[0:00] 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.

[0:12] I want to start with kind of agenda item 2, which is an introduction and welcome of our newest board member, Melissa.

[0:18] 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.

[0:27] Sure, my name is Melissa Ushard.

[0:31] I have lived in Heath since April of 2020.

[0:34] I live in the Puffing Out Club.

[0:36] I do real estate, and I would say,

[0:38] when you already wanted to miss this in Heath,

[0:40] and specifically the Puffing Out Club.

[0:43] I also have background just in the restaurant

[0:47] and the streets, specifically supply chain

[0:52] and doing goods and managing

[0:58] And I have a daughter that just graduated from heat, and she's now among the UNT.

[1:03] Excellent.

[1:04] That's not why I'm wearing.

[1:06] Well, welcome, and thank you for your service to the city and to the board's part of this.

[1:12] We certainly want to thank as well, Rich, who has rolled off the board.

[1:17] And thank him for his time and service to the board as well.

[1:21] Sorry, not Rich Glenn.

[1:22] I don't know.

[1:24] Rich is so cute.

[1:28] I literally don't know.

[1:31] Okay, I think Len for his time to the board.

[1:35] Here we are at I guess nine.

[1:36] No six A.M. and I haven't had that coffee that I've mentioned this exam.

[1:41] But we want to thank Len for his time.

[1:43] I know he was on it for quite a while in his contributions, especially around kind of contracts

[1:47] and contract laws and his contributions and reviewing the agreement set.

[1:52] We've just recently done here with the 1880 restaurant as well.

[1:57] So thank Glenn for his time.

[1:59] Moving on to agenda item three.

[2:00] Do we have any public comment this morning?

[2:03] Okay, we have no public comment.

[2:05] Do we have any board and staff comments this morning?

[2:10] Okay, we have no board or staff comments.

[2:12] Moving on to item five.

[2:14] Five A is a discussion and action regarding the approval

[2:18] of the May 19th regular meeting minutes

[2:20] in the July 21st regular meeting minutes.

[2:23] Hopefully everybody's had an opportunity to review those minutes

[2:26] before them.

[2:28] Got moved to approve.

[2:30] We have a motion to approve.

[2:32] It's seconded by Rich.

[2:34] All those in favor say aye.

[2:36] Aye.

[2:37] All those opposed?

[2:39] Do we have any abstains?

[2:42] OK.

[2:43] We will move forward to item 5B.

[2:46] Discussion and review of the monthly fiscal year

[2:47] 2526 financial report.

[2:49] We had talked about this item as kind of something to have regularly in our minutes going forward.

[2:57] Hopefully all of you have had a chance to kind of take a look over the information that's here.

[3:03] 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.

[3:11] 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.

[3:20] The couple things that may stand out that I just kind of wanted to point out to all of you,

[3:25] our telephone expense being above actually has to do with security system installation.

[3:29] That was a one-time fee and that will no longer continue into this next year's budget.

[3:35] The travel and lodging, this is obviously where a little above budget there,

[3:38] that has to do with bringing in some of the EDC candidates for interviews and everything else you

[3:45] can kind of see. We often have budgeted it but we don't always spend it. So that's keep

[3:49] that theme in mind as we go to approve this next budget as well. If we budget it gives us the

[3:55] ability to spend it and authorize it and we've been authorized by Council to kind of spend it

[4:02] without having to go through a lengthy budget amendment process. And so we want to make sure we have

[4:08] the room to do the things we need to do within our budget, that ultimately gets approved

[4:11] by Council, and then there's kind of a secondary component of us actually making the decisions

[4:18] on this board and panel to actually spend it within that budget.

[4:22] Are there any questions about any of the expenses or any aspects of this?

[4:25] I do have a question.

[4:27] One of the things that I guess he left, but one of the things that I think would be helpful

[4:35] is to put somewhere in here, and I know it's not necessarily a budget item, but how much

[4:41] we still owe 3.05.

[4:45] Somehow or another, so we can watch that, so we have an idea of what we're doing and how long

[4:49] we've got to do it for.

[4:50] Yes, sir.

[4:54] That would be very helpful.

[4:56] I think our annual debt right now is about 190,000 for the next couple.

[5:00] 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.

[5:10] I don't know, really word fits in here, but I think it would be.

[5:13] I think just like we have these beginning fund balances and anything fund balance, maybe we have a debt balance.

[5:18] Okay.

[5:23] 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.

[5:29] my eyes aren't real well. But we also spend some money every year on paying off some debt.

[5:36] So the debt is on here. It's 183,000. Principal and interest for 305 Lawrence and 217 Lawrence.

[5:43] And then we have a 473,000 dollar payment. It's on page 12 of your packet. Okay. It's the CO 2020. Yeah.

[5:51] Three series interest. So that's the debt on the bond. Okay. All right. So but that's every year. Right.

[5:59] That's every year. How long was that for that spot?

[6:02] I think about 20 years left on that.

[6:04] We could kind of call out how many years.

[6:06] It would just be helpful for the board to know that.

[6:11] I think the board did know that.

[6:15] I appreciate that.

[6:17] It's good.

[6:19] And I think that having these in our packet every single month,

[6:22] it also gives us the ability to review all the expenses and the payments that went out.

[6:27] 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

[6:35] 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

[6:42] 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

[6:50] I didn't I saw it, but I don't remember what exactly what page it was on

[6:54] because there's a lot there, but we were paying some sort of property tax.

[6:59] I assume that was for 205 and 317 from our collection there, but I didn't understand that at all.

[7:07] 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.

[7:15] There has also been some disagreement with the central appraisal district, which is a...

[7:24] We'll just say that it's a known open item.

[7:27] That is being worked on right now to some extent.

[7:30] We are solved on it from a go forward perspective.

[7:34] From a historical perspective, there's a question of whether or not we have certain privileges

[7:43] by right and by state statute,

[7:45] versus by what the appraisal district would like to say which is by the time that they approve

[7:50] the paperwork.

[7:52] And so this is sitting on my to-do list as a follow-up event.

