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we have a forum
we need to approve the minutes of the

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previous meetings
we've got those in your packets

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are there any let's see
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no one against but i can tell all right
good deal

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um all right via zoo
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mr david mendez is here joining us he's
going to give us some

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uh talk to us about the packet they sent
to us

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thank you mayor i hope you can hear me
all right council members is this uh

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okay volume
can you hear me all right

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can you guys hear okay
no i can hear you all right mr memphis

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okay uh i'm gonna share is it okay if i
share my screen

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yes you can go ahead and do that okay
let me uh i'm gonna i'm gonna see if i

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can get this going here
uh and uh let me know

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if you can see the front slide uh a
slide that says initial assessment by a

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city of sea grave 2021 can you hear can
you see that

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okay so
uh uh council

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what i want to do this evening is a
couple of different things with you i'm

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gonna i'm gonna try to cover three main
points

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here
uh about the city's redistricting

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and again i'm david mendez i'm with the
bigger staff firm you probably remember

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me we we've visited before i i do some
of your bond transaction work and i

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worked with dan and the mayor as we as
we sold some bonds last year you're

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working with some of the other members
of my firm right now to finish up the

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usda deal but
every decade and this is my fourth cycle

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of doing these projects i started in the
1990 round but every decade as a census

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comes out we serve about 125 different
county cities schools and colleges

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hospital districts others that have
single member districts to help them

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realign their boundaries and so what
we're going to do tonight is go over why

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the why why you the city of sea graves
has that obligation

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what the census shows about the city of
sea graves and then i'm going to propose

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a process whereby we're going to fix the
the

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the imbalance that exists so uh if
you'll bear with me and then i'll take

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questions on the back side because of
the audio from your end i think uh i'm

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going to need uh dan to interpret
because i i get a lot of feedback on the

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when you talk so i'm going to have dan
give me the questions from you as we

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finish but here here's the the deal is
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uh have
uh uh what i'm what i'm what i'm doing

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tonight is presenting
uh an initial assessment

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david
just a second we're going to move closer

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to the microphone
having trouble hearing it give us just a

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second okay
the council's going to orient themselves

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a better look at the at the presentation
david and to hear you better just a

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moment
awesome okay

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maybe better off on this side
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okay i think we're in place david all
right okay okay this is gonna be like a

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mini law lesson here for you guys and so
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is tonight is this initial assessment
i'm going to explain the problem i'm

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going to show you some guidelines and
criteria that i want you to adopt that

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i'm going to recommend you adopt to make
us go through the process easier i'm

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going to then and that's gonna allow us
to develop a plan to solve the imbalance

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among the districts
obtain some public input and then we can

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get to analyzing and adopting a final
plan and so that's the in a nutshell

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what we're gonna do but i want to
explain why we're doing redistricting

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you guys are the legislature of the city
of sea graves you as a council make the

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laws that apply the ordinances that
apply to the citizenry there and back

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in the 80s or whenever you converted to
single member districts what what the

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the
that process of electing each council

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member from a single member district
caused you to be subject to the one

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person one vote requirement and i'm
going to explain that here in a minute

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and so i'm going to explain that how one
person one vote works and then why the

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voting rights act and these other
constitutional law cases like shaw

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versus reno and section 5 of the voting
rights act apply to us in certain

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respects and so
the reason that we're redistricting and

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we're looking at the census in the first
place is because you like the

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legislature make the laws for the
citizenry and the law says that you

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folks must come from equal size
districts if one of the council

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districts has
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population than the next one then
effectively the people that are in that

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overpopulated council district are under
represented at the council they don't

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get as much bang for their political
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or bang for their for the buck by voting
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they only get to pick one representative
plus the mayor to the council and a

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district that has few people and the
fewer people in it gets to elect the

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same thing so that those people in the
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greater voice at sea graves government
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of the districts be balanced and so i
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of how this works this is a town that
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and just for simplicity
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the the population in the census was
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have ten thousand people and in this
example then uh the district one has

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eleven thousand people so it's ten
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only 8 000 people so it's 2 000 people
underpopulated and so it's 20 over and

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so the maximum deviation the way the
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are 30 percent out of balance and that's
too much difference between one district

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and the other so what we're required to
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is change the boundaries
of the districts to bring them under 10

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deviation and we'll show you how how
that looks for sea grapes here in a few

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minutes but
once you're triggered it and i and your

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city the census shows that you've
triggered this 10 percent you're over 10

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deviation then once we've triggered it
we got to look at the voting rights act

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because
the law the voting rights act says

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that if we have districts from which the
minority members elected whether it's a

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hispanic group
of citizens that make the majority in

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the district or a black
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voters that make up the bulk of the
district we cannot crack or pack that

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population
as we redraw the boundaries we want to

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make sure we protect those groups
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in the districts and so that's a lot of
of the work of this

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now the flip side of that process is the
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act to protect those minorities but
that's it that's the only reason we can

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look at race to make sure we've narrowly
tailored our solution to make sure we

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didn't uh we didn't uh adversely impact
them under the under the voting rights

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law but then we move on to dealing with
the stuff that you're interested in

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which is
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which territory do i serve which
potholes and streets do am i responsible

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for or which uh parks am i responsible
for in my district and that's what the

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bulk of redistricting has to be about so
um uh the courts have said that for us

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to navigate this tightrope between race
and the regular business of

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drawing of doing city work we should use
criteria to draw the districts that have

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these kind of factors as i've got up
here on the board identifiable

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boundaries we want to make sure we don't
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the the districts down back alleys or
property lines that nobody can see but

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that we use identifiable boundaries like
the streets and roads in the community

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or you know different kinds of
geographical factors like that if you

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have streams or things like that that
flow through the city we also want to

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make sure that we keep the neighborhoods
together if you if your neighborhood is

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what elected you as a council member
then you know what territory

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your your voters come from and we want
to make sure that as we redraw the line

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that we don't draw out your constituency
so that maintaining communities of

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interest is important we want to we
can't use whole voting precincts here in

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sea graves because every voting precinct
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to encompass one council district
probably so but we'll try to take those

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into consideration so that if a voter
votes in precinct one for all other

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purposes and they can vote for council
members in in a council particular

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council district we'll try to keep them
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i'm not sure how that works and we'll
work there in a small town but we'll try

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to fit it we also want to work from the
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have so we don't want to start throw out
all the districts the way they are we

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want to work from where you got elected
and just tweak it to the minimum extent

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necessary to bring you back into that 10
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we want to make sure the districts
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that they're compact and contiguous and
don't look uh bizarre-shaped or with

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fingers uh sticking out to go gather a
particular person or draw somebody out

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of the district the other things is we
want to keep each of you within your

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current district and your current
constituency to the extent possible and

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again we want to make sure we don't
adversely affect anybody under the

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voting rights so
i have a policy i gave that that my team

