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On Wednesday, September 2, at 904 AM, we call to order the monthly meeting of the heat-peenuous vote benefit corporation and heat-economic development corporation.

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I want to start with kind of agenda item 2, which is an introduction and welcome of our newest board member, Melissa.

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Melissa, I don't know if you could pay potentially introduce yourself and kind of let everybody know about your background and heat as we welcome you here to the board.

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Sure, my name is Melissa Ushard.

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I have lived in Heath since April of 2020.

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I live in the Puffing Out Club.

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I do real estate, and I would say,

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when you already wanted to miss this in Heath,

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and specifically the Puffing Out Club.

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I also have background just in the restaurant

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and the streets, specifically supply chain

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and doing goods and managing

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And I have a daughter that just graduated from heat, and she's now among the UNT.

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Excellent.

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That's not why I'm wearing.

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Well, welcome, and thank you for your service to the city and to the board's part of this.

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We certainly want to thank as well, Rich, who has rolled off the board.

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And thank him for his time and service to the board as well.

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Sorry, not Rich Glenn.

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I don't know.

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Rich is so cute.

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I literally don't know.

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Okay, I think Len for his time to the board.

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Here we are at I guess nine.

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No six A.M. and I haven't had that coffee that I've mentioned this exam.

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But we want to thank Len for his time.

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I know he was on it for quite a while in his contributions, especially around kind of contracts

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and contract laws and his contributions and reviewing the agreement set.

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We've just recently done here with the 1880 restaurant as well.

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So thank Glenn for his time.

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Moving on to agenda item three.

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Do we have any public comment this morning?

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Okay, we have no public comment.

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Do we have any board and staff comments this morning?

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Okay, we have no board or staff comments.

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Moving on to item five.

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Five A is a discussion and action regarding the approval

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of the May 19th regular meeting minutes

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in the July 21st regular meeting minutes.

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Hopefully everybody's had an opportunity to review those minutes

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before them.

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Got moved to approve.

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We have a motion to approve.

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It's seconded by Rich.

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All those in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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All those opposed?

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Do we have any abstains?

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OK.

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We will move forward to item 5B.

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Discussion and review of the monthly fiscal year

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2526 financial report.

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We had talked about this item as kind of something to have regularly in our minutes going forward.

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Hopefully all of you have had a chance to kind of take a look over the information that's here.

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But this is kind of a year-to-date budget, year-to-date financial situation for both the economic development corporation and municipal benefit corporation.

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I'll pointing out to you, there's kind of a year-to-date variance to let us kind of see where we're over budget or under budget or anything along those lines as well.

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The couple things that may stand out that I just kind of wanted to point out to all of you,

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our telephone expense being above actually has to do with security system installation.

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That was a one-time fee and that will no longer continue into this next year's budget.

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The travel and lodging, this is obviously where a little above budget there,

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that has to do with bringing in some of the EDC candidates for interviews and everything else you

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can kind of see. We often have budgeted it but we don't always spend it. So that's keep

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that theme in mind as we go to approve this next budget as well. If we budget it gives us the

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ability to spend it and authorize it and we've been authorized by Council to kind of spend it

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without having to go through a lengthy budget amendment process. And so we want to make sure we have

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the room to do the things we need to do within our budget, that ultimately gets approved

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by Council, and then there's kind of a secondary component of us actually making the decisions

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on this board and panel to actually spend it within that budget.

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Are there any questions about any of the expenses or any aspects of this?

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I do have a question.

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One of the things that I guess he left, but one of the things that I think would be helpful

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is to put somewhere in here, and I know it's not necessarily a budget item, but how much

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we still owe 3.05.

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Somehow or another, so we can watch that, so we have an idea of what we're doing and how long

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we've got to do it for.

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Yes, sir.

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That would be very helpful.

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I think our annual debt right now is about 190,000 for the next couple.

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A couple years, but it does escalate up, and we have a couple million that we owe on that. So show them that exact figure. I think we can definitely look to get that added.

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I don't know, really word fits in here, but I think it would be.

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I think just like we have these beginning fund balances and anything fund balance, maybe we have a debt balance.

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Okay.

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And the other one that's on here and I don't see it right now, but I can't pick this out for you.

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my eyes aren't real well. But we also spend some money every year on paying off some debt.

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So the debt is on here. It's 183,000. Principal and interest for 305 Lawrence and 217 Lawrence.

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And then we have a 473,000 dollar payment. It's on page 12 of your packet. Okay. It's the CO 2020. Yeah.

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Three series interest. So that's the debt on the bond. Okay. All right. So but that's every year. Right.

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That's every year. How long was that for that spot?

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I think about 20 years left on that.

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We could kind of call out how many years.

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It would just be helpful for the board to know that.

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I think the board did know that.

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I appreciate that.

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It's good.

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And I think that having these in our packet every single month,

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it also gives us the ability to review all the expenses and the payments that went out.

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That's kind of what that next handful of pages in our ledger packet are, right, which gives us all a little more clear visibility into into what's happening

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And it also means that we always have the budget and we have the financials kind of out of our fingertips as we're making any kind of decisions going forward

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Which brings me to another question that I have I don't understand if someone in here could help me with this there and I don't see it right again

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I didn't I saw it, but I don't remember what exactly what page it was on

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because there's a lot there, but we were paying some sort of property tax.

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I assume that was for 205 and 317 from our collection there, but I didn't understand that at all.

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Yeah, so there was a property tax that was owed on 205 and 317 that was transferred to us at the time that the clothes happened.

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There has also been some disagreement with the central appraisal district, which is a...

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We'll just say that it's a known open item.

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That is being worked on right now to some extent.

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We are solved on it from a go forward perspective.

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From a historical perspective, there's a question of whether or not we have certain privileges

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by right and by state statute,

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versus by what the appraisal district would like to say which is by the time that they approve

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the paperwork.

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And so this is sitting on my to-do list as a follow-up event.

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If you had somebody on the appraisal district, you would probably have to just put and

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have that up to it.

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But there's nobody there.

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We do not have anybody on the appraisal district anymore as they shut the city up

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if he now.

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Just a thought.

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I don't know.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for those feedback.

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Any other questions or any other questions?

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Open questions about the budget or historical financials?

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Moving on to item 5C, discussion and action regarding resolution

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2, 6, 0, 9, 0, 2, A, adopting the economic development

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corporation, the municipal benefit corporation, fiscal year 26 to 27

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budget.

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So as you may recall, as a board, we talked about some different

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priorities in different items.

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I solicited input from all board members on where they'd

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to see the budget spent or not spent.

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Part Doug and I then met and we worked through kind of some budget numbers trying to keep some of the main themes in place.

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One of the main themes was that everybody wanted to make sure that we kept dry powder available for economic development opportunities,

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that we kept the fund balances well above, you know, kind of a million dollars.

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We've managed to do that in terms of this budget that we put together.

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I don't know if we can go to the next slide.

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So as we look through some of the budgeting priorities in terms of what we put together,

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this is kind of a little summary of the key themes that are different from the prior year budget.

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The first one is the monument sale kind of signage, the wayfinder signage.

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We actually already proved this in a prior budget, but we're going to officially take it to Council

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in this year's budget amendments, that's that 500,000 that we already approved as a board.

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We've talked about kind of increased marketing.

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Capabilities. This is things like the social media, inclusions or campaign, potentially doing that sales tax campaign to get people to spend more money.

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And he updating our collateral solicitation of business owners, you know, proposing or redesigning, you know, reserve and town center concepts. Again, just because we have it in our budget, we don't have to spend it. But this is giving us the flexibility to spend it.

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And you can see kind of the break out between the NBC and the EDC and there are some statutory rules related to that, but we're within the statutory limits on that.