[7:58] If you had somebody on the appraisal district, you would probably have to just put and

[8:03] have that up to it.

[8:04] But there's nobody there.

[8:04] We do not have anybody on the appraisal district anymore as they shut the city up

[8:08] if he now.

[8:09] Just a thought.

[8:09] I don't know.

[8:11] Thank you.

[8:12] Yeah.

[8:21] Thank you for those feedback.

[8:22] Any other questions or any other questions?

[8:24] Open questions about the budget or historical financials?

[8:34] Moving on to item 5C, discussion and action regarding resolution

[8:37] 2, 6, 0, 9, 0, 2, A, adopting the economic development

[8:42] corporation, the municipal benefit corporation, fiscal year 26 to 27

[8:46] budget.

[8:48] So as you may recall, as a board, we talked about some different

[8:50] priorities in different items.

[8:52] I solicited input from all board members on where they'd

[8:56] to see the budget spent or not spent.

[9:00] 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.

[9:08] One of the main themes was that everybody wanted to make sure that we kept dry powder available for economic development opportunities,

[9:17] that we kept the fund balances well above, you know, kind of a million dollars.

[9:21] We've managed to do that in terms of this budget that we put together.

[9:26] I don't know if we can go to the next slide.

[9:32] So as we look through some of the budgeting priorities in terms of what we put together,

[9:37] this is kind of a little summary of the key themes that are different from the prior year budget.

[9:44] The first one is the monument sale kind of signage, the wayfinder signage.

[9:48] We actually already proved this in a prior budget, but we're going to officially take it to Council

[9:52] in this year's budget amendments, that's that 500,000 that we already approved as a board.

[9:58] We've talked about kind of increased marketing.

[10:00] Capabilities. This is things like the social media, inclusions or campaign, potentially doing that sales tax campaign to get people to spend more money.

[10:09] 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.

[10:27] 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.

[10:38] 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.

[10:55] There's a couple of key segments, and so we put in here 250 or $500,000 of funding to help with that

[11:04] trail connectivity and really trying to get, I think it's close to 15 or 1600 homes connected

[11:09] into the trail system.

[11:12] As we started looking at things like, you know, how to help with key events

[11:17] for the city, a general theme was that with the new park, they haven't necessarily budgeted for

[11:25] You know, Christmas lights and holiday and the park improvements and whatnot and as a, you know,

[11:30] Doug Bar and I kind of talked about it and worked through the numbers.

[11:33] We were thinking about attacking this not just as a, you know, kind of one off set of

[11:38] lights that get strung up and taken down, but given, doing it in a way that, on all the main venues

[11:44] in the park, they can be used for multiple events throughout the year, they could be turned

[11:48] on and off from a safety perspective, they could be controlled, they could be color changed, Doug

[11:53] had a lot of good thoughts on this as well.

[11:56] And so we put 200,000 into the budget for that.

[12:02] We heard from the park board back at our May 19th meeting

[12:06] about a fundraising event that they'd like to do.

[12:09] And the concept here was that they need some money

[12:12] to kind of jumpstart that event

[12:13] and that we would get repaid from the proceeds of that event.

[12:17] And so this was putting in there the kind of seed money

[12:20] to help them get that event going.

[12:22] And then we can have that kind of have some stipulations associated with repayment related to that.

[12:29] So while we put that into the budget and there is potentially the risk that we don't collect that back,

[12:34] that general expectation would be that that would flow out and then potentially flow back in.

[12:40] The number six, which is the path matching funds,

[12:43] We were trying to think about ways we could kind of help jump start that path to point

[12:50] over the program.

[12:50] As you all know, we pulled all of our city funding for the Parks Board a couple of years

[12:56] ago in part because of the bond.

[12:59] So the thought here would be, and again, there are some rules on how we have to do how we

[13:02] have to kind of send these funds over to them and then potentially recall them.

[13:07] But the concept here was, you know, if we could create an enticement that said, say, the first

[13:11] 50 people that are, you know, people or businesses that donate it towards the path fund got kind

[13:16] of an extra $5,000 kicker for any donation of $5,000 or more.

[13:21] That would really help kind of, you know, work through that list of improvements that would help

[13:25] all the, all the, the trail funds, the path funds, the park improvement funds, and whatnot.

[13:31] And so, this is just kind of a kicker to help get that program going.

[13:36] 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.

[13:46] 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.

[14:03] And so both businesses and individuals.

[14:07] And then we have a lot of grass over at two, 17 Lawrence and there were a thought that we

[14:13] could put in some full-size goals and create another field back behind that area where

[14:18] that house was and just get more people out into that space and there's been demand for

[14:23] these fields, the fields in general are fully consumed in the evenings from my understanding.

[14:31] And so if we add a couple more fields into the play and kind of kickstarter with with this

[14:36] People are actually even renting these fields, so there's an opportunity for us to again

[14:42] 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

[14:51] I've been asked by two different people when

[14:54] Talking about when those were going to be there. They're just looking for

[14:58] Let's play.

[15:02] 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

[15:19] flexibility in this next year's budget to say, hey, let's go do something, or let's go improve

[15:25] up, improve this spot, or let's go knock down some trees, or let's go plant some trees.

[15:33] Let's go add a shade structure, anything along those lines. This gives us some flexibility

[15:37] around doing that. We've kept legal services. We'll get to this in a minute, but the 1880

[15:45] field did close this past week, and so we, you know, we don't necessarily have anything

[15:52] imminent that is going to use this, but we want to make sure we had the flexibility

[15:55] to engage legal as we need to.

[15:58] And then things that we've already approved, we already approved the EDC Director, we've already

[16:01] approved the maintenance position, and so those are just big line items that are on our budget.

[16:07] There are any questions about these budget priorities, or does anybody have anything that

[16:11] they don't like or would like to propose changing.

[16:15] I've got a couple things to say about the budget.

[16:18] Number one, as it's written right now, I cannot support it.

[16:22] I'm a fiscal conservative in many ways, and I know what happens in government enough to

[16:30] know that if you put it out there, it's going to be used.

