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Hold it down. Come on. Oh. You are. You're not on. Call the meeting of the city council

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meeting on january 27th, 2026. He's now called to order normally. Please call the roll.

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mayor hendrick. Present. Mayor pro tem. Stoker. Present. Council member. Mitchell.

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council member. Thompson. Present. Council member. Vasquez. Present. Council

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member. Connell. Present. Council member. Haney. Present. Mayor. We have a quorum. Thank

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you. I'll ask the pastor, don caywood, to please come up and lead us in prayer. If you're

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able to. Please stand. Okay, well. Thank you. Good evening. Let's pray. Our father, we come

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before you, exalting you and worshiping you, thanking you that every good and perfect

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gift comes down from you. The father of lights, with whom there is no variation, neither

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shadow of turning. Father, we thank you for the privilege of living in our great city,

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odessa, texas. We pray your blessing upon this city, upon all the citizens, upon our city

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council, our mayor, our city attorney, city manager, city secretary, everyone who serves

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in the city of odessa, texas. Father, you said if anyone lack wisdom, let him ask of god who

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gives liberally and upbraideth not so. We pray in every decision they make. Tonight is

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bathed with your wisdom, your grace, and your goodness, and we thank you for it in jesus

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name. Amen. Amen. Remain standing. Councilman haney, please lead us in the pledge. I

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which

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it stands. One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. As a flag.

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much water. Sorry. You want to take care of it? Please honor the texas flag. Pledge

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allegiance to the texas one state under god, one and indivisible and justice for all.

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please be seated. Okay. You need a pin. All right. I hope everyone can hear me. Well, we

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have brand new microphones and some of the people that might be older than the current mayor

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may be able to hear us better. Not referring to any of the seniors, just people with worse

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hearing. All right, we have any. Proclamations tonight, norma? No, sir. Alright. Any citizens

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comments on non-agenda items? No, sir. All right. Let's move on to agenda item. Oh, sir. Oh,

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hurry! Sorry, sorry. You're all right. I have kids. Kind of keep me busy at the very end.

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is it time or. Yes, ma'am. Take your time. Take a deep breath. Sorry. You have three minutes.

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thank you. Okay. Hello. City council. I want to thank the city of odessa for allowing me

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to speak for these few minutes. My name is jackie, and I spoke at the last meeting about ice

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and opd. Today. I want to reiterate that we need a plan to protect all odessans that is

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created with members of the public. I hope we already have a plan, but I couldn't find any

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when I looked online. I'm assuming that any kind of standard operating procedures

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are internal. And me and other odessans have concerns about how ice may do business here.

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I've heard questions about whether odessa police department is even allowed to

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enforce laws against ice within the city of odessa. Within the city of odessa. We wonder

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whether odessans will lose access to the right to due process. We want to know where

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the people ice takes are detained, and we want to know that they have proper

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representation. The lives of the people in ice detention are are precious and worthy of

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protection. It's concerning that. That info on how immigration enforcement works

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in odessa isn't easily available to the public. It's not. It's not available to us.

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but immigrations and immigration customs enforcement doesn't keep the public out of

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how they conduct their business. Their tactics include pretending to be members of the

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public. They pretend to be normal people, like a customer seeking a contractor, using the trust that we have built among members of our community. Not only that, but they also

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pretend to be local police. Stealing the goodwill opd has already built in odessa. This

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is this is a concern because ice doesn't conduct their tactics in ways that are safe

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for for only the oh sorry. This is a concern because ice conducts their tactics in ways

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that are not safe for only the people, not only the people they're targeting, but also

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anybody nearby. And just this month, four people died in their custody and they killed

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two people in the communities they were working in. In doing that, they were actively

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creating a world where regular citizens are too afraid to care for their neighbors if they

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work their tactics, if they work, the tactics they're practicing. Right now here in

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odessa, the public's choice become to ignore their neighbors or die. I believe my

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my neighbors deserve dignity. I believe my neighbors lives are precious. I believe their

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families and friends deserve were there, deserve to know where their loved ones are and

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that their rights are being upheld. I'm not the only odessan who loves their

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neighbors. I know there are others who feel sorry who feel the same way. I do like my love

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for my neighbors is only second to my love for god. Thank you again, city of odessa. Thank

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you ma'am. Thank you. Direct her to chief for somebody to talk to. As far as existing

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policies or anything like that about policies, staff is I'm sorry. The public is always

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welcome to call the city manager's office and we'll sit down with with residents anytime. All right. If you don't mind, would you reach out to mr. Perez and visit with her?

