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Seeing we have a quorum, one of our members is remote access tonight, Councilman Vottis, and I will call the meeting to order at 4 o'clock PM of the City of Kema City Council and Kema Public Facilities Corporation.

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And the first thing on our agenda are the pledges.

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next thing on the agenda is a moment of silence,

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okay, and next is invitation to address

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Council and the first one on the list is Tony Bale, and Tony, if you would, state your,

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make sure the mic's on and state your address.

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Okay, can you hear me okay?

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Good evening Mayor Council for those of you that don't know me, my name's Tony Bell.

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I live at 14, 33, Kip Avenue, I've been a proud chemo resident for the past four years.

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Also the publisher of a little magazine called Kima Living, it's a magazine delivered

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throughout Kima, Clear Lake Shores, and South Shore Harbor.

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While our reach extends beyond the city limits, the heart of the publication has always

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been Kima.

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It's residents, it's businesses and the people who make this community special.

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Tonight, I have three hot tax applications before the city.

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Whether they are all three different proposals, they all serve one purpose

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to put more positive attention on Kima and give people more reasons the visits

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stay spend money and ultimately discover what those of us who live here already know.

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Kima is a wonderful family-focused community with great neighbors,

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incredible local-owned businesses and so much to offer both the people who live here and the

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visitors who come to experience our city. The first proposal involves partnering with the city

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through chemo living to better communicate what's happening here while promoting our local businesses

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and tourism. I brought copies tonight because I can talk about the magazine all day but I think

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it's much easier to understand its value when you actually hold it in your hands. My second proposal

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involves the Trunkertree Shop in EAT. Last year, I worked alongside our chief of police to

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help produce and promote this event. And only about three hours we estimated between

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two to three thousand people that attended. It was a tremendous proof of concept. I love to

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make it even better this year, but producing something of the size required significant time,

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marketing, coordination, and resources. Finally, I'm proposing a chemo wine and food festival

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for the fall of 2027.

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A destination event where a restaurant's business is hotels and community can participate

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while bringing thousands of visitors into KEMA.

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I also want Council to understand that I'm not approaching you with ideas that I don't

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have experience executing.

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Before moving to KEMA, I produce events in Las Vegas.

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Since coming here, I produce business and food events.

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KEMA Gardens created the Bay Area Breakfast Club and produced 10 successful monthly events

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before transitioning to my newest concept,

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which is called Bourbon and Bubbles at Eculents.

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I believe I can be a valuable logistical

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and promotional partner for this city,

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but more importantly, I'm a residence first.

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I live here, I raise my family here,

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I spend my money here, and when chemist exceeds

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my neighbors and I succeed with it.

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Everything I'm proposing is designed to bring people together,

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support our local businesses,

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strengthen tourism, and put more positive eyes on the community.

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So tonight I'm simply asking you to carefully consider these applications and give me the opportunity to continue proving what we can accomplish together.

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I care deeply about working as going and I'm willing to put in the work to help us get there.

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Thank you for your time.

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Thanks Tony.

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Next is Sean Williams.

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Hi everybody.

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On Roomer.

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Thank you for everything you do and for having me here today.

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I'm going to piggyback real fast.

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I didn't know Tony was going to be talking to me.

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So, I'd just like to speak and support the food and wine festival that he's asking for. Over the few years, I've got to know Tony, and I can tell you right now, a lot of us do know him and spend time with him. Tony's the real deal. When he talks about his past history and his experience, it's the real deal. I met people that he asserts himself with. I met his partners, his staff. They are serious, and he is a very big influence when it comes to these types of things. In fact, he didn't mention it. I will. I know Seabrook is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very important. I know Seabrook is a very, very, very important. I know Seabrook. I know Seabrook is a very, very, very important. I know Seabrook. I know Seabrook. I know Seabrook. I know Seabrook. I know Seabrook

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improving him to do some things there, they see the point of having him do this and I do

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too.

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I think this is a big deal.

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You look at places like Breckenrich, Food and Wine Festival, Balotsie has one, they're

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very successful.

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I can see the conversation, well, you know, it's going to take this many hotel rooms to make

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that money, text money back and things like that.

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I think I would encourage you to look at things besides just how many rooms are we selling.

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The implications of it, the branding that we talk about so much and getting chemiturism here.

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And I do encourage you to do it.

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I think it's a very good thing for Kima and for a long time Tony has been told and has been,

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you know, promised a bunch of things and to look at this and I think we owe Damie does a lot for this community and a lot for this city.

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The second thing I want to talk about is sidewalks of Kima Oaks.

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I know you guys are going to go through that a lot.

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For a long time, several of you personally have told the of Kima Oaks residents, not including myself,

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that you were going to get this done.

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This was something you were going to work on, you were a yes vote, and these types of things.

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And then at KCVC, when it comes to that last time, which I'm also a member of, then the idea was, well, maybe the HOA can pay for part of it, I don't know if it's our job, I don't know if we want to get into that.

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And I can again see the conversation, I have a crystal ball, your legal account is going to tell you, well, we don't have to do that, it's not the law.

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Well, I'm going to tell you, that's wrong. And I'm also going to tell you, I really think that you should look at doing this.

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President's from us doing it in helping repair those sidewalks, but also, the ideas

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will maybe make a pathway to the park through key mocks. We'll do that, but not the rest of it.

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Listen, if you want to beautify the city, you want to beautify parks, you want to beautify

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other things like that, start with a community, start with it there.

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And now the last thing is, and I'm not going to talk about too long as the flock cameras.

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All I can talk about is my personal opinion at key mocks. It seems to me like a lot of people

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and chemo's are not happy with them being in the community,

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but don't have a problem with them being in the street.

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And we've seen the abuses, but we've also talked about it,

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and I've talked about it with him.

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One of the things that makes me feel better about it

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is Chief McGarby being involved in it.

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I can fix it all.

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I can fix the entire thing right now.

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The only thing that I think would make people feel better

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is if that a limited amount of people had access

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to the flock cameras, unless we had extended circumstances.

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And then every three, four months,

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we have a third party come in

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to just make sure everything's good with the cheap audit.

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I think that's a simple thing.

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And guys, the flow camera goes to a bigger thing.

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It goes to trust.

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And it kind of goes to other things.

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Our bungled sports center lay out that we've done.

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These different issues with our different branding,

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different issues.

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The issue is trust.

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And so I encourage you to do the line fest,

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do the Kimaoke sidewalks, and put some restraints on flocks.

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I can give us a reason to trust you again.

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Is there anybody that was overlooked

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to incumbents?

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We have next on the agenda is, we have small months and middles.

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We have online submittals that I need to read.

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It's a question.

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I've got to get in the hand that I've written.

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It's OK.

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Thank you for reminding me.

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No, sorry.

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We have Mr. Daniel Conrad that had comments on the fiscal year 2025 audit.

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Float cameras and delays in public record request due to staff shortages.

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Mark Hestler opposed this flood cameras due to privacy security, misuse and constitutional

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constitutional concerns.

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Troy, why is it burger?

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We're quest removal of lock cameras due to privacy and misuse in civil

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liberty concerns.

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And that's all we have.

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Thank you very much.

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There is a, what did you refer to earlier,

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36 hour?

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In other words, these comments that are red,

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and in state council,

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and I have to be in 36 hours part of eating time.

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So if they did come in after that,

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I think they're still in the, I can still send them to you guys.

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All right.

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Excuse me.

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And I admit my ignorance on this.

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The win to make this change.

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I'd like to remove something from the considered agenda.

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Okay.

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That would be when I ask for the, because there's only one thing on it.

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So you want to take that off.

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I want to take it off and discuss, yes.

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I'll do that up here.

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At the item, when I...

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For the consent agenda.

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Thank you.

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Next on the agenda is a presentation of the 2025.

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Thank you for your audit from Brooks Watson and Company, and I believe we have Mr. Mike Brooks, here to chime in in any discussion and or answer any questions and give the presentation.

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Thank you.

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How are you all?

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And do we need to do anything with the microphone?

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You just use a minute.

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Thank you for coming, I appreciate it.

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Absolutely.

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Every time I come here, I wonder why I don't come to Kima Moore.

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It's a really cheap way up here, I know.

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I should.

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We're real quick, Mayor, like if I came before, Mr. Brooks presents, if you remember, the

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previous time that the presentation occurred, it was actually on my first day, coincidentally

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went back when it happened.

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So we were months and months, we've been trying to bring that time frame down.

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Last year, the presentation took place in November, this year.

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We were hoping to get it done in August, but we're getting it done in September.

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So, a long time lives in the guidelines of trying to get this done faster as a team,

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something that we take a lot of pride in.

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So, Kudos to Mr. Brooks and his firm on his attempt to do that, and also to

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own Ryan and the entire team for pulling things together to get that done.

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So, thank you.

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As you mentioned, my name is Mike Brooks, Audre Parkman with Brooks Watson and

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Company.

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I will be presenting you with your audited financial statements for the year

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in the September 30th of 2025.

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In front of you, you should have a copy of the report packet.

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In this report, you have the complete set of alternative financials, my, our audit letters and a couple of our, I'm sorry, my audit summary presentation.

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There is a lot of information in here, so if you don't mind, I will go over the summary and then open it up to questions.

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And we can talk about anything you like at work you tell.

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All right, first, just want to give a brief overview of the audit process.

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The audit can be broken into three general phases. The first is the planning and risk assessment phase.

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So this is what we do on the front end, we're trying to figure out what's happened this year in any new activity, any new debt, capital projects, really developing our audit plan and altering our procedures around the risky areas.

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The next stage is the bulk of what we do, so this is our year-end field work, so this is what you're typically used to with most audit.

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We're coming out, we're looking at all the source documents for your year-end cash balances, all of your cruise, receivables, as well as your revenues and expenditures.

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So we're not testing everything, but if there is an item or a transaction that does meet

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our materiality threshold, we are auditing it at some form of fashion.

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And the final stage is just the conclusion in reporting.

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So this is the wrap-up of any findings that we had as well as the presentation and acceptance

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of the audit report by City Council.

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Next, I just want to briefly go over the components of your audit report.

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It is quite lengthy, but it can be broken down into several distinct sections.

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The first is the financial section, which includes all of your financial statements and footnotes.

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Next is your required supplementary information.

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This would include your budget to actual, for your general fund as well as your pension information.

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And then you have the other supplementary information, which includes your fund level statements for the CDC.

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Now, last but certainly not least is the auditor's opinion.

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So when you're looking at this auditor report, everything within this report with the exception of our auditor's opinion

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is derived from city financial data, so all that activity, and all the policies that the city

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have in place all come from the city with the exception of our independent auditor's report.

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This report is our letter over the reliability and accuracy over these financial statements.

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This letter can have four possible outcomes.

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The best outcome and the one you want is going to be an unmodified audit opinion and the one

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you don't want is really anything other than that.

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But they do get significantly worse than that.

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So I am happy to say that we were able to issue a clean, unmodified audit opinion on the city's financials.

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So this is the highest level of assurance that we can give that these financial statements are free of any material misstatement and all footnotes are disclosed.

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All right. Next is a summary of the revenues for the year.

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So this is your cumulative revenues. The city's revenues this year totaled just under 8.8 million,

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which is an increase of about 476,000 from the prior year.

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Sales taxes total 3.3 million increased 389,000.

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Your grants and contributions total 1.4 million had a decrease of 420,000.

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Property taxes total 1.3 million and increased 256,000.

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While your charges for services total 1,3,000 and increased about 130,000.

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All right. Next, your expenses for the year total just under 7.7 million. This was an increase of about 600,000 from the prior year.

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Some of the larger expenses included your public safety expense, which was just under 2.8 million.

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Stay pretty flat, had a slight increase of about 14,000.

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Your general government expenses total 2,000 and had an increase of about 100,000 public works just under 1.4 million from the year.

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And at an increase of about 212,000, your advertising and tourism total 600,000 had an increase of 30,000 in the rest of your smaller expenses.

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All right. Next is a summary of your changes in fund balance for your governmental funds.

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So I'm just going to go over the changes here and then we'll talk about the general fund in a minute.

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But starting on the left hand side, you will see the net increase or decrease in your general fund balance.

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So all of your revenues, expenditures, transfers in and out, in the other activity, those

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accumulated together equal your increase or decrease in fund balance.

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This year the general fund had a decrease of just under 2 million in your general fund balance.

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Your hotel and motel tax fund had a decrease of 51,000, very common with hotel motel tax.

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those funds are spent at the city's discretion as long as they meet the required guidelines.

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So if a city is not, you may spend those on projects in different years

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so you may have increases in decreases.

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Your growth fund had an increase this year of 553,000,

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which was all sales tax and investment earnings.

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So no expenses there.

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And your capital projects fund had an increase in fund balance of just over 2 million.

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So I do want to point out here when we're looking at the general fund and the capital projects fund.

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We have very similar increases in decreases.

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This was due to the capital projects fund in a prior year putting itself into a deficit position.

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So more was spent out of that fund.

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Then was actually allocated within the fund.

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So that amount was pulled from the pulled cash fund, which in essence came from the general fund.

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So that created an inner fund balance that needed to get paid.

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That amount was paid and transferred from the general fund to this capital project fund

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to bring it into a positive position because your deficit fund balance

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couldn't remain that way.

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So you do see that and that was reported as a transfer from the general fund

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of 2.4 million into the capital project fund.

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So you see that activity as well.

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But what that did is, is basically pull that amount from your general fund balance, which reduced your general fund balance from just under 2.3 million to about 315,000.

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So your ending fund balance in your general fund is what we consider to be somewhat low, and it was in good shape before this transfer.

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the city certainly has the means to bring that fun balance back up and our recommendation

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is to continue to plan for a budget surplus to bring the fun balance up in your general fund.

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So the GF away recommends about a two-month reserve, so that's really kind of the floor.

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You guys are right now just under one month, so most cities that we ought to shoot for about

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three months of unassigned fund balance reserve in your general fund.

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So if you were looking at that, if you guys were shooting for three months, you'd be looking

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at about a $1.7 million fund balance to build up to.

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Next is your budget actual for your general fund.

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So we have the final original final and actual results for the year.

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So in this intercolonies to your final budget at numbers, this is after any amendments.

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There were no amendments that there was, I'm sorry, but no amendments to revenue this year.

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Your actual results came in above, which you estimated for your budget.

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So the city actually received about $574,000 more than you anticipated in revenue.

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That offset, your expenditure variance, which was a negative variance, so you spent more

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than you anticipated with your final budget by about 603,000.

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And below that, the city had a negative variance within your transfers.

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It's your other financing sources and uses, but that's primarily going to be your transfers.

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By about 1.9 million, and again, that was the transfer from your general fund to your capital projects fund.

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Next, just want to go over the...

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Results of your growth fund. So, several years ago, the city did create this growth fund as part of a 380 agreement to build the shops at Kima.

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So, a part of that fund was the city contributed 3 million towards this development.

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And that amount was going to get reimbursed through sales tax. And the city designated or committed those funds to be reported in the growth fund.

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up to that $3 million.

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The growth fund is committed to be spent on economic development projects.

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Over the city, it's committed by city council,

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so actually by city council could change it.

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There's no external restriction.

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As of the end of the year, though, the city had received 2.9 million

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of that 3 million in sales tax.

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So just under 73,000 remaining, which was most certainly received early

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in the 2026 fiscal year.

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I do bring this up because any sales tax, which

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told you somewhere in the $150,000 range,

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that was being allocated to the growth fund,

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is now going to get allocated to the general fund.

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So that amount will increase your general fund revenue

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going forward.

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So that concludes my summary presentation.

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There are some additional letters included

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in your report.

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One is our required auditor disclosure letter.

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This just gives us the opportunity to discuss any issues we have with the completion of the audit as well as provide our journal entries

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that we're proposed as part of the audit. They are attached to your to your letter

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overall no difficulties dealing with the city. Certainly as Caesar mentioned, we were

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would love to issue a lot a lot sooner going forward

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but overall the process itself

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went well

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Next is our management letter, or our internal control findings and recommendations.

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We did have several that we reported to you.

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I won't go over each of them individually, but if you add any questions over those comments

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or the reported cell phone, I'm happy to discuss.

