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Good afternoon everyone. I'm called this meeting to order. It is now 5 p.m.,

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Profit is Jennifer Beesley with stay free wear matters. We'll give the invocation and I will give them

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Pleasure you do not pledge at least let us say and please let

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us bow ahead

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Press just while we thank you for this day

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This is truly the day you made and we thank you for this meeting. We ask for your wisdom your guidance

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And we ask that, we thank you for the great city of Colleen, we thank you for our military, we pray, your protection, your blessings upon our military family, and all of the residents of this great city of Colleen.

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We ask for your guidance again in this meeting, and you just need me pray, Amen.

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Council, you know, motion to approve the agenda.

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Council member Brown.

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Move to approve the agenda.

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Move by Council member Brown. Council member Williams.

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I seconded.

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The second by Council member Williams.

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Any discussion? No discussion.

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all in favour of signify by saying yes, all opposed no

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motion passed 70.

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Madam Secretary.

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Presentations item 1, PR-26-018.

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Present Proclamation for National Preparednessment.

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Mr. Mayor Sarah Williams, our director of emergency management will meet you at the front.

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Before I read this population, I want to say we are recognizing the national preparedness

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month of September, and it's so important for all of us to prepare for situations that may

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arrive, whether it's fire, whether it's severe weather, we want to be prepared. So this is a

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good time to start in terms of planning, making sure that we have all of the items that we need

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to be ready for any given situation. And I want to say thank you to our first responders

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and our emergency professionals, emergency management professionals, they do a great job in keeping

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on safe and preparing us. And what that said, it's an honor to read this population,

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where as for more than 22 years, nation.

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The preparedness month has been observed. Each September, as a nation, as a nation-wide effort to raise awareness about emergency preparedness, and encourage individual, families, businesses, and communities to take proactive steps to protect lives, property, and the places we call home, and where as.

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Preparedness begins with each of us and includes creating an emergency plan, building an emergency

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supply kit, staying informed through trusted emergency alerts, and taking steps to ensure

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our families, neighborhoods, and communities can respond effectively when emergencies arrive.

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Whereas the City of Colleen is committed to strengthening community resilience through emergency

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planning, public education, and collaboration with British responders, emergency management

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professionals, volunteers and community partners who work year-round to safeguard our residents

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and whereas as a central Texas community, cleaning recognizes the importance of preparing

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has it, such as severe storms, flooding, tornadoes, extreme heat, and other emergencies,

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and encourages residents to take action today to help protect themselves, their families,

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and their neighbors. And whereas the city of Colleen believes, preparedness must include

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all members of our community and continue to promote accessibility, inclusion,

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a global access to emergency information, resources, services, and support for all residents.

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Now therefore, I Joseph Solomon, by virtue of the authority, vested in me as mayor of the

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city of clean, do here by our proclaim the month of September 2026 as National Preparedness

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Month.

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fine Joseph Solomon. Mayor.

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Thank you.

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Okay, we will begin our work session discussions of item 7 through the pin for the September

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first 2026 regular session. No final action will be taken until regular session.

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Madam Secretary, the first item please.

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Resolutions. Item number 7, RS-26-132, consider a memorandum resolution, appointing commissioners

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to the Youth Advisory Commission for FY27.

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Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

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So today we'll be going over appointments for commissioners to the Youth Advisory Commission

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for FY27.

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So a little background, the Youth Advisory Commission was created in 1993

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to serve as the liaison to the City of Colleen City Council.

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The bylaws were amended and approved by City Council August 4th, which changed the number

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of commissioners that YAC is comprised of, up to 15 commissioners and unlimited resource

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members and junior members.

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The mission statement here is to provide the youth of our community opportunities through

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volunteerism and service by taking initiatives that are directed toward effective change.

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FY2027 interviews were conducted by Councilmember Bass and Parks and Recreation staff on August 1st

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and 13 students are recommended to serve as commissioners for the FY27 based on their leadership

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ability and community involvement.

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So this list will all be student representatives.

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Analisa Emocho, Alamea Rivera Roman, Giuliana Lewis, Reina Cumbi, Osvaldo, Camacho, Burgos, Jackson.

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Constance Stovall, Sarah Sanchez, Emiliano Quintero, Eva McQuade, Destiny Wilson, Gazelle Issa, Chelsea,

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Niewes Ortiz, and Gina Issa. Staff recommends city council appoint the recommended nominations

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as Youth Advisory Commission for FY27.

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Council,

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is there any questions or comments?

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I do not.

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Item 8, RS-26-133, consider a memorandum resolution,

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approving an amendment to the professional service

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agreement with the Schluter Group for state

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legislative representation.

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Good evening, ma'am.

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Good evening, Mayor of City Council.

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This is your item regarding amendment to the

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and professional services agreement with the Schlitter Group.

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The city's actively engaged with state-led

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slated process as directed by Councils State

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Legislative Priorities and Principles.

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As part of its strategy, the city has engaged

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Schlitter Group since 2002.

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The term for the current contract is from August 19th, 2025.

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Through August 19th, of 2028,

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and it does renew for one successive two-year term,

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so goes through 2030.

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The proposed amendment today, tonight,

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would reduce the $100,000 annual fee to $1 for year two of the agreement. That's year

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two that began August this year.

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Staff recommends that Council authorized the city manager to execute a amendment number one

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to the agreement wish leader groups to reduce the annual fee of $100,000 to $1 for

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year two of this agreement.

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Okay, Council, is there any questions on it? You can raise your hand because I do not see

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you.

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Okay? There are no questions. Thank you, City Secretary.

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I'm sorry. My City Attorney.

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Now, in City, Madam City Secretary.

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Ordinances, item number nine, OR-26-015, consider a city initiated ordinance, case Z-26-11,

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One, to resound approximately 0.16 of an acre, being part of lots 1 and 5, block 6,

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north-side addition from B3, local business district to R1, single-family residential

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district.

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The subject property is locally addressed as 312, East Texas Avenue, Kilaine, Texas.

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Good evening, ma'am.

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Good evening.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, Ma'am.

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of an item that was tabled at your last meeting to

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rezone the property at 312 that used Texas Avenue.

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As you know, on May 14th of 2024, the Council directed staff to begin

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processing city-initiated rezoning cases for non-conforming

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uses. Since then, staff has processed 15 city-initiated rezoning

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cases including 123 individual parcels. All property owners within those areas that were

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rezoned were sent a letter informing them of this initiative as well as a form to consent

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or opt out of the rezoning process. So this is a summary of the city initiative cases

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process to date. So in 2024 we did seven city initiative cases including 89 parcels of those

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where you received 12 consent forms and one property owner declined to be rezoned. In 2024

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We did four city-initiated cases, which included a total of 20 parcels, and we received five consent forms, and in 2026 we've had four cases, including a total of 14 parcels, and we received only, when this was prepared we received one consent form since then I think we received total of four.

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So, of the 123 consent forms that were sent out, you received only 19 responses.

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Again, we received three cents and so it's 22 responses.

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And so based on those numbers, the overall response rate is relatively low at 15%.

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With that regard to 312 East Texas Avenue, this is the red star indicates the location of that property.

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And this is the zoning of the subject property in the surrounding area.

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This is an aerial of that personal.

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This is a view of the subject property and view of the property across the street.

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Facing east.

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And facing west. Located within the infill in enhanced area on the gross sector map and designated

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traditional neighborhood on the future land use map. We noticed that the notified 63 surrounding

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property owners, and we did receive the signed consent form from the property owner on August 28th.

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This is the notification boundary. With that staff is recommending approval, the city initiated

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requests to rezone the property of 312 east Texas Avenue from B3 to R1 is presented, planning

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Insounding Commission also recommended a proof when you'd

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anonymously and have the answer any questions.

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Councils, any questions?

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Comments?

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Council member Brown.

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Was this the owner occupied?

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No, ma'am.

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I think I'm looking at the right ones.

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The attachment we had on our package

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is that you had not been able to get it.

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It did.

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We received, as I said, the signed consent form on August 28th.

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And we did that by making contact.

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Well, first, we made contact with the tenant.

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Well, we attempted to make contact with the tenant.

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It was subsequently determined to the property on her was, and so we were able to make contact with him that way.

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You wrecked my mind.

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Thank you.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Good.

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Councilmember Beth.

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Why?

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The staff recommends disapproval.

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No, so the staff is recommending approval because we've received the consent form.

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Okay, got it.

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The consent form was received after the gender was posted.

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So now we've updated our recommendation.

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Now it's recommended approval.

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Yes, sir.

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Councilmember Brown?

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I'm sorry, one more question, Ms. Clemens.

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I may, ma

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Yes, ma'am.

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Okay, thank you.

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So, our presentation clearly was not able to be updated in time.

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When we make the motion on this one,

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ignore me, because I looked at it as if it was part of consent.

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And my question is now going to be irrelevant.

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I have a migraine to everybody.

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I apologize.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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uh... there's no other question so you have the next item

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ma'am accounts madam uh... seconder

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pH-26-027 consider a city initiated ordinance case z-26-12

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to reason approximately 0.144

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of an acre out of the age-oneel survey

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abstract six forty five

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From B3 local business district to R2, two family residential district, and lot one block, one

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moleford edition, from B3 local business district to R1, single family residential district.

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The subject properties are locally addressed as 1401 in 1411, moleford street, killing Texas.

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Mayor and Council, thank you.

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This item is for 1401 and 1411, moleford street.

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1401 is an existing detached single-family home in 1411 is an existing two-family home.

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As you know, both are considered legal non-conforming because they're currently zone B3,

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and if approved, this request will bring them into conformance with the zoning ordinance.

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Red star indicates location of the subject properties.

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This is the zoning of the property as well as the zoning of the surrounding properties,

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and to the area.

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This is the property at 1401 Mulfurred.

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View Facing 1401 Mulfurred.

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1411 Mulfurred.

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And facing east across the street from 1411.

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And of you facing south on Mulfurred towards Dean Avenue.

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And of you facing north.

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Subject properties are located within the infill and enhanced area on the growth sector map

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and designated traditional neighborhood on the future land use map.

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We notified 70 surrounding property owners.

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And both property owners were provided with a consent form.

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We have received the written consent form from 1411 moleford,

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but not from the property owner, 1401, the notification boundary.

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With that staff is recommending approval of the request to

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rezone 1411 moleford street from B3 to R2.

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But since we have not received the written consent form for 1401,

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we are recommending disapproval of rezoning that particular parcel.

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I'm planning and zoning recommended approval of both on July 13th unanimously.

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Council, is there any questions?

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Council member Brown.

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Council member Kimball.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Based on our last meeting on this, if you don't get the written consent, do we?

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Do we have to move forward eventually?

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Or are we just going to wait for it?

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So without the written consent from that's a council's discretion.

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There's nothing prohibiting you from from rezoning the property.

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without the written concept.

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We've made several attempts to contact the property owner and receive that written consent form. It is not our own or occupied either. We made contact with the tenant who indicated that he would let the property management company know.

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I'm not aware if that happened or not. We don't know who the property management company is. So we've not been able to obtain the written consent at this time. So in the absence of that.

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Um, unless Council directs otherwise, we wouldn't bring it back.

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You, do we have a, do we have options to move forward to, can we recommend to move forward with it tonight?

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If we wanted to, you can move forward with rezoning this property.

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I've sent all required notices.

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Um, where consent is not required, but I know was something that Council was concerned about.

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Okay. Thank you.

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Council move, bro.

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In staff's defense, this was a kind of lengthy discussion at the last meeting after the presentation where we came to, I suppose a consensus on the fact that, since there was no written proof that they were okay with the rezoning that the council would decline anything right now that came through without that consent form and moving forward staff wouldn't even take those hours to go through the process.

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process until the consent form returns to them, since then I am aware that we have at least

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one property that is going through a zoning process now that had we not done the city

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initiated prior to, then that would be properly zoned for what the intention of it is right

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now.

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Um, so I'll be sticking with my recommendation to, uh, in with staff's recommendation to, uh,

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discipline of anything where we don't have written consent just to avoid any liabilities

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in the city in future.

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Well, the discussion, okay, there is no more discussion.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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Yes, sir.

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Thank you so much.

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Okay.

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It takes us to citizen's comments on agenda items.

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Uh, now on the time for sitting comments, citizens will have three minutes to

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speak with one minute time-allotted for council for city council to be spawned with a

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statement or explanation without engaging in dialogue.

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City Attorney, you call.

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And I believe this city secretary has this.

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City secretary.

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Okay.

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First speaker is Naseera Zachary.

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Good evening.

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Good evening, man.

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How are you doing?

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I'm doing well.

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How much is that?

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Great.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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My name is Naseera Zachary.

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I'm a resident of Colleen and a social worker.

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I was looking through the proposed FY2027 budget and there's really one thing that stood out to me that is that

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Colleen in the budget is that the Colleen is the growing continuing to grow and as a city grows the demand for city's

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services grows with it. More people will be more demand on public safety, our streets, parks,

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developmental services, infrastructure into the departments responsible for keeping this city running.

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But while reviewing the budget, I also looked at the city's unfunded request.

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General Fund Department submitted 70 unfunded request total in over 6 million.

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These requests included 44 and a half positions and just over 3 million in personnel

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cost.

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And those were all minor requests.

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They included staff needs involving police, fire, mental health response, animal services,

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code enforcement, parks, emergency management, and other city services.

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Now, I'm not saying that just because the Department asked for a position, Council should

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automatically funded. I understand that there's a budget, and choices must be made, but my question is how do we determine that the city can meet the needs of a growing population without those positions?

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Are our own departments identified these needs, so I want to understand what criteria was used, which positions were unnecessary, which ones could wait and what happens to all the workload of those positions that aren't funded?

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because Colleen is growing, naturally the work load is growing for the city as well.

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And if residents are being asked to contribute more to support that growth, which I think is fair.

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And I think it's fair to ask whether we're also making sure that the people who actually provide our city services have enough staff and resources to do their jobs.

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And that leads to a bigger question about the budget, where should residents expect to see Colleen improve?

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If we come back a year from now what should be different what should be better and most importantly how are we going to measure?

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Whether the money approved in this budget actually made a difference for the people that live here.

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I'm not asking the city to spend money just for the sake of spending it.

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I'm asking how the money we are spending connects to what residents actually experience every day.

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If Colleen is growing, I want to make sure that the city is growing with us, not just in population, but in its ability to serve the people that live here.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.

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Madam Secretary?

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Next speaker is Michael Fernino.

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Good evening, sir.

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Five-year capital improvement program, five-year plan.

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That's what communist do.

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We need to do something a little bit better than that.

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We're going to tax rate.

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If you're going to vote on, I seem to recall the mayor

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that I can't paint stump speech on St. Schloer earlier this year.

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Complaining about taxes, telling us it's too high.

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we need to do something about it. And what did you do? You propose the exact same thing you did last

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year. One point shy of having to go to the voters. You cannot tax people into prosperity.

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We'll disappointed that there's not more citizens in the gallery tonight. You raise taxes,

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that's going to raise mortgage rates. And for those who say, I don't worry about taxes, I rent.

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Their rents are going to go up. Where does it stop? Where are the jobs that can support

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these constant and continual tax rates? Fiscal responsibility in this town just does

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not exist. We cannot pick a new city manager fast enough, and if there's any true fiscal

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responsibility to be had with this year's budget, we should get a tax lowering next year.

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with regard to

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annual budget. Again, when we look at it, I said earlier today at the special meeting.

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This is for the benefit of those who weren't here.

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We spent $28,000 on the search for a new city manager, Wagi.

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We have an HR director, an HR department, and we have an entire communications department.

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Why are we paying to do what we have people already on staff to do?

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I keep hearing from this council for the last decade about how we love the staff.

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We trust the staff.

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We're doing really good stuff, but for some reason, the staff is not allowed to do their job.

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So we just keep throwing good money after bad on things that we don't need to do.

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Why don't we have our staff actually go out and look for key personnel?

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They would have a stake in the game.

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Not some foreign entity that's just happy to take our money.

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I said it's even bet 50-50 is whether you've got presented the best candidates or the worst candidates.

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I don't know.

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But I think if we had our staff, our city, our money, and we've already spent concentrating

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on that effort.

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In the end, we would have a better result.

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And when it comes to budget accountability, and we start asking for stuff, the data breach,

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boil water notices in this next year.

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If we don't get answers,

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there is an election coming up and all of you are up against

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it. One way or the other. Consider your votes wisely tonight. This tax increase, this is

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untenable. This is probably the last straw for a lot of people. Take a look at the survey.

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If I can have just 30 seconds more.

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Thank you. I'll end with this.

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There's city survey as opposed to what you folks are concentrating your efforts on.

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I've said this before.

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This is not to anybody specifically.

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The town that you preside over or think that you presider is not the one that many of us

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live in.

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Take a look at the citizen survey.

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See what we care about, what we want accomplished, that there's not a disconnect once you get

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on the other side of that strap there.

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You get to do your own thing.

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You're supposed to be representing us, listen to the people.

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This is our money. Listen to what our concerns are.

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Thank you, sir.

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Fifty-sixth, sir.

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Dr. Sue Nisecroft.

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Good evening, ma'am.

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Good evening, Mayor.

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Councilman and City Manager.

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I'm speaking specifically to the proposed five-year

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I can't sleep.

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Improvement Program for fiscal year of 2027 through 2031. On page 32, project 925004 North Colleen Gross Resight remains

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listed as a project approved in a prior year schedule and underway with a project to date budget

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of $2,250,000. I have confirmed that no expenditures have been occurred against this project.

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North Colleen has waited for approximately 15 years for a grocery store solution.

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So before this council adopts another five-year capital improvement program, I believe

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residents deserve to understand what happens next.

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What is the current implementation plan for Project 925004?

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Is there currently a site perspective grocery operator development agreement, timeline or

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but active strategy is associated with this $250,000 project.

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I also want to draw a council's attention to project 92503 strategic land acquisition

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on page 70.

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That project has $500,000 in project to date funding for strategic land acquisition with

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T-I-R-Z number two is discretion, specifically a mention that RAN-Zer project, but it also provides for other land purchases within T-I-R-Z number two that would further economic development.

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I understand that no expenditures have been incurred against that project either.

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Therefore, my second question is, has the city evaluated whether these projects can strategically work together?

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Project 9292503 for eligible eligible land acquisition and project 92504 for the North Colleen Girls Recyte objective to finally move with longstanding priority towards implementation.

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And if they cannot be used together, I would like to understand what restrictions prevent

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these that coordination.

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This is not a request to create a new priority.

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The North Colleen Grocery Store Project is already in the Capital Improvement Program.

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The funding is already accounted for.

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The question is, what is the city's plan to turn an existing capital project into an operating

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grocery store for North Colleen?

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Thank you and the 494. Thank you for listening.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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Madam City Secretary.

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Next speaker is Christian Bishop.

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Good evening, sir.

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Good evening.

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I'm here.

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I'm here to speak about DS26-0079.

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City Council retreat and team building workshop.

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While we'll not be in the chambers after citizens' comments,

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my questions are not rhetorical.

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I'm not in favor of the agenda item for the following reasons.

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My first question is, where is the funding for this coming from?

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I think it's rational for the public to assume this comes from tax revenue.

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If it's not, where is it coming from?

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Assuming this comes from tax revenue, I think it's reasonable to request

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if not require transparency and public spending.

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What is the budget and itinerary for this trip?

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We'll receipts for this trip, be made public and easily accessible.

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If there are excess funds after the trip is completed, how will they be allocated,

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assuming alternate funding?

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I also think it's reasonable for taxpayers to know who else has financial equity or influence on the sitting administration.

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What entity, group, her institution, et cetera, is funding this trip.

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What does what does said entity get out of the transaction?

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What is the itinerary for this trip?

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What purpose does this retreat serve, the agenda mentions team building, but I feel this would be better served in clean,

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where the city administration can aim, inject some money back into the local economy, be engaged with local perspectives,

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and see promote some more trust in clean government. To conclude, I think that the timing and perception around this retreat is poorly thought out.

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In the most charitable case, I see an ill advised attempt to regroup and in the least charitable case.

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I see an administration that knows most of them won't be returning next year and figured they might as well give themselves a vacation on the way out.

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I am personally frustrated that a couple weeks ago we were discussing shutting down the only homeless shelter.

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And today, we're talking about sending the city sitting council on a retreat.

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I yield my time.

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Thank you, sir. Madam City Secretary.

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Next speaker is Jamie Carroll.

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Good evening.

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I'm going to actually speak in favor of what he spoke out against, except instead of going away on a retreat.

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What I'd like to see, as I'd like to see you guys get together in one of our city parks,

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Live streaming. I want to see sack races. I want to see I'm not kidding. The egg in the spoon some truss falls

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It's not gonna cost the citizens it ain't extra money and

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That's also additional community engagement. You guys want to be better team members

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be a team with the city because you guys aren't just

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This special group that is you guys versus us. It's all of us. You're representing all of us

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So let's do some, what is it, the three-legged race?

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I'd love to see some of the people on this side,

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do some of the race with some people on this side.

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I think it would be funny.

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And also, I mean, we're in here every week talking

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about super serious stuff.

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None of us are agreeing on anything.

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So why don't you get out and do some real cheap

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on the fly team building?

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It's our classics, right?

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It's our classics as America.

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We've all done these goofy things.

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And they're not going to cost in anything.

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You don't need to leave the city to build a better team.

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You can do it right here, set it on the calendar, pop it on the live stream, and let it rip.

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You know, we've already been in here 10 plus times talking about the budget.

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So I'm not going to hound you on the budget and what we've wasted any more than that.

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But, you know, if you are going to go forward with this, let's keep it cheap, let's keep it local.

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And let's let the lid off of it a little bit so that we can all kind of enjoy it and maybe actually have some lives and get on the same ground with one another.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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Thank you.

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Madam City Secretary.

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Next speaker is Leo Gucason.

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Leo Gucason.

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I apologize.

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Good evening, sir.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

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at a mayor-protein council members city manager first I'd say that this would be my last

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time here for a while since football season started I'd be busy on Tuesday, Thursdays,

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Friday, Saturdays and Sundays but I just wanted to come up today to talk about a quote

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As I always do, starts off with nuts.

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It was a reply from the Acting Department,

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the Division Commander 101st Airborne Division

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on December 22nd, 1944 at best

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going during the Battle of the Bulge,

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to the German Commander who demanded their

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unconditional surrender.

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I'm here to talk about the retreat.

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I concur with the last two speakers

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who said,

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but taking it at face value, I think it's a bad time to be talking about going

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away, holding hands and singing, Kumbaya. For the last few months now, 4 or 5, 6, whatever

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it has been. This body is stated that we are short on funds. And all of a sudden, when

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we're about to, when you are about to vote on the tax rate, which will be increased,

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just right below, as another resident said,

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but the other voter approval rate.

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Here you are.

466
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I'm going to talk about one discuss of retreat

467
00:39:07,950 --> 00:39:11,990
and I work group session thing that could be done

468
00:39:11,990 --> 00:39:14,050
as his second person said.

469
00:39:14,170 --> 00:39:16,650
Here in Colleen, very cheap.

470
00:39:17,570 --> 00:39:20,070
Fun, people come out and watch you and have fun, whatever.

471
00:39:21,010 --> 00:39:24,030
But to be coming up now speaking of going out of town,

472
00:39:24,030 --> 00:39:32,490
possibly going downtown, excuse me, and spending an extra excess amount of excess funds on

473
00:39:32,490 --> 00:39:40,790
something that is not needed. In the time that we're struggling to keep our streets up. Yes,

474
00:39:40,790 --> 00:39:44,310
we have a plan for that I understand that, but there are a lot of potholes out there in clean,

475
00:39:44,450 --> 00:39:51,190
I don't know if you all wrote over or not, but I have, you know, we need more firefighters, more police,

476
00:39:51,190 --> 00:39:59,970
more EMT people that we could be using that money for instead of going out on a session.

477
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:08,940
The whole hands and seeing cum by yye. This county, I'm sorry, this body did that once before I think it was Mr.

478
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:25,620
Cosper was a mayor, or I think it was Cosper was a mayor. And there was a lot of flag brought on to that about that. I don't know if you're familiar with it. I think Mr. Cosper was a mayor about expanding money on things that should not have been spent on.

479
00:40:25,620 --> 00:40:31,260
Not to say that if you do go do this, that you will do that, but that was the last one that came out.

480
00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:39,780
Everything, if there was anything good about it, it was buried because of that particular scandal about spending money on stuff that wasn't.

481
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:45,240
I think if you do think your time is up, I have one moment, I'll be closing up. Yes sir, you can.

482
00:40:46,180 --> 00:40:54,900
If you do decide to do it, I, the second person that addressed this issue, doing it here in clean would be cheaper, would be beneficial for the city.

483
00:40:54,900 --> 00:41:03,160
because you can go out and buy lunch at a local restaurant or whatever, but I'm going out of town for it.

484
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:09,840
I don't think that is very wise now because you're possibly going to raise the taxes on people.

