[0:08] Yeah.

[0:13] Yeah, it's pretty pretty grainy.

[0:22] Hi, Rick Brunson. Okay.

[0:27] Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Thanks for coming.

[0:47] How are you?

[1:49] Okay.

[1:59] Okay.

[3:19] » Okay, I'm going to go ahead and bring our meeting to order. It's July 16th and

[3:23] it is 1:32

[3:27] and I'm going to go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance.

[3:34] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

[3:38] To the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with

[3:45] liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge

[3:50] allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one and indivisible.

[3:59] I'm going to go ahead and ask for the invocation.

[4:02] » Sure. I just prayed

[4:05] how do you do everybody? Gracious God,

[4:09] we give you thanks for the creation that you made and for the rains

[4:16] that are replenishing it. Uh we at the same time pray for all

[4:20] those who are in harm's way for those who are victims of the flooding going on

[4:27] to our south and west. We ask that you continue to protect lives

[4:32] as this situation continues to unfold.

[4:37] I give you thanks for this city, this city council, the employees of this

[4:41] city, all of the concerned citizens who work to

[4:44] make this the place that we want to be each and every day of our lives.

[4:50] Bless all that is done in this meeting and lead and guide with your loving

[4:55] spirit all the deliberations. In Christ's name, amen.

[5:00] » Amen.

[5:05] » Does everyone have the microphone for voting?

[5:10] » Do we have any citizens to be heard? >> No, sir.

[5:13] » No citizens to be heard. Okay, we'll go ahead and go on.

[5:19] I'm sorry.

[5:22] Oh, okay.

[5:25] Okay, we'll go ahead and go on to item number five.

[5:28] Consent items.

[5:33] Council, do you have any questions or comments on this?

[5:42] I'll move to accept them as listed.

[5:46] Okay, we have a motion to accept them as listed currently by Mr. Byrd. Second.

[5:52] Seconded by Michael Graybear.

[6:00] I'm going to get that right sooner or later. I got two years to get it right.

[6:03] That's pretty good. I'm working on it.

[6:08] Okay, all those in favor say I. I.

[6:12] Oppose the same. Five vote vote.

[6:18] Go ahead and move on to number We don't have a number six on here, I guess.

[6:22] Number seven.

[6:29] It's okay.

[6:32] Discussion and possible action on water project. This is Mr. Byrd and myself.

[6:38] » You want to start or you want me to start?

[6:40] » What Whatever you'd like to do. I've got a little write-up I did and then I go

[6:43] over the financial side. Whatever you'd like to do, sir.

[6:47] » Okay. I'd like to first talk about the issue we've had with our water report

[6:52] that Shawn has now got corrected. We've been showing losses of water

[6:58] recalibrations of gallons between $20,000. So, we're at what?

[7:02] Anyway, we found out that a valve needed to be recalibrated. It's going to be

[7:06] recalibrated now. Losses down to what? 13%?

[7:10] So, so he's really working to try to make

[7:14] that number the original number. It's still a little bit high.

[7:17] I don't know anything over 10 and there's something wrong with that. So,

[7:21] we're still investigating and haven't given up. That's not the project that's

[7:24] solely going on. That we're currently working under. On

[7:28] the project, we made our comments back to HR Green

[7:32] for bids and they're going to release bids on July

[7:37] 24th and And we'll for a bid

[7:42] at that time also. Okay.

[7:45] We have a meeting with HR Green to go over private details. What was that?

[7:51] July? >> August 6th.

[7:52] » August 6th. And uh

[7:55] » They're going to have their first on-site walk-through for phase one and

[7:59] then they're going to meet with us on at 1:00.

[8:02] » Right. I'm I'm going to make an attempt to be there for at least the morning

[8:06] walk-through, if there is one. And I've got a special

[8:11] tool being on my committee to help us evaluate bids and also walk walk I mean

[8:15] we should be able to do on that you know there's a subsequent day where there

[8:19] will be a walk-through. Looking downstream from that,

[8:25] the bids are due in on August 26th and we'll be meeting with HR Green over that

[8:31] following week and hopefully sometime in early September we may

[8:35] have a contract. And this is just for the uh

[8:39] uh clearwell tanks.

