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[0:01] Good evening. Thank you for being here before we call the being door. I'm going to that Tim Rose up with first priority, Tim's going to lead us around the occasion. Thank you, Tim.
[0:09] Yes, sir. Let's pray.
[0:11] Lord, we come before you, God, and we begin just by being grateful. I'm grateful for getting another day, grateful.
[0:17] You brought football back, and we all get things to enjoy, and Lord, we're grateful most of all for Christ.
[0:23] You give us a reason to be here, and you give us a reason to do all we do.
[0:27] But God, we do want to lift up our brothers and our friends in palpinto and all the surrounding areas that are currently dealing with these fires God.
[0:35] And God, it is, it has been so much around our community and so low we pray for protection.
[0:40] But we also pray for rain and some cooler weather.
[0:44] Because Lord, you know that these things are dangerous and it puts people in danger and so God, we pray for your protection but we pray for rain so that we can get back to the normal.
[0:53] God, we trust you. We trust that you're going to take care of all of us. And Lord, we do pray for our city. Lord, for everyone in it.
[1:00] And just that they would be blessed by you. They'd see you each and every day. And the Lord, for this time in meeting,
[1:06] the year will be done. The year wisdom would be in great supply. And the Lord, we would make decisions that follow you.
[1:13] God, we love you so much. We pray that all this in your Sunday. Amen.
[1:16] Jim, thank you again for being here, sir.
[1:19] It is 601 p.m. at this time, I'll call the main daughter,
[1:23] now serve the core and present all council members you're here tonight.
[1:26] Thank you, I'll be here in the near-precious service.
[1:28] I'm three on the agenda as pledges of allegiance to the United States and Texas flags.
[1:32] We live a city by Luke Williams.
[1:49] How
[2:05] to pour in the agenda is out of the community interest we welcome Erin Spotser.
[2:09] Mayor and Council, if you've been looking for an excuse to avoid cooking, stay out
[2:13] pasture bedtime, or generally have plans for the next two weeks, we've got you covered.
[2:18] Here's your items of community interest.
[2:21] Last week, Weatherford Public Library welcomed Michael as part of WTA's Wednesday's Child,
[2:26] a feature that helps spotlight area children helping to find adoptive parents.
[2:30] During his visit, Michael met Pancake the Bearded Dragon and got a special visit from
[2:35] Weatherford Police and Fire Staff, who showed him some of their vehicles.
[2:39] His story, airs tomorrow, September 9th, on WFAA.
[2:45] In Weatherford Firefighter Jacob Diaz, recently completed the 911 Memorial Stair climb at the
[2:50] Comerica Bank Tower in Dallas, climbing 110 flights of stairs and full gear to honor the
[2:55] firefighters and first responders who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.
[3:02] The Parker County Sheriff's, the Parker County Sheriff's possey ranch rodeo returns September 11th
[3:08] and 12th for its 20 second year. The weekend includes ranch rodeo action, a youth
[3:13] growing riding western art show, match horse race, corgi dash, checkwag and supper and live
[3:19] music. Take it's $20 with Friday and $30 for Saturday, see you in the stands.
[3:25] And come hungry on Saturday September 19th for Weatherford ISD, a taste of education at
[3:31] Kangaroo Stadium. Up to 40 chef teams will be serving bite-sized samples, which sounds
[3:37] small until you try to eat your way through all 40. The event runs from 5 to 7 p.m.
[3:42] and benefits weatherford ISD's education foundation.
[3:48] And Fleetwood journey brings the hits of
[3:50] Fleetwood Mac and Journey to Heritage Park on Saturday September 19th from 7 to 9 p.m.
[3:56] You can go your own way, straight to Heritage Park, admission is free.
[4:02] I kept it light on the puns for that one, no.
[4:06] And there's more fun things to do around weatherford.
[4:09] First up, we've got the food park lounge.
[4:11] That returns to Heritage Park tonight from 6 to 9.
[4:14] So once we get out of here, we can all join up over at Heritage Park after this.
