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All right, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the regular meeting of the City Council City

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of Live Oak Texas today, Tuesday, July 30th, 2024, at 7 p.m. As I call the meeting to

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order, and thank you all staff, audience, thank you for being here. I like for us to stand

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and observe a moment of silence, and that will be followed by the pledge of allegiance, please

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to

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the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation

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under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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I'm in Morgan. We'll begin the roll call with you please.

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Yes, ma'am. Councilman Mindel Morgan, present and accounted for America, didn't he?

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Oh wow. Whatever you want to say, sir.

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Councilman Vaughn, Councilman Place II.

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President Matheson.

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For us here, ma'am something's there not here and then it's here. Thank you

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And that will take us to item four which are citizens to be heard and I apologize that I did not say if there's anyone here

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Who would like to speak either citizens to be heard you still have time to do that and

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We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to do so come forward and tell us what you want to get us here

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Otherwise, do we have any all right no citizens to be heard at this time?

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Thank you, Ms. Katana.

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Moving to item five.

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Motion to approve the Senate agenda.

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The motion second by Dr. Perez.

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Begin the vote with you, Councilor Morgan.

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Four.

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Talk to four.

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Press four.

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No, four.

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Passes five, zero.

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Thank you.

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Item six, special consideration.

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We have presentation of employee of the quarter

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April through June 24th, Savannah.

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And Mr. Ruth Rutherford will tell us about her.

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I'd like to invite BJ Beeler up here as well with him.

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Oh, Mr. Beeler.

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All right.

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How are you, sir?

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Doing great.

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How about you, Mayor?

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Great, great.

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So, our employee of the quarter this year is Savannah Nava, who is our permit technician

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in the development services department.

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I've only been here for a couple of months, but it hasn't taken me long to realize what

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a great asset Savannah is to the community and to the organization.

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She's a fast learner.

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She's got great customer service skills.

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We are truly, we value her service to Team Live Oak and to the City of Live Oak.

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I'll let BJ take it from there.

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Thank you.

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So Savannah started in the fall of 2022 and it was a transition period and we built a lot around her

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and she was instrumental in creating some new processes and bringing in some new people.

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and she worked really hard and we depend on her and we value her, just like Ron said, we value her

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greatly. So we're very excited that she gets this award and we're happy to give it to her tonight.

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All right. We're super excited. When I read the blue sheet, I was like, wow, she's a go-getter.

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So it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up.

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Oh, compliment, uh, the sandwich is going to have remarks.

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I do like to make a comment here.

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Recently I've been doing some remodeling and giving some permits and I just want to comment on

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So Van has been very professional, knowledgeable, personal, and more than helpful in my getting all my permits that I needed.

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So I want to compliment her and thank her.

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I mean, reiterate what everybody else has been saying about she had a great job with the community, and I really personally appreciate all she's done for me.

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And I might grab the mic really quick like also because we've been doing a lot of ribbon cuttings lately.

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And all the business owners have all particularly said by name, Savannah has been the guiding light.

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They open up stores and other other restaurants and you know, all crop San Antonio

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But they say your name as far as helping them through that process and they appreciate it. That says a lot

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You're the reason

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We are the reason that one of the reasons why Team Live Oak is Team Live Oak, so thank you so much for what you do. We appreciate it so very much.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Savannah was instrumental in the break room owners not backing out of that deal.

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Savannah really worked hard on some solutions and made them go forward with their plans

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and now we have a really wonderful break room bar and billiard room to go to so we do give

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her credit for that.

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And customer servers does make a difference and you seem to be the epitome on that.

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So thank you so much.

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Thank you, Donna.

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It means a lot.

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You're welcome.

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All right.

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That will take us to our next item which is 7a.

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We've got presentation discussion and possible action to accept to discuss.

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Wait.

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It's okay.

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You can leave it as it is.

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It's okay.

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I'm going to accept the 2024 live-off parts recreation and open space master plan, Mr. Wester.

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Yes, Mayor Council.

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So we won't actually be doing any action on this, my no acceptance is necessary, but we

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do want to give you a status update and presentation.

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I want to invite Mr. Paul Howard to come up.

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He's with Bird at Land in place and he's ready to give you a 10 minute presentation.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, sir.

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Nice to see you again.

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It's good to see all of y'all.

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All right.

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So as you may all be aware of, we've been working on a development of an updated

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parks and recreation mass plan for the city of Laibouc. The first master plan was developed

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in 2019 by our team and then we were asked to come back and revisit the plan and look at

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what the current demand is for parks, facilities, programs and ways to improve your great parks

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and taking advantage of some potential future park areas as well.

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The planning process involved a park and facility inventory where we evaluated every feature

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in the park to look at the condition, potential replacement cycle for certain amenities and

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then looked at opportunities that are found within the park properties.

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Then following that was a needs assessment which is really a combination of both the needs

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that we identified through the inventory, but also the next step is looking at what the

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community wants.

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And so there was a series of outreach efforts conducted to find out what the citizens

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would like to see in their parks and facilities.

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All that is combined through an analysis process with some background research that we get

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into an air in a moment, which is then followed by recommended improvements and a plan for

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implementation.

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The inventory and analysis phase, like I mentioned, looked at every feature in the park.

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We graded the quality and condition of features and looked at things that might need to

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be replaced.

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The city's facilities are overall great.

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You've got a lot of brand new things in there.

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There's been a lot of accomplishments over the last five years and so, and we're approaching

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this whole project with the notion that don't put too much stuff in the parks because you

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don't want them crowded so much that they become a messy one.

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There needs to be a natural flow to things.

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So careful consideration with types of improvements

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going to each part.

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There was also included a 10 minute walk analysis,

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which I'll show here in a minute.

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Some look at recreation behavior of residents

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based on some big data available from the industry.

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And looking at pedestrian bicycle activity

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in the community as well.

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There's just a quick snapshot of some

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of the recreation data that's available.

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So whenever you buy sporting goods, or you shop at certain locations, there's data being

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collected about the types of products, especially sporting goods.

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And that data gets translated into a cookie cutter analysis of just the people in live

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up and what they're spending their time doing based on what they're shopping with.

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There's also some intercept surveys and some online data that they collect.

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It's proprietary, so we don't really get to know all the sources.

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But like we see in every community walking and other pedestrian related activities are

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at the top of the list, followed by swimming and bicycling and a lot of other activities.

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The community is really active in many different types of activities and some of the ones on

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the right there are just some of the leisure activities that are popular.

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I won't get into too much detail on that.

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It is in the plan documents so you'll have the coming weeks to take a closer look at that

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plan if you really want to dig into the data.

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The 10-minute walk analysis is where we evaluate how far a person can go from their home to

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get to a park.

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The idea is NRPA, which is the National Recreation and Park Association, challenges America

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to make their communities a walkable place where anybody can get to a park from their home

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within 10 minutes of a walk.

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That's basically a quarter mile.

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So this just shows a couple of areas where there's some service gaps.

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Luckily, most of those areas are more of the commercial side of the community.

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But there are definitely some places where there aren't within a 10-minute walk.

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Can some of that could be challenging with the freeway going through there, but it gives you an idea.

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Thankfully, 74% of the population lives within 10-minute walks, so that's notable compared to the cities across the state.

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Then we look at your existing trails and sidewalks network on the left.

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You see color coded where you have sidewalks and where you don't and where you have trails.

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Some streets have at least a partial sidewalk or one side of the road.

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Those are yellow, red, no sidewalks on either side,

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and the green, yes, they're sidewalks.

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So have something to consider as you move forward

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with future transportation planning

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where sidewalks are appropriate.

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We also identified some opportunities for more trails

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in the community on some selected areas,

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and we'll look at that here in a minute.

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On the right is the pedestrian and bicycle activity

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that we have identified through Strava.

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That's an online app that people use

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with their smart phone watches and their smart phones

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that allows them to track their pedestrian bicycle

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swimming, snow skiing, whatever type of activity, and you can actually see all that aggregated

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data and see where people are doing their walking.

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In this cases, both walking and biking, shown on the right here, and the brighter the red,

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the more activity.

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The light blue is a little bit less activity, and it has been filtered so it doesn't include

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people leaving their app on weather in the car, so that's notable.

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Community engagement, we included a number of activities.

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One was that we started off with a booth at the extravagant egg extravagant event and

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movie in the park night where we primarily were reaching out to community hand out flyers

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some people to go to the survey on the line and letting them know what's going on.

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That was a great event.

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Lots of people there.

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It was neat to see the part being used so much.

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That was followed by an online survey that went through March through April and we'll get

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into the total number of participants in that shortly.

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and then a community wide parks planning workshop that was held, was it here? I can't remember.

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I can't remember what it was really.

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We had a good turnout and it was very productive. We got a lot of input from the residents about what they'd like to see.

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And then we had a joint city council and parks commission workshop that was also very productive and gave us some great direction.

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I'm not going to go through every one of the survey questions because it's just a lot of data in the 10 minute presentation, but

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Notably 46% of residents use the parks at least multiple times a week and

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Also note is that on the survey 60% of residents lived in live or participants lived in live

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But the other 39.75% or not restants. So that's interesting and

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And that drives with what we've learned about, say, the pool usage, where we, and with

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our observations in the park.

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You've got a lot of people coming outside the community to use your parks because they're

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great.

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And so that can present challenge with the total capacity of the park at certain events

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and stuff, but it's also a complement to what you've done with your parks.

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Over on the rated four and five, so on the scale one to five, five being excellent, the vast

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majority of responses say the parks are great.

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And we all knew this instinctively, but it's good to hear that from your residents.

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Some of the most, oh, I was going to go to trails and sidewalks.

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Their level of importance is very high in the community.

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41% say it's extremely important and 32% say it's very important.

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So any opportunities where you can make those connections happen is something to look forward to.

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And I won't go into the rest of these in great detail,

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but the community has talked about a lot of different activities that they were interested in,

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especially when we let them have open comments on some of the questions to add things that we

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mind it on the vast about. And so you can't have all of that stuff in the community because they're

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just not enough parking to do it. And that's where we start to look at what things can fit well

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without overcrowding your parks. And then you can keep that in mind for when new opportunities become

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available in the future. That was just some of the key subject areas that we talked about in the

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parks planning workshop, everything from trails and safety and security, indoor

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recreation, water-related activities, you name it. And in the City Council

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Parks Commission workshop some of the same things we're talked about. It's

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definitely some congruency there. Some of the high frequency things regarding

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covered areas like covered basketball, shade structures, more water activities.

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fitness was really high up there on the list as well, and then making sure that

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parking and connectivity are also available in the community. We also looked at

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some opportunities for

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We've already had some great successes in recent years and just looking at continued opportunities

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for particular sections where we saw opportunities for off-street trails, not sidewalks. One of

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them was along the abandoned Miller Road down there on the south side of Woodcrest Park.

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There's an opportunity to expand upon that trail and connect all the way out. We could go

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all the way out to O'Connor Road if you wanted to. We have a terminating at a potential

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future part, Blaha Park down in the corner, which is one plan for maybe the developers to implement

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sometime in the future through a 380 agreement or a park dedication. That's all to be determined

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when a developer comes along. But meanwhile, there's an opportunity for connection. Also, Avery Road

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Utility easement, and the village drainage corridor number three, and then number four is an extension

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of the drainage corridor door from Shino to Live Oak. And so those are opportunities to add. Just a few

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more connections to parks and to neighborhoods throughout the community.

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All of these efforts will create priority projects.