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gave to
dan and he'll present that at the end of

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this for adoption but it basically
adopts those rules you're going to say

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we're going to follow those rules when
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so
the other policy that i have provided

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him with is a policy for public
participation and to the extent we can

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we got to do this pretty quick because
we've got to be done by the end of the

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year
but certainly by the middle of january

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but to the extent that we draw a plan we
want to put it up on the city website or

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post it inside city hall so that folks
can come look at it and give you some

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feedback and see and make sure that they
give you uh guidance if they have or

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concerns that they may have about the
plan you draw and so

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i have a policy for that that that uh
dan has there that says that people will

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uh that we're gonna make this available
that people can provide comment that

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we're gonna have a public hearing at one
of the drawing sessions and people can

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provide comment by the time we finish
that drawing that uh public hearing and

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so we'll talk more about that when we
get to the actual policy but i i i'll uh

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i just wanted to give you lay that
framework i'm ready now to kind of go

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into
your council district this is the shape

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if you will of your current council
districts very compactly drawn and what

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we did is we took these territories and
the city limit lines that dan provided

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and we applied the 2020 census to them
and that's what's in your report

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is this sheet
really kind of is the key

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to the process so what it shows is that
the the population of the city

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is now 2154

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2154. if we divide that among the five
council districts the the ideal size

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of each district is just 431 persons
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that
if you look at the current population of

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district 1 the way it's configured
it has a 403 people in it it's uh just a

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couple uh you know with 28 people under
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the ideal size and it's six percent
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district number two at
427 persons it's almost exactly it's

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within a
four persons of the ideal size district

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number three is overpopulated it has 499
people so it's got 172 men here i mean i

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mean
70 too many so uh

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district number four at 369 is is about
the same size under

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under the ideal
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and uh district number five uh is uh
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with about 20 people or so
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so it's fairly
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to fix
the the population and you will notice

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that the predominant
the the reason i have so so we're using

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this total population to to
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but i have here some information about
the racial and ethnic makeup of the

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citizenry and uh 73 of the citizenry in
sea graves are hispanic so 70 so you can

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see that all of the districts are
majority hispanic third time uh they

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have uh each of the districts has
some anglo population uh ranging from a

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low of 12 to about 30 percent uh from
one district to another but that's a

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that's the second largest group african
americans comprise uh about five percent

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of the population of the city and so
each of the districts has between

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uh three and ten percent of the
population two and a half and ten

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percent of the population but
so there really aren't going to be any

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voting rights issues
of any significant nature because every

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district you draw
is majority minority it's their they're

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all minority districts so
we can concentrate on just getting this

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in balance states
and it is a very very minor set of

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changes probably moving a city block
here and there

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uh
to make the the changes work

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now
the charts that i gave you have a lot of

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other detail but it's kind of difficult
it's not very meaningful like for

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example i provided a chart which shows
the hispanic concentrations and almost

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every block has
hispanic population in it so it's it's

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like that
likewise if you look at the

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african-american
concentrations they're spread out all

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over the city almost every block has
some but uh with a couple of blocks

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within the city that have a little bit
larger population in a big city this

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would matter a lot in c graves it really
comes down to a simple simple math

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problem i i'm going to back up to this
slide and this really kind of tells

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us what how minuscule the fixing of this
problem is

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we probably can fix
uh uh if we can find a city block

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uh to add population to district one
from one of its neighbors let's say if

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it joins three uh you're going to be
able to fix it with by adding 20 or 30

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people and it'll be close to the ideal
size and by that adjustment uh but

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district number two you don't even have
to

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mess with if you don't if you don't want
to so the primary change is going to be

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between three and four
once almost exactly the same amount over

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populated that the other one's under so
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uh district number three has
60 people too many

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this district number four needs those 60
people and we can fix the imbalance

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right there uh
you know five is again a fix of uh uh 10

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or 20 people so very very
straightforward and

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but
you have to do this you have to go

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through this process
in order

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to
to

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not get sued
under the uh one person one vote before

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you hold your next round of elections so
i've done this presentation for you

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tonight
i'll tell you i did a meeting last

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week in montgomery county they have
650

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000 people it's one of the fastest
growing counties

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in the country but
uh they they were

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11
their maximum deviation was 11

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so i met with them and i had actually in
that case set up a drawing session with

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them at the same meeting because we knew
the balance was very small and

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uh i
uh we they took the commissioners told

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me move that one precinct over there
from from precinct one to precinct four

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and we're done and i did that and
they're going to adopt that tomorrow in

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commissioner's court and be done with
this process and frankly if

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dan and i had had more time i probably
could have organized something like that

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with you all here but i didn't know if
you could hear me well enough

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and we could do this uh if the if your
setup worked well enough there but

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what i'm going to propose today is that
dan and i get together and set up a work

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session where you guys can sit
closer into the machine you get good

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audio i hope you're getting good audio
of this and i will have my computer guy

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instead of us having this presentation
that i have up i'll actually put up the

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map
of

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sea graves on the screen
and you can tell me which block you want

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me to move from your district into the
neighbors district so that we can get

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this fixed and we can have i bet you it
would take us

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20 minutes 30 minutes of time
sitting here at you guys over there at

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your desk and me here at my desk and we
could fix the imbalance and you could

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have the hold it as a public meeting
like this

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and then the public can watch us fix the
imbalance and then you could adopt it at

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a the next city council meeting
you could you could have a public

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hearing
after we drew it and or before the

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council meeting so that in case anybody
wanted to give you any any feedback

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dan told me that you all
have a regular uh council meeting on the

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13th
and i bet you that between here and

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there
uh working around thanksgiving that we

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could get this done so that's what i
have for you guys tonight the first if

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you uh
first i want to answer any questions you

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have and then second i would like to see
if council is ready to

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uh consider and adopt those two policies
that i described the gaia dynastic

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criteria so that we can get in that so
that dan and i can get to work on a on a

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work session schedule for you
do we have any questions

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folks
no

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all right there are no questions david

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um
you know

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uh
considering the level of imbalance

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that's there
you know is there if i put the map

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and let me see if i can get a good uh a
bet if you had a few minutes tonight and

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i put up a good sized map would it be
worth us having a little bit of

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discussion i don't know you got who's in
one and who's in two and three four five

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but if you went around the table a
little bit

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could you guys maybe we could get this
thing moving by just getting a little

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input from you all about you know hey my
district has

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uh
too much population

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maybe we could look at this city block
or that city block and then dan and i

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could take some notes and maybe we could
kind of get some of the work started on

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do you guys want to do that
we got the maps

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you're ready
you want to try it

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sure okay let me uh pull up a different
i'm going to pull up a different

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uh
screen

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do you want to go

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yeah and if you all pull your maps out
and then let me let me get my world doc

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stuff

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i'm going to stop sharing for a second
and pull up a different deal here

