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Good evening everyone. Welcome to this meeting of the Jersey Village City Council. It is Monday, September 18, 2023. The time is now 7 o'clock PM.

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And I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order Madam Secretary. Do we have a quorum present? Yes. Great. Thank you very much.

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We will now have invocation and pledge of allegiance by Max and Aiden McCrain

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dear God

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Thank you so much for everything. I've done for us and I hope every

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The city comes so meeting will go well in everybody will respect other people's ideas and thoughts

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Please thank the fighter fighters and

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Please officers that have served us and are serving us amen

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pledge

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allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the public for

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what it stands, one nation under God, and a little with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you guys.

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Really appreciate it.

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Next up we have several different presentations we're going to start with the presentation

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of Employee of the Month Award for September 2023 to Steve.

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Angela,

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Mayor Councillors are September 2023 employee the month is Steve Angelo, Steve is in charge of all the part-time cart and range staff and over the last year has instilled a very positive group that is many times the first person a customer sees.

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Also, Steve is a very accomplished player in golf and is looked up by looked up to you by many customers and employees for that reason.

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Steve is a great employee in the normal job descriptions, but recently Steve did an amazing job

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and identifying and helping get a person trying to steal a large amount of money from our pro shop.

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A couple of weeks prior to the suspect entering our shop, the Southern Texas PGA office sent out a bolo notice

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and the picture went out to all the clubs in the greater Houston area.

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About a person that had hit several pro shops in South Houston and stolen thousands of dollars with stolen credit cards.

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Sure enough, the person came in the Jersey Middle Pro shop and started his routine that was noted in the bolo.

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Steve immediately recognized the subject and got the entire staff on notice in a matter of a minute.

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Then the entire staff did a great job during a stressful 15 minutes with Steve leading the way.

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Steve previously was a police officer as well.

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Dispatchers on the phone, the whole time when they were waiting for the purchase to be made worth merchandise.

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They were shopping, trying to upsell and all that good stuff that Steve and his team does over there.

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Once the swipe of the credit card happened, Javi officers were on the scene and after a scuffle handcuffed and arrested the suspect.

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If Steve would not have been on top of that below notice, this person would have stolen a large amount of money from our pro-shab.

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Coming to find out the suspect had many, many warrants, out of besides his new gig, of hitting Gulf Coast pro-shabs.

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And we'll ask you, Steve is taking his golf career to another level, by entering the PGA Associate Program with a goal of becoming a Class A member.

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And attending and passing, the Caloif Master Club Fitting School in California, so Steve is now a certified Master Fitter.

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Congratulations, Steve. We're honored for you.

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All right. Congratulations, Steve. Next up, we have presentation of

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Lifeguard Valor Award for Pool Personnel. Robert Bassver,

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Assistant City Manager. He is ill today, so I'll step in and

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take that one for him.

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Mayor Cousers, today we have two awards that we're going to give out

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one person is unable to be here, but if Eastern is here, we'd like for

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Eastern to come on up.

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The City of Jersey Village Lifeguard Valor Award is born out of a

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dedication and immense courage displayed by our lifeguards during the summer pool season.

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These individuals hold lives in their hands and protect our community with a vigilance

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that is nothing short of remarkable.

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The purpose of this award is to celebrate and recognize the lifeguards who have gone above

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and beyond in the line of duty, saving lives when every second counts.

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It is reminder that their work is not just important, it's vital.

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The community commitment to safety ensures that families and friends can enjoy the simple

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pleasures of summer without fear, knowing that a lifeguard is always on watch.

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On May 30th, Easton, Critsfield, was on stand on the deep end during regular operating hours

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when he spotted a person in the distressed effort going down the water side.

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Easton quickly recognized the person in distress and responded to the victim.

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He performed an active front rescue and was able to rescue the victim from the water.

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The City Jersey Village Lifeguard Valor Award is a symbol of a profound gratitude and admiration

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for the left-guards who stand as a beacon of safety in our community.

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It is a token of our appreciation for the lives they saved, the smiles they protect, and the peace of mind that they offer.

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You think congratulations and thank you for waiting.

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Okay, and the last presentation is presentation of Public Service Excellence Award.

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Chief Riggs, you're up.

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Mayor Council, Citizens of Jersey Village.

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It's an honor privilege to get to present this award tonight.

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Austin mentioned Steve's, what started this whole thing with Steve, but also it was a joint effort.

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And what I'm going to do tonight is go ahead and give you a summary of the events that occurred back on August 15.

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On behalf of the City of Jersey Village and the Police Department, we'd like to commend Steve Agalo, Matt Jones, Kimberly Williams, Jennifer Johnson, Matthew Williamson,

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and Aryan Ramirez for their exceptional assistance during an attempt at theft at the Jersey

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Vids Village, Meadow Golf Club, on Tuesday, August 15th.

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Their swift actions, judicial observations, and effective coordination with other staff members,

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and the Jersey Village Police Department, Human Occasion Center, resulted in the successful

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apprehension of a wanted felon.

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The involvement of the city staff acts as an additional pair of eyes and ears for the

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police department.

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Together, they enhanced our efforts in fighting crime within our city.

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At approximately 135 PM, Steve relayed information to dispatch regarding an individual

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who matched the description of the someone involved in this series, an unauthorized credit

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car transaction at various golf courses throughout the Houston area. He was also known

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to be driving a U-haul van. After calling to Spanch, golf course staff did an outstanding job

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of providing essential information and distracting the suspect until officers could arrive.

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Once the officers arrived, they made contact with Mr. Cameron Marx.

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The officers found the U-Haul van over by the retention pond across from the clubhouse.

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When the officers looked inside, they saw several golf clubs and other golf merchandise.

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A criminal history check revealed that Mr. Marks had active extradition federal fraud warrants

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at a Washington DC and at Montgomery County, Texas.

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We are grateful for the quick thinking and actions

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of Steve, Kim, Matt, Jennifer, AJ, and Matthew.

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Their assistance was essential

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in apprehending this wanted felon.

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Please join me in congratulating these exceptional employees

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who are the recipients of the Jersey Village Police

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Department's Public Service Excellence Award.

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Congratulations to all of you. Obviously, it is a direct benefit to us, but I'm sure that there are communities in the area, all around, who are greatly appreciative of us.

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the fact that there's persons off the streets and y'all had a big role in doing that.

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So thank you so much.

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All right.

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We're going to move on to citizens' comments.

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Citizens who have signed a card and wish to speak to the City Council will be heard at

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this time in compliance with the Texas Overmeatings Act unless the subject matter of the

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comment is on the agenda, the City Staff and City Council members are prevented from discussing

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the subject and may only respond with statements of factual information or existing policy.

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Citizens are limited to five minutes for their comments to the City Council.

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The first comment card I have is from Bruce Dowd.

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Even in front.

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Bruce Dowd on Lewis Street.

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Just three items, maybe four, I don't know.

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The first item is I wasn't here last month, unfortunately.

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I had to go do some hard camping up in Wyoming, but that's beside the point.

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But I do would like to ask the council when the next charter committee comes in.

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It'd be much better for the bond issues if they were voted on individually, rather than as a group.

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I think everybody would get more out of it and we'd get it better direction of what the people

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actually think we should be putting the money towards or what we won't put money towards.

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And I'd like to just say that's two cents from my purse. The second thing is on this bond issue,

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you have for streets roughly $12.4 million worth.

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Well, my number is going to remember when you guys surplus 18 million last year, you picked up

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three last year for Ed, you're going to blow roughly ten after all costs on the golf course.

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You still have about eight million to ten million dollars left over.

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Why don't you use that money instead of asking for the bond issue?

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It's there.

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It's the money that's already been taxed and paid for.

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So, and by the time, if you got five projects, and it's, you can't do them all in one year.

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So you probably haven't paid off if they haven't even been going out for any money.

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So you're making enough money as this.

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And the third one is, I went through your website, and I pulled up your proposed tax that we would be paying in the years going forward.

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And you left out one really important thing.

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And that is, you assumed that our houses would never be inflated

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by the Harris County on evaluations.

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Now, in the last four years, they've gone up 10% per year.

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So if you go with what Harris County's doing,

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rather than using just a flat, what it is today.

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And this might interest you, man.

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$350,000 house, roughly mean for Jersey Village, would end up paying an additional $3,000

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in city taxes in the next 40 years to 2028.

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So, what I want to find out is who put the spreadsheet together or the table.

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And why would they use zero assumption for no cost of, you know, value of your house never going up for five years or 20 years?

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I don't know how far you guys went out with it. But that's part of the inspiration. That's just misleading.

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You guys need to check your bathroom, check whoever was doing it.

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And I don't want to say anything, but it's really speaks pretty bad if you use things that you can do all the citizens.

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And it's kind of like putting lipstick on a pig, if it's a bad deal, you know, it really doesn't help.

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But I would like for you guys to correct it.

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To promote by tomorrow, please.

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I'll check it.

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Make sure you guys use it.

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And the only other thing I can think of is, since when do we need a health officer?

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Here's county and does it for us.

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We don't have any more people, I mean restaurants.

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That's what you're trying to do.

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Shut that leaves down.

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They barely get by.

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So, that's it for me.

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But if you guys want to answer my question, I have to put that thread to your vehicle.

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I'll help them out with it.

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Bruce, I'll just say I've learned in my time up here not to try to do math on the fly when someone

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brings something up.

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So, I will, when I have time to double-check the math, I will double-check it myself.

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And I'll shoot you an email tomorrow and let you know what I find out.

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And you'll find out it's zero.

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As for the health officer, I believe that's required by state law, is that correct?

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Okay, required by state law, so you can certainly bring it to the legislature's attention

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if you feel it's unnecessary, but unfortunately we don't have much say in the matter.

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Okay, next part I have is from Judy Burner.

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Thank you all for the opportunity to speak.

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I have one question that I want all of you to answer silently and that goes to all the

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people behind me and all the people and find of me. Who are the most in part of people in the world to you?

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I think every one of us will say our children.

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Our citizens need to always put our children first and I think we do.

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And that's the reason I want to share my reason for why I do not want to build a bridge over Ecuador.

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We have only one large complex that is dedicated for children in the village.

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There is an elementary school, a high school, a city park, a city pool, and various

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areas for all kinds of sports to be played.

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The entire area needs as much protection as possibility.

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A bridge on Ecuador would make the elementary age children, the high schoolers, the teachers,

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the swimmers and the sports teams more vulnerable. This area needs to be protected from exposure

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to Bellway 8. School-aged children and bikers use the footbridge every day to get to school.

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High school students, joggers, mothers with strollers and young children walk across this

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bridge daily. We definitely need to have a footbridge for the citizens to manage to get to

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vehicles that will take the bridge and take a short cut to $2.90. There's enough

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rift draft coming through here now and our children do not need to be exposed.

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Exposure to Beltway 8 could be an invitation for quick kidnapping of bikers, walker,

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swimmers. There are plenty of vehicles setting on the school parking lots and streets

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near the high school that could be enticing to the wrong person. A quick exit is

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exactly what every criminal is looking for.

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Post-elimentary is a tad more than one block

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accessed about way out, and this is a short distance

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for our police, our police force to work.

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If we have an issue, the police may need

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to be given a chance to catch the perpetrator.

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I would like to request that no automobile built,

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but I would like to have maybe a new sturdy footbridge.

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because I think we do need to put our children first.

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If,

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when we, we don't need cars and teenagers going north,

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okay, over a bridge.

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Why don't we have the parents come in for the elementary school

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from the south and come to the elementary school

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and then leave and go back some way?

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We don't need all those people just coming out and it's not thin.

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It's the teenagers that are going to be coming in and out that will give us our problem.

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The parents are very, very sincere and careful.

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But we have a lot of teenage children driving.

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And one thing I'd like to think about, just for you all to think about West Gulf Bank,

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There might be some ideas there, and thank you.

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Great.

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Thank you, Judy.

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The next card I have is from Jim Fields.

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Mayor and Susie Council.

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Thank you for allowing me to participate.

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Our contribute to tonight's City Council meeting.

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Jim Fields will live in 1, 6, 4, 1, 3, St. Hillier.

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The first thing that bothers me is that we're more focused on this is a best place to work when I think the main city council should be focused on the best place to live and it's concerning to me.

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To brag about how we have the best place to work on how it benefits me or anybody else in the city.

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But moving on on the junk vehicles, I'm going to bring it up time and time again.

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It impacts the values over our homes, ultimately the revenue for the city, and we're not

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looking for the holy grail or needle and haystack, these are easy, found, and I'm sure you

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drive by, everybody on city council drives them out.

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And so we have the city manager also, we have the assistant city manager, we have city council,

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and we have the code enforcement that's nine people.

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So I have a recommendation for you guys.

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Each one of you guys, well first you should take pride in the city

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and go look yourself just like I did.

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But you have plenty of people to find these interactions.

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Another thing I bought up was on Seattle slew,

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the weeds are about three to four feet high now.

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You can't even walk on the sidewalk.

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Can we please get that taken care of?

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It's an ice war for the city.

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And you are explained to Health Officer,

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is that a state law is at a recent change in the statute?

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It's been at Wacense, I've been on council.

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OK, thank you, Mayor.

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Appreciate that.

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The other one, it's curious to me,

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is this employees incentive for buying homes in JV.

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Again, we're not focusing on the citizens

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that have to pay the taxes, we're more concerned

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about the people that work here.

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They should follow the same path that I did.

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We got plenty of apartments when they can live here,

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once they save up money, laying by house.

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Also going back to this on the bonds,

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and it was kind of disturbing there

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that we're not including the 10% of the appraisals increases.

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So I'm hoping Mayor not just email it,

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can you please also update it on the website?

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Can you do that for us if it's correct?

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I don't control the content of the website, but if you'd like to let people know that you believe the numbers should be different.

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You're welcome to do so.

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Who controls content on the website?

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The city staff does.

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I thought you were in control of the city staff.

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So they, I guess they dictate what goes on.

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One of the thing, the 2023 salaries, it was interesting.

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I totaled them all up just out of curiosity.

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I mean, include the retirement, and since over time, the whole bit, with the salary, it jumped

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up this year, almost 30 percent.

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That was incredible.

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And I was as curious why, I don't know if they were adding more people, yes, it is.

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I pulled it right off the pace, or yes, sir, I guarantee I'll send you it to you in the next

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year.

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I'd just see that.

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And then if you would do, put that on next agenda, meeting, saying that I was correct,

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And I'll show it to you.

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OK, also the $18 million in the surplus,

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I agree with the other citizen there.

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Why can't we apply that?

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I think it's really incredible to me

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that we're focusing more on golf course,

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Convention Center.

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When we have streets and stores that are collapsing,

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because I attended the January 2022 meeting.

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And I remember that you guys said that you had enough money

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for the the new city hall and the golf course, but not enough money for the streets.

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So, so there is more money out there and I wish you could publish that out there.

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So everybody would know exactly what the circle says.

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It says point somebody's finger go look in the budget.

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I appreciate that.

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And then what else?

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That'll do it.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Jim.

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Next car I have is from Frank Mar.

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I would like to see Council invite representative from Harris County Flood Control District to our next meeting.

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I would like to see them either before the meeting or you could set a part where we could ask them questions.

