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Today's tuesday, april 23rd, 2024. We'll now call

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the city council special meeting to order at 5:15 pm

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item number two is roll call. We do have a quorum of council.

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item number three are public comments. Uh, city secretary, do we have any public comment requests?

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yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, we do. Okay. Dei a,

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dharma a

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and simon a,

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please state your name and, and address for the record and please adhere to the

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three minute time limit.

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hello, everybody. Um, I think, uh, good evening,

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I guess. Um, I, uh, sent you all a email today, and I just kind of wanted

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to follow up. Um, I know during our conversations, we've been

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chatting about this with various, uh, council members, I think since,

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uh, you know, this, uh, april timeframe. Uh, and many folks

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have said, uh, basically that some of the rezoning that will happen, um,

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in regards to the palace event center. Everything on night road

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will be fulfilling the needs and wants of our constituents. Um,

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I would like you to know we have found that to be untrue. In fact, we have started a

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petition and has been organically, rapidly gaining, uh, passion

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and spread amongst your condition constituents due to their passion against this project.

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we have currently reached 550 signatures in under a week.

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the community is clearly against this proposal, and if it was unclear before

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on whether or not this project would bring benefit or harm to missouri city residents,

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it should be clear now that this project goes against your constituents desires. And moreover,

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is outside of the scope of the comprehensive plan, which lists knight road as a

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minor arterio in our conversations with other

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missouri city residents. The below themes have came up in terms of wants and needs.

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and I, my question to you is something I think, uh, councilman sonya has posed

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in one of the last special meetings is how do we start working with developers to bring

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as high roi opportunities that actually address the needs of our constituents?

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some of the things I've heard in my conversations, uh, the facebook discussions

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and so on and so forth, is the need for better dining options and restaurants,

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the need to preserve green spaces and coexist with wildlife, the need for

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more entertainment options like the cinema mark, uh, and of course,

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the need to improve traffic con congestion. I think it's time the

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missouri city updates its comprehensive plans and forms a citizens committee

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to be involved in forming the plan, just like we did last time, the citizens

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of missouri city are seeking a forum to collaboratively build

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our vision for missouri city versus operating in silos, which ultimately leads

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to escalating situations that could have been ultimately avoided.

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um, I, again, uh, if y'all haven't checked your email yet, I would encourage you to check

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your email. We have put a lot of work into it. A lot of, uh, folks

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have, moms have, uh, spent a lot of times just chatting

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and working with, um, the other moms, really to spread this message because

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we care. And the reason that we are coming so strong, we're coming so united

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is because we care and we want to take a part in shaping missouri city. We love

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our city, and we want to, you know, open this forum and open this dialogue.

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so I really encourage you to please check your mail. Uh, read through some of the comments on

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that petition, you know, hear directly from your constituents. I know of you have done

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surveys, but this is, you know, fresh off the press exactly, uh, directly from

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the mouth, so the people, what they think. So thank you, uh, for your time. Thank

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you.

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good evening. Uh, good evening. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Uh,

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I'm dharma radner. My address is 4 4 2 7 pineland

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in drive, missouri city. And, uh, when I was here last

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time, I kind of told you about my background and, uh, here again,

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I'm here to voice my concerns regarding this, uh, rezoning

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and proposed development, uh, literally in my backyard. And,

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uh, this project will, uh, truly jeopardize our safety,

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security, privacy, and value of our homes. And

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I hope the city engineers have completed, uh, they have done the impact

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studies on environment, economy,

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traffic, congestion, and drainage. And if they have done

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the studies, please share with us because we have real concerns on that.

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and then, uh, basically reading your, uh, profiles.

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I, I find it, you want to work with residents. You want

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want to, we want the best for people. You want to listen to our,

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uh, concerns, maintain safety, and then,

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uh, make sure, uh, missouri city remains the best communities in the

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nation. So here, again, building a event

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center and a motel in my backyard, it doesn't

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seem to be in line with your commitment and, uh, you have

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power you can make or break us. And I think, you know, take

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your, you know, be very responsible and please take care of us.

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okay? Thank you. Thank you.