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Do you want the comments before or after you do the questions, after you do you?

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No, no, the question you can give a question is now.

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Could you?

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I don't know what this final report is different from the draft report that was put in our package.

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So you will have to go to me on that.

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I'm looking at page 14 where it speaks to Millum Paragraph.

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A year in the capital project, funds reflected a fund balance of 207,799,

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which was an increase of 2 million.

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Is that correct?

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That is correct.

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So, can you speak to that then as

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207,000 compared to the 2 million?

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So yeah, it doesn't seem to add up.

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But the thing about that is the city was in a, that's what I was referring to whenever

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I mentioned that the general fund had a transfer money to cover the deficit.

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So, if you were starting at a, you know, 1.8 million dollar negative, and then you added 2 million to that.

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You were talking about that two hundred thousand.

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Okay, all right.

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And I just want to just confirm something.

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So, basically, the auditor is saying for us as a city to operate with three months, you're listing that number is 1.7 million.

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million, and that's a general fund balance, and that is three months of operating expenses.

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So if we took in, have it forbid anything happening, we didn't take in a dollar.

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We wouldn't need that amount of money to operate for three months, is that, am I understanding

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that correct?

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That's correct.

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The amount that you keep in unassigned fund balances is a city decision.

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The three months is really just kind of a general rule of thumb.

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I'm just trying to, but I'll I'm trying to do as tight as I remember, so that's my

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That's my indicator that, so 1.7 million covers us for three months.

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Correct.

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Yeah, based on this year's activity.

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Then I have a couple more items, and I'll give you the page numbers.

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And I think he borrowed kind of explained it on page

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13, that's-

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Again, it started with the negative, at the barebomb, at the end of the year, the general fund is perfected

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upon balance of 35,000, which had a net degree, the 1.9, a broad 1.9 mean. So those were as far as the deficit

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It had to be taking reverse.

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So the general fund started with 2.2, 2.3,

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at the decrease of about 2 million and ended with 3.

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You may be going to touch on this part in your next section,

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but I'm page 43.

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The original at the very bottom stewardship compliance and accountability.

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The original budget is adopted by the city council prior to the beginning of the physical year for all governmental funds.

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The legal level of budgetary control, either level of expenditure, which may not exceed appropriation is the department level.

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So, those why they had the transfer and so, all these enumerated items were what added to that those numbers correct.

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So, those were, if I understand it correctly, those were things that either exceeded the budget and did not have a amendment.

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I don't want to put words in your mind, so it did not have a budget amendment.

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So that's why that comment that it was not, which may not legally exceed

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appropriations in the department.

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Okay, kind of the other questions I have are kind of general questions.

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Obviously, this is the end of the, literally, the next fiscal year we have less than 30 days on the remaining fiscal year.

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So, this will carry us forward to that, can you speak to the timeline, can is it something

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that we as a city can do to ensure that we actually have the budget, have the audit done

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in the state mandated three months within the end of the fiscal year.

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So my ballpark is that looking at like December.

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So can you speak to that as far as how realistic it can be done.

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What the city might need to do to provide with that.

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And just for the public's information,

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I am not saying this in the sense of,

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oh, we'll get the audited in on time so we can raise taxes.

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I want to be quite clear on that because as an accountant,

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To me, the audit gives you a picture of your finances, because there's a big

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difference between what you have in the checkbook and what your cash flows and what's

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going in.

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So I just want the code to be very clear, this is not about, oh, well, she wants it so what

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we can raise taxes.

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I'd want to put that out immediately.

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So, absolutely, it's possible,

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man.

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So if I understand that correctly, you provide a list of prior to the close out, you provide a list of accounts that need to be closed out or reconciled with all the journal entries in order for you to come in.

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So you give it to us as a city upfront. Is that correct?

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That's correct.

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Thank you.

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questions or comments or discussion?

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Seeing none, thank you very much for your presentation.

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I appreciate it.

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Next on our agenda is the Mayor's comments.

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Thank you for coming out tonight.

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Tropical Storm Edward, a landfall yesterday, and we thankfully were spared any negative impacts from that.

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our staff monitored this storm closely and were prepared in case things took a turn toward

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us.

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I want to especially thank Pup.

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Public work, steam, for clearing the city of any loose items and driving around the city and looking for debris before the storm.

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And Nellidence Allows are permitting coordinator for contacting all of the contractors that were inactive progress with projects in town to make sure that their sides were secure.

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And while the storm ended up being an awning vent for chemo, we always encourage everyone to have their preparedness plan in place for any worst case scenario.

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And please remember that we have the Galveston County disaster gods available online and in the hard copy out in the lobby

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Applications are still being accepted for the vacant position on our KCDC board anyone interested in filling that position may apply online all of these applications must be received by five PM tomorrow Thursday September the third and finally

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They're still the scenic city Texas is held in their 2026 People's Choice Award, and we're a recognized community.

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We have been nominated, and we'd like for you all to be encouraged to go and vote for us to be a scenic Texas city at www.scenictexas.org.

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I think that's all, next on the agenda is councilmember comments,

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councilwoman Thorne?

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I'd just would like to welcome everybody for coming out and it's refreshing to see citizens being vocal about how their city runs,

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because we are here to serve the citizens and businesses in the city of Kema, not as individuals.

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The other thing I would like to speak to is, be safe over the holiday weekend.

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So you're going to have kids out, so be mindful of the little them, between the golf

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and the kids in the street, please have a wonderful holiday, but please be safe.

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That's all I have. Thank you.

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And Councilman Oliver?

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Thank you, everybody, for coming out.

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It's all we got.

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Councilman Brottis.

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Here we go from, come to Rita.

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I'll wait for you to put the sunset in the last line.

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I need where to light up, so hopefully we're done.

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Thank you for coming out and I would do a shout out to our city team on the audit report and all of the work that you put into that I've set on other boards where we didn't always have is favorable of an outcome.

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That's how you gave him.

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And I tell them in the work.

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Well, I just want to say, well, I just want to say,

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welcome, and I got to say this, that this is my first audit

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meeting.

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And I actually understood what you being said.

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I just think that way of the world coming out,

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and I'd like to see more citizens come and talk to those

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challenges.

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And let's see that we make chemo even better.

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Thank you. Next on the agenda is the City Administrator's Report, Cesar.

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There's nothing new to report today. We'll take action through the actual items that we have.

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Thank you, everybody, for all the well wishes.

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Work on my way back. Hope to be back soon.

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Senator, rather than later. Thank you.

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The next are reports from staff.

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Do we have anybody here from long board?

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No. That's in your packet.

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Monthly reports and sales tax report. Also your packet.

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Yes, we just want a little shout-out congratulations to three of our officers here at the Department for receiving awards for the mothers against drunk drivers

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Sergeant Randy Rangel

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Outstanding leadership award officer Brianna Shelby mad enforcement hero award and officer Grant Gates

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Outstanding rookie award

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They go out there every night looking to get impaired drivers off the streets

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So we are very, very, very proud of them representing our city and our department, congratulations to all three of them.

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Yes, congratulations.

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Not only to the whole department, but to these three individuals.

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Next is the consent agenda.

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I asked if the item be removed from the cassette agenda.

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Seeing there's only one item on it, we can go ahead and address that.

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I'm not against the holiday schedule, but I would ask that the financial ramifications.

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Of ramifications in the proper term, but the financial effects of adding two additional holidays.

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Iledge is not imputed in the budget, and I would ask that we approve the holiday schedule based on last year's holiday schedule.

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for just information, the city was not open on Martin Luther King's birthday.

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All right, the city was closed.

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But when, and I, maybe the financial director can elaborate on it,

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Then additional holidays are placed in the calendar, then those holidays must be paid at specific

446
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rates, sorry, specific rates for those that are working, and then for the entire because

447
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:14,940
it is declared holiday has to be paid a specific rate, am I understanding that correctly?

448
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:25,360
Yeah, regular employees are paid for that day, and they're all for the police officers that actually work at overtime for that day.

449
00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:29,820
Okay, and it's holiday, and it's holiday, and it's holiday, it's considered holiday pay.

450
00:36:29,820 --> 00:36:52,760
And so I ledge that based on the information from our audit today that we defer, adding those two additional days, not totally, but until we get the end of this year's audit, so we have a better idea of what our financial position is.

451
00:36:54,870 --> 00:36:57,090
because I

452
00:36:59,140 --> 00:37:07,460
don't believe that those monies are put in this year's budget that we have

453
00:37:07,460 --> 00:37:09,480
sitting in front of us to approve.

454
00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:19,060
And just just to remind of Mayor M. Sardin, just to remind of clarification, you want to

455
00:37:19,060 --> 00:37:24,040
know what the value is of the additional two holiday pays, additional costs for our police

456
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,060
officers who might be working on those positions.

457
00:37:26,180 --> 00:37:29,360
No, the entire, the entire city.

458
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,040
Well, the entire city wouldn't be affected very differently.

459
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,900
You don't be the ones that are working that day that would receive additional pay.

460
00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:41,640
I believe that the police officers that are all duty that day would be paid.

461
00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:48,200
If it's an off day that they get off, because I remember my paycheck and again, city may

462
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:48,600
be wrong.

463
00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:55,300
You get a little separate thing for holiday pay if you're hourly work.

464
00:37:55,300 --> 00:38:00,180
So, we'll clarify that, but it would only be PD, those affected that are working in additional

465
00:38:00,180 --> 00:38:00,740
shift.

466
00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:02,520
But we'll clarify that and bring that back.

467
00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:06,100
So, the decision would be to table this item, pending that clarification.

468
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:06,880
That's fine.

469
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:08,380
If not, that's okay.

470
00:38:09,820 --> 00:38:10,780
Whatever the body wants to do.

471
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:12,420
I want to clarify.

472
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:13,420
Make sure that I show the question.

473
00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:16,380
It's at the motion you would like to make.

474
00:38:16,860 --> 00:38:16,920
Yes.

475
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:24,300
I make a motion that we approve the holiday schedule based on last year's.

476
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:43,720
approved holiday schedule and defer to the two additional holidays until finance can make a determination of how that affects the budget and imputed into the budget.

477
00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:46,100
And which two holidays are these?

478
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:53,400
That will be Martin Luther King's birthday in Christmas Eve, or was it New Year's Eve?

479
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,080
One was an additional holiday, and I don't work.

480
00:38:56,260 --> 00:38:58,760
Actually, the only two holidays that are new,

481
00:38:58,780 --> 00:39:02,620
except for me if I'm wrong, are going to be Juneteenth,

482
00:39:02,780 --> 00:39:06,140
which was not a recognized holiday in the city before, and Columbus Day.

483
00:39:06,140 --> 00:39:10,580
One day away from good Friday, so we're only giving up for four hours,

484
00:39:10,580 --> 00:39:15,180
We're good Friday instead of the day before, so it's actually one day when you go on the

485
00:39:15,180 --> 00:39:21,880
answer to the video of a correct, so I would make a motion to table until September 16th.

486
00:39:22,020 --> 00:39:24,680
We have a motion on the floor.

487
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,300
Are you seconding that, Darren?

488
00:39:27,780 --> 00:39:28,220
I'm not.

489
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:28,720
Okay.

490
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:32,940
So we have a motion on the floor by Councilwoman Thorn to have a second.

491
00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:36,720
That fails for like of a second.

492
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,420
Do we have another motion on the floor?

493
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:39,560
Councilman Broadass.

494
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:40,020
Those

495
00:39:42,290 --> 00:39:45,790
are the tables on September 16, so that everybody's letting more details.

496
00:39:46,570 --> 00:39:47,650
Do we have a second?

497
00:39:48,010 --> 00:39:49,010
That's second.

498
00:39:49,590 --> 00:39:52,050
We have a motion by Councilman Derrick Harris.

499
00:39:52,330 --> 00:39:54,570
Second by Councilwoman Thorn, all this favor.

500
00:39:55,790 --> 00:39:56,550
Any opposed?

501
00:39:57,610 --> 00:39:58,370
Motion carries.

502
00:40:03,310 --> 00:40:15,230
Thank you. Next on the agenda, I need to adjourn our meeting at 440 and open the public hearing at 440.

503
00:40:15,230 --> 00:40:24,110
How the public hearing on the City of Kemos fiscal year, 2026, 2027 proposed tax rate of 0.189.

504
00:40:24,930 --> 00:40:31,310
Do we have any of the public that would like to speak to this?

505
00:40:32,010 --> 00:40:35,790
Do we have any mayor or council deliberations on this?

506
00:40:37,490 --> 00:40:46,010
Then I will close the public hearing at 440 and I will open the next public hearing at 440.

507
00:40:46,810 --> 00:40:53,670
This is how the public hearing on the city of chemist fiscal year 2026-2027 proposed annual budget.

508
00:40:54,230 --> 00:40:59,290
The public hearing is now open if there are any comments from the public seeing none.

509
00:40:59,710 --> 00:41:01,810
Mayor and council deliberation.

510
00:41:02,290 --> 00:41:02,590
None.

511
00:41:03,390 --> 00:41:05,830
I will now close the public hearing at 441.

512
00:41:06,870 --> 00:41:08,670
Did you get all that in the talk show?

513
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:17,680
We'll open our regularly scheduled City Council meeting again at 4.41.

514
00:41:18,460 --> 00:41:19,180
12A consideration.

515
00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:20,520
I'm sorry.

516
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:28,700
I'd like to make a motion to move item 12E to between item 12A and 12B.

517
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:30,840
Since we have somebody on the phone.

518
00:41:31,220 --> 00:41:32,760
12A and 12B.

519
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:37,400
We have a motion on the floor to move 12E between 12A and 12B.

520
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:38,060
Do we have a second?

521
00:41:38,060 --> 00:41:46,580
second. Do we all those in favour? Motion carries. Any opposed? Motion carries.

522
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:54,320
Twelve-a consideration of possible action to a pre-resolution 2026-33. A resolution of the city council

523
00:41:54,320 --> 00:42:01,420
of the city of Kima Texas accepting the results of the fiscal year 2024-2025 financial audit.

524
00:42:05,110 --> 00:42:07,010
Do I have a motion to accept the audit?

525
00:42:08,210 --> 00:42:16,490
I didn't mention to accept the audit for the 2025-2024-2025 fiscal audit.

526
00:42:17,030 --> 00:42:17,530
Do I have a second?

527
00:42:18,770 --> 00:42:22,610
So we have a motion by Councilwoman Weeland and a second by Councilman Rourke.

528
00:42:22,830 --> 00:42:23,450
All those at Biber?

529
00:42:25,190 --> 00:42:25,890
Any opposed?

530
00:42:26,430 --> 00:42:27,730
Motion carries unanimously.

531
00:42:29,990 --> 00:42:30,670
12E.

532
00:42:30,670 --> 00:42:36,870
consideration and possible action concerning Hima Okside Oaks sidewalk repairs.

533
00:42:38,830 --> 00:42:44,890
Yes, Mayor, we were asked to bring this item forward as a consideration. As was mentioned

534
00:42:44,890 --> 00:42:52,850
by a resident earlier and a KCDC board member of the actual neighborhood, there is a desire

535
00:42:52,850 --> 00:42:56,650
or a need to take some of the sidewalks. Some of them had become somewhat of a trip hazard.

536
00:42:57,150 --> 00:43:03,550
We did have an opportunity to meet with a Mr. Beeson public works went out there and identified all of the locations.

537
00:43:04,210 --> 00:43:08,710
He's going to be much more eloquent than I am. This is a certain technology. This is not the only form of solution.

538
00:43:09,510 --> 00:43:13,170
Either way, the numbers that are given to you when I took these numbers once I had them.

539
00:43:13,630 --> 00:43:19,070
I did make a formal request to WCID to please consider supporting this in some way shape reform.

540
00:43:19,510 --> 00:43:23,010
Since a lot of these damaged sidewalk sections are near their infrastructure.

541
00:43:23,010 --> 00:43:27,430
And being another taxing entity within the city, it would only be fair for them to share some of the load.

542
00:43:28,350 --> 00:43:31,630
I also, depending on what happens with that and what action is taking through this body.