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I'll leave a business card for you, if that's all right. Oh, my. Go back up here. Yes, ma'am.

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I just want to. We can't speak, but we can direct you to city staff. So I'm going to direct

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you to the city manager's office. They they will be willing to talk to you about

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that. Okay? Okay. Thank you very much for coming tonight. We appreciate it. Thank you. One more speaker. Okay, bradley. And I'm sorry I cannot understand. Burke. You'll have

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three minutes to speak. Thank you. Ma'am. Thank you everybody. Ready? Good evening everybody.

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my name is bradley and outside of college in canyon, texas, working as a ranch hand in

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marble falls. Served in the united states navy in almost two years in federal prison. I

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have lived my entire life in odessa. I was even a member of the church this building shares

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a parking lot with for a decade of my life. I want to talk about how my experience molded

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me into the person I am today, and why I am standing up right now and speaking on behalf of

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some of the members in my community that fear expressing their first amendment rights. I

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always dreamed of serving this country because I was taught that we were the land of the

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free and the home of the brave, and I believed in liberty and justice for all. But that last

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part was a lie that I held on to ignorantly and willingly, willfully, as long as I could

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bear it. And I'll come back to this point. I had to overcome certain obstacles to be a part

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of the greatest fighting force in the world. But I did it. I took that oath and became a

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member of the seabees, serving in iraq and afghanistan, as well as several other places.

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and I experienced a lot of the world outside of west texas. I served with immigrants and got

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first hand experience watching what some of my troops born outside this country had to go

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through to become a united states citizen, because serving in a war to defend the

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constitution was not enough. I witnessed what stress it put them and their families through

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while still having to show up on the grinder every monday, wednesday and friday before the

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sun came up. I'm proud to say I served honorably, but that faith in my fellow man has been

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shaken in the last decade. I also mentioned that I spent a year. I spent a couple years in

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federal prison. I have made a point to not bring this up in certain conversations simply

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for self-preservation. Until now, I'll never forget the day I appeared in federal court.

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after living upstairs at the ector county courthouse for half a year and heard read

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aloud as my dad was sitting behind me, the united states of america versus bradley burke.

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my soul was shattered. The details of my conviction are long and adventurous, which I'm

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happy to share with anybody outside of this willing to listen on a personal level. In short, my alcoholism is what put me there. I made the effort of drinking away things that I

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experienced in my life more important than anything and anybody around me. It's really

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that simple. But I had to sober up before I came to that conclusion, which didn't happen

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until a few years after my release. I'm grateful for having had that experience, though. In short, as my sentence, as short as my sentence was, my experience

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taught me a lot of things. I learned how the methodical. I learned how methodical the

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segregation is in prison, how corrupt the employees that oversee prisoners are, and how

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badly driven, how racially driven politics are within the system. I was a white man in

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the system, and I had the privilege that other inmates did not have. Even though we

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were outnumbered, I experienced a fear that aligned me with certain individuals that I

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didn't share the same ideologies with that kept me much safer. But it was

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dishonest, and I'm ashamed of it. Moving on, I mentioned it took me a couple of years to

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figure it out when I sobered up, and I couldn't drink those things away anymore. And I

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couldn't blame anybody else because I was the common denominator. But the last time I was arrested, I was with a friend and coworker that was a black man. I was driving with

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an open container and was pulled over for speeding. The officer asked me questions and I replied that I would not be answering any questions without my attorney present. So he took

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me out of the car, cuffed me, then let me left me standing in front of his patrol car. What

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happened next was the moment I realized how privileged I was. Three officers drew their

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pistols and proceeded to aggressively remove my friend from my vehicle, throw him to

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the ground, and accuse him of anything they could think of for 15 minutes. He had no

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criminal record, and he wasn't the one driving with an open container. Me, the white man,

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was the only one with a record and the only one actually committing a crime. Then it hit

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me like a ton of bricks. Every experience I've ever had with law enforcement was much easier

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for me. Anytime I was with somebody that wasn't white. And all those experiences are here in odessa, texas. Three minutes are up. Can I finish your thoughts? I'm almost done.

