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I'm going to get up here so everybody can get required. Okay.

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All right. Good evening. We will call the order of the regular

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Heat City Council meeting, September 23, 2025. If you'd all rise for the invocation and

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pledge of allegiance, please. We do the prayer first. Okay. Dear Heavenly Father, we just recognize

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you as a sovereign, holy and just guy. And we are just grateful for everything that you're doing as

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this community, just want to pray for the Kirk family,

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a father that's just such a tragic, tragic,

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that some children lost their father.

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And just pray that you can soul that family,

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you lift them up.

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And as we continue, keep them in our thoughts.

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And father, I just pray that you give us wisdom tonight

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and discernment to make the right decisions.

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And above all things, I just pray that we talk

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and respond and act in a way that glorifies you, Lord.

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Thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross,

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and your presence is in the name and prayer, amen.

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Amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

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and to the Republic for which it stands.

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One nation under God in individual liberty

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and justice from our own.

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Do we need to do the Texas flag?

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Yeah, here we go.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag.

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All right.

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All right.

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Thank you, Councilman.

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All right.

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At this time, we will go into agenda item number two.

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This is our public comment section.

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So, Mr. Alexander, do we have anyone signed up for public comment?

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Mr. Mayor, we have Ginny Seale here.

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For the hearings?

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Very well.

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All right.

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I'm sorry about that mayor does say for the public hearing.

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I apologize.

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It no works.

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Any others?

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No others, Mr. Alexander?

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Very well, thank you.

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At this time, we are very honored and excited to have a wonderful

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proclamation this evening.

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So if we could, we'll have our Rockwell chapter

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daughter of the American Revolution Miss Margaret Davidson and Becky Brookhead if you come up first

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off. Thanks for being here. We're very excited to make this

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proclamation. Whereas September 17th of 2025 marks the 238th anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America by the

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constitutional convention. And whereas it is fitting in proper to a core official recognition to the magnificent document of the

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the Constitution of the United States and its memorable

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anniversary to the Patriotic Celebration,

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which will commemorate the occasion.

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And whereas the tradition of celebrating the Constitution

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was started by the daughters of American Revolution

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by petitioning Congress to set aside September 17th

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through the 23rd annually to be dedicated

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for the observance of the Constitution we need.

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And whereas public law 915 guarantees the issuing

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of a proclamation each year by the President of the United States of America to proclaim the week beginning September 17th

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and ending September 23rd of each year as constitution week and ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals of the framers of the Constitution.

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Now, therefore, I, Jeremiah McClure, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Heath and the State of Texas,

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do hereby proclaim September 17th through September 23rd as constitution week in the city of Heath, Texas.

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Thank you, and thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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All right,

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we'll move into our next agenda item number four.

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This is our city manager and council comments, Mr. Alexander.

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Mr. Mayor, I have no comments.

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Okay. Council at this time, the floor is open.

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If you would have any comments, none at this time.

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I'm very well. We'll move in.

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Item two are agenda item number five. This is our consent agenda. I believe everyone has had time to review. Consent agenda is made up of 5.8, action regarding the minutes of the September 9th, 2025 regular meeting. So if there are no discussions, we will open the floor to entertain a motion. Mr. Mayor, I motion to accept the consent agenda. Motion by Councilman Dodson, do we have a second? I'll say it. We have a second by Councilman OMB. The motion moves. All those in favor say aye.

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As is unanimously.

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Moving into agenda item number six.

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This is our public hearing session.

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This is 6.A public hearing on ordinance number 250923b.

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Leving the ad valour and property tax rate for a year 2025, fiscal year 2025, 26.

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Mr. Alexander.

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Thank you, Mayor of Council members and members of the public.

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The item we have tonight as far as public hearing is concerned is on the public proposed

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tax rate, as you may recall, back on August 1st, the City Council called for this particular

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public hearing on August 12th.

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City Council proposed the voter approval rate as the preliminary tax rate.

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This particular hearing for the tax rate has been published in the Court of State Law on

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the city's website as well as the Rockwell County,

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Harold Banner, and the Royce City, Harold Banner.

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As it relates to the tax rate, as we go through this process,

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we look at a series of different tax rates to determine what

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the highest rate is, what the known new revenue rate is,

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and those sorts of things, and so just these two tables presented

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on the slides in front of you.

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We know the proposed tax rate is set at 27.565 cents per $100

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dollars of taxable assessed value, which is the approval rate.

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The known new revenue rate, as calculated by the Rockwell County Praser District, rather

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the tax assessment collector's office, is 27.201 cent per 100 dollars of taxable assessed

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value.

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The known new revenue maintenance and operation rate is calculated at 17.9752 and the debt

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rate is 8.7 cents.

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And so as you look at those rates, what's important about those is how do we go from the

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no-new revenue, the M&O rate to the voter approval rate and the table below shows you

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that calculation.

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So the no-new revenue rate, which is the rate, the M&O rate, that bring in the same amount

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of money that you received last year on the tax rolls that exist on the rolls for both

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years, is that's how you get to the no-new revenue rate.

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We're allowed to go up three and a half percent above that known new revenue rate.

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And we are also eligible to use any unused increment that we have that has not been picked up in prior years.

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And what unused increment is, is simply the difference between the rate the city council's approved and

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the voter approval rate that you could approve without having triggered an election.

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And any difference between those two that exist in the prior three years, you can use in this year.

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And so that amount equates to 0.02593.

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So we can take the no-new revenue rate, maintenance operation rate, add to that 3.5%, and then also the unused increment.

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And then once we have that number, we can add the debt rate which is not restricted by the limitations on what you can increase your rate by.

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And you end there by adding those components together at the voter approval rate, okay?

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And so tonight the public hearing is on the proposed tax rate which is the voter approval rate of 27.565.0 or 0.275.65 cents.

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On point out that good news, if you look back in history, our tax rate continues to decline.

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Now, albeit, we understand that tax will assess values go up, but good news is our tax rate

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continues to decline.

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We maintain a competitive tax rate for the city of Heath.

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When we look at other cities that we compare ourselves to, you can see on the far left,

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Heath, Highlight Living Green is comparably a relatively low property tax rate.

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Making up 17%, only 17% of the overall aggregate tax rate that tax pay will pay on their homes

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And so with that being said that's kind of a high level review of the tax proposed tax rate how we got there

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And then also the other rates we could have looked at and of course an only revenue rate

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We could have we could have chose that but because of the needs that we have within our community

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Tax rate of the voter approval rate which is again the highest rate you can have without

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Thank you, Mr. Alexander. At this time, we will allow a public hearing at 6.4. If there are any residents that would like to speak for or against, please feel free, Mr. Jim. Good to see you. If you'd like to take the lecture and state your name in your address, you're fine.

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Well, thank you, Council, for having this hearing. And I thank you for all your work and the staff.

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work.

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I had to I've certainly approved myself to tax rate. I think it's probably a

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little low actually but I do have some comments. I'm in a tier in 1971 and I

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asked myself today why I'm still here. Why do I still want to be here? What's

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important about my city? When I moved here, he had 550 people. I don't

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I'm probably back here before that, I don't know, but anyway.

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And we had 3,000 in the city of Rockwell, 7,000 in the county.

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You know, dirt roads out here, potholes.

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I was 24, I just got married, moved here from Newport Beach, looking for water.

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We bought a condo at the yacht club, and not only did we get a condo,

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it recognized the yacht club, which was a big deal to us.

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We've got the beautiful setting on the water and we've got a rest freak membership and I got a washer dryer

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At 24 that was just like you know, I was living my dream

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Now Rockwell County population it was estimated in 2024 of

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137,000 people the 1970s vision here

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I'm gonna just kind of back up a little bit. There were a few people that had moved here right around the time

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I moved here that came from Dalips and

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and they wanted to make sure that we had a vision here.

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And I remember being more defined when somebody said

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we're gonna get rid of all the trailers.

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I'm like, what do you, you can come into a city

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and just say get rid of the trailers and, yeah.

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So they suggested everybody that they move the trailers

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and the trailers left and they wrote out a vision.

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And the vision was for large lots, green spaces,

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minimum retail specific to our needs, community input,

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that outdoor recreation parks and trails,

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family oriented town center and fire and police coverage.

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Most cities around here didn't have those kind of plans.

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And if you lived through this,

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you'd see what happened to Forney

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and a lot of the other cities that didn't happen here.

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We've had comprehensive plans throughout the years

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and people's stuck with it, which is great.

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And that's all we all wanted,

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that open space, the one at Commitments.

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And now the state itself is telling us

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that they're going to lower our taxes and they want affordable housing and I'm afraid

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that that's not who we are here and we're being hurt by that and we're going to be hurt

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really bad in the next few years if we don't talk about raising our taxes.

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They do allow

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for us to raise our taxes above these minimums but we have to have a vote and a lot of people

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don't realize that and I've actually lived through a vote here where one by seven votes

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It's for actually for tax, which now is supplying money to our economic development.

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None of us wants our taxes increased, but would you rather just let the over revision

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of low density, limit retail, safe community?

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If it's urgent that see the heath considers raising taxes next year, we need to be prepared

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and it's going to be more and more difficult as small cities try to control their existence.

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We can start a campaign now, a lot of citizens of Heath decide if they want to pay more taxes to continue to live in this incredible city, to decide that we are willing to pay for it.

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Without a plan, bring on the builders, the people, the cars, the roads, the traffic.

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Where do you want to live? And I think it's not only up to city council, it's up to citizens of Heath.

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And if we don't start a plan early and educate the community, it's like the water deal.

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So everybody's going, what? 25% Chris, if you want to have water and make sure you've got water, you have to pay for it.

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And if we want to keep our community the way it's been, we have to learn to pay for it.

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So that's just my thoughts on it.

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I just want to get it on the work.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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Appreciate it.

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Do we have any other residents that would like to speak for or against in this public hearing,

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none at this time?

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Public hearing will be closed at 6.44.

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We'll now move into agenda item 6.B. Hearing on ordinance number 250923C, adopting the master fee schedule for the fiscal year 2025, 2026, Mr. Alexander. Thank you, Mayor. Council members, members of the public. This, this public hearing is intended to give the public an opportunity to speak to the proposed fee schedule that you have in your packet this evening.

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The, as you may recall, the fee schedule, master fee schedule that we have here covers a wide array of different fees for services charged by the city, permit fees,

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part fees, water fees, solar waste rates, things of that nature.

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This evening, the fee schedule in front of you is only proposing an increase in the water and sewer rates that we have in the fee schedule.

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I want to take you through a few slides just to kind of remind everyone why we're proposing

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the increases in the rates, as well as show you the proposed impact of those rates on

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our water and sewer customers.

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You may recall, will then, which is the rate consultant hired by the City of Heath, to

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take a look at our rate structure and determine what level of rate adjustments we need going

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forward. They put together some of these slides, and I'm just, City Council seeing these,

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the public has seen these out on the website. They're certainly in the packet. And so some

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of these slides will look familiar, but I just think it's important to go back through

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them real quick just to kind of remind everybody how we got here.

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So, what we'll then determine in their research is that as far as water rates are concerned

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from the city of Rockwall and North Texansville water district, we're going to continue

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to see a relatively large increase in water cost over time at a rate on average, 7.9% a year.

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And so that in part is going to be driving rate increases going forward.

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As far as waste water increases from the charge by the North Texas Municipal Water District,

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you can see on average over the next 10 years, we're looking at 11.7% increase annually.

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I've highlighted this next year, 2026, we're seeing an increase of 26%.

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And if you track that for the next two years, you'll see there's even, I think the next year's 19% and then the year after that's 35%.

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So fairly large increases in our wastewater costs going forward.

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Now when the proposed budget was originally presented to the City Council, we had factored in a $72 million bond issue,

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certificate of obligation, to be used to fund the different components of the water bridge plan.

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Subsequent back up at that time,

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Wildehan had calculated that rates needed to cover that debt service along with other costs that were seeing on the water side was going to amount to about 25% a year for the first two years and then it drops off after that they have gone back and recalculate that number and identified an error in their formula and have put out new numbers if we were to stick to the proposed budget with the 72 million, excuse me.

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With the 72 million-dollar bond issue, and those would be 32% this year, 32% next year,

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15% increase the year after that, and it drops the year for the water side.

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The wastewater rates haven't changed, and so nevertheless, we are seeing a fairly

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sizable adjustment for the next three years on wastewater side.

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Based on recent bids received on the Waterwell No. 1 project, you may recall that the bid for

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well number 1 came in at $5.5 million, which is quite a bit lower than what we had originally

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anticipated of around $8 million. And so we were able to take that difference and reduce the future

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bond issue by $10 million getting it down to $62 million bond issue. And so tonight we've laid out

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by a couple of options for council's consideration.

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Option one is lowering that bond issue to $62 million.

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Still keeping a single issue issued in 2026,

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having all the proceeds needed to fund the water bridge plan

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and all the different infrastructure components associated with it.

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And based on that, the water rate adjustments would start out

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at 27% for this upcoming fiscal year, 26% in the following year,

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15% after that, and then it drops substantially after that

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for the following two years.

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You'll note that the wastewater adjustments

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are remaining the same.

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Again, these are being driven by the increases

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from the North Texan Municipal Water District,

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and so predominantly, they are passed through costs.

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So that is option one.

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Option two, let me back up real quick.

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So just so everybody can see the impact to the water bills

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with regards to option one.

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And so just draw your attention to a variety of scenarios here.

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Enjoy your-

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Your attention to the highlighted rows that show 15,000 gallons of water consumed and 10,000 gallons on the wastewater side. The average bill, associate with that, that particular consumer would go from $236.13 a month to $285.35 a month for next year.

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And then you can see how to fix the other types of users as well as commercial on this particular slide.

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Option 2 proposes to divide.

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the bond issue and the two issuances. First bond issue would occur next fiscal year for 40.5 million.

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Year after that, we would come back to you and propose a $21.5 billion bond issue in 2027.

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Again, both the proceeds from those bond issues or COs being used toward the water bridge plan.

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Taking that into consideration, the water rate analyst determined that by doing it in two phases,

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is we could lower the rate increase for this next fiscal year,

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26 fiscal year, to 24% and then 24% in the following year,

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16% year after that, and the drop-down substantially after that.

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Again, wastewater rates remain the same.

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This doesn't change the average bill, a whole lot, but as you can see that highlighted row,

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you can see the bill would be going from 236-13 to 281-99.

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So a small reduction, but I think what we're suggesting is that what you get out of dividing

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that bond issue into two issues is you're buying some time to one, see if rates will continue

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to go down and pick up a lower interest rate, but then also time the receipt of proceeds

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from bond issues is more closely with when you need the funding for construction.

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And so we're suggesting council consider option two as we go forward through the evening.

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As you look at comparing us to other cities within the area and our bill currently stacks up,

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which is the far left column, 236 dollar bill.

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You saw that on the slide earlier, you can kind of see where we stack up compared to other cities right now.

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Under option, I'll stick with option two at this point.

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Under option two, the average bill would be going to 281.99, so it does move up.

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But keep in mind that other cities in this group will also be looking at rate increases, not all of them.

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but some of them will be looking to rate increases as well,

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so many of these are likely to go up as well.

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But that may or I turn it back to you

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if you join any questions of me.

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For a public hearing at 652,

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there are any residents that would like to speak for against.

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Please feel free to take the lectern.

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I just want to make it really awkward, just keeps it.

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All right, very well.

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We will close public hearing at 652.

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Councilor, if there are no questions or comments

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on that public hearing item,

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we will move into the next agenda item.

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Very well.

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We'll move into agenda item number seven,

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that is items for individual consideration,

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7.8, discussion in action.

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On case number FP202502, for a request by Tony DeGalia

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of burns surveying for the approval of a final plat

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being two tracks, totaling 5.372 acres of land

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located in the Edwards Teal Survey, abstract number 270, addressed as 7404-0-SouthFM-549-CDF-Heat, Mr. Consult.

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Sir, thank you mayor and good evening members of the council.

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This particular property, we have two tracks you can see here outlined in the red.

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The owners want to combine these tracks. When they bought the property, they actually thought it was one property.

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what they want to do is combine these two tracks, it'll be 5.3 acres and obviously

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with the purpose of constructing a new home, what you see here, this is the home that

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was constructed in 1975. Since this time, they had pulled a demolition permit, you see

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there's a swimming pool in the back as well. They demoed the home and the swimming pool

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and plan on expanding the footprint of the home when they build that in the near future.

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as far as the plan is concerned, this is the final

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plan that has been submitted and it's in your packet.

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It does meet all of the technical requirements of the

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subdivision ordinance.

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And the applicant is just requesting that you approve the

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plan. Of course, this being ministerial.

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Then the staff does recommend approval of the

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We took this to the planning and zoning commission on September 2nd, and they have forward a recommendation of approval as well. With that, the applicant has their representative here to answer any questions you may have, and I'm available for questions as well. Very well. Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez. At this time, Council, do you have any questions for staff? Mr. Mayor, Councilor Dodson. David, what's the setback on this property?

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The setback would be 40 feet and they are well beyond the 40 foot to setback.

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And at this stage have they proposed a preliminary outline with regards or elevations

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with regards to the property that they're looking to put up on that, or will that occur

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in the future?

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Yes, that will occur sometime in the future, we did not have not seen a building permit

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at this point.

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I have one more question. Under B, engineering, it said that the city does not allow reclamation of floodplain, nor does it allow structures in the floodplain or roadway or floodway or floodplain.

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Can you identify on that map where that is and tell us a little bit about that?

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Yes, absolutely. So this area here where you see hatched out, this is this is the floodway here and

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absolutely nothing can be built within the regulatory floodway. The remaining portion of this

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where it's kind of dotted that you can see is the 100-year floodplain and this is the 25-year,

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I believe 25-year floodplain here. So essentially most of this property is inside the floodplain and so

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So, their construction would be located in this area that's outside of the floodplain.

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Was there a building there that was torn down?

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The swimming pool, a portion of the swimming pool was in that, in this area right here with

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a 25 year, it was located about right there.