[16:34] And this is a negative budget, and I just don't believe that at this point we should be

[16:39] doing negative things on a budget that we don't even, we've talked about possibly getting

[16:51] more land, which I love the idea of. We've have land that we have utilized and from

[17:02] my perspective, and I will tell you that it's a two-person perspective, because I've asked

[17:08] my wife to do the same thing. Every time I want you to drive by the city of heat to tell

[17:13] me if there's anybody in the dog park, I've not seen that. Now I will tell you that I'm

[17:18] not there all the time and that's two people and she's never seen anybody there either.

[17:25] To include I've walked the trails many times and never seen anybody out there either. So I'm

[17:31] not against any of these amenities but I am saying let's slow down a little bit because we're

[17:38] putting out a budget, that everyone can see,

[17:42] and I don't want my name associated with something

[17:44] that's a negative budget.

[17:46] That's just my opinion, yes, I know we've got money

[17:48] in the bank.

[17:49] I do understand that, I'm not stupid,

[17:51] I can read a spreadsheet too, but, you know,

[17:56] I, that's just my opinion,

[17:57] and I really have a hard time with, okay,

[18:00] now I'm not saying all this stuff has to be taken away.

[18:03] I'm just saying, whoa, that's all.

[18:06] I think it's just too much, too fast, for very little return, at least in my opinion, and

[18:14] oh, by the way, I've walked on the path every day, and I really want to more path, but

[18:19] I just three quarters of a million dollars for the path just seems excessive to me in one

[18:24] budget year.

[18:25] That's just my opinion.

[18:29] Well, so I understand the concern, I think the part of the issue is that we've had so

[18:35] 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.

[18:49] 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.

[19:00] 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.

[19:09] Maybe if one for one thing is just the pricing and locations.

[19:15] 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.

[19:25] This is what the citizens keep saying they want, even though there are not many of them

[19:30] are not using it, and I agree with that, but I think as we move forward in time, these

[19:35] things, particularly the trails, are going to get used more and more and more, and they

[19:41] are a draw to the city of Heath and they're one of the things that bring both residents

[19:47] our futurists and businesses. So, from that perspective, again, I'm with you on spending.

[19:57] It's, you know, we can go too far.

[20:00] 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.

[20:13] 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.

[20:20] 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.

[20:29] And there was another, another person out there running with their dogs and I brought my dog out.

[20:36] Suzanne, do you have a comment?

[20:37] I can't think to interact with it.

[20:39] I mean, two points, seasonals.

[20:41] We just did a post about programs like this.

[20:44] And it got so much traction and so much love.

[20:48] And a lot of people did come in and I'm so glad we have this.

[20:51] I can't wait to go out there when it gets a little cooler.

[20:54] I mean, it's brutal out there right now.

[20:56] Again, I have no issues with spending the money.

[21:00] I have issues with spending it in all of us.

[21:02] There is no reason to go over our combined income right now.

[21:07] We've got a million dollars on both the EDC and the NBC both.

[21:13] And we're going over budget on both of them.

[21:15] I don't see that as a win for anybody.

[21:18] And does anybody run a business that way?

[21:22] I don't believe they do.

[21:23] I think they look at it.

[21:24] go, yeah, we have to do some capital improvements, and I understand it at that sometimes.

[21:29] But right now, we're going to spend probably the greater majority of our budget on capital

[21:36] improvements. So it's not like we're not doing anything. We're doing a hell of a lot. And

[21:42] it's too much, I think, at once, in my opinion, I won't sign off on anything that's not a

[21:47] best balance budget. We're still going to be able to invest a lot of money without going over

[21:53] the budget, and that's my point.

[21:55] But what do we do with those funds that are already sitting there that we don't ever spend

[21:58] them?

[21:58] That's generally not a matter.

[22:00] So, very valid.

[22:12] I'm collecting the sales tax revenue.

[22:16] The state allows us to do

[22:20] that.

[22:21] Two core responsibility,

[22:25] and when we talk about fiscal responsibilities, when we talk about

[22:31] I'm not going to have versus consumption tax completely makes it, unfortunately, you know,

[22:40] the city pointiniers behind on the water infrastructure, you know, so you have to play catch ups.

[22:47] So then you kind of look at sales tax and you go, okay, well, do you just run a break even?

[22:52] What's the break even for? How did you get to a break even? Where did that money come from in the first place?

[22:58] 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?

[23:11] I'm just going to put a little bit of clarity on that.

[23:14] 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?

[23:23] But then we're holding on to a certain sense of that within a year, how are we trying to

[23:31] flatten the curve? Is it just on that angle cycle? Is that what you're referencing?

[23:36] I'm referencing, yeah. Yes, there's going to be time for when you have a negative budget.

[23:41] I understand that to spend these two million that will eventually become 3 million or whatever

[23:46] as interest and things like that. But even in that, you're spending some of the interest

[23:51] that you're spending all of the interest that you're earning in this budget.

[23:56] And my point is, it's not a balanced budget.

[24:01] And yes, last year we didn't have a balanced budget.

[24:04] You can see it.

[24:05] We bought a bunch of land.

[24:06] There's going to be times when you're not going to have a balanced budget.

[24:09] But to run down the list of priorities, and to say, I'm going to spend three quarters of

[24:15] a million dollars on the path in one year.

[24:20] Okay, sure, but that really eats up a lot of your bunch.

[24:24] I just don't believe in overspending.

[24:26] I'm sorry, you're not gonna convince me.

[24:29] We can talk about it in the board can overrule me by just voting, yes, that's fine.

[24:34] But I don't believe in that.

[24:36] I just don't.

[24:37] No one's going to, no one's going to try to understand the fun of me.

[24:41] I'm just trying to explain.

[24:42] If you try it so you're basically saying, you know, if you collect or

[24:49] they actually

[24:55] $4 million dollars. I'd let you have a capital on an outlay.

[25:00] For instance, buying 305, or the King property that we've talked about, or whatever. I mean, you can make the

[25:05] argument that the entrance to the entrance monuments are a capital outlet in this budget, the trails are a capital

[25:12] outlet. Absolutely. So we have capital. We have capital. We have the capital.

