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[7:05] Ninth, 2026.

[7:09] Do we have anybody signed up for public comments.

[7:11] No, sir.

[7:12] All right.

[7:13] Information discussion.

[7:14] Let's start with two.

[7:15] A baseball firm.

[7:16] And who's going to present for your group.

[7:19] Jay, are you going to introduce.

[7:21] I'm just going to introduce these guys.

[7:23] Please do.

[7:24] I didn't bring my tap dancing shoes tonight.

[7:27] I don't think Nico did either, to be fair.

[7:30] Got sandals on, but we're going to make

[7:32] him tap dance regardless.

[7:34] I just want to sing the praises of these guys

[7:37] real quick before I introduce them.

[7:39] It was shortly after the flood last year

[7:43] that we started talking with the group

[7:46] who managed the Sports Complex prior, and it was just negative.

[7:51] This negative that negative.

[7:52] The other don't want to badmouth them.

[7:54] It's a tough business as these guys can attest.

[7:56] However, we know what we have here

[7:59] and we're happy to have these guys on board.

[8:01] They're overperforming and we want to see that continue.

[8:07] But I've been told by John junker, the tall guy sitting

[8:10] in the middle here, that his two captains are

[8:12] going to be presenting tonight.

[8:14] So we have Nico Gonzalez and Jeff Quinlan

[8:16] who are going to come up and tell

[8:17] us a little bit about how it's going out at the Sports Complex.

[8:21] You can tell these guys have been outside all day.

[8:23] There you go.

[8:25] Who's first.

[8:25] Jeff oh, Ichiro.

[8:28] Leadoff thank you guys for having us tonight.

[8:31] We're really excited to present to you all and show you

[8:35] what we've been able to accomplish

[8:37] through the first half of the year

[8:39] and just give you an overall view of what we're kind

[8:42] of expecting through the summer and then

[8:44] the fall into next year.

[8:45] So this picture was taken one morning at one

[8:48] of the first tournaments.

[8:49] And obviously you can see it's just a beautiful picture

[8:51] and it's one that we use on our Facebook and stuff

[8:55] like that to show what Kerrville really has to represent.

[8:58] So where's the slide thing.

[9:01] Oh, here we go.

[9:04] So the Kerrville Sports Complex, obviously

[9:06] it's under new leadership.

[9:07] We're the baseball firm.

[9:09] I am not originally from Kerrville

[9:11] but have been coming to this complex for a long time.

[9:14] And since 2018 ish, 19 ish since I saw it for the first time,

[9:18] I knew that this was one of the best sports complexes

[9:21] that I'd seen traveling around the country.

[9:23] And so when the opportunity came up to be a part of this,

[9:27] it was a no brainer for me.

[9:29] From the community to the fields to the families

[9:32] and the outside communities that love to come here,

[9:35] it's a pretty special place that we feel like is

[9:37] here in the city of Kerrville.

[9:39] We've been fortunate to host the tournaments

[9:41] this spring so far that have 14 and under.

[9:45] And so what that means is eighth graders down.

[9:47] Because in the springtime you have sports.

[9:49] Tap sports going on.

[9:50] So the high school kids are obviously doing

[9:52] their stuff in the high school.

[9:54] So just real quick, I'll give you an overview

[9:56] of how we look at it.

[9:58] If you've ever done select sports in baseball or softball,

[10:02] we put our calendar together like you would for one

[10:05] of those type of businesses.

[10:07] Meaning from January through May,

[10:09] we're really going to be able to go after the 14 and down kids,

[10:13] because those are the ones who are playing both boys and girls.

[10:16] Once the summer starts, May through the end of July,

[10:19] maybe the first week of August is when you can really capture

[10:21] the high school kids, and a lot of the younger groups

[10:24] stop playing because of other things that they do,

[10:26] and it's just the natural ebb and flow.

[10:29] And then you come back.

[10:29] Most people take August off because they're doing tryouts,

[10:32] or they're kind of getting themselves ready to go.

[10:34] And then September through November

[10:36] is when you can really go back to all ages, because if they're

[10:39] not playing football at the high school level or young ladies

[10:43] that are playing just softball, you can really capture

[10:46] all of them in the fall.

[10:48] So it's kind of a three season tier

[10:49] whenever you're looking at the calendar

[10:51] for how it's run for us.

[10:53] So you want to talk about the mission.

[10:57] Yeah, yeah.

[11:00] So we have partnered with youth baseball.

[11:03] It's a group called five tool baseball.

[11:06] They're our partner in the youth side of things.

[11:08] And then from a high school side,

[11:10] unfortunately, right now we don't have the fields

[11:13] to run high school events.

[11:15] We have two high school fields, and then

[11:17] we have two softball fields.

[11:18] So we can't play high school events on the dirt fields.

[11:22] So we have two baseball fields which can only host

[11:24] 10 team, 10 team tournament.

[11:27] Which 10 teams is you're not going to get anyone

[11:30] to come here for 10 teams.

[11:31] So if we can get we're going to try

[11:33] to get some improvements done to get the two

[11:35] softball fields caught up.

[11:36] And we can have a fourplex to where

[11:39] when he talks about seasons of hey,

[11:40] we have the first season, second season,

[11:42] third season as of now, June and July is going to be.

[11:46] It's not going to be what it could be because the complex

[11:49] isn't designed for it yet.

[11:51] So that's something we can talk about.

[11:52] We can work on that.

[11:53] That's a big need for this area is to work

[11:56] on the high school side.

[11:57] But going back to the mission, we wanted to find a partner

[12:00] that did things the right way.

[12:02] As far as social media coverage, the arm, the arm care, health

[12:08] programs that they put in place, the baseball USA guidelines

[12:12] they follow.

[12:13] So we're working with five tool baseball.

[12:15] That's not to say that we're Switzerland.

[12:19] So everybody can come play here whether that is perfect game

[12:22] NCS et cetera, et cetera.

[12:24] So we're not a monopoly on anything here in Kerrville.

[12:28] And so that's kind of our mission.

[12:30]

[12:33] We also have NCS a perfect game.

[12:35] And so he touched on that a little bit.

[12:37] And what those are different tournament organizations.

[12:39] And so where some people really put themselves in a hole

[12:41] is they put all their eggs in one basket per se,

[12:44] and they only use one tournament operator and stuff like that.

[12:47] And that really can hurt you in the long run.

[12:51] And so we have not wanted to be that especially

[12:53] for our local teams.

[12:54] Our local teams want to come and play out there,

[12:56] but they don't want to play the same teams every weekend

[12:59] and they don't want to play each other over and over.

[13:01] And so by spreading out the different tournament operators

[13:04] that we use relationship wise, everything else,

[13:07] it's good for our kids here inside the community

[13:10] to be able to have that many more

[13:12] different styles of tournaments and opportunities.

[13:16] Other things.

[13:17] Business summary we continue to strengthen

[13:20] in presence promoting the Kerrville Sports

[13:21] Complex throughout the state.

[13:23] With that being said, how we do that is

[13:24] with the different tournament operators,

[13:26] the AAA team that came in a couple of weeks ago,

[13:29] they were from Waco.

[13:30] We're dealing with NRCS that is maybe coming from El Paso.

[13:33] And so when we spread out where these people come from,

[13:36] it also helps geographically bring their clients with them.

[13:40] And so that's how that really helps us with.

[13:44] We're actively working with the Kerrville convention

[13:47] and Visitors Bureau, including exploring opportunities

[13:49] for future, to feature the CVB directly on our website

[13:54] and better promote local tourism.

[13:56] City engagement.

[13:57] We want the baseball firm to build relationships

[13:59] with local hotels, restaurants, businesses throughout Kerrville.

[14:02] Meaning whenever we host a baseball tournament, depending

[14:07] on where they're coming from, a lot of the teams stay in hotels.

[14:10] A lot of the teams are going to eat in the local restaurants.

[14:12] They're going to fill up their cars here.

[14:13] They're going to hopefully do and explore

[14:15] the town of Kerrville for everything that it has to give.

[14:18] So we really feel like if we're successful bringing in people

[14:22] to our tournaments, it's really going to be a success

[14:25] for the city of Kerrville.

[14:27] And so that's what we're really trying to do.

[14:30] Initiatives we're looking ahead.

[14:32] We're working with nationally recognized organizations.

[14:35] We're putting together different tournaments

[14:37] like we talked about, and we're also trying to do we'll

[14:39] get talk about it in a second.

[14:41] In the fall.

[14:42] Be a place that outside state organizations can also come in

[14:46] and run college level showcases to help kids

[14:50] that maybe are already in college,

[14:52] or are kids that are in high school looking to go play

[14:55] at the next level to create different opportunities outside

[14:58] of just playing games, standards, being

[15:00] able to showcase do all of those type of things

[15:02] to at the ballpark.

[15:05] Here's a little breakdown of the metrics and champions

[15:07] so far so far.

[15:09] Once we're done with this weekend,

[15:10] we'll be at a 407 teams that have come through the gate

[15:14] this spring.

[15:15] That's 4675 players roughly.

[15:19] And then you can see what I was talking

[15:20] about on the bottom left.

[15:22] That's a graph of teams per month.

[15:24] And you can see the Colder months

[15:26] once you get to April and May.

[15:28] That's the big spike for the 14 and down groups.

[15:32] And then as you get back into the summertime,

[15:34] it kind of slows back down.

[15:36] And we had two rainouts in there as

[15:39] well throughout May and March.

[15:42] This is just a little breakdown, so you

[15:44] can see where everybody was kind of coming

[15:46] from inside the state of Texas.

[15:49] And so we have been able to get a wide range

[15:52] for just starting this spring.

[15:55] 82% of the traffic, foot traffic comes from our baseball

[15:59] and softball tournaments.

[16:01] 10% is from the Kerrville Little League.

[16:03] And then about 8% is from the coed and senior softball leagues

[16:07] and stuff of that nature.

[16:08] These are all the different communities

[16:12] that the teams have come from that have visited Kerrville.

[16:15] Obviously, some of them have come multiple times,

[16:17] but we've at least put down the city at least one time

[16:20] if they've come this spring.