[4:18] Then on September 10, the Weatherford Public Library is taking over Annabelle,
[4:22] Yale House for back to school trivia, trivia starts at 630, and yes, this is probably the only
[4:27] back to school event where Drinks are encouraged, and then on Friday, September 11th, Weatherford
[4:32] Parks and Rec is showing hoppers for movies in the park. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and come
[4:37] or leave you've got some great food trucks. For more details on these events, visit experience
[4:41] weatherford.com. And then if you will help me welcome, we have some natural level champions with
[4:50] Tonight, the Weatherford College Broteo team had an outstanding showing at the College National
[4:55] Final Broteo in Casper, Wyoming, earlier this summer.
[4:59] If you'll help.
[5:00] Allow me to welcome Johnny Emmons and the Weatherford College rodeo team up here, give him a round of applause.
[5:17] Thank you very much.
[5:21] There you go, Johnny.
[5:22] Well, first, I want to thank Mayor Pasco for having us out.
[5:25] I saw him as inos here a few weeks ago, and he said, how do we need to have you guys out here?
[5:29] I wrote a lot in our hospital rodeo together, so we've known each other a long time.
[5:34] To the Mayor and the council members, we appreciate you guys recognizing our team.
[5:37] And for those of you that don't know whether for college has the third largest rodeo team in the nation.
[5:44] We are the actually the largest college rodeo team in the nation.
[5:47] We trail Carlton state and Cal Poly state for the biggest team numbers.
[5:53] So, whether for is very well represented, hardly giving my assistant coach was voted coach of the year last year.
[5:58] Our men's team is the remaining reserved national champions.
[6:02] Our women's team finished fifth in the nation.
[6:05] And they're all back and we're looking to do better this year.
[6:09] Congratulations, we'll see you next year too.
[6:10] Thanks.
[6:11] Thank you.
[6:11] Yes, sir.
[6:16] That's it.
[6:22] We have more time.
[6:23] We probably all love to hear some rod-watt rodeo stories from high school.
[6:29] Thank you all for being here.
[6:30] We appreciate the way you represent weather, college, and a city of weather.
[6:33] I'm sure to.
[6:41] Mr. Tom, did you have the answer to the answer?
[6:43] City Council.
[6:44] All right.
[6:45] I would like to hop in real quick, just remember this is the 25th anniversary of 9-11 this week.
[6:51] And, you know, it's just so easy for us to forget things like that that happened.
[6:56] I think we all remember where we were when 9-11 happened.
[7:00] Well, if we were old enough to remember, I suppose we remember someone was maybe not,
[7:04] but it was such a unique time in our country.
[7:06] Something that I was thinking about this week was just how ordinary people on that day did extraordinary things.
[7:12] And there are so many stories of first responders.
[7:17] We're incredibly brave in those moments.
[7:19] And so it just reminds me of the great people that we have working in our community,
[7:25] who are our first responders, people right now fighting fires,
[7:27] a little west of here.
[7:29] And just ordinary people, but doing extraordinary things.
[7:32] Another thing I remember from that time is just how unified our country was after that event.
[7:37] And it's a shame that it takes something so difficult and terrible and horrible
[7:41] to bring us together to remind us that we're all Americans, you know, that we're all part of this great country, and that way, I would just, I'd love to see some of that return to our country, but I don't want to let this week get away without just remembering what happened on 911, and just ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It was an incredible time, and it just reminds me to be grateful for our country and our freedom that we have here in America too.
[8:11] So just want to remind us all about that.
[8:13] Well, we'll set the thank you for that reminder.
[8:15] City Council, any thing else?
[8:18] All right, let's shift down to item five.
[8:19] This is presentations and proclamations.
[8:21] Five A is a proclamation.
[8:23] Design day, September 17th through 23 of 26 as constitution week.
[8:28] In the city of weather for City Council.
[8:30] See a manager.
[8:31] We're going to go on down.
[8:32] Lift winds.
[8:32] It's going to handle this presentation.
[8:53] Thank you.
[8:54] Thank you.
[8:59] All right, we have the National Society
[9:02] daughters of the American Revolution appear to join with us today.