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So, they had a portion of the swimming pool that was located inside that floodplain.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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There's

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plenty further questions for staff since

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for the applicant if

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there are none

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I think this was all I'll keep at this time the chair will over the floor to entertain the motion

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I'll make a motion to approve

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We have a motion to approve as stated by council no more men. I will second it

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Good. Thank you motion moves all those in favor say aye

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All right.

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Those opposed.

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That's the unanimous.

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Thank you.

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Council.

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Moving into 7.B.

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Discussion and action regarding the award of the bid for the Metavue Road Covert Replacement

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to four star excavating week in the amount of 780,915.

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Mr. Gray.

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Good evening, Mayor and council.

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So tonight we're bringing forward the bid for the Metavue Covert Replacement.

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I don't know if y'all, your guys are familiar with, here's a picture of what it looks like.

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You'll see the, this is the MetaView Colvert that's on the MetaView drive at Yankee Creek.

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It's just down from Terry Road intersection.

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And you can see the, the far left there, that Colvert is completely separated and fell down

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into the, into the creek there.

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We've had a lot of separation out of there and staff noticed on February 25th, this had

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occurred and you could actually see the pavement buckling when the heavier trucks and cars

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if we're going to cross it.

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So it was felt necessary to close it.

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At that point, it was visually designated emergency,

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but we found out we couldn't do that.

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So we had to take it out and bring it back

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before the council and did that.

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We took it and we coordinated with Sean Morgan Polk

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to initiate design services in June of this year.

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Design was completed in the project in Bidale

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until I third.

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And on July 29, we received 10 bids.

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The low-parent bidder was four-star and SPI is here tonight recommending the

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award of four-star estimating for 780,915 dollars.

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Councillor, do you have any questions for staff?

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Mr. Mayor?

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I got one question.

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Go ahead, John.

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Looking through the bid items and everything that was going through it, furnishing, my

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My question is that I've seen it had a floodgate in there, why are we leaving or are we going to raise this or why would we need the floodgate?

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If we're going to redo it, why wouldn't we re-raising that thing up?

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I'm going to bring the engineers up if you don't mind and let them in to answer design questions.

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Very well. Councilor Dodson, did you have a question for staff?

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I did. My apologies. Brian, you know, one time last year when we had this failure, you know, we thought that we were or would have to use the vast majority of the proceeds in the road repair budget for this expenditure. We did, yes sir. It looks like that has now changed and will be pulling from different fund sources in order to pay for this particular project. That is correct, sir. So then.

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And I would imagine then that those monies, that $900 or so thousand that we had in the road repair budget, will be then rolled over into this next year.

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That is my understanding, yes.

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That is total of $1.8 million.

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That is my understanding, yes sir.

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Right, which is more than we've spent on road repairs in a long, long, long time here in the east.

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Yes sir.

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Okay, good, I look forward to seeing the adjudication of that.

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Yes, sir. Great. Thanks.

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Councilman Mars. Yes.

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Good evening, Council. Mayor, a pleasure to be here tonight.

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Jeremy White with a Schumberg and Polk.

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I'm to answer your question, Councilman.

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We had coordinated with staff originally during the scoping of this project at looking at raising the road.

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We did an initial estimate to determine what we thought that

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That raising would be as far as limits and amount of upgrade that be required.

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We presented that cost forward to staff.

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I can't remember it off the top of my head, but it was substantially more expensive.

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And due to the cost of that, we reduced the scope back down to just leave the road at its current elevation.

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But to expand the boxes underneath it as much as possible.

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there's you know 350 2 inch culverts there currently but we're maximizing that

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space as much without raising the roads so we're putting in two 8x8 reinforced

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concrete box culverts in there allowing more water to go under the road before

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it overtops so that's why those floodgates are still in there so that current flood

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plane is still that same limit but we're just going to stick floodgates on

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either side just so staff can utilize them when they feel necessary.

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You're welcome. Very good. Any further questions?

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Very well.

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Thank you. Yes, sir. I feel like we've talked about this bridge for way too long.

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So I am happy to see us here tonight talking about getting some actions done.

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So thank you, staff, for your hard work on working on this.

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And thank you, council. I know we've addressed this a few times.

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So, very good at this time, the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion.

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I'll make a motion.

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I'll make a motion that we award the bid for the MetaVue Road call the replacement to

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force our excavating e can the amount of $780,000 to $915.

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Very well.

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The motion on the floor has stated.

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Do we have a second?

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I second the motion.

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One five for a second.

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Councilor Doddson, I guess you won that.

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the motion moves. All those in favor say aye aye those opposed, passes unanimously.

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Moving

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into agenda item 7.C discussion in action regarding ordinance number 2509238. Approving and

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adopting the City of Heath Annual Budget Municipal Plan of Services for the fiscal year 2025-26.

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Beginning October 1st, 2025 and ending September 30th, 2026, Mr. Alexander.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor, councilmembers, members of the public, the item that you have in front

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of you has been worked on for the last several months. A lot of hard work has gone into

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it. I want to express my appreciation for all of the City Council's efforts and guidance

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through this process. City staff has done a wonderful job putting this budget together and getting

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to a point to where hopefully all of your questions have been answered. If not, we're

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We're here to answer those remaining questions tonight, but it's been a long process and

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we're excited to be here to get this budget approved and move on to the next fiscal year.

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Before you go on, I would like to make it now

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fun of all of you to put in countless hours and hours and hours and workshops.

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I just want to say a special thanks for us being here tonight and then also seeing you burn the candle on both ends and being here on the weekends and working diligently on that.

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Thanks to JR's, he's not here tonight, but thank you to you and your staff and your dedication in this city.

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No question about a mayor's been a team effort, that's for sure.

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A few slides to go through before answering questions council that you may have.

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Just real quick, a recap, as you may recall.

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The budget process started back March of this year. I have a couple of work sessions in March, one in March, one in June. On August 1, the proposed budget was presented to city council. I'm sorry, excuse me on August 1, the proposed budget was presented to city council on August 11th, the city council voted to set the preliminary tax rate, scheduled public hearings on September 9th. We held a public hearing on the proposed budget and then tonight we held our public hearing on the tax rate and are moving forward with

442
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,840
a few action items of the City Council.

443
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:40,600
One being the adoption of an ordinance approving the budget and an adoption or action on an ordinance

444
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:46,740
authorizing the 2025 property tax rate and then lastly ratifying the adoption of the budget.

445
00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:49,280
And then the last item adoption of the fee schedule.

446
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:58,740
The proposed budget that you have in front of you and that's what the budget that's been presented on the city's website

447
00:35:58,740 --> 00:36:05,960
That was the original proposed budget, which, as you recall, included, and as I mentioned earlier, a 72 million dollar bond issue,

448
00:36:06,140 --> 00:36:12,780
certificates of obligation to fund various components and infrastructure improvements related to the water bridge plan.

449
00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:23,920
Total beginning fund balance presented a $67.7 million total expenditures, $118 million, I'm sorry, total revenues, $118 million total expenditures,

450
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,860
about $106 million ending with fund balance of $80 million, $200,000.

451
00:36:33,490 --> 00:36:38,170
So again, the proposed budget included $72 million of certificates of obligation.

452
00:36:38,450 --> 00:36:46,570
That was intended to fund six potable water wells, 1.5 million gallon elevated storage tank,

453
00:36:47,050 --> 00:36:49,850
a three million gallon ground storage tank that would be shared with rock wall,

454
00:36:50,530 --> 00:36:53,610
and then a three million gallon ground storage tank for our own uses.

455
00:36:54,090 --> 00:37:00,850
As I mentioned earlier, we did, we came to the conclusion that since our first bid for

456
00:37:00,850 --> 00:37:04,650
the water well number one came out quite a bit lower than what was originally anticipated.

457
00:37:04,790 --> 00:37:08,210
We felt we could lower this bond issue down, which started the process of taking a look

458
00:37:08,210 --> 00:37:13,010
at a smaller bond issue, and then also possibly phasing those dead issue.

459
00:37:14,690 --> 00:37:18,410
And so again, just like on the fee schedule, you have two options presented this evening.

460
00:37:18,410 --> 00:37:24,690
The first option sticks with a single issue, as I mentioned earlier, of $62 million.

461
00:37:25,390 --> 00:37:28,390
It still covers all the components of the water bridge plan.

462
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:36,190
The change in the financial impact is it reduces overall revenues to $113.6 million.

463
00:37:36,890 --> 00:37:41,090
It reduces overall expenditures to $111 million.

464
00:37:41,670 --> 00:37:44,750
And it reduces our ending fund balance to $64.8 million.

465
00:37:44,750 --> 00:37:48,690
because we're bringing less proceeds in from the bond issue.

466
00:37:49,890 --> 00:37:53,550
And I mentioned the different projects that make up the water bridge plan.

467
00:37:55,430 --> 00:37:59,310
Option two splits the bond issue into two phases.

468
00:37:59,550 --> 00:38:04,390
The first phase is being $40.5 million, which would cover the four potable water wells.

469
00:38:04,730 --> 00:38:09,710
The first one that was recently awarded and then wells two through four.

470
00:38:10,670 --> 00:38:16,330
the 1.5 million gallon elevated storage tank currently under design and then the

471
00:38:16,330 --> 00:38:19,030
3 million gallon ground storage tank that would be shared with Rockwall which

472
00:38:19,030 --> 00:38:25,090
is not currently under design. Phase 2 would be a bond issue to 21.5 million

473
00:38:25,090 --> 00:38:29,970
occurring in fiscal year 27 would cover the remaining two potable water wells five

474
00:38:29,970 --> 00:38:33,990
and six and then the 3 million gallon ground storage tank that's currently

475
00:38:33,990 --> 00:38:39,030
under design by the city. The resulting financial impact would reduce

476
00:38:39,030 --> 00:38:45,550
revenues to $91.7 million total appropriations to $110.5 million and then an ending fund

477
00:38:45,550 --> 00:38:50,970
balance of $43.4 million. And the details associated with these numbers and the appropriate

478
00:38:50,970 --> 00:38:57,150
ordinances are laid out in your packet and tonight we'll ask you to choose either option

479
00:38:57,150 --> 00:39:01,530
one or two or perhaps you might have a different option but the options we put forward for

480
00:39:01,530 --> 00:39:03,050
you this evening are the options one and two.

481
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,560
In order to adopt the budget we would need

482
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:15,420
And a motion from you provided some wording for the motion, but in that motion would

483
00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:20,220
ask that you would choose the option that the City Council would like to go with.

484
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,600
So I say there's two options.

485
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,660
Of course, you could always adopt the proposed budget as it's on the table, right?

486
00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:27,960
But that's not what we're recommending.

487
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,220
Then it gets down to just options one or two, or if you have some other alternative changes

488
00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:36,740
you'd like to make the proposed budget, you can also do that as well.

489
00:39:36,740 --> 00:39:43,300
So with that, we're recommending option two, but we're here answering questions and that you may have.

490
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:52,080
Very well. Thank you, Mr. Alexander. At the time, Council, the floor is open. If you have any questions for staff. Councilor Dodson.

491
00:39:53,540 --> 00:39:59,980
Thanks, Steve, very much. You know, we reviewed some of this at the water committee meeting, and we'll talk about.

492
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:24,440
We'll talk about that in a bit greater detail later on from all the puts and takes that these things have. Putting your financial head on for a second, looking at the materiality of a rate reduction for a future bond issuance. What might that savings or what could that savings look like from a future state perspective on what is it a 21.5 or a 22 million dollar bond?

493
00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:41,580
I was always told never do math in a meeting, but as you might imagine, the rate of interest

494
00:40:41,580 --> 00:40:46,020
rate that we have factored into the bond issue that's presented tonight is sitting at 4.6%.

495
00:40:46,980 --> 00:40:52,660
Should rates continue to decline, which is somewhat anticipated, we could be seeing a 4% rate

496
00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:57,940
Which could have a fairly material impact and the overall interest over a 25-year bond, right?

497
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:03,860
I don't have a number for you, and I don't have a heuristic to use in order to calculate that off the top of my line.

498
00:41:03,860 --> 00:41:06,200
I'm willing to do for a directional act here to see another empirical accuracy.

499
00:41:06,980 --> 00:41:15,580
So I think what we've styled in this proposed budget is to not issue these bonds until January or February.

500
00:41:15,980 --> 00:41:21,000
And I think that that gives time to let some of those interest rates continue to come down,

501
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,700
which ultimately will be to the benefit of future rate, utility rate adjustments.

502
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:32,960
Right. So we saw the schedule of what will then, our consultants have calculated every year.

503
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,060
And so anything that we can do to bring that down, put downward pressure on that,

504
00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:41,440
we want to focus on doing it. And if delaying the debt issue a little bit helps that,

505
00:41:41,860 --> 00:41:42,840
I think it's worked the way.

506
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:50,880
Yeah, particularly I think when you consider the known quantities about Wells 1-4,

507
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:59,200
and the unknown quantities about Wells 5 and 6, it provides time for those items to be sorted out

508
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,560
from a diligence and from a discovery standpoint. Right, I mean everything comes into

509
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,800
sharper focus as you get more information, right? And so as we approach issuing the debt,

510
00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:13,500
you know, refining our probable cost estimates, hopefully gaining a better interest rate,

511
00:42:14,780 --> 00:42:18,480
maybe we can help manage some of these future rate increases a little more tightly.

512
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,440
Great. Thanks Steve, very much.

513
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:25,050
Yep, very, very well for the questions for...

514
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:33,500
Yeah, I would concur. I mean, I think that we've had a lot of great debate

515
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,400
that this council has put a lot of time and effort into really

516
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,400
making sure that we're focused on these legacy investments.

517
00:42:44,180 --> 00:42:47,660
I know that we have a finance board that's focused on that as well.

518
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,340
There's been a great deal of feedback.

519
00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:57,040
back. I know that there's a lot of, you know, to our residents, comments tonight, you

520
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,420
know, that we've got a lot of ground to make up and we're working hard to figure that

521
00:43:01,420 --> 00:43:08,380
out. We also talked in our last budget review meeting. We talked about, hey, look, we've

522
00:43:08,380 --> 00:43:17,160
got some rising concerns with how we purchase our water now. We've seen a massive rate increase

523
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:21,900
on this center center line that's come through with North Texas and Minnesota's water district, right?

524
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:28,860
So once we start looking at these rate increases over time, we are in the water business

525
00:43:28,860 --> 00:43:34,820
because we essentially buy water wholesale from Rockwell and resell it.

526
00:43:34,940 --> 00:43:41,660
So being creative and creating this resource as well I think is a highly vetted conversation

527
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,240
that's happened over many, many months with a lot of different people.

528
00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:51,160
And then obviously looking at our storage capacities and increasing those

529
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:55,920
storage capacities, I do think it is a smart move looking at this from a

530
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:02,300
break it into two phases, one of you. I didn't tell you I wasn't, I wasn't sitting

531
00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:06,980
at that, you know, probably six months ago, but looking at, you know, what, what's

532
00:44:06,980 --> 00:44:10,780
the bond market doing, listening to a lot of sound lines and thinking through

533
00:44:10,780 --> 00:44:14,340
these things. So I think it's a great recommendation that you've made this evening,

534
00:44:14,340 --> 00:44:17,740
So, if there are no further questions or discussion, council.

535
00:44:21,150 --> 00:44:21,610
All right, very well.

536
00:44:21,930 --> 00:44:22,570
Thank you, Mr. Alexander.

537
00:44:23,350 --> 00:44:25,570
At this time, the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion.

538
00:44:26,290 --> 00:44:27,030
I'll make a motion.

539
00:44:28,750 --> 00:44:37,050
That motion that we adopt ordinance 250923A, approving the fiscal year 202526 budget, option two.

540
00:44:37,790 --> 00:44:38,230
Okay.

541
00:44:38,430 --> 00:44:44,670
We have a motion on the floor to approve ordinance number 250923A.

542
00:44:45,630 --> 00:44:49,530
in observing option two. Do we have a second?

543
00:44:50,210 --> 00:44:50,710
I'll second.

544
00:44:50,950 --> 00:44:51,270
Mr. Mayor?

545
00:44:51,650 --> 00:44:53,050
We have a second by Councilman Myers.

546
00:44:53,970 --> 00:44:56,590
The motion moves. All of those in favor say aye.

547
00:44:56,990 --> 00:44:57,350
Aye.

548
00:44:58,090 --> 00:44:58,550
Those opposed?

549
00:44:59,450 --> 00:44:59,630
Dane.

550
00:45:02,610 --> 00:45:22,110
It does pass. Thank you, council. Moving into agenda item 7.D. Discussion and action regarding ordinance number 250923B. Leving the ad warm property tax rate for tax year 2025, fiscal year 2025, 2026. Mr. Alexander.

551
00:45:24,870 --> 00:45:34,190
Thank you, Mayor. City council members, members of the public. So the order of things is budget first, tax rate second, and then we have one.

552
00:45:39,350 --> 00:45:44,510
Okay, if we could just go back and do a record vote on the budget, I apologize.

553
00:45:45,930 --> 00:45:49,650
So we're playing a little over talking about it on all three questions.

554
00:45:51,290 --> 00:45:51,730
Sure.

555
00:45:53,070 --> 00:45:53,730
Very well.

556
00:45:55,390 --> 00:45:59,110
Okay, I've got the list here so we'll leave it to Norm on the straightness out.

557
00:46:00,830 --> 00:46:04,750
They're not in the order that I normally go because it's already written down on this

558
00:46:04,750 --> 00:46:10,110
resolution or ordinance so let's start with Mayor McCleur four or against four.

559
00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:13,930
Mayor Pro Temp, Scott Dodson, four.

560
00:46:15,110 --> 00:46:17,950
Council Member City Horn, four.

561
00:46:18,750 --> 00:46:20,610
Council Member Johnny Myers, four.

562
00:46:21,490 --> 00:46:24,030
Council Member Ryan Mormons, four.

563
00:46:24,570 --> 00:46:26,750
Council Member Michelle Thurgood, four.