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thank you. My point is this what ice is doing right now isn't new. People that aren't

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white know this and have been telling us, but we weren't listening. We refused to listen,

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but we instead quoted mlk and nelson mandela and claimed we had black and brown friends. So

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it was okay. Our privilege has kept us out of the system as long as our luck will allow it.

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the system is not broken, but it's working exactly as designed. And until a white man

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was murdered in the streets, a lot of people didn't believe our our black and brown

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brothers and sisters. I can't say I'm sorry and take no action. Liberty and justice has

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never been for all. And we have an opportunity now here to change that. Will y'all take

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action to protect your community? The world is watching us. Thank you. Thank

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you sir. Any other speakers? No, sir. Moving on to the consent agenda. Item number six. Anyone

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had a chance to review the docs? If so, I'll entertain a motion move to approve the consent

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agenda. Second, councilman connell made a motion. Councilman vasquez second. All

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in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion unanimous. Let's move to our regular

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agenda item roman numeral seven. Agenda item eight. Consider the approval of to order two squad

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vehicles, three fire pumpers and four ambulances. Laura. Hello, mayor and council. In

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order to purchase and subsequently lease new fire apparatus, these specialized

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units will need to be ordered. Currently, the lead time for the two brothers squad vehicles

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is right at one year. The three spartan fire pumpers lead time is two years, pushing delivery

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out to 2 to 2028. Are you doing it? Thank you. The four braun ambulances is three years

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pushing delivery out to 2029. These items will need to be budgeted in the fiscal year

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they will be received. Once the vehicles are received, the units will be purchased and

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leased back to the city via sewell fleet management. Any questions? I had a quick

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question. Help me understand. So we're purchasing them this year, but then they get

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budgeted in 2029. No, sir. We're we are going to order preorder them now and then when

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the when the when it's time for them to take. I'm sorry when we take possession of them we'll

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know that fiscal year and we'll budget within that fiscal year for the lease payment. So

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you're giving I would say give me authorization. The motion would be to authorize me to

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preorder these vehicles. It takes so long to build them out. Correct. Laurie, you have the

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lead time that you're working with is incredible. It's one year, two year, three year. So the question is basically an obvious question. Are the lease rates solid locked at the time

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of order? The lease rates are coming in three years from now. That's a good question. I will

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check on that and make sure about that. Yes, sir. Okay. Any other questions? And I would

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pre order those with those stipulations okay. Need a motion to approve that. So make

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a motion to approve the request from. From. Sorry we never mind towards the vehicles or the

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vehicles. I'm sorry I was saying as presented subject to the checking of the lease rate

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in the future and authorize the city manager to execute that motion by the city by steve

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thompson, second by councilman o'connell. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion

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passes. Thank you, thank you. All right. Agenda item number nine, public hearing. We're

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going to open up a second public hearing regarding the request by lca on behalf of midland county for the annexation of 13.46 acre vacant tract of land within city

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limits. Again, it's me again here for this. The same part that we spoke about this at

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3:00. So this is the midway road as part of the annexation. This part is the 13.46 acre

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portion. We did have to bring this before you a second time, because it is a road for the

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infrastructure as opposed to what we talked about before the surrounding area. Right. This

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is a public hearing. So let's open up the public hearing. All those wishing to speak may do so at this time. You have three minutes. Do we have any speakers? If not, I'll close

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the public hearing. Gentlemen. Any questions? Elizabeth, I still have the same question.