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Because I know we can't conduct business back and forth here, but he's a pretty some way we get

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a representative here. Here they're update on work, on the flood control issues in the

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Jersey Village area, where we stand, where we're going, and how we're going to get there and give

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us a chance to ask them questions and get it on the record. What their answers are. Thank you.

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Thank you, Frank.

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Next card I have is from Rick Faircloth.

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Good afternoon.

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Good evening.

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Rick Faircloth, 1-6-0-1-0.

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I'm back again to talk about the upcoming November bond election as I said last month.

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I think this council needs to strongly consider the exempt of the over 65 folks from any tax

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implications that could come from this bond election, the same as the school district and

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Harris County best.

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Also, last month there was an item on the agenda where the started the process for the

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bond election and how those three proposals were going to be put together.

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There were a number of folks on this council that really wanted them split and for whatever

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technical reason they said, well, we couldn't do that because it'd be at the lay and

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extra cost and other things. Over the last month, I had probably voted with several groups

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and because they're not split, they're not happy about how this bond election and

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proposal is being put on the ballot and from the feedback I've got that they're not happy

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with it and even though there are certain things that are good would not surprise me that a

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large number of those people will vote against all issues even the ones that people talked

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about with the Ecuador facility and the ETJ water system.

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So just want to let you know that again, voice my issue

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about the over 65 exemption.

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I think you can do it.

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You just have to make a few mind to do it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Rick.

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The next card I have is from Eric A now.

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I'll go now, 1, 5, 6, 0, 1, and sing up our lane.

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I wanted to give a few thoughts on opinions on some things regarding JV.

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First off, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to serve on the planning and zoning commission.

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I've enjoyed working with the city employees and city residents.

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As I expand my knowledge of JV and how it works, we are not.

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I do enjoy the time I invest on the board and seeing how it all works.

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I hope that I'll be considered for reappointment.

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An eagle-eyed J.V. resident, announced on social media that the real deal between J.V. and K.H.J.R. had ended.

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While I do think that the ending of the deal was unfortunate, my faith and belief in the elected officials of J.V. is not shaken with that decision.

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While this is the second time a deal has ended, without being completed, the area of land that J.V. is looking to develop will take time.

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Whatever the area ends at being, I believe that the city will have done their due diligence

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to get the deal done in the best way for the city and its residents.

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Even with money spent on plans for the development, this city is pretty resourceful, and

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I expect them to find some way to either salvage, modify, or extend the plans made, or at

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informed and to be able to make better decisions for future plans.

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The adage, try, try, try again, comes to mind regarding the entire matter.

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I believe that those employed by the city are doing good work and working hard to make

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everything right.

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Kudos to all, and I look forward to the next exciting possibilities.

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The summer heat has seemingly stopped baking us all to death, so it means that cooler

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time activities in the neighborhood are right around the corner.

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National night out, Halloween and DDD on driveways again.

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One note, do make sure that the spelling on integrity images is corrected on the title

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of resolution 2023-48 on page 433 of the O9-18 regular agenda.

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It was misspelled.

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Have a great evening.

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Thank you. Thank you here. Next card I have is from Sonny Cossing.

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Good evening, how are y'all? I don't have a lot to say but I live on well-win-like

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Bobby does and we now have this beautiful apartment complex going up across the Beltway,

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totalized store, where we're used to have all these beautiful trees that y'all allowed

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Harris County to take down and another issue with the Harris County with the flag control

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is they've now dug that ditch right onto my property line so now I can see under my

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fence. They say they can't do anything my yard is draining into their ditch. Well people

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in that ditch wasn't there when I milled in that house in 1996.

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So one of the neighbors asked

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me to say something about trees being hanging over the sidewalks. It doesn't really

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me unless I can't walk up under it and I'm short so it's usually not an issue. One of the

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neighbors tried to call the city today four times you know when answers no one to return

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to her phone calls so that's pretty much it for me.

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It's not just to be clear that they leave

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a voicemail message. I think she did. Okay, what else? Can I ask who she called?

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You know honestly I don't

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I don't know if it was which who exactly she called so she just asked me to mention that

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she called for a different extension she got no one she left message and got no recalls

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back.

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Just anytime anyone calls city hall and they don't get if they can't reach somebody and they

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leave a voicemail message and they don't get a call back shortly thereafter tell them to send

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me an email.

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I will follow up on it.

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Okay, great.

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Thank you.

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And as far as the issues with the apartment complex, I wish we had jurisdiction over that

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Unfortunately, we don't.

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We can talk to the Flight Control District

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to see what they have planned for once or the finish

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with work there.

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Hopefully, they've got some plans for some foliage or something.

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Well, we'll follow up on that once we're there for other

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along.

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Next card, I have is from Joe Hewitt.

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Good evening.

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Mayor of City Council.

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My name is Joe Hewitt.

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I reside at 159-17 Lake U Drive.

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I'm coming to you this evening to voice my concern of opening Ecuador as a through street.

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We are so fortunate to live in a neighborhood where our elementary and our high school have controlled access.

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The majority of the schools in the Cypher school district are usually on busy thoroughfares.

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This makes us really unique.

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Our current setup affords us the luxury of our children to walk, ride bikes, or even be dropped off by golf carts, which I love seeing, it's really sweet.

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In a time when the news is heavily laden with crimes in and outside of the schools, I have peace of mind, knowing that our police and our fire departments can contain problems more efficiently.

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If there is no quick escape routes, actually, this may even deter problems in the first place.

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My second reason for concern regarding opening up Ecuador has to do with the amount of cut-through traffic we already experience in our city.

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Why are we creating another point of ingress and egress into our neighborhood for more non-residence to just use as a pass-through?

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Believe me, I know, I live on Lakeview, traffic starts at 5am.

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So looking at other incorporated cities such as Bunger Hill, Pliny Point, and even West University,

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They put a lot of effort into dissuading cut-through traffic in their neighborhoods by the use of one-way streets,

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speed bumps, and traffic circles.

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I hate for her to have to go that direction.

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In a time when interest rates are high and the economy is not looking very stable, do we really

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want to spend our money on something that may not need to be fixed?

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Thank you for your time.

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Thank you, Joe, since that was the last, that was the last kind of head that mentioned this particular subject.

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It seems like I guess there's been a lot of buzz over the last, and I'm going to keep this purely two statements of fact and statements of Paul Sack.

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I can already see our city attorney burning a hole in my head.

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I don't know what exactly has been discussed out there other than I got several emails of similar subject this afternoon.

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And then of course, obviously there's a noticeable number of people discussing it.

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there was a two-minute discussion, three-minute discussion, where this was

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bandied about as whether it's something that we would do. There was no

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decisions made, but there was a recognition that something would need to be done

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at some point regarding that pedestrian bridge, which is in bad condition. So we

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are talking about a, I'm just going to call it a five-minute conversation to be

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judicious, a five-minute conversation in which no commitments and no decisions whatsoever

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even come close to being made.

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So I say that only just to make sure that anyone out there who's thinking themselves

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because of what they've heard tonight, that City Council is headed directly towards putting

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a draft of vehicular bridge across Ecuador, we're not even close to that.

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So I'm not saying it would never happen because you never know what would happen.

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I'm saying, you can pick any other place in the city where there is no street right now.

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And there's just, at this point, just as much likelihood that we've built a street there as we've

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built a street going across that by you.

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So just want to make sure everyone knows that's where we stand currently.

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So there's no decisions that have been made whatsoever either way.

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So I would just, I would just say, this is a very good reason for the few people who did

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email me beforehand to talk about it.

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Thank you because it gave me an opportunity to kind of make sure that they understood where things are.

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So please, if you ever have a question about that, feel free to email me.

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The next card I have is from Jeff Capackie.

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Good evening.

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Mr. Jeff Copackie, 16, 125, delosure.

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I come here about communications.

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I walked out of my door for about a evening,

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and I got cones and barricades all in front of my house.

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I have not been notified by the city of what's going on.

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There's nobody been working there.

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It's blocked off.

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It's a dangerous curve coming around there.

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I guess it only affects three people, but it affects the whole block.

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Because of the way the traffic is flowing.

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But nobody from the city has notified me or anybody else in my neighbors about what's going on.

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We don't know what's happening, but they came over there and blocked it all off.

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It's all I got to speak about that, but I know last month, Bobby, you said that we need a bunch

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of eyes, you know, and so I got a councilman that lives on my street, and if he can't see

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the violations on my block, then there's an issue, okay? Because there is a lot of code that

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needs to be enforced on my block and if y'all would please check into it and let me know

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what y'all can do about it because it is getting bad and it's got a little better that

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did move one car that sat on the road for a whole year it left but we need to get something done

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and all you have to do is drive down my street and that's only one street in the village and

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if you want to entice people to move here,

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you've got to clean the city up.

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That's all I got to say.

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Thank you for your opportunity.

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I'm sorry.

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Can I get a clarification of what street he lives on

446
00:44:19,420 --> 00:44:21,060
and what this cone situation was?

447
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:21,760
I'm sorry.

448
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,140
I didn't understand where you told me what street you live on

449
00:44:24,140 --> 00:44:25,240
and I'm just trying to understand the color thing.

450
00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:28,740
I live on Delosier, 16, 125 Delosier.

451
00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:31,040
Thank you.

452
00:44:35,050 --> 00:44:36,310
We will, we will look into that stuff.

453
00:44:36,550 --> 00:44:38,410
I would just encourage y'all to,

454
00:44:38,410 --> 00:44:39,890
I have a very limited ability

455
00:44:39,890 --> 00:44:41,670
to do anything right here while I'm up here.

456
00:44:43,210 --> 00:44:46,110
I'm sure our city manager will look into that.

457
00:44:46,550 --> 00:44:51,730
Please, I do respond to emails, I try to respond to emails within about a day or so after

458
00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:52,390
I receive them.

459
00:44:52,470 --> 00:44:56,370
If you send me an email, it allows me to be able to collect the information, pass it along

460
00:44:56,370 --> 00:44:59,950
and city staff and make sure that we get answers as to what's going on.

461
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:11,120
So, you're right. If I try as much as I can, if I see anything, I report it in the app, or I reach out to city staff and let them know what's going on.

462
00:45:12,140 --> 00:45:20,260
I would encourage everyone to do that, because there's nothing special about me or anyone on this day is that somehow makes all reports any better than anyone else's.

463
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,760
So, we try what we can do what we can do, but we need everybody's help to pitch in on that.

464
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:34,480
So last part I have is from one more thing I've been driving around the city, I've noticed

465
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:38,660
barrels and areas were going to drought where there's a lot of public works issue.

466
00:45:38,780 --> 00:45:45,080
You don't have any intimate detail of the corner on delusier but I'm assuming it's all public works related.

467
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,480
Yeah, I got a name of this afternoon on that one.

468
00:45:48,380 --> 00:45:53,580
There's some street panels there that seem like they're either coming apart or moving cars drive over it.

469
00:45:53,580 --> 00:45:54,680
So they deemed that unsafe.

470
00:45:54,980 --> 00:45:58,520
So we're working with contractors to get quotes to get that fixed.

471
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:01,880
And as soon as we get good quotes, we'll take care of the problem.

472
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,080
But that's the issue that I was informed of this afternoon.

473
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:08,240
It's pretty standard trout condition issues.

474
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:09,060
Yeah.

475
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,420
But are we informing the people that live in front of these places is something like this

476
00:46:12,420 --> 00:46:12,740
happens?

477
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:13,980
Is there something we're doing?

478
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,960
Or is it just you're supposed to figure it out if there's a cone maybe there's a problem?

479
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,360
I would hope the staff is informing people, but the late notice that I got in this one tends

480
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,240
to lead me to believe that they didn't inform the residency

481
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:29,480
other, which is frustrating to put it slightly mildly.

482
00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:35,320
So, that is something that we will work on.

483
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,020
We'll make sure that that's done a little bit better.

484
00:46:38,220 --> 00:46:39,940
But do we know when that was put out?

485
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:43,840
I wasn't informed this afternoon.

486
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:45,800
I was from Ms. Cameron, so I would say it was Friday.

487
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:47,440
But I don't know.

488
00:46:47,940 --> 00:46:48,240
Okay.

489
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,000
Again, if ever there's a situation,

490
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,300
you don't have to wait till a council meeting.

491
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,260
My phone numbers out there everywhere.

492
00:46:58,260 --> 00:47:03,900
my email addresses on the city website. I check it often. Please do reach out to me. I'm

493
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:08,900
more than happy to look into these issues and so they're not sitting there waiting for a

494
00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:15,160
council meeting to get resolved. We want to try to help and trust me we're not sitting here

495
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:22,060
just saying well I didn't see it. We want to try to help as much as you can so just let us know

496
00:47:22,060 --> 00:47:25,240
and we'll do what we can, so.

497
00:47:25,540 --> 00:47:27,160
Hopefully that'll get straightened out quickly.

498
00:47:30,950 --> 00:47:32,530
Last card I have a strong Kimberly Annow.

499
00:47:43,470 --> 00:47:44,890
My name is Kimberly Annow,

500
00:47:44,990 --> 00:47:48,030
and I live at 15601 Singapore Lane.

501
00:47:48,850 --> 00:47:51,710
As my 24th installment on Jersey Village,

502
00:47:52,230 --> 00:47:55,870
the second half of 1994 continue to be quite busy

503
00:47:55,870 --> 00:47:58,790
with improvements, citizens, concerns,

504
00:47:59,670 --> 00:48:00,710
development opportunities,

505
00:48:01,710 --> 00:48:03,050
and a rather large dinosaur.

506
00:48:03,050 --> 00:48:11,950
The 27-foot width and serpentine-ish shape a village drive along with 10-foot set-back lines

507
00:48:11,950 --> 00:48:19,050
and house-side street parking continue to be a safety hazard as one of the residents requested

508
00:48:19,050 --> 00:48:26,590
a reduction of the speed limit from 30 to 20. The council advised a limited sight distance sign

509
00:48:26,590 --> 00:48:32,790
to be tested first for a few months. Some cars driving along the residential streets seem to

510
00:48:32,790 --> 00:48:35,590
have loud boombox radios.

511
00:48:35,910 --> 00:48:39,210
And if decibels sound meters could be used by the police,

512
00:48:39,530 --> 00:48:42,210
but the meters reliability was concerning.

513
00:48:43,210 --> 00:48:45,850
Loud sounds are in the general nuisance ordinance,

514
00:48:45,990 --> 00:48:47,810
but a citizen advised elsewhere,

515
00:48:48,290 --> 00:48:52,350
if sounds are heard more than 150 feet away,

516
00:48:52,390 --> 00:48:53,490
it is too loud.

517
00:48:54,630 --> 00:48:57,130
Even though the city pool membership is limited

518
00:48:57,130 --> 00:49:00,590
to citizens, public access to the park's features

519
00:49:00,590 --> 00:49:02,930
is unrestricted.

520
00:49:03,150 --> 00:49:10,910
Unanimous approval of Resolution 94-03 proclaimed August 2nd as National Night Out and Mayor

521
00:49:10,910 --> 00:49:14,850
Deskant encouraged residents to get outside to meet their neighbors.

522
00:49:15,470 --> 00:49:20,310
This year as National Night Out is Tuesday evening October 3rd.

