Ninth, 2026.
Do we have anybody signed up for public comments.
No, sir.
All right.
Information discussion.
Let's start with two.
A baseball firm.
And who's going to present for your group.
Jay, are you going to introduce.
I'm just going to introduce these guys.
Please do.
I didn't bring my tap dancing shoes tonight.
I don't think Nico did either, to be fair.
Got sandals on, but we're going to make
him tap dance regardless.
I just want to sing the praises of these guys
real quick before I introduce them.
It was shortly after the flood last year
that we started talking with the group
who managed the Sports Complex prior, and it was just negative.
This negative that negative.
The other don't want to badmouth them.
It's a tough business as these guys can attest.
However, we know what we have here
and we're happy to have these guys on board.
They're overperforming and we want to see that continue.
But I've been told by John junker, the tall guy sitting
in the middle here, that his two captains are
going to be presenting tonight.
So we have Nico Gonzalez and Jeff Quinlan
who are going to come up and tell
us a little bit about how it's going out at the Sports Complex.
You can tell these guys have been outside all day.
There you go.
Who's first.
Jeff oh, Ichiro.
Leadoff thank you guys for having us tonight.
We're really excited to present to you all and show you
what we've been able to accomplish
through the first half of the year
and just give you an overall view of what we're kind
of expecting through the summer and then
the fall into next year.
So this picture was taken one morning at one
of the first tournaments.
And obviously you can see it's just a beautiful picture
and it's one that we use on our Facebook and stuff
like that to show what Kerrville really has to represent.
So where's the slide thing.
Oh, here we go.
So the Kerrville Sports Complex, obviously
it's under new leadership.
We're the baseball firm.
I am not originally from Kerrville
but have been coming to this complex for a long time.
And since 2018 ish, 19 ish since I saw it for the first time,
I knew that this was one of the best sports complexes
that I'd seen traveling around the country.
And so when the opportunity came up to be a part of this,
it was a no brainer for me.
From the community to the fields to the families
and the outside communities that love to come here,
it's a pretty special place that we feel like is
here in the city of Kerrville.
We've been fortunate to host the tournaments
this spring so far that have 14 and under.
And so what that means is eighth graders down.
Because in the springtime you have sports.
Tap sports going on.
So the high school kids are obviously doing
their stuff in the high school.
So just real quick, I'll give you an overview
of how we look at it.
If you've ever done select sports in baseball or softball,
we put our calendar together like you would for one
of those type of businesses.
Meaning from January through May,
we're really going to be able to go after the 14 and down kids,
because those are the ones who are playing both boys and girls.
Once the summer starts, May through the end of July,
maybe the first week of August is when you can really capture
the high school kids, and a lot of the younger groups
stop playing because of other things that they do,
and it's just the natural ebb and flow.
And then you come back.
Most people take August off because they're doing tryouts,
or they're kind of getting themselves ready to go.
And then September through November
is when you can really go back to all ages, because if they're
not playing football at the high school level or young ladies
that are playing just softball, you can really capture
all of them in the fall.
So it's kind of a three season tier
whenever you're looking at the calendar
for how it's run for us.
So you want to talk about the mission.
Yeah, yeah.
So we have partnered with youth baseball.
It's a group called five tool baseball.
They're our partner in the youth side of things.
And then from a high school side,
unfortunately, right now we don't have the fields
to run high school events.
We have two high school fields, and then
we have two softball fields.
So we can't play high school events on the dirt fields.
So we have two baseball fields which can only host
10 team, 10 team tournament.
Which 10 teams is you're not going to get anyone
to come here for 10 teams.
So if we can get we're going to try
to get some improvements done to get the two
softball fields caught up.
And we can have a fourplex to where
when he talks about seasons of hey,
we have the first season, second season,
third season as of now, June and July is going to be.
It's not going to be what it could be because the complex
isn't designed for it yet.
So that's something we can talk about.
We can work on that.
That's a big need for this area is to work
on the high school side.
But going back to the mission, we wanted to find a partner
that did things the right way.
As far as social media coverage, the arm, the arm care, health
programs that they put in place, the baseball USA guidelines
they follow.
So we're working with five tool baseball.
That's not to say that we're Switzerland.
So everybody can come play here whether that is perfect game
NCS et cetera, et cetera.
So we're not a monopoly on anything here in Kerrville.
And so that's kind of our mission.
We also have NCS a perfect game.
And so he touched on that a little bit.
And what those are different tournament organizations.
And so where some people really put themselves in a hole
is they put all their eggs in one basket per se,
and they only use one tournament operator and stuff like that.
And that really can hurt you in the long run.
And so we have not wanted to be that especially
for our local teams.
Our local teams want to come and play out there,
but they don't want to play the same teams every weekend
and they don't want to play each other over and over.
And so by spreading out the different tournament operators
that we use relationship wise, everything else,
it's good for our kids here inside the community
to be able to have that many more
different styles of tournaments and opportunities.
Other things.
Business summary we continue to strengthen
in presence promoting the Kerrville Sports
Complex throughout the state.
With that being said, how we do that is
with the different tournament operators,
the AAA team that came in a couple of weeks ago,
they were from Waco.
We're dealing with NRCS that is maybe coming from El Paso.
And so when we spread out where these people come from,
it also helps geographically bring their clients with them.
And so that's how that really helps us with.
We're actively working with the Kerrville convention
and Visitors Bureau, including exploring opportunities
for future, to feature the CVB directly on our website
and better promote local tourism.
City engagement.
We want the baseball firm to build relationships
with local hotels, restaurants, businesses throughout Kerrville.
Meaning whenever we host a baseball tournament, depending
on where they're coming from, a lot of the teams stay in hotels.
A lot of the teams are going to eat in the local restaurants.
They're going to fill up their cars here.
They're going to hopefully do and explore
the town of Kerrville for everything that it has to give.
So we really feel like if we're successful bringing in people
to our tournaments, it's really going to be a success
for the city of Kerrville.
And so that's what we're really trying to do.
Initiatives we're looking ahead.
We're working with nationally recognized organizations.
We're putting together different tournaments
like we talked about, and we're also trying to do we'll
get talk about it in a second.
In the fall.
Be a place that outside state organizations can also come in
and run college level showcases to help kids
that maybe are already in college,
or are kids that are in high school looking to go play
at the next level to create different opportunities outside
of just playing games, standards, being
able to showcase do all of those type of things
to at the ballpark.
Here's a little breakdown of the metrics and champions
so far so far.
Once we're done with this weekend,
we'll be at a 407 teams that have come through the gate
this spring.
That's 4675 players roughly.
And then you can see what I was talking
about on the bottom left.
That's a graph of teams per month.
And you can see the Colder months
once you get to April and May.
That's the big spike for the 14 and down groups.
And then as you get back into the summertime,
it kind of slows back down.
And we had two rainouts in there as
well throughout May and March.
This is just a little breakdown, so you
can see where everybody was kind of coming
from inside the state of Texas.
And so we have been able to get a wide range
for just starting this spring.