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that red piece there is that now? Not in the city limits? No, no, but yukon is. Yes. Yukon

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from 191 north is. Okay. Let me let me push. You still have. We're going to bring in the red

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part as part of the 13. And then the next part of this after this is closed, we'll

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talk about the green part where all that. And before you talk about it all at one time. John,

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can you come up here? I don't get it. I'm sorry. I've been out there a thousand times. No,

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it's okay. I think I know where all the lines are. At least I've been lectured on them a

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thousand times. Councilman, help all of us understand the boundaries. John john landgraf, yukon road north of 191. Correct, is in the city all the way to faudree road. Correct.

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then from faudree road to luke 338, it's not inside the city. And then it picks back up and

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is inside the city until it gets to andrews highway. And then from andrews highway west.

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it's not inside the city, so. But that's that's all the pieces of yukon, yukon. South,

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south and east of 191 is not inside the city. But what we're annexing here is that portion

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of midway road, which is a new road. Part of it was a county, midland county road. And that's

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the so that's the road that goes to the airport. No, no, yukon goes to the airport. Okay.

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that's where I'm confused. And and this new road midway goes from highway 80 by 20 up to

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yukon road. Okay. And so midland county owned a a piece of right of way. It was county

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road 1294 I believe. Used to run next to the old water wonderland. Okay. Yeah, sure.

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okay. That we're annexing that into the city of odessa so it can become now a city street,

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midway road. And then it will continue up through jk mr. Bushman's property up to tie

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into yukon road. Okay. That helps me a lot. Okay. Sorry, elizabeth I just. Yeah. That's

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okay. I'm putting it in terms I knew he understood from 50 years. If if an aggie can

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explain to a red raider, that's a win. That's right. All right. Any questions? Gentlemen. Thank

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you. John. Councilman thompson, is that all in your district? It is. That's why I was trying

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to get it straight in my head. I thought I knew where all those. I just didn't realize

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that piece was not in. I was trying to get that in my head. Almost. It's almost. Yeah, it

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will be. It will be. All right. Would you like to make a motion? I'd make a motion to accept the

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annexation as presented. Counsel. It's only hearing. Oh, no votes required. No votes. Oh,

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no votes required. No default. Yeah. Just trying to do it right. All right. So hearing

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only that's that hearing only part. All right. Thank you elizabeth. Now don't move a

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muscle because we're going to agenda item ten where it says open a public hearing regarding

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the request by lca on behalf of d jk for the annexation of 2.41 acre vacant tract of land

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within the city limits to be used for a city road before did we did we open and close that

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hearing? Can I close that? Yeah. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Just want to make sure if I

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didn't I close the I close it now but I thought I already did. But if I didn't that meeting's

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closed. Now let's go on agenda item number ten now okay. So this is the second part of the

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annexation, where this is just the land that is surrounding the road in this part is just

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the 2.41 acre tract of land that will be coming into this city limits altogether. This

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part, once it's all. Oh, I'm so sorry I went backwards. That will be the ending map together.

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once we do, the annexation will be the total of 15.87. I'm sorry, 15.87 acre tract of land.

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and that's the two parts of that annexation that we have, the road and just the surrounding land as well. All right. That picture helps a lot. I just open up public hearing.

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anybody wish to speak may do so at this time. Please limit your comments to three minutes. We

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have any speakers seeing none will close the public hearing. Anybody else have any questions

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or any discussion. Thank you. We appreciate it. Thanks, elizabeth. That helps a lot.

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all right. Number 11, consider a contract with amstar for the royalty park improvement project. John, where are you? There you are. Mayor council. Good evening. Good evening. We

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are considering the approval of royalty park improvements project. The park currently

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contains an existing building that is no longer serves its original purpose, a vacant

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building. So we will be removing that building, demolition and removal to build

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a pavilion with picnic grills. There's also a tennis court pad that is no longer used for its

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original purpose, so it will be repurposing that area to to to build a basketball court. The

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total project cost is $299,613, and the funds are within the parks budget. Okay. Thank you.