485
00:41:11,060 --> 00:41:12,820
And every penny nowadays counts.

486
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,060
If you've got people talking about better on a fixed budget,

487
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,200
in the long run, it might not seem a lot of a couple pennies, but for them it does.

488
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:22,180
Thank you for your time.

489
00:41:22,620 --> 00:41:23,440
Thank you, sir.

490
00:41:24,780 --> 00:41:26,960
City men, City Secretary.

491
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,560
Your number speakers are on her.

492
00:41:34,940 --> 00:41:36,220
I'm sorry, one more.

493
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:37,480
Anca Nega.

494
00:41:39,530 --> 00:41:40,590
That's your gem dot.

495
00:41:41,950 --> 00:41:43,250
Good evening, ma'am.

496
00:41:44,290 --> 00:41:45,310
You're good.

497
00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:46,990
Thank you, Council Mayor.

498
00:41:47,850 --> 00:41:50,090
I want to speak on the CIP budget,

499
00:41:50,430 --> 00:41:53,970
regarding animal adoption center remodels.

500
00:41:54,770 --> 00:41:58,250
So, the Council is being asked.

501
00:41:58,350 --> 00:42:00,370
Well, first of all, thank you this Council

502
00:42:00,370 --> 00:42:07,430
for having a special meeting discussing that particular item. That was very important and

503
00:42:07,430 --> 00:42:11,990
gave us a lot of information. So thank you for that. You're being asked to spend $1.7

504
00:42:11,990 --> 00:42:19,950
million to remodel this building because, quote, the building was not prepared for heavy water,

505
00:42:20,210 --> 00:42:26,050
use and interior layout was not configured for safe and efficient animals housing, potentially

506
00:42:26,050 --> 00:42:34,050
posing health risks to staff and animals. Let's see what the City Council was stolen in

507
00:42:34,050 --> 00:42:40,050
2023. One the City Council was asked to approve 1.7 million dollars to buy this building.

508
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:50,270
That this is the presentation from 2023. The facility offers improved canals,

509
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:58,020
enhanced amenities, and accommodations that would enhance our customer service.

510
00:42:58,020 --> 00:43:01,520
Well, directly contradicts what you're being told today.

511
00:43:04,420 --> 00:43:09,740
They wanted to convince you to spend $1.7 million, so they made everything sound great.

512
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:15,160
They also, at that meeting, they failed to inform the council that there was a conflict

513
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,040
of interest.

514
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,980
It is concerning to me that it's so easy for some staff to lie to see the council.

515
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:28,240
Maybe now that we have a formal police chief on the council, maybe it's less likely for

516
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:36,260
the city council to be lied to, that building is in a bad location, which means that even

517
00:43:36,260 --> 00:43:41,980
if you spend what, that's a terrible idea, but even if you spend $1.7 million, you're

518
00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:48,120
still not going to have a proper building as an animal shelter because there's no room to

519
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:55,120
build proper dog kennels. And they knew that in 2023, but there was a conflict of interest.

520
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,720
and unfortunately, we're here.

521
00:43:59,340 --> 00:44:01,060
As far as a tax rate is concerned,

522
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,840
I do not agree with raising the tax rate.

523
00:44:04,860 --> 00:44:06,200
There are no revenue taxes,

524
00:44:06,740 --> 00:44:10,200
what I want citizens should not be forced to pay

525
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:15,180
for mistakes that were made by staff or council,

526
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,340
like the purchase of that building,

527
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:18,480
there was not adequate.

528
00:44:19,460 --> 00:44:21,180
And these are my comments, thank you.

529
00:44:21,180 --> 00:44:29,120
Thank you, ma'am. I want to say Madam City Secretary. That's the last one. That was the last one.

530
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:34,440
Thank you. Let me just say this and I'll see Council Member Brown and Council Member Natchee.

531
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:43,520
This is for in reference to the retreat team building.

532
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:54,480
It's not planned to be nowhere out of town, out of state, it's right here, it's proposed

533
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:59,960
to be right here, so I don't know where everybody's getting it out of town, but it's...

534
00:45:00,270 --> 00:45:07,430
No, not a town. The proposal was not out of town. I agree with you. It should be right here.

535
00:45:08,210 --> 00:45:16,750
And if the council decides, it will be right here. And so, at minimum cost, and you'll hear more about that.

536
00:45:16,750 --> 00:45:25,910
But I just wanted to give you a spoiler that it's not out of town. We're not catching any planes. We're not flying off to Hawaii somewhere for retreat.

537
00:45:30,030 --> 00:45:30,550
I'm

538
00:45:36,730 --> 00:45:44,170
trying to decide if I want to do this now or when the budget comes up but I want to reiterate under that CIP.

539
00:45:44,470 --> 00:45:53,130
You'll see some items there that we do not have future funding for but we have spent money on and that's why they're there.

540
00:45:53,130 --> 00:46:04,330
So for example, the grocery store, the city has spent money on the grocery store, both on studies and on primarily on studies.

541
00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:13,510
You see that there because we are still required to list prior year spending up to a couple years back.

542
00:46:13,870 --> 00:46:16,790
That is one of the requirements that we have.

543
00:46:18,610 --> 00:46:25,370
The city isn't putting money into that fund for becoming here because this council just unanimously

544
00:46:25,370 --> 00:46:32,290
told KDC that that is one of their top priorities and we're putting money into KDC and so

545
00:46:32,290 --> 00:46:36,890
we're not going to duplicate efforts and we're not going to double the money that we're spending

546
00:46:36,890 --> 00:46:38,990
for a particular project.

547
00:46:42,250 --> 00:46:44,990
Thank you, Mayor and Council.

548
00:46:45,650 --> 00:46:51,350
When it comes to the budget, I'm not sure how far staff will go into the budget, but 60%

549
00:46:51,350 --> 00:46:55,430
And it could be more, but the last time I checked 60% of our budget.

550
00:46:56,150 --> 00:46:59,170
One budget, 60% go to our first responders.

551
00:46:59,930 --> 00:47:02,830
60% taken out of the consideration.

552
00:47:03,150 --> 00:47:10,630
We have other departments are just as important and valued by this council and by our city

553
00:47:10,630 --> 00:47:11,150
managers.

554
00:47:11,990 --> 00:47:18,370
So, when they decide on the budget, every director, the police fire, chief, police chief,

555
00:47:18,370 --> 00:47:23,470
every director meets with the city manager and they go through this list and they decide what

556
00:47:23,470 --> 00:47:25,070
is their top priority.

557
00:47:26,070 --> 00:47:31,690
So if you see things that were not in the budget, you could believe that the police chief

558
00:47:31,690 --> 00:47:38,890
fire chief and every director had a executive director had to say in what they wanted and what

559
00:47:38,890 --> 00:47:39,810
they did not want.

560
00:47:40,230 --> 00:47:46,790
But we also have a response to ability with taxpayer dollars to take your student infrastructure,

561
00:47:46,790 --> 00:47:51,650
to take care of our airport, take care of our waste management, and most important, take care

562
00:47:51,650 --> 00:47:58,410
of all of our employees through benefits, through their salaries so they can be competitive

563
00:47:58,410 --> 00:48:03,350
and we can keep down and not constantly have to retrying and then hire new people.

564
00:48:03,930 --> 00:48:10,690
So the budget is bound to set the best of our ability, our input, but what's important

565
00:48:10,690 --> 00:48:17,090
that the police fired each chief in the executive directors have the say and what they want to see in their budget.

566
00:48:17,730 --> 00:48:18,330
Thank you.

567
00:48:19,210 --> 00:48:20,310
Councilmember Kimball.

568
00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:23,160
Thank you Mr. Mayor.

569
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:26,680
There's been a lot of talk about the retreat.

570
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,160
So, item that,

571
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:39,920
I guess, when we, or, when we guess when the agenda is made, and when

572
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,800
you approve the agenda, you have gotten some input from council members.

573
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:52,260
I, again, it has been, it's been put on each end of, I don't think a whole lot of this,

574
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:58,420
I think it's been put on a agenda with discussion to be had, but I just want to, the citizens

575
00:48:58,420 --> 00:49:00,540
know that

576
00:49:03,010 --> 00:49:11,870
I agree with them that it looks bad, and the timing is not the most ideal, and I don't,

577
00:49:11,870 --> 00:49:15,990
I don't even know what the plans are, I'm waiting to hear what they are, but I think,

578
00:49:15,990 --> 00:49:24,310
That as people as members can put stuff on the agenda and then we as council members can decline it. If so, but that's all I have to say.

579
00:49:31,220 --> 00:49:32,580
The other discussion. Everybody.

580
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:33,840
Okay. Great.

581
00:49:35,460 --> 00:49:35,740
Okay.

582
00:49:38,110 --> 00:49:45,650
We will now go into our regular session in the madam's secretary consent agenda, please.

583
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:54,480
Item number two.

584
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:59,960
mn-26-024 consider minutes of special city council.

585
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:23,960
Council meeting of June 16th, 2026. Item 3, mn-26-025, consider minutes of city council special meeting of June 22nd, 2026. Item 4, mn-26-026, consider special open house, meeting minutes from June 23rd, 2026.

586
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:35,060
Item 5, RS-26-130, Consider Resolution, Entering a Memorandum of Agreement with Fort Hood,

587
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:40,960
Garrison, Command to provide mutual aid for police services and information sharing.

588
00:50:41,860 --> 00:50:49,760
Item 6, RS-26-131, Consider a Memorandum Resolution, Authorizing the Rejection,

589
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:59,360
of all received submissions for bid number 27-022, FY27, Annual Street Construction Materials.

590
00:51:01,490 --> 00:51:05,830
Council, I would take a motion on the consent agenda items. Council Member Naskin?

591
00:51:06,410 --> 00:51:10,310
Mr. Mayor Council, I'm moved to approve the consent agenda items.

592
00:51:10,790 --> 00:51:15,090
Motion by Council Member Naskin. Second, Council Member Brown.

593
00:51:15,510 --> 00:51:19,650
Second. Second by Council Member Brown, you need a discussion?

594
00:51:19,650 --> 00:51:26,850
I want to question all in favour of seeing a five by yes all opposed no

595
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:32,720
motion carries

596
00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:41,310
seven is zero thank you council now we will go into our regular session and resolution

597
00:51:41,310 --> 00:51:44,250
for individual consideration madam secretary

598
00:51:50,810 --> 00:51:55,230
resolutions item number seven R s dash to

599
00:51:55,230 --> 00:52:02,530
six dash one three two consider a memorandum resolution appointing commissioners to the

600
00:52:02,530 --> 00:52:02,970
27.

601
00:52:09,730 --> 00:52:09,850
Council.

602
00:52:10,250 --> 00:52:14,050
Mr. Roberts review this, which I would like for her to go over again.

603
00:52:16,630 --> 00:52:16,670
Okay.

604
00:52:16,770 --> 00:52:17,790
Did I take a motion?

605
00:52:18,710 --> 00:52:19,890
Council member Brown.

606
00:52:21,090 --> 00:52:26,170
With great congratulations to all of our new and returning commissioners.

607
00:52:26,210 --> 00:52:31,550
I move to approve RS-26-132.

608
00:52:32,010 --> 00:52:32,430
Okay.

609
00:52:32,910 --> 00:52:33,590
By zero second?

610
00:52:34,170 --> 00:52:34,930
Council member Kimble?

611
00:52:35,790 --> 00:52:36,430
I happenly.

612
00:52:36,470 --> 00:52:37,330
Happily second.

613
00:52:37,330 --> 00:52:40,450
Okay, is there any discussion?

614
00:52:42,510 --> 00:52:49,870
I'm just going to share your hand, I'm sorry, I'm having trouble here, Councilmember Bess.

615
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:59,800
I just want to say how much I enjoyed sitting on that selection committee.

616
00:53:01,020 --> 00:53:05,720
These young people are the best of the best of clean, and they're going to do a great job.

617
00:53:06,020 --> 00:53:06,740
Thank you.

618
00:53:10,110 --> 00:53:15,830
Councilmember Brown, Councilmember Kimball, Councilmember Williams, okay.

619
00:53:15,830 --> 00:53:23,990
All right. My apologies. Okay. If there's no other discussion, we'll take it to the boat.

620
00:53:24,610 --> 00:53:28,770
I'll only be able to signify by saying yes. All opposed no.

621
00:53:38,290 --> 00:53:39,170
Did everyone vote?

622
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:48,920
I'd like to recommend to show that council member Nash King. It's not here. The motion pass.

623
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:48,920
to

624
00:53:51,100 --> 00:53:51,960
0.

625
00:53:54,940 --> 00:53:55,940
Okay, Madam City Secretary.

626
00:54:02,020 --> 00:54:07,760
Item 8, RS-26-133, consider a memorandum resolution

627
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:12,700
approving an amendment to the professional services agreement with the Schluter Group for

628
00:54:12,700 --> 00:54:14,420
state legislative representation.

629
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,920
Council City Secretary has did a presentation, which I

630
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:27,820
would like to do it again. Okay, I would take a motion. Mayor Pope Tim. I make a motion

631
00:54:27,820 --> 00:54:34,360
to approve RS-26-133 Councilman Mowkindrix for a second.

632
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:35,400
Any discussion?

633
00:54:39,100 --> 00:54:40,100
I'm seeing names.

634
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,620
Councilmember Kimball.

635
00:54:44,550 --> 00:54:45,130
Thank you Mr. May.

636
00:54:45,130 --> 00:54:47,950
I'll be I will be voting for this.

637
00:54:48,270 --> 00:54:51,370
But I do say that I will say this for the record.

638
00:54:51,610 --> 00:54:53,630
I appreciate what the student group has done.

639
00:54:54,150 --> 00:54:58,470
I believe that we should pay people what they're worth.

640
00:54:59,230 --> 00:54:59,890
And there's services.

641
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:06,660
Our $100,000 dollars. They voluntarily dropped that price. I appreciate that. I want to say a foot of record, but I also

642
00:55:06,660 --> 00:55:13,300
say that we should pay people for and pay for our services when to the city. I want to, again, thank

643
00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:18,480
them, but we should be paying for what their worth for the services that they do for the city. Thank

644
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:25,140
you, Mr. Mayor. Any other discussion? All in favour, signify by saying yes, all opposed?

645
00:55:25,140 --> 00:55:25,280
No,

646
00:55:33,930 --> 00:55:35,010
everyone vote.

647
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:48,500
Okay. Motion pass of six through zero. Okay. Madam City Secretary.

648
00:55:53,630 --> 00:56:02,330
Item number nine. O-R-2-6-015. Consider a city initiated ordinance. Case number

649
00:56:02,330 --> 00:56:10,570
Z-2-6-1-1 to reason approximately 0.16 of an acre, being part of lots one and five,

650
00:56:10,570 --> 00:56:18,150
block six north side addition from B3 local business district to R1, single family residential

651
00:56:18,150 --> 00:56:25,830
district. The subject property is locally addressed as 312 East Texas Avenue,

652
00:56:25,990 --> 00:56:32,870
Colleen Texas. The ordinance caption reads, and ordinance amending the city of

653
00:56:32,870 --> 00:56:38,830
Colleen's zoning ordinance by changing the zoning of approximately 0.16 of an acre

654
00:56:38,830 --> 00:56:54,870
being part of lots one in five blocks six north side edition from B3 local business district to R1 single family residential district providing a savings clause providing for the repeal of conflicting provisions and providing for an effective date.

655
00:56:56,470 --> 00:57:01,850
Okay, Council, Ms. Messier has reviewed this presentation, would you like for her to go over

656
00:57:01,850 --> 00:57:08,550
it again? If not, I will entertain a motion. Council member Williams.

657
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:11,780
Okay, Council member

658
00:57:11,780 --> 00:57:12,380
Kimball.

659
00:57:15,930 --> 00:57:18,670
Okay, Council member Brown.

660
00:57:21,010 --> 00:57:27,510
Move to approve or dash 26-015. Okay, there's a second

661
00:57:27,510 --> 00:57:33,910
Mayor Pope Tim. A second. Okay, is there any discussion? There is no discussion or

662
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:41,020
in favour of signify by yes. All opposed and no.

663
00:57:52,110 --> 00:57:53,390
And be one but it.

664
00:57:56,180 --> 00:58:01,520
Okay, motion pass six is it roll. Madam Secretary, excited. Police.

665
00:58:08,420 --> 00:58:10,460
Public hearing. Item number 10.

666
00:58:10,460 --> 00:58:18,360
P-h-2-6-0-2-7. Consider a city initiated ordinance case number

667
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:26,500
Z-2-6-1-2 to rezone approximately 0.144 of an anchor out of the H-O-Neal Survey.

668
00:58:27,180 --> 00:58:32,720
Abstract 645 from B-3 local business district to R-2 to family residential

669
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,220
district and law 1, block 1,

670
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:37,960
mold for addition from B3,

671
00:58:38,700 --> 00:58:40,620
local business district are one single

672
00:58:40,620 --> 00:58:42,000
family residential district.

673
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,560
The subject properties are locally addressed

674
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,280
as 1401 and 1411,

675
00:58:47,940 --> 00:58:48,660
mold for street,

676
00:58:48,660 --> 00:58:51,760
clean Texas and the ordinance caption reads

677
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:52,900
an ordinance,

678
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:54,540
amending the city of

679
00:58:54,540 --> 00:58:55,960
clean, zoning ordinance

680
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:57,580
by changing the zoning of

681
00:58:57,580 --> 00:59:00,600
approximately 0.144 of an anchor

682
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,240
out of H. O'Neill survey,

683
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:09,900
Abstract 645 from B3 local business district to R2, two family residential district and

684
00:59:09,900 --> 00:59:16,220
lot one block one mall for addition from B3 local business district to R1 single family

685
00:59:16,220 --> 00:59:21,500
residential district, providing savings clause, providing for the repeal of conflicting

686
00:59:21,500 --> 00:59:24,060
provisions and providing an effective date.

687
00:59:25,890 --> 00:59:29,010
Council Ms. Monsieur has went over this, would you want her to go over it again?

688
00:59:29,010 --> 00:59:31,970
If not, I would entertain a motion.

689
00:59:34,790 --> 00:59:36,070
Council member Grown.

690
00:59:37,410 --> 00:59:40,670
I just need to verify something real quick with the attorney, please.

691
00:59:41,030 --> 00:59:42,450
This one for real this time.

692
00:59:43,810 --> 00:59:48,310
A motion to approve as presented with approve 1411 and disapproved

693
00:59:48,310 --> 00:59:49,930
1401 correct.

694
00:59:51,130 --> 00:59:52,950
As presented, that's correct.

695
00:59:53,650 --> 00:59:57,610
You may want to be clear since there was a presentation included initially

696
00:59:57,610 --> 00:59:59,970
that change from the presentation, so on this one.

697
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,580
I would actually recommend to be clear as presented to approve 1411 and disapproved 414.

698
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,860
Okay. And it would still be proper to make that as a single motion since it's a single item. Yes.

699
01:00:10,580 --> 01:00:25,100
Okay. With that, I move to approve the zoning request for 1411, moleford street and disapproved the zoning for 1411, moleford street.

700
01:00:26,570 --> 01:00:31,710
Okay, the motion's been made there a second Council member Williams.

701
01:00:31,710 --> 01:00:32,630
Yes, sir.

702
01:00:32,630 --> 01:00:33,910
I second that motion.

703
01:00:36,430 --> 01:00:37,050
And your discussion.

704
01:00:38,310 --> 01:00:39,830
Council member Kimball.

705
01:00:40,710 --> 01:00:40,850
Yeah.

706
01:00:41,190 --> 01:00:41,770
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

707
01:00:42,950 --> 01:00:44,990
I say my piece on this.

708
01:00:44,990 --> 01:00:47,750
I don't know how long we know we're trying to move forward.

709
01:00:48,070 --> 01:00:49,530
There are enduring feel.

710
01:00:49,530 --> 01:00:51,590
I don't know how long we wait for the owner.

711
01:00:51,830 --> 01:00:55,610
I will be voting with the council on this, but I just hope staff can come up with a plan

712
01:00:55,610 --> 01:00:57,050
if the owner never responds.

713
01:00:57,730 --> 01:00:59,490
That's just my concern.

714
01:00:59,850 --> 01:01:00,490
Thank you.

715
01:01:02,810 --> 01:01:03,530
Any further discussion?

716
01:01:04,130 --> 01:01:05,070
Just no further discussion?

717
01:01:05,250 --> 01:01:08,450
All in favor of signify by saying, yes, I'll oppose no.

718
01:01:16,420 --> 01:01:16,460
Okay.

719
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,740
Emotion passed six to zero.

720
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:21,560
Thank you, council.

721
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:25,860
Okay.

722
01:01:27,580 --> 01:01:27,740
Item.

723
01:01:28,340 --> 01:01:37,480
Item 11, pH-26-028, hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance, amending the code of ordinances

724
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:44,100
Chapter 24, Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Services, the Ordnance Caption Reads, and

725
01:01:44,100 --> 01:01:49,120
Ordnance, a Mending Chapter 24, Solid Waste, at the Code of Court ordinances of the

726
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:55,420
City of Killing, Texas by establishing a fee for curbside, brush, collection services, and

727
01:01:55,420 --> 01:02:00,460
adopting disposal regulations for non-collectable items placed at curbside.

728
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:05,400
Providing for the repeal of conflicting provisions, providing for a severability clause,

729
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,140
providing a savings clause and providing

730
01:02:08,140 --> 01:02:10,400
for publication and an effective date.

731
01:02:12,220 --> 01:02:14,060
Okay, good evening, sir, Mr. Dudley.

732
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,760
Are you doing Council Mayor, City Manager?

733
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,100
The item I have for you today is

734
01:02:21,100 --> 01:02:22,360
the Solid Waste Ordnance Amendment.

735
01:02:24,710 --> 01:02:27,030
Live at a background in FY26

736
01:02:27,030 --> 01:02:29,370
that was a new fees added to the fee schedule

737
01:02:29,370 --> 01:02:32,150
to assist with offsetting the cost of disposal

738
01:02:32,150 --> 01:02:34,530
and transportation of these items.

739
01:02:34,530 --> 01:02:39,650
We have a addition of Section 24-32 non-collection material,

740
01:02:40,930 --> 01:02:43,730
addition of Section 24-50 brush collection,

741
01:02:44,510 --> 01:02:48,530
and amendment of Section 24-16 commercial rates,

742
01:02:48,890 --> 01:02:50,210
a dating code of ordinance.

743
01:02:51,030 --> 01:02:53,330
Chapter 24, Solid Waste Collation Services,

744
01:02:53,870 --> 01:02:57,070
is necessary to provide details of these additional fees,

745
01:02:57,490 --> 01:03:00,950
as well as make, as well as making various grammatical edits

746
01:03:00,950 --> 01:03:04,170
throughout the ordinance to ensure clarity and provide a document.

747
01:03:04,170 --> 01:03:06,990
for the citizens of Colleen that is third law and concise.

748
01:03:09,970 --> 01:03:13,750
Here we have a section 24-32 non-collection material.

749
01:03:13,990 --> 01:03:16,090
This is a solid waste why.

750
01:03:16,790 --> 01:03:19,130
It is to establish a cost recovery process

751
01:03:19,130 --> 01:03:21,570
for the removal of non-collectable materials

752
01:03:21,570 --> 01:03:24,790
placed at court, non-collectable materials

753
01:03:24,790 --> 01:03:27,790
or not part of the routine curbside collection,

754
01:03:28,530 --> 01:03:30,950
but may be accepted at the transfer station.

755
01:03:32,030 --> 01:03:34,210
Construction and demolition material,

756
01:03:34,210 --> 01:03:41,190
such as drywall, lumber, concrete, brick, tile, the all required disposal methods and equipment

757
01:03:41,190 --> 01:03:47,910
appropriate for those materials. And also, it provides a process for addressing a material that

758
01:03:47,910 --> 01:03:50,610
remains in the public right away after notice.

759
01:03:53,460 --> 01:03:55,600
There's a bit more background for 2432,

760
01:03:55,900 --> 01:04:02,680
that's 32 non-collection material. This is another waste process. We have a property on this wheel

761
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:07,740
receive written notice, and afforded our opportunity to volunteer, remove the material at

762
01:04:07,740 --> 01:04:08,440
no charge.

763
01:04:09,060 --> 01:04:14,760
If the material is not removed within a lot of time, the city may remove it and assess an applicable

764
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:16,880
fee.

765
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:22,620
It's worth noting that non-collectable a curve side does not mean non-acceptable at the transfer

766
01:04:22,620 --> 01:04:23,260
station.

767
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,540
There will be more background here for a section 24 dash 50 to brush collection.

768
01:04:30,540 --> 01:04:36,280
It's to establish a user-based fee structure that aligns the cost of brush collection services

769
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,820
with the customers utilizing the service.

770
01:04:39,180 --> 01:04:44,460
The proposed fee will recover a portion of the cost of providing brush collection and promote

771
01:04:44,460 --> 01:04:49,940
a more equitable distribution of expenses among customers and support the long-term sustainability

772
01:04:49,940 --> 01:04:52,880
of the city's residential brush collection program.