[9:05] So whereas 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
[9:11] which proclaim the fundamental principles that all people are created to equal and are
[9:16] endowed with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[9:21] And whereas 2026 also marks the 239th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the
[9:26] United States, which established the framework of our government and continues to serve
[9:31] has a foundation for protecting the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
[9:36] And whereas Constitution Week provides an opportunity to honor our nation's founding documents,
[9:41] reflect upon the freedoms and responsibilities of citizenship, and recognize the importance
[9:45] of active and informed participation in our government.
[9:49] And whereas Public Law 915 does ignite September 17th through 23rd as Constitution Week,
[9:55] during which the National Society had really daughters of the American Revolution and it's MEP.
[10:00] Members, throughout our community, will celebrate the Constitution and the 2305th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights.
[10:06] Now, therefore, Paul Paskel, Mayor of the City of Weatherford, Texas, on behalf of the City Council and our citizens,
[10:13] do here by proclaim September 17th through 23rd, 26th as Constitution Week.
[10:19] In the City of Weatherford, we encourage all citizens to take time to learn about it and reflect upon the Constitution of the United States,
[10:25] the freedoms and protects and the responsibilities of citizenship.
[10:28] May we continue to honor the principles upon which our nation was founded and recognize the important role each of us plays in preserving them for future generations.
[10:48] Thank you so much for joining us this evening.
[11:15] Thank you all.
[11:17] Thank you very much.
[11:40] Council's moved down to Adam 6 on the agenda approval of the minutes.
[11:44] Six A is considered approval of the minutes of the City Council meeting.
[11:47] I'll August 25th, 2026 and questions your conversation on this.
[11:52] Here's your motion for approval.
[11:54] Mayor Proto and Smith, thank you for that.
[11:56] Second, about Matt Tiskus.
[11:58] Any questions or conversations before we call for a vote?
[12:02] Here you know, let's vote on item six A.
[12:06] He's in the KIA and out of your touch screens.
[12:10] And then it's pass.
[12:12] We'll move down to item seven now,
[12:15] which is regular agenda items.
[12:17] 7A is to hold a public hearing on the proposed admiral and tax rate of 0.392246 for $100 evaluation,
[12:26] including 0.295, 646 for 100 evaluation for operations in maintenance and 0.096 for 100 evaluation for interest in seeking debt service.
[12:41] Good evening, Mayor and members of Council.
[12:45] By state law, we are not required to hold a public hearing on the proposed tax rate, since the rate is less than the no revenue rate.
[12:53] However, we wanted to give our residents an option to address Council about the 26 tax rate if they felt compelled to do so.
[13:01] The notice of tonight's hearing was announced at the last city council meeting on August 25,
[13:05] published in the Weatherford Democrat and placed on the city's website.
[13:12] We will be, tonight, we'll be taking the final two steps in the truth and taxation process.
[13:17] First, by holding the public hearing on the proposed tax rate, and then later this evening, there is a separate item to adopt the tax rate.
[13:25] By state law, the adoption of a rate must be held within seven days of the public hearing.
[13:30] The 26 proposed rate is 0.392246, also you could say it's $39.2246 per $100 of taxable valuation.
[13:45] This rate was used to build the FY27 proposed budget and will provide adequate revenue to meet the needs of the city for the upcoming fiscal year.
[13:53] This is the sixth in the past seven years of adopting and proposing at or below in no new revenue rate.
[14:02] The proposed rate is approximately one cent below the no new revenue rate.
[14:07] The proposed rate will raise less revenue for properties on the role in both the current fiscal year and next fiscal year.
[14:14] I said less revenue. As a reminder, this is largely due to the passing of House Bill 9 and the business personal property exemption that raised that exemption from 2500 to 125,000 per business which pulled approximately 68 million of taxable value off of our tax rules. Fortunately, for the 2026 property tax, your new construction offset the loss almost completely.
[14:39] So we were able to build our budget around a flat tax rate and avoid passing that loss from the commercial tax roll over to our residents.