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john. Jim, are there any questions? John, I was going to say just reinvesting in these

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existing neighborhood parks for our community. It's outstanding. Thank you very much. That's

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always one of our goals to reinvest in the existing neighborhood parks. We are also

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planning a playground replacement rotation schedule so we can stay ahead of the

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curve, but we definitely want to update our amenities. Yes, sir. Thank you. So did have a

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again still trying to understand the whole process. So when we approve this this is

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go. He goes and tears down the building and builds a basketball court and builds a

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pavilion and and go. So the the contract it'll be in phases. The first phase there will be

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drawings and concepts of the project. So we will internally approve those those

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specifications of the project before they start tearing down buildings and repurposing the

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tennis court pad. So we will approve the specs and once approved, we will then will

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begin demolition and removal. So what does the timeline look like on this? I don't have a

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timeline. I spoke to the contractor and the weather's going to play a part in that.

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we'll have the design and concepts soon, within a few weeks, but it will depend on

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the weather when we can actually pour concrete. So you have to come back to us again

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to ask for anything else? No, sir. Yes. Budget in your budget. Correct. It's within the parks

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budget. We're not asking for any additional money. Did you have a recommendation from our

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council, sir? Did you have a recommendation from a council? Absolutely. Thank you very much

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for for looking. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. We're assessing all all throughout the park system.

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we're assessing all the needs. Where can we where can we add new amenities. But but also

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where can we reinvest and update update amenities as well. Play baseball pitcher. So

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presuming everything comes into budget it would not have to come back to you. It's just a

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project that we're going to go do. Just trying to get a handle. Some of these things seem to

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come back lots and lots, and so we want to clean that process up moving forward. Thank you

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john john it says improvement project. What's on the property now at that park. So currently

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there's a there's a playground. There's a there's a baseball field. There's a concrete pad

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that used to be a tennis court, and there's an old restroom that has not worked in in many

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years. We have had contractor go out and look at it to find out what it would take. And

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after assessing, we feel like the the best way to serve the residents of that neighborhood

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is to build a shade structure, build that pavilion, that gathering place. And and it's

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the most cost effective as well. We'll have restrooms in it. There will not be restrooms.

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and they're they're not restrooms at the moment. It's been many years. It's just it's

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an old building. Yes, sir. John, that was an old tennis court. Two basketball, correct? Yes,

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sir. Maybe in the future we can get restroom because there's a lot of little league teams that

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practice that. That's why I asked the question because I played little league there. Yeah. So yeah, that's why I remember the restroom. Thanks for you. Absolutely. That's we

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know that that field is there as part of our practice field, all of our practice fields

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throughout the city. So we will we're we've bought new equipment. We can come in and

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level those practice areas. So so it is on our radar and we will be beginning to updating

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those practice fields as well. Okay. So when we get to the budget process, it'll be a

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great opportunity to include things like that in the capital improvement plan for years.

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moving forward. I'm assuming you need motion, but it says consider a contract is

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considering approve. All right. Any other questions for john? If not, I'll entertain a motion.

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I'll make a motion. We move forward for the park. Second. Councilman mitchell has made a

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motion. Councilman stoker seconded. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion passes

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unanimously. Thanks, john. Thank you. Thanks, john. Agenda item number 12 removed from the

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table to consider acceptance of a petition for the creation of deer meadow public improvement

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district appeared in accordance with chapter 372 of the texas local government code. We have

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a motion to get off the table. First, we need a motion to remove from the table, make a

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motion to remove from the table a motion for councilman thompson. Second, I'm sorry,

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but removed from the table. This was this was tabled at the last council meeting. Oh,

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remove it before we can discuss it. Yes. Second from councilman mitchell. All in favor, say aye.

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alright. Motion passes. Remove from the table. Will now consider agenda item number 12.

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thank you again. This item is a resolution to accept the petition request to create the

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deer meadows public improvement district in accordance with chapter 372 of texas local

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government code. The petition was properly filed with the city secretary and has been

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reviewed and determined that it meets all statutory requirements. This action does

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not establish the public improvement district, but formally accepts the petition

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and sets the public hearing for city council to consider. The public hearing is scheduled for

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february 24th, 2026 at 6 p.m. At city council chambers. I'm now open for any questions.

