Okay, welcome everybody. Uh, today's tuesday, april 7th, 2026.
we'll go ahead and get this regular council meeting. Uh, call to order.
I appreciate the full house that we have tonight. Thank y'all for coming out.
we're gonna go ahead and start with opening prayer and pledge of allegiance to the flags of the
united states and the state of texas by council member sheridan.
everybody please stand.
alright, heavenly father, we come before you this evening with gratitude
for the opportunity, opportunity to serve our community. We thank you for
the city of churchs, for its people, its families, and the trust
placed in us as stewards of this city. Grant us wisdom
in our decisions, in clarity, in our discussions, and
unity in our purpose. Help us lead with integrity,
fairness, and humility. Always seeking what is right and just
for all residents. Guide our words so they bring understanding,
not division. Strengthen our commitment to serve with transparency and
accountability. And remind us that our responsibility is not only
to lead, but to listen. We ask for your protection
over our first responders, city staff, and our armed forces.
those who serve and sacrifice to protect our freedoms, both at
home and abroad. May our actions tonight reflect thoughtful leadership
and a genuine desire to improve the lives of those we serve.
in your name we pray, amen. Amen
to the flag of the united states of america to the
republic for which it stands. One nation under god in one
liberty.
honor the texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the texas
one state under god, one and indivisible,
texas.
okay, moving on to special announcements. Um,
so the how baldwin scholarship students attending for the how baldwin scholarship
need to sign in on the sheet located at the back of the podium.
if you're watching remotely, please email sarah gonzalez at
sgonzalez@shirtz.com to virtually sign in. Please
direct any questions to ms. Gonzalez. We're
gonna go ahead and move forward with proclamations, uh, national crime
victims rights week april 19th to 25th, 2026.
council member watson,
the crimes victims
national crime victims rights week, april 19th to
25th of 2026. Whereas millions of
americans and victims of crime each year and these crimes also
affect members, families, neighbors,
and coworkers. And whereas crimes can lead a lasting emotional,
physical, and financial impact on the people of all ages and the abilities
of all economics, racial and social backgrounds.
whereas 1984 crimes
victims fund was established by the victims in the crime
act voca to provide a permanent source of support
to crime victim services and compensation through fines, penalties
paid by a convicted federal offenders. And whereas by ensuring
the federal offenders crime, fines, penalties, and deposits
into the crime victims funds, congress affirmed that those comments crime,
those who committed crimes should be accountable and for the impact of their actions.
and whereas the victim's assistance community faces new challenges
to reach and serve all victims, including victims of newly recognized crimes.
and whereas now it is time to embrace and emphasize on learning that
works and reaches, um, underserved victims and
meetings victims needs. Whereas
national crime victims right week provides the opportunity to celebrate energy,
creative creativity and commitment that launches
the victim's rights. Movement inspires progress and continues to
advance the cause of the justice of the crimes victims. Whereas
advocates that are joining forces with the victims' services provides
criminal justice agencies and concerned citizens throughout the city of shirtz. And
american raised awareness of victims' rights and observed
national crime victims rights week. Therefore, it's be resolved.
ralph rodriguez, mayor of city of shirtz, hereby proclaims
the week of april 19th through the 25th, 2026
as national crimes victims, right was week. Thank you.
nobody's gonna say, um, pictures. I don't have any pictures.
our next proclamation will be child abuse prevention and
awareness month april, 2026, council member paul macaluso.
okay. Child abuse prevention and awareness month for april, 2026.
whereas more than 33,249 cases
of child abuse and neglect were confirmed in texas during fiscal year
2025. And whereas there were 163
confirmed victims of child abuse and neglect in guadalupe county in fiscal
year 2025. Whereas child abuse prevention is
a community responsibility in finding solutions depends on involvement among
all people. And whereas communities must make every effort to promote and
support programs that benefit children and their families. Whereas effective
child abuse prevention programs succeed because of partnerships among a
variety of entities, including but not limited to schools, religious organizations,
law enforcement agencies, child protective services, prosecution
agencies, medical professionals, mental health professionals,
sjrc, texas belong, the guadalupe county child welfare
board, children's advocacy centers, court appointed special
advocates, bikers against child abuse and other community-based nonprofit organizations.
and whereas everyone in the community should become more aware of child abuse prevention
and consider helping parents raise their children in safe nurturing environments,
as well as supporting local professionals dedicated to meeting the needs of child abuse
victims and therefore be it resolved that ralph rodriguez, mayor
of the city of shirtz, hereby proclaims april, 2026 as child abuse
prevention and awareness month in churchs texas and urges
all citizens to work together to reduce child abuse and neglect and significantly
improve the response of our community when child abuse occurs in the months
and years ahead. I have someone that would like to,
okay. Hi,
my name is christie williams. I'm the executive director of the guadalupe county children's advocacy center.
we have a primary office in the city of sein and a satellite office here in shirtz.
uh, we serve 942 children last year in 2025,
and we have pin well displays across the county to represent each one of those children.
we work alongside our partners in law enforcement, child protective services, medical, mental
health providers, casa belong. And we are
trying to minimize the impact that the system has on children
when there are allegations of child abuse and neglect. So our partners can refer
children and families to us. We can conduct child friendly non
interrogative, unbiased interviews of those children that can be used for the purpose of
investigation and can later be used in court to support the child's statements. And
we provide family advocacy services to help support and give resources to
the supportive caregivers, the non-offending caregivers. We have counseling services
that are completely free of charge and we have a large enough counseling staff to
see 250 clients a week. So we are here,
um, like I said, in the city of shirtz in our satellite office, and we are going to be working
on making a more permanent location here in the city of shirtz. We're incredibly
thankful for all of the support of shirts and, um, we
have been doing this now for 22 years in this county, and the city of shez
has supported us ever since our inception. So we're truly thankful.
next proclamation is sexual assault awareness month april, 2026.
council member guerrero
now national sexual assault awareness and prevention month april, 2026.