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Now, these don't all have to be done wholesale.

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We do provide detailed opinions of probable costs for each one of these priority projects.

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But they're itemized so that if you want to implement things all across time,

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it can be done.

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So this gives you a safe planning budget for moving forward.

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Of course, these aren't shovel ready projects.

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they still need to go through a real, an actual design process to get down to something

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that you can put on the street for bids and have constructed, but he gives you an overview.

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So the live-over-city pool complex area, that's there, including the practice baseball field

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up there on the north side, shown here, I've got the map rotated, so it looks a little

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off to your eye potentially, but that's how we got it to fit on the page.

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But converting that practice field to a multi-use open space, nothing with bright lights,

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That's why it's not going to lighten sports good because you have adjacent homes there.

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But some of that can be for a lot of different things, expanded event opportunities, a place

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to fly, a kayak, you name it.

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Potentially put some new sand volleyball courts, more parking, which is desperately in need.

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And in the budget, we have some allowances for some upgrades to the clubhouse and restroom

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upgrades.

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One thing was to consider making that restroom available when pool is closed by redirecting

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traffic to there.

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and that's a fencing problem, that's simple enough to do.

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And that adds another restroom.

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Our last time we worked with you,

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we had an analysis where that's made about 500 feet

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is an ideal location between activity areas

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for the next restroom.

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And that's based on young children being able

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to get there before it's too late.

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At Main City Park, there's a lot of little details in here

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and it's kind of hard to see it all on the map

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as something you might dig into

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as you explore the master plane document.

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But lots of opportunities for proposed improvements.

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one of the biggest ones and I'll pop back over here for a second. Down here

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where the overflow parking is for events is proposed new driveways, concrete

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driveways, but then having some grass-pavre system for parking. So you have a

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more stabilized parking surface, a lot more spaces. I can't see how many spaces

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up the top of my head, but I want to say it's like 200. I could be wrong. I'll have

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to look back at that, but a lot more parking, but its grass-pavres are permeable, so

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you're not creating more problems for stormwater, but it is a stabilized surface. Also on this screen,

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you'll see a proposed kayak launch over just next to the fishing pier and some more shelter-shaded

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shade structures over there were seeding. That way, hopefully, the less pop-up shelters and more

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people using picnic shelters that are more inconsistent with the rest of the park. Some upgrades to

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the baseball fields, a cover over the basketball court, which was discussed in

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past master plane as well. It's a great opportunity to create some much needed

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shape, but also it's another covered space for events. It becomes a multi-use

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space as well. Pavilion and we got one new picnic, our family size,

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including eight picnic shelters, and another one with a gazebo, and last but not least

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a new concession, a restremover by the baseball fields. That one's the last in the park to get upgraded and

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and it was high on the list of priorities and on the baseball

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side some upgrades to the the whole seating area there. So the idea is to have a kind of you can't see it

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really well here, but there's a little curve there right there next to the fields. That's a terrorist seating kind of going down that steep

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bill there with ADA accessibility, but creating a built-in to the hill seating arrangement rather than bleachers there.

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And it'll also give you more seating, but also a much more attractive view looking down over the fields right there.

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Now with Chris Park, all the input we got was pretty much to not miss it up. That was the goal.

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So, we have very conservative recommendations here. The playground equipment is still in good functioning order,

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but it does have a life cycle like all things. So, we're looking at the next five years,

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be your ideal time to replace it.

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It's create false surface.

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Everything's still functioning,

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but you are starting to see a little bit chipping

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the finish and some rest on a couple of pieces,

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and especially the fitness equipment too.

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And so just considering that and the budget for replacement,

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some new picnic shelters and another gazibu and family,

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Pavilion or proposed here,

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as well as some additional wildlife viewing blinds.

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And those are, you'll know there's,

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you might be aware that there's an area

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that's a low spot on the park. At one time many years ago there was a stock tank there. So the

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dam has blown that long ago. It's an area where a lot of rainwater gets in there and a lot of

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deer live in there. It's not really advisable to dam it back up again. There's a whole slew of other

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issues to deal with when you start messing with the water movement there. But it's still an area that

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could be a come a great wildlife viewing area. So we proposed a boardwalk along one edge there. There's

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a small one with a lot of life viewing blinds

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and some additional wayfinding and signage along,

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which would be upgraded and signage to show

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what people where they are with mile markers,

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but also some interpretive signage

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for a little educational purpose,

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talk about some of the natural features of the site.

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Montanillo Park is your newest park.

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Right now, it's a trail going through there.

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It was about two and a half acres of land

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that terminates at the end of the trail

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that runs from, I can't remember the west way,

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is the name of the road and then runs down that corridor all the way to Woodcress Park.

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Our recommendation here was to let it serve as more of a trailhead than what you might

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consider as a traditional park, but had a couple of fitness equipment pieces, a small

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picnic shelter and then a little upgrade in landscaping. We've got a allowance in the

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budget for some more tree plantings and some wildfire middle area and a drinking fountain.

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In fact, you'll see a picture up here at the top, I thought this was a really cool example

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of something.

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It's a drinking fountain that has a bottle filled, drinking station has a dog water bowl

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and it's wayfinding.

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It shows you a little trail map on there.

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I thought something like that, in case you're a lot of bang for your buck, there's really

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cool products out there on the market.

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And that was just to show you where Montenegro Park is.

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No, I wrote, that's Blaha Park, I messed up the title there.

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So Brawler Park is a couple of acres of land over there on the southwest coin community

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right next to O'Connor Road and Miller Road.

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The property was platted for a park back in 1949 and never got built.

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City owns the land.

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There's an opportunity to work with developers to let them take the lead in doing that in

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the future.

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The proposed features in here are limited to a playground, fitness station, picnic shelter

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and some open space, maybe some wildflower plantings in some areas, which is also great because

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it reduces meanness, wildflower is meant to not be mowed. We're seeing that a lot of communities

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is a great way to both create more natural spaces, more room for pollinators, but also reduce

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meanness budgets. And then I just thought I'd revisit the fitness park concept from 2012 that was

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done by Clark Condon and I think that's an American skateboard company ASD. I haven't read all

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the detail point. We just got the presentation in this concept. But the property that it was

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proposed for was right there behind the fire station and it's about four and a half acres. This

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concept included a lot of different features in their amphitheater, a wheel friendly plaza which is

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not just for skateboards, but also for bicycles or wheelchairs or scooters, you name it.

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Some game tables, which I thought was really nice playground.

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It's a feature rich park.

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You can get a lot of stuff in there, but the idea is just to remind you that there's an

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idea out there for how to use this space.

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And I haven't seen the new facilities plan that's coming up next, but so that might change

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things.

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But just to remind you, there's an opportunity for public space on that property in conjunction

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with all the other stuff going on with the campus.

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Implementation, like I said before,

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it could be Ellicart, or you could do this all at once,

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for the purposes of just thinking in terms of order and magnitude.

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We put the total cost at the bottom of each concept here

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on the high end of the estimate, and showed you what it would look like

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if you were to have a bond funding for that.

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We've based it on a 15-year bond with about 3% debt service,

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and then look at it. What is it cost to your household per year based on your household value?

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So if you have a $200,000 house for a main city park, everything included.

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It'd be $71 a year to get all that stuff. If you have a $400,000 house, then it goes up to $243.

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So just a way of wrapping citizens' minds around members that they're not dealing with on a regular basis.

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Because most people aren't playing around with $7,000 to $10,000 or $2 million on a daily basis.

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So it's a great way to look at what it cost to you if you were to ever put this out for a bond election

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and somebody wants to be educated about what they're paying for.

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And some of the consider is upcoming grants, the deadline for grants, I believe, is October 1st for Texas Parks and Wildlife.

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So there's something that you know we're interested in and this is really tight timeline.

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But recreation grants for local parks are capped at $750,000. It's a 50 match.

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So it's a great way to kickstart a project if you had something that you're really interested in.

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They do this every year, so every fall they have a new application deadline,

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and then they announce their awards sometime at the beginning of the following year.

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So something to keep in mind, there's some other grant funding opportunities that are itemized

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in the play and document for considerate.

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Okay, well over, but if you'll have any questions, I'm free to answer them over.

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I don't know where it's safe. Thank you, Paul. We appreciate the presentation. Mark, did you want to say something now?

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Well, yes, Mayor. I just wanted to mention that our next steps are we are going to have a special meeting with the park commission.

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Present the draft plan to them. Talk about priorities of projects. And then this will come back to the city council for final approval and acceptance.

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All right. Thank you. I'm Mr. Gavari. Thank you. We appreciate the high-level

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presentation and the document you say we will have are you going to send that

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to us? Yes, you will get it after the park. Yeah, we're seeking feedback from

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you. See if you have any questions, but the goal is to work with the Parks Commission.

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Let them prioritize it and then bring it back before you where you will actually see

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the document, if that's okay with the City Council?

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Well, they have it, but they like to,

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and it was from my suggestion is because we do have

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the parks and rex commission is to allow them,

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and we'd be respectful to them to look at it

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and bring it back to us, because we still will have

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the final say.

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That was to get it, that I asked for that.

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We're promised to get it to you long before the meeting.

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Plenty of time to look at it.

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Can we get the PowerPoint that you did tonight?

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I left it with them, and it is a digital copy,

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And there's one on this flash drive, so it's about to be able to send that to a certain person.

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Thank you.

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Mayor.

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Absolutely.

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We'll send the PowerPoint presentation the only reason why we're recommending it to go through the Parks Commission first is to not create multiple versions of that document.

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That way, if there's any changes with the Parks Commission, we don't have another version loading out there that needs to be tweaked or which one that the Parks Commission review, which one that the City Council review, that's really the only reason.

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we just wanted to give you an update where we stand today because we're closing

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up the fiscal year. So you are where where we all

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right. Did you have anything

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Councilman Tolwin? I don't other than thank you very much. I think yeah what

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once we we just sort of tweak the the park title I think for that one

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park I thought a couple times in there and yeah we're running through the park's

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commission and then we'll see what the recommendations on the parties will go

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from there. Thank you. All right thank you both very much. Thank you. Mark you're

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You're staying, right?

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I am.

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The next presentation, discussion and possible action to accept the 2024 Facilities Master

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Plan.

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Again, Mr. Waster.

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Again, we won't be accepting it.

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No action is really needed tonight.

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We do want to give you a thorough update.

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They are still working through the plan.

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And at this point, I'm going to ask Guillermo Cabero, please come up.

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Use with US dollars.

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And they've been working on this plan and his team for, guess, about six months now.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Yes, we were, we were tasked by the city to do a assessment of your facilities

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and also an assessment of your needs. Basically, we like to combine them because facilities

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assessments are normally used for maintenance, but also do have a lot of the facilities that

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are open several years, many years, and right now the condition might not be that good. And

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And then you also need to look at the needs of your departments and how they match to

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your facilities because the facility must be in good shape, but it doesn't fit or the

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other way around in my field, but it's in bad condition.

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So with that in hand, we had two teams, independent teams working on it and giving their findings

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and then we just put them together.

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And this is pretty much what we came up with.

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the city hall and administration, condition of the building is in bad shape and

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I need to clarify what you see for my replacement value. They'll be replacing that facility of the same size with the same equipment, same windows, same everything. So the repair costs right now will be $860,000 versus $4,000,000,000 for replacing it. That gives you an FCI, FCI is the facility condition index. That means that anything 10 is fair.

