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[0:03] All right, we'll call the order. Monday night, the meeting city council walked out to the 1st, 2020, 7 o'clock. If you would go ahead and call the roll tonight. See if we have a call in this open. Kevin Strength.
[0:24] Here's Chuck Bay. Yeah. There's Shipley. David Hill, I'm here. All right. Call the order. Would you please rise for the invocation?
[0:42] We know our hearts, we know our requests, and we pray for our nation tonight and pray
[0:48] for a spirit of peace that would come over our nation in a spirit of reconciliation.
[1:01] We were fighting and people that had been infected out of the resort and that they recovered.
[1:10] I would pray for our staff to keep them safe during the time and specifically for our
[1:17] city secretary to give her energy and bring him to her body.
[1:22] We thank you for that and thank you, Mrs. Neymatt.
[1:24] and they met.
[1:26] Please, thank you, live.
[1:29] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
[1:33] from where I should have been.4888.
[1:36] The use of
[1:37] the kinship
[1:42] of persons,
[1:46] the use of
[1:47] the kinship of persons, the use of
[1:49] the kinship of persons, the use of
[1:51] the kinship of persons. We are the
[1:52] ones that have been on for a long
[1:54] and a long time.
[1:55] Thank you very much.
[2:00] Item number 4 is our consent agenda.
[2:03] All matters listed under item number 4 are considered to be retained by the city council
[2:12] and be enacted by one motion.
[2:14] There will not be a separate discussion of these items.
[2:17] The approval of the consent agenda offers the mayor of city managers to execute all matters
[2:23] necessary to implement each item.
[2:27] Any item may be removed in the consent agenda for separate discussion and consideration
[2:32] by any member of the City Council.
[2:38] There's motion to approve consent agenda.
[2:44] Motion, second, please vote, Ms. Olson, Kevin Strength,
[2:50] set, baby,
[2:53] Ms. Shipley, and David
[2:56] Hill's eye.
[2:57] Thank you very much, I have it, consent agenda passes.
[3:00] Item number five,
[3:03] consider authorizing the mayor and designate a file application for
[3:08] funds from the coronavirus fund, or any other funds provided grants for coronavirus-related
[3:16] cost including all understanding and assurance contained therein, and act in connection with
[3:22] the application and provide such additional information as may be required.
[3:34] All right, we have a move of motion in a second, Ms. Olson.
[3:42] Ms. Olson,
[3:47] Kevin Strenke.
[3:51] All right.
[3:51] Chuck Bady.
[3:55] Meredith Shipley.
[3:56] All right.
[3:57] And David Hill.
[3:57] All right.
[3:58] Adam Passes.
[3:59] Thank you very much.
[4:01] All right.
[4:02] Item number six, seven,
[4:09] ten, and twelve, right?
[4:12] Eight, eight, eight, and eight, all five.
[4:15] So we're going to do all these, John, and then we'll take the individual action only to one, right?
[4:23] Yes, sir.
[4:24] So we have four specific use permits before you receive them, presented by the Walks at UISD.
[4:30] These four S.U.P.'s are for electronic message signs for elementary schools, for wedge
[4:36] work, felt-y, cliff, and marvin.
[4:40] Each one does meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance.
[4:44] They have the electronic sign there, which is stationary remainder.
[4:49] They all meet the height and width requirements, they all have the setbacks met for each individual
[4:54] school.
[4:55] So each one does meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance, all four of them, and we
[4:59] to make a recommendation of approval for each.
[5:02] All right, thank you.
[5:07] The will take item number six.
[5:09] We are first one.
[5:10] We're open to public hearing.
[5:13] Jacob Perry is on the line.
[5:15] I don't know if he has anything to say to you is on the line.
[5:18] All right.
[5:19] As the public hearing know, anybody
[5:21] would like to speak for or against can do that.
[5:26] All right, hearing none, we're closed to public hearing.
[5:28] We're half for a motion for approval.
[5:30] We have a motion and a second. Please vote, Ms. Olsen.
[5:36] Hi, Kevin.
[5:39] Hi.
[5:40] Mr. Dady.
[5:43] Hello, Shipley.
[5:45] And David Hilden.
[5:45] Thank you very much.
[5:47] Item number eight.