773
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:59,380
Here we have a section 24-Dash 116.

774
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:12,500
Commercial rates, the proposed adjustment is intended to move the commercial roll off services towards cost recovery, while providing a phased increase that is more manageable for customers.

775
01:05:12,500 --> 01:05:21,460
The 25% for FY2027 increase reflects the rate studies direction to establish a more manageable

776
01:05:21,460 --> 01:05:22,760
initial adjustment.

777
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:31,060
The 15% annual increase thereafter through FY2031 followed the phase rate path identified

778
01:05:31,060 --> 01:05:34,560
in the cost of the cost of a service study.

779
01:05:34,580 --> 01:05:40,840
This was approved by Council, following the public hearing held June 16, 2016.

780
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:42,840
I mean, 2026, I'm sorry.

781
01:05:46,220 --> 01:05:49,800
Recommendation at Council approved the Ordnance Amendment in Chapter 24.

782
01:05:50,460 --> 01:05:53,980
Solid Waste of Code of Ordnance to clarify our residential and commercial services

783
01:05:53,980 --> 01:05:59,840
and establish costs, recovery provisions, and incorporate the adopted commercial rolloff rate

784
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:00,400
adjustments.

785
01:06:00,740 --> 01:06:02,800
And I'm here to take any questions that you may have.

786
01:06:04,810 --> 01:06:05,090
Thank you, Council.

787
01:06:08,530 --> 01:06:10,010
You also remember Kimball?

788
01:06:13,060 --> 01:06:13,640
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

789
01:06:15,220 --> 01:06:16,180
So, thank you for the presentation.

790
01:06:16,180 --> 01:06:22,180
So what customers enjoy now versus if this ordinance is adopted

791
01:06:22,780 --> 01:06:26,900
For example, let's go to brush so right now you guys come by some might

792
01:06:27,460 --> 01:06:32,300
Cut the stuff down put the brush power in front of the house. You come by pick it up right now

793
01:06:32,300 --> 01:06:34,660
That's what no what happens

794
01:06:34,660 --> 01:06:40,440
We pick it up depends on the size. Yeah, it's been on the size. Yeah, yeah, if you're six cubic it right now if you're six cubic it

795
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,660
Or less it's free

796
01:06:42,660 --> 01:06:46,760
If it's in your being in your opinion, there's a lot of the cities do that for free.

797
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:53,440
Seller Sun City's they kind of incorporated in the rate.

798
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:55,780
The resident's a rate from what I'm understanding.

799
01:06:55,940 --> 01:07:02,040
There's a call that it is is this is this put inside the rate for whatever that city rate may be.

800
01:07:02,420 --> 01:07:05,500
But it is a lot of cities that don't pick up brush exactly.

801
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:12,000
They do have drop off points and do not drop off points, but they have to drop off a place for them to bring a brush.

802
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,540
So when this ordinance in past, what does this look like when that same brush is out in front

803
01:07:15,540 --> 01:07:19,940
house, ordinance in past, what there's a, now there's a fee associated with, yes sir.

804
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:25,640
So what happens is that we're going to come over there, do the service verification, and we're

805
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:30,500
going to service the stop, we're going to assess the size of it, and then we go to charge

806
01:07:30,500 --> 01:07:30,900
accordingly.

807
01:07:31,580 --> 01:07:36,420
Do you, I know there's cameras on the trucks, is there some kind of photographic evidence or

808
01:07:36,420 --> 01:07:38,680
a size of service verification through our work?

809
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:48,340
I'm just trying to make a plan for those that, because it's going to be for many, for a lot of, for many years, we've been to many cities that have enjoyed this service without payment.

810
01:07:48,860 --> 01:07:55,480
Now there's going to be a change of service and we might just have to do a little education to talk or wait through that.

811
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:56,480
Yeah, that's part of the education.

812
01:07:56,600 --> 01:08:01,800
Absolutely. We have our team, we actually out there for the most part.

813
01:08:01,900 --> 01:08:04,720
We're going to be out there trying to explain things as we see people.

814
01:08:06,420 --> 01:08:11,120
And, and the city that I'm making people who say, hey, you're, city's charging and making money.

815
01:08:11,420 --> 01:08:18,540
We're just trying to get close to a hundred, but at least in my opinion, it looks like we're just trying to get to a close to a hundred percent cost recovery.

816
01:08:19,020 --> 01:08:25,380
Instead of losing money on this operation, we're just trying to get some back and it looks like you staggered that over.

817
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:27,840
I don't think it's going to be a hundred percent.

818
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:36,620
But you still over a amount of time trying to recover some of the cost that it cost it to do business to do this for the citizens to enjoy.

819
01:08:37,220 --> 01:08:40,920
So they don't have to actually go down to themselves and do it.

820
01:08:41,100 --> 01:08:41,920
Is that correct statement?

821
01:08:42,540 --> 01:08:43,640
Yes, that's correct.

822
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:45,160
And again,

823
01:08:48,100 --> 01:08:50,500
I would be happy if we just hit a pick up the brush.

824
01:08:50,500 --> 01:08:54,120
and whatever would not, when I try to charge people,

825
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:58,260
absorbent charges, I think this is a fair fee,

826
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:02,460
and I think it will recover a portion of the cost

827
01:09:02,460 --> 01:09:04,600
which still helps overall.

828
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:06,700
Because those costs, in turn,

829
01:09:06,860 --> 01:09:09,320
you still have to buy trucks and do maintenance

830
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:12,480
and a pair equipment, all those things that go with that,

831
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:14,640
and there's a cost associated with that.

832
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,520
So I think I congratulate you and your staff

833
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:25,080
for, you know, do this presentation, trying to explain to everyone that it may not be

834
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:30,160
across a concert, and not just really free, but for many years we have, in citizens

835
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:34,240
I've enjoyed the city picking it up without costs, and we're just trying to get something

836
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:34,800
to call us back.

837
01:09:34,860 --> 01:09:35,680
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

838
01:09:36,060 --> 01:09:37,300
Thank you.

839
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:38,660
Councilmember McKindex.

840
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:41,240
Good afternoon, Mr. David.

841
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:49,100
me Utah intensively about this here at Councilmember Kimber actually hit all of the points

842
01:09:49,100 --> 01:09:53,820
that mean you talked about when we talked about this so I'm not going to go over all

843
01:09:53,820 --> 01:09:59,960
of those points again but I will just like Councilmember Kimber's.

844
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:29,260
Senate to the citizens. For years, we've been able to get this service without charging. And now we're trying to get, like he said, as close to cost recovery as we can. We're now never going to get 100% because we're still below the earmark of any other city. We're still doing more than any other city, the size of Colleen.

845
01:10:29,260 --> 01:10:40,180
And we just want the citizens to know when citizens say we don't care, we do care because you're actually getting something a lot cheaper than those other cities.

846
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:41,120
Is that correct?

847
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:42,060
That's correct.

848
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:50,260
Especially the service that we provide because we do provide additional services that other cities in municipalities don't.

849
01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:52,100
That's all I have Mr. Chairman.

850
01:10:52,140 --> 01:10:53,140
Councilmember Brown.

851
01:10:56,790 --> 01:10:57,450
Mr. Nothing.

852
01:10:57,770 --> 01:10:58,770
How you doing now?

853
01:10:59,270 --> 01:11:03,470
I don't know if you heard me. I have migraines to please bear with me. When did we get

854
01:11:03,470 --> 01:11:08,130
route wear on breast trucks? Because I was only aware we had them on the residential and

855
01:11:08,130 --> 01:11:16,190
some of the commercial trucks for routes like that. We've always had route wear on the

856
01:11:16,190 --> 01:11:23,150
breast trucks. Okay. All of them are equipped and operating that. Yes, all of them are equipped.

857
01:11:23,150 --> 01:11:28,210
We all get an extra cameras for the trucks preparing ourselves for October 1.

858
01:11:28,650 --> 01:11:32,410
Some of the trucks have one camera on them, but we want them to have two cameras on the side.

859
01:11:32,850 --> 01:11:39,410
But even if they don't, they do have the right where it's happens, where they can take them out and do a service verification when they actually take the picture at the stop.

860
01:11:40,270 --> 01:11:45,350
And you said currently up to six yards, cubic yards of brush can be collected.

861
01:11:45,710 --> 01:11:47,290
Yes ma'am, that'd be at $10.

862
01:11:48,670 --> 01:11:49,030
Currently?

863
01:11:49,310 --> 01:11:52,550
Yeah, well, currently no up to six cubic yards is free right now.

864
01:11:53,070 --> 01:11:55,550
How do we measure that six cubic yard?

865
01:11:58,370 --> 01:12:02,050
I don't have the dimensions right here front of me right now, but

866
01:12:02,050 --> 01:12:06,850
Well, we do measure no we do measure okay, because I just don't want to

867
01:12:06,850 --> 01:12:11,750
My concern is we start sending out the bills for this and then we start getting the complaints

868
01:12:11,750 --> 01:12:19,550
We how do you know that's how much we had and then can you remind me how much do we set if you go over six cubic yards because I didn't

869
01:12:19,550 --> 01:12:25,790
We're calling that number. Okay, you over six keyboards each addition key because one would be seven dollars and 50 cents

870
01:12:26,310 --> 01:12:29,050
When did we was that in the chart?

871
01:12:29,670 --> 01:12:40,920
Yes, ma'am. It was in the chart. Okay, seven and 50. Are we going to have a great period after our October one like hey, you know

872
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:42,520
we picked up

873
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,080
five and a half

874
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,060
cubic yards of

875
01:12:46,060 --> 01:12:55,360
brush. And so you would have been paying as much. I don't understand a lot, of course you

876
01:12:55,360 --> 01:13:01,200
could be the thing. Well, because I believe that we're already behind the curveball to put it

877
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:07,380
any notice out in September. We couldn't officially put notice of any feet increases until the

878
01:13:07,380 --> 01:13:13,960
council votes to approve them. So we don't have a way to put it in utility bills for the month of

879
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:19,760
September. And then in October, you know, hey, we've started this, but by the time they get

880
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:24,040
the notice, we're already charging them and it's already on their November bill.

881
01:13:24,420 --> 01:13:30,480
Understandable. And that's doable. We can be flexible of the city managers found that we can

882
01:13:30,480 --> 01:13:35,140
wait until November. That's the case. And that gives somebody 30 more days to get prepared for that.

883
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:46,780
Sure, we can do that. Thank you. And then what's the difference between a roll-off

884
01:13:46,780 --> 01:13:50,800
container and the dumpsters that we see at businesses and apartment complexes?

885
01:13:52,820 --> 01:13:59,320
The dumpsters in the world, the difference between them is more sort of size and the

886
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:04,120
ability to like the role loss of like for construction, demolition and type of things like

887
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:09,900
that really heavy material, you big materials while the dumpsters is more suited for household

888
01:14:09,900 --> 01:14:13,620
trash, just like the 96 gallons that we put at a curve side.

889
01:14:13,620 --> 01:14:20,060
And where I'm going with that one is I don't want residents of apartment, so anything above.

890
01:14:21,540 --> 01:14:28,700
If I remember correctly when I was told at finance, anything above fourplex becomes a commercial

891
01:14:28,700 --> 01:14:29,180
account.

892
01:14:29,420 --> 01:14:34,600
So I don't want those individuals to feel like because they're in an apartment complex and there's

893
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:39,120
a dumpster that solid wastery is going to go up and then they're paying more toward their rent bill.

894
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:39,640
I

895
01:14:43,190 --> 01:14:45,950
don't know how to ask it a question to be honest with you right now.

896
01:14:47,010 --> 01:14:49,530
It rolls off so I'm not used in apartments.

897
01:14:49,890 --> 01:14:52,750
That is where I was really getting it.

898
01:14:52,770 --> 01:14:54,590
It's making sure that's why I asked what the difference.

899
01:14:55,090 --> 01:14:59,970
Because I want to make sure there's a difference between the roll off and the dump service you would have in it.

900
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,460
Department complex, or a business would be using, because I don't want to see our small businesses

901
01:15:04,460 --> 01:15:10,260
coming up and struggling more, because their utility bills are increasing, because of this fee increase.

902
01:15:10,980 --> 01:15:16,040
Okay. And just to add, the, the, the, the rolloffs are a lot, the large rectangular containers,

903
01:15:16,260 --> 01:15:23,100
it, the only, only one per truck. There's, there's so large. And that is actually the one area of

904
01:15:23,100 --> 01:15:29,780
garbage service that's competitive. There are private contractors that do this. And we are, by many

905
01:15:29,780 --> 01:15:34,200
factors far under the going rates of the province. In fact, we're so far

906
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:40,240
around how they have any business. But it's mostly construction. And when we

907
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:44,840
do the collections around town, sometimes those are the big rectangular boxes

908
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:49,660
you see, those are the roll-offs. And I recall seeing them out at the transfer

909
01:15:49,660 --> 01:15:53,720
station with Mr. Dudley when we went out there to look. And I actually believe it

910
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:58,480
or not one or two of our competitors were out there, but I appreciate it. Thank you.

911
01:15:58,480 --> 01:15:59,500
Thank you.

912
01:15:59,580 --> 01:16:00,740
Council member Williams.

913
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:05,520
How are you doing?

914
01:16:05,540 --> 01:16:12,360
A lot of this you explained during our tour that we've had now appreciate that.

915
01:16:12,460 --> 01:16:17,940
And my question for you would be, does this ordinance provide reasonable accommodation

916
01:16:17,940 --> 01:16:24,020
for elderly, the disabled, otherwise vulnerable residents who may have difficulty complying

917
01:16:24,020 --> 01:16:25,580
with collections requirements?

918
01:16:26,620 --> 01:16:35,480
It depends on what, which one you're talking about, like, brush collection, I mean, if they put it

919
01:16:35,480 --> 01:16:40,400
out at the road, we're going to pick it up, it's not our, you know, we can't bring it to the

920
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:45,040
road for them, and in that situation, but they can bring it to the road, we'll, again,

921
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:49,700
we'll service them, like, we service everybody else, now when it comes to the non-collectable

922
01:16:49,700 --> 01:16:55,060
materials, that's the same thing, you know, if it's at the road, we'll take care of it,

923
01:16:55,060 --> 01:17:00,280
that I have no way of accommodating them to get it to the road other than just picking it up

924
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:03,260
and servicing it when my trucks come through.

925
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:05,520
Thank

926
01:17:08,330 --> 01:17:08,770
you.

927
01:17:08,770 --> 01:17:08,990
Okay.

928
01:17:09,270 --> 01:17:10,930
There's no other Mr.

929
01:17:13,050 --> 01:17:13,490
Mayor.

930
01:17:13,530 --> 01:17:14,030
Mr. Mayor.

931
01:17:14,830 --> 01:17:14,970
You know what?

932
01:17:15,290 --> 01:17:16,210
I just might add.

933
01:17:16,310 --> 01:17:17,070
Go ahead sir.

934
01:17:17,410 --> 01:17:18,070
Part of this.

935
01:17:18,210 --> 01:17:19,470
Part of the concept behind this.

936
01:17:19,630 --> 01:17:24,550
If you just have the regular residential container that you roll out of the street once a week

937
01:17:24,550 --> 01:17:26,130
and that's all you ever do.

938
01:17:27,230 --> 01:17:33,850
For many years you've been subsidizing all the people that put out lots of stuff at the curve and rather than raise the rate for everybody.

939
01:17:34,990 --> 01:17:38,670
We were trying to put the charge on the people actually creating the cost.

940
01:17:38,950 --> 01:17:40,550
That's sort of the concept behind this.

941
01:17:41,370 --> 01:17:47,450
And hopefully it will keep us what we've had the same rate, the weekly garbage collection rate for a long time.

942
01:17:48,150 --> 01:17:56,070
And if this works as planned, we should be able to go a little bit longer without raising that basic rate on everybody.

943
01:17:56,070 --> 01:17:57,190
It's great.

944
01:17:58,830 --> 01:18:00,190
Thank you sir.

945
01:18:02,330 --> 01:18:03,210
Coach Luma Brown.

946
01:18:05,750 --> 01:18:06,350
Very Mr. Dudley.

947
01:18:06,410 --> 01:18:08,150
Just when you thought you were scapes.

948
01:18:09,290 --> 01:18:13,590
Can you remind me what the FES for a non-collectable items?

949
01:18:14,930 --> 01:18:16,030
The non-collectable FES.

950
01:18:16,610 --> 01:18:20,010
That's gonna be $150 and $10 per cubic yard.

951
01:18:21,850 --> 01:18:23,570
$150, that's base rate, right?

952
01:18:23,650 --> 01:18:24,370
Yes ma'am.

953
01:18:26,940 --> 01:18:27,860
Per cubic yard?

954
01:18:28,180 --> 01:18:29,900
Yeah, $10 per cubic yard.

955
01:18:29,900 --> 01:18:38,380
Okay. And so, how does that affect us because in the past, currently, let me, let me

956
01:18:38,380 --> 01:18:45,880
rephrase that. Currently, if a person or an entity puts something near their garbage

957
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:53,660
collection that is non-collectable, it just sits there until code enforcement comes to

958
01:18:53,660 --> 01:18:55,740
the way it currently works.

959
01:18:56,380 --> 01:18:57,700
Kind of that's what it's been doing.

960
01:18:58,100 --> 01:19:00,400
You know, we get calls from code enforcement about

961
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:02,920
new sense calls about C&D,

962
01:19:03,060 --> 01:19:05,120
and not collectables at curbside.

963
01:19:05,300 --> 01:19:07,500
The only thing that we've been doing now

964
01:19:07,500 --> 01:19:09,180
is trying to make contact with the customer

965
01:19:09,180 --> 01:19:11,480
and the customer know they have to remove it.

966
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:12,500
And if they don't remove it,

967
01:19:12,580 --> 01:19:13,900
it would end up happening code enforcement

968
01:19:13,900 --> 01:19:14,980
and end up getting involved.

969
01:19:15,380 --> 01:19:16,880
By us putting this in place here,

970
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:18,380
this is going to help code enforcement

971
01:19:18,380 --> 01:19:20,080
as well as give us opportunity

972
01:19:20,660 --> 01:19:22,780
to provide that information to the customer

973
01:19:22,780 --> 01:19:24,780
and let them know kind of how you look.

974
01:19:25,060 --> 01:19:26,960
You have to remove this off the side of the road

975
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:29,440
if you don't, then this is what's gonna happen.

976
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:31,400
And then we let them know that you can take it

977
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:32,420
to the transfer station.

978
01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:34,760
And we accept it as a transfer station,

979
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,200
and they can use the utility bill too as well.

980
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,440
I have a house over here on the left side

981
01:19:39,440 --> 01:19:42,060
that I can guarantee the property owners

982
01:19:42,060 --> 01:19:45,600
are gonna love that because they have had a role of carpet

983
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,000
setting outside for a couple of years

984
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,800
that we haven't had a way to pick up

985
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:52,200
or a way to get through that.

986
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:59,140
code is but all credit to code enforcement they've opened the case they've done what they can with it but you know

987
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:29,800
So, for a couple of years, that's just been sitting out there. I will go back to my previous question though, no, this one may be not so much leeway on typing, but how are we going to put the word out there about the specific items that, because if I leave a can of paint sitting on the ground next to my garbage can, I would prefer you just leave it there. I don't feel like spending a hundred and sixty dollars for you to take that one can of paint

988
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:35,100
away. So how do we get that word out and make it so it's equitable? Because if there's two

989
01:20:35,100 --> 01:20:40,520
three things that we can clearly see, I can't see charging them that much money for it.

990
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:46,920
Okay. And I get it. I understand what we're going to do. We're going to knock it every door.

991
01:20:47,260 --> 01:20:51,980
We're going to leave pamphlets. We're going to also leave information on material that's not

992
01:20:51,980 --> 01:20:57,200
supposed to be there along with the supervisors card or the specialist card. And we're going to follow

993
01:20:57,200 --> 01:21:01,240
up with that customer. We're going to get that customer opportunity after we let them know,

994
01:21:01,300 --> 01:21:05,530
hey, these things have to be removed. And when it comes to paint, we'll let them know.

995
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:10,680
Certain paints, you know, you put a key to litter in them and solidify. You can solidify them

996
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:15,320
that way and you can actually throw them away once they dry it out. So we'll take it that way.

997
01:21:15,480 --> 01:21:20,840
So you won't have to worry about having that curve side that way. So I didn't know that,

998
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:27,100
but that is great information to have. I'll just say to save a little bit of the budget

999
01:21:27,100 --> 01:21:33,380
for your department instead of going out, creating all of these. I know Stick Cog has all the forms they use for

1000
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:40,340
the household hazardous waste collections. Most of the items that are on that are the items that we can

1001
01:21:40,340 --> 01:21:46,800
had deemed non-collectable anyway. And so perhaps we could work with Stick Coggets. Some of those

1002
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:54,980
stick it cleanly upon them and say, hey look, put these out. Pay this much. Okay. Just a few minutes. That's

1003
01:21:54,980 --> 01:21:59,100
you want to use your budget go ahead but I'm trying to help you out. I get you. I appreciate that.

1004
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:06,520
Okay, council council member best. Mayor, I was going to make a motion but I see a couple

1005
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:09,920
of other people want to speak so should I like or after that.

1006
01:22:12,330 --> 01:22:15,970
You what's a public hearing. So we've

1007
01:22:15,970 --> 01:22:18,650
got to do public hearing. Yes sir. Yeah.

1008
01:22:21,440 --> 01:22:23,180
Council member Hendrix?

1009
01:22:25,260 --> 01:22:27,680
All right first first I don't want to

1010
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:32,260
I don't know shade, but we actually did those shade on our code enforcement.

1011
01:22:34,100 --> 01:22:41,160
But there I know I'm out, and I go through the neighborhoods and anything that I see out

1012
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:48,340
of place, I take a snapshot, and I send this to code enforcement, or I use what is called

1013
01:22:48,340 --> 01:22:49,940
the Colleen Connect app.

1014
01:22:50,620 --> 01:22:53,360
And the citizens can use this app.

1015
01:22:53,360 --> 01:23:05,240
If you see your neighbors got something out there that don't belong, you can assist code enforcement assist this city and in helping out with removing these items.

1016
01:23:05,900 --> 01:23:17,580
But I also know on a site itself on the city site. They have a lot of people say they kind of crazy little commercial light deals with they also talk about this.

1017
01:23:17,580 --> 01:23:23,820
things that shouldn't be put out on the curve and our citizens were put in stuff out

1018
01:23:25,300 --> 01:23:33,860
on our site to inform citizens and it comes to a point where a law officer told me this

1019
01:23:33,860 --> 01:23:41,600
one time ignorance to the law is no excuse if it is put out there and there's ample amount of

1020
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:47,560
time for you to make your adjustments then it is what it is and we're not here to

1021
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:53,320
hold anybody's hand. We're going to put the notices out when the notices need to be put out,

1022
01:23:53,800 --> 01:24:00,120
but also we need the citizens to read and get on the city website because a lot of this information

1023
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:04,420
is already out there. And that's all I have, Mr. Mayor.

1024
01:24:04,660 --> 01:24:05,160
Councillor interjecting.

1025
01:24:09,580 --> 01:24:09,640
Councillor interjecting.

1026
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:09,740
Councillor interjecting.

1027
01:24:09,740 --> 01:24:12,060
Councillor interjecting. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. To be the last time I speak on this, my second time.

1028
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:18,840
But I do want to just confirm with the Councillor interjecting. When we go around the city and our districts

1029
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:21,760
And talking to the citizens, one of the things we always hear,

1030
01:24:22,020 --> 01:24:26,620
speeding, we hear code enforcement, and we hear beautification.

1031
01:24:27,100 --> 01:24:31,800
And this is just, obviously, this is an effort to improve that beautification.

1032
01:24:32,020 --> 01:24:37,240
I think it was on our surveys and everything we do, people say the city looks bad.

1033
01:24:37,500 --> 01:24:43,880
And this is just part of a plan that we keep building upon the ads or our beautification of the cities.

1034
01:24:43,980 --> 01:24:45,000
Thank you for your efforts, sir.

1035
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:47,500
Absolutely. I agree with you. 100%.

1036
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:49,080
Thank you, sir.

1037
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:49,700
Thank you.

1038
01:24:49,740 --> 01:24:50,120
I love you.

1039
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:51,160
You said it with that said.

1040
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:55,180
I'm going to call for public hearing.

1041
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,660
Public hearing is now open.

1042
01:24:58,520 --> 01:24:59,920
Madam City Secretary, please.

1043
01:25:00,020 --> 01:25:08,940
Call, first, proceed. There are no speakers signed up for public hearing 26, 028.

1044
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:14,360
Okay, thank you, ma'am. The case above the hearing is now closed.

1045
01:25:17,620 --> 01:25:18,440
Hey, Texas,

1046
01:25:21,050 --> 01:25:27,070
I want to, we can take a, I need a motion on this, um, consideration of the ordinance.