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gentlemen. Any questions? I have had several phone calls on this situation. I need to know

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if we have this gentleman to where he understands exactly what's happening. He we I don't

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know that we've approved a pit along with the homeowners association, which I think I

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talked to city manager about it and asking how that was going to be done. So I had long, two

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long conversations with him. So whatever's going on, he's not clear about one, the other or

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both. Make sense? Yes, sir. If you don't mind. So somebody can explain it to me. Right. So it

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appears that they really want to move toward an hoa, but they. But what we need to do is this

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isn't formally establishing a pit. This is just establishing the opportunity to have a

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public hearing. I believe that between now and then, they're going to come back to us and

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say, we're not interested in the pit, we're interested in the hoa. But I didn't want to

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take this away from them until that was definitive. But and the and I do think they're

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leaning toward the hoa because quite frankly, it can accomplish the same thing. It's

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a little more closer to the people. They have representation, if you will. And at the end of the day, it's really not it's not another tax levy on top of your other tax

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bills. It's pretty clear when you move into a neighborhood, when you have an hoa, what that

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fee is. And so in my from what I understand, they really are interested in moving away from

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the pit and toward the hoa. But I didn't want to take this away in case there was a change of

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mind, because in my opinion, they're still entitled to a public hearing. If they even did want to keep the pit. The pit. But just from a practical standpoint, I don't believe

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they're going to move forward with the pit. Okay. Well, thank you for that because I you know,

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I called you, I, I couldn't answer the question because that's the first time that's happened since we started using pits, have an hoa and a pit. And I understand the problem.

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you want to heap the pit fund on top of the hoa fund. And I think kids are you know, I

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think it's important to let the folks that are listening online and may not know what a pit is.

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I mean, what is a pit? It's a public improvement district. It's it's quite frankly, another it's another layer of tax on your tax bill. And and that's really what it is. And a

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lot of people move into these districts and they don't even know they exist. So it's for a

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green space. Correct. It's typically clear about that. That's right. The pit would be

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used to maintain that neighborhood's green space, or even some right of way fixtures.

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I could not thank you for answering that question because I could not answer it, and the

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votes would just be to allow the petition for it. Right? That's right. Petition for a

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public hearing, isn't that correct? Correct. Yes. So that's all we're voting on tonight. It's just to allow them to have a public hearing. And that'll give them a little

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bit of time to call me directly and say, this isn't the direction we want to go or the

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direction we do want to go. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else have any questions? Not a is

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there any motion to accept the petition for pit to allow them to have a public hearing if

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they so choose. So move later. Motion by councilman thompson. Is there a second by councilman

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canal? All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Motion is unanimous. Thank you. Liz. All

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right. Item number 13. Consider resolution. The city council of city of odessa, texas,

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approving the sports facility management agreement between the city of odessa and sports

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facilities management, llc. Finding and determining that the meeting at which this

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resolution was passed was noticed and was open to the public, as required by law,

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authorizing the city manager to sign any document necessary to implement this resolution and declaring an effective date. Aaron. Mr. Pritchett, would you like to come on up? Yeah, if

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you don't mind. Mr. Pritchard's here from sports facilities company. And, you know, before

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you and your you have a contract in front of you about the operation of this. I know

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separately, some folks have given me, some asked some questions and we've, I think,

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answered those questions. But at this time, I think we're just wanting to talk about what

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this arrangement is. So everybody knows we have a sports complex going. And I

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think everybody knows that very few municipalities have the the resources to operate those

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types of facilities. And oftentimes what happens is we reach out to potential

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operators and they respond with rfqs we assess those rfqs, we rated those rfqs and sports

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facilities company rated the highest, and we moved forward with a contract negotiation

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with them to operate this facility for us. And if you don't, I mean, that's that's

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the that's that's the nuts and bolts of it, if you will. It's a is it a ten year agreement.