whereas every 68 seconds, another person in the united states is sexually assaulted
and in texas, two in five women and one in five men are victims
of sexual assault. In fiscal year 2025, thriving hearts
crisis center rendered 552 services to 93
survivors of sexual violence and provided 94 hospital accompanied
for sexual assault exams. Whereas according to a study conducted by
the texas association against sexual assault and the university of
texas at austin institute on domestic violence and sexual assault, approximately
6.3 million texan texans have been
sexually victimized, whereas most victims of sexually assaulted by
someone they know and 90%, 91% of the victims did not
report to police. Whereas it is appropriate to salute
the more than 20 million victims of who survived sexual assault in
the united states and efforts of victims, volunteers and
professionals who combat sexual assault. Whereas national
and community organizations and private sector supporters should
be recognized and applauded for their work in promoting awareness about sexual
assault. Whereas police for forensic workers
and prosecutors should be recognized and commended for their
hard work and innovative str strategies to increase the
percentage of sexual assault cases that resolve in the prosecution
and incarceration of the offenders. Whereas sexual violence
is a persistent and persuasive problem in our society,
one that requires attention year round. And in order to foster
healthy communities, all citizens must support
the effort to end sexual violence every month of the year. Whereas
national and community organizations, businesses in private sector and the
media are urged through national sexual assault, awareness
of sexual violence and strategies to decrease the
incidents of sexual assault. Now therefore, mayor of shirtz,
mr. Ralph rodriguez
claims the month of april, 2026 as national sexual assault
awareness and prevention month signed mayor of shirts,
mr. Ralph rodriguez,
you wanna say something? Yeah, sure. Hello
everyone. Uh, my name's brandon rossett. I'm the awareness and education coordinator at thriving hearts
crisis center. Uh, we serve all of guadalupe county as well as gonzalez nixon and wilson county.
we help survivors domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. When we receive these
calls, we bring them into our facility. We help 'em with clothes, food, shelter, help 'em determine
a game plan, what's their next steps of moving forward, um, with, with
their child if they have her child. Um, also, uh, in the city of on april 29th
from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm we'll be hosting our denim day event and it's our annual event
to promote awareness for sexual assault. And if y'all have a chance to go out, we invite
you. Thank you.
the next proclamation we have is, uh, animal care and control appreciation
week april 12th through the 18th 2026, council
member hayward,
I always get excited about being able to read the proclamation for the animal
services department 'cause they do an amazing job with what they
do and the resources they have and they're good with neonatal,
and I'm just saying this off script, but neonatal and the branding of shirts,
people want to learn from them and they're an amazing team and I just always
have to brag on them when I can. So just wanted to let y'all know that before I started reading
national animal care and control appreciation week april 12th through the 18th of 2026,
whereas the national animal care and control association has designated
the second full week in april as animal care and control appreciation week,
whereas various federal, state, and local government officials throughout
the country take time to recognize thank and commend all
animal control officers and animal services staff for the dedicated service
they provide to the citizens. Public safety and domestic animals livestock
across the nation. Whereas the city of shirtz
recognizes and commends the shirts animal service personnel who answers calls for
assistance, capture roaming and potentially dangerous animals, rescue
animals, investigate reports of animal abuse, educate
pet owners about responsible care and mediate disputes between
neighbors regarding pets. Whereas in 2025,
the city of church's animal services responded to 2067 calls
for service and handled 1,238 animals for intake.
whereas the city of churchs has a staff that includes one animal service manager
for animal service officers for kennel techs. And
whereas in 2025, the church's animal services has developed partnerships
with san antonio humane society and other animal rescue organizations for placement
of scared and ill animals. Whereas in 2025,
the church's animal services department continued their vision to have special unit
where they can care for neonatal animals, both domestic and wild. They
have an entire room in full service dedicated to the care of infant animals.
and whereas animal control officers provide essential community functions, including
the enforcement of animal control laws, protecting the public from diseases
such as rabies and educating the public on proper care of the community's
pets. Now therefore, I allison hayward on behalf of ralph ralph rodriguez,
mayor of the city of church, proclaim national animal care and control week april 12th
through the 18th 2026, we encourage all
citizens to join me in thanking citi city animal
services for their dedication and exceptional service they provide to all citizens
and animals in our great community. Thank you so much for what you do. You
have something to say.
thank you so much for the recognition. Um, my name is megan, I'm the animal services
manager. And, uh, animal control is a unique profession.
uh, it's fun, but it's challenging, uh, but rewarding. And,
um, our staff are some of the most passionate people I've
ever known in my life. They put their heart and soul into serving our community and
we just thank you so much for being such a supportive community and advocate for
us all the time. Thank you
again. Thank you guys for your great job. You're amazing.
our next proclamation is gonna be national public safety telecommunicators
week april 12th of the 18th, 2026. Council
member westbrook
national public safety telecommunications week april 12th through 18th. Whereas
emergencies can occur at any time that require police, fire, or emergency
medical services. And whereas an emergency occurs,
a prompt response requires a prompt response of police officers,
firefighters, and paramedics is critical to the protection of life and preservation
of property. And whereas the safety of our police officers and firefighters
is dependent upon the quality and accuracy of information obtained from citizens
who telephone the city of church emergency communication center. And
whereas public safety telecommunicators are the first and most
critical contact our citizens have with emergency services. And whereas
the public safety telecommunicators department has 16 employees,
one communications manager with 21 and a half years of experience,
four shift supervisors with a combined 57 years of experience
and 11 communication officers with a combined total of 29 years
of experience. Whereas the public safety telecommunicators for the city
of shertz answered approximately 29,000 9 1 1 calls,
64,000 non-emergency lines answered. 1400
texts to 9 1 1 answered. In 2025, there were 43,000
calls for service, for shirts, pd, 25,000 calls for
service for cillo pd, 5,000 calls for shirts for
service, for shirts, fire, 4,000 calls for service, uh,
for cilo fire, and 16,500 calls for service for
shirts ems. Whereas public safety telecommunicators are
the single vital link for our police officers and firefighters
by monitoring their activities, by radio, providing them information and
ensuring their safety. And whereas public safety, telecommunicators of the
city of shirts have contributed substantially to the apprehension
of criminals, suppression of fires and treatment of patients. And whereas
each dispatcher has exhibited compassion, understanding, and professionalism
during the performance of their job in the past year. Now therefore it be resolved
that ralph rodriguez, mayor of the city of church, proclaims national public
safety telecommunicators week april 12th through 18th 2026,
um, he encourages all citizens to join us in honoring the men and women whose diligence
and professionalism keep our city and citizens safe. Congratulations.
thank you.