543
00:43:31,970 --> 00:43:35,990
The other idea was to possibly have the HOA consider possibly shipping in.

544
00:43:35,990 --> 00:43:37,270
It is a rather large amount.

545
00:43:37,810 --> 00:43:41,170
There are two separate amounts that we talked about here by Mr. Beeson.

546
00:43:41,430 --> 00:43:44,410
We'll quickly go through the presentation, but why don't you have a general view of what we have in mind.

547
00:43:44,910 --> 00:43:45,490
Thank you.

548
00:43:54,800 --> 00:44:01,180
I'm down there, and the State Council member, and I do not have to control the slide here.

549
00:44:01,500 --> 00:44:04,580
We'll take care of that, Mr. Beeson. Mr. Tashan, next slide.

550
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:15,720
Yeah, so just to get you guys a sense of what we do, our company, the President of Coffee Company,

551
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:27,060
offers sidewalk assessment services as well as a cost-saving method for carrying trip hazards,

552
00:44:28,900 --> 00:44:42,040
We do a horizontal shape that is significantly less expensive and much faster in nature than we are living in a place in New York.

553
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:52,800
and we looked at the neighborhood at some of those and found a lot of issues in that neighborhood.

554
00:44:54,460 --> 00:44:57,200
They're just gosh.

555
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,960
Switch my springs like I'm seeing.

556
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:08,120
We found that. Yeah, we will be looking at everything that neighbors have set that we can repair.

557
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:15,680
I'll use the armament if we found the look here. It's like my filter.

558
00:45:20,370 --> 00:45:22,330
We found that in the neighborhood of

559
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:34,900
the 2000 offsets or trotations that come to the repair days or a Nineth of a day.

560
00:45:34,900 --> 00:45:36,720
via a horizontal slice.

561
00:45:36,980 --> 00:45:41,740
Now, that's when you look at the ADA required

562
00:45:45,260 --> 00:45:47,240
starting point, which is at a coordinate.

563
00:45:47,740 --> 00:45:51,080
So any offset, or what the ADA calls it,

564
00:45:51,140 --> 00:45:54,720
change in a level, is a coordinate for more

565
00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:57,140
is something that needs to be rectified.

566
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,900
Now, I don't know if anybody chooses to do that,

567
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,120
and that's understandable, especially with finding

568
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:10,580
so many, but we found right at $158,000 what the per carers that could be, you know,

569
00:46:10,860 --> 00:46:14,320
may be using the force on the slice and that could be awesome.

570
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,480
Mr. Beeson, could you repeat that number, please?

571
00:46:17,620 --> 00:46:28,140
Just a little under $150,000 to be exact, $149,000, $23,000 worth of force on the slice and

572
00:46:28,140 --> 00:46:33,340
that would be the range of a quarter of an inch up to two inches of height.

573
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:41,860
If you decided to filter that down and not do the A-E-A required,

574
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,280
that would take the number of repairs down somewhat,

575
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,600
down to about 1,300 repairs,

576
00:46:53,600 --> 00:47:01,600
And that lowers the price to $121,156 dollars.

577
00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:06,420
And there's now this doesn't quite repair everything.

578
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:11,420
There will still be some that are outside of our scope

579
00:47:11,420 --> 00:47:12,920
that we need to be replaced.

580
00:47:13,860 --> 00:47:17,380
But I don't know if your department, Mr. Garcia,

581
00:47:17,580 --> 00:47:20,540
has the bandwidth to do any of that work in the house.

582
00:47:20,540 --> 00:47:25,220
that there's probably another 20 to 30 locations

583
00:47:25,220 --> 00:47:29,140
that might require some panels to be replaced.

584
00:47:29,780 --> 00:47:31,240
So it's not included in this process.

585
00:47:31,580 --> 00:47:33,460
Mr. Beeson, let me interrupt you just one quick second.

586
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:37,060
I wanted to note that total we're looking at 3.16 miles

587
00:47:37,060 --> 00:47:39,220
of sidewalk within the chemo subdivision.

588
00:47:39,740 --> 00:47:44,540
And yes, to comment on the amount needed for the other ones

589
00:47:44,540 --> 00:47:46,680
that could not be covered to this, we're

590
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,820
looking at, again, this is not a quoted amount.

591
00:47:48,820 --> 00:47:51,660
but if I had to guesstimate on about we're looking

592
00:47:51,660 --> 00:47:54,760
ballpark of 25,000 additional in addition to the 150.

593
00:47:54,940 --> 00:47:57,920
So we're looking at 175 total is my rough estimate

594
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,220
without having this go out to bid and so on and so forth.

595
00:48:00,820 --> 00:48:03,740
So that's kind of where we stand on what the repairs would be.

596
00:48:03,860 --> 00:48:06,520
Looks like a total of addresses affected

597
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,800
or 236 next slide please Natasha.

598
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,240
The amount of linear feet affected

599
00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:17,180
or 6,380 and a half linear feet.

600
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:20,980
Again, this would take care of all sidewalks,

601
00:48:21,060 --> 00:48:22,520
not to some of the ones that were mentioned earlier.

602
00:48:25,340 --> 00:48:30,800
That gives you a total, this page on the top right gives you a total cost, a approximate cost.

603
00:48:31,540 --> 00:48:38,280
Average cost per address and an average cost per repair to repair all 2,193 areas that have some type of offset.

604
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:39,100
Next slide, please.

605
00:48:41,530 --> 00:48:43,810
This technology is a little bit different.

606
00:48:43,950 --> 00:48:49,130
It is a padded technology where essentially, and I will paraphrase Mr. Beeson with happening here,

607
00:48:49,470 --> 00:48:53,290
essentially what they do is they come in and they shave the sidewalk down to make sure that it's no longer a trip hazard.

608
00:48:53,290 --> 00:48:59,530
So that is my opinion not, not, not Mr. Reason, don't know that of a company, but that's essentially what they do.

609
00:48:59,870 --> 00:49:03,150
These companies exist throughout the nation, and this is the way they do it.

610
00:49:03,530 --> 00:49:07,410
This page explains a little bit more of what the cost is usually for at that time of repair.

611
00:49:08,330 --> 00:49:13,390
And what the savings would be typically if you had what is called R and R, which is repair and or replace sidewalks.

612
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:17,320
Next slide.

613
00:49:18,260 --> 00:49:20,060
So you're asking a little question?

614
00:49:20,220 --> 00:49:20,820
Yes sir.

615
00:49:26,770 --> 00:49:28,050
The five years and years

616
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:41,780
are predictable because of the surface, but the mind is being

617
00:49:41,780 --> 00:49:47,160
this neighborhood that's never been made and it's never been made and it's never been

618
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,980
so you're dealing with a little bit of deferred maintenance situation here.

619
00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:59,280
But if there are tree roots that are contributing, the panels could continue.

620
00:50:00,590 --> 00:50:27,570
We can't control what's going on below the ground. But with this time of repair, you are going to basically extend a service life of your sidewalk infrastructure. It could be that the ground has been dull, it's going to move and the repair will last for quite some time. But yeah, you can't predict what's going on. But the idea is using this kind of repair to extend a service life of your sidewalk grounds.

621
00:50:28,790 --> 00:50:37,290
Just to piggyback off of that on this slide that's on the street now, you do look at the number of addresses that do require complete what's called R&R.

622
00:50:38,150 --> 00:50:43,130
Those are 24 different of those and that image depicts what it is right if you notice that gap.

623
00:50:43,550 --> 00:50:52,530
That is a accurate picture of one of locations in chemoaks that shows you that this technology that this organization does does not fix that type of repair.

624
00:50:52,990 --> 00:50:55,870
That's an example of what an R&R would be there.

625
00:50:56,330 --> 00:50:59,890
So, just to give you an example, the same issue on the other image that's shown.

626
00:51:00,470 --> 00:51:05,850
Some of those areas are around infrastructure that does belong to WCID, which is why we've

627
00:51:05,850 --> 00:51:07,630
asked them to consider helping with this.

628
00:51:07,650 --> 00:51:10,770
I intend to take the same presentation to them at the next meeting, and I have asked them

629
00:51:10,770 --> 00:51:12,290
to add this to their agenda for consideration.

630
00:51:13,410 --> 00:51:13,910
Next slide.

631
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,880
This is just more information that shows color code.

632
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:25,680
There's an old portion of this that shows color code where the dots are that explain which

633
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:30,300
ones are offset, which ones are an R&Rs, and which ones fall in those three categories that

634
00:51:30,300 --> 00:51:31,820
Mr. Beast and we'll talk about next slide.

635
00:51:34,860 --> 00:51:39,160
If you could see this color-coded area, that's a better explanation of which ones are

636
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:39,460
where.

637
00:51:39,900 --> 00:51:45,100
So the red dot represents anything between three quarters of an inch to two inches, while the yellow

638
00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:49,120
is half an inch to three quarters of an inch, and then the green is one quarter of an inch

639
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:50,040
to half an inch.

640
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:54,040
So that's the three different categories Mr. Beast and we'll talk about, and it's separated

641
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,520
because obviously those different amounts require that much of a difference.

642
00:51:57,980 --> 00:52:01,600
To answer your question, again, also going back to Councilman Rodgers, the question I was

643
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,220
asked about longevity. Again, there's trees, there's infrastructure, there's moving playlists

644
00:52:06,220 --> 00:52:10,600
we know that happen here in the area. That may cause there to be some additional shifts, but

645
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:15,680
also keep in mind for those bigger ones that are dotted in red, that three quarter to two

646
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:21,400
inch, you're shaving the amount or the actual width of that sidewalk. So if it was a four

647
00:52:22,020 --> 00:52:26,080
sidewalk, and it's up to a two-inch amount. You're leaving only two inches of concrete

648
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:30,060
left. So that's something to consider when we're making those changes. Okay, so I

649
00:52:30,060 --> 00:52:33,080
want everybody to understand what that means. The average sidewalk, and I don't know if

650
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,540
it's true for those, if I'm a betting man, Mr. Beeson, or all those sidewalks, four inches?

651
00:52:40,630 --> 00:52:41,430
Probably not.

652
00:52:42,250 --> 00:52:49,090
Some of you will be free to have, you know, the two before that you've used one on the sidewalls a lot of times.

653
00:52:49,730 --> 00:52:51,550
You're going to be able to have less than four inches.

654
00:52:52,350 --> 00:52:57,730
A lot of municipal customers that use us might change that scope a little bit.

655
00:52:57,810 --> 00:53:04,130
We have done engineering studies on normal sidewalk boards of cutting out to two inches.

656
00:53:04,410 --> 00:53:10,370
And we generally feel really comfortable in cutting out to two inches because some of mine, municipal partners,

657
00:53:10,370 --> 00:53:13,950
have a cap to us at an inch and a half or an inch and three quarters.

658
00:53:14,570 --> 00:53:16,210
So we have the data now.

659
00:53:16,790 --> 00:53:24,890
So it's really easy to make those changes and scope as the city that feels the need to do.

660
00:53:25,190 --> 00:53:29,330
I would also be remiss that Ryan's probably going to throw things out of me if I don't mention this.

661
00:53:29,690 --> 00:53:31,270
Is that this would have to be properly procured.

662
00:53:31,810 --> 00:53:33,590
There are many ways to address sidewalks.

663
00:53:33,610 --> 00:53:36,130
You can do full repair on a place and everywhere you have a fix.

664
00:53:36,550 --> 00:53:39,690
There's technology where you can lift certain sidewalks and do certain things.

665
00:53:39,690 --> 00:53:46,550
So I want to understand that this is just one solution, and we brought it's the fastest and probably right now from based on what we've done so far.

666
00:53:46,830 --> 00:53:50,750
Most of the most economic we know would be versus full repair and replacement, obviously.

667
00:53:51,270 --> 00:53:54,250
So we want to bring this to the table to show what we've done so far on this.

668
00:53:54,610 --> 00:53:57,710
And would like to open the floor for any questions you may have.

669
00:53:58,110 --> 00:53:58,650
Thank you.

670
00:53:58,890 --> 00:54:00,050
I have a question.

671
00:54:01,130 --> 00:54:01,610
Go ahead.

672
00:54:01,750 --> 00:54:02,170
Go ahead.

673
00:54:02,950 --> 00:54:03,550
Call some of the rods.

674
00:54:03,790 --> 00:54:04,990
Go for it.

675
00:54:04,990 --> 00:54:06,190
I would just like

676
00:54:14,100 --> 00:54:16,620
to invite guests to meet at

677
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:20,400
any part.

678
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,320
So they generate about 130,000 dollars or about $5,000 dollars

679
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,080
and sell them in a proper tax for the town.

680
00:54:28,220 --> 00:54:30,060
So you're talking about, in essence, right now,

681
00:54:30,220 --> 00:54:41,280
380, 380, 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380 and 380.

682
00:54:47,970 --> 00:54:49,750
Did you have anything else?

683
00:54:49,750 --> 00:54:53,490
Council member brought us.

684
00:54:53,490 --> 00:54:59,950
All right, if I can, I want to say that I fully support.

685
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:10,120
Court, working with on the sidewalks, especially things that are, for instance, that this trip hazard.

686
00:55:11,620 --> 00:55:23,740
My concern is I alleged that state law says, correct me from wrong, from the rep from a precision concrete cutting.

687
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,480
You are not an engineering firm, correct?

688
00:55:28,910 --> 00:55:38,650
All right, I let state law says that any procurement, and this is not a professional contract,

689
00:55:39,170 --> 00:55:42,970
above X amount has to go out for bid.

690
00:55:43,590 --> 00:55:55,690
This is not, and I will fully say that it's an important thing, but I believe that we cannot

691
00:55:56,410 --> 00:56:08,450
In this scope, take this bid without going out because this is not an engineering firm without putting it out for bid.

692
00:56:12,670 --> 00:56:15,290
And again, and one more thing.

693
00:56:15,510 --> 00:56:15,970
Where's the money?

694
00:56:16,530 --> 00:56:20,390
As Councilman brought us, I always asked me, where's the money coming from?

695
00:56:20,990 --> 00:56:24,110
Because maybe I missed something when I was looking at the package.

696
00:56:24,110 --> 00:56:30,530
I did not see where it was imputed in this year's budget.

697
00:56:30,710 --> 00:56:38,710
Well, couldn't we split the budget, pay some of it for this fiscal year and pay some of it from the next year?

698
00:56:39,810 --> 00:56:50,210
We've got less than 30 days, and again, I believe the issue, the concern is that it's not following

699
00:56:50,210 --> 00:56:53,630
state law in the amount.

700
00:56:55,490 --> 00:56:56,430
So, it's 50.

701
00:56:56,810 --> 00:56:58,490
So I just wanted to answer a question.

702
00:56:58,610 --> 00:57:00,330
It is not budgeted.

703
00:57:00,350 --> 00:57:01,730
It is not a budgeted item.

704
00:57:02,130 --> 00:57:04,030
We were just asked to see if there was an opportunity

705
00:57:04,910 --> 00:57:06,750
to find out what we were looking at.

706
00:57:06,930 --> 00:57:09,210
And I wanted to, we had enough time to bring it back

707
00:57:09,210 --> 00:57:10,350
instead of just having open discussion

708
00:57:10,870 --> 00:57:12,090
to try to be as efficient as possible.

709
00:57:12,210 --> 00:57:14,050
So that's why there's no budget online amount.

710
00:57:14,630 --> 00:57:16,050
If this is something that you would choose to do,

711
00:57:16,050 --> 00:57:17,210
it would need to come from reserves.

712
00:57:17,570 --> 00:57:19,610
We don't have the wiggle room right now to do so.

713
00:57:19,610 --> 00:57:23,330
So that's out in the open, what we would do, this is the situation.

714
00:57:23,970 --> 00:57:28,110
Being that you're right at budget season right now, unless there was an additional change

715
00:57:28,110 --> 00:57:31,670
in any budget that we're trying to propose, that would be the actual situation, or we

716
00:57:31,670 --> 00:57:34,650
do a budget amendment after it's passed, but that's the answer to those questions.