82% of the traffic, foot traffic comes from our baseball
and softball tournaments.
10% is from the Kerrville Little League.
And then about 8% is from the coed and senior softball leagues
and stuff of that nature.
These are all the different communities
that the teams have come from that have visited Kerrville.
Obviously, some of them have come multiple times,
but we've at least put down the city at least one time
if they've come this spring.
So you can see the breakdown of where they're coming from.
The new changes that we are working on right now,
we are actively trying to be the second park in the state
of Texas that has the minor League Baseball camera
stuff that they're going to in the Major Leagues, which
is everything's being called by balls and strikes
by AI and automation.
And so we're going to be putting up the camera
systems on all 11 fields.
We're working through that right now.
But to give anybody who comes to Kerrville
an experience that they're not going
to get hardly anywhere else.
And so the opportunities for us to have, a new technology like
that nobody's seen and we'll be able to use it at the youth,
the middle school and the high school level,
it's really something that's going to stand out.
And I really, really think it's going
to be something that gives the park a really cool experience.
And on that, it's not going to just be balls and strikes.
It's also going to be video.
So parents can download the app, they can watch games live.
It's going to be live feeds.
They're going to be able to get analytics from it.
And so it's not just a red dot green dot.
It's actual technology that they can
use for a lot of different stuff to create
their portfolios as players.
How many I'm sorry.
How many parks or facilities have
that in the state right now.
Just roughly will be the second would be the second.
The only other one is in Tomball, Texas at Premier.
And that's where they use a bunch of the higher level
high school tournaments are played there because this system
can give you, launch angle, RPMs on fastball velocity of the bat,
miles per hour access speeds, different pitch styles.
I mean, it can get as nutty as you want as far as how much you
want to get into it, but it's just a really, really cool
system, because if the parents obviously use the app
and do all that stuff, they're able to build
a portfolio for their players.
As far as actual metrics and data, that's really captured,
and it solves the parent of parents yelling at the umpires
because it's the balls and strikes will not be inaccurate.
Oh, and one thing, because we've gotten this to just I mean,
I don't know if we have any youth, parents and stuff,
but the way this stuff works is youth baseball games,
high school baseball games.
Sometimes the score can get out of hand.
And so if you this is a soapbox.
But if you have an umpire that likes to stay tight, right.
Because we're Major League stuff out there, we can open the zone,
we can close the zone, we can do things to help the game be
a little bit more facilitate, if that's
a word for the young kids.
And if that's not I just made it up.
So let me go to that next one right there.
So we have a website the baseball firm.
If you ever want to go check it out.
Everything's on there from the Little League to the Sr. League
to the co-ed.
We need to add the CFB.
We need to add restaurants.
We need to add certain things in the community
that we need to nail on.
But as far as when tournaments who the tournament director is,
all of it's on there.
So it's a good.
In the past, I don't think this has ever had a true website
for the complex where anybody can go at any time,
check in on any weekend that they want and see what's there.
Click the link.
And then if anybody if any of the teams register
they can register.
So just on that marketing piece there.
And it's really trying to create the synergy
between the baseball firm, the complex and the community.
Because every time we can get that right the way we want it,
every time we send out something about tournaments,
our website is going to be on there.
So we just want people to click on it, go to our website
and then see what the city of Kerrville and our complex
has to offer.
The future, what we're trying to do out there.
We have some fields that do have we need a little love
to be able to bring the high school type of tournaments
that we want to.
And what that means is select baseball
has become such a big thing.
Select softball has become such a big thing.
There's good players on all these teams,
and they're going to want their players to be playing on fields
that they know are good baseball fields
that they can't get hurt on.
So some of the mounds, since we have portable mounds,
there's things that we need to replace
that we need to do some dirt work that we need to do.
But next summer, we will have high school
baseball tournaments here.
We're already actively talking to the guys
that we need to talk to make sure
that we get those tournaments.
We're going to get those tournaments.
That's not going to be a problem.
What we got to do is make sure we put the elbow grease
into making it a complex.
Those kids, whether they're ever going to play college baseball
or not, can walk on those fields and play baseball
and feel comfortable about it.
The other thing that we've run into
is we're kind of capped out right now at how many teams
we can bring out there from the parking space,
and so we'll work through that and obviously
do whatever soccer fields this weekend
and use the soccer fields this weekend.
So that would be the only thing, because once we get to about
54 teams, the games don't move fast
enough for people to be moving in and out of the complex.
And so we definitely want to make
sure we stay within the rules of everything that we need to.
But that's just the only thing that we've seen so far.
Signage out at the complex.
We need to have some refreshed signage for 2027.
And when we say signage, we are the ones
that say no cleats, no seeds, just
the rules of the complex park.
Nice, right.
The field numbers, stuff like that people
use on a tournament basis just so
and especially the rules part shaded areas
for participants and fans.
What we've thought about is if you've ever been out there
on a nice hot day and you're standing on that concrete
to wait for a concession stand line, and if you're on the grass
and it takes 10 minutes, it can be a little hot.
So thinking about a way we always put up the pop up tents
and stuff, but thinking about maybe an awning or something
that we could have maybe not permanently because of the wind,
but something that we can shade people as they sit
and have a little picnic area, stuff like that makes it feel
like we're at the ballpark.
We can eat nachos, little family picnic kind of deal.
So anything that that's what a ballpark is, right.
It's a family atmosphere.
Make it feel like a family event.
And then is that it.
Yeah so I mean, just in closing, guys, Jeff Quillen,
he's been doing baseball probably 20 plus years.
Unfortunately, yeah.
I'm in it for 16 years.
How was your coach.
He was my coach in high school.
So we got 36 years in this thing.
And so we are very excited for what's to come.
And we still are going to keep working
on improving the ballpark.
The more improvements we make, the more teams we bring here
and the more love that people can
see how amazing Kerrville is.
So thank you guys.
Thank you.
If you have questions, comments, or questions, go ahead.
Well, first of all, can you tell me your names.
I heard them, but Jeff Cooley.
OK Nico Gonzalez.
OK Jeff.
Nico OK.
And then I just want to say I spent
gosh, I don't 12, 15 years.
My husband was a coach and our daughter played softball.
And we brought our own shade and our own food.
And I mean, so this is like heaven
for someone who's going to be traveling and enjoying
games every weekend.
So what have you heard from people who come.
Besides parking, maybe you could use more parking.
Have you heard from your tournament people.
Parents hey, where's the closest hotel.
Or are there things you're hearing that we
need to hear as a big picture.
Price point on hotels is pretty high.
For what they're used to at different areas.
They're staying some people that I've
heard are staying in Bernie over Kerrville because
of the price point difference.
That's the thing that I've heard is price point.
That's interesting.
Yes and I'll be good cop.
What I hear all the time is how nice the facility
is when these kids come from all these different areas.
That's why I can't thank Jay, Ethan and Steve and their team
for what they do, the support, the way those fields look.
Steve and his group, they work their tails off out there.
And I've told Steve this multiple times.
