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May 4th. May the 4th be with you work session the garland city council. Before we begin

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our regular order today, we have several council members who are. It'll be their last

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work session with us council member, bass council member beard and council member

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williams and especially want to give. Well, give a word of thanks to all of you who I've

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served with, had a pleasure serving with and wish you the best going forward. Thank you

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so much for all of your service to the city. Thank you so much. And we also have one very

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important councilmember here, council member williams, who's served over well. He served 12

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years, that being six terms as city council member for district four. And we have a

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few speakers who are signed up. They want to speak and commemorate this, this moment.

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so, madam secretary, would you please call our first speaker who signed up for this? Yes,

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sir. Stephen mason. Anywhere you want. Yes, sir. It's o open. I'm up in personal. Fellow. You

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know, mayor, fellow council members. Good evening. It's good to be able to see all of

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you here today. I want to take a moment to be able to recognize a good friend of mine.

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I'll tell you. I served as the mayor of the city of cedar hill since 2019. But prior to that,

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consistently for the last 16 years, I have been serving on the city council in cedar hill.

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and I remember going back when I first came on in 2010, shortly within my within my

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first term, I had met council member bj williams. Good evening, sir. And bj was

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someone who was always warm, who always came to me and be able to give me some words of

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advice. You know, you know, your your counterpart. And he just, you know, just always

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gave me some words of wisdom. I remember even when he had termed out of his first cycle

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that he still was active with texas association of black city council members. And if you're

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not familiar with that organization, it is an affiliate of texas municipal

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league, tml and you know, we that's it gives us an opportunity for us to be able

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to try to come and educate, you know, elected officials and to be able to give them a platform

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if they need help with things like budget, or they have a question about how to be able

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to be a good council member. That's what that organization prides itself on. So council

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member williams has been involved with that organization, that affiliation, for quite some time. That's where we met. But even after he had finished his first term, he still stayed

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active. I don't have to tell you this, but he has been a good, you know, public servant.

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and I just want to be able to come and hopefully this is a surprise to you, sir, to see me

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here in your city, to be able to come and recognize you. So I do have a resolution here.

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please oblige me to go ahead and read this. Whereas cj member I'm sorry. Whereas

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council member bj williams has dedicated decades of service to the residents of garland and

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broader north texas community through exemplary leadership, civic engagement and public

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servant. Mr. Williams served first served on the garland city council from 2012 to 2018,

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and was again sworn into office in 2020, continuing his service through may 2026. Throughout

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his tenure, mr. Williams has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to improving

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infrastructure, strengthening the community partnerships, advocating for policies that

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enhance the quality of life of of residents. His service extends beyond elected official

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elected office, including his role on the garland planning commission from 2002 to 2008,

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where he has contributed to thoughtful planning and development efforts. Mr.

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williams has been a dedicated advocate for civil rights and community empowerment, serving

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as the president of the naacp garland unit from 1996 to 2010. His leadership has also been

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recognized at the state of national levels through his service on transportation

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infrastructure policy committee with the texas municipal league 2013 2014, and the

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transportation and infrastructure services committee with the national league of cities in 2014 through 2018, mr. Williams has remained actively engaged in

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his community through his faith and service as member of mount. And I can't say this name, is

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it? Pisgah missionary baptist church in rhardson, texas, and throughout his lifelong

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commitment as a member of omega psi phi fraternity, his legacy and leadership, mentorship, and

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service continues to inspire those who follow in his footsteps and reflect the

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highest ideals of public service. I resolve that I, steve mason, on behalf of the

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city council and the citizens of cedar hill, texas, do hereby recognize and commend council

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member bj williams for his outstanding service, leadership and unwavering dedication to

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his community. Signed on the fourth day of may 2026, mayor steve mason and it's signed as

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the tabccm past president. I'm not sure if you are aware, but andrea barefield the tabccm

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president. She won her reelection and she is now. As of saturday, the president

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elect of texas municipal league. So she is now to your mayor. So tmbccm since they regard the

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city of cedar hill, since they regard to tisha hill out of oak springs, your neighbor, she is

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going to walk k in through the door any minute now. But look, here's here's here it is from

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from our heart. We just want to be able to thank you for who you are. Thank you for your

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service. And we want to be able to give you your flowers. Thank you for what you have done in

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our community and support to bcm, but also what you have done here in garland. So I have

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this here for you, and I do want to give you your flowers, literally and figuratively.

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this is for you, sir. Mayor, do you mind? Please? No, please.

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thank you. Madam secretary. Do we have another speaker lined up? Yes, sir. Ronald e jones

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and ernst. Good.

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yeah. Honorable mayor. I usually give our speakers three minutes, but

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I will defer. You have as long as you need, sir. Please go right ahead. We're not going to

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deviate from protocol. The mayor, mayor, pro tem manager and members of the council. I

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come this evening representing the omega psi phi fraternity, particularly the theta alpha

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chapter, of which honorable bj williams is an outstanding member. The tentacles of his

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service and the reach of his impact is nationwide, as you know. Of course, I know him as

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a staff member of garland. I know him as the mayor of garland. He played a major role

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in my election all three times. He played a majajor role in counseling me as a staff person,

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but a lot of the history you may not be aware of. And thank you, councilman, more for

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inviting us by way of the mayor and the council. We appreciate that. Bj had a major impact in

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changing the structure of government in the city of garland, because we used to

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elect council people at large. He played a major role in. That led to the implementation of

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single member districts, and he insisted that it be done proper in order, without a lot of

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fanfare being all in the news and all of that. And we thank you for what you've done. But

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my sponsor in the omega psi phi fraternity, who would introduce other members who are with us,

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will do most of the talking. Bj was an individual that wrote a letter of recommendation that

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led to me being able to get through the first phase of being considered to be a member

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of the beloved omega psi phi fraternity. Brother ernest good. Will you introduce our other

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members who are with us and then comment on bj's impact? Good evening. My name is ernest

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good and I have known bj for over 50 years. Not only as an omega but as a neighbor. I live

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in mesquite on the hill and he lives down the hill in garland and I always tell him if it

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rain, if there's a flood, he can come into me my house. Because he won't. We won't get

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wet. But this afternoon, several brothers have shown come to show their support and

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their love for billy, terrence randall. Ben tubbs, brother patrick smith and patrick is a

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former district representative. The omega psi phi fraternity is a nationwide international

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fraternity, and the four districts that we are part of are texas, louisiana, arkansas

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and oklahoma. And patrick was a district representative for a couple of years, and I think I

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saw henry hammond's brother, hammond. Okay. And I think I think all of them live in

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mesquite and garland, with the exception of me and ben. Ben and I live in mesquite, but

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we've all known billy for a long time. Billy. Ronnie said that billy is a stalwart in our

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fraternity. When billy speaks, people listen. He's like the e.f. Hutton, because we know

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when billy gets up to say something, he has something to share based on his knowledge

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and his wisdom and just who he is. Not only have I known billy as a fraternity brother, but

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billy in his wife dorothy, and his daughterhonda. We've been friends ever since I've been in

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dallas. Our girls went to dance class together, so we just known billy for a long time.

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and I'm glad that billy had an opportunity to serve the city of garland because he is a

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servant. He's a servant leader. He's a dedicated person, as you all know. And we are just so

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pleased to have him in as a member of our fraternity. And we wouldn't miss this opportunity to come out and give him his flowers, because I believe that you should give

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people their flowers while they can smell them. I've had the opportunity to say a lot of

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times at funerals, things about people and but they couldn't hear a thing. I said, but billy,

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we love you and we respect you. And. And I'll say this, I'm glad that you're turning out so

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that you can rest a little bit because you can't do it all. You know, you have to know when

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to step down. And because of the way the city is structured, they tell you that you have to

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step down after a certain amount of time. And it's not because they don't want you,

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it's because they want somebody else to come in and try to fill your shoes. We love you, billy,

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and thank you very much, mayor hedrick and the rest of the city council for allowing us to

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come in and say these things about billy. All right. Thank you again, mayor. We appreciate

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it very much. Thank you betty. Love you man. Okay. Thank you so much, madam secretary. Is

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there anyone else signed to speak? Yes, sir. Ricky mcneil. Good evening, mr. Mayor. City

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council. Thank you guys so very, very much. The late congress lady eddie bernice johnson

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stated this several years ago. She said you can't serve without sacrificing. So the

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council, lady beard, my councilman, bass, councilman williams, thank you all for

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your service. Thank you for your sacrifice. Even though time away from family, time away from loved ones, we know it's costly, but thank you so much for your service.

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additionally, I want to say councilman williams, thank you. Some of you may remember the

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late entertainer and poet nipsey hussle. Nipsey hussle said, if you look in your

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circle and the people don't inspire you in your circle, you don't have a circle. You have a

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cage. Constable williams, thank you for being a part of this circle. Thank you for being a

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part of my circle. Thank you for being a part of the circle, for the city of garland and the

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north central texas area. Your inspiration, your courage, your convictions. They speak a lot.

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being from louisiana, you know I love you dearly for that in and of itself, however, but

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just for the way you carry yourself. We were mr. Mayor. We were in in houston several

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years ago, councilman williams and I, and it was about 1:00 in the morning and I was trying to

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go to bed. And he's over there making all kinds of noise. I'm like, what? This man, go to

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sleep. However, the last thing I remember him saying was, I sent you an email. Have you

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read it? Got up the next morning about six. Constable williams on the phone. Man, I

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sent you an email, have you read it? I'm like, bj, you nobody read an email at 530 in

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the morning. However, what that taught me though, as a young man as as he was mentoring me,

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was the fact that when you're committed, you have high expectations. Constable

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williams, thank you for high expectations. Thank you for being a person of integrity. And more importantly, thank you for inspiring the citizens of garland. Thank you sir. Madam

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secretary, do we have any other speakers? No, sir. Anyone else here who would like to speak?

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please come. Hello. Do I have to sit anywhere you like? Is the mic on? Okay? I'm

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councilwoman artificial hill out of the city of box springs. I've known mr. Williams for at

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least. Oh, jesus. 2016. And he's been an advocate for me. When I first came into office.

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I started in 2015. So he's always been there for me and helped guide me through my

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political career. We're going to miss you, but I'm still going to call you, and I just

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want to say thank you. And you deserve these flowers today. Thank you. Councilmember

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williams. I see you're in the queue, sir. Mr. Mayor, I, I wasn't going to say anything,

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but I just want to say that these my brothers, mayor, mayor jones, miss smith, ernest and

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the eternal mayor of city hill, all of you. My heart is is running over. You know, I sit

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here and I listen. But your words have reached. Areas that were unreachable three years

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ago, and you're sharing your caring. It brought me this far. And I want to say to each one

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of you, I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart, linda, I appreciate you from the

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bottom of my heart, all of you, ladies and gentlemen. So I just want to say for me to you,

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thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, mayor sir. All right. We will miss you, sir. Thank

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you. Thank you for all your service again to the city of garland. All right. We'll move

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on with our regular order here. First item is our public comments on our work session

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items. Madam secretary, do we have any speakers signed up for that portion? No, we do not.

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okay. We'll move on to consider this consent agenda. I haven't had a request to pull any items,

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but you'll have about 24 hours to do so. First item on written briefings is item number one

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head start of greater dallas lease agreement extension. Item number two is parking

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restrictions in downtown garland. Item number three is investment portfolio report.

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item four is amendments to the fireworks prohibited ordinance. Item number five is bottleneck

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improvements. Package number four right of way, an easement acquisitions update. Item

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number six is texas dmv motor vehicle crime prevention authority catalytic converter

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grant program application fiscal year 27. An item number seven is amendment ordinance

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26-02. See no questions. Then we'll move on to our verbal briefings. First item is item

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number eight, interstate highway 635 construction update. Good evening. Hello. All right.

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how's it look? Very good. All right. Got it. Mayor council, thank you for having me tonight.

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happy to be here to give an update on our lbj project. Hopefully you've noticed a

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little bit of progress since the last time I was here. But I want to start out with just our

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latest safety campaign. You all know that we lose ten people a day on our texas roadways due

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to various fatality accidents. And so we've changed our campaign a little bit. Right

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now it is drive like a texan. What that means is kind, courteous and safe. And so what

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we've reviewed when we're reviewing our fatality accidents is a lot of it is

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driver behavior. If we can try to change some of that driver behavior, we can make a big

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difference. Wearing your seatbelt every day is going to make a huge difference of the

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fatality accidents. Of those who are not wearing their seatbelts. We believe 90% of

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those could have been saved if they had just been wearing their seatbelts, not driving while intoxicated, putting down your cell phone. I'm guilty of it, too. Put down your cell

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phone while you're driving. So as you're talking to folks, if you can just help me spread

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that word, we are trying the best we can engineering wise to improve the accidents on the

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roadway. But also we need some help on the driver behavior. So if you can, please help in that

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regard. Now, getting into the lbj project overview, I think every one of you are very

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familiar with our project limits. We're rebuilding 635 from 75 to interstate 30. It's

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a $1.7 billion project. It's a joint venture between floor and balfour beatty. Just looking at

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the latest progress, we are getting very, very close to completion. If you've driven

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the corridor lately, which I would expect most of you have, we have five general purpose

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lanes open in each direction. Hopefully you've seen quite a bit of improvement along the

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main lanes, but this picture is looking at greenville avenue. Greenville avenue is open in

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its final configuration. If you can see the two bridges that kind of dive down into the

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middle of 635, that wiwill beur future toll manage express lanes, and that will connect to

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the 75 direct connectors. And so you'll have access from the 75 direct connectors down into

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the toll managed lanes in the middle of 635. The next picture is abrams road and forest lane.

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I know these are a little bit outside of the city limits, but it all feeds into to garland.

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but abrams and forest are both open in their final configuration, so that is the

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signal. Final signals are up. Everything is near completion there. We'll have a little bit

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of touch up throughout the process, but everything is is getting very close on those two

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intersections. Skillman avenue is also open in its final configuration. All the final

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signals are up. Everything is complete at that location. And you can see again, the general

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purpose lanes are open five lanes in each direction. You'll notice that we've got two toll

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managed lanes in the middle. Those are not open yet. I'll get to that here in just a

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second. But we are working on on the toll managed lanes. Now here's royal and miller. That

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one is also complete. You'll notice just outside of the frontage roads we've got some

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staging areas that we still need to clean up. That is on the list to do, but that will

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come a little bit later in the project. The goal is to get lanes open as fast as we can.

