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Welcome everybody to the city of farmers branch study session for Tuesday, September 1st.

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Our first order of business will be public comments. I do not have anybody signed up to speak comments at this time.

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So we'll move right into study session items. First is item C1 review and discuss consent and regular agenda items. Councilwoman Gonzalez.

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Anything for me, Mayor?

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Councilwoman Bennett.

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Mayor, I would like to pull J1.

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I'm sorry, not J1.

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It's the oversized J2 and for discussion.

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Asking to move J2 to regular agenda?

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Okay.

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Anybody object?

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Councilman Reed?

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Yeah, I'd like to move G5.

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Okay.

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Can anyone agenda?

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Yes, I have questions on J-3-4-6 and 7. Hopefully we can address here in study session.

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You want a J3 first?

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That's fine, whichever.

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Question a J3.

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Good afternoon, Mayor. Good afternoon, council.

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Yes, sir.

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Just to take a couple of quick questions on this slide, can you tell me when the last review was done

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that we're now doing another one?

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Yes, sir. So this was a last done by Techstock. Techstock did it in March of 23.

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and what this is is a setting up a CIP project for this so we can take text

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dots original analysis and put a CIP program together for it.

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And another question I have is, can you tell me a little bit

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as to how you come to choose this firm to participate in this?

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This firm right here in 2024, we did an RFQ and this firm was chosen as part of that 2024 RFQ

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and so they were already on board and so we just used them to chose them to put this together for us.

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Okay, so basically they're familiar with all of this from 2024, we're just re-engaging them.

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Well, this is our first engagement with them.

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Originally, the assessment was done by TechStot.

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So what they're going to do is take the TechStot assessment, look through it, and then

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set up a CIP project.

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So did we do an RFQ on this?

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Or we just went to this firm, because they responded to the RFQ previously.

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They responded to the RFQ previously, and we have worked with them before, so they were

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a short list and so we went with them to put this together as part of the original RFQ.

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That's all I have.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Absolutely.

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Thank you.

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J4.

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Mayor, Council Robert Deos, Parks Director, I've got Maria Mentor, Deputy Director and

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Josie Avina, our event manager to kind of answer any of these questions for J4.

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Sure.

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I could make this relatively quick.

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Can you tell me who did this last year?

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So we actually bid it three years ago back in 2023.

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OK, so was it the same firm that did it?

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Yeah, sorry.

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Quick and put on black contractor.

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And could you touch base a little bit for me

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regarding rental versus owning some of this equipment?

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Yeah, so we actually own a lot of the city decor,

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but we also lease it as well.

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So this vendor will have both the rental and our city owned.

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So everything's stored together.

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And have we got, are given any more thought

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to maybe owning the equipment

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or is it that it changes every year or?

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So it will change.

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It's a recurring cost of renting your own.

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We can't change it during our bid like processing.

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And then we could also change the contract each year

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when we do our renewal letter.

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So it is kind of a changeable.

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So we have a three-year agreement with them now.

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Is this, are we in their second or third year with them?

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So we're on our last ring eels, so this will be a fresh start on the contract.

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Okay.

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All right.

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That's all I had.

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That's all I had, Mayor.

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Thanks.

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Thank you very much.

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Okay.

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What was your name?

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11.

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Five.

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But I think he's pulling that.

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Five is going to be on record number six.

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Six.

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Six and seven.

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Six and seven.

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Seven questions on five also, but I think you're moving about.

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We're going to have to talk about that later.

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But I'll talk about six and seven now.

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Okay. J6.

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Yes, sir.

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Just let me look at my notes. I'm in it here.

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Apologies.

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I notice what is it.

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Is it the exhibit or attachment?

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I'm just curious as to why.

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How we chose the 260 more or less.

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What we're reducing in costs.

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Why? 260. Why not more? Why not less?

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Yes, sir. That was based.

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So the vendor,

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When they did that grant application, they looked at the scope of what we turned in.

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And so they based the estimates on the maintenance based on the...

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Proposed grant that we submitted to text. That is not, we still have to go through the design process. So this is really just to kind of kick off the process of having Kimlin horn do the design. The final design has not been determined yet. So there are probably going to be places that were identified when they did the grant application that we might not be able to landscape. We might not be able to do the landscape that they looked at initially.

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So the landscape final plan could change.

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Also that final plan is going to come back to you all when we

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We bit out the project.

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Okay.

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When you guys award the bid, but even before that, when we get the final

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Design done before we go to bid, we'll bring it back to council that you

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Look at it.

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We'll have better estimates on our maintenance because we'll have a

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Really true picture of what we're going to be able to build and put out there.

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And so just for maybe some of the residents that might be watching that

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We're getting some money or grant money from text dot for this particular area, and this item here is for us to begin the management of our maintenance of the landscape once it's all taken over.

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So we will have a recurring annual amount of maintenance

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at the beginning in 20, 28.

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I believe it is roughly 260,000 into the future.

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Is that correct, so correct, sir?

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The grant application, if funds text,

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I will fund the actual construction dollars

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to put the landscape in, then correct.

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Then the way the two items you have this evening,

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the first is the landscape management agreement that we would have with text

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on and we would be able to, we would take all the maintenance on.

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They're basically hand in us.

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Right.

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Basically, giving us that, we're just going to maintain it in to the future.

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And I would just, I know it might be a little early, but I'd like us to be mindful of some

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zero-scaping and things that we can do to minimize our ongoing costs of, it's 260,000.

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And now the year after might be 275, 300.

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So maybe when we get to that point later on,

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we discuss it, maybe we can be mindful of what we can do

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to minimize some of those costs, but still remain pretty.

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Yes, sir.

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Yes, sir.

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That's all I have.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Did you have for J7?

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Yes, sir.

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On this item.

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Okay.

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But I have question on J7.

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I'm sorry.

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Just want to ask about the bidding process on this.

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Yes, sir.

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I don't know.

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How we chose.

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Correct.

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The vendor Kimlin Horn, the ones that also did the application process for us, that the Council

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approved last year, we did not do a request for proposal for this project.

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For what I understand, Kimlin Horn is the engineering department, public works has done an RFQ for Kimlin Horn.

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So they are on the list of vendors that we have done through that process.

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We also have currently a couple of projects in the queue.

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The west side art trail is also a Kimlin Horn project.

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And they were able to, they helped work through that process to get that grant funding.

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and also the TA project that's on value,

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they also assisted with that one as well.

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So with their expertise in this field,

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that's with help us with getting the grant put in initially.

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So we, and we have a short time frame to turn this project

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around to get it a bit out,

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because it has to be done by the end of next summer.

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Okay, so we didn't put it out for a bit

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for the reasons you just noted,

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they're already qualified and on the approved vendors list.

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And that's really I just wanted to point it out that we didn't put this out on the bid. That's all that's all. That's all happening. Thanks.

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Okay. I'll get anything. Okay.

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All right. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next step is item C2 discussing a beer budget adjustments for fiscal 2526.

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Good afternoon Mayor City Council members. My name's Dave Patel. I'm the fine instructor for the city and the item before you today is our annual end of your budget surplus update for the current fiscal year.

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This item ultimately serves as a bridge between our current fiscal year and the fiscal year

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where we're about to embark on and towards the end of each fiscal year, finance department

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works with each of our departments to forecast all revenue line items as well as expenditure

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line items to determine where we realistically can expect our budget to end off for this fiscal year

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and pride you all in update on the budget surplus amount available for your allocation at the end

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this fiscal year. Based on that review that your finance department conducted, we're currently

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You

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Directing a $350,000 budget surplus for council to provide direction on. And this does allow us to maintain

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our 90-day fund balance target as prescribed by the city council.

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From overall budget utilization on, in regards to

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$350,000, we're looking at a utilization of over 99%. And that signifies the strength of your city's

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budget management practices, as well as the success in the partnership between our city

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management office, our finance office, as well as our individual departments.

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And overall, our city council for the direction they provide for all of this too to work

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as it should.

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And so much of our discussions last year as it relates to the budget surplus amount, it is

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our recommendation that these one-time resources be tied toward one-time expenditures.

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Therefore, not towards anything that has a reoccurring cost associated with it, so we're not

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burdening our future operating budgets there into the future.

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We have three general criteria that we would like you to consider when choosing where to

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allocate these surplus funds.

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First and foremost, one-time expenditures, and that's related to any council priority, any one-time

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capital project, without an ongoing cost associated with it.

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Secondly, increasing fund balance.

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You can choose to keep this amount in the general fund and

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forgo this allocation until we receive our audit,

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our audit results, which we come before you and provide you an update

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as it relates to our end of your fund balance.

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Therefore, we can choose to allocate at that point in time.

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Also, you can choose to allocate this towards economic development fund balance

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to bolster the economic development activity and the strength of that fund for our C.

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And lastly, to decrease any known long-term liabilities that we're incurring, for example,

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or landfill liability. So putting money towards that expenditure that we look to take on in the future.

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And to provide you all with the overview of the overall timeline where we are today,

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you'll see that this is one of the last remaining pieces in our fiscal year,

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27 budget process. From this point on, on September 15th, we'll conduct our public hearings

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for the budget and the tax rate, as well as conduct the vote on the adoption of both

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the budget and the tax rate, and which our fiscal year will complete at that September

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30 a time frame. And with that, I'd like to conclude my presentation. I'm happy to answer any

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questions you all may have. Thank you very much, Shay. Castleman Gonzalez. Nothing for me,

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So it's 350,000 correct and my understanding is there are no, we don't have anything outstanding that needed to be funded, correct?

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That's correct.

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So because we're only giving a 1% raise, is there an option to give bonuses to staff?

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Other than that, my concern I would just like to bank it, but I recognize that we need to take care of our staff.

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As it wouldn't be prudent financial management to tie the one-time resources with the ongoing costs associated with the bonuses.

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Okay, so it would be a one-time and it wouldn't be a tie to salary.

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That's, that's in the purview of our city council, so.

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Absolutely. Yes, ma'am.

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Catherine Reed?

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Nothing at this point, but chew it over a little bit.

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Thank you, Jay, and thank you to your entire team.

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I know that you've been working really, really hard.

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I appreciate you.

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In light of our current state and just in the country,

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everything seems to be flat.

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I would be in favor of either holding onto it,

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or exploring the possibility of the columbarium,

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which would actually be a money maker,

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and many, many people in the community

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We would like to have their final resting place here in Farmer's branch and it would be a revenue builder, so I'd like to explore that.

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Thank you.

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Councillor Neill.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you, Jay.

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Appreciate the presentation.

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We all know that the previous couple of years at the end of the year, we've had in a neighborhood of about $2 million,

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two and a half million dollars.

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Could you help us understand as well as maybe explain to the public a little bit as to what we did,

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what happened that now this year we're down to 350 as opposed to 2 million.

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Great question.

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And much in our reference last year's budget surplus is a primary example and we we we we at the city.

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We have very conservative budgeting practices that we, that we instill on, that we, that we, that we vote our budget upon on the annual basis. Last year, we received a much

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more, our actuals over budget amounts were tied to revenue increase that increases that we experience throughout that fiscal year.

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to interest revenues, court-fine revenues,

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and those permit revenues as well largely tied

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to a lot of the surplus amounts tied to the previous fiscal year.

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So there was, effectively, much of the conservative budget and practices is what led to

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that budget surplus amount for the previous fiscal year.

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It was about $2.6 million around this time last year.

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It is important to note that this is a conservative projection based on this time this year.

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We still have September activity, we still need to participate in, as well as audit adjustments,

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which do fluctuate that number from now until the update that you receive in April on an annual basis.

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So, I would try largely to the Conservative Budgeting Practices, and then after the audit,

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we get a true picture for where those expenditures all exactly lined up.

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Right now what we're providing is a projection working with each other departments and based on everything we know right now.

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And so you mentioned the revenues are generally flat or are they in a downward trend is it is that impacting this currently

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We're our revenue projection is right and line with your budget. So we're not not too low not too less

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But you were we're expected to meet our revenue budget for this fiscal year

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So much of you're much of a much of a surplus amount is tied to the expenditure with

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You'll reminisce being.

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So as I was looking through the budget, it seemed as though our sales tax revenue was relatively flat, not so much increasing to any great degree.

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Where I'm going is I'm trying to find out how are we doing with businesses?

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Are we retaining businesses? Are we losing businesses?

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Trying to get a feel for how that sales tax isn't much higher overall.

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And now that's a little bit into the weeds at this point, but it's just something that's been on my mind.

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Not at all. And in the budget book, we do have a cap on the sales tax with the remainder over the 23 million this year, 23 and a half million this year, right?

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I did to go to the remedy stabilization fund.

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Effective method of in up to as it relates or sales tax will be later tonight.

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Okay, in my financial report.

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That's fine.

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That's fine.

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No worries.

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Thanks, Jay.

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Absolutely. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Next up is item C3,

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five second order update on economic activities.

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We have direction from the city council.

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Thank you. You're the next one.

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For third quarter financial?

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No. In regards to the budget surplus allocation, do we have,

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I'm sorry.

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or we have not decided. I think we need to have some time and Council

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probably needs to think about what their priority might be and then we'll bring

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that forth at the next meeting. I appreciate all your time. Thank you. Sorry about that.

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Good afternoon Mayor and City Council. Cody Duffy's senior economic

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development specialist. Today I'm presenting the economic development quarterly update

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for the second quarter. This item was requested by Deputy Mayor Perotem Roger Niel.

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In this presentation, I'll walk through our business retention activity, notable events we

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participated in incentives, a couple of upcoming community events we're supporting and the latest

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industrial and multi-family vacancy data.

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In the second quarter, we participated in several

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higher visibility networking events and may we attended the Tech Connects VIP Reception hosted by

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the U.S. India Chamber. In early June, we were at the North Texas EDC networking reception put

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by the Korean Chamber, and we also presented on the Economic Development Panel at the Metro

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Cress Business Expo, which was co-sponsored by the Metro Cress Chamber in the U.S.

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India Chamber.

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These events complement our day-to-day business retention activity and help keep farmers

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branch visible with both existing companies and potential new investment.

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On the visit side, we completed 89 business retention visits in the second quarter and attended

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eight local events. To break that down, 20 were scheduled facility visits or corporate meetings,

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eight were local events such as ribbon cuttings and chamber networking, and 69 were

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poppin visits where we introduce ourselves, leave resources, and start, or continue their

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relationship. On the incentive side, staff successfully advanced 11 new

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demolish and rebuild aqua.

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We're looking

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ahead to events we're supporting on October 10th, economic development, supporting parks to sponsor the spooky-5K, and an early November, the pickleball world championships will once again be held at Brookhaven Country Club.

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Finally, the industrial and multi-family vacancy snapshot, industrial vacancy and farmers branch held steady at 5.6%

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multi-family vacancy moved from 8% to 11.1% and that increase is primarily the result of

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new apartment deliveries that came online during the quarter.

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That concludes the quarterly update.

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Happy to take any questions.

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Can you go back one slide that went by pretty quick?

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Thank you.

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The castwoman gets off.

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It's Councilman's Neals.

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I'm sorry. Thank you.

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Councillor Neill.

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That's all right.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Just real quick, if you go back to the slide, you had said,

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you had visited about 89 visits to the different businesses.

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Yes, sir.

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Can you tell me how did you choose those businesses out of all the rest?

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Yeah, so the way we choose businesses is really,

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it's going to be based on, on section.

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So our ultimate goal is to visit as many businesses as possible, right?

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So when we go to one area, we try to stay local and kind of finish off that area while we're there and we're working our way through the city, but as far as the pop and visits, it's a little bit more random.

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The 20 facility visits or corporate meetings, those are sourced from two main two main sources. So one, it's going to be connections that we meet at the Chamber of Commerce events or networking that are local farmer's branch businesses.

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our goal there is to reach out and set up a facility visit and learn more about their business.

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And a second main source of those visits are going to be from the, when we get completed CEOs at the end of the month,

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we'll proactively reach out to those businesses and attempt to set up meetings with them.

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And so when you visit these businesses, do you try to obtain some sense of their issues concerns the success of their business,

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anything like that, their failures concerns?

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Yeah, absolutely. That's going to be part of the information we try and gather really to, you know,

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number one of the new business coming in. Well, how is the process coming into the city?

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We get feedback on that. And if we've been here for a while, we also learn about their overall

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experience and farmers branch and their goals and see others in the other way we can support them.

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All right. And so do you follow up with them after the feedback you receive?

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Particularly, I'm I'm want to be focused on those who may be having challenges or maybe

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struggling, you know, times are tough, and I want to make sure that we stay in touch with

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those businesses to see that we can, we can make sure we retain them as best as we can.

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And I'd like to be able to try to measure the success of your work in our ability to maintain

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and keep them here and help their business grow.

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So there's just a couple of comments I wanted to make, and I wanted to be mindful of that,

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and you know, some challenging times we have economically, so I just want to ask those

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couple of things.

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Thank you very much.

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Thanks very much.

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Thank you. Sorry about that. Councilman gets asked. Councilman, you actually had one of my questions, so I'm good. Thank you.

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Councilman Bennett. You answered my question. Thank you. Councilman Reed.

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Very thorough presentation. Thank you. Councilwoman, be a proper.

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Appreciate you, Cody. Great job. As always.

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Thank you. I'll say, Councilman Neil, I'd like to visit with you on that.

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I have some thoughts on future measuring success that we can discuss offline.

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Thank you, Cody.

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Thank you.

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Next step is item C4.

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Receive a presentation on the fiscal year 2526 third quarter financial report.

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Good afternoon, Mayor.

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City Council members.

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My name is David Patel.

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I'm the finance director for the city and today I'll be presenting our third quarter financial report

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for quarter ending June 30 of 2026.

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Let's jump right in, starting with the general fund, as you can see there by the revenue portion

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of your screen, revenues for the general fund remain strong, and all categories throughout.

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You see, property tax at 100% collection largely due to the frontloaded nature of this revenue line item.

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Majority of our collection are collected between the months of October and February.

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Therefore, you'll see a large percentage of revenues come into the general fund within the first two quarters of a year.

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Tax collection also remain strong on an annualized basis and all of the revenue line items exceed that 75% threshold.

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Being 35% of the way through the fiscal year, we use that more or less of a bait or a gauge to determine

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how each of these revenue lines are forming. You'll see that each will exceed that target

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except the charges for services.

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And that is one of the revenue line items that we did have to

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forecast downwards from the original budget item, from the original budget for that line item.

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But overall, we are expecting revenues for the general fund to meet our budget target for this fiscal year.

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Charges for services is mainly driven through landfill revenues and two reasons for this being at 60%.

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First is the cruel entry.

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So every year we get our audit entries that we make on an annual basis.

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And last year those were done in the fourth quarter.

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So they came on your following financial report.

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This should be done in a bit earlier in our office, therefore a five percent other

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discrepancy can be attributed towards that accounting entry that we make on an annual basis.

