[0:03] Okay, welcome everybody. Uh, today's tuesday, april 7th, 2026.
[0:07] we'll go ahead and get this regular council meeting. Uh, call to order.
[0:13] I appreciate the full house that we have tonight. Thank y'all for coming out.
[0:17] we're gonna go ahead and start with opening prayer and pledge of allegiance to the flags of the
[0:21] united states and the state of texas by council member sheridan.
[0:27] everybody please stand.
[0:40] alright, heavenly father, we come before you this evening with gratitude
[0:45] for the opportunity, opportunity to serve our community. We thank you for
[0:49] the city of churchs, for its people, its families, and the trust
[0:53] placed in us as stewards of this city. Grant us wisdom
[0:57] in our decisions, in clarity, in our discussions, and
[1:01] unity in our purpose. Help us lead with integrity,
[1:06] fairness, and humility. Always seeking what is right and just
[1:10] for all residents. Guide our words so they bring understanding,
[1:15] not division. Strengthen our commitment to serve with transparency and
[1:19] accountability. And remind us that our responsibility is not only
[1:23] to lead, but to listen. We ask for your protection
[1:28] over our first responders, city staff, and our armed forces.
[1:33] those who serve and sacrifice to protect our freedoms, both at
[1:37] home and abroad. May our actions tonight reflect thoughtful leadership
[1:41] and a genuine desire to improve the lives of those we serve.
[1:45] in your name we pray, amen. Amen
[1:52] to the flag of the united states of america to the
[1:56] republic for which it stands. One nation under god in one
[2:01] liberty.
[2:06] honor the texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the texas
[2:10] one state under god, one and indivisible,
[2:15] texas.
[2:21] okay, moving on to special announcements. Um,
[2:25] so the how baldwin scholarship students attending for the how baldwin scholarship
[2:30] need to sign in on the sheet located at the back of the podium.
[2:35] if you're watching remotely, please email sarah gonzalez at
[2:39] sgonzalez@shirtz.com to virtually sign in. Please
[2:43] direct any questions to ms. Gonzalez. We're
[2:47] gonna go ahead and move forward with proclamations, uh, national crime
[2:51] victims rights week april 19th to 25th, 2026.
[2:57] council member watson,
[3:05] the crimes victims
[3:19] national crime victims rights week, april 19th to
[3:23] 25th of 2026. Whereas millions of
[3:28] americans and victims of crime each year and these crimes also
[3:32] affect members, families, neighbors,
[3:36] and coworkers. And whereas crimes can lead a lasting emotional,
[3:41] physical, and financial impact on the people of all ages and the abilities
[3:45] of all economics, racial and social backgrounds.
[3:52] whereas 1984 crimes
[3:56] victims fund was established by the victims in the crime
[4:00] act voca to provide a permanent source of support
[4:05] to crime victim services and compensation through fines, penalties
[4:09] paid by a convicted federal offenders. And whereas by ensuring
[4:13] the federal offenders crime, fines, penalties, and deposits
[4:18] into the crime victims funds, congress affirmed that those comments crime,
[4:23] those who committed crimes should be accountable and for the impact of their actions.
[4:27] and whereas the victim's assistance community faces new challenges
[4:32] to reach and serve all victims, including victims of newly recognized crimes.
[4:36] and whereas now it is time to embrace and emphasize on learning that
[4:41] works and reaches, um, underserved victims and
[4:45] meetings victims needs. Whereas
[4:49] national crime victims right week provides the opportunity to celebrate energy,
[4:53] creative creativity and commitment that launches
[4:57] the victim's rights. Movement inspires progress and continues to
[5:02] advance the cause of the justice of the crimes victims. Whereas
[5:06] advocates that are joining forces with the victims' services provides
[5:11] criminal justice agencies and concerned citizens throughout the city of shirtz. And
[5:15] american raised awareness of victims' rights and observed
[5:19] national crime victims rights week. Therefore, it's be resolved.
[5:24] ralph rodriguez, mayor of city of shirtz, hereby proclaims
[5:28] the week of april 19th through the 25th, 2026
[5:32] as national crimes victims, right was week. Thank you.
[5:43] nobody's gonna say, um, pictures. I don't have any pictures.
[6:27] our next proclamation will be child abuse prevention and
[6:31] awareness month april, 2026, council member paul macaluso.
[7:00] okay. Child abuse prevention and awareness month for april, 2026.
[7:05] whereas more than 33,249 cases
[7:09] of child abuse and neglect were confirmed in texas during fiscal year
[7:13] 2025. And whereas there were 163
[7:18] confirmed victims of child abuse and neglect in guadalupe county in fiscal
[7:22] year 2025. Whereas child abuse prevention is
[7:26] a community responsibility in finding solutions depends on involvement among
[7:30] all people. And whereas communities must make every effort to promote and
[7:35] support programs that benefit children and their families. Whereas effective
[7:39] child abuse prevention programs succeed because of partnerships among a
[7:43] variety of entities, including but not limited to schools, religious organizations,
[7:48] law enforcement agencies, child protective services, prosecution
[7:52] agencies, medical professionals, mental health professionals,
[7:56] sjrc, texas belong, the guadalupe county child welfare
[8:00] board, children's advocacy centers, court appointed special
[8:05] advocates, bikers against child abuse and other community-based nonprofit organizations.
[8:10] and whereas everyone in the community should become more aware of child abuse prevention
[8:15] and consider helping parents raise their children in safe nurturing environments,
[8:19] as well as supporting local professionals dedicated to meeting the needs of child abuse
[8:23] victims and therefore be it resolved that ralph rodriguez, mayor
[8:27] of the city of shirtz, hereby proclaims april, 2026 as child abuse
[8:31] prevention and awareness month in churchs texas and urges
[8:35] all citizens to work together to reduce child abuse and neglect and significantly
[8:39] improve the response of our community when child abuse occurs in the months
[8:43] and years ahead. I have someone that would like to,
[8:48] okay. Hi,
[8:52] my name is christie williams. I'm the executive director of the guadalupe county children's advocacy center.
[8:56] we have a primary office in the city of sein and a satellite office here in shirtz.
[9:01] uh, we serve 942 children last year in 2025,
[9:06] and we have pin well displays across the county to represent each one of those children.
[9:10] we work alongside our partners in law enforcement, child protective services, medical, mental
[9:15] health providers, casa belong. And we are
[9:19] trying to minimize the impact that the system has on children
[9:23] when there are allegations of child abuse and neglect. So our partners can refer
[9:27] children and families to us. We can conduct child friendly non
[9:31] interrogative, unbiased interviews of those children that can be used for the purpose of
[9:36] investigation and can later be used in court to support the child's statements. And
[9:40] we provide family advocacy services to help support and give resources to
[9:44] the supportive caregivers, the non-offending caregivers. We have counseling services
[9:48] that are completely free of charge and we have a large enough counseling staff to
[9:52] see 250 clients a week. So we are here,
[9:56] um, like I said, in the city of shirtz in our satellite office, and we are going to be working
[10:00] on making a more permanent location here in the city of shirtz. We're incredibly
[10:05] thankful for all of the support of shirts and, um, we
[10:09] have been doing this now for 22 years in this county, and the city of shez
[10:13] has supported us ever since our inception. So we're truly thankful.
[11:18] next proclamation is sexual assault awareness month april, 2026.
[11:23] council member guerrero
[11:46] now national sexual assault awareness and prevention month april, 2026.