[25:16] 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

[25:27] knowledge, budget, and capital outlice.

[25:30] That's fine.

[25:31] You can call it all of that.

[25:32] But you can also say that where do you stop?

[25:36] We've already talked about this path coming out of 550, whatever.

[25:42] I can't remember the name of the road.

[25:46] Anyways, the point being is, well, that's not going to be finished yet.

[25:50] So let's just go ahead and spend all the money.

[25:52] That doesn't make sense to me.

[25:54] That doesn't make sense to me that okay, when I when I look at my budget over the years

[26:01] There's things. There's times when you've overspend I get that

[26:05] But

[26:06] Just because we haven't spent it in the past means we need to spend it all now. Yeah

[26:12] Yes, it doesn't make sense

[27:02] I also think that we're on an upward revenue that's going to continue to grow that underlying

[27:11] amount that we're getting.

[27:14] And I, again, I do understand, and I just want to have the discussion too, so I'm not

[27:19] trying to, absolutely, convince you about what I want to understand, but I think these things

[27:26] need to get done as quickly as possible, and that we're in a position to get them done in

[27:32] it. Well, with the moves the city is making, so I would make a motion to approve the budget

[27:40] as it stands.

[27:41] You

[27:48] know, the one thing that I think is really, really important that this body be reminded of, right?

[27:57] And you guys are going to exactly what you're supposed to be like dead and then send it to the council, right?

[28:04] And so, so that's great. I'm low extended diet.

[28:08] The one thing that I want to remind everybody is what is your child, you know, what's your child?

[28:13] And your charter is, is to bring economic development, right?

[28:20] And you're supposed to work to bring jobs, right?

[28:23] Bring in more sales tax revenue, right?

[28:26] And bring in better services for the community.

[28:29] So it's kind of like multi-common, okay?

[28:32] But the real key term is, is that your real mechanism is invested.

[28:40] So as we compare that to the private sector, well, I can go invest in another branch or another division.

[28:48] Well, it's not always going to be where I don't tap into, you know, reserve or whatever.

[28:55] I'm investing in something that has to return.

[28:58] I think what I hear you say in which it is, I'm not sure that there's a great return on lights.

[29:03] I don't know whether there's a great return on trails.

[29:05] And I think that that's a really hard thing because it gets very subjective, right?

[29:11] So I was in Napa this last weekend and I got a text from one of the cows in the

[29:16] reverse that was at the dog park and she was so excited because she was like there's five

[29:20] cows here, there's eight dogs and I typically go on Saturdays and I get excited every

[29:26] time I go there's never done one time that I've ever gone to the dog park and there

[29:29] were people that were dogs.

[29:31] 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.

[29:36] But it's great. So I hear you, it's been a hundred and ninety degrees, it's probably not utilized.

[29:43] 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.

[29:52] I think that's why in your budget, you guys are talking about doing some additional soccer goals and stuff.

[30:00] 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.

[30:12] 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.

[30:20] 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.

[30:28] 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.

[30:44] 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.

[30:58] rather than my sales tax dollar stay within the city.

[31:01] So then that way we can have more activities and get out more things.

[31:05] So there's a balance, it's my plan.

[31:07] We got to be really careful to your complaint on budget strategy.

[31:13] But we also have to be very careful on not looking at it for what it is.

[31:17] Consumption tax is being uploaded to this body to make proper recommendations to the council.

[31:24] And the Council's initiative is to figure out how we can make the city more vibrant, more viable, more

[31:33] investable for businesses, and you have a lack of material system.

[31:38] And I'm not saying I 100% and a 100% and a 100% and a lack of knowledge with all these items,

[31:44] but I like the lights.

[31:45] When I saw the light budget, I had asked a couple of questions.

[31:47] 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.

[31:59] So then the staff had it on with amenity lights and six a.

[32:03] And then I started thinking, well, we would go to do an event.

[32:07] We, I sat through the park for a budget, for example.

[32:11] And they were cutting because they had to cut, they had to cut a lot.

[32:14] And life is wonderful.

[32:17] And so when you start thinking about what you guys are really trying to do, and again, it took

[32:21] was a little long but for me, I think, turning it down the earth right.

[32:25] I started really wanting, I can see the vision.

[32:28] And I really think that that can be very vital.

[32:30] It's a big investment.

[32:32] That could be really cool.

[32:35] So I keep looking at these different items and I say, what are those triangles?

[32:39] Well, you know, I agree.

[32:40] 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.

[32:55] And they're doing that because we created a 13 million dollar car that they want to go hang out with.

[33:00] 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.

[33:07] Our goal is to bring in business.

[33:09] In fact, we've made major investment as you stated across the street.

[33:14] One to protect the land from the state.

[33:18] Secondly, we had a codified town circle, a district in 2021.

[33:22] So I'd have to stand on the shoulder of giants, and they had to try and make that happen.

[33:26] So with the town circle, we're still trying to figure out who can we get.

[33:30] to come in, and what's the entice? Well, we've got a very hard father sitting. We don't have a fully connected

[33:36] trail system. The list kind of goes on and on and on. And so the more that we can amenetize and make it

[33:44] the time I tell you, the use of beautification. It's no different than painting this,

[33:49] it's why I'm not looking for donors. And I remember people were like, don't paint it,

[33:54] They looked terrible, we used our flower beds, don't do flower beds, there's really

[33:59] spending money wasting money, nobody's going to donate, these are all the voices that

[34:03] I heard during this time, I was able to raise all the money, and then I literally get more

[34:09] compliments about how beautiful city hall looks, then almost anything else, which is kind

[34:15] of common.

[34:16] So all I'm going to do is just make sure that you guys are thinking in terms of why are we

[34:21] here, or we try to accomplish,

[34:23] I don't necessarily disagree with some of your statements.

[34:26] But two of which is say, hey, you won't be sitting

[34:30] at this stage in a perfect way.

[34:33] So I'm different than I will.