[16:22] So you can see the breakdown of where they're coming from.

[16:25] The new changes that we are working on right now,

[16:28] we are actively trying to be the second park in the state

[16:32] of Texas that has the minor League Baseball camera

[16:37] stuff that they're going to in the Major Leagues, which

[16:39] is everything's being called by balls and strikes

[16:42] by AI and automation.

[16:43] And so we're going to be putting up the camera

[16:45] systems on all 11 fields.

[16:47] We're working through that right now.

[16:49] But to give anybody who comes to Kerrville

[16:51] an experience that they're not going

[16:52] to get hardly anywhere else.

[16:54] And so the opportunities for us to have, a new technology like

[17:00] that nobody's seen and we'll be able to use it at the youth,

[17:03] the middle school and the high school level,

[17:05] it's really something that's going to stand out.

[17:07] And I really, really think it's going

[17:08] to be something that gives the park a really cool experience.

[17:12] And on that, it's not going to just be balls and strikes.

[17:16] It's also going to be video.

[17:18] So parents can download the app, they can watch games live.

[17:22] It's going to be live feeds.

[17:24] They're going to be able to get analytics from it.

[17:26] And so it's not just a red dot green dot.

[17:29] It's actual technology that they can

[17:31] use for a lot of different stuff to create

[17:34] their portfolios as players.

[17:36] How many I'm sorry.

[17:37] How many parks or facilities have

[17:40] that in the state right now.

[17:41] Just roughly will be the second would be the second.

[17:43] The only other one is in Tomball, Texas at Premier.

[17:46] And that's where they use a bunch of the higher level

[17:51] high school tournaments are played there because this system

[17:54] can give you, launch angle, RPMs on fastball velocity of the bat,

[18:00] miles per hour access speeds, different pitch styles.

[18:04] I mean, it can get as nutty as you want as far as how much you

[18:07] want to get into it, but it's just a really, really cool

[18:10] system, because if the parents obviously use the app

[18:13] and do all that stuff, they're able to build

[18:16] a portfolio for their players.

[18:18] As far as actual metrics and data, that's really captured,

[18:22] and it solves the parent of parents yelling at the umpires

[18:24] because it's the balls and strikes will not be inaccurate.

[18:28] Oh, and one thing, because we've gotten this to just I mean,

[18:31] I don't know if we have any youth, parents and stuff,

[18:33] but the way this stuff works is youth baseball games,

[18:36] high school baseball games.

[18:37] Sometimes the score can get out of hand.

[18:38] And so if you this is a soapbox.

[18:41] But if you have an umpire that likes to stay tight, right.

[18:43] Because we're Major League stuff out there, we can open the zone,

[18:46] we can close the zone, we can do things to help the game be

[18:49] a little bit more facilitate, if that's

[18:53] a word for the young kids.

[18:55] And if that's not I just made it up.

[18:56] So let me go to that next one right there.

[19:00] So we have a website the baseball firm.

[19:04] If you ever want to go check it out.

[19:06] Everything's on there from the Little League to the Sr. League

[19:09] to the co-ed.

[19:10] We need to add the CFB.

[19:13] We need to add restaurants.

[19:14] We need to add certain things in the community

[19:16] that we need to nail on.

[19:17] But as far as when tournaments who the tournament director is,

[19:21] all of it's on there.

[19:22] So it's a good.

[19:24] In the past, I don't think this has ever had a true website

[19:27] for the complex where anybody can go at any time,

[19:30] check in on any weekend that they want and see what's there.

[19:33] Click the link.

[19:34] And then if anybody if any of the teams register

[19:36] they can register.

[19:37] So just on that marketing piece there.

[19:38] And it's really trying to create the synergy

[19:40] between the baseball firm, the complex and the community.

[19:43] Because every time we can get that right the way we want it,

[19:46] every time we send out something about tournaments,

[19:48] our website is going to be on there.

[19:49] So we just want people to click on it, go to our website

[19:51] and then see what the city of Kerrville and our complex

[19:54] has to offer.

[19:57] The future, what we're trying to do out there.

[20:00] We have some fields that do have we need a little love

[20:03] to be able to bring the high school type of tournaments

[20:06] that we want to.

[20:08] And what that means is select baseball

[20:10] has become such a big thing.

[20:12] Select softball has become such a big thing.

[20:15] There's good players on all these teams,

[20:17] and they're going to want their players to be playing on fields

[20:19] that they know are good baseball fields

[20:22] that they can't get hurt on.

[20:23] So some of the mounds, since we have portable mounds,

[20:26] there's things that we need to replace

[20:27] that we need to do some dirt work that we need to do.

[20:30] But next summer, we will have high school

[20:32] baseball tournaments here.

[20:33] We're already actively talking to the guys

[20:35] that we need to talk to make sure

[20:37] that we get those tournaments.

[20:40] We're going to get those tournaments.

[20:41] That's not going to be a problem.

[20:42] What we got to do is make sure we put the elbow grease

[20:44] into making it a complex.

[20:46] Those kids, whether they're ever going to play college baseball

[20:50] or not, can walk on those fields and play baseball

[20:53] and feel comfortable about it.

[20:55] The other thing that we've run into

[20:57] is we're kind of capped out right now at how many teams

[21:00] we can bring out there from the parking space,

[21:03] and so we'll work through that and obviously

[21:05] do whatever soccer fields this weekend

[21:08] and use the soccer fields this weekend.

[21:09] So that would be the only thing, because once we get to about

[21:11] 54 teams, the games don't move fast

[21:15] enough for people to be moving in and out of the complex.

[21:17] And so we definitely want to make

[21:19] sure we stay within the rules of everything that we need to.

[21:22] But that's just the only thing that we've seen so far.

[21:26] Signage out at the complex.

[21:27] We need to have some refreshed signage for 2027.

[21:30] And when we say signage, we are the ones

[21:32] that say no cleats, no seeds, just

[21:33] the rules of the complex park.

[21:36] Nice, right.

[21:36] The field numbers, stuff like that people

[21:38] use on a tournament basis just so

[21:41] and especially the rules part shaded areas

[21:44] for participants and fans.

[21:46] What we've thought about is if you've ever been out there

[21:49] on a nice hot day and you're standing on that concrete

[21:53] to wait for a concession stand line, and if you're on the grass

[21:57] and it takes 10 minutes, it can be a little hot.

[21:59] So thinking about a way we always put up the pop up tents

[22:03] and stuff, but thinking about maybe an awning or something

[22:05] that we could have maybe not permanently because of the wind,

[22:09] but something that we can shade people as they sit

[22:11] and have a little picnic area, stuff like that makes it feel

[22:15] like we're at the ballpark.

[22:16] We can eat nachos, little family picnic kind of deal.

[22:19] So anything that that's what a ballpark is, right.

[22:22] It's a family atmosphere.

[22:23] Make it feel like a family event.

[22:26] And then is that it.

[22:28] Yeah so I mean, just in closing, guys, Jeff Quillen,

[22:33] he's been doing baseball probably 20 plus years.

[22:36] Unfortunately, yeah.

[22:37] I'm in it for 16 years.

[22:40] How was your coach.

[22:41] He was my coach in high school.

[22:42] So we got 36 years in this thing.

[22:45] And so we are very excited for what's to come.

[22:49] And we still are going to keep working

[22:51] on improving the ballpark.

[22:53] The more improvements we make, the more teams we bring here

[22:55] and the more love that people can

[22:57] see how amazing Kerrville is.

[22:59] So thank you guys.

[23:00] Thank you.

[23:01] If you have questions, comments, or questions, go ahead.

[23:03] Well, first of all, can you tell me your names.

[23:05] I heard them, but Jeff Cooley.

[23:07] OK Nico Gonzalez.

[23:09] OK Jeff.

[23:09] Nico OK.

[23:10] And then I just want to say I spent

[23:12] gosh, I don't 12, 15 years.

[23:15] My husband was a coach and our daughter played softball.

[23:18] And we brought our own shade and our own food.

[23:21] And I mean, so this is like heaven

[23:24] for someone who's going to be traveling and enjoying

[23:26] games every weekend.

[23:28] So what have you heard from people who come.

[23:30] Besides parking, maybe you could use more parking.

[23:33] Have you heard from your tournament people.

[23:36] Parents hey, where's the closest hotel.

[23:38] Or are there things you're hearing that we

[23:42] need to hear as a big picture.

[23:46] Price point on hotels is pretty high.

[23:50] For what they're used to at different areas.

[23:54] They're staying some people that I've

[23:57] heard are staying in Bernie over Kerrville because

[24:00] of the price point difference.

[24:02] That's the thing that I've heard is price point.

[24:04] That's interesting.

[24:05] Yes and I'll be good cop.

[24:07] What I hear all the time is how nice the facility

[24:11] is when these kids come from all these different areas.

[24:15] That's why I can't thank Jay, Ethan and Steve and their team

[24:19] for what they do, the support, the way those fields look.

[24:22] Steve and his group, they work their tails off out there.

[24:25] And I've told Steve this multiple times.

[24:27] Being a baseball coach for as long as I was in high school,

[24:31] it's hard to take care of one field, much less 11.

[24:34] And when six of those are softball

[24:36] fields with a lot of dirt.

[24:37] So it is not an easy job to keep those things

[24:41] the shape that they're in.

[24:43] And so it's amazing how many people come in and be like,

[24:45] wow, why don't we play here more often.

[24:47] And so that's really been the key

[24:49] is trying to get the first timers or the people that hadn't

[24:52] been here in a few years, back into it, back

[24:54] into the community.

[24:55] And when they do the feedback from them

[24:58] is very, very good, very good.

[25:00] And John reminded me, we are working with two hotels

[25:04] in the area to try to work on pricing for 2027,

[25:08] even to the fact of coaches who travel here,

[25:10] who don't have any kids on the team,

[25:12] trying to get them a free hotel room

[25:14] and going the extra mile to make sure that they come here

[25:16] and stay here, giving them different incentives to make it

[25:19] to where they do stay.

[25:20] Oh, good.

[25:21] Well, that brings me to the other question

[25:23] I had about fundraising.