523
00:49:20,610 --> 00:49:26,970
Psychiar ISD requested additional signage for the streets connecting to post elementary, such

524
00:49:26,970 --> 00:49:29,170
as flashing school zone signs.

525
00:49:29,170 --> 00:49:36,790
Since they are more expensive to install, there was discussion of the format showing the

526
00:49:36,790 --> 00:49:43,650
zones times of day and year around in addition to the current school zone signs.

527
00:49:44,230 --> 00:49:51,410
Solomon would also be added as a school zone street by City Ordnance 94-07 and the City

528
00:49:51,410 --> 00:49:54,470
will have crosswalk signs installed along Philippine.

529
00:49:54,470 --> 00:50:01,470
The state notified all the equals will be required to get a $23 emissions test for licensed

530
00:50:01,470 --> 00:50:03,430
renewals starting in January.

531
00:50:04,510 --> 00:50:10,670
A fundraiser to purchase picnic tables and equipment for Caralfox Park was requested by the

532
00:50:10,670 --> 00:50:18,450
Parks and Lands gifting committee by selling 75-4x4 foot cement sidewalk squares along the

533
00:50:18,450 --> 00:50:19,890
Parks Senate and Alcopoco.

534
00:50:19,890 --> 00:50:27,630
The high schools homecoming parade for October 20th was announced with Council invited to participate.

535
00:50:28,670 --> 00:50:36,070
This year's parade will be on Wednesday, October 11th at 330 starting at the Solomon Tennis Court Driveway.

536
00:50:37,290 --> 00:50:46,050
The newly built police building will have a dedicated 911 communication equipment room in FPA standards.

537
00:50:46,050 --> 00:50:54,730
The fire department was recognized for twice winning first place in the Deer Park in Decento City

538
00:50:54,730 --> 00:51:00,510
parade competitions with the oldest piece of equipment cleaned and shined up.

539
00:51:00,970 --> 00:51:06,950
The fire department's open house was announced for October 29th, while this year's police

540
00:51:06,950 --> 00:51:11,970
and fire combined open house is on Saturday, October 21st.

541
00:51:11,970 --> 00:51:28,450
A proclamation was given from the mayor for Eagle Scout Jason Stevens of Trip 1-8-3-0 for his construction and installation of the tire renaissance playscope at Clark Henry Park.

542
00:51:28,450 --> 00:51:35,150
The reality of the West golf bank road expansion was heavily discussed with representatives

543
00:51:35,150 --> 00:51:45,170
from land owners, the state, county, and citizens for requirements and expectations as the road would still be built.

544
00:51:45,830 --> 00:51:49,010
And now how to best manage the process.

545
00:51:49,010 --> 00:51:54,510
possibilities of the number of lanes, traffic signals, high school access,

546
00:51:54,930 --> 00:52:03,210
meetings, businesses, zoning, plus cells, and at the forum, taxes, as they still

547
00:52:03,210 --> 00:52:11,270
undeveloped 19.5 acres was in next to 1987. A grant application request to hire a

548
00:52:11,270 --> 00:52:15,110
Troll Officer, devoted to community policing,

549
00:52:15,530 --> 00:52:20,150
was a provide council for $75,000 over three years

550
00:52:20,150 --> 00:52:23,730
and federal funds by the COPSFAST program

551
00:52:23,730 --> 00:52:26,910
for city populations less than 50,000.

552
00:52:27,950 --> 00:52:30,130
And next week, it's our third anniversary

553
00:52:30,130 --> 00:52:33,370
since we closed on our house here in Jersey Village.

554
00:52:33,630 --> 00:52:36,430
Eric and I cannot be happier being here,

555
00:52:36,610 --> 00:52:38,950
supporting the city staff, volunteers,

556
00:52:38,950 --> 00:52:43,670
is the fire and police department and just try to make our contributions to the city.

557
00:52:44,030 --> 00:52:44,450
It's helpful.

558
00:52:45,150 --> 00:52:45,530
Great.

559
00:52:45,730 --> 00:52:46,350
Thank you very much.

560
00:52:46,630 --> 00:52:47,130
Thank you.

561
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,100
That brings us to the city manager for it.

562
00:52:55,100 --> 00:52:55,840
Austin, please.

563
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:57,600
Mayors and Councillors.

564
00:52:58,360 --> 00:52:59,620
The manager report is before you.

565
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:00,180
Happy to answer.

566
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:01,740
As the council might have.

567
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:03,280
I also want to make sure.

568
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:04,080
I mentioned that.

569
00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:07,080
Recently approved for two more home elevation grants.

570
00:53:07,180 --> 00:53:08,520
I don't know if we mentioned that last month or not.

571
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,900
but so probably in about 18 to 25 months

572
00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:16,100
we should see about 28 more homes starting to be elevated as well.

573
00:53:17,570 --> 00:53:19,570
Yeah, actually that announcement was made

574
00:53:20,230 --> 00:53:24,190
after our last meeting, so we, the city was picked for,

575
00:53:24,190 --> 00:53:25,970
I think it was a little over $9 million worth

576
00:53:25,970 --> 00:53:26,990
of grant funding.

577
00:53:28,410 --> 00:53:29,590
Yeah, not little overnight.

578
00:53:30,350 --> 00:53:31,730
Yeah, for more elevations,

579
00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:33,930
so.

580
00:53:34,210 --> 00:53:36,450
Kim, I could say this for citizen comments

581
00:53:36,450 --> 00:53:38,930
or Councillor Comments, but all good.

582
00:53:38,930 --> 00:53:44,830
A national night out is October 3rd, who would citizens contact to understand how they can help participate.

583
00:53:46,170 --> 00:53:49,030
The Police Department handles that? Perfect. Thank you.

584
00:53:51,390 --> 00:53:56,870
Yes, sir. They can contact Kim Murphy. She's the one coordinating that. She does that. Yes, sir.

585
00:53:58,650 --> 00:54:05,410
Yeah, we'll make sure that there's a little more publicity about that as we get here in the next week or two.

586
00:54:07,060 --> 00:54:08,320
Any other questions for the city manager?

587
00:54:11,380 --> 00:54:11,640
Okay.

588
00:54:12,260 --> 00:54:16,840
That brings us to the consent agenda. Is there any member of Council that wishes to

589
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:20,240
remove an item from the consent agenda for consideration during the regular agenda?

590
00:54:22,370 --> 00:54:23,530
F7 and F8, please.

591
00:54:24,910 --> 00:54:28,950
Okay, items F7 and F8 will be considered at the top of the regular agenda.

592
00:54:32,750 --> 00:54:35,030
I'm moved to approve the consent agenda.

593
00:54:36,070 --> 00:54:36,810
I'll second.

594
00:54:37,250 --> 00:54:39,250
We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion?

595
00:54:40,270 --> 00:54:41,470
Seeing none, all those in favor?

596
00:54:42,630 --> 00:54:44,610
All of those against any of the consent agenda.

597
00:54:44,610 --> 00:54:49,590
The Consent Agenda passes, so with that we will take up the first item that was

598
00:54:49,590 --> 00:54:53,810
removed from the Consent Agenda, item F7, consider a resolution of

599
00:54:53,810 --> 00:54:58,250
2023-47, awarding the bid and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a

600
00:54:58,250 --> 00:55:01,650
contract with Pioneer Construction Services LLC for the Philippine

601
00:55:01,650 --> 00:55:04,390
Left Station Improvement Project, Austin Police City Manager.

602
00:55:04,850 --> 00:55:08,070
Mayor and Councillor's part of our capital improvement projects for this year, upcoming

603
00:55:08,070 --> 00:55:11,790
years, the Philippine Left Street Livestation, there's several reasons why this

604
00:55:11,790 --> 00:55:18,530
The project's necessary, the current one is reached the end of its lifespan, the pumps and other equipment are old worn out and that station is prone to flooding.

605
00:55:19,070 --> 00:55:21,890
The lift station is currently not meeting the safety and environmental standards.

606
00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:28,610
The pumps and other equipment are not energy efficient and the station is not properly handled properly equipped to handle the hazardous materials.

607
00:55:29,650 --> 00:55:34,190
The lift station is not as it is today as not able to keep up with the demands of the growing population.

608
00:55:34,190 --> 00:55:39,230
So this project is definitely a necessary one that's been on our radar for a little bit.

609
00:55:39,390 --> 00:55:42,810
Blyol Engineering is the engineers that helped us with this project.

610
00:55:43,190 --> 00:55:48,590
They are here tonight. The project went out for bid. We had estimated project cost a 2.1 million,

611
00:55:48,770 --> 00:55:54,610
we got one bid that came back and the total bid cost of that one is 1 million, 314,

612
00:55:54,850 --> 00:56:04,170
and 55 dollars. So that's well below the engineers estimates. The engineer has done their

613
00:56:04,170 --> 00:56:07,050
They recommend awarding the bid to them.

614
00:56:07,410 --> 00:56:10,910
The full bid tab and the letter of recommendation from the engineer is included in the packet.

615
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:14,620
Any questions from Council on this item?

616
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:19,700
I was just curious if somebody for people that are at home possibly listening or watching.

617
00:56:20,420 --> 00:56:23,920
It's a piece of explain exactly what a lift station does.

618
00:56:24,660 --> 00:56:29,860
It lifts wastewater from the pipes into the wastewater treatment plant.

619
00:56:31,260 --> 00:56:36,940
So that sounds like something we would like to be functioning at its full capacity, correct?

620
00:56:37,860 --> 00:56:42,160
When it doesn't function at its full capacity, the pipes do, and that's not a good thing.

621
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:47,880
I just want to make sure, and I don't mean to just, but I'm just asking a lot of times people look at this stuff

622
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,340
and have no concept of what is a listation.

623
00:56:50,860 --> 00:56:55,420
I don't know. This isn't stuff I do every day. You know, it's one of those, and I think it's important that we make sure everybody understands

624
00:56:55,420 --> 00:57:00,700
what all of the things that we're voting on or that we talk about are. So, thank you.

625
00:57:02,420 --> 00:57:08,700
And, once the last time this lift station was overhauled, if you will,

626
00:57:10,710 --> 00:57:11,450
if it has been.

627
00:57:12,790 --> 00:57:16,990
I believe the current one 40-ish years.

628
00:57:20,980 --> 00:57:23,140
This is the one that we're part owner and correct.

629
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:28,320
We own the lift station wholly, but it is at the wastewater treatment plant there that we are the

630
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:28,580
on.

631
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:39,460
Yeah, basically the the easy way to think of a lift station is not every place is going to

632
00:57:39,460 --> 00:57:44,880
be uphill from where our wastewater treatment plan is and so since gravity only works

633
00:57:45,860 --> 00:57:49,540
downhill, sometimes it needs a little help and that's what lift station does. It pumps it.

634
00:57:52,850 --> 00:57:58,570
I move the we approve resolution 2023-47. Well, thanks second.

635
00:57:59,990 --> 00:58:06,850
We have a motion when we come up with a second from Mayor Protem, Mitcham, any further discussion

636
00:58:06,850 --> 00:58:07,750
on this item.

637
00:58:08,190 --> 00:58:10,310
By the way, did we mention it came in under budget?

638
00:58:10,930 --> 00:58:12,930
I just want to make sure to highlight that.

639
00:58:13,550 --> 00:58:15,090
We have a motion in a second, any further discussion?

640
00:58:15,910 --> 00:58:16,810
Seeing none, all those in favor?

641
00:58:18,190 --> 00:58:20,190
All of those against any abstinions?

642
00:58:20,970 --> 00:58:22,330
The resolution passes.

643
00:58:26,230 --> 00:58:31,030
That brings us to item F-8, I believe the one with the typo, consider resolution number

644
00:58:31,030 --> 00:58:36,030
223-48 authorized and city manager to enter into a contract with integrity images for professional

645
00:58:36,030 --> 00:58:41,410
services related to professional photography and videography services, Misha Johnson Community

646
00:58:41,410 --> 00:58:42,330
Development Manager.

647
00:58:42,910 --> 00:58:44,370
Good evening, Mayor and council.

648
00:58:46,530 --> 00:58:53,910
The this is for the authorizing the city manager to enter a contract with integrity images.

649
00:58:53,910 --> 00:59:12,630
So, the city's comprehensive plan to 2020 update was approved by city council and February 2021, the plan and each of its subsequent progress supports has included the recommendation for the coordination of economic development activities including branding and marketing.

650
00:59:12,630 --> 00:59:18,210
The Community Development Department aims to meet this objective by using current fiscal year

651
00:59:18,210 --> 00:59:23,970
budget savings to conduct the city-wide branding and marketing campaign utilizing the professional

652
00:59:23,970 --> 00:59:27,270
photography services of integrity images.

653
00:59:27,750 --> 00:59:33,130
As noted in the Comprehensive Plan, a branding and marketing program is seen as essential in promoting

654
00:59:33,130 --> 00:59:38,310
this community and making sure that City of Jersey Village is recognized as one of the

655
00:59:38,310 --> 00:59:44,490
year first here suburbs of Houston. These images and videos will be used to promote the

656
00:59:44,490 --> 00:59:49,310
city's economic development and since it's a marketing. The city is also working towards

657
00:59:49,310 --> 00:59:54,890
a Texas film-friendly community designation. As a part of that, we need to submit photographs

658
00:59:54,890 --> 00:59:59,870
as some of the areas in the city for filmmakers, for filmmakers.

659
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:10,740
So basically this I where they want to go. And the project will fit into our existing department budget for consultants and services and the city development department.

660
01:00:12,100 --> 01:00:22,200
And this will record this will not require any other allocation of funds. The item is to authorize a city manager to sign the contract with integrity images.

661
01:00:23,180 --> 01:00:24,780
Okay, great. Thank you.

662
01:00:24,900 --> 01:00:26,260
Discussion amongst council on this item.

663
01:00:29,290 --> 01:00:31,890
We'll be on the, like, all the proofs,

664
01:00:31,890 --> 01:00:35,310
or is it just what they, we end up selecting or something.

665
01:00:35,490 --> 01:00:39,290
And it just sounds like, it's a big, big deal.

666
01:00:39,450 --> 01:00:42,190
So I want to make sure what we end up with at the end.

667
01:00:42,790 --> 01:00:42,890
Yes.

668
01:00:43,530 --> 01:00:47,990
So we are going to pay for certain ones to actually be,

669
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:51,860
for them to be like Photoshop,

670
01:00:51,860 --> 01:00:58,200
but we do get all the raw images and the same thing for our filming so we'll

671
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:02,140
actually be able to take all those the big part of the film which would be

672
01:01:02,140 --> 01:01:06,180
about three minutes will be the largest one and we can cut it up until a smaller

673
01:01:06,180 --> 01:01:10,760
two minute, a smaller 30 seconds, 60 seconds to put on social media as well.

674
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:15,300
So does that mean after we pay for the additional services, we will on that

675
01:01:15,300 --> 01:01:18,680
footage and we will be able to do that type of stuff within in-house or does that

676
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,580
And every time we want to use it, we're going to have to go back out again.

677
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:30,040
I don't know about getting all of the drone footage or anything like that, like all of the raw video footage.

678
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:31,540
I know that we get raw pictures.

679
01:01:32,020 --> 01:01:34,920
And we give the three minute video that we'll be able to cut up ourselves.

680
01:01:35,820 --> 01:01:36,600
Thank you.