[8:42] And everybody Somebody asked me the other day about question what's the

[8:46] order you're going to put in new clearwell tank first, demolish the

[8:51] old one, and then we'll put in the second new clearwell tank after where

[8:56] the old one was. So, that's the order of things and then

[9:00] I think that they're in a reasonable schedule I would think by the new year

[9:04] both are operational. >> End of next year.

[9:09] What you say? All right. End of 2017.

[9:12] » I'm hoping that we can go faster than that.

[9:15] » End of End of this year is not going to happen. End of this year is when we're

[9:18] going to get started on the project. We won't get started on the project. We

[9:22] don't even have a compliance till October 19th.

[9:25] It's about a 12 or 14-month project, so what it was what it was portrayed to

[9:32] So, it'll be By the end of next year we'll have both tanks in or sooner.

[9:40] I'm trying to help.

[9:43] Okay. Uh no, I mean we've got So, they're

[9:47] going to put the the bid's going to go through the C-Cast and everybody anybody

[9:51] that in the community will be able to log in

[9:54] that will get all log in information once we get those set up. We'll be able

[9:57] to go in and look at it, see what the bids are at. There'll be any notes or

[10:01] anything. Who's awarded the contract? It'll be used after the contract awarded

[10:05] them so that we can keep up with anything that's changing or

[10:10] improving or whatever the case may be and that's

[10:14] going to be our our forecasting mechanism and bid

[10:18] mechanism.

[10:22] I'll go over the quickly on the finances. We're into

[10:26] July. Uh for the uh this is a account of the

[10:32] certificate obligations. Currently the balance July 1 is

[10:36] 11,964,644.57.

[10:41] We have year-to-date spent $192,000

[10:46] $192,027.20

[10:50] with HR Green getting our plans and everything done.

[10:54] So, to date we've spent a million 318,624

[10:59] HR Green.

[11:02] We've earned on our

[11:07] Try to find it here. Find it here.

[11:12] I wrote this thing. I should be able to pick it right up, right?

[11:22] I think it's fair wells.

[11:29] balance What think

[11:33] interest earned through

[11:38] today is 152,894.20.

[11:43] So, that's that's enabled us to make the $192,000 of payments that we made to HR

[11:49] Green and still carry a balance of rounded up $12 million.

[11:53] We technically haven't touched the

[11:57] bond money yet. We're still very well funded for this project.

[12:03] Any other questions or any questions?

[12:09] All right. Move on to number eight. Discuss and possible action on the

[12:14] letter of appointment July 16th. That's Amy.

[12:22] Got your name on there. >> Is it in the packet this month?

[12:27] Yeah, it is. Um

[12:32] Uh this is basically uh

[12:35] standard update of what we currently have.

[12:41] Um I think the only thing that was changed

[12:44] on here is uh

[12:47] Let me see. Uh our signers at the bank.

[12:52] » Okay. >> It's Rick Bruce, Amy Guess, and Cindy

[12:55] Jenkins. Um everything else is

[12:58] kind of been just updated to what we had before.

[13:10] » Okay.

[13:12] Okay. I'm trying to find it here.

[13:15] » It's number eight. >> I was trying to get to it.

[13:21] It's the same thing everybody else has. >> It's all the way in

[13:23] » I know what you're saying. >> Don't say that.

[13:27] » Okay. Second it.

[13:35] » Okay counselor, if you want to review that and we'll take a

[13:38] vote to accept it.

[13:44] I have any discussion on it?

[13:54] » I have a question. >> Question number

[13:56] » On the white email questionnaire for the board

[13:59] take out the period between Mike and Bird.

[14:05] You want me to take it from my car?

[14:10] » Take out so it's one word Mike Bird? >> No, you take out the period

[14:15] between Mike and Bird. >> Where's that?

[14:17] » Okay.

[14:23] » Oh, that's your >> Yeah.

[14:26] » As is if both work. One for it to the other so

[14:36] » Council, can I get some minutes that we accept this amendment?

[14:41] » I believe the phone is next to the actual speaker.

[14:44] » Yes, somebody's somebody's phone is talking.

[14:47] » Yeah. >> I thought I was losing my mind there for

[14:50] a while.