[25:24] Do you have any plans to do that.

[25:26] And with the tournament fees you're charging,

[25:28] are you able to at least have a balanced budget

[25:31] at the end of the day.

[25:32] Or what kind of fundraising would you maybe perhaps plan or.

[25:37] Well, the fundraising for us is not really something

[25:40] that we would look to do.

[25:41] What we would look to do is help, like the Little League,

[25:44] like Kerrville Little League, to be able to do things,

[25:47] to maybe help them with playing opportunities,

[25:50] uniforms, just things that we can do inside there.

[25:52] But as far as us needing to do fundraising for our own,

[25:55] well, I didn't know if you had just had someone else doing it.

[25:58] Like we used to have sponsors for signs on the fence

[26:01] and all of that.

[26:01] I don't know if y'all.

[26:02] Yeah, yeah, we still want to explore those options

[26:05] as far as that type of and just probably

[26:08] use that money to put back in the park whatever

[26:10] sponsors we're able to get.

[26:11] OK, good.

[26:12] Yeah but yeah that or I mean we really want

[26:15] to give back to the community.

[26:16] So all of the money that comes in from all

[26:18] those different locations of cities we'd like to give

[26:21] to the Kerrville Little League, if there's local select teams

[26:24] that we give breaks to in their tournament dues,

[26:26] et cetera, et cetera put Kerrville first there.

[26:30] Let's play ball.

[26:31] OK thank you very much.

[26:35] We kind of started this whole venture.

[26:38] I mean getting people here and start playing ball in March.

[26:42] Yes, sir.

[26:43] Yes, we're in June.

[26:46] How many teams have we had so far.

[26:48] 407 what was your annual goal for 2026?

[26:52] I believe it's 400.

[26:53] There you go.

[26:54] Thank you.

[26:55] Yes thank you sir.

[26:56] And y'all have more coming.

[26:57] Yes yeah, we have a whole other half a year, but good job.

[27:01] Great job.

[27:01] I mean, that's what we asked you all

[27:03] to do when y'all came in, and y'all have exceeded everything.

[27:08] So thank you.

[27:09] We appreciate that very much.

[27:12] Thanks for the great work you're doing.

[27:13] It's really exciting to have that much activity

[27:16] going on out there.

[27:17] So thanks.

[27:18] Thanks for the good work.

[27:19] Thank you.

[27:21] I just want to applaud y'all just as a citizen

[27:24] who drives by that.

[27:27] Facility twice, at least twice a day.

[27:30] Seeing it last year or even maybe two years ago.

[27:34] And my son did lessons out there.

[27:39] So I know how nice that facility is.

[27:41] And so seeing tournaments not taking place

[27:44] and seeing it kind of sitting empty.

[27:45] So seeing y'all drastically turn it around is really great.

[27:49] So congratulations.

[27:51] Thank you.

[27:53] Congratulations and good work to you and your crews.

[27:56] Thank you.

[27:57] Thank you.

[27:58] If you're around this weekend 72 team softball

[28:01] tournament, 22 colleges here.

[28:03] We'll have Texas Tech here.

[28:04] We'll have some big colleges watching

[28:06] these girls 14, 16 and 18.

[28:09] You it'll be a packed house this weekend if y'all are bored.

[28:11] Thank you.

[28:12] Thank you.

[28:13] Thank you all.

[28:13] Thank you.

[28:14] Free entry fee for anybody in this room.

[28:16]

[28:19] OK my favorite price.

[28:23] Next item is the Kerr together legislative update.

[28:25] I believe Mr. Whitson is going to address this.

[28:28]

[28:32] I need a cookie.

[28:34] Thanks for being here.

[28:35] Thank you all.

[28:36] Thank you.

[28:37]

[28:43] My glasses.

[28:44] Thank you, Mr. mayor.

[28:45] And members of council.

[28:47] Before I begin this afternoon, I'd like.

[28:50] I'm bringing my friends with me to talk

[28:53] about several important subjects.

[28:56] Kelly and our Governmental Affairs team.

[29:00] Y'all stand up.

[29:01] Tara's here.

[29:05] Come on up.

[29:06] OK hey.

[29:07] I'm glad you're here.

[29:08] This is a team effort to key off of the last presentation.

[29:13] We've been working hard to do a lot of things that are hard.

[29:19] And as I mentioned yesterday in my briefing to the County

[29:25] we'd like to give, I'm here for two reasons.

[29:28] Number one, to give you an update on the operations

[29:31] that we've been doing at Kerr together.

[29:34] And also to start a conversation about what

[29:37] additional financial assistance we

[29:40] might need going into the next part of the recovery.

[29:46] Since July four of last year.

[29:49] I don't have to tell you what a blow

[29:51] it was, but look how far we've come.

[29:56] Working together, everybody putting on the same Jersey.

[30:00] And I will tell you, from my experience

[30:03] in working other disasters that you've gone far

[30:07] and really have shown up in terms of what

[30:11] this community is made of.

[30:13]

[30:16] Kerrville is a special place I found

[30:19] quite an enjoyable experience working with everybody.

[30:23] You're strong and you're not like some communities

[30:26] I've worked with in terms of getting things done.

[30:31] There are some communities that take

[30:34] four to six months to even set up their long term

[30:37] recovery operation.

[30:38] You guys did it in weeks, and it's just a testament

[30:43] to your grit, determination, and all the things

[30:47] that you've brought to the table.

[30:49] So again, I'm very proud to be part

[30:53] of this, very proud of all of your folks

[30:57] that have worked with us.

[30:58] And the long term recovery operation is a team game

[31:03] and we have worked with many, many partners.

[31:08] I don't have time to go through all of them,

[31:10] but that we've worked with corporations,

[31:13] we've worked with the Community Foundation,

[31:15] we've worked with volunteer organizations after disaster.

[31:20] Have you come and seen club 98, the one stop shop.

[31:23] You can walk around and see all the organizations

[31:25] that work daily.

[31:27] Obviously the city of Kerrville.

[31:30] Ingram we've worked with the County, just a lot of state

[31:35] agencies, universities.

[31:37] And I'd like to give a shout out to Doctor Boswell

[31:40] here with Schreiner University.

[31:42] They've been a top player in this effort as well.

[31:45] So thank you to the whole community

[31:47] for rallying to the cause.

[31:50] And now we are going to work together to go further.

[31:56] I'd like to just highlight a few things.

[31:59] Since I've been here, we've been working

[32:02] and we've gotten a few things done.

[32:04] So obviously wanted to share a few things in terms

[32:08] of the top accomplishments, we have created the one stop shop,

[32:12] and I know that several of you have been through it.

[32:15] Route the mayor helped us cut the ribbon, so thank you.

[32:19] We have provided leadership to the flood Warning system.

[32:24] You didn't have one last year.

[32:26] You have one now.

[32:27] And I'm just the spokesman.

[32:29] But Tara's the real expert in that.

[32:31] And so if you have questions, I'll

[32:33] take all the easy questions.

[32:34] If you have any hard questions, you

[32:35] can ask Tara later on in the presentation,

[32:38] we're going to cover some of that.

[32:41] It really began with the Texas middle mile grant.

[32:44] There were $700 million in requests for that money.

[32:50] There was $200 million to give out, and we won 14.7 of it.

[32:56] And that has begun to build the backbone

[32:59] in the electronic highway.

[33:00] We need to gather data for the flood Warning predictive system.

[33:05] We've actively supported small businesses across the County,

[33:09] in particular some of the things that they

[33:14] found they needed help with.

[33:16] And I see Mindy sitting here and she knows what all we've done.

[33:20] Collectively, it's been a real joy

[33:23] to see that part of the disaster come full circle.

[33:29] We've actually done one of the key things we've done

[33:33] is the healing of the river.

[33:34] The strategy is all hanging on.

[33:38] If we heal the river, we heal the community.

[33:40] And we've done that in three specific ways.

[33:44] There's been riparian plantings.

[33:46] We have initiatives to work on invasive species.

[33:51] The most exciting program to me is the trees initiative

[33:55] that the San Antonio botanical garden is working with us on.

[33:58] They wanted to collect last year.

[34:00] I was like, oh, y'all want to do that.

[34:03] 100,000 seeds they wanted to collect

[34:05] from Native species in the Guadalupe Valley River Valley.

[34:10] I said, wow, that's huge.

[34:13] They collected 850,000 seeds.

[34:17] And now those seeds have been turned over to the scientists

[34:19] and to their methodology.

[34:22] And they are in the process of growing.

[34:25] And this fall, we're going you have to actually

[34:28] you can't go plant the trees.

[34:29] You have to be trained to plant the trees

[34:32] because there's ways we want to do it and put back what I think

[34:36] is a legacy out of this disaster,

[34:39] out of the horrible aspects of this disaster.

[34:42] There will be good things that are happening.

[34:45] Another thing we've done is the multiple public education

[34:51] initiatives.

[34:52] How many have seen the New film out healing for the hope

[34:56] for the Guadalupe hands.

[34:59] Yeah go see it.

[35:01] It's on YouTube.

[35:02] And it's also going to be featured around the state

[35:04] on PBS television.

[35:06] So we've made a lot of strides there.

[35:08] Again, many partners working together to do great things.

[35:12] Another thing that I'm kind of tickled about is our dive teams.

[35:16] And I see Jay left.

[35:17] Oh he's there.

[35:18] He and I have worked diligently with the dive teams,

[35:24] and you would not believe what they have

[35:26] pulled out of the river in the high contact

[35:29] areas, the swim areas.

[35:30] We want to make sure they're clear

[35:33] not only for the local people, but for the visitors.

[35:35] And last count, about a week ago was a little over 31,000 pounds

[35:41] of debris, sharp objects, metal, all

[35:45] kinds of things collected and have

[35:47] been removed from the river.

[35:49] And that's not only just from City of Kerrville,

[35:53] it involves the state of Texas.

[35:55] They have worked hand in glove with us on that effort.

[35:59] So I'm really tickled about that.

[36:03] We've also worked with the emotional and spiritual care

[36:06] and outreach initiatives.

[36:08] And again, I'm coming in.

[36:12] Here I've been here 10 months.

