1 00:00:21,119 --> 00:00:24,320 you good 2 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:44,360 all right at 6 o'clock P.M I'm going to call the council to order please rise 3 00:00:41,039 --> 00:00:44,360 for the invocation and Pledge of 4 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:52,760 Allegiance please bow your heads dear heavenly father we come 5 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:57,320 together in your name grateful for the opportunity Gather in unity we thank you 6 00:00:55,399 --> 00:01:01,399 for the blessings of this day and the purpose of this meeting we humbly ask 7 00:00:59,519 --> 00:01:05,600 for your guidance and wisdom as we discuss the matters at hand grant us the 8 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:10,720 clarity of thought and compassion of heart to make decisions that honor you 9 00:01:08,119 --> 00:01:16,080 and benefit all in your name we pray amen 10 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:22,960 amen I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic 11 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:30,000 for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with li justice for all and 12 00:01:26,119 --> 00:01:38,799 now the Texas flag honor the Texas flag pledge allegiance to thee one State 13 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:38,799 under God one and indivisible you may be 14 00:01:44,759 --> 00:01:50,920 seated all right I want to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight it's 15 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:56,600 been a long time since we've actually been in these Chambers five weeks 16 00:01:54,040 --> 00:02:00,479 yay so I want to thank you all for coming all right so I just want to make 17 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:04,680 a couple of announcements uh exciting news uh the alsup's 18 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:09,959 convenience store and gas station Has Broken Ground on the corner of South 19 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:13,480 College and business 67 so even though we missed the opportunity for a 20 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:17,040 groundbreaking I would like the city to coordinate a time that some of us could 21 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:21,800 go and maybe get a picture next to the sign Mr batler so that we can publicize 22 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:27,400 this great event not only for us but for allsups because we want them to be 23 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:32,480 successful here uh on some sad news uh I just wanted to report that Robert 24 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:36,800 Bishoff passed away on June 9 2024 many of us knew him as Bob as he lived here 25 00:02:34,599 --> 00:02:41,319 most of his life he served on the city council for a total of 16 years under 26 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:46,080 three different time periods and he had been a mayor protim Bob was very active 27 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:49,840 in the community service and very opinionated when it came to the spending 28 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:54,599 of the city's money but he was a kind-hearted man very generous with his 29 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:58,000 time and he'll be missed on our community uh Council I would just like 30 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:02,560 to say it's been an absolute pleasure serving with you guys the last 19 months 31 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:06,760 mons as your mayor and these last 55 months on Council and when I say that 32 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:11,239 that just sounds like a really long time uh anyway some of our meetings have been 33 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:14,760 uh very Lively with our discussions but what's been important at the end of the 34 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:19,400 day is that we've come together for the good of the town and our citizens and I 35 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:22,680 think that we have done that very well and tonight we have another jam-packed 36 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:27,040 meeting and we'll be making more progress for our town that it's going to 37 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:31,920 pave the way for us to have the funds to fix our roads to pay our staff and keep 38 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:36,760 with the rising cost of living and invest in the resources that we need to 39 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:40,879 serve our citizens so I'm ready to get started if you all are I'm going to try 40 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:47,319 to keep us moving along so that we're not here until midnight so sound 41 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:51,439 good all right so agenda item number three public 42 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:55,959 comments I have several little cards here I'm going to call up Troy Smith 43 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:10,360 and we have our audio back audio is working Troy Smith 310 woodlon oh here 44 00:04:07,319 --> 00:04:16,720 in Keen obviously um I just wanted to sing a praise if I could um we um we 45 00:04:14,519 --> 00:04:20,919 were sitting by a roadway and there was a massive pothole there du due to 46 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:25,800 erosion from all of the moisture that we've been getting and so I called the 47 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:30,320 Public Works director Derek and uh the next day Dominic was out there I I call 48 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:34,160 those guys the Double D because they got right on it and uh they just took care 49 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:38,800 of the problem so it's just good to see that an active response was taken and 50 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:42,600 the initiative was done the very next day so I just wanted to give a shout out 51 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:48,320 to public works for knocking that out so I just wanted to uh just note that so 52 00:04:46,919 --> 00:04:51,840 that way you guys understand that people are doing people are doing things around 53 00:04:49,919 --> 00:04:56,680 here and things are getting done uh not to mention I saw a Facebook post where 54 00:04:54,160 --> 00:05:00,440 this guy is out here mowing a lawn so I don't know how many hats this guy wears 55 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:05,560 but I just found another one so anyway kudos to you guys for um keeping this 56 00:05:03,039 --> 00:05:10,240 city going and uh and maintaining roads and things like that so we appreciate it 57 00:05:07,479 --> 00:05:10,240 all right thank you Mr 58 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:16,240 Smith all right Paul 59 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:28,520 not thank you mayor and Council I'll be real quick uh Paul not 107 North Old 60 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:35,440 Mansfield Road I had I provided you with photographs of house at 2929 CR 61 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:41,520 805 uh it has looked like that for the last 15 years but in the last six months 62 00:05:39,479 --> 00:05:46,080 uh the front door has either been stolen or just blown off the windows look like 63 00:05:43,919 --> 00:05:49,840 they they do in those photographs I took those with my cell phone last Sunday 64 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:56,600 according to the website SOS 65 00:05:53,319 --> 00:06:02,479 do. tex. us that's the Secretary of State's website that certainly qualified 66 00:05:59,919 --> 00:06:06,960 as a as a public nuisance uh I got information on the owner I have it right 67 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:11,520 here the owner lives in Calhoun Louisiana uh I got that from the county 68 00:06:09,479 --> 00:06:17,280 clerk's office in fact April La sent it to me the county clerk and the central 69 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:24,560 uh uh Appraisal District my point is this that that abandoned property uh 70 00:06:21,919 --> 00:06:29,000 creates a wide range of problems public health problems 71 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:34,479 diminishing the quality of life for residents 72 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:43,160 uh and also can lead to crime and vandalism and arson so whatever you have 73 00:06:38,039 --> 00:06:48,720 to do let's get rid of that uh start mowing mowing the grass cleaning the 74 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:54,160 property uh sending the the bills to the owner if I have if I found who she is 75 00:06:51,479 --> 00:07:00,720 you