[0:00] thank you
[0:11] to order that uh
[0:20] yes thank you very much if you will
about with me as I lead you in the
[0:25] career dear heavenly father thank you so
much for the time away from our work and
[0:32] our busy days for rest and for
acknowledgment of your son Jesus Christ
[0:36] as we have celebrated Christmas now
thank you Lord for bringing us back into
[0:41] this meeting room and before you and all
of these witnesses to work together I
[0:47] ask in Jesus name that you give us
confidence and wisdom that you show us
[0:52] what next steps to take
to show us how to be better citizens in
[0:58] our community according to your will and
For Your Glory
[1:02] and thank you for all the provisions
that you've provided I have been in
[1:05] other counties and I know Lord that this
is a special County thank you for doing
[1:09] in it and thank you for doing in Mineral
Wells what you do it is a special place
[1:16] and I call it my home and I know that
these folks do as well and so we're
[1:20] going to lift you up
tonight and all that we do and all that
[1:24] we say and we bring you glory with it
Lord
[1:27] bring words that we should say to our
lips uh kindness from our hearts and may
[1:33] we leave this place doing good works
with our hands and
[1:45] pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[1:50] Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
[1:56] justice for all
honorable
[2:03] taxes one State under God one and
invisible
[2:12] thank you
[2:20] all in favor
any opposed
[2:24] any abstentions
that's a 6-0
[2:32] item number
12 or 7 on page 12 is a receiver report
[2:38] from the Paula Lawrence Dunbar Community
Group
[2:54] mayor councilman
it is
[3:01] Flagship privilege
[3:07] of Mineral Wells
I
[3:13] I want to thank this Council for
[3:18] eign
[3:33] to do good
in our community
[3:38] want to
thank Facebook your support I hope you
[3:44] can justify when we get our application
for next year
[3:49] uh the support that you have shown us at
the end of the past
[3:55] I want to report
to you that
[4:01] by the grace of God
and some
[4:06] wonderful people in this community
[4:12] including you
we have started to move forward
[4:19] at the school getting it ready to serve
fourth fifth and sixth grade boys and
[4:28] girls
I want to tell you that
[4:32] that without
[4:35] organizations and
[4:39] families and
and citizens we couldn't be where we are
[4:45] today so
through the efforts and help
[4:51] uh Labor financial support
from people like the up on family Scott
[4:58] Mitchum Construction
offline floors of Fort Worth
[5:03] and Mr Tim mccoose
a company out of
[5:09] Dallas
and thanks to channel 8 and
[5:15] to the
index
[5:18] and to our mayor
and to Richard Ball
[5:25] and to councilman Cliff Wright
when we call for a workday and help from
[5:34] the city I'm not going to read these
names now because I know you need to get
[5:39] out of here and
buying is but there were several people
[5:45] who came to clear the boards and that's
a tremendous amount of work we're not
[5:52] through yet but by the end of this week
we will have a enough clear boards
[6:02] that uh Boat Line floors because of the
article in the index and the piece that
[6:12] Chamblee came over and made we have uh
these people who are going to make sure
[6:20] that that GM is finished
um and I might add
[6:26] without cost
[6:31] thank you Lord
[6:35] just to put that floor down and to sand
it
[6:41] seal it Mark It Off
steal it again would be upwards of
[6:48] the sanding itself would cost thirty
thousand
[6:52] uh I don't know what it costs to put it
down
[6:57] the striping Mr Tim McCool who does Tim
floors once it's down and sanded will
[7:07] come over and seal it and I mean and
Mark it off and then it will be sealed
[7:13] and and finished
then we can have it ready that will
[7:20] serve any uh group in the city that will
have uh sponsors to be with the kids uh
[7:30] we'll make it available we'll schedule
kids to use it
[7:37] now
um
[7:41] Leanne Wells
and you just have to know the end
[7:47] she told me we're going to say thank you
to these people who came out in volley
[7:52] volunteered because I'm going to
barbecue I said yes ma'am and I will do
[7:58] that
uh as after celebration
[8:02] after this finished
[8:07] this is not
set in stone it's not even solid
[8:12] I will mention it but
it may or may not happen that's going to
[8:19] depend on how things fall together
there there is no
[8:26] um
Foster Care Center
[8:30] anywhere in the vicinity or if they're
false the kid
[8:36] has to be taken from the home and sent
somewhere the closest place is Houston
[8:44] and uh that's for many of the
surrounding
[8:50] counties I believe
but we have a group that is interested
[8:57] and using the front part of the building
for a
[9:02] foster care
Center
[9:05] which would bring in 30 plus jobs
so we're exploring those possibilities
[9:13] and when we get here a point where