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and and of course there's some compensation that's discussed and exhibit b there. So are

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there any questions for me regarding the contract or any concerns. Or would anybody like

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to talk about the their proposed amendments to this contract? Mr. Parker, have you

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had a chance to look this over? I have I did take an opportunity to review. Oh is

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that on? I have reviewed and I've discussed with at least the mayor and the city manager

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some of the issues that there needs to be another clean up of the contract in terms of some

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edits and non-substantive cleanup of some of the the language. But the other issues

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I just pointed to council just so council's aware, you know, you have your exhibit c that

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lines out the compensation. Just want to make certain council's aware of the the

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compensation's. Actually you know what what the city is going to be paying the other

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party in this contract is set forth in exhibit c, and that's really what I wanted to bring

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to council's attention. Okay. Thank you sir. Yeah. And in fact, it's my understanding

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that we've already begun the fact there will be a presentation on thursday, but

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you've already been out there helping with some of the ideas and construction. Correct? We

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have. Yes. And the just for example, everybody knows that it's a value added contract.

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y'all recommended. Some changes and changes have been accepted and agreed upon. For example,

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the flooring of the of the facility itself. Right. Tell us about that. Why that's

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important. Why maple important to a floor? Because we don't know anything about. Yeah, sure.

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a number of factors for the. Well thank you, mayor and council members. Nice to be

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here. See you all again. Fluorine in indoor court is very important. Humidity

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control is important. Being able to load and unload on top of the wood floor, making sure

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the floor is capable of doing that for other non-sport events. Non volleyball, non basketball,

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non wrestling conventions, trade shows, things like that. Gun shows, things like that. So

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we protect the floor. So we we'd likely made recommendation to make sure the floor met

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certain specifications to have maximum use and maximum functionality. And we all be

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continuing to work to start coordinating I guess basketball tournaments and volleyball

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tournaments and baseball and seven on seven and all these other projects as we continue

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our construction. Yeah, we'll get started on that immediately. I think first is the community

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use, right? We know this is community park first and serving the community and

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secondary to that, delivering tourism and economic impact for the city. Yeah, I do think we

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have some some amendments we'd like to discuss with you. And I don't want to get too bogged

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down, but for example, under section 14.1, if anyone wants to turn to section 14.1, we we

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just made some changes in the last, last sentence of the paragraph is that the manager

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and owner city of odessa has have the right to each other's images and marks, and for

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marketing and promoting materials for the term of the contract without restriction. I

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think we've talked about that exhibit c, obviously, and particularly council member

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thompson has been actively seeking donations and sponsorships, if you will. And

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so we want to because you're going to get a fee for things. You go out and get coca-cola to

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put in $10 million, whatever. There's there's a you'll be charging a fee for that, obviously. Yes. But if we have a we're going to add an exclusion for current

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sponsorship contracts and renewals and any sponsorships sold solely by the city, correct? Yes, yes. I think that's important to understand that if if steve has already

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sold those sponsorships that that, you know, that's a, that's a different animal than

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y'all selling those ships and last under concessions. I think we want to make sure that the

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concessions meet all applicable law and comply with all the existing contracts and future

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agreements and or policies adopted by the owner related to the operation. I think we you

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kind of said, yeah, I agree with all that. And I think last thing is city attorney said,

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look, there's some places the fonts change. I mean, we had a lot of red lines going on. I

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just want to make sure it's all scrivener. Scrivener errors. That's right. So we've got some

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changes like that. But other than that gentlemen any questions. Concerns we have.

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I'm good I'm I'm good with it I just I didn't I just that one changed with I'll be happy to

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have them. And I think this is important for people to know the management team is going to

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be huge in this project. We've got a lot of interest. We've got a lot of money close to $10

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million already verbally committed. And so we're so excited about that. Everybody's

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ready to break ground, which will be thursday. So we're kind of we're excited. And this is

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kind of the last step. And we'll hope to get this thing built and up and running as

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fast as we can. So at that point, mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve a

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resolution to associated with the contract with the amendments, as discussed under

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9.5 of concessions, 14.1 relationships and under exhibit c sponsorships as presented.