certainly can too so that's all I want to say and you have those photos 76 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:05,199 second item I really applaud 77 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:11,319 the charter review commission and the work they've done I'm asking you 78 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:18,039 to to send everything to the voters let the voters decide okay thank you Mr 79 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:23,039 not Mr batt if you can follow up on this and make sure yeah see if that's in the 80 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:28,520 I do have some information counil if it's appropriate go ahead public comment 81 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:33,639 so we do have a uh section section 15113 on the creation of a uh sub a 82 00:07:32,039 --> 00:07:39,080 building Standards Commission it requires uh commission shall consist of 83 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:43,960 seven members appointed by city council this is for us to Abate substandard 84 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:48,680 buildings and in that commission there has to be a master electrician a 85 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:55,159 licensed plumber a licensed HVAC contractor a general contractor and a 86 00:07:51,440 --> 00:08:00,840 local citizen interested in building trade so you know how hard it is to get 87 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:05,360 um people to volunteer on these commissions so um this is this is 88 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:11,360 something we'd have to set up in order to pursue in a batement of a substandard 89 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:15,680 building I want to defer to our attorney on that just to make sure I'm stating 90 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:19,440 that correctly but that we can pursue that there's some steps correct there's 91 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:23,560 some steps both on our ordinance under state law but now there there can be 92 00:08:21,879 --> 00:08:29,199 some more shortterm measures I mean we have the ability to mow and then Place 93 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:32,760 mowing lens on the property uh and we have ability to secure the building if 94 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:36,000 we believe it's unsafe and it's you know an attractive nuisance that kids May 95 00:08:34,519 --> 00:08:40,719 going in there or something like that we certainly have other options that aren't 96 00:08:37,719 --> 00:08:45,120 as um cumbersome in the short term at least as going through the process to 97 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:49,320 have it turn turned down um and and quite frankly in a lot of communities 98 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:53,920 I'm involved in after those mowing lens build up you can file them it's 99 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:57,160 basically a foreclosure suit if the city has any interest in owning the property 100 00:08:55,519 --> 00:09:00,600 and you just have it struck off it pays off the uh the lens have the property 101 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,920 struck truck off to you then you own it you can tear down the house and then 102 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:07,720 resell the property to somebody that might put something on it 103 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,160 that's considered beneficial for the community there's there's a number of 104 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:14,760 different options I can visit with you on and I'm sure Pat Chester can as well 105 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:20,200 okay thank you all right okay Mr BF you'll pursue that then thank 106 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,200 you okay Mike 107 00:09:24,839 --> 00:09:32,000 Stanton good evening my name is Mike Stanton I live at 1201 honeys Drive uh 108 00:09:30,279 --> 00:09:34,920 we've lived there going on two years with my wife Ashley and my two young 109 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:42,200 daughters and my son who attends Southwestern of Venice University um on 110 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:45,440 uh May 5th uh our house was flooded uh with water runoff from the property 111 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:50,959 behind us boarding on 805 um on May uh 6th Mr Bat and Mr 112 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,720 Martin were kind enough to come over immediately and uh consult I was out of 113 00:09:53,160 --> 00:10:00,399 town on business but consult with my wife um uh it's owned by mkp development 114 00:09:58,839 --> 00:10:05,920 I'm sure some of you are familiar with them up here um we have not had any 115 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:09,920 communication really since I think you had a meeting with City engineers and 116 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:13,760 mkp Engineers we've had no communication since then and it's just a little 117 00:10:11,839 --> 00:10:17,480 disappointing um my wife's followed up and we still haven't heard anything back 118 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:21,440 I'm about $88,000 in the damages into my home um insurance is not covering it 119 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:27,519 because it's flood obviously I'm not in a flood plane well I wasn't um so I'm on 120 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:32,320 a flood plane so uh that's out of pocket um mkp I reached out to the owner adelay 121 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:36,120 Pennington uh he communicated with me at first uh he has since gone dark and 122 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:39,360 won't communicate with me there are three tcq violations on that property 123 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:43,279 back there I'm not sure if you're aware of that or not um what two of them are 124 00:10:41,839 --> 00:10:47,279 open one of them has been resolved but I believe there's a fine as well um so 125 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,680 what I'm here asking for is some help from the council number one with 126 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:53,480 communication and let us know what's going on to to rectify the situation 127 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,399 with your meetings with your engineers I'd certainly appreciate that maybe 128 00:10:55,240 --> 00:11:00,480 share some plans with us some engineering plans I do have a contact at 129 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:06,440 tcq good friend I went to college with that can help uh look at those uh if we 130 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:10,040 need to um but uh right now I need help with that and also I'm trying to recoup 131 00:11:08,519 --> 00:11:13,320 some of my out- of pocket expenses this is a financial hardship for us we were 132 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:18,200 only to able to live in our home for half of our home for uh two three weeks 133 00:11:15,839 --> 00:11:20,920 so it's it's been an inconvenience um so really I'm here to ask for that ask for 134 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:25,120 maybe even an appoint person that can communicate with us and give us some 135 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:28,320 information as to where we are with this um and to take help us take care of the 136 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:32,560 situation my neighbor Nath is here she's going to speak as well but she also has 137 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:36,839 problems with the runoff um and just uh we we need some help you know we we pay 138 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:39,920 our taxes take care of our property good Citizens We're plugged in the school 139 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:44,680 district my wife's local realtor we need some help and uh just asking for that 140 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,920 I'd be happy to meet you on that I apologize for the lack of communication 141 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:53,040 I thought you were IND direct communication with the developer I was 142 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:56,360 but not anymore he he's chosen he's chosen not to communicate um and I 143 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,959 appreciate that and again you guys came out immediately and we appreciate that 144 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:06,120 and I'm not angry I we just need some help please come by we can look at those 145 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:10,000 plans and okay yeah come on by um and I'd like to know kind