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The remainder we did have to adjust these the budget for the charge for services mainly

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your landfill revenues downwards.

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Overall, we still expect to meet the budget target for the general fund at the end of this

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fiscal year.

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That brings us down to our expenditures.

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And you'll see on the expenditure, you'll see we've spent 65% of our budget for the fiscal year.

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But that doesn't ultimately mean that 35% will be available surplus towards the end of the fiscal year.

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There's two components that largely need to be considered when looking at that number.

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First is seasonality.

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Public works, and public works, and coach on REC both have a significant amount of activity during your summer months.

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So you'll see a spike in those expenditures

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typically around that July August timeframe,

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which we can expect to hear in the next coming months.

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Secondly, expenditures only appear on the financials

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once the good or service has been received.

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So what your finance team did when working with departments,

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they'll still understand where all of the actual expenditures

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are for each line I am throughout the year,

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as well as your encompasses, which

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is any monies that are on a purchase order,

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but we still haven't received those monies yet.

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So we can consider them committed or reserved for a certain use

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for our invoice we'd yet to receive.

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But those are two primary reasons you'll see a variance.

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One is largely due to timing,

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and both, quite frankly, due to timing,

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one sees anality in the second,

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how expenditures when those expenditures

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truly hit the financials that you'll see here on your screen.

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Moving on, as general fund revenues

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And this provides a visual depiction of how year over year revenues are performing.

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And similar what we noted, you'll see charges for two categories that are below where

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we're at this time last year.

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First is charges for services, primarily driven by that landfill revenue component.

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And secondly is the fines for pictures and assessments mainly largely due to the court fines,

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which still remains slightly below this time last year, but we still expect this line

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to exceed the budget for fine-sport decision assessment within this fiscal year.

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Moving on to general fund expenditures by type.

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With this chart ultimately does us help understand the timing of various categories

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of expenditures.

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And you'll see many of those reoccurring expenditures are right around that 75% baseline.

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Do you see salaries, services, repair and maintenance?

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Those that attract the budget pretty,

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they attract the budget periodically.

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The capital on the other hand, these are capital for instance is the item which you won't see hit the financials until the good is actually received.

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Therefore you can expect a slight gap when assessing line items such as in those similar categories.

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Next, moving on to enterprise funds.

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You'll see that the year-to-day position that the Bombier Screen is a negative $4.6 million.

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But it's important to recognize two aspects of this operation.

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And we'll start with the revenues.

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Water revenues, we expect to see a spike in the summer months.

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Therefore, in the months of April or July, August, we can see, we're projecting to catch up

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on mainly the water and sewer sales revenue.

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We do expect to make up a slight bit of that difference.

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You'll see at 75%, we do expect to make up some of that within the summer months, within

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our projection models.

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If you move down to your expenses, you'll see many of these categories are largely front

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In terms of, you'll see 93% for water sewer administration,

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storm water utility at 98%.

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And that's largely due to the capital pieces of these budgets.

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The capital transfers we make early on in the year

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to make sure that the money is available.

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Those capital projects to be ready to spend at the beginning of the fiscal year. Therefore, you'll see a large inflow towards the first and second quarter, and then activate and normalize their after and the second half of the year for your large and sewer funds. So we do expect that year to date net position to come back into the green here in the coming months.

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HOTOMOTO Fund, you'll see revenues are currently outpacing expenditures in this fund and

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you'll, and there is also a timing LMS associated with the HOTOMOTO tax. It was approximately

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a 400,000 accrual was done in quarter three as opposed to quarter four, so that not have

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been done, we were exceeded that 75% target. So you'll see HOTOMOTO Fund is functionally strength

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and we expect to meet the budget target for this fiscal year.

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And that brings me to our investment portfolio.

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And this is the central testament to the strength of our partnership with hilltop

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securities.

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We engage with hilltop proximity here ago.

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And some of the results, you're starting to see here on your screen.

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Our current investment portfolio is approximately $140 million.

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You'll see on the top right portion of your screen.

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And you'll see the breakdown of where those monies are invested

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around the left-hand portion of your screen.

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The largest portion is LGIP, local government investment

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pools, these are short-term liquid funds.

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00:36:32,370 --> 00:36:35,450
So what these do is the rate of return that you get on these funds,

465
00:36:36,370 --> 00:36:37,870
they mirror your market.

466
00:36:38,250 --> 00:36:41,990
So whenever the overnight rate changes from the Fed,

467
00:36:42,350 --> 00:36:46,150
you'll see that rate move rather quickly

468
00:36:46,150 --> 00:36:47,670
corresponding to those rate changes.

469
00:36:47,670 --> 00:36:53,430
The other categories, where the other 55% of our portfolios built, is in long-term investments.

470
00:36:54,010 --> 00:37:00,850
These include agencies, treasuries, municipal bonds, all high-quality investments that essentially

471
00:37:00,850 --> 00:37:05,630
lock in these interest earnings for our citizens, ensuring that we're making the best use of taxpayers'

472
00:37:05,830 --> 00:37:07,090
money every day.

473
00:37:07,570 --> 00:37:11,490
And you'll see the net income of what's occurred this fiscal year alone.

474
00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:13,710
They're at the bottom of your screen, fiscal year to date.

475
00:37:13,710 --> 00:37:22,130
up until June 30th, 2026, we've earned $4 million over $4 million in our investment portfolio

476
00:37:22,130 --> 00:37:27,770
to pick the best use of the taxpayer monies that we're being stewards of and to create

477
00:37:27,770 --> 00:37:30,890
value all those funds for additional projects and what have you.

478
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:36,200
And with that, I'd like to include my presentation for this evening and we happy to answer

479
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:36,620
any questions.

480
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:37,520
Thank you very much.

481
00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:38,160
Councillor Neill.

482
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:43,560
Thank you.

483
00:37:44,870 --> 00:37:50,270
If you could go back to slide number two,

484
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,220
and I'd just like to retouch on a couple of things.

485
00:37:56,220 --> 00:38:05,360
One of which is the sales and use tax there, you have through June is 18.8 million and budgeted 23.

486
00:38:07,340 --> 00:38:09,940
We're going to be within that target of 23.

487
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:11,520
What year?

488
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:12,860
Yes.

489
00:38:12,860 --> 00:38:17,360
We'll project this or pass out target with a significant amount of sweeping into the revenue

490
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,140
stabilization fund based on the policy set for us.

491
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,860
Okay, so we're going to be, hopefully, beyond the 23.

492
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:31,380
Okay, and similarly, can you help me understand a little bit the public works under the

493
00:38:31,380 --> 00:38:39,040
expenses there, our expenses, 5.9 million so far, we budgeted 10, are we expecting to

494
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,980
We have a $4 million expenditure here in the next few months.

495
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,880
If you can, can you shed some light on that?

496
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:53,400
Given that we've only gone $5.6 or $5.9 for the previous three quarters?

497
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:54,700
That's a great question.

498
00:38:55,380 --> 00:38:59,440
The details as it relates to where those expenditures are specifically going to.

499
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,400
I would need to follow up on, but it is.

500
00:39:01,620 --> 00:39:04,880
That's the activity that your finance department ran with each of our departments.

501
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:09,900
So we, we, we met with public works, we went through each of their expenditure line items to understand.

502
00:39:10,540 --> 00:39:15,720
You have 5.9 there and your actuals. How much do you have in Comfort on top of that?

503
00:39:15,980 --> 00:39:23,580
And how much are you realistically expecting a spend based on the use is appropriate by city council for the remaining amount.

504
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:32,500
So we did with every single line item is how we derived that the $350,000 that was a couple of council items ago.

505
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:40,500
Okay, so between now the end of the year the expecting another four million dollars worth of expenditures and when we have this sort of a

506
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:46,640
Breakdown of what that four million might be isn't it's that not until the end of the year or would you know ahead of time?

507
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,140
No, because you're still gonna have expenditures that

508
00:39:50,860 --> 00:39:58,300
That come onto your financials leading into the months of October that will charge back for any any services rendered during the fiscal year

509
00:39:58,300 --> 00:39:59,900
We need to make sure that we're accounting for

510
00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:23,520
And if we could just jump to slide four real quick. The description, 77 other objects. What does that mean?

511
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,700
Other objects that include general

512
00:40:32,210 --> 00:40:34,490
fund expenditures, other objects.

513
00:40:34,490 --> 00:40:35,650
So

514
00:40:45,090 --> 00:40:51,090
that's going to include retiree health insurance reserves or training amounts, or branch

515
00:40:51,090 --> 00:40:52,190
life amount.

516
00:40:52,190 --> 00:40:54,170
Let me see,

517
00:40:59,830 --> 00:41:03,570
your personal reserve will go into that category, so any amount that you allocate

518
00:41:03,570 --> 00:41:09,310
for employee raises are distributed into that account, the other office account.

519
00:41:10,350 --> 00:41:10,350
Okay,

520
00:41:17,980 --> 00:41:24,120
and then if you could jump to slide six real quick, and let's talk about historical preservation.

521
00:41:27,570 --> 00:41:31,670
And it looks like we may have overbudgeted just from the,

522
00:41:31,850 --> 00:41:34,350
on the expense side of historical preservation,

523
00:41:34,810 --> 00:41:38,190
three quarters of the year, we've put in 400k,

524
00:41:39,070 --> 00:41:43,290
and budgeted 1.3, expecting to spend another 700k

525
00:41:43,990 --> 00:41:44,890
in the final corner.

526
00:41:45,550 --> 00:41:45,910
We are not.

527
00:41:45,950 --> 00:41:48,930
No, we do expect budget savings within the hotel motel funds.

528
00:41:48,930 --> 00:41:52,090
So we may get some expense savings out of that particular item

529
00:41:52,090 --> 00:41:54,090
there, right, unless something should go.

530
00:41:54,090 --> 00:41:57,730
That's correct. Your surplus amount that I presented was understood.

531
00:41:57,730 --> 00:42:03,150
Understood. Okay, I just looking for a little bit here and there, so that's all.

532
00:42:03,550 --> 00:42:05,190
That's all I have, Mayor. Thank you very much.

533
00:42:05,670 --> 00:42:07,250
Thank you. Councilwoman Gonzalez.

534
00:42:09,210 --> 00:42:12,090
Nothing for me, Jay, but I am looking forward to our one-on-one.

535
00:42:12,590 --> 00:42:14,450
It's really nice. Thank you.

536
00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:15,410
Councilwoman Bennett.

537
00:42:16,390 --> 00:42:18,150
Wonderful. Thank you. I don't have any questions.

538
00:42:18,790 --> 00:42:19,670
Councilman Reed?

539
00:42:20,450 --> 00:42:21,850
Very comprehensive. Thank you, Jay.

540
00:42:24,070 --> 00:42:25,270
Thank you.

541
00:42:25,570 --> 00:42:26,630
This page six.

542
00:42:27,550 --> 00:42:28,870
The historical preservation.

543
00:42:29,130 --> 00:42:30,530
It looks like there will be a surplus.

544
00:42:30,790 --> 00:42:37,370
Is there any way that we can use that surplus to rebuild the old historical

545
00:42:37,370 --> 00:42:41,750
the buildings at the historical park that are currently in storage, is there

546
00:42:41,750 --> 00:42:43,370
a way to use any of those funds?

547
00:42:47,510 --> 00:42:50,590
That is appropriate use of funds within the hotel

548
00:42:50,590 --> 00:42:54,910
So that would be in the per view of our city council should be in the direction.

549
00:42:55,390 --> 00:43:00,550
I think the more time that is just sitting out there, it's just getting damaged.

550
00:43:01,010 --> 00:43:04,830
And then the other question is on page four.

551
00:43:06,090 --> 00:43:10,570
It looks like we are way under budget, and I know this is only for June,

552
00:43:11,090 --> 00:43:18,280
but are you anticipating most of these budget items to be to meet the budget?

553
00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:21,220
You are. Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate all your work.

554
00:43:23,580 --> 00:43:24,300
I'm ready.

555
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:24,840
Thank you, Jay.

556
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:25,380
Thank you.

557
00:43:25,780 --> 00:43:26,880
Thank you.

558
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,240
Next up is I'm C5 receiving update on city's current grants and grant opportunities.

559
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:33,520
I'm not going too far.

560
00:43:38,210 --> 00:43:38,850
Good evening Mayor.

561
00:43:38,930 --> 00:43:39,650
City Council members.

562
00:43:39,790 --> 00:43:40,510
My name's Jay Patel.

563
00:43:40,610 --> 00:43:43,450
I'm the finance director for the city and today I'll be presenting to you all.

564
00:43:43,610 --> 00:43:47,730
A quarterly grants update for the third quarter of the 2026 fiscal year.

565
00:43:48,010 --> 00:43:50,690
And this is for period ending June 30th or 2026.

566
00:43:50,690 --> 00:43:57,300
Which you'll see on your screen currently is what we have we've created and what we like

567
00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:04,720
Conchernly are grants dashboard this gives you a high level overview of all grants that that your city has under under management currently

568
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:12,840
So currently under manage we have 36.3 million dollars in our grant portfolio then includes all active and closing projects

569
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:21,260
In addition to that 36.3 million dollars we have $10.4 million in pipeline request for opportunities that we're currently pursuing

570
00:44:21,260 --> 00:44:27,480
that we put applications for, but has not come to fruition finalization yet.

571
00:44:28,460 --> 00:44:32,220
Of those 16 projects, you see listed under active and closing projects.

572
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,840
We currently have eight near the closed out or completion stage, and each of our active

573
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:43,000
projects, we've broken onto four major categories that you'll see towards the bottom of your

574
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,120
screen and those various amounts, your largest being your mobility and infrastructure type

575
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:47,640
of projects.

576
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:53,640
and jumping right in to exactly that, is your mobility and infrastructure type projects.

577
00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:59,920
This predominant encompasses all of our tech-stop projects, which are all in rather early stages.

578
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,180
pages, the most progress being on a west side arts trail project, which construction is currently ongoing.

579
00:45:06,860 --> 00:45:12,300
The rest of these are either within the design, some middle process, or some or a text-order

580
00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:17,740
approval process waiting for waiting for construction to commence for each of these opportunities.

581
00:45:18,420 --> 00:45:24,960
The bottom item, Dart, ILA, we're on the last stages before we close out that initiative

582
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,140
and we're just waiting for our final reimbursement to be issued by Dart.

583
00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:52,060
This takes us to our next category of grants, and that's our community safety and neighborhood related grants, which, first and foremost, you'll see the cops higher in grants, the COPS higher in grant, and we're the police departments currently actively hiring to make use of these grants proceeds that we've received.

584
00:45:52,060 --> 00:46:03,000
Next is the animal welfare grant right under that and we're currently in the close-out phases of that grant opportunity in order to support the foster programs throughout the animal shelter.

585
00:46:03,620 --> 00:46:12,880
Your housing replacement grant will currently halfway through that project working with builders a hope and we expect to expand all funds by the end of the end of the calendar year on that opportunity.

586
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:22,140
And then last, and within this category, is your library literacy grant, which we're in the final reporting stages of that grant.

587
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,880
Next, back to enter close out here by the next update.

588
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:32,220
This brings us to our extensive list of completed or near close-out projects.

589
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:40,600
Many, all the ones that you see at 100%, we can expect to fall, we can expect to be removed from this list there at their following update.

590
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:54,500
But first and foremost, Cook's Creek we received all reimbursements related to that with the 1.3 million dollar reimbursement most recently in the last three months, which is our final reimbursement, so that that initiative is ready to be closed out.

591
00:46:54,500 --> 00:47:00,240
ARPA, we're looking to extend all remaining funds on the opportunity by the end of the calendar year,

592
00:47:00,340 --> 00:47:06,900
which is our deadline, to get all funds extended related to those ARPA projects that we have on underway.

593
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:12,740
The pickleball grant, currently under the under state review, for final close-out.

594
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:17,920
So we're on the very final stages of closing out last year, before we embark on this upcoming

595
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,860
years pickleball grant, which will be on the next slide. The two MBCPA grants are both in the close-out

596
00:47:22,860 --> 00:47:30,420
phases, and lastly, you have the Blue Cross Blue Show National Fitness Campaign grant, which

597
00:47:30,420 --> 00:47:35,040
all equipment's incomplete, it's active, and we're ready to close out that initiative

598
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:35,780
as well.

599
00:47:39,490 --> 00:47:43,430
Next, our grant pipeline, and this is all the activities that we currently are evaluating

600
00:47:43,430 --> 00:47:48,650
have underway, have submitted applications for, but have not yet come to final fruition.

601
00:47:48,950 --> 00:47:55,590
The first two are NBCPA grants, currently awaiting to bring this before Council to authorize

602
00:47:55,590 --> 00:47:58,170
expenditures related to those two opportunities.

603
00:47:59,030 --> 00:48:05,910
Our CDBG grant, which effect will be a water lane replacement on a short

604
00:48:05,910 --> 00:48:09,290
lane, and it's currently under a county review for that opportunity.

605
00:48:09,590 --> 00:48:13,030
So once that concludes, we can bring that before to Council.

606
00:48:14,070 --> 00:48:19,390
The events trust fund grant, or pickable grant for this upcoming year, waiting on the

607
00:48:19,390 --> 00:48:23,910
event to start, so we can really start commencing activity related to that opportunity.

608
00:48:23,910 --> 00:48:33,670
Texas Water Development Board grant, we have a $7.4 million grant that we've currently applied for through that agency and we're waiting

609
00:48:33,670 --> 00:48:42,690
waiting results feedback. Anything else that relates to that opportunity? And lastly is that Julie Johnson grant that we've mentioned

610
00:48:44,270 --> 00:48:50,590
that we were thankful to receive and you'll see that currently we're in the application development phase of that opportunity.

611
00:48:50,590 --> 00:48:54,170
in order to

612
00:48:56,250 --> 00:49:02,030
primarily address cast on a water line replacement, and currently working through

613
00:49:02,030 --> 00:49:06,710
the application and hoping to receive funds here by the next update so we can make

614
00:49:06,710 --> 00:49:07,890
best to use those proceeds.

615
00:49:10,730 --> 00:49:12,750
And with that, I'd like to conclude my presentation.

616
00:49:13,010 --> 00:49:14,650
I'd be happy to answer any questions you all may have.

617
00:49:14,970 --> 00:49:15,730
Thank you very much.

618
00:49:16,050 --> 00:49:18,110
A very thorough report to Councilwoman Bennett.

619
00:49:21,950 --> 00:49:26,950
And now we go back to two or three slides, four minutes.

620
00:49:28,350 --> 00:49:28,590
Wait.

621
00:49:30,090 --> 00:49:31,370
Right there.

622
00:49:31,630 --> 00:49:32,370
That works.

623
00:49:33,610 --> 00:49:43,890
Not the mobility, but basically in short, what is not on here are things that kind of a secondary grant type of thing.