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okay and
lorraine is three

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oh you're mine oh i own you now

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reuben five
deborah's two charles is one

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so
so let me let me see if i can make this

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work for us here
this

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is the chart that shows your current
imbalance

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so
maybe if we start for example with

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district one and if you help me
on your side of it i want to go put up

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the picture of the council districts
here in a second but thinking about

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district number one
that it needs about

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uh
it it's 30 it's 28

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people
underpopulated so we need a city block

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or something like that maybe to move in
that regard

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out of coming into
district number one and let's when you

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look at district number one it abuts
three two and five

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and if we look
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uh just to make this simple i'm going
back if you look at the chart the the

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guy the the district that has
the population

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uh
that is almost identical

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that that to what one needs
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five
district five has essentially about the

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same number
about 25 people or so

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over populated so i'm just taking the
those two districts which above each

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other
and for example one way to solve it is

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along the edge down here on the south
side of the map and i'm going to try to

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zoom
into that part of the map here and

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this is not a live map you know i'm just
got a pdf i've got the same thing you

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guys do over there
but what i'm going to do is

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just show you
how easy this is to fit so down here in

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this by the park
on uh near the chamber of commerce

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if there was a block
in

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along avenue
j

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and between
5th and 2nd street that we might

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consider adding into for example
district number

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one
uh it there might be sufficient

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population in a couple of these blocks
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get
get

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get number one straightened out

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any thoughts in that regard or and
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you can also see
that likewise district number three a

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budget and it's got 60 extra people in
it that need to be that that that it's

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going to have to shed some of
so you could

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look at any of this area right up here
between 12th street

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and avenue k
uh and

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and add some of that territory into
number one and fix the problem

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does that make sense i mean
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so we need to move out of three and five
and put in one and four right okay

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well i mean and i'm just suggesting i
mean i you you can take it from any of

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these because look look you've got
options for one yeah numbers three and

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five are give you some some some places
you can add

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going down to the bottom david please
yeah and one thing i can do

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guys that would really be make it easy
for you all is i can print this map and

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i can tell you exactly i can put a
number

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on each of these city blocks and say
this one has five people this one has

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ten and just show you
you know exactly what the census shows

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for each block and then you guys could
in the in the privacy of your own home

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each of you kind of look at the map and
say well you know i can i can see you

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know sharing that territory with the
district five or three or whatever and i

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could send that along to y'all and do
your homework and then we could when we

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put this up on the screen for you all
we we would have it live and we'd run

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the numbers here and you could see what
the the actual numbers were on each

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district when we modified it
david let's do that

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we all seem to like it
if you do that

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okay that'd be pretty cool and
yeah i think this would be a very simple

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exercise and i think you'll find it
enlightening i think the public will

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appreciate you know hey well i get some
voice over in district one or three or

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whatever you know
but uh but that's what i had for you all

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tonight and and then and i could send
you circulate that to you all and then

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you all can tell me when you're going to
get together and we can get to the next

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step
okay thank you david

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wilson you're welcome
need anything else for me tonight

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well you need that amendment are you
we need to pass the permission to sign

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those documents yeah i i think mayor if
you guys are comfortable with what i

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presented in the process that i've
outlined i recommend that you adopt the

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policy that that i've provided
to uh and let me put that slide back up

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if you have a moment let me just pull
that back up here

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uh well i'm gonna pull the actual policy
up if you're good with that let me do

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that
yeah if you have a second

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yeah let me let me actually pull the
slide up that i want you to adopt i mean

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the actual document that is how it looks

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so um
let me know if you can see hold on let

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me move this over to this
can you see that uh order number blank

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that i've got right there yes okay so
here's the critical part of the order as

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i mentioned when we were going through
the presentation section number one says

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to the extent practical we're going to
use easily identifiable geographic

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boundaries to draw the disk so we're
going to go down city streets we're

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going to you know work around the parks
and other

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major therapists we're going to have
communities of interest maintained in a

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single district so if your church group
all goes to one church or if you have a

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neighborhood that is comprised of a
certain

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set of people you need to let us know
that we're not splitting your

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neighborhood you know where that these
are your your people and then council

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districts should be composed of whole
body pieces i i am fairly certain we're

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not going to be able to stay within
whole voting precincts dan can correct

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me but i think you're probably the whole
town's comprised of one or two

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uh election precincts in the county
isn't that right dan

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just one i believe
since

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the county precinct happening

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the county to where we're just in
precinct one now right that's what i

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thought so you're going to be in one
election preaching so number three

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doesn't really we're not going to be
able to practically avoid that but

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that's a that's a policy that the courts
like to see you adopt also is that that

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we're going to have uh
kept the basic

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single member districts the way they are
we're just going to change them to the

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minimum extent necessary to get the
numbers straightened out to get them in

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balance that's number four
that we're going to configure them a

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relatively equal population we're going
to use the census and i'm

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i'm telling you we're using the census
data for this so we don't have any other

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data to use other than the 2020 census
that each of the districts is going to

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stay compact you have some of the most
compact districts i've ever seen and i

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want to make sure that when we finish
they're going to continue to look nice

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square chunky
districts we're not going to they're not

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going to have lines going all over the
town uh and then

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they're gonna be uh we're gonna make
sure that you can uh that we're that

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your voters stay in your district you if
you are uncomfortable that you're losing

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some of your
tried and true voters and keep getting

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you elected you need to
make your voice heard on council to make

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sure your district stays with your
voters and then we want to avoid any

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racial
gerrymandering i don't see how we we get

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into any racial issue everybody in town
the the predominant groups as we've

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identified or all over the city so
whatever changes we make are going to

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affect everybody the same way
and that's a policy this is kind of out

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follows those little blocks that i had
on the powerpoint so that's the first

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one there

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and if you all you can adopt it by
making a motion in a second to adopt

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that policy and then then can
informalize it for your signature

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okay while he's looking can i have a
motion guys

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one of you
i've got a motion for room in a second

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from cindy all in favor

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okay
where are you next

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here's the second one mayor so these are
guidelines for in case there's a person

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in the public that wants to provide you
with some input and comments and what

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this policy says after the whereas is is
that if somebody wants the

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the city
is going to go through the process and

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if somebody wants to
provide you with input they should

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propose plans in writing and that we can
read that are legible so i don't want

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them on the back of the napkin or
something where we can't read them so

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uh that we they need to give them to you
in a quick in a clear fully articulated

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uh manner they need to show the total
population voting age population of the

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different races and all and this is
something that we want to make sure if

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somebody wants to make a suggestion
that they

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uh that they use the same data we're
using and we can tell them what we have

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and most people if they're into
providing you with this kind of input

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are going to have this kind of debt we
want to make sure that anybody who gives

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you a plan or an example that they want
you to consider redraws the whole city

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we don't want somebody to come and say
well i want to run for office in council