[34:34] I'll be gone guys, if I had to get internal and so

[34:37] so you could keep me out of here.

[34:39] So there is a level of responsibility

[34:43] that I would encourage you guys that do as much as you can

[34:47] that you feel comfortable with to make those recommendations

[34:50] Council because you're time here and that would be where I'm going to go.

[34:57] Thank you.

[34:58] Thank you Mr. Mayor.

[35:00] 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.

[35:10] 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.

[35:29] And I fully agree with you there and we actually understand we finished the year

[35:34] Better than our budget last year and we didn't think we were that at all before that as well. Yeah

[35:38] Yeah, actually last year we even finished a better than the budget even though we paid off a property

[35:43] 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

[35:50] 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

[35:56] I'm just telling you, that's the way I feel about it.

[35:59] I'll say kind of two things.

[36:00] Improving quality of life is also one of our core components.

[36:06] The information that I collected from everybody said

[36:08] that they wanted to keep fund balances over a million dollars

[36:11] in each of our funds, we're keeping 1.75 million

[36:14] and one of them and two million and the other one.

[36:16] And so we're almost double what people had even said

[36:18] that they wanted us to those thresholds.

[36:21] And with that, we have a motion to approve the budget

[36:23] on the floor for Mr. Davenport.

[36:25] Do we have a second?

[36:29] Oh, I guess I have to vote on this now.

[36:32] I had another comment on this, but do we have to go ahead?

[36:36] Do I have to go ahead?

[36:38] Do you have an open discussion?

[36:39] OK, I'll reopen discussion.

[36:41] Go ahead.

[36:41] Yeah, I wanted to, sorry, coming in very late at this.

[36:44] Clearly, we have a motion.

[36:47] But regarding the budget, I understand

[36:50] and agree with many of the points made here.

[36:53] And I think we're in a unique position as this body,

[36:57] like government perhaps were, you know, once that is in the butt, you know, John Q.

[37:05] Citizen doesn't have any say once that happens. Whereas we can, I look at it like

[37:12] not to exceed and that's kind of how I operate in my world. And so if I say, you know,

[37:20] man, 500,000, I mean, when I first saw that that part, I'm like, I don't know what signage you're

[37:25] talking about, that's a $500,000 sign, but I've never built a monument sign, so I don't know

[37:30] but I just thought, man, okay, not to exceed five, so by golly, I'm going to do my part to really

[37:38] drill down on that and look if we can get that thing built for $395,000, fantastic.

[37:44] The same thing with the lighting, and I'll speak to that because that's kind of in my wheel

[37:48] House is, I mean, $200,000 to light up the park seems like a lot, but we did take into

[37:55] account the entirety of this building as well as the park, and we even touched on the idea

[38:02] of the new DPS building.

[38:05] And so, and the programs.

[38:06] And the programs.

[38:08] Trying to like, what can we, if we, you know, so, and again, we're going to drill down on

[38:14] and we're going to do that as viscally responsible as we can.

[38:20] It is not going to cost $200,000.

[38:24] It might be $195, but it will not be too much.

[38:28] And for $195, I want to get as much coverage as possible.

[38:32] We're not going to just blow out the pickleball court.

[38:34] It's not going to be like that.

[38:37] So that's my two cents on the overall thing.

[38:40] But I think, like I said, we have a unique position where we can have the in say on that

[38:48] dollar that is spent, verse, you know, but we've already got, and we know the, yes, we can

[38:54] go back to Council at times and ask for things, but that's just, it's always, you know, let's

[39:01] get the permission slip in advance and work within that and do our part to just handle

[39:09] that money is best we can.

[39:13] Thank you, Mr. Berkeley.

[39:16] So with that, I'll move back into you.

[39:17] We have a motion to approve the budget for Mr.

[39:19] Davenport.

[39:20] Do we have a second?

[39:24] We have a second from Melissa.

[39:27] All those in favor say aye.

[39:30] All those opposed?

[39:31] Aye.

[39:32] So we've got the motion will carry forward to one with an approved budget.

[39:37] 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.

[39:50] I think we need to keep in mind, utmost mind, the value that whatever we do is returning to the citizens.

[40:01] The opportunity to cost it may or may not have related to future economic development opportunities.

[40:09] Thank you, everybody, for doing that budget.

[40:15] We'll now go to Council and Council will either weigh in on that or they will send it back to us and

[40:19] remand it to us or make modifications as well. So we'll see where that ends up.

[40:25] 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.

[40:38] That's the 1880 project.

[40:41] So I'm pleased to kind of let everybody know that this deal signed this past week.

[40:45] We closed at the title company and I think there's another slide or two on this one.

[40:52] But possibly, okay, so we will, I'll bring back to you the next meeting, just a reminder

[40:59] of exactly what we all approved as part of that deal.

[41:04] So the land deal, part went through, they're planning to bring to planning and zoning,

[41:08] I think within the next couple of weeks for approval.

[41:11] Their hope is to have that place fully built in under a year from right now, having

[41:16] haven't spoken with Mr. Dicca and his partners.

[41:23] So they are well under the way under architectural drawings.

[41:26] They've been meeting with Mr. King up at the city office as well and kind of reviewing some

[41:31] of those things and getting preliminary feedback on that.

[41:33] They've got all kinds of stuff being done there.

[41:36] There's some stuff related to the gas lines that's being coordinated with the city as well.

[41:41] As you may all recall, we had a component of our incentive agreement that includes a payment towards that gas line as well.

[41:53] So on a positive note, that's also kind of an interesting one from a budget perspective. I'll just kind of add.

[41:58] 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.

[42:08] 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.

[42:18] Some of that will kick in on the following fiscal year and things along those lines.

[42:23] 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.

[42:31] 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,

[42:41] 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.

[42:51] 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.

[42:59] I just kind of wanted to do a quick little follow up on this.

[43:03] We are doing a kind of breakout meeting with Mr. Alexander to review some of the proposals

[43:09] and we'll come back with a recommendation related to these.