564
00:46:27,270 --> 00:46:29,810
and council member Mitch Olby.

565
00:46:30,130 --> 00:46:31,310
For Mr.

566
00:46:38,370 --> 00:46:38,690
Alexander.

567
00:46:39,210 --> 00:46:40,010
We all legal now.

568
00:46:40,350 --> 00:46:42,070
We're all good to go to the tax rate.

569
00:46:42,670 --> 00:46:45,310
Okay, as things go, budget first, tax rate second,

570
00:46:45,410 --> 00:46:47,810
and then we have one other item to go after that

571
00:46:47,810 --> 00:46:49,450
as far as the budget's concerned,

572
00:46:49,970 --> 00:46:50,970
or the tax rate's concerned.

573
00:46:52,990 --> 00:46:54,890
Talk about this a little bit during the public hearing.

574
00:46:57,530 --> 00:47:02,450
No new revenue rate is sitting at a style differently

575
00:47:02,450 --> 00:47:11,750
on the screen, but I read it at 17.9752 cents, we've got a 3.5% adder to that to get closer

576
00:47:11,750 --> 00:47:18,010
to the voter approval rate, and then we have an unused increment of 0.2593 cents, and

577
00:47:18,010 --> 00:47:25,630
then we have our debt rate of 8.7014 cents, a total voter approval rate of 27.565 cents.

578
00:47:25,790 --> 00:47:30,270
And so we talked about this at length, I'll answer any questions you might have with the

579
00:47:30,270 --> 00:47:37,530
In regards to the proposed tax rate that's presented tonight, but we're asking for your favorable consideration of the proposed tax rate, which is also the voter approval rate.

580
00:47:38,150 --> 00:47:40,870
The proposed motion is on the screen for you to consider.

581
00:47:41,530 --> 00:47:42,390
All right, very well.

582
00:47:42,810 --> 00:47:45,830
Council, this time the floor is open.

583
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:48,210
If you have any questions for staff,

584
00:47:51,230 --> 00:47:54,490
or if there are no questions, the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion.

585
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:58,560
I'll make a motion.

586
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:12,560
I move that the property tax rate be increased to the adoption of the tax rate of 0.275650 dollars per $100 of taxable valuation which is effectively a 4.94% increase in the tax rate.

587
00:48:12,740 --> 00:48:17,980
Very well. We have a motion on the floor. Do we have a second?

588
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:19,480
I'll second.

589
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,600
I'm going to say I'm by Councilman Worm.

590
00:48:22,980 --> 00:48:27,600
Do we have any further discussion items before I move this to look?

591
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:34,320
One thing I'd like to say is whenever we say that there's 4.94% increase in attack

592
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,300
trade, we do want to clarify that.

593
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:38,680
Thank you, Mayor.

594
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,400
I was just thinking of the same thing.

595
00:48:40,900 --> 00:48:42,000
Would you like to give some clarity?

596
00:48:42,180 --> 00:48:42,540
Yes, sir.

597
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:43,140
Thank you, Mayor.

598
00:48:43,940 --> 00:48:47,920
I have failed to kind of clarify why we do this this way.

599
00:48:49,260 --> 00:48:53,780
So the state law views any increase in tax revenue as a tax increase.

600
00:48:54,420 --> 00:48:58,460
The rate, as we have mentioned numerous times, is going down.

601
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:03,240
The rate last year was right at 20, in fact, if you look at the front of the budget,

602
00:49:03,820 --> 00:49:07,720
the rate last year was 29 cents, right at 29 cents.

603
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:16,660
It is going down to 27.565, but I'm going to clarify 29.0311 cents going down to 27.565.

604
00:49:16,660 --> 00:49:20,440
five, however, because we've had increase in taxable

605
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,340
assess values, we're generating more tax revenue.

606
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,660
And as a result, the state requires that we announce

607
00:49:27,660 --> 00:49:32,040
that that is a tax increase, and if an effective increase

608
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:33,620
in the tax rate, okay?

609
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,360
And so that's why the motion, I apologize again,

610
00:49:36,460 --> 00:49:38,220
but that is why the motion is styled the way it is

611
00:49:38,220 --> 00:49:39,480
and that isn't according to the state law.

612
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:40,520
Very good.

613
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:41,580
Thank you for that.

614
00:49:41,740 --> 00:49:42,120
Thank you, Mayor.

615
00:49:42,260 --> 00:49:42,960
It was great to go there.

616
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,980
I was moving too fast, I apologize.

617
00:49:45,980 --> 00:49:46,240
Does.

618
00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:47,700
All right, those buttons.

619
00:49:48,580 --> 00:49:49,360
The wind is right.

620
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:50,660
The motor part.

621
00:49:54,590 --> 00:49:55,550
All right.

622
00:49:57,830 --> 00:49:58,210
Record mode.

623
00:49:58,230 --> 00:49:59,190
Record mode.

624
00:49:59,610 --> 00:49:59,870
Okay.

625
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:09,260
Mayor Jeremiah McClure. In favor. Four, or yes, four. I'm four. Mayor pro Jim Scott Dodson. Four. Councilmember

626
00:50:09,260 --> 00:50:17,360
Cindy Horn. Four. Councilmember Johnny Myers. Four. Councilmember Ryan Warman. Four. Councilmember

627
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:22,340
Michelle Thurgood. Four. And Councilmember Mitch Ombi. Four.

628
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,480
We will now move into agenda item 7.e.

629
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:39,180
Discussion and action regarding resolution number 250923a, ratifying the property tax increase

630
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,760
reflected in the fiscal year 2025-2026 budget, Mr. Alexander.

631
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:48,320
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council members, members of the public and good government fashion.

632
00:50:48,540 --> 00:50:54,320
We'd like to do things more than once and so what this item is doing is essentially making sure that

633
00:50:54,960 --> 00:51:01,380
you knew what you just did and that you acknowledge it out loud and so the state law requires that when the

634
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:12,740
proposed tax rate exceeds the no new revenue rate, maintenance operation rate that is, then we have to have you ratify the tax increase.

635
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:22,760
And so that's all this item is, there is a resolution attached in your packet declaring that you're ratifying the tax rate that you just approved and the tax increase associated with it.

636
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:23,680
Council,

637
00:51:25,980 --> 00:51:29,100
the floor is open, if you have any questions or comments for staff.

638
00:51:30,620 --> 00:51:34,660
If there are none at this time, the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion.

639
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:37,480
I'll make a motion, Mr. Mayor.

640
00:51:38,580 --> 00:51:39,000
Make a motion.

641
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:44,060
We adopt resolution 250-923-A, ratifying the property tax increase reflected in the fiscal

642
00:51:44,060 --> 00:51:50,260
year 2025-26 budget, acknowledging that the budget will raise more revenue from property

643
00:51:50,260 --> 00:51:52,180
taxes in the previous fiscal year.

644
00:51:52,180 --> 00:51:53,260
Second.

645
00:51:56,580 --> 00:51:57,580
We have a second.

646
00:51:57,940 --> 00:51:58,060
All right.

647
00:51:59,140 --> 00:52:00,100
Councilman Dodson.

648
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:03,560
I have no longer.

649
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:05,500
Go record.

650
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:06,320
Okay.

651
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:06,660
Four.

652
00:52:06,820 --> 00:52:07,360
Or against.

653
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:08,440
Mayor McClure.

654
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:09,400
In favor.

655
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,660
Mayor Pro Tem Scott Dodson.

656
00:52:13,020 --> 00:52:13,220
Four.

657
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,240
Councilmember Cindy Horn.

658
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:15,800
Four.

659
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:17,240
Councilmember Johnnie Myers.

660
00:52:17,780 --> 00:52:17,960
Four.

661
00:52:18,420 --> 00:52:19,640
Councilmember Ryan Mormon.

662
00:52:19,980 --> 00:52:20,180
Four.

663
00:52:20,540 --> 00:52:22,700
Councilmember Michelle Thurgood.

664
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:23,600
Four.

665
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,040
Councilmember Mitchell.

666
00:52:25,420 --> 00:52:25,840
Four.

667
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:26,980
Moving

668
00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:43,040
into agenda item 7.F, discussion in actual regarding ordinance number 259-2-3-C, adopting the master fee schedule for fiscal year 2025-2026, Mr. Outlander.

669
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:52,860
Thank you, mayors and council members, members of the public. As we talked about during the public hearing, we have a fee schedule on the table for approval tonight for your consideration for approval tonight.

670
00:52:52,860 --> 00:53:05,120
As we mentioned earlier, the rate adjustments for the water rates have been divided into two options, option one, being the higher rates proposed and option two,

671
00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:14,960
allowing for the splitting of the bond issue within the budget over a two fiscal year period as opposed to one and the waste water rates as they have been presented throughout the process.

672
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:22,180
So we're asking for your favourable consideration of the fee schedule that's in your packet tonight, adjusting rates for 2026 and for

673
00:53:22,180 --> 00:53:33,440
the note that Council is not approving the rates for 27, 28, 29, or 30, only for 2026 and the other rates are just proposed as what is anticipated going forward after fiscal year 26.

674
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,680
Happy to answer any questions that you might have.

675
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:42,500
very well. Council at this time for any discussion or questions for staff.

676
00:53:44,660 --> 00:53:52,160
Mr. Mayor, I just think that you know this particular proposal allows us to start solving

677
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:59,320
for the major water issues that we've faced as a community. And it's not only a solution

678
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:06,640
here for the short term, it's a solution for the long term benefit of all he citizens.

679
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:14,540
It solves for supply, it solves for storage, and it solves to some degree for infrastructure

680
00:54:14,540 --> 00:54:17,360
although there will be other discussion about that.

681
00:54:17,700 --> 00:54:22,960
And while no one wants to pay for the solution, this certainly does it.

682
00:54:23,460 --> 00:54:31,800
And it does it in, you know, one fell swoop or if you split the bond in two tranches as

683
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:32,760
it were as well.

684
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:39,460
And really, the only thing that we have that we can manage are the water rates because

685
00:54:39,460 --> 00:54:42,420
the sewer rates are really put upon us by Rockwall.

686
00:54:43,060 --> 00:54:46,060
And that's just the pastor Steve, like you had mentioned before.

687
00:54:46,300 --> 00:54:46,780
No, Texas.

688
00:54:47,140 --> 00:54:49,700
Yes, so sort of North Texas, yes sir, absolutely.

689
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:55,820
So thank you for putting on all of the work on this and all of the machinations with all

690
00:54:55,820 --> 00:54:59,840
the different, you know, numeric valuations and everything else that you all did.

691
00:55:00,140 --> 00:55:21,280
This is really great work. I appreciate it. Again, team effort with city council, as well as city staff. Everybody pulled together to put all this together and it's been a lot of work. Thanks. No further comments, Mayor? Thank you, Councilor Dodson. Any further discussions or questions with Councilor? None at this time. The chair will over the floor to entertain a motion.

692
00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:32,320
I'll make a motion, Mr. Mayor. Make a motion. We adopt ordinance number two, five, zero, nine, two, three, C, adopting the master fee schedule.

693
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,600
for fiscal year 2025-26 option two.

694
00:55:36,260 --> 00:55:37,720
Very well. Do we have a second?

695
00:55:38,700 --> 00:55:39,020
Second.

696
00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:41,780
Second, my councilman Dodson will

697
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,700
move to a record vote.

698
00:55:46,980 --> 00:55:47,080
Nope.

699
00:55:47,660 --> 00:55:47,760
Nope.

700
00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:49,160
Not needed on this one.

701
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:50,480
I got an exception.

702
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:52,260
How was someone?

703
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:53,360
You were right.

704
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:53,740
No.

705
00:55:54,820 --> 00:55:56,660
Unless you want to join these record votes?

706
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:58,860
Can you see all the time?

707
00:55:58,860 --> 00:56:00,760
You see how trainable we are up here in Normandy?

708
00:56:03,020 --> 00:56:09,760
All of us are as fancy as our county judge. He's got a real cool technology. He gets to sit on a big screen.

709
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:16,500
We have a pleasure of having him here this evening. So we will move into the motion moving. All those in favor say on.

710
00:56:16,860 --> 00:56:17,060
Hi.

711
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:18,440
Those boasts.

712
00:56:18,580 --> 00:56:19,400
Passes unanimously.

713
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:21,400
Thank you.

714
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,380
All right.

715
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:32,480
All right. We will now move into agenda item 7.g. Discussion and action regarding ordinance number 250923D.

716
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:38,500
9-2-3-D, amending the city of Heath, fiscal year 2024, 2025, and your budget, Mr. Alexander.

717
00:56:40,630 --> 00:56:42,930
I thought I was done, I forgot about this.

718
00:56:43,630 --> 00:56:50,390
So, the item that you have in front of you this evening is an amendment to the current year budget.

719
00:56:51,130 --> 00:56:54,690
Fiscal year 24-25, and as you may recall it the last council meeting,

720
00:56:55,370 --> 00:57:01,170
city council was made aware of the need to amend the budget for the utility reserve fund.

721
00:57:01,170 --> 00:57:05,270
to address the water well number one project of $5.5 million.

722
00:57:06,430 --> 00:57:09,590
Some of which, some of this cost of which will be reimbursed

723
00:57:09,590 --> 00:57:11,050
through the certificates obligation.

724
00:57:11,050 --> 00:57:14,010
And I'll mention now that either the next council meeting

725
00:57:14,010 --> 00:57:18,230
or the council meeting after that will be bringing a resolution

726
00:57:18,230 --> 00:57:22,530
to you for the intent to issue COs

727
00:57:22,530 --> 00:57:25,130
and allow some of these costs to be reimbursed to the city

728
00:57:25,130 --> 00:57:27,110
through the proceeds of those bonds.

729
00:57:27,110 --> 00:57:33,550
The other amendment that's being requested this evening, we discussed that the last council

730
00:57:33,550 --> 00:57:39,030
meeting is related to flock cameras for the place department to expand the number of

731
00:57:39,030 --> 00:57:42,290
cameras that we have in the city with regards to flock cameras.

732
00:57:42,830 --> 00:57:47,510
This would be an amendment to the general fund, specifically the DPS division.

733
00:57:48,030 --> 00:57:55,430
Overall the budget amendment to increase in appropriations is calculated at $5,563,000.

734
00:57:55,430 --> 00:58:02,610
These funds will be paid for through available fund balance within the general fund and the utility reserve fund.

735
00:58:03,710 --> 00:58:15,270
As it relates to the slot cameras, just the note on the screen that there is an ongoing operating cost associated with the slot cameras being presented tonight, and this will start.

736
00:58:16,250 --> 00:58:20,930
This amount will kick off in fiscal year 2627 at an amount of 62,000 per year.

737
00:58:20,930 --> 00:58:26,130
So it's not going to affect us in 2526 because that's what the 65,400 is in the cover.

738
00:58:26,970 --> 00:58:27,150
Okay.

739
00:58:27,510 --> 00:58:27,850
Very well.

740
00:58:28,450 --> 00:58:29,470
Thank you, Mr. Alexander.

741
00:58:31,010 --> 00:58:38,310
I don't need to go through the importance of these items, but I will say for anyone that hasn't heard us talk about.

742
00:58:38,690 --> 00:58:47,250
The flawed cameras and increasing our availability of being able to see the license plates of individuals that are coming and going.

743
00:58:48,030 --> 00:58:54,970
It is important for us to be able to become the number one safe city right now with a seven

744
00:58:54,970 --> 00:58:55,490
safe city.

745
00:58:55,970 --> 00:58:59,150
We're going to do everything in our power to become the number one safe city within the

746
00:58:59,150 --> 00:58:59,610
state of Texas.

747
00:59:00,430 --> 00:59:06,390
And so I'm very excited to see that line item as well as we are getting into the water business

748
00:59:06,390 --> 00:59:10,250
even more with water wells, we're very excited about seeing well one.

749
00:59:11,010 --> 00:59:14,450
So I'm very happy to see these items come forth tonight.

750
00:59:15,090 --> 00:59:20,870
At this time, if there are no questions, the chair will open the floor to entertain a motion.

751
00:59:22,370 --> 00:59:29,730
Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve ordinance number 250923D, amending the city of Heath,

752
00:59:29,850 --> 00:59:40,450
fiscal year 2024, 2025 annual budget, with the amounts of $65,400 for the flock, safety,

753
00:59:40,450 --> 00:59:45,370
the license plate recognition cameras and the construction of water well number one per

754
00:59:45,370 --> 00:59:56,050
water bridge plan for 5,497,777 dollars funded through the utility capital reserve account.

755
00:59:56,430 --> 00:59:57,150
Very well.

756
00:59:57,490 --> 00:59:58,390
We have a motion on the floor.

757
00:59:58,490 --> 00:59:59,030
Do we have a second?

758
00:59:59,310 --> 00:59:59,550
Second.

759
01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:09,180
We're the second by councilwoman horn. You win tonight.

760
01:00:11,530 --> 01:00:12,970
So the motion moves all those

761
01:00:12,970 --> 01:00:16,250
who have ever say aye, aye, those opposed, nay,

762
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:27,080
we will now move into agenda item seven

763
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:32,220
dot h, discussion and update on the Hubbard Drive project, the water bridge plan, and the

764
01:00:32,220 --> 01:00:33,440
I don't know if you can tell it's an apartment, Mr. Cree.

765
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,980
Hello again, Mayor and Councilman.

766
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:45,660
There it is.

767
01:00:45,820 --> 01:00:47,220
I'm gonna say, well, I forgot to type in there.

768
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:50,500
So yeah, this is a project update.

769
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:53,000
This would be similar to the update I brought you

770
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,240
last month for these three projects.

771
01:00:56,020 --> 01:00:59,060
The first one of those is Hubbard Drive.

772
01:01:00,100 --> 01:01:03,300
Currently, it's still not moving.

773
01:01:04,300 --> 01:01:06,840
It's just for phase four from Michael Drive to 740.

774
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:14,100
We are still waiting on getting final design reviewed and completed so we can get that out of the bid.

775
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,820
Anticipated date to get that out of the bid is this October.