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member not district number three so i'd
like you to draw it like this so i can

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get elected because i can get my
mother-in-law in there and all my

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relatives
you know so you don't want to you you

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want somebody to draw all five districts
and that's what number three is about

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there the next one is that plans will
conform to the criteria that you adopted

441
00:35:57,839 --> 00:36:04,560
so that you have to follow those
criteria you just voted if you want any

442
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:08,720
everybody else to follow them as well
and then they should if they just want

443
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:12,400
to give you comments instead of writing
a plan they just they need to do the

444
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:15,440
comments in writing
and

445
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,640
uh what we're asking people
uh is to provide those

446
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:22,960
uh
to provide their name and address an

447
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:28,320
email if they have one so we can follow
up with them

448
00:36:26,079 --> 00:36:31,920
uh to get back more feedback if we need
more information for them and finally

449
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:36,400
number seven
says that all comments and proposed

450
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:40,800
plans will be submitted to the council
by the close of the public hearing and

451
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:46,079
that public hearing that i'm talking
about is a public hearing either right

452
00:36:43,119 --> 00:36:51,040
before you adopt or right at the last
work session ben and i need to figure

453
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:55,040
out where to schedule your public
hearing but basically those are the

454
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:58,560
rules in case somebody wants to
participate with the council and say

455
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:02,560
i've got some ideas council members
here's how i want to draw it and they

456
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,599
can give you that so that's the basic
blueprint and you can add things to this

457
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:09,760
if you
would like to make it more liberal i

458
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:13,920
mean less less difficult or more
flexible or however you want to do it

459
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:17,200
but that's that's what my cities have
been adopting generally

460
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:24,800
okay
i need a motion to adopt this order

461
00:37:25,839 --> 00:37:31,200
i have a motion from cindy second from
lorena all in favor

462
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:35,280
aye
unanimous

463
00:37:33,599 --> 00:37:41,040
thank you david
mayor council members it's been a

464
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,040
pleasure i'm gonna go cook dinner now so

465
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:47,839
good for you
anyway but uh dan and i will be back to

466
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:52,560
you shortly with the map with the
population so you can do some homework

467
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:56,160
and then we'll schedule a work session
or two for you to get through this

468
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,720
process i look forward to seeing you
guys then

469
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:06,400
thank you david good night
good evening guys bye i'm going to log

470
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,400
out dan

471
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,680
and i got to stop sharing i think

472
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:21,510
let me see if i can figure out how to do
all that

473
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,510
[Music]

474
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,040
might take

475
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,359
[Music]

476
00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:57,780
[Music]

477
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:03,760
i mean
it is just a simple matter

478
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:06,079
moving a couple of walks and
this

479
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:10,000
should not impact
any of the great but it does not look

480
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:12,560
like it impacts the racial balance of
our districts

481
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:16,240
um
we just need to balance industries

482
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,640
from 16th
to 16th

483
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:39,119
all right we'll meet on the 18th
and then we have to have a second one to

484
00:39:37,359 --> 00:39:43,200
meet the following
monday or tuesday that's thanksgiving

485
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:14,160
that kind of information since i get it
from him

486
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:18,319
i'll sure
okay all right so i have i have a motion

487
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,920
that we
uh

488
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,200
set the date for the initial drive
session

489
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:30,960
the final is redistricting on the 18th
at 6 30 here

490
00:40:27,599 --> 00:40:30,960
and it'll be a zoom meeting

491
00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:38,800
okay
all right i have a motion

492
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:43,760
i see ascending i heard a voice
marina okay

493
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:46,079
and then uh all in favor
okay

494
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:54,880
so it's 18. all right all right
now we're going to consider and take

495
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:58,800
action as necessary
um it's your turn bring that chair up

496
00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:02,200
here i've got to help you dance recently
had knee surgery

497
00:41:12,170 --> 00:41:15,219
[Music]

498
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:20,680
so talk to us about texas communities
group

499
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:27,240
um

500
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:30,830
[Music]

501
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:43,960
i've been with the law firm for 38 years

502
00:41:59,020 --> 00:42:02,119
[Music]

503
00:42:13,359 --> 00:42:20,240
and
so i was bouncing ideas off him

504
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:23,280
for some time
when we started

505
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,880
we kind of did a pilot project for about
a year

506
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:49,520
property service contract one is trust
properties which are properties that

507
00:42:47,359 --> 00:42:53,760
have gone to taxable votes
did not sell for the minimum bid and so

508
00:42:52,319 --> 00:43:01,200
now you all know what your school
district accounting and trust

509
00:42:57,839 --> 00:43:05,800
trust properties kind of double negative
you don't get tax revenue on them

510
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,210
[Music]

511
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:44,079
after we started texas communities
through here looking for ways we get a

512
00:43:42,079 --> 00:43:47,200
lot of calls from city management
and hey what can you do to help us with

513
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:51,520
this problem
uh it's vague and abandoned or

514
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:54,960
dilapidated structure and we notice that
if we put taxes on

515
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:59,839
can you
sell

516
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:04,480
well we would go through the process
and generally the average cost of the

517
00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:08,880
tax law to report fee
by the time you get the sale it's about

518
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,880
eleven hundred

519
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:23,079
and a lot of times those properties
because they

520
00:44:19,079 --> 00:44:23,079
were bad

521
00:44:24,010 --> 00:44:34,319
[Music]
and so it was a cumbersome way a costly

522
00:44:32,319 --> 00:44:40,240
way of going networking
and so tcg came from that experience

523
00:44:37,839 --> 00:44:45,599
and one of the things we do is work with
city city staff in identifying

524
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:48,960
properties that need a tax requirement
for real property taxes

525
00:45:16,079 --> 00:45:23,040
and what that's designed to do is those
properties where

526
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:30,570
maybe a family ended some years ago they
died no probation

527
00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:30,570
[Music]

528
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,839
required

529
00:45:54,079 --> 00:45:58,119
and so many of our towns

530
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:15,119
situation is we fully

531
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:34,560
uh
maybe they had to lift that property

532
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,560
seven eight years or something longer

533
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:43,619
and that's something i think
but it's been very effective

534
00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:43,619
[Music]

535
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:56,400
so it's been a really good program
that without doing a lot on city staff

536
00:46:54,839 --> 00:46:59,280
um going through a list we try to put it
in certain division

537
00:46:59,839 --> 00:47:06,880
or somebody uh
published works or

538
00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:11,119
police or accounts
the textbook allows for anyone's

539
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:31,880
[Music]

540
00:47:37,070 --> 00:47:52,480
[Music]
he lives in odessa now i think you know

541
00:48:03,839 --> 00:48:09,699
is
[Music]

542
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,400
uh

543
00:48:32,839 --> 00:48:42,400
properties we've created an online bid
system it's still a single bid process