[11:51] whereas every 68 seconds, another person in the united states is sexually assaulted
[11:55] and in texas, two in five women and one in five men are victims
[12:00] of sexual assault. In fiscal year 2025, thriving hearts
[12:04] crisis center rendered 552 services to 93
[12:08] survivors of sexual violence and provided 94 hospital accompanied
[12:13] for sexual assault exams. Whereas according to a study conducted by
[12:17] the texas association against sexual assault and the university of
[12:22] texas at austin institute on domestic violence and sexual assault, approximately
[12:26] 6.3 million texan texans have been
[12:31] sexually victimized, whereas most victims of sexually assaulted by
[12:35] someone they know and 90%, 91% of the victims did not
[12:39] report to police. Whereas it is appropriate to salute
[12:43] the more than 20 million victims of who survived sexual assault in
[12:48] the united states and efforts of victims, volunteers and
[12:52] professionals who combat sexual assault. Whereas national
[12:56] and community organizations and private sector supporters should
[13:00] be recognized and applauded for their work in promoting awareness about sexual
[13:04] assault. Whereas police for forensic workers
[13:08] and prosecutors should be recognized and commended for their
[13:12] hard work and innovative str strategies to increase the
[13:16] percentage of sexual assault cases that resolve in the prosecution
[13:21] and incarceration of the offenders. Whereas sexual violence
[13:25] is a persistent and persuasive problem in our society,
[13:29] one that requires attention year round. And in order to foster
[13:36] healthy communities, all citizens must support
[13:40] the effort to end sexual violence every month of the year. Whereas
[13:45] national and community organizations, businesses in private sector and the
[13:49] media are urged through national sexual assault, awareness
[13:53] of sexual violence and strategies to decrease the
[13:57] incidents of sexual assault. Now therefore, mayor of shirtz,
[14:02] mr. Ralph rodriguez
[14:07] claims the month of april, 2026 as national sexual assault
[14:12] awareness and prevention month signed mayor of shirts,
[14:16] mr. Ralph rodriguez,
[14:25] you wanna say something? Yeah, sure. Hello
[14:29] everyone. Uh, my name's brandon rossett. I'm the awareness and education coordinator at thriving hearts
[14:33] crisis center. Uh, we serve all of guadalupe county as well as gonzalez nixon and wilson county.
[14:38] we help survivors domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. When we receive these
[14:42] calls, we bring them into our facility. We help 'em with clothes, food, shelter, help 'em determine
[14:46] a game plan, what's their next steps of moving forward, um, with, with
[14:50] their child if they have her child. Um, also, uh, in the city of on april 29th
[14:55] from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm we'll be hosting our denim day event and it's our annual event
[14:59] to promote awareness for sexual assault. And if y'all have a chance to go out, we invite
[15:03] you. Thank you.
[15:51] the next proclamation we have is, uh, animal care and control appreciation
[15:55] week april 12th through the 18th 2026, council
[15:59] member hayward,
[16:14] I always get excited about being able to read the proclamation for the animal
[16:18] services department 'cause they do an amazing job with what they
[16:22] do and the resources they have and they're good with neonatal,
[16:26] and I'm just saying this off script, but neonatal and the branding of shirts,
[16:30] people want to learn from them and they're an amazing team and I just always
[16:34] have to brag on them when I can. So just wanted to let y'all know that before I started reading
[16:41] national animal care and control appreciation week april 12th through the 18th of 2026,
[16:46] whereas the national animal care and control association has designated
[16:50] the second full week in april as animal care and control appreciation week,
[16:55] whereas various federal, state, and local government officials throughout
[16:59] the country take time to recognize thank and commend all
[17:03] animal control officers and animal services staff for the dedicated service
[17:07] they provide to the citizens. Public safety and domestic animals livestock
[17:12] across the nation. Whereas the city of shirtz
[17:16] recognizes and commends the shirts animal service personnel who answers calls for
[17:20] assistance, capture roaming and potentially dangerous animals, rescue
[17:24] animals, investigate reports of animal abuse, educate
[17:28] pet owners about responsible care and mediate disputes between
[17:33] neighbors regarding pets. Whereas in 2025,
[17:37] the city of church's animal services responded to 2067 calls
[17:41] for service and handled 1,238 animals for intake.
[17:46] whereas the city of churchs has a staff that includes one animal service manager
[17:50] for animal service officers for kennel techs. And
[17:54] whereas in 2025, the church's animal services has developed partnerships
[17:58] with san antonio humane society and other animal rescue organizations for placement
[18:03] of scared and ill animals. Whereas in 2025,
[18:08] the church's animal services department continued their vision to have special unit
[18:12] where they can care for neonatal animals, both domestic and wild. They
[18:16] have an entire room in full service dedicated to the care of infant animals.
[18:21] and whereas animal control officers provide essential community functions, including
[18:25] the enforcement of animal control laws, protecting the public from diseases
[18:30] such as rabies and educating the public on proper care of the community's
[18:34] pets. Now therefore, I allison hayward on behalf of ralph ralph rodriguez,
[18:39] mayor of the city of church, proclaim national animal care and control week april 12th
[18:43] through the 18th 2026, we encourage all
[18:48] citizens to join me in thanking citi city animal
[18:52] services for their dedication and exceptional service they provide to all citizens
[18:56] and animals in our great community. Thank you so much for what you do. You
[19:00] have something to say.
[19:09] thank you so much for the recognition. Um, my name is megan, I'm the animal services
[19:13] manager. And, uh, animal control is a unique profession.
[19:17] uh, it's fun, but it's challenging, uh, but rewarding. And,
[19:21] um, our staff are some of the most passionate people I've
[19:25] ever known in my life. They put their heart and soul into serving our community and
[19:29] we just thank you so much for being such a supportive community and advocate for
[19:33] us all the time. Thank you
[19:40] again. Thank you guys for your great job. You're amazing.
[20:27] our next proclamation is gonna be national public safety telecommunicators
[20:31] week april 12th of the 18th, 2026. Council
[20:35] member westbrook
[20:52] national public safety telecommunications week april 12th through 18th. Whereas
[20:57] emergencies can occur at any time that require police, fire, or emergency
[21:01] medical services. And whereas an emergency occurs,
[21:05] a prompt response requires a prompt response of police officers,
[21:09] firefighters, and paramedics is critical to the protection of life and preservation
[21:14] of property. And whereas the safety of our police officers and firefighters
[21:18] is dependent upon the quality and accuracy of information obtained from citizens
[21:22] who telephone the city of church emergency communication center. And
[21:26] whereas public safety telecommunicators are the first and most
[21:31] critical contact our citizens have with emergency services. And whereas
[21:35] the public safety telecommunicators department has 16 employees,
[21:40] one communications manager with 21 and a half years of experience,
[21:44] four shift supervisors with a combined 57 years of experience
[21:49] and 11 communication officers with a combined total of 29 years
[21:53] of experience. Whereas the public safety telecommunicators for the city
[21:57] of shertz answered approximately 29,000 9 1 1 calls,
[22:01] 64,000 non-emergency lines answered. 1400
[22:06] texts to 9 1 1 answered. In 2025, there were 43,000
[22:10] calls for service, for shirts, pd, 25,000 calls for
[22:14] service for cillo pd, 5,000 calls for shirts for
[22:18] service, for shirts, fire, 4,000 calls for service, uh,
[22:22] for cilo fire, and 16,500 calls for service for
[22:26] shirts ems. Whereas public safety telecommunicators are
[22:30] the single vital link for our police officers and firefighters
[22:34] by monitoring their activities, by radio, providing them information and
[22:39] ensuring their safety. And whereas public safety, telecommunicators of the
[22:43] city of shirts have contributed substantially to the apprehension
[22:47] of criminals, suppression of fires and treatment of patients. And whereas
[22:51] each dispatcher has exhibited compassion, understanding, and professionalism
[22:56] during the performance of their job in the past year. Now therefore it be resolved
[23:00] that ralph rodriguez, mayor of the city of church, proclaims national public
[23:04] safety telecommunicators week april 12th through 18th 2026,
[23:09] um, he encourages all citizens to join us in honoring the men and women whose diligence
[23:13] and professionalism keep our city and citizens safe. Congratulations.