of where where we 146 00:12:08,279 --> 00:12:14,560 are you met with the engineering folks with mkp where we at on that because 147 00:12:12,959 --> 00:12:17,880 once those houses go in I think we all know it's not going to get better it's 148 00:12:16,199 --> 00:12:21,279 going to get worse and so we've got people that live on that street and live 149 00:12:19,959 --> 00:12:24,880 there for quite a while some of them not as long as us but we've got drainage 150 00:12:23,199 --> 00:12:27,800 coming off that property I understand there have been plans made and maybe 151 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:30,880 they follow the plans but obviously there's an issue I know there's a lot of 152 00:12:29,399 --> 00:12:33,440 rain then but we've had lots of rain before particularly when we moved in the 153 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:38,079 first time and my house has never flooded and uh we just need some help 154 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,959 okay thank you Mr s thank you and thank you Mr Bley yeah if you'll get him meet 155 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:45,360 with him and get him whatever he needs the 156 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:47,959 plans whatever can help him all right nathy 157 00:12:51,639 --> 00:13:01,360 regman hello how's everybody just fine uh nathy rman 123 honey cycle drive and 158 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:06,279 basically I just need to substantiate what Mike says I'm noticing some things 159 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:12,079 at my house now that I had not even noticed before uh one thing is large 160 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:17,079 holes at the back of my fence which butts up to the new 161 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:24,680 subdivision I'm noticing I can't even can't even mow certain areas um tree 162 00:13:20,959 --> 00:13:30,000 roots in the front of my house that uh are uncovered now because the water 163 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:35,880 rushes through and what's happening is our theory is that um the water is 164 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:43,079 coming from dyes which is on the other side of them through his yard and into 165 00:13:38,399 --> 00:13:49,079 mine I've never seen water like this um it will rain and then it takes days for 166 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:56,800 it to dry because the water is still coming from all of that land behind us 167 00:13:52,839 --> 00:14:02,040 so uh I did call Pennington and he took my call and uh I said said you know 168 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:06,320 we've got a problem here and he said you know I was telling him about changes and 169 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:12,160 he said well if something's changed then we need to look into it for sure so uh 170 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:18,079 just to substantiate what Mike and Ashley are having to go through and uh 171 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:23,199 you know whatever you can do we would appreciate thank you nathy thank you Mr 172 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:26,639 Bal if you can y include her in any correspondents that are also sending to 173 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,639 Mr 174 00:14:27,279 --> 00:14:32,839 Stanton okay that is all the yellow cards I have is there anybody else that 175 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:37,360 would like to speak that did not fill out a yellow 176 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:42,759 card okay I'm going to go ahead and move on agenda item number four reports a 177 00:14:41,079 --> 00:14:48,040 review and discuss the city manager's report tractor supply project update 178 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:52,399 Taste of keen event storm siren server info and the cost of taxes and health 179 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:57,120 care in the month of July notice a rate increase from per Republic 180 00:14:54,480 --> 00:15:02,480 Services okay good afternoon mayor and counsel good evening I guess uh have one 181 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:08,000 thing to add to this our it we're getting reports that um our it uh 182 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:12,000 service is recording tonight but it's not pushing through we've had several IT 183 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:18,079 issues that we've been trying to work through as you know and uh CL we've work 184 00:15:15,279 --> 00:15:24,240 through all of them so we will post the recording uh for later viewing okay but 185 00:15:21,279 --> 00:15:31,920 it is recording as far as it issue goes the uh storm siren server um was out at 186 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:36,839 the uh fire department and that is being replaced we found a workaround we could 187 00:15:34,319 --> 00:15:41,920 manually activate if we needed to so that has been ordered and uh it's been 188 00:15:39,839 --> 00:15:46,240 programmed and they're set to replace that 189 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:50,560 ASAP and of course we've had to redo a few components here at City Hall from a 190 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:56,040 power surge so we got everything going that we could uh rudimentary services 191 00:15:53,079 --> 00:16:00,839 for City Hall council meeting tonight okay I'll skip the Tractor Supply update 192 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:06,319 because that is an agenda item uh the taste of keen we've settled on September 193 00:16:03,519 --> 00:16:11,800 22nd that's first day of autumn be kind of like an autum Fest deal and just to 194 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:16,279 kind of review that you know we have all these events that I go to that where 195 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:21,720 they set up the food booths there is such good food I I eat at every one of 196 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:26,040 those booths far too much it's all kinds of different uh different food and so we 197 00:16:23,959 --> 00:16:30,680 want to celebrate that and we've got a great you know diversity of foods here 198 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:34,079 so so we want to celebrate that with uh some kind of you know something so 199 00:16:33,079 --> 00:16:41,560 September 22nd um budget numbers uh our health 200 00:16:38,199 --> 00:16:47,360 care cost information uh the preliminary numers should be in July 7th and as you 201 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:52,199 all know that's really the key that's the elephant in the room number we need 202 00:16:49,519 --> 00:16:59,240 to really kick off our budget to see how we're going uh uh what that looks like 203 00:16:56,079 --> 00:17:04,799 we got a vaccination clinic July 20th from 8:00 a.m to 10:00 a.m. at the 204 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:11,360 community center and we do have a slight rate increase um from public services 205 00:17:08,439 --> 00:17:18,079 for next year it's on your screens we can't project to the um screens in 206 00:17:14,199 --> 00:17:25,280 Council but um the average residential administration fee per customer is the 207 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:33,679 addition will range from a quarter to up to about 50 cents so that is a uh minor 208 00:17:30,559 --> 00:17:38,120 adjustment there to the uh Republic Service trash 209 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:42,280 service and that's all I have you have any questions for me any questions Mr 210 00:17:40,039 --> 00:17:48,600 Foster I didn't catch the date of the vaccination clinic the date of the 211 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:55,120 vaccination clinic is July 20 8 to 10 at the community 212 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:59,440 center and then another question was the storm siren server under warranty by 213 00:17:57,679 --> 00:18:05,039 chance no was pretty old and yeah it just uh we've 214 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:10,880 been having some problems with it and it finally you know finally went kaput so 215 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:15,720 we uh didn't we just get a new storm siren not too long ago we have done a 216 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:21,320 siren but that was an old server that may have been an old repurposed server 217 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,320 yeah but um it's 218 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:29,000 different question do we have a power side 219 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:36,400 protectors for these like now they could we do yeah but it went through it okay 220 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,400 thank any other questions