1047
01:25:27,070 --> 01:25:29,070
May I vote him?

1048
01:25:30,930 --> 01:25:33,730
Yes sir, I make a motion to approve.

1049
01:25:33,730 --> 01:25:34,910
I make

1050
01:25:38,500 --> 01:25:40,200
a motion to approve.

1051
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,780
pH 26.029.

1052
01:25:49,140 --> 01:25:49,560
That's up to you.

1053
01:25:49,860 --> 01:25:49,960
Two.

1054
01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:51,300
Two eight.

1055
01:25:51,300 --> 01:25:51,680
I'm sorry.

1056
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:52,000
Two eight.

1057
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:54,840
26.028.

1058
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:58,360
Is there a second?

1059
01:25:58,800 --> 01:25:59,600
Council member of Bess?

1060
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:01,420
I second the motion mayor.

1061
01:26:02,020 --> 01:26:03,320
Is there any discussion?

1062
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:06,320
Council member?

1063
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:07,860
All right.

1064
01:26:07,940 --> 01:26:09,780
There's no discussion signifier.

1065
01:26:10,580 --> 01:26:11,220
Yes,

1066
01:26:13,870 --> 01:26:17,910
I feel, you four, signify by yes, all opposed,

1067
01:26:31,390 --> 01:26:31,550
no.

1068
01:26:31,630 --> 01:26:36,950
It's in past five to one with council member Brown opposing.

1069
01:26:39,650 --> 01:26:40,350
Thank you council.

1070
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:43,500
Madam City Secretary.

1071
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:49,080
Next item.

1072
01:26:49,100 --> 01:26:50,080
Item 12.

1073
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:53,960
PH-26-029.

1074
01:26:54,580 --> 01:26:56,820
Hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance,

1075
01:26:56,820 --> 01:27:03,220
amending the code of ordinances, chapter 30, water, sewers, and sewage disposal to amend

1076
01:27:03,220 --> 01:27:07,360
residential and commercial water rates and residential sewer rates.

1077
01:27:08,740 --> 01:27:15,420
Ordnance caption reads and ordinance amending chapter 30, article 4, of the code of ordinances

1078
01:27:15,420 --> 01:27:20,640
of the city of Killing by amending commercial and residential water rates and residential sewer

1079
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:29,680
providing for the repeal of conflicting provisions, providing for a savings clause, providing for a publication and an effective date.

1080
01:27:30,440 --> 01:27:36,720
And you're on, we do have one virtual commenter, and she is waiting for the public hearing to start.

1081
01:27:38,260 --> 01:27:38,660
Thank you.

1082
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:41,080
Good evening, Ms. Sengar.

1083
01:27:41,240 --> 01:27:42,740
Good evening. Thank you, Mayor.

1084
01:27:43,060 --> 01:27:44,040
Thank you, council members.

1085
01:27:44,700 --> 01:27:47,980
This item is for doctor to the ordinance rate of amendments.

1086
01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:56,080
A background on July 7, 2020, the city council received the resource of the 2020 water

1087
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:57,640
and sewer rate study.

1088
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:03,380
The study indicated that water revenues were insufficient to fully fund projected expenses

1089
01:28:03,380 --> 01:28:05,200
to include infrastructure replacement.

1090
01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:11,180
Recommended a five year phase approach to increase the base charge for commercial meters

1091
01:28:11,180 --> 01:28:15,540
based on the American water work association standards for meter size capacities.

1092
01:28:15,540 --> 01:28:25,060
Phase 1 was implemented in 2023, 2, 24, 3, and 25, phase 4 and 26, and we're doing phase 5 and 27.

1093
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:30,600
All of these should are revenue created by the increases that are proposed in the fiscal year to year 27.

1094
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:39,500
But the phase 5 of the five-year commercial water rating increase, that will create 141,752 revenue.

1095
01:28:39,500 --> 01:28:46,580
a 5% increase to residential water base rate or meter sizes that will increase revenues by

1096
01:28:46,580 --> 01:28:54,640
523,726 in a 65 cents increased to residential sewer base rate that will increase revenue

1097
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:57,040
by 425,360.

1098
01:28:58,700 --> 01:29:04,000
This is the water raise residential proposed increases as you can see as 5% increase across

1099
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:13,120
for volumetric rate will be 5% for 2,000 to 15,000, another 5% for 15 to 20,000 and 2,000

1100
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:15,940
gals and other will be 10%.

1101
01:29:18,370 --> 01:29:21,930
This is the proposed increase for a water race commercial that

1102
01:29:21,930 --> 01:29:29,790
is the phase 505 that we started in 2022 and then the amount will match in a slide that I have

1103
01:29:29,790 --> 01:29:38,390
next, that it will be the 5-meter equivalent space in for commerce of the 2021-2020 race

1104
01:29:38,390 --> 01:29:39,010
study.

1105
01:29:39,630 --> 01:29:45,190
So these are the increases in 2022-22-22-24, and this is the increases for this fiscal year.

1106
01:29:50,080 --> 01:29:54,440
For the civil race, you'll use 65 cents change for the minimum for first-degree thousand

1107
01:29:54,440 --> 01:29:57,360
call it as the base rate for a percent ratio.

1108
01:30:00,020 --> 01:30:08,400
And this will be a utility bill change at our residential customer that spends 5,600 gallons of water per month.

1109
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:15,020
We'll see a $2 increase to $0.5 increase from the current bill to the recommended rate.

1110
01:30:16,340 --> 01:30:18,020
Increased to 0.16%.

1111
01:30:21,370 --> 01:30:31,450
Recommendations at the city council approved the ordinance amendment in chapter 2, water stewards and sewer disposed of the code of ordinance to amend residential and commercial water and residential sewer rates.

1112
01:30:31,450 --> 01:30:36,910
I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

1113
01:30:37,150 --> 01:30:38,290
Councilmember Brown.

1114
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:41,860
Miss Tengun.

1115
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:50,220
The council of previously previously, a couple months ago, approved an increase on the lateral line insurance

1116
01:30:50,220 --> 01:30:51,200
correct.

1117
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:52,560
Yes, ma'am.

1118
01:30:52,700 --> 01:30:54,520
That was another $1.50.

1119
01:30:55,380 --> 01:30:56,540
For the warranty?

1120
01:30:58,300 --> 01:31:02,760
That was last year.

1121
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:09,700
we didn't increase the issue okay I remember seeing the presentation come up

1122
01:31:09,700 --> 01:31:17,760
though so in this 9680 is the the sewer water and sewer line warranty is

1123
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:21,020
that included in that 96 dollars and 80 cents

1124
01:31:30,970 --> 01:31:32,610
does anybody missurcagal do

1125
01:31:32,610 --> 01:31:38,030
you up and remember what that is per account now I can look it up real quick

1126
01:31:38,030 --> 01:31:40,630
Well, someone else talks if I need to.

1127
01:31:40,650 --> 01:31:41,870
I don't have it off the top of my head.

1128
01:31:41,990 --> 01:31:43,430
We can look, we can look it up to you.

1129
01:31:44,570 --> 01:31:48,150
I was just we're getting like so close to having a minimum

1130
01:31:48,150 --> 01:31:52,610
of average, but essentially a minimum $100 bill

1131
01:31:53,230 --> 01:31:58,490
coming into mail into people where my presumption

1132
01:31:58,490 --> 01:32:02,550
is that this council is about to increase the tax rate

1133
01:32:02,550 --> 01:32:05,970
And most definitely, the tax levy,

1134
01:32:08,570 --> 01:32:12,570
we just increase another blind item on the utility

1135
01:32:12,570 --> 01:32:21,550
bill with, will potentially, if someone has brush out there, that increases a blind item

1136
01:32:21,550 --> 01:32:27,350
on the utility bill not automatically puts them up over $100 for that month, I'm just

1137
01:32:27,350 --> 01:32:34,850
Service about how much we push in a single year, where we're not, nobody has that opportunity

1138
01:32:34,850 --> 01:32:37,650
to adjust to small incremental changes.

1139
01:32:38,530 --> 01:32:39,110
Thank you.

1140
01:32:41,380 --> 01:32:41,780
Thank you.

1141
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:45,080
Is there any other questions or concerns, Council Member Kimball?

1142
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:46,980
Thank you, Mr. Smith.

1143
01:32:47,020 --> 01:32:47,960
I'm just tangy on it.

1144
01:32:47,980 --> 01:32:55,460
Are we, what percentage of meters are we have the new meters on them where we feel that,

1145
01:32:55,460 --> 01:32:58,900
that the water is being, you know.

1146
01:32:58,900 --> 01:33:01,100
meter at the right rate.

1147
01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:05,080
I believe we have 15 out of 50, 15,000 out of 50,000.

1148
01:33:06,460 --> 01:33:08,220
They're actually working.

1149
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:10,060
We're a pace three right now.

1150
01:33:11,440 --> 01:33:15,400
Yeah, I do have the same concerns, council member Brown.

1151
01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:18,960
You keep picking, you keep hitting.

1152
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:23,680
It's, and as we know, things are tough.

1153
01:33:24,660 --> 01:33:26,780
And when it comes to operations and maintenance,

1154
01:33:28,660 --> 01:33:40,920
Those prices are continually increasing and we know that the future when it comes to water and electric use in a state of Texas, I mean, there's no relief in sight.

1155
01:33:41,540 --> 01:33:44,960
So whatever that we can do, whether it be with the new meters,

1156
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:53,720
the conservation, we have to find a way to help taxpayers and users.

1157
01:33:54,380 --> 01:34:22,560
And whatever we can do with that, you know, through your office, the manager's office, but, you know, we started looking at people on, you know, this is, you know, say this is a retirement community, but it's a whole lot of retirement, it's a retired people on this diet and out there in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, it's the hall. And those who are listening and those who are going to read about this, but we, we have to find a way.

1158
01:34:22,560 --> 01:34:37,600
to give them some relief and as council members, we're not the do our part, but we have to have water, we know that, but we still need to find a way long-term to help people out.

1159
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:46,520
Thank you for being up front and honest about this, but we're going to have to find a way to help people save money. Thank you, man.

1160
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:59,960
I completely understand if I'm a water and sewer fund, just when you guys are where it's really tight, this year for 27, we decrease the transfer for the water.

1161
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:08,580
So if we don't increase the rates, we won't be able to do it in our maintenance and water infrastructure.

1162
01:35:14,340 --> 01:35:15,640
Don't you remember Williams?

1163
01:35:17,910 --> 01:35:26,770
Yes, I'm just echo what the council member was saying here and about how hard it is now even to put it pay your bills.

1164
01:35:26,770 --> 01:35:31,810
And so my question would be, what would this rate change mean for households that are already struggling

1165
01:35:31,810 --> 01:35:34,290
to pay their utility bills?

1166
01:35:34,410 --> 01:35:41,490
And do you all have some type of plan for them to pay their bills that they can't make it?

1167
01:35:41,970 --> 01:35:51,830
We do have a senior citizens' plans on the utility collection building that they can apply for help for citizens

1168
01:35:51,830 --> 01:36:00,630
and depending on the income, so we have a program right now running for them. Also, you did a collection manager.

1169
01:36:01,050 --> 01:36:06,830
She is really flexible if a customer called and I want to try to do payment plan.

1170
01:36:07,450 --> 01:36:08,890
We try to work with customers.

1171
01:36:09,730 --> 01:36:13,190
Okay, so there is a plan for them, if they are struggling to pay the bill.

1172
01:36:13,690 --> 01:36:15,630
The city already have a plan for them.

1173
01:36:15,930 --> 01:36:20,550
We do payment plans. They just have to call and communicate. They will definitely help them.

1174
01:36:20,550 --> 01:36:22,550
Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it.

1175
01:36:23,390 --> 01:36:24,070
May I vote too?

1176
01:36:24,570 --> 01:36:25,350
Thank you.

1177
01:36:25,490 --> 01:36:27,170
I'm a single in your system, that's very important.

1178
01:36:27,570 --> 01:36:29,790
I think that I just need a little clarity for the constituents.

1179
01:36:30,990 --> 01:36:34,610
So I understand to my colleagues' point about it being tough.

1180
01:36:35,010 --> 01:36:36,590
I totally get it.

1181
01:36:37,030 --> 01:36:39,670
However, you mentioned that because the fund was tight,

1182
01:36:40,050 --> 01:36:42,410
that we'd be unable to complete maintenance services,

1183
01:36:42,510 --> 01:36:44,470
can you explain exactly what that looks like?

1184
01:36:44,470 --> 01:36:48,430
Can you pay the picture for our constituents as to what that means to them specifically?

1185
01:36:51,690 --> 01:36:56,470
I'll please think about what she was trying to say. We had started a few years ago,

1186
01:36:56,610 --> 01:37:01,670
transferring about 2 million to the CIP for waterline replacement. It's not in there anymore.

1187
01:37:03,110 --> 01:37:11,390
This 2% you see, I think everybody understands that's well below CIP, but the CIP is a basket of

1188
01:37:11,390 --> 01:37:17,230
goods and services that are consumer-wise. We're not a normal consumer. We buy lots of things

1189
01:37:17,230 --> 01:37:25,450
that aren't reflected in the CIP and so a municipal CIP is going to be a lot higher than 2.16.

1190
01:37:27,470 --> 01:37:32,670
And so we balance this budget by no more money for there might be a couple hundred thousand

1191
01:37:32,670 --> 01:37:40,230
I forget exactly what it is for water line replacement. And so we were we were very far behind

1192
01:37:40,230 --> 01:37:46,110
we made a little progress but now we're not making progress anymore. And I just want you to remember

1193
01:37:46,110 --> 01:37:53,890
We made this presentation. Remember the chart of all of our competitive cities and our rates worth the bottom our water is cheap

1194
01:37:56,090 --> 01:37:56,610
In

1195
01:37:56,610 --> 01:37:59,850
Almost you can look at larger cities smaller cities

1196
01:37:59,850 --> 01:38:05,650
We have one of the best bargains going and not just that but the fact that we have plenty of supplies well

1197
01:38:07,110 --> 01:38:07,630
So

1198
01:38:09,210 --> 01:38:16,090
It's also tough to watch line breaks and watch water pour on the ground that we pulled out of the lake over in Belt and Spino

1199
01:38:16,110 --> 01:38:21,130
the money to treat, to transfer it all the way over here, use the electricity to put it up and

1200
01:38:21,130 --> 01:38:24,770
in the elevated storage tanks, pressurized the system, and then see it go out on the ground.

1201
01:38:25,710 --> 01:38:29,730
So, I guess it just depends on how you want to look at it.

1202
01:38:29,970 --> 01:38:30,390
Thank you.

1203
01:38:32,600 --> 01:38:33,820
Don't remember Brown.

1204
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:47,620
July 23, 2025, the council voted to approve an increase or renew the contract with SLWA, which then

1205
01:38:47,620 --> 01:38:56,860
put a few of increase from 50 cents per account to $1.33 per account on the utility bills.

1206
01:38:56,860 --> 01:39:02,680
That's the insurance for the lateral water and sewer lines that go through the public right

1207
01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:03,880
of way.

1208
01:39:04,100 --> 01:39:08,300
I just wanted to say when I hadn't looked that part up.

1209
01:39:09,540 --> 01:39:25,200
That is tough news, Nistangling and Mr. Kagel, that without increasing water rates, we may not be at a point where we can do any of our maintenance for the coming fiscal year.

1210
01:39:27,700 --> 01:39:29,540
Not maintenance, water line replacement.

1211
01:39:29,540 --> 01:39:36,840
a group of police. Thank you. Replacement. And that kind of brings me to where I guess I wanted

1212
01:39:36,840 --> 01:39:44,660
to go with this is to Mr. Cagle's point every time we have a waterline break. That's not a couple

1213
01:39:44,660 --> 01:39:53,220
gallons of water that we end up just discharging out into our drainage system. That's tens of thousands

1214
01:39:53,220 --> 01:39:59,980
and depending on how large that break is that can be hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.

1215
01:40:00,860 --> 01:40:16,620
Depending on the severity, how large that maintenance, how long it takes anybody to report it in because it's not like we have a magic ball that sees the whole city where we can tell there's a waterline break and where it is.

1216
01:40:17,340 --> 01:40:22,920
I do think there are things that as a city we can do to cut back on that.

1217
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:30,940
water, our yardless, water, the parks, and in my personal pet peeve is this city

1218
01:40:30,940 --> 01:40:38,420
pain put in street trees that we are, they also need water. All that foliage that we

1219
01:40:38,420 --> 01:40:41,920
put to make the sides of the street is pretty, we are going to have to decide really

1220
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:48,140
quick. So we want the aesthetic where it's pretty or do we want to save money. And it's up

1221
01:40:48,140 --> 01:40:51,300
to y'all to tell us which one you prefer moving forward.

1222
01:40:51,300 --> 01:41:03,500
If you want the sides of the street, so look nicer to have those trees to have those flowers and you need to let us know that but understand that that comes with a cost and an increase in the water rates.

1223
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:14,780
The only way that we can afford to continue doing that if you were to prefer that we don't use that and that is the decision the council has to make every time a project comes up.

1224
01:41:14,780 --> 01:41:25,480
But we have to be told that to you because our 2040 plan does call for street steeping, so if we're going to not abide by that thing, it has to come from the citizens.

1225
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:26,660
Thank you.

1226
01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:27,780
Thank you.

1227
01:41:29,750 --> 01:41:31,490
Tell us a member of Kindex.

1228
01:41:38,370 --> 01:41:45,270
I understand everybody's concern, but I'm kind of also with the Mayor Pro Temp.

1229
01:41:45,270 --> 01:41:52,890
We have to understand when there comes a time when we have to replace those water lines or a main or something like that.

1230
01:41:52,890 --> 01:42:03,450
that the do maintenance, we are still below the earmark of other cities our size.

1231
01:42:03,810 --> 01:42:13,070
And I think on the slide that we had back in June of July, we still was about $10 under

1232
01:42:13,070 --> 01:42:14,030
that.

1233
01:42:14,030 --> 01:42:17,390
And I think we are doing good.

1234
01:42:17,390 --> 01:42:24,290
It really isn't the city's fault that prices are going up on every time.

1235
01:42:25,810 --> 01:42:28,630
The repair things, the prices are going up.

1236
01:42:29,230 --> 01:42:35,290
And so we have to be prepared to be able to repair things,

1237
01:42:35,430 --> 01:42:39,250
because we are not prepared to repair things.

1238
01:42:39,790 --> 01:42:44,010
And when it happened, the first thing is going to be said you had the opportunity

1239
01:42:44,010 --> 01:42:48,410
to make sure you had the money to do these things.

1240
01:42:49,670 --> 01:42:54,270
And so it's a tough decision that you have to make,

1241
01:42:54,270 --> 01:42:59,970
but it is a decision that would better for our citizens.

1242
01:43:00,630 --> 01:43:03,390
It's tough decisions in everything that we make,

1243
01:43:03,470 --> 01:43:08,230
but the decision is to prepare for the worst case scenario

1244
01:43:08,570 --> 01:43:10,850
if we don't have money in there.

1245
01:43:10,850 --> 01:43:20,850
So, that is what I want to say to my colleagues, I understand prices are going up, but we still have to prepare.

1246
01:43:21,310 --> 01:43:34,350
We have to prepare. It does us. No justice. It does the citizens, no justice. If we are not prepared for a major incident or something that happens with our water lines. Thank you.

1247
01:43:39,630 --> 01:43:41,950
Okay, with this no further discussion. Thank you, ma'am.

1248
01:43:41,950 --> 01:43:42,690
Thank you.

1249
01:43:42,810 --> 01:43:49,990
I'm going to open up the curie now, but the curie is now open to the secretary.

1250
01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:57,160
Our virtual speaker is Heather McMillan.

1251
01:44:00,420 --> 01:44:00,740
Good evening.

1252
01:44:01,080 --> 01:44:02,200
Good evening.

1253
01:44:05,340 --> 01:44:10,000
I strongly oppose the great increase for the water and sewage services.

1254
01:44:10,520 --> 01:44:16,680
First and foremost, my opposition comes from the fact that there's possibly misappropriate

1255
01:44:16,680 --> 01:44:22,860
usage of these funds, such as $40,000 for the drainage fund, for plants to look pretty near

1256
01:44:22,860 --> 01:44:23,560
them all.

1257
01:44:24,040 --> 01:44:32,140
Over $360,000 of the utility funds are allocated to KEDC for who knows what?

1258
01:44:32,440 --> 01:44:40,020
And by the way, that doesn't include that the same nonprofit receives $80,000, $800,000

1259
01:44:40,020 --> 01:44:45,680
from the general fund, and as also, let's not forget the money that has been given to

1260
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:49,020
all coervers the past few years out of these funds.

1261
01:44:49,420 --> 01:44:54,840
If funds from the utilities were not allocated to just a few of these items, water revenue

1262
01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:59,780
would not be insufficient and there could be maintenance this year and any other year.

1263
01:45:00,270 --> 01:45:07,390
Or, my question is, were these types of items budgeted all along with the increases in mind?

1264
01:45:08,130 --> 01:45:14,370
If so, be honest with the citizens of Colleen, because the examples I gave are just one drainage

1265
01:45:14,370 --> 01:45:21,890
product project and one nonprofit using fees that you now want to increase. How many other projects

1266
01:45:21,890 --> 01:45:28,570
and non-profits are funded the same way with these fees? You as a council of asked for accounting

1267
01:45:28,570 --> 01:45:39,570
and accountability from some of our community partners, like FIC and IBCC, but not all community partners, you have requested this type of information from.

1268
01:45:40,130 --> 01:45:48,710
You should be required in the same accountability and accounting from all community partners and also include city departments like water and sewer.

1269
01:45:48,710 --> 01:45:52,870
These funds should not be used as a slush fund for whatever.

1270
01:45:53,910 --> 01:45:59,170
As those few examples I've given you are a prime example of why you should be asking

1271
01:45:59,170 --> 01:46:05,470
those questions starting today by asking the questions and giving citizens true transparency.

1272
01:46:06,850 --> 01:46:11,730
Second, increasing rates on water and sewage for these types of slush funds is just wrong

1273
01:46:11,730 --> 01:46:14,870
when not all services are even available to all residents.

1274
01:46:14,870 --> 01:46:20,610
Now, if you want to increase rates to bring strange ditches like an onion road where a

1275
01:46:20,610 --> 01:46:25,870
man-able died on July 4th this year and was in a coma from this injuries from unsafe

1276
01:46:25,870 --> 01:46:33,490
conditions of a drainage area or road and streetlights at an unsafe valley road drainage area

1277
01:46:33,490 --> 01:46:40,570
or a sys galvanized line replacements for 1300 homes to have safe drinking water or possibly

1278
01:46:40,570 --> 01:46:47,010
set to take removal system program, or even a FEMA flood zone map to update the drainage plan

1279
01:46:47,010 --> 01:46:51,870
to prevent many of these drainage water and sewage issues in the futures. I would not be

1280
01:46:51,870 --> 01:46:57,730
opposed to the increase rates, because that's helping our citizens and our cities in the long run.

1281
01:46:58,430 --> 01:47:05,770
So again, be real with me. Please tell me how does pretty plants may I have one more minute please?

1282
01:47:07,950 --> 01:47:16,230
Yes you may. So again be real with me please. Tell me how does pretty plants by the mall and the

1283
01:47:16,230 --> 01:47:23,250
EDC and nonprofit and a golf course help me the average citizen. Because I believe most citizens

1284
01:47:23,250 --> 01:47:29,050
want their money to go to the don't want to go to those things either. Do not increase these rates

1285
01:47:29,050 --> 01:47:35,570
so you all continue to have a slush fund for unnecessary items when we have real issues where those funds

1286
01:47:35,570 --> 01:47:41,550
and fees can be used for. Thank you. I would like a quiet, I would like the answer on why we are

1287
01:47:41,550 --> 01:47:52,370
giving EDC $360,000 extra money as a nonprofit as somebody likes to quote, they don't like to

1288
01:47:52,370 --> 01:47:58,510
give money to nonprofits on that council. So we're giving them now over a million dollars a year.

1289
01:47:59,270 --> 01:48:04,510
I do have a question, 360,000 extra dollars out of that.

1290
01:48:04,750 --> 01:48:05,530
I would like an answer.

1291
01:48:05,950 --> 01:48:06,910
Thank you.

1292
01:48:08,840 --> 01:48:09,320
Thank you, man.

1293
01:48:09,380 --> 01:48:09,980
Put your comments.

1294
01:48:11,580 --> 01:48:12,320
Madam, city secretary.

1295
01:48:14,420 --> 01:48:16,800
There are no other speakers for this public hearing.

1296
01:48:18,560 --> 01:48:19,000
Yes, no other.

1297
01:48:19,620 --> 01:48:19,940
Okay.

1298
01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:22,740
With that said.

1299
01:48:23,780 --> 01:48:25,720
But the hearing is close.