[5:50] Public, open public hearing of the same item.
[5:53] And if anybody would like to make a comment,
[5:59] they say so.
[6:00] We'll close public hearing. We'll go to item number nine,
[6:03] which is to consider an emotion for approval.
[6:06] Nobel.
[6:07] So, he'll move, so.
[6:10] So, second phase vote in the council.
[6:14] Mr. Strank,
[6:17] Dr. Boy,
[6:20] Ms. Schiffling.
[6:22] Fail toopp.
[6:22] Ai, thank you very much.
[6:25] Item number ten, open public hearings for the same item.
[6:32] Anyone like to make comment?
[6:36] All right, hearing none.
[6:37] We'll close the public hearing.
[6:38] and we'll go to item number 11 and entertain a motion.
[6:46] Motion.
[6:47] Second, please vote.
[6:48] That's all from Kevin,
[6:53] Chuck, me and Shipley.
[6:57] David, yeah, thank you, aye.
[6:59] Item number 12, open public hearing on item number 12.
[7:07] And if anybody has any comments,
[7:12] hearing them
[7:12] close the public hearing and we'll go to item 13,
[7:14] and consider an approval of, I haven't told you to have a motion, please.
[7:21] Motion, motion, second, please vote, Ms. Olsen,
[7:27] getting strength,
[7:31] get ready,
[7:34] miss you, please.
[7:36] The baby's got eyes,
[7:41] and that is all of those, that right?
[7:49] All right, Ms. Kerry, if you're on the line, you got your sign.
[7:52] Here's your sign, I guess is what they were saying.
[7:54] So thank you very much.
[7:58] All right.
[8:01] Item number
[8:04] 14 has been continued
[8:11] to the 15th, June 15th.
[8:16] Okay.
[8:18] All right.
[8:19] So we'll go to item number 17.
[8:23] Consider authorizing an oversized participation
[8:26] I agree with blockhead to a 280-7 blockhead to Mr. Bayley, are you going to?
[8:33] Yes sir.
[8:33] Lane, close with that is.
[8:36] Mayor, council, the item you have before you tonight for consideration with the 287
[8:41] blockhead to L.P. for the oversized participation is basically there's two items you're 17 and 18 are
[8:49] companion items. The 17 is the item we're asking for approval to funding or I'm sorry for
[8:57] participation of and item 18 is the funding companion. So 17 is for the approximately 1160 linear
[9:07] feed of 16 inch diameter waterline over sizing from 12 inch diameter in the saddlebrook phase 2A
[9:15] addition. It's with the two 87 walks of HLPE in the amount of $90,960 and in the companion item
[9:28] I guess we make me want to vote on this separately, but the companion item is just the reimbursement resolution
[9:34] where we would be funding this project or reimbursing ourselves from the 2019-2020
[9:41] certificate of obligation bond sales that did happen or were proposing to have later this summer
[9:50] and I'm available for any questions you might have. Oh right thank you. Any questions from Mr. Bailey?
[9:55] All right,
[9:58] hearing none, we'll ask for motion for approval on item number 17 of motion and the second, please vote in the second.
[10:09] Get them strength.
[10:12] Jack Bayley.
[10:15] Mayor Lyshipley.
[10:17] And Mayor Hill.
[10:18] I've all eyes have it.
[10:20] And then item number 18 is the reimbursement.
[10:22] Is the motion for that to please.
[10:25] Move to move.
[10:27] Second.
[10:28] Motion the second, please vote in the second.
[10:31] have them strength, Mr.
[10:37] Chipley, mayor Hill, thank you, as well.
[10:42] All right, and then Adam, number 19 has been outstanding.
[10:46] And I'm taking this probably year six, right?
[10:48] Yes, sir.
[10:49] I'll feel that one, too.
[10:51] The item 19 is for consideration is our sanitary sewer system point repair contract
[10:57] with G2 contractors, and that's in the amount of $107,320 or $0.04, and this is for repairs
[11:09] that's been identified in the sewer system from our 2018, our 2018-2019 smoke testing project
[11:20] to be paid for out of our 2019-20 O&M projects, and we've got those dollars
[11:27] budgeted in this year's Operation of Maintenance funds, and
[11:33] I'm available to
[11:34] answer any questions you may have on that one.