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here's plano road. It is open in its final configuration. Just a little bit of punch list.

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cleaning up various items there at plano. Kingsley is open in its final configuration as well.

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again, all the pavement markings are down, everything is open. You might see us doing

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a little bit of punch list activities along kingsley, but for the most part, that one's

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open. Jupiter, as of a few weeks ago, is open in its final configuration as well. Thank

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you for staff has been wonderful to work with, trying to figure out the fastest way

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we can build jupiter. There's a lot of traffic on jupiter. I'll also add the garland staff that

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works on the signals. Probably one of the best that we've worked with in our district. We

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work with a lot of city staff. They are top notch, they know their stuff, and they are very

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quick to help us out. Very much appreciative on that one. Here's garland road, excuse me.

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it is also open in its final configuration. You can see in this picture, I'm not sure if

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you can see my cursor. The exit to northwest highway was not open when this picture was

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taken. These pictures are as of april 21st. That has now been opened. We had some pavement

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repairs as you tie down to northwest highway that we needed to do, but that exit is

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now open so all the exits are open. Here is shiloh and northwest highway. I'll just

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remind you in the final configuration, the access to the managed lanes is from shiloh. So you'll see a lot of our work crews going into the manage lanes from that shiloh

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location. Soon we're going to have that open so you won't see the work crews at that location.

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but again, all the general purpose lanes are open. Now. We're just working on the

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middle to complete those toll managed lanes. So here's centerville and ferguson still

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completing the pavement work that should be done by the end of this month. And so they're

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working very hard to get all that done. You can see most of the pavements now. Now it's

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just cleaning up some curb and pavement markings at that location. So centerville is very, very close. Here is la prada. La prata, for the most part, is open to its final

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configuration. We have, if you can see my cursor, the southbound frontage road as you're coming from la prata to oats, that will be open by the end of this month as well. So

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right now they're just cleaning up this work and then their city work beyond our project

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limits. But for the most part, we are near completion on the prada. Here's oats and galloway

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oats should be open by the end of the month. Galloway is following following a little

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bit further behind. I've got it on a few slides, but that one will take us a few more months

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to get galloway over 635 complete, but it is nearing completion as well. Here it is

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just looking at the interchange. All the connectors are open, all the the general purpose

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lanes are open. You can see as north is actually to the bottom of the screen. That is the

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entrance to the future toll lane. We're still working on that location, just opening it

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up, but all the pavement is complete. And so now it's really just working on the

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managed lanes. Here's gus thomasson over interstate 30. That one's been done for a

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little bit. We're still working on punch list items, but for the most part, gus thomasson

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has been open here for quite a while. And then finally galloway over interstate 30, we

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are going to do a bridge overlay. There's some things that we want to clean up on

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that bridge. And so that is the last remaining work on galloway over interstate 30. We'll

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overlay that over a weekend just to have a nice clean surface there. As that

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construction has lingered and we've had to phase that bridge quite a bit. So looking at the

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quantities, I like to show this because it gives a good indication of progress. But you can see we are just about across the board on 99% complete. On most of the

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quantities. You'll see a little bit of barrier left to complete as well as riprap. That is

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really just the concrete that areas that are tough to mow or it's not going to get sun.

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that's what we where we put concrete riprap, if you will. So just looking at the bigger

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picture items, northwest highway, it should be open completely by the end of may.

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centerville open by the end of may, that southbound frontage road that we showed in the

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picture. End of may oats, end of may galloway over 635. That will be end of june. And then

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the toll managed lanes is going to take us until hopefully early august, potentially late

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june or late july to open that. So we're as you drive through, you'll see that we're putting

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all the transponders or the computer gadgets up on on the gantries. Right now, that work

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is actually all tied to the base camp, if you will, is in houston. And so we've got to

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make sure all the communications can go back to houston. That's where they they collect all the information for the tolling. That's where our contractor is based out of. So

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they are on site working on all of that, but they'll work on the algorithm to figure out

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what toll rate to set. And so that's a little bit of work left open, but our priority was

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making sure we opened up those general purpose lanes as quickly as we could. So right

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now, the schedule is showing the first week in august to open those toll managed lanes.

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and then you'll see us along the alignment through the end of fall, really just cleaning

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up various things going through. If there's something that we caught, some of the grass isn't

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growing, we're going to go and replace that grass. And so there will be various punch lists. We call it punch list items going through the fall. So you'll see our contractor on

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site through the fall. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Mayor pro tem luck,

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your first in the queue. I'm so excited that this is almost over. Are we going to have a

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party? Big ribbon cutting? We can plan something. Absolutely. Let's just shut down the

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highway and have a party on the highway for not to shut it down completely. But we can. We can

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definitely plan something. You guys have been great. You've been very patient. And so I definitely think there's something to celebrate that I do. I totally agree and it

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looks great. It's it's really nice to drive on a smooth, flat new road. How on those managed

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toll lanes, are there two lanes in each direction or just one? So we're going to open two

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lanes in each direction. The plan is we will only toll one direction. So if you remember

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we are grandfathered tolled managed lanes. Big discussion before we started. And so in

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the peak hour. So in the morning westbound will be told those two lanes, if you're

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driving eastbound, those lanes will be free. And so we'll switch it over from midnight to

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noon. And then from noon to midnight, eastbound will be told. So we're still honoring

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the two toll managed lanes. We're just trying to make it as efficient as possible. Great.

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how much longer are you going to need cement from the cement plant? They will be there

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through through the fall because they will be pouring concrete. But we will continue

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to push to get them to pack up and move out as quick as possible. Thank you. Yes. Thank

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you so much. Thank you. Thank you, madam councilmember bass. Thank you, thank you. Susan.

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it's nice to see you again. I appreciate all the information. So you mentioned the the

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managed toll lanes and an algorithm to come up with the pricing on that. My question on

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that is what is the objective of the toll lanes? What what is the objective of collecting the

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toll? Yeah, no, that's a great question. So it is really to guarantee to guarantee a travel

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time, if you will. And so the purpose of the toll managed lanes is you will be driving 50

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miles an hour in that toll managed lane. So if you've got a soccer game to make or you've

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got an appointment to make, we guarantee that you can get there in time and that toll

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rate will change based on the congestion just within the managed lanes, if you will. And

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so the more people that get in there, the higher the rate will be to try to make sure that we

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maintain that 50 mile per hour travel speed through the managed lanes. I appreciate

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that, that's a great explanation. I get asked that a lot. Why does it go up when

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traffic increases? So that's a great explanation. Thank you very much. Thank you mayor. Thank you sir, councilmember dutton. So you stay through fall. How much through fall are

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we? Are we looking. So I tend to sandbag. And so I would s that the last day of fall,

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which I think is december 20th, around that time frame. There you go. Now, if you're my staff,

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when I say fall, that means the first day of fall. But yeah, for you guys, I'm going to say

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the end. Hopefully it'll be very minimal impacts. We're not trying to continue to make a

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create a disturbance or anything like that, but there are going to be some slow items that we're trying to clean up and just make sure that we're we're leaving a good product.

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perfect. I do want to say thank you because from the last time that you were here, we were

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having a lot of issues with the cleanliness and just maintenance upkeep with the

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batch plant. And that has drastically improved. So I want to say thank you for that. And

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last time you were here, I told you I did not drive on your highways because I didn't want

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to die. But I will say I have driven on the new the new stretch through garland, and it

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actually feels so much safer. It it does not feel like you asked to go away tonight. So I

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do appreciate that. And I love the access road. Yes, all the way from. So you can go under

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30. I have a daughter that does not drive on the highway period. And so she depends on access

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roads. And so she was very excited to see the access road when she had to take me to town

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east to get dippin dots. So, so thank you. Thank you guys for all that you've been doing. And

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we're, we're excited to see this done. Very good. Thank you. And thank you for your patience.

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I know, I know it's been a lot on the entire council. We really appreciate I know you

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guys have all gotten questions from your constituents. Really appreciate the patience. Thank

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you, councilmember williams. Good evening. Thank you. I know thank you for all you've done.

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can you for for the benefit of those who may be watching or listening, the texas

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transportation commission had a huge role I getting this approved. Yes. Can you briefly

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talk about that a minute? So the project cost $1.7 billion, getting that money, getting

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that check written was a big. Big hurdle. I was one of the last members to testify at that

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hearing, and I didn't know coming driving back, I didn't know what that was going to

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look like, but it came through. So would y mind explaining to your audience? Yes. No. We had

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a lot of people drive down and make comments that are are tex dot tex dot is governed by a

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five member commission. And so they have a lot of discretionary funding that they

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will put towards projects. And so advocates like yourself driving down to austin making

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those comments, we were able to secure tex dot commission money as well as regional money. A

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project of this size does not get funded just by by one source. And so the tex dot

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commission funded it, provided funding for it, as well as the mpo funds, the local funds here

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in this region. And so without people going and speaking up, we probably wouldn't we'd

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probably still be working on. 635 and so our commission knew that this was a big project,

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huge bottleneck. We needed to address it. And that's why they put funding towards it. Right.

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well, I just want to say thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mayor sir. Councilmember

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thomas. Yes, thank you all. You've done very, very well done. Presentation, I might add.

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so and I want to about the bridge going across skillman councils, well aware that I use

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that bridge every thursday night or date night to get out of town. So I don't embarrass

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garland with my karaoke. But I'm curious about the arches over that particular stretch.

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and it seems to be the only one. And so is that decorative? Is there some structural reason

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that's there? Can you help me understand? Yeah. No, it's definitely a structural reason.

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excuse me. At the time when we we designed skillman, that was actually going to be a separate

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project. We were going to build that separately before the the rest of funding for 635 came

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through, but we did not think we could fit supports underneath it. So as you're

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driving underneath skillman, there is not a center support. Every other bridge actually has

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a support underneath it. So as you drive underneath royal, you'll see columns underneath

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kind of a mid span supporting that bridge. So with skillman as a breakout project, before

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we started construction, we didn't know what we would do with the main lanes because we

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were simply just going to build the skillman bridge. And so it was important not to have that

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center support. So those arches are actually carrying the load for the bridge deck. And so

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that's why it was it was an arch. Okay, that makes perfect sense. I just was curious as to

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why that that was the only one. It's just timing of the reason. Exactly. Yes. That once we knew

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that we were going to build the 635 main lanes, we could phase the project to make sure that

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we had the center supports on the other bridges. Okay. Very good. That makes perfect sense.

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thank you so much. Thanks for the great presentation. Thank you. Looking forward to you getting to the end. Yes. We're close. So will you be back to wrap us up here the first day

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of winter? Absolutely. I'd be happy to come back and hopefully update you on a few

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other garland projects, because this isn't the only project we're working on in garland. Right. Very good. Thank you, thank you, thank you, mayor. Thank you sir councilmember

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beard. Well, first of all, it's very beautiful. It's it's wonderful. I, I, I can remember

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when 635 opened and this is like the next big yay. Okay. But just for those that

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remember, remember when 75 opened after all their construction, they did shut it

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down for a party. So, you know, we could do that. But okay, I'm going to try to avoid that.

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people are really enjoying the new lanes. But but just want to remember y'all. Y'all remember

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that they did shut down 75 for a party. Okay. But yeah, it's it's going great. I was

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avoiding 635 for a very long period of time. I am getting out there now and venturing it

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to see what else is open to see, you know, where the exits are. And I am o one of those people

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that, oh my god, there's the exit. And I wasn't used to that being the exit. So there is a

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little learning curve there, but it drives very smoothly. It just have to remember going to

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down garland avenue and went on. 635. You've got a u-turn, but it's nice to have an exit there.

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so thank you again. I appreciate your update. And again, we could have that party.

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thank you. You're only saying that because you're not up for your off council. Your

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constituents won't complain. Deputy mayor pro tem well, I'll pile on the kudos for for 635.

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it's it went from some something to absolutely avoid to something that is now

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beautiful and really nice. Councilman thomas stole one of my questions, which was about

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the bridge. The one, the one cool. That really cool bridge. I really love the lighting that

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you did on it at night. It's if y'all haven't seen it, it's it's really neat to see. But

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one of the things I really appreciate has been your annual presentations and you're able

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to answer everything from both, you know, from the timetable and also technically how this

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has all come along. And so really appreciciciate it. Thank, thank you, thththank you, thank

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thank you. Yeah. So one thing I didn't mention regarding skillman city of dallas

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actually maintains the bridge. So that that is one thing to keep in mind. Luckily you guys

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don't have to maintain a bririd. Yes. And council member moore round us out, sir. Thank you,

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mr. Mayor. Sounds like you came and you got all the accolades again tonight that were needed

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necessary. I do want to echo that. Of course, we're very excited about. 635 but I also

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want to say to council and to all of those who are listening tonight that this is just one

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of many projects that caesar is involved with. I have the opportunity to work with her on

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the regional transportation commission. And as a result of that, I think that you're also

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coming in with I-30 coming in to 635. All over the city, all over the region. Everyone that

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talks about caesar talks about the work that she does and the way of completing projects, of

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bringing them on into fruition. I have yet to hear, and I want to say that I have yet to hear

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anyone do any complaints as it relates to the work that she is doing, and I'm just very

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excited about. 635 of course, but more importantly, all that's taking place here in the

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region. And we're just glad to have you as that person who is our lead and our point,

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continue to keep up the very good work, and we'll continue to bring you back here and give

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you all these accolades. Okay, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I've got a very big team

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that helps me out. So it's not just me. I'm very spoiled that I've got a very good team that.

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what are some of the other projects that you're working on here? So we're working on

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interstate 30. We're hoping to actually put out for bids bass pro drive here in the next year

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or so. And so we think we have been able to accelerate that one. And then we've got more

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work to to do on interstate 30. And so those are a couple that I can come in and update you,

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hopefully in a little while. Thank you. Might want to take over 190 again. I think that's

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okay. Thank you so very much for your hard work. Thank you. Bless you. Thank you, sir. And

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we will certainly have you back to talk about those other projects very soon. Thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you. And we'll move on to our next item is item number nine. New voting

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software. Mayor and council. This item is based on discussions that I've had with

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the council over the voting system that we have on the ipads, and it's been somewhat

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clunky. And the question was posed maybe a year ago, even when I was back at it, whether

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we could could use the crestron systems to vote so that we wouldn't have to use the ipad,

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so they could just say yes or no on the on the crestron systems. And so tonight,

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jonathan and jennifer will be presenting a proposed solution to allow a much simpler, easier

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voting system so that we don't have to call staff up from time to time to get the voting

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system working properly. All right. Good evening, mayor council. Mr. Betts, I'm joined

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with jennifer here to kind of talk through some of the new voting. We've heard some of the

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insane some of the issues that you all have encountered over. I guess we went live back in

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may or june of last year. So even as last council meeting, we had the issue where we could

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not get you logged into the ipad. So you had to revert back to the old way of raising your

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hands. So we have a an exciting opportunity to show you how we can transition away from ipads.