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uh, hi, my name is simon ner. Uh, I live in

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the state of ridge. Uh, my address is 4 4 2 7

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pineland in drive. I would like to present my objection

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to the proposed development next to our subdivision.

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we presented our ob objection at the planning and so zoning commission,

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they all agreed with us and overwhelming

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voted against it. I understand that you have

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legal right to go against their opinion, but, uh,

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but I don't think you have the moral right to go against your voters

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for supporting the development. In recent days,

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I attended several city council meetings. In every

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meeting there have been discussion non-new developments and approvals.

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I'm not against the development, but like anything else in life,

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everything that development

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have to be balanced and should be based on the public needs

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and the quality of businesses and not on the quantity.

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I have seen reasonable number of empty buildings

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in several places in the city. Uh, for

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example, there are several empty buildings behind the hampton mill.

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if the city continue to build at this rate, I'm

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unsure. After some point, the city is going to be saturated with lot

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of empty buildings, eventually public,

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and the city may not be able to afford to have so many empty

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buildings at the end. City economy

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even may collapse. Like what happened to the country in 2,008,000

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crisis. You all know what happened in 2008.

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lot of business went bankrupt. Lot of people have to abandon their

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homes because they couldn't afford it.

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the world largest bank like jp p morgan, goldman sachs, and many businesses

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have to be rescued by the federal government. All this happened because

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of the politician. Were not wise enough to see the pending danger.

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I'm not saying that any of any form of this crisis is going

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to happen to our city, but it kept can happen at some point due

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to our development. Remember, if similar

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situation occurred to city like ours, no one will be there to rescue us.

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probably we will end up suffering from it. Considering

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all this fact, I urge you not to destroy beautiful pieces of land,

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of full of trees, animals, many types of birds

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by building a motel and several other buildings.

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thank you. Opportunity to talk to you. Thank you. Lindsey

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wright, bob, david, . Cumberland.

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did you call someone before I did. Lindsey wright? Yes.

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hi, lindsey wright, 46 11 creek point lane. Thanks

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everyone for allowing me the opportunity to voice my concerns regarding the proposed rezoning changes

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at night road and watts plantation, as well as the other zoned properties around our neighborhood.

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previously, our neighborhood has plain and simply asked for transparency from the city. Unfortunately,

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we're in a position where that has not proven to be successful, only causing more frustration

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regarding the issue as residents and citizens who are currently impacted by the

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decision of your vote. I'm here to raise a few questions and bring, bring up a few points so you all can see

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the struggle we're dealing with us citizens. Previously, my husband submitted

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a freedom of information act request regarding the development of watts plantation and knight road,

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and any communication between the developers be joe matthew and syriac shandy and

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any city officials. It's disheartening that this re request was turned over to the

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attorney general by your legal team for reasons that are, in our opinion, a little ridiculous

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saying that the information of these records contain information such as social security numbers,

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school records, birth and death records, et cetera. On the foia a.gov

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website, it actually states that the basic function of a freedom of information act is to ensure

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informed, ensure informed citizens, which is vital to the functioning

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of a democratic society. As you may or may not know prior to submitting, we

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actually said that we did not care about any relevant personal information and that that be blocked

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out completely. My ask to you all is what, what is there to hide?

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this is our neighborhood. This is our largest investments where we raise our families.

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why can't you share these information in these records with us? Do we not have a

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right to know what's being said about our own neighborhood? Transparency remains

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elusive and it actually erodes our trust in you all as our elected officials, and

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it exasperates frustration among the rest of our residents. In the same breath.

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in a previous meeting on april 8th, there was much talk about referencing the 2017

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comprehensive plan as the true north for development with minor adjustments that needed

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to be made. Since you all put so many efforts in clarifying that this is a guide for

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future development of our city, I can guarantee you that our neighbors have probably spent

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more hours in this plan than many city officials and staff members themselves. How

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do we know this? Because we submitted another foia request in which no records

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were found along the lines of training and comprehensive plan within the city. On page

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144 of the plan, it clearly states that city officials and elected leaders

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must do a five step, five step comprehensive plan training. Mr. Emery.