776
01:01:20,900 --> 01:01:22,000
That's where that's at.

777
01:01:22,420 --> 01:01:24,980
I can do any questions. I don't have any further update on the paper.

778
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:31,140
Yeah, I think if we could elaborate right on our expected timelines, right?

779
01:01:31,140 --> 01:01:36,800
We are hoping to start seeing activity and action by the end before the end of the year.

780
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,540
Yeah, we're expected to send that out to bid in October.

781
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:40,200
That's right.

782
01:01:42,900 --> 01:01:46,060
Yeah, it could kick off before January.

783
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:46,880
Okay.

784
01:01:47,300 --> 01:01:48,480
That is an expectation.

785
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:49,980
Okay, very well.

786
01:01:50,140 --> 01:01:51,720
It happens with the bid that's unexpected.

787
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:53,580
You know, I can't get it right.

788
01:01:53,940 --> 01:02:00,160
I just want to assess some good expectations because our residents have been waiting on hover drive since Jenny moved here.

789
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:10,740
1971. I drove it today and I was like, my goodness, this road needs repair. So again,

790
01:02:11,260 --> 01:02:16,560
whatever we do, make sure that we're expediting. Yes sir. Hey Brian, what do you think the

791
01:02:17,100 --> 01:02:23,080
biggest hold up has been? I've sent some frustration when you kick this off. You know, I think a lot

792
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:27,960
of people are frustrated about this road. Where's the hold up in terms of getting this thing

793
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,920
and cleared to move to the construction phase?

794
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:33,940
Well, stay in true to this nature.

795
01:02:34,100 --> 01:02:37,060
Hubbard continues to have changes that jump on us

796
01:02:37,060 --> 01:02:38,200
as we move down the line.

797
01:02:39,420 --> 01:02:42,540
Driveway changes, water line changes.

798
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,620
And those changes have caused us to go back to the design board,

799
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:47,940
go back to the design board.

800
01:02:48,500 --> 01:02:51,600
And we again have some changes that we

801
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:56,840
had to submit to our comments due to growth

802
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:01,200
and some things going on along Hubbard that has caused that to go back.

803
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,120
Right, some properties that didn't exist.

804
01:03:04,380 --> 01:03:04,600
Correct.

805
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:08,340
I have now been identified that they do now exist.

806
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:12,300
So we're having to change some of the

807
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:14,540
forgotten designs to.

808
01:03:15,660 --> 01:03:16,100
You're correct.

809
01:03:16,660 --> 01:03:21,260
The storm drain design, elevation design, driveway approaches, things of that nature.

810
01:03:21,420 --> 01:03:21,660
Culture.

811
01:03:21,660 --> 01:03:26,860
to. Okay. Not to mention just historically, right? You can speak to this, I guess I'll

812
01:03:26,860 --> 01:03:34,060
jump in. But, you know, once they got into some of the planning, we had realized that

813
01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:40,340
there's actually water lines that are running through that area. There were. So we, part

814
01:03:40,340 --> 01:03:44,980
of the developer agreement was they installed an 18-inch water line on what if you're

815
01:03:44,980 --> 01:03:50,180
growing down Hubbard this way, I'd be the east side of the road to your left. During

816
01:03:50,180 --> 01:03:54,600
that designed, they did not tie the waterline into any roads that were on the west side

817
01:03:54,600 --> 01:04:00,580
of the road. They remained on all 40 lake lines, had had harvested and function, things

818
01:04:00,580 --> 01:04:04,180
of that nature. That wasn't picked up until design had already been approved and the project

819
01:04:04,180 --> 01:04:12,180
could bid out through the PD, the developer's agreement. So they had to go back and redesign

820
01:04:12,180 --> 01:04:16,820
that rather than cause the road to be built and then cut the road, your brand new road,

821
01:04:16,820 --> 01:04:18,940
and install all those crossings and water lines.

822
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,080
It was also noted that when they arrived at a couple

823
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,980
of the intersections, the elevations were wrong

824
01:04:25,980 --> 01:04:27,400
for the stormwater drainage.

825
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:28,260
It knows how to be corrected.

826
01:04:32,570 --> 01:04:34,330
So a lot of problems with how to drive,

827
01:04:34,470 --> 01:04:35,110
but we're getting there.

828
01:04:35,370 --> 01:04:35,950
It's been a monster.

829
01:04:36,550 --> 01:04:38,970
In fact, we're hoping, I'm going to throw it out there,

830
01:04:39,070 --> 01:04:41,490
that we're hoping that over this next year,

831
01:04:41,990 --> 01:04:45,310
it will be concluded in 2026, correct?

832
01:04:46,690 --> 01:04:48,210
The request in this bid.

833
01:04:48,210 --> 01:04:49,210
You see, I'm putting up a lot of time on that.

834
01:04:49,270 --> 01:04:50,430
It's for a...

835
01:04:50,430 --> 01:04:50,990
I'm really...

836
01:04:50,990 --> 01:04:52,690
The requesting this be it is for a...

837
01:04:52,690 --> 01:04:53,550
You drive off of overdrive.

838
01:04:53,830 --> 01:04:55,330
I'm trying for you guys at home.

839
01:04:55,570 --> 01:04:55,970
Absolutely.

840
01:04:56,730 --> 01:04:59,490
It's for a different approach to how we do this.

841
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:07,940
The previous approach had much more what we call hand pouring. We're requiring a lay down machine for this one, so we anticipate it should move faster.

842
01:05:11,620 --> 01:05:20,720
That was the space. This may or we are going to do all we can. All we can pass our mind gone. I just want to turn it. All we can to meet that commitment.

843
01:05:22,900 --> 01:05:33,760
We keep that lay down machine for Terry drive to. I'm sure they would for a press. Yeah. And this slide here demonstrates the cost. It's the same

844
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:40,480
one you've seen for, and I believe this is fully funded, we anticipate that, that's made

845
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:41,140
a project cost.

846
01:05:43,930 --> 01:05:47,070
The next one is the bridge plan. I'm not going to beat this one to death,

847
01:05:47,330 --> 01:05:50,970
and because we have a committee update that I think is going to hit some of these same

848
01:05:50,970 --> 01:05:55,650
points. I'll just hit the high notes and run right through it, so I don't step on any

849
01:05:55,650 --> 01:06:00,570
toes on this one. Obviously, you know, our current conditions, like we've always said, is

850
01:06:00,570 --> 01:06:03,730
the city of Rockwall's class city of Heath with water through a pump station just located

851
01:06:03,730 --> 01:06:07,830
it's at 30 in Rockwall. So, they're behind shenanigans if everybody ever wants to see those tanks.

852
01:06:08,750 --> 01:06:12,910
We're currently operating from memory and understanding, working toward a contract and currently at

853
01:06:12,910 --> 01:06:21,210
6.5 million gallons per day. One note I'd like to put in here is it barring something crazy,

854
01:06:21,210 --> 01:06:26,030
but technically the summer is over. We have sustained this summer without going to any further stages of

855
01:06:26,030 --> 01:06:32,530
restrictions. Is your microphone on that one as well? It is on. Yeah, well done, friend. Well done.

856
01:06:32,530 --> 01:06:33,390
Thank

857
01:06:36,140 --> 01:06:39,780
you residents. Yes, absolutely. That's who did it. And thank you Rockwell.

858
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:41,620
Absolutely.

859
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:48,280
The town center well, Parkwell number one, we awarded it to see Miller Drilling.

860
01:06:49,420 --> 01:06:56,240
And notice this preceed is expected this October. We actually have a pre preliminary meeting

861
01:06:56,240 --> 01:07:00,540
October 6th, where we're going to sit down, we're going to work on schedules, coordinate with

862
01:07:00,540 --> 01:07:06,080
and Wilkson to see more for our park so we can start sectioning out that area to hopefully

863
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:07,700
get them what they need over there.

864
01:07:10,740 --> 01:07:15,000
We also have awarded the design to the 1.5 elevated tank on governors.

865
01:07:17,540 --> 01:07:19,420
They have already started their Sue work over there.

866
01:07:19,860 --> 01:07:24,320
In fact, if we don't get a lot of rain tomorrow, there'll be drilling some pretty deep pears

867
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:29,260
in that area, not drilling, just sampling, pretty deep samples, soil samples because they've

868
01:07:29,260 --> 01:07:31,840
already started all their underground geotechnical work.

869
01:07:32,380 --> 01:07:33,440
Same goes for the pump station.

870
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:34,820
We've already had to take down the back fence.

871
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,800
And we put it back up, but it's kind of construction

872
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,480
you need to look at now, as work has begun up there as well.

873
01:07:44,420 --> 01:07:46,140
And that's the 3 million ground and storage tank.

874
01:07:46,420 --> 01:07:47,420
It's at our pump station, like I said.

875
01:07:47,500 --> 01:07:49,360
It's over the bus to the Nantiganst, on Townsend Boulevard.

876
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,480
It's right next to Rockwall's pump station.

877
01:07:52,900 --> 01:07:54,280
If you're ever driving down out 30 and you actually

878
01:07:54,700 --> 01:07:57,700
are going towards Dallas, if you look off to the left in that area,

879
01:07:57,700 --> 01:08:02,200
you'll see a bunch of tanks, a couple of them are rock walls and the one that's

880
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:07,820
further up to your west would be the city of Heath Tank. And there's going to be

881
01:08:07,820 --> 01:08:09,440
one just like it put behind it.

882
01:08:12,710 --> 01:08:15,490
We do have the scope in house for what are

883
01:08:15,490 --> 01:08:20,570
well two, three, four for design. It's currently under staff review and we'll be

884
01:08:20,570 --> 01:08:22,350
bringing that to you guys very shortly.

885
01:08:25,980 --> 01:08:27,300
And that's all I had on the bridge plan.

886
01:08:29,450 --> 01:08:29,910
Thank you, sir.

887
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:36,280
Town center park. I don't want to throw them one of the

888
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:40,800
bus, both of our design engineer architects are here tonight, so if y'all want an opportunity

889
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:45,580
to pepper them with questions, I know Emily's dying to come up here and talk about it.

890
01:08:48,340 --> 01:08:54,980
This is the aerial from August. I don't know how much you can get out of that, but I rode

891
01:08:54,980 --> 01:09:04,800
with Joel today, and what I can tell you is the dry creek area. They're working, I'm

892
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,440
this thing. Oh, there it is. The dry creek area, they're pouring, they're pouring the trail,

893
01:09:08,540 --> 01:09:13,280
spring is down here. This looks substantially cut. I don't think it's the final gray, but you can

894
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:18,040
actually see it's formed. It looks like it looks like the drainage area. They have a sidewalk coming

895
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:24,840
down it. It's starting to look like it should. This right here has no grass on it, but it looks like

896
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:29,800
a field. It's a big open area. It's probably not fine-graded yet, but it's rough graded. It's got

897
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:34,580
the little crown on it. It looks pretty good. We're starting to see what could be a field. The ball

898
01:09:34,580 --> 01:09:38,640
fields here so you'd see both these dugouts have been poured here. You can see the little

899
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:42,000
concrete areas you can't in this area but you'll see them if you drive over there.

900
01:09:43,480 --> 01:09:49,040
And so that's moving forward. Right here there's an entrance. They're working on electricals

901
01:09:50,580 --> 01:09:54,480
right here in front of this. You got a big pit where they're working on those electrical

902
01:09:55,180 --> 01:09:59,960
Electrical items. They're also working on the state.

903
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:29,600
Page right here in this area. You can see the footings are the, I guess you call those piers for the, for the foundation of the stage, just south or just west of the pavilion there. And if you go out there and drive at the intersection down here, you'll see the, the pawn walls. Where they've started pouring those. I never thought I would see the pawn walls. There, there, they're excited to see pawn walls. They're there and there's no water lines leaking or anything. It looks a lot of water like dry ground.

904
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:35,460
So we like that. A lot of rain that's all of that off, so I'm very excited. I also

905
01:10:35,460 --> 01:10:40,360
would note that all the sports courts report, they don't have any markings on

906
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:42,620
them yet, so they're just like concrete, but they're all there, they're all

907
01:10:42,620 --> 01:10:47,140
poured, and what you see is a little stub outs for the canopy that's fixing to go

908
01:10:47,140 --> 01:10:49,000
up over the top of the shade structure.

909
01:10:53,670 --> 01:10:55,350
And this is the same thing. This is

910
01:10:55,350 --> 01:11:03,530
Is this a, everything I just described to you and I mentioned the coordination meeting

911
01:11:03,530 --> 01:11:09,610
we're going to have with the well-driller and Hillin-Lukasin and Kenley Horn and the

912
01:11:09,610 --> 01:11:09,750
staff.

913
01:11:09,910 --> 01:11:10,190
See you, staff.

914
01:11:10,590 --> 01:11:10,850
Very good.

915
01:11:11,470 --> 01:11:13,530
How many questions are there?

916
01:11:13,570 --> 01:11:14,190
Very good.

917
01:11:14,410 --> 01:11:16,770
At this time, the floor is open.

918
01:11:16,850 --> 01:11:18,170
If you have any questions for staff.

919
01:11:19,670 --> 01:11:20,930
I have one question.

920
01:11:20,930 --> 01:11:24,950
and how close are we to on time with town center park?

921
01:11:24,950 --> 01:11:28,230
What is the projected, where are we on that?

922
01:11:28,510 --> 01:11:31,930
So right now everything we see kind of says the mean march.

923
01:11:33,330 --> 01:11:34,750
Is what it looks like.

924
01:11:35,290 --> 01:11:37,110
Now there's gonna be some coordination that has to happen

925
01:11:37,110 --> 01:11:38,570
because the well-driller once he moves in,

926
01:11:38,690 --> 01:11:41,270
he's gonna take, let me back up right here.

927
01:11:42,610 --> 01:11:44,050
Well, actually it probably better.

928
01:11:44,950 --> 01:11:48,830
I believe that says where it says field C right there,

929
01:11:48,830 --> 01:11:52,490
That field will not be able to be completed while the well drill is working.

930
01:11:52,630 --> 01:11:54,170
That's going to be his lay down yard and where he's drilling.

931
01:11:54,910 --> 01:12:00,270
So depending on when he can get substantially complete with drilling the hole

932
01:12:00,270 --> 01:12:03,710
and then get back out, because there will be a gap where we wait on the electric to come in,

933
01:12:05,810 --> 01:12:11,050
there may not be completed there, but have to pull off and then come back and complete that portion.

934
01:12:12,010 --> 01:12:16,530
We're using the dry pond to get on and off.

935
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:24,060
no sir we're going to come straight through here where the we are yeah that's

936
01:12:24,060 --> 01:12:27,480
the drive on oh yeah I'm sorry I get confused with the dry creek you're right

937
01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:38,140
drop on okay not the parking no the drill rig would come in right yeah so

938
01:12:38,140 --> 01:12:41,440
so both of those areas will have to be completed after the after the drill rig

939
01:12:41,440 --> 01:12:50,460
moves out yeah so when are the plantings going in will they go

940
01:12:50,460 --> 01:12:58,520
in soon enough to take advantage of the cooler and wetter weather. I'm going to ask Joel

941
01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:02,260
or Emily to answer to that. They talked about that a little bit today and I think the

942
01:13:02,260 --> 01:13:11,440
answer is no. Yeah, it's because this is Emily Drake but can we. I was the lead landscape

943
01:13:11,440 --> 01:13:17,200
architect on the project because we're getting into the fall season which is then going

944
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:23,140
go right into winter and the plants are going to go dormant and we're still

945
01:13:23,140 --> 01:13:27,180
dealing with getting the well drilled and there's a big field that's going to

946
01:13:27,180 --> 01:13:30,800
have a lot of sod that needs to be put on. So the planting is actually not going to

947
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,440
happen until probably beginning of March. That's what we're saying March for the

948
01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:40,380
opening. In to February after that last freeze that we typically get middle of

949
01:13:40,380 --> 01:13:44,080
February is when we're going to start seeing all of the planting come in and by

950
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:46,920
then everything will be ready for it. Irrigation will be complete and everything

951
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,200
Thank you, so I have a follow up question.

952
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:53,100
So how much, I mean, I know when getting established,

953
01:13:53,100 --> 01:13:54,780
you'll need to water them frequently.

954
01:13:55,380 --> 01:13:57,340
How many months into that?

955
01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:00,380
Do you see that going March, April, May, or beyond that?

956
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:05,100
So for a plan to be established, it's a year process.

957
01:14:05,440 --> 01:14:08,240
So that first year, you're going to be watering it.

958
01:14:08,620 --> 01:14:11,020
At our maximum, you're ever going to see them watered

959
01:14:11,020 --> 01:14:12,880
until they're completely established.

960
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:18,780
and then we'll get into a more kind of regular maintenance of the planting.

961
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,940
I was going to say it has a 6 on the front.

962
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:33,620
You said don't do math and don't ask me numbers without a piece of paper in front of me.

963
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:35,880
So yeah.

964
01:14:36,660 --> 01:14:39,060
I believe I have a table that you sent over.

965
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:42,120
Yes, it's all been quantified by our irrigation consultant.

966
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:45,760
So, we do have this number if you want those more specifically.

967
01:14:46,180 --> 01:14:46,780
Very good.

968
01:14:47,500 --> 01:14:48,520
Counseling further questions.

969
01:14:48,860 --> 01:14:53,960
Emily, what are the points of inflection that milestones are for the next few months?

970
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:55,660
We are going to really start things.

971
01:14:55,660 --> 01:14:59,860
So, in the next few weeks, you're actually going to see a lot of verticals.

972
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,980
Start happening. We have about half of the parkour quit the playground equipment on site. Once those footings get poured, as I think it's supposed to happen next week, pending any rain, you'll start seeing all of those start to go up so probably within the next three to four weeks, you'll see the playground installed, the equipment installed. And the stage is being poured. You'll start to see that we just made our final submittal for the roofing today. So you'll start to

973
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:38,440
I see that come to the site probably in the end of October, so four weeks, and then

974
01:15:38,440 --> 01:15:42,700
they're pouring the spiral at the end of the festival street.