624
00:49:44,430 --> 00:49:47,310
For instance, operation kindness at the shelter.

625
00:49:47,470 --> 00:49:47,830
That's good.

626
00:49:47,830 --> 00:49:53,210
is actually grant funding, but it's not grant funding to us directly, it's grant funding to them.

627
00:49:53,550 --> 00:49:54,830
Did we lose that?

628
00:49:56,170 --> 00:49:57,370
Um, the A.S.

629
00:49:57,470 --> 00:49:59,950
The agency that was receiving those funds, yes, they're, um, both.

630
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,860
Well, we did budget appropriate amount to make sure that we're not losing that service within this

631
00:50:03,860 --> 00:50:03,940
opportunity.

632
00:50:03,940 --> 00:50:07,020
Okay, because there's a group that's really concerned about that.

633
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,760
Okay, that's what I wanted to make sure of is that we had the funding in that to continue

634
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,300
that program and it's the Spay Newt program, basically, correct?

635
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:22,640
So, Operation Kindness Times are tough, and so they didn't get their funds from a different

636
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:28,580
grant, and so they had to cut funds for us, which were directly related to paying the veterinarian

637
00:50:28,580 --> 00:50:34,300
to come in and do surgeries, but we have funded that in a different way.

638
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:34,660
That's great.

639
00:50:34,820 --> 00:50:34,960
Okay.

640
00:50:35,460 --> 00:50:36,020
Thank you.

641
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:36,960
Great.

642
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:39,440
Councilwoman Gonzalez.

643
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:41,960
Nothing for me, Jay.

644
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:43,920
Looks like we're doing a lot of work here.

645
00:50:44,180 --> 00:50:44,380
Thank you.

646
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:45,540
Thank you.

647
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:46,720
Councilwoman Reed.

648
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:48,720
Appreciate the report, Jay.

649
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:49,620
Thank you.

650
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:49,700
Thank you.

651
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,220
Councilwoman, be a frunker.

652
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:52,580
Thank you, Jay.

653
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:57,060
Is this a report someone requested or are you just doing it out of the goodness of your

654
00:50:57,060 --> 00:50:57,460
heart?

655
00:50:57,460 --> 00:50:58,860
This is a lot of work.

656
00:50:59,740 --> 00:51:04,820
No, I believe that was requested by both, um, um, yes, that's one of the things.

657
00:51:05,340 --> 00:51:12,040
This, this, uh, I, I, I just worry, I love that I love seeing all of these updates, but I also believe in you and the work you're doing.

658
00:51:12,460 --> 00:51:18,040
And I feel like this really takes away from you doing your actual work.

659
00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:22,620
And I just want to put that out there, but I really appreciate you doing this. Thank you.

660
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:25,560
Thank you, Jay.

661
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:34,440
I find the information very helpful, particularly for our residents to see that we're giving additional funds for some of these other projects.

662
00:51:35,100 --> 00:51:35,500
So, good job.

663
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:36,340
Thank you very much.

664
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:38,240
Thank you.

665
00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:38,420
Thank you, Jay.

666
00:51:38,780 --> 00:51:39,260
Appreciate it.

667
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:39,560
Absolutely.

668
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:40,020
Thank you all.

669
00:51:40,020 --> 00:51:40,520
Good report.

670
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:42,260
Next up is Adam C6.

671
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:47,860
We're receiving update from Mayor and Council members regarding board liaison information from outside organizations and other meetings attended.

672
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:49,120
Councilwoman Gonzalez.

673
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:57,340
I attended the Budget Town Hall, I attended the Code Care's Community Cleanup, which fantastic

674
00:51:57,340 --> 00:51:57,720
job.

675
00:51:57,780 --> 00:51:59,200
Thank you for setting that up.

676
00:52:00,100 --> 00:52:04,200
The annual employee luncheon, which was amazing to get to see all of our amazing employees

677
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:05,240
city staff.

678
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:11,240
I had lunch with Caladavis, I met with Roger Neal on his one-on-one, so thank you for that

679
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:11,540
Roger.

680
00:52:11,540 --> 00:52:18,040
Let me jump in, and I did a driving tour with Councilman David Reed, also thank you for letting

681
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:18,760
me do that.

682
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,920
And I also, I was there for the third grade egg drop.

683
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,840
So thank you to our fire and police for being there.

684
00:52:26,140 --> 00:52:26,780
That's one minute.

685
00:52:28,220 --> 00:52:30,340
I also attended the Employee Lentgen

686
00:52:30,340 --> 00:52:32,460
and served the Vegetown Hall.

687
00:52:32,780 --> 00:52:35,000
I was there on Saturday for the Code Cares.

688
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:35,980
That was a lot of fun.

689
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,480
We got a lot of streets clean.

690
00:52:38,580 --> 00:52:41,180
I was kind of surprised at the trash on the streets.

691
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:43,340
I had a meeting with the Executive Director

692
00:52:43,340 --> 00:52:44,380
with Woven Clinic.

693
00:52:44,380 --> 00:52:52,820
I met with an Addison Council member for a completely different project with Councilman

694
00:52:52,820 --> 00:52:58,400
in the field of rocket that was kind of random, but anyway, and then I attended the

695
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,220
infrastructure some at the last two days, thank you.

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Councilman Reed?

697
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Yes, I attended the budget town hall, and again, thank you so much to you and your staff.

698
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,080
So much work was put into that.

699
00:53:13,100 --> 00:53:14,020
I really appreciate it.

700
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had some fantastic questions, there wasn't any griping, so it's a testament to the solid

701
00:53:25,420 --> 00:53:29,020
budget that you and your team and staff have put together.

702
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:38,680
Attend the staff luncheon served the ton of soda, so that was great, it was a good

703
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:45,940
time. It was great to see everyone together and to show our appreciation for staff, the unsung

704
00:53:45,940 --> 00:53:55,760
heroes that make the city work. Saturday, attended Code Cares with council members, Gonzales

705
00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:04,040
and Bennett. It was great to get out there. It was hot. It was important for me other than

706
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I think you guys left already, I had the biggest bag of trash just for the record.

707
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But I had conversations with three or four different residences, residents, and who really

708
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appreciated what we were doing, and that we were looking out for the areas for the parks,

709
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:31,580
And it's just a streets in that we were out there

710
00:54:31,580 --> 00:54:33,040
with code enforcement.

711
00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:38,480
It gave a put code enforcement in a very positive light,

712
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which is fantastic where they're helping folks out

713
00:54:43,700 --> 00:54:52,120
as opposed to following up on things that aren't quite right.

714
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So it was a very positive event from that.

715
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I'm looking forward to the September one, which will be

716
00:55:00,240 --> 00:55:02,460
Which will be great and probably a little bit cooler.

717
00:55:04,180 --> 00:55:16,610
And lastly, Sunday, we had our first iteration of the mayor advisory meeting with the mayor, deputy

718
00:55:16,610 --> 00:55:28,010
program and myself to kind of discuss what's going on in the city and kind of map out, map

719
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out things moving forward just from a 30,000 foot perspective. So it was great to get

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the different perspectives from folks. So something we're going to be doing on a regular

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basis.

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And that's all I have.

723
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Cast one would be a franca.

724
00:55:47,710 --> 00:55:49,290
It's been a very busy two weeks.

725
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Attended Metrocress Connect lunch.

726
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Met with Danielle Kim, the pastor of the United Methodist Church, and she's a community clergy pastor, great meeting.

727
00:55:58,350 --> 00:55:59,890
Attended the Charter Review Committee meeting.

728
00:56:00,870 --> 00:56:04,570
TML, a webinar at leading under pressure.

729
00:56:05,330 --> 00:56:06,650
Attended Rotary Club.

730
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Citizen Police Academy begins on September the 24th, and I registered for that class.

731
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I hope many of you will as well.

732
00:56:14,230 --> 00:56:16,370
I had an opportunity to meet with state representative

733
00:56:16,370 --> 00:56:20,050
Rafael Lanchia on Friday, great meeting.

734
00:56:21,270 --> 00:56:24,370
I was at the orientation for the early college high school

735
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mentor program.

736
00:56:26,190 --> 00:56:27,710
I had lunch with Carla Hardaway,

737
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the regarding faith-based leadership teams.

738
00:56:31,290 --> 00:56:33,430
And I also met with Councilmember Marlon Wilson

739
00:56:33,430 --> 00:56:35,850
for the second time from Addison.

740
00:56:36,610 --> 00:56:39,390
I attended the Employee Luncheon special shout out

741
00:56:39,390 --> 00:56:45,150
public works for all of the water main breaks in this extreme heat. My husband and I were able to

742
00:56:45,150 --> 00:56:51,290
go out there on Sunday and bring some water and soft drinks to the guys. My car was clocking in

743
00:56:51,290 --> 00:56:58,570
at 104 degrees out there. So, I was happy to stop by. I attended the Leadership Metacrest Reception,

744
00:56:59,510 --> 00:57:03,150
went to the Kirlton Farmers Branch Education Foundation, Pencils and Partnerships,

745
00:57:03,970 --> 00:57:10,290
Attended the Nileo Education Foundation webinar, the Road to Housing Act.

746
00:57:11,930 --> 00:57:14,470
Attended the Purpose Salon Sweets ribbon cutting.

747
00:57:14,470 --> 00:57:17,290
There's a new salon over on Midway near Alpha.

748
00:57:17,850 --> 00:57:18,930
I had my office hours.

749
00:57:19,310 --> 00:57:22,330
I was invited to speak at the Adelpha Kaya Hold Leadership Academy.

750
00:57:22,730 --> 00:57:28,370
As part of the panel, it was a great, great time to be with so many community leaders.

751
00:57:29,630 --> 00:57:32,090
And attended the Infrastructure Summit for the last two days.

752
00:57:32,090 --> 00:57:36,850
yesterday and today was a great great use of my time. I also attended the National League of

753
00:57:36,850 --> 00:57:44,450
Cities University, local solutions to end homelessness and attended a webinar on the Council

754
00:57:44,450 --> 00:57:51,750
on Foreign Relations regarding the North American Trade and USMCA review. It's been a busy week,

755
00:57:51,770 --> 00:57:58,410
two weeks. Thank you so much. Thank you. Councilman Neil? Good, Mayor thanks. Thank you. Next up

756
00:57:58,410 --> 00:58:03,250
item C7, review and discuss future agenda items, Councilwoman Gonzales?

757
00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:04,530
Nothing for me, Mayor.

758
00:58:04,910 --> 00:58:05,850
Councilwoman Bennett.

759
00:58:06,610 --> 00:58:07,190
Councilman Reed.

760
00:58:07,730 --> 00:58:08,510
Nothing at this time.

761
00:58:08,730 --> 00:58:09,590
Councilwoman via Franca.

762
00:58:10,750 --> 00:58:11,450
Yes, Mayor.

763
00:58:11,750 --> 00:58:20,350
I would like an update on our flock cameras, including the number of cameras we have now, including

764
00:58:20,350 --> 00:58:26,290
what we are doing to ensure that the system is not abused, weekly audits or whatever we're doing.

765
00:58:26,290 --> 00:58:32,050
I'm hearing a lot of traffic and a lot of people are asking me about the cameras and I want

766
00:58:32,050 --> 00:58:36,610
to make sure that how much money we're spending just a full report on that.

767
00:58:36,870 --> 00:58:41,610
And the other thing is I would like to have another report on the cold CARES program.

768
00:58:41,690 --> 00:58:48,870
My understanding was that code CARES was intended to assist residents who are having issues with

769
00:58:48,870 --> 00:58:52,990
code enforcement and we would have community volunteers and businesses come out to support

770
00:58:52,990 --> 00:58:59,210
them. I did not realize that it also included community cleanups. I feel uncomfortable with

771
00:58:59,210 --> 00:59:04,190
our staff coming out on Saturday to clean up park when it can be done during the week. I

772
00:59:04,190 --> 00:59:10,010
think we need to be really cognizant about overtime hours and also respecting our employees days

773
00:59:10,010 --> 00:59:18,030
off. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Neil? Just one thing I'd like to add. I'd like to add

774
00:59:18,030 --> 00:59:24,910
support to Councilman Reed's future agenda request on electronic or electric motorbikes and

775
00:59:24,910 --> 00:59:30,230
similar vehicles, just what can we do from an ordinance perspective to provide some

776
00:59:30,230 --> 00:59:33,470
increased safety for the riders and our residents.

777
00:59:34,410 --> 00:59:35,450
So, that's all.

778
00:59:35,950 --> 00:59:36,890
Thank you.

779
00:59:37,290 --> 00:59:38,630
I have one item.

780
00:59:39,030 --> 00:59:45,710
I'd like to request placing an item on a future agenda that demands our rules and procedures to

781
00:59:45,710 --> 00:59:52,850
give it meetings and communications among the voting majority of Council outside of open meeting.

782
00:59:54,330 --> 00:59:59,930
With that, I will read a sin to Executive Session, for item.

783
01:00:00,660 --> 01:00:08,920
City Council convene in a close executive session for two months to section 551.074 of the Texas Government Code personnel to deliberate

784
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:17,340
the appointment, employment, valuation, duties and dismissal of a public officer city attorney. With that, we will

785
01:00:17,340 --> 01:00:21,380
recess to the city manager's conference room. We'll back out here at six o'clock.

786
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:30,100
Welcome everybody to the city of farmers' branch City Council meeting for Tuesday, September 1st.

787
01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:41,840
Our first order of business will be our invocation and pledges and our invocation this evening is going to be led by the Reverend Danielle Kim and I'm going to invite her to come up

788
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:46,820
Say a few words introduce yourself and then you can lead us in prayer

789
01:01:46,820 --> 01:01:51,440
Thank you, Mayor Lynn. Good evening, Mayor. Members of City Council,

790
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:57,440
things staff and residents of Farmer's Branch. I'm honored to be with you this evening.

791
01:01:57,660 --> 01:02:02,980
I am Reverend Daniel Boan Kim. I am an ordained clergy from the United Methodist Church,

792
01:02:03,100 --> 01:02:10,920
and I am appointed as committee clergy to Carolton, sorry, Carolton Farmer's Branch area.

793
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:28,360
And just a little bit about what I do, my role as the community clergy, is to serve by deep listening to the gifts and dreams and buyers of our neighbors so that we can go create a stronger community together.

794
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:32,100
So, the ministers have worked by the Catholic Church.

795
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:37,980
Did that, I think, do we have a bishop and here she appoints a different

796
01:02:37,980 --> 01:02:43,920
clergy to do right in the parish, like the military, and instead of what put

797
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:50,340
me to a parish, I am looking into this particular geographical area so that my

798
01:02:50,340 --> 01:02:55,760
full-time president is for the laborer, if I can start the community in that way.

799
01:02:55,760 --> 01:03:01,780
So, it is an honor to serve you in this role and thank you very much for your invitation to offer

800
01:03:01,780 --> 01:03:02,920
the invitation to the city.

801
01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:07,120
So, why don't we all go to God and prepare to get rid of this crime?

802
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,600
Gracious and eternal freedom.

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01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:24,480
We gather this evening in a spirit of deep gratitude for the Library of the Lady of Armageddon.

804
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:33,250
For all of it well in this beautiful city, we ask for your blessing and guidance upon this city

805
01:03:33,250 --> 01:03:41,350
Council, Mayor Lynn, and every public servant who has dedicated their driving talents to the

806
01:03:41,350 --> 01:03:42,910
betterment of this community,

807
01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:51,000
eight leaders with some clarity and compassion as they

808
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,620
deliberate on the matters before themselves.

809
01:03:55,160 --> 01:04:02,000
May the actions taken here tonight strengthen the foundation of harvest range and serve as

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01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:08,100
of good governance for all of us, and you're willing, we pray.

811
01:04:11,860 --> 01:04:14,200
And if you would, please join me for the pledge of allegiance.

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01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:19,680
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

813
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:22,500
and to the Republic for which it stands.

814
01:04:23,100 --> 01:04:28,280
One nation, under God, individual, with liberty and justice sprawl.

815
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,840
And now the Texas pledge, honor the Texas flag.

816
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:39,560
I pledge allegiance to the text, one state, I'm in God, one in indivisible.

817
01:04:42,990 --> 01:04:46,310
Once again, thank you, Reverend Kim, appreciate having you.

818
01:04:46,990 --> 01:04:59,470
And for everybody else who's here or watching, if you all would like to have your faith leader come and lead our invocation, please get in touch with me.

819
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:10,280
More than welcome to have folks some any faith come and lead our invocation at our next council meeting, or any future council meeting.

820
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,800
So, thank you. Next up are items of community interest.

821
01:05:16,590 --> 01:05:22,630
Good evening. My name is Ariel Wallace, communication manager, and here are items of community interest for the week.

822
01:05:23,270 --> 01:05:29,790
Register for the Citizens Police Academy. What really happens on a police call and how are decisions made in the moment?

823
01:05:29,790 --> 01:05:44,890
Find out at our citizens' police academy, starting Thursday, September 24th, where residents will meet officers, explore day-to-day operations, ask questions, and engage in interactive reality-based scenarios using real training equipment.

824
01:05:45,470 --> 01:05:52,550
Register now as space is limited. Sign up online at FarmersRangeTX.gov-slast-citizenspolicy Academy.

825
01:05:54,130 --> 01:06:10,450
MetroCrest Services Mobile Food Bank on the Moon, residents in the need can receive assistance from the MetroCrest Services Mobile Food Bank, available on the second Monday of every month at Fibrech Connection, located at 1-4-0-5-5-Dennis Lane.

826
01:06:11,130 --> 01:06:16,350
The next distribution is scheduled for September 14, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

827
01:06:18,300 --> 01:06:21,980
Safely dispose of hazardous household hazardous waste.

828
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:25,740
This household hazardous waste collection event takes place

829
01:06:25,740 --> 01:06:33,100
on September 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1, 3, 3, 3, 3,

830
01:06:33,460 --> 01:06:34,220
select, drive.

831
01:06:34,940 --> 01:06:37,540
Residents can drop off on once in household chemicals,

832
01:06:37,940 --> 01:06:41,700
paints, cleaners, and automotive fluids for safe disposal.

833
01:06:42,540 --> 01:06:44,840
Review the full list of eligible drop-off items

834
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,040
at the city's recycled wet page.

835
01:06:47,860 --> 01:07:12,220
Paul Plunge returns to the frog pond. Join us for an awesome event with your furry friends on September 12 at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the farmer's branch frog pond located at 1.403 to heart side plates and missions is $8 per dog with the limit of 2 people per dog and all dogs must be accompanied by handler in 16 or older.

836
01:07:12,220 --> 01:07:15,920
Don't miss the chance to make unforgettable memories with your pup.

837
01:07:16,340 --> 01:07:27,280
For questions, call us at 972-919-8720 or visit FarmersRageTat.gov slash five six seven slash the quadits.