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last, uh, in the april 15th meeting, you actually said that you and most of the people

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have probably read the plan, but as a neighborhood, we have dedicated considerable time

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to understand the plan and we are requesting that all city staff and elected officials undergo

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thorough comprehensive plan training to better understand the objectives and ensure responsible

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development. I'm confident that after your team does this development should not even be

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allowed per several goals mentioned in goal two and 5.1, which I will

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not go into now. This now begs the question, how can we as citizens trust

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our city council to make these decisions if they haven't had the proper training to understand what

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we should and shouldn't do with future development? Lastly, I would like to address

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you council member emery, on your 2024 reelection camp. Ma'am, that is time.

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okay, thank you.

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thank you guys again. Uh, my name is bob david, as you may remember, , uh,

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45 11 creek point. Um, appreciate

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you guys, uh, allowing us to speak. I know this is, uh, taking up some time, but,

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uh, this is our passion, obviously, right? Um, we are asking, obviously

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for you guys to vote no on may 6th towards this plan development. That's to be

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on knight road. Um, and moreover, obviously we want a

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green space there, if at all possible. Um, which is already,

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uh, designated as a wetlands. Um, I'm

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really here to ask for concession on the approved watts plantation

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road. So watts plantation road is soon to be developed according to what

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you guys have said, and I'm asking for some concession for our community.

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we are gonna be directly affected by the changes that's gonna happen there.

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and with the construction that's already started on the corner of, uh, the

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highway six and uh, knight road, I believe that the traffic is

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gonna be excessive. Um, I was speaking briefly with uh, e joyce yesterday

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and she doesn't believe that the traffic is gonna be so great there

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for us on watts plantation because of the construction that's happening there on uh,

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on, on, on six and night. But I beg

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to differ. I believe it's gonna be excessive. Uh, with the road expansion. Of course, everybody's

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got from sienna's gonna wanna go into that route. Everyone from that

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new development is gonna want to use watts plantation. So what I'm asking for is

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in your construction, I'm asking that the city will

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construct a, a wall for us, um, a proper

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wall. Right now it's a wood fence from the hoa or whatever, but we are asking for

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a proper wall to secure us there. And a fence,

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uh, a gate. A gate. Now I know that you guys have, um,

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stipulations about the road and the lights when there's a gate, which

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makes it private, but for this scenario, I would ask

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that you guys would consider granting us that concession and still

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taking care of our roadways and lights. Um, comprehensive plan.

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I would like to be a part of that. Um, the committee, I think that was mentioned.

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if you guys are gonna formulate that, I would love to be a part of that. As a matter of fact,

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I've put in my, uh, resume and application for the p and

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z committee. I would love to serve, uh, on the p and z committee.

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I'm a realtor, I'm a businessman, I'm a property manager.

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um, and we are vested in missouri city and I want to

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see the betterment of our city and I would love to be on that,

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uh, one of those teams. Okay. Um, floyd

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emery, I know you're over that district, so if you would push bob

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david through for your p and z committee, that'll be awesome. And

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who knows, maybe one day when you decide to move on from council, bob david can

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represent your seat. Thank you guys so much.

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thank you.

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, cumberland, 45, 11 creek point lane. Uh, mayor, council

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members, miss lawyer and staff

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city team members I'll call it. Um, I have couple things.

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I hate reading stuff. I would like to have the eye contact, but I wanted to

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make sure I'm giving you the right information that we research

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that. Um, I believe a april, april eight

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mayor mentioned that this is not a decision, motional decision. This

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is the facts. And since then we've been really diligently working and finding

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the facts and the right numbers to clarify everybody. So

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nobody have a question. Marks, I've been sending some emails. Thank

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you very much for responding. Several of you guys responded to me right away. Mayor,

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you are respond. Time is amazing. Thank you for that.

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uh, and it's gonna continue because we have so many facts to bring it to your attention.

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and that's point, like you said, it's not emotional decision.