975
01:15:42,900 --> 01:15:44,420
This week they've got it all formed up.

976
01:15:44,580 --> 01:15:47,180
It's super really, really cool looking.

977
01:15:49,780 --> 01:15:53,780
The pickle ball structure is the next big thing that you're going to see go up.

978
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:59,800
Once it's up, then we can paint the courts, then we can start getting the fencing back

979
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:04,580
up. So in the next month, you're going to see a lot of verticals go up.

980
01:16:04,580 --> 01:16:08,600
Right. So it'll be really important that we socialize that with our community

981
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:12,300
absolutely for people that have been waiting. I mean, it's like every building

982
01:16:12,300 --> 01:16:15,660
it's a hole in the ground. Yep. Then Brian gets excited about footers and

983
01:16:15,660 --> 01:16:19,320
underground electrical work. And then the rest of us look at vertical

984
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:24,100
structures. Yes. Yeah. And once the dry pond walls get all cured and everything

985
01:16:24,100 --> 01:16:27,800
they'll start putting masonry on it. And that'll start looking great. And that'll

986
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:31,500
have but in the next month to six weeks you're going to see a whole lot of

987
01:16:31,500 --> 01:16:36,040
things happen right that kind of wraps some of that stuff up and then unfortunately

988
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:39,020
it's going to be the well kind of coming in and getting drilled that kind of

989
01:16:39,020 --> 01:16:44,540
pushes us into those winter months in which we can't plan so that's what's kind of

990
01:16:44,540 --> 01:16:50,800
pushing it out to March so very good thank you council any further question thank

991
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:52,980
you are welcome are

992
01:16:57,650 --> 01:17:01,710
there any further questions for staff very well thank you

993
01:17:01,710 --> 01:17:03,510
Mr. Crane, appreciate the update.

994
01:17:04,450 --> 01:17:06,350
Moving into agenda item 7.9.

995
01:17:06,550 --> 01:17:09,930
This is the Water and Infrastructure Committee update.

996
01:17:10,250 --> 01:17:14,630
So as a quick reminder, this council has worked diligently

997
01:17:14,630 --> 01:17:16,750
and we created some subcommittees.

998
01:17:17,110 --> 01:17:19,330
Some of those subcommittees are transportation,

999
01:17:20,050 --> 01:17:22,950
subcommittee on water, subcommittee on customer service.

1000
01:17:23,650 --> 01:17:26,650
So thank you, Council Dodson, for representing your committee.

1001
01:17:26,830 --> 01:17:27,690
I look forward to the update.

1002
01:17:28,250 --> 01:17:34,050
Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor, fellow council members and citizens of Heath, I'd like

1003
01:17:34,050 --> 01:17:40,510
to take the next six or seven hours and go through the next on the agenda.

1004
01:17:42,350 --> 01:17:49,270
It will not be the first time that the mayor is shutting down, so we literally boil the

1005
01:17:49,270 --> 01:17:56,270
proverbial ocean on this topic and there's still a lot left to do and I'm just very pleased

1006
01:17:56,270 --> 01:18:02,530
to represent this committee tonight and bring our discussion items and findings in front

1007
01:18:02,530 --> 01:18:08,250
of this group for your thoughts and consideration and then some recommendations that we'll

1008
01:18:08,250 --> 01:18:10,990
have at the end of this Mr. Mayor as well.

1009
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:15,660
How do I go the other way this way?

1010
01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:16,300
Here we go.

1011
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:17,180
All right, great.

1012
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:23,800
So we looked at populating five different pillars with our group that we're going to spend

1013
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:30,440
some time talking about that we really looked at in pretty great detail and you know we looked

1014
01:18:30,440 --> 01:18:39,920
primarily at supply, storage, conservation and education, water loss, infrastructure and maintenance.

1015
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:48,120
Please excuse the typos. It was a late evening last night. Our committee consisted of the following

1016
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:54,660
including individuals, Steve Alexander, Ryan Mormon, Johnny Myers, Brian Creed, Candace

1017
01:18:54,660 --> 01:19:00,340
Gillespie, president of the FNH construction, Suzanne Brooke, Heath Director Communications,

1018
01:19:00,780 --> 01:19:07,380
Norma Duncan, and then Dr. Michael Heitz, who's the chief information officer at SMU to

1019
01:19:07,380 --> 01:19:12,540
help us with some macro data analysis in a lot of the different calculations that we were

1020
01:19:12,540 --> 01:19:17,920
working on with regards to the overall expected water usage for a city like

1021
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:23,060
Heath, not only for more we're at today, but on our expected build out in the

1022
01:19:23,060 --> 01:19:28,500
future as well. So assuming you could read this, let me just draw your attention to

1023
01:19:28,500 --> 01:19:34,080
just a couple of points here on this particular slide. This really sort of a

1024
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:39,180
baseline slide into what we know today. And Steve covered a bit of this at the

1025
01:19:39,180 --> 01:19:43,960
top just with regards to the amount of water that we have on hand, but then we

1026
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:48,840
really got into some calculations. And those calculations really assume that

1027
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:55,220
you know today's heat population is around 11.2 thousand people are projected

1028
01:19:55,220 --> 01:19:59,960
build out per our comprehensive plan is around 17,000.

1029
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:28,720
So, if 7 million gallons per day supports a population of 11,000, then the combined total of what we have on hand and in future plans from the city of Rockwall, and the estimates that we should enumer from the additional wells that we'll put online, and some potential for some additional future water from additional water sources, takes us to about 15.5 million gallons,

1030
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:34,920
which should support a population of 17,000 or so people with a buffer.

1031
01:20:35,480 --> 01:20:40,320
So it's impossible to decide really what that buffer is going to be or how much it

1032
01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:49,180
should be or what impact I think conservation will have on our city on a go-forward basis.

1033
01:20:49,820 --> 01:20:54,960
But these are all things that we're going to move against and plan for as well.

1034
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:58,960
So here are the items with that as a backdrop that we discussed.

1035
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:06,200
Things like peak demand, our water challenge isn't a year around challenge, it's a four

1036
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:10,200
to five-month-a-year challenge with regards to the peak demand that we have, primarily

1037
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:11,360
due to irrigation.

1038
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:16,780
If it was just supplying water to households, we would have it in spades we'd pack up and

1039
01:21:16,780 --> 01:21:17,220
go home.

1040
01:21:17,660 --> 01:21:22,180
But that's really not the situation that we have here because we mandate as a city that

1041
01:21:22,180 --> 01:21:30,040
that we have one house for one acre of developable land given our ordinance of SF-43 and with

1042
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:36,760
that comes some additional water usage. However, Dr. Heitz did some assessment for us with

1043
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:43,100
regards to the actual home usage given the different lot sizes that we have in Heath and there's

1044
01:21:43,100 --> 01:21:48,480
a significant number of very small lots like one-third acre lots that are using a massive

1045
01:21:48,480 --> 01:21:53,800
of amount of water. So it's really kind of all over the spectrum. So something to consider

1046
01:21:53,800 --> 01:22:00,640
here is not only do we have large home lots on a future plan basis, but we also have to

1047
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:08,700
rain in the excessive water usage from some of the lots that fall under that size restriction

1048
01:22:08,700 --> 01:22:14,500
as well. So we looked at conservation projections and the reliability of those. We talked a lot

1049
01:22:14,500 --> 01:22:20,720
as a group about what other cities have done on the conservation side and the benefit that they

1050
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:29,020
received for those cities for exercising pretty stringent conservation activities. And you'll hear a

1051
01:22:29,020 --> 01:22:34,460
little bit about that in a few minutes. We've already talked about water rate tiers and the tiers

1052
01:22:34,460 --> 01:22:42,260
that we'll have as a city are really designed from a behavior standpoint to take a look at the very

1053
01:22:42,260 --> 01:22:48,180
high users, the ones that use an excessive amount, and try to bring them into a range of

1054
01:22:48,180 --> 01:22:54,540
reasonableness so that the city can ignore the benefit of that excessive water that's

1055
01:22:54,540 --> 01:22:55,820
being used by those customers.

1056
01:22:56,480 --> 01:23:01,360
We talked tonight about the bond amounts based on the well and the storage costs and the

1057
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:01,660
timing.

1058
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:08,540
I think we made a solid decision with regards to our use and adjudication of a smaller bond,

1059
01:23:08,540 --> 01:23:15,700
which reflects in a smaller increase in the water rates required to pay for that bond and we're

1060
01:23:15,700 --> 01:23:21,760
also looking at two non-potable water well assets here in the city of Heath that are in existence

1061
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:29,360
that we may be able to utilize for non-potable purposes. Not only for irrigation, let's say in our

1062
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:36,380
town center park but the development of the reserve and other projects that will be developed in the

1063
01:23:36,380 --> 01:23:43,060
future for our city. Again our issues we sit here tonight and as we've sat here for a while

1064
01:23:43,060 --> 01:23:49,560
isn't day-to-day water usage it is an irrigation challenge and that irrigation challenge manifests

1065
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:55,080
itself for what we affectionately call Africa season which we're coming out of right now which we

1066
01:23:55,080 --> 01:24:00,820
should be able to climb back on top of the supply that we have and utilize that on a go-forward basis.

1067
01:24:00,820 --> 01:24:07,720
So storage, currently we have about 2 million gallons of storage and elevated tanks today.

1068
01:24:08,420 --> 01:24:14,820
We have a 3 million gallon in-ground storage facility and as Mr. Creed talked about earlier,

1069
01:24:15,140 --> 01:24:21,260
as well as Steve Alexander, we are planning to build an additional 1.5 million gallon elevated

1070
01:24:21,260 --> 01:24:26,400
tank which we hope to have completed by the end of 2027.

1071
01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:31,420
The long poll and the tent, I think, on a lot of these projects has to do with engineering.

1072
01:24:31,820 --> 01:24:33,140
It's no fault of the engineers.

1073
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:36,060
It just takes some while to develop the plans for this.

1074
01:24:36,700 --> 01:24:39,820
The engineering timeline for the elevated tank is about 200 days.

1075
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:43,820
The engineering timeline for an in-ground tank is about 400 days.

1076
01:24:44,480 --> 01:24:50,420
So splitting those two projects apart from bond one and bond two seemed to make sense for

1077
01:24:50,420 --> 01:24:55,600
us just from a adjudication of those dollars so that we can use the dollars and pull those

1078
01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:59,600
dollars down when we need them as opposed to pull all of it down.

1079
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:28,280
And then hold that in reserve for some period of time potentially at a higher interest rate. So, you know, we looked at current storage capacity in 2025, today being about 5 million gallons. And by the end of this exercise and these investments will essentially double that storage capacity to around 10 million gallons for the city. So we talked about the length of the time for the engineering, the timing of the co-development for the 3 million gallon in ground tank.

1080
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:39,300
and the reality there is we really don't have control over the 3 million gallon storage tank that we're partnering with the city of Rockwall 4.

1081
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:50,680
So we do have control or at least more control over the 1.5 million elevated tank and the 3 million gallon in ground tank which is what we have engineering services approved for today.

1082
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:55,240
So we also talked about additional assets needed for Wells 5 and 6.

1083
01:25:55,240 --> 01:26:11,200
So, wells 1 through 4 effectively are co-located by either elevated storage systems and or in ground systems that can take on that water and then move the water through the overall water system within heat.

1084
01:26:11,940 --> 01:26:18,180
Those two things at least were wells 5 and 6 are at least slated to go right now.

1085
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:22,000
They are really not co-located within any other storage facility.

1086
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:26,520
So we have to look at some different infrastructure with regards to pipe, with regards to pumps.

1087
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:31,420
And we have to get that water moved to a place where it can be pressurized and then put

1088
01:26:31,420 --> 01:26:34,340
throughout a yeast water supply system.

1089
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:41,100
The overall timing of the storage assets we talked about as well, and we confirmed tonight

1090
01:26:41,100 --> 01:26:43,940
that we'll be staging these bonds to match the work effort.

1091
01:26:45,180 --> 01:26:51,860
So on the conservation side, and I'm only really going to talk about a couple points here because

1092
01:26:51,860 --> 01:26:57,160
Suzanne Brooke just did an absolutely brilliant job of this a little bit later

1093
01:26:57,160 --> 01:27:01,500
here in the presentation. But so much of this messaging, branding and

1094
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positioning of our water conservation effort, I think it's critical for a city

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like ours. As you saw from the graph that Steve Alexander put up earlier, we're

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not the lowest water user in the area. We are one of the highest water users in the

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area even on cities that are two and three times our size.

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That draws the attention of our water provider, which is North Texas Municipal Water District.

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So us engaging in a water conservation program will also draw their attention but in a very

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favorable way.

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Steve's put in some calls to their executive director.

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They're now looking very favorably on the things that we plan to do here in Heath to help

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01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:49,440
us overall get and draw their favorable attention to move these things forward and to become more

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of a model city on how we react in order to the scarce resource that we have with water.

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So we're real excited about that. We're also going to look at modifying the water map on the

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daily water maps that we have today. You know, we have a few days, a couple of days of the week that

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use significantly more than the rest of the days and we're going to look to balance those out

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and socialize those with the community during the non-Africa type season, which starts in October and goes through the beginning of May.

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So there's a potential upside with compliance on conservation, but it's going to really be rooted in education

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and really putting forward the sustained effort with regards to what this program looks like in the field.

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So this will require a multi-level marketing approach.

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So for those of you in the private sector, it will involve social media, direct contact and marketing on a sustained effort over a long period of time.

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And just when you're sick of putting all the messaging out there, the community will just start paying attention to it.

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And that's okay because that's the way these things work. So Suzanne's got a great plan for that.

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01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:06,640
So we talked about this piece.

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01:29:09,330 --> 01:29:14,470
So we've talked a lot also about sort of beating the peak and water the

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01:29:14,470 --> 01:29:18,750
Heathway and the Heathway is a responsible way that we really want to get

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01:29:18,750 --> 01:29:24,030
behind and watering on your days of execution. We've seen that throughout this

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01:29:24,030 --> 01:29:29,290
year that when people take that into consideration we use significantly less

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water. So out of around 4,100 homes that we have in the city of Heath, at some

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One point to the year early on, we had about a 10% noncompliance rate.

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And that 10% noncompliance rate on people watering on their non-watering days, comprised

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of about 1.2 to 1.5 million gallons of additional water usage, just from the people not watering

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01:29:51,810 --> 01:29:53,090
on the days they're supposed to.

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So we were able through, I think, constant communication to lower that to around 5%.

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So the...

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All Delta wasn't as great, and so we believe that the messaging is getting out there, and we're going to stay consistent with that as time goes on. So what Suzanne has put together here is a multi-level chart of Biblical proportions. And you know, what supposing that you could read this, you would see that there's a social media section, a website section, a targeted update section, an events and a PR section where we bring in subject matter

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01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:36,640
experts that talk about water-wise techniques and using Texas native plants and how much

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01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:41,260
water to put on your lawn and everything else and a lot of this is really going to be wrapped

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01:30:41,260 --> 01:30:44,860
around what we're doing here at Towns Center Park because that's really going to be the

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01:30:44,860 --> 01:30:50,600
showcase for us to really step out and talk to our citizens about what these plantings look like,

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01:30:50,740 --> 01:30:55,280
what these soft skate materials are and then you don't have to look at zero escape with rocks and

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01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:59,020
and cactuses in your yard to be water wise and conscious about that.

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We also have a 90-day plan that will be executed against at the conclusion of this meeting starting

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01:31:08,050 --> 01:31:14,030
in October and it will include all of these elements and open for discussion and consideration

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01:31:14,030 --> 01:31:19,190
will be a town hall meeting where we'll talk about the elements of conservation where we'll

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01:31:19,190 --> 01:31:24,890
talk about our water bridge plan, the timing for that, and continue to bring the citizens

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01:31:24,890 --> 01:31:30,250
of this town along with us as we embark on these big capital intensive projects.

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From a water loss standpoint, you know, our two areas that this covers includes evaporation and system leakage.

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01:31:41,410 --> 01:31:50,230
Ryan Mormon and I think Dr. Heitz did a calculation that kind of at the peak during our summer we can lose up to about 400,000 gallons a day

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01:31:50,230 --> 01:31:54,090
just on the pools that are on the ground in Heath and water evaporation.

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01:31:54,090 --> 01:32:00,430
And we were fortunate this year not to have a truckload of triple digit days, but you guys

1143
01:32:00,430 --> 01:32:04,790
know what I mean when you have to go out there and turn your pool pump on to kind of

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01:32:04,790 --> 01:32:05,650
refill those things.

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01:32:06,390 --> 01:32:11,930
But overall, I think that we must develop a plan for the assessment of our water loss and

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01:32:11,930 --> 01:32:13,590
a plan to reduce this over time.

1147
01:32:14,190 --> 01:32:19,130
We've got this wonderful Ferrari of a water management system that's now in place with

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01:32:19,130 --> 01:32:24,090
the new water meters that we have and I think that this will give us the ability to take

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01:32:24,090 --> 01:32:29,430
a look at that and analyze that data to look at outliers and see if there are leaks

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01:32:29,430 --> 01:32:36,570
in the system so that we can take care of those quickly and that we're not spending water

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01:32:36,570 --> 01:32:41,230
in until places so that we have the ability to use that for our citizens.

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01:32:42,170 --> 01:32:46,790
I think also one of the things that we need to do is we need to calculate the water we're

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01:32:46,790 --> 01:32:51,750
going to need for our park on an ongoing basis, not only on the installation side, which

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01:32:51,750 --> 01:32:57,270
will be about 600,000 gallons a day, while all of the soft skate materials, particularly

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01:32:57,270 --> 01:33:03,890
the grass, which is the big water hog, to basically get seeded in really the right way,

1156
01:33:04,130 --> 01:33:09,350
but really on an ongoing basis as well, maintenance costs are something I think that are overlooked,

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01:33:09,790 --> 01:33:12,010
but end up biting you in future budget years.

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01:33:12,330 --> 01:33:14,390
So we want to look at that as well.