[23:18] thank you.
[23:26] I'm jim. I'm jim la the chief of, uh, police. I just wanna thank everybody and
[23:30] without a doubt, our dispatchers are the lifeline of all first
[23:34] responders. Uh, it is a sad day for the city of church. The young
[23:39] lady next to me is, is
[23:43] retiring and she's leaving a legacy. She's moving on to a new, uh, career
[23:47] field and I'm, I wish her the best of luck.
[24:42] that brings us to our last proclamation being military child month
[24:46] april, 2026. Council member sheridan.
[24:54] good evening again. This one is dear demar hard
[24:58] as a veteran, but I'm also a military brat or military child as
[25:02] well. So come on now
[25:08] we got the wet family and the wilkerson family.
[25:14] nope. Okay, so let's just read off. Alright. April, 2026
[25:18] is a month of the military child. April 7th, 2026 is
[25:22] purple up for military kids day. The city of shirts will observe the
[25:26] month of the military child during the month of april, 2026, and on april 7th, 2026
[25:32] purple up for military kids day to honor military families and their children
[25:37] for the sacrifices they make and their unconditional support of our armed forces.
[25:41] and whereas nearly 2 million children in military families
[25:46] face unique challenges, including frequent moves
[25:51] and family separation, these remarkable young people demonstrate
[25:55] incredible strength and courage while adapting to new schools,
[25:59] making new friends, and supporting their families service
[26:04] to our nation. And whereas the city of shirts, along with
[26:08] the texas education agency are committed to ensuring military connected students
[26:12] are supported in our schools and various programs, as our men
[26:16] and women in uniform focus on the challenges and missions
[26:21] they face in the line of duty. And whereas in the month of april,
[26:25] citizens, citizens can show their support for military children and
[26:29] appreciation for their strength and sacrifices by wear. And purple,
[26:34] which represents the blend, the blending of the colors of the five branches of the
[26:38] armed forces. Now therefore, mayor ralph rodriguez,
[26:43] mayor of the city of shirts, all upon all citizens of the city of shirts,
[26:47] and upon all patriotic, civic and educational organizations
[26:51] to observe the month of april, 2026 to be the month of
[26:55] the military child. And april 7th, 2026 as purple
[27:00] up for military kids day. Military kids are essential members
[27:04] of our community who deserve recognition for their strength
[27:09] and sacrifice.
[27:23] I know we have some other military kids out there, aren't we? Don't we? Come on up. You
[27:28] got some? Come on. No, come on. .
[28:24] next on the agenda is employee introduction neighborhood services.
[28:45] hello, I'm lisa lockin, neighborhood services manager and
[28:49] I'm here to introduce our newest code enforcement officer steven miller.
[28:54] steve grew up in san antonio and he graduated from utsa.
[28:59] he has a degree in environmental science.
[29:03] he is a certified nursery professional, and he
[29:07] worked for rainbow gardens in san antonio. He
[29:11] also worked for the texas a and m agri agrilife extension, where
[29:15] he assessed and mapped all of the trees and shrubs on
[29:20] randolph air force base. He and his wife live in shirts
[29:24] and they enjoy outdoor activities. Thanks
[29:28] y'all. Thank you.
[29:38] welcome to the church family, steven. We look forward to seeing what you're gonna,
[29:42] the wonderful things you'll be doing for the city. So thank you.
[29:46] next we have public works.
[30:01] good evening counsel. We have, uh, david started in
[30:05] february. Uh, some of the, he started in
[30:09] drainage, now transferred to the water department, but he has been an
[30:13] asset to the, uh, drainage department at the time that he was there. Uh, some of his favorite hobbies,
[30:18] hunting and fishing. He's also a pool player. He will be, uh,
[30:23] in vegas. Vegas for the a pa championship in april. Yeah.
[30:27] oh, wow. Quite a pool player. Uh,
[30:31] some of his, uh, favorite books and movies, tv show, anything, marvel, so he,
[30:36] big time. Other than that, we have, uh, we have victor,
[30:40] mr. Victor guerrero started with us in february as well. He is in the drainage department
[30:44] still there. Uh, he is from
[30:49] guam. Uh, favorite places to visit would be
[30:53] japan and, uh, his favorite movies, tv shows are tokyo drift,
[30:57] all the fast and furious movies. Nice. Thank you very
[31:01] much. Anything you guys would like to say? Opportunity.
[31:07] as long as long as y'all allow me. Well, victor and david, welcome
[31:11] to the church family and we look, uh, forward to having y'all for a long time.
[31:16] thank y'all.
[31:25] next on the agenda, we have presentations. Uh, we have an employee
[31:29] utility bill. Uh,
[31:34] no, scratch it out.
[31:39] is utility billing here? I don't wanna miss him.
[31:43] nope. Okay. Next we have, uh, presentations
[31:47] and we're gonna be celebrating somebody who's getting a 25 year tenure milestone
[31:52] service pen. So at this time I'll call up, uh,
[31:56] our city manager, steve williams.
[32:04] all right. Can I have mac milan song come on up.
[32:19] so y'all have heard me do these presentations before. This is one of
[32:24] my favorite things to do because we get to celebrate
[32:28] the dedication to service to our community and to their craft
[32:32] of our employees. As you know, we do tenure recognitions
[32:36] for our employees. We'd start it one year. We do five years, 10 years,
[32:40] 15, and then 20 and above we do in council. So
[32:45] we bring 'em up here and roast 'em a little bit. No, I mean, celebrate them
[32:49] and, and have a good time with them. But really it's something to be celebrated in,
[32:53] something that we're really proud of our employees. And I
[32:57] want to, you know, before I have a little thing I wanna read, it's a little bio,
[33:02] but before we do that, we would like to play a fun little game here.
[33:10] so it's called 25 years ago, in december of 2000,
[33:14] what was going on? Well, can we have that
[33:18] up? There we go. On the tech scene,
[33:23] playstation two was released. Did you have one of those? No.
[33:28] and, uh, dvds were booming and they were majorly
[33:32] popular. Remember that blockbuster red box, those kinds of things.
[33:36] okay. There was no social media.
[33:40] myspace and, and facebook. They were still three
[33:44] or four years away. And then outrageous accessories.
[33:49] tinted wraparound sunglasses. Do you have some of those? The terminator kind? No,
[33:53] no. And the beginning of the ugg boot craze.
[33:57] now I have seen some pictures. I think you were wearing those and
[34:01] in the box office, how the grinch stole christmas and cast away were the top movies,
[34:06] both great films. So, but more importantly,
[34:11] fired. Lieutenant mac milon joined the
[34:15] shirts fired
[34:19] one of them. I think the one in the middle might be from glamour shots.
[34:23] yeah, that was a good one. Very good. But macel, 20
[34:27] years of service. He started with the shirtz fire department in december of
[34:31] 2000. And he is currently a lieutenant at fire station two
[34:36] with a crew of up to six people. And he runs an
[34:40] engine or platform. He,
[34:44] um, is also a part of the tif fmis program and has
[34:49] been able to, uh, be on many state deployments starting as early 2010. And
[34:53] what that means is, is when we have a a disaster somewhere else in the
[34:57] state, this team comes together and they fight those fires and take care of
[35:01] that. So that's a very important thing and contribution that our department does statewide.