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A general theme was that from a city perspective that we have an opportunity to bring, you know, well over a thousand more homes onto our trail system, but the city needs a little help with that from a trail perspective when we look at the master plan for the city and the trail plan and whatnot.

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There's a couple of key segments, and so we put in here 250 or $500,000 of funding to help with that

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trail connectivity and really trying to get, I think it's close to 15 or 1600 homes connected

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into the trail system.

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As we started looking at things like, you know, how to help with key events

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for the city, a general theme was that with the new park, they haven't necessarily budgeted for

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You know, Christmas lights and holiday and the park improvements and whatnot and as a, you know,

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Doug Bar and I kind of talked about it and worked through the numbers.

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We were thinking about attacking this not just as a, you know, kind of one off set of

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lights that get strung up and taken down, but given, doing it in a way that, on all the main venues

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in the park, they can be used for multiple events throughout the year, they could be turned

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on and off from a safety perspective, they could be controlled, they could be color changed, Doug

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had a lot of good thoughts on this as well.

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And so we put 200,000 into the budget for that.

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We heard from the park board back at our May 19th meeting

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about a fundraising event that they'd like to do.

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And the concept here was that they need some money

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to kind of jumpstart that event

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and that we would get repaid from the proceeds of that event.

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And so this was putting in there the kind of seed money

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to help them get that event going.

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And then we can have that kind of have some stipulations associated with repayment related to that.

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So while we put that into the budget and there is potentially the risk that we don't collect that back,

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that general expectation would be that that would flow out and then potentially flow back in.

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The number six, which is the path matching funds,

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We were trying to think about ways we could kind of help jump start that path to point

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over the program.

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As you all know, we pulled all of our city funding for the Parks Board a couple of years

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ago in part because of the bond.

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So the thought here would be, and again, there are some rules on how we have to do how we

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have to kind of send these funds over to them and then potentially recall them.

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But the concept here was, you know, if we could create an enticement that said, say, the first

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50 people that are, you know, people or businesses that donate it towards the path fund got kind

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of an extra $5,000 kicker for any donation of $5,000 or more.

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That would really help kind of, you know, work through that list of improvements that would help

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all the, all the, the trail funds, the path funds, the park improvement funds, and whatnot.

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And so, this is just kind of a kicker to help get that program going.

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We were talking about it when we were thinking about this, we potentially give them nine months or something like that to go off and get as many of these people.

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So we time limit it, we box it to $5,000 or more donations, then get this extra donation, and then the people that make the, if you say make a $5,000 donation, we would be throwing in that extra $5,000, so they get the recognition as if they made the $10,000 donation.

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And so both businesses and individuals.

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And then we have a lot of grass over at two, 17 Lawrence and there were a thought that we

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could put in some full-size goals and create another field back behind that area where

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that house was and just get more people out into that space and there's been demand for

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these fields, the fields in general are fully consumed in the evenings from my understanding.

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And so if we add a couple more fields into the play and kind of kickstarter with with this

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People are actually even renting these fields, so there's an opportunity for us to again

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Take a taken asset that's just sitting there that we're paying the mo and turn it into something that could be productive for the kids and families of our area

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I've been asked by two different people when

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Talking about when those were going to be there. They're just looking for

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Let's play.

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We kept inside kind of a big floated maintenance item. This gives us the privilege to do more nature trails, to do exercise stations, to do improvements to the

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flexibility in this next year's budget to say, hey, let's go do something, or let's go improve

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up, improve this spot, or let's go knock down some trees, or let's go plant some trees.

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Let's go add a shade structure, anything along those lines. This gives us some flexibility

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around doing that. We've kept legal services. We'll get to this in a minute, but the 1880

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field did close this past week, and so we, you know, we don't necessarily have anything

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imminent that is going to use this, but we want to make sure we had the flexibility

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to engage legal as we need to.

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And then things that we've already approved, we already approved the EDC Director, we've already

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approved the maintenance position, and so those are just big line items that are on our budget.

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There are any questions about these budget priorities, or does anybody have anything that

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they don't like or would like to propose changing.

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I've got a couple things to say about the budget.

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Number one, as it's written right now, I cannot support it.

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I'm a fiscal conservative in many ways, and I know what happens in government enough to

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know that if you put it out there, it's going to be used.

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And this is a negative budget, and I just don't believe that at this point we should be

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doing negative things on a budget that we don't even, we've talked about possibly getting

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more land, which I love the idea of. We've have land that we have utilized and from

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my perspective, and I will tell you that it's a two-person perspective, because I've asked

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my wife to do the same thing. Every time I want you to drive by the city of heat to tell

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me if there's anybody in the dog park, I've not seen that. Now I will tell you that I'm

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not there all the time and that's two people and she's never seen anybody there either.

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To include I've walked the trails many times and never seen anybody out there either. So I'm

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not against any of these amenities but I am saying let's slow down a little bit because we're

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putting out a budget, that everyone can see,

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and I don't want my name associated with something

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that's a negative budget.

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That's just my opinion, yes, I know we've got money

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in the bank.

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I do understand that, I'm not stupid,

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I can read a spreadsheet too, but, you know,

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I, that's just my opinion,

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and I really have a hard time with, okay,

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now I'm not saying all this stuff has to be taken away.

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I'm just saying, whoa, that's all.

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I think it's just too much, too fast, for very little return, at least in my opinion, and

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oh, by the way, I've walked on the path every day, and I really want to more path, but

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I just three quarters of a million dollars for the path just seems excessive to me in one

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budget year.

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That's just my opinion.

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Well, so I understand the concern, I think the part of the issue is that we've had so

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So long of nothing being done, and we're kind of playing catch up in some ways, and these funds sitting here in the EDCHMEC that haven't gotten used.

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And because there's some of these projects that are ongoing and other shortfalls from my opinion, it's got to kind of why we have the funds.

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And, you know, we have looked at, you know, for some other real estate and things, but that's not something that we've come up with yet.

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Maybe if one for one thing is just the pricing and locations.

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But, you know, I understand the concerns in the hope is that one, we're in the middle of the summer, it's the hottest time of year, but I think also we got to keep putting the word out.

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This is what the citizens keep saying they want, even though there are not many of them

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are not using it, and I agree with that, but I think as we move forward in time, these

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things, particularly the trails, are going to get used more and more and more, and they

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are a draw to the city of Heath and they're one of the things that bring both residents

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our futurists and businesses. So, from that perspective, again, I'm with you on spending.

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It's, you know, we can go too far.

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But again, it seems to me like we've just, we've not done some of these things for so long that we're kind of in a catch-up position.

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I could tell you the like the programs, for example, I agree with you right now, like there's nobody going out there. It's been a hundred plus degrees.

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When we first opened it, there were like 12 to 15 people out there, especially on Saturday mornings. I went out there on, I think it was Tuesday.

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And there was another, another person out there running with their dogs and I brought my dog out.

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Suzanne, do you have a comment?

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I can't think to interact with it.

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I mean, two points, seasonals.

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We just did a post about programs like this.

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And it got so much traction and so much love.

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And a lot of people did come in and I'm so glad we have this.

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I can't wait to go out there when it gets a little cooler.

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I mean, it's brutal out there right now.

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Again, I have no issues with spending the money.

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I have issues with spending it in all of us.

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There is no reason to go over our combined income right now.

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We've got a million dollars on both the EDC and the NBC both.

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And we're going over budget on both of them.

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I don't see that as a win for anybody.

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And does anybody run a business that way?

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I don't believe they do.

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I think they look at it.

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go, yeah, we have to do some capital improvements, and I understand it at that sometimes.

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But right now, we're going to spend probably the greater majority of our budget on capital

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improvements. So it's not like we're not doing anything. We're doing a hell of a lot. And

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it's too much, I think, at once, in my opinion, I won't sign off on anything that's not a

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best balance budget. We're still going to be able to invest a lot of money without going over

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the budget, and that's my point.