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18, anything above 10 is bad and 5 is fair between 10 and 5. Anything below 5 is in good shape.

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So basically 5 and lower is good. So the city hall is in bad shape. The public

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work building is in good shape. The animal control is in good shape. Facilities per se.

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That doesn't mean that they mean their needs, okay?

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And you see all of them, some of the smaller ones are just the storage facilities

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and those we can talk about later, but the main three are the first three.

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The City Hall Administration, like we said, is in bad condition, but also,

447
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it doesn't need the needs of what you need right now.

448
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:26,460
Right now you have about 9,675 square feet, you cannot use the third floor so that we're

449
00:31:26,460 --> 00:31:35,520
not counting that and projected needs for you for the next 20 years will be 22,000 square

450
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:36,280
feet of building.

451
00:31:37,860 --> 00:31:45,720
So you need more parking and so the spaces to accommodate about a 20% growth in people.

452
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,940
new and large chambers and a large banquet space to host the events.

453
00:31:53,260 --> 00:31:59,660
The recommendation, including all in, we estimate that at 22,000 square foot facility

454
00:31:59,660 --> 00:32:05,280
today's money, including sign fees and everything, will be about 30.2 million.

455
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:12,260
And you have a beautiful location right across the street, will be the perfect place for it

456
00:32:12,260 --> 00:32:18,280
because it will be in line with the order to new buildings that you have built already.

457
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:30,860
The public works administration, the condition of the building is good, but they need to grow from 5,500 to a project that 8,500.

458
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,000
So a recommendation would be to maintain and repair the existing building.

459
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:45,820
Now, one idea that we have is to, if we build a new city hall to move, fix the old city

460
00:32:45,820 --> 00:32:51,840
hall first and then move public works there and then we can address fixing public works

461
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,800
and then you will have two buildings in good condition and public works can grow, bring

462
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,200
other departments into those two buildings that are in the front of the street and clearing

463
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:06,840
some back area for other purposes. And there we have some of the cost involved.

464
00:33:09,180 --> 00:33:09,720
The

465
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:17,300
animal control, the building is in good condition, but it doesn't need a lot of the requirement

466
00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:23,200
they need right now. It needs to be made safer right now. There's no separation between

467
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:30,040
the lobby and where the people are. And from what we could tell during the interviews, there's

468
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:35,300
only three people that work there and a lot of times two are out collecting one and one person

469
00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:40,660
is left alone that if that person has to be in the back there's no security anybody can go walk

470
00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:45,840
in and do whatever so we're proposing that the lobby needs to be addressed and make secure

471
00:33:46,740 --> 00:33:54,680
and also we notice that all the animals are in the same atmosphere so when they bring animals

472
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,100
that have not been checked properly,

473
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,560
they have to be held in the same atmosphere

474
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,220
as with the other animals that are already in good shape.

475
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,460
So if one is infected with something,

476
00:34:04,660 --> 00:34:06,560
it can pass it on to the other.

477
00:34:06,860 --> 00:34:09,780
So that doesn't, it's not a deal breaker,

478
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,140
we get the, there's ways to separate those,

479
00:34:12,340 --> 00:34:13,800
but that needs to be looked into.

480
00:34:14,860 --> 00:34:18,060
The other area is that the animals have no outdoor use,

481
00:34:18,340 --> 00:34:21,440
but by placing the cages on the outer walls,

482
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,040
maybe they can provide an exterior area

483
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,120
It was doors that they can open and go into the outside and get some sun and grass and

484
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,180
a little better for them.

485
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:40,300
So we think that was an approximate $600,000 that some of these improvements can be done

486
00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:43,580
into the building and make it a lot better for the people there.

487
00:34:47,070 --> 00:34:50,630
The public was a storage equipment, the facilities in fair condition.

488
00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:57,290
And we recommend painting this structure and just to maintain it and keep it going.

489
00:34:58,650 --> 00:35:04,390
And then probably where maintenance shop, the facilities in poor condition, this one,

490
00:35:05,330 --> 00:35:08,750
the car is 1,400 square feet.

491
00:35:09,810 --> 00:35:16,110
The project that needs 8,500 so we'd recommend probably try to replace it even though the

492
00:35:16,110 --> 00:35:18,450
If C.I. is high, so it's in poor condition.

493
00:35:18,830 --> 00:35:22,170
So it would estimate a cost of new construction

494
00:35:22,170 --> 00:35:23,870
would be about 3.4 million.

495
00:35:28,090 --> 00:35:29,970
And the equipment storage, we need an address,

496
00:35:30,130 --> 00:35:33,390
and that storage can move, the yards can move.

497
00:35:33,810 --> 00:35:36,630
Now we're moving, we'll do the master problem,

498
00:35:36,770 --> 00:35:40,510
find locations for it, but that's not a building per se.

499
00:35:41,070 --> 00:35:44,070
The utility shop and storage is in fair condition,

500
00:35:44,350 --> 00:35:45,870
so recommend currently condition.

501
00:35:45,870 --> 00:35:53,130
And we recommend, in eventual replacement, but for now, it could be just made a little

502
00:35:53,130 --> 00:35:57,290
better and keep using it for a while, but eventually, it will need to be replaced.

503
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:09,000
The polygraphs and polystorage is a small space, but it's in poor condition, very poor condition.

504
00:36:09,340 --> 00:36:13,120
So this is one that should be, in my opinion, replaced.

505
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:20,640
It's not a good building to spend any money on, let's put it that way.

506
00:36:22,690 --> 00:36:26,790
Other means, one of the main things that we notice in the district is the lack of security

507
00:36:26,790 --> 00:36:27,870
and cameras.

508
00:36:28,230 --> 00:36:34,150
I think we should have a comprehensive plan of making all the building secure, provide cameras,

509
00:36:34,810 --> 00:36:40,870
provide fencing to protect the property and gates and logical locations to separate the public

510
00:36:40,870 --> 00:36:50,850
areas from the non-public areas and create more security for everybody. The Fire Department

511
00:36:50,850 --> 00:36:59,990
requested on land adjacent to provide a training tower and they need the training tower, they

512
00:36:59,990 --> 00:37:07,770
need. It's just that we don't feel that it's the logical or compatible location due to the number of

513
00:37:07,770 --> 00:37:12,030
residences around when those towers are being used.

514
00:37:12,210 --> 00:37:13,650
There's a lot of smoke in the air.

515
00:37:13,830 --> 00:37:15,790
There's a lot of people can get worried.

516
00:37:16,310 --> 00:37:18,690
You can probably, it will not be accepted

517
00:37:18,690 --> 00:37:20,930
by the community very well.

518
00:37:21,070 --> 00:37:21,950
I don't, we don't think.

519
00:37:22,610 --> 00:37:25,010
I think there might be better looking

520
00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:26,570
for another location for that.

521
00:37:33,750 --> 00:37:35,570
The new presentation didn't make it.

522
00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:40,520
No, but the new presentation is not there.

523
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,240
The next steps I added some slides today,

524
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:44,840
but I guess it didn't make it in here.

525
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:49,240
the next steps is we're going to meet with all the departments and do a

526
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:55,860
blocking exercise creating floor plans. So to show more or less what a new

527
00:37:55,860 --> 00:38:03,710
building would look and for city hall and the spaces and sorry about that

528
00:38:03,710 --> 00:38:08,930
yeah on the other side so okay no problem. Any questions?

529
00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:13,210
Yeah we're we're gonna get

530
00:38:13,210 --> 00:38:20,410
all this money went out for AC taxes. But that's our question. I thank you again for the

531
00:38:21,890 --> 00:38:27,830
presentation. Certainly a lot to take in. Something that I did not know, this was the public safety

532
00:38:27,830 --> 00:38:37,330
building is okay. It wasn't included in the air. No, we did not include the, we're talking about the

533
00:38:37,330 --> 00:38:38,310
fire station? No,

534
00:38:40,490 --> 00:38:46,610
the new police station, we interviewed with the, we did not do a facility

535
00:38:46,610 --> 00:38:51,850
that's available, we did an assessment of the department, they're very happy with their building

536
00:38:52,270 --> 00:39:00,550
and so is the fire department. The fire department, their main concern was the training facility and

537
00:39:00,550 --> 00:39:05,710
the police also expressed that they would like a training facility and maybe have a combined gym

538
00:39:05,710 --> 00:39:10,910
with the fire department okay well that's good to hear that they like they're

539
00:39:10,910 --> 00:39:15,590
really all right well thank you mark do you have anything to add just that we

540
00:39:15,590 --> 00:39:20,690
still have some work I work to do and we'll be bringing the final plan back as

541
00:39:20,690 --> 00:39:27,230
well what do you think that'll be well we can do that for the next couple of months

542
00:39:28,050 --> 00:39:34,190
okay all right I cancel any questions or a councilman talking it

543
00:39:34,190 --> 00:39:39,050
You know, when we do that, the final report when it comes through, if we wouldn't mind

544
00:39:39,050 --> 00:39:44,070
at least, so if we have to, we have to go back and look at it later, if we, you mentioned

545
00:39:44,070 --> 00:39:47,590
about the police and fire as far as, you know, that's meeting the adequate needs based on those

546
00:39:47,590 --> 00:39:51,150
comments, but I'd like to see something in the final presentation that states that.

547
00:39:51,530 --> 00:39:53,330
So, you know, the back say, well, we didn't forget about it.

548
00:39:53,350 --> 00:39:54,770
We'll know for councils in the future.

549
00:39:54,890 --> 00:39:55,850
We're going to include those.

550
00:39:56,150 --> 00:40:01,170
So, we gave them, before we interviewed them, we sent them a question air and they

551
00:40:01,170 --> 00:40:06,270
We feel a questionnaire and we're going to include the questionnaire as part of our backup

552
00:40:06,270 --> 00:40:10,690
information of what the responses were to the questions that we asked.

553
00:40:11,070 --> 00:40:11,290
Beautiful.

554
00:40:11,470 --> 00:40:11,910
Thank you so much.

555
00:40:12,250 --> 00:40:15,490
And I assume that that final report will also, when it talks about, you know, X amount

556
00:40:15,490 --> 00:40:19,350
dollars for repairs or what's needed, that'll define what those repairs are.

557
00:40:19,590 --> 00:40:19,710
Yeah.

558
00:40:19,710 --> 00:40:20,270
More detail.

559
00:40:20,270 --> 00:40:23,150
We're going to give you a list of everything.

560
00:40:23,710 --> 00:40:28,510
The other cause that is not here, we also did an assessment of all the equipment.

561
00:40:28,510 --> 00:40:33,390
So the settlement that we are talking about here is just the facility, but you also have

562
00:40:33,390 --> 00:40:37,470
to add the mechanical system, the plumbing systems, the electrical systems if they are

563
00:40:37,470 --> 00:40:37,970
good.

564
00:40:38,470 --> 00:40:43,010
For example, the city hall is not sprinkler.

565
00:40:43,630 --> 00:40:45,430
You touch it, you need to make it sprinkler.

566
00:40:45,850 --> 00:40:47,350
The windows are not insulated.

567
00:40:47,930 --> 00:40:50,830
You touch it, you have to replace all the windows for insulated windows.

568
00:40:51,230 --> 00:40:55,430
That's not included in the replacement cause because you're replacing what is there.

569
00:40:55,610 --> 00:40:57,390
There's always sprinklers who are not replacing it.

570
00:40:57,390 --> 00:41:01,870
you don't have the insulated windows that are required by code, you're not replacing those.

