[0:04] Okay, good evening one more time. Okay, please join me in standing for the invocation to be given by Council Member Clark. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we ask for your presence and guidance in this town council meeting tonight. Grant us clarity, open hearts, and a spirit of respect as we consider each agenda item. May this meeting be productive and respectful and beneficial to all. Please bless this town.

[0:33] and its people, and help this Council work together for the prosperity and the well-being

[0:39] of the community.

[0:40] Thank you for bringing this Council together to serve our community.

[0:44] Your holy name, amen.

[0:46] Amen.

[0:47] Please join me standing for the political allegiance.

[0:51] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which

[0:57] it stands.

[0:58] One nation under God, individualism, with liberty and justice for all.

[1:10] Please be seated.

[1:13] Would you have any counsel, staff and members of the audience?

[1:16] Welcome everybody to the town council meeting for Monday, January 27th.

[1:21] Time is 7 or 4. I am going to call the meeting to the order.

[1:25] We have all council members except Mr. Larry Allen with six other seven council members

[1:34] First item is announced, the procedure in the Texas government

[1:38] code section 551.0415 may or may or may or may or may or may

[1:43] report on various items listed on the agenda.

[1:46] Counts and we have the announcement to make.

[1:52] Staff, we have the announcements.

[1:55] Mayor and council, I do have a couple.

[1:58] Give me just a second.

[2:00] The Sunnyvale PD is still currently accepting applications and

[2:03] encourages Sunnyvale residents to apply for the upcoming

[2:06] citizen's police academy that will be held on Thursday nights right here at

[2:10] Town Hall from 6.30 to 9 p.m. beginning February the 12th and running through April

[2:15] the 12th. The citizen's police academy has a 10-week hands-on learning

[2:20] learning opportunity. The doors pageant public library hosts story time on Wednesdays

[2:25] at 10.30 and the library book club meets on the third Wednesday of each month at

[2:29] 5.30 p.m. and that's all I have. Mayor and council I do have one just quick

[2:35] update. For those of you may not have subscribed to our weekly newsletter that

[2:40] goes out on Fridays our electronic news flash did want to call out one

[2:44] little article. We had a a dog that was in our animal shelter for over a year

[2:50] 400 and what is it 418 or 41 418 days. Codak he was a is a German Shepherd missing

[2:59] a tail. He had some anxiety when he first brought him into the animal shelter.

[3:03] We got him treated at the vet.

[3:07] 418 days later he was adopted by another Sunnyvale family and we are proud to see videos

[3:13] that he's doing quite well at his home and so just wanted to give a shout out to everybody

[3:18] who's worked down at the animal shelter including the friends of the animals in Sunnyvale and

[3:24] everybody who helped try to get that dog adopted and we never gave up on him 400 and some

[3:30] on Mondays later he's found a new home here in Sunnyvale and so we hope to see more

[3:35] success stories like code acts so just wanted to give a shout out to Code Act and to his

[3:39] new family here in Sunnyvale.

[3:41] Thank you Jeff for the beautiful story.

[3:43] Appreciate it.

[3:44] Okay.

[3:44] I'm going to close that item.

[3:46] This is the time for public comments.

[3:48] This is the time that birds of the audience may come forward and speak to the council or

[3:51] any items other than personal matters or legal matters or items on the agenda.

[3:57] If you are here to speak to the council, I ask that you fill it, that card, and limit

[4:02] your coverage to three minutes.

[4:04] At this time, I would invite the public to come forward and speak to the council.

[4:07] Mayor and council looks like I have four in front of me.

[4:11] The first one is Ross Miracle, 291, Old Mill Road, Sunnyvale.

[4:17] You need to be siblings, okay?

[4:19] Good to see you again.

[4:20] I

[4:24] appreciate you taking the time to one volunteer for the town and also to hear from the public on various matters.

[4:32] I've been a resident of this town, well really since 1987, but came back to raise my own family in 2013.

[4:40] Since that time, we have three children, all three are active in sports and I am currently the president of Sarisza, the Civil Raiders Youth Sports Association.

[4:49] We have had a great relationship so far with the Senate of LSD when it comes to using

[4:54] ball fields, using facilities, gyms, but one thing that we have struggled with so far

[5:00] is having that same partnership thus far with the town, or at least to that same extent

[5:04] with the town.

[5:06] Currently, our baseball and softball teams utilize one baseball diamond at Jobs & Park.

[5:11] And it's difficult to do with so many teams with a compressed schedule.

[5:19] And especially with daylight savings time, there really is an opportunity to practice

[5:24] very much with no lights whatsoever.

[5:26] Now I know that since 2018, there's been discussions about expanding the parks, expanding the

[5:31] ball field capabilities within the sound, and thus far those comments have seemed to

[5:38] fallen on deaf ears.

[5:40] You know, in 2018, my oldest son was just beginning his first

[5:45] share of 4-U T-Ball.

[5:46] And now he's a fifth grader, and soon he will age out of being

[5:51] able to utilize the town or utilize a town owned jobs in

[5:55] park.

[5:57] And it's unfortunate because we've, I wouldn't say we've had a

[6:00] whole generation go by, but we've definitely had kids of a

[6:03] certain age who would want to use jobs and who haven't really

[6:06] have the opportunity to fully use it and it's full utilization, and I'm afraid with

[6:12] the new park's concept, with the prospect of not adding any more ball fields to jobs

[6:19] in park, that can is going to be kicked down the road where another group of children

[6:24] aren't going to be able to utilize that either.

[6:27] I know there's been some talk of using Samuel North for parks, but I feel like that plan

[6:34] Again, it seems very quick-sotic and not as reliable as just adding on to jobs in a situation

[6:41] where we could work with the homeowners.

[6:44] We could work to have lights that don't stay on for an extended period of time.

[6:49] And really, we can find a balance between the homeowners and the people who, the entire town,

[6:58] who want to utilize the parks for their kids sports teams at such a young age when there's really no other options to in this town.

[7:06] Thank you very much for your all-time and attention and have a great evening.

[7:10] Thank you Mr. Berkert.

[7:12] Mayor and council, the next one is Fuddy Finney, 310 Riverdale Road, Sunnyvale.

[7:21] What do you have here, sir?

[7:22] Mr. Mayor, councilmembers, staff, this is my first go at any of y'all's meetings and bring any sort of commentary, but

[7:30] I just wanted to echo what Ross Miracle just said about youth sports here in

[7:36] Sunnyvale. I grew up in Lyle about six years ago. We moved my life and I we moved

[7:42] from Lyle to Sunnyvale because partially because we had heard of what great

[7:47] community it was, great schools and typically when you hear great schools and

[7:51] great community you also hear great families with great kids and we've found

[7:56] that to be true here in Sunnyvale but as far as the facilities from the town as

[8:00] as far as use sports, it's pretty pathetic.

[8:05] It's definitely not to the standards

[8:06] of what I think our town can provide for its kids.

[8:09] And so I just wanted to come forward

[8:11] and let you guys know, I mean,

[8:13] it's a T-ball field that's over there without lights.

[8:15] I was over there today.

[8:16] I met my son at five o'clock.

[8:18] Him and his buddy, Shep Becker.

[8:20] And we tossed the ball around,

[8:22] but there was already a six-use softball team

[8:24] that was already on the field.

[8:25] There was another dad with his son

[8:27] that was already using the batting cage.

[8:28] So went out to left field, but there should be more than one small T ball field that's in Sunnyvale

[8:33] And I think we got the land over there

[8:36] 2018 to now that's seven years like Ross use the term. It's definitely been kicked down cam down the road

[8:43] My son's a fifth grader. So I don't know how much this is going to affect him as far as

[8:47] Possibilities of using fields like that

[8:49] However, there's some dad that has a kindergarten right now that you know

[8:54] I don't want him having that same conversation with you guys five years from now six years from now

[8:58] So, just want to bring it to your attention.

[9:00] This is really important to the key parents in Sunnyvale.

[9:04] And, you know, we'd like to see some action on it.

[9:07] So, appreciate you all's help.

[9:09] Thank you.

[9:09] Thanks for coming.

[9:10] Appreciate it.

[9:13] Nick Talbot, 334, Yosemite Falls Drafts, Sunnyvale.

[9:22] Thank you, Ben.

[9:23] Thank you for all your guys' dues, price, price, same topic.

[9:26] But, you know, just to echo what these guys were saying,

[9:31] we were actually kind of talking for this.

[9:32] I felt like we were in this exact same position a year ago, talking about these parks, talking

[9:38] about, you know, designing them, things like that, and here we find ourselves a year

[9:42] later and nothing's really been done.

[9:44] And to further expand on that point, you know, I know a lot of times we reference a 2021

[9:50] master parks plan that's still on the town website that not many things have been checked

[9:55] off the list, you know.

[9:57] So to these guys' points, I'm involved with Sarissa.

[10:00] I get calls every single day because the team doesn't have a place to practice.

[10:04] Kids don't have a place to go, don't have something to do, and we're constantly juggling

[10:08] that and trying to figure it out.

[10:09] The school district has worked well with us.

[10:11] I think there's an opportunity that's referenced in that park's plan to partner with the school

[10:15] district on more facilities, do some things like jobs in park places that we own.

[10:21] But just asking you guys to take some action to further move this long, a little quicker

[10:26] so that like these guys say, we don't have a whole other generation of kids here that

[10:30] miss out on the opportunities here and down.

[10:32] So, appreciate you guys.

[10:34] Thank you, Dick.

[10:37] Trevor Lunt, 281 Ashwood Lane.

[10:42] Give us a shout out to you.

[10:44] Good evening, council, staff.

[10:47] Same topic.

[10:49] When I was getting ready to do this, I realized that this is probably,

[10:52] I noticed my third, possibly fourth year

[10:54] of kind of putting together some information

[10:56] for you guys about the youth baseball here in Sunnyvale.

[11:01] So I've been directly involved with it for now about eight years, whether that's a coach, commissioner, and we're still growing.

[11:14] Every year, I tell you guys, this year, we've got 135-plus baseball players only signed up with Sarissa.