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But what do we do with those funds that are already sitting there that we don't ever spend

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them?

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That's generally not a matter.

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So, very valid.

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I'm collecting the sales tax revenue.

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The state allows us to do

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that.

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Two core responsibility,

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and when we talk about fiscal responsibilities, when we talk about

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I'm not going to have versus consumption tax completely makes it, unfortunately, you know,

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the city pointiniers behind on the water infrastructure, you know, so you have to play catch ups.

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So then you kind of look at sales tax and you go, okay, well, do you just run a break even?

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What's the break even for? How did you get to a break even? Where did that money come from in the first place?

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So essentially, are you saying that every year that you collect, you don't want to spend a dime below what you collect at that end will turn?

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I'm just going to put a little bit of clarity on that.

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When we talk about fiscal responsibility, as it pertains to a budget, what are we talking about when we're collecting consumption taxes for the betterment of the city?

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But then we're holding on to a certain sense of that within a year, how are we trying to

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flatten the curve? Is it just on that angle cycle? Is that what you're referencing?

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I'm referencing, yeah. Yes, there's going to be time for when you have a negative budget.

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I understand that to spend these two million that will eventually become 3 million or whatever

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as interest and things like that. But even in that, you're spending some of the interest

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that you're spending all of the interest that you're earning in this budget.

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And my point is, it's not a balanced budget.

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And yes, last year we didn't have a balanced budget.

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You can see it.

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We bought a bunch of land.

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There's going to be times when you're not going to have a balanced budget.

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But to run down the list of priorities, and to say, I'm going to spend three quarters of

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a million dollars on the path in one year.

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Okay, sure, but that really eats up a lot of your bunch.

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I just don't believe in overspending.

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I'm sorry, you're not gonna convince me.

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We can talk about it in the board can overrule me by just voting, yes, that's fine.

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But I don't believe in that.

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I just don't.

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No one's going to, no one's going to try to understand the fun of me.

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I'm just trying to explain.

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If you try it so you're basically saying, you know, if you collect or

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they actually

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$4 million dollars. I'd let you have a capital on an outlay.

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For instance, buying 305, or the King property that we've talked about, or whatever. I mean, you can make the

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argument that the entrance to the entrance monuments are a capital outlet in this budget, the trails are a capital

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outlet. Absolutely. So we have capital. We have capital. We have the capital.

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We need to finish them today, it's my point. And we're, I mean, okay, so if I look at this as a situation of, you know, a

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knowledge, budget, and capital outlice.

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That's fine.

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You can call it all of that.

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But you can also say that where do you stop?

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We've already talked about this path coming out of 550, whatever.

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I can't remember the name of the road.

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Anyways, the point being is, well, that's not going to be finished yet.

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So let's just go ahead and spend all the money.

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That doesn't make sense to me.

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That doesn't make sense to me that okay, when I when I look at my budget over the years

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There's things. There's times when you've overspend I get that

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But

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Just because we haven't spent it in the past means we need to spend it all now. Yeah

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Yes, it doesn't make sense

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I also think that we're on an upward revenue that's going to continue to grow that underlying

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amount that we're getting.

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And I, again, I do understand, and I just want to have the discussion too, so I'm not

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trying to, absolutely, convince you about what I want to understand, but I think these things

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need to get done as quickly as possible, and that we're in a position to get them done in

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it. Well, with the moves the city is making, so I would make a motion to approve the budget

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as it stands.

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You

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know, the one thing that I think is really, really important that this body be reminded of, right?

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And you guys are going to exactly what you're supposed to be like dead and then send it to the council, right?

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And so, so that's great. I'm low extended diet.

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The one thing that I want to remind everybody is what is your child, you know, what's your child?

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And your charter is, is to bring economic development, right?

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And you're supposed to work to bring jobs, right?

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Bring in more sales tax revenue, right?

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And bring in better services for the community.

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So it's kind of like multi-common, okay?

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But the real key term is, is that your real mechanism is invested.

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So as we compare that to the private sector, well, I can go invest in another branch or another division.

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Well, it's not always going to be where I don't tap into, you know, reserve or whatever.

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I'm investing in something that has to return.

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I think what I hear you say in which it is, I'm not sure that there's a great return on lights.

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I don't know whether there's a great return on trails.

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And I think that that's a really hard thing because it gets very subjective, right?

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So I was in Napa this last weekend and I got a text from one of the cows in the

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reverse that was at the dog park and she was so excited because she was like there's five

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cows here, there's eight dogs and I typically go on Saturdays and I get excited every

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time I go there's never done one time that I've ever gone to the dog park and there

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were people that were dogs.

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I try to hide myself and work based on what can happen, I don't know if I don't think it's what it was.

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But it's great. So I hear you, it's been a hundred and ninety degrees, it's probably not utilized.

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In fact, the staff and I have this conversation numerously, that's why we're trying to work on getting our ordinance in place for fees, for food trucks.

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I think that's why in your budget, you guys are talking about doing some additional soccer goals and stuff.

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For China, for the other side of the road. But I do overwhelmingly hear from people that they feel like this is the first time ever, that we're getting all of these amenities.

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And some of them, I can't even say claim, when this town's in a park happy before I got here. I wish that they were building towers and drilling walls before I got here.

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But I'm not glad that they had anything as beautiful and big support of it. I get excited every evening when I come out here and it's still 98 degrees.

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the typical courts are completely full. And so again, how is that an investment? Well, there's two sides of that. One is, every time people go to a time thumb, they're buying your loader.

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Well, let's see and send it to go to a time thumb versus going to grow. If we don't aggressively invest, I pass for over every Sunday, and I think to myself, if I'm going to a time thumb, I don't have a little bit more.

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rather than my sales tax dollar stay within the city.

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So then that way we can have more activities and get out more things.

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So there's a balance, it's my plan.

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We got to be really careful to your complaint on budget strategy.

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But we also have to be very careful on not looking at it for what it is.

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Consumption tax is being uploaded to this body to make proper recommendations to the council.

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And the Council's initiative is to figure out how we can make the city more vibrant, more viable, more

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investable for businesses, and you have a lack of material system.

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And I'm not saying I 100% and a 100% and a 100% and a lack of knowledge with all these items,

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but I like the lights.

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When I saw the light budget, I had asked a couple of questions.

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And then I really sat back and I came up here five days ago in the morning and it was pitched up and I thought to myself, okay, now I need to see it with the amenity lights.

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So then the staff had it on with amenity lights and six a.

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And then I started thinking, well, we would go to do an event.

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We, I sat through the park for a budget, for example.

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And they were cutting because they had to cut, they had to cut a lot.

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And life is wonderful.

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And so when you start thinking about what you guys are really trying to do, and again, it took

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was a little long but for me, I think, turning it down the earth right.

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I started really wanting, I can see the vision.

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And I really think that that can be very vital.

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It's a big investment.

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That could be really cool.

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So I keep looking at these different items and I say, what are those triangles?

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Well, you know, I agree.

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Let's be fist-loosed on for them, and let's stay super tight on this, but I too also hear parents that are concerned when they drive past kids that are driving down by 50 on bicycle.

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And they're doing that because we created a 13 million dollar car that they want to go hang out with.

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So if you see what I'm saying, this is a real, this is a real balancing act that we've got a really thinking about, and then I'll end one minutes.

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Our goal is to bring in business.

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In fact, we've made major investment as you stated across the street.

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One to protect the land from the state.

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Secondly, we had a codified town circle, a district in 2021.

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So I'd have to stand on the shoulder of giants, and they had to try and make that happen.

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So with the town circle, we're still trying to figure out who can we get.