544
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:49,599
you would still have approval over every
prop property episode

545
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,599
city would have to prove

546
00:48:52,210 --> 00:48:55,260
[Music]

547
00:49:01,119 --> 00:49:09,040
uh we put out signage we tried to do a
lot of advertisements

548
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:14,200
but not very many people know about
trust properties

549
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,200
i've ever bought

550
00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:16,960
two houses

551
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:35,760
and what that means is that properties
might have sold for 200 or 500

552
00:49:33,599 --> 00:49:38,880
we feel like we can give you 400 or a
thousand

553
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:43,440
in addition to that
we've gone in and done your local

554
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:48,720
agreements because not only does the
city own the property

555
00:49:46,319 --> 00:49:52,319
so your own property
ownership

556
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:55,200
taxes
clean up and maintenance

557
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:58,319
uh what we've done with the
international agreement

558
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:13,119
and what that does is
all the other entities without having to

559
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,119
check out their

560
00:50:19,670 --> 00:50:22,729
[Music]

561
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:58,319
we started this
you know we live out here in west texas

562
00:50:55,359 --> 00:50:58,319
and some of these properties

563
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:10,880
but it's worked
and i think our advertising thank you

564
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:18,030
so when we started this
i hope we can i think we can we're going

565
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:22,359
to
[Music]

566
00:51:19,359 --> 00:51:22,359
be

567
00:51:27,660 --> 00:51:30,929
[Music]

568
00:51:33,599 --> 00:51:36,599
previously

569
00:51:42,250 --> 00:51:45,369
[Music]

570
00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:51,720
and

571
00:51:52,790 --> 00:51:55,869
[Music]

572
00:51:58,079 --> 00:52:01,079
um

573
00:52:20,700 --> 00:52:23,790
[Music]

574
00:52:31,260 --> 00:52:34,289
[Music]

575
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,839
you know i feel like if we own it

576
00:52:59,599 --> 00:53:06,559
uh communication is a big deal
um

577
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:12,000
if we know what property is bothering
you

578
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:12,000
your community we can tell you something

579
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:19,920
um so we have a phone app that we make
available for android and apple users

580
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:23,680
stand in front of the property take a
picture of it it's

581
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:29,040
it comes to us
it tells the gps address gives you a

582
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,040
comment section

583
00:53:39,740 --> 00:53:43,839
[Music]
ownership

584
00:53:53,599 --> 00:53:56,880
you know we've got five years

585
00:54:18,300 --> 00:54:21,339
[Music]

586
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:28,240
there's less work for your coding credit
enforcement where they can concentrate a

587
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:33,440
little bit throw their resources at
because some of those properties where

588
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:38,960
the owner is not existing really hard to
do

589
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:38,960
they're not going to comply you can stay

590
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,440
um

591
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:30,000
for some reason if we were unable to
create that they're not responsible for

592
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:35,040
any shortfall so say we go through
we acquire some properties and turn

593
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,040
around we're going to sell

594
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:47,040
so it's designed to do a little bit more
work

595
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,880
uh

596
00:56:01,300 --> 00:56:08,969
[Music]

597
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:17,119
so that's what's before

598
00:56:27,839 --> 00:56:30,839
is

599
00:56:36,079 --> 00:56:42,480
if we know something that whatever you
guys can still say no

600
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:45,040
but
we're not

601
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:52,499
[Music]

602
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,960
and both of them will talk to me about
mobile controllers they know

603
00:57:00,180 --> 00:57:03,320
[Music]

604
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:14,960
but there are
many of our flighted properties

605
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:20,079
have been ignoring us
our public works folks and our judge has

606
00:57:19,359 --> 00:57:27,119
been
doing all sorts of things like them to

607
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:27,119
do code enforcement actions to clean

608
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,280
um

609
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:59,280
it to the right person
how long does that losses take

610
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:02,720
that property has been making for
i'm 42

611
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:06,640
probably boys one more than a year
and

612
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:10,559
we'll get back back so
that is a great question and that's why

613
00:58:12,559 --> 00:58:18,799
if you look at a piece of property where
um there's

614
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:23,000
say ownership is disease
you know everybody knew him yeah

615
00:58:43,740 --> 00:58:51,040
[Music]
we have to find as many as possible

616
00:58:48,559 --> 00:58:51,040
potential

617
00:59:01,359 --> 00:59:11,119
and you might end up having to
serve a personal service

618
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:15,280
january 11 12 different individuals
you would cost about a hundred dollars

619
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:18,720
per show for a cycle
and

620
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:23,839
the costs feed up
the the ability to do that

621
00:59:20,799 --> 00:59:28,160
what the real property tax
is if we have somebody like yourself

622
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:32,400
that says that property's been
vacant for

623
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:36,880
power long but as long as it's over the
last 12 months

624
00:59:34,559 --> 00:59:43,680
we don't have to serve them with service
personnel we post it in the communities

625
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:47,000
we'll have it posted at the courthouse
city hall

626
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,440
website

627
01:00:06,690 --> 01:00:19,280
[Music]
and so they move fast and so from the

628
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,280
moment we filed that

629
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:26,079
vacancy
and applied for the warrant two to three

630
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,079
months later

631
01:00:26,319 --> 01:00:32,000
and once it goes to sale you know the
property owners

632
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:35,680
their rent needs to pay the taxes they
pay the taxes

633
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:39,480
um
we tell them it's a cleanup effort and

634
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:46,899
you have these properties
[Music]

635
01:00:54,559 --> 01:00:59,680
knowledge of the property it doesn't
have to be a counterfeit

636
01:00:58,079 --> 01:01:04,079
it doesn't have to be a city staff
person

637
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:08,319
[Music]
and if you know this this

638
01:01:06,799 --> 01:01:15,440
code
section in the tax code came out of the

639
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:15,440
metroplex in harris county

640
01:01:16,799 --> 01:01:19,799
um

641
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:41,040
does look at each one's cleanup

642
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,240
eyesores

643
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,760
okay

644
01:02:09,780 --> 01:02:12,819
[Music]

645
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:21,240
we go from the process

646
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:39,200
and what it is is kind of those
properties that have been forgotten

647
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:42,839
and out of the economy basically
nobody's paying taxes

648
01:02:54,270 --> 01:02:57,460
[Music]

649
01:02:59,610 --> 01:03:02,939
[Music]

650
01:03:09,599 --> 01:03:15,720
how many years i mean i personally have
bought

651
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:34,799
some of them you know are 15 years okay
and some of them would just be a few

652
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:38,559
years
what what values

653
01:03:39,039 --> 01:03:42,039
uh

654
01:03:46,350 --> 01:03:52,849
[Music]

655
01:03:53,839 --> 01:03:58,119
one of the reasons is

656
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:26,960
you don't see all the ones that don't go
to sale you kind of see the

657
01:04:27,170 --> 01:04:30,300
[Music]