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uh, I wanna, I wanna actually highlight one of the main arguments,

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which is the economic impact, right? About this project on

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the nitro. And, um, that's actually been presented to

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you guys in saying that, uh, tax base substantially 35%

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increase in sales tax and 70% increase in hotel occupancy

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tax according to city's current financial, 35%

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increase would mean $5 million. And I believe my fellow

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neighbor, uh, tommy brought it up to you a couple weeks ago and I wanna dive

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into more. So he kind of give you a example about it, and I'm gonna follow up

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with the email so you can see all the stuff that we pulled for you.

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uh, a great number, if this is a true five a million dollar

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and um, for the comp comprehensive plan for development

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district with shopping and retail options for the entire city, this is great number. If it's

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true, this city project is 2017

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one, those areas were completely built out altogether. They could

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have two, they could have sales tax impact

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1.5 million to 1.9 million with the economic impact

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of $168 million

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to two hundred and seventy eight two, two hundred and seventy $3 million

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annually. If that was the truth, the, the city economy

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development director mr. Rodriguez, is supplying numbers to get

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this approved and saying this one development will be nearly four times,

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again, four times the rest of the city's development

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corridors combine to put into perspective

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and more hit 5 million sales revenue. The city will need to see

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500 million in dining and retail sales from this revenue.

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that is quite an economic impact as a business, a quarter million

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dollar business leader. I wanna tell you guys,

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this is not a realistic number. You guys have to look into it. Thank you very much. Yeah.

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lisa cake, lil cake, palm cake.

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please state your name and address for the record. Absolutely. My name is lisa kaju.

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I live at 47 10 creek point lane. I also would love to make eye contact,

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but I get three minutes. So good evening again, mayor and council members,

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several of you have been kind enough to respond to my emails my

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neighbors and I have sent out. While we appreciate this, we see many of you

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referencing your due diligence on this issue. Does that due diligence

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look like deciding among yourselves and developers what looks most lucrative

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behind closed doors? Or does it fall under the definition of due diligence

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in regard to your constituents? Those of us who live next door to you, who voted

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for you, and in some cases fundraised for you, three minutes is not enough

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time to tackle any issue with the thoughtfulness that it requires. So unless you

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initiate the necessary conversations that must be had between yourselves in

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the states of silver ridge, how will email responses saying you are taking things

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into consideration actually happen? It must be said that we are

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not against you in any way when it comes to the well thought out design potential that

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sna has a great fort bend town center, can absolutely be

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a jewel to sienna, but done poorly. This will not be a crowning achievement

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guys. It will be the public works that drove out all the people that created

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this community. So I must ask you, are you protecting us?

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are you considering the correct transitional zoning for this type of

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project? Commercial zoning that borders 75% of

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a residential neighborhood says you're not new homeowners moving into

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a newly built home would be in a better position to make the decision if they want to buy

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a home with a hotel or motel looking into their yards. Our homes with

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20 plus years of investment in them, we didn't choose that. Are you

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considering the load these new homes in 2000 apartment units we'll have on our schools?

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I'm not against new homes, apartments or development, but I am against the degradation

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of schools that we moved here for to send our daughter to. What's the plan for the schools?

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where are the new ones going? How will the handle, how will you handle the school student

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influx? So we moved here after flooding on the west side of houston. We moved here

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because we are not houston. We moved here because the development and zoning

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we looked into prior to purchasing looked pretty conservative and we liked that.

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how does one invest a boatload of money into their home and neighborhood if they can't count on

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the local zoning laws to protect these investments? I have so little

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time I have you telling me that this decision is upcoming.

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so can you hear my concern? 'cause I do not want to live somewhere where I have

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to worry about some creepy weirdo looking at my little daughter while she's swimming in my pool

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in the backyard. Okay. I cannot, um, deal with the idea

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that I would have to worry about somebody canvassing my every move coming and going from my

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home. I cannot put a baby to bed when there is an amphitheater blaring music not

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for their nap time and not for seven 30 bedtime. The city progress hinges

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on our ability to collaborate, prioritize, and implement solutions that benefit all

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residents. I trust you'll make the right decision for all of us. Please. Thank you. Thank

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you.

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will that mess it up? Please don't. What's your name? My name's lily.

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please don't cut. Not please do not cut down

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our trees. The trees are home to many

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creatures and it's,

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and they're important to the animals. Thank you. Aw,

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thank you.