[14:50] This proposed rate means that the city is not proposing to increase property taxes and lastly is below the maximum rate that would trigger an election.
[15:06] All right, before the hearing is open to the public, are there any questions that I can answer at this time?
[15:12] Any questions for Lindsay Mine? All right, we appreciate you being here. Thank you.
[15:18] We are, do you have the public hearing posted? Although not required, we did post one. We want to give people opportunity to speak.
[15:25] You are a customer if we want to hear what you have to say here in the comments this year. So at this time, we'll open up the public hearing on item 7A.
[15:31] If there's anybody like to speak on this item specifically, now is your opportunity. The public hearing is open.
[15:41] Thank
[15:44] you for being here for every name and address for the record once you get settled the other three minutes.
[15:49] Absolutely.
[15:49] Good to see you.
[15:50] Good to see you.
[15:51] Thank you.
[15:53] Richard.
[15:53] Highs are one thousand one.
[15:55] This will.
[15:56] Here in weather for Texas.
[16:00] I want to say that.
[16:02] And I hope.
[16:03] Home several occasions here.
[16:06] Space no tax rights.
[16:07] And I've got to say I have to.
[16:10] applaud the efforts of your staffs and the counsel of proposing this rate.
[16:18] There are six other whether it's five other taxing entities that I have on my tax bill.
[16:24] And we have two of those that are raising their rates issue.
[16:29] I'm real proud of our county, the AFS are staying and remaining at the known revenue
[16:34] rate as well.
[16:35] And I think it's important that especially for seniors, for different people that are struggling right now and continue to struggle, that you do what you can physically.
[16:49] And I think that the city of Weatherford should be applauded.
[16:52] And I thank you for the work that you've done.
[16:56] You've continued, of course, tax rates have gone down, but people will realize our appraisals have gone up.
[17:03] And so those two tend to offset each other and what you have to do then is work very diligently to remain
[17:10] at that no new revenue right.
[17:12] I know that there's been a lot of work along that line.
[17:15] I don't know what this Senate bill is going to do for the upcoming years, but hopefully
[17:20] you can continue to stay at a very physically responsible right.
[17:25] So I apologize.
[17:26] Thank you.
[17:27] I hope that you stay at this right.
[17:28] Are you a good good lawyer?
[17:29] We don't mind.
[17:31] Thank you for being here, sir.
[17:33] As always, everybody else would like to speak on this item.
[17:36] Public hearings open, at least before, feel free to come forward.
[17:42] Seeing none, we will close the public hearing on item 7A.
[17:46] This item does not require action council on prepared to move down to 7B for advice.
[17:51] All right, 7B is to consider a and or act upon approval of ordinance 2026-33 adopting
[17:58] City Manager proposed budget for the fiscal year of
[18:01] getting October 1, 2026 and ending September 30, 2027.
[18:06] We welcome Ashley Escoville.
[18:08] Good evening.
[18:08] Mayor, members of Council.
[18:11] So tonight we'll be asking Council to adopt the FY27 City
[18:15] Manager's proposed budget.
[18:18] You've seen this a couple of times, but just to give you a very quick overview,
[18:22] FY27 proposed budget does represent a strategic and well balanced approach to
[18:27] will finance. The budget does span 26 separate funds, support 17 seed apartments, and provides
[18:36] for 333 committee employees. It encompasses all municipal programs and services with the
[18:42] exception of our electric and water utilities. The budget positions whether for continual
[18:49] physical stability, our reserve level, excuse me, will maintain more than 120 days of operational
[18:56] funding, total expenditures, citywide, are projected at $120.8 million. Our general fund is
[19:04] balanced with a marginal surplus, and this budget does include the funding for the outside
[19:09] funding applications that was approved by Council on August 25.
[19:16] The general fund serves as a
[19:17] city's main operating fund, and it includes a 61.4 million in revenues against 61.3 million
[19:25] expenditures which does result in a balanced budget with a marginal surplus of approximately
[19:30] 65,000.