[35:05] and mac especially, he was born in the swamps of louisiana
[35:09] in the summer of 1978. He moved to texas when he was a young boy.
[35:14] grew up in bull verde and graduated from smith smithson
[35:18] valley high school. What's the mascot?
[35:22] rangers. Rangers. Okay. There you go. After high school, he worked for
[35:26] cps electric in san antonio for two years before he started
[35:30] fire school. And then after fire school, worked part-time for the hollywood
[35:35] park and bull, bull verde fire departments, but then started
[35:39] full-time at shirts after that. He lives in adkins where he
[35:43] purchased property around 20 years ago. And his wife laura.
[35:48] laura, there she is. Okay. Uh, and, and he have been married for
[35:52] 19 years and had two great children. Hailey 28, who
[35:56] is a school teacher. Where's hailey? Oh, there's hailey. A school teacher
[36:01] at free height elementary and mason 18 attends
[36:05] clements high school. Go bus. Go bus. There you go.
[36:10] they love the coast and have built a house in rockport a couple years ago. Love to travel
[36:14] and have been fortunate to experience many places and likes fishing,
[36:18] hunting and anything to do out store outdoors. So congratulations
[36:23] on 25 years, sir.
[36:35] well, all I can say is, uh,
[36:39] that's about right. . Well, where did 25 years ago, it
[36:43] flies by. So I'm looking forward to the next five and that'll probably be it for me.
[36:47] so, um, man, to, to the city, it's been great working
[36:51] here. I started when there was three or four of us and now
[36:56] we're, where are we at 17 a shift I think, if I'm doing that
[37:00] math right. So it's been pretty great seeing the city, uh, you know, come to fruition
[37:04] in the way it is today, um, to sea shift. A bunch of great guys I've worked
[37:08] with for a long time. Um, a lot of memories.
[37:12] yeah, probably some of those we can't say here. So, um,
[37:17] to my wife and kids, thank you for the support my family, uh, y'all
[37:21] mean the world. I love you. So thank you.
[37:29] good. This says five years on it, so you gotta do 25 more
[37:34] . Okay, so
[37:48] also one more thing. Oh, okay.
[37:57] so this the city manager's coin, and when you do something outstanding, you get a
[38:01] city manager's coin. And 25 years of dedicated service,
[38:05] in my opinion is outstanding. So thank you so much.
[38:20] thank you.
[38:24] that's crazy. Thanks dude.
[38:43] okay, next we have, uh, 2026, uh, bond for
[38:47] shorts university, isd uh, we have superintendent paige
[38:51] maloney.
[39:01] let's see if we can,
[39:08] can I look at this? Yes. Oh, there you go. Alright.
[39:14] alright. Thank you. Uh, uh, mayor rodriguez, city manager williams
[39:18] and council members, first of all, um, as a citizen, thank you for
[39:23] everything you do. What? Oh yes. Thank you.
[39:27] um, thank you for everything that you do. Um, and on behalf of myself and
[39:31] the board of trustees for seuc, thank you for everything you do and thank you for the opportunity
[39:36] to come talk with you this evening. Uh, just really, really quickly, we have called
[39:40] bond 20 22 26. As you know, in your roles, uh,
[39:45] that allows us to, a bond election allows us to borrow money, um, for school
[39:49] construction. Uh, the funds are repaid over time by living that tax
[39:53] rate every year to pay the principal and interest. It's similar to a home mortgage.
[39:57] and why do you have to do a bond election? The state doesn't provide those
[40:01] for those large facility projects. So we have called an
[40:06] election for may 2nd. We have three different propositions. The last time we did a
[40:10] bond in 2016, there was one proposition, but legislation now has,
[40:14] uh, called for us, um, to, you have to put
[40:18] things in the categories, and that's what we have done. And we'll talk a little bit about that.
[40:22] prop a is the largest, it really is those, uh, looking
[40:26] at our facilities and looking at the infrastructure and the replacements that are needed.
[40:31] campus, uh, security systems, uh, upgrading some classroom and
[40:35] learning spaces. And, uh, in the areas of, of physical education
[40:39] and play areas, uh, across the district, our, our
[40:43] prop b is our stadium facility. If you ha are putting a stadium on the bond
[40:47] and it has over a thousand capacity seating, it has to go on its own proposition
[40:52] so that this is for our stadium to expand the capacity. You've probably seen those bleachers
[40:57] that we pull in every single year and rent for the largely attended
[41:01] games. Uh, so this would expand the, the capacity upgrade, our safety
[41:05] and security and concessions, uh, restrooms, lighting, sound systems.
[41:09] if you've been to a game, you know how that's kind of hit or miss. And, uh,
[41:14] the scoreboard would also, uh, over a thousand capacity seating at the steel,
[41:18] uh, stadium in the corbet junior high, uh, artificial to turf at both of those places.
[41:23] uh, prop c is technology devices for, um,
[41:27] staff and students. Of course, those would not be financed for more than the
[41:32] life of the asset. So five years on finance for that.
[41:36] you guys know that we have two sides of our tax rate, our maintenance and operations. And our
[41:40] interest in sinking interest in seeking is what we're talking about here. As you,
[41:44] uh, uh, add add debt, you have to levy a tax rate to, to
[41:48] be able to do that. But when you combine those tax rates together, you get
[41:52] one school tax rate. Our tax, uh, school tax rate history
[41:56] over the past five years, uh, has decreased. And that's been
[42:01] both, uh, both because of the state. Everything that that has
[42:05] happened with, with compression, thank you to the state of texas. But then also our board being
[42:09] deliberate and mindful, um, to manage that tax rate.
[42:14] the ballot language, of course, says this is a property tax increase. We don't
[42:18] anticipate a tax rate increase, uh, next year. Uh, but
[42:22] you know, if you're extending debt, you're, uh, you have to, it is a tax
[42:27] increase over time. But again, thank you to the state of texas. On our
[42:31] school taxes, we've had, uh, homestead exemptions that have significantly lowered
[42:35] the taxable value at, at the school level home over over 65.
[42:39] if you have not, um, if, if home over service 65 have
[42:44] not had significant improvements to their home, um, there, there
[42:48] would not be a tax increase. And all of our information
[42:52] is on our bond website. I promised I would not go over three minutes.
[42:56] uh, value your time very, very much, but just so appreciative of
[43:00] being able to come before you tonight. Thank
[43:05] you.
[43:09] and I think we have some flyers, we'll leave them or we pass them out. Okay.
[43:13] thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Uh,
[43:17] moving on to presentation of church police department 2025
[43:21] annual report presentation, chief lawry.
[43:46] good evening, mayor council, city manager, steve williams. Uh,
[43:50] I'm jim meyer, your police chief. I just wanted to spend a few minutes with you and present to you
[43:54] the first annual, uh, annual report for the church police department.
[43:58] this is a product that we will be releasing in the future in the march of the proceeding
[44:03] years. I think it's a product that highlights the great work that the men
[44:07] and women of this department does and how we're moving forward being a professional and progressive
[44:11] police department. And I just wanted to go over a few items. We will also be providing
[44:15] each council member two to four copies, hard copies. Those shall be in next week.