681
01:01:40,940 --> 01:01:42,860
Yeah, it's part of the comprehensive plan.

682
01:01:43,020 --> 01:01:47,420
I know that there was a lot of talk about touting Jersey Village.

683
01:01:47,420 --> 01:01:50,180
and get up from billboards to other things, right?

684
01:01:50,300 --> 01:01:53,020
And so this is certainly goes a long way.

685
01:01:53,140 --> 01:01:55,120
I think some of the images on our website

686
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,340
probably could even stand to be updated.

687
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,480
So I think this is a good move.

688
01:02:04,820 --> 01:02:09,870
So with that, I will move to approve resolution 2023-48.

689
01:02:12,340 --> 01:02:12,920
I'm

690
01:02:18,750 --> 01:02:24,250
going to interpret that as motion from a second

691
01:02:24,250 --> 01:02:30,550
from Council Member Shepard. Any further discussion? Seeing none all those in favor? All of

692
01:02:30,550 --> 01:02:33,970
those against any abstentions? The resolution passes.

693
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:49,340
Now, it brings us to item G1, consider resolution number 2023-49, appointee members to the

694
01:02:49,340 --> 01:02:53,140
planning and zoning commission and the capital improvements advisory committee, the Board

695
01:02:53,140 --> 01:02:57,040
of Adjustment, the building board of adjustment and appeals, the parts of recreation advisory

696
01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:01,560
committee, the golf course advisory committee, and the Village Center Local Government Corporation

697
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:08,420
board, Lori Cudy City Secretary. Thank you, Mayor. So yes, there are several positions on each of these

698
01:03:08,420 --> 01:03:15,140
boards that do need to be considered for appointment. Exhibit A to the resolution is kind of

699
01:03:15,140 --> 01:03:20,880
an outline of what we need to go by. Last year when the Council did consider appointments and

700
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:28,260
reappointments to boards, they did kind of discuss each board and came to a consensus on what

701
01:03:28,260 --> 01:03:37,560
we're going to do for appointments and then at finally made a motion and a second for approving

702
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:43,460
the resolution. And I didn't know if you want to me to go through Exhibit A or one of the council

703
01:03:43,460 --> 01:03:47,900
members wants to facilitate that.

704
01:03:50,090 --> 01:03:53,530
I believe that it's a council. How are you all going to approach it?

705
01:03:54,130 --> 01:03:56,410
Yeah, we can go in by one.

706
01:03:57,690 --> 01:03:58,090
Okay.

707
01:03:58,830 --> 01:04:01,110
So I think first up we have planning.

708
01:04:01,590 --> 01:04:02,650
Before we begin.

709
01:04:03,370 --> 01:04:06,010
I want to put on the record just before we go.

710
01:04:06,130 --> 01:04:08,990
There's been a lot of talk about when we talked about this last year,

711
01:04:09,110 --> 01:04:10,230
but then we didn't do anything.

712
01:04:12,150 --> 01:04:14,870
So one of these meetings were going to,

713
01:04:15,490 --> 01:04:18,710
I would like to formally discuss how we handle

714
01:04:18,710 --> 01:04:23,010
because we have about 10 applicants and only so many spaces.

715
01:04:23,010 --> 01:04:29,510
I think it's come time if we continue to have the citizen interest in looking at some sort

716
01:04:29,510 --> 01:04:35,590
of limits on certain term of service and not because the quality of the service but just

717
01:04:35,590 --> 01:04:39,950
to give everyone a fair chance and get some fresh views or term limited I don't think

718
01:04:39,950 --> 01:04:46,510
it's necessarily a bad thing for that. Not certainly not by the agenda for discussion now

719
01:04:46,510 --> 01:04:52,650
but I'd like to ask if staff can discuss that later. How do we handle that Bobby? Is that

720
01:04:52,650 --> 01:04:54,770
just my request right there?

721
01:04:55,050 --> 01:04:59,250
I mean, certainly, if we want to at a later point,

722
01:04:59,470 --> 01:05:02,190
take up, have an agenda item where we just generally

723
01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:06,330
discuss tenure and how it's managed on our boards

724
01:05:06,330 --> 01:05:08,810
and committees, we could certainly look at doing that.

725
01:05:09,310 --> 01:05:11,190
And of course, obviously, that can be a factor

726
01:05:11,190 --> 01:05:15,350
that Council can also consider when it's looking at these

727
01:05:15,350 --> 01:05:15,770
appointments.

728
01:05:16,110 --> 01:05:18,450
So either way, I mean, obviously, it doesn't mean we can't

729
01:05:18,450 --> 01:05:19,630
take it into consideration now.

730
01:05:19,810 --> 01:05:22,230
It's just if we want to enact a formal process, that's

731
01:05:22,230 --> 01:05:25,290
probably going to need to be a separate item later on down the

732
01:05:25,290 --> 01:05:25,930
degree.

733
01:05:26,030 --> 01:05:31,650
And it's my understanding that if someone has requested re-appointment, it is not an

734
01:05:31,650 --> 01:05:32,510
automatic appointment.

735
01:05:33,070 --> 01:05:37,750
It's going back into the pool with the current applicants or is there a preferential

736
01:05:37,750 --> 01:05:38,530
slot?

737
01:05:39,130 --> 01:05:40,550
There's no rules that are current.

738
01:05:40,690 --> 01:05:42,630
Like there's nothing concrete in place.

739
01:05:42,790 --> 01:05:48,490
It's just sort of practices and customs that council has developed over the years.

740
01:05:48,490 --> 01:05:54,830
I would say that, in order to expedite that conversation in the future, it would be better

741
01:05:54,830 --> 01:06:00,090
to bring an ordinance or a resolution or some basis to work off of.

742
01:06:02,090 --> 01:06:02,930
I agree.

743
01:06:03,010 --> 01:06:07,550
You mean versus just an open discussion kind of, I think, come up and come in with an idea

744
01:06:07,550 --> 01:06:11,930
of what you're interested in, or what you want, and then we discuss it based off of that.

745
01:06:11,930 --> 01:06:12,310
I understand.

746
01:06:12,770 --> 01:06:18,590
I think we discussed last time that it matched ours, which made sense to me.

747
01:06:23,420 --> 01:06:25,680
Do we need to go against somebody to clarify for me?

748
01:06:25,740 --> 01:06:29,880
Do we need to go in the orders that is listed of the boards in the order of the agenda?

749
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:31,580
Are we allowed to go in any order we want?

750
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,880
Council can do what they want in terms of how they want to handle it.

751
01:06:36,020 --> 01:06:36,400
Do you want to do that?

752
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:39,860
I'm getting a side eye from Lori, so I was just wondering if we can get clarification

753
01:06:39,860 --> 01:06:42,660
in that before I say anything, I'm a little afraid.

754
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,700
It's easier to go in order, but what were you?

755
01:06:44,700 --> 01:06:47,680
I know it's easier to go in order, but there's something I want to discuss, and I understand

756
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,960
that this is most likely unpopular opinion number one.

757
01:06:51,780 --> 01:06:54,980
I serve as the liaison for the Board of Holden.

758
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,540
It's a Board of Adjustment is what I really want to bring out.

759
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,400
The Board of Adjustment meets not very often.

760
01:07:03,340 --> 01:07:08,240
However, they are a unique board, and the fact that what they end up saying ends up becoming

761
01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:11,580
laws that correct, it's law for us, right?

762
01:07:11,580 --> 01:07:19,300
I mean what it's it's a final decision that's appealable not to the council but to district court so it's if the board of what do they call it again adjustments

763
01:07:19,300 --> 01:07:22,080
Board of appeals sorry board of adjustments

764
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:29,880
Makes a decision Council has no say Council does not get to discuss it Council doesn't get to impose any

765
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:34,420
Decisions neither does the city it goes straight to like court

766
01:07:36,700 --> 01:07:42,500
Unfortunately, we had a situation recently, not so recently, six months ago or so, at a meeting

767
01:07:42,500 --> 01:07:47,020
where some time, what I'm going to say is maybe some instructions weren't followed properly,

768
01:07:47,340 --> 01:07:52,760
or misunderstood, and that came to an issue where there were multiple votes had to be taken,

769
01:07:53,340 --> 01:07:55,620
because stuff was procedure wasn't followed properly.

770
01:07:56,220 --> 01:07:57,460
That led to some misunderstanding.

771
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:26,600
And because of some of this most understanding, the city ended up getting sued and I was the liaison sitting there and I have never been so frustrated in my life because it was just, there's a context to it where some of this stuff we do is confusing. There's a lot of weird rules we have to follow, but at the same time we still have to follow those rules and I don't like to sit there knowing that what we're doing isn't the way it should be and I think it's something that we need to discuss.

772
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:37,300
So when it comes up for the board, I'm going to talk about I'm going to make a suggestion for some changes and if anybody ever wants to talk to me about any of that stuff, I'm happy to discuss it further.

773
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:47,120
I think if you're going to lay that out there, we probably should discuss it now. Otherwise, it's going to be a little jarring to go back and forth. Let's just, I think we're talking about board of adjustment.

774
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:52,260
We're talking about the board of adjustments. If we could just look at those and I'd like to make a suggestion for a change on that board.

775
01:08:54,500 --> 01:09:01,840
Okay. I have a think I know you're going to suggest have another suggestion if you're open.

776
01:09:01,940 --> 01:09:03,100
Go ahead make your suggestion.

777
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:09,240
My suggestion is that we actually table this particular board come back next meeting

778
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:14,980
and I'll work and get an ordinance proposed to change section to 1438

779
01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:18,180
where the city council selects the chairman.

780
01:09:20,620 --> 01:09:22,700
I think it's beyond that as well.

781
01:09:22,700 --> 01:09:29,660
Lori, just so that we understand kind of where we are, if Council were not to re-appoint

782
01:09:29,660 --> 01:09:33,900
any members of this board tonight, what would be the consequences?

783
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:40,240
So, according to the Constitution of Texas, those people who are currently in office will hold

784
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:44,000
over until the appointment, the next appointment is made.

785
01:09:44,740 --> 01:09:50,720
Okay, so we could hypothetically postpone the decisions on that until the next meeting.

786
01:09:51,300 --> 01:09:55,040
that's correct okay just wanted to be sure before we started down a path that we

787
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:59,660
weren't sure what what happens. Jen did you have an idea of a slate that you

788
01:09:59,660 --> 01:10:01,560
wanted to put up?

789
01:10:04,930 --> 01:10:08,370
I think instead of at this point I would be okay to just

790
01:10:08,370 --> 01:10:14,130
talking like let's table it until next time. So I think what I'm hearing is if other

791
01:10:14,130 --> 01:10:18,130
council members are in agreement is that board of adjustment not the building

792
01:10:18,130 --> 01:10:22,510
board of adjustment and appeal, but board of adjustment, I know it's easy to confuse, yes.

793
01:10:23,910 --> 01:10:31,310
That we will not take any action on that part of this slate tonight with the anticipation

794
01:10:31,310 --> 01:10:36,150
that we would address that and other surrounding issues at our next regular meeting, correct?

795
01:10:39,180 --> 01:10:45,240
I think I'm seeing it in some format or you can do your slate, and we change the chairman

796
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:45,880
next time.

797
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:54,040
I don't think we would have any meeting of that board within the next month.

798
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,460
I don't think we have anything on the horizon that we're aware of.

799
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:59,760
So from that standpoint, I don't think it would matter too much.

800
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:05,280
Just one technical thing that if you're going to look at changing your ordinance about the appointment on that board,

801
01:11:05,620 --> 01:11:10,560
that board has a specific rules for itself and so we may need to have some cleanup.

802
01:11:11,060 --> 01:11:15,640
Whether it's the new board or the existing board, they might need to meet and adjust the rules.

803
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:20,000
I just haven't looked at them in a while to see if their appointment measures match what you have.

804
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:26,220
So I think that only reinforces the wisdom of not taking any action on that board at all tonight,

805
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:31,260
giving staff opportunity to make sure that we've got all of our ducks and aromas

806
01:11:31,260 --> 01:11:36,260
far as our requirements under state law, and then we can come back and have a more thorough discussion

807
01:11:36,260 --> 01:11:41,580
about the issues, the concerns the council has, and ways that those can be addressed.

808
01:11:41,580 --> 01:11:47,140
So, okay, I think we're, we've got that taken care of.

809
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:52,220
So, was there, can we return back to the ordinary order of things,

810
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,200
or we're going to go ahead and move back to planning and zoning,

811
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:56,640
then?

812
01:11:57,780 --> 01:12:04,720
So my understanding is, Lori, that we have two current members of the planning and zoning commission

813
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:06,360
who do not desire re-appointment.

814
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:08,860
that's Courtney Stanley and Ashley Brown,

815
01:12:10,140 --> 01:12:13,520
the other two incumbents Charles Butler

816
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:16,180
and Eric A. Now, both desire reappointment.

817
01:12:16,220 --> 01:12:19,440
And I believe we have one, two, three, four, five,

818
01:12:19,460 --> 01:12:21,400
six interested applicants.

819
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:24,640
That's a good healthy slate of people to pick from.

820
01:12:27,620 --> 01:12:29,340
After looking at the applications,

821
01:12:29,620 --> 01:12:32,580
I was really interested in Drew Weaver.

822
01:12:33,300 --> 01:12:36,140
He is a registered PE professional engineer.

823
01:12:36,480 --> 01:12:38,160
I thought that was pretty relevant

824
01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:39,160
for a planning and zoning?

825
01:12:42,340 --> 01:12:45,360
I do know there are some requirements regarding the membership

826
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:46,580
of planning and zoning.

827
01:12:48,260 --> 01:12:49,580
Lori remind me again, isn't it?

828
01:12:49,580 --> 01:12:52,600
We have to have one representative from the real estate

829
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:55,540
industry, or maybe just, and if you can remind me,

830
01:12:55,660 --> 01:12:57,320
is there some, I thought there was some requirement regarding

831
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:59,060
the composition of planning and zoning?

832
01:13:01,260 --> 01:13:01,960
Is it a different board?

833
01:13:02,900 --> 01:13:05,480
Unless your own, or Mrs. Charger,

834
01:13:05,540 --> 01:13:06,820
requires that the state will not doesn't.

835
01:13:06,860 --> 01:13:07,740
No, I thought it was state.

836
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:09,720
Well, I may be on thinking of the building board

837
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:15,440
of adjustments in appeals perhaps. Okay. I just wanted to be sure before we got to

838
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:26,960
deepen that discussion. I will say just for I actually talk to Ben Nelson who really was

839
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:32,380
very interested in serving on a board and seemed pretty sharp.

840
01:13:33,620 --> 01:13:45,740
So on Ben, I just wanted to let Council make a note that he is the only applicant that's interested in the village center, local government corporation boards, I don't know if.

841
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:48,280
I was going to mention that.

842
01:13:48,580 --> 01:13:55,500
A lot of them cross over, and then there's somewhere there's going to be gaps, and it's like looking at one of those matrisy things.

843
01:13:55,500 --> 01:14:02,880
And his or his application was the most impressive list of acclades.

844
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:07,000
So if we had to put him in charge of something that developed live,

845
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:11,500
I would definitely be interested in the board of adjustments for him.