[43:14] Mr. Lane also met with Mr. Alexander to go through kind of those top merchants that he

[43:20] talked about and they identified some potential gaps where some of the biggest online

[43:26] and retailers have never paid sales tax to heat.

[43:30] And so that's being looked at as well,

[43:33] as potentially an opportunity to collect.

[43:36] We're without a contingent collection agency right now.

[43:39] So there's kind of a question of who do we give that business to?

[43:42] And I think we want to be smart about that.

[43:45] And so Mr. Alexander is kind of setting up and lining up

[43:49] some of those meetings for us to figure that out and make sure

[43:51] that whoever we pass it off to since we did the work on that one.

[43:55] we don't necessarily just hand off everything that's associated with that.

[44:00] There are any questions about this.

[44:03] Oh, Mr. Davenport also had, do you want to kind of explain what you were thinking in?

[44:07] Well yeah, it's not, I don't know if it's flushed it out exactly, but when we're talking

[44:11] about these issues, David talked about the fact that when you don't online in particular

[44:18] that it doesn't always come up with a heath, and sometimes it doesn't allow you to

[44:23] Or even I was on the phone two weeks ago with a vendor trying to order something and they

[44:30] They were like a high all things going to take it and it did actually, but

[44:33] Point being if we put something possibly in the newsletter that goes out to the to the community saying hey

[44:43] We've set up a new

[44:45] email address

[44:46] Any time you see this happening forward that to the city and we start collecting all of those

[44:54] of any time that he does not on that name as the city.

[45:00] 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.

[45:11] 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.

[45:21] And I think that that also kind of ties into that bigger sales tax collection effort, right?

[45:26] So hopefully getting maybe the city to start pushing off kind of a shop-heath shop-local

[45:33] makes sure it says heath online in some of the social media posts, maybe even in some

[45:39] of the city messages, maybe in the recap messages, the council member to put, you know,

[45:44] we just really kind of start pushing the member to make sure it says heath,

[45:57] you know, we

[45:58] I can tell you that one way to change it, so if it's helpful to post it in there, I'm not.

[46:04] Absolutely would be helpful, because we have a very strong belief that when it's left

[46:08] saying for me, it does not end up in heat. People tell us otherwise, but we don't all necessarily agree with them.

[46:18] Happy to do that.

[46:22] Be great.

[46:23] Post away and Suzanne, I think can help create some graphics.

[46:26] And if you guys watch and monitor our socials, it's Tia for you to share easily, and we're

[46:33] somewhere hopeful when our ambassadors onboard share our information.

[46:38] It's, you know, necessarily see it in the box, but in the Himalayas, we've got a lot of

[46:43] us on our city of association, but your voice behind it is priceless.

[46:50] Excellent.

[46:51] Thank you.

[46:52] So we have kind of a TV on this.

[46:54] It's going to be a breakout board meeting or a breakout meeting and then we'll keep going.

[46:58] Hopefully have a more formal update on this at the next meeting.

[47:03] Item 5F, update discussion and action regarding city of heat, entrance, monument and

[47:06] wayfinder system.

[47:08] Mr. Davenport.

[47:10] Yeah.

[47:11] So, Jeff and I, can you go to the next one, the original?

[47:15] Yeah.

[47:16] There you go.

[47:17] So, Jeff and I have been working on this and we have, again, tried to value

[47:23] and you're trying to get the costs down, trying to figure out what we can do, what issues

[47:31] there are with this original design, how we can potentially update it a little bit.

[47:39] So we've not put anything out to any kind of bids yet have not even sent anything to potential

[47:49] contractors, because we have been working through the engineering and the underlying issues.

[47:58] So in this design, for example, you know, we've got that sale that you can kind of see that

[48:04] secure that's the 50 foot tall piece. It is a huge wind load. And so the foundation here was

[48:14] outrageous. So we started looking at redesign how we could change that. Still get the effect,

[48:20] but without catching all that wind and reduce our costs. And so some of the things we've

[48:26] looked at. So now, if you would switch it to the next slide there, it's not, no, sorry,

[48:32] go back to the, there you go. So, this is some of, this is where we're headed. Getting

[48:43] away from the stone structure, because there's a lot of issues when you go 40 feet tall

[48:51] with stone, cracks, and over time issues.

[48:57] This is a very, what's sort of looking for.

[49:05] Well, it is multiple pieces that are easily replaced

[49:09] if there's ever an issue.

[49:12] And this is similar facing that is used

[49:16] on modern buildings today.

[49:19] And when we started putting together what is the book that will go out to potential guys to construct this,

[49:29] 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.

[49:39] It has to be something universal. So that, you know, 20 years from now, you know,

[49:45] Lightening strikes a piece of it or a car runs into or something, we could pull that panel off,

[49:50] panelized, that was what I was trying to think of earlier.

[49:52] Pull that panel off and replace it.

[49:56] So a lot of this is aluminum, the base structure.

[50:00] Major is a slightly different material. But you can see the effect. And I think going to this more sleep design,

[50:08] I think it'll hold up better over time as a monument to the city. Now, this is a AI rendering.

[50:16] The one thing that Jeff said, because he's not here, he's like, make sure they know we're removing the cleat,

[50:22] which is the kind of the gold thing on the far right to the of Heath. It's actually like a boat cleat.

[50:29] That was in the original design and we were like nobody can tell what it is anyway

[50:34] 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

[50:45] Well, exactly

[50:47] There was a question

[50:49] I don't know if I have part of it, we're going to have fires.

[50:52] I don't know if I'm going to have fires.

[50:54] Yeah.

[50:55] Yeah, no.

[50:57] So there's been all kinds of questions.

[50:59] It was over there.

[50:59] It was like, was that water going to be coming out as a fire?

[51:01] Yeah.

[51:02] So no, none of that.

[51:04] But so trying to make this a more timeless, sleek feature that will stand the test of time.