[11:20] We've also got two or three teams in town that I know of, could be a couple more that aren't tied with Sarissa.

[11:27] more of like a travel type situation. We've also got softball. So we've probably got close to

[11:36] 20 teams that played baseball on here comprised of anywhere from 9 to 13, 14, maybe more kids on

[11:42] each team.

[11:45] The demand is there. The supply's not. And that's why I feel that this council is essentially

[11:53] failing like they said, not a generation but a group of kids. My kid won't be able to benefit

[11:59] it from. My girl might, if she sticks with it, she's not exactly showing that that's

[12:04] going to be the case, but that's fine. But there's a whole group of kids here that would

[12:09] benefit. And I don't throw something new out there. Since we've been talking about

[12:14] this, Johnson's now outdated. It's outdated. We might as well have that little backstop

[12:21] by the church on Beltline at this point. No, it's not that bad. But we're getting there

[12:28] while we just sit and take no action so I wanted to give you guys a quick run

[12:34] down as I always do second grade alone so we're just talking about the

[12:40] elementary school not talking about intermediate we're not talking about middle

[12:43] elementary school alone and down there are eight teams of kids if you add in the

[12:53] intermediate school that adds four more. You're at 12. Middle school has one as

[12:59] well. That suggests Sarissa. And we have one field for 13 teams to try and get

[13:06] better at. Sports is important. It keeps our kids from going down the wrong path

[13:13] at a certain point in life.

[13:17] And we're not doing anything to cultivate that. Some of

[13:21] us are, but we need your support. We need your support. Again, we have one field. I want

[13:29] to give a shout out. I know Kodat got his due earlier, but also to Zatgear and Cody Stutz

[13:35] with the high school. They help us out a lot with letting us borrow their fields softball

[13:40] in high school. So they help accommodate all these kids. We got a lot of construction coming

[13:45] up with the passing of this bond. And if we start breaking ground someday at

[13:51] Jopson, there's going to be a little time where we've got to, you know, figure

[13:56] something out, but we've got to start acting. Otherwise, it's going to be our

[14:01] grandkids that get this. So I'm asking you guys as a group, somebody take

[14:07] action and spearhead this and get it going for this town. And I appreciate your

[14:12] time. Thank you, Trello. Everybody has Rachel? Yes, Sarah Mark McClune, 245 Barnes Bridge

[14:19] Road.

[14:23] I'm here to echo what they're talking about with Sarissa with baseball fields, but

[14:28] beyond baseball it's also football, soccer, lacrosse. We've got a ton of sports that are

[14:33] growing. A lot of these fields have really big trenches in them. I don't know what else

[14:40] to call them at this point, but you know simply they're just unusable certain

[14:44] hearts of the year whether it's too dry or too wet. If it's too wet you don't

[14:49] want to run out there and destroy the fields either. I do understand that turf

[14:56] artificial grass is expensive however.

[15:00] In the long term, it's much more beneficial, it's cheaper, and the fields will get used a lot more. The last thing too, I think there's a real opportunity here for the town, Sarissa, and the school district to get some synergies going with fields that are either on campus or have school use town fields and kind of, you know, figure out some way that just more fields can be used in the city.

[15:29] the town, whether it's on campus or on town facilities.

[15:34] There's a lot of homes being built.

[15:36] There's more people coming in here.

[15:37] So whatever we do today, if we decide, you know,

[15:40] A, B, and C, it needs to be fixed.

[15:41] Five years from now, it's going to be not enough.

[15:44] So I do think looking further into the future

[15:48] is a good idea as well.

[15:49] Thank you.

[15:50] Thank you.

[15:51] I appreciate it.

[15:53] Anybody else who would like to?

[15:54] Mayor, that's all I have.

[15:56] Okay, if there's anyone else who would like to come forward,

[15:58] I want to speak to the council right to please come forward.

[16:04] No, since can be forwards, we're going to close the public

[16:06] harbours, moving on to the recreation.

[16:09] Recognition of employee service award recipients.

[16:12] Mayor and council, I'd like to ask LaTosha Miller, HR manager,

[16:15] to come up to the podium just as a by way of quick introduction.

[16:20] This is our first formalized service awards program

[16:23] that LaTosha has been instrumental in putting together

[16:26] for all of our employees.

[16:28] Overall, we have a fairly young workforce in terms of years of service to the town,

[16:32] but we do have a few that have been here for quite a while.

[16:35] We do have a 20-year service award winner who couldn't be here tonight because she is ill,

[16:41] but we are hoping to reschedule her to the next council meeting.

[16:44] And I can get the police and fire chief maybe to convince their employee of the year winners,

[16:49] maybe to show up at that meeting as well.

[16:51] We'll have a few more introductions at the next meeting.

[16:53] But right now we do have some five-year service award winners that we would like to introduce

[16:58] and Kudos to Latasha Miller for kind of steer heading this program for us for our first

[17:04] ever service awards program for town employees.

[17:08] Thank you.

[17:09] Good evening, Mary and Council.

[17:10] I would like to thank the town manager, Jeff Jones, and each of you for this opportunity

[17:14] to present our first annual service awards.

[17:17] As a retiree from the Texas Department of Transportation, I understand that commitment

[17:21] an individual makes to an organization, and I am so proud to be a part of the town of

[17:26] Sunnyvale and the commitment that each of these employees have accomplished.

[17:31] So again, I'm excited to welcome you to our first annual service award ceremony, a special

[17:36] occasion dedicated to celebrating our incredible employees.

[17:40] We are thrilled to acknowledge and celebrate the amazing dedication and contributions of our

[17:44] employees who have reached significant milestones with the town of Sunnyvale.

[17:47] So, service awards are under employees who have reached milestones in five year increments.

[17:53] The town of San Diego would like to thank each of you for your unwavering dedication

[17:57] and for being an essential part of the town.

[18:00] Your service inspires us all and we look forward to celebrating many more future achievements.

[18:05] So everybody help me celebrate their milestones as a reminder of the power of teamwork and

[18:10] commitment.

[18:11] So, I would like to invite our Chief Vegas and Lieutenant Bromett, please.

[18:25] And please, after you finish, I would like you to come back and take a picture with our

[18:29] amazing counsel in our town, Mitch.

[18:31] So, this award is presented to Benton Bromett, better known as BJ.

[18:39] We love it.

[18:40] So he is currently the lieutenant and I appreciate along with the town his commitment and his dedication to the to the city or to the town

[18:49] I'm sorry, so he has been presented with his award here and we also as with the police department

[18:55] We give him a service bar. This bar attaches to his uniform. So this is his five-year

[19:12] All

[19:24] right, good evening, Mayor and Council.

[19:27] Tonight I'd like to present Zach Guthrie with his five-year award.

[19:33] Zach plays a pretty critical role for the town's public works department and

[19:38] that he's our primary inspector of not only city infrastructure jobs, but

[19:44] also private development work as well.

[19:47] and he's also been involved in some of the storm water inspection program that we've implemented here at the town as well.

[19:56] And so I'm a half of William Kerney who wasn't able to be here tonight due to his mom having some health issues.

[20:03] I'd like to go ahead and present this award to Mr. Zachary Guthrie.

[20:14] So Mark, we'd also like to call Apollo Pedro.

[20:17] All right,

[20:28] and next we have Mr. Paulo, Pedro, and Paulo, he's obviously been with us for five years as well, and it's part of our key team within the Public Works Department.

[20:41] I can't tell you how many times I've gone out on a water meter break, waterline break, and Paulo's out there in the middle of it, whether it's rain or cold freezing cold or hot July day.

[20:56] And, you know, Paulo's really been a valuable employee to us and we're really blessed to have him here at the town of Sonnyville.

[21:02] So Paulo, congratulations on five years to the town.

[21:12] Next Rachel Kahabi, please and this star.

[21:28] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[21:30] I want to present this to Liz, Liz Star.

[21:34] She's been with us for five years.

[21:35] She does an outstanding job in utility billing.

[21:38] She's always friendly, she's smiling.

[21:40] She will go over and beyond a lot of days to help people out even if it's not even in her department

[21:46] So even if I thank you lays out appreciate all that you do

[21:50] And

[21:57] next I would like to ask Chief Coyote and Peggy

[22:00] Good evening

[22:09] All three of the wonderful people I get to present tonight have all been for five years

[22:14] Though Peggy was also part time for a while before that. She's of our fire services administration

[22:21] I know when I first came and was trying to figure out a lot of where things were and how

[22:27] things were done, she was very invaluable to helping me figure a lot of that out.

[22:32] So I'm thankful for her and for her time that's here so that she knew all that back history

[22:37] of stuff to help us out.

[22:39] So join me in appreciating her five years of service.

[22:49] Her name is, please.

[22:59] Okay.

[22:59] Okay, Morrow has again been with us five years and was actually this year's firefighter

[23:07] of the year.

[23:08] And it's actually his second time doing it, correct?

[23:11] I believe it's the second time to win it, so twice in five years.

[23:23] Not least would be Mike Youngblood.

[23:30] So Michael Youngblood or everybody knows him as YB.

[23:35] He may have been here five years, but he actually is a wealth of experience for us because he

[23:41] retired from Rallette before he came here.

[23:44] So he actually brings a lot of experience to a very young department.

[23:48] So we're very excited for the time that he's been with us.

[23:59] If I can please ask Council in all our recipients to come back up please and take a photo and thank

[24:04] you so much everybody.

[24:17] I'm going to be here.

[24:23] That's like a block.

[24:31] Let's see if there's a couple of steps.

[24:38] We've got room in behind here to you.

[24:42] Here we go.

[24:43] You get a solid under Rachel.

[24:45] Okay.

[24:48] No.

[24:49] No.

[24:49] All right.

[24:53] That's fun.

[25:04] Thank you.

[25:05] Congratulations.

[25:06] Congratulations.

[25:07] Thank you.

[25:08] Congratulations.

[25:09] Thank you.

[25:11] Thank you.

[25:12] Thank you.

[25:16] Thank you.

[25:47] Can we have two items on the consent agenda? I am going to pull item number 1, I am

[25:54] about right? I'm sorry, you are right. There are four items and a

[25:59] consideration that I'm going to pull the first one and we'll bring it back later,

[26:03] right Rachel? Right after you do this motion. The first two. Okay, there was item I won.