838
01:07:29,130 --> 01:07:32,010
Spooky dash community meetings set for September 9.

839
01:07:32,670 --> 01:07:38,210
Residents are invited to attend a community meeting scheduled to discuss race logistics for the affected neighborhoods,

840
01:07:38,210 --> 01:07:46,010
volunteer opportunities in more on September 9th at 5pm at venue 1842 at the historical park.

841
01:07:46,590 --> 01:07:52,850
Registration is now open for the family-friendly spooky-5K and one-mile fund run on the city's website

842
01:07:52,850 --> 01:07:57,050
at farmersbranchtx.gov slash spooky-dash.

843
01:07:57,330 --> 01:08:01,930
For additional details and updates visit farmersbranchtvids.com

844
01:08:02,410 --> 01:08:11,650
And as always, you can sign up for City News at Farmers Branch TX.gov or by scanning the QR code on the screen, have a great evening.

845
01:08:13,050 --> 01:08:14,030
Thank you very much.

846
01:08:14,590 --> 01:08:16,190
Next up are public comments.

847
01:08:16,470 --> 01:08:20,870
I mean, remind everybody when you, when I call your name, please come up to the podium.

848
01:08:21,070 --> 01:08:23,270
You'll have three minutes to speak.

849
01:08:23,970 --> 01:08:29,930
There is a, I just said that three minute time limit for each speaker.

850
01:08:29,930 --> 01:08:36,570
All speakers shall comply with the city's rules of decorum and conduct for public hearings.

851
01:08:37,790 --> 01:08:41,970
And with that, our first speaker is Renee Berries.

852
01:08:48,140 --> 01:08:52,700
Hello, good evening. My name is Renee Berries, and I live at 3264, Brent Grestribe.

853
01:08:53,300 --> 01:08:57,660
I was born and raised in Farmer's branch, and in 2019 I purchased my childhood home.

854
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:02,820
I return because this community has always represented safety, familiarity, and a genuine hometown,

855
01:09:02,820 --> 01:09:07,820
field and connection. I know the streets, the people, and the culture. Recently I discovered

856
01:09:07,820 --> 01:09:11,960
that the House three doors down for me on a adjacent street is operating as an Airbnb.

857
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:17,320
I became aware of this due to the constant rotation of unfamiliar people and multiple vehicles

858
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:22,080
arriving each week. During the evening walk, I encountered a group of young men gathered in

859
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:27,280
the front yard, revving their car engine so loudly it was deafening. Behavior completely

860
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:31,780
out of character for a quiet neighborhood. Another incident occurred one night around midnight

861
01:09:31,780 --> 01:09:37,480
When my ring camera recorded a couple arguing in the corner, on the corner, under the street light for 10 minutes.

862
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:44,900
They were yelling, pushing each other, stumbling and falling into my yard, and the man eventually threw the woman over shoulder and walked back into the house.

863
01:09:45,540 --> 01:09:49,120
I could hear the commotion through my windows and question whether I needed to call the police.

864
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:54,540
These are not the types of individuals we want cycling through our community or around our children.

865
01:09:55,220 --> 01:09:59,940
The property is openly advertised on your being as a partyhouse featuring disco lights around the pool.

866
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:08,880
A game room, a movie room, etc. The photo show groups of young people parting a stark contrast to the family-oriented hometown character of farmers branch.

867
01:10:09,420 --> 01:10:15,540
I've spoken to Elizabeth about this house as well as another house on my street that is listed as an Airbnb.

868
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:24,300
She confirmed that short-term rentals are allowed on the adjacent street but not allowed on my street, which suggests this property is operating in violation of city requirements.

869
01:10:24,300 --> 01:10:32,140
My neighbors and I have seen multiple hubo living there as well as four to six different cars in the driveway and parked on the street at all times.

870
01:10:32,620 --> 01:10:35,540
I strongly encourage further investigation of the house on my street.

871
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:40,160
I am proposing that farmers branch eliminate short-term rentals in farmers branch entirely.

872
01:10:40,900 --> 01:10:42,320
Long-term rentals are not an issue.

873
01:10:42,860 --> 01:10:47,980
Tenants who stay six to twelve months are more or more invest in the community, maintain their homes,

874
01:10:48,140 --> 01:10:50,640
and respect the peace and quiet that defines our area.

875
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:55,720
In contrast, the average short-term rental last only three to five days, bringing no value,

876
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:58,060
constant turnover, and unpredictable behavior.

877
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:02,560
Short-term vendors, visitors, spend their money on attractions outside of Farmers Branch,

878
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:04,140
in the short time they are here.

879
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:08,640
Even farmers' ranch apartments require a minimum of a 12-month lease.

880
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:12,140
Our neighborhoods deserve the same level of protection.

881
01:11:12,820 --> 01:11:17,580
I respectfully ask the city to preserve the safety and integrity of Farmers Branch by improving,

882
01:11:17,580 --> 01:11:22,280
removing all sorts of terminals and their permits within the Farmers Branch City

883
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:24,440
Limits. Thank you.

884
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:29,260
Thank you. Next step is next step is David Silver.

885
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:38,140
Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Council

886
01:11:38,140 --> 01:11:43,040
Members. My name is David Silver. I live on Millwood Circle. I am here to talk

887
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:54,440
about ordinance 4013. That is the ordinance for regard to oversized and other

888
01:11:55,040 --> 01:12:02,880
So, not allowed to say this directly to any one in particular, but it's taken now four and a

889
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:10,720
half years to get this past, and I think that's, hopefully it will pass tonight, and I think

890
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:17,780
that's a little long, I think I think that's a lot of long, but I'm very happy that it's

891
01:12:17,780 --> 01:12:18,460
going to happen.

892
01:12:18,460 --> 01:12:24,740
I pray that it's going to happen and I have some questions about it that I really hope

893
01:12:25,540 --> 01:12:33,000
somebody will respond to me with the answers too. Okay, so question number one. How do we measure eight feet and width on

894
01:12:34,180 --> 01:12:36,800
a vehicle and 21 feet in length?

895
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:45,420
Okay, does that mean from hub to hub on wheel? Does that mean from the at the back end of the vehicle and or what is on it?

896
01:12:45,420 --> 01:12:52,300
could have so a boat and where a motor to the trailer hitch, how is that going to get measured

897
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:56,060
to figure out how these are going to work.

898
01:12:57,820 --> 01:13:00,180
That is found in B number one.

899
01:13:00,700 --> 01:13:06,080
On B number three, it says all points along the public right of way, which means that if it

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01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:10,980
can be seen from the public right away, and it's not covered, then it's a no-no.

901
01:13:10,980 --> 01:13:18,460
my question there is, if I look out my window and I look at a neighbor and I see one of these

902
01:13:18,460 --> 01:13:25,480
oversized vehicles, am I looking at that vehicle from a public space or a private space?

903
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:33,060
And if I have to look at that vehicle from my window, this is trash, absolute trash.

904
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:35,900
So I want to know how that's going to work.

905
01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:39,820
If it's going to work the way I think it's going to work and my window is private,

906
01:13:39,820 --> 01:13:45,480
Then this code in my personal opinion and since I was one of the people who instituted it

907
01:13:46,420 --> 01:13:48,180
It needs to be completely reworked

908
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,960
Then we're going to go now into three B, which is vegetation

909
01:13:53,500 --> 01:14:00,000
How long do people have for the to plant something to get to six feet tall and become a fence?

910
01:14:00,340 --> 01:14:05,020
That needs to be defined as well. The reason I'm complaining about this is

911
01:14:05,020 --> 01:14:14,900
This happened to us, our neighbor was a renter long-term, and put a lot of trailers in the back.

912
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:21,780
They had rats, and we just spent $15,000 to get abated because of their rats over time.

913
01:14:23,020 --> 01:14:32,980
And this is not how a long time citizen should have to deal with their home, their property, their values, and their residents.

914
01:14:32,980 --> 01:14:37,920
Thanks. Thank you very much. Let's try. Thank you.

915
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:39,000
Thank you.

916
01:14:40,460 --> 01:14:42,140
Next step is John Buffer.

917
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:48,860
John Buffer.

918
01:14:49,180 --> 01:14:49,820
John Buffer?

919
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:50,200
Yeah.

920
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:51,560
Or.

921
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:53,040
Butler.

922
01:14:53,660 --> 01:14:54,120
Yes, sir.

923
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:54,800
Good to see you.

924
01:14:54,820 --> 01:14:55,920
It looked like 2X.

925
01:14:56,260 --> 01:14:57,040
So that's what Throbie.

926
01:14:57,340 --> 01:14:59,220
John Baller 35 Topaz.

927
01:14:59,220 --> 01:14:59,420
Yeah.

928
01:15:02,020 --> 01:15:23,760
I born and raised in Farmer's Ranch, kind of old town Farmer's Ranch. I'd like to talk about J2, also the trailers. I do not have a trailer at my house. However, a lot of people on a street do, and I have some issues with this. Not only has it written, but as what the people actually want.

929
01:15:24,300 --> 01:15:29,580
I was a member of the Trailer Committee, I believe Roger was there for the last meeting,

930
01:15:29,660 --> 01:15:31,860
it was hosted by Terry, Elizabeth, you attended.

931
01:15:32,900 --> 01:15:39,360
We also put out a survey and the results of the survey seemed to state that this was not

932
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:44,540
something that we wanted as a whole, so I'm not really certain why this is being pushed

933
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:44,960
through.

934
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:47,920
I know we use the City of Richardson as our example.

935
01:15:48,820 --> 01:15:52,620
However, they have alleys and not easements, so completely different infrastructures that

936
01:15:52,620 --> 01:15:55,700
they can park behind their houses without any issues whatsoever.

937
01:15:56,380 --> 01:15:58,340
Now, other things people talk about were property values.

938
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:00,920
Well, flower mount, they don't care.

939
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:02,000
You can do whatever you want.

940
01:16:02,100 --> 01:16:07,480
The medium home here in Farmer's Branch is 450,000 to 472,000.

941
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:10,260
Flower mount is 635 to 650.

942
01:16:10,820 --> 01:16:13,580
So there doesn't seem to be any correlation whatsoever there.

943
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:17,720
Now, Carl Pell has gone ahead and said, no trailers,

944
01:16:18,220 --> 01:16:19,180
screen, that sort of thing.

945
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:21,100
However, they have an exception for everybody

946
01:16:21,100 --> 01:16:27,940
that lives and houses a kind of mind if you are not able to park a trailer in your backyard

947
01:16:28,740 --> 01:16:33,800
then you don't have to. You can have it in your front yard. The sides of my house are very

948
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:39,140
narrow. I don't have an alley. I have an easement. It would not be possible to put any vehicle in my

949
01:16:39,140 --> 01:16:43,940
backyard. So I'm kind of speaking on behalf of not only myself but everybody in old farmer's branch

950
01:16:43,940 --> 01:16:50,340
raw hide where I grew up on further south that area they have no access whatsoever, no way to meet

951
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:58,040
requirements. Additionally, I'd like to go ahead and just kind of take this on as it's written.

952
01:16:58,060 --> 01:17:03,320
I'm not sure how many people have read it fully, but I do have a couple of issues with it.

953
01:17:04,580 --> 01:17:10,720
B3 is written in a fashion that says no vehicle can park without being screened. It does not say

954
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:19,480
oversized if we check that out. Also, ordinance 4013 states width of 8 foot is what we're addressing

955
01:17:19,480 --> 01:17:25,300
Well, state law is eight and a half foot, so I'm not sure why we're there.

956
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:31,080
Also, we have 21 foot long, well, a full-sized crew cab pick up with an eight foot

957
01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:39,360
bed is 22 to 25 feet long. A duly factory pick up is yet again over eight foot, so let's

958
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:43,900
understand legal requirements. Everybody around here, at least everybody in my neighborhood,

959
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:47,580
probably everybody here. We're hardworking people. Some people work with our hands,

960
01:17:47,580 --> 01:17:53,260
some people need tools to do our jobs, I think that outlawing trailers or hiding them from

961
01:17:53,260 --> 01:17:57,020
you as it's not possible for everybody is not the right decision for this city. Thank you.

962
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:00,860
Thank you. Next up is Price Trowson.

963
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:14,280
Good afternoon, evening. Price Trowson, 2711, I'm out for you from Miss Branch.

964
01:18:15,380 --> 01:18:21,020
I'm just a quick thing. I received the email from the city regarding the budget,

965
01:18:21,020 --> 01:18:25,380
But when I saw the police budget is more than double,

966
01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:26,960
that was a little bit taken aback,

967
01:18:27,260 --> 01:18:29,740
because that's a pretty significant increase.

968
01:18:30,980 --> 01:18:32,620
And we all have our priorities, you know,

969
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,040
I would have preferred that we scraped together

970
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:38,160
that $80,000 a year to keep open the triple C.

971
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:42,200
For something like that, that all sounds sounds like couch change

972
01:18:43,900 --> 01:18:45,740
in the police budget.

973
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:49,960
We all want to save the neighborhood.

974
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:52,920
But we all support, you know, we all support our police officers.

975
01:18:53,420 --> 01:18:58,760
They do a great job of having had nothing but positive interactions with our police department.

976
01:19:00,460 --> 01:19:05,500
But with a lot of the, I haven't had a chance to dive really into the budget yet, I just

977
01:19:05,500 --> 01:19:05,840
got it.

978
01:19:05,900 --> 01:19:08,140
And I was just going through, and that was the number that jumped out.

979
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:13,800
I mean, you have worked on budgets before, just working in different capacities and management.

980
01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:17,860
So that was something that kind of stood out.

981
01:19:17,860 --> 01:19:23,540
And I haven't verified, but someone told me that there's a lot of new technologies.

982
01:19:24,500 --> 01:19:33,260
So technologies that are concerning to me as someone who likes to be, take his walks,

983
01:19:33,420 --> 01:19:38,420
be left alone, not be tracked by a camera, like to drive to where I want to drive, not

984
01:19:38,420 --> 01:19:46,160
have to worry about my license plate or them people knowing where I'm going, when it's

985
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:51,620
really not their business. I people say, if you're not doing anything wrong, you're not,

986
01:19:51,660 --> 01:19:55,220
you don't have anything to worry about. And my response said, if I'm not doing anything wrong,

987
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:59,920
why do you need to, why do you need to take pictures of my photo of my car? Let me, let me, let me,

988
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:07,660
We know where I'm going. Again, I'm not from here. I'm from Wisconsin. I'm a political junkie from Wisconsin who follows things very closely.

989
01:20:08,060 --> 01:20:24,200
And I will tell you that in Wisconsin, they put up a flat camera next to a gun store. People were going. They were shooting. They were going and buying their handguns and shooting their handguns and doing their constitutional rights.

990
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:28,220
and they were concerned that they were being tracked.

991
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,420
Okay, I'm at the, I'm at the gun store.

992
01:20:30,540 --> 01:20:32,100
I'm doing what I want to do, you know,

993
01:20:32,180 --> 01:20:34,780
and then they found out that there was a plot camera point

994
01:20:34,780 --> 01:20:37,940
directly at the parking lot of this legal business.

995
01:20:38,300 --> 01:20:40,880
So that's something that I'm concerned with.

996
01:20:41,060 --> 01:20:43,600
With any of the things that goes into the police department,

997
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:45,900
we need to know what's going on with this data.

998
01:20:45,900 --> 01:20:47,980
How long is this data being saved?

999
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:50,560
How long is this data being used?

1000
01:20:51,260 --> 01:20:52,320
Is this data being wiped?

1001
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:53,220
Is it being stored?

1002
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:58,380
You know, that's, and that's, I believe that that's another thing that the whole data center

1003
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:08,360
argument is is like if you have this giant data center, are you the consumer or are you the product?

1004
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:10,280
That's, that's why I'd say.

1005
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:11,120
Thank you.

1006
01:21:11,220 --> 01:21:12,220
Thank you.

1007
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:17,860
That was all the speakers that I have for this evening, so we will move on to our consent agenda.

1008
01:21:17,860 --> 01:21:20,960
there are two changes to the consent agenda.

1009
01:21:21,980 --> 01:21:26,120
Item J5 will move to regular agenda and become L7.

1010
01:21:26,980 --> 01:21:32,940
And item J2 will move to regular agenda and become L8.

1011
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:36,700
So, with that?

1012
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:41,100
Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve the consent agenda.

1013
01:21:41,560 --> 01:21:44,280
Less items, J2 and J5.

1014
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:48,320
I second. Thank you. Motion to second. If you would, please indicate your vote.

1015
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:56,280
Motion passes. Thank you very much.

1016
01:21:57,080 --> 01:22:05,220
So next up, we'll be our regular agenda items. Item L1, consider adopting ordinance number 4011.

1017
01:22:05,440 --> 01:22:11,840
Approving an annual update of the service and assessment plan and assessment roll for the Mercer Crossing Public Improvement District

1018
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:17,840
to set chapter 372 Texas local government code and take a property action.

1019
01:22:19,340 --> 01:22:22,440
Good evening mayor, city council members. My name is Jay Patel. I'm the finance director for

1020
01:22:22,440 --> 01:22:27,460
the city and the item before you today is our annual state required update to our service and

1021
01:22:27,460 --> 01:22:32,660
assessment plan for the mercy crossing performance improvement district. Otherwise notice the

1022
01:22:32,660 --> 01:22:38,620
mercy crossing paid. This district was established by council in 2017 to ultimately stimulate

1023
01:22:38,620 --> 01:22:40,280
economic development within the area.

1024
01:22:40,980 --> 01:22:48,040
The developed for the project, Centurion, invested $44.5 million dollars in approved

1025
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:53,620
reimbursable agreements towards the development, which are paid by assessments over time

1026
01:22:53,620 --> 01:22:55,920
through property owners within that district.

1027
01:22:56,780 --> 01:23:01,540
At this time, I want to introduce Mark Furman, with Municap, who is our paid administrator,

1028
01:23:02,140 --> 01:23:06,100
who walk us through an update to the project's budget, as well as the assessments being

1029
01:23:06,100 --> 01:23:08,620
applied to property owners for the upcoming year.

1030
01:23:09,020 --> 01:23:10,340
Upon completion of March's presentation,

1031
01:23:10,620 --> 01:23:13,500
both he and I will be available for any questions you all may have.

1032
01:23:13,820 --> 01:23:15,040
And with that, turn it over to Mark.

1033
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:20,100
Good evening, Mayor Council.

1034
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:21,120
My name is Mark Furman.

1035
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:22,800
I'm a Vice President with Munich app.

1036
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:25,500
I here to present and answer any questions

1037
01:23:25,500 --> 01:23:27,760
about the service and assessment plan update

1038
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:29,400
for the Mercer Crossing Pid.

1039
01:23:29,940 --> 01:23:33,180
This is a Mark, where's your office address?

1040
01:23:33,940 --> 01:23:36,720
Oh, sorry, we're at 600 East John Carpenter Freeway in Irvin.