it looks like it will go we will come
[9:23] back to the city council and try to get
the city to involved with a
[9:32] Texas
capital capital fund
[9:37] and uh
money if we get that far
[9:43] I'm sure that the building will be
of value not just to the city but to the
[9:51] surrounding
being areas
[9:54] and uh bringing income and and I might
not have to come back
[10:00] uh
well from the gym and it's Waters that
[10:06] maybe is
but uh
[10:10] hit it it's looking promising
for us for sure the gym floor
[10:17] is going to get done and and uh we'll
have a beautiful hardwood floor for
[10:25] those kids we already have new gold
[10:30] and I just need to get it done I'll be
be happy to answer any questions that
[10:36] anyone they have
[10:40] honorable honorable sir
first of all thank you for taking your
[10:45] time to come before us this evening
thanks for sharing
[10:50] the different parts of the vision and
the progress that you've had ongoing
[10:55] I only have one request we have the city
has dispensed dispersed about six
[11:01] thousand dollars
to you since you came before us back I
[11:05] believe in May
um
[11:09] and I do not have a financial report on
how any of those funds have been used
[11:14] I'm not asking that you would come back
before us again but if you could provide
[11:19] that to the city manager within the next
couple weeks so that the council can
[11:24] have that in their minutes for the next
meeting would that be acceptable to you
[11:28] honorable sir sure thank you very much
right now it's
[11:34] used for
um utilities
[11:40] getting the floor ready
yes sir thank you sir I just like to
[11:46] clarify one thing on the uh
the foster home itself these are kids
[11:51] that have been abused and
are not prepared to go into a private
[11:56] Foster
and
[11:59] the way I understand it there's Houston
San Antonio El Paso at 11
[12:04] and the worst thing we can do is
send these kids away from their family
[12:09] at a time
so I pray that this happens it's needed
[12:14] in North Central Texas
[12:19] uh men involved with as a council panel
I can see why it's needed so
[12:26] I'll pray for you on that one
anything else yes sir I am amazed
[12:33] that you're saying that floor is going
to get ready I was just I was so
[12:37] overwhelmed when I saw the nails
it had to be pulled
[12:43] I mean we all sat there for hours
working on that and I just didn't see
[12:49] how that was going to get done but
you're saying
[12:51] it's looking good
[12:58] I'll show you
[13:04] a hope line floors
I think when they came over and looked
[13:08] and looked at the wood they
Scott had some but
[13:15] they used to listen to three
uh
[13:19] new Grinders and they have those little
blades and they just do it so that they
[13:26] worked weird at all talked about doing
stuff yeah no I have to pull no more
[13:30] they they cut the nails and
you just put put them out
[13:37] before they fall out after they're cut
off great
[13:41] I think there's a lot of wood there oh
yeah well there's a lot of wood in it
[13:44] and you wouldn't believe what we had to
do to pull that nail out because then
[13:48] we're all talked about how we could do
that and it turned out great and then
[13:51] the thing it's really nice to see that
gym what it's going to be able to do
[13:55] plus Community Christian Church
Community Christian School donated the
[14:00] goals okay
[14:12] well I don't know I saw those real nice
goals and once that floors in there it's
[14:16] going to be looking really nice and I
look for the kids to really use it
[14:24] Community Christian School
homes Tidewater
[14:35] whatever it's going to be a great thing
for kids to use and believe me the
[14:40] castle on the right will do manual
little ladybug
[14:45] He and Matthew will have been acquainted
any other questions
[14:54] no sir the wood we're getting in and it
is stacked on pallets a portion a big
[15:03] strip from end to end that was put down
as a guide to make sure that it comes
[15:09] out right
uh about
[15:13] I say six feet before it has pallets on
it and then they stack the clean
[15:19] hardwood on the pallet so that the
people who will put the floor down just
[15:25] has to reach back and push forward down
we're not into the end smell it to the
[15:31] the base yeah all of them is clean and
ready to go now not all by the end of
[15:37] this week
[15:40] we hope that it'll be clean
enough of it to do the whole
[15:46] gym the owner said
I want to send my crew of five over
[15:54] and I want them to have at least eight
hours worth of work
[15:58] uh and one of the workers who is a
graduate of Mineral Wells High School
[16:06] who brought it to his attention
uh set at the beginning ending of last
[16:13] week we had
nearly half enough to put it down
[16:19] yeah
anybody else
[16:24] I don't think we've taken the action
so
[16:27] thank you very much Colin thank you so
take care of yourself thank you you're