I'm jim. I'm jim la the chief of, uh, police. I just wanna thank everybody and
without a doubt, our dispatchers are the lifeline of all first
responders. Uh, it is a sad day for the city of church. The young
lady next to me is, is
retiring and she's leaving a legacy. She's moving on to a new, uh, career
field and I'm, I wish her the best of luck.
that brings us to our last proclamation being military child month
april, 2026. Council member sheridan.
good evening again. This one is dear demar hard
as a veteran, but I'm also a military brat or military child as
well. So come on now
we got the wet family and the wilkerson family.
nope. Okay, so let's just read off. Alright. April, 2026
is a month of the military child. April 7th, 2026 is
purple up for military kids day. The city of shirts will observe the
month of the military child during the month of april, 2026, and on april 7th, 2026
purple up for military kids day to honor military families and their children
for the sacrifices they make and their unconditional support of our armed forces.
and whereas nearly 2 million children in military families
face unique challenges, including frequent moves
and family separation, these remarkable young people demonstrate
incredible strength and courage while adapting to new schools,
making new friends, and supporting their families service
to our nation. And whereas the city of shirts, along with
the texas education agency are committed to ensuring military connected students
are supported in our schools and various programs, as our men
and women in uniform focus on the challenges and missions
they face in the line of duty. And whereas in the month of april,
citizens, citizens can show their support for military children and
appreciation for their strength and sacrifices by wear. And purple,
which represents the blend, the blending of the colors of the five branches of the
armed forces. Now therefore, mayor ralph rodriguez,
mayor of the city of shirts, all upon all citizens of the city of shirts,
and upon all patriotic, civic and educational organizations
to observe the month of april, 2026 to be the month of
the military child. And april 7th, 2026 as purple
up for military kids day. Military kids are essential members
of our community who deserve recognition for their strength
and sacrifice.
I know we have some other military kids out there, aren't we? Don't we? Come on up. You
got some? Come on. No, come on. .
next on the agenda is employee introduction neighborhood services.
hello, I'm lisa lockin, neighborhood services manager and
I'm here to introduce our newest code enforcement officer steven miller.
steve grew up in san antonio and he graduated from utsa.
he has a degree in environmental science.
he is a certified nursery professional, and he
worked for rainbow gardens in san antonio. He
also worked for the texas a and m agri agrilife extension, where
he assessed and mapped all of the trees and shrubs on
randolph air force base. He and his wife live in shirts
and they enjoy outdoor activities. Thanks
y'all. Thank you.
welcome to the church family, steven. We look forward to seeing what you're gonna,
the wonderful things you'll be doing for the city. So thank you.
next we have public works.
good evening counsel. We have, uh, david started in
february. Uh, some of the, he started in
drainage, now transferred to the water department, but he has been an
asset to the, uh, drainage department at the time that he was there. Uh, some of his favorite hobbies,
hunting and fishing. He's also a pool player. He will be, uh,
in vegas. Vegas for the a pa championship in april. Yeah.
oh, wow. Quite a pool player. Uh,
some of his, uh, favorite books and movies, tv show, anything, marvel, so he,
big time. Other than that, we have, uh, we have victor,
mr. Victor guerrero started with us in february as well. He is in the drainage department
still there. Uh, he is from
guam. Uh, favorite places to visit would be
japan and, uh, his favorite movies, tv shows are tokyo drift,
all the fast and furious movies. Nice. Thank you very
much. Anything you guys would like to say? Opportunity.
as long as long as y'all allow me. Well, victor and david, welcome
to the church family and we look, uh, forward to having y'all for a long time.
thank y'all.
next on the agenda, we have presentations. Uh, we have an employee
utility bill. Uh,
no, scratch it out.
is utility billing here? I don't wanna miss him.
nope. Okay. Next we have, uh, presentations
and we're gonna be celebrating somebody who's getting a 25 year tenure milestone
service pen. So at this time I'll call up, uh,
our city manager, steve williams.
all right. Can I have mac milan song come on up.
so y'all have heard me do these presentations before. This is one of
my favorite things to do because we get to celebrate
the dedication to service to our community and to their craft
of our employees. As you know, we do tenure recognitions
for our employees. We'd start it one year. We do five years, 10 years,
15, and then 20 and above we do in council. So
we bring 'em up here and roast 'em a little bit. No, I mean, celebrate them
and, and have a good time with them. But really it's something to be celebrated in,
something that we're really proud of our employees. And I
want to, you know, before I have a little thing I wanna read, it's a little bio,
but before we do that, we would like to play a fun little game here.
so it's called 25 years ago, in december of 2000,
what was going on? Well, can we have that
up? There we go. On the tech scene,
playstation two was released. Did you have one of those? No.
and, uh, dvds were booming and they were majorly
popular. Remember that blockbuster red box, those kinds of things.
okay. There was no social media.
myspace and, and facebook. They were still three
or four years away. And then outrageous accessories.
tinted wraparound sunglasses. Do you have some of those? The terminator kind? No,
no. And the beginning of the ugg boot craze.
now I have seen some pictures. I think you were wearing those and
in the box office, how the grinch stole christmas and cast away were the top movies,
both great films. So, but more importantly,
fired. Lieutenant mac milon joined the
shirts fired
one of them. I think the one in the middle might be from glamour shots.