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mike and I both briefly talked about it. Right. We've had ipad issues where staff have to come

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up and work with you to overcome some technical issues. So with the audio visual system

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that we have in place today, all of that remains the same in regards to the displays that

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are in front of you. We did not have to buy any additional hardware. It was just

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reconfiguration of the software to allow a yes and no option. So you're well familiar with

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this screen here. This is the screen from the ipad. So whenever the vote is up you

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select yes or no. Then hit save. And again, this is kind of the view of the displays that you

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have out there today as far as request to speak and a second in the motion. So this remains

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the same. So this look remains the same to request to speak and make a motion. And a second.

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what's changing is once the second the motion and second is completed, the secretary will

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actually activate the voting process. Once the voting process is activated, you will

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see this screen on the left that says choose voting option. Below you'll see a yes or no.

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and once jennifer displays the vote, you will actually see the yes's and no's. And then you

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also see a screen with how people voted. Now one thing to note you will see an abstain

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button. Pretend you don't see that right? We're only going to use the yes and no with the

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current programing software, the abstain button has to be there. We're looking at a

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future upgrade of, you know, an upgrade in the software program and where we could actually

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take the abstain away. So what we would like to do is actually walk you through a test vote.

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so we have this room configured for as well. So, you know, one thing I failed to mention is

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your ipads. So how do you see the the agenda. So we'll still have the ipads here. So if we

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need to check on an ipad for you to, to actually see what's on the agenda, we can do that.

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you're more than welcome to use your personal ipad like you did in the past or when you're not

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here, right? To pull up the agenda. What's changing is just how you're actually going to

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vote. So just like in the past, to start the vote, you will have someone do a motion. And

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second, so we're going to walk through an exercise in here. So if I could have someone do a

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mock motion and a mock second, please, I knew it would be councilmember bass chiming in

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with the motion, sir. Okay, so once that's done, the city secretary will see the alert

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pop up on her program to actually start the vote. And once she starts the vote, you

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will see that screen that pretty didn't know what we're voting on, sir. What's your

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motion? My motion is to continue this conversation and to continue making this an

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easier process. All right. Yh. Too much discussion on that one. Same here. As it I don't know

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what it is. Have you voted or is it a you gotta vote. So what what. Yeah. One one thing to

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note I failed to mention is once you vote, your screen will revert back to the request to

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speak and motion screen. Okay, so that's how you know that you voted. Now once it's the vote's

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complete, that sends the signal to jennifer and she will actually display the vote. You'll see it on your monitors in front of you, your touch panels, as well ashe large

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monitors in the room. Question can jennifer see who has and has not voted so she can call

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them out? Yes, sir. Yep. So just like in the past, if you did not vote, she will call out.

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please vote. Is it posble for. I'm sorry, one one second I if you could turn your mic on. I

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don't have the ability to control mikes. The voting result screen is still up, so

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that's an excellent point. So once the you know, once it's displayed, jennifer will revert

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hide results. So then your, your touch panel goes back to how it should be for microphone

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control. There we go. All right. So now councilmember moore go ahead sir. Yeah. Can the rest

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of us get the the fast push button that karissa and margaret have such that when we

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it would really be nice for us to be able to have that on our. Yeah. No, really, how does that

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work that they're able to get it every time. I mean,'ll be sitting here sometime just

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waiting to hit it, you know, it just doesn't come in. So what I'm hearing is put a delay.

448
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there you go. Yeah. Did that have anything to do with age or anything? I mean no, sir. Okay.

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all right. Thank you, mr. Mayor. Thank you sir. I want  play against you on jeopardy,

450
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because I think I win every time with you. Slow on the buzzer that mayor pro tem luck.

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did you have a question, ma'am? I did not. I was trying to motion for a party on six. Okay.

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very good. All right, so one follow up note is just like with the current system, with

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the ipads, in the event you look on the screen and it shows a vote, not the way that you

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press the button, right. You press. Yes, but you meant no. Just like today, you call out

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for staff's attention and they will resubmit the vote. Councilmember dutton. The

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program that we were using with the ipads, are we saving money by getting rid of it? So we're

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actually still using it. So we're not losing any functionality. The voting on

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the ipads was actually a add on. So we it's something we got by buying the rest of the software

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that we have to have. So we're not forfeiting anything that we've already invested in. And

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the beauty about the ipads is in the event we, we can't vote in this building. So we could

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still revert back to the ipad voting if we ever had to remodel like we did years ago

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and move to duckworth. Okay. Thank you. And it's the same like because we, we did the

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audio visual all together. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. So maybe someone could just watch

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one of our meetings on replay and hear the audio while we're talking about, because it's

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still a little rough. Okay. It's been ongoing. Absolutely. Yeah. We'll continue looking at

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that. We've been slowly working with our partner to come out and make slight modifications, trying to find that perfect spot for them to the audio is worse now than it was before.

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they should fix it. Okay. It's been a year of rough audio. When you're trying to rewatch a

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council meeting, you're like, what? What's happening? So that would be absolutely, that would

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be amazing. But I appreciate switching from the ipad voting because it was, it was a lot on

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our desks too. So I'm, I'm very excited that we're getting away from that. So thank you.

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councilmember thomas, isn't it? Jonathan. You know, I'm always happy to see, you know,

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technology, but brought forward. I, I guess my question is how's travis going to get any tv time

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now? We'll have to figure out a different way. Let's let's let's keep him busy other ways.

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so we so I know I think this is going to be a great new system. I really like the, the, the

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things that we're seeing here. We didn't see the actual vote that we just did, did we? Or

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was that a yes? Was that a vote? Jennifer shaking her head. No. Which was it? Yes. You know,

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what you guys actually saw was how you voted. Yes, I voted it's not the actual. It was. So

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we voted ectly as we voted exactly as the slide was. Yeah, that's that's kind of which is

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why I asked the question because I saw the same vote as the slide. And I'm going, wait

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a minute. Did we just follow the slide? What will happen there? I it is kind of a heck

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of a coincidence. Could we do that one more time and everybody vote no except

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carissa, you can abstain. Just so we see that we see something different on the slide.

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absolutely. Can we do one more. So we just need a motion. Make a motion that we do one more

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test. Yeah. Margaret had a quick finger there. And I was still I was still speaking

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mayor. I hadn't really relinquished the the mic. I'm the parliamentarian here. So

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it's I had to clear the motions. Yes. All right. Margaret. Something's wrong. I, I, I see

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her, she's already back in her chair giggling you're doing this. Did we did we vote. Did I

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miss. You. Don't remember if you voted. I thought I was touching second but I think I

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voted so I don't know what I voted. You have to turn one. Alright, so we have there we go.

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have the vote. It's different this time. Yes. Successful test there. Thank you. Very good.

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all right. Anything else on the voting system? The last thing is what's next. So the system's

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already operational in both rooms here in the chambers. In the event we have to revert to

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this new system tomorrow, we certainly can. The staff is ready. We just haven't spent a

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lot of time training the council on it. So we're planning on training a lot more

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training on may 18th and 19th. Of course, with the new council members coming in. But in any

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event, we need to we could certainly use the system tomorrow night. If there's

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another ipad issue like the last council meeting. Okay, good. Any other questions? We

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look forward to using the new system very soon. Thank you. I appreciate your time. We'll

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move on then. Now to item number ten. It's the 2026 2027 federal grant allocation kick

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off.

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good evening council. I'm jason willhite with community development department. This is

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moana woodard, the administrator for community development. And marilyn fitch, who is our financial manager for the same department. It is time again to go through the

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2026 2027 grants program that we have. Some of this is going to be review, so we'll try and

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make that brief. Some of it's going to be new business that we'll need some input from

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council on coming very quickly. So try and make note of that as we go through the presentation.

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the community development department is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for low income residents. The key takeaway here is that we received three federal grants

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and one nonfederal grant, so we'll go over that here briefly. But the major impacts that we

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try to achieve by doing this is to foster safe and healthy neighborhoods, empower

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economically disadvantaged populations, reduce housing insecurity, and encourage

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self-sufficiency and community engagement. The one you're probably most familiar with is

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cdbg, the community development block grant program. This is what we use to fund nonprofit

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organizations for our public services. The housing rehabilitation program, great

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homes, as well as some of the administrative funding that is used for to staff department,

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the home infill partnership program. When you hear that, think of home, think of new new

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construction. Most of you have been to an open house for us, where we've built a new home

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where we partnered with a developer to build something new for an affordable housing project. The emergency solutions grant can only be used for homeless intervention.

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we. We go through and we work with nonprofits on that as well. And then finally, we have the

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garland housing finance program. We're currently annually under an annual agreement with ghc

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pretty closely mirrors the cdbg housing rehabilitation program. The grants timeline is began in

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february of this year, and we are now to may of 2026. So we are to the the first green

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portion there where we have council kickoff public hearing, which will be tomorrow night.

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there'll be a public hearing for all of the subrecipients to come before council and give them an opportunity to speak to council about the services they provide, as well as council

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discussion and meetings will be further into the month. You will be receiving the

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subrecipient spreadsheet tomorrow. So that's going to go to our active members of

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council who can receive the email. That will be where we start to go through and

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allocate funding, and we'll go into that in more depth here in just a second. The spreadsheets

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are due back very quickly. We're going to ask that you have those back to us filled out with the allocations by may 15th, 2026. The reason for that is we want to have our first

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discussion on may 18th. We've already got that set aside to go through those allocations

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and the averages, as proposed by council on june 1st. We want to have that finalized and our

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final discussion. And then on june 16th, we need to adopt the allocations in a regular

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session. Just so you understand why that's so important. By by august 15th of 2026, we have to

532
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have our annual action plan into hud. That's the that's the deadline to have that in. So we

533
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really need a little bit of time to get everything set up. From the time that these

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numbers are allocated to the time that we get that action plan put together and submitted

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to hud. The community development block grant program is going to receive $2,089,794

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community development block grant entitlement program provides an annual grant to develop variable urban communities by providing decent housing, suitable living

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environment and expanding economic opportunities to low and moderate income persons.

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just as a point of order there the entitlement community. That means we receive that directly

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from hud. That also means that we report directly to hud. So that's why it's so important

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for us to meet these deadlines. And this year, this is not an estimate. I know in prior years

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I bring estimates before council. This is actually what we're getting this year. So there'll be no changes as far as adjustments on the next meeting. There are four key

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programs to the cdbg funds, the first being the affordable housing programs, substantial

543
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rehabilitation of owner occupied housing reconstruction, acquisition or demolition. The

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second, the non public, not the nonprofit public service providers support youth and

545
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elderly populations. Medical and mental health services, rental assistance and then food

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services. The public facilities and neighborhood services. So street and sidewalk repair,

547
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eligible public facilities upgrades, serving low income persons in parks and libraries

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and the neighborhood beautification and low income neighborhoods. And then the city sponsored projects such as the code enforcement officers in low income areas. Let's go

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back one slide. There we go. So one of the things that I did want to point out here was that

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projects utilizing cdbg funding must be committed to projects that can be completed within a 12 month period for public services and a four year, four year project for building and

551
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infrastructure projects from the receipt of the funding. That's not from the allocation of the funding when the money is put into that project. So we need to make sure that we have

552
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projects that are ready to move forward very quickly. I know four years sounds like a verery

553
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long time, but in in the the life of some of these projects, we, we do run into timeliness

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issues quite often. Cdbg client housing eligibility. Again, this cdbg housing rehab and

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acquisition programs. We have 1.125366 million. Set aside the initial point of contact

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applicants must own and live in their property must be. U.s. Citizens have not used the

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program in five years, and applicants are accepted on a quarterly basis. We do not. We

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don't keep a running list of applications. There are definitely some very stringent

559
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:19,800
hud guidelines to that, so it makes more sense to take them in quarterly than rather than

560
01:00:23,933 --> 01:00:23,933
try and create a list at the beginning of the year, eligibility of the household.

561
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:29,000
the household income must not exceed 80% of dallas county's area median income. As an

562
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:34,600
example of that, if you have a four person family in dallas county, the area median income

563
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:41,200
at 80% would be $93,850. So it's a pretty significant amount. A lot of people would

564
01:00:49,666 --> 01:00:49,666
qualify for this type of funding, and we want to get that word out there that we're

565
01:00:53,966 --> 01:00:53,966
offering this kind of assistance to those families. As far as underwriting is

566
01:00:59,100 --> 01:00:59,100
concerned, the home must be in reasonable condition. There are stipulations that it cannot be

567
01:01:03,166 --> 01:01:03,166
so deteriorated that when we've invested the funding that it does not meet minimum housing

568
01:01:08,733 --> 01:01:08,733
criteria when we have accomplished that project. So it still needs to be in pretty

569
01:01:13,166 --> 01:01:13,166
good condition in order for us to bring it up to minimum housing. The home cannot be in

570
01:01:17,433 --> 01:01:17,433
a foreclosure or listed for sale, and applicants will be asked to submit all the income

571
01:01:22,100 --> 01:01:22,100
documents, just like they would if they were going through a regular lending institution. As

572
01:01:27,500 --> 01:01:27,500
far as approval, staff reviews and applications for approval to receive the grant. If

573
01:01:32,166 --> 01:01:35,400
approved, inspectors will develop a scope of work and work with the contractor and homeowner through the completion, and then the department manages the program

574
01:01:38,666 --> 01:01:38,666
all the way through completion and the final closing. The client public services

575
01:01:45,766 --> 01:01:45,766
eligibility. We have $313,469. The initial point of contact council would allocate the not

576
01:01:54,166 --> 01:01:54,166
to the nonprofit agencies, and that's what we're going to be requesting, going over just a

577
01:01:58,500 --> 01:01:58,500
little bit here. And the city council allocates funding to local nonprofits annually. So

578
01:02:03,966 --> 01:02:03,966
this time of year will always come in front of you guys and ask you how you want to spend

579
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:09,000
the money eligibility of the household, same as same as with cdbg, 80% of the dallas area

580
01:02:13,266 --> 01:02:13,266
median income applicants for services must live in garland. So that's the restriction there.