Being a baseball coach for as long as I was in high school,
it's hard to take care of one field, much less 11.
And when six of those are softball
fields with a lot of dirt.
So it is not an easy job to keep those things
the shape that they're in.
And so it's amazing how many people come in and be like,
wow, why don't we play here more often.
And so that's really been the key
is trying to get the first timers or the people that hadn't
been here in a few years, back into it, back
into the community.
And when they do the feedback from them
is very, very good, very good.
And John reminded me, we are working with two hotels
in the area to try to work on pricing for 2027,
even to the fact of coaches who travel here,
who don't have any kids on the team,
trying to get them a free hotel room
and going the extra mile to make sure that they come here
and stay here, giving them different incentives to make it
to where they do stay.
Oh, good.
Well, that brings me to the other question
I had about fundraising.
Do you have any plans to do that.
And with the tournament fees you're charging,
are you able to at least have a balanced budget
at the end of the day.
Or what kind of fundraising would you maybe perhaps plan or.
Well, the fundraising for us is not really something
that we would look to do.
What we would look to do is help, like the Little League,
like Kerrville Little League, to be able to do things,
to maybe help them with playing opportunities,
uniforms, just things that we can do inside there.
But as far as us needing to do fundraising for our own,
well, I didn't know if you had just had someone else doing it.
Like we used to have sponsors for signs on the fence
and all of that.
I don't know if y'all.
Yeah, yeah, we still want to explore those options
as far as that type of and just probably
use that money to put back in the park whatever
sponsors we're able to get.
OK, good.
Yeah but yeah that or I mean we really want
to give back to the community.
So all of the money that comes in from all
those different locations of cities we'd like to give
to the Kerrville Little League, if there's local select teams
that we give breaks to in their tournament dues,
et cetera, et cetera put Kerrville first there.
Let's play ball.
OK thank you very much.
We kind of started this whole venture.
I mean getting people here and start playing ball in March.
Yes, sir.
Yes, we're in June.
How many teams have we had so far.
407 what was your annual goal for 2026?
I believe it's 400.
There you go.
Thank you.
Yes thank you sir.
And y'all have more coming.
Yes yeah, we have a whole other half a year, but good job.
Great job.
I mean, that's what we asked you all
to do when y'all came in, and y'all have exceeded everything.
So thank you.
We appreciate that very much.
Thanks for the great work you're doing.
It's really exciting to have that much activity
going on out there.
So thanks.
Thanks for the good work.
Thank you.
I just want to applaud y'all just as a citizen
who drives by that.
Facility twice, at least twice a day.
Seeing it last year or even maybe two years ago.
And my son did lessons out there.
So I know how nice that facility is.
And so seeing tournaments not taking place
and seeing it kind of sitting empty.
So seeing y'all drastically turn it around is really great.
So congratulations.
Thank you.
Congratulations and good work to you and your crews.
Thank you.
If you're around this weekend 72 team softball
tournament, 22 colleges here.
We'll have Texas Tech here.
We'll have some big colleges watching
these girls 14, 16 and 18.
You it'll be a packed house this weekend if y'all are bored.
Thank you.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
Free entry fee for anybody in this room.
OK my favorite price.
Next item is the Kerr together legislative update.
I believe Mr. Whitson is going to address this.
I need a cookie.
Thanks for being here.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
My glasses.
Thank you, Mr. mayor.
And members of council.
Before I begin this afternoon, I'd like.
I'm bringing my friends with me to talk
about several important subjects.
Kelly and our Governmental Affairs team.
Y'all stand up.
Tara's here.
Come on up.
OK hey.
I'm glad you're here.
This is a team effort to key off of the last presentation.
We've been working hard to do a lot of things that are hard.
And as I mentioned yesterday in my briefing to the County
we'd like to give, I'm here for two reasons.
Number one, to give you an update on the operations
that we've been doing at Kerr together.
And also to start a conversation about what
additional financial assistance we
might need going into the next part of the recovery.
Since July four of last year.
I don't have to tell you what a blow
it was, but look how far we've come.
Working together, everybody putting on the same Jersey.
And I will tell you, from my experience
in working other disasters that you've gone far
and really have shown up in terms of what
this community is made of.
Kerrville is a special place I found
quite an enjoyable experience working with everybody.
You're strong and you're not like some communities
I've worked with in terms of getting things done.
There are some communities that take
four to six months to even set up their long term
recovery operation.
You guys did it in weeks, and it's just a testament
to your grit, determination, and all the things
that you've brought to the table.
So again, I'm very proud to be part
of this, very proud of all of your folks
that have worked with us.
And the long term recovery operation is a team game
and we have worked with many, many partners.
I don't have time to go through all of them,
but that we've worked with corporations,
we've worked with the Community Foundation,
we've worked with volunteer organizations after disaster.
Have you come and seen club 98, the one stop shop.
You can walk around and see all the organizations
that work daily.
Obviously the city of Kerrville.
Ingram we've worked with the County, just a lot of state
agencies, universities.
And I'd like to give a shout out to Doctor Boswell
here with Schreiner University.
They've been a top player in this effort as well.
So thank you to the whole community
for rallying to the cause.
And now we are going to work together to go further.
I'd like to just highlight a few things.
Since I've been here, we've been working
and we've gotten a few things done.
So obviously wanted to share a few things in terms
of the top accomplishments, we have created the one stop shop,
and I know that several of you have been through it.
Route the mayor helped us cut the ribbon, so thank you.
We have provided leadership to the flood Warning system.
You didn't have one last year.
You have one now.
And I'm just the spokesman.
But Tara's the real expert in that.
And so if you have questions, I'll
take all the easy questions.
If you have any hard questions, you
can ask Tara later on in the presentation,
we're going to cover some of that.
It really began with the Texas middle mile grant.
There were $700 million in requests for that money.
There was $200 million to give out, and we won 14.7 of it.
And that has begun to build the backbone
in the electronic highway.
We need to gather data for the flood Warning predictive system.
We've actively supported small businesses across the County,
in particular some of the things that they
found they needed help with.
And I see Mindy sitting here and she knows what all we've done.
Collectively, it's been a real joy
to see that part of the disaster come full circle.
We've actually done one of the key things we've done
is the healing of the river.
The strategy is all hanging on.
If we heal the river, we heal the community.
And we've done that in three specific ways.
There's been riparian plantings.
We have initiatives to work on invasive species.
The most exciting program to me is the trees initiative
that the San Antonio botanical garden is working with us on.
They wanted to collect last year.
I was like, oh, y'all want to do that.
100,000 seeds they wanted to collect
from Native species in the Guadalupe Valley River Valley.
I said, wow, that's huge.
They collected 850,000 seeds.
And now those seeds have been turned over to the scientists
and to their methodology.
And they are in the process of growing.
And this fall, we're going you have to actually
you can't go plant the trees.
You have to be trained to plant the trees
because there's ways we want to do it and put back what I think
is a legacy out of this disaster,
out of the horrible aspects of this disaster.
There will be good things that are happening.