571
00:41:03,010 --> 00:41:10,250
So it's tricky to really bring it to code any change that you make that is substantial,

572
00:41:10,890 --> 00:41:15,590
you're going to have to provide, if it is to story, you know, elevators, you have to

573
00:41:15,590 --> 00:41:19,010
provide, sprinklers, you have to provide, a lot of further stuff that is needed.

574
00:41:19,230 --> 00:41:20,930
All those grandfather's get reset.

575
00:41:21,570 --> 00:41:21,850
Okay.

576
00:41:22,230 --> 00:41:24,270
I can definitely appreciate that.

577
00:41:24,530 --> 00:41:27,370
I can also appreciate the fact that far as that, you know, we do have you, it's

578
00:41:27,370 --> 00:41:28,990
as a company looking at the third party.

579
00:41:29,630 --> 00:41:31,270
Because for us, we live in the environment

580
00:41:31,270 --> 00:41:32,650
and it's like a broken window.

581
00:41:32,850 --> 00:41:34,970
You first notice if you walk by and oh, there's a broken window,

582
00:41:35,090 --> 00:41:37,350
well after about a year, you forget the broken windows there

583
00:41:37,350 --> 00:41:38,170
and you don't see it anymore.

584
00:41:38,830 --> 00:41:40,350
And so we've got a lot of those maintenance things

585
00:41:40,350 --> 00:41:42,270
that you're identifying that we no longer see.

586
00:41:42,530 --> 00:41:45,450
And we also said, and saying how much is going to cost you

587
00:41:45,450 --> 00:41:51,330
to maintain the city hall at the same 18% for the next 10 years

588
00:41:51,330 --> 00:41:53,130
is going to cost you about half a million dollars.

589
00:41:53,290 --> 00:41:55,770
Just to keep it there from getting worse.

590
00:41:55,770 --> 00:41:58,330
First, you bet, without the ink proving any.

591
00:41:58,850 --> 00:41:59,390
I appreciate that.

592
00:41:59,430 --> 00:42:00,050
You'll think, ma'am.

593
00:42:00,370 --> 00:42:02,590
Thank you, Councilman, for talking to anyone else.

594
00:42:03,650 --> 00:42:04,010
All right.

595
00:42:04,150 --> 00:42:04,950
Again, thank you, Mars.

596
00:42:05,030 --> 00:42:05,630
Thank you very much.

597
00:42:05,630 --> 00:42:05,650
Thank you very much.

598
00:42:05,710 --> 00:42:06,550
Thank you, Mr. Chair.

599
00:42:06,910 --> 00:42:07,330
Yes, ma'am.

600
00:42:07,510 --> 00:42:10,570
Again, this is the reason why there are studies.

601
00:42:10,910 --> 00:42:12,010
It's a tool for planning.

602
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,670
It shows you you were more efficient.

603
00:42:15,210 --> 00:42:17,790
As Guillermo mentioned earlier, there's a couple of deficiencies

604
00:42:17,790 --> 00:42:20,790
that if we were to go touch or revamp the building,

605
00:42:20,790 --> 00:42:24,930
we now just open ourselves to other challenges.

606
00:42:24,930 --> 00:42:26,130
is as they're called.

607
00:42:26,330 --> 00:42:28,370
So it's just a planning tool for us.

608
00:42:30,290 --> 00:42:31,110
All right, thank you.

609
00:42:31,170 --> 00:42:32,630
Thank you, gentlemen, we appreciate it.

610
00:42:33,030 --> 00:42:35,070
That will take us to the next item,

611
00:42:35,070 --> 00:42:37,910
which is item C, discussion, possible action,

612
00:42:38,350 --> 00:42:41,790
regarding the classification and conversation study findings

613
00:42:42,170 --> 00:42:44,470
and recommendations by public sector,

614
00:42:44,710 --> 00:42:46,630
first of all, consultants, Mr. Koala.

615
00:42:46,950 --> 00:42:47,830
Thank you, Madam Mayor.

616
00:42:48,230 --> 00:42:50,610
As I go through the opening part of it,

617
00:42:50,630 --> 00:42:52,370
I'll ask Mr. St. Peter, yes.

618
00:42:52,850 --> 00:42:54,450
Sam Hines with public sector

619
00:42:54,450 --> 00:43:02,110
to come up and do the presentation. Just a little briefing, as you know, in the 23-23-24 budget,

620
00:43:02,630 --> 00:43:07,930
City Council authorized staff to contract with the consultant for the purpose of performing

621
00:43:07,930 --> 00:43:13,690
classification and compensation study for the City of Live Oak. Public sector personnel consultants

622
00:43:13,690 --> 00:43:19,610
was awarded the contract and I believe started a process very early part of this year.

623
00:43:21,070 --> 00:43:26,690
They had a timeline on there, the study has been completed for the most part, the only

624
00:43:26,690 --> 00:43:32,550
piece that's still missing, they'll continue in the finish up will be the tweaking of some

625
00:43:32,550 --> 00:43:44,530
of the job descriptions as needed, but with that, Mr. Stan Hines will present now the study

626
00:43:44,530 --> 00:43:47,650
itself as well as the recommendations for funding.

627
00:43:48,450 --> 00:43:49,730
Thank you, Mr. Kuala.

628
00:43:50,170 --> 00:43:51,490
Welcome, Mr. Heiss.

629
00:43:51,790 --> 00:43:53,190
Good evening, Mayor and Councilwoman.

630
00:43:53,190 --> 00:43:54,810
It's a pleasure to be here before you all tonight.

631
00:43:55,670 --> 00:44:01,170
I'm a guest. We see just here to kind of go over the findings and recommendations of the study that we completed for the city.

632
00:44:01,730 --> 00:44:10,730
We probably kicked off this process in March where we did an employee briefing and met with all of your employees to kind of give them an idea of what the study was and what it was in and what to expect.

633
00:44:11,030 --> 00:44:16,790
But during that meeting we distributed position analysis questionnaires to kick off the job classification process.

634
00:44:16,790 --> 00:44:21,930
That's a tool that allows the employee to communicate what their role is, what they do at the

635
00:44:21,930 --> 00:44:26,070
city on a day-to-day basis knowing that we don't want to assume what a person does based

636
00:44:26,070 --> 00:44:30,130
on their job title alone or knowing the job change with technology or reorganization.

637
00:44:30,530 --> 00:44:35,090
So an opportunity for the city to pause and ask, hey, what does your job look like at this

638
00:44:35,090 --> 00:44:35,650
moment in time?

639
00:44:35,650 --> 00:44:40,270
But also an opportunity for us to learn about the positions before we look for them in the

640
00:44:40,270 --> 00:44:40,750
marketplace.

641
00:44:41,570 --> 00:44:45,930
So after the classification study, there weren't too many earth shattering changes from there.

642
00:44:45,930 --> 00:44:50,230
We found that you guys have 54 distinct occupational job classifications.

643
00:44:51,070 --> 00:44:53,850
70% of the positions are going to retain their current title.

644
00:44:53,890 --> 00:44:54,950
The current title was good.

645
00:44:55,550 --> 00:44:58,570
Around 20%, we're going to be receiving entitling modifications.

646
00:44:58,570 --> 00:44:59,970
so just to not

647
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,060
The opportunity to be more cohesive with the way that we use supervisor, manager, technician, that sort of thing. And then a very small percentage, 2% I believe are being reclassified to a new position. So looking at that, P.A.Q said, hey, we think you need a job title that doesn't exist on your current pay plan, but we think that this title would more accurately reflect your job duties. So that was kind of step one position classification. After we did the classification study, we did a salary survey. So now that we had learned about the positions,

648
00:45:29,060 --> 00:45:39,080
everything that it entailed. We look to see do other local public sector employers have this type of labor if so kind of what is the going rate for the market model.

649
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:46,860
We identified 15 cities that are within the local regional area and then a few that have similar characteristics as the city of Live Oak.

650
00:45:47,220 --> 00:45:56,520
It's the same market model that was used in the salary survey study that was completed around four years ago, which can be good because it allows you to track change over time.

651
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:01,660
So, from those organizations, we solicited their pay plans, their job descriptions, their

652
00:46:01,660 --> 00:46:06,560
organizational charts, really anything to help us understand and make sure that we're

653
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,280
making the most appropriate job match for the salary survey.

654
00:46:10,060 --> 00:46:13,960
For positions that have a private sector equivalent, we also incorporated private sector

655
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:14,280
data.

656
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,940
So, not every position is going to have a private sector equivalent, but in instances

657
00:46:18,940 --> 00:46:22,080
where they do, we were able to incorporate that as well.

658
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:29,000
So major findings from the salary survey, around 80% of the positions are behind at the midpoint.

659
00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:34,620
So looking at the Min-to-Max range, that's just telling us that around 80% of those need an adjustment.

660
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,880
There's not to say that the individual salary is behind market.

661
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:43,140
That's just to say that Min-to-Max range needs to be moved up a little bit so that it's more competitive.

662
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:50,880
The other 25% of your positions, 20-25% are currently at a competitive rate or their head of market.

663
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:57,940
So, typically, when we do a survey, we have a mix bag like this where there are some that are behind, some that are at, some that are ahead.

664
00:46:58,980 --> 00:47:03,680
And the last time you're going to survey it was five years ago, and a lot has happened in the market since then.

665
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:09,580
So, it's not unusual to see that, you know, this percentage of positions are behind the market.

666
00:47:10,980 --> 00:47:15,420
Kind of running in at the same time as the salary survey, we did a benefit survey.

667
00:47:16,460 --> 00:47:20,220
So, in conjunction with your employees, when we do that employee breathing, we kind of

668
00:47:20,220 --> 00:47:25,440
asked about some benefit items that were adventurous to them, and then in conjunction with talks

669
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:26,020
of the cities.

670
00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:27,720
So, we surveyed a few different items.

671
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:33,880
For the most part, the city is in competitive with its benefit offerings, with the exception

672
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:38,400
of the number of paid holidays, so that could be an area where you guys consider increasing

673
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,520
the number of paid holidays to be more in line with other cities that are within the regional

674
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:42,960
area.

675
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:52,840
In order to implement the study, we've proposed a few different components of the same package.

676
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,980
So you guys have folks that exist on the General Service Salary Schedule,

677
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:02,420
and then you have your Fire Department and your Police Department which have their own separate pay plans.

678
00:48:03,260 --> 00:48:09,000
So for non-public safety positions, what we've done is we've assigned each position to a salary range

679
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,420
that is commensurate or equal to the market rate of pay at the midpoint.

680
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,580
We're modeling things out at 100% of the market midpoint to position the city a little bit.

681
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:24,580
Ahead of the market so that you guys can continue to retain that advantage as you move forward in the next few years.

682
00:48:25,460 --> 00:48:32,080
For fire and police, the logic is a little bit different because they have their own step plan.

683
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:36,700
We took a look at the survey data and our goal was to align the entry,

684
00:48:36,700 --> 00:48:42,380
the midpoint and the max, so within plus or minus 5% of the market survey averages.

685
00:48:42,660 --> 00:48:47,080
And so for a fire, we're recommending some adjustments to the total number of steps,

686
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:52,200
but still retaining the same increase per step and the same distance between steps.

687
00:48:52,620 --> 00:48:56,820
For police, we're not going to mess with the step structure, the way that the survey data

688
00:48:56,820 --> 00:49:03,600
shook out was that, hey, if we apply a uniform 10% increase to the table that we're not going

689
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:09,320
And we're going to meet that goal of being within plus and minus 5% at entry top at a midpoint

690
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,800
for all of those physicians.