1041
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:37,720
Thank you.

1042
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:38,280
You're welcome.

1043
01:23:39,100 --> 01:23:42,880
This is a routine update, personally went to chapter 372 of Texas

1044
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:44,140
Global Government Code.

1045
01:23:48,990 --> 01:23:53,290
This update, update three main pieces of information for the PID.

1046
01:23:53,450 --> 01:23:55,950
The first is the authorized improvement budget for the PID.

1047
01:23:56,450 --> 01:23:59,110
So that's the infrastructure of being financed by those assessments

1048
01:23:59,110 --> 01:24:00,490
we're collecting from property owners.

1049
01:24:00,970 --> 01:24:05,070
It updates the budgets for the PID, so that's debt service and administrative

1050
01:24:05,070 --> 01:24:07,410
expenses for the coming assessment year.

1051
01:24:07,410 --> 01:24:13,110
And then we allocate those annual budgets across each property that benefits from the public infrastructure.

1052
01:24:15,390 --> 01:24:23,050
So this first slide here shows the updated authorized improvement budget for the initial infrastructure that was financed by the PID.

1053
01:24:23,930 --> 01:24:29,730
If you were here last year, this budget will look very familiar. There's been no changes since the infrastructure has been completed for some time.

1054
01:24:31,940 --> 01:24:39,160
Now, the city also entered into a reimbursement agreement for an additional assessment

1055
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:41,560
levee, so this is the townhome site area.

1056
01:24:41,940 --> 01:24:46,360
So the city levee, the additional assessments and these assessments financed infrastructures

1057
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:48,740
specific to these 69 townhome lots.

1058
01:24:49,180 --> 01:24:53,540
That infrastructure is also completed and has been completed for a couple of years now.

1059
01:24:55,870 --> 01:24:59,930
This is the annual budget for the initial assessments and the townhome.

1060
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:09,860
So, up top we have the initial assessments. You'll see there's a decrease of about $100,000 compared to last year. That's largely as a result of an increased terrorist credit.

1061
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:17,320
So, minicap is the public improvement district administrator. We are also the administrator for farmers branch, terrorist number three.

1062
01:25:17,580 --> 01:25:28,800
So, terrorist number three shares the same properties as the PID. The way the terrorist works is the city has committed to use a portion of the incremental city property taxes collected from each individual property.

1063
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,940
as an offset on their pit annual installments the following year.

1064
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:39,000
So that $1.87 million for you to see there is as a result of 2025 city property taxes.

1065
01:25:40,940 --> 01:25:46,840
The town home site assessment budget is pretty similar to last year with just a very slight

1066
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:47,220
increase.

1067
01:25:47,220 --> 01:25:48,960
You'll see a turs line item there.

1068
01:25:49,940 --> 01:25:53,460
The turs credit, it's not that these properties in the town home site area don't have

1069
01:25:53,460 --> 01:25:54,080
a turs credit.

1070
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:58,320
It's that those properties also have an initial assessment, so the turs credit is tied to

1071
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,720
initial assessment, so they are also benefiting from the

1072
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:01,000
tours.

1073
01:26:03,630 --> 01:26:05,790
And lastly, here we have how those annual

1074
01:26:05,790 --> 01:26:08,670
installments are allocated to each individual property within the

1075
01:26:08,670 --> 01:26:12,550
PID. We have that separated into the town homesite, the

1076
01:26:12,550 --> 01:26:16,010
Kensington edition, the non Kensington edition, for the largest

1077
01:26:16,010 --> 01:26:19,570
lot-class, those 60-foot lots. That's about a $4 increase from

1078
01:26:19,570 --> 01:26:24,630
last year. And these are the gross annual installments. They do

1079
01:26:24,630 --> 01:26:26,790
not include the tourist credits, since those terrorist

1080
01:26:26,790 --> 01:26:29,510
credits are property specific, based on which each individual

1081
01:26:29,510 --> 01:26:32,890
property earned, we wouldn't be able to provide that in a summary table.

1082
01:26:35,530 --> 01:26:39,090
So next steps should Council approve this ordinance and report.

1083
01:26:39,890 --> 01:26:44,390
As we send the assessment roll over to utility tax service, who bills and collects the

1084
01:26:44,390 --> 01:26:49,350
pit annual installments, and then we'd also assist the city with recording the sap update

1085
01:26:49,350 --> 01:26:52,570
and ordinance and Dallas County records, which is a requirement.

1086
01:26:53,670 --> 01:26:55,350
Happy to answer any questions about the report.

1087
01:26:55,990 --> 01:26:56,970
Thank you very much.

1088
01:26:56,970 --> 01:27:03,770
you're welcome. I'm just going to start down here at my right councilman

1089
01:27:03,770 --> 01:27:08,530
Gonzalez. Nothing for me. Thank you, Mark. Councilman Bennett.

1090
01:27:09,210 --> 01:27:13,750
Nothing for me. Thank you. Councilman Reed. Nothing here. Councilman

1091
01:27:13,750 --> 01:27:16,290
Viet Franca. Thanks for the information. Appreciate you.

1092
01:27:17,210 --> 01:27:21,530
Councilman Newell. Nothing mayor. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Okay. Well thank

1093
01:27:21,530 --> 01:27:22,190
you very much, Mark.

1094
01:27:24,330 --> 01:27:26,050
This item is mark for action.

1095
01:27:26,050 --> 01:27:27,010
All

1096
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:42,540
right, Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve ordinance 401-1.

1097
01:27:43,180 --> 01:27:43,620
Second.

1098
01:27:44,180 --> 01:27:44,580
Thank you.

1099
01:27:44,660 --> 01:27:45,420
We have motion in second.

1100
01:27:45,420 --> 01:27:47,320
If you would, please indicate your vote.

1101
01:27:54,100 --> 01:27:54,720
Motion passes.

1102
01:27:54,860 --> 01:27:55,680
Thank you very much.

1103
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,240
Next step is item L2.

1104
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:04,600
Consider improving the resolution in 2026-115 authorizing an administrative services agreement with you.

1105
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:10,700
Incorporated for medical plan administration services for three years.

1106
01:28:10,700 --> 01:28:16,300
and increasing the city's self-funded health plan budget by 600,000 dollars and take the

1107
01:28:16,300 --> 01:28:17,200
appropriate action.

1108
01:28:18,180 --> 01:28:21,040
All right, good evening, Marion Council, Jeffrey Ross, director of Human Resources,

1109
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:22,080
it's good to see everybody.

1110
01:28:22,900 --> 01:28:24,260
So we're bringing this discussion back.

1111
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:28,580
We came two or three weeks ago with some initial information about what we were looking at

1112
01:28:28,580 --> 01:28:35,960
after the results of an RFP for renewing or awarding our medical and pharmacy administrator

1113
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:40,400
contracts and now we're bringing that kind of the final piece to you.

1114
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:46,120
are still moving towards the end of our planned design processes. We're looking at what benefits

1115
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:50,100
are going to look like in the next year. Open enrollment will be starting next month.

1116
01:28:50,700 --> 01:28:55,340
So this is really kind of that last puzzle piece that we have that we need that we need to figure

1117
01:28:56,440 --> 01:29:02,220
out the final stages of that. So a lot of the information that's in here, I kind of covered last

1118
01:29:02,220 --> 01:29:08,040
time so I'm not going to go through it all again. This is the same information we brought to you

1119
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:13,840
The last time about how our self-funded health plan works in just the quick, the quick, 30 second highlights is

1120
01:29:14,740 --> 01:29:15,780
a self-funded health plan.

1121
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:24,480
What we put into it, it funds three primary things that's claims incurred for both medical and pharmacy expenses, as well as our stop loss insurance.

1122
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:32,240
Just a quick overview of the plan and a reminder that with the way the plan is set up, it's called a high deductible health plan.

1123
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:48,400
That means that employees have to spend at least $2,000 or $4,000 based on the level of coverage that they have before the city starts paying anything for this plan before we pay any claims incurred at all employees have that responsibility.

1124
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:56,020
Right now, we currently pay somewhere between $74 to $444 a month out of each paycheck.

1125
01:29:56,020 --> 01:29:59,900
So, or I'm sorry, yeah, that's out of basically two paychecks.

1126
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:16,280
The other thing I would highlight on this one is down in the bottom right corner, this table. We do have very high enrollment on our plan. So, between the general employees, the police employees and fire staff, we do have pretty significantly high employment, sorry enrollment on this plan.

1127
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:24,900
This is the information that we brought to you last time about the vendors on keeping it strictly to the ones for consideration.

1128
01:30:24,900 --> 01:30:32,920
So we are proposing consideration of transferring to serve URX for our pharmacy administration needs.

1129
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:37,740
In retaining UMR for a three-year agreement for both.

1130
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:42,960
This will looking at our plan spins and trends data.

1131
01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:46,620
We are looking in the next year and then they're forward.

1132
01:30:47,460 --> 01:30:53,480
Trends that are indicating that we're going to need somewhere around $600,000 increase to the self-funded plan budget

1133
01:30:53,480 --> 01:30:57,380
to be able to maintain the self-funding for the plan.

1134
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:01,380
So, the information here that we received back from the RFP is highlighted,

1135
01:31:01,940 --> 01:31:09,520
both for serve URX and the savings that we can anticipate reasonably from them,

1136
01:31:09,740 --> 01:31:15,480
along with some of the savings for medical, which would be primarily on third-party administration fees

1137
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:18,620
and information such as that.

1138
01:31:18,620 --> 01:31:25,240
So some new information, I kind of want to just bring back to the front as we do get questions

1139
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:25,900
about it.

1140
01:31:26,760 --> 01:31:33,100
So the split between what essentially the city pays for to maintain the plan and what

1141
01:31:33,100 --> 01:31:36,640
the employees pay to maintain the plan to fund the plan.

1142
01:31:37,420 --> 01:31:42,200
So what that looks like right now, you can see in the second column there, that's per paycheck.

1143
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:45,600
The first number is what comes out of the employees paycheck.

1144
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:52,840
The second number is what comes out from the city, every pay period, and broken down, and that third column there.

1145
01:31:53,680 --> 01:32:00,300
Traditionally, you can see what the split is here between that total funding between what employees put in,

1146
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:06,780
and the city puts in. Traditionally, this number, for the longest time, really kind of has been the target.

1147
01:32:06,780 --> 01:32:10,740
market target has been around at 80-20 split between those numbers.

1148
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:16,000
They're where the employers take it about 80 percent of that cost and employees are

1149
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:18,120
shouldering about 20 percent of that cost.

1150
01:32:18,300 --> 01:32:21,740
So currently we're a little bit above that right now.

1151
01:32:23,540 --> 01:32:30,340
And I do want to also note that in January of 2025 just last year we did increase the

1152
01:32:30,340 --> 01:32:36,760
employee rates somewhere between 15 and a half to 32 percent as part of the update that

1153
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:44,300
had in the previous year. So you can see in the final column there the absorption of the $600,000

1154
01:32:44,300 --> 01:32:52,400
what that what our new rates look like with that $600,000 addition and just looking kind of

1155
01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:56,920
out there at the market when I say it's traditionally been somewhere around 80-20 over really the last

1156
01:32:56,920 --> 01:33:03,620
five years, five to six years we've noticed a trend change in the metroplex and really with

1157
01:33:03,620 --> 01:33:09,680
with a lot of different cities where the cities are becoming a little more shouldering

1158
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:15,640
of that cost of it and we see a shift kind of a wave from that 80-20 and see cities start

1159
01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:17,780
to take on a little bit more of that cost.

1160
01:33:18,140 --> 01:33:23,560
So looking at some of the cities surrounding us that have some of the same type of plan.

1161
01:33:23,700 --> 01:33:28,960
I've only compared the H-D-H people and I haven't compared other types of plans that we

1162
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:29,600
don't have.

1163
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:38,460
But we are paying city employees do pay higher for their share than other cities comparably.

1164
01:33:39,360 --> 01:33:43,480
So I just wanted to kind of bring that information forward about it just so that you

1165
01:33:43,480 --> 01:33:44,940
can have it as part of the consideration.

1166
01:33:45,940 --> 01:33:47,740
And I'm happy to take any questions.

1167
01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:53,220
So L2 and L3, the item immediately following this, L3 is the pharmacy item, but they both share

1168
01:33:53,220 --> 01:33:58,620
the same presentation, and they both share the same kind of discussion points.

1169
01:33:58,620 --> 01:34:05,820
But I can answer questions about either one, but they do need separate action as they are two uniquely distinct resolutions.

1170
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:08,320
So with that, I'm happy to take any questions.

1171
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:11,840
Thank you very much. Anything else we need to know about L3?

1172
01:34:12,620 --> 01:34:14,120
It's pretty much all the same information.

1173
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:16,260
I can answer any questions about that one as well.

1174
01:34:16,900 --> 01:34:20,160
I'll let the council deal with that.

1175
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:23,440
So councilman gets all this?

1176
01:34:25,780 --> 01:34:33,380
So, they're going to be paying a little more, but we're having a new pharmacy in a different, I mean, sorry, yes, a new pharmacy in the same medical.

1177
01:34:34,100 --> 01:34:48,360
Correct, the pharmacy is going to be changing, and there will be a little bit of disruption with that for people who have current prescriptions, though basically just have to give their new prescription or the new pharmacy information to where they're going to log in CVS wherever.

1178
01:34:48,980 --> 01:34:54,180
They'll have to give that information so that it can continue filling their prescriptions on the medical side.

1179
01:34:54,660 --> 01:34:59,880
Nothing would change, so they don't have to do anything with their doctor, with what they're already doing seeking.

1180
01:35:05,300 --> 01:35:10,480
So are there any changes in the list of what is covered in the formular?

1181
01:35:10,860 --> 01:35:17,720
So that's something that we're still looking here at that plan design. One of the changes that we are making.

1182
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:25,180
And it's a highlighted on this slide. So looking at something called biosimilers.

1183
01:35:25,180 --> 01:35:48,300
So, these are going to be drugs that are biologically similar to what the name brand of a drug and these are mostly, yeah, and it's a little bit different than a generic, because a generic could be made for almost anything, but a biocimilar is made using actual living human cells to replicate the exact formula of the higher cost drug.

1184
01:35:48,300 --> 01:35:51,520
So switching these biosimilers is going to save money,

1185
01:35:51,540 --> 01:35:52,880
but they will work the same.

1186
01:35:53,520 --> 01:35:55,020
So if there is a change to the pharmacy

1187
01:35:55,020 --> 01:35:57,880
on the types of drugs, those categories of drugs

1188
01:35:57,880 --> 01:36:01,000
are still covered, but we're going to default the plan

1189
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:03,720
prescriptions to the biosimilers first.

1190
01:36:04,360 --> 01:36:07,780
So the staff will not be stuck paying for prescriptions

1191
01:36:07,780 --> 01:36:09,900
that they've had for years that has been covered

1192
01:36:10,460 --> 01:36:11,760
for a chronic condition.

1193
01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:15,500
Right, none of the drugs, we're not looking at changing

1194
01:36:15,500 --> 01:36:16,360
any of those drugs.

1195
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:19,520
is the only thing that if we are carving anything out,

1196
01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:21,880
it's going to be the GOP One Drugs,

1197
01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:23,660
which is also covered on here.

1198
01:36:24,020 --> 01:36:26,800
The GOP One Drugs, which have been traditionally used

1199
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:28,600
for diabetic weight loss management,

1200
01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:32,580
are now used for routine weight loss management purposes.

1201
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:34,820
And that's something that we're not necessarily

1202
01:36:34,820 --> 01:36:36,040
going to cover under the plan.

1203
01:36:36,060 --> 01:36:37,520
We will still continue to cover it

1204
01:36:37,520 --> 01:36:41,300
for medically necessary and diabetic weight loss management purposes.

1205
01:36:41,540 --> 01:36:42,100
Thank you.

1206
01:36:42,280 --> 01:36:43,680
Ms. Man.

1207
01:36:43,680 --> 01:36:56,200
Kassman read. Nothing for me. Kassman. So this is the winner, Jeff. This is what this is what's in the best interest of all of the staff then is the one that you think is the right one.

1208
01:36:56,620 --> 01:37:09,060
This is based on everything that we have based on the information back from the RFQ based on feedback we've received from employees. This is this is going to be the best route for us to go for now.

1209
01:37:09,060 --> 01:37:13,200
So prescriptions will not increase, is that, did I understand that correctly?

1210
01:37:13,660 --> 01:37:17,820
No, so I can't talk about this prescriptions, the price of prescriptions, because we

1211
01:37:17,820 --> 01:37:19,420
don't necessarily control that.

1212
01:37:19,580 --> 01:37:26,620
We're not looking to make changes to what drugs are covered under the plant, with the

1213
01:37:26,620 --> 01:37:29,480
exception of kind of the two things that I just talked about.

1214
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:32,780
Nothing under the plant, nothing else on the plant, you know, if somebody is getting this

1215
01:37:32,780 --> 01:37:38,280
drug today, then with the new vendor, the same drugs will be available.

1216
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:43,120
As far as how much they will cost is always going to be something that's dependent on factors.

1217
01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:46,580
We unfortunately have no influence over.

1218
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:52,020
And I remember last time you talked to us, you talked about having sort of more education.

1219
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:53,380
So people can take full advantage.

1220
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:54,900
So I'm hope you'll be working on that.

1221
01:37:55,420 --> 01:37:55,860
Absolutely.

1222
01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:57,040
We can save on there.

1223
01:37:57,040 --> 01:37:58,100
It's part of our strategy.

1224
01:37:58,420 --> 01:37:58,980
Thank you.

1225
01:37:59,180 --> 01:37:59,720
Yes, ma'am.

1226
01:37:59,840 --> 01:38:00,640
Councillor Neill.

1227
01:38:01,780 --> 01:38:02,220
Thank you, Mayor.

1228
01:38:02,640 --> 01:38:02,940
Thank you, Jeff.

1229
01:38:04,620 --> 01:38:07,680
This impacts all the employees that utilize the plan.

1230
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:11,540
everyone who's on the planet and about how many employees total would you say that is round

1231
01:38:11,540 --> 01:38:13,820
about numbers round about three hundred eighty

1232
01:38:13,820 --> 01:38:15,680
about three hundred eighty yes okay

1233
01:38:16,140 --> 01:38:19,160
so we're talking about six hundred thousand dollars here

1234
01:38:20,060 --> 01:38:20,500
um...

1235
01:38:20,500 --> 01:38:22,860
my question is is the six hundred

1236
01:38:23,460 --> 01:38:28,040
thousand for the total three year period or is it six hundred thousand for each

1237
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:31,920
of the three years it would not be for each of the three years so the six hundred

1238
01:38:31,920 --> 01:38:33,680
thousand is what we're looking at

1239
01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:35,000
uh... to be able to

1240
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:37,400
pay the bills that are going to come in keep the lights on

1241
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:40,820
So if I average to that, I could say 200,000 for the next three years.