581
01:02:18,933 --> 01:02:18,933
the approval nonprofit entities are responsible for application applicant approvals and release

582
01:02:23,266 --> 01:02:23,266
of services, and the city monitors each entity to ensure compliance with the grant. You

583
01:02:28,166 --> 01:02:28,166
can see there's a pretty significant list there of the 2526 allocations for public

584
01:02:32,633 --> 01:02:32,633
services. You'll see that on your worksheet tomorrow as well. There it there's a column that

585
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:38,400
tells you what they got last year and what they've requested this year. One change that we

586
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:44,200
are we would like to make is that we had three. The three final received less than $5,000

587
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:50,400
in allocation. Takes a lot to manage these and to audit these programs. And to be perfectly

588
01:02:56,700 --> 01:02:56,700
frank with you, we need to up that to a minimum of $5,000 in allocation to each of these or

589
01:03:02,566 --> 01:03:02,566
not do it. The cdbg project, eligibility for public places, neighborhood enhancement, and

590
01:03:10,733 --> 01:03:10,733
code enforcementwe have $750,000. The city council allocates the funding annually,

591
01:03:16,933 --> 01:03:20,466
and the city council allocated project dollars are administered initially by community development. This is where it changes significantly, though it is an area benefit.

592
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:27,000
so in other words, it's a cdbg eligible area where you have 51% of the people living in the

593
01:03:32,733 --> 01:03:32,733
area are at 80% or below of the dallas area. So we're not we're not qualifying individuals now.

594
01:03:38,266 --> 01:03:38,266
we're qualifying the area, project management, the city departments that are heading up

595
01:03:43,933 --> 01:03:47,866
those projects are going to manage those, and community development monitors those departments to ensure compliance with the grant regulations. And then the two

596
01:03:52,533 --> 01:03:52,533
projects that we have listed are the library outdoor learning program or outdoor

597
01:03:57,933 --> 01:03:57,933
education area is at $421,570, and then code compliance is at 250 000, which is for 333

598
01:04:09,466 --> 01:04:09,466
inspectors in the cdbg eligible areas. Affordable housing, home infill. Like I said, this is

599
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:17,800
where we talk about new construction. The the development of the new single

600
01:04:23,833 --> 01:04:23,833
family affordable housing units. Like I said, most of you have seen these. The the key to this

601
01:04:31,100 --> 01:04:31,100
is that that the city of garland is capable of in-house financing. And so holding these

602
01:04:37,533 --> 01:04:37,533
mortgages, we can go over that in just a second as well. But holding these mortgages allows

603
01:04:41,666 --> 01:04:41,666
us to get program income back. And we'll go over some of the numbers here in just a second.

604
01:04:46,533 --> 01:04:46,533
but we can provide that custom mortgage loan tool to keep the home affordable and still put a

605
01:04:50,633 --> 01:04:50,633
very nice product on the ground. So, for example, an example of that mortgage would be that the

606
01:04:58,933 --> 01:04:58,933
purchase price is $350,000. The borrower's down payment is only $500. That's part of the

607
01:05:05,966 --> 01:05:05,966
program. The loan amount is going to be split into 215 year mortgages. The first mortgage

608
01:05:13,533 --> 01:05:13,533
is going to start the interest growth. The second mortgage is going to sit dormant until the

609
01:05:18,866 --> 01:05:18,866
first mortgage matures. So at the end of 15 years, the second mortgage then begins to accrue

610
01:05:24,300 --> 01:05:24,300
the the interest rate. It's an approximate revenue generator of $400,000 a year back to the

611
01:05:31,866 --> 01:05:31,866
city. Through the number of mortgages we have right now, we have about 100 mortgages, I

612
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:36,200
think. I believe it's actually over 100 mortgages at this point that we that we're we're

613
01:05:41,266 --> 01:05:41,266
holding the note to. So we have people coming in making their monthly payments. The program

614
01:05:45,933 --> 01:05:45,933
income comes back in at $400,000 a year, some years. That's more than we get in

615
01:05:50,866 --> 01:05:50,866
annual allocation. So it really does bolster that program to, to be able to grow it. The

616
01:05:58,900 --> 01:05:58,900
third party mortgages. Sometimes we do finance these through a third party lender.

617
01:06:03,233 --> 01:06:03,233
the main the main purpose for that would be if we need to speed up program income. So

618
01:06:07,666 --> 01:06:07,666
we've got other projects that we have on the table we would like to do and other homes we

619
01:06:12,500 --> 01:06:12,500
would like to build. We can get that money back in a lump sum and put that directly back into

620
01:06:17,500 --> 01:06:17,500
the program as program income. The home client eligibility is very similar to cdbg. Home home

621
01:06:27,066 --> 01:06:27,066
program has got $645,106 plus. Again, the 400,000 in program income. New homes are listed

622
01:06:35,566 --> 01:06:35,566
through the mls through an agent and then the applicants must be first time home buyers

623
01:06:40,433 --> 01:06:40,433
and u.s. Citizens. Eligibility of the household. The household income must not exceed 80% of

624
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:46,400
dallas area median income must be first time home buyers. We do a credit check to make sure

625
01:06:51,300 --> 01:06:55,033
that they're creditworthy, and that they have sufficient income to purchase the home. As far as underwriting, again, this think of this as a standard mortgage office. We

626
01:06:59,400 --> 01:06:59,400
take in all the same documents that a standard mortgage office would take in. And then finally,

627
01:07:03,633 --> 01:07:07,366
through approval, the staff reviews the applications for approval in the mortgage program. The property and legal paperwork is submitted to a title company. So we generally

628
01:07:11,766 --> 01:07:15,433
go through a title company for everything, rather than going through the city attorney's office. And the monthly mortgage payments are submitted to the city. So. Esg, this is

629
01:07:24,166 --> 01:07:24,166
for the housing. Sorry, for homelessness or at risk people at risk of becoming homeless.

630
01:07:30,333 --> 01:07:30,333
there's $174,311 available. This can only go to to the benefit of those who are

631
01:07:40,033 --> 01:07:40,033
experiencing homelessness. So we want to make sure that we're very clear on that. It's not

632
01:07:44,066 --> 01:07:44,066
something we could take and add to cdbg. There is some crossover with what cdbg is

633
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:49,800
capable of, but not what esg is capable of. So essentially this funds programs that provide

634
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:55,200
housing opportunities for homeless and garland garland persons. It expands the

635
01:07:59,533 --> 01:07:59,533
capacity of nonprofit entities to provide homeless services for persons in garland and

636
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:03,800
provides program oversight and technical assistance to nonprofit agencies. The

637
01:08:11,366 --> 01:08:14,866
nonprofit service provider is actually going to be the initial point of contact on that, and applicants must be u.s. Citizens. Eligibility is at 30% of the dallas county

638
01:08:21,900 --> 01:08:21,900
area median income, so that's significantly lower than 80% across the board, and then must

639
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:28,000
be homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. If there has been an eviction notice, you,

640
01:08:35,566 --> 01:08:35,566
they need to provide that information for rental assistance. And then the staff

641
01:08:39,866 --> 01:08:39,866
reviews the nonprofit to ensure compliance with hud regulations for the program. So the

642
01:08:45,533 --> 01:08:45,533
nonprofit is audited. And our final funding source is the garland housing finance

643
01:08:53,100 --> 01:08:53,100
corporation housing partnership program. Again, this very closely mirrors the cdbg

644
01:08:58,233 --> 01:08:58,233
program for housing with a couple of littlee caveats. We do work development agreements

645
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:02,800
with gfwc for new construction as well. So we may use part of the home infill funds to build

646
01:09:09,733 --> 01:09:09,733
a home in partnership with ghc, but the bulk money goes to housing repairs, emergency

647
01:09:17,266 --> 01:09:17,266
grants to senior citizens. We qualify everyone the same way, but the gfwc funding gives us

648
01:09:24,100 --> 01:09:24,100
some leeway into who we can help and how fast. So there there are certain caveats that

649
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:31,200
cdbg requires that gfwc does not. And with that, that is the end of our presentation. I will

650
01:09:40,333 --> 01:09:40,333
show you real quickly that tomorrow what you'll be receiving is a spreadsheet. If

651
01:09:47,266 --> 01:09:47,266
I can get it to come up, a spreadsheet that's going to look like this in your email,

652
01:09:52,133 --> 01:09:52,133
the yellow column is the only column that you'll be able to make changes to. That's where

653
01:09:56,533 --> 01:09:56,533
you'll put in the amount you want to allocate to each to each subrecipient once you run

654
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:01,200
out of funding, it's going to zero it out. You'll have. You won't be able to put any more

655
01:10:06,533 --> 01:10:06,533
numbers in. So you'll have to make adjustments as you go through to make sure we. Again,

656
01:10:10,633 --> 01:10:10,633
we request that the smallest allocation to a subrecipient be $5,000. We ask that this. Be

657
01:10:17,333 --> 01:10:17,333
ready by the 15th of may, so that on the 18th of may we can have a discussion about that.

658
01:10:22,900 --> 01:10:22,900
did I leave anything out, mona? No. You did good. Okay. Just as in previous years, we're going

659
01:10:27,533 --> 01:10:27,533
to average everything you come in, we can discuss all the different. What I bring back

660
01:10:31,966 --> 01:10:31,966
from whoever submits things to me. So we should have that already. Nothing's changed from

661
01:10:37,633 --> 01:10:37,633
last year as far as that's concerned. All right. I have a few questions here. Council

662
01:10:42,066 --> 01:10:42,066
member dutton, we'll start with you. So my first question is we've got new council members

663
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:47,200
swearing in on the 12th. So this is kind of a a big thing. That they're not going to know

664
01:11:00,533 --> 01:11:00,533
the information that we know. Now we've got three people coming in. That kind of

665
01:11:06,300 --> 01:11:06,300
concerns me. I, I don't I know in 2023, we didn't do this until june last year. I guess

666
01:11:16,366 --> 01:11:16,366
we did it about the same time, but I don't remember that it was right in the process of

667
01:11:21,066 --> 01:11:21,066
getting. Maybe that's what it was. But with three new people coming in, it kind of concerns

668
01:11:28,500 --> 01:11:28,500
me that we're doing this smack in the middle of them swearing in on the 12th, and then you're

669
01:11:34,066 --> 01:11:34,066
wanting. This worksheet completed three days later. So I don't know if that anything

670
01:11:43,566 --> 01:11:43,566
can be changed about that, but that is a very big concern. And I have one ask after council

671
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:52,800
individually sends their allocation to you guys. And then when you do the averages,

672
01:11:59,566 --> 01:11:59,566
I would also like to include what each council person put in their worksheet, just kind of

673
01:12:07,533 --> 01:12:07,533
as a, a way to know what everyone is thinking, I guess. Hold each other accountable.

674
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:17,600
but aside from that, that is all that I've got. We can definitely submit each middle

675
01:12:25,866 --> 01:12:25,866
so that council consider that okay, how it was averaged. Okay, perfect. That's not a problem

676
01:12:31,733 --> 01:12:31,733
as far as changing the dates at this point, I don't think we can because it's been posted.

677
01:12:36,566 --> 01:12:36,566
it was posted in january, the calendar, and it's been sent to hud. We can take that in

678
01:12:41,633 --> 01:12:41,633
consideration next year. But as far as changing the dates and letting new council come on, I

679
01:12:46,266 --> 01:12:46,266
think we're just going to have to have the old council do this business. And next year we

680
01:12:50,966 --> 01:12:50,966
would look at doing something different. So instead of a instead of a 15th deadline, we

681
01:12:56,500 --> 01:12:56,500
probably need to look at a 12th deadline. Thank you. Councilmember thomas. So back

682
01:13:03,633 --> 01:13:03,633
on slide seven. You talk about client housing eligibility. And I agree that I think there's

683
01:13:15,933 --> 01:13:15,933
going to be a lot of people in garland that will meet the at least the income requirement

684
01:13:20,533 --> 01:13:20,533
here. But I'm curious as to what areas this would apply to. Is there any area, every square

685
01:13:29,533 --> 01:13:29,533
inch of garland. This applies. We qualify the client when we do housing repair programs or

686
01:13:34,966 --> 01:13:34,966
with public services. It's a client eligibility. It's not an area eligibility. Now, if

687
01:13:39,466 --> 01:13:39,466
you're looking at doing a community center or something like that, then it is an area

688
01:13:45,766 --> 01:13:45,766
benefit. Okay, so and maybe that's my confusion. I got a map last year, cdbg district

689
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:51,200
seven eligible map. And so it's got some, some of this grayed out and some not. And so that

690
01:14:00,900 --> 01:14:00,900
is the that's the area program. Is that what I'm, what I'm looking at here and where my

691
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:06,400
confusion is because I, I believe you're right. I wasn't in on this discussion. You had

692
01:14:11,066 --> 01:14:11,066
it just before I was sworn in last year. So. Okay. Well, so that's the difference is that

693
01:14:16,766 --> 01:14:16,766
the, the anybody in the area versus anybody in the city, this program could apply to

694
01:14:22,166 --> 01:14:22,166
anybody in the city. Correct. That's what I wanted. I want it's an individual based

695
01:14:26,900 --> 01:14:29,966
qualification when we're talking about housing. Okay. Yeah there is. There is no council district. We have not worked in, I'm sure. And I and I have some people that I, I

696
01:14:36,333 --> 01:14:36,333
may think would would like to do something, but are not aware that they may be eligible for

697
01:14:40,933 --> 01:14:40,933
things like this. And so I've had some people reach out to me and I'll say, I'll see what I

698
01:14:45,766 --> 01:14:45,766
can do, not knowing what I can do because I wasn't in on this discussion last year. Because

699
01:14:50,866 --> 01:14:50,866
if you did it, you know, right before the swearing in. So I agree with council member

700
01:14:56,466 --> 01:14:56,466
dutton, maybe on may 31st deadline next year, to give new council people a chance to

701
01:15:03,366 --> 01:15:03,366
really get their get their teeth, put that on the agenda for next year. So when we make

702
01:15:10,666 --> 01:15:10,666
our calendar in january, we'll back it up a little, try to get it back up just a little bit to

703
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:16,600
give them a chance. They're going to be drinking from the virus. As I as I found out last

704
01:15:21,533 --> 01:15:21,533
year. So anyway, and none of your clients just have them call our office. Okay. Very

705
01:15:31,266 --> 01:15:31,266
good. We'll do. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you mayor. Thank you sir.