[16:32] welcome to stay thank you all right Auto
convert 80s
[16:37] consider rejection of the business we
thank the new pair of the water tanks
[16:44] so we got seven bids two of them we had
to return because they were after the
[16:48] deadline
I know those five bids they range from
[16:51] 500 000 approximately to over 1.1
million
[16:56] and the low bed as you can see this
version eliminators which happens to be
[17:02] a little company but in the process of
reviewing the bed as it turned out that
[17:07] they left out a significant piece in
their heart and they could not honor the
[17:10] bid at at the price that they quoted so
we had essentially because of that and
[17:17] some other concerns we had talked to the
risk pool insurance adjuster he compared
[17:24] the Departments
[17:28] thanks
[17:41] any questions
just real quick of the ones that remain
[17:47] that you're asking us to reject
did their bids take in full scope of
[17:51] work and meet everything that we were
trying to to accomplish though yes sir
[17:57] except for one which turned out to be a
concern to us and
[18:02] essentially they were
[18:06] an aggregator is the best way I can put
they just go out and hire a cruise to go
[18:10] do the job and we had some concerns
about
[18:14] work product of that I'm not saying
anything bad about them we just had some
[18:17] concerns and then the other ones were
significantly more expensive in the
[18:21] insurance with Boston
[18:24] please note that this is 100 covered by
insurance right
[18:29] for clarification purposes
[18:33] any other questions
[18:37] pleasure of the council a move that we
reject the bids received from the water
[18:41] storage tank repairs and repayment
the remote mistakes are exact events all
[18:46] in favor
in the opposed
[18:51] and the extensions
6-0
[18:55] Next Step item number nine on page 15
consider authorization to advertise for
[19:00] repairs and prayers to be as for the
repair and refurbished five damaged
[19:05] water storage tanks we're trying to
think sir we're trying to Fast Track
[19:09] this one's and be glad and get the work
underway they've got a mod to respond
[19:14] most of these vendors have already been
[19:18] talked to the public works director and
ask questions and everything so they're
[19:21] familiar with it so we're fast tracking
this we'll try to get the bids in within
[19:27] 30 days and then have it back to you
middle of February for approval
[19:33] questions comments
much pleasure and Council
[19:39] they're moving the second authorized had
passed for the bids all in favor
[19:46] um any opposed
any extensions
[19:50] 6-0 thank you item number 10 page 17 to
consider a resolution
[19:56] authorizing the submission of
notification or assistance firefighter
[20:01] Grant to the Federal Emergency
Management agents for purchase of a
[20:06] rescue slash engine
yes for Mr Mayor and Council we'd like
[20:10] to ask for your support
of the
[20:13] resolution to uh
approve us submit the Grant application
[20:18] for the purchase of a fire truck to
replace three aging trucks we'd like to
[20:24] maybe get something in the neighborhood
of any pumper or still
[20:29] exploring that Avenue something that we
can use for dual purposes and it will be
[20:34] used for
here's Anne for the paid Department
[20:38] as well it'll respond in the city and
also outside the city of the county it's
[20:43] what volunteers mostly use it for auto
extrication rescue type purposes
[20:50] can do the dual use of it we can get rid
of three with
[20:59] it
[21:04] with the trucks that in the event this
would be awarded
[21:13] you understand that
I might assume that in your bid you've
[21:16] also built in other equipment as part of
the truck or do you just are you just
[21:22] trying to bid the truck just the truck
right now and okay we're kind of
[21:26] exploring this because we
it's a mini pumper by definition attack
[21:31] drug you know it depends on who you talk
to I don't want to buy something just to
[21:36] buy something but we wanted to do a job
for not wanting to own a load
[21:43] a concern right now I'm trying to hit
the specific size truck in this in this
[21:48] reminds you range the next range up is
another hundred thousand right so if we
[21:55] can make it work that's what we can
relax
[21:58] is there sufficient NFPA compliant
equipment on the other trucks
[22:04] that you would be able to pretty much
equip this truck without much difficulty
[22:08] yes sir
it what we want is a pump that's capable
[22:14] of at least 1000
mid-ship Pawn purchases of PTO or an
[22:20] auxiliary pump use it on some structure
fires with its limited size we're not
[22:25] going to have like a full engine we
won't be able to put a thousand four to
[22:29] five inch on it we'll only have probably
400 feet but it'll be somewhat like a
[22:34] quick attack and then we can get a water
supply to it