691
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:17,480
One thing that was important during the study is that we didn't want to create pay compression

692
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:22,320
as a result of adopting the findings, so for employees that are within position classifications

693
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:30,420
or there's multiple incumbents and we've modeled out a situation where employees retain their

694
00:49:30,420 --> 00:49:34,560
current step relationships so that you're not paying like a 10-year employee the same as a one-year employee.

695
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,060
So we've done a few different, you know, sort of modeling things in conjunction with the city.

696
00:49:39,660 --> 00:49:45,000
The estimated fiscal impact to adopt the new proposed ranges for all employees on the general

697
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:50,600
service salary schedule and then for your fire and police departments comes in a little bit under

698
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:57,620
$500,000 or $6.3% of your current payroll. The salary survey is, you know, it's typically something

699
00:49:57,620 --> 00:50:01,440
that cities do every four to five years, so you do a market adjustment.

700
00:50:01,660 --> 00:50:04,800
It's not intended to replace or supplant what you typically do.

701
00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:08,140
So, I think you guys typically do like a cost of living adjustment.

702
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:13,460
But an opportunity to check in, ask your employees, say, what does your job look like

703
00:50:13,460 --> 00:50:15,920
at this moment in time, and then, hey, what is the market paying,

704
00:50:16,540 --> 00:50:19,100
and then making sure that you guys are able to recruit,

705
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,500
compete with those other employers in the regional area?

706
00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:22,800
you know.

707
00:50:26,330 --> 00:50:31,270
Is there a set it on? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Now, maybe I

708
00:50:31,270 --> 00:50:37,070
misunderstood you, but I thought you said on the police in 10% across the

709
00:50:37,070 --> 00:50:41,910
board, but here it says 6.37 or is that something? Yeah, so that's the

710
00:50:41,910 --> 00:50:45,810
average. So what happens when we, it's just kind of the way that we're playing the

711
00:50:45,810 --> 00:50:50,030
same logic for the compression adjustment. So they're moving to the set that's

712
00:50:50,030 --> 00:50:53,690
closest to but not less than their current salary and then maintaining the

713
00:50:53,690 --> 00:50:59,010
step relationships. So they're not necessarily in every instance, retaining their same step

714
00:50:59,010 --> 00:51:06,090
assignment. If they're like in that entry-level class police officer, it could be that their

715
00:51:06,090 --> 00:51:10,550
step goes down by one or two, but they're still receiving that increase or whatever.

716
00:51:11,330 --> 00:51:19,050
Okay, thank you. All right. Thank you again for the presentation. I've counted any questions

717
00:51:19,050 --> 00:51:28,830
or comments. Thank you councilman doll for teaching me about compression with the salaries all right well

718
00:51:28,830 --> 00:51:33,810
thank you okay thank you so we appreciate you're coming and we'll go back to

719
00:51:34,390 --> 00:51:38,770
lee Roy because now we got a pay are

720
00:51:43,860 --> 00:51:46,680
you guys are you the council you prepare to make a motion

721
00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:52,060
I'd like to make a motion for the council approve the findings recommendations presented

722
00:51:52,580 --> 00:51:57,140
with a classification compensation study in front of the recommendation of 2024-2025

723
00:51:57,140 --> 00:51:58,660
proposed budget.

724
00:51:59,620 --> 00:52:00,860
Is that enough?

725
00:52:01,140 --> 00:52:01,680
You don't need to.

726
00:52:02,180 --> 00:52:02,400
Okay.

727
00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:03,200
Okay.

728
00:52:03,300 --> 00:52:10,720
We've got a motion and a second to accept the classification compensation study as presented by public sector personnel consultants.

729
00:52:11,180 --> 00:52:13,180
I will begin the vote with you, Councilor Morgan.

730
00:52:13,780 --> 00:52:14,800
A more informed vote.

731
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:15,840
Press four.

732
00:52:16,060 --> 00:52:16,540
It's going to be four.

733
00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:17,100
No, four.

734
00:52:17,460 --> 00:52:18,500
And it passes 5-0.

735
00:52:18,660 --> 00:52:19,000
Thank you.

736
00:52:19,180 --> 00:52:19,560
Thank you.

737
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:20,680
Ms. Barlow, thank you.

738
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:21,100
Thank you.

739
00:52:21,580 --> 00:52:21,800
Sam.

740
00:52:23,340 --> 00:52:29,420
Item D, presentation, discussion, possible action for employee related benefits including

741
00:52:29,420 --> 00:52:35,320
medical, dental, vision, group life, AD, and the voluntary life and voluntary short-term

742
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:40,760
disability for employees for FY 24, 25, Mr. Koalik.

743
00:52:41,620 --> 00:52:47,880
Thank you Madam Mayor, I have Mr. Brett Bowers here with IPS Hub International to do

744
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:56,380
to the brief presentation on the outcome of their process of negotiations with our current

745
00:52:56,380 --> 00:52:56,760
vendors.

746
00:52:57,620 --> 00:53:02,700
As you know, this is an annual thing that comes to y'all roughly this time of the year

747
00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:12,640
every year that looks at our medical health vision and dental packages as well as some

748
00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:21,940
I won't cut too much into this stuff, but this process has been up and down over several years.

749
00:53:22,140 --> 00:53:25,100
We had the last couple of years, we were very good this year.

750
00:53:25,220 --> 00:53:28,500
We had a little bit of hiccups, but thanks for them again.

751
00:53:29,420 --> 00:53:34,280
They came in for us again and brought it down to single digits, but I won't say how much

752
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:34,660
into that.

753
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:36,180
Thanks, right.

754
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:37,540
It's a CEO again.

755
00:53:38,060 --> 00:53:38,340
Thank you.

756
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:39,460
Mayor Council.

757
00:53:40,140 --> 00:53:45,700
I've had the opportunity to serve the City of Live Oak since 2017 and I'm telling you I'm here

758
00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:50,580
one of my favorite cities. You've got a great staff and a great culture and great benefits.

759
00:53:52,460 --> 00:53:58,420
You're not aware you have the richest benefits of any city that I service and that's a testament to the

760
00:53:58,420 --> 00:54:01,960
hard work that your staff puts in to making sure that they're able to deliver that.

761
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:07,940
So with that being said, over the last two years when we've had an opportunity to come up here as

762
00:54:07,940 --> 00:54:14,460
Lee Roy had alluded to, we've really just had some great news over the last two years.

763
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:21,100
Our rates have went up 2%, which is well below medical prescription trend.

764
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:27,420
Unfortunately, this year, as we approach the renewal, we do have high claims utilization.

765
00:54:28,180 --> 00:54:33,500
So the claims that are being paid out are at this level, whereas the premiums that are being

766
00:54:33,500 --> 00:54:34,800
paid in as at this level.

767
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:41,720
And so that always sets us up for a very delicate renewal, and not to leave a way of job.

768
00:54:41,820 --> 00:54:45,940
I have trouble getting this below 15% with this law-sharing, so I think you can do it.

769
00:54:46,860 --> 00:54:52,760
I said, okay, no pressure there, but as it turns out, we did get an 18% increase from Blue Cross

770
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:53,180
Bushield.

771
00:54:53,980 --> 00:54:59,660
We were able to negotiate that down to 9%, so there is some saving grace there.

772
00:55:00,260 --> 00:55:05,160
the other plans dental we're running a little hot on that as well so there was a

773
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:10,560
5% increase again because of the the way the claims are being paid for dental

774
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:16,360
it's harder to to negotiate that down. However, out of the medical and the dental

775
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:20,100
we've got the vision, we've got basic like voluntary and live short-term disability

776
00:55:20,100 --> 00:55:24,060
long-term disability we were able to hold all those at a rate past this year.

777
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:29,640
So

778
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:36,000
I think as I look at the claim experience that's driving this renewal, I don't see that

779
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:42,540
I see the light at the end of the tunnel, two of our largest claimants were musculoskeletal

780
00:55:42,540 --> 00:55:48,700
which is actually a knee, a hip, a shoulder, something that's not repeating and so I think

781
00:55:48,700 --> 00:55:52,880
we'll start to see those claims kind of go down so maybe we can look for a more favorable

782
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:53,740
outcome next year.

783
00:55:55,240 --> 00:56:03,060
But other than that he said a brief presentation so that is my brief presentation but I'd be happy to answer any questions if you guys have any.

784
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:15,460
Now we appreciate your hard work and we are appreciative of our rich plan because we really do care for our employees and their families and as long as we're able to do it then that's what we'll continue to do.

785
00:56:15,460 --> 00:56:20,680
But we appreciate the magic that you work making it happen is best you can so

786
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,640
We have anything else they want

787
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:30,140
I'm gonna say the proposed budget that we had at the budget workshop is at a 10% so I really held them to that

788
00:56:30,140 --> 00:56:36,820
That logic would bring it in under that in which they succeeded so we're good on that. All right counsel any questions

789
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,220
Councilman Talbren oh

790
00:56:39,220 --> 00:56:41,880
Let's just go ahead mark the date and time you said for this one

791
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,720
I want to hold them next to you as I think we can get a better rate next year.

792
00:56:45,740 --> 00:56:47,240
I'm sure that's my job every year.

793
00:56:47,240 --> 00:56:48,260
Keep us recording, Andy.

794
00:56:49,500 --> 00:56:49,900
Absolutely.

795
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:51,420
Any other members?

796
00:56:52,180 --> 00:56:52,360
All right.

797
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:53,020
Thank you.

798
00:56:53,140 --> 00:56:54,140
Do we have a motion for that?

799
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:55,520
Yes, I think we do.

800
00:56:56,140 --> 00:56:56,440
Okay.

801
00:56:56,820 --> 00:57:00,680
Mayor, I'll make the motion to approve the city's benefit package in accordance with the recommendations

802
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:01,700
from my P.S.

803
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,940
Consulting for the plan year 2024, 2025.

804
00:57:05,580 --> 00:57:06,220
Senator Mosin.

805
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,840
We've got a motion second by Councilman Simmons for the recommended, for approval of the

806
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:16,880
city's benefit packet in accordance with the recommendations of IPS help

807
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:22,240
consulting for the playing year 2024 or 2025 and we'll begin the

808
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:29,640
vote with your councilor Morgan. Morgan for the 4th and it passes by 0. Thanks again

809
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:34,300
for it. I'll see you at the conference. All right I'm moving now to item E

810
00:57:34,300 --> 00:57:39,880
presentation discussion regarding the San Antonio River Authority fees charged

811
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:45,060
for the transportation, treatment, and disposal of sewage generated within the City of

812
00:57:45,060 --> 00:57:45,780
Library of Texas.

813
00:57:46,300 --> 00:57:46,980
Mr. Koale.

814
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:48,200
Thank you, Madam Mayor.

815
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:48,840
I don't know.

816
00:57:49,100 --> 00:57:49,400
Leemon.

817
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:50,960
Yes, he's here.

818
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:56,960
Mr. Leemon Anderson is here with the San Toy River Authority to answer any questions if

819
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:57,940
Council may have.

820
00:57:59,140 --> 00:58:02,840
I'll do the presentation and I'll be quite brief with this.

821
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,560
It is the annual presentation that we bring to Council.

822
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:17,460
So for the sewage fees that the River Dirty charges, the City of Live Oak as well as Universal

823
00:58:17,460 --> 00:58:30,320
City and Converse and themselves for their retail part, for in the current year, the

824
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:34,680
The system-wide rate for cities was $30.13.