717
00:57:36,910 --> 00:57:41,850
So just for everybody, I'm the one that asks Caesar to throw this on the agenda, and we

718
00:57:41,850 --> 00:57:46,070
discussed this needs to get, you know, standard guard roles for procurement, but we really

719
00:57:46,070 --> 00:57:50,910
needed a number. No one's ever put a number to what it's going to take to get the sidewalks.

720
00:57:51,090 --> 00:57:56,690
Everyone is, you know, to the comment made earlier, a lot of people have gone through the

721
00:57:56,690 --> 00:57:59,910
neighborhood and said, yeah, we'll do it and it just gets stuck in the mud. Whether it

722
00:57:59,910 --> 00:58:04,910
are procurement, where's the money come from, we're trying to lower taxes, all that stuff.

723
00:58:05,290 --> 00:58:10,570
The all of that is true. Ryan, how many days of operating do we have in reserves?

724
00:58:13,330 --> 00:58:22,770
In the general fund, it was that 317,000 or something like that, but we do have that rainy day

725
00:58:22,770 --> 00:58:24,130
of the growth fund.

726
00:58:24,630 --> 00:58:26,370
That's what I didn't want to do.

727
00:58:26,390 --> 00:58:31,430
And that's little over probably close to 3 million, little over 3 million right now.

728
00:58:32,170 --> 00:58:35,550
And we said, are we still at 80K in operating day Caesar?

729
00:58:37,970 --> 00:58:38,510
Roughly.

730
00:58:38,870 --> 00:58:39,410
Roughly.

731
00:58:39,410 --> 00:58:41,470
maybe 80K per day.

732
00:58:43,170 --> 00:58:44,850
That's some kind of question, sir.

733
00:58:45,310 --> 00:58:45,410
Yeah.

734
00:58:45,730 --> 00:58:47,870
I've just said to you that you can't remember the other

735
00:58:47,870 --> 00:58:48,310
thing.

736
00:58:48,830 --> 00:58:52,550
But there was like a million dollars in case you

737
00:58:52,550 --> 00:58:55,270
need to get put into free enters laying when we bought the

738
00:58:55,270 --> 00:58:56,730
property on a deco.

739
00:58:57,030 --> 00:58:59,870
That was one of the big reductions in general fund.

740
00:59:00,150 --> 00:59:02,410
The other thing is we keep putting the

741
00:59:03,630 --> 00:59:09,390
growth law in which was both the max out of 3 million and

742
00:59:09,390 --> 00:59:15,250
So we do have funds available, so for him, I have a chance like CPA and there's an

743
00:59:15,250 --> 00:59:20,130
artery, you have to stay the facts, and then it's the facts, but Council in the past

744
00:59:20,130 --> 00:59:25,290
we're all being included, because you've been here the whole 10 years has let that

745
00:59:25,290 --> 00:59:26,070
open for emergency.

746
00:59:26,490 --> 00:59:32,650
So we have a 3.8 million dollars, so we haven't got like seven or eight months of reserve

747
00:59:36,930 --> 00:59:44,550
I agree but I ask this question why are we not looking at other people that go to see what they can do?

748
00:59:44,870 --> 00:59:56,510
I've heard okay this may be a little off the wall, but I've seen commercials on TV that talk about preparing an uneven driveway and why couldn't that be done?

749
00:59:56,510 --> 00:59:59,790
There are a lot of people who are going to send her to deter her.

750
01:00:00,020 --> 01:00:15,140
This one option, you know. And it was for discussion because we have these numbers back. That is your directive tonight. If you want to look at other things, if you want to bring back other things, and also to discuss where the money might come from in the budget.

751
01:00:17,180 --> 01:00:26,300
We are a very well-off city in comparison to many others. We need to take into consideration the growth fund and et cetera.

752
01:00:27,540 --> 01:00:31,500
And I've got a motion after council movement.

753
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,540
Yes, everybody can talk though.

754
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:35,260
I didn't need it.

755
01:00:35,260 --> 01:00:38,500
Do you have a comparative, I mean this is a repair.

756
01:00:38,820 --> 01:00:42,580
And then you said there's like if you wanted to address it like fully replaced.

757
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:46,380
Do we have a financial comparative of what that would fly?

758
01:00:46,460 --> 01:00:47,900
Testimates 600,000 dollars.

759
01:00:48,380 --> 01:00:51,720
And that's very rough estimate by the numbers that we're looked at.

760
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:52,840
How many square feet?

761
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:54,280
What it usually costs for that?

762
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,120
I will also say, Rashard is at APWA this week.

763
01:00:57,700 --> 01:00:59,180
He was texting me just now, telling me

764
01:00:59,180 --> 01:01:01,040
that he's going to bring him back some other possibilities.

765
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:03,540
But the reason why we wanted to get a number in place

766
01:01:03,540 --> 01:01:06,280
is because it was going to ask, great, well,

767
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:07,060
what do you think is going to cost?

768
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,700
Well, here's at least a number that we can say worst case scenario.

769
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,040
There's a number to start with that we can say,

770
01:01:12,260 --> 01:01:13,180
hey, what does this look like?

771
01:01:13,540 --> 01:01:15,220
So that when we do put it out, and this number comes back,

772
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,140
we know that worst case scenario, this is something we could go with.

773
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:20,180
So we had this company come out here and do it.

774
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,160
They service the entire region on sidewalk repairs.

775
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:28,220
They're very well-known and they're a cost-effective way of fixing sidewalks that have 88 repair issues

776
01:01:28,220 --> 01:01:31,360
That's what they're known for the bare rabbit we can look at their information

777
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:35,780
So that's the the action that we we took to bring this back also because if I'm going to go to

778
01:01:36,380 --> 01:01:38,280
Heema HOA HOA Kima

779
01:01:40,580 --> 01:01:40,940
Kima

780
01:01:40,940 --> 01:01:43,960
Oaks HOA and asked for assistance or WCID

781
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:48,460
What's the first question to ask me how much are we talking about so now I can go to them and say worst case scenario

782
01:01:48,460 --> 01:01:50,360
We're looking at about 150 to 175k

783
01:01:50,940 --> 01:01:54,700
What does that look like split three ways? 50 50 50 there we go if that's what we were

784
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:59,860
So that's why we took this exercise to do that so far because it's been a topic of discussion.

785
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:00,900
Thank you very much.

786
01:02:02,380 --> 01:02:03,960
Does anybody have any questions for the contractor?

787
01:02:04,260 --> 01:02:08,060
I'm going to ask him respectfully to hang up before I make my motion.

788
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:22,720
Do you have a, you said that the actually the repair and a replace, for instance, that large photo that show the quite a bit of variance between the side, the two junction of the sidewalks?

789
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:28,100
Do you have any estimates?

790
01:02:30,060 --> 01:02:36,600
Because I realize you don't do it yourself, but in your scope of work as the city administrator,

791
01:02:38,020 --> 01:02:41,900
Yala, Yala, so well-renowned in this field.

792
01:02:43,940 --> 01:02:44,040
So

793
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:52,920
typically with place, we don't offer that as a service.

794
01:02:52,920 --> 01:03:01,660
While we'll say, when you're considering other options, we oftentimes work hand-in-hand with other contractors,

795
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,240
when it's the city, we're just another tool in your toolbox.

796
01:03:07,220 --> 01:03:11,960
So, for the lifting, you could lift on a certain ones.

797
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:14,760
The larger ones, we shave the smaller ones.

798
01:03:15,140 --> 01:03:18,340
You're moving up place, those that are in the worst shape.

799
01:03:18,340 --> 01:03:29,700
So there are a lot of times the best approach is to use an approach with multiple tools, multiple solutions, not test or not.

800
01:03:29,740 --> 01:03:33,540
Mr. Bison, just to kind of I think maybe help with the question that was intended to be asked.

801
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:43,500
The 24 requested R&Rs. How much without, where I was holding you to it, if you had to guess the main amount of locations and so on and so on and so on.

802
01:03:43,500 --> 01:03:50,440
square feet, we're talking about that require that 754 and a half square feet of panels, what that would cause ball part to fix.

803
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:58,160
About 15,000 based on average square foot crossing.

804
01:03:58,460 --> 01:04:03,840
You guys may get a better rail network to put it out to this, but about 15,000.

805
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,000
Is that materials in labor?

806
01:04:07,500 --> 01:04:07,800
Yes.

807
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,640
Okay. Thank you.

808
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,800
One last question for you, what was your dirty intent?

809
01:04:13,260 --> 01:04:14,360
Are you in the lab board?

810
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:16,500
Yes, they are.

811
01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:17,880
We are on five board.

812
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:19,460
We are on that tip.

813
01:04:19,580 --> 01:04:21,460
You're going to have to tell what that is.

814
01:04:21,740 --> 01:04:22,560
Some of us.

815
01:04:22,620 --> 01:04:23,100
That's what I'm saying.

816
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:27,130
We're going to explain that because.

817
01:04:27,710 --> 01:04:28,750
Some would understand.

818
01:04:29,570 --> 01:04:30,970
With regards to procurement,

819
01:04:31,610 --> 01:04:33,810
five board is a purchasing quality

820
01:04:33,810 --> 01:04:35,430
and as well as tips.

821
01:04:35,430 --> 01:04:49,610
And it is an avenue for vendors such as us to go in and bid and go through the state requirements on the bid that they put out.

822
01:04:49,850 --> 01:04:59,930
And so the good portion of the work that I do for municipalities, all around the state of Texas, are done based off of these purchasing cooperative contracts we've already.

823
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:20,060
What company name are you listed under for that? Because I, I'm guessing I'm looking at the wrong spot, because I checked and could not find your company's name on the cop trollers on the cop trollers.

824
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:25,540
It's a precision concrete cutting, is the name of the company war.

825
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:29,560
I don't know about the comptroller, might be a precision sidewalks,

826
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,880
and we'll see, we do because this has precision concrete cutting.

827
01:05:33,660 --> 01:05:38,420
But with regards to what you would sign on byboard,

828
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,880
or what you would find on the tips website,

829
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:43,480
it would be precision concrete cutting.

830
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:44,320
Thank you.

831
01:05:44,540 --> 01:05:46,120
And Kelvin, when we did ask you that information,

832
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:47,740
log in forward, that didn't bring it today.

833
01:05:48,220 --> 01:05:48,580
Thank you.

834
01:05:50,060 --> 01:05:55,420
Any more comments or discussion before Mr. Beeson logs off?

835
01:05:55,740 --> 01:06:01,180
No, the only comment since we're talking about by board, we are members of by board. I believe we're also members of tips we have to confirm.

836
01:06:04,340 --> 01:06:06,900
Any other comments or questions from Mr. Beeson?

837
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:17,900
Thank you so much for coming in logging in tonight and allowing council to ask questions. We appreciate it.

838
01:06:17,900 --> 01:06:19,740
All right,

839
01:06:22,140 --> 01:06:27,100
I make a motion to

840
01:06:30,020 --> 01:06:35,990
allocate not to, I make a motion not to exceed $200,000

841
01:06:35,990 --> 01:06:42,550
out of the growth fund to be allocated a key amount of sidewalks, pending the bidding,

842
01:06:42,690 --> 01:06:47,570
pending Caesar bringing her a resharg bringing back competitive quotes for the project.

843
01:06:49,690 --> 01:06:56,130
We have a motion by Councilman Oliver, a second by Councilwoman Dorn, all those in

844
01:06:56,130 --> 01:06:56,610
favor.

845
01:06:57,670 --> 01:06:58,750
Any opposed?

846
01:06:59,910 --> 01:07:00,470
No.

847
01:07:01,890 --> 01:07:03,770
Councilman brought his vote against.

848
01:07:04,750 --> 01:07:05,490
Motion carries.

849
01:07:07,170 --> 01:07:15,170
And may or may I would just to be clear, the Councilman's motion established not to exceed

850
01:07:15,170 --> 01:07:26,390
you may, but does not commit the city at this point to any one method or one contract, correct?

851
01:07:26,570 --> 01:07:26,990
That is correct.

852
01:07:27,310 --> 01:07:28,110
Thank you.

853
01:07:32,500 --> 01:07:40,620
Next, on the agenda, 12B consideration and possible action regarding hotel occupancy tax.

854
01:07:41,300 --> 01:07:44,820
Also known as hot funds, sponsorship applications.

855
01:07:44,820 --> 01:07:58,520
You have a piece of paper with some yellow highlighting on it, it's what we have given to in the past and how much and who is proposed for this year, etc.

856
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:11,380
I believe that Devin and Caesar worked on this up until a few hours ago, so they're probably best answering your questions if you have any questions and or comments.

857
01:08:11,380 --> 01:08:17,160
before we start, if I can explain why those three of those are highlighted, these are some

858
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:22,760
that applied last year, but may have not made the cut off to apply this year.

859
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:27,460
So we made that recommendation, they're listed on there as possible proposed.

860
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:31,720
Had they applied or whatever, so you would have seen what it would have looked like if everybody

861
01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:32,660
would have applied.

862
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:36,540
After speaking to some of the folks that did not apply, they have expressed an interest

863
01:08:36,540 --> 01:08:37,360
in applying.

864
01:08:37,900 --> 01:08:41,160
They just had a problem with the application and so forth.

865
01:08:41,660 --> 01:08:44,020
So if you would like to take that in a consideration today,

866
01:08:44,460 --> 01:08:46,560
only because some of those are long-standing events,

867
01:08:46,940 --> 01:08:48,780
being Yadigraud, the crew to lock event,

868
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:50,420
as well as a three brothers running.

869
01:08:51,420 --> 01:08:53,460
The Horde card tournament is the tournament

870
01:08:53,460 --> 01:08:54,560
that was held recently.

871
01:08:55,060 --> 01:08:57,000
That is an estimated amount of what it would cost

872
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:58,200
possibly to rent the facility.

873
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:00,640
And so and so for similar to what we did this past year,

874
01:09:00,780 --> 01:09:04,040
where they were given that as a pretty much no cost

875
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:07,780
use through a incentive for the event that they held this past year.

876
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:13,940
Otherwise, if you noticed, a total amount that was applied for was 21677-1704.

877
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:19,960
We have $100,000 budgeted, and the estimate that's shown there on the proposed is a breakdown

878
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:25,600
of where we are considering if you wanted to take our proposals or make any changes to it.

879
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,060
The columnist says adopted would be whatever you'd like to assign towards that.

880
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:32,840
Obviously, without assigning anything towards the ones in yellow, because they have yet to formally

881
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:37,840
apply. Historically, you wanted to leave certain amount of cushion as well for any event that

882
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:41,540
may come up throughout the year. That might be special events or, well, obviously, all

883
01:09:41,540 --> 01:09:45,320
special events. But then it comes out of the blue that you might want to present. So that's

884
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:48,160
why you want to keep that in mind if you wanted to reduce any of these amounts in order to

885
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:54,920
leave without threshold, whatever it may be. But you did budget 100K for 2027 in our budget to do

886
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:56,580
So we're asking for your approval to proceed.

887
01:10:00,850 --> 01:10:11,190
I have a question about the food and wine festival. Are you still playing on doing this under the bridge?

888
01:10:11,950 --> 01:10:16,390
Or is that the idea still? I know you talked about it last year.

889
01:10:16,730 --> 01:10:17,670
Can you go to the mic?

890
01:10:19,210 --> 01:10:19,650
Yes.

891
01:10:26,660 --> 01:10:30,360
It's my understanding that there's a development project underneath the bridge.

892
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:37,200
any completion of that. Of course, we all know those projects tend to extend themselves.

893
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:43,840
That would be ideal for us to have it under the bridge, but if not, then it would be generally

894
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:54,900
a multiple lots that we can use around the city that would potentially right now be under

895
01:10:54,900 --> 01:11:01,100
the discretion of the boardwalk of the boardwalk currently right now that we would want

896
01:11:01,100 --> 01:11:06,960
to utilize. So, yes, underneath the bridge would be the coolest thing for a festival to

897
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:09,940
go, but we'd definitely figure out something else.

898
01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:15,140
Yeah, I don't think, I don't think the person who required to get approval for Park and Law

899
01:11:15,140 --> 01:11:19,540
used to be an issue, but I worry about text stop being under there. If they let the boat ramp

900
01:11:19,540 --> 01:11:25,760
January, not that they've ever hit a date they said they're going to hit, but should they do that?