658
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:49,240
and then like say if someone is not paid
for five years did they just add that to

659
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:49,240
it yeah

660
01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:04,160
um
there's not a ton of that that's not

661
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:11,179
in some sort of agreement or some sort
of referral yeah

662
01:05:06,350 --> 01:05:11,179
[Music]

663
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,920
um

664
01:06:02,559 --> 01:06:05,200
the person

665
01:06:05,340 --> 01:06:08,399
[Music]

666
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:20,559
so
i mean i didn't know how that worked

667
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:40,940
but yeah have a certain figure like
once it becomes a thousand dollars

668
01:06:37,890 --> 01:06:40,940
[Music]

669
01:06:48,650 --> 01:06:52,429
[Music]

670
01:06:57,620 --> 01:07:03,179
[Music]

671
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:14,599
collected
[Music]

672
01:07:26,319 --> 01:07:38,359
someone has you know her taxes
say four thousand dollars a year versus

673
01:07:34,160 --> 01:07:38,359
five hundred dollars a year

674
01:08:22,799 --> 01:08:24,960
and

675
01:08:31,279 --> 01:08:34,279
uh

676
01:08:36,529 --> 01:08:39,608
[Music]

677
01:08:44,799 --> 01:08:53,159
because
you know if it doesn't sell

678
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:53,159
taxes get paid

679
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:59,890
[Music]
take these properties and do something

680
01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:03,009
with it
[Music]

681
01:09:17,839 --> 01:09:21,839
we've executed some more

682
01:09:26,480 --> 01:09:32,359
uh out here kind of on the western side

683
01:09:36,480 --> 01:09:39,480
uh

684
01:10:02,719 --> 01:10:08,679
i made a notation on this contract for
that last paragraph

685
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:32,579
[Music]

686
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:43,159
and uh

687
01:10:48,930 --> 01:10:51,979
[Music]

688
01:10:59,340 --> 01:11:02,409
[Music]

689
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:08,440
thank you very much

690
01:11:09,270 --> 01:11:12,339
[Music]

691
01:11:34,239 --> 01:11:40,159
awarding an engineering
contract related to the american

692
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:40,159
wrestling plan

693
01:11:40,350 --> 01:11:43,509
[Music]

694
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:54,400
west texas consultants
[Music]

695
01:11:51,679 --> 01:11:58,320
i mean they were all fairly close
points but in terms of familiarity with

696
01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:01,920
west texas water
and the things we want him to try to do

697
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:05,920
uh
uh

698
01:12:02,719 --> 01:12:10,480
dean one and the sentence so i need your
permission to sign

699
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:15,199
resolution from secrets texas authorized
professional service provider selection

700
01:12:12,719 --> 01:12:20,000
for broadband's local official recovery
fund programs

701
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:23,280
to the american rescue plan act of 2029
and we selected

702
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:57,679
you have everybody's detailed reports
i'm hoping you're finding those helpful

703
01:12:55,280 --> 01:13:01,040
to you a couple things i want to point
out on what the chief of police can talk

704
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:04,040
about
government

705
01:13:09,650 --> 01:13:15,480
[Music]
um

706
01:13:15,910 --> 01:13:21,399
[Music]

707
01:13:23,850 --> 01:13:26,939
[Music]

708
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:37,199
so dan's gonna post it again and see if
we can get some more money for it

709
01:13:36,239 --> 01:13:41,080
uh
real quickly um

710
01:13:49,890 --> 01:13:53,100
[Music]

711
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:04,880
this unit is one of the
very last ones that's available

712
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:10,360
they are having to
transit in

713
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:10,360
the ships

714
01:14:16,620 --> 01:14:20,929
[Music]

715
01:14:26,480 --> 01:14:33,280
several local uh
leaderships

716
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:38,640
again
charges are usually the cheapest thing i

717
01:14:36,239 --> 01:14:42,800
picked up the rank from
pick up to run about

718
01:14:40,239 --> 01:14:45,520
50 to 60 000
and so

719
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:51,640
you know i've talked to the mayor
talking down a little bit

720
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:51,640
uh my bill is

721
01:14:56,400 --> 01:15:01,840
it's going to cost us about
um and it all depends on what you all

722
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:06,800
want
with anything that's on the side

723
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:10,520
it's going to cost us about four to
forty five hundred dollars

724
01:15:21,180 --> 01:15:25,040
[Music]
everything

725
01:15:32,460 --> 01:15:35,590
[Music]

726
01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:38,760
um

727
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:59,320
and so i talked about for me the mayor
talked about didn't wrap

728
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:59,320
uh i called uh

729
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:03,400
and i called uh

730
01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:17,570
[Music]

731
01:16:30,750 --> 01:16:42,590
[Music]

732
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:52,960
we signed the uh
notice to proceed on the

733
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:57,520
uh
usda

734
01:16:55,600 --> 01:17:00,640
sewer infrastructure project starting
this week

735
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:04,880
by all accounts
until they immediately refunded us on

736
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:08,800
four hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars

737
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:12,080
so that's the money we hadn't
encountered

738
01:17:09,679 --> 01:17:15,920
this year's we've got it
and that money's available to establish

739
01:17:21,510 --> 01:17:24,619
[Music]

740
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:34,080
so they're going to look at it tomorrow
but the chief did an awful lot of work

741
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:36,159
advantage got deals
to

742
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:39,840
make sure that
track would all be proceeding and

743
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:44,800
actually realizes
more money than we expect so

744
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:47,760
bernays i think he's gonna start using
gun deals

745
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:52,800
at some point here she's got some clean
vehicles

746
01:17:49,199 --> 01:17:56,400
um i might be able to realize some money
what i'm asking is for a motion to log

747
01:17:54,719 --> 01:18:01,360
in by its car
and and to get it obviously

748
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:05,480
fixed up with all the police stuff and
whether you want to wrap it up

749
01:18:18,130 --> 01:18:21,180
[Music]

750
01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:27,840
well it's part of taking care of
our capital

751
01:18:34,060 --> 01:18:37,079
[Music]

752
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,550
[Music]

753
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:15,199
buildings diligently as everybody knows
and their report

754
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:20,239
shows a number of things tagging yards
et cetera et cetera

755
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:22,800
i have met with ryan lawson 361
commissioner

756
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:38,560
ryan has three houses if you guys have
previously condemned about your address

757
01:19:41,440 --> 01:19:45,890
he's hauling dirt right now he's usually
always required to do that

758
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:49,440
but
[Music]

759
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:53,600
they're going to come down
before four years in so that's the

760
01:19:51,679 --> 01:19:58,480
business and then
what what at least to me sort of the

761
01:19:55,600 --> 01:20:02,000
exciting news is that chase music
has given us permission to tear down

762
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:07,840
the motel
um not the redwood park redwood park

763
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:11,920
says that's the old cafe apartment with
the other stuff

764
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:16,360
so he signed the documents
what i need is a motion for you guys

765
01:20:22,290 --> 01:20:28,360
[Music]
is

766
01:20:30,590 --> 01:20:33,689
[Music]

767
01:20:37,750 --> 01:20:42,920
[Music]
right

768
01:20:54,940 --> 01:20:58,040
[Music]

769
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:04,800
okay uh

770
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:11,760
i have an email sent to the city from
bergeron

771
01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:19,199
saying that he wants to have a christmas
tree lighting

772
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:24,159
uh ceremony from the hotel
on december 1st

773
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:27,760
and uh alternative schedules from 5 30
to 7 30.