[26:13] Yeah. So item number two, three and four would anyone like to remove any of those

[26:18] items from the consideration?

[26:24] Okay, if not, can I have a motion to approve

[26:26] Two consideration items, item I, two, three, and four.

[26:29] So may I make a motion to approve, consent, and agenda items, two, three, and four, as presented?

[26:36] Second.

[26:37] Motion made by Mr. Fidz, seconded by Mr. Eldridge.

[26:40] Everyone heard the motion, all in favor, signify?

[26:44] All opposed, motion passed, six of Mr. Allen, he's absent.

[26:47] Rachel, I've been bringing that all back.

[26:50] Mayor and council, we can actually go ahead and vote on it.

[26:52] I just needed you to pull it from consent so that I can make a correction.

[26:55] On the agenda, it states that it's the minutes for December the 9th, 2024, and that should have stated January the 13th, 2024.

[27:02] So if in your motion you could state to approve the minutes for January the 13th, I would appreciate that.

[27:08] Okay. Council, that's the only reason why I poured that adjunct off of the consent portion.

[27:13] Okay. Other questions or discussions on it?

[27:16] If not, can I have a motion, please?

[27:18] May I make a motion to approve minutes from January 13th, 2025, as presented?

[27:24] Thank you.

[27:25] I would have heard the motion.

[27:27] Second.

[27:28] Second.

[27:31] Motion made by Mr. Finch.

[27:32] Second by Eldridge.

[27:33] I would have heard the motion.

[27:35] Are there any discussions?

[27:37] If not, all in favor, signify.

[27:40] All opposed.

[27:40] Motion passed.

[27:41] Sixth of its reality is absent.

[27:43] Thank you.

[27:45] Moving on to the presentation of the updates,

[27:47] portion of the agenda.

[27:48] I am about J-1.

[27:50] Discuss and hear an update related to the quarterly financial report.

[27:55] Board at the investment report.

[27:58] Good evening,

[28:02] Mayor, Council, staff, audience,

[28:08] Rachel, can you pull up?

[28:09] Do you need quarterly or do you need the investment?

[28:11] The quarterly, please.

[28:13] Thank you.

[28:14] You're welcome.

[28:19] I had a PowerPoint.

[28:21] Sorry.

[28:22] Let me find that for you.

[28:33] Is this it, Michaela?

[28:35] There's another one just like that, but it's for the financials.

[28:41] I'm going to need you all to start the legal one.

[28:42] It says financials.

[28:49] I'm sorry about that, that's okay.

[28:52] Today I'm here to present our quarterly financials for December 31st, 2024.

[28:58] This is the first quarter of the new year.

[29:03] We're approximately 25% through the year.

[29:07] The general fund revenue is at $5.7 million and we've collected about 36% of our revenue.

[29:16] even though we're about 25% through the year.

[29:20] This is really on par with kind of where we were last year at 33%.

[29:25] Again, we received the majority of our property taxes

[29:28] in the end of December and beginning of January.

[29:33] Out of our total revenue collected on the year today,

[29:37] our revenue, as you can see, is 57% is our property tax.

[29:42] And so we budgeted to get about 39% of our total revenue as property tax but as of right

[29:49] now the revenue that we've received to date most of its property tax and you'll see

[29:54] that this quarter as well as next quarter.

[30:00] Right now, sales tax is up about 1% compared to where we budgeted. We did do a very flat budget. Our budget was 1.6 million. We've collected about 1.7 million to date. General fund sales tax as well as 4B is also the sales tax split between the general fund and 4B.

[30:28] General fund expense is budgeted at 15 million. And we've spent about 3 million today.

[30:33] which is about 19.7% of the total budget.

[30:36] So we are on target to actually be a little bit below budget.

[30:40] We do have a contingency of about $500,000 in there.

[30:45] Just in case sales tax comes in lower than what we expected.

[30:48] So if you pull that contingency out, we're about 21% of expenditure.

[30:52] So we're still under the 25% benchmark that we're looking for.

[30:58] For the Water and Serif Fund, I'm sorry, excuse me,

[31:02] the debt service fund. We have collected about 40% of the property taxes for our debt.

[31:07] We are getting ready to make our payments here. They're due February 15th.

[31:12] We'll be paying approximately $3 million out in debt service payments for this fiscal year.

[31:22] For utility fund, revenues budgeted at $10 million. And we have collected about $2.3 million.

[31:30] and we're about 23% of revenue.

[31:33] This is our low water usage month,

[31:35] so typically your higher usage months are gonna be

[31:38] in the summertime when people watering and stuff like that.

[31:41] So we are pretty close to where we expect to be.

[31:45] Also, the water rate increase will go into effect

[31:49] on the next bill as well.

[31:52] So that will also affect some of the revenue.

[31:56] 4 expenses were at 15.5 million which is about 20.5 percent of the budget and a good portion

[32:03] of that is because we have already spent 1.5 million on projects and we did budget

[32:09] to spend down 5 million dollars this year for capital projects and our total capital

[32:14] projects budget is about 7.1 million.

[32:16] So we are paying for Harris Road additions, the utility, water line relocation on US 80.

[32:27] So those are the things that are coming out of the water and sewer budget, as well as

[32:32] the trip road water line that one's coming out as well.

[32:36] So for water sales and sewer sales you can see right here how we've compared to prior

[32:42] years, 24, 25 in budget. Again, we are over budget and so we're looking good for coming up.

[32:51] Again, water cells are down in December just a little bit but that's because this is a low

[32:55] usage month. So we expect those to pick up in this summer for sure.

[33:04] This is for the 4B. Again,

[33:07] 4B revenues at 28.2%.

[33:10] We don't really have a lot of expenses yet, only about $193,000 and that's because we haven't

[33:17] really gotten to the Rails2Trails design project.

[33:20] Once we get into that, we'll see some more expenses come online and again, the sales and

[33:27] use tax is up about 1% from where we expected it to be and that's all I have.

[33:36] What a quick question. Everything the expense revenue and expense everything is asked you expected or any surprises

[33:43] Everything is pretty much as we expected we are monitoring trends

[33:48] To see what's going to happen with the interest rates and some of our interest income

[33:51] But we have other offsetting revenues that have made up for that and so

[33:57] We are expected to meet budget and maybe be just a little bit below budget like I said we did build in

[34:03] 500,000 dollar contingency just in case something were to happen, and we don't expect to use that, so we expect to

[34:12] Bring that into next fiscal year

[34:16] Do you have anything else?

[34:18] No, I don't I don't just call it so do you have any questions for the killer?

[34:24] Okay, thank you very much. Thank you

[34:26] I'm gonna turn it over to Rachel now to go over our investment report

[34:32] Thank you

[34:40] Good evening.

[34:42] What I want to do first is just go through the actual report.

[34:45] I do have a real short PowerPoint at the very end that I'll show you.

[34:49] The report that you have in your packet is for the quarter end December 31st.

[34:55] I've seen this layout before.

[34:58] This is going to be a summary of our holdings.

[35:01] It shows our custodians, our face-amount market value or book value.

[35:05] We have $38.9 million in holdings right now.

[35:10] We did get $7 million from our tax notes back in October.

[35:17] That's included in this portfolio,

[35:18] so that's why you're going to see a difference

[35:20] from the previous to this current.

[35:25] On the next page, this just shows the market book values

[35:31] for each month in the quarter, October, November and December.

[35:36] I just want to point out the yield to maturity at market on that page, just 4.69 and I have

[35:43] a slide at the end that I'm going to explain a little bit more about that while that's

[35:47] important.

[35:53] Oh no, I didn't want to start that yet, but that's okay, that's okay, I'm just, I'm going

[35:57] through the report first and then I was going to do the PowerPoint, but we're pretty close

[36:01] for almost there.

[36:03] The last, the third page is the distribution by asset category that shows what we have

[36:08] that invested in, we've got CDs, and then pools, money markets, agency bonds, and municipal

[36:15] bonds.

[36:18] And the last page of the report shows the different funds that we have, the money

[36:22] invested in.

[36:24] Most of it's going to be in general fund and water and sewer fund, and then we have others

[36:30] just in various other funds.

[36:32] So there is an additional report that's included this time.

[36:35] This is information that we have to show you.

[36:39] It's part of the Public Fund's Investment Act requirements.

[36:42] This is a detailed accounting of the holdings that we have.

[36:46] It's going to have a lot of the same information, but just a little bit more

[36:50] than you see on your summary.

[36:53] Additional information on this report will show you the credit ratings of the investments,

[36:59] the accrued interest, and also the maturity dates.

[37:02] and those are items that you did not see on the first report.

[37:07] Okay, now I'm going to do this PowerPoint for you real quick.

[37:26] So out of the 38.9 million we have in total holdings.

[37:31] About 68% of that is in liquid funds.

[37:36] That's going to be your money markets and your local government investment pools.

[37:41] It's about 26.5 million.

[37:43] The other 32% is in the fixed income securities.

[37:47] That's going to be your agency bonds, municipal bonds,

[37:50] and your CDs.

[37:52] That makes up about 12.4%.

[37:55] I mean, 12.4 million.

[38:00] The next slide is the performance for the last quarter.

[38:05] So our benchmark is the three month US Treasury.

[38:09] That was at 4.39% for 12.31.

[38:13] And our portfolio average yield to maturity is 4.69 and that's important because it shows that we're outperforming our benchmark by 30 basis points.

[38:25] Excellent.

[38:31] So this next slide is just a comparison of where we were last year about this time.

[38:37] So the three month treasury, our benchmark was at 5.44%.

[38:41] So over the last year, it's dropped all the way down to 4.39%, so it just shows you the trend in the interest rates.

[38:53] So the Fed lowered the rates about 1% last year.

[38:58] And so we already are gearing up for additional rate cuts in 2025.

[39:02] They're already talking about doing those.

[39:08] So the objectives for the investments we want to continue to diversify.

[39:15] So investing in fixed income securities to lock in the yield, this is going to help offset

[39:21] any further decon in the interest rates.