846
01:14:12,900 --> 01:14:16,580
Well, and also if council was interested in getting as many citizens involved as possible,

847
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:21,180
it's also good to know because you can spread things out a little bit.

848
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:31,600
So the two that I had for planning and zoning for position one and two is Drew Weaver and

849
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:39,340
Dino Alvarado, and then reappointing Charles Butler and Eric, and I also had Drew and Daniel

850
01:14:39,340 --> 01:14:40,240
as my two.

851
01:14:43,690 --> 01:14:46,650
I felt completely going out of order.

852
01:14:46,870 --> 01:14:56,410
I had Cynthia Copponets in this one, and I had Daniel as Gulf, but that could be

853
01:14:56,410 --> 01:14:57,430
modified,

854
01:14:59,450 --> 01:14:59,970
not just.

855
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,460
How long have you been strong in any of that?

856
01:15:02,900 --> 01:15:05,300
That degree, I'm the drew.

857
01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:08,800
Can you give me just a minute, I need to look up something.

858
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:15,320
I think that Cynthia, Cynthia said something, I can't remember.

859
01:15:15,540 --> 01:15:16,720
Hold on, just give me a second.

860
01:15:20,370 --> 01:15:26,490
And while she's looking correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the golf only meet twice a year?

861
01:15:27,270 --> 01:15:29,050
Golf meets and believe once every other month.

862
01:15:29,850 --> 01:15:30,330
I'm sorry.

863
01:15:30,550 --> 01:15:30,870
Just kidding.

864
01:15:31,070 --> 01:15:31,190
What is that?

865
01:15:31,770 --> 01:15:33,110
I'm thinking of a different one.

866
01:15:33,410 --> 01:15:33,870
Oh, I'm sorry.

867
01:15:34,110 --> 01:15:35,250
It was Fitzgerald.

868
01:15:35,830 --> 01:15:39,910
Fitzgerald has her name on several boards, but she only wants to see it be appointed to one

869
01:15:39,910 --> 01:15:41,490
thing, not more than one.

870
01:15:42,690 --> 01:15:42,710
Yeah.

871
01:15:42,710 --> 01:15:43,830
That's also good to know.

872
01:15:44,210 --> 01:15:49,550
Yeah, much personally prefer to keep people to one board for separation of ideas.

873
01:15:50,530 --> 01:15:53,310
Unless it's if there has to be a problem.

874
01:15:53,310 --> 01:15:54,950
It's a combined one like that.

875
01:15:55,170 --> 01:15:56,010
That doesn't mean the ins, yeah.

876
01:15:56,270 --> 01:15:56,610
Syak.

877
01:15:57,030 --> 01:15:57,770
That's, that makes sense.

878
01:15:58,350 --> 01:16:00,130
agree but

879
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:13,500
I do agree with Daniel for the golf because you know he was the I know

880
01:16:13,500 --> 01:16:18,120
are having our own salary but he was the Houston young professional energy

881
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:24,900
Houston golf association president so he fills very if we're choosing I

882
01:16:24,900 --> 01:16:29,540
promise you were playing this up at the end this is like a jigsaw puzzle and it's a

883
01:16:29,540 --> 01:16:33,820
good problem to have I agree with y'all are we good with Daniel for golf his

884
01:16:33,820 --> 01:16:38,980
was just I mean his application was golf golf golf golf go to grew with that. But

885
01:16:38,980 --> 01:16:42,500
can we write his head can we just all vote at the end?

886
01:16:43,820 --> 01:16:47,760
We'll just make a note of it and we'll come back and we'll come back and we'll

887
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:51,320
listen to it from James. So I don't know. Back to the top. Drew was Drew

888
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:56,020
considered on anybody else's in another spot, Drew Reaver, the peeing, the

889
01:16:56,020 --> 01:16:56,860
professional engineer,

890
01:16:59,460 --> 01:17:01,840
just planning his own. I think that's the same one.

891
01:17:05,180 --> 01:17:05,600
Okay. We've

892
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:12,910
So one of the second keeping Erica now and Charles Butler on that one.

893
01:17:13,210 --> 01:17:13,650
Agreed.

894
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:16,560
Agreed.

895
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,560
Saving Ben, that sounds like a movie.

896
01:17:26,260 --> 01:17:28,920
Did Cynthia say she wanted to be on another one?

897
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:29,940
I don't have to remember the list.

898
01:17:33,130 --> 01:17:35,230
Oh, uh, golf course.

899
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:46,900
I need an zoning.

900
01:17:47,180 --> 01:17:48,640
We still need one for planning and zoning.

901
01:17:50,740 --> 01:17:52,840
What was the name you suggested drew for planning and zoning?

902
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:56,930
Cynthia Copnitz.

903
01:18:04,790 --> 01:18:10,490
Deb a little bit about Deb. She is President and Society of the Professional

904
01:18:10,490 --> 01:18:15,890
Women in Petroleum, a board member of the Greater Houston Air Stream Club. That sounds fun.

905
01:18:16,950 --> 01:18:21,590
She attempts to play golf. But she would rather just support her husband golf endeavors.

906
01:18:23,570 --> 01:18:26,130
And she's available. She lived in JD for 43 years.

907
01:18:27,750 --> 01:18:29,750
And what committee are we talking about for that one?

908
01:18:30,110 --> 01:18:32,210
This one for the planning zoning.

909
01:18:33,210 --> 01:18:33,930
This is Deb.

910
01:18:36,090 --> 01:18:36,490
Thunder.

911
01:18:43,980 --> 01:18:45,140
How much are we talking about Deb?

912
01:18:47,900 --> 01:18:50,680
So I've heard four different names on planning and zoning for two positions.

913
01:18:51,100 --> 01:18:51,980
So we kind of need to.

914
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,420
So we have drew Riverwalk then on one.

915
01:18:54,440 --> 01:18:56,580
It sounds like we're going to put one in, right?

916
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:03,380
That's the ABG deal, CC.

917
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,980
Yeah, I haven't heard of for me.

918
01:19:07,980 --> 01:19:12,820
So it would be a Deb through Charles Eric.

919
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:18,020
Yes, I agree.

920
01:19:20,180 --> 01:19:20,520
Thunder.

921
01:19:21,440 --> 01:19:24,840
So my understanding is we got Deb Thunder and Rue Weaver

922
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:27,980
being proposed as filling the open seats

923
01:19:27,980 --> 01:19:30,360
and keeping the two incumbents who desire

924
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:31,060
to agree appointment.

925
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:32,060
Is that correct?

926
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:34,220
Agreed, sounds good.

927
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:34,960
I agree.

928
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:36,300
I'm hearing consensus.

929
01:19:36,700 --> 01:19:40,680
OK, let's keep moving while we have a moment of clarity.

930
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:48,680
I'm going to note while we're skipping over Board of Adjustment, Gary Vosser applied, is not on the,

931
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:51,880
not on the list that we've been Nelson.

932
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:56,540
He applied for which one, Board of Adjustment.

933
01:19:56,820 --> 01:19:57,000
Okay.

934
01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:59,680
On his application, he marked Board of Adjustment.

935
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:03,720
Board of Adjustments, so when we're skipping to things,

936
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:04,980
the only one that he listed.

937
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:09,520
It's listed on the app, but it's not in the top sheet.

938
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:12,940
but he's already appointed to the building board of adjustment.

939
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:18,180
Maybe his application is included in error.

940
01:20:18,620 --> 01:20:22,640
Yeah, I think Lori listed the current members.

941
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:24,020
That's why his application.

942
01:20:25,140 --> 01:20:26,620
Not every position, right?

943
01:20:26,900 --> 01:20:27,660
I get it.

944
01:20:27,740 --> 01:20:30,980
Somebody that's not, it's one of the applications in there.

945
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,420
It's for one of the people that's not up for reappointment.

946
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:37,720
Yeah, so I think we both may have misunderstood looking at it.

947
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:44,620
So, in the packet, you have the current members and then you also have those who are interested.

948
01:20:45,480 --> 01:20:47,060
Those are in there.

949
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:48,100
That makes sense.

950
01:20:50,390 --> 01:20:56,710
So, for building Board of Adjustment, all of the current positions are seeking re-appointment.

951
01:20:56,790 --> 01:21:00,810
I say we re-appoint those because the two that are interested, we've slated.

952
01:21:01,150 --> 01:21:02,270
We tabled that one.

953
01:21:02,790 --> 01:21:03,730
No, this is the other one.

954
01:21:03,730 --> 01:21:05,110
No, it's Board of Adjustments.

955
01:21:05,230 --> 01:21:06,690
This is building Board of Adjustments.

956
01:21:07,290 --> 01:21:16,750
Yes. I have no change in that one as well. I don't want to change on that vastly different. Okay, very similar. I have no change.

957
01:21:16,850 --> 01:21:20,750
Good. And just before we miss it, I just want to make sure.

958
01:21:20,750 --> 01:21:24,690
So capital improvements advisor committee, do you need us to take any separate action on that?

959
01:21:25,430 --> 01:21:33,190
Or do we do we do we just part of P&D, right? So it's kind of a combo deal? Okay, I just want to make sure we didn't need to list that out explicitly. Okay.

960
01:21:33,190 --> 01:21:41,270
So building Board of Adjustment, I have no change, reappointment all three, heart, okane and boss there, agree.

961
01:21:42,490 --> 01:21:45,150
That's what we just screwed up.

962
01:21:45,430 --> 01:21:48,070
Okay, and parsing, right?

963
01:21:49,970 --> 01:21:58,870
Parks and Rec, I have Karen Fitzgerald and Molly Slade, because the other ones I have go in other places.

964
01:22:00,810 --> 01:22:03,250
That's what I have to.

965
01:22:03,490 --> 01:22:05,070
We are waiting today.

966
01:22:05,470 --> 01:22:07,390
I had Karen and Jenny.

967
01:22:12,850 --> 01:22:16,690
But if I recall Molly applied quite a while back.

968
01:22:16,890 --> 01:22:18,110
She's been waiting on that.

969
01:22:18,110 --> 01:22:19,090
I think hers is there.

970
01:22:19,410 --> 01:22:21,390
Karen applied to June of 22.

971
01:22:22,630 --> 01:22:25,050
Karen's come to a few events and is introduced yourself.

972
01:22:25,670 --> 01:22:29,170
And Molly, I know, has expressed interest to me in the board.

973
01:22:29,170 --> 01:22:39,050
So let me just say this to all of the people who are listed in Exhibit A have been called and contacted to make sure that they still are interested.

974
01:22:41,090 --> 01:22:42,290
Thank you.

975
01:22:42,370 --> 01:22:48,790
Yeah, just to be clear, we've got two vacant positions and then the five incumbents all who desired reappointments.

976
01:22:49,530 --> 01:22:56,670
And so just to refresh Council's memory on this, this is the board that we have the alternate.

977
01:22:56,670 --> 01:23:06,850
And so when a position becomes available, position 1 through 7, the alternates move up.

978
01:23:08,010 --> 01:23:11,110
So we're always just going to be appointing alternates.

979
01:23:15,140 --> 01:23:16,840
That's different for each board, correct?

980
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,220
This is the only board that's like that.

981
01:23:25,020 --> 01:23:27,480
I mean, there are a few that haven't entered, so it's not automatic.

982
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:31,540
They all have like their own little rules, who's ideal with this?

983
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:33,300
I'm looking at you in the board.

984
01:23:33,300 --> 01:23:36,420
multiple, multiple, countless of her multiple years.

985
01:23:41,790 --> 01:23:47,070
The pins on how much they need done. Parks and Rec has more and more events every year.

986
01:23:47,530 --> 01:23:52,990
So, are you saying Molly and Karen? That's one of those two open positions?

987
01:23:53,870 --> 01:23:54,290
Sure. Yes.

988
01:23:54,750 --> 01:24:00,530
And I would say since Karen applied first, she'd be alternate too, but um,

989
01:24:01,930 --> 01:24:03,570
not stuck in glue on that.

990
01:24:06,860 --> 01:24:10,160
Yeah, since the order actually matters in this case, we do need to name them specifically too.

991
01:24:10,160 --> 01:24:13,600
Who applied first on that? What was that order drew?

992
01:24:14,420 --> 01:24:15,320
Aaron and then Molly.

993
01:24:17,060 --> 01:24:19,320
I think I would go in the order of application, right?

994
01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:21,600
Y'all, is that what you're saying?

995
01:24:22,140 --> 01:24:22,940
Yeah, I think that's fine.

996
01:24:23,100 --> 01:24:29,880
So I'm here in Karen Fitzgerald for alternate 2 and Molly Slade is alternate 3, correct?

997
01:24:31,220 --> 01:24:31,700
Okay.

998
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:38,420
And then I believe the suggestion on golf course was for Daniel Alvarado

999
01:24:38,420 --> 01:24:45,300
to be appointed to position one. They remaining positions have incumbents that desire

1000
01:24:46,220 --> 01:24:48,320
reappointment. Okay, that's correct.

1001
01:24:51,250 --> 01:24:53,650
And then village center local government corporation,

1002
01:24:54,190 --> 01:24:58,990
there is one out of large position that is open and one applicant that has been Nelson.

1003
01:24:59,810 --> 01:25:07,070
So it sounds like that one pretty much writes itself, right? Okay, let me go from the top and just

1004
01:25:07,070 --> 01:25:13,730
sure that we've got all of this right. So for planning and zoning commission for the two open positions,

1005
01:25:14,490 --> 01:25:23,190
we have, was it a drew weaver and Deb Funder by that correct. And for we're skipping board of

1006
01:25:23,190 --> 01:25:27,830
adjustment for later discussion, building board of adjustments and appeals, we're retaining all

1007
01:25:27,830 --> 01:25:34,850
of the incumbents, the desired reappointment. Parts of recreation committee, we have Karen Fitzgerald

1008
01:25:34,850 --> 01:25:44,930
A2 and Molly Slade and A3, we have Daniel Ovarado and position one on golf course advisor committee and bin

1009
01:25:44,930 --> 01:25:52,260
Nelson at large for the Village Center local government corporation unless there's any objections.

1010
01:25:53,080 --> 01:26:00,000
I would entertain a motion appointing those people as described.

1011
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:04,520
I will motion to appoint the people as described by Mayor.

1012
01:26:06,220 --> 01:26:09,000
And tapling the one Board of Adjustments.

1013
01:26:09,900 --> 01:26:10,920
I'll second.

1014
01:26:11,660 --> 01:26:12,980
We have a motion in a second.

1015
01:26:13,300 --> 01:26:14,300
Any further discussion?

1016
01:26:15,460 --> 01:26:16,740
Seeing none, all those in favor?

1017
01:26:18,460 --> 01:26:20,400
All of those against any extensions.

1018
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:22,280
The resolution passes unanimously.

1019
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:25,140
Great job, guys.

1020
01:26:25,460 --> 01:26:26,440
That was difficult.

1021
01:26:26,700 --> 01:26:27,800
We did a good job there.

1022
01:26:29,020 --> 01:26:33,600
We now move on to item G2, discuss and take appropriate action on the proposed employee housing

1023
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:36,760
incentive program that aims to assist our employees in finding suitable housing within

1024
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:40,020
the city of Jersey Village Texas, lower camps, human resources manager.

1025
01:26:48,770 --> 01:26:50,630
Beating council and Mayor.

