause. Thank you very much.

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As we mentioned earlier, we've come

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to the end of this portion of the meeting and we do have all the tables set up.

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Staff is there ready to answer any questions that you might have for them.

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Thank you again for coming out tonight and attending our annual town hall

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meeting. You want to continue doing this. That's what we ask every single

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year. We'll continue it again next year. Thank you for being here. God

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And you can talk to everybody out there, answer all the questions.

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HBISD even has a table set up out there.

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Thank you very much. Have a good night.