[44:20] you're free to share. And if you need an additional one after that, we have already posted it
[44:24] this afternoon on our facebook and social media pages. So it's out there for
[44:28] the public. And again, it's in our effort to be transparent with the, uh, community that we
[44:32] serve. So
[44:36] starts off with a, a message just from the chief. We also have a,
[44:41] a, our command staff to send there and the message from the chief. And then we also have a message
[44:45] from our mayor. We also have a message from our city manager. And
[44:49] as we progress through there, as we have our organizational chart so that everybody is quite familiar
[44:54] w with the organization and, and where our personnel are.
[44:59] some things I'd like to highlight here on this page is the number of officers we have. So in
[45:03] 2024, we were authorized 73. We have 74 authorized in
[45:07] 2025, we had 68 officers hired in, uh,
[45:11] 2024. We have 66 at the end of december.
[45:16] and at the end of this presentation, we'll show you why we went down. We had, uh, five
[45:21] retirements over this year. Uh, we currently have hired three additional
[45:25] officers since january. Those numbers will go up slightly. And
[45:29] then also it breaks down the demographics of the department from our, our races. And our,
[45:33] and our sec.
[45:38] we had, uh, our neighbors is the numbers that we report. And again, as we
[45:42] were, uh, mentioning in several meetings before, we were rated as the safest
[45:46] city in the san antonio metroplex in the, uh, ninth safest
[45:50] in the state of texas, the 87th in the nation. But this is
[45:54] the, the metrics that they use for that also. So if you look at that, we,
[45:59] we compare 24 to 25. And as we move forward, we're gonna try to have a three year trend.
[46:03] and we just got to the point where we can start, uh, accessing this data and,
[46:07] uh, present it to the our community members.
[46:13] this page here, we want to be, again, transparent. It talks about our use of
[46:18] force and when we've used them. We've also talked about use of force and our racial profile
[46:22] and report that I presented to you back in, in march.
[46:26] we break down into our bureaus. We have our field operations bureau, which is commanded
[46:30] by, uh, assistant chief waller
[46:36] within our uniform services bureau there. We also have a canine,
[46:40] we have a swat team. We work with the alamo area swat team.
[46:44] we're part of that program with 11 other agencies. We have a field training program.
[46:49] we have our operations support bureau, which is ran by assistant chief, uh, daniel roman.
[46:56] within that, uh, we have a cid division. So last year we filed 269
[47:00] cases for prosecution. Just as a highlight for the 24 and 25
[47:04] numbers. Real quick, our numbers seem to be going up. I think we are
[47:09] going to see that go up just a little bit more as we continue to come out of the co era.
[47:13] so in 2024, we had 154 cases filed for prosecution.
[47:17] in 2025, we had 269. And you can see the numbers. We
[47:22] went up to 1006 cases assigned from 7 66 for the previous
[47:26] year. And we have some information on, on our warrants. Also,
[47:31] a crime victims liaison. As you saw tonight, there were many programs that we're involved in.
[47:35] we work with a multidisciplinary team approach. As you see that we're
[47:39] all working together, whether we're a non-governmental organization, whether we're a child advocacy
[47:44] center, law enforcement, faith-based, it comes together as a community to
[47:48] help us address many of these egregious crimes. But our crime
[47:52] victims liaison is not only mandated by law, but we have a very effective
[47:56] one as you can see, the the victims they've served and the advocacy, uh,
[48:00] services that we've provided to, to many members of our community. We
[48:04] also have, uh, leveraged our technology where we
[48:09] currently have a drone that we not only use for calls for service
[48:13] as a force multiplier from a missing person to answer an alarm call,
[48:17] to check a roof without having a fire department come out, provide a ladder. We also are
[48:21] looking at exploring the possibilities of a dfr, which is a drone
[48:25] first responder where we can have a drone on site within 30 to 60
[48:29] seconds after a call is received. And what we're finding out, and the
[48:33] interesting data on that is they're actually clearing 30% of the calls
[48:38] by a drone before an officer actually get on call. So we're saving that time and, and
[48:42] our officers can stay in their beats or
[48:47] communications. We talked about, uh, dispatch earlier, they were, they were recognized
[48:51] as you see, 28,000 992 9 1 1 calls. You
[48:55] know, what's unique about our dispatch? I I just want to make sure we all understand the perspective.
[49:00] they're not serving a city of 44, 40 5,000. They're
[49:04] actually serving a city of 80 to a hundred thousand, in fact, that 'cause we
[49:08] dispatch for the city of llo. And our ems also provides service
[49:12] to a a 250 square mile area. And it's all done
[49:16] by the, uh, 12 dispatchers, the four supervisors and one dispatch manager. I
[49:20] think they're do an awesome job.
[49:25] our records unit and our traffic unit, we talked about in our
[49:29] racial profiling. We're not looking for the citations. We're looking for the, the quality,
[49:34] uh, traffic stop. Not a quantity for the numbers. And, and, uh,
[49:38] I think there is a strict, a strict and a direct line correlation
[49:43] between the number of traffic stops you make. And I'm not saying citations, traffic
[49:47] stops with our crime. And I think that's why our numbers have gone down in some,
[49:51] some of our crime is because of the effectiveness, we have been able to get our,
[49:55] our traffic stops back up in a designated crime area.
[49:59] we have a community projects unit and in our school resource officers unit,
[50:03] we work hand in hand with scuc. We currently, uh,
[50:08] are under a contract or an mou with them because of house bill three, we have to have an armed
[50:12] officer at all schools. They essentially are paying for 83 to 84%
[50:17] of our officers salary 10 months out of the year. So we have 10
[50:22] officers and two sergeants assigned, uh, to our sro unit
[50:27] professional standards division. Some people will most commonly know this as,
[50:31] uh, their biggest part of that is our internal affairs, but they also were responsible
[50:36] for our training and our quartermaster, also our animal control
[50:40] services, which was recognized tonight. Seeing animal services, the numbers there,
[50:44] we talk about their, you can see that when you read the the document.
[50:49] we do our own internal training and we do seek outside training. It just highlights
[50:54] the number of hours. Again, we were mandated, uh, for alert level one
[50:58] training for, that's your active shooting training and alert updates, which is required by law.
[51:03] our community engagement, we had 3,242 hours,
[51:08] uh, given back to this community from our citizens police academy
[51:12] alumni. If you just used a $15 an hour figure for that service,
[51:16] we're, we're looking at 48 to $50,000 that they've returned back to us
[51:21] for the work that they do. And we have an annual review and community
[51:25] of our community events from blue santa child, pa, passenger safety youth police
[51:29] academy, national night out, neighborhood watch, citizens police academy,
[51:33] and our car fit program. Last, uh, page we
[51:37] get to is going to be our employee department for our recognition, our annual awards, nine
[51:42] annual awards, our service awards, and then again, our retirees
[51:46] and our promotions that we had throughout the last year.
[51:51] and then we just wanna thank our community members and our council and mayor for
[51:55] the support we get and from, uh, city manager. And again, this is
[51:59] a product that we will continue to work on and develop. And I'd be remiss without
[52:04] saying that many people work together to make
[52:08] this product come to life and to fruition. However, it,
[52:12] I need to recognize assistant chief, uh, elliot waller and our public
[52:16] affairs, who actually played a significant part in this and
[52:20] actually did more than their fair share of the work. So I just wanna say thank you for them and to see
[52:24] if y'all had any questions on this product.
[52:32] no questions. Thank you very much, chief lare for, for the fine work that your men
[52:36] and women are doing. Thank you, sir. Y'all have a great evening.
[52:48] moving on to city events and announcements. Announcements of
[52:52] upcoming city events. Sarah. Thank you mayor.
[52:56] so a couple things for tonight. On monday, april 13th, there will be a special
[53:00] council meeting to canvas the special election for place six and ordering
[53:05] a runoff. That'll be at 6:00 pm here in the council chambers saturday, april 18th.