[36:13] 11 months.

[36:14] There's some of you that have been here since day one,

[36:18] and it is not a sign of weakness.

[36:20] If you want to go get help or you want to talk to somebody,

[36:23] do it.

[36:25] Because having worked many, many disasters,

[36:28] that is a critical, critical aspect that

[36:30] needs to be paid attention to.

[36:32] And the beautiful thing about this

[36:34] is if there is a beautiful thing is you've got the resources,

[36:39] the money is there, the help is there.

[36:42] Go take advantage of it.

[36:44] We've organized a tourism support activities, the

[36:47] new Guadalupe Valley program.

[36:50] And I have to give a huge shout out to your director.

[36:56] Names, Julie.

[36:59] Yeah sorry.

[37:01] She has stepped up in such a large way for that initiative.

[37:06] And we have garnered resources.

[37:08] There they'll be over $650,000 in.

[37:12] Advertisement that didn't cost you anything to advertise.

[37:16] Hey come back.

[37:17] Enjoy the river again.

[37:19] We're open for business.

[37:21] So I think that was a huge accomplishment.

[37:23] And of course, we've supported organizations with unmet needs.

[37:29] And we had a report today.

[37:31] It's just incredible.

[37:33] And one thing that's not on the slide here I want to also

[37:36] emphasize is we just received a $35,000 grant from

[37:40] the rebuild Texas fund to start a youth

[37:45] corps resilience initiative.

[37:47] So where we're going to begin teaching the kids

[37:50] how to do this recovery work.

[37:52] And I think that's just a beautiful and wonderful

[37:54] thing to pass the torch, to pass the legacy to a new group.

[38:00] So the second thing I want to talk to you

[38:02] a little bit about is the legislative proposal.

[38:07] I love football.

[38:08] I'm a football kind of guy.

[38:10] So I try to use an analogy I could understand.

[38:14] And that is we're about halftime.

[38:16] If you look at the Grand scheme of things and as one

[38:20] of the voices in the halftime locker room,

[38:24] it's time for us to roll up our sleeves take credit for what

[38:28] we've done, celebrate what we've done,

[38:30] but plan for the third and fourth quarter

[38:33] because this whole effort isn't over by a long shot.

[38:37] In what we do in the second quarter and the third,

[38:40] I mean, the third and fourth quarter

[38:41] is just as important as the wins that we've racked up

[38:44] in the first half of the game.

[38:46] So we've been working with our friends

[38:49] at the Kerrville chamber.

[38:51] And again, that's why my folks are here

[38:54] with the governmental Affairs Committee.

[38:56] And they have been rolling up their sleeves working with me

[38:59] and the other team members.

[39:01] I have to shout out to Michael harness,

[39:03] who's also been involved in helping me navigate this space.

[39:08] And we've come up with four categories

[39:10] that we want to approach the legislative bodies

[39:14] with and talk with them about.

[39:16] The number one ask would be the flood Warning system.

[39:20] We've won and I'll show you.

[39:22] I'll walk through the details.

[39:23] We've won quite a bit there.

[39:24] And we've done quite a bit there.

[39:27] But what else do we need to do.

[39:29] That's our number one.

[39:30] Ask our number one priority.

[39:32] What else needs to be done.

[39:34] We also want to build emergency response capacity

[39:38] greater than it was in 2025.

[39:42] We want to mitigate any environmental impacts

[39:45] that are involved in the situation with the recovery.

[39:49] And of course, we want to improve any policies

[39:52] that we can at the state level and become

[39:54] a model for how we do long term recovery

[39:58] and how we lead as we go forward.

[40:02] Real quick, I think you've seen this before,

[40:05] but this just gives you an example of how critical

[40:09] the middle mile project was.

[40:11] It basically builds the electronic highway

[40:15] to do the flood prediction modeling in a more precise way.

[40:18] The data that you need to do such high level calculations

[40:23] is hidden in all the creeks and valleys, and along the riverine

[40:27] systems in remote areas.

[40:29] So the electronic highway allows us

[40:31] to begin moving that data from where it's the rain

[40:35] is falling, where the stream is flowing, where the water

[40:38] levels are being recorded, and move it

[40:40] into the predictive model, which is going to be housed at ugra.

[40:45] And there will be other benefits from that.

[40:48] And I see it not only as an electronic highway,

[40:50] but a backbone for our flood recovery system.

[40:55] And there'll be other benefits as well.

[40:58] Moving on with the flood Warning system,

[41:01] we've built this with three different buckets of funds.

[41:05] So that's how you have to do it in government.

[41:07] You have to piece it all together.

[41:09] And we've done that.

[41:10] The first one, of course, is the middle mile.

[41:13] The second one is funds we receive from the state of Texas

[41:17] that flowed from the Texas Water Development Board to the County.

[41:22] And then on to ugra.

[41:24] And now the really cool thing is we

[41:26] have this new tool built that is being assembled

[41:29] by ugra called river hub.

[41:32] The river hub and river hub is going

[41:34] to be an electronic dashboard.

[41:36] It'll be not quite on your mobile phone yet,

[41:39] but we're getting there.

[41:40] It's best viewed at this point in time on your PC,

[41:43] but it'll be a map and it'll show you

[41:46] where all the rain is falling.

[41:47] It'll show you where the rivers, creeks are rising.

[41:50] It'll show you where things are happening

[41:53] out there in the system.

[41:55] And again, we have done all of this work

[41:58] to begin being able to develop a predictive model

[42:03] because the whole thing with a flash flood

[42:05] is it's not like in Florida where I come

[42:07] from, unless it's a hurricane.

[42:09] The water slowly creeps up on the Florida Gulf Coast.

[42:13] But here the water flashes and it comes fast and furious,

[42:17] and you have to get out in enough time.

[42:20] And so that's the magic of a predictive system,

[42:23] is to give you that time by you, that

[42:25] time to take evasive action.

[42:30] This basically leads us with a delta between what we need

[42:37] and what we have, and we'll go into the details

[42:39] of that in just a minute.

[42:40] But one of the things that was not done last year

[42:44] in the legislative sessions, where they asked that we get

[42:47] all these sirens built, is there was no money

[42:49] appropriated for maintenance.

[42:52] In fact, they didn't even know how many

[42:54] sirens we were going to need.

[42:56] And that's the process that we're involved in right now.

[43:00] And we have some figures there to do some ballpark

[43:02] estimates on that.

[43:05] So what are the challenges.

[43:08] How many of these sirens are we going

[43:11] to need throughout the County.

[43:13] And the chief has been active in our working groups,

[43:16] and we're going to have some more comments on that

[43:18] pretty soon too.

[43:19] But if you take this state of Texas guidance

[43:23] and you apply it strictly by the letter,

[43:26] according to their written guidance,

[43:28] we need 134 sirens in Kerr County

[43:32] to cover the entire river.

[43:34] Well, we've already about.

[43:36] Well, we installed 6 and we got two more to go.

[43:39] So we have already eight.

[43:40] So that means 126.

[43:42] That's an enormous amount of capital cost

[43:47] plus maintenance and expense.

[43:49] And so our technical team is digging into this issue.

[43:53] And it's tied to where are the flash flood areas

[43:57] and the areas of high hazard.

[43:59] And we're going to begin to have that conversation with the state

[44:03] and narrow this down to what we think is probably

[44:06] a more manageable number, probably

[44:08] somewhere between 20 and 30.

[44:11] Sirens but again, that is yet to be worked out.

[44:15] So looking at the entire system, taking a look

[44:18] at what it all in cost would be, we're estimating

[44:22] at this point 29.4 million.

[44:25] Like I said, we've had some wins.

[44:28] We're about halfway there in terms

[44:30] of funding that we've been allocated to build the system,

[44:34] but we need more.

[44:36] So we're about 54% in 45% to go.

[44:40] And again, these are our high level estimations.

[44:43] If you break down further we have about 2.4 million

[44:48] already in.

[44:50] That's involved in the process of putting up

[44:52] the sirens that we have on order and that we're

[44:57] actually physically here.

[44:59] But if you take a look at OK, if we

[45:02] have to add more sirens to the system, what would that cost.

[45:05] And here are some of the numbers that we have broken down.

[45:08] These are high level estimates.

[45:10] As we learn more about specifically where these sirens

[45:14] need to go, we will refine these numbers

[45:16] and hopefully bring it down further.

[45:19] Again, I emphasize no maintenance was ascribed

[45:24] to the process, and we will need to figure out

[45:26] how that O&M cost is covered.

[45:30] So then going on to the second pillar

[45:32] of the plan and the legislative conversation.

[45:36] This is we need to be building emergency response capacity.

[45:39] And I know my friends sitting over here would agree with that.

[45:43] And what that means, what does that look like.

[45:46] Well, perhaps we need to take Schreiner University model

[45:50] and expand it and improve it so that it not only can help us,

[45:54] but it can help the rest of the state of Texas.

[45:57] And I think there's a large appetite for that.

[46:00] And we've been working with Doctor Boswell and Doctor

[46:03] McCormick on all those conversations

[46:05] and of course, the EOC upgrades that the County would like.

[46:10] This is a high level summary of what those would be,

[46:13] because again, you have to have the technology tools in place

[46:16] to be able to have those communications back

[46:19] and forth between the state and federal

[46:20] government and the locals.

[46:23] The third part of the strategy is mitigation

[46:26] of environmental impacts.

[46:29] We would like to see a very in-depth study conducted.

[46:34] The river raged on July four.

[46:38] It moved mountains of material everywhere, all over the place.

[46:43] So you have too much here, too little there.

[46:46] What do you do and how do you do that without destroying

[46:50] the environment.

[46:51] So we want to go in and have a 2 to three

[46:53] year look before you put bulldozers in the river,

[46:57] or whatever you need to do to move that material around.

[47:00] So that's part of what that ask is about.

[47:02] I've already mentioned that we have

[47:04] engaged in efforts to address habitat loss,

[47:08] but that's kind of a start.

[47:10] What happens if some of those private sector funding

[47:13] don't come through.

[47:14] What is the state of Texas obligation in that conversation.