[14:54] » Or he's channeling. >> I think it's very loud up there but

[14:59] I can hear it. >> Is it outside?

[15:02] » No, it's it seems if your phone gets next to the

[15:05] microphone transmitter. >> Is it outside?

[15:07] » It's outside. >> Has anybody got a phone who gets to

[15:09] their car and puts something in there?

[15:13] Is it one of the police cars? I don't know. I can't look at it.

[15:16] » I don't know who it is. >> the static through the microphone

[15:18] » No, that's it. >> Ours have to be physically plugged in.

[15:24] But I can definitely hear it. >> Oh, okay.

[15:27] I thought it was just you. >> There was no one speaking to you.

[15:30] » I don't check my phone and I'm like

[15:33] » It's not my phone. >> Maybe it's somebody's purse.

[15:36] » I hear voices. Can you hear it?

[15:39] » I can hear it. >> I cannot hear that.

[15:43] I hear voices telling me that we need to get an approval on this.

[15:51] » So So are we approving all the

[15:55] appointments? Is that what the motion is?

[15:58] On this document? >> I'm waiting for a motion.

[16:00] » Okay. >> Yeah, I move that we approve as amended

[16:04] by Mike this

[16:07] list of appointments.

[16:10] » We have a motion made to approve it in the way they are listed currently with

[16:14] the change of Mr. Bird's email address. We have a second or any discussion?

[16:21] » Second. >> Seconded by Mr. Crown.

[16:28] All those in favor say aye.

[16:30] » Aye. >> Opposed the same.

[16:34] Five vote vote.

[16:38] Very much council. >> All right.

[16:50] » Discuss a possible action number nine on request for the Cape

[16:56] Fear Network to donate an air park use for the youth fishing tournament to be

[17:00] held on March 6th of 2027. Uh this was brought in at the last

[17:06] meeting and I think it was If I was supposed to do any work on it,

[17:10] I didn't do it. I'll just be honest right now because I forgot all about it,

[17:13] but I think we were just going to discuss whether or not we want to

[17:17] know whether we thought we should donate the

[17:20] property in time. Am I correct? >> I think the discussion was about

[17:26] liability and those.

[17:28] » Right. >> And

[17:30] we kicked some language back. Jamie, where does that stand?

[17:34] » So, I I've got a draft coming up to send back to you.

[17:38] Okay. Cuz there's a couple of other things

[17:41] that needed to be done. >> Right.

[17:43] » Clarified. >> You you see the kind of Exactly. Yeah.

[17:47] » Um so, trying to

[17:51] I'm almost done. >> Okay.

[17:53] » So, I'm going to kick it back to you. We have to update our ordinance there with

[17:57] that. >> Perfect.

[17:59] » Um so, this is just to approve us donating

[18:03] it. It's not to approve that we have to sign a contract.

[18:08] » Okay. So,

[18:11] okay. >> So, we could move to say yes to the

[18:15] donation if we wanted to. >> Correct.

[18:17] » Still to come, a revised contract that covers liability and other stuff.

[18:22] » Okay, well, then sign. >> That they will be

[18:24] » That they >> will then sign.

[18:26] » Okay.

[18:30] » I second the motion.

[18:35] » Is there a motion? Like a motion? >> I like that motion. I make that motion.

[18:41] » Okay, a motion has been made by Tony that we accept the

[18:45] date of March 6th and we will go ahead and move forward to that 2027. We'll go

[18:49] ahead and move forward with setting a date for the support this

[18:53] organization >> the ordinance

[18:56] » and updating the ordinance.

[19:03] And who is seconding it, Mike? >> Yes.

[19:06] » Okay. Seconded by Mike.

[19:15] » Council, we have a vote. We have a all in favor.

[19:19] I say I. Opposed the same.

[19:24] I vote no.

[19:33] Yes. The vote is unanimous.

[19:42] Okay, discussion regarding the budget workshop. We have met

[19:46] three times now. The council's met. The council met with the department heads

[19:50] twice. And we met just the council on this

[19:54] yesterday actually. And we are meeting again

[19:59] next Thursday. Is that correct?