yeah, that was a good one. Very good. But macel, 20
years of service. He started with the shirtz fire department in december of
2000. And he is currently a lieutenant at fire station two
with a crew of up to six people. And he runs an
engine or platform. He,
um, is also a part of the tif fmis program and has
been able to, uh, be on many state deployments starting as early 2010. And
what that means is, is when we have a a disaster somewhere else in the
state, this team comes together and they fight those fires and take care of
that. So that's a very important thing and contribution that our department does statewide.
and mac especially, he was born in the swamps of louisiana
in the summer of 1978. He moved to texas when he was a young boy.
grew up in bull verde and graduated from smith smithson
valley high school. What's the mascot?
rangers. Rangers. Okay. There you go. After high school, he worked for
cps electric in san antonio for two years before he started
fire school. And then after fire school, worked part-time for the hollywood
park and bull, bull verde fire departments, but then started
full-time at shirts after that. He lives in adkins where he
purchased property around 20 years ago. And his wife laura.
laura, there she is. Okay. Uh, and, and he have been married for
19 years and had two great children. Hailey 28, who
is a school teacher. Where's hailey? Oh, there's hailey. A school teacher
at free height elementary and mason 18 attends
clements high school. Go bus. Go bus. There you go.
they love the coast and have built a house in rockport a couple years ago. Love to travel
and have been fortunate to experience many places and likes fishing,
hunting and anything to do out store outdoors. So congratulations
on 25 years, sir.
well, all I can say is, uh,
that's about right. . Well, where did 25 years ago, it
flies by. So I'm looking forward to the next five and that'll probably be it for me.
so, um, man, to, to the city, it's been great working
here. I started when there was three or four of us and now
we're, where are we at 17 a shift I think, if I'm doing that
math right. So it's been pretty great seeing the city, uh, you know, come to fruition
in the way it is today, um, to sea shift. A bunch of great guys I've worked
with for a long time. Um, a lot of memories.
yeah, probably some of those we can't say here. So, um,
to my wife and kids, thank you for the support my family, uh, y'all
mean the world. I love you. So thank you.
good. This says five years on it, so you gotta do 25 more
. Okay, so
also one more thing. Oh, okay.
so this the city manager's coin, and when you do something outstanding, you get a
city manager's coin. And 25 years of dedicated service,
in my opinion is outstanding. So thank you so much.
thank you.
that's crazy. Thanks dude.
okay, next we have, uh, 2026, uh, bond for
shorts university, isd uh, we have superintendent paige
maloney.
let's see if we can,
can I look at this? Yes. Oh, there you go. Alright.
alright. Thank you. Uh, uh, mayor rodriguez, city manager williams
and council members, first of all, um, as a citizen, thank you for
everything you do. What? Oh yes. Thank you.
um, thank you for everything that you do. Um, and on behalf of myself and
the board of trustees for seuc, thank you for everything you do and thank you for the opportunity
to come talk with you this evening. Uh, just really, really quickly, we have called
bond 20 22 26. As you know, in your roles, uh,
that allows us to, a bond election allows us to borrow money, um, for school
construction. Uh, the funds are repaid over time by living that tax
rate every year to pay the principal and interest. It's similar to a home mortgage.
and why do you have to do a bond election? The state doesn't provide those
for those large facility projects. So we have called an
election for may 2nd. We have three different propositions. The last time we did a
bond in 2016, there was one proposition, but legislation now has,
uh, called for us, um, to, you have to put
things in the categories, and that's what we have done. And we'll talk a little bit about that.
prop a is the largest, it really is those, uh, looking
at our facilities and looking at the infrastructure and the replacements that are needed.
campus, uh, security systems, uh, upgrading some classroom and
learning spaces. And, uh, in the areas of, of physical education
and play areas, uh, across the district, our, our
prop b is our stadium facility. If you ha are putting a stadium on the bond
and it has over a thousand capacity seating, it has to go on its own proposition
so that this is for our stadium to expand the capacity. You've probably seen those bleachers
that we pull in every single year and rent for the largely attended
games. Uh, so this would expand the, the capacity upgrade, our safety
and security and concessions, uh, restrooms, lighting, sound systems.
if you've been to a game, you know how that's kind of hit or miss. And, uh,
the scoreboard would also, uh, over a thousand capacity seating at the steel,
uh, stadium in the corbet junior high, uh, artificial to turf at both of those places.
uh, prop c is technology devices for, um,
staff and students. Of course, those would not be financed for more than the
life of the asset. So five years on finance for that.
you guys know that we have two sides of our tax rate, our maintenance and operations. And our
interest in sinking interest in seeking is what we're talking about here. As you,
uh, uh, add add debt, you have to levy a tax rate to, to
be able to do that. But when you combine those tax rates together, you get
one school tax rate. Our tax, uh, school tax rate history
over the past five years, uh, has decreased. And that's been
both, uh, both because of the state. Everything that that has
happened with, with compression, thank you to the state of texas. But then also our board being
deliberate and mindful, um, to manage that tax rate.
the ballot language, of course, says this is a property tax increase. We don't
anticipate a tax rate increase, uh, next year. Uh, but
you know, if you're extending debt, you're, uh, you have to, it is a tax
increase over time. But again, thank you to the state of texas. On our
school taxes, we've had, uh, homestead exemptions that have significantly lowered
the taxable value at, at the school level home over over 65.
if you have not, um, if, if home over service 65 have
not had significant improvements to their home, um, there, there
would not be a tax increase. And all of our information
is on our bond website. I promised I would not go over three minutes.
uh, value your time very, very much, but just so appreciative of
being able to come before you tonight. Thank
you.
and I think we have some flyers, we'll leave them or we pass them out. Okay.
thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Uh,
moving on to presentation of church police department 2025
annual report presentation, chief lawry.
good evening, mayor council, city manager, steve williams. Uh,
I'm jim meyer, your police chief. I just wanted to spend a few minutes with you and present to you
the first annual, uh, annual report for the church police department.