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01:33:16,420 --> 01:33:21,400
So, you know, we looked at things such as, you know, how does our estimate on park watering

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01:33:21,400 --> 01:33:27,020
demand and future commercial development impact water needs? And, you know, what do we need

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01:33:27,020 --> 01:33:32,340
from a non-potable water perspective to actually go after these things? And this year with so many

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01:33:32,340 --> 01:33:37,820
line breakages, and it's like playing Wacomole, I think, for about two or three months out of the year

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01:33:37,820 --> 01:33:43,520
this year, every time that we had a contractor in Heath, they ended up hitting lines that, you know,

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01:33:43,520 --> 01:33:45,260
we just didn't know anything about.

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01:33:45,980 --> 01:33:48,560
So our intelligence has to get better on kind of what we have

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01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:51,520
underground because as building takes place,

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01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:53,720
we can't afford all of these outages.

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01:33:54,620 --> 01:33:57,640
And also, how does Heath improve its redundancy

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01:33:58,080 --> 01:34:00,740
given our dependence on rock wall for our water supply?

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01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:05,440
Right now, we are absolutely tied to the city of rock wall

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01:34:05,440 --> 01:34:07,960
with regards to every drop of water that we get.

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And I think that's a fairly vulnerable position to be in.

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So I think that having wells online or having parallel lines gives us the ability to explore redundancy options

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01:34:20,740 --> 01:34:26,160
which will benefit the city and the citizens that are in heath as well.

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01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:32,180
So on the infrastructure and on the maintenance side, just two items here.

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You know, we need to proactively update our infrastructure.

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We have aging infrastructure, old pipes and connections.

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and we have some big capital expenses coming up with regards to the motors that are going to be used in the electronics that are going to be used on these well systems.

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01:34:50,540 --> 01:34:58,280
Like we found out just a few years ago where we had a pump went down and we had to wait quite a while for a new pump to become available.

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01:34:58,280 --> 01:34:59,440
and I think

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In the perfect storm, it was kind of during the COVID season. We're really nothing was available, you know, anyway. We need to avoid that at all costs and plan in the future for some backup and some redundancy given our reliance on these systems on a go-forward basis. So, Dr. Heights, I'd like to thank you for your incredible brain power and your analytical capability in helping us come up with some of these models and some of these issues where we're kind of looking around corners.

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01:35:29,420 --> 01:35:34,340
trying to solve for the unseen things and running companies in what have you in

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01:35:34,340 --> 01:35:38,060
the past. I know you've been in the private sector as well. You have to be able to

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01:35:38,060 --> 01:35:41,980
see around corners and be able to predict the future even when it's not clear.

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01:35:42,340 --> 01:35:43,420
So thanks for your help with there.

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01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:49,060
So this slide just basically talks to some of

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01:35:49,060 --> 01:35:53,540
the subject matter experts that we've reached out to that have voiced their

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01:35:53,540 --> 01:35:59,220
willingness to come in and assist us. The agriculture and natural resources team at

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01:35:59,220 --> 01:36:07,680
Texas A&M, the TCEQ Committee has offered to come in and work with us as well.

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01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:13,360
We talked about North Texas Municipal Water District, the North Central Texas Council of

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01:36:13,360 --> 01:36:20,980
Governments, and also deep well-drilling experts who have significantly added to at least

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01:36:20,980 --> 01:36:21,620
our knowledge.

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I think Brian's the only one that has expertise, but the rest of us just have an ongoing

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01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:36,760
knowing knowledge base with regards to what it takes to put holes in the ground and casing and pumps and motors and pull things out that we can actually drink and enjoy in our daily lives.

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01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:50,240
But we have a whole system of people that I think are willing to come in and work with us at the committee level and work with us at the city level to help us get smarter and to help us get better at what we're doing for our overall water plan.

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So,

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our immediate recommendations are as follows.

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We are already in the midst of executing well number one.

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We've already approved engineering for the elevated and the in-ground storage in that

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01:37:07,420 --> 01:37:07,920
centerway.

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01:37:09,700 --> 01:37:15,740
As Brian mentioned earlier, staff is reviewing the engineering work for wells number two

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01:37:15,740 --> 01:37:16,720
through number four.

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01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:22,700
We need to then look at expediting the bid for the solicitation of the work for those wells

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01:37:22,700 --> 01:37:29,040
and assess the requirements for the costs for wells number five and six, given the different

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01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:35,480
items that those present to us in terms of the need for pumps and piping to get that water to

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01:37:35,480 --> 01:37:42,060
the point where it can be utilized. We need and we look today and we accomplished modifying the bond

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01:37:42,060 --> 01:37:49,400
to reflect the lower well-cost estimates and also the second bond option. So Steve, thanks for

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01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:54,460
bringing that in front of the group. And again, you know, I get back to probably the biggest

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01:37:54,460 --> 01:38:01,000
upside we have outside of supply is the conservation piece. So it's not something at the beginning

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01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:06,320
of a process that you can put your finger on, but should we be successful with this? We can

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01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:12,560
absolutely and we're the benefit potentially for future water supply needs by being able

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01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:19,380
to exercise some conservation efforts with what we're doing here as a city as well. And

1213
01:38:19,380 --> 01:38:23,380
with that, the less our demand will be, the less our demand will be, the less expensive

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01:38:23,380 --> 01:38:26,820
it will be for us as citizens of this city.

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01:38:27,660 --> 01:38:33,700
So in short, we talked about a lot, and I've talked a lot here tonight, and I'm sorry

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01:38:33,700 --> 01:38:34,220
for that.

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01:38:34,660 --> 01:38:36,460
But we got a lot left to do, right?

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01:38:36,820 --> 01:38:42,240
And this committee will continue to move forward and try to wrestle to the ground some

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01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:47,280
of the biggest issues surrounding a lot of these bullet points and action items here so

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01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:49,540
so that we can help make the best decision possible

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01:38:49,860 --> 01:38:52,900
and bring those recommendations in front of the mayor

1222
01:38:52,900 --> 01:38:55,160
and the council and the citizens of Heath.

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01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:58,340
So I'm happy to take any questions that you all might have.

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01:39:00,410 --> 01:39:01,330
First off, let me just

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01:39:19,060 --> 01:39:19,700
time council,

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01:39:19,960 --> 01:39:22,200
are there any questions for councilman Dunes?

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01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:25,060
Okay,

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01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:30,040
moving into agenda item seven.j,

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01:39:30,540 --> 01:39:32,960
transportation roads and drainage strategy committee.

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01:39:33,480 --> 01:39:35,320
Update, councilman, they're good.

1231
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:41,720
Good evening.

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01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:44,480
Hope you all bear with me.

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01:39:44,480 --> 01:39:48,500
This is my first time all right. Oh

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01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:55,500
look at that. It's it's really not that hard. Okay, got it. Here we go.

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Transportation roads and drainage strategy.

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01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:29,060
So I have committee that I'm chairing, and along with myself, I have council member Ryan Mormon and council member Mitch Onbi, who are helping with this committee, as well as many members of the city staff. So our vision here is to create a sustainable, resilient and efficient transportation and drainage infrastructure system that enables public safety, supports responsible growth, and improves the quality of life for all residents here in Heath, Texas.

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01:40:29,060 --> 01:40:34,860
Our mission statement is to partner with city staff, residents, engineers, and planners

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01:40:34,860 --> 01:40:40,660
in prioritizing implementing and data-driven community-supported maintenance and capital

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01:40:40,660 --> 01:40:46,060
improvement projects for transportation, drainage, emphasizing transparency, fiscal

1240
01:40:46,060 --> 01:40:48,740
responsibility, and environmental stewardship.

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01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:58,780
So here we have the strategies, and I'll be going into greater depth on these strategies

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01:40:58,780 --> 01:41:05,680
on subsequent slides, but just to say that coordinating with staff, we work with city staff

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01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:11,120
to improve teamwork and keep projects moving smoothly. We assess needs and data by looking

1244
01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:15,900
at community input and data to understand the needs and the set the right priorities for

1245
01:41:15,900 --> 01:41:23,520
our community. CIP, which is the capital improvement projects, are to review big city projects

1246
01:41:23,520 --> 01:41:27,140
and make sure that they line up with today's needs and priorities.

1247
01:41:27,880 --> 01:41:30,460
Identifying funding is always important.

1248
01:41:31,160 --> 01:41:36,100
We find ways to pay for projects by seeking grants using fees and building partnerships.

1249
01:41:36,860 --> 01:41:40,040
Engaging with the community is really important.

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01:41:40,680 --> 01:41:45,440
We connect with the community through social media and person events and other ways

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01:41:45,440 --> 01:41:49,740
in order to gather input and keep residents informed.

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01:41:49,740 --> 01:41:55,160
And then pursuing sustainable and resilient solutions, we plan for the long term by choosing

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01:41:55,160 --> 01:41:58,540
solutions that last and can handle future challenges.

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Here we go.

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01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:04,620
So we have a few items on here to consider.

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01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:11,640
First of all, we've got customer service and we review conditions assessments and have

1257
01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:14,780
identified some priorities for repairs.

1258
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:23,980
The CIP list was last updated in 2020, and this is where we stand currently.

1259
01:42:24,700 --> 01:42:31,560
We have two CIP projects completed, White Road and Rabbit Ridge, and a third Hubbard Drive,

1260
01:42:31,660 --> 01:42:34,840
which we've talked about this evening, is still under construction.

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01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:43,240
Another thing, under Assess Needs, you see a community CRM, that's a customer request management program,

1262
01:42:43,240 --> 01:42:51,880
and that is a way for the community to be engaged when they see a need that arises on a roadway.

1263
01:42:52,500 --> 01:43:02,760
This is the way they can inform the city and this program goes to report street issues

1264
01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:08,680
and it gathers that data so we can put it in our assessments.

1265
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:13,040
So, here we go, pavement condition report.

1266
01:43:13,620 --> 01:43:17,780
This is a PCI, pavement condition index, all right?

1267
01:43:18,380 --> 01:43:22,300
And the score is from 0 to 100 on the condition of the roads,

1268
01:43:22,520 --> 01:43:28,200
0 being very, very poor, failed, and 100 being good, good.

1269
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:34,900
So you'll see that 87% of these streets, 87% of the street miles,

1270
01:43:34,900 --> 01:43:38,460
I should say that in the city are scored as fair or better.

1271
01:43:39,200 --> 01:43:44,200
So that's not terrible, but we certainly have room for improvement.

1272
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:49,800
And if you live on any of these roads or near any of these roads and traffic,

1273
01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:57,060
these roads frequently that score worse than fair or even sometimes fair,

1274
01:43:57,460 --> 01:44:01,300
you might really feel like there is some work to be done here.

1275
01:44:01,300 --> 01:44:03,520
and we are excited to get to work.

1276
01:44:04,780 --> 01:44:10,840
The City of Heath in 2025, Road Maintenance Program Goals,

1277
01:44:11,780 --> 01:44:18,880
we have actually not had a Road Maintenance Program or crew.

1278
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:23,520
And tonight that's going to change because we approved the budget

1279
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:28,020
for the upcoming fiscal year, and along with that comes the budget

1280
01:44:28,020 --> 01:44:32,160
for a designated road maintenance crew.

1281
01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:34,660
And that's going to be very exciting.

1282
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:37,360
Just to set the expectations, though,

1283
01:44:37,620 --> 01:44:42,740
this is not a, it's a rudiment tree crew.

1284
01:44:43,180 --> 01:44:45,420
They will be equipped to fill potholes

1285
01:44:45,420 --> 01:44:48,120
and fix street signs, but they will not

1286
01:44:48,120 --> 01:44:51,120
be replacing concrete, right?

1287
01:44:51,480 --> 01:44:53,200
Panels or anything of that nature.

1288
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:56,760
That's far more, yeah, far more work

1289
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:59,980
then the two-man crew will be able to do, but I am...

1290
01:45:00,050 --> 01:45:29,970
Really excited that this is a marked a day marked in history with our city to finally have a road maintenance crew that is designated to help with our roads on the everyday. So, staff is pursuing currently a request for proposals, which is an RFP to launch the 2025 road maintenance program. When we started meeting several months ago, we've had seven meetings thus far over the past several months. And five of those meetings have been with staff.

1291
01:45:31,470 --> 01:45:36,870
And initially, we didn't have any money and therefore we really didn't have, you know,

1292
01:45:37,110 --> 01:45:41,550
it was very much for a meeting to dream about what we might do when we did have money.

1293
01:45:41,870 --> 01:45:53,270
And so, the budget that was set aside to fix roads this year was earmarked to fix the bridge on MetaView Road,

1294
01:45:53,270 --> 01:45:55,350
which we looked at earlier this evening.

1295
01:45:55,350 --> 01:46:04,990
and when it came about that we were able to use funds from another source and therefore open up the funds for this year's budget for road maintenance.

1296
01:46:05,810 --> 01:46:17,590
I felt like it was Christmas Day when Brian Creed announced that at our committee meeting and we got to work looking at, well, great, where do we start because there is a lot to be done.

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01:46:17,590 --> 01:46:24,550
So we'll use that money to address concrete point repairs as identified and also to evaluate

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and implement asphalt overlay where that might be appropriate.

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All right, identifying funding.

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01:46:31,210 --> 01:46:34,090
So I've talked a little bit about, we have a little bit of money.

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01:46:34,970 --> 01:46:37,490
Albert Drive is being funded through existing resources.

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01:46:37,770 --> 01:46:40,790
Metavue repair will be funded through existing resources.

1303
01:46:41,070 --> 01:46:45,250
Terry Lane will in large part be funded through the county funds.

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01:46:45,250 --> 01:46:51,070
I think they have earmarked about $2 million for that.

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01:46:51,690 --> 01:46:52,590
So that's wonderful.

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01:46:52,870 --> 01:46:57,270
So staff is also reaching out to a few other funding resources.

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01:46:58,330 --> 01:47:02,830
There's a lot of letters that probably don't mean much to you and I have them on my sheet

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01:47:02,830 --> 01:47:03,770
somewhere if I can.

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01:47:04,730 --> 01:47:06,510
Anyhow, I'm not sure that you really care.

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01:47:06,510 --> 01:47:17,830
But NC TCOG and TWDB and TCEQ are also ways we can, they are sources where we can apply

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01:47:17,830 --> 01:47:21,730
for grants and other ways to, perhaps, help with funding issues.

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01:47:22,310 --> 01:47:32,130
Engaging the community, we talked a little bit about the community response and request

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01:47:32,130 --> 01:47:45,410
the best line that we have with the city in order to log the community, asking for certain repairs to be done, and therefore we can have that communicated and have that a part of the equation essentially.

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01:47:46,250 --> 01:47:53,350
We do prioritize roads that impact the most residents and also are in the worst shape.

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01:47:53,350 --> 01:48:02,790
So those are the, I guess, the ways we look at the priorities that need a road to repairs

1316
01:48:02,790 --> 01:48:03,650
that need to be fixed.

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01:48:05,810 --> 01:48:12,750
So solutions, there's a lot I can say about the solutions, let's see here, okay.

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01:48:14,830 --> 01:48:15,810
The solutions.

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01:48:16,070 --> 01:48:17,270
So let's just go through these.

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01:48:17,270 --> 01:48:23,590
First of all establishing a storm water ordinance to provide a fee for storm water management.

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01:48:23,910 --> 01:48:28,370
It's something we've definitely discussed in our meetings and perhaps something that could

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01:48:28,370 --> 01:48:35,970
come to an agenda item is we really don't have the funds to fix a lot of our drainage issues

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01:48:35,970 --> 01:48:42,370
that come up in the city and there are many and we do have a list of things that need to be addressed

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01:48:42,370 --> 01:48:49,110
with that but we really don't have the funding clearly identified to tackle

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01:48:49,110 --> 01:48:53,690
that list. Does that make sense? So that's something that we are currently

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01:48:53,690 --> 01:48:58,770
working on and that might come up for an agenda item in a subsequent meeting.

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01:48:59,390 --> 01:49:03,010
Updating the city's engineering design standards for road and

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01:49:03,010 --> 01:49:08,770
drainage infrastructure. When our resident Ginny here got up and said that she

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01:49:08,770 --> 01:49:10,370
in 1991, I believe.

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01:49:12,410 --> 01:49:19,130
Oh, 1971. Oh, okay. Wow, that was a long time ago. Well, so I wrote

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01:49:19,130 --> 01:49:25,710
that down wrong. No, our ordinances were, I haven't been updated since about 91, so about

1332
01:49:25,710 --> 01:49:31,250
20 years after you moved here, so not then, but it's been a long time, even still, because

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01:49:31,250 --> 01:49:37,570
1991 and 93, 92, 93, those for the years, which those ordinances were done, and it's time

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01:49:37,570 --> 01:49:44,730
to update those and that is certainly something I look forward to our committee will work

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01:49:44,730 --> 01:49:48,790
with a new engineer in which the city is hiring to address.

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01:49:49,990 --> 01:49:57,590
And then another solution we're working on is to stand up, stand up, and start up,

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01:49:57,910 --> 01:49:59,510
I think is what I meant to write there.

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01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:29,640
An engineering division. Again, like I mentioned, we're hiring a new city engineer. That will be great. And then establish a street maintenance program, which is super exciting because now we have two people who will be a part of that ongoing program. So here we have a summary of what we've discussed here. Looking ahead, this is a reiteration of our plan, aligning it with available resources through an objective data driven process.

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01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:32,220
in order to prioritize needs.

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01:50:35,560 --> 01:50:38,420
Recently, at our last meeting, we collaborated

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01:50:38,420 --> 01:50:41,720
with the Rockwell ISD on the Horizon Road Traffic.

1342
01:50:42,340 --> 01:50:47,460
That is particularly acute during school drop-off

1343
01:50:47,460 --> 01:50:48,500
and pick-up times.

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01:50:49,440 --> 01:50:52,840
So this is an issue that has come up

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01:50:52,840 --> 01:50:56,840
and has had a lot of citizen engagement and concern

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01:50:56,840 --> 01:50:59,100
and it was a very productive meeting.