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to come in, and what's the entice? Well, we've got a very hard father sitting. We don't have a fully connected

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trail system. The list kind of goes on and on and on. And so the more that we can amenetize and make it

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the time I tell you, the use of beautification. It's no different than painting this,

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it's why I'm not looking for donors. And I remember people were like, don't paint it,

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They looked terrible, we used our flower beds, don't do flower beds, there's really

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spending money wasting money, nobody's going to donate, these are all the voices that

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I heard during this time, I was able to raise all the money, and then I literally get more

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compliments about how beautiful city hall looks, then almost anything else, which is kind

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of common.

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So all I'm going to do is just make sure that you guys are thinking in terms of why are we

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here, or we try to accomplish,

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I don't necessarily disagree with some of your statements.

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But two of which is say, hey, you won't be sitting

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at this stage in a perfect way.

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So I'm different than I will.

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I'll be gone guys, if I had to get internal and so

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so you could keep me out of here.

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So there is a level of responsibility

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that I would encourage you guys that do as much as you can

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that you feel comfortable with to make those recommendations

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Council because you're time here and that would be where I'm going to go.

429
00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:58,120
Thank you.

430
00:34:58,380 --> 00:34:59,420
Thank you Mr. Mayor.

431
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:09,580
At the very end here, let you know that I'm all four. I walk on those trails every day and I almost lose my life, almost every day, because they're not fully there.

432
00:35:10,380 --> 00:35:28,840
I need you guys to understand that. I am not saying we shouldn't spend money. I'm saying we should do it physically responsible, because I lived in the government for 20 years and I saw the waste that goes on and such like that. And if the money's there, oh, well, we got to spend it. We haven't done that in the EDC yet.

433
00:35:29,540 --> 00:35:33,980
And I fully agree with you there and we actually understand we finished the year

434
00:35:34,420 --> 00:35:38,920
Better than our budget last year and we didn't think we were that at all before that as well. Yeah

435
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,960
Yeah, actually last year we even finished a better than the budget even though we paid off a property

436
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:50,120
We're not I understand but I also understand that we can go back to council if we need to to amend a budget if we decide

437
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:56,960
You know what we do really need to do that so that's my point. I've said my piece you guys vote the way you want

438
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,100
I'm just telling you, that's the way I feel about it.

439
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:00,720
I'll say kind of two things.

440
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,500
Improving quality of life is also one of our core components.

441
00:36:06,580 --> 00:36:08,660
The information that I collected from everybody said

442
00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:11,580
that they wanted to keep fund balances over a million dollars

443
00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:14,400
in each of our funds, we're keeping 1.75 million

444
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,240
and one of them and two million and the other one.

445
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,660
And so we're almost double what people had even said

446
00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:20,940
that they wanted us to those thresholds.

447
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,140
And with that, we have a motion to approve the budget

448
00:36:23,140 --> 00:36:24,960
on the floor for Mr. Davenport.

449
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:25,860
Do we have a second?

450
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,240
Oh, I guess I have to vote on this now.

451
00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:36,620
I had another comment on this, but do we have to go ahead?

452
00:36:36,740 --> 00:36:37,920
Do I have to go ahead?

453
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,000
Do you have an open discussion?

454
00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:40,520
OK, I'll reopen discussion.

455
00:36:41,020 --> 00:36:41,140
Go ahead.

456
00:36:41,140 --> 00:36:44,700
Yeah, I wanted to, sorry, coming in very late at this.

457
00:36:44,780 --> 00:36:45,780
Clearly, we have a motion.

458
00:36:47,260 --> 00:36:50,380
But regarding the budget, I understand

459
00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:52,740
and agree with many of the points made here.

460
00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:57,940
And I think we're in a unique position as this body,

461
00:36:57,940 --> 00:37:04,760
like government perhaps were, you know, once that is in the butt, you know, John Q.

462
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:11,620
Citizen doesn't have any say once that happens. Whereas we can, I look at it like

463
00:37:12,780 --> 00:37:20,180
not to exceed and that's kind of how I operate in my world. And so if I say, you know,

464
00:37:20,220 --> 00:37:25,380
man, 500,000, I mean, when I first saw that that part, I'm like, I don't know what signage you're

465
00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:30,580
talking about, that's a $500,000 sign, but I've never built a monument sign, so I don't know

466
00:37:30,580 --> 00:37:38,540
but I just thought, man, okay, not to exceed five, so by golly, I'm going to do my part to really

467
00:37:38,540 --> 00:37:44,080
drill down on that and look if we can get that thing built for $395,000, fantastic.

468
00:37:44,780 --> 00:37:48,500
The same thing with the lighting, and I'll speak to that because that's kind of in my wheel

469
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:55,800
House is, I mean, $200,000 to light up the park seems like a lot, but we did take into

470
00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:02,300
account the entirety of this building as well as the park, and we even touched on the idea

471
00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:04,640
of the new DPS building.

472
00:38:05,740 --> 00:38:06,580
And so, and the programs.

473
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:07,640
And the programs.

474
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:14,560
Trying to like, what can we, if we, you know, so, and again, we're going to drill down on

475
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:20,000
and we're going to do that as viscally responsible as we can.

476
00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:23,880
It is not going to cost $200,000.

477
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,180
It might be $195, but it will not be too much.

478
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,960
And for $195, I want to get as much coverage as possible.

479
00:38:32,220 --> 00:38:34,260
We're not going to just blow out the pickleball court.

480
00:38:34,740 --> 00:38:36,020
It's not going to be like that.

481
00:38:37,460 --> 00:38:40,660
So that's my two cents on the overall thing.

482
00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:48,720
But I think, like I said, we have a unique position where we can have the in say on that

483
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:54,860
dollar that is spent, verse, you know, but we've already got, and we know the, yes, we can

484
00:38:54,860 --> 00:39:01,260
go back to Council at times and ask for things, but that's just, it's always, you know, let's

485
00:39:01,260 --> 00:39:09,160
get the permission slip in advance and work within that and do our part to just handle

486
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,060
that money is best we can.

487
00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:14,380
Thank you, Mr. Berkeley.

488
00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:17,580
So with that, I'll move back into you.

489
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,440
We have a motion to approve the budget for Mr.

490
00:39:19,620 --> 00:39:20,100
Davenport.

491
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:21,820
Do we have a second?

492
00:39:24,910 --> 00:39:26,370
We have a second from Melissa.

493
00:39:27,130 --> 00:39:28,890
All those in favor say aye.

494
00:39:30,630 --> 00:39:31,410
All those opposed?

495
00:39:31,670 --> 00:39:31,850
Aye.

496
00:39:32,690 --> 00:39:37,430
So we've got the motion will carry forward to one with an approved budget.

497
00:39:37,430 --> 00:39:49,610
And I think, Rich, everybody has heard your thoughts related to being intentional about what we do and making sure that we don't just do it for the sake of doing it.

498
00:39:50,650 --> 00:39:59,430
I think we need to keep in mind, utmost mind, the value that whatever we do is returning to the citizens.

499
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:08,260
The opportunity to cost it may or may not have related to future economic development opportunities.

500
00:40:09,180 --> 00:40:14,840
Thank you, everybody, for doing that budget.

501
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:19,960
We'll now go to Council and Council will either weigh in on that or they will send it back to us and

502
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:25,900
remand it to us or make modifications as well. So we'll see where that ends up.

503
00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:38,380
Moving on to item 5E update discussion and action on the economic development agreement and sorry 5D update discussion and action on the economic development agreement and sales contract with Tributor Food and Beverage.

504
00:40:38,860 --> 00:40:40,400
That's the 1880 project.

505
00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:45,140
So I'm pleased to kind of let everybody know that this deal signed this past week.

506
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:52,200
We closed at the title company and I think there's another slide or two on this one.

507
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:59,980
But possibly, okay, so we will, I'll bring back to you the next meeting, just a reminder

508
00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:03,720
of exactly what we all approved as part of that deal.