[39:24] So we purchase CDs and agency and municipal bonds that have a fixed maturity so that

[39:31] it does not matter what the Fed is doing.

[39:33] We are going to be locked in on an interest rate if we purchase those now.

[39:38] Also cash flow needs.

[39:41] What we do is we ladder out the portfolio with staggering maturity dates so that not everything

[39:47] is coming due all at one time.

[39:49] So as you buy investments and they have different maturity dates, you are constantly having

[39:55] things that are maturing and you can re-evaluate where your liquidity needs are at that time,

[40:01] should you hold on to the process of that maturity, put it into an investment pool, or do you

[40:07] want to reinvest it.

[40:08] So, it just depends on where you are on the cash flow.

[40:11] Do you need it now or can you go ahead and invest it again?

[40:15] So we can only do that out to three years.

[40:18] So that is the maximum maturity that we can go out on that.

[40:24] So the Public Fund's Investment Act is what governs our policy and safety and liquidity

[40:31] and yield are the three drivers of that.

[40:34] So it's always going to be safety first, then the liquidity has to be liquid, and then the yield is the last.

[40:42] So it's going to be in that order.

[40:43] So the takeaway from this is, I just want you guys to know that we're following their policy,

[40:49] and the tax payer funds are being safely invested.

[40:53] We're doing everything according to the book.

[40:58] Thank you, Rachel. Excellent, excellent.

[41:02] I'd like to add thank you very much for all you and your team to do that's great to see these results.

[41:08] Thank you.

[41:09] Thank you.

[41:10] Do you have any questions for Rachel or Luckella?

[41:16] Thank you very much.

[41:17] I do.

[41:18] Have we thought about investing in the crypto?

[41:27] Okay.

[41:28] I have the budget to a presentation and discussion related to mobility plan update.

[41:43] Good evening, again, Mayor and Council.

[41:45] So, tonight we're going to provide a presentation to you all on the outcome of the mobility plan.

[41:53] You might remember that we, the town hired Kimley Horne and associates last January of 2024 to create this mobility plan for us.

[42:03] That would essentially provide a blueprint for future thoroughfares through the city as well as trail connections.

[42:11] and also an impact fee update to our roadway impact fees.

[42:17] And the last time that the talent's thoroughfare plan was actually updated was in 2018.

[42:22] So it's been a number of years since we last did that update.

[42:27] So tonight, Kimmy Horn and Associates, Jeff Whitaker with the firm will be walking us through

[42:33] the recommendations for future thoroughfare needs, as well as intersection improvements and

[42:39] trail connections. And so with that I'd like to introduce Jeff Whittaker.

[42:47] We're here to Jeff.

[42:48] Good evening. Thanks for being here.

[42:51] Appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor and Council.

[42:54] So I'm going to walk you through three items today. One is the Thurfer Plan. That's really

[42:58] your street roadway map. The second is your functional classification cross sections. That's

[43:03] what the streets look like. The amount of ride away you're going to need. And then lastly,

[43:07] the trails map which is where the pedestrians and folks will be walking and connecting

[43:12] some parks and neighborhoods. So a little bit of what is a thoroughfare plan? It's a very

[43:17] map that I'm used to looking at but not everyone's used to looking at. It's really the

[43:21] main purpose of a thoroughfare map is to provide the framework for where the cities, roads

[43:25] are going to look like in the future. One of the most important things it does is it preserves

[43:29] the right-of-way that the town can use for future roadways. These are roadways that are more,

[43:34] or not necessarily local streets, but these are the roadways that are what we call collectors,

[43:38] which are connecting large streets to the neighborhoods or larger streets like the

[43:41] arterial network system. One of the things that really does is ensure that connectivity

[43:47] with the town and the surrounding communities to make sure we're providing for that and

[43:50] lastly it provides access to grants and federal funds. If you're on the transportation plan

[43:55] and on the federal highway system the national highway system and allows you to be open to some

[43:59] funding that you may not otherwise be open to.

[44:02] So here's a map of the current Thurfer Plan.

[44:04] It was adopted as Mark said in the previous conference

[44:07] of plan.

[44:08] All the Thurfer Planes on the Snap exist today.

[44:10] They just might not be constructed

[44:12] to their ultimate configuration.

[44:14] That means they might still need a little bit of improvements

[44:16] such as the construction that's ongoing in the community.

[44:19] It also does not identify any future intersection

[44:22] improvements.

[44:25] So we want to update the existing plan

[44:26] based on really five four factors.

[44:29] We wanted to look at the congestion.

[44:31] and we wanted to take a technical analysis and look at not only the traffic volumes today

[44:35] but the traffic volumes in the future and make recommendations based on that.

[44:39] We also wanted to analyze safety data to really understand the safety concerns and looking at

[44:44] different intersection improvements that can assist with those safety concerns.

[44:50] We also looked at the future land use plan and projected future traffic volumes to understand

[44:55] what traffic council looked like by using the travel demand model. The region has a whole

[45:00] Local has a travel domain model that projects traffic across the entire Greater North Texas area, and we realize that model line to really understand what the regional impacts to the town of Sonnyville would be. And that really dives into those future regional facilities. It's really important to know how the future regional facilities are going to impact the roadway network and the community. So as part of that projecting the future, we collected a lot of data throughout the town. We collected at 20 different sites. We also pulled in some information from NCTTA as well as the

[45:29] the North Central Texas Council of Governments and TechStyles to really understand what the

[45:33] volumes would be. On the map you see in front of you, the top volume is the current existing

[45:37] count based on the data. The volume below that is the 2045 projected count. And we're

[45:42] using those projected counts to really make sure that we're planning the roadways to be

[45:45] appropriately sized for the community. The way we size those roadways is what we call

[45:51] level service. If you will, in the traffic engineering community, level service is like a report

[45:56] If you get an A, B, or C, that using means you're doing good, that's acceptable level service.

[46:01] That's actually the acceptable level service for the town of Sunnyville.

[46:04] If you get a D or E, that's tolerable.

[46:07] Some communities and adjacent communities that may be okay with them.

[46:11] But D and E is generally saying, typically you'll see that during the peak period,

[46:16] you know, your AM commute to work, your PM commute back home from work,

[46:19] and then F is usually unacceptable.

[46:21] What we usually talk to say, the reason we included intersections on this,

[46:24] as most people when they drive, they don't get frustrated on the street, they get frustrated

[46:27] and they get stopped at the traffic signals, they go through intersections, so we thought

[46:31] it was important to make sure we put the right intersections here to optimize that

[46:34] level of service.

[46:36] So a few of the changes on the proposed thoroughfro plan that I wanted to go over with you

[46:40] on the left hand side of the markups, really as the community's approaching buildout and

[46:45] as they're trying to see what they have, they're just minor tweaks to the thoroughfro plan.

[46:49] One of the items we looked at was townies boulevard.

[46:52] increasing that from a current two-lane undivided collector to a four-lane major

[46:55] divide our chair. We'll describe in a little bit why we made that decision with

[46:59] the impacts of some regional facilities. We also want to include three new

[47:03] collectors and I'll describe those three new collectors and we remove two

[47:07] collectors from the Transportation Plan. You'll see that the collectors are

[47:10] removed from the Transportation Plan were predominantly cleanup items with

[47:14] ongoing projects. So the first two items I wanted to talk about was the urban

[47:19] collectors, north of townies Boulevard. These are new roadways that don't exist today.

[47:23] They're going to be driven by development. And the reason we put these roads, these aren't

[47:26] actually the linements, that would be figured out later in process. These aren't,

[47:30] these are to be planned with the development in the future. Really, as I mentioned,

[47:34] the transportation plan, the thorough foot plan, make sure that you get the right away attain.

[47:38] They also make sure you get that oxen right away. When this land becomes developed,

[47:42] those roadways, those actual locations will be determined. Really, with this is just indicating,

[47:45] We need two north-south connections and one east-west connection.

[47:50] The second recommendation was the town east-vulavard, east of Collins.

[47:54] We recommended to upgrade that to a major arterial to go from two lanes to four lanes.

[47:58] Really when we looked at the future projective volumes and the impact was really tied to the

[48:03] PGBT.

[48:04] When that comes in, we projected that traffic volumes would increase and we want to make

[48:07] sure we can accommodate that future capacity.

[48:11] Two of the roadway removals, Poly Road and Rebecca Road.

[48:14] Both of these are tied to future projects.

[48:16] the poly road is the future tollway that's coming through when it comes through there will be some

[48:21] need to reconfigure that roadway with some cul-de-sax. It no longer makes that collector connection,

[48:26] it doesn't connect the roadway, it will operate like a local street so when we're using the model it doesn't

[48:31] perform the same function as it previously did so we recommend that removal. The other was

[48:36] Rebecca Road with the AD project, it's text that's re-lining that road and it's just a simple cleanup.

[48:41] It's that small section on the last section text that will be re-lining that small

[48:45] Southern section of Rebecca Road.

[48:49] As I mentioned it was important for us to add

[48:51] intersections for safety also for capacity as well as for funding. The impact

[48:57] fee program can include projects that identify the master transportation plan so

[49:02] we wanted to make sure we included intersections on the master transportation plan.

[49:05] We identified six intersections and we identified the current intersection

[49:09] control and the proposed intersection control just like anything this is a master

[49:14] plan and as these plans this is built out for 2035. This is the future plan for the town

[49:20] and as the projects come in the proposed intersection control can be re-evaluated as needed

[49:25] as the plan is known. But this is the current indication of what we were included in the master

[49:29] transportation plan. Just an update on the regional facilities, the PGBT toll road. There's an

[49:38] an alternate to one that is shown on this image,

[49:41] and it really describes the ramps

[49:43] that are north of the Barnes Ridge Road

[49:45] and south is a town east boulevard.

[49:48] There'll be frontage roads from I-30

[49:50] to just south of town east boulevard,

[49:52] and then the main lanes are depressed,

[49:54] the Barnes Ridge Road.

[49:54] I'll show you a cross section in a minute.

[49:56] There's really two cross sections

[49:58] that are associated with the future tollway.