Another thing we've done is the multiple public education
initiatives.
How many have seen the New film out healing for the hope
for the Guadalupe hands.
Yeah go see it.
It's on YouTube.
And it's also going to be featured around the state
on PBS television.
So we've made a lot of strides there.
Again, many partners working together to do great things.
Another thing that I'm kind of tickled about is our dive teams.
And I see Jay left.
Oh he's there.
He and I have worked diligently with the dive teams,
and you would not believe what they have
pulled out of the river in the high contact
areas, the swim areas.
We want to make sure they're clear
not only for the local people, but for the visitors.
And last count, about a week ago was a little over 31,000 pounds
of debris, sharp objects, metal, all
kinds of things collected and have
been removed from the river.
And that's not only just from City of Kerrville,
it involves the state of Texas.
They have worked hand in glove with us on that effort.
So I'm really tickled about that.
We've also worked with the emotional and spiritual care
and outreach initiatives.
And again, I'm coming in.
Here I've been here 10 months.
11 months.
There's some of you that have been here since day one,
and it is not a sign of weakness.
If you want to go get help or you want to talk to somebody,
do it.
Because having worked many, many disasters,
that is a critical, critical aspect that
needs to be paid attention to.
And the beautiful thing about this
is if there is a beautiful thing is you've got the resources,
the money is there, the help is there.
Go take advantage of it.
We've organized a tourism support activities, the
new Guadalupe Valley program.
And I have to give a huge shout out to your director.
Names, Julie.
Yeah sorry.
She has stepped up in such a large way for that initiative.
And we have garnered resources.
There they'll be over $650,000 in.
Advertisement that didn't cost you anything to advertise.
Hey come back.
Enjoy the river again.
We're open for business.
So I think that was a huge accomplishment.
And of course, we've supported organizations with unmet needs.
And we had a report today.
It's just incredible.
And one thing that's not on the slide here I want to also
emphasize is we just received a $35,000 grant from
the rebuild Texas fund to start a youth
corps resilience initiative.
So where we're going to begin teaching the kids
how to do this recovery work.
And I think that's just a beautiful and wonderful
thing to pass the torch, to pass the legacy to a new group.
So the second thing I want to talk to you
a little bit about is the legislative proposal.
I love football.
I'm a football kind of guy.
So I try to use an analogy I could understand.
And that is we're about halftime.
If you look at the Grand scheme of things and as one
of the voices in the halftime locker room,
it's time for us to roll up our sleeves take credit for what
we've done, celebrate what we've done,
but plan for the third and fourth quarter
because this whole effort isn't over by a long shot.
In what we do in the second quarter and the third,
I mean, the third and fourth quarter
is just as important as the wins that we've racked up
in the first half of the game.
So we've been working with our friends
at the Kerrville chamber.
And again, that's why my folks are here
with the governmental Affairs Committee.
And they have been rolling up their sleeves working with me
and the other team members.
I have to shout out to Michael harness,
who's also been involved in helping me navigate this space.
And we've come up with four categories
that we want to approach the legislative bodies
with and talk with them about.
The number one ask would be the flood Warning system.
We've won and I'll show you.
I'll walk through the details.
We've won quite a bit there.
And we've done quite a bit there.
But what else do we need to do.
That's our number one.
Ask our number one priority.
What else needs to be done.
We also want to build emergency response capacity
greater than it was in 2025.
We want to mitigate any environmental impacts
that are involved in the situation with the recovery.
And of course, we want to improve any policies
that we can at the state level and become
a model for how we do long term recovery
and how we lead as we go forward.
Real quick, I think you've seen this before,
but this just gives you an example of how critical
the middle mile project was.
It basically builds the electronic highway
to do the flood prediction modeling in a more precise way.
The data that you need to do such high level calculations
is hidden in all the creeks and valleys, and along the riverine
systems in remote areas.
So the electronic highway allows us
to begin moving that data from where it's the rain
is falling, where the stream is flowing, where the water
levels are being recorded, and move it
into the predictive model, which is going to be housed at ugra.
And there will be other benefits from that.
And I see it not only as an electronic highway,
but a backbone for our flood recovery system.
And there'll be other benefits as well.
Moving on with the flood Warning system,
we've built this with three different buckets of funds.
So that's how you have to do it in government.
You have to piece it all together.
And we've done that.
The first one, of course, is the middle mile.
The second one is funds we receive from the state of Texas
that flowed from the Texas Water Development Board to the County.
And then on to ugra.
And now the really cool thing is we
have this new tool built that is being assembled
by ugra called river hub.
The river hub and river hub is going
to be an electronic dashboard.
It'll be not quite on your mobile phone yet,
but we're getting there.
It's best viewed at this point in time on your PC,
but it'll be a map and it'll show you
where all the rain is falling.
It'll show you where the rivers, creeks are rising.
It'll show you where things are happening
out there in the system.
And again, we have done all of this work
to begin being able to develop a predictive model
because the whole thing with a flash flood
is it's not like in Florida where I come
from, unless it's a hurricane.
The water slowly creeps up on the Florida Gulf Coast.
But here the water flashes and it comes fast and furious,
and you have to get out in enough time.
And so that's the magic of a predictive system,
is to give you that time by you, that
time to take evasive action.
This basically leads us with a delta between what we need
and what we have, and we'll go into the details
of that in just a minute.
But one of the things that was not done last year
in the legislative sessions, where they asked that we get
all these sirens built, is there was no money
appropriated for maintenance.
In fact, they didn't even know how many
sirens we were going to need.
And that's the process that we're involved in right now.
And we have some figures there to do some ballpark
estimates on that.
So what are the challenges.
How many of these sirens are we going
to need throughout the County.
And the chief has been active in our working groups,
and we're going to have some more comments on that
pretty soon too.
But if you take this state of Texas guidance
and you apply it strictly by the letter,
according to their written guidance,
we need 134 sirens in Kerr County
to cover the entire river.
Well, we've already about.
Well, we installed 6 and we got two more to go.
So we have already eight.
So that means 126.
That's an enormous amount of capital cost
plus maintenance and expense.
And so our technical team is digging into this issue.
And it's tied to where are the flash flood areas
and the areas of high hazard.
And we're going to begin to have that conversation with the state
and narrow this down to what we think is probably
a more manageable number, probably
somewhere between 20 and 30.
Sirens but again, that is yet to be worked out.
So looking at the entire system, taking a look
at what it all in cost would be, we're estimating
at this point 29.4 million.
Like I said, we've had some wins.
We're about halfway there in terms
of funding that we've been allocated to build the system,
but we need more.
So we're about 54% in 45% to go.
And again, these are our high level estimations.
If you break down further we have about 2.4 million
already in.
That's involved in the process of putting up
the sirens that we have on order and that we're
actually physically here.
But if you take a look at OK, if we
have to add more sirens to the system, what would that cost.
And here are some of the numbers that we have broken down.
These are high level estimates.
As we learn more about specifically where these sirens
need to go, we will refine these numbers
and hopefully bring it down further.