509
00:41:04,140 --> 00:41:08,520
So the land deal, part went through, they're planning to bring to planning and zoning,

510
00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:11,140
I think within the next couple of weeks for approval.

511
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:16,700
Their hope is to have that place fully built in under a year from right now, having

512
00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:22,040
haven't spoken with Mr. Dicca and his partners.

513
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,640
So they are well under the way under architectural drawings.

514
00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:31,560
They've been meeting with Mr. King up at the city office as well and kind of reviewing some

515
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,560
of those things and getting preliminary feedback on that.

516
00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:36,280
They've got all kinds of stuff being done there.

517
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,980
There's some stuff related to the gas lines that's being coordinated with the city as well.

518
00:41:41,980 --> 00:41:50,980
As you may all recall, we had a component of our incentive agreement that includes a payment towards that gas line as well.

519
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,440
So on a positive note, that's also kind of an interesting one from a budget perspective. I'll just kind of add.

520
00:41:58,060 --> 00:42:08,360
So we are, I think our net proceeds are 497,000 dollars coming in after closing costs, which is obviously a nice piece of money.

521
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:17,580
We do have costs that will go out over the course of this year, but those costs under the current modeling are not the 497,000.

522
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:22,320
Some of that will kick in on the following fiscal year and things along those lines.

523
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:31,640
So, there's these weird timing things that we don't always put into the budget that also might create a couple hundred thousand dollars shift on our finances.

524
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:41,660
And as part of our new kind of every month financial review, we'll be real-time able to kind of watch this and understand what expenses have hit,

525
00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:49,340
where are we, what's coming up and make much better, I think, real-time decisions related to how we spend and how we approve things.

526
00:42:51,020 --> 00:42:58,840
I don't have any action on that one. So moving on to item 5E, update and discussion regarding sales tax reporting collection and consulting services.

527
00:42:59,620 --> 00:43:03,020
I just kind of wanted to do a quick little follow up on this.

528
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:09,880
We are doing a kind of breakout meeting with Mr. Alexander to review some of the proposals

529
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:14,240
and we'll come back with a recommendation related to these.

530
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:20,340
Mr. Lane also met with Mr. Alexander to go through kind of those top merchants that he

531
00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:26,940
talked about and they identified some potential gaps where some of the biggest online

532
00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:29,580
and retailers have never paid sales tax to heat.

533
00:43:30,420 --> 00:43:32,920
And so that's being looked at as well,

534
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,620
as potentially an opportunity to collect.

535
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,520
We're without a contingent collection agency right now.

536
00:43:39,580 --> 00:43:42,420
So there's kind of a question of who do we give that business to?

537
00:43:42,540 --> 00:43:45,100
And I think we want to be smart about that.

538
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,320
And so Mr. Alexander is kind of setting up and lining up

539
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,680
some of those meetings for us to figure that out and make sure

540
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,340
that whoever we pass it off to since we did the work on that one.

541
00:43:55,340 --> 00:43:59,280
we don't necessarily just hand off everything that's associated with that.

542
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,500
There are any questions about this.

543
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,100
Oh, Mr. Davenport also had, do you want to kind of explain what you were thinking in?

544
00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:11,240
Well yeah, it's not, I don't know if it's flushed it out exactly, but when we're talking

545
00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:18,140
about these issues, David talked about the fact that when you don't online in particular

546
00:44:18,860 --> 00:44:23,380
that it doesn't always come up with a heath, and sometimes it doesn't allow you to

547
00:44:23,380 --> 00:44:30,360
Or even I was on the phone two weeks ago with a vendor trying to order something and they

548
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,900
They were like a high all things going to take it and it did actually, but

549
00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:43,380
Point being if we put something possibly in the newsletter that goes out to the to the community saying hey

550
00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:45,840
We've set up a new

551
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:46,960
email address

552
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:54,880
Any time you see this happening forward that to the city and we start collecting all of those

553
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,980
of any time that he does not on that name as the city.

554
00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:11,200
Then we can start to see and reach out and, you know, that way it's coming in from the people that are here, and that may give us some insight as well to things that we would never find.

555
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:20,140
So that was kind of my ideas, you know, in, you know, the message from Mayor or whatever, having something that's set up like that that goes out and then get all the citizens and he's to help us.

556
00:45:21,580 --> 00:45:26,180
And I think that that also kind of ties into that bigger sales tax collection effort, right?

557
00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:33,860
So hopefully getting maybe the city to start pushing off kind of a shop-heath shop-local

558
00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:39,240
makes sure it says heath online in some of the social media posts, maybe even in some

559
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:44,120
of the city messages, maybe in the recap messages, the council member to put, you know,

560
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:53,640
we just really kind of start pushing the member to make sure it says heath,

561
00:45:57,930 --> 00:45:58,530
you know, we

562
00:45:58,530 --> 00:46:04,610
I can tell you that one way to change it, so if it's helpful to post it in there, I'm not.

563
00:46:04,610 --> 00:46:08,710
Absolutely would be helpful, because we have a very strong belief that when it's left

564
00:46:08,710 --> 00:46:18,290
saying for me, it does not end up in heat. People tell us otherwise, but we don't all necessarily agree with them.

565
00:46:18,810 --> 00:46:19,630
Happy to do that.

566
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:22,720
Be great.

567
00:46:23,460 --> 00:46:26,300
Post away and Suzanne, I think can help create some graphics.

568
00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:33,800
And if you guys watch and monitor our socials, it's Tia for you to share easily, and we're

569
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,900
somewhere hopeful when our ambassadors onboard share our information.

570
00:46:38,940 --> 00:46:43,840
It's, you know, necessarily see it in the box, but in the Himalayas, we've got a lot of

571
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:49,040
us on our city of association, but your voice behind it is priceless.

572
00:46:50,980 --> 00:46:51,500
Excellent.

573
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:52,360
Thank you.

574
00:46:52,540 --> 00:46:54,320
So we have kind of a TV on this.

575
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,140
It's going to be a breakout board meeting or a breakout meeting and then we'll keep going.

576
00:46:58,260 --> 00:47:01,740
Hopefully have a more formal update on this at the next meeting.

577
00:47:03,380 --> 00:47:06,860
Item 5F, update discussion and action regarding city of heat, entrance, monument and

578
00:47:06,860 --> 00:47:07,800
wayfinder system.

579
00:47:08,140 --> 00:47:09,020
Mr. Davenport.

580
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:10,020
Yeah.

581
00:47:11,100 --> 00:47:15,200
So, Jeff and I, can you go to the next one, the original?

582
00:47:15,660 --> 00:47:16,080
Yeah.

583
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:16,480
There you go.

584
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:23,960
So, Jeff and I have been working on this and we have, again, tried to value

585
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:31,060
and you're trying to get the costs down, trying to figure out what we can do, what issues

586
00:47:31,060 --> 00:47:38,320
there are with this original design, how we can potentially update it a little bit.

587
00:47:39,140 --> 00:47:47,960
So we've not put anything out to any kind of bids yet have not even sent anything to potential

588
00:47:49,140 --> 00:47:56,620
contractors, because we have been working through the engineering and the underlying issues.

589
00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:04,060
So in this design, for example, you know, we've got that sale that you can kind of see that

590
00:48:04,060 --> 00:48:13,200
secure that's the 50 foot tall piece. It is a huge wind load. And so the foundation here was

591
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:19,900
outrageous. So we started looking at redesign how we could change that. Still get the effect,

592
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:26,060
but without catching all that wind and reduce our costs. And so some of the things we've

593
00:48:26,060 --> 00:48:32,940
looked at. So now, if you would switch it to the next slide there, it's not, no, sorry,

594
00:48:32,940 --> 00:48:43,200
go back to the, there you go. So, this is some of, this is where we're headed. Getting

595
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:51,760
away from the stone structure, because there's a lot of issues when you go 40 feet tall

596
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:56,860
with stone, cracks, and over time issues.