[50:00] One in the northern part of the city,

[50:01] the one in the southern part of the city,

[50:03] when you start going through the flood plains.

[50:06] They continuously meeting with NCTA and the alignment still being refined, it's not done

[50:10] yet.

[50:11] The summer 2025.

[50:12] That's when the final draft environmental impact of study is going to be done.

[50:16] That's really where they start figuring out that footprint.

[50:18] So it's starting to get close.

[50:20] They're still working on through the alignments.

[50:22] Summer 2026, they're complete the schematic.

[50:24] That's when they know what the road's going to look like.

[50:26] And then there's a several years for final design and even more time for construction.

[50:30] So it's quite a ways out.

[50:31] But this is just to give you an update of what that schedule is.

[50:33] I have one question. You better know the answer. I know they've done many

[50:37] environmentally back study, and he said, two or three out of the pack.

[50:41] He's, do they have to repeat that so often? Do you know anything about it?

[50:45] The EIS, usually when the EIS once is completed, it usually doesn't have to be

[50:49] completed unless the alignment changes or whatnot. I don't know on the specific

[50:52] roadway. Maybe that's what, maybe that's the reason why. Okay.

[50:55] Yeah. There, there've been several studies on this in the past. You might recall

[50:58] textot was actually looking at this roadway. And then a couple of years ago,

[51:02] So they turn it over to NTTA so that NTTA can take it through the entire EIS process.

[51:09] All times it starts with a conceptual analysis and then once the conceptual done it goes into the official environmental process.

[51:17] This is the typical section, this is the up to just south of town east Boulevard in the northern part of the town.

[51:25] Depressed, the roadways depressed, it goes under Barnes Bridge roads with frontage roads.

[51:29] After you get farther south past townings Boulevard it really becomes a bridge

[51:34] section. No frontage roads and it's just a road it's limited access facility to

[51:38] continue on the toll road.

[51:41] A little bit about the functional classifications and

[51:43] cross sections. The current map on 2017 had five identified functional

[51:49] classifications with the described right away. We changed that to three. We wanted

[51:53] to simplify that. I'm just making it easier on the map with three different

[51:56] alternatives. We also increased the right away and I'll show you an image why we

[52:00] chose to increase the ride away. On the arterial, the major arterial went from 100 feet to 130 feet

[52:05] and on the collectors, 60 feet to 80 feet. So, I'll first start with the major arterial. The major

[52:11] arterial of the two roadways townies Boulevard and Collins. The really two reasons we increased

[52:16] the ride away is one to provide a buffer between the development and the roadway. This allows place

[52:22] for trees, other landscaping buffers, et cetera. It also is a place where we can put trail or sidewalk.

[52:27] So, as you can see here, we show a 10-foot trail on one side of the facility and a 5-foot

[52:31] sidewalk on the other side of the facility.

[52:33] So, really, the right way was to really provide that buffer between the tribal ways and

[52:37] the developments on each side.

[52:40] Similarly, on the urban collector and rural collector cross sections, on the urban collector

[52:45] was similar.

[52:46] We wanted to make sure we had room for that 10-foot trail on one side and the 5-foot sidewalk

[52:49] on the other and a buffer between the development and the roadway itself.

[52:54] The rural crop collectors are a little bit different on a rural

[52:56] collector. You have to have the drainage on the side. So in order for us to put

[52:59] the sidewalks and the trails, we have to have room outside of that drainage to

[53:02] be able to put that sidewalk in trails. So these are the reasons we are

[53:06] recommending increasing the right-of-way dimensions.

[53:11] Diving a little bit into

[53:12] the trell's map, and they're all interrelated. The trell's map would be interrelated

[53:15] to the thoroughfare plan. So the first map on the trell's map is the northern part

[53:20] of the city. One of the things I'll point out in the northern map is the

[53:23] The future roads that are there do provide connectivity within the 80 feet of right away.

[53:28] There would be a trail.

[53:29] So there's a lot of connectivity providing those neighbors with a future roadways.

[53:32] Those alignments would be tied and unknown at this time.

[53:35] The second item is there's two main trail connections.

[53:38] There's town east, which is the main east west and the future rails trail project.

[53:42] There are two colors on this on the north-south roadway, one north-south trail.

[53:46] One is green.

[53:47] That is the preferred alignment.

[53:49] And then there's a red alignment that's the alternative alignment that could be considered

[53:52] but the preferred alignment currently is green.

[53:57] Similarly to the south, one thing I did not point out,

[54:01] we got a lot of input on the trails plan

[54:03] when we did the mobility plan.

[54:04] We were asking for community surveys,

[54:07] and we got a lot of comments about trails

[54:08] on the community survey for the thoroughfare plan.

[54:11] And one of those was the connection at Jopson Park

[54:14] to connect the two roadways and have that trail.

[54:16] But just a preferred path, that's a preferred

[54:18] by the citizens, the neighborhood, all of them.

[54:21] The connection was a pretty common theme.

[54:24] The preferred alternative was the right, was to go with the grain because it avoided being behind the houses.

[54:36] And similarly to the south we had a lot of input of connecting the parks and the trails from the community.

[54:42] So you can see in the northern part there's a lot of those minor connections that are getting from roadways to some of the parks and some of the existing running walking trails that the town of Sunnyville has.

[54:52] So we're recommending those and to the south, you'll see again that rails the trail project continue south again

[54:58] There's a green line that shows the preferred alternative and a red that shows the alternative really the purpose of this trail is to get to the connection to the

[55:07] NC Cogs Velo web, which is the region's trail plan the region has its own trail plan the purpose is to connect that and the important piece of that is connecting to that trail

[55:15] I'll open you up for funding.

[55:17] There's a portion of the trail that is funded.

[55:21] And then I believe that there's another application for a grant to continue that trail farther down south to get to the trail that runs through the ski.

[55:31] With that, that's the summary of the thoroughfare plan, the cross sections, and as well as the trails plan.

[55:37] Happy to answer any questions or comments.

[55:38] Thank you Mr. Vittagal, can you tell me every question for Kim Lianholt?

[55:45] Do you have?

[55:47] No sir.

[55:48] Okay.

[55:49] No other comments?

[55:50] Thank you Jeff.

[55:51] Thank you Doug for being here tonight.

[55:54] Thanks Mark.

[55:54] Appreciate you.

[55:56] So there are no actions to be taken.

[55:58] This was more of a presentation.

[55:59] So I think we are popping a bad agenda item.

[56:06] Next one is discussed, 20, 25, quarterly capital improvement programs.

[56:30] I'm going to just kind of review the 2025 capital improvement plan.

[56:36] You might recall last year we had the 2024 capital improvement plan.

[56:41] And so tonight, this kind of kicks off this next calendar year's worth of projects that staff will be busy working on.

[56:49] This includes all infrastructure related projects, facilities, as well as parks and trail projects.

[56:57] So I'll start off with the first one listed there.

[57:01] This is the Collins Road 1B Landscape Project that's out in front of town hall stretching from US 80 through the trip round about.

[57:10] And construction on this actually started last year.

[57:13] And we had a little bit of a delay here over the holidays, partly due to the holidays,

[57:17] is partly due to the cold weather, and then we've also had an electrical infrastructure

[57:23] issue that we've been working through some redesign on, and we should have that resolved

[57:28] here in another week or two, and then be able to resume work on that project.

[57:34] The landscaping improvements and irrigation in the medians are expected to be completed

[57:40] on time within the original June schedule that was part of the contractor's original schedule

[57:47] of work, and then the roundabout piece because we're working to confirm aspects of the water

[57:53] fountains as well as foundation designs for future sculptures, that work will be finished

[58:00] in the late summer September time frame, essentially on that piece.

[58:08] Next we have the other section of Collins Road, which is also known as State Highway 352.

[58:14] It's on the state highway system, and that's the section of South Collins between US 80 stretching to the Mesquite City limit.

[58:22] You might recall a couple years ago the town was awarded a green ribbon grant from the state for landscape enhancements along that section of Collins.

[58:31] And the town has completed design work working with Kim Lee Horne and associates for that piece and just last week we received the word from the Texas Department of Transportation.

[58:43] that we are approved to go ahead and bid that project.

[58:47] So, staff is working to go ahead and get that bid advertisement ready.

[58:52] And the expectation is that we'll be able to come back to town council in April,

[58:57] mid April to award the construction contract on those landscape improvements on South Collins,

[59:04] with completion of that work in late summer, early fall of this year.

[59:10] So that will kind of coincide with a lot of the work that's going on on North Collins, North of 80.

[59:17] Next we have the Clay Road Paving Rehab and Landscaping Project. The town council approved a design contract with KSA engineering back in

[59:25] February of 2024. And so design began on that project in earnest and we're nearing completion of that and expect to go out the bid

[59:36] next month on the Clay Road.

[59:39] essentially that project involves a concrete panel replacements there's a lot of truck traffic along that section of road and a lot of those panels of deteriorated over time and so we're going to replace those deteriorated panels and also include landscaping and lighting enhancements in the median of clay road.

[1:00:00] Stretching from the intersection at Collins, going south, past Bandera, over towards Long Creek. And that project, again, is expected to be bid. Here, beginning in February, and we'll start construction in the spring, and then have that project completed in the first quarter of 2026. Next up is a new project. This is the belt line road traffic signal enhancement.

[1:00:29] improvements, and intersection improvements project.

[1:00:33] I think everybody knows that Tom Thumb is going to be opening a grocery store at the southeast corner of town east and belt line late this calendar year.

[1:00:45] And as a result of that, the town has been working to make sure that the traffic signals, including the new one that the developer will be putting in place that all those traffic signal intersections are all well coordinated by installing fiber optics.

[1:00:59] to help control signalization.

[1:01:02] We're also gonna be looking at some intersection improvements

[1:01:04] at town east and belt line to add a right turn lane

[1:01:08] from the northbound belt line to eastbound town east

[1:01:11] and also some median modifications as well

[1:01:14] to help with turning movements into the new

[1:01:16] Tom Thumb development.

[1:01:18] And so the town council actually awarded

[1:01:22] a design contract for that work at the last meeting

[1:01:25] and so we'll be getting underway with that design effort

[1:01:28] and then plan to go to construction late this calendar year on those improvements.