this is a product that we will be releasing in the future in the march of the proceeding
years. I think it's a product that highlights the great work that the men
and women of this department does and how we're moving forward being a professional and progressive
police department. And I just wanted to go over a few items. We will also be providing
each council member two to four copies, hard copies. Those shall be in next week.
you're free to share. And if you need an additional one after that, we have already posted it
this afternoon on our facebook and social media pages. So it's out there for
the public. And again, it's in our effort to be transparent with the, uh, community that we
serve. So
starts off with a, a message just from the chief. We also have a,
a, our command staff to send there and the message from the chief. And then we also have a message
from our mayor. We also have a message from our city manager. And
as we progress through there, as we have our organizational chart so that everybody is quite familiar
w with the organization and, and where our personnel are.
some things I'd like to highlight here on this page is the number of officers we have. So in
2024, we were authorized 73. We have 74 authorized in
2025, we had 68 officers hired in, uh,
2024. We have 66 at the end of december.
and at the end of this presentation, we'll show you why we went down. We had, uh, five
retirements over this year. Uh, we currently have hired three additional
officers since january. Those numbers will go up slightly. And
then also it breaks down the demographics of the department from our, our races. And our,
and our sec.
we had, uh, our neighbors is the numbers that we report. And again, as we
were, uh, mentioning in several meetings before, we were rated as the safest
city in the san antonio metroplex in the, uh, ninth safest
in the state of texas, the 87th in the nation. But this is
the, the metrics that they use for that also. So if you look at that, we,
we compare 24 to 25. And as we move forward, we're gonna try to have a three year trend.
and we just got to the point where we can start, uh, accessing this data and,
uh, present it to the our community members.
this page here, we want to be, again, transparent. It talks about our use of
force and when we've used them. We've also talked about use of force and our racial profile
and report that I presented to you back in, in march.
we break down into our bureaus. We have our field operations bureau, which is commanded
by, uh, assistant chief waller
within our uniform services bureau there. We also have a canine,
we have a swat team. We work with the alamo area swat team.
we're part of that program with 11 other agencies. We have a field training program.
we have our operations support bureau, which is ran by assistant chief, uh, daniel roman.
within that, uh, we have a cid division. So last year we filed 269
cases for prosecution. Just as a highlight for the 24 and 25
numbers. Real quick, our numbers seem to be going up. I think we are
going to see that go up just a little bit more as we continue to come out of the co era.
so in 2024, we had 154 cases filed for prosecution.
in 2025, we had 269. And you can see the numbers. We
went up to 1006 cases assigned from 7 66 for the previous
year. And we have some information on, on our warrants. Also,
a crime victims liaison. As you saw tonight, there were many programs that we're involved in.
we work with a multidisciplinary team approach. As you see that we're
all working together, whether we're a non-governmental organization, whether we're a child advocacy
center, law enforcement, faith-based, it comes together as a community to
help us address many of these egregious crimes. But our crime
victims liaison is not only mandated by law, but we have a very effective
one as you can see, the the victims they've served and the advocacy, uh,
services that we've provided to, to many members of our community. We
also have, uh, leveraged our technology where we
currently have a drone that we not only use for calls for service
as a force multiplier from a missing person to answer an alarm call,
to check a roof without having a fire department come out, provide a ladder. We also are
looking at exploring the possibilities of a dfr, which is a drone
first responder where we can have a drone on site within 30 to 60
seconds after a call is received. And what we're finding out, and the
interesting data on that is they're actually clearing 30% of the calls
by a drone before an officer actually get on call. So we're saving that time and, and
our officers can stay in their beats or
communications. We talked about, uh, dispatch earlier, they were, they were recognized
as you see, 28,000 992 9 1 1 calls. You
know, what's unique about our dispatch? I I just want to make sure we all understand the perspective.
they're not serving a city of 44, 40 5,000. They're
actually serving a city of 80 to a hundred thousand, in fact, that 'cause we
dispatch for the city of llo. And our ems also provides service
to a a 250 square mile area. And it's all done
by the, uh, 12 dispatchers, the four supervisors and one dispatch manager. I
think they're do an awesome job.
our records unit and our traffic unit, we talked about in our
racial profiling. We're not looking for the citations. We're looking for the, the quality,
uh, traffic stop. Not a quantity for the numbers. And, and, uh,
I think there is a strict, a strict and a direct line correlation
between the number of traffic stops you make. And I'm not saying citations, traffic
stops with our crime. And I think that's why our numbers have gone down in some,
some of our crime is because of the effectiveness, we have been able to get our,
our traffic stops back up in a designated crime area.
we have a community projects unit and in our school resource officers unit,
we work hand in hand with scuc. We currently, uh,
are under a contract or an mou with them because of house bill three, we have to have an armed
officer at all schools. They essentially are paying for 83 to 84%
of our officers salary 10 months out of the year. So we have 10
officers and two sergeants assigned, uh, to our sro unit
professional standards division. Some people will most commonly know this as,
uh, their biggest part of that is our internal affairs, but they also were responsible
for our training and our quartermaster, also our animal control
services, which was recognized tonight. Seeing animal services, the numbers there,
we talk about their, you can see that when you read the the document.
we do our own internal training and we do seek outside training. It just highlights
the number of hours. Again, we were mandated, uh, for alert level one
training for, that's your active shooting training and alert updates, which is required by law.
our community engagement, we had 3,242 hours,
uh, given back to this community from our citizens police academy
alumni. If you just used a $15 an hour figure for that service,
we're, we're looking at 48 to $50,000 that they've returned back to us
for the work that they do. And we have an annual review and community
of our community events from blue santa child, pa, passenger safety youth police
academy, national night out, neighborhood watch, citizens police academy,
and our car fit program. Last, uh, page we
get to is going to be our employee department for our recognition, our annual awards, nine
annual awards, our service awards, and then again, our retirees
and our promotions that we had throughout the last year.