597
00:48:57,860 --> 00:49:04,480
This is a very, what's sort of looking for.

598
00:49:05,380 --> 00:49:09,820
Well, it is multiple pieces that are easily replaced

599
00:49:09,820 --> 00:49:11,440
if there's ever an issue.

600
00:49:12,420 --> 00:49:16,020
And this is similar facing that is used

601
00:49:16,020 --> 00:49:18,640
on modern buildings today.

602
00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:28,640
And when we started putting together what is the book that will go out to potential guys to construct this,

603
00:49:29,420 --> 00:49:39,400
the materials are, you know, we put in there things like, you know, cannot be a proprietary system that can only be purchased from this one company.

604
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:44,820
It has to be something universal. So that, you know, 20 years from now, you know,

605
00:49:45,660 --> 00:49:50,260
Lightening strikes a piece of it or a car runs into or something, we could pull that panel off,

606
00:49:50,460 --> 00:49:52,060
panelized, that was what I was trying to think of earlier.

607
00:49:52,860 --> 00:49:54,900
Pull that panel off and replace it.

608
00:49:56,060 --> 00:49:59,980
So a lot of this is aluminum, the base structure.

609
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:08,220
Major is a slightly different material. But you can see the effect. And I think going to this more sleep design,

610
00:50:08,380 --> 00:50:15,520
I think it'll hold up better over time as a monument to the city. Now, this is a AI rendering.

611
00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:21,880
The one thing that Jeff said, because he's not here, he's like, make sure they know we're removing the cleat,

612
00:50:22,220 --> 00:50:29,020
which is the kind of the gold thing on the far right to the of Heath. It's actually like a boat cleat.

613
00:50:29,540 --> 00:50:34,880
That was in the original design and we were like nobody can tell what it is anyway

614
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:42,220
It's an expensive item that doesn't make any sense could be a heavy, you know, look like a big-andle up there. So

615
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:45,960
Well, exactly

616
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,420
There was a question

617
00:50:49,420 --> 00:50:51,440
I don't know if I have part of it, we're going to have fires.

618
00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:53,880
I don't know if I'm going to have fires.

619
00:50:54,380 --> 00:50:54,700
Yeah.

620
00:50:55,380 --> 00:50:57,400
Yeah, no.

621
00:50:57,700 --> 00:50:59,040
So there's been all kinds of questions.

622
00:50:59,280 --> 00:50:59,560
It was over there.

623
00:50:59,660 --> 00:51:01,500
It was like, was that water going to be coming out as a fire?

624
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:01,860
Yeah.

625
00:51:02,500 --> 00:51:03,740
So no, none of that.

626
00:51:04,340 --> 00:51:12,000
But so trying to make this a more timeless, sleek feature that will stand the test of time.

627
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:18,540
The rails that you see there, there's a couple of different iterations for the quote-unquote

628
00:51:18,540 --> 00:51:23,580
sale, that's not necessarily the final design, but this we just wanted to show everybody

629
00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:29,660
where we're heading, make sure everybody's on board with it, did not want it to look too much

630
00:51:29,660 --> 00:51:35,540
like a lighthouse, but you still get that effect. But I mean, it's funny because when we came

631
00:51:35,540 --> 00:51:40,640
to this, it we were like, okay, the guys that are boaters, the guys are sailors, they're going to

632
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,900
see the sale, they're going to see the lighthouseer, people who don't are not, and that's great

633
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:49,020
because they're just going to go all like it's a cool entry monument and it makes a lot of sense.

634
00:51:49,960 --> 00:52:02,280
But we're looking at, now this shows all solar, again, we're looking at how we could potentially use solar that is not in something that's necessarily going to end up being there.

635
00:52:02,420 --> 00:52:11,680
But we're trying to figure that out, obviously LED, we've the vents along the top, our rates, and enough of an angle,

636
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:17,220
which is something that's different, so try and keep birds from being able to nest or even sit

637
00:52:17,220 --> 00:52:26,020
there. So we're working through this process in a very detailed fashion to try and get to something

638
00:52:26,020 --> 00:52:35,960
in the end that we can lay out very clearly and have it 90% pre-engineered so that we are not spending

639
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:56,680
a ton of money getting it re-engineered by somebody, and we're trying to get it in such a way that we can put it out in packages that keep the costs low and potentially low enough where we can avoid some of the required municipal issues that when you get into giant payments.

640
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:06,800
So that's kind of our idea, this is where we're at, I've got about five packets that are

641
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:12,860
about, but he went from 30 to 100 pages long at this point of engineering and stuff,

642
00:53:14,420 --> 00:53:18,280
but we're still working through the detail and trying to get it all down to a final.

643
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,680
So that's the update of anybody has any comments on what they see here.

644
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:23,440
Please let me know.

645
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,280
Is that rendering set on a particular spot?

646
00:53:28,220 --> 00:53:30,300
So there's, well, it's, no.

647
00:53:32,380 --> 00:53:38,440
We put in the location they've supposed to be at Ridge Road and Chandler's.

648
00:53:39,980 --> 00:53:43,400
And it rendered it like that, so it's clearly not correct.

649
00:53:44,540 --> 00:53:51,080
And, you know, A.I.S. sometimes it doesn't, it just would not put it in the right perspective

650
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:56,300
or a location that looks right, but that it is the idea is that it's going to be where

651
00:53:56,300 --> 00:54:00,840
we've discussed all along their own road right before we get to the

652
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:06,360
chambers entry on that on the right side as well and on the right that the city

653
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:11,400
already owns. In your packet on the page 38 there's a rest of the actual location

654
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:17,100
of the city on it. 30, 7, 3, 8. And again this would be the hope is that this

655
00:54:17,100 --> 00:54:25,400
be our first, and that we can duplicate this in other locations at the entry points to the city.

656
00:54:32,900 --> 00:54:36,300
So you can see it from both directions coming down.

657
00:54:36,500 --> 00:54:40,800
So it's right before the field, like if you kind of think of where that field is, I think

658
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:47,200
Rockwell actually owns that field kind of, it's actually on the spot kind of between the

659
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:53,960
Chandler's route and the little, their service truck, their service truck.

660
00:54:53,980 --> 00:54:54,200
Yeah, yeah.

661
00:54:54,740 --> 00:54:54,900
Yeah.

662
00:54:55,260 --> 00:54:56,900
That's the best route about that.

663
00:55:00,850 --> 00:55:05,890
And it's a straight away, so, hopefully, cars shouldn't be running into it.

664
00:55:07,250 --> 00:55:14,830
In 18 years, I'm not aware of a car going up into that spot, but that just means that there's 18 years ahead that it could.

665
00:55:16,170 --> 00:55:20,010
Well, as soon as there's something there, there's something there.

666
00:55:20,030 --> 00:55:26,550
Yeah, and we did talk about, you know, possible stones or plants.

667
00:55:26,550 --> 00:55:45,010
That wouldn't help protect it, if you will, but like the trees behind it, you wouldn't put, I don't remember on these old drawings exactly what they were, but we looked at it, and they were still too big, because they're going to hide the sun and why they put them behind there, I don't know.

668
00:55:45,010 --> 00:55:45,990
So

669
00:55:51,460 --> 00:56:03,660
we also, keep in mind the structure itself is roughly 40 feet tall, on the original drawings, the sail is 50 feet tall, the mayor said he had like a 200 feet tall.

670
00:56:03,820 --> 00:56:07,420
We haven't figured out how that gets there yet, but...

671
00:56:07,420 --> 00:56:07,920
She's nodding.