Mr 221 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:46,760 Bat okay moving on agenda item 4B review and discuss the financial report for the 222 00:18:43,159 --> 00:18:52,360 month ending May 31st 20124 Mr Williams how are you today good evening mayor 223 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:52,360 council good to see 224 00:18:53,120 --> 00:19:04,000 everyone and one reporting is the May financials the eighth month of the of 225 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:10,640 the year we are closing toward the end um sorry for the 226 00:19:07,919 --> 00:19:18,679 paper um but as you can see um our numbers are pretty good uh 227 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:23,240 for the month of May and one thing I want to point 228 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:29,080 out on this Revenue portion get my hands to it excuse me 229 00:19:35,679 --> 00:19:43,760 on the revenues um those numbers are pretty good the first one I was going to 230 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:50,320 point out was her property taxes as you can see we had pushed through the 3 231 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:55,559 million collection the first time in King of course and also we are well 232 00:19:53,960 --> 00:20:01,159 above our projection um I did project at 98 .6 and 233 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:07,240 we're at 103.3 so those are good favorable 234 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:16,919 numbers for the city uh as far as Revenue goes also I kind of want to 235 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:22,880 touch on that we are also doing fairly very well on the court fees and fines if 236 00:20:19,799 --> 00:20:29,120 you recall last year uh the numbers was a little dry but right now they are 237 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:37,960 doing a very good job of collecting most of the fines and fees for this year uh 238 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:45,480 the post pandemic of course um and also one other note uh we are holding steady 239 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:49,720 on the fire Revenue doing very very well well above the target of 240 00:20:50,159 --> 00:21:00,840 66.7% that leads us to saying that the revenue uh is well passed in May of last 241 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:08,000 year by at least 6.7% which is very very 242 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:15,760 good um and one thing to note uh as we go into the budget season as our city 243 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:22,039 manager alluded to um we'll be looking at property taxes and sales tax and 244 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:25,720 other fees to see what we can do and make strong strong consideration for 245 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:32,840 next year um expenditures on the next page we 246 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:41,400 are doing very very well on that very favorable well below the budget means on 247 00:21:36,799 --> 00:21:46,120 that um we had some expenditures quite a bit on the non- departmental that's why 248 00:21:44,559 --> 00:21:52,880 it's at 110% one of the reasons is they 249 00:21:48,720 --> 00:22:00,960 increased tml RIS F insurance and just to touch base on that 250 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:10,480 um we get quite a bit number of claims uh a little more exceeding than most 251 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:15,200 small cities uh we uh insurance on the other hand when they see a number of 252 00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:21,559 claims com in your insurance is going to kick up a little higher than 253 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:29,600 normal um normally we would be spending I'd say about 20 to 25% less so that's 254 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:35,880 why that number is ex Orly High uh something to consider doing the 255 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:41,120 budget as well so uh I thought I want to point out those two high notes 256 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:48,360 departmental wise our city manager kept us very conservative in our spending 257 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:51,480 which is great leadership on his part um we are holding steady on that it's just 258 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:56,279 a non-departmental is the one that hit the 259 00:22:53,720 --> 00:23:02,440 hardest with the insurance so with all the vehicles and uh ACC accidents 260 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:08,480 accidents is unpreventable and some could be deterred but there you have it 261 00:23:06,159 --> 00:23:08,480 any 262 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:20,120 questions on the next page um you have the uh sales and 263 00:23:18,159 --> 00:23:25,039 property taxes 264 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:29,720 um I mentioned about the sales part property taxes I mentioned about that 265 00:23:27,799 --> 00:23:37,760 sales tax I would project uh somewhat of a decline 266 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:42,880 in the next year uh a lot of things deal with the economy and upcoming election 267 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:49,840 uh they were looking at different things with the market uh I looked at Bloomberg 268 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:54,400 uh the past few weeks and the numbers are in a 269 00:23:51,799 --> 00:24:00,880 heartbeat right now going up and down a little crazy uh we cannot control that 270 00:23:58,159 --> 00:24:08,559 so so in essence we have to ride with the tide um right now the projections 271 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:14,960 mine are similar to what uh Wall Street has uh it might be somewhat of a 272 00:24:11,679 --> 00:24:21,320 decrease in the next several quarters which includes that hits our budget so 273 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:26,720 expect somewhat in the red going down from that so we may have to decrease our 274 00:24:23,919 --> 00:24:32,960 budget on sales tax once again something to look at for 275 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,960 2025 any 276 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:47,880 questions okay for w and Sewer fund um we've been holding studed on those um 277 00:24:43,799 --> 00:24:53,440 as you can see we in comparison to last year uh we doing okay we're still above 278 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:59,679 on the bottom line right above Target but once again 279 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:06,600 we'll be discussing probably about the rates and fees with the uh budget 280 00:25:02,679 --> 00:25:13,480 workshops for you sewer fund very similar to the water fund uh we have to 281 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:18,600 look at uh fees and cost of those as well our city manager alluded to at the 282 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:24,760 last budget I mean uh Council session about impact fees so all of those are 283 00:25:21,399 --> 00:25:29,279 all in a pool of things that we have to review and 284 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:36,600 assess any questions and the last but not least um and I did 285 00:25:34,159 --> 00:25:42,039 not put the street fund Rehab on there because we had just moved the money over 286 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:48,600 we got everything situated with the bank so on next report you'll see the street 287 00:25:44,279 --> 00:25:55,919 fund rehab account that we have for that and any activity thereof other than that 288 00:25:52,440 --> 00:26:01,200 we are holding steady with the pool cash we are doing very well with that 289 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:08,279 uh we are not touching any of our reserves we are doing uh quite well I 290 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:14,880 will note um there's as we are going through the 291 00:26:11,159 --> 00:26:19,360 audit season they are pushing for the end of the year so they going through 292 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:26,559 all our bank statements to make sure every penny is matched up everything is 293 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:31,880 accounted for every penny so uh for transparency for the spirit of 294 00:26:29,399 --> 00:26:37,840 transparency and what I give you which should be almost exact mirror of what 295 00:26:34,919 --> 00:26:43,360 they'll be giving you uh sometime end of the month or the first of July any 296 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:51,159 questions all right I have one Mr Williams if we're done with your 297 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:55,520 presentation um just to verify uh currently we have not invested