[47:17] We would like to make sure that hole gets addressed,

[47:21] either by the initiatives we already have in place or ones

[47:24] that we can put in place working with state agencies.

[47:29] Policy improvements.

[47:32] Hey, there's always ways you can get better.

[47:35] And so some of the things we talked

[47:37] about in our conversations were to extend

[47:40] the SB three timelines.

[47:43] Tara has the responsibility of moving this ball forward.

[47:47] And she says she needs more time.

[47:50] The woman works 24/7.

[47:52] I don't know how she gets any rest.

[47:54] So if she says she needs a little more time,

[47:56] then I think we should consider that seriously.

[47:59] And I'm sure that there are other counties and other river

[48:01] authorities that would agree with that conversation as well.

[48:05] We also would like to see layering of the system.

[48:09] There's more than one way.

[48:11] The sirens are great and we appreciate the state's help

[48:14] and we want the state's help.

[48:16] But what else can we do.

[48:17] There's National Weather Service systems

[48:22] that could be put in place with the weather radios.

[48:24] There's also AccuWeather.

[48:27] There's also other two way communication

[48:31] radio systems that could be built

[48:32] and set up and put in place.

[48:35] There's a multiple layering of systems that we need to do

[48:38] and also connecting it with the state of Texas road system.

[48:42] So the low water crossings and the flashers and things

[48:46] like that could be set up on the roads.

[48:50] And we also would like to see the weather systems improved

[48:55] Senate Bill five allocated money to several universities

[49:01] to build radar, Doppler radars and other stream flow data

[49:05] that we don't have right now.

[49:07] And engineer that into the predictive model

[49:10] that could use some help.

[49:12] And I've actually talked to Rice University and Texas Tech

[49:16] and UT Arlington about this.

[49:18] And they're on board with wanting

[49:20] this additional assistance.

[49:21] So how does that all look in terms of policy improvements

[49:24] and what we would need to do that.

[49:26] We're estimating around $3 million

[49:28] to improve the technological aspects of this.

[49:32] Number two.

[49:33] And I'm working with Michael on this.

[49:37] What about if we were to take the middle mile

[49:42] and we were to provide some financial incentives

[49:44] to the AT&T, Verizon, all of those groups,

[49:49] we could place communication networks

[49:52] on our middle mile backbone and improve

[49:55] the cell phone technology.

[49:56] Technology, which is part of the problem in the remote areas

[50:00] of the County.

[50:01] It's not so much a problem in the city,

[50:03] but it is in the other parts of the County.

[50:05] And I think if we would form a public private partnership,

[50:08] we might be able to solve that problem.

[50:11] And so again, the idea is, why don't that cell.

[50:15] Why doesn't that cell phone coverage exist right now.

[50:19] Well, it's because of the capital cost.

[50:20] Let's face it, if these companies are not

[50:23] going to spend money, if they can't

[50:25] find a way to make it back.

[50:27] So if we could provide some sort of carrot in a partnership,

[50:30] maybe we could see that through and make it happen.

[50:34] And then, of course, a lot of damage to our smaller

[50:37] businesses, to the camps.

[50:40] There's 220 counties throughout the 254 counties in the state

[50:46] of Texas that have camps and that have the small businesses

[50:51] that support those camps.

[50:53] Perhaps we could talk with our and see what they could

[50:57] do about creating some sort of seasonal economic development

[51:00] stabilization fund to ease the blow.

[51:03] And I know Steve sitting over here,

[51:04] he might buy into that idea.

[51:06] It's one of the things that's needed.

[51:08] There was a heavy burden put on the camping industry and all

[51:13] of the partners that support it, when they really

[51:17] it just came out of the blue.

[51:19]

[51:22] So if you step back and you take a look at all four columns

[51:25] and you add up the numbers, we're looking

[51:27] at about that level of support.

[51:32] The question is, how can we have the conversation as a community

[51:37] to come to consensus on this.

[51:40] Will we receive $85.4 million from the state legislature.

[51:44] I don't know.

[51:45] I know our shots are pretty good and it's better now than it ever

[51:49] will be because you have existing appropriations that are

[51:52] available, like in the Texas Water Development Board

[51:56] funding that was allocated.

[51:58] And then you have new appropriations when

[52:00] every time the legislature gets together,

[52:03] they do these appropriations.

[52:05] So that's the conversation we need to have.

[52:08] It's not too early to start that conversation.

[52:11] It's important that as the long term recovery,

[52:15] identify what it is we need and stand up and ask for it.

[52:18] And that's kind of my presentation.

[52:21] And what we want to do is be a leader in this conversation

[52:25] and be a model for around the state.

[52:27] So that's what we have for you this evening.

[52:30] Mayor and council.

[52:31] And we would enjoy y'all involving us getting

[52:34] involved in that conversation.

[52:36] A lot of energy, a lot of people in the working groups.

[52:41] And so we just want to go forward with this discussion

[52:44] and want to get your input.

[52:48] First of all, thank you for you and for what everyone's done.

[52:51]

[52:55] The flood broke my heart.

[52:57] But then when I saw the people that

[52:58] came to help and have continued to help for months and months.

[53:05] It made me proud to be from Kerrville, from Kerr County.

[53:10] I know that this is a big ask, but I think you're right.

[53:14] I think now is the time to ask.

[53:16] I agree with you.

[53:17] Thank you.

[53:18] Any comments or questions or just the 85.4

[53:22] does not include maintenance, correct Yes, ma'am.

[53:25] Wouldn't have any idea.

[53:27] Well, you won't know until you know how many sirens.

[53:29] Correct but I can give you a range.

[53:31] And that range would involve if the number is 30,

[53:35] you take that math and run it out

[53:37] and it would be 10% of that capital

[53:38] cost is what the guidance has been from the engineers.

[53:42] I get that right, Tara.

[53:45] And then so if it's 22, then it would be 10% of that number.

[53:48] So it depends on the number you land on as to what

[53:50] the actual cost would be.

[53:52] That's a good estimate.

[53:53] Thank you very much.

[53:54] Yes ma'am.

[53:56] Thank you.

[53:57]

[54:00] I think the work together group is doing outstanding work.

[54:04] So as you pointed out, appreciate their hard work.

[54:09] I know they put a lot of time into it.

[54:11] So it's very much appreciated.

[54:14] Thank you.

[54:16] Thank you.

[54:17] Thank you all of y'all.

[54:19] I know y'all have put in many, many hours.

[54:21]

[54:23] All right.

[54:24] Do you have any specific questions for us

[54:26] or specific guidance you would like from us.

[54:28] Yeah if you could instruct your management team to continue

[54:32] the collaboration and working with us,

[54:34] if you have specific thoughts or questions later on, let us know.

[54:37] And they're active on all the working groups,

[54:40] and we've just been delighted to work with you and your team.

[54:44] I will say this.

[54:45] Congratulations on being selected

[54:47] by the Texas city Management Association for the honor

[54:51] that they gave you.

[54:53] And I can attest to the fact coming

[54:55] up here several times that you guys are of that quality.

[54:58] And I love working with you.

[55:00] And we're here to help.

[55:01] We're here to put our shoulder to the wheel

[55:03] and make sure that the second half of the game

[55:05] is as successful as the first half.

[55:08] And again, it's going to take everybody putting

[55:10] on that Jersey, everybody pulling together

[55:13] and sending those messages.

[55:15] We met with Senator Flores.

[55:16] We met with Representative Verdell.

[55:19] And there'll be other senators and other representatives

[55:21] who will need to meet with, and we may need your help with that.

[55:24] Certainly well, call on me as needed.

[55:28] And I know city staff has not only collaborated

[55:31] but led the way in many cases.

[55:33] So thank you and thank you for all being here tonight.

[55:37] Come any time.

[55:38] We have it every two weeks.

[55:40] Great conditioned air conditioning.

[55:44] And thank you for letting us be the sheep

[55:46] thief that borrow MS Kelly.

[55:48] She's been great.

[55:50]

[55:56] All right.

[55:56] Thank you very much.

[55:58] Next item on the agenda is the emergency management update.

[56:02] Starting with Chief Maloney.

[56:04]

[56:07] Good evening.

[56:08] Or late afternoon.

[56:09] So pleasure to be here today.

[56:10] So I had a page flip I was going to do,

[56:12] but I'm going to hold on that and I'll do the Reader's

[56:14] Digest version instead.

[56:16] Today with me is Casey Goodman.

[56:18] So he's the emergency management coordinator.

[56:20] So you all do remember him after July as being appointed.

[56:24] Got to meet him over there.

[56:26] And he's been instrumental in some of the work

[56:28] that we're doing moving forward.

[56:29] So tonight I want to give you an update

[56:31] on the emergency management overview

[56:33] of things we've been doing.

[56:34] This is a great segue from what just

[56:37] got discussed with the recovery, and give you an idea of the work

[56:41] that we've been doing as part of the public safety working group,

[56:45] and also on our own as the city of Kerrville.

[56:48] One thing I want to talk about is

[56:51] we're going to talk about the flood prevention

[56:52] and some mitigation actions.

[56:54] And one of the things I wanted to read,

[56:55] because I really like this, it came

[56:57] out of Emergency Management basic plan

[56:59] concept of operations.

[57:01] And it says it's our responsibility

[57:03] to protect public health and safety

[57:05] and preserve property from the effects of hazardous events.

[57:08] We have the primary role in identifying and mitigating

[57:10] hazards, preparing for and responding to and managing

[57:13] the recovery from emergency situations

[57:15] that affect our community.

[57:17] And it is impossible for the government

[57:20] to do everything that is required to protect the lives

[57:22] and property of our population.

[57:24] Our citizens have the responsibility

[57:26] to prepare themselves and their families

[57:28] to cope with emergency situations

[57:30] and manage their affairs and property

[57:31] in ways that will aid the government

[57:33] in managing emergencies.

[57:35] We will assist our citizens in fulfilling

[57:37] these responsibilities by providing

[57:39] public information and instructions prior

[57:41] to and during emergency situations.

[57:45] And so I read that one of the things we really worked

[57:48] on come in post 4th of July.