[1:01:35] Next up, we have the Animal Control Facility.

[1:01:39] That particular project has been somewhat delayed because we were working on

[1:01:46] the, you might recall, the Water Master Plan effort that you got a briefing on at your last meeting.

[1:01:50] And we were waiting to determine how much land would be available at our current pump station facility.

[1:01:55] to be able to help site that new animal control facility and now that we've

[1:02:00] gotten that report and we know how much property we'll be able to work with

[1:02:04] there, we'll be able to initiate that design process here shortly with the

[1:02:09] goal of beginning construction on a new facility towards the end of this calendar

[1:02:12] year and having a new animal control facility open by the end of 2026.

[1:02:19] Next up we have the East Trip Road waterline project.

[1:02:23] the stretches from basically the roundabout east to the east fork road.

[1:02:29] And at the last meeting there was a contract amendment for about $100,000 to be able to include a fiber optic line along that corridor that'll help with future communications.

[1:02:43] And with that, the consultant engineer expects to have that fiber optic line included into the design here in the next six weeks or so.

[1:02:53] and then with the goal of going to bid shortly thereafter and beginning

[1:02:57] construction this spring and then wrapping up that project in the fall.

[1:03:01] Marching 25 timeframe.

[1:03:03] Are we installing the fiber or are we putting conduit in?

[1:03:06] We're putting conduit in for future fiber along that corridor.

[1:03:09] Yes sir, thank you.

[1:03:10] Thank you.

[1:03:13] Next up kind of going further east is that section of east strip road from east

[1:03:18] work to Rebecca and then Rebecca headed down south towards US 80 and that section of roadway in

[1:03:26] particular, you know we've seen a lot of pavement degradation and there's also a water line along

[1:03:31] that stretch as well. So staff will be working here in the next couple months to be able to procure

[1:03:38] an engineering firm to design a 12 inch water line replacement that's in concert with the recent

[1:03:44] the water management plan recommendations, and that project will also include a full pavement replacement just like all the other domain projects that we did about a year ago.

[1:03:56] And so the goal there is to get that design done this calendar year and be in position to begin construction early next year.

[1:04:04] Next up is the U.S. 80 utility relocations, the town has about $5 million in water utilities that need to be relocated.

[1:04:13] Over the next few months in order to get out of the way of the upcoming

[1:04:16] text.us80 widening project that will be led by the Texas Department of Transportation

[1:04:22] later this calendar year.

[1:04:24] And so that work has already been designed and will soon be going out to bid in the February

[1:04:30] March timeframe in order to get a contractor on board to relocate those water utilities

[1:04:36] that are currently, again, in the way of the text.expansion.

[1:04:41] The next project is the Riverstone Pump Station.

[1:04:44] Again, going back to the Water Master Plan presentation, you received at your last meeting.

[1:04:48] We now know that we need to look at some storage enhancements, basically adding a 3 million gallon storage tank at the existing pump station, as well as adding additional pumping capacity there in order to help meet our needs for the community, as well as being consistent with the North Texas Municipal Water District recommendations on our storage.

[1:05:09] and pumping capabilities.

[1:05:12] And so staff is working to procure a design consultant

[1:05:15] to actually design those enhancements with the goal

[1:05:18] of initiating construction in the spring of 2026.

[1:05:22] And that'll roughly be about 18 months construction time

[1:05:25] for him once we start that project.

[1:05:28] Next we have the water meter radio system project

[1:05:32] that's estimated at approximately $2 million.

[1:05:35] This project basically involves looking at a third party vendor that would come in and make recommendations on meter replacements.

[1:05:46] We know that we have commercial meters in town that need to be replaced as well as some older residential meters.

[1:05:53] And so this project would basically help accomplish that effort kicking off later this late summer, early fall.

[1:06:03] and then be in completed by the end of the calendar year.

[1:06:06] The next project is a planning project.

[1:06:09] Just like we did the water master plan recently, the town has never had a sewer master plan

[1:06:14] and so we've got sewer infrastructure throughout the town and we really need to look at future

[1:06:20] capacity needs and also replacement needs to ensure that we have an adequately functioning sewer

[1:06:26] system.

[1:06:27] And this project, the sewer master plan project will hopefully will be able to bring this to you for approval in the next month or two and then we'll be able to start that that project.

[1:06:41] It will also include updating our impact fees for sanitary sewer and water.

[1:06:45] You heard tonight about our roadway impact fees that will be updated based upon the roadway, excuse me, the mobility plan presentation that you just heard.

[1:06:54] Similarly, we've got to update our water impact fees using the water master plan, and then once we get through the sewer master planning effort we'll update our sewer impact fees.

[1:07:03] Impact fees are required by state law to be updated every five years, and the last time our road and water and sewer impact fees for the town of Sunnyvale were updated, we're back in 2020, so this will be a really timely project for us to undertake.

[1:07:18] Next is the Rails the Trails design.

[1:07:20] This is the Phase I portion of the project that's basically adjacent to the Sunnyvale ISD campus.

[1:07:27] We are underway with design.

[1:07:29] You approved a design contract with Halfan Associates back in October.

[1:07:33] And we are working with our consultant team and all the stakeholders on getting the design

[1:07:38] completed as well as the necessary environmental reviews that are required due to the nature

[1:07:44] of the Federal Funding Source and our goal is to be able to start construction later this calendar year and then have that section of trail and all the connections into the ISD property as well as a park Vista Park, which serves the Stoney Creek H.O.A. We hope to have all that constructed and open by the end of calendar year 2026.

[1:08:10] The next project is the Barnes Bridge bridge over Dutt Creek, that bridge course that washed out about five or six years ago and the town has been working with tech stock.

[1:08:22] They have a bridge replacement program that we were able to get ourselves inserted into and that project was recently bid by the state and the contractor selected.

[1:08:33] and they plan to start work February 10th of this year and then have bridge completion in September and at that point we'll then be able to open that road to traffic, but about that same time we'll also be in the middle of a design effort for upgrading the water line, you know, there's a 70 or 80 year water, old water line that runs along Barnes Bridge Road from Collins all the way to Polly and so we've got to look at replacing that just like we're doing with Chip Road and

[1:09:03] and Rebecca and some of the other roadways.

[1:09:06] And that project will also include some pavement rehab efforts,

[1:09:10] as well as some drainage culvert repairs and upgrades that we need to do to facilitate drainage on both sides of Barnes Bridge road.

[1:09:19] And so with that design work that you all approved at the January 13th meeting will be able to continue that design.

[1:09:27] And then hopefully be able to bid that job later this calendar year as the bridge is

[1:09:33] re-opening and then be able to get all those improvements in place by fall of early fall of 20.

[1:09:38] Hey, hey, boss, quick question for you, sir.

[1:09:40] Yes, sir.

[1:09:40] Same topic.

[1:09:41] Yes, sir.

[1:09:42] And to the bridge and to the waterline, how about the road improvement?

[1:09:47] On Barnes Bridge.

[1:09:48] Is that part of that line I took?

[1:09:50] It is.

[1:09:50] Yes, sir.

[1:09:51] Yes, sir.

[1:09:51] There's about, I think, 30% or so of that roadway corridor that really needs to be replaced.

[1:09:57] Most of that roadway is 30% and you

[1:10:05] have to back on to it.

[1:10:06] So it does include targeted replacement, but not the full.

[1:10:11] How about we talk about baby safety and forget about safety

[1:10:15] improvements.

[1:10:15] The element for mark signs markings, possibly some of the radar speed

[1:10:21] signs that we have as well as someplace that we have.

[1:10:25] The $610,000 we're planning right now, that includes all that work.

[1:10:31] Correct, sir.

[1:10:32] Thank you.

[1:10:33] Okay,

[1:10:36] and then to wrap up, we've, lastly, we've got the two part projects, jobs in park and

[1:10:42] Samu Farms North Park, and the town has been working with half an associates on concept

[1:10:49] plans for both of those parts, and we are planning to come back to the town council and

[1:10:55] 4B board next month to be able to provide basically the third round of input with the council

[1:11:04] and 4B as well as the public on the recommendations for improvements at both jobs and in salmon farms north park, and depending upon the level of those recommendations, the plan would then be to move into the final design phase for those improvements that come out of those recommendations and approvals next month.

[1:11:25] And I'll just add, I'm looking at this schedule.

[1:11:30] I definitely think this should be a priority.

[1:11:32] It's been discussed for a long time.

[1:11:34] And so just, my standpoint would be,

[1:11:36] I really want this push forward quickly.

[1:11:38] So just giving us a heads up, I'll be pushing that.

[1:11:43] Yes, sir.

[1:11:43] It's one vote, but I want to push it fast.

[1:11:50] So the, just to clarify, for me, $300,000,

[1:11:56] that is to, if it's under the edge, construction call, that's where I'm just clarifying it.

[1:12:04] So 300,000, I see the edge.

[1:12:07] Yes.

[1:12:08] But that's not really construction.

[1:12:10] That's really just the design, the concept and design.

[1:12:12] That's an estimate.

[1:12:13] It's finished by a fast quarter, right?

[1:12:15] Correct, that's an estimate for what the final design process would take.

[1:12:19] Now, depending on the level of improvements, it could be more or could be less.

[1:12:22] But right now, that's just a placeholder essentially for final design only, not construction.

[1:12:29] But the calendar that you see to the right, the schedule, depending on the level of improvements and complexity,

[1:12:38] the idea is that we could be starting construction on some improvements at the parks.

[1:12:45] If we're just talking about some trail extensions, passive recreation enhancements like that,

[1:12:50] That, you know, some of those things could start later this year.

[1:12:53] But again, it really all depends and hinges on the ultimate recommendations and

[1:12:57] approvals that come out of this.

[1:12:58] But that's the different light item with the CIP, right?

[1:13:02] The construction part, improvement part?

[1:13:04] Correct, yes, sir.

[1:13:06] Yeah, we'll augment this and include the construction as a separate light item.

[1:13:10] You know, once we get to that point.

[1:13:12] Okay.