any of 298 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,840 our money outside of just using it in our money market accounts is that 299 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:02,760 correct sir that is correct okay last week I was in Leck and I attended a 300 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:06,880 public investment policy seminar as you know you attend the same ones I've 301 00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:11,720 attended two now I just want to verify that because we are out of compliance 302 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:15,480 with our review of our public investment policy and I've got that in my notes and 303 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:19,880 I've already emailed Mr batt about it we're supposed to review it annually and 304 00:27:17,399 --> 00:27:25,960 we haven't reviewed it in four years but you haven't invested anything per that 305 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:33,039 policy right um if you notice when I first came on I mentioned about how 306 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:40,200 things was when uh it was in a financial stall uh mentioned to invest in other 307 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:48,440 pools other uh uh Investments uh that the city should 308 00:27:43,159 --> 00:27:54,679 occur um during that time um it was somewhat backed down uh by Council uh I 309 00:27:52,480 --> 00:28:01,880 think he was on board uh on the council at that time uh Mr bels was as well 310 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:09,880 um those was things that I brought to surface during that time and ever since 311 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:16,840 then uh we kept it as is during my tenure but it for the record uh it was 312 00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:23,200 brought to the attention counsel to do those things yeah that the 313 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:27,399 pfia uh public funds investment uh the city should be in compliance of yeah CU 314 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:32,080 under that policy under the state mandate we're supposed to review it and 315 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:35,679 or revise it if we want to yearly we're all supposed to review and revise the 316 00:28:34,159 --> 00:28:39,240 Brokers and the dealers that are on there and choose the Brokers and dealers 317 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:43,559 we're supposed to go over those names every year as well while we're reviewing 318 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:48,159 it and then the people that are in there as a designated investment officers are 319 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:51,880 supposed to take the same training that I've taken and you've taken but we have 320 00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:54,960 two other investment officers listed in that policy that have not yet taken that 321 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:59,880 training so it's something that Council will need to review right first you're 322 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:04,720 correct mayor uh they have to go through the training first before we proceed to 323 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:08,880 yeah move forward with investing anything absolutely okay that's all I 324 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:13,840 need to know thank you sir thank you mayor and when is your last day Mr 325 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:19,840 Williams can we ask you that we've already publicly mentioned it when is it 326 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:23,679 if you see manag my uh yeah we've already public mentioned it was leaving 327 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:27,720 and retiring August 30 I'll be R August 30th so it's coming right up there yes 328 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:32,120 ma'am okay thank you thank you keep trying convince him to stay long well 329 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,320 you I would like you to but we will need to advertise that's 330 00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:39,600 what I'm just trying to figure out we need to start putting that on the we do 331 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:43,679 have that out there we need to have you started advertising yet you have okay I 332 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:49,000 was going to bring that up to you today to make sure we're doing that 333 00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:52,120 okay we do not have agenda item number five to do tonight that's public 334 00:29:50,679 --> 00:29:56,679 hearings and there is no public hearing scheduled so we're going to move on to 335 00:29:53,760 --> 00:30:00,279 consent agenda agenda item number six council do you have any items that you 336 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:07,120 would like to remove from the consent agenda for discussion for separate 337 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:15,600 discussion May yes I'd like to move to approve the the agenda 338 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:22,559 consent agenda but I'd like to pull item D the minutes yes 339 00:30:20,159 --> 00:30:28,559 okay council do you have any other 340 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:34,200 D it's the election the election yes yes oh I'm sorry did I M hear him 341 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:37,360 it's D yeah D it's not the minutes okay sorry I thought he said e that's why I 342 00:30:36,519 --> 00:30:42,600 said the minutes okay any other item Council that 343 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,600 you would like to pull from the 344 00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:53,320 consent okay but I no so I'd like to make a motion then okay so I like um I 345 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:59,919 move to con uh the consent agenda be approved as presented except uh item D 346 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,919 second 347 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:08,000 okay we have a motion on the floor to approve the consent agenda as presented 348 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:13,600 except for item d uh and that's by Guta and seconded by 349 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:19,240 Foster all in favor raise your hand it's unanimous motion is 350 00:31:17,399 --> 00:31:24,679 carried all right we're going to now discuss item D consent agenda under item 351 00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:28,880 6D consider approval of the agreement between the city of Keane and Johnson 352 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:36,080 County elections office to conduct the November 5 2024 353 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:44,000 election yes mayor uh there Ison the reason why I pull this item is just to 354 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:50,240 clarify I saw the cost around uh 27436 and. 355 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:55,159 75 uh for this election and I have like two questions about it it's not a big 356 00:31:52,000 --> 00:32:01,840 deal but just for um clarification uh so this year we have 20 357 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:05,880 $27,000 so did the cost how does it compare with the last year's uh 358 00:32:07,159 --> 00:32:15,519 election yeah I believe you have those I gave you those numbers earlier mayor 359 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:20,240 yeah okay let me see if I'm stuck there okay I asked for the information on the 360 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:26,360 last elections um this is the just hand it to you for a 361 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,360 second 362 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:38,960 yeah do we know why this amount was high is it just is it's just an estimate it 363 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,360 is just an estimate so we're just approving that this is the most that 364 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:47,559 they're going to charge us but it will most likely be less and that number is 365 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:53,720 um if you look at Exhibit C it it itemizes every as if we were charged for 366 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:58,840 everything um and know and some of these costs may not apply to us um it's just a 367 00:32:56,919 --> 00:33:04,399 standard cost charge chart that they are sending out to all uh municipalities 368 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:11,840 that are Contracting for the county to run the election for 369 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:14,760 us so and then my