[11:36] Anyone have a question from Mr. Layton?
[11:57] Yes, sir,
[12:01] yes, sir, this is our fifth phase of smoke testing and it's some of the larger
[12:14] items that's been identified. Staff has repaired several of these items but it's
[12:21] time to bring in some contract help now to finish them up.
[12:26] So we would appreciate
[12:27] council.
[12:35] Well thank you sir. Thank you. Anyone else?
[12:40] I don't need to motion for approval
[13:05] I'm going to pass this, we're going to pass that,
[13:13] yeah, good evening mayor and council.
[13:16] So, yes, the item in front of you tonight is a supplemental appropriation to the Trinity River Authority or
[13:21] TRA contract for Bargwell Reservoir Maintenance.
[13:24] It's the amount of $56,000.
[13:26] This is an annually planned expense.
[13:29] And every year the TRA provides us the budget they get from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during our budget process.
[13:36] However, it can be subject to change.
[13:38] Unfortunately, we received a revised budget amount from the TRA after the city had finalized their budget for this year.
[13:44] So this supplemental appropriation will be needed to meet our maintenance obligation for the remainder of the fiscal year.
[13:51] However, we did receive a check last month for $75,000 from the TRA.
[13:55] It's a credit from last year's budget, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn't use all the funds.
[14:01] They needed so this settlement will more than offset the request tonight.
[14:06] I'm available to answer any questions, thank you.
[14:07] Thank you.
[14:22] Okay, thank you for the refund, so we'll find a vote on that need a motion to accept that please motion and a second please vote in the
[14:32] All right.
[14:34] Kevin Strenke.
[14:36] All right.
[14:38] Chuck Bayley.
[14:41] Mayor Lew Shipley.
[14:44] David Hill.
[14:45] There you go.
[14:46] I have it.
[14:46] Appreciate it.
[14:47] Thank you.
[14:49] I get to sound item 21.
[14:52] For comments on Mayor of City Council attorney
[14:55] and the city manager.
[14:58] Channel, we'll start off with you since you're to our left.
[15:04] The only thing I'd like to say, and I know we've said it a million times, but Thomas is actually here to not to be able to hear it come from us, but for me anyway. But I just appreciate everything that Thomas and all the folks over at the OC's been doing, Megan and Monica and Gary, they've been helping out and working a lot of hours and Thomas is always working in the evening time. We get text from him all throughout the weekend and he's constantly calling.
[15:29] me an updating me and all throughout the day and like I said on the weekends and everything else I'm
[15:35] always trying to get him to go home and rest but obviously you see him here at council meeting tonight
[15:40] which I told him he didn't have to come but he was he wanted to make sure he was here because we had
[15:44] a couple of items on the agenda but I just appreciate everything Thomas has been doing and and all those
[15:50] folks over there and the mayor and mayor procune for their assistance and guidance they've been
[15:55] providing you there as well. Thanks. Thank you. We didn't really discuss the funds that were turning in for the
[16:07] re-inversion of the site, but during our time at Kennedy?
[16:13] I mean, because most people don't know that. We had a county of them at a 575.
[16:19] Right. That's what we're doing. Yeah, so the items that were on the agenda tonight,
[16:23] I can talk about funding and things like that,
[16:27] which is one of the things that Thomas and those folks
[16:30] over there are tracking for, it's our expenses.
[16:33] We've been buying a lot of PPE,
[16:35] different supplies for our employees and operations here,
[16:39] but also we've been providing packets
[16:42] to some of the nursing homes when they need them.
[16:45] So we have those on hand and some of the testing
[16:48] that was mandated down from the governor
[16:51] for the fire department's Thomas spearheaded that and got a third party contractor to come
[16:57] in to do that testing so that we wouldn't have to, you know, unnecessarily expose our
[17:02] firefighters for that and get a third party contractor to do it and it was really at
[17:07] only a slightly increase over what it would have cost us just to take them to lab to get
[17:12] the analysis.
[17:13] So that's why we had to do the budget amendment to put some more funds into that account
[17:19] the paperwork, but then on the other hand, we authorize the mayor to do the paperwork
[17:24] and submit so we can get reimbursement because there's federal funding out there through
[17:29] the Coronavirus Relief Fund with the CARES Act and the public assistance where we should
[17:36] be able to get 100% funding back on these items.