and then we just wanna thank our community members and our council and mayor for
the support we get and from, uh, city manager. And again, this is
a product that we will continue to work on and develop. And I'd be remiss without
saying that many people work together to make
this product come to life and to fruition. However, it,
I need to recognize assistant chief, uh, elliot waller and our public
affairs, who actually played a significant part in this and
actually did more than their fair share of the work. So I just wanna say thank you for them and to see
if y'all had any questions on this product.
no questions. Thank you very much, chief lare for, for the fine work that your men
and women are doing. Thank you, sir. Y'all have a great evening.
moving on to city events and announcements. Announcements of
upcoming city events. Sarah. Thank you mayor.
so a couple things for tonight. On monday, april 13th, there will be a special
council meeting to canvas the special election for place six and ordering
a runoff. That'll be at 6:00 pm here in the council chambers saturday, april 18th.
there's a couple of events going on to note. First, love where you
live, um, is gonna be from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm you meet up at
the north center. The area is gonna be the north cliff area that they're going to be, um, serving
projects there. And you can pre-register on their, their website or you can
register onsite the day of. Also, that day in the morning is gonna
be the together we play event. This is the partnership with the parks and the library
at the community play scape. And that is starting at 10:00 am to noon. And
then finally our next meeting will be on tuesday, april 21st here at
6:00 pm in the council chambers. Thank you.
thank you for those announcements. Moving on to announcements and recognitions
by the city manager, steve williams. Thank you, mayor. We had five
promotions this month. So we had, sean hilla was promoted from
e em, excuse me, from emt to ems
paramedic and levi flickering was
promoted from paramedic to mih paramedic. And in the water
department we had jeremy jacoby. Jacobe was promoted from
park maintenance tech to public works slash wastewater
operator trainee. And then in the police department, dallas hopper
promoted from sergeant to lieutenant and henry nert
promoted from police officer to sergeant. So we're really proud of all of those folks from
moving up in the world and our organization. And then lastly,
the on may 15th at 10:30 am
we will be dedicating the conference room in the city council chambers
to councilman tim, tim brown, who passed late last year.
and we will make that dedication. And then following that at 1245 will be the interment
of tim and nancy over at fort sam. There'll be more details
coming soon, uh, but just wanted to get that out there so you
guys could put it on your calendars. And that's all I have. Thank you.
okay, thank you for that. Uh, the only announcements that I had is we did a proclamation,
uh, this past friday, uh, for pesto pluma,
uh, which is hassan emilio kaban lare. Graduated
from sammy clemons, who's, uh, uh, he's
a global, uh, musician when it comes to the hispanic industry.
and, um, so he played at the frost bank center, uh, friday night, and he
had played at, at uh, toyota, at the toyota center
on thursday night in houston. And it's amazing the impact that he's
had on the students here at, uh, not just at, uh,
santa clemons, but throughout the church, cillo, isd independent school
district. So we definitely thank him for coming out and spending time
with, uh, the city of church and also with, uh, church cisd
and, and also with the, the buffaloes out there on
friday. So, and then, um, also took a tour of the
ccma plant, um, yesterday. Uh, and that was a good tour.
uh, is great to see the expansion that they're having to be able
to keep up with the growth in our community, uh, and the great things that
they're doing. So that's all I have. Moving on
to hearing of residents. This time is set aside
for any person who wishes to address the city council. Each person should fill out
the speaker's register prior to the meeting. Presentation should be limited
to no more than three minutes. All remarks should be addressed to the council as
a body and not to any individual member thereof, any person making
any personal impertinent or slanderous remarks. While addressing the council may
be requested to leave the meeting, all handouts and or usb devices
must be submitted to the city secretary no later than noon on monday.
proceeding the meetings. Handouts will be provided to each council member prior
to the start of the meeting by the city secretary. All usb devices
will be vetted by the city it staff to ensure city property is protected
from malware.
when you come up, uh, to speak, if you'll please state your name and your address.
uh, we're gonna start out with, uh, jordan barnes.
good evening mayor and council. My name is jordan barnes. I'm a student at samuel
clemens high school and I live at 4 6 1 6 silverton. I'm here tonight because
this bond directly impacts students like me and students'. Voices are important
at clemens, I'm involved in both fine arts and cte. I'm on the dance team
and I'm also a part of ffa officers. And both through dance, I spend
a lot of time at the stadium for practices, football games and performances. It's a
big part of how we represent our school and our community. Being there, you can see
how important this, that space is, but also that it's heavily used and needs updates
better to better support students. The stadium desperately needs
a working scoreboard through ffa. I'm also seeing how important
the toby connor agriculture barn is. It's where students learn responsibility,
leadership, and real world skills. Having updated equipment and spaces
matters, especially as cte programs continue to grow and prepare
students for ag for future careers. At clemens, I also
see everyday things that affect students. Our cafeteria is small for the number of students we
have. There are times where students are sitting on the floor because there isn't enough seating.
expanding that space would make a big difference in our daily experiences and
in situations where we need to be inside. I've been in suuc schools for
a long time. I went to wat elementary from 2015 2019, and I even
then I remember the playground needing updates. It's been years since I was there.
and those same spaces are still being used by younger students today. This bone
touches a lot of areas from classrooms and equipment to spaces where
students learn, perform, and spend their day. It's about keeping up with what students
need. Now as a student, I can say these things matter more than people may realize.
the impact, how we learn, how we participate, and how we experience school every
day. I'm here today to encourage our shirts community to show up
and vote on may 2nd. Voting is important because it's how our community
has a voice and decision to affect students and schools. And while you're
there, please don't forget to vote for the suc bond. Students across our district
are counting on the community to support the spaces and programs that help us grow and
secede. Thank you for your time.
next we have jay starr.
good evening mayor. Council members, city manager. My name's jay starr.