[53:09] there's a couple of events going on to note. First, love where you
[53:14] live, um, is gonna be from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm you meet up at
[53:18] the north center. The area is gonna be the north cliff area that they're going to be, um, serving
[53:22] projects there. And you can pre-register on their, their website or you can
[53:26] register onsite the day of. Also, that day in the morning is gonna
[53:30] be the together we play event. This is the partnership with the parks and the library
[53:34] at the community play scape. And that is starting at 10:00 am to noon. And
[53:38] then finally our next meeting will be on tuesday, april 21st here at
[53:43] 6:00 pm in the council chambers. Thank you.
[53:47] thank you for those announcements. Moving on to announcements and recognitions
[53:51] by the city manager, steve williams. Thank you, mayor. We had five
[53:56] promotions this month. So we had, sean hilla was promoted from
[54:00] e em, excuse me, from emt to ems
[54:04] paramedic and levi flickering was
[54:09] promoted from paramedic to mih paramedic. And in the water
[54:13] department we had jeremy jacoby. Jacobe was promoted from
[54:17] park maintenance tech to public works slash wastewater
[54:21] operator trainee. And then in the police department, dallas hopper
[54:25] promoted from sergeant to lieutenant and henry nert
[54:30] promoted from police officer to sergeant. So we're really proud of all of those folks from
[54:34] moving up in the world and our organization. And then lastly,
[54:38] the on may 15th at 10:30 am
[54:43] we will be dedicating the conference room in the city council chambers
[54:48] to councilman tim, tim brown, who passed late last year.
[54:52] and we will make that dedication. And then following that at 1245 will be the interment
[54:57] of tim and nancy over at fort sam. There'll be more details
[55:01] coming soon, uh, but just wanted to get that out there so you
[55:06] guys could put it on your calendars. And that's all I have. Thank you.
[55:11] okay, thank you for that. Uh, the only announcements that I had is we did a proclamation,
[55:16] uh, this past friday, uh, for pesto pluma,
[55:20] uh, which is hassan emilio kaban lare. Graduated
[55:24] from sammy clemons, who's, uh, uh, he's
[55:29] a global, uh, musician when it comes to the hispanic industry.
[55:33] and, um, so he played at the frost bank center, uh, friday night, and he
[55:37] had played at, at uh, toyota, at the toyota center
[55:41] on thursday night in houston. And it's amazing the impact that he's
[55:45] had on the students here at, uh, not just at, uh,
[55:49] santa clemons, but throughout the church, cillo, isd independent school
[55:54] district. So we definitely thank him for coming out and spending time
[55:58] with, uh, the city of church and also with, uh, church cisd
[56:02] and, and also with the, the buffaloes out there on
[56:06] friday. So, and then, um, also took a tour of the
[56:11] ccma plant, um, yesterday. Uh, and that was a good tour.
[56:15] uh, is great to see the expansion that they're having to be able
[56:19] to keep up with the growth in our community, uh, and the great things that
[56:24] they're doing. So that's all I have. Moving on
[56:28] to hearing of residents. This time is set aside
[56:32] for any person who wishes to address the city council. Each person should fill out
[56:36] the speaker's register prior to the meeting. Presentation should be limited
[56:40] to no more than three minutes. All remarks should be addressed to the council as
[56:44] a body and not to any individual member thereof, any person making
[56:48] any personal impertinent or slanderous remarks. While addressing the council may
[56:52] be requested to leave the meeting, all handouts and or usb devices
[56:57] must be submitted to the city secretary no later than noon on monday.
[57:01] proceeding the meetings. Handouts will be provided to each council member prior
[57:05] to the start of the meeting by the city secretary. All usb devices
[57:09] will be vetted by the city it staff to ensure city property is protected
[57:14] from malware.
[57:19] when you come up, uh, to speak, if you'll please state your name and your address.
[57:24] uh, we're gonna start out with, uh, jordan barnes.
[57:33] good evening mayor and council. My name is jordan barnes. I'm a student at samuel
[57:37] clemens high school and I live at 4 6 1 6 silverton. I'm here tonight because
[57:41] this bond directly impacts students like me and students'. Voices are important
[57:45] at clemens, I'm involved in both fine arts and cte. I'm on the dance team
[57:50] and I'm also a part of ffa officers. And both through dance, I spend
[57:54] a lot of time at the stadium for practices, football games and performances. It's a
[57:58] big part of how we represent our school and our community. Being there, you can see
[58:02] how important this, that space is, but also that it's heavily used and needs updates
[58:07] better to better support students. The stadium desperately needs
[58:11] a working scoreboard through ffa. I'm also seeing how important
[58:15] the toby connor agriculture barn is. It's where students learn responsibility,
[58:19] leadership, and real world skills. Having updated equipment and spaces
[58:23] matters, especially as cte programs continue to grow and prepare
[58:27] students for ag for future careers. At clemens, I also
[58:32] see everyday things that affect students. Our cafeteria is small for the number of students we
[58:36] have. There are times where students are sitting on the floor because there isn't enough seating.
[58:40] expanding that space would make a big difference in our daily experiences and
[58:44] in situations where we need to be inside. I've been in suuc schools for
[58:49] a long time. I went to wat elementary from 2015 2019, and I even
[58:53] then I remember the playground needing updates. It's been years since I was there.
[58:57] and those same spaces are still being used by younger students today. This bone
[59:01] touches a lot of areas from classrooms and equipment to spaces where
[59:05] students learn, perform, and spend their day. It's about keeping up with what students
[59:10] need. Now as a student, I can say these things matter more than people may realize.
[59:14] the impact, how we learn, how we participate, and how we experience school every
[59:18] day. I'm here today to encourage our shirts community to show up
[59:23] and vote on may 2nd. Voting is important because it's how our community
[59:27] has a voice and decision to affect students and schools. And while you're
[59:31] there, please don't forget to vote for the suc bond. Students across our district
[59:35] are counting on the community to support the spaces and programs that help us grow and
[59:39] secede. Thank you for your time.
[59:47] next we have jay starr.
[59:53] good evening mayor. Council members, city manager. My name's jay starr.
[59:58] I live at, uh, 9 8 3 5 mo house drive. I'd like to talk to you tonight
[1:00:02] about, uh, frontier waste solutions and the issues
[1:00:06] that are going on. Back in april of last year, the
[1:00:10] city council voted, uh, five to one to award,
[1:00:15] uh, frontier waste services, the contract. And with
[1:00:19] a 25% increase is what was briefed. However, it comes out to be a little bit
[1:00:23] more, we'll get into that later. And on one july, or I'm sorry, yeah,
[1:00:28] one july. The contract actually started with frontier.
[1:00:32] since then, the 33% increase that was actually,
[1:00:36] uh, incurred went from $14 and
[1:00:40] 46 cents to $19 and 20 cents with less services
[1:00:45] from frontier waste solutions. We no longer have, um,
[1:00:50] a construction material as they call it. Uh,
[1:00:54] republic called it fencing material or little lumber. Uh, we
[1:00:58] no longer are able to do that, but yet we're still paying for a bulk
[1:01:02] fee. Um, we also do
[1:01:07] not have in there the
[1:01:11] fall and spring cleanup, which a lot of homeowners would go and take
[1:01:16] material out to do, uh, spring cleanup and beautify the
[1:01:20] area. We no longer have those services with this new contract.
[1:01:24] the other issue is many, uh, residents in my area,
[1:01:29] they are having and complaining about frontier missing
[1:01:33] pickups of either trash or recycle.