1242
01:38:41,240 --> 01:38:42,140
Around maybe yes.

1243
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:45,760
And with a self-funded health plan, it's always going to be

1244
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:49,400
variable based on what happens in the plan during that year,

1245
01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:51,280
high cost claims, things like that.

1246
01:38:52,740 --> 01:38:55,740
But if adjustment is needed, that's something that we're going

1247
01:38:55,740 --> 01:38:57,820
to work on throughout the year.

1248
01:38:57,880 --> 01:38:58,640
We're going to monitor it.

1249
01:38:58,660 --> 01:39:01,440
Quarterly, we're going to have the finance team sit in with our broker

1250
01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:05,640
so that we can make sure that we're managing the plan in a facility.

1251
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:07,240
So this amount is not sort of

1252
01:39:07,240 --> 01:39:08,520
locked in for three years?

1253
01:39:08,900 --> 01:39:12,460
The 600,000 is what we're asking for an increase to the budget.

1254
01:39:12,880 --> 01:39:20,940
Now, if something changes in the market and the price of medical care just across the board

1255
01:39:20,940 --> 01:39:26,060
goes up, X percent, we would have to look at our plan and can it still maintain, can it absorb

1256
01:39:26,060 --> 01:39:26,740
those costs?

1257
01:39:26,740 --> 01:39:30,040
Do we need to look at adding additional funding to it?

1258
01:39:30,580 --> 01:39:34,240
But from what we, from the discussions we've had and from what we're looking at with trends

1259
01:39:34,240 --> 01:39:42,900
our traditional how our plan has has worked in the cost for it, the 600k is expected to take

1260
01:39:42,900 --> 01:39:44,880
us through the three years.

1261
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:52,670
And so how does this, I know you had the slide there showing the percentages that employees

1262
01:39:52,670 --> 01:39:54,810
pay versus what the city pays.

1263
01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:07,840
Is it total amount more than 600 in the employees are picking up that other extra or what's the breakdown here?

1264
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:18,740
Sure. So from the beginning when we started building this into the budget back in February, we have built it kind of around the frame of, at the time we started building it.

1265
01:40:19,420 --> 01:40:23,900
We were building around the frame of employees weren't going to be receiving a compensation increase.

1266
01:40:23,900 --> 01:40:36,900
So in order to kind of avoid hitting them with a double whammy of no raised plus or insurance rates going up from the beginning we've been planning the the 600,000 addition to be absorbed by the state and

1267
01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:49,900
Where we're making some of the trade-off for that is that there's a number of different ways to share cost among the plant increasing paycheck contributions that employees pay to fund the plant is one method of

1268
01:40:49,900 --> 01:40:56,860
of cost sharing, but if we want something that's going to grow with the plan, that comes from

1269
01:40:56,860 --> 01:41:02,840
plan design changes. And we are looking at some plan design changes, exploring and modeling

1270
01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:07,180
what those might look like, and they do save more money on the plan overall. And they also

1271
01:41:07,180 --> 01:41:13,700
grow with the plan as more claims come in. It's designed to save the city additional money

1272
01:41:13,700 --> 01:41:19,520
with increased utilization of the plan, whereas just increase in paycheck contributions is

1273
01:41:19,520 --> 01:41:24,460
basically a one-time shot of money and the plan can still go and do whatever it's going to

1274
01:41:24,460 --> 01:41:31,260
do with with no buffer. So are they going to have an increase in contribution to facilitate

1275
01:41:31,260 --> 01:41:38,680
this component of the 600,000? That's not what we've built into this point. What we are looking

1276
01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:44,420
at as a trade-off instead is to look at the plan design changes that would essentially if we

1277
01:41:44,420 --> 01:41:49,580
made some changes to say that out-of-pocket maximum, increasing that amount, if we may change

1278
01:41:49,580 --> 01:41:55,240
as to the co-insurance to where they're paying maybe 10% more on that co-insurance.

1279
01:41:55,940 --> 01:42:00,940
That would absorb more money on the actual cost driver of the plan, which is claims incurred,

1280
01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:06,200
and it would end up saving the city additional funds somewhere in the neighborhood.

1281
01:42:06,320 --> 01:42:10,300
So that's some plan adjustments that you're working on, or concerns that we're looking

1282
01:42:10,300 --> 01:42:12,320
out modeling seeing what that can save us.

1283
01:42:12,560 --> 01:42:12,640
Yes.

1284
01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:14,040
All right.

1285
01:42:18,340 --> 01:42:18,480
Yeah.

1286
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:19,200
That's all I have.

1287
01:42:19,300 --> 01:42:19,540
Thank you.

1288
01:42:19,540 --> 01:42:21,580
Thank you.

1289
01:42:21,580 --> 01:42:21,960
Everybody.

1290
01:42:22,280 --> 01:42:22,480
Thank you.

1291
01:42:22,640 --> 01:42:23,840
Any other comments from Council?

1292
01:42:24,620 --> 01:42:25,280
Seeing none.

1293
01:42:26,500 --> 01:42:28,360
We're going to vote on these two things individually.

1294
01:42:29,780 --> 01:42:32,900
So if somebody would like to make a motion on your two.

1295
01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:35,780
Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve.

1296
01:42:37,420 --> 01:42:40,400
Item R2026-115.

1297
01:42:41,680 --> 01:42:46,600
I second. Thank you. We have motion in second. If you would please indicate your vote,

1298
01:42:57,860 --> 01:42:59,720
motion passes. Thank you very much.

1299
01:43:01,670 --> 01:43:07,470
This may make a motion that we approve item R2026-116.

1300
01:43:08,190 --> 01:43:12,910
I second. Thank you. Motion in second. If again, if you would please indicate your vote,

1301
01:43:20,530 --> 01:43:23,710
motion passes. Thank you very much. Thank you.

1302
01:43:23,710 --> 01:43:24,230
Thank you.

1303
01:43:24,470 --> 01:43:24,730
All right.

1304
01:43:25,270 --> 01:43:26,390
Next up is item L4.

1305
01:43:26,490 --> 01:43:31,610
Consider approving resolution 2026-117 establishing the legislative platform for the City of

1306
01:43:31,610 --> 01:43:35,530
Farmers Branch for the upcoming 90-fledgeslative session and taking protection.

1307
01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:45,540
Hello Mayor, Council, Erin Flores, Senior Management Analyst, and with me as Management

1308
01:43:45,540 --> 01:43:50,840
Analyst, Maddie Cooper, she has also helped a lot with research needed for this legislative

1309
01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:51,280
platform.

1310
01:43:52,060 --> 01:43:53,700
So, have her here just in case.

1311
01:43:53,700 --> 01:43:59,640
So tonight we're going to talk about the proposed platform for the 90th legislative session.

1312
01:44:03,700 --> 01:44:07,980
As you know, these issues can move very quickly in the legislative session.

1313
01:44:08,260 --> 01:44:21,900
So staff has been researching, working, talking with the school district, other important stakeholders and gathering feedback from the City Council to put together this proposed legislative platform for council's consideration.

1314
01:44:21,900 --> 01:44:23,000
So,

1315
01:44:26,900 --> 01:44:35,260
our overarching themes that we're proposing is going to be local control, which is going to be the items that we want to promote.

1316
01:44:35,820 --> 01:44:40,760
We want to make sure that our city can retain as much local authority as possible.

1317
01:44:41,240 --> 01:44:46,780
And we want to oppose anything that might take away that authority for us to do what we need to do as a city.

1318
01:44:47,500 --> 01:44:51,540
We want to promote items that enhance our financial stability.

1319
01:44:52,100 --> 01:44:56,300
We want to make sure that those items that help with our funding for essential services

1320
01:44:56,300 --> 01:44:59,700
are protected and we want to defend any.

1321
01:45:00,300 --> 01:45:03,560
Any issues that might arise on my threaten that?

1322
01:45:04,220 --> 01:45:06,720
And then we also want to support our public safety and infrastructure.

1323
01:45:07,540 --> 01:45:12,300
Any items that are coming up in this legislative session that would support the funding

1324
01:45:12,300 --> 01:45:14,620
for that we want to make sure that we're promoting that.

1325
01:45:15,060 --> 01:45:21,420
And then we also want to support items that would help us with our redevelopment goals

1326
01:45:21,420 --> 01:45:23,960
at economic development bringing new businesses in.

1327
01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:26,480
We want to make sure that we're defending those priorities.

1328
01:45:28,910 --> 01:45:52,570
So here are our city positions, so some of our proactive items we want to make sure, like I said, our economic development tools are protected, and we also want to make sure that our transportation items are being promoted as far as safety, equitable governance excuse me that's a hard word equitable governance related to Dart is protected.

1329
01:45:53,830 --> 01:45:56,310
And then here in the middle, you see our defensive priorities.

1330
01:45:57,030 --> 01:46:00,030
These are items that have routinely come up in legislative sessions.

1331
01:46:00,490 --> 01:46:03,890
We want to make sure that we're taking a defensive stance when it comes to these items.

1332
01:46:05,030 --> 01:46:08,550
And then over on the bar right, you'll see the items that we're going to be continuously

1333
01:46:08,550 --> 01:46:09,170
monitoring.

1334
01:46:09,670 --> 01:46:13,570
And if there's something that comes up that's a concern, we want to be able to act quickly

1335
01:46:13,570 --> 01:46:15,290
and defend our priorities.

1336
01:46:19,780 --> 01:46:20,540
And that is it.

1337
01:46:20,540 --> 01:46:22,080
Council, we're here for any questions.

1338
01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:31,840
The resolution that you have before you tonight, this would approve our legislative platform, which includes our council's direction and identify priorities.

1339
01:46:33,700 --> 01:46:49,660
And also, we have, in this year's budget, we've budgeted for a consultant for items that are going to be important for us as a city that we can use them to leverage for transportation items, funding items, local authority, things that are very important to us as a city.

1340
01:46:49,660 --> 01:46:53,540
And we're going to be using those resources as needed.

1341
01:46:54,080 --> 01:46:54,820
And I'm here for any questions.

1342
01:46:55,900 --> 01:46:56,720
Thank you.

1343
01:46:57,520 --> 01:46:58,260
Councilwoman Gonzalez.

1344
01:46:59,920 --> 01:47:01,820
No questions for me, Erin, but thank you.

1345
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:03,640
I think you guys have some great themes on there.

1346
01:47:03,720 --> 01:47:04,640
Appreciate it.

1347
01:47:04,740 --> 01:47:05,300
Councilman Ben.

1348
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:12,000
I've sat through no less than at least five updates in the last two months.

1349
01:47:12,320 --> 01:47:14,180
Even today we sat through one.

1350
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:16,040
So this is a great item.

1351
01:47:16,080 --> 01:47:16,920
I appreciate it.

1352
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:18,140
Thank you for all of your work.

1353
01:47:18,480 --> 01:47:18,640
Thank you.

1354
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:20,020
Catherine Reed.

1355
01:47:20,760 --> 01:47:23,480
Yeah, it's all the hot buttons that were concerns of mine.

1356
01:47:23,760 --> 01:47:31,000
So I appreciate it's a very comprehensive list and forward to see what the consultant has

1357
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:31,840
to say as well.

1358
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:32,200
Yes.

1359
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:33,760
Catherine would be a fronca.

1360
01:47:34,540 --> 01:47:35,080
Thank you.

1361
01:47:35,100 --> 01:47:38,800
Are you able to tell me up the top of your head how much was budgeted for the consultant

1362
01:47:38,800 --> 01:47:40,720
slash lobbies?

1363
01:47:42,340 --> 01:47:46,660
I will check to be sure, I'm pretty sure was 100,000, but I'll check to be sure.

1364
01:47:46,660 --> 01:47:52,200
and is there any one particular topic that he'll be zoning in on or?

1365
01:47:52,540 --> 01:47:58,020
So we actually have there are two consultants that we have been looking into based on

1366
01:47:58,620 --> 01:48:01,820
council direction as far as what our priorities are.

1367
01:48:01,820 --> 01:48:06,700
One is just general overall for anything that might be an issue for us and one is specifically

1368
01:48:06,700 --> 01:48:11,340
related to transportation. Fantastic. Is it too late to add anything?

1369
01:48:13,460 --> 01:48:16,100
Just depending on what it is we could definitely look into it.

1370
01:48:16,100 --> 01:48:27,380
I think it's important to speak to the legislature about people that come to our city and establish residency when they do not live here, nor have any intention of living here.

1371
01:48:28,440 --> 01:48:35,020
Simply by scurrying the system and I don't know if that's something that the consultants would be able to speak to to the legislature.

1372
01:48:37,540 --> 01:48:45,320
Okay, I'm not sure if you could talk with Ben a little bit more about that and we'll kind of see exactly what that's a big thank you.

1373
01:48:45,320 --> 01:48:46,620
Councillor Neill.

1374
01:48:47,460 --> 01:48:48,080
Nothing, thank you.

1375
01:48:48,080 --> 01:48:48,660
Thank you, Aaron.

1376
01:48:50,060 --> 01:48:53,840
Aaron, I do have one thing that I would like to specifically call out.

1377
01:48:54,460 --> 01:49:01,820
And that is regarding sales tax and the opposition of changing to sales tax from point of

1378
01:49:01,820 --> 01:49:03,180
origination to point of destination.

1379
01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:03,940
Okay.

1380
01:49:04,020 --> 01:49:08,600
So I think we need to be very deliberate on spelling that out.

1381
01:49:10,540 --> 01:49:12,340
That's if Council approves.

1382
01:49:17,010 --> 01:49:27,250
Well, he doesn't speak for Morgan Meyer, Morgan Meyer is about the seven three sessions previously, and I have no reason not to believe he's going to try again.

1383
01:49:27,970 --> 01:49:32,390
So if he does, I just want to make sure that we're on record opposing this.

1384
01:49:33,410 --> 01:49:36,750
We've already established that this

1385
01:49:36,750 --> 01:49:47,330
that would affect our city, about five to seven million dollar loss in sales tax on an annual basis.

1386
01:49:47,930 --> 01:49:55,490
Compel, they would lose 30 million dollars a year in sales tax if that happens.

1387
01:49:56,290 --> 01:49:59,890
So, there are cities that are opposing this as much as possible.

1388
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:05,280
Mayors, we all talk about it, so I just will make sure that we don't let that slip by.

1389
01:50:05,900 --> 01:50:13,240
Okay, so if all of Council agrees, we could add that to the Council direction, the

1390
01:50:13,240 --> 01:50:17,960
directives that are in the memorandum, that's part of this item, and so it's make sure it's documented.

1391
01:50:19,340 --> 01:50:23,280
Good, good, good, good, good, good.

1392
01:50:23,380 --> 01:50:24,940
Okay, it doesn't need action.

1393
01:50:25,620 --> 01:50:28,960
Okay, so yes, this item is marked for action.

1394
01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:41,740
So Mayor, if the council is going to be amending the ordinance, then that you

1395
01:50:41,740 --> 01:50:43,780
be stated in the actual motion itself.

1396
01:50:44,720 --> 01:50:45,340
I'm sorry, David.

1397
01:50:45,380 --> 01:50:49,020
For the resolution, the memorandum is actually not part of the resolution, it's a

1398
01:50:49,020 --> 01:50:49,700
resolution.

1399
01:50:50,360 --> 01:50:50,800
Resolution.

1400
01:50:50,980 --> 01:50:52,840
So then staff can make that change all by itself.

1401
01:50:52,940 --> 01:50:53,240
Right.

1402
01:50:54,020 --> 01:50:54,160
Done.

1403
01:50:57,480 --> 01:50:58,940
Mr. Mayor, make motion that we have

1404
01:50:58,940 --> 01:51:02,160
approve item R2026-117.

1405
01:51:02,440 --> 01:51:02,920
I'll second.

1406
01:51:03,340 --> 01:51:03,500
Thank you.

1407
01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:06,000
We're motion and second if you would please indicate your vote.

1408
01:51:11,930 --> 01:51:12,450
Motion passes.

1409
01:51:12,590 --> 01:51:13,150
Thank you very much.

1410
01:51:13,330 --> 01:51:13,530
Thank you.

1411
01:51:13,770 --> 01:51:14,390
All right.

1412
01:51:16,560 --> 01:51:18,760
Next up is item L5 receiving up.

1413
01:51:18,860 --> 01:51:25,360
They regarding the issuance of a request or a convict request for qualifications for

1414
01:51:25,360 --> 01:51:26,560
a city's legal services.

1415
01:51:28,480 --> 01:51:35,180
I'd like to request that we table this item this evening if Council sees that.

1416
01:51:35,180 --> 01:51:36,480
May I make a motion?

1417
01:51:37,800 --> 01:51:38,180
May I?

1418
01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:38,700
You may.

1419
01:51:39,200 --> 01:51:43,160
I'd like to make a motion to table L5 and L6.

1420
01:51:47,580 --> 01:51:48,380
Sir, second.

1421
01:51:55,460 --> 01:52:01,920
I'd like to amend the motion if you're receptive to a table in it for a period of four months.

1422
01:52:02,940 --> 01:52:08,400
If that is an acceptable amendment, then I would second the motion.

1423
01:52:10,900 --> 01:52:12,180
I accept the modification.

1424
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:20,700
Okay. So we have a motion. Add a second with a friendly amendment. Is there any discussion?

1425
01:52:24,200 --> 01:52:25,140
Council on the results.

1426
01:52:26,040 --> 01:52:30,160
I would like to keep it on the agenda and discuss it.

1427
01:52:30,580 --> 01:52:31,340
Council on Bennett.

1428
01:52:34,320 --> 01:52:34,800
Council on read.

1429
01:52:54,810 --> 01:52:56,370
I'm torn on this one.

1430
01:52:59,120 --> 01:53:00,220
We need to take a break.

1431
01:53:07,320 --> 01:53:08,640
Can we take a break?

1432
01:53:08,640 --> 01:53:09,500
Can we take a timeout break?

1433
01:53:11,100 --> 01:53:11,560
We're

1434
01:53:13,890 --> 01:53:20,490
going to take a 10 minute break if you have any discussion we'll go in City Manager's

1435
01:53:20,490 --> 01:53:21,570
conference room.

1436
01:53:47,740 --> 01:53:50,780
We're bearing with us, so we have a motion,

1437
01:53:55,940 --> 01:53:58,340
and let's part of the discussion, oh sorry.

1438
01:53:59,460 --> 01:54:01,160
All right, thank you for bearing with us.

1439
01:54:01,160 --> 01:54:09,520
We have a motion and a second to motion is the table with an amendment for a form of

1440
01:54:09,520 --> 01:54:18,780
career that was accepted so we are having discussion.

1441
01:54:19,240 --> 01:54:26,260
Okay, I just want to confirm we're not entertaining the motion at the second one still in discussion.