901
01:11:25,820 --> 01:11:32,880
There's no way they're going to be done by October, all right. So I just I feel like if we're going to do it,

902
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:38,540
I think we need to pivot now. You know, then we're going to pivot.

903
01:11:38,540 --> 01:11:38,660
I mean, I think that's an easy enough hurdle of jump.

904
01:11:38,660 --> 01:11:40,100
I mean, I need to do one thing.

905
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:42,760
I mean, I need to do one thing.

906
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:44,980
I mean, we do one in spring and one fall.

907
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:47,040
I mean, I mean, I don't understand.

908
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:50,780
I don't know how to make a call or maybe each other.

909
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:52,040
I don't know what to say.

910
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:56,560
I mean, that's a good idea.

911
01:11:56,960 --> 01:12:00,120
So I mean, I need some coordination here.

912
01:12:00,380 --> 01:12:01,640
Because I'm like, you're ready to do that.

913
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:04,320
Yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, I think we can,

914
01:12:04,460 --> 01:12:06,980
I think that's an easy enough hurdle of jump.

915
01:12:06,980 --> 01:12:09,240
Like, I just, I just, I just, really,

916
01:12:09,260 --> 01:12:12,140
where is the street, the street where I heard just close my mouth

917
01:12:12,140 --> 01:12:13,960
and do it right there, right there, right there.

918
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,260
Like, I'll show you, because we're out of a condition in my head

919
01:12:16,260 --> 01:12:19,840
that we don't have a city parking in y'all's parking as well.

920
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,260
I mean, I'll leave that to the organizers of the event.

921
01:12:23,340 --> 01:12:24,060
They're the ones doing the work.

922
01:12:25,620 --> 01:12:28,560
But I, I just worry we're going to, if we need to pivot,

923
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:31,380
we should pivot sooner than later, because they're going to be in the way.

924
01:12:32,140 --> 01:12:34,260
And I'm well aware that we're going to pivot and then they're

925
01:12:34,260 --> 01:12:36,460
going to let a following year and we didn't need to pivot at all,

926
01:12:36,460 --> 01:12:44,280
because that's just how text dot does is dirty, but I just wanted to make everybody aware

927
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:50,280
that the boat ramp may not be available for public consumption down there pending text

928
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:50,460
dot.

929
01:12:50,580 --> 01:12:52,520
They told us that we're going to let that project in January.

930
01:12:55,570 --> 01:13:02,550
It's been my observation, and please chime in on this, that the boardwalk actually plans

931
01:13:02,550 --> 01:13:06,190
their calendar anywhere from six months to a year to advance.

932
01:13:06,350 --> 01:13:12,410
So you actually have dates, I believe, for your spring and fall

933
01:13:12,410 --> 01:13:18,490
fest to ensure that there's no overlap.

934
01:13:20,390 --> 01:13:21,150
Yeah, we can get that out.

935
01:13:21,330 --> 01:13:25,690
The dates for next year haven't been completely finalized, but they're within a week or two.

936
01:13:25,750 --> 01:13:29,190
Pick a weekend either way, but yeah, we can coordinate around the pressure.

937
01:13:29,190 --> 01:13:36,130
And my proposal with the chemo wine and food festival is that since we had great success with the

938
01:13:36,130 --> 01:13:42,510
Chunkertree Chopinite that essentially turns into the chemo wine and food festival,

939
01:13:43,330 --> 01:13:49,590
Chunkertree is its own separate event that we could still do in that parking lot but to

940
01:13:49,590 --> 01:13:57,750
have a bigger draw and something a little bit different would be to have this based on

941
01:13:57,750 --> 01:14:02,990
headlining acts, rodeo acts, all the money that's allocated would essentially go into

942
01:14:02,990 --> 01:14:07,530
getting headliners that are going to bring huge following since we really need to organize

943
01:14:07,530 --> 01:14:12,630
it so that there's multiple lots and a bigger space than we're currently using for the

944
01:14:12,630 --> 01:14:14,990
trunk and treat in the lighthouse district.

945
01:14:16,550 --> 01:14:16,830
Thanks Tony.

946
01:14:17,250 --> 01:14:19,350
I was only a question I had for your items.

947
01:14:20,190 --> 01:14:21,050
I'll go through this real quick.

948
01:14:21,150 --> 01:14:25,650
I'm obviously going to skip the boardwalk piece, y'all can cheat that up however you choose,

949
01:14:25,650 --> 01:14:29,950
But I'm good with most of this.

950
01:14:30,210 --> 01:14:35,970
I think the magazine supporting the chemo living and getting it

951
01:14:35,970 --> 01:14:37,170
and hotel rooms makes a lot of sense.

952
01:14:37,270 --> 01:14:38,150
It's a quality publication.

953
01:14:38,330 --> 01:14:39,750
A lot of people like it.

954
01:14:40,150 --> 01:14:40,650
It's grown.

955
01:14:41,550 --> 01:14:42,630
I think it makes a lot of sense.

956
01:14:42,770 --> 01:14:44,470
The line festival, you can chew that up,

957
01:14:44,690 --> 01:14:45,890
I brought up my concern.

958
01:14:47,190 --> 01:14:50,330
Trunker tree, I don't know how I feel about that one yet.

959
01:14:51,810 --> 01:14:54,430
But it just feels weird trying to monetize an event

960
01:14:54,430 --> 01:14:55,890
that the community has always had for free.

961
01:14:55,890 --> 01:14:57,470
It just feels a little kind of weird.

962
01:14:58,850 --> 01:14:59,810
I should just, my two cents.

963
01:15:01,650 --> 01:15:07,810
Children of the fallen soldiers, I mean, he store, well, last couple years, I don't think we've given him any. So,

964
01:15:07,810 --> 01:15:11,630
I used to be a bigger number, puts the, puts the families in the hotels.

965
01:15:13,970 --> 01:15:19,030
Honestly, this is the first time I've seen the AV and protection group on here or whatever.

966
01:15:19,370 --> 01:15:23,870
Fishing, I think, makes a lot of sense. I'll skip that one, chamber stuff, both parade, that's a big night.

967
01:15:23,870 --> 01:15:25,430
I think, makes a lot of sense for the chamber.

968
01:15:25,430 --> 01:15:30,010
So, I got a question on Teabone Toms when we get to it.

969
01:15:30,890 --> 01:15:34,750
Do we know the ones that just had issues, do we know, are these the numbers that they're

970
01:15:34,750 --> 01:15:37,370
going to ask for or do we know what those are going to be?

971
01:15:37,450 --> 01:15:39,870
Those are rough estimates based on what they've asked for in the past.

972
01:15:40,110 --> 01:15:45,470
But today, and she would live with the sign number.

973
01:15:45,530 --> 01:15:49,530
That's what she was given or created a lack of a given last year.

974
01:15:51,030 --> 01:15:52,330
That makes sense.

975
01:15:52,910 --> 01:15:57,350
Tough as 10k, you don't want to scrap that, by all means, you've been going to hurt my

976
01:15:57,350 --> 01:15:57,690
feelings.

977
01:15:58,370 --> 01:16:01,530
Card tournament, I think makes a lot of sense, that seemed to have a good draw in his growing.

978
01:16:03,430 --> 01:16:09,010
I know, I mean, I was told he's moving into a larger space here sooner than later, here

979
01:16:09,010 --> 01:16:15,050
in the city, so he's also partnering with the city on the Pokémon anniversary, I mean,

980
01:16:15,050 --> 01:16:22,310
I think that's going to be a draw, so I think that makes a lot of sense, I mean, boat

981
01:16:22,310 --> 01:16:29,110
I don't know how I feel about the T-Bone Tom thing, let you all kind of debate that and then I'll stay out of the firework discussion.

982
01:16:29,730 --> 01:16:32,590
I'll also refuse myself from voting since the board walks on here for you.

983
01:16:35,100 --> 01:16:42,320
I just wanted to comment to remind everybody that everything highlighted in yellow would not be something that we would require or request for funding today.

984
01:16:43,020 --> 01:16:46,420
The other amounts do total about, I think, 82-5.

985
01:16:46,460 --> 01:16:47,820
I remember the math correctly.

986
01:16:48,580 --> 01:16:50,140
You do have 100K allocated.

987
01:16:50,140 --> 01:16:55,020
to answer the question on T-bone tombs, one of the things that we're pursuing is we are pursuing

988
01:16:55,020 --> 01:17:00,760
to become a music friendly city and bless you and one of those items to do that, one

989
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:05,000
of our stable is to do that would be T-bone tombs in order to make sure they continue having

990
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:09,420
live music entertainment to be able to acquire that certification and to hopefully encourage

991
01:17:09,420 --> 01:17:14,880
other businesses to also do the same. But it's never been number four, so it is, they

992
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:18,900
applied and that's for your consideration as to what you'd like to do. Obviously, if you noticed,

993
01:17:18,900 --> 01:17:23,620
We weren't able to allocate for everybody because the amounts were greater than what we have available.

994
01:17:24,340 --> 01:17:29,000
So we try to separate and spread the wealth a little bit as to where everybody's request were.

995
01:17:31,740 --> 01:17:36,800
We're asking for an ounce to help us fill in the adopted design side all the way down to the yellow.

996
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,860
We take a vote and we move forward.

997
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:43,340
The 995 includes the yellow?

998
01:17:43,440 --> 01:17:44,580
Yes, ma'am.

999
01:17:53,770 --> 01:17:55,890
We've addressed a several ways in the past.

1000
01:17:55,890 --> 01:17:58,510
We have had a workshop on it.

1001
01:17:59,130 --> 01:18:02,370
I was hoping that wasn't necessary, but that's also an option

1002
01:18:02,370 --> 01:18:06,130
is to meet far to the next meeting and workshop this

1003
01:18:06,130 --> 01:18:10,830
with more information if you so choose to do that.

1004
01:18:11,350 --> 01:18:13,090
How much do we have in reserve?

1005
01:18:14,050 --> 01:18:18,930
Like if we're allocating roughly 100,000, if we follow this

1006
01:18:18,930 --> 01:18:22,550
as it is, what do we have in reserve for things that come up?

1007
01:18:22,550 --> 01:18:27,590
I mean, we'd have to come back to that and check to get you to that, but I mean, I don't

1008
01:18:27,590 --> 01:18:29,670
want to put around on this spot, but we'll get you to that.

1009
01:18:29,670 --> 01:18:34,550
Not sure if we had what percentage we had in reserve for things that we may not be aware of.

1010
01:18:35,230 --> 01:18:37,210
I mean, that's why we allocated about this amount.

1011
01:18:37,430 --> 01:18:37,590
Okay.

1012
01:18:37,710 --> 01:18:41,890
And also, I'll, all of this is pending the budget being passed and voted on, so I don't

1013
01:18:41,890 --> 01:18:42,870
want to be preempted to that.

1014
01:18:43,270 --> 01:18:48,570
But I also want to make sure that you had that, that this in mind is to what these were.

1015
01:18:48,570 --> 01:18:59,470
Yeah, the fun balance for the hot, I can't throw that on the top of the head, but I know that I think I'm going to ask a little over a million, so I'll write it out of me.

1016
01:19:01,970 --> 01:19:03,210
Okay, I don't know.

1017
01:19:03,950 --> 01:19:15,770
I tend to talk a lot, so if you want to go down your list, I did read the items and so I have a question on the best version media.

1018
01:19:15,770 --> 01:19:21,410
When I read the application, and I did read it, it said that we were putting the items

1019
01:19:21,410 --> 01:19:27,410
your publication in the hotel, so they're already at the hotel.

1020
01:19:30,270 --> 01:19:31,770
So, correct me from wrong.

1021
01:19:32,390 --> 01:19:41,010
When advertisers put their information in it, that's a paid ad for your organization, correct?

1022
01:19:42,250 --> 01:19:59,970
So it does not necessarily put in local, unless they buy ad space with you, it does not include local ad space for organizations in the area.

1023
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:29,740
So I had, that's why I had some concerns, because my understanding of what hot funds is is to heads and bids. If there are already there, so I, I'm not, if I could speak on that, I think the spirit of the language there was the cameo living magazine, especially if you look at it from a place making perspective, that magazine operates as a de facto visitor's guide.

1024
01:20:29,740 --> 01:20:33,780
And so it's not having the magazines in the hotel lobby.

1025
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:36,000
It's having a magazine in every hotel room.

1026
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:37,520
That was the relation.

1027
01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:41,900
The came a living does a great job of emphasizing all the great things that we have in town,

1028
01:20:42,060 --> 01:20:43,460
local businesses, events, etc.

1029
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:48,460
And the idea was to expand their reach so that that information is more available to tourists.

1030
01:20:51,540 --> 01:20:52,300
Thank you.

1031
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:55,160
So I'll go down my list.

1032
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:59,760
Ben, for I don't have, I don't have a problem with the best vision.

1033
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:05,420
And actually, I would have liked to have seen because especially with your

1034
01:21:07,470 --> 01:21:09,450
partnership with

1035
01:21:09,450 --> 01:21:16,510
the Lucid, because those are James Beer winning chefs.

1036
01:21:16,710 --> 01:21:26,670
I was here with the city recognized Chef Yeh, so I'm actually interested in bumping that

1037
01:21:26,670 --> 01:21:35,770
up and taking fall and soldiers off. They've been here in the past and it's a war

1038
01:21:35,770 --> 01:21:40,170
of the organization. They're planning a war of the organizations.

1039
01:21:43,030 --> 01:21:44,690
Their applications

1040
01:21:44,690 --> 01:21:52,750
really have been to, I mean, it was for gift cards. It was to pay the, so if we want

1041
01:21:55,660 --> 01:22:06,360
help vets and give them a great time, that's fine, but I think the Americans speak to this because she was here would do during that time for him.

1042
01:22:07,540 --> 01:22:16,780
So to me they're moving around money as opposed to bringing his and vets. Now again, this is just the opinion of me.

1043
01:22:16,780 --> 01:22:29,700
So, I would like to see that amount of $2,500 of bad amount moved up to chemo-1 best so

1044
01:22:29,700 --> 01:22:33,680
that they would have $5,000.

1045
01:22:34,060 --> 01:22:43,300
Then a zero for the art, if you want to give a token amount to the children of volunteers,

1046
01:22:43,300 --> 01:22:54,780
soldiers, definitely on the elite fishing, and the came aboard well, get 35,000 last year.

1047
01:22:55,820 --> 01:23:07,480
And that's kind of a no brainer because they do provide support multiple times through the year.

1048
01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:09,760
I was a little concerned.

1049
01:23:11,460 --> 01:23:14,660
Just to clarify, they did not receive that a lot last year.

1050
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:15,560
It went down.

1051
01:23:15,860 --> 01:23:17,060
It's gone down over the years.

1052
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:18,560
But it was not that amount.

1053
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:21,540
It was 19,000 is what was allocated last year.

1054
01:23:21,900 --> 01:23:24,100
Before that it was 30 before that it was 50.

1055
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,460
But that's not that much that's listed there.

1056
01:23:28,020 --> 01:23:30,680
That's why we tried to bait that recommendation to stay kind of in line.

1057
01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:33,100
So 19 last year.

1058
01:23:33,300 --> 01:23:38,460
And so we're going to 15, basically 15,000 this year.

1059
01:23:38,460 --> 01:23:45,820
16,000 is that's the recommendation again just based on what we're turn has been because of how successful that was

1060
01:23:45,820 --> 01:23:52,620
We had several businesses email us in support of keeping the firework on Friday night because of how well they did some of them including hotels

1061
01:23:53,240 --> 01:24:00,560
Okay, and on and I know this is going to probably get me in hot water

1062
01:24:01,020 --> 01:24:07,480
So I'll join you in hot water for two bones Tom. I've read the application. It's the pay for the hotels

1063
01:24:07,480 --> 01:24:16,920
for the musicians, so that, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of it, but what I would

1064
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:25,060
like to suggest and the communications director can speak to this in that, even literature

1065
01:24:25,060 --> 01:24:31,800
that you sent out, there's money from the state. And if they could join in, and they said

1066
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:37,000
they were on, I did not go in depth to the applications, but it said they were only five.