706
01:15:35,666 --> 01:15:35,666
councilmember bass, I appreciate the presentation. And yeah, this of course,

707
01:15:39,900 --> 01:15:43,000
something we've all noticed, right. We're going to have three people transitioning out and it's actually kind of a new thing, right? Last year we had one new person. The year before

708
01:15:47,733 --> 01:15:47,733
that, we had one new person. The year before that, we had one new person. So this, you

709
01:15:52,533 --> 01:15:52,533
know, for, you know, 3/8 of the council being new isn't something we've experienced

710
01:15:56,833 --> 01:15:56,833
before. And. You want to count yourself to third. We'll go third. So. You know, I don't

711
01:16:10,566 --> 01:16:10,566
want to tell anyone how to do their job or not. But there's I have a solution for this time.

712
01:16:15,566 --> 01:16:15,566
so because on the morning of the 13th, what bj, chris and I have done on the 12th is moot,

713
01:16:22,366 --> 01:16:22,366
right? We can fill this out and give it to you. Morning. 13th has moved. It doesn't count

714
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:27,400
anymore, right? What you guys could do is you could meet with the new council members.

715
01:16:32,966 --> 01:16:32,966
there's three of them, right? It's not a quorum. It doesn't have to be posted. You could

716
01:16:37,433 --> 01:16:37,433
meet with them, give them the presentation, and then give them the spreadsheet and then

717
01:16:41,833 --> 01:16:41,833
give them the, you know, from the 13th to, I think you said the 18th to get that, to get

718
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:46,800
the those funds allocated in there in the manner they see fit and get that back to you.

719
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:52,200
and that that would be the solution for this. So as far as I see. Thank you mayor. Thank

720
01:16:57,300 --> 01:16:57,300
you sir. Mayor pro tem luck, will you go to the slide with the library and code

721
01:17:05,466 --> 01:17:05,466
allocations on it. The library outdoor learning program. Will you tell me more about that,

722
01:17:12,733 --> 01:17:12,733
please? Yes. Correct. Yeah. That's for this year. The the south garland library. We're

723
01:17:20,300 --> 01:17:20,300
proposing a we're calling the curiosity garden. We're working to make that more of an amenity

724
01:17:26,533 --> 01:17:26,533
for south garland. And that's a follow up to what we've been doing for northwest and central

725
01:17:32,533 --> 01:17:32,533
libraries to really just enhance that corridor, give that library an outdoor space

726
01:17:38,733 --> 01:17:38,733
for people to use, and hopefully make that an amenity with lots of different uses for

727
01:17:44,733 --> 01:17:44,733
that library. So can any of those funds be used towards library books? I don't think

728
01:17:52,100 --> 01:17:52,100
they can buy books. They're they can be used for facilities, not so much for in facilities

729
01:17:58,833 --> 01:17:58,833
being the external portion on this one. But they can't buy products like that. Okay. And

730
01:18:04,266 --> 01:18:04,266
then for the code compliance officers. Maybe next year we could up the portion a little

731
01:18:13,566 --> 01:18:13,566
bit because we need a lot of help and code with our new program going. And I think it

732
01:18:18,133 --> 01:18:18,133
would be really nice to have as many officers in there as possible. But I don't decide

733
01:18:23,900 --> 01:18:23,900
that. So thank you. Councilmember moore. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I heard two things.

734
01:18:32,266 --> 01:18:32,266
and give me an example of homeless versus nearing homeless or. And then I heard

735
01:18:40,500 --> 01:18:40,500
you say at one time, they have to be homeless. The distinctions. The city does not

736
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:46,800
do rental assistance under esg simply because there's not a lot of money, to be quite

737
01:18:52,433 --> 01:18:52,433
honest. Most of this money goes to the domestic violence shelter for esg. So you're only

738
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:57,200
working with about $50,000 that goes towards rental assistance in this program. And we take

739
01:19:04,933 --> 01:19:04,933
the homeless money. When we say have to be homeless, they have to be on the street. They they

740
01:19:10,133 --> 01:19:10,133
have to have been already evicted and they need to get into some shelter or some

741
01:19:15,033 --> 01:19:15,033
emergency shelter quit. Now the almost homeless, as if they were, you know, in danger of

742
01:19:21,500 --> 01:19:21,500
being evicted within the next ten days. We could do that. But for garland, we havaven't done

743
01:19:26,666 --> 01:19:26,666
that because there's just not a lot of money to split it up. We've looked at putting that

744
01:19:31,566 --> 01:19:31,566
money for people that need rental assistance. We do it in cdbg public service because

745
01:19:37,133 --> 01:19:37,133
there's more money available and you can reach more people being at 80% below rather than

746
01:19:42,433 --> 01:19:42,433
30% below. Okay. And for the rapid rehousing, that's what we focus on. Like I said, it's

747
01:19:48,700 --> 01:19:48,700
only $60,000. So that doesn't go a long way when you're looking at putting some clients

748
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:53,000
in housing for probably two weeks in a hotel and then, you know, 90 days to six months of

749
01:19:59,733 --> 01:19:59,733
rent and utilities, it just doesn't go far. So that's why we chose to focus on the most

750
01:20:06,233 --> 01:20:06,233
dangerous situation for esg funding language, that language that is truly within the

751
01:20:13,433 --> 01:20:13,433
parameters of the. Okay. Correct. Because when you said it initially, it sounded like

752
01:20:17,700 --> 01:20:17,700
you were saying, when you say near homeless, I'm thinking maybe they're in a shelter or

753
01:20:22,333 --> 01:20:25,400
something, but no, they're already homeless, but you're actually talking about someone that's still in the home, right? There is not. Right, right. But we choose to, like I said, most

754
01:20:32,500 --> 01:20:32,500
of those are funded through cdbg because there's more money available. Thank you, mr. Mayor.

755
01:20:37,500 --> 01:20:37,500
thank you sir. Any other questions on this item? Then tomorrow we will be receiving

756
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:43,400
the spreadsheets in your email. Look forward to filling those out. Excuse me. Public hearing

757
01:20:48,866 --> 01:20:48,866
tomorrow night. Yes. Sub recipients. Thank you council. Thank you. Move on to our next

758
01:20:58,033 --> 01:20:58,033
item is item number 11 is development services committee report. Gdc amendment ordinance

759
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:03,400
2603.

760
01:21:29,500 --> 01:21:29,500
thank you, mr. Mayor. This is an item that we had discussed at length at

761
01:21:36,100 --> 01:21:36,100
development services committee, and we had come up with some some pretty, pretty good ideas

762
01:21:44,066 --> 01:21:44,066
that we're excited to report out today. This is a very condensed version of what we

763
01:21:49,733 --> 01:21:49,733
had presented to the development service committee. Good. Okay. But if you need

764
01:21:59,166 --> 01:21:59,166
some details, I have those slides as well. So I can always go back to the details that we

765
01:22:04,333 --> 01:22:04,333
have presented to development services committee. But I want to start off with the overall

766
01:22:08,933 --> 01:22:08,933
goal of looking at carports. Why were we looking into the standards? We were instructed

767
01:22:13,166 --> 01:22:13,166
to look into it with the vision of the current carports that we have in the city, a lot of it,

768
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:21,200
the way it's built, they may not be up to standards, or even if they are, they don't. They

769
01:22:27,966 --> 01:22:27,966
may not esthetically be compatible with the main structure. Therefore, overall,

770
01:22:33,666 --> 01:22:33,666
the notion was there is a possibility that these are not really contributing to having

771
01:22:39,900 --> 01:22:39,900
great neighborhood esthetics. So that's where this came from. And that's the lens that we

772
01:22:45,966 --> 01:22:45,966
have used to come up with our standards. So that's why you in the very first slides, we we

773
01:22:52,533 --> 01:22:52,533
have come up with three different categories of how we are going to put in the

774
01:22:57,533 --> 01:22:57,533
standards. So one is a standard that's applicable to all carports. If you want to have a

775
01:23:02,266 --> 01:23:02,266
carport, it has to be on paved surface. It has to be engineering safe and all that.

776
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:10,400
those are just basic standards that all carports will have to fulfill. But then if it's a

777
01:23:16,233 --> 01:23:16,233
carport that's visible from the street that both two staff and the development services

778
01:23:22,666 --> 01:23:22,666
committee has a lot bigger impact on the neighborhood esthetics than the ones in the

779
01:23:27,766 --> 01:23:27,766
rear. So the standards that will apply to the carports visible from the street.

780
01:23:33,100 --> 01:23:33,100
currenenenenently in our code, s fronononttt y y y y yard or side n that can become kind

781
01:23:39,300 --> 01:23:39,300
of inter interpretation really difficult sometimes. But once we we start drafting the

782
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:46,400
amendment you'll see how we tackle it. But the idea is if it's visible from the street,

783
01:23:51,333 --> 01:23:51,333
it doesn't mean it doesn't really have to be in the front or the side, as long as it's

784
01:23:56,200 --> 01:24:00,200
visible from a public street, the standards should be higher for those carports, and then we will have standards that are applicable to carports that are not visible from the streets,

785
01:24:04,100 --> 01:24:04,100
typically in the rear. One example is in the rear, it could be of metal construction

786
01:24:09,500 --> 01:24:09,500
and we wouldn't have an issue with that. So one big idea to implement, and we did a little

787
01:24:18,233 --> 01:24:18,233
bit of research to see, when did garland start applying the two car garage requirement for

788
01:24:26,866 --> 01:24:26,866
all single family residential homes? And that was with our gdc may from may 2015. So prior

789
01:24:36,633 --> 01:24:36,633
to the gdc being amended being adopted, there was not a requirement that every single

790
01:24:42,700 --> 01:24:42,700
house would have to have a garage. That's why we see a lot of older homes that may have

791
01:24:48,100 --> 01:24:48,100
one car garage or we see some. The garage may have been converted. So that's why we see

792
01:24:53,533 --> 01:24:53,533
a wide range of homes that are not just typical two car garage. Now, we recognize that when

793
01:24:59,933 --> 01:24:59,933
there's not a two car garage, there is a further need for someone to have a carport to

794
01:25:06,766 --> 01:25:06,766
protect their cars. So the idea is if it is a home that was built after the gdc was adopted,

795
01:25:15,100 --> 01:25:15,100
which is may 2015, if it was a home built with the new standards of the gdc, and they

796
01:25:20,266 --> 01:25:20,266
are required to have a two car garage, then we will not allow carports in the front anymore

797
01:25:27,300 --> 01:25:27,300
when they're visible from the from the street. And on the flip side, the home that homes

798
01:25:33,900 --> 01:25:33,900
that were built before that date, where the assumption is they were not required to have

799
01:25:39,366 --> 01:25:39,366
the two car garage. In that case, we will allow carports to be visible from the public

800
01:25:43,833 --> 01:25:43,833
street, but with robust standards. So that's where our enhanced standards will come in.

801
01:25:50,700 --> 01:25:50,700
and those will include height when the main house is two story, then it's one set. If

802
01:25:58,300 --> 01:25:58,300
it's one story, then it's another set of height, because the relationship will differ

803
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:03,000
from a two story main house and a one story main house. How the building materials. And again,

804
01:26:09,133 --> 01:26:09,133
we'll work with city attorney's office to make sure we can actually apply all these

805
01:26:13,900 --> 01:26:13,900
standards. But the idea is to make the materials be compatible with the main house,

806
01:26:19,566 --> 01:26:19,566
put setback standards, put separation standards from the main house and things like that.

807
01:26:26,900 --> 01:26:26,900
so those will have the most robust set of standards when the the carport is visible from

808
01:26:33,700 --> 01:26:33,700
the public street. Now, currently in the gdc, we have we have lumped together carport,

809
01:26:40,533 --> 01:26:40,533
canopies and porte cochere. We do see those things differently and the impact is pretty

810
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:48,000
different. We have seen. We have pictures of some some pretty good porte cashiers even

811
01:26:54,100 --> 01:26:54,100
in our downtown that are integrated with the main house, that do not look like a, a

812
01:27:00,266 --> 01:27:00,266
carport, that someone was just trying to put it out there with no further thoughts of the

813
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:06,400
esthetic of the house. So we, we think the porte cochere should have their own set of

814
01:27:12,166 --> 01:27:12,166
standards. So eventually if council gives us gives us the thumbs up, we're going to

815
01:27:17,133 --> 01:27:17,133
separate standards for carports, which will have three different set of standards for visible

816
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:22,000
from the public street, visible, not visible from the public street and all carports. Then

817
01:27:26,466 --> 01:27:26,466
we'll have standards for porte cashiers, and we'll have standards for canopies, which

818
01:27:31,500 --> 01:27:31,500
are different than carports because it's all lumped together. We often face a

819
01:27:35,900 --> 01:27:35,900
challenge to interpret things. So that's kind of the genesis of the of the ideas that came

820
01:27:43,233 --> 01:27:43,233
out of our discussions with dsc. The proposed standards, again will streamline and clarify

821
01:27:50,266 --> 01:27:50,266
gdc's existing definitions. Again, we'll define the differences between carports,

822
01:27:55,666 --> 01:27:55,666
canopies and porches and also patio covers. We got some additional feedback from our

823
01:28:02,566 --> 01:28:02,566
committee members that we want to add. Clause that the maintenance requirements can be

824
01:28:07,666 --> 01:28:07,666
legally enforceable, because at the end of the day, we do find there are a lot of carports

825
01:28:13,566 --> 01:28:13,566
that are required to get a permit from our building inspections department that

826
01:28:18,333 --> 01:28:18,333
were just built illegally. So regardless of what we do in our gdc, people can continue to

827
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:26,200
build carports illegally. And at that point, we need to make sure our code enforcement can

828
01:28:31,333 --> 01:28:31,333
go out there and legally enforce all these standards that we are putting in, and

829
01:28:36,633 --> 01:28:36,633
also enforce the maintenance piece of it, where it could be paint, it could be, it could be

830
01:28:42,433 --> 01:28:42,433
the support columns, maybe out of compliance. So that's where we really need to work with ceo

831
01:28:47,866 --> 01:28:47,866
as well. The another thing that the committee said was, well, one of the ideas that we had,