[57:51] Last April, we worked on revising our emergency

[57:54] management basic plan and really working

[57:56] on that with our current best practices

[57:59] and respective capacity.

[58:01] So we're currently in the process.

[58:03] We have revised the emergency management emergency management

[58:07] basic plan, and we're in the process of revising our 22

[58:11] different annexes that we have as we transition to the FEMA

[58:16] and the Texas Department of Emergency

[58:17] Management recognized the 15 emergency support functions.

[58:21] So we're consolidating them to be more in line

[58:25] with state and federal responses out there.

[58:29] We're doing some reviews cases, been doing some yeoman's

[58:32] work on that and trying to get these work

[58:35] together utilizing AI.

[58:37] It's a big undertaking to transition everything

[58:40] that's been in place.

[58:41] And then once we get that, we're reviewing with key personnel

[58:44] on each annex and making sure that they can do some

[58:47] of the tasks that are asked of them,

[58:49] or do we need to make some adaptation to that.

[58:53] So this is going to improve our framework

[58:54] and working plan during emergency.

[58:56] It's going to support our community lifelines

[58:58] that we've talked about since the total eclipse

[59:00] and prior to that.

[59:02] Number three.

[59:03] So we did emergency management review on June 2.

[59:06] Had an opportunity to sit down with the mayor

[59:08] and the Mayor Pro tem.

[59:09] And we had a chance to review.

[59:11] Actually, that's what that is.

[59:13] That's the review that we did and discussed the expectations,

[59:16] the role of city council, emergency management

[59:20] overview and the basic plan.

[59:22] We did this a year ago.

[59:24] June help me out, Mayor 4th June 4th.

[59:29] We sat down and did the same overview prior to that,

[59:32] not knowing what's coming for there.

[59:34] So that was a good review and that's something

[59:36] we will continue on with future council

[59:39] and making sure that we stay up to date or annually.

[59:43] Number 4, we've created or have been

[59:46] part of with yugra and Taras leadership over there,

[59:49] the public safety flood working group.

[59:52] So that working group is the city of Kerrville emergency

[59:55] management coordinator, the Kerr County emergency management

[59:58] coordinator, Kerrville fire department, Kerrville police

[1:00:01] department, Kerr County Sheriff's Office, hunt volunteer

[1:00:04] fire department, Ingram volunteer fire department,

[1:00:07] center point volunteer fire department,

[1:00:09] the Kerrville area rural firefighters association,

[1:00:13] so these have come together.

[1:00:15] We came together last September and really kind of did

[1:00:19] a little brainstorming on things we

[1:00:21] saw from the fourth opportunities for improvement

[1:00:24] and really collectively put those together and said,

[1:00:27] here are some of the framework of what

[1:00:28] we want to do moving forward.

[1:00:30] Out of that meeting, we have been focusing

[1:00:32] on six primary objectives with 13 subobjectives

[1:00:38] and a lot of action plans from there.

[1:00:40] So one of the things we really worked on

[1:00:43] and the focus is enhancing our flood notification process

[1:00:46] for public.

[1:00:47] The city of Kerrville, our inclement weather team

[1:00:50] that we have, and also the public safety.

[1:00:52] OK OK.

[1:00:54] So currently, we are looking at some options.

[1:00:57] And right now we are in the works

[1:01:00] creating a MOU, which we have one created for jam broadcasting

[1:01:05] to support community awareness when events are occurring.

[1:01:10] Bad weather to disasters.

[1:01:13] Now we're in the process of identifying

[1:01:15] the best approach to pushing those alerts out

[1:01:20] through their system.

[1:01:21] So we're working on that aspect of it right now.

[1:01:23] So the other one is going to be the ranch radio marketing group.

[1:01:26] We're working with them getting an MOU in place

[1:01:28] and identifying some of that going forward.

[1:01:31] Additionally, we are also working on keeping our staff.

[1:01:36] That's fire police department and Sheriff's Department.

[1:01:39] Those lieutenants and captains out there

[1:01:45] situationally aware in the times that they need.

[1:01:48] So we're using what they call active 901.

[1:01:51] It's a alerting device that we use in the field that will give

[1:01:56] us information on calls and information

[1:01:59] that pertains to whatever the issue is.

[1:02:01] And we can establish that through a team's process

[1:02:04] where we group them together.

[1:02:06] So they're the only ones that are receiving to get their crews

[1:02:09] in place and to be prepared and do whatever

[1:02:12] the situation may be, so that that's in the process of working

[1:02:15] forward.

[1:02:16] Again, we are looking at campaigns to I think,

[1:02:20] 4th of July.

[1:02:21] We're talking about setting up a QR code for people

[1:02:25] to sign up through the rave and possibly the code red stuff,

[1:02:31] but I won't speak on the County stuff, but some of that

[1:02:35] might be adjusted going forward.

[1:02:38] Just so they're aware.

[1:02:39] And create a distribution list.

[1:02:41] So when situations occur, especially in the foot,

[1:02:45] say 4th of July, we have that ability

[1:02:48] to be situationally aware and see what's going on with that.

[1:02:51] So within our group we've also developed

[1:02:57] some multilingual alerts.

[1:03:00] So it's not just an English.

[1:03:03] It's a very diverse alerting system.

[1:03:07] So everybody should be able to be reached at some point in time

[1:03:12] and understand what's going on.

[1:03:14] And then when we talk about internally,

[1:03:16] we look at the inclement weather team.

[1:03:19] We have a main and a core and essentially anytime

[1:03:25] and we're still working through this

[1:03:26] and we're going to refine it.

[1:03:28] But right now I update the inclement weather team

[1:03:31] on watches and warnings within our area.

[1:03:35] And so right now, if something comes to me through the state,

[1:03:40] I just alert the crew, the team to let them hey, this could be

[1:03:45] or this is happening.

[1:03:47] Just be prepared if we have to open the EOC.

[1:03:50] So we set up a time periods in the evening,

[1:03:53] in the morning that we might do a Teams meeting

[1:03:55] or if we do a full activation we'll pass

[1:03:58] that information on as needed.

[1:04:00] And it's really going to be dependent on the severity of the

[1:04:03] issue or the disaster at hand.

[1:04:05] So working through that, just trying to identify some of that

[1:04:09] and then how we're going to do it,

[1:04:10] are we going to do it in a hybrid.

[1:04:11] Are we going to be a partial opening or it's going

[1:04:13] to be a full opening.

[1:04:14] And those are based on the levels of activation.

[1:04:17] And that's usually A1 through four level.

[1:04:19] And then we get situation reports

[1:04:24] through that to the inclement weather team

[1:04:26] as things change and update.

[1:04:28] So everybody's still being situationally aware.

[1:04:30] And so we try to be as efficient as possible.

[1:04:34] And something new we're looking at and working through

[1:04:37] dispatch because they are awake at 24 hours a day.

[1:04:42] So we have that ability to push out notifications

[1:04:47] with through the National Weather Service of major events

[1:04:50] or storms may be coming in.

[1:04:51] So when we are asleep, we still are

[1:04:54] being active in that approach to being

[1:04:58] that situational awareness.

[1:05:00] So a lot of that's coming down the chute

[1:05:03] and we're still working, but we're seeing that light

[1:05:08] at the end of the tunnel.

[1:05:09] So we are making progress and trying

[1:05:12] to make sure that going forward, our community is aware and alert

[1:05:18] and feel safe and comfortable.

[1:05:21] So it's great.

[1:05:25] So we've also been working on developing a flood response

[1:05:27] standard operating guidelines.

[1:05:30] Each individual public Safety Agency has provided a guideline

[1:05:34] for situational awareness.

[1:05:36] So these are four or five things they would

[1:05:38] do in a Warning and a watch or a watch a Warning and emergency

[1:05:42] flood stages different things.

[1:05:44] And the situational awareness helps us as emergency management

[1:05:47] because now I know what Engram should be doing.

[1:05:51] So it's not their full plan, not a procedure,

[1:05:53] but it does give us an idea.

[1:05:54] So it keeps us all on the same page.

[1:05:56] It keeps us working together out there.

[1:05:59] We are working on a flood emergency

[1:06:01] action plan development.

[1:06:03] Waterway engineering is developing that for us.

[1:06:06] We actually are meeting with them tomorrow

[1:06:09] for a final draft review.

[1:06:11] We made some adjustments to that and work on there.

[1:06:15] So the emergency action plan is more specific actions

[1:06:17] and defines responsibilities for various disasters.

[1:06:21] So this is specific to floods is what this one is.

[1:06:25] So we're the basic plan is the overarching for the emergency

[1:06:29] management, and then we have the annexes or the emergency support

[1:06:32] function groups individually for firefighting,

[1:06:35] police, whatever it may be.

[1:06:37] But this one is going to be more specific of what we're doing

[1:06:40] procedural wise and what we need to do, what Casey needs to do,

[1:06:44] what I need to do.

[1:06:44] Police Chief so so it's quite a document

[1:06:48] and working through that.

[1:06:49] So we've done the page flip and then we get with them.

[1:06:52] It's also going to include our Independent School district.

[1:06:54] So we've also received their severe weather annexes.

[1:06:58] And keeping those up to date they're

[1:07:00] required to provide them.

[1:07:01] So we're keeping those in a repository

[1:07:04] and a place that will be noted in there where we can go also

[1:07:07] includes the camp emergency plans.

[1:07:09] They're also required to get emergency management.

[1:07:11] So once again, we'll be putting a repository

[1:07:14] for the city and the County.

[1:07:15] So we can also see their emergency plans.

[1:07:18] So in the moment we're having something

[1:07:20] we don't need to call and find out what they're doing.

[1:07:22] We know what they're doing now.

[1:07:24] Are they doing it more importantly from there.

[1:07:28] So we're working on a tabletop exercise.

[1:07:31] So the Texas Institute for hazard risk and readiness.

[1:07:34] So I got it.

[1:07:36] So in fall of 26 I'm on the board for that and honor

[1:07:39] to be a part of that.

[1:07:40] So we're working on some opportunities

[1:07:42] there to really test the system.

[1:07:44] So really excited about this.

[1:07:46] This is really big for our community

[1:07:49] to be able to have this level, this Institute here

[1:07:53] in Kerrville.