1300
01:48:27,060 --> 01:48:30,340
Council, I would entertain a motion to consider the ordinance.

1301
01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:33,120
Councilmember Bess.

1302
01:48:37,610 --> 01:48:40,730
I make a motion that the City Council approved the ordinance

1303
01:48:40,730 --> 01:48:47,110
demanding chapter 30 water sewers and sewer disposal disposal of the code of

1304
01:48:47,110 --> 01:48:51,470
ordinances to amend residential and commercial water and residential sewer

1305
01:48:51,470 --> 01:48:57,550
rates as presented. Is there a second Councilmember Williams?

1306
01:48:57,550 --> 01:48:58,410
that

1307
01:49:00,590 --> 01:49:03,430
second. Is there any discussion?

1308
01:49:05,660 --> 01:49:06,660
Councilmember Brown.

1309
01:49:11,120 --> 01:49:17,820
Mr. Cable, can you explain why we take funds from the water department and give them to KEDC please?

1310
01:49:18,260 --> 01:49:23,140
Well, I can answer that, but there was a lot of mathematical problems in the statements that were made.

1311
01:49:23,380 --> 01:49:32,560
But that was accurate about 360,000 comes out of the water and sewer fund. And when this was started, I don't know how long ago that gates ago.

1312
01:49:33,460 --> 01:49:41,120
The idea was the general fund and the water fund were the two largest funds in the city and both benefit from economic development so they both shared.

1313
01:49:41,340 --> 01:49:46,180
There's more that comes out of the general fund than the water and sewer fund, but that's the basic concept.

1314
01:49:49,580 --> 01:49:54,100
What benefit does the economic development bring to the water fund?

1315
01:49:54,800 --> 01:49:55,720
More customers.

1316
01:49:58,420 --> 01:49:59,660
I mean, very respectfully.

1317
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:03,700
I say more customers and more revenue but also more expense.

1318
01:50:03,820 --> 01:50:09,180
Sure. Yeah. You asked me where I thought this came from. It's been done for decades. I gave you

1319
01:50:09,180 --> 01:50:18,460
the best answer I've got. Realistically, there's a different place that we can get KDC money from

1320
01:50:18,460 --> 01:50:28,240
rather than, well, let me back that up. How is it that we're allows even see money from an enterprise

1321
01:50:28,240 --> 01:50:31,820
fund and put it into a non-governmental use?

1322
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:35,700
Well, it is a governmental use.

1323
01:50:35,940 --> 01:50:37,540
KADC is the city of Kaly.

1324
01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:39,800
I'm sorry, a non-operational.

1325
01:50:41,540 --> 01:50:46,580
Well, I would argue that it is operational, as opposed to, if you're talking about operations

1326
01:50:46,580 --> 01:50:49,140
in capital, that's operations, economic development.

1327
01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:55,980
Just as if we had, if KADC didn't exist, and we had an economic development, apartment

1328
01:50:55,980 --> 01:51:00,040
in the city, it would be fun to be funded out of the general fund and the utility fund.

1329
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:05,690
could be. And I promise I'm not trying to

1330
01:51:05,690 --> 01:51:13,310
talk to you. I just don't see how KDC is an operation of water and sewer within the city.

1331
01:51:13,710 --> 01:51:18,510
And in the budget, it's listed under the non-operational breakdown of costs.

1332
01:51:20,200 --> 01:51:22,620
I understand what you're saying, but I was looking at it differently,

1333
01:51:22,860 --> 01:51:24,220
operations in capital.

1334
01:51:25,900 --> 01:51:28,340
No, it can all come from the general fund if that's what you want.

1335
01:51:29,620 --> 01:51:36,780
Okay, I just wanted to give our citizen an answer as to the money coming out of the water fund.

1336
01:51:38,300 --> 01:51:42,360
And money is not going to buy pretty plants by the mall from the water fund.

1337
01:51:42,680 --> 01:51:44,900
Money is not going to the golf course from the water fund.

1338
01:51:45,820 --> 01:51:52,420
No, but to a point, she did say that the foliage or the plants came out of the drainage fund.

1339
01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:54,620
Yeah, we're talking about the water and sewer fund.

1340
01:51:54,700 --> 01:51:57,340
Correct, but she did specify out of the drainage fund.

1341
01:51:57,340 --> 01:51:59,200
Thank you.

1342
01:52:01,340 --> 01:52:11,840
Okay, if there's no other discussion on all in favor of the emotion and signify by saying yes those opposed no

1343
01:52:18,950 --> 01:52:22,050
motion pass five to

1344
01:52:23,250 --> 01:52:26,810
One with the council member Brown opposing

1345
01:52:27,790 --> 01:52:29,350
Thank you

1346
01:52:29,350 --> 01:52:30,270
We're going to take a

1347
01:52:32,270 --> 01:52:32,870
We

1348
01:52:58,790 --> 01:53:00,970
call the meeting back to order,

1349
01:53:03,720 --> 01:53:15,380
Madam City Secretary, the next item budget, we will now go into items that related to our budget and tax rate.

1350
01:53:17,210 --> 01:53:22,030
It is a public hearing and only on the tax rate.

1351
01:53:22,030 --> 01:53:34,210
I had a 13-P-H-2-6-030 hold a public hearing on proposed tax rate for the fiscal year beginning October 1,

1352
01:53:34,450 --> 01:53:38,090
2026 and ending September 30th, 2027.

1353
01:53:41,160 --> 01:53:42,020
Oh, again, Mr. Kabel.

1354
01:53:42,380 --> 01:53:43,420
Mayor, Council.

1355
01:53:43,940 --> 01:53:48,960
So I get the pleasure of standing up and talking about everybody's favorite topic, taxes.

1356
01:53:50,920 --> 01:53:57,380
And just a little bit, a little bit of commentary, there are no good taxes, nobody likes

1357
01:53:57,380 --> 01:53:57,980
taxes.

1358
01:54:00,960 --> 01:54:06,540
But we're funded basically by the property tax, and where there's property or whatever it

1359
01:54:06,540 --> 01:54:10,800
is, the best tax is one that's a very low rate that everybody pays.

1360
01:54:13,190 --> 01:54:17,470
And that way you get good compliance when it's a low rate, most people pay.

1361
01:54:17,470 --> 01:54:26,170
But what we've done in Texas is state and local governments funded really three ways income taxes property taxes sales taxes.

1362
01:54:26,350 --> 01:54:28,850
We don't have any income tax, nothing wrong with that.

1363
01:54:29,070 --> 01:54:34,370
Typically means your property and your sales taxes are going to be a little higher.

1364
01:54:35,990 --> 01:54:44,310
But then we've taken that another step forward and given many, many exemptions and I'm not just talking about the veterans exemption,

1365
01:54:44,310 --> 01:54:49,010
not even going to talk about that tonight, but there are lots of other exemptions that

1366
01:54:49,010 --> 01:54:56,270
the state gives out, that state doesn't let me a property tax, but they give out lots

1367
01:54:56,270 --> 01:54:57,450
of tax abatements.

1368
01:54:57,650 --> 01:54:59,970
So that means the group of people that actually...

1369
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:24,680
Pay taxes are getting smaller and smaller and smaller. And so I like to complain about taxes too, but that's one of the big reasons that that's such a big topic in Texas is because what we're doing to people is, we have decided that the wealthiest segment of our society, those over 65, you can go to the census, dad and see it.

1370
01:55:24,680 --> 01:55:29,400
that they can't pay their taxes so we got a freeze and we're exempted and the state's

1371
01:55:29,400 --> 01:55:35,120
bragging today about how many people now pay zero property taxes. But when you've got so many

1372
01:55:35,120 --> 01:55:40,340
people that are frozen the wealthiest segment that does Jerry Jones really need a property tax

1373
01:55:40,340 --> 01:55:46,560
price on his house in Holland Park. That means there's a certain segment of society that's going to

1374
01:55:46,560 --> 01:55:51,760
be paying a lot. Now we're talking about our taxes so we got to talk about that all that other

1375
01:55:51,760 --> 01:55:56,860
enough to give, and that was just my frustration and commentary with the way we're doing things.

1376
01:56:00,630 --> 01:56:04,690
We don't provide, and we'll talk about the budget in a minute, but regards the tax rate,

1377
01:56:05,050 --> 01:56:05,930
which funds that budget.

1378
01:56:06,010 --> 01:56:10,130
We don't provide a lot of extravagant services, we're not into social services.

1379
01:56:10,970 --> 01:56:11,690
Very, very small.

1380
01:56:11,970 --> 01:56:17,970
We've talked a whole lot about homeless services, but that's about all we do as far as social

1381
01:56:17,970 --> 01:56:18,410
services.

1382
01:56:18,410 --> 01:56:26,030
we're the basics. We fund police, and fire, and streets, and then to a much lesser extent

1383
01:56:26,030 --> 01:56:32,030
parks and wreck and libraries, and that's pretty much our general fund. And it's funded

1384
01:56:32,030 --> 01:56:38,430
primarily by property tax and sales tax. And so we're now to this calendar. It says the budget

1385
01:56:38,430 --> 01:56:43,510
calendar. It's also the tax rate calendar. And you see we started back in February and now we're

1386
01:56:43,510 --> 01:56:49,350
September 1st and we're having this public hearing on the proposed tax rate.

1387
01:56:49,890 --> 01:56:53,130
You know, our current rate is here.

1388
01:56:53,670 --> 01:56:56,370
It's set 0.7014.

1389
01:56:58,210 --> 01:57:00,650
Now, the state has a lot of laws and regulations.

1390
01:57:01,330 --> 01:57:11,070
And they've determined what a no new revenue rate is the rate that generates the same tax revenue as the prior year from properties taxed in both years.

1391
01:57:11,070 --> 01:57:16,850
And that's a very sliding increase at 0.7048.

1392
01:57:18,070 --> 01:57:21,330
Our proposed rate is 0.7215.

1393
01:57:21,650 --> 01:57:26,030
That's the rate we've used to develop this budget.

1394
01:57:26,930 --> 01:57:27,990
And then it was amended.

1395
01:57:28,770 --> 01:57:32,010
And then the voter approval rate is 7302.

1396
01:57:32,110 --> 01:57:35,550
If we go above that, it triggers an automatic election.

1397
01:57:36,890 --> 01:57:41,950
The tax rate that I'm recommending tonight is 0.7301.

1398
01:57:42,730 --> 01:57:47,730
You can adopt the tax rate that's lower than that, but you can't go higher without

1399
01:57:47,730 --> 01:57:51,550
starting a new process and that would take us to the end of September.

1400
01:57:54,090 --> 01:57:59,450
From our certified role that you see the similar numbers, what's being proposed?

1401
01:58:00,070 --> 01:58:10,070
the 0.7301 is an increase of 0.0287 and what does that mean? Well, let me look at historically.

1402
01:58:12,830 --> 01:58:21,750
You can see in 2021, 2022, 23, 24 when property rates property values really started going up.

1403
01:58:21,850 --> 01:58:27,290
We did reduce the rate and we were under some of those state mandated rates for quite a while.

1404
01:58:29,310 --> 01:58:38,270
We're still not up to the 20 high, but as has been said before, property values are a lot higher now.

1405
01:58:38,770 --> 01:58:46,730
I just think this shows we've tried to do the best we can with the tax rate in the past since 2019.

1406
01:58:50,030 --> 01:58:58,150
So the recommended preliminary rate of 73.01 generates a levy.

1407
01:58:58,150 --> 01:59:08,070
of $78,207,959, which would provide a balanced, which would meet the requirements of the budget.

1408
01:59:08,670 --> 01:59:14,310
If we adopt a tax rate that's lower than that, we're going to have to make some budget reductions.

1409
01:59:15,830 --> 01:59:45,750
tax payer impact. So in 26, these are the these are the current numbers and the proposed numbers for fiscal year 2027. And that would be a difference on the median homestead value. Now, the state uses two different terms in two different ways. I'll show you that. Number one is the median. That's if you list all the values.

1410
01:59:45,750 --> 01:59:47,910
from the lowest of the highest, the one right in the middle.

1411
01:59:48,090 --> 01:59:50,650
No, I'm sorry, that is the median.

1412
01:59:51,170 --> 01:59:53,250
That's the median, it's the one that's right in the middle.

1413
01:59:53,970 --> 01:59:57,410
And so that is would be an increase of $237.

1414
01:59:58,090 --> 01:59:59,310
I'm sorry, on the value.

1415
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:10,780
We back up the estimated city tax bill would be an increase of $68.48 or $5.71 a month.

1416
02:00:12,300 --> 02:00:17,760
The reason I talked about this number is because when we do an advertisement, I'll show you here

1417
02:00:17,760 --> 02:00:24,220
in a minute, they say use the mean, which is the average. Sometimes those two are close and sometimes

1418
02:00:24,220 --> 02:00:29,240
they can be very far apart. I don't think that was done intentionally. It just happened and

1419
02:00:31,710 --> 02:00:32,030
so

1420
02:00:33,810 --> 02:00:40,330
on our notice, when we had to put the notice in the paper, I can't enlarge this, but if you

1421
02:00:40,330 --> 02:00:48,370
can see it down here, you can see right there, right there, it says average. That's me. That's the

1422
02:00:48,370 --> 02:00:52,330
average. You take all the values and you average them up and you get some slightly different

1423
02:00:52,330 --> 02:00:57,670
numbers. So I just want everybody to know, we're doing what the state tells us to. It just

1424
02:00:57,670 --> 02:00:59,770
sometimes doesn't make a lot of sense.

1425
02:01:04,080 --> 02:01:05,080
Let me go back.

1426
02:01:05,700 --> 02:01:07,120
And so,

1427
02:01:09,360 --> 02:01:10,640
that's the proposed tax rate,

1428
02:01:11,100 --> 02:01:12,660
and we have a public hearing tonight,

1429
02:01:12,760 --> 02:01:14,200
but I'd be happy to answer any questions

1430
02:01:14,200 --> 02:01:15,960
before the hearing that you might have.

1431
02:01:18,890 --> 02:01:21,510
Big council, council member Brown.

1432
02:01:23,620 --> 02:01:26,220
Just to make sure I have a correct,

1433
02:01:26,240 --> 02:01:29,620
you said I approximately one cent on the tax rate

1434
02:01:29,620 --> 02:01:31,680
is a million dollars in revenue to the city.

1435
02:01:31,880 --> 02:01:32,720
Yes, man, it's a tiny bit,

1436
02:01:32,740 --> 02:01:33,980
I don't have the exact number, but yes,

1437
02:01:34,220 --> 02:01:35,280
that I would say that, yes.

1438
02:01:35,420 --> 02:01:36,160
Thank you.

1439
02:01:40,760 --> 02:01:43,360
Nice king. What's the record show there?

1440
02:01:43,480 --> 02:01:44,380
Can I have some over there, excuse me?

1441
02:01:45,160 --> 02:01:47,920
Yes, sir. I was there.

1442
02:01:49,480 --> 02:01:51,060
Mr. Cagle, thank you.

1443
02:01:51,540 --> 02:01:54,580
And the finance team for your hard work and council.

1444
02:01:55,060 --> 02:01:59,500
We have gone over this a lot and gave a lot of input on it.

1445
02:02:00,580 --> 02:02:04,080
There is a need and I can understand the residents,

1446
02:02:04,760 --> 02:02:07,580
concerned and reference to and reality.

1447
02:02:07,980 --> 02:02:09,580
No one wants their taxes.

1448
02:02:09,580 --> 02:02:17,640
right. But I don't know how we can get around to continue to provide the services that are

1449
02:02:17,640 --> 02:02:24,160
necessary to keep our city afloat. Some of the biggest things I know the council was

1450
02:02:24,160 --> 02:02:29,580
concerned about. The incentives to pay, thank insurance. We want to ensure that our employees

1451
02:02:29,580 --> 02:02:34,620
are taking care of because they work extremely hard. And the things that I really care about

1452
02:02:34,620 --> 02:02:48,160
We'll save the first correct, save the sheer comfort, but it's also the quality of life when it comes to the basic services that we provide that I noticed that some cities do not even provide those services.

1453
02:02:48,500 --> 02:02:58,640
We go beyond like if we give the brush on the streets stuff like that, we try to go and pick it up and try to help out move big furniture, even though there's a fee to that now.

1454
02:02:58,640 --> 02:03:05,400
Why is that? Because it has to be in order for us to continue to operate and the maintenance

1455
02:03:05,400 --> 02:03:11,780
on our vehicles, our employees. They want more employees. Yes, we all want more. We need more

1456
02:03:11,780 --> 02:03:18,500
employees, but it comes with a price. So I'm just grateful that we are the council, we the council

1457
02:03:18,500 --> 02:03:24,780
have really have this deep discussion and that and to listen to the residents. And I know

1458
02:03:24,780 --> 02:03:31,940
the residents still have some concerns, but if there is a magic wand that we can have to come up with a

1459
02:03:31,940 --> 02:03:39,060
solution that is function or for everyone, I think we would have used that wand by now. So with the best

1460
02:03:39,060 --> 02:03:47,320
we could do with the resources we have, thank you all. And I picked on Jerry Jones, but I turned 65 this year,

1461
02:03:47,320 --> 02:03:51,140
So, I don't know why my taxes are frozen either.

1462
02:03:53,480 --> 02:03:57,690
Go to member of Kimball, Mr. Mayor.

1463
02:03:58,030 --> 02:04:05,850
Hey, Mr. Kayg, if you could, can you give me an explanation, you tell me why the average

1464
02:04:05,850 --> 02:04:15,110
in the mean is different, but the total tax level that that's different from, sure, at

1465
02:04:15,110 --> 02:04:16,310
numbers should be the same, right?

1466
02:04:17,530 --> 02:04:23,270
No, but because we're going to have the tax rate on the total taxable base.

1467
02:04:23,610 --> 02:04:25,370
That's, that's going to be the same.

1468
02:04:25,910 --> 02:04:33,370
But what the state has said is, how does that impact an average homeowner?

1469
02:04:33,770 --> 02:04:35,270
But they use two different terms.

1470
02:04:35,630 --> 02:04:40,270
One, they said use the average and one, they said use the median.

1471
02:04:40,270 --> 02:04:52,010
So, for instance, the estimated city tax bill using the median home-stead value is $1699.

1472
02:04:53,050 --> 02:04:59,970
And if I go over here to the ad, where we used the average, it is...

1473
02:05:01,600 --> 02:05:15,140
1681, that would have been fine. I can barely see it. 1,770. So using the mean, the numbers 1,770, and using the median,

1474
02:05:15,500 --> 02:05:22,780
it's 1,699. Not a huge difference, but I just want people to know these are not mistakes. We're following the law.

1475
02:05:22,780 --> 02:05:27,440
But the total tax levy is $4 million, do you understand?

1476
02:05:28,760 --> 02:05:30,020
No, sir, let me go back.

1477
02:05:30,380 --> 02:05:43,000
Our total levy is 78 million, 207,959.

1478
02:05:43,720 --> 02:05:45,580
That's the taxes.

1479
02:05:45,660 --> 02:05:48,040
When you add up all the commercial, all the residential,

1480
02:05:48,040 --> 02:05:57,980
multi-family, everything on the tax rate. This number is, is, is, what's

1481
02:05:57,980 --> 02:06:01,240
advertised in the papers as 74 million, 74,

1482
02:06:03,700 --> 02:06:05,210
6. Let me go back to that.

1483
02:06:05,660 --> 02:06:06,680
It's going the wrong way.

1484
02:06:15,470 --> 02:06:16,770
It is. So,

1485
02:06:24,090 --> 02:06:29,190
we don't get to do this calculation, it's the

1486
02:06:29,190 --> 02:06:33,390
a praise on the district that does that but

1487
02:06:36,080 --> 02:06:39,040
this is ours that's for me now

1488
02:06:41,310 --> 02:06:45,320
well we know

1489
02:06:45,320 --> 02:06:53,200
what our taxable value is and we know what the rate is I'll just say there've been a lot

1490
02:06:53,200 --> 02:06:55,780
of issues over there this year

1491
02:07:00,040 --> 02:07:04,240
so for the sake of this conversation we're going off we'll

1492
02:07:04,240 --> 02:07:14,540
Yes, sir. This is doing the proposed 2027 number with a total levy of 78 to 70 million. Yes, sir.

1493
02:07:16,810 --> 02:07:18,610
That's all right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1494
02:07:19,570 --> 02:07:19,870
Come on.

1495
02:07:20,510 --> 02:07:20,510
Mr.

1496
02:07:25,730 --> 02:07:28,710
Google, just for clarity, say, on this again.

1497
02:07:29,030 --> 02:07:31,230
So when you're looking at these two different numbers, are we saying?

1498
02:07:31,690 --> 02:07:39,430
I know you said the appraisal district gives you no choice there to calculate that way on the average versus the median.

1499
02:07:39,430 --> 02:07:44,630
And so would this average then be considered the worst case scenario based on the formula

1500
02:07:44,630 --> 02:07:49,330
and then what we're looking at with the median as our actual, based on what we know our

1501
02:07:49,330 --> 02:07:51,090
average home prices are?

1502
02:07:52,390 --> 02:08:03,430
Well, the numbers we're talking about are what an average or the median that the what they would

1503
02:08:03,430 --> 02:08:03,870
pay.

1504
02:08:03,870 --> 02:08:05,230
So,

1505
02:08:08,170 --> 02:08:23,040
I believe the numbers that we have here are correct on the estimated tax bill, as well

1506
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:33,340
as these numbers, the average homestead tax on the, I can't get the line right, but the tax

1507
02:08:33,340 --> 02:08:37,380
on the average homestead, that's, I believe that is correct too.

1508
02:08:38,340 --> 02:08:43,480
And so to the folks that are listening at home, if the council does approve the

1509
02:08:45,200 --> 02:08:52,720
.7301 recommended rate, they are on average looking at approximately $5.71

1510
02:08:53,280 --> 02:08:58,660
monthly as an increase, $5.71 on their tax bill.

1511
02:08:58,760 --> 02:08:59,220
Yes, ma'am.

1512
02:08:59,840 --> 02:09:00,400
Thank you.

1513
02:09:00,400 --> 02:09:01,820
You're welcome. Thank you.

1514
02:09:07,180 --> 02:09:08,060
Council member, bro.

1515
02:09:08,660 --> 02:09:10,900
I was trying to get the microphone to come up.

1516
02:09:11,320 --> 02:09:11,640
OK.

1517
02:09:12,940 --> 02:09:15,340
I apologize for circling back to this one more time.

1518
02:09:17,790 --> 02:09:23,010
On the one we're saying right now, that doesn't account for

1519
02:09:23,010 --> 02:09:28,290
if we have twice as many homes that cost a half a million dollars

1520
02:09:28,850 --> 02:09:32,870
than we do that costs $50,000.

1521
02:09:32,870 --> 02:09:40,250
So it just says this is the exact middle point in your housing market correct the median

1522
02:09:42,010 --> 02:09:48,770
Yes, okay, and then on the other one where it's our average home price that takes

1523
02:09:49,350 --> 02:09:52,310
Every single property adds it together

1524
02:09:52,310 --> 02:09:59,970
devise it by that total number and that on average each person pays that now some people if you're how

1525
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:24,480
House is only valued at $100,000, you're going to pay a lot less than this. If your house is valued at $600,000, you're going to pay a lot more than that. Right. Right. And then when we do the budget, correct me if I'm wrong, you take that tax rate and you multiply it out by the certified tax rules to come up with how much revenue goes into the budget.

1526
02:10:24,480 --> 02:10:31,620
Correct. I just hope that helps to clarify some of our citizens who are watching. Thank you.

1527
02:10:36,220 --> 02:10:40,680
There's any other discussion. There's no other discussion.

1528
02:10:41,820 --> 02:10:42,900
Yes, sir.

1529
02:10:44,440 --> 02:10:51,200
We said that I'm going to open up public hearing now is open.

1530
02:10:51,940 --> 02:10:52,980
Madam City Secretary.

1531
02:10:57,530 --> 02:10:59,830
Yes, sir. The first speaker is Michael Fernino.

1532
02:10:59,830 --> 02:11:00,610
comment

1533
02:11:14,850 --> 02:11:20,410
was made, don't know how to cut back things. We're words to that effect.

1534
02:11:21,970 --> 02:11:27,690
How many things in this city, all this last two years, as I mentioned before, we've

1535
02:11:27,690 --> 02:11:32,290
got road projects that are languishing. How much money did we spend on that and how much

1536
02:11:32,290 --> 02:11:37,810
money are we spending further on projects that are behind schedule and over budget? We don't

1537
02:11:37,810 --> 02:11:43,750
need to send people to AUSA every year. Little things like that in the aggregate, it all adds up.

1538
02:11:45,100 --> 02:11:52,100
We're no danger, but as Mr. Kagels said about sales tax, alright. People can't spend what they don't earn.

1539
02:11:52,560 --> 02:11:56,140
I've used this example time and time again.

1540
02:11:56,900 --> 02:11:59,900
What's the most expensive watch you can buy in Kaleen?