[1:01:38] uh, inconsistency, there's been as late as 6:00 pm
[1:01:43] that frontiers running around picking up trash and then leaving
[1:01:47] the garbage cans in the middle of the street or knocked over. I
[1:01:51] emailed the city, uh, secretary my slides
[1:01:55] and I believe she's, uh, sent those out to you. There are some pictures out
[1:02:00] there for you guys to look at, um, in accordance
[1:02:04] with the shirt. City ordinance 13 dash h
[1:02:08] dash 51, section five or 54 dash 22
[1:02:12] g. You're supposed to maintain all structures including
[1:02:16] fences, walls, in safe and, um,
[1:02:22] structurally sound good repair. However, when a resident wants
[1:02:26] to go out and replace their fence, there's no place to take this
[1:02:30] fencing material. Now my neighbor, we replaced his fence
[1:02:35] when I did mine. I called the city and had it all stacked up outside.
[1:02:39] they came in and got it. Now we stacked up all that.
[1:02:43] it didn't get picked up. I called the city and asked, and they referred me
[1:02:47] to frontier where I called and I got, that's not my problem.
[1:02:53] okay, so what's the solution? What I'm asking the city to do
[1:02:58] is to conduct a survey of residents to see where we're at
[1:03:02] and to provide a solution for us to dump this material.
[1:03:06] and if you have any questions, I'm available later on. Thank you.
[1:03:19] okay, next we have kate. I don't want to butcher
[1:03:23] the last name. Kate, what's your, kate, what's your last name? I'm
[1:03:27] kate dearman lael and I'm in the core, um, leadership class with
[1:03:32] the chamber. So we're just here to say thank you for hosting us and, um,
[1:03:36] a few months ago was really, um, eye opening. I'm very thankful for the time and that your
[1:03:40] team that came and supported us through that, uh, through our class. So thank you so
[1:03:44] much and have a good evening. Thank you.
[1:03:52] and then next we have maggie tittering.
[1:03:59] good evening counsel. Maggie tittering, 1730 shirtz parkway, your chamber
[1:04:04] of commerce president. Uh, a few updates. We have a groundbreaking
[1:04:08] for gringos on may 21st. Woo, another restaurant around in the
[1:04:12] shirts area at 2:00 pm and we are working with portillos. Um, they
[1:04:16] have a tentative ribbon cutting sometime in may. We've got a few factors, nothing too serious,
[1:04:20] but as soon as we find out when that is, we will let you all know. Um,
[1:04:25] I on the other hand, uh, do have kudos to give to frontier waste solutions.
[1:04:29] um, they're once again helping us out with leadership core. As you just heard,
[1:04:33] one of our students and, uh, going to austin each year for
[1:04:37] leadership core is a little bit expensive when you're transporting 15
[1:04:42] students. Uh, you know, just the, the food, the, the tours that
[1:04:46] we arrange. And so once again, they have stepped forward and that they are going to support
[1:04:50] that. We're very grateful for their support on this. It's helping us to,
[1:04:54] uh, get growing leaders in our area. These are business owners. These
[1:04:58] are a municipality, uh, staff members. And so just wanted to,
[1:05:03] you know, just thank chris cox and frontier waste solutions for helping us continue this
[1:05:07] very worthy program. Um, I wanted to take the rest of my time to support
[1:05:11] this bond. Uh, the presentation that was just presented,
[1:05:15] I was part of the ccac committee that toured, um, I was part
[1:05:19] of the 75. We toured these facilities and, uh, to
[1:05:24] see when I used to go to school, you know, way back when I went through
[1:05:28] shirts, elementary and o henry when there was o henry and clemens high school
[1:05:32] buffs. But to see some of the areas that I still
[1:05:36] recognize that are in the same state, that that's, that's a little scary.
[1:05:40] and the fact that our children are going to these schools now, school district,
[1:05:44] very transparent on their website. When you go there, you can see the demographics. I've
[1:05:48] been part of this committee since its inception in 2013.
[1:05:53] and these are not, we wish we could have or these little
[1:05:57] extra things. They have to have these, this bond has to pass. The 295 million
[1:06:02] was whittled down from 500 million in things that we need for
[1:06:07] this school district. Uh, somebody could say, oh, stadium, that's fluff. No, it's not. It's
[1:06:11] it's safety measures. It's the, uh, stadium seating, it's
[1:06:15] lighting, but most especially the brunt of that 230 million, I mean,
[1:06:19] hvac systems that are past their time of life need to be replaced. And we all know what it is
[1:06:24] here in texas in summer, that's hot, that's really hot. Just think of your child
[1:06:28] or your grandchild being in there without air conditioning. And you know, you
[1:06:32] can just imagine how that is. So they have four town hall meetings that are going on
[1:06:36] where they're actually at the facility. So you can go to clemens, you can go to adobe,
[1:06:40] I believe there's one at steel. Um, I think there's two at clemens. Ones is
[1:06:45] gonna hit the stadium so that the people can actually see what they're talking about. But please be
[1:06:49] informed because I know there's a lot of chatter on facebook and yes, I can understand
[1:06:53] there's concern about the monies and stuff, but get the facts that
[1:06:57] are out there, there are facts. And again, it's just, it's
[1:07:01] eye-opening. And to actually take the tour and see what is needed.
[1:07:06] it's, it's astounding. So, uh, again, the, uh, the dates of
[1:07:10] the town halls are on the school site. Uh, if you all wanna know when those are,
[1:07:14] and again, this, this is about making the best opportunities for our children
[1:07:18] and we really need to be looking out for them. So please go out and vote and support this bond.
[1:07:22] thank you.
[1:07:28] thank you. Next we have herman arlow,
[1:07:44] uh, mayor city council. Thank you. Uh, I'd
[1:07:48] like to bring to y'all's attentions the, uh, road street conditions out in southern shirts.
[1:07:53] can you state your name and and address, please? Oh, I'm sorry. Uh,
[1:07:57] 1 1 5 6 4. Where seguin road.
[1:08:01] uh, anyway, the, uh,
[1:08:05] mainly I'm concerned about the uncontrolled through
[1:08:10] truck traffic, uh, from like I 10 and sometimes from
[1:08:14] six fm 1604. Anytime
[1:08:19] anything happens on either one. Uh, drivers shortcut
[1:08:23] through the, through these areas. Great town, west again, et cetera.
[1:08:27] the cars are one thing, but the, uh, trucks, you know, tractor trailers over the
[1:08:31] road, oversized, there was hazard materials coming
[1:08:36] through there. You know, we're talking 80,000 pound loads, uh,
[1:08:40] vehicles, you know, that's totally different. Uh, those streets out there
[1:08:44] aren't, they may be designed, but they're not built up to those
[1:08:48] standards. Uh, you know, I've been mentioning
[1:08:53] this stuff for probably couple years or if not three or four, I
[1:08:57] don't know. Anyway, uh, since the fall of
[1:09:01] 20 20 24, the construction onto I
[1:09:05] 10, it's been a nightmare. 'cause anytime they do anything out there to
[1:09:09] divert one lane or two lanes of traffic, you
[1:09:14] know, the traffic starts coming through. Whatever great
[1:09:18] town road, uh, where's sein trainer, hale, uh,
[1:09:23] you know, and like I said, you know, it's one thing with the cars, but that truck traffic,
[1:09:27] you know, and the thing is 15 eighteens right there, you know, I don't know why
[1:09:31] they don't use it. Uh,
[1:09:36] you know, that was because of there was a tanker turned over out there on
[1:09:41] it and westbound and they had that whole interstate shut down for
[1:09:45] like two days, 48 hours. Uh, police department at that particular
[1:09:49] time wouldn't do anything about it. I mean, no temporary truck detour
[1:09:53] signs or nothing. Uh, you know, so all that traffic
[1:09:58] was coming through there and sure enough come
[1:10:02] like, uh, new year's eve on 1231,
[1:10:07] you know, 2024, there was a water leak there
[1:10:11] developed, uh, you know, it was like a month later, but I know it developed
[1:10:15] because all that truck traffic going across there at fall road and where seguin,
[1:10:20] yeah, they fixed it like three days later and then it took another six months for,
[1:10:25] uh, the actual road. Good. The street getting totally repaired.