Again, I emphasize no maintenance was ascribed
to the process, and we will need to figure out
how that O&M cost is covered.
So then going on to the second pillar
of the plan and the legislative conversation.
This is we need to be building emergency response capacity.
And I know my friends sitting over here would agree with that.
And what that means, what does that look like.
Well, perhaps we need to take Schreiner University model
and expand it and improve it so that it not only can help us,
but it can help the rest of the state of Texas.
And I think there's a large appetite for that.
And we've been working with Doctor Boswell and Doctor
McCormick on all those conversations
and of course, the EOC upgrades that the County would like.
This is a high level summary of what those would be,
because again, you have to have the technology tools in place
to be able to have those communications back
and forth between the state and federal
government and the locals.
The third part of the strategy is mitigation
of environmental impacts.
We would like to see a very in-depth study conducted.
The river raged on July four.
It moved mountains of material everywhere, all over the place.
So you have too much here, too little there.
What do you do and how do you do that without destroying
the environment.
So we want to go in and have a 2 to three
year look before you put bulldozers in the river,
or whatever you need to do to move that material around.
So that's part of what that ask is about.
I've already mentioned that we have
engaged in efforts to address habitat loss,
but that's kind of a start.
What happens if some of those private sector funding
don't come through.
What is the state of Texas obligation in that conversation.
We would like to make sure that hole gets addressed,
either by the initiatives we already have in place or ones
that we can put in place working with state agencies.
Policy improvements.
Hey, there's always ways you can get better.
And so some of the things we talked
about in our conversations were to extend
the SB three timelines.
Tara has the responsibility of moving this ball forward.
And she says she needs more time.
The woman works 24/7.
I don't know how she gets any rest.
So if she says she needs a little more time,
then I think we should consider that seriously.
And I'm sure that there are other counties and other river
authorities that would agree with that conversation as well.
We also would like to see layering of the system.
There's more than one way.
The sirens are great and we appreciate the state's help
and we want the state's help.
But what else can we do.
There's National Weather Service systems
that could be put in place with the weather radios.
There's also AccuWeather.
There's also other two way communication
radio systems that could be built
and set up and put in place.
There's a multiple layering of systems that we need to do
and also connecting it with the state of Texas road system.
So the low water crossings and the flashers and things
like that could be set up on the roads.
And we also would like to see the weather systems improved
Senate Bill five allocated money to several universities
to build radar, Doppler radars and other stream flow data
that we don't have right now.
And engineer that into the predictive model
that could use some help.
And I've actually talked to Rice University and Texas Tech
and UT Arlington about this.
And they're on board with wanting
this additional assistance.
So how does that all look in terms of policy improvements
and what we would need to do that.
We're estimating around $3 million
to improve the technological aspects of this.
Number two.
And I'm working with Michael on this.
What about if we were to take the middle mile
and we were to provide some financial incentives
to the AT&T, Verizon, all of those groups,
we could place communication networks
on our middle mile backbone and improve
the cell phone technology.
Technology, which is part of the problem in the remote areas
of the County.
It's not so much a problem in the city,
but it is in the other parts of the County.
And I think if we would form a public private partnership,
we might be able to solve that problem.
And so again, the idea is, why don't that cell.
Why doesn't that cell phone coverage exist right now.
Well, it's because of the capital cost.
Let's face it, if these companies are not
going to spend money, if they can't
find a way to make it back.
So if we could provide some sort of carrot in a partnership,
maybe we could see that through and make it happen.
And then, of course, a lot of damage to our smaller
businesses, to the camps.
There's 220 counties throughout the 254 counties in the state
of Texas that have camps and that have the small businesses
that support those camps.
Perhaps we could talk with our and see what they could
do about creating some sort of seasonal economic development
stabilization fund to ease the blow.
And I know Steve sitting over here,
he might buy into that idea.
It's one of the things that's needed.
There was a heavy burden put on the camping industry and all
of the partners that support it, when they really
it just came out of the blue.
So if you step back and you take a look at all four columns
and you add up the numbers, we're looking
at about that level of support.
The question is, how can we have the conversation as a community
to come to consensus on this.
Will we receive $85.4 million from the state legislature.
I don't know.
I know our shots are pretty good and it's better now than it ever
will be because you have existing appropriations that are
available, like in the Texas Water Development Board
funding that was allocated.
And then you have new appropriations when
every time the legislature gets together,
they do these appropriations.
So that's the conversation we need to have.
It's not too early to start that conversation.
It's important that as the long term recovery,
identify what it is we need and stand up and ask for it.
And that's kind of my presentation.
And what we want to do is be a leader in this conversation
and be a model for around the state.
So that's what we have for you this evening.
Mayor and council.
And we would enjoy y'all involving us getting
involved in that conversation.
A lot of energy, a lot of people in the working groups.
And so we just want to go forward with this discussion
and want to get your input.
First of all, thank you for you and for what everyone's done.
The flood broke my heart.
But then when I saw the people that
came to help and have continued to help for months and months.
It made me proud to be from Kerrville, from Kerr County.
I know that this is a big ask, but I think you're right.
I think now is the time to ask.
I agree with you.
Thank you.
Any comments or questions or just the 85.4
does not include maintenance, correct Yes, ma'am.
Wouldn't have any idea.
Well, you won't know until you know how many sirens.
Correct but I can give you a range.
And that range would involve if the number is 30,
you take that math and run it out
and it would be 10% of that capital
cost is what the guidance has been from the engineers.
I get that right, Tara.
And then so if it's 22, then it would be 10% of that number.
So it depends on the number you land on as to what
the actual cost would be.
That's a good estimate.
Thank you very much.
Yes ma'am.
Thank you.
I think the work together group is doing outstanding work.
So as you pointed out, appreciate their hard work.
I know they put a lot of time into it.
So it's very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Thank you all of y'all.
I know y'all have put in many, many hours.
All right.
Do you have any specific questions for us
or specific guidance you would like from us.
Yeah if you could instruct your management team to continue
the collaboration and working with us,
if you have specific thoughts or questions later on, let us know.
And they're active on all the working groups,
and we've just been delighted to work with you and your team.
I will say this.
Congratulations on being selected
by the Texas city Management Association for the honor
that they gave you.
And I can attest to the fact coming
up here several times that you guys are of that quality.
And I love working with you.
And we're here to help.
We're here to put our shoulder to the wheel
and make sure that the second half of the game
is as successful as the first half.
And again, it's going to take everybody putting
on that Jersey, everybody pulling together
and sending those messages.
We met with Senator Flores.
We met with Representative Verdell.
And there'll be other senators and other representatives
who will need to meet with, and we may need your help with that.
Certainly well, call on me as needed.
And I know city staff has not only collaborated
but led the way in many cases.
So thank you and thank you for all being here tonight.
Come any time.
We have it every two weeks.
Great conditioned air conditioning.
And thank you for letting us be the sheep
thief that borrow MS Kelly.
She's been great.
All right.
Thank you very much.
Next item on the agenda is the emergency management update.