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all right, I would, if you don't mind. I would say add to that to allow the mayor to

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execute the. Oh, and allow the mayor, I guess, allow the mayor to execute the contracts. All

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right. There's a motion on the floor to do that, hadn't we. Somebody had to do it. Okay.

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the motion on the floor. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by councilman vazquez.

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all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motions. Unanimous. All right. Thank you, sir. We

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appreciate it. Look forward to working with you, city manager. We'll serve you well. We

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appreciate the consideration and we appreciate the partnership. So we'll serve you well. Rock and roll. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right. Item number 14 discuss.

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consider all city of odessa commissions and board members, including appointment,

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reappointment of removing or modification, including the following. Under the midland

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odessa urban transit district. I know mr. George and myself have rarely can make the

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meetings because of the timeline time of the meeting. We had some people. Volunteer

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to serve, correct? Yes, I sent those applications to council and it's just a council's

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wishes on who they wish to serve. It was nicholas christian crissinger, nancy

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wells and travis overton, only two of those to serve on this. It's easy rider, basically easy

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rider board. I'd like to nominate nancy wells. Anybody have betsy's terrific. She's

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also on three other boards. Yeah. She I don't know one or the other. So I don't know who

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they are. Well, nicholas owns the. So terrific. And forget the other one that he owns. And

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I don't know that I'm familiar with travis, but I do know nicholas. Gentlemen. You know

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any of them? Nancy's husband was darrell wells, who was executive was the risk manager

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here for 25 years. Nancy is a wonderful person. I think she's I think she wants to serve just

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to keep herself busy. Yeah, and that's wonderful. She wants to serve. We need people like that.

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so. And I think she's a good lady. I don't know them, but I'm willing to I'm willing to

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honor y'all's recommendation if that's who you think. Nancy wilson. Kissinger. Nicholas.

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yes. I don't know him. We need to hear a motion from 1 to 1 at a time. Or mr. Motion for both.

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okay, I'd move that. We appoint nancy and nicholas to the urban transportation district. All

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right, there's a motion. Is there a second, second, second by councilman thompson? Councilman stoker made the original motion. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed?

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motions unanimous for the citizens golf advisory committee. Council member

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thompson would like to appoint tim peden. I do, I do you do, I do. Well, we're not getting

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married. Did you say tim peden? Yes, sir. The guy from kermit the big guy from permit. Yeah.

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wow. It's got a hand big enough to squash your butt. He lives here in odessa now, or. Oh,

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he's asked. Oh, I did not realize he was from kermit. Okay. Is there a motion on the

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table I so moved. I'll second it. Motion by councilman thompson, seconded by

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councilman vazquez. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion unanimous.

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man's biggest hands. Don't let him close to you. All right. Agenda item number 15. Consider

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assigning council liaisons to council appointees. This is my agenda item I had. I'm trying

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to find ways to make this city more effective. One of the things that that I've learned

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through tml and through reading, is that liaisons can have a positive effect. Council

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members that kind of directly appointed to someone, it helps facilitate communication, helps

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support decision making, promotes collaboration, encourages transparency. So what I did is I assigned everybody somebody. And when I think we'll do is every year

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we'll switch. So hopefully in a four year term you'll you'll be there for at least four people,

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if not all of them. So here's what I'd like to do. I'll make it a form of a motion. I guess

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I would like to appoint council member, stoker and council member vasquez as liaison for

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city manager aaron smith. I'd like to appoint council member thompson and chris haney as

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liaison to city secretary norma. I'd like to appoint myself as liaison to james parker, city

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attorney. I'd like to appoint council member mitchell as the liaison to judge robert martin,

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and appoint councilmember connell as the liaison to judge carlos rodriguez. That's my

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motion. Is there a second, second, second by councilman stoker? All those in favor say

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aye. Any opposed? Motion is unanimous. This may be councilman vasquez's favorite

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part of the meeting. No further discussion. I move that we adjourn this regular meeting.

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mayor, the motion to adjourn. Is there a second, second, second by councilman mitchell?

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all in favor, say aye.