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01:50:59,100 --> 01:51:05,360
I feel we had with them and where we did actually come to an agreement of some things we're

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01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:07,740
going to consider to alleviate the traffic.

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01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:12,860
Now, along with engaging, I just wanted to point out here that, along with our committee

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01:51:12,860 --> 01:51:18,200
engaging with the city staff and they are invaluable because they tell us all of the things that

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01:51:18,200 --> 01:51:24,220
we need to know in order to take action on improving our city roads.

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01:51:24,220 --> 01:51:31,120
We had the special privilege of also meeting in person with representatives from Rockwell, ISD.

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01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:35,780
Now although communication between the city and school district has historically been positive,

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01:51:36,260 --> 01:51:42,500
the committee emphasizes the importance of strengthening relationships through direct interaction.

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01:51:43,000 --> 01:51:48,040
And this meeting created an opportunity to align ourselves on shared priorities and

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01:51:48,040 --> 01:51:52,860
reaffirm the joint responsibility for maintaining safe, efficient transportation and

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01:51:52,860 --> 01:51:54,660
traffic flow around the school facilities.

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01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:59,120
Recognizing the school district as one of the city's key partners,

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01:51:59,120 --> 01:52:04,420
the committee is committed to ongoing collaboration to support the safety of children and

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01:52:04,420 --> 01:52:11,300
parents during daily school commutes and to coordinate on infrastructure needs that directly impact schools.

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01:52:11,960 --> 01:52:17,780
So I really look forward to some solutions coming from that soon.

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01:52:19,060 --> 01:52:26,820
This is a journey. It's not a sprint. When I was running for this seat on the City Council,

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01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:31,060
I was motivated by a lot of these things we've been tackling in this subcommittee.

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01:52:31,720 --> 01:52:37,860
And my perception then was it would be way easier to accomplish the things that are not

1365
01:52:37,860 --> 01:52:47,660
impossible, but it's not a snap of the fingers. But I am now seeing the road and we all are.

1366
01:52:47,660 --> 01:52:52,560
seen the road ahead to accomplish the goals that we have and I absolutely am

1367
01:52:52,560 --> 01:52:57,380
excited to see them get accomplished. But do are there any questions at this time?

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01:52:57,520 --> 01:53:01,760
Very good. Thank you, Councilwoman. At this time, Chair Wilhelm, if you have any

1369
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:10,980
questions toward the Councilwoman, let me continue to say thank you. Again you

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01:53:10,980 --> 01:53:20,260
guys worked a lot of items to even boil it down. It starts really high and you

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01:53:20,260 --> 01:53:35,040
You guys have been able to do that, and I'm very excited to see what you guys do moving forward as we continue to tackle an update of our thoroughfare plan, as well as working on items for some of these roads that we do have major concerns with.

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So thank you.

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01:53:36,120 --> 01:53:42,280
Appreciate it. Moving into agenda item 7.k, customer service committee update, Councilman Dodson.

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Thanks very much, Mayor.

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01:53:49,700 --> 01:53:56,850
We worked as a committee on really one large overarching item, and that is how do you improve

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01:53:56,850 --> 01:54:02,170
customer service with a city knowing that all the citizens that we engage with are

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01:54:02,170 --> 01:54:09,130
in effect customers of the city and clients of the city in many, many cases.

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01:54:09,850 --> 01:54:15,570
So, we had the distinct privilege to look at things through a different set of lenses

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01:54:15,570 --> 01:54:17,930
throughout this particular exercise.

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01:54:18,970 --> 01:54:22,730
And you know, one of the things that we talked about was how do we delight our citizens

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01:54:22,730 --> 01:54:25,650
with a real service-oriented culture?

1382
01:54:26,410 --> 01:54:30,530
How can we change the narrative from, oh my God, I've got to call the city, too?

1383
01:54:31,130 --> 01:54:34,750
Wow, you know, I actually had a pretty good experience and they really helped me with

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01:54:34,750 --> 01:54:35,830
the problem that I had.

1385
01:54:35,830 --> 01:54:42,070
And I think a lot of it starts internally, but I think a lot of it also falls on the

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01:54:42,070 --> 01:54:47,550
responsibility of everyone that engages with citizens including Council, including

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01:54:47,550 --> 01:54:50,450
the boards that we have as well as city staff.

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So our team consisted of Mr. Alexander, myself, Cindy Horn, Dan and McDermott are I

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My team manager and Logan Petty are deputy city secretary. And what we really spent some time looking at, and our key objectives were really as follows. How do we create a service oriented culture within a municipality? How do we establish clear and measurable specific expectations for our customer facing staff? How do we empower staff with the tools and the skills mindset to deliver excellent results? And how do we make it easy for residents to provide

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01:55:29,900 --> 01:55:33,500
feedback, express concerns, and solve problems.

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01:55:34,340 --> 01:55:38,720
And then at the end of the day, how do we evaluate our effectiveness, leveraging digital

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01:55:38,720 --> 01:55:47,920
tools to enhance that engagement and our responsiveness and accountability so that the calls that

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01:55:47,920 --> 01:55:49,980
come in don't end up in the circular file.

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Or you get lost in the nested loop of the digital underground where you get six telephone

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01:55:56,760 --> 01:56:03,520
own prompts, which lead you to someone hanging up on you, which is certainly akin to kind

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01:56:03,520 --> 01:56:09,660
of ruining your day. So, our service pillars are really just three. And we talked a lot

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about the Heath way, and I'm going to have Steve Alexander talk about what that concept

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01:56:14,100 --> 01:56:20,120
is, and what we're going to try to incorporate here in Heath, that's pervasive from top

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01:56:20,120 --> 01:56:25,760
to bottom, not only in our city, but throughout our community as well. We're also going to

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01:56:25,760 --> 01:56:29,400
talk about rewards and recognition, how do you catch people doing the right things?

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01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:32,640
As opposed to how do you reprimand them for doing the wrong things?

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01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:34,600
We want to catch people doing things right.

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01:56:35,220 --> 01:56:37,720
We want to reward and we want to recognize them for that.

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01:56:37,840 --> 01:56:42,200
We want to celebrate that and we want everybody to kind of participate along those lines.

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01:56:43,200 --> 01:56:48,640
And then as was talked about with Shell and with others, how do we engage our citizens

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01:56:48,640 --> 01:56:54,920
in a meaningful, easy-to-use portal where everyone can take and use their cell phones and

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01:56:54,920 --> 01:56:57,680
and access the portal and talk about concerns

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01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:00,580
or talk about engagement with a system

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01:57:00,580 --> 01:57:03,840
that will track their call and their complaint

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01:57:03,840 --> 01:57:06,720
or their service request all the way through

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01:57:06,720 --> 01:57:08,940
and even automatically escalate it

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01:57:08,940 --> 01:57:12,620
throughout our city staff so that everyone,

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01:57:12,960 --> 01:57:14,680
particularly upper management,

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01:57:15,040 --> 01:57:19,980
has the ability to see and to acknowledge these requests

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01:57:20,320 --> 01:57:22,060
and follow up on them accordingly.

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So, with that, let me bring up Steve Alexander to talk about the Heathway, which I think

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is really the underpining of a lot of what this program is all about, Steve.

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01:57:40,500 --> 01:57:42,500
I trust you'll back clean up for me.

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01:57:42,840 --> 01:57:43,940
All right, John.

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01:57:44,140 --> 01:57:44,780
Thank you.

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01:57:46,820 --> 01:57:48,360
So, the Heathway,

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01:57:51,400 --> 01:57:59,280
the idea is to memorialize a philosophy, to create a corporate culture

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01:57:59,280 --> 01:58:06,560
that centers on the customer, right, focuses on customer service, you know, we don't have

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01:58:06,560 --> 01:58:11,240
that memorialized as an organization. That's not to say we don't have great people doing

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01:58:11,240 --> 01:58:17,380
great work every day in our organization, but it is important to, in my estimation, to

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01:58:17,380 --> 01:58:26,160
establish memorialize, if you will, what we aspire to do for others. We're a service-based

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01:58:26,160 --> 01:58:33,840
organization and so people that work here have a servant heart and so sometimes though they don't

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01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:40,480
have anything to aim for as far as what is expected and so in council members in your packet and

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01:58:40,480 --> 01:58:45,940
for members of the public would like to read it in the packet there is a document entitled The Heath

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01:58:45,940 --> 01:58:55,680
Way and the idea is to again create an aspirational document of what we're seeking to be what we're

1431
01:58:55,680 --> 01:59:01,120
seeking how we're, the expectations we're setting for ourselves.

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01:59:02,540 --> 01:59:07,540
Things like, well let me back up, so when I talk about this kind of stuff, I'm reminded

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01:59:07,540 --> 01:59:12,320
of a quote that was said to me many years ago about customer service and it kind of goes

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01:59:12,320 --> 01:59:15,540
like impressions are formed by the accumulation of small surprises.

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01:59:17,240 --> 01:59:23,820
So if somebody comes in, needs something, and they get about experience, over time that

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01:59:23,820 --> 01:59:27,760
I can create a bad image, a bad feeling towards the organization.

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01:59:28,760 --> 01:59:32,720
But even the smallest interactions, the smallest things that happen in a good way on a regular

1438
01:59:32,720 --> 01:59:36,660
basis can create a good impression of the organization.

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01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:40,920
So if somebody is coming to drop something off, they need some help for one of us as an

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01:59:40,920 --> 01:59:45,320
employee here to take that and help that person get that done, or just simply following over

1441
01:59:45,320 --> 01:59:47,040
the phone call to say, hey, did we meet your needs?

1442
01:59:47,040 --> 01:59:48,680
Did we get your issue taken care of?

1443
01:59:49,140 --> 01:59:51,200
Maybe we're not the one handling it.

1444
01:59:51,200 --> 01:59:57,340
Maybe if I call if I get that person connected with the right person and I follow up with a phone call a few days later

1445
01:59:57,340 --> 01:59:59,180
Say do we get everything taken care for you?

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02:00:00,180 --> 02:00:29,160
It's a small thing, but impressions are formed by the accumulation of small surprises. It's not always expected to get a return phone call. Or maybe if city staff makes a mistake, or an organization makes us in a state, send some flowers, send a apology note. Something that you don't always see happen, but that's a small surprise, and over time, that accumulation of those small surprises will formulate a positive opinion of our organization. But we have to empower people to be able to do those things, right?

1447
02:00:29,160 --> 02:00:35,460
we have to let people know that it's okay to take care of business in that way, that we expect

1448
02:00:35,460 --> 02:00:41,100
our employees, our organization, to take care of its customers. And that's what the Heathway

1449
02:00:41,100 --> 02:00:49,940
is about. Trying to set that in motion, and still that in our employees, preach it, train it,

1450
02:00:51,020 --> 02:00:57,900
evaluate performance on it, and over time we end up with the Heathway, the way we want to conduct

1451
02:00:57,900 --> 02:01:00,020
like business, the way we want to treat our customers,

1452
02:01:00,380 --> 02:01:01,880
the way we want our customers to feel

1453
02:01:02,260 --> 02:01:03,640
when they come to organization,

1454
02:01:03,860 --> 02:01:05,760
or they call it our organization,

1455
02:01:06,440 --> 02:01:08,240
that we want to make sure they have a good experience.

1456
02:01:08,360 --> 02:01:10,460
To the extent we can, not all experiences are great, right?

1457
02:01:10,620 --> 02:01:12,560
If you're paying a municipal court ticket,

1458
02:01:13,060 --> 02:01:14,500
you may not be real happy about it.

1459
02:01:14,760 --> 02:01:16,740
But perhaps if we had a jar of candy sitting out there

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02:01:16,740 --> 02:01:18,280
for somebody to take a piece of candy

1461
02:01:18,280 --> 02:01:19,000
while they're here doing it,

1462
02:01:19,080 --> 02:01:20,140
it may make us feel a little better.

1463
02:01:20,380 --> 02:01:21,480
I mean, it's small stuff, right?

1464
02:01:21,980 --> 02:01:23,580
But it's how we treat our customers,

1465
02:01:23,720 --> 02:01:24,900
how we want our customers to feel

1466
02:01:24,900 --> 02:01:27,300
when they come here and they interact with us.

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02:01:27,920 --> 02:01:31,640
You know, focusing on going beyond the golden rule, right?

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02:01:32,120 --> 02:01:34,560
Golden rule is doing others as you would have them do unto you.

1469
02:01:34,740 --> 02:01:39,260
Well, how about do better unto others as you would have them do unto you?

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02:01:39,380 --> 02:01:42,480
That's the kind of mindset we want to have as an organization

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02:01:42,960 --> 02:01:46,340
and that's what you'll find as you read the Heath way

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02:01:46,900 --> 02:01:50,180
and what we want to start instilling in our employees

1473
02:01:50,180 --> 02:01:55,820
and instilling in our, the folks that work on behalf of the citizens of Heath.

1474
02:01:58,910 --> 02:02:04,210
taking a personal approach to how we do things, owning the issues as they come to us.

1475
02:02:04,630 --> 02:02:06,630
I mentioned earlier about following up with a phone call.

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02:02:07,190 --> 02:02:11,990
If we can take care of a residence complaint or if somebody that comes in and by the way,

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02:02:12,130 --> 02:02:15,070
part of the Heath way is establishing what is a customer.

1478
02:02:15,190 --> 02:02:16,310
How do we define a customer?

1479
02:02:16,590 --> 02:02:18,730
It's not just, I mean, it is residents.

1480
02:02:19,190 --> 02:02:21,310
It's internal employees working with each other.

1481
02:02:21,570 --> 02:02:22,870
It's contractors that come in.

1482
02:02:22,990 --> 02:02:25,890
Everybody we come in contact is a customer, right?

1483
02:02:25,890 --> 02:02:30,970
And we want to make sure they're treated well and they have a good experience at the extent we can we can do that

1484
02:02:31,590 --> 02:02:32,870
And but we want to own

1485
02:02:33,470 --> 02:02:36,890
We want to own what that issue is now

1486
02:02:36,890 --> 02:02:37,950
We may not be able to solve it

1487
02:02:37,950 --> 02:02:44,050
But we can take that to the person can solve it and then again follow up make sure that person got the got what they needed out of

1488
02:02:44,050 --> 02:02:45,370
Out of our organization

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02:02:45,910 --> 02:02:48,870
Starting with the S in mind so often is governments you know

1490
02:02:48,870 --> 02:02:54,290
I've been in this business for 31 years and so often we do get kind of caught up on the policies and procedures

1491
02:02:54,290 --> 02:02:59,510
that are in front of us and we have to follow our policies and procedures right that's

1492
02:02:59,510 --> 02:03:04,810
just part of can't break the rules kind of thing but maybe as opposed to just saying

1493
02:03:04,810 --> 02:03:08,430
no we can't do that because we have a policy and procedure that won't allow us to do that

1494
02:03:08,430 --> 02:03:13,470
maybe take a minute you know maybe say hey let me give it my supervisor and we can think

1495
02:03:13,470 --> 02:03:17,710
this issue through and maybe through that process we find a different solution to the problem

1496
02:03:17,710 --> 02:03:22,830
than maybe what the customer was asking us to do and so taking that time to to work with

1497
02:03:22,830 --> 02:03:25,610
the customer and identify a solution

1498
02:03:25,610 --> 02:03:27,150
that maybe the customer wasn't looking for

1499
02:03:27,150 --> 02:03:28,730
but maybe still solves that problem.

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02:03:29,070 --> 02:03:31,730
And those things can happen if you have the right mindset

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02:03:31,730 --> 02:03:33,850
and you empower your people to do those things.

1502
02:03:34,350 --> 02:03:37,770
And again, that's what the heath way is all about.

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02:03:39,350 --> 02:03:42,830
I'll tell you this document is evolving, right?

1504
02:03:43,050 --> 02:03:44,490
It'll be ever evolving.

1505
02:03:45,130 --> 02:03:47,350
But the idea is if we can memorialize this

1506
02:03:47,350 --> 02:03:49,550
and come together on this is that this is what we expect

1507
02:03:49,550 --> 02:03:52,270
but how we want our customers treated.

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02:03:53,110 --> 02:03:54,610
Then over time, as people change,

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02:03:54,890 --> 02:03:57,370
that's just baked into the corporate culture, right?

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02:03:57,530 --> 02:03:58,550
That's just how we do things.

1511
02:03:58,730 --> 02:04:00,110
And so as we hire people, they know

1512
02:04:00,590 --> 02:04:02,470
what is expected of them when they come here.

1513
02:04:03,170 --> 02:04:07,170
When, you know, if people that get into understanding this

1514
02:04:07,170 --> 02:04:10,830
and performing in the Heath way, retire at some point,

1515
02:04:10,970 --> 02:04:13,890
they leave, well, the concept is in place.

1516
02:04:14,070 --> 02:04:15,030
The philosophy is there.

1517
02:04:15,470 --> 02:04:17,270
And so people behind us can come in,

1518
02:04:17,270 --> 02:04:19,550
and pick up that philosophy and carry things out

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02:04:19,550 --> 02:04:21,630
in the Heath way like we want them to do.

1520
02:04:22,230 --> 02:04:23,730
That's the idea behind the Heath way.

1521
02:04:23,850 --> 02:04:25,410
There's more to it than what I just went over.

1522
02:04:25,670 --> 02:04:26,990
If you take the time to read it,

1523
02:04:27,510 --> 02:04:30,130
but Council's comfortable with this at the end of the day.

1524
02:04:31,050 --> 02:04:32,030
We will begin.

1525
02:04:32,270 --> 02:04:35,050
We've already somewhat started training some of our staff on it,

1526
02:04:35,090 --> 02:04:36,690
but we'll continue training our staff on it

1527
02:04:36,690 --> 02:04:38,330
and expand it as appropriate.

1528
02:04:38,830 --> 02:04:39,370
So you're good.

1529
02:04:39,650 --> 02:04:40,590
Thank you, Mr. Alexander.