Starting with Chief Maloney.
Good evening.
Or late afternoon.
So pleasure to be here today.
So I had a page flip I was going to do,
but I'm going to hold on that and I'll do the Reader's
Digest version instead.
Today with me is Casey Goodman.
So he's the emergency management coordinator.
So you all do remember him after July as being appointed.
Got to meet him over there.
And he's been instrumental in some of the work
that we're doing moving forward.
So tonight I want to give you an update
on the emergency management overview
of things we've been doing.
This is a great segue from what just
got discussed with the recovery, and give you an idea of the work
that we've been doing as part of the public safety working group,
and also on our own as the city of Kerrville.
One thing I want to talk about is
we're going to talk about the flood prevention
and some mitigation actions.
And one of the things I wanted to read,
because I really like this, it came
out of Emergency Management basic plan
concept of operations.
And it says it's our responsibility
to protect public health and safety
and preserve property from the effects of hazardous events.
We have the primary role in identifying and mitigating
hazards, preparing for and responding to and managing
the recovery from emergency situations
that affect our community.
And it is impossible for the government
to do everything that is required to protect the lives
and property of our population.
Our citizens have the responsibility
to prepare themselves and their families
to cope with emergency situations
and manage their affairs and property
in ways that will aid the government
in managing emergencies.
We will assist our citizens in fulfilling
these responsibilities by providing
public information and instructions prior
to and during emergency situations.
And so I read that one of the things we really worked
on come in post 4th of July.
Last April, we worked on revising our emergency
management basic plan and really working
on that with our current best practices
and respective capacity.
So we're currently in the process.
We have revised the emergency management emergency management
basic plan, and we're in the process of revising our 22
different annexes that we have as we transition to the FEMA
and the Texas Department of Emergency
Management recognized the 15 emergency support functions.
So we're consolidating them to be more in line
with state and federal responses out there.
We're doing some reviews cases, been doing some yeoman's
work on that and trying to get these work
together utilizing AI.
It's a big undertaking to transition everything
that's been in place.
And then once we get that, we're reviewing with key personnel
on each annex and making sure that they can do some
of the tasks that are asked of them,
or do we need to make some adaptation to that.
So this is going to improve our framework
and working plan during emergency.
It's going to support our community lifelines
that we've talked about since the total eclipse
and prior to that.
Number three.
So we did emergency management review on June 2.
Had an opportunity to sit down with the mayor
and the Mayor Pro tem.
And we had a chance to review.
Actually, that's what that is.
That's the review that we did and discussed the expectations,
the role of city council, emergency management
overview and the basic plan.
We did this a year ago.
June help me out, Mayor 4th June 4th.
We sat down and did the same overview prior to that,
not knowing what's coming for there.
So that was a good review and that's something
we will continue on with future council
and making sure that we stay up to date or annually.
Number 4, we've created or have been
part of with yugra and Taras leadership over there,
the public safety flood working group.
So that working group is the city of Kerrville emergency
management coordinator, the Kerr County emergency management
coordinator, Kerrville fire department, Kerrville police
department, Kerr County Sheriff's Office, hunt volunteer
fire department, Ingram volunteer fire department,
center point volunteer fire department,
the Kerrville area rural firefighters association,
so these have come together.
We came together last September and really kind of did
a little brainstorming on things we
saw from the fourth opportunities for improvement
and really collectively put those together and said,
here are some of the framework of what
we want to do moving forward.
Out of that meeting, we have been focusing
on six primary objectives with 13 subobjectives
and a lot of action plans from there.
So one of the things we really worked on
and the focus is enhancing our flood notification process
for public.
The city of Kerrville, our inclement weather team
that we have, and also the public safety.
OK OK.
So currently, we are looking at some options.
And right now we are in the works
creating a MOU, which we have one created for jam broadcasting
to support community awareness when events are occurring.
Bad weather to disasters.
Now we're in the process of identifying
the best approach to pushing those alerts out
through their system.
So we're working on that aspect of it right now.
So the other one is going to be the ranch radio marketing group.
We're working with them getting an MOU in place
and identifying some of that going forward.
Additionally, we are also working on keeping our staff.
That's fire police department and Sheriff's Department.
Those lieutenants and captains out there
situationally aware in the times that they need.
So we're using what they call active 901.
It's a alerting device that we use in the field that will give
us information on calls and information
that pertains to whatever the issue is.
And we can establish that through a team's process
where we group them together.
So they're the only ones that are receiving to get their crews
in place and to be prepared and do whatever
the situation may be, so that that's in the process of working
forward.
Again, we are looking at campaigns to I think,
4th of July.
We're talking about setting up a QR code for people
to sign up through the rave and possibly the code red stuff,
but I won't speak on the County stuff, but some of that
might be adjusted going forward.
Just so they're aware.
And create a distribution list.
So when situations occur, especially in the foot,
say 4th of July, we have that ability
to be situationally aware and see what's going on with that.
So within our group we've also developed
some multilingual alerts.
So it's not just an English.
It's a very diverse alerting system.
So everybody should be able to be reached at some point in time
and understand what's going on.
And then when we talk about internally,
we look at the inclement weather team.
We have a main and a core and essentially anytime
and we're still working through this
and we're going to refine it.
But right now I update the inclement weather team
on watches and warnings within our area.
And so right now, if something comes to me through the state,
I just alert the crew, the team to let them hey, this could be
or this is happening.
Just be prepared if we have to open the EOC.
So we set up a time periods in the evening,
in the morning that we might do a Teams meeting
or if we do a full activation we'll pass
that information on as needed.
And it's really going to be dependent on the severity of the
issue or the disaster at hand.
So working through that, just trying to identify some of that
and then how we're going to do it,
are we going to do it in a hybrid.
Are we going to be a partial opening or it's going
to be a full opening.
And those are based on the levels of activation.
And that's usually A1 through four level.
And then we get situation reports
through that to the inclement weather team
as things change and update.
So everybody's still being situationally aware.
And so we try to be as efficient as possible.
And something new we're looking at and working through
dispatch because they are awake at 24 hours a day.
So we have that ability to push out notifications
with through the National Weather Service of major events
or storms may be coming in.
So when we are asleep, we still are
being active in that approach to being
that situational awareness.
So a lot of that's coming down the chute
and we're still working, but we're seeing that light
at the end of the tunnel.
So we are making progress and trying
to make sure that going forward, our community is aware and alert
and feel safe and comfortable.
So it's great.
So we've also been working on developing a flood response
standard operating guidelines.
Each individual public Safety Agency has provided a guideline
for situational awareness.
So these are four or five things they would
do in a Warning and a watch or a watch a Warning and emergency
flood stages different things.
And the situational awareness helps us as emergency management
because now I know what Engram should be doing.
So it's not their full plan, not a procedure,
but it does give us an idea.
So it keeps us all on the same page.
It keeps us working together out there.
We are working on a flood emergency
action plan development.
Waterway engineering is developing that for us.
We actually are meeting with them tomorrow
for a final draft review.