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hi, my name's tom gio. I live at 47 10 creek point lane. That's my daughter,

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that's my wife. Uh, I'm here obviously to oppose

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the rezoning on knight road. You know, I chose missouri

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city, uh, because it wasn't like where we came

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from. So we lived on the west side of houston. Uh, you know, we chose it

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because there's trees in the backyard, not a brick wall. Uh, we chose

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it because the only sound to hear is the, the birds, the bees,

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and the ice cream truck. Um, you know, we chose it, uh,

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because I thought it was a sound place to make an investment as well. You

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know, we have put a lot of money into not only our home, but

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into our schools above and beyond the taxes that we pay.

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um, and, you know, it, it was, I thought it was a sound choice.

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to be honest though, it doesn't seem like it's a good investment opportunity.

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um, it seems like, you know, probably should leave before things

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get worse. If this is the, if this is the tract for missouri city,

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I, I'm not sure I'm on board. You know, I have to say I'm

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the fact that we're here talking about putting a hotel

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a hundred feet in an outdoor planning or outdoor party center,

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a hundred feet from people's back door. Does anyone know how far a hundred feet is?

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we're talking six car lengths. Could you imagine if that was looking

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into your pool? If you had to listen to that at the, up to the cutoff

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time at 10:00 pm every night? I mean, come on. This is absurd.

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what are we talking about here?

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you know, honestly it is emotional for me because I do

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have that little one there, you know, which is why we chose to move out here.

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we believe in the schools, we believe in the community, and this is, uh,

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frankly not what we're gonna call home. So appreciate.

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thank you. Thank you mr. Mayor. That conclude the public. Alright,

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thank you. We're going on to, uh, item number four, discussion

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and possible action four a. This item is

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an ordinance that will be taken uh, at a special meeting. Therefore, a motion

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is required to take up both item four a and four b at

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a special meeting. So

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I see a motion by council member riley, seconded by

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council member brown marshall. There are no, no one else in the queue. Let's go

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ahead and vote.

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motion carries unanimously. Okay. Item four b. Okay. Four

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a is an ordinance of the city of missouri city adopting a new pay

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plan for full-time. Non-exempt personnel and exempt personnel excluding

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civil service personnel and police personnel and appointed

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employees providing an effective date, providing for repeal and providing for

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severability. Alright, thank you. Um, uh,

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presentation by atlanta porters assistant city manager.

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good evening mayor and city council. I do not have a formal presentation.

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this is the second reading. Um, I will provide a summary for this item. This

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is the pay plan for non-civil service employees. The overall

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change in the pay plan is 2.7 to 2.8%. Uh,

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the estimated annual cost is $792,947

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with a prorated cost for fiscal year 2024 of approximately $335,000.

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okay, thank you. Um, there's been a motion by council member

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bony, seconded by mayor proam klauser, seeing noman else on the queue. Let's go ahead

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and vote.

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oh, member, you have the presentation on there. The motion carries unanimously. Uh,

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thank you. Item four b, an ordinance of the city of missouri city, texas

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amending the civil service implement implementation ordinance of the city of

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missouri city, providing certain amendments related to base pay and seniority

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pay, providing for repeal, providing for severability, providing an effective

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date, and containing other provisions related there too.

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okay, thank you. Okay, and if you don't mind, I'll just provide a summary again

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for, uh, this item. This is for civil service police and fire. The overall

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change in the pay plan for police officers is 4.4%.

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the overall change in the pay plan for fire is 2.4%. The

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average pay increase for police officers is 5.5% with the average

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pay increase for fire at 4.57%. The estimated

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annual cost is approximately $996,000 with

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a prorated cost for fiscal year 2024 of $421,000.

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alright, thank you. We have a motion by council member bony, seconded

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by council member marles. Seeing no one else on the queue. Let's

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go ahead and vote. The,

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the motion carries unanimously. Thank you. All right, thank you. Uh, item number five, our

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closed executive session. Uh, we don't have any closed executive sessions

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at the moment. Um, and with no further business

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and hearing no objections, this meeting is adjourned at 5:42 pm

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thank you all.