825
00:58:41,070 --> 00:58:49,380
So at the new 2025 proposed rate, it will be $32.48

826
00:58:49,380 --> 00:58:50,700
since it's a system-wide.

827
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,860
That's a 7.8% increase for residential.

828
00:58:53,860 --> 00:59:04,080
The proposed user rate for commercial is 6.14 per thousand, which is a 4.96% increase,

829
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,800
specifically just for live oak.

830
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:19,880
The current 2324 wholesale treatment charge per residential customer is 2935 at a winter average of 4,628.

831
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:28,760
the proposed charge for the residential customer for $24.25 will be $31.24 at a

832
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:36,220
winter average of $4,519. So a winter average went down, which is great, that

833
00:59:36,220 --> 00:59:41,340
also caused the city's portion, the city of Lylox part of the system-wide

834
00:59:41,340 --> 00:59:47,360
average to be lowered in the average. That makes sense. So the result is only a

835
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:55,540
6.44% or $1.89 per month per resident increase compared to the 7.8

836
00:59:55,540 --> 00:59:57,400
system average, so we are below that.

837
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,180
And then the current commercial rate, like I mentioned earlier, we're paying $5.85 per thousand. The proposed rate for $24.25 is going up to $6.14 per thousand, and that's a 4.96%. So over the last several years, we've seen some sizable increases. And we were told by the River Authority that those increases now that the expansion project is winding down.

838
01:00:29,180 --> 01:00:35,160
I guess I can save white and down. A lot of those now have been kind of passed

839
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:40,540
over that cliff now or over the hill. Now we're going to start seeing the reason

840
01:00:40,540 --> 01:00:44,560
for some of these rates or well that big project was going on. Some of the

841
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:50,220
small projects we're postponing are put on hold. Now they're coming up but we

842
01:00:50,220 --> 01:00:54,840
will gradually see you know single digit increases as opposed to the double digits

843
01:00:54,840 --> 01:01:01,080
It's that this big project took on, which is understandable.

844
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:09,080
With that, I think on the last page of my blue sheet, I kind of put the historical wholesale

845
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:14,820
charges on there, and kind of see what that is, but with that opening questions, the council

846
01:01:14,820 --> 01:01:15,100
may have.

847
01:01:15,700 --> 01:01:15,980
All right.

848
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:17,200
Thank you, Mr. Koalik.

849
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:23,600
This is something that we have to do, and many of us have been to the plan.

850
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,360
And we're excited about the improvements that you all are making.

851
01:01:29,060 --> 01:01:31,640
And to me, it's not much to discuss.

852
01:01:32,220 --> 01:01:37,280
I just want to make a comment, too, that the rates that I presented today are the rates

853
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:40,740
that the River 30 charges us and the other cities.

854
01:01:41,460 --> 01:01:47,380
It's not the rates that we charge to the citizens that sit at a different time, but

855
01:01:47,380 --> 01:01:52,800
this is just the largest component in the utility budget, is sewage treatment.

856
01:01:52,800 --> 01:02:01,100
But it is added to that as also our charges that we have and that's what we use to set the citizens' rates.

857
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:06,040
All right. Thank you for the clarification. In comments for council.

858
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,660
Okay. Well, thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you, sir.

859
01:02:12,420 --> 01:02:21,440
Moving now to item E, which is discussion possible action regarding the resolution of the city council authorized and city manager

860
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:30,540
to execute a chapter 380 agreement for the purpose of public improvement for water line extension with VSC,

861
01:02:30,780 --> 01:02:33,960
so tan, San Antonio, Ms. Lather.

862
01:02:35,100 --> 01:02:36,080
Thank you.

863
01:02:39,050 --> 01:02:45,270
Tonight, the document that is before you is a 380 agreement between the city and Stoughton, San Antonio,

864
01:02:45,710 --> 01:02:50,530
which is also known as the interchange live office, the light industrial park off of Tupperline.

865
01:02:50,530 --> 01:02:57,590
This is for a public improvement, which is the water line that will run adjacent to the front portion of their property off of

866
01:02:57,590 --> 01:03:05,770
top of why. The attorneys for us and the Stoten attorneys have all looked at this. They are all in agreement to move forward with it.

867
01:03:05,950 --> 01:03:15,090
So tonight is the formality of letting you look at it as a resolution for the city manager to enter into that agreement.

868
01:03:15,090 --> 01:03:23,870
This would be a reimbursement not to exceed $175,000 and they would have to complete of

869
01:03:23,870 --> 01:03:29,910
course the construction and have all of the criteria of documentation that is listed

870
01:03:29,910 --> 01:03:31,610
on page five of the agreement.

871
01:03:32,290 --> 01:03:38,130
Those are the five, it's five, page five, section five that they would have to fulfill for

872
01:03:38,130 --> 01:03:40,750
those reimbursement funds to be paid out.

873
01:03:40,750 --> 01:03:50,330
At this time, construction is currently underway for that water line and RC page construction is the contractor of choice.

874
01:03:51,530 --> 01:03:56,370
I think we have done RC page has done some work in the past from what I understand.

875
01:03:57,230 --> 01:04:05,810
But again, your action tonight would be to authorize this through a resolution for the City Manager to execute the 38U agreement.

876
01:04:05,810 --> 01:04:10,150
All right. Thank you, Ms. Adam. Did you have anything, Mr. Capari, on this one?

877
01:04:11,670 --> 01:04:18,290
Ms. Rodriguez, I don't see, and maybe it's not important, or maybe it doesn't need to be here,

878
01:04:18,530 --> 01:04:25,990
but the $175,000 not to exceed. I don't see that anywhere in this resolution. Is that necessary or not?

879
01:04:26,370 --> 01:04:30,770
It doesn't need to be in the resolution, as long as it makes it into the 380 agreement, we're good.

880
01:04:31,290 --> 01:04:33,870
Okay. I'm sorry. I think I didn't see it.

881
01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:38,750
in the resolution. It's okay. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions or comments, council?

882
01:04:39,890 --> 01:04:43,790
Is there a motion placed? There are no motion to approve resolution by city council.

883
01:04:44,350 --> 01:04:49,530
City alive of Texas authorizing the city manager. Chapter 380 agreement for the purpose of public

884
01:04:49,530 --> 01:04:56,670
improvements. Waterline extension with the VSC, Stojan San Antonio Probco LP, and authorizing

885
01:04:56,670 --> 01:05:01,330
any additional actions reasonably necessary there within providing severability,

886
01:05:01,330 --> 01:05:03,790
including calls and establishing an effective fit.

887
01:05:04,830 --> 01:05:11,370
We've got a motion in second by council and semics for resolution by the City Council City of Live Oak, Texas.

888
01:05:11,970 --> 01:05:22,170
Authorizing the City Manager to execute a chapter 380 agreement for the purpose of public improvements borderline extension with BSC,

889
01:05:22,170 --> 01:05:28,310
be, students and Antonio, prof code LP, and authorizing any additional actions

890
01:05:28,310 --> 01:05:34,970
reasonably necessary therewith, providing a surfability clause, and establishing an effective date.

891
01:05:35,470 --> 01:05:36,070
Councilor Morgan?

892
01:05:36,750 --> 01:05:36,930
Four.

893
01:05:37,790 --> 01:05:38,330
Four.

894
01:05:38,690 --> 01:05:39,310
First, four.

895
01:05:39,710 --> 01:05:40,170
So much for.

896
01:05:40,310 --> 01:05:40,790
And all four.

897
01:05:41,190 --> 01:05:42,710
And then passes by, zero.

898
01:05:42,890 --> 01:05:43,690
Thank you, Ms. Madder.

899
01:05:43,730 --> 01:05:44,170
Thank you.

900
01:05:44,430 --> 01:05:45,770
Thank you, Ms. Rodriguez.

901
01:05:46,510 --> 01:05:51,470
Item G, discussion, possible action to accept an award and bid from Abelar.

902
01:05:51,470 --> 01:06:16,530
Incorporated in the amount of $279,834 authorizes the city manager of the interim agreement to construct a 2024 Shin of the Village of Trail Project and further authorizes the city manager to interchange order for additional work, not to exceed 10% or $27,483.40.

903
01:06:16,530 --> 01:06:19,370
It's the way, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

904
01:06:20,010 --> 01:06:21,750
Mayor Caldwell, thank you.

905
01:06:22,130 --> 01:06:23,330
The Shen Oak Trail, as you know,

906
01:06:23,490 --> 01:06:25,210
is the connection from village oak

907
01:06:25,810 --> 01:06:28,030
across the drainage beside the swimming pool

908
01:06:28,030 --> 01:06:30,710
to connect that part of town over to the city park.

909
01:06:31,150 --> 01:06:32,270
It was part of that master plan

910
01:06:32,270 --> 01:06:34,070
that parks just mentioned is something

911
01:06:34,070 --> 01:06:35,690
that we should probably look at accomplishing.

912
01:06:36,230 --> 01:06:37,150
So we're ahead on that one.

913
01:06:37,710 --> 01:06:41,990
The project does include about 1960 feet of new trail

914
01:06:41,990 --> 01:06:49,930
and 250 feet roughly of rebuilding sidewalks along Sheno to get those to ADA

915
01:06:49,930 --> 01:06:54,490
compliance. So whole trails, 2,200 feet roughly. Some of that's a rebuild some of

916
01:06:54,490 --> 01:06:59,590
that's a new trail. Seven contractors submitted qualified bids on that. The

917
01:06:59,590 --> 01:07:05,590
low bid as we said was Abel are at $274,000 in change. The high bidder was

918
01:07:05,590 --> 01:07:09,130
was jared on enterprises at $455,000 in change.

919
01:07:10,290 --> 01:07:12,770
Abelar did the woodcrest trail for us.

920
01:07:13,190 --> 01:07:14,990
They did the lining on the swimming pool.

921
01:07:15,470 --> 01:07:17,110
Our engineers are familiar with them.

922
01:07:17,130 --> 01:07:20,250
They recommended them to do this project

923
01:07:20,250 --> 01:07:21,930
and we're confident in them as well.

924
01:07:23,150 --> 01:07:24,530
Now, a little bit, unfortunately,

925
01:07:24,870 --> 01:07:27,730
is higher than the stated budget for this item

926
01:07:27,730 --> 01:07:29,570
that was set at $200,000.

927
01:07:30,310 --> 01:07:33,190
We anticipate those additional funds should you

928
01:07:33,190 --> 01:07:37,670
award this will be coming from EDC budget those are there for some other

929
01:07:37,670 --> 01:07:41,530
trouble. I think Lee Roy's here he can speak to that if we need to get specifics

930
01:07:41,530 --> 01:07:46,970
on to the budgets. The staff recommends the award into that Shenome Trail

931
01:07:46,970 --> 01:07:54,530
Project to Abilhar Incorporated in the amount of $274,834 with the 10%

932
01:07:54,530 --> 01:08:00,230
rider on top for unsforeseen expenses. All right thank you Mr. Megado. Do you

933
01:08:00,230 --> 01:08:02,590
Do you have any idea when this project might get started?

934
01:08:03,110 --> 01:08:08,670
Notice procedure should follow shortly after tonight that gives them about a 10 day target window.

935
01:08:08,670 --> 01:08:10,670
So you're looking at a couple of weeks before they be rolling.