I live at, uh, 9 8 3 5 mo house drive. I'd like to talk to you tonight
about, uh, frontier waste solutions and the issues
that are going on. Back in april of last year, the
city council voted, uh, five to one to award,
uh, frontier waste services, the contract. And with
a 25% increase is what was briefed. However, it comes out to be a little bit
more, we'll get into that later. And on one july, or I'm sorry, yeah,
one july. The contract actually started with frontier.
since then, the 33% increase that was actually,
uh, incurred went from $14 and
46 cents to $19 and 20 cents with less services
from frontier waste solutions. We no longer have, um,
a construction material as they call it. Uh,
republic called it fencing material or little lumber. Uh, we
no longer are able to do that, but yet we're still paying for a bulk
fee. Um, we also do
not have in there the
fall and spring cleanup, which a lot of homeowners would go and take
material out to do, uh, spring cleanup and beautify the
area. We no longer have those services with this new contract.
the other issue is many, uh, residents in my area,
they are having and complaining about frontier missing
pickups of either trash or recycle.
uh, inconsistency, there's been as late as 6:00 pm
that frontiers running around picking up trash and then leaving
the garbage cans in the middle of the street or knocked over. I
emailed the city, uh, secretary my slides
and I believe she's, uh, sent those out to you. There are some pictures out
there for you guys to look at, um, in accordance
with the shirt. City ordinance 13 dash h
dash 51, section five or 54 dash 22
g. You're supposed to maintain all structures including
fences, walls, in safe and, um,
structurally sound good repair. However, when a resident wants
to go out and replace their fence, there's no place to take this
fencing material. Now my neighbor, we replaced his fence
when I did mine. I called the city and had it all stacked up outside.
they came in and got it. Now we stacked up all that.
it didn't get picked up. I called the city and asked, and they referred me
to frontier where I called and I got, that's not my problem.
okay, so what's the solution? What I'm asking the city to do
is to conduct a survey of residents to see where we're at
and to provide a solution for us to dump this material.
and if you have any questions, I'm available later on. Thank you.
okay, next we have kate. I don't want to butcher
the last name. Kate, what's your, kate, what's your last name? I'm
kate dearman lael and I'm in the core, um, leadership class with
the chamber. So we're just here to say thank you for hosting us and, um,
a few months ago was really, um, eye opening. I'm very thankful for the time and that your
team that came and supported us through that, uh, through our class. So thank you so
much and have a good evening. Thank you.
and then next we have maggie tittering.
good evening counsel. Maggie tittering, 1730 shirtz parkway, your chamber
of commerce president. Uh, a few updates. We have a groundbreaking
for gringos on may 21st. Woo, another restaurant around in the
shirts area at 2:00 pm and we are working with portillos. Um, they
have a tentative ribbon cutting sometime in may. We've got a few factors, nothing too serious,
but as soon as we find out when that is, we will let you all know. Um,
I on the other hand, uh, do have kudos to give to frontier waste solutions.
um, they're once again helping us out with leadership core. As you just heard,
one of our students and, uh, going to austin each year for
leadership core is a little bit expensive when you're transporting 15
students. Uh, you know, just the, the food, the, the tours that
we arrange. And so once again, they have stepped forward and that they are going to support
that. We're very grateful for their support on this. It's helping us to,
uh, get growing leaders in our area. These are business owners. These
are a municipality, uh, staff members. And so just wanted to,
you know, just thank chris cox and frontier waste solutions for helping us continue this
very worthy program. Um, I wanted to take the rest of my time to support
this bond. Uh, the presentation that was just presented,
I was part of the ccac committee that toured, um, I was part
of the 75. We toured these facilities and, uh, to
see when I used to go to school, you know, way back when I went through
shirts, elementary and o henry when there was o henry and clemens high school
buffs. But to see some of the areas that I still
recognize that are in the same state, that that's, that's a little scary.
and the fact that our children are going to these schools now, school district,
very transparent on their website. When you go there, you can see the demographics. I've
been part of this committee since its inception in 2013.
and these are not, we wish we could have or these little
extra things. They have to have these, this bond has to pass. The 295 million
was whittled down from 500 million in things that we need for
this school district. Uh, somebody could say, oh, stadium, that's fluff. No, it's not. It's
it's safety measures. It's the, uh, stadium seating, it's
lighting, but most especially the brunt of that 230 million, I mean,
hvac systems that are past their time of life need to be replaced. And we all know what it is
here in texas in summer, that's hot, that's really hot. Just think of your child
or your grandchild being in there without air conditioning. And you know, you
can just imagine how that is. So they have four town hall meetings that are going on
where they're actually at the facility. So you can go to clemens, you can go to adobe,
I believe there's one at steel. Um, I think there's two at clemens. Ones is
gonna hit the stadium so that the people can actually see what they're talking about. But please be
informed because I know there's a lot of chatter on facebook and yes, I can understand
there's concern about the monies and stuff, but get the facts that
are out there, there are facts. And again, it's just, it's
eye-opening. And to actually take the tour and see what is needed.
it's, it's astounding. So, uh, again, the, uh, the dates of
the town halls are on the school site. Uh, if you all wanna know when those are,
and again, this, this is about making the best opportunities for our children
and we really need to be looking out for them. So please go out and vote and support this bond.
thank you.
thank you. Next we have herman arlow,
uh, mayor city council. Thank you. Uh, I'd
like to bring to y'all's attentions the, uh, road street conditions out in southern shirts.
can you state your name and and address, please? Oh, I'm sorry. Uh,
1 1 5 6 4. Where seguin road.
uh, anyway, the, uh,
mainly I'm concerned about the uncontrolled through
truck traffic, uh, from like I 10 and sometimes from
six fm 1604. Anytime
anything happens on either one. Uh, drivers shortcut
through the, through these areas. Great town, west again, et cetera.