774
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:31,440
there'll be some free hot chocolate
microfighter music there's going to be a

775
01:21:29,679 --> 01:21:34,400
bridge in santa claus
they can be the same

776
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:41,280
grief walking in the introduction
benediction pledge of allegiance

777
01:21:39,199 --> 01:21:43,679
we're going to light the tree
and then

778
01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:49,360
and then
gareth is going to let me throw up a

779
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:49,360
switch and one more thing

780
01:21:49,440 --> 01:21:56,159
and some children are going to help so
when he has asked that was a close

781
01:21:56,760 --> 01:21:59,819
[Music]

782
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,800
running

783
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:22,320
december 2nd we bumped it one day after
some feedback from the community okay so

784
01:22:19,679 --> 01:22:22,320
december 2nd

785
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:30,410
[Music]

786
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:41,520
celebrating c grades i assume they still
work

787
01:22:40,800 --> 01:22:46,400
so
i i made a motion that you guys are good

788
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:46,400
with this

789
01:22:50,800 --> 01:22:56,569
uh
[Music]

790
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:02,360
okay

791
01:23:08,140 --> 01:23:11,339
[Music]

792
01:23:16,239 --> 01:23:22,480
okay so december 2nd we're going to have
tree legs ceremony i think that's neat

793
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:26,480
you've done a really good job with the
hotel it's nice thank you sir it really

794
01:23:24,719 --> 01:23:31,040
looks nice
a lot of us have a lot of history there

795
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:34,400
my uh
my

796
01:23:32,719 --> 01:23:39,199
wife's great grandparents stayed there
the night before parents prepared

797
01:23:36,239 --> 01:23:43,920
somebody that's a very special place
yeah so

798
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:43,920
okay emotion

799
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:50,080
all right
for both of those

800
01:23:48,480 --> 01:23:55,600
and i have a second from cindy all in
favor

801
01:23:52,400 --> 01:24:00,159
okay i don't think i finished the
administrative department head reports

802
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:03,840
did anybody have any questions before i
go on

803
01:24:01,679 --> 01:24:03,840
one

804
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:25,800
yes

805
01:24:27,770 --> 01:24:30,899
[Music]

806
01:24:34,890 --> 01:24:38,009
[Music]

807
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:51,760
they're going to start and they'll be
spreading of course

808
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:55,360
um
there's some equipment out there we need

809
01:24:53,280 --> 01:25:00,209
to get out of that but we may have to
move to the rodeo

810
01:24:57,140 --> 01:25:00,209
[Music]

811
01:25:10,990 --> 01:25:15,370
[Music]

812
01:25:22,639 --> 01:25:27,320
county
fire department

813
01:25:37,679 --> 01:25:45,120
just along that line this afternoon
i

814
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:50,480
got a proposal
from a an auction company leaves and

815
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:55,120
something i didn't have a chance to look
at it

816
01:25:51,440 --> 01:25:59,520
but they will do live auctions no charge
to the city auction anything off scrap

817
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:03,520
iron
they'll auction off the water tower once

818
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:07,520
it comes down
they'll handle that for us

819
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:11,679
and live auction
and uh i'll give i'll pass that

820
01:26:09,679 --> 01:26:14,960
information along to the council as soon
as i have a chance to look forward okay

821
01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:18,159
thank you man
anyway we're going to compare that stuff

822
01:26:16,719 --> 01:26:22,440
somehow so
just

823
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:22,440
clean up

824
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:33,359
[Music]

825
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:41,040
and that can be costly
so

826
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:45,440
anything else
all right i'm going to move on then

827
01:26:42,480 --> 01:26:47,600
public comments maybe public comments
okay

828
01:26:46,639 --> 01:26:51,440
um
any other words of discussion we'll

829
01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:55,600
actually take it this time
first uh

830
01:26:53,199 --> 01:27:01,360
pastor video martinez senior
celebrating his 58th anniversary

831
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:06,800
at their church on sunday
and uh i've been asked to uh

832
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:11,360
recognize that and um
i'm suggesting that

833
01:27:08,480 --> 01:27:17,880
i make him an honorary mayor today
i'm going to take a bunch of pivotal

834
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:17,880
forms but

835
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:24,880
and the council is invited to be there
in the church

836
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:36,560
um okay so just so you guys have that on
your calendar

837
01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:41,040
uh
pastor martijs has been a wonderful part

838
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:41,040
of our community

839
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:46,400
first and friendliest people i ever met
in this family

840
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:52,320
um
our water project the freshwater project

841
01:27:49,679 --> 01:27:55,920
uh he's working hard on
specs and other things like that you've

842
01:27:54,639 --> 01:28:00,400
already seen the
eagle water tower doing soil samples

843
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:05,360
because the new watercolor is going to
be bigger heavier needs more ground

844
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:09,120
support so we're trying to make sure
that we have the support of them we need

845
01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:12,159
and you're going to start seeing a lot
of activity like that he has not yet

846
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:17,840
done
bids on things but that's coming

847
01:28:14,719 --> 01:28:22,960
um and uh you have the money i know
um so it's just a matter of

848
01:28:20,239 --> 01:28:29,000
um well i mean you know really it's kind
of

849
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:29,000
sad before

850
01:28:30,950 --> 01:28:34,140
[Music]

851
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:48,400
he's pressing on real fast
and then i talked to mark pelletier

852
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,400
today

853
01:28:49,360 --> 01:28:55,760
he's been held up because
it's an epa i think it is

854
01:28:54,719 --> 01:29:02,000
i can't tell you what the real
floodplainer's secrets is

855
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:05,760
um and and john perkins is insisting
that

856
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:09,600
uh the new city hall is about one player
we have insurance

857
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:13,520
and perpetuity and
flood insurance that's the same street

858
01:29:11,440 --> 01:29:16,560
you're on gareth by the way
they're they're saying it might be what

859
01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:21,040
i don't
i don't there is no definition of a

860
01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:25,090
floodplain in that area we've never seen
yeah yeah i asked for a canoe for

861
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:28,189
christmas so we'll be all sad
[Music]

862
01:29:28,639 --> 01:29:34,000
so john had sent him about 10 questions
and said