We made some adjustments to that and work on there.
So the emergency action plan is more specific actions
and defines responsibilities for various disasters.
So this is specific to floods is what this one is.
So we're the basic plan is the overarching for the emergency
management, and then we have the annexes or the emergency support
function groups individually for firefighting,
police, whatever it may be.
But this one is going to be more specific of what we're doing
procedural wise and what we need to do, what Casey needs to do,
what I need to do.
Police Chief so so it's quite a document
and working through that.
So we've done the page flip and then we get with them.
It's also going to include our Independent School district.
So we've also received their severe weather annexes.
And keeping those up to date they're
required to provide them.
So we're keeping those in a repository
and a place that will be noted in there where we can go also
includes the camp emergency plans.
They're also required to get emergency management.
So once again, we'll be putting a repository
for the city and the County.
So we can also see their emergency plans.
So in the moment we're having something
we don't need to call and find out what they're doing.
We know what they're doing now.
Are they doing it more importantly from there.
So we're working on a tabletop exercise.
So the Texas Institute for hazard risk and readiness.
So I got it.
So in fall of 26 I'm on the board for that and honor
to be a part of that.
So we're working on some opportunities
there to really test the system.
So really excited about this.
This is really big for our community
to be able to have this level, this Institute here
in Kerrville.
So really excited about that one.
And we have our first kickoff meeting,
I believe 19, 18th or 19th.
So we'll be getting together.
So excited for that.
Number seven we're going to provide citizen education
for flood emergencies.
So we're working.
Once we get some of these objectives
completed we're going to be engaging with our PIOs
out there for social media press releases with the media
outlets, some community education programs.
You'll see to a lot of that waterway engineering
that is with Ujiri.
There also they have a public education campaign
that was one of the really positive things with them also.
So that's exciting out there for us.
Number 8, where is the decision making emergency action
plan flowchart.
So this is before the flood.
So we have created emergency action
plan flowchart with thresholds.
That is in that plan.
We revised that.
One of the biggest challenges we're having is
balancing watches and warnings.
Emergencies is easy.
But how do we balance some of those.
How do we get the right notification
and put the right amount of pressure
out there so people know.
So we don't put everything.
Everything comes through the National Weather Service.
I receive that now.
What is the next level when you need to receive that.
And so we're really working on that.
We're focusing on three levels of flood
emergencies is how we're looking at this
and taking this approach.
The dashboard all the predictive models,
the data that goes in there.
In the end, we have to make a determination of what
information is going to be shared with the public,
with public safety.
Our city, our County staff and make
a decision on what we're going to do as emergency management
out there.
Each of those levels can trigger the EOC activation at some form.
So we have four levels of that with our normal conditions.
So we have our virtual or hybrid.
We have a partial we have a full activation of course
last fourth was a full.
You've seen the other disasters that myself and chief McCall
have worked.
We've had partial in some of those.
It all kind of depends on the disaster.
We've worked on mass communication training.
So using our rave, which is the one we use internally for that.
Out out of that company, rave mobile's solutions I believe
is the name of the company.
We have an ability from there to push out an AI pulse message.
Ipaws message is what you receive on your phone
from National Weather Service.
Same concept, same thing.
Geofenced area that actually goes out.
So we tested those back in March during the public safety
facility opening.
At the opening.
We tested that so the whole state did.
And then working through some of that.
Since then, we have TAVI and her team
and us and police department.
We completed training for our dispatchers
and key fire and police, emergency operations staff,
so on how to use it.
And then we're really making sure that our flow chart is
developed so we can provide them the ability
to make those decisions without saying, I got to call the chief.
So in the middle of the night.
So what is that.
What are those decisions markers for that
so they can get that notification out through IPAWS.
If it's emergency call us later.
And then we work from there.
Work with the city manager, the mayor
the Mayor Pro tem for their ninth.
We're operational response and field action.
So this is during the flood.
I talked a little bit about river hub.
We've been working diligently with them.
Great This is great situational awareness
that they're going to have.
It's going to have a dashboard for public safety.
And there's also a public version for that.
It'll provide Intel for precipitation
modeling, flood gauges, low water crossings, road closures.
So we look at that now.
We've been testing that system for the last few months
during rain events to see how much rainfall we've been getting
whether there's a rise in the river
and just trying to continue to monitor that.
So, so great work there.
That's coming real close to being able to see we're using it
now, but we're at the Public Safety
and the public for that one.
Actually, I think the public is released.
Yes it is.
There we go.
I do remember that.
And then we're working on the notification process
for public safety agencies with our standard operating guideline
actions based on flood data.
So we're trying to determine there.
When do we need to give that.
Chief Goodman talked about that a little bit in
regards to how we notify and how we're going to notify.
Chief McCall and his team are working
through that dispatch process for those that
can get that information to us at o'clock
o'clock in the morning.
For that number 10 system validation
and continuous improvement, this is after the flood.
Probably there'll be a functional
exercise in spring of 2027.
And we'll be coordinating with T or TCS or another agency
to be able to provide that.
You bring in outside facilitators for that
and test the system that we put in place.
Last but not least, so the EOC design.
So with our new public safety facility.
So we have an ability to have an emergency operations center
that's not a training room.
Did appreciate.
Thank you chief.
So however this has more capabilities.
So that's what it was designed.
That's the plan.
When we worked on this together with the public safety facility,
we came up with ideas that would make sense for us,
for Kerrville.
And how we would staff that.
So we've been coordinating with it the GIS Joshua Young coming
up with some different things that we
can provide and have in there, have at our fingertips.
So if we need it, we can have it on display.
This really also streamlined our EOC staff based on the flood
and then the new facility.
So we can actually expand the incident to what we would need.
So there is that capacity there.
So that's another exciting component.
And that also brought us to our EOC
organization chart and staffing plan and executive group.
So those are things that we were able to work
on knowing what we have in the facility,
knowing what seats we would want.
Definitely putting it to the test on the fourth,
and we had a trial run a year prior with the total eclipse.
So we're going to put some things to the test
and real excited about that.
And that is all we have.
But this is a team effort.
Can't agree more.
Got to love Kerrville.
Got to love Kerr County.
I'm proud to be here, proud to be a part of this
and be a part of those.
And thank you for being part of the Institute
and great things are coming.
We're in the I like that we're in the first half.
Second half.
So questions for myself for chief Goodman.
Questions no thank you for that's a lot of work.
Thank you very much.
Much needed work.
And kudos to what you already did on the fourth.
And now it's going to be even will be even more prepared
if there is such a thing.
So thank you very much.
Welcome, Jeff.
You started with the same opening remarks
that you started with the mayor myself last week.
So it's that hits home.
There's only so much that y'all can do.
And it needs to be a responsibility of everybody
in the community when we start.
Hopefully, we never have to go down that road again.
That's the goal.
But thank you all so much.
Yes, sir.
Oh, that's so much to absorb so quick.
Not sure I understood all that, but it's
pretty impressive, all the things
that you're going through.
And that's nice.