question comes is this election going to be conducted in kin or 370 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:19,880 in cand no we will have early here at City 371 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:24,919 Hall as well as November 5th we'll be here at City Hall okay okay 372 00:33:30,279 --> 00:33:35,799 so and then the last one is is there any training that as a City Secretary I know 373 00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:41,240 you have you're the one who is supposed to conduct the election based on the 374 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:49,320 requirements so um is it possible for you to get the 375 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:54,760 training before the November 20 no okay sorry um the training there's um half of 376 00:33:53,080 --> 00:34:02,360 it is in July and then the other half will be in January so and then I'll 377 00:33:58,039 --> 00:34:07,080 trained okay thank you okay those are my question that I had about the the item 378 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:11,720 unless somebody has a question about the item any other questions on that item no 379 00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:17,760 we knew she wouldn't be ready for this election because it started a few months 380 00:34:14,599 --> 00:34:24,679 ago and they had the runoff election not for King but for the county and so this 381 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:29,760 is just the this will be the ending part of 382 00:34:26,399 --> 00:34:35,359 that same time period that we started with it's just I was just asking for the 383 00:34:33,599 --> 00:34:41,440 updates because I don't have the information that you have sorry for 384 00:34:39,359 --> 00:34:50,560 inconvenience uh so because of that I can move um move the consent agenda be 385 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:50,560 approved as uh presented that item 386 00:34:50,839 --> 00:34:57,400 D do I have a second 387 00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:02,599 second all right we have a motion on the floor to approve the item D I'm just 388 00:35:01,079 --> 00:35:05,720 going to read it we have a motion on the floor to approve the agreement between 389 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:10,320 the city of Kean and the Johnson County elections office to conduct the November 390 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:16,440 5 2024 election by Guta and a second by Bells all in favor raise your hand it's 391 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,440 unanimous motion is 392 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:25,280 carried all right agenda item number seven review discuss and consider 393 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:31,760 accepting the final plat for 2521 East Highway 67 Tractor Supply as submitted 394 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:34,720 by crossroads development Keen LLC for approval by the city 395 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:47,760 council evening mayor and Council I do have some larger copies here if you 396 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:53,560 would like them I can pass them out to you if you want to look at them on the 397 00:35:50,839 --> 00:35:58,200 plats okay what's 398 00:35:55,720 --> 00:36:02,200 that okay oh okay there should be the first page and then 399 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:06,920 the second page the first page is the plat the second page is their conceptual 400 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:14,720 plan so Crossroads developments LLC is submitting the final plot for the 401 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:20,640 property located at 2521 East Highway 67 which will be developed for a tractor 402 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:24,560 supply retail location the preliminary plat was approved by the Planning and 403 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:32,480 Zoning commission pnz at their January 8 2024 regular meeting and by city council 404 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:35,440 January 18th 2024 regular meeting due to the public improvements that were 405 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:39,400 required and have been completed the plat must go through the city's approval 406 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:43,640 by pnz and Council uh the city's Consulting 407 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:47,560 planners engineer Engineers have reviewed the plans to make sure they are 408 00:36:45,599 --> 00:36:50,960 compliant with the current city ordinances um they had some comments and 409 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:56,760 they've all been corrected and on the current final 410 00:36:54,440 --> 00:37:00,000 PL the property will bring in a highly anticipated 411 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:04,880 retail store that will bring in sales tax and other revenues to the city while 412 00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:08,680 benefiting the residents pnz commissioner and development staff 413 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:15,160 recommend approving the final plat for the 5.17 acre trative land situated in 414 00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:20,920 the Old Winter survey abstract 875 also to be known as Tractor Supply Keen 415 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:25,800 Edition lot one block one you should have the final plat application the 416 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:34,400 final plat civil engineering plans warranty deeds tax statements 417 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:34,400 and minutes from the 610 2024 pnz 418 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:42,680 meeting and if anybody has any questions more than happy to discuss 419 00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:45,880 them with you I have one question um I had the opportunity to go into some 420 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:51,280 alsips there is a whole bunch of them between here and like Leck where I just 421 00:37:48,079 --> 00:37:55,920 traveled to last week or track alsips I'm sorry I'm sorry yeah not not sorry 422 00:37:53,520 --> 00:38:00,079 I'm talking thinking alup I'm sorry not track Supply sorry change 423 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:06,839 never mind we'll keep it to Tractor Supply okay um is this um the first one 424 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:13,280 in our County I mean in our area no there's one in burles there's one in 425 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:18,680 curn and is there one in Alvaro I'm not sure okay I did notice that this one 426 00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:22,960 took a long time for us to get through and that's something that Council needs 427 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:28,480 it was kind of started in November 2022 they were looking at another piece 428 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:33,560 of land farther down on 67 um but it had some issues it was going to too much 429 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:36,920 cost for them to recoup their investment right away so that's when they started 430 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:42,000 looking for another piece and they found this one and then we had to go through 431 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:46,319 with getting the water rights from the Pu and it's been a long process years 432 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,960 yeah two years to finish it which it seems like a really long time but I do 433 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:55,000 know we ran into some areas that we had to cross over as far as the um the lane 434 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:59,560 the acceleration de acceleration Lane we had to work on an easement and then we 435 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:03,200 also had to settle the the water rights right and stuff so we had three big 436 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:06,640 three big things that did occur that kind of held up this development from 437 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:10,680 coming in but I'm excited that it's coming in I think it's going to be great 438 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:16,319 for our community and I look forward to seeing it and shopping in it and 439 00:39:14,079 --> 00:39:21,760 uh anybody have any questions for Mr Martin I'd like to make a motion mayor 440 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:27,520 okay I move the council accept the final plat for 2521 East Highway 67 Tractor 441 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:35,160 Supply as submitted by Crossroad development Keen LLC I second who's 442 