832
01:28:55,033 --> 01:28:55,033
if it if the current home has a one car garage, then we want the carports width to be

833
01:29:02,966 --> 01:29:02,966
compatible with that garage. So if it's a one car garage, it's possible to have the width

834
01:29:09,066 --> 01:29:09,066
restricted to ten feet for that carport. If it's a two car garage, then it's more

835
01:29:15,900 --> 01:29:15,900
compatible to have a carport that is covering the width of that two car garage. So things

836
01:29:21,466 --> 01:29:21,466
like that will line it up in our amendments. And also, there was a concern raised because we

837
01:29:27,133 --> 01:29:27,133
had put in minimum or maximum square footage for a carport, which was 400 square foot, but

838
01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:34,200
there was a little bit of concern that for large trucks, that could require more than

839
01:29:41,100 --> 01:29:41,100
20ft in length, what are we going to do about it? So we're going to add some flexibility

840
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:46,200
in our amendments to that. So again to summarize, we're not going to want to have carports

841
01:29:54,666 --> 01:29:54,666
to be permitted for homes that are constructed after 2015. Homes that were constructed

842
01:29:59,500 --> 01:29:59,500
prior to 2015. They will be subject to robust development standards, height setbacks,

843
01:30:05,966 --> 01:30:05,966
building materials and so on and so forth. The standards will vary depending on whether

844
01:30:12,566 --> 01:30:12,566
or not they're visible from the streets. Will clean up terms and definitions. Therefore,

845
01:30:17,966 --> 01:30:17,966
what is a carport? What is a porte cochere? What is a canopy? What is a patio cover? We'll

846
01:30:22,566 --> 01:30:22,566
define it clearly in the gdc. And we'll also work on. Right now we don't have anything

847
01:30:29,833 --> 01:30:29,833
separate for port cashiers, but if we're using that term for its true meaning, when it's an

848
01:30:36,366 --> 01:30:36,366
integrated element of the main building, we'll need to have separate standards for that as

849
01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:40,600
well. So all of that is very much focused on residential carports. But there is an

850
01:30:48,933 --> 01:30:48,933
element of nonresidential carports as well. But I think councilwoman luck wanted that

851
01:30:55,733 --> 01:30:55,733
to be tackled separately. Once we have gone through this exercise of updating the

852
01:31:00,866 --> 01:31:00,866
standards for residential carports, and there would be some learnings along the way,

853
01:31:05,166 --> 01:31:05,166
and we will be able to apply it for the nonresidential carports. But that would be a kind of

854
01:31:10,266 --> 01:31:10,266
next step. Once this this s is done. And then comes the operations side of it. How are

855
01:31:17,833 --> 01:31:17,833
we really making sure all these standards are being applied right now? Carport permits

856
01:31:24,933 --> 01:31:24,933
comes to the building inspections department planning doesn't necessarily, unless it

857
01:31:29,266 --> 01:31:29,266
needs a variance through the board of adjustment or some kind of interpretation of the

858
01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:34,600
gdc. It doesn't come to the planning department, but the standards that we are putting

859
01:31:38,933 --> 01:31:38,933
in are very planning oriented. So we'll work with b, I and code compliance to make sure

860
01:31:46,900 --> 01:31:46,900
proper training is there, so that objectively it could be applied at a permitting stage,

861
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:52,400
and it doesn't really require every now and then it'll require some interpretations,

862
01:31:57,600 --> 01:31:57,600
but it is objective enough for by staff to apply and code compliance, to hold people

863
01:32:04,466 --> 01:32:04,466
accountable to. So those were the big ideas. Again, we have a lot of slides, which we have

864
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:13,200
examples of some existing carports that don't really work. And what is it that we're

865
01:32:19,666 --> 01:32:19,666
trying to prevent and all that? I'm happy to go into that or I'm happy to answer questions.

866
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:25,000
we're really asking whether or not these ideas resonate with you and whether or not we

867
01:32:30,033 --> 01:32:30,033
should go and spend time working on these amendments. All right. We'll start with

868
01:32:34,133 --> 01:32:34,133
council member dutton. I would be interested to see your examples of carports. So this

869
01:32:43,733 --> 01:32:43,733
one is if you can see the columns, this will not even be a permitted because it it's not

870
01:32:50,933 --> 01:32:50,933
even I don't think it matches our code to even today, but you can see one of the support

871
01:32:57,733 --> 01:32:57,733
structure. It's outside of the paved surface. It's toward the to the grassy areas where they

872
01:33:04,566 --> 01:33:04,566
just paved it out and put that support structure there. We will not. The new standards

873
01:33:09,266 --> 01:33:09,266
will not allow something like this. Here's one where the original home had a one car

874
01:33:20,533 --> 01:33:20,533
garage, but you can see when it. Again, this will not be permitted in any way with the

875
01:33:28,733 --> 01:33:28,733
proposed standards because it doesn't comply witith the state of the compact. It's not

876
01:33:33,466 --> 01:33:33,466
compatible with the main house, but you can see how it's way wider than what the framework

877
01:33:40,966 --> 01:33:40,966
of the existing garage and how that can create some kind of esthetic disturbance for that

878
01:33:47,266 --> 01:33:47,266
home. These are these are good, like what we want to see in the in the carports. But here, this

879
01:33:58,933 --> 01:33:58,933
one again, I don't think this was this would be considered compatible with our current

880
01:34:05,766 --> 01:34:05,766
code even. But there's no yeah. We have cars parked in the grass and yeah, it's not. So

881
01:34:12,233 --> 01:34:12,233
these are some of the examples of non compliance. But also even if they did pull a permit

882
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:18,000
it may not not for this one but for some of the other ones. The proposed standards it would not

883
01:34:23,833 --> 01:34:23,833
fit. And see it's other than that there's no the separation between the carport and the

884
01:34:31,400 --> 01:34:31,400
home. That's also an issue that we need to take a look at. Let's do we have. I think we

885
01:34:42,833 --> 01:34:42,833
had a good example of some nice. Can you can you go back to the one that you just had on the

886
01:34:49,933 --> 01:34:49,933
screen? Because I've got, I'm interested to, to know what. What would be a no go on this

887
01:34:57,100 --> 01:34:57,100
one. With the proposed with the proposed standards. Oh. Yeah. Well first of all. Well it's

888
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:14,600
not this one. There's a lot wrong with this house. You don't have. You mean this one,

889
01:35:24,966 --> 01:35:24,966
right? This is visible from the street and metal construction. We will not allow that. It's

890
01:35:31,200 --> 01:35:31,200
not even currently allowed. So this is my issue with this. Next to this house is the

891
01:35:39,066 --> 01:35:39,066
dilapidated building that doesn't even get mowed. Okay. So in my opinion, putting so

892
01:35:45,566 --> 01:35:45,566
much effort on a carport because if I'm looking at this, this looks like this looks like

893
01:35:52,700 --> 01:35:52,700
a bougie, bougie money to me compared to what it's sitting next door to. So I struggle

894
01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:00,400
with that. I struggle with if someone wants to do something to protect their property and

895
01:36:07,100 --> 01:36:07,100
they're making an investment in their property, do we really want to just overthink that

896
01:36:13,200 --> 01:36:13,200
process? Right. I, I agree the, the one with the oversize wood, it's ugly. It's not my house.

897
01:36:22,566 --> 01:36:22,566
like, you know, so I, part of me thinks like we're, we're kind of, maybe we're putting

898
01:36:28,833 --> 01:36:28,833
too much thought into it. If you go down buckingham, when it turns into pleasant valley,

899
01:36:37,633 --> 01:36:37,633
those houses, all the rear all face on buckingham. So they. If they have a carport, is that

900
01:36:44,700 --> 01:36:44,700
good or. No, because it's facing a public street like so I, I, I, I struggle a little

901
01:36:53,566 --> 01:36:53,566
bit with this one. And what are we considering a canopy like a you put a tarp out over your

902
01:37:01,500 --> 01:37:01,500
driveway or what? All of this is focused on just carports. Just think of traditional

903
01:37:06,166 --> 01:37:06,166
carports built to protect your r. Canopies in some situations have been used

904
01:37:12,966 --> 01:37:12,966
interchangeably in the past with carports, but in this situation, we're just trying to

905
01:37:18,033 --> 01:37:18,033
clarify that it's not a canopy, it's a carport. We'll define we'll clarify it in the

906
01:37:25,566 --> 01:37:25,566
definitions which is not currently available. Okay. I guess I was confused because

907
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:29,600
the slide that it said carports canopies, that's how it is in our current standards. Yeah.

908
01:37:36,033 --> 01:37:36,033
okay. I mean, canopy should never be allowed. It's like a temporary business sign. We

909
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:40,800
don't allow those. So yeah, to me for residential buildings, there's no use for a for a

910
01:37:49,433 --> 01:37:53,333
canopy. And that's what we want to clarify in the definitions. But currently it's all put together in one section carports, canopies, port cashiers. There's just one set

911
01:37:57,966 --> 01:37:57,966
of standards for all of that. And that's the issue. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. I mean, my, my

912
01:38:02,700 --> 01:38:02,700
biggest concecerns that we're maybe overthinking it. I, I don't know what t the feasibiliy

913
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:11,600
of having code compliance regulate carports is because like I said, I, I, if I were

914
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:18,000
standing at this property, just looking at it, that can't be that that carport would be the

915
01:38:22,733 --> 01:38:22,733
least of my worries, the absolute least of my worries. And in the summer, all of those

916
01:38:28,933 --> 01:38:28,933
trees bloom. You can barely even see the house from the street. I just, I, I'm

917
01:38:35,833 --> 01:38:35,833
concerned that we've got other larger fish to fry. Where do we really worry about messing with

918
01:38:42,266 --> 01:38:42,266
people that are just trying to protect their property? So that's totally up to city

919
01:38:49,100 --> 01:38:49,100
council to decide. We do think there is a cascading effect of things sometimes if a whole if

920
01:38:58,000 --> 01:38:58,000
there's one I don't want to, I'm trying to be really politically correct and an

921
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:07,400
anesthetic and a carport that is not as thick as thetically compatible with the house. And

922
01:39:12,900 --> 01:39:12,900
it really sticks out. And that one house is really causing that entire block or entire

923
01:39:21,066 --> 01:39:21,066
street to have some kind of impact visually. And then generally it's easier for

924
01:39:27,933 --> 01:39:27,933
someone else to think, oh, well, my neighbor's doing it, so I'm going to put up a carport that

925
01:39:32,900 --> 01:39:32,900
looks like that. And that's how it may have a cascading effect, but it's totally up to city

926
01:39:39,366 --> 01:39:39,366
counci to determine on the priority. I mean, I, I, and I get it right, I get it. I would

927
01:39:45,633 --> 01:39:45,633
rather everyone put up a carport than the people that have their hoard piles spewing

928
01:39:51,666 --> 01:39:51,666
out all over, all over their yard. So I, I get the point of it. It's just this one's a

929
01:39:59,766 --> 01:39:59,766
little, a little rough for me, so thank you. Yeah. Of course, mayor pro tem. So on the

930
01:40:06,900 --> 01:40:06,900
current slide, that carport right there on under today's standards is not allowed. So it

931
01:40:14,733 --> 01:40:14,733
may be legally non-conforming. We don't know when it was built. So that piece we don't we don't

932
01:40:20,133 --> 01:40:20,133
even have data to go that deep. Well we can do some google image thing, but even with

933
01:40:27,666 --> 01:40:27,666
current standards this will not be able to go in today. Right. So in my opinion, someone, a

934
01:40:37,433 --> 01:40:41,366
code officer is looking at this house. I don't think they're looking at this house. I think they're looking at the property that's next to it, which like she said, is severely overgrown.

935
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:47,200
and for most of these, especially where houses really well maintained in this case, I

936
01:40:53,900 --> 01:40:53,900
think that the the standards that we're developing now is more of a tool in the tool kit,

937
01:41:00,600 --> 01:41:00,600
not necessarily. We're going to send everybody out to go look at all the carports in garland

938
01:41:07,966 --> 01:41:07,966
and write a bunch of citations. That's not that's not the that's not the goal. The goal

939
01:41:14,433 --> 01:41:14,433
is to have the ability to, to see someone who is violating our ordinance and be able to do

940
01:41:25,566 --> 01:41:25,566
something about it. It's a tool. So thank you, mayor. Thank you ma'am. Councilmember beard. All

941
01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:35,400
right. These aluminum I consider them temporary carports. They have popped up

942
01:41:41,400 --> 01:41:41,400
all over my neighborhood in the last few years. It was just a couple that were kind of

943
01:41:47,600 --> 01:41:47,600
grandfathered in because they'vbeen there forever. A big wind and they all get

944
01:41:53,700 --> 01:41:53,700
damaged. So I can see where that would be. Want to bring that up a little more permanent

945
01:42:04,900 --> 01:42:04,900
in their structure for being built. And I, you know, we've got to address, there's so many

946
01:42:13,300 --> 01:42:13,300
things we need to address. And I know carports is one of those things. Overgrown yards is

947
01:42:20,033 --> 01:42:20,033
another one of those things, but they're completely different things. So saying we

948
01:42:26,166 --> 01:42:26,166
need to focus on this instead of this. Well, no, we need to focus on all of this and we

949
01:42:31,866 --> 01:42:31,866
need to focus on all of that. I'm looking at this carport and it's falling down. On one

950
01:42:41,933 --> 01:42:41,933
corner is what I'm looking at. I can see the ones that have been there maybe 15 years that

951
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:51,400
are semi-permanent, put in the ground strong as long as they're in good shape. But like

952
01:42:58,666 --> 01:42:58,666
I said, I've seen them pop up all over the older parts of town that the garage has

953
01:43:06,366 --> 01:43:06,366
already been converted. The garage was converted 30 years ago. There's no garage, there's

954
01:43:12,466 --> 01:43:12,466
no carport. And all of a sudden we've got these little aluminum carport things being put in.