[22:40] it will be able to carry some sevas and
most likely it will be a crew cab for
[22:46] four people
[22:49] Bill Kerry we're not sure yet but the
weight thing three to
[22:58] three that'd be something when
you get a call to check on a smoke alarm
[23:04] or something you'd take a smaller truck
than the bigger one out or
[23:09] just had my culture well you know it's
very difficult because you never know
[23:14] what you have until you get there yeah
and you take the small one underneath
[23:18] the big one while you're too late for
that um
[23:21] uh what I really envisioned it mostly
doing is that the volunteers will use it
[23:28] because they do auto extrication rescue
on this side of the account they'll use
[23:33] it through that use it to see they'll
run calls out of back to us uh things
[23:38] like that I think we will use it mostly
if our engine or our Quince in the shop
[23:43] and things like that we'll use it to
fill in it won't be a first line
[23:47] apparatus for the Department
per se it could be used as that
[23:53] temporarily but I think it's mostly for
the restroom is what we're trying to do
[23:58] and trying to get that other use out of
it
[24:03] less maintenance on one
and then it is 30 the three are pretty
[24:09] much they were built before NFPA started
specking trucks so they don't meet much
[24:14] of a standard
safety thank you any other questions
[24:21] so I got a question on on the city's
share
[24:25] chief
[24:29] the application is approved
[24:34] normally approved in old or is there a
possibility that they may come back with
[24:38] less than
normally approved in whole in our
[24:42] Pursuits by our size city for this
particular time
[24:46] next time
[24:53] let's play through the council
move that we approve resolution
[24:58] authorizing submission application for
afg to FEMA to purchase a rescue engine
[25:04] to approve the resolution all in favor
any opposed
[25:10] and extensions
it passes 6-0
[25:14] go to item number 11 and Page 19.
consider a recreation authorized the
[25:19] submission of the application
for the assistance firefighter grants to
[25:23] Federal Emergency Management Agency for
self-contained breathing apparatus and
[25:28] purchase
[25:31] is the same resolution is asking for
FEMA to uh find Grace on us to help us
[25:40] buy some new scbas we have some that are
90
[25:45] sermon in FPA and they were bought in
1999 so they're fairly well aged some of
[25:52] the bottles have expired and we've
purchased some new bottles but they're
[25:56] low pressure they don't need any of the
[26:01] to go through two and then you start
thinking about Replacements so they've
[26:05] had a long lengthy life
and we had to have them serviced every
[26:10] year and flow tested and
currently they're working we have
[26:15] several that aren't but we still have
enough right now to keep us in operation
[26:20] so we're asking them again and what I
understand
[26:25] we've talked to some people that ride
grants professionally and this here is
[26:30] their big pushes on SCBA so we're hoping
that we've been very conservative in the
[26:35] amount we're asking for to try to get
them to approve this grant for us
[26:41] any questions coming
which plan is because we were holding
[26:48] out hope
that you know which made that Final Cut
[26:52] on that last cycle
what's the plan if AF if we don't get
[26:58] the afg this year Chief the only plan
that would be available in my mind that
[27:03] I know of is to ask in the budget to
provide us with Air Max
[27:12] I'll just I'll just kind of go on record
um I mean I I support you applying for
[27:19] the grant I really wish you'd also bring
us a bid
[27:23] on you know four or six units
so that we can go on a head start
[27:27] upgrading this part of the reason why I
supported the tax increase was so we
[27:34] would have some extra and
didn't get the afg grant so that the
[27:38] firefighters wouldn't be using
frankly let's admit it it's out of date
[27:44] and it's borderline equipment even
though it passes
[27:47] 16 years old
is a little bit ridiculous on SCBA
[27:52] that's not acceptable
yeah and I I would really like to see
[27:57] you bring that in to the council as the
chief
[28:01] a bid on at least four Scots I don't
pick what brands you want that you would
[28:06] try and get with this but bring in some
because the guys we need to start
[28:11] phasing that in even if it's over a
three year period to get rid of all this
[28:15] old junk and get some new up-to-date
stuff for our guys you're correct as you
[28:21] just stated with the brand
[28:24] the yes ran
together so we don't have two that
[28:30] don't match up that's another safety
concern
[28:38] anything else
let's play through Council maybe improve
[28:42] the resolution second
to approve the resolution all in favor
[28:47] all right any opposed
extensions item number 12.
[28:55] thank you Tammy
move to approved I'm sorry I
[29:02] so much