[20:03] Yeah. July 23rd, we're meeting again to

[20:08] work through some things. I went ahead and passed out to council today kind of

[20:12] a wrap up of where we're at with some of items that are still hanging out. We

[20:16] haven't really dug into the numbers yet. Uh we've got a draft a second draft that

[20:22] has been put together between Sandy and myself and a couple of things

[20:26] that have been talked about in some of the meetings, but

[20:29] uh we should have a final version up to up to par in probably the next week or

[20:35] so. What do you say, Sandy? Maybe two weeks?

[20:37] » I've gotten some new numbers in today. >> Yeah.

[20:40] Um but we're going to have another

[20:42] workshop. Obviously, the public is available to come to any of

[20:46] that. And I think we've made some very good progress this year. It's a little

[20:50] different. We are trying to put together a

[20:53] budget for 2027, but I also want to put together a 28, 29, and 30 budget.

[20:58] We have kind of the first time we've ever done that so that we can

[21:02] try to be a little more proactive with our approach to running the city than

[21:06] reactive as I think we have been in the past.

[21:10] I appreciate this council's work and everything they've done with it. Joni

[21:13] has put together a couple of little

[21:15] workshops for me. Michael did a workshop. We've all been involved in it

[21:20] and try to look at different things that we

[21:23] think will either make sense long-term or even short-term changes that we can

[21:27] make to benefit the community. Help our help our employees and just

[21:33] become a better stewards of our citizens of our

[21:37] city here. I do appreciate everybody's work and

[21:41] help with all that.

[21:44] Council, do you have anything to say about this?

[21:48] » I like the uh work that done by the two of Council

[21:53] members that we've talked about. Plus Rich done a lot of work on the street

[21:56] department. I think we're making a step forward

[21:59] uh for the benefit

[22:01] of the city. >> Great.

[22:04] Thanks for your leadership.

[22:08] I heard your voices again.

[22:12] » Come here. Come here. I walked out there. There's

[22:14] a lot going on over there in the shop. And that's what those workers are.

[22:17] » Okay.

[22:20] Well, good. It Look, it all takes a team effort. It's a team effort from our from

[22:24] our employees and from our department heads to council to mayor.

[22:31] And our constituents that show up and give us their opinion to work on.

[22:35] looking forward as well. So, it's a group effort and we got to

[22:39] got to continue to look and listen and put together a plan that is going to be

[22:43] beneficial for everyone.

[22:49] Any further discussion on that?

[22:53] Going for a record time for a council meeting today.

[22:58] Uh any announcements or whether calendar I guess my announcement would be we do

[23:01] have a workshop for the 27th.

[23:05] Is that correct? And what day is that? >> The 23rd.

[23:08] » 23rd, I'm sorry. At

[23:12] 1:00. >> Yes.

[23:15] Yes. >> So, anybody that would like to again

[23:19] come to see that, it would be great. We'd appreciate your presence.

[23:25] » Ice cream social Saturday night 6:00 here.

[23:31] » Rain or shine? >> Rain or shine.

[23:35] » I hope nobody's had any water damage or anything here. I don't think we've had

[23:38] anything that we've reported here. We've been somewhat lucky. We've been pretty

[23:42] fortunate. So, surrounding communities are not as

[23:46] fortunate from us to the west and west and

[23:49] south, but >> Still be Llano River aware.

[23:53] » Hi, Grommet. It's still saying it's over towards Mason and it's coming our way.

[23:58] » Yeah, there's still there's still a chance that we could

[24:01] have some additional rain, hopefully no flooding

[24:05] or problems.

[24:09] All right, anything else at all, council, we want to discuss?

[24:14] Um All right, I will look for a motion for

[24:18] adjournment. >> I so move.

[24:21] » Second. >> So moved by Joni and seconded by Tammy.

[24:27] We'll take us out of the meeting at 1:53.

[24:33] » Record time. >> Record time.

[24:35] » We'll see you next >> That's because of all the work we did in

[24:38] the other meetings.

[24:42] » Wait, can I get a copy of your

[24:55] Is that okay? Hi.

[24:57] » Hey, what is your Facebook or something? Someone made a post the other day

[25:00] regarding McNair Park. Did you see it or did someone say cuz Yeah, man.

[25:04] » I did see that too. >> What did they say? Did they come to see

[25:07] all the talking masses? >> Yes. So, what's

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