955
01:43:19,866 --> 01:43:19,866
I'm sure they're done without permit. I'm sure they're not. Secured in the best of ways. So

956
01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:33,800
I would like to see that that definition firmed up and some way to enforce it for those

957
01:43:44,700 --> 01:43:44,700
temporary carports that are already and I'm sorry, it's they're not technically

958
01:43:49,666 --> 01:43:49,666
temporary. They just are not permanently attached to the house or permanently attached

959
01:43:57,633 --> 01:43:57,633
to the ground in a strong enough fashion that they will not blow away. So I would like

960
01:44:05,900 --> 01:44:05,900
to see that. I like to see that that part of it really beefed up so they won't even be

961
01:44:14,900 --> 01:44:14,900
allowed. So that's the beefing up that we are proposing that we don't allow it. Now, things

962
01:44:19,666 --> 01:44:19,666
that are already there, if they were done with a permit, that's one thing. I don't see how that

963
01:44:25,666 --> 01:44:25,666
if it's in the last few years, if it's metal, it's a front that's not currently allowed,

964
01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:31,800
but there's just a lot of variable there. But the, the beefing up that we're proposing

965
01:44:37,300 --> 01:44:37,300
is not to allow them at all in the when it's visible also on the visible from the street, if

966
01:44:43,733 --> 01:44:43,733
the carport is going to be in the back. We do have several neighborhoods that the back and

967
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:51,600
the front are visible from the street and. I think we need to really take that into

968
01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:00,600
consideration because, you know, I do it. Are we going to require the exact same

969
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:06,400
standards in the back because there's a street that runs behind it. So is it a street or

970
01:45:11,433 --> 01:45:11,433
an alley? That street I can think of? A couple neighborhoods. Yeah. Like out

971
01:45:18,933 --> 01:45:18,933
towards firewheel off of chris road, the streets. There's you can the house takes up the

972
01:45:28,366 --> 01:45:28,366
whole block so you can see the back of the house from one street in the front of the

973
01:45:33,433 --> 01:45:37,433
house, from another street. We did not contemplate that. So we'll have to think about it and see if we can come up with a solution. But the idea is, if you're visible, then no,

974
01:45:44,766 --> 01:45:44,766
because that is what hurts the esthetic and the appeal of the neighborhood. But if it's

975
01:45:52,433 --> 01:45:52,433
council's desire that we build in some some flexibility for those situations, it could be

976
01:45:57,166 --> 01:45:57,166
seen as a it's a challenge for that, that particular property. We can take a look at that.

977
01:46:03,600 --> 01:46:03,600
okay. Thank you. Thank you. Council member williams. Just one comment on the carports

978
01:46:13,600 --> 01:46:13,600
concern. There's a street next street over for me. And the houses are built. And in one

979
01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:22,600
instance, I saw a bunch of construction guys on the roof and they they were building

980
01:46:30,166 --> 01:46:30,166
looked like an enclosed garage. So I made a call to build an inspection and asked, is it is

981
01:46:40,966 --> 01:46:40,966
it permitted? Found out it wasn't. So there is no enclosed carport or garage, whatever you

982
01:46:54,333 --> 01:46:54,333
want to call it there now. So I think how we how we following that. That rule as far as

983
01:47:07,266 --> 01:47:07,266
carports or garages, whatever you want to call them, permitted, that are built right

984
01:47:14,866 --> 01:47:14,866
next to a house. In fact, it's connected. They, they were on the roof using the same

985
01:47:21,966 --> 01:47:21,966
material and they, they were about to build a, an extension, and they probably were going to

986
01:47:29,466 --> 01:47:29,466
use it for other reasons. So what does that come in? What so so what what they come into

987
01:47:38,466 --> 01:47:38,466
play. What what building permit come into play in this whole thing. Council. Mr. Mayor, just

988
01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:49,400
a quick couple of notes just so I can frame the the discussion in terms of policy making here.

989
01:47:57,633 --> 01:47:57,633
one is that cpter 3000, section 3000 of the texas government code relates to

990
01:48:04,500 --> 01:48:04,500
building materials on residential structures. If we're talking about carports

991
01:48:10,300 --> 01:48:10,300
being connected to houses or garages and they're attached to the house, there's very little

992
01:48:15,100 --> 01:48:15,100
we can do in terms of what materials they use and what esthetics, whether it matches

993
01:48:20,100 --> 01:48:20,100
the house. So if it's once it's connected, then they're going to be able to use what

994
01:48:24,933 --> 01:48:24,933
materials they want. That includes pre-engineered aluminum. If that's what the

995
01:48:30,733 --> 01:48:30,733
international question is. Is there any kind of building permit? Yes. So to get more

996
01:48:35,766 --> 01:48:35,766
directly to your point is, how do we regulate the situation that you're talking about? When

997
01:48:41,933 --> 01:48:41,933
somebody comes in and decides with the plan to build a garage onto their house, it's going to

998
01:48:48,133 --> 01:48:48,133
be regulated primarily through setbacks from both the front and the side of the houses, if

999
01:48:53,500 --> 01:48:53,500
they're allowed under our code because of setbacks to build a garage and they can build a

1000
01:48:58,300 --> 01:49:01,600
garage, and if they attach it to their house, they can probably use any material that's approved through the international codes. Okay, okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you sir.

1001
01:49:07,766 --> 01:49:07,766
deputy mayor pro tem. Well, our fine city attorney just beat me to the punch on that one. I was

1002
01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:15,000
thinking building materials were something that we were not able to regulate. And if it is

1003
01:49:21,133 --> 01:49:21,133
freestanding, that is when we can determine that. So we would probably be wise if we're going

1004
01:49:29,066 --> 01:49:29,066
to have a code of a method for regulating carports to make sure they are not attached to

1005
01:49:38,133 --> 01:49:38,133
the house, and you can also regulate even garages that are add ons, not just through

1006
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:46,000
setbacks. You can also use articulation distances. So you can say that you're looking at

1007
01:49:52,266 --> 01:49:52,266
the house as one portion of the house can extend from the front of the location, extend a

1008
01:49:58,833 --> 01:49:58,833
certain amount of feet out front. And that can also help limit the use of carports and

1009
01:50:03,300 --> 01:50:03,300
garages that are being added on. If that's what council would want to do, you could do that

1010
01:50:08,266 --> 01:50:08,266
as well. The other thing I was just going to mention was just that when it comes to carports,

1011
01:50:15,233 --> 01:50:15,233
having if you have an alleyway and you have a. And you are building a carport in your

1012
01:50:19,533 --> 01:50:19,533
alley where you have limited. The public can see it very little other than the. Maybe

1013
01:50:24,666 --> 01:50:24,666
the four neighbors behind you. That seems to be a completely different type of situation

1014
01:50:32,533 --> 01:50:32,533
than a carport that's being built in the front of the house, where it affects the entire

1015
01:50:38,333 --> 01:50:38,333
block and the entire neighborhood. So just food for thought that's different. Yes.

1016
01:50:47,333 --> 01:50:47,333
all right. That's the whole I, what I took from this committee's discussion. And

1017
01:50:52,400 --> 01:50:52,400
that was where the committee wanted to have more clarity. Very good. Okay. Thank you sir.

1018
01:50:59,166 --> 01:50:59,166
council member moore. Thank you, mr. Mayor. What I'm hearing is. I'm very much appreciating what

1019
01:51:16,133 --> 01:51:16,133
I have heard coming from planning department, and that is the different manners by

1020
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:24,000
which they are looking at bringing this ordinance or. Into compliance. I'm thinking

1021
01:51:33,133 --> 01:51:33,133
now more about the czb study and what that study has suggested to us as it relates

1022
01:51:43,066 --> 01:51:43,066
to our housing stock and what we're going to be needing to do as we go forward. And what I

1023
01:51:50,266 --> 01:51:50,266
have heard the planning committee say to us is that these are some categories,

1024
01:51:54,633 --> 01:51:54,633
these are some standards. These are some things that they want to bring to us that will help

1025
01:51:59,000 --> 01:51:59,000
us to be able to formulate that, that ordinance or those rules and regulations. I think it's

1026
01:52:05,066 --> 01:52:05,066
very important that that take place primarily because I also hear that, you know, when we

1027
01:52:13,066 --> 01:52:13,066
begin to talk about this subject, and I don't think I like that, I think I don't

1028
01:52:17,133 --> 01:52:17,133
think that what we're doing can be subjective. I think that whatever we do, it's going to

1029
01:52:21,500 --> 01:52:21,500
have to be standardized to the extent that we will be able to not go out to a piece of

1030
01:52:27,866 --> 01:52:27,866
property and say, I like that, or I don't like that, but to go out there and have a set of

1031
01:52:33,666 --> 01:52:33,666
standards that say, this is what the standards are going to be. And so with that, I'm

1032
01:52:37,733 --> 01:52:37,733
thinking that this may be a good time for us because you've given us your your

1033
01:52:43,233 --> 01:52:43,233
recommendations. You heard from the concerns that we have. I think it might be a good time

1034
01:52:48,333 --> 01:52:48,333
to say to them, let them go back and continue to work on this and bring us something

1035
01:52:54,366 --> 01:52:54,366
back that may be more closer to where we may be. All that at a point that we're able to say,

1036
01:53:02,366 --> 01:53:02,366
okay, that's, that's getting closer to what I think that we can. Agree to. Because if you

1037
01:53:12,166 --> 01:53:12,166
know, as we're going right now, I'm hearing more subjectivity and objectivity as it relates

1038
01:53:17,366 --> 01:53:17,366
to what's going to happen with this, this proposal, with this plan. That's what I would like

1039
01:53:23,133 --> 01:53:23,133
to see, mr. Mayor, is that we send it back to comttee. I'll send it back and let them

1040
01:53:28,033 --> 01:53:28,033
continue to work on it. And we and bring it back to us again in a more structured form.

1041
01:53:32,733 --> 01:53:32,733
thank you. Thank you, sir. Yes, I know it mentioned in the report that something will be

1042
01:53:40,333 --> 01:53:40,333
coming forward to council in the future and. Typically in these situations, when it comes

1043
01:53:45,266 --> 01:53:45,266
to the council, I'd like to bring it back to the full council for discussion and not

1044
01:53:50,033 --> 01:53:50,033
send it back to committee if I don't have to. So I would like to see what the city attorney's

1045
01:53:55,033 --> 01:53:58,166
office, in conjunction with the planning department, based upon the feedback tonight and the feedback they received in committee hearing. I would also like that presentation that you

1046
01:54:02,000 --> 01:54:05,233
showed briefly that was shown during the committee meeting. If you distribute that to the rest of the council, and then we can also provide more feedback on that as you're

1047
01:54:09,266 --> 01:54:09,266
working through an ordinance and then have it come back in a future work session, if that's

1048
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:14,000
okay. So I'd like to proceed with that with an thank you, sir. Yes, I agree, thank you.

1049
01:54:18,233 --> 01:54:18,233
very good. Then we'll look forward to having that come back at a future work session

1050
01:54:22,266 --> 01:54:22,266
then. Council, I know we've been going a while, but hopefully this next one will be

1051
01:54:27,933 --> 01:54:27,933
aa short one. So I want to move quickly into item number 12, which is transportation

1052
01:54:32,233 --> 01:54:32,233
infrastructure mobility committee meeting report. Chairman thomas, your chair of

1053
01:54:36,266 --> 01:54:36,266
that committee, sir. So this. This item dealt with started out as one street, wood street,

1054
01:54:45,233 --> 01:54:45,233
which runs from jupiter to shiloh. And it is runs parallel to between miller and and

1055
01:54:54,100 --> 01:54:54,100
kingsley and about halfway between miller and kingsley. It's an industrial part of

1056
01:54:59,933 --> 01:54:59,933
district six. And we also included marquis drive, which runs between forrest and miller

1057
01:55:06,166 --> 01:55:06,166
from jupiter to shiloh. Both of these are total industrial areas. There is no residential

1058
01:55:14,333 --> 01:55:14,333
structures in that. I worked just a block from marquis over on miller park drive for eight

1059
01:55:19,766 --> 01:55:19,766
years when I first got got out here. So the staff did a. Did a good job by going and pulling

1060
01:55:28,333 --> 01:55:28,333
the the play. They went and asked, do you want this? Do you not? And so I'll let our

1061
01:55:34,533 --> 01:55:34,533
transportation director go ahead and tell us the results of what his findings were. So

1062
01:55:41,366 --> 01:55:41,366
thank you. So I'll just do the presentation I did to the committee back in march. Just

1063
01:55:49,766 --> 01:55:49,766
just a quick, brief overview of. So we have certain principles we follow and just generally.

1064
01:55:55,500 --> 01:55:55,500
but the biggest one is that we don't restrict parking in front of in front of someone's

1065
01:55:59,700 --> 01:55:59,700
property without their request or consent of that person. That's been something we've

1066
01:56:06,300 --> 01:56:06,300
learned the hard way over time. And it's not just doesn't go well when we do that. The city

1067
01:56:12,633 --> 01:56:12,633
ordinance has several ways of restricting parking. There's there's large parts of the

1068
01:56:17,733 --> 01:56:21,333
ordinance that list all the streets that have parking in the various restrictions that are on them. And then the city manager does have the authority to, in the ordinance to give

1069
01:56:28,100 --> 01:56:28,100
restrict parking less than 100ft. We do that for small, small, small, minor issues. And

1070
01:56:37,233 --> 01:56:37,233
just a reminder, know the commercial vehicles are not allowed to park on any public

1071
01:56:41,900 --> 01:56:41,900
street in garland overnight. That's whether it's signed or not. So on would look like,

1072
01:56:51,933 --> 01:56:51,933
councilman thomas said. We. We did look at two different streets, wood street and

1073
01:56:56,633 --> 01:56:56,633
marquis wood drive and drive. We. The. The proposal was to restrict parking on one side of

1074
01:57:06,433 --> 01:57:06,433
the street because it was difficult for vehicles to travel down the street because

1075
01:57:12,400 --> 01:57:12,400
if there's parking on both sides. So we went and surveyed all of the businesses along the

1076
01:57:17,566 --> 01:57:17,566
street on both sides, because we weren't sure which side we wanted to restrict parking on,

1077
01:57:23,566 --> 01:57:23,566
and all of the ones we talked to, 12 were in favor of it. Five we didn't. Responses from

1078
01:57:29,500 --> 01:57:29,500
two of those were just unoccupied lots. No one was opposed to it. So really what

1079
01:57:35,900 --> 01:57:35,900
we got was we're proposing restricting parking on nearly all of both sides of the street,

1080
01:57:41,500 --> 01:57:41,500
because that's really what people were asking for. As I mentioned, we talked to all of

1081
01:57:47,866 --> 01:57:47,866
these different people, the different businesses along the street. There is a large

1082
01:57:54,966 --> 01:57:54,966
section that is on the north side that's being redeveloped right now. We could revisit

1083
01:57:59,666 --> 01:57:59,666
that in the future when that gets occupied, but they they may very well want restrictions

1084
01:58:07,033 --> 01:58:07,033
there as well. And as you can see, there is actually quite a bit of the street that's

1085
01:58:11,900 --> 01:58:11,900
already restricted to no parking. Did the same thing on maki drive. Again, the idea was

1086
01:58:23,400 --> 01:58:23,400
to restrict parking on one side of the street. We surveyed all the businesses. 11 were in

1087
01:58:29,100 --> 01:58:29,100
favor, three didn't respond. No one was against it. And this is this is the findings. So what

1088
01:58:38,466 --> 01:58:38,466
we this is what we're proposing. Again, there's a fair amount of the street that's already

1089
01:58:43,466 --> 01:58:43,466
restricted from parking. The dashed lines are where we're proposing to add restrictions.