1541
02:12:00,920 --> 02:12:03,800
What's the most expensive the nicest car you can buy in Kaleen?

1542
02:12:05,240 --> 02:12:10,360
We're no danger of having Ethan Allen open up a store in this town. Why?

1543
02:12:10,360 --> 02:12:10,620
Why?

1544
02:12:10,820 --> 02:12:15,140
Because that's a reflection of our buying power, our buying power is tied to our earning

1545
02:12:15,140 --> 02:12:15,760
power.

1546
02:12:17,220 --> 02:12:22,740
If we could have a decent wage where our tax money keeps going to places like the EDC,

1547
02:12:23,440 --> 02:12:27,600
that we never see any benefit of, we never get a choice as people, where there's almost

1548
02:12:27,600 --> 02:12:32,740
million dollars a year, year over, year goes, we don't have any say in it, what to develop.

1549
02:12:33,680 --> 02:12:35,240
We're just taking their word for it.

1550
02:12:37,850 --> 02:12:38,890
That's all of our money.

1551
02:12:38,990 --> 02:12:41,350
We have nothing to show from the EDC.

1552
02:12:41,350 --> 02:12:46,490
Where'd it be? The grocery store? Think back. I realized it's going back in history, but

1553
02:12:46,490 --> 02:12:51,810
Imagine what this town would have looked like if we had had the Dell headquarters and Toyota building pick up trucks here

1554
02:12:53,170 --> 02:12:58,630
Imagine the economic power and that triad right there the fort Toyota and Dell

1555
02:12:58,630 --> 02:13:00,530
Imagine what this town would look like now

1556
02:13:01,570 --> 02:13:05,430
Time after time I say this council this body

1557
02:13:06,030 --> 02:13:08,030
Lacks over the horizon thinking.

1558
02:13:08,610 --> 02:13:09,570
Get correct that.

1559
02:13:09,650 --> 02:13:12,730
We're never going to get a Dell or Toyota.

1560
02:13:13,350 --> 02:13:15,850
Everybody's worried about their own little piece of the pie around here.

1561
02:13:16,010 --> 02:13:19,670
When it comes to taxation, we need to get a break.

1562
02:13:20,190 --> 02:13:21,530
We have to adjust our budget.

1563
02:13:22,050 --> 02:13:25,610
Every time the taxes and the fees go up, the street maintenance fee,

1564
02:13:25,790 --> 02:13:29,050
which is a tax by a different name, street maintenance.

1565
02:13:29,470 --> 02:13:31,890
Yeah, I get the street sweeper down my street from time to time.

1566
02:13:31,890 --> 02:13:41,710
But I get to see anybody actually repaving it, resurfacing it, main painting it, maintenance around here seems to be less weight until the road falls apart, and then we get to spend

1567
02:13:41,710 --> 02:13:46,790
18, 20, 25 million dollars to rebuild the road. And then we do that.

1568
02:13:47,550 --> 02:13:53,970
It takes forever, it goes over cost, over schedule, tighten your budgets, not ours.

1569
02:13:54,830 --> 02:13:59,190
that's that's just common sense I don't have to be Milton Friedman or Thomas

1570
02:13:59,190 --> 02:14:04,210
soul or a bit any big economic theorist to know this there's too many

1571
02:14:04,210 --> 02:14:08,610
projects too many things are being spent furvelously tighten up the city's

1572
02:14:08,610 --> 02:14:14,110
budget not ours I'm sick of it I mean look around I mean if we were such a

1573
02:14:14,110 --> 02:14:17,890
powerhouse tax money went to that museum that was promised millions upon millions

1574
02:14:17,890 --> 02:14:22,150
of people are going to come here where they are not spending money here

1575
02:14:24,420 --> 02:14:24,820
madam

1576
02:14:26,120 --> 02:14:28,820
Second speaker is Dr. Sue Nisecroft.

1577
02:14:43,140 --> 02:14:45,200
I'm standing at this podium tonight

1578
02:14:45,200 --> 02:14:49,180
because our city is trapped in a destructive financial loop.

1579
02:14:49,740 --> 02:14:52,120
From multiple physical cycles,

1580
02:14:52,120 --> 02:14:54,200
we have watts, a repetitive pattern,

1581
02:14:54,760 --> 02:14:57,720
play out early warnings about structural deficits

1582
02:14:57,720 --> 02:14:59,960
I present it, but instead of time.

1583
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:13,500
In our operational belt, we paper over the cracks we shuffle funds, expand long-term debt liabilities, and pass late night budget amendments that add millions in permanent payroll costs.

1584
02:15:14,080 --> 02:15:21,540
Then we turn around and ask our homeowners of the city to pick up the tap through higher property taxes.

1585
02:15:21,540 --> 02:15:31,200
We are told that our hands are tied because the state mandated veterans exemptions the drain that drain over 13 million annually from our taxpayer.

1586
02:15:31,720 --> 02:15:40,400
That revenue loss is a real significant hurdle, but the state shortfall does not use our own lack of internal spending discipline.

1587
02:15:40,400 --> 02:15:48,120
During past visex cycles, our city manager explicitly warned this body that the journal fund was stretched to

1588
02:15:48,120 --> 02:15:55,900
his absolute limit with zero room for extra spending. Yet the council still voted to tack on millions and late amendments.

1589
02:15:56,580 --> 02:16:08,320
Adding that extra 1% cola creating multiple unbudgeted administrative roles in prioritizing non-essential static projects like the million dollar bridge painting.

1590
02:16:08,320 --> 02:16:16,320
We cannot keep treating a permanent structural spending crisis as a temporary revenue problem.

1591
02:16:18,420 --> 02:16:25,580
Passing a budget that relies on squeezing local families up to a higher tax rate is unsustainable and unfair.

1592
02:16:26,680 --> 02:16:32,340
Fortunately, you have the immediate power to fix this without waiting for an lengthy charter election.

1593
02:16:32,340 --> 02:16:39,300
election. You can take the easy way by voting tonight to amend our act to financial governance policies.

1594
02:16:40,000 --> 02:16:45,020
I'm accessing this council to introduce the resolution to add to critical binding

1595
02:16:45,020 --> 02:16:52,820
safe guard rails to section V of our budget rules. First implement a strict pay as you go offset mandate.

1596
02:16:53,060 --> 02:17:00,380
If any council member wants to oppose a late stage budget addition or create a new municipal position,

1597
02:17:00,380 --> 02:17:07,140
They must legally identify and equally recurrent spending cut from a non-essential department

1598
02:17:07,140 --> 02:17:08,860
in the exact same vote.

1599
02:17:09,220 --> 02:17:13,180
No more adding unbutited costs out of the thin air.

1600
02:17:14,060 --> 02:17:19,280
Second, establish a automatic, unassigned, fun, balanced stabilizer.

1601
02:17:19,360 --> 02:17:26,540
If our emergency cast reserves drop below our mandated 18% floor and automatic physical freeze,

1602
02:17:26,540 --> 02:17:32,300
must trigger instantly. This will remove political discretion and immediately halt non-essential

1603
02:17:32,300 --> 02:17:40,500
city hiring out of state travel and discretionary civic contracts until our safety net is naturally

1604
02:17:40,500 --> 02:17:47,880
restored to 22%. With local elections approaching the city of Colleen are watching closely to

1605
02:17:47,880 --> 02:17:50,900
Who may have an additional minute,

1606
02:17:53,600 --> 02:17:53,960
please?

1607
02:17:54,000 --> 02:17:55,140
Yes, you may.

1608
02:17:55,540 --> 02:18:00,020
Watching closely, who will champion true taxpayer transparency?

1609
02:18:00,580 --> 02:18:06,420
Do not pass the buck to the voters or face a force us to use petition drive

1610
02:18:06,420 --> 02:18:08,920
to strip away your spending authority.

1611
02:18:09,500 --> 02:18:13,500
Use your legislative power right now to enforce structural balance.

1612
02:18:13,500 --> 02:18:26,460
And then our physical governance policy absorb our revenue shortfalls through internal administrative discipline and protect cling home on from future property tax heights.

1613
02:18:27,200 --> 02:18:42,500
I have attached through this thingy right here that I spoke with you about language that you can automatically insert or modify into our financial governance standards and the city secretary.

1614
02:18:42,500 --> 02:18:47,780
secretary has a copy of that. The 494. Thank you for your listening.

1615
02:18:52,460 --> 02:18:54,080
Thank you Madam City's Secretary.

1616
02:18:56,540 --> 02:18:59,680
There are no more speakers. Okay.

1617
02:19:03,130 --> 02:19:06,830
There's no more speakers than we will put the hearing

1618
02:19:06,830 --> 02:19:07,670
is closed.

1619
02:19:10,570 --> 02:19:13,930
All right. Madam City's Secretary, the next item, please.

1620
02:19:16,490 --> 02:19:18,090
Next item number 14.

1621
02:19:18,090 --> 02:19:28,850
O-R-2-6-016, consider an ordinance adopting the annual budget for the City of Killing for the fiscal year beginning October 1,

1622
02:19:28,930 --> 02:19:44,030
2026, an ending September 30, 2027, the ordinance caption reads, an ordinance approving an adopting a budget for the operating of the municipal government of the City of Killing for the fiscal year beginning on October 1,

1623
02:19:44,030 --> 02:19:51,770
2026, and ending on September 30, 2027, appropriating money for the various funds and purposes

1624
02:19:52,170 --> 02:19:58,470
of such budget, including appropriations of money to pay interest and principles, seeking

1625
02:19:59,330 --> 02:19:59,970
thinking fine.

1626
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:06,640
Requirements on all indebtedness, providing a savings and civility clause, repealing all ordinances

1627
02:20:06,640 --> 02:20:11,860
and appropriations and conflict with the provisions of this ordinance and establishing an effective

1628
02:20:12,960 --> 02:20:13,600
date.

1629
02:20:15,440 --> 02:20:22,140
Thank you. Thank you, Councillor. Thank you, Mayor. This presentation is kind of brief,

1630
02:20:22,880 --> 02:20:29,900
straightforward. It's just to work you guys to to voting to the budget and tax rate. So as

1631
02:20:29,900 --> 02:20:34,880
You see the budget calendar, Mr. Kegu already are present here for the proposed tax rate.

1632
02:20:35,380 --> 02:20:39,780
Now, we're going to go to the ordinance to adopt the fiscal year 2017 budget

1633
02:20:39,780 --> 02:20:44,560
to identify the appropriate tax revenue increase and to set the tax rate.

1634
02:20:45,820 --> 02:20:48,420
And after that, we're going to look at the CIP.

1635
02:20:49,600 --> 02:20:53,160
The required order will be we're going to record both on budget first,

1636
02:20:53,240 --> 02:20:57,740
then we're going to ask you guys to verify the appropriate tax increase.

1637
02:20:57,740 --> 02:21:01,400
And then we're going to record the vote on certain tax rate.

1638
02:21:02,400 --> 02:21:09,660
This is the fiscal year 2017 proposed by just summary that includes the changes that we did in the prior meetings.

1639
02:21:11,680 --> 02:21:17,060
And this is just to record the vote on your budget for fiscal year 2017.

1640
02:21:22,490 --> 02:21:22,650
Questions?

1641
02:21:24,990 --> 02:21:25,910
Yes, Council.

1642
02:21:26,330 --> 02:21:27,050
May my best.

1643
02:21:31,960 --> 02:21:32,640
Thank you, Mayor.

1644
02:21:32,640 --> 02:21:38,100
As I have stated previously, I favor the no new revenue rate, however.

1645
02:21:39,060 --> 02:21:44,780
This budget presented by Mr. Cagel is a solid budget that will deliver the services our

1646
02:21:44,780 --> 02:21:46,820
residents expect and need.

1647
02:21:47,500 --> 02:21:54,560
I disagree with a few line items, but the budget itself is very professional, well-constructed

1648
02:21:54,560 --> 02:21:55,120
budget.

1649
02:21:55,400 --> 02:21:59,080
I will be voting yes on this really great product.

1650
02:21:59,520 --> 02:21:59,980
Thank you.

1651
02:21:59,980 --> 02:22:00,340
the

1652
02:22:06,220 --> 02:22:12,060
comments. Okay. On that case I will take a motion to consider the ordinance.

1653
02:22:15,120 --> 02:22:16,000
I'm sorry.

1654
02:22:22,970 --> 02:22:28,730
There's not a public hearing on the ordn on this ordinance, correct? There's a public hearing on the tax rate.

1655
02:22:31,070 --> 02:22:37,950
Which we already had? Tell some member. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Council. I'm moved to approval.

1656
02:22:39,200 --> 02:22:43,180
There are second. Council member Kentrix.

1657
02:22:44,560 --> 02:22:45,280
I second.

1658
02:22:46,020 --> 02:22:47,600
Okay. Is there any discussion?

1659
02:22:51,140 --> 02:22:53,700
We're in discussion council member Williams.

1660
02:22:56,200 --> 02:22:56,920
Okay.

1661
02:22:57,360 --> 02:23:01,720
There's no discussion all in favor of seeing the five by saying yes.

1662
02:23:02,420 --> 02:23:03,500
All opposed no.

1663
02:23:15,450 --> 02:23:17,090
The motion pass six.

1664
02:23:18,330 --> 02:23:20,530
We need to take a roll call vote on this.

1665
02:23:20,530 --> 02:23:30,200
So you're secretary. Yes, I can read that from from this if you'd prefer that instead of me calling the names

1666
02:23:30,450 --> 02:23:35,210
I think historically people if we can just go ahead and and to roll out with the we call the

1667
02:23:38,380 --> 02:23:39,780
David Bass

1668
02:23:41,860 --> 02:23:42,560
Yes

1669
02:23:42,560 --> 02:23:44,280
Melissa Brown

1670
02:23:45,200 --> 02:23:52,520
No, Jessica Gonzalez yes Anthony Kendrick yes Charles Kimball. Yes

1671
02:23:52,520 --> 02:23:56,740
Debbie Nash King and Beverly Ann Williams.

1672
02:23:57,360 --> 02:23:59,400
Yes. Thank you.

1673
02:24:06,100 --> 02:24:10,970
It has a six to zero.

1674
02:24:11,410 --> 02:24:13,210
Council member.

1675
02:24:14,210 --> 02:24:16,130
I mean, six to one.

1676
02:24:16,890 --> 02:24:20,190
Council member Brown opposing.

1677
02:24:21,530 --> 02:24:23,470
Okay. Is this thing a word?

1678
02:24:25,330 --> 02:24:31,130
Okay. The next item will be to verify the appropriate tax increase for local government code.

1679
02:24:31,130 --> 02:24:39,070
I wanted 2.007C, a separate boat is required to modify any property tax revenue increase over the prior year.

1680
02:24:39,570 --> 02:24:44,310
The total tax revenue increase is 1.70042,897.

1681
02:24:44,930 --> 02:24:49,610
And you can see the emino and INS are very down in here.

1682
02:24:50,030 --> 02:24:54,350
And now we wait for both to modify property tax increase.

1683
02:24:55,750 --> 02:24:59,970
Okay, I'm Council, I would take a motion.

1684
02:25:00,270 --> 02:25:18,060
Council member Kimber. Mr. Mayor, I move that the property tax rate being increased by the adoption of the tax rate of 0.7301, which is effectively at 3.5, 9% increase in the tax rate.

1685
02:25:19,690 --> 02:25:20,950
Can you say a second?

1686
02:25:21,330 --> 02:25:22,190
Council member Williams?

1687
02:25:22,790 --> 02:25:23,570
I seconded.

1688
02:25:24,830 --> 02:25:25,790
I will be in put discussion.

1689
02:25:28,150 --> 02:25:29,310
Council member Brown?

1690
02:25:33,020 --> 02:25:33,160
Yeah.

1691
02:25:34,000 --> 02:25:35,320
If there is no discussion,

1692
02:25:36,400 --> 02:25:38,720
Secretary Secretary will call please.

1693
02:25:50,000 --> 02:25:51,200
Council member Bass?

1694
02:25:51,860 --> 02:25:52,080
No.

1695
02:25:55,930 --> 02:25:56,750
Council member Brown?

1696
02:25:57,330 --> 02:25:57,370
No.

1697
02:26:00,180 --> 02:26:00,960
Council member Gonzalez?

1698
02:26:07,800 --> 02:26:08,880
Yes, thank you.

1699
02:26:10,670 --> 02:26:11,410
Council member Kendrick?

1700
02:26:11,890 --> 02:26:12,250
Yes.

1701
02:26:14,310 --> 02:26:15,110
Council member Kimble?

1702
02:26:15,430 --> 02:26:15,890
Yes.

1703
02:26:16,930 --> 02:26:18,470
Councilmember Nash King.

1704
02:26:20,010 --> 02:26:20,930
Councilmember Williams.

1705
02:26:27,410 --> 02:26:27,610
Okay.

1706
02:26:28,690 --> 02:26:29,730
Five to two.

1707
02:26:30,090 --> 02:26:31,630
Oh, she passed five to two.

1708
02:26:31,850 --> 02:26:32,470
Thank you, council.

1709
02:26:33,830 --> 02:26:34,050
Okay.

1710
02:26:34,250 --> 02:26:34,430
Is that

1711
02:26:39,300 --> 02:26:42,720
what's the right if I think we separate tax rate?

1712
02:26:43,120 --> 02:26:44,240
Now, this is detected.

1713
02:26:44,760 --> 02:26:45,640
That's tax rate.

1714
02:26:46,200 --> 02:26:46,200
Uh,

1715
02:26:48,260 --> 02:26:51,260
yes, ma'am.

1716
02:26:51,260 --> 02:26:51,660
I'm sorry.

1717
02:26:51,780 --> 02:26:52,280
Madam Secretary.

1718
02:26:52,820 --> 02:26:53,440
That's okay.

1719
02:26:53,860 --> 02:26:54,800
I was asked enough.

1720
02:26:55,100 --> 02:26:55,700
My apologies.

1721
02:26:56,220 --> 02:26:57,320
Item 16.

1722
02:26:57,320 --> 02:27:08,800
R-26-017, consider an ordinance, setting a tax rate of 0.7301 per $100 valuation, comprised

1723
02:27:08,800 --> 02:27:17,820
of 0.5562 for maintenance and operations, and 0.1739 for debt service for fiscal year

1724
02:27:17,820 --> 02:27:25,160
2027, tax year 2026 with ordinance caption reading and ordinance, setting the tax rate

1725
02:27:25,160 --> 02:27:28,900
and levying attacks upon all property, subject to taxation

1726
02:27:28,900 --> 02:27:37,800
within city limits of the city of Killing for the 2026 tax year

1727
02:27:37,800 --> 02:27:40,320
and for the use and support of the municipal government

1728
02:27:40,320 --> 02:27:44,780
of the city of Killing for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026

1729
02:27:44,780 --> 02:27:47,700
and ending September 30, 2027,

1730
02:27:48,320 --> 02:27:51,340
a portioning said levying among the various funds and items

1731
02:27:51,340 --> 02:27:53,460
for which the revenue must be raised,

1732
02:27:53,460 --> 02:28:01,780
including providing a sinking fund for the retirement of the bonded debt of the city and establishing an effect ever date.

1733
02:28:01,780 --> 02:28:02,540
Is anyone?

1734
02:28:03,240 --> 02:28:03,660
Yes.

1735
02:28:03,660 --> 02:28:04,460
Thank you.

1736
02:28:05,240 --> 02:28:06,960
This has to set the tax rate.

1737
02:28:06,960 --> 02:28:09,460
The total tax rate is 73.01.

1738
02:28:10,060 --> 02:28:14,740
That it will do a budget of revenue of 78.2 million.

1739
02:28:17,780 --> 02:28:21,660
You guys saw this as fly in the previous presentation.

1740
02:28:22,540 --> 02:28:29,860
This is an increase of 68, 48 dollars a year for a medium homestead value of 202,

1741
02:28:31,400 --> 02:28:32,040
1822.

1742
02:28:33,220 --> 02:28:39,360
This is in the tax rate for tax code 206.5B, if the tax rate exceeds, then on your revenue rate,

1743
02:28:39,680 --> 02:28:41,060
I record about as required.

1744
02:28:41,640 --> 02:28:51,460
I provide at least 60% of council by members and the motions last state and we have the

1745
02:28:51,460 --> 02:28:56,700
I'm going to come back to it and now I'll wait to record both on tax rate.

1746
02:28:59,680 --> 02:29:02,720
Okay, I'm here for a term. I'll take the motion to consider the ordinance.

1747
02:29:08,050 --> 02:29:16,030
I make a motion to approve. I'm sorry. I move that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption

1748
02:29:16,030 --> 02:29:26,350
of a tax rate of .7301 which is effectively a 3.59% increase in the tax rate.

1749
02:29:27,860 --> 02:29:32,580
was it can a council member Williamson?

1750
02:29:33,180 --> 02:29:34,460
That's second it.

1751
02:29:37,540 --> 02:29:40,340
Madam's second to I could take a roll call please.

1752
02:29:48,460 --> 02:29:49,340
Councilmember Bass.

1753
02:29:50,120 --> 02:29:50,280
No.

1754
02:29:51,860 --> 02:29:52,680
Councilmember Brown.

1755
02:29:54,180 --> 02:29:55,960
Councilmember Mayor Pro Tim Gonzalez.

1756
02:29:58,120 --> 02:29:59,000
Councilmember Kendrick.

1757
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:11,460
Yes. Council member Kimble. Yes. Council member Nash King. Yes. Council member Williams. Yes. Motion passes five to two.

1758
02:30:13,280 --> 02:30:15,140
Thank you, council. Is that going?

1759
02:30:29,070 --> 02:30:42,930
Item 17. So I met him, secretary. 17? Item 17. R S-26-135. Consider a memorandum resolution to adopt the five year capital

1760
02:30:42,930 --> 02:30:47,870
program for fiscal year 2027 through 2031.

1761
02:30:50,080 --> 02:30:50,840
Yes, ma'am.

1762
02:30:51,060 --> 02:30:51,580
Thank you again.

1763
02:30:51,760 --> 02:30:55,340
This is this item is for fiscal year 2027 proposed CIP,

1764
02:30:56,100 --> 02:31:01,420
adoption of the fire capital improvement program for fiscal year 2027 to 2021.

1765
02:31:01,920 --> 02:31:05,600
This is our last item for the budget for 2027.

1766
02:31:08,250 --> 02:31:12,990
The background, the annual five years CIP required a capital project policies

1767
02:31:12,990 --> 02:31:19,730
It's based on master plans and departmental needs, new projects and additional funding for ongoing projects.

1768
02:31:20,850 --> 02:31:28,910
It has equipment vehicles, facilities, and infrastructures of our 100,000 and the projects summarized by type and fund asserts.

1769
02:31:29,030 --> 02:31:30,630
This is the CIP summary by type.

1770
02:31:30,890 --> 02:31:38,630
We have a total of 97 approaches that include vehicles and equipments with a total amount of 47.5 million.

1771
02:31:40,620 --> 02:31:45,940
This is the CIP summary. By funding source, we have government of CIP, CBDG,

1772
02:31:46,160 --> 02:31:52,000
bone funds, ABS and CIP in ground funds, water and sewer CIP, bone impact feed funds,

1773
02:31:52,260 --> 02:31:56,220
solid waste CIP fund, tiered fund, and drainage CIP fund.

1774
02:31:58,610 --> 02:32:00,290
This is the project funding by sources.

1775
02:32:01,030 --> 02:32:04,690
You can see we use in fund balance, grant reimbursement programs and bones.

1776
02:32:05,770 --> 02:32:09,390
In a recommendation, the city comes from a doctor, fire, capital improvement program

1777
02:32:09,390 --> 02:32:11,370
for fiscal year 2020, 2020, 2021.

1778
02:32:11,670 --> 02:32:14,110
I would be happy to answer any questions that may have.

1779
02:32:14,790 --> 02:32:15,230
Any questions?

1780
02:32:15,650 --> 02:32:16,530
Tell some member Kimball.

1781
02:32:20,840 --> 02:32:21,800
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1782
02:32:22,400 --> 02:32:25,940
Mr. Tang, what are the projects for water

1783
02:32:25,940 --> 02:32:27,200
and sewer entrainage?

1784
02:32:27,200 --> 02:32:28,000
There's nine of them.

1785
02:32:28,020 --> 02:32:28,780
Do you know what they are?

1786
02:32:29,360 --> 02:32:32,960
We have the book posted and online.

1787
02:32:33,520 --> 02:32:36,300
I don't have the book right now with me.

1788
02:32:40,260 --> 02:32:41,040
Tell some member Kim Jong-un.

1789
02:32:46,810 --> 02:32:49,610
Mayor, I don't have a, for a say, question.

1790
02:32:49,610 --> 02:32:52,530
and I have a statement, can I make a statement?

1791
02:32:53,350 --> 02:32:53,950
You may?

1792
02:32:54,690 --> 02:32:58,870
OK, I want to say this, and I wanted to be on the record.