[19:33] And just to go over some of the key highlights that were in this year's budget would be the
[19:38] addition of a deputy court clerk, allocations for canine dog replacement, park enhancements
[19:45] which do include the Love Street Park Playground Rest Room, renovation, 3.3 million, 4.3 million
[19:55] repair and improvements. It also includes allocations that
[20:00] Continue the advancement of a completion of several major capital projects that are in progress, such as
[20:07] Manhattan, skate park, pollen park, renovation, and that's just to name a few.
[20:14] So at this time, I will turn it over to Council for any questions and or comments, as well as
[20:19] a vote.
[20:20] The question is for Ashley Eskivell and Adam. Staff are actually making approval. Council is
[20:26] in the first time we've seen this. The downstairs opportunity to take action with that
[20:29] Thank you, President Pleasure.
[20:31] This is where you state your motion, please.
[20:34] Yeah, I make a motion that we approve the budget as presented.
[20:39] Motion stated by Matt Tiskus, second provided by Luke Williams.
[20:44] Any questions or conversations on it before we call for a vote?
[20:47] All right, we'll vote on 70.
[20:51] You can get your day under touch screens.
[20:54] And the budget passes, thank you.
[20:56] We'll shift down now to 7c, which is consider and or act upon approval of ordinance 02026-34, adopting the ad dorm tax rate of 0.392246 for 100 evaluation for the 2026 tax year 2027 fiscal year. Welcome back, Lindsay.
[21:21] So now that we have adopted the budget for FY 27 and held a public hearing on the proposed
[21:26] tax rate, the City Council can adopt a property tax rate.
[21:32] This is the final step in the truth and taxation process.
[21:35] Earlier tonight, we held the public hearing on the proposed tax rate and by state law,
[21:40] the adoption of the rate must be done within seven days of the public hearing.
[21:45] The 2026 proposed rate is $39.2246 per $100 taxable valuation.
[21:53] This rate was used to build the FY27 proposed budget and will provide adequate revenue
[21:58] to meet the needs of the city for the upcoming fiscal year.
[22:02] The proposed rate is below the new net revenue rate that will raise less revenue for properties
[22:07] on the roll in both the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year.
[22:10] It also means the city is not proposing to increase property taxes and lastly is below the maximum rate that would trigger an election.
[22:22] At this time, I will turn it over to Council for a vote on the proposed tax rate for FY27, a suggested motion is on the screen and at each of your seats.
[22:31] The question for Lindsay Boyan on the outing?
[22:34] For the record we do the motion by Mayor Pro Tim Smith.
[22:37] Would you like to read the motion, sir?
[22:41] Yes, sir.
[22:43] No, sir.
[22:58] Promise, Mayor.
[23:00] I move to adopt the ordinance number zero to zero to six dash three four.
[23:06] Dock in the ad forum tax rate of point three nine two two four six.
[23:12] Or one hundred dollar valuation for the twenty twenty six.
[23:17] Motion for the minimum Mayor Pro Tim Smith.
[23:19] Mr. Tiskas, is your second for that out of me?
[23:20] That is correct.
[23:21] All right, motion the second on the four counts on any questions or conversations.
[23:27] I don't know, let's vote on item 7C.
[23:31] Isn't it okay? Yeah, you're in there in your touch screens.
[23:39] The four we shift down to item 7D would like to think as Mr. Heiser did,
[23:44] our finance staff department head, city manager.
[23:48] The people in this audience and the people walking today are watching today.
[23:53] All understand what's happened to fuel prices and other things.
[23:57] and that same things happen to this city, the same expenses that go over your world go open
[24:02] irons and so, free all to manage things to take care of the goals that Council has
[24:09] established and find a way to lower the burden on our citizens that are dealing with
[24:14] these rising expenses at their personal homes, amazes me and I think it amazes our council
[24:20] and I think we would be remiss if we didn't thank you but we so thank all of you very
[24:25] All righty, let's just down to you, you just thought you were going to get to sit out tonight.
[24:29] That's 70, consider authorizing the city manager, execute his own build contract,
[24:34] for phase two construction services related to fire station five improvements in amount,
[24:38] and not to exceed a million to $80,000 dollars.