[1:13:19] Okay.

[1:13:20] Councillor Diavidio, question four of this erosion, is that it?

[1:13:23] Yeah, just want to clarify.

[1:13:24] So, there's the planning will be done in the first quarter of 2020-26, so the construction, the whole project will be done.

[1:13:31] For you're referring to the parks?

[1:13:33] Yes, in Park, yeah.

[1:13:34] Yeah, so we're in the planning stage right now, and then once we get through the process here in February,

[1:13:40] we'll jump into the final design of whatever improvements come out of that concept planning process.

[1:13:47] But as the schedule shows there, we could, in theory, depending on the level of complexity and

[1:13:52] And the magnitude of improvements, we could begin constructing some of those later this calendar year.

[1:13:58] But if we're talking about full scale, humongous park improvements will then that would take some time to design that.

[1:14:07] But if we're just talking about trails and things like that that are much more passive in nature,

[1:14:14] then we could in theory begin construction later this calendar year on some of those improvements.

[1:14:21] That's your question?

[1:14:22] No, I didn't get the answer.

[1:14:25] So what is the completion date that we're expecting?

[1:14:29] Date or month, and which year?

[1:14:32] For, again, for Jobson Park and Santa Farm North,

[1:14:36] if we're talking about this huge multi-million dollar

[1:14:40] park facility, that's going to take longer to design,

[1:14:43] final design, and construct.

[1:14:45] But if all we're talking about at the end of the day

[1:14:47] is some trail enhancements and other lower level type park improvements, then that could

[1:14:53] be design quicker and built quicker.

[1:14:56] But until we get through that February final recommendations.

[1:15:00] Approvals, we're not going to exactly know for sure what we're going to design, what we're going to build.

[1:15:09] Okay. So the first quarter of 2026, we're not sure. We're just just a guesstimate date. The first quarter 26 is an estimate, you know, depending upon, you know, the range of improvements that get recommended for approval. Now if we're looking at like a, you know, tens of millions of dollars of park improvements, that, you know, we're not, we're not going to have that all

[1:15:32] in place by the first quarter of 2026, but if we're talking about, you know, one or two million dollars worth of enhancements, you know, a ball field or two and some trail extensions, then that's a whole different story compared to, you know, ten or 15 or 20 million dollars worth of park improvements.

[1:15:50] And we'll know for sure come, you know, this next briefing that we're looking to do the third round of briefings.

[1:15:59] And some of this is also based on the POCO survey that was done last year, the Gage, the public's opinions on park needs in the town and so the consultant firm has been busy putting together their recommendations based upon that input as well as feedback they've gotten from the town council and the 4B board.

[1:16:20] Okay. Sorry. Initially I thought this will be, this project will be done by 1st quarter

[1:16:25] of 2020 and I thought that's still a lot of time to wait. But when I hear that, it's

[1:16:31] still, we don't know it's up in the air, that's kind of sad. And we just heard all the

[1:16:36] residents requesting this to make it faster, right? Because like they said, each generation

[1:16:41] is missing out the more we wait, right? I don't want any delay if we can push it faster.

[1:16:47] I appreciate that.

[1:16:48] Yes.

[1:16:49] I agree.

[1:16:54] Are there additional questions or comments?

[1:16:59] Okay.

[1:17:00] Thank you Mr. Gorkh.

[1:17:01] Okay.

[1:17:01] Thank you.

[1:17:03] Okay.

[1:17:04] We will be going to the next item.

[1:17:05] Mayor and Councillor Lucas for future staff of this region items.

[1:17:11] Did I miss something?

[1:17:13] Oh, I am so sorry.

[1:17:17] Yeah.

[1:17:17] I am.

[1:17:18] I am so sorry.

[1:17:20] My apologies.

[1:17:21] this way to go and push it forward.

[1:17:25] Discretion is actually like item K, item about K-1,

[1:17:30] investment policy.

[1:17:32] Discuss, counter-active production,

[1:17:34] 2025-03, 2025, yeah, that's it, okay lah.

[1:17:41] Thank you Mayor and Council.

[1:17:43] As required by the Public Fence Investment Act,

[1:17:45] we are required to annually adopt

[1:17:47] and update our investment policy.

[1:17:49] Before you, we have our award-winning policy.

[1:17:53] Last year, we did a major overhaul and went and we submitted it to the government

[1:18:00] Treasurer's Organization of Texas and they awarded it their certificate of distinction.

[1:18:06] Rachel will be going to actually pick up that award on February 23rd at the GTOT conference.

[1:18:16] This policy basically goes over what Rachel said before, number one safety, number two liquidity, and then number three earnings after that.

[1:18:28] So we want to try and make sure that according to this policy, we still, we follow that.

[1:18:36] Our investment officers, the education is eight hours every two years currently.

[1:18:42] It is the town manager, assistant town manager.

[1:18:45] My self and Rachel are the authorized investment officers, and so we are required to get our

[1:18:53] training eight hours every two years after an initial 10 hour training.

[1:19:00] The portfolio is managed in accordance with our policy, and Rachel does a very good job

[1:19:05] of that and we kind of went over some of the stuff that were diversified into.

[1:19:12] We are not authorized again to invest in any kind of collateral mortgage obligations.

[1:19:21] We can't really do any bankers acceptance notes or reverse repurchase agreements or any

[1:19:27] kind of no load mutual funds or the stock market.

[1:19:29] we try to keep safety number one and so those things in our policy we've we've

[1:19:35] determined as that that we are not wanting to really risk getting involved in

[1:19:42] those also we don't do any repurchase agreements so other than that right

[1:19:49] now we have it said our maximum maturity at three years me and Rachel we're just

[1:19:53] talking about because of the market in the way that it's changing we may come

[1:19:59] back and extend that so that we can lock in some higher interest rates for further out but

[1:20:05] at this time I think three years is sufficient for what we we need to do. So other than that

[1:20:11] we we are just asking that you approve our investment policy. This is just more of an

[1:20:16] annual renewal of it right. Yes sir. It is significant changes from last year. No changes from last year.

[1:20:24] Okay.

[1:20:24] Do you have any questions for the camera?

[1:20:30] Okay.

[1:20:31] If not, can I have a motion with respect to right number K1 please?

[1:20:34] Motion to approve, Adam K1.

[1:20:36] Second.

[1:20:37] Open public comment.

[1:20:39] Public comment.

[1:20:39] Thank you.

[1:20:40] We go for the...

[1:20:42] Thank you, Rachel, for being straight.

[1:20:43] Okay.

[1:20:46] And this time, there will be an offer for public comment.

[1:20:47] See, is there anyone from the members of the audience who would like to comment.

[1:20:50] Speak to the council or right number K1.

[1:20:53] Please come forward.

[1:20:54] What?

[1:20:59] No, it is coming forward.

[1:21:00] We are going to close the public comments.

[1:21:04] Can we have any other questions or discussions?

[1:21:07] If not, can I have a motion with respect right now, but can we please, I will make a motion

[1:21:11] to approve item K1 as presented?

[1:21:13] Second.

[1:21:14] So I can, what should be made by the importance of FIDG, second by the Australian Lich, to approve

[1:21:20] either but can with us placenta, and we don't hurt the motion, are the additional discussions.

[1:21:27] If not, all in favour, signify, all opposed, portioned past six, obviously,

[1:21:32] already subset.

[1:21:33] We will go right into the number K2.

[1:21:35] Discuss, consider, and act according to 2224-02 ordering, a general election to be held

[1:21:41] in the tunnel study where the next uniform election date being Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, for

[1:21:47] the purpose.

[1:21:48] Flective barrier, turn counts to placeable and turn counts to place two, are designated

[1:21:53] to the date for a round of election ifs or needs.

[1:21:56] Zabsi?

[1:21:57] Mayor and council, as you are all aware, each year the town council is required to order

[1:22:01] the general election.

[1:22:02] This year's election is scheduled for Saturday, May the 3rd, 2025.

[1:22:07] Early voting will begin April 21st through April 29th and town hall will be a polling place

[1:22:12] for early voting as well as election day voting.

[1:22:16] The town charter provides that in order to be elected, the candidate must receive at least

[1:22:22] more than 50% of the votes that are cast. If a candidate fails to receive more than 50%

[1:22:28] then we must have a runoff election. If that's necessary that would occur on June

[1:22:33] the 7th, 2025. The attached ordinance orders the 2025 general election and the runoff

[1:22:40] election so that we don't have to come back to you if we need that election. Staff anticipates

[1:22:45] that the contract with Dallas County Elections Department will be ready for council review by

[1:22:49] the end of March. I've seen a draft of it and they are finalizing a few more details

[1:22:53] and then they should have that to us. The cost of the election is budgeted in the 24-25

[1:22:59] fiscal year budget. However, the total cost to the town has not been determined yet. Of

[1:23:04] course, I'll know that that is a percentage of the number of entities that participate

[1:23:08] in the election.

[1:23:11] And as most of you are aware, some of you may not be. This ordinance only

[1:23:15] It only requires one reading, so this will be final approval of this ordinance.

[1:23:20] Okay, thank you, Mr. Prime Minister.

[1:23:23] May I be offered a public cup and see if there's anyone from the members of the audience

[1:23:26] who would like to come forward and speak to the council or item of K2.

[1:23:30] You may do so just to

[1:23:34] know where this can be forward, so we're going to close the public

[1:23:37] cup.

[1:23:37] It's counted.

[1:23:38] Do you have any questions or discussions, item of K2?

[1:23:43] If not, I call for the motion.

[1:23:44] Motion to approve, item K2, as presented.

[1:23:46] in.

[1:23:46] Sorry.

[1:23:47] Motion made by Mayor Porter.

[1:23:49] Second by Mr. Eldridge to approve.

[1:23:51] I have number K-2 as percent.

[1:23:53] Everyone heard the motion.

[1:23:55] Are there additional discussions?

[1:23:57] If not, all in favour of a certified?

[1:24:00] All opposed.

[1:24:01] Motion passed 6-0.

[1:24:02] Mr. Eldridge's absent.

[1:24:04] Moving on, we would write number K-3.