I have one question about so the County has an emergency
coordinator as well.
How much coordination is going between the city and the County,
for example.
So now that we have a new coordinator,
we're working together, not like we were working
together when I came in.
It's gotten better.
A lot of good communication between us both.
He comes from the state, so he's got
some good ideas and some good processes, some good contacts.
So it's really just it's our relationship is a lot stronger
than it has been in the past.
And I think going forward.
It's going to get even better.
They're willing to work and share ideas.
So that's good.
Well, the state experience is really good.
So he was our he was our County CLO, which is our liaison
officer for us for the State.
And so he brings some knowledge and some.
So anyway, that main thing is I know
he'll be in our he'll be with us tomorrow
in our EAP to work on that.
So all right.
Great thanks, Steve.
So all this was excuse me related to weather,
but you were speaking to knowing the school districts do
or what your other first responders are doing.
Ingram volunteer fire departments
are you doing is I would presume,
but other if it's a one time incident to prop up an EOC,
is all of that same of what you just said.
Yes so we open up the emergency operations center.
The city of Kerrville did.
So if we open up that and if it's a flood
emergency, obviously if it's in the city,
it's going to be in the County.
So yes, we would be working directly with them.
The school districts is really one of those that benefits us,
because at least we know some of their action.
Or if schools open.
Of course, in session.
But we could talk to them if they're doing routes and stuff.
So yes.
So we're working closely for some of those.
OK perfect.
If that answers the question.
Yes thank you.
Great mayor.
Chief and Maloney and division chief Goodman.
Both the police Chiefs that are here tonight.
I've really come to rely on all of you.
Thank you.
The communication was good before July four,
but it's much better now.
So thank you.
I think the thing that has been misunderstood, especially
among some of our state leaders, is we had a plan
and we followed that plan.
And at least within the city of Kerrville,
that plan was followed to the best of our ability
given the circumstances.
I like also that we've mentioned,
hey, people within 911 are our dispatch.
They're awake 24/7.
So there doesn't have to be someone awake to say yes.
Push the button.
They have the authority to act before they can
roust us out of our slumber.
So that's.
That's good.
I noticed that the new basic plan
has improvements over the plan that was in effect on July four.
So thank you for your hard work on that.
But personally, I rely on you.
I rely on your departments, and I appreciate everything
that you've done to help not only guide this council,
but to make the citizens of Kerrville
safer and better prepared for whatever
emergency may come our way.
So thank you very kindly for all you've done.
It's our honor, our privilege to serve our community.
So absolutely.
Thank you, thank you.
All right.
Thank you.
All right, Lois street tank update Mr. Burrow,
I'll be real brief on this one.
I know we've got council coming up,
but this is a project that we've talked
about for a number of years.
This started off back in 2020.
We got concurrence from 20 from the water development board
in 23 for funding assistance.
And then with that comes a review period.
Design was complete.
We took about a year to get water development Waterville
board review completed in.
So that is actually currently bidding.
We're going to get the bids in first part of July.
Now we're looking at July 1.
Hope is that we get good bids, get good contractors.
Bring that to you in the second meeting
in July, first meeting in August,
depending on what we need.
Get that project started around the early September time frame.
It's going to take about a year.
And a half, so it would be complete in December of 27.
So we just want to give a brief update.
Mayor, I know you and I have talked
about that a number of times.
So that's just why I'm here, is to let the status of that one.
Any questions.
I think the boat was stuck on a sandbar for a while
and a little nudge from state representatives
and State Senator helped us out a little bit.
Yes yeah.
The irony in that is, not.
Yeah we'll just leave it at that.
I appreciate it I drive by that water tank every day.
And so that's probably why it's on my mind.
I grew up near that water tank.
That water tank was there when I was at Starkey elementary.
OK yes.
Starkey elementary existed when I was a child.
We still have the original receipt.
Yeah it was opened in 1948, and I was born in 61, so never mind.
Here's the thing.
It needs to be done.
I'm glad we're getting past some hurdles.
Thank you for being persistent.
And hopefully, we'll have some good bids
and we can get to work.
I appreciate your persistence on that.
Any comments or questions.
All right.
Thank you.
Next is city council liaison and interview team selections.
For those of you playing along at home.
City council serves.
Members of the Council serve on various committees and boards
and it has been my habit to assign those committees
based on seniority.
Current seniority.
Not in my case.
I don't get to count when I was first on in 1990,
it's this current council.
I was elected to this current council in 2022
Mr. Harris was elected in 2023 Mr.
McKinney was elected in 2024.
He was part of the group that appointed Mr. Chairman in 2024.
And MS Smith is our newest person.
So what I would like to do is go through the committees.
The ones that I will serve on are
the current economic Development Corporation and CFPB
and the public facility corporation,
which we just had tonight.
The next person in line to select a position would be Mr.
Harris Mr. Harris, I would like to stay on Playhouse 2000,
continue to be the liaison for planning and zoning.
And I would like to add myself as the liaison
for parks and recreation.
Sounds good.
Next would be Mr. McKinney.
Well, then he's on to the airport board on the EIC.
I would like to continue that.
And I'm bend with Councilman Councilwoman
segerman on the recovery community coalition.
I'm willing to continue to do that.
Thank you Mr. Chairman.
I would like to just keep I would
like to stay on the recovery coalition committee.
I believe the newest addition was the Texas
Commission on the arts.
I'm actually the chair of that, so never mind.
We're currently serving on the cultural arts district,
on the arts committee and the Downtown advisory committee Yes
Would you like to stay on those.
Plus, there's no plus, I don't think.
No plus.
And we can give you a bonus to remain on.
To remain on the recovery community coalition MS Smith,
you are currently serving on the ters.
Number one, would you continue.
Would you be willing to serve.
Yes, sir.
And you can say no to these.
But Brenda Hughes, given her experience in the food service
industry, served on the food service advisory board,
would you be interested in that one.
Yes way to go.
Thank you.
I have a little experience.
I think that really covers every appointment.
I will formalize these and give them to Shelly.
We have interviewed teams and those are important.
In my opinion, because when people apply,
we often get more applicants than we have positions.
And unless someone wants to change them,
those have been working.
What about library.
Would you like to serve on the library.
Library thank you ma'am.
I like books.
Good I had a question mark on the library advisory board.
So that's a check.
And I'm going to put you on the food service advisory
and also tours one, which is economic development.
All right.
That didn't take too long.
So thank you everyone.
And I'll formalize this in a memo to Shelly, which.
There is no need to go into executive session.
And so we did take Main Street off.
Main Street is gone.
OK sorry, I'm looking at.
I just scratched through it.
It's on mine too.
Yeah OK.
All right.
Thank you for everybody willing to serve on those.
It's good for us to be a part of the committee and board process.
Sometimes they need a nudge.
It's good for us to nudge them occasionally.
All right.
I don't see any other.
We don't have any reason to go into executive session,
so let's have something else.
I'm going to go ahead and adjourn the city council
workshop for June 9 at 535.
Next show is.