1442
01:54:27,420 --> 01:54:31,680
With that I would like to call the executive session to further discuss.

1443
01:54:32,900 --> 01:54:33,080
Julie.

1444
01:54:35,140 --> 01:54:37,140
Can I do that?

1445
01:54:37,140 --> 01:54:37,740
I'm

1446
01:54:44,530 --> 01:54:45,130
going to try to share,

1447
01:54:48,110 --> 01:54:53,170
I'm going to come and come to accept your session for a little bit of advice because I have a tab here, I'm going to check that myself.

1448
01:54:53,870 --> 01:54:55,270
I have to do a table of emotions.

1449
01:54:58,480 --> 01:54:59,880
I think it would be too far.

1450
01:55:00,210 --> 01:55:02,890
And we can see the post-pone consideration of the motion.

1451
01:55:03,990 --> 01:55:07,470
To very open views, like in session we just answered.

1452
01:55:08,990 --> 01:55:12,390
We can see the other post of that.

1453
01:55:13,130 --> 01:55:17,150
We can see the acceptance of the discussion that we have to stop the past time.

1454
01:55:17,430 --> 01:55:20,990
We can see the four or religious bodies, right?

1455
01:55:21,050 --> 01:55:21,730
We can see that.

1456
01:55:23,370 --> 01:55:23,710
Okay.

1457
01:55:25,990 --> 01:55:27,370
It's a bit.

1458
01:55:37,620 --> 01:55:41,860
I say we just vote on the current motion.

1459
01:55:43,600 --> 01:55:48,360
And then if we need to do executive session after that, we can continue the executive

1460
01:55:48,360 --> 01:55:54,080
session from D1 after the vote, maybe as simple as possible.

1461
01:55:54,560 --> 01:55:55,400
Point of order, Mayor.

1462
01:55:55,920 --> 01:55:59,860
The last discussion we have before the 10-minute break was that the Councilwoman from District

1463
01:55:59,860 --> 01:56:05,100
to want it to hear Councilman reads thoughts.

1464
01:56:06,400 --> 01:56:08,580
And my thoughts are, we go to the vote.

1465
01:56:12,580 --> 01:56:13,340
Calling a question.

1466
01:56:13,640 --> 01:56:14,320
Thank you.

1467
01:56:16,880 --> 01:56:17,940
It ends the discussion.

1468
01:56:19,240 --> 01:56:21,920
Calling a question is effectively a motion to end debate.

1469
01:56:22,640 --> 01:56:24,880
When someone calls a question and makes that motion,

1470
01:56:24,920 --> 01:56:28,880
it has to be seconded and voted on by two thirds of majority under

1471
01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:30,020
Robert Schwell.

1472
01:56:32,670 --> 01:56:33,150
Thanks, David.

1473
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:39,800
I believe there was a motion and a second.

1474
01:56:41,380 --> 01:56:42,960
And then there was discussion.

1475
01:56:43,980 --> 01:56:49,360
And now I believe Councilman Reed is wanting that to go to a vote as he called the

1476
01:56:49,360 --> 01:56:49,980
Councilman.

1477
01:56:50,020 --> 01:56:50,720
He called the question.

1478
01:56:50,960 --> 01:56:51,860
There's been a motion.

1479
01:56:52,000 --> 01:56:53,800
The motion has been seconded.

1480
01:56:54,360 --> 01:56:57,640
In lieu of debate, the Councilman Reed has called.

1481
01:56:57,780 --> 01:56:58,080
Yes.

1482
01:56:58,720 --> 01:57:00,300
He's actually a motion to end debate.

1483
01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:02,180
I understand that.

1484
01:57:02,180 --> 01:57:03,440
That has to be seconded.

1485
01:57:03,620 --> 01:57:03,960
And it has to be seconded.

1486
01:57:03,960 --> 01:57:05,860
I seconded to end the debate.

1487
01:57:07,620 --> 01:57:09,640
It requires the two-thirds majority button.

1488
01:57:10,100 --> 01:57:12,080
All in favor of ending the discussion.

1489
01:57:22,150 --> 01:57:24,470
So we're voting to end discussion, correct?

1490
01:57:26,880 --> 01:57:27,520
This is just the end.

1491
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:29,780
Voting to end the discussion.

1492
01:57:47,190 --> 01:57:47,190
It

1493
01:57:52,060 --> 01:57:54,300
does not pass.

1494
01:57:55,920 --> 01:57:57,060
So we're now we're back.

1495
01:57:57,600 --> 01:57:58,820
So the motion on the thing.

1496
01:57:59,260 --> 01:58:01,620
So the motion does not pass the end discussion.

1497
01:58:02,040 --> 01:58:04,620
So we are back on discussion.

1498
01:58:06,280 --> 01:58:07,300
Councilman Neil.

1499
01:58:07,840 --> 01:58:08,040
Did you?

1500
01:58:08,720 --> 01:58:09,040
Yes.

1501
01:58:09,040 --> 01:58:17,120
I did want to make a few comments regarding the motion earlier tonight we were in an executive

1502
01:58:17,120 --> 01:58:25,720
session and there were some items and issues discussed during that time that I feel need

1503
01:58:25,720 --> 01:58:28,980
additional time for any possible resolution.

1504
01:58:31,600 --> 01:58:38,300
So I'm trying to amend this motion in such that we can allow more time for those concerns

1505
01:58:38,300 --> 01:58:43,720
that were presented to be addressed and resolved, and if they're not resolved in a three or four

1506
01:58:43,720 --> 01:58:51,260
month period, then I think we should reconsider this item. That's one comment. The second thing

1507
01:58:51,260 --> 01:58:56,940
I just like to make note and go on record and express my objections to the conversations that

1508
01:58:56,940 --> 01:59:00,400
were occurring during the break time regarding this issue.

1509
01:59:09,180 --> 01:59:14,140
Mayor, I would like to just let all of our

1510
01:59:14,140 --> 01:59:16,760
and it's no exactly what is going on,

1511
01:59:18,860 --> 01:59:23,360
there was an email that Councilwoman from District 2

1512
01:59:23,360 --> 01:59:32,100
sent out, and you, nor Councilman, Neil, nor I were privy to see it until this evening

1513
01:59:32,100 --> 01:59:41,140
with 15 points indicating why the Councilwoman from District 2 would like to have, you know,

1514
01:59:41,140 --> 01:59:48,080
make changes. I just want to point out very clearly and even though it is upsetting, it is

1515
01:59:48,080 --> 01:59:54,340
upsetting to me too, to say that there is a shadow government. This is another instance

1516
01:59:54,340 --> 01:59:58,260
of the power of three, this is the voting majority.

1517
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:04,460
I don't know whether or not this is illegal, but certainly I believe that this is unethical.

1518
02:00:04,900 --> 02:00:11,860
I don't think that it's appropriate for a bolding majority to be able to submit points without

1519
02:00:11,860 --> 02:00:19,630
the rest of the council being made aware of things in any job, in any job.

1520
02:00:20,990 --> 02:00:24,630
You would give someone an opportunity to make any corrections if there were any corrections

1521
02:00:24,630 --> 02:00:36,490
to be made and I feel very strongly that this is inappropriate and that this should more than

1522
02:00:36,490 --> 02:00:40,110
be tabled I think it should be dismissed but at the very least it should be tabled for four

1523
02:00:40,110 --> 02:00:40,590
months.

1524
02:00:44,790 --> 02:00:50,910
I'd like to remind the Councilwoman that there's been a couple of occasions when she wanted

1525
02:00:50,910 --> 02:01:00,190
participate or did participate in, as we call, the power of three, when the topic was in alignment

1526
02:01:01,010 --> 02:01:07,130
with what she wanted to see happen. But now that it's something that's not in alignment

1527
02:01:07,130 --> 02:01:09,370
with what she wants to see happen.

1528
02:01:09,890 --> 02:01:13,950
I'd like to call a point of voider here. It's off topic from this motion.

1529
02:01:14,730 --> 02:01:18,610
I disagree. I'm responding to the comments that were made.

1530
02:01:23,740 --> 02:01:27,000
Councilman, I'm going ahead and finish your point.

1531
02:01:27,040 --> 02:01:32,440
Thank you. Thanks. So I just wanted to bring that up.

1532
02:01:32,800 --> 02:01:40,300
So now, at this point, I have no more nothing to discuss regarding the motion.

1533
02:01:40,600 --> 02:01:41,520
Vote on motion.

1534
02:01:42,220 --> 02:01:46,360
I just have a comment to what Mr. Niel said over there.

1535
02:01:47,400 --> 02:01:50,200
Some of these concerns are concerns that have happened.

1536
02:01:50,600 --> 02:01:51,640
It's been a buildup.

1537
02:01:51,960 --> 02:01:55,700
It's not a random, I think I'm going to type up an email today.

1538
02:01:57,880 --> 02:02:01,740
And you won't know because we can't speak to more than three people.

1539
02:02:02,900 --> 02:02:04,800
So you're not going to know that you're not going to have that email.

1540
02:02:05,940 --> 02:02:10,120
Again, but this shadow government that we're in, you know, that's what we like to do.

1541
02:02:12,780 --> 02:02:19,100
If I'm just trying to offer an opportunity for this council to have some time to work through those issues,

1542
02:02:19,280 --> 02:02:22,420
I realize there may have been some concerns here recently.

1543
02:02:22,880 --> 02:02:29,980
I'm just trying to give us some additional time here before we move into something as drastic as this might be.

1544
02:02:30,280 --> 02:02:30,920
That's all.

1545
02:02:31,820 --> 02:02:41,780
I would like to ask the Council to consider allowing some time.

1546
02:02:42,040 --> 02:02:46,080
Ladies and gentlemen, this Council has a number of issues.

1547
02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:49,440
We have, it's no secret.

1548
02:02:50,580 --> 02:02:52,800
And I don't want this necessarily come out tonight,

1549
02:02:53,800 --> 02:02:57,020
but there is dysfunction on the Council.

1550
02:02:57,020 --> 02:03:10,040
And while we are trying to get to a better place, I believe it's important that we do have the benefit of a knowledgeable and experienced city attorney.

1551
02:03:10,980 --> 02:03:15,050
Does everybody do anything perfect? I certainly do not.

1552
02:03:18,910 --> 02:03:25,050
I think having a cooling off period would be beneficial to the city.

1553
02:03:27,450 --> 02:03:35,050
There is tremendous amount of institutional knowledge that is maintained by the law firm that is represented as,

1554
02:03:35,050 --> 02:03:43,330
I don't know, I'm the years, and I would just like to ask the Council to consider

1555
02:03:44,050 --> 02:03:51,890
tabling this issue as Councilman Neal suggested for four months since we just got a letter

1556
02:03:51,890 --> 02:04:01,090
or a copy of what are our issues, and there may be some that are of merit, and there may be some

1557
02:04:01,090 --> 02:04:10,730
that are just a singular nature to one person, but let us have the opportunity to do a deeper

1558
02:04:10,730 --> 02:04:20,570
dive and review them. And at the same time, work towards what we are hiring a consultant

1559
02:04:20,570 --> 02:04:29,130
to try to help us with, which is to get back on track so folks can have respectful dialogue

1560
02:04:29,130 --> 02:04:39,350
without possible violence, have a meaningful discussion and take care of the business of moving

1561
02:04:39,350 --> 02:04:44,390
the city forward instead of the infighting that has been going on on the council.

1562
02:04:46,210 --> 02:04:59,790
Everybody shares in it, and we should all be working to try to end it, and I hope that

1563
02:04:59,790 --> 02:04:59,930
Look.

1564
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:12,920
Consider that in your vote because the alternative is putting the city in a very precarious position. You don't just replace a city attorney overnight.

1565
02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:28,420
So I would like to see us do what we're supposed to do, which is to work through issues and have constructive dialogue to get us to a better point.

1566
02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:31,760
Thank

1567
02:05:34,700 --> 02:05:35,300
you.

1568
02:05:35,580 --> 02:05:39,740
So, with that entertain emotion, we have emotion.

1569
02:05:40,740 --> 02:05:41,440
Second date.

1570
02:05:41,660 --> 02:05:41,760
I can.

1571
02:05:42,740 --> 02:05:43,140
Okay.

1572
02:05:43,680 --> 02:05:44,920
So, we have emotion second.

1573
02:05:45,280 --> 02:05:46,400
Any more discussion?

1574
02:05:47,460 --> 02:05:49,260
I just want to make one final comment.

1575
02:05:49,500 --> 02:05:55,900
We are here as city council persons to do what is in the best interest of the city.

1576
02:05:56,560 --> 02:05:57,980
Not our own best interest.

1577
02:05:57,980 --> 02:06:03,680
not the interest of, you know, my best friend, what is in the best interest of the city.

1578
02:06:04,660 --> 02:06:11,120
And the institutional knowledge that we have, the word has gotten out about city of Farmers

1579
02:06:11,120 --> 02:06:11,500
Branch.

1580
02:06:12,000 --> 02:06:19,420
And I do not see how we are going to be able to hire some wood as competent as a David

1581
02:06:19,420 --> 02:06:24,000
Berman and his firm based on what has been going on here.

1582
02:06:24,140 --> 02:06:26,900
No one is going to come to work here.

1583
02:06:28,630 --> 02:06:31,430
Thank you. Any other comments?

1584
02:06:33,450 --> 02:06:35,130
All right, we do have a motion and second.

1585
02:06:35,210 --> 02:06:36,530
I was going to make the comment.

1586
02:06:36,810 --> 02:06:40,630
It is so easy to say that you want to table this when he has been

1587
02:06:41,630 --> 02:06:43,890
answering your emails and answering your phone calls.

1588
02:06:44,010 --> 02:06:45,630
But when I'm not getting a response back,

1589
02:06:46,830 --> 02:06:47,730
I should just let it go.

1590
02:06:48,030 --> 02:06:49,470
And be like, oh, I'm sorry, he forgot.

1591
02:06:49,690 --> 02:06:52,250
But when he's taking me off emails instead of answering me,

1592
02:06:53,590 --> 02:06:55,330
that's not what our city is paying for.

1593
02:06:55,330 --> 02:07:09,550
He is all of our attorney, not just you two, and when our residents are going on social media and posting comments that they can tell that our city attorney is not giving us good legal advice

1594
02:07:10,290 --> 02:07:12,350
That is not what our residents are paying for

1595
02:07:13,730 --> 02:07:19,830
Council when I would remind you our residents are not city attorneys and many most of them don't know the law

1596
02:07:19,830 --> 02:07:34,410
I, the City Attorney serves all the Council and I believe he acknowledged earlier that if he did not respond to you, he apologized for that, but the City Attorney doesn't

1597
02:07:34,410 --> 02:07:39,410
to preserve me or anybody else that I know of.

1598
02:07:40,590 --> 02:07:45,190
There are people that have made inquiries to the attorney

1599
02:07:46,100 --> 02:07:48,370
and probably some more than others.

1600
02:07:49,690 --> 02:07:53,370
We thought that we had corrected this situation once before

1601
02:07:54,410 --> 02:07:57,250
when Nicole Carr was here.

1602
02:07:57,850 --> 02:08:01,690
And because we did have a bad situation with the city

1603
02:08:01,690 --> 02:08:12,990
attorney at that time. But I think this council needs to remember at one time they voted

1604
02:08:13,590 --> 02:08:21,650
and agree to work all issues first through the city manager. That is our employee. And

1605
02:08:21,650 --> 02:08:26,670
then if it needs to be escalated to the next level, then things could go to the city attorney.

1606
02:08:26,670 --> 02:08:34,870
City Attorney's already said you could call them any time you want, but I think that's part of the problem is we need to make sure

1607
02:08:34,870 --> 02:08:39,770
or contractors have lives and can live their life also.

1608
02:08:40,270 --> 02:08:49,730
So again, I'm asking you for consideration, so we can have a time, a period of cooling off.

1609
02:08:50,450 --> 02:08:56,430
And I don't believe that's unreasonable to ask in this situation.

1610
02:08:59,710 --> 02:09:01,630
So, we do have a motion.

1611
02:09:02,590 --> 02:09:03,790
Just the final comment.

1612
02:09:04,150 --> 02:09:06,090
I've made a call to Mr. Burman last week.

1613
02:09:06,310 --> 02:09:09,530
He hasn't returned my call yet, but he doesn't serve just me.

1614
02:09:09,610 --> 02:09:11,330
And that's not a reason to fire somebody.

1615
02:09:11,570 --> 02:09:13,130
We have to give people grace.

1616
02:09:15,030 --> 02:09:24,150
So, with that motion, seconded, if you would please indicate you're about

1617
02:09:33,560 --> 02:09:35,860
motion does not pass.

1618
02:09:36,380 --> 02:09:41,620
Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we reopen to take a decision item, do you

1619
02:09:45,720 --> 02:09:49,040
want to take care of the first two citizen events?

1620
02:09:49,040 --> 02:09:49,960
first,

1621
02:09:53,200 --> 02:09:57,580
that way we can J5 and Anne.

1622
02:10:02,440 --> 02:10:12,820
So I'll make a motion that we entertain J5 and J2 prior to re-entering executive session.

1623
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:23,020
All right. So we will continue at the moment. Oh, yeah, we do.

1624
02:10:23,020 --> 02:10:28,680
sort of second okay all in favor of moving forward with

1625
02:10:31,100 --> 02:10:33,080
J5 and J2.

1626
02:10:35,060 --> 02:10:39,220
Mayor could you repeat the motion please motion is to move forward with

1627
02:10:42,040 --> 02:10:47,780
items J5 and J2 first before we have executive session then we'll come back to executive session last.

1628
02:10:47,780 --> 02:10:48,400
And

1629
02:10:59,720 --> 02:11:01,440
we just do show hangouts.

1630
02:11:13,580 --> 02:11:14,100
All right.

1631
02:11:14,560 --> 02:11:19,660
So, because this is simply changing the order of the agenda and re-opping and adding

1632
02:11:19,660 --> 02:11:24,180
that we've already talked about, the mayor can make the judgment call again.

1633
02:11:24,740 --> 02:11:30,040
And tell you all that we're doing it, subject to a point of order, to reject the

1634
02:11:30,040 --> 02:11:31,280
proposals that he's making.

1635
02:11:31,680 --> 02:11:32,940
So, we don't really need a motion.

1636
02:11:33,260 --> 02:11:33,880
You can't if you want.

1637
02:11:34,420 --> 02:11:38,120
But if the mayor wants to do it, then y'all can call a point of order and

1638
02:11:38,120 --> 02:11:41,120
Jack, otherwise we're going to do it.

1639
02:11:41,880 --> 02:11:42,200
I understand.

1640
02:11:44,120 --> 02:11:45,120
We're going to.

1641
02:11:45,720 --> 02:11:46,640
Otherwise we're going.

1642
02:11:47,200 --> 02:11:48,540
So I'm a border to.