[24:42] Good evening, Mayor.
[24:43] Council and Dom Brooks, Assistant City Manager.
[24:45] So it's not every day a city gets to build a brand new fire station.
[24:49] So this is genuinely a really momentous night for us here in Weatherford.
[24:52] And tonight we're bringing a project to you that this Council has been building towards for many years now, Fire Station 5.
[25:00] So, before I hand things over to our design bill team to walk you through the station itself, I just want to take a few minutes to go over everything that's already been put into place to get us to this point.
[25:12] So, fire station isn't just a building, it's people, it's equipment, and this council has been preparing for both well ahead of opening day.
[25:20] Planning for this station actually dates back quite a few years with council giving staff direction back in 2024 to bring this project to life.
[25:29] Starting in FY24, we begin adding staff specifically for the station, three positions each year, a deliberate pace to choose to minimize the impact on our tax payers rather than absorbing it all at once.
[25:45] That's nine positions in place and trained by the time the station opens.
[25:50] On the equipment side, the apparatus the station needs is already on order.
[25:54] The engine was ordered in July of 25, and the brush truck followed in September, and this past October, this project itself was funded through the 2025 Certificate of Obligation Vance.
[26:06] So the funding this council put into place last fall is what makes tonight possible.
[26:12] Staffing apparatus and funding all of that's done today are preparations are complete and it's time to build.
[26:20] So, just taking you back a little bit, or this all started, back in 2022, the Council accepted a dedicated 5-acre site at 101 Wassam Road, securing land for a future fire station,
[26:32] well ahead of the growth that we're now seeing in this part of the community.
[26:36] In 2024, at Council's retreat, we discussed the need for this station and the location and determined that this location wasn't the ideal spot.
[26:46] By 2025 it had become a top priority and in September of that year staff issued a request for qualifications for design build services.
[26:57] The response spoke to how competitive this project was.
[27:00] 16 firms submitted qualifications, a six-person evaluation committee, reviewed those
[27:07] submittals and conducted follow-up interviews, and in November of 25, Grossman design
[27:12] bill was selected as the most qualified responsive firm for this project. This council
[27:17] approved phase one design contract in March of this year for an amount not to exceed $170,000.
[27:27] So while Grossman design bill was busy completing the design work, our own staff built some
[27:32] significant cost savings for this project and began to prepare the site for construction.
[27:38] Our public work staff coordinated the excavation and trucking of 28,000 cubic yards
[27:43] of film material from the Cropactric Drive Extension Project to the Fire Station 5 site
[27:48] at no additional cost or delayed to either project, saving approximately $500,000.
[27:54] This project delivers a fully operational 12,000 square foot facility, three apparatus space,
[28:03] a fully furnished living area, a dedicated training center, along with three story training
[28:08] tower for live fire simulations and rescue and emergency response exercises.
[28:15] Now, now this happens without the work of our own public works team has put in,
[28:19] side by side, with our fire department every step of the way.
[28:22] from evaluating apparatus manufacturers to coordinating field delivery to reviewing every set of
[28:28] plans that has come through.
[28:30] And with that, I'd like to turn it over to Mr. Brian Grossman and Mr. Eric Grossman of Grossman
[28:35] design build who will walk you through the site plan, floor plan, and what the station
[28:39] will actually look like.
[28:44] Welcome, gentlemen.
[28:46] Thank you, Council.
[28:46] Thanks for having us.
[28:48] I'm Brian Grossman.
[28:49] Grossman design build.
[28:50] my brother Eric Grossman, I'd like to tell you a little bit about us before we get started
[28:56] on the project. So our dad started the company in 1988. We've been doing it our entire
[29:04] lives. Eric and I have owned and operated it for the last 14 years. We are a true design
[29:11] build firm. So we do all plans, engineering, and construction with one point of contact all the way
[29:17] through the way that we have so far with planning and engineering, it'll be us all the way
[29:23] through construction as well. During that time, we've pretty much built anything and everything
[29:29] that you can think of. In particular, to this project, this will be our 39th public safety
[29:36] facility for being in municipalities or ESDs over the last roughly 10 years. Like I said, we
[29:44] realize this same design build method in all these projects so we have quite a bit of experience
[29:49] working with municipalities and emergency service districts. One of the other things about
[29:55] us, we like to help and give back to our community.