1067
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:44,840
You did not have to be declared a safe, I mean, a music city to do it.

1068
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:53,040
So to work hand in hand with them, to apply for those funds from the state, and I respectfully

1069
01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:59,660
say zero, the two vote time, and I've already told you about the others.

1070
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:08,480
But otherwise, I have no qualms with it. But it didn't make sense to pay because we're doing the same thing

1071
01:25:08,480 --> 01:25:15,300
with the following surge, because the other thing was, I believe, when we looked at the,

1072
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:29,500
there was only

1073
01:25:29,500 --> 01:25:35,500
application because I did read it so I know I talked too much but that's it.

1074
01:25:35,500 --> 01:25:38,280
A couple of things the boardwalk was not the one that mentioned that they were happy

1075
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:38,900
with the fireworks.

1076
01:25:39,300 --> 01:25:40,500
It was actually the Marriott.

1077
01:25:41,460 --> 01:25:45,580
The thing about T-bone tongs you right, they had not applied in the past, thing about

1078
01:25:45,580 --> 01:25:50,420
fallen soldiers, dating back to when we did fund them, they were funded in 2223 and 24.

1079
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:58,460
The amount in 22 was 15,000, the amount in 23 was 21,800, the amount in 24 was 23,592.

1080
01:25:58,460 --> 01:26:05,840
We thought of the modest 7,500, as a suggestion, but again, it is whatever you would like to do on that route.

1081
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:07,660
But we have not funded them in two years.

1082
01:26:07,780 --> 01:26:08,120
Correct.

1083
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:09,920
We have not funded them in two years.

1084
01:26:10,540 --> 01:26:12,500
I don't think they've applied in those prior two years.

1085
01:26:12,820 --> 01:26:16,020
They have not applied and they'd like to apply in this year.

1086
01:26:16,300 --> 01:26:18,940
They are partnering with the boardwalk to try to offset some of those costs.

1087
01:26:19,500 --> 01:26:23,140
And part of what they're doing with that is, or attempting to, I should say,

1088
01:26:23,300 --> 01:26:26,200
I don't know that for a fact, but they're attempting to reach out to the boardwalk.

1089
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:33,980
But the major help that they need is not actually not for the hotels, as I was told, was more to try to make sure we can get those veterans here.

1090
01:26:34,380 --> 01:26:38,220
Their families here and so is more of a transportation request to get folks here.

1091
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:44,680
And we're also trying to work with them to get them cheaper transportation so they continue to have their event here within the key limits.

1092
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:55,180
It is a pretty well-intended event and it is part of the whole entire Veterans Day weekend commemoration that we do as well as the event that we do with the chamber and so on and so forth.

1093
01:26:55,180 --> 01:26:58,960
for transparency the years they didn't apply was because they missed the deadline.

1094
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:03,520
Well, just for those that weren't here, I hope they're all always.

1095
01:27:03,620 --> 01:27:07,160
And David, maybe in protection, we didn't fund that in your last year.

1096
01:27:07,220 --> 01:27:15,480
So that is the name of the applicant, the organization that they used to fill out the form.

1097
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:17,540
It's the party parents that do their weekend.

1098
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:22,280
So I mean it's an event that's been funded prior from what I understand.

1099
01:27:22,280 --> 01:27:24,640
But did we fund it last year?

1100
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:25,260
No.

1101
01:27:25,380 --> 01:27:25,780
We did not.

1102
01:27:26,300 --> 01:27:27,240
I did not.

1103
01:27:30,730 --> 01:27:34,330
We won one notable group that is missing that was funded in the past.

1104
01:27:34,510 --> 01:27:36,270
Recorded was the outlaw challenge.

1105
01:27:37,070 --> 01:27:38,330
They have not.

1106
01:27:38,710 --> 01:27:39,750
They did not apply this year.

1107
01:27:40,590 --> 01:27:41,970
And they were recommended for funding last year.

1108
01:27:42,870 --> 01:27:44,610
So that is where we stand with that.

1109
01:27:44,610 --> 01:27:46,970
And that's why we were able to move some of these dollars around.

1110
01:27:46,970 --> 01:27:47,870
To eventually have.

1111
01:27:47,890 --> 01:27:48,570
It's pretty relaxed.

1112
01:27:49,090 --> 01:27:50,090
They've always applied.

1113
01:27:51,930 --> 01:27:53,950
So I know we have comments from one council member.

1114
01:27:53,950 --> 01:27:58,310
As anybody else, I would like to make suggestions for any of these so we can fill them in.

1115
01:27:58,790 --> 01:28:03,350
Well, I don't necessarily get a vote, but I will make some comments.

1116
01:28:05,630 --> 01:28:08,190
I agree with Councilman Oliver.

1117
01:28:09,630 --> 01:28:13,050
The trucker treatment van has always been a city event for locals.

1118
01:28:14,590 --> 01:28:18,950
I don't think that I would like to see that.

1119
01:28:20,230 --> 01:28:21,590
monetize, so speak,

1120
01:28:23,910 --> 01:28:27,990
some of the ones that we have not funded in the past year or two.

1121
01:28:28,810 --> 01:28:30,530
I'm okay with passing on that.

1122
01:28:30,890 --> 01:28:34,910
I think that, you know, the annual boat parade is almost a given.

1123
01:28:35,110 --> 01:28:36,010
We do that every year.

1124
01:28:36,070 --> 01:28:41,870
I think we've had a lot of success with fireworks and the elite fishing series.

1125
01:28:41,870 --> 01:28:49,600
I would support CREDILAC as well, and we have any comments down here.

1126
01:28:52,500 --> 01:28:57,780
I'll just echo support for Councilman Thorne's recommendation to move the 2,500

1127
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:02,000
from children and small and soldiers to the Kema wine food festival.

1128
01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:03,600
I'll give that to you.

1129
01:29:04,820 --> 01:29:08,680
I'm sorry, just for whoever case, he's going to move it from small and soldiers to where?

1130
01:29:09,340 --> 01:29:10,580
The food wine festival?

1131
01:29:10,580 --> 01:29:14,900
to take some food in line 1 to 5,000, and then drop phones over to the podcast.

1132
01:29:15,300 --> 01:29:15,620
Yes, sir.

1133
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:17,960
I'm good with that recommendation, OK?

1134
01:29:18,860 --> 01:29:21,400
Devon, do you have on these different groups?

1135
01:29:21,580 --> 01:29:25,260
Do you have projections on how many people it brings to Kima?

1136
01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:26,840
It varies.

1137
01:29:27,700 --> 01:29:31,380
They do their best to explain the expected impact in the applications.

1138
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:32,280
OK.

1139
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:34,560
And some of the impacts vary.

1140
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:38,260
Some of them do bring a decent amount of people into town.

1141
01:29:38,260 --> 01:29:41,100
some of them are paying for the lodging of people to come to town.

1142
01:29:42,100 --> 01:29:48,340
It's hard to, I guess, might a better question would be, do we have anything in retrospect

1143
01:29:48,340 --> 01:29:57,240
from hotel usage when we have these events where we see like increase day and capacity?

1144
01:29:58,120 --> 01:29:59,960
We do have a tool, I believe that we could do.

1145
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:22,700
Please use to look at some of the dates of prior events. The one thing that I've also encouraged, David, applicant, to do that I've talked to personally, is the more that we can ask them to at least attempt to pursue hotel room blocks. That provides pretty accurate tracking data and shows kind of a commitment to staying in Kima. So I've encouraged them to do that going forward.

1146
01:30:22,700 --> 01:30:23,240
Okay.

1147
01:30:24,260 --> 01:30:24,820
And then.

1148
01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:27,920
Also, it's very odd that it actually reached out to me.

1149
01:30:28,820 --> 01:30:32,180
The farmers was like, they supported that.

1150
01:30:32,700 --> 01:30:33,100
And so.

1151
01:30:33,460 --> 01:30:35,100
I also support taking her.

1152
01:30:35,100 --> 01:30:38,140
Councilman Thorne's recommendation to take Teev on Tom's down to see her.

1153
01:30:38,180 --> 01:30:38,360
Yeah.

1154
01:30:39,300 --> 01:30:40,920
If I was voting today, I would scream.

1155
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:45,440
In some of these, they don't stay in hotels.

1156
01:30:45,740 --> 01:30:51,880
Maybe some of the participants do, but I know the fishing series.

1157
01:30:51,880 --> 01:31:00,680
Well, I don't have their boats and their trailers, and they want to be somewhere nearer that, you know, so it's, it's just, that was an anomaly because

1158
01:31:01,620 --> 01:31:02,980
they have so much equipment.

1159
01:31:05,660 --> 01:31:09,960
And is there a reason that we reduce the boardwalk amount?

1160
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:15,140
I think last year because of the amount of applicants that we had, we wanted to spread the wealth a little bit.

1161
01:31:16,020 --> 01:31:22,480
So I think that that was the consideration for doing so, but traditionally we went from three years ago back in

1162
01:31:22,480 --> 01:31:27,100
2024, we funded at 50K, 2025, 30K, then 19K.

1163
01:31:27,140 --> 01:31:28,720
I think it was a number of applicants came in,

1164
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,020
and a number of events started to grow.

1165
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:32,880
And again, I keep saying this every year,

1166
01:31:33,100 --> 01:31:34,480
this is going to grow, right?

1167
01:31:35,460 --> 01:31:37,100
Because we're becoming a destination

1168
01:31:37,100 --> 01:31:38,260
for a lot of different things.

1169
01:31:38,480 --> 01:31:41,580
And so I think that you'll see this number change gradually.

1170
01:31:42,240 --> 01:31:45,940
Yeah, I see the debris of the fact that

1171
01:31:45,940 --> 01:31:49,040
on Tuesdays come come on the world, right?

1172
01:31:49,260 --> 01:31:54,040
latest expected date as it right now is April.

1173
01:31:55,060 --> 01:31:55,660
Yes.

1174
01:31:55,940 --> 01:31:56,080
Yes.

1175
01:31:56,100 --> 01:31:58,020
We're going to come forward.

1176
01:31:58,560 --> 01:31:59,540
I'm going to come forward.

1177
01:32:00,300 --> 01:32:00,740
Entices.

1178
01:32:01,180 --> 01:32:02,640
Something like April afterwards.

1179
01:32:04,980 --> 01:32:06,320
And it correct me if I'm wrong.

1180
01:32:06,800 --> 01:32:13,260
Didn't we change the rules a bit and you're or so ago where they're paid based on

1181
01:32:13,260 --> 01:32:13,880
receipts.

1182
01:32:14,220 --> 01:32:14,600
Correct.

1183
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:15,480
Correct.

1184
01:32:15,540 --> 01:32:18,020
We used to do it several years ago.

1185
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:18,420
Correct.

1186
01:32:18,420 --> 01:32:25,340
Some of them have some time to ask for like, hey can we get at least a partial deposit up front because we know that've been established events

1187
01:32:25,340 --> 01:32:29,640
Whatever the case is we know that the receipts that they have established themselves. We can make an exception for that

1188
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:34,140
But yes, all final payments are not done until receipts exceed those amounts

1189
01:32:34,140 --> 01:32:37,380
That's the policy we put in last year from that mistaken

1190
01:32:39,460 --> 01:32:42,520
So just to kind of build the rest of the sheet out

1191
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:47,260
Looks like obviously I put in the sounds of me like everybody supported the bullet parade

1192
01:32:47,720 --> 01:32:56,980
The other item that's on here would be party parrots to fill in, pretty much the only ones we have to fill in is party parrots in the boardwalk if I'm not mistaken.

1193
01:32:57,420 --> 01:33:03,260
And again, whatever you want to do for top at the best version media for that amount.

1194
01:33:04,540 --> 01:33:10,440
Again, I know that historically black to leave some in case you want to maybe increase some of these events later on down the line when you get closer.

1195
01:33:11,260 --> 01:33:16,560
Or if you want to add new events like I said, there's a number of events that have not turned in yet usually they historically.

1196
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:21,420
support, but also leaving anything for what I call any big fairs that may come down to the

1197
01:33:21,420 --> 01:33:22,420
pipe.

1198
01:33:22,840 --> 01:33:23,460
As we know.

1199
01:33:23,480 --> 01:33:26,060
The last column is what we've been discussing this.

1200
01:33:26,060 --> 01:33:27,260
A doctor, yes, ma'am.

1201
01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:35,560
Does anyone have a boardwalk number for fireworks that they would like to suggest that

1202
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:37,460
most could agree on?

1203
01:33:41,890 --> 01:33:46,030
I personally hate the fireworks because my dog has anxiety.

1204
01:33:46,930 --> 01:33:54,090
But it brings a lot of people to town, however I recognize the benefits of it, we'll get you some little ear mess.

1205
01:33:54,530 --> 01:33:58,090
Yeah, we have little drugs for him to take on Friday.

1206
01:33:59,690 --> 01:34:13,910
But I think we ask a lot of the boardwalk, and they help us with sales tax and they help us draw, so I'm not opposed to actually bumping that to 40,000.

1207
01:34:14,810 --> 01:34:18,910
And because there is return on investment there.

1208
01:34:20,270 --> 01:34:23,010
Well, not just that, to chime in on that also.

1209
01:34:23,410 --> 01:34:25,570
Keep in mind that they're not the only ones that benefit from it, right?

1210
01:34:25,650 --> 01:34:28,310
Because when the boardwalks having stuff on Friday night,

1211
01:34:28,410 --> 01:34:30,390
all the businesses in the area benefit from it.

1212
01:34:30,890 --> 01:34:33,730
So it's not only like we've got 40,000 on the table for that item.

1213
01:34:34,150 --> 01:34:37,050
Again, we're just typing these in to try to keep a number going.

1214
01:34:37,770 --> 01:34:39,930
That leaves us with party parents.

1215
01:34:41,090 --> 01:34:44,290
and the key-mo living item as the only two vacant spots

1216
01:34:44,290 --> 01:34:45,810
that I'm not mistaken at this time.

1217
01:34:46,270 --> 01:34:50,030
I'm going to say this about the boardwalk.

1218
01:34:50,250 --> 01:34:52,390
Here we're telling you how far it works out there.

1219
01:34:52,410 --> 01:34:54,750
The residents of the Huntington.

1220
01:34:54,910 --> 01:34:58,010
It pulls chairs out from around on the veranda.

1221
01:34:58,670 --> 01:34:59,910
They bring snacks.

1222
01:35:03,460 --> 01:35:10,880
So, it's great quee to be a party not unless it's raining or some kind of people in every little pocket park.

1223
01:35:11,660 --> 01:35:13,320
They have to eat before or after.

1224
01:35:14,120 --> 01:35:17,260
But it's also good to know that it's a good community development.

1225
01:35:17,440 --> 01:35:18,980
It's the fact that the senior's are doing that.

1226
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:22,580
I know that folks are going out on their boton Friday nights to go see the farmers as well.

1227
01:35:23,500 --> 01:35:28,240
I know that's not in line with our hot parameters, but it does help that on the back end.

1228
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:29,660
does help support community development.

1229
01:35:30,280 --> 01:35:32,800
So I leave this party parents and keep

1230
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:37,260
living to make a RGB best version video, best version

1231
01:35:37,260 --> 01:35:38,980
media to make your recommendations.

1232
01:35:44,070 --> 01:35:50,950
Because it's no, and again, I'm, I just have a version

1233
01:35:52,450 --> 01:35:56,570
to, they're both being a pay revenue for them.

1234
01:35:56,570 --> 01:35:59,350
So I would like to suggest 4,000 for it if you've

1235
01:35:59,350 --> 01:36:00,550
got to put a number to it.

1236
01:36:00,550 --> 01:36:05,830
for the best version media best version, okay?

1237
01:36:05,830 --> 01:36:09,970
Any comments from the rest of my council members?

1238
01:36:10,690 --> 01:36:16,550
The only I was going to say that if you kept it at the recommended amount so we have right now of 6,000 and 2,500, it drives us to 85,000.

1239
01:36:17,430 --> 01:36:19,930
But again, it is your will as to what you'd like to do.