672
00:56:11,140 --> 00:56:12,920
The camera's not picking that up.

673
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:25,140
Yeah, but I think it's obviously, I think this is something that will last a very long time

674
00:56:25,140 --> 00:56:32,180
and that will make a statement and that you see when you're coming into the city.

675
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:39,260
And so I'm pleased with the direction we're heading, but it's open to the input.

676
00:56:39,260 --> 00:56:39,880
I

677
00:56:42,730 --> 00:56:45,010
mean, I always say, I love that you guys are picking it.

678
00:56:57,010 --> 00:56:58,250
So there's a long time you have a

679
00:57:30,380 --> 00:57:31,640
lot of time to cheer you up.

680
00:57:31,980 --> 00:57:39,200
I've never seen a fan of this, and now I know it's there, and I know it's there, and it's just not a statement.

681
00:57:39,820 --> 00:57:43,700
So I'm excited that you guys should put this on.

682
00:57:43,860 --> 00:57:49,380
If you have one question about it, and by the way, thank you for all the work you did,

683
00:57:49,420 --> 00:57:51,760
because I know it's been a lot, so thank you, it looks great.

684
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:57,260
But my question for you is, and the out going out,

685
00:57:57,260 --> 00:58:02,640
Is it going to say like something like thanks for visiting heat or is it going to say the same heat Texas?

686
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:08,260
We so it's not said yet. We have we have we have rendered it multiple different ways

687
00:58:09,020 --> 00:58:15,000
It seems that it is the cleanest and looks the best just saying just to say he

688
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:21,000
Even the symbol that you know on the old version is the circle up on the tower itself

689
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:24,040
It just it starts to look cluttered and and

690
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:29,900
different when you do it. It's clean or so I think that's probably how it's going to be on the other side as well.

691
00:58:35,860 --> 00:58:47,340
Appreciate it. And that kind of extended to see where this goes. I know there were some questions about having to get the city involved at that kind of at some point here in the near future to make sure we meet

692
00:58:47,340 --> 00:58:55,360
procurement rules given the size of the project. But I also know that you guys are working on cost engineering it and kind of floating it out to

693
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:02,340
figure out if there's any other kind of modifications before we put it out to it, so appreciate

694
00:59:02,340 --> 00:59:06,900
all the efforts on that and I would say people have comments on the overall design and

695
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:11,380
don't want to kind of talk about it here, feel free to reach out to Jeff and Bart and send

696
00:59:11,380 --> 00:59:11,800
feedback.

697
00:59:12,260 --> 00:59:16,480
They've got a handful of other kinds of design ideas and things like that that they probably

698
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:21,480
can share with you as well if you're interested in kind of seeing more and getting more involved

699
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:21,940
in this.

700
00:59:23,540 --> 00:59:28,700
I'll see, it's the first time that I'm seeing it, and I think it was a very cool thing.

701
00:59:32,070 --> 00:59:32,870
Absolutely exciting.

702
00:59:34,990 --> 00:59:39,530
That moves us onto item 5G update discussion, action regarding the reserve and HEDC on property

703
00:59:39,530 --> 00:59:44,450
beautification efforts, including light pool banners and the historic water tower painting of this

704
00:59:44,450 --> 00:59:44,710
brook.

705
01:00:04,620 --> 01:00:33,420
Just quickly, I'm excited to tell you that thebearers are sitting in the hall, ready to view the stop. We got our hardware in all of them and said, we are a part of the screen, we will put that into their schedule. And based on your input, we step with the reserve branding, city branding, and lifestyle branding. And so coming down the, the driving, the colors that pop up, in rotating, our blue, our green, their stop,

706
01:00:33,420 --> 01:00:40,760
There's this thing, there's a sale of it, and we have 13 cups of fill, so we'll take all the way down.

707
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,480
So that's done, and ready to be installed.

708
01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:50,400
And as you've been out there, you've noticed that all new signage has been produced in install.

709
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:52,180
So it looked real fresh.

710
01:00:52,780 --> 01:00:56,360
Regarding the tower, we have artists retained.

711
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,420
No vendor really wanted to touch this.

712
01:00:59,420 --> 01:01:06,180
As Jeff mentioned, that he applied vinyl, all of them referred me back to a mirror artist,

713
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,400
and two of them were in Park's teacher.

714
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,600
She was on site, we had a little bit, we had a different guest.

715
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:18,540
We ran into a few issues that were unforestation, including the 10th whistle-blossoms.

716
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:23,320
We got that handle, and there's a few other things that we're looking at right now,

717
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,660
so I was still getting even dry this day and see that.

718
01:01:26,660 --> 01:01:35,200
But if you go ahead, you have to talk to them about the internet, and you can call us with any questions or anything.

719
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,320
I'm just curious, does that have any water or will it open?

720
01:01:39,980 --> 01:01:45,120
No, it's empty. It has kind of holes. You can actually kind of look up into it from the bottom.

721
01:01:46,180 --> 01:01:48,160
So, do we need to seal it or anything?

722
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,540
I think the thought was, we do not need to seal it.

723
01:01:51,540 --> 01:01:56,100
there's other stuff that's getting looked at related to it right now, which is why the painting

724
01:01:56,100 --> 01:01:59,420
has not happened, but hopefully that will,

725
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,720
hopefully that will be resolved and not have

726
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:05,140
to come back to this next meeting.

727
01:02:05,940 --> 01:02:06,840
As a word to you,

728
01:02:13,130 --> 01:02:16,290
earlier is for that, okay, let's see what happens in the question.

729
01:02:17,900 --> 01:02:21,120
So do we know when we think the banners will be up by Friday?

730
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,280
I was like, it's a picture in the hall.

731
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:30,340
Mr. Alexander, is it looking good to get that up and then go to Friday?

732
01:02:38,510 --> 01:02:41,090
That sounds fantastic. I appreciate your commitment.

733
01:02:52,060 --> 01:03:05,260
On a positive note, if you guys have an opportunity at some point when the conference room is not going on, the drawings got all framed that we had kind of put out on boards. Those are now framed and hung in the conference room.

734
01:03:05,260 --> 01:03:09,120
So if we're meeting with people, we're able to kind of point at them and show them stylistic stuff.

735
01:03:09,420 --> 01:03:16,200
And then also like the big giant city map of like the aerodolf photography with all the neighbors and everything has been refreshed in that room as well.

736
01:03:18,060 --> 01:03:22,360
So if you get a chance to kind of duck in there and you want to see that I don't know if the old one is still on the floor or not.

737
01:03:23,180 --> 01:03:30,110
But it's actually quite impressive to see the old versus new and it's a little sad to have to say.

738
01:03:30,110 --> 01:03:38,090
So I have a maybe it's a piggyback on this on our properties, but would it be possible for what how

739
01:03:38,090 --> 01:03:42,110
involved is it for us to remove the two male boxes across the street?

740
01:03:43,210 --> 01:03:45,970
I mean do we have that's not a postal service issue right?

741
01:03:46,430 --> 01:03:47,170
You can.

742
01:03:47,170 --> 01:03:48,070
I got a truck.

743
01:03:49,410 --> 01:03:54,050
Because I'm ready to get your commitment towards saving, I'm going to buy it.

744
01:03:54,050 --> 01:03:54,490
I'm going to buy it.

745
01:03:54,650 --> 01:03:55,790
That's not ready to do it.

746
01:03:57,430 --> 01:03:58,350
On the way home.

747
01:03:58,350 --> 01:04:09,110
I mean we can do it. We can do it in the next hour. But I was just curious. I mean the door was open on one of them a few weeks and it was stuffed and I thought

748
01:04:09,690 --> 01:04:11,450
Can we just get rid of those

749
01:04:15,430 --> 01:04:23,750
Well, I think if we we probably shouldn't have that either. Yeah, that's yeah, that could be checks for us at this point. I don't know

750
01:04:23,750 --> 01:04:42,750
And also, I don't know if we talked about it, but in the signage to discussion, small signs is taking the in and out driveway signs and maybe getting something a little more substantial, a little more permanent looking than a garage sale this weekend.