[17:41] We've got just through the coronavirus relief fund that's $2.1 million
[17:49] essentially is what's allotted for walks of hatching.
[17:52] And then we get it up front for that is $425,000.
[17:56] So that we'll get that.
[17:58] We can start using that pretty much immediately.
[18:00] Well, once the funds get here, we've got to submit all of our information
[18:04] and show that we've got the approved moves and everything.
[18:06] But then we'll get that money and it just has to be for eligible expenses and they have a list of the things are eligible
[18:14] So it essentially has to be for coronavirus-related items public health medical those types of things
[18:21] You can't be for item. They had already budgeted for
[18:25] Exempted for example like over time for our first responders and things like that
[18:30] Could possibly be covered
[18:33] It should, we'll see, but really it's those unexpected and unbudgeted items that we're
[18:42] required to use those funds on.
[18:45] There are some requirements that come along with that when you look through them.
[18:50] Most of them are things we already do as far as our purchasing requirements and contracting
[18:55] and making sure that we have to meet all of our environmental permits, standards, we
[18:59] you know with air and water and waste water and those types of things but but for the most part
[19:05] it's it's just things that we we already do on a regular basis anyway so as long as we're we're
[19:11] doing the right thing here and we're spending that money on eligible expenses we should be we should
[19:16] be good and and like I said hopefully we'll get a hundred percent refund between the two different
[19:21] funds that are out there. Thank you appreciate that but people don't know what but all that is but
[19:28] but it takes them hours to get that together.
[19:32] And that's what Monica and the rest of them do while they're
[19:36] over there every day, so that's important stuff.
[19:39] So thanks for that, Mark.
[19:42] Thank you, Mayor.
[19:43] I'll just mention real quick.
[19:44] I think I've conveyed this in an email to you all last week.
[19:47] But today, of course, it was the first day
[19:49] we had our doors in Longtrick City Hall.
[19:50] And it certainly was great not only to have city staff
[19:54] back at full strength, but also to see members
[19:56] the public, you know, kind of in those folks that we haven't seen and come down every month
[20:01] and pay the water bills or if you're not in business, we did have a number of folks who utilize
[20:05] the in-person services today and a lot of folks are still staying at home and using the online
[20:11] services which of course is the safest means and actually probably the most efficient.
[20:16] So hopefully folks, people have figured those things out and will utilize those services so it's
[20:20] good to kind of have the doors out a lot and be able to public again and directors came back last
[20:25] week and so where they're getting our second week's
[20:28] having all the records back because we're going to write
[20:30] directions. Thank you, thank you, I should do it.
[20:42] Impressed with being out at the EOC and the work that Thomas
[20:48] and his staff are doing, they are efficient and knowledgeable
[20:53] and we're lucky to have them.
[20:59] So yes, I just had one quick comment and that was it's good to see Lori here again, and
[21:06] can you pray us for her?
[21:10] Sorry, anything you would like to say?
[21:12] No, I appreciate it.
[21:13] Awesome prayers.
[21:14] Yes.
[21:16] All right.
[21:17] I do want to thank you.
[21:18] Have you had anything?
[21:22] Yeah, I wanted to tell Thomas, be sure to say thank you for that.
[21:50] I want to be sure that we include Gary Myers.
[21:55] Gary has been working over there since we got this.
[21:58] of the power started, and he's pretty much getting all of our PPEs together and stuff
[22:05] like that, but he can never find any gowns.
[22:08] So we're calling it nothing, no gown, neither is what we're calling and has a little joke
[22:16] amongst the staff, but it is a labor of love that our emergency people are involved in
[22:25] And while they enjoy what they do,
[22:28] and they're trained for it, it's a dangerous profession.
[22:33] So I pray it's not only with Laurie and her health
[22:38] and getting her strong in the end, but also protecting
[22:41] our fitting, keeping our first responders safe.
[22:45] So as we go through this in the next couple of weeks,
[22:47] I'll just continue to remember that the virus still alive.
[22:53] this. It's still there and we still need to keep our distance and watch your hands
[22:59] and if you want to wear a mask, you ought to wear a mask. And with that, I guess,
[23:04] there's nothing else we'll just be adjourned. Okay? Thank you.