936
01:08:11,070 --> 01:08:13,650
They've got 110 days to complete, those are calendar days.

937
01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:15,250
All right, thank you so much.

938
01:08:15,690 --> 01:08:17,690
I've counseling questions or concerns.

939
01:08:18,830 --> 01:08:20,590
All right, with that, is there a motion please?

940
01:08:21,070 --> 01:08:27,010
Motion to do accept an award a bid from Edward Inc and the amount of 274,834 dollars.

941
01:08:27,010 --> 01:08:42,430
So the 2024 shit out to Villagio Park real project authorize a city manager to enter into agreement and further authorize the city manager into and change order for additional work to exceed 10% not to exceed 10% or 27,000, $40,000 and 40 cents.

942
01:08:42,890 --> 01:08:56,130
So we've got a motion second by Councilman Morgan to accept an award of bid from Abel are in in the amount of $274,834 dollars for the

943
01:08:56,130 --> 01:09:14,450
The 2024 Shin O, the village of Hartwell Project authorized the city manager to enter into an agreement and further authorize the city manager to enter change order for additional work, not to exceed 10% or 27,483.040 cents.

944
01:09:14,690 --> 01:09:16,230
Begin the vote with you, Councilor Morgan.

945
01:09:16,230 --> 01:09:25,510
more than for and that passes for zero. Thank you, thank you sir. I'm taking us now to item

946
01:09:25,510 --> 01:09:32,250
age discussion possible action for city council to approve and accept the monthly financial report

947
01:09:32,250 --> 01:09:41,870
in May 31, 2024, Mr. Kuala. I'm back. Yes. So in your package, you have the May financial statements.

948
01:09:42,630 --> 01:09:48,770
I'll be very brief when this item conceptually that didn't really change from the last one I did

949
01:09:50,050 --> 01:09:55,570
Things are going according to plan. So in the general fund. Let me just start off by saying this

950
01:09:55,570 --> 01:10:00,910
This is eight months into the fiscal year. So that targeted rate is 67% of budget

951
01:10:01,770 --> 01:10:06,030
In the general fund our overall overall revenues are 77% of budget

952
01:10:06,030 --> 01:10:11,210
Our overall expenditures are just below the target at 58% of budget

953
01:10:13,210 --> 01:10:40,950
Outstanding encumbrances are still $285,000 for items that have been placed on order but not have been received as of the report date, total revenues recorded through May is $13 million, $76,000 and $55 total expenditures recorded for the same period is $11 million, $629,457.

954
01:10:40,950 --> 01:10:47,710
that's a net gain of 1 million 446 and that brings our fund balance to 16

955
01:10:47,710 --> 01:10:55,030
million 256. Looking back at prior years we're in a pattern that is kind of

956
01:10:55,030 --> 01:11:01,570
standard. So in a capital projects fund we have those two project

957
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:10,030
phones to 22 bond fund as of this period 594 thousand dollars and change was

958
01:11:10,030 --> 01:11:15,950
recorded as interest income for the year and 7.3 million was expended on project

959
01:11:15,950 --> 01:11:26,050
work so we are spending that money down as of May 24 we are our fund balances at 11

960
01:11:26,050 --> 01:11:32,250
million 305 thousand dollars down from the 18 million that we started with so

961
01:11:32,250 --> 01:11:38,730
things are starting to wind down pretty good. In the capital projects fund the

962
01:11:38,730 --> 01:11:48,170
fund balance is $4.9 million as of this period, $973,000 has been

963
01:11:48,170 --> 01:11:54,290
expended on various project works. In the utility fund, we are above target on

964
01:11:54,290 --> 01:12:01,130
revenue collection at 73%, but we're also above target on our expenditures at 76%.

965
01:12:03,050 --> 01:12:07,270
Recorded revenues are below expenditures by 17,000.

966
01:12:08,230 --> 01:12:13,790
That brings our working capital to 255,000 in the operating fund.

967
01:12:15,090 --> 01:12:18,570
Our renewals are replacement fund and the utility fund.

968
01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:23,810
We have a fund balance of $1,000,000,000 in change.

969
01:12:24,590 --> 01:12:31,750
in the stormwater revenues are right at the 66% our expenditures are below at 48%

970
01:12:32,710 --> 01:12:41,010
fun balance in the stormwater is currently at 358,297 that concludes my report

971
01:12:41,010 --> 01:12:44,950
open up for any questions you all may have I thank you Mr. Crowley I've

972
01:12:44,950 --> 01:12:49,210
counsel any questions or concerns all right your motion please

973
01:12:49,210 --> 01:12:52,810
It makes up the month's financial reports of period ending May 31, 2024.

974
01:12:53,390 --> 01:12:53,670
Second.

975
01:12:54,290 --> 01:13:00,030
That emotion taken by Councilman Dahl to accept the monthly financial report for the period

976
01:13:00,030 --> 01:13:02,350
ending May 31, 2024.

977
01:13:03,110 --> 01:13:04,870
And we'll begin the vote with you, Councilman Morgan.

978
01:13:05,090 --> 01:13:05,550
More info?

979
01:13:05,890 --> 01:13:06,010
More info?

980
01:13:07,290 --> 01:13:07,850
No.

981
01:13:08,530 --> 01:13:09,850
And it passes by zero.

982
01:13:10,050 --> 01:13:11,010
Thank you, Ms. Crowley.

983
01:13:11,570 --> 01:13:19,050
Item I, discussion possible, action to vote on a proposal to consider a property tax increase

984
01:13:19,050 --> 01:13:25,750
or a proposal to not exceed the lower of the no-new revenue rate for the tax

985
01:13:25,750 --> 01:13:31,610
voter approval rate against the quality. Thank you Madam Mayor. This is kind of

986
01:13:31,610 --> 01:13:37,090
where my mind has been for the last week and a half and it's really turned to

987
01:13:37,090 --> 01:13:39,070
mush but that's good. We're still moving.

988
01:13:41,910 --> 01:13:48,550
Just want to make sure we're clear that the vote tonight is not to set a tax rate.

989
01:13:48,550 --> 01:13:55,790
it's not to approve a tax rate. But truth and taxation has this process in place that the

990
01:13:55,790 --> 01:14:02,570
governing body must take a vote on a proposal to either be in one of two places. The first of

991
01:14:02,570 --> 01:14:12,610
which is to be at the lower of or the proposal not to exceed the lower of the non-revenue rate

992
01:14:12,610 --> 01:14:21,810
or to vote or approve a rate or propose a motion to be at a tax rate or propose a tax rate

993
01:14:21,810 --> 01:14:32,130
that is something higher than that. As I presented in the budget workshop, the budget was presented

994
01:14:32,130 --> 01:14:42,010
at the lower of the two rates. Typically it is the no-new revenue rate. You hear me go back and

995
01:14:42,010 --> 01:14:46,810
for from the old language, the new language, and the old days it used to be called the effective

996
01:14:46,810 --> 01:14:52,790
tax rate, which I thought was a lot similar to understand, but that rate is a rate that

997
01:14:52,790 --> 01:14:59,530
if City Council goes with the no new revenue rate or the old tax rate, it's a rate that

998
01:14:59,530 --> 01:14:59,970
and you're all with-

999
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,980
On the average, that would bring in the same amount of revenue that it did last year on properties that are taxed above years. The voter approval rate in the own terms, it was called the rollback rate. The voter approval rate is a rate that is equivalent to 3.5% above the no-new revenue rate. There are, yes. And there's a lot of factors that go into it. That's why it's not exactly 3.5%.

1000
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:37,360
because the City of Lyme also offers a sales tax-reduced property tax which is also part of that.

1001
01:15:39,020 --> 01:15:46,980
So this year last Saturday, not this past Saturday but the weekend before,

1002
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:51,860
Bear County has authorized or had certified our roles.

1003
01:15:52,540 --> 01:15:55,060
That has been completed ahead of schedule.

1004
01:15:55,060 --> 01:16:05,220
So all of last week, Bear County Tax Assessor has been diligently doing our calculation

1005
01:16:05,220 --> 01:16:08,740
as well as all the other cities that they do calculations for.

1006
01:16:10,680 --> 01:16:17,420
I do need some information on top of the certifier rows to finish my calculation, but then

1007
01:16:17,420 --> 01:16:24,180
also relay on the appraisal district to give us access to a system, so I don't have to

1008
01:16:24,180 --> 01:16:30,760
do it manually and make four errors. So I was in communication with both of them. Short story,

1009
01:16:31,020 --> 01:16:37,880
I did get access to that today. So starting last week, Thursday, I started doing it all manually.

1010
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:46,040
Still needed that piece. I got that information today. I got the access today as well.

1011
01:16:46,740 --> 01:16:50,660
I did validate what I did was correct on manually. So I could still do it manually.

1012
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:56,200
But I still don't have bear county tax assessors' calculations.

1013
01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,780
I was told they're going to get that to me tomorrow morning.

1014
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:06,520
But usually mine and theirs are very close for tonight's purposes.

1015
01:17:06,980 --> 01:17:13,340
I think from what the consent was from City Council, I probably can guess which way y'all

1016
01:17:13,340 --> 01:17:13,760
will go.

1017
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:21,360
So again, the budget was presented at the no-new revenue rate or the lower of.

1018
01:17:22,340 --> 01:17:26,300
So with that, I did add in on my blue sheet and just for y'all that.

1019
01:17:26,900 --> 01:17:32,260
So the current tax rate right now, this is the total tax rate for tax year 23, which is

1020
01:17:32,260 --> 01:17:38,900
in the current fiscal year, is 0.385790 per $100 valuation.

1021
01:17:40,700 --> 01:17:44,220
My unofficial calculation for the

1022
01:17:44,220 --> 01:17:50,400
no-new revenue rate is 0.386109 which is

1023
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:54,800
slightly above our current rate. But then as

1024
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:58,040
I also stated in our budget workshop, we

1025
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:01,180
have some debt that has been paid off. Well

1026
01:18:01,180 --> 01:18:05,320
that lowers my tax rate as a big component

1027
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:11,820
of our tax rate. So our photo approval rate is actually lower than our no-new

1028
01:18:11,820 --> 01:18:15,580
revenue rate. It's uncommon that happens and only way it does happen

1029
01:18:15,580 --> 01:18:20,160
typically is when some debt appeals off of your tax rolls. That's what happened

1030
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:24,580
with us. So it doesn't happen a lot of times but when it does that's the

1031
01:18:24,580 --> 01:18:28,460
result usually is you have to know and that's why they word it that way.

1032
01:18:34,780 --> 01:18:35,300
It's

1033
01:18:35,300 --> 01:18:46,940
is around 37.61 pennies, so about roughly a penny lower than the effective tax rate or

1034
01:18:46,940 --> 01:18:51,640
the non-revenue rate, but slightly below or other ones. So our current rate sits between

1035
01:18:52,340 --> 01:18:58,920
because the variable rate, because the voter approval rate is lower than a non-revenue rate,

1036
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:05,880
that no new revenue is pretty much out the window because under that if you go

1037
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:12,080
above the voter approval rate even because it's lower that automatically triggers

1038
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:19,140
a election it's not if it was the opposite you have that window to go from the

1039
01:19:19,140 --> 01:19:23,640
voter approval rate I mean the no new revenue rate up to the voter approval went

1040
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:30,680
out triggering the election because they're inverted just one decimal point above that triggers

1041
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:38,600
that election. So again my recommendation would be to stay at the lower of the two. Again

1042
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:43,800
I'm not going to name it a decimal or a right now until I get that, does that make sense?