1530
02:04:50,520 --> 02:04:55,560
So I will say thank you to again to that committee

1531
02:04:55,560 --> 02:04:58,640
and the hard work that you guys have done, I know that, yes.

1532
02:05:06,200 --> 02:05:29,820
I'll try to make this as quick as possible. I got about a minute and 30 seconds timed myself. So with the implementation of the Heathway, we wanted to create a work environment that people want to be a part of and that employees actually enjoy being at work every day. With that being said, we have come up with a few ideas for employee rewards and recognition.

1533
02:05:29,820 --> 02:05:32,720
for catching employees living the heath way.

1534
02:05:33,780 --> 02:05:40,320
Staff recognition to celebrate success with point systems, which we will have some options moving forward.

1535
02:05:40,880 --> 02:05:50,660
For things like going above and beyond service, positive attitude, under fire, solving problems without being asked to do so.

1536
02:05:51,340 --> 02:05:59,420
Appreciation from outside of staff, such as emails, phone calls, letters from residents, other vendors, etc.

1537
02:05:59,420 --> 02:06:02,360
and employee milestones for

1538
02:06:02,360 --> 02:06:06,200
anniversaries such as 5, 10, 15, 20 plus years

1539
02:06:06,200 --> 02:06:07,440
working with Heath.

1540
02:06:08,720 --> 02:06:11,100
Awards and celebrations can be done with

1541
02:06:11,100 --> 02:06:13,700
quarterly lunchens where we can recognize

1542
02:06:13,700 --> 02:06:16,340
employees for things like employee of the

1543
02:06:16,340 --> 02:06:18,780
quarter, birthdays, anniversaries,

1544
02:06:19,320 --> 02:06:22,440
accomplishments such as degrees, certifications,

1545
02:06:22,440 --> 02:06:25,560
and other continuous education as well

1546
02:06:25,560 --> 02:06:27,780
as additional award drawings.

1547
02:06:27,780 --> 02:06:37,080
I think this is a great opportunity to help boost morale, enjoy going above and beyond and help staff want to live the heath way.

1548
02:06:37,760 --> 02:06:39,820
Thank you, ma'am.

1549
02:06:41,750 --> 02:06:42,310
Mr. McDermott,

1550
02:06:47,600 --> 02:07:02,060
a filler with regards to the customer facing portal that will look to utilize to capture the feedback from the citizens with regards to what their concerns are and how we're doing and solving those concerns.

1551
02:07:03,760 --> 02:07:08,740
Good evening. My name is Dana McDermott. I am the IT Director for the City of Heath. Not

1552
02:07:08,740 --> 02:07:13,740
much of a public speaker, so I'm going to stick to the script on this one. So, bear

1553
02:07:13,740 --> 02:07:19,240
with me. So, good evening, Madam Councilmembers. Tonight I just want to provide an update on our

1554
02:07:19,240 --> 02:07:23,940
work to improve how residents connect with the city and report issues. As you know, Heath

1555
02:07:23,940 --> 02:07:28,140
already uses OpenGov as our city management platform, including permitting a licensing

1556
02:07:28,140 --> 02:07:33,320
which covers code enforcement, but OpenGov Citizen Request Module is a separate component,

1557
02:07:33,800 --> 02:07:38,060
and so we've been evaluating options for handling citizens' service requests more effectively.

1558
02:07:39,460 --> 02:07:44,780
To start, this shows the guiding priorities you used in evaluating the platforms. Our focus was on

1559
02:07:44,780 --> 02:07:50,160
accessibility for citizens, transparent two-way communication, real-time updates, and the ability

1560
02:07:50,160 --> 02:07:56,040
to gather feedback and trends. These principles are what help shape our comparison of the two systems.

1561
02:07:56,040 --> 02:07:59,520
I apologize for the smallness of the text on that one.

1562
02:08:01,480 --> 02:08:05,660
On this slide, you'll see the comparison between the OpenGov and GoGov mobile apps.

1563
02:08:06,540 --> 02:08:11,080
OpenGov does have a mobile app, but it is managed by a third party called ComCate, and

1564
02:08:11,080 --> 02:08:12,320
it's not very customizable.

1565
02:08:12,900 --> 02:08:17,020
It's mainly for internal use, and is more limited to the citizen-facing side.

1566
02:08:17,660 --> 02:08:22,720
Whereas on GoGov, on the right, it offers a fully branded city app that we can tailor directly

1567
02:08:22,720 --> 02:08:26,000
to Heath, and it creates more consistent user-friendly experience.

1568
02:08:28,130 --> 02:08:34,610
And that just kind of shows you, you know, the comparison, we once kind of pretty standard

1569
02:08:34,610 --> 02:08:37,850
whereas the other one we can customize it as we want, and we can put our own branding

1570
02:08:37,850 --> 02:08:38,290
on it.

1571
02:08:40,910 --> 02:08:44,710
So, on this slide, it shows how the two platforms handle requests and code enforcement.

1572
02:08:46,130 --> 02:08:49,290
OpenGov relies primarily on website submissions and email updates.

1573
02:08:50,030 --> 02:08:54,130
Even though the ComCade app shows a request option, we were not shown this during the demo

1574
02:08:54,130 --> 02:08:58,130
that we had with OpenGov, and so they made it seem like requests would still need to go

1575
02:08:58,130 --> 02:09:01,890
to the Heath website and that the ComCade app would be mainly internal use only.

1576
02:09:02,950 --> 02:09:07,810
It is integrated with asset management, which we do have, and that's for city repairs

1577
02:09:07,810 --> 02:09:11,690
like potholes and such, but it does not integrate with our current permitting and licensing

1578
02:09:11,690 --> 02:09:12,930
and code enforcement module.

1579
02:09:14,490 --> 02:09:19,530
They did plan on integration with code enforcement by an API that was supposed to be alive this

1580
02:09:19,530 --> 02:09:23,610
month, but we would most likely be one of the first people to test that product.

1581
02:09:23,610 --> 02:09:30,270
And as we know, potential for issues could cause some disruption, so not too sure about

1582
02:09:30,270 --> 02:09:30,570
that.

1583
02:09:31,390 --> 02:09:35,690
The citizens would receive email updates, but there would be limited visibility on the

1584
02:09:35,690 --> 02:09:36,130
website.

1585
02:09:36,970 --> 02:09:42,250
And there is reporting for us to look up prior issues and scout trends and things like that,

1586
02:09:42,310 --> 02:09:43,490
but there is no survey feature.

1587
02:09:43,690 --> 02:09:47,950
It would be handled by a separate company like Survey and Mocky or something along those

1588
02:09:47,950 --> 02:09:48,190
lines.

1589
02:09:49,070 --> 02:09:52,630
Whereas on the ride with GoGov, you can see it allows request to flow directly into code

1590
02:09:52,630 --> 02:09:58,310
enforcement, residents receive real-time updates to the app or with email and it includes

1591
02:09:58,310 --> 02:09:59,970
a built-in survey module so we can check.

1592
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:06,640
Those things and we can reach back out to customers as we need to and so this all ensures issues attract and resolve transparently.

1593
02:10:09,700 --> 02:10:32,220
On the strengths and costs, we compare, obviously the strengths and costs. Open Gov integrates well with asset management, which we have. It is an established software as a service provider, but it does come with some higher upfront costs. Whereas Gogov provides the mobile first experience, it's got transparent communication and it has no startup costs, which makes it easier and more affordable to launch quickly.

1594
02:10:32,220 --> 02:10:39,220
It's also used by neighboring cities, so residents who have moved from those locations may already be familiar with the application and

1595
02:10:41,300 --> 02:10:43,140
then you can see the breakdown of the cost right there.

1596
02:10:43,720 --> 02:10:58,960
Open Gov would be a $10,000 per year. Over time, it is cheaper but there is a $10,000 start-up cost so first year we're looking at 20, whereas you're looking at three grand more per year for Gogov.

1597
02:10:58,960 --> 02:10:59,860
And

1598
02:11:02,900 --> 02:11:06,380
then on this one, this is just kind of going over the summary of our decision.

1599
02:11:06,860 --> 02:11:11,900
Now, OpenGov remains a strong city management platform that we will continue to use for

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02:11:11,900 --> 02:11:13,180
finance, permitting, and licensing.

1601
02:11:13,680 --> 02:11:20,000
We do believe GoGov offers the best option for citizen engagement based on this review.

1602
02:11:20,340 --> 02:11:23,360
Staff recommends moving forward with GoGov as our citizen requests module.

1603
02:11:26,020 --> 02:11:30,140
So this slide right here is outlining the deployment schedule with GoGov.

1604
02:11:30,140 --> 02:11:32,940
As you can see, the deployment time is roughly six weeks.

1605
02:11:33,380 --> 02:11:35,680
We'll begin with configuration of staff training

1606
02:11:36,060 --> 02:11:37,240
and then we'll move into testing

1607
02:11:37,240 --> 02:11:38,880
to ensure everything is working smoothly.

1608
02:11:40,220 --> 02:11:43,360
And then after that, we'll be ready for a public launch

1609
02:11:43,360 --> 02:11:45,320
and begin our citizen outreach.

1610
02:11:46,220 --> 02:11:50,660
Danny, can you talk about the citizen-facing training

1611
02:11:50,660 --> 02:11:52,860
and education with this particular app?

1612
02:11:53,120 --> 02:11:53,460
Yeah, sure.

1613
02:11:53,760 --> 02:11:56,500
So as far as the citizen facing part of it,

1614
02:11:57,120 --> 02:11:59,060
we will have a video on the website

1615
02:11:59,060 --> 02:12:01,960
that will go over all the different features

1616
02:12:01,960 --> 02:12:04,220
and things that you can do within the app.

1617
02:12:04,800 --> 02:12:06,980
Basically, what happens whenever you put in a request?

1618
02:12:07,660 --> 02:12:11,200
We'll have, most likely, a QR code on the website

1619
02:12:11,200 --> 02:12:14,400
to send you to where you need to download the application.

1620
02:12:14,840 --> 02:12:19,680
We'll have a brief FAQ just to answer some pretty general questions.

1621
02:12:21,740 --> 02:12:24,600
But Go Gov tells us this is going to be a...

1622
02:12:24,600 --> 02:12:26,660
And from what we've seen, it's a very intuitive app.

1623
02:12:27,280 --> 02:12:36,620
easy to use, and so we believe it's going to be a really easy product to just pick up and use and get connected with the city and get what you need done.

1624
02:12:39,980 --> 02:12:47,200
And finally, on this slide, this introduces what the app will be named. We're going to most likely go with MyHeath.

1625
02:12:48,320 --> 02:12:53,160
It will be the name of the app and it's going to be powered by GoGov.

1626
02:12:54,100 --> 02:12:58,420
Through my heath residents will be able to submit requests, report issues and share feedback

1627
02:12:58,420 --> 02:12:59,340
in real time.

1628
02:12:59,700 --> 02:13:03,320
It's designed to provide a clear, consistent and accessible way for citizens to engage

1629
02:13:03,320 --> 02:13:07,140
directly with their city and help preserve the high standards they expect while also

1630
02:13:07,140 --> 02:13:09,700
playing an active role in getting the future of heath together.

1631
02:13:12,520 --> 02:13:12,840
Any questions?

1632
02:13:14,300 --> 02:13:16,260
And Cindy, will you close us up, please?

1633
02:13:18,510 --> 02:13:18,670
Yes.

1634
02:13:19,870 --> 02:13:20,330
Absolutely.

1635
02:13:20,750 --> 02:13:21,210
I'm

1636
02:13:28,890 --> 02:13:29,870
going to talk about cost.

1637
02:13:29,870 --> 02:13:36,670
The great news about this is with number one, the Heathway, there's no incremental cost.

1638
02:13:38,130 --> 02:13:43,370
Those are going to be leveraging our existing resources and teams to make this part of

1639
02:13:43,370 --> 02:13:46,690
our operating mindset as Steve laid out.

1640
02:13:48,220 --> 02:13:53,670
The rewards and recognition, there's going to be also no incremental cost outside of what

1641
02:13:53,670 --> 02:13:55,170
that is already budgeted.

1642
02:13:55,930 --> 02:13:59,190
Citizen engagement portal, Danny just spoke on,

1643
02:13:59,250 --> 02:14:02,450
it's going to be $13,680.

1644
02:14:03,270 --> 02:14:06,530
This platform is going to significantly improve

1645
02:14:06,530 --> 02:14:08,410
how we connect with the residents.

1646
02:14:08,410 --> 02:14:10,230
It's gonna make it easier for them

1647
02:14:10,230 --> 02:14:13,930
to find information, submit, feedback, and stay engaged.

1648
02:14:14,350 --> 02:14:16,250
So that's a small price to pay for that.

1649
02:14:17,270 --> 02:14:20,630
The Citizen Request Module, 7,500.

1650
02:14:20,630 --> 02:14:28,010
It's streamlines our communication between citizens and staff and the code enforcement module $6,180.

1651
02:14:29,950 --> 02:14:31,430
Let me click this.

1652
02:14:33,380 --> 02:14:41,980
So, to bring it finally home, overall, this package reflects a thoughtful blend of cultural investment and digital modernization.

1653
02:14:42,560 --> 02:14:50,260
Two of the initiatives have no incremental cost while the others, though they require modest funding, will provide long-term improvements in service,

1654
02:14:50,260 --> 02:14:56,560
efficiency and citizen satisfaction. These investments, they're not just about software,

1655
02:14:56,980 --> 02:14:59,440
they're about responsiveness, transparency.

1656
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:28,120
And building trust, which is what we want to do with the citizens. They help us deliver the kind of city experience that our residents expect while keeping costs contains and aligned with our strategic goals. So we are asking that we can implement the three elements of the Heath Customer Service experience and continue working with the committee to formalize and launch the program. That's all. Thank you. Thank you.

1657
02:15:28,120 --> 02:15:28,300
one.

1658
02:15:30,600 --> 02:15:37,860
Are there any other speakers? I tried her for the audience. I thought it was great.

1659
02:15:38,440 --> 02:15:43,460
I just wasn't watching a cue. No, no, that's okay. I was going to bring Harriet up next.

1660
02:15:45,060 --> 02:15:51,380
Bring her on. She's going to talk to you about Buffalo Creek. All right. Any other comments?

1661
02:15:52,160 --> 02:15:56,760
Councilman Dodson. Very well. Any questions at this time? The floor is open for any questions.

1662
02:15:56,760 --> 02:16:09,930
If there are no questions I will continue my statement and I appreciate you guys going even more steps forward to kind of go through the details.

1663
02:16:09,930 --> 02:16:12,250
I'm very proud of the work that you guys are doing.

1664
02:16:13,070 --> 02:16:27,530
I know that it's been at nauseam some days with staff when we talk about KPI management and accountability and who our customers are and ensuring that we have a culture.

1665
02:16:27,530 --> 02:16:33,210
from the day it's all the way through the staff and making sure that our residents feel

1666
02:16:33,210 --> 02:16:38,790
it and see it. And I know that we've got wonderful staff but even starting at that culture

1667
02:16:38,790 --> 02:16:43,570
level the Heath way, I think it's great. And so I'm very proud of the work that Mr.

1668
02:16:43,630 --> 02:16:48,850
Alexander you're doing to lead the staff. And thank you Council for these committees.

1669
02:16:49,370 --> 02:16:56,110
This work is, it's tumultuous, it's a lot. And so just like I've said on each committee

1670
02:16:56,770 --> 02:16:57,850
that's done these updates.

1671
02:16:58,050 --> 02:16:59,490
We thank you guys for doing these updates,

1672
02:16:59,490 --> 02:17:02,030
but I know that there's tireless hours

1673
02:17:02,550 --> 02:17:03,410
that have gone into this.

1674
02:17:03,530 --> 02:17:04,970
And for the residents, you know,

1675
02:17:05,190 --> 02:17:07,090
that's on top of budget meetings and workshops

1676
02:17:07,090 --> 02:17:09,510
and all of the different sidebars.

1677
02:17:09,790 --> 02:17:11,710
I'm actually excited whenever I pull up

1678
02:17:11,710 --> 02:17:13,670
and I see you guys are here in a meeting.

1679
02:17:13,670 --> 02:17:14,790
I'm like, oh, that's great.

1680
02:17:14,970 --> 02:17:16,570
I'm not here by myself.

1681
02:17:16,890 --> 02:17:19,050
You guys are working diligently behind the scenes.

1682
02:17:19,050 --> 02:17:22,550
So thank you guys because we do want to be best in class.

1683
02:17:22,550 --> 02:17:24,390
And some of the things that we've done, right,

1684
02:17:24,390 --> 02:17:29,170
Right, we started off, whenever I first took office, we started off on branding and who

1685
02:17:29,170 --> 02:17:32,610
we are as a community and being a premier outdoor or lifestyle community.

1686
02:17:32,750 --> 02:17:35,930
And then we jumped into it and we said, hey, look, let's go back to that conference

1687
02:17:35,930 --> 02:17:40,470
and plan and let's figure out exactly what we're doing and there was two years prior to me

1688
02:17:40,470 --> 02:17:43,970
even getting here and then we rounded that out and we said, hey, we're going to tackle

1689
02:17:43,970 --> 02:17:48,030
water, we're going to tackle all these infrastructure needs, we're going to tackle budget, but we're

1690
02:17:48,030 --> 02:17:51,410
also going to tackle some customer service and we're going to tackle some other things.

1691
02:17:51,870 --> 02:17:55,670
We're going to tackle DPS and making sure that we're the safest city in the state of Texas.

1692
02:17:55,890 --> 02:18:00,090
So again, tonight, thank you for that update, and I appreciate all your work that you're

1693
02:18:00,090 --> 02:18:06,190
doing to give us this update, but we want to see more work, so there's a lot more to do.

1694
02:18:06,730 --> 02:18:07,830
So thank you guys for that.

1695
02:18:08,310 --> 02:18:12,790
If there are no other further comments, at this time, we'll move into agenda item number

1696
02:18:12,790 --> 02:18:15,130
eight, and we will adjourn at 848.

1697
02:18:15,430 --> 02:18:15,970
Thank you, everyone.