751
01:04:43,550 --> 01:04:49,670
So, because I know those have taken a beating and they don't, so just something a little

752
01:04:49,670 --> 01:04:54,030
more stout, quote unquote, semi-perman.

753
01:04:55,090 --> 01:04:59,850
I think that sounds like that makes for me and we probably have the...

754
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:07,000
That's kind of falls under maintenance and upkeep that should already be able to address that.

755
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:14,800
Yes, there you go. Yeah, just something a little more tasteful and structurally sound.

756
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:21,680
Although that is it to do, but maybe we can get that taken care of in a more permanent way and welcome up with a more permanent plan on that.

757
01:05:22,020 --> 01:05:27,440
I'd appreciate it.

758
01:05:32,990 --> 01:05:38,130
That brings us on to item 5H update and discussion regarding maintenance improvements to the

759
01:05:38,130 --> 01:05:43,970
HEDC HNBC owned properties. I haven't update from Miss Gordon on this. She says that maintenance

760
01:05:43,970 --> 01:05:48,330
continues as normal and she actually provided a copy of the checklist that they're using.

761
01:05:48,470 --> 01:05:53,750
Inspections were happening daily for the trails in the dog zone. The larger required maintenance

762
01:05:53,750 --> 01:05:59,550
is noted like dirty inspections and then based upon whatever gets noted that needs to happen.

763
01:05:59,550 --> 01:06:04,050
and they then, like, schedule that, they're doing monthly pest treatments out there as well.

764
01:06:04,970 --> 01:06:10,270
There has been notice of some fire ant needs out of the dog at the paw grounds, so I think

765
01:06:10,270 --> 01:06:14,850
the fire ants are going to get treated for my understanding, but I will follow up on that

766
01:06:14,850 --> 01:06:15,470
as well.

767
01:06:15,970 --> 01:06:20,090
She wrote, mowing and weed eating has moved to every other week, as needed due to the growing

768
01:06:20,090 --> 01:06:24,310
season coming to an end, new lot of science have been added throughout the reserve, the large

769
01:06:24,310 --> 01:06:28,770
entry signage into the reserve has also partially been completed and she's waiting on additional

770
01:06:29,290 --> 01:06:33,770
signage. Staff has added trail markers and signage to the new nature trails. We are waiting

771
01:06:33,770 --> 01:06:38,330
on an additional trail map and pedestal and we'll install once they arrive. And that quotes

772
01:06:38,330 --> 01:06:43,590
have been received for fence painting at the dog recreation zone. Staff can do the work in

773
01:06:43,590 --> 01:06:47,650
house of starving in October over the course of two weeks. I don't know if you've all driven

774
01:06:47,650 --> 01:06:51,730
by it but the fence is just looking kind of a little ratty and a little rusted and so they're

775
01:06:51,730 --> 01:06:57,930
going to kind of stand it down and do some stuff to make that fence last longer. And so if we have

776
01:06:57,930 --> 01:07:02,170
So the questions, if there's anything else anybody wants me to follow up with her on, I'm happy

777
01:07:02,170 --> 01:07:02,870
to bring that forward.

778
01:07:04,090 --> 01:07:09,430
But General sounds like she's on top of it, she's integrated into kind of city processes.

779
01:07:10,490 --> 01:07:15,550
The next piece of that puzzle that I am going to start kind of politely pushing her on is that

780
01:07:15,550 --> 01:07:20,570
additional scope of maintenance stuff that we had kind of had on our original plan about

781
01:07:20,570 --> 01:07:25,290
clearing more underbrush opening up the reserve space and figuring out what the timing looks

782
01:07:25,290 --> 01:07:26,610
like on some of that.

783
01:07:26,610 --> 01:07:36,790
And I think that team is getting back to full speed, they've been short some people here along the way and they've been kind of having to navigate that, but I think they're

784
01:07:37,190 --> 01:07:38,530
They're back to full speed yet.

785
01:07:39,030 --> 01:07:39,250
There are.

786
01:07:39,590 --> 01:07:40,710
It's just a challenge.

787
01:07:41,370 --> 01:07:41,370
It

788
01:07:48,250 --> 01:07:50,350
doesn't move in the fall to that.

789
01:07:50,430 --> 01:07:56,010
It becomes easier to do some of that long maintenance undergrowth clearing and whatnot.

790
01:07:56,210 --> 01:07:57,570
It's not quite so hot, but everything's good.

791
01:07:57,790 --> 01:07:59,530
And so you get it last longer.

792
01:08:10,270 --> 01:08:16,650
That brings us on to item 5-H update and discussion regarding the parks and trails of heat fundraising program.

793
01:08:17,290 --> 01:08:19,290
I don't really have anything particular to report here.

794
01:08:19,450 --> 01:08:26,610
There's a report kind of in the packet, which is kind of the park board report.

795
01:08:26,730 --> 01:08:31,130
This is another one of those items that I've asked for us to kind of keep more awareness on as we go forward.

796
01:08:31,390 --> 01:08:38,010
So we won't necessarily cover it or talk about it, but kind of have a standing spot included so we understand what's going on with path.

797
01:08:38,010 --> 01:08:41,170
where they've had success, where they've spending that money,

798
01:08:41,750 --> 01:08:44,770
especially if we are going to be making investments

799
01:08:44,770 --> 01:08:46,810
to help them increase their funding,

800
01:08:47,250 --> 01:08:50,610
or we want to make sure that they don't just create a big cash

801
01:08:50,610 --> 01:08:54,410
or which is what led to our taking that part

802
01:08:54,410 --> 01:08:55,870
forward money away previously.

803
01:08:58,210 --> 01:09:01,550
So it looks like they have set some goals for themselves.

804
01:09:01,650 --> 01:09:04,350
They've got kind of their current membership count in there,

805
01:09:04,350 --> 01:09:10,310
and they have a new kind of large donor around a basketball court.

806
01:09:10,470 --> 01:09:12,910
So it's nice to just see things like that come into play.

807
01:09:14,170 --> 01:09:16,990
And with that, that brings us to agenda item six.

808
01:09:17,390 --> 01:09:19,710
In accordance with Texas Government Code Chapter 551,

809
01:09:19,770 --> 01:09:22,610
Sub-Chapter D, the board shall convene into a close executive session

810
01:09:22,610 --> 01:09:26,810
for soon to the following 550-1707251-087,

811
01:09:26,950 --> 01:09:29,430
real estate matters in economic development to deliberate regarding

812
01:09:29,430 --> 01:09:32,310
purchase exchange lease or value of real property and commercial or financial

813
01:09:32,310 --> 01:09:36,910
information to the city has received from a business prospect and to deliberate the offer

814
01:09:36,910 --> 01:09:42,890
of financial or other incentive to a business prospect at the H&E Kitchen in 6B, 551-074

815
01:09:42,890 --> 01:09:47,850
personnel matters to liberation regarding the appointment of employment evaluation, reassignment

816
01:09:47,850 --> 01:09:54,550
duties, discipline or dismissal of public officer employee regarding one director of economic development

817
01:09:54,550 --> 01:09:57,230
and at 1014 we're an executive session.

818
01:09:59,840 --> 01:09:59,980
At

819
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:05,820
At 1032, we reconvene into open session, and accordance with Texas government code chapter 551, the board

820
01:10:05,820 --> 01:10:11,060
we can be in a regular session to consider action if any on matters discussed in executive session.

821
01:10:11,780 --> 01:10:16,560
There are no actions and at 1032 as well, we adjourned the meeting.