[1:10:30] uh, um, you know, there's
[1:10:35] oh, I'm sorry here. The truck, truck, any closure out there on
[1:10:39] the interstate, you know, even now the stuff they're doing over in
[1:10:43] guadalupe county, they're coming down zigzagging through,
[1:10:47] uh, wild road, uh, from, oh, what's
[1:10:52] that? Uh, anyway, the other road there
[1:10:56] from, uh, out of uh, guadalupe county and
[1:11:00] you know, these trucks are just driving around lost because, you know, they're either
[1:11:04] following the car gps or whatever.
[1:11:09] but anyway, it'd be great if y'all could put up some
[1:11:13] no through truck signs out there, all those roads, you know,
[1:11:17] sine great town, uh, trainer hill.
[1:11:21] appreciate. Thank you. Thank you.
[1:11:26] and last we have, uh, amanda viegas.
[1:11:35] hello, uh, my name is amanda viegas. I am located at 91 20
[1:11:39] east fm 1518. I am here on behalf of leadership
[1:11:44] core class of 2026. Um, that was all I
[1:11:48] had planned to say, but as I've sat here and I was able to see the presentation
[1:11:53] of the bond that, uh, was proposed today
[1:11:57] in leadership core, we go over various different topics
[1:12:02] and, uh, one of those topics was education. And we were able to
[1:12:06] get a tour, um, by s-c-u-c-I-s-c. And during that
[1:12:10] tour I was able to see the importance of these bonds.
[1:12:14] and I just strongly encourage counsel to take it into consideration. Thank you for
[1:12:18] your time. Thank you.
[1:12:23] and that will end the hearing of residence. Uh, moving
[1:12:27] on to the consent agenda items. The consent agenda is
[1:12:32] considered self-explanatory and will be enacted by the council with one motion.
[1:12:36] there will be no separate discussion of these items unless they're removed from the consent
[1:12:40] agenda. Upon, uh, the request of the mayor or council member.
[1:12:44] council members, do we have any items that you would like removed from the consent agenda?
[1:12:52] having none. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved.
[1:12:57] second. Okay. I have a motion made by council member
[1:13:01] hayward second by council member watson, can I get everybody to cast the votes?
[1:13:10] can I get the votes published please?
[1:13:16] having seven yays, no nays. Motion passes.
[1:13:30] moving on to discussion action. Action items on item 10,
[1:13:34] resolution 26 dash r dash 0 3 7
[1:13:38] authorizing the purchase and installation of 26 hvac
[1:13:42] systems. From, from way mechanical.
[1:13:47] uh, mr. James. Oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Hardy leaving.
[1:13:51] uh, council members mayor rodriguez. Mr. Williams, my name's chad lansbury. I'm the facilities
[1:13:55] maintenance superintendent for the city of shirts. Right now there are 26 hvac systems
[1:13:59] in the city of shirts that are nearing the end of their life expectancy. There are nine systems
[1:14:03] in the library, 11 at the rec center, five at city hall, and
[1:14:08] one in the council chambers building. And they all need to be replaced before they end up failing.
[1:14:12] city hall is also in need of work that needs to be done to build, bring the building up to
[1:14:16] current building codes, uh, requirements. We initially plan to procure these
[1:14:20] services using a request for bids. After reviewing purchasing cooperatives, we found that
[1:14:24] many of the major companies likely to bid on the project are members of cooperatives
[1:14:30] purchases, uh, purchases under the cooperative programs meet the requirements under
[1:14:34] the texas local government purchasing code. The decision was made to get quotes
[1:14:38] for the work through the purchasing cooperatives with the belief this would ensure several firms
[1:14:42] bid on the work and the city received the best pricing. The decision was made to get pricing
[1:14:46] for the entirety of the work to achieve eec economies of scale. Wayne
[1:14:51] mechanical, a tips purchasing cooperative vendor was selected as, as their price
[1:14:55] was more than $150,000 less than the next lowest priced vendor.
[1:15:02] do you have any questions from any council members?
[1:15:07] having none. Can I get a motion? So moved.
[1:15:11] second. Okay, we have a motion to
[1:15:15] approve item 10 by council member hayward. Seconded by council member
[1:15:19] watson. Can I get all council to cast the votes?
[1:15:26] can I get the votes published
[1:15:31] having seven yays? No nays. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you very much.
[1:15:42] item number 11 will be enclo session. The city council will meet in closed
[1:15:46] session pursuant to section 5 51 dash 0 7, 1
[1:15:50] of the state government code. The city of church will consult enclo session
[1:15:54] with its attorney to receive legal advice regarding pending or contemplating
[1:15:59] litigation, a settlement offer or a matter in which the duty of the attorney
[1:16:04] to the governmental body, uh, under the texas disciplinary rules
[1:16:08] of professional conduct of the state bar of the texas, uh, clearly
[1:16:12] conflicts with this chapter to include the unauthorized use of city
[1:16:17] property. And for item number 12,
[1:16:22] we'll be enclosed session for item number 12 as well. So, and that'll be
[1:16:26] the city council will meet enclo session in accordance with section 5 5 1
[1:16:30] 0.072 texas government code deliberation regarding
[1:16:35] the purchase sale exchange lease or value or value of water
[1:16:39] lease rights. So we'll be going to executive session at seven 17.
[1:16:46] alright, we're gonna go ahead and come out of executive session on items
[1:16:50] 11 and 12 with no action taken. Executive
[1:16:54] session at eight 16,
[1:17:02] so on. So there will be no action items, uh, no
[1:17:06] action taken on items 13 and 14 and
[1:17:10] there's no discussion to occur on items 15, 16, 17, and
[1:17:14] 18. So we'll move, uh, request and announcements.
[1:17:19] so request by mayor and council members for updates or information from staff.
[1:17:23] anybody would, would anybody would like any updates from the staff?
[1:17:30] okay. Having none request by mayor and council members that items or presentations
[1:17:35] be placed on future city council agendas.
[1:17:39] um, I have a few. Um, I'd like to request
[1:17:43] a staff work session on items that have come up on, uh,
[1:17:48] darkness and lack of lights along church parkway leading up to the church, elementary
[1:17:52] school. I'd also would like us to look at
[1:17:56] darkness and lack of lighting on green valley road, uh, on
[1:18:00] green valley and 3 0 0 9.
[1:18:05] and I would also like to bring up
[1:18:09] a request, a staff work session on sidewalks
[1:18:13] along 1103 from davenport middle school to age 35.
[1:18:20] and the last thing I would like to do is I'd like to see about conducting a survey,
[1:18:25] uh, of, of the residents for frontier waste solutions,
[1:18:30] uh, to find out, um, if they're happy with the services and to find out
[1:18:35] if there's anything that we can do to improve the services to the residents.
[1:18:39] so
[1:18:44] is any other council members have any other items they'd like to add?
[1:18:51] all right, having none. Um, this meeting's adjourned
[1:18:55] at eight 18. No wait.