[51:12] The rails that you see there, there's a couple of different iterations for the quote-unquote

[51:18] sale, that's not necessarily the final design, but this we just wanted to show everybody

[51:23] where we're heading, make sure everybody's on board with it, did not want it to look too much

[51:29] like a lighthouse, but you still get that effect. But I mean, it's funny because when we came

[51:35] to this, it we were like, okay, the guys that are boaters, the guys are sailors, they're going to

[51:40] see the sale, they're going to see the lighthouseer, people who don't are not, and that's great

[51:44] because they're just going to go all like it's a cool entry monument and it makes a lot of sense.

[51:49] 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.

[52:02] But we're trying to figure that out, obviously LED, we've the vents along the top, our rates, and enough of an angle,

[52:11] which is something that's different, so try and keep birds from being able to nest or even sit

[52:17] there. So we're working through this process in a very detailed fashion to try and get to something

[52:26] in the end that we can lay out very clearly and have it 90% pre-engineered so that we are not spending

[52:35] 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.

[52:56] So that's kind of our idea, this is where we're at, I've got about five packets that are

[53:06] about, but he went from 30 to 100 pages long at this point of engineering and stuff,

[53:14] but we're still working through the detail and trying to get it all down to a final.

[53:19] So that's the update of anybody has any comments on what they see here.

[53:22] Please let me know.

[53:23] Is that rendering set on a particular spot?

[53:28] So there's, well, it's, no.

[53:32] We put in the location they've supposed to be at Ridge Road and Chandler's.

[53:39] And it rendered it like that, so it's clearly not correct.

[53:44] And, you know, A.I.S. sometimes it doesn't, it just would not put it in the right perspective

[53:51] or a location that looks right, but that it is the idea is that it's going to be where

[53:56] we've discussed all along their own road right before we get to the

[54:00] chambers entry on that on the right side as well and on the right that the city

[54:06] already owns. In your packet on the page 38 there's a rest of the actual location

[54:11] of the city on it. 30, 7, 3, 8. And again this would be the hope is that this

[54:17] be our first, and that we can duplicate this in other locations at the entry points to the city.

[54:32] So you can see it from both directions coming down.

[54:36] So it's right before the field, like if you kind of think of where that field is, I think

[54:40] Rockwell actually owns that field kind of, it's actually on the spot kind of between the

[54:47] Chandler's route and the little, their service truck, their service truck.

[54:53] Yeah, yeah.

[54:54] Yeah.

[54:55] That's the best route about that.

[55:00] And it's a straight away, so, hopefully, cars shouldn't be running into it.

[55:07] 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.

[55:16] Well, as soon as there's something there, there's something there.

[55:20] Yeah, and we did talk about, you know, possible stones or plants.

[55:26] 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.

[55:45] So

[55:51] 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.

[56:03] We haven't figured out how that gets there yet, but...

[56:07] She's nodding.

[56:11] The camera's not picking that up.

[56:12] Yeah, but I think it's obviously, I think this is something that will last a very long time

[56:25] and that will make a statement and that you see when you're coming into the city.

[56:33] And so I'm pleased with the direction we're heading, but it's open to the input.

[56:39] I

[56:42] mean, I always say, I love that you guys are picking it.

[56:57] So there's a long time you have a

[57:30] lot of time to cheer you up.

[57:31] 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.

[57:39] So I'm excited that you guys should put this on.

[57:43] If you have one question about it, and by the way, thank you for all the work you did,

[57:49] because I know it's been a lot, so thank you, it looks great.

[57:52] But my question for you is, and the out going out,

[57:57] Is it going to say like something like thanks for visiting heat or is it going to say the same heat Texas?

[58:03] We so it's not said yet. We have we have we have rendered it multiple different ways

[58:09] It seems that it is the cleanest and looks the best just saying just to say he

[58:15] Even the symbol that you know on the old version is the circle up on the tower itself

[58:21] It just it starts to look cluttered and and

[58:24] 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.

[58:35] 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

[58:47] 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

[58:55] figure out if there's any other kind of modifications before we put it out to it, so appreciate

[59:02] all the efforts on that and I would say people have comments on the overall design and

[59:06] don't want to kind of talk about it here, feel free to reach out to Jeff and Bart and send

[59:11] feedback.

[59:12] They've got a handful of other kinds of design ideas and things like that that they probably

[59:16] can share with you as well if you're interested in kind of seeing more and getting more involved

[59:21] in this.

[59:23] I'll see, it's the first time that I'm seeing it, and I think it was a very cool thing.

[59:32] Absolutely exciting.

[59:34] That moves us onto item 5G update discussion, action regarding the reserve and HEDC on property

[59:39] beautification efforts, including light pool banners and the historic water tower painting of this

[59:44] brook.

[1:00:04] 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,

[1:00:33] 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.

[1:00:41] So that's done, and ready to be installed.

[1:00:44] And as you've been out there, you've noticed that all new signage has been produced in install.

[1:00:51] So it looked real fresh.

[1:00:52] Regarding the tower, we have artists retained.

[1:00:56] No vendor really wanted to touch this.

[1:00:59] As Jeff mentioned, that he applied vinyl, all of them referred me back to a mirror artist,

[1:01:06] and two of them were in Park's teacher.

[1:01:09] She was on site, we had a little bit, we had a different guest.

[1:01:12] We ran into a few issues that were unforestation, including the 10th whistle-blossoms.

[1:01:19] We got that handle, and there's a few other things that we're looking at right now,

[1:01:23] so I was still getting even dry this day and see that.

[1:01:26] But if you go ahead, you have to talk to them about the internet, and you can call us with any questions or anything.

[1:01:35] I'm just curious, does that have any water or will it open?

[1:01:39] No, it's empty. It has kind of holes. You can actually kind of look up into it from the bottom.

[1:01:46] So, do we need to seal it or anything?

[1:01:49] I think the thought was, we do not need to seal it.

[1:01:51] there's other stuff that's getting looked at related to it right now, which is why the painting

[1:01:56] has not happened, but hopefully that will,

[1:02:01] hopefully that will be resolved and not have

[1:02:03] to come back to this next meeting.

[1:02:05] As a word to you,

[1:02:13] earlier is for that, okay, let's see what happens in the question.