[1:07:54] So really excited about that one.

[1:07:56] And we have our first kickoff meeting,

[1:07:58] I believe 19, 18th or 19th.

[1:08:01] So we'll be getting together.

[1:08:03] So excited for that.

[1:08:04] Number seven we're going to provide citizen education

[1:08:06] for flood emergencies.

[1:08:07] So we're working.

[1:08:09] Once we get some of these objectives

[1:08:11] completed we're going to be engaging with our PIOs

[1:08:15] out there for social media press releases with the media

[1:08:19] outlets, some community education programs.

[1:08:21] You'll see to a lot of that waterway engineering

[1:08:25] that is with Ujiri.

[1:08:26] There also they have a public education campaign

[1:08:29] that was one of the really positive things with them also.

[1:08:32] So that's exciting out there for us.

[1:08:35] Number 8, where is the decision making emergency action

[1:08:39] plan flowchart.

[1:08:40] So this is before the flood.

[1:08:42] So we have created emergency action

[1:08:45] plan flowchart with thresholds.

[1:08:47] That is in that plan.

[1:08:49] We revised that.

[1:08:50] One of the biggest challenges we're having is

[1:08:53] balancing watches and warnings.

[1:08:55] Emergencies is easy.

[1:08:56] But how do we balance some of those.

[1:08:59] How do we get the right notification

[1:09:01] and put the right amount of pressure

[1:09:02] out there so people know.

[1:09:03] So we don't put everything.

[1:09:05] Everything comes through the National Weather Service.

[1:09:07] I receive that now.

[1:09:08] What is the next level when you need to receive that.

[1:09:11] And so we're really working on that.

[1:09:13] We're focusing on three levels of flood

[1:09:15] emergencies is how we're looking at this

[1:09:18] and taking this approach.

[1:09:20] The dashboard all the predictive models,

[1:09:22] the data that goes in there.

[1:09:24] In the end, we have to make a determination of what

[1:09:27] information is going to be shared with the public,

[1:09:29] with public safety.

[1:09:30] Our city, our County staff and make

[1:09:32] a decision on what we're going to do as emergency management

[1:09:35] out there.

[1:09:36] Each of those levels can trigger the EOC activation at some form.

[1:09:41] So we have four levels of that with our normal conditions.

[1:09:44] So we have our virtual or hybrid.

[1:09:46] We have a partial we have a full activation of course

[1:09:49] last fourth was a full.

[1:09:50] You've seen the other disasters that myself and chief McCall

[1:09:53] have worked.

[1:09:54] We've had partial in some of those.

[1:09:56] It all kind of depends on the disaster.

[1:09:59] We've worked on mass communication training.

[1:10:02] So using our rave, which is the one we use internally for that.

[1:10:07] Out out of that company, rave mobile's solutions I believe

[1:10:12] is the name of the company.

[1:10:14] We have an ability from there to push out an AI pulse message.

[1:10:18] Ipaws message is what you receive on your phone

[1:10:20] from National Weather Service.

[1:10:22] Same concept, same thing.

[1:10:23] Geofenced area that actually goes out.

[1:10:25] So we tested those back in March during the public safety

[1:10:29] facility opening.

[1:10:30] At the opening.

[1:10:31] We tested that so the whole state did.

[1:10:33] And then working through some of that.

[1:10:35] Since then, we have TAVI and her team

[1:10:39] and us and police department.

[1:10:41] We completed training for our dispatchers

[1:10:43] and key fire and police, emergency operations staff,

[1:10:47] so on how to use it.

[1:10:49] And then we're really making sure that our flow chart is

[1:10:52] developed so we can provide them the ability

[1:10:56] to make those decisions without saying, I got to call the chief.

[1:11:00] So in the middle of the night.

[1:11:01] So what is that.

[1:11:02] What are those decisions markers for that

[1:11:04] so they can get that notification out through IPAWS.

[1:11:07] If it's emergency call us later.

[1:11:09] And then we work from there.

[1:11:11] Work with the city manager, the mayor

[1:11:12] the Mayor Pro tem for their ninth.

[1:11:15] We're operational response and field action.

[1:11:18] So this is during the flood.

[1:11:20] I talked a little bit about river hub.

[1:11:22] We've been working diligently with them.

[1:11:24] Great This is great situational awareness

[1:11:28] that they're going to have.

[1:11:29] It's going to have a dashboard for public safety.

[1:11:31] And there's also a public version for that.

[1:11:33] It'll provide Intel for precipitation

[1:11:35] modeling, flood gauges, low water crossings, road closures.

[1:11:39] So we look at that now.

[1:11:41] We've been testing that system for the last few months

[1:11:44] during rain events to see how much rainfall we've been getting

[1:11:48] whether there's a rise in the river

[1:11:50] and just trying to continue to monitor that.

[1:11:52] So, so great work there.

[1:11:54] That's coming real close to being able to see we're using it

[1:11:57] now, but we're at the Public Safety

[1:11:58] and the public for that one.

[1:12:00] Actually, I think the public is released.

[1:12:02] Yes it is.

[1:12:03] There we go.

[1:12:05] I do remember that.

[1:12:07] And then we're working on the notification process

[1:12:10] for public safety agencies with our standard operating guideline

[1:12:15] actions based on flood data.

[1:12:17] So we're trying to determine there.

[1:12:19] When do we need to give that.

[1:12:22] Chief Goodman talked about that a little bit in

[1:12:24] regards to how we notify and how we're going to notify.

[1:12:28] Chief McCall and his team are working

[1:12:30] through that dispatch process for those that

[1:12:34] can get that information to us at o'clock

[1:12:35] o'clock in the morning.

[1:12:37] For that number 10 system validation

[1:12:39] and continuous improvement, this is after the flood.

[1:12:42] Probably there'll be a functional

[1:12:43] exercise in spring of 2027.

[1:12:46] And we'll be coordinating with T or TCS or another agency

[1:12:48] to be able to provide that.

[1:12:50] You bring in outside facilitators for that

[1:12:52] and test the system that we put in place.

[1:12:56] Last but not least, so the EOC design.

[1:12:58] So with our new public safety facility.

[1:13:00] So we have an ability to have an emergency operations center

[1:13:02] that's not a training room.

[1:13:04] Did appreciate.

[1:13:04] Thank you chief.

[1:13:05] So however this has more capabilities.

[1:13:08] So that's what it was designed.

[1:13:10] That's the plan.

[1:13:11] When we worked on this together with the public safety facility,

[1:13:14] we came up with ideas that would make sense for us,

[1:13:17] for Kerrville.

[1:13:18] And how we would staff that.

[1:13:20] So we've been coordinating with it the GIS Joshua Young coming

[1:13:25] up with some different things that we

[1:13:27] can provide and have in there, have at our fingertips.

[1:13:30] So if we need it, we can have it on display.

[1:13:33] This really also streamlined our EOC staff based on the flood

[1:13:37] and then the new facility.

[1:13:38] So we can actually expand the incident to what we would need.

[1:13:42] So there is that capacity there.

[1:13:44] So that's another exciting component.

[1:13:46] And that also brought us to our EOC

[1:13:48] organization chart and staffing plan and executive group.

[1:13:52] So those are things that we were able to work

[1:13:54] on knowing what we have in the facility,

[1:13:57] knowing what seats we would want.

[1:13:59] Definitely putting it to the test on the fourth,

[1:14:01] and we had a trial run a year prior with the total eclipse.

[1:14:05] So we're going to put some things to the test

[1:14:07] and real excited about that.

[1:14:09] And that is all we have.

[1:14:10] But this is a team effort.

[1:14:12] Can't agree more.

[1:14:14] Got to love Kerrville.

[1:14:15] Got to love Kerr County.

[1:14:16] I'm proud to be here, proud to be a part of this

[1:14:18] and be a part of those.

[1:14:18] And thank you for being part of the Institute

[1:14:22] and great things are coming.

[1:14:24] We're in the I like that we're in the first half.

[1:14:27] Second half.

[1:14:28] So questions for myself for chief Goodman.

[1:14:31] Questions no thank you for that's a lot of work.

[1:14:35] Thank you very much.

[1:14:37] Much needed work.

[1:14:38] And kudos to what you already did on the fourth.

[1:14:44] And now it's going to be even will be even more prepared

[1:14:46] if there is such a thing.

[1:14:48] So thank you very much.

[1:14:49] Welcome, Jeff.

[1:14:52] You started with the same opening remarks

[1:14:56] that you started with the mayor myself last week.

[1:14:58] So it's that hits home.

[1:15:01] There's only so much that y'all can do.

[1:15:06] And it needs to be a responsibility of everybody

[1:15:08] in the community when we start.

[1:15:10] Hopefully, we never have to go down that road again.

[1:15:13] That's the goal.

[1:15:15] But thank you all so much.

[1:15:18] Yes, sir.

[1:15:19]

[1:15:21] Oh, that's so much to absorb so quick.

[1:15:25] Not sure I understood all that, but it's

[1:15:27] pretty impressive, all the things

[1:15:29] that you're going through.

[1:15:30] And that's nice.

[1:15:32] I have one question about so the County has an emergency

[1:15:35] coordinator as well.

[1:15:36] How much coordination is going between the city and the County,

[1:15:39] for example.

[1:15:40] So now that we have a new coordinator,

[1:15:44] we're working together, not like we were working

[1:15:48] together when I came in.

[1:15:50] It's gotten better.

[1:15:52] A lot of good communication between us both.

[1:15:55] He comes from the state, so he's got

[1:15:59] some good ideas and some good processes, some good contacts.

[1:16:02] So it's really just it's our relationship is a lot stronger

[1:16:06] than it has been in the past.

[1:16:08] And I think going forward.

[1:16:09] It's going to get even better.

[1:16:10] They're willing to work and share ideas.

[1:16:13] So that's good.

[1:16:14] Well, the state experience is really good.

[1:16:17] So he was our he was our County CLO, which is our liaison

[1:16:21] officer for us for the State.

[1:16:23] And so he brings some knowledge and some.