1793
02:33:01,090 --> 02:33:05,690
We talk about the things that we are trying to do for the citizens

1794
02:33:05,690 --> 02:33:11,270
and for the betterment of the citizens of Colleen.

1795
02:33:11,870 --> 02:33:17,210
And I find it very disheartening to sit here

1796
02:33:17,210 --> 02:33:25,870
we talk about the betterment of the city and I'm not complaining about which way you voted,

1797
02:33:27,110 --> 02:33:38,690
but some of these things we're talking about the citizens and honestly it's just me speaking

1798
02:33:40,210 --> 02:33:51,410
When people are planning on people's emotions and doing other things besides what is better for the betterment of the city.

1799
02:33:51,950 --> 02:34:00,670
And I feel I must make this statement for the simple fact that anything that I vote on I look at it and I make this statement.

1800
02:34:00,670 --> 02:34:10,370
I make the decision put a bit of the citizens not a political statement on one side of the other.

1801
02:34:10,830 --> 02:34:13,950
And I feel like some things were made that way tonight.

1802
02:34:14,770 --> 02:34:21,390
And it's very disheartening that we're not thinking about the citizens and the things that we need to do as a council

1803
02:34:21,390 --> 02:34:28,470
to ensure all of our citizens, not just the ones that think one way, but all of the citizens.

1804
02:34:28,470 --> 02:34:30,570
And that's all I have there.

1805
02:34:32,880 --> 02:34:33,100
Okay.

1806
02:34:34,880 --> 02:34:36,300
Council member Brown.

1807
02:34:37,820 --> 02:34:39,520
I'm going to bring us back to the agenda.

1808
02:34:39,760 --> 02:34:41,440
This is not a public hearing correct.

1809
02:34:43,650 --> 02:34:49,050
But that I moved to approve RS-26-135.

1810
02:34:51,720 --> 02:34:52,060
Okay.

1811
02:34:53,860 --> 02:34:55,080
We had a procedure for COVID.

1812
02:34:57,110 --> 02:34:57,310
Okay.

1813
02:34:57,830 --> 02:34:58,350
I apologize.

1814
02:34:58,390 --> 02:34:59,510
I'll send it to them.

1815
02:35:02,600 --> 02:35:11,120
Go ahead, motion is in and point, yes. So I moved to approve RS-26-135.

1816
02:35:14,000 --> 02:35:21,820
Is there a second council member Nash King? Is there a new discussion? Council member Kimble.

1817
02:35:22,140 --> 02:35:29,100
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I found the five eyes that I did look at. I just, just for the records, I know based on what council member

1818
02:35:29,100 --> 02:35:34,800
can't fix it. They were the, um, particularly when it comes to the long branch part improvements

1819
02:35:34,800 --> 02:35:39,820
things that we have talked about the low water crossing. Uh, we talked about water, the water,

1820
02:35:39,860 --> 02:35:44,400
uh, be the replacement that I brought up earlier, the 195. Those are all things that, again,

1821
02:35:44,520 --> 02:35:51,260
that all citizens could take advantage. I'm glad that when we look at, um, our five year, uh,

1822
02:35:52,360 --> 02:35:58,160
project and plans that we're looking at things that's really going to hopefully improve our water

1823
02:35:58,160 --> 02:36:01,080
So we're so, I found it. Thank you.

1824
02:36:03,060 --> 02:36:04,280
Is there any other discussion?

1825
02:36:05,660 --> 02:36:06,520
There's no other discussion.

1826
02:36:09,740 --> 02:36:10,540
Tell some of them about.

1827
02:36:13,110 --> 02:36:21,610
One point of clarification is the IP funds are not coming out of the FY27 tax dollars that we bring it in correct?

1828
02:36:22,530 --> 02:36:22,610
No.

1829
02:36:22,910 --> 02:36:26,710
The CIP funds are already in there for excess fund balance.

1830
02:36:26,710 --> 02:36:34,130
And then we have any leg vehicle replacement that is included in the budget already.

1831
02:36:34,730 --> 02:36:35,530
Thank you.

1832
02:36:35,530 --> 02:36:36,650
That's all I wanted to clarify.

1833
02:36:37,270 --> 02:36:37,910
Yes, ma'am.

1834
02:36:42,750 --> 02:36:43,010
Okay.

1835
02:36:43,350 --> 02:36:45,330
Councilor Mayor, approve, too.

1836
02:36:45,650 --> 02:36:46,610
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1837
02:36:46,690 --> 02:36:49,350
It looks like we have a motion in a second on the floor to vote.

1838
02:36:49,630 --> 02:36:56,810
And consider the ordinance per tax code 26.050B.

1839
02:36:58,470 --> 02:37:03,770
If the tax rate exceeds the no new revenue rate, a record vote is required.

1840
02:37:04,570 --> 02:37:10,470
Approval, by at least 60% of the council, five members must state required wording.

1841
02:37:11,070 --> 02:37:15,670
That is, I move that property tax rate being increased by the adoption of the tax rate.

1842
02:37:16,290 --> 02:37:16,670
Oh, we heard it.

1843
02:37:17,110 --> 02:37:18,490
That's it. Thank you.

1844
02:37:19,450 --> 02:37:19,670
Council.

1845
02:37:21,250 --> 02:37:24,750
What would you like to do?

1846
02:37:24,750 --> 02:37:34,050
Okay, so all in papers tell some members asking yes, thank you Mr. Mayor I just have a quick question

1847
02:37:34,050 --> 02:37:40,180
When you said that the excess funds for this project I thought we had more than that

1848
02:37:41,410 --> 02:37:45,280
Well, what I'm trying to say was if you see

1849
02:37:46,560 --> 02:37:48,320
Let's see if I can make this work.

1850
02:37:48,640 --> 02:37:49,060
Thank you.

1851
02:37:49,380 --> 02:37:49,900
Let's see.

1852
02:37:50,660 --> 02:37:55,300
When you look at the CIP summary of our funding source,

1853
02:37:55,620 --> 02:37:59,660
we have more of a CIP there in the aviation CIP.

1854
02:37:59,780 --> 02:38:00,660
What is the CIP?

1855
02:38:01,080 --> 02:38:03,800
All those funds are funded by Exles Fund Balance.

1856
02:38:04,500 --> 02:38:07,340
So all the projects that are in there is Exles Fund Balance

1857
02:38:07,340 --> 02:38:08,680
on this fund.

1858
02:38:09,780 --> 02:38:12,480
But we do have all the projects like the replacement vehicles

1859
02:38:12,480 --> 02:38:16,700
where we brought for money in there for public safety.

1860
02:38:17,340 --> 02:38:18,460
Yes, ma'am.

1861
02:38:18,500 --> 02:38:19,440
Thank you. That's the part.

1862
02:38:19,620 --> 02:38:20,380
Okay. Thank you.

1863
02:38:25,550 --> 02:38:25,790
Yes.

1864
02:38:25,790 --> 02:38:29,970
There's no other discussion. All in favor of signify bus and yes, all opposed.

1865
02:38:37,590 --> 02:38:38,530
Motion passed 70.

1866
02:38:40,150 --> 02:38:41,270
Okay. Thank you.

1867
02:38:42,470 --> 02:38:43,590
Madam Secretary.

1868
02:38:45,730 --> 02:38:46,490
Discussion item.

1869
02:38:46,490 --> 02:38:56,310
Number 18, DS-26-07079, Discuss and Consider Scheduling a City Council retreat and team building workshop.

1870
02:38:59,090 --> 02:39:04,630
And thank you, Ms. Tenglin. Thank you for that presentation. Mr. Kagele?

1871
02:39:05,150 --> 02:39:14,930
Yes, our Mayor Council. The Mayor asked me about this to look into what it would take to have a council workshop team building.

1872
02:39:14,930 --> 02:39:19,070
and there was never any discussion from the mayor back going out of town. In fact, he had

1873
02:39:19,070 --> 02:39:26,990
already lined up some free space at CTC. What I did, I went back and looked back in 2021.

1874
02:39:27,710 --> 02:39:33,510
We had a proposal from Coleman and Associates to do the same thing and roughly stay

1875
02:39:33,510 --> 02:39:40,970
in town as well. No money going outside of town. What the mayor had discussed was a day or

1876
02:39:40,970 --> 02:39:46,390
a little less than a day. What we had back then was a day and a half plus additional time

1877
02:39:46,390 --> 02:39:51,370
from the moderator spending individual time with all the council members and so it was

1878
02:39:51,370 --> 02:39:57,510
much more involved and then that was about $12,000. If you want a moderator you could probably

1879
02:39:57,510 --> 02:39:59,970
do it for half or less.

1880
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:07,340
Less than that. And I think in order to do what you probably need, and if you're going to do this, you need an outside moderator.

1881
02:40:08,160 --> 02:40:24,960
And I think one way to look at this is your board of directors of a company that has about 300 million in revenue every year, about 1400 employees, and you're responsible for the value of the private properties, about 15 or more billion.

1882
02:40:24,960 --> 02:40:33,540
And then another than hundreds of millions in public property, it's a very significant operation.

1883
02:40:34,040 --> 02:40:41,520
And I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to come together as a board to find out how you can work together to achieve goals.

1884
02:40:41,880 --> 02:40:51,920
If you do that, if you're more effective as a board and the organization is more effective, I think it's money very well spent, just my opinion.

1885
02:40:51,920 --> 02:41:00,260
But nothing was decided the mayor just wanted to put it out there to see what the council would like to do this and what I'm telling you as I think

1886
02:41:00,260 --> 02:41:02,820
That's about the cost and

1887
02:41:03,380 --> 02:41:05,960
Where the money would come from there there

1888
02:41:07,380 --> 02:41:12,000
If you do it in this year, we're under budget in the council's budget on

1889
02:41:15,060 --> 02:41:21,220
The hearing services we haven't been using that for quite some time probably the same thing next year

1890
02:41:21,220 --> 02:41:26,020
that would be my guess that I guess the first question would come where does that five or

1891
02:41:26,020 --> 02:41:32,100
six thousand dollars come from? Any case, Mayor, that's-

1892
02:41:32,100 --> 02:41:37,760
Yes, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kegu, and I'd like to add to that again, it wasn't a one

1893
02:41:37,760 --> 02:41:44,400
of emphasize that it wasn't to be out of town or it wasn't supposed to be out of town

1894
02:41:44,400 --> 02:41:51,200
at all. It's just a day or half a day that Council that we can come together and

1895
02:41:51,980 --> 02:42:01,600
and we just allow us to, to, to, to team bill, you know, and to, um, we call it a retreat, and I guess when

1896
02:42:01,600 --> 02:42:08,300
you say retreat, you know, people want to make things that you're going out of town, um, it's,

1897
02:42:08,300 --> 02:42:14,620
um, something that can work, if we, if you wanted that, I just wanted to bring it up to you,

1898
02:42:14,620 --> 02:42:22,640
Council. If you want it, that's fine. If you don't, it's just fine. I just thought that would be a good idea.

1899
02:42:22,880 --> 02:42:31,840
Since we are pretty much new and we can just just get together and just team, though.

1900
02:42:32,200 --> 02:42:37,820
So I'm just hoping for a discussion on that. Council member Nash King.

1901
02:42:38,840 --> 02:42:41,400
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council, I have several questions.

1902
02:42:41,400 --> 02:42:46,500
One of them is for Mr. Cago, and we bring all the council together.

1903
02:42:46,660 --> 02:42:50,840
Are we talking about a special meeting or is it open to the public?

1904
02:42:51,280 --> 02:42:54,840
It would be open to the public if you had it at CTC.

1905
02:42:54,980 --> 02:42:59,520
You would have a agenda that says the council retreat and team building activities,

1906
02:43:00,340 --> 02:43:01,380
and the public would be invited.

1907
02:43:02,560 --> 02:43:08,720
Yes, sir. And within my time, I do understand the purpose of having a retreat

1908
02:43:08,720 --> 02:43:16,440
trying to get us to do a team build and we did a lot of that in the military and there's not anything wrong with that

1909
02:43:16,440 --> 02:43:22,800
but from my perspective that we was elected by the people and we should conduct ourselves

1910
02:43:22,800 --> 02:43:28,500
what that happened to be told how to treat each other, respect each other and talk to each other

1911
02:43:29,300 --> 02:43:38,620
that's my stance on that because we represent the people so rather the council have a retreat or not

1912
02:43:38,720 --> 02:43:44,860
that's fine but I just think these are some things that we should do without another adult trying

1913
02:43:44,860 --> 02:43:53,220
to tell us how to conduct ourselves professionally in a municipality environment. Thank you.

1914
02:43:53,500 --> 02:43:54,500
Councilmember Brown.

1915
02:43:58,490 --> 02:44:03,530
I'm going to say that I loved the recommendation that came from or

1916
02:44:03,530 --> 02:44:11,050
citizen during comments of doing what sounds to me more like a field day in our local

1917
02:44:11,050 --> 02:44:17,990
park which could still be used for that team building and not bonding situation. I believe in the

1918
02:44:17,990 --> 02:44:21,670
military that would be called a mandatory fund day.

1919
02:44:25,110 --> 02:44:28,650
I really think it would be good for us. We

1920
02:44:28,650 --> 02:44:35,770
used it up here. We work, we argue, we go back and forth on a lot of this stuff. If we were

1921
02:44:35,770 --> 02:44:41,790
to do a field day with some family-friendly activities. I think it would be a great idea there,

1922
02:44:42,490 --> 02:44:47,270
but I like to do it a little bit bigger, so I would like to bring in some of our staff members

1923
02:44:47,270 --> 02:44:54,170
that want to participate. We have to work with the staff every day also, so why not have an

1924
02:44:54,170 --> 02:44:58,110
to need its team build with the staff as a council.

1925
02:44:59,650 --> 02:44:59,970
New Fits.

1926
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:28,200
Clearly we would not make this mandatory. I don't think any of us up here are talking about mandating anything on to a fellow council members. But I will say this, that I would volunteer to be one of a member of a committee of council members that would plan this and even go out and talk to some of our local businesses to get sponsorships.

1927
02:45:28,200 --> 02:45:31,760
So that the net expense to the city would be none.

1928
02:45:32,620 --> 02:45:33,420
Thank you.

1929
02:45:35,190 --> 02:45:35,830
Thank you.

1930
02:45:36,190 --> 02:45:37,150
Councilmember Bess.

1931
02:45:39,390 --> 02:45:40,210
Thank you, Mayor.

1932
02:45:40,970 --> 02:45:49,490
My personal experience with these types of events were in the army and in the army, it was

1933
02:45:49,490 --> 02:45:52,290
just the unit, just the team.

1934
02:45:52,970 --> 02:45:57,670
And my experience with this serving on nonprofit boards.

1935
02:45:57,670 --> 02:46:01,970
Again, it was just the board, just the team.

1936
02:46:03,130 --> 02:46:08,650
I just don't see how we can do what I perceive as a retreat

1937
02:46:08,650 --> 02:46:11,890
under the open meetings at.

1938
02:46:13,670 --> 02:46:21,270
I just don't see how we can do that because it's more than just the team.

1939
02:46:21,270 --> 02:46:41,670
And my experience, the value was being able to speak very frankly to each other, being able to learn from each other and having observers, nothing against anybody who might show up, kind of changes the vibe of the event.

1940
02:46:42,370 --> 02:46:45,950
So I just don't see how we can do it.

1941
02:46:46,230 --> 02:46:50,770
As I perceive these retreats are intended to be.

1942
02:46:50,770 --> 02:46:52,010
Thank you.

1943
02:46:52,010 --> 02:46:52,890
Thank you, sir.

1944
02:46:53,710 --> 02:46:54,670
Councilmember Kimball.

1945
02:46:57,960 --> 02:46:59,060
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1946
02:46:59,360 --> 02:47:02,300
Thank you, Mr. Kago, for your insight.

1947
02:47:03,720 --> 02:47:08,030
I got a problem with team building exercise,

1948
02:47:08,770 --> 02:47:14,190
but when you look at how this item even came about,

1949
02:47:14,810 --> 02:47:16,950
I didn't know we were going to be discussing this.

1950
02:47:17,430 --> 02:47:19,170
You know, this decision is kind of made in the vacuum,

1951
02:47:19,750 --> 02:47:21,910
kind of wish we had a little bit of head up about.

1952
02:47:22,350 --> 02:47:24,430
So we wouldn't even take any necessary criticism.

1953
02:47:24,430 --> 02:47:27,790
Are you going out of town? Are you going to Vegas? Are you going wherever whatever?

1954
02:47:27,990 --> 02:47:34,570
I mean, a lot of that could have been headed out tonight by a little communication and I

1955
02:47:35,670 --> 02:47:38,190
I just my personal opinion that

1956
02:47:41,510 --> 02:47:47,570
items that need the business of the city these that come first we have mechanisms to do that

1957
02:47:47,990 --> 02:47:52,570
I don't mean some fellow council members, you know, we went down to round rock, you know, disson things

1958
02:47:52,570 --> 02:47:56,410
Learned a lot. We learned off of each other. It's another profession. There are

1959
02:47:56,410 --> 02:48:02,810
mechanisms out there that's already in place, I plan on taking advantage of those so I can better

1960
02:48:02,810 --> 02:48:08,410
serve the citizens, you know, my relationship with my colleagues, I think that's going to

1961
02:48:08,410 --> 02:48:13,470
happen naturally and organically, I don't necessarily think a team build an exercise to go

1962
02:48:13,470 --> 02:48:18,950
with Councilman Bass, necessarily going to fulfill that. But I do, you know, looking to the senior

1963
02:48:18,950 --> 02:48:27,170
members up here in the Mayor Pro Tem, the Mayor, Councilwoman Nash King, and learn from the staff.

1964
02:48:27,850 --> 02:48:35,710
Those are my touch points, and I look forward to enjoying those things that are already offered.

1965
02:48:36,290 --> 02:48:38,890
But again, this decision was made in a vacuum, not without a team.

1966
02:48:39,390 --> 02:48:41,210
So just kind of ironic, we're talking about team building.

1967
02:48:41,930 --> 02:48:46,510
And we get the land bastard by the citizens today, because there was no input from us.

1968
02:48:47,210 --> 02:48:49,210
That's where I stand on it. I don't think it's necessary.

1969
02:48:50,510 --> 02:48:55,310
Okay, let me see this. This was not made in a vacuum for a

1970
02:48:55,310 --> 02:48:58,710
past money decision. Actually, I went to some of y'all. He

1971
02:48:58,710 --> 02:49:05,430
will afford some of you afford. So, it's okay. I really, it's okay.

1972
02:49:05,530 --> 02:49:11,490
I just wanted to bring it to the council. It's nothing secret about it.

1973
02:49:11,490 --> 02:49:18,890
just thought that we could for us to get together and and gel together talk find out about

1974
02:49:18,890 --> 02:49:25,750
one another we've done it up done it before in the council and it worked it worked and so it's

1975
02:49:25,750 --> 02:49:32,370
a different it's okay I just wanted to bring that to you appreciate your thoughts but I just wanted

1976
02:49:32,370 --> 02:49:41,470
to bring it for discussion in the future consensus so obviously the council does not want that

1977
02:49:41,470 --> 02:49:46,790
And I do understand, and I respect that, but Council, I just wanted to bring that to you.

1978
02:49:46,950 --> 02:49:52,170
That's all, to make it the fine ways that we can come together as a Council.

1979
02:49:53,110 --> 02:49:57,910
And I mean, we're doing good, but I just thought that would be, that would add to it.

1980
02:49:57,950 --> 02:49:59,970
Council, Council Mayor Potech.

1981
02:50:00,900 --> 02:50:29,720
Thank you. I do think it's important on different levels to have these sorts of conversations. I think that, to a couple of points, I love the idea of the community involvement in the field-day type activities, but I also believe that there's a need for strategic visioning. There's things that regarding our city, our direction of our city, our comprehensive plan, ensuring that new council members are understanding the vision and the goal overall of the city.

1982
02:50:30,000 --> 02:50:32,080
and also has it relates to us as district members,

1983
02:50:32,460 --> 02:50:33,640
and it's at large members.

1984
02:50:34,260 --> 02:50:36,480
We did away with the Group Town Hall

1985
02:50:36,480 --> 02:50:39,600
at the end of the New Election cycle.

1986
02:50:40,080 --> 02:50:42,040
So unfortunately for our community members,

1987
02:50:42,560 --> 02:50:44,560
it doesn't give them the opportunity to hear

1988
02:50:44,560 --> 02:50:46,340
where we're coming from, what our vision is,

1989
02:50:46,400 --> 02:50:49,460
for the city, for our districts, or for the city overall.

1990
02:50:49,860 --> 02:50:51,560
So I think that for strategic visioning,

1991
02:50:51,620 --> 02:50:52,520
it could be important.

1992
02:50:53,000 --> 02:50:54,780
I guess Mr. Kagle, we've never done this before.

1993
02:50:55,400 --> 02:50:56,540
So I've never done this before.

1994
02:50:56,820 --> 02:50:59,020
So if it were to happen, what does that look like

1995
02:50:59,020 --> 02:51:07,020
Council members pass this point, especially if it's an open meeting and you're trying to actually have a structured dialogue.

1996
02:51:07,860 --> 02:51:12,060
It would be an open meeting. Lots of cities do it. You do have to have an agenda.

1997
02:51:12,940 --> 02:51:17,460
But it would be fairly broad. You'd talk about goals and objectives for the city.

1998
02:51:17,760 --> 02:51:23,120
It would talk about team building the ways to communicate better the ways to work with each other better.

1999
02:51:23,580 --> 02:51:27,920
There would have to be an agenda, but this is done fairly regularly.

2000
02:51:27,920 --> 02:51:32,660
It's done regularly and as the comments are open to the public and then they provide people like just like a regular

2001
02:51:32,660 --> 02:51:36,660
Yes, man. I regular meeting. Okay. All right. I appreciate it. Thank you

2002
02:51:39,030 --> 02:51:41,070
Tell some member Brown

2003
02:51:42,920 --> 02:51:44,220
Just a second term.

2004
02:51:46,400 --> 02:51:48,760
I'm formulating to make sure I say this

2005
02:51:50,240 --> 02:51:55,180
As non offensively as possible and I do mean it with the utmost respect

2006
02:51:56,040 --> 02:51:56,520
but

2007
02:51:57,300 --> 02:52:02,160
If we're talking about planning and strategic planning and the team

2008
02:52:02,160 --> 02:52:09,640
There's nothing that we should be saying behind closed doors that we're not willing to say in public and front of everybody.

2009
02:52:12,540 --> 02:52:21,780
We shouldn't act one way just because nobody's eyes are on us and act another way because we're sitting on the dias and everyone can see us.

2010
02:52:22,420 --> 02:52:40,860
I'm not concerned about what happens if the public sees a team building because I think that it would be great for the public to see that each and every one of us is willing to extend our olive branches, put our hands out and say,

2011
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I'm ready to work together with you for the benefit of the future of the city of

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Colleen that we've all been selected and elected to represent.

2013
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That's why I don't mind doing team building.

2014
02:52:58,200 --> 02:53:04,960
Really, if we went along with the concepts of doing team building exercises, you don't

2015
02:53:04,960 --> 02:53:07,220
do a whole lot of talking if you trust falling.

2016
02:53:07,220 --> 02:53:18,200
You don't do a whole lot of strategic talking if you're doing a three-legged race, which I will tell you I am at a severe disadvantage for us, so that's it isn't.

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Wasn't thinking about me being on the council in my height difference.

2018
02:53:24,140 --> 02:53:26,540
Again, it's an opportunity to relax.

2019
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I think sometimes some of the tension that people might feel in the public is because all we're ever doing is having these very deep tense conversations.

2020
02:53:39,200 --> 02:53:44,280
people once they start having fun together and start relaxing you start seeing where people

2021
02:53:44,280 --> 02:53:49,860
have more in common. That's why I'm still supportive of the idea as long as we can do it

2022
02:53:49,860 --> 02:53:54,120
with sponsorships on city property not cost the citizens anything.

2023
02:53:56,850 --> 02:53:57,890
Councilmember Kinjigs.

2024
02:54:01,220 --> 02:54:04,280
Well, in my burning max for voice, I don't know if you already

2025
02:54:04,280 --> 02:54:09,260
it else. Hey, I'm okay with team building.

2026
02:54:12,600 --> 02:54:15,060
I could just say if I just

2027
02:54:15,060 --> 02:54:18,960
think sometimes if you team building, it would just say if you're going to have fun,

2028
02:54:19,040 --> 02:54:22,720
you're going to have fun with it. All right, well, I'm going to have fun with it a little bit

2029
02:54:22,720 --> 02:54:28,000
right now. I would love to do a team building so we could talk and kind of figure out

2030
02:54:28,000 --> 02:54:30,260
people talk too much.