1240
01:36:20,350 --> 01:36:26,110
But if you'd like to heat it as a suggestion of dropping that from our recommended 6,000 to 4,000, the only one left would be party parents.

1241
01:36:26,890 --> 01:36:31,390
And are we not going to consider any of the ones that didn't make the application?

1242
01:36:31,530 --> 01:36:34,710
As of right now, no, because they have not applied yet, we can bring those back to you.

1243
01:36:34,710 --> 01:36:38,930
Or if you give me the authority to approve up to the amount that are suggested, then we can

1244
01:36:38,930 --> 01:36:40,190
avoid those separated gen items.

1245
01:36:40,570 --> 01:36:41,190
Should they apply?

1246
01:36:42,030 --> 01:36:51,410
And that could lead way, that 15,000 that's not allocated gives staff that leeway to do so.

1247
01:36:52,530 --> 01:36:59,090
And I have a slightly stupid question to ask, what is the hold for the card tournament?

1248
01:37:00,010 --> 01:37:00,830
That is the...

1249
01:37:00,830 --> 01:37:01,490
Go ahead.

1250
01:37:02,110 --> 01:37:05,850
That is a tournament that is done with trading card, and we have an expert here that

1251
01:37:05,850 --> 01:37:10,630
can probably speak of it, but it is a trading card tournament that does take place where you

1252
01:37:10,630 --> 01:37:13,630
can compete with several different people with trading cards.

1253
01:37:13,890 --> 01:37:14,870
That is a good summary.

1254
01:37:15,010 --> 01:37:20,610
They're located over there next to Lumere, the coffee shop, and they're busy all the

1255
01:37:26,490 --> 01:37:31,830
I will say that the current amount right now, if you were to pencil in 2,500 for party

1256
01:37:31,830 --> 01:37:37,710
parents, if you were to pencil 25,500 there, would draft the total to 83,000, the total

1257
01:37:37,710 --> 01:37:43,230
amount that is pending is 17,000, which would bring you exactly to 100k. Should that happen

1258
01:37:44,690 --> 01:37:52,670
Do you have a motion of sorts for me so we have that I make a motion that we accept

1259
01:37:52,670 --> 01:37:57,710
our edited amounts that Caesar has captured on his worksheet?

1260
01:37:58,510 --> 01:37:59,330
And that are on the screen now.

1261
01:37:59,450 --> 01:38:00,510
The edits that we've made on the screen.

1262
01:38:00,730 --> 01:38:00,830
Okay.

1263
01:38:01,230 --> 01:38:08,310
And do you want to include in that motion the ones that traditionally apply that we could still consider

1264
01:38:08,310 --> 01:38:13,010
to a certain amount, or do you want to not do that at all?

1265
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:17,680
Can we come back at that one, or?

1266
01:38:18,300 --> 01:38:20,360
It's up to you as far as the gen items are concerned.

1267
01:38:20,400 --> 01:38:22,680
But if you wanted to do that, your agenda, your motion,

1268
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:26,420
not that I would tell you what to do, would be to approve the adopted draft

1269
01:38:26,420 --> 01:38:30,820
that is on the screen and give the city administrative authority to address

1270
01:38:30,820 --> 01:38:32,820
the others as applications to come in.

1271
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:34,540
Okay, so I'm going to amend the motion.

1272
01:38:34,540 --> 01:38:45,440
I make a motion to approve the worksheet that is on the screen for everyone that we have identified.

1273
01:38:49,150 --> 01:38:49,790
We have a second.

1274
01:38:50,670 --> 01:38:54,510
So we have a motion by Councilman Weeland Councilwoman Weeland.

1275
01:38:55,090 --> 01:38:57,890
And a second by Councilman or all those in favor.

1276
01:39:00,110 --> 01:39:01,550
Any opposed?

1277
01:39:03,150 --> 01:39:11,850
We have on no and the rest of the armadaist solution and one outstanding so we have three

1278
01:39:11,850 --> 01:39:17,030
and five we're in motion carries and Mayor just for when these items do come up and we'll

1279
01:39:17,030 --> 01:39:21,430
make sure that council is aware thank you very much okay I've got to figure out where

1280
01:39:21,430 --> 01:39:24,050
was 12C

1281
01:39:27,540 --> 01:39:34,060
next on the agenda consideration possible action to approve resolution 2026-34

1282
01:39:34,060 --> 01:39:44,540
or a resolution to update the City of Pima Texas V schedule, I believe that it is in your packet, and I believe Noah,

1283
01:39:47,450 --> 01:39:49,150
did I skip some?

1284
01:39:50,390 --> 01:39:52,570
No, we may want to.

1285
01:39:53,530 --> 01:39:59,170
And the Vs are listed more in the back of that area.

1286
01:40:07,470 --> 01:40:11,410
Mayer, one of the practices that we'd like to do is to refresh any fees every two years, whether

1287
01:40:11,410 --> 01:40:16,490
any changes or not. So on evening years, we would like to present any updated fee schedules for consideration.

1288
01:40:17,370 --> 01:40:23,690
This has been a fee schedule that includes a few minor changes throughout some of our permitting side.

1289
01:40:23,870 --> 01:40:30,370
But also, it does incorporate now being able to rent some of our parks facilities that were never technically on there before.

1290
01:40:30,670 --> 01:40:32,350
So it adopts it all through that one fee schedule.

1291
01:40:32,350 --> 01:40:40,230
And I think the page that if you look at 374 and 375, you can see the permit fees that we

1292
01:40:40,230 --> 01:40:47,010
have currently, and then the proposed permit fees, and all of them go up from $50 to, you

1293
01:40:47,010 --> 01:40:52,410
know, 350 or 400. They vary in amounts all the way down. I went and did the math today

1294
01:40:52,410 --> 01:41:00,030
and looked at them. And of course, the largest increase is the new commercial construction.

1295
01:41:00,990 --> 01:41:11,870
That's an increase of roughly 6,000, but the rest of them are all in the $50 or $355,000,000,000,000

1296
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:32,260
,000.

1297
01:41:32,260 --> 01:41:38,520
I think it's close where it is today.

1298
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:43,080
And I did have that as a lot of work over a long period of time.

1299
01:41:43,300 --> 01:41:45,000
We appreciate it very much.

1300
01:41:45,340 --> 01:41:47,440
I have two comments.

1301
01:41:48,540 --> 01:41:50,260
We'll kind of two and a half.

1302
01:41:53,410 --> 01:41:53,850
The parks.

1303
01:41:56,240 --> 01:42:01,140
The last time I looked at the agreement with the county.

1304
01:42:02,740 --> 01:42:04,800
Because it is a county park.

1305
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:18,640
It's my opinion that it's states in the contract that we cannot charge for the use of, for instance, the 57 acres.

1306
01:42:22,400 --> 01:42:31,100
Well, again, the last time, and I've slept a few nights since I looked at that contract, but that would have to be addressed.

1307
01:42:31,100 --> 01:42:33,200
And in addition,

1308
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:42,900
when I found it a little ambiguous, I am all four, for instance, and

1309
01:42:42,900 --> 01:42:54,000
for full disclosure, I am a part of an organization that has used the community center.

1310
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:58,620
I think we've used it once in the past three years, prior to that we would do it every

1311
01:42:58,620 --> 01:43:01,600
here, because it was Martin Luther King.

1312
01:43:01,860 --> 01:43:05,220
They are service, a celebration for full disclosure.

1313
01:43:07,560 --> 01:43:12,660
It's ambiguous on when they pay the cleaning fee.

1314
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:17,240
I'm not against it, but I think it needs to be in there.

1315
01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:23,400
So the organizations are not shocked with, oh,

1316
01:43:23,540 --> 01:43:26,000
OK, we want you to pay the cleaning fee.

1317
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:36,240
It should be some method of doing it in addition, and we've had some with a give-more foundation,

1318
01:43:36,660 --> 01:43:44,240
and which I am not associated with, but it is a 501C3 on social media.

1319
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:53,880
They have used the chambers to display their donations and correct me if I'm wrong.

1320
01:43:54,820 --> 01:44:00,920
They're being their store and they're good when they have the major drives in City of Facilities

1321
01:44:00,920 --> 01:44:04,820
Up above the community center, and I could be wrong.

1322
01:44:04,820 --> 01:44:05,960
I lit.

1323
01:44:06,140 --> 01:44:07,720
I was part of that MOU.

1324
01:44:10,620 --> 01:44:18,280
So, but just a little bit of, because we've got the seniors, we've got the Lions.

1325
01:44:19,160 --> 01:44:24,600
So, when that fee is imposed, because we don't want to put them, they're very small organizations.

1326
01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:30,620
And I can't speak for give more, but they're very small organizations and have limited budget.

1327
01:44:31,080 --> 01:44:33,140
So looking at when that's charged.

1328
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:38,920
I just think that should not just be, oh, oh, by the way, give me $300 for cleaning.

1329
01:44:40,620 --> 01:44:45,720
And I think that it's not right, but just a little bit more direction on that.

1330
01:44:46,660 --> 01:44:48,600
That's all I had on that.

1331
01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:50,280
Those three items.

1332
01:44:53,950 --> 01:44:55,430
Any other comments or discussion?

1333
01:45:00,110 --> 01:45:02,550
Do we have a motion on floor?

1334
01:45:06,710 --> 01:45:10,190
It's resolution 20264.

1335
01:45:11,030 --> 01:45:17,290
I make a motion to approve resolution 20264 as stand.

1336
01:45:18,810 --> 01:45:19,950
All those in favour?

1337
01:45:20,070 --> 01:45:23,590
Well, we have a motion by councilwoman Weeland.

1338
01:45:23,930 --> 01:45:25,170
A second by councilman, more.

1339
01:45:25,390 --> 01:45:25,990
All those in favour?

1340
01:45:26,990 --> 01:45:28,670
Aye. Any opposed?

1341
01:45:28,830 --> 01:45:29,850
Aye, post.

1342
01:45:30,490 --> 01:45:31,950
Natasha, did you get all that?

1343
01:45:35,630 --> 01:45:38,030
I know you all did all the work.

1344
01:45:38,150 --> 01:45:38,710
Good job, ladies.

1345
01:45:40,050 --> 01:45:40,330
Good job.

1346
01:45:40,470 --> 01:45:44,010
For a point of reference, Mayor, I would like to have it looked at.

1347
01:45:44,270 --> 01:45:46,990
Because now you've said that you're going to charge the city.

1348
01:45:47,530 --> 01:45:50,890
We've now agreed that we're going to charge for the park.

1349
01:45:51,290 --> 01:45:54,470
And I believe that it is a violation of the contract.

1350
01:45:54,770 --> 01:45:57,090
So that needs to be addressed.

1351
01:45:57,870 --> 01:45:59,190
We will double check that.

1352
01:45:59,470 --> 01:46:00,330
Thank you.

1353
01:46:07,340 --> 01:46:14,240
12D consideration and possible action to a pre-$40,000 grant by the Texas Office of the Governor

1354
01:46:14,240 --> 01:46:17,520
to a far new body-borne camera systems.

1355
01:46:25,180 --> 01:46:26,640
This is just more of a point of information.

1356
01:46:27,580 --> 01:46:31,960
I want to commend Captain Rees, Chief Garvin, of the leadership, have applied for additional

1357
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:34,000
funding necessary for new body-borne cameras.

1358
01:46:35,320 --> 01:46:39,600
We've received this funding from the Office of the Governor and we're happy to report

1359
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:45,360
that we've successfully brought in some more money to help offset what the cost would be.

1360
01:46:45,600 --> 01:46:50,660
In relation to what this cost for a penny of equipment, this would 80,000 was equipping

1361
01:46:50,660 --> 01:46:51,720
what any was.

1362
01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:56,280
So this is the equivalent of a half a penny of property tax that saved to the city through these efforts.

1363
01:46:57,040 --> 01:46:58,600
So Kudos to.

1364
01:46:59,260 --> 01:47:02,240
Are there any questions or comments for captain?

1365
01:47:02,240 --> 01:47:12,120
I just have a question, did I re-correctly, so we still have to do a 25% match and is it in your budget?

1366
01:47:13,360 --> 01:47:13,940
Yes, I mean correct.

1367
01:47:14,220 --> 01:47:16,440
And that was already agreed to when needed the resolution.

1368
01:47:20,310 --> 01:47:21,910
Any other questions or comments?

1369
01:47:22,950 --> 01:47:24,230
Or Chief or Captain?

1370
01:47:25,610 --> 01:47:31,390
Make a motion to approve the $40,000 grant by the text officer of the Governor to acquire new body-worn camera systems.

1371
01:47:32,350 --> 01:47:38,050
So I have a motion by Councilman Dustin Oliver, a second by Councilwoman, woman, we lend all those in favour.

1372
01:47:39,090 --> 01:47:39,730
Any opposed?

1373
01:47:40,510 --> 01:47:41,630
Motion carries unanimously.

1374
01:47:42,710 --> 01:47:47,230
We've already done 12F discussion regarding flock cameras.

1375
01:47:49,070 --> 01:47:49,890
Me again.

1376
01:47:52,630 --> 01:47:53,870
Man, I'm going to get torched.

1377
01:47:54,150 --> 01:47:54,370
It's okay.

1378
01:47:57,300 --> 01:48:02,240
It's no secret that I was on board with going for the grant funding for this technology in town.

1379
01:48:04,820 --> 01:48:10,060
I don't know that I would vote the same way, maybe I wouldn't, I don't know, but it's

1380
01:48:10,060 --> 01:48:11,140
just been a lot of news.

1381
01:48:11,300 --> 01:48:16,780
I felt it was worth discussion that I didn't ask, I didn't want the action on here just yet.

1382
01:48:18,380 --> 01:48:23,280
But the chief and some of his leadership team and staff have gone around town and discussed

1383
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:31,360
with public what their internal controls are that they are doing to tighten the guard

1384
01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:37,740
We've talked about other options or adding layers to that to make the public in the residents feel more comfortable.

1385
01:48:38,780 --> 01:48:40,480
I don't know if that's going to work long-term.

1386
01:48:40,700 --> 01:48:52,800
I mean, it looks like the governor has canceled all funding for this and everybody that's on a ballot in November has jumped on that bandwagon conveniently for all of them after they loved it for so many years.

1387
01:48:53,380 --> 01:48:54,380
Funny how that works.

1388
01:48:55,180 --> 01:48:59,380
But I just wanted to, I really just want to get Chief for Captain Wies or whoever he

1389
01:48:59,380 --> 01:49:03,340
doesn't need to speak to at least say on the record that it's not just in a neighborhood

1390
01:49:03,340 --> 01:49:03,780
meeting.

1391
01:49:04,500 --> 01:49:09,600
What the scene is doing, and I know I've got a couple questions to ask whoever wants to

1392
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:10,180
field them.

1393
01:49:11,280 --> 01:49:15,160
So I understood we were having a discussion on it, so we weren't as prepared to respond in

1394
01:49:15,160 --> 01:49:15,860
any questions today.

1395
01:49:15,900 --> 01:49:19,160
I thought we were going to have more discussion as to what your questions would be, because

1396
01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:21,560
obviously we need to know exactly what you want to talk about.

1397
01:49:21,940 --> 01:49:22,560
That's fine.

1398
01:49:22,560 --> 01:49:29,060
So, if you can ask whatever questions you want and allow us to bring them back to you, then I think that'd be the best situation because we're

1399
01:49:29,060 --> 01:49:31,540
want to make sure that we got the information completely correct.

1400
01:49:32,260 --> 01:49:32,860
Okay, Chief.

1401
01:49:33,340 --> 01:49:37,540
First, do you want to give an overview of the first or do you want to feel the questions?

1402
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:40,260
I'm good either way, Mayor.

1403
01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:42,260
We've had some discussion about this.

1404
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:46,860
We see the concerns and I'm going to say it again in Kima.

1405
01:49:47,840 --> 01:49:50,740
I'm almost 100% sure we're not going to have that problem.

1406
01:49:50,740 --> 01:49:59,300
Our officers have all signed off on the agreement, the policy procedure that clearly states that if you violate it, I'm going to fire you.