[1:02:17] So do we know when we think the banners will be up by Friday?

[1:02:25] I was like, it's a picture in the hall.

[1:02:26] Mr. Alexander, is it looking good to get that up and then go to Friday?

[1:02:38] That sounds fantastic. I appreciate your commitment.

[1:02:52] 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.

[1:03:05] So if we're meeting with people, we're able to kind of point at them and show them stylistic stuff.

[1:03:09] 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.

[1:03:18] 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.

[1:03:23] But it's actually quite impressive to see the old versus new and it's a little sad to have to say.

[1:03:30] So I have a maybe it's a piggyback on this on our properties, but would it be possible for what how

[1:03:38] involved is it for us to remove the two male boxes across the street?

[1:03:43] I mean do we have that's not a postal service issue right?

[1:03:46] You can.

[1:03:47] I got a truck.

[1:03:49] Because I'm ready to get your commitment towards saving, I'm going to buy it.

[1:03:54] I'm going to buy it.

[1:03:54] That's not ready to do it.

[1:03:57] On the way home.

[1:03:58] 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

[1:04:09] Can we just get rid of those

[1:04:15] 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

[1:04:23] 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.

[1:04:43] So, because I know those have taken a beating and they don't, so just something a little

[1:04:49] more stout, quote unquote, semi-perman.

[1:04:55] I think that sounds like that makes for me and we probably have the...

[1:05:00] That's kind of falls under maintenance and upkeep that should already be able to address that.

[1:05:07] Yes, there you go. Yeah, just something a little more tasteful and structurally sound.

[1:05:15] 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.

[1:05:22] I'd appreciate it.

[1:05:32] That brings us on to item 5H update and discussion regarding maintenance improvements to the

[1:05:38] HEDC HNBC owned properties. I haven't update from Miss Gordon on this. She says that maintenance

[1:05:43] continues as normal and she actually provided a copy of the checklist that they're using.

[1:05:48] Inspections were happening daily for the trails in the dog zone. The larger required maintenance

[1:05:53] is noted like dirty inspections and then based upon whatever gets noted that needs to happen.

[1:05:59] and they then, like, schedule that, they're doing monthly pest treatments out there as well.

[1:06:04] There has been notice of some fire ant needs out of the dog at the paw grounds, so I think

[1:06:10] the fire ants are going to get treated for my understanding, but I will follow up on that

[1:06:14] as well.

[1:06:15] She wrote, mowing and weed eating has moved to every other week, as needed due to the growing

[1:06:20] season coming to an end, new lot of science have been added throughout the reserve, the large

[1:06:24] entry signage into the reserve has also partially been completed and she's waiting on additional

[1:06:29] signage. Staff has added trail markers and signage to the new nature trails. We are waiting

[1:06:33] on an additional trail map and pedestal and we'll install once they arrive. And that quotes

[1:06:38] have been received for fence painting at the dog recreation zone. Staff can do the work in

[1:06:43] house of starving in October over the course of two weeks. I don't know if you've all driven

[1:06:47] by it but the fence is just looking kind of a little ratty and a little rusted and so they're

[1:06:51] going to kind of stand it down and do some stuff to make that fence last longer. And so if we have

[1:06:57] So the questions, if there's anything else anybody wants me to follow up with her on, I'm happy

[1:07:02] to bring that forward.

[1:07:04] But General sounds like she's on top of it, she's integrated into kind of city processes.

[1:07:10] The next piece of that puzzle that I am going to start kind of politely pushing her on is that

[1:07:15] additional scope of maintenance stuff that we had kind of had on our original plan about

[1:07:20] clearing more underbrush opening up the reserve space and figuring out what the timing looks

[1:07:25] like on some of that.

[1:07:26] 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

[1:07:37] They're back to full speed yet.

[1:07:39] There are.

[1:07:39] It's just a challenge.

[1:07:41] It

[1:07:48] doesn't move in the fall to that.

[1:07:50] It becomes easier to do some of that long maintenance undergrowth clearing and whatnot.

[1:07:56] It's not quite so hot, but everything's good.

[1:07:57] And so you get it last longer.

[1:08:10] That brings us on to item 5-H update and discussion regarding the parks and trails of heat fundraising program.

[1:08:17] I don't really have anything particular to report here.

[1:08:19] There's a report kind of in the packet, which is kind of the park board report.

[1:08:26] This is another one of those items that I've asked for us to kind of keep more awareness on as we go forward.

[1:08:31] 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.

[1:08:38] where they've had success, where they've spending that money,

[1:08:41] especially if we are going to be making investments

[1:08:44] to help them increase their funding,

[1:08:47] or we want to make sure that they don't just create a big cash

[1:08:50] or which is what led to our taking that part

[1:08:54] forward money away previously.

[1:08:58] So it looks like they have set some goals for themselves.

[1:09:01] They've got kind of their current membership count in there,

[1:09:04] and they have a new kind of large donor around a basketball court.

[1:09:10] So it's nice to just see things like that come into play.

[1:09:14] And with that, that brings us to agenda item six.

[1:09:17] In accordance with Texas Government Code Chapter 551,

[1:09:19] Sub-Chapter D, the board shall convene into a close executive session

[1:09:22] for soon to the following 550-1707251-087,

[1:09:26] real estate matters in economic development to deliberate regarding

[1:09:29] purchase exchange lease or value of real property and commercial or financial

[1:09:32] information to the city has received from a business prospect and to deliberate the offer

[1:09:36] of financial or other incentive to a business prospect at the H&E Kitchen in 6B, 551-074

[1:09:42] personnel matters to liberation regarding the appointment of employment evaluation, reassignment

[1:09:47] duties, discipline or dismissal of public officer employee regarding one director of economic development

[1:09:54] and at 1014 we're an executive session.

[1:09:59] At

[1:10:00] At 1032, we reconvene into open session, and accordance with Texas government code chapter 551, the board

[1:10:05] we can be in a regular session to consider action if any on matters discussed in executive session.

[1:10:11] There are no actions and at 1032 as well, we adjourned the meeting.

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