1026
01:26:51,270 --> 01:26:55,710
So during the 2023-2024 budget meeting, City Council requested that staff looking to creating

1027
01:26:55,710 --> 01:26:58,430
a program to help employees establish routes in our city.

1028
01:26:59,150 --> 01:27:03,510
After researching other municipalities that offer such a program we found two cities.

1029
01:27:03,510 --> 01:27:08,810
One program was offered in Chapel Hill Town, North Carolina, and the other one was offered by Grand Rapids Michigan.

1030
01:27:09,570 --> 01:27:13,470
Our research did not lead to any responses from other local mythosalities.

1031
01:27:14,450 --> 01:27:20,230
Chapel Hill Town, North Carolina, offered a program to employees with an area median income of 115% in below.

1032
01:27:20,950 --> 01:27:28,710
Because we want to incentivize all income levels in Jersey Village, we decided not to include the median income criteria into our proposed program.

1033
01:27:28,710 --> 01:27:34,710
It's important to note that based on the program, affordability is their greatest barrier.

1034
01:27:35,510 --> 01:27:41,870
To review, the review of their programs can also be found at Chapel Hill Employee Homeowners Assistance Program,

1035
01:27:42,230 --> 01:27:45,770
expense to aid more town staff at ChapelBoreau.com.

1036
01:27:46,130 --> 01:27:48,910
Grand Rapids Michigan's program is offered to all employees.

1037
01:27:49,430 --> 01:27:55,630
However, only two to three employees out of their 1,673 employees per year take advantage of their subsidies.

1038
01:27:55,630 --> 01:28:02,270
Their average cost per home is a little more than $100,000 less than homes located in Jersey Village.

1039
01:28:02,930 --> 01:28:09,630
The city of Jersey Village also has a volunteer firefighter home park to stipend that was previously implemented in 2007.

1040
01:28:10,550 --> 01:28:20,570
The program gave first-time home buyer volunteer firefighters $3,000 for the first year and $750 per year for an additional years for a maximum of $9,000.

1041
01:28:20,570 --> 01:28:25,990
We had one volunteer enrolled that was eligible for the program based on the program's requirements.

1042
01:28:27,590 --> 01:28:31,350
The employee housing and center program, as contemplated by City Council,

1043
01:28:31,350 --> 01:28:36,150
seeks to support our valued employees in their class for affordable housing within our community.

1044
01:28:36,830 --> 01:28:42,330
Keeping within budget we're proposed to send an equivalent to 2% of the home purchase costs,

1045
01:28:42,990 --> 01:28:48,330
which would help provide financial relief to eligible employees for down payments, closing costs, et cetera.

1046
01:28:48,330 --> 01:28:54,830
Given that the home average home price of $404,500 within Jersey Village, we believe it is

1047
01:28:54,830 --> 01:28:56,790
a crucial to address the housing challenge.

1048
01:28:57,870 --> 01:29:02,890
If we offer to maximum of 2% that equals an estimated $8,000 for the average housing

1049
01:29:02,890 --> 01:29:08,170
price, however the question arises whether $8,000 is that of quick enough to make a difference

1050
01:29:08,170 --> 01:29:08,910
for an employee.

1051
01:29:10,050 --> 01:29:14,090
Our proposed program would include this, which is included within this item.

1052
01:29:14,670 --> 01:29:20,530
Because of current housing pricing average within the city, when it's a $400,500, making a

1053
01:29:20,530 --> 01:29:25,350
two percent incentive schemes inadequate, Council may want to consider other options such

1054
01:29:25,350 --> 01:29:30,510
as offering the incentive to those that take up residents within 5 miles of the city, or

1055
01:29:30,510 --> 01:29:34,730
offering an incentive to those that rent within the city limits over the 5 mile area of the

1056
01:29:34,730 --> 01:29:35,250
city.

1057
01:29:36,650 --> 01:29:44,070
So, if it's looking for guidance from the Council, moving forward with this program, is there

1058
01:29:44,070 --> 01:29:48,590
council would desire. We can also be interested in offering it to live within five

1059
01:29:48,590 --> 01:29:50,910
mile radius of the city rather than the city limits.

1060
01:29:53,050 --> 01:29:54,210
Okay, discussion amongst council

1061
01:29:54,210 --> 01:29:59,970
on this item. First, Laura and staff, I don't know if there's many water.

1062
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:07,280
Our cooler talk about this, or informal polling, is this something that would appeal to staff?

1063
01:30:08,360 --> 01:30:18,260
I haven't heard any feedback from staff, but we haven't really mentioned it too much to employees or anything, just looking at statistics as of right now.

1064
01:30:25,190 --> 01:30:35,450
I recall one of the things we had this discussion during the retreat was

1065
01:30:35,450 --> 01:30:43,190
is incentive to get more employees living in the area they serve, and no matter what their role

1066
01:30:43,190 --> 01:30:43,810
was, right?

1067
01:30:43,890 --> 01:30:47,650
We talked police and fire and we were like, well, this should be open to all.

1068
01:30:49,890 --> 01:30:55,810
So I would not be in favor of something the five mile radius part, I'd want it to be within

1069
01:30:55,810 --> 01:30:57,510
Jersey Village limits.

1070
01:30:57,510 --> 01:31:01,610
I think in reading this and reading this over and over, I missed the part about rentals,

1071
01:31:01,610 --> 01:31:08,450
which is something that I would be enticed because we're not necessarily saying we want

1072
01:31:08,450 --> 01:31:15,710
people to take roots, but I think that being a part of the community is just as important

1073
01:31:15,710 --> 01:31:17,170
in part of this.

1074
01:31:20,190 --> 01:31:24,850
I'm going to hop in and say we had a comment during citizen comments about

1075
01:31:24,850 --> 01:31:29,550
why do we invest in the people who work here, you know, we should be more concerned about

1076
01:31:29,550 --> 01:31:34,350
that people who live here, which I felt, you know, those both can live at the same time.

1077
01:31:35,670 --> 01:31:39,970
When I think about a school, I mean, you think about Harvard, Yale, and sort of

1078
01:31:39,970 --> 01:31:45,510
school that you wish your kids went to, or you wish you went to, they invest in their teachers,

1079
01:31:46,070 --> 01:31:51,770
like a lot, because that is who is shaping the students. That is who is teaching.

1080
01:31:52,030 --> 01:31:55,630
That is what the city government is doing. If we do not invest in these people,

1081
01:31:55,630 --> 01:32:02,310
I mean, they are the reason that everything around here is great, and if we're not investing in their roots,

1082
01:32:03,410 --> 01:32:04,790
you know, we'll lose it.

1083
01:32:05,510 --> 01:32:13,430
And this whole roots initiative was brought up because we have, you know, some turnover in the police department,

1084
01:32:13,610 --> 01:32:17,270
fire department in less volunteers, as y'all have heard before.

1085
01:32:17,270 --> 01:32:26,430
And if you've been a part of hiring or firing in your workplace, you know that good talent is hard to find.

1086
01:32:27,430 --> 01:32:36,370
And typically when you're finding good talent, you're coaching them a little bit from an established, great position that's even better.

1087
01:32:36,890 --> 01:32:44,670
Typically the ones who are unemployed for months not always, but there's a reason that they didn't work out at their last job.

1088
01:32:44,670 --> 01:32:50,670
And so when you're trying to find the cream of the crop, you have to incentivize and unfortunately

1089
01:32:50,670 --> 01:32:53,070
the housing market right now is just bananas.

1090
01:32:54,550 --> 01:33:00,090
Someone who has a very, very decent job, you know, it's hard to scrape together a down payment

1091
01:33:00,090 --> 01:33:02,510
for our house, and they have everything right.

1092
01:33:02,790 --> 01:33:04,210
You know, they're doing everything correct.

1093
01:33:04,390 --> 01:33:05,830
It's just the way it is.

1094
01:33:06,650 --> 01:33:12,590
So if we could do something to invest in the roots and I'm talking about them living in

1095
01:33:12,590 --> 01:33:18,590
maybe all of the citizens that I have talked to having a police officer or a firefighter

1096
01:33:19,230 --> 01:33:24,250
or a city employee on their street that they have, you know, a personal relationship is

1097
01:33:24,250 --> 01:33:24,830
gold.

1098
01:33:26,430 --> 01:33:32,550
And I just feel like that is, you know, helping these young families develop roots in J.V.,

1099
01:33:32,550 --> 01:33:34,550
the good ones we want to stay.

1100
01:33:35,690 --> 01:33:40,610
I mean, return on investment, I can't even say what I feel, or I guess I just did.

1101
01:33:40,610 --> 01:33:40,990
but

1102
01:33:43,780 --> 01:33:49,040
I had mixed emotions about this one.

1103
01:33:50,600 --> 01:33:54,440
I'm sure my thoughts are not going to be very popular,

1104
01:33:57,150 --> 01:33:59,910
but the incentives that were established

1105
01:33:59,910 --> 01:34:05,110
for the volunteer fire department was in order

1106
01:34:05,110 --> 01:34:09,270
to incentivize those to stay close by,

1107
01:34:09,590 --> 01:34:11,190
knowing that we weren't responding

1108
01:34:11,190 --> 01:34:14,230
from the fire department the way that we do now.

1109
01:34:14,230 --> 01:34:18,630
So having a firefighter in the city made a lot of sense.

1110
01:34:21,860 --> 01:34:29,240
I feel like this incentive would be a solution to a problem

1111
01:34:29,240 --> 01:34:35,940
that we don't have, which is finding and retaining employees today.

1112
01:34:36,380 --> 01:34:39,800
I think we have a strong enough culture

1113
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:43,180
that people want to come work here

1114
01:34:43,180 --> 01:34:51,420
And we have good enough department heads that are strong leaders that develop our people and I want to say.

1115
01:34:52,440 --> 01:35:08,300
So I don't know that this is something that is necessary at this point in time in order for us to invest the kind of money that would need to be invested for the home prices that are here in the city today.

1116
01:35:10,240 --> 01:35:11,740
I agree with you.

1117
01:35:11,980 --> 01:35:12,900
I think it's like your day.

1118
01:35:12,900 --> 01:35:13,800
I don't think it's a problem.

1119
01:35:13,980 --> 01:35:14,820
We have at the moment.

1120
01:35:15,100 --> 01:35:18,180
Because if you look at the origin of it,

1121
01:35:18,340 --> 01:35:18,580
like you're saying,

1122
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:21,480
it was about keeping volunteer firefighters close.

1123
01:35:28,470 --> 01:35:31,110
That city employee be a volunteer firefighter.

1124
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:34,740
I don't think so anymore, right?

1125
01:35:35,260 --> 01:35:35,660
No.

1126
01:35:42,420 --> 01:35:44,680
I was very happy to hear Drew say

1127
01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:46,540
that he wanted to keep it inside the city limits

1128
01:35:46,540 --> 01:35:49,580
because that's pretty much what I feel to

1129
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:52,300
as if we're going to offer a program like this

1130
01:35:52,300 --> 01:35:54,820
just should be within the sea limits.

1131
01:36:01,370 --> 01:36:03,770
I have it a lot more thought about now

1132
01:36:03,770 --> 01:36:06,610
I'm the kind of deciding factor here is where we go.

1133
01:36:10,670 --> 01:36:12,870
And I can't jump in again.

1134
01:36:13,390 --> 01:36:16,470
I mean, I agree that it's not a,

1135
01:36:17,510 --> 01:36:19,630
there's not necessarily a problem now

1136
01:36:19,630 --> 01:36:20,990
and then with home prices.

1137
01:36:21,270 --> 01:36:22,730
And if you're looking at the median

1138
01:36:22,730 --> 01:36:25,870
or maybe it's not the average of 404,

1139
01:36:25,870 --> 01:36:33,230
Probably it's gonna go for the under half of that but still $8,000 dollars a lot of money

1140
01:36:33,230 --> 01:36:41,590
But pro-rated over the number four or five years that we'd want to pro-rated over in order to make this is it that big of an incentive

1141
01:36:42,250 --> 01:36:44,570
To get someone to move

1142
01:36:44,570 --> 01:36:47,870
Indigiers village to live and and at that point

1143
01:36:48,590 --> 01:36:57,350
It kind of just washes itself out so I'm with I like the idea. I just don't think I think I might it

1144
01:36:57,370 --> 01:37:05,790
I think it's an incentive enough, like you said, spread out over five years and we're securing, you know, those roots for at least five years.

1145
01:37:06,970 --> 01:37:12,870
And if it sometimes $8,000 is the difference of someone buying a house or renting another two years.

1146
01:37:13,490 --> 01:37:22,570
So I, I've been the middle of a cost sales contract on a house, and $8,000 is not going to make a difference to most buyers.

1147
01:37:22,570 --> 01:37:38,710
I don't feel, and so my thought was, okay, we got to come up up higher, the city of Jersey village price per square foot is much higher than it is just outside of the city limits.

1148
01:37:40,050 --> 01:37:48,710
There's really no explanation for why Winchester Country is so much less as square foot than JB other than our public services.

1149
01:37:49,570 --> 01:37:55,130
fire department, police department being the two key public ones, but also public works in

1150
01:37:55,130 --> 01:38:01,970
city staff and there's a lot of reasons it's good to live in JV and unfortunately that

1151
01:38:01,970 --> 01:38:06,690
means that it costs more and I don't think you're going to be able, I don't think we're

1152
01:38:06,690 --> 01:38:15,290
going to stomach the cost it would take to make that incentive worth it so what I'm hearing

1153
01:38:15,290 --> 01:38:22,230
you say is that having good city employees actually does make the city more attractive for

1154
01:38:22,230 --> 01:38:25,570
people to live in so it actually has a benefit for our citizens unlike what we heard

1155
01:38:25,570 --> 01:38:34,790
somebody say oh yeah I'm not even going to give that any time because if you're if you're

1156
01:38:34,790 --> 01:38:40,010
investing in your employees you make sure that your employees are happy at work and they feel valued

1157
01:38:40,010 --> 01:38:43,250
They're going to provide excellent service.

1158
01:38:43,650 --> 01:38:47,770
That excellent service is what you expect as a citizen

1159
01:38:47,770 --> 01:38:49,890
when you look for issues you expect.

1160
01:38:50,110 --> 01:38:51,670
May I answer your voice mail?

1161
01:38:52,190 --> 01:38:54,190
It's reasonable for us to be upset about

1162
01:38:54,190 --> 01:38:56,210
did somebody call the person back?

1163
01:38:57,450 --> 01:38:58,790
Obviously we just found out about that tonight

1164
01:38:58,790 --> 01:39:01,310
who knows what the true facts are there,

1165
01:39:01,350 --> 01:39:02,630
but I'm sure you'll look into it

1166
01:39:03,830 --> 01:39:07,950
because our employees care because we care about our employees.

1167
01:39:08,770 --> 01:39:15,510
and it makes a direct impact on everybody they come in contact with and that makes a direct

1168
01:39:15,510 --> 01:39:22,390
impact on our home values. It's a wise investment. I don't think this program has the future,

1169
01:39:22,830 --> 01:39:25,350
because at the time we don't have that problem.

1170
01:39:26,190 --> 01:39:32,250
At a curiosity, if any weather, Laura or Austin or anyone, do we know roughly what percentage

1171
01:39:32,250 --> 01:39:34,710
of our staff lives in Jersey Village?