the cars are one thing, but the, uh, trucks, you know, tractor trailers over the
road, oversized, there was hazard materials coming
through there. You know, we're talking 80,000 pound loads, uh,
vehicles, you know, that's totally different. Uh, those streets out there
aren't, they may be designed, but they're not built up to those
standards. Uh, you know, I've been mentioning
this stuff for probably couple years or if not three or four, I
don't know. Anyway, uh, since the fall of
20 20 24, the construction onto I
10, it's been a nightmare. 'cause anytime they do anything out there to
divert one lane or two lanes of traffic, you
know, the traffic starts coming through. Whatever great
town road, uh, where's sein trainer, hale, uh,
you know, and like I said, you know, it's one thing with the cars, but that truck traffic,
you know, and the thing is 15 eighteens right there, you know, I don't know why
they don't use it. Uh,
you know, that was because of there was a tanker turned over out there on
it and westbound and they had that whole interstate shut down for
like two days, 48 hours. Uh, police department at that particular
time wouldn't do anything about it. I mean, no temporary truck detour
signs or nothing. Uh, you know, so all that traffic
was coming through there and sure enough come
like, uh, new year's eve on 1231,
you know, 2024, there was a water leak there
developed, uh, you know, it was like a month later, but I know it developed
because all that truck traffic going across there at fall road and where seguin,
yeah, they fixed it like three days later and then it took another six months for,
uh, the actual road. Good. The street getting totally repaired.
uh, um, you know, there's
oh, I'm sorry here. The truck, truck, any closure out there on
the interstate, you know, even now the stuff they're doing over in
guadalupe county, they're coming down zigzagging through,
uh, wild road, uh, from, oh, what's
that? Uh, anyway, the other road there
from, uh, out of uh, guadalupe county and
you know, these trucks are just driving around lost because, you know, they're either
following the car gps or whatever.
but anyway, it'd be great if y'all could put up some
no through truck signs out there, all those roads, you know,
sine great town, uh, trainer hill.
appreciate. Thank you. Thank you.
and last we have, uh, amanda viegas.
hello, uh, my name is amanda viegas. I am located at 91 20
east fm 1518. I am here on behalf of leadership
core class of 2026. Um, that was all I
had planned to say, but as I've sat here and I was able to see the presentation
of the bond that, uh, was proposed today
in leadership core, we go over various different topics
and, uh, one of those topics was education. And we were able to
get a tour, um, by s-c-u-c-I-s-c. And during that
tour I was able to see the importance of these bonds.
and I just strongly encourage counsel to take it into consideration. Thank you for
your time. Thank you.
and that will end the hearing of residence. Uh, moving
on to the consent agenda items. The consent agenda is
considered self-explanatory and will be enacted by the council with one motion.
there will be no separate discussion of these items unless they're removed from the consent
agenda. Upon, uh, the request of the mayor or council member.
council members, do we have any items that you would like removed from the consent agenda?
having none. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved.
second. Okay. I have a motion made by council member
hayward second by council member watson, can I get everybody to cast the votes?
can I get the votes published please?
having seven yays, no nays. Motion passes.
moving on to discussion action. Action items on item 10,
resolution 26 dash r dash 0 3 7
authorizing the purchase and installation of 26 hvac
systems. From, from way mechanical.
uh, mr. James. Oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Hardy leaving.
uh, council members mayor rodriguez. Mr. Williams, my name's chad lansbury. I'm the facilities
maintenance superintendent for the city of shirts. Right now there are 26 hvac systems
in the city of shirts that are nearing the end of their life expectancy. There are nine systems
in the library, 11 at the rec center, five at city hall, and
one in the council chambers building. And they all need to be replaced before they end up failing.
city hall is also in need of work that needs to be done to build, bring the building up to
current building codes, uh, requirements. We initially plan to procure these
services using a request for bids. After reviewing purchasing cooperatives, we found that
many of the major companies likely to bid on the project are members of cooperatives
purchases, uh, purchases under the cooperative programs meet the requirements under
the texas local government purchasing code. The decision was made to get quotes
for the work through the purchasing cooperatives with the belief this would ensure several firms
bid on the work and the city received the best pricing. The decision was made to get pricing
for the entirety of the work to achieve eec economies of scale. Wayne
mechanical, a tips purchasing cooperative vendor was selected as, as their price
was more than $150,000 less than the next lowest priced vendor.
do you have any questions from any council members?
having none. Can I get a motion? So moved.
second. Okay, we have a motion to
approve item 10 by council member hayward. Seconded by council member
watson. Can I get all council to cast the votes?
can I get the votes published
having seven yays? No nays. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you very much.
item number 11 will be enclo session. The city council will meet in closed
session pursuant to section 5 51 dash 0 7, 1
of the state government code. The city of church will consult enclo session
with its attorney to receive legal advice regarding pending or contemplating
litigation, a settlement offer or a matter in which the duty of the attorney
to the governmental body, uh, under the texas disciplinary rules
of professional conduct of the state bar of the texas, uh, clearly
conflicts with this chapter to include the unauthorized use of city
property. And for item number 12,
we'll be enclosed session for item number 12 as well. So, and that'll be
the city council will meet enclo session in accordance with section 5 5 1
0.072 texas government code deliberation regarding
the purchase sale exchange lease or value or value of water
lease rights. So we'll be going to executive session at seven 17.
alright, we're gonna go ahead and come out of executive session on items
11 and 12 with no action taken. Executive
session at eight 16,
so on. So there will be no action items, uh, no
action taken on items 13 and 14 and
there's no discussion to occur on items 15, 16, 17, and
18. So we'll move, uh, request and announcements.
so request by mayor and council members for updates or information from staff.
anybody would, would anybody would like any updates from the staff?
okay. Having none request by mayor and council members that items or presentations
be placed on future city council agendas.
um, I have a few. Um, I'd like to request
a staff work session on items that have come up on, uh,
darkness and lack of lights along church parkway leading up to the church, elementary
school. I'd also would like us to look at
darkness and lack of lighting on green valley road, uh, on
green valley and 3 0 0 9.
and I would also like to bring up
a request, a staff work session on sidewalks
along 1103 from davenport middle school to age 35.
and the last thing I would like to do is I'd like to see about conducting a survey,
uh, of, of the residents for frontier waste solutions,
uh, to find out, um, if they're happy with the services and to find out
if there's anything that we can do to improve the services to the residents.
so
is any other council members have any other items they'd like to add?
all right, having none. Um, this meeting's adjourned
at eight 18. No wait.