[30:00] One of the ways that we've done that over the last 10 years is we've built 56 playhouses for the
[30:06] make-a-wish foundation for wish kids. And so that's something that we're pretty proud of and
[30:12] we continue to do so. We just finished our last one last week. So with that, I'll turn it over to Eric
[30:19] and let him give you some specifics on the project. Thank you. I'd like to walk you through the
[30:27] like plan and the floor plan and chair some renderings that we've done of the facility.
[30:34] From a corner here, so maybe I can point up here on the walking through the site plan.
[30:41] So the way we have this setup, basically if you look at it, it's just broken up in a third,
[30:46] so we have our living square over here on the right with our Abbott Baradis Bay,
[30:51] and the center, and then our train facility on the left.
[30:53] And so we have 46 tools, public parking spaces on the out front.
[31:01] This is the main public parking area here with our overflow fire side parking.
[31:06] We have our gated back area where this is our overnight staff secure parking back here on the back in the red.
[31:16] like Mr. Dawn said that that's our three-story burn building, and then we have our 600-square
[31:23] foot storage facility back here. All our training, propane, generator, we'll be back here
[31:35] all within the security area.
[31:39] This is our floor plan. This light blue area on the left that
[31:43] 30 or training facility for 30 seats with our break area of serving area here, our area here
[31:53] red is our ICC 500 storm shelter and as you can see we have three full pull through
[32:01] base and then on the right we have our our box on the top right here and the dark purple
[32:08] with our living and kitchen area here with our threes, upper pantries and then we have
[32:14] are secured entry areas. So when you come in, this is a secured door, we have our tree
[32:21] azure room, so there's an emergency, the firefighters can come out, take them to this tree
[32:27] azure room and do any sort of examinations there.
[32:35] One thing that we're really shooting for
[32:38] is to kind of control our contamination zones. So we have our hot zone here in red, and then
[32:46] break that out into our warm zone. So there were hot zone in the bay and to the
[32:51] decont. So we make sure all our gears, you know, we make sure all those car
[32:56] synergians are off, or clean properly, really making that save for our
[33:00] firefighters. And then that goes into our gear room here. Then everything else back
[33:06] into the green. We have our air locks just to really keep all that air away from
[33:11] the living day-to-day size of the building.
[33:18] I think going through some working elevations,
[33:20] you can see the masonry on all four sides of the building.
[33:24] In the front, we have our main rendering,
[33:27] but we have our stone, our facade.
[33:30] We have our anodized bay doors, illuminated signage.
[33:39] We have our staining seam roof,
[33:44] and then we try to have our drought tolerance
[33:47] It's a sustainable landscape in all front.
[33:54] It's an interior rendering of the apparatus bay.
[33:56] You can see the meshing storage up above our hose racks.
[34:01] We have high bay lights, our large fans in the center.
[34:08] And then really, our air locks are through here.
[34:13] And then our ICC500 storm shelters behind this hose wreck here.
[34:23] This is our interior rendering of our training room, really trying to dress it up, so make sure that the living side, the training side, core legs,
[34:33] wanted to accent the ceiling with what beams, wood trusses across, and then this is our interior rendering of our kitchen area.
[34:48] With that, I think there's any questions, we'll be happy to answer it.
[34:57] With 30 questions for Eric on this park.
[35:05] Okay, so if authorized tonight, construction is set to begin on September 28th, along the way, the brush
[35:12] should all arrive in the 1st quarter of FY27, we will have substantial completion of the station,
[35:18] meaning moving ready and staff for staff and equipment, approximately 330 days later, which is August 24th,
[35:25] and then final completion and additional 45 days after that on October 8th, 2027.
[35:33] The
[35:33] 28, giving the station both a brand new engine and brush truck within months of opening the doors.