1172
01:39:38,180 --> 01:39:39,320
I'm an obviously I'm not going to hold you to it,

1173
01:39:39,320 --> 01:39:46,620
just a very rough ball part figure five or six and yeah I told out of

1174
01:39:46,620 --> 01:39:52,760
everybody but now we've got probably another five that live within a couple

1175
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:58,860
of miles okay I thought it was gonna be more of it or maybe five it is valuable to

1176
01:39:58,860 --> 01:40:09,080
have fire and police staff live inside of the city because they do provide a net

1177
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:13,540
positive you know, having them in the city if we were to have certain events.

1178
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:19,580
One of the few times that we had a shooting in the city, I know that several officers

1179
01:40:19,580 --> 01:40:25,840
who lived in the city ran up to the PD, go on duty when the fire department while we're moving

1180
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:30,300
towards a more professional, not hello those bad word, man, I'll step in hold there.

1181
01:40:32,280 --> 01:40:33,600
I've made that mistake before.

1182
01:40:33,600 --> 01:40:37,700
when, as we're moving towards more paid staff,

1183
01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:41,820
we still are relying on volunteers.

1184
01:40:41,820 --> 01:40:45,600
We still have volunteers that are responding to

1185
01:40:45,600 --> 01:40:48,040
call centers, value, and having them here in the city.

1186
01:40:48,420 --> 01:40:52,620
And so that is one way what we could do

1187
01:40:52,620 --> 01:40:56,240
is adjust the volunteer firefighter house

1188
01:40:56,240 --> 01:40:57,980
per just type that did exist.

1189
01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:01,540
It was made in 2007, bringing it up to today's numbers

1190
01:41:01,540 --> 01:41:06,520
an expanded to the PD staff. But we really don't have any volunteers.

1191
01:41:10,120 --> 01:41:10,740
So you're saying

1192
01:41:10,740 --> 01:41:15,580
offering only the police and fire? What about public works? I like water.

1193
01:41:17,790 --> 01:41:19,390
You do like water.

1194
01:41:20,030 --> 01:41:23,270
And the left station. Public works doesn't have the same station.

1195
01:41:23,630 --> 01:41:29,730
Public works doesn't have the same. So you have staff on and you have on call people,

1196
01:41:29,730 --> 01:41:33,210
but they don't have the same manpower needs during emergencies.

1197
01:41:36,630 --> 01:41:37,270
I will say this.

1198
01:41:38,510 --> 01:41:40,670
I agree with the thinking here.

1199
01:41:40,930 --> 01:41:45,570
I like generally the impetus behind this.

1200
01:41:45,790 --> 01:41:51,670
Part of what concern, and obviously we do evaluate our compensation packages for our employees

1201
01:41:51,670 --> 01:41:52,550
on a regular basis.

1202
01:41:52,790 --> 01:41:58,150
I mean, we just heard from people who thought we went a little too far, but it is important

1203
01:41:58,150 --> 01:42:00,370
that we always evaluate and make sure that we're being competitive.

1204
01:42:01,150 --> 01:42:07,470
One of the things that concerned me was that, and I don't know to what degree we reached out or looked into

1205
01:42:08,810 --> 01:42:09,670
local cities.

1206
01:42:09,910 --> 01:42:15,210
I saw that we found one, we found the Chapel Hill in North Carolina and Grand Rapids of Michigan.

1207
01:42:16,530 --> 01:42:19,990
I don't, did we find any cities in Texas that offered a similar program?

1208
01:42:20,810 --> 01:42:21,350
So I said it.

1209
01:42:21,350 --> 01:42:23,070
Frank, did you come up with this?

1210
01:42:23,070 --> 01:42:24,650
Didn't you come up with this in 2007?

1211
01:42:25,190 --> 01:42:26,590
This is your childhood, isn't

1212
01:42:28,770 --> 01:42:28,910
it?

1213
01:42:29,110 --> 01:42:30,810
The Firefighter stipend?

1214
01:42:34,850 --> 01:42:38,090
But specifically, I'm talking about the proposal before us tonight.

1215
01:42:39,930 --> 01:42:43,970
Did we find any other cities in Texas that offered us a more program like what's being proposed?

1216
01:42:44,710 --> 01:42:50,770
So I sent it to my HR Regional Group, which is about 120 of the members, and I didn't give another response back to say they did this.

1217
01:42:51,370 --> 01:42:53,870
Okay, I don't get any response from other city managers either.

1218
01:42:54,510 --> 01:43:01,850
Yeah, I'm not saying that we, yeah, I'm not saying we shouldn't look at doing new and unique things.

1219
01:43:02,970 --> 01:43:08,310
But I think that that raises to me kind of a big question mark.

1220
01:43:09,770 --> 01:43:17,810
You know, we already have salaries set at above market rate.

1221
01:43:19,010 --> 01:43:24,070
And we've also looked at other incentives to make the city attractive to work for.

1222
01:43:24,090 --> 01:43:27,970
Above and beyond what others have already said about the culture, workplace culture,

1223
01:43:27,970 --> 01:43:35,250
and just the the intangible benefits of working here. So I think this is something that we

1224
01:43:35,250 --> 01:43:40,030
could we can kind of keep in our back pocket, something that we could look at either looking

1225
01:43:40,030 --> 01:43:46,510
at targeted use of it if we see that there is a need for... Can I ask Chief and Chief a question?

1226
01:43:47,510 --> 01:43:52,610
Chief and Chief, what is our turnover rate for new hires? How long are they staying?

1227
01:43:52,610 --> 01:43:53,550
my

1228
01:44:01,770 --> 01:44:07,510
newest is this thing working tonight my newest I got to get real close my

1229
01:44:07,510 --> 01:44:14,250
newest firefighters are here a year now I see no not a single person ready to

1230
01:44:14,250 --> 01:44:20,430
leave but they're extremely happy my oldest 33 years

1231
01:44:25,420 --> 01:44:27,320
the last

1232
01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:30,800
one we

1233
01:44:30,800 --> 01:44:37,640
had leave went to I think precinct one which was probably a year ago we've had

1234
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:43,900
very little turnover. We're actually almost full at one position. We have several applications.

1235
01:44:45,580 --> 01:44:49,880
So, I mean, I think we're really in a good place. And just to say this last survey

1236
01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:59,400
you all did, and to see our benefits, stipends, salaries, 12-hour shifts. I mean, we have people.

1237
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:04,620
We had some tumble officers that already look and come here, which I hope that you're not listening.

1238
01:45:05,660 --> 01:45:18,400
We did some, so to answer your question, you know, this is great, but I think that just what you're doing already is going to be fine and we'll continue to get good employees and we'll keep them here.

1239
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:26,710
And we need to take your staff to job fairs and they speak so highly of the city and the place that they work

1240
01:45:27,620 --> 01:45:30,200
You know we're doing good job

1241
01:45:30,200 --> 01:45:34,510
Because it's happening in both place and fire department when we take them to job fair

1242
01:45:36,700 --> 01:45:42,980
So it sounds like we're on a grant it's a great plan but not one that we need it's something something to keep it

1243
01:45:42,980 --> 01:45:45,840
I'll back pocket if we do need it or if we find a strategic

1244
01:45:46,820 --> 01:45:53,440
purpose, like was discussed, you know, between fire, police, public works. If it becomes an issue,

1245
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:59,340
where we identify situations where things could have turned out very differently had. We had more

1246
01:45:59,340 --> 01:46:07,700
personnel closer to the city, but so far, I don't know that that has ever come up as a particular issue

1247
01:46:07,700 --> 01:46:16,660
in the past. So, I think it's, again, I think it's, it's something that is

1248
01:46:17,280 --> 01:46:22,740
motivated for the right reasons and maybe something that could come in use one day, but

1249
01:46:22,740 --> 01:46:27,540
maybe not necessarily today. So at least that's kind of what I'm hearing from the majority of

1250
01:46:27,540 --> 01:46:27,740
council.

1251
01:46:30,110 --> 01:46:37,110
Okay. Well, we'll keep an eye on it and hey, maybe other cities will start to do that

1252
01:46:37,110 --> 01:46:41,290
And we'll just have to respond then, that's the way the market goes, I guess.

1253
01:46:42,170 --> 01:46:45,390
So I think we're taking no action on this if I'm understanding everyone correctly.

1254
01:46:48,390 --> 01:46:50,750
All right, that brings us to mayor and council comments.

1255
01:46:51,050 --> 01:46:54,110
I am going to start down on this in with council member McCray.

1256
01:46:55,070 --> 01:46:56,270
Did I do it last time?

1257
01:46:56,590 --> 01:46:56,690
Okay.

1258
01:46:57,550 --> 01:46:57,730
Okay.

1259
01:46:58,270 --> 01:46:59,090
All right, fair enough.

1260
01:46:59,250 --> 01:46:59,890
Fair enough.

1261
01:47:00,090 --> 01:47:03,290
I'm just going to just start down here with Mayor Pro Tim Mitchell.

1262
01:47:04,210 --> 01:47:10,290
It's almost October. We all know what that means. Candy Corn Lane is coming to town.

1263
01:47:11,750 --> 01:47:16,870
We've already scheduled our barbecue and we've got our whatever those things are.

1264
01:47:17,270 --> 01:47:19,070
Pitch thing is ready.

1265
01:47:19,990 --> 01:47:25,610
Homecoming parade 330 on October 11. Bring a big bag.

1266
01:47:26,050 --> 01:47:30,270
You will have enough candy leftover to pass out for Halloween incentives.

1267
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:39,840
October 3rd is national night out. Hopefully you get to meet some of your neighbors and then

1268
01:47:40,520 --> 01:47:46,740
that's about it for me. I'm ready for some pumpkin spice lattes and colder, colder weather.

1269
01:47:47,900 --> 01:47:48,820
Council Member Schubert.

1270
01:47:49,940 --> 01:47:57,740
I'll take that pumpkin spice latte with you. I would like to ask staff to take a look at

1271
01:47:57,740 --> 01:48:04,980
are landscaping. In the area I know we've had some emails floating around

1272
01:48:05,540 --> 01:48:11,360
with some complaints about that. I know I've noticed it myself, especially since my

1273
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:17,340
front yard has weeds from having grown as planted but if you don't mind

1274
01:48:17,340 --> 01:48:22,720
taking a look at that I'd appreciate it and that's really all I have.

1275
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:27,120
That's my

1276
01:48:27,120 --> 01:48:36,660
Texas native varieties in rocks or rocks yes real quick in my left hand I

1277
01:48:36,660 --> 01:48:41,640
hold a phone on in my phone I have an app city of Jersey Village but a lot

1278
01:48:41,640 --> 01:48:49,480
of work into up in our technology game and there's a city app second from the

1279
01:48:49,480 --> 01:48:55,360
top is a reporting issue so if you see a junk car somewhere or you see a house

1280
01:48:55,360 --> 01:49:01,900
with overgrown weeds, you're not a Narc, or if you see something in a park that needs help,

1281
01:49:02,280 --> 01:49:06,080
like something's not working, feel free to report it on the app.

1282
01:49:06,100 --> 01:49:10,320
And if you don't have the app or in the midst of downloading it, feel free to email your

1283
01:49:10,320 --> 01:49:16,780
counselors and or call the city, this has been very helpful and there's a lot of other useful

1284
01:49:16,780 --> 01:49:17,720
tools on here.

1285
01:49:18,020 --> 01:49:24,040
So I encourage downloading it regarding the bond page, it doesn't, the home values don't

1286
01:49:24,040 --> 01:49:30,160
go up and you'd have to go to jerseyvillage.com slash page slash city.mon, 2023 to look at it.

1287
01:49:30,180 --> 01:49:35,680
But the home values, if your house is 250, one year and moves up to 321, then the whole

1288
01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:41,480
thing is somewhat accurate in that it just reports numbers what the exemption would be and

1289
01:49:41,480 --> 01:49:48,940
what the tax rate would be for that. So I don't think it's out of line. We could do something,

1290
01:49:48,940 --> 01:49:56,120
But you don't know with H-CAD ever what things are going to be and what they're going to do.

1291
01:49:56,900 --> 01:49:59,380
You can think the worst, but hope for the best.

1292
01:49:59,700 --> 01:50:03,900
And as far as bonds go, discuss this in several meetings,

1293
01:50:04,900 --> 01:50:11,740
we're asking the city citizens to a prove three separate bond items,

1294
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:14,320
or it's up for them to decide whether they want it.

1295
01:50:14,420 --> 01:50:17,940
That does not mean the city will have cart launch and spending all that money.

1296
01:50:17,940 --> 01:50:25,800
They'll spend only the money necessary on that, so and maybe not all at once.

1297
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:34,100
So just everyone knows that not everything on there has been scheduled to be built and whatnot.

1298
01:50:35,260 --> 01:50:44,280
So plans can change over time and have a great October and enjoy all that comes

1299
01:50:44,280 --> 01:50:48,500
the fall, including lower temperatures one day?

1300
01:50:49,200 --> 01:50:50,280
Council member Singleton.

1301
01:50:53,220 --> 01:50:55,060
To do, uh,

1302
01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:57,920
Drew's comments about the app.

1303
01:50:58,460 --> 01:51:00,400
If you see a scene issue you want to fix.

1304
01:51:00,820 --> 01:51:01,620
Report it in the app.

1305
01:51:04,540 --> 01:51:07,680
Thursday is a really exciting opportunity.

1306
01:51:08,180 --> 01:51:11,400
The DPS crime lab on West Road

1307
01:51:11,400 --> 01:51:18,040
is offering their open house that they only do once a year and they just really cool stuff

1308
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:25,900
there. You can email them at Houston Crime Lab at dps.txt.gov but they're open 94 on Thursday.

1309
01:51:27,060 --> 01:51:33,500
And that is just going to kick off the month of October which is full of open houses and all kinds

1310
01:51:33,500 --> 01:51:43,580
events. I think our open house for the City Fire Department Police Department is going to be

1311
01:51:45,200 --> 01:51:53,280
October 21st and I think that's 10 to 2 is normal. 10 to 2 is coming out and see all the

1312
01:51:53,280 --> 01:51:55,680
exciting things that the Police Department and fire department.

1313
01:51:59,370 --> 01:52:00,990
Oh, what October 3rd is National

1314
01:52:00,990 --> 01:52:05,130
And I now, as we mentioned earlier, so get out and see your neighbors.

1315
01:52:06,290 --> 01:52:11,730
Fortunately, I will be at a Chief Academy, so it won't be in town.

1316
01:52:12,990 --> 01:52:13,750
Council member McCray.

1317
01:52:15,090 --> 01:52:16,250
All right, I'll go now.

1318
01:52:18,090 --> 01:52:21,190
I share everybody's sentiments of October, all that stuff.

1319
01:52:21,810 --> 01:52:23,290
Make sure you make the homecoming parade.

1320
01:52:23,570 --> 01:52:24,390
That one's really cool.

1321
01:52:24,490 --> 01:52:25,990
Who my favorite every year?