863
01:29:33,199 --> 01:29:37,600
and
the floodplain issue is the biggest one

864
01:29:36,239 --> 01:29:40,639
so what he's probably going to do is
build a city hall up

865
01:29:39,440 --> 01:29:44,159
a foot
and then slope the sides away from it

866
01:29:42,560 --> 01:29:49,040
and then we'll probably have favorite
blood insurance before it's all right

867
01:29:46,480 --> 01:29:58,710
that's going to be the answer to john
has a conditional

868
01:29:50,660 --> 01:29:58,710
[Music]

869
01:30:08,239 --> 01:30:14,800
they contacted me today they have the
servers for both police department and

870
01:30:13,679 --> 01:30:19,840
city hall
however with the audit going on i told

871
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:24,639
them they'd better postpone till next
week for that

872
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:29,120
we have talked to them zach it's their
one who is working with us and

873
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:33,760
uh dan and his staff are very impressive
zach i'm very impressed with zach he's

874
01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:37,760
doing what he's telling us
needs to be done so

875
01:30:35,679 --> 01:30:40,800
we've been very pleased with the service
we're getting we're on their contract

876
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:44,080
now
you can call me

877
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:46,800
voice over internet so i'm always
celebrating

878
01:30:47,199 --> 01:30:56,159
we've got two different bids one from
verizon and then one from cpsi

879
01:30:52,320 --> 01:31:01,840
ctsis on a third of the cost yes and
quite a bit more capability

880
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:07,679
it's actually less money per month than
we're paying right now

881
01:31:04,719 --> 01:31:07,679
it makes sense for us

882
01:31:08,400 --> 01:31:13,920
so ours is currently a firm in georgia
or alabama

883
01:31:13,199 --> 01:31:18,480
yeah
so

884
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:20,560
we have police have these guys but
so

885
01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:24,560
okay
anything else

886
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:27,040
all right i'm sorry mayor did item 11
get addressed

887
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:30,120
oh

888
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:38,600
okay

889
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:51,280
[Music]
main street segregates llc

890
01:32:04,750 --> 01:32:16,039
[Music]
um

891
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:16,039
[Music]

892
01:32:30,239 --> 01:32:38,480
well actually i i don't have it
memorized okay exactly well there is a

893
01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:38,480
60-day period

894
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:41,199
it sounds

895
01:32:55,720 --> 01:32:58,890
[Music]

896
01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:11,789
[Music]

897
01:33:15,540 --> 01:33:18,680
[Music]

898
01:33:23,110 --> 01:33:26,149
[Music]

899
01:33:48,400 --> 01:33:53,749
since he
[Music]

900
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:10,560
yeah uh but he's you know he did a list
you know last week according to the

901
01:34:08,639 --> 01:34:12,800
process
but

902
01:34:17,040 --> 01:34:23,120
the city council um have to approve the
agreements

903
01:34:20,639 --> 01:34:27,280
and pass a resolution so i think that's
what we

904
01:34:24,239 --> 01:34:32,390
need to do can we do that on this
meeting on the 18th you could do that

905
01:34:30,480 --> 01:34:35,489
tonight
[Music]

906
01:35:00,150 --> 01:35:03,189
[Music]

907
01:35:11,679 --> 01:35:18,400
so we can put it
yeah we can we can put it on the 18th

908
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:21,760
i'll get you copies of the agreements
what she's

909
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:25,119
reading from movement
is on the agreement

910
01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:29,400
so that's part of the contract

911
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:47,000
okay

912
01:36:00,010 --> 01:36:03,069
[Music]

913
01:36:17,310 --> 01:36:20,419
[Music]

914
01:36:25,170 --> 01:36:28,220
[Music]

915
01:36:36,239 --> 01:36:38,480
okay

916
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:53,920
you're basically going to endorse
the

917
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:58,800
economic development board is a branch
of government so

918
01:36:55,600 --> 01:37:04,480
you have to approve anything they do
so she's recommending these agreements

919
01:37:02,480 --> 01:37:07,920
if you feel comfortable with them then
you would endorse those agreements being

920
01:37:06,719 --> 01:37:12,400
signed
once they're signed we publish a notice

921
01:37:10,480 --> 01:37:16,320
of the newspaper
saying that these agreements have been

922
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:22,880
approved by the council
and they're going to wait for 60 days to

923
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:27,679
see if citizens organize some protest
circulate a petition that's to give them

924
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:30,820
time to organize and circulate a
petition

925
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:36,320
to call for an election
[Music]

926
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:40,159
if that doesn't happen after 60 days
then

927
01:37:37,520 --> 01:37:43,719
we go ahead with the last part of that
whatever the stipulations

928
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:54,320
so these minutes that
i'm wanting to get i'll make those

929
01:37:52,639 --> 01:37:57,920
available to you these are public
documents

930
01:37:55,440 --> 01:38:02,960
you all will get a copy of these minutes
where to discuss what you said all about

931
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:06,760
and
the agreements themselves

932
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:18,899
[Music]

933
01:38:20,910 --> 01:38:25,510
[Music]

934
01:38:29,679 --> 01:38:33,620
from the last business that was given
them

935
01:38:32,800 --> 01:38:36,080
from hey
[Music]

936
01:38:35,199 --> 01:38:38,719
so
we kind of

937
01:38:37,440 --> 01:38:41,440
love it
yes and that's what i told

938
01:38:40,639 --> 01:38:48,989
you
this is my first time

939
01:38:44,830 --> 01:38:48,989
[Music]

940
01:38:56,960 --> 01:39:00,040
to go

941
01:39:20,820 --> 01:39:24,070
[Music]

942
01:39:24,480 --> 01:39:30,400
11 18 at 6 30
is our meeting to do the

943
01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:33,119
blind
redistricting and then we'll deal with

944
01:39:32,320 --> 01:39:36,639
this
economic development issue

945
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:41,800
and then
december 13th

946
01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:41,800
correct

947
01:39:45,370 --> 01:39:48,439
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948
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:52,520
these are your districts

949
01:40:06,719 --> 01:40:09,719
yes

950
01:40:21,119 --> 01:40:27,749
well in life
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951
01:40:40,370 --> 01:40:43,420
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952
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:58,800
is
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953
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:06,719
ethnicity population

954
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:13,280
when someone examined it there
moved it there

955
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:19,840
maybe not
imbalanced

956
01:41:20,639 --> 01:41:23,639
um

957
01:41:43,679 --> 01:41:49,360
all the way down
to 180

958
01:41:46,560 --> 01:41:54,159
and then east of seminole
there's a little bit of stuff around the

959
01:41:50,960 --> 01:41:59,800
edges of the symbol various precincts
appreciate the ones

960
01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:59,800
so we've got

961
01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:13,000
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i don't think

962
01:42:28,480 --> 01:42:31,880
thank you guys