1090
01:58:52,566 --> 01:58:52,566
and interestingly, the the there's some additional restrictions we're adding along

1091
01:58:59,300 --> 01:58:59,300
kings road because the property owner, when we talked to them, they wanted it restricted along

1092
01:59:03,766 --> 01:59:03,766
those as well. So either either they didn't oppose the restrictions or they had asked

1093
01:59:10,966 --> 01:59:10,966
us for additional restrictions. So that's fairly common when we talk to people in these in

1094
01:59:17,233 --> 01:59:17,233
these in the industrial area, there's a big problem with particularly with trailers that

1095
01:59:22,433 --> 01:59:22,433
are left overnight. It's something that is difficult to enforce because our enforcement

1096
01:59:31,133 --> 01:59:31,133
officers that enforce the parking are not typically around overnight. So that's not

1097
01:59:36,766 --> 01:59:36,766
it's just it's just not a not easy to enforce. So that's all I've got. Okay. And so we're

1098
01:59:46,866 --> 01:59:46,866
talking about parking and then the driver leaving the vehicle to go somewhere else. If he's

1099
01:59:52,600 --> 01:59:52,600
just waiting in the vehicle to get into the business to get loaded, because the yard's

1100
01:59:57,766 --> 01:59:57,766
already full, that's not an issue. No, that's actually considered standing not okay.

1101
02:00:03,100 --> 02:00:03,100
so he would be so standing would still be allowed, but no parking. Right. Okay. I just

1102
02:00:08,633 --> 02:00:08,633
wanted to make sure that folks were clear on that, that we're going to we're still going to

1103
02:00:13,066 --> 02:00:13,066
allow trucks to wait there if they can't get into the yard. But I think most of these said,

1104
02:00:18,866 --> 02:00:18,866
we've got enough space in our yard. The trucks can get in here. There's no reason for

1105
02:00:23,200 --> 02:00:23,200
them to be parking on the street at all. Is that correct, sir? Right. And typically it

1106
02:00:27,333 --> 02:00:27,333
wasn't it wasn't their trucks that were parking o on the seet. It was trucks from somewhere

1107
02:00:32,566 --> 02:00:32,566
else. Okay. Very good. All right. That's all I have, mayor. Other questions? Go ahead. I

1108
02:00:39,066 --> 02:00:39,066
have some here. Council member dutton, we'll start with you. How far down are we planning on

1109
02:00:45,733 --> 02:00:45,733
making a. Just just adjacent to those properties, sit down to the the south. I have described

1110
02:00:56,400 --> 02:00:56,400
it. They're kind of the south west of that right here where the. On both sides, all the way

1111
02:01:05,733 --> 02:01:05,733
down to north. Have you had an opportunity to speak to the marshal's office? Just kind of

1112
02:01:14,233 --> 02:01:14,233
maybe get an idea of what complaints they get in that area? I didn't specifically

1113
02:01:20,700 --> 02:01:20,700
relate to this. I talked to them fairly often, but I didn't talk to them about this. We're

1114
02:01:27,166 --> 02:01:27,166
just we're really just looking at at, at marquis. So this came up as a part of that. Sure. So

1115
02:01:33,733 --> 02:01:33,733
in that entire area, the number of trucks. In the. Do you want a refund on this or the number

1116
02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:47,800
of trucks that park on both sides of all of those streets is insane. And when you have, I

1117
02:01:59,900 --> 02:01:59,900
mean, really any sized vehicle that's trying to navigate their way through there. I've I had a

1118
02:02:06,266 --> 02:02:06,266
lady actually a couple of weeks ago that that called she makes deliveries and she's in a

1119
02:02:13,566 --> 02:02:13,566
standard delivery van, whatever. And her major concern is that you cannot pull out onto any of

1120
02:02:20,900 --> 02:02:20,900
these streets safely because you can't see anything. And these are these are semis that

1121
02:02:26,133 --> 02:02:26,133
are parked there overnight. They they switch them out. There's a repair shop that will

1122
02:02:33,433 --> 02:02:33,433
take one and have them park on the street, pull them in and swap them out so that they

1123
02:02:38,100 --> 02:02:38,100
don't hit that, that mark, you know, so they know the game. And so that's it. It's not safe

1124
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back there at all. When there was a situation going on on jupiter road and pd, had the

1125
02:02:56,533 --> 02:02:56,533
street closed down, the only way that I could in the moment get through to go home waso

1126
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cut through marquis. It was it was quite terrifying. It was quite terrifying. Even with the

1127
02:03:13,933 --> 02:03:13,933
speed humps that you can't see the arrows. But there. It's just so, so much. Right. And

1128
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it's all the time. And so I, I don't know that there's an actual like real solution to it.

1129
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I don't know if it's these are people that would normally be paying $20 to park for 24 hours

1130
02:03:40,566 --> 02:03:40,566
at rikki rockett. It's definitely a situation. So I, I would if you can talk to judy,

1131
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she knows the whole. Story with the delivery lady trying to get through there and it's just not

1132
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safe. And, but I do I do appreciate this very much. I hope that it helps, but I, I

1133
02:04:09,733 --> 02:04:09,733
just don't know that they're actually going to care about a no parking sign. So where we

1134
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have, I think, I think we have where we have no parking sig, they can at least enforce it.

1135
02:04:20,666 --> 02:04:20,666
so it does seem to help, at least for a while. I know, I know council has asked us to do

1136
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a comprehensive study and we tried to take that on a couple years ago, and it's been a

1137
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little daunting to try to tackle the whole area all at once. So I think I think what

1138
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actually worked, this has worked pretty well. This, this process that we went through

1139
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for this. So I think it would be a good, a good thing to if, if to do this sort of one, one

1140
02:04:51,933 --> 02:04:51,933
or 2 or 3 streets at a time and then just take it on a little bit at a time, that seemed to

1141
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work pretty well. So we can certainly keep doing this for the next streets and just keep

1142
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going. So well, good luck. I appreciate it though. Thank you, mayor pro tem luck. Yes. So my

1143
02:05:14,033 --> 02:05:14,033
original ask on this was industrial zoning parking. So it was much broader than what

1144
02:05:20,833 --> 02:05:20,833
we have tonight. I if possible, I would like for multiple streets within the industrial

1145
02:05:31,333 --> 02:05:31,333
areas and five and six or any other two if those could be brought forward to tim to the

1146
02:05:38,400 --> 02:05:38,400
tim committee, sorry, not to a person named tim, to the tim committee and, and maybe we

1147
02:05:44,933 --> 02:05:44,933
have that done regularly so that these these streets can start to be monitored better

1148
02:05:50,600 --> 02:05:50,600
and that there's parking restrictions, at least on one side. I just want to read a

1149
02:05:57,166 --> 02:05:57,166
quick email that I received. Over the years. We have often seen semi truck cabs, trucks

1150
02:06:03,366 --> 02:06:03,366
and trailers and trailers parked on the east side of hightower drive, severely

1151
02:06:07,933 --> 02:06:07,933
limiting road use and causing safety issues due to limited visibility. Because that is

1152
02:06:12,933 --> 02:06:12,933
what the. That's the big problem that we have, is visibility. There are people

1153
02:06:17,300 --> 02:06:17,300
trying to turn on to jupiter from merritt and they can't see anything. Would. Is a similar

1154
02:06:24,833 --> 02:06:24,833
street that had that issue. I used to take that to work every day and it would always make me

1155
02:06:30,666 --> 02:06:30,666
so mad. So. So I would like to move forward with looking at these streets individually,

1156
02:06:37,166 --> 02:06:37,166
going through this process. And I think that that, you know, industrial zoning as a whole

1157
02:06:42,233 --> 02:06:42,233
and looking at parking in that way. That would break it up a little bit more so that we can

1158
02:06:49,200 --> 02:06:49,200
actually achieve some, somee go parking restrictions in these areas. Thank you. Very

1159
02:06:55,100 --> 02:06:55,100
good. Any other questions on this item? Councilmember moore? Thank you, mr. Mayor. So what

1160
02:07:05,566 --> 02:07:05,566
I'm hearing is that what you see presently, it really sounds like you don't really feel that

1161
02:07:12,066 --> 02:07:12,066
this is going to work or that. That's being on the committee. I want to when we when we bring

1162
02:07:19,700 --> 02:07:19,700
it back, I really would like to just understand, because I think I heard councilwoman

1163
02:07:25,100 --> 02:07:25,100
dutton saying that she really doesn't think this is going to work. Is that what I'm hearing?

1164
02:07:31,866 --> 02:07:31,866
not that. That's my biggest concern is, is it feasible for us to actually enforce? Because

1165
02:07:40,200 --> 02:07:40,200
like paul said, we don't have people that are overnight and so that are overnight

1166
02:07:45,800 --> 02:07:45,800
monitoring parking. So, I mean, I obviously, I trust, you know, our, our staff to do their due

1167
02:07:54,133 --> 02:07:54,133
diligence. And I, I don't question, you k k know, the recodation, I jt d d don't,,,,,I

1168
02:08:00,233 --> 02:08:00,233
don'ru that the people committing the ridiculousness are going t do their part.

1169
02:08:07,833 --> 02:08:07,833
right. I mean, they ran, they go through the residential areas. We can't even keep them

1170
02:08:12,600 --> 02:08:12,600
out of residential areas. So, I mean, it's I don't have faith in them, not us. It sounds like

1171
02:08:22,266 --> 02:08:22,266
it sounds to me though, like by doing this, at least it's going to give the marshals our code

1172
02:08:29,066 --> 02:08:29,066
compliance opportunity to at least eorce. Whereas right now there is no enforcement.

1173
02:08:36,000 --> 02:08:36,000
and what I think I hear staff saying is they want to try these two streets initially.

1174
02:08:44,300 --> 02:08:44,300
and then if it works, of course, go forward. If not, then repositi. Is that is that

1175
02:08:52,200 --> 02:08:52,200
what I'm hearing? I think, paul, is that what I'm hearing from you? Yeah. I mean, I do feel

1176
02:08:58,633 --> 02:08:58,633
like it's I mean, like you said, it's, it's. I think it's going to work initially. I mean, it

1177
02:09:05,100 --> 02:09:05,100
depends on enforcement. We can, we can talk some more to the marshals, but it does, it does

1178
02:09:10,200 --> 02:09:10,200
at least give them the opportunity to go and try to address the problem. Plus it'll,

1179
02:09:15,833 --> 02:09:15,833
it'll allow them to do it during the day, whereas the, the, the no parking of

1180
02:09:21,666 --> 02:09:21,666
overnight commercial vehicles, they can enforce that anywhere all the time. But that's,

1181
02:09:28,133 --> 02:09:28,133
that's pretty daunting to try to address overnight every night. Okay. And what I hear is

1182
02:09:35,366 --> 02:09:35,366
we do want to at that point, begin to do some type of ongoing reports such t that you

1183
02:09:42,766 --> 02:09:42,766
will have an opportunity to see is this or is this not working? Is that what I'm getting? Okay.

1184
02:09:47,900 --> 02:09:47,900
thank you, mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor pro tem luck. Yes, this is a great plan. I want it done all

1185
02:09:55,133 --> 02:09:55,133
over the entire industrial section. Absolutely. And and because doing the entire zone

1186
02:10:02,766 --> 02:10:02,766
at one time is suca daunting task. I would like for that to be done, you know, in

1187
02:10:09,900 --> 02:10:09,900
perpetuity until we get the whole thing done, if that's what it takes. And again,

1188
02:10:15,600 --> 02:10:15,600
things like this, just like in the last case or in the last committee report out, we heard

1189
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this is a mechanism. It's a tool that we give to staff. If there is an opportunity to

1190
02:10:26,100 --> 02:10:26,100
enforce it and they can, then they have a no parking sign that they can look at and say,

1191
02:10:30,833 --> 02:10:30,833
hey, you're not supposed to be here. So, so it's all about giving staff as many tools as

1192
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they can to enforce where they can. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments on

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this item? And we'll be looking towards formal consideration on may 19th. All right. Council,

1194
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that was the last item on our agenda. Now it's time to announce any future agenda

1195
02:10:58,366 --> 02:10:58,366
items anyone has. Last chance council member beard, bass and councilman williams, you did?

1196
02:11:07,966 --> 02:11:07,966
yes. I'll email my second. Thank you, council member denton. I would like public

1197
02:11:13,533 --> 02:11:13,533
safety committee to get with pd on. Thank you. Like come on now. On the gunshots, the random

1198
02:11:29,833 --> 02:11:29,833
gunshot and how we how we address it. And margaret and I's district. I don't know if

1199
02:11:37,766 --> 02:11:37,766
anyone else is facing this situation, but it is a multiple times a night rapid fire. And

1200
02:11:47,133 --> 02:11:47,133
it comes from the same area almost every night. You can set your clock to it. So I would I

1201
02:11:54,233 --> 02:11:54,233
would like to public safety committee to have a conversation with pd on what we

1202
02:12:01,533 --> 02:12:01,533
can make happen because it's it's wild. Okay. Anything else? That's it. Mayor pro tem luck.

1203
02:12:10,933 --> 02:12:10,933
I would like for chief brian to come to public safety and talk about noise violations, how

1204
02:12:17,000 --> 02:12:17,000
many calls we've gotten, and 2025 how many tickets were issued in that regard. And

1205
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second, councilmember dutton. Okay. Anything else? No, sir. Thank you. Very good. Any other

1206
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future agenda items? All right. Council then at 812. We're