[35:40] All told that's a 375 day contract duration for a guaranteed maximum price of $8,280,000.
[35:50] So with Phase 1 complete, Grossman Design Build has established the guaranteed maximum price of $8,280,000,
[35:57] which comes in under the conceptual range of 8.3 to 8.5 million that was shared with you back in March.
[36:03] This GMP covers the fully functioning fire station, the training facility in the burn building,
[36:09] an investment into public safety of our community that this council, city staff, and this community will be proud of for many years to come.
[36:17] So staff is respectfully requesting your authorization for the city manager to execute the phase two construction contract with Grossman design built,
[36:26] and an amount not to exceed 8,280,000 dollars.
[36:32] One thing that you did mention in the engine will be here in that time frame for October
[36:36] December, but we do have a reserve engine which will be there, so the station will be open
[36:41] and it will function when it's complete.
[36:45] The questions on the item?
[36:47] Staff are recommending approval.
[36:48] I've got a couple of questions.
[36:49] Anybody else want to go first?
[36:51] We're related to the GMP press that does include a certain amount if there's a change
[36:59] It needs to be made or something that was a reserve amount.
[37:04] What is contingency, that is built in the process?
[37:06] Yes, there is a contingency, so that's not used.
[37:09] That would be received back by us for it.
[37:12] That's correct.
[37:12] Okay, great.
[37:13] The same thing is that area on Rick Williams and as our city develops,
[37:19] I know it's what we're building here, right?
[37:22] They're entering off the Walsham Road and Rick Williams,
[37:25] Which is a higher speed travel road. What are our plans? Or do we have plans to stop and or slow that traffic on that road?
[37:35] When our apparatus are going out and we have some animal sets of city manager.
[37:38] I can answer that. That's actually going to topic.
[37:40] We've actually talked about and Matt Leplough.
[37:42] It was actually off on vacation and I don't even begin the presentation.
[37:46] I started looking into it. Essentially, it's going to be an activated light that will be tied into
[37:51] you are the guys and the girls and the truck will get as they're pulling out and that will stop that traffic along
[37:59] Rick Weems in there.
[38:00] So it's a 55-mile-hour disaster.
[38:02] There you get a good site distance both ways but it's still a safety issue.
[38:07] So we're going to have just an activated signal that will go in that location to stop traffic.
[38:12] So any other questions on 70?
[38:14] And that is separate and independent of this construction contract.
[38:17] That is something our public work of folks will be handling separately.
[38:20] The reason I ask that is because we've gone to great lengths to buy the trucks to protect our equipment on the highway that have the collision stuff and we know how long it takes to get either a rental apparatus or a new one.
[38:35] And so it seems like it makes perfect sense and clearly it does schedule already on it.
[38:40] Staff of the recommending approval of the GMT contract of 8.28, 0.28, 8.28, 8.28, 8.28,
[38:47] 8.28, 8.28,000 dollars for fire station number 5 council.
[38:54] We would make some motion for the room.
[38:56] We would rather allow provides a second.
[38:58] It's our institution of clarification.
[38:59] We need it on the side of the full week call for a vote.
[39:03] Here you go.
[39:03] Let's vote on 70.
[39:08] Please indicate there are any other good touch screens.
[39:13] I'm not out in the past.
[39:14] Brian and Eric, let's get to work.
[39:16] All right, I've got a show on the truck.
[39:17] I'll meet you after 20 minutes.
[39:20] Thank you, congratulations to our professional fire staff, thank you for their service
[39:24] community.
[39:25] City Council, let's just down to item 8.
[39:27] Let's talk about the future agenda items.
[39:30] No future just to see Council.
[39:33] Citizen 9, on the agenda number 9, it says in comments on knowledge and items.
[39:37] Anybody who'd like to speak on any item, not included in our regular agenda,
[39:41] now is your opportunity.
[39:43] Citizen comments on knowledge and items.
[39:47] Seeing none with for City Council stands adjourned at 639 p.m.
[39:50] Thank you all for your service.