[1:24:06] Discuss considered act upon approving a two-year contract with the Sky Elements.

[1:24:11] Drone shows for $0.35 to $0.25, and $0.26.

[1:24:16] Then about $0.2,000 and $0.8,000.

[1:24:19] And all the rights in the town management

[1:24:20] exactly the contract.

[1:24:22] Good evening.

[1:24:24] Good evening, Mayor Counsel.

[1:24:27] Tonight, this item was to discuss,

[1:24:29] consider and act upon approving a two-year contract

[1:24:32] with SkyElement's Drone shows,

[1:24:34] for two shows per year in 2025 and 2026.

[1:24:38] You're getting the revised agenda item and quotes that just has the updated costs for

[1:24:44] these drone shows as discussed in the work session.

[1:24:48] We do have some cost savings with going into a two-year contract with Sky Elements as

[1:24:55] well as the timing of our event, excuse me our events are not within their peak show times.

[1:25:00] The July 3rd through the 6th is a very heavy time for them and our sunny fest is about

[1:25:07] week before that typically and so we have some cost savings with them there so you have some options

[1:25:13] of different number of drones in those shows and that's kind of how the pricing goes with that but

[1:25:19] those are for each of the shows and tonight we ask that you decide on a package that would allow

[1:25:28] the city manager to go into a contract with sky elements for these shows.

[1:25:36] Do they guess?

[1:25:36] Yes.

[1:25:37] That is all.

[1:25:38] It's open for discussion.

[1:25:39] If you guys have any questions, you know, the recommended level was the 150 drone show,

[1:25:44] which is the most cost savings, most valuable, but there are options to add on to that from

[1:25:52] there.

[1:25:52] So, that's for you guys to discuss and decide what you'd like to see at these.

[1:25:57] So, the 68 is based on 150?

[1:26:00] Correct.

[1:26:01] Yes.

[1:26:06] So, do we know what's the number for all of it?

[1:26:08] I actually figured that for y'all in work session because I wasn't sure if Carrie had it.

[1:26:13] So 150 would be 68K, better would be 90K, and best would be 135.

[1:26:20] And that's what we would need in your motion as well.

[1:26:24] That's for four shows, four shows, crush it.

[1:26:32] Can you say there's one more time, Rachel?

[1:26:34] Sure, 150 drones would be 68K for four shows.

[1:26:41] 200 would be 90K.

[1:26:43] and the best 300 would be 135.

[1:26:47] Okay, so let me offer for public coverage.

[1:26:49] Can you take a seat please?

[1:26:51] Thank you.

[1:26:51] Let me offer for public coverage.

[1:26:53] See, there's anyone from the members of the audience

[1:26:55] who would like to come forward and speak to the council right

[1:26:57] number K3.

[1:26:58] You may do so at this time.

[1:27:06] Over this coming forward, we're going to close the public coverage.

[1:27:09] Counts and de-avidities, questions or discussions right number K3.

[1:27:13] I have an opinion.

[1:27:16] Okay.

[1:27:16] I think we should go the 200 minimum, I think we saw the impact of that, and we're adding

[1:27:23] more shows, and I think we should not just be, as the list says, good.

[1:27:30] We should be at least better or best, we're going to go for this, so that's my comment.

[1:27:39] I mean, you should have covered some discussions.

[1:27:41] Yes, I agree with Councilmember Fetch.

[1:27:47] I think we definitely want to be at better best.

[1:27:50] And I would actually propose to be a best for the two-year four shows.

[1:27:56] I think this, the light show, the drone show is one of the best pieces.

[1:28:02] is best components of the Fourth of July,

[1:28:07] some of us festival.

[1:28:09] And we had a lot of great comments,

[1:28:13] and really people really liked it.

[1:28:14] So I think if we could expand it

[1:28:16] and have it for two years at both the Christmas show,

[1:28:20] and sunny fest, and I would say 300 drones

[1:28:23] make it really amazing.

[1:28:24] So I would say best.

[1:28:28] OK.

[1:28:28] Are there any other questions?

[1:28:30] Yeah, I do have a question.

[1:28:31] So it's a two-year contract, so what if we find a better price in the next year?

[1:28:37] Since we know that drones are becoming more common and popular and it's the hundreds

[1:28:42] of thousands of drones used in different countries, so 200 drones or 300 is nothing, maybe

[1:28:47] in another year there will be 10,000 drones for cheaper price, so will you be able to change

[1:28:53] the contract, or if we find a better price can we withdraw from the contract?

[1:28:56] That

[1:29:09] might be a question I'd need to ask as far as policy if we're entered into a contract,

[1:29:15] if we're able to get out of that.

[1:29:18] However, the pricing for this show is good and this is also one of the best companies

[1:29:26] putting on drone shows right now.

[1:29:28] They have the best records they have over three million flight minutes that they have

[1:29:37] done with shows and have been recognized doing NFL shows and many others so we're

[1:29:45] getting a really great pricing for what they're offering even more so the

[1:29:52] cost savings from last year this is this is if you look at the comparisons of how

[1:29:57] how many drones, and then the show.

[1:30:00] It's less. And so we're actually getting a great deal by locking into the contract with them. I was going to add that last year we spent $20,000 for, with the same company for 100 drones. And now they're actually doubling the number of drones for, you know, $22,000. So as Kerry said, it's really good pricing. And, you know, this is probably the best, best company that's providing these services. Right. Right now, I agree with it. Probably that's the best company we can find today. But we don't know in a year.

[1:30:31] things change, right? It's technology changed by the minute. Can we add a

[1:30:36] clause?

[1:30:38] He's the one who told me that I'm not a lawyer, but it says most

[1:30:42] favored customer clause. So if you find a better market price, can you match it

[1:30:48] at least? Yeah, there's a yeah, the most favored nation clause is fairly common in

[1:30:54] some contracts because it's certainly ask or vendor if they'd be willing to

[1:30:57] to entertain that similar type of clause.

[1:31:02] We'll see what their response would be.

[1:31:05] That'll be nice.

[1:31:06] Because I don't want to sign the contract in the year.

[1:31:10] There's another 10 other companies doing it for double triple

[1:31:15] and cheaper price and I don't want to regret next year.

[1:31:18] I think for us, the other perspective

[1:31:21] is too that we have a history with the company

[1:31:23] and they perform really well even though it's only been

[1:31:25] one show they did for us.

[1:31:28] And they're guaranteeing that they'd be available for the next four days that we need them.

[1:31:34] So there is, I think, having that solidified in writing with them is provide some benefit.

[1:31:40] But we will certainly ask them about the most favored nations or most favored customer

[1:31:45] clause, if you will, and see what we can find out from them.

[1:31:50] Okay, I appreciate that.

[1:31:52] Thank you very much.

[1:31:55] The additional discussions of questions are at this topic.

[1:32:01] If not, I call for a motion.

[1:32:02] Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to approve a two-year contract

[1:32:06] with SkyElement's drone, 25 and 26, not to exceed $90,000.

[1:32:15] For two shows per year.

[1:32:15] Two shows per year, yeah.

[1:32:17] Second.

[1:32:19] Motion made by Mayor Protofitch to approve a two-year contract

[1:32:25] to the sky a little bit, drone shows, two shots per year,

[1:32:28] 20, 25, 20, 26, and then the board don't to exceed 90,000.

[1:32:33] Right?

[1:32:36] Everyone heard the motion.

[1:32:39] Are there additional discussions?

[1:32:45] All in favor, signify?

[1:32:48] All opposed?

[1:32:50] Motion passed 6, 0.

[1:32:53] So Jeff, thank you for looking into this.

[1:32:54] Dan is a request of whether we can negotiate some terms

[1:32:58] in debate.

[1:32:59] Please keep us posted.

[1:33:04] Okay.

[1:33:04] Okay, now about anything to go to, I number four.

[1:33:07] Okay, mayor and council request for future staff updates and

[1:33:12] agenda items.

[1:33:15] Anyone?

[1:33:18] Okay, if that are done, right?

[1:33:20] You do, Miss Daddy.

[1:33:22] I like to include the status of our project,

[1:33:27] the cell tower and Internet service in Senegal.

[1:33:33] Are they agenda?

[1:33:34] Yeah.

[1:33:35] Okay.

[1:33:35] Can

[1:33:39] we add it to the next public session?

[1:33:42] Can we discuss or update the status of the project after the executive session?

[1:33:48] Okay.

[1:33:52] You do?

[1:33:53] Okay, Mr. Clark.

[1:33:54] I'd also like to add to the agenda a discussion about future downtown property acquisitions,

[1:34:00] whether it be executive session or open session, but just looking at future downtown property acquisitions.

[1:34:14] Anybody else?

[1:34:16] Okay.

[1:34:16] If not, I'm going to close that item.

[1:34:19] Council can have a motion to enjoy the executive decision.

[1:34:22] Pursue the section 551.07.

[1:34:25] Motion to adjourn.

[1:34:26] Consultation with the Tory or the Clawing Development.

[1:34:30] Motion to adjourn.

[1:34:31] Second.

[1:34:32] Motion made by Mayor Porto-Feed.

[1:34:34] Second by Eldridge.

[1:34:36] To adjourn the executive decision.

[1:34:37] Everyone who heard the motion.

[1:34:39] All of them signify.

[1:34:41] All opposed.

[1:34:43] Motion passed six or.

[1:34:44] We are an executive discussion. Time is 8.37. Thank you.

[1:34:54] Okay. Okay. Good evening, Council. Now time is 9.10. We are back in the open session.

[1:34:59] I can confirm that as a result of the executive discussion, no action needs to be taken.

[1:35:04] With that, it's time to adjourn. Council, can I have a motion to adjourn, please?

[1:35:07] Motion to adjourn.

[1:35:09] Motion made by my approach of speech. Seconded by Mr. Elliot to adjourn.

[1:35:13] All in favour?

[1:35:14] Signify?

[1:35:15] All opposed?

[1:35:16] Motion passed six, all.

[1:35:17] Thank you, Councilor.

[1:35:18] Thank you, staff, everybody, for working hard and staying with us.

[1:35:23] Good night.

Jan 27, 2025 Town Council

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