1643
02:11:48,780 --> 02:11:50,000
No, I'm going to.

1644
02:11:50,000 --> 02:11:51,400
I think Council Member Reap.

1645
02:11:51,420 --> 02:11:52,540
Deputy Mayor.

1646
02:11:52,540 --> 02:11:57,080
Bearer Potem is recommending to the mayor that we reconvene or reopen the executive session.

1647
02:11:58,340 --> 02:12:01,160
But before we reopen the executive session, I believe.

1648
02:12:01,400 --> 02:12:03,380
And you've got to say that this is okay.

1649
02:12:04,440 --> 02:12:07,260
We're also going to discuss, as a prerequisite,

1650
02:12:09,380 --> 02:12:09,420
the

1651
02:12:09,420 --> 02:12:12,140
consent agenda items that were moved into open session.

1652
02:12:13,040 --> 02:12:16,620
That is, of course, subject to a point of order, but in the council member who

1653
02:12:16,620 --> 02:12:17,080
checks.

1654
02:12:18,620 --> 02:12:18,840
Yes.

1655
02:12:20,200 --> 02:12:23,380
So, if we want to go to the executive session, I'm happy to do that.

1656
02:12:23,380 --> 02:12:26,960
But I would like to have the two consent agenda items that were moved to

1657
02:12:26,960 --> 02:12:31,420
regular agenda first, that way, as a courtesy to our audience.

1658
02:12:31,420 --> 02:12:32,840
All right.

1659
02:12:36,270 --> 02:12:47,800
Good with that. Okay. So first step is item J5, which is consider approving

1660
02:12:47,800 --> 02:12:52,720
resolution 2026-100 authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with the American

1661
02:12:52,720 --> 02:12:57,900
Traffic Construction LLC for construction of a value lane and Mercer Parkway Intersection

1662
02:12:57,900 --> 02:13:02,440
Improvements in the amount of 226,004 dollars and take appropriate action.

1663
02:13:03,360 --> 02:13:05,780
Good afternoon, Mayor Council.

1664
02:13:06,200 --> 02:13:07,480
Has everyone done this afternoon.

1665
02:13:08,180 --> 02:13:10,240
My name is Corey Lawson, Public Works Director.

1666
02:13:11,040 --> 02:13:15,440
I would like to have the present, the construction of

1667
02:13:15,440 --> 02:13:18,860
value, Mercer Parkway for your consideration.

1668
02:13:21,980 --> 02:13:27,660
As you know, Council in 2023 directed staff to engage with

1669
02:13:27,660 --> 02:13:31,420
TechStot, to try to find funding for this project.

1670
02:13:31,420 --> 02:13:35,040
Tech startups are currently approved that funding.

1671
02:13:36,240 --> 02:13:47,020
In 2024, I mean staff re-engage council to get a contract with Kim on the Horn, which we did.

1672
02:13:49,060 --> 02:13:54,600
After we completed that design, took it out to bid.

1673
02:13:54,600 --> 02:14:09,720
We got six beards and the lowest responsive bidder was American traffic construction LLC in the amount of 226,000 1,03.50.

1674
02:14:11,240 --> 02:14:13,340
We took that information back to text.

1675
02:14:13,340 --> 02:14:23,540
not make sure they concur with the contractor and they did it, and with that, that brings

1676
02:14:23,540 --> 02:14:29,620
us to today, re-engaging council to see if we can move forward with construction, with

1677
02:14:29,620 --> 02:14:31,700
that specific contractor.

1678
02:14:32,400 --> 02:14:39,300
What this construction will do, it will enhance our pedestrian safety in that area.

1679
02:14:39,300 --> 02:14:50,300
It will actually move forward with all the enhancements of a pedestrian crosswalk.

1680
02:14:50,440 --> 02:14:59,760
I'll traffic improvements, some ADA ramps, enhance track, I mean pedestrian movement.

1681
02:15:00,080 --> 02:15:14,180
Go in East and West, in addition to North and South, which will connect the trail to the preserve for pedestrians.

1682
02:15:16,720 --> 02:15:19,760
And with that, I will take any questions from council.

1683
02:15:19,980 --> 02:15:23,280
Thank you. Councilman Neil, you would ask for this.

1684
02:15:23,280 --> 02:15:23,480
Where?

1685
02:15:24,840 --> 02:15:25,880
Oh, Councilman Reed.

1686
02:15:26,060 --> 02:15:26,280
I'm sorry.

1687
02:15:27,500 --> 02:15:28,300
Thank you very much.

1688
02:15:28,420 --> 02:15:29,440
I appreciate that.

1689
02:15:29,800 --> 02:15:33,540
My primary reason for taking it off consent agenda.

1690
02:15:34,040 --> 02:15:41,380
I just want people to know those at home or who will view the recording or hearing

1691
02:15:41,380 --> 02:15:48,220
the audience just to realize what it was where enhancing the intersection of value and

1692
02:15:48,220 --> 02:15:54,840
Mercer, like you said, too, because we have that walk that's currently under construction

1693
02:15:55,420 --> 02:15:58,460
and connecting that to the nature preserve.

1694
02:15:58,700 --> 02:16:06,460
So I just wanted to let folks know exactly what the project was, why we're doing it, and

1695
02:16:07,740 --> 02:16:08,860
that's it?

1696
02:16:09,040 --> 02:16:09,040
Yes,

1697
02:16:11,190 --> 02:16:11,190
sir.

1698
02:16:11,230 --> 02:16:12,830
Any other comments, questions?

1699
02:16:13,590 --> 02:16:14,930
Okay, this item is from our fraction.

1700
02:16:14,930 --> 02:16:19,930
Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve item R2026-1000.

1701
02:16:23,970 --> 02:16:24,630
I'll second.

1702
02:16:24,950 --> 02:16:26,470
The motion is second if you would.

1703
02:16:26,690 --> 02:16:27,950
Please indicate your vote.

1704
02:16:36,540 --> 02:16:37,200
Motion passes.

1705
02:16:37,520 --> 02:16:38,300
Thank you.

1706
02:16:39,140 --> 02:16:41,160
Next up is item J2.

1707
02:16:42,240 --> 02:16:47,340
Consider adopting ordinance number 4013 authorizing an amendment to the city's code of ordinances.

1708
02:16:47,680 --> 02:16:52,500
Related to parking regulations for oversized vehicles in residential areas and take

1709
02:17:01,200 --> 02:17:04,000
Good evening, Mayor Council members.

1710
02:17:04,440 --> 02:17:07,820
My name is Tara Bradley, with Community Service in the Plan Department.

1711
02:17:08,580 --> 02:17:12,080
And also for this item tonight, I will have our Code Enforcement Manager,

1712
02:17:12,960 --> 02:17:14,520
with Community Service Berry.

1713
02:17:15,260 --> 02:17:19,440
Boyd with me as well to address any additional questions you may have.

1714
02:17:20,000 --> 02:17:25,000
But for tonight, we're bringing this item back for ordinance 4013.

1715
02:17:25,400 --> 02:17:29,520
We did review this through a study session on August 18.

1716
02:17:29,520 --> 02:17:34,700
And so this evening we are bringing back forward the ordinance for approval.

1717
02:17:35,700 --> 02:17:43,180
Just to provide this overview of last time, it did provide the definition of what a oversized vehicle will be,

1718
02:17:43,320 --> 02:17:46,520
and also will in tail.

1719
02:17:49,980 --> 02:17:58,460
The proposed amendments for these issues prohibiting oversized vehicles over eight feet with or 21 feet in length

1720
02:17:58,460 --> 02:18:04,960
on residential property, unless fully screened inside a rear yard, and then also prohibiting vehicles

1721
02:18:04,960 --> 02:18:12,380
that exceed 10,000 pound towing capacity, or gross vehicle weight, rating excluding non-commercial

1722
02:18:12,380 --> 02:18:18,340
vehicles, and providing also a 12 month grace period to allow residents to comply with this item.

1723
02:18:19,740 --> 02:18:27,660
So also with this last meeting, it was as of home-based businesses would not be able to

1724
02:18:28,460 --> 02:18:34,280
would not comply with this, they will be able to comply as long as they meet the requirements within this code as well.

1725
02:18:35,020 --> 02:18:42,160
So tonight, if approve, staff will distribute updated regulations through multiple communication channels

1726
02:18:42,160 --> 02:18:48,020
and code enforcement division will work directly with residents throughout the 12 month grace period to educate

1727
02:18:48,020 --> 02:18:52,660
monitor oversized vehicles, parking and support compliance.

1728
02:18:52,660 --> 02:19:05,740
So, at this time, it's on the table for adoption of this ordinance and staff is available to answer any questions you have.

1729
02:19:08,180 --> 02:19:10,980
Very good. Thank you. Councilwoman, goodziles.

1730
02:19:12,420 --> 02:19:13,680
I was in it.

1731
02:19:14,360 --> 02:19:15,960
That's okay. I'd like to hear from Council.

1732
02:19:16,220 --> 02:19:18,240
Okay. Councilwoman.

1733
02:19:19,490 --> 02:19:30,410
So last time we actually asked if before you brought it back, you could have some ideas on how you were going to be able to help the residents before this was implemented.

1734
02:19:31,370 --> 02:19:34,290
So if you guys done any research into that.

1735
02:19:34,530 --> 02:19:44,070
The research into it through this process, it could be opportunity to hear what residents may need assistance with to make sure that we're meeting their needs.

1736
02:19:44,790 --> 02:19:57,110
Within this there was not exactly items that we have been able to research within the time period time frame of prior to to make a confirmation of what needs to be done.

1737
02:19:57,950 --> 02:19:58,390
Okay.

1738
02:20:00,210 --> 02:20:13,690
Is it in accordance with the state law? I mean, the eight foot, the eight and a half foot. That one, I would need to do a little bit more research on that. Right now, the code speaks to farmers branch, but we don't supersede state law.

1739
02:20:14,370 --> 02:20:17,360
Not this, I know, whichever one is stricter.

1740
02:20:19,290 --> 02:20:28,110
All right. The reason I asked for it to be pulled was very specifically, I wanted to know if you guys had done any research.

1741
02:20:28,110 --> 02:20:35,190
asked of what had been requested for actually helping the residents, because we are an older

1742
02:20:35,190 --> 02:20:40,810
community. They don't have access to their, you know, there's not really alleys, there's

1743
02:20:40,810 --> 02:20:47,190
the side yards or minimal. So I understand the need for it. I do, but how are you going

1744
02:20:47,190 --> 02:20:53,130
to help them before we punish them? And I know we promised a 12-month grace period that 12

1745
02:20:53,130 --> 02:21:02,570
months from when, and so my experience, or years here, in 12 months, are we going to be scrambling

1746
02:21:02,570 --> 02:21:09,990
to figure that component out before we vote on that, you know, kind of like with the garage

1747
02:21:09,990 --> 02:21:14,610
conversion, you know, how that kept moving on because we hadn't helped people, we hadn't,

1748
02:21:14,610 --> 02:21:20,470
I don't know, communicated, whatever, and I know that we had, I know that staff had, it's just,

1749
02:21:20,470 --> 02:21:29,250
Now, instead of finding us at the end of the road pivoting, I wanted it to be more clear on the front end, correct, okay?

1750
02:21:29,730 --> 02:21:30,310
That was all.

1751
02:21:30,370 --> 02:21:31,530
Thank you.

1752
02:21:34,970 --> 02:21:35,330
Councillor Stroudini.

1753
02:21:42,060 --> 02:21:45,040
Well, I wanted to hear from my colleagues here on council.

1754
02:21:45,900 --> 02:21:47,360
First, do you have any thoughts?

1755
02:21:50,960 --> 02:21:58,200
Well, for me, as it was pointed out earlier, we've been kicking this can down the road for four and a half years.

1756
02:21:58,200 --> 02:22:05,320
We've got something in front of us that's functional, is it perfect, no,

1757
02:22:07,360 --> 02:22:10,580
but with 12 months

1758
02:22:10,580 --> 02:22:18,920
of lead time, we can make adjustments as they come up.

1759
02:22:18,920 --> 02:22:36,220
So my consideration would be to move forward with it, take feedback that was provided earlier from others and see what we can do to incorporate it as a

1760
02:22:36,220 --> 02:22:41,960
almost like a dynamic ordinance until we finish up the 12 months.

1761
02:22:44,430 --> 02:22:45,830
one, be abroken?

1762
02:22:48,200 --> 02:22:49,320
No additional questions.

1763
02:22:49,660 --> 02:22:50,580
Thank you.

1764
02:22:51,980 --> 02:22:52,420
Councillor Neon.

1765
02:22:53,340 --> 02:22:55,880
Just for clarification, this is,

1766
02:22:56,400 --> 02:22:57,040
how seven?

1767
02:22:59,560 --> 02:23:05,080
This is item J two which is L-8.

1768
02:23:05,140 --> 02:23:06,160
Tell eight, okay.

1769
02:23:07,100 --> 02:23:07,440
Yeah, no.

1770
02:23:08,600 --> 02:23:11,440
I would go to a court with Councillor Otis.

1771
02:23:12,460 --> 02:23:18,540
We've, this has been under discussion for many years, we've had multiple hurt, at least

1772
02:23:18,540 --> 02:23:25,020
the task force, city staff has worked on it over and over repeatedly, so I, and much

1773
02:23:26,420 --> 02:23:31,660
like the garage program, I think we gave that was a 12 months, and then we extended it

1774
02:23:31,660 --> 02:23:36,220
in another six months, and I wouldn't expect this to be any different than that, certainly

1775
02:23:36,220 --> 02:23:42,900
We may have to make some adjustments or additional help after the 12 months.

1776
02:23:43,080 --> 02:23:48,480
I don't know where that'll be, but I just think it might be worth moving forward here

1777
02:23:48,480 --> 02:23:49,680
with El Hate.

1778
02:23:51,240 --> 02:23:53,460
So with that, I would move to...

1779
02:23:53,460 --> 02:23:54,800
Sorry, can I make...

1780
02:23:54,800 --> 02:23:55,940
I didn't get to make my comments.

1781
02:23:56,300 --> 02:23:56,400
What?

1782
02:23:56,540 --> 02:23:57,020
I'm sorry.

1783
02:23:57,220 --> 02:23:57,840
No, it's okay.

1784
02:23:59,600 --> 02:24:03,200
Sorry, I passed it over to Tina, since she's the one that took it out from consent.

1785
02:24:04,380 --> 02:24:12,300
I also wanted to know, like the resident mentioned, about the state law, also about the vegetation

1786
02:24:12,300 --> 02:24:17,780
about how long you're going to give them for that to grow, and not because we're a shadow

1787
02:24:17,780 --> 02:24:24,280
government, but because we do have the two older neighborhoods, my concern is still, they

1788
02:24:24,280 --> 02:24:29,120
do not fit in our neighborhoods, but some residents still have them, you know, they need

1789
02:24:29,120 --> 02:24:29,640
it for work.

1790
02:24:29,640 --> 02:24:35,880
So I had asked if it was possible if they have a single driveway, can we at least ask them

1791
02:24:35,880 --> 02:24:41,600
to make it a double to reduce the amount of cars that they have on the street, if that's

1792
02:24:41,600 --> 02:24:47,800
a possibility, if we can find a little more common ground there for those our older neighborhood

1793
02:24:47,800 --> 02:24:52,960
that we have, then I'd be willing to move forward once we get more information on how to

1794
02:24:52,960 --> 02:24:53,560
help those residents.

1795
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:04,160
Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve ordinance 4013 as presented.

1796
02:25:06,180 --> 02:25:06,640
I second.

1797
02:25:06,860 --> 02:25:10,580
Thank you. I motion a second. If you would please indicate your vote.

1798
02:25:15,580 --> 02:25:18,640
Motion passes. Thank you.

1799
02:25:19,340 --> 02:25:30,340
With that, there was no action at an earlier executive session, but we are going to go back into executive session at this time.

1800
02:25:32,780 --> 02:25:36,500
So, we will recess to the city manager's conference room.

1801
02:25:55,010 --> 02:25:58,070
Can we hear back from executive session, thank you very much.

1802
02:25:59,390 --> 02:26:00,030
Councilwoman Bennett.

1803
02:26:01,550 --> 02:26:04,550
So, action taken out of executive section.

1804
02:26:04,730 --> 02:26:06,630
A session, I'm sorry, I'm so tired.

1805
02:26:07,230 --> 02:26:13,630
I'm directing the city manager to set expectations for the city attorney with the timeline to come back to city council in October.

1806
02:26:17,310 --> 02:26:17,430
Okay.

1807
02:26:18,290 --> 02:26:20,010
Thank you very much for that.

1808
02:26:21,670 --> 02:26:25,850
And then I'm making a motion, can I get a second?

1809
02:26:26,230 --> 02:26:26,330
Yes.

1810
02:26:26,470 --> 02:26:27,470
I'll second that motion.

1811
02:26:28,270 --> 02:26:29,130
Thank you.

1812
02:26:29,630 --> 02:26:30,930
We have motion in a second.

1813
02:26:33,290 --> 02:26:34,570
I don't think there's any other discussion.

1814
02:26:34,950 --> 02:26:37,450
So if you would please indicate your vote.

1815
02:27:01,020 --> 02:27:03,360
It was seconded by Councillor Neill.

1816
02:27:17,380 --> 02:27:18,540
Make sure you have the right motion on the screen.

1817
02:27:30,560 --> 02:27:31,040
Yeah.

1818
02:27:35,550 --> 02:27:39,310
Council, if we can get a show of hands, please, all in favor of the motion of the

1819
02:27:39,310 --> 02:27:40,510
raise hands.

1820
02:27:41,930 --> 02:27:42,910
All opposed.

1821
02:27:44,370 --> 02:27:45,690
Motion passes for the one.

1822
02:27:45,830 --> 02:27:46,910
Thank you very much.

1823
02:27:50,450 --> 02:27:56,330
I'd like to make a motion to table L5 due to the action taken out of direct executive

1824
02:27:56,860 --> 02:27:57,130
session.

1825
02:27:57,770 --> 02:27:58,430
I'll second.

1826
02:27:58,830 --> 02:28:01,430
The motion is second by Councilman Reed.

1827
02:28:03,740 --> 02:28:05,660
If you would please indicate your vote.

1828
02:28:16,350 --> 02:28:19,590
Motion passes for the one. Thank you very much.

1829
02:28:20,650 --> 02:28:24,050
Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to table L6 until January.

1830
02:28:26,600 --> 02:28:31,700
Second. Thank you. Motion and second. If you would please indicate your route.

1831
02:28:41,390 --> 02:28:43,770
Motion passes for the one. Thank you very much.

1832
02:28:44,370 --> 02:28:47,450
With that, I believe that concludes all of our business for this evening.

1833
02:28:48,450 --> 02:28:51,230
So we will adjourn at 9.22. Thank you very much.