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:38,359 seconded it me okay Johnson okay yall did at the same time here all right we 443 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:44,000 have a motion on the floor to approve of the final plat for 2521 East uh Highway 444 00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:47,560 67 Tractor Supply is submitted by crossroads development Keen limited 445 00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:54,359 liability company by Bells seconded by judon any further discussion on this 446 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:58,280 motion oh may I have a question um I know here you have there's a statement 447 00:39:56,319 --> 00:40:08,640 here on under the General business agenda 7A on the on the front kind 448 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:13,160 of cover page here um under the findings and current activities you have 449 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:17,680 mentioned here the the series the series Consulting planners and Engineers have 450 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:23,400 reviewed the plans to make sure that they are compliant with the current city 451 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:29,920 ordinance so you know this is not my first time I do ask these questions 452 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:33,319 going back you know several years and the reason why because of the questions 453 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:39,240 that I get out there when I'm speaking to some of the residents so for me to be 454 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:43,760 able to vote for this and it's a it's a it's a very good addition because you 455 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:50,400 know we need um the the tax dollars you know as a as a city so did the engineer 456 00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:56,960 our city engineer sign off on this final plot um by your statement here finding 457 00:40:54,160 --> 00:41:03,480 current activities they reviewed it yes okay and then there's also yeah and then 458 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:08,160 uh did the planner also sign off and say it was good to go he reviewed it when we 459 00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:12,800 did the preliminary plat gave me his comments and the ones that were 460 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:17,440 legitimate comments were incorporated into the final 461 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:21,440 PL so once you Incorporated did you send it back to the engineer there no reason 462 00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:31,280 to so why oh exactly why yeah I'll I'll jump and it's Professional Services so 463 00:41:29,839 --> 00:41:37,000 when I send something to our City attorney for example and he tells me to 464 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:40,839 change the word the to an end and I do that don't need to send it back to him 465 00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:44,240 to make sure it's okay we've done 466 00:41:45,319 --> 00:41:54,000 it okay thank you you're welcome all right 467 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:59,720 any further discussion on this motion all in favor raise your hand 468 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:06,400 it's unanimous motion is carried thank you Mr Martin thank you okay thank 469 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:10,359 you agenda item number 7 C review discuss and consider the construction of 470 00:42:08,119 --> 00:42:13,880 ADA Compliant ramp access on the community center side of City 471 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:27,280 Hall okay Council I asked for this to be on the agenda um as stated in your um 472 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:30,880 staff report which um citizens do not have in privy too it says during a 473 00:42:29,359 --> 00:42:35,280 recent event at the community center it was noted that Vehicles were backing up 474 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:40,000 too far blocking access to the sidewalk in front of City Hall potentially 475 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:44,319 creating an ADA accessibility issue and Miss be and I were both there present 476 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:48,400 this is when we did the project hero were you there Mr not for the project 477 00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:52,240 hero yes okay during the project hero it was a little bit embarrassing for me 478 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:56,280 because as I was there standing outside some of those wounded vets that were 479 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:59,880 traveling along in that event were not able to access access the community 480 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:04,599 center room and during that event it was on a Saturday when City Hall was closed 481 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:07,640 so the front access was closed off to them so they could only enter through 482 00:43:05,839 --> 00:43:12,079 the door on the community center side door so what the problem was is when 483 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:17,520 they went to go use the ramp the wheelchair ramp to get up there some 484 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:21,920 trucks had backed up onto those onto that front spots and their back hitches 485 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:25,319 were into the sidewalk area and they were not able to travel that distance 486 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,240 they were going to have to get off into the grass and then there's a couple of 487 00:43:26,559 --> 00:43:31,839 signs there and they couldn't get through yes 488 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:36,599 sir TRS I don't believe 489 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:39,800 so yeah I don't believe they did I didn't look at their stickers 490 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:46,319 but no this was the stop this was the spots beside the handicap parking these 491 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:50,720 are in the regular spots that are not handicapped people were backed up and we 492 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:55,880 have a picture in our um in our booklet that that kind of 493 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:59,760 shows what it looks like Mr not if you want to look at it but anyway so Council 494 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:02,960 I brought this to your attention because it was kind of embarrassing cuz these 495 00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:08,040 guys had to ask their comrades and their fellow bikers for help and assistance in 496 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:12,440 getting into the community center room and I was thinking that we could find a 497 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:16,200 solution to that and the solutions that Mr batler found and there's two of them 498 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:19,880 that are listed here is we could either put some kind of parking stop along 499 00:44:18,359 --> 00:44:23,319 those parking spots where they can't back up and their hitch get into the 500 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:27,440 sidewalk or we could just add another ramp on the community center side and 501 00:44:26,079 --> 00:44:31,640 there's a picture of that in here too where that ramp might go so that they 502 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:37,240 can just access it right there yes Miss B I see you have a question yes I was 503 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:43,680 there that day and uh we you discussed and I said you know we talked about it 504 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:50,160 uh I think you're exaggerating a bit because those guys they did not ask for 505 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:56,400 help to get up there and the City Hall is adaa a 506 00:44:51,880 --> 00:45:02,040 compliant and um you talked about it was mentioned in hear about the stops The 507 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:08,440 Parking Spot those can be very dangerous too because I know of two incidences uh 508 00:45:05,319 --> 00:45:14,240 I saw one and the other the person ended up passing away from the injuries he 509 00:45:11,319 --> 00:45:24,440 substained from uh stumbling over one of those and uh so I I think as right now 510 00:45:19,839 --> 00:45:29,640 the city hall is compliant and maybe the next time if it needs if we need to get 511 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:35,000 in the community room then we need to make sure that the front door of the 512 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:39,720 