[1:16:29] So anyway, that main thing is I know

[1:16:34] he'll be in our he'll be with us tomorrow

[1:16:35] in our EAP to work on that.

[1:16:39] So all right.

[1:16:40] Great thanks, Steve.

[1:16:43]

[1:16:47] So all this was excuse me related to weather,

[1:16:53] but you were speaking to knowing the school districts do

[1:16:59] or what your other first responders are doing.

[1:17:04] Ingram volunteer fire departments

[1:17:07] are you doing is I would presume,

[1:17:09] but other if it's a one time incident to prop up an EOC,

[1:17:16] is all of that same of what you just said.

[1:17:21] Yes so we open up the emergency operations center.

[1:17:24] The city of Kerrville did.

[1:17:25] So if we open up that and if it's a flood

[1:17:28] emergency, obviously if it's in the city,

[1:17:29] it's going to be in the County.

[1:17:31] So yes, we would be working directly with them.

[1:17:33] The school districts is really one of those that benefits us,

[1:17:37] because at least we know some of their action.

[1:17:39] Or if schools open.

[1:17:41] Of course, in session.

[1:17:42] But we could talk to them if they're doing routes and stuff.

[1:17:45] So yes.

[1:17:46] So we're working closely for some of those.

[1:17:48] OK perfect.

[1:17:49] If that answers the question.

[1:17:50] Yes thank you.

[1:17:51] Great mayor.

[1:17:53] Chief and Maloney and division chief Goodman.

[1:17:58] Both the police Chiefs that are here tonight.

[1:18:01] I've really come to rely on all of you.

[1:18:03] Thank you.

[1:18:04] The communication was good before July four,

[1:18:08] but it's much better now.

[1:18:09] So thank you.

[1:18:12] I think the thing that has been misunderstood, especially

[1:18:16] among some of our state leaders, is we had a plan

[1:18:19] and we followed that plan.

[1:18:22] And at least within the city of Kerrville,

[1:18:24] that plan was followed to the best of our ability

[1:18:30] given the circumstances.

[1:18:33] I like also that we've mentioned,

[1:18:35] hey, people within 911 are our dispatch.

[1:18:41] They're awake 24/7.

[1:18:44] So there doesn't have to be someone awake to say yes.

[1:18:47] Push the button.

[1:18:48] They have the authority to act before they can

[1:18:51] roust us out of our slumber.

[1:18:54] So that's.

[1:18:55] That's good.

[1:18:56] I noticed that the new basic plan

[1:18:59] has improvements over the plan that was in effect on July four.

[1:19:03] So thank you for your hard work on that.

[1:19:05] But personally, I rely on you.

[1:19:09] I rely on your departments, and I appreciate everything

[1:19:12] that you've done to help not only guide this council,

[1:19:17] but to make the citizens of Kerrville

[1:19:20] safer and better prepared for whatever

[1:19:23] emergency may come our way.

[1:19:26] So thank you very kindly for all you've done.

[1:19:28] It's our honor, our privilege to serve our community.

[1:19:31] So absolutely.

[1:19:33] Thank you, thank you.

[1:19:34] All right.

[1:19:35] Thank you.

[1:19:35]

[1:19:39] All right, Lois street tank update Mr. Burrow,

[1:19:46] I'll be real brief on this one.

[1:19:48] I know we've got council coming up,

[1:19:49] but this is a project that we've talked

[1:19:52] about for a number of years.

[1:19:53] This started off back in 2020.

[1:19:56] We got concurrence from 20 from the water development board

[1:19:59] in 23 for funding assistance.

[1:20:01] And then with that comes a review period.

[1:20:04] Design was complete.

[1:20:05] We took about a year to get water development Waterville

[1:20:07] board review completed in.

[1:20:10] So that is actually currently bidding.

[1:20:12] We're going to get the bids in first part of July.

[1:20:14] Now we're looking at July 1.

[1:20:16] Hope is that we get good bids, get good contractors.

[1:20:21] Bring that to you in the second meeting

[1:20:22] in July, first meeting in August,

[1:20:24] depending on what we need.

[1:20:25] Get that project started around the early September time frame.

[1:20:29] It's going to take about a year.

[1:20:31] And a half, so it would be complete in December of 27.

[1:20:35] So we just want to give a brief update.

[1:20:36] Mayor, I know you and I have talked

[1:20:38] about that a number of times.

[1:20:39] So that's just why I'm here, is to let the status of that one.

[1:20:43] Any questions.

[1:20:44] I think the boat was stuck on a sandbar for a while

[1:20:47] and a little nudge from state representatives

[1:20:51] and State Senator helped us out a little bit.

[1:20:54] Yes yeah.

[1:20:55] The irony in that is, not.

[1:20:59] Yeah we'll just leave it at that.

[1:21:04] I appreciate it I drive by that water tank every day.

[1:21:09] And so that's probably why it's on my mind.

[1:21:11] I grew up near that water tank.

[1:21:12] That water tank was there when I was at Starkey elementary.

[1:21:16] OK yes.

[1:21:18] Starkey elementary existed when I was a child.

[1:21:21] We still have the original receipt.

[1:21:23] Yeah it was opened in 1948, and I was born in 61, so never mind.

[1:21:28] Here's the thing.

[1:21:30] It needs to be done.

[1:21:31] I'm glad we're getting past some hurdles.

[1:21:33] Thank you for being persistent.

[1:21:35] And hopefully, we'll have some good bids

[1:21:37] and we can get to work.

[1:21:39] I appreciate your persistence on that.

[1:21:41] Any comments or questions.

[1:21:43] All right.

[1:21:44] Thank you.

[1:21:45] Thank you.

[1:21:47] Next is city council liaison and interview team selections.

[1:21:52] For those of you playing along at home.

[1:21:55]

[1:21:58] City council serves.

[1:21:59] Members of the Council serve on various committees and boards

[1:22:05] and it has been my habit to assign those committees

[1:22:11] based on seniority.

[1:22:13] Current seniority.

[1:22:15] Not in my case.

[1:22:16] I don't get to count when I was first on in 1990,

[1:22:19] it's this current council.

[1:22:21] I was elected to this current council in 2022

[1:22:25] Mr. Harris was elected in 2023 Mr.

[1:22:29] McKinney was elected in 2024.

[1:22:31] He was part of the group that appointed Mr. Chairman in 2024.

[1:22:37] And MS Smith is our newest person.

[1:22:40] So what I would like to do is go through the committees.

[1:22:46] The ones that I will serve on are

[1:22:50] the current economic Development Corporation and CFPB

[1:22:55] and the public facility corporation,

[1:22:56] which we just had tonight.

[1:22:59] The next person in line to select a position would be Mr.

[1:23:04] Harris Mr. Harris, I would like to stay on Playhouse 2000,

[1:23:10] continue to be the liaison for planning and zoning.

[1:23:15] And I would like to add myself as the liaison

[1:23:18] for parks and recreation.

[1:23:21] Sounds good.

[1:23:22] Next would be Mr. McKinney.

[1:23:25] Well, then he's on to the airport board on the EIC.

[1:23:34] I would like to continue that.

[1:23:37] And I'm bend with Councilman Councilwoman

[1:23:45] segerman on the recovery community coalition.

[1:23:47] I'm willing to continue to do that.

[1:23:51] Thank you Mr. Chairman.

[1:23:55] I would like to just keep I would

[1:23:58] like to stay on the recovery coalition committee.

[1:24:00] I believe the newest addition was the Texas

[1:24:03] Commission on the arts.

[1:24:05] I'm actually the chair of that, so never mind.

[1:24:08] We're currently serving on the cultural arts district,

[1:24:11] on the arts committee and the Downtown advisory committee Yes

[1:24:15] Would you like to stay on those.

[1:24:17] Plus, there's no plus, I don't think.

[1:24:21] No plus.

[1:24:22] And we can give you a bonus to remain on.

[1:24:25] To remain on the recovery community coalition MS Smith,

[1:24:31] you are currently serving on the ters.

[1:24:35] Number one, would you continue.

[1:24:37] Would you be willing to serve.

[1:24:39] Yes, sir.

[1:24:39]

[1:24:42] And you can say no to these.

[1:24:44] But Brenda Hughes, given her experience in the food service

[1:24:54] industry, served on the food service advisory board,

[1:24:57] would you be interested in that one.

[1:24:59] Yes way to go.

[1:25:04] Thank you.

[1:25:04] I have a little experience.

[1:25:08] I think that really covers every appointment.

[1:25:13] I will formalize these and give them to Shelly.

[1:25:17] We have interviewed teams and those are important.

[1:25:20] In my opinion, because when people apply,

[1:25:24] we often get more applicants than we have positions.

[1:25:28] And unless someone wants to change them,

[1:25:32] those have been working.

[1:25:34] What about library.

[1:25:36] Would you like to serve on the library.

[1:25:37] Library thank you ma'am.

[1:25:38] I like books.

[1:25:39] Good I had a question mark on the library advisory board.

[1:25:43] So that's a check.

[1:25:45] And I'm going to put you on the food service advisory

[1:25:47] and also tours one, which is economic development.

[1:25:53] All right.

[1:25:56] That didn't take too long.

[1:25:57] So thank you everyone.

[1:26:00] And I'll formalize this in a memo to Shelly, which.

[1:26:06] There is no need to go into executive session.

[1:26:10] And so we did take Main Street off.

[1:26:13] Main Street is gone.

[1:26:15] OK sorry, I'm looking at.

[1:26:17] I just scratched through it.

[1:26:18] It's on mine too.

[1:26:19] Yeah OK.

[1:26:21] All right.

[1:26:24] Thank you for everybody willing to serve on those.

[1:26:26]

[1:26:29] It's good for us to be a part of the committee and board process.

[1:26:34]

[1:26:38] Sometimes they need a nudge.

[1:26:40] It's good for us to nudge them occasionally.

[1:26:43] All right.

[1:26:43] I don't see any other.

[1:26:45] We don't have any reason to go into executive session,

[1:26:47] so let's have something else.

[1:26:50] I'm going to go ahead and adjourn the city council

[1:26:53] workshop for June 9 at 535.

[1:26:59] Next show is.

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