2031
02:54:35,160 --> 02:54:44,800
So I'm all about the team building that way can find out what it is that

2032
02:54:44,800 --> 02:54:51,200
the other person may dislike about you or whatever. That's part of team building and to get the

2033
02:54:51,200 --> 02:54:56,560
get those things out. That's how you get them out. I told you I'm going to have a look fun with

2034
02:54:56,560 --> 02:54:59,980
to those that know me off the diet.

2035
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I'm a joke, I like to have fun and I talk smack. But on the same token, I can be serious about it. And I can understand where you come from. You can understand where I'm coming from. And maybe we can meet halfway and everything works out perfect. That's all I'm saying.

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So we're going to go somewhere.

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02:55:31,990 --> 02:55:34,140
I'm on for retreats.

2038
02:55:35,110 --> 02:55:38,490
I've gone to a lot of retreats in the past.

2039
02:55:38,810 --> 02:55:42,250
And retreats are for to bring us together.

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02:55:42,330 --> 02:55:45,490
And we are to share any type of this

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02:55:45,490 --> 02:55:47,930
prepency of whatever that we have with each other.

2042
02:55:48,190 --> 02:55:50,030
But here is my issue here.

2043
02:55:50,750 --> 02:55:54,570
The very ones who's talking on the very ones who has the issues.

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02:55:55,690 --> 02:55:58,790
So my question would be when we have the retreat

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02:55:58,790 --> 02:56:03,330
What we really come together and that's my thing is that we need to come together

2046
02:56:03,330 --> 02:56:10,750
We need to come together. So we could make sound decisions for our city and community and for our citizens

2047
02:56:11,810 --> 02:56:20,110
And the hostile environment. Yes, it's here. It's a hostile environment because it goes deeper than what we say in up here

2048
02:56:20,110 --> 02:56:23,570
Some of the wounds are deeper. I don't have the getting to

2049
02:56:24,930 --> 02:56:31,730
what they are or how deep they are but they are deep. And so I think that we are

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02:56:31,730 --> 02:56:37,730
grown enough or mature enough to say, to not to be selfish and say, okay, I'll

2051
02:56:37,730 --> 02:56:42,810
lay those down. I mean, is that too much to ask that you just can lay down

2052
02:56:42,810 --> 02:56:47,010
yourself as ways and the way that you feel about each other, for the best of the

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02:56:47,010 --> 02:56:52,030
community, it breaks my heart. And I'm being real at night, it breaks my heart, to

2054
02:56:52,030 --> 02:56:57,170
We are growing and we are adults and we cannot get along even for the city

2055
02:56:59,380 --> 02:57:01,440
and make sound decisions for the city

2056
02:57:01,440 --> 02:57:05,740
So if we're going to have a retreat let's have a real retreat

2057
02:57:06,240 --> 02:57:09,820
Let's have a retreat to where for real we're going to come together

2058
02:57:09,820 --> 02:57:12,180
We're going to lay down our animosity

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02:57:13,040 --> 02:57:19,240
We're going to lay down all of the problems and the issues that we have against each other because they go deep

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02:57:20,060 --> 02:57:27,400
and get along. So that we can be effective as a council. That's my part.

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02:57:30,060 --> 02:57:34,480
Councilmember Nushkin. Thank you, Mr. Murders. This is my second time.

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02:57:35,120 --> 02:57:43,400
As I stated earlier, a retreat is fine. However, an individual has to make a choice.

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02:57:43,840 --> 02:57:51,620
Councilwoman Brown and I extended all of branches to each other with that happen to go to a retreat.

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02:57:51,620 --> 02:57:58,220
with that happen to have someone to come in and tell us and this happened because we made a

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02:57:58,220 --> 02:58:04,760
choice that we are wanted to work together. Matter of fact we have a project that we're working

2066
02:58:04,760 --> 02:58:11,980
on now that you were here about in the future. So if I got to have an adult to tell me right

2067
02:58:11,980 --> 02:58:17,180
from wrong and when we should be telling our kids right from wrong and our grandkids right from

2068
02:58:17,180 --> 02:58:23,220
a retreat is not going to change your character, the person, that's an individual who they are.

2069
02:58:23,560 --> 02:58:25,880
You have to have a wheel to want to change.

2070
02:58:26,660 --> 02:58:30,680
So trying to dig in why you like me, you don't like me, that's child's play.

2071
02:58:31,120 --> 02:58:34,540
What you need to do is separate that when you get on the diet.

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02:58:34,900 --> 02:58:36,160
One, don't end the ruptured.

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02:58:36,780 --> 02:58:39,640
Two, don't make flour and marks about each other.

2074
02:58:39,880 --> 02:58:45,200
It's just simple, petty stuff that we can do, set our own self reflection.

2075
02:58:45,200 --> 02:58:52,120
And once we realized that we can work together on our own and try to test it to see if it works,

2076
02:58:52,400 --> 02:58:58,480
taking account of building for our self and our action, we won't be having to discourage our retreat.

2077
02:58:58,920 --> 02:59:04,380
But it's an individual choice, and that's what we have free wheel that was given to everyone

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02:59:04,380 --> 02:59:11,360
to do right, respect, and love each other. And if you choose not to do it, a retreat is not going to change your character overnight.

2079
02:59:11,980 --> 02:59:18,240
I can honestly say I look forward to working with Council Member Brian on the project that is

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02:59:18,240 --> 02:59:23,160
of the good of the residents that we serve and you will be here from us.

2081
02:59:23,740 --> 02:59:24,460
Thank you.

2082
02:59:27,100 --> 02:59:29,700
Thank you.

2083
02:59:30,680 --> 02:59:34,880
And what we're experiencing right now is actually the purpose of what I feel is the purpose

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02:59:34,880 --> 02:59:40,120
of retreat, which would be against strategic visioning and, again, understanding or communication

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02:59:40,120 --> 02:59:40,760
styles.

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02:59:40,760 --> 02:59:44,940
that causes a lot of what the discord is that's been referenced across the aisle.

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02:59:44,980 --> 02:59:48,720
So I do think it is important. It's not about changing character, but it's about learning

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02:59:48,720 --> 02:59:54,160
communication styles and how to best communicate effectively. Mr. Cagle, should we decide to do

2089
02:59:54,160 --> 02:59:59,980
something like this? Who sets the agenda for that? And do we set the agenda and then that topics that we

2090
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:09,740
Would you like to have moderate it? Sure, a couple of ways you can do it. The mayor could set it. You could have an agenda item in a future council meeting where you set your agenda.

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Thank you.

2092
03:00:16,320 --> 03:00:27,420
Okay. Well, council, I thank you for the discussion. I appreciate that. We will move on to citizens comments, non agenda items.

2093
03:00:27,420 --> 03:00:33,440
It's time for citizen comments on items that are not listed on the agenda.

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03:00:34,240 --> 03:00:38,600
For the meeting tonight, citizens will have three minutes to speak.

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03:00:39,180 --> 03:00:44,860
Comments on the dissection are limited to the first 10 members of the public to sign

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a sign of the speak.

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Mayor and Council will not discuss items that are not on the agenda.

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nor respond other than response, but then possible offer a brief statement or Pacific

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03:01:01,960 --> 03:01:10,260
factual information or proposed to place an item on the agenda for a future meeting.

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Madam City Secretary, please call them.

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03:01:14,420 --> 03:01:15,760
We have four speakers.

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Our speaker is Michael Furnino.

2103
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This

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is kind of...

2105
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DevTails off of what the mayor was just talking about earlier and several of you about communication, which I didn't know was going to come up.

2106
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And I put that on on my form to speak for this topic.

2107
03:01:49,120 --> 03:01:54,560
First off, when it comes to communication, I'm noticing a switch to a different email account.

2108
03:01:54,940 --> 03:02:01,860
I put read receipts, and I'm astounded as to how many of you, especially you, Mr. Mayor, don't actually read my emails.

2109
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nor do any of you respond to my emails?

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Well, the exception of you.

2111
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I've got one response, but there again,

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when it comes to transparency and accountability,

2113
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you just voted to spend a lot of our money.

2114
03:02:21,010 --> 03:02:24,750
And my general theme on accountability on this is,

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where I said, tighten up your budgets,

2116
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you voted to grab our money, so now you have our money

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hostage for the next fiscal year,

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in the word as fiscal, not physical, as you have that all the choices from here forward is a reflection

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of what you've committed to. I would suggest I many others have had this conversation from time

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to time over the years we've noticed that members of staff present all of these things are about

2121
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80% done and then they're looking for funding to get it done and approve and all that and we the

2122
03:02:58,790 --> 03:03:06,230
people, never got any heads up on what it was, and I'm getting tired of that. I really am.

2123
03:03:06,670 --> 03:03:11,730
I mean, I'm not saying that the staff shouldn't be doing any work, but how about we get a list

2124
03:03:11,730 --> 03:03:18,290
of what do the people want spent? What projects do we prioritize? Maybe meet somewhere in the middle

2125
03:03:18,290 --> 03:03:25,030
on that. But this, oh, well, the staff work really hard and the job's 90% done, and they just need

2126
03:03:25,030 --> 03:03:30,570
final approval from you, or I'm from, I'm going to ask, who asked you to start this job

2127
03:03:30,570 --> 03:03:35,590
meaninglessly, anyway? I mean, you should be driving the staff's task, not the other way around.

2128
03:03:36,130 --> 03:03:37,150
Who works for whom?

2129
03:03:39,380 --> 03:03:45,340
You boss, they employ. That's that's relationship that is long since

2130
03:03:45,340 --> 03:03:50,580
been forgotten around here. You drive the agenda, you drive the priorities. I mean, you gear it

2131
03:03:50,580 --> 03:03:54,280
for us, one where the other, what we see in the streets,

2132
03:03:54,740 --> 03:03:58,160
not getting repaved, projects not getting done.

2133
03:03:58,440 --> 03:04:01,120
But again, you need to be driving the agenda.

2134
03:04:02,320 --> 03:04:03,560
You need to be setting the priorities.

2135
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Dial the clock back, the grocery store issue.

2136
03:04:09,260 --> 03:04:10,820
You're supposed to be driving EDC.

2137
03:04:10,980 --> 03:04:12,720
We just kept throwing money at them.

2138
03:04:13,040 --> 03:04:14,400
Don't worry, you've bothered to follow up,

2139
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took it on faith.

2140
03:04:16,040 --> 03:04:16,980
Where are we with that?

2141
03:04:19,270 --> 03:04:23,210
I've had conversation with council member

2142
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about the grocery store even prior to all of that, but think about what you're going to do with

2143
03:04:27,470 --> 03:04:31,650
our money that if you have it, be responsible, be fiscally responsible.

2144
03:04:36,140 --> 03:04:36,920
Madam City Secretary.

2145
03:04:39,020 --> 03:04:41,760
Next speaker is Dr. Sue Nisey Croft.

2146
03:04:54,210 --> 03:04:59,970
Council Member City Manager, KDC, and Fellow Citizens, for years we have

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We have talked about the need for the grocery store on the north side of Colleen. The city council has already

2148
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getting KDC directive to prioritize bringing that grocery store to North Colleen. Today, something different

2149
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is happening. The citizens aren't waiting, we are organizing. On Saturday, September 5th from 1 to 3 p.m., North Colleen residents will

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03:05:22,180 --> 03:05:27,940
the first official steering committee meeting for the North Side Cooperative Market, a community

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03:05:27,940 --> 03:05:33,260
different effort to explore building a sustainable grocery solution for North Colleen.

2152
03:05:34,000 --> 03:05:40,580
More than 2,500 people viewed our initial announcement and 25 plus clean residents have already

2153
03:05:40,580 --> 03:05:47,120
volunteered to help do the work. Tonight I would like to publicly invite KDC City staff members

2154
03:05:47,120 --> 03:05:53,260
and this council of community organization and business leaders, potential partners and

2155
03:05:53,260 --> 03:05:56,920
interested residents to attend our September to 5th meeting.

2156
03:05:57,380 --> 03:05:59,840
This is not about competing with KADC.

2157
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It's about collaboration.

2158
03:06:02,620 --> 03:06:08,580
KADC has given a direct, has been given a directive to help bring a grocery store to

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Northside Colleen.

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The citizens have independently organized around that same objective, so perhaps it's time

2161
03:06:15,940 --> 03:06:20,400
with those two efforts to meet instead of KDC working on one side

2162
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and the citizens working on the other.

2163
03:06:23,140 --> 03:06:25,240
Let's sit at the same table and ask.

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03:06:25,480 --> 03:06:28,500
One can KEDC, the city, the business community,

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03:06:28,740 --> 03:06:31,620
and the people of North Colleen accomplish together

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03:06:31,620 --> 03:06:34,680
that none of us have been able to accomplish separately.

2167
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Our first steering committee meeting will be held Saturday,

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October to fifth from 1 to 3 p.m.

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at the New Life Village Suite B. Thank you Mayor for putting together that

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faith event I did connect with them during that time.

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At 704, the East Vet Trans Memorial Boulevard in Colleen, we aren't coming to that meeting

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03:06:59,280 --> 03:07:05,540
claiming to have all the answers. We're coming prepared to work and we're inviting everyone who has

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a legitimate interest in finally solving North-Cling grocery access problem to come work with us.

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And I hope to see interest parties there so that we can move this forward.

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03:07:19,640 --> 03:07:20,700
I thank you.

2176
03:07:25,990 --> 03:07:27,350
Councilmember Nushkin.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council.

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I just wanted to add to that Dr. Fallima Brown Minister Fallima Brown started a co-op working

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with the city council and also with Mr. Cago and he has already laid the foundation for

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co-op. He acts for people too and I think maybe this was a year ago and I know I spoke

2181
03:07:52,450 --> 03:07:57,950
to him recently when this came up maybe last month and he stated that there are continued

2182
03:07:57,950 --> 03:08:02,810
looking for people to join. So one of the recommendations was

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good. I think that's all. So I just want to remind this is a

2184
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consistent comments on non agenda items and so any statement should

2185
03:08:13,410 --> 03:08:16,910
be a very brief factual in response to a question, but not a

2186
03:08:16,910 --> 03:08:23,850
discussion or anything. I'm just giving a recommendation. Let me cut

2187
03:08:23,850 --> 03:08:30,090
It's short, then. Mr. Fallen Brown started it and I would reach out to him to see how far he's

2188
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gotten. Thank you. Madam City Secretary.

2189
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Next speaker is Anka Nega.

2190
03:08:42,260 --> 03:08:42,880
Thank you, Council.

2191
03:08:45,000 --> 03:08:52,200
I'm here on behalf of several citizens that reach out to me for help. One of them is the owner,

2192
03:08:52,200 --> 03:09:02,420
Gizmo and I pull out open records and I saw the email from Mr. Cagel that he sent to you in response to that article

2193
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And Mr. Cagel says that for owners that cannot afford the impound and boarding fees, we work out payment arrangements through municipal court. That's excellent except

2194
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They don't do that. Mr. Kagels telling you that they do that. They don't. Gizmo was not.

2195
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He's most owner was not off for that. They flat out refused.

2196
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She had no idea they were going to charge her that high of a fee.

2197
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They flat out refused to give the dog back.

2198
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And then they gave her the wrong information and of course.

2199
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And so they kept the dogs several days longer and then they gave it for free to rescue.

2200
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So they didn't even collect a fee. Just a day I was contacted by the owners of some

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pets that they were saved by the help of the police department from a house fire at

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on Brando.

2203
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And if you can find out who the police officer is, they were very grateful for the help they got. Brando Lane, lot 194. The police make sure that the animals are, well, one pet didn't make it, but the others made it, they were taking to the shelter.

2204
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and several days later the shelter made them pay six hundred six hundred sixty dollars

2205
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which they didn't have. They're extremely desperate. Again they were not offered payment

2206
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arrangements. They were going to keep the pets. So I'm not sure what Mr. Cagle is saying

2207
03:10:42,260 --> 03:10:46,880
when he's telling you, and someone's great, except it's not true.

2208
03:10:50,900 --> 03:10:56,520
So in the first case, okay, Gizmo got out, it's the owner's fault, I understand.

2209
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In this case, the house burned down how cruel do you have to be to say, look, do

2210
03:11:04,660 --> 03:11:12,040
bad, you give us money, or you lose your pets, and after the police were so kind and

2211
03:11:12,040 --> 03:11:20,400
So nice to these people, and then they go to the shelter and boom, their desperate, desperate,

2212
03:11:20,440 --> 03:11:25,940
even now they just can't believe that the shelter would do that to them.

2213
03:11:26,260 --> 03:11:33,120
And the same with Gizmo, they had so many opportunities to give that animal back to the owner.

2214
03:11:33,740 --> 03:11:34,620
Very easy.

2215
03:11:34,900 --> 03:11:37,080
And they knew that they wanted the dog back.

2216
03:11:37,080 --> 03:11:43,220
I understand they did something you're you're correct, but doesn't mean you confiscate the animal

2217
03:11:44,020 --> 03:11:49,200
Just find them, but not like flat out confiscate. Thank you

2218
03:11:54,300 --> 03:12:02,520
Mr. Mayor the next speaker is our online speaker. Excuse me just for a minute. Council member Kimball

2219
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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr.

2220
03:12:07,560 --> 03:12:21,310
As a matter of fact, to stay within the guidelines, can you find out how often the court provides owners of dogs that are taken to pay the fees as part of the court finds?

2221
03:12:22,350 --> 03:12:22,550
Thank you,

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sir.

2223
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Madam Chair, Secretary.

2224
03:12:28,270 --> 03:12:32,550
Mr. Mayor, the next speaker is Heather McMillan.

2225
03:12:36,730 --> 03:12:37,650
Good evening, Congressman.

2226
03:12:38,270 --> 03:12:38,710
Thank you.

2227
03:12:39,590 --> 03:12:45,170
good evening council. So I really had no intentions to speak again this

2228
03:12:45,170 --> 03:12:50,570
evening, but something was brought up about code enforcement and the

2229
03:12:50,570 --> 03:12:55,710
connect app. So I feel this would be a good time to address the issue and I

2230
03:12:55,710 --> 03:13:01,010
want to thank you allow for me to do so via Zoom. The corporate role, the

2231
03:13:01,010 --> 03:13:05,650
councilwoman spoke of in my name is in my neighborhood and the councilman

2232
03:13:05,650 --> 03:13:12,670
said we have an app, you are current. And yes, I've used it and reported that

2233
03:13:12,670 --> 03:13:17,710
Carport role that the councilwoman spoke of along with a trailer on the street

2234
03:13:17,710 --> 03:13:25,310
debris in a yard and broken sidewalks many times on that and guess what? That

2235
03:13:25,310 --> 03:13:29,570
carpet is still there on that sidewalk two years later after being recorded

2236
03:13:29,570 --> 03:13:36,610
repeatedly. So I'm flowing, quote enforcement under the bus. I have spoken to

2237
03:13:36,610 --> 03:13:40,250
code enforcement about this situation when they came out to a different home

2238
03:13:40,250 --> 03:13:44,710
in my neighborhood and he said the cart pretty well is of his department. I

2239
03:13:44,710 --> 03:13:49,150
needed a contact solid waste apartment. The trailer is the police departments

2240
03:13:49,150 --> 03:13:54,530
issue. The broken sidewalk is public works department. So I needed to contact

2241
03:13:54,530 --> 03:14:01,730
them. So, now that I just said that, I now need to contact four different departments.

2242
03:14:03,750 --> 03:14:09,650
Why are these departments communicating with each other? The app isn't working and now it's

2243
03:14:09,650 --> 03:14:16,570
the citizens' responsibility to be doing all of that, contacting four departments under one

2244
03:14:16,570 --> 03:14:23,210
complaint at one location. What is the point of code enforcement and this app for? If it's not being

2245
03:14:23,210 --> 03:14:28,130
utilize properly. Please look into the workings of the app and the cross

2246
03:14:28,130 --> 03:14:32,230
communication of departments instead of passing it on to citizens to tackle it and

2247
03:14:32,230 --> 03:14:37,190
have to reach out to everybody. Also, I must note, it was reported through a

2248
03:14:37,190 --> 03:14:41,450
councilwoman's city email on that app and it was finally partially addressed

2249
03:14:41,450 --> 03:14:46,610
yet that corporate role is still there today. So how does it look to me as a

2250
03:14:46,610 --> 03:14:50,970
citizen that I can also remember gets action before a citizen on the same

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03:14:50,970 --> 03:14:59,970
complaint that I've been filing for over two years. I would like you all to consider this item on the agenda for future meetings to find some

2252
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:12,140
Pollutions on the communication disconnections between departments and the apps. And the use of the distribution of this information to the departments and how it effectively could make things better for the staff and citizens.

2253
03:15:13,120 --> 03:15:19,440
We should not be having to be contacting every department and there's no direction for us to do so.

2254
03:15:19,440 --> 03:15:26,420
Also, I'll point out that code enforcement officer has only been in my neighborhood in three times in two years.

2255
03:15:27,340 --> 03:15:34,040
And there is violations they never drive around, especially when we're paying extra money to have them there.

2256
03:15:34,560 --> 03:15:38,420
So again, please put this on your agenda features.

2257
03:15:39,240 --> 03:15:39,620
Thank you.

2258
03:15:42,360 --> 03:15:42,700
Thank you.

2259
03:15:45,520 --> 03:15:46,720
City Secretary.

2260
03:15:49,550 --> 03:15:52,690
The final speaker is Leo Gugaisen.

2261
03:16:00,830 --> 03:16:03,250
Good evening again, Mr. Mayor. Madam Mayor.

2262
03:16:03,550 --> 03:16:05,630
Council Member City Manager.

2263
03:16:06,770 --> 03:16:10,410
I wasn't really going to speak this evening about anything on this matter,

2264
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but after the last item on the agenda and the discussion that was made

2265
03:16:16,870 --> 03:16:21,350
by all parties, I have to admit that was pretty darn good.

2266
03:16:23,850 --> 03:16:29,470
Every spoke to a piece about this retreat, or whatever it was going to be called, work

2267
03:16:29,470 --> 03:16:30,470
shop, whatever.

2268
03:16:31,530 --> 03:16:36,290
Because I remember in the late days back when we were across the street over there at the

2269
03:16:36,290 --> 03:16:44,190
utility collection office, two sitting council members stand up, and we're going to fight each

2270
03:16:44,190 --> 03:16:49,530
other right there in front of them, God hadn't country there, you know, and he talked about

2271
03:16:49,530 --> 03:16:54,930
embarrassment and actually another thing is going on but I have to admit and I might be getting

2272
03:16:54,930 --> 03:17:03,730
soft to my old age but please don't repeat that. What I saw just that one little discussion,

2273
03:17:04,870 --> 03:17:12,970
you know that is what we need more of open discussion and I have to agree with one part of the

2274
03:17:12,970 --> 03:17:18,170
body that we don't need a dog. We're adults. We don't need another adult to tell us how to do things.

2275
03:17:18,170 --> 03:17:25,170
we should know that by now, we're all up there, we've all retired from one of two jobs already.

2276
03:17:26,290 --> 03:17:34,510
We have the experience. It's just getting together and willing to talk about openly on what's going on.

2277
03:17:34,970 --> 03:17:41,130
And I think that I really surprised at that last item of discussion where it was open.

2278
03:17:41,130 --> 03:17:52,090
Everybody spoke through mine, no one got their feelings hurt, there was no repeat of that one incident where two council members wanted to fight back there in front of everybody.

2279
03:17:53,750 --> 03:18:04,970
One party admitted that they have extended an olive branch to another party and they are working together on a project, which is good, that's the way it should be.

2280
03:18:04,970 --> 03:18:11,430
That's what we need. That's what we, the people want to see. We don't want to see a pair of

2281
03:18:11,430 --> 03:18:18,870
our representatives arguing with each other. That's not the image we want to see, and that's what

2282
03:18:18,870 --> 03:18:24,190
sets a bad tone to people who have said in the past, they don't come to these meetings because

2283
03:18:24,190 --> 03:18:30,150
everybody argues amongst themselves. But I just want to say congratulations and if I was wearing

2284
03:18:30,150 --> 03:18:36,290
had I would take it off to y'all for that last item there. How y'all handled that and what y'all said.

2285
03:18:37,310 --> 03:18:41,550
I think that was that was real good and that's what I would like to see more of and I'm sure

2286
03:18:41,550 --> 03:18:46,790
other residents would like to see more of that too. And again thank you for your time and y'all have a good

2287
03:18:46,790 --> 03:18:48,390
evening. Thank you sir.

2288
03:18:50,830 --> 03:18:55,290
There are no more speakers. Thank you City Secretary thank you for your help.

2289
03:18:55,870 --> 03:19:03,290
Council member Nash King. Mr. Mayor, there's no more discussion. I like to make a motion to adjourn.

2290
03:19:04,370 --> 03:19:05,390
Is there a second?

2291
03:19:08,310 --> 03:19:08,550
Is there a second?

2292
03:19:11,050 --> 03:19:13,370
Okay, second by mapo Jim, may I all in favour?

2293
03:19:14,010 --> 03:19:14,490
Aye.

2294
03:19:16,700 --> 03:19:18,840
Okay. Yes, ma'am. I'm coming.