1407
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:29,980
I'm going to go to the district attorney's office and pursue charges. Every one of our officers signed off on that. We have now limited our access to the cameras to supervisors and dispatchers only. We've taken it away from the officers. I hate doing that, because I know they're not going to violate it, but I wanted our citizens to feel better about that, that not everybody in the departments going through the cameras now through the system. It's now supervisors and dispatchers. I just hope it's not a day that dispatches answering several 911s, and the flock can't

1408
01:50:31,760 --> 01:50:35,140
We have a Robert Suspect that just went down, you know, 2094.

1409
01:50:36,080 --> 01:50:36,960
We hope that doesn't happen.

1410
01:50:37,400 --> 01:50:38,520
But we've done our part.

1411
01:50:38,660 --> 01:50:39,100
We educate.

1412
01:50:40,080 --> 01:50:42,040
We let them know anytime we see a negative story.

1413
01:50:42,220 --> 01:50:43,400
We share it with the entire department.

1414
01:50:43,840 --> 01:50:45,140
This is what we do not do.

1415
01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:50,120
I can't speak for other departments, but I can tell you that our citizens can feel comfortable

1416
01:50:50,120 --> 01:50:56,260
that their police department is not going to violate their trust with these cameras.

1417
01:50:56,700 --> 01:50:57,320
That I can tell you.

1418
01:50:57,320 --> 01:50:58,440
So we've made those steps.

1419
01:50:58,440 --> 01:51:01,500
We went out to meet with folks and came out, we heard their concerns.

1420
01:51:02,040 --> 01:51:07,580
Councilman is always in my ear because they're in his ear and I think several have reached out.

1421
01:51:08,060 --> 01:51:08,800
We're doing it right.

1422
01:51:09,380 --> 01:51:14,780
It's sad to see that others have not, but this is a very good tool for us.

1423
01:51:14,900 --> 01:51:15,760
I've said it before.

1424
01:51:16,600 --> 01:51:20,260
Right now, I hate throwing a number out there, there's three officers on the street.

1425
01:51:20,780 --> 01:51:26,600
One accident appeared on this bypass, all three of them were tied up with that call.

1426
01:51:27,380 --> 01:51:32,620
These are extra police officers that are out there standing guard at different corners, keeping an eye on things.

1427
01:51:32,740 --> 01:51:37,300
The things were to go bad, won't be able to solve it right there and then give my detectives a couple of days.

1428
01:51:37,480 --> 01:51:43,320
They'll be able to go back through those cameras and hopefully have a good percentage of catching the bad guys.

1429
01:51:43,500 --> 01:51:51,840
It did something over at the boardwalk or over at Walmart because we were out here busy dealing with a call that requires all three of our officers to be there.

1430
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:56,440
These are additional officers that we can't afford, I think I spoke to the Council woman here,

1431
01:51:56,680 --> 01:52:02,520
you know just for one officer to bring them on board with training and salary and all the benefits

1432
01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:08,960
about $100,000, hey 500 grand and getting me four more officers and we'll talk about it.

1433
01:52:09,580 --> 01:52:13,040
Obviously we just went through an entire budget, we know we can't do that.

1434
01:52:13,340 --> 01:52:19,680
So again this is definitely a powerful tool that we need to help us when you're asleep to protect

1435
01:52:19,680 --> 01:52:24,840
our citizens or number one priority are the people that live here y'all mean everything to us

1436
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:30,040
and of course the 4 million visitors that come see us every year you just said at the firework

1437
01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:36,760
so that drug is crazy right but in one night I think Caesar did the numbers 52,000 people were here

1438
01:52:36,760 --> 01:52:43,040
on the 4th of July we know that those cameras are helping us while we're making sure people are safe

1439
01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:49,660
getting across the street around across 146 they mean so that is just an amazing tool to have

1440
01:52:49,660 --> 01:52:54,820
all I can just do is reassure the citizens in this community that you have great

1441
01:52:54,820 --> 01:53:00,120
cops at work here and they are going to do right by you. That I can assure you.

1442
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:06,080
Thanks. Chief, I just have a question. I've read some of the criticism on my

1443
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:12,540
city phone and it's said that this was a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

1444
01:53:16,980 --> 01:53:18,500
How would

1445
01:53:18,500 --> 01:53:21,800
You can please allow us to, we'll take that down as a question.

1446
01:53:22,120 --> 01:53:30,140
I remember the way that there was on the line for my emails, we, we would like to solicit

1447
01:53:30,140 --> 01:53:35,060
any questions that you guys have to try to get them back on the agenda, but also to allow

1448
01:53:35,060 --> 01:53:38,120
any residents that would like to contact you so you can give us those questions.

1449
01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:44,380
Since our deadline for the next agenda, technically, is between today and Friday, probably

1450
01:53:44,380 --> 01:53:47,300
wouldn't be to the first meeting in October, but I would like to get you some concrete information

1451
01:53:47,300 --> 01:53:48,120
to answer these questions.

1452
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:49,980
All right, I'm going to run through my questions.

1453
01:53:50,660 --> 01:53:52,140
Thanks for the thanks for that.

1454
01:53:52,740 --> 01:53:53,040
Thanks for that.

1455
01:53:53,820 --> 01:53:55,160
Thanks for the elevator speech chief.

1456
01:53:55,300 --> 01:53:57,100
And thank you for reconsidering your position

1457
01:53:57,100 --> 01:53:58,460
on Supervisors, only.

1458
01:53:58,860 --> 01:54:00,640
I asked you about that.

1459
01:54:00,840 --> 01:54:02,460
No, we had it before it blew up.

1460
01:54:02,680 --> 01:54:04,780
And it was a little resistance, which is OK.

1461
01:54:05,760 --> 01:54:06,340
We worked through it.

1462
01:54:06,440 --> 01:54:07,320
But thank you for doing that.

1463
01:54:07,420 --> 01:54:09,180
It came up in more than one neighborhood discussion.

1464
01:54:09,360 --> 01:54:11,260
And you and I talked about it long before that

1465
01:54:11,260 --> 01:54:12,700
as a possible guardrail.

1466
01:54:13,640 --> 01:54:14,480
So that's fair enough.

1467
01:54:14,500 --> 01:54:16,560
One thing, you and I've also talked about it,

1468
01:54:16,620 --> 01:54:17,920
but I think the public needs to hear

1469
01:54:17,920 --> 01:54:23,860
from you, is this flock have a way to limit access to the cameras in KEMA to just KEMA personnel.

1470
01:54:25,060 --> 01:54:30,380
I know the answer to it, but come back with it and do what you get to do. And then also,

1471
01:54:30,720 --> 01:54:36,900
I know we spent grant money on this program. I think the general public needs to understand

1472
01:54:36,900 --> 01:54:44,080
what an exit ramp looks like financially to them. And what penalties would be, should we cancel the program

1473
01:54:44,080 --> 01:54:50,360
at the kind of the wish of the resident, you know, that dollar amount is or a ballpark

1474
01:54:50,360 --> 01:54:53,900
or what it could be, and then my follow-up question based on the news of the governor,

1475
01:54:55,540 --> 01:54:59,240
I don't know that I really want to pay him back when he's just backed out of his own.

1476
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:04,920
Funding of the thing. So that's a lot to go on with. That's just happened today. So that's why I'm saying there's a lot of

1477
01:55:04,920 --> 01:55:10,180
moving parts with this subject. But I just, it's easy to say let's just take them all down. They need

1478
01:55:10,180 --> 01:55:14,440
to understand the financial impacts and have a full picture before anybody makes a decision. But I

1479
01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:17,500
understand, you know, their concerns. Those were my big ones. I wanted on the record.

1480
01:55:19,580 --> 01:55:20,760
Because, unfortunately,

1481
01:55:20,940 --> 01:55:25,280
this problem is not going away. I mean, social media in the media is going to probably get this software totally

1482
01:55:25,280 --> 01:55:29,520
just annihilated around here, but I'll go ahead.

1483
01:55:30,200 --> 01:55:39,640
Well, my addition would be if for some reason we decided to remove the camera, and from a strategic

1484
01:55:39,640 --> 01:55:45,400
clear standpoint, or we're saying safety is our first priority for citizens and tourists,

1485
01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:48,220
then it's the piece that you're talking to.

1486
01:55:48,220 --> 01:55:55,720
what would we need to consider from an investment from police coverage and then to be competitive

1487
01:55:56,580 --> 01:56:03,480
in this area in hiring top talent and securing and stabilizing when we're looking at

1488
01:56:03,480 --> 01:56:09,280
2027 in budget sport work and then I think the taxpayer needs to understand there's a cost

1489
01:56:09,280 --> 01:56:18,200
of that to them. So I'm losing a good one now, a sergeant's fixing to leave me to the work for

1490
01:56:18,200 --> 01:56:23,540
a lot of time, money, he's one of our best. He walked by me yesterday and didn't even want to see me,

1491
01:56:23,620 --> 01:56:28,300
he says, I don't want to leave. I don't want to leave. It's about chasing the dollar. Thank God,

1492
01:56:28,440 --> 01:56:32,580
I have these two guys to work with. They're looking at the numbers, trying to figure out how we can

1493
01:56:32,580 --> 01:56:37,220
come back next year and be competitive with other agencies. We're going to look out to one of the

1494
01:56:37,220 --> 01:56:43,080
associations, TMPA to possibly come in and do a pay study with other agencies. We're trying to keep them

1495
01:56:43,080 --> 01:56:47,480
here. They love them around here. They love what you guys do for them. They love the community, but we're

1496
01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:51,440
always competing with the dollar before you got here.

1497
01:56:51,520 --> 01:56:54,780
I believe a couple of years ago, we cut two and a half officers

1498
01:56:55,740 --> 01:57:00,660
because we needed new body cameras and tasers at that time.

1499
01:57:00,960 --> 01:57:02,480
We never got those officers back.

1500
01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:07,400
So we seem to be going backwards when you have 4 million visitors

1501
01:57:07,400 --> 01:57:08,920
coming to this town.

1502
01:57:09,180 --> 01:57:12,360
Again, one major call takes all of them out of it.

1503
01:57:12,540 --> 01:57:14,760
Luckily, we have partners in C Brook that do help us,

1504
01:57:15,000 --> 01:57:16,000
but they're also short.

1505
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:23,660
You know, you have clear lake shores who may have one or two officers on most of the time it's one, you know, we've got to help them instead of them coming to helping us.

1506
01:57:24,660 --> 01:57:34,600
So again, at $100,000 an officer roughly to put one back on, you know, it's going to be a bigger deficit for us on our budget.

1507
01:57:35,300 --> 01:57:45,980
So again, all I'm going to do is just keep advocating to keep these cameras if we can continue, you know, because we need those additional, I call them officers, but I don't want to

1508
01:57:45,980 --> 01:58:14,900
That's what they are. They're out there right now. While we're here right now, they're out there doing what we need them to do, viewing, you know, things picking up plates, violators, there was just one central Texas, kidnapping, it was a car jacking, literally within two hours because of the flood cameras, there was a kid in the back seat, I believe, I don't want to over-speak, but they captured that person because of the flood camera footage, you know, it's going to be tough, but I know he's been working with us both of them have,

1509
01:58:14,900 --> 01:58:19,180
that we're looking at possibly bringing on more if we can somewhere down the road if not, at least

1510
01:58:19,180 --> 01:58:23,780
increasing, trying to increase the pay for officers to try to keep the good quality officers

1511
01:58:23,780 --> 01:58:27,980
we have here now, that already understand the culture of KEMA, that understand the people

1512
01:58:27,980 --> 01:58:32,560
of KEMA, that understand the visitors of KEMA, every time you bring in someone you're starting

1513
01:58:32,560 --> 01:58:39,340
all over again teaching them the KEMA way. I say that because I'm proud of the KEMA way, so

1514
01:58:39,340 --> 01:58:44,600
I appreciate you reaching out asking that. I hope we don't have to go there, but eventually we will,

1515
01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:46,740
if we continue having tourism.

1516
01:58:47,200 --> 01:58:49,160
I just think we need to educate the public.

1517
01:58:49,680 --> 01:58:49,700
Sure.

1518
01:58:49,820 --> 01:58:52,780
The pros and cons and the cost.

1519
01:58:53,420 --> 01:58:54,960
And there is a price for safety.

1520
01:58:55,860 --> 01:58:59,220
And there's a price to keep our office or site.

1521
01:59:00,640 --> 01:59:01,280
I just think.

1522
01:59:01,580 --> 01:59:05,480
And there's a 200-25,000-1-2 year cost, a monthly.

1523
01:59:06,920 --> 01:59:09,600
So very obviously we have a little trees

1524
01:59:09,600 --> 01:59:10,960
200,000,000,000.

1525
01:59:14,350 --> 01:59:16,290
And that may have always keep up with the numbers.

1526
01:59:16,290 --> 01:59:28,650
And another question to add to your list is maybe verify how many cameras were actually utilizing within city versus all the numbers that have been developed here.

1527
01:59:28,770 --> 01:59:31,390
You know, I'm going to go ahead and address that now if you don't mind.

1528
01:59:33,150 --> 01:59:36,730
So we have 41 cameras, but they're not all LPR readers.

1529
01:59:36,990 --> 01:59:39,810
We only have only 18 of those are licensed plate readers.

1530
01:59:40,370 --> 01:59:44,770
The rest are just cameras that are out there in case something should go wrong.

1531
01:59:46,170 --> 01:59:48,190
It's just safety cameras.

1532
01:59:48,870 --> 01:59:49,110
It's everybody.

1533
01:59:49,330 --> 01:59:51,270
We have 41 LPR readers.

1534
01:59:51,730 --> 01:59:53,050
That is not correct.

1535
01:59:53,530 --> 01:59:55,230
They're only 18 of them.

1536
01:59:55,270 --> 01:59:56,830
And the other cameras are actually on traders

1537
01:59:56,830 --> 01:59:58,230
that we move around.

1538
01:59:58,550 --> 01:59:59,970
When we have the fourth July, we have one at...

1539
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:16,100
Now we moved one over on 6th street. Those cameras are very important to us. Matter of fact, we had a drive-by shooting, a few months ago, our camera was sitting right there, captured the vehicle, captured the muzzle blast right there.

1540
02:00:16,340 --> 02:00:25,880
We had an assault the other night in our city that we were told something differently. Captain gets on, gets a supervisor online, gets in the camera.

1541
02:00:25,880 --> 02:00:36,980
We had, it was all captured, the entire assault, the man being drug out to the street because of these safety cameras, not LPR cameras, but to clarify, Mayor, thank you for asking that.

1542
02:00:37,060 --> 02:00:42,180
There are only 18 of those 41 cameras that have LPR readers on them.

1543
02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:49,480
So all we have, we need 41 cameras up. That is not true. Only 18 of them have LPR readers on them.

1544
02:00:50,680 --> 02:00:56,500
Is there any other discussion or questions from Jay for Captain?

1545
02:00:56,640 --> 02:01:00,500
I've got one question to add to the list, and I know you're not going to be able to

1546
02:01:00,500 --> 02:01:03,360
and I'll provide you with it.

1547
02:01:04,940 --> 02:01:16,560
I realized that different readers are from different companies, but the president of

1548
02:01:16,560 --> 02:01:23,840
next evolution of Black cameras and I'd like to send that to you and if you would just comment on that in your

1549
02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:28,340
Please, ma'am. Okay. I'll wait to get that email from you. Thank you. Thank you. And I just want to say thank you again

1550
02:01:28,340 --> 02:01:35,060
you guys are amazing. Instead of just jumping the gun to make a decision, you're actually wanting to take input. This man calls me all the time

1551
02:01:35,420 --> 02:01:39,520
and he's listening to his constituents and we're here to work together as a team.

1552
02:01:39,700 --> 02:01:41,320
I promise you. Thank you.

1553
02:01:43,360 --> 02:01:47,760
If there is no further discussion, would you not have an executive session tonight?

1554
02:01:48,500 --> 02:01:51,320
Are there any other comments or anything before you adjourn?

1555
02:01:52,140 --> 02:01:53,420
Well adjourn the meeting is 6 o'clock.