city hall is open but those those guys were 513 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:44,000 pretty take care of themselves type well I understand that they can take care of 514 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:48,920 themselves I did hear them say hey ask for help they did specifically ask for 515 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:53,559 help from their friends who did assist them off the curb and I witnessed it and 516 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:58,520 I was present and it happened twice in my presence and I apologized to them and 517 00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:01,839 I said I'm sorry and they showed me the problem and they said yeah we can't get 518 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:05,440 through this sidewalk and I looked and I saw that the trucks were backed up and I 519 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:08,760 said I see the issue and I'm going to bring it to the city's attention and 520 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:13,119 that's what I'm doing today and I did send pictures and these are the pictures 521 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:17,760 that I took and you can tell that the trucks are over the sidewalk I mean I 522 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:21,520 understand that we're ADA Compliant because all we had to do is have one 523 00:46:19,319 --> 00:46:26,480 ramp but we're talking about we're doing events on the weekend and these cars 524 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:29,559 were here and these are wounded vets and do we want want to disrespect these guys 525 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:33,319 and say oh I'm sorry we got the sidewalk there just go around it in the grass I 526 00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:38,079 mean what are we what are we doing here are we going to be business and people 527 00:46:35,319 --> 00:46:41,800 friendly and try to help people out that's my thought here and we also do 528 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:46,440 our elections in the community center room and in our elections I've been to a 529 00:46:44,839 --> 00:46:49,400 presidential election at the community center room and we're getting ready to 530 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:53,680 have another one and those are usually busy and people line up from the 531 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:57,280 community center door and they go straight out into the parking lot they 532 00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:02,160 don't curve around on the side sidewalk and go down the handicap ramp they 533 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:06,079 actually go straight out over that curb so if we had people there with Walkers 534 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:09,000 or wheelchairs or anything and they didn't they won't be able to stay in 535 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:12,160 line they're going to have to go way out of the way and then come all the way 536 00:47:10,359 --> 00:47:17,200 back what's the point of that if we can solve it there all right Mr batler had a 537 00:47:14,839 --> 00:47:23,720 question I just have something so you can inform your opinion the initial 538 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:28,960 estimate for the blocks uh that I received was 2700 I've since received an 539 00:47:26,240 --> 00:47:33,640 estimate of about 1,300 to do the parking stops so take that into 540 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:44,640 consideration all Miss be if we put a a a ramp down at the other end we don't 541 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:48,200 have the automatic doors so are we going to have to put the automatic doors in 542 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:53,040 there also and that would be an additional cost we could consider that 543 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:58,160 that's a good idea and there are no handicap parking spots down at that end 544 00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:01,359 end of the building I believe they had the doors open that day but I could be 545 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:06,680 wrong but I think they did have the doors propped open CU so doors can be 546 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:09,920 propped open but like I said we're we're making this where it wasn't very 547 00:48:08,319 --> 00:48:16,760 favorable for them to enter the building and I felt bad for these 548 00:48:12,839 --> 00:48:21,640 guys mayor yes sir unlocking the front doors you want you want to step forward 549 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:28,520 did you want him to step forward yeah sorry we're g to make you get up 550 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:33,880 okay what I unlocking the front doors to the keep complex solve the problem we 551 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:38,040 could we could do that and and have them enter the front 552 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:44,559 door that wasn't done that day and it had it hasn't been done in the 553 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:47,920 past okay that would cost zero okay sounds like we need to change our policy 554 00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:54,079 and procedures of how we use the community center and open our doors 555 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,079 that's a zero sum cost for the 556 00:48:55,440 --> 00:49:03,880 city I have question so then why haven't we been doing that in the past if it is 557 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:13,000 costing maybe it's never been made an issue so if if we open it will there be 558 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:17,559 somebody that will make sure that once the event is done like somebody else to 559 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:21,720 be a all day yes whoever is running the Community Center event would be 560 00:49:19,839 --> 00:49:26,760 responsible for and then the city is responsible to pay for the overtime okay 561 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:30,799 that we already do that when we have any then there's someone here monitoring 562 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:39,480 it all Council anybody else have anything they want to speak on this 563 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:48,640 issue okay we just go ahead and move on we don't need a motion on anything right 564 00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:56,040 we're just reviewing And discussing okay moving on to agenda item number 7D 565 00:49:52,280 --> 00:50:00,480 before we enter uh do a 7D I need to ask Council if they 566 00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:05,000 can adjourn into executive session because one of the items in 7D is to 567 00:50:02,839 --> 00:50:09,200 discuss the purchase of security systems for city parks and I have an update for 568 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:12,040 the council our executive session tonight is agenda item number eight 569 00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:16,520 section 55107 six deliberation regarding 570 00:50:14,559 --> 00:50:19,599 security devices security cameras and access 571 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:22,960 control so I'd like to ask Council if we can go into executive session for a few 572 00:50:21,559 --> 00:50:27,359 minutes discuss that and then we'll come back and pick up at Agenda item number 573 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:33,400 7D all right at 6:50 p.m we're going to 574 00:50:29,359 --> 00:50:33,400 adjourn into executive session 575 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,559 days I don't know 576 00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,760 got 577 00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,520 spe 578 00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,440 e 579 00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,440 e 580 00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,440 e 581 00:54:25,359 --> 00:54:28,359 e 582 00:54:55,319 --> 00:54:58,319 e 583 00:55:25,319 --> 00:55:28,319 e 584 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:58,240 e 585 00:56:25,240 --> 00:56:28,240 e 586 00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:58,240 e 587 00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,160 e 588 00:57:55,119 --> 00:57:58,119 e 589 00:58:25,119 --> 00:58:28,119 e 590 00:58:55,039 --> 00:58:58,039 e 591 00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:28,039 e 592 00:59:55,039 --> 00:59:58,039 e 593 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,960 e 594 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,920 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