1043
01:19:44,100 --> 01:19:45,260
That's how I get that final one.

1044
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:51,920
So with that, I don't know if that gave you enough information

1045
01:19:51,920 --> 01:20:08,040
have more questions now, but on the recommendation page, staff recommendation, there is specific language that will need to be read whichever way you all want to go, and I'll help you all work through that whichever way you all want to go with that.

1046
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:12,000
All right, thank you, Mr. Caruala.

1047
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:13,260
Any questions or concerns?

1048
01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:15,180
I may approach in.

1049
01:20:15,580 --> 01:20:16,980
No, I have to say the other way.

1050
01:20:17,380 --> 01:20:18,380
I think it's sort of the other way around.

1051
01:20:18,500 --> 01:20:21,340
I don't think that you were verifying their numbers.

1052
01:20:21,460 --> 01:20:23,220
I think they're verifying, they're not much from you.

1053
01:20:23,980 --> 01:20:25,200
Because you've always bet bet bet.

1054
01:20:26,660 --> 01:20:28,600
We, rounding ears and all that stuff,

1055
01:20:28,820 --> 01:20:29,220
I think we've passed.

1056
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:31,480
All you do is transpose the number

1057
01:20:31,480 --> 01:20:32,200
and you've got several.

1058
01:20:32,340 --> 01:20:34,940
That's why, so it's a tool page calculation,

1059
01:20:37,340 --> 01:20:41,820
So, yeah, one little typo and you could mess it up.

1060
01:20:41,820 --> 01:20:43,000
I just want both of us do it.

1061
01:20:43,180 --> 01:20:44,680
So, it works out really well.

1062
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:46,520
But I appreciate the comments.

1063
01:20:47,700 --> 01:20:48,580
Councilman Semics.

1064
01:20:48,860 --> 01:20:49,780
Councilman Semics.

1065
01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:55,780
I do want to say thank you to Ms. Jackie for being here

1066
01:20:55,780 --> 01:20:57,940
and for helping them when it's bringing this much.

1067
01:20:57,980 --> 01:20:58,360
Right.

1068
01:20:58,600 --> 01:20:59,340
So, please say it.

1069
01:21:00,340 --> 01:21:01,360
All right, is there a motion?

1070
01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:01,700
Please.

1071
01:21:01,700 --> 01:21:09,800
The motion is approved by a proposal to consider a property tax rate that will not exceed the lower of no new revenue tax rate for the voter approval rate.

1072
01:21:10,020 --> 01:21:15,920
We, by definition, would generate approximately the same amount of tax revenue from property tax in the Feeding Year.

1073
01:21:16,140 --> 01:21:16,480
Thank you.

1074
01:21:17,380 --> 01:21:21,180
We have a motion and a second by tax approval as in everyone else.

1075
01:21:21,860 --> 01:21:28,780
to approve or propose to consider a property tax rate that will not exceed the lower of the new

1076
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:37,560
revenue tax rate or the voter approval rate, which by definition will generate approximately

1077
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:41,860
the same amount of tax revenue from properties tax in the preceding year.

1078
01:21:42,260 --> 01:21:43,960
And we'll begin the vote with you, Councilor Morgan.

1079
01:21:44,060 --> 01:21:50,960
Madam Mayor, just before we take a vote, I just want to make sure that by voting yes

1080
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:59,340
That's to this purpose proposal to see if I will cannot set a rate that's anything hired and that we can't set something a little bit lower, but nothing higher.

1081
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:04,920
Yes, sir. I think we do understand it, but thank you for bringing that to our attention with that. Councilor Morgan.

1082
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:05,400
Four.

1083
01:22:05,940 --> 01:22:06,360
All in four.

1084
01:22:06,620 --> 01:22:07,160
First, four.

1085
01:22:07,380 --> 01:22:07,860
Second, four.

1086
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:08,380
No, four.

1087
01:22:08,820 --> 01:22:10,340
And then pass this five, zero.

1088
01:22:10,540 --> 01:22:12,940
Thank you, again. Thank you, Jackie. Thank you very much.

1089
01:22:19,740 --> 01:22:20,060
All right.

1090
01:22:20,060 --> 01:22:21,440
I don't see council reports.

1091
01:22:21,700 --> 01:22:30,440
We're going to do that after and after, and I'd like to get this out in that way if anybody

1092
01:22:30,440 --> 01:22:31,460
needs to leave a hand.

1093
01:22:31,780 --> 01:22:33,080
Do you have any announcements, council?

1094
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:34,920
All right.

1095
01:22:36,820 --> 01:22:41,000
I've got a citizen contact me recently about some issues having with a neighbor in the back

1096
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:48,800
out with tall grass and rodents as I'm trying to be able to, and I did refer her to Mr.

1097
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:49,420
all those issues.

1098
01:22:50,820 --> 01:22:51,780
Thank you.

1099
01:22:51,780 --> 01:22:52,140
Thank you.

1100
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:53,080
Councilman Zimics.

1101
01:22:53,980 --> 01:22:55,500
We'll go to staff announcements.

1102
01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:56,440
We'll start with you.

1103
01:22:56,700 --> 01:22:57,720
Mr. Parin.

1104
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:00,660
No announcements at this time there.

1105
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:01,340
Thank you.

1106
01:23:01,460 --> 01:23:02,180
Thank you.

1107
01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:03,640
Mr. Rodriguez.

1108
01:23:04,440 --> 01:23:04,880
Thank you.

1109
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:06,300
Mr. Rutherford.

1110
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Brother Ben.

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No announcements.

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01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:08,260
Okay.

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01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:09,880
Jackie, do you have any things that you hear?

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01:23:10,460 --> 01:23:10,960
Ms. Donna.

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01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:12,440
I see.

1116
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:14,440
Yes.

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01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:14,700
Yes.

1118
01:23:14,900 --> 01:23:15,380
Sorry.

1119
01:23:15,380 --> 01:23:23,420
I'm sorry, I didn't feel a tip of cop last week, our officers did $3,667, especially

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on the paper.

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01:23:24,420 --> 01:23:30,320
Now, not the brag, but the night before we'd had converse, Selma, the universal city,

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01:23:30,740 --> 01:23:32,620
and they didn't get a third of what we got.

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01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,520
So our guys are preferable pros, they were really nice.

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01:23:39,780 --> 01:23:44,320
But if you would have never known this, we have a converse city councilman you're pissing

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01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:44,960
in this evening.

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01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:47,540
That's great.

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01:23:47,540 --> 01:23:53,120
Mr. Gowallick, I'm Mr. Waxner, chief server.

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I'm doing this time, thank you.

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01:23:54,780 --> 01:23:58,260
Ms. Ketan, well before we go, please join me

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01:23:58,260 --> 01:24:00,940
in celebrating all of the July birthdays,

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but we want to especially recognize

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our own city attorney, Ms. Carissa Rodriguez,

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01:24:06,140 --> 01:24:07,740
happy birthday to you.

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01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:10,500
So we've got some beautiful flowers here.

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01:24:10,700 --> 01:24:12,360
We're gonna give to you and that.

1136
01:24:12,500 --> 01:24:13,700
Oh my gosh, thank you.

1137
01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:14,820
Thank you, that was good.

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01:24:20,770 --> 01:24:27,570
All the work that you do for us and we think that we are so blessed to have you representing

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01:24:27,570 --> 01:24:28,510
our city.

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01:24:28,810 --> 01:24:35,950
And so we just want to say happy birthday and thank you so much for taking care of me.

1141
01:24:37,740 --> 01:24:38,360
Oh, here too.

1142
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:42,220
Thank you.

1143
01:24:48,480 --> 01:24:49,600
Thank you.

1144
01:24:49,600 --> 01:24:49,920
Thank you.

1145
01:24:50,060 --> 01:24:50,260
Thank you everybody.

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01:24:50,700 --> 01:24:51,200
You're welcome.

1147
01:24:51,780 --> 01:24:52,180
Thank

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01:24:59,320 --> 01:24:59,900
you.

1149
01:24:59,900 --> 01:25:00,460
Thank you.

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01:25:00,460 --> 01:25:02,960
I'm going to introduce our other guests that are here.

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01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:04,960
Is it Brianna?

1152
01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:07,720
Oh, Brandi.

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01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:09,420
Brandi, here is TCSU here.

1154
01:25:09,700 --> 01:25:10,700
We are Brandi and Kelly.

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01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:18,160
They are from Apple One, which is a staffing business out

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01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,600
in the colonnade in San Antonio.

1157
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:23,540
But Katrina, Mr. Moore's daughter,

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01:25:23,900 --> 01:25:25,960
lives here in our apartment complex.

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01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:29,460
And we met her the other night at the break room.

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01:25:29,460 --> 01:25:32,500
So we hope they become part of the Tri-County Chamber.

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01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:40,220
Thank you both for hanging in there with us.

1162
01:25:40,340 --> 01:25:40,680
Thank you.

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01:25:40,700 --> 01:25:43,380
We're generally out by now, but we had a longer meeting tonight.

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01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:44,080
But thank you.

1165
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:45,960
I hope you found it at least entertaining.

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01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:48,060
Anybody needs any staffing?

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01:25:50,140 --> 01:25:51,360
Apple, that's right.

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01:25:51,540 --> 01:25:52,520
She'll give you her card.

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01:25:53,020 --> 01:25:53,260
All right.

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01:25:53,460 --> 01:25:54,080
Thank you.

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01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:57,880
Well, with that, we are going to go into a second session.

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01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:02,630
and 825, and I have to read something.

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01:26:03,490 --> 01:26:05,950
The City Council shall meet in a second session

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01:26:05,950 --> 01:26:10,790
under Texas Government Code Section 551-074.

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01:26:11,350 --> 01:26:13,390
Personnel matters to discuss the following.

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01:26:14,170 --> 01:26:17,310
I, six month evaluation of the City Manager

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01:26:17,310 --> 01:26:20,070
has required in the employment agreement.

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01:26:20,710 --> 01:26:24,390
And it is 826 PM.

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01:26:24,830 --> 01:26:25,190
Thank you.

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01:26:25,190 --> 01:26:25,730
It

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01:26:30,980 --> 01:26:39,000
is 8.58 and we are reconvening into open session on today July 30, 2024 for the City

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01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:40,280
of Live Oak City Council.

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01:26:40,980 --> 01:26:45,980
And we would just like to take this opportunity, and I will speak for the council, that we

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01:26:45,980 --> 01:26:53,600
are more than pleased with your service and to our City Manager, Mr. Grafari, that we really

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01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:59,900
appreciate everything that you've done thus far and super excited, appreciate all how you

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01:26:59,900 --> 01:27:06,400
have lived up to the tenants of the city managers association and we

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01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:10,940
appreciate again all that you do and for our employees our team members we

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01:27:10,940 --> 01:27:15,640
thank you I'm going to speak for you guys too and we do thank you sir for your

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01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:21,140
service thus far to city of livo and look forward to your continued service as we

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01:27:21,140 --> 01:27:26,170
go forward in great ways and great things that will be for a city so thank you

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01:27:26,170 --> 01:27:31,770
for being our leader. Thank you and us. Thank you. Well, with that, if there's no other business

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01:27:31,770 --> 01:27:37,350
of the body, I'm going to ask for a motion to adjourn. Make a motion. We adjourn. I'll second that.

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01:27:42,050 --> 01:27:44,050
Thank you all very much. Have a great week.