1322
01:52:27,110 --> 01:52:30,970
One thing I do would attach on is if we could, Austin, I know, Abram,

1323
01:52:30,970 --> 01:52:36,570
would have the ability to pull reports of phone calls coming in and phone calls being answered,

1324
01:52:36,930 --> 01:52:43,590
phone calls being missed. Those all of the phone situations that your phone systems offer that,

1325
01:52:43,590 --> 01:52:47,010
and I think it's time to go ahead and pull reports. I know we had just one complaint tonight,

1326
01:52:47,310 --> 01:52:50,970
but I would say that is probably one of the things I see most often on social media complaints.

1327
01:52:51,070 --> 01:52:56,270
Is it, but phone calls aren't being answered here. So I think that's just something that

1328
01:52:56,270 --> 01:53:03,270
Maybe we can pull that up and let's see because if it is an issue it needs to be taken care of and if it's not an issue, we need to make sure people are aware that it's not an issue.

1329
01:53:05,990 --> 01:53:16,370
Other than that, I wanted to say a lot of thanks to JVPD for my situation at home has changed or are leaving very early in the morning.

1330
01:53:16,370 --> 01:53:21,730
And I'm realizing, because I've never been up that early before, that it's seven

1331
01:53:21,730 --> 01:53:27,710
name at 6.45 in the morning, my house, my driveway gets blocked from high school traffic

1332
01:53:27,710 --> 01:53:28,330
in the morning.

1333
01:53:28,670 --> 01:53:32,310
Not only is it my house, it's people choosing to not wait in line on Philippine, they like

1334
01:53:32,310 --> 01:53:37,670
to race down Argentina, then race down Ashburton, then take a left on to Lakeview, and then

1335
01:53:37,670 --> 01:53:43,750
back up the Lakeview stop sign, and it's annoying as all get out, and that is nothing to

1336
01:53:43,750 --> 01:53:48,270
with the people that I know that live on the streets, like Congo and stuff, after school, what

1337
01:53:48,270 --> 01:53:54,750
they deal with every single day. And so last week I noticed JV police officer seemed to be having

1338
01:53:54,750 --> 01:53:59,770
a great time writing a lot of tickets right there at Philippine and like Vio and I really appreciate

1339
01:53:59,770 --> 01:54:04,430
that and I'm glad that he was out there doing that because a lot of the people that are

1340
01:54:04,430 --> 01:54:09,290
that are causing issues are not residents of Jersey Village, most of them are high school students

1341
01:54:09,290 --> 01:54:12,870
or that they're parents that are clearly running late and don't seem to think that it matters

1342
01:54:12,870 --> 01:54:16,510
But you know, we've got kids, we've got people walking, and it is important.

1343
01:54:16,830 --> 01:54:21,230
And stuff, I wanted to say thank you and feel free any time you'd like to use my driveway to sit and catch people.

1344
01:54:21,930 --> 01:54:25,410
More than happy. I'll provide whatever snacks you want.

1345
01:54:25,850 --> 01:54:30,050
Other than that, uh, because your neighbors got me to say hi, help them out.

1346
01:54:30,170 --> 01:54:34,590
I also wanted to say, uh, thank you to Council member Singleton over here.

1347
01:54:35,470 --> 01:54:42,670
He and I don't always see eye to eye, but we had a situation in our house where a pipe broke on our water filter.

1348
01:54:42,670 --> 01:54:47,830
and where it did have a shutoff revolve, it bypassed the filter.

1349
01:54:48,770 --> 01:54:51,210
It was a Sunday morning, the day before school starts,

1350
01:54:51,610 --> 01:54:54,050
and then my daughter makes the comment about our water filter.

1351
01:54:54,150 --> 01:54:55,690
She goes, there's a fountain in her front yard.

1352
01:54:55,950 --> 01:54:57,230
I don't know what she's got about fountain,

1353
01:54:57,630 --> 01:54:59,670
and it is literally shooting under the roof,

1354
01:54:59,810 --> 01:55:01,110
and I sat there going,

1355
01:55:01,350 --> 01:55:02,970
oh, what are we going to do about this?

1356
01:55:03,410 --> 01:55:05,890
Anyways, could not find the proper to save my life.

1357
01:55:07,050 --> 01:55:09,870
James had a text message, text the group text,

1358
01:55:09,870 --> 01:55:11,630
James had a comment about having a suggestion

1359
01:55:11,630 --> 01:55:14,510
and he came over within 10 minutes if that.

1360
01:55:14,810 --> 01:55:16,870
We got it plugged up enough to where we could get it fixed

1361
01:55:16,870 --> 01:55:18,470
the next week, and we were able to have water

1362
01:55:18,470 --> 01:55:20,470
because I was just going to burn the house down.

1363
01:55:21,150 --> 01:55:23,450
I was about to burn it down and walk away.

1364
01:55:24,050 --> 01:55:26,010
And so anyways, I just wanted to say thank you.

1365
01:55:26,410 --> 01:55:28,470
See, even those of us that don't agree on things

1366
01:55:28,470 --> 01:55:29,930
can still help each other out.

1367
01:55:30,010 --> 01:55:31,550
So I just wanted to say thank you.

1368
01:55:33,220 --> 01:55:35,040
I would imagine the water leak would have put out the fire,

1369
01:55:35,340 --> 01:55:36,840
but you're welcome.

1370
01:55:38,180 --> 01:55:39,440
I don't think the fire would have worked.

1371
01:55:40,100 --> 01:55:42,820
Anyway, never let the truth get in the way of a good joke.

1372
01:55:43,900 --> 01:55:50,360
So, yeah, I just wanted to emphasize to everyone that, as was mentioned up here, National

1373
01:55:50,360 --> 01:55:51,560
Night Out is coming up.

1374
01:55:51,580 --> 01:55:56,060
It is a fantastic opportunity to get out and meet your neighbors if you've never participated

1375
01:55:56,060 --> 01:55:57,060
before.

1376
01:55:58,600 --> 01:56:03,660
There will be, there's usually a good 20 or 30 parties easily.

1377
01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:11,860
And for once I'm not on vacation, when this is happening, so I'll be out and about trying

1378
01:56:11,860 --> 01:56:17,720
to make as many parties as I can that night and looking forward to it.

1379
01:56:18,260 --> 01:56:24,720
Apart from that, I'm just going to re-emphasize what I've re-emphasized several times

1380
01:56:24,720 --> 01:56:33,500
in the past, which is reaching out and communicating with Council and letting us know when

1381
01:56:33,500 --> 01:56:39,880
an issue comes up as soon as it comes up really makes it easier for us to be able to address

1382
01:56:39,880 --> 01:56:40,300
issue.

1383
01:56:42,420 --> 01:56:46,880
You know, I assure you that when someone emails me and says, I've got this problem where,

1384
01:56:47,760 --> 01:56:53,620
you know, I've got a neighbor across the street that's got a junk car or I'm having difficulty

1385
01:56:53,620 --> 01:56:58,180
reaching somebody in public works to get a permit or whatever the case may be, trust me,

1386
01:56:58,180 --> 01:57:01,020
we can help you get the situation resolved.

1387
01:57:03,480 --> 01:57:06,200
But it takes you reaching out and letting us know

1388
01:57:06,200 --> 01:57:10,480
and giving us an opportunity to actually fix it.

1389
01:57:10,900 --> 01:57:14,160
As I said, the last meeting, government's not just something

1390
01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:17,680
that you throw the keys to us and we just do it all.

1391
01:57:18,480 --> 01:57:22,140
It is something that we all pitch in on some level to be able to do

1392
01:57:22,140 --> 01:57:26,420
and to help out one another and make sure that we keep our community

1393
01:57:26,420 --> 01:57:28,660
the great place that it is.

1394
01:57:29,400 --> 01:57:33,420
I know COVID enforcement's out there doing their job because I have in my

1395
01:57:33,420 --> 01:57:41,540
meeting packet, very, very tiny print at, I believe it's four and a half pages from one month's worth of reports.

1396
01:57:42,600 --> 01:57:45,300
So it's not as if things aren't happening.

1397
01:57:46,680 --> 01:57:50,240
And if there are people out there who get these notices and they don't act immediately,

1398
01:57:51,200 --> 01:57:53,180
we can't magically sweep them away.

1399
01:57:53,420 --> 01:57:54,160
There's a process.

1400
01:57:54,620 --> 01:58:01,740
So just let us know, we will do what we can and, you know, it's sometimes it takes a long

1401
01:58:01,740 --> 01:58:04,380
than we'd like, but we usually get it taken care of.

1402
01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:10,900
So with that, we are going to move to Executive Session.

1403
01:58:11,840 --> 01:58:18,600
City Council is now going to retire to a closed session at 853pm, pursuant to the Texas

1404
01:58:18,600 --> 01:58:23,180
Open Meetings Act, Section 551.087, deliberation regarding economic development negotiations,

1405
01:58:23,560 --> 01:58:28,780
Section 551.072, deliberations about real property, Section 551.071, consultations

1406
01:58:28,780 --> 01:58:33,660
with attorney, and Section 551.074, a personnel matters in connection with the following

1407
01:58:33,660 --> 01:58:33,940
item.

1408
01:58:35,060 --> 01:58:39,700
1% of the Texas 7 meeting, Section 551.087, deliberation regarding the Economic Development

1409
01:58:39,700 --> 01:58:45,020
Negotiations, Section 551.072, deliberations about real property, and Section 554.071,

1410
01:58:45,020 --> 01:58:48,600
in consultations with attorney, a close meeting to deliberate information from a business

1411
01:58:48,600 --> 01:58:52,680
prospect that the city seeks to locate in Jersey Village, Tours, number two, and economic

1412
01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:57,860
development negotiations, including the possible purchase, exchange, or value of real property

1413
01:58:57,860 --> 01:59:02,700
related there too. Number two, pursuant to the Texas of a meeting at Section 5 at 1.072,

1414
01:59:02,800 --> 01:59:07,420
deliberations about the property in Section 5151.071, consultations with attorney,

1415
01:59:07,780 --> 01:59:11,060
and close meeting to deliberate the potential and possible purchase, exchange, sale,

1416
01:59:11,300 --> 01:59:13,740
or value of real property located within TURS 3.

1417
01:59:14,580 --> 01:59:18,880
Number three, pursuant to Texas of a meeting at Section 5151.074, personnel matters,

1418
01:59:19,240 --> 01:59:22,100
conduct an executive session in order to deliberate the appointment, employment,

1419
01:59:22,260 --> 01:59:25,440
evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of the city secretary.

1420
01:59:25,440 --> 01:59:30,720
item 4, pursuant to the Texas Open Meetings Act, section 555-1.074, personnel matters,

1421
01:59:31,000 --> 01:59:34,480
conduct an executive session in order to deliberate the appointment employment, evaluation,

1422
01:59:34,980 --> 01:59:37,220
reassignment duties, discipline, or dismissal of the city manager.

1423
01:59:37,740 --> 01:59:40,680
We will return to open session and continue with the remainder of tonight's agenda after

1424
01:59:40,680 --> 01:59:42,580
the closed session deliberations are concluded.

1425
04:25:11,760 --> 04:25:19,880
The closed session was adjourned at 1120 p.m. and no official action or vote was conducted during the closed session.

1426
04:25:21,040 --> 04:25:32,830
That brings us to item L1. Consider resolution number 23-50, authorizing the city manager to finalize negotiations, enter into purchase agreements,

1427
04:25:33,270 --> 04:25:37,890
and related documents regarding the acquisition of certain real property located within the boundaries of taxing,

1428
04:25:37,890 --> 04:25:44,430
From that reinvestment zone number three, the TERS is recommended by the Board of Directors of the TERS to implement the project plans of the TERS or the Boston Police.

1429
04:25:46,810 --> 04:25:48,270
The Resolutions before a council.

1430
04:25:50,630 --> 04:25:53,730
Any discussion from council or a motion would certainly be in there?

1431
04:25:53,930 --> 04:25:56,770
I'm no doubt for a Resolution 2023-50.

1432
04:25:58,370 --> 04:25:58,750
I'll second.

1433
04:25:59,370 --> 04:26:01,330
We have a motion in a second any further discussion.

1434
04:26:02,250 --> 04:26:03,330
Seeing none all those in favor.

1435
04:26:04,290 --> 04:26:06,230
All of those against any abstentions.

1436
04:26:06,550 --> 04:26:07,770
The Resolution passes unanimously.

1437
04:26:07,770 --> 04:26:13,530
That brings us to item L2, consider setting the city secretary's compensation for budget

1438
04:26:13,530 --> 04:26:15,030
your 2023-2024.

1439
04:26:17,790 --> 04:26:23,790
I'm moved to the city secretary's base salary compensation for budget your 2023-2024 at

1440
04:26:23,790 --> 04:26:24,810
150-200.

1441
04:26:25,590 --> 04:26:26,110
I'll second.

1442
04:26:26,630 --> 04:26:27,610
We have a motion in a second.

1443
04:26:27,650 --> 04:26:28,430
Any further discussion?

1444
04:26:29,450 --> 04:26:30,550
Seeing none all those in favor?

1445
04:26:31,490 --> 04:26:33,050
All those against any extensions?

1446
04:26:33,570 --> 04:26:34,630
Motion passes unanimously.

1447
04:26:34,630 --> 04:26:39,570
that brings us to item L3, consider setting the city secretary's compensation for budget.

1448
04:26:39,670 --> 04:26:42,510
Your 2022, 2022, 2023 and consider them.

1449
04:26:42,810 --> 04:26:43,470
That's it.

1450
04:26:43,830 --> 04:26:46,450
Consider setting the city manager's compensation for budget.

1451
04:26:46,610 --> 04:26:50,630
Your 2022, 2023, and consider employment agreement amendments.

1452
04:26:51,730 --> 04:26:55,370
And move to increase the city manager's basic salary compensation for budget.

1453
04:26:55,490 --> 04:27:04,430
Your 2023 to 2024 to 210,000 and improve the employment to 210,000 period.

1454
04:27:04,430 --> 04:27:07,090
because we're not making any adjustments to the contract.

1455
04:27:07,230 --> 04:27:08,210
So what he said?

1456
04:27:08,230 --> 04:27:09,090
That's what he said.

1457
04:27:09,110 --> 04:27:10,870
He said it was a contractual adjustment.

1458
04:27:11,590 --> 04:27:14,570
So just for clarity, the only adjustment you're going to make

1459
04:27:14,570 --> 04:27:17,430
to the employment contract is going to be the base salary.

1460
04:27:20,150 --> 04:27:20,310
Okay.

1461
04:27:20,530 --> 04:27:20,950
That's what...

1462
04:27:20,950 --> 04:27:22,350
I'll second it.

1463
04:27:24,490 --> 04:27:28,170
It's what's written in the packet.

1464
04:27:28,790 --> 04:27:30,230
Except the years are wrong in the packet.

1465
04:27:36,240 --> 04:27:36,660
All right.

1466
04:27:36,820 --> 04:27:37,440
So there's a motion.

1467
04:27:37,660 --> 04:27:38,300
There's a second.

1468
04:27:38,460 --> 04:27:39,280
Any further discussion?

1469
04:27:39,780 --> 04:27:46,180
saying not all is in favor, all of those against any extensions, the motion passes unanimously,

1470
04:27:46,440 --> 04:27:47,340
meeting adjourned.

1471
04:27:54,720 --> 04:27:58,400
Do you, I'm going to do it on my mic, he told you it's an amendment to the contact.